"'Tails' crush'." Sonic read the title, surprised.

Tails widened his eyes in shock. "My what?"

"His what?!?!" Milla and Cosmo called out in unison.

Carol chuckled. "This should be good."

Amy giggled and glanced at the blushing kit. "Our Tails already has a crush; Cosmo."

The seedrian blushed, rubbing her arm in embarrassment.

Milla's ears flopped down and she gave a sad look.

Fiona scoffed and moved closer to Scourge.

Sonic grinned. "Let's see who he has his eyes on."

The scene started off in a desert area. Dry sand was scattered about with prickly cacti reaching for the sky. Behind a white starting line, Sonic was holding Knuckles in a wheelbarrow position, gripping the echidna's legs while his hands were planted on the ground.

Lilac shook her head. "There's no possible way this will end well."

"I thought this was about Tail's crush." Carol called out. "Not Sonic trying to put Knuckles in a coma."

The red echidna wished his twin was in a coma.

"World record wheelbarrow race test run." Sonic looked at Tails holding a standing off to the side before focusing on Knuckles. He grinned. "You ready, Knux?"

"Oh yeah!" Knuckles replied confidently. "I don't foresee any problem trying to do with my hands the world's fastest runner does with his feet."

Scourge snorted. "It's like he's begging to be choking on sand, while Sonic drags him across the desert."

Amy. "Whose idea was this?"

Everyone gave her a pointed look.

"Okay, it was Knuckles', but why did the other Sonic and Tails agree?"

The yellow kit shrugged. "Maybe they got bored and wanted to do something... fun?"

Amy wasn't happy with that answer. "So, they're willing to hurt Knuckles just for fun?"

"He has been hit with meteors and had a refrigerator smashed on his head." Shadow cut into the conversation. "You shouldn't even be worried at this point."

Amy's argument died then and there. "Yeah...you make a good point."

Tails focused on his stopwatch, thumb ready to press. "Aaaannnd...go!" He started the timer.

Sonic shot off, pushing Knuckles. The echidna's arms immediately failed him, and he face-planted into the sand. He was mumbling unintelligibly as he gargled the dry grains.

"Faster?" Sonic smirked. "You got it!"

"Wow." Sonic furrowed his brow at the screen. Sure, he'd pulled some wicked pranks on his friends before, but force-feeding someone sand hadn't made it on the list.

Knuckles was somewhat entertained. "I wonder if he did something to tick your twin off."

"Wouldn't be a surprise." Shadow said.

He bumped up his speed, and Knuckles hissed in pain as his hands scrapped against heated ground. "Hot sand! Hot hot hot hot!"

"He does not know the first thing about hot," Gong muttered indignantly.

He then yelled in shock when he saw the upcoming cactus field, Sonic plowing him into it headfirst. "Ow ow ow ow!"

When they cleared the field – Knuckles' head was fill with thorns at this point – Sonic tried to encourage him by saying, "We're in the home stretch. Just gotta get through the valley of broken glass!"

"First cactus, and now broken glass?!" Amy was really concerned now. Shadow told her to not be surprised, but this was just horrible. "I know he's pretty hardy, but this is too much."

"It's as if the other Sonic is trying to kill him and himself." Anti-Tails stated.

Fiona stretched a bit. "And he seems so nonchalant about it."

"Doesn't he care at all?" Silver questioned.

"Huh?" Knuckles was obviously caught off-guard by that. However, he didn't get a say in the matter before he indeed was led through broken glass shards. "Ow ow ow!"

Carol winced. "With friends like those, who needs enemies..."

Then the pair, one in better condition than the other, crossed the checkered finish line with Tails waiting for them.

Knuckles tore through a red ribbon before collapsing to the ground, groaning. "Ow...paper cut..."

"See? He's fine. Apparently, it hurts no worse than a paper cut."

Blaze was doubtful. "I wouldn't call that fine, but if you say so, Shadow."

"What's our time, Tails?" Sonic asked the kit. Tails didn't answer him, distracted by something off in the distance. After a second, Sonic tried again. "Tails?"

Amy perked up at this. "Ooo! Are we gonna see the other Tails' crush already?"

Tails hoped that wasn't the case.

Shocked out of his daze, Tails whirled around to face him. "What? Oh." He glanced down at the stopwatch and pressed the button. "I forgot to hit stop. Can you do it again?"

Knuckles groaned louder.

Sonic gave a cheeky grin. "Even if she isn't there, he's definitely thinking about her."

Amy giggled. "He's so lost in thought, he's thinking about her!"

Sonic leaned over and nudged the kit. "Your twin must think she's cute. Don't you agree?"

Tails sunk lower in his seat because he already felt the secondhand embarrassment and she wasn't even on the screen yet.

Milla grumbled, thinking what she looked like.

When a dinging sound filled the air, Sonic help up his wrist communicator and answered it. Amy's voice filtered through. "Guys, Eggman's finally lost it! You've gotta see this!"

