𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜: 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬

      In the future, everything was going calmly for now and two patrol policemen were flying on anti-gravity motorcycles. — All patrols in this area are to report to the intersection of 69th and Flax. The shard that Dr. Nega needs has been found! — Patrols seventeen and seven. — one of the racers reports on the radio in his helmet. - We're on our way. — Attention to all units, Nega warns: the Shard is attracting psychos and... — the connection was suddenly interrupted. — What's the matter? Hello! Hello!

At the same time

      A white hedgehog with a blue luminous aura surrounding it flies around the city and looks around. For some reason, all the people below are running somewhere into the forest to an iron house in the shape of a giant screw with a bolt. The hedgehog of the future became interested and he flew there. Landing nearby in the forest so that no one would know of his presence, he quietly crept to the entrance and watched from behind the bushes. Near the door there was a small guard of two jock robots, who were sternly determined to guard the entrance. Apparently this is one of the secret lairs of Dr. Negi himself. Using his new vision, he examines the knowledge and notices a strange glow within. — "A! Splinter!" — Be careful! — the guardian warned him. — With or without a shard, Nega can be very dangerous. — "Do not worry. I fought with him for a long time and know all his strengths and weaknesses very well. He will never defeat me." — Silver answers with thoughts, believing that he will read his thoughts and hear. — “Still be on alert! He probably already knows about your presence and knows in advance that you will make your way to him.” — explains Watchguardian. — Okay. — Silver briefly whispers out loud, accidentally almost attracting the attention of the robot guards to himself. They looked around and made sure that it was their imagination. Silver himself, using psychokinesis, flew on them without making a sound, finds the ventilation cover and gets inside. As he flew through the tunnel, there was no danger anywhere. Slowly and suspiciously making my way along the iron corridors in an empty room, an iron hatch suddenly opens under my feet. Silver, with the help of psychokinech, supported himself and did not fall. However, poisonous gas began to flow into the room. Then, in order not to inhale it and fall asleep, the hedgehog had to go down there. The hatch closed behind him and it was dark all around. — I CAN NOT SEE ANYTHING!!! — he shouted and at that moment the light turned on, after which the hedgehog looked around. It was an empty corridor, and the floor suddenly opened up and Silver fell down. Luckily, he managed to slow his fall with psychokinesis and landed softly on his knees, imitating a superhero landing. Looking around, he found himself in a very long and largest corridor made of iron bars. In the distance there was an iron door. The psychokineticist flew there with his psychokinesis, when suddenly the door itself opened for him, as if Nega himself was waiting for him. Silver flew inside and the doors closed behind him. A huge TV on the ceiling turned on and an image of Dr. Negi appeared, speaking directly to Silver: — Here we meet again, Silver. Last time! — Not today, Nega! — the white hedgehog answered, getting into a fighting stance. Laser cannons emerged from under the floor and walls and opened fire on the hedgehog with green beams. Silver begins to jump, gallop and dodge the shots in every possible way. At the same time, he charged up bundles of psychokinesis balls in his hands and shot them like fireballs at those cannons, destroying them. Having survived and destroyed all the guns, the white hedgehog slowly and confidently moved on, overcoming a couple more iron doors. — “You have to rely on your mind to defeat Dr. Nega, and not on your strength!” — Silver thought along the way. The doctor himself was in the next room at that time and was studying the next fragment of the tablet, which he himself had obtained. — Preliminary tests confirmed my initial assumption. — said the scientist with a gray mustache to himself. — This artifact is a source of unexplored and unknown energy to science! More perfect than the energy from the Sao emeralds! Obviously I'll have to take measures to protect him from... He didn’t have time to finish, as Silver had already reached him, breaking down the doors with psychokinesis. The white hedgehog snuck inside and said: — Here I am! Suddenly, iron manipulators, like tentacles, appeared from under the floors and walls and grabbed Silver by the legs and arms, immobilizing him. Unfortunately, Silver could not foresee this and did not have time to dodge. Nega grinned at the hedgehog. — Did you really think that I didn’t foresee your attack, not me, you stupid hedgehog? I don't know why, but this artifact has made me smarter than I once was. While Nega was chatting, Silver wanted to somehow escape with psychokinesis, but the tentacles holding his hands blocked his access to psychokinesis over the nearest objects, next to him, and he couldn’t even force them to let go, because they held him tightly. — Don’t even try, these manipulators are very strong. You can't break them on your own. The desperate hedgehog lowered his head and was ready to give up. — Okay, get it over with, Nega! I deserved a quick death. — Do not even hope! Your death will not be quick. Where is my brain? — he asked and immediately a bot flew in with a huge drill that drilled with terrible sounds. — No! Don't you dare? Suddenly, Blaze burst into the same laboratory from the ventilation in a fiery flame. — Nega, let him go now! — she hissed at the doctor. — Don't even dream! — he waved his hand at her. Three fire extinguishers came out from under the floor, poured foam on the cat and the fire was put out. The cat herself frowned at the doctor with her hands down. — Seriously? Is that all you could come up with? — Okay, Nega, what's your plan. — Hm. I can either kill you right away, or first express my plan, and only then kill you. But you know. I'll probably choose the first option. — the doctor answered and activated the pozgaderka so that it would immediately fly to saw Silver’s head until it gets to his brain. Eight more robots emerged from under the floor