sᴏɴɪᴄ ᴛᴏʏ: 𝓐𝓭𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓸𝔂𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼

      Let's go back to the camp for now, how did the elders and young residents of the camp fare there the next day? After that day, when David and Stephanie made a new toy for everyone, and the toys themselves, while walking around in the forest, found a kite named Gorynych Kolya Kirpichev and returned it to him, the counselors even seemed to return to childhood and themselves played with their kite and together with other children. The children loved the new toys that David and Stephanie made for them and agreed to sign the online petition through their phones that the counselors suggested to them. Afterwards, Azatov himself called the Kirpichevs and thanked them for their help. Now he will personally contact the emperor and persuade him to abandon the idea of ​​building a factory on the site of the camp. Afterwards, David found a ripe red apple in his backpack from somewhere and did not know where he got it from. Without hesitation, he gave the apple to counselor Nikolai, and he divided it into two halves, sharing it with his sister. In exchange for an apple, they even decided to give him extra for dinner along with his friends with whom he had made relationships in the camp. After dinner, everyone went to bed, and those three hooligans were already taken by their parents and promised to be severely punished and re-educated. Sonic and Tails, based on the BOOM toys, as well as Tails and Knuckles, Sans, Papyrus and Birch met new neighbors at night, new toys that David and Stephanie made with love. When they came to life, they were glad to be born, or rather to be created on that day. For them, there was happiness not only in the fact that they were made and given to many boys and girls, but also in the fact that they would meet and make friends with those who some of them had before them. The next day, when all the boys and girls woke up and also began to do exercises, they gathered together with the counselors at their request, took their backpacks with their things and a supply of food, and then they set off on the road together, as if they were going on a hike. Some even took their toys with them. Even David, Stephanie, Misha and Nadya did not forget their own and followed the counselors. Along the way, they were like tour guides telling the children what was where. — And so, boys and girls, we pass by a large bush, similar to Frakin Bok, which is on the left. This bush used to be ordinary, but Kolya and I in childhood, when we were about your age, thought that this bush was somehow not beautiful, we took kitchen knives from our counselors without asking and cut out the extra branches with foliage from this bush, cutting out the shape of that same evil and greedy aunt from Malysh and Carlson, and it looked so funny. — says Yuria. Some laughed at the story, and someone even took out their phone and took a photo of the bush as a souvenir. — And now to our right there is a small lake and a waterfall far from here, which makes such noise from afar. There were legends in our camp that somewhere behind the waterfall there was a cave and that there lived a green hermit who hated the New Year. However, one brave boy dared to go there alone and when he found no one there except an empty cave, he realized that these legends were made up. Nevertheless, he was interested in going there and realizing that there was nothing to be afraid of there. — There is a large boulder to our left. — says Kolya. — He was crazy... Oh, that is, he was a lasr... Ugh! Well, in short! Broken to a fig grandmother and completely accidentally taking the shape of a bottle. Many people mistakenly think that this is... Um... It's better for you not to know about it yet! Then you’ll figure it out for yourself when you grow up. Tails and Knuckles, looking lightly from their backpack and seeing a large stone in the shape of a bottle, laughed quietly in their palms, realizing what it looked like. — Excuse me, but how did it happen that this boulder took the shape of a bottle? — Stephanie asked. — The incident was funny. — Kolya answers. — Funny? — David asks, and Yuri answers: — Yes, we used to have our own hooligans in the camp. Once they climbed a mountain with a waterfall and wanted to throw a huge stone from there so that it would roll to the counselors’ house and destroy everything there. Fortunately, they did not calculate the trajectory of the fall and flight of this stone. He fell here and accidentally broke like this, leaving himself with this shape and a bunch of small stones next to him. After this, the hooligans were punished, and they decided to keep the stone itself in the shape of a bottle as a souvenir. — Further to our right is an abandoned mine. We do not advise anyone to go there, even if you are very curious! After all, there is nothing interesting there, but it can only be dangerous. I warned you. I hope you will be obedient? And then there was one incident with one boy who was in the camp even before Kolya and I were born. They say he was very curious and always stuck his nose where he was forbidden. Due to the fact that he was always forbidden to go there, he still did not listen and left one day. Once he was inside, he never returned. — Yuria explained. — Is he lost? — asks Nadya. — Is he died? — asks Misha. — No, worse! He was psychologically traumatized. The stones almost buried him, and the water also flooded the tunnel and he almost drowned. He was lucky that rescuers ran there and pulled him out. Although they might not have made it in time and he most likely would have died. — O! Look! — Kolya points to the left, where the field mouse was. — Everyone says that mice and rats are most often found only in sewers and cities, but in fact there are also field mice and rats. Such mice and rats are so named because they live