The Afterlife Never Rests

by John2851

Set in an AU and taking place after the events of the 2009 Ghostbusters video game, Phoebe Spengler reunites with her black boyfriend named John after she, her mother, and her older brother move to a hit town called Summerville and inherited the estate of their recently deceased grandfather. However, there was a reason why her grandfather stayed in a hit town.

6. Chapter 5: Repair and Upgrade

Chapter 5: Repair and Upgrade

After last night's sweet love passion and entering the early morning, John and Phoebe were still currently in bed looking over the pages of the Gozerian Codex book. It made John over-excited when Phoebe handed him the book that she and Podcast found on the long back table in the tv room. Phoebe can not help but to smile and gaze at John's facial expression when he started explaining a bit more about the book itself. Going through the pages and reading each group of sentences written.

"Some of the texts were written backward. Why?." Phoebe laid her head on John's shoulder while looking at the pages of the book.

"Ghost procession." John eyed the words. "Not every ghost can both write or speak well. A lot of misspellings."

Phoebe nodded in understanding. "This is the same book that my grandpa and the other two busters took from the Gray Lady and then had to defend against the Collector in order to get back to a nonparanormal public library?."

"Oh, yeah, Phoebe, this is the book that Egon, Ray, and the Rookie went to get from the Gray Lady and then fight the Collector to secure the book from his clutches." John put his arm around Phoebe.

"John?." Phoebe looked at her boyfriend and got his attention. "Where were you last night?. Me and Podcast been looking all over for you but no luck."

"Oh." John closed the book. Then starting to play with her hair. "Believe it or not, I was in the shack that leads to a badass secret room and got the opportunity to hang out and talk with your grandfather. Phoebe, I literally spend time with Egon Spengler!."

Phoebe got up and pulled her covers to cover her naked flat chest. Her eyes widened when hearing this. Her own lover has seen her dead grandfather in person. Meaning that her grandfather is a ghost. John told Phoebe everything that had happened that night when having a conversation with her grandfather.

"That is totally amazing, ghost head." Phoebe smiled but then changed with concern and worry. "John, we let out one of the minions of Gozer. With everything you told me all these years, Gozer is going to return to our world for the third time. John, I'm scared."

John comforted his girlfriend by kissing her on the forehead before holding her close to him. "Never fear my little twinkie girl. Your grandfather told me that he has a second plan. He told me I will find out when the time is ready. Plus, I need to get back home and do some handy work on this trap. As a matter of fact, I need to head home right away."

"Now?." Phoebe had a look of sadness on her face. She watched her lover get his clothes back on before putting his fake Jordans on. She did not want him to leave but instead want him to stay. Guess you can say that last night's sex has made Phoebe very attachable and sensitive toward John.

"Wait, you do not need to go," Phoebe said after blocking the doorway. "I'm sure you can find whatever you need to modify the ghost trap."

John smiled as he lay a kiss on Phoebe's forehead. "Nice try. Your house does not have the necessary tools that I desired to have for this trap. Do not worry this will not take long in fact. Cool?."

Phoebe sighed in defeat. "Cool."

"Cool." John gently pulled Phoebe out from the doorway.

Phoebe guide John to the front and waved him off. "And what am I going to be doing for the time being anyway?."

"Do some Ghostbusters research," John spoke when walking away from a distance and stopped to look back at his girlfriend. "That, and also your grandfather would love for you to come by his cool hideout underneath the shack."

With that in mind, she went back inside the house and did just that after a quick wash up and put on fresh clean pair of clothes. Phoebe unplugged her laptop and went right into researching her grandfather's and his business partner's old profession. She tried her hand at Wikipedia but the source of their information is not so accurate. Phoebe went to an old website that is dedicated to the Ghostbusters and learned a few things on the site. The site is basically saying the same information that John has been feeding her all these years ago.

"I never believed in this paranormal hogwash until yesterday," Phoebe told herself this when looking at digital newspaper articles on the screen. "John has been right all along about all of this."

Phoebe played around on the computer some more before going to her final source which is Youtube. She pulled everything Ghostbuster related and went to binge-watching the multiple interviews. The funny one of the interviews was the one where the man asked Dr. Ray Stantz if he have seen Elvis Presley and then asked how is he doing. That made Phoebe laugh a bit before finished watching the whole interview. She is about to go look at three commercial ad videos of the crew before hearing the PKE going off.

"Now what?." Phoebe turned her attention to the device and grabbed it off the dresser. "Wait. Grandpa?. Is this you?."

Phoebe did not hesitate in tracking the signal as it lead her outside. She stayed following the signal leading her to the direction that she have yet to explore. She eyed the side of the house and see her mom talking with Grooberson who came over to visit her mom, for reasons unknown and not to Phoebe's interest at the moment. Phoebe pointed the PKE in the direction of her surroundings before walking straight. Then she looked up to see the shack in front of her.

