Back at home, Amy was checking the mailbox outside her pink home. She received some junk mail, a bill, and a big postcard from Sonic and the team. She opened up the big envelope and pulled out a grand poster of the Super Hyper Dudes with each signature from each member; Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Silver, and Shadow. There was also a message saying that Sonic and the Super Hyper Dudes were doing alright.
Amy sighed in gladness. "Sonic..." She said. "I miss you already! Especially you boys!" She hugged her poster close to her chest, wishing her flame the best of luck.
Meanwhile back at Las Vegas, the Super Hyper Dudes were in their dressing rooms, getting ready for a special show. The make-up artists were powdering their faces, (making them cough) and dressing them. "Gentlemen, five minutes and you're on," Ivorybone informed.
"Man, I can't believe that we are here in Viva Las Vegas, the Entertainment Capital of the World!" Sonic said.
"I can't believe we're going to be on live at the Coliseum at the Caesar's Palace!" Knuckles added. "Rouge and the girls back home are surely going to thrilled when they see us on the boob tube."
"That reminds me, I better log on to video mail and check up on Blaze," Silver said, turning on his laptop computer. He was about to log on when their manager Ivorybone came into the room. "Boys, it's time."
The boys stood up from their chairs. "Just a second, sir. I just need to send Blaze a quick message," Silver said, jotting on the keyboards. "I haven't see her in a while and I promised that I will write to her."
Ivorybone pulled the white hedgehog from the laptop and and dragged him to the door. "You can talk to your girlfriend later, old boy," he said firmly. "You got on job to do!"
"But I-" Silver started to protest.
"NOW!" Ivorybone cut him off.
Silver sighed in dismay. "Yes, sir!" He murmured. Their boss would not let his clients call, IM, or even leave one message to their girlfriends and friends. He seemed to be more interested in business than the boys' demands.
Meanwhile, Rouge, Blaze, and Cream were gathered around at Amy's living room for a sleepover. They were planning on watching television together, to see what's on the news tonight.
Blaze sat at the computer desk, waiting for Silver to IM her. So far, she had nothing in her inbox. "That's weird, Silver was supposed to drop me a line sometime, but so far nothing." She said. "He said he would." She clenched her fist. "Argh! I bet he forgot! He's probably too busy lollygagging with his friends!"
"Relax, Blaze," Cream said. "I'm sure he will write anytime soon. He's probably so busy that he lost track of things. I bet he's thinking about you right now just like Tails is thinking of me."
"I hope you're right, Cream," Blaze said, rotating in her office chair. "Otherwise..." She looked back at the laptop screen again. She checked her empty inbox again and sighed disappointedly. I feared this would happen. She thought.
"Come on, Blaze, maybe we'll see our boys tonight on 'What's Hot in Las Vegas?'," Rouge said. "It's starting right now. Come on!" Rouge went into the living room. Blaze closed her laptop and joined the rest of the girls in the den to watch their favorite television program, What's Hot in Las Vegas.
"Hey look, the boys are on right now!" Cream said. "Hi, Tails!" She waved to the screen.
"Coming up on 'What's Hot in Las Vegas', we have the hottest stars in the world, including Felina Lo Gato, Mr. Kazoo, the Adding Adders, and of course, everybody's favorite boy band, the Super Hyper Dudes! Coming up next!" The show hostess reported.
"Hee hee hee! I can't wait to see Sonic again!" Amy said happily. "I bet four weeks of being away from me has been hard for him!"
"Or pleasing!" Rouge said. "He has been trying to get away from you!" She laid on the floor on her stomach, eating popcorn.
"You be quiet!" Amy retorted and threw a pillow at the white bat. They both had pillow fights until Cream shushed them quiet. "Quiet, the show's starting! The boys are on TV! Hee hee hee!" She and the girls gathered around and watched their boyfriends sing live at the Coliseum.
The Super Hyper Dudes grooved on the purple stage as they sang their concert song. "This is for our girlfriends! We're showing them that we miss them!" They sang their message. "Sorry that I didn't call you, baby! But my love, I promise that I will tell you everything why! Baby, I love you, I miss you! I'll be home soon! Baby, wait for me!"
"If there is no God, I'll have no woman," Shadow soloed in alto. "And if no woman, I am nothing."
The girls smiled as they received the heartwarming message song to their hearts and looked forward to the return of their loved ones.
