Written By: Bo HolbrookNightsquad - Welcome to Burkittsville

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Chapter One
The Nightsquad had a fairly good string of business while the Real Ghostbusters were on vacation. Finally, business tapered off, the Nightsquad could slow down and relax, and have a chance to enjoy the fruits of their hard work. The three men, Shades, Bo, and Ernie were gathered in the living room, Bo sat in his chair, while Ernie and Shades were sat on the couch. Jen was also with them, but was occupied with some minor PKE maintainence.

"We've hit some sort of dry spell here as of late." Shades added, he too flipped through receipt papers.

"We should keep our eyes on it to be safe," Jen commented, still working on the PKE meter. "It could be a mass PKE build up, the ghosts may be going into remission as a result." Bo gave Jen a sarcastic glance.

"Every time business slows down for like, ten minutes you say that, Jen! Can't you ever be positive for once?"

"I'm being neutral, I just said we could keep an eye on it." Jen said, waving a small screwdriver in the air for emphasis.

"I'm just glad to get a break," Ernie stretched back in his chair. "I'm freakin' tired." Bo turned on the TV, and began flipping through the stations. Suddenly the TV turned off by itself and then back on again.

"What the?.." Jen looked up from the PK meter.

"Hell!" Ernie added.

"Well that was odd." Bo said. Jen closed the panel on the back of the PKE meter she was fixing, turned it on, and made a quick sweep over the TV screen.

"Dammit Jen, it was just a minor power failure, put that down," Shades smiled.

"Yeah, holster that PKE meter would ya?" Bo added with a bit of exasperation.

"Hey, you can never be too careful." Jen smirked as she clipped the meter onto her jeans pocket. Suddenly the telephone rang and Bo stood up and bolted to the firepole.

"I got it!!" He cried out. The other Nightsquad members just looked at one another. Bo slid down the firepole and ran into his office to answer the phone. In turn Jen, Shades, and Ernie poked their heads down the firepole passage.

"Ghostbusters:Nightsquad, when the Ghostbusters's are sleepin' our pagers are beepin'," Bo said as he put the phone to his ear. "Yes calm down sir...your area is a little out of our...yes Mr. Mayor I know, but...." The other three, still hanging upside down through the hole, exchange puzzled looks. "50,000 DOLLARS!!" Bo shouted. The three looked wide-eyed at each other. Bo leaned over and began writing on a piece of paper. "Mhmm, Yes...oh, of course...yessir..." He stood back up as he skimmed over the paper. "Yes sir, we're on our way." The rest of the Nightsquad members slid down the pole and eagerly looked at Bo for an explanation.

"Well?" Jen asked.

"Tell us!" Shades warned.

"You're never going to believe this guys..." Bo chuckled.

"What?" Shades and Ernie said in unison.

"We just got a case from Burkittsville, Maryland." Bo waved the paper he had written the details he was given on in the air.

"BURKITTSVILLE!?" Jen shouted. Shades scratched his chin a few times.

"Hey isn't that where the Blair Witch is?" He asked.

"Yeah," Ernie interjected. "But why would they call us? What were they thinking?" Jen rolled her eyes and hissed jokingly a bit at Ernie's comment.

"I dunno he just said he'd pay us a wad of cash and that we need to pack some camping equipment. I'm going, I don't know about you guys..." Bo said. Jen walked over to Bo and grabbed his arm.

"You can't go by yourself, I'm going too."

"I'm in." Shades stepped forward. Ernie waved his hands in the air and walked toward the others.

"Now hold up here fellas, didn't those filmakers disappear in the woods out there?"
Bo shrugged.

"Yeah." He said.

"Okay, just checking. Let's go." Ernie explained.

Chapter Two

Around 6:30PM, the four had there things loaded into the Ecto-1X.

"Alright already, lets roll!" yelled Ernie as he marched off to the passenger door of the Ecto-1X

"If we're going to have to drive throught the night we better go now." Shades commented.

"Yeah, why can't we just wait till tomorrow morning?" Ernie inquired.

"Fifty thou. waits for no man..." Bo replied like Clint Eastwood.

"And if we go now, we'll have a whole day to check things out." Jen added as she quickly went through a book she'd found on the Blair Witch, it's content was sketchy at best.

"Well, that should about do it." Bo sighed as he closed the back of his car. Bo, Shades and Jen got into the Ecto-1X. Bo hit the garage door opener and started up the car. "Too Inifinity, and Beyond!" He shouted as he leaned his head out the window and pointed ahead with an extended arm. When Bo leaned back in the car, Shades smacked him on the back of the head.

"Develop an original catch phrase." He hissed.

Chapter Three

It was about ten hours to Burkittsville, the Nightsquad's nerves only lasted for about four as they drove down the interstate.

"Ernie, you're going to drive me up the side of this car if you don't stop the roadkill commentary." Jen growled. Ernie's face was almost pressed to the window as he eyeballed the road for more dead animals.

"There's a raccoon, or a greasy smear, its hard to tell...," he peered closer, "Ooo wait, entrails, never mind, its an animal..." He leaned back in his chair.

"Ernie man, shut up." Shades smacked Ernie with a magazine. Ernie grabbed the magazine, and swung to punch Shades in the arm. Shades pulled away and kicked Ernie's leg.

"You prick!" Ernie whined as he and Shades began hitting each other.

"Guys, chill out!" Jen yelled. "Shades, c'mon, you're older than him, why don't you set a good example?" Jen ducked and covered her face as a magazine flew at her.

"OKAY, THAT'S IT!!" Bo roared, his voice rattled the windows and everyone's eardrums. He flipped the Ecto-1X's sirens on then suddenly spun into a donut, the few cars behind them screeched to a stop or swerved to avoid hitting the hearse. "IF YOU SHITHEADS CAN'T GROW UP, I'M STOPPING THE ECTO RIGHT NOW AND YOU CAN GET OUT AND WALK BACK TO THE FIREHOUSE!!!!" He screamed, his face red with rage. Everyone immediatly shut up and sunk into their seats.

"Bo," Jen cooed, "why don't I drive for a while?" She suggested, unnerved at Bo's explosion. Bo hissed and rubbed his forehead with his hand.

"Yeah, fine...I'm so pissed off I'm liable to crash into something." Bo turned his head to the back of the car where Ernie and Shades were sitting wide-eyed and motionless. He pulled off to the side of the road and he and Jen switched places.

Chapter Four

By 2:30AM, everyone had settled down and started getting sleepy. Jen's head would drop for a moment every now and then as she sat in the front passenger seat, the book she'd been reading now lay bouncing slightly on the dashboard. Shades and Ernie had set up sleeping bags in the back of the car, and tried to make themselves comfortable, cramped on the floor. Ernie tossed around groggily, and let out a small, angry moan.

"Shades, stop kicking me, dammit." He moaned.

"Its not me, you sleep like a damn fish....just go back to sleep Ernie." came Shades' muffled reply.
Jen, who had looked back and watched them, turned back around.

