Late at night in the Grimmbusters headquarters that was once a firehouse, Jaune, Neptune, and Ren were enjoying some food and drinks they had gotten with some petty Lien.
"To our first customer." Jaune states, holding up a can of beer
"To our first and only customer." Neptune replied
They all then took a sip of their drinks.
"I'm gonna need to draw some petty Lien. Should take her out to dinner." Jaune states. "We don't want to lose her."
"Um, this magnificent feast in front of us represents the LAST of the petty Lien." Neptune stated
Jaune sighed a little as he continued eating along with Ren and Neptune before Jaune noticed Neptune was eating rather fast.
"Slow down, chew your food." Jaune states
Meanwhile, downstairs, Nora answered a phone call.
"Hello, Grimmbusters." Nora said to the other person on the phone. "Yes, of course they're serious..."
Something the caller said made Nora go wide eyed.
"You do?...You HAVE?" Nora asked. "No kidding! Uh-huh...well, just uh, just give me the address of that place..."
The caller then gave Nora the address and she wrote it down.
"Of course, they'll be totally discreet...thank you." Nora stated before hanging up and standing up with a smile on her face. "WE GOT ONE!"
Nora then slammed her fist down hard as she could on a button on her desk, somehow not breaking it. It triggered the bell in the firehouse as it rang.
Back upstairs, Neptune, Jaune, and Ren all looked up at each other.
"It's a call!" Neptune exclaimed
The three then got up and ran over to the pole. Neptune was the first one to go down and he went over to the locker with his name on it.
"Come on!" Neptune called out as he reached into his wooden locker
Then, Jaune came down and finished his food and putting the container and chopsticks to the side as he walked over to his locker. Then, Ren came down and went right over to his locker.
Once they had gotten into their uniforms, they got in their car. It had been given a whole new paintjob and was called the Ecto-1.
The Ecto-1, sirens blairing, zoomed out of the firehouse and made several sharp turns to get to it's destination. Their destination was called 'The Sedgwick Hotel'.
When it arrive, the Ecto-1 performed a perfect parallel park in the one open spot that could support that park type in front of the door and the Grimmbusters logo was on both the driver's side, passenger's side, and back door.
Just then, in their uniforms and devices they called proton packs on their backs, Jaune, Neptune, and Ren walked into the hotel.
"Hey, anybody see a ghost?" Jaune asked jokingly
When the three walked forward, that's when the hotel's current manager, Willow Fría, walked over to the three.
"Thank you men for coming so quickly." Willow comments, which her sudden appearance made Jaune jump a little. "The guests are beginning to ask questions and i'm beginning to run out of excuses."
A/N: Willow Fría is supposed to be Willow Schnee, but I changed her last name for avoiding complications for a future story's plot line.
"Has it happened before?" Neptune asked
"Well, most of the old staff knows about the 12th floor disturbances." Willow states. "But it's been quiet for years up until two weeks ago. Never once in the past was it this bad."
"Did you ever report it to anybody?" Ren asked
"No, heavens, no. The owners don't want us to even talk about it." Willow stated. "I hope we can take care of this quietly."
"Yes, ma'am. It's done tonight." Neptune stated. "Don't worry, we handle this kind of thing all the time."
The three then walked over to an elevator and Neptune called the elevator. A patron looked over with an eyebrow raised.
"What are you supposed to be, some kind of cosmonaut?" The patron asked
"No, we're exterminators." Jaune states as the elevator arrived. "Somebody saw a cockroach up on 12."
"That's gotta be some cockroach." The patron replied
"It could bite your head off, man." Jaune replied as him, Neptune, and Ren entered the elevator
Neptune leaned out and looked at the patron for a second and asked, "Going up?"
"I'll take the next one." The patron replied
Later, while the elevator was going up to the 12th floor, Neptune sighed.
"You know, it's just occurred to me we really haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment." Neptune stated
"I blame myself for that." Ren comments
"So do I." Jaune replied
Neptune took a deep breath and said, "Welp, no sense worrying about it now."
"Why worry?" Jaune asked. "Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."
"Let's get ready, you two." Neptune said. "Switch me on."
