Peter, Ray, and Winston were frozen with fear as they stared at the possessed body of their friend. But they now had a bigger problem. Not only did they have to get Keizer out of Egon, but they had to do it in a way that wouldn't hurt or kill him. And they unfortunately didn't have any mood slime with them because they didn't know they would need it.
"What do we do Ray?" Peter asked, his voice filled with urgency
"I..I..I don't know." Ray stammered.
"Think you have what it takes to beat me now?" Keizer asked tauntingly.
"Egon, we know you're in there." Winston called, "Fight it man."
"Too late. He can't hear you." Keizer laughed evilly. "Now, it's time for me to finish what I came here to do: get my minions and kill you all."
His aura glowed a bit brighter as a reddish-orange ball of energy began forming in his hand. He then threw at the three remaining Ghostbusters. They were able to dodge at the last minute as the powerball collided with a wall and left a good sized hole in it.
"Any ideas?" Peter asked.
"Yeah, I have one. RUN!" yelled Ray.
"Good plan!" exclaimed Winston.
Peter, Ray, and Winston ran out of the tower as fast as they could. Several power balls followed behind which they managed to dodge. Keizer/Egon followed behind them. The guys stopped once they rounded a corner. They needed to get Keizer off their trail so he didn't kill them first before they could save Egon.
"We need a distraction." Ray said as he looked around the corner with his ecto goggles. Keizer/Egon was standing in the middle of the hall, his blood red eyes looking for the Ghostbusters.
"Leave that to me." Peter replied as he took a proton grenade out of his jumpsuit.
"Be careful to try and not directly hit him, it's still Egon's body." Ray said apprehensively.
Peter then jumped out from around the corner to get the demon's attention. He then pressed the button on top to activate the grenade.
"Hey Kez, think fast!!" Peter yelled as he threw the grenade. It landed a few feet away from the possessed Ghostbuster before exploding. Keizer cried out as a bright light blinded him and waved of positive nuclear energy hit him.
"Guys, in here!!" Winston yelled gesturing to the open he stood beside.
Ray and Peter quickly rushed down the hallway and into the dark, empty room. Winston then slammed the door behind him and locked it. The three them crouched down onto the floor to avoid being seen.
"How long before he finds us?" Peter whispered.
"I don't know." Ray replied quietly.
Winston gestured for them to be quiet as the sound of heavy footsteps and a white light came down the hall near the room they were hidden in. The footsteps stopped right in front of the room where Peter, Ray and Winston were hidden. They peered through the ventilation slats on the bottom of the door and saw Egon's possessed body standing right in front of the door. They could hear Keizer muttering to himself in some ancient dialect.
"What's he saying Ray?" Peter asked.
"I don't know Peter." the engineer replied, "I don't understand most demon languages."
"Does anything he's saying sound familiar?" Winston asked.
"Not really." Ray replied.
Outside their hiding place, Keizer turned and took a few steps towards the door. The hidden Ghostbusters held their breaths and bit their tongues as not to give away their location. Deciding there was nothing to see, Keizer enveloped himself in a red aura and he disappeared. After waiting a few seconds to make sure the coast was clear, the three remaining Ghostbusters came out of the room.
"Ok, so how do we get that demonic freak out of Spengs?" Peter asked.
"Well, we either get Keizer to leave Egon's body himself, find a way to force him out that's not fatal to Egon or use mood slime." Ray replied, "I think we have some in the car."
"And what if neither of those three things work?" Winston asked.
"One of them will work Z, I'm telling you." Ray reassured.
"Oh I wouldn't be too sure of that Dr. Stantz..." Keizer said as he/Egon reappeared in front of the guys in a flash of red light, "...Besides, I'm pretty good at deflating a mortal's ego." he taunted.
"Spengs, I know you're still in there!!" Peter called.
"Yeah, come back to us man!!" Winston added.
"Egon, don't let that demon make you do something you'll regret later!!" Ray pleaded.
"Too late, I'm in control now." Keizer replied as he laughed evilly. Another powerball formed in his hands, "Now, you die."
Keizer/Egon then threw the ball of magic at the Ghostbusters. The three dodged it and took off running through the massive airport. Keizer/Egon followed behind throwing balls of magic and whatever else at the team. However, on the second floor, the demon stopped chasing them, deciding to play with them a bit and see how long they would go before they realized.
Meanwhile, the guys were running like crazy, even though it was hard to because they were still wearing their proton packs. They were so concentrated on running and getting out that they didn't even realize Keizer wasn't behind them anymore. Then, they saw the airport entrance doors and burst through them. The crowd began cheering when they came out, but the cheers soon died down when they saw that the Ghostbusters were breathing hard like they'd been running. And there were only three of them.
"There you are!" Peck exclaimed as he stormed over. "You all have been in there for almost two hours!! What took y'all so long? Did y'all catch the ghosts? And did you catch them with minimal property damage?"
"First of all, sorry we took so long Pecker face, but these kinds of jobs at a place like this can take a while." Peter snapped.
"Well, we did catch the ghosts. But they were thralls for a demon named Keizer. And he appeared to us right after we caught his minions and gave us a bit of trouble." Winston explained, trying to keep his cool with the egotistical bureaucrat.
