Authors Note: This is my intererptration of the typical Sonic meets Tails story. It may not be the best because it is the first fanfic I've written but perhaps it stands out.

January 17, 3265

It was a cold January evening on Mobius, snow had freshly fallen, like it had for the past week constantly. Everyone was in their homes except for one little kitsune. Bare feet and hands, a small fox trudged through the snow not having much energy left. Miles Prower was trying to get away from civilization where he was bullied so much for basically one reason: He had two tails. Miles didn't know why everyone hated that so much, everywhere he went people would curse at him, hurt him, make fun of him, tease him with false hope, torture him, and sometimes try to kill him. Every time he would come out of the incident crying, wishing he had a better life. He hoped his parent's would find him and give him the love and care he wanted so badly. Any time he thought about his parents it only made him more upset because of all the horrible torment that his parents had gave him. As he trudged through the snow his thoughts overwhelmed him so he sat down under a tree and curled up into a fetal position. He had been holding in his emotions for a while now but could not hold it in any longer. He felt a tear coming down his cheek and let it out from there.

He cried for a good 10 minutes before the toddler finally stopped. Everything seemed unusually quiet, almost comforting but nothing like the warm arms of his parents he would never be in. "It's just so quiet, it's... too good to be true?" Miles thought to himself.

But then Miles heard footsteps approaching. He knew exactly what it was, the bullies had found him again. Miles took off running away as fast as his tiny feet could bring him. As he was running he could feel the horribly cold air pound against his dirty fur. Miles then felt a sharp stick pierce his right arm, to the point where it scraped his bone. "Owwww!", he cried out. Blood was trikkling out of his arm and staining the perfect white snow. Miles began to feel weak from all his running. He tried using the little stamina he had left to outrun the bullies but to no avail. He collapsed to the ground face-first in the snow. Miles tried getting up but was unsuccesful. In a desperate attempt to not be beaten as he was so much he pretended to play dead.

But his attempt was futile because could feel a stick rub up against his back up to his neck. This was the start of it, it was inevitable he would be beaten. Sure enough, he was being beaten with sticks and kicked. "Hey look at this", one of the bullies pointed at Miles' bloody arm. A horrible stinging pain immeditately hit his right arm. "AHHHHHH! IT HURTS, IT HURTS SO MUCH!", Miles screamed uncontrollablly. Each time a bully hit his arm he screamed in pain. Suddenly one of the bullies punched Miles' eye causing it to swell up. "OWWWWW!", he screamed in pain.

A few minutes earlier...

Sonic the Hedgehog had defeated "Eggman" for again as usual. "Eggman really put up a fight, I rarely fight with him for 4 hours!" Sonic thought to himself. It was pretty late and he figured just to go home. As he ran through the forest he heard something in the distance. Every few seconds the sound came up again. As he approached closer he realized the sound was screaming, loud screaming at that. Sonic peered into the distance to see small drops of... blood? It occured to him that it could be a kid hit a tree branch when playing, and it was giving the kid pain. "I might as well see what's going on, everyone relies on me to do things like this anyway, I'm not their god but everyone treats me like one anyway. I hate people so much, they should be thankful I bother to save them," Sonic angrily thought to himself. He absolutely hated people most likely because he had no friends. As Sonic approached the scene he could hear yelling. He was surprised when he realized it was cursing and trash talk. He soon got a clear view of what was happening, a very small kitsune was being violently beaten by a few older kids. Sonic noticed that the fox's arm was bloody and everytime it was hit the fox would scream in pain, he also noticed that the kitsune had a black eye on his left. Sonic tried to run to the fox's rescue but his legs refused to move, instead he only could observe the poor guy being beaten up. The bullies stopped kicking Miles and instead got something out of the darkness. When they returned Sonic saw that is was a bunch of full trash cans and buckets of... sewage? The bullies held Miles up and poured each trash can on him. When they were finished they then poured the sewage on him, completely humilating Miles. "This is ridicilous, but my legs refuse to move, ugh," Sonic thought to himself. He could see tears pouring out of Miles' eyes, and also that his body was covered in brusies and cuts, most of which were actively bleeding. "I've got a little surprise for you, freak," one of the bullies said to Miles. The bully pulled out a large cup of peanut butter and opened it. "Get ready to be covered in this you mutant," the bully cruely laughed. Within seconds the bullies were covering Miles in peanut butter on his already dirty body. Sonic couldn't take this anymore, his legs finally let loose and Sonic dashed towards the bullies. "HEY YOU, YEAH YOU!", he angrily yelled at the bullies. The bullies heard Sonic and ran away as fast as they could. Sonic got closer to the bullies but realized he was leaving the injured kitsune away, so he just let the bullies go. "Oh you'll get what you deserve one day," Sonic thought. Now he was going to let his anger subside so he could help the tormented fox.

