The scene started out in Eggman's lair, with said human examining a handful of mail. "Junk," he said flatly and threw an envelope away. Something whirled off-screen. "Junk." He threw another away. "Junk." Again. "Junk." And yet again. Eggman peered closer at a large red paper. "Evil boot warehouse..." He shoved it into Cubot's mouth, who seemed to be shredding all of his unwanted mail.

However, because of the size of the paper, Cubot started to cough. Orbot came up behind his robotic friend and hit him on the back a few times. "Paper jam." Cubot spat half of the paper out in relief.

"No better than an inexpensive shredder." Eggman was tired of seeing those two mechanical disgraces. "If that other me had any ounce of intelligence, then he should destroy them without any remorse."

After reading over another letter, Eggman exclaimed, "Orbot!" The red mech opened his mouth to shred, and the doctor shook his head. "No, you imbecile!" He sat up straighter on the couch he had been previously laying on. "I don't want you to shred this. It's the key to our future!" Eggman gestured to the paper in his hand. "Do you know what this is?"

"Robotic women who love us for our minds and aren't into looks or money?" Cubot guessed.

Tails frowned in thought. "That's an interesting topic..." "Do robots actually have emotions like that? And did they like other sentient robots? Or any machine?" Mila asked. "Hey Metal, do you feel attracted to vacuum cleaners?"

"No." Eggman deadpanned.

"No." Eggman deadpanned. "Our home, and by that I mean my home, is going to be featured in Modern Lair magazine." He let Orbot read the paper. "Here, read the exposition."

Eggman released a long exasperated groan. Of course this episode is going to be about him. He doesn't know how much of seeing himself as a bumbling fool he can take. Knuckles looked dumbfounded. "A magazine?? Really, Egghead??" Sonic grinned. "Everyone has a hobby Knux!" He looked at the doctor, "Isn't that right, Eggster." "Quiet, you blue rat."

Orbot did so. "A photographer's assistant will do a site inspection tomorrow to consider you for our Island Fortress issue."

He and Cubot shared a dubious look while Eggman hopped up from the couch. "Let's give this lair some flair!"

Amy pursed her lips, mind drifting off the topic of everlasting love. "How do you even spruce up an evil base? Put traps everywhere? Leave out raisin cookies instead of chocolate chip?"

"My Dr. Eggman isn't really evil." Cream guessed. "I am. He's not." Carol scoffed. "Same difference."

A montage started, and now Orbot was using a reluctant Cubot to vacuum the floor.

Then, in another room, Cubot was utilizing a plow to scoop up little pieces of scrap metal.

After that, the two robots were shown shining Eggman's many boots that looked identical to each other.

Eggman grumbled to himself, hating that fact that he too had many shoes of similar structure. He just disliked that there was something he and the other Eggman had in common.

Eggman walked into the room and ordered, "When you bots are done with my boots, make sure my rollercoaster is in tip-top shape."

"Rollercoaster?" Sonic perked up at that. "Riding a rollercoaster before destroying one of your bases would be a hoot, Egghead!"

Knuckles scoffed. "His bases were already basically rollercoasters. There are straightaways, curves, and ramps everywhere, and now that I think about it..." He made eye contact with Eggman. "It's like you always build your bases to help Sonic get through them, not the other way around."

Before Eggman could protest, Tails jumped in. "He's right, Eggman."

"Why you little-!" "Take it easy, Eggman." Lucy told him.

Eggman crossed his arms and sulked.

The mechs glanced at each other again before nodding. The two robots later approached the roller coaster area with a toolbox. Doors – with carnival-like paint – slid open, and they entered. Only moments after the doors closed, crashing sounds were heard along with a cat screech. Cubot and Orbot exited the room in pieces.

"Yeah...that doesn't look safe." Amy observed with a wince.

"Definitely my kind of ride!" Sonic opposed happily.

Away from the bots, Eggman was adjusting a Bunsen burner on a table. He stared at it for a moment before rotating it again.

"Perfect!" The doctor smiled to himself. "It's all coming together! When the photographer's assistant arrives, he'll take one look at my lair and exclaim-"

At a later time, a rodent with a blue checkered hat and coat looked around in disdain. "You call this a lair?"

