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⚠️ Important Information Before Starting ⚠️

Hello ^^ This chapter is a quick introduction to any massive/minor changes that you, as the reader, should know about before starting. You can ignore this information if you wish to keep how you imagine the characters, but I understand that it would be annoying, for example, if SMG3&4 have USB tails in my stories but you imagine them without and will have to read with those tail interactions included.

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⚠️ Chapter Structures ⚠️

The way that I will give you all heads up for any warnings, genre or centured characters will be included in the Summary and in the Chapter’s title.

I will use emojis to specify what genre the chapter will be about, which will be listed and labelled below:

❤️ = Smut

☁️ = Fluff

🍋 = Lemon

🤕 = Hurt

💞 = Comfort

🖤 = Angst

⚠️ Appearance/Personality Changes ⚠️

I wouldn’t want to change the character’s personalities or designs massively, but all I’m changing or adding on, should be minor to to you all and should still be majorly canon to how the characters are already.

Modern SMG4:

SMG4:

• Has visible vain like scars on the left side of his face, that is the aftermath from the ‘It’s Gotta Be Perfect’ Arc. Which has also visually impaired his left eye’s vision.
• HES A FATASS RAHHHHH.
• Star earing's :3

SMG3:

• As you’ve hopefully read from the tags I’ve included, SMG3 is genderfluid in my stories (fight me nerds) and he’s gone from being AFAB to taking Testosterone, but doesn’t have top or bottom surgery, so he lets them hanggggg eyyy.
• Suffers from depression 👍.
• Has shark like teeth.
• HES AN EVEN FATTERASSSSSS YEEEEEESSSSS.
• Wears makeup and piercings cuz he’s a badbitch.
• Shoulder length hair

Mario:

• Is Cross eyed.
• Fatass-
• SMG3 & SMG4 badge pin symbols on his overalls

Saiko:

• Saiko & SMG3, are rivals in a friendly yet competitive way.
• Buff as hell, but doesn’t look buff as hell if you know what I mean. Like she can pick up cars like they’re nothing, but has Hatsune Miku’s physique.

Tari:

• Brings with her a duck plush wherever she goes.
• Best friends w/Meggy & SMG3.
• Fluttershy ahh traits.

Luigi:

• Wears dresses sometimes but only SMG4, SMG3 and Mario know about this.

OG SMG4:

SMG4:

• Doesn't wear star earrings :( cuz he thinks they make him look gay (he is).

SMG3:

• Wears make up and piercings (like the emo he is).
• Is more restricted to being male presenting (FTM).
• He tries to wear a binder or trans tape for as long as he can, before it begins to backfire on him.
• Not as fat as Mario or SMG4 are.
• Happiness? I barely know her! (Depressed)

Mario:

• Wears an SMG4 logo pin.
• Not cross-eyed yet, but has lazy eyes.

Tari:

• Has more crippling anxiety than modern Tari.
• Still has her special duck plushie x.

Luigi:

• Still wears dresses, but only Mario knows about it.

⚠️ Final Notes ⚠️

That’s all that I needed to say here, I will probably add more changes to characters and chapters in future time, but there’s nothing more that I can think to add, except for hoping you all enjoy reading this fanfic. Bye ^^

P.S, uhhh is it obvious to tell who my favourite character is.

Chapter Text

<<<No POV>>>

It was a Friday afternoon in the Showgrounds, where III's Coffee N' Bombs was in the process of closing after a busy day. SMG3 is still hard at work trying to clean his café, as it's littered with explosion debris from clumsy customers and Mario dropping his showcased bombs, bullet holes in the walls make by Swag when Three refused to serve him with an order that wasn't on the cafe's menu, shattered remains of plates, mugs and cups when Wario and Waluigi tried to rob SMG3's café which they held as ransom instead of a customer, for some odd reason, and a broken window from that attempted robbery when they escaped, because Three pulled out a rocket launcher.

SMG3 was covered in dust, grime and spillage stains with an uncomfortable look on his face, as he continuously scrubs down a troublesome table that is refusing to be scrubbed clean with seemingly irremovable grime on its surface. Grunting with frustration and exhaustion, he continues to scrub away at the table. Eggdog, who had been watching from on top of the cafe's counter, sees his father work tirelessly and attempts to approach him to try and comfort his hurting father. "GOD DAMN IT!" Three screamed, as he slams his fist on the table with the rag he was using to clean it with, gets angerly thrown across to the other side of the table, Eggdog freezes where he was on the counter. SMG3 frustratingly covers his face with his hands and rested his elbows on the edges of the tortures table with defeat.

Looking at this situation with sadness, Eggdog comes to the conclusion that he will need some extra help to calm his father down. With a determined look on his little face, Eggdog hops down from the counter and runs for the cafe' door, he makes a woof at Three before clambering out the doggie door and headed for SMG4's castle. When Eggdog makes it too the closed castle doors, he begins to loudly paw and scratch at it in hopes that somebody will open them. With a click, the doors cracks open to reveal BEEG SMG4. He opens the door wider to let Eggdog inside, slams the door shut and turns back to Eggdog with a confused puffer fish noise. Eggdog explains with concerning barks, woofs and whimpers on how he needs the crew's help in calming SMG3 down, BEEG SMG4 thinks for a moment, then asks Eggdog if he knows anyone from the crew who might actually knows how to help SMG3, Eggdog wags his tail, with a woof he replies with Tari and Four.

The two meme guardian pets/children come up with a quick plan on how to get Tari and SMG4 to SMG3. The two make a knowing nod at each other, before spliting off into different directions. BEEG heads for SMG4's room whilst Eggdog goes for the gaming room to find Tari, Eggdog nudges the cracked open door wider, to see just who he is looking for gaming on the sofa with Meggy and Mario at either side of her. "Come on Tari! You can do this!" Exclaims Meggy as she fist bumps the air, Mario is seen struggling to keep up with Tari in Super Smash Eachother In The Ass Bros. The trio continue to fixate on the game, when they all hear a bark that's in front of them, Meggy looks down, to see a very worried looking Eggdog "Eggdog?" Meggy shimmies off the sofa and down to Eggdog's level "What's wrong little guy?" She concerningly asks him. Eggdog woofs at her, trying to direct her attention to Tari by repeatedly hopping in front of her, she looks between Eggdog and Tari and pieces together what he wants "Ahh, you want your Auntie Tari Eggdog?" Eggdog stops what he was doing, to wag his tail and make a confirming bark at Meggy "Well, I'm sorry little guy but Tari is busy right now trying to beat your Uncle Mario at this game, it is really important that they finish this, okay?" Meggy explains to Eggdog, who huffs in responce not caring, because he knows that there is a bigger issue at hand than a game. Suddenly, Eggdog jumps onto Tari's lap and headbutts the controller out from her hands, which lands onto the floor "EGGDOG??" Tari said with a raised voice, as she wasn't expecting Eggdog to do that. "YAHOO!" Exclaimed Mario, as he uses this sabotage to win himself the match.

Mario proceeds to run and jump around the gaming room like a maniac in victory, Meggy looks at Eggdog with anger for his actions, whilst Tari looks at him with worry on how unusual Eggdog's sudden behaviour change "What do you need me so desperately for Eggdog?" Tari tilts her head questionably at him, Eggdog whimpers with his tail between his legs and nips Tari's jacket sleeve to signal her to follow him, she picks up her special duck friend before following the pup. Eggdog leads Meggy and Tari towards the door's exit, before checking behind himself to quickly stop Meggy from where she was walking, only letting Tari through the gaming room door. "Hey, what gives?" Meggy looks down accusingly at Eggdog, He growls back at her, then makes a gesture with his snout to follow where he is looking, she looks to Eggdog's pointing snout, which was aimed at Mario's still continuous victory of jumping around the walls, like if the worlds bounciest ball was let lose. Meggy swiftly put both her hands on the sides of her face is realisation "RED! WAIT STOP, BEFORE YOU BREAK SOMETHING!" Meggy panicking, exclaimed at Mario in hopes she hears her warning, and skedaddles to try and catch up with Mario's rapid movements.

Eggdog exits the gaming room, but not before hearing a distant crash of an object being broken, he sees Tari waiting for him with BEEG along side an annoyed looking SMG4, he sighs and stares at his son/pet "This better be an actual emergency BEEG, because this better not be another trick to make me buy you some ice cream, when I'm busy editing today's video young man" He tutted at BEEG, before noticing Eggdog's presence "Hey what's Eggdog doing here? Did he drag you out of your business too Tari?" She shyly shrugs at Four "He did, but this must be really important to them both, because I have never seen Eggdog so worried before, poor boy" She walks over to Eggdog and picks him up in her arms, holding him close to her chest, as she sympathetically pets his little head that earns her little tail wags from Eggdog. "Hmm, you might be right Tari" SMG4 responds to her, then picked BEEG up in his arms, then places him on top of his hat "Come on then you two trouble makers, what do you want to show us" SMG4 rolls his eyes tirelessly. Eggdog points his snout at the castle doors.

The blue duo followed Eggdog's directions to the double doors, Four took the lead and opened both doors making them wide enough to walk through "Where too next Eggy?" Tari says as she looks at Eggdog for guidance, he gestures his snout again, this time aimed towards III's Coffee N' Bombs. The two caretakers look back at each other, now with worried expressions thinking that something bad is going on with Three. The two quickened their paces to get to the café faster to see the possible damages done. They stop outside the café doors, taking notice of the temporarily repaired broken window, Eggdog shimmies out from Tari's embrace and hops next to SMG4, giving him a heart-breaking look, that twinges his heart with anxiety for SMG3's currant wellbeing. He turns the door knob, surprised that it was left unlocked by the ever so cautious purple meme guardian, Tari and Four make an audible gasp at the cafe's state. They see some bullet holes in the walls with the rest being patched with plaster, smudged ashes from a trying attempt at cleaning the explosive remains, unseen shattered plate an mug leftovers and damaged, dirty or both abusing conditions that was with the cafe's tables and chairs.

"SMG3?" The blue meme guardian whispers at him, he is shown to still be cleaning at the same table that Eggdog saw him scrubbing at before he left. Eggdog pads over to his father and hops up onto the table that he is furiously cleaning, SMG3 wildly flings his arm towards Eggdog "NO EGGDOG, DOWN!".

! ! ! WHACK ! ! !

Eggdog loudly whimpers as he was whacked off from the table by SMG3's arm, and fell onto the wooden floor with a hard oomph. Tari, SMG4 and BEEG gasp in shock for what they had just witnessed, never in a million years would they think that Three would do such a thing to his prized child/pet. Tari quickly runs to Eggdog and gently scoops him back into her embrace, rocking him to try and soothe his innocent cries. She backs away from the aggravated shop owner and faces back towards Four with fear. He ushers Tari to come back here, she takes one last glance at SMG3 and quietly yet swiftly, makes her way back to him. SMG4 picks BEEG off from his tight grasp on his hat and places him behind his legs protectively, he turns to face Tari "Okay Tari, I don't know what's fully happening but I can handle him, take Eggdog back to my castle and tend to him. I have a med kit on one of the top cabinets in the kitchen, I promise that I'll message you when it is safe to come back". Tari shakily nodded her head and softly exited the café, with the injured little Eggdog.