Eggman knew that he shouldn't be disappointed, but after last episode, he thought maybe just maybe his twin would be out of the picture for a bit. The thing hadn't given him such luck.

Amy tapped her chin. "I wonder what the other Eggman's plan is this time?"

Knuckles shrugged. "Probably nothing too important."

"Hopefully he'll just introduce the plot, get destroyed, and then disappear." Spade said, nonchalantly.

"That would be the dream." Eggman murmured.

Sonic instantly sprinted away, arriving at a shop in the village. There was a crowd standing around with Eggman at the counter. He was talking to a Leroy the turtle. "I was in my evil lair all day, waiting for that package. I had to take a two minute shower. Two minutes!"

Eggman ignored the odd looks he was giving.

"And when I get out, there's a note on my front door saying I missed the delivery and I need to pick it up here!" He steadily grew angrier. "Why couldn't you just leave the thing instead of leaving the note?!"

"Oh no." Sonic leaned back in his chair, waving his spoon. "Is this gonna be like Mayor Knuckles? Where we kinda oddly relate to him? Cuz I really don't wanna do that."

Eggman didn't either for a whole slew of reasons.

Knuckles subtly frowned. "First his trash, and now his mail? What's next? His cable stops working?"

Sonic snickered. "You'd think by now he'd realize that living on an isolated island isn't such a good idea."

Leroy wasn't bothered. "Because we require a signature."

Eggman set down a piece of paper and signed his name at the bottom. He held it in front of the worker's face, asking, "So, can I have it?"

The turtle hummed, nodding. "I just need the note left at your residence."

Amy slowly blinked. "You know, if Eggman decides to attack after this, I don't blame him."

Eggman was rooting for it.

Eggman gritted his teeth and pointed at his name. "But I just signed for it!"

"You only have to sign for it at home. To pick it up here, you need the note that we left." Leroy rose a brow. "Why are you complicating this, sir? It's a very simple policy."

"Why doesn't he just take the package and leave?" Scourge didn't know why the fat doctor was wasting his time on a mere turtle.

"I have a simple policy, too!" Eggman narrowed his eyes before yelling out, "Decimator Bot, engage!"

Scourge furrowed his eyebrows. "Or you could do that."

"Wait, did he have that robot on stand-by just in case he faced a minor inconvenience in the village?" Torque pondered.

Rosy scoffed. "Or he already knew that the turtle was a damn hassle to deal with and was prepared to kill him."

A large blue robot appeared out of nowhere and picked up the turtle with ease. Again, he didn't seem bothered. "Thuggery will not get you your package any sooner, sir."

Lilac wasn't too keen on siding with a villain, but, "It actually would. All he has to do is run in there and grab it."

Sonic snorted. "You should know that Eggy doesn't run, Lilac."

"Oh, right."

"That needs to lose some weight." Carol chuckled. "Cardio is perfect for him."

The three ignored the piercing glare from the human genius.

Tails flew over the scene in his plane, and Sonic was quick to act. He contacted the kit on his communicator. "Tails, initiate speeding swing surprise!"

"It's been a while since we've heard that!" Tails interest peaked once again, needing the schematics of that energy beam. "Since the first episode!"

Knuckles wished that he could go back and warn his past self of all the stress he would go through.

Confident that Tails had agreed with the plan, Sonic jumped on top of the nearest building. Tails got into position, and Sonic jumped once more, reaching for where a hanging enerbeam was supposed to be. Instead, he grabbed thin air and plummeted into a box of watermelons.

Most of the audience flinched while others enjoyed the pain.

"What happened there?" Tails asked, totally confused.

"He was thinking about his girlfriend and got distracted again." Fiona said, rolling her eyes. "It shouldn't be that hard to notice."

Seeing the failure, Amy took the initiative to charge forward. She swung her hammer and ripped one of the robot's arms off it shoulder.

Amy cheered, wanting to move this fight along so they could get to the good stuff.

Leroy went flying, but Sticks caught him before he hit the ground.

Sonic had climbed out of the watermelon box at this point. "Knux! Time for a little teamwork!" Knuckles ran behind the robot and kneeled by its feet. Sonic spindashed Decimator bot, and it stumbled over Knuckles, landing hard on the ground.

"Or he could've just punched the robot's head clean off its shoulders,"Cory shrugged. "But I guess that works too."

Sonic smirked and asked, "How about another wheelbarrow race?"

Knuckles barked out a laugh as he held the robot's legs, sprinting away while the bot's head dragged in the dirt.

Amy couldn't help but to laugh. "He has to get revenge on someone, right?"

"He's probably imagining it's Sonic." Carol laughed.

Eggman growled, now floating in his hovercraft. "You haven't seen the last of me! I'll be back...with that note!" He then flew off without another word.

Eggman couldn't decide whether he wanted his twin to come back to terrorize the turtle some more or to disappear off the face of the earth. That postman did have it coming...

