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SMG4 and his friends were out and about in the city to get their minds off of things. Marek had recently vanished and nobody had a clue where he could have wandered off to, leaving everyone worried. Marek had left absolutely everything behind, even his cat, Catnap. TSB, unsure if he was even a cat person, decided to Catnap in take care of it for now - at least until Marek returns. TSB really hoped he would. Although, TSB was also a little mad. ‘What if Marek just wandered off somewhere for a few days and was just gonna return without a scratch?’, he thought. He’d be angry for sure, but when he gave it another thought… Marek had already been gone for too long. TSB sighed, snapping back to reality and letting his gaze wander around the quiet city as he walked through it with Tari. Meanwhile, SMG4, SMG3 and Mario were inside a store looking for… Supplies. SMG3 was definitely only coming along to get new Guns or Bombs, as per usual. Mario was definitely just there for the spaghetti, while SMG4 was around to possibly record funny videos he could use for his channel. TSB and Tari had stopped walking at this point. He looked at her and she noticed the worried expression on his face. Ever since Marek had vanished, that worried expression hadn’t really left at any moment. Tari pulled TSB in for a hug. “We’ll find him..”, she reassured him. TSB accepted and reciprocated the hug, a slight smile creeping upon his face. “Thanks.. I really hope so..” “I'm sure of it.", Tari said confidently as she let go of him. "How's his cat?” TSB adjusted his bag and sighed: “He's... fine, but he knows something is up. Other than noticing that Marek's been gone for a while, there seems to be something else that’s getting him down.. But maybe he’s just worried??” TSB shrugged a little, seemingly unsure. Tari nodded in response. “I'm sure that's just it! You're giving him a good home, and you're taking good care of him! I can assure you that Marek is definitely gonna appreciate it once we find him!”, she states optimistically, a smile on her face. “IF we find him..” TSB looked away, avoiding eye contact and biting his lip. Tari frowned. “Don’t say that, please… I'm pretty sure we'll find him. Just have faith!” TSB sighed but looked back at Tari, smiling a little at her attempt to cheer him up. “Okay, you're right. I shouldn't be thinking that way..” “That's the spirit!”, Tari exclaimed joyfully as she pulled him in for another hug and spun him around a bit. TSB chuckled before noticing that Mario, SMG3 and SMG4 were approaching them rather quickly....

“Woah, guys, what's going on??”, TSB asked as he was suddenly grabbed by Mario and shaken back and forth rather harshly. Mario seemed like he wanted to say something, but then he stopped completely, almost like he was... Buffering? TSB managed to free himself from his grip. “What the hell?? What's going on that you need to SHAKE ME SO VIOLENTLY??” TSB adjusted his hat as he shot Mario a pretty judgemental look, but SMG4 quickly chimed in. “We think we saw Marek.” TSB’s eyes widened as he immediately snapped back to SMG4. “Where??”, he asked quickly. “In a clothing store, which is weird... Marek isn’t the type to just go shopping for clothes, but! His wings weren't there, and neither was his tail... The horns gave him away, though.”, SMG3 said, crossing his arms. “Oh, and he wasn't alone!” Mario said proudly. “What do you mean?” Tari jumped in with a question. “I don't know, the person looked... ‘Important’, to say the least.”, SMG4 replied. TSB was confused. Did Marek leave them to.. Be with someone else? He promptly decided to take action and dashed past SMG3, SMG4 and Mario. “Where are you going??”, SMG3 yelled after TSB, raising an eyebrow. “To get to the bottom of this!!” “You don't even know where exactly we saw him, TSB..”, SMG3 states, annoyed. TSB stopped in his tracks, turned around to the others and it went silent for about a minute. “Riiiighttt.... Oops-“, he broke the silence, chuckling a little, rubbing the back of his neck and adjusting his bag. SMG3 scoffed, pointing in the direction they possibly saw Marek at. “The shop’s called ‘Zstuffs’.", SMG3 said. "Seriously???" “Yes. Now let's get this over with!” SMG3 seemed a little optimistic, while TSB just shook his head, questioning that clothing shop’s name, although that thought faded rather quickly. He immediately started running in the direction he was pointed to, the others of course following close behind, but they weren't as quick as TSB was. Tari had a worried expression on her face, hoping everything would be fine and that TSB wouldn't get himself caught up in a disaster...

