Chapter 9: Hey, Flattop!
Meanwhile back with Zuul who possessed Callie was walking down the area where the temple is residing as she is ready for this world to finally end. Zuul took this opportunity to change her attire into something proper and more of victory wear, which she supernaturally ripped Callie's former clothes and replaced them with a golden dress. Something that is closely identical to what Dana Barrett wore. A former first host that Zuul had obtained years ago back at the other temple, let alone play around with her that one time and later on take her body. She looked to see a man laying down all relaxed and knew who he was as she happily approached him.
Vinz Clortho looked up and saw Zuul approaching him before getting off the rock. Vinz Clortho took a dandelion out of his ear and presented it to Zuul.
"For you." Vinz Clortho handed the flower to Zuul.
"Thanks." Zuul took the flower and instantly devoured it while her mate watched.
Zuul looked at Vinz Clortho. "Ready to start the ritual."
"Yes, please." Vinz Clortho spoke before being pulled down by Zuul.
The two demigods started making sweet love on the grass. Not caring who is seeing them. Back at Dirt Farm, John and Phoebe guided the others down to the secret workshop with both having the same determination of winning the task at hand.
"There is a pair of moving hippie pants with hippie disco music in the background!." said Lucky, freaking out.
"It will not hurt you. Trust me I did the research way before I even actually met it." John pointed out before looking at the scale model of the Dirt Farm. "All that empty dirt we have been seeing is covering multiple mini traps version 2 of the Super Slammer."
Phoebe pointed at the surrounding area. "My grandfather had studied the data of a fully powered Class 7 deity-level ghost when he and the other Ghostbusters were facing Ivo Shandor's destructor form. He was, unfortunately, unable to capture that level of physical energy in one big trap. And so he had no other choice but to break and trap the body down to pieces."
"But wait." Podcast got Phoebe's attention. "I thought that John said that the first Super Slammer was never intended to trap a Class 7 deity-level?."
"It is." John spoke before eyeing the scale model. "Egon can not see any other way in trapping either Zuul or Vinz Clortho. Heck, he knew he was taking a gamble when doing this on his lonesome. And now, we are going to not only trap both Vinz and Zuul. We are going to trap Gozer too. Once we lore Gozer here, I will supercharge the generators with a proton stream and one of us will fire the traps. From there we have em."
"Alright, I get that part. Yeah." Trevor crossed his arms. "But how are we going to save my Mom and her boyfriend?. They are both possessed."
John got away from the table and rubbed his hair before coming back to the table. "Again, like I said before, if we had the multipurpose proton packs we could have removed Zuul out of your Mom. Wait."
John stopped to have a quick look around the basement and finally comprehended that Egon told him that he took everything from their old firehouse. They all watched John in wonder at what was on his mind. The waiting did not take long as John came back from a corner cabinet with a proton pack with a huge grin.
"Score!." John set the pack down on the other table as everyone came to where he was. "Here it is you guys. The Multipurpose Proton Pack!. I will spare you guys the details about this pack."
"Is it still operational?." Phoebe looked at the device.
"It will once I fix it along the way." John put the heavy pack on his back. "The other versions of this pack are no good. But there is a regular one active for you to take Lucky."
Lucky looked at her cousin. "What is the task for me?."
"You are staying here in the house as extra firepower if anything jeopardizes anything that we are doing or keeping one of the Terror Dogs away from reaching us." informed John.
"Alright, bet." Lucky agreed.
John then looked at Podcast. "I have a special task for you. I will explain on the way. Come on. Phoebe. Trevor."
Once showing Lucky how to turn on and activate a proton thrower the three headed straight to the Sheriff's station to both get the gear and take Ecto-1 out of inbound, while ducking and dodging ghosts and animated objects. Phoebe and Podcast managed to get the gear from the locked evidence gate by releasing Muncher, who munched on the lock itself before slipping out of sight. John and Trevor managed to get the boot off Ecto-1 and pulled the car up to the front and helped load the gear back inside the car.
"You know what to do Trevor." John said while working on getting the pack up and running.
Trevor had determination on his face. "Damn, straight."
