Now to the Patakis' residence, where Helga is in her bedroom, dressing up as a bunny, disguising herself completely. Helga tries to reach the back zipper of her new pajama suit, having her hair all tied, pinned, and pinched back flat to make her look like a boy and to feel the pressure on her head. But she needs to cover up her hair with a strapped headdress similar to a swimming cap. She, in a desire for love, takes out her chained locket of Arnold from the drawer in front of her and stares at it.
"My love! With my soul burning, with doubt none, he will make mine girlhood dream come true. Oh, that knucklehead. He and I kiss at first sight and live in eternal bliss!" She then sighs in romantic relief. "Then I don't ever have to bully you again."
There is a hood in the front with a huge whole that lines her face right where the chin and neck meet and go to the top of her forehead. She pulls it up and pulls up her back zipper to the point where only the face is not sealed. She then hears a knock on the door. It's Olga, her crazy twenty-two year-old sister, who is wearing a playboy bunny costume tonight.
"Can I come in?" She asks. "Can I help you with something, little sis?"
"Get out of my room!" Helga shouted.
She then seeks advice from Olga when she becomes calmer.
"Look, I need help with my zipper, okay." She says.
Olga says in reply, "That suit you're wearing is too tight on you. I suggest you take it off now."
Helga then argues, "Hey, the suit that I'm about to put on is ripped. And you can see my skin through it without an extra layer. I don't want anyone to know who I really am as far as...I mean I decided to put on this added layer, as part of my bunny costume."
Olga changes her mind. "Wow! This is going to be the perfect disguise. Aw! Bob and Miriam are going to see you blushing with that scary outfit!" She says excitedly.
While turning to her mirror and putting on make-up, Helga says, "Yeah, yeah. They're going to laugh at me just like my imaginary friend would be humiliated."
Olga then asks, "You're talking about Arnold, right? That kid with a football-shaped head?"
"Yeah right." Helga says.
Olga then suggests, "Don't put on the extra makeup just yet, little sister."
Olga then helps Helga put on a second layer of zentai, this time blood-red with a back hood. These suits are made of skin-tight nylon, spandex material, parts of what are inferred to be zentai costumes, which increase the pressure all over her body. She nowadays wears them to bed with pajamas on top. For her own safety, however, the suits that she will be wearing tonight are both open faced. Her face, the eyes, nose, and mouth will be shown so that she may be able to see and breathe properly. Other than that, her entire body from head to toe, her ears, hair, head, hands, and feet will be covered and tightly enclosed. And she just put on white make-up. In addition, to go on top of the red hood, there is a mask with a detailed bunny face with black eyes and white fur, leaving the mouth and part of the cheeks, and is sealed by Velcro in the back of the mask. There is another piece to the costume that may affect her speech: the teeth. And that should disguise her voice. How cute can that possibly be? Helga is then assisted to slip on the actual thin-furred layer of the bunny costume.
"Now I want you to close your eyes…until I tell you to open them."
Helga closes her eyes, sitting straight up, with her knees crossed in front of the mirror.
"It's a surprise!" Olga says as she pulls up Helga's zipper and laughs.
Helga then opens her eyes and feels humiliated. "Hey!"
"Keep em' closed." Olga says.
Without question, Helga does what her big sis tells her to do. This time she does not argue.
Meanwhile, Helga plays a flashback video in her mind of the Easter before, when Arnold was dressed as a bunny at City Park. Spring was in the air, the flowers, the butterflies, the reflection of the rainbow, and the children collecting eggs, putting them in baskets. Helga was one of those children and one of those who were making fun of Arnold in a bunny suit. Yet now it is October and Helga is still laughing. This time to herself.
A few minutes later, everything that makes Helga turn into a road-kill bunny has been done. Helga puts on the fury face mask with prosthetic bunny eyes on glasses extending from the forehead, then her actual bunny costume, which has a few rips in it. Next, after the second additional layer suit, composed of actual, snow-white rabbit fur and Zentai material had been zipped all the way; Olga has just added gruesome make-up detail to the costume without leaving stains. Helga's face is still completely white with make-up. After the white has been filled in, and after the bunny suit had been put on, there is a second layer: red representing the flow of blood down her beautiful face. Other than adding the disturbing features, filing the pores, and adding the cuts and bruises sticking out, Olga notices the features of the costume itself. At first it is all white but still realistic; featuring the long ears, the sharp claws, and the soft, bushy tail. Olga also covered up the mask with make-up. That way no one could tell if it is Helga G. Pataki.
