The scene shows Amy walking through the Village Center with a stick in her left hand. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Sticks walk in and join her. "Hey Ames. Where you headed?" Sonic asked. "I'm off to collect for my holiday wreaths." Amy stated as she continued to walk. Sticks glanced at her curiously. "Exploding berries? Little grenades for when the holidays get out of hand?" Amy stops walking. "No. They just look nice on your door."

"That sounds nice." Lilac said.

"But pretty things attract government agents. And opossums. And you know how horrible they smell. The opossums too." Sticks exclaims.

"That sounds paranoia." Spade grunted.

"I'll take that chance." Amy said, as she starts to walk again. "See you when I get back from Hidden Meadows."

"Hidden Meadows, huh?" Sticks repeated, curiously. "How are you genna get there?"

"Well, I was gonna go through Hazard Jungle, past Peril River, over Danger Falls, through Pleasant Gardens and around Jeopardy Lake." Amy listed as she looked over her map.

Tails blinked. "That sounds dangerous."

Sonic waved him off. "She'll be fine, Tails."

The kit frowned. "She should at least take someone with her, just in case."

Amy glanced at Tails. "I can take care of myself, Tails."

"You can. But your twin is going into the wild." Knuckles points out. "She needs someone with survival skills." The echidna sighed. "And the only person who knows the woods better than anyone is..."

"The badger." Shadow finished, already know this episode is going to be a pain.

"Oh, geez." Eggman mumbled.

"'Hey, cheer up guys. I'm pretty sure Sticks can teach Amy the ropes."

Shadow raised a brow. "'You're pretty sure'?"

The blur blur shrugged. "Okay, I'm a little bit worried, but have some faith!"

"You want us to have faith on a badger, who is paranoid and crazy, to teach Amy to go on a dangerous journey into the wild??"

"...Yes?"

"You're a terrible boyfriend."

"I'M NOT HER BOYFRIEND!"

Amy sighed sadly. "Not yet at least."

"Are you kidding me?" Sonic asked. "You'll make it through Pleasant Gardens. I got to teach you some survival skills." "Well, Amy, it was nice knowing your twin." Knuckles joked.

"Hey!"

"I'm joking."

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles started laughing.

Amy looked annoyed. "What's so funny??"

Tails stopped and frowned. "What are we laughing at?"

"Exactly."

"If anyone should teach Amy survival skills, it's me. After everything Eggman's thrown at him, surviving in the wilderness is a piece of..." Sonic lets out a yell as he into the well and falls into it with a splash. "...Cake." Carol chuckled. "Yeah. You're gonna teach Amy how to fall into wells, while not looking where you're." Cory snickered. "You really are good at surviving kills, Sonic." The two sisters laughed some more. Sonic gave an attitude frown and crossed his arms, putting a leg over his other one. "I'm OK." Sonic called out from the well, as his friend looked down at him. "I'll use my survival skills to fashion a ladder out of... Water." Tails sighed. He's gonna pull Sonic out of that well isn't he?" "Tails, pull me up." Sonic pleaded.

Yep.

Tails flew down to the bottom of the well and pulled out a dripping wet Sonic. Sonic grinned at Tails. "Great work, Tails. You passed "Well Rescue"." He turned to Sticks. "See, I can teach anyone."

Sticks smirked. "How about Knuckles?" "He wouldn't last a minute." "Who's? My twin or yours." "Both." The gang turned to see Knuckles holding a walnut in his right hand, which he places on a stump of tree, and gets ready to break it with a rock in his left hand. Sticks grinned. "I bet that I can teach Amy survival skills better than you can teach Knuckles."

A thumping sound is heard. "Ow!" Amy cringed. "He hit his hand didn't he?" Knuckles nodded. "Pretty much." A second later, munching is heard. "Mmm! This is tasty." Knuckles sighed.

"And the losers have to do the winners' laundry for a month." Amy declared.

Sonic scoffed. "Like that's gonna happen."

"I agree." Knuckles nodded. He thought for a moment. "I know my twin doesn't, 'cause he's an idiot," He glanced at Sonic. "But does your twin even know how to wash laundry? The both of you don't even wear clothes."

