WOOOO YEAAAAA! I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE THIS FOREVER!!!!

Third pov~

SMG4 walks into his room carrying a truckload of drinks and snacks.

"Alright, I'm restocked and ready! This is MY year, and I'm going to make THE BEST. VIDEO. EVER!"

SMG4 gulps down his drink and begins to work at a rapid fire pace.

Several days later...

"OK! Let's play that back!"

The video consist of Kermit the Frog fighting Jesus Christ until Kermit blows up. The End.

"Hmm.. Mmhmm... Mmhmm." A realization hits him. "NO!" SMG4 throws his monitor back, which explodes. "How am I gonna make the best video ever and impress him with this MEDIOCRE CLIP!?"

He hears a pounding at his door.

Maerio is heard through the door, muffled. "HELLOOOOOOO!" The door vanishes.

"Y-Yes?" SMG4 ask nervous while looking around.

"SMG4!!!! WE'RE GOING TEXAS!!!!"

"And we were wondering if you want to come along?" SMG5 ask with a smile.

"Oh, uh, was that today? Uh... I'm sorry, Mario. I can't come today. I'm in the middle of making a special video." He gestures to his computer.

"What!? But you're always making videos! That's never stopped you!"

"Yea what Mario said. Even when I have something planned I always postpone it for Mario and everyone." SMG5 says, disappointed.

"Not this one... This one's going to be different... K BYEEEEEEE!" He goes back to resume working on his special video, but not before planting a sapling and watering it, making a new door grow in place. He looks back at the door. He's disappointed with himself for not going with them..or him I should say. He sighs.

"OK, let's try again." SMG4 begain to type in a rapid pace.

More days later...

He has now made a music remix featuring Kermit. After all that, SMG4 now has bloodshot eyes. He slams his keyboard in frustration and pulls out a new one.

"THIS IS NO GOOD! I NEED IT PERFECT!" More typing. "It's gotta be perfect, it's gotta be perfect, it's gotta be perfect...for him..."

"OI!!" Mario crashes his head through the door, but SMG4 doesn't answer back. "S-M-G-FOOOOOOOOOUR!"

SMG4 got startled and turns around fast looking around and sees Mario at the door. "Huh? What?"

"Hiya! Celebrate MAR10 day with me next week!"

An irate SMG4 throws a chair at Mario, who ducks back.

Much, much, much later...

Having now lost his sanity, SMG4 throws his keyboard onto a pile of other keyboards, pulls out a new one, and begins to search Google to find some funny. He even attempts a ritual.

"Why isn't it perfect...?! Why isn't it perfect...?! Why isn't it perfect...?!"

He repeatedly slams his head onto the desk.

"Why isn't it perfect...?! Why isn't it perfect...?!"

SMG5, Meggy, Bob, and Mario have attempted to talk with him, only for him to turn them down, eventually barricading his room with multiple doors.

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It's now March 10th. MAR10 Day. As everyone is celebrating, SMG4 is stilled holed up in his room. He spent so much time on his video that he started growing a beard and his eyes are more bloodshot than before.

"Why isn't it perfect!? Why isn't it perfect!?"

Meggy is the first to speak. Muffled through the door. "SMG4? Can you come out?"

SMG3 speaks next. (Muffled) "Yeah, dude, get out of your room."

"So loud... Everyone's so loud!"

He places two keyboards in his ears and resumes... The Wi-Fi disconnects... SMG4 has now lost it. He starts laughing like a mad man, gets up, and goes to visit the party-goers.

"SHUT UP!!! CAN YOU ALL SHUT UP!?!?"

He causes mass destruction until he finally heads back to his room but SMG5 stops him. So he did something he will regret later...he punches his crush. He walks back into his office with a slam of the door. With the Wi-Fi back on, he resumes. But then a little Adware guy pops up.

"Hey! It looks like you need a bit of editing help! Can I interest you in a magical keyboard?"

COMPLETELY REGULAR KEYBOARD THAT LOOKS COOOOOL

"It's guaranteed to make your work PERFECT!"

Amazed, SMG4 purchases this supposedly magical keyboard. Then the adware guy vanishes.

"Huh?"

