"Get out of Yoshi's body, you kingly pain in the butt!" Luigi hissed.
Yoshi (or rather, King Boo inside Yoshi's body) laughed. "Defeat me, and you'll be sure to get him back." The possessed Yoshi leveled an evil look at the green plumber. "But I wonder...can you defeat your own friend in the process?"
Luigi aimed the nozzle of his Poltergust at Yoshi—feeling uncomfortable as he did so; he couldn't imagine the thought of kicking the butt of the very person who kicked bad guy butt with him.
Calm down, Luigi said to himself, after all, it's not like that's really Yoshi, right? Deep inside him, that's King Boo. So don't feel too bad about beating him up. Seeing yourself beat Yoshi up while knowing it's actually King Boo possessing him is a wholly different thing compared to what you really think it actually might be.
Luigi backpedalled over the words he'd just thought of. Was it different?
"You better act fast, you numbskull," King Boo said, as, using Yoshi's body under his possession, he began to take a swipe at the green plumber. "Act fast or else your own friend just might bring an end to you!"
"No, he won't," Luigi objected as he nimbly evaded the swipes aimed at him. It would've been simpler for him to be able to fight back—after all, it wasn't really Yoshi who was attacking him—but it still felt...wrong.
Luigi could barely have that on his conscience.
But I can't just dodge forever, Luigi thought. If Yoshi (or rather, if King Boo) kept attacking and if the former would only keep on dodging out of fear of beating up his own friend, either one would end up getting exhausted and no one would win in that battle.
Plus, Luigi added, he was pretty sure that King Boo had other tricks up his sleeve other than just taking on him with simple attacks.
"I guess I thought too soon!" Luigi gasped as King Boo rammed toward him with Yoshi's fist.
"Dodging my attacks isn't going to help you get your friend back, coward!" King Boo laughed. "Why don't you fight back like a man?"
"I'll fight back, but I won't a-do it on Yoshi's expense!" Luigi bellowed.
"Whose expense then, might you ask me?" King Boo taunted, knowing that leading Luigi on would soon enrage him enough to make the latter take a swing at him. "How about any one of those Toads there held captive? Are they enough to substitute as my host in the place of your dear dinosaur friend?"
Luigi started as he realized what King Boo was getting onto.
"Or how about that fine lady your brother dearest loves so much?" King Boo continued as if blind to Luigi's reaction. "After all, she always had her eyes set on him; would you fight a woman?"
Luigi gritted his teeth. His hands were starting to ball up into tight fists.
"What about your brother dearest himself?" King Boo suggested with a sneer on Yoshi's face. "You were always under his shadow—everything about you goes to him—so how about I do you a favor and end him for you? And that way you can claim his spotlight all to yourself!"
Hearing his brother's name goaded Luigi enough to set his temper ablaze. His nostrils flared, and with his clenched fists, he rammed toward King Boo with fury all over his mind.
"Luigi, help!"
Though he was still feeling pissed off, hearing Yoshi's voice was enough for Luigi to stop in his tracks. He was just inches close to King Boo, and his fist was barely a thumb away from Yoshi's face, but it surprised him to hear the green dinosaur's voice instead of King Boo's.
Luigi looked at Yoshi's face with a shocked expression. For once, Yoshi didn't have the bitterness and sneering features that belonged to King Boo—his face was set with a pained expression which was doubled with struggle.
"Luigi...," Yoshi gasped with his real voice; he looked like he was struggling. "Luigi...don't let...King Boo...trick...you...with me..." He gasped and said more strained words that were barely complete due to the fact he was being possessed by King Boo. "Fight him...it's...only way...defeat him...Hit...ME!"
Then Yoshi screamed, and when his eyes opened, he could see that King Boo's expressions were back on his friend's face.
"Your friend's pretty strong—for a moment I thought I was going to lose control of him, and that he'd be able to throw me off his body completely. Well," King Boo laughed, "thank goodness I'm a lot stronger."
And with that, King Boo sent a massive blow at Luigi's gut, strong enough to have the plumber going down on his knees.
"So it comes to this, 'my friend'?" King Boo guffawed. "So you're down on your knees, refusing to fight back against your own friend!"
