"Eggman the Auteur?" Tails read the title confused.

Sonic snorted. "W-wait, wait! Don't tell me that Eggy's gonna be a... filmmaker!

The genius was having a bad day. A filmmaker?! Sure, being a filmmaker means telling people what to do, but he would rather tell people what to do as a teacher. A science teacher will remind you. He sighed. It's sad and good to remember old memories.

The scene starts with Dave carrying a tray over the counter. Sonic and Tails are waiting in the queue. "OK here we are. Two double Meh Burgers with extra pickles." The beaver announced, carrying a tray to the counter.

Sonic grinned at Tails. "Boy, I love Meh Burger. There's something about their mediocre food that really makes my stomach rumble."

"If I were to taste a Meh Burger, their meat would make me throw up." knuckles groaned.

Amy nodded in agreement. "Why can't they just have a daily burger?"

Manic shrugged. "I don't know. That burger looks tasty to me."

Amy and Knuckles weren't surprised in the slightest. After all, he is Sonic's brother.

A rumble soon came from outside, and Tails' eyes widened. "Is it safe to assume that that conveniently timed event wasn't you?"

"Well it wasn't only me." Sonic said. "We better find out what caused it."

The duo run off to see villagers running away and screaming as Obliterator Bot attacks the island. Sonic and Tails approach it. Obliterator Bot throws a rock at Sonic and Tails, which they dodge.

"Wanna throw me at its face?" Sonic asked, grinning at Tails, who grins back.

"More than anything!" Tails answered.

The yellow kit deploys an Enerbeam for Sonic to hold on to. Tails spins Sonic around in the air. Sonic then releases the Enerbeam and flies towards Obliterator Bot. Sonic Homing Attacks Obliterator Bot's head, decapitating it.

"CUT!"

"Cut?" Lilac asked in confusion.

Eggman grunts on his loudspeaker and throws it to the ground. Eggman jumps off the Eggmobile in fury and kicks the loudspeaker at Sonic to which the blue blur dodges the loudspeaker.

"I'm used to you ruining my plans, schemes, weapons, fortresses, confidence and robots, but now you've gone too far!"

Sonic at the doctor in confusion. "What's that, Egghead?"

"That robot wasn't supposed to be destroyed in this scene." Eggman said, not answering Sonic's question. "Now I'm gonna have to rewrite the entire second act. Orbot, script!"

Orbot handed Eggman a script, and the doctor read it. Sonic raised his eyes. "Are you making a movie?"

"Not a movie." Eggman said. "The movie, and there may be a way to save the shot you ruined. How'd you like to play search Sonic the Hedgehog in my film?"

Sonic shook his head. "No way."

"Yeah, there's no way I would take part in your stupid movie, Egghead."

"And I would definitely fire you on the spot, rodent."

"He's an irritating character who constantly annoys me. It's the role you were born to play!"

"As if Sonic would join you." Amy deadpan.

"Come on, Egghead." Tails began. "We all know this movie thing is just a ruse to distract us from some evil plan."

Scourge rolled his eyes. "And as always, his plans are a total failure."

Eggman glanced at the green hedgehog with a pointed look. "You've failed to beat Sonic as well, idiot."

"Pfft. He got lucky that time."

"Huh. Funny, I said the exact same thing when he defeated me."

"Yeah well, you used your pathetic machines to do your work. Me? I don't need no machines to put down that punk." He grinned. "I'm my own power."

The genius scoffed. "And where did that get you??"

Scourge frowned and said nothing.

"Exactly. In prison."

"I have a question." Fiona called out.

Eggman looked at her. "Speak."

"Why don't you just you just use the Chaos Emerald for yourself?"

"Fiona!!" Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles shouted at the fox, while everyone else just glared at her shock/angry.

The female fox shrugged nonchalantly. "What??"

"Don't you think I've tried?!" Eggman cried in annoyance. "Every single time I put those gems in my robots, they're just not-"

"I meant for your specifically."

"The human doctor blinked. "...Huh???"