When TSB arrived at the shop and entered pretty much immediately, he started looking around for Marek. It took him about 10 minutes to find him. Upon finding him, he just stood there, observing.. That was definitely Marek... TSB didn’t notice the person that was with Marek yet, so he ran up to him and hugged him. “You're okay!!” he shouted slightly, but he was immediately pushed away and now being growled at. Marek had turned around and looked down to TSB, who noticed that Marek was taller... And some other things seemed off about him. His eyes were… Orange? And he seemed emotionless... “Wh- Why’d you do that?”, TSB chuckled nervously. “I don't like being hugged.. Nor touched...”, Marek hissed back at TSB, his voice filling with disgust at even the thought of physical contact… As he realised who it was, Marek groaned. “Oh. It's you…” TSB raised an eyebrow, confused by Marek’s mood and demeanour.. Not only was this different, his clothes looked different as well… He looked as if he was ready to kill, and his eyes… ‘Why are his eyes orange? His eyes are a mix of blue, purple and red, but not orange… His tail and wings aren’t there either he usually shows them, what is going on??’, TSB’s mind raced. “Yeah, it’s me… What happened to you? Why are your eyes Orange???”, he asked, approaching Marek again, but all he was met with was yet another growl. ‘Okayyyy, he REALLY doesn’t like people close to him… Noted.’, TSB thought to himself. Suddenly, someone else spoke up. “Zero, we can leave, I got everything I wan-“, the person stopped themselves from saying anything more as they noticed TSB. Soon, they noticed SMG4, SMG3, Mario and Tari as well, quickly putting on a smile. “Oh my, you must be Zero’s friends...” While SMG4, SMG3 were getting flashbacks from the WOTFI 2021 at the sound of that name, Mario raised an eyebrow, confused. He pointed at the person who was seemingly accompanying Marek. “Who the hell is this dinosaur?” Tari suddenly spoke up: “I know who that is. They recently talked about you on the news...” “Is that so?”, the person asked, continuing to smile. “You still watch the fucking news???”, SMG3 said as he shook himself a little, being dragged from his thoughts. He shook SMG4, to get him back to reality as well. Tari crossed her arms nervously. “Yeah, I do. You’d be surprised what else you find out when you watch the news..” “Yeah, yeah, whatever, tell us who that is!”, SMG3 replied, rather annoyed. The person next to Marek seemed to thoroughly enjoy this silly little interaction. TSB noticed and immediately got the ick, quickly growing to dislike this person… He felt as if they may have done something to Marek. “Well..”, Tari spoke. “It’s Quinn Wojcicki… The new CEO of YouTube.” SMG4’s and SMG3’s eyes widened. “WAIT, THAT MEANS-“ “Oh why yes, I am Susan Wojcicki’s child.”, Quinn cut them both off as they stretched a little. “That’s why deez old ass dinosaur legs looked familiar!”, Mario blurted out. Quinn just raised an eyebrow at him in annoyance. “Is he… Always this… Stupid?” Quinn looked up to Marek, who simply gave them a nod of approval. “EY!! Only I am allowed to call him annoying!!”, SMG4 shouted, crossing his arms, offended on behalf of Mario. TSB, standing in the very middle of this conversation, suddenly turned to Quinn and Zero with a slight glare. “What did you do to Marek?” Quinn looked back and forth between TSB and Zero. “Me? Oh, I did nothing… Zero came back willingly.”, Quinn spoke as they smiled. “He’s helping me ou-“ “With a job he’s never fucking enjoyed? With a job he was always forced to do? A job he thought he was created for?? You’ve got to be fucking with me, WHAT DID YOU DO!?”, TSB knew exactly what Quinn was talking about… He knew what Marek was helping them out with, and he also knew Marek HATED that job and that it had left him with many regrets and scars. TSB got so furious, he lunged straight at Quinn, but Marek was too fast. He grabbed TSB and slammed him against the wall without a second thought. Marek was staring at TSB, growling… Quinn dusted themselves off as the others stood there, in shook and a bit of panic, not knowing what to do… They could attack Marek, but this was still their friend, after all… So, they didn’t. TSB looked at Marek, utterly terrified, as his glasses slid down slightly. He looked over to Quinn, shooting them another glare. “Marek would ne-“ “It’s Zero.”, Zero spat. “I don’t care! You still would never hurt anyone! You hated that job! You told me so!” Zero shook his head, still keeping TSB in place. “Well, I guess he just changed his mind?” Quinn chimes in, shrugging. “‘Change his mind’??? To go back to something he DESPISES!?”, TSB shouted back, but he was just pressed back against the wall even harder by Zero, whining in pain just a tiny bit. “Keep your voice down, burger freak...”, Zero glared at him. “Now, now… Be nice, Zero. Let him down, I think he gets it..”, Quinn spoke, nodding at Zero. He let go of TSB, who just slid down onto the ground. A small thump could be heard. Zero took a few steps back, now standing next to Quinn again. TSB groaned while Tari approached him and eventually helped him get up. “Then explain why his eyes are suddenly are orange? Marek has two different eye colors, and none of them are anywhere close to orange…”, SMG4 stated, now standing infront of TSB and Tari in a protective manner as SMG3 and Mario joined him. SMG3 crossed his arms, shooting Quinn a death glare. Quinn got a little nervous, trying to figure out a good lie, but they gave up rather quickly. Quinn isn’t the worst liar there is, but they also aren’t the best. “Fine, you got me, I mayyy have done something to him...” “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO!?”, TSB yelled and was about to approach Quinn once again, but he was stopped by Zero glaring at him and Tari holding him in place just a bit. “Jesus, calm down, I didn’t give him anything that could kill him… He’s way too valuable. I did my research, I’m not dumb… Unlike some of you.” “HEY! Answer his question, we deserve an answer, reptile.”, SMG3 snarled at Quinn. Quinn shook their head, mildly annoyed. “Just gave him something that would change his personality quite a bit, basically mould him back into the person he used to be.. It’ll probably wear off after a day or so... Well, maybe.”, they shrugged, seemingly a little nervous. “‘MAYBE’???”, TSB growled a little. “It will, I’ve tested it on multiple people and they’re just fine… Now, if you’ll excuse us, Zero has work to do and I have a ton of things to do myself.”, Quinn stated, walking past them all, with Zero by his side. SMG4 quickly caught up to them both and stopped them by putting a hand on Quinn’s chest, making them stop walking. “Oh, you’re allowed to do your shit alone, but you’re not taking our friend to do YOUR dirty work!!!” Quinn scowled a bit. “Step aside, ‘perfect’ boy.. Or else..” “Or else what? Hm??? Marek isn’t gonn-“, SMG4 was cut off as he suddenly had a knife held to his throat, making him take a step back. Everyone gasped as they watched the scene unfold… Zero forcing SMG4 away from Quinn and wielding a knife, seemingly ready to do god-knows-what to what should be their mutual friend… Quinn slightly turned their head back to look directly at TSB, giving him one hell of a satisfied smile. TSB noticed and just glared back at Quinn, getting even more furious and riled up than he already was. He felt arms wrap around him and down to see Tari hugging him out of fear… He took a deep breath and hugged Tari back. “It’s okay. Don’t worry...”, TSB spoke softly and comfortingly, making Tari loosen up a little and give him a small smile. TSB smiled back and looked back up to see that Quinn had walked past SMG4 and Zero. Zero put the knife down and dusted himself off a little, glaring down at SMG4 to signal to him that he’d better buzz off… SMG4 quickly rushed back to the others and was swiftly embraced by SMG3, who gave him a soft kiss on the forehead and glared over at Zero. He didn’t want to, he knew he wasn’t in his right mind, but at the same time he just felt so much anger, so much rage.. Zero was about to leave, but TSB quickly got past his friends and ran up to Zero, grabbing his hand. “Marek, this isn’t you! C’mon, you- You don’t like this job, you never did! Please come back with us… We- We need each other!” Zero ripped his hand away from TSB’s and turned to him, threateningly slowly… He walked toward TSB, causing him to back away until his back met a wall. TSB stared up at Zero, terrified. Zero aggressively snatched TSB glasses from him, making him jump a bit. “Mare-“ “Shut UP and listen, burger freak.”, Zero spat as he glared at him. “I don’t need anyone, ESPECIALLY not you! You’re annoying, you just sit on your ass all day, painting your dumb pictures! I never actually liked them, I don’t get why I even started dating you…” Zero scoffed. “You’re NOTHING to me.” He watched as TSB slowly began to tear up… This made Zero smile. “Good, you’re finally getting it…” Zero’s expression became emotionless again and with that, he left, dropping TSB’s glasses, causing one of the lenses to crack a little and leaving TSB behind just like that. Quinn, who witnessed and observed everything from the sidelines, shot TSB and the others an incredibly sadistic smile. As soon as both Quinn and Zero were gone, TSB broke down, falling to his knees, quickly grabbing his glasses and putting them back on as he tried to hide his tears, just to end up sobbing violently anyway… Hearing his partner say such things hurt him deeply. Tari, Mario, SMG4 and SMG3 quickly ran over to TSB and pulled him in for a group hug to comfort him. Tari hugged him tightly. “It’s okay, you know Marek would never say something like that… We will get to the bottom of this, TSB. I promise you that! We will fix this...” TSB couldn’t respond, all he could do was listen. He couldn’t control his crying, he was having a full-blown mental breakdown…

