𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙭𝙚𝙨

      In the swamps, Luz Bucket and Fiona lay on the ground with their eyes closed and almost fell asleep. Suddenly the scorpion-naga sharply opened his eyes, raised his head and looked around, feeling something strange and suspicious. He even heard birds like owls and crows begin to make noise somewhere far away and fly away. It was suspicious. Fiona was still asleep. In order to protect her, he took her into his arms, quietly and slowly swallowed her, lowering her into the safety of his stomach, hiding his beloved there. Afterwards, he wiped his palms against each other and began to look suspiciously towards the forest behind the trees, from where strange sounds of footsteps were coming. — Who's there? — Luz sternly asks whoever is hiding there. He prepared his fighting tail with a prosthetic stinger. — Come out! I am not afraid of you! — And I didn’t mean to scare you. — answers a terrible voice. However, Luz easily took it apart. — This voice! Just like... Me? — You guessed it! — the double answers and comes out into the light of the moon rays from the shelter. He came out and showed himself to the eyes of his counterpart of this world, folding his hands on his snake waist. The Luz of this world widened his eyes. — You? No! No! You're dead! Tails killed you! I have seen. The other Luz smiled sarcastically and answered: — You only killed the original you from the original universe from which yours originated. And I’m an original from a completely different universe, where nagas calmly hunt people and eat them without any hesitation. You know this universe more precisely because people like Sammy, Nelly, Benny, Tiny and young Tails lived there, who, along with your Tails, stopped you. However, due to your intervention there without blocking the creation of anomalies, you changed the course of events and created an alternative version of it, in which even I was never there, because I disappeared from the original universe a long time ago. Therefore, my double in that other universe that you created does not exist and will not exist. I'm Luz Bucket from her original universe and I'm the nation's agent for eliminating intergalactic and time paradx. — Which nation? — our Luz didn’t understand, but the alternative one explained to him: — Nations to eliminate intergalactic and temporal paradx. Including anomalies like you and your universe. — What? — this scorpion naga bulged his eyes and clenched his teeth, not believing what he heard. He couldn't believe this reality. Another Luz takes out his electric stick and, pressing the blue button on the side, turns on the stun gun on it. — Tell me where your friends, Tails and Shadow, are hiding, and I promise you will die very quickly! Our Luz had no intention of fighting him and betraying his friends. He decided to quickly turn around and run away. The double crawled after him and hissed: — Run, run, second I’m! It will be even more fun this way! The naga scorpion crawled on alone and as fast as he could. Overcoming a heap of trees and foliage, he crawled only forward and did not look back. Another scorpion naga who was chasing him spat out the parts to assemble a huge sniper rifle from his mouth. Having collected it, he stopped and began to aim at the other himself. Once he takes aim, he fires a red laser. Luckily this Luz tripped while retreating, tripping over a couple of rocks and falling. The laser flew over him and crashed into an oak tree, creating a hole in it. Evil Luz grinned and loaded his rifle, saying: — I love it when my victims resist and try to survive when meeting me. This makes me want to kill you even more. Good Luz stood up and ran on. On the way, he turned right and the evil Luz, shooting at him, missed again. — Ha-ha-ha! How fast and dexterous you are! Just like me in my youth. — he says and, loading the rifle again, crawls on. — You will not leave me in any case! I will still find you everywhere, no matter where you hide. You're my catch, Luz! — "He is right!" — thought the good man, continuing to run away. — “I used to hunt everyone and was a predator who ran after prey. Now I have already become a victim and prey for myself. Is my own past trying to kill me again? The angry me gets to me again, even in reality.” He crawled to a large lake, into which he decided to dive and hide there. When his evil double crawled, he examined the lake, but due to the fact that the lake was muddy, he did not see himself there, except for his real reflection in the water. — You can’t hide from me, sea serpent! — he hissed and spat out a small ball-shaped drone, which flew across the lake and found Luz himself with his red laser in the middle of the lake. Due to the light of the drone's beam, the scorpion naga noticed its counterpart inside the water. — Gotcha! — he says and takes out the rifle and aims at him again. Suddenly he hears his phone ringing and picks it up. — Hello. — Agent Bucket, this is someone who doesn't exist! We have a new task for you. Have you completed the previous one? — Yes, sir. The fugitives were found and killed. But new problems appeared. I discovered them and killed them in the anomalous universe whose coordinates you sent me. — What? — This universe is the same one where those same Tails and Shadows come from, who jumped from world to world and traveled through worlds, creating anomalies and copies to other universes. I have currently identified the local Luz Bucket here and am trying to kill him. — Fine. Then kill him and Tails and Shadow themselves. When you finish them off for one thing, then fly to another universe, whose coordinates I will send you, and help our agents catch five more anomalous violators of travel to parallel worlds! — Yes, sir. — Luz answers and hangs up. He takes out his rifle again and trusts his double in the lake. Suddenly a stone flies at him from somewhere. Tails himself threw this stone at him, hoping to hit him in the head. However, the agent grabbed the stone with his own hand without looking and prevented it from hitting him. The villain himself looked menacingly at the flying two-tailed fox and the striped naga, who also looked at him menacingly. — Who are you, impostor? — Shadow hissed, pointing his finger at him. — What's the matter, friends? Don't you recognize me? — the agent tried to deceive them and lied in every possible way. — So we believed you, impostor! — the fox answers with sarcasm and anger. Suddenly, the real Luz Bucket emerges from the lake with a deep breath and runs away. The evil Luz aims his rifle at him, but Shadow rushes at the enemy, pushing his rifle away and saving his friend. — RUN, LUZ!!! — Tails shouts to the kind naga scorpion and he obediently retreats into the forest. At this time, the evil scorpion naga took a fighting stance and sharpened its sharp sting at the tip of its tail. — Let's Dance! — he tells them sarcastically. — It’s a pity I don’t have my sword. I would have stabbed you and cut off your nasty tail, just like the last two times I did it with people like you. — the fox hissed threateningly through his teeth. — And you won’t defeat me this time. I have already studied all your strengths and weaknesses. — Shadow noted, getting into a fighting stance and sticking out his sharp claws from his fingers. — Really? — the evil double of the naga scorpion smiled and was the first to rush into the attack. Good Luz Bucket hid for now, crawling into the village. Once in the village, he spat Fiona back out of his stomach. It was absolutely clean and not covered in saliva. At the same time, the fox was still sleeping sweetly and smiling in her sleep. Luz crawled to the house, where all the farm animals were already getting ready for bed on their own. Seeing the scorpion, they again began to look at it suspiciously. The scorpion snake slowly laid Fiona on the porch. — Dear Luz, will you marry me? — she asks in a dream, but she did not wake up. Luz was moved by what he heard, leaned over slightly and kissed her on the head with his huge lips. — Love you. — he whispered to her and crawled away without her back into the forest to help his friends.

