Buzzkill
Timeline: Sometime after Black Knight but before Colors.
Rating and Warnings: K and none
Notes: This is based off a post on tumblr that I couldn't resist. See the bottom for the text of the post.
Disclaimer: All recognizable material belongs to SEGA.
It was early morning, too early for the sun, when Tails woke. Stretching until his shoulders cracked, he yawned hugely before stooping down to search for his shoes. His prying hands found one lodged under the bed, but not the other, and after a few more seconds of fruitless searching, he sat back up with a huff. He had distinct memories of stumbling into the room at one in the morning last night, following a busy evening in the workshop that involved one too many explosions for his liking, kicking off his shoes, and falling face first onto the mattress. Logical thought followed that his shoe should be here.
He was about to drop to his hands and knees when a crash rang from downstairs and those intentions derailed. Rolling his eyes and preparing a few choice words for whichever of his friends had decided to crash on his couch - plus a few extra, harsher words if that person happened to be Sonic - he padded from the room with socked feet.
What he found in the living area of the workshop should have surprised him, but it was far too early for such an emotional reaction. As it was, he took one look at the assembled mass of color - red, pink, brown, green, yellow, purple, black and red, and the inevitable blue - and felt exasperation that was too thick for one so young. Really, he felt like an old man dealing with these people, ready to wave his cane and demand that they get off his lawn, except, in this case, the lawn was replaced with his well worn couch.
Every single one of his friends, save Silver and Blaze, who were in the future and an alternate dimension respectively, were watching as Sonic told a story, a red and white prop acting as an impromptu sword. Tails felt his expression flatten and his namesakes still as the speedster's words met him.
"I was fighting off Arthur's minions with sword slashes! One came from the right, then the left! Then, there were three pikemen barreling at me from the front! Caliburn sailed through the air, slashing every single one of them to pieces!" Tails' missing shoe flew through the air, swiping at enemies that only the hedgehog could see. Cream gasped excitedly as the footwear whizzed by one of her ears and she hugged Cheese closer, while the rest of the room, save Shadow, who looked extremely unimpressed, grinned and laughed as Sonic continued with his story.
Tails could only watch, dumbfounded, as Sonic sped through the rest of the story. Merlina, the girl who had been with him, turned out to be evil, and Knuckles, Blaze, and Shadow were knights, while Tails was the blacksmith.
"Oh, this is so exciting!" Cream squealed when Sonic paused for breath at the end. "Tell us another, Mister Sonic!"
"Hm..." Sonic tapped the edge of his shoe-turned-sword against his chin as he thought. "Well, there was this one time when I read the Arabian Nights and was pulled inside. There was this evil djinn that was wiping the book clean and—"
Tails had had enough. With a sigh, he coughed as loudly as he could manage, drawing every eye in the room. Sonic grinned at him, unabashed as Tails sent a withering look in his direction.
"Tails! Buddy, come take a seat! I'm just telling everyone about how I was sucked into these books and—"
"I didn't know you read."
Short but whatever.
The post by basedhylia: "apparently the storybook series did actually happen in sonics perspective anyway i want a scene where it just shows sonic trying to explain to everyone what happened in the events of secret rings and black knight and tails just being like "i didnt know you read""
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