After a while, TSB had managed to calm down and were able to leave the clothing store… They apologized to the owner of the place and attempted to explain what had happened, but they were banned from this store anyway… TSB was standing alone, as he wanted some alone time to think. He still loved Marek, without a doubt, but those words.. The things Zero said to him were so hurtful and personal, they stung. But he always tried to remind himself that that wasn’t the Marek he loved, no. Quinn had given him something and he HATED them for this. TSB clenched his fists and took a deep breath. “I’ll find a solution for all of this, mi estrella.. I promise you. I just hope you’re okay.”, he spoke to himself as he went and returned back to the group… They needed more help now than ever before, and TSB knew exactly who they could go to. They were in need of a doctor.

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A few days had passed since that encounter with the new CEO of YouTube, known as Quinn, and Zero. TSB had been trying to come up with a plan to stop Quinn from using Marek as their tool. But, nobody knew how Quinn was even managing to control Marek the way they were. The only clue they had was that Marek’s eyes had become orange and that little veins were forming underneath them. TSB groaned as he laid down on his bed, staring up at the ceiling and getting lost in his thoughts, while a little cat was climbing up onto his bed. It quickly made itself comfortable on his lap. TSB snapped back to reality and sat up to see Marek‘s cat Catnap on his lap. He smiled and softly pet him, to which Catnap responded with purrs. “You hungry, bud?”, TSB asked the kitty, but he wouldn’t budge. He kept stroking the cat and slowly became absorbed back into his thoughts. ‘There’s gotta be someone that knows something about orange eyes… But no one I know, knows anything. The whole crew is exhausted, rightfully so, but what’s even worse is that Saiko, Boopkins, Luigi and Long-Tail have all gone missing… Nobody knows where they went. Mario is devastated and scared for his brother, which is understandable, Long-Tail is usually quiet, of course nobody noticed that they were gone at first… Boopkins was easy to notice, knowing how hyperactive that kid is, and Bob had been the first one to notice knowing how close they both actually are. And Saiko? Hadn’t heard any Rock music in a while, that’s how we all noticed. I just really hope Quinn didn’t get their hands on them, that’d be horrible…’ TSB let out a loud sigh as he returned to reality once more, and stopped petting Catnap. He took off his glasses, his very tired-looking eyes now showing. He looked exhausted, he IS exhausted. He looked down at his glasses while gently rubbing over the lenses with his thumb. “Oh, Catnap… What do I do… What do WE do?” He looked down to see that Catnap was leaning against him and had fallen asleep. He smiled in awe, placed the glasses next to himself for a second and lifted the cat up a bit to place him down on the blanket so that he’d have it warm and comfortable. He then turned away from the cat, growing deathly silent for a few minutes, simply staring into nothing, until there was a sudden knock on his door... He snagged his glasses from where he had put them down earlier and quickly had put them back on, clearing his throat. “Come in!”, he shouted as he got off of his bed. The door opened to reveal SMG4 peaking inside, giving TSB a slight smile, which he returned. “How you.. Holdin’ up?”, SMG4 asked as he slowly opened the door wider to walk inside. He closed the door behind him and stood there, watching TSB rub the back of his neck. “Well, uh..”, TSB started. “Honestly? Terrible. I’ve barely processed the things Zero said to me, but I’m.. I’m slowly getting there, please don’t worry about me, worry about the others, your boyfriend-“ “You’re just as important to us, TSB, don’t do this to yourself..”, SMG4 stopped him from finishing his sentence as he now stood right infront of him. “You’re hurt, we all are. Not only that, we’re exhausted and we’re worried. What matters is that we keep each other company and make sure that everyone is somehwhat doing okay, alright?”, SMG4 spoke and gave TSB a meaningful smile. TSB sighed, but nodded. Suddenly, SMG4 had his arms wrapped around him. TSB teared up a little as he hugged him back. Everyone’s emotions were all over the place, but they were still there for one another and kept each other company if needed. And boy, did TSB need company right now. HUMAN company. He loved Catnap to bits, but he just needed someone he could actually have a conversation with. He was so glad SMG4 had decided to come by and pay him a visit, this made him feel at least a little bit better. “I’ve got some banger memes on my computer that we could watch to get your mind off of things… What’cha think?” SMG4 let go of TSB to get a better look at him again. He nodded. “I’d like that..”, TSB replied as they both left his room to give Catnap some quiet time. As they arrived in SMG4’s room, he settled down with TSB. He leaned on his chair and observed his movements as SMG4 pulled out some memes. Of course, the memes were burger-related.

