Psychomagnotheric slime had several interesting properties. Given the right emotional feedback, it could allow ghosts to cross over into the physical world, animate objects, alter a beings emotional state on contact, and, finally and most importantly for this day's efforts, allow items coated in it to be affected by the proton pack's capture stream.

When the tree was sufficiently doused with the green slime, Ray fired the neutrona wand, and lassoed the trunk with the proton stream, lifting it up and away. He dropped it on the coastline.

That done, he pulled out his comm. "Goes without saying, but we need to get the kid back to the pole pronto. I'm texting Tadashi, and Brainiac 5. Whatever that is on his chest doesn't look like it's supposed to be there."

"Can you carry him through the tunnels, or should I get the Ectomobile?"