"Hmmm, this must be the shack that my ghost head is referring to," Phoebe told herself this before walking forward.

When reaching the door and putting the PKE down. Then she opened the door and saw the first thing. The firepole. Phoebe slid down and found herself in a secret room John said not too long ago. Curiosity got the better of Phoebe as she started to have a good look around inside the area.

She found a shelf filled with contained specimens of what she identified as spores, molds, and fungus. Phoebe remembered her boyfriend wanting to collect the same thing as her grandfather but his folks refused to have that in their house. Studying the shelf she could see two medium-sized pink substances on the top shelf. Phoebe adjusted her glasses when seeing the jars.

"Wait...is that...mood slime?." Phoebe remembered John telling her about that type of slime. "Damn. This place is filled with archives."

Phoebe resumed her browsing before finding a clothes rack and went to open it to find four old dirty stained jumpsuits with the last names of the original Ghostbusters. She examined each one before finding her grandfather's jumpsuit and went to check the pockets. She discovered a half-eating crunch bar and pair of glasses that looks the exact same as hers. Phoebe tried the pair over her glasses to her surprise it was a perfect sight vision. She took the old glasses off and placed them in the pocket of her overalls.

Suddenly the lamp from the work table turned itself on as it got Phoebe's attention. Carefully she approached the work table to see a big piece of technical equipment that looked like it have not been used in decades. Phoebe looked at the whole equipment from each angle before assuming that this is an actual practical accelerator or proton pack for short.

"You know you should have shown John this, Grandpa," Phoebe spoke as she knows that he is here and listening. "He knows exactly what to do with this proton pack. I am not such an excellent fixer like John you see."

Egon who have already knows about that information based on what John has told him. But he refuses to let the boy be the only person to know how to fix a proton pack. In response to what his granddaughter said he lowered the lamp down to give Phoebe a good look at the pack.

Phoebe shrugged. "Fine have it your way, Grandpa Egon."

While Phoebe is working on repairing the proton pack and talking with her ghost grandpa for about two whole hours, meanwhile John was currently in his much larger room sitting at his work table. He spent that two-hour time breaking the whole ghost trap down. His plan is to both repair and upgrade the trap. John is more happier than a man winning the lottery as he was actually working on an active trap.

"Now with this chip that I pulled out from the opened PKE from Egon's secret room, this will most definitely make this trap very dangerous when I combined the motion sensor chip." John grabbed his tool and zoomed his stand-up Magnafineglass.

Placing both chips inside the interior of the ghost trap while connecting the wires that connect with the thick plastic antenna that was once part of a wifi device. Once done connecting them together, John picked up the battery that is on the back of the trap which is where the metal cord will be formally be connected to the cable pad. John heard the doorbell and stopped doing his work before hearing his mom.

"John!. Podcast is here!."

"Thanks, Mom!." John waited for Podcast to come to his room with the particular items that he is looking for that only Podcast knows where to get them from.

"Hey, dude." Podcast came in and closed the door. Then he researched into his bookbag and pulled out the items that his best friend have requested of him. "Special Delivery."

"Great work, Podcast." John grabs the items and sets them down on the table. "This modern ghost trap that I'm making is going to be so cool, Podcast."

Podcast pulls a seat from the corner and watched his friend work. "I'm looking forward to it. Mind if I do a podcast about it?."

John looked at what he is currently doing. "Fire away."

Podcast turned on his device and went to podcasting. "I am here with the expert of all paranormal things and full knowledge of ghostbusting. Tell me John, how this up-to-date trap is any different from the original?."

John put the medium-sized large battery in replacement of the dead original battery. "My new trap will be completely pedal and cable-free. You see I have created a PKE motion detector on the trap with two functional chips from the PKE meter and the motion detector. The wifi antennas that you see will be how it will work."

John put the battery pack back into the back of the trap before resuming to explain more. "In order for the trap to open itself up the ghost must be close to the trap since it detects PKE energy/motion movement. The new battery that I ask you to get for me will keep the trap's energy from losing power when putting the ghost inside."

Podcast has to admit that it sounded straight awesome. "Awesome!. Now here is another question for you. Where have you been yesterday?. Myself and Phoebe have been looking everywhere for you once we notice that you were not inside the house with us."

John closed the sides of each side of the trap and screw them back together. "I was having twinkies and a conversation with Phoebe's ghost grandfather. Aka Ghost Egon Spengler. Man, he was everything that I hope he would be. A true scientist of the paranormal. He told me that the ghost that I have predicted it to be was the Keymaster. One of the minions of Gozer."

