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 toi saying?" Yoshi asked, his words just as rushed as his attempt to run as far from Lakithunder as possible.
"How did toi montrer 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 secondes before the seconde 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."
"So then it was time to eat. The nourriture was cake just laden with fruits all over—all of my favorites. I asked the Toad Town head where he got all those fruits and he a dit he got them from the local market. And that was where I realized something wrong with the whole thing—how could he have bought those fruits if they weren't in season?! The Toad Town market never sells fruits that aren't in season!"
"I see. And that was the part where toi snapped out of it."
"Yeah, you're getting to it, pal. I told the Toad Town head, but he avoided that and insisted I eat the cake. And when I refused—"
"That was where everything fell apart?"
"Yes! Everyone suddenly transformed into a bunch of Spinies! I practically ran for my life, and I had a feeling toi were into your own fantaisie as well."
"Tell me about it."
"When I arrived at the champignon Kingdom Castle, the Toads there wouldn't let me in—they even called me a 'fake' and that I shouldn't intervene with their hero's party. I knew that they knew that I knew the whole thing was just a bogus fantasy, and that was likely why they didn't want me in."
"So that toi a-wouldn't get in the way of my eating that Hero's sandwich, "sandwich" and ...well, being a-finished once and for all."
"Oh, you're fast, Luigi. I figured the whole thing was false so it wouldn't matter who got hurt and"—Yoshi paused, then continued, somehow embarrassed on his suivant words—"I...um, I took in those Toads and turned them into eggs for the time being. Then I had to squirm into everyone else there and shout at the haut, retour au début of my lungs to stop toi before I was too late."
Luigi laughed in surprise. "Wow, pal, I never expected toi to do a-something like that! That's a first for you!"
"Uh, yeah...Look, I know why you're so bewildered right now, Luigi, but let's just focus on"—Yoshi narrowly attempted to dodge another lightning bolt directed at him—"finding a way to defeat this electro-maniac!"
"Can we just hide first?" Luigi suggested.
"Hide?! How can we even hide in a place like this?!" Yoshi gestured to the clouds everywhere.
"As long as we a-know there still will be a-more of the clouds beneath, we have to hide under them. Otherwise, expect to be a-fried!"
"Well"—Yoshi wanted to say more, but he saw Lakithunder's hand sparking with another round of lightning, then—"what are we waiting for?! Let's go!"
Running away, Luigi and Yoshi jumped into the thickest and closest nuage they could find, hoping they might be able to hide long enough to hatch a master plan.
"How can we stop Lakithunder?" Yoshi whispered. "As long as he sees us, he'll be zapping everywhere—we can barely even dodge something as fast as lightning. Add to that the fact that he flies, too!"
"There's got to be a-something a can do," Luigi whispered back. "Maybe a way to distract him, at the very least..."
"There's no way we can jump high enough haut, retour au début even get a grip of him. And even if we can, he'll zap us the moment he sees any one of us jumping onto him—and it's also a huge risk since...well, how can we be so sure that we won't fall off the sky where we land?"
Luigi cussed. "Ugh, if only there could really be a way to win here. But this a-feels like what people call a lose-lose situation!"
The two were so busy trying to think of a plan that it almost made them scream (which would've donné them away) when they heard Lakithunder's voice.
"Seriously, asses," Lakithunder said, "even if I can't find you, well then, it'll only be a matter of time before toi come out!"
Luigi and Yoshi looked at each other, uncomfortable with the silence that followed.
Suddenly, something pricked at Luigi's behind. He bit his lower lip hard to keep from screaming. He looked behind him.
A Spiny was there, its spikes pricking at the green plumber's butt.
"Lakithunder's throwing Spiny eggs everywhere!" Yoshi gasped. He took ahold of the egg (while being careful not to touch the spikes—which was really, really hard) and pried the object out from Luigi's butt.
"That seriously hurt," Luigi complained, gritting his teeth from the pain.
But then Luigi's eyes widened when he saw plus of the Spiny eggs thrown at the clouds!
"A-what do we do now?" Luigi hissed at the ever-increasing Spiny eggs among the clouds.
"There has to be a way to even divert him just enough for us to take a balançoire, swing at him..."
Luigi looked back at the Spiny eggs (who landed and the clouds and emerged as Spinies) then above him to notice another string of Lakithunder's lightning; eventually, he thought of something.
"The Spinies," Luigi a dit with wide eyes.
"Yeah, I also know that the Spiny eggs Lakithunder throws are now hatching up as Spinies, that's pretty much obvious for every Lakitu on a Super Mario level." Yoshi rolled his eyes.
"No, that's a-not what I meant, Yoshi," Luigi said. "We can use these Spinies to our advantage!"
"Seriously?" Yoshi wondered. "And how...?"
"Almost the same way we defeated that key-eye creature back at Yoshi's Island. The difference is these Spinies"—he kicked at a nearby Spiny, tossed it over and ran his finger across its spike—"will be our lightning rods."
"Oh, I get it. Whenever he tries to shoot lightning at us, we just might us these Spinies' spikes to deflect it and then...we'll...throw them at him? Like we're giving him..."
"...a taste of his own lightning," Luigi concluded, suddenly pleased at how bad-ass his plan sounded.
"Nice plan, Luigi," Yoshi said. "At least we won't have to hide here forever."
"A-certainly beats getting zapped and spiked around," Luigi agreed.
"Let's do this."
And the two emerged out of the nuage they were hiding, much to the smugness of Lakithunder.
"I knew toi two morons wouldn't be hiding there for long," he said, smugness thick in his voice.
"Yeah, we wouldn't," Yoshi a dit with a grin.
"And that's 'cause we're a-gonna kick your butt good!" Luigi added with a sneer.
"Bring it, slicks," Lakithunder taunted.