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Bob had given him a cookie earlier. It was a nice gesture but it was unusual coming from Bob.
Bob who does.. less than legal activities. The shady guy had smirked his way away after the cookie was received, leaving an unsettling feeling with SMG4.
The cookie looked average, or at least it looked fine to Four, and Bob was his friend so it should in theory be okay. It was round, had a generous amount of chocolate chips and smelled delicious.
It tasted pretty good, really good. Probably like KFC cookie good (which were only the best cookies out there)
The cookie would've been a nice gift however if Bob didn't lace it with some truth serum he got from who knows where.
Fuck.
“Four, are you okay?” The former inkling, Meggy, broke his train of thought. Dammit.
“Come again? I don't think I heard you right.” Tari laughed nervously.
In an instant, words bubbled out his mouth, out of his control.
“I wish I knew where SMG3 was because he's really cute and I want to spend the day with him!” his gloved hands shot up to his mouth, covering whatever could be revealed next.
“...Cute?” Meggy raised a brow, Tari shot her a knowing glance.
“SMG4, what's up with you today?” Tari asked slowly.
He inhaled deeply before starting, “Bob stopped by the castle and gave me a cookie earlier but I'm pretty sure it was drugged with a truth serum or something, I don't know!” he gasped, looking up at the two shocked faces in front of him, as they slowly morphed into something more mischievous.
Meggy hummed in thought, “Four, do you perhaps like SMG3?” a smirk tugged at the ex-inklings lips.
He could already feel the words threatening to escape. Quickly he clamped a hand over his mouth, leaving only a muffled reply.
“Mm-es mm dmmoo!”
“You do?!” Tari’s jaw dropped.
He shook his head but his mouth betrayed him once more.
“Mm-es!”
Accepting defeat, he removed his hand from his mouth, tugging at the rim of his hat to hide his reddening face in a vain attempt.
“Yes, I do, but you can't tell him!” he sighed irritably.
“Why not?” Meggy asked.
“Because! We used to be enemies, I don't want to make him uncomfortable.”
The pair before him thought about this before Tari asked,
“How are you gonna avoid the truth like this?”
“Do we even know how long it lasts?” Meggy mused.
He shrugged.
“Let's find Bob? He might know.”
“SMEEGEE4!” Mario called out from inside the castle.
“Shoot! Mario can't find out. He'll tell everyone at the first chance he gets.” Four panicked, looking for the non-existent escape. The showgrounds proved to not have many hiding spots you can flee too in short notice, especially not on a notice to escape Mario. All that was before the three was the castle, a flat expanse of grass met with the forest at the edge and beige paths lining the place. Nowhere to go.
“We can do the talking,” Meggy shot Four an assuring glance which he was grateful for.
“Hello!” Mario walked, or more appropriately, rolled over to them, waving a red sleeved arm ridiculously fast.
“Hey Mario!” Tari greeted, nerves tainting the Australian’s voice.
“Smeegee4! Why you not-a talking?” Mario turned to face the blue-clad guardian. The words threatened to escape his mouth, he shoved his hand over, letting only a muffled reply out which sounded something like this,
“I ahhte a moohkmie mat uas urgge’ wiff mrooth erumm” (I ate a cookie that was drugged with truth serum)
“Mario doesn't understand.” The red-clad man stated, rubbing his moustache.
“What SMG4 wants to say is.. he's doing the blind, deaf, mute challenge!” Meggy quickly interrupted.
“Oouuuuh!” Mario exclaimed, “Mario want-a join! Can he be deaf?”
“Uhh.. sure!” Meggy glanced at Four, who was doing a horrible job of keeping it together.
“Mario, how about you go back to the castle, there's spaghetti in the fridge.” Tari piped up, she also did not know if there was actually spaghetti in the fridge.
“La la la mm mm hm!” he hummed the mario theme, “Mario is deaf!”
“Shoot..” Meggy sighed, “Four, go and do something, we can handle this.”
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After the blue meme guardian had left the former inkling and blue haired girl with Mario, Four decided to try to find Bob, and demand answers. Finding Bob, however, was proving rather difficult.
“BOBB!!” he cupped his mouth in a shape that hopefully made the sound travel further and louder.