Four made sure that BEEG stayed where he was, before he began to cautiously approach his distressed opposite. As he got closer and closer, he took in Three's defeated form with sadness; the grime, stains and debris on him just screamed uncomfortable, he heard Three's harsh breathing and saw his frozen form shake heavily from emotion. SMG4 outstretched his hand towards SMG3 "Hey...Three? You with me man?" as soon as contact was made onto Three's shoulder, his head snaps to Four's direction, with a grip on the table so hard you can see it's indents, SMG4 quickly retreats his hand and raises both of his arms close to his body, to show Three that he means no harm. "Woah! Woah- sorry, no touching got it" He whispers in defence. Three stares at Four with heavy tears in his eyes ready to run down within the next bink, SMG4 can see the sadness and panic in his eyes, with his smudged make up and puffy red eyes being clear evidence of Three's distress. SMG4 gently starts to approach SMG3 again, this time to lightly touch his hands and looks back at Three to see his reaction, still staring unblinking, Four takes this as a sign to continue with what he was doing, and ever so carefully, picks up both of Three's hands and intertwines them together with his own.

And just like that, as if a strained rope after holding on for so long, SMG3 finally snaps. The tears that have been waiting to fall, suddenly breaks like a dam, Three is beginning to breakdown in front of his ex-nemesis as he lets go of one of their intertwines hands, to cling onto Four's back with desperation as Three sobs his heart out to him. SMG4 pulls SMG3 closer to him and closes his eyes, not caring that he is getting dirty, and whispers sweet nothings to his distraught partner, "Shhh, it's okay Three, it wasn't your fault" "Your alright, I've got you man" "I won't let you go, don't worry bro" as SMG3 listened to the blue lad's comforting words, he fells his legs begin to buckle from the exhaustion catching up to him and from the situation he is currently in. SMG4 opens his eyes and guides their bodies onto the semi clean floor of the café, he brings his free hand up to pet Three's head in a comforting matter, SMG3 snakingly lets go of their remaining intertwined hands and brings it to his mouth, then chomps on it as a form of calming himself, unmistakably drawing blood due to his angular teeth. Noticing this, SMG4 quickly scans the café for anything to help Three stop biting himself and spots one of those chewy necklaces, innocently hanging on a private shelf behind the counter "PPPPSTT! BEEG...BEEEEG!" SMG4 whisper shouted towards his son/pet, who was hanging about kicking rubble and trash on the floor, BEEG looked up to his dad and rolls over to the gay pair giving his dad a 'wtf do you want now' look, SMG4 uses his free hand to point to the black chewy necklace "Can you please reach up there to grab that necklace for me BEEG? I promise to get you ice cream, once this is all over, k?" Four quietly urged at his song/pet, he responds with a pufferfish sound, but was too loud for SMG3 as be begins to rock himself and Four back and fourth. BEEG hops onto the counter and whips out a dino grabber out of thin air and targets its mouth at the necklace, he pulls it's trigger which closed the dino's head on the chewy necklaces' rope and brings it towards himself. BEEG threw the dino grabber to god knows where behind himself, that triggers a distant cat screech and car collision sounds. BEEG rolls off from the counter and back to SMG4, popping the necklace onto his offering palm "Thank you BEEG, now can you please keep a look out and guard the cafe from anyone who isn't Tari or Eggdog? Your the best!" He quietly praised his son/pet petting his head, BEEG rolled his eyes and skedaddled over to the windows to keep a look out.

Four put the necklace within Three's field of view "Three? Do you think you could chew on this, instead of your hand? Please?" With hesitance, SMG3 unlatches his teeth from his self-inflicted injury and put the black necklace on himself and, began to chew it's crystal like shape. Four sighed with relief, but looked out to the door that leads to SMG3's elevator and back to the upset guardian he was cradling. With another sigh, SMG4 gives Three's shoulder two taps to grab his attention "Come on man, let's take this to your room and get you all cleaned up, okay?" SMG3 contemplated in his head for a moment, before shaking his head no, and brought it back to rest on Four's chest "Why not? Can you show me why?" Four asks with confusion in his voice, Three brought his head back out from the source of his comfort, and tried to gesture with his hand to look around themselves, Four looked around the messy café taking in its ruined state, and looked back at SMG3 who had gone back to his previous position "The café? What’s wrong with it? Is it because it's not clean or something?" SMG4 answered to SMG3, who nodded in confirmation, Four huffs sympathetically and lightly smiles "Oh dude, don't worry about what state you café is in right now, you should be more worried about your state right now!" He looks Three up and down, emphasising how he is just as dirty as how his café looks "How about this, I focus on taking care of you first and THEN you can clean your café, but with the help from me and the crew this time! K?" This time SMG3 nods in agreement as he chews at the necklace. Three stops rocking them both, and begins to stand up with Fours help. With a few hiccups and tumbles, the guardians successfully stand up with Four wrapping an arm around Three's shoulders, who curls in on himself defensively. The duo walk towards the backrooms and stop to stand in front of Three's bookshelf, Four extends his hand to feel around the bookshelf, before successfully locating the lever to reveal the hidden elevator. SMG4 leads Three into the elevator first before getting in himself, and pushes the down button as the doors seal them inside.

For what felt like hours, the elevator came to a halt with a ding signalling their arrival with open doors. SMG3 and SMG4 step into the room, with four walking into the room and looking around whilst Three hung back sceptically by the elevator. Four turn back to face Three with a welcoming expression "Would you like any help cleaning yourself? OR um- you can say no! I understand that me seeing you erm- less clothed than usual may make you uncomfortable- OR UHHhh.. just ignore me." SMG4 scrambled for the right words with flailing arms and a big blushing face, but ultimately gave up trying to find the right words out of his blabbering mouth. SMG3 feels a slight tug on his lips, as he lightly smiles at Four's pathetic attempts to speak towards him, he shakes his head in a no motion whilst he fidgets with the black chewy necklace around his neck, but he does point to a dresser in the corner of his room, Four shakes off his embarrassment and turns his head to where SMG3 is pointing "Do you need me to get you some clothes to change into?" he asked Three, he nods in response and begins to shyly walk to his bathroom connected to his bedroom secret evil villain lair. SMG4 got to work and skipped over to SMG3's dresser and pulled out random draws in hops to find some PJ's and undergarments for Three, after some trial and error, along side some questions for later regarding what he found within those draws, he scoped up the clothes he had found and went to join Three in the bathroom.

Four knocked on the bathroom door and opened it to see Three sitting on the closed toilet lit with his head hung low, and hands covering his face. SMG4 frowned at the sight, but placed the clothes on the bathroom sink and sunk down to Three's level "Hey, don't feel bad about yourself, I promise that this doesn't change how I think of you for the worst, I pinkie promise! See?" SMG3 lifts his head off from his head, to see SMG4 staring back at him with his pinkie finger held towards him, Three lovingly blushes at the cute gesture and seals the promise by wrapping his pinkie up with Fours and shaking on it. They both depart from the pinkie promise, as Four stands up with a huff and a crack of his knees, he hangs about the door before waving at Three "I'll set up your bed for you! I know that after today you would want to rest, hope you have a nice shower bye!" Four then closes the bathroom door behind himself, as he leaves SMG3 to do his business.

SMG4 goes to further explore SMG3's room to find if he has what he needs for his special plan to help Three sleep, he finds many pillows, blankets, plushies and a disclosed box that read 'Encase of Emergencies' that included things like fidgets, bandages and weird looking headphones. SMG4 puts all the items in a big pile in the middle of Three's room and pulls out his phone to contact Tari, after a few rings from his phone she picks up "Are you alright SMG4? How is Three?" she asks with a voice full of worry "He's doing a lot better now, so you and Eggdog can come back to the café now" He replies with a smile "Oh what a relief! I'll quickly get Eggdog, he's just resting and has been very good whilst I help him from the accident" She shares the news happily with Four "Oh that's great too hear! But Tari, I need your help when you get back here, meet me inside Three's room and I'll explain what I need you to do" "Of course Four, see you there!". After around 10 or so minutes, the elevator dings and the doors open to reveal Tari with a tired looking Eggdog in her arms and he also has a big bandage patch on the left side of his little egg body. Tari enters the room and places the sleepy Eggdog and her special duck in his dog bed next to the elevator, then gently tucking in the puppy with a blanket as he drifts off to sleep. She joins Four in the middle of the room and takes notice of the massive pile of soft collection that he has gathered "What is all this for SMG4?" she points to the pile "This is what I needed your help with, now what I need you to do it-" He pulls Tari closer to whisper what he needs her help with. The two pull away and nod at each other, before getting to work.

>>>Time Skip<<<

SMG3 puts his arms out onto the sinks rim as he stares at his reflection, his long hair was down and still damp from the shower, his face was naked as he had removed his ruined makeup, had taken out his piercings, he couldn't wear his binder and SMG4 didn't provide him with a bra, and was wearing a shadow the hedgehog T-Shirt that he uses as a nightshirt with black joggers and no socks or gloves, which revealed his black painted nails. He battled with his inner thoughts about the pros and cons of revealing this vulnerable state of himself, but ultimately decided that he didn't care enough in this moment to bother what SMG4 or Tari may think. He grabs the chewy necklace from the bathroom sink and puts it on, before walking towards the door and opens it.

His room had been transformed into the ultimate pillow fort! There was a roof of blankets being held up by furniture around the room and a dream, piles and piles of pillows and plushies with the centre having SMG3's duvet, there was also the emergency box that was surrounded by snacks and drinks that had been brought from upstairs. SMG4 was sitting inside the duvet on his laptop and a fresh pair of pyjamas, Tari had changed into a cozy duck onesie, and was currently exploring the emergency box for all the different kinds of fidgets that were inside and the children/pets were playing hide and seek amongst the towers of pillows, plushies and blankets. This scene warms SMG3's heart, clutching his chest in aw at the thoughtfulness of his friends acquaintances. SMG4 looks up from his laptop from the sound of the bathroom door opening and smiles at SMG3's entrance "Surprise! I thought that we could all hang out together in your room, to make you feel better!" SMG4 blushes and pats the empty spot next to him, opening the duvet to beckon him closer, SMG3 shyly walks over to where Four is welcoming him and sits down next to him as Four covers them both with the warm duvet. SMG4 looks at SMG3, taking in this form of him that he has never seen before, he notices Three's body in a new light with exposing curves and lumps in places he would of never seen before now, beautiful... SMG4 quickly shakes his head from his distraction, furiously blushing away from his undignified actions "Heyyyy Three, glad to see that your feeling better" Four smiles and opens back his laptop "Do you wonna watch a movie or something with me on my laptop?" Tari and the kiddos/pets perk up at the idea of a movie and stop their activates to join the meme guardians besides them. Tari plops herself next to SMG3, cuddling up with her special duck plushie, BEEG SMG4 forcefully pushes himself onto SMG4's lap making him move his laptop off from himself and holds it up in front of him instead, and Eggdog waddles up to his father and longingly stares up to him, SMG3's mouth wobbles as he tries not to cry his eyes out again for remembering what he had done to his precious boy. Three gently picks up Eggdog, being mindful of his injury, and kissing the top of his little forehead before cuddling him close to his soft chest. Seeing this interaction, SMG4 puts a hand on SMG3's shoulder making Three look back up at his fellow meme guarding with tears in his eyes "It wasn't your fault, you weren't in the right headspace at the time, and I think Eggdog forgives you anyways." Tari puts her own hand onto SMG3's other shoulder "SMG4's right Three, don't beat yourself up for what happened today, let's just focus on what's happening now and not the past" Three looks between his two blue... buddies, and sniffles as he whips away his tears and nods in agreements. Tari leans in closer, resting her head on his shoulder whilst SMG4 removes his hand from Three's shoulder, to shuffle his own body closer to Three pressing himself next to him "Now, does anyone have a movie in particular that we can all agree on to watch together?" SMG3 didn't hear what everyone was saying, as he was too busy focusing on savouring this moment, SMG3 turns his head up towards SMG4 and whispers-

"Thank you..."