"Now open your eyes." Olga asks.
When Helga actually opens her blue eyes, she screams in terror and notices she is seeing through prosthetic bunny eyes, through a furred but very tight face mask.
Olga then asks, "What do you think? Hmm? Is that the real bunny…you're…"
Still frightened, Helga says, "Yeah. I don't look human. Honest."
"You can talk human still." Olga giggles.
Helga says "Yeah."
Olga then holds out her sister's arm and paints more reddish color on to it.
"I spoke on the phone with my colleague, Stephanie, a few minutes ago." Olga says. "She is not going to recognize you when she stops by, and she never even met you before."
"Will anyone know who the bunny is?" Helga asks.
"Never." Olga says, but then looks at her watch. "It's six o' clock. Do you have a party to go to?"
Helga looks at the grandfather clock in the room and is now in a rush."I'm late!"
Olga says "Well you better not get going. Well, you better. The Petersons are expecting you."
Helga picks up a slip of paper from her desk and says to her sister, "Okay, if you need me…I'll be going to a cookout."
Helga walks towards the front door and hears a doorbell. She answers it and leaves the door open. She sees three older girls, about Olga's age, dressed in their costumes. They are scared and they start to giggle. Stephanie is one of them. "Trick or treat!"
Helga makes a creeping posture, scaring Stephanie who runs scared with the other two girls. At the same time, there come two strangers, a man and his elderly mother, riding together in a small truck. The pick-up stops completely for a moment and the strangers are laughing humiliatingly at bunny Helga, who walks away.
The grumpy Helga G. Pataki stares at the driver of the pick-up and says, "I'll see you in hell dead where the nightmare stands in your way." She then gives a frightening laugh.
Arnold and Gerald walk on the street with the slips of paper in their pockets, looking around at several of the spooky light displays in the neighborhood, the brown leaves falling off the colorful trees, and many of the kids trick-or-treating. The only kids that they have counted are themselves; Gerald's sister, Timberly, as a gypsy; as many as five 6th graders, two third-graders, three fourth-graders, and two of the boys' classmates: Iggy and Maggie. Maggie is dressed as a nun; she is pretending to be a zombie. She would disguise herself with a headdress and a plastic mask so that no one could recognize her. Iggy is dressed up as a civil war soldier who had just arisen from his grave. Arnold and Gerald could possibly not believe that a boy and girl would walk together at night with a basket of candies from all around the world. Arnold is in his black-and-white striped prison uniform. Gerald is in clothes that appear to be his regular street clothes, with the #33, but are ripped and stained with dots of red paint. Iggy and Maggie walk up to them. They, Arnold, and Gerald are frightened of each other, when Maggie reveals her face.
"Iggy! Maggie! What are you doing here?" Arnold asks.
Iggy replies, "We've just gone trick-or-treating. We're headed to Stinky's now."
Gerald said that it is just on the east end of the neighborhood, a few blocks away from the hotel.
"Exactly!" Iggy says. "I remember Stinky was saying it's the oldest house in the neighborhood."
"I don't understand. This weight is getting heavy on me, Gerald." says Arnold.
"Tonight's festivities are going to be great!" Maggie exclaims. "Rhonda's going to apply make-up 'an put off a magic show. And Stinky's going to throw a huge party!"
Arnold says, "That's…that's great!"
"We're going to be zombies tonight!" Maggie exclaims. "Can't you believe that?"
"Wanna come with us?" Gerald asks.
Maggie says, "Oh sure. Let's go."
Inside Stinky's cabin house, the kids are having a good time, chit-chatting, getting their costumes ready, dancing to the music, bobbing apples, and having some candy and snacks, and punch of course. In the background, we find several decorations, including an antique casket with a skeleton in it. When the scene opens, Stinky (dressed as farmer), Lila (dressed as a pilgrim), Harold (dressed in a pair of ripped clothes and a hockey mask), Phoebe (dressed as Vampira), Patty, (dressed as a beautiful princess), Rhonda (a magician), Eugene (dressed as a zombie Elvis), Sid (in a Frankenstein mask), Sheena (as Spider Woman), Brainy (dressed as a silly shogun), and Curly (dressed as Dracula) are dressed as the living dead, dancing for their own pleasure. Rhonda, who had costumed them to be so terrifying, to appear as if they are walking dead, is about to put on a magic show…when Arnold, Gerald, Iggy, and Maggie come to the door.