With that said he turned on Ecto-1's sirens and floored at top speed. Phoebe helped John repair the version 2 proton pack while having a feeling that the two had a specific task as well. And boy she is not going to like it not one damn bit.
"You and I are going to be the distraction duo." John put the piece inside the generator. Then he looked at his girlfriend. "We are going to have a calm talk with Gozer, Vinz Clortho, and Zuul. Well, I am. You are going to crack a few jokes. I think Gozer has a sense of humor."
"You think?." Phoebe raised her brow. "Did it say so in his book?."
"No. But we are going to find out though. Do not worry. We are going to stall them until Podcast sets the RTV trap underneath Zuul." John looked at Podcast who had the exact trap in his hands and was waiting for his orders. "Poddy, you are going to drive the trap underneath Zuul. Once I see that you positioned the trap in the right spot, I will fire the slime on her. From there, the slime will separate Callie and Zuul, and you will then open the trap on Zuul."
"Yeah, and from there I will drive the trap back inside the Ecto-1." Podcast spoke with enthusiasm.
"Damn straight." John responded before putting the lid back on. "Trevor after me and Phoebe grab and put your mom in the car, floor the shit out of Ecto-1 back to the Dirt Farm."
"Gotcha." Trevor responded while avoiding ghosts coming in their direction.
"And if our asses pull this wild shit off and live to see tomorrow morning. Chinese food is on me." said John.
As the new Ghostbusters were making their way back to the temple with getting their plan out all in detail, meanwhile back with Zuul and Vinz Clortho who just woke up from their sexual intercourse ritual were making their way inside the temple from another entranceway. The two reached their signature platforms as thunder was roaring more than it ever was before. The two took their assigned platform before looking at one another and then looked up at the sky with their arms reaching up. From there two huge purple thunder made contact with them. Zuul and Vinz Clortho used themselves as conductors to both open Gozer's true temple and his throne, using the other bolted energy to shoot down into the pit that is still pouring out paranormal ghosts and orbs.
Once doing this a pair of sharp electric nails clawed its way out of the pit. Revealing to be none other than the master of destruction itself. Gozer the Gozerian. Gozer pulled out of the pit and looked at her surroundings and saw that her third summoning would be her time. She walked away from the pit and headed her way to where her minions were waiting for her to enter this world's reality. After this both Zuul and Vinz Clortho morphed back into their beastly forms and roared out in victory.
"Hello, my faithful servants." Gozer petted Vinz Clortho underneath his chin.
Vinz Clortho happily growled at being touched by his lord and master. Gozer finished touching him and then did the same with Zuul by petting her on her head. The female terror dog softly growled in return. Gozer smiled at her loyal minions as they have done an outstanding job in making all of this happen. After petting Zuul, Gozer went over to her throne and sat down with her legs crossed, and looked at the figure in front of her. That figure was the one who has spent his entire life in getting himself and his minions to get here all these years. The constant ritual sacrifices to name a few.
"Ivo Shandor." Gozed spoke with bitterness.
Shandor who had possessed his dead body in order to look presentable for Gozer. Nervous, Shandor super hopes that the Sumerian God is not going to hold a grudge against him after what he did so long ago. He completely forgot about the first temple he built for Gozer and all the life sacrifices he and the other followers have committed in the sacrifice pit. Somehow Gozer learned about it being another gateway to his world.
"Gozer." Ivo relaxed and gave a nervous smile. "You look not pleased to see me."
Gozer electrically clawed her right armchair with a look of upsetness. "I am. You betrayed me. Zuul and Vinz Clortho were there on that day when you revealed your betrayal to the Ghostbusters. They watched and heard you through their carved statues. You dared to mock me by saying how I earned the title of Destroyer is beyond you. Much less you said why worship me if you can become your own god. That is blasphemy!."
"Gozer, please let me explain!." Ivo got scared as he started shaking. "I was desperate!."
Zuul and Vinz angrily growled with the mind to jump on the Articatect. Ivo put his hands up in hopes of showing them not to do what they are thinking of doing. Gozer put her hand up to stop them from doing anything.
