sᴏɴɪᴄ ᴛᴏʏ: 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞

      Turning on the computer and connecting a second screen to a large TV, Cream searched the Internet for free online viewings of various cartoons and films. The rest at this time, made of bricks and Lego constructors, was a large hall, like a cinema, and were waiting to watch a film on the big screen. — What movie are we going to watch? — asked Maria. — Maybe a tin soldier? — Amy suggested. — No, no, not him. You know how bitterly I cry at its ending. — Sonya answered. — Well I do not know. I like this cartoon. He's kind of scary, but romantic. It is immediately clear that the soldier and the dancer truly love each other so much that they even burned together in the fireplace, if only the dancer was not with the jack-in-the-box. — And I suggest watching Gnomeo and Juliet! — Boko suggested. — No, we’ve already watched it a hundred times. Let's have a better continuation about Sherlock Gnomes? — Manik asked. — Maybe Sandalfoot and her friends? — Bokkun suggested. — Maybe we’ll see what Cream offers us? — Shadow suggested and turned to her. — Cream, did you find any new movie there? — Wait! I think I found it, here it is! — she said and clicked on the desired link. Only the website with the film was displayed only on her computer monitor, and on the TV so far only what Cream was trying to hide was displayed. Eggman took the remote control and turned on the TV. At first there was a TV channel with football, and then he switched it to the computer. Suddenly, on the second half of the computer displayed on the TV screen, everyone saw something that made everyone's jaws drop and their eyes bulge. There was an adult site on TV with a video where two hedgehogs, Sonic and Shadow, were lying in bed and doing... Well, this! — Uh... What am I? — Sonic asked. — Is this mine?... — asked Shadow, pointing his finger at what was sticking out of the black and scarlet hedgehog on the screen. — O-o-oh! — Amy was the only one who reacted calmly to what she saw and rather looked a little lustfully at this picture on the screen. — Well, Sonic! Well, Shadow! — she added, grinning at what she saw. — Oh! — Cream said, not expecting that the site that she was trying to hide from everyone would be immediately noticed on TV. Sonic and Shadow, realizing what this video was and what it was about, simultaneously grabbed their heads with their hands and screamed at the top of their lungs. It’s good that there was no one else in the house except them.

Some time later

      Sonic and Shadow lay on David's bed and were sad, thinking about what they just saw. They still couldn't get what they had just seen out of their heads. — “How could they?... Why did they disgrace us like that?... What kind of fans did this to us?” — thought Sonic. — “Are they sick or what?... What idiot decided that Sonic and I are a couple?... He and I are just friends... Well, or a little rivals... They generally have at least one game with our common participation or Have her watched cartoon series about us?...” — Shadow thought. — Well, don’t despair so much! — Amy tried to calm them down. — Just think, some fool made a video about you where you are doing... Well, basically this. — she twirled her hands for example. — That doesn’t mean you actually do that. In reality, you behave completely differently. And we all understand this perfectly. You have nothing to be ashamed of in some stupid video from an adult site! — Easy for you to say, Amy. You and Blaze sometimes walk around holding hands like a couple. But there’s probably another video on that site where you and Blaze are doing the same thing. — Sonic answered sadly. — It’s strange that our owners didn’t notice or recognize this for a long time. — Shadow answered out loud. — They don’t care about that. They understand perfectly well what we are all really like according to the canon. — Amy waved it off. — She is right. — Blaze herself climbed onto the bed. — Just because you saw it doesn’t mean that many people around the world think so about you. There are also normal people who understand perfectly what we really are. For example, my original is practically emotionless and does not show his emotions to anyone, but this does not mean that I cannot show my emotions. It's the same with you Shadow. Just because your original is dark, gritty and rougher, doesn't mean you always have to be that way. You, too, can sometimes be sad, laugh, or keep a smile on your face all the time. Remember how you almost cried when you, Sonic and Silver returned to us! — Well, how can you not remember? — Shadow asked. — Besides, just because Amy and I are holding each other’s hands doesn’t mean we’re supposedly a couple. — Blaze explained. — You know very well that we are just friends. — Amy added. — Yes. — Sonic answered briefly, without thinking for long. — Ready. — said Cream, pointing the website with the desired movie onto the TV screen and turning on full-screen mode. — Take your seats! We'll watch what I want. — Oh no. Is she really going to invite us to watch this crap? — Blaze was scared. — Relax! — Cream reassured her. — This is a Chinese action movie. Resigned, Sonic and Shadow jumped off the bed and sat down in their seats. Amy and Blaze sat down next to them. The film that Cream found to watch, which no one had seen, was filmed in China and was an adaptation of the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan. Noticing the title from Chinese characters and the fact that the one-voice translator read the title out loud, the toys immediately realized that this was really a Chinese film, filmed in China itself and based on a native ancient legend about a woman who went to war in place of her sick father. — So this is a film about a strong and independent woman? — Vector asked. — M-m-m-m... I don't like feminists. — Espio folded his hands on his shoulders. The rest of the toys shushed them, since with their chatter they were preventing them from watching. At first, yes, only for the Chaotix the film seemed boring at first, but towards the end they more or less got used to it and they even began to like the main character, as well as her motivation. As the movie ended and the end credits began, the toys began to applaud. Even the Chaotix clapped as if it was a performance. — Okay, I take my words back. — said the chameleon. — It’s a pity that it’s so little. I wish I could watch a movie that would last longer! — Silver thought out loud. — Well, yes. Four hours, for example, or five at least. — Infinite suggested, then lowered his head. — But this probably doesn’t exist even among director’s versions of films. — Wait!... Actually, there is. — Cream delighted everyone and went back into the computer to search for a four-hour long film and found only one match for the request. — Here he is! — the movie she found was called Zack Snyder's Justice League. — Zack Snyder's film? Ugh, no. I don't like his films. They're kind of strange. — Eggman denied and chose to leave. — I’m interested, so sit down! — Without looking, the grandfather sat his grandson back on the chair. — Yes, grandfather. Sorry! Krim directed the movie website to the TV screen, turned on the full screen and pressed play. First, twenty seconds of the studio screensaver passed, and then flashing dots appeared. — WHAT'S HAPPENED??? — Infinite was indignant and wanted to get up, but Mephiles took him by the shoulders and forced him to sit back. — Wait! A little patience. The connection to the Internet simply disappears. Just give it time to load! — asked Cream, sitting patiently and waiting for further viewing.

