"'Hedgehog Day?'" Silver read the title of the screen. "Does that mean all hedgehogs are gonna be there?"

Amy's eyes sparkled. "Does that mean this episode is about me, Sonic, Shadow and Silver?!"

Silver widened his eyes. "Wait, really?! I'm in this too?!"

Hearing this Shadow was intrigued. Though he thought it was best to remain quiet until he actually saw his twin.

Sonic tapped his chin. "I wonder what Shadow would look like in that universe."

"Well, let's find out." Tails said.

The scene started with the early morning sun rising over Eggman's lair. Inside, there was a clock on a nightstand that read 5:59. The time then changed to 6:00, and an alarm blared. Eggman's arms reached over and stopped the noise.

Eggman yawned and stretched before sitting up in bed.

"Again?! Why?!!" Amy screeched, pointing violently at the screen.

"Can someone burn it already?!" Spade grumbled.

"If I could I would." Blaze hissed, facing away from the screen

"If the title says 'Hedgehog Day', why is the episode starting with Eggman." Vector questioned.

"Don't know. But I wish he get rid of that onsie of his." Knuckles stated.

"Or at least change the colors! Pink?! Seriously?!" Eggman yelled.

The doors to his room slid open, and Orbot appeared with a breakfast tray. "Wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey!" he greeted merrily.

"Don't ever say that again," Eggman warned as the robot placed the tray in his lap.

"Today's the day we're finally going to defeat Sonic with your new weapon, so I thought I'd make you a special breakfast!" Orbot cheerfully explained himself.

"I highly doubt it." Eggman scoffed.

One hedgehog is bad enough as it is. Amy is terrifying, so he chooses to keep his distance, (if he can. Shadow is a turned traitor, though in hindsight, Shadow wasn't really on his side thanks to his grandfather trying to wipe out the planet. Eggman is evil, but not that evil.

Silver, however. . .eh, he was. . .okay? Unlike a certain blue hedgehog, he can actually (somewhat) tolerate the silver hedgehog.

But the other three? Fuck em.

"'You thought?'" Eggman repeated, dubious. "You don't think; you're artificial intelligence, and even that's only half right."

Torque nodded, fully in agreement. "He's not wrong."

The human glanced down at his tray, eyeing the eggs, the bacon, the waffle, the orange, a cup of coffee, and an empty glass. Eggman growled at the bot. "No fresh-squeezed orange juice?"

Orbot took the orange and bit into it. He positioned his finger above the empty cup as juice poured out of it. Eggman's expression twisted into one of disgust. "Suddenly, I'm not so thirsty."

Neera cringed. "That's disgusting."

"That's so gross!" Amy screamed.

"Could've just, I don't know, not use his fingers. Why not just squeeze the juice?" Carol asked.

"Good thing he didn't drink it. If he did, I wouldn't lay a single finger on any orange juice." Sonic stated. He paused before rethinking his statement. "You know what? On second thought, after witnessing what Orbot did, I won't drink orange juice at all."

He then called to the other helper robot in the room. "Is my Egg Tank ready?"

Cubot held up a tank-top with an egg on it.

Eggman scowled. "My other Egg Tank."

"Nice tank top, Eggy."

"Your friends will not find your body, rodent."

There was a cut to show Eggman's actual egg tank, it white and armored.

"I would call it impressive..." Espio started, eyeing the defensive machine. "But for what we all know, it's going to explode at least once before this episode is over."

The rest of the room shared his sentiments, even Eggman.

The doctor was inside of the vehicle, pushing some buttons. Eventually, the screen in front of him lit up, showing Amy setting up a projector. Then, Knuckles and Sticks were shown unrolling a projector screen. Sonic popped up afterwards along with Tails. The both were exiting a store, the hedgehog carrying a film reel can with Comedy Chimp's face on it.

"A movie night?" Tails cocked his head at the screen. "Maybe it's for Sonic, Amy, Shadow and Silver?"

Shadow crossed his arms. "I don't go to movies."

Sonic shrugged his shoulders. "I mean, no shocker there."

The kit was eating some candy until one got caught in his throat, causing him to choke. Concerned, Sonic started to hit him on the back as the kid coughed.

"Movie day, huh?" Eggman observed in his vehicle with a smirk. "Spoiler alert: I win, you lose."