The speedster scratched his chin. "Now that you think of it... no. Not really."

"Then why don't they suggest something else?"

"Like what?"

"You guys could buy anything for them for a month." Tails suggested.

"No!"

Yes!" Amy cheered.

"Tails!" Sonic scolds. The kit shrugged.

Sonic frowned. "That's not a fair bet. Knuckles and I don't wear pants. But I'll do it just to teach you a lesson." Amy snorted. "Teach me a lesson, Sonic? Fat chance!" Sonic hmphed. "We'll see about that." Rouge grinned. "Who run the world?" Every female (except Neera and Cream) in the theater, including Lucy, raised their fist in the air. "We do!"

Every male could blink in confusion completely baffled.

Knuckles is sucking on his sore fingers. "Awww, he's like a baby!" Rouge cooed. The girls giggled as the boys looked at Knuckles, who was doing his best not to scream.

Sticks nodded. "So, we'll race to Hidden Meadows. That'll take a good four days. And some serious survival skills."

Sonic runs off and returns a split-second later with a cup full of gum tree berries. "Ta-da! Gum tree berries."

Amy frowned at him. "It's teams, Sonic. You and Knuckles versus Sticks and me. To win, both of you need to get there. Good luck with that." Amy and Sticks walked off, giggling. Sonic turned to Knuckles. "Well, team mate, I..." The gum tree berries in Sonic's cup explode. Knuckles whimpers and jumps into Sonic's arms.

The girls giggled some more. Knuckles faced turned storming red. "It's not funny!"

Sonic frowned at Knuckles. "I thought you love nature."

"I do!" Knuckles whimpered. "That doesn't mean I know how to survive in it." "Baby Knuckles~" Cory teased. This caused the girls to laugh some more. "Grr." Knuckles growled. Sonic Started walking, with Knuckles in his arms. "Well, even so, this is gonna be a piece of caaaake!" Sonic walks into the well and falls into it with a splash with Knuckles. Tails sighed, dropping his shoulders in exasperation.

Amy chuckled. "You guys are gonna lose." "Says you!" Sonic roared. "I know." The scene changes to Sticks' Burrow. The badger blew a whistle. When she was done, she grinned at Amy. "OK, ! The first thing you need to know is survival skills aren't about crafting and making things pretty. It's using what you've got. First up, building fires."

Sticks puts up two rocks and whacks them together to create a spark that ignites a pile of leaves. Sticks looks up from her fire and sees, much to her disappointment, that Amy is making an arrangement with her pile of leaves and ticks. Once Amy is done, an annoyed Sticks walks over to the pile and ignites it with her two rocks.

"Not so easy is it, Ames?" "I've just started, Sonic. Give me a minute." "Let's try something simpler." Sticks suggested. "Knot tying." Rouge smiled. "That should be easy."

Cream nodded happily. "Miss Amy is very good at knot tying."

Sticks ties a knot with two pieces of rope. Sticks looks over her shoulder and sees that Amy has made a heart with her rope. Sonic snickered. Though he had to admit it, it looked pretty cool. "This is a survival episode, Amy, not a decoration marathon." "Oh be quiet, Sonic. You're just jealous." Amy said. "As if." Amy grinned as she held up her design. "I added cinnamon sticks to mine. You can hang it in your closet to freshen your clothes. And if you lock yourself in, you can eat them until the fire department rescues you." Sticks gives Amy a stern look. The pinkette smiled sheepishly. "So I hear."

Sticks puts up a tent with a rock. "Finish up here. I'll rustle up some dinner."

Amy receives Sticks' rock. Amy hits the tent's peg with the peg. The whole tent then catches on fire and is reduced to ash. "Disappointed." Knuckles said. "Your twin wouldn't do any better." Carol said.

Amy is holding a pink and a black mushroom in front of Sticks. Amy sniffs both mushrooms. Sticks crossed her arms, watching carefully. "Hmm." "What is she doing?" Torque asked. "She's probably sniffing the mushroom to see which one is okay to eat, and which one is poisonous." Tails said. After a while, Amy eats the pink mushroom.

Sticks grinned. "Oh, yeah. You're ready." "Good job, Amy!" Carol cheered.

