Book Title: Sonic: Collection of Short Stories

Chapter Title: The Fox Who Never Lied

Main character/s: Tails

Written By: PurpleAntiheroine

Idea Taken From/Insipred From: The Song, "The Man Who Never Lied By Maroon 5©".

Requested By: (None)

Rated: PG-13

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters included in the story.

Characters are owned by SEGA©

OC's belong to their rightful owners.

Hope you all like it!

"Hey egghead! You missed again!" Sonic teased as he avoided another missile.

"You pesky hedgehog! Once I get my hands on you, I'll destroy you once and for all!" Eggman said furiously. He fired more missiles at the blue blur. Only to be destroyed by another set of missiles. The antagonist looked up and saw a yellow plane.

"Well done, Tails!" Sonic cheered.

"Hey Baldy McNosehair, I got some delivery for you." Tails said as he fired three missiles to the villain's robots which destroyed some of it.

"Nice one, Tails!" Sonic laughed a little.

"Take this, you brat!" Egggman fired another missile but Tails easily destroyed it by sending two missiles. The other missile exploded next to Eggman. "I'll be back!" He shouted as he was sent flying.

"Let's go back home, Tails." Sonic said. "Last one to arrive will have to buy lunch." He said as he ran.

"Sonic, wait up!" Tails yelled as he drove his plane back home.

(Several minutes later...)

"Nothing is better than free food." Sonic chuckled a little as he ate his chili dog.

"That's because you're like 3x faster than my plane." Tails explained.

"Don't tell me you're a sore loser, Tails." Sonic grinned.

"Not at all. I'm just stating the obvious." Tails giggled a little.

"Alright, I trust you besides why wouldn't I, you always say the truth and you're a pretty bad liar." Sonic laughed a little as he said the last statement.

"Am not." Tails protested. "I can give a believable lie. Remember that time when..." Tails thought for a moment.

"My point exactly, I don't remember you giving one." Sonic replied.

"Alright, alright. I'll admit it, I'm not a great liar."

"I told y-" Sonic was interrupted as a familiar bunny walked to them.

"Hello, Mr. Sonic. Hi, Mr. Tails." Cream greeted them with a smile.

"Hey, Cream." The two bestfriends greeted the young bunny back.

"How was your day, Mr. Sonic?" Cream asked.

"Typical. You know, kicking Eggman's butt, destroying his robots with the help of Tails, eating chili dogs, hanging out with Tails, etc." Sonic replied as he sighed.

"The only thing that isn't usual here is that... Crap, I shouldn't have said it." Sonic said as he stood up. "I'll see ya later." Sonic bid farewell and hurriedly ran.

"Sonikku, wait!" Amy shouted as she ran up to him.

"So that's what he's been talking about." Tails realized. "Do you want to eat anything?" He asked Cream.

"No, thank you, Mr. Tails." Cream replied.

"Hey, no need to call me: mister...Tails will do." The young fox corrected. "Besides I'm just a little older than you."

"Alright, Tails." Cream smiled. "I got to go now, Tails. See you later." Cream said as she skidded away.

'She's so cute and sweet.' Tails thought dreamily.

(Next day...)

Tails decided to fix his plane. Sonic walked inside his garage to see him.

"Hey, Tails need any help?" Sonic asked.

"No, thank you." The young inventor replied underneath the plane. "You'll just make it harder for me."

"How come?" Sonic asked.

"You'll just ask me which tool is which." Tails deadpanned.

"True." Sonic agreed as he remembered the last time he helped. "Still I'm better than Knuckles."

"There's no argument with that." Tails chuckled.

"Hey, I gotta ask you something." Sonic stated as a smirk formed on his face.

"What would that be?" Tails asked.

"What do you think of Cream?" Sonic said, giving the question.

"She's nice and sweet."

"Do you like her?" Sonic asked once more. He heard a 'thump' beneath the plane.

"What are you talking about?" Tails questioned his smirking friend while rubbing his sore head.

"Don't play dumb with me, Miles Prower." Sonic's smirk grew wide as he saw the blushing fox. "Remember, you're a terrible liar even if you won't say anything, I could see it on your face."

"How could you say that?" Tails asked as he still rubbed his head.

"Which one: you having a crush on Cream or you being a terrible liar?" Sonic stated.

"The first one."

"It's the way you act around her, I could totally notice it. You always blush whenever she approach you and the fact that you always answer her with short responses. And also how you hit your head on the plane because of me asking you whether you like her or not a little while ago."

"One, I've talked to her with longer responses yesterday. Two, I was just surprised." Tails retorted.

"Surprised? Of what, me asking you if you like her? " Sonic pointed out.

"No, you just walking right inside my workshop" Tails replied.

"Shouldn't you have hit your head earlier when I approached you before? You just bumped your head when I asked you that." Sonic concluded.

"I don't have time for this." Tails crossed his arms.

"You're just avoiding the topic because it's about her." Sonic explained.

Tails facepalmed. "Just get out, Sonic." He pleaded calmly.

