Klefty
3 years after KFNaS4, and it's 2030.
Between all that, Golden Sonic had eroded to a dramatic point where he just looked like a shadow.
Lefty Sonic
Shadow Sonic...
Klefty
Correct.
In some way or another, Shadow Sonic managed to grab ahold of a Chaos Emerald.
Lefty Sonic
I didn't even know that was possible.
Klefty
That Golden's a fighter, I tell you what.
As he's made out of Black Arms DNA, he could definitely use the Chaos Emerald to pull off Chaos Control. However, he needed it to travel back in time.
Lefty Sonic
You need two people to use it, right?
Two Chaos Control users.
Klefty
Yup, how was he going to get another mind...
Turns out that, while Salvage Sonic had lost his soul, his mind was kept pristine within the Toymare.
Harvesting his mind within, Shadow Sonic now had two minds, thus two users, to open up a portal back in time.
All the way back to 1991...
Lefty Sonic
Why would he go back in time to the Fast Food Diner in this take?
Klefty
The original reason before it got retconned: To avoid the B i t e o f ' 9 1 !
But that didn't work though. In fact, he actively contributed to the incident in the first place.
Guess this was a closed time loop thing!
Shadow Sonic returned to the present and ejected Salvage's mind. It died, of course.
He also noticed that the source of his continued melting all originated from his legs.
So, saw in hand, Shadow Sonic sliced each of his legs off. Each hack and cut-off tendril stopped the melting further and further.
Lefty Sonic
No need for detail, Klefty.
Klefty
At last, the melting stopped, and Shadow Sonic could start rebuilding himself.
Soon, his yellow coloration restored itself, then the quills grew back, and finally his mind was brought back from the spiraling abyss.
Of course, this didn't discount the fact he had pretty much gone insane:
You've been mistreated for going crazy due to seeing future visions of yourself...
Rotting inside a storage area for three decades...
The Black Arms' influence had you killing many clones that your inner DNA could recognize such as Amy...
Traveling back in time just to cause the event that sent you down this path...
Plus that whole time-travelling thing confirmed that those visions of yours were real, but you were punished for it regardless...
And you also sawed your legs off.
Lefty Sonic
Yeah that sounds like an insane thing to go through.
Is this the introduction of Dr. Golden?
Klefty
Nope!
Lefty Sonic
Huh?
Klefty
Alright, well, Golden Sonic did lead a planetary invasion on Earth, but not under some persona, but as himself.
Lefty Sonic
Wow, you, uh, really threw a curveball there, Klefty...
I checked the Characters page and I saw Dr. Golden right there!
Klefty
Non-canon fanservice
Plus his design sucks!!
Lefty Sonic
I t ' s f i i i i n e .
Klefty
Regardless of taste, it didn't fit the narrative that's being told here.
In fact, we're not going to talk about the invasion at all.
Because we're going to focus instead on the very last Sonic's Hero Pizza Palace created during the war.
Lefty Sonic
What? There was one final location?
But why?!
Klefty
The war is taking everyone quite badly, and people needed hope quite right now. So, they decided to clone yet another Sonic.
But this Sonic looked quite different. Just like Golden Sonic. However, this Sonic was grey...
Lefty Sonic
Oh?
Klefty
Although cloned and born a male, this Sonic felt very much like a girl.
Lefty Sonic
Trans Lefty?
Klefty
Yeah, but let's not hang on that label too much.
Although she's officially called Grey Sonic, she's internally called 'L.E.', an abbreviation for "Last Entertainer."
We'll be referring to her as L.E. going forward, alright?
Lefty Sonic
Yeah, that's alright with me Kleff.
Klefty
Kleff? Uh.
They also decided to have a Luigi animatronic, in honor of the expendable Luigi clone that had died to tell his FNaSTale. This animatronic would be a mix between a marionette and Luigi – a Luiginette!
But, oh man, a critter got caught in the head's internal fan which caused the Luigi mask to melt off.
They had to strip this Luiginette of all his outer shelling, leaving him as this blue-green husk.
Lefty Sonic
And a giant hole as a face, now that you're making me look at it.
Klefty
Yeah it quietly blows a fan noise.
Lefty Sonic
Spooky.
So how did it close?
Klefty
Hmm... I don't know what happened next.
Lefty Sonic
Seriously?
Klefty
Yeah, it's all printed black on these pages.
Both sides.
What a waste of ink...
Lefty Sonic
You're not serious, right?
You invite me for an incomplete summary?
Klefty
Dang, sorry Lefty.
Lefty Sonic
What even happened to the Nightmares?
Klefty
They, uh, died.
Lefty Sonic
All of them?
Klefty
I told you the authorites got rid of them.
All dead.
I'm sorry.
Lefty Sonic
...Gh, it's fine.
Hope you'll finish the summary next time.
thank you, Klefty. i'll be summarizing the last few minutes of this world.
a quite silly Toad applied as night guard for the location. L.E. was quite overjoyed to be able to talk to someone after hours.
she kept yammering to him. about her hopes for the future, how to avoid the broken Luiginette, and earning the Toad's trust when she nursed the unconscious little night guard after ventilation got blocked by excess cloning material.
did you know L.E. was purposefully created to be very weak? they didn't want her to cause another accident, even though she didn't do anything. despite how weak she was, she wanted to fight to good fight against Golden Sonic.
a victim to another's sin, i suppose
this all ended on the Toad's second shift. when he sat down, he discovered that L.E. had all of her colors splattered on the walls, her lineart crumbled, and her sketch missing.
i then arrived to take this Toad, and reduced this entire world to nothing.
it was going nowhere. of course Golden Sonic would lose, of course the heroes would win. of course the Black Arms would return in 2041, of course the heroes would win. everyone knew how it would play out, so there was no point in finishing it.
i talked to the Toad for a bit, then i dropped him off at an office of my own making. i'm still quite proud of it.
it was all cobbled together from this growing Void. i used the souls in stasis within this airless realm to torment this night guard. i wanted to see how far i could take things.
this is kfnas after all–i'm the ultimate creator of this world.
as his shift began to end, i ripped apart the walls of his office and dragged in a cyan hedgehog's soul, warping his lineart and colors to create a leviathan to terrify this Toad even further.
the tricky little fellow persisted regardless, and so everything crumbled back to darkness.
it was just me and him now. all i could do was congratulate him on his win, though i didn't know what prize to give him.
he talked about L.E...
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i can't do that. here? where she'll provide nothing?
but this Toad came up with a great idea:
rebirth
that sounded something right up my alley. although i like to keep the souls of others rotting inside the Void, L.E. was my creation.
i could play with her all i want.
in exchange for his soul, i rebirthed the Last Entertainer, but they needed to find their way back to the limelight
wading through the broken landscapes within the Void, all laid out by me, this lost soul had to rebuild themselves via the fragments i hid all throughout this land.
all entertainment-based places that found its way here inside the Void.
these fragments were little bits of the false backstory i had crafted, to avoid them reaching the uncomfortable truth.
what did i write? something about a lost piece of code frustrated about being in a bad idea. not too far off from the truth, but good enough of a lie as to not doubt it.
with all their fragments put into place, this lost soul formed into a physical soul.
a nurse, one who desired to comfort the departed in limbo, within a building she subconsciously modeled after a restaurant she lived at in her previous life
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