Shadow hissed in anger. "Fiona, keeps your mouth shut!"

The female fox ignored the ultimate life form. "Why don't you just use the Chaos Emerald for yourself?" She repeated. "Specifically."

The audience started in shock as they reluctantly awaited the doctor's answer.

Eggman stared in shock. After a couple of minutes he answered. "Because..."

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"...Huh???" Everyone said in unison.

Eggman scoffed. "Why use something when you already got a weapon of your own?" He tapped his head. "Your brain."

All of the Mobians stated at Eggman, puzzled. Doesn't he realize the power that each Chaos Emerald has?! They could turn your thoughts into reality! And yet, he chooses his brain over the Emeralds?? That was...

...a relief?

Even though his answer was somewhat not what they expected, a few were glad that he wasn't gonna use the Emeralds for himself.

Theo, Lucy and Andy sighed in relief. The hedgehog thought to himself. 'For a moment, I thought we were gonna get another Sonic The Hedgehog 2 vibe.'

Everyone went back to watching the show.

"No," Eggman said. "It's a film. Something totally new. It's not a drama. It's not a documentary. It's somewhere in between, sort of like brunch."

"Yeah. And they both have rotten eggs on the menu. Sorry, not interested." Sonic walked away, followed closely by Tails.

"You know, you could encourage me once in a while." Eggman grumbled angrily, crossing his arms.

Later, Sonic is shown relaxing in his shack when suddenly, Amy storms in, annoyance on her face. "Do you have any idea what's going on outside?"

"Judging by your outrage, I'd guess someone's having fun." Sonic hummed, shrugging.

Tails blinked. "How would-" He paused. "You know what never mind."

"Eggman is making a movie." Amy said.

"I know. He wanted me to be in it. But I turned him down." Sonic said, crossing his arms.

"He found someone else to play you."

Amy widened her eyes in surprise. "Wait, what??"

"Eggman actually found someone to replace Sonic?" Tails question in disbelief

"Who?" Knuckles asked. He wasn't curious, but who would be a fit character to replace Sonic?

Sonic waved them off with a smile. "Would you guys relax? Didn't you hear what Eggfish said a while ago? He found an irritating character who constantly annoys him. Who in this dimension acts like me?"

The scene shows a clipboard snapping and shows Dave standing there lazily in a Sonic costume.

The blue speedster blinked. He groaned in annoyance. "There is no way Dave is like me!"

Knuckles snorted. "Really? He constantly irritates Eggman, including us, all the time."

"He's totally different than me!"

"So you don't irritate Eggman most of the time?"

"Well, I mean I do but..." Sonic stuttered. "He's not like me! There is no similarities what so ever!"

The red echidna grinned and shrugged. "If you say so."

"Duh... Maybe if I'd knock down enough robots, then chili dogs will fly out." Dave said flatly.

"Oh c'mon, Sonic doesn't talk like that." Amy retorted, and the blue hedgehog nodded in agreement.

"Nor will he ever say something like that." Tails added, cringing by Dave's so-called 'acting'.

Dave then jumps around until he trips on a rock and falls to the floor. He rolls his eyes.

"And there's no way Sonic acts like that."

"CUT!" Eggman shouted on his loudspeaker. Orbot and Cubot are recording the scene while Eggman watches, Sonic and Amy are watching the scene, too. The genius walks up to the beaver. "Good, but remember, you're Sonic the Hedgehog, so make it louder and stupider."

At that, Sonic and Amy glanced at Eggman, frowning.

"Loud and stupider??" Lilac said, confused. She may know a lot about Sonic, but she could probably tell he doesn't act that way.

The blue blue furrowed his eyebrows. "Does he even know anything about me?"

"He's probably doing it to insult you is my only guess." Knuckles said, shrugging.

"I'm cringing so bad I want to see my intestines." Tails admitted.

"This film isn't going to be as awesome as Eggman wanted to be." Carol said.

Cory chuckled. "He could at least make a few changes and add some adjustments."

