Our story continues. One more chapter before the next world. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 5
A little while later, a police car, and a ConEd Vehicle pull up to the Firehouse. Walter Peck stepped out, followed by a policeman, and a ConEd construction worker. A man hands Peck a file, as he and the other two enter the building.
Inside the Firehouse, Janine was making coffee as she saw the three men enter the building. She quickly set down the coffee pot and strode up to them.
"Excuse me. Excuse me! Just where do you think you're going?" she asked Walter.
"Stand aside, miss, or I'll have you arrested for interfering with a police…" began Peck before Janine cut him off.
"Oh no, hold on! I've seen TV, I know you can't come in here without a writ or warrant or something!" she protested.
"Cease and desist all commerce order, seizure of premises and chattels, ban on use of public utilities for unauthorized waste handlers, and a federal entry and inspection order." ordered Peck, showing Janine the folder as he, the officer, and the worker continued walking.
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In the basement, Egon was going through some items in a box with Louis next to him. Riku, Mickey, and Donald watched on.
"Ok Vinz, there's one more test I'd like to perform on-" began Egon.
"Egon! Guys!" called Janine as she followed Peck and the other men into the basement.
"Janine, what's goin' on?" asked Mickey.
"I tried to stop them! He says they have a warrant." replied Janine.
"Can we help you?" asked Riku.
"Yes, this is after all, private property!" added Egon.
"Shut this off, shut these ALL off." ordered Peck.
"I'm warning you, shutting these off will be extremely hazardous!" protested Egon.
"Yeah! You don't know who you're dealing with!" added Donald, glaring.
"I'll tell you what's hazardous. You're facing federal prosecution for at least half a dozen environmental violations. Now either you shut these beams off or we shut them off for you." ordered Peck.
"Not happening. And that is FINAL." argued Riku as he, Donald, and Mickey summoned their weapons and blocked the shut-down switch.
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Meanwhile outside, a taxi dropped of Sora, Kairi, and Peter from Dana's apartment. Peter payed the driver as Sora and Kairi saw the vehicles.
"Uh oh. EPA's back." muttered Sora.
Peter saw what they were looking at. "Looks like we have more work to do." he sighed.
With that, the three heroes entered the Firehouse.
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Back in the basement, Riku, Mickey, Donald, Egon, Janine, and (unwittingly) Louis blocked the shut-down switch from Peck, glaring at them, while Louis just looked all around.
"Try to understand. This is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city." warned Egon.
"He is correct, you have no idea what you're doing." added Mickey.
"Don't patronize me! I'm not grotesquely stupid like the people you bilk!" growled Peck.
"He's basically his own Heartless, just not in a consumed way." Riku whispered to Donald and Janine, who could only nod.
Just then, Peter, Sora, and Kairi entered the basement.
"At ease, officer. I'm Peter Venkman. They're Sora and Kairi. I think there's just been a slight misunderstanding and we wanna to cooperate in any way that we can." said Peter.
"Forget it, Venkman! You had your chance to cooperate, but you thought it'd be more fun to insult me. Well, now it is my turn, wise guy." scoffed Peck.
"He wants to shut down the protection grid, Peter." informed Egon
"You shut that thing down and we are not going to be held responsible for whatever happens." warned Peter.
"On the contrary! You're going to be held responsible." argued Peck.
"No! We won't be held responsible!" Peter argued back.
"He wouldn't show you the storage facility because he didn't want any law officials ruining the business that is supposed to be helping people!" protested Sora.
"Well this so called business is breaking several laws young man." said Peck.
"What laws? What's your proof? Guessing?" scoffed Kairi.
"Oh, what would you know, you're just a mere girl." snorted Peck.
Everyone else (except Louis) gasped.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" growled Kairi. Janine looked equally offended as well.
"Just shut if off!" ordered Peck.
"Don't shut it off. I'm warning you." warned Peter.
Egon, Janine, Louis, and the other travelers sighed and moved away from the switch. The ConEd man approached it.
"I - I've never seen anything like this before." he told Peck.
"I'm not interested in your opinion, just shut it off." ordered Peck, impatiently.
"My friend, don't be a jerk." pleaded Peter.
"Step aside!" ordered the officer.
"If he does that again, you can shoot him." suggested Peck.
"You do your job, pencil neck! Don't tell me how to do mine!" the officer shouted towards Peck.
"Thank you, officer." thanked Peter.
"Shut it off!" Peck yelled again.
Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Peter, Egon, and Janine moved out of the way. Egon made an explosion with his fingers in the officer's face, mouthing "Boom." Peter slowly made his way towards the stairs. Seeing that something bad was about to happen, Sora and the others slowly followed as the ConEd man pulled the lever.
Suddenly, alarms began blaring.
"Oh no…" muttered Riku.
"Not good." agreed Janine.
Suddenly, the walls began to tremble and bricks started to pop out, releasing steam.
Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Peter, Egon, Janine, Louis, Peck, the officer, and the ConEd man bolted up the stairs, running like hell.
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"CLEAR THE BUILDING!" shouted Egon as everyone bolted towards the exit. First Peter, then Sora, then the ConEd man, the Mickey, then Riku, then Kairi, then Janine, then Egon, then Donald, then Mickey, then the officer, then Peck, and finally Louis.
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Everyone made it outside, just as the roof exploded, ghosts flying out.
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Back at Dana's apartment, Dana jolted awake, climbed out of her bed, and slowly walked out of her room.
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Back outside, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Peter, and Egon regrouped out front.
"This is it! This is it! This is the sign!" cried Louis as he walked away to continue his search for the Gatekeeper.
"Yeah It's a sign alright! We're going out of business." Janine agreed sarcastically as she ran for cover.
Suddenly, Ecto-1 pulled up through the crowd that had gathered. Ray, Winston, and Goofy stepped out and stared in shock at the sight before them. They ran towards their friends.
"Fellers! Are you alright?!" cried Goofy as they approached them.
"Goofy! Guys!" cried Sora, happily.
"We're fine, we got out in time!" said Mickey with a reassuring smile.
"What happened?!" asked Ray.
"The storage facility blew." answered Sora.
"Yeah, the EPA shut of the power grid." added Riku.
"What?! Why would they do that?!" asked Goofy.
"They thought we were breaking the law." answered Egon.
"Oh great." muttered Ray.
Sora looked up and gasped. There, flying through the city, were more Ghost Heartless.
"Guys! The Heartless are back!" he cried.
The others gasped.
"Ok, we'd better get to work!" ordered Ray.
"Uh guys?" asked Peter. Everyone turned to face him. "Where's they Keymaster?"
Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, and Egon's eyes widened in horror.
"Oh no!" gasped Mickey.
"Who's the Keymaster?" asked Winston.
"We'll explain later, but we have to go NOW!" cried Riku.
The other nine nodded, but before they could run, they were stopped by Peck and a bunch of officers.
"Hold it! I want these ten arrested! Captain, these people are in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act, and this explosion is a direct result of it!" shouted Peck.
"YOUR MOTHER-!" shouted Egon, attacking them in anger.
They tried to fight the police, but no matter how hard they tried, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston were handcuffed behind their backs and shoved into several police cars and taken away.
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At Dana's apartment, the possessed Dana walked towards the window, and let an ear-piercing loud roar, that destroyed the apartment, and the wall. She stared out towards the city.
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Down below, the still possessed Louis was wandering around the city, when he heard the roar. He turned and looked up to where it was coming from and entered the building.
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At Castle Oblivion, Maleficent, Pete, Xigbar, Marluxia, Larxene, and several cloaked Organization members watched the events unfold.
"It's working! They Keymaster and Gatekeeper are about to meet and our pal Gozer will consume that world into such Darkness!" chortled Pete.
"Tell us something we don't know." deadpanned Marluxia, receiving a glare form the fat cat, making the Nobody only smirk.
"One the world falls into Darkness, it'll be all ours." mused Maleficent. She turned to Pete and the Organization. "But to make sure Gozer doesn't end it, like that prophecy, I will need one of you to make sure that the destructor will NOT double cross us and end this world."
"Yeah, you and Master Xehanort would be pretty ticked off if that ever happened." chuckled Xigbar.
"I'd be happy to attend the destructor's arrival." offered Marluxia.
"Forget it. You couldn't take down two Keyblade Masters." scoffed Larxene.
"Neither could you." chuckled Pete.
Larxene glared daggers at him, making Pete feel uneasy. "YOU try to notice when a bus rams into you from out of nowhere!" she retorted before smirking. "I'll attend the arrival myself. (turns to Marluxia) After all Mar, you promised I'd lead the next mission, next time." she teased, before disappearing through a Corridor of Darkness.
"She scares me…" muttered Pete.
"Demyx said the same thing back in the old Organization. The rest of us all ignored her pointless criticism." scoffed Xigbar.
Marluxia nodded in agreement.
"Nonetheless, Larxene is indeed the perfect candidate to make sure, Gozer stays on our side." said Maleficent, before looking back at the computer.