Eggman pressed a switch off to the side that activated his weapons while he snapped on his seatbelt.

"Weapons online."

He started up the tank and requested, "Play my battle music!" A calm tropical theme played, and Eggman was disappointed. "Eh, close enough."

Lilac chuckled. "I mean, relaxing music would be the best to play during a premeditated evil attack!"

Sonic snickered. "He probably plays to keep himself calm so he doesn't throw a fit after losing all the time."

The doctor's face went red. "I do not throw a fit!"

He grabbed hold of the controls, and the tank instantly drove forward.

The scene then changed to Comedy Chimp falling through the sky. He pulled a ripcord with his hand, a parachute deployed above him.

"I guess that wasn't the men's room door!" The chimp laughed at his own joke, and the heroes watching the movie did so along with him.

Knuckles rose a dubious brow. "I don't get it. Was that supposed to be funny?"

Though, Knuckles – with a slushie in his hand – finished laughing first, frowning up. "I don't get it."

Knuckles agreed with his twin on this one.

Sonic had his hands linked behind his head, relaxing. He said to Tails in a low voice, "Nice job on the projector."

"Thanks!" Tails brightened. "I had to re-orient the screws-"

Amy whirled on them. "Shh! No talking!"

Amy narrowed her eyes. "Hey, you can't interrupt Tails while he's gushing about his projects! Shame on you!"

Spade rolled his eyes. "You're insulting yourself, dummy."

Knuckles enjoyed his drink loudly, and she put a finger on her lips. "Shh! No slurping!" Eggman's tank rolled up behind them as thunder rumbled in the sky. The pinkette angrily hopped out of her seat. "Shh! No attacking! "

"They seriously didn't hear that until now?" Shadow asked.

"They probably couldn't because of Knuckles slurping." Sonic joked.

"Very funny, Sonic."

Amy, Sticks, Tails, and Knuckles all got into battle ready positions as Sonic sped forward, destroying two crab bots. Some more crabs approached Sticks, who was swinging at them. Amy grunted as she hammered one of the bots, Knuckles beside her punching the pests away.

Tails was messing with the projector, not seeing a crab walk up behind him. Sonic saw this and warned, "Tails, incoming!"

The kit spun on his heel, holding the projector upright. He pressed a button on the device, and a pulsating blue ray hit the crab bot straight on. It crashed to the ground, metallic limbs twitching.

Milla's eyes glistened with excitement. "Not only did he build a projector, he had turned it into a weapon as well? That's pretty cool!" Milla gasped and then suddenly she looked at the kit. "Hey, Tails."

Tails looked at Milla, curious.

"Do you think you and I would make a great team?!"

"O-oh? Y-yeah! Of course!"

"Really?!"

Amy smiled at the two, picturing them tinkering. Together. She signs dreamily, picturing her and Sonic running, holding hands. "Love."

At the Egg tank, a periscope raised up and Eggman looked through it to focus on Sonic. "Activate super weapon," the man said before pressing a button on the control panel.

The tank fired a giant fireball at Sonic. The hedgehog noticed the incoming attack and ran away only for the ball to track him down. Sonic eventually slid to a stop though, and the fire headed right for him until Amy jumped in the way, redirecting the attack with her hammer.

Carol nearly jumped out of her seat, fist pumping. "Woo hoo! You go girl!"

Torque furrowed his brow. "Shouldn't it have disintegrated...?"

"Don't question the glory, Torque!"

"Understood."

"Fortunately, I'm prepared for this," Eggman muttered to himself. "Activate super-duper weapon!" He pressed another button, and a blue plasma ball was fired this time.

Eggman inwardly groaned. There were many things wrong with this. It made it even worse when a few of the audience questioned him.

"Super-duper weapon. Really, Eggy?"

"How was the second attack any different from the first one?"

"If he knew the first attack was going to backfire then why go through with it?"

Eggman had enough, "Why are you questioning me?! He's the one that's doing it!"

The show slowed down as the plasma and the fire flew towards each other. Thunder boomed in the sky, and a lightning bolt struck between the two attacks just when they hit. There was a bright flash of white.

Sonic blinked. "Well, that can't be good."

