Chapter 12: Into the Rift

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN WRECK-IT RALPH OR GHOSTBUSTERS. GHOSTBUSTERS BELONG TO COLUMBIA PICTURES. WRECK-IT RALPH BELONGS TO DISNEY.

Vanellope's POV

Ray 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. I overheard them talking.

"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 me and Ralph and the blipping started again. He walked up to us and pointed it below our 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!" I squealed.

I woke up in a sweat and crying. I've been having that same nightmare for about a week. During the week I got acquainted with Slimer and I'm not scared when he's around. I met their secretary Janine who was a woman with fire-red hair. She seems nice and I got to know the Ghostbusters a bit better. They even let me catch Slimer with their ghost trap but it wasn't the same without Ralph. Apparently they started their careers as Ghostbusters because they had proof that ghosts were real. I got up and went outside for a breath of supposedly fresh air. It was about seven in the morning but you wouldn't know it was daylight thanks to all the smog covering the air like a thin film of dust. Cars rolled by and I think I like this city better than Sugar Rush and that's saying something. After walking around the block for a few minutes I went back inside and talked to Ray about that hole in the basement floor.

"Can we go in it?"

"You know why we can't go in it!" I did. We couldn't go in it because it led to the ghost dimension and no-one could survive in the ghost dimension, except for ghosts of course, because there was no air. I suggested sending in Slimer numerous times but they couldn't give him up because he was a contribution to science. Well, I was going to go in there with or without their help. I went down into the basement, went over to the storage closet, strapped on a proton pack, got a PKE meter, a ghost trap and went back out to jump into the hole. Just as I was about to jump in Venkman walked in with his usual lazy walk.

"What's this?" He asked as he watched my proton pack strapped self leaning forward into the hole.

"I'm going to go into the rift with or without your help." He simply walked over and strapped an oxygen mask over my face.

"What's this for?" My voice muffled because of the mask.

"It's to help you breathe when you're in the ghost dimension."

"You're helping me?"

"Yeah … I'm going to go get suited up." He did just that and rejoined me by the hole with another oxygen mask over his face.

"You ready?" I nodded. We both jumped in at the same time but one arm grabbed a hold of me and another arm grabbed Venkman. The arms struggled to pull us out due to the heavy proton packs but it was mainly due to the pulling effect of the rift. The arms eventually hauled us out and we were surprised to see only Winston sitting down on the floor panting.

"What do you think you're doing?" He scolded us. Well it sounded like a scolding.

"I'm going to help Vanellope get her brother back."

"Hang on a minute." He got up and suited up with a third oxygen mask strapped over his face but he came back with rope.

"What's the rope for?" I asked him.

"So that we can get pulled out when it's time to come out with your brother."

"Who's going to do the pulling?" He whistled and Slimer floated down.

"Don't worry. He's stronger than he looks."

"Yeah he slimed me so hard that I fainted." We laughed at that but I still felt doubts about leaving our fates in Slimer's slimy hands. Winston tied a loop around my waist, a second loop around Venkman's and a third loop around himself.

"You ready?" Venkman and I nodded. We jumped into the hole and felt the rift pulling us towards it, directing our fall. We fell through it and we saw an amazing sight. We breathed heavily in our oxygen masks and beheld the ghost dimension.

BEHOLD … THE GHOST DIMENSION! Woohoo! Two updates in one day! YES! Tune in for the next chapter.