#hoglet babbles

[000marie198]

What were to happen if Sonic and Tails both became babies? Y'know, besides Knuckles and Amy having to wrangle their clingier than usual sibs.

Imagine two gremlin twin kittens who just got reunited staring at you with these faces:

:3 :3

Moments before disaster strikes

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But this happens after they are placed in the same space together and make friends.

The first instinct of baby Tails would be to pounce on his fellow age mate cuz he wanna play

The first instinct of Sonic would be to yip in terror and roll away from the fox and tremble while still curled up in a teeny ball. He won't know it but his action will make baby Tails pause and tilt his head in confusion and then curiously approach the still trembling ball to nudge it. It pricks him due to quills and he also yips and scuttles away, then whimpers and sniffs, holding his bleeding snout.

The hedgehog, recognizing the sounds as expressions of pain and fear and not sensing anything else for a full minute uncurls slightly to make a little peek at the kit, he's cautious but also curious.

They don't really have the memories of their lives but the general instincts and bonds are there and seeing the teary blue eyes and soft sad sniffles... Little hoglet is not able to handle it and uncurls completely and whimpers too.

He hurt the other. He doesn't want the other to be hurt. He's really sorry he hurt the other.

Little hoglet stumbles towards the sniffling kit and pats him with his little paws over and over till baby Tails stops tearing up with a hiccup and stares curiously at the hoglet.

Baby Sonic let's out an open mouthed smile. Tails gets curious and comes closer, which reactivates the hedgehog instincts and Sonic rolls away again.

Baby Tails realizes the other one can get scared if he comes close without warning or pounces so he doesn't do that. He just sits and waits, tails lightly swishing back and forth, watching baby Sonic till he calms down and uncurls, meeting the fox replicating his earlier smile.

Big wide eyes staring at each other and slowly they both become comfortable enough to actually start communicating, in babbles and gestures but it's still communication.

In a while, Sonic's stomach growls, he has always had higher metabolism okay. Baby Tails starts sniffing around to find him something to eat. He sniffs something he likes, FLIES OUT OF THE PEN, locates a cookie and brings it to Sonic. The hoglet muches on it and offers it to Tails after 3 or 4 bites. Tails also munches on cookie.

They start competing on who can munch louder, it's a miracle one of them hasn't choked on a crumb while giggling so much.

They bond over chocolate cookie :]

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There's a lot more moments we can add afterwards, aka once the two have become friends. .

Both babies would literally have that package deal, Do Not Sperate level separation anxiety specifically and only when it comes to the other.

Knuckles would carry Tails away to feed him something and Sonic would start wailing and reaching, Tails doing the same. They are very loud and they won't shut up till you reunite them, which will end up in close hugs and sniffles

There was that one time Amy had to take Sonic away for a little bit to give him a bath and Knuckles had to fight to hold a frantic clawing fox kit away, especially when Sonic's cries of sorrow turned into screeches of fear. This was so not easy.

Tails bites both their older friends after that while Sonic naps in the background all freshened up and tidied.

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You cannot leave the babies unsupervised anywhere! They will work together to escape one way or another no matter where and they will drive everyone nuts looking for them only to be found inside a barely ajar cupboard with cereal scattered all around them and blinking like deer caught in a headlight.

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You give one of them a toy or teether or rattle and they'll fight over it and scream. Sighing, you take away the toys. Next time you make sure to give both of them identical toys. They still look at the other and try to snatch it, starting another fight.

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There are two gremlins rolling around and flying all over the house, getting into the craziest, unreachable places. Sonic just scuttled under the fridge, Tails is perched on a ceiling fan. Everything is scattered

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The next time baby Tails pounces on the hoglet to play with him, Sonic doesn't curl up in fear

[saphstories]

Imagine Second Chance AU:

Shadow's gone back too far in time, and now is the sole guardian of apparently an orphaned baby blue hoglet that's somehow destined to become the Hero of Mobius.

Petrified that remaining too long in the wrong time period will step on too many butterflies, Shadow resolves to gather the Chaos Emeralds and travel to the correct time, back to the future and save Sonic.

But what to do with the baby? He can't just abandon him, he'll die and then the future will still be in jeopardy, but who can he leave him with? None of the future Hero's friends are around or able to care for a kid yet...so Shadow does the only thing he can: take the babe with him until he can find him a good home.

Collecting the Chaos Emeralds proves to be an easier feat.

Shadow is NOT a parent by any stretch, but finds himself the only able caretaker for baby Sonic on this journey. At first, he's just trying to keep the kid alive and well, but slowly, Sonic worms his way into Shadow's heart. And by the time Shadow has learned the location of the seventh Emerald, he's found a home for Sonic.

It's a good home with good people that will take good care of the baby, Shadow knows this. He did his due diligence, and now he can complete the mission he set out to do: Save Sonic. But when he turns to leave Sonic's new home, a little voice cries out: "DADA!!!"

Shadow freezes. He can't believe his ears. And then he hears it again. That same little voice that has been nonsensically babbling his ear off and costing him a decent night's rest and slowing him down and giving him cardiac arrest after cardiac arrest: "DADA!!!!"

And Shadow knows right then and there that his previous mission is over. It had been for a long time, but he was too stubborn to see it.

He's got a new mission now.

(Or that one AU where Shadow goes back in time to save Sonic's life but instead adopts him as a baby and irrevocably changes history as a result.)