Luigi raced to the phone and called Yoshi.

"Yoshi, Mr. L just destroyed my house!" Luigi said.

"Hold on, I'll come get you!" Yoshi replied.

A few minutes later, Yoshi arrived at Luigi and Mario's house.

"How did you…?" Luigi asked. Yoshi just smirked and motioned toward his back, telling Luigi to hop on. A minute later, they had arrived at Flipside.

"Yoshi, stop here please. I need to go talk to Merlon. Yoshi stopped and Luigi jumped off and entered Merlon's house.

The house was dim and dusty. Luigi saw the Light Prognosticus on the shelf. Merlon was sleeping. Luigi poked Merlon. Merlon did not wake up.

"Hey Merlon! Wake up!" Luigi said. He gave Merlon a Fire Burst (it's a kind of food in Super Paper Mario) and Merlon finally woke up.

"Wha? Huh? Luigi? How'd you get here?" Merlon asked.

"Mr. L attacked my house!"

"How is that possible? I thought Mr. L was vanquished and he was in your body! Let me do some tests."

Luigi reluctantly agreed. He was subjected to a number of crazy tests.

"It seems half of your aura is missing… This is very strange indeed… I don't understand… Wait! I remember reading a book about this! Ahh… Where is it… Here!" Merlon mumbled to himself. Merlon put the huge book on the floor, where him and Luigi sat down and started to read.

"Alright. Luigi, my boy! It seems that someone has stolen half of your aura with a special instrument called an aurilator! They then used it to create Mr. L! I can't imagine who, though… Count Bleck is good now… Bowser wouldn't have access to the technology used to create the aurilator… Tatanga was killed…" Merlon mumbled. "Luigi, I'm sorry, but I can't think of anyone who could do this!"

"Oh, that's alright. First, I'll find Mr. L and get him to tell me why he vandalised my house!" Luigi said fiercely.

"Okay, but be careful! I'm sure he'll play dirty and will have tricks up his sleeve! Oh, and be sure to take this! You'll probably need it! It gives you the power of dimension flipping!"

"Awesome, thanks! Maybe I'll see you again!" Luigi said as he walked out. He jumped on Yoshi, who was waiting faithfully outside.

"Did you get everything taken care of?" Yoshi asked.

"Yep! Let's go find Mr. L!" Luigi said.

Yoshi ran toward the pipe leading to went through, and on the other side was Flopside, grim and dark as always. It was a mirror of Flipside, except also darker and sadder. Luigi flipped with Yoshi, and they went into the Flopside outskirts.

Luigi saw a small hut in the distance. It was leaning and broken down. It was built against a broken stone pillar. Above the entrance was a backwards L. Luigi narrowed his eyes and climbed off of Yoshi.

"Yoshi, I want you to stay out here so you won't get hurt, okay?"

"Fine." Yoshi groaned. Luigi nodded and entered the hut. Mr. L was in his ramshackle bed, sleeping. Luigi poked him and he woke up.

"Hey! Hi-ya! Hee-ya!" Mr. L yelled as he sprung up and did karate poses. "Oh… It's just you…" Mr. L said, looking disappointed.

"Who were you expecting, L?" Luigi menacingly asked.

"Oh, uh. Nobody!" Mr. L anxiously replied. Luigi skeptically raised his eyebrows.

"Fine, that's not important. But, why did you destroy my house?!" Luigi yelled.

"Wha?! How did you know-I mean why would you think I would do that?" Mr. L said.

"You painted Mario's car dark green and black. Your colors. Plus, you scratched out the M!" Luigi said. Mr. L gritted his teeth and growled. Then, out of nowhere, Mr. L pounced at Luigi! Luigi rolled out of the way just in time.

"Well, if that's the way you wanna play it…" Luigi mumbled under his breath. He got out a star and used it. First, he destroyed the inside of Mr. L's hut, then he attacked Mr. L. Mr. L was lying on the ground in defeat by the time the star power went away. Luigi grinned in victory. Mr. L squirmed under his foot but couldn't escape.

"Fine… I'll tell you…" Mr. L groaned. "There was a strange creature when I first woke up. Its face was covered by a mask. Its body was completely covered with a cloak. All I could see about it was its horns and a strange, dark mist emanating from inside its cloak. It threatened me until I agreed to its demands. It told me to destroy your house and make it look like completely my own work. Then, I was supposed to wait in ambush for you guys, but something ate me and spit me out here." Luigi smirked, knowing that was Yoshi's doing. "Now, I have a new mission, but if I disclose it to anyone, my creator will torture me and humiliate me for the rest of my life." Luigi pressed on Mr. L harder. "Sorry, I will never be able to tell you. I won't suffer!" Mr. L wheezed.

Seeing he was getting nowhere, Luigi lifted his foot and went outside. Luigi used a Fire Flower and set fire to Mr. L's home. Then, silently and angrily, he straddled Yoshi and returned to his house.

Please review and tell me what you thought! The one responsible for the damage turned out to be Mr. L, as I'm sure many of you have guessed! Feel free to guess where the story is going in reviews now! Thanks!