I figured maybe my Ghostbusters obsession would die down…nope. Thus creating this new Victorious fanfic set to the movie Ghostbusters. Plus in a poll people for new story ideas, people voted for this the most in addition to another 80's movie I could rip-off/pay homage to.

I'll explain any changes and character junk at the end and what I have planned for Tori considering there are only two female characters. And a lot like most of my other Victorious stories set to movies I gotta make Rex a real person. Trust me, it's for the best. And for the record, I'm sure the characters are in their mid to late twenties for this story.

Now originally this was going to be a really short prologue, but I've expanded it and now I feel it's best to get the first chapter started. Shall we?

Los Angeles, California

Tori Vega arrived at her apartment a little past six o'clock in the evening nearly exhausted from a long day. Before plopping herself onto the couch, she reached for the remote and turned on the television.

"…so I guess you could call it a situation where man bites dog," the anchorman laughed at his unfunny joke.

"Sure Dave," the anchorwoman hid sarcasm in her tone. "And in other news; citizens are still talking about the haunting at the Los Angeles Public Library. According to the eyewitness- who wishes to remain anonymous- a ghost was discovered on the second floor. The witness described the supposed spook sighting as-"

Tori changed the channel to something a little more entertaining because in all honesty, no one watched the news anymore. Somewhere in the midst of The Simpsons her cell phone rang. "Hello…hi Trina…no I'm just watching TV, probably gonna take a nap…uh-huh sure…ok…bye Trina…yes…yeah…fine…bye Trina…Trina…no Trina I don't care…sure, goodbye," and with the click of a button the conversation was over. Trying to get comfortable onto the couch for a nap, she found herself startled by a sudden noise coming from her closet. Groaning she got up and started moving closer to her closet. As she moved closer, the noise increased and it sounded as if it spoke.

Slowly opening the closet little by little, Tori's anxiety grew. When she finally opened the door, there was nothing there. "Phew," she breathed a sigh of relief. "It's probably the neighbor's stupid cat again." She closed the closet again, and then the noise was back. This time with a bit of ire she opened the closet at a normal pace. However this time, something was definitely there.

And this would be the last anyone heard of Tori Vega.

…

A few days later at The Los Angeles Community College, self-professed 'psychologist' Beck Oliver was conducting an experiment in his office in the psych department. "Okay," he held a card with a star on it up to his face, "tell me what you think it is."

The male student on the other side of the window- who could only see the back of the card- ventured up a guess. "Is it a square?"

"Yikes," Beck showed the boy the other side of the card, "wrong answer," flipping a switch, the boy across from him received a mild shock. Beck held up another card, this time with a circle on it, and turned to the attractive blonde female student sitting next to the boy. "Okay, tell me what you think it is."

The blonde tried to think. "Is it…like a star thingy?"

Beck smiled at her. "It is a star thingy good job," he didn't show her the card as he set it down and pulled up a card with a square. "Now you Henry, tell me what you think is on this card, think hard."

"Um…a circle?"

"Ooh so close," he showed Henry the card, flipped the switch, and Henry was shocked. "Try to clear your mind when you do this," he looked at the blonde. "Ally, darling," he held up a card with a plus sign, "what do you think is on this card?"

Ally pretended to think. "Is it like another star thingy?"

"You are on a roll, it is." Beck looked at Henry. "Nervous?"

"A little," Henry confessed. "But I can't help but notice that-"

"We'll get to your observations later; there's still seventy-five more to go. Tell me what you think is on the card." The side Beck was viewing showed squiggly lines.

"Is it squiggly lines?"

Beck sucked air through his teeth while making the 'tsk' noise. "Today is not your day," he flipped the switch and Henry was shocked again.

"I'm getting real tired of this!"

"Well Henry, you volunteered didn't you? We're paying you aren't we?"

"I didn't know you'd be giving me electric shock? What is all this proving anyway?"

"If you must know I'm studying effect on negative reinforcement on ESP ability."

"Yeah well the effect is it's pissing me off!"

"Then I guess my theory's correct! And watch your language in front of the ladies."

Henry stood up to leave. "You can keep the five bucks, I'm outta here!"

"Yeah well I will keep the five bucks!" Beck went over to Ally. "Might as well get used to that; it's that kind of resentment your ability will provoke in some people."