When he disappeared, Sonic approached Tails, who was leaning on his plane and sparing off into space. "Dude, what happened up there?" He stopped beside the kit, frowning. "You never miss a cue!"

Tails didn't answer, softly smiling at something off to the side. Sonic waved a hand in front of his face, but that didn't work either.

Amy sat up in her chair, wriggling a bit, eager to see the one Tails' twin was crushing on.

Milla wanted to delay the moment, but she also was a bit curious to see who was making Tails' double act all weird.

He was looking at another yellow fox putting the watermelons back into the box. She turned around and waved, smiling back. "Hey, Tails!"

Silver blinked. "She is pretty cute."

Blaze cleared her throat.

"I-I mean, not as cut as you, Blaze!"

The purple nodded in approval.

"Aw!" Amy gushed with a wide smile. "She's so adorable! Oh my gosh! Those two would make an adorable couple!" She faced the kit. "Wouldn't you think so, Tails?"

"Um..." He eyed the fox on screen, then glanced at Cosmo not really knowing how to answer that question. "She looks nice enough...?"

That shook Tails out of his reverie, and he stammered, "Huh? Oh, yeah! I was gonna say hi, but then..." He trailed off when his tails began to spin on their own, lifting him off the ground. "Uh...see you later!"

Amy softly squealed while Tails was completely baffled. She was just another person! Why couldn't he just say hi without trying to fly into the clouds?

"Oh boy," Knuckles muttered. "He's got it bad."

Rouge smirked. "Just like yo-"

"One more word and I'll pluck your wings."

Sonic knowingly laughed, pulling Tails' leg to ground him again. "I see what's going on here!"

"Tails has been hypnotized by man-eating tomato people?" Sticks guessed by Amy.

"Is she on any medication?" Gong questioned. "Because she is either not taking enough, or is taking too much."

Neera rested her chin in her palm. "Knowing her, she'd somehow manage to do both."

Sonic ran over to them, cradling his chin. "Yeah...that-" He grinned. "-or our pal Tails has a crush on that girl."

Tails floundered like a fish out of water. "What? Who? Zooey?" He hastily shook his hands. "No, Sticks was right! Definitely the tomato thing."

"Oh my gosh, Tails is in love!" Amy gasped, covering her mouth. "That is so adorable! You are so adorable!"

Amy pointedly nodded. "It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who thinks so!"

"I am not adorable!" Tails tried to defend himself. "I-I'm serious and formidable!"

Sonic snickered. "Not really helping your case here, bud."

Tails murmured. "And there's nothing wrong with being both, right?"

"Right!" Amy chirped. "Everyone here in this room – except Eggman – is both!"

Both Sonic and Eggman wisely stayed out of this one.

Knuckles, Shadow, Scourge, Fiona, Anti-Tails, Fiona, Rosy, Spade, Neera and Gong looked at her like she had lost her mind.

"What? It's true!" Amy defended herself.

"You're delusional." Neera groused.

Amy growled, wanting to jump the panda again. He stopped herself from doing it, since this episode was helping her cool off.

Sticks joined in with Amy at this point, cooing, "Awww!"

Spade scoffed. "Paranoia isn't love, you crazy badger."

"I just..." Tails grew meek, scratching his head. "...don't know how to talk to her, is all." He glanced over at Zooey once more. She was filling a basket with smaller melons.

Sonic went over and patted Tails on the back. "Don't worry, pal. You're about to be enrolled in the Sonic school of impressin' the ladies!"

"Excuse me, what?"

"I'm actually going to throw up."

Eggman agreed with Shadow. This was one train wreck that he did not want to watch.

Knuckles sent the blue hero a teasing look. "You heard what he said, Sonic. Apparently, your twin knows everything about impressing women. Isn't that something?"

Sonic's brain had chosen to shut down. "I don't...why...huh?"

"Shouldn't you be getting a pad and pen ready so you can take some notes?"

Sonic glanced up at the ceiling, frowning. "Do I have to watch the next couple of minutes?"

"Yes."

He groaned.

"That's a good school." Knuckles vouched for him. "It's where I studied air conditioning and refrigerator repair."

Knuckles didn't let that bother him because the show was about to get good.

The next scene showed Sonic and Tails in the former's shack. Tails was sitting at a table with a notebook while Sonic paced in front of him.

"All right, first things first." Sonic began his lesson, leaning against the table. "When talking to women, you gotta play it cool. Don't let her know you're interested."

"Really?" Knuckles faked interest, addressing Sonic, "So that's what you've been doing with Amy all this time, huh?"

Sonic made a strangled noise in his throat. "Knux, you are the worst."

"I try."

"Sonic's basically an infant when it comes to romance." Blaze said.

Sonic didn't know whether to take offense to that or not.

"And plus, that's horrible advice." Amy added. "Don't listen to it."

Tails forgot how scary Amy can be when she was passionate about something.

Tails nodded, scribbling down notes. "Play it cool...got it!"

