Six Splits For Four Chap 7 You're not alone
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Tags: Action/Adventure, Romance, fluff, angst with a happy ending!, blood, character death, injury, SMG34 is canon, split au
Prince steps out of the warm castle and into the cold winds of the showgrounds, he looks up at the night sky before walking. He takes a seat in a small field, his mind filled with thoughts on Three. He could feel his bravery falling apart at the idea the person he loves could be in danger, he can feel his hand shake before looking back up at the sky. He hears footsteps approach him, with a sigh he speaks up without looking away from the night sky. “They say you can always find your heart in the sea of stars, yet no matter how hard I look…I can't see him.”
“We are connected through our meme powers, though it is nice to think of things like a fairytale.” Four takes a seat next to Prince, the pair look up at the cluster of stars. Four slowly turns to Prince, seeing the pain in the man's face makes Four’s stomach twist. This man is a part of him, no matter how hard he acts that everything is okay just seeing Prince's face reminds him just how broken he is. With a shaky breath Four decides to face his current emotion, sensing something off Prince turns, staring at Four with concern. “I always thought when I dated someone I would be some knight in shiny armor, but…I can't even fight! I don't even know how to use my meme powers without leaning on Three, I don't know why I ever thought I could protect someone like him.” Prince takes Four’s hand, giving him a sad smile. “Because we love our friends and Three, because even when we are scared we face danger head on.”
Four eyes water as he looks away from Prince. “But…we put them in danger in the first place.” Prince lets go of Four’s hand, standing up he spins on his heel pulling out his sword then points it to the sky. “Friendship is about letting people in!” Four stands up staring at Prince, he then thinks back on his fight with Delinquent. “Do…should we tell the others about this, would it really be a good idea when we don't know of the dangers?” Prince turns to Four, they stare at each other for a moment before Prince puts his sword away. “I don't know, but we have gone through worse together.” Four turns walking away from Prince, the personality frowns as he watches Four go into the castle without another word.
Four felt his emotions hitting him all at once, a storm of anger and fear drowning him from the inside. As he trips into his room, feeling himself struggling to breathe, with a scream he throws his clock at the mirror in his room. The mirror cracks into six perfect parts, Prince runs into the room seeing Four scream he runs holding the man close to him. “ORIGINAL STOP YOU'RE GOING TO HURT YOURSELF!” Hearing the ruckus the others run in to see Four thrashing around in Prince arms, acting quick they run into the room helping Prince hold the man back. Producer stands back panicked at the sight, his eyes wide before closing them. He takes a deep breath then walks forward, opening his eyes, he slaps Four. The room goes silent as everyone stares at Producer surprised. “P-please forgive me, I just wanted the pain to stop.” Seeing the tears escaping Producers eyes Four relaxes frowning, he looks around the room seeing his five personalities surrounding him with concern expressions.
“It's…too much, all of you, all of this! IT'S TOO MUCH!” As Four shouts the personalities take a step back to give him more room, Producer wipes his tears as he watches Four drop to his knees. “What if we open up and its Peaches castle all over again. WHAT IF WE GET THEM KILLED!?” “WHAT IF THEY CAN HELP US!? Something can always go wrong, should we really be stuck in this endless loop of being alone?” Prince crossed his arms staring at Four, exhaustion was clear on the royal personality's face. Yet he stands strong, hoping his words will reach Four. Ringmaster taps his cane getting everyone's attention. “We can't move this plot forward till you get it, you're the main character with a variety of side characters. What kind of story doesn't use them? Think about how relaxed we all felt being with Meggy and Mario, how D of all people laughed.” Four looks up at Ringmaster, seeing he has all the attention he taps his cane causing it to change form.
