OH YEAH! I did it! Sorry, but I tend to get a little excited when I meet one of my challenge deadlines. Just as an FYI, I'm posting this chapter on Halloween morning so anyone who goes out for any reason (Trick-or-Treating, partying, pranking, etc.) has a shot at reading this little holiday special on its special holiday. And if you're reading this and it isn't October 31st, no worries. Just...

Enjoy.


Time passed on in Bullworth, and soon the student body found that Halloween was drawing near. While it was only a few days away, the faculty had decided that it would be good for student morale if they decorated the school. The usual assortment of tombstones, paper skeletons, pumpkins, and spider webs were spread throughout the grounds. Many of the students paid little mind to the décor, while certain others began to feel themselves succumb to their inner joy.

"Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me some candy to eat!" Ed sang as he led his friends into the main hall.

"If they knew how bad your feet smelled, they'd throw full-sized candy bars at you," Eddy chuckled.

"Should I try that when we go trick-or-treating?" Ed asked, pointing down at his feet.

"Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves," Double D warned. "We haven't been able to leave the campus since we arrived, and I haven't a clue what the school does during the festivities."

"Way to rain on the parade, Sock Head," Eddy muttered.

"My condolences," Double D apologized. "Perhaps we should investigate the matter to learn the truth."

"Maybe Gary knows," Ed suggested.

"Nice thinking, Monobrow," Eddy complimented. "Let's hunt him down!"

"Eddy, we can't leave yet," Double D said. "The school bell has yet to ring. We mustn't leave before we're allowed to..."

RRRRRRRIIIIINNG!

The well-timed bell prompted the student body to pour out of their classes and exit the school. Eddy turned to his sock-headed friend, who couldn't help but grimace at the sight of his friend's grin.

"Saved by the bell," Eddy smirked. "Now, where were we?" Double D and Ed watched as Eddy strolled along to the front door and walked out.

"Sometimes, I wonder how he gets his way," Double D thought aloud.

"Do you think someone's helping him?" Ed asked. "Like a writer's controlling everything?" Double D turned to face his friend with a look of bewilderment on his face. Ed returned the gaze with a simple smile.

"Where on Earth do you come up with these ideas?" Double D asked.

"I don't know," Ed replied. "It's like a writer..." Double D waved his hand in front of his friend, interrupting the discussion.

"Forgive my rudeness," Double D said. "I just have a strange feeling that I know where this conversation is going. Let's just go catch up with Eddy." The smartest Ed made his way towards the door and made his exit, leaving Ed standing alone in the hall.

"I wonder if people are reading what I do right now..." Ed said as he followed after his friends. "HELLO, READERS! MY NAME IS ED!" As Ed waved hello into the air, Double D and Eddy, who were standing at the stairs waiting for their well-meaning friend.

"Who are you waving at, Ed?" Double D asked.

"Don't answer, Lumpy," Eddy said quickly. "We've wasted enough time as it is." The Eds silently made their way towards the boys dormitory. While the trees and grass began to turn brown, the leaves had yet to fall from the branches. The air was comfortably cool as they walked to the dormitory.

The inside dormitory was decorated in the same manner as the rest of the school. Granted, the boys took the freedom the dorms provided to crumble the tombstones and splatter the pumpkins onto the walls, but the atmosphere was still befitting the upcoming holiday. They walked into the common room, finding Gary standing behind the couch.

"Sorry," he chuckled.

"Cut it out!" a voice similar to Pete's exclaimed. The Eds approached the group and saw that Gary was flicking the back of Pete's head and smirking.

"You two getting along alright?" Eddy sarcastically asked. Gary and Pete turned to see the Eds staring back at them.

"Just a team building exercise," Gary said, slapping Pete on his arm. "Gotta make him into a man...or a woman...or whatever it is Petey needs to become." Pete rubbed his upper arm in pain while Gary walked over to the Eds.

"Highly debatable," Double D muttered. "We were actually looking for you in order to answer our question we have about Halloween."