Although, his feet had betrayed him and somehow walked him over to Three’s Coffee and Bombs during the search, going on autopilot. SMG3 was the last person he wanted to see right now, and just his luck to see the purple guardian tending to the outside of his shop when he notices Four.
“Hey Four,” he waved at the blue-clad guardian. Not knowing what to do, Four waved back.
“Heey Three.” he glanced around nervously.
Three, with his psychology degree, obviously noticed something was amiss.
“Is something bothering you?” Three asked.
“Yes!” he blurted before he could stop himself. The other raised an eyebrow.
“Care to share what it is?”
“No, I don't want to but I don't really have a choice.” His mouth was moving before his brain could process what he was even saying.
Three opened his mouth to continue before the red-clad man from earlier showed up.
“Smeegee4! Are you talking to your boyfriend?” The Italian asked. Four snapped to face Mario.
“I wish he was,” he rolled his eyes before quickly realising what he said. His face was turning hot, he didn't dare glance at Three.
“What did you say?” Mario giggled.
“I said I wish he was m-” he clamped a hand over his mouth before he said anything worse.
“Where’s Meggy and Tari?!”
“Ouuu that's gay, hehe!” Mario teased light-heartedly, completely ignoring his question.
“No, actually I'm bisexual.” SMG4 crossed his arms, back still to Three.
“Literally nothing could be worse than this entire conversation right now,” the truth serum once again bubbled up as the blue meme guardian face palmed.
“So Bob's cookie worked?” Mario suddenly asked, bouncing on his feet.
Wait, what?!
“Mario! You're part of this?!” His voice raised. He turned slightly, eyeing Three who was just watching this entire interaction play out with a faint blush dusting his cheeks.
“Wait is that blus-” thank god Mario cut him off before his oversharing mouth revealed even more.
“Yes, me and Bob wanted to see how it would play out for fun.” Mario nodded and grinned as he pulled out a phone and started recording.
He let out a deep exhale, a breath he didn't even know he was holding.
“You and Bob did this?” exasperation laced his voice as he brought his palm to his head.
“Wait wait wait, what's even going on? I'm trying to follow but it's hard without the context!” SMG3 finally spoke up, waving his arms in the air.
“Mario and Bob gave me a cookie laced with truth serum!” he pointed at the red Italian who stood with a shit eating grin on his face.
Three’s eyes widened at this new information.
“Truth serum,” he echoed.
The purple-clad man paused to think before an evil smirk crossed his face.
“SMG4, who's your favourite person?”
“Out of all questions thats what you settled on? Well it's obviously you,” SMG4 laughed, not yet catching up to that last part.
Fuck, it's obviously a more revealing question than he thought.
“Yes! It obviously works, lookie. Smeegee4, what happened in the igloo?” Mario piped up once more.
Fuck! Anything but the igloo Mario.
“SMG3 and I made- no I don't want to answer that!” he turned away, willing his mouth shut to no avail.
“made love,” he whispered that last part bitterly as his face grew red.
Mario doubled over laughing, Three stood in shock.
“Holy shit!” The purple-clad guardian exclaimed.
“Now you can be gae for Smeegee3!” Mario cheered, letting out an iconic yahoo.
Three's face slowly turned a dark crimson, as he looked away from SMG4.
“Yeah because I do like Three,” Four replied on autopilot to Mario.
“H-huh?!” Three looked like he was going through an internal panic.
“Well there isn't much point hiding it now,” he muttered, mainly to himself.
“Three, I like you.” His eyes darted everywhere but where they probably should be around now.
“Hahaha! I told you you where gay for Smeegee3!” Mario laughed once more.
“Shut up Mario!” this whole conversation felt like a fever dream to Four.
“Four,” That voice finally spoke up, the purple-clad guardian raised his hand to Four's shoulder. He turned around, met with those fiery red eyes he's always known.
“I like you too.. baka!” SMG3 glanced sideways. The purple meme guardian flushed.
“Wait what!?” Four felt his jaw drop.
“I'm not repeating myself!” Three paused before a devilish grin spread on his face.
“SMG4, do you love me?”
“Yes, I love you Three.” Damn it stupid truth serum, he couldn't be too mad because somehow things worked out.
“I love you too.” Three whispered, just for Four to hear.
And they lived happily ever after! (Four got cured a few days later)