𝙄'𝙢 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜...

      How I envied many of the bumps and the strongest people or Mobians with muscles. I myself would so much like to have muscles and be the strongest, and not just the fastest. The fact that I was the fastest, of course I understood. But it seemed to me that this was not enough for me. That's why I wanted more, so that I could also be strong... Well, for example, like Knuckles. Or the same Amy! She doesn't even realize how physically strong she is! Just don’t tell her, otherwise she’ll kill me.

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      I woke up early one morning, lay on a hammock, drank cool lemon juice and listened to the radio. At first they sang various songs on the radio, and then the news started and the news talked about new heavyweight champions from different countries who became fans of the majority. Some of them even became aspiring film actors. Eh... How I envied them. Everyone loves the strongest and healthiest jocks. Unfortunately, I'm not like that. My arms and legs are not even arms and legs, but some kind of blue and peach spaghetti. Looking at them and thinking that I don’t have muscles, I sigh heavily about the fact that I’ll probably never be able to become as muscular. All I could do was curl up under the blanket in my gomak and sob. Knuckles heard my sob, he came to my house and asked: — Sonic! Sonic, why are you crying? Who hurt you? I will take revenge on the offender. I stopped crying and answered him: — No, Knuckles, no one hurt me. I'm just offended. — Why are you crying then? — he asked me. — Because I have no muscles. I'm a wimp, a jerk, a weakling. — Why do you think so? — he asked me and began to show his red arms and legs. — Look! I also don’t have muscles, but that doesn’t mean I’m weak! I'm quite strong. Yes, and you too. Remember how we fought against each other as equals! This is despite the fact that I am physically stronger, and you are faster than me. — It's easy for you to say. Now, if you were in my place and were only fast, you would understand my envy of the jocks! — Okay, don't cry! — he patted me on the shoulder. — Let's go and talk to Tails! He'll probably come up with something. By the way! Why did I come? My refrigerators and pantries are overflowing with jars of jam and compote. Is your refrigerator free? I just have nowhere to put two more cans. If you want, I can even give them to you. There was no time to think about jam and compote. Nevertheless, I allowed him, and after that we immediately decided to go to Tails. Fortunately, he lived here very close to my house. — Tails, are you home? Suddenly he came down to us on his tails. — I am here. Hello Sonic, Knuckles! — Tails, can you help Sonic? He's been sad this morning. — What grief? — he didn’t understand and Knuckles began to explain: — You see, Tails? He's upset that he doesn't have muscles, no matter how hard he trains. I don’t even know how to help him with this? The brother scratched his chin and an idea came to his mind. He asked us to wait, and he went to his hangar and immediately began making something. When he called us, we walked in and saw a huge giant hamster wheel. At that moment my jaw dropped. — Hamster wheel? — I asked him. — No. I call it — Wheel for Sonic. That is, for you. — Tails, are you kidding me? — Not at all. You want to have big, strong and strong muscles? Then you must train every day from morning to night. Moreover, you always like to run with us. The main thing is to promise to listen to me and do everything I say. I had nothing to do! Shrugging my shoulders, I climbed into the inside of the wheel and began to move at first in small steps. Tails praised me with a nod and asked me to speed up and run faster and even faster. Suddenly, along with the wheel that I was spinning, some other threads with coils and gears were spinning. Through them, energy flowed somewhere to the box with the electricity meter. — Well done. Continue. — Tails tells me, and Knuckles asks him: — Are you sure that this will definitely help him? — Don't judge me, Knuckles. This will not only help him, but also me with energy savings. I will sit all night until the morning and work on a new invention by the light of lamps. — But how is this possible? — Kinetic energy. — I explained to him then, immediately understanding what kind of energy was coming from the wheel as I moved. — Let's complicate your task a little. — the fox answers me and gives me two sticks with stones to stick into them. These things, of course, resembled dumbbells. I immediately understood what they were for and began pumping my arms as I ran. Up and down, up and down.

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      I ran like this without stopping and pumped something like dumbbells with one hand for about six hours. My stomach began to grumble and ask for food. Tails forbade me to stop and I had to run further. He brought me lunch himself. I thought he would bring me a chilidog, but no. He brought me something better. Bowl with rice and meat. I love meat, but I’ve never tried rice before. Tails assured me that if I ate the food I needed to build my muscles, then I could finally get bigger, stronger muscles. After I ate all the rice and meat, Tails brought me more cottage cheese and milk to wash it down. I’m running and I also ate and drank all this. Then Tails immediately brought me more meat and rice. My stomach was already full and I couldn’t eat anymore, but the two-tailed brother persuaded me and even forced me to continue eating, even if I didn’t want to anymore. After all, muscles need more protein. I had to obey and break further. The cheeks were even stuffed. By nightfall I was tired and was already lying on the floor. My arms and legs hurt so much. I lay there catching my breath, while my arms and legs made heartbeats and pounded and inflated and deflated. Nevertheless, my brother gave me a rest and allowed me to sleep on the floor.

