Apprenticeship [An SMG4 Fanfic]

Chapter 30: Antiviral

SMG3 sighed, looking through the drawers of his secret lair, grabbing every weapon and bomb he could find and carrying it up to the main floor. "Ok. This is everything I've got," he said, dusting off his hands.

"Dude!" SMG6 shouted, rummaging through everything and pulling out a large object. "You have a nuke?"

3 shrugged. "I'm an explosives connoisseur. Of course I have a nuke."

SMG1 looked over the countless weapons SMG3 brought out. Bombs, guns, knives, a comically large chainsaw, and some other small weapons he obviously made himself here and there. "So... we nearly have enough to take out Exubus."

"What do you mean nearly?" 3 asked, taking out a bazooka. "We can blast his ass to smithereens with this thing right here alone!"

"He's a virus," 1 said. "We need to find a way to implement an anti-virus into this code to fully erase him. Otherwise we'll have another one of him in a few years, I'm sure."

Bob nodded. "Yeah. We could probably find some good shit in the dark web."

"Oh no!" SMG4 snapped. "I am not going anywhere near that place again!"

"Ooh," 6 said, popping his head out of the pile of weapons he was inspecting. "The Dark Web you say?"

"Oh hell no!" 4 shouted, grabbing 6 and pulling him out of the weapons. "There is no way in hell that I am allowing you and 5 to go anywhere near that place!"

"Awww," 6 said with a defeated pout.

"Even if SMG3 and Bob are supervising us?" 5 asked, looking up from a hand blaster SMG3 made back when he was an actual villain.

"Especially with them supervising you," 4 said, sending a menacing glare to the two in question as they avoided eye contact and began whistling. "I know them well enough to know they'll find trouble there..."

"Well," SMG1 said with a sigh, "we'll need to head there anyway. If we're going to create an antiviral program to stop Exubus, we'll need some things there."

"Lol," Bob said, "checkmate Fuckers, we're going."

"All of us?" Axol asked nervously. "Because I would much rather not..."

"Dude," Bob said, slinging an arm around Axol's shoulders, "one sort-of-a-virus to another, you'll be fine. They don't fuck with us there."

"I... I don't know..." Axol said wasily, looking over at Melony, who gave him a soft smile in return and put her hand on his.

"We'll be ok," she said.

"Well, not all of us will have to go anyway," SMG3 said with a shrug. "We'll need people here to come up with a plan and shit. Reconnaissance, blueprinting, all of that."

"Ok," Saiko said, "then me, SMG3, Bob, SMG5, SMG6, Luigi, and SMG1 will head to the Dark Web."

"If we're making anti-viral weaponry," 5 said, "we could test it on the viruses currently in the Internet Graveyard."

"Ooh!" 3 said excitedly. "We can finally get rid of those damned things! The dead memes would be so happy to have full range of the graveyard again."

4 looked away. "I don't know... Luigi alone wouldn't be enough to keep everyone in check."

"What about me?" Saiko asked angrily before she realized. "Oh. Yeah... ok..."

"Mario can come too!" Mario shouted excitedly.

"Then I can go along as well," Puzzles said. "Maybe I can get the things for a new body for now... until we can retrieve my code..."

"That would be a bit difficult..." Axol said nervously. "Your code was deleted... unless we find a way to rewrite it..."