Flight of the Flightless

Flight of the Flightless is an episode of HTFF.

Starring

 * Hedge
 * Ace

Featuring

 * Splendid
 * Lumpy

Featuring

 * Binky
 * Kibble
 * Flyhigh
 * Generic Tree Friends

Plot
Watching TV, Hedge discovers that Splendid is making a public appearance. Hedge is driven jealous as Splendid shows off his flying moves to the crowd of fans. He jumps off his couch but fails to lift off. So he decides to take flying lessons.

Hedge knocks on Ace's door and asks if he can teach him to fly. Ace takes Hedge to his garage and reveals a big red plane. Getting on board, the two use it to fly around town. Splendid dashes by and Hedge is irritated. Ace lets him take over as the pilot, leading to a wild sky ride thanks to Hedge's poor piloting skills.

Meanwhile, Lumpy skydives off a plane, on which he was the only passenger. He quickly realizes he forgot his parachutes and screams. Splendid saves him and the crowd applaudes. But since nobody is piloting Lumpy's plane, it crashes into Hedge and Ace.

Ace tries to flap his wings, but his feathers catch fire. Hedge sees he must do something. So he stretches out his patagiums... and miraculously swoops through the air, grabbing Ace just moments before hitting the ground. The crowd looks in awe at Hedge's newly-found ablility.

Unfortunately, the fire on Ace's wings spread onto Hedge's skin flaps, ruining his flight. The two scream as they fall. Splendid swoops for the save, but in doing so he drops Lumpy. Splendid brings Ace and Hedge back safely on the ground, then returns to his fans to sign autographs. Lumpy lands on Ace, killing them both.

With his wings burned off, Hedge is once again flightless. Suddenly he discovers the propellor from Ace's plane. Tying it to his tail, Hedge tries once again to fly by jumping off a cliff. He fails miserably.

Moral
"What goes up must come down."

Deaths

 * 1) Ace is crushed by Lumpy.
 * 2) Hedge falls off a cliff (debatable, may have survived the fall).

Trivia

 * Binky, Kibble and Flyhigh appear when Splendid signs autographs.