Ren reached over and flicked a switch on Neptune's pack, switching it on as it produced a loud humming noise and Jaune and Ren backed against a wall in the elevator.
When the elevator had reached the 12th floor, they stepped out of the elevator Ren and Neptune having their particle throwers/neutrona wands ready. Meanwhile, an unsuspecting bellhop was pushing a luggage cart around a corner.
However, the creaking noise of the wheels scared Neptune and Ren to where once they turned around they ended up firing out of instinct. The streams were solid beams of light green and blue energy. Eventually, they did stop firing.
"What the hell are you doing?" The bellhop asked
"I'm sorry." Neptune apologized
"We thought you were someone else." Jaune adds
The three then looked at each other as the bellhop slowly picked up partially burnt suitcases and pieces of clothing that came out of the suitcases.
"Successful test." Jaune states
"I...guess so." Neptune replied. "I think we better split up."
"Good idea." Ren replied
"Yeah, we can do more damage that way." Jaune states
While walking through the halls of the Sedgwick Hotel, Neptune lit a cigarette. He turned a corner while walking and went wide eyed and his mouth was open at what he saw. Some...Grimm, a Geist. But this one was different. It had a mouth part of it's mask and was eating food off of the service cart, tossing plates to the side when done with them. It wasn't a normal Geist. Neptune was silent and his cigarette was stuck to his mouth until he moved a little.
Neptune looked the way he came from and called out, "Arc, Arc!"
Neptune realized he was alone and looked back at the Geist as it was devouring all the food. The Geist itself had a cracked mask and under it was a mouth allowing it to eat all the food. Instead of red lines on the body, it had green lines. On the cracked mask was a mix of red and green lines.
"Never seen one like that before." Neptune comments. "Guess i'll have to hold him myself."
Neptune then pulled out his proton pack's particle thrower, the group having still not chosen a name for that part of their weaponry and turned it on, ready to fire.
When he pulled the trigger, the stream shot out and it spooked the Geist as it flew off, the food cart following it as Neptune released fire as he chased after the Geist.
By the time Neptune reached the end of the hall he was in, the Geist went through the wall, leaving a spot of ectoplasm and a small amount of Grimm pool residue along with some other substance on the wall as the food service cart crashed into the wall.
Back with Ren, he was still walking around the hallway he was in with his PKE meter out. When a man simply trying to get to his room walked to his room's door, Ren poked him a little before he continued walking.
Back with Jaune, he simply turned a corner and stopped when he found himself staring down the hall at the Geist. So, he slowly reached for his walkie talkie.
"Come in, Neptune." Jaune states
Neptune responded almost instantly. "Arc, I saw it, I saw it, I saw it!"
"It's right here, Neptune..." Jaune states. "It's...looking at me."
"He's an ugly little spud, isn't he?" Neptune asked
"I think he can hear you, Neptune." Jaune stated
"Don't move." Neptune ordered. "It won't hurt you."
However, the Geist flew right at Jaune and roared and Jaune screamed. Back with Neptune, he put his walkie talkie back on his belt as he ran to Neptune.
"Arc! Arc!" Jaune called out. "Jaune!"
When Neptune reached Jaune. Jaune was on the floor, covered in the still unknown substance, but no trace of ectoplasmic residue or Grimm pool sludge.
"Jaune, what happened, are you okay?" Neptune asked
"He slimed me." Jaune answered
"That's great! Actual physical contact!" Neptune exclaimed. "Can you move?"
"I Feel so funky." Jaune mutters
"Neptune? Neptune, come in please." Ren spoke over the walkie talkies
Neptune then grabbed his walkie talkie.
"Ren, i'm with Jaune. He got covered in this strange slime like substance!" Neptune stated
"That's great, Neptune, save some for me." Ren states. "Get down here right away, it just went into a ballroom."
"Okay, we'll be right there." Neptune responds
Later, when they had gotten down to the ballroom, Neptune had to give some instructions to Willow first.
"Okay ma'am, if you and your staff could please wait out here, we'll take care of everything." Neptune states
The three then went into the ballroom, Neptune and Ren closing the doors behind them. When in the ballroom, Neptune had the Eco-goggles he had down over his head and when he looked around, he saw the Geist on the ceiling.
