"Chili Dog Day Afternoon?" Lilac read the title confused.

"Sounds like the faker's favorite day of the year." Shadow said.

Sonic smiled. "Awww, thank you, Shads."

"Wasn't really trying to compliment you."

"Let's just watch the show already." Eggman mumbled.

The scene starts with Sonic and CO constructing a stage for the Chili Dog contest.

"Building takes teamwork, and a team needs a coach, and that's me!" Amy smiled, putting her hands to her hips. She turned to the group, who were busy working on the stage. "Sonic, hold that support strut horizontal."

"Since I'm the judge of this year's chili dog cookoff, I don't think I should help. I have to stay impartial." Sonic pointed out to her.

"That's true, but shouldn't you at least help them and not be lazy for one?" Amy questioned.

"No stage, no contest. No contest, no chili dogs to judge." Amy told him.

"She has a point, Sonic." Carol smirked. "You don't want to miss the opportunity by tasting all those delicious chili dogs, do ya?"

Sonic just glared at her.

The blue blur turned to Tails and Knuckles. "Tails, Knuckles, get to it!"

Tails steadied a nail. And before he could hit it, he let out a yelped as Knuckles smashed Amy's hammer, causing Sonic to fly towards Amy, who both collided into a tree. "I don't have time for this." The pinkette hedgehog said, pushing Sonic off her. "I need Tails to prep the collar planks, and Knuckles to get the joist hangers, and Sticks to get more sticks."

"Tadah!" Tails called out, making Sonic and Amy turn to face a completed stage.

"Well, what did you know?" Sonia grinned.

Cosmo smiled. "Great work, Tails."

"Hehe, thanks, Cosmo."

"Thanks for keeping Amy busy so we could finish." Knuckles grinned at Sonic.

"Anything for a free chili dog." Sonic grinned back, walking alongside Amy towards the stage.

Amy frowned, noticing something. A banana seemed to be holding the stage. "What's that?" She asked.

Manic blinked. "...It's a banana?

"A banana holding an entire stage." Knuckles pointed out.

"How is that remotely possible??" Torque asked.

"Scientifically, it is." Tails answered. He built T.V out of paperclips and reprogrammed a super computer using dishwashing detergent and a toothpick. A simple banana holding an entire stage is nothing new to him.

Amy grabbed the banana, in an attempt to pull it out.

"Don't!" Tails yelled. "That's a load-bearing banana."

Ignoring Tails, Amy pulled the banana out, causing the whole stage to collapse.

"He just warned you NOT to pull out the banana!" Amy exclaimed.

Milla sighed. "And I was just proud of his work too."

"Who builds with a banana?" Amy growled at Tails.

"Only a total dumb-dumb," Knuckles said, taking a bite out of a wooden plank. "Bananas give me splinters in my gums."

"And you give me splinters in my head." Knuckles groaned.

"He's got that all mixed up..." Fiona shook her head with a giggle.

"That's it. I'll build the stage myself." Amy grumbled.

Soon, Amy smiled at a fully completed stage. "Ha! And that, my friends, is a stage." She turned around to find out that the rest of the team was gone. "Guys?!" She turned around to see that they were sitting at a Meh Burger table and talking about the contest.

Lilac frowned. "You guys didn't do any work and already ready you're hungry?"

Sonic shrugged. "Hey, we did most of the work. Amy is one who insisted on rebuilding the stage by herself."

"And so you let one single person do and ream's work??"

"Well... when you say it like that... yeah??"

"That's a horrible excuse, Sonic."

"Hey, you're eating with me, Tails!"

"If you win, I'll wear the trophy upside down on my head like a hat for a year." The kitsune said with a smile.

"No way!" Knuckles pounded his hands on the table. "My trophy, my hat!"

"No, Knuckles, I think he's trying to..." Sonic began but paused when Knuckles stared at him with a deadpan look. "Ugh. Just wear the hat." He told him flatly.

"Yeah, don't try to explain it, other me. He won't understand you."

