SMG4's Twitter Crisis -an SMG4 story-

by CVGWJames

Twitter is suddenly about to shutdown and a villain named Mr. M is at the bottom of it with an army of Elonists, SMG4 is victim to the crisis and its all up to him, Mario and a few of their friends to defeat Mr. M and save Twitter as fast as possible before everyone's favorite social media feed shuts down for good.

One cold and windy late Autumn day in the Mushroom Kingdom, SMG4 was making a funny new meme and enjoying himself like he usually did.

Several weeks had flown by since the defeat of Lawyer Kong and things were fine for the Glitchy Gang. In fact, the future couldn't look brighter, especially with Meggy about to begin her sports coach career.

Plus, Melony was undertaking more rap training with Bob and chances were that they were going to embark on a rapping tour at some point. SMG4 could only hope that it didn't lead to a massive repeat of the last time Bob had a rapping career. Who wanted to deal with being dissed again?

Regardless, everything felt perfect and there were no major misadventures or world-ending threats to deal with. Plus, SMG4 had gained more followers and was more popular than ever before; a massive score for the meme man himself.

However, today had one unexpected surprise for SMG4, one that would be nothing compared to his social media accounts being hacked.

SMG4 finished assembling his latest meme, which involved Kermit beat-boxing while spinning around. He took a minute to appreciate his work, then he uploaded it. The meme man was so eager to see how the world loved his latest masterpiece. But just then, he had to go and look at the message board.

And without warning, SMG4's eyes lay upon the words 'Twitter Shutdown Inevitable'.

His eyes widened, cartoon-style, and he began searching the web for anything related to this. News articles popped up, each and every headline read the same thing, bringing up this Twitter Shutdown that was apparently about to happen.

"Jeeze..." He muttered, "Is this some sort of gag?"

Rolling his eyes, SMG4 blipped onto Twitter again and read the tweets. Almost everyone he knew was in a panic, typing words in all caps and yelling about how it was the end of social media.

"TWITTER IS DOOMED!" InkLad4 yelled.

"HOW CAN WE LIVE WITH THIS?!" BigStacheUser cried, "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!"

"PUT THIS NOTICE HERE!" HeavyWaler16 typed, the TEAM-FORTRESS Twitter fan-user showed a picture of a note talking about the Twitter Shutdown and how it was bad news.

Right then and there, SMG4's computer flashed red and an automated voice blared, "WARNING: TWITTER WILL SOON BE SHUTTING DOWN! TWITTER HEADQUARTERS HAS BEEN COMPROMISED! ITS THE END OF THE TWITTER WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!"

'It's probably some sort of malfunction...' SMG4 thought.

WHAM!

The meme man turned away from his computer, watching as his idiot buddy Mario ran into the room with a frantic scream

"SMG4!" Mario cried, "MARIO'S TWITTER IS GOING DOWN! I'M-A GONNA LOSE THEAWESOMEMARIO ACCOUNT, WHAT DO WE DO? TWITTER'S HISTORY, WE'RE DOOMED, WE'RE DOOMED!"

"Shut up, Mario!" SMG4 yelled, "There's probably something crazy going on."

Bob Bobowski himself soon entered the room.

"Yo, SMG4!" The Garo said, holding up his phone, "My Twitter feed is going nutso, apparently, the outlet's about to shut down and this is crazy AF!"

"Whatever's goin' on there, we're gonna take care of it before Twitter goes offline!" SMG4 smacked a fist into his hand, "We're not gonna panic, people. We're taking care of this and quickly. MELONY! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Melony entered the room, wearing shades and a dark leather outfit. "You summoned me, meme man?" The watermelon-turned human warrior/rapper girl asked.

"Hack into my computer, get inside the Twitter feed and see what you can find!" SMG4 demanded, "Me and the boys are goin' to Twitter's Headquarters and we're lookin' into the madness. If someone wants to take down Twitter, they're gonna have to deal with the likes of me and a whole bunch of pals."

The green-haired waifu snapped to a salute, "You got it, SMG4." She said, "You can count on me not to let you down!"

SMG4 turned to Mario and Bob, "C'mon, guys. It's time to kick some ass."

"YAHOO!" Mario whooped, "KIDS GONNA DIE TONIGHT!"

"COUNT ME IN!" Saiko shrieked as the guys headed out, having overheard them in the hallway. The anime girl fetched her hammer and ran out the door alongside Mario, SMG4 and Bob while the pink-haired guitarist and the silly Italian began chanting "ass-whooping" just like when they were about to go after SMG3 a few years prior.

