𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜: 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬

— WHAT??? — Neg shouts in anger, seeing a bright light in the sky above, from which the doubles of Sonic, Shadow and Silver flew out. — “I spent all my strength, but I called for help. Now is your chance! Stop him!” — says Watchguardian in the heads of the four main characters. Our hedgehogs confidently strike epic poses and prepare to go into battle. Silver helps Sonic and Shadow fly into the sky, and the werewolf himself jumps high on his own two feet and growls terribly, raising his fists to the top. — GO, SONIC HEROES!!! — shouts one of Sonic's doppelgangers, similar to the BOOM universe version. — I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL! — Neg shouts confidently and, raising his hands, shoots withering lasers from them, which, fortunately, all the Sonic and Shadow doubles deftly dodged, not without the help of the Silver doubles. — CHAOS SPEAR!!! — twenty of Shadow's doubles shout simultaneously and shoot red energy balls, which throw the weasel back, forcing him to crash his back into a skyscraper. — PSYCHOKINO-FIST!!! — fifteen Silver doubles shout at the same time and create a huge psychokinetic fist, combining their forces. With this same fist they hit Neg in the face, pushing him again. Naga Sonic and Naga Silver grab Shadow's arms and tail, stretching it into a thread-like shape, causing the weasel to trip and fall to the ground. The weasel got angry and stood up in rage, stretching his arms out to the sides, then clapped his hands, creating a red wave. It flew at the nagas, but another naga Shadow stood up to protect them. — Chaos Shield! — he said, stretching his arms out and creating his own red wave, which reflected Neg's wave. — Cool! Is that called a Chaos Shield? — another naga Shadow asks him. — Yeah. I can do that. — Why haven't I learned to do something like that? — he asks himself, scratching his head. Neg makes the Silvers' duplicates stop with his gaze, but gets hit in the back of the head by the Sonic and Shadow duplicates. — YOU ARE STOPPING ME! — he screams and decides to go all out. He emits a wave that makes all the Sonic, Shadow and Silver doubles fall to the floor. — HA-HA-HA! He was too early to rejoice, because there were two Shadow and Sonic doubles left, who were chasing each other. Shadow was small and young in a green shirt and shorts, and Sonic, who was chasing him, was tall and wore black pants with a pink shirt. They ran one after another under Neg's feet and deliberately interfered with him in this way. — I'll catch you now! — GET OFF! DON'T INTERFERE WITH ME! — the giant demanded and stepped on them with his foot, trying to crush them. However, they jumped on his legs and ran up them. They began to run around his body like cockroaches, and he tried to slap them with his palms. This gave the other Sonic, Shadow and Silver doppelgangers a chance to wake up and continue attacking the multiverse threat. — CHAOS BLAST!!! — Shadow's doppelgangers shout and push the weasel away with a blast wave. — PSYCHOKINE-FIST!!! — Silver's doppelgangers shout and punch with a huge fist from psychokinesis, throwing him up a little from the blow. — CHAOS SPEAR!!! — Shadow's doppelgangers shout and shoot red balls at the weasel, pushing him. Neg suddenly gets up and spins around, waving his fists. — GO!!! — Sonic's doppelgangers shout and kick the weasel in the face. Even the werewolf jumps up with his fists and punches him in the eyes. The hedgehog-nagas jump on the knees of the legs and bite him painfully with their sharp fangs. Neg screams in pain from such bites, raising his head up, at the same time receiving another blow from the psychokinetic fist. And then each hedgehog carried out their attacks in turn, and the weasel did not have time and could not attack them in response. — CHAOS SPEAR!!! — PSYCHOKINE FIST!!! — SPINDASH!!! — IN THE BALLS! — OVER THE HEAD!!! — SPINDASH!!! — PSYCHOKINE FIST!!! — CHAOS BLAST!!! — PSYCHOKINE FIST!!! — STAB IN THE BACK!!! — CHAOS SPEAR!!! Neg got even more angry and screamed and grabbed absolutely all the doubles of Sonics, Shadow and Silver. All, except for the werewolf, who was below. He stretched out his long arms and grabbed the giant weasel's head with them, pulling him down towards himself. The weasel grabbed the werewolf's hands with his own and tried to free himself, but the beast held him tightly and continued to pull him towards himself. — NO! STOP! DON'T DO THIS! I'LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING! EVEN MY STOVE! LET'S RULE THE MULTIVERSE TOGETHER! STOP IT! — I DON'T WANT ANYTHING FROM YOU, VILLAIN!!! — he hissed through his teeth. He pulled so hard that Neg hit his head on the ground and hit it so hard that he began to slowly shrink back to his previous height, and at the same time he was glowing with a blue glow. At the same time, he screamed the famous cliche: — NO-O-O!!! This is a lesson for all you kids who want to be a villain when you grow up and become all-powerful: Be careful with destroying universes and looking down on good people! You can awaken forces that you can't handle - like this incredible team of Hedgehogs! Neg became his previous height and was weak. He saw a whole slab on the ground in front of him, to which the five of our heroes, regular Sonic, Werewolf Sonic, Shadow, Silver and a human, were approaching. — STOP!!! The slab! I can still get it! I can... — Yeah, yeah, you all say that! You villains never learn anything. - Sonic said sternly, and then calmly said. — As always, you were the villain of the month in the minority, Neg, and so you remain. — regular Sonic grabs the weasel by the hair on his head and throws him, forcing him to go to Silver. — We have a package for you! — You want to perform in a circus? I'll arrange it for you! — the psychokinetic says jokingly and hits him in the nose. He moves away from the blow to Shadow. — I can't stand this guy! — ULF kicked Neg and at the same time pushed him towards the werewolf. — This is a small demonstration of the capabilities of Sonic the hedgehog! — the werewolf says, doing a backflip and at the same time hitting the weasel in the face with both spiked legs and throwing him towards the man, who at first stood sternly turned to the side. — Let me wipe your glass! — he said seriously, but jokingly and hits him with his left fist in the stomach, and then with his right fist from the bottom up in the face, throwing Neg up. The weasel fell from the blow and, having no more strength to get up, lost consciousness.