"Even I don't understand, Sonic."

"Love you too, Knux."

Dave came over and put down a plate of chili dogs in front of the gang. He smirked. "Eat 'em and weep, losers! I'm winning this year's cookoff with my super-secret chili recipe." He said confidently.

Sonic grabbed one and took a bite. "Ketchup, wasabi, and chunks of expired pigeon meat."

Sonic grinned proudly. Barely three seconds he was already able to decipher the so-called 'super-secret recipe'. He's the king when it comes to chili-dogs.

"Lucky guess." Dave hissed. He took the plate and walked off.

Tails shook his head. "Not really. Sonic's a pro at tasting chili-dogs."

"Thanks little buddy."

Amy took her seat next to Sticks. "I finished the stage, praise me."

"Yeah, praise me from all the hard work I've done, that you boys couldn't even do." Amy retorted.

"Thanks, Amy," Sonic said.

"Nice job!" Tails praised.

"Thanks!" Knuckles smiled grinned.

The pink hedgehog crossed her arms. "Still don't feel like I'm being praised."

"I think you did a good job, Amy." Cream praised, smiling.

"Thanks, Cream."

"Can it be used as a flotation device in the event of a water landing?" Sticks asked.

Everyone stared at her.

"We'll see who's staring when that thing lands in the ocean!" She shrieked.

"Paranoid badger." Scourge mumbled.

"We don't need a judging stage." Knuckles said suddenly. "I've got the contest in the bag!" He took out a box and placed it on the table.

"I thought you said it was in the bag." Tails corrected.

Knuckles grinned and took a small blue drawstring bag out of the box. "Yeah, who am the smart one now? That's a rhetorical question, by the way. The answer is, of course, me am." Knuckles said, taking out a smaller box from the bag and showing the gang an orange and black striped pepper.

"That's... a weird looking pepper." Cory said.

Jet raised a brow. "That's suppose to be a pepper?"

"It's not like any other peppers I'd saw." Wave said.

"It looks like a tiger's pepper." Storm said.

"My secret weapon: A one of a kind pepper!"

Knuckles resisted the urge to facepalm himself. Seriously?? A one of a kind pepper. Sounds like a scam. But he shouldn't be surprised.

"One of a kind peppers! Get your one of a kind peppers!" Mrs. Vandersnout announced in front of a cart filled with peppers. Sticks cleared her throat, and she, Amy, Knuckles and frowned at her, holding their own one-of-a-kind peppers. Sonic was eating a chili-dog, and flashed a cheeky smile.

Amy and Tails gave him a weird look.

Sticks marched up to Mrs. Vandersnout, glaring at her. "You told us these were one-of-a-kind peppers!" She held her out the pepper to her.

"I never said they were one-of-a-kind peppers." Mrs. Vandersnout defended.

Cory furrowed her eyebrows. "All of us literally just heard you say that..."

Carol nodded. "If this is her way of lying... she's terrible at it."

"Here's another crate of those peppers you're selling as "one-of-a-kind!" A delivery ox said, walking up holding a red crate. He yelped as he tripped over the peppers. The peppers from the crate spilled to the ground.

"Ah, don't even worry about it. I got another 20 crates on the truck."

"And already she's exposed." Vector said, shaking his head.

"Well, that was poorly timed. I suppose you want a refund. I'll just get your money. I keep it in a place called... tough luck, losers!" Mrs. Vandersnout snarled at them, and hopped in her cart, and drove off.

"Jerk." Charmy scowled.

However, Mrs. Vandersnout drove so fast that she nearly ran into them, but Sonic and the others quickly moved out of the way just in time. The wolf smashed into the stage Amy worked so hard on, knocking it to the ground. Mrs. Vandersnout landed on the ground as well.

"She deserved that." Manic said.

Mrs. Vandersnout turned to Team Sonic with a hopeful expression. "Can one of you dears help a poor little old lady?"

"NO!" Everyone yelled, glaring angrily at her.

"I deserve that."

