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Disclaimer: I do not own anything but the story idea and any OC(s).
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Chapter 36:
A Meeting Long Overdue
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The infirmary double doors burst open as multiple medikoopas worked hastily on the unconscious plumber that lay on the stretcher. The main doctor was yelling orders to all the nurse and medical magikoopas around him. Things weren't looking good as Luigi was slipping away with every second.
"How are his airways?"
"Shallow, Doctor,"
"The stabbing object?"
"Stable, Doctor,"
"His vitals? What are his vitals signs?"
"Dropping slowly, Doctor,"
"Are they stable enough for the surgery, at least?"
"For the time being, yes,"
"In that case, we must operate the second we get in there."
"But doctor, what about the poison?"
"There's nothing we could do until we get that dagger out of him. Hopefully, they'll have an antidote ready by the time we're done."
The door to the surgery room bust opened and the medikoopas immediately got to work. They hook him up to several machines as the doctor prep himself. Once they were done, they began the operation.
It took almost thirty minutes to remove the dagger from his chest. They had to be careful because the blade had made it dangerously close to the green man's heart. Fortunately, there was no further damage on the important organ.
It was when the doctor was sewing up the wound that Luigi's condition had taken a turn for the worse. All the medikoopas worked franticly as they try to stabilize him. But all their efforts did nothing to stop the heart monitor from going flat.
Beep...
Beep...
Beep...
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...
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Darkness...
It was all Luigi could see...
Nothing but endless darkness...
"Hello?" he yelled out.
He walked around, desperately wanting to find his way out of this.
"Anyone there? Hello!"
No reply. He was alone in this dark, empty world and it scared him. He wondered around for what felt like entity. It was then that he saw it.
A door...a large black and purple... Luigi stood before it, wasn't sure where it came from.
"Luigi~"
He jumped when he heard his name. He looked around searching for the person who called him. But there was no one around, only himself.
"Luigi~"
The green man turned around and quickly realized it was the door calling out to him.
"Come, Luigi," said the voice through the door. "Come, so I may weigh your actions."
The voice was feminine and sickly sweet. Regardless, Luigi began walking towards the door. He grabbed the door knob and slowly started to open the large door. No sooner when he did, it was suddenly slam shut.
"Like hell, I'm gonna let you go through this door. Not after everything we've been though."
Luigi stepped back as a mysterious figure blocked his path to the door. The figure leaned off the door and stepped towards the man in green. He sighed,
"It's about time we meet, it has been long overdue."
Luigi blinked. This man...He was oddly familiar. "W-Who are you?"
"Who am I?" The man said, flashing him a confidence smirk. "Well, that's an easy question. I'm you, genius."
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"You're...me?"
"That's right."
Luigi took a weary look at the man before him. He was the same height as he was, with dark brown hair and a smooth mustache just like him. He was dressed in a black jumpsuit with two large gold buttons, wearing gray gloves, black shoes, and a brown belt. He had a green bandanna around his neck, and wears a cap similar to his own but dark green with a black background and reversed "L." Over his face was a black mask that effectively hide his identity, and yet Luigi felt like he knew the guy... very well.
"I... don't understand." He said. "How can you be 'me'? I mean, I'm me... aren't I?"
"No, you're just the red king's weak and timid younger brother. I'm the part of you that's you're finally trying to let out... the part of you Mr. Jumps-all-the-time has been trying to shield you from under lock and key..."
He started to circle Luigi who follow his cloudy gaze. "I am the part of you the Koopa King just wanted – No, just NEED to have in his army... the part of you that will let no one, especially those little funguses, forget who you are...the part of you that will make your enemies trembling in fear."
The man stopped right in front of Luigi again. "I am the true power behind that timid expression and I will be silence no more for...Brace yourself Luigi for I am the stunning Green Thunder..."
The man did a little twirl and uses his hands to make an 'L'- his trademark pose
"Mr. L!"
"Mr...L?" Luigi repeated softly. That name was so oddly familiar to him.
"You got it, baby. I am the you that represent your true strength, talent, and above all courage. You have a hell of a lot more power than you think Luigi. But since you're constantly outshine by your brother's overgrown shadow you rarely had any chance to show it, let alone sought it out. At some point, you even wished you had the same abilities as him, which is a horrible idea by the way. The only one who practically knew about our potential was Count Bleck and – dare I say it – Dimentio."
"Count Bleck?" Luigi questioned. He remembered that guy. "What did he do?"
Mr. L frowned. "What? Don't you know? Didn't King Jumpman and his pink stereotype wife tell you what happened?"
Luigi shock his head. He never truly learned what had happened to him during that particle adventure with the Chaos Heart. He did ask Mario about it once or twice before but his brother only shrugged it off, saying it was nothing important.
Mr. L growled. "Typical, he'll do anything to keep you under his thumb."
He sighed deeply and placed his arm around the plumber's shoulder. "Oh, Luigi, we have SO much to talk about."
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Ending Note:
Mr. L is one of my favorite characters in the Mario series. In most stories I read, Mr. L is against Luigi, always trying to take over his life. But in this story, he's with Luigi.
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