"Was it an explosion?" Tails questioned, worried for the well-being of their twins.

Amy was as well. "We'll find out soon enough..."

"What did Eggman do?" Rouge asked.

The same clock from earlier was shown again, the time switching from 5:59 to 6:00 and ringing. In his bed, Eggman turned off the noise before yawning and sitting up.

Orbot entered the room with a tray of food. "Wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey!"

Cory blinked. "Didn't we already see this before."

"Why are we watching it again?" Gong grumbled.

Milla thought for a moment. "Maybe. . ." She blinked figuring it out. "Maybe Eggman's going through a time loop."

Carol was confused. "A time loop?"

"What's that?" Lilac asked.

"A time loop or a temporal loop is where a certain person re-experience a span of time which is repeated, sometimes more than once, with some hope of breaking out of the cycle of repetition.

"..."

"..."

Eggman rolled his eyes. "It means, that a person will revisit the same time over and over again." Idiots.

"Ohhh."

Sonic smirked. "So Eggy's gonna be going through the same day over and over again?"He laughed. "He's gonna lose his mind."

Tails almost felt bad for him. "it's almost like he's suffering."

The blue speedster then frowned. "Yeah, you're right. He will suffer. . .BY HIS OWN FAILURES!!!" Sonic laughed at his last comment.

Amy rolled her eyes. "Real mature, Sonic."

Knuckles raised a brow. "Since when is Sonic mature??"

"...Good point. But that's why I love him."

Silver was disappointed that his other self, including Shadow wasn't here, so he asked. "If me and Shadow aren't here...what's with the title?"

"No idea" Blaze shrugged. "If this episode is about Eggman about going through a time loop, shouldn't the title be called, "Time Reverse."

"You make a good point, Blaze."

"Wait, I just realized something." Tails called out.

Vector looked at him. "What is it."

"If Eggman's going through his own failures, doesn't that mean that he could, rewrite his mistakes?"

Eggman's eyes slightly widened hearing this. Would his twin actually win this time?

Sonic scoffed. "No way that would happen, Tails! Even if Eggy beats us (which he won't) he'll still never succeed. I mean, beat me? Luck is on my side. Nothing could go."

The kit sighs. "I hope you're right, Sonic."

"I'm always right, Tails!"

"Not always."

"Quiet, Knux."

"I told you not to say that!" Eggman growled as the robot placed the tray in the human's lap.

Orbot's mood wasn't brought down. "Today's the day we're finally going to defeat Sonic with your new weapon, so I thought I'd make you a special breakfast!"

"This seems awfully familiar..." The doctor's brows creased. "What's going on here?" He moved the tray of food onto the bed as Orbot bit into the orange, the juice flowing out of his finger and onto Eggman's leg. Orbot blinked in surprise as Eggman glared.

The doctor was in his tank now, putting on his seatbelt as "Weapons online," echoed within the small space.

Next, the tank was shown crashing the heroes' movie night once more. Eggman used the periscope to target Sonic again. A fireball was sent the speedster's way, and Amy deflected it. The blue ball of plasma followed suit, and lightning intercepted the two attacks as they collided. There was another bright white light.

"It's gonna keep startin' over until he beats them?" Torque questioned. "I gotta say, that's not good."

Eggman smirked. "It looks like luck is on my side, cactus." The doctor rubbed his chin. "Come to think of it, this does give me an idea..."

Amy pointed at him. "No! No time loops for you! That's cheating!"

"I'm a villain. To me, cheating is playing fair."

"I can't believe I'm saying this but-"

"Then don't say it then, Tails!"

Shadow wasn't worried. "Eggman would go insane before he finds a way to defeat you guys. Think about it. Repeating the same day over and over for at least what? Weeks? Months? Years?"

Sonic flinched. "Yeesh. I wouldn't want to be you, Eggy."

"If you were me, you would've hung yourself, rodent." Eggman retorted.

". . .Wow. That got dark. . ."

A clock blared once six o'clock hit. Orbot appeared from behind sliding doors, breakfast in his hands. "Wakey-wakey, eggs-"

Eggman towered over the helper bot when he approached, scowling. "If you say 'eggs and bakey', I swear I'll dismantle you!"

Milla frowned. "How can you be mad at him,if you're the one stuck in a time loop?!"