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Meanwhile, at the New York City Jail, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston were all locked up in a hallway that lead to several cells across from each other.
"Hey, guard! I want to make a phone call! I just work with these guys! I wasn't even there!" shouted Winston.
"This is just great, we try to help, we tried to warn them, and what to we get? Locked up." grumbled Donald.
"Is this weird for you Mickey? Being a king locked up in jail?" asked Sora, curiously.
"Nah, not really. I would be pretty sad if I were all alone, but I'm glad even in jail, I'm with my family." replied Mickey, smiling.
"Me too." agreed Kairi, wrapping arms around Sora and Riku, who just smiled.
"Can't one of you just use your keyblades to get us out of here?' asked Winston.
"Or how about not angering law officials any further after attacking an EPA member, who is the reason we're all in here." suggested Riku, sarcastically.
Winston sighed as he and the other five approached Goofy and the scientists who were looking over the building plans Winston, Ray, and Goofy had brought.
"The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space." remarked Egon.
"Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium." added Ray.
"Everyone getting this so far?" Peter asked Sora and Co., who all nodded. "So what? I guess they just don't make them like they used to."
"No! Nobody ever made them like this! The architect was either a certified genius or an aesthetic wacko!" replied Ray.
"Ray, for a moment, pretend that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering or physics and just tell me what the heck is going on." sighed Peter, calmly.
"You never studied." sighed Ray. "The whole building is a huge super-conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence. Your girlfriend, Pete, lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central."
"She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers! She barks, she drools, she claws..." argued Peter.
Riku and the Disney trio turned to Sora and Kairi.
"What the heck happened back at Dana's?" asked Riku.
"It's a long story." was all Sora could say.
"It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building! Something terrible is about the enter our world and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920 he founded a secret society." Explained Egon
"Let me guess. Gozer worshippers." guessed Peter.
"Right." answered Egon.
"No studying!" scoffed Peter.
Sor and Riku rolled their eyes, as Kairi giggled.
"After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive." said Egon
"And he wasn't alone. He had close to a thousand followers when he died." added Riku.
"They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it may actually happen!" cried Donald.
"So all the ghosts we've been fighting were Gozer's flowers." guessed Goofy.
"Exactly, and with all the Heartless around her, it would seem Maleficent and Xehanort gave them to Gozer to help the destructor consume this world into Darkness." said Mickey.
"We have to get out of here. We've gotta get a judge or something." said Riku.
"Hey! Hey! Hold it! Now we going to actually going to go before a federal judge and say that some moldy old Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?" asked Winston.
"Sumerian, not Babylonian." corrected Egon.
"Yeah, big difference." said Peter.
"No offense, guys, but I gotta get my own lawyer." sighed Winston.
"No need Winston! I just talked to the guard. The mayor wants to see us. The whole island's going crazy!" said Riku, walking back up to the group.
"Oh boy! We're finally getting out of here!" cheered Donald as he made a mad dash for the door, the others following suit.
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Back at Dana's apartment, said girl sat in a chair, surrounded by the carnage of what used to be her home, just as the door opened, revealing Louis.
"I am the Keymaster." he told her.
"I am the Gatekeeper." she told him.
They walked up to each other, shared a kiss, and then made their way up the stairs to The Temple of Gozer.
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At City Hall, Lenny Clotch, New York's mayor, was talking to some officials in his office.
"I got a city blowing up, and you guys are not giving me any answers!" he scoffed.
"The Ghostbusters are here, Mr. Mayor." said the mayor's aid, just as Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston entered the office.
"The Ghostbusters, all right, the Ghostbusters. Oh, and the junior volunteers too. Huh." remerked the mayor. "Hey, where's this Peck?" he asked them.
Said man entered the office.
"I am Walter Peck, sir, and I'm prepared to make a full report. These ten are consummate snowball artists! They use sensitive nerve gases to induce hallucinations. People think they're seeing ghosts! And they call these bozos, who conveniently show up to deal with the problem with a fake electronic light show! And these six junior volunteers are not normal at all! With their weapons and so-called spells which are obviously pre-made special effects!" said Peck.
"We're just people who like to help!" retorted Kairi.
"Yes, and everything was fine with our system, until the power grid was shut down by this heartless jerk." said Ray.
"They caused an explosion!" retorted Peck.
"Is this true?" asked Lenny.
"Yes it's true… this man has lost his heart to the Darkness." replied Peter.
"He's his own Heartless inside and out." added Sora.
The other eight couldn't help but chuckle.
