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Elsa opened her ice palace doors to see Rapunzel in hippie wear, a large tie-dye shirt draped over her, a peace symbol necklace hanging loosely from her neck, and round purple shades over her eyes. "Trick or treat!"

Elsa rolled her eyes. "It's not Halloween just yet, Rapunzel."

"I love getting into the spirit thought, SO!" She looked her up and down. "Who are you?" Elsa was wearing a long black T-shirt as a dress, her skin painted green and she had put a pointed black hat on her head.

"The Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz?"

"Oh."

Anna popped out from behind her. "I'm Glinda!"

"Cool!" Rapunzel looked around. "Where's Stitch? You said he came over."

"Oh yeah he's—" Elsa looked around her legs and sighed. "Stitch, come out." A little creature on all fours walked out from behind Elsa, completely covered in a form fitting black costume, a name tag dangling from his neck saying "Toto". Stitch's face poked out of the front end of the costume, not pleased in what he was wearing whatsoever.

Rapunzel squealed. "He looks adorable!"

Stitch growled.

"Okay, so we're good!" Elsa said, summoning an ice sculpted broomstick.

"Alrighty!"

In a rush of wind, The four appeared in the rec room of HQ. Jack was sitting on a couch in front of the plasma screen watching the Twilight Zone series, and Ralph was sitting on a stool, Belle and Cinderella hovering over him and painting him orange and black.
Elsa threw the broomstick onto the couch next to Jack. "A good Happy Halloween to you all!"

"Hello, Elsa, Rapunzel, Anna," Cinderella said. She looked down and giggled. "And Stitch." Stitch grumbled to himself.

"Oh my gosh," Anna giggled. "Ralph is the Great Pumpkin!"

"Oh no, I haven't heard that one yet," Ralph replied in a flat tone. Belle continued painting his face.

"Oh, Ralph," Elsa said. "I think you look nice."

Ralph smiled. "Thank you, Elsa." She nodded to him, smiling back surprisingly warmly.

"Where's Merida?" Rapunzel said.

Suddenly, the rec room doors burst open a figure with ghostly pale skin, in a white dress. Her bright red hair standing up with a silvery streak in it. Ralph screamed and jumped back. Belle groaned. "Ralph, I told you not to move!" He now had a black streak across his cheek.

"Sorry…"

"Geez the makeup's not THAT bad," Merida's voice came from it.

"Well, your mom certainly went all out this year," Rapunzel said.
Merida rolled her eyes. "Mum thought it would be funny to compare my hair to Frankenstein's bride."

"Have I ever mentioned how much I appreciate your mother's humor?" Elsa said.

Merida looked at Jack. "And why aren't you in a costume?"

"I am?" He replied in his regular pirate get up. He held up a Star Command blaster. "I'm a space pirate. Star-Lord is letting me borrow his mask, as well." He pressed a button on the side of his face and the mask materialized over his face.

"Well, why step out of your comfort zone?" Anna said.

"Right?"

The girls rolled their eyes.

"And you are done, Ralph!" Belle stepped away. "Let it dry,okay?"

Ralph stood in a scarecrow outfit with a face that looked like a pumpkin. He sighed and put his hands up.

"Oh come on, Ralph, you look fine," Elsa said.

"The only pumpkin prettier of the patch," Jack added.

Ralph crossed his legs. "Yeah I am the prettiest."

"So pretty," Elsa chuckled. Ralph laughed.

Mickey and Walt walked into the room, approaching the team. Mickey was in the vampire costume he wears every year and Walt was wearing a Buzz Lightyear jetpack. "There you are! You guys need to start heading out to the Mansion!"

"Why?" Merida asked.

"The Swinging Wake."

"What? We did that last year!" Rapunzel said.

"It happens every Halloween," Mickey replied.

"But… CANDY!"

"We finished after trick or treating was done," Merida said.

"Well then I suggest you guys finish earlier," Walt replied.

Merida and Rapunzel groaned.

As the bells over at Notre Dame began to chime for 8 PM, the Haunted Mansion's windows suddenly glowed an eerily greenish light and a loud screaming and cheering sounded. Merida sighed as the Defenders approached the New Orleans mansion.

"I hate this place," she said. "The ghosts always tug at my hair."

"Yeah but at least you know where they're pulling it from," Rapunzel said. "They always unbraid mine and start pulling it from the shadows. They mess up the conditioner I put in it!"

"You guys complain so much about this place, I think it's fine," Elsa said.