Orbot simply stared up at him in fear.

"This is nuts..." Eggman mumbled to himself. "I'm reliving the same day over and over!" He then glanced to the side to see Cubot holding up the egg shirt.

"No?" Cubot asked, holding it up more. "Nothing?"

Sonic couldn't help but to chuckle.

Eggman was now sitting at his desk in another room, messing around on the touch-screen control panel. A schematic of the Egg tank was shown as translucent math equations sporadically filled the room. Eggman busied himself with looking over the tank, looking at polygraphs, and pouring mysterious substances in beakers.

Sonic's attention shifted over to the fox. "Uh...what exactly is he doing?"

Tails didn't have an answer. "No clue. Eggman?"

"Don't expect me to read the nonsense going on in his mind."

"Cubot," Eggman called while swirling a liquid, shooing said mech. "Stop playing with my hologram thingy."

Cubot seemed guilty as he cut the machine off, the numerous math equations disappearing.

Eggman decided not to ask.

Eggman then pumped a fist when a thought came to him. "I've got it! When my laser, the plasma ball, and the lightning collided, the fusion reaction caused time to fold back in on itself!"

"He needed to do all of that to figure it out? On his first try?" Torque questioned. "Gotta say, I'm impressed. If anybody were to fail at something. They would rethink their mistakes."

"So!" Eggman faced his observing helper bots. "I just have to avoid going into battle! Piece of cake!" He laughed evilly until a bright white flashed.

The alarm clock blared, and Eggman woke up disappointed. "Well, that didn't work."

Eggman blinked in surprise. So his other self had no other choice but to win? Interesting...

Orbot entered the room once again with a breakfast tray held in his hand. Before he could say anything, Eggman hopped off his bed and yelled, "I don't want eggs and bakey!" He slapped the tray away when Orbot got closer to him. Orbot silently stared down at the mess.

"Now that's just a waste of good food!" Charmy groused

"Same day over and over again..." Eggman pondered aloud before smirking. "Maybe this isn't all bad! I can keep refining my attack on Sonic until I can get everything just right!"

Sonic crossed his arms and didn't pout, muttering 'cheater' multiple times.

Eggman then suddenly had a mop, thrusting it in Orbot's direction. When the mech hesitated, confused, the doctor explained, "Just because there's no tomorrow, doesn't mean I want ants today!"

"He could've just not spilled food everywhere."

"That's too reasonable for him, Charmy."

Eggman aimed at Sonic through his periscope to attack, and unsurprisingly, Amy deflected the fireball that was launched. The doctor gritted his teeth and punched his control board as a white light lit up the screen.

During another attempt, something actually changed. A crab bot managed to grab hold of Amy's hammer, the pinkette struggling to tear it out of its grip. Tails aimed the camera and produced waves that deactivated the mech instantly. Amy smiled in appreciation, and Eggman growled.

Sonic smirked, feeling a little better about this. "At this rate, the problem will would probably fix itself before Eggy can do anything!"

The alarm clock rung, and Eggman woke up with a devious smile on his face.

And the smirk was gone.

"You were saying, rodent?"

Eggman was in the village, loading all of the film reels the store had into his hovercraft. With it full, the doctor hopped into his vehicle and flew off just as Sonic and Tails approached the emptied store. The duo stared in shock as one lone reel fell to the floor.

The crab bots were attacking the heroes, and Tails was fumbling with the projector. Nearby, Amy cried out in shock when her hammer was being yanked by one of the mechs. Tails aimed the projector at the incoming dangers and pressed a button. However, nothing happened, and he stared at the device in confusion.

Knuckles slowly blinked. "The projector was powered by Comedy Chimp's specific reel?"

Spade facepalmed. "Why is that even a thing?"

Tails was bewildered as well because yeah, that was a blaring problem, but Milla spoke for him, "Every invention needs some kinks to be worked out!"

The kit pressed the button a few more times, the outcome not changing, before picking up the film reel at his feet. It showed a happy clown on it.

"Just adding insult to injury..." Tails mumbled.

He shook his head at Amy. The pinkette then lost her battle with the crab bot, it taking her hammer and swinging it. Sonic ran up and blinked in surprise, and Eggman was looking through his periscope at the azure hedgehog. Sonic had his back to him this time, distracted.

