Lunar Impact: Conjunction

Sailor Moon/Extreme Ghostbusters Crossover

By Dan "Ectodude" Shannon

Chapter 1: Recap

The Order of Asatro. A cult led by Madame Holly - a woman of shrouded origin - and assisted by a man with no past of his own has engaged in ending the world. A mafia hitman was their first sacrifice. The second was intended to be a young woman from Tokyo working for a paranormal extermination company who was also a reincarnation of intersystem royalty. Lita Kino - known by few to be the secret identity of Sailor Jupiter, one of the Sailor Scouts of Tokyo - had been captured by this cult to open a protected text to bring the next stage of Earth's destruction to light.

Dan Shannon - chief field manager and engineer of the current team of Ghostbusters as well as Lita's significant other - sought out Lita after being nearly beaten to death by the Order's assassins. Using his senses he located her in a warehouse set under a dummy name of the Order and proceeded to break her out. Using his certain abilities to manipulate the cultists weapons against them as well as use his older-style Ghostbusting equipment he freed her from her captors. They were stopped by the man with silver hair at Madame Holly's side; a man known as Matthew St. James. Matthew allowed the two to leave after Dan set his pack to overload. He dropped a cryptic remark that spooked Dan about who he and Lita were. Entering Dan's stolen truck, Dan and Lita vacated the scene.

Of all the unusual things she saw as secretary with the company in both the old days and currently, Janine Melnitz had finally been brought in on the situation with the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask. Luna and Artemis - the Sailor Scouts' trusted talking cat advisors - reassured Janine and the rest of the Ghostbusters present that the Scouts were not the Ghostbusters' enemy. After the mistrust, it was time to work together and bring the whole situation to an end quickly. Egon Spengler - original member of the Ghostbusters - took notice of everyone's exhaustion and instructed Janine to pull sleeping bags from storage. With the monster attacks still rampant, the Scouts that had a hotel room were going to be unable to make it back.

Kylie Griffin and Roland Jackson - students of Egon-turned-Ghostbusters - were accompanied by Amy Mizuno and Darien Chiba - Sailor Mercury and Tuxedo Mask - to a Staten Island hospital to observe a change in a man that worked at a local concrete plant. Issac Hacker had been injured by a set of Man-Bat demons days before, but after waking from a coma he was reduced to a snarling animal of a man. After scanning the man, Amy became disturbed by her minicomputer's reading. She instructs everyone they need to head back to the Ghostbusters HQ.

Stopping at an abandoned airport Lita finally sees the injuries inflicted on Dan. He had been bleeding for hours making his way to the warehouse in the rain and it was beginning to show. He was near death. His life was about to slip away when Lita grabbed hold of him and performed the same energy exchange Dan had done to her a couple of weeks before. The event put off the same pillar of light as before. Dan woke and found that Lita had been drained of her lifeforce bad enough for her to pass out. Activating his emergency lights he drove her back to the firehouse.

In the hospital parking garage Lita's light of healing was seen by Roland, Darien, Amy, and Kylie. It gave one confirmation to the group: Dan got Lita away from the cult. Roland recognized the location as the Harlan Airport. He knew they were safe.

Madame Holly - the woman known to the Order as their Gydja, a Norse high priestess of offerings - learns from Matthew that Dan had fought his way through the security at the warehouse and took the person they were going to force to open the book they stole. The book stolen from the New York Public Library - a handwritten copy of Tales of Ragnar Lodbrok - housed the Second Stanza of the Symphony of Destruction. It also housed a Lindworm; a serpent that could breath poison that was so deadly and destructive it was like acid to those who came in contact with it. Without a forced volunteer, Madame Holly began to panic. Matthew reassured her all was under control before leaving the office.

The voice that made Holly drink so heavily to try and suppress told her otherwise.

Under duress Holly consumed a whole bottle of whiskey before going before her followers. She looked to be on the verge of breaking down.

After realizing the PKE in all of Manhattan was being siphoned off and heading toward Staten Island, Roland finally remembered that a few days before both him and Garrett Miller - the wheelchair bound member of the Ghostbusters - found a strange energy flux emanating from the concrete plant's storage elevator structure with their PKE meters. It was also the same facility Issac Hacker was working at before he was attacked. He finally put it together that the elevator structure might be the very thing attracting the PKE in the city. Agreeing it was a high possibility it was the Order they were briefly told about by Dan was involved, everyone in this small group took Ecto-1 to the facility.

