"Hoho, thank you for coming in on such short notice, Luigi my boy! You have no idea just how excited I am for this newest experiment I've got planned!"

These cheerful words from Professor E Gadd sent a nervous chill down Luigi's spine, who only half-heartedly nodded in timid understanding as he stood relatively silent in the messy lab of the old man. Paper and other everyday desk items were carelessly strewn about the tiled floor. Empty bottles, cups, and chinese food boxes were piled up in small hills at corners of countless computer banks and just about any surfaces that were available to the ghost scientist.

E Gadd wasn't slow to notice the steadily growing anxiety from the green plumber, nor was he really all that surprised. "Hoho! No need to worry, Luigi boy! This won't have you tumbling through any haunted halls to rub elbows with the undead! No Siree, my boy! This will be… More of a work at home kind of experiment…" The old man chuckled.

However, he couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret when he noted Luigi's new-found look of relief, as the boy sighed heavily. Especially with what he was about to say next…

"No… But, you see… Um…" Now how to word it properly without having the easily frightened plumber run off on him?

"So… How well has that Polterpup been treating you?" The professor asked rather cryptically. It's best to try and at least ease Luigi into it, he thought.

He then proceeded to listen to the green plumber mutter on about the ghost pup in seemingly unintelligible gibberish. Those who didn't know or follow on Luigi's vocal and physical cues would all probably assume he was rambling incoherent nonsense that meant nothing. It was partly the reason why hardly anyone paid much attention to the younger of the two plumbing heroes.

However, E Gadd and a few others were more or less quick to pick up on the odd language of a Luigi as he gibbered. So, the professor simply nodded at the information the plumber was espousing. Looking pleased as he started typing away at the large computer at his desk.

"Hohoho, of course! Any dog's a good dog really… Living or dead!" He laughed. Luigi could only nod cheerfully in agreement with the old professor.

Then, the Italian plumber's anxiety went up again when he saw the awfully familiar, and mischievous glint catch in E Gadd's glasses when the old man turned back to face him again. "But… How would you feel if I gave you another ghost to look after for me?" He asked.

Luigi just drawled an A sound from his mouth, unsure of what E Gadd was inferring. The plumber's horribly tight nerves telling him to just leave before it was too late for him to back out of whatever the impish professor had planned for him.

Unfortunately, Luigi chose to ignore these warnings. Believing he could trust that his old friend mean't nothing but the best intentions.

This was the last time Luigi was ever going to be an optimist, when it came to E Gadd...

With this, E Gadd struck a key on the computer with a toothy grin, causing a low rumbling sound to shake the ground beneath them. Luigi only just managing to keep his balance, as he watched a clear glass cylinder that emitted a pinkish-purple glow rise from the white tiled floor right next the computer where E Gadd sat casually. White smoke erupting dramatically from the opened crevice beneath it, obscuring the jar's continents in a wispy blur.

The plumber had to cough a bit from the clouds of white before he could look up at whatever the heck the old man wanted to give him.

However, once the smoke cleared and he gained his barings from the rumble… Luigi immediately wished that he had just ignored that sudden phone call from the crazed scientist all-together, as he looked up at the ghastly apparition of his nightmares floating boredly in the large glass container.

"Now, I know what you're thinking…" The professor whispered knowingly to Luigi, quickly reading the growing horror on the man's face. "But, if you'll just hear me out; Then maybe our pal King Boo here, will not look as scary to you as he probably does now!"

And with that in mind, our hero abruptly fainted.