SMG3's final and first words ever spoken since his meltdown, as he drifts off to sleep, feeling content. SMG4 lightly blushes, and gently pulls the duvet higher to cover Three's body further making sure he was comfortable. After sometime, the group ultimately decided on watching The Spongebob Movie, so Four hits play and the movie begins to play.

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Chapter Text

<<<No POV>>>

It was a fateful Saturday evening in the Showgrounds, as on this peculiar day, it was oddly quite due to the absent of the whole SMG4 Crew. Tari, Boopkins and Melony had all gone together to an Anime Convention, Saiko had invited Meggy and Mario to join her at a rock concert, Luigi was to busy today with demanding orders at "Luigi's Flower Shop", Bob was at a robbery heist with Wario and Waluigi, and even BEEG SMG4 and Eggdog weren't at the Showgrounds today as they were being babysat by their Peepaws SMG1 and SMG2 at their place. This left only SMG4 and SMG3 with the Showgrounds all to themselves, as Saturdays are SMG3's time off from his work as a barista, streamer and overlord whilst SMG4 had already finished today's video schedule upload to his YouTube channel.

Within the castle grounds, inside SMG4's bedroom, two meme guardians can be found existing peacefully together. They have only been official for a handful of months and haven't gotten to third base with each other yet. SMG3 was laying on his back on SMG4's bed, with one arm resting behind it's pillows whilst the other is being used to doom scroll through his phone. Resting bellow on Three's body, was Four, with his head laying on Three's chest and his arms hugging his comfortably cushioned body whilst he rested. The couples caps and gloves were perched together on top of Four's table side, with both of their shoes places next to it. The only sounds that could be heard within the room, was the soft ambiance of SMG4's PC and whatever video's SMG3 was watching on his phone, at a low volume. But this relaxation, doesn't last for long.

<<<SMG4's POV>>>

I ponder to myself for a moment in my mind, on whether to ask Three such a daring question that I am, admittingly, a bit embarrassed to ask him for. Will he freak out? He will probably be disgusted at me for even SUGGESTING such a thing to him? WILL HE LEAVE ME- NO, no he wouldn't, calm the fuck down Four, its Three, he will be relived that I have finally asked something like this to him...probably. I take a deep inhale to calm my nerves, smelling Three's scent in the process, released my breath and turn my head to face him. I am met with NOT Threes face but just the back of his phone, great. I nervously look away from the phone, rethinking doing this... fuck it, we balling "...Hey,Three?" SMG3 spaces back into reality at the sound of his name being called and puts his phone away on the bed somewhere, then faces me- GOD I can already feel my face getting hotter- and hums in acknowledgment. With Three's full attention, I can finally ask him my question "Umm... would it be okay to- BUT uhhh ONLY if you want too o-of course, if we coulllddd... coulld.. u-uhh" I'm blabbering like an idiot over here, WHY CAN'T I JUST SAY IT ALREADY! My face is already burning from my nervousness and now embarrassment from my poor attempt for asks Three to do something with him. Wait, hes...laughing? God I really am pathetic to him aren't I "Dude, you can tell me anything, don't be embarrassed about what you wonna say...buttt keep trying, this is funny as hell, lol" Three said that so...casually? AND WHY IS THIS FUNNY TO HIM GODDD, I punch my head back into his chest to reset my blushing state. I then triumphantly lift my head back up to face him and continue with my request "SMG3, would you be willing to have sex with me, right now?"...he's stunned and not responding- OH GOD I SOUNDED LIKE SUCH A WEIRDOOO! I feel my face burn even hotter than before, so I slam my head back into his chest and squeeze SMG3 tighter... I'm such an idiot.

<<<SMG3's POV>>>

I'm to surprised to speak, all that I can think to say in the moment is "...what?" of all the things that the scrub could of wanted from me, this one in particular... is just... WOW! I never though that the guy would even have the BALLS to ask me that! I've been thinking of asking him the same question, but I never knew when the right timing for it was- or even if he WANTED to have sex in general. I blink back into reality, to feel Four hugging my body tightly, damn- did the scrub really think that he embarrassed himself so bad, over THIS? I give a light-hearted chuckle and bring my free arm to gently caress Four's head, to hopefully encourage him out from hiding. In a short amount of time, Four is slowly lifting his face out from my chest and relaxing his grip from me, I see that his face now only has a slight hint of blush remaining, damn… maybe Four really did believe that his request badly embarrassed himself in front of me. I continue to pet Four's hair, soothing him, then respond back with my reply "Heh, I'm down if your down for it bozo, but, you don't need to get all flustered from asking that, it's totally okay to ask if you want sex and uh- I'm honestly relived that one of us finally said it… heh." I can feel myself grow flustered from being so vulnerable and honest with him...but, that's okay, I'm just glad that he's finally being more open about his needs with me, no matter how dumb he makes them sound.

<<<No POV>>>

SMG4's eyes grow wider with shock and joy from being accepted by Three, he stares at him with love struck eyes who had, somewhere during their conversation, moved his hand over to his scarred cheek to caress it lovingly with his thumb. Three stares back with the same love struck eyes "Welp, let's do the traffic light system for this, you know what it is, right?" Four looks around Three's face whilst he rummages through his brain to remember which colour represents what, he focuses his eyes back onto his partner "Yep!" if SMG4 had a tail, it would defiantly be furiously wagging from his anticipation and excitement. SMG3 darkly chuckles and stops caressing his lovers cheek, but keeps his hand there "Good... now, get in here lover boy!" Three suddenly reaches his other hand from under the pillow onto Fours face, then forcefully pulls him closer to his face, inches apart from touching. The blue meme guardian shortly gasps at the sudden movements, but before he could ask what Three was planning, he had moved his head over to his ear and whispered "Can you even handle me, baby blue?" he finished by nipping his earlobe and moves back to his previous position. SMG4 is furiously blushing at the words, he stutters to make out a response but is pulled again by Three, only this time, into a passionate make out session.

The two fight for control over the kisses, but due to SMG3's cleverness of flustering SMG4 he comes out on top with the power. SMG4 struggles for any sort of dominance, yet embraces the control and unhooks his arms from underneath his partner to hold his face in desperation. SMG3 briefly pulls back from the kiss to allow themselves to gain back their breaths, but then both dive back in for more, getting even more passionate with each sloppy kiss. Cunningly thinking through one of their kisses, SMG3 bites a corner from Four's lower lip, causing him to yelp and open his mouth slightly, Three takes advantage of his lowered defences and shoves his tongue into his partners open lips, Four stutters out submissive whimpers that sends vibrations within their mouths. Whilst Four is distracted with the intense make out, Three untangles their legs to put a knee in between his lover's legs and tests the waters by lightly grinding it onto his clothed crotch. Four opens his eyes in surprise, which he cannot remember closing ,as he lets out another moan sounding loader and more lude than the last. SMG3 combines both tongue and grinding stimulation onto the blue meme guardian, who grows ever more despite and horny the longer he keeps up with these touches.

After a few more minutes, SMG3 has left SMG4 a needing mess. Making lustful noises with every button Three pushes, every grind into his crotch and every satisfying kiss he gives him. They finally pull away completely, with their hanging tongues leaving a long line of their combined saliva as they part. Both guardians are breathing heavily with blushing faces as they stare at each other, with their lidded eyes being full of lust and desire for the other. SMG3 is the first to recover and puts both of his hands onto SMG4's, yanking them away, which forcibly changes their positions with a loud groan from the bed at the sudden shift. Three pins both of Four's hands down onto the bed with an oomph coming from him, his back hitting the bed's surface. Four's eyes widen, as Three is now the one on top of him, grinning down wildly at him with large pupils. With a nervous gulp, Four can feel his throat clam up from how beautiful his partner looks from this angle, but also from his growing anxiety and problem under the belt. The two are panting for air, as their hunger for the other is stealing their breaths away. SMG3 smirks down at his pray, slowly lowering his body down to face SMG4 up close weighing his large body weight onto Four, as the bed creaks from his heavy movements. Four can feel the hot breath coming from his partner as he watches Three's every move, waiting for him to suddenly strike again at him, so he strikes first. SMG4 uses their closeness to lean in forwards with his head to clash another kiss onto his partner, which he gladly receives. With another bite on the lips from Three, he this time pulls away rather than going in for more, leaving SMG4 whining and staring at him with pleading eyes "T-Three, come on... I-I need you" he breaths out, needing to feel Three's lips on his own again.

SMG3 switches from using both hands to pin his prey down, onto just his left hand whilst his other slinks down the bed back onto Four's warm cheek "I know Blue... that's why I'm making you wait for it" SMG4's feels his stomach jump at the pet name and huffs in dissatisfaction of having to wait. "Colour?" Three asks, Four dumbly blinks at what he's being asked for, before suddenly remembering "OH! Sorry, uh- green" with a pat on his cheek, Three takes that response to continue on with his torture. SMG3 moves his hand that was on Four's cheek and the other from his wrists, onto his overall straps to start slowly unlatching the buttons from their hoisters. With some soft creaking from the bed, Three moves his body to be sitting on Four's legs as he tugs down the overalls just above Four’s hips, where he notices the concealed bulge. Three lifts his head back up to Four whose face had somehow gotten even redder and was avoiding to look at him, Three lightly chuckles "Is that a meme in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?" he jokes at SMG4, who lets out a giggle from the horrible joke "You know what that is ya doofus" Three smiles at his response, but gets back to the task at hand by seductively trailing his hands up Four's soft body, stopping a few times to grab and kneed into his pudgy exterior. Meanwhile, Four was trying his absolute hardest not to make any noise, so he used his now free arms to death grip onto the bed sheets and claps a hand onto his mouth to try and snuffle out his pleasured sounds from Three's actions. After what felt like hours to Four, SMG3 came to a halt at the collar of his partner's blue sweater and tugged at it to signal to Four for him to take it off. SMG4 momentarily releases his hands to raise his upper body off the bed's surface, to which Three then grabs both of the sweater's sleeves to heave them off from Four, quickly getting rid of the fabric by chucking it away landing somewhere in the room.

With the now shirtless SMG4, Three takes his sweet time to admire the new scenery before him. His body rolls, stretch marks, flush skin, light body hair and the lightning like scars on the left side of his torso and shoulder, made Three feel dangerously close to marking every inch of his prey's surface with his nails and sharp teeth. SMG3 bites his lips at the gorgeous being before him, rubbing his thighs together for any sort of friction to keep his arousal controlled. He begins to softly kiss and prod at SMG4's body all over, he is delicately kissing a few branches of the lightning scars on Four's body and gently rubbing at Four's love handles, making Four respond with little squeaks and tiny grunts from his mouth. Looking down at Three's kind actions of loving parts of Four's body in areas that he dislikes the most, brings a loving smile to his face and a full heart. SMG4 tries to return back some of the kindness, by petting Three's long locks and moving them out of his face occasionally and also grabbing Three's arm to ground himself. Meanwhile, SMG3 believes that his body can't wait much longer, but also because he thinks that he’s been torturing his boyfriend long enough. He momentarily unclasps their intertwined hands, so he can finally trail himself back down towards SMG4's crotch and unsuspectingly hooks his fingers onto the edges of Fours overalls, with a rash tug he quickly snatches them off, flinging them across the bedroom somewhere.