"Let's go again in three, two, one." Eggman said, snapping a movie clipboard.

Dave raised his arms, looking bored out of his mind. " Dargh, dargh, dargh."

Scourge snorted. "This may be the stupidest and funniest show I've ever seen!"

Eggman flew up to Dave in his mobile. "What's this? Sonic the Hedgehog causing trouble yet again? I'll make quick work of that menace."

The blue hedgehog blink. "I'm the one causing trouble?! You tried to destroy the village on a daily basis!"

"And I would've succeeded in doing so, if you weren't getting in my way all the time." Eggman replied.

"CUT!" Sonic burst into the loudspeaker, sounding pretty annoyed.

Eggman growled and flew over. "Hey! Only I say cut!"

Sonic stared at Eggman in annoyance. "This film is a joke! You cast Dave the Intern as me?"

"You turned down the part."

"Because I knew you'd get it wrong!"

Manic nodded. "My brother's on point. That Dave person isn't even trying to sound like Sonic."

Sonia giggled. "He and Eggman are making this film so cringing!"

Amy sighed. "I love creativity, but this is just... bleh!"

Sonic slumped in his chair. He double becoming a fool in this show. Wait, he was already fool. Then, more than a fool like Knuckles' twin.

"Tell you what. If you agree to play you, I'll let you have creative input on your character."

Amy clears her throat "My client will do it." She glances at Sonic. "You're gonna need someone to look out for your best interests on this movie. I'll be your manager."

Sonic raised a brow. "Client? Manager?"

Amy smiled. "Think about it, Sonic! If Eggman's making you look bad, someone's gonna have save your image.

"Ummm, I appreciate it, Ames but, is your twin really the right choice?"

A blank expression appeared on the pink hedgehog's face. "Would you rather have Knuckles as your client? Again??"

"Nope." The blue speedster quickly replied.

"Then suck it up."

Sonic put his hands on his hip and thought for a minute. "Huh... Okay, I'm in." He answered.

"I had a feeling that would work." Carol chuckled.

"Excellent. Dave, you're demoted." Eggman said to Dave, and he pointed to Meh Burger. "Back to catering"

"I never stopped doing the catering!" Dave said, and his eyes widened. "Oh no, my enchiladas!" Dave tries putting out the fire on the barbecue grill with a spade. He sighed frowning. "Lunch is gonna be late." The grill combusts into a fireball, covering the beaver and his Sonic suit in black ash.

The scene

"In this scene, the Giant Robot chases you. You run up that wall, jump off the top, and do that incredibly annoying thing where you turn into a pointy ball and blow up my beloved machine."

"It's called a spin dash." Tails pointed out.

Amy frowned as she listened. "Hmm... that sounds dangerous."

"Yeah? So?" Both Sonic and Eggman said in unison, crossing their arms.

"My client will definitely not be doing any stunts."

Sonic was offended. "Has she forgotten who he is?? He's Sonic The freaking Hedgehog!"

Tails nodded. "Yeah. Danger is what Sonic seeks."

"But he has to destroy the robot." Eggman protested. "I want this to have universal appeal, and one thing everyone can relate to is having their robots destroyed by a meddlesome hedgehog."

"Then hire a stunt man." Amy suggested.

"What stunt man?" Knuckles asked.

The scene Knuckles is dressed up as Sonic.

"I had to open my big mouth."

"Now you know how I feel, Knux." Sonic said.

"I would rather have Rouge steal the Master Emerald then be you."

The bat smiled. "Really?"

"No."

"And if you need me to do my own stunts, I also have a Knuckles costume." Knuckles said.

"I would throw your costume in a dumpster, Knux."

"And I wouldn't stop you, Sonic."

Eggman just looks at the echidna before moving on. "ACTION!"

The clipboard snaps as the scene shows Sonic and Giant Robot. Sonic strikes a fighting pose.

Mighty laughed. "Wh-what kind of a pose is that?!"

Sonic just groaned.