"Okay, I'm not saying that his base isn't drab-" Lilac started. "Because it is." Carol cut her off. Lilac ignored her and continued. "But how would that person know what a good lair looks like? Has he seen more of them?"

"If he did, wouldn't that mean that there are more bad guys than Eggman there?" Mila wondered. "I hope so. It's better to focus on them than this joker of a villain." Sonic responded. Though he was insulted, Eggman could help but agree with the blue hedgehog.

"How dare you?" Eggman growled, glaring down at his visitor. "Listen, pompous little pipsqueak, I'll crush you like a bug!"

The assistant wasn't fazed. "Not if you want your lair in our magazine."

"That guy doesn't seem to care at all." Carol uttered.

The human gasped, anger morphing into concern. "You can't do this to me!"

"Modern Lair brings our readers a contemporary upbeat take on evil," the rodent explained. "Your idea of evil is totally retro...without the irony." He crossed his arms as Eggman slumped. "Your lasers are a ridiculous shade of blue, and would you please turn that Bunsen burner 90 degrees before I get sick." He pointed at the offending lab tool.

Tails cocked his head. "I didn't realize that the positioning of scientific lab equipment was so important..."

"It shouldn't be though, right?" Torque tapped his chin.

"Give me a chance!" Eggman begged. "I'll spruce up the place!"

Sonic snorted. "So if I criticize your place Eggster, would you beg like that?"

"Of course not, you imbecile!"

The assistance tapped his chin in thought. "I'll give you a week." He strolled toward the exit of the base.

Eggman scratched the top of his head. "I'm gonna need help...from someone with a real feel for color and shape."

The screen panned to Cubot, who was interacting with a cube with multiple holes for shapes and who was currently trying to fit a square into a 'X' hole.

Cory resisted the urge to facepalm. "Were they really that stupid?"

"Yes." Eggman deadpanned. "That's why I scrapped them."

"It should not be surprising, given their creator." Tails stated.

"Definitely gonna have to out-source this one..." The doctor mumbled before an idea came to him. "I know!"

The scene changed to somewhere outside now. Amy was standing with a clipboard and pencil in hand.

"Oh no..." Amy knew what was coming. Her other self was about to be taken away from the other Sonic! No! She should fight to stay by his side. And plus, being with Eggman was just plain gross.

The doctor ran his hand down his face. "Of course he would resort to her..." Why was he trying so hard for something so unimportant?

She checked off on the paper as she talked. "My summer themed cushions with floral upholstery that compliments each guests' natural coloring are ready, the ice sculpture has melted just enough to hide the carving marks..." Said sculpture was sparkling in the sun on a decorated table.

"And I dug a trench around the picnic table and filled it with broken glass," Sticks said while holding a shovel, satisfied with her work.

"Does she want cuts? Because that's how you get cuts." Tails worried about the badger's common sense. Who was she protecting the table from? Themselves? Heck, she had yelled at her shadow before, so he shouldn't expect anything less from her at this point.

Amy blinked. "I...might've used rose petals, but we'll go with it." She glanced over to the side and shouted. "Sonic! How are you doing on those fruit drinks?"

There was a pile of untouched fruit on a rock with flies circling it, and Sonic was snoring on a beach chair.

Amy deeply frowned. Men these days!

Amy sighed. "Why am I not surprised?" She then shifted her attention to something else. "Tails! Where's the soothing music?"

"Right here!" The fox was sitting on the porch of Sonic's shack with a music control panel in front of him. "But I thought it would be better if I gave it a little boost." He flipped a switch on the panel, and loud music blasted out of the speakers, annoying everyone. A large leaf loosened from a nearby tree and landed on Amy's head.

Annoyance was radiating off the pinkette in waves as she threw the leaf away. "Knuckles? Are my grilled pheasants ready?"

Knuckles faced her with a frown. "Not now, Amy. I'm busy." He held up a hand to reveal that he was using one of the raw pheasants as a puppet. The echidna changed his voice as if the plucked bird was talking. "Oh please don't cook me, Knuckles." The red anthro lowered his voice as he showed that his other hand was covered with raw fowl as well. "Today turned out a lot different than I expected."

