𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅

      A very bright and warm yellow sun shines in the blue sky. Two adult hedgehogs, one blue boy, the other brown girl, lay unconscious on the sand near the sea and were just beginning to come to their senses. When the sun shone its rays into their eyes, they slowly opened their eyes. The first thing they saw was the blue sky. The first thing they heard was the singing of birds and the sounds of the sea. — What a blue sky! — the blue hedgehog said smiling. — Just like you are all blue, Sonic. — the hedgehog answered, also smiling. — Thank you, Varanda. — the hedgehog answered, stood up and stretched his arms up, not forgetting to yawn. — What a kind morning. The birds are singing around, the sun is shining, the water is all around and we can... — Sonic paused, his eyes widened and he just looked around. — How is the sea around?... — he stood up and looked around. He and Varanda found themselves on the beach. — What chili dog? — He ran like a bullet to the left and came back here from the right side. Seeing Varanda again and realizing that he had made a circle, he screamed into the sky: — WE ARE ON A DESERT ISLA-A-A-A-AAND!!! — On a desert island? — Varanda jumped up sharply, stood up and looked around. — Right! — Oh, no! We're gone! We're lost! — the blue one worried, clutching his head. — But how did this happen? How did we end up here? — I don't know. The last thing I remember was how you and I were trying to destroy Eggman's latest atrocity, found his main generator, destroyed it. I grabbed you in my arms and ran with you. There was a river on the way, but there was no choice and I had to jump. I didn't have time to jump, as the waves from the explosion pushed us from behind, we fell into the river and... Lost... Consciousness? — Exactly! I saw how we were falling on two rocks. We probably hit them when we fell and that's why we lost consciousness. And the river apparently carried us out to sea, and then we were moored here. — Varanda suggested and looked around, seeing a large stone. — Here! We hit it and apparently moved it, after which it floated itself and brought us here. That's why we swam and didn't even drown. — But there's only one thing left. How can we get back now? — Sonic asked himself, looking at the sea and imagining himself looking down from the sky at the entire uninhabited island where they found themselves. Varanda stretched out her lip, scratched the back of her head and, looking at the sky, began to think. — There should be a way out of here somewhere. — Sonic said to himself and ran around the island along the beach several times. — There's no end here! Maybe we can find something that's on the island itself? — he assumed and ran into the jungle on the island. Varanda was alone on the beach for now and was still thinking. She suddenly noticed that there were several small stones in the forest. A good idea came to her mind. Sonic had returned by this time. — It's no use! There is no way out of the island anywhere. — It's okay, Sonic. I know what to do. — she answered and offered to help her with the stones. They took several stones in their hands and carried them to the beach. Having carried all the stones there, they made a large sign of the signal "S.O.S." from all these stones, that is, "Save our souls!" Coincidentally, a helicopter was flying past in the sky. — HEY!!! HEY!!! WE ARE HERE!!! — they shouted to the helicopter and waved their hands at it. This helicopter belonged to G.U.N. and was piloted by Shadow. Of course, he saw Sonic and Varanda there on the island with their "S.O.S." sign. However, he decided not to save them. He had an idea and flew away. — STOP!!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING??? — Sonic screamed. — Don't worry, Sonic. Maybe he flew after the leg to definitely help us. — Varanda suggested. — What made you think that? — Judging by the fact that he stopped for a minute, he clearly saw us, but he can't pick us up himself. We just need to wait. — Okay. What are we going to do for now? — Sonic asked. — Well, probably wait! — Varanda suggested. And they waited. They sat on a large stone, played tic-tac-toe on the sand, played a kind of checkers with stones, fantasized, looking at the clouds, what or who they looked like, and by that moment the helicopter returned. He was carrying something on a chain behind him through the air. — Well, what did I tell you? He came back and brought with him what we will fly on. — the hedgehog was happy, but in vain she rejoiced too soon. Shadow actually brought a large red iron beam from some construction site on the helicopter and threw it on the beach after the word "S.O.S." The beam fell perfectly vertically and the word "Sosi" was formed. Sonic and Varanda's eyes bulged and their mouths opened wide from what they saw, not expecting this. At this time, Shadow flew away on the helicopter. Sonic was clearly surprised and very angry. In a panic, he decided to run on supersonic across the sea and ask someone for help. He had just started running on the water, when suddenly a killer whale rose from the water and scared the hedgehog with its fin. Sonic screamed like a girl in fear and ran back to the island. Having run to the beach, he stopped, put his palms on his knees and began to catch his breath. — What kind of unlucky day are we having today? — Sonic scolded himself. — Why didn't that stupid pilot save us and take us away from here? While Sonic was resting and thinking, another thought suddenly came to Varanda's mind. She really liked this thought and smiled, realizing that they could do this for now. While Sonic was catching his breath and thinking about how to get off this island, Varanda went into the jungle, hid behind a palm tree and began to undress, exposing herself. Having gotten rid of her clothes and hanging them on a falling and hanging palm tree, like on a hanger, the hedgehog took out her hidden birch swimsuit and put it on herself. She decided to spend her vacation on this island. At this time, Sonic was walking around a huge stone and was still thinking. He was a little shocked to see Varanda in a swimsuit when she came out from behind a palm tree to him. — Uh... What are you doing, darling? — Decided to go with the inversion method. You always wanted us to go on vacation together, sunbathe and swim in the lake, didn't you? — Yeah. — Sonic answered a little hesitantly. — So. This uninhabited island with a beach, isn't it a resort? — she asked her husband in response. He didn't even know what to say. — Look at it from the other side! We're alone here and no one will bother us. We can relax here, sunbathe and swim in the water next to the beach. — What kind of tan and swim, Varanda? Don't you understand, we're stuck on this island all alone. None of our friends know we're here and no one will help us. What if, while we are here, Eggman is preparing a new insidious plan to take over the entire world, and you and I are here, unaware of it and unable to stop him? — the blue hedgehog was panicking and even grabbed his head. Varanda laughed quietly, walked up to her husband and took his hands. — You need to relax, Sonic! Throw all your fears and suspicions out of your head. You and I are alone here and nothing bad will happen to us. And trust your friends, like Tails, Knuckles, Amy and others. They are also quite strong, brave and smart. They will not perish without you and if anything happens, they will cope with Eggman themselves and stop his next plan. Plus, realizing that you are gone, they will then definitely start looking for you and themselves will someday swim here and save you and me. You need to take a break from your heroic deeds and think about yourself at least once, and not just about others! Sonic listened to her attentively and, after thinking, smiled. — Yes. You're right. I really need a rest and I'm worried for nothing! Okay. — he took off his gloves, threw off his red sneakers and socks, and stepped onto the hot sand with his big blue and bare feet. — Where should we start our vacation? Varanda smiled back and they began their entertaining vacation on the beach of an uninhabited island. First, Sonic put his wife on his plaything and ran around the island along the beach in the same way, riding Varanda on himself. She enjoyed the wind on her face and in her hair, stretching her arms out to the sides, imagining herself as Rose from Titanic. Returning to the same place where they undressed and took off their shoes, they got a couple of coconuts from a palm tree, broke them and started drinking coconut milk like cocktails, sitting on the beach on a large rock and looking at each other romantically. Then they played something like a ball with another whole coconut, and then went to the sea in the shallows, to swim and play in the water, pouring water on each other, which made each of them happy. When they had played enough, they returned to the beach, tore off a few leaves from a fallen palm tree and put them on the hot sand, then lay down on them like a towel, so that it would not be hot. They lay down on their backs on the leaves of the palm trees, like on a towel, put their hands palms under their heads and looked at the sun in the sky, slightly squinting their eyes so as not to go blind. Apparently, it was already midday, since the sun was from above, it was very bright and hot. Especially on Sonic and Varanda's peachy skin on their stomachs, chests, arms and muzzles, where their blue and brown fur with needles did not cover. It was so nice and warm. — How nice! — Sonic says to himself. Varanda heard him and said: — Well, see!? Everything is fine. I told you that you just need to relax and forget about everything bad. Everything will be fine. We just had a lot of fun and had a great time. — Yes. You know, Varanda, now I don't regret at all that we ended up here, even if by accident. I couldn't even imagine that we would be able to relax here. — after saying this, Sonic sighed heavily. — But... — What, Sonic? — she asked questioningly with excitement, looking at her husband. — How are our friends doing? And anyway, will they know that we're missing and will they come here to get us out of here? — Everything will be fine, Sonic. They'll definitely come for us sooner or later. And now let's continue to rest. — Yes. Let's. — he agreed with his wife and they again continued to squint at the sun and sunbathe until they fell asleep without noticing it. Oh, Sonic and Varanda didn't even suspect that in fact this uninhabited island was already occupied by someone and that someone was hiding here along with his secret base.