"Yes you did."

"If I'm going to win that contest, I gotta go find a unique pepper!" Knuckles declared, dashing off.

Knuckles can't hardly wait for the torture he's about witness.

Knuckles walked through the forest, searching for his unique pepper. He finally found a bright red pepper, and he grinned. He picked it up and inspected it before he took a bite.

However, it was burning hot...way too hot for Knuckles to bear. The echidna starts sweating before passing out on the ground.

"I'm guessing he's found his pepper?" Tails guessed.

Knuckles returned to the stage, eyeing the rest of the team stirring their chili dog pots. "I have found the pepper of peppers!" Knuckles bragged, grinning. "Hot with an indescribable flavor!" You might as well stop stirring now."

"Not so fast!"

Eggman, with Orbot and Cubot, emerges holding out a pepper.

Eggman sighed. Here we go. Again.

Sonic snorted. "Since when you like chili-dogs, Eggy?"

"Me liking chili dogs is a cancer. Because I'll become like you, rodent."

"Behold, the Facepeeler Maximus! Witness now..." The doctor paused, stuttering. He turned to Orbot. "Line?"

Orbot hissed to him, "If you dare..."

"You can't even come up with your own lines? Geez, it's no wonder your robots are helping you out."

"Porcupine, I swear, I will rip off your fur and wear it like a coat."

"Witness now, if you dare, the Chili Maker 5,000!" Eggman put down a blender-esque machine.

"Copyright Eggman Industries, patent-pending, all rights reserved, some restrictions apply," Cubot said quickly.

"This little beauty extracts the very essence of the chili pepper, creating a chili dog of unprecedented potency!" Eggman explains with a grin.

Orbot pulled out a kazoo and played it, at the same time throwing colorful confetti in the air.

Knuckles watched as Eggman placed his pepper into the machine, and with one single drop, it dropped to the pan in a burning flame of fire. Knuckles scowled and walked off, tossing away the pepper.

"Better luck next time?" Torque.

Gong scoffed. "Next time might be as embarrassing as the last one."

"Psstt!"

Knuckles turned to the familiar call to see Mrs. Vandersnout waving him over behind a tree.

Neera deadpan. "Her again?"

"Didn't she like a con artist for lying to them about those fake peppers?" Gong questioned. "Why does Knuckles seek her help again?"

"Because, he doesn't realize how much of an idiot he is." Knuckles stated, as if it wasn't obvious, rolling his eyes.

Knuckles hurried over to her. "If you want to win this thing, you need the Lost Pepper of Claggerhorn."

"Well, hand it over!"

"What part of "the lost" didn't you get?" The fox asked the echidna annoyed. "Luckily, I've got this one-of-a-kind map!"

Mrs. Vandersnout handed Knuckles a map, who received it with an "oooh!"

Knuckles dropped three coins in her hand and walked up, holding out the map with excitement.

"Can this get more unbearable?"

"Where do you want this crate of "One-of-a-kind maps"?" The delivery ox from before asked, carrying more crates. This time with maps.

"Put them with the others." Mrs. Vandersnout answered, pointing to crates of maps.

Knuckles stared at the kit.

"Sorry I said anything."

"It's fine. I expected something like this."

Silver scratched his head, sheepishly. "She really must be opposed with the that word; "One-of-a-kind"."

"Unfortunately, she is." Blaze said sighing.

Scourge scoffed. "Time for the echidna for face his stupid failures."

Honestly, Knuckles half-agreed with the green hedgehog.

Knuckles grunted as he climbed a giant cliff. "Almost there..." He grunted as he put one leg on a loose stone, and the stone broke. Knuckles gave a startled yell as he rode down the mountain on it. He tilts sideways, dodging a rock and a bush. Knuckles looks in front of him and sees a huge chasm which he is heading right towards. Fortunately, the slab stops sliding right before the edge of the chasm.

"Whew!" Knuckles exclaimed in relief. He looks downwards into the chasm, then looks back up. He smiles. "Awesome! I gotta do that again!" He dashes off towards the giant cliff again.

