A/N: Happy Halloween time, readers! Sorry, this has come so late. I've been busy with my novel and other writing projects. But I figured it was time to get this back out there.

Last time, the professors learned about Janine's connection to the ghosts and the famous Ghostbusters. Now she aims to help the professors clear their names by getting the keys to the Ghostbusters' old base. But how, and from where? Find out starting right now!

ToonSchool: Pokebusters

Keys to the Firehouse

Later that night, two vehicles stopped at some kind of a pawn shop and Janine, now wearing a pink tank top, peach-colored knee-high shorts, white socks, and pink shoes, exited one of them.

"Here we are, The Cosma Amazing Pawn Shop," she declared as she pointed at the shop's sign at the top of the building, which seemed to designed very much like an LED sign from Las Vegas. "And just in time. The shop closes in about 30 minutes or so."

The professors then exited the vehicles, with all of them now wearing casual outfits. Oak was wearing a red-and-yellow Hawaiian-patterned shirt, beige khakis, and brown shoes. Willow was wearing a green shirt with black markings, dark blue lower thigh shorts, and black shoes. Sycamore was wearing a blue and grey sweater vest with a blue shirt, and pants, and black and blue shoes. Kukui was wearing a black hoodie with no shirt, black read pants and black shoes.

"You're sure we can get what you said here?," Oak asked.

"Of course. Cosma has just about everything!" replied Janine. "Plus, one of the shopkeepers is a former client of the Ghostbusters. She may able to help us find what we're looking for."

The five of them then enter the shop and were amazed by what they saw as they opened the door. Artifacts, jewelry, electronics, and other random items were displayed everywhere, on shelves, on the walls, and in display cases. There were also several customers conversing with a couple of employees.

The professors were astonished at what they saw of the store's stock.

"Wow," gasped Oak.

"It really is…," added Willow.

"Amazing in here!," finished Sycamore.

"Yeah, I thought the sign was just an exaggeration," Kukui exclaimed.

"No, for real," Janine replied with a smile. "Now follow me."

But just as they were about to approach one of the employees, three people pushed the professors and Janine out of the way as one of them, a pink long-haired woman, shouted, "Out of the way!"

"Rich people coming through!"

A strange cat-like person wobbled through as he followed his companions. Janine gave them a vicious death glare for theirs.

"How rude!," she shouted.

However, unknown to them, the blue-haired man looks around and whispers to the woman, "No sign of the 'Scam Scuffer'. Looks like we're safe."

"And I see an easy sucka right over there," the strange cat-like person said as he pointed to one of the employees.

The said employee was a green-haired man with a name tag that had the crudely written name "Cosmo", who was hitting himself in the head with a spoon repeatedly while he gritted his teeth and shouted, 'HOW. DO. YOU. USE. A. SPOON?!"

"COSMO?!" Tony shouted, shocked that one of Timmy's fairies are in the movie.

"Yup. Cool, huh?" Timmy said with a smile, seemingly unfazed by this reveal.

"Aren't you even surprise that they managed to enter the movie so easily?" Tony whispered.

"No. But I'm still surprised that Cosmo still has no idea how to use a spoon."

"True... But if Cosmo is there, then that means..."

But Timmy shushes him, causing Tony to become silent as they continued watching the movie.

"Good evening, kind sir," said the man. Cosmo stopped hitting himself in the head and turned his attention to the customer.

"Welcome to Cosma's Amazing Pawn Shop! How may I help you?," he asked.

"Oh, boy are you in for a real treat, sir! We have a very special artifact we recently uncovered in Wellspring Cave!"

"That's right, it's like nothing you've ever seen even in your wildest dreams!," the woman added.

"And here. It. IS!," said the cat-like person as he placed the object on the counter. It appeared to be gold pendant with a red and blue gem on the middle. It seemingly glowed as Cosmo looked at it.

"Wow, it looks so shiny!," he said, mesmerized.

"It looks so valuable, huh?," asked the cat-like person.

"It looks so fake," Willow whispered to the other professors and Janine.

"It's definitely fake, for sure," Sycamore said in agreement. "Besides, isn't the Wellspring Cave only consists of underground water wells?"

"Yeah, I think we have some scam artists here!" Willow added.

"We should tell them about this at once," Oak put in.

"I don't know about just barging into a conversation like that, even if it is for a good reason such as this," Janine said with reservation.

Just then, some rumbling and stomping noises were heard, causing some items on the shelves to rattle and clang. The customers and other employees, including Janine and the professors, began to look around and tremble in fear.

"What's going on?," Sycamore asked.

