This story is most definitely based on Luigi's Mansion. :D It's not the same mansion, buuuut...the Poltergust 3000 will be included! ;)

Like in the original game, we had the "side" main character come in to save the usual hero! Sally will be saving Jack! :D Hooray!

As I said, this story will be based very heavily on Luigi's Mansion, since the main monsters will of course be ghosts. There will also be shades of Silent Hill thrown in as well, and of course my own flares, and mixing the two together somehow.

The title obviously comes from the attraction at Disneyland in California, where Jack and Sally usually reside before they come out! Soul Robber comes from the game Oogie's Revenge. Which didn't happen in this story, but the invention did!

Oh, and I call it Flubber. Why? Because it's green! It's green, it bounces, it expands, it can take on different shapes...IT'S FUCKING FLUBBER!

So I'll be calling him Flubber! :D

Disclaimer:

Luigi's Mansion-Nintendo

TNBC and characters-Tim Burton

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The forest far beyond Halloween Town was, needless to say, very dark. Darker than night. The cluster of trees were thick, making the forest very dense, with only a single pathway that allowed passage through it. A full moon hung overhead in the sky, but even that didn't help matters.

A wolf howled in the distance, the flutter of bat wings could be heard above in the branches as they flew off and around quite rapidly, dead leaves crunched beneath her feet, along with the occasional snap of a twig.

Looking again at a crudely drawn map, Sally Skellington sighed as she shook her head and pointed her firefly flashlight further up ahead along the path. She was trying to find a mansion she had won in a contest.

A contest she had never even entered. Who was even organizing it? Who gave away mansions in a contest, anyway? There was something very suspicious about it. She had gotten a letter the day before, containing the letter proclaiming her win, and also a crudely drawn map to the mansion. It was all so very bizarre.

This of course led Jack Skellington, her husband and the Pumpkin King, to be very suspicious of this. As excited as he was for her in winning something, he felt that something didn't add up at all. She had never entered any kind of contest, and it was also pretty weird to be winning a mansion of all things. He suspected it was some kind of an elaborate trap. So, Jack had taken it upon himself to find the mansion and check it out, to see what was going on. An elaborate prank? Or was it really true?

That was a day ago. Jack had not come back. There was no sign of him at all. The plan was that he was going to find the mansion, check things out, and then come right back as soon as the verdict was set.

Sally was worried. Everyone else in town was worried too, since Jack had been gone for nearly two days at this point. It was worrisome. So that night, Sally decided to try to find him herself. It was impulsive, but she wanted to ensure he was safe. She was the Pumpkin Queen, after all, it only made sense. She had at first sent Zero to try to find him, and he had come back, managing to tell her that Jack was missing.

So now, armed with a flashlight and the map, she was venturing out to try to find her beloved. Hoping against all hope that he was all right.

Suddenly, the path on either side became clearer, less adorned with thick clusters of trees. That told Sally that she was finally emerging from the forest. Indeed she was, because she now came out onto clearer, open ground. She was glad of that.

But her celebration only lasted for a second.

Ahead of her on the path, was a mansion.

It stood three stories tall, with two lighted windows above the main entrance doors, making the said windows look more like evil, sneering eyes. The mansion itself was of old time gothic style, parapets of stone and arched windows to be seen all around. Four large turrets, rising quite ominously toward the sky, graced along the roof. From the look of things, it seemed so dark, so deserted.

Lightning struck, crows cawed nearby, and more bats flew rapidly up above.

Sally checked the map, seeing that it was indeed the mansion indicated on the map. But what was it doing in the middle of nowhere? To add to the creepy and nightmarish factor?

Either way, Sally felt uneasy. Very uneasy. There was something very unsettling, nerve-wracking, strange, creepy, and above all horrifying about all of this.

And neither of them of the good kind.

She stepped slowly toward the entrance, her hands shaking as she tried to hold the flashlight steady. Already she just wanted to turn back and get away from here, to forget this horrific place even existed. Unfortunately, that was not an option. Jack was somewhere in there. Possibly trapped, or worse, and she was not going to leave this place until she found him. Dead or undead.

Thunder rumbled, lightning flashed again, making Sally jump a little as she ascended the stairs. Before she knew it, she was on the front step of the mansion. Two tall, gothic, dark doors stood before her. Each had monstrous-looking door knockers, with round, silver door handles.

Slowly, Sally approached, reaching out for one of the handles with her free hand. The uneasy feeling only grew stronger as she was getting closer and closer to this place.

"I'm coming, Jack..." She said softly, biting her lip in nervousness.

