The starts off with Eggman - the doctor sighed - in his Eggmobile, laughing as he fires his lasers at a toy factory.

Sonic snickered. "What's your twin's plan now this time, Eggy? Rid the world of Scrabble and Monopoly or something?"

Tails let out a stiff laugh in reply. "That would be so weird!"

"Dr. Eggman's really tearing into that toy-and-game factory." Orbot said. "What did that toy-and-game factory ever do to him?" Cubot asked. "Something tells me that he didn't tell you guys how he lost Sonic in the previous episodes." Rouge giggled. Eggman glared at his robotic henchmen. "Haven't you imbeciles ever been in a covet operation? I need complete silence or we might be discovered!" "Really now?" Knuckles deadpanned. "You're the one firing laser, which makes loud noises." Eggman unloads a vacuum machine from his Eggmobile and activates it, sucking up all the toys inside his Eggmobile. Nosily. "And making high sounds with your vacuum machine." Spade added, with a blank look. Sonic and the gang arrive, and look at Eggman. "Not so fast, Egghead!" Sonic shouts.

"What? Hold on, let me turn this thing off!" He yelled. He turned off his machine and turned to Orbot and Cubot. "I told you your shouting would attract attention."

"But you're the one who's making all the loud noise." Lilac pointed out.

Milla scratched her head. "Does a vacuum cleaner count as... shouting?"

"No, Milla."

"Ball Bots, attack!"

Several Ball Bots charge towards the team. Sonic uses a racket to bounce a Ball Bot back, making it hit Eggman's Eggmobile. Orbot and Cubot are sitting at a desk making commentary.

Carol gawked at the two robots. "What the heck are they doing?"

"They're making a commentary." Theo answered.

"Like a sports show?" Cory asked.

"Something like that."

"Those two might be competing with Soar for the anchorman position." Vector joked.

"I think the viewers will agree there is nothing like watching a contest between two evenly matched competitors... one of whom always loses to the other." Orbot said.

"False definition of 'evenly' matched." Sonic mumbled. Ignoring all the close cal he had with Eggman, he always came on top. Barely.

"At least he's being truthful." Tails said.

Cubot nodded. "That's right, Orbot. So. What is Eggman's strategy? We talked with him earlier." He adds and presents a video of Eggman in a pop-up screen.

"I told you talking bedpans already! By robbing the Village of any source of fun, the citizens will become sad, dry husks; and will pay huge fees to enjoy my new amusement park." Eggman explained on the camera. He then scowled angrily. "Now get that camera out of my face!" The screen disappeared.

Back with the fight, Amy stops a rolling Ball Bot and knocks it away with her hammer, hitting Eggman in the chest.

Sonic winced. "Ouch."

Tails mimicked the blue blur. "He's gonna feel that one in the morning."

Orbot and Cubot physically winced. "Ooh! Let's see that again in slow motion." Orbot pressed a button and the scene repeated itself in slow motion.

Eggman scowled. He's gonna trash those tin cans once he gets back home.

Sticks jumped a rope and chanted a song. "I can do a polka. I can do a split. I can catch a Ball Bot just like this."

Amy clapped. "Bravo!" She glanced at Spade. "You can call her paranoid all you want, but you won't say anything about that!"

The panda just scoffed.

Sticks quickly made a net out of some ropes and caught three swarms of the balls and tossed the net to Knuckles, who threw the net to the ground and punched the balls.

"Oh... You hate to see that happen to promising young Ball Bots." Orbot said.

Knuckles threw a ball at Orbot and Cubot's table, knocking them

Next, Tails stepped up holding a bat, and soon it became a game of baseball. "Batter up!" The Kitsune said with a smirk.

Andy smiled. This reminded him of the baseball episode from Sonic X.

The balls launched at Tails, who swung his bat and missed.

"Swing and a miss." Orbot commentates.

Tails swings the bat and misses again.

"Swing and a miss."

Tails tries one more time but fails.

"Swing and a miss."

