𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙜: 𝙉𝙤 𝙒𝙖𝙮 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚!

      Our heroes went along their own paths, separated and each ran in his own direction. Knuckles headed to the subway. At first, he walked through the city for a long time until he came across a single underground passage. A red-haired girl in a short skirt appeared on the way, running in panic and judging by the bruise, she had already suffered. Either from an alien from another world, or in an attempt to escape from him. — Hush, hush, what happened? — the echidna stopped her and tried to find out what she was running away from. — Help! Some hedgehog similar to Sonic appeared in the subway, but it’s not Sonic. He took my friends prisoner, and only I managed to escape. — the girl answered. — What do you mean not Sonic? What does he look like? — He’s so healthy, dressed like a biker in chains, but the color of his fur is green. — the girl explained and ran on. Echidna went further. He was wondering what kind of green hedgehog this was? He goes downstairs and heads to the subway. A train passed by from left to right, after which the red one jumped onto the tracks and looked around. He somehow heard cries for help and another barely audible cry, probably from that alien: — Help! Help! — Stop shouting already! I told you that no one will hear you! — Like no one? Can't you hear us? He-e-elp! The screams apparently came from the left side of the rails. Knuckles ran there. After running around the gyre at the right turn, Knuckles finds a hole in the wall on the left. Jumping there, he discovers what looks like an underground bunker. In the center, four teenagers sat tied to chairs. One of them was a football player in a sports jersey, the second was a hooligan in a cap, the third wore glasses and clearly liked to read, and the fourth was black and wore all black. Even a black cap. Without thinking for long, the echidna wanted to run up to them and untie them, when suddenly a red anthropomorphic fox in black gloves pounced from the shadows behind a large pipe. Having knocked the echidna to the ground, she tries to hit him in the face, but Knuckles kicks her away from him. When Knuckles stood up, he still saw her. It was a dark red fox with one tail. Dressed in black gloves and black latex pants and black shoes. But where did she come from here, if we were talking about a green hedgehog? — BEHIND!!! — one of the teenagers shouted, but the echidna did not have time to turn around when he was hit on the head with a heavy object and lost consciousness.

Some time later

      Knuckles woke up when someone punched him in the face, trying to wake him up. Echidna was already tied to a chair with the teenagers, and before his eyes stood the very hedgehog that the girl was talking about. Moreover, the red fox was apparently on the same page with him. The hedgehog himself was almost similar in appearance to Sonic, but there were still differences between them. This hedgehog is not blue, but green. Wears red glasses with gold lenses, also has a double oval-shaped eye with two pupils, is toned judging by the abs on his chest, and wears a chav outfit with a mix of biker outfit. He also had black gloves on his hands. An evil hedgehog examines the echidna with a grin and asks: — So so so! Who came here to help these worthless little people?... A fat red braggart with a long muzzle? What happened to the shape of your eyes? I don't recognize you anymore, Knuckles. The echidna bulges its eyes and answers the question with a question: — Do we know each other? — Don't pretend to be an innocent dog! We have encountered you more than once. — says the green hedgehog. — Who are you anyway? I don't know you at all. — Knuckles answers. Scourge and Fiona look at each other slyly and then the first responds: — Apparently I hit you so hard on the head that you lost your memory. I'm Scourge, and this is my faithful and long-time assistant Fiona. — No, actually, I only recently decided to join you and help. — the fox explained. — Yes? — Scourge was surprised, looking at her. — But as far as I remember, you were always with me. You even deceived that freak with two tails a couple of times. — Tails. — Fiona added. — Yes, yes, he is the one. — Scourge replies. — Wha-a-at? — the echidna was sharply indignant at what he heard. He clearly didn't like the way they spoke about one of his friends. Out of anger, he sharply jerks his bound hands, trying to free himself, so much so that he easily and barely breaks the ropes on his hands. Ripping them apart with a scream, he stretches his arms out to the sides and uses the plush knuckles on his gloves to cut the ropes across his torso, freeing himself from the tied chair. He lashes out at the green hedgehog and pins him against the wall, threatening to punch him in the face. — DON'T YOU DARE INSULT MY NEW FRIEND LIKE THIS!!! Echidna strikes first and then strikes second. Fiona chose