Dark Side Of The Moon
A Ghostbusters/Sailor Moon Crossover
By Dan Ectodude Shannon
Epilogue
What We Have
October 27, 1995
Tokyo International Airport
10:22 AM
Intercom: United: flight 127, now boarding, gate 22.
Everyone stood at the boarding gate, bidding their farewells. The Scouts spoke individually amongst the Ghostbusters, with their own particular good-byes...
Mina and Ray...
Mina: It's been a wild ride, Dr. Stantz. I'm glad I was able to spend it with someone like you!
Ray: Thank you, Mina, and please, call me Ray!
Raye and Winston...
Raye: Winston, I'm sad to see you go. You're like the big brother I never had.
Winston: Cheer up, Girlfriend. I'm sure we'll see each other again! Just gotta hope, that's all!
They hug each other.
Amy and Egon...
Amy: It's been an absolute pleasure working with you, Dr. Spengler. You're someone who I can really look up to!
Egon: Amy, you are a very bright young lady, and I'm sure if you continue on your path with much success. If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
Egon took a business card out of his front shirt pocket, and handed to her...
Egon: If you ever want to talk, there's my E-mail address and Instant Message name.
Amy: Thank you. I hope we'll talk soon.
Serena, Darien and Peter...
Peter: ...So, if you ever hear anything about Gozer, Zuul, Vinz Clorto, or anything of the like, you know where to find us.
Serena: We will.
Darien: ::extends hand:: Again, thank you, Dr. Venkman.
Peter grabbed his hand, and shook it mildly...
Peter: Oh, come here you!
He yanked Darien forward, and started patting him on the back. After, Serena came up and kissed him on the cheek.
Lita and Dan...
They hugged for the longest time. They spoke to each other while holding each other...
Lita: I'm really going to miss you, Dan. I've never met anyone like you in my life. It's like, we're the exact same.
Dan: That's because we are the same. We were meant for each other.
Lita: That's why you have to stay. My life would be incomplete without you.
Dan: Lita, I understand why you don't want me to go. I don't want to go, either, but I have no choice. My place is New York.
Lita: But, why?
Dan: I still have a duty in New York which needs to be carried out. The guys need me there. Without me, the city could be in serious trouble.
Lita: Then, I want to go with you!
Dan: Lita, your place is here in Tokyo. You have to protect Sailor Moon, as much as I have to protect both you and the world. I will be protecting you while in New York. While I'm there, I can stop demons from taking over, and insure that everything is safe.
Lita: I still want to be with you!
Dan: Look, there are about a million and one things that are calling me back to duty, but there's only one thing that makes me want to stay... I want to be with you, too. It's as hard for me as it is for you. I understand.
She looked up to him, tear streaking down her cheek.
Dan: Just remember: We have a linking that cannot be broken. Whatever happens, I'm with you all the way.
Intercom: Last boarding call, United: flight 127, gate 22.
Dan: I have to go now. Good-Bye, Lita.
They kissed for the last time. They pulled away, as Dan walked backwards to the boarding gate, still looking at Lita. She was about to turn away, when Dan spoke one last time...
Dan: Lita, remember... I will always be with you, and one day, I am to hope that, in the words of Pink Floyd, "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon."
He held up his hand as the attendant closed the door to the gate. After a couple of moments, Lita is seen standing in front of the window facing the runway. The plane that was carrying the Ghostbusters took off into the sky. Lita looked after the plane, even far after it had disappeared into the clouds high above in the sky, and cried. Her fellow Scouts, and Darien, came to her side, and comforted her.
***
October 31, 1995
Ghostbusters HQ, New York City
9:22 PM
It had been a semi-cold Halloween this year, not for it was cold weather-wise, but more in Dan's heart. The moon was full, and so was the night. Muffled music came from downstairs in the garage area of the old firehouse, for the annual Ghostbusters Halloween Party was going on. Dan stood on the roof of the firehouse, still in his uniform, and looked to the sky.
Slowly, behind him, the door opened. A dark, cloaked figure steps out, and creeps slowly behind Dan. It jumps up, and lets out a loud, but cheesy, roar. Dan, not looking fazed, and not turning around, spoke in his depressed tone of voice...
