-I don't own Sonic or anything to do with it. If I did, it wouldn't be a fan fiction.
Summery: Tails has always been a girl, and up until her twelfth birthday that wasn't as hard of a secret as it sounds, but afterward, she finds it hard to keep up with as certain events threaten to give away all her hard work.
As the sun rose, the young fox named Mary Powers was softly awoken by the light and heat on her face. She brought her hands up to rub her eyes off and they gently stroked her muzzle as they came down. Her eyelids opened to reveal two large blue eyes, still showing signs of fatigue. The young girl walked over to her dresser. Because she was only four and a girl, the orphanage wouldn't let her wear anything besides the little dresses they thought appropriate for her. It would still be four more years until she was able to wear skirts, and girl were never allowed to wear pants, which were only for boys, or shorts, which they deemed to trashy. Picking out a yellow dress, she headed towards the restroom.
She removed her nightshirt and began to brush her fur. The task took a long time, especially when she reached her two tails. After she was done, she put on the dress and redid her hair on top and looked at herself in the mirror, everything seemed to be perfect. But, Mary, or Tails as she preferred to be called, never liked looking in the mirror. Her reflection showed a goody goody that would probably marry early and take care of a truckload of kits while her husband went to make a name for himself. Frankly, Tails wanted nothing to do with that kind of life. In her dreams, she was always one of the Freedom Fighters, which was the new group that was forming in the Knothole. But, by the time she was out of this place, the Freedom Fighters would probably already full or have no need for someone without any training… Heading down to breakfast, Mary tried to move her thoughts elsewhere.
Sadly for the young fox, now that she had gotten on the subject in her mind, she couldn't stop thinking about it. She could always mentally solve problems others had given up on and was by far the only person who could solve a Rubix cube by age four, so why couldn't she figure out this problem? When she was done eating, she went out into the yard to see the privileged people line up for auditions into the very place she wanted to be. Even if she could sneak off into that line, she was too young now to even try out and she had no training. If only she could that Sonic guy, who apparently was the most promising person, to teach her how to fight. But, then maybe that was it, if she could get him to take her on as a student, she would be half way on the team even before she was done!
But, getting him to teach her would be a larger task then just asking him and the orphanage would never let a girl spend so much time with a boy that much older… once again, Tails knew she had given herself the answer to her problem. If she did things exactly right, she would get to both leave this place and get him to train her. Alls she had to do was pretend she was a boy. They would never think that a regular boy was their missing girl, and there were more boys on the Freedom Fighters anyway. She went back to her room to start working on the details.
She took out the big, elbow long gloves she had for formal occasions and sowed the length of it folded over to imitate the thick based gloves boys wore. After that, she snuck to the boy's section of the orphanage and took a pair of shoes out of the barrel where the extra pairs were stored. To her knowledge, that was all boys wore, besides sox, which she already had non-gender specific pairs. She put the items in a bag and hid it under her bed. When it was time to go bed, Tails pretended to go to sleep. She already knew from past experiences when the adults checked up on everybody and she had decoy from last time. Right after the second check made, Tails dashed out of the building with the bag in hand and decoy in place. They wouldn't know she was gone until about noon, when they went to check on everyone who didn't go to breakfast, so she had until then for the rest of her plan to work. She took off her nightshirt, tossed it into a dumpster, and put on the gloves and "new" shoes, then she was on her way to find Sonic and hopefully win him over.
Tails saw Sonic and Sally heading towards her direction and she knew it was now or never. She sat down on the ground softly cried. When Sally and Sonic got there they went over to see what was wrong.
"Hey, don't cry, what's the matter?" Sonic asked in a surprisingly caring voice.
"I… I… can't find my dad," Tails sniffled.
"Well, do you know where you live?" Sally asked.
"No, my dad left me at home alone to go 'sniffle' try out for the Fry food fighters," Tails said, hoping she wasn't over doing it.
"Hold on a sec, K?" Sonic asked, "Sally come over here a minute," he requested, going a little ways away.
"I don't remember any foxes trying out today, especially one with two tails…" Sonic said.
"I know, he was probably abandoned…" Sally said, assuming Tails was a boy due to the clothes the fox was wearing. "We should bring him to the orphanage."
"No way, I hate that place. Hey! What if I took care of him, I mean, I don't want him thinking negatively about fighters and besides, my hut has room for two," Sonic said.
"All right, but I am going to help you take care of him, I don't want you warping the poor boy," Sally said.
They returned to where Tails was and Sonic scooped her up. "You want to come with for a little while? I'll help you find your father," he offered.
"Okay," she said, knowing her plan had worked. The three went to Sonic's house and they tucked in Tails. Sally gave Sonic a kiss on the cheek and left to her house.
Hope you liked it, this is my first fanfic, but if you want to flame go ahead, I can take it, but I really would like any positive opinions anyone has. This chapter was probably longer then some of the others, so whatever that means to you.