Ally gave him a flirty smile. "You really think I'm psycho Dr. Oliver?"

"I do believe you have ESP."

As he was about to make his move on the college student, Beck's co-worker Andre Harris burst through the door. "This is it! It's definitely it! Hey, I'm gonna need that camera you stole from me back. This is big, Beck!"

Beck excused himself to Ally and went over to Andre. "I'm in the middle of something Andre. Listen, I need a little more time with this subject; can you give me like an hour, hour and a half?"

"Beck, yesterday afternoon at the Los Angeles Public Library at least ten people witnessed a free floating, full torso, vaporous apparition…at least that's how Robbie described it."

"I never should've let you and Robbie watch that paranormal channel."

"This could be real big for us Beck; you know how Robbie and I are studying the paranormal now."

"Yeah, it's big, it's exciting. Why don't you go down there and tell me how thrilling it is? Check out a book on why women find this stuff a turn off while you're there too."

"Oh no, you're coming with me."

"Send Robbie."

"Robbie's already down there. He took his PKE meter and it showed some major paranormal activity."

"I don't know, nor do I care, what a PKE meter thing is. This is something for you and Robbie to do."

"Beck, please, we are so close on this one I can feel it."

Beck sighed. "Fine." He went back to Ally. "I gotta go now, but I would like to work with you some more. You mind coming back around…"

"Eight o'clock?" she concluded.

"Holy moly, I was just going to say that," Beck lied. He led her to the door and saw her out.

"Why do you use your job as an excuse to pick up women?" Andre inquired.

"Well why don't you?" Beck joked back.

…

As Beck and Andre arrived at the library, their final associate, Robbie Shapiro, was sitting at the foot of a table with a stethoscope in his ears. Beck snuck up behind Robbie and tapped on the desk. "Robbbbbbieeeee," he pretended to be a ghost, and this surprisingly worked on the gullible comrade. Picking up a book off the table, Beck slammed it back onto the table and watched Robbie rise in fear.

"Oh, you're here," Robbie observed. "This is big Beck, this is very big."

"So I've heard."

"There is definitely something here."

"I don't know why, but this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head."

"That would've worked if you hadn't stopped me."

"Pardon me," a man in a suit approached them, "are you the men from the college?"

"Yes sir I'm Dr. Oliver," Beck introduced himself then pointed to Andre, "this is Dr. Harris, and that's Robbie."

"Well, I hope we can clear this up quickly and quietly. If you follow me I'll introduce you to Ms. Kotter, the woman who first witnessed this." He led them over to an obviously shaken woman. "Ms. Kotter is our resident librarian. Ms. Kotter, could you kindly tell these gentlemen what you saw?"

Ms. Kotter took a deep breath. "My first instinct was this was a ghost. I didn't see it doing any damage, but I did see the damage it left behind. When I finally saw it it let out a bright light and its face startled me. I don't remember if it had legs or not, but it definitely had arms."

Robbie took out his PKE meter, "I'm gonna go check for any PKE measurements. I'll report back if I get anything," he raced off.

"'Kay, I'm gonna ask you some standard questions," Beck took out a notepad while Andre took out a camera for documentation. "Ms. Kotter have you or anyone in your family been diagnosed with schizophrenia or have had any mental issues?"

"Well, my Uncle once thought he was Clark Gable come back to life."

"I'll take that as a yes. Are you currently using drugs, stimulants, or are you drinking alcohol?"

"No, of course not."

"Just asking. Now, are you menstruating right now?"

"What's that got to do with it?" the man in the suit asked.

"I'm a scientist pal, every bit of info helps."

"Guys," Robbie came back excited. "I got some readings, and I think it's moving." He and Andre quickly hurried off while Beck unenthusiastically followed. "Check this out," Robbie called the guys toward a giant stack of books piled in the center of an aisle and ran his device over the stack while Andre filmed. "This is hot, guys."

"It's just like that one ghost back in Philadelphia in 1947," Andre remembered. "I read about it a while back."

"It must be a ghost," Beck eyed the giant stack of books, "no human being would pile books like this."

Andre suddenly turned his head. "Listen…you guys smell something?"

Robbie led the way further down the library and into a complete mess of an area. "Check this out," he ran the PKE meter over their discovery. "It's ectoplasmic residue."

Beck raised his eyebrow in confusion. "In English?"

