"Thanks, Kapp!" Luigi said with a wink as he arrived at The Kappa Family's cabana. He later waved at and tipped Leilani with a Coin flicked on her reception desk.
"What a nice young man," Grams told her daughter-in-law.
He grabbed a basket and collected some fruit. By the time he stumbled into the cabana again, he was struggling to hold them all and could barely see. Leilani offered to help him set it in a crate Kapp'n provided to all visitors.
"Thank you miss. Hey Villager! Hey Isabelle!"
"Hi Luigi! Are you planning some kind of party?" Isabelle asked.
"Yeah! I'm holding a fest to see if I can get my own Echo Fighter."
"Yay! I love parties! We'll be there soon!" Isabelle exclaimed pulling out a party popper.
Villager nodded.
Meanwhile, Gooigi was engaged in a friendly free-for-all with the Inklings. The purple female Inkling failed to see an incoming Splat Bomb and got nearly launched off Moray Towers because she was distracted by a strange property of Gooigi's: his color changed whenever he touched a large enough amount of ink.
"Whoa! That's a pretty cool trick you've got there! I can totally see you using that to mess with your foes. Between that and your ability to disappear in all colors of ink, it's like you're made of ink yourself!"
Gooigi dodged a dash attack then shrugged his shoulders. He was having a blast with the Inklings. (Who knows? Maybe Goo is part ink? Oh, how he wishes he could speak to them to find out more about them. Hang on? Is that a Killer Wail? Time to run!) After the match, the Inklings gave him seven buckets of ink and a Super Sea Snail plush.
The two reunited in the kitchen. Gooigi set the buckets down on the floor. He opened them one by one and jumped in the bucket of light blue ink in his compressed form. When he emerged, he was now colored sky blue!
"Oh, I see! The ink acts as a pigment, and you're getting your alternate colors. Nice forward thinking!" Luigi exclaimed.
Gooigi performed a similar stunt for his proposed six remaining colors: pink, orange, gold, red, purple, and white: all reminiscent of ghosts they and their Mario-verse counterparts had fought.
"It's almost 4! We promised to face Sheik!" Luigi said. The two dashed back to the gym. He opened the door. Sure enough, there was Sheik, standing perfectly still—staring at him.
"You're alone."
"I could've sworn I brought Gooigi here. I just…"
Sheik tossed a small Burst Grenade to the left, revealing that Gooigi was trying to perform a sneak attack.
"I lied. You almost have the element of surprise; that's actually pretty impressive for a non-Fighter. Now that you are here, I wish to fight both of you."
"At once?"
"How else am I supposed to study your nuances?" Sheik inquired striking an age-uke, "Let's take this to Battlefield."
Luigi and Gooigi looked at each other and nodded in assurance.
As soon as the round began, they all gathered on the top platform, and Luigi got a few hits on Sheik. When she got back on the ground, Luigi attempted a Super Jump Punch, but Sheik blocked it with a shield.
"Ha. Perfectly predictable." She said tossing a Bombchu at him before turning her focus on Gooigi, but much to her surprise, his feet didn't even leave the platform.
Gooigi tried his hardest to keep up, taking in a brief onslaught of attacks, but in a moment of brevity, he finally managed to kick her away with a tilt attack—his first landed hit, but he got scared when she came back up from the edge. He spent the next few seconds expecting Luigi to scold him before realizing that he wasn't the type to do something like that, and remembering he said that it was okay to be scared on the first day.
Luigi immediately started running back into the fight. On the way back to Sheik, he grabbed a crate, but Sheik hit him and threw it herself. In it was a Bumper, a Super Leaf, and a Pokéball. Luigi and Gooigi came up with a plan. Luigi went immediately for the Pokéball, and Gooigi hit Sheik with the Bumper to distract her (successfully dodging one of her attacks) and rack up some damage. Their Pokéball contained a Staryu. It rose up in the air to pursue and pummel Sheik with the flying stars of Swift. However, while the two Luigis were celebrating their teamwork, they both accidentally crashed into the Bumper shortly after one another. They both laughed it off.