"There's not enough brain cells for that echidna to figure out that he's just a waste of life." Eggman said, ignoring the eyes that were on him.

"The Staircase of Terrifying Slipperieness..." Knuckles read from the map. He glanced at the stones which were piled up like staircases. With a determined look, the red echidna tries to run up the stairs, but slips on the fourth step and falls back down. He tries three more times, but keeps falling back down.

Finally letting out a frustrated yell, Knuckles scales the stairs by using his fists to climb upwards, grunting all the while. He shortly makes it to the top.

"At least he's learning from his mistakes."

"Don't try to help him with his own stupidity, Tails." Fiona retorted.

(The next was The Field of Baby Ducks. Which is actually a personal favorite for Lucy, in the Sonic Boom Knuckles moment. She laughs every time when a duck explodes in Knuckles' face).

"The Field of Baby Ducks..."

Cosmo gasped, worriedly. "Baby ducks?! Don't tell me that it's an actually-

Knuckles is shown walking up to one of the ducks. A mechanical duck.

"-duck??" Cosmo finished, confused.

Amy blinked, also confused. "Mechanical ducks..."

Cream, however, was relieved. "Oh thank goodness. I was scared that there was actually going to be a real duck around. And then... something bad might happened."

Shadow patted the scared rabbit on the head with an assuring look. "It's okay, Cream. There's no way that a show like this will go that far with something like that."

Knuckles smiles at the little robot duck. "Hey, little fella, you're cute!" He cooed. Knuckles reaches for the duck, but as soon as he touches it, it explodes.

Amy and Cosmo yelped in shock, while Cream clung to Shadow's arms.

"But they'll definitely show cute ducklings exploding." Sonic points out.

"Thank you for pointing out the obvious, faker." Shadow retorted, carefully rubbing Creams head.

Tails sighed. "It's a good thing that they're robots. Otherwise..." The kit didn't even want to finish that sentence.

Milla cringed. "I don't even wanna think about it."

Knuckles now has scorch marks on him, but he gets up and walks onward. He sees another duck. "Well, look at you!" He yelped as it exploded. He wiggled his head from the shock and glanced at the next duck.

"Stop picking up ducks if they're just gonna explode in your face!!" Amy screeched, frustrated.

He sees yet another duck. "Look at you-" It also explodes. He shakes his head rapidly again. "Bwrrrr...."

"Stop picking up ducks!!" Wave yelled.

Jet pinched the bridge of his beak. For some reason this version of Knuckles reminds him of Storm. Which gives him even more of a headache.

Knuckles sees yet another duck. "Hi! Look at yo-" Like all the others, the duck explodes. He shakes his head rapidly yet again. "Bwrrrr...."

Spade's eyebrow twitches in annoyance. "How long is this gonna take??"

"I agree with the koala bear." Scourge added, annoyed.

"Can't you just skip it??" Anti-Tails questioned.

Lucy nodded. "We can but..."

Fiona deadpan. "You want us to watch the whole thing, correct?"

"Pretty much." Andy confirmed.

Most of the audience groaned.

He sees yet another duck. "Hey little fella-" The duck explodes. He shakes his head rapidly yet again. "Bwrrrr...." He sees yet another duck. "Well, look at-" The duck explodes. Later, Knuckles is soon seen walking through the field, with several craters from the ducks behind him.

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 87 times, shame on me." Knuckles groaned as he limped through the Baby Ducks field.

He picked up another duck and it exploded in his hands.

"That's the last one guys." Theo said.

"Thank you."

"Finally."

"About time."

Knuckles yelled and tore through a bush, panting. He lifted his head in the air and let out a werewolf-like howl.

Knuckles pressed a button to a speaker, and it blared out, "Congratulations, you have successfully traversed The Lands of Doomed! And so, sit back in your very own recliner..."

A recliner glides up behind Knuckles, and he sits down in it. "of the doomed!"