The magical keyboard flies into the room and smacks him. He tosses his old keyboard to the side and places the new one in front of him. He begins to work more as his sanity has now hit the negative integers.

"This feeling! Yes! YES! YEEES!" SMG4 feels even more energized then before...where did he get this energy from? Not from the keyboard that's for sure...

As he types more, a mysterious, monstrous anomaly awakens from the void...

PRESENT DAY

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  I wake up. I feel... different... I get up and look in the mirror.. I changed! My eyes are now what they are supposed to be, (fav color or 2nd color), and my hair feels...softer? And fluffer.. hm... Then thats means...it's today... I speedrun my morning routine. I kiss my children's forehead. "Sorry guys can't talk I gotta run see ya, my loves!" Even with how tired I am I have to be there... I will do anything to help them...maybe I can even get the USB since I can teleport...hopefully...

I get to the castle and open the door I see Meggy and SMG3 talking to each other... I got here just in time... I walk up to them as Three walks up the stairs.

"This has gone on long enough. Nothing is worth killing yourself over a dumb video. I'm gonna slap that boy back into reality."

"Wait! SMG3, I'm all for physical intervention but... Maybe wait till he's not upset?" Meggy try's to stop him.

"Why doesn't anyone care if I'M upset? I'm sick and tired of this crap."

"I'm sorry meggy but I'm siding with Three on this... something bad is going to happen..I can feel it. So we need to get him out of there as soon as possible." I said speed walking to be beside Three. SMG3 looks at me with amusement. He then walks towards the door. SMG3 goes to SMG4's room and bangs on the door.

"DUDE, ENOUGH OF YOUR PSYCHOTIC EPISODE! WE GOT STUFF TO DO!!!" He pounds more until the door opens by itself. The room is dimly lit, SMG4 is still rapidly typing, and there are scribblings coated on the walls. "IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT"

"Well this ain't creepy at all." I said sarcastically, putting a hand on my hip.

Meggy whispers to us. "Maybe we should leave him alone."

"Nope. We gotten this far we aren't going back."

Not listening, SMG3 and I walks up to SMG4.

"SMG4! Snap out of it!"  SMG3 reaches his arm out to touch SMG4's shoulder, when suddenly the environment around them distorts. An unknown anomaly emerges out from the unknown. We all react with fear.

"HOLY SH!T!"

"IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT, IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT! i̴̟̩͛̎̋͠t̸̩̓̓͑ṣ̸̡̘̿́̓̕͜ ̴͖̀̀g̷͚̻̱̑̊̊o̷͕͑̿͂t̴̙̃͗͠t̴̡̔̐͒͠a̸͚͗ ̴͉͊̆b̴̨͓̈́̎̆̾ê̵͚̮͍̒̐ ̴͚͓̞͙̆̅p̸̡̫̍e̵̹̤̬̞̎r̶̪̱̲̿͒̕̚f̷̤̯͎͂͝é̸̢̛̻͓͇c̵̲̲͎͂̈́́t̴̢͖̘̩̂̔̚͝.̶̱̥̈́"

SMG3 look at him worried. "Bro... what... what happened to you...?"

SMG3 is finding himself surrounded by this unknown hostile force. I pick him up and drag him away from the weird goop.

SMG4? talks. "A perfect video requires sacrifice."

This is so much more scarier in person...

"Sacrifices? Ever since Me and Five helped you out with your channel, you've done nothing but have a hard-on for making this freaking video! Why don't you just go and touch some grass!?"

SMG4? Is enraged. "YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!"

We find ourselves in a darkened hallway. Four demonic tentacles suddenly emerge and grab SMG3 and I. I struggle against it. It doesn't seem to be pulling me down but it is for Three.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?"

Suddenly, Meggy flies in and kicks SMG4. She goes over to free SMG3 and Me. She throws us  out a nearby window. SMG4 lets out a demonic roar as more tentacles emerge form his computer. Meggy jumps out the window as the room explodes. She lands next to me and SMG3, who is lying face down on the ground.

Meggy looks at us. "You alright?"

SMG3 still has his head on the ground so his voice muffled a bit. "Yeah... I think so."

I hummed. God, that fall hurt my back. Ouch... I can't fail this... I just can't... not with their lives of the line...