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      Evil Luz charges up his stun stick and pokes it like a sword. However, Shadow, by luck and dexterity, managed to jump to the side. Scorpio tries to punch him in the face with his free fist, but the snake hedgehog dodges the blow by ducking back, like Neo from the Matrix. Luz swings her tail and Shadow also crawls back with his whole body. When a sharp sting passed in front of his muzzle, almost hitting it, the striped naga stuck out his left hand, grabbed the tail of the scorpion-snake with it and sharply lowered it to the ground, forcing the villain himself to bend down to the ground from the inability to maintain his balance. Evil Luz landed with his hands on the ground, dropping his stick and did not have time to get up when Shadow grabbed him from the back by the shoulders and bit him on the neck with sharp teeth. He screams in pain. He tried to knock this striped naga off of him with his tail, or at least scratch him with his stinger. However, Tails grabbed it by its stinger and held it very tightly to the ground, not allowing it to rise or move. Tails was very strong and held his stinger tail tightly despite the huge difference in size. — Gotcha, who was scratching! — the fox answers. Through force, the evil Luz was barely able to stand up with his hands and, starting to fall back, lay down on the ground, while crushing Shadow and Tails with his back. — It’s good that the ground here is very soft. — the striped snake-hedgehog thought out loud. — G-g-g-g-get o-o-off me! — the evil scorpion hissed through his tongue and hit Shadow on the nose with his left elbow. He let go, clutching his sore nose and turning over like a log on his stomach. Tails stood up at that moment, picked up a large stone with a sharp edge on one side and with this very sharp edge stuck it like a nail into the scorpion's right palm when he tried to pick up his stick with a shocker again. The angry Bucket screams in pain into the sky and with a sharp swing of his left hand, he knocks down the fox, throwing him against a tree. Having crashed into him with his back, the fox fell to the ground and tried to get up with a short groan. The evil scorpion-naga picked up his rifle and, taking aim at the fox, decided to shoot the two-tailed one. At that very moment, the kind Luz Bucket came running to the rescue and hit him from the side with his left fist in his face and nose. The evil scorpion-naga fell to the ground, and the good one crawled up to Tails and took him into his huge palms. — Are you alive? — asks the fox while he was coming to his senses. The fox first saw some kind of angel with wings and a halo above his head. However, his vision returned from blurry to normal and he saw an old and kind scorpion. — Are you not dying? Tails smiled in response. — You will not get it! The evil scorpion naga stood up and tried to attack his double with his sting and wound him in the back. However, without looking or turning around, he sharply raised his prosthetic blade at the tip of his tail and deflected the blow of the sting of the owls and his enemy. The good one turned around and looked menacingly at his evil copy. The latter widened her eyes, not expecting him to repel an attack in the back like that. Then Shadow himself crawled up, also hitting the evil scorpion in the face with his right fist and thereby pushing him into the lake. Enraged and with clawed hands extended to the sides, he bursts out of the water and screams heart-rendingly. He crawls straight towards his kind counterpart and the striped naga, trying to grab them with his muscular arms. His two targets jumped back and dodged. The fox standing further and in the middle flew back at the two-tailed one and grabbed his eyes, and then hit the evil scorpion in the huge eyeballs with his fists. The villain closed his eyes in pain and screamed. Swinging his tail with a stinger, he tried to stab Tails, but the good scorpion managed to expose his prosthetic stinger to the blow and repel the attack. The good and evil scorpions attacked each other, grabbing each other's hands and knocking their heads together. Shadow grabbed the agent by the waist with both hands and pulled him towards him. At this time, Tails lowered himself, picked up a club-shaped stone and swooped down from above, hitting the evil agent on the head. The stone bat broke into several pieces, and the agent himself received a concussion, and the kind Luz and Shadow were able to knock him to the ground.

