A/N: Halloween episode! Jonny listens to Taylor Swift…Teehee.

[Setting: Sage's House...]

Sage opened the door and flopped down on her bed, while Roxie and Tai sat on the floor.

"What's up?" Roxie asked.

"Just got the mail." Sage replied, flipping through the envelopes. "Bill. Bill. Advertisement. Bill...Hello, what's this?"

She grabbed the letter. "It's from Nazz." She ripped the envelope apart, accidentally tearing a corner off the real paper.

"Nice job, Roxie."

"It says here that we're invited to a Halloween party at her house. But we have to be in costume."

"Costumes?" Tai squealed. "That sounds great!"

"What are we going to dress up as?" Sage inquired.

"Well," Roxie began, "I bought you something for later use, but if you want to use it as a costume, that'd be great."

"What is it?"

She opened Sage's closet to reveal a pink dress with a darker pink jacket, a light pink pillbox hat hanging from another wire.

"Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy?" Sage raised an eyebrow at her. "What's the meaning of that?"

"Well, since you're running for Student Body President and all, I thought it would help your chances. It'll show that you're serious about the whole campaign."

"Roxie, that's ridiculous."

"If you don't wear it, as your campaign manager, I will."

"I think that you would look like a big, fluffy, delicious piece of cotton candy if you wore that tonight." Tai giggled.

"See?" Sage exclaimed. "She thinks it's ridiculous too!"

"And I actually have an idea for costumes." She piped up.

"Really?" Roxie acknowledged her.

"Um, I was just thinking...well, it just popped into my head that since I have curly red hair, Sage has long blonde hair, and you have short red hair, we could be..."

[Setting: Same, later...]

"Denton, Denton, you've got no pretension, you're where the heart is, you're okay..." Tai sang gleefully.

"This is...not right." Sage gulped.

She stared into the mirror next to the closet at the pink Jackie O dress, a white jacket over it. When she took off her beanie, she was the spitting image of Janet Weiss from The Rocky Horror Show.

"Say what you want, but I look good." Roxie smirked. "You're not taking this away from me." In her sparkly top hat, golden tux, and red bow tie, she looked identical to Columbia.

Tai, in her French maid costume, looked like Magenta. "And I was thinking, we could maybe get the boys in on this."

"The boys who?"

"You know, the Eds."

Her face fell. "You know how I feel about them edging in on our plans." She snarled.

"Come on, it's Halloween!" She stepped forward solemnly. "Don't you know what Halloween is really all about?"

"What is it really all about?" Sage repeated.

The room darkened and a spotlight shone on Tai. "And there were in the same country zombies abiding in the field, keeping watch over their brain stash by night. And lo, the minion of the Pumpkin King came upon them, and the glory of the Pumpkin King shone round about them: and they were calling out for brains. And the minion said unto them, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you Halloween candy of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is started this day the tradition of trick-or-treating, which is awesome. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the candy contained in a cheap plastic bowl, sitting at lazy people's doorsteps.' And suddenly there was with the minion a multitude of chocolate bars, praising the Pumpkin King, for they had one word to say: plastics." She turned back to them as the room lightened up again. "That's what Halloween is all about, Sage."

They stared blankly at her, jaws open.

"That made no sense." Sage gaped. "And was a little bit offensive."

"If you never tell that story again, I'll let you bring the Eds into this." Roxie bargained.

"Okay!" Tai grinned, skipping off.

Roxie and Sage followed her.

[Setting: Eddy's House...]

Eddy came in, several letters in hand. "Let's see...bill. Junk mail. Bill. Death threat. Bill."

"Did you just say...?" Edd turned pale.

"Yeah, I know, those greedy government officials. Wait, what's this?"

He carefully took the letter from Eddy's hands. "It seems to be from Nazz." He opened it. "It appears that..."

Just then, the door fell open, crushing Edd, and Tai popped out, Sage and Roxie behind her. "Nazz is having a Halloween party and we're going as Rocky Horror characters and we want you to go with us!"

