AN: Whoo! I really haven't updated in a while, have I? Well, I hope to upload the rest of this wonderful story sooner rather than later...

Chapter 5: Second Impressions

Dimentio's mask may have been able to cover most of his scar but it couldn't hide his thoughts. Through his eyes I saw sadness. He looked like he didn't want to kill me, but save me, I saw-I saw that he had a determination that was unknown to me. But most of all I saw love. Luigi really did snap out of it! And I don't care how. He convinced me even further by whispering, "I love you too." I smiled for the first time in a month, although it was small.

Crazy interruppted by pushing Luigi away. "If you aren't gonna kill him then I'll do it!" Crazy shouted. He was about to swat me when I could move again and jumped out of the way and next to Luigi. The bubble around everyone dissappeared and they joined in. Realizing he was outnumbered he shouted, "All of you; get out here now." 7 mysterious figures jumped down from the ceiling and formed almost a full circle around him. To my confusion Luigi joined them. The 7 who died had met the same fate as Lui- I mean Dimentio.

"Oh no! Not you too Ness!" Lucas cried. "We're not moving untill you guys snap out of it!" Knuckles said defiantly. All of us nodded in agreement even though we knew it would never work. "Alright; my loyal minions, attack!" Crazy commanded. "Now!" R.O.B. shouted. The 8 raised up thier arms and a bubble circled around Crazy. "Wait, what?" Crazy asked. Then the 8 started running around him so fast they were a blur. We stared at them in awe.

"You're betraying me?! This can't be so! Dimentio! You turned them all on my side!" Crazy exclaimed. "No way! You thought wrong!" Luigi said. Finally the abruptly stopped. The bubble exploded with Crazy in it. "NOOOO!" Crazy screamed before disappearing. Mamma Mia what just happened?! The 8 rushed to hug their respective friends. "I finally did something for the first time in 11 years!" Luigi exclaimed. He hugged me super tightly. I felt so nice I returned the hug with a dreamy smile.

While we were still embracing I came to my senses. I pushed Luigi away, still holding his shoulders. I scowled at DIMENTIO. "Stop everyone! You 8 might be able to fool everyone else but you can't fool me! You're just gonna murder us all!" I shouted. I folded my arms and turned away from him. "Mario!" Dimentio gasped. "Mario's right; how do we know that you're all back to norm randomly?" Sonic pointed out. Dimentio smiled, I could tell it was a good smile. I turned back to face him. I secretly knew that LUIGI was back to normal.

I just pretended to not just in case. "I almost forgot to tell you; when I got back my memories I immediatlly returned to normal, but I had to act like I was evil so I could destroy Crazy. When we were acting I really meant to kill him but before I could tell you all this earlier he came back. I realized that I needed help, so I closed the Void and sent you here. It turns out the the 7 and I are called The 8 Guardians of Darkness according to the Dark Prognitus.

The 2nd time was to make sure you were safe and so we could do this on our own. When Crazy gave me the order to kill you I was gonna send you all back again and close the way into Subspace. Now do you believe me?" Luigi explained and asked. I couldn't say no to that. I hugged him tightly. I started crying, but not loud enough for anyone to hear. I felt a drop on my shoulder; Luigi was crying too. We detached and wiped the tears away quickly.

"Sorry I gave you that scar." I apoligized. "I'm sorry for all the insults." Luigi apoligized. "No kidding!" Layton called out.

THE AFTERMATH: Luigi and I went to the cliff to watch the stars, which was one of our real counterparts hobbies. "It's sure great for you to be back." I yawned sleepily. "Yeah." Luigi sighed. I sat up to see that Luigi looked worried, extremely worried. (Just so you know Luigi put on makeup to hide his scar which worked out great.) "Luigi, what's wrong?" I asked. Luigi sat up and sighed.

"Crazy is still alive." Luigi whispered. "What?" I asked. "Crazy survived our attack, I just realized that and nobody else knows about it but us." Luigi whimpered. I knew what to do. We stood up and ran to find the others and Crazy. But we bumped into something hard. Or someONE. Crazy! Before we could react Crazy grabbed us both easily, and stuffed us into a sound proof cage with laser outlined and now Crazy had everyone in his grasp...