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Chapter 3: Egon's theory
Her neatly manicured nails sifted efficiently through the stacks of papers lying in a haphazard manner on the desk. Straightening her glasses as she read one of the documents, her green eyes narrowed down at a paragraph of interest. She read it once again before placing it in a drawer beneath the desk, the sound of the drawers click being superimposed with that of a door being opened.
"Where's Egon?" asked Garrett as he manoeuvred his wheelchair into the office.
"In his lab, where else," replied Janine Melnitz as she proceeded to rearrange the haphazardly placed papers on the desk. "You came back fast! Another false alarm?" she asked.
"No," said Roland as he came in with the rest of the troop, "the entity was gone by the time we got there. Didn't leave any trace evidence behind either."
"So how did you know it was ecto?" Janine asked.
"Cause something there gave off the chart PKE readings," said Eduardo.
"And that's why we need Egon to check this place out," said Garrett, who was now, heading in the direction of Egon's lab.
"Do you think its from another dimension, like that dream ghost Morpheus we encountered once?" said Eduardo.
"Not likely," said Kylie, "since he wasn't ectoplasmic, Morpheus didn't leave any such trace behind that could be detected by our PKE meters."
"Okay," said Eduardo.
The professor was hunched in a familiar position on his chair, with his fingers adjusting the lens of a compound microscope. He looked up to see them enter and smiled at his proteges. "I managed to grow that fungi culture that you flushed out Eduardo," said Dr. Egon Spengler, his smile not fading. "That's great Egon," said Eduardo, matching Egon's grin with a mock one of his own.
Kylie handed over her notes to Egon who read them while Roland and Garrett explained the situation to him.
"You're absolutely sure that there wasn't any visible, physical trace left behind?" said Egon after a while. "Certain," said Roland, "there was none."
"Hmm... now that's a first, even for me," said Egon.
"So what do we do now?" asked Eduardo.
"I have a theory," said the Professor, "But if it turns out to be correct, then we won't find anything else at that site now. We'll have to wait for it to reappear and also make sure we be there in time when it comes. What happened to the officers?"
"Recovering in a nearby hospital," said Kylie as she turned a page of the notes handed back to her by Egon."Preliminary diagnosis indicates respiratory failure due to blockage of the windpipe." "By the green smoke, obviously," said Egon. "Any idea what that was?"
"No," said the four of them. "All right then, there isn't much we can do now except wait for this creature to reappear."
"What's your theory Egon?" asked Roland.
"Since the PKE meter measures Psycho-Kinetic energy which exists in the form of invisible waves," said Egon, "all it needs is for something to emit or reproduce waves having the exact frequency and wavelength as those emitted by the paranormal entity in order to detect and measure its presence even after the entity has disappeared. Probably, the frequency of the waves emitted by this creature and the energy carried by it was extremely low, so much so that most of the energy got dissipated in to the atmosphere while the green smoke which dissipated soon afterwards provided them with enough energy to trigger off very high PKE readings."
Eduardo and Garrett gave puzzled expressions having only half understood Egon's theory while Roland gave a nod of understanding. Kylie seemed to be mulling over something in her head. She looked at Egon and said, "So that's why we didn't find anything. The waves are invisible so we couldn't see them but they could be detected by the PKE meter as they remained for a longer time due to the extra energy they were provided by the green smoke which obviously wasn't ecto."
"Correct." said Egon with a smile of approval at Kylie who smiled back happy at his approval. "Isn't there anything more we can do other than wait around for this ghost?" asked Garrett.
"Yeah sure, you can eat more chocolate bars and play around with Slimer," said Eduardo with a chuckle. "Very funny Eddie," Garrett retorted.
"Try going through our Spirit guides and databases," was all their mentor said before returning to his microscope.
The four teenage ghostbusters took that as a cue to leave and slowly filed out of the lab, Eduardo and Garrett towards the living room and kitchen respectively while Kylie and Roland walked towards the bookshelf...
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