A/N: Last time, the professors investigated another attack scene and came across more ghosts, only to be saved from their attack, by none other than Janine with a Proton Pack. Where did she get it? What's her connection to these ghosts? And when did she become so bad-ascot? Find out now on ToonSchool: PokéBusters!

ToonSchool: Pokebusters

Discovering Something Old

Later at Janine's apartment, the professors were resting in her apartment's living room as they dried the slime off themselves with some towels that Janine provided for them. As for the nurse-in-training herself, she approached them with a tray with cups of tea in her hands. She puts it down on the table and handed a cup to each of them.

"Thanks for all this, Janine," Sycamore said to Janine.

"Yeah, you're a lifesaver," Kukui added in.

"You really know your stuff," Willow put in.

"Well, what did you expect from a Nurse Joy?," Oak complimented.

"Thanks, but call me Janine," she replied. "I feel I've still got a long ways to go before I can be worthy of being called 'Nurse Joy'."

"Okay, Janine," Kukui said. "How did you come to work at the Pokemon center?"

"Well, seeing my big sister work as head of the university's Pokemon Center for so long looked so exciting, and I loved seeing how much she loved helping Pokemon and their trainers so much, that I decided to follow in her footsteps. Though, I'm sorry to say that I've been pretty offbeat since I started, as you saw, Augustine."

"Hey, don't be so hard on yourself. You're just starting out, you'll get the hang of things in time," Sycamore said. His encouragement caused Janine to blush intensely.

"Look like someone's got a crush," Willow whispered to Kukui.

"Without a doubt," Kukui replied.

"Anyways, Janine, I have to ask, how did you know about the Ghost Pokemon?," Oak asked.

"Yeah, what did you mean by they're not real Pokemon?," added Willow.

"And what's with that strange backpack and wand?," Kukui finished.

Janine stopped for a moment before she said, "Perhaps its better that I show you. Follow me."

She then led the professors to her bedroom, and opened her closet, revealing to them a plethora of items: a black and beige uniform, several big and small gadgets, and a few weapons.

"You see, this stuff, including that backpack, which by the way is called the Proton Pack, once belonged to a special team of humans who caught and trapped malevolent ghosts for a living," Janine told the professors. "They were known as…"

Janine said as she stared at the poster of the logo with the silhouettes of four men in front of it with a semi-serious expression on her face.

"The Ghostbusters."

The professors turned their glances at Janine, confused at her words.

"Ghostbusters? I never heard of them before," Willow asked. "They sound like the perfect guys for this."

"They are. They consisted of three parapsychologists and an everyman just looking for a steady paycheck. They started their business after the first three of them were fired from their jobs as university professors after having their funding cut following a failed attempt to capture a ghost and show it off to the world."

"Well, doesn't that sound oddly familiar," Kukui said.

"They had some bumps in the road, including being put out of business for a few years due to legal issues, but they soon became the biggest ghost hunting team on the planet."

"I see. Where are they now?," Sycamore asked.

"And what's your connection to them?" Oak added.

"Well, I'm not a relative of theirs or anything like that. But when I was a little girl, they saved my life," Janine answered as she continued staring at the poster.

15 years ago…

In a dark forest in an unknown region, a 10-year old Janine was walking through the woods, visibly shaken and panicked as she looked around her.

"Hello, is anyone here?," she called out. "M-My Pokemon are injured and... I need to find a Pokemon Center!"

She waited for a few seconds for a response. But to her dismay, she was met with silence. Defeated, she fell to her knees as tears began to form in her eyes.

"Who am I kidding? Why did my stupid sister even call me to come visit her in Skylar City?! My Pokemon are all ill, I'm out of medicine and berries... I'm hopeless..."

Just then, Janine heard something in the distance. As she listened, she could hear it.

"Ja-nine…"

She quickly realized that someone was calling her name and that the voice sounded slightly familiar.

"Could it be…?"

Then Janine looked up and saw a figure in the short distance with their back turned to her. As she looked closer, she saw that it was a woman that looked similar to a Nurse Joy.

"Mommy?"

Janine got up and slowly crept to the woman. As she got closer, she became filled with hope and began to smile. She then reached the woman and tugged her skirt, causing her to turn around.

"Mom, is that you?"

But as the woman turned, Janine's smile was twisted in horror and shock as she saw her true face. It was a dark skull-like face with a wicked grin with sharp teeth and red eyes. Realizing the woman was a ghost, Janine screamed at the top of her lungs, causing the ghost to roar at her in return. She then took off running with ghost chasing after her, ducking and dodging its attempts to pounce on her.

"Stay away, go away! Leave me alone!" Janine screamed as she continued to run away from the enraged ghost. But as she did, she tripped on a rock and fell to the ground, hurting her knee, and causing most of them items from her backpack to spill out. Unable to get up, Janine could only scream and brace herself as the ghost lunged at her.

But just then, the ghost was lassoed by an energy rope and thrown away from her. Janine opened her eyes and saw the ghost become trapped by another energy rope. She then turned to see four men in beige uniforms with a logo with a ghost that had a "no" sign over it, wearing mechanical-like backpack devices that had wand-like extensions attached to them. One of the men then leaned down to Janine.

