A/N: I OWN NOTHING BUT MY CHARACTERS!
~Third person P.O.V~
Randy and Howard were watching the Whoopee World Frightacular commercial on Howard's phone waiting for science class to start.
"So Bruuuuuuuuuuce!" Randy said commenting on the commercial. "Get it? Bruuuuuce!"
"Got it the first time..." Howard said while putting his phone away. "Still stupid. Speaking of the Frightacular, will you be inviting a certain red head to join us or are you gonna choke like you usually do?"
Randy gave him a look of disbelief. "Choke? Me? I'll have you know that I do not choke."
"Well what about that one time..."
~~Flashback~~
Riley was going through her locker as Randy walked over with the intention of inviting her to join him and Howard to the Game Hole.
"H-hey Riley..."
The red head looked up to see Randy next to her fidgeting and looking nervous.
"Oh, Hey Randy. Whats up?" She greeted as she closed her locker.
"Uhh... I was just wondering if you would- if your not busy!- l-like to join Ho-" Randy was cut off by the bell, signaling class was about to start.
"Sorry, what was that?" Riley asked with a smile.
Randy's nervousness grew as he stuttered. "Uh... I- you-Howard- me-Game Hole- ask..."
Riley got an awkward look her face as Randy continued to stumble with his words. "Um... I have to get to class... we can talk later okay?"
He didn't seem to hear her as he kept rambling and didn't notice she walked away with a bewildered look on her face.
"-play with-I-after school-me-whoa!"
"Out of the way shoob!" Bash shouted as he pushed Randy to the side and into an open locker.
"Aw man..."
~~Flashback end~~
Howard laughed at the memory as Randy gave him a flat look, clearly unamused. "Okay so I had a little trouble in the past. But today will be different! I'll be so smooth when I ask her, that she'll say yes before I even finish." Randy declared as the classroom started to fill up.
"Well Mr. Smooth guy, here's your chance." A smirking Howard said as he pointed to the incoming red head.
Randy froze at the sight of her but quickly snapped out of it when he saw Howard's smug smirk. A determined feeling welled up in him, ready to prove his friend wrong.
That feeling quickly died as he stood beside her desk and as she looked up at him with her warm brown eyes.
"Hi Randy."
Randy cleared his throat as he felt his heart start racing. "Uh...Hey-hi! Riley, how's it going?"
"Pretty good. Did you need something?"
Randy gulped. "Um... if-if your not doing a-an-anything on Halloween, would you l-like to-" The final bell went off just as Mrs. Driscoll walked in holding a box of potted plants.
Knowing he had to go back to his seat, Riley gave him an apologetic smile while shrugging in a 'what-can-you-do' matter.
Randy returned the smile, though strained, but it fell into a frown when he turned around to sit at his desk. He slammed his head on the desk, groaning in defeat.
Howards snickered as he patted his friend on the back. "So smooth guy, how'd it go?"
Randy turned his head and gave Howard a glare.
"Good morning, class." Mrs. Driscoll greeted the class before rubbing against her husband while holding the box. "Morning, Jerry."
She then made him say. "Why those lips talkin' instead of kissin'."
She proceeded to kiss him much to the disgust of her class.
Mrs. Driscoll started placing a potted plant on each desk. "With Halloween a week away, I thought we'd celebrate by growing our very own Vetis Odormotes."
"'The Smell of Death Vine.'" She made Jerry say.
She placed one in front of Howard and Randy. The two sniffed it only to reel back in disgust.
"Smells like old man breath." Howard said waving his hand in front of his face.
"I was gonna go with meat farts." Randy said while covering his nose.
A similar conversation was going on between Riley and Haydn.
Haydn had his collar over his nose. "Ugh, smells like a wet dog wearing a suit made out of my dad's old socks."
"Really? Cause to me it smells like my nana's seafood casserole dipped in a mixture of B.O. and garbage." Riley said while pinching her nose.
"Follow these direction exactly." Mrs. Driscoll said while holding up a copy of the instruction.
"Or your plant will look like me." Her husband said.
"2 cups of water per day. One scoop of plant food every hour. Alternate sunlight and shade-No! This is way too complicated." Randy complained after a quick look over the instructions. "It's a plant!"
"I know! Let's just put all the water and plant food in now." Howard said grabbing the plant food.
Randy facepalmed."Howard, we just outsmarted nature."
The two then proceeded with their plan unaware of two blank stairs watching them.
"They just messed up, didn't they." Haydn asked blankly.
"Big time..." Riley replied with a blank look as well.
