"Oh, my goodness me!" Vanilla, the beautiful, kind and fair adult rabbit exclaimed, unable to believe what she had just been told.

As she stood holding the phone to her giant floppy ear, she had to place a hand to her mouth when her jaw dropped at the horrific news she had just been told. She was sure her heart skipped a beat, too.

Something just happened involving her daughter, which she had just found out via an unexpected call from her best friend, Amy.

The pink hedgehog sounded pretty hectic when she spoke with her, and after quickly deducing the nature of the call, she perfectly understood why.

She likes to think she was a good mother. Always providing for her daughter since her father wasn't exactly around, and entrusting her with the likes of Sonic and Tails. So naturally, she assumed she could send her off to fetch the latter without a hitch.

But alas, it seemed her daughter had other plans in mind. The friend in question had just relayed the incredibly disrespectful act her daughter had just committed to her in the park  causing the shock on the mother bunny's behalf.

"Y- Yes, I'm VERY appalled!" She continued, finding the will to speak again as her voice quivered. "I'm very sorry about this. I will be having a very serious talk with her once she gets home!"

Vanilla felt her face flush in embarrassment. She was a good parent! Or at least, she thought she was. To think her own daughter would be caught mooning somebody was just a complete disgrace, and that she would do so in public, no less!

"Of course, yes. She'll be apologising to you personally, too. Thank you very much for letting me know." She finished, trying to remain as composed as possible.

With that, Vanilla ended the call, her arms dropping to her sides. She let out a heavy sigh.

This was certainly not the kind of news she wanted to hear at any point during her day.

Vanilla couldn't quite believe the nature of the phone call she had just received, but it wasn't like Amy just made it up for the fun of it.

She didn't like it, but she'd just have to confront Cream when she got home.

***

About 10 minutes had passed since that dreadful phone call, and Vanilla had spent it sitting g on her bed in anticipation of what wad to follow.

Then, the sound of the front door opening and apair of figures entering her humble abode caught her attention, as did the voices that they brought with them.

One voice in particular.

"Thank you again for helping us, Tails." She heard her daughter sweetly tell the guest, the faint sound of their footsteps downstairs heading for the kitchen for the repair of their broken appliance.

"No problem. What are friends for?" Came his reply, clarifying that it was the two of them that had come in.

With a sigh, Vanilla stood up and proceeded to make her way downstairs, ready for the inevitable.

Her disdain was evident in her trudging, stomping her heels against the stairs as she descended.

Once she was at the doorway of rhe kitchen, she was met with both the fox and smaller rabbit looking at her, though her attention was only on the latter.

"Cream the Rabbit!" She snapped, crossing her arms and staring at her with a mighty gaze. "What do you have to say for yourself!?"

As expected, her unusual harsh tone made her daughter flinch, but she wasn't about to back down.

"Wh- What are you talking about, mommy?" The younger bunny asked with a scared, innocent tone, backing away from her mother.

"You know what you did, young lady!" She scolded her daughter, stepping into the room and standing before her. "Amy told me that you did something extremely rude to her today!"

Once again, Cream seemed to be playing dumb at the confrontation, but Vanilla was having none of it.

"I... I don't remember doing that, mommy." She whimpered, hiding behind her friend.

"Really? That's not what she said!" She began, internally gulping before elaborating. "She said you showed her your bare bum, and didn't care how many people saw!"

The reactions from both younger animals were what the adult bunny expected; her daughter feigned a mortified expression at being called out, whereas the fox gave a shocked look and turned to face the girl.

Cream looked ready to reply, probably to defend herself, but she wasn't about to let her humiliate herself even more in front of their guest/repairman.

Instead, the older bunny grabbed her daughter by the wrist and tugged her outside the kitchen, heading back for the stairs.

"We're gonna have a LONG talk about this, with you over my knee!" She informed, taking her daughter upstairs.

"B-but I didn't do it!" Cream protested, trying to pull away, but to no avail.

As expected, the little rabbit was struggling and begging for mercy, but Vanilla had been given no choice. She was gonna punish her daughter.

When Vanilla and Cream reached the former's bedroom, the mother wasted no time in pulling her baby over her lap, despite the latter's pleading.

"No, please don't! I didn't do it, I swear!" Cream pleaded, squirming as her mother reached foe the hem of her dress.

"Don't lie to me, young lady!" She snapped, raising the skirt up and reaching for the panties underneath, only to be met with another disappointing surprise. And WHERE are you underwear, young lady!?"

At the volume she just shouted with, Vanilla was sure that Tails had just heard her, but she'd just have to address that later on. The more pressing matter was, quite literally, laid bare in front of her.

Not only had Cream flashed her backside to Amy and who knows who else in public, but she hadn't even had the decency to wear any knickers before going outside? That just proved it was intentional.

Once again, before Cream could answer, Vanilla engaged with the punishment, raising her hand in the air over the exposed bottom.

"N- No, please, not a spanking!" The young girl cried out, shaking her head frantically as her hands grasped her mother's leg. "I'm sorry! Please, mommy!"

*SMACK*

The first swat was laid right onto the middle of her left cheek, and the second one quickly followed onto her right, both causing the target's soft skin to jiggle ever so slightly.