"Are you okay?" he asked. Janine tearfully nodded "yes". "What are you doing in the middle of the woods at night then?"

Janine was about to say something until she saw behind the man and screamed.

The men looked behind them and saw what seemed to be the same ghost they had lassoed already rise up behind them. The ghost then lunged at the men, only to be lassoed again by another one of them. A third one of the men then set a mysterious box-like device on the ground, and one of the men who'd lassoed the ghost, maneuvered it over the box, which then opened and sucked the ghost in. At the same time, the other ghost that was lassoed was pulled in right along with it, revealing they were the same ghost.

Once it had finished sucking the ghost in, the box closed up. The leader of the men then picked up the trembling Janine, while two of his colleagues gathered up her stuff, and the other collected the box.

"What's your name, Kiddo?" he asked.

"Janine. I was supposed to meet my sister in Skylar City," she replied.

"Well, let's see if we can't get you there, shall we?" he said as he carried Janine in his arms.

Sometime later, in Skylar City, a white 1959 Cadillac professional chassis with equipment attached to its roof pulled up near a Pokemon Center. A passenger door opened and Janine happily exited the vehicle with her stuff.

"Thanks, guys!" she said to the four men.

"No prob, kiddo," the leader said as he handed her a card. "Now just remember, if there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?"

"GHOSTBUSTERS!"

"You got it! See ya, Janine!"

The other men bide Janine goodbye as they pulled off.

"Bye guys!," Janine said, waving at them, before rushing into the Pokemon Center to meet her sister.

"Ever since that day, I was very grateful to what they did to save me. In fact, just meeting them makes me interested the differences of Ghost Pokemon and real ghosts."

Later on, Janine was on a computer looking up articles regarding hauntings by both Ghost Pokemon and real ghosts.

"I began to research them, as well as incidents and hauntings involving them, trying to figure out how they were different and the same."

On another day, Janine visits an old mansion and known tourist attraction to try and find any trace of a ghost or Ghost Pokemon, coming across the ghost of a kindly old lady knitting. Later that same day, she visited a graveyard and looked all around every grave, tombstone, and crypt for them, eventually coming across a Haunter.

"Eventually, I headed out into the field to get the first-hand experience with both of them, and in the process, I got to see what both of them were all about."

Another time, Janine was in a mall with her sister in Skylar City, when the ghosts of three Revolutionary War soldiers, attacked the mall. Not long after the two took cover with several others than the Ghostbusters showed up, and after a brief fight, trapped the ghosts. Janine, excited to see them, then shouted out and greeted them.

"I even got to see my heroes in action again a few times, doing what they did best: trapping malevolent ghosts."

Sometime later, the Ghostbusters decide to take Janine on a tour of their hideout in an old firehouse. Janine was astonished by the equipment they used and by the Containment Unit that they used to store the busted ghosts. She ends up spending the entire day with them learning how they operate and do their jobs.

"And once, they gave me a tour of their headquarters. I spent the whole day with them learning all about them and their work, and how they saved the world from supernatural forces so many times."

At the end of the tour, the Ghostbusters decided to give Janine her own uniform and Proton Pack for if she ever decided to join their team when she was old enough. Janine was so delighted she started to cry happily.

"And best of all, when it was all over, they gave me my own Proton Pack and uniform and offered me to become a full-time member when I was older. It was the happiest most exciting moment of my life!"

"As for where they are right now..."

Years later, Janine returned to Skylar City by bus for college but decided to pay her heroes a visit and maybe even get a part-time job with them.

"I can't wait to see them! I bet they'll be so surprised to see little me now all grown up!" she said. She then rode he bike through the city to the firehouse, but upon getting there discovered that it was now run-down, with signs indicating that the Ghostbusters were now out of business and the firehouse was marked for demolition.

"I'm afraid that they all retired."

Upon seeing the now-abandoned firehouse, Janine was absolutely shocked.

"No, this can't be! This has to be a trick," she pulled out her phone and looked up on the web to try and find out what happened, and learned that the Ghostbusters had been forced out of business due multiple lawsuits brought on by the collateral damage done by them in their pursuit of ghosts.

"No…", Janine said, devastated at the news.

"I couldn't believe it at first. But when I learned the reasons behind their disbandment, I was devastated. I wish I could've helped them stay together, but I guess their lives and the lawsuits were more important than ghost busting. And I can't change that."

Janine, devastated over the news, sat down near the entrance the firehouse, where she silently began to cry over the loss of her heroes.

"The city had already got a demolition permit to the firehouse and I... lost all hope. That is until a small group of people approached me."

A few days later, at the city's Pokemon Center, Janine was approached by a group of small group of people, who handed them a badge with the Ghostbusters on it to her, puzzling her.

"They weren't just some random strangers as it turned out. They were some of the Ghostbusters' past clients, and they managed to convince the government to delay the demolition in an attempt to preserve their legacy."

Then, a pink-haired silhouetted woman approached Janine and handed her over some strange devices from her wheelbarrow, which her eyes widened at the sight of them.