Dan: Hi, Venkman.
Peter took off the hood of the cloak, with a surprised face...
Peter: How did you know it was me?
Dan: Pete, I just received a sixth-sense within the last week. From now on, we're not going to be able to surprise me anymore.
Peter heard the dread in his voice. He sounded really depressed. He thought of something that he figured that might make him happy...
Peter: Come on, Dan. Go get your costume on! We're going to have the apple bobbing contest in ten minuets! You can have first crack at it!
Dan: Naw, that's ok. I've had enough of costume changes for the last week.
Peter sighed, and sat on the ledge on the edge of the roof, and looked at Dan...
Peter: Dan, you're starting to make me worry. You been acting like this since we got back home. The only times you haven't been on this roof is when we had a bust, and when you go to bed. You haven't eaten since you've gotten back! What the hell is the matter with you?
Dan: Venkman, you have no clue.
Peter: It's her, isn't it?
Dan: ::hesitant:: Yeah. I miss her, Venkie.
Peter: I can understand. Women can do that to guys.
Dan: Peter, this isn't just any woman. This is Sailor Jupiter: The princess of Jupiter. Me and her had something long before anyone on this planet was a thought.
Peter: That may be true, but it's the same all around. When two people love each other, then separate, if both are seriously devoted to each other, it can rip them apart emotionally. That's what happened to Dana and me.
Dan: Who's Dana?
Peter: She was one of the first customers we had back in '84. She walked into the room, she lit it up. You know the Gozer incident, correct?
Dan: Yeah?
Peter: She was the one that came to us with it. I, along with the others, saved her life. We were together for a couple of years, until we broke up. I still miss her.
Dan: Oh, it was the woman that Sigourney Weaver played in the movie. I thought that was error on your part.
Peter: No, movies make things what they don't seem. She went to Europe to be a Musician for a couple of years. She got married out there, and now here I am all by myself. They just reused her in the second movie for character recognition. The story behind Vigo was completely different then the way it was described in the movie.
Dan: Oh... Man. I'm sorry, I just assumed...
Peter: That's ok. How were supposed to know?
There was a moment of silence. Dan looked down to the street, and saw a couple of people down below knocking at the door. It was a couple. It was tragic irony that the guy was dressed as a Ghostbuster, more specifically, dressed like Dan, and the girl was a Sailor Scout. Sailor Jupiter to be exact. Dan sighed as the couple entered the garage doors. The sounds of "Echoes" by Pink Floyd was playing down in the garage, followed by the clunk of the doors shutting.
Dan: Well, I'll tell ya one thing, Peter.
Peter: What?
He looked back up to the moon...
Dan: I'll never look at the moon the same again.
The End.
***
Notes:
For 4 years, I have dreamed of making a Sailor Moon/Real Ghostbusters Crossover. For the most part, I wanted it to be the best story I could ever produce. Long before the story could begin being written, I had to go through several ideas. At the time I started thinking, I had no real knowledge of Sailor Moon. I'm mainly a Ghostbusters buff, or at my respective fandom, a "Ghosthead." When I started ideas, I had not seen a lot of Sailor Moon because of the lack of time, time in which the show was being aired, and the amount of episodes of the "Dubbed" version of the show that was on Cartoon Network at time. (Not to mention the utter embarrassment I would receive from my brother if he found I was carrying out such a project.)
When I finally got around to most of the info that was really needed, I began picking what would have been the best scenario for both parties, in both meeting, acquainting, and relating in problem. IE Jedite coming back from the dead. Here, you have a Negaverse General (Sailor Moon) returning from his grave (Ghostbusters) to take vengeance.
Coming to why I chose Jedite from the dead: Most Fic writers make off that he was just frozen in the crystal Byral sealed him in. I take interpretation of "Eternal Sleep" as a death sentence. After all, if he wasn't any good alive, why the hell would you lock him in a Ziploc, hope he were to come free one day, and maybe he'd be better at his job? It didn't make sense that he were just to be alive in crystal.