"Stuntman in!" Eggman called out.

Knuckles walked over and took Sonic's place. The blue speedster left waving at the echidna. Knuckles then strike the same pose as Sonic.

"Annd...ACTION!"

Giant Robot slams its fist down on the ground, flattening Knuckles.

Sonic winced. "I'm actually glad that Amy made the decision to let Knuckles take my place."

The red echidna glared at the blue hedgehog. "You say that as if you want me to get hurt."

"I mean, you're taking my place as the main hero. That counts for something, right?"

"So you would rather take my place guarding the Master Emerald? Alone? Doing absolutely nothing??"

Sonic blinked. "...Remind me to not visit you again, Knuckles."

"Added to the list."

"Cut! Great scene, Sonic! I like the new ending. Let's set up for the next shot people." Eggman called.

Knuckles groaned as the robot lifted off him, and the echidna shook himself a little.

The scene changes back to the canyon hole, where Sonic zooms down and approaches a Motobug at the base. Sonic strikes a fighting pose.

Might gave a thumbs up. "Now that's a fighting pose."

"Cut! Stunt man!" Eggman called out. Knuckles takes Sonic's place again and copies his pose. "Action!" The Motobug shoots a rocket at Knuckles, burning him. The scene changes to Sonic sitting in a chair inside a fancy mansion with dolls attending. He is blowing his drink mug of tea trying to cool it off. Most of the audience laughed as Sonic grumbled in embarrassment. "Stunt man!" Eggman called out again. Once again, Knuckles takes Sonic's place and copies his pose. "Action!" Knuckles attempts to drink the mug. But just as his lip touches the cup, it burns his mouth. "Ow! Hot!" He tries to drink the teacup again, only to burn his mouth again. "Ow! Hot! Hot! Hot!" "Don't ad lib!" Eggman growled. A Motobug shows up and destroys the table with its missile, burning Knuckles. Just as the dazed Knuckles is about to drink again, Giant Robot slams its fist down on him. Sonia flinched. "Ouch. I feel kinda bad for him." "Why doesn't he just quit?" Manic asked, confused. "Because he doesn't have enough brain cells to quit." Knuckles answered, annoyingly. The scene shows Eggman in the jungle watching a holographic preview of his film. "This footage is absolutely spectacular, isn't it Yes Bots?" The bots nodded. "Oh yeah." "Brilliant."

"Done it again."

"hmmm..."

"Yes Bots?" Tails said, confused.

"At this point, he's just making random robots." Sonic said, shaking his head.

Spade scoffed. "You don't Cow Bot was random??"

Scourge raised a brow in confusion. "Cow Bot??"

Shadow sighed. "Long story."

Sonic walked over, frowning himself and holding the script. "Yo, Egghead. I've been reading the rest of the script..."

The genius doctor smiled proudly. "And?"

"It's confusing. You present yourself as an underdog and an all powerful tyrant which kinda makes no sense."

"He's powerful. Powerful enough that he fails his goal to complete Eggmanland." Sonic snickered.

"And you're powerful enough to be drastically annoying." Eggman retorted.

"I'm a very complex character." The doctor said.

The Yes Bots nodded in agreement. "Absolutely."

"Couldn't agree more."

"I drink motor oil when no-one's watching."

Tails blinked. "What??"

"Ignore it, Tails." Knuckles told him.

Sonic continued. "But who's gonna believe that an evil scientist with unlimited resources can't defeat a hedgehog?"

Sonic gave a cheeky grin. Of all the close calls he had with evil scientist, he always come up on top.

The Yes Bot 3 answered. "Absolutely. You're totally correct."

Irritated, Eggman teleported Bot away with his wrist controller and glared at everyone else. "Anyone else have something to say about my script?"

"I do. It sucks." Manic calls out.

"It's lame." Sonia added.

"It's cringy." Amy said.

"It's a waste of time." Eggman retorted.

At night in Tails' workshop, the kit seemed to be working when suddenly Sonic angrily stormed in, holding the script with anger on his face. "Eggman is the worst director I've ever worked with!"