Frustrated, Tails throws the bat down with an angered grunt. He unleashes his glue cannon and fires glue at a ball bot from behind, without looking. He marches forward towards Eggman then shoots glue at him, Orbot and Cubot, covering them all with glue.

Victoriously, the fox then rested his glue cannon on his shoulder with a smirk, and the team celebrated.

"Yeah!" The team cried in celebration, high-fiving each other with a laugh.

"Slow sarcastic clap, slow sarcastic clap. Sorry, I'd do the real things if my hands weren't... you know." Eggman says moodily.

"What's your problem, Eggman?" Sonic asked. "You're letting all the air out of our victory."

"Some victory. Five against one! If you want to be fair you'd only battle one-on-one from now on. That is unless you'd prefer it to be unfair." Eggman taunts.

Torques was confused. "The battle you just engaged, which was one on one at the time, didn't count?"

"It's either this is one of his so-called schemes, or he was just embarrassed by losing." Knuckles said, cracking his neck.

Everyone murmured in agreement, and Sticks decline, shrugging. "Eh...I don't care either way."

"I do." Sonic paused for a moment. "Actually, scratch that." He glanced at The human genius. "You lost to Tails one on one. Even Knuckles and Amy got the better of you. Solo style. What makes you think you could beat them alone?"

"I almost beat you, didn't I?" Eggman questioned as a-matter-of-fact-ly.

"Key word; 'almost'."

"Exactly. Almost."

Sonic took a minute to process. He widened his eyes. "Oh shoot."

Sonic grinned at Eggman. "Okay, Eggman. You got yourself a deal. In the interest of fairness, only one of us will battle you at a time. Shake?" He raised his hand and realized that Eggman was still covered in glue. Incapable of shaking, let alone moving his hands. "Oh."

He climbs onto the glue mound and handshakes the doctor's moustache

"I hope you've washed your hands, rodent."

"I hope my twin will wash his hands after shaking your mustache, Eggface."

Amy marched around, patrolling the Village entrance gate, awaiting any signs of Eggman, her hammer swung over her shoulders. Eggman, inside his Eggmobile, is arriving. Seeing this, the pink hedgehog took a leap on the air and landed on the doctor's Eggmobile and readied her hammer.

Before she couldn't Eggman stopped her. "I was just thinking. That hammer of yours... Ah, forget it. Just smash my teeth in."

Amy glanced at him curiously yet suspiciously. "No, tell me. What?"

"No other me!" Amy yelled. "Smash his head in!"

"Well, it would be great for my recycling project. I take old cans and make playthings for needy robot kids. That hammer would be helpful for flattering the cans, that's all."

"You recycle, and help needy kids?"

"No he doesn't!" Knuckles exclaimed. "Last episode he tried to steal a stupid toy from a kid!"

"You have to promise me not to tell anyone. I don't want my bad name tarnished."

"Well, as long as it's for a good cause..."

A robot arm from the Eggmobile takes Amy's Hammer and hands it to Eggman, who smirks. "Oh it is. Victory!" He muttered the second part. "not unlike your hammer." He then let the rest out. "Is MINE!"

He dropped Amy off of his mobile and he drove away with her hammer. Amy snarled angrily after him. "Just for that, I'm gonna tell everyone about your charity!"

"You think he cares?!" Amy yelled.

The scene changes to Sticks walking across the jungle. She runs into Eggman and gets into her battle stance.

Spade raised a brow. "How is he gonna fool her?? She's paranoid."

Shadow scoffed. "If Eggman can fool a hedgehog with anger issue and his so full of herself-

"HEY!"

Shadow ignored Amy and continued. "-then there's no doubt he's gonna trick the badger."

Spade sighed. "If you say so."

Eggman spoke in a soft voice as he drew near the badger. "Shh... I'm picking up some bizarre alien vibrations."

"Astro sickness 7-Q vibrations!?" Sticks whispered excitedly.

"Huh?" Eggman looked confused but shook it off. "Oh, yes. Sure, those." He looked around the jungle suspiciously. "We're being watched."

"I KNEW it!" Sticks exclaimed, frustrated. "Don't worry, I'm ready!" She hurried over to a leer and pulled it. Eggman yelped as a bamboo cage landed by them. Sticks ran up to it, her shoes squeaking.