Now, the next thing about Jedite: The reason it was just, and only him, to come back from the dead was for the vengeance on the Scouts. It wasn't exactly clear when I had him talking about why he was trying to destroy all life on earth, so this is to clear up what I was trying to get at. Some ghosts come back from the dead to take revenge, mainly because the way they died was either unjustly done, or unfinished business was left to be tend to. In Jedite's case, it was a bit of both. Unjustly: Byral pulling him out of the final battle between Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars (See Sailor Moon Eps. 10 "The Final Fight") and unfinished: the actual battle itself. (Also Eps. 10)
Who's Dan Shannon?: Well, to start with, Dan Shannon is yours truly. This story is actually part of a series of stories I am writing. Most are Ghostbusters, and I have a origin fic, plus a couple of other adventures in my world of Ghostbusting. For the most part, you need to read my other stories in order for you to get to know me a little.
What's with the funky Ghostbusting equipment? This wasn't in the cartoon!: I'm aware if this. Some explaination can be made in a couple of my stories, and at my site: http://www.wgo.cjb.net. Go into the equipment page, and go under "new experimental equipment".
Why are you stealing off Lady Jupiter's Jupiter Knight series?: I wasn't stealing, to set the record straight. Before I even knew there was a Lady Jupiter, I created Jupiter Knight. Some people might have raised a couple of eyebrows when I made a Ghostbuster, not to mention a Ghostbuster that isn't really considered a character in the GB universe into the protector of Princess Jupiter. I know that some information may not be right. Well, I don't know if in the regular series, or any series for that matter, of Sailor Moon any Knight of a sort (aside of Moonlight Knight. That's only fair) has turned up. Maybe it was for the fact I was too lazy to look.
Why Lita and Dan?: Given the circumstances, Me and Lita are a lot alike. Short tempered, both our school lives were hell, a lot of people are afraid of us, and we lost people we were very close to under conditions where we were afraid of the cause of why they were lost. Lita is afraid of planes because her parents died in a plane crash, as where with me, I lost my grandfather to cancer from working in numerous nuclear power plants, thus making me afraid of radioactive materials. (Well, to a point.) This was one of the main reasons I became Jupiter Knight. Not to mention, she's tough. I like a challenge. I kinda found it weird that the characters were extremely alike.
Special Thanks:
I would like to thank the following people for their help and encouragement which gave me the confidence and will to complete this story
* girl of darkness
* Myst Lady ML-chan
* Kyle Stevens (kyleogb1983)
* Antonio Reyna III
* Egyptian Mistress Isis
Technical Notes:
* Ragnarok, PKE meter overload and Jeremy Whittington references from Real Ghostbusters (RGB) Eps. "Ragnarok n' Roll"
* Ectoplasmic Destabilizing Rifle reference from RGB Eps. "Egon's Ghost"
* Pack Power mode selector reference from RGB Eps. "Knock Knock"
* Tokyo International Airport battle and Chapter 1 reenactment of Jedite's Death from Sailor Moon Eps. "The Final Fight"
* Starlight Tower reference from SM Eps. "A Crystal Clear Destiny"
* References to Sub-demons appearance and game itself from Atari first-person arcade games "Area 51" and "Area 51: Site 4"
* Songs used throughout story:
* "Fuel" and "Stone Cold Crazy" by Metallica
* "Smokin'" by Boston
* Parts of both "Brain Damage" and "Echoes" by Pink Floyd
* References to "Deadites" and actual movie from the Evil Dead series.
* Halon gas reference and reference to actual movie from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
* Segments of the final battle chapters "Showtime" and "Rooftop Showdown" were taken from example of the original "Blade" shooting script.
* Numerous references to the "Die Hard" trilogy made throughout story:
* Continuous use of phrase "Yippie-Ki-Yay"
* Ecto-1's drive in the park from "DH with a Vengeance"
* Chapter 27 "Evening Flight" last resort window crash landing from "Die Hard"
*Darien's Demonistic transformed state reference from the game "Diablo"
* "To The Tower, Full Speed Ahead" Lucky Black jump from "Gone in 60 Seconds"
* "Floor 101" Sailor Jupiter retrieval based off chapter 4 "Gabriel's Homecoming" from the movie "The Patriot"
Don't forget to read my other stories, and check out We Got One Industries!
