Eggheads

"Eggheads" is the eighth episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It aired on December 6, 2014.

Synopsis
Eggman turns Amy, Sticks, Tails, and Knuckles into evil clones of himself using a batch of evil cookies that he made which contain his DNA. After hearing about this from Orbot and Cubot, Sonic must figure out how to restore his friends even as they attack him.

Characters

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Sticks the Badger
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Orbot
 * Cubot

Plot
During a stormy night in the laboratory of his lair, Dr. Eggman is cooking up his perhaps most diabolical scheme yet. Orbot and Cubot stand by in terror and watches as Eggman picks out one of his mustache hairs and places it in a large machine. With a loud "ping", Eggman's creation is done, which the doctor reveals to his minions is cookies. Orbot is dumbfounded over the fact that that is what Eggman was making, but Eggman assures him that they are "evil cookies": in truth, these cookies contain Eggman's DNA and anyone who eats them will become a clone of him.

During the day later on, one of Eggman's robots places a basket of the doctor's cookies at Sonic's shack. Sonic soon finds the cookies but before he can eat one, he gets a message from Tails who needs his help stopping his own rampaging vacuum-robot. Sonic therefore leaves the cookies behind, much to Eggman's frustration who is spying on him.

While Sonic is away helping Tails stop his rogue robot, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks come by Sonic's shack one by one and fall under the effects of the cookie but eating it, which only frustrates Eggman more. When Sonic returns to his shack with Tails, only one cookie is left. Sonic tries to eat it, but Tails convinces him to let him have it as he likes cookies with chocolate chunks. This saves Sonic from being affected by the cookie but it instead affects Tails.

Later at Eggman's lair, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks have gathered there (each having grown a mustache like Eggman's) where they now are evil geniuses and plot Sonic's destruction. Though that was not planned for, Eggman is delighted as he now has four evil geniuses under his command. As they lack experience, Eggman decides to give them a crash-course in villainy. Eggman then begins tutoring Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks in berating their underlings, surveillance of their subjects, proper mustache care, lesson numbering, and target practice with laser guns. Orbot and Cubot, however, cannot handle suffering under so many evil geniuses so they find Sonic and tell him on Eggman because of what has transpired.

Inside his lair, Eggman is holding exams for his new allies where the topic is how to capture Sonic. Just then, Sonic breaks in and Eggman orders Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks to attack him. Sonic however, does not want to fight back against his friends and tries to talk them out of it but without success. As Sonic is cornered by his friends and robots alike, Eggman proclaims that he has finally captured Sonic. However, Amy, Tails, Sticks and Knuckles quickly begin to argue over who deserves that honor which breaks down into an all-out brawl.

Sonic and Eggman take cover from the fighting and Sonic gets an idea after seeing Eggman's evil cookie-making machine. Blasting his way over to the machine, Sonic makes a cookie with his own DNA which he feeds to an involuntary Eggman. Now turned blue and endowed with Sonic's heroism and powers, Eggman helps Sonic fight his evil friends and robots. Sonic then has Eggman hold them off while he runs back home to find hair from each of his friends that contain their original DNA which he brings back to the lair where he and Eggman make evil cookies from them. Sonic then has his friends eat their cookies, turning each of them back to their normal selves. The good Eggman now thinks that they will be working together from now on, but Team Sonic is not happy about that idea, saying that with Eggman on the team, there would be no evil villain to fight against, so Sticks feeds Eggman one of his own cookies, turning him back to his normal self.

Errors

 * In the scene where Sonic's friends first gathered at Eggman's lair to plot Sonic's destruction, Knuckles iris' were darkened to near black during his second shot.

Trivia

 * The weightlifting gear Sonic retrieved Knuckles' DNA from is the same one seen in "Buster".