Blaze furrowed her eyebrows. "You're just realizing this now??"

Silver scratched his chin in thought. "Actually, Sonic never worked with another director, so technically he's also the best director he's ever worked with."

Tails glanced at Sonic. "You've never worked with another director, so technically he's also the best director you've ever worked with."

"See? Even Tails thinks-"

"Silver, just be quiet." Sonic retorted.

"I'm an actor." Sonic pointed out, holding the script. He walks up to Tails. "I was being dramatic, but this script is a mess."

The kit took the script. "Let me see..." He frowned as he flipped through the pages. "Hmm... Well... If he just covers the origin of his mustache in a flashback instead of putting it at the beginning..."

"I didn't even think of that..." Sonic hummed, sharing the same amount of surprise at Tails' smartness. He put his hands behind his back and tried to get a good look at the script.

The fox continued. "This part where you battle Drill Bot could be pretty cool, but it belongs at the end. And he spent too much time on this musical number."

"That's insulting..." Amy grumbled.

Tails hold his hand out. "Hand me a pen."

Sonic handed Tails a red pen, and the kitsune started rewriting the script, crossing some parts out and writing several comments on the page.

The next day, Orbot and Cubot are adding makeup to Eggman. Sonic and Amy arrive and return the script to him. Sonic held the script to him. "Hey, Egghead. Tails and I saved your film." He throws the script at the doctor.

Eggman frowned as he read it. "What are you talking about? This is dreadful! Sonic would never say that."

Sonic frowned. "We do the script my way, or I walk!"

"This film must be my vision." Eggman threw the script down and started whining like a child. "Not yours! Mine! Mine, mine, mine!" "He's acting like a spoiled brat." Spade said, rolling his eyes.

"If he doesn't like it, just quit. It's not that simple!" Eggman retorted. "If you know everything, Mr. and Mrs. know-everything then where's your camera, your robots? Neither one of you even has a beret!"

Sonic and Amy frowned at Eggman, and walked off.

"I hate that hedgehog." Eggman grumbled as he watched them off.

"Tell us something that you don't know." Sonic said.

Sonic is shown relaxing on his sunbed, arms behind his head and his leg over the other.

Orbot and Cubot rolled up, approaching him. "Sonic?" Cubot asked.

Not opening his eyes, the blue hedgehog replied. "I'm busy."

Cubot stared at them with wide eyes. "Please. You gotta stop Dr. Eggman."

"For making a movie?" Sonic asked, still not opening his eyes.

Orbot shook his head. "The movie's all a ruse. He's just pretending to film so he can use Drill Bot to drill for Unacquirum under the set."

"What?!" Amy yelped. "That's terrible! Sonic, you've gotta help them!"

Sonic frowned, shuffling into a sitting position and glancing at the robots. "Why are you telling me this?"

"Then he's going to use the Unacquirum to build an all-new robot army and throw out all the old ones." Orbot continued.

"Including us!" Cubot said.

"He's going to melt us down and use us for scrap." Orbot said.

"My lifelong dream was to not be melted down and used for scrap." Cubot moaned.

Hearing that, Sonic lowers his brow.

Drill Bot is drilling into the ground. Sonic jumps and tries a Homing Attack, but Drill Bot deflects him with its free hand. Sonic tries again and fails. Drill Bot goes on the attack and fires a missile at Sonic. Sonic dodges it and lures it back towards Drill Bot, thereby making the missile destroying Drill Bot, whose decapitated head lands on the ground.

"Good work, Sonic!"

The blue blur grinned. "As always, I come up on top."

Sonic grinned at Eggman. "So much for your scheme, Egghead!"

"Cut! Terrific! That's a wrap!" Eggman called happily.

"Wait, what??" Tails said confused.

"What does he mean by terrific??" Torque asked, confused as well. "He just defeated his robot, ruining his plan."

"Terrific?" Sonic repeated shock. "I saw through your ruse and foiled your evil plan!"

