It was early in the next morning after the small events of last night as we see the cabin Cmara had landed at from her escape pod. We get to see the crimson echidna standing on his balcony, with a cell phone as we can hear a young boy's voice.

"…So you see, my latest creations are still taking some time so I'm giving myself the day off to hang with you guys afterwards," the voice then laughed nervously, "But we might want to be careful to avoiding Amy, you know how much she wants to bond with Sonic all the time."

"Yeah, that's great, Tails." Knuckles then decided to let out the news he was going to save for later on but might as well, "So anyways, you didn't hear anything that happened from just last night, did you?"

"No, not really, I guess." The voice, being named Tails, added, "Just a large shooting star that came out of nowhere…well I think it was."

"So then you did see it," Knuckles smiled, "Since that 'shooting star' happened to be someone's escape pod."

Tails sounded shocked on the other end, "You mean somebody came down in an escape pod, where?"

"My island, the escape pod was kind of in damage, but…" He stared as the female cat was lying on top of his roof, looking up as he continued, "This young girl was in there in the water, and I had to get her out of there." Cmara watched him, curiously.

"Wow that does sound pretty cool. Maybe we'd like to meet her sometime today, although Amy's not going to like it, if she finds out…"

"You're gonna tattle-tale, aren't you?" Knuckles looked embarrassed.

"Sorry…"

As he hung up, Cmara leapt onto the white fence, sitting as she got a somewhat excited look on her face, "Are there really any other creatures like me on this planet?"

"You're really new around here, aren't you?" Knuckles shook his head, "Never mind that, a lot of different people live here, including a few friends of mine."

"None human?"

He made a face, "Actually, that's another story. Mostly Mobians live around here, that is, creatures such as humanoid animals." He then asked, "You know any humans?"

"Only two…but something happened back where my home was… at least it used to be." The cat frowned, at remembrance of the horror she witnessed…Maria… Gerald… perhaps her brother…

Knuckles felt bad for asking, his question already seemed to have trouble the young female feline… then his cell phone rang again, as he answered casually, "This is Knuckles speaking."

This time, an angry-seeming girl voice sounded on the other end, "Who is this girl you were talking about?"

The echidna sweat-dropped, "Easy, Amy. How's it going for you?"

"I'm fine, but Tails said there was this girl that came onto your island last night, I bet it's another one of my Sonic's so-called fan girls." Listening briefly, Cmara looked a little humored, "Is she pretty? Is she going to try and take Sonic away?"

"Amy, will you relax?" Knuckles frowned at the female voice's attitude, "She doesn't even know who he is."

"Sure, that's what they all say and I just wanna make sure about this first."

"I'm telling you, she has no clue of who he is just yet, the least you can do is act nice around her and maybe get to know her unlike you do with all the other girls."

The voice groaned a little but sighed, "Fine but she tries anything funny around him, I will personally kick her out, am I right?"

Knuckles made a face, "Yeah, right. We know." As he hung up, Cmara giggled. She thought the person on the other end sounded a little funny. The echidna sighed, guess this feline would have to learn about his friend the hard way, if she was not too careful… then a thought came to him as he said, "Hey, you must be hungry, aren't you? Must've been a long trip."

"I suppose." Cmara did admit it now that she felt a little empty. She watched her new friend point to a green plant that had a lot of ripe green berries on it.

"You can help yourself," He added, "They're just fresh enough."

The cat did a sniff, before plucking a few of the strange berries. When she bit them however… she cringed at a strong taste asking, "What's this again?"

Knuckles smiled, "That would be grapes."

Cmara stuck out her tongue a little, "I'm sorry… they just seem a bit sour."

"Well, they do get sweeter once you get used to the taste." The echidna then continued, as Cmara still stuck her tongue out, "But how about some fruit? I've got apples, oranges…" Suddenly, her ears perked out, catching Cmara's attention elsewhere. She listened hard; trying to get the sound… the scent… she looked up in surprise… and leaped off the fence.

"Hey!" Knuckles shouted in alarm. She was new in his world, she didn't even know her way around yet! "Get back here!"

