No, I'm not dead; just busy again.

Luigi and co. copyright/trademarked by Nintendo.

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Luigi did a double take from the screen to the door,

"Please let nothing bad be in there," Luigi shuffled out into the musty hallway and walked to the front of the door. He pulled out the shiny key and unlocked it.

The plumber stuck his head through the door first, before putting his entire self in. Luigi was never too sure if something was going to attack him by surprise in the mansion now. Considering that a chandelier almost crushed his skull and a ghost almost bit off his face; he just wanted to make sure that something was not going to try and bite his face off or crush his skull. Though, nothing pure evil in the room caught his eye. Then again, there was some glowing orb near the back of the right wall. Ghost crossed the green man's mind.

Luigi walked into the room and shut the door behind him, trying not to make a noise. He shined his flashlight about the room where the shadows danced and dust became ever so visible. Nothing was moving and nothing was happening. Windows lined the back of the room and colorful, bright wallpaper stuck to the walls. A table was over in the corner, amongst some shelves with toys on them. A few pictures of what looked to be a baby hung on some rusty nails about the room and a crib was in the westward corner. In the crib was the glowing orb that Luigi saw earlier.

Now that the mortal man was a bit closer to the baby holding apparatus, he could tell that the orb wasn't an orb, but rather a small child,

'Baby, baby, baby, where did I see that before? Something is odd here,' Luigi thought as he looked at the entity in front of him.

The child was a boy and was only floating there (as all ghost do), unaware of Luigi's presence in the room. The kin was fast asleep, dreaming about his favorite toys and how to get back at his older brothers. Though, his thoughts were more-or-less concentrated on destroying his older brothers with extremely large rocking horses, his favorite toy before he died, and still is in the afterlife.

The Mario Brother on the other hand was still looking about the room. He turned around from the crib and noticed a small wooden horse in the opposite corner. It was oddly surrounded by,

"COINS!" Luigi threw his hands in the air and flew straight to the ground to gain some treasure. Old habits never seemed to die for him.

The child though, didn't even budge from his position and continued to dream. Luigi was all over the corner of the room, stashing coin upon coin into his pockets. As he grabbed the last one on the floor around the rocking horse, his foot kicked the steed in the rear. The horse rocked back and forth quickly. Suddenly, the baby in the crib started panicking like its dreams had just turned into nightmares. The wooden animal slowed to a stop, as did the child's screaming. Luigi was frozen in his position during all of this, as a crying baby appeared last on his things-to-expect list.

Luigi looked back and forth between the ghost child and the rocking horse. Luigi got up and put his hand on the wood body and gently pushed it forward. A small murmur came from the crib. Luigi shoved the horse again; a yell was spat out into the air. He then rocked it slowly and sped up in pace, before stopping it, causing one heck of a crescendo in the crib. Luigi snickered at the fun he was having. Finally, the plumber just pushed the thing with all his might, making the rocking horse almost topple over. The baby's mouth was rather large and was filled with awful sound waves. Then, its eyes shot open.

The ghostly kin vanished from its sleeping quarters and appeared in front of the green plumber. Yellow eyes gazed into blue and a joyful voice filled the room,

"Hey there! Do you want to play with me? I love playing with people, as they are always nice to me!" The child giggled to Luigi.

'This sounds like one of those movies where everything that's happy is demonically evil,' thought Luigi, "Umm, sure?"

"YAY! You play nice with me though!" the child pulled out a rattle from behind itself and proceeded to jiggle it.

The ghost then thrusted the plastic toy downward and the wall on the right of the two started shaking; it was another shelves-with-toys wall. Soon, stuffed rabbits and bears were flying off the wall and straight at Luigi's head,

"Graaah! What is all this?!" Luigi ducked in effort to avoid injury.

"Why, I'm just playing! Aren't you having fun?" the child laughed evilly and clapped his hands.

Toys just kept flying and swirling around the room. Luigi was having a hard time both thinking how to take this sucker down and to keep himself alive from possessed playthings. In his scramble about the room, his foot landed on a smooth, spherical object. This object though, was not too pleased that it had been stepped on and let gravity pull Luigi down to the ground. The plumber fell flat on his stomach and groggily looked in front of himself to see what had made him fall flat on his stomach,

"A ball, eh?" some processes went through Luigi's mind, "I could just chuck at the pipsqueak and he'll stop," though the thought that ghosts are actually transparent and objects cmmonly go through them never crossed his mind.

Luigi slowly stood up in the darkness and picked up the ball with an open hand, leaving the Poltergust 3000's nozzle dangle in the air. Possessed dolls were still going this way and that and didn't plan on taking a detour to miss a chance at striking Luigi's head. In a matter of half a second, Luigi hurled the ball in the direction of the baby and Luigi's face simultaneously collided with a soft and cuddly, but deadly bunny rabbit. It was like one of those slow motion sequences where the end-user has seriously no idea what is going on due to too much action going on and not enough story.

