𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜: 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬

      Night station. The rats in the chimneys are hurrying somewhere about their dark affairs. The black-scarlet hedgehog was brought here by a message from G.U.N, which the keeper managed to hack and transfer it to Shadow himself. It seems they are on the trail of the criminal organization R.U.N. At the big station in the middle of the night, only old and rusty lanterns shone. Shadow the Hedgehog, hiding among the shadows, got inside and, hiding behind the boxes, watched as the workers of a certain R.U.N searched each car of the arriving high-speed electric train and were apparently looking for something. — Wow, it's slippery here! — one of them almost fell. — Hey, look! — said his partner, finding the desired box and opening it with a crowbar. — It's just a piece of some kind of stone. Why protect him? — the third thought out loud. — The Mafia Emperor pays you to ask stupid questions. — the bandits suddenly heard a terrible and hoarse voice and shuddered with fear, as if they knew the owner of this voice. They turned around and saw one meter-long dwarf, with a cigarette in his mouth and two machine guns implanted in his hands with the help of science and organics. — Uh... No, sir... Sorry, Mr. Tumor. — the second bandit said in fear, who opened the box and stepped aside, allowing his boss to pass and look at the glowing stone in the box. — Then shut your mouth, idiot. — he said rudely to his assistant on the way. — The Emperor said that a certain humanoid hedgehog calling himself a ultimate life form would come for the tablet and that he must be stopped at any cost. — “I’m flattered.” — Shadow thought, overhearing their conversation. At this time, the dwarf, using a special claw on each machine, picked up a piece of the tablet and put it in his pocket. — Blow up everything here before my patience runs out. We can't leave any traces of us here. Even if G.U.N. thinks that there was just an accident with an explosion or a terrorist attack from other bandits! — Yes, boss. — said the third bandit. The dwarf stood on the tracks and walked through the tunnel. — “Soon it will definitely burst.” — Shadow thought, but not jokingly, but in all seriousness, because he would decide to follow him. But first he will decide to stop the bandits before they blow up anything here. The first and second only installed an explosive substance similar to plasticine, and the other took out dynamite with wires and installed them. At that moment, Shadow came running, knocked the bandit with a detonator in his hand off his leg, knocking him out, grabbed the second one in a jump and threw him over himself to the floor, also knocking him out with a concussion when his head hit the ground, and knocked the third one off his leg the pistol from his hands, after which he took it for himself, aiming at the bandit. The latter gets scared and raises his hands. — Please don't shoot! This is not a toy! — Who do you work for? — he asked him coldly. — I can not tell. — the bandit answered, and Shadow pulled the trigger and was preparing to shoot to intimidate: — Answer immediately! — Okay then! We work for the Mafia Emperor. — the bandit got scared. — Who is this mafia emperor of yours? — asked the black-scarlet one, but the bandit chose to run away instead of answering. The hedgehog had no choice but to shoot him in the back. Having wounded him and knocked him to the floor, he pressed him to the floor with his foot, not allowing him to crawl away and aimed the pistol at his head: — Once again! Who is this mafia emperor of yours? — I don't know. — You're lying! — the hedgehog said sternly and prepared to shoot. — No, no, no, I swear! He doesn't tell anyone his real name. He only tells everyone his nickname by which he wants everyone to call him. I really don't know what his real name is. You better ask Mr. Tumor! — the villain advised fearfully. Shadow raised his face to himself, looking at him menacingly with his stern eyes, after which he hit him with the butt of a pistol, thereby knocking him out and whispered: — Thank you. Having finally searched the three bandits, taking clips of pistol cartridges from them, he set off in pursuit of the short man through the same tunnel along the rails on foot, along which he had escaped along with the fragment. Shadow walked slowly and deliberately through the tunnel, not forgetting to look around with the help of his new vision. His new vision showed that the dwarf with the fragment was still walking slowly and suspecting nothing, forward and forward, without even looking around. It looked strange. Maybe he's stirring up something, that someone is watching him and pretending to lure him into a trap, or maybe he just doesn't care about what's going on behind his back? He continued to walk forward and slowly so that the short one would not suspect anything. Stopping for a second, he sat down on all fours, grabbed the hatch cover, opened it and jumped down, and the hatch then closed behind him. Running closer, Shadow also opened the hatch, saw the bright corridors of the sewers below