Chapter 12: Testing the Equipment
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN WRECK-IT RALPH OR GHOSTBUSTERS. GHOSTBUSTERS BELONGS TO PARAMOUNT STUDIOS. WRECK-IT RALPH BELONGS TO DISNEY.
A/N: My parents don't really care what I do on the computer so I can keep doing The Glitch Effect series. XD
Vanellope's POV
We followed them into the basement and there was a large machine that took up most of the room.
"What's that?" I pointed to the machine.
"That's the containment grid. It's where we hold all the ghosts we catch." Ray answered.
"Neat." We kept walking and there was a door hidden behind the containment grid.
"What's in there?" Ralph asked. He pointed to the door.
"That's the place where we keep our proton packs."
"Storage closet." Ray supplied as he noticed our blank faces. We nodded our recognition. They showed us what was in the closet. Packs that looked extremely high tech. They gestured for us to put them on and we did. We staggered under their weight.
"Whoa. These are heavy."
"They should be. They're mini nuclear power plants." Our mouths fell open.
"Nuclear?" They nodded.
"Why do you need that much power?"
"We need that much to catch the ghosts. We need that much power to power our proton guns. They're those things on the side." We looked around and saw the gun. We picked them up and they were a bit clunky. I told them as much.
"That may be but it has a nuclear energy cell with a half-life of 5000 years so they're good. Still." We aimed and shot. A beam of pure orange energy came out and we nearly vaporised the wall.
"Awesome!" Ralph said.
"Jeez. That's a lot of power." They nodded in agreement.
"Ooh …" A green ghost appeared.
"What is that?" I asked as I hurriedly backed away.
"That is a ghost and his name is Slimer. Besides I told you never to come down here!" He aimed that last part at Slimer.
"But … oh …" He went up and vanished right through the ceiling!
"That's creepy."
"Yeah …" Ralph agreed with me.
"Okay let's see …" Ray went on mumbling and he eventually nodded to himself as he reached a conclusion.
"Okay," he said, turning to us "we've shown you the proton guns and proton packs but we haven't shown you everything. There's another thing you have to see." With that he pulled out a something.
"What is that?"
"This," pointing to the thing "is a PKE meter. It reads Psycho Kinetic Energy, which is a trail that ghosts leave behind, the fainter the reading is, the weaker the ghost is and vice versa. Anyway since Slimer has been here we'll show how it works. Slimer's a fairly weak ghost so it will be hard to read which is good, it provides you with a challenge." He handed us the PKE meter and we heard blips. It blipped at about five second intervals but it began to get faster and faster until it was just one continuous blip.
"Give me that …" I handed it to Egon and his face had a terrified look on it. He beckoned the others over and they discussed something, probably that continuous blip.
Ray's POV
"This is really bad. That blip means a class 10 ghost is about."
"Class 10? But the only class 10 ghosts we've fought have been Gozer and Vigo."
"Which is why it's bad."
"Well then, where is it?" Egon pointed the PKE meter at Vanellope and Ralph and the blipping started again. He walked up to them and pointed it below their feet at the floor. The blipping got louder.
"Its-" Just then a ghost popped up and grabbed Ralph. He carried him up and away, back through the hole he created.
"Ralph!" Vanellope squealed.
What the hell just happened then? Find out in the next chapter!