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

Chapter 32
Strange Indeed

11:02

Voice 1: Hey, can you hear me? Come on, wake up!

Voice 2: Did he hurt himself that bad?

Voice 1: Well, we won't know until he wakes up. Come on, homeboy, come back to us!

Dan was partly conscious, but was still unable to come out of it. The first voice sounded like a man's voice, and the second sounded like a girl's. He felt himself weaving in and out of partial consciousness. He was about to lose it when he felt something cold trickling on his face. His eyes snapped open, and he saw 2 sets of green glowing eyes in front of him, in silhouettes of the sub-demons.

Dan leapt from his position, and went to choking the shorter one. He screamed at the top of his lungs...

Dan: YOU MOTHERFUCKER! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HER?! AAAHHHHHH!

The other demon came up from behind, and restrained him. The short one came up, and slapped him across the face. Dan was knocked out again.

Sailor Mars gripped her throat as he tried to breathe again. Winston Zeddemore dragged Dan's limp body back to the desk he was laying on, then turned to Mars...

Winston: I told you bringing him into consciousness like that was going to be a problem! Never dump water on someone like that!

Mars: What did he do that for?!

Winston: That was a reflex action.

Mars: But, why did he choke me?

Winston: His system went into shock when you tried to wake him up, and that triggered something to make him do that. You slapping him caused him to pass out again. But he should come to any minuet now.

That was when the door to the stairwell blew up. Winston and Mars turned to see Peter, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Egon, Sailor Moon and Ray walk through. As they entered, Egon bickered at Peter as Peter holstered his smoking Proton gun...

Egon: Peter what was the purpose of doing that?

Peter: To make sure we don't stuck in the room again. I would have figured that would have made sense.

Venus: You might as well get a bullhorn and say, "Here I am"!

Winston: Hey, guys!

Mars: Over here!

The group ran over.

Ray: Winston! Sailor Mars! Are you guys alright?

Winston: Well, we're alright, but we found Dan laying unconscious as we came up from the 52nd floor.

Mars: Where's Sailor Jupiter?

Mercury: Dan went after her when two ghosts blasted through a wall, and kidnapped her. We've been looking for them since.

Dan started to moan. Winston was about to aid him, when Sailor Venus came up, and started to check him...

Winston: What are you doing?

Venus: I was a volunteer in a hospital.

Winston: I guess we can help each other then. I was a medic in Vietnam.

They were about to tend to him, when Dan sprang up...

Dan: AH!

He looked around, and saw Winston standing next to him...

Dan: Zee?! Where the hell am I?!

Winston: Calm down, man! It's ok. You're on the 51st floor.

Dan propped himself on one arm, and rubbed the back of his head with his other hand...

Dan: Ugh... It feels like AC/DC and Metallica are playing in my head.

Venus: Ray, go get some ice.

As Ray went in search of ice, Egon approached his injured comrade...

Egon: Daniel, what happened?

Dan: They got her! I... I have to find her!

He made an attempt to get off the desk, but was held down by Winston and Venus.

Venus: You suffered a concussion. You're not going anywhere until the swelling in the back of your head goes down.

Peter: How did this happen?

Dan: There was a hole in the wall in the stairwell. The one demon dragged Lita into it, and I went after the other demon. It threw me into one wall, and I slammed my head into the wall at the bottom of another flight of stairs. I woke up to find that two more captured me! I jumped up and started choking it, but the taller one grabbed me, and the short one knocked me out again.

Mars: That was me you choked, you moron!

Dan: ::confused:: That... was you?

Winston: It's alright. I understand why you did that. I saw it all the time when they brought in the unconscious solders. They'd suddenly snap awake, and think they're still doing and still seeing what had happen on the battle ground. After they pass out again, they woke back up minuets later and realize what they did.

Dan: Riiiight. Look, for what it's worth, sorry about that.

He gave a weak smile, and shrugged. She looked away. Dan looked back to Winston...

Dan: Was it something I said?

Winston: I think it was something you did.

Dan: Oh, well that's nothing different.