"They're just like children sometimes." She commented, her voice tinger with annoyance.

"Yeah, heh, hehe..." Bo chuckled, nervously. Jen stared ahead, watching the road reflectors as the Ecto-1X drove on into the night. She smiled a bit and let out a sigh. "What was that?" Bo asked.

"Oh, nothing." Jen turned and looked out her side window.

"Ah, ok," Bo rested his arm on the driver's side window frame. The Nightsquad drove on in awkward silence, every once and a while Bo and Jen would glance at each other while the other wasn't looking. Finally, Jen broke the silence.

"What were you before? I mean, before you were a Ghostbuster?"


"A mechanic." Bo replied, trying to avoid her gaze. "Yup," he said, as he nodded his head forward, then bit his lower lip. "I was a mechanic before this..." He looked over at Jen.
"How 'bout you?" He asked, the sodium lights (the ones that actually worked) cast a yellow glow on his face.

"Ah, well I...." She began but bit her lip.

"Heh, so modest," Bo laughed.

"No, you see..." Jen sighed and cleared her throat. "For the past year I've been working as a secretary temp... Its not much, but I get by." She admitted.

"Why would you do that to yourself?" Bo asked. "You're a brillant person, why aren't you a scientist like your Uncle?" Jen huffed a bit and leaned against the passenger door.

"Spengler Labs in Ohio wasn't intrested. My great Uncle Cyrus believes that I'm like Uncle Egon, wasting my talents. I did take an early acceptence to NYU, I majored in Biology. But I'm not like that, I'm not that good." She explained.

"Not good my ass." Bo said in a raised voice. Then he remembered the other two in the back and quietened down. "For someone who isn't that good you really know your shit."

"Yeah...but what I mean is I can't be cooped up in a lab all day, I'd much rather be out in the field, ya know."

"I guess, but you are a hard worker," Bo reached out and lifted Jen's chin with his hand. "You just don't give yourself enough credit for it." He smiled a little in the twilight.

"Hm." Jen smiled as she settled down in her seat to sleep. Bo watched her for a moment then continued driving, eventually he'd pull off the side of the road to get some sleep too, Burkittsville could wait till morning.

Chapter Five

At 5:46AM, the Nightsquad was back on the road, Burkittsville was only minutes away. Shades and Jen had switched places earlier, while Ernie and Bo remained in their original seats. Suddenly Jen’s PKE meter broke the silence.
"Amazing, we're only a few miles away from Burkittsville and the meter is already going crazy." Jen said. She reached up between Shades and Bo and turned on the Ecto-mounted PK meter, it too was showing high readings. Ernie whistled in awe as he watched the readings slowly clime on the dashboard-mounted meter.

"Incredible that's got to be one powerful ghost." Shades muttered. A few minutes later the Ecto-1X was in Burkittsville. A large painted bilboard reading: "Welcome to Burkittsville!" passed by, small two-story buildings passed by and the place looked like a regular town. Bo parked the car near in a motel parkinglot that was surrounded and filled by people.

"Aww it looks like the party started without us." Bo grinned as the Nightsquad got out of the car. All of a sudden, a disheveled looking man in a business suit pushed through the crowd and ran up to them.

"ARE YOU THE GHOSTBUSTERS?!" He asked, his face was flushed from the run.

"Indeed," Bo confirmed, "and you're the Mayor, am I correct?" Bo asked.

"How did you know?"

"I'd recognize that distressed voice anywhere. What can we do for you?" Bo asked.

"Follow me." The Mayor rushed back to the crowd, this time they parted to let him and the Nightsquad through. Nightsquad exchanged glances, they weren't used to not being briefed before the bust, but they followed. As they walked, Jen turned on her PKE meter.

"Well as you know we have a bit of a legend around here about the Blair Witch, well over the past few days that legend has become quite a reality..." the Mayor sighed. "Strange and unusual occurances have been happening all month, large rocks being hurled from the forest that are physically impossible for any person to throw, strange blue slime falling from the sky and the weirdest thing of all..." The Ghostbusters and the Mayor reached one of the rooms in the motel, inside they found a ragged, filthy young woman, about 23 years old, her hair was disheveled and matted, she was wraped in a blanket.

"This is one of the film makers who vanished, we found her earlier this morning, she was wandering naked in the town square chanting, 'Never giving'." The Mayor gestured at the woman who was being examined by a ambulance worker, there was also a town duputy speaking quickly into his radio.

"Call me crazy but I'm beginning to see a pattern developing here." Bo said.

"No no matter what we do the only thing she responds with is 'Never Giving'." Jen ran her PKE Meter over the girl.

"Snap... I've never gotten readings this high, not on a living person anyway." She commented as she showed them the readings.

"There are also these strange markings." The Mayor motioned to the town deputy, who walked over to the girl and removed the blanket to expose her back. Her back was covered in strange writing that has been carved into her flesh.

"And that's just her back." The town duputy replied with a alabama twang, his face was pale, he shouldn't have to see such horrors for his age.

"Good God!" Bo and Jen said unexpectidly.

"Now that's gross." Ernie gagged, while he stuck out his tounge. Jen's PK meter began to smoke as its inner workings fried.

"Dang it, that was my best one." Jen muttered as she dropped the device, a small flame sprouted from it's casing.

"Whats her name?" Bo asked, refering to the filmmaker.

"Heather Donahue," The Mayor said.

"Transitus Fluvii," Jen murmured as she adjusted her glasses. "Its an ancient language used by witches."

"Can you read Transitus Fluvii?" Bo inquired. Jen made a pointing gesture at Bo.

"In my sleep, underwater and with the lights off." she winked.

"Where have I heard that before?" Ernie was puzzled, then he shook it off.

"Well then, what does it say?" Shades said. She leaned closer to study the writing for a moment.

"Only two words...'Never Giving'." She shrugged.

"Boy that sure took a lot of effort to read." Ernie scoffed.

"What does 'never giving' mean?" asked Shades.

"I don't have a clue." Jen admitted. Bo leaned over to the girl who looked straight through him.

"Heather, can you hear me?" He asked in a calm voice.

"Never Giving!" She spoke. Bo waves his hand in front of his face for a moment to clear away the odor of Heather's breath.

"Eck! What have you been eating?"

"Raccoon?" Ernie suggested, this gained him a mean glare from Bo.

"Got any solutions Jen?" Shades wondered.

"We could try hypnotizing her."

"Go for it." Bo agreed. Jen removed her indian medallion necklace and swung it back and forth in front of Heather.

"Alright Heather I want you to follow the necklace with your eyes...when I snap my fingers you will be asleep."
Jen snapped her fingers and In a moment, the young woman was asleep. "Heather, if you can hear me, you may now speak normally and I want you to tell me what's in the woods." Jen instructed. Heather's eyes fluttered open and she looked around.

