𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰: 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟓+: 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰

𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟓+: 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞

      An intergalactic nation is plunged into war! The insidious Emperor Gadius, vice-president of the League of Fascist Capitalists, raised a rebellion against the Government, preserving harmony in the galaxy and seizing power, establishing his own order. Many free worlds living happily under socialism and communism were enslaved, unable to provide worthy resistance. Most of the intergalactic alliances and military enterprises stood under the banner of evil, under the umbrellas of capitalism and fascism, providing Ghadius with powerful weapons and a huge navy. The Socialist Intergalactic Federation's last hope is to find an ancient prophecy that tells of heroes who can stop the reign of Emperor Ghadius and end the tyranny of Capita-Fascism in the galaxy!

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      Members of the Socialist Intergalactic Federation flew in their ships to a gray and gloomy planet, which, according to various rumors, was called the great planet of prophecy in the alpha sector of the galaxy. Senator Duncan, guarded by his loyal soldiers, lands on the planet and enters the great temple, shrouded in mold, moss and algae, since from time to time the temple is flooded with water, which either rises or falls. Having entered the temple, they tried for a long time to find a button in the form of a crystal, which opens the desired cache with the desired prophecy. They searched all the manuscripts and archives, but they always came across everything that was wrong. However, the senator noticed on one of the walls an image of a humanoid old woman who kept her eyes closed. Instead of a mouth, it was depicted with a circular stone with a purple ruby. Taking hold of it, the senator turned this stone lever clockwise and the wall began to rise. It was the largest cache, inside which contained the smallest box, which had long been filled with dust and cobwebs. After clearing the box of dust and cobwebs, the senator opens the lid of the box and a blue bright glow emanates from the box. — Well, what is it, dear senator? — Vice-Senator Arseny asked him, and Duncan looked more closely at the glow and saw through it a translucent image before his eyes. It seemed as if he was remembering watching some movie or series on TV. — We found it... What we have been looking for for so long... An ancient prophecy about legendary heroes who can save the galaxy from the power of capitalism. Vice-Senator Arseny, go to the planet Mobius and find them! — Yes, Senator Duncan. — the vice-senator had just answered, when suddenly the sounds of lasers and cannons were heard, and the temple began to shake a little and collapse. — Oh no! They found us again! — Duncan became worried. — Vice-Senator, hurry up, we will delay them as long as we can! While the soldiers of the socialist intergalactic federation were firing back from the capitalist fascist invaders of Emperor Gadius, Vice-Senator Arseny fled to his ship along with his personal guard and left this planet.

At the same time on Mobius - the Gamma sector of the galaxy

      Two hedgehogs, Sonic and Shadow, stood near a huge and decorated fir tree in the village and admired it. — Wonderful eternal New Year! The last time I met him was a year ago, but it feels like it was actually yesterday. — the blue hedgehog says to himself, to which the black-scarlet grinned: — You little stupid, that was yesterday. How you arm and a leg? — My arm and leg no longer hurt. — Sonic replied, lightly grabbing his right shoulder with his left hand. — True, the doctor said that I wouldn’t be able to run or jump for another couple of hours, so that the bones would definitely heal completely... I’m even glad that we resolved all our conflicts and began to get along well. — You are right. At that moment, a noise was heard behind them. The hedgehogs turned around and saw a small yellow spaceship shaped like a submarine landing behind them. — What the?... Who is this? — Sonic didn’t understand. The ship itself landed and Vice-Senator Arseny and his four guards came out of it to meet the hedgehogs themselves with blasters in their hands. — Who else is this? — Sonic asked again. — Did I really find you? Are you Sonic and Shadow? — Arseny asked them. — Yes, it's us. Who are you? — asked Shadow. — My name is Arseny. I am a vice-senator of the intergalactic union socialist republics. — What? — Sonic didn’t understand. — Our entire galaxy, including your planet, is in great danger. And only you two are destined to save the galaxy. You must go with me to the capital as soon as possible and talk to President Carlo Rey! — You're wasting your time, old man. Leave this world and don't come back! Otherwise you will have to deal with me. — Shadow threatened. — Wait, Shad! What if he's telling the truth? What if this is all serious and they really need us to help them? — Blue is right, Sonic. — Vice-Senator Shadow confused with Sonic. — I'm Shadow! — he corrected him. — Doesn't matter! — Arseny answered. — Your world, like most other worlds throughout the galaxy, is also in danger. An ancient prophecy says that only two brave hedgehogs from this planet, with many battles behind them, will be able to stop this terrible war, put an end to intergalactic capitalism, which is slowly leading to intergalactic fascism and Nazism, and also return peace to the entire galaxy. You two are the ones we need! — Okay, we understand! — Shadow did not argue with them. — Then what are we waiting for? Let's hit the road! - Sonic points the fingers of his right hand towards the ship. — Great! — says the vice-senator and turns with the guards to his ship. — Just don't forget to get dressed! On our planet, we have adopted laws so that any humanoid always wears clothes and is not ashamed of his advantages, even if they are securely hidden under fur or something else that grows on you. They, along with those two hedgehogs, boarded a ship, flew into the sky and left this planet, going far, far away. — Now get ready for a hyper jump! — Arseny commands and the ship disappears from sight, leaving a small blast wave.

Communus — Center of the Galaxy

      They dressed Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehogs, as promised. Shadow didn't mind, but Sonic was stubborn at first and refused, because he doesn't even like to wear pants. However, they managed to persuade him and had to obey. Both hedgehogs were dressed in sports tuxedos, reminiscent of karateka's clothes made of fur, and covered with gray robes on top. They flew and landed on a planet whose sky was completely covered with clouds. It was not smoke from factories, but dark clouds of war, and the people on the planet live sadly and almost cry. Even the police and soldiers are unable to help them or try to calm them down, for the war has greatly tired them out. Entering one of the children's cafes with a simple and rather funny name - Ice Cream Ulybika, the vice-senator approaches the waiter behind the counter and whispers the password in his ear: — Syenduk sucks! The waiter walks over to one ice cream cone and pulls it like a lever. At that moment, two bookshelves moved to the side, revealing a secret elevator. Entering this same elevator, they began to rise up. Only the elevator turned out to be quite addictive. When the vice-senator with the guards and the hedgehogs were inside, they became plasticine and moved frame by frame. — Wow! Shad, we're plasticined! — Sonic said and stretched his nose longer. — I always dreamed of having a longer nose. — Look at me! — Shadow said, placing his hands on his waist, lifting his arms from his shoulders. It hurts that it was strange that it didn’t happen at all. Then he attached these torn arms from the shoulders to that same waist. — Now my hands are growing out of one place. Both hedgehogs laughed immediately. When the elevator reached the desired floor and the doors opened, everything around again became normal from plasticine, Sonic’s nose too, and Shadow’s hands were on his shoulders again. — I don’t think anything else from everything we’ve experienced can scare us. — said Sonic, and Shadow answered him: — It's right! Once in a large corridor, they walked through it in a couple of minutes, entered through the red gate and came face to face with the president of the galaxy, Carlo Rey. It was a humanoid humanoid, but not from Earth. He was short and suffered a bit from a Napoleon complex, but remained calm and kind. — Greetings, brave warriors. Sit down on the sofa! - He tells them, pointing to the red sofa, on which Sonic and Shadow obediently sat down. — I assume the vice-senator has already brought you up to date? I am very grateful that you listened to his words and agreed to help us. Now we have hope! — And what should we do, Comrade President? — Sonic asked. — You must help us recapture the worlds captured by the forces of evil. — explained President Carlo. — Recently, many socialist republics, unions and banks on other planets refused to work with us and sided with the fascist, who is leading the entire galaxy to destruction. They swore allegiance to the new, cruel and greedy ruler. As we learned later, this was the work of my vice president Gadius. An old friend of mine who wanted to be elected as the new president and succeed me in office. However, this year the entire galaxy voted more positive votes only for me, and absolutely everyone refused to vote for Gadus. — Why? — Shadow asked and the president continued: — Unlike us, he suddenly began to think only about money and power. He thought that the whole galaxy was weak, since no one tried to earn a lot of money and created what was needed immediately and quickly. I monitor the order in the galaxy, so that everyone lives happily ever after, so that there is no hunger, no hard work, and so that all the inhabitants of the galaxy are honest, work not for themselves and not for the sake of money, but for the sake of each other and other inhabitants of the galaxy, helping each other. to a friend. I, like my ancestors, led the galaxy into a bright future, for the sake of our descendants, so that they would have a bright future that could be called Paradise. However, Gadius did not see anything good in this and thought that all this was only for stupid people and weaklings, because he thinks that only money decides everything and rules the galaxy, although in fact this is not the case. We were shocked by his sudden betrayal. When no one voted for him, he was angry at the whole galaxy, thinking that she was the first to declare war on him, although in fact nothing of the kind happened and he himself was the first to declare war for stupidly nothing. How he envied me and all of us. I tried to help him, but he ultimately decided to choose his own path and followed the path leading to evil and turning our galaxy into a real Hell. Out of envy, he left our galaxy and temporarily went into hiding. When he returned, he was not alone, but with an army of mercenaries, traitors and bandits. He managed to subjugate tens of thousands of systems, major trading capitals and military enterprises by force and war. His fleet is twenty-five times larger than ours and if we do not liberate our captured worlds and bring our allies back into our ranks, then the entire galaxy will fall under the rule of fascism and we will all die homeless from the taxes, sanctions and price increases that we already have We try to avoid eating. My people are now suffering because of this and I am now powerless to help them, although they still trust only me, and the evil tyrant Gadius is hated and even insulted in secret from himself. The prophecy spoke specifically about you. Moreover, we have long heard about your exploits. Therefore, it is you who must start this military campaign and lead our army into battle! But be careful! Millions of factories across the galaxy create powerful battle droids, and they can become an obstacle in your path. — Then let’s attack and destroy these creatures! — Sonic agreed. — I'm in! - Shadow agreed.

A few hours later

      The remaining army of the socialist federation was almost assembled. At this time, Sonic and Shadow, being in the corridor, discussed how they could immediately recapture the entire galaxy and save it from the power of Gadius himself. Ultimately, Sonic came up with the idea that he needed to hit the leader himself. If there is no leader, then the troops loyal to him will no longer be loyal to him, and if they are no longer loyal to him, then they will no longer fight and only then. Only then, perhaps, will they win and immediately retake the entire galaxy back. Shadow thought about the idea and decided it made sense. This means we need to attack the emperor himself and kill him. Fortunately, with their super-speed abilities, they will cope with this, while the remaining troops of the intergalactic socialist federation will detain the emperor’s loyal army. Having finished discussing this, they went to the trebuna, where President Carlo Ray finished his speech and gave the words to Sonic and Shadow themselves. They took turns explaining their plan to the soldiers, which they immediately came up with and, oddly enough, the president and the soldiers approved of this idea. Some soldiers even personally saluted and stated that they would gladly give their lives to delay the emperor's army in order to give the hedgehogs time to kill the emperor and thereby save the entire galaxy, for the sake of their families, children and descendants. That's what we decided on! All the soldiers and warships with cruisers were getting ready for battle, and even the hedgehogs were setting off. At first they could not find the emperor himself, because usually he himself found them and attacked. By the way, Sonic and Shadow were given new weapons from their equipment. Now, in addition to their super speed, they were allowed to use alien equipment. From deadly stormtrooper blasters to lightsabers. — Do you think we will win? — Sonic asked Shadow, having little doubt that perhaps they would win. — People will remember this victory, Sonic! Together we are strong, which means we will not lose. Never.

Capital-Fashiz — Delta sector of the galaxy

      The emperor himself was at this time hiding on the planet Capitala Fasciz, where he discussed with his remaining loyal troops about what had happened for almost the entire year. — Gentlemen, I have bad news for you. I was informed that out of nowhere, some two anthropomorphic ones, blue and black, appeared, helping our weak enemies to free the worlds captured by our efforts. By doing so, they can interfere with our plans to take over the entire galaxy and its rise to a great Paradise of wealth and power, without freedom of speech. But despite this, our army is a thousand times larger than these socialites and commies. So I propose a new plan. We've had enough of hiding already. The time has come to emerge from the shadows again, take their main capital in the center of the galaxy by surprise, attack and kill President Carlo Rey so that I can take over his status. Only then will we finally put an end to this special operation. Starting tomorrow, socialism and hopes for fucking communism in our common galaxy will be ended once and for all. The entire galaxy belongs to me, and you will all be generously rewarded and live as millionaires, as if in chocolate. And remember! He who is not with us must die against us! After everyone agreed with the emperor's plan, his huge flagship, protected by mini-military starships, slowly headed towards the center of the galaxy. At that moment, the remaining troops advanced from there to counterattack. A great battle and skirmish began. However, the forces were not equal and the emperor’s villains advanced. However, this was part of a plan to distract them. And at that time, Sonic and Shadow, using their super forms from the Chaos Emeralds, themselves flew straight towards the flagship and crashed into it, breaking through the walls with their bodies. Once inside, they were attacked by droids with stun sticks, which the hedgehogs easily cut into pieces with lightsabers. Sonic was armed with a blue lightsaber, and Shadow was armed with a purple one. More droids with blasters immediately came running, but the hedgehogs, thanks to their super speed, easily dodged the shots and easily cut them with lightsabers. When the droid security ended, Sonic and Shadow moved on. After passing through a couple of corridors, Sonic and Shadow came to a huge cockpit, where Emperor Gadius himself sat in the center of the ship. Only for some reason he was asleep and handcuffed to the armrests of the chair. Even despite the fact that there is now shooting and death of starships outside in outer space. Sonic and Shadow were a little shocked that the emperor was so indifferent that he even calmly reacted to their arrival and pretended to be asleep. They approached him and activated their lightsabers, preparing to cut off the traitor's head. When suddenly he wakes up and sees in front of him those two hedgehogs from the prophecy and is surprised. — Pathetic soulless villain! — said Sonic and wanted to be the first to swing, when Gadius immediately timidly and raising his palms, began to beg for mercy: — STOP-STOP!!! I AM NOT HIM WHO YOU THINK!!! — What? - Sonic and Shadow did not understand, asking him at the same time. — PLEASE TRUST ME!!! I'M ACTUALLY ALSO FOR SOCIALISM, I'M AGAINST CAPITALISM!!! THAT GADIUS WHO DOES ALL THIS IS ACTUALLY AN IMPOSTOR!!! — So we believed you! - Sonic hissed through his teeth and was preparing to swing. — Wait, Sonic! What if he's not lying? — Shadow stopped Sonic, placing his purple lightsaber under the blow of Sonic's blue lightsaber. — His hands are chained. Maybe he really is a prisoner, and that Emperor Gadius is really an impostor? And at that very moment someone else entered the cockpit. Oddly enough, it’s also Gadius himself. It's like he's a twin brother, looking exactly alike. like two peas in a pod for that Gadius. — IT IS HE!!! — shouted Gadius, chained to the chair. — HE’S A MONSTER WHO TOOK MY APPEARANCE AND SUBJECT THE MINDS OF THE LEADERS OF OTHER WORLDS!!! NOW HIS PLAN TO CONQUER THE GALAXY AND ITS COMING FROM CAPITALISM TO FASCISM HAS WORKED!!! NOW WE ARE DYING!!! — I don’t know the fear of death. — Shadow said and took off his robe. Sonic did the same. They took a fighting stance to defend the real Gadius. At this time, the impostor, smiling maliciously, slowly approached the hedgehogs, and then began to take on his real appearance, in the form of a crystal hedgehog without a mouth, while uttering an evil laugh: — WA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! — I can’t believe my eyes!... Mephiles! — Sonic said. — I'm alive again! - Mephiles himself answered. — We will end this now, Mephiles. — said Shadow and was the first to rush into the attack together with Sonic. — Die! — the demon answered and began to reflect their attacks with his red lightsaber. The demon, despite the super speed and agility of Sonic and Shadow, turned out to be stronger and more agile than them. While they were trying to hit him, the demon was in no hurry to run into the attack, but only repelled the hedgehogs’ attacks on himself in order to force them to exhaust themselves, so that he could then attack them at one moment. — You're not that strong! — the demon said mockingly. — Don’t waste your words, demon! The hour of vengeance has struck! — Sonic answered. Both hedgehogs surrounded the demon around. Shadow began to attack Mephiles from the right side, striking him from above with his lightsaber. However, Mephiles extended his right hand to the side, grabbing UFL by the throat without touching him. Sonic at this time tried to attack from the left side, and Mephiles defended himself with his lightsaber from Sonic’s lightsaber and hit the hedgehog between his legs, throwing it away from himself. Then he threw Shadow himself far away from him into the porthole. Extending his left hand, he began to pull out the platform in order to crush Shadow with it, but Sonic managed to sense himself at that time and intervene. Mephiles really managed to jump away from the next blow, but at least Sonic managed to save Shadow from the platform so that it would not crush him. Having gone down to the platform, the demon waited for the blue hedgehog to also jump down to him and again began to defend himself, and Sonic kept swinging his lightsaber, but could not even injure him. Anger and rage immediately overwhelmed Sonic, making him only stronger and, despite being tired, he continued to fight, driving the demon away from him. At the same time, he also stepped on him. At one point, Sonic swung as fast and hard as he could that he managed to cut off Mephiles’ hand, and with it, took away his own red lightsaber. Sonic now holds both lightsabers in his hands and in the area of ​​the demon's neck, threatening him, cutting off his head. — KILL HIM!!! KILL HIM NOW!!! — the real Gadius shouted to Sonic, and he smiled maliciously, as if he was expecting this. — With pleasure! - the hedgehog answered and, using both lightsabers, cut off the demon’s head. After that, he turned off both lightsabers and added: — It’s over! At the same time, the rest of the captains and commanders in the neighboring ships of the emperor’s flagship, as if they had come out of hypnosis and, looking around, began to shoot not at their socialist allies, but at the droids. — FOR OUR PRESIDENT CARLO REY!!! — they shouted at the same time. Finally, the true enemy was defeated, and the allies came to their senses and returned to the side of their neighbors and friends. The prophecy was finally fulfilled, and good again defeated evil.