Four audibly gasps as he is further uncovered and exposed, feeling a little self conscious of his previously hidden insecurities. feeling the distress coming from his boyfriend, SMG3 reels himself up to face him properly "Colour?" this time, SMG4 thinks hard for a moment whether to keep going forward with this. Four wants to but is anxious about doing anything wrong and mess up his and Three's first time with each other minus Snowtrapped. Three is patiently waiting for a response from Four as he soothingly rubs up his partner's thighs, feeling his own anxiety brew at his hesitance to speak. Four gulps, then opens his mouth "G-green..." SMG3, unsatisfied with the unsureness of his voice, counters the answer "Are you sure? Because you can honestly say Red or Yellow if you'd like to stop, I wont be mad at you bro, why would I?" SMG4 twiddles with his fingers for a moment, staring at anything but SMG3 "U-um, well- It's kinda embarrassing actually- I'm kind of nervous that I'll... mess this up? I mean, can you blame me? I usually always fuck up good things." SMG3 brows lower from hearing this, he stops his southings on Four's thighs to reassuringly take both of his hands into his own, reuniting them together, which makes SMG4 finally turn to face him "Dude, it's totally understandable to feel that during sex, but, not if your feeling pressured into screwing it up." SMG3 then giggles "You think sex is MEANT to be perfect? PPFT- hell no. It's messy and awkward, but that's what normally happens, so don't try to make this how stupid society tells you how sex is supposed to be, make it OUR way of doing it, which is perfect just the way it is." SMG4 feels himself tearing up at the words "Damn, didn't know that you could be so sappy Three, thank you" SMG3's face flushes pink "NUH UH! I was only saying the obvious.. b-baka" SMG4 giggles at his tsundere boyfriend and kisses his forehead as a thank you.

"Okay, I'm ready now, uh- green" SMG3 nods his head in acknowledgement and returns back down remove SMG4’s straining boxers. With some cautious moments and creaks coming from the bed, SMG3 successfully removes his partners underwear and plops them down off the bed. SMG3 bites back a moan, gripping his thighs at the fat hard cock in front of him, just waiting to be engulfed by something. SMG4, feeling exposed, tries to cover his privates with his legs by closing them, but is roughly stopped by SMG3 grabbing a hold of both his knees before he could fully close them together “What do you think your trying to do Four? There’s no need to hide from me” his low voice echoes in Four’s ears, gulping at the danger he’s about to be in. SMG3 then spreads out SMG4’s legs wide, before scooting back to lean down to have his face in between Four’s fat thighs. Four quietly moans at the sight before him and grips the covers for dear life, to hold himself back from intrusively throat fucking the purple meme guardian, from this godly angle he is bare witnessing. Trusting SMG4 to not crush his head that are in between his legs, SMG3 releases his grips on Four’s knees to hook them underneath his thighs to hold onto his blue partner’s love handles. With a teasing smirk from Three, he begins to lick a long strip from the base all the way to the tip, tasting his precum before suddenly diving onto Four’s leaking cock. Being startled by the sudden sensation so quick, SMG4 released a load moan that he wasn’t prepared for and quickly puts a hand to his mouth to muffle his lude sounds with. Seeing this, SMG3 releases the cock from his mouth with a pop, leaving SMG4 panting and quivering for more “H-Hey, uh Three…what gives-“ SMG4 was interrupted by the purple meme guardian, who rears up to face him with an intimidating face, shutting Four up instantly “Put those hands away, now, I want to hear all of your whorish noises loud and clear” Four gulps, slowly lowering his hands from his mouth to grip the bed instead. SMG3 purrs at his partner “Good boy for listening~” SMG4 bites back a moan from the praise. Four watches as Three travels back down his body, to engulf his cock with his hot mouth again to continue where he’d left off. After a few more minutes, SMG3 decides to kick things up a notch by diving himself deeper onto SMG4’s warm dick, getting himself to reach the hilt. SMG4 is trying his absolute hardest to keep his noises restrained with Three deepthroating him, as he takes sharp inhales between his whimpers and whines, death gripping his sweaty bedsheets. Gradually, Four can feel his dick build up an intense feeling within him, making him thrash his head from side to side and his voice grow louder "f-fUCk~...T-Three I'm g-getting ~nggh~ cloSE" Four's voice breaks as he struggles to warn Three of his incoming climax. Taking note of Four's words, SMG3 speeds up his head bobbing, seeing and feeling SMG4's body struggle to hold back any longer, but before SMG4 could get his sweet release SMG3 stops and withdraws his head from the dick engulfed in his mouth. Feeling frustrated, SMG4 grunts out angrily and grabs onto the top of Three's head, tangling his fingers in his partner's obsidian hair "THREE! Why did you sto-". Before Four could finish his sentence, SMG3 roughly grabbed his offending hand to pin it to SMG4's side "ExCUSE me? Did I give you permission to touch me?" Three darkly chuckles and raises himself to loom over SMG4, who stares into Three's dangerous eyes and shakes his head "That's what I thought, bitch".

Happy with his partner's submission to him, SMG3 reaches over to SMG4's bedside draws to pull out a bottle of lube. Closing the draw, he then hands the bottle to the flustered blue meme guardian "Hold this for me" without any questions, Four grabs the bottle and waits for Three's next instructions. SMG3 scoots back from SMG4, letting him sit up onto his elbow. Ever so slowly and seductively, SMG3 starts removing his clothes one by one. He first slips a hand underneath one side of his dark overall straps and delicately slithers out of it, he does the same to the other but stares into SMG4's eyes as he does so seeing him physically restrain himself from touching SMG3. He than teasingly trails his hands up from the insides of his plump thighs to his chest and latches onto the overall's sides, then slowly pulls them down to hips. SMG4's eyes wander all over Three's body, biting his lower lip as he whimpers out from his denial to touch his stunning partner. SMG3 pops open each of his purple shirt's buttons delicately, feeling Four's stare intensify as each one is removed. SMG3 shrugs off his shirt and tosses it over the bed with the other clothes. Free from the shirt's hold, SMG3's black binder is exposed to which he also removes with a slow drag of its zipper and plops it over the side of the bed. SMG4's eyes widen at his partner's exposure, feeling lucky for himself to be witnessing this, to be seeing his battle scars and sleeper build arms, he grips the bed even harder as he watches Three's boobs bounce as he crawls over to him from his movements. "Four, I am giving you permission to touch me, BUT only to use this-" he points to the lube bottle that he had given Four earlier "-to take those fingers of yours and stretch me open" Four blushes at the command and freezes, he quickly comes back to his senses to nod his head enthusiastically "O-okay" Four meekly responds "Good boy~" SMG3 pats his head softly and continues to strip off his remaining clothes. SMG4's dick twitches at the praise, and clumsily tries to open the bottle of lube whilst SMG3 finishes stripping. Feeling impatient, Three hastily removes the rest of his overalls and slinks off his underwear and throws them off the bed on the growing pile of clothes. Three sighs at the feeling of his vaginal fluid's drip out of his needy body, flicking his eyes up to Four, who was now in a sitting position, had successfully put lube onto his fingers which were dripping with it's substance. Smirking, Three crawls back over to Four and grabs his shoulders to roughly drag them both onto the bed with a loud thud and groan from it. SMG4 was now on top of SMG3 who was laying on his back, gripping onto his shoulders harder and more painfully Three whispers into Four's ear "Get to work then, scrub" Three than shoves his partner off from him. SMG4 stumbles to regain his bearings, before clocking in what he's been asked to do.

SMG4 takes in the view that's in font of him, seeing Three's stretchmarks on his legs, arms and tummy, his perfectly plump figure and heavy body hair being what catches Four's eyes. SMG4's gaze shifts from Three's eyes, to his voluptuous womanhood and then to his lubricated fingers. Four takes some deep breaths, steadying himself before finally advancing onto Three's awaiting body. With some encouraging looks from Three, Four leans down to cautiously present his coated pointer and middle finger up to the plump pussy that was awaiting them and slowly, slid them inside its walls. Four could feel his fingers being squeezed, as Three's body contracted to try and adjust for his large fingers but by the look on his face, Three seems to be losing his dominance from its pleasure. SMG4 meekly smirks at this and proceeds to scissor and stroke at Three's inner walls, breaking down his dominance the longer he goes on for.

Meanwhile, SMG3 had flung one of his arms over his forehead and the other one gripped at SMG4's head, for any form of control that he had left over the blue guardian. Three softly huffs and puffs as he looks down at Four with lidded eyes, feeling his body build up from the stimulation. SMG3 was mentally readying himself to stop Four so he doesn't cum early, but before he could, SMG4 took his free hand's thumb and began to circle at Three's clitoris. Jolting up and gasping out a moan, Three feels his face heat up from embarrassment and looks down to see Four's clear smug expression. With a frustrated groan, Three springs himself away from Four and roughly rearranged their positions to have Four sitting upright and Three planting himself right in front of his partner, their bodies touching. Three reaching out a hand to caress his cheek "You must think that you’re soooo strong, for believing that you've overpowered me just then?" Three than grips his cheek, pulling Four in closer as he glares at him "Well. you. haven't" Before Three continues with his antics, Four intercepts "E-erm, hey Three colour?" Three's expression softens at this "Green, obviously dork, what about you?" Four sticks his hands out to do two thumbs ups "Same!" They both exchange a laugh out of this. SMG3 retracts his hand from his partner's face and onto his own with a puzzling expression "Hmm, now where was I...OH yeah- THIS!".

Three's face suddenly turns into a mischievous one, as he quickly hops onto Four's lap with a thump and pulls out a condom from thin air like it was a magic. Three tears open the packet with his teeth and rolls the condom onto Four's cock. Three than comes to have a reality check, that this is really happening. He feels a jolt of anxiety course through him, but as soon as he meets Four's caring eyes it all melts away. Taking a deep breath, he leans into his boyfriend to plant a meaningful kiss onto him, whom gladly returns it ten fold. They gently pull away "Love you, Blue" Three blushes at his openness "I love you too, Purple" Four replies as he peaks a kiss onto his partner's forehead. They lock eyes one final time as Three steadies himself over Four's awaiting cock, SMG3 then slowly lowers his wet entrance towards SMG4's dick, who helps guide it by holding onto it with one of his hands as it begins to enter Three. Feeling the sudden stretch of his clit's walls that's taking in the fat cock bellow him, makes SMG3 gasp and groan at every centimetre he swallows in whilst Four pants at the sensation.

Finally, SMG3's body had successfully taken in SMG4's fat 6 inch cock, making Three already feeling overwhelmed by its sheer volume. The two lovers take a minute to adjust, whilst SMG3 softly pants and whines to himself, trying to make himself as quite as possible "H-hah~ this, is n-nothing" Three stutters out, lying through his teeth down at Four. Not believing him for a minute, SMG4 speaks up "Then why haven't you started yet?" he smugly says with a mischievous glint in his eyes. Three's eyes widen as he's been caught, but shrugs it off "WOW! Impatient are we? I was just uhm- catching my breath dumbaAAhhSSSS!! F-FUCK YOU LITTLE SHIT!" SMG3's words were rudely interrupted as he rips out a loud moan, because Four had sneakily rocked his hips upwards plunging his dick somehow even deeper within Three's walls. SMG3 glares down dangerously at SMG4 "Oh, so you wonna play dirty do ya? Well... I'll show you dirty". SMG4 suddenly regrets his poor choices.