"Where's Mike? Where's Josh?! How did I get here!?" She looked down to see all the carvings in her skin, and she shrieked and flailed her forearms rigidly. Everyone averted their eyes, hoping to calm her down, as the deputy tried to cover her with the now abandoned blanket. Once she had gotten herself covered, Shades leaned down a bit and hesitantly put his hand on her shoulder.

"Heather, you're ok, the people in town found you." He reassured.

"Who...who are you people?" she whimpered. Bo stuck his thumbs in his belt.

"We're the Ghostbusters."

"Tell us what you remember Heather," Ernie coaxed. Heather wrapped herself tighter in the blanket.

"The last thing I remember I was in an old torn up house, I saw Mike standing in corner then something clubbed me, and I fell down...Aah!" Heather doubled over in the chair as the pain returned from the cuts in her skin.

"Someone get her a doctor." Shades muttered to a guy in the motel, who then ran out to the crowd. The ambulance worker simply stared, doing nothing.

"I remember seeing Mike and Josh being tortured by some old woman was cutting them with...claws...long claws." She extended an arm from under the blanket. "Then she began cutting me...but I didn't feel it...then she forced me to eat something and I don't remember anything after that." She looked at them with eyes that could have passed for a war victim.

"It's okay now, you're safe," Jen sighed.

"You said the old woman did the same thing to your buddies, but they haven't turned up yet." Ernie said

"You have to find them..." Heather began to cry. "They're still alive...they're in the woods in that...." Suddenly a demonic energy came ripping out of the woods. Everyone around the motel was knocked to the ground and the motel's windows exploded as the force hit the building.

"Shit!" The team said together. The air in the motel lit up and Heather was lifted from the floor. Intense blue light shone out of the writing on Heather's body. As she shrieked, the Nightsquad was then flung through the air. The three guys flew out the door, and landed pancaked, Ernie and Shades top of Bo. Jen flew back and slammed into a wall.

"Aghh." She breathed as the air was slammed out of her lungs.

"Get off!" Bo reached up and pushed Shades and Ernie onto the ground. Bo got up and ran back to the motel, Jen came staggering out, holding her back.

"Are you alright?" Bo took her arm and leaned over to look her in the eye.

"Yeah, I'm fine," she winced. "But I'm not sure about others." Bo looked back at Shades and Ernie, thinking Jen was refering to them. Shades and Ernie came over to join them. Ernie rubbed his head.

"I believe I can fly?" he said with mild confusion.

"Look," Jen said as she walked back to where Heather was. When the Nightsquad entered the room they saw Heather, crucified to wall and disembowled. Her intestines had been used to make a crude message on the wall in transitus fluvii. The carpet was satined crimson from the amount of blood. The duputy picked himself up from the floor and stared at the writing as the ambulance worker bolted for the door.

"I think we're all about to eat a large shit sandwitch on this one.." Ernie murmured in awe. The four Ghostbusters walked out of the motel, feeling dazed by the sobering site of Heather's mangled body. The Mayor and Sheriff approached them.

"I don't recommend you go in there sir." Ernie said.

"But I give you my personal guarantee we will stop it," Bo nodded.

"We're gonna need a place to spend the night." Shades said.

"And we're going to need a place research the legend of The Blair Witch." Jen added.

"We could put some beds in the basement of the library, that's where all the folklore is kept." The Mayor motioned to the Sheriff, he went to his squadcar and drove off to prepare the library. Bo pulled a soda out of the cooler in the Ecto-1X and watched them haul Heather's remains off in an ambulence.

"Jen, is it possible that this ghost has the ability to manifest itsealf as a solid entity?" Shades asked.

"It could be possible, yet if you're brushed up on witch lore, you'd know that people believed that witches had the ability to send out their 'spirits' to harm others. Of course, these 'spirits' most likly were not the witches actual essence, but rather more like a familiar or spirit ally, which, in turn for their service, the witch would have to give it something in return. Human or animal sacrifices, or give up their souls, barter an enemy as a slave to said demon..."

"Familiar? Like Salem from Sabrina?" Ernie asked, Shades awatted him on the back of the neck.

"Fine, that's all well and good," Bo interupted. "But I think we should mosey on down to the library." He suggested.

Chapter Six

The four of them hopped into the Ecto-1X and drove to the library. They were greeted by the Mayor and by the Sheriff when they pulled up outside the stone building.

"Grab your equipment, I'll show you where you'll be staying." The Mayor instructed.

"Just why was all of the Blair Witch folklore moved into the basement?" Ernie asked as they were lead down a set of stairs.

"Would you want a bunch of sick, sadistic reading material in access to young people?" The Mayor asked dryly.

"Well, I guess not, but New York's got a lot of..."

"Ernie, be quiet." Jen laughed. As they reached the basement, they see a small bridge with clear water running under it.

"Don't worry about that water there, its as pure as it gets, since the library was built its been flowing here. Bo walked over to the water and smelled it.

"Seems pure." He reported. Ernie walked over and sipped the water.

"As pure as a mountain spring."

"Or mountain Dew." Shades joked. They continued walking a little further and saw two long bookstacks, a desk with a lamp and chair, and two bunk beds.

"Will this do?" The Mayor inquired.

"Yes, we've seemed to become professionals out of living in uninhabitable places." Ernie commented.

"Don't make fun of our Firehouse." Shades whined.

"These quarters are just fine Mr.Mayor." Jen answered.

"Please try to solve our problem soon." The Mayor pleaded and then left the basement, closing the door as he left. The four Ghostbusters unpacked their things, then sat down on the furniture.

"You know guys, I was working on a theory, a sort of "Super" Proton Pack in some drawings of mine.." Bo eagerly hinted.

"Bo inventing a piece of equipment?" Ernie asked. Shades shrugged, but cast a mean glare at Ernie when he saw Bo looking at him.

"I think it best not to alter any of the equipment at the moment," Jen said.

"But..." Bo started to protest.

"We can't afford to sacrifice even one pack at the moment." Shades added.

"But," Jen decided, holding up a finger, "if this witch is too much for our packs, we'll use your idea." She said. By this time, Ernie had crawled up on the top bunk and sprawled out on his stomach. Shades was flipping through some old papers on the desk, and Bo had sat down on the other bed, across from Jen.

"I'm going to gather up some books about the blair witch." Jen walked to one of the bookstacks and began searching. After several minutes, she returned with a handful of books. She sat them down on the desk and sat in the desk chair. "I'm going to read these books, you boys get some rest."

"Sounds like a plan." Ernie said. He dropped his head and immediately started sleeping. Shades slid into the bed below Ernie and Bo took the other bottom bunk.

***

The three guys had been sleeping for an hour, while Jen finished reading and taking notes from the books. She looked over at Bo who had fallen asleep, still wearing his jump suit, unzipped, his boots on, and his camoflauge ballcap over his face, she smiled at him.

"I had better get some sleep, I guess." She spoke quietly to herself, she stood up, stretched and Jen stripped down to a T-Shirt and biking shorts and climbed up into the bunk above Bo.