"It's her…," the blue-haired man whispered.

"She's coming…," added Janine who was mostly unfazed by all of this.

Before they could react, two doors near the high rise of two shelves and connected to a small staircase suddenly burst open and a pink-haired woman in a yellow shirt, purple vest, and black pants and high-heel shoes emerged in an extravagant manner as water rushed past her and down the stairs. However, as she stepped out of the door, she angrily shook the water out of her shoes and shouts, "Cosmo! How many times do I have to tell you not to leave to water running after you used the toilet?!"

She then saw the trio of strange people and the pendant they were holding as she narrowed her eyes even more. "And what do you have there?"

"The Scam Scuffer!," the all said quietly.

"Um, it's nothing really, right James," said the woman to the man.

"Yeah, it's only a keepsake we were trying to get an estimate on, right Meowth," replied the man.

"Yeah, like he and Jessie here said, but it's probably not worth that much anyways on second thought," replied the cat-like person. But before they could run, a Snubbull grabbed the pendant from them, and brought it to Wanda.

"Thank you, Snubbull," she replied as she then took an eyeglass scope and examined the pendant as the three looked on in fear. After a few moments, she glared daggers at the trio. "Not worth much, huh? It's not worth squat! It's a fake! You bozos were going to scam us weren't you?!"

"She finally caught us!" Jessie shouted.

"Let's get out of here!" The talking Meowth shouted as he and the two humans try to run away from Wanda. But as they did, they stopped in their tracks as a white small fox angrily jumped in front of the door and growled at them.

"N-Nice, white Vulpix..." James pleaded to the angry Pokemon, only for it to blow a small gust of snow, causing all of them to be frozen into a solid block of ice.

"You scammers aren't welcome here! Now git!," she said as she kicked the block of ice, sending flying out the door and sliding down the road. The professors looked on, astonished at this. Janine, however, remained unfazed, but slightly amused.

With the three scam artists gone, Wanda then quickly turned around and shouted, "Any other scammers dare to bring phonies around me?!"

A number of customers quickly hid their items, thus identifying them as scammers, including the Beagle Boys, save for one who stupidly attempted to bring his item over to Wanda. In response to this, Ma hit him over the head with her umbrella for this, forcing him to back off.

"Didn't think so." Wanda sighs as she calmed down and headed back to the backroom.

However, Janine quickly approaches her and asks, "Ms. Cosma?"

Wanda's eyes widen as she turns around to see the young nurse-in-training. "Oh, Janine! I didn't see you there! It's been a while. How are your studies back at the university?" Wanda greeted.

"Actually, I graduated. But I am still training as a Pokemon nurse at the university's Pokemon Center," Janine answered.

"Well, that's good to know."

"I see things around here haven't changed a bit."

"Yep, dealing with scammers and their fake junk, and of course, my loveable but clueless husband."

"Those poor customers, I didn't even get to check their pendant," Cosmo said sadly, oblivious to what the trio nearly pulled on him.

However, Wanda then noticed the professors and gasps in shock.

"Oh. My. Goshness!," she exclaimed. "It's you guys! The ones from the news!"

"Wait, us?," Oak asked as he and the other professors looked perplexed.

"What? The Justice League? I always thought they'd be bulkier," Cosmo obliviously remarked. Wanda could only slap herself in the face over her husband's idiocy.

"Hold on. You saw us on the news?" Willow asked.

"Yes. Report about a giant Frillish attacking the university. Saw the whole thing," Wanda answered.

"Whoa, well, I don't know what you heard, but we didn't place that Frillish there," Oak said.

"Yeah, it was already there when we found it," Kukui added.

"I mean, we may have sort of disturbed it we found it, but that's it," Sycamore put in.

"Right. Just wanted to make that clear," finished Willow.

"I know that, silly. Everyone in the neighborhood already knows you guys are the heroes. That Detective Pete has no sense of empathy. Thankfully, I managed to get him back. He tried to pawn a diamond encrusted phone here, but I exposed it as a fake. Real entertainment there," Wanda explained. "Still, I can't believe you four famous professors managed to stop that Frillish though. I thought you guys usually stayed in your labs and lecture halls doing nothing but researching, unlike those other four."

"Other four?," Sycamore asked confused.

"I'm sure Janine told you all about the Ghostbusters?"

"Yes," Oak confirmed.

"Well did she tell you I'm an ex-client of theirs and that I gave her some of their old gadgetry to her?"

"No, but we had a feeling you might be," Kukui quipped.

"And that's why we're here, Ms. Cosma. Do you still have the keys to the Ghostbusters' firehouse?" Janine asked.