Luigi stayed down, hand on his gut area. He mumbled a low stream of words that King Boo couldn't hear. Part of his mind drifted toward what Yoshi had said during the brief time he managed to overpower King Boo.
Don't let King Boo trick you with me...
Fight him...
Defeat him...
Hit ME!
"I'm pitting all my hopes on what you told me, pal," Luigi whispered almost inaudibly. He knew that, despite the fact King Boo had overpowered him in his own body, Yoshi'd been able to think of a plan.
And all that was left was for Luigi to carry it out.
"Stand up and fight, plumber!" King Boo laughed.
"And I will," Luigi replied in a very low voice. "This is for you."
"What was that?" King Boo grinned a twisted sneer and bent toward Luigi. "I can't hear you!"
Luigi slowly moved his head upward to face King Boo. "I said...THIS IS FOR YOU, YOSHI!" And with a move so fast and unexpected that King Boo couldn't have even made a guess about it, Luigi launched a massive blow at Yoshi's head.
"Aaaargh!" King Boo screamed in pain.
"Luigi..." The plumber could hear Yoshi's voice again, as he was able to overpower King Boo yet the second time. "You did a good job...King Boo's...trying to...find a way...to push me out...of my own body completely!"
"Don't give up, pal!" Luigi wanted to shout all the advice he could while he was still talking to Yoshi. "That's your body, right? Show him who'd boss!"
"I'd...appreciate...some help...but...he's...too strong..."
"Hold on, pal!" Luigi urged. "Keep yourself in your own body! Don't let King Boo push you out! Push him out! You can do it!"
"I'm...," Yoshi gasped, "...trying..."
Another scream escaped Yoshi's mouth, and Luigi knew that King Boo had managed to regain control of the green dinosaur's body yet again.
King Boo snickered. "Did you really think punching me on the head will get you your friend back?"
"I thought not—I was hoping it was enough to knock some sense into you!" Luigi fired back.
"Well," King Boo said as, this time, he launched a kick at Luigi, which, thankfully, the latter managed to dodge, "you're going to have to think harder."
Luigi dodged King Boo's attacks, but he knew he needed a plan to get him out.
For a moment, he looked at the nozzle of his Poltergust. For sure King Boo wouldn't be affected by its light since he was in Yoshi's body, but would it be enough to at least distract him enough for his dinosaur buddy to regain the control he needed to get King Boo out?
That seemed the only option that would suffice for now.
"Give me your best shot, King Boo," Luigi taunted, hoping for King Boo to approach closer to him.
"Aw, and that would seem unfair of me to do it," King Boo said sarcastically. "You barely gave your all and now you want me to go all out on you?!"
"You chickening out, Boo boss?"
"Certainly not—but it would be really entertaining to see you squirm some more."
Luigi's lips twitched. "We'll see about that."
"Say your prayers, punk!" And King Boo rammed at Luigi with his fist extended, ready to give another devastating blow to Luigi's gut.
A little closer, Luigi said to himself as he waited until King Boo was close enough for him to directly shine the Poltergust strobe light at him.
"And...HERE!" Luigi shouted, activating the strobe light function that managed to stun flashlight-immune ghosts; he shot it straight at Yoshi's face.
"What the—?" King Boo hissed as the bright strobe light flashed at his face. He was left momentarily blind from the sudden assault.
"Yoshi," Luigi called at his pal, hoping he can take advantage of King Boo's stunned moment and be able to gain enough strength to overpower the Boo boss once and for all. "Yoshi, quick! I hope you can hear me! Now! While King Boo's still stunned—overpower him! Throw him off!"
"Graaaaaaah!" King Boo screeched.
Luigi crossed his fingers and hoped that King Boo's moment of discomfort meant that Yoshi heard him and was trying to do as he said.
The next few movements coming from Yoshi's body was just too gruesome to see; it made Luigi want to throw up.
Yoshi bent his body in an arch, then he fell off to the floor. He writhed and twitched as a handful of screams came in between.
For Luigi, it was like watching an exorcism scene performed live in front of him. He tried his best to hold on to his stomach's reaction to prevent from throwing up a collection of meals he'd eaten so far.