~~1 week later~~
~Riley's P.O.V.~
After a week of co-watching the plant, Haydn and I were able to get it to grow to a tall thorny white flower that's smell intensified to the point that both our parents made us work on it in the shed at my house.
As I walked into class carrying the plant, I stood in the doorway and took in the sight of the room in a mess, Randy dressed as half of a cow, and Howard dressed as...Viceroy. The Juice?
"Dare I ask?" I said as I made my way over to my desk and set the plant down.
"No." The boy replied in despair.
I wondered why they were so down until I saw their dead plant.
Giving them a blank look. "You two are hosed."
"Don't need a commentary Davis. Unless you have an idea to help." Howard said with some sass making me grin a bit.
"Well unless you can bring back the dead...I got nothing." I joked. That made them groan louder making me quirk an eyebrow. What's with them?
The bell then rang and everyone with their plants started piling into the room with Mrs. Driscoll, dressed as a skeleton, closed the door behind them.
Haydn sat down next to me as I eyed his top hat. Feeling my stare, he looked towards me with a cocky look. "Jealous?"
I rolled my eyes with a smile. "Hardly."
He then notice my lack of costume. "Why aren't you dressed up?"
"Didn't want to get it messed up. I'm meeting up with Rachel after school to get ready."
Mrs. Driscoll walked over to our table. "Riley and Haydn, A."
We shared a fist bump and I watch as she went over to Randy and Howard's table as they smile innocently.
Mrs. Driscoll only needed one look at their plant to make a decision. "Boys, I'm afraid you get an-"
"Rrrrrrr!"
I blinked in confusion. Who the juice was that?
"R?!" A shocked Howard yelled. "That's worse than an F!"
Suddenly, the moving skeleton of Jerry popped up and draped an arm around the boys.
"Rrrr you ready to die?!" Jerry asked with glowing yellow eyes as my own widen in horror.
The boys screamed and jumped away making Jerry laugh as he knocked some plants over causing everyone to scream and run out of the room.
"Jerry... your...ALIVE!" Mrs. Driscoll then fainted to the floor.
I quickly ducked under my desk and looked through my bag to find my mask until I saw a head of purple as Randy crawled by.
"Randy?"
He turned his head seeing me. "Riley! Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm-"
"Is it possible that you might have, um, skipped a step?!" I hear Howard ask as he crawled over. But he froze when he saw me and my confused look.
"Skipped a step? What are you-" I stop mid-sentence as a boney hand snatched Howard up.
"Gah!" Howard screamed as he was held in the air by Jerry.
"Doomsday is COMING!" Jerry screamed causing Howard to scream as well.
"I just made doomsday in my pants." Howard said scared.
Jerry then ran out of the room with a screaming Howard in tow.
I was trying to wrap my brain around the whole thing when I a felt a pair of hands on my shoulders making me look at a determined looking Randy.
"Riley, I need you to stay here. I'm gonna go find help."
"Wait Randy!" I called out but he was already out of the room.
Sighing, I pulled out my mask.
"SMOKEBOMB!"
I appeared in front of a vending machine with Ninja showing up on top of it just as Jerry rounded the corner.
He came to halt when he saw us.
"Ninja ring!" Ninja yelled as he and I threw some rings at the skeleton. They hit him dead on causing Jerry to drop Howard.
"Oh, you got me!" Jerry said dramatically before falling down.
My partner and I went closer only stop as Jerry pulled himself up.
"What the juice?" Ninja asked.
Jerry shook his ribs and I was able to see our ninja rings jiggling inside them. He then broke off one his ribs, causing the rings to fall out. "Just 'ribbing' ya!"
Jerry then started throwing some ribs making us dodge them as we moved in to get closer.
Jerry then started throwing jack o'lanterns at us. I ducked but one hit Ninja in the face causing it to splatter every where and causing the two of us to slid forward. "Ninja slip!"
The skeleton threw more pumpkins at us while we chopped them causing us to slip even more. I had to hold onto Ninja's back to keep myself up.
But that ended up not doing anything Ninja slipped right into a pumpkin Jerry was holding that made us fall down the stairs. Which hurt by the way!
We landed tangled up with each other covered in pumpkin. We looked up at Jerry who looked down at us with Howard back in his grasp.
"See you around." Jerry mocked as he stuck his fingers out of his sockets and ran off with Howard.
"Howard?" Ninja called out as we untangled from each other and went back up the stairs to find Jerry and Howard gone. "Howard!"
"Where'd they go?" I asked while looking around.
