Chapter 4: Complicated Repercussions

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Skulker looked to Danny as he walked forward toward him.

"Why has Bloody Mary been unleashed from the mirror dimension in which we imprisoned her so long ago?" Skulker asked.

"Somehow...this girl, Phoebe and I accidentally released her by playing the Bloody Mary game, but in my defense, I thought it was harmless." Danny explained and Skulker looked genuinely angry.

"Well since you are officially an adult she is mainly harmless to you, but any child who is 17 and younger is at risk of becoming her victims. We imprisoned her so long ago because she was harming too many children even after death, and even us ghosts are against severely harming such innocent lives. We only fight you because your partially one of us. Your different. We may cause problems when we haunt, but when have we ever genuinely harmed anybody?" Skulker asked.

"Insightful." Ray stated as he listened.

"Well, we didn't do it on purpose, but I can promise you we're going to fix it. Now is there anything you can tell us that could help us?" Danny asked.

"Why would we help you when you're the reason she got out in the first place?" Ember snapped and Danny got shitty back with her.

"Because I'm the only person who can make sure she gets brought back to you guys to imprison her again considering everyone else her is completely human." Danny sneered and Ember rolled her eyes at him as Sam let out a laugh.

"She relies on reflections. Anything with a reflection can help save her from any attack you might unleash on her. She's dangerous, and if your younger she will try to use her powers on you and put you in an endless sleep that will never end until we imprison her once again." Skulker explained and Lucky raised an eyebrow.

"So it's not an endless sleep then?" Lucky asked.

"IT will be endless unless Daniel can get Bloody Mary back to us." Skulker corrected himself and Lucky nodded in understanding.

"Understood." Lucky stated.

"She has no weaknesses. There's only one way to defeat her, and that's if you can bring her to us. You start working on that and we'll start getting ready for her arrival." Skulker stated and then he and Ember left.

"Well that was interesting." Venkman sighed and then he looked to Danny. "So ghosts just come and go here and as a ghost hunter you don't look for a solution to that?"

"They're not hurting anybody so what solution even is there?" Danny responded and Venkman thought about it.

"I don't know, it's just in our world when a ghost is messing around where it doesn't belong, we get that ghost out of there and put it in our containment unit." Venkman explained.

"Containment unit?" Danny asked in confusion.

"Yeah." Ray replied. "Where do you put the ghosts who step out of line?"

"Back in their homes in the ghost dimension. Why? Where do you put them?" Danny asked.

"Like we said, in a containment unit, which is basically a prison for ghosts." Winston explained.

"That's terrible!" Sam shouted. "They didn't do anything wrong!"

"To be fair, they didn't do anything right either." Venkman responded.

"You do realize that these ghosts were people too once. They're just doing what people do best, which is walk around places and visit places. How would you feel if someone arrested you for going to a store just because they didn't want to see you there and you got life in prison?" Tucker asked and Ray, Venkman, and Winston thought about it.

"I guess it's just...different in our world." Ray replied. "But I guess your right. We'll start looking into a way to link to containment unit to something a little more comfortable for the ghosts."

"Good." Sam responded and Ray nodded in agreement.

"Sorry, I just never thought of it that way." Ray replied in their defense. Then he changed the subject. "Venkman, pull up Tobin's Spirit Guide and look into Bloody Mary, aka Mary Tudor or Mary The First, and see what you can find." Ray suggested and Venkman nodded and walked out of the room and Slimer followed him. There was a long moment of silence and the Box Ghost suddenly jumped out of a box.

"I AM THE BOX GHOST!!!!" The Box Ghost yelled and Danny turned to him.

"NOW'S NOT A GOOD TIME!!!!" Danny shouted. " Can't you just go back where you came from and skip the part where I inevitably kick your butt like I always do!?" Danny asked and the Box Ghost got frustrated.

"Gosh I was just trying to scare you guys and then tell you good luck with Bloody Mary." The Box Ghost side and then he went into the box and disappeared.