to attack the echidna from behind, taking out a butterfly knife and preparing to plunge it into his back, when suddenly something shot out a laser beam. The beam hit the knife directly, knocking it out of the fox's hands and throwing it to the floor. Four tied up teenagers, a fox, an echidna and a hedgehog turned towards the sound and couldn’t believe their eyes. Dr. Robotnik himself stands in front of them at the exit from the bunker. Only he didn’t look like the one everyone who saw him remembered. His mustache was much larger, he always wears pilot glasses, his head is bald, but a little larger and rounder in shape. The red jumpsuit no longer looked like a flight suit, the torso was thick but short, and the legs were thin and long in black pants. He himself wore white gloves and held a pistol in his right hand. — Do not even think about it! — the doctor hissed towards the fox. Although Knuckles mistakenly thought that he was addressing him. Scourge at this moment pushes Knuckles away from him with his feet, hitting him in the stomach. The echidna moved back, and the green hedgehog pounced on him and began to hit him in the face. Hit once, hit twice, hit three. On the fourth blow, Knuckles decided to open his mouth and grab the hedgehog’s fist with his teeth and squeeze it tightly in his teeth, as if he was trying not just to bite, but like a cannibal to bite his fingers off his hand. Scourge screams in pain, tries to free his grabbed hand and fights back with his other hand. However, Knuckles does not let him go and squeezes him even harder with his teeth. Then the echidna grabs the hedgehog by the shoulders and throws it over itself onto the floor, pressing its stomach to the floor. He grabs him by both hands and pulls them towards himself, and with his right foot he pushes the hedgehog from his back. At this time, Fiona takes out shurikens and throws them at the long-legged doctor with a mustache. The doctor, despite his physical form, deftly dodged the shuriken flying at him, performing a triple back somersault. On the third somersault, one shuriken still slightly touched his right mustache and cut off some small hairs. The shurikens ran out and the fox ran to attack the doctor herself. She punches the doctor in his chubby belly, when suddenly the crunching of bones is heard and Fiona clutches her wounded arm in tears. The doctor himself did not even feel pain from the blow and did not even twitch. The barbel goes around her from behind, grabs her by the tail and spins her around. — No need! Let me go! I'm going to be sick! — If I let you go, you will fly. — the doctor says and still lets her go. Fiona flew towards the wall and slammed her face into it. The doctor himself fell at the same time, but gets back to his feet. Scourge, with a black eye and bleeding from his mouth, punches Knuckles in the nose with his right fist. The echidna grabs his nose in pain, and the green hedgehog grabs him by the stomach, lifts him above himself and knocks him to the floor, pinning him in the back of the head with his right elbow. He was about to hit him on the head even harder when a beam from the doctor’s blaster flew past him sharply. Scourge, fortunately, managed to dodge, but was distracted by Eggman. This gave Knuckles the chance to throw Scourge to the floor and hit him in the face with the plush knuckles on his boxing gloves. He hits once with the left, twice with the right, three times with the left, four times with the right, five times with the left, and on the sixth blow the hedgehog managed to put his palm under the blow and grab his hand, after which he rolled with the echidna on the floor, like a log. — You fight like a girl, not like Sonic. Knuckles snapped. — Ha! — The only thing Scourge said and sharply hits his head with his head. Both immediately felt dizzy, and both slowly tried to get to their feet, barely finding their bearings and trying to maintain their balance. Eggman at this time picks up Fiona's shurikens and throws them at her, and the latter uses her right hand covered with an iron face as a block to repel the shurikens. She reflected one from above, two from below, three from above, four from below, five from above, six from below, and before she could reflect the seventh, she hit them in the hair above her head. The hair jumped up in place, cutting through, and then stuck back to her head. — You fat crap, you almost ruined my hair! — I'm not fat. My clothes are wide. — answers the doctor from another world. And Knuckles at this time was still fighting with Scourge, but suddenly began to lose to him. He hits with his right fist, and the hedgehog dodges, ducking. Two, hits from the left, but misses again, and Scourge suddenly hits the echidna's chest with his fists very quickly at the speed of a bullet, as quickly as if he could break through a stone wall instead of a drill to make a tunnel. Knuckles could not do anything at this moment, neither defend himself nor attack in