The echidna groaned and pitied those raw hunks of meat. "How many times has he hit his head...?"

"Too many." Sonic chuckled. "I wasn't asking you."

Amy was obviously upset as she turned to the badger. "Sticks, I don't know why I go out of my way to make things nice for these guys."

"Yeah...they all are kinda acting like jerks, except for my double." Tails concluded. "He just uh..." "Miscalculated?" Mila guessed. "Yeah. Thanks."

"You...deserve better." The girls turned toward the new voice, who belonged to Eggman. He was standing on the porch. "I mean, this table!" He pointed to the wooden furniture. "It should be hanging in a museum!"

"That is a ridiculous statement." Neera stated. "There are so many flaws in this that it's uncanny." Gong added.

Sticks gasped in alarm before snatching an oyster shell of the table and breaking it on the ground, holding the jagged end as a weapon. "That villain! Just give me the signal Amy, and I'll clam him!" As she said this, Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails ran to the badger's side, ready to fight as well.

Eggman held his hands up. "Don't let the fact that I constantly try to destroy you lead you to believe that I am here to destroy you. I just want to hire Amy to redo my lair."

"Say no!" Amy pleaded, "He's evil and he smells! Don't go!"

All of the gang except for Amy laugh. Instead, the pinkette looked flattered.

Annnndddd there went common sense. Straight out of the window. Amy slumped in her seat, disappointed in her double.

Sonic scoffed. "Come on, Amy. You're not buying this."

Amy rounded on him, angry. "Is it so hard to believe Eggman might actually respect my talents?"

"It's actually harder to believe that you think he does..." The pinkette muttered.

"Well yeah." Sonic thought about what he said and tried to mend it. "Wait, that came out wrong."

"Nope, it's too late." Sonic commented, "Good job other me!"

"'Best at...being a terrible boyfriend'?"

Sonic winced.

Amy stared blankly at him before smiling at Eggman. "I accept."

Her friends gaped at her in shock.

"Don't go with Eggbreath!" Sonic attempted to convince her as she made her way toward the human.

"You can't trust him!" Tails added. "He's evil!"

"He needs to yell that louder because the other Amy obviously can't hear him." Knuckles groused, wondering why that pinkette hadn't learned from previous experiences. The other Eggman – and their own, to some degree – was inept, sure, but he was still bad.

Amy peered over her shoulder and retorted, "I can take care of myself ."

"If there is trouble, the doctor would be easy to defeat. He always is." Sonic stated.

Eggman held his head in his hands. This was his life now. Surrounded by endless ridiculing. He wouldn't wish this on his worst enemy...or wait, yes he would mainly because that rodent was the source of his torment.

"Splendid!" Eggman cheered as she stood in front of him. "My lair awaits. After you!" He gestured in the direction of his base.

Knuckles held up one of his meat puppets again. He lowered his voice once more. "Don't look at me, I didn't use her lovingly prepared meal as a puppet."

Knuckles was just going to ignore that to keep his sanity. "They're just going to let her go? Just like that?" Lilac was shocked.

"Couldn't they at least...I dunno...held her back or something!" Mila suggested.

"They wouldn't have to do anything because I wouldn't go! I mean, I like decorating as much as the next girl, but not enough to risk life and love!" Amy exclaimed.

Sonic felt like sliding onto the floor in exasperation again. "Ames, can't you stop with-"

"Nope!"

The speedster inwardly sighed.

The human and pink hedgehog were strolling down a hallway with Orbot and Cubot trailing them. "So, where do you wanna start?" Amy asked.

"You have total creative freedom. Make this lair so fantastic that they'll want to put it on the cover! Then I'll say...'no'." Eggman laughed evilly.

Amy tilted her head. "Why?"

The doctor petted his mustache. "Sorry. Old habits are hard to break."

"So that's why you lose all the time!" Sonic snapped his fingers at the man that was trying so hard to block him out, but the rodent was too loud. "I have a habit of winning, and you have a habit of losing!"

"And he has a habit of building inadequate machines," Torque said.

"And he has a habit of revealing his plans!"