"Tai!" Sage exclaimed.

Tai looked under her. "Oops! Sorry, Double D." She lifted the door off of him.

Sage extended her hand out. "Here, let me help you." She lifted him up, smiling sheepishly.

"Oh my God." Eddy's jaw nearly dropped. "You guys..."

"I know, we look great, don't we?" Tai struck a pose.

"You look like people out of one of Eddy's magazines!" Ed exclaimed, a little excitedly, but very startled.

"That does it, I'm going home." Sage headed out, but Roxie grabbed her arm.

"You're not leaving!" She snapped. "We need you to help negotiate!"

"Look," Tai started, "we wanted to know if you guys would dress up with us. Ed, you can be Riff Raff, who's my brother, and you get to wear cool hair extensions and a hunch on your back. Awesome, right?"

"Sounds scary!" Ed grinned. "I'm in!"

"Great! Double D, you can be Brad Majors, the fiancé of the lovely Janet Weiss." She pushed Sage in front of Edd.

"Um, we don't have to be engaged in, um, real life." Sage murmured.

"And Eddy, you can be...well, Eddie. You date Roxie until you get killed."

"What a deal." Eddy grumbled.

"You never mentioned that to me." Roxie fumed.

"Are you going to disappoint the Pumpkin King?" Tai whimpered.

"I'll get your Pumpkin King someday..."

"So do you want to do it?"

"What's in it for us?" Eddy inquired.

"I'll buy you jawbreakers."

"Jawbreakers?!" Ed exclaimed. "Come on, Eddy, we need to do it!"

"Why weren't we offered jawbreakers?" Roxie scoffed.

"Because you're my friends and friends don''t bribe friends." Tai nodded.

She rolled her eyes.

"And someday, I'll owe you both a favor."

Sage smiled in acknowledgement.

"Okay, we'll do it." Edd nodded.

"Yay!" Tai squealed, jumping up and down. "My plan is coming into effect! O Great Pumpkin King, I shall do your will on Earth!"

"Is she serious about this whole Pumpkin King thing?" He whispered to Sage, who bit her lip and nodded.

[Setting: Nazz's House...]

"We're here!" Tai grinned, opening the door.

Ed had hair extensions on his head and a red jacket, Edd had a brown jacket over his red shirt and glasses, and Eddy had on a leather jacket with his hair done up like Eddie's.

However, the room was so dark, no one could see their costumes.

"It's pitch black." Sage observed.

"Thanks, genius." Roxie deadpanned.

"Guys?" Tai called, venturing further into the room. "Nazz? Hello?"

Just then, a single lightbulb lit up on the ceiling. The room was empty.

"Well, this is weird." Sage shivered a bit. "I'm sort of creeped out."

A crash of thunder roared and lightning shone through the windows. The shutters closed suddenly.

"Holy Einstein!" She clutched Edd's arm in fear. "What the heck was that?!"

"It was just rain." He reassured her. "In Peach Creek, when it rains, it pours."

More thunder and lightning.

Roxie screamed and jumped into Eddy's arms. After she calmed down, she pushed away from him as fast as she could. "That never happened." She growled.

"There must be zombies around here somewhere," Ed whispered, paranoid, "ready to jump out and feast on our sweet, sweet brain juices, and-"

"Stop talking!" Tai exclaimed suddenly.

They all stared at her.

"Sorry," she giggled sheepishly, "but we do need to stick together. How about we split up? I'll go with Ed. He seems the most knowledgeable about what to do if we get ambushed by zombies. He's like Peach Creek's Max Brooks."

"Who?" Roxie asked.

"Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks." Sage explained.

"Who's that?"

"He's-"

"Never mind! I don't even care!"

"Well, okay, then." She sighed. "Um, I guess I'll go with Double D. He's really smart, and I'm really smart, so we can, I don't know, be smart together."

"Yeah, right, you just want an excuse to be alone with him!"

She turned absolutely pale. "Roxie!" She hissed.

