How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying

"How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying" is the sixteenth episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It first aired on 21 January 2015 in France and on 7 March 2015 in the United States.

Synopsis
When a berry picking machine created by Tails goes nuts and defoliates an orchard, a group of evil scientists thinks Tails is one of them and inducts him into their evil organization. Tails, not realizing their evil purposes, joins the group.

Characters

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Sticks the Badger
 * Doctor Eggman
 * Orbot
 * Cubot
 * Lightning Bolt Society
 * Dave the Intern
 * Willy Walrus
 * Weasel Bandit

Plot
On an orchard on Bygone Island, Sticks is picking beige berries to make a pie for the pie festival. While Sticks walks around with her paranoid scruples, Tails drops by in his hover cart and sees Sticks at work. Noticing the scale of this, Tails wants to help and heads for his workshop, where he builds a large berry picking machine. As Tails gets Sonic to charge its energy source with a generator (with limited success), Sonic doubts Sticks will like this, but Tails believes otherwise.

Once finished, Tails brings the machine to the orchard, but it quickly goes nuts and defoliates everything, much to Sticks' frustration. Sonic, Knuckles and Amy then arrive to survey the destruction just as one person (disguise as a tree) flees the scene. This guys brings the news of the destruction of the orchard to three cloaked figures who is under the impression Tails is evil and that their organization could use a mind like his.

Back at the orchard, Tails has been forced to replant the trees by Sticks, which makes him miss the festival. There, he meets the hooded figures who invites him into the Lightning Bolt Society. While Tails wants to go despite never hearing of them, he still has to replant the orchard, but one of the hooded figures uses a technological gun to plant the seeds for him. With his work done, Tails accept their offer. Meanwhile in Dr. Eggman, Eggman, Orbot and Cubot get a status update from the Lightning Bolt Society in the form of a pop-up, announcing Tails' induction. While Eggman thinks little of this group since they always scavenging his trash, he does not like that they could be working with Sonic and leaves to stop them.

At the orchard, Sonic, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks return from the pie festival which Sticks won, just as the planted seeds grow into mutant flowers. Amidst the chaos, the group find Tails' invitation to the Lightning Bolt Society, so Sonic and Amy head out to find Tails while Knuckles and Sticks keeps the plants at bay. At the Lightning Bolt's clubhouse, Tails is getting himself acquainted with the other members, some of which are revealed to be Dave the Intern, Willy Walrus and a Weasel Bandit. Meanwhile, on the outside, Sonic and Amy argue over how to break into the club. Back inside, Willy welcomes Tails to the club and has him initiated as their new leader. However, when Tails hears their "evil" plan to take control of all fruit stands in the Village and beyond, he realizes they are crooks and admits he is not evil, shocking everyone present.

No sooner, Sonic, Amy and Eggman break into the club at the same time, each party thinking the other is here to team up with the Lightning Bolts. Once all is clear, Eggman begrudgingly commands the Lightning Bolts to attack Sonic, but due to their incompetence, they choose food as weapons which is quickly depleted. Sonic and Eggman get ready to fight, but the Lightning Bolt Society swarms Eggman, asking him for his autograph, so Sonic and his friends escape. They then return to the orchard, where Tails takes out the mutant plants with his berry picking machine and Tails and Sticks make up, though Sticks still wants him to replant the orchard. Meanwhile, Dave is back at Meh Burger, making a burger for himself with the Mutant Seed Gun.

Continuity

 * Dave the Intern, from Aim Low, returns.
 * Willy Walrus, from Dude, Where's my Eggman?, returns.
 * One of the Weasel Bandits from Guilt Tripping returns.

Trivia

 * This episode was originally listed as "How to Succeed in Evil".
 * The pedal-powered generator used by Sonic to power up Tails' ion matrix is the same used to power up Dr. Eggman's fan in "Double Doomsday".
 * The Eggman logo transition was done in similar style to the 1966 Batman TV series.