"You're a witch, they like you."

"I barely consider myself a magic user, I doubt they think I'm a witch."
"Oh bless my stars!" They looked to the lawn as they walked up to the front door and saw the ghost Lady Renata sitting on a bench. "Why, if it ain't the Defenders of the Magic Kingdom! Come back for more of the same dead boring party from last year?" She laughed. "You see.. Hoo! See what I did there? Dead boring! Ha!"

"Hello Renata," Elsa said. "You know why we're here."

"Oh, I know." She nodded. "Master Gracey is waiting for y'all in the library, he's expecting ya."

The six came up to the front door and knocked. "Okay, so," Jack said. "At least an hour. We can't miss Mickey's party again."

"Didn't we say this last time?" Ralph replied.

"The ghosts will always push to go until midnight," Elsa said. "On any normal night it would be fine, but the Swinging Wake causes too much disturbance. Which is why I have a new plan. We need to get the bride awake."

The doors opened slowly in a long creak. Rapunzel looked at Elsa.

"Uh… Last I checked that was a bad thing. If the bride wakes up from her trance then she goes on a rampage through the house."
"Well it's either that or the Headless Horseman terrorizes people longer because the ghosts won't shut up." They walked through into the foyer, ghosts scattering the room, laughing and drinking wine glasses that were empty.

"I don't know, it just seems mean."

"Yeah Elsa, I'm just as annoyed by the Mansion's Halloween traditions, but isn't that going a bit overboard?"

"It does seem like we're overstepping our limits," Jack said. "Do we even know it'll work out the way we intend? Nobody has woken her for decades."

Elsa sighed. "I'm not wasting hours of my night dealing with dead people. I'm hitting them where it hurts, see if they wanna have a swinging wake on Halloween again."

Rapunzel sighed. They stood in the middle of the foyer surrounded by ghosts of all types, having a riot that shook the building. "So. Find the bride. Wake her up. Not too hard."

"Splitting up ought to be best," Jack said.

"First one who catches her gets a quarter of everyone's candy," Merida said, glancing at everyone mischievously.

Elsa grinned. "I'll take that bet."

"Same," Jack said.

"Stitch?" Rapunzel peered down to him.

Stitch looked up at her and laughed sinisterly.

"The stakes are set," Ralph said. "Let's get this show on the road!"

Rapunzel walked down the long eerie hallway, holding an oil lamp and glancing around timidly. The hallway nearly seemed endless, making twists and turns in ways she didn't think were possible.
A light mist had spread throughout the room and an ominous green glow resonated behind every door, the door knockers tapping like crazy.

"When hinges creak in doors' chambers…" An eerie voice sounded in the distance. "And strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls…" It was almost like a whisper, a whisper Rapunzel could hear clearly through a chilling wind that came from nowhere.

She came to a staircase that was shrouded in shadows. A floating candelabra hovered at the top, almost beckoning her to follow. Perhaps, she thought, it would lead her to where the bride would be. "Whenever candelights flicker," the dim flames at the tip of its candles flickered as if on cue, "where the air is deathly still…" Rapunzel began cautiously climbing the stairs. "That is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!"

The stairwell began to dim more and more and staircases began appearing all around her, as though it was all mirrored across walls and walls of glass. Glowing footprints lined the steps and Rapunzel's breathing began to quicken. She turned to the candelabra, floating away from her at the top of the stairs. She ran toward it. The stairwell was narrowing, the candelabra kept moving away. Would she even make it out?

"Welcome, foolish mortals," a voice boomed from the other side of the library as Elsa and Ralph entered, "to the Haunted Mansion!" A man with deathly pale skin and sleek black hair in a velvet robe turned to them slowly. "I am your host. Your ghost ghost." He chuckled.

"Yeah, whatever, scary stuff," Elsa said. "So, Master Gracey…" He smiled politely. "Renata on the front lawn says you've been dying to meet us. No pun intended."

"You think bringing a personal bodyguard with you will do you much good?" Gracey gestured to Ralph.

"No, but it's a comforting thought to know someone's with me."

"Sentiment. I vaguely remember that." Elsa rolled her eyes. Gracey puffed on a pipe and blew out a heavy cloud of smoke. "As it turns out, yet, I did want to see you. Though in all fairness, I wanted to see all of you."

"Why?" Ralph said. "What do you want?"

Master Gracey appeared at a bookshelf to the far corner. "You know, our library is well stocked in priceless first editions. Only ghost stories, of course. As well as marble busts of the greatest ghost writers the literary world has ever known. They all retired here in the Mansion."