The recliner glides away at high speed, and locks him in with arm clamps. A flying cream pie hits Knuckles in the face.

He sees a mechanical duck flying towards him. "Hey, little-" The duck collides with him, and explodes in his face. Knuckles looks forward, and the recliner drives off a cliff.

Most of the audience stared at Theo with an annoyed look. The hedgehog rubbed his head sheepishly. "Sorry... forgot about that part. But it's over this time."

"It better." Eggman retorted.

Knuckles let out a yell as he broke free from the chair and smashed headfirst into the bottom of the volcano, and everything went black.

Knuckles, in a first-person view, groans as he slowly opens his eyes. He blinks once, before realizing he has been tied down with ropes. Knuckles grunts and tries to break free of the ropes, to no avail.

"What is this? Let me go!" The echidna demanded.

"Looks like he's held hostage." Sonic points out.

"Yeah, but by who?" Tails asked.

"What is it that 'ya seek?" A voice boomed.

"I think we're about to find out." Amy said, curious.

"I seek the lost Pepper of Claggerhorn!" Knuckles declared.

"Why do 'ya seek it?" The unknown voice voice questions the red echidna.

"To roast over an open flame, to tear the seeds from its insides, chop it into tiny pieces, scald it in boiling oil, and use it to flavor my Chili for a chance win a very small trophy..."

"I am the Lost Pepper of Claggerhorn!"

Knuckles tilted his head to see a red pepper standing on his chest, with an eye patch and a bite on his head. Knuckles gulped. "Let me finish... Is the opposite of what I would do!"

"Nice recovery, laddie." The eye patched pepper spoke quietly

"Same here." Knuckles mumbled.

Knuckles eyed the head bite. "Dude, what's with your head bite?"

The other peppers around them gasped.

Sonia cringed. "Isn't that a bit... personal?"

Lost Pepper of Clagerhorn raised his hand, gesturing them to be silent. He faced Knuckles. "'Tis a scar I wear proudly, to remind me of the home we lost."

"Huh, he's one of those." Sonic mumbled. It's no surprise that some people might speak about their personal life like the Lost Pepper of Claggerhorn.

"What's happening?" Knuckles asked as a vision of the home the Lost Pepper was talking about.

"It's just a vision. Claggerhorn was a paradise, lush green meadows, majestic mountains, and the hot springs, laddie... It was prophesied that a big dumb oaf would come one day to lead us back to our beloved hot springs..."

Carol smiled. 'After this, Imma take me a looonnng relaxing bath.'

"What were they like?"

"They were hot."

Theo sighed a breath of relief. 'It's a good thing that you guys don't know anything about anime.' He widened his eyes. 'That is... until someone asks me to let them react to one.'

"Didn't see that coming." Knuckles chuckled.

"We have found our oaf!" Lost Pepper cheered, and the other peppers started to chant "Oaf! Oaf! Oaf!"

"The time has come, 'me pepper people. We must reclaim our land for our children, and our children's children! Are 'ya with me?!" Lost Pepper cried.

"YES!" Knuckles cheered, snapping through the bonds. Knuckles glanced at his raised fist and quickly placed it back to his side. "Oh. Haha, sorry."

All the other peppers continue chanting "Oaf"

The rest of Team Sonic, (aside from Sonic, who is the judge.) along with Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot are shown making chili on the stage. several other villagers are seen stirring chili nearby. Sonic inspects each pot. Eggman starts of his Chili Maker 5000, but it starts to sputter and smoke.

"Even if your foods great, Eggy, I would never eat something from you."

"Honestly, I would blame you for stopping me from making food for you, rodent."

"Yah!"

Hearing yelling, everyone looks on in shock seeing Knuckles charging at them, dressed in Scottish attire, with two peppers on each shoulder, and the Lost Pepper of Claggerhorn on his head.

"Well, there's something you don't see every day," Sonic hummed.

"No it isn't." Manic said, shaking his head. "Also, what's with the getup??"

"It's an attire from our world that Scottish people wear." Andy answered.

