Chapter Twenty-Six:

Near The Last Stages of Planning

Everyone in SMG4's room was debating intensely, with Backwards Long-Jumping and other suggestions being thrown around, and the meme man was nearly stumped. Even SMG3 was a little unsure what they were going to do, no one could expect what would unfold in the future.

Just then, SMG4 heard an email notification ping on his phone, and pulled it out of his pocket before checking his email server. In that moment, he saw the message, with the sender going by an anonymous name. The meme man shrugged off the notion he was receiving anonymous messages, and looked at the message;

"Go with doing the Backwards Long-Jump."

'Alright.' SMG4 put away his phone and tapped a 'ding the bell' button, getting everyone's attention, and declared, "It's been decided. SMG3 and I will give backwards long-jumping a shot!"

"Nice choice, mate." An Australian teen in a Mario shirt said with glee.

"Great!" Tari smiled and gave the two Super Meme Guardians a thumbs-up.

"We're in for some fun." Senbo quipped with the smuggest of smirks.

"Oh, I can't wait to see people laughing at the sight of two former Mario look-alikes attempting the glitchy Backwards Long-Jump." Inkura said as she tried to stifle a laugh.

"Moving along! Moving along!" SMG3 yelled, "Now, what would be the best method to get info out of someone? And that is if we, say, interrogated Mario, or if someone like Mario interrogated us? Just saying this now, I love interrogations..." He grinned, "I'm the king of interrogating people, baby!"

Meggy and the others looked at one another, even SMG4's fans on the Skype line were chatting amongst themselves. Senbo stepped forward, looking as if he'd cooked a genius plan.

"Show them a cringy meme." He suggested.

"Ayyy, there's an idea." SMG4 chuckled, "As someone who's made a cringe-inducing meme, which a certain someone else took advantage of at one point, I know some cringe-worthy memes that we could use in our favor..." He frowned, "...and despite his stupidity, our pudgy pal knows enough about memes where he could have cringe up his sleeve if he catches us."

"I wonder what some of those are." Green said warily, "And let me tell ya, I've found a lot of bad memes before."

"Who's playing good cop and bad cop?" Sophia inquired, "Interrogations involve someone as the good cop and someone else is the bad cop, that happens on TV all the time, and I think there are real life scenarios."

"Next! Next!" SMG3 yelled, "EggDog? Where are you?!"

A bark sounded it's way through the room, and EggDog jumped on SMG3's shoulders. A second later, EggDog's offspring hopped up next to it's parent. Beeg SMG4 rolled out from under the bed, and bounced into SMG4's hands. The meme man gently rubbed his meme pet's head, then he faced the group again.

"Which of these fellas should we use as weapons that we can pack in a utility watch?" SMG4 asked as SMG3 shot him a somewhat encouraging look, the meme man proceeded to bring out a silver-colored watch-looking device, "I think we should go with Beeg SMG4."

He tapped a button on the watch, and a light flashed before Beeg SMG4 was absorbed inside for the time being.

"No, no, no!" SMG3 laughed, bringing out a similar device, "We should use EggDog. We gotta have EggDog! EggDog is the sweetest creature in the world next to Beeg SMG4, just as useful as Terrance was before we sacrificed him during the final battle with Zero."

"Bark! Bark!" EggDog barked.

"Let's go with EggDog." Meggy suggested, "No offense to Beeg SMG4, but I think the little egg-shaped doggy might be very useful if you boys wound up in a nasty jam. Dogs have saved lives in the past."

"Thank you." SMG3 nodded to the former Inkling, "After all, EggDog can do tricks! EggDog! Go do a trick!"

EggDog barked, and hopped off his master's shoulder. As the others watched, EggDog inflated and deflated it's own body, then he started making flute noises and ran towards the nearby shelf. A small carton of glue floated out of it's spot as if grabbed by an invisible hand, and, to the shock of many, EggDog devoured every inch of the glue bottle.

"Aww, he ate a glue carton. Good boy!" SMG4 chuckled.

"Real weird." Denedry commented.

"I would never eat glue." ShadowSquid9 remarked.

"Personally, I vote for the usage of EggDog." Sophia declared, "May that little guy be of great use."

"EggDog, EggDog!" A pair of Toads on the Skype proclaimed, holding up signs in EggDog's likeness. SMG4 found himself surprised that so many people had quickly taken a liking to SMG3's pet, even though there were others who liked Beeg SMG4 a lot. Most people told him they liked Beeg SMG4 whenever the meme man took his pet out for a walk.

'Three likes his pets just as I care for Beeg.' SMG4 thought, 'And after the growth he's had over the years, after he changed so much since our first encounter with Niles, maybe it wouldn't hurt if we utilized EggDog.'

"Alright, we'll go with the egg-shaped dog." The meme man declared.

"Good call, Four." SMG3 nodded to his former nemesis, "So, what's the next step in our mission?"

Someone coughed, and all eyes turned towards a Boo in spy gear as it made it's appearance. SMG4 and SMG3 were hardly surprised by the ghost's presence due to the fact they had a pair of those spooky spirits looking into Casino Paisano with James Bond and the rest of the spy team.

The Boo floated over the computer that still depicted images and footage relating to the casino, and the spy ghost clicked on the keyboard, prompting the appearance of an image showing a gift shop decorated with Marty-related imagery and merch that sported Marty's likeness on it.

"Man, Marty must have a huge ego!" SMG4 exclaimed.

"That merch is cringe!" SMG3 added, "Whatever you do, don't give the bad guy any money. I don't think it'll be worth it. Believe me, I'd rather by SMG3-related merch then the shit Mario and Marty are promoting there."

"Eh, I didn't plan on getting a Marty plush anyway." Meggy remarked, "Who wants that when you can buy a marketable Meggy plush?" She squealed and giggled.

"There's also a game show room."

James Bond stepped forward, and the British spy pulled up footage of Shroomy in a casino-themed game show room. Once more, Marty's likeness could be seen everywhere. However, SMG4 was a little focused on Shroomy as SMG3 was. They were surprised Mario and Marty had recruited him, a boy scout/demon hunter, to host a game show.

"MOVING ON! MOVING ON!" SMG4 found another set of footage, courtesy of one of the Boos, depicting a shaft that wove its way through the casino, "The vent diagram connects to the top floor, where we will find the CEO's office. So which way do we go?"

A second later, someone knocked on the door. SMG4 stepped away from the computer, leaving SMG3, Meggy, the fans on Skype, and the others for the moment as they discussed which direction to take. SMG4 stepped out of his room, and headed for the front door, just before he heard another knock.