"Well that was a bit mean." Sam pointed out and Danny shrugged.

"He ALWAYS shows up at the worst times Sam." Danny sighed and then Lucky butted in.

"Any chance we can introduce each other?" Lucky asked and everybody seemed to agree that needed to happen.

"The guy that just walked out is Peter Venkman, I'm Ray Stantz, the ghost that was with Peter was our resident pet, Slimer." Ray explained.

"I am Winston Zeddemore." Winston added.

"I'm Phoebe."

"I'm Lucky."

"I'm Trevor, Phoebe's older brother."

"I go by the name Podcast because of my Podcast." Podcast stated.

"I'm Sam." Sam started off the other group.

"My name's Tucker."

"I'm Danny's older sister Jazz."

"And I'm Danny. SO...what now?" Danny asked and everybody kind of stood there for a second.

"We could look for clues." Phoebe suggested.

"What are you 4?" Trevor insulted Phoebe.

"Actually that's not a half bad idea since we have no idea where to start." Ray corrected Trevor. "Searching for evidence is a very smart thing to do."

"I guess we start in the bathroom, the scene of the crime." Danny stated.

"Wait, so," Podcast sighed. "if our world's have melded together, does that mean everyone is trying to figure out why the population suddenly increased and why everyone is suddenly in a Scooby Doo episode?" Podcast asked and everybody looked at him and didn't know the answer.

"I guess." Phoebe replied.

"I wonder if your Mom is gonna think we did it." Podcast laughed and Phoebe frowned.

"How would she know?" Phoebe asked.

"Because we're going to tell her." Ray responded and Phoebe frowned.

"Great." Phoebe stated.

"Ok, time to look for clues." Ray changed the subject and Phoebe looked to Danny.

"Thanks for agreeing to take some of the blame." Phoebe sighed.

"I'm pretty sure some of the blame is on me anyways." Danny replied and Phoebe nodded and then followed Ray. Phoebe went over to Ray and looked at him sadly.

"I'm sorry I disappointed you. I was just trying to see if the game was real. I was curious." Phoebe apologized.

"Well there have been way too many occasions where curiosity killed the cat." Ray replied. "But...it's ok. We're gonna figure this out and fix it. Realistically someone was gonna release the crazy witch. At least people who could fix their mistake were the ones who did it."

"I didn't think anything would happen Ray. I thought it was just a kids game. I'm sorry." Phoebe insisted and Ray looked to her in an admiring way.

"Kid, you've fixed your mistakes once when you released the Key Master, this time you'll fix your mistake again." Ray assured her and Phoebe nodded in understanding.

"Can you forgive me?" Phoebe asked.

"Well if we fail at stopping this things, I can assure you that I'm not the only one who's forgiveness you'll need to seek." Ray explained and Phoebe looked to him in frustration.

"Kids make mistakes. That's not new to the world." Phoebe pointed out and Ray nodded.

"You'd be surprised with how much the world will look to blame people. Hopefully the press doesn't find out who released her." Ray responded.

"So you don't forgive me?" Phoebe asked and Ray realized that she looked up to him and smirked at her.

"Of course I forgive you kid. Like you said, kid's make mistakes. Now if it had been the near adults, your brother and his girlfriend, we'd be having a different discussion." Ray reassured Phoebe and Phoebe nodded with slight satisfaction and then she started to look around.

"Why does the ectoplasm have a red tint to it?" Danny asked as he walked in.

"It's Bloody Mary. I thought the reason for the color would be evident. It's probably the endless river of blood that flowed from her countless innocent victims." Ray explained and just then Venkman came into the room with papers.

"Uh, we need to have a long discussion Ray." Venkman said and Slimer nodded.

"Blehsemeh!" Slimer yelled in worry and Ray let out a long sigh.

"I'm judging by the stack of papers that it's really bad." Ray asked.