***

      Inside this island, in the center underground, a secret underground laboratory with complexes and corridors was hidden. In the control center of this laboratory, an evil and mad scientist, a dark gray wolf named WolfEvil, in a white pharmacist's coat, a red T-shirt and jeans, was plotting something sinister. He stood in the center of the room and laughed evilly. — No one will ever know with whom and where I built my secret laboratory. I am a genius, a genius and that's it. I am the greatest villain of all the villains in all of Mobius. It was my brilliant idea to build my headquarters where no one would suspect it, and where no one would think to look for it. No one will ever think to find me in my secret lair on this desert island, underground, underwater, under one secret laboratory inside another secret laboratory, hidden behind a sphere aquarium filled with sharks, inside a central cave. - the wolf laughs quietly, covering his mouth with his hand. - This is truly brilliant! No one will ever track me down or find out where I hid my headquarters. — while he was talking to himself and dancing, waving his arms. — It's so good to be a villain, a mad scientist, a mechanic and an inventor. I'm the smartest, most cunning villain in the universe. — he added, clenching his right hand into a fist. — Dr. Eggman is a fool and a weakling compared to me. — finishing his monologue with himself, he laughed evilly again. — Agent "I" calling Dr. WolfEvil! Agent "I" calling Dr. WolfEvil! Answer, doctor! Are you there? WolfEvil heard the voice of a certain Agent "I" and runs to the radio room. — Dr. WolfEvil on the line! — The desert island and our common base hidden on it are safe? — Yes sir! The island headquarters are safe. There are no uninvited guests on the island, and the village animals have agreed to cooperate. — Okay. After all, if you're going to conquer the world, you need to be able to work with both people and animals. — the stranger answered over the radio and laughed maliciously. — And where are you at the moment? — Not far away! I'll arrive somewhere around sunset this day, according to my calculations. And that's if I'm not detained on the way by the police or G.U.N., from whom I'm skillfully hiding. Check carefully! Is there anyone else on the island? I just don't want to be seen by witnesses at an inopportune moment, if there are any. — Sure, I'll check now. — WolfEvil turns on the large monitor and sees through the smallest and most invisible hidden cameras on the palm trees that there are two hedgehogs on the beach of the island. One blue, the other brown in a birch bathing suit. More precisely, he saw only Sonic, since the hidden cameras couldn't turn and looked only in one corner, and Varanda was lucky not to be caught in the camera lens. — What? Sonic the Hedgehog! How did he end up here? And what is he doing here on my island? — It doesn't matter! Deal with him and I advise you to take him prisoner. I'll come later and personally tear him to pieces during torture. So start the backup operation "Stolen Bait" — Stolen Bait? No, I understand the essence of this plan. I just don't understand why this operation has such a stupid name? If I were the one making the plans, I would come up with better names. — You're an idiot, WolfEvil! I know that Operation "Stolen Bait" is a stupid name. But we must be serious, smart and cunning villains so that no one dares to figure us out and post our insidious plans even on the Internet, so that our plans are ruined. And judging by the stupid name, no one will even guess to figure out what kind of plan this is and what it consists of. However, we ourselves will know the essence of this operation. After all, what kind of villain are you without a perfect and hidden plan and motivation? For example, I want to take revenge on everyone for laughing at me and my appearance in my childhood and not taking me seriously. I started working with you because you, Doctor, are the only one who takes me seriously and didn't laugh at me as soon as you saw me. - Yes, I know that. But okay, I'll do everything. — And remember, Doctor, if I were you, I wouldn't laugh at the stupid names of our operations either. — Who was laughing? I wasn't laughing at the name at all. I just didn't understand why there was such a strange name? — But now you'll definitely know, Doctor. — the mysterious voice laughed maliciously over the radio and continued to tell: — In general, do what you're told! And remember! My name is The Inkling! Darth Vader from Star Wars is as scary compared to me as the decoration on the hood of a Kopeyka car from 1983. Compared to me, Doctor Doom from the Fantastic Four is a nobody, Captain Hook from Peter Pan is no more dangerous than a coat rack, Thanos from The Avengers is a naive fat man, Phantom Blot from Mickey Mouse is my pathetic and stupid copy, Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a loser, Syndrome from The Incredibles is a stupid fool who never learns from his mistakes, and Black Hat from Villains is a real, pathetic braggart and weakling compared to me! I am a real villain! A real one! - Having said all this, The Inkling laughs evilly. — Just like I am, a real villain! — WolfEvil grins and also laughs evilly along with Namek on the radio. — Over and out, Agent "I." — WolfEvil turns off the radio and connects to the computer. — Send a robotic scout crab to the beach!

***

      Sonic and Varanda were still relaxing on the beach at this time, sunbathing, lying on the leaves of palm trees on the hot sand. WolfEvil's scout came there. It was a small robotic crab. He looked around the beach, finding Sonic with Varanda. However, WolfEvil gave him a command about Sonic. Therefore, the robot ignored Varanda. Looking around again, the crab saw Varanda's clothes on a falling palm tree, like on a hanger, along with Sonic's gloves, Sonic's socks and two shoes from Sonic and Varanda. The crab accepted the task according to the program to grab all the clothes as bait. He ran up, grabbed everything that was cheerfully on the falling palm tree, as well as lying nearby. He took everything that belonged to Varanda and Sonic and put it inside his shell in a kind of suitcase. Having closed all this inside, he ran away on his iron lamps into the jungle. A few minutes later, Sonic woke up first and stood up. Getting up, he looked at himself. His arms and stomach, which were not blue, were only slightly tanned, fortunately he had not yet been sunburned. Then he looked at Varanda, who was sleeping next to him. She was smiling in her sleep, but judging by her arms, she had not yet tanned, unlike him. The hedgehog smiled, looking at his wife and getting to his feet, decided, while she was sleeping, to go and examine the jungle on this island more closely and slowly. Maybe he could even find some bananas or berries for dinner. Varanda, as he thought, would not even have time to wake up, as he would already be back with food. He had just gone to the palm tree to take his red sneakers with socks and put them on so as not to walk barefoot around the island, when suddenly the hedgehog's eyes widened, realizing what he had seen. — "I don't understand! Here Varanzha hung all her clothes and my gloves and socks. And under the palm tree there should have been my sneakers and Varanda's boots." — Sonic thought, so as not to accidentally say this out loud and not wake Varanda up, so that she wouldn't worry. — "Where are they? Where are my wife's clothes? Where are my sneakers? Where did they go?" — And then Sonic saw traces of little paws in the sand that were going into the jungle. Sonic squinted his eyes and immediately guessed what was going on. — "It looks like Varanda and I are not alone on this island! There is a third person here! And this someone stole our things!" — And Sonic followed the thief's tracks, leaving Varanda alone to sleep on the beach. He was sure that before she could wake up, he would find the thief, give him a good beating for stealing their clothes and return with her back to the beach. Why bother your wife once again, so that she would worry?

***

      Dr. WolfEvil saw through a large manometer and surveillance cameras at this time how Sonic followed the tracks of his robot crab, which he intentionally left. The wolf smiled and was not afraid of anything. — Keep it up, Sonic! Come straight into my trap in my headquarters! At this moment, the robot crab came to the maddest scientist and threw all the stolen clothes of Varanda and Sonic from behind his back. The wolf patted the robot on the head. — Good boy! Now we will wait for him here! The most important thing is that he does not suspect anything! — he said and going to the control panel, he pulled several switches with inscriptions, which he read out loud, pulling each one in turn! — So! We will temporarily disable the scorching lasers, open every single door, recall every single guard for a break and repair, recall the sharks for lunch in another cave, where we will throw meat so that they eat and do not starve, poor things, turn on a quick descent through a glass tube with oxygen and add arrows with signs indicating where I am! As he said, so he did everything. He sent all his guards to the last to rest and for repairs so that they no longer guard his headquarters, turned off all the lasers, lured all the sharks inside a large sphere with water to the second cave with steaks, leaving them temporarily locked inside the cage of that cave, led a glass tube with oxygen inside from the top to the first cave as a descent. And also behind some walls there were steles indicating the paths to the secret lair, where WolfEvil is currently hiding. Also, signs with inscriptions appeared from the floors.

***

      By this time, Sonic had come barefoot to the river, behind which there were several large stones, behind which was a secret descent into an underground laboratory. Without thinking twice, the blue hedgehog decided to go down there, since the thief's tracks had led him here. He found himself in a long corridor of iron walls, a floor and a ceiling. But what was strange was that there was no security here. Most likely, this was a trap, as Sonic suspected. He ran along the corridor at super speed. Fortunately, all the doors were also open. There were no guards anywhere. Sonic decided to call them and intentionally give himself away: — HELLO!!! IS ANYONE HERE??? But no one responded or came out to meet him. This was suspicious. And suddenly the arrows with pointers began to glow with lights, giving themselves away. Sonic saw one such arrow with the inscription "My secret villainous lair! There!" Looking in the direction the arrow pointed, a sign appeared from under the floor: "Ignore the signs! This is the path to the trap, not to my lair! Just get out of here!" — Yeah! — Sonic grinned. — There you are, villain, you gave yourself and your lair away. He went where the arrows pointed, and then along the way he came across other signs with inscriptions that tried to dissuade Sonic. Among them were signs with such inscriptions: "There is no lair there!", "Can't you read?", "You can't go there!", "Don't go there, it's dangerous!", "Stop!", "Turn back!", "Are you blind?", "Are you crazy!", "Get out of here!", "Visit the zoo on Yaj Island!", "Visit the planet Pluto!" and "I said, get lost! There's nothing there!" But Sonic didn't pay attention to these warning signs and went further where the arrows and signs told him to go. So he found a well with a descent down to another laboratory, then found another one like it and began, like a kid in an aqua park with an excited cry, to go down a large glass pipe through a water sphere-aquarium with sharks, going down to the cave where the cave was kept. There he finds an open hatch and jumps down into another laboratory. Then he looks for another passage by the arrows on the walls and thinks: — "How stupid this villain is that he gave away his refuge like this. Although I must admit that his lair is hidden so perfectly that even Eggman would never have come up with something like this."

***

      WolfEvil rubbed his hands and smiled evilly, watching on the monitor as Sonic slowly reached him. — Keep it up, naive and stupid hedgehog. Come into my trap! To me! - he says and puts the stolen clothes in the iron nightstand cabinet, hiding them there.

