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The first time tails noticed that the others were annoyed about his rambling was a few weeks ago, he repaired for shadow his motorcycle and put some other stuff on it to make it better and he explained it to shadow and made sure to give warnings and such ,after 5 minutes came rouge and said they had a mission tails turned around to go back to his workbench to work on other stuff when he heard shadow say to rouge "thanks that kid started to get on my nerves i mean it's nice that he repairs stuff and makes them better but the warnings would have been enough" and then tails had to watch as shadow rolled his after his sentence
He turned around after that with tears in his eyes he didn't understand why he was feeling like this after all it was just shadow right he doesn't need to cry over that...., right?
The second notice was only three days after that he made a new arm for omega that could turn into a cannon that he can use in battle it also had a mode that would make it easier to escape if needed he spent all night on it and happily rambled to omega how it exactly works and what not to do and how to keep it from not rusting after 6 minutes tails looked omega in the face and saw that the robot just stood there in silence and sometimes looked around as if he was waiting for him to finish tails stopped talking and asked if omega was feeling okay to which the robot replied "yeah everythings alright I've got to go" with that the robot just turned around and left in a hurry
Tails didn't think anything about it after all omega was just a robot
The third and last time was after tails made something for vector so he had a handy gadget for easier tracking of specific people he had worked 2 weeks on it and rambled for only 3 minutes and 37 seconds he gave warnings and all how to clean it on how to store it when charmy came and said they had a case they need to work on tails looked and them as they walked away and heard how vector thanked charmy for 'saving him otherwise he would of probably stood there for a long time'
And tails thought to himself that he would stop with it he won't ramble anymore he won't even talk anymore hes had enough and the first person who came to him after that decision was rouge she asked tails for a device that could help with grabbing things from high up and such he made the device in under 2 days and when rouge came to pick it up he just handed her a box and walked back to his workbench he didn't say 'hello or bye' he did nothing but give her the box that had the device and a care card, rouge thought it was weird and kinda concerning but she didn't think anything of it and left
The second one was shadow again but this time he needed something build that would help him be faster with his air shoes and tails made a device that would with a push of a button make him even faster by 10 min that means if a way took usually 20 minutes it would only take 10, tails couldn't make them faster cause if there was anymore pressure they would break
Shadow came the day after that cause he had something to do the door to tails workshop was open and shadow walked in expecting The kit to ramble again but he was shocked when tails just said hello and said that the device was on the shelf and that shadow only had to grab it but just like rouge there was only a bit of concern that was overtook by the feeling of relief that they wouldn't have to listen to it
And that happened more and more to the point everyone was concerned they missed when tails talked with them and didn't just point to his inventions so that they could take it they missed his voice and emotional side the kit didn't do anything anymore with them only in his workshop working on something for his friends or for his clients
Wonder where sonic was..??
"Tails! I am home the mission was a success" sonic was on a big mission that took a really long time about 3 months,sonic missed his little brother and was glad that he was finally home again he couldn't wait for tails cuddles and a movie night that was long overdue, he waited for 5 minutes expecting a fox kit that would run and hug him and then start about the things he invented in the meantime sonic was gone
Sonic frowned and walked to the workshop
"Bud?" Asked sonic as he saw tails hunched over his workbench
Tails hummed he didn't realise that the person wasn't any of his friends but his older brother
"What are you doing tails?" Asked sonic,only then did tails realise the person was none other than his big brother, his eyes grew in size he turned around and jumped up and hugged his older brother
Sonic chuckled and hugged back "yeah I missed ya too bud, finally realized it was me?"
"When did you get back!" Asked tails, he flinched at the crack in his voice from not using it "just a few minutes ago" sonic looked at his little brother and noticed a few things like the eye bags around his eyes or the way he could feel the youngers rips he looked at tails with concern "bud have you been taking care of you properly? You're so thin and you have eye bags under your eyes,not to mention your voice what happened? Tails fell silent he didn't think anyone would notice ,but he guesses he was a fool to think that the person who raised him wouldn't notice
"I... didn't really talk with the the others?? I was here and worked and sometimes people asked me for things to make and I did but I guess I really didn't...talk?" Now sonic was really confused and concerned as far as he knew everytime his brother made something he would talk about it it was sonic whole favorite thing to watch and hear the way tails would light up and walk around and have such a happy voice it was like he finally was acting his age and found something cool like a cloud or whatever sonic always encouraged it and made sure that tails would ramble at least once a day " I see, well do you want to tell me about the things you invented in the time I was gone?" Tails lit up at the question but then hesitated, he thought about the others and how annoyed they were " no let's just watch a movie and eat snacks" said tails with a fake happy tone and a fake smile...sonic wasn't convinced he looked at tails with a look that tails hated, he hated when sonic looked at him like something is wrong "tails buddy what's wrong you're usually so happy to talk about you're inventions" asked sonic with a frown on his face ,he wanted to know who made his little brother upset
It was quiet for a few moments until tails spoke up
"What's the point of talking about it if people don't like it? The others were always so annoyed after I talked about it so I stopped cause I thought if people didn't like it why talk at all, they just want my inventions nothing else so why waste their time?" Said tails with his head down and tears in his eyes
Sonic was shocked to say the least he was upset and angry that the others had the audacity to be annoyed without tails they wouldn't have those things ' guess I'll be talking to some people tomorrow '
"Tails I am not other people, I like it when you ramble I like listening to you cause that's the time where you're really happy seeing you like that is my moth favorite thing in the world" said sonic with a smile on his face "but sonic, you could be doing other stuff instead of listening besides you don't like being still and listening-" at that point sonic cut tails off saying "bud I don't care if i have to stay still for a hundred thousand years if it means you're happy"
Tails processed the words that came out of the olders mouth and started to cry... They were happy tears happy that at least one person liked his ramblings liked him for his interests and with that the two brothers walked into the living room as tails started to ramble about everything that he invented he didn't question it when the others came two days later and apologized to him he only nodded and forgave them, nobody didn't look annoyed anymore when he rambled and everythings was fine again