In the Midnight Hour


 * [Sticks is covered in paint and kicking and punching something, making karate calls. It's revealed that she was attacking a canvas, which now has a picture painted on it.]
 * Sticks: Sticks, you are a mixed martial artist. [She picks up the canvas and stares at it.] Don't lie to me, me; this thing stinks! [She tosses the canvas away.]
 * [Sticks hears a strange sound, and when she looks in the direction of the sound, there's an eerie, cloaked figure levitating beside a television antenna. Sticks silently creeps up to it, but the figure looks at her; its eyes are red, hypnotic swirls.]
 * Sticks: Ahhh! [She runs away, scared.]


 * [Sonic is sleeping in his hammock when Sticks comes up to him.]
 * Sticks: Sonic! Wake up!
 * Sonic: [mumbling in his sleep] What'd you say, sugarplum?
 * Sticks: Don't call me "sugar plum"; I'm not Amy! [She grabs Sonic by his nose, and he wakes up.]
 * Sonic: Sticks?! What are you doing?! Unhand my face!
 * Sticks: You've gotta come with me to the TV studio; there's a red-eyed prowler up to no good!
 * Sonic: But I was right in the middle of a really sweet dream. I was dancing with sugar plums! [He smiles and holds up one hand, but then he stares at the viewer.] You know, when I say it out loud, I kinda regret having said it out loud.
 * [Sticks grabs Sonic's hand and drags him out of the shack.]


 * [Sonic and Sticks arrive at the TV studio, but Sonic is still sleepy; he yawns as Sticks looks around.]
 * Sticks: But I saw him with my own two eyes! I smelled him with my nose! I smorfed him with my sixth sense!
 * Sonic: I'm going back to bed. [Walks away, leaving Sticks on her own.]
 * Sticks: That's the trouble with being a paranoid kook; when something really is going on, no one believes you! You can say that again. I know, right?


 * [Team Sonic is having a meal in there and Sticks has just explained the whole story to the others]
 * Amy: And you saw him by yourself all night in the empty Village Center while finger painting?
 * Sticks: It's called Jujutsu Realism, and it is the purest form for expressing the depths of my soul. Plus, I found forty paint cans in my burrow and couldn't find anything else to do with them. [Yawns]
 * Knuckles: Tired, huh? Not me. I slept like a baby last night! No really. An abandon crib washed up on the beach.
 * Tails: You know, Sticks, sleep deprivation has been linked to an increase in delusional behavior.
 * Sticks: That can't be it. I never sleep. But im telling ya, there's something fishy going on at that station and I'm gonna prove it.


 * [Sticks is having a stakeout behind a tree when she spots the figure entering the TV studio. When she gets inside, he sees the figure holding a microphone in front of a TV camera.]
 * Dreamcaster: Hello, my sleeping friends. This is the Dreamcaster, and I'm gonna take you on a magical journey. All you have to do is follow my silky voice to the land of sugar plums where you want to go of your own free will and not because you're hypnotized.
 * [Suddenly, Dreamcaster's speech gets interuppted by Stick who is yelling her battle cry and tries to kick him. However, she misses and knocks down the set lights and the tv camera, causing Dreamcaster to retreat. Sticks now has the microphone and looks at the camera trying to warn the villagers of Hedgehog Village.]
 * Sticks: Denizens of our village, you're all being brainwashed! Don't be fooled! A robot is controlling your thoughts! Wake up, sheeple!
 * Sheep Villager: "Sheeple" is a negative term! We prefer "Sheep Villagers", I'm writing a letter to that network!


 * [Sonic is awaken by Sticks who is on tv.]
 * Sticks: [On TV] You're minds have been taken over by the Dreamcaster!
 * Sonic: Oh, geez. Sticks, what have you done now?


 * [The villagers are gathered near the TV station muttering angrily. Sticks runs out of the studio to see the villagers.]
 * Sticks: I'm glad you're here. You guys ready to rage against the machine?!
 * Comedy Chimp: You! You destroyed my studio, you wacky broad! And I lost my insurance payment in a poker game!
 * [The villagers continue to mutter angrily until Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy arrive.]
 * Sonic: Hold on! I'm sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation.
 * Comedy Chimp: There is. I had pocket deuces. Who doesn't go all in with pocket deuces?
 * Sonic: No. I meant a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this.
 * Sticks: The studio was destroyed by a brain-washing robot who was trying to invade your dreams though the television!
 * Sonic: Well, I'm over too.
 * Tails: Sticks, nobody's seen this robot but you.
 * Sticks: But he really exist! His name's Dreamcaster!
 * Tails: That's the worst name I ever heard.
 * Sonic: It's not so bad.
 * Knuckles: Yeah. The "er" at the end is kinda nice.
 * Sticks: Look, we all agree that the name is terrible, but he's hypnotizing you with dreams of sugar plums! Why can't you get that through your dumb heads?!
 * Knuckles: As the proud owner of a dumb head, I don't like that you're talking down to me. And I don't care for your condescending altitude.
 * Tails: Not sure if that was a clever pun, or if you have no idea of what you're saying.
 * Knuckles: Why can it be both?
 * Sticks: I can't believe you guys don't trust me! I thought you were my friends!
 * [Sticks runs away from the villagers.]


 * [Inside her burrow, Sticks has some art portraits til she punched one of them in her rage and kicks one near her door which it was opened by two officers and Comedy Chimp.]
 * Comedy Chimp: That's her, officers! The one who broke into my studio and went Bananas!
 * [The officers do not laugh at that joke.]
 * Comedy Chimp: [Groans]
 * Sticks: [Throws a portiant of Amy away] It wasn't me! It was Dreamcaster!
 * Officer Beaver: If Comedy Chip saids it, its gotta be true. [pulls out his handcuffs] After all, he is on TV.
 * [The officer tries to handcuff Sticks but she escaped from her burrow and runs off to encounter Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy.]
 * Sticks: Oh, man. I'm glad you guys showed up to... [Sonic handcuffs Sticks] Arrest me?! [The officers approach her] That's not where I was going with that sentence!
 * Sonic: Sorry, Sticks. It's for your own good.
 * Amy: Maybe a night at the old stoney lonesome will clear your head.
 * [The officers take Sticks away just as Dreamcaster appears before Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy.]
 * Dreamcaster: You have all earned your sugar plums.
 * [Team Sonic gets hypnotized by Dreamcaster.]


 * [At the village jail, harmonic music is heard from inside the jail. Sticks is not playing the harmoicac.]
 * Sticks: This is so depressing.
 * [She gets up and walks to a record player playing the jail music. She turns it off.]
 * Sticks: Even "Melancholic Harmonica Music Volume 2" can't cheer me up. I can't believe my friends thinks I'm a wack-a-ding. What if my perception of reality really IS distorted? Maybe this isn't my hand. Maybe it is my foot!
 * [Suddenly, Sticks hears groaning. She looks outside though the window bars and sees the villagers and Team Sonic as mind slaves of Dreamcaster. Eggman arrived.]
 * Eggman: You fools!
 * Orbot: