𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙜: 𝙉𝙤 𝙒𝙖𝙮 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚!

      The spell did not work and everything around almost died. In addition, Sonic lost his rings for the second time, so that it would certainly be impossible to escape somewhere. In addition, the hedgehog is depressed and immersed in his own thoughts, thinking: — “Why am I still such a fool?” Tails was watching the green and translucent Rubik's cube at this time. Out of boredom, he sometimes picked it up and, like a real Rubik's cube, began to twist it to solve it, although in fact it looked completely solved from all sides. — I wouldn’t spin it if I were you! — Knuckles intervened. — After solving the puzzle with it, will you open it and tear this catastrophe out? Having heard the warning in time, the fox places the cube back on the pedestal in the form of the Master Emerald and the cauldron. He then turns his attention to Sonic. — Sonic, stop sulking already! You've already done everything you could. Stop acting like a child... - before he could finish the phrase “The child is in hopelessness,” he abruptly shuts his mouth. — That's right... I'm just a stupid child in the body of an adult... Who can't decide anything on his own like an adult. — the hedgehog sighs heavily in response. — STOP WHINING ALREADY!!! — the echidna shouted. — Tears still won’t solve anything. If you want to finally end this torment, then do something like an adult at least once! Listen to Tikal and go normally to the Major to talk to him! Don't act like a victim who couldn't find a way out in an empty room! This won't help you anyway! Sonic, listening to Knuckles, raised his head sharply, as if an idea had struck him. — You are right! — With these words, he stood up and rushed out of the cave like a bullet, leaving Tails and Knuckles. — But how? — Tails was surprised. — I’m just a persuasive person, Tails. I'm not a soulless stump.

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      Sonic runs to the military base to the military. He hoped to find the major himself here. A couple of soldiers turned their attention to him and aimed their machine guns at him. — Stop or we’ll shoot! — I need to see Major Bennington, if you please! — Sonic asked. — Do you want to kill the major? — No, I want to talk to him. Urgently! Not wanting to listen to his supposed lies, the soldiers shoot. Luckily the hedgehog was fast and expected them to shoot at it. The movement of the bullets for him was very slow and the hedgehog, standing still, slightly moves his body, dodging the bullets. When the warriors ran out of ammunition, Sonic continued the conversation: — I told you, I came to talk to the major, not to fight with you. If I wanted to kill you all, I would have done it much earlier, when you found out about my existence. However, I don't do this. And you still don't trust me? — Why should we trust you? — asked one of the soldiers, while his partner was the first to reload his gun and aim at the hedgehog. — Just as you are stupid in films, you are stupid in reality. — Sonic said, looking at the one who was aiming at him, and then began to tease: — We already know that this dude deftly dodges bullets and there is no way to kill him. Let's shoot at him some more! What if we do kill him? CinemaSins: Sonic could write his own movie sins! AntiSins: What? SPAM! Strangely enough, the soldiers listened to his phrase and repeated the question: — Just answer us! Why should we believe you? Sonic, indignant that they still don’t believe him, sighs heavily and says: — Because I only speak the truth. And if you still don’t believe me, then test me with a lie detector! With these words, the soldiers were finally convinced that he was not dangerous. They remove the guns and the hedgehog, calmly walking around the base, shouts, trying to call the major: — MAJOR BENNINGTON!!! MAJOR BENNINGTON!!! The major himself comes out of the main chamber. — A! Look! The alien animal itself came to us to surrender! — Hello! I... — Do you know that we have a secret military base here? - asked the major. — Yes, but that’s not important now! I know that you are busy right now, but I need to talk to you seriously. — Talk? — Bennington was surprised. — And I thought that you had finally come to your senses and... — I CAME NOT TO GIVE UP!!! — Sonic shouted, unable to bear it, and the soldiers got scared and pointed their guns at him. Then the hedgehog calmed down and continued: — I’m not a lab rat for you to watch and study me. I am a completely reasonable humanoid and have every right to live among you in your world. — Why are you giving yourself such rights, bruise? — You were hunting for me because I was supposedly dangerous to all of you.” But think for yourself. It's your own fault. There in the desert, passengers on a train almost got hurt because of you, because you fired a rocket, and I didn't hurt anyone. If I wanted to destroy any of you, I would have attacked all of you long ago and killed them all. However, I haven’t done this yet and I don’t wish harm on anyone. — Why are you telling me all this, although I’m sure that we still won’t leave you alone? — Because, unlike some... I speak the truth. And if you don’t believe me, then just take a lie detector test on me! — Do you think I'm a liar? — the major was indignant. — No, no, I don’t mean it that way. Just. — the hedgehog no longer knew how to get out of this. — You told everyone that I was supposedly dangerous to humanity and were hunting for me. Although in reality I did not pose any danger at all. You are still following me because you are afraid of me. — I'm not afraid of you, hedgehog! — said the major, after the first “Ha!” — Otherwise I wouldn’t have the title of major. — Listen me! You can persecute me forever until my death, but for the last time I want to prove to you that I am not guilty. And finally leave the Vakovskys alone. Let them finally fly abroad to wherever they want and don’t meddle in their personal lives! If I were in your place and stupid, I would never act so brazenly towards the people. Major Bennington laughs in response: — I see you haven’t rehearsed your speech in front of me? — Well, well, yes. Not rehearsed. But was it worth trying? In general! It’s easier to say... — his conversation was interrupted. It seemed to him as if there was a big boom somewhere in the forest. Sonic turned his attention towards the sound, as did the major and the soldiers. At that moment, two tired soldiers, without weapons and in tattered uniforms, are running from the forest. — What's the matter? — asks the major. — In the forest, out of nowhere, an alien similar to Sonic appeared! — On me? — Sonic asked incomprehensibly and, jumping onto the roof of the tank, took a combat stance, expecting danger from the forest. Red flashes came from the forest, which blew apart the trees on the way, and suddenly an anthropomorphic hedgehog came out of the forest. He was about the same height and age as Sonic himself. He himself was all black and covered with red stripes. The eyes with eyelids did not look like Sonic’s, but like one oval eye with two pupils, which was covered in the middle by the lower part of the forehead. The pupils were red, and the needles on the head stuck out pointedly, like a crooked branch. He turns his attention to Sonic. He seemed a little different in appearance from the one he had seen a couple of minutes ago. But deciding that perhaps he has changed his appearance slightly, he lowers his upper eyelids to the middle and says: — Hello, faker. From the author: Continue reading to the song “Throw It All Away - Sonic Adventure 2 [OST]” Sonic did not understand this hedgehog's phrase and began to ask: — Faker? In what sense is it faker? Do we know each other? — Where did Dr. Eggman and the ARC colony go? — asked ULF. — Eggman? Colony Act? I do not understand what you mean? — Sonic excused himself. By the way, he didn’t lie at all that he didn’t understand anything. However, the Black-Scarlet Hedgehog thought that he considered him an idiot and was lying to him. — Don't pretend to be an innocent lamb, faker. Not only do you dare to compare me to me, but because of you, the colony where I was created fifty years ago disappeared. Where is she? — Listen me! I really don’t understand what you’re talking about, but if you stop destroying the forest and scaring the military, then we can calmly come to an agreement and jointly find what you need. — Are you still making fun of me? Do you think I look like a fool? — Shadow frowned even more. — No no no. I swear I don't know what you're talking about. — Sonic still tried to solve everything without a fight. — What's the point of talking to this black guy? Shoot him! — the major orders and the soldiers aim their cannons at the hedgehog. They are already preparing to shoot, but Shadow manages to take out his green Chaos Emerald and, raising it up, quickly shout: — CHAOS CONTROL!!! Suddenly, the black-scarlet hedgehog shone with a blue glow, and blue dots formed around it, as if in a protective field, and moved into the hedgehog. Then Shadow suddenly disappeared from sight, as if he had been overlooked. — Where is he? — asked one of the soldiers, and the rest looked around. Sonic himself stood still and did not understand what was happening. Even he was shocked, how did he disappear from sight like that? Or maybe he became invisible altogether? One of the soldiers turned to Sonic and immediately took aim at him. The blue hedgehog was outraged. — “What’s wrong with these fools?” — he thought about them and only managed to jump to the side when the soldier fired. In fact, he was just counting on Sonic dodging, but in fact he was not shooting at him, but at a black and scarlet hedgehog that suddenly appeared behind him and wanted to hit him unnoticed. One of the bullets almost reached him, but he again abruptly disappeared from sight at that moment. The bullets flew past and only hit a tree. — WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??? WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING ME??? — What are you talking about? I was aiming at that hedgehog. — the soldier explained and noticed that the black man was standing on a rock and was preparing to jump. — Bend down! — he adds and aims at him. The blue hedgehog obediently lay down on the ground, and the soldier opened fire at the moment when the ULF jumped off. It seemed that this way he would not dodge the bullets and would still fall under them in the fall. But no worries! Even here, it was as if he had teleported at the last moment. — "Wow. He's fast, like me. Although it seems even faster." — Sonic thought about the black hedgehog. At this time, Shadow decided not to stand on ceremony for a long time and used his strength to the fullest. Using a teleportation chip, he runs around each soldier and knocks them all out one by one. He hits everyone first with his fist, then with his feet, until Sonic and the Major are the last ones left in consciousness. The latter takes out a pistol and aims at him. — STOP!!! I WILL SHOOT!!! — Bennington shouts, but Shadow doesn’t listen and approaches menacingly. The major shoots, and Shadow deftly dodges as he goes with every step, like an agent from the matrix. CinemaSins: The enemy I'm aiming at is dodging bullets. However, I will still continue to shoot and will continue to waste all my cartridges in the milk, and most likely I will hit him. AntiSins: Major Bennington has a stereotypical mindset about base defense. And let’s say he’s a little dumb, considering that he still won’t admit that Sonic isn’t a threat at all. All the cartridges for the pistol have already run out and there is nothing left to fight back with. The black-scarlet approached the last person almost closely and was about to grab him, but immediately, without waiting, he was hit on the side of the head with a stone. Here he no longer had time to dodge. Shadow turns his stern gaze towards Sonic. — DONT TOUCH HIM!!! — he shouted to him. The gloomy but stern hedgehog did not answer the blue one, but only turned to him and said again: — Chaos control! Again the black-scarlet shone with a blue glow and again disappeared from under the major’s eyes. Shadow rushed forward, trying to attack Sonic by surprise. Sonic tried to often bounce from one place to another, shortening the black-scarlet’s blows and not attacking him. — “This is not speed. He's probably using a Chaos Emerald." — Sonic suggested, trying to dodge more and more often. At one point, Shadow drove Sonic into a corner and hoped to hit him in the face, but the blue one figured out to jump over him, and the black-scarlet one only painfully hit his fist on the iron armor of the tank. — Who are you?... Why did you attack us?... — My name is Shadow. I am the most ultimate life form! Tell me, where did you hide the ARC colony? — as the conversation progressed, Shadow continued to try to attack Sonic, but the latter kept dodging his attacks. Even Chaos control did not help him in time to hit the blue impostor, who he thought he was. — Listen, I really don’t understand what you’re talking about? What other colony? Where did you get the Chaos Emerald? Why are you attacking me? I have a lot of questions for you. Ask! If you cool down and stop attacking me, we can calmly settle everything. — SHUT UP, FAKER!!! — UFL shouted and ran at Sonic, trying to kick him in a jump, and the latter does a roll on his knees on the ground, tilting his torso with his head and arms back, like Neo from the matrix. — Why are you calling me faker? You and I don't even look alike. I would understand if you and I were twin brothers and would set each other up. On the last ground hit and Sonic jumps back, Shadow stops and asks: — What are you talking about? — Look at you! You're all black and red striped, and I'm all blue. We are not the same in appearance at all, so that we can call each other fakes and other things. — Sonic explained. — He’s right! — both hedgehogs and the major suddenly heard another rougher voice. They all simultaneously turned to the source of the voice and saw another hedgehog. This hedgehog was already almost completely similar to Sonic. Hedgehog is exactly the same blue, but slightly different in appearance, which also distinguishes him from Sonic. He was about the same in height and age and blue in color. The eyelids also looked not like Sonic's, but like one oval eye with two pupils, which was covered in the middle by the lower part of the forehead. The difference was that the left eye looked like it was blind. The pupil was cloudy, and on the upper eyelid above this same eye there was a yellow scar in the shape of a lightning bolt. The pupils were also red, there was a red collar around the neck, the gloves were red, and the quills on the head were flattened and fluttered in the wind. at the tips of the two side bangs of the needles the color is white. He, oddly enough, also had his own green Chaos Emerald in his hand. — Who else is this? — Sonic asked and turns to Shadow. — Your brother? — I don’t even know him. — UFL answers. That third hedgehog jumps off the cliff onto the ground, doing a superhero landing, and stands up. Major Bennington takes out his pistol, reloading it and aiming it at him. By that time, the rest of the soldiers had also already come to their senses and stood up, and then took out their guns. — Who are you? — Sonic and Shadow asked at the same time, pointing a finger at the third. — I am Terios. — the same hedgehog introduces himself. — The ultimate life form. Shadow's eyes widen at what he hears. — Are you confused about something? I am the ultimate life form. — Mind your own business, bloody ink. — Terios rudely answered him, and then raises his emerald to the top and prepares to utter the same word that Shadow himself had uttered before. The latter narrowed his gaze. Apparently he made a mistake when he attacked that blue hedgehog, mistaking him for a fake hedgehog. Apparently the fake hedgehog is not Sonic, but Terios. — Sonic, hide behind me. — he whispered to Sonic himself, and he obediently stood behind him. — Chaos... — Terios doesn’t have time to finish before the major shoots him in the hand, knocking out his emerald. He looks at Bennington rudely and speaks without emotion. — Hurt! — Apparently he also uses the power of the Chaos Emeralds, just like me. — black-scarlet suggested out loud and turns to Sonic. — We must take this emerald away from him and not let him near it! — No, no, wait! Why are you helping me? — blue one asked him incredulously and he answered: — I attacked you because I thought you were a faker hedgehog. But now I realized that I was wrong. The faker hedgehog is not you, but he. He dares to compare himself to me. — Okay, I'll take your word for it. — not though, but he still agrees to believe him. — Chaos control! — Shadow says and rushes to attack Terios. The latter, at this time, dodging the soldiers shots, picks up his emerald and also says: — Chaos control! Both perfect life forms in chaos control run into attack against each other, attacking by curling up into balls and throwing themselves away from each other with each counterattack. The soldiers and the major stood still and did not know who to shoot at and, most importantly, where? Sonic, having decided to help Shadow, rushes into the attack with a scream and runs at Terios, hoping to hit him head-on, but there is a flash and Shadow ends up there instead. Sonic accidentally hits Shadow and the latter, before he knows it, falls to the ground. Sonic doesn’t have time to come to his senses before Reflection grabs Sonic by the throat and lifts him above him so that he dangles with his feet above the ground. — Do you think a second fake hedgehog copying my abilities will help you defeat me? — Terios was completely confident in defeating him and threw him towards the soldiers, causing him to hit his sore back against the tank and leaving a dent on it. — It's a pity that I didn't kill your