Back in the castle, Melony cracked her fingers and helped herself to SMG4's computer, she began typing frantically on the keyboard, ready to get to work. She typed in the right commands and the black and green text screen soon appeared as Melony dove into cyberspace, heading for the servers to look into the matter at hand.

As Melony got to work, SMG4 and his crew headed to Mushroom City right as people were taking to the streets, protesting against the shutdown of Twitter.

Along the way, SMG4 hoped to God that SMG3 was not up to no good again, this could not be the work of that guy, especially when he was so busy running the Internet Graveyard.

Toads ran around screaming, holding up signs that proclaimed the end of Twitter was coming, while a Goron bellowed furiously, "YOU CAN TAKE OUR ACCOUNTS, BUT YOU CAN NEVER TAKE OUR FREEDOMS! DOWN WITH THOSE WHO THREATEN TWITTER'S EXISTENCE!"

"FOR TWITTER AND FOR THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA!" A Karen shouted.

"SAVE TWITTER, SAVE OUR ACCOUNTS!" A Goomba yelled.

Chaos reigned throughout town, all because Twitter was facing shutdown. SMG4 remained calm, he was not about to let everything go to waste, even though Mario was yelling like the mental case that he was.

"Oi! Shut up, idiot!" Saiko smacked the plumber on the side of the head!

Before long, the sight of Twitter HQ loomed before the Glitchy Gang, sporting its iconic blue bird logo. SMG4 had been to YouTube HQ in the past, but he'd never been to Twitter's headquarters. He'd looked forward to the day he would go there to explore the place, but not during a time like this.

The direness of the situation became clearer the closer SMG4 and his crew got to the building. SMG4 raised a fist and stopped in his tracks, Mario, Saiko and Bob followed suit. Standing outside the building, armed with machine guns and wearing masks, were a group of men in uniforms without tags or badges.

"Some anti-Twitter militant terrorist group, I reckon." SMG4 remarked.

"Mario's going to keel some bitches!" Mario pulled out a pistol.

The meme man heard a beeping sound and pulled out his iPhone, a warning message cropped up, saying they had twenty minutes until Twitter was shut down. There was no time to waste! They had to resolve the matter as fast as possible!

"Gang, let's kick some ass!" SMG4 declared.

"BOB'S GONNA LET SOME ASSHOLES HAVE IT!" Bob shouted, his eyes flashing red.

Saiko raised her hammer, Mario primed his pistol and SMG4 yelled, "GLITCHY GANG, ATTACK!" The gang charged towards the armed men positioned near the entrance of the building, rushing the militants as quickly as they could.

The masked soldiers turned to face the incoming ragtag brigade and trained their machine guns, but just before they could react, the SMG4 gang pounced.

Mario shot a goon in the head, then he blasted another in the groin, making the two militants fall to the ground. Saiko's hammer swung and the anime girl hit another bad guy so hard, it sent him flying.

"HAVE AT YOU!" Bob stabbed one of the goons in the heart and then sliced off his leg before stabbing him in the head. Bob laughed with delight; he was enjoying this. Then...

BLAM! "Ow, my oval eggs!" The Garo exclaimed as he was shot by one of the enemy militants. Thankfully, the injury was not too serious and Bob survived. SMG4, however, still showed his concern and took down the soldier who shot him.

"DIE, YOU BASTARDS!" Saiko kicked down a militant and bashed him in the head with her hammer, smashing his skull hard into the pavement and sending some debris everywhere.

More militants raced in, weapons trained, but the gang took them all out in seconds without breaking a sweat. One militant groaned and tried to crawl away, only for his escape route to be blocked off by SMG4 himself.

"So, who are you goons supposed to be?" The meme man asked.

"We..." The man said fearfully, "We are the Elonians, our goal is to ensure Twitter is down for good before it causes any further harm to the public's mental health. It's too late, very soon, what is left of Twitter will belong to our employer... Mister M. He's already inside..."

SMG4 kicked the militant in the head, knocking him into unconsciousness. "Looks like this Mr. M guy's plan is not gonna come to fruition once we have a word with him..." He said, "Everyone, let's get inside and get cracking with the enemy!"

