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Later that day, Luigi was headed to his mansion after dropping the young toad back at his house.

As he walked, he heard someone yell "hey!"

He turned and saw himself standing there.

"Who are you?" Luigi asked.

"Your replacement" duplighost Luigi replied smiling.

He ran toward Luigi and swung at him. Luigi ducked, avoiding the punch. He punched duplighost Luigi in the stomach, then in the face. He grabbed duplighost Luigi by the throat and slammed him into the ground, causing him to turn back into its regular duplighost form. Luigi pinned it down, and held his hand inches above its face.

Sparks and small lightning bolts began coming out of Luigi's hand as he said "one chance. What is going on?"

"Ok, ok" the duplighost said "Bowser hired me and two others to capture and replace you, Mario and Princess Daisy. With you three out of the way, it would be easy for him to kidnap Peach."

"Have you captured Mario or Daisy yet?" Luigi asked.

"I don't know" the duplighost said.

Luigi raised his hand to deliver an electrified punch to the duplighost.

"Yes we have" the duplighost quickly said "they are both at Bowser's castle."

Suddenly, the duplighost kicked Luigi in the back of his knee causing his leg to give out. He let go of the duplighost to catch himself and keep from falling. The duplighost ran away. Luigi started to chase it, but he stopped. Then he turned and ran toward Bowser's castle. After he left, the duplighost turned back into Luigi. It took out its communicator and called Kamek.

Kamek answered and asked "did you get him?"

"No" duplighost Luigi said "he forced me to talk and tell him our plan. He is headed your way now."

"This will come out of your pay" Kamek said angrily "now get to the castle!"

Then Kamek called the other two duplighosts and said "we have trouble. Get back to the castle, now!"

The three duplighosts rushed to Bowser's castle, barley beating Luigi there. Kamek quickly gave them orders. Duplighost Mario locked himself in a room while the other two hid near by.

Luigi was running through the castle, when he heard his brother's voice say "Luigi, over here."

Luigi looked into the room through a small window in the door and saw Mario. He got a running start and shoulder rammed the door open.

He ran in and said "Mario, I'm so glad I found you! I'll explain later, for now we need to find a fake version of you."

"You found him" duplighost Mario said smiling.

"What?" Luigi asked.

Duplighost Mario punched him in the chest, hard. Knocking the breath out of him. Duplighost Luigi ran in, grabbed Luigi by the throat and slammed him onto the ground.

"How do you like it?" he asked.

Luigi tried to get up, but duplighost Mario kicked him in the head, knocking him out. They began dragging him to the dungeon. When they opened the door, Mario and Daisy both looked at them. Daisy's eyes widened when she saw them dragging Luigi in.

"No!" Mario yelled.

The duplighosts put Luigi on a bench on the opposite side of the room from Mario and chained his arms to the wall above him. Then duplighost Luigi began shaking him and patting Luigi's face, waking him up.

"Welcome to your new home" duplighost Mario said smiling "I hope your comfortable, because you are going to be here for a while."

The duplighosts left the room, congratulating each other. When Luigi's eyes adjusted to the dim light, he saw Mario and Daisy.

"Are you guys ok?" Luigi asked.

"Other than being locked in a dungeon while a cheap copy of me is planning to kidnap my wife, I'm fine" Mario said.

Daisy turned to Luigi and nodded.

"I'm sorry" Luigi said "I can't believe I fell for that trick."

"What trick?" Mario asked.

Luigi explained how they captured him.

"Don't feel bad Weegie" Mario said "there's no way to tell the difference by looking at them. It probably would have worked on any of us."

"I guess" Luigi said.

"So do you have any ideas on breaking out of here?" Mario asked.

Luigi pulled on the chains and looked around the room.

"No" he said "we can only hope Peach can figure out those three are not us."

"How?" Mario asked.

"They may look and sound like us" Luigi said "but they don't act like us. Your duplighost yelled at a kid who wanted to take a picture with you. Made him cry even."

Daisy turned to Mario and nodded.

"I hope she can figure it out before it's too late" Mario said.

"Me too" Luigi said.