Hope that anyone who is reading this is enjoying it. I've already pre-written about 9 chapters, so the only delay is fine-tuning them all for the internet.

All characters copyright/belong to Nintendo/their respected owners.

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Still scared from the previous encounter, Luigi was frightfully tiptoeing into the room making some quivering noises ever few seconds. He looked to his left and right rapidly, seeing no red colors anywhere. Just as Luigi turned his head forward, that same orange ball of energy was there but instead manifested into a more "solid" orange object.

A Ghost.

Luigi yelped in fear and fell on his bum. The yellow-eyed ghost with a large mouth and long fangs was coming after him as he was scurrying backwards on the floor, scared for his life. At this point Luigi wanted to be back in his old apartment and wished he would have never come here. He then realized Mario was trying to tell him something over the phone earlier and he was too overly hyped for the mansion to listen. Knowing full well that Mario's words could have saved him, Luigi was face-to-face with the carroty-colored villain. Just as the ghost was about to touch Luigi's bulbous noise, the poltergeist shrieked in terror.

Luigi then noticed there was some kind of suction being put on the slightly transparent being that was causing it to race about the room frantically. Luigi's eyes followed the moving air, which came to this odd-looking gremlin thing. Upon closer inspection, it was an old man with large glasses wearing what looked to be a vacuum cleaner on his back. He was using this vacuum to trap the ghost, Luigi guessed. The man was being dragged about the room, crashing into chairs and tables while hooked onto the ghost. After the long power struggle, the ghost turned around a socked the old man in the face. The elder did a somersault and landed on his rear; then the ghost simply disappeared. Panting, he got up and turned to Luigi.

The man was less than half the size of Luigi and had to tilt his head all the way up to even see the green hat on Luigi's head.

"What are doing in here?" the man quizzed Luigi.

"I just came in here only a few minutes ago," Luigi responded in a shaking voice.

"This place is no place for civilians. This place is infested with ghosts!"

"…What?"

"Yes this run down mansion is filled to the brim with these spooks," the man replied.

"But I just won thi-"

"Perhaps we should talk about this in my lab just outside of here? I think it would probably better than in this haunted palace."

"That'd probably be a good idea…" Luigi trailed off as he noticed four or so of the orange ghosts appear next to them.

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"So, you say you won that piece of dirt in a contest?" the man asked.

"Sure did," Luigi pulled out the flyer and showed it to the geezer.

"Haha! The spirits fooled you!" the man began laughing with a horse voice, "That mansion appeared just a few days ago. I myself have lived in this place for over 20 years!"

"Where exactly are we?" Luigi asked, just realizing he was in a large underground room.

"Why, this is my Lab where I do all my research on my favorite subject, Ghosts! I built it when I first came here and I've been adding more to it each day."

Luigi looked around, "So you're telling me you've been living underground half of your life studying ghosts in the middle of the woods?"

"Preciously. Perhaps you would like a look around?"

"What is your name? I never got around to asking you that this entire time we've met," Luigi said in an embarrassed tone.

"Ah yes, I should've said that sooner. I'm Professor Elvin Gadd, E. Gadd for short."

'How funny...' Luigi thought to himself.

"And yours?"

"My name is Luigi Mario, one of the famous Mario Brothers!"

"Never heard of you."

Luigi put his hand on his face.

"Hmmm… You say you have brother?" Gadd guessed from Luigi's statement, "Come to think of it, before I went inside the mansion I saw a short fat guy dressed in your outfit walk inside. Though, his attire was red instead of green and worst of all, he didn't even say hello to me!"

Luigi gasped, knowing that this fat guy is probably Mario, "Why, that's probably my brother I have to go in there and find him!" Luigi scrambled towards the ladder up to the surface.

"O no you're not! At least not in the shape you're in," as Gadd grabbed Luigi's arm and pulled him back to where they were talking, "Those ghosts are smarter than you think. Considering you probably would have died if I hadn't been in there already!"

The green man knew the words Gadd said were true, "Well then how can I save my brother?"

"With…THIS!" and E. Gadd pulled out that vacuum Luigi saw him using earlier in the mansion.

"What exactly is… that?"

"It is the Poltergust 3000! The ultimate ghost fighting machine! It is rather stylish too, if I do say so myself," Gadd began to rub his prized vacuum in a caring way; Luigi was a bit confused, "You see, the Poltergust 3000 isn't just any vacuum, it can suck up a ghost's soul and pack it right up inside. It is indestructible and would barely have a scratch on it against the fiercest ghosts," Gadd sat the Poltergust 3000 upright and stared at it with admiration, "I'm getting too old for this job anyway, so I couldn't really help you in getting your brother out of there."

"But you saved m-"

"You do realize we barely got away form that horrid spook?" Gadd crossed his arms, "I just made it fly away for a few seconds before it got its buddies on us."

"I guess you're right…" Luigi said gloomily.

"BUT! I can teach you how to use his spectacular device so that you can teach those ghosts whose boss!"

"Err… I wouldn't be too sure on that."

"O nonsense! Let's get to the training room!"

"...Training room?"