Luigi and everybody else belong to Nintendo.

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"Congrats Luigi! You defeated him!" a voice exclaimed from a plastic handheld, "L? You there?"

"Hmmmm…?" the man with a green hat sputtered on the ground.

"Luigi! Get up and claim your prize!" Professor E. Gadd spat at the plumber through the Gameboy Horror.

"Sheggel freegle fredail…" Luigi randomly muttered before getting up. He felt a weight on his back, meaning the Poltergust 3000 was with him again; and the Gamboy Horror was in his hand, "What happened?"

"What do you mean, 'What happened?' he defeated an area ghost! That was quite a fight you put up there!" E. Gadd punched the air as he began imitating moves Luigi supposedly did during the heated battle with the baby ghost.

"I passed out after getting hit with that rocking horse!" Luigi exclaimed as he scratched the back of his head and looked at Gadd through the GBH with a confused expression.

"No you didn't! Sure you got smacked upside the head, but you got right back up and gave that child a run for his money! I swear, you looked as though you were flying some of the time! It was awesome!" Gadd started imitating Luigi's behavior again, this time adding plane sound effects to the mix.

'O dear,' Luigi thought, seeing a grown man acting like he is flying with noises to boot, "But I swear I did! I don't remember fighting anything after that at all! The only thing I do remember is this strange city and a coffee shop!"

Gadd finally stopped doing his crazy antics, "Well, that is quit odd. I did see you fighting that guy through the Gameboy Horror, so you did it somehow."

"Well, I guess I did," Luigi looked around him and suddenly noticed a large, gold chest next to the crib. Luigi's eyes bulged with excitement, "HAHA! What is this?!" Luigi scampered over to the shiny object like a little school girl.

Luigi put the Gameboy Horror down on the nearby table and put both of his hands on the handle of the pink trunk. He pushed and pulled a few times on it before it finally snapped open. A rather pink and girly key which was fitting the mood, and not the person, was thrown out of the ghostly plunder. Luigi grabbed the key before it flew past his head and held it in triumph, even though he never really did anything.

"That's what I'm talking about!" Luigi cried out before putting the key in his back pocket.

"That's the spirit, Luigi!" Gadd said over from the table, "Frank waves, 'Hi!'"

"Hi Fra-" Luigi stopped in midsentence, 'Wait a minute, Frank? That Frank I saw in the coffee shop in my dream-slash-alternate reality? Could Frank have? No, he couldn't have, he was in the lab the whole time, wasn't he?'

"You still there, my ghost collector?" Gadd's voice was still in a happy tone.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm still here. Tell Frank I said 'Hello'" Luigi said over to the 'Horror sitting on the table. Luigi then fixed the straps on the Poltergust and headed over to grab the handheld.

"Well, I guess it is time to move on," he said before going out the door.

Luigi walked out into the hallway and noticed everything was lit up brightly. There were no dark sectors or ghosts lurking about; everything looked normal, actually. Though, Luigi saw a ghost mouse screeching in pain as it was slowly dying from the newly created light. It looked rather awful in itself to see such an event, so Luigi thought it'd be best to just put it out of its misery; so he sucked it up. With a somewhat good deed done, he traveled down the hallway.

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'Could Frank have some horrible back story?' Luigi thought as he walked, 'Why else would I've been sent to some far off land to see two people meet? I'll have to ask Gadd about it,' Luigi finally came to the door at the end of the hallway.

"Hey…" Luigi glanced over at a door he never went into, "Why haven't I gone in here yet?" He said to himself while trying to twist the knob. The door itself was across from the reading room, "Won't budge. Meh, o well," the plumber grasped the door to the Foyer, opened it, and headed out.

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Luigi made his way down the staircase right outside the door and turned to look at the massive thorn covered door that was next on his list. Right as he walked up to it, a ringtone came from the Gameboy Horror,

"Luigi! I forgot to tell you!" Gadd yelled from Luigi's hand. The plumber brought the handheld to his face.

"What is it?" Luigi said, not panicking, despite Gadd's overzealous tone.

"The Poltergust 3000 is a bit full."

"So…?" Luigi cocked his eyebrow.

"That means you come back to the lab so we can 'collect the harvest,' ha-ha!" the mad professor cackled.

"O, alright," He replied and shut off the device. Luigi turned around and started for the small elephant-like door when an annoying noise burst into his ears.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYY LUIGI!" Toad screamed, waving his hands about.

'O dear God,' the green man thought, "What is it, Toad?" Luigi groaned.

"Nothing," Toad instantly replied.

"Good," Luigi trudged over to the doorway out.

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"So, what is this contraption?" Luigi asked as he stood in front of a long conveyer belt littered with odd-ball machinery.

"Why, it is what made my hobby, a hobby!" E. Gadd giggled, "It is the Ghost Portraitficationizer! 'Makes ghosts into beautiful paintings, and it can also work in reverse."

"So, how does it work?" the green man looked left and right and saw how far the machine stretched.

"Plug the Poltergust 3000's nozzle in there," Gadd pointed to a vent next to the plumber, "and watch with amazement."

