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      On the way, the family stopped at a gas station, because gasoline was almost empty. Mom went out to fill up the car, dad at that moment accidentally noticed his cousin at the gas station and decided to talk to him for now, and David, as usual, went to the vending machine with extra coins to order a can of soda water. Sonic, left alone, realized that this was the best moment to come to life for a while and thought: — It’s still a shame that we treated Shadow this way. How can I explain to them that he didn’t do it on purpose? — and at that moment Silver appeared on the roof of the car window. — Hello. — Silver? — Sonic didn’t expect to see him and he jumps towards him. Sonic immediately stretches out his arms and screams. — SILVER!!! YOU ARE ALIVE!!! — Certainly. It doesn’t matter to me. Well, maybe the bush slightly softened my fall. After all, if it weren’t for him, I probably would have broken down. — explained the white hedgehog. — What happiness. David and his parents will see you with me, they will be terribly happy, they will take you home and you will tell everyone that when Shadow threw you out of the window, it was by accident and just out of the envy. — Sonic said, removing a fly from Silver’s head that accidentally crashed into him during the trip and wiping his head from the fly’s saliva. — I just didn’t understand one thing. Why did Shadow do this? What came over him? — Forgive him, Silver. It's not his fault. You see, he and I used to be David’s favorite toys, but since you showed up at his birthday, he began to play with you more often, and he began to forget about Shadow and me. How he envied you. Out of envy, he decided to get rid of you, thinking that if David didn’t find you, he would take either Shadow or me instead of you. — Sonic explained and Silver, while listening to all this, blushed with shame. At this time, Shadow himself was already above the window on the roof of the car and followed them down. — SHADOW!!! — Sonic was happy when he saw him behind Silver. Shadow however was very angry at both of them. — Listen, don’t be offended by me that I allowed them to throw you off too, in response, I did this out of fear, so that others would not think that I am with you for the same thing and so that they would believe me. I don't like conflicts. — You know, Sonic, do you know that I fell straight into a raspberry bush, and there were aphids and ants there. They chewed my whole butt off. — Shadow hissed. — Come on! When David, Lily and Ivan see the three of us in the car and are happy to see us all together with the car, Lily will then, as usual, sew everything up for you. — Sonic explained, and Shadow leaned towards him and asked: — Are you sure? Have you even seen this hole? — No. — Sonic answers and Shadow throws him and himself out of the car onto the street, starting to hit his back on the floor. Sonic responded by grabbing his head with his hands and rolling under the car. — Guys, what are you doing? Stop it now! — Silver tried to stop them and jumped after them. At that moment, Sonic managed to throw Shadow with his feet towards the wheel of the front car. — Okay! Come on! — he hissed, getting to his feet and running at Sonic, and he stood up, clenched his hands into fists, and as soon as Shadow ran a little closer, he hit him with all his might and Shadow was thrown back to the same wheel again. — Okay! Come on! — he hissed again, getting to his feet and running towards Sonic. As soon as he ran a little closer again, Sonic punched him again and Shadow was also thrown back to the same wheel. — Ah yes? You're top guy? — he shouted, getting back to his feet and running towards Sonic again. — Now I’ll definitely whip you, faker. — he said as he ran, and as soon as he ran a little closer to Sonic again, he hit him again in response. Fortunately, Shadow managed to dodge this time and kicks him back, causing him to fall to the floor, and Shadow pounces on top of him and hits him in the face. — On the! On the! On the! On the! On the! On the! On the! — Shadow, stop it right now! — Silver tried to persuade him, grabbing Shadow by the arms from behind and dragging him away from Sonic. However, Shadow hits him in the head with his head, causing a slight concussion, then throws him over himself and hits him on the buttons on his chest. — Sil-Sil-Sil-Sil-Sil-Sil-Silver to the rescue! — Silver's voice sensor said inside him. While Shadow was trying to beat him, Silver grabbed him by the arms, threw him to the ground, pushed his back away from him with his left foot, and held his hands tightly with his own and pulled him towards himself. CinemaSins: What's going on? Shadow has no conscience and cannot accept his fate, unlike Sonic, but Sonic and Silver are most afraid to become lost toys. Then why all these fight under the car? Run quickly into the car, and Shadow, although in fits of rage, will still rush after you. AntiSins: Shadow was furious with Silver and Sonic, they fought, as a result, Silver and Sonic themselves were angry with Shadow and did not come to their senses in time. At this point any reason is always rejected. While Sonic, Shedu and Silver were fighting among themselves under the car, David and his parents climbed into the car, already filled with gas, and drove off. After hearing the Mator plant and realizing that they had left without them, it was already too late. — DAVID!!! — Sonic shouted, holding out his hand. — NO!!! — Shadow shouted, holding out his hand. At that moment the car was moving away, and Sonic