A near hour of Jeremy screaming his non-physical lungs away was torture for anybody. Jimmy Casket provided headphones for everyone; meaning only himself.
In order to silence Jeremy once and for all, Casket took out one of his inventions. Nobody could identify what It was, but Ghost figured that it was something from the future. Thinking about the time travel still hurt his brain, but then again, so did the screaming. Casket used this vacuum-device to, basically, suck all remaining life force out of Jeremy. He cried out, but soon there was no sound from him. After he was a fizzling shadow figure on the ground convulsing, Casket dragged him out of the room and chained him up in a closet. Finally, he walked back into the room and showed his contraption.
"This, my friends, is my nameless, genius thing. I have no name for it, because it doesn't matter," Casket said, waving it around at the tied-up gang. "What you have seen me to do that abomination is...well, I guess suck his life force out of him. As cruel as I am, I have a use for this force. I need it to fuel something...something incredible." Toast and Ghost looked at each other. "Sir, uh, what do you think he's talking about?" Toast asked. Ghost wanted to answer, but for some reason he didn't have the voice to say it. Casket smacked Toast on the head. "Don't just ask him! It is a surprise!" he laughed. "Ahem, ok, in all seriousness, you two and your friends are going to stay here while I go power up my surprise." Casket said. "Capiche?" Sally nodded. Casket smiled. "You're cute. You know, for a 17 year old girl, you're cute." He turned to Ghost. "So what's her deal, mental illness?" Ghost groaned. "I don't know, and I don't care. We won't let you use that...life force, to receive supernatural powers." Casket gasped. "You...you fiend! You criminal! Spoiling the surprise! Die, scum!" he said, pulling out a huge gun. Aimee screamed. The gun rested on Ghost's forehead. "Any last words before you graphically decorate my wall with your brains?" Casket cried. "Don't do this, Casket!" Toast yelled. "You know you can't kill him. We both do." He said calmly. Casket sighed. He threw the gun down on the floor and walked over to Toast. "You're smart, lemon drop. I guess England DOES have education. And all this time I thought those teachers over there waved jelly babies in your faces and told you one plus one equals thirty-eight..." he teased. Toast looked as if every vein in his body had popped; for one can insult a British man's clothes, his hair, his face, but insult his home...and somebody dies.
Sadly, Toast could only stare at Casket because he was tied up. No words came out, because rage doesn't speak. Casket smiled. "Do they teach you how to talk in the United Queendom? Or do they not have the time, you know, guzzling tea every two seconds," Casket said, smiling. "Stop it!" Aimee yelled. "You have no right to do that!" Casket nodded. "I'm sorry, cinnamon toast man. I don't get taken seriously either. The important thing...Is what you said."
"You told me that Ghost can't be killed. But not because he is invincible, but because you know what I'm up to, and that is great." Ghost looked at Toast. "He told me that he needs a spirit, that was what Jeremy is...or was...and he needs to go to the future before I kill him and-" Toast looked utterly lost. "Sorry," Ghost said. "It is REALLY hard to explain, but in the future, er, he says I go back in time to kill him as a kid before any of this ever happens." Toast nodded. "But if, in the future, you kill him as a kid, this wouldn't be happening. He wouldn't be here right now." He said. Casket smiled. "But you see, I have already gotten away with using the life force to fuel my power and live, because like he said I wouldn't be alive right now!" he said. Aimee closed her eyes. "I-I can't even imagine this. It hurts my head," she said. "
"We know," Ghost, Toast, and Casket said at the same time. Casket cracked his head. "Well, shoot, it's been an hour. While I was gone, I relived that moment when I pointed a gun to your head in here, Ghost, just like I said. But now it gets hard; I've got to go back to Honeyhall and ask that guy where you live. Like, right now." He said. "Well, I'm going. See you later, losers." He said, walking out of the door. Silence. Everybody was trying to process everything. Suddenly, Sally stood up. "I took knot-tying class a year ago, so I untied myself! Now he's gone so I can untie the rest of you!" she said. After untying all of them, Ghost and Toast spoke. "Alright sir, so we need to stop Casket from making himself god-like." "We already have, Johnny, and we did it. Because otherwise he would have his power right now. He doesn't, so we prevailed, right?" Ghost thought about this. "We haven't done it yet. We haven't stopped him yet, so he can still get the power. See? He has a time machine from the future that we can use right now to stop him as a kid, like I do in the future, except it's now." Toast shook his head. "Nope, in the future he'll just come back again and stop us from doing it now," he said. "I have a plan. Let's break the time machine."
"Why? So that none of this happens? You know that...he's in time somewhere right now? And if we break the machine he'll be lost fore-" Ghost said before trailing off. "That...is not a bad idea." Toast laughed. "Well, sir, let us do it!" And the both of them ran out of the room, asking Aimee and Sally to stay put.
They were now in this smelly, stained hallway that had four doors to the left and one door to the right. "Where should we go," Toast asked. "Where should we start first?" Ghost pointed to the one on the right. "That one. I can see the light from the crack in the door," he said. They walked towards it, and Ghost placed a hand on the doorknob. To his surprise, the door handle was warm, and vibrating. They heard a strange emitting sound inside. Something futuristic. "This is it," Toast said. "Ready sir?" Ghost nodded. "Here we go, I hope this is the time machine," he said. Toast and Ghost smiled. "To P.I.E! Paranormal Investigators Extraordinaires!" They cried, and Johnny Ghost and his partner ran into the door.
They were frozen with shock.
