UNPROMPTED ASKS / anon / ALWAYS ACCEPTING !
We know Tails has had your back for the big stuff, but what about the small everyday stuff? Can you share a time Tails looked out for you that didn't involve world-ending stakes?
❝ AW WHAT? DUDE! YOU definitely asked the right hedgehog. there’s so much to say! man , where would i even start? ❞ he was beaming , a smile bright as the sun on a cloudless day. already his mind was spinning , circling through their adventures together , big and small. there was so much he COULD say ; memories that spanned an entire lifetime.
he tapped his foot on the ground , parsing through it all. tails had his back EVERY day. always had. sure , he was young , but he was one of the most reliable people sonic knew. ( and he would only get better! ) tails was the one who’d sold little inventions and gadgets when the two were young , and sonic was barely scraping by. they’d bandaged each other up , kept each other warm and dry when it was DARK and RAINY throughout the night.
more than that , the fox had been one of sonic’s primary driving forces to PLAY IT SAFE on the road , or on any kind of hair-raising adventure. tails was someone who RELIED on him , day in and day out. so he learned early on to be ESPECIALLY careful. his brother was his ANCHOR POINT. the closest thing to home sonic wanted to have. someone to MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE he’d come back to , even when the whole world turned its back. ( in that sense , maybe they saved EACH OTHER every day. just ... by being around. )
he snapped his fingers as a memory sharpened into pristine clarity. ❝ aha! got one. ONE TIME , me and tails were roughin’ it — like we always did , back then. anyways , one time our shelter got flooded through from one nasty rainstorm. tails was th’one to bail me out , and the lil’ dude was half asleep! ❞
it had been thundering. the rain had been icy and cold , shocking the hoglet’s legs through. he’d been FROZEN in place , heart racing as the mouth of the cave flooded with water that rose well above his knees. his chest. head pounding. ears ringing. mouth dry and throat painfully sore as a scream lodged like a rock there. and somewhere amidst the panic all he could think was — ‘TAILS!’ — where was he? was he safe? was he - no. he couldn’t think about that.
but the storm continued and his legs were freezing and his muscles were shot and numb and painfully sore but the water was rising — above his chest. and tails was still MISSING and the water - the WATER.
everything past that was mostly a blur. he remembered reaching out his hand towards the mouth of the cave. he remembered glimpses of the stalactites that stabbed downward. even now they looked like teeth. he’d never known before that a cave could be so frightening.
but he remembered warmth and a pressure against his palm. he remembered hearing his name. a whirl of gold and white , and cold air as sonic was lifted from the water just as it reached his chin , his nose , his ears - and then being plunged downward when LIGHTNING FLASHED and THUNDER STRUCK , and they were falling. landing in a tangled mess of limbs and dirt , mud and sopping wet grass.
it’d been a thunderstorm.
but he’d been brave enough to save him anyways.
❝ but really , tails is the one who fixes the HEATER whenever it gets busted , and that DEFINITELY saves my hide from gettin’ too much hibernation drag. ❞
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