Knuckles tosses a pepper warrior at the stage. "Wee! Uh, I mean... never surrender!" Te pepper roared, drawing his sword.

"Hehe, looks like one of those peppers has caught your double's disease of stupidity, Knux."

"One punch is all it takes to knock you dead, Sonic."

Knuckles throws another pepper and it knocks down Tails on the floor. Another was launched at Stick but she blocked it with her spoon, ricocheting off and hitting Eggman's Chili Maker, making the machine explode, flinging the stage into the ocean.

"It CAN be used as a flotation device!" Sticks grinned.

"How much time do we have left?" Spade ask, impatiently.

"Um, at least two minutes." Andy answered.

'Just two more minutes and we're done.'

Two peppers were launched at Eggman's side. He let out a yelp as they were attacking the side of his chest. "Ow! Orbot! Cubot! Deal with these pests!" He wailed.

"You got it, boss!" Cubot said. They began trying to punch the peppers of their boss, only to repeatedly whack Eggman in the instead.

"Ow! Ow!" the human doctor cried.

Eggman did his best to ignore the chuckles around him.

Sonic snorted. "I mean, to be fair, Egghead... you said to get them off. You didn't say how."

Eggman made a note to reprogram Orbot and Cubot. Just in case.

Knuckles launched another trio of peppers at Sonic, but the blue speedster dodged them all. Sonic frowned at Knuckles. "Knuckles, what are you doing?" He asked, running towards the echidna.

"Helping these pepper people reclaim what is rightfully theirs!" Knuckles declared.

"By attacking your friends?"

Lost Pepper glances down at the red echidna. "Yer gonna have to choose, laddie, between old friends and new."

Tails inwardly scoffed. "Of course he's gonna choose his old friends."

Amy nodded. "Yeah! Knuckles may be an idiot, but there is no way he'll choose food over his friends!" She looked at Sonic, who was eating a chili-dog. "Isn't that right, Sonic?"

The blue blur stopped eating and glanced at the pinkette hedgehog. "Huh?? Oh, uh, yeah, sure, Amy. Whatever you say." He went back to eating his chili-dog.

Amy frowns and groaned.

"FOR CLAGGERHORN!" Lost Pepper cried. He jumped off of Knuckles and jumped at Sonic with his sword drawn. Sonic and the Lost Pepper charge at each other in slow motion. Knuckles stops for a moment and finally makes his choice. He grabs a pot lid, and uses it as a shield to block the Lost Pepper from attacking Sonic. He bounces off the lid, and lands in a soup pot which Tails and Amy are both standing next to.

They gasped.

Silver raised a brow in confusion. "Why do they sound so worried? Didn't he and his pepper army attack them??"

"Forget that." Sonic waved him off. "Is no one gonna on why Knuckles would jump in front of my double? Did he forget-" He paused. "Wait, what am I saying? Of course he did. My twin can defend himself."

"Really?? What about the time he was surrounded by his friends when Eggman fed them mind control cookies?" Blaze questions. "You need Eggman's help."

"Wait but-

"Or when him and Eggman were forced to team up when they were trapped in the Buddy, Buddy Temple?" Carol added, with a grin.

"Hey, we didn't even have a choi-"

"Or when your double and his friends were captured by Baker and Tails had to rescue you?" Cory smirked.

"Ok, hold on a sec-"

Lilac giggled. "Or when Eggman sued you and Knuckles had to-"

"Ok enough!!" Sonic yelled. He groaned. "Can we just focus on the show okay??"

"Lost Pepper!" Knuckles cried. He ditches the pot lid, running over, with Sonic following behind. Knuckles quickly glanced into the pot. "You okay?"

Lost Pepper hummed in happiness. "'Tis like a thousand tiny bubbles, urging me to let go. Like the hot springs of old. But with expired pigeon meat."

"Does everyone know my secret recipe?" Dave hissed in frustration.

Vector chuckled. "If you wouldn't make it less obvious, we wouldn't have figured it out that easily."

