sᴏɴɪᴄ ᴛᴏʏ: 𝓐𝓭𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓸𝔂𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼

      Now let's return to our heroes! Ken took our old and familiar friends, including the sorceresses and Shadow himself, in the toy car. — Stop, Sinitsin's office! Mourners, leave the car! Thank you for using the services of taxi driver Ken. Thank you! Goodbye! Bon Voyage! Good luck! — Ken escorted the toys out of the car outside. Cream took Shadow's hand and led her along. — Why is he coming with you? — asks Will. — Yes, he’s just curious how I know so much about all the strengths and weaknesses of Black Doom and how to defeat him. Well, I can’t refuse him an explanation since he asks. — Cream explained. — Don't worry! We will then return him back to his place ourselves when we find our friend. We promise. Bokkun said. — Okay! — Cornelia did not argue with them. — Take us to the department with Enchantress dolls, please! — Hai asked politely. — Whatever you say, girls! — Ken answers and they moved on on their own. — Bye. Amy waved goodbye to them. The toys pushed the large door away from them and opened it. Luckily the door was open, even though there was no one inside. Apparently Sinitsin has a lot of trust in his employees and doesn’t worry too much about the safety of his store and his office in it. One way or another, they continued searching for Sonic around the office. At this time, Cream continued to tell Shadow about the manual for the new game about him and about how to play correctly, according to the manual. Shadow, considering himself to be real, listened to her carefully and thought that perhaps this was her own instruction, which the rabbit most likely personally wrote for him. And when she reached the page that told about the four official endings of the game, one of which was bad, the bad ending interested the black-and-scarlet much more. At this point, Shadow stopped listening to Cream for now and began to imagine in his head what the bad end of the universe would look like according to his version. Inside his head, he imagined that he himself was sitting on a throne of bones and skulls, and also holding a crown on his head and Chaos Emeralds flying around him. And on the sides of his throne there are wooden and sharp peaks. A huge pile of money is lying under them, and the severed heads of Mikhail Sinitsin and Sonic stick out from above. Black Doom himself is behind Shadow himself with huge and outstretched arms, proudly looking at the most perfect form of life and laughing evilly along with the hedgehog himself. Having finished imagining this, he glanced at the rabbit, who at that time had finished talking about the last and best ending of the game. She looked at him questioningly, whether he was listening to her or not. Shadow, raising his right fist and smiling, tells her: — It's perfect! — Glad you're interested. — Cream smiles. — What about it? And the rest at this time were still looking for Sonic. Amy and Blaze opened one large box and looked inside. — Hey Sonic, are you there? — asks the hedgehog. — No, it’s empty here too. — the cat answers. — Sonic! Well, where are you? Answer me! — Omega almost shouted, climbing onto the work table. Nearby he saw a plush voodoo doll of Emperor Saggang himself. The truth is a little clumsy and filled with nothing but needles. The robot decided to contact her. — Excuse me, have you seen a blue hedgehog with a torn off arm here? The voodoo doll came to life, stood up and said: — Not really. I don't think I've seen anything like this here. Suddenly they heard the sounds of footsteps and someone's voice speaking by itself. — Someone is coming. — says Omega. — Everyone take cover! — Shadow commands and the toys hid. The voodoo doll remained on the table and lay down on the table again. Sinitsin himself entered the office, speaking to his worker. — Well, figure out how to send him out! I don't need witnesses! I don’t have time, now I’ll talk to the emperor. — says the collector, moves one bookshelf, like a Japanese door, and behind him on the wall a huge monitor with a large computer is shown. He starts connecting to it. The worker leaves his boss alone in the office for now. — Who is this giant? — asks Shadow, seeing Sinitsin. — He is Mikhail Sinitsin. The owner of this huge store. — Cream whispers in his ear. — Strange! This whole place is too huge for a store. — the hedgehog thought out loud. — It doesn't matter! The main thing is that he is the kidnapper. He kidnapped Sonic. — says Amy. — Kidnapper, you say? — he asked her and the hedgehog nodded. — This is Black Doom's agent. I'm sure of it! Sinitsin managed to turn on the computer at this time, went to Discord and called Karl Saggan himself. After a couple of rings, he picked up the phone and showed his face. — Emperor Saggan is in touch!... Ah! It's you! — he said, seeing Mikhail in his hand through the monitor on his phone. — As you can see, I connected directly to a large computer created by you personally. Have you already connected? — asks Sinitsin. — Not yet, but I’ll join in now. — he answers him and, moving his golden throne to the side, turns on exactly the same computer. — Everything I asked of you? — Certainly. Right now I’m ready to send them to you personally. — the collector showed a photo of a Sonic toy. One of them accidentally fell onto the floor. Bokkun saw her and said: — Ah! It's Sonic! — Quiet! — Amy whispered to him, covering his mouth. Sinitsin turned around when he heard these voices. — Who is there? — What are you talking about? I'm here alone and so are you. — the emperor answers him, connecting his computer. Sinitsin lowered his head and noticed that he had accidentally dropped one of the photographs and was picking it up from the floor. — I guess I heard it! - he thought out loud. He then began inserting one photograph at a time into the paper tray. — So! I will now fax you the photos. The emperor received photographs through the same receiver and began to examine each one carefully. — Ho!... The complete collection and its most important part... Sonic!... Excellent!... Cool!... Aha!... Well, Sinitsin, you satisfied me. — Amazing! Then maybe you and I will once again discuss our agreement regarding payment and maybe add another additional zero to your previously stated amount! — the collector smiled, as did the emperor herself. — I'll tell you a little secret. — he says, smiling at first, and then putting the phone on the keyboard, he stood sharply in a fighting stance, saying: — I don’t bargain with peasants! — What? — Mikhail looked questioningly through the monitor. — Listen, Mikhail! As you know, difficult times have long come. These are such difficult times that many of us, unfortunately, shouldn’t trust anyone just like that. That’s why even I especially won’t be able to trust you that easily. Even if you presented evidence, I still simply cannot trust you. What if you actually bring it to me instead of your collection that you showed me. Therefore, I want to make sure that you do not deceive me. Otherwise, even if you personally come to me empty-handed, I will personally execute you in front of everyone in my new episode of my show on TV. You understood me? — Yes Yes. I understand. I myself probably wouldn’t trust you if I suspected you of something. — says Sinitsin. — This is where it comes! Saggan smiled.