Dan "Ectodude" Shannon
A Ghostbusters/Sailor Moon Crossover
By Dan Ectodude Shannon
Epilogue
What We Have
October 27, 1995
Tokyo International Airport
10:22 AM
Intercom: United: flight 127, now boarding, gate 22.
Everyone stood at the boarding gate, bidding their farewells. The Scouts spoke individually amongst the Ghostbusters, with their own particular good-byes...
Mina and Ray...
Mina: It's been a wild ride, Dr. Stantz. I'm glad I was able to spend it with someone like you!
Ray: Thank you, Mina, and please, call me Ray!
Raye and Winston...
Raye: Winston, I'm sad to see you go. You're like the big brother I never had.
Winston: Cheer up, Girlfriend. I'm sure we'll see each other again! Just gotta hope, that's all!
They hug each other.
Amy and Egon...
Amy: It's been an absolute pleasure working with you, Dr. Spengler. You're someone who I can really look up to!
Egon: Amy, you are a very bright young lady, and I'm sure if you continue on your path with much success. If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
Egon took a business card out of his front shirt pocket, and handed to her...
Egon: If you ever want to talk, there's my E-mail address and Instant Message name.
Amy: Thank you. I hope we'll talk soon.
Serena, Darien and Peter...
Peter: ...So, if you ever hear anything about Gozer, Zuul, Vinz Clorto, or anything of the like, you know where to find us.
Serena: We will.
Darien: ::extends hand:: Again, thank you, Dr. Venkman.
Peter grabbed his hand, and shook it mildly...
Peter: Oh, come here you!
He yanked Darien forward, and started patting him on the back. After, Serena came up and kissed him on the cheek.
Lita and Dan...
They hugged for the longest time. They spoke to each other while holding each other...
Lita: I'm really going to miss you, Dan. I've never met anyone like you in my life. It's like, we're the exact same.
Dan: That's because we are the same. We were meant for each other.
Lita: That's why you have to stay. My life would be incomplete without you.
Dan: Lita, I understand why you don't want me to go. I don't want to go, either, but I have no choice. My place is New York.
Lita: But, why?
Dan: I still have a duty in New York which needs to be carried out. The guys need me there. Without me, the city could be in serious trouble.
Lita: Then, I want to go with you!
Dan: Lita, your place is here in Tokyo. You have to protect Sailor Moon, as much as I have to protect both you and the world. I will be protecting you while in New York. While I'm there, I can stop demons from taking over, and insure that everything is safe.
Lita: I still want to be with you!
Dan: Look, there are about a million and one things that are calling me back to duty, but there's only one thing that makes me want to stay... I want to be with you, too. It's as hard for me as it is for you. I understand.
She looked up to him, tear streaking down her cheek.
Dan: Just remember: We have a linking that cannot be broken. Whatever happens, I'm with you all the way.
Intercom: Last boarding call, United: flight 127, gate 22.
Dan: I have to go now. Good-Bye, Lita.
They kissed for the last time. They pulled away, as Dan walked backwards to the boarding gate, still looking at Lita. She was about to turn away, when Dan spoke one last time...
Dan: Lita, remember... I will always be with you, and one day, I am to hope that, in the words of Pink Floyd, "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon."
He held up his hand as the attendant closed the door to the gate. After a couple of moments, Lita is seen standing in front of the window facing the runway. The plane that was carrying the Ghostbusters took off into the sky. Lita looked after the plane, even far after it had disappeared into the clouds high above in the sky, and cried. Her fellow Scouts, and Darien, came to her side, and comforted her.
***
October 31, 1995
Ghostbusters HQ, New York City
9:22 PM
It had been a semi-cold Halloween this year, not for it was cold weather-wise, but more in Dan's heart. The moon was full, and so was the night. Muffled music came from downstairs in the garage area of the old firehouse, for the annual Ghostbusters Halloween Party was going on. Dan stood on the roof of the firehouse, still in his uniform, and looked to the sky.
Slowly, behind him, the door opened. A dark, cloaked figure steps out, and creeps slowly behind Dan. It jumps up, and lets out a loud, but cheesy, roar. Dan, not looking fazed, and not turning around, spoke in his depressed tone of voice...