"Wait, so we actually unpaused the apocalypse?." Podcast has facial expressions of shock. "So that dog ghost is one of the dogs me and Phoebe found in the book."

"The Gozerian Codex. Yes, that is one of the minions that we saw at the bus parking lot." John turns his attention to his best friend. "But do not be anxious. Ego told me he has a plan B. Plus, after seeing that ghostly form terror dog it motivated me to upgrade this trap. Just need to adjust the pull strength to make it strong enough to put the Keymaster back inside the trap. Now, it is my turn to ask you a question. What happened back at Phoebe's house while I was in the shack?."

Podcast turned off his recording and set his boom microphone down. "Well, believe it or not, Mr. Grooberson is trying to bone Phoebe's mom."

John had a look of disbelief. "No kidding."

"I kid you not." Podcast explained more. "Mr. Grooberson tried to speak game on Ms. Callie when he tried not to sound like a creep about him driving us back to the house. Phoebe is taking it autisticly well. She says she is hurling on the inside."

John nod. "That sounds exactly how I expected out of Phoebe."

"So what happened after done talking to Phoebe's grandfather?." asked Podcast, once done seeing the trap being done upgrading.

John slowly worked on the on-the-go charge unit that will charge the trap when carrying it on the side of anyone's waist. "Well, Podcast...me and Phoebe went to the next phase of all relationship."

"Such as?." Podcast leans in on wanting to know. "Do not hold out on me, dude."

John took his time building the charging unit and putting it through the right shape of the plastic so that he will screw grab hooks on it to hold onto the pants. He can see and tell that Podcast is not going to let it go until he tells him what happened between himself and Phoebe.

"Me and Phoebe had...sex," answered John.

"Sex?." Podcast was surprised by this. "Was it dry humping or straight raw sex?."

"Raw sex. Do not worry we came on the bed sheets," informed John, while connecting the wires.

"Damn, John, you and Phoebe gave each other your virginity. Man, how did it feel?." Podcast asked with big interest.

"A bit slow process and then we picked up speed after I broke Phoebe's wall and after she worked me out. Overall it felt super amazing and outstanding. Plus, I did not suggest or even think about having sex. Phoebe has been reading that How to Have Sex for Dummies book for quite some time and she was ready and determine to go all the way in our relationship. The final step in our relationship will be marriage, but that will be a while." said John, finishing the task he was doing.

"Or shorter since you are dealing with Phoebe. Damn, I need to find a girlfriend and get myself laid," commented Podcast.

"True. She already showed that she is getting sensitive attach. It was an old theory that a girlfriend will feel entitled and have the right to have a say in the matter with her boyfriend after sex. But never been actually proven." John rubbed the back of his head. "But for some odd reason, I have a feeling that Phoebe is going to prove that otherwise. Anyway enough about that. Wanna play some Halo?."

Podcast smiled big at hearing this. "Oh, heck yeah. I call the first controller."

"Cool." John turned off the lamp and grab the second controller and went to wait for the game to come on.

Back with Phoebe who just got done repairing the proton pack with the aid of her ghost grandfather. When fixing the equipment she has been questioning her grandpa when seeing a small part inside the proton pack round generator that is impossible to build small. Of course, Egon proudly showed off his multiple degrees on the wall by lifting the lamp light to face it. Phoebe had to admit that is quite impressive, to say the least since she doubted that John can even build it in small form but then again he might if given the opportunity. It took her all until nighttime to fix it which she bets that John can get this down before night hits.

She sat on the bed with her socks on eating a bowl of microwave popcorn that John have given her before he left for home. Phoebe resumed in looking at the commercial ads on Youtube and was looking at the very first commercial of her grandfather, Ray, and Peter.

Phoebe is at the part when the three we saying that they were ready to believe you along with the phone number and business name at the front, until she heard footsteps coming closer to her room and quickly closed her laptop. To her expect it was her mom coming in to see her.

"Hey, you are still awake. What are you doing?." Callie asked her daughter.

Phoebe gave a quick believable thought-up excuse and remembered John's last year's science experiment for the science fair.

"I'm doing some digging experiments," spoke Phoebe.

Callie sighed at hearing this when walking closer. "Wow, that sounds super boring. Hey, you found some popcorn."

Callie took a seat at the edge of the bed and grab a few bits of popcorn.

"Well, actually Mom, John gave me some microwave popcorn before he left for home," explained Phoebe, while taking a bite of her popcorn.

"That is so boyfriend of John. I hope he makes an honest young woman out of you one day." Callie smiled while chewing her popcorn.

Phoebe smiled on hearing this as it does sound so sweet and very fitting to have the title of Mrs. Domingo. Before she can even think more about it she thought about the relationship between her grandfather and her mother.

