Chapter Eighteen:
Look Out for War10 Trouble...
Mario's eyes welled up with tears as he lowered his head and looked away from the crowd; Meggy stepped forward and hugged the fat Italian, providing him some comfort in his moment of sorrow. Tari felt sympathy as well, and so did SMG3. Everyone was lucky he was no longer a villain. However, had he still been evil; he would have taken advantage of Mario's situation.
"WE CAME HERE INSTEAD OF DOING OTHER THINGS!" Someone cried.
"I HAD TO PUT OFF PICKING UP MY SON FROM SCHOOL!" A Koopa yelled, "AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF HE CAN MANAGE TO WALK HOME ALONE!"
At that moment, just before anything else could happen, the one sneaky, most greedy, and dastardly person blending in with the crowd made his move to take advantage of Mario's situation; Wario.
Wario flew up the stairs and bumped Mario aside with an evil laugh. "Forget Mar10 Day!" He cried, "IT'S WAR10 DAY NOW!"
Waluigi grabbed a wand from a Kamek and swished it. The next thing Mario and everyone else knew; all of the Mario decorations were changing into Wario-themed decorations. The inflatable Mario turned into an inflatable Wario and the decorative red M symbols turned into yellow W symbols. Wario laughed with glee, "Its Wario time!"
Bowser attempted to flee with Junior as the other Mar10 Day guests freaked out, but Waluigi blocked the Koopa King's exit and brought out a screen. The screen activated, showing a swirling vortex with an animated Wario with hypnotic eyes.
"Obey me! Wario!" The TV Wario declared, "I am your master now! You are now Wario!"
"Yes, master." Bowser and the other guests replied in a hypnotized monotone.
A brainwashed Aziz began tossing out Wario hats, followed by fake Wario mustaches. People began geeking out over Wario, holding pictures of him in an excited manner. Swagmaster stepped in, slapping on a security officer's hat, and smacked a Wario picture out of a guest's hand.
"Okay." He said, "This is getting out of hand."
Just then, a motorcycle driven by a Wario hat-wearing Squidward zipped by and crashed into the wall. Squidward fell off and Swagmaster walked over to the bike. Mario hoped he would detain it, only to watch in shock as the guard hopped on the seat and started driving around the foyer like a maniac.
"HECK YEAH, BOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Swag cried.
"So much for Mar10 Day..." Mario muttered, lowering his head with sadness.
Meggy pat her friend on the shoulder sympathetically, then she looked at Wario as he laughed with glee. The former Inkling took action and kicked the greedy Italian down the stairs; the guests looked up at the Splatfest champion, shocked and outraged by how she was treating their new host.
"Come on, people!" Meggy yelled, "This is Mar10 Day, we're supposed to be rejoicing our friend Mario!"
"SHUT UP!" Wario shouted back as he shot to his feet.
Fed up with the trouble he was causing, Meggy leaped down the stairs and punched Wario in the face, right between the eyes. The Inkling-turned human girl then picked him up and threw him high, Wario's fat body bounced off the wall and smashed into a ledge, knocking over the Wi-Fi router that had been set up in that area.
In the Secret Slide Room, SMG4 was trying to work on his video and was scrolling through the internet when he received a notification that the router had been disabled and internet connection had been lost. The meme man's eyes widened with shock and rage, unable to believe that his work had been disrupted.
'No, no, no, NO!' SMG4 thought, 'What are those Neanderthals up to? Oh no, no, no. Not when I have to make the video perfect. It's gotta be perfect, the video's gotta be perfect, IT HAS TO BE PERFECT!'
His mind slipped again and the meme man started to chuckle. He held his hands up to his head, hearing noises from outside the room. SMG4 squeaked with a small giggle, followed by another chuckle and then he screamed with laughter. He laughed and laughed, slipping into maddened hysteria. SMG4 laughed, then he took a breath.
Slowly, he turned, his gaze fixed on the door. SMG4's maddened smile faltered, replaced with a scowl, as his blood boiled, and anger welled within him.
Nobody interrupted his work, nobody.
In the foyer, Waluigi snarled angrily and lunged at Meggy, who punched him hard in the face. Wario recovered and attacked Mario, slamming his head into the floor. Meggy stepped in to aid the spaghetti-loving Italian and pushed Wario off. Mario shot to his feet, just as Waluigi joined his brother's side.
"Mario's going to mess you up!" Mario shouted.
Waluigi and Wario attacked the duo, determined to take them down, while everyone else watched. Meggy twisted Waluigi's arm and punched him in the noise, knocking him out of the fight once again. Mario dodged an attack from Wario, then Meggy stepped in and assisted him.
Mario punched Wario in the face, hard enough to send him stumbling towards Meggy, who kicked Wario back at Mario. The greedy plumber screamed as the two friends wailed on him, going all out and kicking him around like a football. Wario yelled, unable to fight back, as Mario and Meggy bore down him, blow after blow.
Just then, a door slammed open and a voice shouted; "HEY!"
Mario, Meggy, Luigi, SMG3, Tari, and everyone else looked in the voice's direction and the party guests gasped.
SMG4 stood by the entrance to the Secret Slide Room, his overalls a little dirty, and his face sported hints of stubble. His eyes were wide, filled with traces of red cracks, and his pupils looked shrunken. His fists clenched and he glared at everyone in the room in a furious manner, breathing slowly and then...
"SHUT UP!" SMG4 screamed, "WILL YOU ALL SHUT UP?! LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"
"SMG4, you came out..." Mario cried happily.
WHAM! SMG4 attacked Wario in a manner that was so aggressive, it shocked Mario and the others. SMG4 bashed Mario's counterpart across the head with a bat, so hard, it sent Wario crashing into the wall.
"Why, you little..." Waluigi growled, he was cut short when SMG4 bashed him over the head. The meme man picked him up, glaring angrily at everyone in the castle...