The Forgotten Friend (smg4 mystery au)

the assassin

Third person

A week after smg3's deal with Susan, smg3 is finally not busy with the dead memes in the internet graveyard. Still, he can finally check on the others and tell them about the fours channel backup and running, of course, with no uploads, but still, people can rewatch his old content, and the world will remember him, hopefully. So he heads back to the land of the living and heads to the castle. "Hey, guys, I'm back, and I have good news on where I..." Then, in a sudden and unexpected turn of events, a knife is launched at Mario's neck from out of nowhere. In a split second, SMG3 manages to catch the knife, but he holds on to it and then makes sure he is aware that someone wants the universe dead. Smg3 managed to see a slight look at the guy. He had a black hoodie on and black hair. He couldn't make out anything else. "Is everyone okay?" he asks with the knife still in his hand.

"Mario's fine, no worries," he reassures in his usual, carefree tone, "but that was weird and out of the ordinary," he adds, his voice tinged with a hint of unease. But then he immediately returns to eating spaghetti and ignores everything SMG3 had just said.

But remember the name, Bob asks the question. "Yo, who the fuck is smg4? Is he your doppelganger or somthing?" in his text-to-speech voice. Then smg3 and Mario look him dead in the eyes, and Mario is on the floor laughing even though he already was. He couldn't stop laughing, "Mario, stop," SMG3 told Mairo to stop, but the fat red Italian wouldn't stop. "Mario, they don't remember. They don't get it," smg3 added, hoping he would stop, but that also failed. "I got a workaround for the memory problem. Well, I haven't tried it out yet, but who knows?" smg3 finally said, and when smg3 said that, Mario's face lit up as they had a stepping stone into the light on the path to find smg4. "Why don't we try it out then!" Mario drags SMG3 to the main area where the others are. Then he puts SMG3 bright and in the center, but when Mario is about to ask how to bring people's memories back, SMG3 isn't there.

Smg3 is by the TV, trying to turn it on but failing miserably. Then he gets on the TV and pulls up YouTube ( yes, you can pull up YouTube on TV; I see it being done all the time.), Then, it goes to the YouTube search tab, puts in the phrase "SMG4," and hits search. Then, magically to the crew, SMG4's channel pops from nowhere, and SMG3 says, "This is how we are going to get the world to remember him, Mario." he standing right next to the TV, proud and happy he got fours channel back up and running well without four. He has experience with it from his attempt to steal it two years ago (the year for the timeline is 2022 if you forgot :D ). When Mario saw it, he was so happy to know there was a way to bring back his best friend. He jumped so high that he almost hit the castle ceiling, which is pretty high up. "come on let's start I miss him let's go!!!!" Mario says in his fat Italian voice. Then he grabs the remote and looks at all of the video's titles, but just looking at them, he is filled with nostalgia when looking at them. Then he looks at the video, "Mario gets his Pingas Stuck in the Door." He sees it and immediately clicks on it SMG3 is nostalgic, even though SMG3 wasn't a part of it. He had seen it before, and it was one of the videos he saw from SMG4, but the others were confused with so many questions on their minds. What is this? When the video first started, but as more and more people they knew showed up and when they saw their selves, they were even more confused and asked themselves When did this happen? Who is the guy in whiteoveralls? The guy isn't SMG3, but the captions say his name is SMG4. When did we meet him? Why don't we remember him? Does anyone here know who four is? Does he have a connection with smg3? They do look similar. WHY DON'T WE REMEMBER HIM?! But once the video was over, everyone turned to smg3. Mario, as they were the ones who played the video and pulled up the channel. "What he had been missing for four weeks now, and people were forgetting him, and it had gotten to the point where it was only me and Mario who knew about his existence, but he did YouTube for a living, and Nintendo took down his channel originally, but a week ago I got it back up so people could hopefully remember who is." smg3 blurted out under all of the pressure. Everyone was just shocked at the situation that they were presented with. Knowing they have no idea what to do smg3 said "we should just wait for now let people take their time I have no idea how long it would take for the public to remember him but should try it alteast." smg3 said with a caring tone in his voice.