𝙄'𝙢 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜...

      One day, when I first received a blue Komaro car, I liked it so much that I wanted to take it for a ride. Tails himself made it especially for me for my best friend’s day and gave it as a gift, and on that very day I gave him a new drill with a laser, which I stole from Eggman. Of course, I could essentially run on my own two feet, since I can run at the speed of sound. But still, since childhood, I dreamed of my own car and thought how cool it would be when I got my own car and I would drive it, and drive it, and not run on foot. Otherwise, my legs are probably already tired of running and stretching. Still, there’s no need to be so tense, is there? But my first attempt was a little unsuccessful. I accelerated so hard in my car that I jumped out of my seat in fear and landed on my knee like a superhero, and my car crashed into Amy's house and exploded with the gas tank. — Crap! Exploded! Amy will kill me if she finds out I did this. — I said to myself, looked around and, making sure that Rose was not nearby, managed to run away from the scene of the crime that I accidentally committed. How could I know that, due to the fact that I don’t know how to drive, I would overdo it and crash somewhere into someone else’s house, and also ruin it so much. It was kind of a strange day for me today. I had the feeling that I was probably becoming some kind of blind and deaf old man. I'm probably becoming some kind of fool. That’s exactly what I thought, because I couldn’t control that car and didn’t understand what was wrong with it, although in fact it was my fault. But that's not the worst thing. After that, I decided to go to the store and buy myself something. Before, as usual, I bought myself food, paper and other things that I needed for the next days and for the future. For example, paper was needed for work. With rare exceptions, I could even buy myself, for example, a new phone or laptop. And can you imagine what I decided to buy today? When I went to the store, I wanted to buy myself a new PlayStation 5 console and a new game about Spider-Man for it. Fortunately, I had enough money for both, both separately and together. However, instead of what I wanted, for some reason I bought myself a typewriter from some devil. It would seem that I could buy myself a console and a game, but for some reason I liked the typewriter and decided to buy it. I immediately want to ask myself, am I a fool? After purchasing it, I just brought it home and remembered that I already have such a machine at home for printing documents on paper, which I bought the day before yesterday. I was a fool then. Apparently I had to give what I bought to Knuckles for his best friend’s day, and in return he gave me a flower in a pot, which I was happy about. Although I didn’t even understand why I was happy about it, because my house was already full of flowers, and there was nowhere to put this one. I had to give this flower to Amy, and in return she gave me a kiss on the cheek. Strangely enough, I even accepted it and allowed her to kiss me. I don't understand myself. I used to always avoid Amy’s love for me and didn’t even allow her to kiss me, but now why did I take it and allow it. And no, I’m not in love at all, it’s really like I’ve become a fool and I no longer understand what I’m even doing. I will never spend money so senselessly again, as I thought then, returning to my home. I really felt scared for myself that day, as if I was becoming some kind of fool. After all, every time my actions become more and more stupid. While I was returning home, I ran into Eggman again, who attacked me just like that. Logically, I should have just fought him off, but instead, for some reason I began to tease him and make fun of this bald mustachioed guy. He even literally showed him his ass and danced it in front of him. Well, I'm not a fool, am I? I would never behave this way, but for some reason I behaved this way. What an American shame I experienced then! Eggman just laughed at me and then flew away, deciding to spare me for a while. I was even a little lucky, because he could have gotten angry at me for my stupid jokes and killed me right away. And so, returning home, trying to calm myself down, I decided to go to bed, thinking that I was just so tired from nerves and worries and I just needed to rest. Having accepted these thoughts, I went to bed in the evening, when the sun had not yet set below the horizon. Fortunately, I slept well enough and woke up early the next morning.