Elsa blinked. "I… Don't see how that's—"

"Shh… Listen…" He held a hand to his ear, listening intently to nothing.

"All I hear is a rambunctious party going on that we have to disband."

"Exactly. And no doubt, you lot have a plan of action and we can't have that now can we?" Rapunzel appeared out of nowhere and fell onto the floor. She seemed startled, spinning her head around, not understanding where she was for a moment. "While the rest of my ghastly friends round up your other friends, you all will be in here, enjoying my vast collection of novels as we enjoy our swinging wake."

"What?" Elsa said. "You can't do this! We're Defenders, you can't just—"

"Or what? You'll condemn us? Kill us?" Gracey laughed. "We're already dead!" He disappeared into blue smoke as he continued to laugh, his cackling echoing in the distance.

Rapunzel huffed. "Well now what?"

Elsa sighed. "We hope the others have better luck than us…"

Merida passed through the ghostly guests of the wild party in the ballroom, swerving around people dancing and spirits hooting and hollering as they swung past her. She groaned at the rude displays that was shown around her. But her priority right now was the bride. Among the scores of Victorian and Civil War era dresses, there still was no sign of her.

"Oh forget all this!" She said. Maybe She'd have better luck finding her in the usual spot in the attic. She made her way for the stairs that led to the mezzanine. As she did, a dueling ghost passed through her in a cloud of blue smoke, making her cough. "Hey! Watch where you're going!"

The ghost turned around and grinned. "Oh look at that! A Defender of the Magic Kingdom! Hear that, everyone? The Defenders are here!" They all erupted into a roar of applause and cheering.

"Oh my, why thank you but—" She then felt tugged and thrown up to the ceiling where she sat on top the chandelier, the ghosts sitting on top of it making it swing in wide strokes. Wine bottles scattered across the table burst open and shot jets of foam everywhere. "Wow, when you guys throw a party you sure throw a party."

"I know, isn't it great?" An Egyptian-clothed ghost said.

A howling spirit swooped her up and carried her down to the dancefloor where a mysterious man glided up to her, taking her hand and waist and twirling her around in a waltz. "You're quite light and quick on your feet, young lady," he said.

"Oh thanks, not too shabby yourself!" As he continued to twirl her around, she began to spin a little out of control and her hand slipped, separating from him and falling back. Someone caught her from behind and stood her up, positioning her to facing him. "Jack!" He smiled. "What are you doing here?"

"Figured I'd glance it over 'til I saw those ghosties taking advantage of you."

"They weren't—"

"Lass, look around you. There are sinister-ish eyes glaring at us from the corners of our eyes. They won't reveal themselves when looking directly at them, but they're there."

Merida took a shot at glancing through her peripheral vision and could see figures staring at them, watching them. They all were, waiting, watching. Merida breathed quietly. "Jack… What do we do?"

"Just follow my lead." He looked around, glanced at a curtain tail that lead to the banister of the mezzanine. He looked around again, took out Star-Lord's gun and shot the chandelier, which toppled down and crashed into the dining room table. He then grabbed Merida, took hold of the curtain tail and aimed the gun at the top of the curtain's banister. He shot at it and the tail shot straight up. The two grabbed the banister and hoisted themselves up onto the mezzanine.

When Jack straightened himself, Merida whacked him on the head. "What in the blazes was that?!"

"My plan," he said plainly. Spirits raised up onto the mezzanine, their eyes glowing red and had seemingly sharpened teeth.

"You plan is gonna get us killed!"

"It's like this is some odd form of poetry…"

"Run!"

They turned to the doors of the ballroom. There were three that were wide open. Merida and Jack went through two and Jack dashed to the other one. As a dozen spirits approached it, Jack managed to slam it shut. He kept hold of the the door as the spirits knocked furiously on it, trying to barge it open. After a minute or so, they stopped.

Jack sighed and rested on the door, slumping his shoulders. He looked at Merida. "Well. That was a fun party."

Merida tripped over a trunk she didn't see in the dark attic space. She sighed. "Are you sure she'll be here?"

"We don't really have anywhere else to look, love."

"The graveyard, for one thing."

"Then we'll check the graveyard!"

The attic was old - clearly - and dusty - obviously - and the eerie lighting from the moonlight night outside shining from a glass dome on top the attic made the room even more creepy. Jack motioned for them to split up and Merida took the right path of cluttered objects. As she rounded the corner, a ghostly figure stood glaring straight ahead. She froze for a moment and noticed he wasn't moving.

