Didn't know what else to call it.

We're in the same year...

...and this is the FNaS4 chapter.

Salvage Sonic dragged himself out of the rubble and crawled his way back to the first Mario & Sonic's Hero Pizza Palace.

It's quite a distance, you know.

What?

No, it's like, between Chuck E. Cheese's.

Salvage Sonic's friends were all dead and he needed to revive them all!

Luckily, the cloning machine at the first location is still operational.

(Though buggy)

Their corpses were used as cloning material to revive the three, though they came out... wrong.

Whatever it was:

Either there wasn't enough cloning material, or it had expired...

The DNA data of the originals had corrupted by bitrot over time...

Or the machine was just very old.

It created... abstract caricatures of our lovable gang of clones.

Perhaps so. It created hollow husks. Brittle, but sharp. Breaking down, but deadly in the end.

Any normal guy could crumple these incomplete manifestations if they tried hard enough. Even the expendable clones if they tried.

Though luckily for them, there had been an expendable clone rotting inside this location for over a decade now.

Correct.

Hiding inside that abandoned pizzeria for over a decade had degraded the Luigi clone, making him even weaker than the newly-created N ‎‎i ‎‎g ‎‎h ‎‎t ‎‎m ‎‎a ‎‎r ‎‎e ‎‎ c l o n e s .

And so they played a mean little game with Luigi.

Personally? I think they needed a mental warm-up.

Incomplete bodies, incomplete minds. They needed s o ‎‎m e t h i n g to get their minds straight.

Right, that guy.

Mm, kinda? He's just ultimately just a 'whatever' character.

So when the Nightmare clones of Mario, Yoshi, and Tails were created, Salvage Sonic got a letter that promised him some extra help.

When he arrived there, he got ambushed by the further-deteriorated Golden Sonic, stuffing him inside his makeshift contraption:

The Toymare!

A humongous jumble of pressing parts, grinding gears, and beeping bolts.

All created via the salvaged parts of the Toy animatronics and miscellaneous junk.

Within the Toymare, Sonic was squashed and stretched beyond normal means.

Yeah, but gory and stuff.

You can't really see how he looks inside that thing, but he's pretty much unrecoverable.

Yeah, unfortunate.

Because of that, Salvage Sonic's soul left his body and entered the cloning machine, creating Nightmare Sonic and completing the Nightmare gang.

N o w do you get why I didn't like talking about Toymare?

Oh, y'know...

Luigi escaped the building, managed to catch the attention of authorities.

But, because he's been degrading for over a decade, the moment the morning sun caught him he burnt up into wet ash.

W h a t ‎‎! ? ‎ N o !

Uh, yeah, the-

The authorities got the Nightmares and decided "Enough is enough" and got rid of those clones once and for all!

Huh?