Chapter Seven

As morning broke, sunlight dimmly shone through the dirty basement windows. One by one, the Ghostbusters woke up.

"Those beds are more comfortable than they look," Shades said as he stretched his back a bit. Ernie practically rolled off the top bunk, clutching his side.

"I had a spring jabbing me in the kidney all night." He complained.

"It was alright." Jen yawned, sliding her glasses onto her nose. Shades turned and saw that Bo was sprawled face-down on his bed.

"Time to roll, Bo." He said.

"Noo... Mphmumphuphmm..." Bo swung his arms limply, as he tried to push himself up. The rest of the team had already started getting dressed, so when Bo did get up, since he was already dressed, needed only to brush his hair and put his hat back on.

"Bo," Shades slapped him in the arm, "you and me will take the Proton Packs..." He then turned to the others. "Ernie, Jen, you guys take the camping gear." The team gathered up their stuff and left the library, they began walking down the road.

"The path into the woods is a few yards down the road." explained Shades.

***

After several minutes, they reached the path into the forest.

"Let's do this." said Bo as they one-by-one entered the woods.

"What are we looking for anyway?" Ernie asked fifteen minutes after they had begun hiking through the forest.


"Anything, " Jen murmured, as she looked around the treetops, unsure of what to look for. Another PKE was in her hand, she was sweeping the woods for any readings.
"Well, we better find 'something' soon, this camping equipment sucks." Ernie complained. As they slowly wandered through the woods, Bo purposly trailed behind. He removed a pair of fingerless, black leather gloves from his pocket and put them on. Next, he took off his hat, pulled back his long hair, and replaced it. "You're awful quiet back there, Bo," Ernie noticed.

"This place has a bad vibe, I'm just staying alert." Bo unholstered the Proton Gun from his Pack and gripped it tightly. Jen looked up from her PKE meter, which showed no traces of PKE.

"Hmm, indeed," she squinted slightly. Ten minutes later, Ernie began taking his breath in loud huffs, as he and Jen were both tiring from the weight of the camping gear.

"Can we please take a break soon?" Ernie whined.

"Chill," said Shades. "When we get to a clearing we'll stop." Within an hour, the Nightsquad reached an empty patch in the woods. Ernie threw his gear to the ground.

"Thank God!" He flopped down onto his camping equipment, and settled his head on a rolled up sleeping bag.

"Do you realize, Ernie," Shades remarked, "that you're a guy, and you complained about that gear the whole way here... Yet, Jen is a woman, and didn't say a word about it?" Ernie looked up at him sleepily, one eye closed and one eye squinted.

"Power to the sisters, burn your bras, men are pigs," Ernie unenthusiasticly hooted as he rolled over on his side and fell asleep.

"Pft." Shades gave up and lowered the equipment he'd been carrying to the ground. Jen dropped her gear.

"Leave him, we need to get set up." She exolained. Shades removed his pack and helped Jen set up the tent. Bo paced around the camp site, still holding his Proton Gun. Jen watched him for a moment, shook her head, then continued setting up the tent. Within thirty minutes the camp was set up. Shades and Jen finally took a break, and sat down on the ground.

"Someone wake up Ernie and get him to go fill the cantines. There's a creek not to far from here in that direction." Jen pointed in the direction for clarification. Where Shades sat, he reached his leg out and tapped Ernie with his foot.

"Ernie..." He tapped him again. "Eeernieeeeee..." Finally, Shades reached over and yanked the sleeping bag from under Ernie's head, which hit the ground with a loud thud.

"Oow." Ernie moaned as he eyes fluttered open.

"Go fill the cantines" Shades tossed him one and pointed in the direction of the creek. Ernie grabbed it, and the other cantines and walked off, mumbling.

"Stupid Shades...never make him do the labour...why I aughter..." He muttered. Ernie walked towards a clear, shallow stream, beside it was a cave made of some large rocks. "Hmm, coffin rock, neat." He said. As Ernie filled the cantine, a rotted hand came out of the water and grabbed his wrist. He struggled with the arm, as it began to pull him into the water, which now seemed endlessly deep. "GUYS, A LITTLE HELP HERE!" He shouted. Suddenly, the hand jerked Ernie down into the water up to his shoulder. "SHIT, HELP NOW!!" He screamed, he thought he could make out a pair of glowing red eyes in the dark, murky water.
The others heard him and ran to see what was going on.

"Ernie... Woah!" Bo was startled when he saw Ernie, kneeled over the stream, wrestling with an arm that looked like it belonged to an old woman.

"JESUS, BO, Do Something!!!" Ernie screamed. Bo blasted and severed the arm from the water. Then Jen walked over, sweeped it with her PKE meter, and unclenched the hand from Ernie's arm.

"Pull!" Jen whipped the arm in the air, and Bo shot it, blowing it to pieces. Before anyone could say anything, a transparent figure arose from the water. The meter on Jen's belt beeped wildly. The figure's eyes glowed blood red as it screeched with anger.

"Howl at this!" Bo growled as he flipped the safety off on his pack. He blasted the figure, which screamed even louder. Bo braced himself against the force of the stream as his hat flew off.

"Come on guys," Jen shouted over the blasting and the howling. "Someone stop him, we gotta get out of here."

"I'll do it," Ernie volunteered. He snuck up behind Bo and hit the emergency shut down switch on the pack. When Bo turned around, Ernie punched him hard in the jaw. Shades and Jen both look at Ernie as if he's about to die while Ernie held his hand and howled in pain.

"Thanks," Bo said politely, smirking at Ernie's misfortune.

"No time for that, Run!" Shades pointed up at the trees then took off like a shot back to the camp. The others look up to see the large trees bending in the wind as if they were saplings. Ernie took off screaming, and Jen started stepping backwards then burst toward the camp into a sprint. Bo just stared up with his jaw slacked.
"I think I pissed it off!" He said as he turn and ran.

Chapter Eight

Once they had gotten back to camp, the wind had stopped.

"Some freak weather we're havin'," commented Ernie as he partially unzipped his flightsuit to give the sleeves some time to dry out. Even though his hand throbbed from the pain he dug around in his bag and pulled out a sweatshirt to put on. Bo removed his Proton Pack and put it with Shades'.

"You must have taken something out of it when you blasted it, Bo." Shades said.

"I told you these woods were evil," Bo scoffed. Jen checked her meter.

"Nothing." She reported.

"I'm with Bo, after seeing that hand, I think there's definitely something purely evil in those woods." added Shades. Bo scratched his head and realized he was no longer wearing his hat.

"The hell!? I lost my hat!" He shouted.

"Its probably still back by the stream, and I'd pay to see you risk your ass to get it back." Ernie wickedly smirked.

"Wipe that smart-ass look off your face, you ain't getting rid of me that easily." Bo walked over to the camping gear, grabbed his sleeping bag, and unrolled it into the tent. "I really liked that hat, it was my lucky hat" he growled with his teeth gritted.