only in fields and forests. And they feed mainly on wheat, grains and ordinary water. — when he finished speaking, the mouse turned its attention to the counselors and children. She got scared of them and ran away. — But as a couple they are so stupid and cowardly.” Whenever they see a person, they immediately run away from us, thinking that we are dangerous to them. — Leaders Kirpichev, this mushroom is fresh! Can you eat it? — one of the boys asked, picking up a red mushroom with white polka dots. — No, Fedya, it's a fly agaric. It's poisonous, better throw it away! - asked Kolya. — Why throw it away? My dad told me that you can eat poisonous mushrooms too. Of course, if at the same time an ideal and careful cleaning of the poison is carried out, so that only tasty and fresh things remain from the mushroom. For example, my father did this and made soup from bagels. We all tried it and no one got poisoned. I probably won’t throw it away, but just take it home and give it to my dad. — Well, look for yourself! We warned you! — says Yuria. They walked a couple of kilometers and came to the nearest city, which resembled more of a village. The cities were small and occupied only twenty sections in width and longitude. They walked to the city center, where there was a large five-story building in the shape of a blue box with windows. Comic Con is held here every year for Sonic fans. It is for this reason that the camp, built nearby, was named as such, in honor of ComicCon, where counselors and children usually go. All the children couldn’t wait to get there and even become participants themselves. Stephanie was slightly excited, because she had never been to such public institutions before. Only David slightly reassured her and asked her to trust him and just stay close. Entering the building, the children's surprise knew no bounds. There were even adult uncles and aunts who came here. Some were in costumes, as if for Halloween or Masquerade. Others were in ordinary clothes. Moreover, those who were in costumes were dressed and even made up exclusively as characters from Sonic. There were even those who wore a Mitarex costume, and some wore costumes not only for games, but also for various animated series. American and even Japanese. — Hm. I wonder if the Soviet Union had not collapsed, but Sonic the Hedgehog had still reached us, would we have had our own Soviet animated series about Sonic with our own canon? — David asked. — Who the hell knows! Stephanie replies, raising her shoulders. — There are so many people here dressed like Halloween. — says Misha, surprised by each costume, each of which he knew well. Then he drew attention to three women, wearing masks with large heads: Amy the Hedgehog, Sally the Chipmunk and Styx the Badger, who were taking pictures with the children. — Who is this? —Are you talking about Styx? — asks Nadya. — No, about this one. Squirrel. — Misha pointed his finger at the girl in the Sally mask. — This is Sally Acorn from the cartoon series of the nineties. — says David. — I haven’t watched it myself, but I’ve heard about it and the characters from it. A man in an Eggman costume walked past them with a shopping stall, shouting: — HOT DOGS!!! SPICY CHILI!!! PIES WITH RICE!!! BAGLITS WITH RAISINS!!! SANDWICHES WITH FRAME EGGS!!! CHEBUREKI WITH MEAT!!! BUNS WITH STRAWBERRY JAM!!! — I’ll probably buy one cheburek for it. Would you like me to buy you a couple too? — asks Misha. — Yes, I probably won’t refuse a bun with jam. — Nadya answers. — And Stephanie and I have two sausages in the dough! — asked David. While Misha was making an order for himself and his friends, David, Stephanie and Nadya took souvenir photos with some costumed animators, and also watched one of the new episodes of the new animated series about Shadow the Hedgehog on one of the TVs. David and Stephanie even parodied the episode's dialogue as a joke, since they had already seen the episode. David portrayed Shadow and Stephanie portrayed one of the G.U.N. soldiers. — For your sake, Shadow, I’m ready to move mountains. — the girl imitated a man’s voice. — No doubt. — the boy answers and pretends to drink something invisible, and at the same time on TV they show how a black and scarlet hedgehog drinks a glass of some kind of liquid together with a soldier. Then Shadow pays out the contents, suspecting that there was poison in there. — There was poison there! — says David and as Shadow attacks the soldier, David pretends to swing his hand, and Stephanie, like a stuntwoman, pretends to be hit, grabs her throat, sticks out her tongue and crouches, answering: — And... Death! The other children and people looked at the parody of those two and clapped their hands. One of the children even filmed the skit on his mobile phone. Misha returned at that moment and brought not only two sausages in dough, a cheburek and a bun, but also took four more cans of soda. Two with cola, two with Fanta. They shared snacks and drinks. And then they decided to split up and each of them went to have fun at ComicCon in their own way. Misha and Nadya went to the hall where they were selling Sonic comics from two different companies. One was from Archie and the other was from IDW. Each issue from each company was a continuation of you know what animated series. Misha and Nadya liked the IDW numbers better and bought a couple of new numbers that had not previously been on sale. They were no longer interested in Archie comics, since this company no longer produces new Sonic comics. Then they found a desk where a girl was sitting, selling fan fiction to her in the form of an entire collection with a bound cover. The title of this fanfic was “Children of the Nagas”, a collection authored by “Ekaterina Pavlova”. A huge collection with all the events of the new fan universe. The brother and sister liked the book and they also decided to buy it for one. The woman not only sold it to