"Who's there?" Mrs. Peterson, Stinky's mom, answers. Then she opens the door. "Howdy!"
"Trick-or-treat!" says Iggy.
Stinky greets his buddies over when his dad, walks into the living room with a pumpkin.
"C'mon in folks! Arnold!" Stinky says. "We got bunches of candy in our own livin' room.
"That's sure nice of you." Gerald says in reply.
Phoebe comes up and hugs him. "Gerald!"
"How do I look? Huh?" Gerald asks Phoebe.
"You look just fine." says Arnold.
Phoebe then wonders, "Do you know where Helga is?"
Like she does not really care, Rhonda replies, "Well I don't."
Phoebe says, "I have no clue what she's doing tonight, but she told me in secret."
"O C'mon Missy, I want to know the secret." Maggie asks Phoebe.
"Okay." She then turns to Arnold. "But I can only tell you in a few words, Arnold: She doesn't want you to dress up like that."
Arnold is like "What? Who?"
"Maggie." She says in reply.
"Where's Nadine?"
"She's at home sick."
"The Petersons have a sliding door for a closet?" Rhonda says. "What do you think?"
But then the kids go silent all the sudden and the music stops.
"Yep." says Rhonda in the brown, tattered suit coat and red turtle neck. "This would be the perfect closet for a magic show!"
The kids applaud.
"In this act…" she then tells Arnold to get in the closet and then she closes the door.
She continues, "Ladies and Gentlemen…"
Gerald interrupts, "Whatever you say. By the way…"
"What now?" Rhonda asks.
" Iggy and Maggie just got a basket of these candies from all over the world. Most of them are from the Jolly Old Man, of course. Rhonda, before you do anything, I have an urban legend to tell…about the night when the bunnies attacked the neighborhood. It all began when two bunny parents broke loose from the pet shop. There was this mother who had a litter of nine babies. There was the father, who was an assistant to the rabbit queen of vampires, out in the woods, who got eaten by the fox queen. No one could succeed the rabbit queen but her own daughter, who would force the rabbit couple to join the blood clan whenever they came to stay in the queen's borough. Although the lovable critters loved them, the long-footed mother and long-footed father had escaped the woods and were ready to hunt down their prey. Their first unanimous victim was a rabid, fierce, black hound dog just across the street from the house of the Stoop Kid. The hound had more strength than the bunnies themselves. After the feast was over, they began scaring and attacking people, killing five of them."
"I watched that on the news last night." Phoebe commented. "I mean it's terrible."
That urban legend was based on an event that happened the night before, making headlines throughout the city. A mental patient escaped a bus transporting other patients to an institution when it crashed in the woods near a bridge. Wearing a bunny suit, he was literally running for his life in the busy city streets. He sneaked inside a cathedral, butchered whoever was inside, and threw lit candles all over the place. The church burst into flames. According to the fire department, four of the pews were destroyed. The sanctuary would have been called the bloody victims' tomb. The "Bunny Man" was lucky enough to escape before the church closed temporarily. People who came to the cathedral every week say the place had been cursed by the devil for over fifty years.
Rhonda moves on. "Okay, let's get started. Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to watch this football-headed prisoner disappear…"
The kids laugh, Rhonda shuts the door and opens it back up, and Arnold turns into a white rabbit, covered with stitches, bruises and bloody cuts.
In the other room, Mr. Peterson is watching a new television movie on the SCI FI Channel entitled "Night of the Lepus". It was filmed in Hillwood, and on other islands adjacent to it, and was directed by Dontae Hill. He has only watched the beginning of the film. While the kids are partying and having a ball, Mrs. Peterson is about to put some popcorn in an old microwave, in between two pumpkins on a table.