"I wanted my world to finally end." Ivo began. "I had everything planned out for you to destroy this world. I invested my whole entire life for you. I died while guaranteeing to myself and the members of your cult that it all pays off. But Gozer, I never imagine that anyone will have the balls to go against you. I never anticipated the Ghostbusters to ever exist. Honest!."
Gozer heard everything that Ivo has spoken as this is indeed true. No one has ever thought about or even dared to stand against the destroyer of destroyers, much less having no knowledge of the future that four and eventually five mortals would dare to oppose against them. Especially one of them giving her a disgraced destructor form on top of that. Gozer motioned Shandor to come closer which the old fancy dressed dead man obeyed. Unfortunately, Ivo has foolishly thought that Gozer was giving him forgiveness and a chance at redemption.
"Thank you, Gozer, for showing me the act of mercy." Ivo happily said when standing face to face with the deity.
Gozer had a blank facial expression as her eyes began to glow bloody red. "I am known for a lot of things. Mercy is not one of them."
When hearing this it made Ivo's smile go away quickly. Before he can do anything, Gozer shoots a fiery flash with her eyes and reduces Ivo's corpse into pure ash. Zuul and Vinz Clortho roared in satisfaction. Gozer sat back down in her chair while looking at the small pile of ashes that was once the dead body of the great cult leader.
"Let that be a lesson to all who dare betray Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Traveler, Gozer the Destructor, to name a few of my titles." Gozer spoke seriously before stretching out long ways to relax better.
Meanwhile, between while, back with John, Phoebe, Podcast, and Trevor. They drove with the sirens off as soon as they reached the abandoned mining company, John looked at the structure of the company and guided Trevor to the other entranceway.
"Keep this car away from sight." John informed Trevor. "Make sure you have your foot on the brake and the shift still on the drive."
"I got you. You just make sure my sister and my mom come back in this car, let alone you as well." Trevor looked back at John.
John nodded before looking at Podcast and Phoebe. "Ya, ready?."
"Yes." said Phoebe and Podcast.
Once Trevor puts the car in stop and keeps it hidden from plain sight, John and Phoebe exit the car with their hands holding each other. The two were scared but did not want to tell each other this as they did not want to worry the other. But they have to do this. They have to go through with their plan and stop the apocalypse from running. The two made their way to the open-spaced area where Gozer and his minions were enjoying the time of victory celebration. Gozer is currently playing with her nails with no idea that she has company.
John let go of Phoebe's hand as she looked at him for a few seconds before looking back at the woman who is the Sumerian God that her grandfather and the others were afraid of. John took in what Gozer's former form was before stepping up with confidence.
"Gozer the Gozerian?!." John spoke with good volume.
Gozer stopped what she was doing and turned to face John and Phoebe. She turned back into a regular seat position as she looked at the two in amusement.
John looked at the false deity. "My name is John and this girl here is my girlfriend Phoebe. We are here to see the great Sumerian Deity that is you. Gozer. Gozer the Gozerian. Gozer the Traveler. Gozer the Destructor. Volguus Zildrohar. And most of all Lord of the Sebouillia!."
Phoebe eyed the Sumerian God who just plainly looked at John with a cocky smirk at hearing her many given titles over her immortality. Phoebe assumes that Gozer is very full of herself. What came next was Gozer getting up off her throne and stepping a few steps down. John watched Gozer while eyeing the Terror Dogs who were eyeing back at him.
"Vinz Clortho talked highly, let alone saying a good word of you to me." Gozer lifted her head up with a brow raised. "Zuul on the other hand, however, says that she smelled the scent of the deceased Ghostbuster."
John started to step back with an anxious look on his face. Phoebe started to get the feeling that this is not going so well.
"It is a lie." John protested.
Gozer made a clicking noise in her mouth. "Oh, how wrong you are. Zuul is a lot of things. But a liar is not one of them. So, tell me, John. How is Egon Spengler doing?."
Phoebe started to get mad on the inside as she wanted to snap at Gozer so badly for talking badly against her own grandfather. John, however, noticed the RTV ghost trap is carefully rolling its way underneath Zuul without being detected or not making too much noise.