"Yup." Venkman couldn't even make a joke and Ray got up and walked over with a sample of the ectoplasm and handed it to Venkman.

"Take that to the lab for me please." Ray requested and Venkman rolled his eyes.

"Well, who died and elected you leader of the Ghostbusters?" Venkman asked.

"Egon did." Ray replied simply and Venkman nodded.

"I didn't mean literally but ok." Venkman responded and then he left the room. Ray took the papers and sat down and started to read. Danny sat down next to him.

"Mind if I join you?" Danny asked and Ray shrugged.

"Be my guest." Ray sighed and after a few minutes Ray went to turn a paper.

"Hold on." Danny said and then after a few more seconds Danny nodded. "Ok, go ahead."

"How about you turn the paper when your done since I'm faster." Ray suggested and Danny nodded.

"K." Danny said and they continued to read.......

After a while they finished all 20 pages and sat there for a moment and everybody stared at them waiting for an answer.

"OH boy." Ray sighed as he put his face in his hands and Danny saw Sam staring at him for answers and Danny pointed to Ray.

"What he said." Danny agreed and Sam rolled her eyes. "Would you PLEASE stop rolling your eyes at me?" Danny asked.

"You guys act like you're a couple." Trevor laughed.

"Because they are." Tucker corrected Trevor.

"You've got a girlfriend?" Phoebe asked as she kind of had a crush on Danny. It was very short lived but at her age, this was her first crush and she wasn't sure what to feel in this scenario.

"Yeah." Danny replied cluelessly and Phoebe got tears in her eyes. She had never had a crush on a boy before and while it had only lasted a few minutes she had several emotions fill her.

"I'm gonna go study those samples." Phoebe said and she rushed out of the room and Trevor raised an eyebrow. Podcast walked over to Danny with his arms crossed.

"You travel dimensions, come up into my world, strutted around with your ghostly good looks, and you hurt my best friend." Podcast said and Danny looked confused.

"We just met." Danny replied like it was ridiculous.

"It doesn't matter. I'm pretty sure you were my sisters first crush even if it was short lived." Trevor pointed out.

"First crushes are rough if you don't end up with the one you love." Sam sighed. "Especially if they have a crush or date someone else." Sam spoke from experience. Her one and only long time crush had been Danny. She had a short lived crush on Gregor and dated him but he was a fake, and he still was her only other crush than Danny, and it didn't last but a few weeks.

"We just met!" Danny pointed out.

"And you caught her eye JUST like that." Ray added. "You need to go talk to her."

"She's like 12, I'm 18. It would have been illegal anyways, unless your laws are different." Danny sighed in frustration.

"Talking to her and making her feel better is not illegal though. She started crushing on you and now she feels heartbroken. Go talk to her." Lucky explained.

"Trust me Danny," Sam insisted. "you need to go make her feel better about this. I had no one to talk to when you were crushing on Paulina for so long."

"Wait, you had a crush on me all the way back then?" Danny asked and Sam blushed.

"This isnt about me. Just go." Sam tried to get the attention off of her.

"Ok. But when we're done, we all have to talk." Danny sighed.

"We don't all need to talk about when I was crushing on you." Sam corrected him.

"I'm not talking about that. Clearly it's a sore subject for you, so I'm not gonna address it. We're together now so the past doesn't matter. We all need to talk about what Ray and I read." Danny said and Sam smirked as she was in love with him and he left the room.

"I can't believe he STILL hasn't realized that you were WAY more into him than he was into you before he realized that he was WAY out of Paulina's league." Tucker laughed and Sam hit him on the shoulder.

"Shut up." Sam snapped. "He didn't just date me because he couldn't get Paulina."

"Oh come on, be realistic. He didn't ask you out till he blew it with Paulina and Valerie. You guys basically started dating because everybody constantly told you, you should have." Tucker responded and Sam frowned and looked down and then went after Danny to talk to him......


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