***

      By this time, Sonic found the last hatch to go down. Next to it was the last sign with the inscription "Last warning! Go back! There is nothing there!" — Yeah, yeah. So I believed you! — Sonic answered sarcastically and jumped down. He finally found himself in the very room where WolfEvil was standing in front of the monitor and studying his plans. — Well, you're caught! The scientist, of course, knew that he would come and deliberately lured him to himself, and also pretended that he knew nothing of this. He bulged his eyes and turned around and screamed: — WHAT??? HOW DID YOU FIND MY LAIR??? Sonic laughed. — I don't know who you are, but you're clearly dumber than Eggman. Otherwise, you wouldn't have given away your lair with your signs and would have put up a guard. — the hedgehog replied and approached the wolf threateningly. — Answer me, where did you put the clothes you stole! WolfEvil pretended to be scared and pointed his finger at a box in the other corner of the room. Sonic ran there at supersonic speed. The hedgehog opened the box and instead of the stolen clothes there was an inscription: "I lied to you!" Suddenly, Sonic looked around and found himself in an iron cage. — What? — He didn't understand and tried to escape, grabbing the bars. However, his cage was electrocuted and threw him against the wall. The scientist wolf turned off his computer monitor with an evil grin, pulled all the levers he had previously activated, returning the lasers, guards, and sharks, and removing the signboards and glass slide. Then he approached Sonic in the cage, who was groaning and struggling to get up. — Are you really a stupid and naive hedgehog, did you think that I was such a stupid scientist that I would so easily give up my headquarters and surrender to you? I deliberately lured you here. — But why? And who are you? — asked Sonic. — I am the greatest and true villain! And my name is WolfEvil. You see, Sonic? You are a witness, and I do not need witnesses. Me and my ally Agent "I", who promised to return to me here closer to the evening. Together with him, we found this uninhabited island and decided to build this base here, which the whole world and especially G.U.N. itself will never know about until Agent "I" and I rule all of Mobius. Sonic listened to his entire villainous monologue and rolled his eyes: — This cliche again! Any stupid villain always starts his uninteresting monologues and starts chatting, and revealing all his shi... — he didn't have time to finish, as the mad scientist hit the bars with his fist and shouted: — SHUT UP!!! I WILL BE THE ONE SPEAKING HERE, NOT YOU!!! UNDERSTAND??? Sonic was a little scared by this scream and blow, not expecting them and swallowed. — Dr. WolfEvil! Dr. WolfEvil! Agent "I" is calling! — the mysterious villain's voice was heard on the radio. The doctor heard this and went to the radio. — Excuse me, dear prisoner, I need to answer someone. — he said to Sonic and went to the radio room. — Doctor in touch! — How are things with the stranger on the island? — I caught this naive fool! It was so easy and he fell into my trap, following the signs to our headquarters. Now he sits quietly in a cage under a stun gun, from where he will never escape. — Excellent work, Doctor WolfEvil! All you have to do is wait for me to return. I will tear our prisoner to pieces with my bare hands. — And when will we take over the whole world? — Patience, Doctor! You need to be patient if you want to rule the world. I never like to rush. Especially when I accidentally make some mistakes and then learn from them, so as not to repeat them again. — Agent "I" explained and laughed evilly, to which the wolf smiled maliciously. — You will see, Doctor. Sooner or later, but still... Soon the whole world will tremble in fear at the mere sight or even at the mere mention, or even better, at the mere thought of you and me, both together and separately. — he laughed evilly again, and the doctor himself started laughing too. — Who the hell is this Agent "I"? Who is he? — Sonic didn't understand, thinking out loud, holding the bars with his hands and trying to take a closer look at who WolfEvil was talking to. — It's none of your business, Sonic! — the wolf answered rudely, turning to him. — Oh, I'm sorry, Agent "I"! I didn't say that to you! — I know. The main thing is that you don't torture him too much without me! I also want to enjoy his suffering when I come. — Oh, come on, I promise that he will be safe and sound by the time you return to our headquarters. Over and out! — the wolf finishes and hangs up the radio room. — And what are you going to do with me now, WolfEvil? — Sonic asks. — Good question! — the scientist wolf grins, putting on black rubber gloves on his hands. — Don't be afraid, I won't kill you. — He opens the chest and takes out a very tasty and fried chili dog. — Just a little tease! Just... A... Little! WolfEvil shows the hedgehog the chili dog and brings its smell to his nose. Sonic sniffs the smell of sausage in dough with spices and his mouth starts to water. He wants to eat it, but he can't get out of the cage. He can't even stretch his hand between the bars and reach it, since the scientist wolf only slightly stretched it in his hand and does not give it to him, removing his hand in time. Thus, he mocked him and teased him. — Do you want this sausage? Do you want this sausage? Do you want this sausage? Do you want this? — he teased, and the hedgehog was angry and wanted to break free from anger, when suddenly the bars shocked him and threw him against the wall. WolfEvil laughed maliciously. — What a stupid hedgehog you are. It's a pity that you will never try this delicious, mouth-watering, fried to a hearty crust chili dog. — he spoke deliberately, making Sonic drool, sweat and stick out his tongue like a dog. — Fried sausage meat would simply melt in your mouth if you could try it. Especially if you tried these very hot spices on top of the sausage. — Sonic began to grumble and beg him to get this chili dog to eat it. WolfEvil continued to tease Sonic. He pretended to sniff it and muttered: — Yum!... Yum!... I would eat it myself!... — then he abruptly changed his cute face to an angry one. — But I like... Hot dogs in dough!... And spicy ones even more! — after saying this, he threw the chili dog into the toilet and flushed it. Sonic was so upset that he almost cried. Kneeling down, he shouted at the ceiling: — NO-O-O-O-O-O!!! — YE-E-E-E-E-E-ES!!! — WolfEvil shouted, smiling and also at the ceiling. Then he looked down at Sonic. — I knew you couldn't resist! — Enough! Stop it! I believe that you are a real and serious villain! Don't torture me! — Ha! I just started! — he takes Sonic's mask out of the suitcase. He began to impersonate Sonic's voice, but crookedly, to mock him: — I am Sonic the Hedgehog! I am the dumbest hedgehog in the universe and I always act before I think! I am a pathetic copy of Shadow! Sonic is so angry that he can't stand it, he grabs the needles on his head like hair, pulls them and screams at the ceiling.

Meanwhile

      Varanda, who was sleeping on the beach all alone on the palm leaves on the hot sand, only now woke up, stretching her arms up. — How well we slept, Sonic. — she said and only opened her eyes, slightly rising, she immediately saw that Sonic was nowhere to be found. — Sonic?... Sonic!... — she got to her feet and went to look for him, but before that she decided to get dressed. She had just come to the falling palm tree where she had hung all her clothes last time, but to her surprise they were not there. She-hedgehog's eyes widened and she gasped. — "Where are my clothes?" — She-hedgehog looked around and saw footprints below. Some belonged to Sonic's bare feet, and the others, apparently, were the smallest paws of some animal. Then she immediately guessed. Someone had stolen her and Sonic's clothes and shoes, and Sonic was the first to notice it and ran to look for the thief. — "It's strange that Sonic didn't wake me up earlier and warn me not to worry." — She-hedgehog looked around again to make sure that there was no one here except her alone. Then she looked down at her birch swimsuit that covered her stomach. At the moment, that was all she had left of clothes. "Brilliant! What am I supposed to do now, wear only a swimsuit all day? I can't walk around naked, can I?" — She grumbled to herself out loud, putting her hands on her waist. However, her clothes to put on were not here. Someone stole them, and Sonic never returned. So something happened to Sonic and he apparently needed her help. Realizing this, she sighed heavily. — Okay. My heart feels that Sonic is in trouble and he needs my help. Now only in one swimsuit or naked, but I must help my beloved hedgehog! — she confidently said to herself, clenching her left hand into a fist and went into the jungle following the tracks of both the thief and Sonic. Of course, she went while still dressed in her swimsuit, because she had nothing else to wear and nothing to walk in. Of course, Varanda walked and did not see the smallest and most invisible surveillance cameras on the palm trees, rocks and bushes. Fortunately, Dr. WolfEvil himself did not see her and does not know about her and that she is now going to him. After all, he is busy torturing and teasing Sonic, not watching his headquarters. Varanda continued walking and looked around the road where Sonic's tracks were left. The tracks of her husband and the thief ended at a pile of stones, where, as it turned out, some kind of iron hatch was hidden. Varanda became curious, what kind of door was this on the ground? — "Is this another secret Eggman base? Why does he always interfere with Sonic and me in our personal lives and not let us live alone?" — she thought and, taking hold of the edges of the door with her fingers, tried to open it. However, the doors did not give in. She pulled and pulled, not wanting to give in. She even strained through her teeth, but the hatch still did not open. — "Useless! How can I open this hatch?" — she stood up, looking at the hatch and began to think, scratching the back of her head. Suddenly, an idea came to her mind. She lightly knocked on the hatch. Hearing footsteps from there, like someone getting up, she hid behind a rock and lay down on the ground. The hatch opened and a monkey in a robot loader came out from under the ground. The monkey scratched his head and did not understand who knocked. The stupid animal in the robot loader got up and decided to walk around the rock garden. Maybe the one who knocked was hiding somewhere here. Varanda took advantage of this, slowly crawled to the hatch, like a soldier, and went down the iron pipes like a ladder. The monkey in the robot loader did not find anyone at this time. She decided that she must have misheard and went down the same ladder through the hatch back. Of course, she closed the hatch behind her.

