EctoVectors 11:
Chapter 11 – School Ghouls
Well folks a set-up chapter again... sorry. Lucy is told to do a career based project at Mayu's class and teacher explaining her profession. Story is rated K+ or E10+ for everyone 10 and up for basic swearing, crude/rude humor, and supernatural horror. Finally things are starting to unfold and we readers find out who the big enemy is. Then things start to get more serious in a few later chapters. Also just to let you folks know I'm hopelessly insane (w/crossovers and crazy ones that is) but anyways that aside enjoy the chapter's madness.
-Inn
It was very serene at the Inn where the Extreme Ghostbusters were currently housing themselves. The place was owned by a college attending boy named Kohta, his sister Kanae, and their cousin Yuka lived there too. Also there was the middle school kid Mayu whose family was devoured by a demon. Lucy's final occupant there was the somewhat runty Diclonius girl Nana.
However the petite Mayu had dropped a bombshell upon the nerdy Diclonii girl. "You want me to what?" Lucy asked frankly frazzled.
"Just what I said my class needs an expert in careers so figured you'd do it." The girl said so very sweetly to the buster. "Tell my class about your typical days in Ghostbusting, how the tools work, toughest ghosts, types of ghosts that kind of thing."
"You figure hmm? And if I refuse?" Lucy asked the girl making her think cocking a pink hued eyebrow.
"Well I'll do this then… WAHHHHHHH AHAHAHAH! MEAN LUCY YOU'RE MEAN! I WANTED SOME HELP! WAHAHAHAH!" Mayu pulled the oldest trick in the book… crying her eyes out like a baby.
"Goddamn it!" Lucy hissed out flustered. "Fine I'll do it but I'll do it once only but if the any of yer bratty little boy students decide to grope me or grab my chest I'll smack 'em via vector where the sun don't shine and they'll be in the hospital for at least a week holding themselves in pain do I make myself clear young lady? Hmm? Well do I?"
"Crystal ok let's go!" Mayu stopping her waterworks in a flash as she piped up and grabbed the Buster's wrist and suddenly dragged her along to the door.
"Egon help me here! Janine! Garret! Kylie! Kohta! Help me! Nana do something help me here Damnit!" Lucy wailed out as she was dragged along by the spry school girl who looked on in part amusement and pity for her. "Damnit kiddo lemme get my traps, goggles and proton pack first!"
"Oops! My bad Luce." Mayu swiftly apologized to the young woman who retrieved her gear.
"I'll be back by 3 o' clock or so if any trouble or calls go to me I'm busy at the moment." Lucy added as she fetched her gear consisting of her trap, get Slimer (who was told to remain invisible no less), PKE Meter, Ecto Goggles, Slime Blower MK2, and pack then was dragged along by the school kid to her "very important" assembly.
-Yokohama Middle School class A6 - Mayu's classroom
Meanwhile across town at the Yokohama Middle School class A6 Mayu was having trouble with her classmates. Her homeroom teacher Mrs. Kamiya finally managed to get the kids settled down. "Ok Mayu what's your report for career day supposed to be on?" The teacher asked the student. Mrs. Emiko Kamiya… well she was a tall trim honey blonde woman in her middle 20's as well as tall. Today she was wearing a beige short sleeved blouse and long dress. Her eyes were a vivid shade of deep blue.
"Well do you all know who the Ghostbusters are hmm? Well I happen to know them personally the rest were busy but I managed to convince Lucy Spengler to come here and explain her profession to us all." The brunette student explained to her class. "Luce they won't bite. She's a bit timid… I'll be back in two seconds." Mayu said scooting out of her classroom and into the hallways.
-hallway – begin Into the Groove by Madonna (I like it so there)
Sneaking into the hallways Mayu saw Lucy leaning against the wall grumbling under her breath. Her scarlet hued and bespectacled eyes were closed while her eyebrows were twitching too. "Sorry Mayu I won't do it there is no way in hell that I am going to subject myself to a bunch of ungrateful little yuppie larva and have some brats disrespect my important profession. So there but just being curious how many are there and how tall?"
"About my height some a bit taller and twenty altogether. Now Luce I thought yer braver than this." The school girl nagged the buster who had serious reservations about going through this… this… this debacle of an assembly.
And so the school girl followed by the 19 year old buster went back into the classroom. Mayu was right there were in fact 20 other kids in there all around her height and size. Looking over the scene she thought. "My god I'm in the hell called junior high." Gathering up her Diclonius sanity the paranormal investigator swallowed her pride and went along with the girl's plan. "Ok my name is Lucille Spengler as you can guess by Mayu's so very thoughtful introduction I am a Ghostbuster meaning I catch ghosts, investigate hauntings, and eliminate them if need be arises."
