After Tails gets injured during a battle against Dr. Eggman, Sonic, fearing for his safety, fires him and holds auditions for a new sidekick.

Tails builds a translator robot with the unintentional ability to read minds. His friends are not impressed.

When Sticks' friends tell her to be nicer to (non-anthropomorphic) animals, she becomes attached to a slime-belching robot dog named Buster.