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      David and the kids, having already played enough with the ball, ran home and straight to the kitchen, almost hitting a flower pot on the floor on the way. Twelve G.A. N's soldiers, hiding inside it along with a radio nanny, were watching the gifts and waiting for David to start opening them. But it was still early. The children were tired after playing and decided to have a snack. — So. Who's hungry here? — asks David's mother, carrying a cake, and his father was carrying two bowls of chips. — Help yourself! We have cheese and bacon flavored chips. — Don't drink too much juice, Sami! — And after the treat, we’ll go play in your room, David?

A little later — David's room

      There was still silence from the nanny radio and the toys began to worry, what was wrong with them? — Why are they there for so long? — asked Big. — What if they were discovered and the secret that we are all alive will be revealed to the whole world? — Eggman was scared. — Hey Hey! Calm down! Nothing like that will happen. These guys are real professionals. They are not sitting there idly. — Sonic answers sitting next to Shadow and a small noise has already begun to come from the nanny radio when turned on and a voice: — Reception! How can you hear us? David and the kids have finished lunch and are heading to the gifts. David begins to remove the wrapper from the first gift... The first gift is very small, David himself is surprised what could be there... These are Black binoculars for the eyes. Real. — Real binoculars? — Shadow was surprised. — Great! Now every day I will peek through the window at my neighbors when David is not in the room. — Espio was delighted. — The next gift is medium in size. — they said on the radio to the nanny, and at that moment Shadow closed his eyes and, lightly raising and lowering his hands, repeated under his breath: — Maria Robotnik! Maria Robotnik! Maria Robotnik! — Opening his eyes, he noticed that Sonic was looking at him in surprise. — Hey, I can dream! — The second gift is bed linen. — they said on the radio to the nanny and everyone was shocked by what they heard. — Well, they have guests. - Amy was indignant. — The third gift... This... This is darts... And a bunch of arrows to go with it... — continued the soldiers, hiding in a flower pot, to monitor and report to the nanny on the radio. — Fourth gift... New bedspreads. Blanket, pillows and sheet. — Well, for now we have nothing to fear. I always believed in Sonic. — Rose said. — Don’t rejoice ahead of time! Maybe the worst will come at the very end? — Blaze said fearfully out loud, and then drew attention to how Shadow was dreaming: — Unless Shadow is even more worried about this topic and hopes that Maria will be given to David for his birthday. Everyone knows that these dolls are no longer produced anywhere, since their relevance has almost dropped due to the fact that sales were low for the entire year of two thousand and two due to the success of Sonic’s second adventures. And at the moment, on eBay, for example, there are only five collectors of these Maria Robotnik dolls, who sell them for millions of rubles, or even dollars. While Blaze was explaining all this, the nanny was already told about three more gifts on the radio, and Shadow continued to dream: — Maria Robotnik! Maria Robotnik! Maria Robotnik! — The eighth gift... — the soldiers continued to watch and report. — Board game. Erudite. — Don't express yourself! — Knuckles was indignant. — No, no, Knuckles! He told E.Ru. Dite. A crossword-type game in which each player takes seven letter pawns and uses them to form real-life words. — Tails explained. — And those that many people use on the Internet do not count. — He removes the wrapper from the ninth box... And there... McFormers magnetic construction set... Now David moves on to the last gift. — This is the last one, guys! — Sonic delighted everyone and leaned closer to the nanny’s radio to listen carefully. The rest of the toys were in fear and worried that there might be a new toy that would replace them. — It’s very big, and David takes the wrapper off it slowly, as if he’s afraid of what might be there... He opens the box and this is... A new sixteen-bit console and a pack of cartridges with games for it. Super Nintendo. — they tell the nanny over the radio and all the toys scream in unison with joy. None of the gifts included new toys to replace them, meaning none of them would be thrown away.

At the same time

— Well done, comrades. We have completed the task and are returning home. — reports the observer with binoculars in his hands and the rest of the soldiers are already turning off the radio nanny. Suddenly the observer heard David's mother say: — Wait a minute! O! What do we have here? — she asks and takes out another gift from the closet. — Stop, guys! Turn it on again! — the observer asked his comrades and, continuing to watch, said: — Attention! David's mom took out another surprise gift from the closet. David wants to open it quickly. He is very impatient. Wait, I can't see. One boy blocked him. It seems this... This... — from what he saw, he lowered the binoculars and was speechless.