With a flip of the glowing cane he ends up catching a bouquet of flowers, each flower a different color. “Listen close, we can't handle things alone after all Three is missing. And it's clear we feel better with our close friends, but the main issue is how you see us.” Hearing his words Four looks away, seeing his reaction, Ringmaster sighs moving himself closer. He then shoved the bouquet into Four’s face, now seeing the flowers closer he noticed their color matches each personality. “Together we make a beautiful set of flowers, but when you start to remove parts of it.” He reaches toward the orange flower, as he removes the flower from the middle the bouquet the flowers split apart. He then tosses the flower then begins to take out another flower, as he tosses the light blue flower the rest of the flowers spread apart. “You're losing yourself, you're too scared to accept the situation. Thanks to it the connection with D is broken off, now even Prince is starting to lose it.” Four takes the remaining flowers from Ringmaster staring at them, Ringmaster takes a step back then claps. The flowers vanish from Four hand leaving a glowing orb, the orb flies toward Ringmaster changing back into his cane. Parent steps forward, he opens his fanny pack taking out a small candy. He hands the candy over to Four with a soft smile. “I know this is a lot, we all feel it. But together we can learn who we are, you just have to take the first step.”
He takes the candy from Parent then gives him a weak smile. “I will send the text…before I change my mind I need to tell everyone everything.”
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Delinquent glares at Three, he taps his foot before tossing a cup at the wall. “THIS IS THE FOURTH CUP WHY WONT IT WORK!?” Three coughs as he attempts to get comfortable. “Maybe you didn't ask nicely enough, or perhaps you DIDN'T PULL MY HAIR ENOUGH!”
“Dont be a pouty bitch, im doing this all for the right reasons. Now stop being annoying and give me that power.” Delinquent gets close to Three staring at the man, seeing no change he groans stomping away. He looks at the ingredients before letting out an exhausted breath, Three takes a deep breath attempting to control his anger. “Delinquent enough of this, what is the point of trying to get them out. Isn't what I told you enough?” Delinquent starts mixing different coffee beans together, he turns toward Three, his voice softer. “No, he will never accept the truth. I’m a reject, this is the only path.” An alarm starts ringing through the base catching both of their attention, Delinquent quickly checks that the fire on the stove is off before running to the computer. Three moves forward watching the man's face, seeing the color drain from his face made Three nervous. “Whats going on?” Delinquent turns off the alarm, he thinks for a moment before stepping towards the exit. “I need to take care of something, stay put.” He leaves the building quickly, he looks around before taking a hidden path. As he walks down a dark tunnel he could hear footsteps of the intruders, once he reaches the end of the tunnel he peeks out. He growls when he starts counting the pianta around the area, once he finishes he hides. “Ten…how did they know anyone would be around here?” He mumble to himself as he thinks of a plan to get rid of them.
“Oh cherry clone, where are you? Don't think you can keep hiding, we got you marked!” As the pianta makes his announcement, Delinquent pauses, he pats himself down to see a tracking device fall off his hood. “Shit.” He knew he had to act fast, he stomps on the device then focuses on his power. The pianta takes out their weapons when they see tentacles sprout from the ground attacking them, Delinquent lets out a hiss when he feels one of them cutting down the tentacle. Looking around he grabs a loose pipe then runs at them, a green pianta notices him quickly turning to block the attack. “Thanks for showing yourself, nice trick you have here with those tentacles.” Delinquent pushes himself away from the man, his pink eyes glowing as he glares at the man. “I don't care much for the likes of you, so leave before things get ugly.”
A blue pianta throws a knife at Delinquent, seeing the light hit the knife he summons a tentacle to catch it. With a flick of his finger he commands the appendage to throw the knife back hitting the mafia member's arm. “You fucker, dont think we will go easy because we need you!” The men all charge dodging every swing from the tentacles, Delinquent summon them back putting together a trap, the moment the group gets close to him the trap is sprung as a cluster of tentacles come out of the ground pining the men down. His eyes go wide seeing the green pianta escape the tentacle, Delinquent attempts to fight back only to get hit with the pommel of his sword. Delinquent hits the floor, his vision blurry from the impact he sinks his fingers into the dirt. Black liquid surrounded them seeing that the pianta grabs Delinquents hair pulling, breaking the focus. “You and that other beast sure have tricks up your sleeves, but I learned when my gun got eaten to always think one step ahead.” Delinquent growls seeing the sword being pulled out of the scabbard, with his foot he lifts himself slightly ready to summon. As he begins to summon he feels a gust of wind behind him, he falls face first to the floor as the pianta laughs. Delinquent gets up confused for a moment only to notice the mafia member holding a chunk of his hair in his hand, slowly Delinquent touches his hair feeling the messy cut from the sword. “Thanks for the help, with this hair we can find the others easily.”