The boys finished song and took a bow to the applauding audience. One guy whistled. "Thank you!" The boys said together.
"You boys rock!" A guy said.
"We love you!"
"Enough about the Super Hyper Dudes, bring on the showgirls!" A man from the back table called.
"Yeah! Bring on the girls!"
"Girls?" Tails repeated.
"What girls?" Silver asked.
"And now, here comes the Harem Honeys now!" The announcer spoke.
A thick line of sexy female performers in exotic costumes emerged from the curtains and danced their way on stage, pushing the Super Hyper Dudes from the spotlight. "Hey!" Sonic protested. The girls gasped. The dancing cheetah and rabbit woman kicked their legs up in the air as they show off in the chorus line. The men in the audience wolf-whistled as they enjoyed the entertainment. The Super Hyper Dudes watched them from aside. In the thick crowd, Eggman's henchbots, Cubot and Orbot watched the sassy girls on stage. They whooped and whistled on stage.
"Oh brother!" Blaze commented at home.
"They're stealing the spotlight!" Cream cried.
"How dare they?!" Amy shrilled.
"Those dumb fat ugly skirts!" Rouge commented. "They're never be as beautiful as me, and my Knuckie Poo knows that!"
Back on the theater platform, the Super Hyper Dudes were getting gaga over the showgirls. "Hubba hubba!" Knuckles said, drooling.
"I'd like a taste of that!" Silver said.
"Shut up!" Shadow whacked him on the head. "Remember Blaze!"
"Ouch!" Silver rubbed his head.
The showgirls stood in line on the edge of the audience. One girl waved her finger at the boys' direction, saying "come here".
"Uh, guys? I think they want us to dance with them," Sonic said.
"Should we? What about our girls back home?" Knuckles asked.
"What about them? It's just some fun! It's only backup dancers!" Silver said, grinning. "It's not hurting anyone!" He rushed on stage and danced with the dancing ladies. Blaze gasped when she saw her boyfriend with the girls.
"Come on, let's go!" Tails and the others joined the girls in the chorus line. Sonic was last one standing. "I don't know about this..." He said. He looked at Ivorybone who was standing nearby. He urged him to go ahead, it's for publicity.
"Well...What the hey! Wait up, guys!" Sonic ran off and joined the pyramid top of the bunny girls. Amy gasped in shock. The girls could not believe what they are seeing. The Super Hyper Dudes were sharing a spotlight with a cast full of girls, which made Amy, Cream, Blaze, and Rouge very jealous.
"I can't believe this!" Rouge said in dismay.
"Of all the nerve!" Amy shrieked angrily. She crushed a soda can in her hand.
"Miles Prowler, you're in big trouble!" Cream growled, she nearly squeezed the life out of her Chao friend.
"Silver is going to have a lot of explaining to do!" Blaze's hand is lit with enraged flames.
The Super Hyper Dudes continued to exotically dance with the ladies, having a blast of their lives, except for Shadow just stoically went allow with the flow. At the near end of the number, the showgirls decided to give the boy band members a kiss, much to the girls' anger.
While the people were drawn to the show, Charles secretly vacuumed all the wallets, money, watches, and jewelry from the pockets and purses. He also swiped the women's diamond earrings and necklaces without them detecting. Cubot and Orbot were so absorbed into the show, they didn't notice of what was happening.
"Look at those babes, dude!" Cubot said. "Aren't they great?"
"Yes, I wish I could be up with them!" Orbot said. "Lucky boys!"
The Super Hyper Dudes finished their numbers and posed with the prong cast of lovely ladies and dancers. The crowd went wild. Ivorybone clapped in pride. "Good work, lads!" He recommended. "Excellent! Jolly good show!" A young man in concierge clothing presented him a box of gold. "Yeah, yeah, put it at mailbox with the other gifts! Thank you!" Ivorybone said. The teenaged complied and concierge went to the post office room where it was loaded with fan gifts to the boys.
"Thank you, thank you all!" Sonic grinned and waved to the audience. He and the band showed off more for the young ladies who swooned. The girls sat at the television set, arms folded and fuming. They not very pleased that their boyfriends are working with a lot of females, not to mention get more attention from millions of young teenaged girls. The famous Super Hyper Dudes are about to be in the doghouse with them.
