Sonic x Make Your Mark: Season 3 - Teaser: Comforting a Princess · 6:04am Sep 2nd, 2023
The sign guided Tails to a place that he could not access because it was blocked by a bunch of rocks. Tails checked the sign again to make sure he wasn't wrong, but the sign clearly showed Zipp on the other side.
So, he quickly flew above the sign, until he reached some kind of hill in top of the cave where Zipp seemed to be into. He removed his googles and looked for a place where he could enter, until he saw that there was a small hole in the ground. So, he quickly entered through said hole curled into a ball, barely spinning his tails once he didn't fell a ground to land.
Once he did that, he got impressed when he saw all the glowing crystals and the small lake in the cave. This place was beautiful, no doubt, but that's not why he needed to get in for.
He looked down, and there, he found Zipp, looking down at her reflection on the lake, while he slowly approached her, landing behind her. Zipp didn't even flinched, despite the fact that she knew Tails was there. So, Tails approached a bit more, but that's were Zipp sobbed, and he stopped moving.
It seems that Zipp has been crying ever since she arrived here, and Tails was feeling bad because of it. Still, he choose to approach her anyways... But he didn't exactly knew what to tell her...
"... What are you doing here?" Zipp spoke first after some seconds of silence, which were only interrupted whenever Zipp sobbed occasionally.
"I... I was worried for you" Tails said with honesty. "I just wanted to check on you, but... I don't need some sort of super vision to know you're not okay..." he said with an awkward chuckle.
"No crap, Sherlock..." Zipp said sarcastically, sorbing through her nose a bit. "Well... Now you know how I'm doing.... You can go..." she said with a cold tone, despite the sad tone being there as well.
"What? No! Zipp, I'm not just gonna––" Tails tried to say.
"Yes, you are!" Zipp said sternly, as she turned to face him, and Tails felt his heart sinking when he saw that her eyes were incredibly red and her mane was a bit messy. "I don't want to hear anyone trying to comfort me with lies! Everything that Mom told me is true!" she shouted with anger and hate, but not hate for Tails... it was hate for herself.
"Zipp, whatever she told you––" Tails tried to spoke again, but again, she cut him off.
"I'm just a rebel princess that runs away from her problems, Tails!" Zipp cried out loud, as more tears started to fall from her eyes and she looked at her own reflection with disgust. "I'm irresponsible and not even dare to attend my own duties! I never feel enough when it comes to anything in general! As a detective, as a princess, as a friend, as a sister... I have so many insecurities that I simply hide away because I don't want anypony to see the fragile and ridiculous princess behind my confident smirk! I'M JUST NOT ENOUGH!!!" she shouted with rage, sadness and shame, as she started to hyperventilate.
After she spoke out all her worries out, she broke entirely and started to cry again. She couldn't hide anymore at this point. She felt completely heart-broken after Haven shouted all that stuff, and now it was stuck on her head.
It didn't mattered if a part of her wanted to believe that her Mom just said all of that because she was mad at the moment, a louder part convinced her already that Haven believes she's a failure of a heiress and princess. Worse of all? A part of her desired to end the pain she fas feeling in all the possible senses, but she was too coward to even make such a thing.
Once again, she was proving to herself that she wasn't enough if she couldn't even end everything because she's so afraid.
As for Tails, he couldn't believe that Zipp would think so low about herself. Yeah, what Queen Haven told her was horrible and wrong, but it was that bad? He couldn't understand.
And yet, he wasn't planning to leave her like that, so he slowly walked up to her, kneeled at her side and opened his arms, indicating that he was willing to comfort her, no matter how much she declared that she didn't wanted it. Zipp noticed this, and didn't even hesitated, as she buried her face on Tails' chest and cried, cried like she never had cried before.
For the next 10 or 15 minutes, they both honestly lost count, Tails just embraced tightly the white pegasus and comforted her by rubbing her back, while Zipp cried on his chest and started to calm down.
Once she finally had calmed down, she simply stood there, burying her face on Tails' chest and still sobbing a bit sometimes, holding him like if her life depended on it, and it sort of did. And Tails just kept comforting her, just like Sonic and Amy used to do with him when he was younger and got scared of thunderstorms.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG X MY LITTLE PONY: MAKE YOUR MARK - SEASON 3
October 2023
I can only imagine where much inspiration for this came from.
Awesome. And wow Zipp went through something and tails comfort her, awesome job and looking forward to it
That was so sad and really sweet for tails to comfort zipp