"Yeah," Ed added. "Do we go trick-or-treating?"

"It's almost comical how immature you are," Gary said. "Look, on Halloween, the little kids are taken on a haunted house tour inside the gym. The prefects all go out into town to party, and the rest of the faculty do their best to 'entertain', and I use that term loosely, the older kids."

"No candy for Ed?" Ed asked sadly.

"Afraid not, friend," Gary replied.

"Well, if we can't get any candy, and the prefects suck at making things fun, what are we supposed to do?" Eddy groaned.

"What's left when they take away the option for treats?" Gary asked with a sly smile. "Tricks." Eddy began to nod as if he understood, while Double D frowned because he really did understand.

"Before we get ourselves wrapped up into another high risk misadventure," Double D said. "It would ease my mind if I knew that this is all innocent fun."

"What?" Gary replied. "You think I'd want to hurt someone who didn't deserve it? Come on, you know me better than that. We're just going to give some well deserved payback on someone very special."

"Russell?" Ed asked.

"Even better," Gary smirked. "Now, according to my plan, we're going to need costumes. Don't worry about yours, I got something set up. They'll be ready before Halloween night." This got Eddy eager to see the plan, Ed excited at the idea of costumes, and Double D erring on the side of caution and showed no emotion.

"Oh, boy!" Ed giddily said. "Maybe I'll be a orange-spotted, electric toenail lizard."

"That seems a little too extreme," Double D said.

"Come on, Sock Head," Eddy said with a smile. "Where's your sense of excitement? Personally, I can't wait for Halloween."


The days passed by faster than expected for the Eds, as the boys woke up to Halloween day. They went to their classes and returned to their room, noticing that the closet door was open. They looked inside and found that Gary had made good on his promise to supply them with costumes. The Eds quickly changed into their respective outfits, discovering that they were very unique.

"I FREAKIN' HATE Halloween!" Eddy bellowed. He was standing in front of the closet, adorned in a less than flattering costume. Gary had gotten the shortest Ed a jesters costume, which was decorated in vertical yellow and red stripes with purple trimmings at the ends of his sleeves and neck. The purple shoes curled at the toes and were padded at the bottom for walking, while his hat's color and design matched his tights with the addition of purple bells at the ends.

"I thought we were supposed to be excited for the holiday," Double D commented with a smug grin. The reason he was so eager to provoke his friend was that he managed to get lucky by being assigned a cowboy costume. He wore a worn in button down shirt, blue jeans along with leather chaps over them, and a longhorn belt buckle. In order to complete the look, Double D also wore a long brown duster coat, a matching cowboy hat over his skull-cap, and brown leather cowboy boots.

"I look just like the master, guys!" Ed laughed as he jumped down from his bunk. Ed's costume was by far the most simple, but easily won him over. He wore a tattered, dirty undershirt, sweatpants that had holes in the knees, and a pair of boots that were held together by silver duct tape. His entire outfit looked like it very well could've come out of a dumpster.

"At least you guys don't look like a clown without makeup!" Eddy complained. "Besides, these tights are starting to itch." As he began to scratch himself, Gary walked into their room.

"Good to know that they fit," he said to the boys as he strode in confidently. The boys saw that he was dressed up in a black military tunic and pants with high boots. As for his accessories, he wore a leather holster along his waist with a shoulder strap, a black military hat, and carried a riding crop in his hand. Ed and Eddy looked at him and thought that he was just another soldier, but Double D recognized the insignia on his hat and patches as indicators of a Nazi SS officer.

"Gary, do you realize that you're dressed up as a Nazi, right?" Double D asked.

"I know," Gary said proudly. "I picked it because it'll show everyone what kind of leader I can be." His demeanor caused Double D to raise a curious eyebrow, but he kept quiet.

"Geez, with all this, I wonder what Petey's dressed up as," Eddy wondered aloud.