After the show, the boys returned to the Bellagio Hotel and entered the elevator where again, are surrounded by the press. "Hey, over here!"
"You put up a great show!"
"How was it?"
"How did it feel like to be overrun by a mob of girls?"
"Eh, it's okay," Sonic answered. "We love the attention, but the only girl I truly love is Amy Rose, my delicate little flower!" He winked at the TV camera.
"Hmph! Now he refers to me now!" Amy turned her back. She is still piqued about her boyfriend kissing another girl.
"And I'm staying loyal to my girl, Rouge!" Knuckles said.
"Tsk! Yeah, right!" Rouge scoffed.
"I'm thinking about you, Cream!" Tails waved to the camera.
"Hmph!" Cream turned her head away, and folded her arms.
"Hey, Blaze! How you doing, girl?" Silver smiled at the camera.
"Fine, except that you haven't written me a single letter and I was kept hanging, you selfish, bigheaded jerk!" Blaze retaliated angrily and threw a bowl of tapioca at the television screen. Cheese licked off the mess.
DING! The elevator stopped at the 12th floor, a human man with a kid wearing a pirate hat and sword entered. "Hey, look it's the Super Hyper Dudes, son," the man said. "Say hi to them!"
The boy looked up a Shadow. "Argh! I'm a pirate, matey!" He growled playfully, taking out his sword.
"Good for you, kid!" Shadow said callously. Suddenly, the pirate kid poked him in the back quills. Shadow gasped in pain and glared at the human kid.
"Argh! You get to be me first hostage!" The kid growled.
"Well, isn't that cute?" Shadow smirked in half amusement. The kid poked at him again. His teammates and press crew kept eyes on them, anticipating of what might happen.
"Hey, kid do you mind?" Shadow turned around. "It's not nice to poke someone with a plastic sword, especially at the Ultimate Lifeform?"
"Hey, leave my kid alone!" The father stepped in. "He can poke whoever he wants! Even the 'Ultimate Ones'! Keep poking, sonny!"
The pirate kid proceeded his jabbing at the Ultimate Lifeform. Shadow growled in annoyance. "Let it go, Shadow. Don't lose your cool!" Sonic advised.
"Walk the plank! Walk the plank!" The boy screamed.
Shadow felt provoked. An angry vein appeared in his forehead. "Okay, fine," he said coolly. He snatched the sword from the kid and melted it with his Chaos energy. Sonic and the gang gasped in shock. "Here you go!" Shadow gave the hilt back to the stunned kid. "Consider that an autograph from me!" He folded his arms.
"Ah man, Shadow!" Tails cried.
The pirate boy stared at his wrecked toy and was about to have a tantrum. The father glared at the black hedgehog face-to-face. "You worm! You just wrecked my son's toy!"
"Yeah, and I'm darn proud of it!" Shadow smirked.
"You better apologize to my kid right now!" The father demanded.
"Ha! The Ultimate Lifeform never apologizes!" Shadow retorted.
"Shadow..." Sonic warned.
"I WANT A NEW TOY!" The bratty son wailed. He grabbed the hedgehog's leg fur. "YOU GET ME MY SWORD OR I'LL SCREAM AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS!"
Shadow's lips tightened. "You know, I'm not supposed to harm children," he said softly. "So...I'LL HIT YOUR DAD INSTEAD!" He roared and seized the boy's father by the collar, and shook him violently. The human man exclaimed in fright as his bratty little boy watched in shock. Shadow's band mates stepped in and tried to break up the fight. "Shadow, calm down!" Sonic commanded, trying to grab his ally. "STOP IT!"
The cameraman caught everything on tape. The girls gasped as they witnessed the brawl in the elevator. "Oh my gosh!" Rouge exclaimed.
At the G.U.N. Headquarters, the soldiers also saw that their comrade assaulted a citizen on the wide screen television. "Whoa! You see that! Shadow took down a guy!"
"I always knew that he would eventually snap one day." Jonathan said.
"Who wants to make wagers?" The soldiers clamped around, making bet about Shadow will caving in to stress or not.
The commander was aghast and turned his head away in disgust. "Oh, Shadow!"
"I TOLD YOU POLITELY TO CUT UT OUT!" Shadow shouted like a maniac. "AND NOW I'M GONNA PULVERIZE YOU! And I tell ONE thing-"
Through the elevator camera, Charles observed the whole thing in the surveillance room. "Oh, this should be scrumptious!" He said. He is tending to get some juicy gossip about the celebrities.
