𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙭𝙚𝙨

      The children were sitting at a silver table. Of course, before this they managed to take off their gloves from their hands and wash their hands with soap and then dry them. The long-haired bearded man Jack was cooking spaghetti in a large saucepan at that time. — So all five of you accidentally came here from another universe using this dial? Did you steal it from soldiers who also came from another dimension and for some reason wanted to kill you all? — Jack asked for confirmation. — That's what we say. — Benny explained. — Oh! I know, I know, I should be silent! Tiny sighed heavily and said: — You can talk. I allow it. — Thank you. Even when we entered here, I assumed that you, Jack, were like Bruce Wayne. — What kind of Bruce Wayne is this? — Jack asked. — Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. The other day. — Tails explained. — And at night he puts on armor, fights evil, protects people and his city from crime and calls himself Batman. — Benny added. — Here you are partly right. True, I am not a playboy or a philanthropist. I just got rich over time while I lived in this world after defeating Aku and every day I sometimes fought with the remaining villains who were still loyal to the demon that no longer exists thanks to me. — What else is Aku? — asked Tiny. — It was the most evil, terrible and cruel demon tyrant. A long time ago, he came into this world and killed my father. I inherited from him this sword made by divine power. It was he who could kill this demon to the end. I even almost defeated him, but at one moment he managed to open a portal and I was transported here... To the future. — Wait! To the future? Are you saying that you are from the past? — asks Nelly. — Yes. Then I spent a long time looking for time portals to go back in time. However, Aku was always ahead of me and destroyed them, not allowing me to return. I even thought that it was better to leave everything as it is and it was better to kill Aku now at this time. But I couldn’t have done it alone then. — Did that same Scot help you? — Tails asks. — No, the robot X-forty-nine helped me. He was one of the robot assassins loyal to Aku. However, he was not like the others. At first he wanted to attack me and kill me on Aku's orders, but then he decided to just make contact with me and talk to me. It turned out that he was not going to fight with me and kill anyone. Unlike other robots, he had an emotion chip, thanks to which he had his own personality. — Just like our naga robot. — says Benny, jokingly remembering an old acquaintance. — Did you have one like this too? — Jack asked. — Yes, but when he attacked Shadow, he crushed him and destroyed him, and then the evil scientists of Infinite tracked him down, got the chip and created a new and large naga robot based on it. — Tiny explained. — He’s really good at hiding. Where is he now, we don’t know? — says Sammy. — Why did he attack you anyway? — asks the little fox. — X-forty-nine had his own dog named Lolo. Aku kidnapped her and forced him to kill me so that he could then return her to him. He told me about this and I reassured him, saying that I would help him save Lolo from Aku if he himself helped me kill this demon. He agreed. — And you killed him? — asked the brown hedgehog. — Yes. With the help of X-Forty-Nine, I infiltrated his base and finally finished off Aku once and for all, plunging my sword into his head and finishing him off. Aku was dead. True, X-forty-nine himself was destroyed during the attack. He sacrificed himself, saving not only Lolo, but also me. I made him a promise that I would take care of Lolo myself. And since then, when Aku was finally defeated, I remained with a clear conscience to live in this time and took care of Lolo, as I promised X-forty-nine. Lolo lived with me for many years, and I myself took care of her and watched how she grew old over time, unlike me... And then. — Jack sighs heavily, not wanting to traumatize the children’s psyche. However, they guessed what he was trying to tell them. — And then... Her... Died? — asks the younger hedgehog. The samurai just nodded silently, and then said: — Unfortunately, I myself am not aging anymore. Time no longer has power over me and now I am forever young. I cannot grow old and die on my own over time. But that doesn't mean you can't kill me. However, I didn’t even kill myself, but stayed and still live, because I believed that one day I would still be useful to someone and would be needed to help someone... And it seems they themselves found me.. It's you, children. From the very beginning I believed in this and was right that at least someone would need me. — So you mean you will help us return home to our universe? — asks the older gray hedgehog. — Of course! But first, you and I need to eat! — Jack answers and by this time the spaghetti was already ready. After pouring the spaghetti onto the stand with holes, pouring all the water into the sink, he took out two more spaghetti sticks, which he did not cook. — By the way, do you know how the multiverse works? — Well, that other adult I traveled