"As a matter of fact, I do," Wanda answered as she took a small ladder and climbed up to a shelf. "They should be right –"

But when she felt the place the keys should've been, they were gone.

"Huh? Where'd they go? I always keep them right up–"

"And these are the keys to the Ghostbusters firehouse base," Cosmo's voice said. Everyone turned to see him with Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys about to sell them the said keys.

"Perfect place for a new hideout! How much?," Ma Beagle said as she rummaged through her purse for money. Wanda rolled her eyes at this, and whistled.

No sooner did she do that, the white Vulpix jumped on the counter, grabbed the keys from Cosmo, and glare angrily at the Beagles. Before any of them could react, Vuplix froze them in another ice block and used its hind legs to kick them out the door and send them sliding down the street.

"And stay out!" Wanda shouted before shutting the door behind her.

"You have to admit, she does have a great Scary Face when she's angry," Kukui sheepishly said.

"Well, she is the 'Scam Scuffer' after all. Just one look at a fake item trying to be sold to her and she'll kick anyone out of her store," Janine explained. "I can see that she hasn't lost her touch ever since she opened her store here."

"Well, remind me to never try to scam her," Willow remarked. Vulpix then turned over the keys to Wanda.

"Anyhow, as Cosmo said, here are the keys to the famous firehouse headquarters of the four and only Ghostbusters," Wanda said showing the keys to the professor.

"Well thank you, ma'am," said Oak gratefully.

But just as Oak reached for the keys, Wanda held them away from him and asked, "Hold it! Janine might've told you everything about the Ghostbusters. But that doesn't mean I can trust you yet."

"What do you mean 'can't trust us yet?'," asked Sycamore.

"Well, those scammers I just threw out were the Beagles, a whole family of known crooks, and Ma Beagle mentioned using the firehouse as a hideout, which is something I don't condone. What do you four want with it?"

"We want to use it and whatever gadgets we can get to stop those spooks posing as Ghost Pokémon," Oak replied.

"And solve this case that Scrooge McDuck hired us for regarding those ghosts attacking his various business ventures," Kukui added.

"And clear our names from Pete's smearing," Sycamore put in.

"And get our regular jobs back," finished Willow.

However, Wanda continued to glare at them as she asked, "And what else you expecting in return other than your jobs? Money? Fame?"

"We want to express that most Ghost Pokemon aren't as destructive or evil like those imposters," Oak answered.

"And that many actually love humans," Sycamore added.

"As Pokemon professors, it's part of our job to ensure that humans and Pokemon can co-exist in harmony," Willow put in.

"And ensure that that message gets all around the world," Kukui finished. There was an intense beat as Wanda glared even more at them.

"Those Ghostbusters used to charge me an arm and a leg for their services, plus making me recommend them to others," she said.

Yet all of a sudden, Wanda's death glare turned into a sincere smile and she dropped the keys on the counter right in front of Oak. "But then again, you four remind me of all the positives of those four dunderheads though with less of an ego. Make sure you don't blow up the place."

"Relax, we won't," Oak said as he took the keys.

"Everyone, I'm closing up shop, so bring your purchases or pawn-offs to the front counter so that my employees may take care of you, please," Wanda announced, before turning back to the professors. "I'll be glad to escort you all to 4532 South Spiro Street tomorrow. That's where the firehouse is."

The professors were shocked by her sudden announcement at first, but then realized what she said next.

"Wait, 'escort' us? You're coming, too?" Sycamore asked in shock.

"Why yes!" Wanda answered as she removed her vest and hung it on the rack near the backroom's door. "Considering it's your first time in the firehouse, it's best if Cosmo and I would be there as your tour guides."

"Um, does your husband have to come? He sort of seems be at least a dozen of berries short of a bushel, you know," Kukui expressed. The scene then cutaway to Cosmo hitting his head with a roll of toilet paper.

"Still can't figure out how to use this!," he exclaimed.

Wanda just glared at her husband and said, "I don't have much of a choice. It's either that or take the risk of most of the stock getting set on fire. Again."

"Well, why do you need to come?," Sycamore asked.

"Well, since the Ghostbusters were put out of business, the firehouse's condition has, well… deteriorated, you might say."

"I doubt it has become that bad," Oak said, skeptic about Wanda's warning. "I mean, the Ghostbusters only went of business, what, ten years ago."

"Yeah, I mean, surely the public or someone else has kept it up to code," Willow added.

"Which is more than I can say for this place with Cosmo around. Who even hire that guy?" Kukui mumbled. However, Wanda heard his remark.