Four or six hours later.

      The toys were already watching the four-hour superhero movie to the end when it got dark outside, and a green van with two bald guys appeared on the road. One looked like bodybuilder The Rock Johnson, and the other looked like Mark Strong. — He told us that five families from this house left this week alone, leaving their homes. — the short man says to his healthy partner, looking through his tablet at the entire house plan of Krasnogurbinsk. — And in all these empty houses there are automatic timers hidden to turn on the garlands on the street. And I figured out when which one would light up. Here look! — He looks at the list through the tablet and reads it out loud. — House number five hundred sixty-five. Now! — And by coincidence, the garlands on the house that he pointed to caught fire. The partner was shocked. — You really are a wizard, Barry. — Not a wizard, but rather a fortuneteller. — he answered and checked the list further. — Number six hundred sixty six! — he pointed to the neighboring house and the garlands on it also lit up. Then he checks another empty house. — Six hundred seventy-one. Now! — but he was probably in a hurry with the third house. The lights in this house only came on five seconds after Barry pointed. — Hm-m... Apparently my watch is fast here. — But that one seems to me to be the most important chic. — the big man suggested, pointing his finger at the house further. — Don't tell me, Marb. Stuffed with all sorts of trinkets and other valuables. — Barry supported. — TVs, stereo, video and even a player. Surely a lot of jewelry too. There might even be some securities there. Both bald men picked up their crowbars, turned off their truck slightly, got out of it and slowly walked towards the house. At this time, the toys in the house had already finished watching the movie. — It seems to me that the viewing took us even more than four hours. — said Infinite. — Nothing, this time was worth it. — Cream answered and went back to the computer to turn it off before it completely overheated and broke. — What else could we do? — Sonic thought out loud. — Maybe we can have a party? — Manik suggested. — With music and dancing? — asked Sonya. All the toys thought it was a good idea and went down the stairs. It was dark below and you couldn’t make out anything. It’s good that Silver and Blaze glowed a little, like night lights. — I can not see anything. It's too dark. — Omega said. — We should turn on the light. — Blaze replied and stood near the switch at the top. Shadow, Sonic, Silver and Amy approach her, climbing on top of each other to reach the switch and press it, turning on the light. At this time, the bandits outside, approaching the porch, were already preparing to break down the door with crowbars. But as soon as the light turned on through the windows and door, both bandits shuddered in place. They were so scared when the light was turned on inside the house and they really thought that there was someone there. — You said there was no one there. — said Marb. — This is true! And in general, it was not me who said this, but Jimbo! — Barry hissed angrily, not understanding why the lights in the house came on. — Maybe he got something wrong? — suggested the thug. — After all, he himself said that he only saw the passport of the man who gave that family a lift. — I really hope so... Okay, let's come back tomorrow and check! — the partner answered, after which both bandits quickly headed to the van and drove away. The toys had not yet heard anything at this time. Omega, Eggman, Gerald, Vector and Big slowly lowered the record player down. Silver looked at him and immediately remembered that he had forgotten. — Ah! I forgot that I needed to return the audiotape to Andrew, and it was already night outside. — Silver panicked, grabbed his head, took out an audio cassette from the player’s cassette deck and ran through the pet door into the street. — Be careful, Silver! It's dark and slippery there! — Blaze asked. Silver first went out onto the porch and saw a van drive past with two bald guys chatting to themselves. When they drove past, the hedgehog ran on and was sure that they did not see him, since they were chatting to themselves. Having run out onto the road, he wanted to run across, but heard the sound of a car from afar and ran back and hid behind a fire hydrant. Luckily, a furniture delivery truck passed by. At that moment, one of the neighbors of one of the houses went outside to smoke. Although it was frosty outside, especially at night, the man didn’t care because he was dressed warmly. He had just lit a cigar with a lighter and was about to inhale through it, when he suddenly noticed that across the road to one of his neighbors a plastic white hedgehog was running into the house, holding a cassette in his hands. The man bulged his eyes and rubbed them, deciding that maybe he was imagining it. But he still saw the living toy run towards the house and through the front door through the pet gap. The man decided that perhaps it was because of the cigarettes that he had gone crazy. — No, no, no, that's it. Had enough! — he said to himself, threw only the lit and not yet smoked cigarette butt into the snow and stamped it down, then took the entire pack with the remaining cigarettes and threw them into the trash can. — Fine! I don't smoke anymore! — he added to himself and returned to his home, deciding not to tell anyone what they saw, so that no one would think that he was crazy. CinemaSins: I would never believe in something like this, so that a person, seeing something like this for the first time, would immediately decide that it was all because of his bad habit. After all, a normal guy, in order to make sure that he is not crazy at all, would follow where his supposed hallucination is going and try to figure out whether it is true or whether he has really gone crazy. AntiSins: Well, lucky Silver! Happens!