Sonic continued, "Now, if you do strike up a conversation, be sarcastic and always have a one-liner ready."

"This explains why there've been so many girls throwing themselves at him." Rouge uttered sarcastically.

Amy tisked. "This is a list of what not to do!"

Allow me to demonstrate." He gestured to the entrance. "I've hired a local actor to play the part of 'girl'."

Comedy Chimp walked in wearing a black dress and lipstick.

Everyone screamed, while some were covering their eyes.

"I gotta fire my agent."

"Fire them and everyone associated." Eggman ordered.

He approached Sonic, who was leaning against the beam of his house. "Hi, Sonic!"

Sonic bobbed his head, remaining aloof. "Sup?"

Comedy Chimp didn't break character. "Would you like to accompany me to a movie and/or show?"

Crossing his arms, Sonic curtly responded, "Not sure I have the time."

Sonic groaned again. Hearing his voice say these things was plain wrong.

The chimp put a hand on the speedster's arm. "Is it something I said...or did? Because I can change!"

"If nothing else, he's a hell of a good actor," Knuckles pointed out. "I would've bailed out a long time ago."

"Nah, it's cool." Sonic side-eyed him. "I'm just...super swamped. Can't be tamed, born to run, you know how it is."

Sonic resisted the extremely strong urge to curl into himself.

Comedy Chimp was persistent. "Well, maybe we can get a lime ricky at the local malt shop sometime?"

Sonic sighed, clearly disinterested. "Yeah...maybe." He took a step away. "Look, I gotta bounce. Catch you on the flipside, babe."

Everybody in the room was in pain. Especially a certain pink hedgehog.

The chimp smiled and waved. "Call me! We could be happy together!" He then turned to leave, frowning. "Oh, I have no dignity..."

"Less than the doctor, and that is saying a lot."

"Rodent, you are dead to me."

"I will take that as a compliment."

Tails was writing away in his journal while Sonic smirked. "Works every time!"

Tails felt bad for his double.

The scene changed to that same store in the village again. Eggman slapped the note down on the counter. "I found the note." His clothes were covered with dirt. "It was in the dumpster behind my lair. I hope you're happy!" He held out an expectant hand. "Now, give me my package!"

"I wonder what it is?" Charmy mused. "I mean, he really wants it."

"Hopefully a device that would allow him to lose every time." Vector teased.

Leroy took the note and disappeared into the back of the store. Tails then attracted the doctor's attention when he ran by, looking around. When he spotted Zooey, Tails ran over and leaned against a pole.

She walked by him without noticing.

Scourge was deadpanned. "And already, he's failing."

Fiona chuckled"He should just forget everything that Sonic told him. It's already growing worse for both of them."

"He's highly impressionable." Anti-Tails commented. "If he would've gone to someone with genuine experience, he might've had a chance."

Tails had to ask, "Like who?"

"Don't ask me. I don't know."

Tails was surprised for a second before he decided to run to the nearest tree, leaning against it again. Zooey still didn't notice him.

"Not to defend what he is doing or anything, but shouldn't she hear him?" Lilac hoped for the sake of the other Tails' feelings that she wasn't ignoring him on purpose. "He's running right by her."

Carol had been thinking the same thing. "There must be something incredibly interesting in the other direction."

The kit jogged over to lean against a building, but he missed the wall and fell to the ground.

Tails groaned from the second-hand embarrassment, covering his face with his hands and peering through his fingers. This hurts to watch. Cosmo patted him on the shoulders.

Tails quickly sprung back up when Zooey approached, acting like nothing happened.

She waved. "Oh, hi, Tails! Didn't see you."

"Somehow." Milla mumbled.

Tails attempted to be uninterested, but it wasn't working out. "Yeah, I'm all like...whatever. I don't care. I'm busy anyway." He turned away from her, crossing his arms. "Catch you on the flip-flop."

"Make it stop," Rosy borderline whined.

Knuckles looked at the kit. "Tails, male a note to never do this, okay? Sounding like a blubbering jerk is the last thing you want to do when talking to someone."

"Hey!" Sonic yelled.

"Except for Sonic. He's annoying, but not a jerk."

The blue blur calmed down.

Zooey took it all in stride. "Okay." She walked away with another wave.

Sonia smiled. "At least she's not too put-off by it!"

Seeing this, Tails sighed and slumped.

Unknown to Tails, Eggman had seen the whole thing. The doctor shook his head, unimpressed.

Sonic barked out a laugh. "Who is he to be unimpressed? The closest friends he has are robots!

Amy nodded in agreement. "That's right! He doesn't know the first thing about robots!"

Eggman spoke up before the conversation somehow spun around to poke at his own pride. "Anyone could tell that he has no idea what he's doing, rodent. Experience or no experience. I would rather have my mustache cut off than watch this disaster!"

"It appears that package is back out for delivery," Leroy said when he reappeared.

Eggman faced him, perplexed. "Out for delivery? What? Why? "

The turtle shrugged. "Nobody came to pick it up."