"Easy big fella, we'll get you a new hat." Shades offered, but Bo just huffed loudly. "Well, let's all just get some sleep then?" Shades suggested the sun was starting to set even now.

"You've got to be kidding me." Ernie said, defiantly. He glanced around the forest, nothing looked like it was going to attack them, and the thought of sleep suddenly appealed to him. So Ernie, along with Jen and Shades, unrolled their sleeping bags in the tent and tried to make themselves comfortable, but were too un-nerved to sleep by the unpredictable power of the woods. Bo was about to close his eyes when he felt someone crawl up beside him.

"Oh, excuse me." Jen said, dropping her eyes momentarily and smiled a bit. She fluffed the small pillow she had and laid down on her side. Bo smirked a little bit and puts one of his hands on her arm, and lightly scratched it up and down. Jen was startled a bit by Bo's approach, but didn't pull completely out of his reach.

Chapter Nine

After about an hour of sleeping, the Nightsquad was awakened by something outside the tent. Suddenly the tent collapsed inward upon itself.

"SHIT!" Bo shouted as he frantically pulled a pocket knife out of his pocket and cut a large hole in the tent.

"RUN DAMMIT, RUN!" He screamed as he, Ernie, and Jen get up and ran, with Ernie in the lead like a bat out of Hell.

"Where's Shades?!" Jen asked as she stopped dead in her tracks. They looked back to where the tent used to be, and two proton streams ripped through the air. Then there was a calm in the forest, this time shattered by a huge proton beam once again blasting the night sky.

"Jesus Jumped Up Christ." Bo uttered. Jen squinted her eyes looking at the huge proton beam. The beam stopped, and in a matter of seconds, Shades appeared, trying to run toward them carrying the two packs they had brought with them.

"Holy shit Shades are you alright?" Ernie asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Shades handed off a Proton Pack to Bo, then dusted off his torn flightsuit. "It was freaky. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but I could sware when I fired the proton beam and it lit up the area that I saw little kids all around with huge gaping wounds in there bodies and necks.

"Children? In the books I was reading they talked about how a man named Rustin Parr, he killed seven children from the town while claiming to be under the influence of the Blair Witch." Jen pondered aloud. Without warning, Jen's PKE Meter went crazy as the woods went completely dark, the moon had been covered awefully quickly by a cloud.

"This isn't good." Bo quickly unholstered his gun. Just then, countless numbers of glowing blood red eyes appeared around the four Ghostbusters.

"Nope, and either is this," Shades agreed, the woods had seemed to take on a surreal quality, the trees seemed stretch on into the sky, they also were a lot thinner looking and seemed more wild. Without another word, the Nightsquad made a mad dash to find the exit from the woods. Jen set her PKE meter to read natural energy, so the team would have some idea where to go it the pitch black. The only light in the forest was from Shades and Bo's Proton Packs, and Jen's meter, which they followed it's light as they ran.

"What the?" She looked at her meter and noticed the energy from the trees was moving spuratically. "I don't think I'm getting a clear reading boys, either that or there's something horribly wrong with this ecosystem's foliage." She exclaimed.

"I haven't run this much since high school." Ernie panted. Jen brought the meter directly to her face, because she thought she saw a wall of trees blocking their escape. "Noo!" she screamed as she held out her arm, just in time to hit the treeline. The 'squad looked behind them to see packs of creatures with blood red eyes gaining on them fast.

"We'd better get hazard pay for this." Bo sighed.

"If we're still around to BE paid!" corrected Ernie

"Well then, we need to figure out a way to get the hell out of here, because hazard pay is the least of our worries." Shades commented. Jen darted her eyes around for a second then snatched the Proton Gun from Shades' hands. "Hey what are you doing?" He inquired.

"I'm getting us out of here!" she answered as she opened a port on the Proton Gun and ripped out the flow control system. "Cover your eyes guys!" She shouted. Jen pressed the fire button on the Proton Gun and a proton beam three times the size of a normal beam was let loose, Jen almost flew backward from the backlash, but Shades and the others held her steady.

"That ought to do it," she said as the smoke cleared, revealing a large hole in the trees, some of the trees even started to burn, but they cast little light in the nightmare forest. Shades looked at the gun in her hands and noticed the gun was nearly melted beyond use. "Well don't just stand there, RUN!!" Ernie leapt out onto the dirt road on the other side. The other's followed suit.

"Guys I don't mean to alarm you or anything, but those things are still coming!" Bo pointed into the hole.

"I got it." Ernie snatched the partially ruined Proton Pack from Shades. He set the self-destruct sequence, then kicked the pack for good measure. "Step back guys." Ernie heaved the Proton Pack back into the hole, it's destruct siren wailing and warning lights flashing as it disappeared into the blackness. Bo saw a large hand getting ready to fly out of the hole.

"DOWN NOW!" he sshouted as he dive tackled Ernie, Jen and Shades as the huge clawed and hand swiped above their heads. Just as they hit the ground, the pack in the forest exploded, causing a huge white fireball and a shockwave that shook half of the forest. After a minute or so, everyone lifted their heads.
"Well, that was certainly interesting." Bo stated. Jen pulled out her PKE.

"Its like nothing was even here there's not even a residual reading." Shades dusted some twigs and things out of his hair.

"We'd best get back to the basement." Ernie commented.

"You know, I've got a funny feeling that wall of tree's I blasted was a barrier placed there to keep us from escaping." Jen said as she fiddled with a calculator-looking gizmo.

"Well gee Jen, what gave you that idea?" Ernie snapped.

"No, what I mean is I believe that the Blair Witch's world in those woods is an entirely different plane than ours, when I was taking readings a few minutes ago, the trees were moving all over the place, like something was purposly trying to get us lost." They made it back down to the basement of the library, changed out of their flightsuits and sat down to relax for a bit.

"So basically what you're saying is when those film students got lost in there, the only reason they got lost was because they wandered into the Blair Witch's realm?" Ernie verified, questioningly.

"Yes, that would explain it..." Shades agreed. "That would also explain how they kept walking in circles. The Blair Witch's world must be completely controlled by her."

"Indeed," Jen added. "But you'll also notice, that when the film makers traveled by daylight, the scenery changed subtly. While at night, as we've witnessed it, it changed rapidly and randomly, as a means to throw anyone off if they had mentally noted any landmarks in the area. Had we stayed the night, I would bet you any money that coffin rock would not be near our camp the next morning." Bo had been sitting quietly, taking all the information it.

"If this witch is so damn powerful, I don't get is why she just doesn't just come over into our world and start wreaking havoc?" He asked.

"Maybe she can't enter out world without becoming a ghost," Ernie supposed. "Maybe in her world, she's still alive, a physical being with immense power. But in our world she's dead and being a mere ghost must weaken her." Ernie looked up to meet some funny glances from his team.