Amy throws the black mushroom into the tent behind her. The tent catches fire and is reduced to ash.

Cory blinked. "Umm..." Rouge shook her head with a smile. "Best not to question it." Amy sighed. "I wonder how the guys are doing."

"Stay tuned for "Survival Skills Made Easy"."

The scene changes to Sonic, Tails and Knuckles sitting at a table watching TV. Milla giggled. "Terrible." Cory put her thumbs down. "You guys are doomed."

Sonic and Knuckles slumped in their seats.

Knuckles frowns. "Why would anyone watch that?" He walks up to the TV and turns its knob, changing the channel.

"And now back to "Are You Smart Enough To Feed Yourself?"

Satisfied, Knuckles sits down at the table again. Sonic grins. "That's more like it."

"You know, the test to get on that show is a lot harder than you think." Knuckles said.

Tails frowned at his teammates. "Uh... Shouldn't you guys be training?" "That's what I'm asking." The kit said. "I have to give in to nature." Comedy Chimp announced on TV. Dave walked up and handed a tray of burgers. Knuckles grinned, picking one up. "Let the training begin. Mmm!" He sighed happily as he pooped the burger in his mouth.

The scene goes back to sticks Amy and Sticks packing their backpacks while Sonic and Knuckles watch.

Knuckles frowned, watching them. "Should we be bringing food?" "Yes." Knuckles said. "You're an idiot, but at least you're making some sense."

"Nah," Sonic snickered, raising his arms to the forest. "there's plenty of food in the wild." The group turned to Tails', who began his speech. "As referee for this race, I want a clean competition. No cheating. Of course, you'll be deep in the woods, so I won't know if you cheat. Look, just don't cheat, OK? I mean, come on, you guys. My job is hard enough...""Go!" Sticks yelled, and the gang took off into the woods, leaving Tails behind. The kit sighed.

"You'll get used to it, other me." Tails said sheepishly." "Sonic? Where are you? I think I'm lost." Knuckles wailed from somewhere up ahead.

"Bran-dead fool." Knuckles mumbled.

Amy and Sticks are running through the forest. Eventually, they start walking. Sticks then spots a stick and sets it vertically into the ground Sticks then draws a circle around it and Amy puts a compass right next to it.

Amy studied the time and points. "North is that way."

Sticks nodded happily. "That means it's exactly 2:37. We're right on schedule!"

Rouge crossed her arms and smiled proudly. "Ladies, we are on a roll." "Yeah!" The girls cheered. "Hmph." Neera just crossed her arms, not interested. Milla gave a small smile. "Come one, Neera. It's girls against boys! You can at least pump your fist up and shout it." Neera deadpanned. She lazily raised her shouted, 'girls against boys' in a weak tone.

"Err, close enough?" Milla said with uncertainty. Amy and Sticks pick up their compass and runs off. Soon after, Sonic and Knuckles emerge from the bushes, all dirty. Sonic and Knuckles look around, and Sonic eventually spots the stick Sticks sat up.

The blue blur grinned. "Look! This is exactly what we need."Knuckles puts the stick up to his forehead and prepares to charge at Sonic, who is holding a red piece of cloth, like a bull.

As Knuckles comes running at Sonic, Sonic pulls the cloth away, leaving Knuckles to run into a tree. The stick he held up jammed in the trunk, the v-shaped top facing forward.

"You guys need-" "Don't say it, Amy." "Uh-oh, it's 2:37. We'd better get going." Sonic said as he zoomed off leaving Knuckles behind.

Knuckles runs after him. "Wait for me!"

Sticks and Amy have set up camp. Sticks places a carrot inside a hoop of rope and slowly backs away. A rabbit soon after hops up to the carrot. Once the rabbit grabs the carrot, however, the traps springs, leaving the rabbit hanging in midair from a rope. Sticks then comes in and cuts the rope, holding the caught rabbit in front of her.