Yoshi then mumbled a string of barely audible words.
"Yoshi...?" Luigi whispered, inching a bit closer.
Yoshi seemed to be whispering in response as he still continued to writhe and twitch on the floor.
"What is it?" Luigi asked, with a bit of doubt; he wasn't sure whether it was King Boo or Yoshi responding to him.
Yoshi's hand flashed to grab at Luigi's neck.
Luigi choked at the tight grip of the green dinosaur.
"Get ready to see your life flash before your eyes, pal," King Boo seethed, the hand still gripping tightly to Luigi's neck, still choking him.
Luigi closed his eyes. Was this really the end? But if it were, there were no flashes of his life, not even a glimpse of his baby days. Maybe it was better that way; maybe it was a good thing. Better to not remember.
"Ready?" King Boo asked in a very bitter tone. "Because I'm going to...Get the hell out of my body!"
Luigi's eyes flashed open, not because the grip on his neck came loose—in fact, it felt like Yoshi's hand was just caressing his neck for all he felt—but because he heard Yoshi's shout cut in King Boo's sentence.
"Pal?" Luigi wondered.
Yoshi's hand let go of Luigi; the green plumber fell down on his butt.
Yoshi shook and writhed around, like he was doing some sort of twisted dance number. There were some cusses coming from his mouth, and some hisses as well.
"Get...the fuck...out of my...freaking BODY!" Yoshi roared.
Luigi flinched.
Then the oddest thing happened.
Yoshi threw his head up and opened his mouth wide, and out of it came a strange white light that was both very bright and very creepy. When his eyes opened, they were as white as a sheet.
Seconds passed, then the light coming out of Yoshi's mouth was gone, and he fainted.
Luigi stood frozen for a while, then he debated whether to go near Yoshi and check on him. After all, was if it was a trap? What if when he would approach Yoshi, he'd end up getting beaten up by King Boo?
Luigi toyed with his options for a few minutes, then, after seeing that Yoshi had not moved even a bit, he decided to (again!) check out on him.
"Hey, uh," Luigi mumbled, approaching Yoshi but being completely cautious the whole time. "Yoshi...or is it King Boo?"
Still no response of any sort.
"Okay...," Luigi said. He kept walking until he was right in front of Yoshi's body. "Is that you, King Boo? Because if it's a 'yes,' then...I'm afraid I'm a-going to smack you for real this time."
Yoshi finally moved. Luigi braced himself this time; King Boo might suddenly attack. The plumber held on to his Poltergust nozzle, ready to activate the strobe light for...maybe to do what he'd just done earlier.
Yoshi blinked, then fully opened his eyes.
"Luigi?" Yoshi mumbled, the voice really belonging to him.
Luigi still didn't relax. "Yeah, pal?"
"I think...King Boo's gone...," Yoshi whispered.
"Huh?"
"Hold it right there, you bunch of pricks!"
Both Luigi and Yoshi blanched at the sound of King Boo's voice (though Luigi was relieved that, this time, it didn't come from Yoshi). They both turned to where the voice came from and were surprised to see King Boo charging at them.
"Oh, no, not this time," Yoshi growled as he grabbed the his Poltergust and, just in time before King Boo might take a second shot on possessing him (or worse, Luigi), he activated the strobe light mode and sent King Boo screaming in pain.
"That's what you get for using my body, you ghostly piece of SHIT!" Yoshi shouted, clearly exasperated by what King Boo had done to him.
"Now it's a-my turn," Luigi said. Just like old times, when he was ready to end it, he activated the famous vacuum function of his Poltergust 5000 and, with the same electrified whirlwind emanating out of it, King Boo, still stunned, was sucked into it.
"Damn you!" King Boo yelled as he was slowly being sucked into Luigi's Poltergust. "Damn you ALL!"
"This is for nearly choking me to death," was all Luigi said in response.
King Boo did nothing but scream the whole time he was being sucked in, and finally it was cut off as he was finally trapped inside for good.
Though sucking in ghosts didn't require that much muscle, both Luigi and Yoshi were panting out of exhaustion.
"It's done," Yoshi breathed.
