Nighttime
Winston was driving the Ecto-1 while Egon was using his P.K.E. meter as a tracker to get to the temporal readings considering it was dark outside. Ray was also playing navigator in the back looking at the directions of a map to find the street in question while Peter was sound a sleep snoring.
"I wish he'd stop doing that," Winston said as he continued to drive.
Egon was now getting some readings that sparked the meter. "Turn left Winston."
"Hey," Ray groaned, "I was just about to say the same thing!"
Winston acknowledged and the car headed left to another block.
The three ghostbusters sill awake had this strange feeling come over them like they've been through this situation before, but couldn't say how the situation turned out previously. It would have helped for them to know what they were up against and what could happen and more importantly, what needed to be done to stop the repeat of events. However, this was never going to come as they had no grasp of being a psychic that could tell the events of the future.
As they approached the address of the house in question, Winston put on the breaks as soon as he heard Egon say stop, followed by Ray muttering that he was about to say the same thing too.
"Peter wake up," Ray looked at his friend half asleep.
"Uh….," Peter groaned. "Is it morning already? Do I have to get up? Can't I just sleep in for a few more minutes?"
"Peter!" Ray tapped the man on his shoulder. "We're at the house that has the temporal displacement. Now get out of the car, grab your proton pack, and lets get to work."
"Ugh!" Peter groaned again. "Okay, okay."
As the ghostbusters slipped on their equipment, Egon took the lead while reading the P.K.E. meter while the other three were in the back with their proton guns out and charged, ready for anything to happen.
"Nice place," Peter looked as he saw the house as more of a pile of rubble ready to break apart. "The decorator did a nice job."
Winston added his own comment. "I just hope this place doesn't collapse while we're in it."
As they approached the front door, Ray tried to open the door but couldn't. He then decided to use some heroics and charged at the door, only to have the door open and him falling on the ground.
Peter grabbed the man. "Nice job Ray. Next time when we need you to do something stupid, we'll call you."
As Egon tried to track down exactly where the disturbance was in the house, the rest of the ghostbusters stared to walk around. "Uh guys, I don't think we should split up,"
"Relax Egon," Winston said. "We'll be fine……"
Suddenly several walls came up from the ground and formed a barrier, trapping all four ghostbusters in different sections of the house. Egon looked at the room he was in that now included walls. The only thing he could do now is go up the stairs since he couldn't walk to other parts of the house. Egon shook his head and sighed. "They never listen."
"Hey," Winston yelled. He started to hit the wall with sides of his fists but nothing was happening. "Egon, Ray, Peter. Anybody?" But it was no use. Winston was trapped in a room and no one could hear him.
"Boy this is just great," Ray complained as he was trying to find a way out of the entrapment that encased him. He powered up his proton blaster and fired at the wall, hoping to break it, but nothing happened. "Tough little wall aren't you?" He looked around and started walking. "Wish I brought my ectoscopes to analyze what that wall was made of, but naturally I left them back at the office."
Peter, on the other hand, wasn't as calm as the others. He was more annoyed and ticked off compared to the other three. "This might be a trap, and I hate traps," he was walking around to the kitchen. "Wait a minute Venkman. We're at a house with something bad, walls just came up from the ground trapping everyone in a different section, and you're saying this might be a trap? No wonder Egon makes fun of your intelligence," Peter was now talking to himself about himself, which struck Peter again as odd that a man would be talking about himself as a separate individual. He decided to brush off what he said and made his way inside the kitchen.
Peter walked right next to the refrigerator and suddenly started to feel hungry, only realizing he had not eaten any dinner for the night. "Hope somebody cooked something good." He reached for the door and opened it to only find a bare empty refrigerator. "No food for the guests? Come on!" He slammed the door shut.
"What did you say?" A voice low and deep said as Peter turned around and stared at the appliance.
"You talkin' to me?" Peter was doing bad impersonation of Robert De Niro. He stared at the refrigerator for a few seconds, shrugged his shoulder, and started to move away from it.
"Yes I am." The voice said again, this time a little more agitated.
"Ah ha!" Peter snapped his fingers. "So you can talk. But where is the voice coming from?" He started to look around the refrigerator before the door itself opened and sent Peter hitting the ground.
Still on the ground, Peter looked at the appliance. "Alright, this means war!" As he grabbed the proton blaster from the back of his pack, a gigantic purple hand with sharp claws grabbed him and pulled him into the refrigerator. The door shut leaving no one in the kitchen.
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Winston was walking around in the living room area, getting nowhere since he was cut off from the other rooms. He wondered what was happening with the rest of the guys. He hoped everyone was okay and not in any danger.
Since he couldn't do anything else, Winston decided to sit down in one of the chairs. He propped his feet on one of the stools and started to shut his eyes as he was getting comfortable, even if he had a proton back on the back of him.
As he started to daze out, he felt some hands grab him around his legs. "What in the world?" Winston looked down and saw some more hands grab him around his waist. They were pueple in color, big and menacing, with sharp claws for fingernails. "Hey, let go of me!" He tried to break away from the hands but couldn't. In the end Winston was pushed inside the chair he was sitting in by the hands and disappeared. The hands disappeared from where the came from leaving an empty living room.