"What? So I'm not allowed to make scientific theories?"

"No, its just thats the only thing you've said about this case that made any sense since we got here." Shades said.

"Nevertheless gentlemen," Jen interupted, "Ernie make a valid point...That's probably the reason she hasn't just upped and tried to take over Burkittsville, even though she is a being of great supernatrual power." Bo's ears perked up suddenly. "If she's as powerful as we think, then our regular Packs aren't going be enough to contain her." Jen concluded.

"Hey!" Bo exclaimed, everyone jumped and looked at him. "Does this mean we get to make that Super Proton Pack I thought of?" He grinned at the idea. Jen and Shades rolled their eyes at Bo.

"Yeah I guess so." Shades sighed.

"Hey, why not," Ernie added "and when it blows us to kingdom come, we'll be able to fight the Blair Witch better, 'cause we'll be ghosts ourselves." He joked.

"Don't worry Ernie, we'll work out the kinks," Jen assured him.

"Well, I'm helping if I'm gonna be killed by something you guys are building I want to have a hand in building it too." Shades smirked. Bo jumped to his feet.

"I've got then blue prints drawn up for it, they're in the car." Bo got up and ran outside.

"Bo made blue prints for something?" Ernie whispered to the others. "What is this world coming to?"

"Hey, he's on a roll guys, don't knock him," Shades said.

"I hope his blueprints are nice and accurate." Jen added. Bo came back into the basement and dragged a table to the middle of the room.

"Here, check this out," Bo beamed with childlike enthusiasm. He laid out a set of very intricately designed blueprints for a rather large proton pack.

"Bo you made these by yourself?" Shades asked, dumbfounded.

"Yeah, I got the idea while reading a book about engines."

"Engines?" Jen said.

"Well, yeah." Bo raised his eyebrows and gave her a reminding look. Jen raised her eyebrows and lifted her head when she recalled he had been a mechanic. The others were just temporarily puzzled.

"Thats great we're gonna have a 500 horsepower hemicuda nuclear accellerator." Ernie scoffed.

"Actually Ernie," grinned Bo, "you're right. You see, an engine can be small and still be powerful but the engine at such a small stature would only be able to run so much before the metal would give out and the block would crack so you build a bigger engine..."

"I see..." Jen furrowed her brow as she made mental notes on the plans.

"But once you get a bigger engine another problem comes into play. That problem is fuel. You have to quadrouple the amount of fuel you used in the small engine to run the large engine and thats what I've done here." Bo pointed to certain parts on the blueprints. "In order to compensate for the immense power that the Pack will produce I made the Proton Pack large with large capacity flow inhibitors and an iron clad proton filtration system."

"Yes, that's good, but what kind of 'fuel' does this 'engine' take?" Jen inquired.

"Alright. Normal Proton Packs run on a single 5000 year half life non-harmful nuclear voltaic powercell with a energy rating of 22,000..."

"Yeah that's right." Jen confirmed.

"My Proton Pack will take a total of 5 non-harmful nuclear voltaic cells with a power rating of around 500,000 a piece." Ernie coughed loudly as his face went pale. Shades raised an eyebrow.

"Well that's good, your Proton Pack can handle the energy but you'd have to have one helluva big gun to take the kinda heat it will be packing."

"I'm glad you asked that Shades. The Proton Gun itself will be made from solid steel and SAE-1020 barstock."

"I still maintain he's gonna blow us all up." Ernie added, raising an arm.

"Okay this is great, in theory," Shades began. "His Proton Pack will work but where are we gonna get the cash for SAE-1020 Barstock and all the other parts? That's some costly stuff." Shades said.

"The way I figure it," Bo explained, "as badly as the Mayor of this town wants this whole fiasco to end he'll shell out whatever we need." Bo ginned manaiacally. Jen was still examining the plans

"Bo, these are absolutely brilliant."

"Ah well, I try," Bo smiled.

"I'll go give the Mayor a call and tell him to get down here, we need to start building as soon as possible." Shades left to go into the library office and use the phone.

"I'm gonna grab some shut eye," Ernie said.

"Me as well..." Bo added. Shades came down the stairs ten minutes later.

"The Mayor will be here in a little while."

"I'm going to go have a shower, guys." Jen decided. Ernie and Bo laid down on their beds and began sleeping as Shades took a pack of playing cards out of his duffle bag, sat at the desk, and began playing solitare.

Chapter Ten

Jen walked into the small, old bathroom in the basement and began to get undressed. She reached down and turned the faucet of the shower on. Jen looked at her face in the mirror, turned on the sink and splashed some water up on her face. While her back was turned, the shower started overflowing with blood.

"Wha," she wondered as she felt something warm around her feet and ankles. Jen attempted to open the door but found that its jammed and the gaps seemed to be plugged with clear ectoplasm. "This is not good." The blood rose faster every second. Jen started beating on the door. "Guys a little help here!" She shouted through
the frosted glass. Jen frantically beat on the door as the blood came up to her waist. "GUYS HELP!!" Jen screamed, stopped pounding on the door and grabbed the porcelin lid off the tank of the toilet. "WAKE UP!!!" She slammed it into the door. The boys all woke up at the sound

"Why the hell can't I get a decent night's sleep around here!" Ernie groused.

"Jen!" Bo shouted as he quickly got off his bed.

"She went to take a shower..." Shades said. Shades and Bo ran to the bathroom door and tried opening it. Jen had run back to the corner of the bathroom and replaced the lid

"Jen can you hear us?" Shades yelled through the door. Jen took a gasp of air as the blood in the room filled up to her neck.

"Help!" She cried as she climbed on top of the toilet.

"We've got to get her out of there." Shades shouted. Ernie finally joined Bo and Shades, carrying an axe.

"Here, this should do it." He held it out to Bo and Shades.

"Lemme try," Bo took the axe, and held it so it rested like a baseball bat on his shoulder.

"JEN!" Shades cupped his hands over his mouth as he shouted to the door. "If you can hear me, move away from the door!"

"HURRY!" she screamed as she was still standing on the toilet tank, but the air around her was running out.

Bo leaned back with the axe and then slammed it into the door. When he pulled it out, blood gushed out of the break in the door.

"Redrum, Redrum..." responded Ernie. Bo hacked at the door several more times with the axe.

"To hell with this." he growled as he threw the axe to the side and proceeded to punch through the remaining bathroom door. As the blood flowed out, Bo went to open the door but Ernie stopped him.
"Wait wait wait.... I've always wanted to do this..." He countered. Ernie stuck his head in the door and looked at Jen, still standing on the toilet, and has covered herself with a blood-soaked towel.
"HEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!!"


Ernie pulled his head out of the door.
"Proceed." He motioned to Bo to open the door with a satisfied, Jack Nicholson smirk on his face.
Bo ripped opened the door, and saw Jen looking back at him in shock, gripping her towel tightly.