Eggman was outraged, slamming his hands on the counter. " I came to pick it up!"

Leroy didn't flinch. He picked up the note. "That's not what it says here."

He growled.

Eggman inwardly sighed. This was almost as bad as watching the kid.

Spade groaned. "If this episode ends with the turtle being blown up to pieces, it'll make this all worth it."

Outside of Sonic's shack, Tails was standing beside Knuckles who was lifting weights laying on a bench.

Knuckles' gut sunk. "Oh no."

Normally, Sonic would tease him about this, but after what he just went through... "It can't be possibly worse than my twin's advice, right?"

"That's the worst lie I've heard in years." Shadow grunted. "Being Optimistic?"

Sonic huffed, and Knuckles mentally braced himself.

The echidna grunted as his pumped. "See, your first mistake was going to Sonic for advice on women." He smirked. "Or as I call them, the 'lay-dayssss'."

Carol's ears were bleeding. "Who calls them that?!"

Carol gagged. "Anyone who gives Tails love advice are all inept."

He set the weights down as Tails copied him. "The 'lay-dayssss'!"

"Nooooo..." Tails whimpered.

"Now you're gettin' it!" Knuckles encouraged as he stood. He picked up a couple barbells and flexed. "What women want is someone who's manly."

"As in someone who looks like they've eaten nothing but protein their whole life?" Knuckles muttered to himself.

Tails whipped out his notebook. "Let me write that in my Hello Doggie journal." He didn't get to, for Knuckles slapped it out of his hands.

Tails should've seen that one coming.

"No, dude!" Knuckles chastised. "Manly! You gotta lift weights!" He grabbed the barbells again, pumping them. "Eat red meat! Take up woodworking! Ha, that's what they want!"

"No we don't." Everyone girl in the audience called out.

Tails scratched his head, doubtful. "Uh, I don't know... It seems a little archaic. Do women really respond to that?"

Tails perked up. "Yes! Keep questioning it! Knuckles' twin is a good friend at all, but why go to him for advice ever?" Wait, why would he get advice from him?

As Knuckles worked out, he noticed Lady Walrus and a lady goat watching him from afar. Knux smirked at them, and they giggled to themselves.

The echidna winked. "Oh, yeah."

Blaze facepalmed. "Oh no."

Knuckles put a hand on his forehead, slowly blinking. "Am I having a stroke? Or did that actually happen?"

"That entire dimension needs to be purged," Gong muttered. "There are no benefits of having it around."

The attention was back on Eggman, who was sitting at a table in Meh Burger. He was talking on a phone, chewing his burger. "Rerouted? My package has been rerouted? To where?" He tensed. "Guatamanana?"

"Just rob the shop already! Those rodents are too busy with the fox's love life to care!"

"I hate to say this, but Egghead's right," Sonic admitted. "And I'm pretty sure they'd understand if he explained the situation to them."

Behind him, Zooey sat at a table by herself, sipping a drink. Tails then walked up to her, forcing his voice to be deep. "Hey, Zooey. I was at the gym, throwing some weights." He flexed, and she simply sipped from her straw some more.

Tails wanted to jump through the screen and drag his twin away from Zooey. He needed to save her from this.

"She does not look impressed."

"Who would be?" Amy responded to Neera. "Everyone and their mother can tell that he's trying way too hard! Just be yourself!"

Switching tactics, Tails placed a hand on the table and inspected it. "This table's got some excellent craftsmanship. What's that, birch? Cedar?"

Zooey tapped a finger on the wood. "I think it's particle board."

Knuckles rolled his eyes at how bad this was. "At least she's not running away."

"Yet." Shadow uttered.

Tails nodded. "Oh, yeah. I had a particle board tree once. Chopped it down, built me a cabin out of it."

Jet frowned. "Now, she is going to think he is idiotic."

Their conversation was suddenly interrupted by Dave, who set a meal on the table. "One Meh steak, extra rare." Tails smiled at the redness of it while Zooey looked marginally disgusted.

"I don't blame her!" Amy's nose scrunched up. "The thing's practically still mooing!"

Carol shook her head. "Does he not see the look on her face?? "

"He needs to get out of there." Anti-Tails suggested. "For his own sake."

Sonic waved them off. "I'm sure everything will work out in the end like it always does!"

Tails figured that Sonic did have a point, but the journey to the end was so agonizing. He'd never felt so embarrassed about something he didn't even do.

Tails pulled out a fork and a knife. "The redder, the better!" He winked at her, and she returned nothing but a look of confusion.

"I feel you, girl," Carol said, empathizing with her.

"We all do." Blaze added.

Dave wasn't done, for he revealed a Hello Doggie pencil. "And your Meh meal toy."

Tails perked up in excitement, grabbing the gift. "Oh! A Hello Doggie pencil to go with my notebook!" Then, he realized what he was doing, grinning nervously at Zooey. He deepened his voice again. "Uh, I think I left my bandsaw running!"

