"Right Place, Wrong Time"

The blue and red lights of the Ecto-1 flashed throughout the dark, shadowy streets of "Old Notre Dame," as J.G. drove the vehicle to their destination of Bald Mountain – their only way out of the Seventh Circle – before Frollo made any attempt to stop them. Between the lights on top of the car and the headlights guiding him to what lied ahead, the Ecto-1 just about stood out like a sore thumb – and Stantz hoped that none of their Seventh Circle adversaries (especially Frollo) would spot them.

While Todd and Riley joined J.G. at the front seat of the vehicle, Sean Spengler took position in the backseat, along with Quasimodo, wearing his welder's mask and going to work on the two Proton Packs that belonged to him and Stantz. Often at times, the Daring siblings would look behind them to see what he was doing; but Spengler would just gesture for them to turn around, fearing the sparks from his welding might hit their unprotected faces.

"What is it that you're doing, Dr. Spengler?" Riley curiously asked.

Spengler would take a second to stop welding, long enough to answer someone who addressed him like Riley. "I'm doing modifications to our tools. There's a reason our streams are counteracted by the forces of this world."

"Oh, yeah?" Stantz remarked, sounding very intrigued to know. "Mind sharing with the rest of us what vast knowledge you've gained from our little experience?"

Sean removed his welder's mask, showing off the grin that was registered on his face from Jay's comment. "The psycho-kinetic energy used by the spirits in this world is a lot different from those used by the ones we've faced from the netherworld, including Gozer and Maleficent. When we fire our streams at them, we're only strengthening rather than weakening them."

"So we should work on an opposite charge!" Stantz remarked, already figuring out his idea.

"Correct," acknowledged Spengler, who was obviously proud of the young scientist's growing genius. "Our packs work on concentrating protons…but if we switched it to electrons instead, then we could do a considerable amount of damage, as well as find a way out of this realm while preventing it from merging with our own."

Quasimodo smiled in awe and wonder over the Ghostbusters' equipment. "You mortals certainly have remarkable tools. I only pray that it will stop my master and Lord Chernabog from hurting anyone beyond this world."

After listening to the conversation between the two scientists, Todd scratched his head in confusion and said, "I have no clue what you guys are talkin' about. But I'm willin' to just go on the words 'damage' and 'way out' to keep myself from flippin' out."

As Todd was making his statement, J.G. suddenly spotted something crossing the path of the Ecto-1, showing up as clear as day under the headlights. He realized at the last moment that it was a person and immediately slammed down on the brake, swerving around the person to avoid hitting him or her. This action, however, caused J.G. to crash the Ecto-1 into one of the abandoned buildings they passed through. If it were not for its weak structure, the vehicle would've certainly received extreme damages.

Unfortunately for the passengers, the crash left them slightly stunned and disorganized – Spengler and Quasimodo had been thrown onto the front seat, with their upper bodies scrunched up near the other passengers' feet. Seeing them in that position, Riley asked in concern, "Are you guys okay?"

"I'm all right." Quasimodo calmly assured.

"Other than a slight concussion, I am surprisingly satisfactory." Spengler stated, although from his monotone way of speaking, it was difficult for Riley to tell if he was joking about the concussion or not.

That was when a knocking came through the driver's side window of the vehicle, which was covered in too much dried slime for Stantz or the others to tell whom it was that had been knocking. J.G. rolled the window down and allowed the stranger to peek inside. He suddenly found himself blinded by a lot of red hair, as Kimberly Venkman poked her head in, looking rather concerned.

"Oh, man! Are you guys cool?" She asked. "I'm so sorry about that! I couldn't see where I was going!"

Spengler picked himself and Quasimodo off from the floor and returned themselves in the backseat. "We're fine, Venkman. But how did you get here?"

"To be honest with ya, I have no clue." Kimberly remarked. "One minute I was in some place where closet monsters ruled and then the next I'm somewhere in the Twilight Zone." She then noticed the presence of Quasimodo and added in confusion, "Is that the character that the guy from Animal House voiced in that one cartoon?"

Stantz's ears perked over one particular thing that Venkman mentioned. "Wait…you said 'closet monsters'? As in Meagan Tully's 'closet monsters'? Don't tell us that you brought her here!"

"Dude, it's like I said…she took me to Fred Savage's worse nightmare, where I got knocked unconscious by this big blue walking carpet, and then I woke up here in…whatever this place is."

"You're in the Seventh Circle, Venkman." Sean revealed to her.

Kimberly's bright blue eyes showed signs of surprise and fear upon being told of her current location. "You mean we're in the Seventh Circle of…?"

"Yes!" The others immediately confirmed.

"Okay, okay. Geez…what're we doing here? Trying to maintain PG-level dialogue?" Venkman bantered. "Anyways, the kid's not the only one here – Jonathan Barrett's around, too."

J.G. snickered a little. "Your old boyfriend?"

Kimberly glared at him and viciously inquired, "Do you want me to smack you right now, bro?"

Before J.G. could've given some kind of response to Venkman's threat, Spengler refocused the conversation back on their current situation. "It's crucial that we depart from this realm – just our being here is generating enough instability to create a greater rift between worlds."

"Frollo is the key to it all." Quasimodo stated. "If we defeat him, then we can stop the merger and you all can return to your realm peacefully."

"Fro-who?" Venkman reacted to all the new information she was receiving in much perplexity. "Wait a minute! Where did you guys pick this weirdo from? What're these kids doing here with you? And where's Diana? Alexis and Christina told me that she was accompanying you boys."

Stantz and Spengler exchanged a look of apprehension, before J.G. finally answered, "We'll explain on our way to find Meagan and Jonathan. Can you possibly guess where they might be in this area?"

Kimberly scoffed at Jay's suggestion. "Dude, I couldn't even find a toilet around here if I wanted to. There's no way I could…"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They heard the scream of a girl sound in the distance. Only person in J.G.'s mind could have made a scream like that. "Meagan!"

It was soon followed by one fierce, inhuman roar that Quasimodo quickly recognized, much to his horror. "Oh, no! Frollo has sent the gargoyles to hunt for us! They must've discovered your friends and are attacking them as we speak!"

"Meagan…we've gotta help the poor thing." Kimberly insisted. "She might be weird as sin, but she's still a human being…metaphorically speaking, that is."

"It will be a perfect opportunity to test out the functions of the Proton Pack, after I've successfully 'recharged' them." Spengler stated, as Kimberly got into the Ecto-1, which Stantz began backing out from the wrecked interior of the abandoned building.

And even while they were departing, none of them detected the shadowed presence of Randall Boggs from within the room, watching them closely before camouflaging himself and following after them.