"Holy...SHIT!" Bo walked over to Jen, and lifted her off the tank and held her close, getting his clothing stained with blood. "Easy, It'll be okay," he whispered to her as he rubbed her back. Just then, the Mayor entered the basement.

"This had better be important you woke..." He looked down at the terrible bloody mess. "What the hell happened in here?!"

"We've been butchering cattle in the bathtub, It's something we do to pass time" Ernie said with a sarcastic tone

"The Blair Witch just took a massive dump on us," Shades pointed out.

"A big steaming dump," Bo added.

"Is she going to be okay?" the Mayor asked as he pointed to Jen.

"I'll be fine...sir," she mumbled as she gently pushed away from Bo's grip.

"Well what is it you needed in the first place?" the Mayor asked.

"In order to defeat the Blair Witch we're gonna have to construct a special piece of equipment. We need you to get the parts for us." Shades handed the Mayor a piece of paper with the parts list on it.

"Jesus christ! Are you kidding me? I'm an old military man and I've only ever seen these parts on military equipment... The nuclear accelerator alone will cost hundreds of thousands to requisition."

"Well, unless you want this thing terrorizing your town forever, I suggest you do all you can." Shades said in a no-nonsense tone.

"Okay I'll put in a few calls to my contacts in Washington but you had BETTER get rid of this thing."

"And another thing..." Ernie added. "Think you can find us another place to stay where the water doesn't turn you a pretty shade of magenta when you take a shower?" The Mayor looked down at the basement spring and saw it running red with blood.

"I have a guest house next to my mansion, will that do?" He asked, angry as hell.

"Yes it will..." Shades nodded.

"I'll make the necessary arrangements and get you these parts, follow me...." The Mayor looked at Jen.
"Here.." he hesitantly removed his long coat and handed it to her. "Put that on, you can wash off one we get to the guest house."

"Thank you..." She put it on, and shook the bloody towel out from underneath it.
Shades and Ernie grab what was left in the basement and walk out of the library following the mayor.

"Tell me something Mayor." Bo walked up beside him.

"What?"

"Why is that the water in your house is blood free and the rest of the town's is surfing the red sea?"

"My water comes from across county lines, not from Burkittsville."

"I see..."

"When is the soonest you can have those parts here?" Shades interupted.

"Tonight if I try hard enough," explained the Mayor. "So be ready, I'll get you the tools you'll need to put these together."

"Alright." Shades and the Mayor shook hands.

"Bring your car, let's go," the Mayor stepped out of the library followed by the Nightsquad. He got in his car and started to drive off.

Bo and Jen took the front seat of the Ecto-1X, and Ernie and Shades piled in back.

"Jen are you going to be okay?" Ernie tapped her shoulder.

"I'll be fine Ernie, I'm just a little stunned. Once I get cleaned off I'll be good as new." Bo followed the Mayor's car.

"Do you guys actually think my Super Pack will work on this Blair Witch?" Bo implored.

"It should, given the increase in power." Jen confirmed. "We may even be able to reduce her PKE down to the point that we'll be able to contain her."

"We're going to have to locate her lair if we wanna fight her face to face." Ernie stated.

"I've got a theory on that I'll clue you into it once we get the Super Pack made." Jen concluded.

Chapter Eleven

Several minutes later, the Ecto-1X pulled up the driveway to a huge mansion.

"This place is bigger than Oprah's Ass when she's on hiatus!" Ernie exclaimed.
Shades smacked him on the back of hid head.

"That was totally unnecessary, Ernie." He said. Bo stopped the car and the Ghostbusters got out.

"I made a few calls while in the car," the Mayor said as he approached them. "Currently, it's 5:23AM, most of your parts will be here at 11:00AM on the dot. I'll work on the rest of your list now, but keep your eyes open for several large crates on the front porch of the guest house. Other than that matter, your payment, and showing you where the guest house is, I am no longer involved in this. What time do you expect to confront the witch?"

"As soon as we finish the Proton Pack," Shades said, "which should be no more than four hours, once the parts arrive. Plus an extra hour or so to rest up."

"Then I'll notify the people that you will be showing up to hunt the witch around 6:00. These people have seen alot of 'Blair Witch' hunters come and go, and whether I tell them about it or not they're gonna show up and see if your successful."

"Where's the guest house anyway?" Bo asked as he pointed over his shoulder back at Jen, who was still covered in drying blood and the Mayor's coat.

"Over there." The Mayor pointed to the left of the driveway to a small house a quarter the size of his mansion.
The Nightsquad frown at its small stature.

"Its small, but homey," said the Mayor as he handed Shades the key to it.

"Homey?" Ernie looked at Bo, who returned a confused glance, but then confusion turned to enlightenment.

"Hooomey! Yeeeaah...." He grin as he made exagerated arm movements as if he were a cartoon character ready to run off screen, but then just calmly followed Ernie and got back in the Ecto-1X.

"Homey?" Jen looked at Shades.

"Ho... Mey?..." Shades shrugged. Bo turned on the Ecto-1X and revved the engine as the Mayor stared at them, perplexed.

"What are they talking about?" Shades asked.

"Maybe its some random moment of male bonding idiocy... Shouldn't you be getting in on that," Jen smirked.

"The operative word was 'idiocy', and that's exactly why I'm staying out of it." Shades replied as he and Jen got in the car. Bo cut to the left and drove the Ecto-1X up onto the Mayor's well-trimmed lawn. He chased after the Ecto-1X for a bit, and cursed and swore when he gave up. One of the Mayor's assistants walked up to him, about to speak.

"Forget about it. If those four can get the Blair Witch out of my hair they can do donuts on my damn lawn for all I care!"

Chapter Twelve

Bo pulled the Ecto-1X up beside the guest house.

"Home sweet trailer." The four piled out of the Ecto-1X and walked into the guest house.

"Well, its not so bad." Shades commented.

"Everything in the house is so shiney and clean," Ernie marveled. "Ooo...shiny." He appeared to drool as he walked close to a brass lamp.

"Not bad at all...." Jen agreed. "Now, I'm gonna go have a shower, for real this time!" Jen set off to find the shower.

"I'm going to sleep." Ernie walked upstairs to look for the bedrooms.

"Lets get the equipment." Bo suggested to Shades.

"Yes we need to test it all, we can't have any kind of errors coming later." Bo and Shades went outside to retrieve all the equipment from the Ecto-1X.

"You know this is either gonna kill us or make us celebrities," Bo said. The two lugged the equipment into the house.

"Yeah," agreed Shades, "This'll definately go on our records."

"Anything can happen Shades, You just gotta believe."

"Oh, I believe." Bo and Shades went down into the basement with the equipment and put it on the only visible table.

"Now, where's the lightswitch?" Shades fumbled along the wall, then suddenly cut his finger on something sharp.

"Ouch!" he shouted. "What the hell is that?!" Bo reached up and pulled a chain that turned the light on. The two are confronted with tons of electronic and metal machining equipment. Shades looked at the metal lathe that sliced his finger. Bo wandered around looking at the equipment.