and jumped down there after the bandit. The sewer looked like a bunch of corridors in a labyrinth or mansion. Around the right turn there was a staircase that led up and Shadow climbed up it to the depot. There the dwarf met a couple more of his henchmen and began a conversation with them: — Make sure that the cargo we need arrives today at exactly twenty-three fifty-seven! — What to do with trains! — Blow them up! We can't leave any traces of us here. — the dwarf ordered them and went further to the right tunnel. — Yes, boss. — one of the henchmen saluted and everyone went their separate ways. One of them decided to install a large pipe-shaped bomb on the wall, next to the entrance to the sewer, from where Shadow himself climbed the steps. The latter abruptly grabbed the bandit by the shoulders along with the bomb, pulled him down and there beat him in the face until he lost consciousness. — “You must defuse all the bombs, and only then pursue Mr. Tumor!” — said Watchguardian in Shadow's head. — I know. — he answered briefly out loud and ran back upstairs. Black-scarlet first ran to the right car of the train, finding a large bomb there, he tried to unscrew the nuts with his fingers to open the monitor cover and remove it. Inside there was some kind of children's puzzle with the supply of energy, while turning the arrows in the right directions, leading the current through the tubes from one cup to another, as if through a labyrinth. After examining the labyrinth, Shadow quickly figured out how to solve this puzzle and solved it. When the current reached another iron cup, the wall with tubes, arrows and glasses rose to the top, opening a deeper path. There was a big red button inside. Out of curiosity, the black-scarlet pressed it and, oddly enough, the sound of the device turning off was heard, and the countdown timer stopped. Shadow immediately realized that he was able to defuse the bomb. The first one was ready and all that remained was to neutralize the rest.

After some annoyingly long period of time!

      Having beaten the last bandit, knocking him out and defusing the last bomb, the black-scarlet hedgehog had just left the car when he suddenly saw that one of the bandits had pushed one lever away from himself and launched one of the trains on the road. Shadow immediately suspected that there was also a bomb inside the train, and if the train reached a dead end along its route, it would immediately explode when it collided with the wall. At any cost, he chased the train on his grindens, overtook it, turned the switch at the turn and sent the train with the bomb in the other direction, where, unfortunately, the bridge was not completed. The train left the tunnel and, once at the end of the bridge, fell into the water, after which it exploded under water. — Well hello! — he heard the black-scarlet voice behind me of that short man who was in the large hall behind the red door. Shadow walked in and looked around. The hall was somewhat reminiscent of the Roman Colosseum, and Mr. Tumor himself had a huge apparatus with two machine guns that swiveled in place around itself. — I suppose you are the ultimate hedgehog that everyone is spreading rumors about?” — I am the perfect life form! — You are nobody. You're a pathetic braggart. Everyone has long known that man is the perfect form of life in the entire universe. And you are just a stupid experiment that has gotten out of control. A mistake of nature that has no place in our world. — the short one mocked. — What else can you know about me, shorty? — Shadow asked sternly and took a fighting stance. — Shorty? Well, at least I'm not Napoleon. — Tumor grinned, grabbed the handles of the machine guns with the upper sharpening points of his guns and opened fire on the hedgehog. He began to try to aim at SFJ and try to shoot him, while he was running around him and dodging. He jumps, somersaults, bounces, rolls and hides behind a column, after which the short man stops firing, deciding to wait for him to jump out of cover. — I'm too fast for you. — Maybe! But not for my little babies Ka and Put. — the dwarf presented his guns instead of hands. He aimed each one at a different target. He aimed his left cannon to the left of the column, and his right to the right. — You won’t run out anywhere. However, the short man did not take into account that the column went up to the hole on the roof. Having climbed there and walked along the roof from above, the black-scarlet hedgehog suddenly jumped on Mr. Tumor from above, pushing him from behind to the floor. — No, don't! Do not hit! — the short man began to beg the hedgehog for mercy, covering himself with guns instead of hands. — I will give everything to you. Please! All. — Was one unexpected attack enough for you? Give this here... — before Shadow could finish speaking, the dwarf took advantage of his conversation and with one blow of his head, threw the hedgehog away from him and towards the wall. It was painful, it even gave the hedgehog a concussion for a second. — You're a beast. — Tumor swore at the hedgehog and ran away through another door. — COME BACK, COWARD!!! — Shadow shouted and ran