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      By this time, Varanda managed to go down the ladder and looked around. She found herself in a long corridor of iron walls, floor and ceiling. — "This definitely looks like one of Eggman's bases. Although that robot had a live monkey who controlled it herself. Maybe it's not Dr. Eggman at all, but someone else who is in charge here?" — she thought and went on. She began to croak and look around to make sure that there was no one there and that no one would catch her. As she walked forward, she heard behind her back someone going down the same male ladder. She got scared, turned back sharply and saw that the legs of the same forklift robot with the monkey inside were going down the ladder. While she was going down, she-hedgehog couldn't think of anything to hide behind the left turn that was ahead. At the turn further there was another forklift robot, which fortunately wasn't looking at her and was walking ahead of her, and an ordinary limur was driving it. Varanda could only stand pressed against the wall and pray that no one would see her. The monkey in the forklift robot went down and walked along the same corridor that Varanda had been walking along before. Fortunately, she didn't see her around the turn and passed by. She-hedgehog herself was still pressed against the wall and even covered her mouth with both hands so as not to give herself away. When the monkey in her robot passed by and went on, Varanda sighed with relief — "He didn't notice me!" — she thought. Looking around the corner back, where she had come from the stairs, she saw no one and was sure that this path was safer. A little afraid, she turned to the monkey in the loader robot, who was moving further away from her. She was afraid that he would turn around and see her. Therefore, looking at the enemy leaving her, she walked back very slowly backwards and went around the corner. At the same time, she continued to look around the corner and move backwards, not seeing where she was going. But suddenly, behind her, on the sides, iron doors slid sharply like a bullet and closed. At the same time, having slammed shut, they simultaneously squeezed she-hedgehog's right leg between themselves. So much so that the doors leaned very tightly against each other, and the leg in this area was completely flattened and became flat. Varanda suddenly felt something grab her and press her leg so hard that her eyes widened and her lips pursed. No, she didn't feel any pain. She became curious about what had grabbed her leg. When she turned her gaze to the doors, she gasped in fear and her eyes widened even more. The doors, which she had never seen before and didn't expect, unexpectedly closed behind her, and her right leg was squeezed between the doors, so that her large, brown thigh was slightly flattened to the size of one yoctometer between the gap at the iron sliding walls. Varanda's thigh began to stick out between the crack, ninety centimeters high and one yoctometer wide, and going from the crack of the door to the crotch of she-hedgehog in a birch bathing suit, the size of the leg became normally inflated again to the size of ninety centimeters high and ninety centimeters wide. Moreover, the thigh was flattened between the doors with such disgusting folds, resembling some kind of huge brown sausage. This horror she saw frightened Varanda, who clearly did not expect this. — "Oh, no!" — the only thought flashed through her head. She sharply stretches out both her arms and leans her palms against the cold metal of which the door was made. Leaning against it, she tries to push away in the hope of moving from the spot. She pushes once, pushes twice, pushes three times, pushes four times. It doesn't work. Any attempt to free herself gave no result, except for the groans of the unfortunate hedgehog in an attempt to pull her leg out of the door. — Grah... M-m-m-m-mah.... Grm-m-m-m-m... Gh-hr-r-r-r-r-r... M-m-mr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-rah... — her groans of despair through a closed mouth and through clenched teeth were loud enough. But fortunately no one heard her. Not wanting to give up, she sighed, clenched her left hand into a fist, pressed slightly closer to the doors and tried to take a very sharp step away from the doors. — Eh... A-a-auh... — the attempt failed again. Her brown thigh was still clamped by the doors and stood in place in the area where she was flattened. Except when Varanda tried to take a sharp step away from the door, hoping that she would free herself in this way, the thigh slightly stretched and became twice as long, and in the background the sound of rubber was heard. Then this same thigh itself pulled its owner back and took its previous length. She tries this attempt at a sharp step forward two more times. — Come on!... Please! — her pleas were useless, because the leg was still stuck and stood in place. In her last desperate step, she-hedgehog grabbed her thigh with both hands. She grabbed it from below with her left palm, and from above with her right. Straining, she tries to pull her thigh towards herself. It didn’t hurt, but her desperate attempt was also useless and only made her moan in vain: — Gr-r-r-r-r-rah... Hr-r-r-r-r-r... Graha-ah... M-m-m-m-mr-r-r-r-r-r... A-a-a-a-ah!... — she got tired of pulling and let go of her hip. Catching her breath, she gets angry at these doors that grabbed her so suddenly. Out of anger, she hits the doors with her right fist without thinking, because this also didn’t give any result. And anyone in her place would have broken the bones in their arm from such a blow to the metal. The unfortunate girl despaired, lowering her head down. Her desperate thoughts made themselves known: — “I can’t believe it! I'm stuck! My leg is stuck! I can’t move! I'm really stuck! And in such a stupid pose too... Dressed in just a bathing suit!..." — thinking about this, her cheeks turn red, and her eyes barely hold back tears. The poor girl covers her eyes with her hands and begins to cry. — "How could I have gotten into such a stupid trap?... Why wasn't I more careful and attentive? What if this animal guard in these robots finds me here?... What if the one behind all this sees me here?... What if he comes here?... What will he do to me?... I still can't move, because I'm so stupidly stuck!... My poor little leg!... What should I do?..." While Varanda was crying, standing still and tormenting herself with such thoughts, she did not even suspect that on the other side of the door, where her right leg was sticking out, someone had already come and seen her leg sticking out of the door. On the other side of the door at the other end of the corridor, a small and stupid crocodile with big eyes came out. He was also controlling his own robot loader. In the distance, he saw closed doors, and between them, someone's bare brown female leg was sticking out, and even pinched in the thigh area. The crocodile became curious and slowly approached the leg sticking out of the door. After examining it, he slowly extended his iron claw for taking cargo forward and lightly touched the leg in the thigh area, causing it to twitch a little. Varanda, still crying, felt how something on the other side of the door touched her leg and made it twitch. She-hedgehog gasped in tears at what she felt. At that very moment, her innate self-defense reflex kicked in. A second after the crocodile touched Varanda's leg with the claw of his robot loader, Varanda's leg, against the will of its owner, suddenly stood up, bent at the knees and abruptly stretched back, hitting the crocodile in the muzzle. Of course, this was a reflex, because Varanda herself did not force her leg on the other side of the door to do so. However, she felt how her leg itself hit the one who touched her. After the blow, her leg then itself fell to the place where it had been standing before. The crocodile, having received a blow to the muzzle, loses consciousness and falls. At the same time, he accidentally stretched both claws forward and damaged two receivers for the access code that could open these doors. They were damaged and unexpectedly the doors behind she-hedgehog opened. She-hedgehog's freed right leg in the thigh area swelled up again, taking its previous size and was absolutely whole and unharmed. As if nothing had been pressing or flattening it. Varanda also looked back and saw the crocodile in the robot loader, which she had hit against her will. Apparently, when he fell, he had damaged something here, as she assumed, and this opened the doors, thereby freeing her leg. She smiled, wiped her tears from her eyes and snot from her nose. Taking one step forward with her right leg, she did not feel any pain. Her leg was absolutely whole. Varanda was so happy that she wanted to cry again from joy. She touched her right thigh with her right palm and gently stroked it clockwise, and then lightly patted it. — My beloved leg! — she said to her leg, as if it was alive and would answer her something. — I don’t know how you stayed unharmed after those doors crushed you and made you flat, but you’re still a good girl! Having finished admiring her freed leg, she went further forward along this corridor and crept again. This time she was very careful and looked around too carefully, so that she wouldn’t be crushed again in the same way and so that she wouldn’t get stuck in the same stupid way again. She crept and walked, and looked around. Then the path split into three, forward, left and right. Varanda began to think where to go. She heard the steps of the loading robots on the left. Apparently, these were some other guard animals. Having quickly looked around, she-hedgehog couldn’t think of anything except to crouch down and jump up to the ceiling. Finding herself on the ceiling, she pressed her hands and feet harder against the walls to hold on. Looking down like this, she saw two forklifts pass under her, driven by another crocodile and a lemur. And these were really ordinary animals, not Mobians. — "Holy Chaos! Whoever built this base is mocking nature. He makes poor animals work for him and drive these robotic forklifts." — she thought and jumped down, squatting on the floor after they passed by. Standing up and looking around again, she went forward. She accidentally passes by a mirror and stops when she sees her reflection. — Ah? — she said and looked at herself in this mirror in her birch swimsuit. Her figure, big butt and big hips really caught her attention. Putting her palms on her hips and running them down to her buttocks, she smiled. — Beauty! — when she finished looking at her reflection and admiring herself, she went on. She walks and sneaks until she finds another fork in the road into three. But here on the floor there was another hatch. This time it had a handle. Having turned the spit of the handle, Varanda opens this very hatch and sees another ladder for going down. — "My heart feels that Sonic has gone down even deeper here. So I will follow him." — she thought, touching her chest for a minute and began to go down. She went down into another exactly the same laboratory with corridors. The only difference was in the colors. The colors of the walls, floor and ceiling of this laboratory were slightly blue and black. Looking around again, she sees four more loader robots coming here. Varanda figured out how to hide behind the wall of one of the side corridors, pressing her back to the wall and covering her mouth with her hands. The guard animals controlling the robots passed by and did not notice her. She decided to try to sneak up behind them. She-hedgehog walked forward, slowly creeping and carefully looking around. She noticed two gray flat images on the wall and immediately realized that these were open doors. When the guards passed through them, the door immediately closed. Varanda was lucky this time. She managed to stop and did not get caught this time. Smiling, she went back. But then the doors of a different color moved and grabbed her. She-hedgehog's eyes bulged and almost fell with her torso and head. She leaned both palms against the doors behind her and lifted her chest with her head. Turning around, she-hedgehog was very angry. The doors closed tightly behind her, squeezing her waist in the stomach area. Now this time her back together with her swimsuit were pinched and flattened with disgusting folds to one yoctometer. Varanda clenched her teeth in anger. She was tired of this. Looking around, she saw a panel for entering a code on the wall nearby and with all her strength she hits her fist on it so hard to release all her anger and thereby breaks this device. To her surprise, it worked and the doors opened themselves. She-hedgehog fell to the floor. Leaning her palms against the floor, she slightly rises and smirks, seeing that her back, stomach and swimsuit also remained whole and unharmed. Not even wrinkled from the folds under such strong pressure from the doors. — "Either I'm just lucky, which didn't even hurt me, or I'm probably just very tenacious and invincible!" — she thought, smiling, got to her feet and went back, after which she went further along another corridor. She continued to creep and look around carefully. On the way, she found two turns to the left and to the right. On the left, she saw a window and decided to go left to see what was outside the window. And there they show one room where they produce new forklift robots and as security there patrol three of them, controlled by parrots and repeating out loud to themselves: — I'm guarding the plant! I'm guarding the plant!... — "Whoever is behind all this, he was able to somehow lure ordinary animals to his side, making them his guard and endows them with such robots, which they themselves control." — Varanda thought and crawled along the bottom so that she herself would not be seen through this window. She crept up to three doors, two of them had signs with male and female gender indicators. Judging by everything, these were toilets. Varanda scratched her chin. — "Hm-m... Whoever was behind this, they made a toilet for everyone. It turns out they still have at least something kind?" — thinking about this, she walked past two doors and leaned against the wall, being on the side of the third door. It coincidentally opened and a parrot in his robot came out. — My robot repair is finished! I'm going back to patrol! — he said to himself and walked past she-hedgehog without noticing her. She-hedgehog herself gently stretched her head and looked at what was behind the door. Behind this door was a room for repairs, cleaning and maintenance. In addition, there was a dining room with bowls and animals eat here. Not paying attention to this, Varanda sneaks on. She came to turns to the left and to the right. On the right was another hatch with a handle. However, it was guarded by red lasers that were moving and were quite warm, which meant they could incinerate. Varanda swallowed at what she saw, but she had to go there. Having carefully examined each laser and their movements, she tried to study their tactics of movement over time. Then she got into a fighting