"I have no idea. But we might know someone who does." Ninja said letting me catch on what he was hinting.
Running back towards the science room, we burst through the door startling Mrs. Driscoll who had woken up from her faint spell.
"We need your help!" We said in unison, startling her.
"Where'd your husband take that-young man whose name we do not know?" Ninja said stumbling with his words. I resisted the urge of mumbling 'smooth' at him.
"Wish I knew, Ninja and Kunoichi." Mrs. Driscoll said. "Mr. D has always had a secretive side. Been that way since college. Ah... College. Jerry was first in his class at MSU: Mad Scientist University." What? "Jerry was brilliant. Spent every waking moment working on his thesis: the Doomsday Device."
"Wait! Hold up, What?!" I yelled out in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, Doomsday device?" Ninja asked just as in much disbelief as me. "OK, so is that how he...you know, he has bones?"
"Oh, no." Mrs. Driscoll laughed. "That's a funny story-"
"Back to the Doomsday Device!" I interrupted. Didn't mean to be rude, but we were on a time crunch.
"One night, MSU's number two student betrayed him."
"What was the number 2 student's name?" I asked.
"Oh, his name was Willem Viceroy."
"Viceroy!" Ninja and I said.
"He always had a jealous streak."
"Ninja lead!" Ninja cheered.
With a ride from Mrs. Driscoll, we were able to reach the McFist Mansion.
We hid in some bushes as a group of trick or treaters knocked on the door. When it opened, McFist was dressed as pirate and his wife was a fox.
Carefully we were able to get close to the font of the kids. A few that I noticed were dressed like me and Ninja. Cute.
"Another Ninja and Kunoichi? How original." McFist said in a bored tone."Uh, I mean, enjoy these McFizzles." He started handing out candy as Ninja and I slipped by when the kids stared crowding.
It took a bit, but we were able to track down Viceroy in room laying on a couch watching T.V and eating some popcorn.
"Stupid kids sitting in a pumpkin patch all night." We heard him say. "There's no such thing as the Great -"
"Viceroy!" We yelled jumping into the room, startling the scientist.
"Ninja?! Kunoichi?!"
"We just need to talk-" Ninja started only to be cut off by Viceroy blowing into a whistle.
A chainsaw werewolf suddenly burst out of a tiny vase, how? I have no idea, and started attacking us.
Ninja quickly took out his sword and blocked the chainsaw while I flicked out my tessens and stuck it in the back. It then proceeded to swing its chainsaw back and forth trying to hit one of us.
"Jerry. Driscoll. is. ALIVE!" Ninja shouted as he blocked and dodged. I quickly delivered a kick to the wolf's legs just as Viceroy blew his whistle.
The chainsaw werewolf immediately backed down and started acting like a puppy.
"Well he's more in the middle. Kinda zombie situation without the eating people thing." I explained, putting away my tessen away while still keeping watch on the robot wolf.
"The point is, he's back and, you know-" Ninja started as Viceroy finished with him."He wants to finish his Doomsday Device."
"Right, no, yeah. You got it, you said it."
"And because of our history, only I can find him." Viceroy said before heading outside with the two of us following right behind him.
Ninja and I got in the back of Mrs. Driscoll car as Viceroy and her greeted each other dryly.
Mrs. Driscoll started driving as Ninja and I popped out heads between the seats.
"So, Doomsday Device. What's the deal there?" Ninja asked.
"Proof of functioning Doomsday Device guarantees you valedictorian at MSU. Sooner come lunatic." Viceroy explained.
"But the only way to prove it's functioning is to destroy the world?" I asked trying to make sense of it.
"Ah, yes. The Driscoll Conundrum."
"And you married that wacko?" Ninja asked our teacher as we looked at her weird.
Mrs. Driscoll just giggled while playing with her bangs. "I like dangerous men."
I stared at her a little longer before shrugging. "To each her own."
After a bit of driving we passed by the Museum of Silt.
"Back up! Back up!" Viceroy said.
Mrs. Driscoll backed up and parked in front of the museum.
Viceroy pointed towards some mesh on the floor with light coming from it. "There, under the gift shop."
Viceroy, Ninja, and I got out of the car.
"Wait here, Mrs. Driscoll." Ninja said.
"Why?" She asked.
"It could be dangerous." I replied. Mrs. Driscoll said something that I didn't hear as the three of us went closer to the mesh.
Ninja lifted the mesh up and placed it to the side. He then looked at me while pulling out a smoke bomb. "You ready?"
