Dark Side Of The Moon
A Ghostbusters/Sailor Moon Crossover
By Dan Ectodude Shannon

Chapter 23
Gotta Get In

Starlight Tower
7:32 PM

Both men proceeded to walk to the front doors of the large building. Winston went for the right door, and Dan the left. The tried to pull the doors open, but they were locked. Dan walked back a little, and tried to kick in the glass paneling, but it didn't effect the door. This time, Dan and Winston tried to kick in the door together, but both of them ended up jamming there kneecaps. They limped as they looked at the door...

Winston: What's the deal? Why can't we get in?

Dan took out his Ecto-Goggles, and looked at the doors. His mouth dropped open...

Dan: Winston... You need to see this.

He took off the goggles, and handed them to his partner...

Winston: Holy shit!

Through the view of the goggles, Winston saw fluxing red and green power. It moved about the walls like slime. It looked almost like what happened to the Manhattan Museum of art 6 years ago, except it couldn't be seen with the naked eye. Winston slowly took the goggles off his face.

Dan: So, what do we do?

Winston: Lets try to blast it.

They took their throwers off their packs, and switched on. On the highest power the packs could give off, they fired at the door. The doors sucked in the power like Oil-Dry to an oil spill. After a straight minuet, they shut off the beams. Dan looked at the door with the goggles, and found only one weak spot about the size of a dime in the door.

***

Back in the Ecto-1, the other 3 Ghostbusters, and all five girls were stuck in traffic. They did avoid Malholland, but ended up stuck on Abercorn Drive instead. Ray kept glancing down to his watch, as it read 7:36.

Serena: Ray, can't you just drive over these people or something?!

Peter: He usually does.

Egon: Peter!

Peter: What? Was I lying?

Ray: Look, maybe the biker at Central Park was an accident, but that's all it was, an accident!

Amy: We are wasting precious time going this way. Doctor Stantz, go through the park.

Ray: You got it!

Ray cut the wheel, and moved onto the shoulder. He turned onto Parkview lane, only to be stopped by more traffic...

Mina: Amy, that wasn't a good idea! Everyone knows Parkview is always jammed this time of night!

Ray: She didn't say Parkview...

Ray cut the wheel again, and started driving on the grass of the park...

Ray: She said the park.

Everyone clinched onto something as Ray proceeded to step on it. He stayed parallel to the street as he drove in his normal style: like a maniac. People saw the blue lights and heard the unique low-moan siren from a distance, and moved out of the way as fast as they could. Everyone in the cab of the ambulance was bouncing around.

Amy tried her best to steady herself in the bouncing car, as she took reading to look for an open road for Ray to pull the car onto. She found one...

Amy: Turn left!

Ray looked over to where she wanted him to turn...

Ray: That's a hill!

Amy: It's the only other place to turn! Go left!

He grabbed the top of the wheel, and did a complete 365 rotation on it. Ecto-1 went up the hill, and at the peak, flew off the top. The car smashed into a wooden fence, flew over the cars that were caught in traffic, and landed in the street intersecting the one with the traffic. Everyone in the converted ambulance was tense, except Ray and Amy.

Raye: That has got to have been the scariest experience I have ever had!

Serena: Were you crazy! Why did you do that!?

Amy: It was the only street that was clear for another 3 blocks. It was the only way.

Peter: Look at it this way, at least you don't have to ride with him ALL of the time!

Ray shot Peter a look. Peter did a sheepish shrug, and once again stayed quite. Lita leaned in from the back seat, and looked out the windshield. She pointed...

Lita: There it is!

It was indeed the tower. Ray slammed on the gas harder...

***

Dan was across the street, getting ready to ram the door. He waited for Winston's signal...

Winston: Go!

Dan ran for one of the many doors in the front of the building. He jumped, and rammed face first into the door. When Dan made contact, he didn't just simply crush his face in the door. The glass suddenly turned into latex rubber-like substance, and Dan was caught suspended in the rubber for moment, then was thrown like a rock from a sling shot. Winston looked up with a confused expression as his partner flew overhead. Shortly after Dan hit the ground, and look up and over to Winston...

Dan: Your turn.

That was then they both turned their attentions to the familiar sound of Ecto-1's siren. The 59 Cadillac screeched around the corner, and stopped 2 feet in front of Lucky Black's front bumper. Everyone jumped from the car, and looked at the two Ghostbusters that had arrived early...

Egon: I thought I instructed you two to wait in the lobby of the building until we arrived!

Dan: Well, we would have done that IF THE DOORS WERE OPEN!

Raye: What?

Winston: That asshole sealed off the entrance of the building. We even fired at it, and it did little. After every shot we took, we tried to break through the window by running into the spot which was effected with the beams fire. So far, we've been thrown from the window each time.

Jupiter: Mind if we take a swing at it?

The Ghostbusters turned to the girls, who had now transformed into the Sailor Scouts.

Dan: Dang, you're quiet!

Venus: We had plenty of practice.

Ray: I'm sure.

Egon: Alright, let them take a shot. Gentlemen, give them some room.

The Ghostbusters walked to the side of Ecto-1, as they watched Sailor Jupiter line up with the doors...

Dan: Are you sure you can do this?

Jupiter: I did it before! Don't worry!

She began her attack. An antenna came out of the front of her tiara as lightning suddenly attracted to it...

Jupiter: Jupiter... Thunder... Crash!

The small ball of lightning flew outward, and made contact with the door. The attack didn't destruct the door, nor did it dissipate. It stayed suspended at the door...