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      A very bright flash occurs and the original Sonic universe is the first to recover. All the Sonic, Shadow and Silver doubles were shocked. Even Watchguardian himself, unharmed, stood in front of all the hedgehogs and smiled at them. — Well done, hedgehogs! The walls of reality are slowly restoring themselves. Now you should all return to your worlds. — See you later, old and not so cool versions of myself. — joked one of the alternate versions of Sonic. He was the first to slowly begin to disappear and shine. — Old? Don't forget that I'm from the future. — joked one of the Silvers, who also began to slowly disappear. — For me, you are all just like fossils. — It's nice to know that the future still exists. — proudly says one of the Shadows along with his doubles, who smiled along with him, saying goodbye to each other with glances. They also began to disappear. — The future may not be today, but we know that tomorrow it will definitely come. — Yes, it's nice to know that there IS a future after all. — one of the Nagas of the Sonics hissed. — And that Mobians and Nagas like each of you continue to save the world and two races. — That's for sure! — Shadow in green said cheerfully, hugging Sonic in pink. — I hope we'll see each of you again? — Sonic in pink is interested. — Don't doubt it! — Sonic the Werewolf finishes, showing an approving gesture with his index finger and disappearing from sight along with all the other doubles of the Sonics, Shadows and Silvers. Only Sonic and the human remained. — Why didn't I disappear? — the fan asked. — Because you and Sonic from this universe have one more unfinished business together. Do you remember what I briefly hinted to you about? — Watchguardian winked at the human. — You are both going to the universe of this good man. — Really? — Sonic didn't believe what he heard. — Exactly! There are two people who invented you and created you in my world. I want to introduce you to them. — You both will go there, and I will take care of Neg myself and send him to one of the free cells in the prison. Let him live and await his trial and justice. — Watchguardian answers, stretching out his hands and the weasel begins to shine, after which he, too, disappeared. Then Sonic and the Man themselves disappeared.

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      Sonic and the human appeared in front of the entrance to the SEGA company building. — Wow! — the hedgehog's eyes widened. — This is your native universe. — Yes. Here you are a fictional and fantastic hero, and I am just an actor who plays you in a movie. — the fan introduced himself. — So that's why you look more like my big fan. — the hedgehog was surprised. — Of course. That's right, a prop costume for filming, and in the editing after filming they'll just erase me and put you in my place using computer graphics. But that's not the only reason I wanted to invite you to my universe as a guest. The two people who created you work in this building. At SEGA in collaboration with Sonic Team. Sonic scratched his head. — Your companies have strange names in your world. — Not all of them. We have some that are named differently. And these are the only ones that are named after you. — Okay, what are the names of these people? — the hedgehog asked, taking his friend by the hand and walking with him into the building. — Naoto Oshima and Yuji Naka. They created you for the joy of all players and fans around the world.