Her hand turned the knob, making it squeak, and then slowly pushed it open. Just as she expected, it creaked. Loudly. A typical Halloween scare tactic.

Only this wasn't so scary that it was fun. It was so scary that it was scary.

Sally pushed the door open further, peering inside with her flashlight. "H-Hello?" She called inside.

After a few moments, she cautiously stepped inside, coming into the foyer. It was pretty big and spacious, as well as creepy. Ahead of her were two more double doors, which resembled the front entrance doors, only smaller. There were two staircases, one on either side of the room, leading to an upstairs landing, where another set of double doors were. It was very, very dark in the room. No source of light, save for her flashlight. There was a chandelier above her head, and some candles on the walls, but none were lit up.

"Jack? Jack! Jack, where are you?" Sally called in the room, even though she had a pretty good idea of how stupid that was.

Unfortunately, she didn't know what else to do.

She tried one of the doors ahead of her. As expected, they were locked.

SLAM!

The sudden slamming of the entrance door behind her caught her off guard and made her jump, and yet she berated herself for not having seen it coming.

Refusing to dwell on it, Sally perked as she caught something up above her. Near the landing of the stairs, she saw something moving. Shining her flashlight onto it, she was surprised to see a floating key. It was literally a key floating in middair. No hand or any other source was holding it.

The key suddenly moved up away, and then it fell to the floor right up against the second floor doors. Curious now, Sally went up the stairs, and came to the key. She tapped it lightly with her foot. Nothing. It was just laying there on the floor. But how was it floating earlier?

Maybe I'm just going crazy. She thought with a sigh.

She bent down, and picked up the key, examining it. There was nothing strange about the key. It looked like any other kind of key, even if it did have a flat skull head at one end. None the less, a key was a key. She had a pretty good guess as to what door it went to.

Gulping, Sally went to the doors ahead, and carefully inserted the key into the lock, turning it. There was a satisfying clicking noise before she reached for the door handle. Grasping it, she turned it, and very slowly pulled it open.

The room was dark, as she expected. It was actually a corridor, with four doors. Two on either side.

She tried the first door on her right, and it didn't open. It wasn't locked or stuck, but the lock was broken, therefore rendering it completely useless. So she tried the door adjacent to it, which opened.

The room she came into looked to be a parlour, and like the corridor and the foyer, it was very dark.

Shelves upon shelves of books stood against the wall across the room, a desk sat nearby with books and papers strewn about its surface, the chair was pulled out a few feet, as if someone had just gotten up and left. That was what it all seemed to be, not abandoned, but as if no one was home.

But why did she suddenly feel so uneasy?

She then spotted something on the desk, much to her surprise.

It was a pocket radio.

Going over to the desk, she picked it up, inspecting it curiously.

"A radio? ...But who would leave a radio here? I wonder if it works..." She murmured to herself.

Sally fiddled with the knobs and switches, even tapping it lightly. But no success. It just didn't seem to be working. That lead her to believe that it was broken.

Until it started to emit static interference. She frowned, and tried to adjust it again, all while feeling as sudden strange chill in the air.

There was then a tap on her shoulder.

"What is it?" Sally questioned, and turned around. The moment she did, her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open in a silent scream, the radio falling to the floor at her feet.

Behind her was a ghost. Not the kind of ghost she remembered from back home in Halloween Town when they wandered the graveyard. No, this was a different kind of ghost, and it was bent on scaring her to pieces. It looked as if it had no limbs connected to its ghostly body, as well as what looked like a severed head floating above its neck. It cackled and moved toward her, waving its ghostly, floating hands.

"Whooaaaaa!" Came a shout from the doorway, followed by a noisy rush of wind.

The ghost suddenly tried to flee, but it was caught in the gust of wind that was...pulling it back? Sally watched in surprise as a short, balding old man with a bit of a roughened face came into view. He had a crude backpack, and held the hose of a vacuum cleaner. He was dragged along the floor as he tried to pull back, having the ghost caught in the gust force of the vacuum. It occurred to Sally that he was trying to vacuum the ghost!

Eventually, the old man, who looked to be a scientist, fell to the floor. The ghost escaped and disappeared, leaving no trace of its presence.

"Oooohh... Looks like I'm too old for this..." The old man complained, rubbing his head.

"A-Are you...are you all right?" Sally approached him slowly, shining her flashlight on him.

"Hop-diddidy-doo! Of course I'm all right, my dear!" The old man grinned. "Come, come, let's go back to my lab. We have much to talk about in getting you prepared for all of this."

Puzzled, Sally had no other choice but to follow him out.