"Shh!" Eggman shushed her. "Careful. They're picking up the frequency of your shoe squeaks. Better take them off."

Sticks took off her shoes and handed them to Eggman, who nodded in approval. "Okay. I'll stay here and keep an eye on things. You run and go warn the others."

"They all laughed when I said my shoes were conspiring with aliens. Who's paranoid now?!" She looked down. "Don't answer that."

"You are." Spade answered flatly. "Also, what's stealing her shoes gonna do?"

"Maybe there's something she's hiding?" Milla guessed.

"Her feet are just stinky due to her living in a filthy home." Knuckles remarked.

Sonic snickered. "It must be nice to wear the same clothes without caring how you look."

At Tails Workshop, the kit is waiting for Eggman.

The yellow fox was concerned. Amy and Sticks were already fooled, how is his twin gonna mustered against Eggman.

"You'll be fine Tails. Just look cool and Eggman will totally back off." The kitsune muttered nervously to himself. He leaned against the pole and slipped.

Milla giggled. She remembers Tails doing the same thing when he tried to impress Zooey, only to fail in the process.

Suddenly, a missile shot over Tails' head and he glanced to see Eggman arriving in his Moth Bot. He gets out and does a fighting pose.

Tails smirked at Eggman. "Ha! You think standing in a cool pose is going to intimidate me?"

Rouge grinned. "Says the fox who just tried to do a cool pose for his girlfriend."

Tails muttered under his breath embarrassingly.

"Say hello to a little device I call: the MX 4108 Electroplasmatic Capsulator!" Tails tries pulling the blanket off his invention, but struggles. Eggman looks on with an unused look.

Tails sighed. Can't he just fly up and pull the blanket off?

Finally, Tails eventually pulls the blanket off but exhausts himself, showing Eggman his invention.

Eggman whistled, impressed. "Wow. Planetarium casing, hydroponic stabilizers...? This is a thing of beauty. So what's does this baby do anyway?"

Tails spoke quickly. "Oh it just restructures the humidity molecules in the air to synthesize a hyper-magnetic force field."

"Whoa-whoa-whoa. Slow down, professor."

"Yeah, those are some pretty big words he said." Sonic mentions.

Knuckles was rubbing his head, his brain on fire. "Tails confuses water for humidity."

"And here's the best part. It runs on brain power! All you have to do is put on this helmet and say something smart." Tails said, handing him a helmet.

"Here it comes." Eggman called out.

Eggman took the helmet and placed it on his head. He turned to the machine and spoke to it. "Complimenting someone will make them lower their guard."

"Exactly-wait, what?!" Tails yelped as the machine turned on him and froze Tails.

"There it is."

Tails just shook his head at how easily his twin was fooled.

Eggman smirked. "Eggman: Three. Losers: Zero."

Knuckles came running up with a glare on his face. "Oh, yeah?! Well, guess what! It's about to become Eggman: Three. Losers: One."

Eggman snickered at him. "Nice try, but we have an agreement, one at a time; and Tails is still the designated hero. Wait your turn, Nuffles."

Knuckles and Eggman stare at each other while background music plays. Knuckles shoots an annoyed look at Eggman. After a while, a bell sounded. Tails grinned even though he was still frozen. "Well, that's my shift."

Torque blinked. Talking while being immobilized in a forcefield is... scientifically impossible.

Eggman took off his helmet and Tails, now free from his trap, walked up to a booth and plucked a ticket. Knuckles did the same.

"All right. Time to do some clobbering!"

"What, just like that? Without a warm up? You want to pull a hammy or something?"

Knuckles thought for a moment. "Hmm... You're right. I probably should stretch before I pound your face into the dirt."

"Welp, surprise surprise, my twin lost." Knuckles retorted, sarcastically.

"And don't forget jumping jacks." Eggman said as Knuckles began his exercises.

"And leg lifts."

Knuckles grunted as he did the leg lifting exercise.

"Now sit ups."

"Twirl like a ballerina."

