TEXT: On The Next Episode Of PaintraSeaPea On Mashed

IT'S BEEN A WEEK SINCE I POSTED. OOPS. MY BAD.

If you don't know where I've been, I was actually putting together a live production of Family Feud in VR Chat. IT WAS SO FUN. Go watch the VOD now!!!

But Now I'm BACK. With much to report. The next Mashed video to continue my career has been approved! I actually wrote the entire script already. I want to share some of the outline, though! SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT!

EGGY I SHRUNK THE HEDGEHOG

• Est. Green Hill. Eggman cackles maniacally in his Egg-mobile, which has a giant Death Ray strapped to it, a-la Sonic Babies.
• Sonic, Tails, and Amy are sitting in the grass, chilling. They barely react, Sonic turns around with a snarky “Oh, it’s Eggman.”
• Eggman, offended by their apathy, begins charging up the Death Ray. It fires directly at Sonic, but pan over to show that he quickly stepped out of the way. Another snarky remark from him like, “Did you forget I’m fast?”
• Eggman continues to fire shots, each one missing, all the while the Death Ray starts heating up. Orbot tries to warn him of the imminent overheat, but Eggman dismisses him.
• While the doctor is distracted, Tails flies up to unscrew a hatch on the Death Ray to deactivate it. Knuckles’ fist appears out of nowhere and smashes it. A screen in the Eggmobile that reads “DEATH RAY” starts getting scrambled, maybe showing something about molecular stability being altered, with a graphic of Sonic being shrunk.
• The machine goes haywire, firing off uncontrollably. One shot aims directly for Tails, who’s been knocked down to the ground. Sonic dives in the way to protect him; it ends up just shooting them both anyway. They zap and disappear.
• Amy shouts at Eggman that he won’t get away with thi—Oh, she’s been zapped too.
  • Knuckles can either get shot too, or he just says “Screw this” and burrows himself in the ground and disappears for the rest of the vid. I don’t have many things for him specifically to do so it might be good to have him exit just to de-clutter.
• Eggman boasts his victory for a second, but quickly goes back to panic mode. He tells Orbot to initiate the cooldown protocol. However, his robot assistants have abandoned ship, leaving him alone with the Death Ray shaking and smoking and glowing red.
• The entire Eggmobile explodes in the sky, seemingly destroyed without a trace. “We’re finally free!” says Cubot. “No, even better: We’re in charge!” says Orbot. They both leave.

That's right! I was asked to make a... sequel? to Sonic Babies! It's more of a spiritual successor, I suppose.

The Shrink Ray idea was something that was offered to me a few months ago, actually. The proposal was Sonic and Tails getting shrunk down to a miniscule size and having to do tiny adventures. Nothing about it really called to me, and it somehow morphed into the Sonic Babies idea, which I found way more interesting.

However, when this idea came back around to me, I was given a more detailed synopsis for it. The biggest thing, really, was having it so that Eggman would be shrunk with them. Now THAT? That interested me. Something about that dynamic made for a way more interesting setup to play with. So that's what this one's gonna be!

Even better, when I originally outlined it, we were just gonna have Orbot and Cubot appear at the very beginning and the very end. Miraculously, I was given direct order to punch up their role. I jumped at that opportunity so fast. If you don't know, I think Orbot and Cubot are hilarious and I love writing for them. So I'm extremely excited for this one.

Voice acting should be coming in pretty soon here, sometime next week. I will be voicing Cubot again. Looking forward to this all unfolding!