Dan: Hi, Venkman.
Peter took off the hood of the cloak, with a surprised face...
Peter: How did you know it was me?
Dan: Pete, I just received a sixth-sense within the last week. From now on, we're not going to be able to surprise me anymore.
Peter heard the dread in his voice. He sounded really depressed. He thought of something that he figured that might make him happy...
Peter: Come on, Dan. Go get your costume on! We're going to have the apple bobbing contest in ten minuets! You can have first crack at it!
Dan: Naw, that's ok. I've had enough of costume changes for the last week.
Peter sighed, and sat on the ledge on the edge of the roof, and looked at Dan...
Peter: Dan, you're starting to make me worry. You been acting like this since we got back home. The only times you haven't been on this roof is when we had a bust, and when you go to bed. You haven't eaten since you've gotten back! What the hell is the matter with you?
Dan: Venkman, you have no clue.
Peter: It's her, isn't it?
Dan: ::hesitant:: Yeah. I miss her, Venkie.
Peter: I can understand. Women can do that to guys.
Dan: Peter, this isn't just any woman. This is Sailor Jupiter: The princess of Jupiter. Me and her had something long before anyone on this planet was a thought.
Peter: That may be true, but it's the same all around. When two people love each other, then separate, if both are seriously devoted to each other, it can rip them apart emotionally. That's what happened to Dana and me.
Dan: Who's Dana?
Peter: She was one of the first customers we had back in '84. She walked into the room, she lit it up. You know the Gozer incident, correct?
Dan: Yeah?
Peter: She was the one that came to us with it. I, along with the others, saved her life. We were together for a couple of years, until we broke up. I still miss her.
Dan: Oh, it was the woman that Sigourney Weaver played in the movie. I thought that was error on your part.
Peter: No, movies make things what they don't seem. She went to Europe to be a Musician for a couple of years. She got married out there, and now here I am all by myself. They just reused her in the second movie for character recognition. The story behind Vigo was completely different then the way it was described in the movie.
Dan: Oh... Man. I'm sorry, I just assumed...
Peter: That's ok. How were supposed to know?
There was a moment of silence. Dan looked down to the street, and saw a couple of people down below knocking at the door. It was a couple. It was tragic irony that the guy was dressed as a Ghostbuster, more specifically, dressed like Dan, and the girl was a Sailor Scout. Sailor Jupiter to be exact. Dan sighed as the couple entered the garage doors. The sounds of "Echoes" by Pink Floyd was playing down in the garage, followed by the clunk of the doors shutting.
Dan: Well, I'll tell ya one thing, Peter.
Peter: What?
He looked back up to the moon...
Dan: I'll never look at the moon the same again.
The End.
***
Notes:
For 4 years, I have dreamed of making a Sailor Moon/Real Ghostbusters Crossover. For the most part, I wanted it to be the best story I could ever produce. Long before the story could begin being written, I had to go through several ideas. At the time I started thinking, I had no real knowledge of Sailor Moon. I'm mainly a Ghostbusters buff, or at my respective fandom, a "Ghosthead." When I started ideas, I had not seen a lot of Sailor Moon because of the lack of time, time in which the show was being aired, and the amount of episodes of the "Dubbed" version of the show that was on Cartoon Network at time. (Not to mention the utter embarrassment I would receive from my brother if he found I was carrying out such a project.)
When I finally got around to most of the info that was really needed, I began picking what would have been the best scenario for both parties, in both meeting, acquainting, and relating in problem. IE Jedite coming back from the dead. Here, you have a Negaverse General (Sailor Moon) returning from his grave (Ghostbusters) to take vengeance.
Coming to why I chose Jedite from the dead: Most Fic writers make off that he was just frozen in the crystal Byral sealed him in. I take interpretation of "Eternal Sleep" as a death sentence. After all, if he wasn't any good alive, why the hell would you lock him in a Ziploc, hope he were to come free one day, and maybe he'd be better at his job? It didn't make sense that he were just to be alive in crystal.