SMG3 roughly latches onto his offender's upper arms to steady himself, then heaves himself up from Four's dick and crashes back down with the sound of clapping skin following it. Rhythmically, Three keeps up his brutal plunges as he reluctantly lets out small mewls, moans and grunts with each drop. Meanwhile bellow him, Four is gripping onto his sweat soaked bedsheets for dear life as he resents trying to instinctively hold his beautiful partner, he helplessly watches with wanting eyes and longing whimpers. Continuing with his repetitive movements, Three dips his head into SMG4's neck and bites, hard. Snapping open his eyes, SMG4 shakily screams out a surprised moan that dies down into soft groan at his partners sudden bite. SMG3 continues marking his territory with bites and hickeys all over SMG4's upper body, leaving him shaking and moaning for more. Eventually, SMG3's pace slows down as he feels his legs fail to keep up with his bouncing before they finally give out. "Need me.. to continue.. for you?" SMG4 slowly breaths out, peaking from SMG4's neck Three nods his head "But remember scrub, I'm still the boss here so hands to yourself, got it?" Four excitingly nods his head and gently holds onto Three's back as he moves them both down, with SMG3's back hitting the bed bellow.

With all his pent up frustration and denial from loving his partner, Four doesn't hold back any longer. The blue meme guardian lifts his counter parts legs up onto his hips, braces his hands besides Three and starts brutally fucking him. Gasping at the fast pacing, Three swiftly moves his arms and legs to be digging into Four's back as he fails to control his volume anymore, letting out loud moans and wails of need out to Four. "f-FUCK, ffFFUCK~, FUuUHUHuUUCKK~!" SMG3 cursed out squeezing his eyes shut as he feels each one of Four's poundings "C-Check mate..hah~" SMG4 teasingly said through his blinding pleasure, Three gasps "H-hey AAh-S-shit man, That's m-my-AHHhhhm... my line!" Four shakily giggles at Three's struggle to respond.

After a couple of more minutes past, Three feels his insides turn as he nears his release. Three unlatches a hand from Four's back to roughly grab his ear, who yelps out, and pull him close "FUCK ME HARDER- I-I'M CLOSE" Three then resumes his previous position, clutching on even tighter which leaves harsh red marks behind on Fours back. Complying to his partner's command, Four speeds up his pace making Three scream out in pleasure and bites down on SMG4's shoulder as he finally releases his built up orgasm, feeling his cum gush out from within him and make wet squelching sounds as Four continues to thrust out for his own orgasm. "K-Keep going- fuuccckkkhmmm~" Three tells Four unlatching his slightly bloody mouth from Four's neck, despite the overstimulation. Nodding his head, Four reaches for his build up with an unrhythmic pace. Finally, Four screams out a slutty moan as one deep final plunge pushes him over the edge as he cums into the condom.

Four collapses onto his partner, as the two lay there spent out of energy in their own sweat. They lie their with their eyes closed and heaving for air as they try to regain their senses. Four lazily lifts his head up from inside Three's bosoms "Did I do good?" Three huffs and tilts his head to see Four's awaiting gaze, he smiles and sluggishly lifts a hand onto his partner's now sweaty and messy hair "Ya did good Four, ya did good". The two guardians lay their content with what they had just done.

SUDDENLY

The two snap open their eyes in fear as they hear heavy footsteps of multiple people entering the castle, followed by laugher and meme sounds. Three and Four look into each others eyes in realisation "Shit" they say at the same time, before they scramble to unlatch themselves and get dressed as everyone had returned to the castle at the same time.

[Art goes here]

Unfortunately, until further notice there wont be any featured art of the chapter that I make, as my iPad has randomly decided that it's time is up. But please be patient until I get a new iPad or my currant one is repaired so that I can make the art. Thank you.

14/6/25 Update - IVE FINALLY GOT AN IPAD AGAIN RAHHH- art will be released soon x

Chapter Text

<<<No POV>>>

Summer has finally arrived in the Mushroom Kingdom, meaning that all the summer fun of beach days, swimming and sunny days have come along with it. Unfortunately, this 'summer fun' comes with the obvious draw back of the temperatures rising and for this year in particular, was starting off as being the hottest day of the year.

Within the new Showgrounds, all of the SMG4 crew can be found scattered around SMG4's newly built castle's main lobby with a wide variety of methods that are helping them cool off. Luigi and Tari are sitting in front of a fan, Luigi's hat had been taken off so that he can use it as a temporary fan whilst Tari had taken off her jacket and is holding an ice pack onto her robotic arm, so Clench doesn't overheat. Meanwhile, Bob and Mario have done the same but to the extreme, with them being surrounded by fans that were probably stolen by to cool themselves down. Melony had taken advantage of her 'Melon Form' and had transformed herself back into her watermelon self to sit inside an Ice Chest. Boopkins had somehow turned into fried fish from the heat. Meggy and Saiko were currently fighting tooth and nail, over who gets the last ice cream. And finally, SMG3 and SMG4 were focused on keeping their kids/pets cool, with SMG3 treating his Eggdog with cold beverages and his own personal hand fan that Three was holding for him, whilst BEEG SMG4 had forced his father to cool him down with a giant palm leaf fan.

The surrounding sounds of fans spinning, were drown out by a loud sigh coming from a sweaty and tired purple meme guardian "SMG4, why the hell couldn't your castle be built with GOOD air conditioning?" Four sluggishly turns his head to make an accusing face at Three "Well, why aren't YOU back at the Internet Graveyard? Can't your subjects just cool you down?" Three was about to object, then gives up knowing that Four will probably not believe why he can't do that and because of the heat making him to hot to fight back "I just can't okay" Three shivers at the events that were happening back at the Graveyard.

~Flashback~

SMG3 was currently standing at a far enough distance to see the chaos that the Internet Graveyard was in. A large majority of the dead meme residents had somehow started a civil war with each other due to this heatwave. There were random things on fire like housing, trees and even the dead memes. Lasers, bombs, canons and guns were firing everywhere. The Ugandan Knuckles had been trying to spit on the other residents to cool them down, which they obviously didn't like and started to argue with the red echidnas causing them to overdramatically declare war over the Graveyard. This is what SMG3 saw when he went to try and start his day before getting bombarded by angry memes and destruction to his beloved Starbucks home. SMG3, knowing that he can barely survive already from this heat entrusted the elder's and SMG1&2 to deal with this mess, then opened a portal to the Showgrounds.

~End of Flashback~

SMG4 shrugged off Three's behaviour before calling the crews attention upon himself "Alright team! We need a better way to cool ourselves down from this hellish day, any ideas?". The crew think among themselves for a moment, to brainstorm off from each other's ideas? "What about the pool?" Melony quipped, the rest of the crew shakes their heads no as Tari, Meggy, Bob SMG3 and SMG4 didn't want to or can't be in the water. Mario raises his hand "Yes Mario?" says SMG4 "What if we all justa go somewhere, thats NOT hot! Like the icy place with an igloo" Three and Four glance at each other with knowing looks, they both proceed to slap Mario across the room. SMG3 sighs again and face palms himself "Do ANY of you bozo's have even a decent idea of what we can do?". Hearing this, Boopkins somehow uncooks himself back into his fishy self and waves to grab the crews attention "OH OH! What about a beach day! I always see the people having fun and cooling down by the beach in my anime!" The crew for once, agree with one of Boopkins ideas "A beach day sound perfect!" "I'm down for that" "YIPPEE BEACH DAYYY!" Rounds of excited comments are flung around between the group of friends at the idea of a beach day, all except for one blue meme guardian.

Whilst the crew is distracted, SMG4 tries to quietly slither out from the group and back to his room, but before he could touch his room's doorknob Mario pops up next to him "Where are you goin S-M-GEE-4?" Hearing this the crew look to where the two are, Four can feel the sweat from the heat and from his anxiety fall from his face "ME! O-Ooohh uhh me? Welllllll I'm just....uhhh" Four looked between each of his friend's faces sceptically, trying to think of an excuse as to why he's retreating to his room "Well you see, I was -um just... getting my beach stuff of course! With this heat we'd want to go right away! Right?" Four mentally wants to punch himself in the face after saying that. The crew smiled "That sounds great Four! Let's all meet back here when were ready" Meggy said. The crew then began to leave and discussed amongst one another of what their going to bring and what their wearing before walking out the castle doors to get ready, all except for one purple meme guardian.

<<<SMG4's POV>>>

I waved everyone goodbye as quick as a could before slinking inside my room and shut the door closed, sliding myself down the door to curl in on myself. Why did I say that? Stupid brain! I impulsively hit myself in the head before I felt tears being shed from my eyes. I harshly whip them away with the back of my palms, then pushed myself off from the ground to walk around and think. What am I going to do? I can't go out there looking like...like.. well THIS? I frown at myself, standing in front of my bedroom mirror with a hand on my hideously scared faced from my past idiocy. My eyes shift to my middle, seeing how my big and disgusting my stomach will look without my overalls hiding it's secrets that are littered on my entire body. I find my other hand grabbing at the fat, seeing it jiggle disgusts me. But before I could wallow in my self pity I hear a knock coming from my door. Who could that be? I shake myself out from my trace to respond back in a cheery tone "Whooooo is it!". "Its Three dumbass, let me in." My face lights up from hearing my partner's voice, without hesitation I skip to the door and open it to let him inside. I see a light smile on his lips as he sees me, he closes the door behind him and then goes to cup my scarred cheek but before he could touch it, I pull away "Hey Four, you doing okay?" Oh shit I just pulled away from him, uhhh cant make him suspicious of me. I reach for his hand to make it cup my other cheek instead "Yeah, of course I am! Why wouldn't I be?" I nervously chuckle, oh god I am such a bad liar. I see Three's smile fade as he gently rubs my cheek and had somehow put his other hand on my waist- wait, MY WAIST? I try to unsuspiciously redirect that hand into my own, to intertwine our hands instead. I think Three definitely noticed me doing that.. fuck "Four, we all know that your a terrible liar" God he's so good at asking the WRONG questions, Jesus Christ I can't with this right now, ESPECIALLY not with him. I tug away from the touches, seeing the disappointment in my partner's face making me feel more guilty than I already do. "I'm GREAT Three, I don't need you worrying about me anymore than you already do now, thank you" That sounded a bit harsh- BUT ITS TRUE! Ever since.... that happened, he's been watching over me like a flipping HAWK at any chance he can! I can see the cogs turn in Three's head as he tries to think of what to say to me... I can see that he doesn't want his next words to hurt or offend me. "Well... If your so sure-" HUH? He's not going to dig into it! YESSS- my mental celebration is cut short as Three continues on "-BUT, we are going to have a talk about this, after the beach" God damn it, I knew there would be a catch. Three steps closer to me, putting his firm hands on my shoulders "Okay?" I nod back, not meeting his gaze "Promise?" Three holds out one of his pinkies to me, I giggle at the gesture and hesitantly latch my own onto his and we shook pinkies "I promise" Three's smile appears back on his face as I finally look back at him. He softly kisses my forehead before he departs from me "Don't take too long now, k? You literally LIVE where we are all meeting, so NO excuses scrub." Three jokes as his hand touches my rooms doorknob, I chuckle back, feeling light from his presence "I'll try" With one last glace back at me, he's out the door. I slowly feel the darkness creep back to me without Three's light, I hug myself as I mentally prepare for what's dreading to come.

