Dream Baseball, Part 1: Any Way You Want It

“Catch!” Tails shouted and tossed the baseball as hard as he could across the field.

“I got it! I got it!” Charmy rushed back, hand raised as he saw the baseball coming into view. BONK! The bee got bashed on the cheek and fell over, eyes now rolling and a twitchy, gap-toothed smile on his face.

Tails sighed. “I guess we’ll take five…” The fox approached him wearing an all white baseball uniform and a hat. Today they were practicing for a friendly game against the girls later and he wanted his team to be in tip top shape for it. He wanted this to be a team of five each.

He got Sonic to participate. That was cool. At the moment he was out looking for chili-dogs for a pre-match snack. It was… very irresponsible.

Charmy was always up for doing one of his games. The mischief the two of them got into was often very unfortunate but it did a good job of bonding them.

The last two who agreed to be in it with him were Silver and Manic, his green, thieving middle brother. On the ladies side, well…

“Hello Tails!” A bright and cheery plant girl approached him from behind. The fox spun around and blushed with a hand behind his head.

“Oh! Hello Cosmo! I’m just uh… we were just practicing for the game…!” Tails exclaimed. “D-Did you read up on how baseball works or–?” “Uhm, actually, that’s what I came here to talk to you about,” Cosmo looked a bit sheepish. “When I suggested we play one of your Earth games I underestimated how long it would take to learn the rules of a single game. I figured an afternoon would be enough time but I fear I may have been wrong.”

Tails sweatdropped. His eyes were closed and he had a twitchy smile on his face.

She was cute when she was oblivious though.

“Heheh… w-well… that’s okay. I guess we can play something else?” Tails shrugged. “There are other games out there that don’t require as much memorization.”

“Well, that’s just it. I don’t wish to play anything else. I’m already in the uniform.” Cosmo said, gesturing down towards herself. She had on the white baseball outfit too. It looked great. Tails found himself blushing again. Man, she was looking fine in a pair of pants. The dress was cute but there was something about a girl in a uniform…

Charmy was observing this and giggling to himself. “D’aww! Careful now. You don’t want something to poke through your pants.”

Tails blinked and looked at Charmy with mild confusion. He then blushed a deeper red and squirmed in a panic, pressing his hands against his crotch and whimpering.

“HA! Just kidding!” Charmy exclaimed. “Knowing you she wouldn’t be able to see anything down there anyway. Not without a magnifying gla–!”

Tails angrily slapped Charmy across the face with his catcher’s mitt, making the bee twirl in mid-air with his eyes spinning and tongue out. He raised a finger and then fell to the ground again, the stars circling his head falling down one by one with him.

Cosmo blinked. She didn’t know what they were talking about.

With a huff, Tails turned his attention back to her. “Well, if you’re sure you still want to play then fine but what exactly do you want to do about the fact that learning the rules is too hard?” Cosmo nodded. “See, that’s just it. When I brought this issue up to the others, dearest Tangle suggested that we forgo the rules and play baseball in any way we see fit.”

“...” Tails blinked, fists on his hips. “I’m sorry, come again?”

“Heya!” Tangle appeared next to him.

“GYAAAAH!” Tails jumped out of his pants, showing off his Care Bears briefs for a split second, before falling back into them. He grabbed his chest and doubled over with his heart pounding. “GEEZ! I almost coughed up my heart! Why’d you do that?!”

“Sorry!” Tangle grinned. “I get like that when I’m excited. But did she tell you the good news? We’re playing Dream Baseball!”

“What the heck is DREAM Baseball?!” Tails gasped, exasperated beyond comprehension.

Cosmo’s eyes sparkled. “She told me that it’s baseball where the only rule is that we have to hit the ball and run around the four bases to get a homerun. Also, catching it or tagging you with the ball means you’re out. But that’s it. The rest of the rules are done away with and any means of achieving those three goals are legal.”

Tails looked at her like she was crazy.

Then he turned to Tangle and outright asked, “Are you crazy?” Tangle didn’t respond. She just looked at him, hands on her knees, and a smile stretched across her face from cheek to cheek.

Tails sighed. Stupid question.

“Don’t sweat it, Tails,” Sonic’s voice carried over to the fox as he approached with his other brother Manic, wearing the same baseball uniforms. “We got this!” Tails looked a bit distraught but then sighed and shrugged. “Yeah. I guess so.”

When the rules were explained to the others on his team, the new status quo was accepted by them rather quickly.

“Awesome! I love doing whatever I want!” Charmy exclaimed, both fists and legs in the air.

“Hahaha! Playing by the rules isn’t a thief’s M.O anyway!” Manic laughed.