While guarding the Firehouse for their Sailor Scout guests still there, Garrett woke Serena Tsukino - Sailor Moon - from a nightmare. After slapping him in the face as she woke up Serena had no words for the paraplegic man beside her bed. Garrett - acknowledging his mistakes - offers to calm the girl's nerves with a cookie stash he had hidden away. After Serena told Garrett the whole story of her time as Sailor Moon, the both of them heard someone come in from outside. Rushing down to the second floor they woke everyone else up to see Dan had returned with Lita.

Distraught over Lita being unconscious, Dan instructed - demanded even - that everyone else leave the bunk room. Garrett felt remorse for what he did between him and Lita. Dan was not willing to hear his apologies going so far as to nearly break Garrett's hand while threatening him. Raye Hino - Sailor Mars - rushed in when she sensed the anger in the room and saw the near silent conflict before her. Her entrance breaking Dan's anger, he tells Raye to get Garrett away from him. While Garrett was rubbing his hand Raye escorted him out of the sleeping quarters. The look Dan gave him… his eyes…

After Garrett wheeled himself away from the rest of the people in the lounge of the firehouse where everyone else was set up to sleep, Eduardo Rivera - another student of Egon's who was previously known for his lazy attitude - jumped into guard duty when Egon asked. Egon and even Jainine were confused at his sudden attention to doing work instead of complaining. Mina Aino - Sailor Venus - took the sudden attitude shift as a bad thing due to Eduardo using some of his lifeforce to heal her in a previous fight and still being exhausted.

All the male members of the current crop of Ghostbusters were also the Solar Knights - an elite band of men whose job is to protect the Inner belt of Sailor Scouts. Dan, Roland, Garrett, and Eduardo were Jupiter Knight, Mercury Knight, Mars Knight, and Venus Knight respectively. They share in their Scouts' power as well as having the ability to psychically communicate with their princess to know if they were in danger. Of the Knights to regain their memory - both being Dan and Eduardo - Eduardo was the only one that had regained his full memory and was extremely hostile with Darien about unlocking them. Instead of doing his patrol of the firehouse Mina convinced Eduardo to talk to her to get to the root of his hostility.

Returning to the concrete facility Roland, Kylie, Darien, and Amy took witness to a horrible sight. In place of the original sacrifice was one of the cloaked members of this Order of Asatro. Madame Holly took the man that had failed to stop Dan from breaking Lita out and was thrown into a space between the storage elevator and the pedestal. While scanning Kylie saw the same reading she saw at the Library the day the book was stolen and realized what was happening. This was their first look at how this Order operated. Madame Holly threw the book into the space with the man, it opening before him. Smoke shot from the center of the book's binding forming the serpent that was guarding the book's contents. Amy took a scan of the structure as the man was being attacked but was about to rush out to help. Roland grabbed her and stopped her before doing so.

The cultist was killed.

Madame Holly slurred her order out to activate the device on the side of the elevator. Roland and Kylie's PKE meters went dead as all the PKE in the area accelerated toward the elevator structure, including the energy that made up the book guardian. After the serpent was absorbed into the structure, Holly took the book and hoisted it up in triumph.

Shortly after Madame Holly and Matthew went into the office and proceeded to retrieve the Second Stanza of the symphony. Matthew was aghast at the sheer alcoholism Holly performed right before a crucial maneuver. Opening the now guardian-free book Matthew spoke the incantation that allowed the sheet music to appear. Eager to set things in motion Holly took the sheet music and began playing the recorder with Matthew standing in protest stating that she should wait until she was sober. Ignoring him she started playing the music with the recorder. She played all the notes perfectly…

Except for one.

A rift opens randomly in Manhattan as a dark blue SUV with police lightbars coated in mud suddenly appears. The mysterious driver tried to take assessment of where he was with annoyance. He starts radioing for someone he knows to respond. He ate silence. Unnerved he went back to a place he knew was a meeting spot: someplace he called Franchise Zero. While driving the truck to his intended destination he finds his surroundings are far different than he remembered it. After being attacked while asking for directions on this dark and rainy night he finally made his way to a firehouse in lower Manhattan.

