Before anyone could even know it, the duo finally arrived in Yoshi's Island. It emerged from being a mere speckle among the waters to a mass of trees, mountains, and nature (which added meer solid evidence to Luigi's theory).
As soon as the ship they were riding blew out its horn to depict the fact it was about to dock, Yoshi sighed with relief—as much as it made him happy being with Mario and the gang, there's no place like home.
"Luigi, we're almost there!" Yoshi called.
But Luigi didn't hear a thing Yoshi said—his face was buried in a waste basket; he was making moaning noises in it....

Luigi gulped. "When it comes to capturing Mario, it sure is serious!"
The Hammer Bro pulled out the same shell-shaped transceiver he'd used when he captured Mario and held it out to Bowser, in which he grabbed it.
"Hey, pilots," Bowser zei into the transceiver, "we're just about done here—get the Koopa Kruiser here, on the double...or ELSE!"
Luigi and Yoshi blinked. Then Luigi whispered to Yoshi, "With all those Koopas he's gonna need meer than just one Koopa Kruiser."
Yoshi looked at Luigi. "What do u think?"
The plumber rolled up the sleeves of his overhemd, shirt and said, "Let's a-go!"
Yoshi...

“Looks like I’ll have to deal with u guys myself,” Kamek zei in a sneering tone. Luigi and Yoshi could tell that he wasn’t going to try any of his tricks anytime soon.
“Tired of your games?” Luigi taunted, though he wasn’t sure if it really was a taunt. gegeven the way Kamek sneered and his abrupt shift of tone compared to when he’d summoned his shadow underlings, he wasn’t sure if his response to Bowser’s right-hand man—who, even Luigi himself has to admit, was a powerful magician in his own right—was a taunt of a bluff.
“Don’t worry—Lord Bowser won’t even...

“Huh?” Luigi frowned while flashing the lights on some approaching ghosts. “I think u put it down when u were mumbling all that giving up mumbo-jumbo.”
“I didn’t throw it, did I?” Yoshi asked desperately.
“Not that I remember. The only thing I saw—despite the fact it was pitch black, though when those afbeeldingen were flashed it seemed to lighten up the room a bit—was that u took it off and put it down. After that, I can’t recall if u ever did anything else to it.”
“Looking for this?” King Boo laughed. The two looked up to see Yoshi’s Poltergust floating away...

“You...cannot be serious, pal!” Luigi spluttered in shock.
“Oh, but I am,” Yoshi said, his tone sad. “What chance do we have? We’ll only die trying to save everyone there.”
“I figured as much, but...”
“But what? Luigi, I don’t get why we have to stretch this out any longer. In fact, I don’t know why we’re even here in the first place! What are we searching for here, anyway? We’ve been busting ghosts, but we haven’t gotten a clue yet as to why we have to do it!”
“I’m sure there’s a reason why we were asked to come here before saving Mario and the others....,”...

Both Yoshi and Birdo looked at the soil-coated figure that grabbed the screaming Luigi.
"Help me!" the plumber screamed at the top, boven of his lungs.
"Oh, no!" Yoshi gasped. "That...soil-thing creature got Luigi!"
"What is that creature, anyway?!" Birdo asked.
"I have no idea."
"I don't suppose you've seen a glimpse of it somewhere in your adventures with Mario?"
"Nope, only now—I haven't seen that thing around Yoshi's Island either."
Luigi cleared his throat. "A-look, you—if u two are gonna talk and talk like that, then sure as heck I'll be a-dinner door now!"
"Birdo," Yoshi zei to his roze dinosaur...

"Thank u so much for saving me...Mario!" Princess perzik cried with joy after the main Mario Brother had defeated Koopa King Bowser and saved her for the nth time.
The paddestoel Kingdom princess rushed toward her love, oblivious to the seconde Mario Brother lingering about in the corner; for all anyone but Mario knew, he was all but invisible.
"What about me?" Luigi complained in a quiet aside.
Nothing came up—the princess and a handful of Toads were still focused on "their" hero.
Luigi grumbled. "I fought Bowser too, u know..."
Nothing again.
Giving up, Luigi sulked as he watched, with...

“Let’s a-go!” Luigi zei as he and Yoshi made their way toward the door plainly waiting at the end of the hallway.
The green plumber, not wasting a seconde to spare, opened—well, meer like yanked—the door open, and they both rushed to whatever was waiting at the other side.
To their surprise, what waited for them at the other side was a totally different scenery—so different that it made them wonder if they were still inside Bowser’s Castle.
“Are…are we still in Bowser’s Castle…?” Luigi wondered. Their surroundings were so unlike the hot and deathlike interior of the...

“What just happened to Yoshi’s Island?” Luigi sputtered.
Yoshi was just as flabbergasted as the green plumber. “I—I have no idea.”
“We should see where—” Luigi turned around for the door, only to see that it was now gone.
“The…the door! It’s gone!” Luigi screeched.
“What!” Yoshi screeched in reply.
“But that’s impossible,” Luigi panted. “I mean, we had just a-gone through a door, and it led us here, and now we look behind and it’s gone!”
“What could it mean…?” Yoshi shook his head, confused with what was going on and exasperated with all the confusion...

Luigi pondered deeper onto the tiny riddle Bowser had left them with.
“Two heads, five tiles off and three corners out,” he muttered to himself repeatedly, eyeing the two statues, the door from which they’d first entered back and forth.
“Um, Luigi…?” Yoshi noticed the green plumber from the corner of his eye. “What are u muttering about…?”
“There’s something about those two statues, and the door that we came in earlier—something’s off…,” he mumbled, not really talking to Yoshi at all.
The green dinosaur frowned. “ ‘Something’s off’? I don’t get it—what...