"And he as a habit of creating terrible schemes."

Would you two shut and watch the damn show?!" He didn't care about Lilac warning him about language. He just wanted this to be over with.

Another montage began. Amy placed a blue pillow in the center of a couch; however, Eggman came over after she left and moved it slightly to the right.

Then, Orbot and Cubot were painting a wall blue while Eggman and Amy observed.

The doctor hummed. "It's great, but...hm... I'm not sure about the color." He put his hands on his hips. "It just doesn't say 'contemporary upbeat take on evil.'"

Amy, picking up a bucket of paint, read the label. "The color is called 'contemporary upbeat take on evil...blue.'"

Tails fought to disregard that negative feeling. "I still don't understand why she's working for him."

"Eggman's doing it to get on a magazine cover right?" Amy was attempting to find the positive in this terrible situation. "She could possibly become famous because of her work!"

"Or infamous because she's helping out a guy that terrorizes people on a daily basis." Knuckles pointed out.

"Yeah...or that."

Later, the female hedgehog walked past that same couch from before. She noticed that the pillow had been moved, so she returned it to its proper place and left.

Eggman entered a large room and his eyes widened at the sight of the red plaid curtains. "Too much plaid?"

Orbot and Cubot were wrapped in the red stuff. The former agreed. "Maybe a little."

Elsewhere, Amy was taking down a picture of Eggman in a cape only to replace it with a photo of unicorns.

The human approached her from behind and frowned in confusion.

"Okay that's a little weird, even for her." Lilac furrowed his brow. "And Eggman's just gonna leave that there?"

"He's probably so shocked that he doesn't know what to do." Mila provided.

Then, Amy was sprinkling rose petals all over the floor with an unsure Eggman watching on. After finishing, she pressed a button on the wall that activated a laser show.

Eggman's tone was dubious. "Uh...the rose petals and laser light show add a certain regal flair, but...do we really need that ?" He pointed over to Orbot and Cubot, who had angel wings and were being spun in the air by a rotating sphere attached to the ceiling.

"I've never felt so free!" Cubot shouted.

"She can put together light shows? Not gonna lie, that's pretty awesome." Carol said.

Eggman passed that couch with the pillow again and noticed that the blue cushion had been moved. Instead of fixing it, he shot it with a laser. The pillow was now burnt to a crisp.

Knuckles' lips twitched upwards. "That's one way to do it."

The robots – still clad in angel wings – were spreading rose petals around when the doorbell rang.

Eggman perked up. "It's him!"

The front doors opened to reveal the assistant from before, expression unreadable.

"Hello!" The doctor greeted enthusiastically. "What a surprise!" He then slumped in disappointment when the rodent strolled by without saying anything.

The trio were now looking up at the laser show with Orbot and Cubot spinning around. The assistant seemed perplexed for a moment before walking off.

Amy didn't blame him. The robots were probably a bit too much.

In the room with the plaid curtains, the magazine worker glanced around before focusing on the picture of the colorful unicorns.

Eggman, downtrodden, whispered down to Amy, "He hates it. I knew those unicorns were too much!" He straightened up and raised his voice. "I can explain! The one to blame-"

The assistant turned around. "I love it."

"He can't be serious." Spade deadpanned.

"Y'know, with how this show's gone..." Sonic flipped a hand. "I'm not even surprised." Shadow mumbled.

The human slid in front of Amy, gesturing to himself. "Is me! Yes, I really outdid myself, didn't I?"

"What?" the pinkette unhappily yelled. "It was my design!"

"Under my supervision," Eggman snapped back.

Amy batted back with, "And my execution!"

He got in her face. "With my direction!"

"This is when things start going downhill..." Tails trailed off, not wanting that Amy – no matter how uh...interesting she was – to get hurt.

"I just have one note," the capped rodent interjected.

Orbot dropped down from the ceiling on a string. "A forty-hour work week for the cherubs?"

Eggman promptly grabbed the bot and used the string attaching him to the ceiling to fling Orbot away.

The assistant went on like that didn't happen. "Danger up the entryway a little, and who knows? You might make the cover." He aimed for the exit. "I'll be back tomorrow with the photographer."