"Ahh Ghostbusters? Ah dang I thought we gonna have InuYasha here." Complained a boy classmate of Mayu's.
"I must remind you InuYasha is half demon if he rampages around the city I'll bust his canine based hind end plus he's fictional." Lucy added to what the snotty boy said.
"Y'know my uncle says you guys are full of crap and that's why your company went bankrupt after '92." Said another of her snot nosed male classmates.
"Daisuke Motuo mind your manners." Mrs. Kamiya scolded the boy who got all pouty from getting "told".
Walking over to the bratty lad Lucy leaned over him a bit. "Well young man your uncle's a fed and a sell-out pig do you know what a pig is little boy? It's yer uncle. Also mister some folks have trouble believing in the paranormal and supernatural like you."
"You look like a nerd and talk like one too! The kind of nerd who goes to geek sci-fi type conventions." Uttered yet another bratty student this time a tan haired girl named Holly a half American half Japanese student living in the country. Lucy's eyebrow twitched a bit more at hearing the girl's annoying yet also pompous attitude.
"Ok that's it that does it! I've had it Mrs. Kamiya reign yer class in I've never seen such disrespectful children in my life. I'm sick of this shit yes I said shit deal with it ya brats I did not drag my butt here because I'm going to enjoy being made fun of by a group snotty early staged adolescents." Lucy fumed at the stubborn kids. "Now I can leave and have you all do some spelling tests if that's what you all want then so be it."
"Nooooo!" The class moaned and groaned at the thought of more school work.
"That's better ok we'll start from square one… the very material ghosts are composed of ectoplasm which I happen to have a sample right here with me." Lucy said seating herself in a chair while taking a small clear camera film container filled with a sticky viscous material looking somewhat like snot.
"Looks like snot. Like somebody blew their stuffy nose." Commented another of Mayu's female classmates.
"Y'know that's exactly what my old mentor Peter Venkman used to say. Anyways I'll start with the basics now. This tool here is called the PKE Meter 2.3. The letters PKE stand for Psycho-Kinetic Energy." Lucy said taking out a gizmo with a small screen, mounted on a handle, the top has two smaller antennas that had a focused electric wave flowing between them.
"This device works very much like a Divining Rod. These antennae have sensors in their length, and the energy arc between the rods gets more powerful as it closes in on the source of a PKE the meter will begin to buzz more and more in response to approaching a source of PK Energy. Once at the source of the energy, the sensors will buzz noticeably at a greater pitch." Lucy went on explaining about the tool as energy flowed between the spiked prongs.
"Ok next is the Proton Pack… but before you all want one for a birthday or Christmas this pack is not a toy. You all should be worried it's basically an unlicensed nuclear accelerator very dangerous in the wrong hands. The device works by countering negative energy infused ghostly manifestations with a proton stream basically a stream of positively charged ions which can harness the ghost. The proton stream is very dangerous and barely controllable not something I would use indoors way worse than playing ball. The Proton Pack is extremely unique, for they are the only piece of technology in the world that has the ability to strip Electrons away from Protons. It has a hand-held wand known as a "Neutrona Wand" also called a proton gun or particle thrower connected to a backpack-sized particle accelerator. Also a very serious bit of caution never ever under most circumstances cross the blast streams it would very bad to put simply." Lucy then adjusted her glasses a bit after the basic "crossing the streams warning".
"What'll happen then because I'm kinda fuzzy on then idea? An electric shock… will it make you piss yerself?" Asked a redheaded boy named Takeru Ishida.
"Ahh actually not I do wish it were that simple… try to, imagine all life as, you know it stopping instantaneously and all molecules in your bodies exploding at light speed. Total protonic reversal its bad take my word for it. The guys only did it once to defeat Gozer back in 1984. Gozer is or was classified as an extremely exo-dimensional deity. It's also referred to as Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler and Lord of the Sebouillia. Not something you kids would want to run into in a dark alley." Lucy then flexed her shoulder when a loud pop was heard. "Oooh! That's much better my shoulder popped oh boy that's much better. Ok kids anymore questions hmm?"
"Why's yer hair pink and why do you have red eyes that ain't normal." Asked Iori a shorter male classmate of the girl.
"Its dyed I'm an albino so there now you know." Lucy uttered out sweat dropping a bit. "I'm really hating this oh Mayu when this is all over I'm putting the grounding on you." The girl grumbled under her breath.
"You really think we're gonna believe all this ghost and supernatural crap?" Said Yolei yet another of Mayu's classmates.