>>>Time Skip<<<

<<<No POV>>>>

All of the SMG4 crew had finally regrouped back at the Showground's castle, with all of them dressed and packed ready for the beach. Mario and Luigi wore matching sets, with them both wearing Hawaiian shirts cargo shorts, no gloves or caps, sandals and sunglasses. But Mario's shirt was unbuttoned and was red with a white floral pattern, his shorts were beige and wore white sandals, and his sunglasses had a pineapple shaped outline. Whereas Luigi's shirt was buttoned up except for the top one and was duck egg blue with flowers cornered all around, that varied in many different pastel colours, his shorts and sandals were dark brown and wore white ankle socks with them, and he wore gold rimmed oval sunglasses. Boopkins barely changed his outfit, but swapped his socks and geta for Hatsune Miku crocs, and wore a matching Hatsune Miku Abisko sun hat. All Bob did was wear a pear of Dank Glasses. Saiko wore a pink bikini set that was a halter triangle bra and tie side bottom 2 pieces bikini, with a beach hat that had a pink silk ribbon tied around it into a bow at the back and a long pink silk wrap skirt with a peach gradient that was tied in a big bow which exposed almost all of her left leg, she wore beige pump sandals that had black woven straps, thick black square sunglasses and her hair was styles to make two low space buns. Melony wore a swimsuit with the same pattern as her hoodie on it, honeydew melon coloured crocs and melon shaped sunglasses. Meggy was geared up in arm bands and a life jacket, over her UV rash guard swimsuit, with a black front and orange camouflage patterns along her arms and the sides of her swimsuit, she wore her signature headphones with a black sport cap and also some black flip flops, her hair was also tied up into a ponytail that was stick out through the back of her hats adjustable strap. Tari wore her usual tank top and shoes, but underneath wore a duck themed swimsuit and trunks along side duck theme sunglasses, she also put cute mini sunglasses onto her duck plushie. SMG3 wore black trunks with his iconic logo patterned onto them, black square sunglasses and flipflops with little skulls on the top of the toe posts, he also wore his signature purple shirt as a jacket exposing his black tube top with his signature logo printed on it's back, Three's hair was also put into a low messy bun with strands that had escaped resting next to his face, SMG3 had also removed his cap and gloves. Eggdog wasn't currently wearing his swimwear, but SMG3 had packed for him a pear of clear goggles and a bone patterned floaty for him. SMG4 had dressed BEEG SMG4 in a blue short sleeved zip up swimsuit with his signature blue cap and BEEG had somehow found mini Dank Glasses.

The door to SMG4's room cracks open, as someone looks out to see the exciting faces of his friends all gathered together for the beach. SMG4 sighs as he wills his mind to grudgingly open his door wider to join with the crew. Hearing the door open, SMG3 sighs "Four, didn't I tell you to not take too-" he cuts his sentence off as he sees SMG4 "...long?" The crew all turn around to see what SMG3 was so stunned at, as they all gain confusion on their faces at what SMG4 is wearing. Four hadn't changed out of his usual outfit into something more weather appropriate. Meggy steps forward to confront her friend "Um Four? Where's your summer attire?" SMG4 scratches his head nervously "W-Well, I thought that I'd get changed at the beach you know? I know it's not uhh... the IDEAL thing to do but, trust me?" The crew look amongst each other with concerned faces "Um, well alright! As long as you promise to get changed later than I don't mind" Meggy says looking back to the crew who nod their heads in agreement, Mario than jumps to be in front SMG4 "Yeah bro, wouldn't want your PENGAS to catch on fire like it does for Mario!" SMG4 giggles at this and pats his friends shoulder "True, wouldn't want that to happen to me" Four grabs his SMG4 themed backpack that he had prepared for the trip "Alright gang, lets roll!" Everyone explains in excitement and all go to grab their luggage to follow SMG4 out the castle, but SMG3 and Meggy both look exchanged worried looks at each other as they follow behind.

>>>Time Skip<<<

After an hour long road trip that was filled with chaos, laughter and games the SMG4 crew had finally arrived at the beach. SMG4 had parked his minivan, that he had magically spawned in with the clap of his hands, in the carpark that the beach provided. SMG4 takes a deep reassuring breath, then puts on a smile and whips his head to face everyone in the back of the vehicle "WHOS READY FOR THE BEACH!" Four exclaimed, the crew all rejoice and cheer with excitement as they all begin to hurry out the van with their belongings. Before SMG4 could exit, a hand stops him. SMG4 flinches at the touch and cautiously turns his head to find that it was SMG3's hand. "Three?" Four says as he fully turns himself around, to face his secret partner and takes his hand that was on him to interlock it with his own hand "You need something?". SMG3 stares at his partner with a face that screams 'worrisome' "Yeah, I'm just checking up on you, I MEAN- you looked spaced out the whole drive here? What's wrong?" SMG4's smile falters as he feels his anxiety brew "Well...erm- sorry I'm just...not all here today" Four shies his face away from Three's direction as he speak to him. The grip on the guardian's intertwined hands tightens from their combined anxiousness "Well... care too tell me why?" SMG4 hesitates on his words and instead looks into Three's awaiting gaze "U-um..It's just that I uh...umm-" a sudden slapping sound and collision comes from the windscreen, interrupting SMG4's blabbering. The pair turn to see a pancake splattered Mario staring at them both, they quickly scatter away from each other like the plague and both finally exit the van. Mario recomposes himself to happily join SMG4, SMG3 sighs looking at Four sadly "What's up with you Four..." he whispers under his breath. Meggy approaches next to him and puts a reassuring hand on his shoulder, making Three jolt up in surprise and glares at the human turned inkling "Don't worry Three, if anyone can get through to Four, its us!". Three's face softens "Yeah...your right" The two trail behind from everybody else as they enter the beach.

With some trial and error, the crew had set up their beach equipment of chairs, towels, food and drinks, beach umbrellas and windbreaks, and even a striped yellow and white empire bathing tent for when someone wants to change into or out from their swimwear. SMG4 stares at the tent from a distance, like its going to suddenly run and attack him. Meggy happily runs over to Four from their setup area, and pulls the blue lad to her side by his waist "Hey Four! You gunna go get changed now?" She says, pointing to where the tent is. Feeling uncomfortable, Four nervously laughs and gently unlatches Meggy's hand from his being "Well, I would Meggy...buuutttt- BEEG SMG4 needs to have sunscreen put on him" Four whips out the sunscreen that he had packed in his bag "Wouldn't want him to get sunburned!" Before Meggy could stop Four, he was already gone and trying to hold down his pet/son, to put the sunscreen on him. And so...it begins.

>>>Montage<<<

With a few battle wounds from BEEG, Four had successfully coated BEEG SMG4 in sunscreen to protect him from the suns rays. SMG3 than came up towards him to tell him to go change, but was shushed by his partner for the excuse of 'he left something in the car' and, with hast, travelled back to the minivan. The purple meme guardian holds the bridge of his nose, in stress for his other half.

As Four approached the minivan, he was bombarded with the sound of accusing screams of Bob and Saiko. Four approached them cautiously too see a deflated volley ball on the ground which was, most likely, caused by Bob's sword hands. SMG4 smiles and snaps his fingers, whipping out his own volley ball that he had brought with him. This breaks his two hot-headed friends out from their argument, who happily thank Four and ask him if he'd want to come play volley ball with them. SMG4 kindly refuses, and blames how he can't right now because he needed to use the bathroom. The two were about to say something, but realise that the blue lad had already travelled off to find the bathroom.

On his way back to the crew's beaching spot, he sees Tari exploring the beach looking for cool rocks, stones and sea shells. But before he continues walking again, he spots an intimidating Koopa Paratroopa and Chargin' Chuck approaching her and start to question her. Not wanting things to get ugly, Four walks over and protectively pulls Tari away from the two and sheilds her behind him. The two offenders faces suddenly fell when they see Four, and hurry to flee from them. Turning back to Tari, Four asks if she's okay. She nods and thanks him, but before he could leave she tenderly grabs one of his arms so that she could gift him with a small sized smooth grey stone. He smiles and thanks Tari for the stone, waving her goodbye.

As Four finally returns back to their beaching spot, he sees Melony trying her best to rest under the sun but can't seem to get quite comfortable. Seeing her distress, Four can the causes of her uncomfortableness right away, because she wasn't wearing sunscreen or had a beach umbrella for shade. SMG4 scavenges through his bag to find a spare beach umbrella that he had packed, just in case, and stakes it into the ground next to Melony. He than offers to help her put the sunscreen on her, she smiles at Four's kindness and gladly accepts her friends help. He does her face, arms and back but gives her the option to do her legs herself or for him to do it. She declines and thanks Four again for his help and offers him a cold beverage from the cooler next to her, but when she turns back to give Four the drink he had already left her, to go sit on his resting area.

As Four sat down under the shade to pull out his phone, Boopkins shutters over to interrupt him for something. SMG4 asks what the problem was, and Boopkins says how everyone is busy doing something fun to not order him a cool anime themed drink, that is being sold at a bar that this beach has. The bar couldn't serve him, because he is too short and didn't bring his ID to order it himself. SMG4 pats him on the head and offer's to order it for him and asks for what the drink is called. Boopkins thanks SMG4 over and over of how grateful he was for this, and tells him its name. Four nods, writing it down on the Notes app in his phone before departing once again.

>>>End of Montage<<<

Back at the crew's beach site, everyone but Luigi and the pets/children gather back together in a circle to discuss about their dear friend, SMG4.Meggy steps forwards "I'm just gunna say what we are all thinking here, but what is UP with SMG4 today?" The crew all nod in agreement murmuring to one another. They all exchange their unusual experiences that they've all been having with Four today "I KNOW RIGHT! That scrub ran off back to the minivan because he "forgot something" before I could even get the change to TALK TO HIM?" SMG3 racks out, Saiko and Bob follow up from Three's experience "Yeah man, me and this pink bitch over here were having a nice conversation-" Bob was then bonked harshly on the head by Saiko, so she could rightfully correct him "Well ACTUALLY, this dumbass over here popped our volley ball and we were arguing about it, but conveniently, SMG4 came up to us and offered his own ball that he had brought with him." Bob shakes his head back into shape and continues "Bro than walked away from us after that, because he needed the "bathroom", not cool bro". Tari pipes up, clutching her duck "Yeah, I was in a... rough situation and Four was around to protect me..." Meggy gasps, then goes over to her for a comforting embrace "Were you getting picked on Tari? Didn't you learn use the techniques my coaching?" Tari rapidly shakes her head and pulls away to defend herself "YES!... W-well, not exactly, I was standing my ground- like you tell me to- but, then they got the better of me...sorry" Meggy sigh's and continues to hug her...friend. "HEY! YOU TWO SHOULD KISS!" Mario shouts out towards Meggy and Tari, they quickly pull away blushing and acting like nothing happened. With another bonk on the head from Saiko, Melony continues the story "For me, I was struggling to get comfortable in the Sun but couldn't, but luckly SMG4 came to my rescure to help!" She then sheepishly rubs her neck in embarrassment "He realised that I uh... that I hadn't put sunscreen on OR had shade.. woops hehe" The crew all mentally face palm at Melony's forgetfulness, especially SMG3 who laughs at her misfortune "So then Four helped me by providing me with an umbrella and sunscreen! I thought he was just being a good friend...but, I guess there's a reason behind his helpfulness now" Melony frowns at the thought of her friend possibly being upset abut something. Suddenly, SMG3 looks around frantically "Uh- guys?" The crew all turn their attention towards Three, seeing his distress "Where IS SMG4?". Before the crew could begin to panic, on where their blue friend's location, Boopkins speak up "OH, I know where he is guys don't worry!" They all turn to face him with panicked expressions, then Bob sweeps the fish up in his arms, shaking him "TALK FISH, TAALLLKK" Saiko, yet again, comes to the rescue and bonks Bob on the head again, releasing Boopkins. He dusts himself off and points over to the direction he saw SMG4 head off too "He's over at the beaches bar! I told him how you guys were all busy and couldn't get this cool drink for me, so he offered to buy it for me! What a good friend he is!" The crew all awkwardly stand around, realising that they shunned Boopkins out to have fun, Meggy speaks on behalf of the crew "We're all sorry Boopkins, we will make it up to you! But right now, SMG4 needs us more". Everyone nods in agreement, Mario quickly tells his brother to watch the kids/pets and the crew set off to confront SMG4.