Sonic approached Miles slowly but this scared Miles, Miles tried to get up and run away but was too weak to do so. Miles figured that whoever scared the bullies away must have been 1000 times worse than the bullies, so Miles in a desperate attempt to not be tormented played dead. "Hey little guy, are you okay?" Sonic realized that it was a stupid question because the answer was so obvious. Miles just layed there quitely crying completely unresponsive. "Hey, please talk to me," Sonic tried to ask him again. Miles finally responded in a quiet voice with incorrect grammar, "P-Please not h-hu-hurt me!", Miles squeeked out. "Why would I hurt you?", Sonic responded. Miles just curled up tighter shivering in the cold. "So what is your name?"

"M-My name is M-Mi-Mi-Miles," Miles said with fear evident in his voice. "Ok Miles, where are your parents?" Sonic asked. Miles babbled something incoherent at the hearing of the word "Parents". "Miles, where are your parents?" Sonic asked again. "I-I not have a mommy and daddy!" Miles cried out. Sonic's eyes went wide because he felt so bad for Miles. "Do you have a home?" Sonic figured the answer was no but asked just to be safe. "N-no", Miles said while crying. "How old are you Miles?" Miles held up two small fingers at Sonic. Sonic was utterly shocked at that so he yelled, "YOUR TWO AND YOU HAVE NO PARENTS OR HOME?" The loud noise upset Miles even more and made him cry louder. Sonic kneeled down closer to Miles' level and apoligized, "I'm sorry, it's okay Miles." "N-No one has ever n-nice to me before," responded Miles. The cold wind blew against Miles' arm causing him to yelp. "Owww!," Miles yelped. "What's the probl-," Sonic cut him self off when he remembered Miles' horrible wound in his right arm. "It h-hurts! Please make the owwies go away Mr. Hedgehog!" Miles cried out. "I don't know what to do to make your pain go away, also call me Sonic," Sonic replied.

Miles' eyes went wide over what he had just heard. "Your that Sonic, the hero one?" Miles' asked. "Yes I am, now I can tell your freezing your buns off right now, so..." Sonic replied. He then started to stroke Miles' back with his warm glove. Miles flinched at first but then relaxed at the warmth. "Th-thanks S-Sonic," Miles replied as he stopped crying. As Sonic stroked Miles' back his hand nudged Miles' tails causing them to spring out. "Hey, you have 2 tails!," Sonic said surprised. "P-p-please don't h-hurt me for being w-w-weird!" Miles replied being terrified and crying once again. "So this is why people hurt you?" Sonic asked. "Y-yes, e-everywhere I go p-p-people h-hurt m-me and give me o-owwies!" "It's okay," Sonic looked at Miles' who was crying, "Let it all out." Miles cried his eyes out for a good 15 minutes before he finally calmed down. "Hey Miles, can I see your face?" Sonic thought it was a strange question but it needed to be asked. Miles slowly lifted his head expecting a shoe to hit his face immediately but instead was met by Sonic's concerned face. "You n-not want to h-hurt me?" Miles said surprised. "No Miles, actually I think it makes you cool," Sonic responded truthfully.

A small, nervous smile lit up on Miles' face. Before Sonic could say something rain started to fall.

"Please just be rain, please!", Miles thought of the last time he showed his fear of thunder and lightning in front of someone, his parents... "I guess we should get home now!" Sonic said. Miles snapped back into reality and responded "Home? You mean..." You can live with me now!" Sonic lightheartedly assured Miles. A large smile emmited onto Miles face, "Yay! I have a home now", Miles happily said as he jumped on to Sonic and hugged him. Sonic wrapped his arms around the small fox. Sonic moved Miles onto his shoulder and started running back. Miles quickily fell asleep knowing that someone cared about him now.

Sonic was still dashing to his house with Miles on his back, he noticed the rain was getting alot harder. He tried to keep going until BOOM! A loud clap of thunder exploded in the distance stopping Sonic dead in his tracks and causing Miles to wake up and scream. Miles clinged to Sonic's neck while crying. "P-please stop the s-squigilly stuff!" Miles squeaked. "Miles, if I could stop it I would, but I can't." Miles burried his head into Sonic's neck clinging to him. "Sssh, it's okay

", reassured Sonic. Sonic decided that it would be dangerous to keep going so he looked around to find a small cave behind a tree. He walked into the cave with Miles clinging to his neck. "W-Why are y-y-you bringing m-m-me to this s-scary pl-place?"

"It's too dangerous to go in the open, we can rest here." Sonic sat down and rubbed Miles' back. Purrr, Miles rested his head on Sonic's belly. A clash of thunder struck again causing Miles to panic and scream. He buried his head in Sonic's belly while whimpering. "It's okay Miles, relax." Sonic began to stroke Miles' back causing the kitsune to calm down. Purrrrr, Miles curled up into a fetal position on Sonic's belly. Miles let out a few yawns before Sonic started scratching the fox's neck.

As soon as Sonic started stratching Miles' neck Miles was out like a light. "Sleep tight, little guy."

With that Sonic fell asleep himself.