Eggman snickered. "It wasn't a ruse, Sonic. It was a double ruse."

Eggman raised a brow. "Double ruse?" Even he hasn't heard anything like that.

"Yeah!" Cubot said. "That's approximately... Two ruses. Give or take?"

Eggman scowled at him. "Quiet, you!" He turned to Sonic. "Thanks for appearing in the last scene of my film." He laughed and runs off, carrying the camera. He jumps onto the Eggmobile, with Orbot and Cubot grabbing on the edge. They fly off.

"The old double ruse. How did we not see that one coming?" Sonic asked crossing his arms.

"I honestly have no idea." Lilac shook her head.

"Does this mean Eggman wins?" Carol asked.

Milla hummed. "Kinda?"

"I'm actually a but curious about what the movie is gonna be about." Ray admitted.

"Only one way to find out." Mighty said.

Outside Eggman's Lair, the human genius is holding open house for his movie's premiere. A brightly lit red carpet affair is being held at the lair. Villagers and robots are gathered at the sides, cheering for Eggman as he walks down the red carpet. Orbot and Cubot are playing news reporters.

"This film has success written all over it." Orbot said, holding a microphone. "I think the question on everybody's mind is: what will your next project be?"

"The plan was always that this would be the first installment of a quadrilogy. That's even better than a trilogy because it's four instead of three." Eggman answered.

"What's that, like 8%?" Cubot asked.

Orbot then noticed something. "Ooh! There's supporting actor Sonic the Hedgehog with his manager."

Sonic and Amy are on the red carpet. Sonic is writing an autograph for Stratford.

Eggman glares at Orbot and Cubot. "Ignore them! This is my night!" He then smiles as the press takes pictures of him.

"Hey, he helped you with most of the work!" Amy pointed out, frowning. "We deserve most of the credit!"

Sonic patted her on the back. "Just let him have his moment, Ames."

"Urgh, fine."

In the movie theater, everyone chattered excitedly, and Eggman quickly shushed them.

The movie popped up, and Eggman, with blonde hair, started speaking. "Now that I finally have a mustache, I can embark on my dream of world domination."

At that, everyone burst into laughter.

Even most of the audience were laughing.

Sonic laughed. "I'm guessing your twin's plan failed again huh, Eggy?!"

Tails snickered. "He even has hair now!"

The doctor said nothing as he awaited the show to end.

Eggman glared at them. "What?! Stop laughing! I order you to stop!"

The movie Eggman continued. "I can finally fulfill my lifelong evil dream: building my own theme park!"

Everyone laughed again. Eggman growled. "Why aren't they hypnotized?! They're supposed to be hypnotized!"

"Hypnotized?" Torques repeated, confused.

"So while the movie was filming, Eggman wanted everyone to be under his mind control." Neera stated.

"Only to fail in the process." Gong said, shaking his head.

"In your haste, you forgot to install the movie mind slaver device into the camera." Orbot whispered.

Eggman sighed. "So much for my triple ruse.

"Now there's a triple ruse?" Carol asked. "Let me guess there's a fourth ruse, right?"

"Please no." Eggman groaned.

"Okay, everybody out!" Eggman ordered.

Everybody in the movie theater, except Orbot and Cubot, leave, grumbling unsatisfied. Saddened, Eggman sits down in his seat and receives popcorn from Cubot. Eggman, Orbot and Cubot continue to watch the movie.

"This really is quite good." Eggman admitted, chewing on his popcorn. "Oh, here's the scene where I watch my movie." As the scene fades to black, Eggman sheds a tear from his left eye.

Amy blinked. "That movie must've been great if he's shedding a tear."

"He made the movie." Knuckles pointed out. "Of course he's gonna cry."

"I'm just glad it's over." Fiona said, stretching.

Scourge chuckled. "My favorite is when that beaver was dressing up like Sonic."

"Oh bite be, Scourge." Sonic retorted.

Lucy chuckled at their banter and pressed the button to the next episode.