Eggman's smile was wide. "I've got you know, Sonic!" He fired the fireball, and Sonic noticed the incoming attack too late. It smashed into the speedster, trapping him in a blue forcefield that lifted him into the air. Sonic struggled to escape, but it was all for naught.

Sonic audibly groaned, shaking his head.

"Time is on his side, rodent," Eggman had a smug look on his face. It was satisfying seeing Sonic wriggle around in the ball, completely trapped.

"Wait a minute." Knuckles glanced over to Theo and Lucy. "How much longer do we have until this ends?"

"Approximately five minutes."

"We're just beyond the halfway point." Knuckles stared at the TV before smirking. "Something tells me that Sonic's isn't going to be trapped for long."

"Hopefully not!" Sonic exclaimed. "Heroes always win in the end!"

"Yeah!" Tails and Amy cheered at the same time.

The doctor did a little celebratory dance in his tank. "Yeeesss! This day will go down in history! The day I captured Sonic the hedgehog!"

The screen flashed white.

Milla cocked her head. "Winning did not fix the time loop?"

"Is he permanently trapped?" Gong asked

Sonic grinned. "Yes! Totally called it."

"Sonic, you were nervous the entire time." Blaze points out.

"Pfft. Nervous about my twin winning over Eggman? Yeah right."

The purple cat shook her head, in annoyance. "Imbecile."

Silver chucked sheepishly. "You can't really blame him though. It's Sonic's nature to be so full of himself."

"HEY!"

Silver gave the blue blur an apologetic look. "I meant that as a compliment!"

"It's bad for Eggman and the heroes though." Espio commented after a moment. "True, Eggman won't win, but the heroes are trapped as well. They don't even know anything about the time loop."

Sonic waved him off. "They don't seem bothered by it!"

Amy nodded. "Plus, I'm sure the problem would get worked out in the end. Somehow."

The clocked rang, and Orbot entered with a bright, "Wakey-wakey!"

Eggman was laying in his bed, sullen. He glanced over at the red robot before silently flipping over and ignoring him.

Cream frowned. "I feel bad for, Dr. Eggman."

Charmy couldn't help but agree. "He is repeating the same day again and again. It's a little messed up..."

"Your sympathy isn't needed, little ones." Eggman said.

Lilac glared slightly at the evil doctor. "At least be thankful that some people are feeling bad for one. Especially after what you've done."

"I'll start feeling bad when his mental state goes down." Shadow said.

Orbot was upset. "But I have bakey..."

"I can't take another day of the same day!" Eggman groused to himself, laying comfortable on his pillow.

Later, Eggman was writing something on a white board. Orbot and Cubot were behind him, the former reading a book aloud. "String theory, super string theory, string cheese theory..."

Sonic rose a brow. "String cheese theory?"

Eggman continued writing on the board while eating a donut.

Cubot focused on him. "You really should eat healthier!" he admonished.

Knuckles examined the Eggman sitting with them. "I seriously doubt he will. Our Eggman has been the same for years."

"You're the one to talk. You call yourself 'Knuckles', yet I don't see any muscles. And you're not even as big as your twin.." Eggman taunted. "Big hands but skinny arms."

The echidna cracked its knuckles, threateningly. "They may be skinny, but they can pack a punch. Want me to demonstrate?"

"Knuckles, please don't." Lucy begged.

"Hmph. Fine."

"It doesn't matter," Eggman said after finishing the treat. He then grabbed a pair of scissors and cut off half his mustache. The robots stared in shock as the human sighed. "None of this matters. Tomorrow will just be a do-over, anyway."

Amy gasped. "He just... cut off his mustache. . ."

Eggman was in shock. "That right there is a truly broken man."

"Well. . . that was quick." Shadow thought, surprised.

"When I thought that Eggman would go crazy because of the time loop, I didn't expect that." Rouge admitted.

While he felt the tiniest bit sorry, Sonic stifled a snicker. "Jeez, Eggy. Cutting off your precious mustache? That's low. Even for you."

"Really?" Cubot drew the question out, reaching behind himself and pulling out a cup of water. He tossed the liquid in an unamused Eggman's face and zipped away with a, "See you tomorrow!"

Sonic gave him a round of applause. "I'm staring to like these guys."

