A/N:I OWN NOTHING BUT MY CHARACTERS
~Third Person P.O.V~
"Seriously! Where are they?" An impatient Howard asked as he and Randy stood near the entrance of Whoopee world.
"Calm down Howard, Riley just texted me and they're right around the corner." Randy said as a giddy feeling filled him, still reeling at the fact he now had his crush's number on his phone.
"Well-!"
"Sorry for keeping you boys waiting."
The boys turned around to see the girls in their costumes walking up to them.
Riley was dressed as a witch that included a black long sleaved knee length dressed with tattered ends, a green sash around her waist, black and white stockings, black ankel high boots with a brown buckle, a witch hat, and was holding a broom prop to finish the look.
Rachel was dressed as a make shift black cat with black knee length skirt, black stockings, mary janes, a bell choker, black gloves, cat ears, and a tail with a red ribbon on it.
"So what do you guys think?" Rachel asked while doing a quick twirl.
Howard shrugged, indifferent. While Randy couldn't stray his eyes away from Riley. He's never seen her with her hair down.
" Uhhh... great! You guys look great!" Randy said feeling his face get warm.
"Thanks. So we going in or what?" Riley asked starting to walk towards the entrance with everyone trailing behind.
After an hour of playing some games and eating some snack, the group was now waiting in line for the house of horrors ride as a bored worker dressed as a vampire began talking.
"By entering this house of horrors, you agree that Whoopee World, a wholly owned subsidiary of McFist Industries, Inc. shall not be held liable for terror induced tremors, pants wetting, or uncontrollable fear farts. Have a Fright-tatic night."
The four gave him their tickets and waited for a cart.
"Fear farts? What kind of shoobs does this guy take us for?" Randy said cockily while nudging Howard.
"Seriously. If I'm gonna rip one, it's to get a laugh." Howard said before holding up a finger. "Speaking of... Cunningham, pull my finger."
Rachel and Riley gave them a grossed out look as a cart pulled in.
"Classy, guys. Now come on the cart is here." Riley said as she and Rachel took the seats in the front while the guys took the back.
"I heard this ride is really scary." Rachel said anticipated.
Riley placed a hand on her shoulder for comfort. "Its gonna be okay Rachel. Though I do admit, the reputation of this thing is kind of unsettling. Hope we don't get too scared."
Randy smirked, feeling cocky again. "Please, Riley. We're guys. Guys don't get scared."
He and Howard shared a fist-bump while Riley looked at them over her shoulder, skeptic. "We'll see."
The cart went into the ride and all that could be heard was loud noises, screams, a chainsaw, and other things as the group's cart exited the ride with its now petrified passengers.
Rachel was hugging her best friend shaking. "That was not okay..."
"There needs to be an age restriction on this ride!" A wide eyed Riley said shaking as well even though her back was stiff as a rod.
Howard poked his head between them. "I gotta be straight with you girls. I think I peed a little."
"Gross, but not judging Howard." Riley said before looking back Randy, who was quiet."What about you, Randy?"
"I was, um..." Randy started before looking at Riley's waiting face. He put on a fake brave face. "Scared, yeah. I was not scared. I mean, I was so not scared, I laughed through most of it. I was just laughing."
Howard gave his friend a look."That's not true."
"Wow. You're really brave." Rachel said.
Riley gave him a hard look that made him sweat a bit before it turned into an impressed one. "That pretty impressive Randy."
"I am. I really am." Randy said enjoying the praise.
"That's not true either!" Howard yelled out.
"Hey I know this is kinda dumb but..." Rachel started feeling sheepish. "That ride was really scary. Do you mind walking us home?"
"I would be delighted." Randy said as he and the girls got off the rid. "They don't call me Cunningham the brave for nothing."
"They don't call you that!" Howard yelled after them as the ride suddenly started up again. Scared, Howard jumped off and raced after them."Wait up!"
The four were walking down a deserted street.
"Admit it, Cunningham." Howard whispered to Randy. "You were scared. You had to be. You're the biggest scaredy baby I know!"
"I'm not a scaredy baby." Randy whispered back defensively. "If anyone's a scaredy baby, it's gotta be you!"
Rachel suddenly gasped and hid behind Riley making everyone look towards her."I thought I saw something."
Riley just patted her on the back. "Its okay Rach. There's nothing to be afraid of."
A wolf howl could be heard in the distance, surprising everyone. Not as much as Riley who immediately latched onto Randy's arm, shaking.
