Room 2342 - It's Where The DOOOOOOM Is

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Ray was really, really, really starting to loathe the sight of Sumerian- sorry, Sumero-Akkadian- spirit containment gridding on the walls. Cuneiform got old fast if you had to stare at it for eight hours a day, every day.

He blinked a few times and wondered whether the fact that the patterns were swimming a bit was necessarily a bad thing.

Then he caught sight of Danny's grinning face and realized the answer was yes.

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[fryertuck]

Tucker nodded and went to work, on the Fenton gHost Shield.

"Y'know, these modifications are a great," he said, looking over the changes to the shield.

Jazz was fixing the markings.

Sam had been passed the Thermos by Tucker and she was just holding it as everyone bustled around, a sour look on her face.

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"You're gonna want to thank Doctor Spengler for those," Ray noted. "About all I really contributed to that was the new power cell design. Those K-14s are an absolute lifesaver, and I don't just mean that figuratively. I think you're also gonna want a look at what happened when Egon got his hands on the plans for the Fenton Specter Deflector, although he kept trying to change the name and I had to crack him over the head with a mechanical pencil to make him stop."

He glanced over his shoulder at Sam. "Um. Sorry about that voice thing before, by the way. You sort of caught me flat-footed and I didn't know what else to do."

[bringnewjokes]

She just looked off to the side, and shook her, then looked at the thermos again.

"You'd think that--" I'd "--we'd have realized he wasn't...him. Especially after last time."

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"Last time?" Ray blinked. "Never mind. We can talk about that later. Are we good on your end, Tucker?"

As far as Ray was concerned, fourteen years old was college age, and that meant 'adult interaction' for social purposes. Granted, Ray was not the most socially adept man in the universe, but eh.

[fryertuck]

"Fenton Ghost Shield's ready to go." He tapped a button and it sprung up again.

"I fixed the markings," said Jazz. Good thing she has a photographic memory.

"We'll need to release him in there before putting up the other shields. Are they ready?" Tucker asked.

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There was a bit of a frtz noise and a poke, but Ray nodded. "Yeah, they're good. Let's do this."

[ilovebearbert]

"I should do it," Jazz says, reaching for the thermos.

[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

"Careful there." Peter commented, eyeing the thermos warily, and taking a ready position just in case.

He then mouthed to Ray, 'Voice thing??? What?'

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

There was a whoosh as Jazz pressed the button and Danny landed in a furious, undignified heap, glaring daggers at them all.

Immediately, he opened his mouth again...

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"I'm sorry, Danny."

Silently looking back at him, Ray flipped the switches to bring the other two shields back online.

"... I truly am."

[fryertuck]

As Danny screamed, Tucker looked confused as he held his ears and he shouted over the din:

"How is he not tiring out yet?! He usually can only do this for so long!"

Finally, it stopped.

[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

Peter nodded, "We'll get him back. The right way." There was a determined look in his green eyes.

Off Tucker's comment, he frowned some, "Maybe he had a growth spurt or something?" Danny was still a growing ghost-kid. Which meant his powers were getting STRONGER. Shit... this was not gonna be easy.

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"We've had PKE meters running on him the whole time he's been here, just in case something spiked," Ray noted quietly. "Haven't had time to analyze it yet. That was sort of going to be for after we got hold of you guys-" He was looking at Tucker, Sam and Jazz now. "-and got things set right. We need to talk, guys- and fast."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"I don't know why you're bothering to tell them anything. They're useless," Danny intoned from inside the fields.

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Ray just smiled at Danny and headed over to the door. There was a sharp whistle, and then: "Francis! Francis, come to Daddy- good boy- you stay here and watch the boy, okay? You can do that for me?"

A moment later the robotic Hound Ray had acquired from John Preston trotted in. He'd been rooting around in its innards during his off hours, and had installed a set of ectoscopes among its visual sensors.

"Francis is going to stay here and keep an eye on Danny," Ray said. "Meanwhile, we are going to talk. To the Geekcave, ladies and gentlemen."

As soon as he was sure they weren't going to throw things at him for being more of a dork than necessary, he led the way down the hall to his own room.

[fryertuck]

Tucker kept looking over his shoulder at the dog until they were out the door.

"...I totally want one of those."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

After they all left, Dan eyed the robot dog.

"...I totally want one of those."

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