just a simple question | voice

[ordinarily]

Where are the burgers?

[ This is the voice of a very distressed teenager. Very distressed. ]

I get that it's the space future, but the nurse was lying when she said they don't serve meat. Right?

[ Silence. ]

... Right?

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[gonebyebye]

Depends on how much spectral activity remained after the rest of the Ghostbusters and I shut down your portal and smacked your parents for building it in the first place. Something like that is just asking for trouble.

[ordinarily]

[ Welp. Button pushed. ]

Hey. It's not like they meant for that to happen. They still made a Ghost Portal, that's gotta be considered, like... genius or something, right?

[gonebyebye]

It is, no question. I'd love to get a look at their notes sometime. But that doesn't mean it's not more than a little irresponsible to build something like that. Especially in a house with kids. And this is coming from a guy who walks around with a nuclear accelerator on his back.

[ordinarily]

... Okay, two things:

One: It's not like my parents don't take care of the ghosts that come through. We have plenty of stuff to catch them, and send them back. And just because the portal is on, doesn't mean it's open.

Two: Nuclear accelerator?

[gonebyebye]

The. best way we've found to catch ghosts is to wrangle them with a stream of highly charged protons before dragging them into a ghost trap. To produce that stream, you need a particle accelerator, and that's not the kind of thing you can run off a city's power grid. Trust me, we tried.

A nuclear battery was our best option at the time, although I've been testing replacement power sources since I got here.

[ordinarily]

... Yeah, we just stuff them in a thermos.

A thermos that works like a vacuum.

[gonebyebye]

Weird, but if it works, why not?

What do you do for long-term containment?

[ordinarily]

We just send them back to the Ghost Zone.

I mean, no real reason to hold them. As long as the portal's closed, it's not really a problem... most of the time. Unless we're talking big threats to both the Ghost Zone and us, then they get to stay in the thermos.