ran after them and stopped not far from the gas station and thought: — “They didn’t even notice that I wasn’t there?” — he thought and realizing that they had now become lost toys, he collapsed on the floor and began to cry. Silver at that moment ran up to him and put his hand on his back, trying to calm him down. — Why feel sorry for me, Silver? Do not you understand? We are lost toys. Now we can't get out of here. Shadow, at that time, stood under a lamppost in the light and thought that he could throw Silver at a gas station and leave him lying there, while he and Sonic would remain in the car if he were not so angry with Sonic. The latter, at that moment, having come to his senses and realizing whose fault they were here, turned towards Shadow and ran towards him in a rage to take revenge on him. At that moment, a truck with a canister of flammable gasoline arrived at the gas station. — RUN!!! — Silver shouted, taking Sonic by the hand and hiding with him behind one of the gas pumps. Shadow, out of fear, chose to simply pretend not to be alive and lay down on the floor. Fortunately, the truck, or rather its wheels, passed between him and did not hit him. Having come to his senses, he stood up and, moving backwards, touched Sonic's back. But he accidentally screams, afraid that it could be a human hand. — A! It's you? — he said calming down when he realized that it was Sonic. — Shut up! It's all because of you. — Sonic was rude. — We got lost, and David left. They'll move soon, and it's all your fault. — What? My fault? — Shadow was indignant that Sonic blamed him for this and pointed his finger at Silver. — It's his fault! Because of him we ended up on the street. — Because of me? — Silver was indignant. — If you hadn’t thrown me out of the window! — Yes? — Shadow asked Silver brazenly. — What if you hadn’t shown up at David’s birthday and taken away David’s fame, friends, and love from Sonic and me. Everything was fine with us until you showed up. — Listen, you hit me first and because of this we fell out of the car. — Sonic intervened, accusing Shadow. — Who provoked me? Who convinced our other comrades to throw me out of the window too? — Shadow asked. — Right! You! So the first blow was yours. — WHAT??? — Sonic screamed, so that probably the entire gas station should have heard him. — CAN YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF WHAT YOU’RE SAYING??? CinemaSins: Sonic, Shadow, and Silver scream so loudly that anyone nearby should have heard them. How lucky it didn't turn out that way. AntiSins: They hear them, but why do they care? Gas station workers and others who came to refuel simply try to ignore these screams, thinking that it’s just probably some homeless crazy people screaming somewhere around the corner or on the road. — All! Quite enough! Calm down! — Silver tried to calm them both down. — I can hear myself perfectly! It's you who don't want to understand the obvious! — Shadow ignored Silver’s words and continued to defend his own. — THEN YOU KNOW WHAT?! IT WOULD BE EVEN GREAT IF DAVID'S MOM THROWS YOU OUT IN THE TRASH!!! YOU ARE ONLY PROBLEMS!!! IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR LILI TO LEAVE YOU AT HER PARENTS' HOUSE, OR NOT TO SEW YOU AT ALL!!! — Sonic shouted even louder, hoping to reach his plush brother, but with his words he achieved a slightly different effect. Shadow's face changed and he froze abruptly, realizing what he had just heard. Closing his eyes so as not to show his tears, he turned away from Sonic and Silver and walked away from them. — Shadow, wait! I did not want! — said Sonic, realizing that he had blurted out too much. — Roll in all four directions! I don't care now! — the black-scarlet answered and quickened his pace. — Shadow, wait! — Sonic wanted to follow, but he was stopped by Silver’s hand, which lay on his shoulder. — Leave him alone, Sonic. Shadow needs to be alone now. Sonic wanted to argue, but ultimately thought it was a good idea. Shadow could easily break them now if they approached him. The black-and-scarlet himself stopped near one of the gas stations and thought. He was still angry with his two comrades. After all, due to the fault of one, David forgot about him and Sonic, which is why they lay idle. And due to the fault of another, all three ended up lost at a gas station. However, Sonic was right about something. The realization began to come to him that it was his fault that they were lost, but the hedgehog quickly drove away these thoughts. Still, he did not want to admit his guilt and continued to curse the silver one. Instead, other thoughts came. That it would really be better for him to stay with the parents of his former owner, or not to be created at all. Then there would be fewer problems. The hedgehog raised his right leg and saw David's name. Shadow grinned, remembering how the boy, with the help of his mother, wrote his name with a marker. He was just learning to read and write then. Raising his other leg, he saw the name of David's mother. I remembered that that day the boy saw her name on his leg and came to Lili to find out where her name was on the toy. Then they told him that Shadow used to belong to her. She also explained that Sonic also has a name written on it because he used to be his father's toy. That day, David's name appeared on the soles of Sonic and Shadow. This happened a few months before David's birthday. Sonic at this time explained to Silver why he, that is, Shadow, was so jealous of him, and he, on the contrary, tried to be calmer to the fact that David often began to