"C'mon Venkman, keep up," Winston said to the Ghostbuster behind him as Dr. Peter Venkman was dragging his feet.
"Winston remind me again why I'm here instead of Ray?" Venkman sighed as he shined his flashlight at a painting they passed while walking through a dark hallway. The weight of the proton pack tugged at his back and his mood was far from good.
"Egon needed help doin' research on something I can't even pronounce. You drew the short straw on this one, Pete!" Winston replied as he held up the pke meter along with a flashlight of his own. They're following the trail of a ghost who had been spotted in an abandoned house.
This house had been abandoned for weeks now and the story goes that the last people who lived here rushed out after only living here for two months. They came across something they couldn't handle, and the city needs this house cleared so they called the Ghostbusters. The city permitted them to work as independent contracters, and they are insured by the city for any damages done. People walking by the house have noticed strange lights and weird noises coming from inside but Winston's pke meter showed no signs of anything paranormal.
"I ain't getting anything on this thing. The place looks creepy enough alright but there's no ghost here, as far as I can tell." Winston tapped the meter a few times with his flashlight as they entered one of the four bedrooms in the house. Peter leaned against the doorpost as Winston walked further into the bedroom.
"At times like these I hate it when the city hires us to do a job in a place that's vacated. They always cut off the power and make normal lookin' houses extra creepy!" Peter said as he shrugged his shoulders and moved away from the door and stepped back into the hallway. He shined his flashlight at the end of the hall and suddenly saw a flash of mist shooting into one of the other bedrooms.
With one hand he reached behind his back and pulled out his particle thrower (proton wand) and cleared his throat a few times to catch Winston's attention. "You smoke too much man," Winston said as he turned around to look at Peter and saw him pointing his thrower toward the hallway.
"Get over here, things finally start to get interesting," Peter said as he led the way with Winston walking behind him with his proton wand drawn as well and his flashlight tightly gripped in the other hand.
They quietly walked toward the end of the hall until they reached the last bedroom and suddenly the pke meter that hung from Winston's belt started picking up on something paranormal. A presence was inside the bedroom but it was strange that the meter couldn't pick up on it before. A loud and firm electronical sound filled the house as Peter switched his pack on and Winston did the same. With his flashlight in his mouth, Peter reached out his free hand to open the bedroom door but suddenly the door swung open and an invisible force caused both Peter and Winston to be swept off of their feet. The two Ghostbusters were down and on their backs as Peter was thrown near the wall and Winston layed in the middle of the hallway.
"I hate it when they do that!" Winston grunted as he slowly stood up and Peter followed, the heavy weight of their proton packs made it that much harder for them to stand up.
Peter's flashlight was crushed during the fall and this meant he could now take his thrower with both hands as he furiously aimed it around. There was nothing to see but they could both feel a presence in their midst and Peter entered the room through the door that was blown open. He narrowed his eyes and looked around the room with Winston standing in the open doorway with his thrower and flashlight at the ready. This bedroom only had a bed and a desk with a chair, nothing much but things got alive fast as the chair moved away from the desk and slid across the room. A strange glowing apparition that consisted out of translucent mist with tiny colorful orbs surrounding it appeared where the chair stood just moments ago.
Peter's eyes got bigger and immediately he released a wild proton stream that cut across the desk and up the wall and left a trail of fire behind. The desk had been cut in half but the apparition disappeared though only for a moment as it appeared behind Winston now. "Winston, move!" Peter shouted as he aimed his thrower at Winston who slowly turned around to stare the apparition in the face.
Peter waited to get a clear shot but it seemed like Winston wasn't able to move and he was locked into eye contact with the ghost that floated in front of him. From within the mist-like aura a face came through that resembled a beautiful woman with eyes as red as blood. Only her face could be seen and nothing else, the mist shrouded the rest of her form. She had Winston in some kind of trance and Peter wasn't sure how to break it. He hung his thrower from a clip on his belt and grabbed the trap that was strapped to his left hip and slowly stepped toward Winston and the ghost. Winston's legs were apart far enough for a trap to fit through it and so Peter kneeled down and carefully aimed as he rolled out the trap. The ghost was alerted by the trap that appeared out from between Winston's legs and suddenly the female face changed and became demonic as it screamed wildly. Peter immediately stepped on the pedal and the ghost was sucked into the trap's energy field and captured as a red light started to blink and the trap sizzled with smoke.
"You're as bad as Ray, you guys get put into a trance by some spook like once a month," Peter chuckled as he walked toward Winston who was rubbing his eyes and shaking his head. Peter picked up the ghost filled trap and held it away from his face as it still smoked.
"Pete, shut up. Man that was messed up, I could feel it inside my mind. Felt like it was reading my thoughts or something." Winston shaked his head and tried to get it together as he walked out of the bedroom with Peter behind him and he hung his thrower from a clip on his belt as well. They left the house and unloaded their gear into the back of the car and drove away with the house now cleared as promised.
After arriving back at the firehouse and dumping the loaded trap into the containment unit, Peter and Winston headed up the stairs to find Egon and Ray working on some kind of gadget. Egon was wearing a long lab coat and Ray was wearing a dirty overall that he normally used for fixing up the car or anything else that's potentially messy. "Ray you'll be pleased to know that you're not the only one to be put into a trance this month. Winston's right behind you on that list," Peter scoffed as he scratched the top of his head and zipped his grey jumpsuit halfway open.
"Don't worry Winston, Pete's due for a trance soon as well!" Ray teased as he looked up at Venkman for a moment. Peter raised an eyebrow and shook his head while he looked for a bag of peanuts he left on the table earlier.
"Any of you guys seen my peanuts? I left them here on the table before me and Winston went out on that bust. Ray if you've eaten them I'll shave your head in your sleep tonight!" Peter faked a threatening tone and acompanied it by a wink as he sat down on a long couch next to Egon who was busy with his gadget as he was putting wires and bolts in place.
"What you doin' there Spengs?" Peter said as he already regretted asking because he knew he'd get an hour-long speech from Egon.
"I'm working on an ecto molecular disruptor or EMD as Ray keeps calling it. It'll allow for us to temporarily break down the molecules of all ectoplasmic beings, hopefully it will make catching stronger ghosts a bit easier. They have to reform their molecules in order to fully manifest again and thus giving us time to trap them while they do so. I'll be starting the tests soon, with the help of our green test subject," Egon explained as he continued tinkering with his device.
"What? Sorry I fell asleep after you said EMD." Peter yawned and stretched his arms as he stood up and was about to leave.
"Oh and Venkman? I fed your peanuts to my test subject." Egon's calm but quick reply caused both Winston and Ray to chuckle while Venkman grunted and left.
"When you start testing that thing on the green guy give me a shout. He's due some payback for my peanuts!" Venkman shouted as he walked down the stairs and headed to his office.