Sticks smiled happily, holding the rabbit. "Dinner!" "NO!!!" Everyone shouted. "Are you insane?!" - Carol "You can't eat that bunny!" - Tails "Let it go!" - Neera "That's low even for me!" - Eggman "Crazy badger." - Shadow Amy frowned, walking up and taking the rabbit from Sticks, setting it free. "There is no way we're eating that adorable little thing. He's too cute." Everyone was relieved. "That badger is sick." Spade hissed. Spade didn't care about anything, but that doesn't mean that he'll do something as disturbing as this. "I've picked us a nice woodland salad." Amy shows Sticks the salad. Sticks smiles. Meanwhile, the rabbit hops up to a moose and roars at it while its eyes turn red. The moose screams and runs away. The rabbit chase after the moose."

..." Everyone was taken back. After an intense silence, Sonic decided to speak up. "Maybe Sticks should've eaten that rabbit." "No!" Amy protested. "It's the circle of life, Sonic! You should know this." The speedster sighed. "I know. I know. I'm just saying." "Say less." The scene changes to Sonic trying to put up a tent. When he nailed the last pole, he grinned. "Perfect." He flops down on the tent. Knuckles frowns as he tries to ignite a pile of leaves with two rocks, yet he fails. "I can't get the fire started."

Sonic walked up, frowning. "That's not how you start a fire. Let me show you." He runs around the pile of leaves for a second. Sonic then looks at the pile of leaves, but nothing happens. Amy shook her head. "That's not how you start a fire either, Sonic." Immediately after, however, Sonic's shoes catches on fire.

"Look what happens when run too fast, Sonic." "Ames, even I don't go that fast." Sonic jumps back a bit. "Whoa!" Knuckles grabs a stick and starts whacking Sonic; causing more pain to the hedgehog. "Ow! Ow! Knock it off! Stop it! Ow! Ow!" The echidna snickered. "Hey, I'm just trying to help you, Sonic." "Your help isn't needed, Knux." Amy and Sticks are looking at Sonic and Knuckles from behind some bushes. "This is just getting sad." "Embarrassing is more like." "I'm not so sure about that, rodent." "Just wait until your twin shows up, Eggy. You'll wipe that smirk off your face." Knuckles keeps whacking Sonic with the stick. "Ow! Ow!" The fire on Sonic's shoes goes out.

Amy and Sticks walked up to them. "Listen, if you guys admit you lost the bet, we'll help with the tent and fire and share our food with you."

Sonic frowned. "No way! We might have had a few minor setbacks but this isn't over 'till it's over. Tomorrow's another day."

Carol smirked. "You boys are just proving that we're better than you." Cory laughed. "They're a couple of goofballs."

"They'll probably be dead by tomorrow." Neera deadpanned. "Yeah, if you live to see it. Here's some food, guys." Amy throws a carrot on the ground in front of Sonic. Sonic and Knuckles look at each other for a few moments, and then start fighting over the carrot.

"You guys are becoming animals." Spade said. Knuckles looked at the panda. "We are animals." "I mean you're acting like wild animals, fool." "...Oh."

Sonic and Knuckles continue going out in a thug-of-war with the carrot until Sonic gets a realization. "Look what they've got us doing."

"Where?" Knuckles asked.

"Knuckles, we're going to have to use our brains."

"Good idea. And while I'm doing that, you think of something."

Knuckles rolled his eyes, while Sonic snickered.

Sonic blinks at Knuckles for a few seconds and then he grins. "I got it. We'll just follow them. Then right before they reach the finish line, we'll run ahead and win. I don't know why we were we so worried 15 seconds ago?" "I don't even remember 15 seconds ago."

Sonic and Knuckles shared a laugh and high five, walking off. They walk up so that they have Amy and Sticks' camp in sight. "Look at those losers, going to bed when there's a whole night ahead of us.""

It's not like you've rested before, Sonic." "That's because I do, Ames" "In the daytime?"

"...I only do it when I'm bored."

"You only get bored when you're not running, or eating chili dogs."

"Touche." Knuckles grinned. "Let's go blindfold ourselves and run into the forest to see if we can find our way back." He and Sonic ran off, laughing. Rouge giggled. "Boys."

The next morning, Sonic and Knuckles are both sleeping. Sonic is hanging from a tree by his own tent and Knuckles is lying on top of a tree trunk.

Eventually, Sonic falls down and walks up. Sonic gets up and looks around. "Knuckles, get up!" He walks up to the echidna. "They didn't wake us up so we could follow them."