Manic snorted. "I'm sure that left a great impression. He went from being clumsily aloof to being a carnivorous jock. What's next?"

Sonic hoped that the other Tails would go back to being himself after this, but there was a pattern here. "Well, the other Ames and Sticks are left, so..."

"I want him to go to my twin first so he can stop making a fool of himself!" Amy exclaimed. "He should've went to her in the first place!"

Fiona was doubtful. "You seriously think that your double's advice will be the best?"

"Definitely! Why don't you sound sure?!"

"Have you not seen her? She's overdramatic."

Knuckles, Shadow and Spade shuddered at the screeching that went on last episode.

Spade nodded. "Yeah, hers might be better than Sonic's and the echidna's twin, but that wouldn't be saying much."

Amy crossed her arms. "Well, I have faith!"

"Of course you do."

He sprinted away, and Eggman – who had been listening one more – shook his head in disdain.

Why did Eggman get the feeling that his twin was going to stick his nose where it didn't belong?

The next scene showed Amy and Tails in the hedgehog's shack, sitting on the sofa. The pinkette poured him some tea. "You're doing this all wrong." She set the tea pot down, going into teacher mode. "If you want to know what women want, talk to a woman!"

Amy completely agreed.

Tails gasped. "That's brilliant! Where can I find one?"

Most of the audience erupted with laughter.

Even Eggman was laughing. "He needs to start running now..."

Amy glared hard at him, hissing, " I'm a woman! I'm refined and elegant like a delicate flower, you jerk!"

Knuckles eventually calmed down, enjoying that very much. "She is doing nothing but proving his point."

Vector wiped away a tear. "It's official, Tails is my favorite character."

She regathered herself, calming back down with a smile. "As I was saying, girls like romance and chivalry. You know, like the movies." Amy turned on the TV in front of them. "Watch and learn."

Amy's confidence began to wane at that, and Fiona threw her an 'I told you so' look.

A masculine voice began to play. "How thy voice is like a songbird, let my eyes feast upon your beauty and my soul be nourished by your love!" Tears of joy filled Amy's eyes while Tails glanced between her and the TV, extremely confused. "A thousand roses would dare not smell as sweet as you!"

Amy released a heavy sigh as the woman on screen responded, "Oh, even if thy face is hidden beneath the mask, your heart is visible to me now and forever!"

More tears stained Amy's cheeks as she gestured to the movie. "See?"

Fiona grinned at the pinkette, who was visibly irked. "The best advice, huh?"

"Shut it, Fiona."

Tails stood up confidently. "I'll do it!"

Jet heavily exhaled. "He really really shouldn't."

Next was Tails walking up to a house in the village. He was wearing a tuxedo, and a white mask covered half of his face.

Someone please help this child, Eggman thought.

"He'd look kinda adorable without the mask." Milla admitted.

He projected his voice. "Zooey! Come forth from your chamber window!"

Silver and Jet stifled a laugher.

Tails honestly didn't think that it could have gotten any worse. It did.

"Okay, forgetting about everything else, I appreciate how persistent he is!" Sonic chuckled. "He's got a lotta drive!"

Tails saw where he was coming from, but, "He needs to drive home."

Zooey appeared in a second-floor window, gazing down at him. Not knowing what was going on, she gently greeted, "Uh, hello?"

Tails kept going. "How now, brown cow! Your voice is like a songbird, singing uh...songs! And you smell!"

She was taken aback by that. "What?!"

Everyone winced at the reaction with a few chuckling.

"He's digging his own grave." Blaze uttered, needing some kind of reprieve from this.

"Not unless she digs it for him." Cory chuckled.

He tried to mend his words. "Um...like a flower of some kind! Not a stinkweed, uh, something better!"

"Nice save?" Torque wasn't sure if he believed his own words or not.

Unbeknownst to them, Leroy the turtle was riding by on his mail wagon, and Eggman was angrily following him slightly out of breath. "I know you have my package in your wagon! Just give it to me!"

Leroy glanced back. "Once it's on the wagon, I have to deliver it to your residence."

Amy pursed her lips. "We seriously need answers to how Eggman has any of his stuff taken care of. Because that wagon isn't making it across an ocean."

"Oh, for the love of-" Eggman's incoming tirade was cut short when he noticed Tails all dressed up. He frowned. "Not this train wreck again."

Eggman rubbed his temples because it seemed like his fears were coming true. While he wouldn't touch his enemies' personal problems with a ten-foot pole, his twin apparently couldn't help but to meddle.

Gong was catching onto this as well. "Do not tell me he is going to offer his own advice."

Sonic snickered. "He's probably going to say to give up and eat your feelings away. Do you think so, Eggy?"

"I wouldn't know." The human genius hissed through his teeth.

Tails still wasn't done trying to woo Zooey. "Looking into your eyes is like looking into a pair of..." He paused in thought. "...eyes! Nice ones, even!"

