Raymond Stantz

For a moment, Jazz just stared at Danny, aghast, the Fenton Anti-Creep stick hanging limply.

Eventually, she said, "We removed some of the runes over there -" she pointed. "I'll help you fix them, if I can."

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At this Danny panted, chest rising and falling, his hair turning into white flames in a rush, his eyes a beady red.

"Close enough," he said, looking at the oen barrier remaining.

Then he screamed.

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"Yeah," said Ray to Jazz. "That would be-"

Then Danny spoke.

"Oh no," said Ray as the ghostly wail completely overloaded the circuits and the magnetic bottling blew.

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Peter winced, and covered his ears at that.

"Hit the deck everybody." He yelled, and moved in front of Ray.

In aside, he said to Ray, "Please tell me we have a backup for this?"

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Dramatic, ohcrap music would have been playing were it a movie, as the smoke cleared and Danny floated there, green flame in his hands.

He cackled.

He was that far gone.

Dan flew forward, lurching at Ray, but there was a surprising amount of interference, from the whip that'd just wrapped around his body.

"I hate to do this, Danny," shouted Sam, "but you're being a real jerk."

And with that, she jerked him backwards.

Tucker frantically fumbled with the Ghost Thermos, getting it ready to catch him.

"Newsflash, Sam," Danny said to her, falling to his knees and then standing up again. "I am."

Green ecto flame crackled up the length of the whip and shocked her. Screaming she let go, and fell to the ground in a heap, as he broke free of the Jack O' Nine Tails.
NOOOOO!
It hadn't been enough to kill her. He wanted the three of them alive. For...entertainment purposes. Right. They made him laugh. That was a good reason to keep them.

He turned back towards Ray.

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"Actually, Pete, that sort of was the backup."

Not entirely true. There were still two traps in the room. Ray started looking for the nearest one even while he was speaking- but then Sam screamed. He whipped around, eyes wide, and would have started for her if Peter hadn't stopped him.

..... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeggplaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant.

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"Ok. This is not good." Peter eyed the traps. He debated on going toward them, but then Danny was heading their way. Oh hell no.

He eyed the ghost kid with a look on his face. Cowboy at high noon in a stand-off would come to mind here. And his PKE was radiating around him like an angry corona.

"What's it gonna be, pardner? Huh?" He yelled back.

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"I'm not up for witty banter, today," Danny said, firing at Venkman with an ecto beam.

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And still in full-on eggplant mode, Ray lunged at Peter from behind. The plan was to tackle his friend and roll out of the way.

The plan sucked, because Ray's tackling skills were completely sub-par. Venkman barely even moved, and the blast caught both of them off their feet-

"NGHGH!" went Ray, who had the privilege of being whammed into the wall and getting his face rammed into Venkman's back in the process.

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Danny flew over and grabbed Ray by the collar, lifting him slightly off the ground, his fist shrouded in green light.

"Game over, Ray. FATALITY!" Even while evil, he was a geek.

He lifted up his hand to strike...

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"She's not breathing!" shouted Jazz.

Who was bending over Sam.

Who was lying at her feet, neck at an odd angle, arm twisted.

And Jazz looked panicked.

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Danny froze.

Something in his head snapped.

He turned, dropping Ray.

"What?"

Looking at Sam, he stumbled forwards.

"No...No. No, I didn't hit her that hard. I didn't..."

The light in his eyes died down to a somber gray.

"I didn't--no. No. I'd never hurt any of you. I'd never..."

He looked aimless, neither walking closer to her, nor turning back to Ray.

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Suddenly, Sam lifted her head. "Tucker! Now!"

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There was a high-pitched whine. "Thermos time! And it won't be filled with soup!"

"What?!" Danny exclaimed. "Noooooo!"

The Fenton Thermos powered up and sucked Danny into it. It shook for a moment, as if something was pounding on the inside, then stopped.

Then he, Jazz, and Sam all collapsed to the floor, sighing.

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Ray coughed, propping himself up from the floor on one arm. "Oh, man- are you guys all right? Is he all right?"

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"Ow... ok, that was not fun." Peter got up, wincing slightly. He glanced back toward Ray worriedly, before saying, "Yeah, what was that? Got traps, too? What now?"

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"I'm fine - Tucker, Sam? Are you guys all right?"

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"I'm okay," said Tucker. "And he should be," he added to Ray, holding up the thermos full o' Danny.

Sam climbed to her feet and dusted herself off.

"I'm just glad that worked. For a second I wasn't sure..."

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Ray nodded, pushing himself upright as well. "I'm sorry, guys. I really am. I put up a sign on the bulletin board asking for you guys to come contact one of us if you happened to see it, but I'm guessing you must've skipped that part of the Bar. Maybe we should do some proper introductions- I'm Ray Stantz, this is my friend and colleague Peter Venkman, there's another guy around here who goes by the name Egon Spengler and is about four inches taller than me with freaky blond hair. We're the Ghostbusters, and we've been waiting for you to turn up, because we're gonna need your help to get him-" He jerked a thumb towards the thermos. "-back to the kid we all know and love."

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Sam crossed her arms. "He's still in there. That's why Jazz and I tried that. When he shocked me, just for a second, his eyes went back to normal..."

She inhaled deeply. "Okay, before we do anything, we have some questions.."

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"Yeah, I know." Ray rubbed at the back of his neck. "We had a telepath check him out and confirm that. Actually we had a telepath check him out and try to get Danny back in charge of himself, but that didn't work, darn the luck."

"But sure, go ahead. We owe you that much. Right, Pete?"

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Peter eyed him, "What did I tell you about those people skills, Ray?"

He then slipped into smooth talking Venkman mode, "Yeah, see, kind of a long story. Been trying to help him out with the noggin, but as you see, no dice so far."

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"How did this happen, again?" Jazz asked. "You said something about an evil woman. Was she a ghost?"

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"Don't I wish," Ray said fervently. "I'd have taken her out myself if she were. No, she was alive, all right. She had some kind of incredibly nasty magic power. She'd just taken a wand or something away from this other kid, and Danny flew right through her so he could grab it back, and that was when she basically said 'oo, thank you for the present, Draco' and cast the spell." He eyed the thermos guiltily. "He screamed like a stuck pig, and then he went into red-eye-flamey-hair-bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha mode, and that was when I went for the trap. But it was definitely a magic spell and not a ghost power."

He'd been replaying the scene in his mind for more than a month now. It was going to be one of those things he wouldn't ever be able to forget.

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