"There it is! On the ceiling!" Neptune states as they walked into the ballroom
"That's the one that got me." Jaune states
When all three of them were in the ballroom, they got their throwers ready.
"Alright boys, ready?" Neptune asked. "Throw it!"
The three began shooting right at the Geist and it spooked the Geist away and by the time they stopped shooting, the chandelier fell to the floor and broke.
"I did that, I did that, that's my fault!" Neptune stated
"It's okay, the table broke the fall." Jaune stated, patting Neptune's shoulder
Ren then remembered something and looked at the two of them.
"There's something very important I forgot to tell you two." Ren states
"What?" Jaune asked
"Do not under any circumstances cross the streams." Ren stated sternly
"Why?" Jaune asked
"It would be bad."" Ren responds
Jaune rose an eyebrow and states, "I'm fuzzy on what you mean by that. What do you mean bad?"
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping in an instant as every cell and molecule i your body explodes at the speed of light." Ren stated
Neptune went wide eyed and said, "Total protonic reversal."
'Okay, that's very bad, important safety tip, thanks, Ren." Jaune stated
They then went to try to surround the Geist, who now was drinking a bottle of wine.
"Okay Nep, give me one high and outside." Jaune stated. "Neptune!"
Neptune opened fire until the Geist dropped the bottle and went over to a counter across the ballroom.
"Ren!" Jaune signals
Ren then opened fire which caused the Geist o go behind the bar counter nearby and Ren then began shooting fire and even though the Geist flew out, Ren was still shooting.
"Okay, alright, hold it, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jaune called out as Ren finally stopped shooting, seeing he had left a large hole in the bar counter. "Nice shootin', Tex!"
Neptune looked up at the Geist and noticed it was exhausted.
"That last throw took something out of him and he's gonna move. I need some room to put the trap down." Neptune stated, grabbing the trap and it's pedal off of his belt. "Give me some room."
Jaune and Ren then began tossing tables and chairs to the side.
"We gotta get this in the clear." Neptune states as he got ready to throw out the trap in order to catch the Geist
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" Jaune called out, grabbing a table cloth of one of the tables. "I've always wanted to do this. And..."
Just as Neptune rolled out the trap, Jaune yanked the cloth off the table and the vase with the flowers in it remained standing.
"The flowers are still standing!" Jaune stated
"Okay, on my go signal, Ren, I want a confinement stream from you, okay?" Neptune asked. "Go!"
Ren began firing and the stream wrapped around the Geist as it growled and moaned.
"Okay, hold him up there, he's gonna move, hold him up." Neptune orders before signalling Jaune. "Go!"
Jaune began firing and the stream from Jaune's particle wand wrapped around the Geist as well as it began thrashing around.
"Neptune, it's working!" Ren points out
"Start bringing him down, start bringing him down. You got him." Neptune orders. "Don't cross the streams."
"Maybe now you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, eh?" Jaune taunts
The streams start slowly weighing down the Geist.
"Arc, shorten your stream, I don't want my face burned off." Ren ordered
Jaune pushed a button as he walked loser as the range shortened, walking loser in order to keep the stream on the Geist.
"Alright, i'm opening the trap now." Neptune signals. "Don't look directly into the trap."
Neptune stomped on the pedal and the trap sprung open, producing a bright cone of light.
"I looked at the trap, Neptune!" Ren comments
"Turn your streams off as soon as I close the trap." Neptune orders. "Get ready...i'm closing it...NOW!"
Neptune stomped on the pedal again, which put the trap into a capture mode as Ren and Jaune stopped firing and they all looked away as the trap sucked up the Geist as it roared. When the Geist was fully sucked into he trap, it slammed shut and beeped.
They all then walked over to the trap and Ren re-mounted the thrower on the side of his proton pack. Then, Ren kneeled down next to the trap and nudged it with his hand, which made it spark a little. The Geist was in the trap.
"It's in there." Ren stated
Ren stood back up.
"Well, that wasn't such a chore, now was it?" Neptune asked, getting a glare from Ren and Jaune