"Did someone call for me?" Pete asked miserably. The Eds and Gary turned towards the door, causing Ed, Eddy, and Gary to try their best to keep their laughs contained. Pete was dressed up in a modified pair of pink onesie pajamas. The modifications included a pair of floppy ears and paws sewn onto the hands and feet, Pete had the appearance of a pathetic, pink bunny. Suddenly, the three boys began to burst out in a collective fit of laughter.

"He looks like an Easter bunny!" Ed laughed, pointing towards the unfortunate boy.

"A deranged Easter bunny!" Eddy added. "Now Halloween doesn't seem so bad."

"I believe that is enough," Double D said.

"You're right," Gary replied. "We've wasted enough time. Let's go." The Eds and Pete followed after Gary and walked outside into the night air. The full moon hung low in sky, leaving a pale glow on the school grounds.

"Just when you thought the school couldn't look any creepier," Eddy commented as the group walked into the dormitory's front lot. The other students were dressed up in costumes that covered a wide array of earnest attempts and last minute masks. The one thing that they all had in common was that they were all pulling various pranks.

"I guess I wasn't the only one who thought that the entertainment was a bit boring," Gary wondered aloud.

"Does this mean we'll be doing something different tonight?" Double D asked. Gary didn't respond, instead he began to grow a sly smile.

"In a manner of speaking," he said. "Follow me." The boys proceeded to walk along the path towards the school. The moon peeked out from behind the school, providing the lighting that turned the structure of brick and mortar into a shadowy figure, almost as if what stood in front of the boys was a ghost of Bullworth Academy. The Eds shook off their feelings of fear and trekked on as Gary led them beyond the school and towards the fountain.

"This way," Gary said, pointing towards the group's left. They walked down another path that was similar to the paths that led to the dormitories, only the building at the end was superior to the other dorms combined. The walkway leading to the front door was lit by custom built lamps on both sides. Everything about the building was top of the line, all the way down to the caulk used to seal the windows. The Eds looked over towards a metal plate on a brick post and saw that it read, "Harrington House". Before they could inquire about the building, they noticed that Gary and Pete had already approached a fenced in yard.

"Alright," Gary said as he pulled out a paper bag. "Here's the plan." The bag dripped some fluid that the other boys couldn't tell what it was, while the odor convinced Double D, Eddy, and Pete that they really didn't want to know. Ed, on the other hand, began to inhale the fumes with a smile on his face.

"Leftover meatloaf surprise," Ed said eagerly, reaching his hand out to take the bag. Gary pulled back, keeping the bag out of Ed's reach.

"As I was saying," Gary said. "We're going to feed Chad's dog this rancid meat. Then, we wait for it to take a dump..."

"Wh-what the hell?!" Pete exclaimed, cutting off Gary's explanation. "You made me dress up in this stupid costume just so you can watch a dog get sick and crap? I'm outta here." Pete turned around and ran back to the dorms, intent on getting out of his bunny costume as fast as humanly possible.

"Whatever, Petey," Gary muttered. "Come on. Let's do this." Gary ran into the yard, intent on catching the dog and giving it the food. The dog, on the other hand, refused to stay still for the stranger.

"This seems so wrong," Double D muttered.

"He didn't share the meatloaf, either," Ed added.

"Come on, boys," Eddy protested. "Let's at least see where Gary's going with this one."

"Hey, what are you doing with Chester?" an English-sounding voice called out. The Eds looked towards the corner of the lot to see a black student wearing an Aquaberry school sweater vest and dark tan slacks staring at Gary. His right hand was wrapped up in bandages and he had a scar under his left eye. As he began to run after Gary, Eddy grabbed Ed by his collar.

"Get in there, Ed!" Eddy commanded. Ed's confused look turned stern as he ran after Gary's attacker and grabbed him by the back of his vest. Ed spun him around, and was met by a right-handed body blow from the boy.

"Ooff!" Ed grunted as he stepped back and clutched his gut. Double D and Eddy looked up at the dog's owner as he took a boxer's stance.