stance and moved her hips left and right, ready to run. — Okay-okay-okay-okay-okay-okay-okay-okay-okay! — she whispered to herself, and then, having waited for the right moment, she ran. She ran up to the lasers, ducked and rolled across the floor, then jumped to the left. She did a cartwheel to the right, ducked while standing still, lay down with her right side towards the hatch, rolled like a log, curled up into a ball, clasping her legs with her hands, rolled back towards the wall, quickly stood up and stepped her legs in an arc to the right side. Then she jumped forward like a ballerina, folding her arms across her chest, and lifting her legs and bending the left one forward and the right one back, after which she turned ninety degrees to the right towards the hatch. She lay down again and jumped forward, curled up into a ball. Finally overcoming the lasers, she landed barefoot next to the hatch and stood up, stretching her arms out to the sides, as if she were performing in a circus and expecting applause. Looking back, realizing that the lasers are behind her and she is near the hatch, she sighs with relief. Then she squats down and takes hold of the handle with her hands, trying to turn it. She opens this hatch and goes down even further down the stairs. Having gone down, she finds herself in a room where three oxygen masks and oxygen cylinders from four are hanging on hangers nearby. But there were no spacesuits and spandex aqualungs. Only cylinders and masks. On the floor there was an open hole of a round shape, filled with water. — "Hmm. It looks like this someone has taken very good care to hide their lair even deeper. I'll have to bathe and swim a little again!" — she thought and slowly took one oxygen cylinder, putting it on her back, like a backpack, and also putting an oxygen mask with a hose attached to the cylinder on her mouth. She-hedgehog put the contents on herself, folded her palms upward and jumped like a swallow into the water through a hole in the floor. Once underwater, she saw three caves at the very bottom, and around there was a chamber wall behind glass. Most likely, it was a giant sphere filled with water, and one of these caves was another passage further. Only she did not know where to swim. She-hedgehog decided to go by trial and error and began to dive down. She almost reached it, when suddenly from the ukratia, sharks hiding behind the rocks swam to hunt for the uninvited guest. Varanda saw one of the sharks swimming towards her. She was scared, her eyes bulging, but she could not scream because of the mask in her mouth, through which she breathed oxygen from the cylinder behind her. She wanted to turn around and swim away, but another shark was swimming behind her on the way. Unexpectedly, she-hedgehog froze and did not know where to swim. The first shark managed to swim up and, opening its mouth with sharp teeth, grabbed she-hedgehog by both legs. The second shark did not have time to grab her, as the first swam past and began to swim wherever its eyes looked, clenching its teeth harder and holding the captured victim. The sharp teeth of the shark with the closed mouth of the shark clenched, holding the legs of she-hedgehog in the hip area. Under the pressure of each tooth, she-hedgehog's hips were flattened into dots with disgusting folds. Fortunately, there was no damage or blood. It didn't hurt either, but Varanda was scared. She leaned her palms against the shark's muzzle and tried to pry it away from her legs. However, the shark held her legs tighter with its teeth and wouldn't let go. The unfortunate hedgehog tried to fight and moaned through her mask: — M-m-m... M-m-m-m... M-m-m-m... M-m-m-m... M-m-m-m... M-m-m-m... The second shark swam up right away and, trying to bite Varanda, grabbed her by the right hand. Then the third one swam up and also grabbed her by the left hand, trying to bite it off. The three sharks became greedy and swam back from each other. It seemed that they would now tear Varanda to pieces. However, this does not happen, although she-hedgehog was afraid of this and closed her eyes in fear, afraid that now she would be in excruciating pain and she would die, being eaten by sharks. The sharks, who were holding their common victim tightly by the arms and legs, swam back from each other as fast and strong as they could. It seemed that they would tear she-hedgehog apart. However, Varanda did not feel any pain. Her arms and thighs, grabbed by sharp shark teeth, began to slowly stretch under the force of the pull. She-hedgehog opened her eyes, not understanding why she did not feel pain. She looked around and saw that her arms and thighs had become long, about one hundred and twenty meters in length, and they stretched even further, up to two hundred meters. Varanda was shocked by what she saw. — "I... I do not feel any pain?... My arms and legs... Stretch?... Like an elastic band?" — she-hedgehog was very surprised by this. She did not know that her skin and bones were rubber and could not tear. She immediately smiled, forgetting about the situation with the sharks and remembering the moment with the doors. — "So that's why I remained safe and sound when I got stuck in the doors a couple of times?! I didn't even know about it!" — by this time two more sharks had arrived, swimming above and below. They clearly wanted to grab her by the stomach and back. This scared her even more. She herself might not be hurt, but her swimsuit might be torn by their sharp teeth while they were pulling her by the stomach and back. While those two sharks had not yet arrived, an idea came to Varanda’s mind: — “Interesting! If I felt my leg when it was stuck in the door, then maybe...” — after these thoughts, she looked up at the sharks that were pulling her arms. Her thoughts were confirmed, despite the fact that her arms had become longer, Varanda still felt her arms and could control them. Using her palms with fingers that were inside the sharks’ mouths, she felt the thin tongues on top and grabbed them, clenching them in her fists. The sharks that were holding the urchin's hands felt like they were about to vomit and they spat out the victim's hands. Varanda, along with her hands, immediately began to quickly reach for the shark that had grabbed her by the legs. Two sharks, above and below, accidentally crashed into each other, not having time to grab the victim. Varanda's legs and arms began to quickly shorten, taking on a shorter length. Quickly approaching the shark that was holding Varanda by the hips at this pace, she clenched her hands into fists and hit the shark with all her might. From such a blow, the shark spat out Varanda's legs. Her arms and legs were also safe and sound, to her great joy. She quickly swam to where her eyes were looking. Five sharks at this time came to their senses and swam in pursuit of the urchin. The latter tried to swim and paddle with her arms and legs as fast as she could. She had never swum so fast in her life, because she was now on adrenaline, afraid that this time she would be swallowed whole without being chewed. Varanda kept swimming and swimming, and the sharks kept catching up and catching up. They swam a little faster and had already caught up with her. She-hedgehog had almost reached the left cave, which was on stone columns and had a passage through a round hole at the bottom. The sharks opened their mouths again and were about to grab Varanda by the legs with their sharp fangs. One of them got ahead of the others and tried to bite she-hedgehog again, but missed a little and bit off the oxygen cylinder, which caused the cylinder to start blowing bubbles and speeding up she-hedgehog. At the very last moment, she managed to swim out through the hole and climbed onto some kind of iron box. The sharks bit into the box with their teeth, missed, and dove back into the water. She-hedgehog stood up and leaned her back against the stone wall. She began to catch her breath with her head raised to the ceiling and her eyes closed. Having calmed down and lowered her head, she looked around. There was some oxygen in this cave and she could take off the mask from the damaged cylinder, which was already without oxygen. She threw them into the water. Dorsal fins swirled around in the water. Sharks patrolled this cave and waited for she-hedgehog to come down to them to eat her. Varanda saw this and swallowed in fear. — "These sharks will not let me go so easily! What should I do?" — she thought, still leaning her back and hands against the stone wall. — "Think, Varanda, think!" There is nothing in this cave at all. Besides the small white surveillance cameraThe video recording was still going on without stopping, but WolfEvil doesn't see it and doesn't know that it's here, since he's still torturing Sonic., which was looking straight at her with a red light bulb and was apparently filming. And also in this cave there was only this iron box, over which she stood with her bare wet feet, inside of which the sounds of movement were being made. There was probably an engine inside. To the left of this iron box there was a black electric cable, which then went up and to the right behind Varanda from above. Then there was a light bulb, which supplied a yellow light source in this cave. From this light bulb there was another cable, which also went even further to the right of she-hedgehog and went somewhere behind the stone wall. Varanda saw the electric cable, which was hanging on some iron hooks on the wall above her, and also went to the light bulb and smiled slyly. A brilliant idea came to her mind. — "Exactly! I think this box is an electric motor, and this is an electric cable. I can rip this cable off and throw it into the water. Then the water will be electrocuted and those evil fish will fry to death." — she just thought and turned to the cable, grabbing it with her hands. She was about to start tugging it, but stopped and thought: — "What if this cable shocks me as soon as I rip it away from this lamp?" — Having realized it in time, she leans her back against the stone wall again and looks at the sharks circling around the only exit. She began to think and suddenly she remembered something: — "Wait a minute! Tails once told me that rubber does not conduct electricity. That is why any electrician, before repairing electrical devices and stations, always works in rubber gloves, so as not to get electrocuted. And sometimes, just in case, they can stand on a rubber carpet, which also does not allow electricity to pass through the body and shock it. Electricity simply goes down to the carpet and the person himself remains intact. So, so that I do not get electrocuted, I need something rubber ... " — she again began to look around the entire cave, but except for an iron box, a cable, a light bulb and a surveillance camera there is nothing here. — "But there is nothing rubber in this cave ... Even I don’t have anything like that..." — Varanda wanted to despair again and cry, but suddenly something dawned on her. — "Except... " — She slowly lowers her head down and looks at her birch swimsuit. — "... my rubber swimsuit!" — At first she-hedgehog smiled and grabbed the rubber shoulder pads with both hands to take off her swimsuit. However, she looked at the surveillance camera with suspicion. Then she removed her hands. — “No! I don’t want to undress and be suspected like that! I’m not a nudist! I’d rather go and feed these sharks or wait for the one behind all this to come to me himself, since he can already see me through this camera!” — she decided sternly, folding her arms across her chest and turning her head to the right side. However, after a couple of minutes she became sad and thought: — “What about my Sonic? He’s probably not feeling well there. The one who built this base has probably already caught him and is killing him while I’m standing here. I shouldn’t stand here and do nothing. I have to save my loved one, even at the cost of my life and even if I have to take desperate risks that I would never take.” — she lowered her head again, looking at her swimsuit. Then she looked up at the surveillance camera with sharks still circling the hole in the floor with water, and then looked at her swimsuit again and sighed heavily. — "Whether I want it or not, but for my husband I will do anything!" Having decided on that, she finally dared to do something she would never do. However, there was nothing to do and no other way out, and Sonic urgently needed her help, as she felt in her heart. Varanda takes hold of the elastic bands on her shoulders with her hands, lifts them up and lowers them through her hands. The birch swimsuit falls to the floor, completely exposing the brown hedgehog. She bends slightly and steps with both feet to the left. Taking the swimsuit in both hands, she carefully folds it in five layers and places it on the cold iron floor of the electric motor. After that, she sternly looks at the sharks in the holes in the floor and at the surveillance camera, she stands on her folded swimsuit, as if on a carpet, and stands on tiptoe. At the same time, she-hedgehog again leans her back against the stone wall. Turning her head to the left, she grabs the electric hose on the left with her left palm, then looks to the right, grabbing the hose on the right with her right palm. In such a sexy pose, grabbing the electric cable with both hands, she angrily looks first at the surveillance camera, then at the sharks and gets ready to pull. — Enjoy the erotic show while you are still alive, perverts! — she said sternly out loud and starts to pull the cable. She tried to pull it once, but it didn't work. The cable didn't give in. She tries to pull it a second time, a third, a fourth, and a fifth. However, the cable still didn't give in. Apparently, it was very tightly fastened. She-hedgehog, however, did not give up and continued to pull. At some point, a crack and creak were heard. The iron hooks broke off and fell into the water, now it was easier to try to pull the electric hose. On the fiftieth attempt, she slightly tore the cable next to the lamp and it began to spark with lightning. The lamp stopped glowing and went out, and the surveillance camera stopped recording, judging by the fact that the red light went out. It became very dark in the cave. Fortunately, Varanda was half hedgehog and half cat, and accordingly she saw well in the dark. She continued to pull and tore the cable from the lamp. After that, she threw the torn electric cable straight into the water. The water began to sparkle and shoot lightning, and the sharks in the water began to twitch in convulsions and fry. She-hedgehog leaned her back against the wall even more and closed her eyes, turning her head to the right side. Her idea with the swimsuit worked and she did not receive any electric current. The motor inside the iron box, over which she-hedgehog was standing at that time, began to smoke and overheat until it broke and turned off itself. As a result, the torn and lowered cable into the water stopped supplying electricity and shocking. The water was no longer electrified, but the sharks died and floated upside down.

