Chapter 37:

One true sacrifice

Dec 8, 2000 9am-10p

"Egon, Egon." Israel called.

"No one can talk to him but us. The guys can't talk to the Egon. Remember that Egon's not a ghost. He is a soul, for he has not completely died from the real world yet." The ghostgirl called at Slimer. "Neither am I."

"Your not?!" Slimer looked shocked.

"No, I'm not even born yet! I'm the soul of Janine's baby. I came to save my father."

"Your father?" Slimer questioned.

"Yes, Egon. I know that your brother and some teenagers tried to kill him. Your brother is Rocco. Egon helped capture him. Skipo and Binko are the kids that tore down Egon's lab and house years ago. They all want to see him suffer for what he has done to them. Rocco wants to destroy me. See Egon took their fun away and now they want him to pay after all these years."

"Oh, I get it now." Slimer turned to Ray. "Ray, I'm the only on that can talk to Egon's soul. For he, is not a ghost like me. The only way to get him back is to destroy my brother and his friends for good."

"Your brother?" Peter looked over at spud. "Didn't Egon shoot him with the guns seven years ago?"

"Yes, he first ghost Egon caught but unit not up yet. He got away. Remember."

"That's the ghost that got away." Ray shouted. "I remember. We promised that we would get him."

"Rocco want revenge on Egon. That's why he went after him. We the only ones that can stop him."

"You know it and we will." Winston added. All of a sudden there was a scream.

"Janine up stairs." yelled Ray. They ran up the stairs to see Rocco holding Janine in his arms.

"Help guys!" she screamed again.

"Slimer, tell them to stay right there then join me. Egon leave, if he see you he'll hurt her even more."

"I can't leave, not again. I love...I love her to much." Egon's cry attracted Rocco.

He squeezed Janine tighter.

"No!" the guys yelled. "What can we do? Slimer told us to stay here."

"I can't." cried Peter.

"Wait Peter, it's too dangerous." Peter didn't listen to them. "Let go of her now."

he shouted.

"Slimer since he's distracted by Peter, slime him in the face. We need to get him to drop her." Slimer slimed Rocco in the face. He let go of Janine in surprise.

"It burns, it burns, get them." The ghostgirl swooped under Janine and laid her on the couch. "Nice catch girl." Peter called as the guys went to get their proton packs.

"Slimer we need to find Egon's soul. Come on." Called the ghostgirl. Egon's soul managed to out run, mean out float Binko. "We need trap." Slimer threw one and opened it. Binko was sucked though it. "One down and one to go." When Slimer and the ghostgirl got back upstairs, everyone was gone. Janine's cry led them to the roof. Rocco had Janine in his arms again.

"Give me what I want and she won't get hurt. Ha Ha Ha." he laughed.

"What is it that you want?" Ray questioned as he looked the ghost in the eye.

"I want the soul of the untouched." Rocco demanded. Ray didn't know what that meant but Peter had an idea. The other guys just stood there. Shaking their heads trying to think.

"We will never give you that." Peter yelled. "Never."

"Slimer attack again." Slimer attacked Rocco again. He slimed him in the face and pushed at him. Rocco went to the ground this time.

"Janine." Winston hollowed.

"Never fear." the ghostgirl grabbed her and handed her to Peter.

"Take hold of her Peter." Called Slimer. "Don't put her down." The fight continued for a while between ghostgirl and Rocco.

"There's only one way to stop him. We need six protons streams to cross each other at full force." Ghostgirl called between blows at Rocco.

"How are we to do that? Egon's down and Janine is in no condition to use the proton pack." Slimer remarked.

"Slimer you take one, give one to Israel and I'll take the sixth one. I think I can remember how to handle it."

"Ok." Slimer told Peter the plan.

"What? Crossing the streams once was bad enough. We only had four and on low power. We survived that once but, why six on high? There's no chance in the world that we would live though this."

"More cross rips and more force behind them. That's the chance we have to take." Slimer responded. "We have to do it for Egon and Janine…and well the baby."

"Let's rock and roll guys," he smiled "and gal." Ray and the guys thought it was weird that a proton pack was hanging in the middle of the air like it was. Even Peter couldn't believe that Slimer was using a proton pack. This would be Slimer's first time.

"Ray, you and Winston cross first. Then Israel and I will. Last, ghostgirl and Slimer. Then meet the streams together." Peter called as they started the streams up at full blast.

"Nothing is going to stop me now." Rocco cheered.

"On three. Ready, one for the beam, two the stream and three to cross. Now!" A loud shock wave went though the building shaking it. Rocco screamed a shrill that blow out the all the windows of the surrounding neighborhoods for miles of the firehouse. Egon's soul placed the trap and stepped on it. The trap closed with a bang. All the guys were thrown back. Then there was silence all around. Slimer floated up to the four men who lay still on the rooftop.

"Are they?" the ghostgirl came close to touching one of them.

"I don't know. They not moving."

To be continued…..