I just wanted to thank M, Rocky Rooster, and annebre24 for taking the time to review my story it really meant a lot, so thanks! :D
-The following night-
The arcade had been busier that day as tons of children flocked to the site to participate in the contests and games and of course get free candy. By the time Litwak closed up, the arcade residents themselves couldn't wait to get their own costumes on and head out to the party. Everyone looked forward to see what Ralph had planned for the event. Speaking of the wrecker, Ralph himself was busy getting on his costume. He adjusted the tie one more time as he looked at himself in his large mirror.
"Ralph hurry up you don't want to be late do you!?" Felix called out to Ralph who was waiting for him outside his house.
"Hold your horses Felix I'm almost done!" Ralph said before he burst through the door with his arms out wide. "What do you think?"
"You're going as Donkey Kong? From what I've heard your costumes are usually um . . . scarier." He pointed out a bit disappointed.
Ralph dropped his arms to his sides a bit annoyed by Felix's reaction, or lack there of. "This isn't my real costume, just what I'll be hosting the event in. I'm saving my best costume for just the right moment."
"Oh, well then it looks good!" Felix said with his usual enthusiasm. The wrecker did make a convincing Donkey Kong. Felix himself was dressed up as blood thirsty werewolf, a creature he had seen a kid in the arcade dressed as a couple years back.
"So what's Calhoun going to be?" Ralph asked as they made their way to the games exit.
"Well I didn't catch the name but someone from Street Fighter I believe." That stopped Ralph in his tracks.
"What! No way! Oh I gotta see this, I bet she's going to dress up as Bison!" he said cracking up at the thought.
"Think again Gorilla boy." Both the men froze and slowly turned around, they looked like deer caught in the head lights until they saw who Sergeant Calhoun was dressed as.
"T . . . T-Tammy!?" Felix stammered, clearly flustered by the sight before him.
Calhoun was dressed up as Cammy from Street Fighter, and boy did she look good! Ralph himself couldn't believe how well she pulled it off.
"Alright you two pick your mouths up off the floor and let's move out." Tamora ordered acting her usual cool self though she couldn't help the smug smirk on her face over their reactions, especially her husbands.
"Oh r-right." Ralph grabbed Felix and carried him to the tram as he appeared to be in shock at the moment.
As they entered Game Central Station the party was already in full swing! People were enjoying the various mini games set up like bobbing for cherries, Luigi dunk, the taffy toss, and so many more. If they weren't playing games they were seated at the many tables set up around the place enjoying delicious pies and other sweet treats the Nicelanders had cooked up for them or cutting a rug and getting crazy on the dance floor. Yup this was definitely the beginnings of a great Halloween party!
Though as usual before Ralph could take more than two steps the alarm grid went off and the Surge Protector came zipping to him in a blur of blue electricity until he materialized right next to him. Or at least he assumed it was Surge. He was wearing a slimming dark navy blue suit with matching tie and a light blue mask that covered his face completely.
"Uh who are you supposed to be?" Ralph couldn't help but ask, the man's costume by all means wasn't scary just more on the awkward creepy side.
"SlenderMan."
"Oh . . . right, I knew that. Looks good!"
"Thanks." Surge lifted the mask up for a second to give the wrecker a small smile "I just wanted to get a chance to tell you that everything looks good. Nice job."
"Sooo this isn't a random security check then?" Ralph asked cautiously.
"Nope, no security checks tonight. I figured I could trust you all just this night. But I will be watching you." He slipped back on his mask and zipped off towards the other end of the arcade where he materialized in the middle of a group of characters effectively scaring them.
"Wow that was nice of him." Felix said now that his shock seemed to have finally worn off.
"Yeah . . . I wonder?" Ralph looked behind him back at their exit with a mischievous grin while Felix and Calhoun started heading out towards the party.
"Hey Felix check this out!"
Felix stopped and turned around to see the giant jumping back and forth between their game entrance and Game central Station with a big grin on his face.
"Come on Ralph we're supposed to be meeting Vanellope about now!" he said rolling his eyes, though he couldn't help but smile at the man's actions.
"Alright hold on, one more time!" he said jumping back and forth one more time. "Man I could get used to that."
They headed towards the stage where Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis, and Candlehead were gathered. They were all dressed up as zombie versions of themselves.
"Hey there King Kong, nice ape costume! What do you think of ours?" She said and on cue they all started to moan and groan and drag their feet pretending to be zombies "Scary isn't it?"
"Uh yeah definitely scary!" He said with two thumbs up, it was pretty good for their first Halloween costumes.
"See guy's I told you this was a great idea!" Vanellope said as she addressed the others in her group.
"Yeah yeah whatever, let's just hope it's enough to win the costume contest. If not I'M deciding what we should dress as next Halloween!" Taffyta said before sticking a lollypop in her mouth.
"Pah-lease! We're gonna beat the socks off the competition and win both the costume contest and the scaring contest!" She announced proudly.
Just then Gene walked up to the group and stopped in front of Ralph. He was dressed as Mario, which he dressed up as every year because it was the best costume that went well with his mustache. Or so he said. He looked away from his clip board and looked up at Ralph.
"Everything's good to go, whenever you're ready." He said before walking behind the stage.
"Looks like I'm up, I'll see ya guy's later. Don't have too much fun without me!" He called to the others as he made his way to the back of the stage.
"Guess that's my cue as well." Felix said before he jumped up and kissed his wife goodbye.
"Come on Felix!" Gene yelled by the front of the stage where he and Zangief were waiting for him.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" He told them as he hopped off to take his seat with the other judges.
"Well then that leaves us with nothing to do." Calhoun joked making Vanellope giggle.
