Mario Baseball

Luigi looked around the room. Back and forth—twice, thrice and deliberately.
But it was still the same—King Boo was nowhere to be found.
“Come out, toi hell of a con artist!” Luigi seethed as he looked around. He felt ridiculous with the fact that the lack of response made him feel as if he were talking to himself, but it couldn’t be helped—King Boo was a total no-show at the moment.
“Now you’re going to chicken out of this fight, King Boo?” Yoshi a dit among the walls, pretty sure that even though he’d likely get no response at all, there was no doubt King Boo was listening...

"So, let's a-have a quick rundown on what I taught you, Yoshi," Luigi said, his voice sounding somehow strained due to the straight hours of endless ghost-busting lecturing.
Yoshi grinned. "Okay, toi ask, I'll answer."
"Gather up your ghost-busting weapon."
Yoshi took the twigs and leaves he'd gotten together to make the dud weapon. "Got it."
"Where's the flashlight?"
"Right where the nozzle is."
"A-what about the vacuum?"
"Let's see...Oh yeah, also where the nozzle is."
"How do toi activate between the flashlight and the vacuum?"
"Easy—you flick the switch to the right"—Yoshi gestured to the side...

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 plus lethal string of lightning toward the thin Mario Brother, which, somehow plus agilely than from his précédant 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...

Luigi and Yoshi were still exulted, as with Birdo who was still jouer la comédie all cheery from their victory.
Apparently, it didn't last long….
Something glimmered from the corner of Luigi's eye. It came from the exact same spot where the twenty-eighth key-pattern eye had been, the last eye, the eye that looked the worst among the rest of the key-eyes the trio had destroyed.
"A-what was that…?" Luigi asked, focusing his gaze on the glimmer he'd caught just now.
He stood up and went to the spot where the last key-eye was, and eventually he discovered where the glimmer had come from—it came from a...

Luigi was still persistently leading the way—partially because he knew that if he led the way, he'd have zero-to-none chance of accidentally looking back and seeing Birdo even for just a glimpse.
Behind him, Birdo and Yoshi were following the green plumber quietly, with a grimace on both their faces.
"Looks like this won't be much of an easy thing to do," Yoshi commented.
"What's not easy—finding the clue that just might be here in Yoshi's Island?" Birdo asked.
"No, not that—it's having Luigi reconsider his old thoughts about you," the green dinosaur sighed.
Birdo sighed, too. "You didn't...