"So, you think you can go ten rounds against Chad Morris?" he taunted. "Well, then, let's begin." Ed stood up straight, cracked his neck, and put up his fists.

"You got a funny accent," he taunted. "Lucky for me, the time for talking is over. Now, we talk through fighting." Ed charged forward and swung a wild haymaker. Chad, anticipating the move, ducked under the punch and delivered three more body blows to his opponent. The last hit sent Ed to his knees, giving Chad the perfect opportunity to taunt his opponent.

"Appropriate that you dressed like that," the boxer jeered. "You fight like garbage. Whoever taught you should be beaten by a real fighter."

"Ed!" Double D shouted. "You must regain your momentum!"

"Yeah, Lumpy," Eddy said. "If there's a time to go ultimate, then it'd be now!" Ed was too busy listening to the taunt repeating inside his head.

Whoever taught you should be beaten by a real fighter.

Chad watched as Ed rose to his feet and entered his SpecOp stance. The preppie, believing that it was just an attempt to scare him, sent a right cross towards Ed's head. Without blinking, Ed managed to swat the fist away and counter with a snap kick to Chad's ribs. While the boxer clutched at his side, Ed spun around and delivered an elbow strike to his left temple. The blow sent his opponent to the ground, giving Ed the opportunity to jump into the air and perform a leg drop, guaranteeing that his opponent wouldn't be getting up any time soon.

"So, this is the power of his Ultimate Style," Double D said as Ed attempted to kip up. Unfortunately for Chad, Ed only managed to hit the preppie with another leg drop.

"Oops," Ed muttered.

"It's like a flash in the pan," Eddy thought aloud. "Gone as soon as you see him shine." As Double D and Eddy began to help their friend to his feet, Gary managed to tire down Chester. The dog stopped his running right in front of the Eds, giving Gary the opportunity to reach into the bag and pull out some of the aged bits of beef.

"Here you go boy," Gary smiled as the dog chomped at the meat. "Yum, yum, yum, yum! Here's a trick for a treat!" The dog finished his food, only to feel the effects of it immediately afterwards. His stomach growled as he entered the position and began to clear his system of the foul toxins.

"Good Lord!" Double D exclaimed, turning away from the sight. "How vile!" Eddy covered his mouth and nose with both his hands, hoping that it would make a decent shield against the odor. Even Ed, who's tolerance for things that most would consider foul to the sense of smell, pinched his nostrils shut. Chester soon finished his business and slowly made his way back to his doghouse, while Gary proceeded to scoop the resulting mess into the paper bag with a stick.

"Score!" he said. "Here. One of you take this and follow me to the school." He extended the bag towards the Eds, who looked at the bag in a collective state of disgust and disbelief.

"I ain't touching that thing," Eddy finally said, taking multiple steps back.

"If I touch that, I'd have to wash my hands for weeks just to begin to feel clean again," Double D said. "Ed, if anyone should do it..." Ed blindly followed the suggestion of his friend and grabbed the bag, being sure to keep it as far away from him as his arm allowed. The Eds managed to catch up with Gary, who had already took off in a run for the school. They went though a back door, to an area that the Eds recognized as the teachers' lounge.

"Alright, put the bag here," Gary said, pointing towards the floor right in front of the lounge's door. Ed did as he was told, carefully placing the container of excrement in its place. As he took a few steps away from the bag, his nose began to sense a much more appealing scent coming from the second floor.

"Sweet treats!" Ed said cheerfully. He took off in a run for the stairs, leaving his friends behind for his investigation.

"Ed, where are you going?" Double D called out, only to resort to running after Ed.

"What's with them?" Gary asked. "They aren't focused on the job at all. If they don't get it together, they'll only hold us down." Eddy, after hearing those words, started to become frustrated with Gary.