"Yolei your parents must be so proud to have such a beautiful, adorable, darling, sweet, precious yet very aggravating and ignorable child (Luce narrows her eyes glare at Yolei). Ok you all want proof ok then I'll play that way I didn't want to do it but here goes… Slimer here boy come Slimer I got you a brownie here." Lucy called out as at bizarrely the nearby blackboard began to secrete green ooze when suddenly a green pudgy ball-like type of spook appeared in the room.
"Hello." It said in garbled voice waving at the classroom of students.
The looks of shock on the class's many faces had made it clear they had never seen anything like Slimer before ever. Why was a "ghost" here? Wasn't Lucy supposed to get rid of them? The entire class leaped under their desks in fear including Mrs. Kamiya who peeked up staring at the green glob of a goblin. "You're a buster Miss Spengler shoot it! Shoot it now! Catch it! Bust it! Do something! Anything!" Spat out a girl named Megumi who hid under her desk.
"No! NO! NO! Slime's a friend please everyone come out! He's harmless… mostly." Mayu uttered the last bit trying to calm her class and her teacher down.
"As Mayu said Slimer's harmless for the most part. Slimer is what's classified as a Class 5 full roaming vapor or a focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm. He's mostly harmless Ray used to refer to him as the ghost of the late John Belushi… all he wants to do is eat and have a good time." Lucy finished her explanation when Slimer the specter opened its yap wanting the brownie she mentioned. "I'm sorry no brownie sorry I said it to get you in here… why are you looking at me that way? No you wouldn't dare you wouldn't dare try it. Oh crap..."
Slimer then gave the pink haired girl a real tongue lashing leaving her covered in neon green ooze that dripped off her chin. "Like I said mostly harmless as you can see he slimed me. We the Ghostbusters take full credit for turning "slimed" into an adverb. Anyways Slimer's been a big help over the years the information learned from him is invaluable to paranormal research." The woman then cleaned the stuff off her face using a pocket hand towel and ectoplasm cleanser she developed as a spray.
"What can Slimer do besides sliming people or haunting a place?" A bright deep red haired girl named Miki Segusa asked next.
"What do you think he can go invisible to human eyes, hide in walls, eat, and throw the room's objects around and scare you silly which apparently he did when he showed up." The scientific girl explained.
"Ok so what other kinds of scientific gizmos do you use Miss Spengler?" Asked the class and self proclaimed science geek Koushiro Izumi. He was a shorter student bearing bright brown hair with a medium red tint to it.
Taking off the various tools from her belt and backpack she set them all on the nearby table. "Ok I happen to have my Ecto Goggles to see paranormal activity the human eye can't see along with other invisible phenomena. The purpose of the Muon Trap or just trap is obvious… it's used for catching ghosts. Slime Blower MK2 that is a self generating base culture of ectoplasm used to spray positively charged "mood slime" for a variety of things like a tether to hold a ghost before capture or throwing a PKE affected object into something."
The buster explained as she pointed to the bizarre looking half binocular half goggle like viewer, then to the midsized orange circular trap, then to the large blaster type tool where a small tank of pink ooze bubbled around. The tank must hold the slime the young woman spoke of.
"The proton pack could we see a demo of it in action?" A blonde boy named Marcus asked her as then the whole class got in sad puppy face mode complete with quivering lips.
"The face won't work I already said the proton pack and neutrona wand are not toys so no so stop the sad eyes." Lucy said sternly closing her eyes in frustration while adjusting her glasses telling the kids not to use a puppy face on her inciting a wave of groans. "And the same goes for the trap but I can show you how the Ecto goggles and PKE meter work consider it a compromise of sorts. Now watch as I take the meter and wave it over the ectoplasm sample… (device lights up green) there you go point at ectoplasmic material or if you think it was there point it away it goes red green is better. Ok… um Koushiro could you hide the sample somewhere in the room and the rest of you close your eyes I will too come to think of it."
Luce turned around and closed her eyes shut awaiting the signal from the boy. "Done."
"Ok Daisuke I want you to use the meter to find where the sample is." Lucy told the 6th grader boy who gave her a rather funny skeptical look. "Just follow along little boy look around and slowly wave it back and forth until the readings get higher."
"Don't call me little boy I'm 13 years old not a little boy. This is so stupid ghosts and slime." The boy muttered getting grumpy at the notion of real supernatural business.
"Mr. Motuo behave a guest speaker show respect to Ms. Spengler or is Miss err whichever it is." Mrs. Kamiya scolded the boy again as he went about scanning the room for the sample of gooze.
"Oh don't worry I'm not married it's my adoptive fathers last name from Egon Spengler I'm only 19." The woman confessed shyly to Mayu's teacher.
The boy kept up his sweeping of the room when the tool suddenly got higher readings from… of all places the top shelf of the cabinet used for storing extra class supplies. "Hey I got something… over there at the cabinet. Come to Daisuke you snot." He said as the meter was going into overdrive as he pointed it up at the upper shelf showing this was where the plasm was.