A rumbling occurs. I turn around and see...

"Oh my God..." Meggy mutters.

A demonic monster with two large eyes begins to engulf the castle...

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Mario and his friends are walking along.

"OK, you guys. What's the plan to make SMG4 feel better?"

"We're gonna beat the crap out of SMG4 until he gets back to normal." Bob suggested.

Boopkins did like that idea "What? I thought we were just gonna tell him that life isn't just all work and he has friends who love him!" He holds up chonks of himself, Mario, SMG4, SMG5 and Tari.

Mario hummed in thought. "I kind of like Bob's idea, thought"

Luigi looks over at the castle. "AHHH WHAT'S THAT?!"

Everyone faces what Luigi saw. The monster has now consumed a good majority of the castle. Large eyes have now popped up everywhere.

Mario freaks out. "WHAT THE HELLLLLL!?" He gets run over by Meggy, SMG5, and SMG3. "HEY!! WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON!?"

SMG3 stops. "SMG4's gone completely mad and has corrupted the castle!"

"Sounds like just another Tuesday."

"I don't believe this is your average afternoon Bob.." I said with a frown

Meggy agrees. "SMG5 is right...I don't think that was SMG4 in there... SMG4 would never do this... he would have never punched Five in the first place too since ya know..." Everyone nods except me and Three. We both look at each other a shrug our shoulders and back to them.

"Do you... Do you think it could be SMG0?" Tari ask nervously.

"Who?" I ask. I may have watch SMG4 but I don't think I can really remember it right now...

SMG3 shakes his head "That's not meme energy. This is something completely different..."

Boopkins smiles. "Don't worry, guys! The power of friendship will save the day!" He makes his way to the castle entrance. "I'll just go give SMG4 a hug and everything will be all better!"

Meggy shouts for Boopkins. "WAIT, NO! BOOPKINS, WAIT!"

"SMG4! I'm coming!" To everyone's horror, he tries to swim through the demonic sludge. "Almost there..."

Suddenly, a tentacle monster rises up, it was about to grab him but a hat came flying and sucked him up and flys back to the owner, me.

I shake my hat and he pops out. "You okay Boopkins?" I put my hat back on.

"Y-yea.."

Saiko gets out her hammer. "C'mon, guys! Let's take this down!"

Everyone agrees.

Bob didn't like the idea. "Fine, I guess."

Everyone springs into action and a battle commences. Saiko takes a few tentacles out with her hammer. "CHEF! ORDER UP!"

"One order of creepy tentacle sushi coming right up!" He makes tentacle sushi, which he throws to Luigi, who catches it with his vacuum cleaner. He blows it back into a tentacle, who swallows it and explodes. Luigi celebrates, only for Tari to smack into him after getting hit by a tentacle.

"IT DIDN'T LIKE MY PEACE OFFERING!!!" Said peace offering was a rubber duck. Suddenly an explosion was heard from behind and see that the tentacle is blown up. I give them a grin and a thumbs up and continue to blow the tentacles up with my bazooka.

SMG3, Mario, and Meggy band together.

SMG3 looks at the tentacles with a glare. "You guys ready?"

"Bring it on."

"MARIO'S GONNA COMMIT TENTACLE HOMICIDE.

SMG3 summons Eggdog and engages in a duel with a tentacle. Meggy hurls Splat Bombs at a few others. Mario enlarges his mustache and uses it as a helicopter, severing three more.

"Wow, that was actually pretty cool, Red." Meggy commented.

"I'M A KING NOW."

A tentacle emerges behind them.

SMG3 notices it. "LOOK OUT!"

I get in front of him and try to blow it up unfortunately...it deflects my bomb and smacks  us into the castle.

"NOOOOO GUYS!!!!" Luigi makes his way to the doors, only for the sludge to grow larger, blocking his way completely.

"Oh no..." Luigi gets smacked away.

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Inside the castle...

SMG3 groans. "Well, that's just great. We're back where we started!"

I sit up and cough. I take my hand away. Blood... I guess the explosion got to me...it was pretty close to me. Luckily it was only me that got the blast. I see a hand reaching out.

"You okay?" SMG3 ask, worried for me.