through many universes before ours, and judging by his example, we think that we can interfere in the events of other universes. — says Tails. — Right! But in general, this is just one theory about how the multiverse works. And there are many more different theories on this topic, which have even been used to make a bunch of films. — Jack explained and took two spaghetti sticks and decided to show examples of them. — Look! Imagine that these two unwelded sticks are two universes. One is yours, the other is mine. — Okay. — Sammy says and all the children looked closely at the sticks while Jack told them about theories about the multiverse: — Two lines, as you see, are parallel, and parallel lines, as you probably learned at school, never intersect and will not intersect, no matter how you stretch them. Also other universes, which are called parallel worlds because they never intersect with each other. In some of these worlds time moves the same way, but in others it moves differently. In some cases the story went this way, in others it went the other way. In some cases, even if there is your double, he is either your complete copy, or also differs from you in appearance, in character, or even in name. For example, there may be a world like mine, where I may not have been able to kill Aku and he himself eventually defeated me, somewhere out there in one of the worlds in the entire multiverse. — he joins two sticks together to form one whole stick. — However, if we can find a way so that, at least not the worlds themselves, intersect with each other, but some object or inhabitant of one world can get into another, then there are six versions of what can happen. — So what could happen? — Nelly, like everyone else, was eager to find out the truth about this. — According to the first version, everything will be fine. The worlds will become parallel and will not intersect. — Jack separated the two sticks from each other, making them two different ones again. He points his finger at the lower one and moves his finger to the upper one. — However, a person from one world who finds himself in another can feel there as in his own world. He won’t feel bad about it, and he himself, if he wants, can influence some changes in history in this universe and change its fate. Even if he wants, and if he of course likes this world, then he can stay to live in another world. Even if his double lives in this world. The first theory is safer, a little fairy-tale and naively sweet. According to the second version, if a person from one world ends up in another, then over time this can cause the conjugation of the worlds. — Jack connected the two sticks together again. — What do you mean, it combines two universes into one? — Sammy asked. — Yes. And basically this will be due to the fact that a person or object from one universe has ended up in another. If he is in another, alien universe for too long and does not return home to his native universe, then both universes will mix up on one terrible day and there will be real chaos when the worlds unite. — Jack turned one stick ninety degrees, forming a cross of two sticks. — It might even be the end of the world for both universes. But this is unlikely and mostly it was shown only in old cartoons and films from the beginning of the twenty-first century, in order to simply scare viewers, create intrigue, and so that viewers could easily worry about heroes and villains at the same time. — then Jack again separated both sticks from each other, set them straight and continued the story. — The third version is exactly the same as the second. However, only one universe perishes. And only the one into which a person finds himself from another universe, his own universe will remain intact, and the one in which he has lived for too long will, at one terrible moment, begin to disappear due to an imbalance in parallel worlds, which will result in chaos. — He takes one of the sticks and breaks it into two halves, depicting the destruction of the universe. Tiny almost cowered in fear at this performance. — This outcome is more likely, but scientists refute this theory, citing the fact that it is impossible to say more accurately how many days a person from one universe can live in another. — Jack puts the broken stick in two halves on the table and connects them as a whole, leaving them next to the second whole one. — According to the fourth version, both universes will be safe, but the person himself, unfortunately, having ended up in another world, may not be suitable for life. — How is that? — Benny didn’t understand. — Well, for example, if a person from one world ends up in another and stays there for a short time, then at one moment he may feel bad. Perhaps he will even weaken and slowly die in a universe alien to himself, and in order to survive, he will need to return back to his home world. — But we feel good in this alien universe. Even my other self felt good in our universe when he came into it. — the little fox answers. — So the fourth theory is also refuted. — Jack smiled. — According to the fifth version, a person also feels good, and even the universe, just like