"Oh Slimer could you get that for me please?" The girl said to the ghost who then fetched the sample from the tall cabinet then unlocked it from the inside then exited it.
"Ha ha!" He said getting into a happy mood.
Glaring upon him Luce knew what he might do. "No Slimer no licky no you got me? No." Brushing her pink cotton candy hued locks the girl decided what should be next. "Well I guess now I should give a small tutorial on the Ecto Goggles. Ok I need a volunteer please."
A brunette boy with messy locks named Masaru Daimon raised his hand since no else was. "I'll do it I'll volunteer."
"Ok Slimer hide somewhere and go invisible and Masaru now put the goggles and find him. Slimer hide yerself good and keep invisible I want to prove my point." The pink haired woman said to the ghost as he vanished from sight.
"Now do I just look around or something?" The student asked the guest speaker how to do his demo.
"Yup." Was all Lucy said back to him.
The boy looked around the room as his classmates and teacher watched him try to locate the ghost called Slimer who'd hidden himself somewhere in the room. He looked around, under, up, downward, and everywhere until suddenly he saw something making the tool's meter go nuts. A patch of glowing green ooze marked a spot on the blackboard behind Mrs. Kamiya's desk. The boy went over to the spot then pushed up the goggles to look it over but didn't see a thing there. "But it was there I saw it how'd it disappear?"
"I can answer that one… that's what the paranormal investigator named Tobin calls it "Ectoplasmic Resonant Residue" its ectoplasm invisible to the human eye but the goggles can see it just fine. Put the goggles on again it'll prove it." The young woman told the boy and his class.
Masaru tried it again and bam there it was once again sticking to the blackboard. "It's back. Ok Slimer c'mon out."
The class heard a grumpy sounding snort coming from the board. Slimer phased out from it looking miffed. "BLEAGH!" Slimer gave the whole class the raspberries somewhat splattering them in slime.
Wiping off the gloppy stuff from her porcelain hued face Lucy asked the class something else. "Now any questions about me personally?" The Spengler girl asked the group of kids.
"So do you have any hobbies Miss Spengler?" Asked Miki.
Putting on her thinking face the girl was answered in a dry manner to Miki. "I collect spores, molds and fungus. I read a lot in my spare time some say I'm too intelligent. I don't really have time for boys even if I wasn't an albino I'd be the school's biggest geek."
"I'd ask you out if I was a few years older." Koushiro said then clamping his hands over his mouth going beet red in embarrassment knowing he made a mistake saying what he said out loud.
A nearby redheaded girl named Kimiko student's whose desk to Koushiro then tossed a remark at him. "You ask every girl you meet out Koushiro."
"And they'd always refuse… Koushiro you're a totally hopeless geek." A snotty brown haired classmate named Riko said to him.
"Well I say to you all Koushiro may be a geek now but in college he'll be an engineering or stock broker rolling in money. Make fun of him now because years later he'll get the last laugh and be a bigshot." Lucy said narrowing her eyes and mildly smirking upon the class while getting an envious look from the geekish boy.
-and so
Needless to say the buster went about her nastiest ghosts she fought over the years… like Tenabrag the eyeball stealing demon and he was the only known Class 13 entity either of the two team's have ever seen. She talked about the child brainwashing and also ugly Grundel, Vigo the Carpathian who attacked the city in the late holiday time of '89. She explained Egon and the other's told her about the old events prompting her to study it more.
Lucy then spoke about Egon Spengler and Janine Melnitz the closest things she had to parents. Her relationship with the Real Ghostbusters and both team's teamup called "Back in the Saddle" fighting a Metal Eating Entity alias "Class 4 Self Replicating Feeder". Once it was defeated for good a strange dark storm rolled into the entire seaboard… it was in fact the "Bermuda Triangle Ghost" which was a giant, black, cloud-like mass of goo that devoured everything it touches. It was responsible for the countless ship and recently plane disappearances over the centuries there.
She and he team faced a Sphinx a humanoid winged lion-like creature asking the riddle "What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at Night?" Egon figured it out where no else had. The answer was humanity… humanity walks on four as a baby, two as a grown man, and in old age with his own cane, points it out with the cane as the third leg. She went on about the creepy ghosts referred to as "Vathack" led the fat, ugly Crainiac who had a buzz saw stuck in his head who was assisted by Corepuscle a big specter with the eyes on his hands and no head. Their final comrade was the tall Gristle with the neck brace, and drills for hands.