Meanwhile

— STOP!!! ENOUGH!!! I CAN'T TAK IT ANYMORE!!! — the unfortunate Sonic screamed, clutching his head, and Dr. WolfEvil laughed at him evilly. Suddenly the light began to flicker and went out. It became dark around. The mad scientist got angry: — HEY, WHAT'S THE JOKE WITH THE LIGHT??? WHO TURNED OFF THE LIGHT??? WHO MADE THE NIGHT COME SO EARLY??? After shouting, he takes out his flashlight and turns it on, accidentally shining it into the eyes of the blue hedgehog behind the bars. — OUCH!!! MY EYES!!! — he screamed and grabbed his eyes with his palms. — I COULD GO BLIND THAT WAY!!! — I don't care! I'll go check what happened now, and you sit here and don't pull any tricks! — said the scientist wolf and went to the large monitor. — Hm-m... Probably some electric motor burned out somewhere or the cable got pulled out again? Or maybe there was another power surge with overvoltage? — he asked himself. He took out some device from the pocket of his white coat, something like a pocket Game Boy console, but it had many more buttons. He connected it with a small cord to the large monitor. — So! Now we'll connect an additional power source and figure out what's going on. — he said to himself and started to turn on his little device.

***

      Varanda took a breath, stepped onto the cold metal of the iron box she was standing on, picked up her birch bathing suit from her feet and put it back on herself. Then she lightly touched the water with her toe. After making sure that the water was no longer electrified, she went down into the water. Of course, just in case, she picked up the torn electrical cord and placed it on top of the iron box. She-hedgehog filled her lungs and cheeks with air, since the cylinder was damaged and she would have to swim further herself. She dived underwater, and it was very dark around. Despite this, she could see around very well in the cramped space. She looked at another cave and saw that the passage to it was from above with a grate. Apparently, these sharks bred there. Then she swam to the cave in the middle. This cave had a passage on the side. Swimming there, she began to descend even lower to the depth, and then from there there was a turn forward and up. Luckily, there was land with oxygen nearby. Varanda emerged at the last moment and began to loudly catch her breath, grabbing onto the rocks. Having finished breathing air into her lungs, she looked around and saw another hatch in the center. — I will hope that this is the last hatch and this time I will get into the lair of this villain, whoever it is! — She said out loud to herself, climbed out of the water, stood up and went to the hatch.

