Tails and Cream: Our First Meeting

**Tails and Cream: Our First Meeting!** is the seventh one-shot of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Miles “Tails” Prower
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Chocola the Chao
* Rosemary Prower
* Amadeus Prower
* Merlin Prower
* Mobian Zebra (Flashback)
* Mobian Giraffe (Flashback)
* Various Chao (Flashback)
* Various Angel Chao (Flashback)
* Flickies (Mentioned)

## Plot

This one-shot starts on the first day of Spring of 2004, as Cream and Cheese head into theirs and Tails’ guest room. The young fox is fast asleep and his namesakes flicker as he sleeps. Cream, enamored with this cuteness, leans in and gives Tails the funny kiss. Unfortunately, Tails sneezes and Cream leaps back in surprise. This wakes up Tails, who had a weird dream about Cream and Vanilla, apparently resulting in her disobeying her and having something to do with a tank. After successfully giving Tails the Funny Kiss, the young fox wraps his namesakes around himself shyly and Cream and Cheese hug them. Tails also stroke’s Cream’s ears.

Unknown to the budding couple, Rosemary and Vanilla, their respective mothers, are watching with Chocola. They comment on how cute their kids are together, and this results in them thinking back to when Tails and Cream met.

Rosemary takes a two-year-old Tails, then called Miles, to meet a 6-month-old Cream. Vanilla comments on Tails’ adorableness and strokes him under the chin, resulting in Tails shyly hiding behind his mom. As mother and son walk in, they see many Chao flying around in the house (among them is possibly Cheese and Chocola). Tails is put into the playpen with Cream, who has Angel Chao flying around her. Cream crawls over to meet Tails, who is too shy to move, and calls out “Fwuffy,” snuggling into Tails’ namesakes as he hides behind them.

Back in the present, the now eight-year-old Tails and six-year-old Cream are hugging each other and Vanilla and Rosemary decide to leave the budding couple be. Cream asks Tails if he remembers the day that she and Vanilla allowed him to live with them and he confirms he could never forget it.

The previously six-year-old Miles is sadly sitting by himself while being mocked by the other kids, namely, a Mobian Giraffe. Just then, Vanilla and a then four-and-a-half-year-old Cream are on a walk eating ice cream when they see Miles being bullied. Vanilla decides to go and handle things and tells Cream to hold her hand. One of the bullies ends up tripping poor Miles who lands in the mud and a Mobian Zebra calls him a mutant. Cream, being so young and naïve at this point, asks her mother what that was and Vanilla explains to her that it was a cruel word used to describe someone as “different” and she wishes for Cream to never bring up that word again. The rabbits see Miles walking away and Cream wishes to make him feel better. Vanilla allows her to do that while she deals with the bullies.

Cream sees Miles’ tails sticking out of the haystack and tries to get him to walk out, telling him his “cuddle bunny” is here. It doesn’t work as the bullies had frightened Miles too much. She then tries to give him mint candy (Miles’ favorite treat), but, he just grabs the candy and retreats into the haystack. Cream starts crying and this is what leads Miles to come out to hug her. Unfortunately, Cream says that “it wasn’t his fault he was born with two tails,” which made things worse by mistake, but, she manages to make things better by saying that Miles’ twin tails are adorable and they are unique. Cream also tells Miles that she finds “Tails” to be a more colorful name than Miles. Not quite used to being complimented by girls his age, he still accepts that Cream calls him Tails. Vanilla pets Miles’ head and tells him he didn’t need to worry about being bullied anymore as he was going to live with her and Cream and that Rosemary made Vanilla his godmother. Miles wonders if he’ll see his parents again and Vanilla believes time will tell.

Back in the present, Tails remarks that Cream was the first female friend his age that he’s had and the rabbit kisses his cheek. The young fox faints as Cream snuggles him.

In another room, Rosemary and Vanilla are chatting with Amadeus and Merlin, the young adult rabbit commenting that she knew that Cream had a strong interest in Tails. Amadeus wishes Tails wasn’t so flustered around her, but, Rosemary and Merlin cut in that he shouldn’t have said that. Rosemary said Amadeus had dated her for three years before asking for her hand in marriage and Merlin mentions he wrote a poem so bad Rosemary was crying. Now embarrassed, Amadeus admits he was wrong as Rosemary kissed him on his cheek. Merlin comments how Cream will have a great protector when Tails reaches his full potential and he saw a vision of Tails in a crystal ball surrounded with the Chaos Emeralds and Flickies. Vanilla comments she saw some Flickies fly in to play with Tails. Merlin suspects the Flickies see Tails as their king like how the Chao see Vanilla and Cream like the queen and princess, respectively. Rosemary is surprised that her son may be getting a super form and Merlin admits there’s only a 50% chance it could be happening. Amadeus and Merlin both hope this prediction is one of the ones that turns out to be correct as the one-shot ends.

## Trivia

* A video by System509 is referenced in this one-shot.
* Though not named, TobyandMavisforever2 proposed the idea of the Chao in Cream and Vanilla’s Chao Garden to be from Sonic Chronicles The Dark Brotherhood, the game where Shade originated from. MrBLUERANGERHERO thought this was a good idea.
* In the original Sonic X, Mr. Tanaka is the one to admit Tails was a more “colorful” name than Miles. In this story, it’s Cream who says that and in the rewrite of Episode 31, Mr. Tanaka says something completely different altogether.