***

      The next day, Tails invited me to watch TV. He only entrusted the remote control to me. However, this was a Tricky trick with one more charge for me. He also gave me a different air conditioner remote control. He asked me to change TV channels with my right thumb and turn the air conditioner on and off every second with my left thumb. I have to press this with both hands on both remote controls a hundred quadrillion times. — "HOW MANY???" — I thought in shock, but didn’t argue. I started clicking and counting as one. The thumbs on both my hands were tired when I reached three hundred million two hundred thousand nine hundred thirty-seven. However, Tails asked not to stop and click further. At the same time, he himself again cooked and brought me food. As usual, he brought rice with meat and milk. He even brought me a bunch of spinach. To be honest, I hated eating spinach, but since my brother asked me, and since it was so that I could pump up my muscles, I had to obey and eat what he gives. I had eaten too much and already wanted to go to the toilet. When I finally counted to one hundred quadrillions, my arms were completely tired and I had to run to the toilet. Finally. At the same time, I still felt a little bloated and nauseous. I felt like I was going to throw up from overeating. However, everything turned out well.

***

      And this happened every day in turn. Every other day, Tails made me run on the wheel and also press buttons with my hands. Plus, Tails fed me spinach, cottage cheese, milk, meat, fish, rice and other foods that contained proteins. On day nine, Tails even made me a protein shake. Every day and every night I felt harder and more painful, but I didn’t give up. I continued to obey my brother's orders, do what he asks me to do and eat what he gives me. I had already started to get used to the food a little and I wasn’t worried about vomiting or fullness. It’s just that my arms and legs still hurt every night after long workouts from morning to night. True, then I gradually began to get used to it and I myself stood up on these kind of tripods, and went to bed earlier on the sofa, so that tomorrow I could get up earlier and start training further. I trained like this thanks to Tails’ support and help for about ten days. Almost two weeks. Many even lost me on the street and were almost worried, but Knuckles calmed them down and said that I was just training at Tails’ house. On the ninth day of training, even Amy came over and also brought me food for training. So all these ten days passed and to my surprise, since Tails and I had not paid attention to it yet, something had changed in me.

***

      I woke up earlier and just went to the wheel when I walked past the mirror and paid attention to my arms and legs. My bulging muscles and the folds with them finally showed. The tripod and food from Tails really helped me. I finally had real muscles and I even became very strong. I tried to lift the barbell with one hand, but it was really still too heavy for me that I could only lift it with two hands. Apparently my muscles are not pumped up enough yet. Even Tails was shocked when he saw me like this and praised me for doing such a job. He said that now I can be happy with my result and rest. However, when I went home, I decided not to dwell on it. I decided to go to a real rocking room and, strangely enough, most of the jocks recognized me there. They were even shocked to see me with muscles in my arms and legs. They found a new trainer for me there, who told me what exercise machines and, most importantly, how to use them. I started going there three times a day and eating six times a day. Tails' advice with food helped me then, which I was already used to. I lifted barbells, dumbbells with a bunch of iron plates, ran along the track at maximum speed, also drank protein a couple of times and stretched my arms on black chains. So I spent much longer in the rocking chair — three months. My muscles in my arms and legs became even bigger that even Amy fainted with joy looking at them. Now I was happy with the result. Although I don’t wear clothes, everyone looking at me like this already envied me. Even Shadow was so jealous that he even wanted to strangle me. Only Tails and Knuckles praised me for my efforts. That was not all. One day a film director called me from Russia and invited me to star in his film, because they were looking for the strongest muscleman for the main role. True, I refused, deciding that it would be better to go down in history like this - temporarily. Let everyone just look at me for now, and then stop. After all, I won’t train anymore. And I no longer worried that all the muscles that I had been trying to achieve for so long would probably disappear over time.

***

      By the way, there was a funny story about this. I was walking one day and showing off my muscles to everyone, when suddenly a child came up to me and asked: — Uncle Sonic, where did you pump up your muscles so quickly? At first I wanted to answer him the truth and tell him how I trained long and hard. Of course, not without the help of my friends. But instead I decided to make fun of him and jokingly answered him: — Everything is very simple. Steroids helped me.