Lucy brought along photos of them taken from inside the containment unit in the firehouse basement. They were as ugly like she described them. She explained about the time the group faced the powerful Tempus a ghost who ruled a "Ghost Apocalyptic Future" in the New York City and world of a fallen future, when humanity's supremacy has been usurped by Paranormal Beings. Tempus was a very difficult entity to take down as he could exist simultaneously two separate time-planes. Despite being separated by nearly a century he was still ultimately defeated. This really got the class's attention as they figured it was more than basic haunted houses being cursed and poltergeists running around.
Another extremely powerful entity was the spirit of Halloween "Samhain" a dangerous pumpkin headed ghost. Years later in the unit he was presumably overthrown by the godlike ghost Surt a bringer of the worldwide cataclysm known as "Ragnorok".
Now getting off the subject of ghosts she went to her friends and fellow busters… First was Kylie Griffon a gothic college senior occult expert. As the team's fellow supernatural expert the Lucy viewed Kylie like an elder sister something she never had. Eduardo however was like the team idiot who was hopelessly lost on all missions… however he lately had put more priority into his classes, more paranormal research and grades therefore was a much smarter guy to hang out with. Roland was the team mechanic, engineer, and upkeep. His job was to make sure the gizmos, Ecto-1 and tools always were in tip top condition and make adjustments as well as repairs if needed. Garret however though wheelchair bound was frankly the team's courage or in as he colorfully called it "the guts". She went to explain why Mayu was absent for a few weeks… a demon had in fact digested her mother and boyfriend and she was in the psyche ward. The class finally started understanding the delicate matter of paranormal study and investigation and its dangers.
-meanwhile however
Meanwhile however spooky things were afoot all over the school as ectoplasmic energy invisible to the human eye was being emitted from various cracked sections of the building's basement. Upstairs in the school library the book shelves including the books themselves and printer absorbed the energy. The cafeteria's utensils also absorbed it as did the very hallway walls around Mayu's class. In short strange things were going to start happening soon… Can Lucy stop it?
However by the time 12:12 PM rolled around it was time for lunch… meaning it was time for a break. Luce as getting a bit famished herself luckily she packed herself a vanilla pudding, Milk Chug, brownie, and pita pocket sandwich with bean sprouts, shredded cheddar cheese and roast beef.
-cafeteria
The class finally sat down to eat though Slimer was told to remain invisible until lunch was over. The class's discussion was about Lucy's lack of romance… where even the boys jumped on to comment on. "I don't get it Luce how can a lovely woman like yourself be single?" Koushiro asked the girl.
"I'm a nerd. Boys rarely make passes at girls in glasses it's a sad but true fact." She replied back to him.
"What about Kohta? What about him?" The inn resident asked the investigator curiously.
Thinking over the issue then kicking it out of her brain thinking it impossible. "Kohta? Him liking me? Poppycock I say pure poppycock. He only likes pretty girls in fact he probably has tons of college babes to chase after while Yuka keeps him reigned in." Lucy figured there was no way in hell Kohta would take a liking to her… after all who'd fall in love with a mutant freak… a Diclonius like her? With her disgusting horns and deadly vectors?
"But you are kinda pretty now that I think about it." Daisuke admitted shyly blushing.
Looking over the group of students the Spengler woman again disagreed. "Look drop it it's a mute subject Kohta does not like me no boy does end of discussion." The kids and their guest then ate in silence as danger was soon to strike the building.
-back in class
Back in the classroom all along the subject was now onto types of paranormal and supernatural phenomenon such as Psychokinetic Levitation where objects would literally float around unhindered by gravity forces. Then she spoke about Pyschomagnetheric slime or "mood slime" as it was called that covered the New York museum of art back in '89 and revived the powerful spirit of "Vigo the Carpathian" or as his real name was "Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf".
Living to the age of 105 years old he was not a well liked ruler… as he was often called Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. Before his death he had created a portrait of himself to use as a sprit vessel to hold his evil twisted soul.
He revived on New Year's Eve '89-90 only to finally be destroyed… or so it seemed as years later in the date of '94 the painting had returned to its previous image. The curator Janosz Poha feared the ghost was seeking revenge. Egon and Lucy investigated only to find thankfully that despite Vigo returning to his painting still held what's left of Vigo after his defeat, and after some time it returned to its normal form (Vigo painting). However, Vigo's spirit is now nearly powerless and unable to act outside the painting, making it unessential to even put him into the Containment Unit.
However before Lucy could explain anything else the classmate of Mayu's named Yolie asked to use the bathroom hall pass and exited the classroom only the room heard a loud shrieking as more and more rounds of students and teachers as well joined in. Looking over the class of kids and teacher the girl mentioned for them to stay put. "You all stay put I'll go look around and see what we're dealing with."