"So if we're splitting up, I'm stuck with Eddy?" She was ranting now. "Great! The last thing I need is to be stuck with him."

"Roxie, please," Tai pleaded in her soft-spoken way, "why can't we all just get along and survive this whole night?"

"Why don't we just leave?" Sage suggested.

"What, and ruin the plot?" Eddy shot back. "Besides, I at least want to know what's going on!"

"Okay!" Tai grinned. "Let's go! Ed and I will search Nazz's bedroom. Roxie and Eddy, you guys search the kitchen. So Sage and Double D, that leaves you guys with the basement!"

Roxie took Sage's hand and let it go, hanging her head. "Fishface, we hardly knew ye."

"Fishface." Eddy snickered. "That never gets old."

"Let's just go." Sage and Edd wandered down the stairs, Ed and Tai headed upstairs, and Roxie and Eddy just went into the other room.

[Setting: Nazz's Bedroom...]

"I feel like we're kind of violating her space up here." Tai murmured.

Ed bent down and looked under Nazz's bed. "Hello?" He called. "Anyone?"

"Good idea. Hello? Who's here? Answer me!"

"No one." He shot back up.

She gulped. "Hey, Ed...do you really believe in monsters?"

He blinked, then shook his head. "No, I don't. But wouldn't it be so cool if they were real?! I think that maybe, if I say they exist, they will, because some species go into hiding on the edge of the universe, so it doesn't technically mean they exist, but they're there, just unofficially."

"Whoa." Tai's eyes widened. "Like the unicorns! I think I get what you're saying."

He smiled.

"You know, you might be smarter than I've ever given you credit for. Or anyone, for that matter."

"Have you ever had buttered toast?"

"I'm lactose intolerant...I think. So no."

He gasped. "Nonbeliever!" He pointed accusingly at her.

"But I'm sure it's very good!" She backed into a closet. It opened and she fell in, landing in someone's lap.

"Now you're ours forever!"

She screamed and ran out of the closet.

[Setting: Nazz's Kitchen...]

Roxie opened the fridge, then closed it. "I'd be really impressed with someone who could hide in the fridge." She bit her lip.

"Where are they?" Eddy asked impatiently. "I wish they'd just stop this whole thing and reveal themselves!"

"Well, are they even here?"

"How should I know?"

"You know, you don't always have to be such a jerk." She snapped. "I don't know if you were dropped on your head as a baby or something, but I'm only human, and so are you."

"You want to know what happened to me when I was younger? My brother beat me up all the time. He's the greatest guy in the world, but when I say he taught me everything I know, I mean everything."

Roxie's face fell. "I'm so sorry."

"I don't need any pity. And why am I even telling this to you in the first place?"

She gulped. "I'll tell you what happened to me."

He stopped. "Fine, whatever."

"My sister Jenna-"

"I thought you said it was Brenda."

"It's a lot of things. Anyways, my sister Marina was-is really tall and pretty...and I used to be really short and fat and ugly. I went through two packs of Oreos a day. She used to make fun of me all the time."

"Why does your sister have so many names?"

"I don't know, she just doesn't like having other people tell her who to be. She doesn't like having people tell her what her name is."

"Does she not like people telling her what her gender is either? Does she tell people she's a boy?"

She stifled a laugh, merely emitting a smile. "That was kind of funny. So I guess we know each other's whole sibling drama stuff now. Is this Mutually Assured Blackmail?"

Eddy paused. "How about we just keep this between us? I mean, the whole neighborhood already knows about my brother, but this whole confrontation, can we keep it between us?"

"Sure." She got up on the counter and opened up a cabinet. "Let's see here..."

"Who dares disturb us?"

She jumped, startled, and fell down.

Eddy ran to catch her, but missed her.

"Ow!" She winced.

"What's going on?"

"Up there! There's-"

"We're here for your souls!"

"There they are again! That voice!"

"There's no escaping us now!"

[Setting: Nazz's Basement...]