Eggman returned to the white board, wiping away some of the equations he wrote with his detached mustache. "It's no use! I can't figure this out alone!"

The next shot showed Sonic and Tails leaving the film store.

Tails saw where this was going, and Eggman was right, the other doctor was seriously broken. "Wow..."

Knuckles barked out a laugh. "Even Eggman goes to Tails to fix problems."

Sonic had Comedy Chimp's reel in his hands, and the kit was chowing down on some candy.

Eggman – who was still missing half of his mustache – walked up to them. "I need your help."

"For one, I agree with him." Eggman stated. Annoyingly or not, he couldn't bear to look at his twin's half mustache face.

Sonic gave him a level look, jabbing a thumb over his shoulder. "Cartoons are over by the counter."

"Even though I admired my twin's personality, I would've busted a lung seeing Egghead walk up to me like that."

Eggman forcefully chuckled. "Yes, yes, very amusing, but that's not why I'm here!"

Sonic clearly wasn't in the mood. "What do you want, Egghead?"

The doctor rubbed the back of his head, trying to appear friendly. "Um, funny story, you're really gonna get a kick out of this. I was attacking you with my Egg tank, when a freak accident caused an endless time loop!"

Tails threw him a disbelieving stare. "There's no such thing as a time loop," he said before chewing on some candy.

Tails furrowed his brow, not knowing what he would do in that situation. Unlike Milla, he'd never seen or heard anything about time loops, but if someone came to him saying that they were stuck in one, he would probably look more into it.

But then again, it's Eggman.

Eggman crossed his arms. "That's what I thought too! Oh, by the way, you're about to choke on that piece of candy."

Not a second latter, Tails coughed as the snack got lodged in his throat. Sonic patted him on his back, and the kit still didn't look convinced. "Lucky guess."

"Okay, that might've tipped me off that something was wrong..." Tails admitted.

Sonic wasn't going to fault the duo on-screen. "I mean, if I've never dealt with time stuff before, I wouldn't be quick to believe Eggman either."

The doctor focused on the hedgehog. "Sonic is about to get a message from Amy saying the projector is all set up." The speedster's communicator then beeped. Sonic glanced down at it and pressed the screen, reading what was there.

Finished, Sonic not-so-apologetically told Eggman, "Love to help you out, Egghead, but we got a movie to watch."

Gong stared unbelievably at the TV hedgehog. "He's just going to ignore all of the signs that were given to him?"

Neera shrugged. "They have their priorities straight."

Tails smiled at his bro. "I hear there's a cool twist ending!"

Eggman huffed. "Turns out Comedy Chimp's partner is a ghost."

The duo angrily glared at him.

The next scene was the trio sitting at a table at Meh Burger.

The pinkette groaned and facepalmed. "Seriously."

Eggman was glancing between Sonic and Tails as he talked. "There was a one-in-a-million chance that when the laser, the plasma ball, and the lightning collided, it would create a time anomaly like this!" Tails jotted down notes as the human went on. "It resets, charges for a while, then explodes, and the day starts over!"

Tails perked up, holding a finger in the air. "I know how to fix it!"

"I guess they had nothing better to do than to listen to Eggman's problem since the movie's been spoiled for them," Knuckles grunted.

Milla giggled. "Never doubt the ingenious mind of Tails!"

The screen flashed white.

"There's no such thing as a time loop." Tails threw a piece of candy in his mouth.

"Ooo...so close," Tails commented. "So, he's on a timer too."

Eggman was beginning to think that inducing a time loop was a bad idea.

Eggman – with a normal mustache-

Sonic sighed in disappointment.

-growled in frustration for a second until an idea came to him. "You know what? We need to start this earlier! What say I pop by your house first thing today?"

Sonic and Tails gave him odds looks until the fox choked.

The human and the kit were standing in Tails' house.

"There's no such thing as a time loop," Tails said while gazing up at the doctor, skepticism in his tone.

Milla giggled once again. "Every time he says it, it gets funnier!"

"So I've heard," Eggman grumbled under his breath before saying louder, "How 'bout we come to my lair and do some math? Maybe watch a movie?" He revealed Comedy Chimp's film reel.

That brought a smile to Tails' face. "I hear there's a cool twist ending."