Knowing how much TSB loved burgers, he appreciated this even more than he would have regular memes. As they were going through the memes and having a few good laughs, TSB ended up noticing something. It was a picture in the memes folder. TSB pointed at said picture. “What’s that?”, he asked SMG4, who now turned his attention to the picture as well. “Huh? I guess I forgot to move this picture out of the meme folder.. Let me just-“ TSB cut him off. “Can you show it to me?”, he asked. SMG4 didn’t ask any further questions, thinking that TSB was just curious, and expanded the picture. The picture revealed Mario at the doctor’s office, eating a burger while the doctor was fixing Marios broken leg. The doctor seemed rather annoyed.. VERY annoyed, honestly. TSB chuckled a little, but couldn’t help but recognise that doctor.. He squinted, thinking hard, until SMG4 managed to get him to snap him back to reality. “Dude, I can’t see my screen-“, he laughed, as he saw just how close TSB was to the computer screen. “Uh wha- Sorry-“ TSB quickly backed away. “I was just.. Trying to see if I remember this doctor, I feel like I know him… He seems so familiar.” “Doctor Mango? Oh yeah, we know him, we’ve visited him a good amount of times. Mainly because of the amount of injuries Mario has sustained.” SMG4 chuckled, shaking his head. “Oh, and he is also Marek’s doctor, if I remember correctly… Maybe that’s why you know him or have heard of him? Marek used to go there quite often for, well… Reasons unknown to us.” SMG4 turned his chair around to look at TSB, who was standing there, just staring at the screen.. “Maybe.. He could help us…”, TSB whispered. SMG4 raised an eyebrow. “What??” TSB grabbed SMG4, shaking him violently. “HE COULD MAYBE HELP US!!” He smiled brightly as he happily rushed out of SMG4’s room, leaving him there, completely shaken up. He shook himself a little and went right after TSB. “Wait up!! Where are you going??” “Getting the gang together! We have a doctor’s appointment!” And with that, TSB was off, getting what was left of the crew to come together.

After gathering everyone, half an hour had passed. They were all located in the main hall of SMG4 Castle. “What if he can‘t help us??”, SMG3 asked, crossing his arms. “Then all this would be a waste of time...” “Still worth a try.. Don‘t be so pessimistic, Three.”, Meggy chimed in, shooting Three a glare. He just scoffed, but his gaze softened right after. Meggy was right… Being pessimistic isn’t helping anything right now. Three leaned against four, taking his hand. Four smiled, looking at Three and giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. Four looked toward TSB. “So.. How we doin‘ this?” TSB smirked. “Well, my plan was to pay the doc a visit and see if he could help us!” He smiled sheepishly. “Hopefully that’ll work, since he’s a doctor and he’s probably very busy… I doubt he’d just jump up and leave for a patient of his.”, Three said, looking at TSB. “We just have to try!”, Tari suddenly jumped in with her hopeful demeanour. “I’m sure he’ll help us.. What’s he gonna say? ‘No’? I’m sure he won’t!”, TSB said, despite not even really knowing Doctor Mango. Mario’s expression became worried… He knew something about Mango that the others didn’t. He quickly shook the feeling and expression off, now seemingly back to his usual, silly self. “Anyway, who’s coming with me?”, TSB asked, looking at everyone. Mario immediately walked over to TSB, clearly coming along for the ride. Tari smiled, giving Meggy a quick kiss on the forehead, and also went over to TSB, joining him and Mario. TSB smiled, seeing that Four was also joining them. “We’re gonna stay here, you go and get the Doctor!”, Meggy stated. “We sure will!!” TSB quickly went to his room to grab his bag, not noticing that a little someone had quickly snuck inside and left again… They managed to catch the next bus, despite nearly missing it because of Mario. They all sat down. Four sat down next to TSB and smiled. “Haven’t seen you this happy for a few days now… I’m glad you’re better.” TSB sighed quietly, but nodded in agreement. “Oh yeah, I am glad about that as well..”, he spoke as he leaned against the window, looking outside as the trees pass them by…

An Hour passed by and they finally had arrived in the city, getting out off the bus TSB looked around realizing the city was quite big. “Okayyy where do we need to go?” He asked looking behind him at the others. Four took out his phone and looked at Maps to located the hospital where Mango is working at. after a minute he found the Hospital he was working in. “Got him! Not even a 10 minute Walk!” “Lead the way!!” TSB said as Four took the lead off the group and them following behind. As they walked Mario was making his weird sounds while he was admiring the city for once not destroying or overflodding it. TSB took out his phone and decided to look through his gallery finding a Picture of him and Marek, it was around the time were they started to get along and become friends, he took marek out to eat Burgers with him, making him eat the first burger ever, TSB smiled thinking back to that day, he used to think that Marek was stupid or annoying but that changed rather quickly once they got to know one another and later on they started dating wich TSB thought would never happen. He was then suddenly stopped by accidentally walking into Four. “Oi! Dreamer boy we are here!” Four chuckled with a result of TSB blushing and quickly putting his phone away, he looked up at the Hospital whistling “That is one big off a hospital..” he said with everyone agreeing to him. “Mario will be the first one inside!!!” Mario said as he suddenly ran inside.. “MARIO WAIT FOR GODS SAKE-“ Four said running after him, Tari stood next to TSB sighing as she and him walked inside the Hospital. Once inside there was no sign of Mario nor Four, Tari and TSB raised their eyebrows looking around trying to find them in this crowded place.. Suddenly everyone stopped through a big Scream…

“GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE!!!!” TSB and Tari gave each other a glance before rushing and pushing themselves through the crowd and towards the scream they had heard, arriving infornt an office, the door was open and there was a similar looking guy to Mario but he had Horse for Legs? ears and a Tail! Four was worriedly backing up while he was watching the Doctor holding Mario and giving him one hell of a glare. “So that’s-“ “Yup, that is Doctor mango..” Four said rubbing the back off his neck. “And i kinda forgot that he doesn’t like Mario.. understandable he can get very annoying and on peoples nerves and he got onto Doctor Mangos nerves pretty quickly..” as Four finished his sentence Mango walked over to Four, TSB and Tari while holding Mario and shoving him over to Four. “Keep your annoying friend away from me! I have TONES of work to do!!” Mango glared as he was about to walk back to his office. “Wait! We need your help-“ “You have an appointment?” Mango stopped looking back at them with a raised Eyebrow, TSB stood there quietly fiddling with his fingers as people passed by around him and the others “Well no- but-“ “Then scheduled one im busy..” He was about to enter his office but TSB suddenly shouted out “It’s about Marek!!” Mango stopped in his tracks, standing in his doorway as he was in his thoughts, the name was very familiar to him, he just hadn't heard off it for a while.. he Sighed loudly look indirectly at TSB, groaning a little he gestured for them to come inside, not looking all to happy about it. “Fine.. come in.” He walked inside, TSB smiled and he quickly rushed into the office with the others. “BUT keep that fat Italian at bay!!” he glared at Mario but Mario didn’t care he just sat down on the sofa, Four sitting down next to Mario making sure he isn’t gonna do anything. The doors closed TSB standing there and looking at Mango, with him looking back. “So.. you’re here because of Marek, a patient off mine, he wasn’t here recently if its that you wanna know..” Mango said as he had sat down on his chair looking down at some papers writing some things down. “No that is not what we wanted to know.. we wanted to know if you know anything about.. orange eyes and veins under them? Marek seems to have it and we weren’t sure but thought if you maybe know anything about this?” Mangos ear twitched a little as he listend to TSB, as he keept writing something down.