I smiled under my mask and pulled out my own smoke bomb. "Born ready."
~Third person P.O.V~
"SMOKEBOMB!"
The two heroes appeared from their respective smokes while Viceroy floated down with a gadget on his waist on top of the stairs.
"Hello, Ninja and Kunoichi!" Jerry said.
Howard cheered from his spot in a cage.
Jerry then glared at Viceroy. "And real Viceroy."
"Jerry." Viceroy greeted dryly. "I see the diet worked."
"So glad you're here, to witness my superior BRAIN!" Jerry pulled off the top of his skull, showing an empty space.
The machine started glowing and opened up as it said. "Earth will be destroyed in two minutes."
Reacting quickly, Ninja and Kunoichi jumped from the stairs as Kunoichi kicked Jerry into pieces and Ninja went towards the machine.
"Not if we have anything to say about it." Ninja declared pulling out a piece of the machine only to stop dead cold at the sight of the advance interior.
Confused about the sudden silence, Kunoichi turned around to see the problem only to stop her self. "Oh, boy..."
"Not if Viceroy has anything to say about it." Ninja said glancing Viceroy before looking back at the machine. "Lot of science in here."
Kunoichi made a sound of agreement and she moved closer to look.
Viceroy floated down to stand next to them until he caught sight of Howard. "Ooh!" He then floated to Howard. "And who is this stylish young fellow? You even got the glasses right."
The two partners rolled their eyes and groaned before Ninja used his scarf and wrapped it around the scientist and spun him back while shouting. "VICEROY!"
After waving the dizziness away, Viceroy inspected the parts. "I'm gonna need about 20 hours."
"One minute, 42 seconds." The machine said.
A laser blast was suddenly shot between the three making them look over to see Jerry put back together armed with a laser lance.
"You got a minute, 42." The heroes said in unison as they brandish their weapons.
The two partners were able to use their weapons to deflect incoming blasts from Jerry's weapon until one blast Ninja deflected went back and knocked Jerry's weapon away from him.
"How do you like us now, homie!" Ninja mocked.
Jerry simply laughed as he tore off his arm and used it as a weapon. "I'm armed and dangerous!"
Weapons were clashing against each other until Jerry was able to backhand Kunoichi to the side making her hit her head on a wall.
"Kuno!" Ninja yelled out concerned about to run over to her only to be blocked by Jerry. He backed Ninja into a table. Glancing at it, Ninja got an idea. Jerry swiped at Ninja, only for him to jump out of the way and then spun on the table kicking Jerry in the head with a yell of, "Ninja table spin kick!"
Jerry's head was only rattled cause he quickly smacked Ninja to the floor harshly. Jerry stepped on his chest, pinning him down while pointing his weapon/arm at him. "Aha! I've got a bone to pick with you!"
Kunoichi was able to steady herself in time to see this and quickly grabbed her weapon, about to attack when an amused laugh stopped her.
"Oh, Jerry."
Everyone looked up to see Mrs. Driscoll at the top of the stairs smiling.
Jerry was quick to return the smile to his wife and waved his unattached arm at her, cheerfully saying. "Hi!"
Annoyed, Ninja kicked Jerry's head off his body. "Heads up!"
"Ha! Good one." Howards laughed.
Jerry's head flew in the air for a moment before coming down into Kunoichi's awaiting hands.
"Put me back! Put me back!" Jerry whined as his body walked around trying to find its head.
"How does the bow tie stay on? That makes no sense!" Ninja asked as he looked at the head in his partner's hands and the moving body.
Kunoichi just shrugged.
Mrs. Driscoll stopped the body. "Its over Jerry."
"But I didn't blow up the world." Jerry said sadly, making the two heroes look at the head incredulously. "How will I ever be valedictorian..."
"They named valedictorian..."
Viceroy took that moment to pop out from the machine and waved smugly until an alarm made him go back to work.
"And besides, if you blow up the world..."
"We wont be together anymore."
Ninja and Kunoichi looked at Mrs. Driscoll. "Are you crazy!"
"Crazy for this bag of bones!" She grabbed Jerry's head out of Kunoichi's hands and started kissing it.
"NO! No!" Ninja cried out, cringing.
"Ugh, I don't need to see this!" Kunoichi yelled using her tessen to block her eyes as she shuddered in disgust.
Howard was trying not to puke. "Oh, boy.."
When Mrs. Driscoll was done, Jerry's head was covered with kiss marks.
"Put me by the scanner..." Jerry said.