And at this time!

      Danny, along with his personal worker, inspected each department with shelves and items for sale. — But here we sell goods for painting and artists. For children and adults. There are pencils, markers, pens, brushes, paints, multi-colored sand, paper, notebooks, Russian notebooks, math notebooks, albums with empty leaves of paper and compasses. — Well. I have checked all of your merchandise departments and made sure that your store meets the standards of a public establishment. Can I take a look at your security post? — You offend us! We have security cameras everywhere. Even experienced guards stand and watch closely. True, now they all have weekends and vacations, since now our store is still closed and no one comes here to register to steal something. In this regard, we are not worried that we have few cameras installed in some places and not in all. — the worker explained. — And yet, I want to make sure that all your surveillance cameras here really work well and record everything without stopping. Including what you and I have been doing here so far. — says the policeman. Although he still hoped not only to get into the security room for inspection, but also to erase some records where the toys themselves accidentally ended up on the camera recordings and thereby cover them up. — Okay then. I ask you to follow me. — the worker answers him and leads him to the security room with monitors that show recordings from all security cameras throughout the store. While they were walking, the toy snakes that were hiding in the shelves crawled under another shelf and whispered with their tongues in the ears of the Barbie dolls. They immediately came to life and asked: — Rebellion? Meanwhile, Ken escorted the little witches back to their shelf, where Silver’s two toys stood and told them what to do. — What's going on here? — asked Ken. — We won’t sit on the shelves with our hands folded and wait for someone to buy us and take us in. We have the right to choose our own owners and immediately. We are all running away from this store together. — Are you crazy? — asks the red-haired girl, abruptly getting out of the car. The rest of the little witch dolls on the shelf started talking: — Don't worry! They have a plan for how we will all escape! The main thing is we must all act together and escape together. — Okay, what should we do? — asks Ken. Two Silvers answer him: — First, let's break the main rule of all toys at the last moment. Ken's eyes widened. — You mean?... — Yes.