After a few silent minutes mango looked up at TSB seemingly to be in his thoughts.. TSB stood there while Tari was looking at a Picture that had ducks in them, she smiled thinking the picture was cute. “Give me a second.” Mango said as he got up and walked over too a bookshelf he had, it was a HUGE one, Mango seemed to be looking for a specific book. He ended up grabbing one off the books that had a flower on em, seems like he was looking for a flower? TSB looked curious watching Mango go through the Book rather slow, so he wouldn’t miss anything. “Would you quit starring?” Mango didn’t bother to look up but he knew TSB was starring at him and it was making him uncomfortable. TSB nodded rather quickly and was quite embarrassed as he looked over too Four and Mario, Mario was giving him a quick happy wave while Four was scrolling through his phone. TSB grabbed his phone looking through a few things until he noticed that his bag was moving.. he raised an eyebrow putting his phone away again as he grabbed his bag and opened it, with a cat suddenly jumping out off the bag TSB feel down onto his butt and CatNap jumping over and on top off mango’s desk. “YOU TOOK A CAT WITH YOU!?” Mango glared exclaiming. TSB got up quickly and walked over to the table picking up CatNap. “Sorry Doc!! I didn’t notice he snug into my bag it is an accident i promise.. BUT he’s a good Cat!! Mango scoffed rolling his eyes and looking back into the book. “You better not be Lying..” Mango frowned as he keeps looking through the book and TSB gently placing Catnap down, he immediately started to stroll around Mangos office TSB keeping an eye on him. Mango walked over too his desk sitting back down as he reads.. he suddenly feels something fuzzy rub his leg wich is odd since his Legs are already fluffy, he looked down noticing CatNap was rubbing against one off his legs, he was about to push the Cat away but then he started purring, Mango's eyes were big in admiration for a second but he immediately put his serious expression back on and decided to let the cat be, just letting the Cat do his thing, and secretly enjoying the purrs just a bit. As he went back to the book and onto the next page he found what he was looking for. “Eureka! I found it.” He exclaimed satisfied. TSB looked at Mango raising an eyebrow, “Watchu find?” He walked over too Mango as he looked into the book himself. “Anoura flower..? What kind off flower is that?” TSB asked with a slight puzzled expression on his face. Mango looked up at him. “I think this is what you guys were looking for..I have seen a few patients here and there that were infected by these flowers, we had no clue what was going on and tried anything to get rid off the effect, of course nothing harmful since we didn’t know back then with what we were dealing with.. Turns out the effect of this flower wears off after hours, although it depends how much off the spores you had smelled, some patients had told us the exact same thing after they felt better that they had found a very pretty looking flower and wanted to know how they’d smell like, and once they did everything went black for them or more likely a blur, they seemed to act different and the only thing that changed visibly on your body were the eyes, they turned orange and had tiny little veins under them.” Mango then pointed into the book which resembled a person with the exact same eyes Marek had when the crew encountered him with Quinn. “I assume Marek had these kinda eyes?” Mango asked as TSB just gave him a node of Approval, listening to what the doctor was saying, even tho everyone else seemed to be distracted by something else they were listening too, even Catnap. “What.. does this flower do? Marek was so.. Emotinless?” TSB said. “Well.. for what i have read the flower turns somebody’s personality around, and i am assuming in Mareks case he turned Emotinless.. although…” Mango suddenly got up and walked over to a locker were he keeps the files off the patients he had treated or still treats, he searches for Mareks file and eventually finds it grabbing it and reading through it. Four had noticed how big the file was, he curiously raised an eyebrow, Mango noticed and he furrowed his eyebrow a little. “Ask away Mario Re-colored..”. Four crossed his Arms and frowned a bit. “I have a name you know..” Mango rolled his eyes and sighed “SMG4. Now what are you so curious about?” Four smiled satisfied as he got up from the sofa he was sitting on and walked over to Mango and TSB wanting to have a look into the file. “Well.. the file is quite big and im curious why-“ “Classified.” Mango said closing the file immediately so Four wouldn’t be able to get a look into it, he crossed his arms. “It’s our friend..” “Still classified, there are many reasons why im not legally allowed to show you these files, only if Marek allows me to do so and he would need to be here, is he here?” Mango said looking at Four raising an eyebrow at him. Four sighed shaking his head. “Yeah thought so, now let me get back to reading- WHERE IS THE FILE!?” Mango shouted out as he realized the file from his hand was suddenly gone, he looked around in panic, how did he lose a file he had holding in his HAND?? they all searched in panic till somebody says “Mamma Mia” out loud. everyone stopped in their place and slowly turned to the sofa, there it was, the file, in MARIO’S hands, Mango boiled with Anger “YOU!! YOU CAN’T JUST TAKE THE GODAMN FILE AND READ IT!” He said angrily as he trots towards Mario wanting to snatch the File, but Mario was so invested he started to run around Mangos office using his bigger wings to hide himself behind those and still running around not really watching where he was running Anymore while he was reading Marek’s file. Four stood there and waited till Mario would run past him and once he did the made sure that Mario tripped, and once Mario tripped and fell onto his face with a big “oof” following behind, Mario looked up was About to grab the file back that was laying infront off him but mango quickly snatched the File back before Mario could get his hand on it again, scoffing loudly. “If it wasn’t for your friend you’d be banned right here, right now, but since this is very important to Squirrel boy over there-“ “HEY!!” TSB scoffed. “- This will be your last warning..” Mango warned as he glared down to Mario who slowly got back up, mango pointed at the sofa putting Mario technically in time out, Mario crossed his arms frowning like a little kid and walked over to the sofa and sits back down using his head wings to hide his face in anger. Mango give Four a quick ‘Thanks’ for helping him getting the file back. Mango cleared his throat, “Anyway, Marek used to visit me often for Privat reasons…” Mango gave Mario another glare, really wanting to sedate him so he wouldn’t be able to do any shenanigans but he took a deep breath to calm himself, he knew this wouldn’t be the right thing to do. “And i have noticed he used to be quite Emotinless especially for the first few times he was here.” “Well that isn’t so bad is it?” Tari asked as she decided to be apart of the conversation again. “It is not, he actually is a really kind and loving person and i appreciate him actually, he’s not so annoying as chicken wing over there.” He looked over to Mario, Mario gasped was about to say something but Mango shoot him a glare so he decided to not to say anything, four chuckled slightly by the funny nickname Mango had given Mario. Tari sighed “Well what does this tell us?” Mango put the file back ack into the locker and locking it right after and putting the key away in his desk drawer. “Well, im guessing the Anoura flower has changed his personality back to who he once was but im just guessing here, but as said it should be fine in a few Hours, the effect wears off and he should be back to normal in no tim, wich means you guys can leave now-“ “Actually, we cannot, Marek needs help, he’s like trapped? The new CEO of YouTube may be giving him that flower all the time..” Tari said as she was rubbing the back off her neck. “And how is that my problem?” Mango asked raising an eyebrow. “isn’t there like.. a cure to this?” Four asked, Mango sat down on his chair and looked up at them. “Well, there is no cure as far as we know, we never thought to make one since the effect appear to be going away after a few hours and we haven’t had a patient who had been effected by the flowers for years no- wait… you said he may be getting the spores all the time?” He looked at Tari rising an eyebrow, she just nodded. “I’m just assuming because he’d definitely would come back to us..and well Quinn seemed to be quite controlling off him as well.” “Shhhit.” mango said out loud. “What- why did you say that?? Is that bad?” TSB asked worriedly, Mango exhaled deeply. “The flower comes with a huge quirk. The longer you inhale it the worsen you’ll get, eventually it doesn’t affect your personality more likely your brain anymore it affects your whole body, your start to act like a wild animal, the person infected even stops listening to anyone and just goes crazy, foaming at the mouth as well.” “Excuse me what???” TSB said getting a little angry, but not at Mango. “And im unsure if it’s Cureable if the affected person has reached that stage.. i am unsure if he’s cureable at that point as we never experienced this befo-“ “EXCUSE ME WHAT!?” TSB shouted not letting mango finish his sentence and now getting even MORE worried than he already had been. Mango glared up at TSB “You don’t have to shout especially not when you’re like right next to me..” Mango said as he kept glaring at TSB, TSB rubbed the back off his neck apologizing for shouting, as they talked CatNap jumped onto mangos lap and made himself comfortable, mango was caught a bit off guard but he deceit o let the cat stay on his lap for now. “It’s just.. we don’t know what to do, im scared off losing Marek and you are.. kinda our only hope…” TSB hugged himself and looked away a bit, Mango watched as Four embraced TSB and so did Tari, Mario eventually joined in as well they all reassuring him that everything will be fine. Mango went into his thoughts, Marek had always been so kind to him ever since he had joined the crew and gave him a visit, he remembered the necklace Marek gifted him out off kindness and how much marek appreciated what Mango was doing for him, but Mango never really wore it because he felt like it wasn’t Work appropriate, without Noticing Mango had started to Stroke CatNap while he was in his thoughts, he loudly sighed slowly coming out off his thoughts. “I’ll help you, in one condition though.” TSB rubbed his eyes under his glasses as he nodded at Mango giving him a smile full off hope, “Absolutely!! What is it?” “If i need ingredients and that ANY kind i want you guys to get it, and i also don’t wanna be disturbed while im working, yes this is targeted.” Mango slightly glanced at Mario while Mario just looks sad “:(“ but he opened his mouth “that’s tw-“ Mario was cut off as Tari covered his mouth rather quickly so Mango wouldn’t get mad at Mario once more. TSB nodded rapidly “Can do!! Thank you so much for helping us! You don’t know how much i- WE appreciate it!!” “Na ah, im not doing this for you, I am doing this for Marek.” Mango said crossing his arms while leaning back in his chair. “But what about your work?” Tari asked worriedly “Ah don’t worry about that i will manage all off that.” he smiled a little. “Now shoo shoo i have other patients to attend to today, this hospital is full of them, and later on i have plenty of books to go through to see if there are other ways to cure someone!”” Mango said as he started to push everyone out off his Office, ‘if there IS a cure..’ Mango thought to himself as he had shoved everyone out off his office. TSB stumbled around a little as he was shoved out off the office, he turned around looking at mango again giving him another hopeful smile. “Thank you again.. that means a lot to us and to Me, if you need anything-“ TSB got out his phone and gave Mango his number “Just call me and i will get what you need.. or the others!”

