[Displaying signal]
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Ruby took a deep breath and opened the door to the mansion and stepped back inside and stared at the heart marked double doors in front of her.
"Okay." Ruby said to herself, "Time to move on." with that done Ruby walked up to the door and held out the heart key to it.
The pulsing light began to flow faster for a few seconds before it was completely lit, the light then dying down from the edges to the center, and once the light was gone the metallic thorns decayed and vanished.
Ruby then unlocked the door and stepped though into a hallway, where she had already begun to spot ghost mice.
"Okay... Find a door." Ruby told herself as she stepped forward to a door near the door she had entered from, then glanced down, "A real one." She added noticing the lack of a floor mat.
Turning to her right Ruby found another door at the end of the hall, with a few ghost bats over her head which she sucked into the Poltergust, but sadly the door was locked.
"Better check the Dustboy." Ruby muttered pulling the device out of her pocket and checking it, finding only three doors unlocked. The one she just came from, the basement, and one on the same floor as her, a small door on the far end of the hallway "Okay, better go that way."
Putting the Dustboy away Ruby made her way to the door, however from the opposite of the unlocked door Ruby heard the sound of something making a few loud huffing or grunting sound, Ruby shook her head very quickly before moving on past the door and following the hallway, passing a room from which she heard piano playing come from, Ruby used her Semblance to bolt to the door before opening the door to the room and slamming it shut behind her.
The room Ruby found herself in was a washroom, filled only by a bathtub and a sink, "Why would you need your bathtub in a different room from your toilet?" She muttered.
Ruby looked at the curtained tub, "Maybe there's a key in the tub?" Ruby muttered drawing the curtain partially, before she heard the sound of a ghost appearing behind her.
"AH!" Ruby yelped as the ghost grabbed Ruby and pulled her into a hug, from which Ruby only saw long white mitten-like hands.
"L-Let GO!" Ruby shouted throwing herself into the wall, shaking the ghost off her. Moment's later she shook her head clear and faced the ghost... Who had a buddy, two long skinny ghosts that were surprised at Ruby's actions.
Ruby glared at the two ghosts and pulled out her flashlight, and blasted the two ghosts with the light, before turning on the Poltergust.
"Y-E-E-E-T!" The two ghosts' cried out before they were soon sucked into the vacuum, thus turning the lights on and causing a key to materialize on the towel holder next to the tub, when her Dustboy Horror went off.
[Luigi's mansion OST: Gameboy Horror theme]
"Ruby are you alright?" Weiss asked as her face was behind E. Gadd's.
"I'm fine." Ruby said, "I just... didn't expect the ghost's to just grab me like that."
"Sorry, forgot to mention those." E. Gadd said scratching the back of his head, "Thankfully, the white ones are weak, but any other color can get a strong enough grip to physically hurt you."
"I'll remember that." Ruby said before looking at Weiss, "You sure you don't remember much?"
Weiss glared at Ruby, "I told you Ruby, the door locked in front of me, separating me from Blake and Yang and then something white plowed through me." Weiss said.
E. Gadd seemed to look worried at what Weiss said but shook his head.
"I'll keep going then." Ruby said before ending the call.
[OST End]
Grabbing the key, Ruby found it led to the Ballroom, which she quickly ran to, still scared by the music and the grunting.
Ruby breathed a sigh of relief as she entered the room before music began to fill the room, and ghost's along with it.
[Luigi's mansion ost: Dancing Shy Guy Ghosts]
The ghost's were squat, each wearing a single solid color and wearing white and red split masks and holding two pointed tridents. There were a total of six of them, dancing in pairs in a twirling dance.
Ruby was frozen stiff against the door before relaxing after a moment noticing something, "They aren't attacking?" She muttered before shining her flashlight on them... Resulting in nothing.
"Not good." Ruby muttered, then she looked again at the ghosts and noticed their masks and weapons were solid, "I wonder..." She muttered before approaching a pair and turning on the Poltergust, the masks began to wiggle before popping off their faces, revealing pitch black with yellow eyes, the two spirit almost instantly covered their faces as Ruby switched back to her flashlight, this time successfully stunning them before quickly sucking them into the Poltergust.
"So their bare faces are their weakness." Ruby said with a grin before repeating the tactic with the last two pairs.
"Okay, ghosts are gone, cue the lights." Ruby said with a grin, instead the two marble circle floors, one of which she was standing on, began to spin, "Whoa!"
[Luigi's mansion OST: The Floating Whirlindas]
The music changed suddenly as a pair of Ghosts appeared, a couple to be exact, one was an orange haired man with fox ears atop his head wearing a red suit, his legs replaced by a ghostly blue tail, the other was a woman with long blonde hair wearing a green dress.
Ruby saw them for a split second before they vanished from view.