John's hands were getting tempted to pull the partial thrower out from its holster and start shooting Zuul. He already has turned it on and set it to slimer blower. He just needs to be patient enough to do it. And Phoebe is just the one to distract the three long enough to make it happen. Phoebe managed to keep herself calm as she went to do her part of the duo's job.
"A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says, 'We have a drink named after you!'. So the grasshopper says, 'You have a drink named Steve?!'." Phoebe spoke with a little bit of enthusiasm to her joke.
Gozer confusingly tilted her head. Having no clue or comprehension of what this girl is saying to her. Phoebe sees this and needs to come up with another distracting joke.
"What do you call a fish with no eyes?. FSH." joked Phoebe.
Gozer still did not understand anything she was saying at all. None whatsoever. John at that moment can see that he needs to go forward. And he has his sign on knowing it is time to do it.
Gozer stopped tilting her head. She looked at the two plainly. "You two have two choices. Either you become my first sacrifices of this world or become my new servants."
Phoebe looked at John who pulled the thrower out of its holster and pointed at Gozer. Zuul and Vinz Clortho growled at remembering that device that John is carrying.
"Uh, here is our answer, jackass." John eyed Zuul and then back at Gozer. "Go fuck yourself!."
John instantly fired the slime blower at Zuul as she roared in anger as she felt herself being forced out of her host. John double-shot the stream to make Zuul completely separate herself from Callie, who has the golden dress on her. Gozer was about to shoot her lighting at John but Phoebe went right ahead of her.
"Now, Podcast!." Phoebe yelled.
"Here it goes!." Podcast turned the switch on the remote controller.
And in an instant, the trap opened right up and pulled a surprised Zuul off guard, and trapped her inside. As a result, Gozer started to lose her physical appearance as she is in the form of a skeleton with spiritual energy covering her. Vinz Clortho roared out in rage while John helped Callie back to her feet and rushed her inside the Ecto-1 and then removed the pack off his back, with Phoebe having the trap in her hand. The three quickly got inside the car while Trevor got off the brake and floor the gas pedal all the way down. Callie regained her awareness as she remembered what she found out about her father's secret workshop.
Callie looked at John with a believable look on her face. "John, you are right all along!."
John who currently sat at the gunner seat is ready for Vinz to come try and stop them. "I know."
Callie then looked at her daughter. "And Phoebe, I am so sorry to you and John. I learned that my father did care about me. He had pictures of my years all over the board inside this workshop. He…He did not leave me or his business partners to move here from New York to be an ass."
John looked at Trevor's blindside and then back at Phoebe. "Twinkie Girl, Vinz is on our ass on your side."
"Understood." Phoebe turned her double gunner seat and turned to fire her stream at Vinz Clortho.
Callie watched this in utter awe at what she was seeing before Phoebe pulled herself back inside. "Phoebe…you are a…you are a…"
"I'm a scientist." Phoebe responded.
Callie then looked at John. "And what about you, John?."
"Pfft, my baby says she is a scientist. But I am not just a scientist, but I am also a…" John looked at his side and saw Vinz booking it. "Hold that thought, Callie."
John activated his gunner seat and saw Vinz roaring angrily while calling his name out. "Up yours, asshole!."
John fired his stream and aimed it in between Vinz Clortho's eyes. The Terror Dog stopped running and got himself tripped in pain and crashed into the post office.
"Stick that up your ass." John pulled himself back in and looked at Callie. "I'm a legit Ghostbuster."
Callie smiled at hearing this as she is super glad that her daughter is dating this black pre-teen. "What do you guys need me to do?. I can help."
"Mom, we need you to stump the pedal at the farmhouse porch. As soon as we have both Vinz Clortho and Gozer." said Phoebe.
Callie nodded in understanding while she held on as Trevor drove the crap out of Ecto-1. They reached the Dirt Farm as Trevor parked up and let John, Phoebe, and his mom out of the car. From there, Trevor got out of the driver's seat and got into the gunner seat and prepared himself while Podcast got the systems ready to run. John put his pack back on and switched the mode to regular stream and fired at the tower generators to power the traps all the way. Callie and Phoebe got on the porch with a quickness.