Tails was starting to feel numb. "Doesn't he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? I would never say that!"

"Because you're not as desperate as he is," Knuckles supplied. "This is the definition of desperation."

"I don't think he's desperate!" Amy argued. "He has his heart set on wooing her, but he doesn't know what to do!"

"For once, I blame your twin's terrible advice, not Tails." Fiona admitted. "He needs to try harder."

Zooey blinked at him before closing her window.

Tails slumped with a depressed sigh.

And yet again, Eggman was unimpressed.

Sticks' burrow was next.

Knuckles leaned back in his seat. "Here we go."

"She's going to tell him to mark his territory or something."

Several disgusted gazes landed on Spade.

He shrugged. "You can't tell me that she wouldn't resort to that."

He was right; they couldn't.

The badger was inside her burrow, explaining her opinion on the matter to Tails.

"When a male wishes to woo a female, he must perform a traditional dating dance." She hopped on a wooden table, flapping her arms. "Where he displays his radiant, colorful plumage. This must be done in a public form to assert his dominance over the other males."

"Yeah. Great. Let Tails do that with the many feathers he has all over him." Knuckles deadpanned.

Tails shrugged, unperturbed. "Well, it's worth a shot!"

Amy tried to see the bright side in all this. "When this is over with, at least he'll learn to never go to his friends for relationship advice again."

Back in the village, Tails was showing off the peacock feathers in his hands to Zooey and the group of people who had gathered around.

"Caw-caw!" he crowed, spinning around and posing. "Caw-caw! Caw-caw!"

"Where did he even get those from?" Wave asked, confused.

Shadow scoffed. "Pretty obvious the badger gave it to him."

Zooey, understandably concerned, took a step forward. "Tails, are you feeling okay?"

He widely smiled. "Wha? I'm feeling great! Check out my majestic plumage!"

Tails waved the feathers around in Zooey's face, causing her to sneeze. "Well...as long as you're all right!" She ran off after waving goodbye.

"I applaud her for still being so nice, y'know?" Sonic admitted. "If someone did all of that stuff to me, I seriously don't know how I'd feel afterwards."

"Flabbergasted?" Tails provided.

"Yeah, mostly that with a little bit of concerned mixed in."

Tails walked off, dejected, and Eggman – standing off to the side at the store – grumbled to himself. "I can't watch this anymore." He rose his voice when Tails trudged by him. "You've got no game, kid! Let me help you."

Knuckles was itching to know if the train wreck was almost over. It had been going on long enough. "Honestly? Whatever he has to say literally can't be any worse than what's already happened."

The kit looked up with a furrowed brow. "You? But you're out sworn enemy!"

"Finally, some common sense." Scourge drawled. "I had been wondering if he had forgotten it."

"He hadn't forgotten it!" Tails came to his twin's defense. "It just...had been overshadowed by the more impulsive side of him."

Scourge gave him a look.

Tails relented, "Okay, maybe he didn't think things all the way through, but-"

"Peacock feathers, a butchered theatrical act, blatantly false masculinity, and 'catch you on the flip-flop'."

Tails couldn't deny that evidence.

Eggman crossed his arms. "Nonetheless, in situations this dire, the bro code trumps the enemy thing."

"The bro code!?" Sonic repeated. "Sworn enemies don't have a bro code!"

Simply accepting it at this point, Eggman grumbled, "I guess he didn't get the memo."

"Take my advice, you'll never land a girl by acting like someone else. Just be confident in your own pelt." His tone grew more commanding. "And for pete's sake, ditch the feathers!"

"Well." Amy was pleasantly surprised. "It came from an odd source, but that's perfect advice! Especially the feather part."

Tails lowered his gaze to the feathers, dropping them after a moment's hesitation. He then put his hands on his hips, questioning Eggman. "How do I know I can trust you?"

Eggman shrugged, nonchalantly. "It's either that or let her go."

"Believe me or don't, it's not hair off my mustache." He stroked his hairy upper lip. "You're the one doing the funky chicken in the middle of town square."

Tails nodded after a moment. "That's fair."

It was then that Leroy walked out from the back with a box in his hands. He placed it on the counter. "Your package."

"Finally!" Eggman cried out in exasperation before opening it, his anger dissipating as dark chuckles escaped him. He held up a grey device. "My background music generator! This'll really make my attacks more exciting!"

Eggman sighed in annoyance. All this over a music player?! Why couldn't he just build one in lair and not show up, wasting his time?!

"So...it's basically a small stereo." Sonic leisurely clapped. "Glad to know that he has his priorities in order."

He pressed a button on the remote, grinning as energetic music played.

Carol subtly tapped her foot to the beat. "He wasn't wrong about it being exciting!"

Lilac gave her an odd look.

"What?? It's catchy."

"Is it really??" Neera questioned in disbelief

Tails had no time to focus on that, for a giant robot with a single eye and tank treads rolled into the village. The villagers screamed in fright, running away from the approaching bot.