Now, the next thing about Jedite: The reason it was just, and only him, to come back from the dead was for the vengeance on the Scouts. It wasn't exactly clear when I had him talking about why he was trying to destroy all life on earth, so this is to clear up what I was trying to get at. Some ghosts come back from the dead to take revenge, mainly because the way they died was either unjustly done, or unfinished business was left to be tend to. In Jedite's case, it was a bit of both. Unjustly: Byral pulling him out of the final battle between Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars (See Sailor Moon Eps. 10 "The Final Fight") and unfinished: the actual battle itself. (Also Eps. 10)
Who's Dan Shannon?: Well, to start with, Dan Shannon is yours truly. This story is actually part of a series of stories I am writing. Most are Ghostbusters, and I have a origin fic, plus a couple of other adventures in my world of Ghostbusting. For the most part, you need to read my other stories in order for you to get to know me a little.
What's with the funky Ghostbusting equipment? This wasn't in the cartoon!: I'm aware if this. Some explaination can be made in a couple of my stories, and at my site: http://www.wgo.cjb.net. Go into the equipment page, and go under "new experimental equipment".
Why are you stealing off Lady Jupiter's Jupiter Knight series?: I wasn't stealing, to set the record straight. Before I even knew there was a Lady Jupiter, I created Jupiter Knight. Some people might have raised a couple of eyebrows when I made a Ghostbuster, not to mention a Ghostbuster that isn't really considered a character in the GB universe into the protector of Princess Jupiter. I know that some information may not be right. Well, I don't know if in the regular series, or any series for that matter, of Sailor Moon any Knight of a sort (aside of Moonlight Knight. That's only fair) has turned up. Maybe it was for the fact I was too lazy to look.
Why Lita and Dan?: Given the circumstances, Me and Lita are a lot alike. Short tempered, both our school lives were hell, a lot of people are afraid of us, and we lost people we were very close to under conditions where we were afraid of the cause of why they were lost. Lita is afraid of planes because her parents died in a plane crash, as where with me, I lost my grandfather to cancer from working in numerous nuclear power plants, thus making me afraid of radioactive materials. (Well, to a point.) This was one of the main reasons I became Jupiter Knight. Not to mention, she's tough. I like a challenge. I kinda found it weird that the characters were extremely alike.
Special Thanks:
I would like to thank the following people for their help and encouragement which gave me the confidence and will to complete this story
* girl of darkness
* Myst Lady ML-chan
* Kyle Stevens (kyleogb1983)
* Antonio Reyna III
* Egyptian Mistress Isis
Technical Notes:
* Ragnarok, PKE meter overload and Jeremy Whittington references from Real Ghostbusters (RGB) Eps. "Ragnarok n' Roll"
* Ectoplasmic Destabilizing Rifle reference from RGB Eps. "Egon's Ghost"
* Pack Power mode selector reference from RGB Eps. "Knock Knock"
* Tokyo International Airport battle and Chapter 1 reenactment of Jedite's Death from Sailor Moon Eps. "The Final Fight"
* Starlight Tower reference from SM Eps. "A Crystal Clear Destiny"
* References to Sub-demons appearance and game itself from Atari first-person arcade games "Area 51" and "Area 51: Site 4"
* Songs used throughout story:
* "Fuel" and "Stone Cold Crazy" by Metallica
* "Smokin'" by Boston
* Parts of both "Brain Damage" and "Echoes" by Pink Floyd
* References to "Deadites" and actual movie from the Evil Dead series.
* Halon gas reference and reference to actual movie from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
* Segments of the final battle chapters "Showtime" and "Rooftop Showdown" were taken from example of the original "Blade" shooting script.
* Numerous references to the "Die Hard" trilogy made throughout story:
* Continuous use of phrase "Yippie-Ki-Yay"
* Ecto-1's drive in the park from "DH with a Vengeance"
* Chapter 27 "Evening Flight" last resort window crash landing from "Die Hard"
*Darien's Demonistic transformed state reference from the game "Diablo"
* "To The Tower, Full Speed Ahead" Lucky Black jump from "Gone in 60 Seconds"
* "Floor 101" Sailor Jupiter retrieval based off chapter 4 "Gabriel's Homecoming" from the movie "The Patriot"
Don't forget to read my other stories, and check out We Got One Industries!
Dan "Ectodude" Shannon