<<<SMG4's POV>>>

After some side tracking- because I found a cool rock and forgot what I went over here to do- I found the bar that Boopkins told me about. I began walking over there, feeling my clammy sweaty body cringe at every step, I hate this feeling it's so GROSS! As I finally stood in front of the bar, I noticed how there was no bartender well, attending, at the moment which was HELLA annoying. I felt so fed up and sigh out loudly, before taking out my phone to look at some memes- Jesus Christ it's hard so see what is on my phone without sunglasses. Because I was squinting to see what was on my phone as I waited for the bartender to appear, I fail to notice see the people who had approached me. My struggles were only just starting, as my phone got suddenly slapped out of my flipping hand! How rude. I gasp and look up at my offender, ready to speak but before I could say a WORD... I got roughly grabbed by my offender and shoved to behind building. I blindly throw punches at them, before getting stopped as they grabbed both of my wrists to push me harshly against the buildings wall. I finally take notice of my surroundings, instantly recognising the faces in front of me as the Chargin' Chuck and Koopa Paratroopa from earlier. The Chargin' Chuck intensifies his grip on me, turning the hold from bearable to painful- I am so scared right now. The Paratroopa flies over to hover in front of my face, ew does his breath is RANK. "Well Well Well, If it isn't 'Mr. Hero' from earlier ay' Chad" Chad the Chargin' Chuck was larger than me, who wasn't a noraml Chuck as he was a green version of the typical blue tacklers. Chad snickers "Hehe yeah, your right Howie-" Chad was cut of with a slap to the back of his head from 'Howie'. He leans into Chad's ear(?) to whisper something, but I can still hear what he's saying, because he's literally right in front of me "I told you to call me CRIMSON, Chad! CRIMSON! I hate that stupid name 'Howie' it makes me sound less intimidating, you dumbass". Crimson was a red shelled Koopa Paratroopa, who wore black spiked collar and bracelet on his left wrist and neck. The Koopa also had a spiked shell like Bowser, with dark red accents and eyeliner under his eyes. I snicker at his emo ass name, but I quickly shut my mouth in regret as Crimson snaps his head back to face me, with a pissed expression... oh boy. Crimson slowly approaches me "Is my name... funny to you, fatass?" I feel my stomach drop from the attention and insult "U-Um.. no?" Crimson was now so close, that his beak was touching my nose, making me feel even more extremely uncomfortable than I already was. A sharp pain beats from the right side of my face, making me let out a surprised shout from its impact, Crimson had just backhanded slapped me.

My head was suddenly grabbed before I could even move it from the slaps whiplash. I was than unwillingly moved to face Crimson, who was the one holding my head, to face him. I can feel myself sweat from both fear and heat, gross. "I beg to differ, but my name isn't what you should be focusing on right now. What YOU should be focusing on right now-" Crimson bashes my head against the wall, making me yelp out in pain from the impact "-is for. Your. LIFE" I gasp in terror, oh god- ARE THEY GUNNA KILL ME?? I ain't dying to these chumps? I've faced literally WORLD ENDING VILLAINS! Crimson releases my head, but my brief freedom isn't for long as Crimson signals something at Chad. He responds to this, by switching to pinning me against the wall with only one hand, whilst Crimson pulls out a damaged iPhone from his red shell. "Now, hearing that your thinking that we're going to KILL you, right?" Crimson impatiently waits for my response, I nervously look around to think "Well..yeah? Who woul-" I get cut off AGAIN, by another slap to the face, making me yell out louder from it being on the same cheek. I feel tears threaten to fall from the harsh treatment, god damn it- why do I have to be so sensitive to EVERY. LITTLE. THING. "DO NOT SASS ME! But no, were not" Crimson then scrolls to find something on his phone "But...you'd wished we'd had" I brainstorm in my head all the possible things that they're going to do to me, are they gunna torture me? Rape me? KIDNAP ME? My questions were answered, when I see Crimson turning his phone to face me.

My YouTube channel...

Oh shit, they know who I am... fuck. "SMG4? Right? Is that even you 'real' name? Come on, what is it really? I bet it's something stupid like 'Luke'" Crimson and Chad laugh at me, I don't know what to do, do I answer them? I don't wonna get slapped again "Well actually, SMG4...is my real name?" The pair blink dumbly for a moment, before bursting out in a fit of laughter "HAHAA! NO WAY! YOUR PARENTS MUST OF HATED YOU TO NAME YOU THAT! HAHAA!" Crimson points at me whilst he laughs, further digging into the insult "Um, I don't even have parents? It's complicated" I feel pitiful pats being placed on my head from Crimson "LMAO! AND YOUR AN ORPHAN! How sad can you GET!" He stops what he's doing to back up, so he could look me up and down, making me feel anxious from his observations "Why the fuck do you even look like... this? You looked better as one of those generic Mario recolours" He gestures to all of me "Well, it's there's a whole story as to why, but to put it shortly-" Crimson stops me for the millionth time to put a finger to my lips, shushing me "Abububub! I don't give a Goomba's ASS as to why you look like this, I'm just here to point out every little thing that's wrong with it, you know- on behalf of what all of your 'beloved' fans think".

Hearing this, I try to escape from Chad's grasp- dunno why I didn't try earlier- by kicking and thrashing out everywhere to try and get loose. I manage to wiggle free and try to book it- but Crimson was way faster than I thought, catching up to me instantly to wrap his hands around my throat- cutting my airway. Whist I'm struggling to thrash Crimson off from me, Crimson releases me only for my freedom to be short-lived as Chad charges over to push me onto the hard concrete floor. Chad has me between his legs, whilst both of his hands pin mine next to my head. I begin to hyperventilate, trying my best to escape but its not use. Seeing my distress, Crimson evilly smirks "Good work Chad, I don't understand why he believed that he could run away, I mean-" He hovers down to address me "-you CLEARLY skipped leg day one to many times my friend." My heart pings at the insult, I'm such a baby but...he's not wrong either.

The Paratroopa than circles over my head like a vulture, out of the corner of my eye I can see that he's gotten out his phone again. I hear the sound of a photo being taken- IS HE TAKING  PICTURES OF ME?? Oh god, it is blackmail. Crimson looks at the photo with disgust "Jesus man, you look even uglier on camera" I just wonna crawl away and hide forever. I feel something poking and prodding at my body like it's a dead one "And were you always this fat? I swear, you make 'THE' MARIO look skinny whenever your next to him" Crimsons words stab at me, making me tear up again just threatening to fall which is just what he wants. "What's this?" I feel a scaled hand feel at the scared side of my face, I gasp turning my head to the other side. I yelp out as Crimson forcefully turns my head back over to him- scratching my face in the process from the rough surfaced floor. Crimson finally puts all his attention into my scared regret, he hisses like he was in pain seeing it "Oooo, that looks nasty but I bet you deserved it". My tears finally fall, he's right. He brushes them away gently "I bet you've seen what's happened to our beloved Princess Peach and her castle, right? Who hasn't! It's been talked about EVERYWHERE!" I tearfully look away, not wanting to make eye contact with this lunatic. The gentle caresses turn rouge, as Crimson forces me to look at him and brings me even closer to his face "I bet it was you".

I gasp, my pupils fearful of his right accusation. Crimson darkly chuckles at my face, roughly shoving me away to circle above my head again "I knew it". I hear the soft click of a switch knife being deployed "It was obviously you, all evidence leads towards you! I don't know how your not in jail for the murder and destruction of our precious princess." My eyes pinch shut as I try to hold in my sobs. Crimson perches on the ground, to point the knife at my face "You lived with her, those scars are CLEARLY not from being hurt from the castle crumbling down, and you hosted a really suspicious live stream" he's reading me like an open fucking book...I want my Three- I can't handle remember the most stupidest thing that I've done in my whole life. I suddenly feel the colt tip of the knife press against my good cheek "And you, are going to pay... ONE WAY OR ANOT-". Crimson was suddenly blown away by a bomb to the face- wait, a bomb? I angle my head to see who my saviour is.

It was SMG3

He...he came. HE CAME! Omg I have never been so happy to see my frenemy turned lover in all my life. I cry out for him "THREE! THREE HEL-" I was- yet again- forced to be quite but with Chad's oversized hand covering my mouth. Please...help me, I can't do this any longer.

<<<No POV>>>

SMG3 sneered at Chad, before boding him off from his traumatised partner, tackling him to the stony floor. The rest of the crew were not far behind from him, instinctively following Three's violence when they saw SMG4 on the ground. Mario and Meggy joined in on SMG3's beating whilst Saiko and surprisingly Boopkin's went over to Crimson to restrain him from escaping. Tari ran to find the beaches lifeguards, whilst Melony and Bob stayed to stand guard with their swords. From the mix of all this chaos, SMG4 became to overwhelmed from this situation and bolted away with blind directions. SMG4 whizzed past Melony, alarming her "GUYS!" Everybody's ears perked up from her out of character shout. Melony points to SMG4 in the distance "SMG4 is escaping!". Hearing SMG4's name, Three snaps out from his relentless beating on Chad "Mel! Keep an eye on this guy, I'll go get SMG4" She nods at SMG3, who gets one last punch in before releasing Chad. He horribly tries to clean the blood off from his knuckles, the unhygienic feeling making him visibly cringe. Three then heaves himself up and runs in the direction that SMG4 went in. Melony looks over at Mario and Meggy, who take it upon themselves to take Three's place in beating up Chad. Quickly, she picks the two up by the scruffs of their necks watching them flail around "Woah guys! He's had enough!" The two hesitantly calm down with sour looks on their faces, so Melony gently puts them down making sure that they wont attack Chad like wild dogs. Saiko returns back with Crimson in her hands, holding him by the wings. "I...We've got the other punk" She then gestures to Boopkins who is perched on her arm, doing 0 damage with his relentless slapping on Crimson's bruised head. Melony looks sadly in the direction where her two friends ran off too "I hope Three can get through to Four...he's done it before, didn't he?" The crew all agree, that if there was anyone who could get through to Four, it's SMG3.

Meanwhile with SMG4, he was smashing past pedestrians who complained about him going past them but Four was to lost in his own mind to hear them. Tears were streaming past his face as he ran for his life, not realising that he had accidently lost his signature cap from his running. Eventually, Four noticed a possible safe hiding spot to retreat to by some rocks and boulders on the far side of the beach site. He shifts his gears into full speed and charges over to the rocky field. As soon as Four shimmies himself between some boulders that formed a miniature cave, he released his pent up anxiety and feelings. Four starts to scream into his hands that were muffled by his arms and fountain of tears. His body visibly shakes with emotion as he begins to rock back and forth, unmistakably hitting the back of his head with every swing. Still hyperventilating and shaking, Four quickly grows frustrated from these 'childish' reactions and momentarily shifts his body to be face the wall he was leaning against, to intentionally bash his fists against it not caring in the slightest that he feels a sudden wetness in his knuckles. SMG4 continues to cry and scream, thinking in the back of his crowed mind that someone will come for him.