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Ray was still holding his proton blaster as he searched around the house. He walked around and came across the laundry room along with an old garage. Ray looked around and saw an old car. "Wow, an old Ford Fairlane!" Ray quickly rushed over to the car which looked like time had not been good to it. "My dad used to drive one of these things when I was a kid." He started to look around to see if he could indicate what year the car was. Ray figured it was built around in the mid to late fifties. Ray always had a fascination for cars, especially since he was the one that restored Ecto 1 to what it is now and would always repair it and make little adjustments every here and there when the car needed it. He even felt Ecto was part of the family. Even Winston, who would make repairs on the car every so often, also thought the car was part of the family, though Egon and Peter regarded Ecto as just a car and nothing.
Ray put the proton blaster on a hook on his belt and got into the drivers side of the Ford. He started to push the gas pedal and pretended to drive the car, even though it wasn't moving. To Ray, he was reliving being a child while being inside of the car. As Ray continued to pretend he was driving, he glanced at the rearview mirror and saw three eyes glowing red. Ray quickly gasped as his heart started to pound heavily and looked back, but to his surprise he saw nothing. "Huh, I could have sworn I saw something. Must be all of this excitement being in this old car."
He quickly turned his attention back and started to pretend again that he was driving the car. He glanced in the rearview mirror again and saw three eyes glowing red again. This time Ray knew his mind wasn't playing tricks on him. He turned his head back around and saw the three eyes staring at him. "Oh my…." But before Ray could finish his sentence, the ghost's mouth appeared and swallowed the ghostbuster, starting from head moving all the way to the toes and then disappeared.
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Egon was moving up the stairs cautiously as he continued to look at the meter. As he approached the top of the stairs, the meter started to flash even more heavily. Egon knew the disturbance he was tracking was right in front of him.
As Egon walked into a bedroom where the P.K.E. meter was indicating the disturbance was, he saw Peter, Ray, and Winston in a corner. "Oh no!" Egon cried out as he moved over to his friends, forgetting the disturbance he was tracking down in the room and losing focus. He checked the pulses of all three to make sure they were alive, which they were. "Guys, wake up," Egon looked at the three who were on the floor in the corner.
The three busters started to open up their eyes and come back to their senses.
"What happened?" Ray asked.
"All I can remember is sitting down and the next thing I know a bunch of hands grabbed me and pulled me in a chair," Winston was slowly getting up.
"Just a few more minutes mom, please," Peter was trying to wave off Egon who he assumed was his mother so he could try to get some more sleep.
"Peter get up," Egon said annoyingly at the man.
Peter opened his eyes and looked around. "Oh yeah, we're still here in the loony house of horrors."
Egon turned to the three men. "This is where the focal point of the disturbance is."
"I bet that ghost that I saw is behind all of this," Ray said.
"Correct………………." A low deep voice said.
"Hey, that's the voice I heard when I was in the kitchen," Peter just realized.
Suddenly the ghost appeared in front of the four ghostbusters. As before, it still had it's appearance of purple skin, four pairs of arms, and three eyes.
"I trapped you all and brought you in this room to destroy you all once and for all, that way I can break free from this time imprisonment and destroy this city and then the rest of the world," the ghost had the four ghostbusters cornered as it told its plan on what it was going to do. "I kill the four of you before midnight, and then I can be free to rage destruction on all the flesh heads out there."
"And all this time I was thinking you were going to go to Miami to get some sun after you got rid of us," Peter mused with his sarcastic nature. "Looks like we've been fooled."
The ghost was turning dark purple as it was getting upset from Peter's remarks.
Ray checked his watch. It read 11: 55. Five minutes before the ghost could break free from his time imprisonment. He looked at Winston and Egon and quietly told them they have five minutes left.
The ghost looked at Peter. "I will have the pleasure of destroying you first since you irritate me greatly." Suddenly several streams hit the ghost. The ghost cried out in pain but flew away.
The walls in the house disappeared and the ground started to shake. The ghostbusters moved around a bit before the floor started to disappear and a large mouth, like the first time they encountered it, started to form.
"I have the distinct possibility we've been in this situation before," Egon was remembering bits and pieces of what happened before.
"Quick, the window!" Winston shouted as he looked at the window that was disappearing.
The four ghostbusters ran as fast as they could to the window, but the problem was they were on the second floor and if they jumped they would injury themselves.
"Now what do we do?" Ray was about to call in defeat.
Peter noticed the power line wire. "The power lines, grab them!"
Without missing a beat, the four ghostbusters grabbed the power lines and moved out of the house just in time to see the window disappear. With the weight of the four men, the power lines broke in two sending the ghostbusters hitting the ground.
Before they could react to the pain they were in, they saw the ghost manifest itself as it yelled out a thunderous roar that echoed through the deserted neighborhood. The ghostbusters quickly got up as the ghost started to chase after them and headed for Ecto 1.
Ray got in the drivers seat with Peter right next to him riding shotgun. Egon and Winston were in the back.
"Quick Ray, start the car and get us out of here!" Egon was more frightened than ever.
Thankfully, Winston left the keys inside the car before heading in the house. Ray started the car and peeled rubber. As they sped away, Peter, Winston, and Egon saw the ghost in the distance trying to fly as fast as it could to try to catch up to them.
"At least we now know we have to trap that thing in order to stop this mess," Peter said as he looked at Egon.
But before Egon could say anything, Ray's watch beeped, indicating it was now midnight and the four ghostbusters disappeared, only to repeat the events again.
