This chapter borrows some lore from Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, so if you haven't played that game, you might want to read a summary first.

It was a cloudy, windy night at Luigi's Mansion. While Melody was kicking Luigi's butt at Larry Koopa: Zombie Heartbreaker for Nintendo Wii, Professor E. Gadd was in his lab enjoying some pickled dandelions with barnacles in a diesel marinade. Having returned from therapy that morning after the loss of his Resurrectionator, the Professor was in a decent mood.

After finishing his meal, E. Gadd decided to do a check-up on all of his experiments. He started with the Boo containment device. All fifty Boos were perfectly contained. Splendid. He proceeded to his Cheep Cheep tank. The fish formula he created was spurring their growth wonderfully. Very good. He moved on to his Shrooboid stasis capsule. It had been destroyed. Marvelous. He stepped over to-

"...Wait, what?"

E. Gadd spun around. The capsule's glass had been shattered, and there was no sign of the Shrooboid anywhere.

"Oh, this is bad..."


"Can we stop now?" Luigi pleaded.

"Alright, alright. I have other business to attend to, anyhow," said Melody.

"Let me guess: piano?"

"No, I need to shower."

Right when Melody left the room, Luigi's Game Boy Horror went off. He answered it and saw E. Gadd on the screen. "Hey Luigi, remember that time you and Mario time-traveled?"

"Of course I do. How could I forget?"

"Remember that alien creature that came out the time machine?"

"The one you captured after Mario knocked it out? Yeah, I do. Whatever happened to that thing?"

"See, that's the thing. After the Shroobs were defeated, I brought the creature back to my lab to conduct further research. However, to keep it contained, I had to sedate it on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the sedatives wore off while I was in therapy, so the creature was able to escape."

"So you're telling me there's a vicious alien on the loose?"

"Correct. I have no idea where it is, either."

Luigi clenched his teeth. "What do we do?"

"Come to my lab. I prepared something in case of such an emergency."

Luigi hurried to the lab. Once inside, E. Gadd handed him what resembled a popgun. "It may not look like much, but it contains a tranquilizer that will put that monster under," said the Professor. "Now let's track it down before it hurts someone.

They both stepped outside, but Luigi made a beeline for his mansion, much to E. Gadd's confusion. "Where are you going?" he asked.

"I have to warn Melody about this," said Luigi.

"Don't worry about her. As long as your doors are shut, she should be perfectly saf-"

There was a loud crash. Luigi slowly turned around and saw his front doorway in pieces. "...Uh-oh."


Melody was showering in the bathroom when she heard a knock on the door.

"What is it, ragamuffin? I'm busy right now."

There was another knock.

"Can't you talk?"

Again, nothing but a knock.

"Oh, for goodness sake!"

Melody got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around herself and opened the door.

"Listen, ragamuffin, if this is because you ate that dandelion-barnacle stuff again, then you should've learned your lesson from the last ti-"

The Shrooboid growled at her.

"...Oh."

Melody slammed the door. The Shrooboid roared and tackled it, leaving a huge crack.

"Hey, hold on a minute! I'm not dressed yet!"

The Shrooboid tapped his foot impatiently while Melody put her clothes on.

"Okay, I'm decent."

The Shrooboid broke through the door while Melody screamed in terror.

"That was Melody!" Luigi exclaimed, running down the dark hallway. E. Gadd struggled to keep up with him, until the plumber came to a sudden stop. "I hear footsteps..."

"LUUUIIIIGIIII!" Melody came sprinting out of the darkness and crashed right into him, sending them both toppling to the ground. "There's an awful monster in the mansion! Do something! I don't want to be a ghost again!"

"Melody, calm down. E. Gadd and I are going to take care of it," said Luigi. After he and Melody got to their feet, E. Gadd stepped forward. "Listen up, you two. Catching that alien will be no easy task. It's very dark in these halls, so the first thing we'll need to do is pull out some flashlights and-"

The hallway lit up. "Or we could just turn the lights on," Melody said, her finger on the light switch.

"Bah, I tend to forget this isn't the haunted mansion. With this much light, hunting down that alien will be a cinch-"

A lighting bolt struck and the power immediately went out.

"...Oh, gadflies."

"Don't worry, Professor. I'll just use the backup generator like last time," said Luigi.

E. Gadd scratched his head. "Yeah, here's the thing... There is no backup generator."

Luigi's jaw dropped. "What?! I thought you said this mansion is an exact replica?!"

"Almost an exact replica. Generators aren't easy to make, you know."

Melody wasn't amused. "So let me get this straight... You, the man who made the machine that brought me back from the dead, couldn't be bothered to make a generator?"

"I'm an extraordinary inventor! I only make extraordinary inventions! Call it a crippling overspecialization."

Just then, the Shrooboid erupted from the darkness. Luigi shrieked and threw his popgun at the creature, which it promptly swallowed whole. Seconds later, it collapsed.

"...That's not how I intended for you to use that, but mission accomplished!" said E. Gadd. "I'm taking the alien back to the lab where it belongs."

As E. Gadd dragged the alien away, the power came back on.

"So what do you want to do now?" asked Luigi.

"I think I'm going to call it a day," said Melody.

Luigi went to the master bedroom, while Melody went to her room across the hall. They crawled into their beds and went to sleep.


In the lab, E. Gadd was locking the Shrooboid away in an electric cage. The Shrooboid awoke and glared at him.

"These bars are made of solid electricity. You'll never escape again."

A bolt of lightning struck and the power went out once again. The electric bars disappeared and the Shrooboid roared with anger.

"...Oh, forget it."

E. Gadd took out a water gun and sprayed the Shrooboid with babies' tears. It fell to the floor and died.

"The first test run of the Baby Tear Gun 3000 is a success."

This particular group of characters is just so much fun to write for, so expect another installment of the "Luigi Series" in the future. I won't let them take over the whole fic, though.