Mrs. Kamiya carefully opening up the door for the Ghostbuster while holding her students safe from whatever was out there in the halls. Lucy looked out and around with her scarlet hued eyes where she was in total shock. The hall was tilted into a slight spiraling twist… which meant only one thing and one thing only. The 13th Floor Effect. "My god the 13th Floor Effect I never thought I'd see this kind of thing ever."
Yolie saw Lucy there in the door and cried out to her. "Lucy help me! Help me!" The girl was hanging onto a doorknob from an open bathroom door.
"Hold on I'm coming! I hope this Slime Tether Egon and I developed works… otherwise." Moving fast the girl switched on the slime blower section of her proton gun then fired a burst of pink ooze onto the wall nearby to Yolei. "I know it's gross but just grab the tether! You can use it to get over to me!"
The girl did as she was told jumping to the slime tether then down it toward the investigator. "What's going on! Everything's topsy turvy here."
"The 13th Floor Effect. It's a paranormal event which alters the very area using old PKE from a building's past it's not good the very building is being heavily altered. I have to get you all out of here and capture the ghosts doing it." The nerdette explained as the two jumped back through the class door.
-back in the classroom
The interior of the classroom wasn't affected by the supernatural so it was safe for the moment but only for a short time. "We're safe for the moment but not for very long… huh? What's that rumbling?" At that moment giant violet crystalline growths burst from the floors blocking the windows and preventing escape.
Mrs. Kamiya was at a loss at what to do. "I've got gotten a call from the principal he's evacuating the building. The faculty and student body have managed to exit via the windows except us that is I'll be honest I don't know what to do kids this is new for me. Plus our windows are blocked."
"It's up to me then I know this stuff like the back of my hand I'll getting all of you out. Huh?" Lucy's PKE meter started up getting a good sized reading. "Hmm… students and Mrs. Kamiya something's here and it's not Slimer. Follow me out the door and don't move until I say so."
The group of students, their teacher, and Lucy slowly stepped along the twisted hallway that had been reconfigured by the massive ectoplasmic disturbance in the building. Hearing something fluttering around the hallway corner Lucy stopped the group. "Mrs. Kamiya is the school library this way?"
Thinking a bit the school teacher answered. "Yes it is judging from the collapsed hallway we'll have to cut through it." The woman pointed at the fallen debris in the hall's center section.
"Ok class keep calm and no sudden movements unless Miss Spengler says so ok?" The woman said to the class.
-school library
Inching toward the library door the group saw what appeared to books flying around like bats. "Those are Book Bats a Class 3 Psychokinetic Manipulation Event… they're books that fly around like bats." She looked further into the school library and saw more entities roaming around. There were creatures constructed from the various books and their pages on the shelves.
"What're those things supposed to be?" Daisuke asked the buster as the group hid behind a shelf.
Also nearby to the library printer was a group of five paper things plus a few others were built from book pages like novels and chapter books. "Printer Paper and Literature Page Zombies both Class 2 Organic Physical Conglomerates. Plus that's a Book Golem a higher class I've heard of them but never seen one before."
Floating around the librarian lounge was a creepy looking ghost scarfing down some coffee from the coffee maker. It was green and somewhat resembled Slimer. Lucy used the PKE to scan it. "Hmmm a common library phantasm. This one's a Class 4… hmm type: Free Roaming Floater, not very strong but still I wouldn't mess with them without my pack very common in places where books are found like libraries, laboratories, book stores and barns plus yard and garage sales. The team finds them around everywhere. Kids don't make any sudden moves or noises we don't want it to know we're here."
-begin Stargazers by Nightwish
As the ghoul quenched its thirst upon the coffee the student, teacher and Lucy crept slowly and stealthily by it when a book loosened by unseen forces fell right on top of Yolei's head eliciting a cry of pain from the girl. "Oww!"
The ghost heard the cry then it took after the group half roaring at them. "Ahh shit… Sudden movements sudden movements! Run hide I'll take him out." The rosette yelled out as she took out her proton gun. "Yo ghost suck proton beam don't know how it's done like this."
Pressing the activation button the blaster sent out a beam of energy which apparently was immobilized by the beam. "RAHHHH! RAHHHHH!" The undead beast screamed as sit tried thrashing and get out of the proton beam.
"No ya don't here have a new home!" Lucy called out as she threw one of her traps under the specter. Pressing the trap trigger by hand the device opened sucking the ghost inside.
"Yahhhh!" The kids called out as she was triumphant at getting the ghoul. However the noise had attracted the paper zombies and book golem.
"Double ahh shit." Lucy cussed out as she put on her Ecto-Goggles to find weak point in the conglomerate apparitions.