"Come on pint size let's go grab a seat." She said as they all went to the stage where several chairs had been set up behind the judges table for everyone else to sit. As they took their seats lights from the ceiling were directed towards the stage signaling the contest would be starting soon which prompted the rest of the arcade characters to come and sit. Once everyone was seated Ralph barreled out of the curtains and waved as the crowd cheered.
"Wow what a turn out! First off I want to thank everyone for coming out tonight!" At this another round of cheers erupted from the crowd.
"Now first on tonight's schedule we'll be having our annual costume contest! Which Felix, Zangief, and Big G here will personally be judging in about five minutes. Once the winners are crowned and the contest is over then it's time for the best event of the night: The Hollow's Eve Scare Contest!" He waited for the cheering to subside before continuing.
"If this is your first year here with us on this Holiday then you need to know a few of the rules: First off you're not allowed to scare people by throwing anything on them or touching them, you'll probably get punched in the face if you do. Second if your scare fails to actually scare anyone you're out of the contest! So make it count because you only get one chance people; and thirdly have fun! Now since there are no official judges for the contest it will be decided by popular vote, and yes you can vote for yourself . . . bowser. Now to be able to view the scaring going on we've set up the stage with a giant screen for everyone to watch. We'll also have marshmallow cameramen floating around the area and the games to film all the scaring live. For those of you not participating in the contest you're welcome to play the mini games or eat some of the delicious treats but make sure your blue pin is visible for everyone to see so we know you're not part of the game. So with that all said Happy Halloween everyone!"
Everyone in the crowd stood up and cheered like crazy enthralled by Ralph's speech as he walked off the stage. He passed by other characters who had begun to line up in preparation for the costume contest before he ended up bumping into Vanellope and her group at the end.
"Hey good luck you guys!" Ralph said as he walked past them.
"Thanks! But we don't need luck banana breath!" Vanellope yelled back at him.
With the costume contest going on Ralph walked around the station to hang out with those who weren't participating and of course make faces at Bowser who was glaring daggers at him across the station.
-Wreck it Ralph-
"Will the first contestants please come up to the stage?" Felix asked into his microphone.
The first to go up was and Peach and Mario who were dressed as Daphne and Dirk the Daring from Dragon's Lair. They walked to the middle of the stage and struck a pose back to back before turning to the judges.
"Very nice you two!" Felix clapped at them encouragingly, he then wrote down his score giving them high marks.
Zangief however had one issue with their near spot on costumes "Why did you not shave mustache?"
"I . . a' never shave it off." Mario Said looking over at Peach who only shrugged.
Zangief and Gene wrote down their scores unimpressed that Mario had refused to shave his mustache. With their scores taken they both left the stage to be replaced with all four of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who were dressed as characters from Mortal Kombat. Raphael was dressed as Liu Kang, Donatello as Raiden, Mikey as Scorpion, and last but not least Leonardo as Sub Zero.
After them was Qbert and his friends Coily, Sam, and slick who were dressed up as various blocks from Tetris. They had even performed a small skit of the game to the best of their abilities, which was pretty entertaining to see. Next up was Paper Boy who had dressed up as Fix It Felix himself, to which Felix absolutely loved; followed by Pac-Man who was just wearing a white sheet with eye holes cut out. He said he was dressed as Boo Diddly from Mario but they didn't believe it for a second. After Pac-Man it was Tapper's turn who walked on to the stage dressed as Snake from Metal Gear and struck as fierce a pose as he could manage.
Then finally it was Vanellope and her groups turn.
They did their little routine and slowly dragged themselves up onto the stage groaning and moaning for brains in typical zombie fashion. Once the judges wrote down the final scores they waved them off the stage and began to deliberate who the winners should be. Zangief and Gene seemed to be on the same page unlike Felix who was having a hard time since he thought everyone deserved to win.
"Ooh I can't choose! They were all so good." Felix groaned, he didn't think judging would be this hard.
"Try eeny, meeny, miny, moe." Zangief suggested.
"Well alright . . ." Felix then pointed to each paper as he recited the rhyme and finally landed on a winner, which Zangief and Gene quickly took the paper before the repair man could change his mind.
"Alright we have our winners, will all the contestants file on stage!" Gene announced.
The participants quickly made their way up on the stage and stood in line as they waited in anticipation. Felix who appeared to be the elected announcer grabbed the microphone and opened the first envelope.
"First off we have our honorable mention who is . . . Mario and Peach!" Everyone applauded the two as they bowed and accepted their ribbon from Felix before returning to their place in line.
"Next in third place is . . . President Vanellope and her group of zombies!" The group cheered and hugged while Vanellope grabbed their ribbon and then high fived Taffyta. It wasn't first but they did win something! Which Vanellope couldn't wait to go rub in Ralph's big face.
"Second place goes to . . . Tapper as Snake!" the bartender looked surprised and gratefully took his ribbon.
"And finally the first place winner is . . . . The TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!" Felix yelled as the crowd along with the rest of the contestants burst into applause to congratulate the winners while Gene walked up to them to award them their first place ribbon. The only one not celebrating was Pac-Man who instead left to get something to eat seeing as he didn't win anything.
With the winners announced for the costume contest Ralph saw his opportunity and snuck away back to his game to go change into his real costume. Unfortunately as he entered the outlet he failed to notice a suspicious purple fog rolling into Game Central Station. Those who did notice just assumed it was just part of the party or something until it was too late.
So I finally have the story finished! It took a bit longer than I anticipated but I hope you enjoy it! Also I do know what SlenderMan's outfit really looks but since The Surge Protector appears to be made of energy or electricity and his clothes are various shades of blue I figured no matter what the guy wore it would just become a shade of blue. Hope that doesn't bug anyone too much. I'll be posting the last chapter on the 30th, other than that thanks for reading everyone! :D