friends. After all, I had the opportunity. Sonic's eyes widen at what he hears. Uncontrollable malice and anger envelops his mind, causing the blue hedgehog to become covered in blue lightning. — What you said? — he hissed through his teeth. Terios sighs and widens his eyes, not expecting that the supposedly fake hedgehog is capable of such a thing. Even Shadow was shocked by what he saw and came to his senses. Sonic, covered in lightning in rage and with a heart-rending scream, runs at Terios, stretching his right arm forward and shooting a long beam of lightning directly at the impostor with the scar. Terios, he doesn’t have time to figure out how to dodge. Having received a terrible electric shock, he stands still and twitches in convulsions. And in addition, Sonic himself, covered in lightning, rolls up into a ball and strikes with a lightning-fast wave. The hedgehog with the scar is thrown back and his back crashes into a stone, also leaving a dent and falling onto the grass. For one he gets a couple of small stones on the head. Sonic runs up to Terios, lifts him up, pinning him to a stone wall and quickly punches him in the chest, causing the latter to scream heart-rendingly with each blow. After fifty blows, he looks him sternly in the eyes and hisses through his teeth: — The only way you can touch my friends is through my corpse, you psycho! — After saying this, he throws him at the Major’s feet, forcing him to roll on the ground, face down. Sonic calms down and removes the lightning. — He's yours! — Sonic!... — the major didn’t even know what to say. — You are hero! — Well, well, what are you doing? I was just protecting my friends when threatened them and... — blue hedgehog doesn’t have time to finish as Bennington continues: — I will talk to the airports so that they remove all boycotts from Wakowski and from you too. I promise. — He finishes and salutes the hedgehog. — It’s okay about me, but I was talking specifically about the Vakovskys! - Sonic finishes and also answers the major with honor. — Don’t get stuck in anything anymore, and maybe they’ll let you move to Russia or wherever you wanted? Doesn't matter! Four soldiers take Reflection, who was lying unconscious, and take him away, and Sonic picks up the green Chaos Emerald that fell from him. He turns to Shadow, who also managed to get up and addresses him. — Now you! Explain to me what's the matter? Do you know this hedgehog? You both say that you are perfect life forms. What's going on here? — Sonic had many more questions, but the black-scarlet suddenly noticed that behind him, a fallen tree was flying right at him, glowing with a blue glow. — GET DOWN!!! — he shouted to the blue one and pounced, laid them on the ground, and a tree flew over them and crashed into a rock, breaking. Both hedgehogs rise and see another one in the sky, either white or gray, who could fly and glowed with a slightly blue radiance. This hedgehog was all half white, half gray. He also had one eye with two pupils. The eyes were golden, the gloves had blue patterns, and the needles on the head were raised to the top and fluttered in the wind. — GOT IT, IBLIS TRIGGER!!! — he shouted to Sonic. — WHOM??? — Sonic didn’t understand. From the author: Read further under the composition “Vs. Character - Sonic the Hedgehog [OST]» The psychokineticist picks up a pile of stones next to him and throws them one at a time at the blue one. He has no choice but to run and dodge. — WHAT ARE YOU STANDING FOR!!! HELP HIM!!! - Bennington shouted at the soldiers. — TO WHOM??? — those who didn’t understand who to help and who to shoot. — BLUE, WHO ELSE!!! All the soldiers took aim at the hedgehog in the sky and opened fire on it. Silver, using psychokinesis, stopped the bullets right in front of him. — YOUR ALLIES WILL NOT HELP YOU, IBLIS TRIGGER!!! - he shouts back to Sonic. Sonic hides behind a huge rock and takes a breath, trying to put his thoughts in order: — What kind of day? Are you all kidding me? At first the spell didn’t work, then this black guy showed up, who thought I was supposedly his fake clone, then that one, and now this one, who thinks I’m wearing some trigger of Iris... Stop!... Spell! — Sonic suddenly remembers Tikal’s words: — “The oblivion spell cannot be changed. Because of you, the witchcraft got out of control and if I hadn’t stopped it in time, something terrible would have happened. And this something terrible could not be corrected at all. I return to my world to bring one necessary thing. And you