Callie got to the right and had her foot on the pedal and waited to step down on it. As for Phoebe, she stood in the center of the porch with a serious look on her face as she lifted the trap that contained Zuul. Based on the plan, she needs to use the trapped Zuul as bait to lure Gozer and Vinz Clortho. They all heard heavy footsteps coming from the fields. They waited. Phoebe pulled the level up to power up all the traps in the ground. John hoped that the levels on his pack did not reach an immediate automatic cooling. There in the tall fields came Gozer, stepping her way through as she eyed the trap in Phoebe's hand and slowly made her.
"Come on here." Phoebe spoke in a whisper.
"Come on, take the bait." Callie spoke in a whisper as well while readying to step down on the pedal.
"Wait." John noticed something very missing in this plan. "If Gozer is walking to the traps by herself. Then where is…Ah!."
Out of nowhere, Vinz Clortho roughly pounced John from the behind and made a head on collision. John immediately felt the severe headache rushing in while having an angered Vinz Clortho looking down at him. This made Phoebe lose her guard as she quickly called Lucky out as she busted out with a fire-up proton pack.
"Get off my cousin!." Lucky fired at Vinz.
Vinz roared and backed away from John. Phoebe and Callie ran down to go check on a dazed, dizzy John who heard his ears ringing and could not hear what Phoebe or anyone else was saying. Let alone being confused as to what is going on against his will.
"John. Ghost Head." Phoebe threw out the trap to the side and checked him out by examining his face. "John, can you hear me?."
John had a look of a daze as he looked around with confusion as to what was happening. Then everything went completely pitch black for poor John. As if the world has swallowed him whole. Then suddenly, John slowly opened his eyes to see that he was somehow back in his own bedroom. He slowly moved around in his bed and looked around to see balloons and gift baskets. John studied his surroundings until he lay eyes on a sleeping Phoebe who had her head laying down on his bed. Then he looked to his left and saw Trevor, Lucky, and Podcast sitting there sleeping.
Phoebe began to wake up after staying up for so long and looked to see John. Her eyes grew wide and her tiredness was replaced with newfound energy. "John!."
Phoebe got up from her seat and went to hug John tight. John slowly hugs his girlfriend back before getting a surprise sneaky kiss on the lips from her. Phoebe let go of John as she had a huge teeth smile and tears of relief on her face.
"Oh, honeybuns, I was so damn worried when you dozed off on us." said Phoebe, while wiping her eyes with her hand.
John slowly started remembering what happened the last time he was awake as slowly leaned back on his pillow. "That Terror Dog bastard gave me a concussion."
"Yeah, I checked over you before we rushed you back to your house and explained everything to your folks. They are in the living room with my Mom and Gary watching M3gan. You, unfortunately, missed out big time last night." Phoebe began while pouring John some cold water.
"Last night. We beat Gozer did we not?." John asked when slowly grabbing the cup with a straw in it.
Phoebe nodded while pulling her chair closer to him. "Uh, huh. With the help from the OG's and my Grandpa."
John looked at Phoebe in shock but did not want to hurt himself with the big headache he has. "No kidding?. Tell me about it."
"Well…" Phoebe began
*FlashBack*
Gozer took the trap and pulled it apart and unleashed Zuul who quickly possessed Lucky to Trevor's horror and roared at a now scared Callie and Phoebe. Trevor wanted to shoot them back but the systems were tampered with by mini Stay Puft Marshmallows ruining the tech as Podcast tried to fend off. As for Gozer, she gained her physical form and petted Vinz Clortho for a job well done.
"I have to admit." Gozer looked at Phoebe, Callie, and an unconscious John. "You tried and were so close. However, you were all truly not a threat to me. How fun being a part of my sacrifice."
Gozer lifted her arms and slowly bolted the lightning from her nails as she wanted to see them suffer and die slowly. Phoebe holds John tightly in her arms while Callie holds Phoebe close to her as well. They can see that this is indeed the end of the world and there is no one who has the balls to fight against the destructor. That is until they heard a voice. A voice that Gozer is familiar with.
"Hey, Flat-top!."
