A week into the month ban and Holtz was beside herself. She just missed the adrenaline of it all, she tried to make modifications to their proton packs but without the field to test them in she didn't know if they would be any less destructive or messy. She hadn't even left the firehouse, she just stayed in her lab making seemingly pointless modifications. Abby tried to talk to the mayor again.
"I told him that if a ghost shows up we will just go ahead and bust it despite what he said," Abby said, they were sitting around the table eating pizza for the third time that week.
"How did he take that then?" Patty asked.
"He said if that happened our money would be cut indefinitely..."
"Abby, if he did cut our money what would happen?" Erin asked, she already knew the answer but she needed to hear it out loud.
"We won't be able to do this anymore...it's not just the money that literally puts food on the table, pays for the equipment. Ect. Ect. But it's the immunity that comes with it, if we didn't have that anymore then we would have to pay for damages and we would probably be arrested for destruction of public property..." Abby sighed. Erin hung her head. She wondered about a world without the Ghostbusters, she would have to find another university to lecturer at- Columbia wouldn't take her back. Abby would have to find somewhere else to work. Patty should be able to go back to the trains and Holtz? Erin worried about Holtz, what would happen to her?
"We need to do something!" Holtz shouted. She slapped her hands off the desk and stood up. Her chair scraped across the floor causing the other three to glare at her.
"Holtzmann," Abby warned.
"No! We are just sitting here eating pizza!"
"Baby," Patty started.
"What have you two done? Eh. At least Abby went to see the mayor...I've been trying to make mods...but you two?" Holtzmann pointed to Erin and Patty.
"Hey," Patty bit back, Erin just stayed quiet. Holtz shook her head and left the room. She went downstairs and outside. It felt slightly odd after being cooped up inside for so long. She found herself at the dump, she always there when she found life a little difficult. She sifted through the metal pile, in her head she was looking for extra items to made modifications but in reality she was looking for anything to make time seem like it wasn't a thing.
Suddenly, the pile she was sitting on top of started to shake. She looked around but couldn't see anything. Suddenly, Holtz was flung from the pile, she landed awkwardly on her back. She groaned and scrambled to her feet. She continued to look around for an attacker. It could have been the guy who owns the yard, he was slightly unhinged. She was starting to get dizzy from all the circling she was doing. Then she saw the ecto plasm on the cuff off her overalls, she took a deep breath- she knew what she was looking for now. It was a ghost.