Ninja, Kunoichi, and Mrs. Driscoll walked up to the machine with Kunoichi holding Jerry's head out.
"10 seconds."
Holding up Jerry's head tp the scanner, a light shown out and scanned Jerry's head.
"Completing retina scan. ID match."
"Deactivate." Jerry ordered.
"But he doesn't have retinas!" Viceroy pointed out.
The machine then shutdown as Howard then crawled out of cage and joined the group he said. "So that happened."
"Never thought we would be fighting the undead..." Kunoichi mumbled to Ninja who nodded in agreement.
"Oh Jerry." Mrs. Driscoll sighed as she took his head from Kunoichi's grasp. "Now that you're back, we're going to do so many wonderful things together."
"Yup!" Jerry cheered as his body began to express his emotions. "Frying the Earth is small potatoes. I'm just dying to get going on my Destroy the Universe machine."
Ninja and Kunoichi shared an annoyed look.
"And after I MASH THE WHOLE UNIVERSE..."
Mrs. Driscoll quickly covered the areas where Jerry's ears would be. "On second thought, maybe we're all better off if we go back to how things were."
She quickly gave Ninja Jerry's head, who then stuffed the end of his scarf in his mouth to shut him up.
Seeing Mrs. Driscoll's sad face, Ninja tuned gestured to her. "Howard..."
Howard placed his coat around her and walked her out with Viceroy trailing behind.
Ninja cleared his throat and pulled out his Nomicon.
"Wait, why are you..."
Ninja froze as he turned to meet his partners gaze with his sheepish one, it clicked instantly.
"IT WAS YOU!"
"I didn't mean to bring him back to life!"
"That's not an excuse!"
"I'm sorry!"
"Grrr... whatever, to tired to deal with this so I'm gonna let this slide..."
Ninja relaxed.
"Unless..."
He tensed right back up.
"You teach me how to do that."
Ninja looked at his partner before rolling his eyes fondly and gestured her over.
"Okay first, you have to...
Ninja and Kunoichi took the lift back to the surface as Kunoichi steadied her dizzy partner who was holding a now back to normal smoking Jerry in his arms.
"So power has a kick back, noted..." Kunoichi said to herself as she and Ninja made their was up to Mrs. Driscoll while giving her husband to her.
"I'm sorry it had to be this way." Ninja said solemnly.
"I know, he was too dangerous." Mrs. Driscoll said as she hugged the skeleton."At least now he won't complain about taking me dancing."
"Aw, but I've got two left feet." She made Jerry.
Randy and Howard watched as Mr and Mrs. Driscoll slow danced in the science room before cringing away as things got weird.
"That's scarier than anything we're gonna see at the Fright-tacular." Randy said grossed out.
"Cunningham, we really learned an important Halloween lesson." Howard said.
"Yeah, not to take shortcuts. Especially when raising the dead." Randy said.
"Uh, no... McFist gives out awesome candy!" Howard said while eating a piece that he got from Randy. Looking to the side, he saw a flash of red heading towards the exit and nudged his friend. "Hey Cunningham, last chance."
Randy looked towards where his friend was pointing to and saw Riley just about to leave. Without even thinking, he called out. "Hey Riley!"
The girl stopped in her tracks and turned around to see Randy and Howard making their way over to her.
"Hey you two. What are you guys still doing here?" She asked.
"Talking to Mrs. D about our grade. What are you doing here?" Howard asked.
She held up a book she was holding. "Forgot my book during all the craziness from earlier. I'll see you guys tomorr-"
"Wait!" Randy said grabbing her wrist. But quickly let it go. "Um-I-you.."
Randy stopped and took a deep breath. "Listen, Me and Howard are going to the Fright-tacular tonight and I was wondering if you would like to join me-us!"
Randy had his eyes clenched shut until they popped open when he heard."Sure sounds fun."
"Really?" Randy asked feeling excited.
"Yeah, but is it okay I invite Rachel to? We already had plans of spending Halloween together."
"Uh.. Yeah! Sure! No problem."
"Cool. We'll meet you by the entrance." She started walking away again before pausing. Turing back around, she took out a pen and grabbed his hand. "Here's my number just in case. Later."
Walking away till she was out of sight, Randy slowly looked down at his hand seeing his crush's phone number. And that made him still even more.
Howard came up behind him and pat him on the back. "Not bad Cunningham! I was sure you were gonna choke again!" He didn't get a reply. "Cunningham?"
It was silent for a moment until Randy threw his hands in the air and cheered.
"WOOHOO! Yes!"