I take his hand and stand up. "Y-yea I'm good.. did you get hurt?"

"No, what about you?"

"No I'm good too..." Liar...

"Stop acting gae to each other and we didn't start where we were, not with... NEW FUNKY MARIO!" We look around the room... "Where's all the creepy, goopy stuff from before?"

Indeed, all the sludge is gone... that's because it's hiding itself...

Meggy sighs. "Let's just find SMG4 for now... I'm sure if we can somehow get him out of here, all of this will stop."

SMG3 looks at her likes she's crazy. "Whoa whoa whoa... What do you mean "find SMG4"? We just escaped from him, and now we want to find him again?!"

"Well of course..we can't leave him behind." I said with a smile.

"3..." she sighs again. "SMG4 is our friend. I know he's tried to save us no matter what in the past."

"Hey, I'm all for saving the idiot, but you saw what he did before to-"

Mario suddenly screams. The door to SMG4's room is mysteriously open. We all rush up to find out what's going on.

"MARIO! GET AWAY FROM THAT... room...?"

The room is as it was before. No scribblings, no sludge, no monsters... Nothing.

"What the-...? Everything's back to normal? Why the hell did you scream then, Mario?!" SMG3 ask.

"Because..."He's looking at a notepad window on the computer containing a blurred message. "MARIO HAS TO READ!"

I sigh of relief. "Please don't don't do that again Mario...I almost had a heart attack..." Mario looks at me worried.

Meggy and SMG3 are weirded out.

"Oh my f—king God..." He shoves Mario out of the way and they examine the message.

Meggy Reading the message "I just want to make everyone happy..."

My eyes tear up a bit. I know that feeling all to well...

SMG3 is confused. "Well... What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

Without warning, the power goes out.

"AHHHH! TAKE SMG3, NOT MARIO!"

"NO TAKE ME!" I shout.

The lights come back on... And the monster is standing around them...

"Oh f—k..."

Mario is calm. "Well, this ain't so bad..."

A sign appear. On the sign it says "Boo!"

Mario screams. "AHHH READING!!!"

We all run out of the room. Three grabs my hand.

"ALRIGHT, WE'RE OUTTA HERE!!"

They all freeze in place.

"Uhh..why ya stop?" I'm confused until three points at toad... a different toad..

"...Toad?" Meggy speaks.

Toad is glitching through the ground. SMG3 goes down to him dragging me with him.

Mario shout out, "SMG3, SMG5, be careful!"

SMG3 scoffed. "Pfft, it's just Toad. The hell is he gonna do?" He turns to Toad, "Yo, Toad man, Do you know where SMG4 is?"

No response.

"SMG3... allow me." Mario  walks over to Toad and begins to repeatedly slap him across the face. "TOAD, OL BUDDY, OL PAL, WHERE IS SMG4?"

A box appear and text begins to appear. "Guys... I don't feel so good..." The ground shakes as Toad's legs get taller. "Do you like my redesign?"

"HELL NO I DONT!"

We all scream and run for our lives, but Toad leaps in and blocks the way.

"Oh, God! Looks like SMG4's been experimenting with redesigning more characters!" Three shouts as he dodges the attack, dragging me with him.

"He's been doing what-?!"

"Stupid sexy Toadies!" Mario runs over to kick Toad's leg. Toad stomps on him in return. "Ow!"

"Oh god he knows how to use the legs! Aim for the knees!" I shout as I shoot my bazooka at him. The toad kicks it away and blows up somewhere else.

"God damnit.." Three grabs my hand again.

"How about we run instead of attacking hm?"

Toad is leaping in a field... In reality, he's still fighting the trio. He eventually kicks Meggy to the side.

"MEGGY!!!" Me and Mario shout simultaneously.

Toad crushes her.

"God, I wish that were me!"

I look at Three weirdly. "The f—k..." Three blushes and looks away from me.

"Hey, stinky!" Mario is filming Toad. "Now all of China knows what you're into!"

"NOOOOOOO!" Toad tries to escape, but can't due to being too tall.

Meggy gets up. "Th- Thanks, Mario... I think."

"Here.." I use some of my vine magic to help her.

"Thanks Five!"

"No problem..." Can't do that too much...I'm tired...but I can't sleep...

