Chapter Fifteen:

Checking Three's Livestream Footage

SMG4 lowered his gun after a minute. There was no point shooting and killing, that wouldn't resolve anything, and there was a better solution to the current crisis around SMG3's missing notebook.

"Why don't we put our guns away..." The meme man suggested, "...and resolve this properly."

He put away his weapon, and his former nemesis did the same. Mario put away his gun too, and the tensions began to settle. Even then, the dilemma was still afoot, and the Lord of The Internet Graveyard was still frustrated, despite masking it with a calm expression.

"But still, who stole my notebook?!" SMG3 demanded, "One of you has it."

"What were you doing last night, Three?" SMG4 asked.

"Streaming Club Penguin." The meme man's former nemesis replied, he held up his phone and showed the YouTuber and Mario some footage of himself playing the game.

"Can't you check your webcam footage to see if anyone broke in while you were recording?"

"I suppose I could." The meme guardian began scrolling through livestream footage, only for the screen to go blank, and a message cropped up with the words 'Missing Footage', which greatly frustrated SMG3 even more.

Unbeknownst to the trio, someone had hacked into SMG3's phone in a stealthy fashion through a secret hacking network on another device, ensuring that the revelation behind who'd attempted to take SMG3's Sussy Notebook was delayed for a little longer... allowing a certain idiot to execute the plan to retake the former villain's possession.

'You know what to do, Mario.' Marty thought.

"This part has missing footage for some reason." SMG3 quipped, SMG4 and Mario were observing with surprised expressions on their face.

"We'll have to find out another way then..." Mario said, trying to act innocent.

SMG3's face lit up. "Wait, I have a backup of all my streams on my computer in the Internet Graveyard!" He said, "Oh ho! I'M ABOUT TO WHIP SOMEBODY'S ASS, BOYS!"

He tapped the 'summon portal' button on his phone, and a green rift made it's appearance. The trio walked through, entering the familiar realm of the Internet Graveyard, where the sight of dead memes playing awaited Mario, and SMG4 and their former nemesis. They headed for the Starbucks, which was surrounded by a huge amount of security.

Automated laser turrets opened fire on an Ugandan Knuckles as it was trying to retrieve a soccer ball, and the little meme freaked out as it was blasted away. Mario and SMG4 looked at SMG3 with worried expressions, and the ex-villain chuckled.

"I've tightened up on security since the theft." SMG3 said, "Even though I did that before interrogating Mario..."

He tapped a button on a remote, and the security systems deactivated for the time being, allowing the trio to finally enter SMG3's Starbucks.

"You still live in a Starbucks?!" Mario demanded.

"How is it you never got a proper home?" SMG4 inquired.

"Oh, never mind that now." SMG3 barked with annoyance, he activated his computer and began to search for the livestream feed that housed the truth as to who the notebook thief was.

"Mario's going to the bathroom, be right back." Mario said urgently.

The fat Italian dashed to the restroom as SMG4 watched, almost confused by his behavior. Inside the bathroom, Mario took a deep breath, looked around to see if anyone else was there, then he pulled out his gun. The spaghetti-loving casino security head shed his figurative innocent mask, flashing a scowl on his face, and slowly departed the restroom.

Outside, SMG4 joined SMG3 at the table, right as he found the website where the latter's livestream footage was found. However, the meme man's ex-nemesis glimpsed an article named "STATES WHERE MURDER IS LEGAL" with the author being none other than Kaizo, Saiko's KS2 associate.

"Ok, here we go..." SMG3 said, "Uh, I think you should ignore this and..." He went to the videos, and accessed the stream from last night, and went right to the spot that he'd tried to access on his phone.

The chat was full, with people leaving comments such as "this game is fire", "I wanna play Club Penguin", "SMG3, please do more streams", and "Makerboy donated 150 dollars". However, the focus was on SMG3 himself.

"Alright, I think that's enough Club Penguin for tonight." Past SMG3 said as he powered off the game, "Next up, we're going to play some Shrek Online..."

In seconds, the chat was going crazy, and for good reason. Shrek Online was a highly popular game out of all the games that anyone had ever streamed in the past year, and everyone loved seeing SMG3 stream it after he'd played the game in a previous stream. SMG3 paused, allowing the people in the chat to get excited.

And SMG4 got to see what those people had to say.

DrinGames: "OMG!"

Boo Berry: "This is my everything!"

SodaPopPop: "Love you!"

ShadowSquid9: "Bring on Shrek, I love those films."

DrinkOJlol2: "UR AWESOME FAZE"

OSWrenFanboy2021: "Wow, let's do some Shrek!"

AlexseySniper: "Oh my cod, you are an amazing video game streamer."

BeepBeeps: "So good at game."

Jim99: "What are you doing in my swamp?"

Green Spider 25: "I love Shrek a lot!"

"But first... I gotta take a piss! I'll be right back." Past SMG3 announced, and he paused the chat before leaving the room, and the footage kept rolling. SMG3 and SMG4 watched closely, and the latter looked at the chat feed, all while they waited for the thief to reveal himself.

And little did they know, a certain someone was watching from next to a counter, right by the copy machine. The meme guardians' wait didn't last long. Moments later, someone made his appearance in the footage:

Mario.

"What the fu...?" SMG4 whispered, completely aghast.

As he and SMG3 watched, the fat Italian snuck his way towards the table, peaked around, and opened the cabinet.

Seconds later, he pulled out a recognizable purple book:

SMG3's Sussy Notebook.

'No.' SMG3 thought, he'd believed Mario's story that he hadn't stolen it.

EggDog cropped up, growling at Mario, and the fat Italian tried to shush him, only for the dog to sink his teeth into the notebook to try and get it back. Mario gripped the notebook, and tried to yank it away from EggDog, then Past SMG3 called out; "Alright! I'm coming back, chat!"

"F***!" Mario hissed, and he threw the notebook over the counter, throwing EggDog off in the process. He slammed the drawer shut, looked around in a panic, and made a mad run out of the room.

Past SMG3 returned several seconds later, and turned the Stream Chat area back on. "Alright, Shrek time!" He said with glee.

SMG3 paused, his eye twitching, and his blood was boiling. He'd been lied to, he'd been fooled. When he'd gone after SMG4 earlier, he'd been sent on a goose chase, and it all led to this moment. He should have known that he wasn't too far off when he caught Mario earlier that day, he'd been right all along, and he didn't know it.

"That bastard!" SMG3 hissed.

"That's right."

The graveyard realm celebrity and the meme man turned around to the sound of a gun clicking, and Mario stood by the counter, aiming directly at the two meme guardians with a serious frown. He reached into the copy machine, and pulled out SMG3's Notebook, as the duo briefly wondered why SMG3 hadn't checked the copy machine.

Mario smirked, and began to laugh evilly at both SMG4 and SMG3, for being easily tricked and manipulated by their own best friend...