With no more goons in the area to worry about, the gang kicked down the door and entered the main lobby, finding several staff members tied up with a pair of Elonians holding them at gun point. Mario shot four of them to oblivion and Saiko smacked several more with her hammer, then the gang untied the hostages, who instructed them on where to go.

The ragtag quartet ran through the hall, finding more goons along the way. They dived behind corners to evade gunfire and pounced on the enemy militants when the gunfire let up, taking down their enemies swiftly and clearing a path forward.

They raced upstairs, kicking down and clobbering more enemies on the next floor. Soon, they were at the door leading to where they needed to go; The Main Server.

However, more guards stood in their way and one of them was wielding a rocket launcher. The two militants came at the four, ready to blast them and prevent the heroes from going further.

"Oh no, you don't!"

Mario ran to meet the enemies and leaped up, kicking the guard with the rocket launcher and he snatched the weapon out of his hand. Saiko knocked him down and Bob stabbed the other guard. Mario then aimed the rocket launcher at the door and pulled the trigger.

KA-BOOM! The rocket blasted the door right off its hinges just as SMG4's phone alerted the gang that they now had fifteen minutes before Twitter was shut down.

The heroes ran through the smoldering doorway, entering the heart of Twitter; the main server area.

Darkness seemed to fill the room, had it not been for the flashing lights of the computers and the servers hard at work. Despite the busy environment, the heroes knew Twitter was facing its oblivion and the mysterious Mr. M was around here somewhere...

And there had to be more enemy guards too. Plus, where was Twitter security?

Since this was a takeover, chances were that the Twitter security personnel had been incapacitated and locked up somewhere so they wouldn't try to revolt against their captors.

"OI, MISTER M!" Saiko shouted, "YOUR PLAN TO END TWITTER WILL NOT SUCCEED, WE'VE COME TO STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS! IF YOU STEP AWAY FROM THE SERVER AND TURN YOURSELF OVER, WE WILL GO EASY ON YOU!"

"Come here, you big mamaf***er!" Mario added.

"I'm waiting right here, you silly fools!" Said a sinister voice, "DEALING WITH A VIRUS THAT'S TRYING TO OVERRIDE MY SHUTDOWN COMMANDS!"

SMG4, Mario, Saiko and Bob followed the voice towards the heart of the server room, and they already knew who the mysterious Mr. M was talking about if he was dealing with a virus.

Melony had managed to hack her way inside Twitter's mainframe and was probably typing in commands to shut down the Twitter shutdown program.

In fact, that was what she was doing back at the Castle. Melony hummed and giggled happily as she typed in one override command after another, trying to counter Mister M's commands, all while the Twitter Deactivation Countdown continued to tick away!

Back in Twitter HQ, the gang saw someone in the shadows, typing away at a keyboard in front of a massive computer. It just had to be Mr. M, but he was so shrouded in the darkness, it was near impossible to make out who he was, aside from his squat stature and the hat resting on his head.

"MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHOW YOUR FACE, YOU BASTARD!" Saiko yelled.

The figure turned and a light came on, allowing everyone to fully glimpse the face of the enemy. However, as soon as they saw him more clearly, the gang gasped. They just couldn't believe their eyes, it was unbelievable, nobody expected this to be Mr. M. But it was, it was him, it was…

"EM64?!" SMG4 yelled.

EM64, OnyxKing67's red-black-colored nemesis, laughed evilly and his sinister laugh echoed throughout the room, sending a chill down SMG4's back.

"That's right, you meddlesome meme-headed fools!" The supervillain declared, "I, EM64, AM THE ONE WHOM THE ELONISTS IDENTIFIED AS MISTER M! Are you surprised to see me? Oh, I bet that you expected someone else. Come to think of it, you expected Mr. M to be someone else, didn't you?"

"I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT WHO WE EXPECTED MR. M TO BE!" Saiko snapped angrily, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU UP TO, TRYING TO TAKE DOWN TWITTER AND CAUSING SO MUCH OF AN UPROAR IN THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM?"

"Isn't it obvious?" EM64 sneered with a grin while twirling his Mario-style mustache, "Twitter has been dominant for long enough and, now, its time the system to be destroyed.

"I'm going to purge the tweet feed from the internet and destroy this headquarters. Then, while Facebook and Instagram continue their reign, I shall install a new outlet; EMBER-STAR64. Plus, that rocket guy is about to buy the company and people were talking about shutting it down, so I decided to make my play.

