Apprenticeship [An SMG4 Fanfic]

Chapter 1: New Guardians

"Ok," SMG4 sighed as he followed behind the two older meme guardians, "what exactly is this about? You both called me over here in a panic and now you won't explain what's going on?"

SMG1 sighed. "It's hard to explain... it's better to show you."

"Ok?" SMG4's blue eyes looked ahead as the three of them made it through the trees and into a clearing where two large USBs were sticking out of the ground. "No way..."

SMG1 and SMG2 made their way forward as SMG4 stood there in awe, taking in the sight before him.

Two USBs, one was lavender with an upside down V in light blue while the other was a light orange with an orange upside down VI. They were still smoking, more than was probably normal.

Then SMG4 followed to where 1 and 2 had gone, where two people sat in between the USBs, talking and picking at the grass.

"SMG4," SMG2 said with a nervous smile, "meet SMG5 and SMG6."

The two newcomers looked up at him, one waved with a shy smile and the other waved frantically with a large fang filled smile on his face.

One stood up and extended a hand. "H-Hello," he said softy. "I'm SMG5. It's nice to meet you."

He had two purple eyes behind round glasses, one darker than the other, and one of them was almost fully black. Short light brown hair fell over his blackened eye.  He wore a light blue long sleeved t-shirt, white overalls with dark purple buttons, dark purple boots, and a light blue hat with the same symbol as on the USB, except this one was right side up.

"Hi," 4 said as he took his hand.

He then looked down at, who he assumed to be, SMG6. He wore brown overalls, an orange hoodie, brown boots, and an orange hat with an S on it that looked more akin to a snake than an S. He had amber eyes and spiky black hair with two strands of light orange hair making the shape of an M on his forehead. His skin was darker than his counterpart's, but not by much.

SMG5 looked down at the other and frowned. "Dude, come on. Be nice."

SMG6 rolled his eyes and stood, grabbing SMG4's hand and shaking it. "Howdy. I'm SMG6. Nice to meet you and yada yada yada," he laughed before turning back around and looking at the USBs behind them.

"What happened to your eye?" SMG4 asked, looking back at 5.

They shrugged. "Um... don't know?"

"Their pods became damaged upon entry," SMG1 explained. "SMG5's eye received the brunt of said damage."

SMG4 nodded, looking at the two newcomers before looking back at his mentors. "Is there something you're not telling me?"

SMG5 watched them curiously before SMG2 took his attention and took him over to SMG6 so the other two could have some privacy.

"We have no idea where those two came from," SMG1 whispered. "It makes no sense. There's nothing that can explain this that we know of."

"Meaning?"

"They didn't come from the same place we did," he continued. "Their pods are similar, but... I don't know. Apparently Luigi is their avatar, though. They both looked like recolors of him before changing to look as they do now."

"Weird," SMG4 said as he looked at the guardians.

"We're going to have you and SMG3 look after them while 2 and I figure out what is going on."

"You what?" SMG4 looked down at him, wide eyed.

"The two of you can train them in our absence."

"You can't be serious," 4 continued. "We barely know how to use our own meme powers sometimes!"