"You think we'll let you win?" Carol questioned. "That's cheating." Knuckles hissed, clenching his fists. "It's okay." Sonic said reassuringly. "We just have to figure out which way they went. I'll zip back home and grab a compass." Sonic zips off, only to return from the opposite direction, confused. He then runs in the other direction, only to appear from the opposite direction again. Sonic looks around.

Knuckles grunts. "Let me try." He runs off, but not a second later he cried out. "Help!"

"You guys are lost." Cory points out.

Knuckles rolled his eyes. "You don't have to point it out."

Sonic sighs and walks to the panicked echidna, touching his arm.

"Phew!" Knuckles wipes a hand across his forehead in relief. "I thought we were lost."

"We are lost." The blue blur stated.

Knuckles throws his hands in distress. "Help!"

Meanwhile, Amy and Sticks are watching them through some binoculars. The badger sighs. "It's like watching lab rats in a maze."

Sonic looked offended. He already had Eggman calling him a rat, he didn't need a badger calling him one too. Knuckles growled. "Except are intelligent! Unlike you, crazy badger." "Lab rats aren't that clueless." Amy correct the badger. She lower her binoculars. "We'd better help them." "Ow! I stepped on my hand. Get off me, me!" Knuckles shouted from below.

Torque raised a brow. "How can you step on your hand if they're in the air, while your feet are below the ground?"

"He's an idiot. Don't question it." Knuckles grumbled.

"You think?" Sticks gazes at Amy.

The scene changes to Sonic and Knuckles walking through the forest. Amy and Sticks are watching them from behind a bush.

They stop and Sonic put his hands on his hips. "Which way did the girls go? Not to worry... I'll use my tracking skills. Hmm..." They approach a fork in the road, Sticks' boomerang lying in the right path.

Knuckles points to the right. "They must have gone that way." Amy perked up. "Yes. Yes! Now you're getting it." Carol smirked. "Well that was easy." "But what if an animal picked up the Boomerang and left it there?" Sonic guesses. He points to the left path. "We're going that way." They take the wrong way. Amy and Sticks gaped in disbelief and facepalm. Everyone facepalmed as well.

Sticks plants a compass on the road. She then hides behind a giant tree rood with Amy just as Sonic and Knuckles approach.

"Okay," Cory began, "They cannot get this wrong." "If they did, how?" Carol asked. Sonic points. "Look, a compass!" Before he could get it, Knuckles stomps on it and it shatters. The audience gawk in shock/disbelief/confusion. "What'd you do that for?!" Silver asked, confused at the echidna's action. "That was the only way you could find your direction!" Blaze retorted. "Why did you do that?" Sonic deadpans at his teammate.

"Nobody tells Knuckles which way is north." The echidna declared.

The audience exchange exasperated looks and facepalmed, again.

Amy and Sticks facepalm once again. The scene changes as Amy and Sticks leave a food trail along the ground.

"OK, this time they can't miss the clues." Amy said.

"I wouldn't put it past them." Knuckles grumbled.

"Even for them this'll be a piece of..." Sticks began but the leaves on the floor give away and the two fall into it matching cries, landing in a heap. "...Cake." Amy finishes the sentence dryly. "Where did that hole come from?" Tails asked. Sonic hummed. "No idea. Amy and Sticks didn't set it up, obviously. Me and Knuckles didn't set it up. Perhaps..." "The doctor must've put it there." Shadow finished the blue blur's sentence. "He's the only person to even do this."

Eggman sigh. Great, his twin was gonna show up. Sonic was right, that grin of his was gone. The two pick themselves up, rubbing their heads. "That was freaky. Where are we?" Amy groaned, glancing around the large metal hole they were trapped in.

"I bet it's an abandoned missile silo." Sticks suggests. The pinkette rolled her eyes. "It's always some crazy conspiracy with you. What makes you think it's a missile silo?"

The badger gestures behind herself. "The missile." Amy turns around and there was indeed a white and yellow missile.

Amy sees writing on it and reads. "Eggman's Missile Industries. A subsidiary of Eggman Fun Toys."