Cmara kept running all on fours. The scent she caught… it must be him, Shadow had found her! She reached the edge of the Floating Island and stopped short, seeing the long way down. It sure looked like a long way down…

"Stop!" She saw Knuckles running up behind her, "You can't just expect to leave the Island already!"

"But I got his scent, he must've found me!" The cat looked eager and ready to make the jump…

"Who are you talking about? Come back here!" He went at his fullest speed.

She waved, "I'll let you meet him then! I smelled him this way!" Then, much to Knuckles' disbelief, the cat leapt in midair… right off the edge of the Island! She dived downward to the spot she was staring at. Knuckles finally stopped short too panting hard, still dumbfounded.

"…Stupid cat. Doesn't she realize what she's getting into?" With a grunt, Knuckles leapt off too, gliding downward following the cat, keeping her in his sight, hoping she wouldn't make any trouble.

Meanwhile, near a pink little house, a few other creatures had gathered for what looked like a picnic. First, there was a teenage blue hedgehog that had a green eyed gaze and a cheeky grin. Another was a young fox that oddly had two tails and blue eyes. Next coming out of the house, were a female woman rabbit with tan fur and chocolate eyes, carrying a tray and wearing a pink dress, a little bunny that was a spitting image of her mother but wearing an orange dress, and after them, seeming to pout, a female pink hedgehog with green eyes and a red dress, also carrying a tray.

"Relax, Amy. This picnic's going to be just a-okay!" The cobalt animal smirked before turning to the yellow-orange kitsune, "Tails get out of the cookies."

His name given, Miles 'Tails' Prower, lifted his face out of the platter, crumbs over his cheeks, "Sorry."

"I know, Sonic, but I want to make sure…" As she set down her tray, Sonic zoomed in behind her with arms crossed, as if giving a scold.

"Listen, Knucklehead said he might bring down this new friend of his and maybe we can see for ourselves if he wasn't joking." He figured the echidna had made up another story about this girl from space.

"I still have a feeling." She frowned. Sonic sighed; Amy was so hard to make listen.

"Would anyone like some tea?" The rabbit, Vanilla, asked as her child, Cream, helped her carry some cups.

Then a voice hollered…

"WATCH OUT BELOW!"

No one saw it coming… well, mostly Sonic didn't seem to, as he got a sudden unexpected crash-landing atop of him, pushing him right into the ground. As the dust settled, they saw who it was… a certain red friend of theirs… Amy stomped over, "Get off of him!"

"Amy, I'm sorry! I just had to-!" As soon as Knuckles noticed the awkward position he was in with the hedgehog he greatly hated, he stood up again. Sonic dusted off, "Gee, thanks for that."

"You go gliding around like that, you were bound to crash soon enough." Tails pointed out.

"Shut up. I don't have time." He glanced around, knowing he had lost track, "Did none of you see her?"

"Who?" Sonic felt a need to play along.

"The girl, she's a cat, with glasses and…" He frowned as he noticed Sonic trying not to laugh.

"Oh sure, it's nice to meet her too." He bowed before nothing and then started cracking up, as Knuckles fumed angrily, "IDIOT, SHE'S NOT INVISIBLE!"

"Well, it doesn't matter as I wouldn't have wanted to…" Amy got cut short, but this time…

"I thought you'd land better then that…"

They all turned towards a tall tree. Someone was hiding in the shadows of its branches… two brown eyes glinted on its owner's hidden face. Sonic stopped laughing, feeling suddenly stupid, Knuckles just looked relieved. The figure stepped out slowly into the sunlight… and stood up… revealing Cmara the Cat.

"Wow…" Tails and Cream stared in awe, Amy in shock, Sonic still in stupidly.

"Ah! She's real!" He yelped.

"Now you believe me?" Knuckles smirked.

Vanilla also seemed a little surprised at the new guest, "Oh, it seems we have new company."

Cmara looked around, frowning. She made a big mistake… Shadow wasn't here at all… she then glanced at the blue hedgehog, as he called, "Uh, sorry about that! I was only joking! But it's nice to see a new friend around here perhaps!"

She leapt down to face him, as he yelped a little and she glared sternly… before replying, "I must've caught a wrong scent. Also the wrong hedgehog. Beg my pardons as well if you may, for I was only trying to find my brother again."