“I’m just really excited I get to play any kind of baseball with you all. The future doesn’t have these games so it’s always a treat!” Silver bounced with happiness from foot to foot. Tails smiled lightly. At least they were enthused.

His ear perked up when he heard the team pep talk happening over with the girls.

“Alright ladies! We’re here to give them a beating they won’t forget!” Amy exclaimed, standing in her white baseball uniform proudly while her hammer rested over her shoulder, squeezed by her determined fist.

“Absolutely!” Cream exclaimed, clenching her fists tightly.

“Chao Chao!” Cheese grew excited too. The anything goes rule meant he could help her out.

“You know I’m more than ready. Just say the word!” Tangle nodded, teeth sparkling.

Cosmo smiled happily. “Thank you all! My first game of baseball is sure to be a rousing success with you here!” She said, extremely happy to have them.She then turned towards the quiet fifth member of the team and tilted her head. “I-Is everything alright?” Whisper had her head down a bit but she perked up when Cosmo addressed her. Whisper had her mask on so her expression wasn’t visible. She just nodded.

“Yes,” She answered, quietly. “Let’s have fun.”

Cosmo smiled again.

It was boys vs. girls in a game of Dream Baseball. Anything goes so prepare for anything to happen.

On the boys side, Tails, Sonic, Manic, Silver, and Charmy were out in the field, volunteering to be the outfielders for the first round.

On the girls side, Cosmo, Amy, Tangle, Whisper, and Cream were gearing up to hit the bat.

“What’s the scoring system for this game?” Amy called out to the field.

Tails thought it over as he stood out back, scratching his head. “Uhm… how about a home run is the only way to score and it just means you get one point.”

Amy shrugged. “Sounds good to me. Who’s up first?” “Should I go first?” Cosmo asked. “I did push for this to be a thing after all.”

“No, that’s not right,” Tangle stepped up, waving her down a bit. “You need at least one person going before you so that you can be demonstrated to how this works. It’s only right.” Cosmo nodded and stepped back. “Alright.” Tangle noticed the trepidation still in her voice and added on, “If you want to be an early hitter you can go right after me.” Cosmo nodded, smiling again.

Tangle took in a short breath and then smirked as she stood up to bat. One bat was in her two hands and another was in her tail. She had two of them! “Two bats! That’s cheating!” Charmy exclaimed. “AWESOME CHEAT! HECK YEAH!”

Manic snickered as he stood on the pitcher’s mound. “Awe. Poor honey. It’s a shame you were going up with me at the ready here.”

Tangle just looked on, eyes determined and centered on the ball in Manic’s hands. “We’ll see.” “WE SHALL!” Manic snapped and tossed the ball straight at her.

A loud CRACK went off and in a split second, Manic was Charlie Brown’d.

The ball Tangle hit zoomed into him and spun him in mid-air in a manner that knocked all his clothes off except for his Strawberry Shortcake underoos! His face planted the mound with his butt sticking up and tongue out, eyes rolling in their sockets like crazy as the ball kept whizzing by.

“HAA!” Tangle charged like a bull at the bases. She was zooming on by like a fire had ignited beneath her feet. It was to the point where she was leaving actual smoke behind. She made it past first base and it caused Sonic to start coughing when she rushed by her. If he’d ever run so fast that the people he passed by inhaled smoke then he owed them an apology.

“Oh yes!” Cosmo looked on, fists clenched and eyes sparkling with excitement and admiration. This was baseball and it was happening right before her eyes.

Tails was watching this while standing in the outfield, eyes sparkling as well as he watched her. She looked so cute. He almost wanted to just let her win but saw the ball zooming towards him and knew he had to act.

Well, he did for a split second before it beamed him in the face! Cosmo’s adorableness froze him!

Tails flew back, a gap in his teeth and eyes teary and crossed. He had quite the dumb, gurgling smile on his face as a baseball shaped mark appeared at the center of his goofy mug.

The ball bounced off his nose and took to the sky which had it overlooking the field. Tangle was rushing towards second base now. This was where Charmy was stationed.

“Oh shoot! Incoming!” The bee saw her headed his way. He then looked up and saw the ball falling towards him. He didn’t want to wait though.

Charmy bent down and shot off like a rocket into the air. He saw the ball twirling towards him and with his tongue out and a determined look on his face, caught the ball with his mitt, spun downward, and then kicked off the air to land down towards Tangle.

Tangle was close to the base now. She felt Charmy closing in on her from above and decided this was where she would stop. Unfortunately for her, Charmy had taken action before she did.