Then Luigi noticed a capsule and threw it at Sheik, cautioning Gooigi to move back. Not knowing that potential explosions could hurt allies, the new guy was none the wiser and got caught in the explosion, along with Sheik. Luigi himself barely avoided it as Sheik was falling after getting hit by the Staryu. With that, Luigi scored the first KO.
He grabbed another Super Leaf and checked o Gooigi, who had landed face-first between the top and right platforms.
Sheik was determined to show these two who was boss, socking Luigi with the blunt end of a Drill Arm after missing with the drill itself. Each of them gathered on the left platform for another close-up scuffle. In the chaos, a Fire Flower and Daybreak piece appeared. Gooigi grabbed the Fire Flower, surprising everyone, including himself, and fired it at Sheik, holding her off long enough for Luigi to zoom in with a Green Missile to obtain the first piece of the Daybreak and a Screw Attack. The two repeated the strategy for the second piece, with Luigi keeping Sheik at bay with a well-placed Luigi Cyclone and forward smash and a surprise Iceball courtesy of his echo's custom moves. Sheik got back on the ground declaring that she didn't think this wasn't funny in the slightest. Then she gave Gooigi a butterfly kick strong enough to knock the flower out of his hand and over the left platform. Defending Gooigi, Luigi jumped and grabbed the flower mid-air. He aimed it at Sheik, but the flower only emitted a puff of smoke, much to his shock, so he just threw it at her for some light damage. Nevertheless, she managed to grab the final piece, but it wasn't long before the two Luigis surrounded her. The two got another idea. Gooigi kept her in place with his Poltergust 3000 and Luigi scored another KO with a forward smash. They both eagerly waited for the piece to drop. Meanwhile, Luigi befriended a Dedenne, who agreed to help them.
Just as they had predicted, the final piece had dropped. Luigi grabbed it and prepared to fire.
"I won't go down like this!" Sheik called out. She threw another burst grenade, tripping up Luigi and causing him to launch the Daybreak at a much higher position than he anticipated. With him temporarily out of her way, Sheik snuck to the right edge of the stage and left the vulnerable and dumbfounded Gooigi barely able to remain on the battlefield, but Sheik continued to show him no mercy, and targeted him with a fully charged blast from a Super Scope—launching him clean out of the Blast Zone. When the Daybreak ran out, Luigi knocked the Super Scope away from Sheik and started firing all the way through the call for time.
Luigi and Gooigi grabbed each other's hand and jumped for joy, knowing that they had won, while Sheik clapped slowly in front of them. They turned around and noticed.
"I'm impressed. Lighter due to his colloid form, yet generally harder to strike off the ground. Takes more damage from fire, loss of all fire damage of his own; nearly unparalleled crouching skill, and he lacks your plunger grapple, so he relies on wind suction for his grab—all in addition to him working on some unique stances, idle poses, taunts, and victory poses; he seems to like some of yours too much, though; so he kept them. He certainly has potential from that fight, even though you ended up doing all the work. You have my word." Sheik signed Luigi's petition and disappeared.
The duo spent the rest of the afternoon laying out the reception for the public. At around six o'clock, Luigi opened it to all Smashers.
Ness and Toon Link approached Luigi first. "We're sorry Luigi. We mistook your friend for enemies of ours."
"Turns out Gooigi's a pretty nice guy, well as nice as a guy who can't talk can be."
"If it makes you feel any better, we'll help out with your cause."
"Have fun!" Luigi said.
Bayonetta heard his voice and walked over to him. "Ah, Luigi, it's always nice to see your face," she said in a doting voice, placing her right hand affectionately just below his lower lip, "Ordering an entire Echo just so you can up the ante on being hard to get' with a little decoy?" She paused dramatically. By this point, he knew how to tell if she was teasing him, though he felt no less flustered. "I kid!" she exclaimed. Throughout the whole exchange he had a nervous smile as his cheeks shone in a peculiar mix of embarrassment and gratitude.
After that, newly playing romantic music subconsciously directed Luigi toward his old flame: Rosalina. She was with her Lumas as always and was rather happy to see him. "Oh, uh…Rosie. Sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you." He looked around anxiously to see if anyone was watching. "I probably shouldn't even be here." Rosalina looked slightly confused. "What I'm trying to say…um…If this whole thing changes…and I end up, it's not like I still don't love you or anything. Four years is a lot of time to get to know each other. Uh, I'd want to make sure our last dance together be memorable. Wait, that wasn't what I meant!"
