Date night

Chapter 11: The morning after

Author's note: This one is kind of depressing...

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Three woke up in his bed. Memories of last night came back to him.

Shit! Four!

Three went over to the nightstand to grab his phone only to see it wasn't there.

He got out of bed; he looked down to see he was still in his date clothes.

Three finally found his phone.

It was on the kitchen table, with L giving Three a 'You're in trouble' look.

"Super Meme Guardian Three." L said like an angry parent. "You have some explaining to do."

Three looked down at his phone to see Four's sad sporadic texts. Three felt a knot forming in his stomach.

Three looked back up to his bro, L's face turned from stern to worried. "Please."

Eggdog nudged Three's leg, Three picked her picked and sat down across from L.

"I-I... I think I began having flashbacks to the nightmare I had." Three began, his voice was shaky.

"Which one?" L asked softly, his older brother instincts took over.

Three took in a deep, shaky breath. "T-the one I had when you guys faced the sorceress."

L's eyes widen. "Three..." He whispered. Three cut his brother off before he could say more.

"They were in that dream." Three snarled out. "Four was dead in that dream."

Three put his hands on his head, grabbing his hair, he choked out a sob. "They tried to... tried to..." Three was visibly shaking.

L got up and pulled his brother into a hug. "You don't have to finish that sentence." L started to sooth his younger brother, who was sobbing into L's shoulder.

'Smg4 doesn't seem like the person to purposefully try and cause something like this...

Right?'

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Mario patched up Four to the best of his abilities. Four made the plumber stayed with him for the rest of the night. He didn't want to be alone.

Mario slept on the floor, the plumber lied to Four the floor was comfier to him, he didn't want Four to feel uncomfortable sleeping next to him.

Even with the bed all to himself, Four did not get much sleep.

Four woke up first the next day and got into his regular clothes.

A loud bang was heard outside. Mario woke up with a start. "Mama Mia! Is it saturday already?"

Four groaned. He was too tired to deal with this bullshit.

Four opened the door to the Rv to see the head engineer talking with Peach, all of his friends were here too.

All of them except for...

Smg4 shook the thought out of his brain. He walked over to the engineer. "Hey! What's the holdup?"

The head engineer turned to face the meme man. "We can't finish this castle until we have a power star."

Four felt his eye twitch. "Are you kidding me? This is absolutely ridiculous!" Four faced Princess Peach. "Peach, you're with me, right? We don't need a star to finish this castle."

Peach felt a sweat drop running down her face. She may not be close to the meme man, but even she could see that he was acting unusual. "I'm sorry, but the engineer is right... the power star ensures the castles safety. How else do you think it gets rebuilt after it gets destroyed so quickly?"

Four fell to the ground. How the fuck were they going to find a power star.

Mario eyes lit up. "Oh, how about we use your old power star, Peach! I mean..." Mario looked down, rubbing his arm. "It's not like the castle is using it anymore."

Peach let out a sigh. "Alright. Fine. But I'm going, it's my castle after all."

Shroomy gave Peach a salute. "Boy scout Shroomy reporting for duty!"

Meggy stepped in as well. "You're going to need all the help you can get."

Surprisingly, Luigi stepped in as well. "I can look in a few places that could be hard to reach."

Peach nodded. "Alright then let's go."

Mario looked mad. "Hey! What about Mario?"

Peach turned to him, but before she could say something rude, Meggy stepped in. "Red, I think it's best you stay here and watch after Smg4. Can you do that?"

The plumber looked back to see Four laying on the ground. He turned back to face Meggy and Peach. "Okkie-dokkie!" He gave a thumbs up.

"Alright. We'll be back soon." Meggy waved.

Four could overhear his friends talking about him.

"He looks so... tired." Tari said.

"Bet he and Three had a wonderful time last night." Swag nudged Bob's shoulder. He winked, implying something else.

"BeT YoU TeN BuCkS ThAt ThReE ToPpEd." Bob snickered back.

Tari looked back at the exhausted meme man. "Uhh... I don't think..."

Mario placed a hand on her shoulder. "Let them have their fun."

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Four lifted his head up from the sound of his friends cheering.

They came back, although Meggy, Shroomy, Fm, and X seemed to be covered in blood and guts.

'When did those two joined them?' Four asked himself. He picked himself off the ground.

X tried to shake off some blood. "I'm going to need a shower after this. I think something got in my hair."

Bob grabbed a hose and sprayed the four covered in blood. "GeT ReKt LoL!"

X shook himself off like a dog, until he was completely dry. His hair poofed up even more than it already did. Meggy and Fm snickered at that.

Peach handed over to the power star to the head engineer.

He grabbed it and put it in his sandwich????

He ate it and was powered up by the star. He started building at super speed.

The group watched in awe.

Four, however was lost in his own dark, twisted thoughts.

'I don't deserve this...

I destroyed Peach's castle, her home...

I hurt my friends with my self-obsession with my perfect video...

I almost chose that stupid video over Three!

I almost lost my channel, my friends, all because I loved making videos...

I am the reason Slg4 has to use a cane to walk because he saved me from being stabbed from the nightmare stone...

If I was smart enough, I could've seen right through the sorceress's lies and Three wouldn't have been put through that nightmare...

So why?

So, why does everyone think I deserve this...

I nearly killed them all!

Made them lose their friends!

Have them change just so we could survive Nintendo!

I'm a terrible person!

I don't deserve this... I don't deserve such kind, caring, selfless friends...

I don't deserve an amazing, wonderful, boyfriend like Three...

I don't deserve my own castle...

I don't even deserve to live...