"What was that about my husband?" she snapped, getting Kukui's face. While she did get exasperated by her husband a lot of the time, she refused to let anyone insult him except for her.

"Nothing, nothing. Nothing at all," Kukui said sheepishly throwing his hands up.

"Besides, I doubt they can ignore it so bad," Oak said.

However, in the next morning, the Pokemon professors, still in their casual clothing Janine provided, stared at something in shock.

"Okay, so it is that bad," Oak remarked.

"Worse than I thought," Sycamore added.

"So much for the keeping it up to code," Willow threw in.

"I think I owe Cosmo an apology," Kukui finished. It was then revealed that they were standing in front of the firehouse, which was shown to have been completely abandoned, rundown, and covered in vines of ivy.

"Yeah. I could only do so much since the city still owns the firehouse," Wanda muttered as she and Cosmo left Oak's car. "All I can do is maintaining the lock and keys, so it can remain accessible."

As she approached the door, took out the keys, and started to unlock it, Willow then asked to his former mentor, "What are we looking for exactly?"

"Probably research notes from the Ghostbusters. I don't know if they'll be conclusive, but they may give us a clue on how to stop these strange Ghost Pokemon," Oak answered.

Then, as Wanda opened the door, a cloud of dust billowed onto them causing them to cough and sneeze for a few seconds, before they glanced inside and saw the interior, which was covered from top to bottom with dust, cobwebs, and cocoons. There were also twigs, branches, vines, and dead leaves on the ground, and several Rattata, Spinarak, regular spiders, and insects were crawling all around.

"Holy shamolet" Wanda shouted, at which her husband's eyes widened in horror.

"Oh no, here she goes," Cosmo warned before he put a welding helmet that says "Anti-Nag Shield".

"I leave the firehouse alone for a few months and they let dust bunnies and pests invade everything! The nerve of them! I spend good money to keep this place looking good both outside and in, and they lie to me about doing their jobs. I oughta sue the pants off them–"

As Wanda continued to rant and nag, the professor could only look on in dismay at this.

"Is she always like this?," Kukui asked Cosmo.

"Trust me, I've had to endure it for years," Cosmo replied in dismay.

Later, everyone split up to explore the whole firehouse and see what they could find.

Willow saw something on top of a shelf and reached up to get it. When he did, however, he knocked a shower of dust onto his head, causing him to cough and sneeze in agony.

Later, Kukui found a dusty Trap and attempted to open it. But when he did it, a cloud of dust and spiders billowed into his face, partially blinding him and causing him to furiously brush off the spiders from him.

Sycamore found an old P.K.E. Meter, and attempted to turn it on. But no sooner than he did, the gadget's old circuits caused it to burn out, literally shocking Sycamore as he dropped it out of surprise and pain.

Meanwhile, Janine looked over the broken computers while Oak looked through some folders found in some of the desks. He found that while most of the pages had aged, he was still able to read them. Bus as he sat down to read, his chair suddenly broke underneath him, causing him to fall on the ground.

"Professor!" Janine screamed as she rushed to his side.

"Agh, my back!" He screamed. "I don't care if this place belongs to the city. It's a landmark and it deserves some respect as such!"

The other professors approached as Janine helped Oak back up.

"Well, all I can say is, this place is filthy!," Willow groaned, still covered in dust.

"And infested," Kukui added as he brushed off several more spiders.

"And the gadgets her are ancient, tech-wise," Sycamore finished, holding up the burned out P.K.E. Meter. "Looks like we might be stuck with Janine's proton pack."

"Not exactly," Oak said, now getting an idea after seeing the office. "Willow, my boy, is it possible for you to integrate the technology you used in your research equipment in these gadgets?"

"Yes, it is, but it'll take some time," Willow replied.

"Well, no matter, because we are gonna restore this place, and use whatever resources it gives us to fight these Ghost Pokémon and clear our names once and for all!"

"Yeah!," the other professors shouted in agreement.

"And we'll get you your jobs back too!," Janine added.

"Yeah!"

"And then we'll all dance the Macarena!," Cosmo shouted. Everyone just stared at him in shock. "Como esta?"

"Silencio, estupido!," Wanda said as she dragged him away by the ear, much to his dismay.

A/N: Well aside from Cosmo, that was enlightening. Now the professors are in the old Ghostbusters firehouse, but boy do they have a lot of work to do to get it and the old gadgets up and running again! Can they do it and finally start making progress in clearing their names and regaining their jobs? Find out next time on ToonSchool: PokeBusters!

Happy Halloween, ya'll!