"Well, did y'all catch the demon?" asked Peck.
"What does it look like?!" Peter exclaimed, "No, we haven't!"
"Well, where's the demon and where's Dr. Spengler?" Peck asked, just now realizing that the dark-haired physicist wasn't with them.
"Uhh...well...that's the problem..." Ray said tentatively, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Wait, where did he go, he was just behind us." Winston asked as he looked around for their possessed friend.
"Did he give up?" Peter added.
BAM!
The doors flew open and off their hinges. A cold wind blew out and a figure bathed in a white aura stood in the doorway.
"On the contrary Dr. Venkman, I wanted to play with you a bit." Keizer said as he stepped out of the door frame. The crowd gasped and screamed at the sight of Egon's possessed body.
"What do you mean 'play with us'?" Ray asked.
"I wanted to see if you realized I wasn't following you anymore. And you three just realizing it now is quite amusing." the demon replied with an amused voice.
"You let that thing possess Dr. Spengler?" Peck hissed.
"We didn't let him do anything." Peter hissed back.
"Well, make the next move." Keizer said as he stared at the trio with his blood red eyes.
Peter, Ray, and Winston looked at each other nervously. They desperately wanted to get Keizer out of Egon, but they had to do it without hurting him.
"Well, what are you waiting for?! Shoot him!" Peck exclaimed.
"NO!!" All three Ghostbusters exclaimed.
"We can't shoot him!!" Winston added, "That could hurt him or even worse vaporize him!
"And you really wouldn't want to hurt your precious friend, now would you?" Keizer said with an evil grin, "I must admit, it is fun toying with human emotions and seeing them in these types of situations. But sadly, all good things must come to an end."
Another fiery ball of magic began forming in the demon's hand. The guys were already tired and sore from fighting Keizer, his minions and running through the massive airport. They didn't have the strength to defend themselves. But just as Keizer was about to blast them, a voice cried out.
"NO!" a voice shouted.
The guys gasped. The voice was Egon's. They looked and saw Egon's body jerking and the aura dimming. His facial features were starting to look like Egon's again. Egon was fighting his way back.
"No. I...won't...let you...hurt... my friends!" Egon cried out.
"He's fighting it!" Peter exclaimed.
"But he can't hold out for long." Ray added.
"But what can we do?" Winston asked.
"No, I...won't...let you!" Egon exclaimed. He all of a sudden grabbed his head, dealing with the immense physical and mental pain he was going through.
"You think you can beat me?" Keizer asked as he tried to take back control of Egon's body.
"If...I... try hard...enough." Egon replied.
Keizer was able to take back control for a second made another ball of energy. But before he could throw it at the Ghostbusters, Egon took control and grabbed his hand to stop Keizer from blasting them. Control shifted between the two for the next several minutes. Peter, Ray, and Winston stood helplessly as they watched their friend fight to regain control of his body. But they were getting worried. If control of Egon's body kept shifting to either Egon or Keizer, the trauma and stress could physically and literally tear his body apart.
"Wait, I have an idea!!" Ray exclaimed. He grabbed his screwdriver out of his pocket and began adjusting the neutrona wand settings. "If we set one pack to Keizer's frequency and another to Egon's biorhythms, we might be able to tear them apart."
"And if we mess up?" Peter asked.
"Let's just say Egon's individual molecules will end up going on separate vacations." Ray replied as he quickly adjusted Winston's proton gun.
Meanwhile, Keizer and Egon were still battling it out for control of the physicist's body. However, having held off Keizer for as long as he had, Egon's control was beginning to wane.
"No...No.." Egon said as he desperately tried to stay in control.
"Your time's up mortal." Keizer said sinisterly.
Egon then cried out in pain as Keizer did something to him. He then took control again of the Ghostbuster again and laughed evilly. He then turned to the other Ghostbusters.
"Sorry about the inconvenience, but your friend is quite a fighter." Keizer said as he grinned evilly.
"We know Egon, Keizer. He's stronger than you." Ray said.
"Yeah, he wouldn't hurt us." Peter added.
"Are you sure about that?" Keizer asked coyly.
"We are. Shoot 'em Ray!!" Winston exclaimed as he aimed his proton gun at Keizer/Egon.
Keizer responded by waving his hands. A wave of magic swept over Peter, Ray, and Winston and froze them in their place. They couldn't move and were now completely defenseless.
"And now, to finish you off." Keizer said. He laughed evilly as he collected a huge ball of energy to throw at the guys. But before he could, he stopped.
"NO!" Egon yelled as he took control again. "Fine, if you want to blast something, well, hear's a taste of your own medicine!"
Peter, Ray, and Winston watched in horror as Egon thrusted the large energy ball at himself. In a bright light, Keizer flew out of Egon's body. Since he was recovering from the blast, the spell over the guys wore off so they finally took their shot. Peter and Winston hooked Keizer with their proton streams and Ray threw a trap under him. He stomped on the pedal and the trap opened, sucking the demon in.
Once the trap closed, the three exhausted Ghostbusters took a few moments to comprehend everything that had happened. By that point, most of the crowd had scattered due to fear and panic of being blasted by a demon.
But when the boys looked up again, they saw Egon lying on the ground and not moving.
To be continued...