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      The next morning I just went to make myself some tea for the morning, but I remembered that I had run out of tea leaves. Then I decided to just drink warm water. But I put the cup upside down on the table and while I was pouring water from the kettle, water spilled on the table. True, I didn’t pay attention to it at first. Taking a plate of yesterday's fried eggs, I heated it in the microwave. True, I overheated it because I set it to seven minutes instead of one minute. My hands burned so much until I finally put it on the table. I took the fork in my left hand and the knife in my right and prepared to cut a piece of scrambled egg. However, I held the knife and fork incorrectly, by the sharp edges, and tried to hold and cut with the edges, which, logically, should be used to hold the fork and knife. I take and take, cut and cut, but for some reason it doesn’t cut off. And only then did I realize that I was holding the fork and knife incorrectly. I even just now noticed the cup with the spilled water and hit myself on the forehead with my palm. How stupid do you have to be to behave like that? Having calmed down and decided to do without breakfast, I went outside for a walk, but did not look at my step and stepped on a large and invisible button on the ground. Immediately, along the edges of the button, walls emerged from the ground, and overhead there was an invisible ceiling in the air. I'm really stuck inside. There was no way I could get out of here and I didn’t even think of crawling to get out of the trap, or even knocking the wall out of the ground to get out. — HEY!!! HELP!!! I AM STUCK!!! — I shouted. — Why are you shouting? Knock out the wall! She is from soft earth. — Knuckles told me as he walked past me. — A! Exactly! — I realized and knocked her off my leg, after which I freed myself. — Thank you, Chico? — Sonic, I'm not Chico, I'm Knuckles. — he corrected me. — What's wrong with you, Sonic? How could you fall into such a stupid trap? It's for fools. — I don’t know myself. I've had this since yesterday. I think I'm slowly becoming a fool. — Don't talk nonsense, Sonic! — Knuckles laughed at me and took my hand. — Let me take you to the doctor and you can see for yourself that everything is okay with you. However, I pulled my hand out of his and replied: — No need for a doctor! I feel great. I just need to rest. I'd rather go and just take a walk. With these words I left. Previously, I seemed to be walking calmly and walking, but suddenly I began to walk, like a drunken drunk or an airplane turning back and forth. Left and right, I swerved as I went and almost crashed into Big the Cat, who even scolded me: — Where is your instinct, superhero? — Sorry! — I asked him for forgiveness and moved on in the same stupid manner. On the way, I tripped over a pebble and fell straight into a puddle. When I came to my senses and saw the reflection of my face in the puddle, I was terribly scared. My face was in the reflection, but it looked crooked, the muzzle was small, the smile was wide, and the eyes were small. It was terrible. I became a freak. Moreover, I looked very stupid and even a little funny. Deciding that it was my imagination, I took the water from that puddle with my hands and rubbed my eyes, but my face remained just as ugly. — Chaos, what’s wrong with me! What's wrong with my face? — I asked myself. It’s true that my face has become slightly crooked, and my face has also become somewhat retarded. She looked a little like that freak from the first and old trailer for the film that came out about me a couple of years ago. Although no, I’m lying! Compared to my mug now, that ugly fake's mug would have looked at least a little prettier if a movie with such an ugly man had been released to theaters. I was so scared that I even accidentally spoke my thoughts out loud: — What’s wrong with me? This is somehow strange, something strange is happening to me. I wrecked my car, broke Amy's house, bought a second stamp of the same kind, I put the cup down incorrectly, held the fork and knife incorrectly, and even fell for a stupid trap. Now this horror is on my face! What should I do? Tails immediately heard my screams and came up to me. — Sonic, calm down! I know what will help you? Just go to the doctor. — I don’t want to go to the doctor, I’m healthy. — I denied, and Tails told me: — No, patients always say that, just to avoid walking. Are you afraid to go to the doctor? — Look, he’s so cunning! — I immediately grinned with my crooked face. — Do you think that I will so easily fall for this stupid cliché with the provocation “You chickened out?” Yes? You will not get it! I won't fall for it, so no. I know very well that I am not a coward at all and I will not go to the doctor. — But, Sonic! I didn't call you a coward, I just asked you. — Yes, sure! — I answered sarcastically and decided to ignore him and went on my walk. I ran away from Tails and broke away from him. At that moment I met Silver. He noticed my face and asked: — Sonic? It's you? What's wrong with your face? — This... It's better for you not to know! What do you want to talk about? — I asked him. — A! Yes so. I'm going with Blaze to do some business and I want to ask you for a little help. In general, I need to build a garage for Shadow, next to his house, but I don’t have time for this yet. Can you build it for me? — Certainly. You can rely on me! — I agreed and shook his hand. — Fine. Go to Shadow's house, he will give you everything there. — Silver advised and left, and I went to Shadow. True, I came to the wrong place by mistake and came to Amy’s house. — Sonic? What happened to your face? — Uh... Sorry, I was on my way to Shadow, but I got a little lost. Won't you accompany me? — I asked her and she took me to him. She even seemed a little worried about me, judging by the fact that I was walking like a drunk and making a gnome. For now, I was thinking in my mind: — Well! Looks like I'll take a break now! I’ll just work, build a garage for Shadow to take my mind off the fact that I’m becoming stupid and everything will be fine! How wrong I was then. Amy took me to Shadow and even he was a little surprised to see such a strange face on me that he even smiled, but hid his smile with his palm. I explained to him that Silver had gone out on his own for the time being and asked me to replace him so that I could help him with the garage. Shadow listened to me and gave me the necessary things to build a garage. Bricks, slabs, iron walls, drill, screws, nails and doors. However, then I completely became a