Luigi walked over to the ventilation slot and jammed the nozzle into it. With a click and lock, the Poltergust started up and started shooting objects into the slot. The vaccum stop and unhooked from the vent. A few coins and knick-knacks Luigi sucked from the mansion poured out from the vent when Luigi took the Poltergust off. The plumber nervously laughed and sucked them right back up.

"Now, look into here," Gadd shifted his gaze to a large tank with a window on the front. Various nuts and bolt covered the tank, and some accordion folds were on the sides.

The pipes next to the large container shook as poltergeists and such shot through them. Soon, ghosts and clumps of dust were floating before Luigi and Gadd in the tank. Gadd flipped a switch on the side of it and lights all across the room lit up and various gizmos and doodads started moving. Then, the big accordion tanker started up. Luigi looked inside the window to see water encompassing his foes; and which point the tanker itself started rocking back and forth rapidly. The ghosts inside let out screams and cries for help as they were seemingly washed into two-dimensional forms.

A slot on top of the machine pointed towards the right let the spooks slide out one by one. The flat projections of the ghosts landed atop a canvas, whereby they were then padded by a large board, "Adds a bit of stabilization" Gadd added as they passed by one by one; Luigi didn't try to second guess it. A bronze machine was next in the process, which looked like it had cow udders tangling from them. Once a ghost painting passed underneath, the udders came to life and shocked them with lightning. Luigi cringed; no one should have to be shocked by things that looked like udders. The final torture device for the ghosts was a rather large, shiny metal case. Every painting that passed through it experienced a rather loud "BOOM," as if something was slammed onto it.

The two walked to the end of the line to see the ghost now as physical paintings that were shown to them before being brought down into a holding chamber.

"And there you have it Luigi, frames depicting your greatest catches," Gadd put his arm around Luigi's leg in a friendly manner, "These pictures then get put up in the gallery like trophies."

Luigi slowly shooed Gadd off of his leg and took a good look around the room again. Gears and even a teapot were in the back of the room, constantly moving this way and that until all the ghosts had gone through. Luigi then looked at the udder-electric machine again and noticed a small picture hanging off of the front, "Hey, what is the picture of?" Luigi wondered over to it.

"That's the first batch of ghosts I tried out on this massive machine," Gadd patted the rather large shiny metal "BOOM!" contraption.

"Looks like they're all playing cards," Luigi squinted and leaned over to get a better look at the image.

"That's how I found them and that's how they came out."

Luigi regained full stance, "Well, I guess I should get back to that mansion," and he then started walking to the door to the lab.

"Good luck to 'ya, boy!" Gadd waved to the green hero.

"Thanks," Luigi opened the door and walked into the lab, 'Wait, there's something I'm forgetting,' he thought suddenly.

He stood there, attempting to remember, but could not. He sighed and hoped he would remember later. Then, Frank the ghost floated into the room and was busy cleaning various objects with his tongue.

"Frank…" Luigi mouthed.

In an odd turn of events, Frank turned around and waved at Luigi. Luigi did not return the favor and just stood there. Frank's usual jubilant face was exchanged for a sterner one. The two stared at each other for what seemed like hours. The plumber knew something was strange about Frank and he knew Frank must have had something to do with that child ghost. This awkward silence was interrupted by a loud slam of a door from the professor.

"So I just have to do this, and a little of that," He was in the middle of checking stuff off of a list on a clipboard, thus did not notice the tension building in the room, "If I use this, it could make that like this. But if that were like this than that would be like this," he continued. Gadd left the room without even looking up.

Luigi walked over to the ladder, not taking his eyes off of Frank, and slowly made his way up the ladder. As he reached the top, Luigi turned his eyes to the door out. Frank resumed his cleaning with a panicked look his face.

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Luigi walked through the main door of the mansion and entered into the Foyer. Before him stood a massive door covered in one big heart. He cringed; he was in fact about to walk through a giant, pink heart door, and no man should ever have to do that. Though the wear and tear of time made the door not as "happy" looking as he thought (not too mention thorns still covered it), but Luigi knew he would have to go through it. Before walking towards it, he felt around in his back pocket for the key. The key itself was a bright and lovely pink, and it looked like a prefect match.

Toad was doing something in corner and Luigi did not care to find out what exactly Toad was doing, so he continued to walk towards the giant heart. Right when he got mere inches from the wood, the thorns started shaking. Soon, the whole floor was vibrating and Luigi's breath was a stutter. The plumber quickly looked around himself, expecting some ghoul to jump out and try to eat his flesh. Nothing out of the ordinary stuck out. His gaze refocused on the happy portal of evil.

The green, rotted thorns slowly fell off and dropped to the ground. From that point, the thorns seemingly melted into the floor. The door was now, in fact, safe to touch. Luigi did another quick look around him. Toad was still oddly doing something in the corner, and for once, was paying no attention whatsoever to Luigi. From that, Luigi sighed and stuck the key in the hole. With a turn and click, he opened the left half of the door. He crept inside.

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I cut this chapter a bit short, and added the stuff to chapter 14. Chapter 14 is a bit short, so I thought it needed some more life (Ha!) in it.

Also, chapter 14 is where the mansion starts to get a bit disturbing P . And I'm not kidding.