"Riley, are you okay?" Rachel asked worried, knowing about her phobia.
"Yeah, yeah I'm-I'm okay..." Riley said before looking up at Randy. "I hope you don't mind.."
Randy could barley hear her over the rapid beating of his heart in his ears. He quickly snapped out of it and answered coolly. "Not at all Riley. I'll make sure your safe."
He then held out his hand mockingly towards Howard. "Howard, you want to get in on this?"
Howards face went red with anger. "Have you all gone mad? He's acting brave to try to impress you. I totally would have done the same thing if I'd have thought of it..." He mumbled the last bit to himself.
A sudden crashing sound startled the group.
Rachel hugged herself. "Uh...If that hand's still up for grabs.."
Randy offered her his hand while sending Howard a smug smile while wiggling his eyebrows. "Mm-hmm-hmm-hmm."
Howard got in his friend's face, angry. "This is an act! And I'm gonna prove it..."
"Go for it." Randy said not looking at all worried. "Some of us are scaredy-babies, and some of us are me."
Randy started walking away with the girls in tow and with Howard lagging behind, who at the moment didn't realize his candy bag had hole in it as it trailed candy after the group.
A sickly gray hand gabbed a piece of the candy. "CANDY!" It screamed as many like it followed it's lead.
"I mean, who knows why I'm so brave?" Randy bragged as they all walked. "Maybe I have an under-active fear gland, or extra-bravery chromosomes. The important thing is, while you're with me, you're safe, baby."
The girls wont lie, they were getting kind of annoyed at this point.
A sudden crow cawing startled Howard as he took notice they where walking past a cemetery.
He quickly joined back with the group and wrapped an arm around his friend. "You're right, Cunningham." Randy looked at him suspiciously. "You're not scared of anything."
Howard stopped the group at the front of the cemetery entrance. "You're so brave. I bet you could cut through this spooky cemetery. Alone..." He crossed his arms smugly.
"I could." Randy said.
"Then do it."
"Fine, I'm doing it."
"Good, go. "
"Good. I'm gone." Randy walked passed Howard and into the gates with nervousness slowly seeping in.
Howard followed after him as the girls watched.
"Should we...do something?" Rachel asked unsure about the situation.
Riley rolled her eyes. "Heading home sounds like a plan but knowing these two, there bound to get into some kind of trouble."
With the guys, Howard was trying to cut a deal with Randy. "Just admit it. You're a great big scaredy-baby. I'll tell the girls and you don't have to do this."
Randy wasn't having it. "Please, I'm the Ninja. I fight monsters and robots all the time. I'm not scared."
"Then you won't mind if I hang onto the Ninja Mask, until you're done?" Howard asked.
"Mind?..." Randy repeated, becoming nervous again. "By all means."
He placed his mask into Howard's awaiting hand.
Howard smirked.
Randy smirked back before walking further into the cemetery as fear started washing over him slowly.
Howard made his way back to the girls. "Yeah, don't worry, ladies. This won't take long. He'll come screaming back any second."
"Howard is this really necessary?" Riley asked feeling bored.
"Yes! He needs to fess up that the ride scared him as much as it did us!" Howard argued.
"But what-" Rachel stopped mid-sentence as the nearby light flickered out and another loud banging sound was heard.
Howard screamed and ran into the cemetery in fright.
"Howard wait! Ugh..."Riley groaned when he vanished from view.
Riley hugged herself again. "D-do we have to go in there..."
Riley grabbed her hand in comfort. "Listen Rachel, we just have to get in, grab the guys, and get- Do you hear that?"
'That', being the sounds of groaning and screams coming from not to far behind them.
Slowly, the girls turned around to see a large group of...
Zombies.
Rachel and Riley slowly looked at each other.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
~~With Randy and Howard~~
Randy was quietly whining to himself as he went deeper into the cemetery. Becoming more scared.
He suddenly bumped into someone, making him scream as fell back on his butt. "I'm not scared!"
The someone turned out to be Howard. "Then why are you screaming?"
"Why are you following me?" Randy asked back.
"I got spooked so I ran in here. Which I'm beginning to regret." Howard explained as he helped Randy up and picked up his candy bag.
"AAAAAHHH!" Some feminine voices screamed.
Alarmed, the boys looked into the dense fog and was able to see two figures running towards them.
"G-g-g-ghosts!" Randy screamed. "Those are honkin' ghosts!"
When the 'ghosts' were close enough, Howard swung his bag and was able to knock one over.