"It sure is dark and spooky down here..." Sage murmured, holding a flashlight in one hand and Edd's hand in the other. She suddenly became aware of that. "Sorry that I'm being so clingy, i just...I get scared easily." She blushed.

"It's all right." He reassured her. "There can't be anything so terrible down here."

"Well, that depends. Do the other kids know...or did it eat them?"

He gulped. "What's 'it?'"

"I don't know, whatever's in here!"

"Are you sure we're not alone?"

"Well...I don't know, besides the others in our group. We could be, but on the other hand..."

"Well, don't worry." He didn't sound so relaxed himself.

"At least someone's with me." Sage smiled. "I'm glad it's you. Ed or Tai would probably be talking about zombies or unicorns. Eddy doesn't particularly care for me, I know. And Roxie? She'd probably just be mad at me for being scared."

"What is it she calls you? 'Fishface?'"

"She said I needed a nickname."

"You don't have a fish face, though."

"No, but she just thinks that it's funny to call me that."

"Maybe something that suits your personality better...like Egghead."

She giggled. "I like that. You know, you're pretty smart yourself."

"Thank you."

Sage sighed. "I don't get why we have to compete with each other. I mean, I don't even really want to be Student Body President anyways."

"I kind of do." He shrugged sheepishly.

"Well...hey! I have an idea! Maybe I could help you with your campaign, and nobody else has to know!"

"That would actually be great." He grinned. "We'll have to spend a lot of time together, though."

"No skin off my nose." She tried not to blush, but couldn't help herself.

"We'd know if you did that."

She turned around frantically. "Who was that?"

"It was us."

Sage wrapped her arms around Edd. "Oh my Chekhov, what's going on?"

"Ha! Rolf has never seen such chipmunk-like weakness!"

"Dude, chipmunks are dangerous. One almost tore my face off once."

"Wait a sec..." Edd was confused, as was Sage. "Rolf? Nazz?"

"Dang!" Nazz emerged from behind a box, Rolf in tow. "How did you know it was us?"

"Maybe the part where you started sounding like yourselves?" Sage was still quivering.

Nazz noticed her and laughed a little. "You were so scared! You should've seen the look on your face!"

"Do you know how much you scared her?" Edd snapped. "I don't think it's exactly fair for you to laugh at her like that!"

"Whoa. Don't have a cow, Double D. We were only kidding."

Sage lowered her eyes.

"Wait, what happened to the others?" Edd asked.

"Same thing." Tai entered with Ed, a slightly tearful Jimmy, and Sarah. "These little twerps were hiding in the closet. But they forgot who they were messing with."

"She threw Mr. Yum Yum out the window." Jimmy whined. "Now I have to go get him back!" He and Sarah rushed outside.

"Tai...I didn't know you had that in you." Edd's eyes widened.

"You should've seen her that time we babysat." Roxie joined them with Eddy, Kevin, and Jonny, who was holding Plank. "Four words for you: it just got real."

"They were in the cabinet." Eddy stated.

"Believe me, it was unpleasant being in a cramped space with that guy for so long." Kevin groaned.

"Excuse me, I believe you mean guys!" Jonny snapped. "Don't worry, buddy, someday they'll realize what a big mistake they made ignoring you. When we're big and famous, we'll just shrug them off, like Taylor Swift says!" He murmured to Plank.

"That kid scares me." Roxie shook her head.

"Sorry if we really scared you guys." Nazz shrugged. "It was just too good to pass up. Now who wants jawbreakers?"

"We do!" Kevin, Jonny, Ed, Eddy, Rolf and the returned Sarah and Jimmy grinned.

"I guess it's the least you can do." Roxie crossed her arms, a smirk on her face.

They all headed back upstairs, Edd and Sage lagging a little bit behind.

"Um...Double D?" She spoke up.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for defending me."

"No problem."

She hesitated, heart pounding, but eventually leaned over and gave him a small peck on the cheek.

He grinned widely, warmth filling his whole body.

"Let's go get some jawbreakers." She took his hand again as they went upstairs.