Tails woke, and looked around. He was in the middle of a forest and his knee and body were scraped up.

"SONIC!!!" He yelled, but all he got was an echo.

He yelled again, and sighed. He sat on a rock with his head on his hands and felt a tear fall.

"Hey, Shorty. Why're you crying?" Somebody asked.

"I'm lost." Tails muttered

"How'd you get lost?"

"I was stupid."

"Hey, cheer up!"

"Why should I?" They paused.

"You can come with me if you want."

Tails looked up, and saw an orangish echidna that looked kinda like a nicer, younger, Knuckles. But Tails was so deep in the forest, he could barley make out that little detail, if anything.

Tails wiped his eyes and the echidna made a move to Tails making him draw back in a bit of fear.

"There's no need to be afraid! I wont–"

"Sonic told me not to talk to strangers."

"Well, my name's Huck. What's yours?"

"I'm Miles Prower. But you can call me 'Tails'. I guess we're not strangers, anymore..."

Huck smiled. "Well, Tails... I don't know what happened, but you got yourself in a bit of a situation. Wanna come with me?"

"Ummm... I don't think–"

"Come on, I promise I wont hurt you. If you don't come with me, there'll be no telling how lost you'll be!"

Huck held out a hand, and Tails paused then grabbed it. Huck helped Tails up and out of the forest, and looked at his new friend.

"Why're you so worked up?" Huck asked

Tails explained the story thus far, and Huck nodded.

"Oh, I see. Don't worry. I don't think anything's gonna get you."

"I don't know why I'm so scared."

Huck put an arm around Tails' shoulders and said,

"Relax, Tails. You'll be fine. Nothing's gonna get you, I promise."

Tails looked down and muttered, "I hope."

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"Taiiiiiillllllllllsssss!!!!" Sonic hollered.

He ran from tree to tree in the forest, but still couldn't find so much as a hint of his furry friend. Suddenly he saw something on the floor and paused to pick it up. It was Tails' Sonic plushie.

"Tails." Sonic said, quietly. He saw a tree root, and figured Tails had ran and tripped, dropping his plushie.

"Tails!" He yelled again.

Sonic started getting worried. 'What was Tails running from? I sure hope he's ok...'

He ran forward trying to retrace Tails' steps, and thought, 'I hope nothing happened to him.'

Then he continued running and praying nothing bad had happened to his Tails.

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Huck got Tails situated, and sat him on a rock. When Tails calmed down, Huck decided to introduce Tails to his friends.

"Tails, this is Max, Tom, Mark, and James."

Tails raised his hand like a kid in school making Huck laugh.

"Yes?" Tails put his hand down.

"No offense... I mean you guys are really cool and all, but... wasn't Knuckles the last of the echidnas?"

"Huh? Oh, no. We just had him tell everybody that to get some peace and quiet."

"Oh. Well, in that case, it's a pleasure to meet all of you."

Mark went to Tails and stared at him inquisitively.

"Huck tells me you were scared by the "Legends of Angel Island"?" Tails blushed

"Umm..."

"Look, kid. We tell those stories to n00bs just to freak them out."

"Wait... what?"

"Who told you those stories?"

"Kn-knuckles..."

"Knuckles?! You mean the master emerald tweaker?!" Tom butted in, who'd only vaguely been paying attention until that particular moment.

"Yeah!" Tails said. Tom laughed.

"Kid, you've been PUNKED!" He said. Tails blushed.

"That is so messed up..."

"You know what? I say we get him back."James said

"An excellent idea, James." Said Tom.

"But... how do we do that?" Tails asked

Everybody smiled at him.

"With a bit of genius, my foxy friend." said Max