"But I'm not done talking to you."

"Leave or I'll call Amy." Tails raised an eyebrow.

"Alright. But friendly advice, you should go talk to her, invite her to eat dinner or something." Sonic said as he walked out of his friend's workshop.

"Dinner, huh?" Tails contemplated while muttering.

(Hours later...)

Cream picked up her phone. "Hello?"

"H-Hey, Cream." Tails greeted while stammering through the phoneline.

"Hello, Tails. Anything wrong?"

"I-I was just w-wondering... w-would y-you like to go wa-watch a movie and e-e-eat dinner?"

"Sure!"

"R-Really? Great! I'll pick you up at 6:30 pm." Tails said.

"Ok, Tails."

"S-See you later, Cream."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Cream placed her phone back to its proper place.

(6:30 pm)

Tails gently knocked at Cream's front door. The young rabbit opened the door. "Y-You ready to go?" Cream nodded.

The two of them ate dinner first then headed to the cinema.

(8:45 pm)

"Thanks, Tails. I had a great time." She hugged him, the young fox hugged back. A few seconds later, the two of them removed themselves with each other.

"M-Me too." Tails replied.

"By the way, I'd like you to meet someone tomorrow." Cream said.

"Ok, I-I'll visit you tomorrow s-so we could meet. Goodnight."

"Goodnight, Tails." She said as she entered her house.

(Next day...)

"Woah. Really?" Sonic exclaimed as his friend told him what happened last night. "I knew you had it in you."

"Who do you think, will it be?" Tails asked.

"It must be her mother. Who knows, Cream might want you to meet her mom. It's a sign that she likes you too. She gets to introduce you to her mother."

[A/N: Cream's friends doesn't know anything about her parents for this chapter.]

"I hope I could make a good first impression." Tails doubted.

"You will be. Now, you better go there, she might be there already."

Tails nodded and headed out to Cream's house. He knocked, Cream opened the door. "Tails, you're here! Come in."

"Cream! Oh, hi." A woman similar to Cream greeted Tails.

"Mom, this is Tails. He's the one I was telling you about. Tails, this is my mother, Vanilla." Cream said introducing them to each other.

"Pleasure to meet you, Ma'am." Tails greeted older mobian.

"The pleasure is mine."

"Anyway, I want to introduce you to someone else." Cream said.

'Who could it be? Her father?' Tails thought.

"Hey Cream. Oh, who's this?" A bee said as he entered the living room.

"Charmy, this is Tails. Tails, this is my fiancé, Charmy." Cream introduced them once again.

[A/N: Charmy and Tails or any of them except Cream doesn't know each other for this chapter.]

'Fiancé' Tails repeated the word in his heated in a few times. "You're getting married?" Tails asked calmly trying to hide his shock.

Cream nodded then spoke, "A week from now."

As Cream replied, Tails' world seemed to crumble down, he felt a stab in the heart as he heard those words. 'Why didn't I knew all about this? Why didn't she even told me before hanging out with me last night?' Tails thought.

"Tails?" Cream said trying to snap Tails in his thoughts. "Aren't you happy for us?"

"Oh, of course. I'm glad for the both of you. Congratulations." Tails greeted the couple as he gave a forced smile. He knew that he was just lying to himself.

"I was wondering... Could you help us deliver the invitation to our friends?" Cream asked with a sweet smile while holding some invitations.

"Of course, that'd be great." Tails forced another smile. He was reluctant at first but took the invitations. "I'll be going then... Nice to meet the both of you. Goodbye." He bid farewell to Cream, her mother, and Charmy.

He walked away, he delivered the invitations to their friends like: Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Silver, Blaze, and Shadow. Lastly, he decided to deliver the last invitation to his best friend so he could tell him what happened.

"That's just... sad." Sonic frowned as Tails told him everything. Sonic comforted his best friend. "Shhh... It'll be alright." Sonic hugged and soothed him while the young brilliant fox sobbed on his friend's shoulder. "If only I knew, I shouldn't have told you to invite her to dinner." Sonic said to him, feeling guilt surge through him.

"I-It's not y-your fault, Sonic. I-It was mine a-and mine o-only. I-If only, I-I wasn't so s-shy to tell her the t-truth I must've had a c-chance with her." Tails spoke shaikily while he continued to cry.

"Tails, calm down. I can't stand you like this, you're like a little brother that I wish I had." Sonic soothed him more while rubbing his back.

"It hurts so much." Tails confessed. "Of all the mobians, why does it have to be me?"

As Sonic heard Tails' cries, he started to contemplate of something. 'Does Amy feel the same way to me? Why didn't I see that before?' Sonic thought. He just realized that, "Tails, I want to thank you. You helped me realized how much of a jerk I am."

"What do you mean, Sonic?" Tails asked as he started to stop crying.

"You made me realize that I've acted the same way Cream hurt you. I've neglected Ames' feeling towards me. Thanks, Tails." Sonic hugged his little brother much tighter with a contented smile.