The elevator doors opened when it reached the first floor. Inside, Shadow was still throttling the obnoxious man and the boy band and guests were still clamoring. Then suddenly, there was a flash of light. It was a cameraman from a sleazy magazine. The Super Hyper Dudes looked up and blinked as they were caught by surprise.
Meanwhile outside the Bellagio Hotel, Eggman was poking at the can fire with a stick, making it bigger. He was grumbling about something. "Two whole days and I still haven't seen hide nor sign of the Super Hyper Dudes and it's getting to be a real pain in the egg! What are those blockheads up to? And when is that mammoth of a man going to present them that Chaos Emerald?" He said out loud. "I'm telling you something is up! I just can't figure out what!" He thought deeply as he combed his mustache. He then saw a video of Shadow straggling the rude man in the elevator on the news bulletin. "Oh my, that's new!" He said. He looked up in the night sky. "I wonder how my henchbots are doing?"
Cubot and Orbot we're fluttering around in the building until they came across a suite window of the top floor. They found Sonic and the gang sitting around on the carpet, contacting their girlfriends though laptop.
"Hello, Amy?" Sonic called.
Amy appeared on the video camera. "Oh, it's you, Sonic." She said coldly.
Sonic chuckled uneasily. "Uh...did you, um, see the show today?"
"Yeah, I saw the show," Amy replied icily. "We all did." She referred to Cream, Blaze, and Rouge behind her.
"Didn't you like the song?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, we liked the song," Cream answered coolly. "It was great!"
"Uh, is there something wrong?" Knuckles asked.
"Well...Yes!" Rouge snapped. "You failed to mention that you were going to featuring the girl up on stage!"
The boys looked at each other in confusion. "What?" They asked innocently.
"Don't give us that!" Amy snapped. "We saw you on TV! We saw you dancing with those vixens!"
"How could you?" Rouge cried.
"Girls, Amy! They're just backup dancers!" Sonic explained. "It was for publicity! The kisses meant nothing!"
"Yeah right!" Amy turned her back to the camera.
"Didn't look like when you getting smoothies from those hotties!" Rouge said.
"Rouge..." Knuckles uttered.
"And as for Shadow..." Rouge turned to her Team Dark member. "The Commander saw the news and he is not very happy at all."
"Hey, it's not my fault." Shadow explained. "That impertinent human mortal should have kept his kid under control! He pushed me over the edge!"
"Again with the excuses!" Blaze chastised. "You know what I think? I liked you guys better when you weren't famous! When you're not big shots, but just a bunch of nobodies before!"
The boys gasped in shock and pain.
"Well, looks like we got a couple of haters, eh Tails?" Silver said bitterly.
"Totally!" Tails agreed.
"What was that?!" Blaze snarled.
"How dare you say something like that?" Cream rebutted angrily.
"I dare because I can!" Tails retaliated.
"And you know what? I can kiss whoever I want, whenever I want! Because I'm Knuckles!" The red echidna made himself perfectly clear.
"Oh no you won't!" Rouge retorted.
The argument raged on between the snooty boy band and the jaundiced girl pack raged on. The robots observed the squabble from the window. "Wow, this more interesting than talk shows," Cubot said.
"Indeed, who needs pay-per-view when there are real sitcoms like these?" Orbot said.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize there's a penalty for success!" Sonic shouted.
"Well, I never knew that you would turn out to be some self-centered, jerky big shot!" Amy snapped back.
"Well, if you don't like it, then take a hike!" Sonic returned coldly.
"Fine! Maybe I will!" Amy said angrily.
"And so will the rest of us!" Cream said.
"So long and good riddance!" Tails added angrily.
"Good luck with the rest of your trip!" Blaze flamed.
"Don't let the door hit you on the way out!" Silver retorted.
"Hmph!" Amy switched off the web camera, ending the heated argument. The boys sat there, feeling steamed from the spat.
Suddenly, their manager, Ivorybone came into suite. "Good evening, lads, how are we doing today?"
"Not too good, we just had a fight with our girlfriends," Sonic replied.
"Well, that's too bad," Ivorybone said unsympathetically. "Anyway, you fine lads did a great job tonight! You really knock them out!"
