"This is bad, Naruto, really REALLY BAD!" "I committed a murder!" Tails shouted frantically.

Naruto tries to calm the frantic Tails down, but it does him no good, he can barely get any words out. "Tails-"

"What do we do!?" "No, you're innocent, what do I DO!?" Naruto tries yet again when Tails makes a dramatic pause, but... "Naruto...It was short lived, but I enjoyed our time together." Tails sniffs. I'll have to turn myself in, but hopefully." Tails sniffs as his eyes begin to well up, until- "TAILS!"

Naruto's shouting manages to shut Tails up, giving him the chance to finally speak his mind.

"I still need to pee." Says the deadpan Naruto. Tails' eyes go narrow in disbelief of what he just heard after all of what has transpired. But hey, if you gotta go, you gotta go. "Naruto...we just battled a DRAGON, nearly totaled the tornado,committed manslaughter, which MAY just result in me getting put to sleep or erased for it..." After listing off their most recent tribulations with his fingers, Tails follows up with- AND YOU"RE STILL COMPLAINING ABOUT TAKING A GOT-DAMN PISS!?

Naruto's eyes go wide from Tails' unexpected outburst, with the enraged fox hovering in his face like a mini helicopter. Left almost speechless, Naruto can only give one word of response at the moment. "Whoa..." Tails nods. "Yeah, WHOA is what I should be saying'; you just made me swear!

Hovering back down to the ground, Tails has yet to calm down and feels even more guilty now. "Now I feel even more guilty!" See? Tails' head slumps down as he begins to have a flashback of being imprisoned behind bars in a horrific-looking cell. as a tall dark figure with glowing purple stands before him.

When the flashback ends, Tails' eyes begin to well up.

Before meeting Naruto, it seems that Tails has gone through a lot and the pressure from it all is finally caving in.

"He was right..." Tails said in a mopey manner, gripping his hands.

"Without Sonic, I...I feel like I can't do anything on my own, we've barely made any progress and I'm already messing up." "I'm so worthless."

Naruto sighs and walks toward Tails, who is mere seconds away from having a mental breakdown at this point.

*BOP!*

"OW!"

Naruto casually bops Tails on his cranium. "First off; you're not guilty of swearing, I've been doing that since I was younger than you." Naruto says as he crosses his arms, then goes on to say- "Second; she's still breathing, and THIRD, pull yourself together!" "You're really going to just quit searching for your friends when we barely started!?"

Naruto crouches down to Tails' level, meeting and eyes him. The...almost reliable blonde ninja begins to lower his tone a bit when he goes on to say-

"I may not be Sanic, but if you stick with me; I'll make it so that nothing will stand in the way of reuniting you with your friends." Though a little harsh of a lecture, Naruto's words have moved and somewhat put Tails at ease.

"And shut up!" Naruto shouts, making Tails whip his head back at the loudmouth ninja.

"Beg your pardon?" Tail asked.

"You didn't mess up at all when you helped me out and cooked for me." Said Naruto, raising his arm to further illustrate his point, saying-

"PLUS, you made me this badass robot arm!" "I can't wait to show this off to everybody when I get back!"

Naruto manages to get a slight giggle out of Tails, proving that no matter what universe he's in, the Talk No Jutsu remains a force to be reckoned with...for now...

"Well it did belong to a very powerful friend, I even took the liberty of making notifications and-"

"Wait..." Stopping himself mid sentence, something just occurred to Tails at that very moment. "Naruto, did you say the girl I ran over was still breathing earlier?" "Or was I just hearing things whilst having a mental breakdown?"'

"Yeah, I don't think you hit too hard, look-" Naruto says, pointing at the drowned Sakura, but she is gone! "The fox boys stand up in shock and look around."

"Tails..." "You think she ran away?" Naruto, but then begins to ask in an over dramatic manner- "Or...was she never there?" *Cue the mystery music*

"Or maybe I became a ghost, here to haunt your asses for running me over!"

Somehow, Sakura catches the boys by surprise from behind, making them yelp and zip jump a few feet away from her. The boys get a full view of the pissed off Sakura, standing before them with her arms crossed in a manner similar to that of a tsundere.

Meanwhile, we rejoin the red dragon that attacked the fox boys from earlier lands down in an open parking lot behind what looks like an abandoned warehouse. There, he is joined by 3 other dragons, but look more like Wyverns due to their smaller stature. Inside the warehouse, it's filled with cyberpunk-ish thugs working in a crack house. One of them, who bears a striking resemblance to that of Ken Masters from Street Fighter (only he looks like an asshole), sprints over to the groggy reptile.

Barely able to stand, the dragon succumbs to its wounds, Naruto left on its body, the dragon collapses to the concrete floor, nearly landing on the Ken-lookalike, who goes by the name "Kobra."

"What the hell happened to you?" Says the curious Kobra as he begins to check his wounds.

As some of the punks gather around the red dragon to see what the commotion is all about, the wyverns chained up against the wall show visible concern for the red dragon. Suddenly, footsteps and chains dragging on the flow are heard when a muscular built burly man with a cybernetic red eye enters the building. It's Kano from Mortal Kombat; leader of the Black Dragon Clan. Walking alongside the menace is an adorable small purple dragon with yellow spikes. It's Spyro from...Well, "Spryo". The poor iconic purple dragon is being treated like a pet with a chained leash and metal collar on his neck.