Adrenaline

~6:25 pm, ???'s lair~

(As Mario rearrives on the throne room, he tries to struggle as N watches on)

???: Stop struggling, it will only make it worse.

Mario: Why are you doing this? What made you interested in me so badly?

???: Don't you see, avatar? I just wanted to take back what was lost from me.

(N was busy watching as his radar picked up something)

N: (to Uzi, who has claimed SMG3 & 4) Uzi, I think something's coming towards us.

Uzi: Shut it, I'm carrying the escaped fugitives here.

SMG4: WHO'S THE AVATAAAAAAAAR?!

Uzi: (to SMG4) OH, BE QUIET ALREADY!

???: My land, my people, my avatar, taken. But with you, I can reclaim it all. & bring back his family too!

Mario: (visibly dumbfounded) I'm sorry, I didn't get any of it.

(Suddenly, the roof shatters as Maya descended to the floor. She then shoots rockets which startled the master & dropped Mario)

Mario: Maya!

Maya: No time for reintroductions. But for now, we have a monster to fight.

???: Oh, it is the defective one. Lucky for you, I have a replacement.

(Mario & Maya then team up, ready to fight against the master and N)

~Sheridan's Back door~

Evelyn: SHER Corp, send the boys back to Shipwreck Swamp so we can tear her apart in peace! (She and Belle jump onto the Blue Jay.)

Tari: MD-5! DEFENSE POSITIONS! (Marco heads onto Evelyn's ship.) Wait, Marco, where are you going?!

Marco: We had a deal, Blue. Golden Boy is mine.

Lamar: I'll back him up! (goes after Marco.)

Lo: (to Tari) Don't worry, Tari. We still got each- (narrowly avoids Evelyn swinging her axe at her.)

Evelyn: Rookie mistake! You left your backline open! (knocks Tari to the ground.)

Theo: So did you! (pushes himself and Evelyn into the inside of the Blue Jay.)

Tari: Theo! I'll be right down! (Belle appears) Or maybe not...

Lo: I just wished we could've had a normal reunion. (suddenly gets knocked off by Belle)

Tari: Lo!

Lo: (with a rope tied to his leg) I'm ok. Go attack her.

(As Tari proceeds to fight off a brainwashed Belle, Lo looks onto the port holes to see the battle between Theo & Evelyn. But then, Evelyn pins down the coconut boy in a fit of rage)

Evelyn: (to Theo) Pathetic. All about trouble and you end up with nothing.

Theo: Not nothing... I got to have a great adventure, and hang out with my friends... All you got was a coconut in the face.

(He hurls one final coconut at Evelyn's glass dome, leaving a noticeable crack. Enraged, Evelyn squeezed Theo with all her might. Theo screams as he disintegrates...)

Lo, in absolute terror: NO!

(Suddenly, Evelyn notices him & breaks off the wall, eventually grabbing Lo on his might)

Evelyn: Well, well, well. Quite a bit of a botched-up sneak attempt, I see.

(As he storms off to destroy Sheridan's server, Marco then looks at Bo, who feels a bit hazy)

Marco: You ok?

Bo: Oh, I'm fine. It's just that... I can't help but know I had someone important back then. Someone that made me warm inside.

Marco: Don't worry about it. Someday, you will find that person bugging you. I'll be sure of it. (gets a prompt from his friend) Well, I'll be off. I'm gonna give someone a visit.

(As he heads outside, Marco starts to feel a bit of sympathy for Bo)

(Meanwhile, Tari & Lo are both held by Evelyn)

Evelyn: Now, I know I said I would handle this quickly, but I'll admit, there is one thing I wanted to do first: Coconut boy is gone...!

Tari: ...You're lying...

Lo, being distraught: It's true, I saw it! This bastard just flat-out CRUSHED him!

Tari: No...! No...! We swore we would protect him...! I SWORE I WOULD PROTECT HIM! (as the two cried, someone close starts to have more free will) How can you hate ME so much!? All I ever wanted was to keep my friends safe!

Evelyn: Aww, don't cry. You'll be joining him soon enough. (as she was going to smash Lo into her, a blast had let go of him. It's revealed that Masa broke free from his control) Masa, what are you- (gets blasted by Lo into the ship)

Lo: You will pay for this, YOU BULLY! (goes inside as Masa starts to deal with the other two)

Evelyn: (tries to get back on her feet, only for Lo to jam it in) You know, I thought the blue hair was a pain. You simply took the cake with it.

(As Evelyn breaks free, she tries tossing the crate onto Lo. But as Lo feels emotionally enraged, he shrugs off the crate and emits sparks around him)

Lo: I had just enough of you...

(With his skill, he tosses crates onto her, damaging her more and more. Evelyn starts to feel more and more uncomfortable as if his true nature is at its peak)

Evelyn: Who are you?

Lo: (breaks through her glass to choke on her) I'm just a close friend.

(With all of his might, he tosses her right back at her ship, giving time for Tari to shoot it down)

Lucinia: Oh dear, we did it! We... (sees Lo still covered in tears, having lost another one of his friends) Hey, I am very sorry about what happened here.

Lo: It's ok. (shrugs off the tears) I just wished we would all be together after all this.

Lucinia: We would be. But for now, I think it's time we should go.

(As Evelyn's ship goes down, Lo heads back outside & jumps into the back door, with Tari & the real Luc right behind him)

~6:30, ???'s lair~

N: (crosses chainsaw arms against Maya's) So, how are your friends doing?

Maya: Oh, it's great. We just enjoyed memes, played with critters, and are whooping your asses right now.

N: Do any of you have dogs? Because I loved those things.

???: Would you stop complimenting our enemies here? Even in a fight!

N: Sorry. (to Maya) Yeesh. The nerve on this guy.

Maya: Tell me about it.

(Just then, Uzi arrived in the emoji vehicle, carrying SMG3 & SMG4)

Uzi: I got the dopplegangers! (tosses them into the banded prison)

Mario: (lost his focus) SMG4, are you ok?

(Suddenly, he gets caught as the master is enraged)

SMG4: MARIO!

???: You still didn't get me, or my story? Well, it's better if you'd just WITNESS!

(He then broadcast his backstory into Mario's mind, featuring a glitched landscape, a purple round thing in rubble, lightning striking him, & him dealing with the two hobos. Mario then screams as 3 & 4, when all of a sudden, a caravan arrives)

Hobo 2: Kid's gotta die tonight!

Maya: Looks like the cavalry is here.

End of Ch. 43