The doors to the second floor open.

We all look at it. "Well... Guess we're going up there." Meggy takes the lead.

We all make our way up.

"I miss just being the villain. This good guy sh!t is too tiring." Three mutters

"But then I wouldn't have met you if you were bad. I like the way you are now.." I smiles softly at him. Three blushes.

"S-shut you baka.." He mutters

I snicker.

On the second floor, Meggy notices that a painting is covered in a message.

YOU WILL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH

"What... What could this mean?"

"All the paintings are like this!" Mario points out.

IT IS NOT ENOUGH

GO AWAY

YOU ARE A FAILURE

NOBODY LIKES YOUR VIDEOS

"Wow. Whoever wrote these sounds like a nice person."

"Mario no! These aren't good things! Their bad!" I tell him.

"SMG4 wrote these. These are all his thoughts." SMG3 suddenly has tears in his eyes.

Just as I suspected but...

I look at a picture that was off to the side with the others

HE WILL NEVER LOVE YOU

Who's he? Three? Me?

I look back with the others

Meggy seems surprised. "What? No way... How do you know?"

"Because I felt the same way... Do you know what it's like? To live with the kind of expectation he has? Well, I had his channel for just a week, and it was the most stressful thing in my life." His lips quiver... I frown..and hug Three from behind.

"Having millions of eyes on you... Being worried you'll make one mistake and lose everything... Always having to try and be perfect..." Meggy places a comforting hand on his shoulder. "It can make you go... kinda crazy..."
He looks at his phone. It's him attempting to kill SMG4.

Hm...

Meggy smiles. "Aww... 3... SMG4's really lucky to have someone that understands him like you do."

SMG3 stop feeling sentimental and shoves me off gently. "What?! NO! I don't care about him! I only feel like this cause I'm cosmically linked to the idiot!"

I think I am too but not in a good way...

Meggy smiles some more. "AWWWW, SMG3! IT'S OK! LET IT OUT!" She hugs him.

"HEY, LET GO OF ME, YOU DAMN SQUID!!" ONLY FIVE CAN HUG ME!

Meanwhile, Mario is looking up the stairs. Beeg SMG4 is at the top.

"You okay Mario?" I look up at what he's looking at. "Oh! Why hello Beeg!"

Beeg makes some happy noise.

Mario looks back at the others. "Uhh.. Guys... ...Can we get a move on?"

Meggy stops hugging Three "Yeah, let's just start checking rooms. Maybe SMG4 is in one of them."

They enter the first room they see.

"Hello? SMG4??" Mario calls out.

The room is surrounded by something light blue.

SMG3 is confused. "Odd... ...Isn't this supposed to be a mirror? Why has it been replaced with-"

Meggy then points at something or someone.. "GUYS!! LOOK!!"

It's SMG4... His old design, at least.

"Holy hell is this what you guys used to look like?"

SMG3 nod. "Yea...Why is.... Why is SMG4's old design here?"

Mario takes out a camera and sunglasses. "Ahhh, don't you miss how handsome he used to look!"
He takes a selfie.

"Maybe SMG4 is trying to turn his design back...?"

"Why would he want to do that?"

Three was about to reply when the SMG4 suddenly gets angry and pulls SMG3 inside.

"AHHHH OH GOD HELP!!"

I grab him tightly and try to pull him back. Mario and Meggy run over to pull him free.

"GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

"WE'RE TRYING!!!" Meggy shouts.

SMG3 try's to talk to the old version of SMG4 "SMG4! My man, you have to stop! I understand the pressure you're under, but we're here to-" He gets pulled in."-heeeeeeellp!"

"NOOOO!!" I bang on the glass with my fist. Tears streaming down.

SMG3 appears next to SMG4 in the blue void.

Meggy freaks out. "OH CRAP, THIS IS BAD!" She begins pounding. "SMG3!!!!!"

Mario punches, but breaks his fingers. "IT'S NO USE!

"C'mon, we need to find SMG4 quickly!" We hurry out of the room.

But before I could take a step the ground swallows me "GUYS-"

Mario and Meggy looks behind them only to see SMG5's hat is on the ground...where did he go?

Black is all I see...

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