"Lathers, shapers, circuits, testers, ionization setters, power cell rechargers..." Bo murmured, he had never seen so much equipment all in one place. "We need all this stuff!" He grinned.

"When the Mayor said he'd get us the stuff, he wasn't kidding," Shades said. "That was fast too."

"We can use all of this..." Bo said. "Let's get cracking." Bo and Shades picked up the Proton Packs and began fine-tuning them until the parts for the Super Pack arrived.

"Shades," asked Bo, "should we leave the flow safety restrictors on or off?"

"Leave them on, too dangerous to take them off. If need be we'll pull them out on the fly." Bo burned his finger while soldering some wires.

"Yeow! This is hard work." A few minutes later, Jen, fresh out of the shower and dressed, joined them.

"So boys, how's the work?"

"Shades cut his finger on the lathe." Bo commented without looking up.

"Painful... Ouch..." Shades illustrated. Jen picked up her PKE Meter off of the floor.

"I'll work on this now. When I'm done I'll help you with the traps." Jen sat down with her PKE Meter and started repairing it. After a few hours, they finished the packs and the meters, and began recharging the traps with the charger the took from the back of the Ecto-1X.
"We'll have to check the wiring too, these traps can't have any flaws. If they do she's liable to bust out..." Jen commented. Once they checked the traps, they had two hours to take a break. They were so tired, they just stayed in the basement and slept on chairs and against tables. Around noon, the door to the basement opened, and the three Ghostbusters woke up. Ernie walked down the stairs carrying a large box.

"The Stuff!!" Bo exclaimed as he ran over and snatched it from Ernie's hands.

"I thought you guys might want these," Ernie said. "There are a few more on the porch."

"How did you know they got here? Weren't you asleep?" Shades asked.

"I was getting something to eat."

"Well boys, lets go to work." Bo dashed up the stairs to get the other boxes, followed by the others.

Chapter Thirteen

Once all the boxes were placed downstairs and emptied, the Nightsquad began assemling the Super Pack. They worked non-stop for three and a half hours until they finished. Shades and Ernie flipped it over so the large square cyclotron faced up.

"Jebus Christmas that thing is heavy," Ernie said as he wiped the sweat off his face.
Shades looks at Jen.

"That thing is heavy, who's gonna carry it?" he asked.

"I'm not..." Jen looked at Ernie.

"I haven't got my hands on anything that heavy since I nailed that fat chick in High School." he looked back at them.

"Eeew" Jen and Shades said as they looked at one another. They all turned and found that Bo already had the pack on and was walking around wearing it.

"Like a glove..." he grinned. The pack seemed normal size on Bo because of his height. "Its not so bad..." He turned on the pack and it roared with power. A series of glass jars will with nails that were hung on the wall began to vibrate.

"But the question now is will it work or not." Jen stated. Bo quickly whipped the massive Proton Gun from its clip and put his hand on the trigger as if he were ready to shoot.

"Easy big fella..." Ernie pushed the gun down, "we best wait until we get into those woods to test that thing."
Bo released the trigger and clipped the gun back to the pack. Then he removed the pack and put it on the table.

"Well, let's get some sleep." The Nightsquad men all started up the stairs.

"Boys, there's one last thing." Jen called to them.

"What Jen?" Bo asked. She pulled a drawing from her pocket and set it on the table. The others came back down to look at it. It showed a picture of a stick figure the Blair Witch had made, only it had unusually large measurements written beside it.

"What's this?" Shades implored.

"From what I've read, the stick figures the Blair Witch makes are of an ancient occult art called 'Twana', they create portals into other dimensions. As you know the Blair Witch's world is an entirely seperate dimension from ours, but she can't cross the barrier between the two so she strategically placed these stick figures around the film makers in order to pull them into her world."

"I see what you're saying," said Bo, "if we build a giant one of these things it will provide a more visible accessible portal to use instead of those small ones?"

"But with this sketch the portal would end up.." Shades began. Jen nodded her head in an irritated fashion.

"Being between the stick figure's legs, yes, I know."

"Alright, we will enter into the Witch's tawdry sex world!" Ernie laughed. Shades smacked him in the back of the head.

"Dammit, don't do that." Ernie punched Shades in the arm a few times.

"Ow! That Hurt!" As Shades rubbed his arm, Ernie leaned on the table, over the drawing.

"Wait, you mean we have to build this?"

"Of course." Jen stated, matter-of-factly.

"Out of what?" Bo asked.

"I'd say some large trees would suffice..." Jen handed the guys a chainsaw and several coils of heavy-duty rope. "Well don't just stand there, get crackin'. Oh, and change into some old clothes you can get dirty, I'll wash our suits. If we're going to be in the public eye we don't want to be smelly and dirty." The boys took off their coveralls and left them with Jen, then went upstairs to change. Jen picked up the dirty coveralls and tossed them into the washing machine in the next room.

"She just doesn't wanna get her hands dirty." Ernie whispered as he, Shades, and Bo went up the stairs.

Chapter Fourteen

The Nightsquad guys went outside to the forest behind the guest house and began cutting down trees for the stick figure, while Jen checked out the equipment again. About an hour later the boys finished dragging the thing to the front of the house and then stumbled inside. They checked the wall clock, it read 3:46PM.

"I'm going to bed," declared Bo, "if anything else needs to be done, Jen can do it."
"Where is she anyway?" asked Shades.

"She's probably still working in the basement, let's go, I'm tired." said Ernie as he pulled himself up the stairs. At 5PM, the guys woke up to find Jen had neatly placed their suits on their beds when they were sleeping.

"Well that was nice of her." Shades said as he got up to get into the shower.

"DISGUSTING! ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!" Ernie shouted.

"What Ernie?" Bo growled as he sat up in bed.

"She didn't iron them, now my suit is all wrinkled." Shades and Bo rolled their eyes and walked to the bathroom. On the way there, they saw Jen in the room beside theirs, asleep on her bed with her back proped against the backboard, she didn't even get under the covers. Her glasses had slipped almost off her nose.

"Should we?" Ernie asked.

"Nah," said Bo, with a smile, "she deserves it."

***

By 5:40PM, everyone was clean and ready to go. Everyone had gathered up all the equipment and put it in the Ecto-1X.

"How are we gonna transport that?" Jen asked, referring to the stick figure. Bo looked over at the Mayor's house and noticed a boat on a trailor.

"I believe I have an idea."

Chapter Fifteen

Ten minutes later the mayor came out of his house to find the Ecto-1X gone and the trailor removed from underneath his boat. He could just see the Ecto-1X rolling down the road with the giant stick figure on a boat trailor.

"AGGGHHHH!!!" The Mayor screamed.

***

"I'd like to thank the mayor for his contribution, ha Hah!" Bo hooted, he was joined in by a round of hooting by his friends.

"Well.... We're on our way to the moment of truth." Shades