"Hey, lighten up," Eddy said, doing his best to stay calm. "Sure, Lumpy can zone out at times, and Sock Head's not all-the-way into the idea, but they pull through in the end." After listening to Eddy's defense, Gary responded with a diabolical smirk.

"Look, I got an idea," Gary said slyly. "Let's cut the dead weight. You and me, working together, we'll be unstoppable. The school will be ours in half the time it would take with them dragging us down." Gary attempted to put his arm around Eddy's shoulder, only to have the shortest Ed push it away.

"If you think I'm gonna drop Ed and Double D for the school, then I got news for you," Eddy said coldly. "Those guys are my childhood friends. I ain't gonna give them up for anything, especially this armpit of a school." This prompted a flash of anger to shine in Gary's eyes, to which Eddy did his best to counterbalance with an icy glare.

"I thought you wanted to take over the school," Gary said, his words dripping with the familiar venom. "Now you aren't willing to make any cuts? What the hell are you doing here anyway besides wasting time?"

"I'm here to back up my boys," Eddy retorted. "They've done the same for me ever since we met. If you got a problem with that, I really don't care." As Eddy finished his sentence, the two boys found themselves in the middle of a stand off, neither one willing to say any word.


Ed's audible sniffing led Double D to the top of the stairs. He saw his friend slowly make his way into the front office like a dog who just picked up the scent of an animal. Silently, the smartest Ed walked into the office and saw his friend standing behind Ms. Danvers' desk, no longer sniffing but staring down at some object.

"Ed, would you care to explain why you ran off like that?" Double D asked as he walked around to join Ed. He soon found himself staring at what his friend had discovered; a large punch bowl that was filled to the brim with an assortment of candy.

"Finders' keepers, Double D," Ed smiled, reaching down to lift the entire bowl.

"Freeze, mister!" Double D exclaimed, causing Ed to stop moving completely. "That is obviously meant for someone else. Now, let's get back to Eddy and Gary, and I better not see you with any of that candy." Double D walked out the door and down the stairs. Unbeknownst to Double D, however, Ed had yet to move from his spot.


Gary and Eddy hadn't budged from their respective spots, neither one wanted to show any signs of weakness. After a few moments, Gary eventually put his hands up and smiled at Eddy.

"Alright, I'm sorry," he said defensively. "You three have managed to do a lot of good for our cause. I shouldn't have said what I did about your friends. Forgive me?" Eddy began to wrestle with the thought of whether or not he could accept Gary's apology.

"Look," he finally said. "How about we forget that this ever happened? Deal?"

"Deal," Gary replied. Before the boys could shake hands, they heard the sound of footprints approaching their location. They turned to see that it was only Double D, breathing a sigh of relief.

"Have I arrived in time to try to talk you out of whatever you're planning?" Double D asked.

"I don't think you were ever able to," Gary replied. "Hey, where's the big guy?" Double D looked all around, unable to find any sign of Ed anywhere.

"Curse Ed's lack of self-control," Double D muttered.

"What happened this time?" Eddy asked.

"Well," Double D began. "When I went upstairs, I found Ed..."

"You rang?" Ed's voice asked. The boys jumped and turned to see Ed poking his head out from behind a nearby wall.

"Ed, what do you think you're doing?" Double D asked.

"I'm going back to our room, Double D," Ed explained. "I'm not feeling too good."

"Must've been the fight with Chad," Double D theorized.

"Sounds legit," Eddy added. "Ok, Burrhead. See you in five." Ed smiled and disappeared, making his way to the main exit. While Ed took the time to carefully shut the door, the echo was loud enough to let his friends know that he had left the building.

"Enough waiting around," Gary said. "Hurry up and go to the fire alarm." Eddy walked over to the nearby alarm switch, while Double D followed him in an attempt to talk some sense into his friend.

"Eddy, don't you see where this is going?" Double D asked. "The bag of dog excrement. The teachers' lounge. The fire alarm. All these signs point to something serious."