"Yeah, whatever," the boys mumbled.
"Oh, don't feel bad, boys," Ivorybone said. "It's all part of the publicity. It's the price to pay for the famous life."
"Even if it means losing your friends," Tails said solemnly. "Including Cream."
"Now, boys, you'll get used to it. That's part of the music business," the bald manager said. He clicked his tongue and gave an encouraging wink. The boys kept sulking.
"Well, if you need me, I'll be next door," Ivorybone left the room and closed the door behind him.
The boys watched the television screen which showed the playback of Shadow throttling the rude man in the elevator. The heading read; "SHD MEMBER SNAPS!"
Shadow sighed in shame. "This is so discontenting!"
Knuckles chuckled.. "Wow! You look like a psychopath, Shadow!" He chuckled.
"Shut up, Knucklehead!" Shadow snarled. "You don't need to point that out! I got enough problems on my back!"
"Well, someone's in the bitter mood!" Silver put in.
"You stay out of this!" Shadow growled at the white hedgehog.
"Make me!" Silver retorted.
"I MEAN IT!" Shadow's hand began to glow green.
"What's the matter? Jealous because they like me better than you?" Silver mocked.
Shadow have had it. "Okay, Prima Donna! You want to take this outside?" He glared at the silver hedgehog, face-to-face.
"It'll be my pleasure, loser!" Silver retorted, eyes and hands glowing turquoise. The two were about when Sonic stepped in.
"Alright, cool it guys!" He said.
"BUTT OUT!" The hedgehogs shouted together. Sonic backed away. The feuding hedgehogs blindly slapped at each other.
"You know something, this is all your fault, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Knuckles accused.
"What? My fault?" Sonic exclaimed.
"It was your idea! How could you let this happen?" Tails added.
"Excuse me, but I did not see that coming!" Sonic rebuked angrily. "All I did was formulate a boy band! How the heck could that be my fault?!"
"I don't know but I'll find out!" Knuckles rebutted.
The suite room was now filled with uproarious bickering, so loud that half of the top building could hear them. The henchbots backed away from the window as the bickering got louder. "Boy, this is just like one of those dysfunctional family show," Cubot said. "Only it's a lot wilder."
"So much for one big happy family!" Orbot said.
The boys continued to quarrel until suddenly, the leader whistled very loudly and called it a halt. "EVERYBODY STOP!"
The boys stopped bickering at once and realized what they were doing. "Look at us, you guys!" Sonic spoke up. "We're acting like spoiled selfish kids!"
"I'm the selfish kid!" Tails admitted. "I let all this stardom go straight to my head!"
"Me too! Because of my self-centered ego, Blaze won't even talk to me again!" Silver said.
"Our girlfriends won't talk to us because we've all acted like jerks!" Knuckles added. "Rouge will probably will never speak to me again!"
"I don't have any girlfriends to be mad at me about," Shadow said. "I'm just being the ultimate stuck-up! My co-workers may never speak to me again, of course they hardly ever spoke to me and I hardly to speak to them. That's why I'm a loner! Heh heh!" He snickered at his joke.
"What's happened to us, guys?" Sonic added. "We're acting like a bunch of jerks!"
"I don't like this life anymore," Tails complained. "I mean it used to be fun, but now it's all work and no play. I can't do anything anymore!"
"I miss Angel Island, I should be guarding the Master Emerald!" Knuckles said.
"And I miss my workshop!" Tails said. "I haven't flown my Tornado in a while and I'm dying to fix something!"
"I miss flying through the skies freely without a care in the world!" Silver added. "I don't know about you guys, but I want out of this famous life."
"I think being a pop star isn't all that's cracked up to be!" Knuckles said.
Sonic nodded as he thought up a decision. "Come on, guys, what do you say we go home and get back to our normal lives now?" He suggested. "When we get home, we'll mend things up for our girlfriends."
The boys made up their minds at once. "That sounds good to me!" Knuckles grinned. "Time to go back to Angel Island!"
"Yeah, I think it's time I hang up that jacket and return to what I am really good at," Silver said.
"I'm a fighter, not a dancer anyway," Shadow said. "I rather throw Chaos energy than sing songs."
"Do you think we're doing the right thing?" Tails asked. "Won't the fans be disappointed?"
"The fans will understand, they know us," Sonic assured. "We were better as regular heroes than superstars anyway."