"Don't mention it, Sonic." Tails replied as he released from the hug. "You better tell her how you feel before it's too late." Sonic nodded and ran away while the young fox decided to do some inventions to take his mind off on other things.

The day of the wedding came everyone was there including Tails. He thought that it would be rude not to attend even though he knows how much it would hurt him. He sat on his chair, having second thoughts on leaving or staying instead. He was about to stand when...

"Tails!" Sonic called as he approached his little brother, clinging on his arm was Amy, who was dressed in a pink dress.

"Sonic!" Tails sounded surprised because what caught his attention first was the pink hedgehog with him. "That was fast." Tails muttered. The two hedgehogs sat beside Tails. "So you and Amy are official now?" Tails whispered to his brother, Sonic nodded in response. 'Sonic's lucky to have the girl who'll love him unconditionally. I hope I could have mine. At least, he seems contented and happy.' Tails thought and sighed.

"I got to go now. See you guys later." Amy bid farewell as she stood and prepared for the entourage.

"It'll be alright, Tails. You'll find someone who'll love you." Sonic said as he placed a hand on his shoulder. "Eventually." Sonic continued in a much lower voice.

The wedding music played as the enrourage started. Everyone turned to look at the bride, she was accompanied by her mother.

'Wow.' Tails thought as he glanced at her. 'Charmy's lucky to have someone as beautiful as her.'

The ceremony started until it was time for the declaration of consent ("I do's").

"Do you, Charmy, take Cream to be your lawfully wedded wife?" The officiant asked the groom.

[A/N: I just shortened the speech so it would be less tiring for the both of us.]

"I do!" Charmy answered cheerfully.

"Do you, Cream, take Charmy to be your lawfully wedded hus-"

"I don't." Cream suddenly interrupted which made everyone gasped and shocked.

"Why not?" Charmy asked sounding disappointed.

"Because... I just realized that... this was all a big mistake. I don't love you, Charmy." Cream replied. "I just realized that there's someone here that loves me very much. He sacrificed his own hapiness just to give me my own but I now know to whom my heart belongs."

The young fox was surprised to hear what he clearly just heard. Cream walked towards where he was seated and gestured for him to take her hand. He reluctantly took it and stood up.

"Tails, I love you." Cream said as she looked at his eyes. "I was so naive of your feelings. I'm sorry." Cream kissed him on the lips the brilliant fox kissed back.

Sonic cheered as they did so followed by their other friends (except Shadow) then the other guests.

"If you'd like, we could continue the wedding." Cream said.

"But what about..." Tails was about to contradict because he might hurt Charmy's feelings.

"Don't worry about me, Tails. I'll be fine. Whatever makes Cream happy, makes me happy too. Promise me, you wouldn't hurt her."

"I promise. Thanks, Charmy." Tails smiled, everything he ever dreamed was finally getting true.

Vanilla walked to her daughter and said, "I'm proud of you. You chose what'll give you true happiness." She hugged her daughter and kissed the top of her head.

Tails and Cream stood before the officiant. The wedding proceeded until it was time for the declaration of consent once more. This time, both of them replied with an, 'I do'.

"I now pronounce you, husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride." The officiant said as the two of them kissed.

"Now, that's a happy ending!" Knuckles exclaimed as he clapped his hands. Their other friends and guests also did so.

"Thanks for talking some sense into Cream about her decision." Amy whispered to the blue hedgehog while the married couple left riding Tails' plane.

"You listened to our conversation?" Sonic replied with a question.

Amy nodded with a grin as she reminisced what happened.

(Flashback)

"Hey, Mr. Sonic." Cream greeted as the blue blur walked inside the gown shop.

"Sonikku, what are you doing here?" Amy asked as she kissed him on the cheek.

"Cream, could I talk to you

in private?" Sonic asked.

"Of course, Mr. Sonic." Cream replied.

The sakura hedgehog walked away but in reality she hid so she could eavesdrop.

"Cream, you can't marry Charmy." Sonic said as he went straight to the point.

"Why?" Cream asked, surprised.

"Because there's someone else who loves you very much." Sonic replied. "He loves you so much that he'd rather bare how hurt he is just to see you happy but as his big brother I couldn't take it anymore."

"You mean... Tails?" Cream answered but more like a question. The hedgehog nodded in response. "But... I'm marrying Charmy."

"Tell me, do you love him?" Sonic asked.

"Charmy? Of course." Cream replied.

"The truth. If you know you're getting married, why did you even hangout with Tails?"

Cream was feeling pressured. She and only her could answer that question.

"Look, Cream. You're a sweet and nice girl. If you love Charmy, go ahead and continue the wedding but if you do love my little brother, stop the wedding before its too late." Sonic explained. "I'll be going, now. Please tell, Amy that I already left and I love her. And please don't tell this conversation to anybody." Sonic left while the sakura hedgehog went back to Cream's side. She pretended not to hear anything.

(End of Flashback)

"You did great, Sonikku." Amy kissed him on the lips, the blue blur kissing back.

"Get a room!" Knuckles said as he saw the two hedgehogs.