The kids laugh and humiliate Arnold, who is now wearing a bloody, stitched, bruised, beat-up, bunny suit, leaving his face open with paint for the whiskers. And just like Helga's suit, it has long, veined ears, fingers and toes with claws, a bushy tail, and white, natural fur, but not a nose.
"Knock it off you guys." says Arnold.
The kids still laugh at him. The Petersons hear the commotion and are very frightened. Phoebe could not hypothesize where the bunny came from, but Arnold turns out to be wearing bunny pajamas. Rhonda still cannot remember why she has possessed a magical, "fright night" power beyond science.
At the same time, Helga G. Pataki, in her bunny costume, sneaks below a window without anybody noticing and then breaks through the door in a furious mood to scare the kids. Nobody could recognize her but one.
The kids gasp in surprise and stand affrightedly against the wall.
"I thought I just wanted to hop on in, hoping I can join in the little festivities." She says. "I feast on you tonight and I'll be the one to settle the score."
"That mutant has got to be Helga G. Pataki." Gerald says.
Sid goes, "But we don't know if it's her."
"I can recognize a few people in this room: Stinky, Patty, Brainy, Gerald, Lila, Sheena…" She then notices Arnold."Well, if this isn't…"
A farting noise is heard in the background and the kids laugh.
"…if it isn't for this stupid, farting, long-eared football head!" Helga says obnoxiously.
"Who are you?" Arnold asks. "How do you know my name? Why did you show up?"
Phoebe Heyerdahl then interrupts the conversation and asks the white furred rabbit, "Uh, excuse me, Mr. Bunny?"
"Yes?" Helga says in reply.
"Do you know where Helga Geraldine Pataki is?"
"You mean what happened to her? I-"
It turns out that Helga is lost in thought, while tapping her toe, scratching her fury head, trying her best to act like the bunny she is dressed as.
"Go ahead." Arnold says.
"Take your time." says Phoebe.
But the rabbit then comes up with a grave answer to fill in the blanks: "Killed her."
And that shocks all the kids and makes them very upset, sobbing and crying on a Halloween night.
"What?" Arnold cries.
"Oh no, sh-sh-she told me she had a twin brother named Helgo." Phoebe sobs. "Helgo Eugene Pataki. He died when they were just toddlers. And now she's going to be with him again."
"We'll never see her again!" Harold cries.
"Are you insane?" Gerald says to the rabbit.
"You killed Helga?" Arnold soberly rages with tears in his eyes. "You're a monster!"
"What did I ever do to you, football head?" Helga asks.
But Arnold wants her to stay out of the party and go into the wild.
"She was my friend." Arnold says as he opens the front door. "Happy Halloween!"
"B-B-But Wait! Arnold!" she begs.
"You should go back into the wild where you belong." Arnold suggests to Helga, though he cannot tell who the rabbit is.
Harshly, Helga says "Speaking of death, you just freaked me out, bucko."
"Your voice!" he notices. "It sounds like Helga's!"
"By the way, I just found a place where we can be alone and enjoy the wild a little more." Helga says in a calm manner.
"I don't want to even go there. I'd rather stay here in the neighborhood." Arnold fears. "The people! They're going to find us and capture us!"
"No. As long as we're in the wild…" Then she says obnoxiously, "Just come on!"
Arnold then tells his classmates, "I'll be back! He and I are going trick-or-treating."
"Please don't go!" Lila cries, holding Stinky's mother's hand-held mirror. "Just look at yourself!"
Arnold looks at the mirror just for a second and discovers his appearance. How scarred, how scratched, how bruised, how terrifying, how beat-up his face turns out. The costume, as real as it gets, is the same type of costume Helga has on. The kids cannot tell if Arnold is in a costume or not. They had to assume Arnold transformed into a bunny rabbit. Arnold shakes in fear and accidentally breaks the mirror; breathes heavily, enduring the terror that he could not get out of his mind. The kids laugh at him.
"Are you okay?" Gerald asks Arnold.
"No. This can't be happening!" Arnold says. "I'm wearing a bunny costume! I'm very sorry, Stinky."
"Sure fine." Stinky says. "For what?"
"For breaking your mirror…"
"That's all right, bunny boy."
The kids laugh at Arnold, despite the fact that Stinky understands enough to forgive him.
"This mad one and I need to spend time alone." Arnold says as he walks out the door.