Delinquent eyes shrink at the man's words, his mind thinking back on the other personalities. His mind seeing them being attacked only to be dragged into a lab, Delinquent train of thought is broken from extreme pain of his tentacles being cut. He lets out a scream of pain as the other mafia members are let free. “Take snow white over there, the boss would love to see how his tricks work.” Delinquent hugs himself breathing heavily, the pain making it hard to move. “Hey we should take another look around, never know if another person is here!” A pianta yells as he approaches Delinquent, hearing the other footsteps getting farther away his mind jumps to Three. The man chained up in the lab with no hope to escape, knowing Three is in danger he pushes his body. He coughs as he mentally yells at his body to move, as he shut his eyes tight hoping for a miracle his arm twitches. “What do you desire?” A voice whispers to him.
Delinquent looks around, seeing himself in a dark room. “I need to move, they can't let them get their hands on me before I get what I want! I also need to make sure they don't take the key to all this.” He gasps seeing a familiar box, he steps back for a moment as his eyes glow yellow. Delinquent eyes snap open as he screams “YOU CANT HAVE ME!” A blast of anti meme energy hits the pianta, the green pianta watches in horror seeing his team wiped out with red electricity. Delinquent lets out a psychotic chuckle as he turns toward the man with his hair, the pianta takes a step back before taking out a black cube. He throws the cube to the floor teleporting him out in a flash, Delinquent swears under his breath as he collapses to his knees. “Shit…I need…to move.” He looks around seeing the destruction he did, he looks at his hand confused. “And I need to figure out what just happened to me.”
He reaches for the pipe he dropped, once in his hands he uses it to help push himself up. He shakily walks over to one of the bodies, he pokes it checking if the men were alive. Seeing no movement made his stomach twist, he shakes his head trying not to focus on it as he walks towards the hidden passage to the lab. As he enters the lab seeing Three his body relaxes, he runs his hand through his messily cut hair. “DELINQUENT! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?” Three panics seeing the man covered in bruises, Delinquent turn to face him, getting the purple guardian to blush. Seeing the personality fresh from battle with his new hair style makes Three’s heart skip a beat, he looks away hoping the man didn't notice anything off as the heart pin flickers to life.
“Hm I guess im fine, in a bad mood. Turns out I got bugged, they tracked me here and thanks to my hair they are going to find Four and the others.” Delinquent slowly walks over to his small kitchen to continue brewing a cup of cherry coffee, Three turns pulling against the chains. “WHAT?! Then let me go, we have to get back to the others and protect them! Why are you making coffee when they are in danger?” Delinquent looks at his reflection, seeing his hair uneven then thinking back on the others. He got them all in trouble, he spent all this time pulling away knowing he wasn't wanted. Now he has gotten a target on all of their backs, the more he thought about it, the more clear it was. He watches the coffee heating up as he grabs the cherry power up, he gently melts it into the coffee. As he stirs the coffee he walks over to Three, the man staring at the personality with annoyance. “You're right, I need to hurry to the others. So drink, I will run over and warn the group but after that I will continue my mission.” “Del, you can't be serious I came to peace with myself there is no way they will come out. Just let this plan go, we can work together to get that idiot to talk with you and fix things.” Three leans close to Delinquent hoping his words could reach, the personality lets out a sigh. “You think just because you had a therapy session with yourself that you're a different person? You just came to terms with the fact you have a heart, how sweet you know you can fall in love.” Three steps back watching Delinquent lightly trace the rim of the cup, he looks up at Three showing how exhausted and in pain he is from the recent battle. He then offers the cup, for once giving the drink in a more gentle manner. Three sighs as he sips the drink, Delinquent smiles softly catching Three’s attention.
