Me, Four and Mario are behind the line. Four and Mario opens a can of soda? And they drank it while I just chillax beside them.
Mario is laying on the ground "SMG4... SMG5...I'm bored. Is the new castle here yet?"
Four sighs. "I told you, I can only build it once I get stinkin' rich."
"Excuse me?! What about me! I thought we agreed to pay for it with my money!?"
"I know! But I changed my mind. I can't just take your money...we can use it to decorate it..." Four says looking at the ground.
"And when is that gonna be?" Mairo ask.
"The moment my flummies take off!. Four begins watching a video. "Top 10 Flummies to Collect... First, you got Zummy, the king... This is Tummy, he's cool. This is Toople McNooples. F*ck him. This is Luigi. Oh, my favorite, Kimbo Slice. This is Satan in his K-Pop phase... And Brad."
"Jeez...what the he-" I get cut off by Mario.
"...SMG4... If you just need money, then you should've asked!"
Four scoffs. "Yeah, as if YOU'D be able to make a single dollar in this economy..."
Mario plops down a large pile of coins on top of Four.
Me and Four are surprised, especially Four.
"What?! How'd you get this money!?"
"Yea how- oh wait... I'm an idiot.."
"Ever since my boi Marty took over Mario's pizza store."
"I f—king knew it..." I muttered under my breath.
Flashback~
After everyone throws their money at Marty and collect their pizzas, Mario takes all the money for himself.
"Thanks, Marty!" Mario takes the money.
Marty is still looking a little suspicious after that as the camera menacingly zooms in on him...
Present~
"This should be enough to build the new castle, right?" Mario asks.
Four is tearfully, joyfully hugging the money "Mario, I... I don't even know how to repay you..."
I cross my arms. He could've used my money to build it but noooo. He rather use Mario's money. Why isn't he afraid to use Mairo's but his afraid to use mine?
"You can make Mario a castle where he can play in!l
"YES, I WILL! IT'S FINALLY TIME!!!! TIME TO MAKE THE NEW CASTLE I'VE BEEN PROMISING FOR SO LONG!!!"
Four claps his hands twice and construction has started and appears to be coming along smoothly.
"Is it ready yet?"
"Mario it just started." I said. Four places a hard hat on top of my hat.
"Patience! It's being built! Where's your hard hat?"
"WHAT!? BUT MARIO WANTS THE CASTLE NOOOOOOW!" Mario gets hit by a stray brick and falls over, knocked out.
"Oohhh..."
"Whoops! Sorry!" An engineer shout out.
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Everyone is admiring how construction is going along.
"Holy crap, that's cool!"
Three is surprised. "Well, I'll be damned..." He faces Four. "How long is this going to be in construction for?"
"Might as well be FOREVERRRRRR!" Mario whines.
I roll my eyes at Mario's whining.
"Chill out, Mario. Good things take time! Besides, we have just enough money left over to go on a holiday! Why don't we go on a little vacation while the castle's being constructed? We could all use one!"
"SMG4... That's the only smart thing I've ever heard you say!" Three compliments.
I had to stop myself from laughing hard so I covered my mouth.
SMG4 didn't like hearing that.
"A vacation would be really nice." Saiko comments.
"But where would we go?" Luigi ask.
"OOOH, let's go to Japan! I think everyone's forgot because I haven't mentioned it in a while, but I LIKE ANIMEEEEE! I LIKE IT SO MUCH!" Boopkins shouts.
After that, Boopkins passes out as everyone wonders what they just heard. I put an ice pack on his head.
"Why don't we go to Pee Pee island? That place looks cool!"
"What the HELL kind of island name is that?!" I ask seriously.
"Why don't we go to Spaghetti Land!? That would be fun!" Mario says happily.
Everyone's faces scream "You can't be serious!"
"Mario, that's not a real place..." Four says.
"AND PEE PEE ISLAND IS?!" I shout.
"Let's go to IKEA!" Melony suggests.
Four sighs. "Melony... You can go there anytime..."
"Oh yeah! YEEEAAHHHHHHH!" She celebrates.
"Why don't we go to Detroit?"
Three shuts the idea down. "I'm sorry, Bob. I don't want to die."
"Screw you! You ain't a Top G!"
"Can I make a suggestion!" Luigi yells.
"WHY CAN'T WE GO TO SPAGHETTI LAND?!" Mario shouts angrily.
" ME AND FIVE HAVEN'T EVEN MADE A SUGGESTION YET!" Three yells.
"GUYS, DON'T FORGET, I LIKE ANIME, REMEMBER?!" Boopkins shouts in the middle of the group.
Everyone starts arguing about where they want to go.
I sighed. Of course I have a suggestion but...I better keep it to myself. It would probably be too expensive- what the hell am I talking? I have money for days...I'm just worried about everyone else...I did always wanted to/go back to (your choice of place). It's been my dream to go/go back there...
Meggy appears behind us, looking upset. "GUYS!! Have any of you seen my beanie?"
A beat dropped.