Knuckles blinked. "You better not-"

Knuckles spins on his leg, twirling like a ballerina.

Knuckles breathe in and out to control his anger.

Sonic, Silver and Gong were covering their mouths from laughing.

"Now bend this sheet of metal into a giant airplane." Eggman handed Knuckles a sheet of metal and the echidna turned it into a paper airplane. "Now dig a hole."

Knuckles used his fist to pound a hole in the ground and stops when he was done. "All right, I'm warmed up. How do I get out of here?"

"Jump. Out." Knuckles sneered, trying to control himself.

"Just keep digging." Eggman told him. "You'll find the other side eventually."

"Well, you haven't steered me wrong yet. Oh man, when I get my hands on you..." Knuckles turned around and continued digging the hole.

Eggman snickered in victory. "Eggman: Four. Losers: Zero."

At Meh Burgers, Tails, Amy and Sticks all share a grumpy look as they sit at a table while resting their heads on their arms.

Sonic laughed as they told him their failures. "You guys totally got schooled. By Eggman!" He laughed. "That's lame."

"As much as i dislike the rodent's attitude, I have to agree." Eggman admitted. "The pink hedgehog, the red echidna, and crazy badger is no surprise." He glanced at Tails. "But honestly, I expected more from your twin."

The yellow kitsune couldn't help but inwardly agree with Eggman.

"The guy's a lot trickier one on one." Amy said, frowning at Sonic.

"He's actually pretty smart," Sticks said. "You forget that sometimes he's a doctor."

"And a mad scientist."

Eggman scoffed. "He's not a good scientist I tell you that."

Tails realized someone was missing from the group. "Hey, Knuckles isn't here yet. Maybe he had better luck."

Knuckles pops up from the ground right in front of Meh Burger. "I got you now, Eggm-!" He began, but he glanced around at his friends. "Oh, hey, guys."

The gang, minus Sonic, groaned and face palmed themselves.

Knuckles sighed. "Convenient place to pop up.

The blue blur sighed. "Well, I guess that means it's my turn. See you after my victory." He zoomed off.

"Hey, you guys will never believe what I found in this hole." Knuckles ask his friends excitedly.

"Dirt?" Tails deadpans.

"Lucy guess." The echidna grumbles.

The scene changes in the middle of a desert, where Sonic Sonic is all alone, patiently waiting for Eggman. Growing impatient, he sits down on a rock.

The blue hedgehog frowned at his twin. He could do ANYTHING else instead of waiting around for Eggman, who won't come for at least an hour. Why doesn't he just run around the island, collect coconuts, or do something?!

Also, how does he know that Eggman is waiting for him there??

While sitting down, Sonic makes all kinds of noises. Eventually, he hosts an imaginary tea party with some rocks to pass the time.

Spade inwardly scoffed. THIS is seriously the hero of the story. What a joke.

Silver was chuckling. "Is he hosting a tea party?! With imaginary friends?!"

Knuckles wasn't laughing, but there was a small smile on his lips. "You seriously need a hobby, Sonic."

The blue hero just slumped down.

"More tea Mrs. Rock Bottom?" Sonic asks in a weird voice. "Don't mind if I do Mr. Boulder." He replies in a high voice, moving to pour imaginary tea into a cup.

"Ahem."

Sonic stops what he's doing and notices his friends standing there, frowning at him. "Busy day?" Amy deadpan.

The blue speedster's eyes widen and he stumbles to his feet in embarrassment, trying to play it off. "Huh? Oh. I sat here my whole shift. Eggman never showed and you know why?"

"He wasn't at the tea party?" Knuckles guesses vacantly, holding a beach umbrella over his shoulder.

"No, cause he's totally intimidated by me."

Scourged laugh with a scoff. "Oh yeah. I'm sure Eggman's terrified that you'll invite him over for a tea party, bud."

AT that, everyone burst into a fit of laughter

"Whatever. We're going to the beach. Since you're so perfect, you can stay on guard duty all day." Sticks taunts.

"That's a good idea. I could use a nap." He closes his eyes and laughs arrogantly. "See, cause I won't be fighting."