***

      WolfEvil finished loading the energy charge from the battery inside his device and turned on his large monitor. — Now let's figure out what happened. — He said out loud and turned on the surveillance cameras, checking those that recorded energy sources. He checked each surveillance camera with generators and electrical devices. — No. No. This one is fine. This one too. Not that. Not that. No. — and now he finally caught the right frame of the surveillance camera. — Hey! Why is it dark in here! Turn on the flashlight attached to the surveillance camera! — He added and turned on the light from the flashlight, which was connected to the surveillance camera in that male cave next to the iron box where Varanda used to be. But now she is not there. What Dr. WolfEvil saw now made him fall into furious shock. — WHAT??? ISN'T IT POSSIBLE??? — He screamed from what he saw. The iron box with the generator inside was smoking, the electric cable was torn from the light bulb on the stone wall and was lying on the box, and five sharks were dead and floated upside down over the hole with the exit from the cave into the water sphere, aquarius. The learned wolf was upset and pressed his palms to the screen and began to cry. — My poor sweet toothy babies! Who dared you like that? Who? I will take revenge on the one who killed you!... — he declared, raising his fist and head up. — And also for the fact that he damaged the generator, whoever it was. — He continued to look at the iron box, which was smoking. — The electric generator overheated and broke. You can see it when it came into contact with water. That must be why... My beautiful sharks died! — He pressed his palm to his eyes and cried again for three seconds. Then he gets angry. — It's good that I installed a spare electric generator in that cave and hid it inside the stone wall. — he said to himself and began to connect to the scheme of that cave through the screen. He disconnected the power supply from the blinking red square and moved it to another square, which was glowing green and was hidden behind the wall. Having connected it to the power supply, he turned on the light again. Light appeared in his headquarters with the prisoner. WolfEvil smiled. — Well! Now that's a completely different matter! Then I'll have to fix that first generator along with the cable and get new tame sharks! While the wolf scientist slowly disconnected his small device from his computer so as not to break it, at that time Varanda was descending from the ceiling through the hole in the ladder. Sonic, sitting behind the bars, saw her and was shocked that she did all this and came for him. She-hedgehog saw her husband behind the bars and realized that he was really in trouble. Hedgehog pretended to tighten his mouth, promising not to give her away. Varanda nodded smiling and went down the stairs to the floor. She looked around and saw a scientist gray wolf in a white pharmacist's coat, who was still fiddling with his device, trying to charge its battery fully in case the incident with the power outage happened again. She-hedgehog was sneaking up to the cage with Sonic. — Hello, honey. I'll get you out of here! — she whispered to him and wanted to grab the bars, but Sonic stretched both his hands between the bars and stopped her with a whisper: — No, no, please, don't touch! — Why? — she-hedgehog didn't understand. — This isn't a simple cage, it gives you an electric shock if you try to open it or break the bars. — Sonic explained in a whisper. — I tried to get out of it, but it immediately shocked me with electricity. — But how can I free you then? — she-hedgehog asked in a whisper. — Look! — the hedgehog pointed his finger at the lever on the floor next to the cosputer, which WolfEvil had almost finished fiddling with. — When I came to this place, this mad scientist in a pharmacist's robe named WolfEvil pulled the lever and this cage locked me here. Maybe if you get to the lever and pull it, the cage will open and I can free myself. — Got it. Now I'll try to get to him unnoticed. — Varanda answered in a whisper, lightly taking Sonic's hands and holding them, looking romantically into her husband's eyes and smiling. — Go, and if anything happens, I'll distract him for now so that he doesn't notice you. — he whispered to her and she-hedgehog began to sneak up on the scientist wolf. — Well, finally! — the wolf pulls out the cable from his device and computer, then puts them back in his pockets. He turns around and looks slyly at Sonic behind bars. - We'll continue torturing you! - he said and walked towards him menacingly, putting on black rubber gloves. Luckily, he didn't see Varanda, as she hid behind the chest from which WolfEvil took out the things he tortured Sonic with. WolfEvil almost reached the chest. Sonic was afraid that he would see his wife and turned to the scientist. — Doctor WolfEvil! The latter froze and was shocked by what he heard. He turns to Sonic and asks: — What? — I wanted to apologize to you. — the hedgehog distracted the wolf, which surprised the latter. Varanda immediately realized that Sonic was trying to distract him from her. — Apologize? I wonder for what? — the scientist wolf grinned. — You were right, Doctor WolfEvil! — the hedgehog took hold of the bars and pretended to repent with shame and strength. — You really are a real villain, whom everyone should be afraid of. After all, you even managed to catch me and tortured me, and now you want to destroy me altogether. Even Doctor Eggman couldn’t do it. But you’re great! You are a real threat to the whole world. WolfEvil smiled and approached Sonic with his cage. — Do you really think so? — he asks Sonic, grinning. — Really! You, Doctor, are stronger than me, you are smarter than me, you are more cunning than me, you are more evil than me, no one can get past you, everyone is a real weakling compared to you, just like me. No one and nothing can compare to you, and you always win. — While Sonic was deliberately lying and thus appeasing the scientist wolf, forcing him to listen to his compliments and enjoy them, Varanda crept up to the computer and almost reached the lever. On the last step, because she was all wet, she accidentally slipped and fell on her butt on the iron floor. — Huh? What is it? — WolfEvil's eyes bulged and he wanted to turn his gaze in the direction where the sound came from, Sonic immediately stretched out both hands between the bars, grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him nose to nose. This is not what you just thought!. — Hey! Where are you looking? I'm talking to you! — Sonic told him a little fearfully and rudely. Varanda sighed quietly with relief that Sonic did not let him find her. — Why are you so nervous, hedgehog? — the wolf grinned slyly. — Hmm... Are you trying to distract me by any chance? Maybe you have something in mind, you sly one, and you are trying to appease me specifically because you have figured out how to escape from here. — What are you talking about? — the hedgehog smiled a little stupidly. — How do you think I'm going to escape from here? This cage shocks me as soon as I try to escape. You're holding me here and I have nowhere to run! And the fact that I'm nervous is because I'm afraid of you. — Well then, why are you holding me by the shoulders, Mister Hedgehog? - the scientist was still grinning slyly, looking his captive in the eyes. By this time, Varanda had finally reached the lever. She grabbed it with both hands and was about to pull it, when suddenly she, Sonic and WolfEvil heard someone's voice from the hole in the ceiling, where the ladder went up: — Doctor WolfEvil, I'm back! She-hedgehog, the hedgehog and the wolf looked questioningly at the ceiling after hearing this. They saw a Mobian coming down the stairs, dressed all in yellow. A yellow mask with red glowing eyes, a yellow shirt, yellow pants, a yellow belt, yellow boots similar to Silver's, yellow gloves and yellow gear on the yellow belt. The yellow Mobian was slowly going down the stairs, holding tightly to each iron beam with his hands and feet and looking only at the top. Sonic, with his eyes bulging, was shocked that he hadn't held the scientist by the shoulders. — I can't believe my eyes! — WolfEvil was touched with his big eyes and approached the stairs, meeting him at the bottom and grabbing him to help him down to the floor with his feet. — Agent "I", isn't that you? — Of course I am! Who were you waiting for? Santa Claus? — the yellow Mobian joked, covering his glowing red eyes with his lower yellow eyelids. Then he began to look around, and she-hedgehog moved away from the lever and lay down on the floor, hoping that they would not see her from below. — So! Where is that prisoner who ended up on our island with you and whom you captured? — There he is! — he pointed his thumb behind his back. There Sonic was behind the bars, holding onto the bars with his hands, looking sternly at the yellow Mobian. — The Inkling! — he said, recognizing him. — Sonic! — The Inkling narrowed his eyes slyly and slowly approached the bars with Sonic. — We met again! I have been waiting for this evening for so long, so that I could personally get rid of you once and for all, so that you would not interfere with me taking over the world! — Us! — WolfEvil corrected him. — Oh, yes. Forgive me! - The Inkling made sad eyes, looking at the wolf, and then he looked sternly at Sonic. - Get ready! Now I will torture you, and then I will kill and torment you until you die. — Yeah, The Inkling, it's clear that you are too serious about me. If it weren't for this grate, I would have gotten out of here a long time ago and torn you to pieces! The Inkling laughed along with WolfEvil. — Well, you made me laugh! Well, come on, show me what you can do in this cage! — the yellow Mobian mocked him and got into a fighting stance, clenching his fists. She-hedgehog stood at the lever again and winked at Sonic, immediately pulling the lever. The cage with the bars began to rise, freeing Sonic. The blue hedgehog smiled maliciously, and the yellow Mobian and the wolf widened their eyes, not understanding how this was possible? — You shouldn't do that! — Sonic replied and pounced on The Inkling, knocking him to the floor and began to beat him in the face, without even removing his mask. — How did he open the cage? — the doctor asked himself out loud and turned to the lever. He immediately saw the brown hedgehog in a birch bathing suit and widened his eyes, not expecting to see another stranger. — You? — Yes, you nasty pervert. It's me. — She ran at him and wanted to hit him. The learned wolf only managed to grab her fists with his palms and tried to hold her back, gritting his teeth. — You stole my clothes! Because of you, I was forced to walk around your base in just a bathing suit! And you also captured my husband and tortured him! You are a dirty and vile villain! At least Eggman is more adequate compared to you. — And you illegally snuck in to me unnoticed and killed my baby sharks! — WolfEvil answered angrily and tried to push she-hedgehog away from him, who in turn pushed him. — I loved those sharks! I took care of them and raised them in my big aquarium when I was three years old, and they were just eggs. I even gave them human names. Washington, Arthur, Bruce, Meg and Dustin! You will pay dearly for them, whoever you are, nasty she-hedgehog! They were still pushing each other. Their physical strength was equal to each other. Especially in anger. — My name is Varanda! — she hissed back at the wolf. — I don't care! — WolfEvil answered rudely. At one point, the wolf, standing still, tries to stretch Varanda's arms out to the sides. She takes advantage of this, pulls her head back and sharply hits the wolf with her head on his. The learned wolf fell back from a concussion. Varanda found a key in his robe pocket. Taking it, she realized that it was a key to the nightstand. Looking around, she found that very nightstand and runs to it. At this time, Sonic was still beating The Inkling. The latter managed to pull his right leg under the beating and hit Sonic between his legs. The blue hedgehog screamed, grabbed the sore spot and jumped on the spot. The Inkling took advantage of this, stretched out both his legs, kicked Sonic in the stomach and pushed him to the floor. The Inkling himself rolled back in a ball when he kicked and got to his feet. He ran up to WolfEvil and helps him up. By this time, Varanda opened the nightstand and found all her clothes. While The Inkling, WolfEvil and Sonic were fighting, she was sure that they were not looking at her and decided to quickly change back into her everyday clothes. The Inkling brought WolfEvil to his senses and turned to Sonic, who also came to his senses and stood up. The blue hedgehog wanted to run to attack, but the yellow Mobian took a yellow grenade from his belt and threatened to remove the pin from it, shouting: — STOP!!! NOT A STEP, OTHERWISE WE WILL ALL FLY UP TO THE SKY!!! Sonic got scared and froze. He didn't want to risk it. Besides, what if this psycho would remove the pin even if he tried to take the grenade from him at supersonic speed? He didn't even know what else this crazy guy would come up with in such a state. — Give up, Sonic! You have nowhere else to run! — the scientist wolf smiled slyly, folding his arms on his chest and laughed villainously at the same time as his yellow partner. — Let him go! — Varanda pointed her finger at them. The Inkling and WolfEvil turned around and saw her in clothes and shoes. Sonic saw his wife in clothes and realizing that she took them out of the drawer of that already open shelf, quickly ran there at supersonic speed, also put on his gloves and red sneakers in a second, and then returned to the place where he was standing. — Yes. Better let me go the good way, or we'll do it the bad way! — the hedgehog said, also pointing his finger at the two villains. — Don't even dream about it! We'd rather destroy you both to the Devil! — answered The Inkling, still holding the yellow grenade in his hand. — WolfEvil, activate our common secret weapon! — Yes, The Inkling. — the scientist wolf in the apothecary's robe answers and goes to his computer, pressing a couple of buttons. An elevator appeared from under the floor next to The Inkling. He entered it first, still holding the grenade, and WolfEvil followed him and together they went down under the floor on this elevator. Sonic and Varanda stood there, not understanding anything with their eyes bulging and blinked a couple of times. They looked at each other questioningly. Suddenly the floor under the feet of both hedgehogs began to move and a large hatch opened. Through this huge square hatch, a huge robot was climbing up the ladder, which Sonic and Varanda were able to see from head to toe as soon as it reached their floor. It was a huge ten-meter robot, which was painted in two halves. The right half was painted to match the colors of Dr. WolfEvil with his clothes, including the apothecary's robe, and even the right half of the robot's face was painted to match WolfEvil's face as a base. The left half of the robot was all yellow, and the left side of the head was without a mouth, yellow and with a red eye. The doctor and the vigilante themselves were in the sleeves of the robots, because there were panels for controlling the robot itself, or rather, each panel controlled its own half of the robot. Dr. WolfEvil was sitting at the control panel on the right sleeve, and The Inkling was sitting and controlling on the left sleeve. They both lift the robot's sleeves, revealing themselves. — We had an ace up our sleeves from the very beginning! Got it? — asked the learned wolf and laughed evilly. — Now we will crush you both, hedgehogs! — added The Inkling. They both synchronously begin to control their robot and move it forward. First the right leg went forward, then the left. The blue hedgehog and the brown hedgehog slowly retreated back, looking at this giant! — I'm not afraid of you! I'm Sonic the hedgehog! I've fought with robots worse than these. Just one crushing blow and you both will go to the dump in a second! - he said boldly and ran at the robot, jumping in the hope of hitting their robot in the chest, curling up into a ball. However, The Inkling, controlling his left hand, raised it, leaning it against the robot's head and struck, throwing back the fast hedgehog with one blow. Sonic crashed into the iron wall and with a groan slowly peeled off the wall, like scotch tape. Then he flew down. Varanda ran to that wall and caught her husband, holding him in her arms. — What did you say about a crushing blow? — the yellow Mobian asked mockingly, placing the elbow of his left hand on the edge of the robot's sleeve, as if he were driving a car. — Most likely, he meant that he would crush us, but in fact you crushed him with one blow! — the wolf in the apothecary's robe suggested and laughed evilly. Varanda was very worried about her husband, put him on the floor and tried to wake him up. — No! Get up, Sonic! Wake up! And the two-faced robot, which both villains controlled through the sleeves, slowly and threateningly approached them. The robot approached and raised its right leg. Then it abruptly lowered it, intending to crush Varanda, who managed to jump back doing a somersault in a jump. WolfEvil clenched the robot's right hand into a fist, put it behind his right shoulder and tried to hit. Varanda jumps high and the robot's fist crashes into the wall. She-hedgehog lands on her right hand and runs to the scientist wolf's sleeve. The wolf managed to sharply raise his right hand, causing Varanda, unexpectedly, to fly screaming to the computer. The robot runs, clenching his right fist and hits the floor from top to bottom, trying to crush Varanda, but the latter manages to jump back like a roller and somersault backwards across the floor. The robot thus missed. — Where are you going, stupid dog in a pharmacist's coat? — cursed The Inkling. — To the left, I tell you! — Where, where! Go and try it yourself! — WolfEvil answers through clenched teeth. By this time, Sonic had woken up groaning and was getting up. — My head! — he said through groans and tried to come to his senses, while the robot of Namek and WolfEvil tried to crush Varanda, who often dodged their blows. The blue hedgehog got angry at the villains' attempts to swat his wife like a fly and runs at them. He jumps again and curls up into a ball in a jump. The robot hits the floor with its left palm, and Varanda jumps onto this palm. When the Right Palm tried to swat she-hedgehog, she did a backflip, jumping away from the clap. The right palm slapped the left palm. — Don't slap me, you idiot, slap her! — the yellow Mobian snapped, pointing his finger at the brown hedgehog. — Sorry, she's moving too fast! — the wolf repented in front of his partner and shouted at the girl. — STAY STILL, YOU UGLY GIRL!!! I CAN'T HIT YOU!!! At that very moment, Sonic hit them from behind, being a lump in a jump. The robot falls on its stomach on the floor, spreading its arms to the sides. Fortunately, the sleeves of the robot's arms were up and their pilots remained intact. Holding the controls in their hands, they forced the robot to rise again and turned back to the hedgehog. The Inkling sighed heavily and rolled his red eyes. — Wasn't one hit enough for you? Do you want me to hit you again? — Don't touch my wife, freaks! — Sonic hissed through his teeth. Varanda smiled from what he heard and admired his courage in trying to save her. — Get it for the freak! — The Inkling answered and with an outstretched left iron palm tried to crush Sonic. The latter managed to run away. — Missed! — said the blue hedgehog, then jumped back when WolfEvil slapped him with his right palm like a fly. — Missed! Varanda jumps on the robot from behind, but the giant's right leg stretches out and hits she-hedgehog with an iron sole so hard that she flies off to the wall. After that, it also comes unstuck and falls to the floor. — It hurts! — she said indignantly. — So my sharks weren't hurt, huh? — the wolf hisses through his teeth. Sonic jumps on him and grabs him by the shoulders. — You dare to raise your foot on my wife? — he asked and didn't notice how The Inkling pointed the robot's left palm at him and gave him a flick, so hard that Sonic was thrown back again. The yellow Mobian takes Sonic in his left palm and squeezes it so that the hedgehog doesn't break free. — LET GO OF MY HUSBAND!!! — Varanda screamed and ran to the left iron hand, when suddenly the left iron hand grabbed her. — HEY!!! LET ME GO!!! The robot gets up and stands straight, folding both hands together in front of his chest. Both Sonic and Varanda were captured by iron fists, which held them tightly and did not let go. Only their heads and shoulders were sticking out. Despite this, they tried to free themselves with clenched teeth, but the robot's grip was stronger than both of them. The two villains laughed, standing behind their robot control panels in the robot's hands. — As they say, one head is good, but two are even better! — the wolf in the apothecary's robe admired. — The two of us, as a collective mind, which was able to think and reason, simultaneously, and faster and more logically. — the yellow Mobian answered proudly. — You are right, agent "I". Let's now crush our uninvited guests to death! Let them suffer and die at the same time. — WolfEvil laughed evilly. — Of course, doctor. I myself have long dreamed of this evening, to crush Sonic ... Well, and his wife, about whom I did not know. — said The Inkling. Sonic and Varanda are still trying to escape at this time, but they understand that it is useless. — "It's a pity that I don't have my Chaos Emeralds!" — Sonic despaired. Suddenly he heard both villains want to clench their fists and crush them, so his eyes bulged and he was afraid for his wife. — Wait! The Inkling, WolfEvil, you only need me! You can kill me, but you better let Varanda go! She has nothing to do with it! — Nothing to do with it? She killed my sharks! I must avenge them on her. — the wolf declared. — But she didn't know that you loved these sea predators so much. She just wanted to save me from you and made the whole difficult journey to me. — Yes. I confirm this. I met so many difficult things on the way through your base and even fell into a couple of stupid traps, but I survived and freed myself. Better let me go and I'll leave quietly. I won't even tell anyone about you. — said Varanda. — Please, don't ruin her! Ruin me instead! — begged Sonic. — Well, I don't even know? — The Inkling folded his arms on his chest and looked questioningly at the doctor. — Doctor, what do you think? — So. Now we will decide your fate with a counting rhyme! Which of you will die first? — WolfEvil scratched his chin and began to point his right index finger at Sonic and then at Varanda from time to time. At the same time, he recited a counting rhyme. — Once upon a time, Bo Peep the shepherd had a lamb. He hopped and ate grass, and then he hopped off to poop! — at the last word, he seemed to move his finger from Varanda to Sonic, but abruptly returned the finger to Varanda, to which she widened her eyes. WolfEvil grinned, looking at his index finger. He nodded. — Do you mean poop? — after saying that, he takes control of his hand. — Say goodbye to life, murderer! — NO!!! — Sonic shouted, scared for his wife and continued to try to break free. — Yes! — the yellow Mobian grinned, watching the wolf crush Varanda with his left iron hand. The fist squeezed she-hedgehog in itself, trying to crush her. It didn't hurt her, but she decided to pretend and sometimes overacted. — AH!!! NO!!! AH!!! IT HURTS!!! STOP!!! — Don't even dream about it! — the wolf grinned evilly and crushed her even harder. However, this did not cause any damage to she-hedgehog. It only slightly flattened her. She herself knew that she could not be killed this way. At one point, she even accidentally grinned slyly, almost giving away that she was pretending to be in pain. Only Sonic noticed and understood, but he didn't give her away. The scientist wolf was still squeezing the robot's fist as hard as he could, but it didn't tighten any further, and Varanda continued to pretend that she was in pain and slightly overacted. — Why isn't she dying? Why aren't her internal bones and organs breaking? Why isn't she bleeding? I don't understand anything! The yellow Mobian scratched the back of his head, letting out an "M-m-m..." and decided to go another way. — Maybe she's like a cartoon, invulnerable to being crushed? — The Inkling suggested and clenched his right fist a little. Sonic really groaned and screamed. — It hurts! — He's screaming in pain for real, and she's just overacting. She's a worthless actress! — The yellow Mobian said. — Yeah? We'll have to check! — the wolf replied, made the robot raise his thumb, the tip of the thumb stood above his head, extended two presses and they sharply flattened she-hedgehog's head. However, she didn't flinch. Then the presses moved apart, and Varanda's head inflated to its previous size again. She was completely safe and sound. Only her head was spinning from the concussion. — Aha! She flattens under pressure and does not feel any pain in reality. However, she has a concussion from the blow to the head of the presses. So, there was little physical damage. — Try to tear her to pieces! Maybe you can stab her? — suggested The Inkling. Sonic and Varanda simultaneously widened their eyes and gasped at what they heard. The wolf in the apothecary's robe grinned evilly and activated a couple of levers, extending a grinder, a drill, an electric saw, a sword, a huge needle from a huge syringe and scissors from the tip of the robot's thumb. All six of these objects surrounded she-hedgehog and began to slowly approach her. She began to try to break free again and was very afraid of being stabbed. However, the iron fist was stronger and held her. Sonic also tried to break free and help her, but it was useless. Both villains laughed at she-hedgehog. Varanda was scared, she was still trying to break free and screaming: — No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no! No! NO!!! NO!!! NO-O-O!!! — VARANDA!!! — Sonic screams, also trying to break free. The sharp instruments almost came close to Varanda and it seemed that now they would cut her and she would die. At that very moment, her whole life from birth flashed before she-hedgehog's eyes.