At the same time

      Cream, using large paper and a bunch of markers, drew several multi-colored squares to depict a dance floor, and then covered it in the corridor on the first floor. Blaze was looking in Ivan's box among a pile of audio cassettes for suitable music for dancing, and Maria at that time went to the bathroom, since Shadow was preparing a surprise there. — Shadow, are you there? — she called him, but he did not respond yet. He was on top of the washing machine, finishing sewing a new dress for his girlfriend. Only the first time he did something wrong. The dress he sewed turned out to be somehow crooked, slightly cut off on the side, and besides, the size of the dress itself was even larger than the size of the doll’s legs. But he didn’t bring scissors to make a short cut. I embroidered only with thread and a needle, gnawing the thread here and there with my teeth. Maria climbed onto the washing machine to look around and immediately noticed her black and scarlet friend. Even though they had only known each other for three days, it felt as if they had already known each other for a long time and had known each other for a long time. — Yeah! Here are you! Why are you here? Let's go, our people will soon have fun there. — A?! M-Maria? Y-yeah, I'm coming now! — Shadow answered stuttering, as he did not expect Maria to come here. — What do you have there? — the doll tried to look behind the plush hedgehog’s back, but he hid the dress behind his back in every possible way so that she wouldn’t see. — Nothing! — Shadow said, trying to make his face as normal as possible. — Hey guys! Where are you stuck?! — came the voice of Sonic, who was looking for Shadow and Maria throughout the house. — We're here, Sonic! — Robotnik shouted and Sonic appeared in the bathroom a couple of minutes later. — Why are you sitting here? Maria, the girls lost you there. — Go, Maria, I’ll come to you now. — said Shadow, after which Maria went downstairs and left, but the thought that Shadow was hiding something did not leave her. — Friend, what happened? It was the first time I saw you so nervous, even though you tried to seem normal. Sonic asked as Eggman's sister left. In response, Shadow showed what was supposed to be a dress. — I tried to make a dress for Maria, as promised, but it doesn’t work out for me! — The black-scarlet grabbed his head. — “The dancing is about to start, but I didn’t have time to do anything!” — Hey, calm down, Shadow! Not everyone succeeds the first time! — Blue tried to calm him down. — Do you think Lili sewed you up the first time? I bet she had a lot of failed attempts. At first, Shadow could not remember the past for a long time, since it was a long time ago. But when he finally remembered when the first day of its creation was, he thoughtfully replied: — Yes... At first I looked a little crooked, my eyes were narrow, my nose was potato-shaped, one arm was completely thicker than the other. But then Lili changed me several times until I became the way you all see me now. — Here you go. Everyone can make mistakes sometimes, because things don’t always work out the first time. And Maria won’t be offended that you did this for her. She is your friend and she understands everything perfectly well that you are trying very hard for her sake, even though some things don’t work out. - explained the blue one. — You are right. I won't be so nervous. — the black-and-scarlet agreed with him, took a ready-made version that he didn’t have time to correct, and went with Sonic into the corridor, where they even built a stage out of cubes and Lego so that after the dancing they could organize some kind of beauty contest with the participation of girls. Shadow was hiding the dress behind his back for now. — Maria! — Yes, Shadow. — M-m-m-m... Surprise! — he said and held out his hands, showing a dress or something similar to it, which he was able to sew the first time. Maria gasped at what she saw, but not because the dress looked so strange, but rather because Shadow apparently tried so hard for her, but nothing worked. Shadow thought differently. — You do not like? I knew that I wouldn’t succeed. — What are you?... I really like it. — the doll answered, accepted the gift from the black and scarlet hedgehog and kissed his forehead in gratitude. Shadow not only smiled in response, but also suddenly changed the color of the fabric on his cheeks to red, feigning a blush.