"Aw come on!" Ruby cried out before trying to orient herself only to fall face first to the ground, "Ugh..." Ruby groaned as she sat there for a moment.
Ruby got back up after a minute and saw the couple bowing to each other, completely distracted from her.
Ruby quickly pulled out the Poltergust, and began to suck the couple with the vacuum. The Faunus/Human ghost couple struggled for a few moments, but were inevitably sucked into the vacuum.
"I Hope Blake doesn't hold this against me." Ruby muttered as the floor stopped moving, the lights came on, and a blue chest appeared, "Still I'm surprised they didn't try to separate to escape me."
Shaking her head Ruby cracked open the blue chest and grabbed the key from it, a quick check of the Dustboy Horror revealed it to be the key to the door in the back corner of the ball room.
"You've got to be joking." Ruby deadpanned, "Why is there even a key for a room that close to this one?"
Shaking her head Ruby unlocked the door and found herself in a storage room, where Ruby found a stack of fancy chairs, a stack of crates, a mop and bucket.
"BWAGAWW!" A Pink ghost cried out as it appeared.
"GYAAAH!" Ruby cried out as she burst onto the crates before glaring at the ghost, "Will you stop doing that!" Ruby shouted. The pink ghost put it's hand to it's non-existent chin and scratched it for a moment before grinning and giving a thumbs down.
This however gave Ruby plenty of time to come down, flash the ghost with her light, and suck it up.
As soon as she did that, a red colored Grabbing Ghost appeared, which Ruby jumped at the sight of before having it join the rest of the ghosts. After that a Red Grabber and a Pink Ghost appeared together, to which Ruby managed to suck up at the same time.
The light in the storage room came on, but nothing else appeared.
"Huh?" Ruby muttered looking around, "Well there's gotta be something here." Looking around for a moment before finding a big red button on the wall, ignoring the sign under it that said 'Don't Press'. Ruby pushed the button, 'It's not like I've got any other choice.' Ruby thought.
hearing a grinding sound Ruby turned her head to the far wall to see it was pulling away, even the mop propped against the wall fell as the wall pulled away, doubling the length of the room, the wall stopped with a thud and Ruby noticed two things. A grate on the floor and a poster that said 'Danger'.
"Okay..." Ruby said walking up to the poster, then noticed a bulge on it, Ruby then grabbed the poster and tore it off revealing another button, which Ruby pressed.
The grate on the floor opened up in four directions and began to release a white mist.
"What the?" Ruby muttered as she stepped toward the hole and peered inside. She was thrown back when a white sphere like ghost popped out, followed by several others, soon filling the room.
"Who's there!?" One of them shouted, "Who dares disturb our sleep!?"
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" Ruby screamed as she scrambled to the wall.
"Oh ho!" One of the ghosts declared as they all looked at Ruby, "Its RUBY! Look guys, Ruby's finally here!"
"We're gonna do what we did with your friends and family, only worse!" A third said.
"Bluh huh huh huh." A deeper voice laughed as one last spirit burst out of the grate, spherical like the others with red eyes instead of the black ones the others hand, this one also had a blue tongue in his large mouth unlike the others that had red tongues, and unlike any of the others, this one wore a crown.
"What's that on her back?" One asked as the crowned one came closer, only for them all to flinch.
"It's E. Gadd's Poltergust 3000!" The crowned one shouted, "Everybody! SCRAM!" and with that Order all the ghosts scattered across the room, flying through walls, though the crowned one stopped and gave Ruby a glance before going through the floor.
Ruby let out a sigh of relief as she pulled herself off the wall... Then her Dustbot went off.
"WAAH!" Ruby cried out and she jumped and fell on her side, taking out her Dustboy without getting off the floor.
[Luigi's mansion OST: Gameboy Horror]
"Ruby!" Weiss shouted, her arms now recovered enough to lift and grab the screen, "Those were what I saw! Are you alright!?"
"Scared, but fine." Ruby admitted.
"Ruby, those were the spirits that released all my Portrait Ghosts." E. Gadd said, "I had wondered where King Boo and his minions had gone. So they were hiding in the mansion. Thanks for flushing them out Ruby."
"Y-you're welcome." Ruby said.
"As tickled as I am that you found them, but... Perhaps it would have been better if you hadn't, well... Let every single one of them escape."
"S-sorry." Ruby said, "I was scared."
"It's fine Ruby, I'm just teasing." E. Gadd said, "Come back to the lab, I've got something to explain to you about the boo's."
"Got it." Ruby said hanging up.
[Luigi's mansion OST: E. Gadd's Lab.]
Ruby pulled up a chair and took a seat next to Weiss as E. Gadd approached holding a tray of tea and cookies, "Thanks for getting here so quickly Ruby."
"No problem E. Gadd." Ruby said, "So... Those things took everyone?"