Soon, Sonic walked around the stage, checking out how the others were doing. Amy grinned. "This is perfect!" She said happily, taking her spoon out of her pot. "The Pepper People get to take a good hot soak and in turn their flavor our chili! It's a win-win!"

"Soo... What is it you do with this chili? Pour it on your enemies from the turrets of your castles? Scald them into submission?" Lost Pepper asked from Knuckle's pot, taking a sip from his chili.

"Are you kidding? We put it on hot dogs and we eat you-uh-it." Sonic stuttered nervously. "I mean it."

Rouge rolled his eyes. "You have a way of words, Sonic."

Lost Pepper's suddenly dark expression. "By all that is chunky in my grandfather's beard, YOU WANT TO EAT OUR ESSENCE?!" He yelled, taking out his sword. "TRUCE OVER, ATTAAAAA-"

Sonic quickly placed a chili dog in Lost Pepper's mouth. Lost Pepper hummed before calming down. "'Tis like the world's finest carcass. But without the wretched taste of mixed lungs."

Amy deadpan. "Really??"

Sonic chuckled. "And who says chili-dogs aren't good?"

Multiple hands are raised.

"...It was a rhetorical question."

Sonic poured some of Knuckles' chili on his hot dog and took a taste. He grinned widely. "I don't need to taste the others, WE HAVE A WINNER!"

Everyone cheered.

Carol chuckled. "Nice job, bro."

Cream smiled. "Congratulations on winning, Mr. Knuckles."

"Thanks." Knuckles said. He glanced at Sonic. "And who says that Sonic The Hedgehog thinks there are better chili dogs than his."

"Well played, Knux." The blue blur grumbled.

"Sometimes it just takes a little teamwork to really mi-" Lost Pepper began, but was soon everything was a blur.

"What's happening?" Espio asked, confused.

Knuckles is seen lying on the ground with his eyes closed.

"Hey! There he is!" Sonic's voice is heard. "Knuckles!"

Knuckles grinned drowsily. "I won ze cookoff and I won your heart!"

"Uh, actually, the cookoff was yesterday." Amy said.

"Yesterday?!" The pinkette exclaimed, surprised. "But didn't we just see them at the cookoff?!"

Lucy shook her head. "Actually, Amy, when Knuckles ate that spicy hot pepper and passed out, he was just dreaming."

"Dreaming?" Tails repeated, confused.

"Yep."

"We've been looking for you ever since then!" Amy told Knuckles.

Knuckles sighed. "I ate this pepper. It was a tiny bite, but it gave me this crazy dream!" He gasped. "Or maybe, it was a DREAM!"

"It was a dream." Knuckles groaned.

"A pepper that strong?" Sonic snickered. "Come on, Knuckles."

"You would be surprised that it was true, Sonic." Tails pointed out.

Sonic and the others laughed.

"I guess you're right," Knuckles sighed. "that's impossibl-" He let out a belch of fire that scorched the rest of the team.

Carol blinked. "Wow... well that's one way to belch."

"Like you, Carol?" Lilac asked, glancing at her.

"Hey, I don't belch like a dragon!"

Everyone, including Knuckles, were thunderstruck. But regardless, they all continued laughing together.

"Finally." Scourge sighed.

Fiona stretched. "That was a waste of time. Looking at Knuckles' dream wasn't worth it."

The echidna scoffed. "Like I would want you to be snooping in my personal life."

"The only 'personal life' we know about you is that you guard the Master Emerald with your girlfriend." Anti-Tails teased.

"THAT BAT IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!!!"

"Then why does she keep hanging out with you?"

"Because she's a hazard to my health just like you are!!"

Tails chuckled, shaking his head. "The episode was good at least."

"Except for the part when those ducks exploded." Cosmo said, frowning.

Milla nodded. "Yeah. That wasn't something to look at."

"Robot or not, no animal deserves to be blown up." Amy said.

Lucy nodded to their words and pressed the button to the next episode.