Dan: What in the...?

The attack suddenly flew from the door, and started flying toward the Ghostbusters, naming Dan...

Dan: ...FUCK!

They all ducked behind Ecto as the ball of electricity hit a fire hydrant across the street. The hose connection that was pointing towards Dan popped off, and a huge stream of water started rushing towards him...

Dan: Hoe-LEE SHIT!

Everyone else moved, but Dan was unfortunately drenched in water. He tried to fight the water flow to yell...

Dan: SHUT IT OFF! SHUT IT OFF! IT'S COLD! DEAR GOD, IT'S COLD!

The Ghostbusters unhooked their throwers, and fired at the hydrant. The metal water port was then melted over, and the water flow stopped. The Sailor Scouts and the Ghostbusters walked up to Dan...

Jupiter: Dan! Dan, are you ok?!

Dan: That had to of been the worst cold shower experience I had ever had in my life. Good thing though, I don't have to wash the cars now.

He stood up, shivering and dripping wet...

Moon: You'd better get out of that wet stuff, or you'll get hypothermia!

Dan: I have an extra suit in the truck. I'll be back.

***

7:51

Everyone was now getting nervous. They couldn't get in, and both sides were for the most part powerless. Egon and Mercury figured out what happened with Jupiter's attack...

Egon: You see, with this invisible wall of ectoplasm, and your powers being made from electrons, whatever attacks you have, no matter how powerful, cannot penetrate this wall of negative shielding. They will just bounce off like a rubber ball off the floor.

Mercury: And since Jedite has so much power, the Ghostbusters' equipment do not have enough power to repel the wall enough so that we can just open the door free of shielding.

Mars: Wait, our powers are used for Good. How come they won't work on the wall?

Egon: Good, evil... it doesn't matter. All supernatural magic powers are all made of electrons, and when you put two negative sides together, they will just repel like two south ends of a magnet. Intention of power and physics of power are two completely different phases of thinking.

Mercury: What we need to do is find out is how are we going to penetrate the wall, and the door in less then ten minuets.

Voice: I've got an idea.

Everyone turned around to find Dan wearing this back-up suit; an olive drab green jumpsuit with magenta trim, and a fitted Chicago Blackhawks hat turned backwards.

Ray: What is it?

Dan: Each time me and Winston shot at the doors with our packs, the shielding was effected a small bit. I figure if we open a big enough weak spot in the shielding, the Scouts can fire their most powerful attacks, or at least powerful enough attacks, at the door, blowing it completely off the hinges. Only problem is, we won't have enough power left in our packs to fight Jedite. Egon, if you have any ideas in power boosting for the Packs, now is the time.

Egon: Well, I don't have any ideas for the packs, but I do have something that might work.

Egon went to the back of Ecto-1, opened the back door, and pulled out a carry case. He put it on the hood, and opened it. He pulled out two menacing pistol-like devices, and handed them to Dan and Winston, then he took out two more, and handed them to Peter and Ray...

Egon: These are called Ectoplasmic Destabilizing Pistols, dubbed after the original Atomic Destabilizing Rifle. After your trainee mission, Dan, we dismantled the rifle you fixed, and redesigned the matrix into something of a semi-blast pistol. Raymond and myself have been working on them for weeks on end, and now we are ready to test them.

Dan: Ok, I guess I can wing this. Ok, here's what we're going to do: Peter, Ray and Winston will fire at the door with their throwers. Egon, you and me will take Ecto-goggles, and continuously fire at the weak spot in the door. When we get readings down to around 9.25, you Scouts will fire your attacks at the middle of the doors. How's that sound?

Everyone: Lets do it!

Dan: Alight! We have a plan! And we only have ::checks watch:: 3 minuets to do it in! Positions!

3 minuets left.

Peter, Ray and Winston got on the other sides of the truck and the ambulance where they were facing the door. Dan and Egon stood behind the vehicles and pointed the pistols over the hoods of both vehicles with Ecto-goggles over their eyes. The Scouts stood ready behind Dan and Egon.

Egon: Fire!

Peter, Ray and Winston fired three beams of proton energy at the doors. In Dan and Egon's POV, a small hole formed in the dead center of the door. Egon started firing first, then Dan. The first shot he had ever taken with the pistol almost dislocated Dan's shoulder. He looked at the pistol...

Dan: Damn, Skippy!

Egon: Daniel, keep firing! We have to get those readings down!

2 minuets

Egon was having a hard time trying to aim his pistol with pinpoint accuracy, but Dan kept hitting the spot exactly with each depression of the trigger. It grew bigger with each shot.

59 seconds

Peter: Reading!?

Dan: 10.1! 9.35! 8.502! Girls, go for it!

Moon: Cosmic...

Mercury: Shine...

Mars: Mars...

Jupiter: Jupiter...

Venus: Venus...

40 seconds.

Moon: Moon...

Mercury: Aqua...

Mars: Celestial Fire...

Jupiter: Thunder Clap...

Venus: Crescent Beam...

35 seconds.

Moon: Power!

Mercury: Illusion!

Mars: Surround!

Jupiter: Zap!

Venus: Smash!

All five attacks formed midair. Dan was the only one who could see it coming...

Dan: HIT THE DECK!

Everyone stopped firing, and cover as the mixture of attacks collided with the door. A bright flash emerged as an explosion appeared along with it. 10 seconds to go, everyone stood up, and ran inside.

They made it.

To Be Continued...