It was then Ray came up with a bag of ice. He was holding it by the zip part of the bag.

Ray: I got some ice.

Venus: Here, I'll take that.

As she grabbed the bottom of the bag, the ice suddenly glowed green and red, and a bolt of black energy zapped Venus. She suddenly dropped the bag, and collapsed. Ray came to his guard, and caught her before she hit the floor. Everyone's attention was drawn to Ray. Dan jumped off the desk, and he rushed up to them.

Egon and Mercury knew something was funny about the whole incident, so they pulled out their detection devices, respectfully. The both of them took a scan of the ice in the bag on the floor...

Mercury: That ice is contaminated!

Winston: Come again?

Egon: The ice is covered with ectoplasmic anomalies that are causing Sailor Venus to go into a now post-hypnotic state.

Peter: I'll repeat Winston's question: Come again?

Dan picked up Venus as Ray stood up, and began the translation...

Ray: What they mean is the ice has something paranormal in it that caused Venus to pass out.

Egon: Ray, where did you get the ice?

Ray: I got it out of the ice maker.

Dan: ::grunts:: What ice maker?

Ray: Come on, I'll show you.

The group followed Ray to the break room on the floor. As they walked in, the hazel-eyed occultist pointed to a large machine in the back of the room. Egon ran his PKE meter over it. It was showing class 9...

Egon: There's definitely something there.

The machine started to shake. The metal started pinging and bending. The thing started shifting shapes. Everyone except for Egon slowly stepped out of the room. A mouth formed where the ice chute was, and two eyes formed. Egon still had his nose in the meter watching the readings climb. It was obvious the man was extremely dense.

Mars: Uh... Dr. Spengler?

He wasn't paying attention.

Moon: Dr. Spengler?!

Mercury: Why isn't he listening?

Peter: Don't worry. I know how to get him out of it. ::to Egon:: Hey, Egon... Mushrooms suck!

He looked up from the meter, and saw the huge machine now manipulated into something completely different.

Egon: Thank you for getting my attention, Peter!

The machine started spitting ice cubes at Egon as he ran out of the room. Everyone ducked behind the walls, but the ice blasted through them. Dan ran behind a desk, still holding Sailor Venus. He laid her down on the floor, and started up his Proton Pack to return fire.

Moon: Do you deal with this kind of stuff all the time?

Peter: For the most part... Yes.

Moon: Us too.

Ice spewed into all directions as the other Ghostbusters charged up their weapons. Mercury took charge in finding a weak spot in the ghosts ectoplasmic structure. When she got a fix, she yelled out...

Mercury: Aim for it's mouth!

With that, 5 proton beams rang from the ends of the neutrona wands into the "mouth" of the ice machine. The steel started heating up, and melting. An orange glow emanated from the machine, and then bright white. The machine went up in a massive explosion, and ice cubes flew all over the room. Everyone stood up, and looked at the ice maker that was now nothing more then a steaming pile of molten steel.

Winston walked up to it, and tapped the steel with the tip of his boot while still having his pack armed. He turned around...

Winston: That looks to be it!

Peter: That was too easy.

Egon: Hmmm...

Dan: Uh oh... Egon went, "Hmmm".

Moon: What is it?

He looked up from the meter. The needles were jumping up and down.

Egon: It seems that there's a strange power flux coming from somewhere in the room. Whatever it is, it keeps going from a class 7 to a class 12, then back down again.

Back from were Dan was standing, Sailor Venus's eyes fluttered open, but instead of normal eyes, they glowed bright green. Back to Egon, the meter readings started to climb rapidly. It went passed class 15, 20, 30... It let out a loud screech as it began to vibrate violently.

Egon: The meter's overloading! I can't turn it off!

He whipped the meter towards a window. The glass shattered as the meter flew out the window.

Egon: EVERYONE GET DOWN!

Dan: HOLY SHIT!

Everyone hit the floor as the meter blew up on the outside of the building. The shockwave of the explosion caused all other windows on the one side of the building to blow out. The halon fire extinguishing system kicked on to put out the fires in the room.

To Be Continued...