***

      Evil Luz woke up and opened his eyes; his hands and tail were tied together by very strong vines, and he himself was lying on the ground. Tails, Shadow and the good Luz looked menacingly at the evil one, folding their arms over their chests. — So! Now, before you get what you deserve, tell me who you are? Where? Who do you work for and why did you attack us? — I can’t say about it. — says the evil scorpion. — So, you told me everything about yourself and about the nation to eliminate intergalactic and temporal paradxes, and when you were captured, you immediately refused to tell the truth? — asks the good man and presents his sting near the throat of the evil one. — Answer immediately, otherwise you will die long and painfully! Evil Luz blew into his head somewhere, as if into his hair, and rolled his eyes, after which he said: — Okay. I work for someone who doesn't exist. — Who is he? This is the one who doesn't exist! — Tails asks. — The first of many great guardians of time and balance between the multiverse. He monitors the order in the multiverse and destroys the extra universes that you have created by traveling to other universes. You are anomalies that threaten the entire multiverse with the end of the world for all worlds, including my original and your world, from which your world originated. When the multiverse was in danger of extinction, he was the only one of all the guardians of Chaos who did not stand by and decided to intervene to protect the multiverse from extinction and maintain the balance of all worlds. He monitored the order in two multiverses. In one, which became extinct, and in the current one, which currently lives with all of us. — What are you talking about? — Tails didn’t understand. — What’s not clear? You are an anomaly and a threat to the multiverse and you must be eliminated along with your worlds. Even my original world must live on, and for this, those worlds that originated from mine because of you must also be destroyed. It's all your fault! If you three had not started jumping around all the worlds, then you would not have created copies of them, interfering in their events, and I would not have come here for you. You are my task. The One Who Doesn't Exist ordered me to personally kill you and then destroy your universe to restore balance. — We do not understand. What are you talking about? — asks Shadow. Only the kind Luz Bucket understood what it was about, after which he fell into a stupor and looked around. — How stupid you are, since you don’t understand anything either the first or the second time. Your life teaches you nothing at all. — says the evil Luz, grinning, and then raises his head and proudly says: — Activate suicide! — Suicide mode activated. — says some computer voice inside a naga business suit. — Three seconds until the explosion. Good Luz, Shadow and Tails widened their eyes. However, they realized in time that they could not stand still and watch. We must run! They quickly crawled back away from the bound suicide. An explosion occurs and the evil Luz dies. At the moment of the explosion, Shadow jumps on Tails and curls up into a ball, covering the fox with his body. The explosion was accompanied by some kind of black energy and lightning, which sucked it into the form of the smallest black hole. Then this very small black hole began to slowly shrink and disappear from lack of absorption. Good Luz, Shadow and Tails turned around, but evil Luz was no longer there. He killed himself.

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      The one who does not exist at that time was sitting in his office and received a red message on his wristwatch. It said: “Mission failed! Agent Luz Bucket committed suicide! Objects from the universe are alive." The one who does not exist got angry and screamed heart-rendingly at the top of his lungs, as the camera moves closer to his mouth with a whining tongue. He then punches the table, breaking it. Then he takes a breath and says to himself: — Fine! These anomalies want war?... There will be war for them!