Mango smiled slightly once more and nodded. “Of course but again, not doing this for you, doing this for Marek.” “Yes yes we know.” “Good, now go I’ve got plenty off work to do!” He said getting CatNap and handing him over to TSB really gently. TSB softly grabbed the cat and they all nodded and right after they had left the Hospital to go home and give Mango his space again, he had closed his office door and sighed loudly sitting down on his chair. Mango looked down at a drawer that had a lock on, he leaned down hesitating at first but ended up opening it, as he shoved the drawer out, there were a few things laying inside, such as a few crafted things, gift cards and a Necklace, Mango slowly and carefully grabbed the necklace out off the drawer and looked at it, the necklace had a little note written on. ‘Thank you for helping me with everything and for being an Amazing doctor, if you ever need anything call me and i’ll be there in no time!!’ Mango softly smiled taking away the note and placing it inside the drawer, closing and locking it right after. He puts the necklace around his neck, getting up from his seat and walked over to a mirror he had hanging on the wall, he looked at himself while wearing the necklace, he hummed satisfied. “Not to bad..” he said out loud to himself, he then looked at his hair going into a deeper thought once more, an idea forming in his head, he had walked back to his Table and started writing things down, things like what he needed to get for the next days that are about to come and probably will be tough on him once he starts his research and also.. Hair dye. Mango sighed satisfied picking up the list he had just made in the span off 5 minutes one of his hands placed down on his hip. “I guess a little change won’t hurt.” The last things he had said as he had grabbed his things leaving with a tone off confidence.

Chapter Text

Mango was tired, really, really tired, he has been doing researches and reading almost all night before he just ended up falling asleep for approximately 2 hour. But regardless he visited his Patient Inksy, with a soft smile Mango knocked on her door to her room and waited for a few seconds until he heard a 'Come in!'

Mango Opened the door entering inksy's room, his smile fading almost instantly by the sight of Mario. It was quite for a whole minute, Mango glaring at Mario, while Mario's wings slowly covered his face.

Inksy interrupted Mangos glare and gave him a slight smile. "Morning doc!! Mario is here to visit me! Isn't that nice?" She said while her head turned to look at Mario. Mario's cheeked flushed a bit but he sat down next to Inksy and nodded agreeing to her.

Mango sighed letting it slide since Inksy really seems to Iike Mario.. for some reason. "So how you feeling today Inksy, any changes, you need anything?" Mango asked as he walked over to her examining her arm with the iv that's giving them Ink fluid into their Arm. He looked at the IV checking in if everything is fine and luckly it was, he smiles, Satisfied. "I'm.. Okay, I'm unsure if I'm feeling better or if anything has really changed." She sighs looking down a bit, Mario hugged Inksy from the side wich made her cheer up a bit.

Mango clicked his tongue, "well I'm.. sure there's gonna be some change soon, you've been here for a while now and you've done some amazing progress!." Mango said pulling out his clipboard to read through inksy's file "the first day here you've been quite weak, barely survived even, but look at you now!" He looks up at them again "You've been getting stronger by the day and also, you're slowly learning how to properly wake again!" After hearing that Inksy smiled a little more than before. "I'm glad I made so much progress, I didn't even realise myself honestly.." Mario nudges inksy's shoulder "Mario is a Proud of you!!" Mario's head wings flatter around a bit, wich made inksy blush a bit. Must've found that gesture off Mario quite cute.

"You should try to walk a bit more today, maybe try to get to the cafeteria today? I'm sure Mario is willing to give you a hand?" Mango said while looking between Mario and Inksy.

Inksy gave it a quick thought, looking at Mario but then nodded. "Okay, it's better than staying in bed all day anyway!" Mario jumped off the bed and gave inksy a hand.

"That's the spirit!" Mango smiled putting the clipboard to the end of inksy's bed. "If you do need anything don't be afraid to shout for a nurse, they will alarm me right immediately alright?"

Inksy nodded "Thank you Dr. Mango!! See you later!" And with that inksy and Mario left the Room but rather slow, as inksy wants to take things slow when it comes to walking.

Mango's smile went down a bit and sighed, it's not because of Inksy, No, he's been worried about Marek, and the others who had gone missing, as far as his concern this flower can do some gruesome damage.

Mango left Inksy room closing the door behind himself, he looked up to see a crowd off people m, doctors and nurses rushing through the hallways, but in the distance was a person standing there, looking.... directly at him. His didn't panic at first, shrugging it off even thinking it might've been some weird patient from the other doctors. He slowly made his way back to his office, but after a bit he starts to feel.. uneasy. Mango looked over his shoulder to get a view behind him, but this time, the person has followed him but managed to keep their distance, but not enough.

Mango squinted his eyes just to realise that was no ordinary patient No. It was Marek, or Zero?? Whatever his name currently was he was staring straight at him. emotionless, he can't puzzle together why Marek would be here only thinking that he might be after Him. But that wasn't it, with a blink off an eye Marek had suddenly disappeared. Mango looked around slightly terrified, but there was no sight off him. Mango quickly made his way back to the office, opening the door and closing it once he entered the room and quickly hid under his table. He couldn't do much to protect him until he thought off Someone.

He slightly groaned, one off his arms went up to try grabbing his phone and he eventually got it, he dialled TSB's number hoping he'd pick up.

The first ring sound.....

Nothing.

The second ring sound.....

Nothing.

The third ring sound....

NOTHING.

Mango began to panic a little more but then he heard a click and a voice saying, "Dr. Mango? Everything alright?" Mango's eyes widen a little and he jumped bumping his head against the desk "ARGH!! DAMMIT-" he rubbed his head a little Quickly crawling out under the desk he was hiding under. "Doc???" TSB asked worriedly through the phone. "Yes yes sorry i- I was hiding under the table i-" Mango tried catching his breath slowly. "Whoa slow down doc, take some deep breathes then explain.." TSB said to Mango.