He had a skeleton-like face and a black top hat, looking spiffy in a suit and holding a hatbox in his hand. She waved a hand at his face and then moved out of his line of sight. He wasn't paying attention to her.

She followed his gaze and suddenly he breathed. She jumped back and looked at him. There was nothing around, what was he doing? "Um… Hate to bother you sir, but have you seen a bride up here recently?"

He breathed again and raised the hatbox up. Merida thought he was giving it to her, but that thought died when his head disappeared and then reappeared in the hatbox translucently. It seemed to be more alive, more animated. He smiled. "The bride haunts the wedding dress in the middle of the room. But be warned, the wife may be too bloody for your tastes…"

"Oh, thank you!" The head disappeared and then reappeared on his torso. The eyes were hollow again, and were glaring forward, his attention not straying. Merida cringed. "O…kay…" She backed away slowly.

She turned around corners of boxes and dresses packed and hanged away gathering dust, looking for a path toward the middle of the room as the ghost informed her. She finally found her way to the light source of the glass dome and made her way to a rack of Civil War period dresses.

"Whatcha lookin' for, lass?" She turned to see Jack coming up to her.

"A dress. A wedding dress."

"Now, I'm pretty sure Hawkins is gonna want to wait on that."

"No, idiot, the wedding dress the bride stays near. If we find the dress, then we'll find her. AHA!" Merida pulled a beautiful and elegant white dress from the rack, a long and flowing wedding dress. She held it to her chest, patting it on herself and comparing it to her form. "It's beautiful! So beautiful!"

Jack turned to see a figure in all white, emitting a bright glow. He patted Merida on the shoulder and she turned to it. It was the bride, coming out of the shadows and approaching them. "Hello, lady," he said. He bowed. "We are here to discuss something—"

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today…"

"Uh okay," he responded.

"To join these two in their final moments as one another and become together…" Her face shown through the veil and suddenly an axe appeared in her hands. "In death."

Merida yelped. "WRONG BRIDE! WRONG BRIDE!"

Ralph hit the doors one more time before Elsa groaned. "What are we going to do? We're trapped in a mad house overrun with ghosts who are probably homicidal!"

Rapunzel sighed and put down a small marble bust. "There are no secret passages that I can open. We're stuck."

"And Jack, Merida and Stitch have no idea something's wrong." Elsa shook her head.

Ralph sat down on a nearby sofa. "It's useless. There's nothing we can do. OH I FEEL SO POWERLESS!" He stomped his fists on the ground and suddenly the door handle jiggled. He blinked and looked at his hands. "I loosened it."

Stitch popped in and walked over to the desk, shuffling through papers.

"Stitch?" Rapunzel said.

He looked up. "Hi." He bit down on one paper and took it down with him as he got back on all fours.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait," Elsa said. Stitch paused, put the paper down and looked up at her. "How did you get in?"

"Was unlocked from outside."

"Right. Anyway," Rapunzel said. "Did you find the bride?"

"Ee!"

"Where is she?"

"I show!" He took the paper again and crawled back to the door, gesturing for them to follow.

"And that is why you seek my help?" The ghostly head inside the crystal ball said. Madam Leota looked at them precariously.

"Yes," Merida said. "If anyone knows where to find this bride, it's you. You're one with all the spirits in this place."

"That I am." She closed her eyes and the crystal ball began floating up. The room began to spin and Jack and Merida found themselves floating a bit. The crystal ball glowed an ominous green and Leota opened her eyes. "Ghost fiends and furies, old friends and new! Blow in a horn so we'll know that it's you!" A horn sounded in the distance.

"Are we completely sure this was a good idea?" Jack asked to Merida.

"Rap on a table, it's time to respond. Send us a message from somewhere beyond!"

"It's all we've got left! She's our last shot in the dark!" Merida responded.

"Goblins and ghoulies from last Halloween, awaken the spirits with your tambourine!" A bluish aura began appearing around the ceiling, orbs of light appearing from nowhere all around the room. "Lift fast! Lift fast up to the light, and lead us through this stormy night!"

The spinning continued and Jack brought his hand to his mouth in an attempt to keep everything in.

"Wizards and witches, wherever you dwell! Give us a hint, by ringing a bell!"