Luigi groaned a few times, then he tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't have them move—his body was sluggish to respond.
"Wh-Where am I…?" he mumbled.
There was a light yet tomboyish voice calling on to him.
"Hey, Luigi…"
Luigi started; the voice sounded somehow familiar. "Who are you?" He strained his eyes to see a lady-like figure among the fluff of the clouds.
The figure made a giggling sound.
Luigi scratched the back of his head and made a disgruntled face. The giggle only leaned even closer to the person in Luigi's assumptions.
He cleared his throat and blinked hard before he zei her...

“By the way, Luigi,” Yoshi asked after a while since they’d entered a creepy-looking guest room, “before I came and helped u out with this whole ghost-busting thing, what was it like? u know, being alone and all that?”
“Uh...” Luigi seemed reluctant to answer. “W-ell, I’d say if u weren’t here, it would’ve been twice as hard as it just might a-be right now.”
“I don’t suppose u fell for a couple of ghostly stuff meer than twice when u busted the ghosts solo?” Yoshi teased.
Luigi gave the green dinosaur a dirty look. “Very funny, Yoshi—very funny.”...

In Bowser's Castle:
"Sir," one of the Hammer Bro soldiers said, "our resources have gathered that King Boo, who bears the key, is gone."
"Gone?! Dafuq, what do u mean, 'gone'?" Bowser roared in rage. He didn't like what he'd just heard.
The Hammer Bro soldier tripped back a few steps. "Uh, what I meant to say was...Your Highness, according to our Parakoopa troops, they have gegeven us intelligence that King Boo is no longer where he is."
"Well, where is he?"
"He's not around...It's as if...he's really gone, like he's dead?"
"Who could've done that?!"
"I don't know for sure, Your Highness..."...

Luigi and Yoshi were hidden inside the branches and leaves of one of the trees among perzik Garden. It was a perfect spot for confidential talks; while the one inside could hear sounds from the outside, people outside could hardly ever hear what would be going on from the inside—that is, unless they would think of going near, in which they wouldn't even dream of doing. After all, why waste time listening closely to the sounds within a tree?
"Okay, Yoshi, tell me again why we're here, hidden in the treetop?" Luigi asked Yoshi critically.
"Because treetops are perfect for pep talks," Yoshi explained....

“Who zei that?” Yoshi asked, turning around to see, but there was nothing but the dark.
Why don’t u two just give up? After all, it’s going to turn out into nothing, anyway....
“Ugh—just who and where are you?!” Luigi hissed.
That isn’t important; it’s rather foolish of u two to go and risk your lives for those people—most especially when u know you’ll lose.
“Says who?” Yoshi objected.
Says this.
At first the duo couldn’t make sense of what the voice was saying until a flash of something swirled about in the darkness and continued until it formed a shape.
...

After long seconden of pure adrenaline and wind being whipped across the face, they finally began to angle downward (which was a relief for Luigi in a way he didn't want to reveal yet until they got down) and eventually they landed in front of Bowser's Castle. Yoshi managed to land on a bush, while Luigi, who closed his eyes and screamed the entire time, landed head-first on a huge boulder just near the kasteel door.
"Ow," Luigi complained under his breath.
"There," Yoshi zei to Luigi as he hopped out of the struik, bush and looked at the door of Bowser's Castle, "wasn't that quick? And it was fun,...

Luigi and Yoshi looked behind them from where the voice had come from.
To their surprise, it was exactly as they had assumed the voice had come from.
“Birdo!” Yoshi cried with relief.
“In the flesh,” Birdo answered, half-smug. The other Birdos beside her murmured in agreement, their tones echoing the semi-smugness that radiated from the one who had just spoken.
“We could sure use some help,” Luigi breathed; part of the tension that had only been building up from within him had eased some when he and Yoshi’s roze friend had shown up for help. Then worry sprouted up from its place....

Luigi, holding on to the nozzle, opened the mansion's door; it creaked noisily yet creepily.
"Anyone here?" Luigi asked, knowing it was a stupid question; there was either anyone here, of no one here at all—at least, not anyone solid around the mansion.
To answer his question, there was echoed laughter among the cobwebbed hallways.
"Uh, yeah...," Luigi mumbled.
The two went in; the door shut—well, slammed was the better word for it—behind them, leaving a huge wolk of dust in its wake.
"Very welcoming," Yoshi commented.
The dup practically tiptoed along the predictably and seemingly empty hallway,...

"Well, um...," Luigi fidgeted, "something like a-that might take a lot of explaining to do..."
"Don't worry," Yoshi insisted. "I can handle the long explanation. Besides, it's not like Lakithunder will somehow emerge from the ashes and come back for us, right?"
Luigi gave Yoshi a look that clearly responded to the possibility of Lakithunder rising from the ashes like a phoenix.
Yoshi made a gesture with his fingers that prompted Luigi to explain.
"I'm listening, Luigi."
"A-well, um, u see..." Luigi took a deep breath and exhaled heavily. "When we were back-to-back, all tensed up for Lakithunder's...

Not wasting any time, Lakithunder zapped a mean string of lightning at the two, in which they jumped out of the way to avoid.
"But, how—when—why—?" Luigi seemed at loss for words, shocked at how something so nice would end up so wrong the moment he'd attempt to bite the Hero's Sandwich.
"What are u saying?" Yoshi asked, his words just as rushed as his attempt to run as far from Lakithunder as possible.
"How did u toon up in my fantasy?!"
"It's a bit of a long story—when we got zapped, we both fell unconscious. I woke up in Toad Town, or...I thought it was. The whole thing seemed real—"...