He took a few deep breaths in, and out. "Okay, Okay, so.." he gently rubbed the back off his neck since the nervoussness was still there. "I saw Marek.. at the hospital-"

"YOU SAW HIM!? did he do something???" TSB shouted at Mango hearing other talking over at TSB place gasping even. "He didn't no, but he was.. Satring at me, but after a blink he was suddenly gone!! And I doubt he just wanted to scare me and leave.. something's up and.. I don't feel really safe right now." He said not liking to admit this kind off stuff but it was serious. "Smg3, Meggy and I will be over around 10 minutes, stay in your office alright? We'll try to be quick." And with that TSB hung up.

Mango's ears went further down placing the phone down on his desk. He decided to try and do some work somehow, so he sat down and opened his Laptop, but he immediately froze once he saw that some had been at his laptop, it was a patient's file.

'Why would someone... No why would HE want to know about a Patient... Unless.' mangos eyes widen as he thought. "He wants to turn off their life support..." Mango suddenly got up from his chair and rushed straight through the door.

And he ran, ran as fast as he could. Up to the third floor and straight through the hallways, he pushed many people aside not really caring about that right now. As soon as he turned a corner....

It was to late.

Nurses where standing Infront off the patients room, Mango slowly walked over pushing some nurses gently aside. "What happened?? What's going on???" He asked looking around, just to see that the life support Maschinen was still attached to the Patient.

He tilted his head, walking over to his patients and examining them. But indeed, they had passed away, He was clueless tho how this had happened. It didn't make any sense.

Nurses though the Patient must've died from natural causes but that can't be true, they were doing just fine. Nurses left to get quickly back to work, but knew off them waked away to get a few things for the Patient that had passed away.

While Mango was alone again, he looked around a little, suddenly noticing a syringe on the ground... His eyes widen as he picked it up and examined it, to see that the syringe was filled with something but is now empty, but it contained a... Note?

Mango Opened the syringe properly to get the note out, and he froze once more as he read it.

'This isn't the last one in this hospital.'

Mango stared at the note, completely terrified but also... Angry. He know this wasn't Marek's doing but now it was making him MAD. He noticed outside off the window right next to him something moving.

Mango walked over and looked outside, noticing that it was Marek running ontop off a building. Mango glared a bit but then sighed. "This isn't right.. how come no one cares what Quinn is doing.. unless... Nobody actually knows about this and think people just randomly die off natural causes."

Mango though for a Minute. "Yeah that'd actually makes much more sense. I doubt that people would just let that slide."

As Mango talked to himself out Loud without really noticing, someone was walking up behind him. One off his wares twitched and he suddenly turned around with a hoof up in the hair fixated on the person's face.

"WHOA DOC- IT'S JUST ME-" TSB shouted backing away a little and having his hands up in the air. Mango's eyes widen a little and he lowered his Hoff back to the ground. "I'm sorry, I'm a bit shaken up, Marek has gotten to one off my patients and apperantly this isn't gonna be his last one, and I doubt that'd he's doing all off this alone, the others who have been missing must probably also be with Quinn." Mango said just putting pieces together that make sense for him.

"You're not wrong. He is indeed not working alone. We heared and seen the others, they were different and... Not themselves."

Meggy said with a seemingly fresh bandage around her arm. Mango's eyes wandered around. "Are you guys alright??" He asked slightly concerned.

"Yes and No. But it's no surprise in this kind off situation." Smg3 said crossing his arms.

Mango huffed and crossed his arms, looking at his patient, he starts to frown and get angry. "this is an innocent person!! Why would- why would Quinn make Marek or the others Kill a guy that's on life support?? I don't get it???" He said walking around the room clearly frustrated with this situation.

TSB bit his lip and looked at the other two, but then back to Mango. "You.. don't know it do you?"

"Don't know.. what?" He asked slightly confused.

"Marek used to be an Assassin for.. Gross people to say the least, that are spread all over the internet, I'm his early days he used to eliminate them so the social media platforms are a little more safe, he only took out the gross people tho, never innocent ones." TSB said. Crossing his arms a little, feeling uneasy to talk about this but Mango had to know about this.

He stares at TSB "So.. i- so this patient probably is.." his ears went down "Not a good person to say the least?"

Meggy, Smg3 and TSB nodded. "Yeah..."

"This.. this still doesn't EXCUSE to do this kind off stuff!!" He said shouting a little.

"We know, but we can't really do much, Marek is under the influence by that flower as far as we know, and so are the others! For as far as we know they're doing the same things, without their permission, just being controlled by a flower and being bossed around by a CEO! Fuck! We can't even get to Quinn without our butts being kicked by their guards! Its frustrating!! We all just want our friends back.."

TSB pauses, for a second.

"I want my Boyfriend back, I miss the- good times, he miss our silly adventures with him, RMG misses Saiko! She misses spending time with her girlfriend! Bob misses Boopkins so much it's unbearable sometimes to hear him cry! Its all just frustrating and as long as we don't have a cure or a good plan for any off this we can't do anything."

TSB said not even realising that he had started crying a little. Meggy looked away and Smg3 just kept his arms crossed but his expression was soft.

Mango looked at TSB and sighed. "We'll.. we'll make this work somehow okay? I will make sure to find that cure, and we'll get everyone back and kick Quinn's butt How'd that sound?"

Smg3 smirked a little. "A little bombimg won't hurt.." Meggy glared "Besides Quinn Being a terrible person we aren't gonna Bomb them!!" Smg3 pouted and looked away "Man can't have any fun anymore!!"

Mango put a hand on his face and shook his head. "Regardless, we will do something." He looked up at them. "We'll make sure everyone will come back." TSB smiled a little whiping his teares away rather quickly. "You want some help with the research doc? We wouldn't mind helping, I mean, that's what I offered the last time we were here.."

Mango softly smiled "Thank you, I'd appreciate that."

TSB smiled brightly happy to be able to help somehow, Meggy, Smg3 and him left the room, with Mango slowly following behind them, but before he left the room, he turned around to look at the patient that had passed, he sighed and just closed the door and let the nurses do the rest, following up TSB, Meggy and Smg3 to get to his office and some more research.