***

      Dennis was brought to the security room, where there were many monitors. Dennis asked to be left here alone for now so that he could check everything himself. To his great surprise, he noticed not only a couple of recordings where David’s toys were recorded, but also that other toys in the store suddenly began to come to life, whispering to each other, communicating, standing in a circle, and apparently they were up to something. There is no time to erase all this. Looking around, he saw a flash drive and a compartment for it on the bottom side. Apparently the records go there. He took it out and all the red lights under all the monitors turned off, which meant that the recording was no longer going anywhere and the cameras were now just watching everything. Danny hid the flash drive itself in his pocket and, after waiting for all the toys to return to their places and stop coming to life again, he left the security room. — Everything is fine, I didn’t find any errors. True, one of the cameras discovered something in the room with Silver the Hedgehog's toys. — WHAT??? — the worker shouted and ran away, leaving the policeman alone on the spot. The latter smiled slyly. He approaches the stuffed dogs who were pretending not to be alive and whispered to them: — Don't be afraid, I'm on your side! I assume you want to escape from here? I will help you! The main thing is to warn others not to touch me. Then he also leaves, clasping his hands together behind his back and walking away whistling. One of the dogs came to life and saw a flash drive from security camera recordings, which he had removed and was hiding. This was the reason that the toys in the store believed him, that he would not give them out to anyone.