"I wouldn't know."

"These guys really trust Eggman a lot," Sonic observed. "If Eggy tried to persuade me to follow him to his lair, I would figure he was tryin' to blow me up or somethin'."

"To be fair, their Eggman comparatively is way nicer than our Eggman. I guess it's enough to have some trust in him." Rouge stated.

Now in the evil base, Tails was staring in shock. "I can't believe it!"

"What?" Eggman asked immediately in front of the white board, dropping the donut he had. "What is it?"

Tails held up the film reel. "Comedy Chimp's partner was a ghost!"

Knuckles couldn't hold in his laugh. "He's the best. Anyone want to disagree?"

No one volunteered.

"And pretty cute." Milla said to herself, playing with her hair.

However, this doesn't go unnoticed by Lilac and Carol as they both have a shock look on their faces.

Eggman shrugged, unamused. "Yeah, who could've seen that coming?" He then knocked on the board behind him. "Can we focus, please?"

Tails approached the written equations, studying them. "What we need is a shell made of super-dense matter to contain the recurring explosion."

Eggman nodded. "I'll have to invent it!"

Doubt was radiating off Tails in waves.

"Don't worry," the doctor reassured. "I have lots of time."

Later, Eggman was wearing a mask as he welded his shell. He lifted his protective gear and stood up, patting the finished product. Sonic and Tails were looking on with interest. "Okay, let's get it to the beach!"

Sonic walked over and attempted to life it. The ball didn't move an inch.

Shadow snorted in amusement. "Faker lifting that thing? Not in a million years."

Eggman wholeheartedly agreed. "And he complains about me being fat? He doesn't even lift weights."

"Ain't that the truth." Knuckles and Shadow said in unison.

Lilac pursed her lips. "Why can't they just roll the ball to the beach?"

"Because Eggman likes making things more complicated than they need to be," Espio provided.

Eggman watched him. "Did I mention it's super dense?"

Sonic scoffed with a smirk. "So is Knuckles." He backed up a step. "Maybe he can lift it?"

"Woooooow, that's a burn!" Sonic snickered.

"Sonic, you're just as dense as he is." Knuckles taunted.

"He's gotta close it around the anomaly just before it explodes," Tails informed.

"Okay." Eggman leaned on his invention. "So how do I get you to believe me about the time loop right away tomorrow?"

"By listening to Tails saying that he doesn't believe in time loops," Milla predicted.

The screen flashed white.

Sonic and Tails were standing outside of the film store again.

Milla smiled proudly.

"There's no such thing as a time-"

"Last night, you dreamed you were being chased by a giant sock puppet," Eggman cut Tails off. Tails gaped in shock at the human while Sonic threw a questioning glance at the kit's way.

". . .Tails?"

"No, I don't have dreams like that, Sonic!"

The screen flashed white.

Eggman was in his lair, finishing welding his metallic shell together. He flipped up his mask when he was done, Knuckles looking over it. Then, the echidna approached the invention and lifted it up with both hands.

Knuckles took a deep breath and prepared for anything that might happen. He'd gone this far into the episode being relaxed; he could make it to the end.

He began to walk towards the exit, but his paused in his stride, groaning. "Oh, my neck itches!"

Eggman strolled up to him, exasperated. "Seriously?" The echidna nodded, and the doctor didn't even argue.

He began scratching the spot Knuckles wanted. "Little higher," the red anthro said, and Eggman lifted his hand. "Little higher." He lifted it again, and Knuckles' eyes widened. "Uh, too high!" Eggman lowered his hand, and Knuckles relaxed. "Yeah, right there!"

Knuckles and Eggman looked disgusted and shared an uneasy look.

"Never."

"Never."

Eggman frowned as he checked the time on his wrist, and the screen flashed white.

Knuckles grunted as he tried to lift the newly finished shell. It was barely in his arms a second until a crack was heard, Knuckles flinching. "Ugh, my back!"

Most of the occupants of the room winced at the sound.

The sphere was dropped right on Eggman's foot. "Ow!"

"Oops!" Knuckles moved the shell off the other's foot, watching as the doctor hopped on one leg. He guiltily shrugged. "Sorry..."

The ghost of a smile settled on Knuckles' muzzle. He had a feeling that his twin wasn't apologetic at all.