"Hey, Mom?." Phoebe got her attention. "What type of scientist is grandpa?."

"The kind that repels loved ones," Callie said with no sympathy and just plain serious.

Phoebe can see that her mom and her grandfather's relationship is not as sweet as she predicted it to be. "Maybe, he is a physicist, yeah?."

Callie shrugged. "Yeah, sure whatever. So anyways, Phoebe, tomorrow I was thinking of grabbing dinner with Gary."

Phoebe raised her brow. "Gary?. Wait you mean Mr. Grooberson?."

Callie gave her daughter a blank facial expression as if she knows she is going to get zinged.

Phoebe can not help but grin. "You are going on a date with Gary Grooberson?."

"It is just dinner." Callie playfully said when grabbing some popcorn to eat. Then she started sniffing and curled up her nose. "What is that smell?."

Phoebe paused with a look of anxiety on her face. She forgot to change the stained bedsheets that she and John came on. Callie looked at her daughter and smiled at her.

"You have been masturbating last night have you not?." Callie asked with a grin.

"Uhhh, yeah...yeah that is what I did last night. Sorry." Phoebe used the excuse to cover her sex secret from her mom.

Callie placed a hand on Phoebe's shoulder with a look of sympathy. "Do not be sorry about it Phoebe. It is perfectly normal for a girl your age to explore her own body and figure out that the lower parts of your body are more than just a show."

"Really?." Phoebe pretended to be interested.

"Really. But try your best to keep your hot vagina in your pants, sweetie. Do not want you and John to start having sex so soon." Callie slightly warned her daughter before getting up to go leave. "Wish me luck for tomorrow."

"Do not be yourself," Phoebe called out with a grin as her mom slightly chuckled.

As soon as her mom had left, Phoebe opened her laptop back and copied the number to a notebook paper, and pulled it off. Then she went to change her bedsheets and was lucky that her mom did not figure out that she and John did in fact have sex last night. She went to bed after texting John and Podcast about meeting her in the abandoned field by the old abandoned factory tomorrow afternoon. As tomorrow became afternoon, Phoebe pulled the fixed proton pack on the red wagon along with bringing an old pair of PKE goggles. Of course, John slightly complained about the proton pack not being the version 2 proton pack that has three modes including the regular proton stream.

"My grandfather figured you to be disappointed about it," Phoebe added when watching Podcast put on the PKE goggles.

"Well, now I see why he let you work on fixing the original pack." John had his hold of the trap that is connected to the charger on the right side of his waist. "Oh, here check this out. Say, hello to the new and improved ghost trap."

Phoebe eyed the trap in astonishment while Podcast was setting up glass bottles on the stand for target practice.

"Looks nice," commented Phoebe.

"That is what Podcast said." John helped Phoebe strap onto the proton pack. "It is going to be a little bit heavy, twinkie girl."

"No kidding." Phoebe was having a hard time standing up. "This pack can seriously give you back problems later down the road."

"Alright, guys we are ready!." Podcast came up to his only best friend with a big smile.

Phoebe nodded. "Alright, John switch me on."

John did what his girlfriend told him as he knows we're the switch is located in the back and turned the switch up. With that, they all heard the fire-up noise and hear it running smoothly.

"Listen to that engine purr," John commented. "Now, pull the wand out of its holder and turn on the thrower. The pack has two switches and a safety flip button."

Phoebe nodded when pulling the thrower out of its holder and see the two buttons and turned them on. "Safety is off."

"Then let it rip," said Podcast.

With no hesitation, she fired at the glass bottles with little to no control of her wand. John and Podcast were amazed at seeing all the destruction being made by Phoebe.

"Ok, Phoebe that is enough." Podcast tried to stop his friend from blasting anymore.

Phoebe managed to break her thumb off the blast button.

"Wow, wow, nice shooting cowgirl," commented John, in a western imitation.

"Wow, I really destroyed that." Phoebe can not help but grin proudly at her handiwork.

"Oh, yeah, that was fucking awesome!. I call next." John said beating Podcast to the punch.

"Alright." Phoebe was about to remove the pack off her back.

Just before she can do so all three have heard a noise coming from the abandoned factory. This encouraged the three to go explore the noise as they took their time going inside the building. The noise is getting louder and louder as they got even closer. As they finally approached the source of the noise the three did not expect to see a blue four-arm two-legged class 5 free-roaming vaper.

"John is that..." Phoebe had a look of disbelief, shock, and surprise.

"A ghost?." John nodded in shock and felt excitement all over his body. "Yes."

"So...what should we do now you guys?." Podcast asked when eyeing the blue ghost that is eating metal.