Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon (Slow Updates)

Chapter 4- A-1 Poltergust 5000

Finally he felt sensation return to him as his pixels were reassembled. He fell and landed hard on his rear right on the cold, hard floor of wherever he was now. Disoriented and with a sudden feeling of nausea -possibly a side effect of going through the Pixelator for the first time, Luigi looked around in terror at his new surroundings. He was in a small room, with a wall of monitors behind him and a bookshelf off to his left. Reigning over the whole disorganized mess sat a smiling Professor Gadd, obviously pleased that his latest trial had resulted in success rather than an appalling pile of Luigi-colored blocks. As realization of his location set in, Luigi released a helpless whimper, a sinking feeling settling into his stomach as he slouched in despair against the cold metallic floor.

I-I've been kidnapped from my own house through my television! W-What just happened?! Where am I?! I want to go home! Luigi thought to himself, in the brink of a panic attack. His heart pounding in his chest as he was forcefully taken from his peaceful home to a mysterious place he didn't want to be in.

The professor practically danced in his chair excitedly, jumping around like a immature child as he watched Luigi slump below him. He was ecstatic that his Pixelator had been able to flawlessly implement the complex task he had assigned to it. It had been pretty difficult to route the device through a television screen, but he had made it work. After locating Luigi, hacking the TV had been the easy part as he had struggled to turn an electronic meant only for one-way communication into a fully functioning two-way teleporting device. Now he beamed down with pride as he admired his handiwork in the form of his trembling, unwilling assistant. Sometimes, he internally gloated, he even managed to shock himself with his own scientific knowledge.

With a resigned sigh, Luigi stood and faced the jubilant professor, waiting for him to explain himself. Unfortunately, even being in the professor's presence caused an unpleasant wash of memories to come over him. He was also unable to stop himself from nervously glancing around every few seconds. Stars above, of all the things that could have happened to him, why did he have to end up in some strange place after all these years with this crazy old man again? All he had wanted to do today was get some much needed rest. He wrung his hands, glancing around the room for what had to have been the tenth time. "Why oh why! Why me! Why must I have to go through this again... Why-" he muttered to himself repeatedly in his head.

"Greetings Luigi! I knew our paths would cross again."

The professor smiled, genuinely happy to see his young friend for the first time in many years. He paused, waiting for Luigi to give some sort of reaction. Seemingly unaware, Luigi nervously scuffled and looked around yet again. The professor rolled his eyes behind his thick glasses. It seemed some things never changed. Shrugging it off and just waving a hand unperturbed with Luigi's nervous breakdown, the professor cleared his throat and resumed his spiel.

"You seem a bit tense, son. Relax! We're perfectly safe here in this impenetrable Bunker. Anyhoo, it's been too long, my boy! What have you been up to? I imagine you've been off adventuring with that daredevil brother of yours."

"Y-yeah I have been getting out quite a bit lately now. Finally going out on adventures with Mario and getting a lot more attention as of late which has been a lot of pressure on me... But I suppose that's how being a hero is ought to be so as you may have guessed, I've been very busy. What about you?"

"Me? Oh, I've just been continuing my research on paranormal happenings and what not. In fact, after our last adventure I became somewhat of an authority in the field!"

As the professor rambled on, Luigi managed to shake his nervousness enough to wonder what he was doing here. Last he had checked, King Boo was still in his portrait and he had not received any mysterious "prizes" lately.