"Yeah, it was fun while it lasted," Tails said. "Let's go tell Ivorybone."
The Super Hyper Dudes stepped out of their suites to talk to the manager.
"Let's go, Cubot," Orbot said. "Let's see what happens next at the next room." They departed from that window and fluttered around the building, trying find the manager's room window.
"Where's the other door?" Cubot asked.
The Super Hyper Dudes approached their boss' suite door. "Yo, Ivorybone! We need to talk!" Sonic knocked.
There was no answer. Sonic knocked on the door again. "Mr. Ivorybone?"
"Is he out today?" Tails asked.
"Let's find out." Silver pried the suite door open with his telekinesis. They boys stepped into the dark room.
"We shouldn't barge into people's suites!" Tails said.
"We're not. We're just going to talk to the big man," Knuckles said.
"Ivorybone?" Sonic called. The boys looked around in the room. "You in here?" Sonic called again.
"Charles?" Silver added.
The room is empty. There was no sign of the manager or his robot assistant.
"It doesn't seem like anyone's here," Knuckles said. "Seems pretty quiet in here."
"That's weird, he was with us a minute ago, how could he not be in his suite?" Silver said.
"Maybe he stepped out for a day," Tails guessed.
"And didn't even tell us? No, I don't think so," Shadow disagreed. "I smell something funny in the air."
"Sorry, that was me," Silver piped up. "Meant to say excuse me!" Shadow glared at him weirdly.
Knuckles came upon a curtain that leads another black room. "Hey, maybe he's in here." He pushed the curtain aside. "Hello?"
There, he found Ivorybone's assistant Charles sitting on a desk. His back was turned while he was working on something. "There, there," he mumbled. "Here we go!" The boys looked at him with curiosity. Charles turned his chair around and revealed a hooped electrical blue device in his hand. "Aha! I got it!" He announced.
"What's that?" Tails asked.
Charles gasped in startlement, nearly dropped the device. "Ooph! It's you guys!" He panted, holding on to his mysterious invention. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Looking for Ivorybone, have you seen him?" Sonic answered.
Charles acted like he suddenly had amnesia. "Uh...I'm not sure what you mean?" He answered quickly. "I really don't know what you're talking about!" He tittered nervously.
The boys looked at each other in oddness. Shadow grabbed the short robot by the head. "Cut the ridiculous games!" He hissed in the robot's face. "It's important that we need to see Ivorybone and talk to him about something!"
"Well, isn't that a coincidence?" A large deep voice spoke up in the dark room.
"Huh?" The boys looked around in confusion.
Ivorybone emerged from the shadows, smoking his cigar, and gazed down his furry clients through his black sunglasses. "I wanted to talk to you too, gentlemen. of your career. You're about enter a permanent life of fame and fortune. The whole world adores you. Your next concert's at 7:30 and then afterwards, I'm going to give you the best reward you ever got! How does that sound?"
The boy band looked at each other and nodded. Sonic stepped forward. "Yeah, about that..." He slowly put the words together. "We kind of...wanted to...go back to the way things are! You know, so we want to you know drop out."
Charles nearly fell of the chair when he heard the blue hedgehog's words. "Beg pardon? I didn't quite get that!" Ivorybone answered calmly.
"Don't take this the wrong way, Ivorybone. We really enjoyed the singing life and all, but we would like to be back into the normal life of that's okay with you, boss?" Sonic politely requested.
Ivorybone acted like he didn't understand him. "I'm sorry, my ears are clouded with all the smoke in the room. Could you repeat that?"
"The boys looked at their manager like he's weird. "Then let us make that perfectly clear:" Shadow put in impatiently. "We quit!"
"Quit?" Ivorybone repeated.
"Quit?!" Charles repeated with panic in his voice.
"Yeah, QUIT!" The boys said together. "Q-U-I-T, QUIT!"
"But you can't quit, my dear lads, we're just getting started!" Ivorybone objected. "I was growing rather fond of you, gents!"
"Too bad, Ivorybone! You know how music business goes!" Knuckles returned. "Things don't last forever!"
"But you signed a contract, remember?" Ivorybone held out the boys' contract, tied in a blue ribbon.
Shadow made a reach for it. "Give it to me, I'll tear it up and we'll be on out way!"