Gozed stopped at what she was doing and quickly looked at where the voice came from. Callie and Phoebe looked over to see four old men in Ghostbuster jumpsuits with proton packs on their backs. Gozer turned her full attention to the four and saw the remaining living men that she never thought she would face again. For the third time. There by Ecto-1 were none other than the original Ghostbusters themselves standing side by side with a look of determination on their faces!.
"Did you miss us?." Peter mockingly asked.
Bryan, Ray, Peter, and Winston took their time walking forward as they all made it to Summerville by using Winston's private jet and made it just in the nick of time. Let alone learn what their old friend had planned for Gozer.
"Gozer the Gozerian!." Ray steps up with the partial thrower resting on his shoulder. "In the name of the county of Summerville, state of Oklahoma, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, all the members of Ducks Unlimited, the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons, I command you under the National Invasive Species Act to depart this world immediately."
Bryan looked at Ray. "Nice to give her the rights of the law."
"Yeah, bravo, Ray." said Peter, sarcastically.
Gozer bucked at them with an angered growl.
Winston looked at his friends. "I think she remembers us."
"Indeed I do." Gozer pointed at Bryan. "Especially you."
Bryan gulped. "Oh, geez, she remembers our one on one fight on the side of that building."
"Yeah, it looks like it does, does it not?." said Ray.
Gozer stopped pointing at Bryan and stepped forward and looked at Ray. "Selector. I asked this question a long time ago to you and now I asked again. Are you…a god?."
This made Ray stop in his tracks as he is asked the same question and having flashbacks back at the apartment. Winston and Peter were not going to go through that history again.
"Ray?." Winston saw his best friend hesitate.
"Oh, come on, Ray." Peter looked at Ray.
"Man, we are too damn old to fight a freaking giant marshmallow sailorman. Ray, give her the answer to our benefit." spoke Bryan.
"Y…Yes." Ray finally answered.
"Yeah, we are all gods!." Winston spoke to confirm it to Gozer.
"Yeah, I mean we're all pretty dang special down here. On a personal note: I thought that we had busted up for good. I mean, it wasn't working for me. My friends didn't think so, and I know yours didn't." Peter pointed out.
This angered Zuul to the point she wanted to attack but Gozer stopped her with her hand.
"Alright, enough small talk. Let's toast this chick." said Winston, who did not want to waste time.
"I will stream to that, Winston." Bryan pulled out his multipurpose particle thrower.
Ray, Peter, and Winston pulled out their regular thrower. All four turned their packs on and felt so happy to hear the classic humming sound of their packs. Man, how much they have missed their old careers.
"Switching to the Stasis Stream." Bryan said when doing so.
"Alright, boys, on three." Peter ordered. "One, three!."
All four fired all at once and aimed right at Gozer who felt the strong hit of the streams and felt her slowness from the blue stream.
"Yes!." Callie cheered.
"John, if you were not knocked out you would go all fanboy right now." Phoebe told her unconscious boyfriend with excitement.
"Cross the streams!." Bryan yelled when combining his stream with Ray's.
The others did the same as they figured that crossing the streams would do it. But not the third time around. Gozer grabbed hold of the streams as she tried to pull it off of her but it was difficult to do so.
"She is fighting the streams." Bryan noticed this.
"Ray?." Winston spoke.
"We never fought her in the form that she arrived in." Ray gave it a good thought. "We need a fifth thrower."
Hearing this it made Phoebe want to go help them but can not risk losing John and her Mom to the nearby Terror Dogs. But it all changed when seeing another ghost popped out from thin air and had a proton pack on. Callie looked in shock as she was seeing the familiar person in utter shock. Phoebe looked with happiness and in shock to see her ghostly grandfather throwing his stream to the tethers to the other busters who were surprised and shocked to see him again as a ghost this time.
"Phoebe, use the pack on John's back and fire the slime blower on Zuul and Vinz Clortho!." Egon looked at her daughter. "Callie, step on the pedal."
"Right!." Callie and Phoebe did what was told to them.
Phoebe grabbed the thrower and switched to the slime blower and aimed at the Terror Dogs. "Take This!."
Phoebe sprayed both the Terror Dogs and released Lucky and Gary from their own possessors. When doing so it made Gozer lose her physicals once more, this time she is unable to fight back. Meanwhile, Podcast managed to activate the PKE taser and zapped the mini marshmallows and fixed the machine.