them, but also left the signature “SilverStar”. David and Stephanie decided to go to a large hall, like in a movie theater, and watch fan short films on Sonic there on the big screen, which are not yet on YouTube. Only five have been shown there so far. Two were in 2D, and the other three were created in the SFM program. The plot of the first was narrated by a sketch with events after the sixth film about Sonic the Hedgehog. The second was about a love triangle between Sonic, Amy and Sally. The third was an adaptation of one of the Archie comics. The fourth repeated the cut-scene of the meeting between Sonic and Silver in the 2006 game, but the middle and end were changed and during the fight, Sonic managed to talk to Silver and convince him. And at the end, when Eggman's robots kidnapped Princess Alice, the hedgehogs united and decided to save her together. The plot of the fifth short film showed alternative events of the first film, where baby Sonic would end up on Earth in the Soviet Union after the end of World War II. Many viewers thought that he would live under Stalin and be used as a weapon. However, the plot of the short film surprised them, showing that Stalin became a father to the hedgehog, at the end he fed him the most delicious Soviet ice cream, and the hedgehog himself calmly walked among people in the streets, no one paid attention to him and was not afraid of him. After the short films there was a kind of intermission and a Russian fan developer came out and made his own three-dimensional game about Sonic, adding characters like Sally and this time the game will have Russian voice acting in Russian. And then he presented news about a new official game about Shadow based on the animated series about him, which should be officially released in Russia in the near future. It took exactly an hour to watch all this and listen to it while they were sitting in the hall. It felt like they all went to a real movie theater together. Misha and Nadya at this time went to the recreation room, where there were hammocks, a swimming pool and a water slide, like in a water park. Even the counselors, going down the water slide and jumping from the springboard, jumped into the water in the pool. However, this was not what the Whites were worried about. In the same hall there was one sack jumping competition, where boys and girls jumped in sacks, trying to reach the finish line. They also took part. Afterwards they went back into the corridor, and there were two more competitions. One where you run faster on a treadmill and try to catch a chili dog on a fishing rod from the front. Another was on eating pies. A couple of the boys had already eaten too much, and one girl was tired of running and fell, sliding to the floor. Whites, after these cases, based on the example of those, decided not to participate in them. Fortunately, further along there were shops selling various handmade souvenirs. There were mugs, plates, vases, figurines, carpets, scarves, hats and much more, which had not only images of Sonic, but also Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Big, Eggman and others.

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      Then, as if by coincidence, Drayton, Omarova and Belyi ran into each other again in the cafeteria during lunch. They crossed paths at the entrance to the dining room and sat down together at one square table with four chairs. — Where have you been? What you were doing? — David asked. — David and I sat in the hall for the entire hour, watching short films and news about new games. What were you doing? Stephanie asks. — You're lucky! On the contrary, we had fun, played in competitions and bought ourselves fan fiction with hardcover comics. — Nadya Belaya explained. Her brother even showed what he bought. — Comics from IDW? asks Drayton. — Why not from Archie? — In terms of? — Misha doesn’t understand. — I like comics from this company better than from that one. — Well, you like this, but we like something else. — Misha answers calmly. — And I’ve never read any of the comics from either company before. — Stephanie explained. — Come on! — White and Drayton said at the same time, their eyes bulging. — Just in case, I advise you to start with Archie comics! — David advised, placing his hand on his shoulder. — No, it’s better with IDW! — Misha Bely advised. — Boys, don't quarrel! — Nadya said smiling. — Let Stephanie decide over time where she should start! She will probably choose for herself and then say which comics from which company she likes best. Am I right, Stephanie? Omarova looked at the ceiling, thoughtful and answered: — Yes. You're right, Nadya. At that moment, a waiter dressed as Shadow approaches them and politely says: — Welcome to the SonicCon cafeteria. What will you order? — I would like one chili dog and a glass of the coldest milk, please. — asked David. — And I’ll have dessert from Bokkun’s lunch. Stephanie said, pointing to a picture on the menu. Of course, she checked the price of this dish seven times before and was generally satisfied with the price. — Bring me two chicken legs, Nadya will have a piece of chocolate cake with strawberries and two more cocktails with orange juice. — Misha Bely made an order for himself and his sister. The waiter wrote down what they asked for in his notebook and walked away. He returned about ten minutes later and brought them what they asked for. And the toys were sitting in their backpacks at that time and they themselves were glad that they had visited such a wonderful place. — It’s good that we were able to get here like last year. — Knuckles says to himself. — It’s just a pity that Sonic is not with us now. — Tails answers. — Me? — Sonic asks BOOM, pointing his hand at himself. — No, I meant our Sonic. Well, kind of classic. — Tails explained as the BOOM version of him said: — I know, it’s like you! After all, you and I are also different.