After Serena entered the bunk room with a glass of water for Lita she stopped to see Dan sitting beside her with his hand around hers, him laying face down on the bed beside the Sailor Scout of Thunder. After scaring him awake and her dropping the glass, Serena cuts her finger with the glass she was cleaning up. While trying to use a first aid kit in the bathroom on Serena, Dan started having a panic attack over the disturbing words that came out of Matthew's mouth. He worked himself into a horrible fit that caused him to faint. Eduardo and Mina walked into the room to see Dan passed out in Serena's lap. She asks for help moving Dan to his bunk.

An earthquake produced by the Second Stanza caused more damage and thanks to a mistake with the music brought a strange man to their world, and he was outside the firehouse.

Once inside, the man - wearing a blue flight suit with a nametag, a green gator mask over his face, and a baseball cap on his head - was now talking to Janine, confused at the woman's presence. Roland and Kyle walk inside after discovering the truck outside the firehouse doors and confront the man, them making enough noise to wake Dan back up and get him downstairs. After taking notice of the man in the garage, the man removed his gator mask.

An older Dan Shannon was staring back. He was the one the incorrect note brought into this world.

After Roland, Kylie, Amy, and Darien reported to Egon what they learned about Hacker and the cult, the building's alarm was set off. The Man-Bats had returned for another attack. Old Man Dan promptly walked to the back of his Ectomobile - a 2000 Ford Explorer called Chi-Ecto, the main transport for his Ghostbusters team, Ghostbusters: Chicago Division - and put on his Proton Pack. Where the Ghostbusters of this world couldn't find the frequency to stop the creatures, Old Man Dan's found it and he used his knowledge to stop the horde from harming the building.

Giving the attunement protocol to the others, Old Man Dan proceeds to pull another device from his truck and activate it. It was a PKE disruptor. The device created a shield that protected the building. Garrett and Raye come out after the fight was over and the danger had passed to see the newcomer to the firehouse, but Garrett mistook Old Man Dan for his world's, not knowing what had happened. Old Man Dan proceeded to insult Garrett being a wheelchair bound member prompting Garrett to insult him back. The older Dan didn't take kindly to the insult.

Old Dan kicked Garrett in the chest.

After a long and confusing night - with Old Man Dan actively shooting at Artemis thinking he was a mutant cat - Old Man Dan requested Janine go to a pet store and retrieve hamsters for a demonstration. Using one of the arms from the Man-Bats Old Dan extracts the black toxin from one and feeds it to the hamster. The hamster mutated into a grotesque monster. On Old Man Dan's Proton Pack was a green tank of base culture ectoplasm and on the thrower was a blower nozzle; a Plasm Distribution System, or PDS. After instructing Egon to give everyone safety goggles he soaked the hamster with the slime. It subsequently growled in pain before exploding in a violent proto-ecto feedback explosion. The base slime cannot be used as a cure for the Man-Bat toxin.

Kylie wakes Dan back up to start research into the Order of Asatro and the woman that leads them. In the chaos involving Old Dan shooting his Ectoplasmic Destabilizer at Artemis, Lita woke up briefly to tell Dan the drunk woman at Sardi's was the woman that abducted her. Using that as a lead they learned some of the cult's history. Old Man Dan took it upon himself to research Holly's past. What he learned was gut wrenchingly tragic. Trying to convince the others she may not be evil, Dan dismisses his counterpart's claims, insulting him in the process. With indignation, Old Dan walks out of the room. The whole scenario upsets Serena.

Old Man Dan travels to the concrete facility and confronts Holly. Holly had been blamed for her father's death which caused her whole life to spiral out of control. The car accident she and her father were in inflicted a major head injury to her which left her with the ability to hear the voices of the dead. Explaining that he found evidence in old IRC logs of a mafia hitman being contracted to kill the both of them, Old Dan explains that she was then ousted by her father's company's board members to have her inheritance taken away from her. The Bishop family - the mob involved - arranged the hit and the payoff to usurp her.

Old Man Dan had an ability of his own - something the Ghostbusters of his world called Ecto-Activation. He had the ability to see peoples auras. While interrogating Holly, he learned there were some things she wasn't aware of. It told him she wasn't really in charge, but he didn't understand how.

Until Matthew came into the office.

Unnerved by his encounter with Matthew, Old Dan began making his way back to Manhattan when he discovered Serena playing stowaway in the back of his vehicle. As the girl moved her way from the back seat to the front, Matthew witnessed her moving to the front and from the first look of her, he felt he knew who he was looking at. He orders the members of the inner circle to attack the vehicle.

