Hello everyone. Sorry that it took so long for me to update. I was going through my big hiatus thing... that I do... Yeah. Hopefully, I'm done with that and can get back into writing. I have no intentions to stop writing this. I have to many people wanting to see this thing finished. So, yeah. Sorry about the long wait, bare with me on this.
So terribly sorry that it took me so long, but anyways, here you go. Remember to review, it's all those words I see that motivate me to write. Even if it's something as simple as "XD." ... I'd rather you write more then that because it took me a bit to write this, but oh, well. Enjoy.
Tails laid in a bed located in a small, grey, room. As he laid, his consciousness slowly came back to him.
"Oh..." Tails moaned as he gripped his head, "What happened?" He asked himself, trying to get up.
His eyes drooped trying to awake from his comatose state. At least, until he remembered Cosmo being dragged away by some unknown entity.
"Cosmo!" He shouted. He jumped out of his bed, ready to make a break for the first sign he sees of his beloved, but it was at this point that he noticed that he was no longer in a large room filled to the brim with darkness.
He looked around the room, in an attempt to figure out where he was. There were a bunch of tools, and a bed. Bunk Beds actually, and he noted that since he didn't fall flat on his face, he was placed on the bottom bed earlier.
"H-... hello?" He said, quietly. He looked around the room some more and noted a bunch of clothes and what appeared to be a small vacuum cleaner. It was red with some wheels on it and what appeared to be backpack straps. He looked around one last time and noticed a crucial detail that he probably should have seen before. The door.
He looked upon the door and slowly walked up to it. He grabbed the handle and turned it slowly, almost as if he was afraid of what was going to appear on the other side of the door. Slowly, he opened the door and took a peek outside. What he saw was what appeared to be a hallway littered with the same brand of darknes as inside the mansion before, however, a door appeared to be open down the hallway, and shining a bight light on one of the walls.
Tails gulped as he saw the light coming out of the door. It wasn't natural light, it was... different. Blue. He opened the door further and slowly walked down the hallway. On his face was a look of fear. Hey, you would be afraid to if you were in his shoes. He had just about made his way to the door way, when all of a sudden he heard a bunch of clanging. He stopped dead in his tracks with his eyes widened to their maximum. Instantly, his mind wondered over to what that clanging could possibly be.
Maybe it was one of Eggman's newest, most deadly creations... Maybe it was some of Bowser's undead, minions... Maybe it was the sound of that invisible beast who dragged away Cosmo! His eyes widened at the thought of that last one. He wouldn't let that...whatever it was do anything to his beloved! But after what had just happened... He sighed quietly to himself. No. He had to be brave. Brave like Sonic, brave like Mario, Brave like Luigi!... well, maybe not Luigi. He breathed in deeply and slowly peered around the corner. He prepared himself for the worst, but feared that wouldn't be enough. As he looked inside the room he saw...
Luigi drinking tea at a coffee table? Well, it certainly was surprising...
"Luigi?" Tails said aloud. Luigi heard him and looked at the door, for his chair had it's back turned at the door.
"Hi, Tails."
"Luigi..." Tails said, now with much less fear in his system, now with more of a questioned voice. He began to walk into the room and asked, "What are you doi-" until he was interrupted by the sound of a small man flying across the room, shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Aaaahhhh! Oof!" The strange little man had faceplanted onto a wall and slowly slid down it.
Tails looked at him with a surprised look planted on his face.
"Oi, vey, that's what I get for not checking the Defibyeralator-magators..." The strange man muttered to himself. Tails got a good look at the man as he got up from the floor. He was very short, and wore a white lab coat. His arms seemed to be the same size of his body. He was almost bald, the only strands of white hair left being on his little cranium, almost being in the shape of a wisp, or something. He appeared to only have a single tooth in his mouth, at least, one on the outside of his mouth. He also wore kooky, spirally glasses.
"Oh, it looks like the yeller feller woke up from his nap." He said, looking up at Tails.
"Uh..."
"Oh, don't worry, I mean yellow as in your fur color, not as a taunt of cowardice, or anything." He continued, walking up to Tails and shaking his hand.
Tails awkwardly paused as he looked at the midget and looked back at Luigi, "Uh, Luigi, who is this guy?"
"Uh.."Luigi relied. It was then that the little man told Tails, "Oh, how rude of me! I'm professor Elvin Gadd! E. Gadd for short!"
"E... Gad?" Tails said, noticing the pun.