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It turned out the old man did indeed have a lab, hidden in the forest not too far off from the mansion. Actually, just some yards away, in the trees. He conducted his experiments and research there, as well as having a training room, a gallery, and an underground basement chamber.

Like Dr. Finkelstein and Igor back in Halloween Town, he was much shorter than she was.

"Best if I introduce myself to you, lovely lass! I'm Professor Beetlestein! I was once from Halloween Town, partners with Dr. Finkelstein!"

"Oh, he's my creator!" Sally exclaimed. "You knew him, then?"

"Sure did, lass! Then I left Halloween Town to further my research and set up a lab right here! So, why are you here, anyway? It's no safe place for a lady like you!" Professor Beetlestein said, tipping his glasses a bit.

"My...my husband went missing when he came to try to find the mansion." Sally explained in worry. "I'm trying to find him."

"Ho ho ho! So you must be Mrs. Sally Skellington! The Pumpkin Queen! Yes yes, your husband did indeed show up here! He went into the mansion, and...I'm afraid he never came back out." Professor Beetlestein said, shaking his head.

"Oh! Jack..." Sally uttered in solemn worry, hanging her head low. It was just as she feared.

"Now now, don't get so down, Sally!" Professor Beetlestein patted her arm. "There's still hope yet! You just need to find him! Now then, about your mansion...you say you won it in a contest?"

"Yes, but it doesn't make sense... I never entered a contest at all. Let alone one that gave away a mansion." Sally said.

"Hmm...well this is strange, and yet what is stranger is that this mansion you see there hasn't always been there. No sir! It only just appeared the other day, and I couldn't believe my eyes! As you can probably see by now, the place is overrun by ghosts! They got your husband, Sally."

"What?.! But he's the Pumpkin King! How could they have possibly been able to capture him?.!" Sally exclaimed.

"No one knows, child. But you see, these ghosts are experts in trickery, so it's very likely that they tricked him somehow! Ghosts can be real tricky souls! Ho ho ho! Pardon the pun." Professor Beetlestein giggled. "Anyway, I'm going to have to equip you to brave the dangers in that mansion, Sally! This here is an invention I learned upon finding the blue prints from an old friend, Professor E. Gadd, who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom!" He held up the crude vacuum cleaner to her. "This, my dear, is the Poltergust 3000! This extravagant invention will be able to suck up those pesky ghosts!"

Sally took hold of the vacuum, known as the Poltergust 3000, examining it curiously. It would fit on her like a backpack, with a belt around the waist. She pulled it on, hooking the hose and her flashlight to the belt.

"Oh yes! I just remembered!" Professor Beetlestein handed her the radio. "I see you found my radio! I invented it to detect ghosts, so it will warn you when one is nearby! Took me five years to develop that technology, my dear! Oh yes!"

"I thought it was broken..." Sally took the radio, and hooked it to the belt as well.

"It isn't, my dear! I assure you! I can even communicate with you through it!" The professor grinned. "Now listen, the best tactic to suck up the ghosts is to of course make sure you catch them off guard! It won't be too hard, even if they spot you! All you have to do is shine your flashlight toward them. They don't like the light, you see! It will do wonders for you! And before you go, I have one last thing for you! There may be enemies and ghosts in which you can deal with using this little gem!"

Sally watched as Professor Beetlestein reached for a jar, which contained a bouncing green blob. "Ooooh...what is that?"

"My dear pal Finkelstein invented it, and gave me the recipe! He calls it Soul Robber! I myself...call it Flubber." He explained, unscrewing the lid.

Opening the jar, the green blob, known as Soul Robber or Flubber...jumped out and latched onto Sally's right arm, much like a small, thin snake coiling itself around her.

"Flubber...Soul Robber..." Sally murmured, and looked at the Professor. "What can it do, Professor?"

"Well my dear, it can expand, take on different forms, and can be of great help to you in sticky situations!" Professor Beetlestein agreed with a grin. "With ol' Flubber and the Poltergust 3000, and the strength of love in your heart, you'll conquer the haunted mansion in no time!"

"If it can save Jack..." Sally murmured, looking to the Professor again. "Thank you very much, Professor. I appreciate your help."

"Think nothing of it, my dear! Now you go in there and save your man!"

Nodding, Sally went to the front door of the lab, with the Professor following after her. She exited, and headed toward the mansion, gulping a little. She was still quite shaken up, but knew that she had to do this. To save Jack. To save anyone else who might've been in trouble.

Coming up to the front steps, Sally turned to see the Professor waving at her from within the trees, wishing her good luck. She nodded to him, and approached the entrance doors with caution, turning her flashlight back on.

Grasping the door handle, she turned it, opened the door, and began to step inside.