"Not funny." Amy frowned. "Since when are you so arrogant, Sonic?"

"He's always arrogant, Amy." Knuckles deadpan. "Especially when it involves Eggman."

The gang groans with a synchronized eye roll and turns to head off, leaving Sonic alone.

Sonic walks over and sleeps on the sand. Eventually, Eggman arrives in his Eggmobile while wearing the helmet for Tails' Capsulator. Dragged behind the Eggmobile is a high-tech platform with all of Eggman's gear on it. Sonic stirs.

Tails knew what was coming. "Here we go..."

"He already lost the minute Eggman showed up." Knuckles stated.

"His cockiness got the better of him, and Eggman used that to his advantage." Blaze added, shaking her head.

"Ahem." Eggman coughed, trying to wake up Sonic.

"G-go away Amy. I'm not in the mood..." Sonic mumbles in his sleep.

Rouge gave a teasing look. "Dream about a certain someone, blue?

"No!"

Sonic wakes up and sees Eggman, in front of him. "Eggman?!"

The human genius presses a button, triggering a chain reaction on his platform that traps Sonic in Sticks' bamboo cage. "The area of a circle is π times its radius squared." The Capsulator freezes the cage with a force-field. Sonic tries to break free, to no avail.

"Honestly, this brings a smile to my face." Shadow said.

Carol chuckles. "Serves hims right."

"His friends are probably laughing at him right now." Cory snickered.

"Eggman: Five. Losers: Zero; and this is especially delicious because... da-da-da-dah! I did it by manipulating your clueless friends." The human doctor brags and starts to dance lamely. "Go Eggman. Go Eggman. Who's a villain? Who's a villain?"

The doctor cringed at his twin's 'dancing'. "Not you." How many is he gonna keep dancing like an idiot. He already has the blue rat in his grasp, so why not destroy him already?!

Sonic friends arrived from the beach, with smug looks on their faces. "Well well well. "Look who got captured by Eggman." Amy mocks.

"Hey, don't lecture me if you were the first one to be fooled by him!" Sonic called out. "He probably sees you as the weakness!"

*BAM*

Sonic should've kept his mouth shut as an angry Amy slammed him with her hammer.

"Guys, can we postpone the "I told you so"s and general ridicule until after the rescue?" Sonic pleaded.

"Oh fine. But, once we save you, the ridicule will be more severe." Tails smirks.

"Duly noted." Sonic deadpans.

"All right Eggman. You've had your fun. Now let him go!" Amy demanded.

"Hmm... Let me think. No!" He says abruptly. He returns to his Eggmobile. Amy, Knuckles, Tails and Sticks threw aside their beach gear and threatened to engage in combat when Eggman wags his finger. "Nah-ah-ah-ah! Remember! We have an ironclad agreement to fight only one on one." Lilac rolls her eyes with a groan. "You guys have every right to make fun of Sonic. It's his fault for agreeing to this." "Me first! Gotta get home and wrap my burrow in tinfoil before the thought police show up." Sticks volunteers and once again Orbot and Cubot are sitting at a desk, ready for commentary. A boxing bell sounds to initiate the beginning of the fight.

"And there's the bell."

Sticks steps forward and throws her boomerang, which misses the Eggmobile. "Hah! you missed!" The boomerang curves around and hits Eggman's Eggmobile. The doctor grunts in anger. "Activate hammer!"

Amy's Hammer, now attached to a wheel, is deployed from Eggman's platform. Sticks screams and runs away from it.

Torque raised a brow. "Can't she just tear it apart?"

"With what weapon? Her boomerang?" Spade scoffed.

"And Eggman regains the upper hand by robotizing Amy's Hammer. That's heads-up play by the mustachioed marauder." Orbot commentates.

Sticks manages to avoid the wheel but it stays on her heels. Amy quickly heads over. "Sticks Let me take your shift." Sticks sprints to the pink hedgehog and tags her, moving away out of the battle. Amy approaches the Hammer wheel and it screeches to a stop, then starts to toll towards her.