Gadd, however, just thought that he was saying his name and continued along, "Yes, E. Gadd. Good to know you can pronounce my name. Anyways, I was studying the inside of that mansion earlier when I found a Gengous Garatious. I tried to catch it, but he got away from me. It was then that I noticed that my good friend Luigi lying on the floor unconscious with you as well, kiddo. Speaking of which, I don't think I caught your name."
Tails looked at the little man and back at Luigi. He looked back to Elvin when he answered, "M-Miles Prower. But my friends call me Tails."
"Ah, I see. Well, would you consider me enough of a friend to call you Tails, Miles?" the midget man asked.
"S-sure?"
"Ah, splendid! Well, it's nice to meet you, Tails." Gadd said, shaking Tails' hand.
"Uh... you too... professor."
"Um... *Ahem*" Luigi muttered, clearing his throat. The professor noticed this and said, "Ah, yes. I almost forgot! I'll be right back. Help yourself to some Tea in the fridge, Tails." With this, the midget man ran out of the room. Well, he looked like he ran. Kinda hard to tell with such stubby legs.
Tails looked at Luigi and asked him, "Luigi... can you tell me, oh, I don't know... WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!? Where's Cosmo?! Where are we?! Who was that little guy over in there!? How do you know him?!"
"I, uh... don't... 100%... know all those answers, Tails..." Luigi said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head with a frown.
Tails sighed as he placed his hand on his face.
"Oh, wait, that last one! I know that one! I met with E. Gadd once a while ago. He, uh... He h-helped me out with an adventure of mine i-in, uh..."
"Back!" The little midget's voice yelled out. Tails and Luigi looked to where the voice came from and were surprised to see what appeared to be a fairly large vacuum cleaner, hovering in the air. The machine was placed down on the ground and Gadd walked from behind it, "Whoo... this things is heavy..."
"Uh... what is that?" Tails asked.
"Is that the Poltergust 3000?" Luigi asked Gadd, recognizing the technology.
"Oh, no, my boy. That old model was put in the closet a while ago. I've been making adjustments on the original model's design for quite some time now. This... is the Poltergust 4000!"
Luigi looked at Gadd, "...I thought that was the kart you gave me."
"It was?" E. Gadd replied. He placed his finger on his chin and continued, "Oh, yeah, now I remember, it was... Hm... I got it! This is the Poltergust 4002!"
Tails looked at Luigi and spin his finger next to his head, indicating that E. Gadd was a little loopy.
"Any questions regarding this little piece of amazing ingenuity, Tails?" Gadd asked.
"Uh... Yeah. One... What the heck does it do?"
The midget looked at him with his swirly glasses and said, "Oh, right. You don't know what's going on, do you?"
Tails shook his head.
"Ah, yes. How silly of me. I should probably explain. I am a scientist who does many, many, many different things in my studies. But I have settled here because of one of my favorite subject: Ghosts!"
Silence followed for a few seconds before Tails spoke up, "W-what?"
"Indeed. Ghosts! Paranormal activity! Spectral beings! Those things that go bump in the night! Ghosts! I've settled down around here because of the amazing paranormal activity that's been happening all around us! Ghosts walk among us, my dear child!"
Tails gulped, "G-g-g-ghosts?" He never was a big fan of ghosts. From one of his first adventures with Sonic, to others with both Sonic and Knuckles, he was always terrified of the things. Luigi wasn't to big of a fan either, but he's faced the haunting entities for a much longer time then Tails.
"Yep. Ghosts. Oh, but don't worry. They can't get in here, even if they tried!" E. Gadd reassured him.
"Um... W-w-why?" Tails asked.
"Because, my dear boy, this entire bunker is outlined with the same material as the innards of Poltergust Four Thousand!... And two." E. Gadd said, triumphantly.
Silence followed until Tails decided to blurt out the obvious question. "Uh... what does the Poltergust 4002 do?"
E. Gadd looked back at the child and spoke, "Ah, I'm glad you asked that, Tails." he rushed over to a wall with a small button on it and pressed it. Suddenly, without warning, a giant Computer screen flipped out of the wall with keyboards and speakers, and everything.