After drinking energy drinks in the back of the Ectomobile, Serena was becoming hyper to the point she was shaking. Taking the young woman to get her food before she became sick, Old Dan was confronted with his case log book from the back of his Ectomobile. After telling Serena a story about himself and a woman he was in love with, he was interrupted when Man-Bats of an insurmountable number began to attack them.

Rushing back to the Ectomobile they speed their way onto the interstate in hopes to outrun the beasts. It was clear it wasn't going to be easy. In a combination of evasive driving and alternate universe Ghostbusting technology they make their way back to Manhattan with the monsters on their backs. Evading three Draugrs - Norse monsters of obscene size, strength, and anger - at the Lincoln Tunnel toll gates they traverse the tunnel. The vehicle being under attack by some of the Man-Bats, Serena transforms into Sailor Moon to assist, her Moon Tiara being employed to destroy the creatures attacking the truck. Old Dan, looking at the transformed woman beside him as just another strange thing on his list of strange things he had witnessed, directs the vehicle toward the firehouse.

Intending to use the PKE Disruptor shield to shed the Man-Bats, Chi-Ecto approaches the firehouse to find the disruptor had been moved by Dan, Roland, and Darien. They only managed to shed two-thirds of the monsters on their six, one-third still being too dangerous of a number behind them. Sailor Moon climbed out of the truck and used her Moon Scepter on the roof of the moving vehicle to destroy what was left, her power causing Old Dan's Ecto-Activation to blind him temporarily making him nearly crash into a building. After a sudden stop that injured Sailor Moon, Old Dan patched her up to find a new terror about to befall them…

Order Hitmen.

In a high speed chase through Manhattan, Old Dan dodges cars as black SUVs and Order-aligned police cars chase and fire upon the Ectomobile. After being shot at on city streets with AR-15s and shotguns loaded with armor-piercing slugs, Old Man Dan leads the vehicles that had not been disabled to the World Trade Tower site. The site was still being cleaned up after the attacks in 2001. Using the dust and work equipment in the foundations of the old buildings they lost the police cars. With the help of the Ectomobile's nitrous system, they escaped the pit and the final SUV by flying off the work ramp and over a barricade. Although Chi-Ecto was badly damaged and Old Dan was hit in the face with bullet fragments, Old Dan and Sailor Moon made it back to the firehouse.

After a long day of loathing and self-hatred, Garrett is confronted by Raye. Garrett explains through his memories why he wanted to be a Ghostbuster, but now feels like he doesn't deserve the honor due to him being like his old friend from his childhood, Spence. He believed he deserved to be ousted, even after Dan gave him a chance to redeem himself. Raye knew why he felt the way he did and convinced him he was a good man, so much so that she finally expressed her love for him in a kiss.

While removing bullet fragments from Chi-Ecto, Dan, Roland, and Egon examined the pieces and discovered the Order manufactured their own munitions meant specifically to damage their Proton Packs and expose them to the nuclear fuel inside them. Just as they made this revelation, Eduardo's brother Carl - an NYPD sergeant - walked into the firehouse and arrested Dan for assault at the facility Lita was being held at. Eduardo had come downstairs with Lita and Mina to witness Dan's arrest, Eduardo confronting his brother. Carl then tells Eduardo that Kevin - Carl's son and Eduardo's nephew - was missing, he tells Eduardo he was to be evicted from his home, telling him he was a failure. After being socked in the face by Eduardo, Carl witnessed something with his brother he had never seen before; something more terrifying than his own brother actually finding the courage and rage to even hit his brother in the first place.

Eduardo's eyes were glowing orange.

While walking to the police car outside to take Dan to a station, Dan confronts Carl, expressing how much he cared about Eduardo's family not being broken up. Carl - feeling a twinge of guilt but not wanting to perform dereliction of his duty - put Dan inside the car.

While trying to have a conversation with his partner, Carl was inexplicably tasered by said partner. Confused, Dan started shouting at Carl's partner - Manny Chang - about what he was doing. That was, until he turned on the car's cabin light so Dan could see him…

Manny was part of the Order.

After Manny used chloroform on Dan, Dan awoke on his knees with his arms being strapped to a pole in the ground, unable to move with Carl in the same state beside him. After both men awoke Manny was standing beside a new member of the Order, the newbie wearing a cloak and armed with a shotgun. To the dismay of Carl and Dan, the cloaked member was revealed to them.

It was Kevin Rivera.

As part of his initiation, Manny orders Kevin to shoot Dan in the head. Kevin takes aim…

This is where our story resumes…