according to the first version. However, a person from another universe does not have the right to interfere in the events of another universe and change them for himself. Otherwise it will upset the balance of parallel worlds. Well, for example. If someone should die due to an event, but a person from another universe appears and saves his life, then history will be disrupted and perhaps the universe will be destroyed, which is called an interuniversal anomaly. It's like the paradox that destroys universes due to time travel, only here the travel is not in time, but in another universe. — Jack again takes the stick broken into two halves and separates it. — The universe will perish from any, even the smallest change. But judging by the fact that you were here and met me, changed the course of my actions, and also that we are still alive, this theory is also refuted. — And I heard somewhere that it is also possible that if a person meets his double in another universe, then upon contact they can unite into one whole, preserving the memories of both. — says Benny. — This also applies to the fifth version. And finally the sixth version! — Jack finishes, putting down and folding the halves of that stick together again. — There is a possibility that traveling to parallel worlds can create another one exactly the same, but with different events. This will be due to the fact that when a person gets from one universe to another, he can create another, exactly the same universe. — the samurai takes out another third unwelded stick and places it under the two connected halves, forming a third universe. — This is due to the fact that the events of one of the universes, due to the intervention of an anomaly, begin to multiply and double their paths, after which they are separated during copying. — he removes one broken half of spaghetti, and brings the other with the broken tip closer to the middle of the third long stick, forming one line that splits into two paths. — And it turns out that in one universe events are still going on in exactly the same way without the intervention of travelers in other worlds, and in another this same traveler is already present and perhaps he even changed some events there. At the same time, the universe itself will not be destroyed and will not disappear anywhere, but will remain and continue to exist. However, she clones herself, so to speak, creating her twin brother with a slightly similar fate, where there will be exactly the same planets, stars and people, but they will be almost no different. They will only be as close as possible to each other by about ninety-nine point nine percent. The children's jaws immediately dropped when they heard this theory. — It turns out that when that other Tails, along with Shadow and Luz Bucket, ended up in our universe, it copied our world, since in our real world they should not have existed and we should never have met them? — Tiny was sad at this news and cried, hugging Benny. He patted her on the head and tried to calm her down. — Unfortunately, that’s how it is, kids. But what can you do? This is how the multiverse works. However, even this theory has not yet been confirmed, but no one has refuted it either. Which means she also has the right to be. But even if this option is really possible in our multiverse, it turns out that if everyone jumps from one universe to another many times and changes its events, he will thereby create a whole bunch of many parallel worlds. As a result, everything will end like this! — the bearded man answers and pours a bunch of cooked spaghetti from the pan onto a plate. — New multiverse. It will seem that some threads run almost parallel, but somewhere there will still be small and insignificant intersections, and somewhere, on the contrary, strong discrepancies. Ultimately, because of all this, there will be two possible outcomes for this new multiverse. Or nothing bad will happen and the new created worlds will simply continue to exist with each other, on par with their originals from which they originated. There will be confusion. Complete confusion that even travelers can get confused. Or there will be a huge mess and chaos. The end of the world for the entire multiverse and some kind of collapse that will no longer be avoidable. - Having finished this, he pours ketchup on the spaghetti and points to the contents as an example. And then he takes a cheese grater and cuts the cheese into spaghetti itself. — What do crumbs of cheese mean for the multiverse? — asks Benny. — What? — the samurai was distracted by his question and looked at the cheese he was cutting into pieces. — No. I just added the cheese for taste. There is no more metaphor here. But what else can I say, this is one thing! You probably have to be... To put it mildly in front of you, a complete fool in order to play with traveling to parallel worlds! — But we are not like that. And the other Tails isn't like that either. Except that Luz Bucket was such a fool when he was bad and when that Tails was chasing him, trying to stop him. — said Nelly. — Yes. It's Luz Bucket's fault! Because of him, this whole new multiverse