"Only one way to find out, Quickdraw," Eddy smirked, putting his hand up onto the lever. Double D shook his head and joined his friend and watched as Gary pulled out a lighter and proceeded to ignite the paper bag.

"Go! Go! Go!" Gary said quickly, running towards the back door in hopes to use it as both a hiding spot and a seat for the show. Eddy quickly pulled the lever down, triggering the school's alarm system to go off. Eddy and Double D, taking a cue from Gary, hid behind the wall and looked out towards the door.

"What the hell's going on out here?" a familiar voice bellowed from behind the door. The remaining boys watched as Mr. Burton walked out, only to be hit in the face with a cloud of smoke. He immediately looked down, his eyes widening in shock at the sight of a small flame directly at his feet.

"Jesus!" he shouted as he jumped up into the air. Using both of his feet, he stomped repeatedly onto the bag. While his instinct had extinguished the fire, it had also backfired on him in the worst imaginable way. He let out an audible sniff, and reared his head back in disgust.

"What on Earth..." he muttered, picking up his foot to examine the bottom of his white tennis shoes. When he discovered what he was really mashing his soles into, he dropped his foot and threw his hands up into the air.

"YOU DAMN KIDS!" he shouted into the hallway, prompting Gary to run out the back door. Mr. Burton had heard the sound of the door opening, however, and proceeded to run after whoever it was who just left, tracking dog muck behind him as he left. Without saying a word, Double D and Eddy took the opportunity to escape through the front door, running nonstop until they made it back to the boys' dormitory.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Eddy cackled as he burst through the main door. "That was priceless!" Double D couldn't help himself as he joined in his friend's laughter, succumbing to the crude humor.

"I suppose we should thank Gary for putting on such a prank," he chuckled. "It's too bad that Ed had to miss it. I'm sure he would've enjoyed that scene more than you."

"Too bad for him," Eddy said. As he opened the bedroom door, he and Double D saw that Ed was sitting in the middle of the room. Much to Eddy's joy and Double D's shock, however, he had the large bowl of candy in front of him.

"HAPPY HALLOWEEN, GUYS!" Ed cheerfully greeted his friends.

"Ed, didn't I tell you not to take the candy?" Double D asked.

"No, you said that you didn't want to see me with the candy," Ed explained. "So, as long as you didn't see me with it, I could bring it here for us to share! Besides, no one was eating it in the office."

"Ed, you've blatantly twisted my words in order to derive your own selfish interpretation of their meaning!" Double D chastised. Meanwhile, Eddy was taking a seat next to the bowl of assorted sweets.

"Ed says they were wasting this, Double D" Eddy said as he began to root through the bowl. "The big guy was just trying to give it a happy home. Right, Ed?"

"There's space for rent in my stomach, Eddy," Ed replied, grinning from ear to ear. Eddy turned to face Double D, who refused to relent from his opinions.

"See?" Eddy asked. "Who knows? There could be a couple of jawbreakers in here..." The mentioning of the Eds' favorite treat caused Double D to reconsider his viewpoints temporarily, while Ed couldn't contain himself at the thought that somewhere inside the treasure trove of confectionaries lay a candied sphere of tooth breaking delight.

"Very well," Double D sighed, taking a seat in the ring around the bowl. "But expect me to have a stern discussion with you about manipulating one's cravings to your personal goals."

"Trust me, Sock Head," Eddy said as he reached into the bowl. "After we get through with this haul, I'll be willing to listen to Crabblesnitch talk about how he likes to clean his own nose."

"HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL, AND TO ALL A TRIP TO THE DENTIST!" Ed cheered.


Pranks, candy, and brawling. I can't imagine a better way to celebrate Halloween, can you? Alright, minor spoiler question, what comes after The Big Prank? You don't have to answer, but if you know then don't spoil it for others, please. I ain't afraid of no reviews, so give 'em to me.

Also, before you go, I hope that you have a Happy Halloween, filled with sweet treats and fun no matter what your plans are.

Peace.