Amy tapped her chin in thought. "Does he want to get hurt when he comes back? Because that's basically what he's asking for."

After he left, Eggman exclaimed, "Did you hear that? The cover!"

Amy was done with all of this. "Great. Have fun supervising yourself! I'm out of here!" She took a few steps away, but Eggman pressed a button on a remote, dropping a cage around her. She gasped before glaring at him. "Really?"

"What? Did she really expect to just walk out of there?" Spade questioned. "He's a fool, but he's still a villain." Shadow added.

"What did you expect? I'm a supervillain!" Eggman maliciously smirked.

"A stupid one."

"Now, once you're finished dangering up the entryway to my lab, you might want to put in an evil screening room." Amy's eyes widened. "Cheer up! At least I appreciate you, unlike your so-called friends!"

Tails pursed his lips. "Enslavement and appreciation don't mean the same thing..."

"I don't think he cares." Knuckles drawled out.

The scene changed, and now it was nighttime. The rest of the gang were sitting at a table on the beach, which was holding a horribly burnt pheasant.

Sonic couldn't be mad. "That's...an accurate representation." He didn't know the first thing about cooking anything other than chili dogs, Tails hadn't touched anything that big and fancy yet, he doubted Knuckles had even used a stove, and Sticks...he was sure that she would be fine with eating the thing raw.

"Ugh..." Knuckles sighed. "Burned food just doesn't taste the same without Amy."

Tails gave him a side glance. "Knuckles, you're eating a napkin."

The echidna looked down at the rolled up napkin in his grip, which had the top half bitten off. "Yeah, I knew that." He took another bite out of it.

"Uhhh..." "Don't question it, Mila."

"Knuckles is right," Sonic admitted.

"What?!" Tails questioned incredulously.

"Not about the napkin eating!" He clarified. "About Amy. We need to make sure she's okay."

"Took him long enough!" Sonic huffed. "It's nighttime! She's been there for way too long!"

Tails nodded. "Yeah! We would've gone after her within the first hour!"

Amy smiled broadly. "I'm so lucky to have such great friends!" She chirped before hugging the kid fox tightly. Tails, though flattered, squirmed in her grip to no avail. At Eggman's lair, the azure hedgehog knocked on the metal doors and waited. No one came for the longest, so he was going to knock again. However, Eggman appeared before he could.

"Yes?" The scientist questioned with a smug look on his face.

"We came to get Amy. Is she done yet?" Sonic demanded.

"Amy has decided to become my full-time decorator," Eggman said. "I'm afraid that she doesn't want anything to do with her old friends." The door slammed shut in their faces.

"Wow..." Knuckles scratched his head in confusion. "Who'd thought that Amy would abandon us?"

"Can someone give him a muzzle?" Knuckles was tired of hearing his twin's voice. "Please?"

"I don't think she did..." Sonic speculated before grinning. "Come on, we got to find a way into this lair."

"Make a dramatic entry!" Sonic advised, now excited. "Destroy the door!" Lilac looked at him. "You're getting too excited, Sonic."

Inside of said base, Amy was laying down in her cage, realizing the mess she was in. Then, she smelled something foul.

"Ew." She frowned. "What is that smell?"

The pinkette flinched when a wall near her was destroyed, revealing Sonic – with Amy's hammer – Tails, Knuckles, and Sticks who were all covered in a strange liquid.

"It's us!" Knuckles pumped a fist. "We snuck in through a sewer pipe!"

Sonic winced. "Or...do that." He has done many things, but he tended to avoid wallowing through peoples'...wastes. Which he assumed would be common knowledge, but...guess he was wrong.

"You guys couldn't find another way." Torque asked. Tails shook his head. "Probably not. Eggman has booby-traps."

Amy was standing up now with her arms crossed. She spoke up. "I was wondering how long it would take for you guys to miss me."

Sonic approached her with her weapon of choice. His features were soft. "We may have a hard time saying it, Amy, but...well, you know."

She smiled understandably at him. "Yeah, I know."

"She knows the power of friendship!" Sonic hastily exclaimed. Was that dreaded topic going to be mentioned every freaking episode?