"Please! I didn't do it!" Cream sobbed, squirming as she felt her cheeks start to sting.

*SMACK*

"Oh, so Amy's a liar, is she!?" Vanilla askedd, her palm crashing into the same spots on her daughter's rear again, the force causing a faint, rosy glow to appear.

*SMACK* *SMACK*

"I'm not a bad girl!" Cream squealed, feeling her cheeks start to throb as her mother kept striking them.

*SMACK*

"Oh, really?" Vanilla challenged, landing a particularly harsh spank onto her daughter's ass, causing the younger bunny to cry louder. "So good girls go outside without any underwear!?"

*SMACK*

"Owwwie! Mommy!"

*SMACK*

"Good girls show their bottoms to strangers, do they!?"

*SMACK* *SMACK*

Cream could only squeal as the strikes kept coming, her cheeks jiggling from each one, and her legs kicking and wriggling from side to side.

"Good girls lie to their mommies!? Do they?"

*SMACK*

The little rabbit couldn't even respond, only scream and sob loudly, tears falling from her eyes and onto her mother's lap as her backside was struck.

*SMACK*

"Mommy!" She wailed, helplessly flailing her legs about while she endured the punishment.

However, this only seemed to infuriate her mother even more, as was made clear by when she paused the spanking for a brief moment to move her baby girl's legs down in between her own, closing them tightly so she couldn't kick or tense up her buttocks anymore.

*SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*

This allowed her to deliver even more harder strikes onto her daughter's now-glowing backside, which seemed to be stinging even more from the restriction of movement.

"Feel like explaining yourself yet, young lady?" Vanilla asked crossly, spanking her baby girl relentlessly, her ass turning a rosy shade of red.

"I- I d- didn't do it!" She wailed more, crying pathetically, which her mother wasn't happy with.

"Fine, if you're not ready to own up, yet..." Her mother responded coldly, her palm crashing against her daughter's bare bottom again.

It was hard to say which was louder between the girl's uproar of crying  and the heavy smacks on her exposed flesh.

The poor bunny's bottom was glowing an even brighter red than Knuckles, the skin throbbing and stinging from the abuse.

Despite the unbearable pain on her sitting spot, Cream continued to deny any involvement in the crime, which only annoyed her mother more.

*SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* 

Finally, after 5 whole agonising minutes of sheer torture, Vanilla finally stopped, showing some mercy.

Cream, however, was still screaming, her cheeks a bright red and the flesh burning and stinging immensely. She could do nothing but continue crying, her hands clutching the underside of her mother's leg.

Pausing for a moment to compose herself after the intense punishment, the older of the two mammals looked down at her daughter's face, seemingly paying no mind to the tears falling out of her like a stream.

"Now, I'll ask one more time." She announced, tilting her head up by the chin to face her. "Why did you do it?"

The little bunny's only response was to sob and sniffle, her body trembling as her bottom burned.

She was still adamant that there must've been a mistake somewhere; she'd never do that to anyone, especially to a good friend like Amy, and she was sure she put on underwear this morning.

"I..." She wept, taking a sniff before continuing. " I didn't, mo- mommy... I swear, I didn't..."

Sighing heavily, Vanilla seemed to give up on this session between them, getting her daughter off her and placing her on the bed and standing up, crossing her arms and looking fiercely at Cream.

"We're not done here." She said firmly. "You can think about what you've done for a few hours, then I'll be back. But until then, don't even think of leaving this room. You're grounded, young lady!"

With that, the mother walked out of the room, slamming the door behind her, leaving her daughter to sob and sniffle alone, gently rubbing her sore buttocks.

Making her way downstairs, she pondered over what could've persuaded her to do something as vile as that , before she came across the fox genius coming out from around the corner.

He was carrying his tools and looked pretty satisfied about something, so she quickly worked out that it must've meant that he was finished there.

"Oh, thank you so much, Tails~" She smiled, putting on a more pleasant demeanor than she just had with her baby girl, even giving him a kiss on the head in gratitude for his services.

"It's a pleasure." The canine responded, blushing cutely at the affectionate token, before giving her a more concerned look. "How's Cream doing?"

With a scoff, turning her attention back up to her daughter's bedroom.

"Upset. And grounded, too." She told him, crossing her arms with concern, as the sound of her tears echoed in her mind. "I just don't know what came over her to do something so unladylike. I thought I raised her better than that."

"You did! Of course you did." The boy quickly replied to her, offering her an empathetic look. "Maybe it was just a bad day, or something. Who knows? It'll all blow over soon, though."

That brought some comfort to the mother rabbit, though not completely, and she turned back to look at him.

"Tell you what, I think I know what might help." He suggested

"What is it?"

"Well, I've been working on some new mind cont- I mean, mind reading devices. Why don't you two come over to mine later and we can see what she was thinking when she did it."

Her ears perked up at the idea, seemingly intrigued by the thought. If she could get into Cream's mind, she might know what possessed her to do something like that, and confront the problem directly.

"That sounds wonderful. How does 5 o'clock sound?"

"Perfect."

"Great. See you then, Tails." She waved, heading into the kitchen as the fox made his way back to his lab.

Now that her fridge was working again, she could get started on lunch. But more importantly, she had an appointment to look forward to.

She was so lucky t have a friend as amazing as Tails.