He tossed the ball down in an attempt to strike her with it to get her out. When she stopped on the mound, her position wasn’t where he expected it to be. As such, the fast ball struck her in the butt! The ball shot down like a bullet into her pants and traveled to the ground, taking her white pants down and exposing her green sports panties to everyone! Tangle gasped and looked down at herself, a blush crawling to her face. She then giggled and pressed her hands across her front. “Hehe. Whoopsie. Guess I went a little too fast?” Seems she didn’t catch what actually happened. Charmy wiped beads of sweat from his forehead and landed behind her before bending down and plucking the ball from her pants, hoping no one would see.

They did though.

“Ah! Charmy! Don’t put your face near her butt like that! What’s wrong with you?! How indecent!” Cream called out from the dugout, hands to her cheeks.

Instantly, everyone turned to look a bit closer at Charmy, who was stunned by the accusation.

Especially since Cream of all people had made it! She was the last person he wanted to give the wrong idea about him.

Charmy blushed and put his hands out in front of himself, waving them about as if to say “No! You got the wrong idea!”

He went to say exactly that too but when he poked his head up, his face bashed into Tangle’s butt since he was still below her!

“GAH!” Charmy gasped.

“EEP!” Tangle yelped and fell forward, face planting the dirt but also kicking upwards when she landed, nailing Charmy in the balls!

“DOOOOOGUH!” The bee’s eyes crossed and he stood there, arms out, and shaking all over. A trickle of pee seeped into his underwear but not enough for it to be visible.

Instead, the onlookers got a marvelous show of him pressing his hands to his crotch and bouncing up and down with anime tears streaming down his face.

He did let go of the ball though and Silver, using his powers, helpfully saw it go back towards Manic who had regained his footing and his senses over on the pitcher’s mound.

He hadn’t regained his dignity though.

Manic was grumbling with annoyance at the earlier display. He got his baseball shirt back on but not his pants. He flung them up and down to get the excess dirt off of them when the ball landed before him. He stepped on it to keep it in place, momentarily, before he stepped back into his pants.

The giggling from the girls was not appreciated. Cosmo even had herself a giggle when she stepped up to bat next.

“Yeah. Yuck it up,” Manic said, cricking his neck a bit. “We’ll see how you like it when I reveal my trump card…!”

Cosmo raised the bat and looked ahead, suddenly serious.

Manic, with his pants now back on, plopped the baseball into his mitt with a sly look on his face. “I declare a new rule for this pitch. Getting hit by my ball when I toss it means an instant out.”

“What?!” Amy gasped, shaking the support beam of the dug out and making dirt and sand fall off it. “You can’t just–!”

“Anything goes! We’re making the rules up as we go along. We agreed to it!” Manic waggled his finger at her.

Tails sat up in the outfield, rubbing his face down but overhearing this conversation. He was also upset by what he caught Manic saying and didn’t mind Amy’s protesting, admittedly enough.

“Fine!” Amy snapped. “Then I declare that rule is horse manure and should be ignored!” “No, it’s fine Amy,” Cosmo called out from where she was. Amy turned to look at her, shocked.

“A-Are you sure Cosmo?” She wanted to make sure she was fine with this. It was her game he was messing with after all.

“We agreed to this game with the idea of this being how it worked,” Cosmo reminded her. “If we override the rules people decide to throw at us just because we don’t like them then the game won’t get anywhere and it would defeat the point. So I accept.”

“Good!” Manic said, flinging his arm back. He stopped when she continued.

“Instead of ignoring your conditions, allow me to add one of my own!” She declared. “If I hit this ball then whatever state of dress you end up in afterward will be how you must continue playing the game.”

Manic raised a brow, curious by that stipulation. He then glanced at the less disgruntled and more intrigued Amy before going back to facing Cosmo.

“Sure. Whatever you say,” Manic nodded. If his rule can’t be overridden then hers can’t either. It was only fair.

Cosmo nodded, flinging her arms back in preparation for this swing.

Manic grinned and spun his arm around like a propeller. He was going to take her to task with this one!

The wind up was so fast and scary looking that it seemed to generate musical notes with how sound barrier breaking it felt.

It got even more intense when he did finally rocket it off at her. The explosion of air from his fast ball was to be envied.

Sonic whistled as he saw it fly. His younger brother was impressive alright.

Not as impressive as Cosmo though.

She saw the ball headed her way and, as if calculating when to hit it perfectly, took her swing without much hesitation!

The loud CRACK that happened was one thing but the following Sonic Boom took everyone by surprise.

The ball smashed into Manic again and all his clothes, aside from his Strawberry Shortcake briefs, flung off him again! He spun in several circles in mid air before face planting the mound, twitching and eyes now anime swirls. His tongue was out, drooling onto the mound and getting sand all over his maw.