"Yes," Luigi exhaled sharply. "It's finally done!"
Yoshi (or rather, King Boo inside Yoshi's body) laughed. "Defeat me, and you'll be sure to get him back." The possessed Yoshi leveled an evil look at the green plumber. "But I wonder...can you defeat your own friend in the process?"
Luigi aimed the nozzle of his Poltergust at Yoshi—feeling uncomfortable as he did so; he couldn't imagine the thought of kicking the butt of the very person who kicked bad guy butt with him.
Calm down, Luigi said to himself, after all, it's not like that's really Yoshi, right? Deep inside him, that's King Boo. So don't feel too bad about beating him up. Seeing yourself beat Yoshi up while knowing it's actually King Boo possessing him is a wholly different thing compared to what you really think it actually might be.
Luigi backpedalled over the words he'd just thought of. Was it different?
"You better act fast, you numbskull," King Boo said, as, using Yoshi's body under his possession, he began to take a swipe at the green plumber. "Act fast or else your own friend just might bring an end to you!"
"No, he won't," Luigi objected as he nimbly evaded the swipes aimed at him. It would've been simpler for him to be able to fight back—after all, it wasn't really Yoshi who was attacking him—but it still felt...wrong.
Luigi could barely have that on his conscience.
But I can't just dodge forever, Luigi thought. If Yoshi (or rather, if King Boo) kept attacking and if the former would only keep on dodging out of fear of beating up his own friend, either one would end up getting exhausted and no one would win in that battle.
Plus, Luigi added, he was pretty sure that King Boo had other tricks up his sleeve other than just taking on him with simple attacks.
"I guess I thought too soon!" Luigi gasped as King Boo rammed toward him with Yoshi's fist.
"Dodging my attacks isn't going to help you get your friend back, coward!" King Boo laughed. "Why don't you fight back like a man?"
"I'll fight back, but I won't a-do it on Yoshi's expense!" Luigi bellowed.
"Whose expense then, might you ask me?" King Boo taunted, knowing that leading Luigi on would soon enrage him enough to make the latter take a swing at him. "How about any one of those Toads there held captive? Are they enough to substitute as my host in the place of your dear dinosaur friend?"
Luigi started as he realized what King Boo was getting onto.
"Or how about that fine lady your brother dearest loves so much?" King Boo continued as if blind to Luigi's reaction. "After all, she always had her eyes set on him; would you fight a woman?"
Luigi gritted his teeth. His hands were starting to ball up into tight fists.
"What about your brother dearest himself?" King Boo suggested with a sneer on Yoshi's face. "You were always under his shadow—everything about you goes to him—so how about I do you a favor and end him for you? And that way you can claim his spotlight all to yourself!"
Hearing his brother's name goaded Luigi enough to set his temper ablaze. His nostrils flared, and with his clenched fists, he rammed toward King Boo with fury all over his mind.
"Luigi, help!"
Though he was still feeling pissed off, hearing Yoshi's voice was enough for Luigi to stop in his tracks. He was just inches close to King Boo, and his fist was barely a thumb away from Yoshi's face, but it surprised him to hear the green dinosaur's voice instead of King Boo's.
Luigi looked at Yoshi's face with a shocked expression. For once, Yoshi didn't have the bitterness and sneering features that belonged to King Boo—his face was set with a pained expression which was doubled with struggle.
"Luigi...," Yoshi gasped with his real voice; he looked like he was struggling. "Luigi...don't let...King Boo...trick...you...with me..." He gasped and said more strained words that were barely complete due to the fact he was being possessed by King Boo. "Fight him...it's...only way...defeat him...Hit...ME!"
Then Yoshi screamed, and when his eyes opened, he could see that King Boo's expressions were back on his friend's face.
"Your friend's pretty strong—for a moment I thought I was going to lose control of him, and that he'd be able to throw me off his body completely. Well," King Boo laughed, "thank goodness I'm a lot stronger."
And with that, King Boo sent a massive blow at Luigi's gut, strong enough to have the plumber going down on his knees.
"So it comes to this, 'my friend'?" King Boo guffawed. "So you're down on your knees, refusing to fight back against your own friend!"