Back with SMG3, he hurries to follow SMG4's footprints that were left in the sand but he momentarily stops, as he noticed a familiar blue cap abandoned in its paths. With the utmost care, fearing it will shatter when he touches it, picks it up and hugs it close to his chest with tears in his eyes. After jogging for a few more minutes, Three is left at an impasse, as the footprints had been blown away by the wind. Fearing that he'll never find his boyfriend, Three tries to think like him to see where he'd go when he notices a distance away of what looked like a bunch of rocks and boulders. Instinctively, SMG3 heads over to the site with tired legs. After some delay from SMG3, because he needed to stop and take a break halfway there, he instantly hears heavy sobs coming from the rocky field and knows its SMG4. Three comes closer to get a better listen as to where the cries are combing from, when he notices a hidden place between some boulders. As Three curiously approaches, the sobs get louder and louder which each set he takes and when he finally peaks inside, he is shocked as to what he finds inside.

SMG4 sat in the centre looking more deshelled as ever. He had tears and snot on his face with bloodies knuckles that were recklessly punching at the miniature caves' interior. Puffed up eyes with the most broken expression of a kicked puppy on his hurt face. And he was uncontrollably screaming and breathing unrhythmically. SMG3 places his sunglasses and Four's cap by the cave's entrance to cautiously approach his distraught partner "...Four?" Three waits on a reply... none. With a heavy heart, Three catches Four off guard by tightly wrapping his arms around him in a grounding hug. "NONONONONO-!" Four keeps repeating 'no' as he struggles to escape the embrace by kicking, screaming and thrashing around like a toddler getting told not by their mother. Three sheds a tear, as he holds strong for himself and for his partner.

After what felt like eternity, Four stops his screams and thrashing to instead embrace the hug. SMG4 clings onto SMG3 like a koala, with his head, arms and legs all wrapped around the purple guardian. SMG3 slightly shift's them both, by having Four on his lap so that he could gently rock them both. Soothing pats and rubs from Three were gently caressing Four's head and back, as he whispers comforting sounds and comments into his ear to ease him. Some time has passed and SMG4 still hasn't calmed down, worrying SMG3. Three carefully tries to pull himself away so he can see Four's face, but he quickly pulls himself back into Three, looking them in place. Three changes his caresses to be tracing little patterns and shapes on Four's back "Four? I need you to look at me... can you do that for me, please?". With a hesitant nod from Four, they both shift themselves to be facing each other. Three feels his heart break just from seeing the usually 'happy go lucky' Four, look so broken. Four flinches back as his partner tries to put a gentle hand on his cheeks, so Three resolves to plant his hand around Four to mirror his position. The two were currently sat facing each other crossed legged, with their arms penguin hugging the other. "Four, I need to you follow my breathing, okay? Can you do that?" Three ushers at Four. A unsure shake of Four's head is his answer "Alright, that okay, just try for me okay?" This time, Three is met with a confirming nod from Four as an answer.

SMG3 takes a deep breath in through his mouth, staring into Four's avoiding eyes. SMG4 tries to mimic Three's breath, but he was too quick and had a coughing fit. "Woah whoa! Sllloowwww breaths, k? You've got this" Three calmly says, as he pats Four's back comfortably. With a more easing breath, SMG4 successfully took a wavering deep breath in. With a small proud smile for Three, he continues on "Your doing great babe, now sllloowwwly release" SMG3 demonstrates by taking another deep breath in, but this time releases it calmly through his nose "Your turn". Four brings himself to look into his partner's eyes, seeing right through his brave face and hesitantly to released his shaky breath. SMG3 encouragingly pats SMG4's arms "See, your doing it! Let's try that again, yeah?" Four sniffles and nods his head. After sometime, SMG3 had finally calmed his opposite down. SMG4 had been reduced to nothing but soft sniffling, hiccups and slightly shaken movements.

Not caring how sweaty they two are, Four softly curls himself into SMG3 becoming almost like a little ball. Three responds by tucking Four's head under his chin and wrapping both arms around his back making soothing rubs. SMG3 lets out a held in sigh, knowing that he'll need to burst Four's bubble about everything that's been happening today "Hey, Four? I need to ask you something". SMG4 flinches, burying himself within SMG3's chest and responds with a muffled noise to signal 'what?'. One of Three's arms that was wrapped around Four, comes up to cradle the back of his head "What's been going on with you today?". Like a broken dam, Four couldn't hold back anymore letting the tears from is eyes burst. Surprised at the sudden outburst of tears, Three comforts Four and rocks the two back and forth. "S-sorry, you don't have to answer- I didn't mean to put more pressure onto you, I'm sor-" Three's nonsensical apologies were stopped by Four's finger. He slowly removes the finger and pulls his head out and rubs his overworked eyes "No no, don't apologise" Four's words were fragile and quiet, he looks up at Three's confused and worrisome face "It's me". He looked even more perplexed and went to cup Four's scarred cheek, but he flinched away "Four? What's wrong?" Three says with a voice full of anxiety.

Four sigh's out as he searches for what he could possibly say "Well... the first problem is, this trip I guess" Three stays silent and nods along as he listens to his partner "I'm not very um... body positive? I dunno, I kinda have been since the Lawsuit Arc and ESPECIALLY after... it happened" Three silently gasps, this explains all the flinches and why Four didn't like it when people touched him "It's just... hard-" Four's voice begins to waver, as his eyes well up with tears again "I'm meant to be the perfect one! But I'm anything but that these days! I HATE IT!" Four tries to angerly rub away at his streaming tears. A delicate hand stops him, pulling his damaged hands away and are placed behind Three's neck. Three hovers his hands over Four's cheeks, silently asking permission to place them there and this time, are accepted. Three feels Four's cheeks like it's the last time he'll ever get the chance too, feeling every groove and texture that's on them. Three than pulls their heads together to lean on one another by their foreheads "Four... you may not believe that your perfect, but, your perfect to me" A tear runs down Three's face "I have always thought of you as 'the perfect one' since that fateful day we met, I still do" Three momentarily breaks contact to place a meaningful kiss onto his blue partner's forehead "And, you've known the crew for literally years, there's nothing that could ever make them hate you, not even what happened back at Peach's Castle" Four lightly nods his head as he sniffles "Now, let's go back to find everyone, because they're just as worried as I am about you". Three begins to move away, but Four's clutches at him shaking his head 'no'. The purple meme guardian thinks for a moment, then it clicks "How about this. When we go home, on the way back I'll buy us some ice cream and we can cuddle back at my Starbucks, how's that sound?" Three knew just how to crack Four, who caves in and nods his head.

The two help each other up and head for the miniature cave's entrance, but Three stops to pick up his sunglasses and Four's cap and offer's both to him. Four put's his signature cap on, but is now wearing Three's sunglasses who holds out a hand to him. Four smiles, gladly grabbing his hand and the two travel back to where their beach spot is.

Meanwhile, the crew wait anxiously around for the two meme guardians to return. Meggy was standing around in hopes to spot the two arriving, Melony and Luigi were packing their remaining items away, Mario was playing with BEEG SMG4 and Eggdog by having them bury him in the sand, Bob and Boopkin's were moseying around, and Tari was talking to Karen, who was working as the beach's life guard here, whilst she patched up Saiko's minimal injuries from Crimson. "So, what's gunna happen to those guys?" Tari asks referring to Chad ad Crimson "Well, they're defiantly going to prison for attempted murder and assault for sure, but where's SMG4? Didn't ya say that he was the victim?" Karen changes the subject, being a little worried for him herself. Tari rubbed her arm and clutched her duck plush a little tighter "Well.. we don't know, SMG4 ran away somewhere and SMG3 went after him" Karen's usually expressionless face grew worrisome "Oh dear, I can sound out an alarm for him? So people know that their missin'" Tari shiver's at the thought of her friends going missing "No no, they couldn't of gone far... but, thanks for the offer Karen" Karen finishes up helping Saiko, and pats the gamer girl on the head "No problem kiddo-" "GUYS!" Everyone stops what they were doing to look towards Meggy, she looks relieved "They're back! I see them!" A massive chunk of worry was relieved from the group as they all go to stand by Meggy to see them.

As the two walked closer, hand in hand, they were both tackled to the sandy ground by Mario in a furious hug. "MARIO WASA SO WORRIED!!!!" Mario sobbed out with his face buried between his two friends. The two guardians hug their avatar back, then they all heaving off from the ground and dust themselves off to greet everyone else. Meggy was next to embrace her friend as tightly as possible "FOUR! WE WERE SO WORRIED!" SMG4 tries to grab Meggy's attention before she stops his blood circulation, she quickly lets go of him, embarrassingly rubbing the back of her neck "Hehe, sorry Blue". Soon everyone was crowding around him, saying how worried they all were in their own unique ways. In between the mix, SMG3 noticed his partner's growing anxiety with his fidgeting and stepped in "Yeah yeah, were all worried for him blah blah blah- but we need some medical attention here?" Everyone looks at Four's state, seeing his bruised cheeks but his hands as he quickly hides them behind his back nervously. Karen makes an entrance to get too Four "Alright ALRIGHT MOVE IT PEOPLE!" Everyone backs off, letting Karen do her magic. SMG3 puts a comforting hand on Four's shoulder as Karen guides them to sit down "Now, lets take care of that dumb face of your SMG4" Karen jokes whilst she pulls out a med kit, she gets out a cold compress and hands it out to Four "Put this on ya face kid, but don't worry about giving it back, I'm not paid enough to care about what happens to our equipment" Four stares at Karen's offering paw, looking over to Three anxiously, who moves his hand to Four's thigh and softly smiles "It's alright Four, no one will judge you". Out of respect, the crew turn away from what's happening to either talk amongst one another or mess around in the sand. Four's heart feels like it's going to beat out of his chest, but he pushes through the anxiety to withdraw his hands from behind his back. Karen softly gasps, gently cradling his hurt hands "Oooh sweetie, this looks like it hurts" Four shamefully looks away, putting his head on Three's shoulder for comfort. Karen turns to her med kit, letting go of Four's hands and pulling out some gauze bandages and some alcohol wipes. She looks at Four "This might hurt".

Karen had successfully healed Four's hands- and SMG3's from repeatedly punching Chad-, she than pulls a lolly pop from her med kit, making Four blush and laugh half heartedly at her motherly interactions "Kareeennn, I'm not a child" Karen insists, forcefully putting it in Four's hands "Ah! I'm not taking no for an answer Mr. I'mFine, cuz it sounds like you've been through a lot today". Four looks at the sweet treat and smiles "Thanks Karen- for your help, I mean" She waves him off, gesturing to SMG3 and the crew "Don't thank me! Thank them, your the one who somehow finds the best people to have as friends" Four gives her a heartfelt smile, pulling her into a brief hug.

After that eventful time at the beach, the sun had finally begun to dim and the crew were making their way back to the minivan. Four looks over to the caring faces of his friends, smiling at himself for not realising how lucky he was to have them, before turning to his partner. SMG3 was suddenly pulled into a meaningful embrace by SMG4 "Thanks for being there, for me man" SMG3's face brightens at the comment, hugging tightly back "That's alright bro, I know that you'd do the same for me". The two back away from the hug, interlocking hands once more and went to catch up with everyone.

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yeahhh I still don't have an iPad, dunno when but I'm praying for one soon, because I am going INSANE WITHOUT ONE- anyways :3

14/6/25 Update - IVE FINALLY GOT AN IPAD AGAIN RAHHH- art will be released soon x