Amy's happy grin was all-knowing. "How romantic." Neera rolled her eyes. "How cheesy." Amy really wanted to hammer this panda in the face. No, scratch that. She wanted to punch her.

Tails ran over and pressed a button on the side of the cage, deactivating its laser bars.

"There's no way we're going out the way we came in..." Sonic held out the hammer for Amy to take. "Care to do the honors?" She took it without hesitation and nodded with determination.

Amy went all starry eyed, and Sonic was just glad that she wasn't pulling any stunts.

In another room, Eggman was drinking some tea at his desk. He nearly choked on it when his door was knocked down forcefully.

Team Sonic was standing at the doorway. Amy readied her piko-piko. "Sorry about the door." She didn't look apologetic at all. "Oh, and I quit."

Eggman growled. "No one quits my employ unless I dismantle them first!"

Cubot, laying in pieces on the floor, shouted, "It's true!"

Tails wondered who kept putting those robots back together, because it didn't seem like the other Eggman would go out of his way to constantly do it...like every five minutes.

The doctor summoned his attack robots with a swipe of a finger on his touchscreen desk. A horde of them charged into the room.

Sonic smirked at Amy. "After you."

The pinkette dreamily sighed. "Such chivalry!"

"Chivalry isn't just for couples!" Sonic tried to explain, but Amy completely blocked him out.

The pinkette charged forward and took out a Motobug with her hammer. Knuckles then threw a crab robot attacking Tails into a wall. A Bee bot fired at Sonic, but his speed let him dodge all of the lasers. He spin dashed a Motobug trailing Tails, and Amy finished it off with a swing of her trusted weapon.

Sticks destroyed the aforementioned Bee bot with her boomerang as a crab bot creeped up behind a distracted Sonic. Tails ended that robot's artificial life by smashing it with the unicorn painting.

Team Sonic share a victorious look while Eggman and his helper robots attempted to flee.

"Yet another defeat. Which is similar to-"

Eggman groaned. "Furball, can you not talk for five minutes?" That was all he needed. Five minutes of peaceful bliss.

However, they were stopped when the assistant and the photographer – an unimpressed female aardvark – appeared.

Eggman stuttered over his words. "I-I um...you're early!"

"Apparently," the woman replied flatly as she surveyed the scene. She swiftly turned to her speechless assistant and uttered, "You're fired," before leaving."

"Poor guy," Amy uttered, coming out of her romance induced dream state. It wasn't his fault that Eggman had destructive enemies.

Orbot was suddenly next to him, holding out tickets. "Ride the roller coaster. That always cheers me up." The former assistant took the tickets, still in shock about what just happened.

Eggman was pleading with the photographer who wasn't amused at all. "W-Wait, please!" He followed after her as she walked to the exit. "Forget the cover! How about a smaller spread? A couple pages? A page! A snapshot buried behind some cleaning product ads!"

Pathetic, Eggman thought to himself. He wouldn't dare say it out loud, for he could imagine the exact words Sonic would respond to.

Amy and Sonic watched them go before the former said, "Would've been nice to see my designs featured in a magazine." She shifted her attention to the blue hero. "Oh well, maybe some day."

"I don't know about a magazine spread, but I do know a shack you can redecorate." Sonic offered.

"Really?" Amy's mood brightened. "I've been wanting to fix that place up for years! Oh Sonic, it'll be amazing!" She gushed.

"Just a few things." Sonic put a hand on his hip. "My coconut husk collection is off limits – too many memories – and no washing, painting, plastering, or cleaning." He turned to leave, and the rest of his friends did too. "But other than that, you have total creative freedom."

Amy inhaled deeply to squeal, but Sonic held a hand up. "No! Nope! None of that! Keep that to yourself, Ames!" And she did, inwardly dancing about how cute those two on the screen were.

Lucy smiled at the two. "Ready for the next video?"

"Yes!" Amy squealed.

"No!" Sonic pleaded.

"Why not, Sonic?"

"Because, we should take a break."

"Sorry, Sonic. Only 7 episodes to go and then you'll take a break." Theo reminded sonic

Sonic groaned.

Lucy pressed the button to the next episode.