"Uh…what?" Sonic didn't catch that.

Amy then sniffed, "Hey guys? What's that awful smell?" She walked up, glaring at the feline, who seemed a little frightened…until she got poked in the chest a bit. "Ah it's just you." Amy shook her head, "When's the last time you've bathed, young lady? Seems you could use a bath." She pointed to her home and began walking, leading, "Please this way." The others stared at her surprised, as Cmara looked confused. Didn't this female hedgehog get a little crazy?

"Well, are you waiting for me to roll out the red carpet?"

That caught her attention as Cmara hesitantly followed Amy into her house.

"Well, that was unexpected." Tails blinked. Normally, Amy didn't allow new women into her home so easily.

"I hope she knows what she's doing." Cream added, a little concerned.

"Does anyone take lemon?" Vanilla asked again, as the others sighed. Knuckles just watched, hopefully Cmara won't do anything to upset Amy.

Inside a small bathroom, Amy threw what was most of the cat's clothing into a laundry hamper, holding her nose a little. That smelled bad. As she lay out what looked like blue clothing, she turned to the shower, that was being used at the moment.

"Hey you, I left you some fresh clothes!" Amy then asked again, in case the cat didn't hear her, "Hello, you alive in there?"

"Yeah, I heard you! You can leave now!" Inside, where it was misty and thankfully censoring certain parts we won't talk about, Cmara stared up into the warm water pouring onto her face… she let out a small sneeze.

"If you say so, just come out when you're ready to meet us!" Amy's voice added, "We'll be waiting!"

'It is a beautiful planet…' Cmara squinted a little, 'But such strange creatures.'

Outside, at the table, Knuckles explained the whole thing to his friends, as Tails leaned back in his chair, "So, you found her out there last night on her own from space?"

"Could be from space, she didn't say much of it." Knuckles then added, "All it seems right now is that she wants to find this brother of hers. Something about getting lost from him is my guess."

Amy came up to the group, "Well, in the meantime, we'll just have to be good hosts and treat her like a guest should be treated."

Sonic made a face, "I hope so, Amy, cause you should be getting a head start."

She rolled her eyes at this, until she heard, "Excuse me?" It came from Cmara in the bathroom, "Excuse me, Pinky? Could I get a drying cloth or something?" Amy frowned, but the cat called again, "Pinky? You can hear me right?"

The candy-colored hedgehog frowned, calling back, "Yes, I heard you but my name's Amy Rose and if you want something, just say please." She smiled confident.

Cmara seemed to startle, "Never mind! I can just drip dry, it doesn't matter."

Amy looked back, "Seems like a good start to me, she already learned how to deal with me."

"Amy…" Knuckles shook his head.

Then, Cmara called again, this time, with a small voice, "Uh, I don't want to sound rude but…"

Amy blinked, "What's the problem this time?"

In the bathroom, clad in a towel she had actually just found, Cmara stared at the outfit she was given, "About this garments that you left, aren't…" She lifted them up revealing… "…they a little but like what you wear? Only, they're blue!" It was a face, she had the blue version of Amy's dress.

"Oh sorry, that's just my style around here!" Amy answered, giggling, "But we can go shopping later and also show you around."

"A style?" Cmara pondered this, "Aunt Maria always wore blue…"

"Is this really a good idea?" Knuckles asked, not liking the shopping idea.

"Hey you can always help out your new girlfriend." Sonic and Tails laughed at this.

"Shut up!"

"Is this good?"

They turned, Cmara had come out, clad in the blue outfit and also a matching blue headband in her hair that hung down, she was pulling the front down a little in embarrassment, "Pardon, but don't you have anything…longer?"

"Well, the blue looks good on you, that's for sure." Amy nodded.

Sonic grinned, "Yeah and the shortness isn't that bad…" but he and Tails laughed again as Knuckles growled, "I said shut up!"

Cmara stared at them, "Listen, you shouldn't make jokes if no one else finds them amusing."

The blue hedgehog and fox stopped short, "Huh?" and Knuckles sighed, 'Thank you."