Sonic let out a cackle. "Fun toys?! That's ridiculous!" He laughed Eggman growled in annoyance. "Shut up you blue porcupine!" "We heard you scream." Sonic's voice called out. Amy and Sticks looked up and saw Sonic and Knuckles on the edge of the pit, looking at them. "You guys OK?"

"We'll be glad for salvation once you get us out of her." Amy said, smiling. Thinking that Sonic and Knuckles are gonna save them. "Never better." Amy cries back up.

"You sure you're OK?" Sonic asked again.

"Yeah."

"Now get us out of here!" Sticks exclaimed.

"Oh, we will..." They stand with evil smirks. "After we get to the finish line using our superior survival skills. Don't go anywhere!" Sonic laughs as he and Knuckles walk off. Milla frowned. "Hey! You can't just leave them there."

Amy gritted her teeth and clenched her fist, angrily. "Sonic the Hedgehog, how could you?!"

Sonic his hands up like he was surrendering. "C'mon, Ames! I would never leave you alone."

"I probably would." Knuckles mumbled.

"Okay, Knux, you're not helping."

"Not trying to help."

Sticks was already getting something out of her backpack. "OK, here's what we do. I'll cut up the tent, you put the rest of the food on the console over there.

"How do you know all this?" Amy wonders.

"If I had a newspaper for every time I fell into a missile silo, we could stack them and climb out of here. But they're all stacked in my burrow so we'll have to stick to the original plan."

Cory raised a brow. "And that is..." Sticks adjusted the circuitry in the missile, Amy empties the food onto the console and sat on top of the missile.

Finishing their tinkering, Sticks closes the hatch on the missile and joins Amy on top of the missile.

"All set." Sticks said.

"OK, now what?" Amy asks.

"Bird calls." Sticks a few bird calls and tweets. Hearing that, three birds come flying into the missile silo. One of the birds land on the missile console. "Come on! Peck! Peck!"

The birds start pecking on the buttons with food on them. Sonic and Knuckles are shown running through the forest. They see the finish line right in front of them. "Almost there." The blue blur beams.

Suddenly, a loud whooshing sound is heard and the two skid to a stop. "Hey, you hear something?"

"Yee-hah!"

Sonic and Knuckles looked up to see Amy and Sticks flying past them on the missile. The girls wave at the boys as they pass them. Sonic and Knuckles stare at them, stun for a moment, then start running.

Meanwhile, Amy and Sticks jump off the missile and use their tents as parachutes to land on the finish line a moment before Sonic and Knuckles.

"Yes! Winners!" The two girls cheered in unison, dancing up and down, twirling and laughing.

The girls (except for Neera) high five each other and laughed, while most of the boys just groaned.

"No fair!" Sonic cries stroppily, stamping his foot and Knuckles frowned. "All's fair in love and war."

"There's no love in war, Amy."

"It's a method, Sonic."

"Why not? Survival skills are just using what you've got." Amy says light-hardheartedly with her hands on her hips while Sticks smirk at the two.

"We... I... You guys want to lead us home?" Sonic sighs, finally admitting defeat.

Amy smiled proudly. "Good boy."

Sonic frowned. "I'm not a dog."

"Sure. Hey, what do you think happened to that missile?" Amy turns to Sticks who smiles suggestively.

"I stamped it "Return to sender"."

Rouge smirked. "Hardcore."

Eggman frowned. "Oh great."

The scene shows Eggman in his HQ room with Orbot and Cubot. The whooshing is heard in the background again. Eggman recognized the sound. "I know that sound." His drops. "Uh-oh."

The screen fades to black as a crash sounds is heard, indicating that the missile destroyed Eggman's Lair.

Sonic smirked. "Me and Knuckles' twins may have lost, but seeing Egghead in distressed is victory to me."

"Quiet, porcupine."

Knuckles slumped in his seat. "I'm just glad that's over."

Rouge grinned. "Is someone jealous?"

"No!"

Milla smiled at Amy. "You and Sticks did pretty good, Amy."

The pinkette smiled. "Thanks, Milla."

Cream smiled happily. "Good job, Amy!"

"Chao, chao!" Cheese exclaimed, happily.

"Thanks guys."

Lucy smiled at the scene and pressed the button to the next episode.