Luigi stayed down, hand on his gut area. He mumbled a low stream of words that King Boo couldn't hear. Part of his mind drifted toward what Yoshi had said during the brief time he managed to overpower King Boo.
Don't let King Boo trick you with me...
Fight him...
Defeat him...
Hit ME!
"I'm pitting all my hopes on what you told me, pal," Luigi whispered almost inaudibly. He knew that, despite the fact King Boo had overpowered him in his own body, Yoshi'd been able to think of a plan.
And all that was left was for Luigi to carry it out.
"Stand up and fight, plumber!" King Boo laughed.
"And I will," Luigi replied in a very low voice. "This is for you."
"What was that?" King Boo grinned a twisted sneer and bent toward Luigi. "I can't hear you!"
Luigi slowly moved his head upward to face King Boo. "I said...THIS IS FOR YOU, YOSHI!" And with a move so fast and unexpected that King Boo couldn't have even made a guess about it, Luigi launched a massive blow at Yoshi's head.
"Aaaargh!" King Boo screamed in pain.
"Luigi..." The plumber could hear Yoshi's voice again, as he was able to overpower King Boo yet the second time. "You did a good job...King Boo's...trying to...find a way...to push me out...of my own body completely!"
"Don't give up, pal!" Luigi wanted to shout all the advice he could while he was still talking to Yoshi. "That's your body, right? Show him who'd boss!"
"I'd...appreciate...some help...but...he's...too strong..."
"Hold on, pal!" Luigi urged. "Keep yourself in your own body! Don't let King Boo push you out! Push him out! You can do it!"
"I'm...," Yoshi gasped, "...trying..."
Another scream escaped Yoshi's mouth, and Luigi knew that King Boo had managed to regain control of the green dinosaur's body yet again.
King Boo snickered. "Did you really think punching me on the head will get you your friend back?"
"I thought not—I was hoping it was enough to knock some sense into you!" Luigi fired back.
"Well," King Boo said as, this time, he launched a kick at Luigi, which, thankfully, the latter managed to dodge, "you're going to have to think harder."
Luigi dodged King Boo's attacks, but he knew he needed a plan to get him out.
For a moment, he looked at the nozzle of his Poltergust. For sure King Boo wouldn't be affected by its light since he was in Yoshi's body, but would it be enough to at least distract him enough for his dinosaur buddy to regain the control he needed to get King Boo out?
That seemed the only option that would suffice for now.
"Give me your best shot, King Boo," Luigi taunted, hoping for King Boo to approach closer to him.
"Aw, and that would seem unfair of me to do it," King Boo said sarcastically. "You barely gave your all and now you want me to go all out on you?!"
"You chickening out, Boo boss?"
"Certainly not—but it would be really entertaining to see you squirm some more."
Luigi's lips twitched. "We'll see about that."
"Say your prayers, punk!" And King Boo rammed at Luigi with his fist extended, ready to give another devastating blow to Luigi's gut.
A little closer, Luigi said to himself as he waited until King Boo was close enough for him to directly shine the Poltergust strobe light at him.
"And...HERE!" Luigi shouted, activating the strobe light function that managed to stun flashlight-immune ghosts; he shot it straight at Yoshi's face.
"What the—?" King Boo hissed as the bright strobe light flashed at his face. He was left momentarily blind from the sudden assault.
"Yoshi," Luigi called at his pal, hoping he can take advantage of King Boo's stunned moment and be able to gain enough strength to overpower the Boo boss once and for all. "Yoshi, quick! I hope you can hear me! Now! While King Boo's still stunned—overpower him! Throw him off!"
"Graaaaaaah!" King Boo screeched.
Luigi crossed his fingers and hoped that King Boo's moment of discomfort meant that Yoshi heard him and was trying to do as he said.
The next few movements coming from Yoshi's body was just too gruesome to see; it made Luigi want to throw up.
Yoshi bent his body in an arch, then he fell off to the floor. He writhed and twitched as a handful of screams came in between.
For Luigi, it was like watching an exorcism scene performed live in front of him. He tried his best to hold on to his stomach's reaction to prevent from throwing up a collection of meals he'd eaten so far.