response, at the time of his attacks. Then the green hedgehog bends down, knocks the echidna off his feet and, standing up, sharply hits him in the face with his right elbow, pushing him towards the wall. He didn’t have time to come to his senses when Scourge came up and again started hitting him too quickly, pinning him to the wall. The teenagers could not look at this horror, as their hero and savior was brutally beaten. Only one of them looked with curiosity at the scene of the beating and said: — I’ve already seen a similar scene somewhere. Before Scourge could finish off Knuckles, a doctor from another dimension threw a red fox from behind him, knocking them both to the ground. Echidna lowered his hands and caught his breath. A mustachioed chubby guy with long legs approaches him. — How are you? — he asks him out of excitement. Knuckles, having come to his senses, swings his arms, trying to hit him. Unfortunately or fortunately, he misses from fatigue and the doctor manages to dodge. — Quietly, quietly! What are you doing? — You won’t fool me anymore, doctor! I already trusted you once and in vain. — the echidna snapped. — What are you talking about? — the doctor did not understand him. — Don't take me for an idiot! — Knuckles became even more angry, deciding that he was trying to deceive him, as if he did not know him. — Do you think it’s so easy to deceive me, since you’ve gained weight and made your legs longer, then I won’t recognize you? The echidna began to try to hit the mustachioed alien from another world, and he deftly dodged at the last moment and tried to somehow talk: — Wait! I really don't understand you. Why are you attacking me? When have I ever lied to you? What are you even talking about? — YOU CAN’T FOOL ME A SECOND TIME!!! — Knuckles shouted. Scourge and Fiona at this time came to their senses and stood up. The green hedgehog ran up to the echidna like a bullet and grabbed his hands, pinning them behind his back. — Gotcha! — he said and received a painful pressure on his leg. Knuckles stomped hard on his leg, forcing him to grab it in pain. — This is not cool at all, bro. At that time, Fiona imperceptibly attacked the doctor from the side and knocked him to the floor, beating him in the face with her fists. The barbel did not even have the opportunity to push her away or fight back somehow. What can we say about the fact that it is even impossible to get up. Echidna did not want to look at this. Of course, he doesn’t trust that villain who suddenly became fat and long-legged, but still it wasn’t good to watch him get beaten. Intervening, the echidna grabs the fox by the neck and, almost strangling it, drags it along with it. Fiona clenched her teeth, opened her mouth and bit his hand very painfully. Knuckles freely hits her on the head with his hand, trying to unhook her wire cutter, but she only grabbed his teeth even tighter under his fur to the skin. It was incredibly painful to endure this and the echidna had to let her go. Spitting from the remnants of blood from her mouth, Fiona grinned. — What? Didn't expect me to escape so easily from your dirty hands, pervert? — Fortunately, unlike you, I was vaccinated against rabies. — Knuckles answers. Film Sinner: When did people manage to vaccinate you against rabies, and why did you need it if you are so healthy and not sick with anything? Anti-Sinner: Perhaps he once found out what rabies is, was afraid of it and asked Maddie, since she is a veterinarian, to give him such a vaccination so that he would not accidentally get rabies. Scourge at that moment attacked Knuckles from behind and grabbed his neck with his hands. The echidna raised his arms, grabbed the green hedgehog from behind by the shoulders and threw it over him. At that moment, Fiona ran at Knuckles to hit him while Scourge was holding him back and was hit in the head by Scourge himself, whom Knuckles threw at her. Then Knuckles stood over both of them and began to hit each of them with his plush knuckles on his boxing gloves. Left fist in Fiona's face, and right fist in Scourge's face. One, two, three, four, left, right, blind, right. He then grabs them by the necks, stands up with them, spins like a top, making both of them dizzy, and throws each of them to the sides. Scourge slammed his back into a shelf with empty paint cans, and Fiona slammed her back into the wall, breaking a crack in it. Afterwards, Knuckles takes out his cannon, which Tikal also gave him, and shoots it at Scourge and Fiona, moving them to cages in the same cave with the others. CinemaSins: Why couldn't you immediately take out your gun and shoot it at them? AntiSins: Most likely they would have simply dodged his shots, so he wanted them to be exhausted and exhausted first. The doctor widened his eyes without taking off his glasses. — What happened? What did you do with them? — he asked the echidna. — Same thing with you, manipulator. — Knuckles snapped back and fired the same cannon at the doctor.