Ivorybone pulled it away from him. "Actually, I don't think you quite understand," he began, glaring eerily at his clients through his black sunglasses. "You see, once you signed the dotted line, you're working for me for the rest of your lives! Quitting is NOT an option!"
The Super Hyper Dudes gasped in outrageousness. "What?! That's crazy!" Silver ejaculated.
"I can't stay here! I got things to do!" Shadow objected.
"Angel Island needs me!" Knuckles added.
"Sorry, but you fine young chaps are mine!" Ivorybone said icily. "Without your voices, I can't make money! No one will give us their possessions, unless you boys 'persuade' them! Ha ha ha!" He chuckled sinisterly.
The Super Hyper Dudes fell into suspense and uneasiness. "What do you mean?" Sonic asked.
"Take a look at what you have done," Ivorybone pointed out.
The confused boys looked around the room to see what he was talking about. Charles turned on the light, unveiling dunes of gold bricks, money, and treasure! "Wha!" The boys exclaimed in surprise.
"Holy cow!" Silver shouted.
"Look at all the gold!" Tails said, eyes popping.
"Even Rouge couldn't collect that much!" Knuckles added.
"How the freak did we gain that many riches?" Shadow added.
"Jolly good, eh?" Ivorybond said. "Without your lovely voices, these people would never donate a couple extra dollars to our cause. It's like taking candy from a baby!"
The boys looked at their boss on confusion. "I don't get it, why would the people just throw away their valuable possessions to us?" Sonic asked.
"Do you remember the Kansas City Tornado Relief Program?"
"Yeah," the boys replied.
"Well, while you were singing your little song for the peasants, I had Charles to record your voices and have the sound audio altered into hypnotic waves that allows people to simply give money to you boys without to think it over!" Ivorybone explained it all.
Charles played the audio of the boys' singing on the mixing console.
"When you boys sing, the people literally fall under your spell and they unconsciously threw away cash and possessions to you ninnies just like that!" Ivorybone chuckled. "We practically con everyone of of their wealth except you guys did all the dirty work for me!"
"WHAT?!" The boys shouted in horror.
"In the last concerts, gigs, and shows you boys have appeared, we suckered out of penny from those numbskulls. In every state in this tour, we drained out museums, hospitals, stadiums, you name it! We even tricked the charity callers into donating a couple of dollars to us instead of those pathetic homeless sod back at Kansas City!"
The Super Hyper Dudes were horrified when they learned the truth.
"You mean you stole money from the Kansas Tornado Relief charity fund?!" Silver cried out in awfulness.
"Now, now! 'Steal' is such an ugly word!" Ivorybone said remorselessly. "I preferred to call it 'borrowing against someone's will'! Heh heh heh!" He chuckled.
"How could you do this?!" Tails cried. "What about those helpless needies?"
"Hey, it's not like these blokes need all that wealth," Ivorybone inhaled a cigar in his mouth and puffed out a donut. "We're simply doing them a favor, getting the load off of their hands! Ha ha ha!"
The boys' faces fell as they learned the horrible truth about their so-called manager.
"You're not a record producer at all!" Sonic figured it out.
"You're nothing but a thief!" Tails pointed out. "A leech! A con artist!"
"It's funny! From the beginning that I discovered you, I pretended that I was interested in your music when I'm actually interested in using your voices to persuade people into investing! I just couldn't believe that you actually fell for the "I'm gonna make you big" trick! You guys are so naive!" The bald manager guffawed loudly in a dark tone.
"You tricked us!" Knuckles flared in anger.
"You used us to victimize the innocents!" Tails added. "You...you slimeball!"
"You lowlife scum!" Shadow added. "You're no better than Eggman or the other scandals!"
"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but my plan is working and there's nothing you can do about it!" Ivorybone replied callously.
Outside the boss's window, the henchbots arrived at the scene where everything going on inside is blinded by the curtains. "Found it! Is this it?" Cubot said. "I can't see a thing!"
"Here, let me see," Orbit turned on his X-Ray eyes. He could see Sonic, Ivorybone, and the group's silhouettes.
"What are they doing in there?" Cubot asked.
"I'm not sure," Orbot took a closer look. "I think they're discussing about something, no, more like arguing."
"Let me see!" Cubot scooted over and turned on his X-Ray vision.
"When we get out of here, we're going to warn everyone about your doing!" Tails vowed. "We're going to show everyone what a fraud you really are!"
