hi i’m gonna answer your question months after you asked sorry
so there was a challenge in the sonic amino YEARS ago, back when i was there, to write a fic about character fears.
my idea was to write one called thunder. it’s an alternate take on sonic and tails’ early days and how they met.
ok so the plot is as follows:
tails is at school. he doesn’t have friends really and he’s sometimes bullied. but he’s smart, obviously, and he remains hopeful. he gets the chance to prove himself at the school science fair, so he does a presentation on christmas island. he tells of magnificent, exotic creatures that live there. but his teacher doesn’t take it seriously, and his peers laugh him out the door.
defeated, tails walks back home. his mom is away as usual, she’s a renowned pilot and adventurer, but she’s never home. tails goes downstairs and studies, and he finds an old map to christmas island. desperate to prove everyone wrong, he climbs into his mom’s old biplane. he spent hours many days reading about planes, so it’s not too hard for him.
a storm brews, but he feels determined. soon he’s flying across the ocean in the evening, and dark clouds loom over him. he hears crashing thunder around him, gradually getting louder. he’s terrified, but he can’t turn back. suddenly a bolt strikes the plane.
the current destroys the plane, but only some of it courses through tails. it’s enough to send him in a state of unmatched shock, bouncing between consciousness and unconsciousness as he comes crashing down onto land.
in the early morning on christmas island, sonic is dashing around. taking in the sights and colors. he notices a fire in the woods, and he comes in to help. a little fox is laying there, with a destroyed plane and a raging fire all around him.
sonic takes tails to his treehouse, where tails eventually wakes up. he tells sonic about everything, and instead of interrupting and teasing, he listens intently. sonic talks about his worries too, about occasional robot attacks that have been leaving everyone on edge. the two walk around the island, searching around for parts to fix his plane.
tails is amazed. not only by the new friend who seems to respect him, but also by the island. everything he told tales about was actually true. the wildlife was like nothing he had ever seen before.
they eventually fix the plane. but as tails is just about to leave in the plane, he hesitates. he doesn’t want to return to his old life where everyone either hated him or ignored him, he wanted the simple pleasures of life on christmas island. and people who actually wanted him around.
soon, a thunderstorm rolls in again. memories of his pain from earlier comes back. each thunder strike hurts him all over again, but sonic comforts him. they walk back to his treehouse.
when the storm dies down, tails writes a letter to his mom, promising he won’t every truly leave her behind. and they both step outside once again. they encounter strange robots. attacking his treehouse and a nearby village.
tails is overwhelmed with fear again. but sonic simply smiles, he does everything in his power to destroy them and free the animals trapped inside. sonic, with the same charisma he’s always had, invites tails to make something new with the scrap.
he makes a small hand cannon. as more, stronger, scarier machines approach, sonic looks to him and smiles. promising they’ll face every threat together from that day forward, and that they swear to protect their home, and their friends, from anything that threatens them.
ANYWAYS thanks for listening to my ramble, can’t believe i remembered all that
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