"In fact, one of them had seen me at the firehouse upset over what I'd learned about them, and she, feeling sorry for me, gave me some of the gadgets that they managed to buy on auction from the firehouse before it closed down."

Janine smiled as tears welled up in her eyes and she thanked the woman for her giving her these mementos of her heroes.

"Then I realized something from those people that I almost lost sight of it. A spark of hope, a wish that there is a way to succeed the Ghostbusters' legacy. Even if I have to move on, I knew I can't give up."

As she looked at her Ghostbusters badge and the gadgets, her eyes narrowed as tears began to flow.

"After I finished college and began my training at the university's Pokemon Center, I tried to start up my own ghost-busting business. But I had to put those plans on hold when I realized I couldn't do it alone," Janine finished as she stared at the same badge and gadget on the floor.

She then approached to her closet and took her uniform, which contained signatures of the said Ghostbusters on its collar. "But when I do, I want to do everything I can to revive the Ghostbusters' name. I just know I can do it."

However, when she looked at the professors, she sighed and said, "Then again, it's just a fleeting dream. At least you know why I know so much about these strange and real ghosts and the people who busted them in the past."

Some loud crying was then heard. The movie then paused again, as it was revealed that Jorgen was the one crying.

"That was so beautiful! A girl who appreciates her heroes that much is just too much!" Jorgen he said as he kept crying and blew his nose.

"Hey, come on you big sap, knock it off!" Bart snapped annoyed.

"Yeah, we can't enjoy the rest with you bawling like a baby," Buttercup equally annoyed, added.

"Yeah, it's just a movie, remember," Daryl put in.

However, Jorgen kept crying as Tony groaned at this. "That's it!"

The young spy then takes out some kind of bubble wand and blows through it, creating a large bubble that absorbs Jorgen inside it, which his cries became silent.

"Okay, continue," Tony said as he smiles.

The movie started back up again, as the professors looked amazed at Janine's story.

"Wow, Janine, I had no idea," Sycamore said, astonished at her past.

"Yeah, I never thought an aspiring nurse could be so bad-ascot!," Kukui added.

"I must say I do admire your dedication to your heroes," Oak threw in.

"Yeah, you're a lot more impressive than you give yourself credit for," Willow finished.

"Thank you, all of you," Janine said as she blushed.

"But where does that leave us now?," Kukui asked.

"Kukui's right, we still have those fake Ghost Pokemon running around vandalizing everything," Sycamore put in. "Not to mention where do those boxes that contain them keep coming from?"

"And the police still think we're behind all that, and we've been forced out of our regular jobs," Oak finished. "What are we going to do?"

As they began to wonder what their next move should be, Janine stared at her badge once more and said, "T-This might be a bit farfetched, but... maybe you could try… taking over as the new Ghostbusters?"

The professors sat in shock and disbelief over Janine's proposal, with Kukui even doing a spit take with his tea.

"Us?!," he exclaimed. "As ghost hunters? I'm not so sure about that…"

"Yeah, we're not into that sort of thing," Willow agreed.

"Right, we're researchers, not hunters," Oak added.

"Yeah, as you said, Janine, it's a bit farfetched," Sycamore finished.

"I understand your disbelief, but please just hear me out. While my proton pack didn't age very well, it did manage to subdue that Dusknoir and it's pre-evolutions as if they were real ghosts," Janine explained. "Not to mention they were practically immune to your Pokemon's attacks, even Incineroar's Z-Move."

"She's got a point. Z-Moves are supposed to combine a trainer and Pokemon's wishes into a full-powered attack. Unless the Pokemon was a strong one, probably with a Mega Evolution, just enduring it and still standing is a rare occurrence," Kukui guessed.

"Well, Mega Evolution allows a Pokemon to reach a new level of power only if it and its trainer have a strong bond," Sycamore responded. "And even so, if we were able to use a Mega-Evolved Pokemon, I doubt those Ghost Pokemon, or whatever they are, would've been affected any differently."

"Well, that's why I suggested you take the Ghostbusters' place," Janine explained. "Unlike your Pokemon's moves, their weapons and gadget can actually hurt those ghosts, and someone's got to do something, or they'll just keep rampaging around the city."

However, the professors stood silent, still reluctant at Janine's request.

"Come on guys. This could be the key to you guys clearing your names and getting your jobs back."

The professors all glanced at each other for a moment, before Oak spoke up and said, "Do you have access to the firehouse?"

"Actually, no. But I know who may have the keys to it," Janine said. "Come on you guys, let's go. I'll take you to them."

She then started to leave, but Sycamore said, "Um, Janine?"

Janine then stopped and replied, "Uh, yes?"

"Our clothes," Sycamore said, point out to the professor's still-slimed clothes, draped across several chairs, causing her to realize that they have nothing to wear.

"Right I think I got that covered," Janine said as she took out her smartphone and dials in a number. "Hello, Uniclu?"

A/N: So now we know Janine's connection to the ghosts... and Ghostbusters. But how will that help the professors in their plans? And where will she get the firehouse's keys? Find out next time on ToonSchool: PokéBusters!