Apprenticeship [An SMG4 Fanfic]

Chapter 7: What's Wrong With SMG4? (Part 3: SMG4 is PERFECTLY Fine)

SMG6 stood in front of the doors, arms crossed and a confident smile on his face. On either side of him stood Luigi and SMG5, who did not share in his confident stance.

Dr. Niceguy opened the door, smiling at the three. "Why hello there! Can I help you with something?"

SMG6 nodded, pulling a bomb he had snagged from 3's shop before he had received his lifetime ban. "Yes, actually. We'd like to see your patients."

The doctor looked between 6 and the bomb before attempting to slam the door, only to get his foot blocking it.

"Maybe I didn't make myself clear," he said in a low voice that dripped with malice. "Thanks to you, our friend is dying. So, my friends and I are going to come in here and do our own tests to reinsert meme lobes into your patients properly in order to save him. If you get in my way, I won't hesitate to blow you out of it."

"Damn," 5 muttered, leaning closer to the green Italian beside them, "I did not know 6 could get this menacing."

"Yeah," he whispered in return. "I'd hate to get on his bad side..."

Dr. Niceguy laughed before opening the door. "Get them my-"

SMG6 threw him out of the way and walked inside, ignoring the lobotomized patients that seemed ready to attack.

Luigi carefully stepped over the doctor before rushing inside alongside 5 to catch up.

"I don't get why we have to do this," 5 laughed. "I mean... seriously, Citrus... maybe if we just... I don't know... transfer meme energy to SMG4 everything will be fine?"

"Don't tell me you're scared," SMG6 teased. "Besides, that's just a bandaid solution... we need to find something permanent, unless you want to be stuck transferring meme energy to 4 every time he starts to regress."

"You have a point..."

Luigi pushed his way between the two and grabbed their arms, trembling as his eyes darted around the darkened hallways. "I really don't like this place... everyone is staring at us..."

SMG6 shrugged before patting his avatar's head. "We'll be fine! Remember, we're doing this to save 4."

The other two shared another terrified look before they came across a door labeled "Lobotomy Storage Room."

"Now," SMG6 said, "we practice!"

Back at the castle, everyone in the crew was having a hard time staying awake. Tari's lilac eyes had gone over this page probably a dozen times now, and she had caught herself dozing off once or twice. She sighed as she shut the book at put it off to the side.

"Guys," she said as she looked around at her friends, "has anyone found anything that can help SMG4?"

"No," Meggy said sadly as she looked down at her book in her own hands. "I haven't found anything."

"Me neither," Bob said before an... illegal looking magazine fell from behind his book. His eyes widened before he quickly hid the item behind him.

"I can't find anything," Boopkins said as he looked through the countless open books surrounding him. "They make this look a lot easier in my anime..."

"All I can find is related to meme transfusion," Melony huffed as she leaned against the wall, holding Axol Jr in her lap as she read through the texts.

"What about you, Saiko?" Tari asked as she looked at the other.

Saiko seemed lost in thought as she looked over one book in particular.

"Saiko?"

Purple eyes looked up from her book as she turned it around to face the others. "I might have found something," she said in her usual Japanese. "It looks like there are some ways to transfer meme energy in to SMG4, but it will only work for a short time."