***

      The worker ran into the hall with the Silvers, but not a single Silver’s toy was there anymore. Only empty boxes. — What the?... No! No! NO!!! Sinitsin will kill us all and fire us if he finds out about this! Then he ran to the next room and saw that even Shadow’s toys were not there. The worker was in a panic. — What is this? — he asks himself and looks around. The rest of the shelves were fortunately full. One of Shadow's toys, outside the box, was on the shelf next to the two Wolf/Death toys on the paint can shelf. He didn't understand how they got here. He took the toy Shadow by the waist and suddenly Shadow himself suddenly came to life, pointed his finger at the worker and shouted: — ATTACK!!! — A? — the worker said, his eyes bulging, and suddenly those two Wolf toys also came to life and jumped right on his face, grabbing him like a face grabber. The worker got scared, grabbed them with his hands and tried to take them off: — WHAT'S HAPPENING??? WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? LET ME GO!!! Immediately, other types of toys ran out from other shelves and halls and also ran to attack other workers. Four Silvers and five Shadows ran up to that same worker, grabbed him by the legs and threw him to the floor. The same T. rex came running and brought a rope in its mouth, with which the toys tied the worker’s hands and feet. Then they ran away. The worker, with his hands and feet tied, turned over, stood up and began to jump. — Stop, stop! Where are you going? The rest of the workers at this time were sitting near the cash register, drinking tea and eating red doshirak noodles. For one thing they played with words. It's like a game of cities, only you have to select any words that begin with the letter with which your opponent's words end. Non-existing words, especially those that are invented on the Internet, are prohibited from being pronounced according to the rules of this game. — Armageddon. — New. — Walle. — Energy. — Yellow. — Wars. — Soragranderus. — You lost! — says the opponent. — Well damn! It came out accidentally. Let's do it again! This time I will use real words. — No. You always lose. — the opponent answers. Suddenly, the work assistant saw the blue dog Stitch toy crawling from one shelf to another. The worker rubbed his eyes, deciding that he had gone crazy. He lowered his head and saw two toy snakes crawling around him under his chair. — What are you doing? — It seems like there are toys walking around me. It was as if they had come to life. — Are you making things up again? Maybe you're overworked? Maybe you need to go home and take a break from work? — Yes, I'm serious! Look! There are really toy snakes crawling under my feet here. The opponent stood up and was about to approach, when suddenly he tripped and fell. Barbie nurse and Ken doctor toys tied their shoelaces together. They then ran away when he looked at them. — Which one?... — What? What's wrong with you? — asks the assistant, having forgotten about the snakes and decided to also get up, when suddenly the snakes themselves grabbed him by the legs, tied him up and also made him stumble. — A-A-A!!! THEY CAUGHT ME!!! — he shouted and tried to take them off. — I will save you. — says the opponent and gets up, trying to jump to the assistant and try to help him. Suddenly, a toy witch and Stitch stand in the way, pulling on the dental floss. The man tripped over it and fell. - Oh no! The toys of Death/Wolf and minimoy Arthur come running with a sword. They take out their swords and serbs and put their sharp ends to the chins of those very workers. The first of them panicked and screamed, and the other simply looked fearfully and begged for mercy: — Please don't! I have a wife and son at home. The toys let them go and ran away in all directions, leaving the workers lying around near the cash register. At this time, in the department with superhero toys, the Green Goblin figurines on their gliders, like drones, took off and began shooting their rubber bullets at other workers and drove away the rest of the workers. The latter covered themselves with their hands and ran away. — What are you doing? Cool down! Enough! Ay! Hurt! — shouted one of them, having received a dart from a dart in the shoulder, which was the metal of the witches, Silvera and Shadow. At the same time they shouted: — Stop keeping us here like in prison! Release us all to freedom! —- says one of the Silvers. — We suffered because of you, and now you too will know what we felt. — Stitch says, throwing a ball of thread at one of the workers. He got hit on the head and ran away. On the way, he accidentally knocked one of the goblins off the glider. He fell to the floor from high, but survived. The glider flew on its own without its owner, lost control and flew wherever it wanted. Suddenly it slams its sharp edges into the goblin toy itself. The last one froze in place and began to moan. In fact, he pretended to be so, pretending that he was injured, but in reality everything was fine with him, despite the fact that the glider pierced him through the stomach. The worker who pushed him ran into another room, and there several teddy bears, hares and ducks jumped from the top shelf, grabbed the worker by the shoulders, head, chest, stomach and legs, held him tightly and threw him to the floor.

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— Well, I understand that we agreed? — asks Mikhail. — Yes. I'll be waiting for you tomorrow. So hurry up if you don't want to be late. The next flight from your city leaves for me at sunset tonight. — the emperor answers and disconnects from the computer, and then hangs up. — Yes! — said the collector, raising both hands up. — We have agreed to! Now I will be very rich. — He will lead us to Doom! — Shadow suggested and noticed the bag next to him on the table. The striped toy opened it slightly. — Get in here quickly! All the toys looked at each other questioningly, and Amy asked: — Who are you to command us? — I'm Shadow the Hedgehog! The perfect life form! And don't argue with me! I said get into the compartment! — Shadow orders. — Now I’m no longer understanding why Lili likes him so much... — Mephiles muttered quietly, reaching into his bag. The rest of the toys followed him, realizing that Shadow was too fixated on Black Doom and now it was better not to argue with him. Sinitsin at this time decided to call one more person before happily heading off on the road. — Hello, your factories are still in operation. Have you started building another plant?... What?... — Sinitsin immediately heard the sad news that the construction of a new plant was canceled by order of Emperor Saggan, since most of the owners of the Green Hills camp were against it again and the construction of a new one plant Because of this, you will have to make new toys in the same quantity as usual. — NO!!! — Mikhail grabbed his head in panic from what he heard. — Fine, fine! In this case, we will simply increase the prices of all our goods by another hundred rubles higher. That's it, I don't have time. I ran! He hangs up and picks up his bag before quickly running. All the toys, along with Shadow, were already inside at that time.