E. Gadd began typing on the computer, "Well, you see here, Tails, the Poltergust is a machine that I based off of ghost catching weaponry, however, as I noticed about those items, they have some sort of weird thing that allows for the universe itself to be torn apart if you were to combined them by crossing steams. And people must use two of them to lower the spectral beings into a containment unit. I thought this was rather stupid, as if there are multiple people trying to catch a ghost, it's obvious that the two will combined their beams and then-poof-universe gone. Therefore, I based this machine after cleaning technology to suck up Poltergeists, that way, reality itself will not be in any sort of danger when two are using this machine in order to catch them all. Not to mention that this itself is a containment unit for them as well. Any questions?"
Tails and Luigi looked at E. Gadd with faces of confusion. "So... It's a vacuum cleaner... that sucks up ghosts instead of dust?"
"Oh, I'm sure it can suck up dust too, but you're still correct. It sucks up Ghosts."
Tails looked blankly at E. Gadd. He then looked at Luigi with his stare. And after Luigi exchanged the look with Tails, he looked back at E. Gadd and asked, "How the heck is that possible?!"
"What do you mean?"
"How can you suck ghosts into a vacuum cleaner?! That's like-Impossible!"
"Hmph. Well, what achievements have you made in the studies of the paranormal? What advancements have you made in vacuum technology?" E. Gadd asked him.
Tails looked at Luigi who shrugged.
"Uh... none, sir." Tails replied.
"Well, there you go. You don't know the things I do. Don't go thinkin' that the paranormal expert's the wrong one, when you don't know anything about it. I don't do that. If a guy who studies time and space tells me that if I go to space for fifteen minutes and come back down and it's been five years, I'll believe him. He's the expert, not me." E. Gadd explained.
Tails looked at Luigi once again-wow, he was looking at this plumber a lot-in confusion.
Luigi snapped his fingers as an idea popped into his head, Hey, E. Gadd?We think our friend's still in the mansion, have you sen her?"
Tails' eyes widened. He completely forgot about Cosmo! How big of a moron could he be? He slapped himself in the face or his stupidity-at least, that's what he thought of it.
"Cosmo! Luigi, we have to save her! There's no telling what that monster's done with her! Oh, I just hope we're not too late..." Tails said in a tone of concerned worry.
He then began to run out the door of the room until E. Gadd shouted, "Hold it! Just where do you think you're going?"
"I'm going to rescue my friend! She's in trouble, and I have to save her!" Tails said, firmly.
"You're not gonna be able to without my help." E. Gadd told him.
Tails looked at him and asked, "What makes you think that?"
E. Gadd pointed to the Poltergust 4002, "I assume you don't have a ghost catching machine, do you?"
Tails looked at the machine and walked up to it, "How do I use it?
E. Gadd walked up to him and grabbed what appeared to be two straps on the vacuum. "Here, you just put these around your shoulders, like this." E. Gadd then put Tails' arms through the straps, and was now wearing it like a backpack.
"Okay... it's a bit heavy though."
E. Gadd laughed at this, "Well, of course, that's because it's a two person Poltergust."
Tails looked at him and asked, "What?"
E. Gadd responded, "Two person Poltergust. Made it specifically for this mansion."
"Well, how do you expect me to use it all by myself then?!" Tails retorted, as Luigi took a drink of his tea.
"Well, isn't Luigi going with you?" At the mention of his name, Luigi spat out the tea he was drinking and entered into a coughing fit. "My dear boy, are you alright?" E. Gadd asked him.
Luigi coughed a few times before speaking, "You want-*Cough, cough, hack*-m-m-me to go in the mansion?!"
"Well, of course. After all, this isn't the first time that you've done something like this. not to mention that your friend is in trouble and you're kinda the only other one around here who can do it at this moment in time."
"oh..." Luigi sighed in defeat, "Okay...I'll d-d-do it..."
E Gadd smiled as he walked Luigi over to the two-man Poltergust and wrapped the straps around his shoulders, allowing him to wear it as well. Tails had to turn his head in order to see Luigi, as the two were back to back.
"This doesn't seem like a good idea..." Tails said to E. Gadd.
"Yeah, how will we walk everywhere? One of us going backwards?" Luigi said.
E. Gadd looked at them and said, "Oh, well, the answer's simple. You press the separaficationizer button."
"Separaficationizer?"Tails said.
E. Gadd walked up to the machine and pressed a blue button located on the side and suddenly, the Poltergust split into two. Tails looked with wonder, as Luigi had his own separate, fully-functional, Poltergust.
Luigi, however, just looked in despair as he said, "Wait, if his thing can separate into two, then why do I have to go?!"
