Directly beneath the bedrooms was the medical bay that Bowser had mentioned before. The labs, the infirmary, and the therapy options. One of the lab doors had been left open a crack, and Luigi had to cover his ears from how obtrusive the sound had become by now as he got closer to the door. Not long after, it would finally stop, and he would find that inside the lab was a lanky koopa with thick-rimmed glasses, wielding a jackhammer.
“Iggy! Don’t you think we could… keep this down a little?” A high-pitched voice called from somewhere in the corner nearest to Luigi, where he couldn’t see them just yet. It was enough to catch the attention of the lanky koopa — Iggy? — who could only grin and start laughing hysterically.
“Of course not! The jackhammer only has so many effective settings, and with a pound of concrete this heavy, going any lower would be like taking a spoon to a brick!” Iggy declared, kicking back on the jackhammer and making Luigi quickly cover his ears. Iggy had looked back at the other koopa in the room with a wild grin, and only then did he finally notice Luigi’s presence. He turned off the tool and leaned on it as he swiveled back to look at Luigi with an unsettling smile.
Luigi looked around the room as he realized the obnoxious bone-rattling sound was gone, and that he was now being singled out by gaze alone. The other Koopa — a shorter one with wild yellow, pink, and blue hair styled in a sleek mohawk — was also staring at him. “Uh— S-Sorry, I was… coming to see what was going on. I thought something bad was happening.”
“Bad like what?” Iggy asked, leaning forward over the top of the jackhammer. “Ooh, like those pesky Mario brothers coming to stomp all over our land and storm the castle to kick Pops in his face? They do that sometimes! Usually, only when we have a princess, but I hear that the guest that Pops brought in wasn’t a kidnapping this time, so I dunno if they’re coming for this one.”
“Are you the guest?” The smaller koopa piped in, now hopping to Luigi’s side and looking up at him with one bright and curious eye, the other eye lazily untrained and drifting down. “You look like one of the Mario brothers, actually. The tall green one!”
He inwardly wondered if that’s all he was known for. He supposed there were worse ways to be known. “Uh… I— I am, yes. I’m Luigi.” He nodded in greeting to the small koopa, offering his hand, which the smaller looked at intently, before taking it and shaking it furiously. As soon as their hands made contact, Luigi felt a sharp, electric sting run up his arm, and it earned a yelp. He tried to be polite and not tear his hand away, but the electric sting burned the longer he kept contact, and the smaller koopa did not seem to have any interest in letting go any time soon, so Luigi had to pull back after the third swing. “Owowow— What was that?”
The mohawked koopa grinned and showed him the hand buzzer he had hidden. “Lemmy! Good to meet you, tall green Luigi!”
“Okay, green Mario, now that we’ve established that you’re here, can we ask, pray tell, why that is?” Iggy requested, making Luigi sigh in contempt.
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