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      After lunch in the dining room, as in a restaurant, all the children, together with the counselors, went to the arcade room, where there were arcade machines not only with Sonic games, but also others from SEGA, including the “Street of Rage” trilogy of games. They played and raced on each one and after such fun they were so tired that they decided to go back to camp. On the way, the counselors informed the children that today before bed they would allow each of them in turn to enter the house with a wired telephone and call and talk to each of their parents or relatives. All the children were happy about this news. Even David and Stephanie. They themselves were very impatient to at least hear the voices of their fathers, mothers and grandfathers, because they already missed them. On the way, the children managed to agree among themselves who would go first, who would follow each other, and who would be last. And they agreed that everyone would occupy the phone from one to ten minutes. When they returned to the camp, Misha and Nadya were the first to go into the house with a telephone inside to call their mom and dad at home. Although the phone was old and wired, it still worked and the connection was better than that of modern mobile phones, whose signals sometimes failed and were jammed, making it almost impossible to hear the interlocutor. Misha was the first to pick up the phone, dial the desired number and begin to wait. At first, only beeps were heard for a long time. Then the phone was finally picked up. — Hello! — the voice of a man clearly speaks. — Hi, Dad. — the boy greeted. — Daddy! — the girl intervened a little with joy. — Nadya, be quiet! — asked the brother. — Misha, Nadya! I haven't heard your voices for a long time. How are you doing at Camp Green Hills? — the father asked and at that moment the girl came up to the phone. Apparently mom. — Nadya, Misha? It is you? — Hello, mom. — Misha greeted. — Hi! — says Nadya. — Mom, dad, you won’t believe it. We really enjoyed this camp. We had so many interesting things. Today, my counselors and I went to the city for SonicCon, we had a little fun there, and we also met two new friends. — Is it true? Very happy about you. — their mother praises them. — And I’m so glad. — the father admired. — That's not all! They wanted to destroy the camp and build a new toy factory in its place. However, the Counselors, together with some guy from Armenia, created a petition to protect the camp and we all signed it. — Misha explained. — And in our house where the girls were sleeping there were three hooligans who wanted to spoil the boys. But fortunately someone scared them and embarrassed them. They were taken home yesterday and are probably already being scolded. — Yes, Nadya. Serves them right! — the brother supported his sister and she gave him a friendly slap with her palm on his palm. — Mom, dad, will you come pick us up soon? — Uh. We were just thinking of warning you about this as soon as you call us. - said the father. — You see. We won't be able to come get you for now. We have a lot of problems at work, so I’m afraid you’ll have to stay in the camp for a couple more days and wait for us. — says the mother. — Really? It's a pity! And we already thought that we would just meet you tomorrow and all the way in the car we would tell you what else we had here. — Misha was a little upset. Nadya even more so. — Dont be upset! We will come to you later, when we are free, but in exchange we will not just come to pick you up, but we ourselves will stay with you and perhaps even have a picnic in nature near your camp. Your counselors won't mind, will they? — asked the father. — Don't worry about it! We will talk with the counselors about this topic and maybe they will think about your decision. — the boy answered. — Than good. We'll see you one of these days. Bye. — says the mother and after that the beeps began, meaning that the parents hung up. The Whites managed to have a good talk with their parents, although they were a little sad from the news that their mom and dad would not come to pick them up on the appointed day due to delays at work. For this, it was also pleasant for the soul, knowing that when they arrived, they themselves would stay in the camp with them and even have a picnic with them. With these thoughts, they calmly leave the house with the phone and the next child in line enters the house. David and Stephanie were in the middle of the line. When it was David's turn, he chose to let Stephanie go ahead of him, since she was behind him. In gratitude, she promised him to talk to dad and grandfather as quickly as possible. She immediately dialed the home telephone number of her new home in Krasnogurbinsk. In the city itself, Andrew himself, who at that time was watching, together with Pinocchio and his other toys, the new “Well, wait a minute! Vacation" and laughed at how stupid this reboot was, unlike the Soviet original. — I also need a restart. Soyuzmultfilm completely forgot how to make new