The girls cheered and stood up with their fists raised as Cosmo made her way towards the first base where Sonic was. The blue hedgehog tapped his foot, annoyed as he had no choice but to watch her rush by. He wasn’t a fan of not being able to do anything.

Even worse was watching how quickly Manic surprised him in a good way and then surprised him in a bad way. Was he peeing himself over there? The area around his underwear clad butt looked a tad wet. God! So pathetic!

He then got an idea.

With a grin he reached off first base and chased after Cosmo. “New rule! The guy on first base can chase after the one who passed them if they’re bored and tickle their sides!”

“What?” Cosmo looked back. She almost didn’t catch that, it sounded so ridiculous.

She was then relentlessly tickled when Sonic, very easily, caught up to her and began tickling her sides. Cosmo yelped and squirmed, finding herself dancing her way towards second base where Charmy was.

Meanwhile, Tangle was gone. She had rushed off second base the instant the ball was hit.

The ball, for anyone interested in where it went, was headed back towards Tails. The fox was distracted, yet again, by witnessing Sonic do this to Cosmo though!

“HEY!” Tails called out, oozing disgust. “Get your hands off of h–BLEGH!” The fox was beamed in the face again!

He spun around like a ballerina, giggled, and then shook his butt back and forth as if doing a cute little dance for an imaginary crowd. “Oh yeah baby! I love doin’ the rumba with my butta! Look at my booty bounce!” He exclaimed, eyes crossed and voice warbling in a silly manner.

He then fell over and smacked into the grass, face submerged into the foliage and large butt sticking up.

The ball was airborne again though.

So was Amy’s hammer.

Sonic was laughing along with Cosmo as she was giggling to his fast fingers. However, Amy summoned her hammer off to the side and thrust it at him.

It beamed Sonic in the head, making his head fly back along with a tooth and some spit.

Cosmo gasped and stumbled forward, almost falling onto second base when she got there. Charmy didn’t want her to so he reached out and grabbed her before she did.

“AH! Charmy no! Don’t grab her there!” Cream called out from the dug out again.

Charmy looked over at her, confused once more. He then blushed when he faced Cosmo and saw his hand had grabbed her breast.

He squeezed it once to make sure and … yeah, that’s definitely what he grabbed.

Cosmo flushed red when he did and she screamed, sending a harsh slap across his face!

The bee spun around, looking dopey with his tongue out and fell over.

Unfortunately, his leg got caught on Cosmo’s dress on the way down and down it came too.

“EEP!” Cosmo yelped, panicking with a red face as her Tinkerbell panties were exposed.

She bent down with her butt out. Behind her in the outfield, Tails groaned and poked his head up… only to catch an eyeful of Cosmo’s butt pointed directly towards his line of sight.

“GAAAAHGH!” Tails gasped, a spurt of a tiny nosebleed hitting before he fainted all over again, butt still in the air.

So much was happening all at once that Tangle’s escapade towards third base might have been missed to the casual viewer.

Silver was ready though. The ball was in the air and he pretended he was about to jump to grab it before grinning and using his powers instead.

Tangle gasped. She saw this and knew that all he had to do was fling it down to nab her with it. She wasn’t going to be running out here in her panties for no reason. She was making it to homebase!

Yeah, that’s right. She left her pants back at second base. What of it?

“Gotcha!” Silver laughed and flung the ball down.

Tangle took it in stride. Instead, she decided to play a little bit of football.

“New rule! You’re allowed to tackle the person on third base if you really want to bum rush your way to home!” Tangle shouted.

“What?!” Silver blinked. He almost wasn’t able to process that before Tangle just rammed her entire being into his gut!

The football tackle wheezed air out of Silver’s gut and he looked positively astonished this happened.

Tangle, however, didn’t seem to properly handle the momentum of her own tackle. She fell on top of Silver rather than making it past him.

As such, the ball dropped and beamed her on the head!

“OWWW!” Tangle whined, eyes crossing momentarily before she slumped on top of him.

Silver just laid under her, eyes anime spirals and mouth hanging open with astonishment. Tangle was out but technically so was he.

Amy slapped her face.

One person was out. The other was on second base. Zero teams had scored so far.

“We’re going to need to push the envelope on this even harder now,” Amy said, staring ahead with a steadfast glare.

Sonic was flat on his back, pants sagging a bit to show off the red elastic of the Elmo briefs he had on, and eyes rolling as he giggled like a schoolgirl.

“It’s waining hammers mommy! YAAY! NO SCHOOL!”

Everyone seemed pretty demonstrably harmed. Things had only just begun though!

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I started typing and this is what happened so I guess the gang is playing baseball now. Whose performance did you like the most though? It's multiple choice so you can pick more than one.