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      Naoto and Yuji were sitting in a common office at that time, decorated with posters and posters with Sonic. — Listen, what if we come up with another character in the new game? — Yuji offered Naoto his next idea. Suddenly, Sonic himself came running like a wind and a bullet, even blowing away the papers with posters. — Sorry for disturbing your work. I'm looking for two people named Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima. Naoto and Yuji were shocked when they saw the real Sonic in front of them and at first they didn't believe what they saw. Maybe it was some guy in a suit and makeup? Or maybe it was some kind of special effect or animatronic. They looked around him and even touched and touched him with their fingers. His skin, fur and needles felt real to the touch. Sonic was laughing. — But maybe that's enough? I'm ticklish! Yes. Now they were definitely surprised. He's real! The very hedgehog Sonic that they invented is really standing right in front of them. And this despite the fact that they didn't drink or smoke at all. They even slept well and were cheerful. Although maybe they just worked too much and went crazy. But that's also impossible. After all, usually you can only go crazy alone. And besides, they weren't the only ones, but others in the building saw him too. Yuji calls his secretary and asks not to connect him with anyone and to postpone some very important meetings. Sonic put both Japanese scriptwriters on his back and ran at supersonic speed through the city, deciding to give his creators a ride. They held on tightly to him and were very surprised. — Oh my God! We must be crazy! — says Naoto. — Wow! — Yuji was almost scared with joy. — You know, we always dreamed of running at super speed for real. — And I always wanted to know who my father was, since I didn’t remember him. But I didn’t think that they would be both of you in a figurative sense. Thank you. — Sonic thanks, to which both authors are surprised, not understanding what he is thanking them for. — You’re welcome! — answers Yuji. — You saved the entire multiverse. Where are you going now? — I don’t know yet? I still have many adventures ahead of me. I'm even curious to hear what you came up with about me.

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      Back at the SEGA building and on the roof, Naoto and Yuji both told Sonic about when and how they came up with the idea to create him, about the initial designs, about the hedgehog Terios, who was originally planned, who was eventually remade into Shadow and who was not planned to return at all, but had to be, because the fans liked him so much. They also told him about the ups and downs in terms of game development and sales, about how terrible the 2006 game turned out to be, whose mistake they eventually began to learn from so as not to repeat it again, about the unsuccessful fourth part, divided into two episodes, about how the copyrights were sold to the Americans and how they came up with their non-canonical characters that will never be in their Japanese games and about what fans do to the hedgehog. Some even paired him with either Amy or Sally, or both at the same time. And some even with the cat Blaze, which made Sonic laugh a little. — You know, for a long time I thought that I would never have peace. — said Sonic and standing up, looked at the whole city and the rising sun. — But now, after everything that happened to me, I suddenly liked my life and I liked myself. For the first time, I don’t want to change anything about myself, except for my probably already annoying character. It will be difficult, but I will try. I am proud that you created me and the adventures that you, as well as most of my fans in your world, have made for me. Can you imagine? This is the first time with me, when I change my soul and feel great at the same time. — Yes, you have grown up so quickly. — Yuji agreed. — You are no longer the cheerful and mischievous hedgehog that we came up with. — Naoto added. — Well, Naoto, Yuji. — Sonic places his palms on the shoulders of his creators. — We all have to grow up sooner or later! Even fictional video game heroes. Suddenly, a glow appears and Watchguardian himself appears. — Sonic, it's time for you to go home! — Who is this strange guy? — This? This is my assistant! — Sonic answered jokingly and goes to Watchguardian. — It was nice to meet you! Take care of yourself and don't let me down with my further events! — We promise, Sonic! — says Yuji. — Goodbye, Sonic, and good luck in the future! — says Naoto. Watchguardian and Sonic both glowed and disappeared.

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Watchguardian teleported Sonic back to his home universe. — Thank you, Sonic. You can be proud that your heirs and relatives protect space and time. — says Watchguardian, to which Sonic replies: — Well, yeah, I admit it. The guys are really not bad. But you also have to admit... — ...that of all four hedgehogs who wield the power of Chaos... — says Shadow. — …protecting their world and their friends… — says Silver. — …and that’s absolutely true… — says the werewolf. — …and undeniable… — the man says proudly, looking at the full moon in the sky. Four frames appear, joined together, where the usual Sonic, the werewolf Sonic, who is also slowly becoming the usual Sonic, as well as Shadow and Silver from the four universes, look at the camera together, connecting their faces together, forming a mosaic and saying at the same time: — Each of us is the best in our own way! Goodbye, the greatest team of all time. And what lesson have we learned today, fans of games and fan fiction? No matter what corner of space fate throws you into, there will always be its own anthropomorphic, the coolest, fastest, strongest and smartest hedgehog who will save this world! To all of you, superheroes, I say: STRIKE FOR THE BEST!