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Thunderstorms, FUCKING, Thunderstorms. Gaia how much he hated them. They never happened often back in new yoke, only happening once in a blue moon, but how much he hated them. The loud noises only brought up times he'd rather forget. So it came to a unwanted surprise when a large storm had to hit green hill on his already unwanted visit!
Him,reble,knucks,prim, sonic, sails and mangey were stuck at tails' place till it blew over. The rest of the pirates and scavengers were at the Dimond cutters base, unable to risk leaving there.
Luckily for him the storm hadn't fully hit yet, just raining heavily. When tails,sails, and mangey were busy worrying about the storm, he'd found a perfect hiding spot. He refused to let anyone find out about his stupid fear of thunder. People knowing a weakness would only lead to them abusing it for their own gain.
So here he sat, hiding in a closet, trying to control his breathing as the thunder roared just outside. His ears flattened on his head as he dug his claws deeper in his skin, probably drawing blood, but he couldn't careless. His heart rate spiked as the lightning struck, his body shaking uncontrollably.
"I'll be fine" ,he muttered to himself, "everything will be fine" his breathing just started to go back to normal when another strike made his breath catch in his throat, a small wimper slipping out. He curled up closer into himself squeezing his eyes so tight they hurt.
Just then the faint sound of foot steps broke out from the thunder and his rasing heartbeat. He quickly held his breath as the clacking got closer to the closet. It could only be reble, unless anyone else decided heals were their new shoe of choice. The sound stopped infront of the closet as the doors started opening.
Quickly he tried making himself seem like he wasn't just trying to not cry, the only factor that he couldn't stop was his shaking. The closet opened and just as he suspected there stood reble looking slightly concerned.
"Hay kid, What're you doing in a closet?"
"What, is it wrong to hangout in a closet?"
Reble gave him a unconvinced look as she crossed her arms. "Answer the question" she sighed. "Well unlike with you and everyone else I'd puffer not constantly listening to tails,sails, and mangey whining about a simple thunderstorm."
Just then lightning struck, shaking the house slightly. He yelped as his tails fluffed up, ears falling back on his head. Reble looked at him slightly surprised before sighing, "fuckin hypocrite"
She knelt down by him, her annoyed expression now replaced with one of sympathy. "Come here" she demanded, leaving no room for questioning. He hesitated for a moment before shuffling out and into her arms.
He snuggled up against her, his face in the crook of her neck as she picked him up. If it we're anyone else they might have lost a few fingers but reble was one of the rare exceptions. She gently rubbed his back as she walked over to the workshop where everyone else was.
He was trying to control his shaking as reble got to the door. She gently set him back down on his own feet before she opened the door. Tords the middle, up against a wall, was a massive blanket fort, right by it being sonic,prim, and knucks talking among themselves.
"Found him" Reble sighed, as they walked in. Reble knew him well enough to know how much he hated showing any kind of weakness tords anyone, expressly people he looked up to, like sonic.
Sonic smiled, walking over to him and getting down on one knee. "You wanna join the other boys in the fort? Heard their watching my little pony in there" he chuckled slightly, pointing tords the fort. "What's my little pony?"
"Why don't ya find out?" Knucks asked, walking over to the fort opening the entrance slightly. Nine relented walking over to the fort where the three other foxes were now looking up. Tails smiled widely as they made room for him to squeeze in.
"Welcome to the my little pony council, where we talk about how we think we would have done things differently from what actually happened."
Nine sat there in silence before letting out a snort at the idea. "Sounds fun" he sighed, laying down on his stomach with the others. Though mangey was just laying on sails' back.
"What have I missed so far?"
"Eh, nah much, were only on episode three, but t' summerise it they basically jus' defeated the lass princess luna or nightmare Moon."
'Ah, who's that?'
The boys had been in the fort for hours, binge watching my little pony. The storm had past a few hours ago but that decided to let them have their fun. "Boys, need anymore juice boxes?" Sonic asked opening the entrance slightly. Inside lay the four fox boys, happily asleep.
He laughed slightly to himself, sneaking in and turning off the tablet which was now on episode 146. Before leaving he gently scratched behind tails' ear, earning himself a happy noise. "Sleep well boys"