"Oh-hohoho... Because, my dear boy, now it only has half of the storage capacity. Not to mention that it's much easier to catch ghosts from behind now."
Luigi facepalmed at this. This was going to be a loooong night.
Waluigi grumbled to himself as he wetly walked to Tails' house. He made a mental note.
"Dear Waluigi, when you get this mental note, make sure you tell your ma that if all the cool kids were jumping off of a bridge that you would not do it, because you already have and it hurts like Death Kool-Aid. P.S. Pick up some milk, you're running low. Sincerely yours, Waluigi."
Not sure why he made his mental notes like that, but he did.
Anyways, after he had climbed up from the seas below the cliff side (After realizing that there was a perfectly good latter that he didn't use) he walked up to Tails' place in the Mystic Ruins. He wasn't sure why, he just felt like it. He climbed up the plateau that Tails' workshop rested upon. Emphasis on climbed. When he got to the top he realized that there were stairs carved on the side of the thing. "Aw... man." Waluigi spoke as he face palmed himself.
After he hit himself in the face with his palm, he got up and walked toward Tails' house. He grabbed the doorknob to try and get in. He didn't forget that it was common courtesy to ring the door be or knock on the door, he just didn't care. The door, however, was locked and he couldn't get in. Waluigi sighed. He looked down and picked up something round and brown.
"This is a rock..." Oh, but was it just that? Was it just a rock? Who's to say that it couldn't be anything more? Even his ticket to fame and fortune? It could even hold the mysteries of the entire universe, maybe even beyond! All he needs to do is-
"Oh, shut up, Mr. Narrator man! Waluigi knows exactly where you're going with this joke, and Waluigi doesn't like it!"
After shouting this to the heavens Waluigi lifted the rock and threw it into the window next to the door, breaking it into several pieces. He climbed into the window, basically breaking into Tails' house.
"There we go. My plan was better then any stupid narrator's..." Walugi muttered to himself as he walked around Tails' house. He looked around as he wondered to himself, "What was I doing again?"
Waluigi walked into the kitchen, trying to remember why he broke into Tails' house. However, there was actually no reason that he did so. He was bored. But he didn't think of that. The Italian Plumber, who actually sounded more Mexican then anything-
"Waluigi is whatever he wants to be! Waluigi is every ethnicity! Konichiwa!"
... Anyways, he opened the fridge and pulled out a Pepsi.
"Aw, man, Waluigi prefers coke..." Waluigi shouted as he threw the Pepsi out the window, shattering some glass. The Pepsi flew until it hit a bird in a tree, probably killing it, if not horribly injuring the poor creature.
"Aw, shut up! It's fine! It's not a sentient creature! Heck, it's a fictional bird! No actual bird got hurt!" Waluigi screamed, breaking the fourth wall for the third time.
"Waluigi will break the fourth wall whenever he feels like it!"
Waluigi looked around after this outburst and saw a piece of paper on the table. He picked it up and inspected it. After reading it to himself he exclaimed, "I've won a free mansion!"
Ignoring the fact that the paper was obviously not his-
"Shut up, Narrator! Shut up!"
... He ran with the paper in his hands... right out the kitchen window.
"Waluigi's got a mansion! Whooo-hoooo! Wa-Lu-I-Gi- Yeah! Yeah! yeah!" Waluigi shouted as he ran across the Mystic Ruins to find the mansion. Little did he know that the mansion he would fine isn't his at all...
Thunder boomed and lightning flashed in the night sky over the haunted mansion. Luigi gulped to himself as he looked upon the scary sight. His knees knocking, his palms sweating, his heart beating. Luigi was scared and you could certainly see it. He looked over to Tails, who didn't show any signs of fear. He sighed to himself. Great. Even the eight year old kid was braver then him.
Tails, however, wasn't as brave as Luigi thought he was being. He was scared as well. The girl of his dreams was currently inside a haunted mansion, apparently being kidnapped by some sort of ghost, which Tails wasn't a bi fan of. Not to mention that he's already lost her once. He didn't want to loose her again. He just tried to put on a brave face and get through this thing... even if he was scared out of his wits.
"Good luck, you two! I'll keep in touch with that communicator I installed on the Poltergust!" E. Gadd yelled to them in front of what appeared to be a port-a-potty.
Tails and Luigi looked at each other and gulped as they looked upon the mansion once again, as thunder boomed and lightning flashed. It wasn't the first time this happened, and it certainly isn't the last.