"I suspect so Ruby, based on what Weiss said." E. Gadd said, "Don't worry, based on Weiss I suspect the rest of your team are stuck in paintings as well."
"But what are those thing?" Weiss asked as she sipped the tea, still sitting in the wheel chair.
"They're called Boo's." E. Gadd said, "Even among ghosts they're a mystery."
"How so?" Ruby asked tilting her head.
"Well, I've only found a legend." E. Gadd said, "But the legend said that long ago a king swore loyalty to the Queen of Grimm, with him in this loyalty was a group of fifty men. When the king and his men were found out the people and the other kingdoms struck down him and his men before they could lead their kingdom to destruction. In his dying breath he swore he would remain loyal even in his death along with his men. That night fifty one Boo's rose from their unmarked graves and King Boo stole his crown from the newly appointed king before fleeing into the night."
"That's insane." Weiss scoffed, "What kind of person would swear loyalty so Grimm?"
"I don't know myself, which is why I don't put too much stock in the legend." E. Gadd said, "But when they are together the Boo's are powerful."
"They are..." Ruby whimpered.
"In a way." E. Gadd said, "Have either of you girls studies the Grimm known as Legion?"
"Umm... No." Ruby said, "Professor Port kinda blabbers on about his past and we try not to fall asleep."
E. Gadd stared at the two for a moment, before sighing and lowering his head, "Now I'm wondering if I should get and get my old job back." E. Gadd mutterd, "Anyway, Legion appeared about... Twenty Years ago. It was a mass collection of Gheist's, a possessor type Grimm. It was a powerful creature that was formed from around fifty Geists. In fact if I recall Team STRQ was one of the groups of people that joined in the fight against Legion."
Ruby blinked her eyes, "Mom, Dad, Uncle Qrow, and Yangs mom fought that thing?" She asked.
"Along with about 50 other Huntsmen." E. Gadd added, "And during the fight even more Gheists in the area came to power up Legion. The Boo's have a power that works in the same way. As long as they are close together they get stronger, thankfully I've dealt with them before. i've developed a special function in the Poltergust to send Boo's into specially sealed chambers that nullify their powers."
"So I just have to catch them and we're good?" Ruby asked.
"That's right." E. Gadd said, "You're Dustboy Horror has a function that activated the moment the boo's were let out, that bulb turns blue in rooms that are clear of Boo's. When you're in a room with a Boo it will flash yellow a beep, the beeping and flashing getting faster as you get closer, and red when you're right next to them. And don't worry, the beep isn't loud and annoying."
"Got it." Ruby said pulling out the Dustboy Horror.
"Second, the Boo Radar there can't detect a Boo's presence in a dark room, there's too much paranormal energy masking it. So you can only catch them in lit rooms, but since they, like any other ghost, hate the light, they'll be hiding." E. Gadd said, "Open drawers, pull off cloth's, check the whole room. But another issue is that they aren't caught in a suction line like other ghosts. You'll have to keep the vacuum trained on them until they are caught."
"That's going to be annoying." Ruby muttered.
"At least you've got a way to track them." Weiss said.
"I guess that's true." Ruby said.
"Last thing, unlike other ghosts, Boo's aren't willing to just stay in one room. " E. Gadd said, "Since they can stay formed in the light unlike other ghosts they will flee the room and try to hide in others. Catch them before they do that."
"Got it professor." Ruby said standing up after polishing off the plate of cookies.
"Before you go Ruby there's one more thing." E. Gadd said.
"What's that?" Ruby asked.
"Go use the restroom, and... Help Weiss please." E. Gadd said.
"S-sorry." Weiss said embarrassed, "I... still can't use my legs just yet."
"I understand Weiss." Ruby said picking her partner up.
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Long overdue! But you know, with Luigi's mansion getting a 3DS remake and Luigi's Mansion 3 getting announced I figured this was fitting.
I've only got one thing I want from each of them.
For Luigi's Mansion on 3DS... Fix the god damn Boolussus fight, the delay on the Poltergust makes it harder than it has to be!
For Luigi's Mansion 3- Since it seems to be too late to wish away the Strobo-bulb (An unnecessary mechanic I hated for it having no reason to be there other than making the battles last longer than they need to.) I can only hope... It actually FEEL like the first game instead of the second.
Now about the second game, someone asked if I was going to be making a Sequel based around Dark Moon and if I could make it good.
Now, you see the main issue with Dark Moon is the mission based set up and the multiple mansions.
I can do the first, save for 1 time I think where the Mission based set up is actually plot relevant. But the Multiple Mansions I don't think I can ditch as that was pretty much what the game was built around...
Still, I'm not sure about doing the Dark Moon Sequel, but if I do I will say this- It's not gonna devolve like the game where it went from 'Luigi find the Dark Moon fragments' to 'Luigi you gotta save Mario again.' situation.