began. That's exactly what happened in the end! Tails said that they jumped around the worlds many times after him, just like himself. This is the result of all this confusion with many worlds. — Benny agreed. — This is just a theory for now, Benny. We cannot be more sure of this yet! Suddenly, in reality, everything is not so. — says the little fox. — But we won’t discount even this theory. Let's just keep this in mind and then study it more precisely. — says the gray hedgehog. Jack finished cutting the cheese, took this pile with a huge spoon, mixed it, and then put small portions on five more plates, distributing them to the children, and keeping the rest in the large plate for himself. The great warrior and the children began to eat. Except that Tiny ate slurpingly, smacking her lips and stuffing a whole bunch of spaghetti into both cheeks like a hamster in order to quickly eat it all. After lunch they returned to conversation. — So you don’t know how to operate this thing? — Jack asks, looking at his wristwatch, examining it on his palms. — Exactly! There aren't even numbers, letters or words here. — says Tiny. — Hmm... Well. I'll try to deal with them, but for now you can take a walk around my mansion and look around. Just don't touch anything without permission! — asked the samurai. — Fine. Thank you Samurai Jack! — the eldest thanked on behalf of all his brothers and sisters. They all got up from their chairs and went out into the corridor. Jack at this time put the dirty dishes in the sink and went to his office on the second floor to study this dial. He placed the dial on the workbench with the laser light and tried to study this unidentified technology. It turned out that these technologies are superior even to their current ones at this time, in which samurai Jack himself lives them. But this technology also looks old according to the data and has not been updated for a long time. She was currently fifteen billion years old. This is longer than the universe itself, which is currently more than thirteen billion years old. This surprised Jack and he didn't even know how to react to it. He himself had never seen anything like this in his entire life. Nevertheless, the laser table was able to study this device in half an hour, find out how it works and write, as well as print out instructions on a piece of paper on how to control them in order to travel to other worlds. It also turned out that this device blocks interuniversal anomalies when moving from one universe to another, so that when traveling to another universe, you do not accidentally create a copy of it when its events change. And such cases with anomalies used to happen often when travel to parallel worlds was just discovered. This made Jack a little wary. From this information, he learned that the sixth theory about traveling to parallel worlds is true and it really works in their multiverse when traveling to other worlds, and this dial simply does not allow creating other universes and multiplying them, allowing their events to change and remain so from now on. original universe. Taking the dial itself, putting it on his hand, folding the instructions into a bundle and hiding it in his right sleeve, he approaches the huge portrait of himself and his dog Lolo on the wall. Stretching out both hands and pressing his index, middle and ring fingers on the secret buttons on the portrait at the same time, the samurai moved the portrait to the side like a door and opened a secret passage into the secret room. There a spotlight turned on, shining from top to bottom, and ten types of gray samurai armor with helmets with creepy and red faces appeared. One is in the center, and the other nine are around her behind and on the sides. Samurai Jack smiles with a stern look as he looks at them and decides to put on one of these armors.

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      At that time, the hedgehog and the little fox were walking around the mansion of samurai Jack and examining his house from the inside. They really liked his mansion, because there were so many incredible and impossible things here. There was even a swimming hall with a pool and a training room for honing martial arts and high jumps. There were even mannequins and dolls in the form of Aku himself as punching bags. And they look different. Some were in the form of a demon, others in the form of a dwarf, and others in the form of a man in armor and a helmet. Benny even got into a fight with one of these dolls as a joke. Afterwards the children went on to see the sights. They went out into another large hall, where there was a large collection of various things, instruments, weapons and other things. There was even an iron robot head of X-Forty-Nine wearing a hat along with his emotion chip that was not removed from his head. The head itself has long been turned off. — This must be the head of the same robot X-forty-nine that Jack was talking about. And what sticks out is a chip of emotions. I think they could repair him and create a new body for him and then revive him again. — Tails suggested. — Is this a dining room or an armory? Just think about