Using the goggles the pink haired girl found a few weak points in the book clumps "arm" and "shoulder" joints. The girl let loose the proton stream upon the large golem which thrashed about trying to escape the proton beam's grasp. With a good yank from the beam and a new upgrade Lucy added into the packs called "Boson Dart". "Hey bookworm eat Boson Dart!"
"RAORRRRR!" The thing bellowed out as a powerful pulse of energy was sent through the blast stream which caused the golem to expel its accumulated mass or in lay terms… it blew up sending book pages everywhere. Scratching her left cheek the girl lamented a bit. "Hmm too much power I think over did it a wee bit."
The various paper zombies then began their attack upon the investigator by charging her only she used her invisible vectors to block their paper rapier stabs and swipes. But it would prolong her escape from the building plus she had Mayu's teacher and class to evacuate. "Ok you origami rejects suck proton beam."
The buster then essentially blasted the various paper constructs into charred litter but more ended up forming. "Haven't had enough fun yet huh well here eat more protons it'll make you strong!" Lucy sassed to the paper manifestations as she blew and burned up more only again more formed leaving the girl dumbfounded. "Ok something tells me that proton beams aren't working. Huh… oh c'mon gimme a break!"
Lucy saw the printer was possessed by ghostly energy and was sending out more paper to build more zombies. Essentially unlimited frankly which meant she'd have to take out the printer. "Shit again! I'll get flak for this I know it. Mrs. Kamiya I'll have to destroy the printer otherwise the zombies will keep coming!"
The proton stream then shot out again toward the unprotected device blowing it up into bits of burned plastic, glass, metal and paper. The various paper zombies then fell apart unable to hold their shape after their source point was destroyed. "Whew! That was a blast." Holly added upon seeing the printer's explosive end.
"The city of New York can pay you back for the damage my sincere apologies Mrs. Kamiya." Lucy said looking over the ruined library.
The school teacher then looked the buster over a bit. "Well all my class is still alive so I guess that's a good thing. A library can be replaced a student's life can't c'mon let's keep going."
-soon
The group exited the possessed library and used a slime tether to get down the demolished stairs and made their way to the cafeteria area which was swarming with supernatural activity. "Ooh boy talk about Hell's Kitchen. Uh Miss Spengler the pots and pans are floating around in the kitchen what kind of ghost is that?" Iori said looking around the cafeteria kitchen corner.
Looking around the corner with her micro periscope she knew what they were. "Kitchen Wisps… a Class 1 Psychokinetic Manipulation Event not much to worry about. Just follow my and run like hell is after you."
Jumping around to get the possessed pots and silverware's attention she whistled to them. "They" then "took notice" of her. "Yo you yeah you the Hell's Kitchen rejects you go on PPV it's better for money no censorship."
The various knives and forks began speeding at her while she was busy blasting the pots and metal cooking pans being heaved her way. "Ahhh! WOW! HEY! NO! No! Wow! EEEHHH! Whew. That was close." The Spengler woman mused at stopping a knife heaved right at her face… she "cut" it very close.
Stepping along into the oven, stovetop, dishwasher and drying rack the group came upon two very disgusting looking ghosts. The first resembled a caterpillar made up of green slime ridden violet hued eyes with an insectoid-like head. It bore two larger lavender eyes on the side plus two tiny ones on the snout's blunt base. Lavender whiskers adorned the mouth. It was devouring the leftovers from yesterday's lunch time.
The second bizarre looking creature consisted of 10 orange hued spheroid segments each bearing an open eye which all stared around the area looking for trouble. The head if it could be called a head at all had a violet colored pupil in the eye while magenta hued insect-like mandibles crunched away at the garbage disposal in the sink attempting to eat the shredded food remnants inside.
"A 100-Eyed Centipede I never thought I'd see one of those things." Lucy mused while keeping the students back. "Let's see yup like Peter said it was a Class 6 Demon Insectoid manifestation. The green one is a Broccoli Worm also a Class 6 Demon Insectoid manifestation."
"Ugly looking things bet every time they look in a mirror they break it from how ugly their face's are." Daisuke muttered out as the things shifted their bodies a bit as a set of eyed segments turned to look upon the students, their teacher and the buster.
Mayu said to her classmate. "I think they both just heard you Daisuke."
"Crap." He hissed out.
The giant sized unholy things then charged at the group but the buster shoved the kids and their teacher aside one way via vector arms while pushing herself out of the twin beast's way of rampage. "Oversized nightcrawlers suck proton beam!"
The centipede beast was captured by the stream only the broccoli worm then attacked the thing attacking it's apparently comrade of a spook. Cutting the beam Lucy jumped out of the way via vector assistance. "Eeeeppppp!" She cried as she landed upon her two feet as the two undead creature's circled around her like sharks moving in for the kill.