After some time

      The entire center of the galaxy celebrated the victory and all the unfortunate people, along with the soldiers and police, began to have fun, set off firecrackers and shout joyfully, because the enemy was defeated and freedom from evil had finally triumphed for the entire galaxy. Even on the planet Mobius, where Sonic and Shadow were later returned, everyone also celebrated the victory, although some Mobians didn’t even understand why they were celebrating today if the New Year had already passed? Sonic and Shadow, who was bandaged in the liver area, saw off Vice-Senator Arseny with his bodyguard as he began his farewell speech: — Hedgehogs Sonic and Shadow, on behalf of the new president Gadius... The real Gadius, we are grateful to you for your help to the entire galaxy. After the death of Mephiles, our allies regained their will over reason and they again began to help us. And since the real Gadius is also for the path to communism, our former president Carlo Rey decided to immediately re-elect him as the new president of the entire galaxy. I hope we will see each other again someday? Well, yes. Congratulations on the upcoming or past New Year? Or what holidays are celebrated here on your planet? — What's the difference? We'll celebrate anyway. — Sonic answered. — We wish you good luck! — said Shadow. The spaceships left the planet Mobius and the Mobians continued to celebrate the victory over the great evil, as well as the salvation of the entire galaxy and their planet as well. — It’s strange that they didn’t pay attention to the fact that even on our planet there are separate countries, some of which are capitalist. Don't you think this is strange, Sonic? — asked Shadow. — No, Shadow. But I'm sure this will be a lesson for us. Socialism leads to communism, and capitalism leads to fascism or Nazism. This means that capitalism is an omnipresent evil. And evil will always be, and everywhere, wherever we are. However, if we did not give up and helped the intergalactic socialist republic win in order to save the galaxy, then maybe this will be possible on our planet? — How is that? — If good does not give up, closes its eyes to the entire capitalist Hell and finally wakes up, stops enduring all this and finally rises, even if you have to give your life, then good will sooner or later defeat evil. The whole planet will move to socialism, and then gradually, perhaps it will be seen that we will all reach communism, which our descendants will call Paradise. Descendants will be grateful to us all for this and will thank us, and they will spit and curse the capitalists and fascists, because they deserve it for their atrocities, greed, avarice and eternal thinking only about themselves. But the question is different! Will all the people and Mobians on our planet be able to understand this and come to their senses!? — Who knows, Sonic? Who knows? — Shadow lightly patted Sonic on the shoulder and looked at the lightsaber in his other hand, which they were allowed to keep as a souvenir. — «Don’t give up and believe in a bright future, in which there should be freedom and that everyone would listen to each other and help each other, and also work for each other, share with everyone and not be greedy! Then you may open the way to real Paradise, not only for the whole world, but for the entire universe!»