will make sure that this cube does not break until I return!” — Do you think it’s so easy to hide from me? — white hedgehog grinned, flying around the rock. Not expecting Shadow to attack from his side, he does not have time to dodge and falls to the ground. He comes to his senses and looks at the black and scarlet one. — Mephiles? Why did you attack me? — Who? — Shadow didn’t understand. — Do you know each other? — Sonic was surprised. — No. — Shadow answered, and Silver himself gets to his feet and shouts: — THIS DOESN'T AFFECT YOU, IBLIS TRIGGER!!! — he lifts a military truck with psychokinesis and throws it at the blue hedgehog. — CATCH!!! Sonic manages to jump away in time, when suddenly he himself begins to glow with a blue glow and freezes. The head, torso, arms, legs and fingers seemed numb and did not move at all. — Chaos blast! — Shadow says and the hedgehog seems to explode, pushing the white hedgehog away from him, thereby forcing him to let go of the blue one. The latter calmly falls to the ground. —- What was it? — he asked out loud to himself. Silver gets up again, not wanting to give up and runs into the melee screaming. Shadow gets into a fighting stance. — Chaos... — he doesn’t have time to say before Sonic stops him. — Let me! — he asked the black-scarlet and the latter yields to the first. Silver has already run too close to Sonic and is about to hit him in the face with his fist, but the blue hedgehog bends down in time, avoiding the blow, trips him, causing the psychokineticist to stumble and, curling up into a ball, hits the white one in the stomach. The hedgehog from the future has already been pressed against the rock, so the blue hedgehog hits him again, curled up into a ball, and at the same time filled with lightning. — Are you giving up, crazy? — The ability to launch lightning? — Silver asked, having come to his senses and almost smiling. — Apparently I underestimated you, Iblis trigger. — What other Iblis? What are you coming up with? Are you really madness? — Sonic asks him and twists his index finger, his right hand near his head. — You did not understand anything? You have Iblis inside you, who destroyed my future. In order to save my time, I must kill you in this time. Of course, Sonic again did not understand anything. So many questions and so many unclear explanations that raised even more questions. Silver, without waiting, stretches out his hand and, grabbing the blue hedgehog with psychokinesis, throws him towards the forest, causing him to hit his back against a tree. — Chaos control! — Shadow says. Time stops around him, he runs around Silver and kicks him with his left foot, pushing him back towards the rock. Even after this, the white hedgehog was not going to give up and gets up again, when suddenly a large thorn appears from somewhere between them on the ground, somewhat similar to an icicle or a piece of ice. From what they saw, Sonic, Shadow and Silver interrupt the fight and turn in the direction where that very spike came from. A huge purple cloud with lightning and thunder suddenly appears in the sky, flying above the trees and not in the sky. From this very cloud an evil laugh is heard and another hedgehog appears. A dark hedgehog without a mouth, completely covered in crystals with red whites on its only eye with two green pupils and lightly covered in crystal spikes, emerges from the cloud after looking around. Sonic and Shadow, of course, did not know who it was, but Silver, judging by his voice and frequency of laughter, clearly recognized him. I already said his name out loud: — Mephiles? Sonic and Shadow simultaneously turned to Silver, surprised that he somehow knew that crystal hedgehog. The latter summons three spikes and throws them right at those same hedgehogs, when suddenly a portal from a huge ring appears under their feet, through which they fall and disappear from sight. Then the portal in the form of a huge ring disappears, and three spikes only stick into the ground. — DEVIL!!! — Mephiles shouted in a terrible voice out of anger, clenched his fists and flew back into the cloud. The cloud itself in the sky then evaporated, as if it had never existed. Bennington and the military are left alone this time and don’t understand what happened now? They didn’t even notice that under Reflection, who at that moment had come to his senses and was forbidden in the van, exactly the same portal had formed, through which he also fell. It fell through and the huge ring closed, disappearing from sight.