***

      Varanda saw her childhood, when she was still a baby. She was born and lived on another planet. Her dad and mom, who were the king and queen, stood before her eyes and smiled. Then some kind of end of the world began and her crying mother put her in some kind of space rescue capsule, on which she flew away and saw how her home planet was perishing from some dark force. Then she got to the planet Mobius. There Vanilla found her and took her in to raise her. Vanilla raised and loved her as her own daughter. And then when Vanilla gave birth to her real and first real daughter Cream, Varanda had a beloved younger sister, whom she also took care of. She also remembered how Sonic used to be a bully and bullied her, but then when Varanda became an adult with Sonic, he realized his mistakes and she forgave him for everything. She even remembered her wedding with Sonic in Station Square. Moreover, Amy was also at this wedding and she had her own other boyfriend. It turned out to be Manic, Sonic's brother. Varanda also suddenly remembers that three months ago she accidentally found the Chaos Emeralds and decided to keep them for herself for a while, maybe they would come in handy and she would give them to Sonic. However, during these three months she forgot that she found them and all this time they were with her.

***

      The memories passed and Varanda, no longer afraid, calmed down, made a stern look and closed her eyes, deciding to concentrate and use the Chaos Emeralds. — M-m-m... WolfEvil, The Inkling and Sonic were surprised, not understanding why she was calm now? Suddenly, all seven Chaos Emeralds appeared from behind the hair on Varanda's head, which began to rotate around her. They entered she-hedgehog's body, changing the brown color of her needles and fur to yellow. She began to shine with a golden glow and at that moment an explosion occurred, which forced the robot's right hand to let go of the golden hedgehog. Her eyes also changed color and became burgundy, like her clothes. She flew, clenching her fists. Wolf and the yellow Mobian widened their eyes, not expecting this. — Impossible! — they said at the same time. — I believed in her! — smiling, Sonic said to himself about Varanda, who herself learned to use the power of the Chaos Emeralds and took a super form, as he knew from the very beginning that she could. Varanda flew like a bullet to his left hand and hit him so hard that his left sleeve twitched. The Inkling couldn't resist and let go of Sonic. He began to fall, but Varanda managed to grab him from the floor. He looks at his wife and smiles. — I knew you could do it. By the way, how, when and where did you find all seven Chaos Emeralds? Even I couldn't find them for a long time, every time I use them, after which they fly apart in different directions. - said the hedgehog. — It's a very long story. I'll explain everything later. — Varanda answers. At that very moment, Varanda shared the power of the Chaos Emeralds with Sonic and he also took a super form. They both turned golden, glowed and flew. WolfEvil and The Inkling's eyes widened and they were speechless. — What do we do now, Agent "I"? — the wolf turned to the yellow Mobian. — RUN!!! — he shouted and wanted to run to the left, and the scientist wolf wanted to run to the right. The robot began to move his arms and legs back and forth, while standing in place. — HERE!!! — NO, HERE!!! — NO, HERE!!! — NO, HERE!!! — NO, HERE!!! — HERE!!! — I SAID HERE!!! — I DON'T WANT TO GO THERE!!! — AND I DON'T WANT TO GO WHERE YOU ARE!!! While The Inkling and WolfEvil were arguing over where to run, Sonic and Varanda stood aside and simply watched them and how they argued. They were so torn apart from each other, not having come to an agreement with each other, that in the end they broke apart. The robot was divided into two halves. They fell, but those who controlled them survived. Having climbed out of the sleeves of their halves of the robot, they ran to the stairs to the surface, but Sonic and Varanda stood in their way. — So where are you going? — Sonic asked slyly, smiling and folding his arms over his chest. Varanda did the same. — BACK!!! — The Inkling shouted, taking out the yellow grenade again, accidentally removing the chica from it. - Oops! — MORON, YOU PULLED THE CHICA OFF THE GRENADE!!! NOW WE'RE ALL GOING TO EXPLODE!!! — WolfEvil screamed, clutching his head. The yellow Mobian threw it somewhere into the corner. It exploded and formed a crack through which water flowed. At that very moment, the alarm went off and the red lights started flashing. — No! What have I done? — the vigilante grabbed his masked head. — Sonic, it's time for us to get out of here! — Varanda said, and together with Sonic, they began to fly away. — Wait! Don't leave us here to die! — the scientist wolf begged. — No! That's not how I planned it. — the yellow Mobian ran to the computer and tried to turn on the automatic repair system. — I have to fix all this as soon as possible and catch these two porcupines that are about to fly away. — The Inkling, don't! You'll use up all the energy of our base. — WolfEvil tried to stop Namek, but he didn't have time, because he pressed several buttons and started the self-destruct system. The computer voice began to say: — Self-destruct is on. It is impossible to stop the process. There are two minutes and twenty-five seconds left before the explosion. — Oh shit! — the yellow Mobian bulged his red glowing eyes. — What have you done, you costumed idiot? — the wolf got angry at his partner and pushed him in the shoulder. — Now we're all going to die because of you. — Shut up! You're preventing me from thinking! — The Inkling pushed WolfEvil back, and the latter grabbed him by the throat and began to choke him and said: — No time to think! At this time, Sonic and Varanda returned. Sonic grabbed The Inkling, and Varanda WolfEvil. They grabbed both villains and dragged them along. — What are you doing? Let us go! — the yellow Mobian tried to break free. — Put me down on the floor! — the wolf also tried to break free. — Stop twitching! We're trying to save you. — Sonic explained. — Don't save me! I'm a villain! I don't need the help of heroes. — The Inkling declared. — Lift me up faster! Lift me up! — WolfEvil panicked. They flew through the water sphere, broke through the stone walls and broke out onto the surface of the island. All of the wolf's guards, consisting of animals in robot loaders, were evacuated and were outside. True, without the robot loaders. The entire underground underwater base on the island exploded, so powerfully that the explosion reached the surface of the island and only went into the sky in the form of a huge mushroom. The island itself and its inhabitants remained intact. Sonic and Varanda flew back to the beach. The ordinary animals waved goodbye to them with their front paws and wings, like human ones. Returning to the beach, the hedgehog and she-hedgehog tied both villains with vines, tying them to a palm tree, and also closing their mouths, putting a coconut in each of their mouths. Landing on the beach, Sonic and Varanda took their previous forms. The seven Chaos Emeralds left Varanda's body and fell onto the sand, after which Sonic picked them up. The blue hedgehog was so happy and glad that the emeralds were with his wife all this time and that they remained. Now they have a chance to return home, simply by taking a super form again and flying through the air across the open sea. In the meantime, they decided to stay on the beach of this island for a little while longer. They even ignored how the two tied up, but saved by them villains tried to free themselves and moaned because of the coconuts in their mouths. The blue hedgehog happily watched with a smile as the sun slowly sank into the water at sunset. Only the brown hedgehog became sad and thoughtful about something. Sonic noticed this on Varanda's face and turned to her: — Are you okay, honey? — Oh! — she was distracted, her eyes bulging and looked at her husband. — Yes. Everything is okay. It's just... When those villains wanted to cut me with their sharp instruments, my whole life flashed before my eyes... And I... I think I started remembering... Even when I was born and who my real parents are... It worries me a little. — While she was telling the story, she turned away in shame, afraid of how Sonic would react to this. However, he was interested. — Tell me! — he asked and Varanda continued to tell: — You see, Sonic. It turns out that I am not actually a Mobian. I am a Crystalian. I was born on the planet Crystal, which once upon a time existed far from our part of the galaxy. My parents were a king and queen. Their names were Iron and Marianne, as far as I remember. I was still a baby, and then the end of the world began. Some dark force attacked my planet and swallowed it all up. Mom managed to save my life by sending me into space in a space escape capsule. That's when I ended up on Mobius, and Vanilla found me after that and started taking care of me... — after saying that, she wrapped her arms around her legs and became sad. — Well... I knew from the very beginning that I was Vanilla's adopted... But I couldn't think... I couldn't even remember that I... A princess, as it turned out... And also a runaway from a lost planet that no longer exists... And I don't even know how it happened... Varanda was ready to cry, but Sonic, who had listened to her, sat down closer and hugged her. — I didn't know that you were a princess, and even an alien one... But I still love you, because despite what you found out and told me, you still remain who you are! I would never treat you differently, even if I found out that you were... Well, for example, the daughter of villains. I know what you're like inside... It's also a surprise to me that you're invulnerable, like a cartoon, if you try to crush or squeeze... But I would never take advantage of that myself. And I feel very sorry for your home planet and your parents. I would like to somehow help you bring them back to life. Varanda suddenly understood her gaze slowly. — Yes... And we can do it... I feel in my heart that my parents are alive. And that means... I'm not more sure, but... Maybe my home planet didn't die at all either... And I can still bring it back to life? — And I and all our friends will help you with this. — the blue hedgehog answers, gently running his palm over his wife's right cheek. Varanda smiles back at Sonic and, approaching him, she and he kiss against the backdrop of the sunset.

The end?