"Once I've finished dealing with that stupid virus attacking me and, once I've dealt with you, I will finally erase Twitter from existence. Then I can rule social media through my new outlet, give OnyxKing67 all the grief and CONTROL THE FEEDS!"

"And care to explain why your goons are called Elonians?" Mario asked stupidly.

"Why?" EM64 scoffed, "BECAUSE ITS PERFECT, I AM E'LON MUHSK, THE PERFECT ALIAS! And those fools look up to him as some kind of idol anyway. NOW ENOUGH, I HAVE A SOCIAL MEDIA PROGRAM TO ERADICATE AND A NEW ORDER TO USHER IN AND YOU'RE IN MY WAY!"

"We can't let you do it, EM64!" SMG4 said, "Not as long as we and our friends have anything to say about it."

EM64 stamped his foot, "You idiots are not going to stop me WHEN I AM THIS CLOSE TO VICTORY! I, EM64, AM GOING TO BE THE KING OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME AS MY PROGRAM GOES INTO MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!"

The sinister maniac turned around and grabbed a device he had on the desk, EM64 wheeled around, revealing a remote in his hand that was connected to some sort of red-colored hard-drive plugged into the servers.

And with a sinister grin, the confident EM64 pressed a button and sparks began to fly, the screens flashed dangerously and a voice blared: 'TWITTER DELETION IN TEN MINUTES!'

Now, the stakes were even higher than ever. There wasn't much time left and the gang had to stop EM64 as fast as they could. With nothing left to lose, the heroes ran at the villain and SMG4 punched EM64 hard in the face, knocking him to the ground and the remote fell out of his hands.

SMG4 reached for the remote, trying to take it, but EM64 grabbed his wrist and made a move for the device. SMG4 punched him and EM64 punched him back; a free-for-all brawl broke out and Saiko joined in, she brought her hammer down and smacked the villain in the groin. EM64 yelped and leaped to his feet, drawing a pistol and aiming right at Saiko's face.

"Mario can't-a let you do that!" Mario pounced and grabbed the gun from EM64's hand just before a shot could be fired. Meanwhile, Bob was working on trying to get the villain's device unplugged from the servers.

EM64 glared angrily at Mario and the two "fat Italians" engaged in battle, throwing fists and exchanging kicks. EM64 threw a punch and Mario ducked, Matrix-style, then he kicked OnyxKing's nemesis in the gut.

SMG4 took advantage of the fight and snatched up EM64's remote; he flicked the red-colored 'OFF' switch and then stomped on it, breaking it to pieces without triggering anything.

He pulled out his phone, finding a text from Melony that read; 'Managed to find an override, get 'em good, SMG4.'

SMG4 turned to the struggling Bob as the Garo tried to remove EM64's sinister Twitter Deactivator Device from the server, the meme man nodded to Saiko and they joined Bob in his efforts. Together, they pulled and pulled until they'd yanked out EM64's contraption.

Saiko swung her hammer downwards and the mallet smashed the madman's device to pieces, sparks flew and the active lights on the machine went out.

Lights flickered vibrantly throughout the server and Twitter feeds began repairing themselves, an automated voice system blared; "Twitter Shutdown Cancelled. Twitter will continue operating, thank you for deactivating the deactivation!"

"NO!" EM64 screamed as he watched his plan fall to pieces, "AND I WAS SO CLOSE TO SHUTTING TWITTER DOWN FOR GOOD! DAMN YOU, SMG4… AHHH!"

Right at that second, Saiko had come over and the pink-haired anime girl twisted EM64's wrist while giving him a disapproving look.

SMG4 contacted Melony on the phone while Saiko and the boys worked to mop up the remaining Elonists and freed the rest of the Twitter staff from their custody, the meme man complimented Melony on doing her part well and told her of what EM64 had been doing.

Many minutes later, everything was settled. EM64 ran off while the surviving Elonists were taken into custody by the police, leaving the Twitter staff to put everything else back in order. Mario wanted to go after EM64, but SMG4 told him to leave the guy alone; his defeat was good enough.

"Job well done, guys." The meme man told the others as they headed home.

"Mario can't wait to have some spaghetti for dinner." Mario quipped.

Everyone laughed, knowing that some things just never changed. By the end of the day, once they'd returned to the Castle, SMG4 returned to making memes on Twitter without having to worry about another shutdown dilemma. EM64 had been defeated and the day was saved once again.

Until the next adventure, all was fine and dandy in the Mushroom Kingdom as it was meant to be…

The End