"Damnit! I can't aim at two thing's at once! I only have one proton gun! Mayu take the last trap throw it somewhere so I can round the other this way. Here think fast!" Lucy called to the girl as she heaved the ghost trap to the girl who just barely caught it. "Mrs. Kamiya I know it's crazy but have the class distract one of them I'll get the other!"
"Hey you ya ugly nightcrawler come get me!" Daisuke called to the broccoli worm which in turn decided to chase him around.
However Holly popped up her head taunting the thing even more throwing a ladle at its head. "No over here you stupid maggot! Come get me!"
"No here!" Called out Iori from behind a chair.
Yolei then spat at it next calling from a counter. "No maggotface over here."
"I always hated cooked broccoli! You make me sick!" Now even Mrs. Kamiya got into the act drawing the very angered creature away from the buster.
"C'mon worm boy come get me!" Mayu taunted the beast which after some thinking in its tiny brain decided to take after her.
Running along the kitchen she winked at Takeru to throw the trap they hidden behind a serving counter. "Takeru now do it!" Marcus called to his classmate as the boy pressed the trigger sucking the dreaded Broccoli Worm inside never to be seen again.
Seeing the great job the class and their teacher did the buster knew she could finish the job now. Running at the 100-Eyed Centipede Miss Spengler yelled out. "C'mon you undead bastard c'mon take me on c'mon gimme what ya got!"
Roaring at the runty buster the centipede ghoul reared its large hefty body up towering over the Diclonii girl and tried to drop itself on her. But Luce rolled out of the way and the beast tried using its projectile slime vomit. Using her vector once again she jump flipped over the unholy thing then again wrangled it with the proton stream entangling it for good. "C'mere bugboy I got a good place for ya in my private zoo!"
Throwing the last trap Lucy triggered its switch and inside the ghost went never to be seen again. Holly saw they were near an exit. "Oh c'mon let's get outta here c'mon guys teach let's go!"
And so the group finally escaped the school filled with ghouls as the news and media was there watching the event unfold. A reporter wanted to interview the buster. "So what it's like being a Ghostbuster Miss Spengler."
"Well it's slime ridden, often times frightening job but in this case very rewarding so kids what'd ya learn? Still think my job's a bunch of crap ehh Daisuke?" The pink haired girl ruffled the boy's hair a bit having with him.
"Alright I give it ain't crap it's a load of cool! I ain't 'fraid of no ghost!" He said grinning for the local news cameras showing off and being a ham.
"Ok young lady it's about time we get back to where we belong come on Mayu let's go home I'm exhausted." The girl said stretching her arms out.
"Yeah home peace and quiet." The girl agreed as Lucy revved up her cycle and sped off toward the Inn.
-Inn
The group had seen the report on the tube. "Hmm who knew Luce was a kid type of girl." Eduardo mused at the report on the school.
"I'm not I don't have the patience for them." Lucy huffed as she stormed into the building looking very frustrated and worse for the wear.
Mayu was grinning like a kid in a candy store because of how exciting her day was. "Oh miss Mayu you will never pull this type of thing again do I make myself clear young lady?" Lucy drilled the petite brunette sternly glaring at her a bit. "You are a clever little girl but try this again ooh you'll get a sliming or whatever nasty thing I can think up so I warned you once remember it."
"Hmm we'll see." She said back as Lucy fell into an easy chair wore out from the day's work. "I got put these ghosts into the Ecto-1's compact containment unit."
"So that's where you put them. I wondered about it." The college girl admitted as she was curious where the team put them at.
"Well we can't send 'em by Fed-X." Garret joked to Yuka.
"That unit is my own design I borrowed some elements from Egon's work though. Well I better get to it wanna get these uglies outta the way and fast." Lucy said going back outside and opening the trunk to Ecto-1.
Near the inside was a small red tank resembling a giant battery Lucy fitted the trap into the trap shaped slot and activated the key combination. There was a flushing sound then the light on the unit was now green. "Trap is clean now the others." Lucy repeated the same thing for the other traps and the ghosts were now contained.
-to be continued
Folks EctoVectors is now at a whopping 11 chapters so far. Yes the slime will play a role here in the next two chapters. Anyways how is the story so far? Good? Crap? What then? Anyway got some really interesting stuff planned for this story so stay tuned for further chapters. Also expect some creepy stuff to go on at the facility and it's beyond even Kuramas control… What could it be? Well keep reading to find out. This has been writer TURP and I hope you folks are enjoying my crazed crossovers. Please look into Yokohama Night Monsters, Neon Genesis Nightwarriors, Power Rangers Dimension Legends, DGW Diclonius Guyver Warrior, Diclonius Goddess of Steel, and Maverick Hunter KLN they need reviewing and critique. Peace out people… bye.