“You look cute when you're smiling and not being a complete asshole.” Three blinks as his face goes red as the words slip out of his mouth, Delinquent joins Three’s as they both turn red. He drops the cup as he steps away from Three. “Wha- HEY THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO BE GAY!” “SHUT IT I WASN'T BEING GAY JUST LEAVE AND WARN THE OTHERS ALREADY!” Three huffs looking away from Delinquent, the personality stomps off as he colors his hair.
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Four paces back and forth feeling his nerves getting the best of him, Meggy gets up from her seat walking over to Four. She gently placed her hands on his shoulders, giving him a soft smile. “Hey it's going to be okay, we all will have your back. You're acting like you're coming out of the closet to the others.” Four lets out an awkward chuckle that gets Meggy to take a step back for a moment. “Wait…do the others not know about you and Three?” “Ah dear Meggy love doesn't need big announcements!” Prince gives her a bright smile.
Artist chuckles as he finishes his current drawing. “Not like the others haven't expected it for years.” “NOT THE POINT! I just worry that six personalities will be a lot, I mean Three only had three that felt more easy to handle.” Four starts to fidget with his sleeves as he looks over the personalities, he frowns seeing Delinquent is nowhere to be seen. A knock on the door is heard getting Four to break into a sweat, he walks over to the door reminding himself that his friends will always be there for him. As he opens the door he freezes seeing a strange man at the door, the man takes out a bat pointing it at Four. “What are the odds that both targets we are after live in the same place, SMG4 come with us with your other selves before things get ugly.” As the pianta reaches to grab Four a green blur grabs Four pulling him away from the man, he blinks looking around to see Melony in front of him.
She glares at the pianta summoning her sword, the pianta snaps his fingers calling over more members. “Leave my friends alone, things aren't going to be nice for you all if you fight.” Melony eyes glow for a moment as she stares them down, the pianta charges at her not taking her threats seriously. In a flash Melony breaks through their weapon knocking all the pianta out cold but one, she points her sword to his neck. “Leave my friends alone.” The Pianta growls as he crawls away to grab his team, Melony watches them as they leave the showgrounds. “Thanks for the save, I swear something is always happening.” Four smiles at Melony as he puts her sword away, she runs hugging him feeling relieved she made it in time to protect him. “I’m glad I took a long nap yesterday to come on time today, I got to keep my promise.” Four hugs her back then walks with her into the castle, over time the crew showed up taking their seat waiting for the announcement. Delinquent walks into the castle startled to see the crew gathered in the main lobby, Saiko notices him coming in. “Four, how much longer till this announcement? I have band practice soon.” Delinquent awkwardly looks around as he shuffles to the bedroom, Saiko shouts at him as he makes his escape.
“Are we having a party?” As he asks the question he turns to see the crew giving him a huge smile, feeling creeped out he opens the door ready to leave. Seeing this, Four grabs him, pulling him away from the door. “WAIT! Ahem we invited over the crew, it's time we take that step forward.” Delinquent nods as he takes a seat in the room, Artist turns on a projector showing the slides he put together. “I’ve Gogh this covered, so I drew up a bunch of stylish intro cards for each of us to introduce ourselves to the others! I made your card extra edgie D since you're our local grump!” Delinquent rolls his eyes seeing his slide filled with dark colors and random pngs of shadow the hedgehog, Artist smiles brightly at the group feeling proud. Now with everyone being in the room Four steps out nervously, he fixes his hat as he turns off the lights. “Thanks for showing up and waiting so long, I have something I need to let you guys know about. And before you say anything Mario no this isn't a coming out party.” The plumber crosses his arms, pouting at the fact he was cut off. Four takes a deep breath as he changes the light color to purple, seeing the color Artist walks out of the room. He excitedly does a bow as he places the projecter down and turns it on, as he turns it on Bob stands up in awe. “HOLY SHIT FOUR HAS A TWIN BROTHER!”