cartoons after the collapse of the Union. — Buratino laughed. — That's for sure! But it's so funny. — says grandfather and suddenly hears a bell in the corridor. — Telephone! Sorry, I'll be right back! — Do not rush! There's still nothing interesting here. — says Buratino. — Yeah. The movie “At the Command of the Pike” will be shown soon. — said the Lego figurine of Arsus. Andrew goes to the house phone and picks it up. — Hello! Who's speaking? — Hello, grandfather. — A! Stephanie! Glad to hear you! — And I’m so glad. Is daddy there with you at home? — No, he's uh... At work. He was called to one very important business trip. — Andrew lied, trying to cover for his son. However, the granddaughter immediately easily recognized her grandfather’s lie. Making a stern face, she said: — Now tell the truth, grandfather! Where is dad really? Andrew realized that apparently it was useless to lie to her and he would have to tell the truth. He sighs heavily and says: — Okay. I'll explain everything to you. Just don’t ask unnecessary questions and make a promise that you won’t say a word to David about what you’re about to find out. — Okay. What happened then? — the granddaughter did not understand. — Well, listen! On the day that your father took you and David to the children's camp, David's parents, along with their relative from Japan, held a sale at their home. Chip accidentally came up for sale with a broken neck, but Sonic and the kitten Sirius saved him and brought him to me. However, Sonic accidentally fell into the hands of an evil collector, who stole him and disappeared into the land of mists. Your father asked for leave from work and went to the land of fogs to find the kidnapper, save Sonic and return him home. For now, I sit alone with my other toys that I personally made and watch cartoons on TV. We have fun as we want, to put it simply. — Horrible! I hope dad will have time to save Sonic and return home? It’s just that tomorrow David and I will be returning home from camp. — Trust me! I hope so too. The main thing is not a word to David! — Don't worry! He won't know anything. I'll try not to spill the beans. But I understand that everything is fine with you? — Of course... But I already quickly missed you. — I know, I miss you already too. And for dad too. Wait for us tomorrow, but it’s time for me to go! — Stephanie finishes and hangs up. Afterwards she leaves the house and the already bored David comes in next, having forgotten to ask her who she called and what she was talking about. He went into the house and called his home phone number. Waiting for an answer after a couple of rings, my mother answered the phone. — Unfortunately, the Draytons are not at home right now. Please leave a message after the signal. Ring! — she said jokingly. The son immediately realized that this was not an answering machine, but a joke and, smiling slyly, said with sarcasm: — Very funny, mom. It's me, David! — That’s not interesting, son! Nothing will surprise you! — Lili was offended, but David understood from her voice that she was joking with him again. They both laughed at this. — Good joke, mom. How are you and dad? — We’re fine, we just missed you. True, it seems that Anya misses you more than anyone. — I miss you too! — says the boy, a little sad at the beginning, but then he smiled again. — By the way, what else did I call? They wanted to demolish the camp and build a new toy factory in its place. — Who dared? — Lili was indignant when she learned about this news. — Emperor Saggan from the land of mists, of course. One army guy warned our counselors about this, but we quickly sorted everything out. - David explained, taking out his work knife. — Thanks to Grandpa Andrew and his lessons on how to make new toys out of wood. — Okay, I'll tell him. By the way, you don't have to worry about Sonic. Andrew said that he himself took him to his home for now and one of these days he promises to fix his hand, and for now I’m doing the garden as usual. Now I want to try growing pineapple. — But mom, you know that pineapples usually grow only in hot countries throughout the whole year, but they don’t grow here. Especially in Krasnogurbinsk, where summers are short and winters are long. — I know, but we have a greenhouse and heaters, where we can easily grow everything even in winter. Therefore, I think the pineapple will not spoil or freeze. Let's try to grow it somehow. This is why experiments are needed, and as Andrew said... — the mother paused so that the son himself could understand what saying she was hinting about and voiced it out loud: — Those who don’t take risks don’t drink lemonade. — Exactly! — Lili confirmed and suddenly Anya’s crying was heard through the baby monitor. Mom said calmly: — Well, she woke up again and cried. Sorry, David, I have to go. — Fine. Bye. — he tells her and hangs up. And closer to night, when sunset was already setting in, the remaining boys and girls, up to the last, also already managed to call their relatives and talk to them. After that, they all went back to their tents and houses to sleep.