With a jump and flip, she grabs her hammer back then smashes the wheel away.

Tails blinked. "And Sticks couldn't do that because... ?"

"Plot." Knuckles answered, flatly.

Amy then bashes the wheel with her hammer. The wheel flies towards Eggman, but he jumps out of the way in time and lands on his platform.

"Incredible escape. Surprisingly agile for a middle-aged scientist." Orbot praises.

Eggman didn't know whether to be insulted or praised. Perhaps both.

"You know, you sometimes forget he's a doctor." Cubot inputs.

Eggman slams the weapons machine down and unleashes the metal airplane from his platform. The plane hits Amy's dress and pins her into a wall. Knuckles starts to dig a tunnel and pops out where Amy is.

"Amy! Tag me in!" She tags him and he pulls out the plane, throwing it to Eggman.

"The length of a hypotenuse is equal to the square root of the sum of the lengths of the sides squared." Eggman recites quickly. The Capsulator forms a force-field in front of Eggman, stopping the plane.

Carol rubbed her head. "Too much nerdy-ness."

Sticks tags herself in. She jumps up and takes Eggman's helmet off. She tags Tails and passes the helmet onto him. "Here you go."

"I got a better idea." The kitsune flies to Knuckles and tags him, fitting the helmet onto his head. "Quick! Say the first thing that comes to mind!"

"I think Eggman's mustache is just spaghetti that grows out of his face." The echidna absentmindedly.

Most of the audience burst out laughing, with Eggman growling.

The Capsulator unfreezes Sticks' bamboo cage holding Sonic. The blue speedster beams, reaching out his hand. "Knuckles. Tag me!" Knuckles does so and Sonic breaks free from the cage, the pieces of bamboo falling on top of Eggman, leaving him trapped.

"And down goes El Huevo loco!" Cubot announces grandly.

"It's all over for the bald behemoth!" Orbot adds.

"One more word out of you two and I'm gonna take you apart and put you back together blindfolded." Eggman threatens.

"Even when we could only battle Eggman one at a time, we managed to work together as a team." Amy says sentimentally as they stood together, smiling over their victory.

"Yeah, that's true, but in the end, I'm the one that put Eggman in a cage." Sonic brags, adding laughter to the last part.

His friends all share a suggestive frown.

Lilac frown. "Seriously."

Sonic, after being held by Lucy, shrugged. "I'm not that arrogant." He looked at his friends. "Right guys."

They murmured in disagreement.

Moments later, Sonic was now trapped with Eggman in his bamboo cage, which has now been reinforced with the Capsulator's force-fields. His friends walk away.

The blue blur widened his eyes in shock. "You guys are just gonna leave me?!"

"You deserve it." Amy replied, annoying.

Knuckles chuckled. "I have no intention of feeling sorry for you."

Sonic glanced at Tails, with a pleading look.

The yellow fox shrugged his shoulders. "You were pretty cocky, Sonic."

The blue hedgehog groaned loudly,

"Hey guys? You accidentally left me trapped in this force-field with Eggman! Guys? Guys!?" Sonic cried, trying to gain his friend's attention, but to no avail.

Shadow raised a brow. "Accidentally??" He scoffed. "You know exactly what you did, faker. Just face your punishment."

"Too bad he'll never say sorry once he gets out." Spade added, nonchalantly.

"He should." Amy groused.

"Well, we're here. Might as well make the best of it." Eggman starts singing. "A thousand bottles of liquid nitrogen on the wall, a thousand bottles of liquid nitrogen..." The screen turns back.

Knuckles grinned. Nope. He's not sorry one bit.

Amy nodded in approval. This was the best thing to teach Sonic a lesson.

Scourge sighed with relief. "Thank god."

Fiona giggled. "If this continued on for at least a few more minutes, we'd be watching "two unmatched characters trapped together and get to know each other better" cliche."

"Just like "The Curse of Buddy Buddy Temple" episode." Knuckles added.

Sonic sighed. "I can't believe they put my twin in a cage with Eggman of all people."

"The feeling's mutual, rat." Eggman replied.

Lucy pressed the button to the next episode.