"Now, Trevor, aim for the generators!." Podcast said while taking the time to breathe.
"Right!." Trevor pointed and powered the generators.
"Now, Callie!." Egon told his only child.
Callie stepped down on the pedal and all the traps opened all the way up. Sucking Gozer, Zuul, Vinz Clortho, and whatever nearby ghosts followed as they were split in each trap piece by piece. Once there is nothing left of them, Callie takes her foot off the pedal and closes all the traps automatically. Egon and the original Ghostbusters stopped firing and took this time to apologize to one another.
"Yes, we did it!." Phoebe said after pulling John out of the way and hugging him lovingly.
*End of FlashBack*
"And I miss all that when I got knocked out?. Damn." John sadly sighs.
"I'm sorry, John. Really." Phoebe set her cup down. "After that, my grandpa said his goodbyes and hugged Mom before turning into a dust of particle energy into the sky. I cried when he left."
"I would do the same too. I never have the chance to say goodbye." John sadly said.
Phoebe got up to pull out a good sized blue box and handed it to John. "Grandpa wanted to give you this before leaving in person. However, since you were unconscious due to having a concussion. So, he wanted me to personally hand it to you when you wake up."
John looked at the box for a second and back at Phoebe. "What is inside the box?."
Phoebe shrugged. "Do not know. Opened so we can both find out."
John did not waste any time when opening the lid of the box. When he did, he and Phoebe looked to see a sealed envelope on top of black wrapping paper. John picked up the envelope, opened it up and read what Egon had written for him.
'Dear John, if you are reading this then that means that you and my granddaughter have trapped Gozer and his minions, let alone that I have finally moved on. After all my years of research and calculating the numbers when we capture Gozer, there will be an endless rise of ghosts running around in the whole world. You do your research and you would agree. After all, people die everyday. So, what I am trying to say is that I am declaring you as an official Ghostbuster.
You never gave up believing me or the guys. Plus, your undoubtable knowledge of my profession and the paranormal itself just can not be wasted. Whenever you are ready to take the mantle, go and set up shop at the same firehouse in New York. The Containment Unit needs to be repaired and modified to your desire. I'm pretty sure that Winston can buy the firehouse and its down payment in full, since he is still covering Ray's rent all these years.
Take good and great care of my family, friends, all the things in the workshop, and my spores, molds, and fungus collection. I will see you on the other side. By the way, I have a tailor to make this for you. Enjoy and welcome to the family.
Signed, Egon Spengler. The Brains of the Ghostbusters.'
With that, John sat the letter down and removed the black wrapping paper and saw a custom-made Ghostbuster jumpsuit made for him. Phoebe pulled out of the box and saw the combined colors of gray and black. John just can not believe that Egon has figured out his accurate size and sent it to some tailor and got this made for him.
"Sweet." Phoebe put the jumpsuit back inside the box. "I bet that nothing can ever top this special moment."
This made John remember what he has for his Phoebe. Something that he wanted to give her on their birthday of the current year. He set his gift to the side and told Phoebe to go underneath his bed and pull out the box. Phoebe did what John had asked of her as she handed him the box. He opened the box and pulled out a small green box and set the big box to the side. Phoebe eyed the small box in her lover's hand as she could feel her heart beating like an exploding atom.
"Phoebe, this is your birthday present that I wanted to give to you when we are together in person. It is an engagement ring. See." said John, opening the small box.
Phoebe eyed the gorgeous ring as she picked out of its box. Looking at the nice square diamond with a silver ring. "John, it is beautiful."
"Yeah, I got it from a seller in this town who was willing to let me have it for just two hundred bucks. I love you, Phoebe. Since we did have sex, I wanted to make an honest young woman out of you. Will you be engaged with me?." John hoped it would be a slow yes rather than a fast no.
With no heads up, Phoebe reached at John and tongue kissed him with such deep passion than all the kisses they have given each other. The kiss broke and Phoebe looked at her boyfriend lovingly.
"Does that answer your question?." Phoebe spoke with a smirk.
John smirked as he pulled his engaged girlfriend close to him. "Bet."
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