and took a fighting stance against the cat princess. The doctor himself decided not to stay here and simply ran away. On the way, he pressed the blue button and a mini microphone came out from the wall. — Computer, strangers have entered the laboratory. Activate self-destruct... In fifteen seconds. — I understand, Doctor Nega. - the computer answered and removed the mini-microphone, after which Nega ran to the rescue capsule. — The self-destruct system has been activated. There are fifteen seconds left before the explosion. Fifteen, fourteen, thirteen... At that time, Blaze shook herself off the foam, jumped with her right foot on the head of one of the robots, jumped onto the other with her other foot, got to Silver and melted the manipulators that were holding Silver’s hands with a strong flame of fire. Then the hedgehog himself freed his legs while the cat dealt with the robots. The computer almost reached zero, and the hedgehog decided to leave this place. Having embraced themselves and their partner with psychokinesis, they flew away from this base. They quickly left it through the roof and managed to escape at the very last moment. The blast wave didn't even have time to reach them. Except that Blaze herself was hurt, but she didn’t care, since she could control the fire. That's why she survived. From the explosion, among a heap of robot debris and iron walls, a huge robot the size of a five-story building flew out. The robot itself was armed with rocket launchers on its shoulders, laser machine guns and iron arms, and red laser cannons on the folds on its sides. On the back there was a huge resemblance to a jetpack. Doctor Nega himself was located in the center of a glass aquarium with a control panel instead of the robot's head. — I will crush you, Silver and Blaze! They stood in the air for a long time and just looked at each other. — Well? — asked the hedgehog. — Come on, attack! — Nega asked politely. He immediately knew that if he tried to attack first, they would probably defeat him right away and decided not to be the first to expose himself. — Do not trust him! What if he deliberately provokes us so that we fly towards him, and he will immediately swat us like flies. — Blaze suspected. — “I just wanted to say this.” — said the keeper. — Why don’t you attack first? Are you chickening out? — Silver tried to provoke the doctor. — Look, how cunning! Do you think that I will fall for this clichéd mockery so easily? Yeah! Right now! — Nega grinned. He knew very well that he was not really a coward. He's just being smart. — “The shard made him smarter, Silver. You have to figure out how to outwit him without him outwitting you.” Silver thought for a moment and said: — Okay, Nega. You defeated us. We give up. — What? — Blaze didn’t understand and looked at him, and he quietly winked at her, hinting that he actually said that on purpose. — So easily and right away?... This is somehow suspicious! — Nega frowned, not believing Silver’s words. — How can you prove that you are giving up? — That artifact that you are studying is just one of the fragments. I have five of them at the moment. If you want, I will give them to you as a sign of confirmation of my words. — answered Silver. In fact, he was not going to give them to him and the keeper understood this. Doctor Nega thought about this and decided that since that fragment made him more intelligent and cunning, then maybe those five more fragments would make him not only even smarter, but also possibly stronger. After thinking about it, he said: — Well. Come here and give them to me. — “I’ll give it to you if you honestly promise that you won’t even lay a finger on us!” — Blaze added, connecting to Silver. — Okay, whatever you say. And I’ll confirm to you that I’m not lying at all, I’ll even put away all my guns. — the doctor answered and actually removed all the guns of his robot. Even the machine guns were hidden back into the iron palms, and the hands themselves were folded together behind the robot’s back. Silver and Blaze flew very slowly towards Negi's robot, and the latter opened his hatch and extended his hand. — Come on! Give us your pieces. Silver and Blaze at this time pretended to be desperate and slowly flew up to him. At the last moment, Silver looked sternly at Nega and added: — You'll get by, old fart! — A? — not expecting this, the doctor said. Blaze jumped off Silver's blue aura, jumping on top of the robot and summoned a huge flame of fire that began to melt the robot. Nega called back his guns, but they immediately began to burn and explode upon contact with the fire. All the robot's guns were destroyed and the robot itself flew down. Nega even shouted: — NOT HONEST!!! The robot fell and collapsed on the ground. Luckily this time there was no explosion. Nega survived, but there was nowhere to run. Silver stood in the way, grabbed the doctor with his psychokinesis, pulled his face to his muzzle and looking at him menacingly, began to threaten: — Well, give the fragment here before I gouge your eyes out, old man! This time the scientist himself truly despaired and personally gave the fragment into Silver’s hands. After this, he was deprived of the highest knowledge and intelligence of the highest level. Releasing the doctor, Silver threw him against a tree, while he held the fragment in his hands. — Forgive me, doctor, but you left us no other choice. — Silver said to Nega himself. — “Congratulations, Silver. You found another fragment. Lucky day!" — Yes? Why is it so hard for me then? — Silver accidentally asked out loud, forgetting that Blaze was nearby. — Who are you talking to? — she asked him. At this point Silver realized that now he couldn’t get away with it. — Trust me, Blaise. I will definitely explain everything to you, but not now. I do not have much time. Just try to take my word for it! — Okay! — she didn’t argue with him, she walked up to Doctor Nega and lifted him onto her shoulders, despite the huge difference in size. — You got it, doctor. This time you certainly won't escape justice. — You face the death penalty. — Silver added jokingly. — No Please! I'm still too old to die. Have mercy. I'll fix it! Honestly, I'll fix it! — Nega lied, if only he would be spared. — I'll think about it. — the cat added and dragged the doctor along. The hedgehog with the fragment in his hands was left alone in the forest for now.