Carol snicked. "He may be a knucklehead, but I could tell he wasn't sorry."

The screen flashed white.

Knuckles grunted as he lifted the shell in his arms, but he suddenly tossed it to the side when his communicator started to beep. "I'd better take this!" He pressed a couple buttons on it as Eggman stared at the gaping hole in his floor. Knuckles held the communicator up, the doctor now glaring at him. "Hello?"

Cory joined her sister as they laughed together. "This is hilarious.

Sonic joined in as well. "And he's destroying Eggy's stuff in the process! Excellent work, Knux!"

The screen flashed white.

Eggman was now standing on the beach with the rest of the heroes. "Itsy-bitsy problem." He gestured to the echidna. "Knuckles doesn't seem to want to fix the time loop."

Amy turned toward Knuckles, hands on her hips. "Knuckles, is there something you want to tell us?"

He crossed his arms and looked away. "No."

Amy narrowed her eyes. "Knuckles...?"

The echidna stared her down before giving in. "Okay, okay. I have a dentist appointment tomorrow! He's gonna pull my tooth!"

Knuckles was completely flabbergasted, but eventually he said, "You know what? I'm not even mad."

Charmy nodded, understanding the other echidna's plight. "Getting your teeth pulled can be scary!

The pinkette glanced at Eggman. "Let me try reasoning with him." She walked up to her red friend. "Knuckles, the dentist wants to help you. Good hygiene requires-"

A war cry from Sticks interrupted Amy. With rope in her hands, the badger pounced on Knuckles. She then pulled the rope taut, and something popped, an "Ow!" coming from the echidna. Sticks stood back up smiling with a tooth in her hand.

Most of the audience covered their gaping mouths.

"That girl is crazy." Spade commented.

Sonic's voice was a near whimper. "She used a rope..."

"I have done – will do – many things," Eggman started. "But I won't ever do that."

"I'm just glad it wasn't actually me," Knuckles muttered, cradling his jaw.

Shadow rolled his eyes, unfazed. "Whimps."

Knuckles was a bit dazed laying on the ground. "Hey-hey!" He laughed. "Problem solved!" He then blinked a couple times. "What am I supposed to do again?"

The screen flashed white.

The alarm clock blared once it showed 6:00. Eggman pressed the button to silence it before yawning and sitting up in his bed.

Orbot floated into the room with a steaming tray. "Wakey-wakey, eggs and..." He put the food in Eggman's lap. "...sausages!"

Tails eyes wide. "The time loop. . ."

". . .It's gone!" Milla cheered.

"Thank goodness!" Amy was relieved.

Eggman glanced down at his breakfast, seeing that were indeed sausages on it instead of bacon.

The doctor's eyes widened, happiness filling him. "Yes, yes!"

Orbot had wilted somewhat. "We're out of bacon. Don't be mad!"

Eggman placed the tray on his bed before suddenly scooping up the red bot in a hug, laughing in relief.

Cubot approached them two. "Want to hear about the broken vase?"

Eggman sharply looked down at him. " Don't push it."

The screen flashed white.

"It's still not over yet?!" Amy questioned in a panic.

"But I thought. . ." Lilac began.

Cubot lowered the camera in his hand. "I wanted to capture this beautiful moment for posterity!"

Lilac sighed in relief. "That was close.

Amy lowered her head back against her chair. "And scary!"

"You weren't the only one!" Torque attempted to calm down his rapidly beating heart.

Sonic stretched his arms over his head. "The last minute or so aside, that was a pretty good episode!"

Knuckles grunted in agreeance. "No one was overly stupid, and my twin redeemed himself a little bit."

Carol chuckled. "He was was pretty funny."

Rouge felt a lump in her throat but calmed down. "Yeah. . .he is."

Eggman could say the same for his double. He had captured Sonic eventually – even though it had been rewound – and he had definitely been worse in previous episodes.

"If only my twin had showed up to make it more interesting." Silver mumbled to himself. Blaze comforts him by patting him on the shoulder

"He'll show up sooner or later!" Sonic reassured before looking over at Shadow. "Same goes to you, Shads!"

Shadow hummed in response. He'd rather it be sooner than later.

Theo pressed the button to the next episode.