it! — Benny admired. — Who is he, this samurai Jack? — Maybe he is not just a samurai or a great warrior, but also tried himself in other professions? — Nelly suggested. — Organizes events, collects all sorts of old things, like in a museum. — Probably to win over girls, and they do him good for it. — Benny joked. — This suggests that he really has a huge amount of money. — says Sammy. — Usually such people often think only about themselves. After all, the more they have, the less they value. However, Samurai Jack is not like everyone else. — He’s probably the kindest and most honest person on Mobius? — Tiny suggested. — Look! This stuffed animal looks more like a Yeti! — The brown hedgehog pointed to a statue covered with fur and a monkey mask. — Where else is this from? — Tails pointed his finger at the double-edged tuning knife. He read the name of this weapon. — Tuning knife. Don't touch its corners or you'll get seriously blown up! — Does this look like it’s from Russia? — Nelly noticed a pair of nesting dolls on the shelf. Under the glass case was the inscription “Matryoshka dolls — targets for throwing knives.” — I thought that nesting dolls were toys for putting small ones inside big ones, and then taking them out again. And no one has been making or selling nesting dolls in Russia for a hundred years. — So this is another universe, Nelly. Do not forget! Maybe they started producing them again or even continued to produce them, no matter how stereotypical it may sound. — Sammy suggested. — Sonic and Sally would probably like such a collection. — says Tiny. At first she was happy, but then she became sad, remembering how those three soldiers killed their Shadow and Knuckles. Of course, they were evil nagas who wanted to devour them, but she still felt sorry for them. — And Knuckles and Shadow... I would have liked it even more. — Tiny! — Benny turned to her and knelt down, taking his younger sister by the shoulders. — They are no more!... It's time to forget the past and start living in the present. We can only hope that at least Sonic and Sally will be okay! — Everything will be fine, Benny. — Nelly hugged her brother from behind. — When Samurai Jack deals with this clock and helps us return home, then we will be able to return home to our universe and see our mom and dad again... The main thing is not a word to them about Shadow and Knuckles! Otherwise, who knows what reaction they will have to their deaths? — Well, you know my reaction. If only you knew how much I wanted to cry. — Tiny answers. — Us too, Tiny. — Sammy stands behind her and also sits on her knees. - But we control ourselves. We must be able to be strong and courageous. I know you are still too young, but now new and harsh times have long come and everything has changed. You have more strength than you think. Don`t doubt. — Let's go! I found something else here! Tails says, looking at the mirror and moving it to the side like a Japanese door. Then there was a descent down the stairs. — Wow! A secret location in the game has been found. The children entered there, went downstairs and found a weapons warehouse. There were many different types of weapons on the shelves and tables. There were motorcycles, bigfoot cars, motor boats, clutchless maize airplanes and helicopters. The weapons included bazookas, rockets, grenades, magazines with ammunition, pistols, machine guns, shotguns, machine guns, grenade launchers, rifles, Uzis, mini-guns, rocket launchers, revolvers, laser beam guns, flamethrowers, freeze guns, bombs, grenades, dynamites , Molotov cocktails and many other types of firearms. There were even cold melee guns. Knives, blades, sabers, katanas, cutlasses, scimitars, malibards, hammers, axes, bats, machetes, butterfly knives, shurikens, iron balls on chains, hand bracelets with and without spikes, gloves with built-in three claws, built-in knife gloved hands, spiked slippers, goggles with night vision and infrared modes. As well as pistols with a silencer and a jetpack for flight. — He's just like Batman. — says Benny. Suddenly, in the center of the room, the sound of a mechanism was heard on the ceiling and a platform on chains descended from there. A man in gray samurai armor with a creepy red face in a helmet was descending on this very platform. The children, when they saw him, did not scream and hugged each other. — What kind of monster is this? — asks Nelly. — Where does it come from in Samurai Jack's house? — asks Benny. — I'm scared! — Tiny says, hugging Sammy. — What the dragon? — Tails cursed, replacing the word "Heck" with "Dragon". The platform stopped descending, touching the floor, and the creature came out of the platform onto the floor in this room. Suddenly the red creepy face on the helmet moves to the sides, like doors, and it turned out that under the helmet of the samurai’s armor was that same person. However, he managed to cut his hair a little, tie a short pigtail on top and shaved his beard so that at first the hedgehogs and the little fox did not recognize him. — You?... You?... — Benny was speechless and couldn’t say it. Jack smiled at them and replied: — Yes. I am Samurai Jack!