A bell sounded in the distance and Leota's head was replaced with an image in the crystal ball, one of a woman in a dull but glowing white dress sitting next to a coffin in an underground chamber. Though the image did not show her face, it was obvious her veil was off. She brought a hand to her cheek and rubbed a tear away. the image cut out. "The bride you seek is in the mausoleum, visiting a loved one for whom she lost tragically on All Hallows' Eve."

"Perfect, then we'll—" Jack started.

"Just go?" Leota grinned. "We spirits have other things in mind for you two." She laughed maniacally.

Rapunzel hopped down the large steps that led down to the mausoleum and saw in the center of the underground chamber, a woman was sitting next to an open coffin, a hand on the side of it. She started down the bridge that led to the middle of the chamber when she felt something cold shudder in her body. "Please don't come closer," a melodic and innocent voice said.

The woman stood up and turned around, revealing a beautiful, warm face and a veil that rested on the top of her rich brown hair. She wore a typical Civil War period styled wedding dress, the thin white lacing etched beautiful flowery designs on the dress, defining her curves and her edges perfectly. "Stitch is kind. But he's wrong, I can't help you."

"But—"

"Child, there ain't nothin' I can do. This house doesn't belong to me anymore!" She sighed and turned back to the coffin. "It hasn't been mine for a very long time. Don't see no point in starting now." She put her hand in the coffin, caressing something inside it.

Elsa, Stitch and Ralph were right behind Rapunzel. Stitch approached Rapunzel and pointed at the paper that was in between his teeth. Rapunzel nodded. Stitch placed the paper down on the ground and blew on it, sending it to the bride ever so lightly. She glanced down and picked it up, turning it around to reveal it was a small portrait of her and a young man in a military uniform.

She touched the picture lightly with her fingertips, tears falling down her cheek. Her pain began to swell and the mausoleum rumbled vigorously. The bride screamed and screamed, all for a long time, howling to the sky, a torment she had hid away for so many years. Halloween was a time for mourning to her, and this was no different. In the distance, the music from the party could be well heard inside the underground chamber and the bride instantly turned to the noise. She felt fueled, driven, she was in anger and horror. She heaved a final time and disappeared.

The bride had been awaken.

Black water began to pour in from portraits that lined the round isolated room. Jack and Merida scattered around, looking for a way out but there was none. "Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding," a voice sounded in the distance. "Almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis. Consider this dismaying observation, this chamber has no windows and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out!" The voice sounded a laugh that echoed throughout the chamber as it began to rise quickly in the black water.

They found that the water had grown up to their necks at this point, no way out at this point. Merida eventually gave in and sunk down under the water. She noticed a glowing white figure in the water looking up to her. "Of course there's always my way." She said, smiling.

A sound of thunder start and suddenly there was no more water. Merida gasped for air as she looked up at her. "Thanks. You saved my life."

"Don't thank me yet." She disappeared. Behind where she stood was a door that opened… but they were unsure of where.

As the two exited the round gallery, ghosts were panicking, running all over the place and tearing the place a part. Merida raised an eyebrow. "What happened while we were gone?"

"The bride." They both turned to see the other four smiling. "No matter. Party's over, aaaaaand," Else looked at the clock. "Heh, just two more hours to spare on trick-or-treating."

"And unfortunately, Stitch found her. So…" Rapunzel started.

"He gets a quarter of our candy, I get it bud," Merida said. Stitch giggled.

As they left the Mansion grounds Renata waved at them. "Hurry back! Hurry back. Y'all best be sure to bring ya death certificate. If ya decide to join us then make the arrangements ya need to make now so it's good."

"Goodbye, Lady Renata! See you next Halloween!" Elsa said. The others waved back at her.

"Goodbye, sweethearts!" Renata said. "We've been dying to have you." She looks at you and winks before disappearing into a cloud of blue smoke.

NEXT TIME ON DEFENDERS OF THE MAGIC KINGDOM:

BIG HERO 6 WILL MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN THE BEST KIND OF WAY

DOUBLE FEATURES LONG IN THE MAKING:

- DEFENDERS OF THE GALAXY

- HYDRA ON THE RANGE

AND FINALLY THE EPIC FINALE TO THE DEFENDERS VS AVENGERS STORY ARC THAT WILL HAVE BIG HERO 6 AS THE SOLE CONNECTION BETWEEN BOTH THE DISNEY AND MARVEL WORLDS!

the double features MIGHT be one/two chapters long each it depends I have the content but now I'm just ordering stuff. double features in early November and the finale in late November!