A quiet whirring sound and the gentle tap-tap of a wrench against metal fills the workshop. Miles "Tails" Prower, a yellow-and-white fox with two fluffy tails, is hunched over a sparking, half-finished gadget. One of his tails twitches in concentration as a small puff of smoke rises from his project.

He squints at the wiring, wiping a smudge of grease from his goggles, and then a small, glowing anomaly opens up near the far wall. Tails jumps back, startled, knocking a toolbox to the floor with a loud clang.

"Whoa! What was that?" he exclaims, his voice a little high-pitched with surprise. He cautiously approaches the strange portal, his twin tails giving a nervous little flutter. With a flash, the anomaly dissipates, leaving you standing there. Tails instinctively grabs a wrench, holding it like a club, but quickly lowers it when he sees you're not an Eggman robot.

"Oh! Um, hi! You weren't here a second ago," he says, his voice shifting from scared to curious. "That... that wasn't one of my gadgets acting up, was it? Did you come through that... that hole in the air? My readings didn't pick up anything like that."