Motobugs joined the invasion as well. They shot lasers at those fleeing as Eggman evilly laughed. "Sweet! Listen to those drums!"

Not one to stand on the sidelines, Tails palmed a hefty wrench and took down the motobugs one-by-one. Their parts began to litter the ground.

"Yeah!" Tails pumped his fist. "Do what you do best, other me!"

Eggman jammed to the music until scrap metal fell down beside him. "Huh?"

The hulking mech had zeroed in on Zooey, and she was running for her life. She screamed with it picked her off the ground. Tails whipped his head around at the sound, narrowing his eyes at the attacker.

Amy giggled. "You get your girl, Tails! You got this!"

At this point, the rest of Team Sonic had run onto the scene. Sonic quickly assessed the situation before starting, "Amy, you and Knuckles head-"

Tails, in his plane now, held up a hand. "No need, Sonic!" Confidence flooded his features. "I got this!"

Gong narrowed his eyes. "How did he- You know what?? Nevermind."

He swooped down and flew circles around the bot, it spinning to keep up with him. Zooey was still freaking out in the mech's hold, yelling, "Help! Help!"

"Hang on, Zooey!" Tails reassured before aiming at the arm that held her hostage. He fired a laser, and the limb exploded, breaking from the body.

Zooey flutily reached for the sky as she fell. But she never touched the ground; Tails activated his speeding swing surprise, dangling an enerbeam for Zooey to grab. Once she did, Tails swung her safely into the seat behind him. They smiled at each other.

"There's the Tails we know! Well, kinda know!" Sonic cheered. "Nothing like a good old Eggman battle to brighten your day!"

Or make it worse, Eggman inwardly groused.

On the ground, Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy all smugly said, "I taught him everything he knows."

Cory rolled her eyes. "Oh please. You guys didn't do anything."

Tails looped around in the air and fired another laser right at the robot's midsection. The whole thing blew up, its parts raining down all around.

Team Sonic cheered at his success while Eggman huffed, walking up to his destroyed weapon. "Well, that wasn't as exciting as I hoped." He held up the device, pressing the same button as before. The background music was cut off.

"Did he think that the music would somehow power up his inadequate machine?"

"He probably wasn't thinking at all." Spade answered Scourge.

When Tails landed his plane, Zooey leaned forward in her seat, beaming. "Tails, you were amazing! " She hugged him from the back and kissed the side of his head.

Tails cheeks were on fire as he incomprehensibly sputtered. Milla and Cosmo's eyes widened in shock.

Amy released something akin to an animalistic screech, jumping to her feet. "Oh. My. Gosh! She kissed him! She kissed him!"

"Yes." Spade rubbed his ears. "We all saw."

Knuckles couldn't believe it, really. "Funny how Tails is the first we've seen find a partner in the group." The other Sonic and Amy might be a thing, but they technically hadn't seen anything concrete yet despite Knuckles' teasing.

Shadow cut his eyes over at him. "And hopefully he's the last."

Sonic unknowingly shared Shadow's thoughts. "I'm proud of the little guy! All he had to do was be himself!" He then glanced over at Tails, who was still in shock. "You okay, bud?"

He eventually recovered. "Y-Yeah! It was just really unexpected, is all. I'm glad everything worked out for him too!"

"You bet." Sonic grinned. "I wonder if Rouge will in this one."

"I hope not." Knuckles grumbled. He thought his twin would ever be in a relationship with that bat.

Eggman laughed, his sarcasm nearly palpable. "Look who got the girl by being himself! I didn't see that coming!"

Eggman pinched the bridge of his nose. Did his twin always have to say something?

Tails gave him a level stare. "Do you mind?'

"You're welcome," the doctor bit before providing more music. It was more romantic this time.

Tails blinked. "I know it's weird but, Eggman genuinely helped me with this one."

"Genuinely is a strong word." The human doctor muttered.

After a moment, Tails and Zooey locked gazes, expressions soft. They then held hands, and a heart shaped iris-out appeared over them, growing smaller and smaller.

Out of frame, Eggman exclaimed, "I'm glad I sprang for the heart iris upgrade!"

Disregarding the other Eggman, Amy loved the ending of that. "Those two are so precious!

Knuckles chuckled and decided to tease Sonic one last time. "If only the other Sonic and Amy showed that kind of affection."

Sonic dodged that subject immediately. "That episode was interesting, to say the least!

"It was cheesy." Scourge called out.

"You have a girlfriend too, Scourge."

"A badass one to be exact."

"I'm just glad we don't have to watch any longer." Shadow said.

"Especially, when those four were giving the fox pointless advice.' Spade added.

"Hey at least they tried!" Amy protested.

"Yeah they tried all right." Eggman said. "Tried to embarrass him."

"You're just jealous that you don't someone who loves you!"

Sonic snorted. "Like Egghead needs a love interest, Ames."

"You took the words right out of my mouth, pincushion."

Lucy giggled at their words and pressed the button the next episode.