"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, you see..." Luigi took a deep breath and exhaled heavily. "When we were back-to-back, all tensed up for Lakithunder's wild lightning...I considered...this a-was sort of like a storm, right?"
"When there's a storm, lightning isn't far behind, and...?"
"In every storm, there's usually lightning along those lines..."
"And what else...?" Yoshi just seemed more confused with all Luigi was talking about.
"There's always the sound that follows after the lightning."

Luigi and Yoshi tensed themselves, sure that Lakithunder would conjure another string of lightning any moment now.
"Give it your best shot," Luigi seethed.
In response to Luigi's words, Lakithunder directed a more lethal string of lightning toward the thin Mario Brother, which, somehow more agilely than from his previous quests, Luigi managed to dodge. He practically back-flipped out of the way.
"I can a-dodge with class," Luigi bragged.
Yoshi widened his eyes. "Whoa, who knew Luigi had the skills?" he whispered under his breath.
"Who's talking to you?" Lakithunder roared at Yoshi; it was easy to tell that the grumpiness in his voice was from the fact that Luigi managed to dodge his "best shot."
"That's easy to answer—you are," Yoshi said with a taunting voice, thinking that somehow pricking at Lakithunder would make him lose his cool and care about nothing but hitting.
Lakithunder gave out an angry roar. His hands surged with twice as much electricity from his so-called "best shot."

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 you saying?" Yoshi asked, his words just as rushed as his attempt to run as far from Lakithunder as possible.
"How did you show 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—"
"I know," Luigi sighed, then ducked out of the way just seconds before the second round of lightning hit him.
"—the Toads there were very...nice. We were all having a good time, but there was something wrong in their faces. Like, something stirring underneath. I even asked one Toad about it once, but he just avoided the question."
"Kinda like that fake Yoshi."