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      And at this time other toys, along with toy imperial stormtroopers and droids from Star Wars, ran out and shot rubber bullets at the workers, forcing them to retreat. Five Wolf/Death toys climbed on top of each other to the socket and stuck two sharp wires into it. The electric shock pushed them away, and the socket itself began to spark and a couple of sparks hit the dry white paper in the art supplies. A fire started. Then Toys Silver and Shadow came running, bringing a bucket of gasoline from the warehouse and deliberately poured it on the fire, causing the fire to spread throughout the store. Two Stitch toys took matches, lit them, and set off a pile of children's dynamite as a joke, throwing them at the workers' feet and scaring them. Mikhail Sinitsin left his office, not understanding where the smoke was coming from in his store. He shook himself off with his hands and gasped when he saw what was going on in his store. All the toys came to life and began to attack his workers, and also started a fire. — A-A-AH!!! NO!!! — he shouted, frightened by what he saw. The toys drew attention to the owner himself and also wanted to attack, but fortunately the collector realized that he should not stand still, but run away. And he ran to the exit, repeating to himself: — No! No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Having left his store, Mikhail, in a panic, quickly threw his bag through the window of the car into the back seat, got behind the wheel, quickly started the car and drove away from this terrible place, where all his goods came to life and seemed to have gone crazy, trying to kill him. Even the toys came running to the exit. Before the doors had time to close, the plush cat, along with the plush General Sher and the plush Luntik, removed an extra suitcase from the mountain of suitcases and the suitcases fell to the floor next to the door. One of them blocked the passage of the doors and when they collided with it, they began to open, then try to close again. All the toys began to jump over the suitcase and ran to freedom, shouting along the way: — HURRAY!!! FREEDOM!!! —GO, TOYS!!! All the toys were so happy that they staged such an escape and ran away into freedom. Now they themselves will have the right to choose the owners with whom they want to play. In the meantime, they will walk on the street and will be free, albeit lost. When the last toy left the store, all the employees ran out. — FIRE!!! — SAVE YOURSELF WHO YOU CAN!!! The last one ran out, Dennis, safe and sound, and pretended in front of the workers that he had taken out a walkie-talkie, but in fact he was speaking into it in wiretapping mode: — Attention! Attention! We're escaping! I repeat! Escape from Sinitsin's warehouse store! — he said, put away the walkie-talkie and turned away, giggling to the side. Then he went to his car. — “I hope that everything is okay with them, they found Sonic among all their relatives and will not disappear.” Silver ran out last, also jumping over the suitcase. He was covered a little with soot. — Phew! I almost got burned there. — he said to himself, shaking off the soot. He looked around and saw how all the workers and toys fled to the sides. — Brilliant! They staged an escape and escaped, and Sinitsin himself escaped along with Sonic. And everyone else. How can I find them now? Suddenly, a large spider the size of a large dog crawled out from under the roof of the store. He crawled over to Silver and examined him. — Eh. Sorry, I don't want to be eaten. I'm a toy! I'm not tasty at all. I just need help! I need to find the collector Sinitsin. I wish I knew where he went and where he lives! — says the white hedgehog and scratched the back of his head. The spider also scratched the back of its head with its front right paw, took the hedgehog toy itself and placed it on its back. The fact is that this same spider has been living on the roof of this store for a long time, watching its inhabitants, where they are going and so on. This means he knows where Sinitsin lives and decided to take the toy to him, since he wants to find him. — Are you taking me to Sinitsin?... Thank you. And from the same chest that was holding the door, another toy escaped forcefully. It was a toy of Black Doom himself. He looked around with his one red eye and saw Silver riding a spider, and mistakenly decided that it was Shadow. He rises against the background of a huge fire behind him, which almost consumed the entire store and gave chase, repeating: — Death to Shadow the Hedgehog! Death to Shadow the Hedgehog! Death to Shadow the Hedgehog! Death to Shadow the Hedgehog!