Returning to David's room

      Further from the radio, the nannies heard only the enthusiastic screams of the children, but the soldier was not heard. All the toys were confused, and Blaze even crossed herself. — WHAT IS THIS??? — Big shouted to the nanny on the radio, as if the soldiers there would hear him, went up to the bedside table, took it by one leg and, shaking it, continued to shout: — WHAT IS THERE??? Alas, Big did not calculate his shaking force and the bedside table shook so much that the radio nanny fell from it to the floor. Fortunately, the nanny radio did not break, but the battery compartment cover and two batteries with it popped out, as a result, the connection was lost. — OH NO!!! — Eggman shouted and at the same time grabbed his plastic mustache out of excitement. — Well done, fat fool with fluff instead of brains, now we won’t know what’s there. — scold Charmy the cat. All the toys began to collect batteries and tried to stick them back into the battery compartment, but they just didn’t put them in correctly. Sonic and Shadow then joined them from the bed and also tried to position them correctly. — How to put them back? — asked Sonya. — Maybe like this? — Manik asked. — All wrong! They should be placed sideways, not up. — said Infinite. — No no. Place them on the other side! — the devourer explained. Mephelis, who joined, pushed everyone away and put the batteries in the right place. But he mixed them up, putting pluses with minuses, and minuses with pluses. Then he tried to close them with a lid, but it would not close, as if the batteries did not fit correctly again.

On the first floor

      David and the guys ran to his room on the second floor and the soldier ran up to the radio and began to warn the nanny about this: — Alarm! Alarm! David is coming upstairs. I repeat. Children's Invasion! Everyone urgently return to their previous places! But no one heard him, because the connection was lost.