The playful-but-deadly ball flew across the empty space, aiming straight for the demented child's head. Luigi on the other hand was flying right back down to the ground from the cute-but-deadly rabbit that struck him in the face. Another half second passed by in time, and both actions were still not yet complete. Luigi was mere inches from smacking into the floor and the ball was within mere centimeters from the child's large face. Then at almost the same instant both actions got their equal, opposite reaction: Luigi smashed into the floor and the playroom ball smashed right into the baby's face.

Surprisingly, the ball collided against the ghost entity and bounced backwards, and Luigi not-so-surprisingly stayed down on the ground from butting heads with gravity for the second time in one room. A brief moment passed where absolutely nothing occurred, Luigi was still on the ground and the ghost kid floated in the air. This went on for a few more seconds before a scream let loose in the room,

"WHAT?! HOW COULD YOU DARE HURT ME?! ALL I WANTED TO DO IS PLAY!" a sinister grin then formed on the child's face, "Now then," he regained composure, "It's time to play a different game, a game where you grow smaller."

Luigi tilted his face up from the floor and looked directly in the child's eyes, "What?" he cocked his eyebrow in confusion.

"SMALLER! SMALLER! YOU GROW SMALLER!" The child laughed and giggled as he clapped his hands together.

"What the heck is going o-WHAA!" Luigi yelled as all he could see was white.

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Moments passed until the plumber's eyes flickered open. Luigi got up expecting to still be in the nursery, but he was not; not at all. He looked and saw a fence like structure a few yards in front of him, the same went for behind him. Purple and blue waves of electricity shot through the air beyond what Luigi thought was a fence. Luigi took a step and noticed the ground was a bit cushionier that it had been before. That's when the most common, and most important thought enter Luigi's mind,

'Where the heck am I?'

Then, the electricity dancing about beyond the supposed fence suddenly concentrated into one spot and shot a bolt of energy across the small landscape. Luigi jumped back onto the ground and sat up looking at his next attacker. Though, there was not anything, as more energy just danced across the landscape. As the plumber was getting up again, a glow came from below the pseudo-fence in front of him. Moments passed before a shape came into view, and this shape was ten times bigger than Luigi himself. It was a baby, with a rattle, and he looked rather upset.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" was all that came from child's mouth.

Luigi was knocked onto his back from the yell. The baby kept screaming until he started to shake his rattle from his screaming vibrations. Then, he became preoccupied with that, as little noises like those instantly draw small children towards them. Luigi was not really sure what to do. On one hand, he had a chance to get the devil child; on the other hand, he would stay stuck in this dreamscape forever, probably. Being that he would much rather gain more cash and possibly save Mario, he chose to go after the child that was now as big as a skyscraper.

Luigi bounded up the plush ground and softly crept behind the baby (as it was turned around probably wondering what on Earth made rattles rattle.) Luigi clicked on the Poltergust 3000 and pointed it right at the ghost. Nothing happened. In the midst of Luigi's thoughts and hopes, he failed to realize the toddler's heart was not showing at all. The rattling stopped and so did Luigi, as he knew he was dead now.

The entity turned around with its gapping yellow eyes staring right at Luigi, like it was pretty much ready to eat him. Instead, the ghost kid took a swing at the air for some dumb reason and rattled its rattle. Luigi stare back at the ghost in confusion, as he had no idea what was going on. Though, the green man sensed something coming at him from behind. But, he did not think it was anything major. Well, it was. As the thing coming at Luigi was a large, wooden rocking horse, and it had no plans of dodging the Italian.

The wooden play horse rammed at Luigi with full force, hitting the poor fellow right in the back of the head.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOW!" Luigi yelped as he fell on his face.

"Hehe, isn't playing with me fun?" the ghost baby said to Luigi.

Though, there was no response, as Luigi was officially knocked out.

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Luigi awoke, this time in a place that was not a crib or a nursery. It was a city block with some people walking about. Though, none of them looked anything like Luigi (with a big nose, 'stache, and all that jazz), rather, they looked like normal people. Seeing as that standing around was not going to help him in anyway, the plumber looked at his surroundings.

It was defiantly some city, but he could not spy a name or anything of the sort. Also, people passed by him without giving him a glance. He found it a tad odd, as it is not everyday there's a plumber garbed in green with overalls and a large vacuum strolling about the streets. Luigi walked down the sidewalk and looked to his left and right. Buildings were on his left and the bustling road was on his right. With that, he looked to the left and stopped. He was in front of a hardware store with a large glass window. Something was odd; he knew that one should see parts of themselves in a reflection on glass.

That's when he looked at his hands, and noticed he could not actually see them. He looked at his feet and pants and could not see them either. He also noticed that there was not any weight on his shoulders, meaning the Poltergust 3000 was not with him. The plumber started becoming scared, as he was in a strange new world and he could not see himself. That's when two most-common-,-and-most-important questions enter his mind,

'Where the heck am I, and what the heck am I?'

Another thing Luigi failed to realize in this series of unfortunate events was that he was probably going to be stuck here, wherever here was.