"Oh really?" Ivorybone retorted, unafraid by his threats. "Because I hardly think you'll have time. You'll be too busy working for me!"
Sonic shook his head in refusal. "We will never do your dirty work, Ivory-Fraud!" He growled. "We would never do anything dishonest!"
"That's right!" Knuckles agreed. "And there is no way on Earth you could ever make us!"
The boys stuck together like glue, determined to fight for the sake of truth and goodness.
The bald man snickered. "Huh huh huh! Oh, I think you will!" He sneered. "You most definitely will!" He exhaled a smog of grey gas on the boys, making them cough.
He then snapped his fingers and Charles forced four magnetic collars on the Super Hyper Dudes' necks! They clicked on as they sealed real tight around their throats. The alarmed boys choked out as they tried to get the weird devices off. "Hey! What is this?" Sonic coughed.
"It's an electronic mind-controlling collar!" Ivorybone answered evilly. "Against your wills, you're going to do what I say!" He held out the boys' contract in his hands. "This is no ordinary contact! You see, you didn't just sign your names, you sold your souls to me! As long as your names are electronically printed in this, your minds belong to me FOREVER!" He laughed evilly as an antenna grew out from the hole of the scroll, beeping as a sign of working properly. "NO!" Sonic shouted. The henchbots gasped in wonder.
Electric particle zapped through the boys' bodies, linking manipulation on the nerves systems. The boys groaned in pain and fell to their knees. "Shadow! Help!" Tails cried.
"Guys!" Shadow who was still free shouted. He jumped in and tried to save his friends.
"Don't feel left out, Shadow, old boy! I got you one, too!" The enormous bald man grinned sinisterly and snapped his fingers.
At that time, Charles hooked the same manipulating gadget collar on the black hedgehog. Shadow gasped. The blue electric energy surged through his black body, crippling him helplessly. "NO!" He grunted.
Cubot and Orbot watched in horror through the shielded window as the evil manager tormented the heroes with his new electronic mind-controlling contract-shaped device. Sonic cripplingly crawled on fours, facing the empty-shelled large madman. "You...can't...do...this!" Sonic groaned.
"I think I just did!" Ivorybone riposted. He turned on the switch at full volume, winning control over the Super Hyper Dudes' minds.
The boys groaned in agony as they tried to rid themselves of the brainwashing parasites. Sonic grunted as he tried to pry the mind-controlling collars of his neck with his fingers. His green eyes began to glow light blue, as for the rest of his friends. Eventually, the overwhelming blue electrons overpowered them and subjugated complete control over the boys' minds. Fallen prey to the wicked manager's puppetry, boys stopping struggling and lost will of themselves. They stood very still like robots for they are under the influence of the conniving greedy con artist! Ivorybone laughed wickedly in triumph. "Excellent, that's my good boys! You are all my personal slaves!" He cackled.
Cubot and Orbot gasped and shuddered in terror.
"Hey, it worked!" Charles said. "My invention actually worked! You were right boss!"
"Ha ha ha! Not feeling so cool, eh lads? HA HA HA!" Ivorybone paced around his newly enslaved clients. "You will fulfill my every needs, complete every checklist I give you, and bring me lots of wealth and goods to your sweet beloved boss. You boys are my gold magnets and we will be one big happy family! I will became the most powerful man on the world and collect every single scrap of treasure in the world! Nobody is going to stop me, NOBODY! I WIN!" He laughed evilly that filled up the entire suite for he had won this battle and the prize reward was the Super Hyper Dudes' enslavement and will. Charles laughed alongside with him. "Quiet!" Ivorybone barked to him. Charles quieted at once.
The robots turned away from the window, horrified by what they just witnessed. "Did you see all that, Orbot?" Cubot asked. "That was terrible! That big man had just turned Sonic and the boys into mindless zombies!"
"Did I not just see everything?" Orbot answered. "That big guy is not a record producer at all! He's clearly an evil greedy man who's only after money! We got to go tell the boss!"
"Yes, yes!" Cubot agreed. And so, the goofy mechanical goofballs took off and raced to report the shocking news to their boss.
The truth about the Super Hyper Dudes' so-called manager, Rupert Ivorybone is actually a greedy, deceitful, and cold-blooded larcenist who took advantage of Sonic and his friends! And now, the boy band may be in grave danger...