a/n: wow when's the last time i posted on here? oopsie... anyway, since i haven't written in a while (you'll find more of my works at ao3) i might as well add this here too.

enough rambling, enjoy my return with this silly short fic.

"…I didn't go well, huh?"

A blue hedgehog crosses his arms and shakes his head, noticing the scientist coughing and waving away a thick purple gas that had exploded from mixed chemicals. In a few seconds, the laboratory's air is cleared up from the smoke, and when the two-tailed fox notices his unimpressed onlooker, he chuckles nervously.

"O-Of course that's what I meant to do! Of course! Haha… Ha…"

"…Surely," Sonic says with a lukewarm tone, "Let me be the judge of that."

Sonic approaches him and examines the fox up and down for any noticeable injuries or changes. He brushes his hand against Tails' arm to make extra sure nothing is off, and when he pulls his hand back, he notices an abundance of amber-orange fur coating his glove.

"I don't know… That looks kinda… Bad." Sonic dissented, pinching some of Tails' fur off with his fingers, noticing how easily it was to pull off from the fox's body.

"Psh, don't worry about it!" Tails says with a dismissive hand wave, "I... Uh... I needed a bit of a trim, anyway!"

Sonic notices Tails sweating and blushing in embarrassment, and the hedgehog can't help but laugh softly.

"Aww, but I like how fluffy you are!" Sonic teases with a mischievous smirk, "But if you lose too much fur, you'll get cold! And we wouldn't want that, would we? So…"

Suddenly, a cloud of smoke fills the laboratory again, but this one is made of dark energy and comes from the hedgehog. Tails watches as Sonic is enveloped in a dark mist, and comes out of it in a much larger, scarier but more fluffy form. Tails is used to this sight by now, but that doesn't stop him from nearly having a heart attack when Sonic jumps on him. The scientist nearly falls over as the much larger male leans over him and traps him in bulky and woolly arms.

"Even if you end up looking like a naked mole-rat, I think I got enough fur for the both of us." Sonic wittily remarks, his voice more gruff and gravelly after the transformation.

"That's only at night, though," Tails points out, now pouting that his experiment was a complete failure, "In the morning you'll be back to normal…"

"Heh, you almost sound upset," Sonic jests, patting the fox's head in an almost patronizing manner, "You that scared of losing all your fur?"

Sonic waits for Tails to playfully quip back at him, but the fox is too lost in his own thoughts to do so. Sonic notices this and gives Tails a questioning look.

"What's on your mind, Einstein?" Sonic queried, waving his hand in Tails' face to gain his attention.

The action cuts Tails' concentration, and he gazes up at the large and dark bluish hedgehog with a comically serious expression.

"…You know how you transform every day at night, and how by the next day, your form doesn't have any injuries or changes from the previous night?"

"Yeah? So...?"

"So…What if every night, I shaved your fur and—"

"What?" Sonic interjects, now releasing his embrace on Tails and giving him an incredulous look, "Did I hear that right?"

"Wait, wait! Hear me out! It's brilliant once you think about it; We trim your incredibly soft and cozy fur tonight, and the next night, it'll be all back, so we cut it some more and… Boom! We have the softest and coziest blanket in the world! …What do you think?"

"I think you're insane," Sonic deadpans, once again crossing his arms and shaking his head, "Well, at least you're not using it to make a quick buck…"

"Hm... But that would actually be really smart!" Tails points out, and one could almost see the imaginary light bulb going off above his head. Tails strokes his chin, now more lost in thought than ever.

"Your regenerative fur coat would practically cost us nothing to use it for a profit, and the financial gain would allow me to invest more into my projects and experiments. It would be absolutely perfect! And that's not even including the—"

His rambling only comes to an end when his ear twitches and catches the sound of Sonic's spiky soles exiting his laboratory.

"…Huh? Sonic, wait, where are you going? …Come back! We could use it to buy some chilidogs if you want! I Promise!"

a/n: while i was editing this i had like 19 usages of "now" in this fic that's barely 700 words. i don't know why i hyper-fixated on that word for this fic... maybe it's my brain telling me something.