"Slime basically; it's something the ghost left behind," Robbie handed Beck a petri dish from his jacket pocket, "get a sample of this."

"Somebody blows their nose and you wanna keep their snot?"

"I wanna analyze it."

"Please don't take this the wrong way but you are a socially awkward, nerdy, freak."

"Thank you."

"There's more gunk over here," Andre pointed out.

Robbie moved his PKE meter. "I think there are some stronger readings over here."

Beck struggled to get the slime. "Aw, ew, nasty," he rubbed the slime left on his fingers onto the books on the shelf as he caught up to his friends. "Here's you mucus Rob," after he handed Robbie the petri dish, an entire bookshelf collapsed nearby startling Andre. "This happened to you before?" Andre shook his head no. "First time?" Andre nodded. "Yeah, me too."

The guys continued toward the scene as the bars on Robbie's meter started to rise. "It's over here," they quietly headed over to another area where a ghost without any legs was standing at a bookshelf. "A full torso apparition."

"And it's real," Andre added as he and Robbie stared at the ghost in excitement.

"So what do we do?" Beck questioned. The only response he got was Andre and Robbie exchanging nervous glances with each other. "May I have a word with you guys?" he pulled Andre by the ear and led him away from the ghost while Robbie followed. "What do we do now?" The next response was Robbie fiddling with his device, so Beck smacked it out of his hands. "The answer isn't in that little thingamajig."

"One of us should try and speak to it," Andre suggested. He and Robbie then looked at Beck.

Beck sighed and went back toward the ghost while Andre and Robbie documented this on video. "Hi, I'm Beck. Where you from…originally?"

"SSSSSHHHHHH," the ghost shushed him.

Beck went back to his friends. "Well that went well."

"Okay, I think I gotta plan," Andre stepped forward this time and gestured for the other two to follow him. "Keep close guys." They cautiously approached the ghost. "Do exactly as I say." They kept moving. "Ready?" He asked. "GET HER!"

This was a mistake on their part because the ghost heard them. It turned toward them, rose up further in air, and it's face went from slightly normal to hideous and terrifying.

Well, hideous and terrifying enough to send the three 'scientists' running out of the library screaming.

The man in the suit tried to catch up to them. "Did you see it? What was it?"

"WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU!" Beck yelled back as he, Andre, and Robbie bolted out of the library and onto the streets of Los Angeles.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna stop this chapter here. Exciting isn't it?

Okay so the movie takes place in 1984 in New York City; big change there. Now it's in Los Angeles, but I don't have a specified year because the characters are older and most likely in their twenties so it's either present day or a few years or so past 2012. And the boys only know each other in the beginning the other characters will come into play later, but these are obvious changes.

Character descriptions...

Beck is most likely Peter Venkman (Bill Murray). Peter is the sarcastic, womanizing, unofficial leader of the group and has most of the funny lines plus he gets the main female. The character will have Beck's qualities too somehow.

Andre is most likely Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd). Ray is the most enthusiastic of the group and loves doing what he does. Though I think Andre's more like Winston, I wanted to make him an original of the group so I tried to keep his qualities while giving him characteristics of Ray and Winston

Robbie is most likely Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis). Egon is a socially awkward, science loving nerd- and my favorite Ghostbuster personally. I dunno I gave him a more Egon base but he might have a bit of Ray's childlike quality and excitement mixed in in later chapters, I dunno this is a work in progress but I have some stuff outlined.

Rex will come in later like Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) does and share some of Peter's qualities too because Rex to me is the most sarcastic of the guys.

Jade is gonna be the Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) equivalent. Dana is their unofficial first client and ends up with Peter in the end. And since Beck is mostly like Peter…you see where this is going. Don't worry, Jade will still be like Jade too.

Cat is gonna be a more ditzier version of Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) the Ghostbusters' secretary who has an obvious attraction to Egon/Robbie.

Sinjin is Louis Tully (Rick Moranis). Louis lives in Dana's apartment building, has a crush on her, and is also a nerd. Can this be any more like Sinjin?

Thank goodness for the Breakfast Bunch episode 'cause now I can use Mr. Dickers as Walter Peck (William Atherton) an antagonist to the Ghostbusters who wants to see them shut down.

Helen and Lane will also make definite appearances and I said I do have something in mind for Tori so she'll make some more appearances.

How am I doin' so far?