At the same time

      Sonic and Shadow were now trying with all their might to close the lid. — No no. Turn them over! Turn it over! — Eggman moved them all away, opened the lid, removed the batteries and swapped them with the other sides, as they should be. — Plus should be to plus, and minus to minus. — he added and closed them tightly with a lid. But it was already too late. The children and David immediately opened the door sharply and ran into the room. At that moment, the toys didn’t even have time to pretend they weren’t alive. They only bulged their eyes and opened their mouths, looking at the children, and they, in turn, silently and with breaths looked at them. And then they ran back down screaming, as if they had seen the demons of Hell. Don't forget to slam the door. After a couple of seconds of silence, having recovered from the shock, Sonic shouts: — LET'S ALL GET BACK TO THEIR PLACES BEFORE THEY COME BACK!!! Everyone ran away in panic. — Hey! Where is my other tail? Who took my tail? Where's my tail? — he asked the others, for he had only one tail, and the second fell off and disappeared somewhere. — Run-run-run-run-run-run-run! — Omega repeated to himself and crashed into a bucket from under the Lego constructors and fell on his back, losing consciousness. At this time, the children and David went down the stairs, and their father stopped them: — Stop, stop! Where is the fire? What kind of panic? — Uncle, there are toys in your son’s room. They... They are alive. — explained the girl with blue bows, and her father just laughed to the side. — Of course, I understand that you are still small and like to imagine something so incredible. But for the toys to really come to life... You know, when I was about your age, I remember once seeing toys come to life. — Is it true? — David did not believe his father, and the latter continued to explain: — Certainly. You weren’t in the world then, Sonic was my favorite toy then, and I lived in a different house then. My grandmother once told me a story about how our favorite toys come to life at night and while we are sleeping, they walk around our house until the morning and do all sorts of funny things. And when we look at them, they usually pretend not to be alive. Neither my grandmother nor I ourselves understood why they did this? Maybe they are afraid that we people, having learned that they are alive, will begin to catch them and keep them outside the wild, like pets in cages, or drag them into laboratories to study them or conduct experiments on them. The fact that they come to life is not scary at all. After all, they won’t do anything bad to you, if, of course, you really love them and play with them more carefully, so that, for example, you don’t accidentally break them. Well, the fact that you accidentally noticed that they were alive, we can say that you were just lucky. After all, usually, when we, for example, enter a room, they immediately pretend not to be alive so that we don’t catch them. For example, I remember one time I fell asleep and left Sonic on the nightstand, and the next morning he lay next to me in bed, although I didn’t take him with me at night and tried to sleep without him. So don't be afraid. The fact that they are alive is not scary. After listening to the story of David's father, they went back to the second floor, and his father returned to the kitchen and spoke about them: — Funny kids! They invent something and then believe it themselves. Although we were exactly the same as children and loved to fantasize a little. David and the children returned back to the room and noticed that all the toys were back in their original places. Sonic and Shadow were still lying on the bed, Blaze was standing on the nightstand next to the bed, and the rest were in the drawer. Except that Omega was lying next to the Lego bucket, although logically he should also have been lying in the chest. David picked Omega up from the floor and put him back in the chest. They remembered perfectly where they stood and with what when they caught them alive. — It looks like your dad isn’t deceiving us. — said the boy with glasses. — Previously, they were all standing on the floor, but now they are back in their places. It turns out they are really alive? — Or maybe we just imagined it and we just got carried away? — the girl with the bows thought out loud. — Personally, I always believed that they were alive. And when I start playing with him, I sometimes imagine that at that moment they come to life and act and speak for me. — says David. — Children, we have movie tickets. Who wants to go to the cinema? — Mom’s voice was heard from below and the children ran downstairs with joy. Only David was left alone in the room for now and placed his surprise gift from his parents on the bed, next to Sonic and Shadow. — Here! For you now, get to know your new neighbor, who was given to me as a gift. And I'll be back soon. — he told them, thinking that they were alive and heard him, and then left the room. There was no one in the room anymore, Blaze was the first to come to life, followed by the rest of the toys from the chest. Then Sonic and Shadow came to life. A gift from David's parents caught their attention. It was a plastic toy figurine of a white hedgehog with blue patterns. Next to him was a mini box with clear plastic showing the shape of his body. He, too, at first stood in an epic pose, smiled, baring his teeth, and moving his eyes around, he also began to move slowly. — Finally. — he said to himself, doing exercises and stretching, as if his whole body was numb. — I was in this box inside this closet for six days, and then they finally took me out and gave me to him. After stretching and jogging in place, he looked around and noticed two plush hedgehogs approaching him from his side. Moreover, both were plush, but they looked different in color and form, as if they were made by different toy factories. — Hello, newbie. My name is Sonic, this is my friend and roommate Shadow, and this is the room of our common owner David. — Nice to meet you. — Silver replies, shaking the blue hedgehog's plastic palm on his plush arm. — I'm Silver the Hedgehog. Gamma quadrant. The forces of the Alpha universe... I'm kidding. My series of toys was developed three years ago by Sonic Team. Well, or rather not Sonic Team himself, but his younger subsidiary. Although it seemed to me that all my life I had been collecting dust on the back shelves of the store and all this time people and children passed by me, buying other toys from my series. But overall I didn't complain. — True, but I was sewn by myself. That is, I was not produced by any company at all and am considered a fan product. — Shadow explained. — Who produced you and when? — Silver turned to Sonic. — Uh... I almost don’t remember. I only remember that I was developed somewhere in the nineties of the last century. — And they sewed me up in two thousand and twelve. — black-and-scarlet one intervened. — And I was made by Hasbro. — Blaze got into someone else’s conversation and jumped from the nightstand onto the bed. — Hello. I... — Blaze. I already know. I saw a couple of episodes of our animated series on TV from the store shelf. True, no sound. — Silver answers and shakes her hand. Then the rest of the toys climbed onto the bed so that I could meet and each introduced himself to each other. — I’m so glad that you turned out to be not a huge monster at all. — says the eater, shaking hands with the white hedgehog. — Thank you to each of you for your indifferent receptions. — Silver thanks everyone. — Tell me. Why do you need these buttons? — Cream asked, noticing fifteen multi-colored buttons on Silver's chest. — These are voice speech simulators and each of these buttons is responsible for its own phrase. I will show you now. — he answers and presses the red button, for example. — Silver the Hedgehog is coming to the rescue! - Says Silver's speech imitator in his voice. Then Silver presses the yellow button as an example. — Secret mission, a flight to unknown worlds. — says the speech simulator and finally Silver presses the green button as an example. — I will destroy you, Iblis trigger. — WOW!!! — they all said at once in surprise, and only Mephiles, in order to express his emotions, covered his cheeks with his hands and bulged his pupils in his eyes. — I have almost exactly the same one on my back. It is enough to pull the thread on my back and every time a random phrase will be spoken. Somewhere from five to eight phrases are spoken. — Sonic answers and, as an example, pulled himself by the ring on his back, after which the speech simulator inside him spoke with his voice: — Gotta go fast. — then he pulls again. — Sonic the Hedgehog to the rescue! — Great. — Silver praised, as if for the first time he saw not an old toy, but a new one. — But I have something else. — adds and presses another larger button on the stomach, after which wings appear on the back. Everyone is delighted with what they see and thinks that he can fly. — True, they are not real. I really can't fly. When they were developing me, they tried to cram into me as much as they could. Except psychokinesis. Because of this, I can’t even move objects without touching them. And these wings are, so to speak, a gag. — Why? We saw the episode where you got them. According to the twenty-fourth episode of the second season, Dr. Nega was able to absorb your psychokinesis abilities, after which you could not even fly. Then Professor Thorendyke created these wings from moritanium and adamantium in a mimic alloy so that you could penetrate Negi's ship and regain your powers. So this is partly canon. — Tails explains. — Oh, don't defend him. He is right. In Sega they got completely lazy and couldn’t come up with anything properly to sell new toys well, so in the end they did this. — Shadow grinned. — Shadow, are you jealous of me? — Silver suspected, smiling. — Not at all. The original Silver from the series you're based on was simply cooler, he could actually fly, engage enemies, fight, and even as you mentioned, move things without touching them. And you?... You can only compare with us in running. — Shadow explained. — Forgive him please! He's not very used to newbies. — Sonic apologized for Shadow. — No, no, Sonic, he's right. How can I be considered a cool toy if I can’t do anything like that?... — said the white one and lowered his head, to which everyone except Shadow sympathized with him. — Let's have a competition!

To be continued