fool and for some reason thought that all these were not things for construction and simply seemed not to see them. Then I noticed how the children on the playground were playing in the sandbox and collecting sand cakes. — A! Here are the things for construction! — I said, pointing at them, walked up to the little brown hedgehog and asked him: — Boy, will you give me your bucket and spatula please? Otherwise, I need to quickly build a garage for my friend, but I don’t have things to build. — Okay! Hold it! — he immediately agreed and gave me a bucket with a shovel. — Thank you. — I thanked him and went back to the place where it was necessary to build a garage. Shadow and Amy looked at me with bulging eyes, as if I were a moron who was acting like a child in an adult's body. At that time, I smiled, had fun, laughed stupidly under my breath and dug the earth into a bucket, and then tried to collect the Easter cake. However, when I removed the bucket, the little cake made of earth fell apart and despaired, and then, like a child, began to roar. — SONIC, STOP IT NOW!!! — Shadow shouted at me immediately, unable to bear the fact that I started crying. — WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? I GAVE YOU THINGS FOR BUILDING A GARAGE, AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? I didn’t answer him. He just smiled stupidly and raised his shoulders. Just now I thought out loud: — Stop! He is right! What am I doing now? Why am I doing this?... Damn! I'm a moron! I'm a moron! What's happening to me? A-A-A-A-A-A!!! — I screamed at the top of my lungs and immediately grabbed my head. The headache then went away and I looked around. Everything around me became big, and the others, and even Shadow and Amy themselves, looked at me with bulging eyes and gaping mouths. My voice even changed and became squeaky: — What? What was it? Why have they all grown so much? Why is everything around me big? What about my voice? What's wrong with my hand? What's wrong with my nose? — I took out a mirror among the bricks and looked at myself through it and was so scared! The nose became long and thick, like a potato, the ears were like those of an elephant, the eyes became even smaller, and saliva began to flow from the mouth. The arms became short and small, just like the T. rex. I myself became a dwarf, about one meter tall. — A-A-A-A-A!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME??? All the villagers, the boys on the playground, even that same hedgehog and even Amy and Shadow themselves, immediately closed their eyes and laughed so loudly that they even cried with laughter. — HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sonic, you've become so funny! WHAHAHAHAHA!!! — Shadow himself laughed. — WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING??? — I shouted at them in my squeaky voice, and they laughed even harder. — IT'S NOT FUNNY!!! — Yes. It's really funny! — Shadow answered and laughed even louder. — HAHAHAHAHA!!! How ugly you are, Sonic! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! But that wasn't the worst thing. For some reason I saw butterflies around that were vomiting rainbows, puddles and water became lava, the sky turned purple, all the clouds were in the shape of ice cream, and instead of the sun in the sky there was the smiling head of Barack Obama. Even all the people and Mobians around me looked somehow different. For example, Shadow looked like normal me, only with red stripes. Even I myself was worse than ever. This all suggested that I had become a fool. Although I myself did not understand then how this was even possible. It’s good that Amy was the first to stop laughing and, having calmed down, asked me: — Sonic, can I take you to the doctor? — Okay, take me wherever you want, as long as I don’t see myself as such a freak anymore and no one laughs at me. She took me in her arms and quickly ran with me to the hospital. Having delivered it to the doctor, she told me what had happened to me today, and then I explained to the doctor in more detail what had happened to me since yesterday. Of course, I didn't say anything about crashing into Amy's house, but otherwise I explained everything. The doctor decided that I was not going to stop turning into a fool. Although I myself understood this perfectly well. However, he also said that a certain parasitic beetle, which started somewhere in Canada and which bit some people, was to blame for everything. They say that anyone he bit also became stupid, as if they had Alzheimer's disease mixed with amnesia. Apparently this same beetle also bit me. But it’s true. It seems like a week ago I was walking around Canada and it seemed like some insect bit me on the neck. I really didn’t understand at first that it had bitten me and decided to give up on it. The main thing is that I quickly slammed him down and he didn’t even have time to fly away. It turned out that Canadian doctors found the same bug that I had squashed in the forest, quickly studied it and found a cure for its infection. The doctors even ordered it from Canada, and in the meantime they injected me with anesthesia to make me fall asleep. I didn't even suspect then that Amy was still sitting next to me and even kissed me several times on the cheeks and lips while I was sleeping and could not wake up. When the medicine arrived from Canada and was injected into my arm, I immediately became the same and woke up at that very moment.

***

      I stood up and the first thing I noticed was that my voice had become normal. I went to the doctor: — Doctor, did everything work out? — Yes, Sonic. You are healthy! The medicine worked. — Seriously? — I didn’t believe it and went to the mirror. I became the same in appearance and most importantly, I now behaved normally and immediately understood what I was doing and what exactly I needed to do. — Healthy! I am well! I'm not a fool anymore! And the voice is normal! Thank you, doctor! Even the whole world and surroundings with people and Mobians became normal in my eyes. I was so glad that this nightmare was finally over. My normal voice and even my rotten face became normal. Overall, I had a strange day. However, I also learned a lesson from this. If something seriously happens, don’t put it off until later, but rather immediately go to someone who knows something about this topic and maybe he can help you. But most importantly, try to think well and think about what you want to do, so as not to be a fool, but, on the contrary, to be smart and quick-witted. Even I now, after this day, began to think more and often before acting on something.