Artist snorts at the reaction as he puts up his slide. “Noooo but don't blame your thoughts, these slides here are to help you brush up on who we are. My name is Artist the artistic side of SMG4.” The crew stay silent making Artist let out a soft cough, Tari and Melony clap breaking the silence. Seeing the support he smiles ready to talk about himself more before the bedroom door opens, Artist glares at Ringmaster storming out of the room. “WHY DOES HE GO FIRST! I'm the character everyone loves, I should be first, I mean look at me.” Ringmaster walks up to Artist taking the mouse from him, Artist glares at him as he reaches over to grab the mouse back. Ringmaster pushes Artist back yelling at him. “THIS IS MY SHOW YOU'RE JUST A SIDE CHARACTER!” Artist stomps on Ringmasters foot taking the mouse back, he huffs at the personality. “Please, you look like something drawn by my left hand.” Ringmaster gaps as he tackles down Artist, the mouse flies out of his hand landing in front of Parent who runs up to the pair trying to separate them. “You're right handed!” Parent manages to pull Ringmaster away as Prince pulls Artist away. “Thats the point!”
Bob jumps up from his chair waving a cash around. “MY BET IS ON THE RED ONE, RIP THAT PURPLE GUY'S LEGS!” Tari wags her finger at him. “Bob, no we should help stop the fighting!” Four sighs seeing the chaos, he steps in front of the personalities giving them a nervous smile. “So uh me and Three drank some cherry coffee, we don't know how it got to Three’s cafe but the moment we drank it well we split apart.” Bob’s eyes shrink hearing the story while the others nod, Saiko gets up from her seat patting Four on the back. “So there are Six SMG3 out there too?” Four shakes his head as he turns to look at his personalities behind him, Delinquent pulls up his hood hoping they would ignore him. “No, I do for some reason. According to Three there is a group that really want whatever that coffee is, since me and Three drank it they now want to hunt us down to do experiments.”
Melony nods as she peeks out the window making sure things are safe. “Yeah, there were a few of them here about to take Four.” Bob slowly steps back as the crew talk about the personality situation, seeing his chance, he slips out. Saiko takes out her phone texting Kaizo letting him know everything, once the text is done she looks at the colorful men behind Four. Tari and Boopkins clap hearing Prince telling them how he met Three by saving his life, Four listens to the story chuckling as he hears the story. “Once I caught my fair maiden, bam love was in the air! We could have had our one true love kiss, sadly we were stopped by a purple ogre.” Artist turns startled to be called an ogre in the story. -----------------------------------------
Delinquent walks outside annoyed by his hair, the dye not sticking to his hair the same. He didn't understand how his hair managed to become a more stubborn white, he stops walking when he catches Bob running out of the castle. Seeing this he runs after the garo, using his tentacles he blocks the path for the man. “HOLY HENTAI!” Bob looks around confused before seeing Delinquent. “What are you doing running around outside?” He walks up to the man, with a subtle hand movement the tentacles vanish. Bob squints looking at him as he scratches his head with his sword hands. “LISTEN ELSA I HAVE PLANS SO IF YOU DONT MIND.” Delinquent puts up his hood hiding his white hair, he then summons more tentacles to block Bob. “WHICH FOUR ARE YOU? THE OCTOPUS ONE?”
“Wait, you know about us?” Delinquent tilts his head confused as Bob points to the castle, he stares at it confused. “He told everyone…without me?” Seeing Bob attempt to run off again, Delinquent steps alongside him making sure to block him, seeing no escape Bob decides to pull off his best plan. “WHAT'S THAT BEHIND YOU?” Seeing the personality not moving he lets out a sigh not understanding how his best plan didn't work, he nervously looks at Three’s cafe then to Delinquent. “FINE, I HAD SOME GOOD INFO ON AN ITEM THAT WAS UP FOR A LOT OF MONEY. SOME CHERRY TREAT OR SOMETHING BUT I HAD TO HIDE IT WHEN I GOT CAUGHT.” Delinquent grabs Bob, he glares at the man as he shakes him. “Are you saying all this happened because of you? Wait… do you have the information of what's in the item?” Bob nods as he takes out his phone, Delinquent drops Bob as he looks through the man's phone. “The missing part…damn it not here, take your stupid phone and leave. I will make sure not to tell Three or Four.”