Rosalina chuckled lightly. "Luigi, nothing says we can't be friends." The two ended up grabbing each other's hands at the same time and waltzed away until the next song, and Villager came up to Luigi.
He gestured if he could touch Gooigi. "Isabelle thinks he's slimy, but I want to be sure." Gooigi's eyebrows furrowed at the word.
Luigi snickered. "Villager, I am the biggest neat freak in Smash. Do you honestly think I would be this excited about Gooigi if he could be in Smash if he was gross?" Gooigi put his antagonism toward the Animal Crossing Fighters aside and demonstrated his noble mannerisms eloquently sipping some tea alongside Peach, Zelda, and Female Corrin—who taught him how to do it. Once he finished, Luigi set the cup on Villager's hand—spick and span. In turn, he showed it to Isabelle.
"I'm so sorry Sir; I just always try my hardest to keep the place as clean as possible, just like how I did in Smashville. Heh. Heh."
A few moments later, Luigi saw a particular face that caused him to shriek and hide behind the long table. Gooigi saw him and went over to see what was wrong.
"That's Simon Belmont," he told him as he began to sweat with anxiety, "What's HE doing here?" I can't just go over there and ask him," Gooigi put his fists together and was ready to give this "Simon" a piece of his mind before Luigi pulled him back. "No. No. No. Not like that. I have to do some kind of favor for him. (Okay, you can do this; just think of something and TALK to him.)"
Gooigi just stared at him, now equating Simon to someone like Snake, but still as vigilant as ever.
Luigi walked over to the table where Simon was seated. "Uh…Hey…Simon, you know these flowers right here? You can keep them! I'll iron your hood myself too, and um…"
"Ha! Boy, I told you. You don't owe me anything. Why I was actually younger than you when I slew my first set of monsters."
Luigi sobbed; "That didn't help at all."
"What I meant to say was that you need not thank me; I have spent my life reading stories of my ancestors and training in the ways of various weapons for what was perceived as an eternal conflict. You, with no such task thrust upon you, started out as a romantic with a scholastic focus in architecture, then became a knight in shining armor and student of mine because of your kindness in spite of your high disinclination to fight. Now that is real bravery! The point stands is that I appreciate your gratitude nevertheless; it is what us Belmonts live for, for it makes the darkness that much easier to vanquish. I just might name my son after you one day."
Luigi smiled and the two exchanged a good, long, hearty laugh.
"Wow. You sure know how to help a guy when he's down, right after kicking him."
"Now that is something else of which I am thankful for. And your Echo has my approval. I look forward to our next encounter."
Gooigi waved back, eyeing the Vampire Killer, imagining flailing it as part of his arm to slay demons. During his fantasy, he realized that there was something holding onto his head; Pichu looked upside-down with its shining, adorable eyes.
"Pichu."
Gooigi instantly picked the adorable Tiny Mouse Pokémon up and hugged it.
"Phew. Hm? Lucario, hey; didn't expect you to show up!" Luigi said.
"Don't get too many ideas; I merely came out of my own curiosity, and I considered that if you were going to get an Echo, I should be thankful for this one being a creation of few words, er…worries," Lucario explained.
"Hm?"
"Nothing." Lucario left.
Once the reception had finished, Luigi, Gooigi, and a couple of friends stuck around to clean everything up. Once he was done, Luigi noticed his clipboard and smiled at all the Fighters who were willing to support him. He and Gooigi had succeeded.
Signatures: Luigi, Daisy, Richter, Lucina, Mario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Kirby 😊, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon, King Dedede, Snake, Sheik, Villager, Rosalina, Bayonetta ❤️, Pichu, Peach, Zelda, Corrin, Inkling Girl and Boy, Ness, Toon Link, Diddy Kong, Simon, Ice Climbers, Marth, Roy, Pit, Pokémon Trainer (Male & Female), Mii Fighters (3x), Both Robins, Cloud, Chrom, Palutena, Mr. Game & Watch, Wario, Olimar, Ike, R.O.B., Mega Man, Wii Fit Trainer, Little Mac, PAC-MAN, Greninja, Lucario, Isabelle