At the same time

      In the cave next to the Chaos cage, Scourge first appears in one of them, and then Fiona. So far, no one had noticed them, since everyone was busy with the quarrel between Shadow and Terios. Scourge and Fiona didn't understand how they got here so quickly. In the next cage, next to him stood Chaos, who only raised his lower eyelids and waved them welcomingly with his hand. He was the only one who noticed them. Scourge and Fiona were about to scream to stop this quarrel, when suddenly Eggman himself suddenly appears in another cage. Not that Eggman, but an Eggman from another dimension who looks different than that one. — What does this all mean? — he asked himself, noticing that he was inside a cage with some invisible walls. Everyone was shocked to see the doctor in the cage. Even Tom and Maddie's eyes widened at what they saw, and Tom asked the one who appeared: — You? The mustachioed doctor turns his gaze to Wakowski and asks them: — Who else are you? — he just asked them, and then looked around. He knew almost no one here, except for Omega, who by some miracle survived, the green hedgehog and that fox, whom he saw for the first time today, and also Shadow the hedgehog in a still distant cage. — Shadow? Black-scarlet widened his eyes and turned to the doctor. Terios also turns to the doctor and asks: — Are you also familiar with this creature? — No-no-no-no-no! This is not a creature, but a ultimate life form. — So these two come from the same world? — Maddie thought out loud about the hedgehog and the doctor. — Robotnik looks completely different from ours. — Tom, grinning, also thought out loud. — Yes, we know him. This is Shadow the Hedgehog, which I found at the G.A.N. base. There was also Omega on guard, which Shadow immediately destroyed. — at this doctor’s explanation, the robot bulges its eyes. And judging by his installed lie detector, he is not lying at all. That's for sure. — He was created by my grandfather Gerald Robotnik to help me take control of the ARC colony and take over the whole world. He was a glorious warrior. And now he was helping us defeat the Metarex's. — Meta... Who? — Shadow asked, not understanding what the doctor was talking about. After all, he doesn’t remember such an event. — Don’t you remember me, Shadow? We were at ARK then, and it turned out that in fact, according to my grandfather’s idea, the colony was supposed to fall to Earth and destroy all its inhabitants. — HEY!!! ACTUALLY THIS HAPPENED TO ME!!! I BROUGHT YOU THERE THEN, JUST AS YOUR GRANDFATHER PLANNED!!! — Terios shouted. — Who else are you? — Eggman asked him and the evil version of Sonic grabbed his needles, like his hair, screaming heart-rendingly, raising his head. — What are you doing? Are you sick to yell like that? — Omega asked him. — Maybe you all will finally shut up and explain to us where we are? — Scourge asked. — This all takes a long time to explain. — Tom explained, a little timidly, raising his hands. — In a witch's dungeon. — Maddie answered. — In the witchcraft sense? — Fiona asked. — The meaning is completely literal. Previously, this was an ordinary cave, but now when one red echidna, who can cast a spell, settled here, she turned this place into a witchcraft place. — Maddie explained. — Interesting. — said Alice. — I’m indifferent to magic, but I’m already too saturated with the new energy of this world. — Infinite explained, raising and looking at his clawed hands, forming one red holographic cube in them.