Yoshi then mumbled a string of barely audible words.
"Yoshi...?" Luigi whispered, inching a bit closer.
Yoshi seemed to be whispering in response as he still continued to writhe and twitch on the floor.
"What is it?" Luigi asked, with a bit of doubt; he wasn't sure whether it was King Boo or Yoshi responding to him.
Yoshi's hand flashed to grab at Luigi's neck.
Luigi choked at the tight grip of the green dinosaur.
"Get ready to see your life flash before your eyes, pal," King Boo seethed, the hand still gripping tightly to Luigi's neck, still choking him.
Luigi closed his eyes. Was this really the end? But if it were, there were no flashes of his life, not even a glimpse of his baby days. Maybe it was better that way; maybe it was a good thing. Better to not remember.
"Ready?" King Boo asked in a very bitter tone. "Because I'm going to...Get the hell out of my body!"
Luigi's eyes flashed open, not because the grip on his neck came loose—in fact, it felt like Yoshi's hand was just caressing his neck for all he felt—but because he heard Yoshi's shout cut in King Boo's sentence.
"Pal?" Luigi wondered.
Yoshi's hand let go of Luigi; the green plumber fell down on his butt.
Yoshi shook and writhed around, like he was doing some sort of twisted dance number. There were some cusses coming from his mouth, and some hisses as well.
"Get...the fuck...out of my...freaking BODY!" Yoshi roared.
Luigi flinched.
Then the oddest thing happened.
Yoshi threw his head up and opened his mouth wide, and out of it came a strange white light that was both very bright and very creepy. When his eyes opened, they were as white as a sheet.
Seconds passed, then the light coming out of Yoshi's mouth was gone, and he fainted.
Luigi stood frozen for a while, then he debated whether to go near Yoshi and check on him. After all, was if it was a trap? What if when he would approach Yoshi, he'd end up getting beaten up by King Boo?
Luigi toyed with his options for a few minutes, then, after seeing that Yoshi had not moved even a bit, he decided to (again!) check out on him.
"Hey, uh," Luigi mumbled, approaching Yoshi but being completely cautious the whole time. "Yoshi...or is it King Boo?"
Still no response of any sort.
"Okay...," Luigi said. He kept walking until he was right in front of Yoshi's body. "Is that you, King Boo? Because if it's a 'yes,' then...I'm afraid I'm a-going to smack you for real this time."
Yoshi finally moved. Luigi braced himself this time; King Boo might suddenly attack. The plumber held on to his Poltergust nozzle, ready to activate the strobe light for...maybe to do what he'd just done earlier.
Yoshi blinked, then fully opened his eyes.
"Luigi?" Yoshi mumbled, the voice really belonging to him.
Luigi still didn't relax. "Yeah, pal?"
"I think...King Boo's gone...," Yoshi whispered.
"Huh?"
"Hold it right there, you bunch of pricks!"
Both Luigi and Yoshi blanched at the sound of King Boo's voice (though Luigi was relieved that, this time, it didn't come from Yoshi). They both turned to where the voice came from and were surprised to see King Boo charging at them.
"Oh, no, not this time," Yoshi growled as he grabbed the his Poltergust and, just in time before King Boo might take a second shot on possessing him (or worse, Luigi), he activated the strobe light mode and sent King Boo screaming in pain.
"That's what you get for using my body, you ghostly piece of SHIT!" Yoshi shouted, clearly exasperated by what King Boo had done to him.
"Now it's a-my turn," Luigi said. Just like old times, when he was ready to end it, he activated the famous vacuum function of his Poltergust 5000 and, with the same electrified whirlwind emanating out of it, King Boo, still stunned, was sucked into it.
"Damn you!" King Boo yelled as he was slowly being sucked into Luigi's Poltergust. "Damn you ALL!"
"This is for nearly choking me to death," was all Luigi said in response.
King Boo did nothing but scream the whole time he was being sucked in, and finally it was cut off as he was finally trapped inside for good.
Though sucking in ghosts didn't require that much muscle, both Luigi and Yoshi were panting out of exhaustion.
"It's done," Yoshi breathed.
"Yes," Luigi exhaled sharply. "It's finally done!"