"Guys! Why don't we go to the National Celebrity Museum?" Luigi plays a news report on his phone. "They're doing a flummy signing! And I'M a special guest!"
Mario punches the phone out of Luigi's hands. "You stupid!"
Tari catches the phone as everyone else keeps quarreling.
Meggy growled. "Come on, Tari. We're finding this beanie..."
"WAIT! IS THAT IT?!" Tari points at the phone.
The news report shows three Inklings, two kicking a flummy back and forth while a third watches. The one watching is indeed wearing Meggy's beanie.
"Damn kids..." I growl.
"You're telling me some Inkling Brat! Stole my beanie!? Come on, Tari! They're dead!" Meggy leaves.
"Can I come, too?" Luigi begs towards Tari.
"NO!" Meggy shouts from afar.
"Well I'm coming with you. I don't like when my friends fight over stupid sh!t." Especially those two... hurts my heart to see them fighting. I said following Tari to their destination.
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The three Inkling delinquents are now skating inside the museum, running over visitors in the process. They skate by Cap'n Cuttlefish.
"HEY, YOU DARN KIDS, NO SKATIN' HERE!"
One Inkling jumps up and skates in Cuttlefish's face. As they share a laugh at this, the red-haired one bumps into Meggy.
"You have something of mine?" She glared down at the boy.
"Never thought she could be this scary..." I muttered.
"OH CRAP! IT'S MEGGY SPLETZER! LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!!!" The supposed leader said and him and his two cronies flee.
"Hm." Why are they scared of her? How do they already know her?
Meggy looks over and sees Cuttlefish moving a box on a skateboard. She shoves him away.
"SORRY! I NEED THIS TO SAVE THE WORLD!"
"JEEZ MEGGY!"
She prepares to take off, only to be blocked by Tari, who has her fists up.
"Yes, Tari?" She ask impatiently.
"What do you want us to do, coach?" She slaute.
Meggy ponders as the Inkling leader smugly makes his escape.
"Uhhh... Stay over there! And don't hurt yourself!" She takes off, leaving a saddened Tari behind.
"Jeez... she really wants that hat back.."
"Yeah..it's her prized possession. She got it from One shot Wren himself. So she will do anything to get it back...even if you have to break a few rules.."
And bones...
"Come on. Let's go catch up to her!"
Tari nods and we both run after Meggy.
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As we run up the stairs I can hear Meggy and one of the kids.
"Why did you take my beanie?" Meggy demands.
"We... We were told to! Don't hurt me!!!" The leader begs.
"LIAR!!!"
"Meggy! Don't hurt him!" An out of breath Tari makes and me makes our way over. The Leader kicks Meggy.
"LOSERS!!!" He escapes.
I throw one of my knife at him. It misses but left a scratch on his cheek. I grin evilly as the boy looks back at be terrified. I look at the statue where Tari is looking at.
"Holy hell..." I mutter under my breath.
"TARI!! SMG5!! You made him get awa- ...Tari? Five?"
We continue to stare up at the statue. Meggy looks up as well. In front of her is a statue of One Shot Wren... Only it's covered in graffiti and insults: "U FELL OFF!" "LOSER" Meggy begins fuming upon seeing this act of ruin.
"Who... WHO... WHO DID THIS TO ONE SHOT WREN?!?!" She ask angrily.
Flashback
One Shot Wren leaves his beanie with young Meggy.
"This is so disrespectful. I thought he was a legend..." Tari says sadly.
Present~
Cuttlefish as an old man makes his way over while sweeping. "Ehhhh, that One Shot Wren fell off ages ago. People just use this statue to make fun of him now. Pain in my ass cause I gotta clean it up..."
An already irate Meggy kicks the broom out of his hand and catches it.
"Holy-"
"HEY, YOU DARNED KID!!"
Meggy points the broom at his face.
Damn...I wouldn't want to be on her bad side...
"Don't you DARE say that about One Shot Wren! He's the greatest Splatfest player that ever lived!"
"Well, go find him then, ya smartass whippersnapper." He leaves.
"B-But how? We don't have his address..." Tari ask.
"Yea..my thoughts exactly."
"Hmm..." Meggy suddenly gets an idea. She takes her beanie off and she and Tari look inside. There's a note and address printed on the tag.
IF LOST, RETURN TO WREN
135 INKWELL ROAD
Meggy smiles. "Come on, Tari, SMG5!! We're gonna go see ONE SHOT WREN!!!"
"Yay!" I smile.
"Yippee!"
We all run to the address.
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We make their way to One Shot Wren's house... But when we get there, we find it completely abandoned. The windows are bare and "CAUTION" barriers are up around the house.
"Holy hell..." I said looking at the house in surprise.
"This... This can't be real..." Meggy said nervously.
"Meggy... Maybe we should just go back-" Meggy hops over the fence. "MEGGY!"
"MEGGY WIAT UP!"
We follow her inside. Meggy runs down the darkened, dirty halls.