after him. — I’m not a coward, I’m just taking a tactical retreat. — his voice echoed throughout the corridor. The dwarf himself disappeared somewhere out of sight, so that even the super-fast, perfect hedgehog lost sight of him after entering through the same door. On the way, Shadow heard the voices of apparently more of this little guy's henchmen. — Did you see how gloomy Mr. Tumor’s face was? — The last time he was this furious was when he caught an orange echidna that looked like a shaman. — Have you heard about a water creature from a certain large emerald? — The last time he was found on a desert island with a certain prophecy, which depicted a golden yellow hedgehog. — Oh, shut up! I'm not interested! — “And even more so for me!” — Shadow thought on the way. Walking through small and gray corridors to the next door, Shadow came out to an abandoned station, which, apparently, was closed. There were rails everywhere, but there were no carriages or trains. Even all the gates were locked. The station was large and empty. It was even suspicious and too quiet here. On the upper platform was Mr. Tumor himself. — Are you still being a hero? Come on! Come and let's sort it out like men. — he said and jumped down into the dark area. Shadow, having underestimated him, immediately ran up there in a second, but he himself was no longer there. But they immediately turned on and shone the spotlights on him. — What? — Finish him off, boys! — ordered the dwarf. Five men immediately appeared on the upper platform with machine guns in their hands, aiming at the hedgehog, and below, fifty more bandits came out hand-to-hand with knives and clubs at the hedgehog himself. — Oh, you lying wet chicken! — the black-scarlet cursed. Those armed with machine guns did not yet think of shooting, for fear of hurting their comrades, and the latter, in turn, rushed to attack. Black-scarlet, standing in a fighting stance, deftly dodged, never receiving a single blow or injury from knives. In an instant, he jumped up, grabbed the shoulders of the big man in front of him, grabbed another in a jump and threw him over himself into the five, knocking them to the floor. One with a club pounced and swung, and Shadow dodged, grabbed the bat himself and hit the villain between the legs with the end of it, taking the bat away, and then beating twelve around him in the face. Another of them tried to grab the hedgehog from behind, but Shadow himself grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him over himself, knocking him to the floor. After which he knocked out three more. At this time, comrades with guns were watching from above, afraid to shoot their own. They could only watch how that hedgehog easily dealt with their comrades. By that time, the ULF had knocked down the last one and a big man with a height of four meters and with healthy muscles, who was holding a sledgehammer in his hands, immediately came into the light. — You can’t cope with the best fighter of the Tumor! — the big man hissed in a terrible voice and swung a sledgehammer from above, hoping to hit her hedgehog on the head so that his skull would crack. But Shadow managed to jump to the side, jump on his head and very quickly began to punch him in the face with every millisecond, and the big guy didn’t even have time to grab the hedgehog with too fast blows and throw him off, when from numerous blows to the face he was exhausted and fell on floor. — Are you saying that you are the best fighter of the Tumor? Anyone else want to challenge me? — Shadow asked out loud and specifically to intimidate those on the platform. Despite the fact that they had guns, they did not even dare to shoot at him and simply ran away. Underpants! — Well, to hell with it! Let's run! — said one of them. — Let's leave! — Let's get out! — Useless pathetic cowards! — the dwarf swore and ran through the red door in the other direction. — I'm coming to you, Tumor. One on one, as agreed. Running out through the red door onto the street, he saw that in the park, which resembled a huge greenhouse in the form of a glass house, an orange glow was emanating for a couple of seconds. — “He absorbed the power of the fragment. Be careful!" — said Watchguardian in the head of the black and scarlet one. — Shut up, talking head! — the hedgehog hissed, because the keeper was distracting him. Upon entering the building, Shadow became noticeably fascinated. Mr. Tumor began to emit a yellow mist like fog from his body, and his eyes glowed with an orange glow. The dwarf himself was no longer a dwarf. Now he was almost three meters tall. — We should have used this fragment earlier. Okay, first I’ll deal with you, and then with the mafia emperor! — the short man hissed in a scary voice, and his guns became even larger in size and looked more like bazookas. — With this power I will rule Station Square! Ready for battle, freak of nature? — Always ready, shorty. — Shadow joked about the villain’s height and took a fighting stance. The mini-boss opened fire on the hedgehog from bursts of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, and the hedgehog deftly dodged, jumping to the sides. Then the