Well tonight's the night. Go out, scare some morons while disguised as Golden Freddy, and then take a look around the convention. Too bad I couldn't get anything to make my eyes look better. As is they look like Springtrap's more than G_F's, but pretty good considering how little time I spent on the rest of the costume. Ah well, I can still spook some idiots at the convention and then when Jack and the others get here we can hang out and I can tell them how many jerks I scared. Let's get going!

I walked along and spooked a few guys, and then I got a phone call from Jack. I pulled my arm into the costume and took out my phone.

"Hey Jack, what's up? You free from class yet?"

"Yeah, and I decided to suit up necromorph style for the con."

"Pfft! Ripping off my idea much?"

"Yeah well I'm not a guy in a furry costume!"

We went back and forth a little bit, before he got to the point.

"Anyway I figured I'd let you know there's this little shop near the con that has all this cool stuff, I just got this plasma cutter and the thing looks super realistic! It even- Gah! What the fu-"

I flinched back as a wave of static instability came out of my phone's speakers.

"Huh... Musta stubbed his foot and dropped his phone or something. Might as well look for that shop if it's so 'awesome'."

I walked where he said it was and found it. I could see what he meant, there was all kinds of stuff. This guy was gonna make a lot of money at this convention from the quality of it all. I looked down and then I saw them. A pair of lenses, made of black but  non-reflective glass and even with fragments of wire on the edges. They looked awesome and they were exactly what my costume needed. I looked up to the guy running the shop. Heh, he was dressed up as someone familiar... Ah! The Merchant! I never the Resident Evil games but even I recognized him from the internet. I took off my costume's head and spoke up, pointing to the lenses.

"How much for the lenses?"

He put a hand to his face, as if considering,

"Ten bucks."

It seemed a mite expensive, but I had some spending cash saved up for this.

"Fine."

I handed the money and took the lenses. The wires set into the lenses made it easy to attach them to my mask, and the top hat on top of the head was already glued on. I finished, and then my mask actually looked like a replica from the game. I put the helmet on, and that's when everything went down. A wave of nausea went over me, I felt my bones bending and breaking, and my flesh melting and reforming. I would've thrown up, but I couldn't even feel any of my organs anymore. My body felt wrong, but somehow natural. My vision had blacked out and left me at the same time that my sensation of pain left my form. Finally, my consciousness left me and the world left me behind.

When I woke up, my whole body felt... wrong. I looked down to see a golden paw rather than my costumed hand. I reached in and pulled at my wrist, my (not flesh anymore... Costuming? Fur? Suit?) pulling back and revealing metal bone beneath. It took all I had to calmly look over myself, inspecting every part of myself. I was in a forest, and I looked up to see pink clouds raining brown water. What. The. FUCK! I looked down to see a puddle. I rushed to it to look at myself. A pair of black voids stared back at me, pierced only by a single pinprick of light each. I screamed and jumped back. I took a few moments to calm myself, and to come to terms. I... I was Golden Freddy. I didn't know how, or why, but... Wait! That Merchant guy! Holy fuck he did this to me! And wait, Jack said he bought a plasma cutter off of him... Jack wasn't screaming out of pain, he was screaming in terror! Oh crap if I'm Freddy then that means he was.. Oh God. I had to figure out where I was, and then find Jack wherever he was. I stood back up and started walking. Eventually I looked out to see a pair of... Unicorns? Or maybe Pegasi... They both had horns and wings after all. One of them was tall and white, and the other slightly smaller and was a deep blue. They both saw me and attacked as one, hitting me with a wave of magic. I tumbled back through the trees, plowing down a few. The white one spoke.

"D....rd, we see through you! You still.... magic!"

Pain tore my mind apart, as if they had set fire to every synapse of it. I tried to stand through the pain, only to sink to my knees. I couldn't understand what they said, but they kept talking. GAAH! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?

They sent another wave of magic at me, and I wasn't able to walk, let alone run to dodge it. Suddenly the world became a blur and I looked to see a long, snake-like chimera holding me as we flew away from them. His body was a mess of parts, like something either an ancient Greek or a child would think of. We landed a while away from where I arrived and he explained that he was a spirit of chaos, bringing chaos to the ponies brainwashed by those two. Some of it I believed, some I didn't. I mainly figured that he was a trickster out for fun, and he could be a risk to my... What.... What was I doing again? Uuuggghhhhh... Whatever those two did to me messed my head up... I spoke to him.

"Hey... What was I doing before those two attacked me? You said you were watching, right?"

He nodded.

"Indeed. But I didn't hear you speak so I am unaware."

I sighed and nodded. He spoke again.

"Then again, you could always come with me and have some fun with the twin pains and the little ponies in the land..."

"I... I don't know. I was doing something important."

"Well here, I'll take a look in you mind to see if I can find anything."

Before I could object, he placed a paw on my head and kept speaking while he did so.

"You know, it's a grand deal of fun to mess with those little ponies. And those two are their leaders. If they would attack anything that they do not understand, maybe they deserve a little payback..."

My head felt cloudier... Was he doing something...? No... He was alright. I could trust him. he wouldn't betray me.

"Yeah... They think I'm such a monster, maybe I should give them what they want..."

I didn't see him grinning from where he stood behind me.

"Well I'm afraid that I couldn't find anything, friend. Still, how about we go look for whatever you were doing?"

I shook my head. Whatever he did didn't make me remember, but I felt... Good. Like, even better than before. I felt like having some... Fun.

"You know what... If it was so important, then I wouldn't have forgotten it. Let's go just... Have some... Fun"

He grinned and held out a hand to shake.

"I think this is the start of a long and beautiful friendship Mr. Calvin."

I took it and spoke.

"Actually... I don't think my old name fits... Call me... Freddy."

And then in that moment a friendship was born. The only thing we promised to need of each other was that we would never betray each other, and that we would always stick together.

But then he did. He turned against me....

Broke our only promise...

And ever since I bound myself to all my parallels...

I'm not alone. Even though I absorbed them all into nothing, there's another voice in my head...

And I feel...

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