"Why you-!" shouted Peck as he lunged at them before the officers broke him apart from them.
"Break it up, break it up!" shouted Lenny.
"Well that's what I heard!" said Peter.
"This is City Hall! (turn to the Fire Commissioner) Now what am I gonna do here, John? What is this?" asked Lenny.
"All I know is: that was no light show we saw this morning. I've seen every kind of combustion known to man…" began the Fire Commissioner.
"…but this beats the heck outta ya?" guessed Goofy. The commissioner nodded.
"The walls in the 53rd precinct were bleeding. How do you explain that?" Riku asked the mayor, examining the map.
Just then, an archbishop entered the office.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen." greeted the archbishop.
"Oh... Your Eminence!" exclaimed the mayor as he kissed the archbishop's ring.
"How are you, Lenny?" asked the archbishop.
"You're looking good, Mike. (gives the archbishop a friendly slap) We're in a real fix, here. What do you think I should do?"
"Lenny, officially, the Church will not take any position on the religious implications of these phenomena. Personally, Lenny, I think it's a sign from God. But don't quote me on that." said the archbishop.
"I think that's a smart move, Mike. But I'm not gonna call a press conference and tell everyone to start praying." replied Lenny.
Winston strode up. "Hi, uh, I'm Winston Zeddemore your honor. I've been working for these guys for about a week, and let me tell you, these things are real. I have seen stuff that'll turn you whiter than Donald Duck. (turns to Donald) No offense."
Donald smiled reassuringly. "None taken." he replied.
Sora strode up. "My name is Sora, Mr. Mayor. And although me and my five friends are only friends and junior volunteers to the company, but we can assure you that this is a situation we can handle if you let us go."
"He's right. Me, him, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy have been through heck and back, and we know how to handle things like this." Riku chimed in.
"Remember those weird black-alien like creatures?" asked Mickey.
"Yes…" answer Lenny.
"They're called Heartless. They appear around those with the Darkness in their hearts, and we take care of them all the time on our travels. And it would seem as though whoever's causing this is in control of them here." explained Mickey.
"And you could believe Mr. Pecker…" Peter began.
"My name is Peck!" retorted Peck.
"Or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions." finished Peter.
"What do you mean, biblical?" asked Lenny.
"What he means is Old Testament biblical, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath-of-God-type stuff." explained Ray.
"Fire and brimstone coming from the sky!" said Goofy.
"Rivers and seas boiling!" added Mickey.
"Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!" added Egon.
"The dead rising from the grave!" added Winston.
"Heartless and Nobodies!" added Sora
"Unversed and Dream Eaters!" added Kairi.
"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" finished Peter.
"Enough! I get the point!" exclaimed Lenny. "What if you're wrong?" he asked calmly.
"If we're wrong, nothing happens! Me and my pals leave Ney York and never return!" said Sora.
"And me and the other Ghostbusters go to jail. Peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it!" added Peter as he calmed down. "But if we're right, and we can stop this thing; (smiles) Lenny… you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters."
"And maybe even… the WORLD." added Sora with a smile.
Lenny looked at the archbishop who smiled. Lenny smiled too.
"I don't believe you're seriously considering listening to these men." said Peck.
Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, Sora and Co. all smiled smug smiles.
Mayor Clotch glared at Peck. "Get him out of here." he ordered.
"You can't be serious!" exclaimed Peck.
"Out of here, or I'll have the EPA fire you!" ordered Lenny.
Peck sighed angrily.
"Uh Lenny?" Kairi asked the mayor before whispering into his ear much to everyone else's confusion. The mayor nodded.
Kairi strode up to Peck.
"I promise I'll fix you all." Peck scowled.
Kairi gave Peck a smug smile. "We don't need any fixing, Walter. Perhaps you oughta think before you start jumping to such drastic conclusions next time." She turned around slowly, only to turn around again and punch Peck smack in the nose. Sora, the travelers, and the Ghostbusters stared in shock, jaws dropped, eyes wide.
"Nice shot Kairi. Not such a mere girl now is she Pecker?" asked Lenny, teasingly.
Sora, the travelers, and the Ghostbusters couldn't help but smile.
"I am going to send you a nice fruit basket. I'm gonna miss him!" teased Peter as Peck stormed out of the office, clutching his nose.
"Now that was awesome Kairi." complimented Sora.
Kairi blushed. "Thank you Sora." she thanked.
"You've got work to do. Now what do you need from me?" asked the mayor.
Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston all looked at each other and smiled. They had a mission to accomplish: Saving this entire world.
To be continued…
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