villain switched to missiles, which he began to fire more slowly. Shadow dodged the missiles even easier, but tried to stay away from the walls, since each missile, upon contact with the wall, immediately exploded and was pushed away from itself as if by a strong wind. Mr. Tumor himself was shocked that he fired as if from rocket launchers, although his guns instead of hands were just machine guns. Apparently the fragment also affected them, making them more powerful and dangerous. At one point, Shadow ran up to the big man and hoped to hit him, but before he knew it, the former dwarf suddenly managed to hit him with his head and pushed him away. Afterwards, his right cannon sharply transforms into an iron hand, with which he grabs the black-scarlet by the burner and lifts it above the floor. CinemaSins: Villains love to grab others by the neck to make their legs dangle above the ground. AntiSins: Well, how else can he show his great physical strength? — Hurt! — said the hedgehog, grabbing his head with one hand, and the Tumor tapped his head with the other cannon, making a metallic sound and answering: — The most durable and impenetrable titanium plates. Apparently the fragment also strengthened them. Somehow Shadow managed to kick him in the face with his right foot and thereby free himself from his tenacious iron hand, which the villain immediately turned back into a huge cannon. From the blow, Shadow only angered the former short man, and on his emotions, the haze began to emanate from his body even more and faster. The haze emanating from his body formed a very large thick fog around the park's greenhouse in which he got lost and began to shoot around, just at guess. — What is this fog? I don't see damn! — “He was lost in his own fog. Hurry before he discovers the same vision that I gave you and the other hedgehogs!” — said Watchguardian in the hedgehog's head. Shadow, thanks to his new vision, easily saw the villain from afar through the thick fog, waited for the right moment when he had his back to him and, running up to him from behind, jumped on him and began to quickly hit his back with his fists. The mini-boss could not resist at this moment and throw him off. Then the hedgehog climbed onto his head, grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him over himself to the floor. This made the tumor even more angry and the fog became even thicker, which burst out of the huge greenhouse onto the street. At that moment, his eyes glowed red and he was finally able to see through the fog, but he just didn’t have time to get used to his new vision. Everything seemed transparent to him, which even frightened him. — Ah! What's happened? Ah! What's happening? HELP ME!!! WHY IS EVERYTHING AROUND TRANSPARENT??? He didn’t even have time to see through the transparent objects, trees, cars, passersby and the fog of the hedgehog itself, which was running at him right in front of him and, in a jump from his foot to his stomach, threw him away. The big guy with guns instead of arms crashed his back into an oak tree and fell to the ground. He tried to get to his feet, but Shadow ran up and stopped him from doing so, starting to punch and kick him in the face. He tried with his guns, like a cold weapon, to brush off and push the crook away from him, but only the SFJ dodged at the right moments and continued to hit him. Ultimately, the villain was exhausted and the fragment came out of his body, also shining with a yellow glow and emitting the same haze. Shadow picked up the fragment in his hands, hid it in his needles on his head, then grabbed the dwarf by the shoulders and looking into his face, beaten to the point of blood, began to interrogate: — Who do you work for, idiot? — I can not tell! — the dwarf hissed through his teeth. — Answer immediately, Napoleon! — the hedgehog shook the villain in his hands, torturing him. — Well, okay, okay. Just shake it! R.U.N. and I We work for the Mafia Emperor. — Who is this mafia emperor? — the hedgehog asked, but the villain, in order not to betray his boss, reached with Kursk from the right cannon to the detonator on his back and activated it. Shadow, with his new vision, saw through him a bomb on his back and managed to throw the dwarf away from him, when suddenly he exploded in the air and died. — A curse! He blew himself up. — “Patience, Shadow! Sooner or later, all the cards will come together and you will eventually track down R.U.N. along with their main boss." - said the keeper. — And you won’t tell me about this right away either?... Well, well. — the hedgehog said sternly, standing proudly in place. — “In any case, the talking head thanks you for your help.” — the keeper himself joked, but Shadow was not amused. However, hearing what he called him made both his eyes bulge. — Hm-m... Yes, uh... Sorry about that! — “But I wasn’t offended.” In this reality, Shadow was still able to get one fragment, and even if he never found out what kind of organization R.U.N. and who is the mafia emperor who was behind all this. He nevertheless prevented explosions in the subway and stopped the villains. How did other versions of hedgehogs act at the same time?