play with him. And he even talked about the same nightmare that Shadow had last night, completely describing it from beginning to end, just as Shadow himself described it to him. — Listen, forgive me, I didn’t know about this. — white man lowered his head. — For what? It's not your fault. Even David probably wouldn't care which of us is to blame. Now the child needs us all together, because we belong to him, both together and separately. But how are we going to get home now, and even on foot? While we walk all night, our legs will be torn off by the morning, and David will already begin to worry and realize that he has lost us. — Sonic wondered out loud. — Okay, don't worry! We'll walk on the moon. When I was gathering dust on the store shelves, we had a TV there that regularly showed one episode from the animated series itself. Well, really without sound, but while looking through them I somehow understood them myself and understood what the point was. And in one of the episodes they seemed to show how one scientist taught me how to navigate by the moon and stars in the sky, if, for example, you got lost in the forest and in complete darkness you can’t even see a compass. — Silver explained as he walked out to the other side of the truck and looked straight at the moon, which was shining full. Looking at her, he imagined that the same scientist was standing in front of him and he was allegedly addressing him. — Thank you, Doctor Thorndike. Your knowledge of surviving on a desert planet without magnetic fields helped me out again. At that moment, an old and slightly shabby car with the logo of the Golden Bird cafe pulled into the gas station. The driver drove up to an empty pump and addressed one of the gas station workers: — Hey guy! This is my first time in your city and only my first day of work. You can’t tell me where Barreled Elm Boulevard is located. — Golden bird? — Sonic asked himself, reading the cafe logo on the side of the car and remembering that David and his parents were just going there and they could still catch up with them. — DAVID!!! — he shouted joyfully and wanted to run to the car at first, but stopped in time. — Oh no. We can't return alone without Shadow! — he said to himself and ran to the edge of another gas station, starting to shout there and call Shadow: — Shadow, hey! Come back! — Go away — black-scarlet one waved his hand at him in response. — Shadow, please sorry me! I didn't do it on purpose! This just came out of my anger. I'm partly to blame too. — Sonic tried to explain everything to him from afar, then changed his gaze to the car and figured out what to tell him: — We found a car that will return us to David! — by that moment, Shadow already wanted to cover his ears so as not to listen to him and go even further, but when he heard the last phrase, he stopped. Disbelieving what he heard, he slightly turned his gaze towards Sonic and Silver. — Shadow, I know... It's all my fault... But please listen to us... Come with us so that the three of us can go back to David, and then when we get home, hate me... As much as you want. — Silver also joined Sonic in support. Shadow became thoughtful, noticing also a car with the logo of the very cafe where David and his parents essentially went. — “Maybe they are right? Maybe all is not lost and we can go back?” — he thought and returned to them under the truck, continuing to look at the car itself. — Where the hell are you looking, is it already pouring over the edge? — the driver swore that he was being refueled a little incorrectly. — Damn, sorry, buddy! — the gas station owner apologized. — I guess I shouldn’t have drunk a lot of coffee today from the wrong seeds that put me to sleep. — Wow! Do you also fill at Gazprom? — asked the driver. — Are you sure that this driver is going to the same place as David? — Shadow asked. — Aha. Here is the restaurant logo on it. All working cars are painted like this. — Sonic explained. — So this is the plan. — Silver began. — While no one is looking, we climb into the car window and sit there until we arrive at our destination. After he had said this, he looked around, made sure that none of the people were looking, and ran. Sonic and Shadow tried to stop him. — No, stop, Silver! Wait! Let's better jump into the trunk! — Sonic suggested. — Negative! There are no seat belts in the trunk, and the front seat is safe. — Silver explained and first began to climb onto the wheel, jumps up and clings to the rearview mirror, and then lightly looks through the window, where the driver thanks the owners of the gas station for the treat: — This is ice cream! Okay, come on, dude! Goodbye! He was already getting ready to start the car, and Silver jumped into the empty seat and hid behind the pizza boxes. Sonic and Shadow whispered and tried to call him, but Silver did not respond. The car was already starting, and at that moment the song Yura Shatunov — White Roses was already playing on the radio inside, and they had to climb into the trunk themselves. Once inside, they peeked out through the window and noticed that Silver had even fastened his seat belt. ♪ White roses, white roses, defenseless thorns. ♪ — It's safe in the front seat. What kind of idiot is this? — Shadow asked about Silver, and the driver at that moment switched the speed to full and rushed out of the gas station like a bullet, because he was very late, and at that time Sonic and Shadow inside the trunk were being pushed back and forth with every pavarot. ♪ What did the snow and frost, the ice of the blue display cases, do to them? ♪