Bob runs off as Delinquent walks towards the castle, he peeks through the window seeing all their friends together. The personalities laughing and getting to talk with the whole crew, Four had people around him as he explains everything with a powerpoint. He didn't understand how they could do this without him, he felt his heart drop. “I always told myself I was unwanted, guess I wasn't far off.” Delinquent was ready to head in to fight with Four when Bob calls out to him, he turns seeing Bob wave him over. As he walks over to Bob seeing the man squint looking around. “I KNOW WHO YOU CAN TALK TO IN ORDER TO GET THE LIST OF THE CHERRY.” Hearing the news Delinquent forgets his anger towards Four, feeling comfortable knowing their friends would protect Four and the rest he follows Bob to get the missing piece for his plan.
He walks over piles of trash till they arrive at the man with the information, Delinquent blinks staring at the man. “Waluigi? You are the one that learned about the cherry vial?” The man nods as he takes a seat on his throne of trash, he looks off to the distance thinking back on it. “I told Bob and Wario not to go after it, the people behind that were too powerful. But the money deal was too good for them, ten grand just to get that pink liquid.” Bob rubs the back of his neck feeling slightly guilty at the whole thing, Delinquent walks forward doing his best to ignore the smell of the throne. “Listen, that liquid has caused a bit of trouble and I need to know all I can about it.” Waluigi looks down at him, and he suddenly gives a sad smile to Delinquent. “I don't know what trouble it caused, but knowing it's from a cherry power up and you're wearing a hood that you're not SMG4.” Delinquent stiffens up at his words before he drops the hood, Waluigi nods, staring at him. “I can see the pain of rejection in your eyes, I will give you information but trust me when I say this Orange Four. Hurting others will not get you accepted.” He hands over an envelope, Delinquent nods as he takes the envelope walking away from them. He thinks for a moment what Waluigi said, he wasn't sure why the man told him such advice. He wasn't hurting anyone, all he wanted was answers and the power needed to end everything. Slowly he stops walking, he looks at the path leading to the showgrounds then to the path of the lab. Remembering that they held a get together with friends without him being there, he turns to take the path to his hideout.
------------------------------------------- Three groans as he feels his head throbbing in pain, he looks around the room bored as he moves around. He needed to escape, yet every attempt seemed to have been thought up by Delinquent. “The man is smart but he is still Four, meaning there has to be a way to get out.” He moves around examining the room, his vision starting to get blurry. He shakes his head as he attempts to use his meme powers, the portal starts to open giving Three some hope before the portal melts away. He sighs kicking the floor, he was beginning to hate the taste of cherry with Delinquent always shoving the drink down his throat. His body started to feel warm, making it harder for him to think. He shakes his head making his hair move out of his face. He closed his eyes taking a deep breath as the room around him felt as if it was shrinking around him, he wasn't sure if all the cherry drinks were finally killing him or what. All he wanted was for the room to stop moving, he then felt gentle hands grab him. He opens his eyes, the room still blurry, he is then greeted with bright colors. He closes them again not being able to stand the vibrate colors. “Are you okay Three?” The voice felt familiar, it made his heart feel safe. “Can you open your eyes?” Slowly he opens his eyes, his vision less blurry he now sees where the colors came from. “No..it cant be.”
Heart smiles softly at him while Spade and Book look down at him with concern. “Oh you're awake! Let's get you out of here, I’m sure Blue is worried sick about you!” There in front of him was his worst nightmare, the very embodiment of love, Heart 3 along with his two other sides Spade and Book.