"He has to be okay... HE HAS TO BE OKAY..."Meggy stops to look inside a room. Some Splat gear, weapons, and even a Splatfest trophy are scattered about. She runs past another room, but stops to look back inside. There's a single television displaying nothing but static. She slowly makes her way towards the television as we catch up.
"Meggy...your so fast..." I said gasping for air. This place looks like it have been run down for a LONG time. It's dirty and disgusting... spiders... spiders weds everywhere. I shuddered. I don't like spiders...never did...it's just like millions of tiny holes...I have a phobia of tiny holes! I can't!! I can't even look at anything with tiny holes or else I shudder and then I feel weird for the next few minutes.
"Meggy... Stop this now. We shouldn't be here! ...Huh?" Taro also looks at the TV. The static starts glitching out to somehow play a commercial.
"How the-" I looked surprised at the Tv. How? Who is this thing on? With no electricity....
"COME ON DOWN TO THE TOWN OF WESTERN SPAGHETTI! You'll have the most rootinest, tootinest time! With horses, a brand new saloon, weekend hootenannies, and GUNS. Also, our newest cowboy is quite the spectacle to behold! A former Splatfest champion... His name is ONE SHOT WREN!"
"Come on down to Western Spaghetti"
The commercial ends and the TV turns off. Meggy is overjoyed. It left me in a daze.
"I KNEW IT!! I KNEW HE'S OKAY!! He's just gone to the Wild West!!!"
"Isn't it... Uh... Kinda weird that TV just played that commercial...? ...Then turned off?"
"Yes...yes it is.."
"Tari! You say you want to be stronger, right? Well, THIS is your chance! One Shot Wren is the greatest hero to have ever lived! If you meet him... He'll spark a fire inside you that will blaze to the heavens! And then I will take that fire... and coach it into an inferno of GREATNESS!!"
I feel a bit left out but I knew this would happen. I'm not supposed to be here anyways. But it's nice to she that Meggy really cares about Tari and wanting her to be stronger.
Tari looks at Meggy with a wide smile. "Really...? O-OK!! LET'S DO IT THEN! LET'S GO!!"
We all head back to the crew.
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Everyone is gathered at the train station, all packed up, ready to go, and finally decided on their vacation spot.
Four pops out from the front of the train window. "WAHOOOOOO! WHO'S READY TO GO TO PEE PEE ISLAND!!" Pulling a map from behind him.
Nobody, judging by the looks on their faces as they board the train.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT'S THE PLACE WE ENDED UP DECIDING TO GO!" Three shouts.
"Not for long~!" I appear behind him with a grin. Three jumps.
"Jeez! Don't scare me, you baka!"
I reply with a laugh.
"HOLD IT!!! We're not going to Pee Pee Island because... WE'LL BE GOING TO THE WILD WEST!!!" Meggy shouts with a a wide smile.
Mario looks at her confused. "What?"
"Meggy has a mission to find her idol. And he's somewhere in the west!!" Tari explains.
At this, everyone cheers at going to the wild west instead of Four's preferred spot, which he no doubt picked based on the name alone.
"YES!!! ANYTHING BUT PEE PEE ISLAND!!!!" Three smiles.
"HELL YEAH, I'M DOWN TO SHOOT SOME GUNS!!"
"Are there any waifus in the west?" Boopkins ask but gets run over by everyone boarding the train.
"Awww man..." Four transform into a abomination SMG4 plush.
I...I mean.. yea it's weird but it does looks like he needs a hug....
Meggy enters the conductor's room, tosses out the conductor, and takes the helm as the train departs.
"NEXT STOP... THE WIIIILD WEST!!!" The train moves.
"WAIT!! Who's looking after the Showgrounds while we're gone?!" Saiko ask.
"Don't worry, Marty's got it covered."
Back at the Showgrounds, Marty guards the place by... just standing there and falling over. Only Mario trusts a totally normal cardboard cutout to guard the place while everyone is on vacation.
Meggy coughs. "NEXT STOP... THE WIIIILD WEST!!!"
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It's nighttime and I'm laying down on the pull out bed in the train they have. Where did Four get this train? Did he rented this? Whatever... Me and Four talked a while and so did me and Three.
Four talked about what he wanted to do over there and whines about no one wanting to come to Pee pee island. I had to tell him that no one wanted to go over their probably due to the naming.
Three talked about how much he wanted to blow up things over at the West. I told him not to go too crazy with it. He sis don promises.
So here I am in my bed going to sleep... I already wrote in my journal. Now I'm just waiting for my body and my brain to settle down. I close my eyes...
Sleep welcome me....
Why do I here music?
It sounds...familiar...
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HELL YEA!!! Finally I posted a chapter. Sorry it took me FOREVER! At least this is our now. Hoped you enjoyed! Oh! And go to DeimosTheBall they made a fanart and I LOVE it! Just GO LOOK AT IT! I love it when I see fan art! Kinda makes me want to get twitter (X) for some reason...my sis has an account..I don't... eh.... Have a good whatever your time zone is!