"Ow!"
"I did it! I killed a ghost!" Howard cheered as he shook Randy's shoulders. "Oh, man, I've never felt more alive! OW!"
A broom prop smacked him in the head as the fog lifted a bit to reveal an angry, panting Riley. "We aren't ghosts you shoob!"
She went over to Rachel and helped her up.
"Riley! Rachel!" Randy said as he walked over to the girls. "You scared the juice out of... Howard. Just Howard, and I'm very brave."
"CANDY!" Something screamed with the sound of groaning and growling came right after.
"Guys, we gotta go." Riley said urgently.
"Why?" asked Howard.
"Cause after Howard ran off, we ended up getting chased by...them." Riley moved to the side and gestured to the cluster of zombies in costumes.
"What do we do?" Rachel whimpered out while clinging to Riley.
"We need to run!" Riley said while taking several steps back with Rachel.
Randy stepped up. "You guys get outta here."
"Randy what are you-" Riley began to ask only to be pushed forward by Howard.
"Get moving Davis!" He said as the three ran off.
"Zombies. OK, I can handle this." Randy said as he faced the zombies with determination. "Or should I say the Ninja-" he then remembered."- mask is with Howard! Guh!"
He immediately hightailed after the group as the zombies got closer.
~Riley's P.O.V~
"Guys! Over there!" Howard pointed towards a abandon house.
We all quickly went inside, running up the stairs, and into an old study.
Slamming the door behind us, I leaned against it panting. "Okay, I think if we stay quiet, we should be safe for bit."
"All this panicking and running made me hungry, time for candy." Howard said making me roll my eyes. I closed my trying to calm myself down so I could think of a plan to get us out of here safe. My thoughts drifted to Randy, praying that he was okay and mentally hitting myself for leaving him behind.
I need to calm-
Howard's sudden gasp made me snap my eyes open. "No! NO!"
"What!?" I asked alarmed moving closer to find the problem.
"It's horrible! No!" He just kept screaming.
I head a sudden sound of running feet and turned around in time to see Randy kick down the door and looking at us confused.
"There was a hole in my bag!" I heard him fall to his knees. "All my candy's gone! Gone!"
I felt my shoulder slump as I felt an eyebrow twitch in irritation.
I'm gonna hit him.
Turning around, I joined Rachel in giving him a flat look.
Rachel sighed and dug through her bag. "If I give you half of my McFizzels, will you stop crying."
Howard sniffled. "Okay..."
Rachel gave him half a bag and started munching on the other half herself.
Randy walked past me towards Howard. "Howard, you have..." He took a quick glance at me and Rachel. "...something I need."
"Forget it." Howard held the candy defensively. "I earned these McFizzles."
"No, no, no. I mean my face hat." What is he going on about?
"Rachel, what's that zombie thing you're doing?"
What.
Snapping my attention to Rachel, I covered my mouth in horror as I see my best friend become a zombie.
"Candy.." She groaned out before taking a swipe at Howard, who ducked.
"Hey, no take-backs!" Howard said.
Tears were welling up in my eyes as I heard Randy said. "It can't be. McFizzles are turning people into zombies!?"
Rachel took another swipe at Howard only for Randy to pull him back. My brain caught up again as Randy grabbed my hand and started dragging me and Howard out of the room.
I looked back once to see Rachel chasing us before facing forward and steeling myself.
'I'll turn you back to normal Rach, I promise.' I swore to myself as I picked up speed and started matching Randy's pace.
We kept running through the halls when I suddenly had to jump to the right in order to avoid a kid on a tricycle.
We all looked back and saw the kid was a zombie as well.
"Candy!"
We screamed before turning a corner only stop in our tracks as we saw a pair of creepy twin zombies at the end of the hallway.
Are those the twins from the school's marching band?
I felt Randy and Howard each grab one of my hands.
The ceiling and walls suddenly broke down with zombies falling through.
We all started running again, screaming as the zombies chased after us.
Running through a door, we quickly started barricading it before running up the stairs.
The barricade did nothing as I heard the zombies break through.
We stopped and looked down at the zombies flooding in.
"Cunningham," Howard said panting. "if this really is the end, I want you to know that I know you're totally terrified right now. Come on, just admit it!"
I gave Howard another look. "Are. you. serious!?"
"Really? We're still doing that?" Randy asked annoyed. He then leaned down and whispered something to Howard.
I ignored them for a moment as I pushed myself off the railing to lean on the wall, trying to get as much rest as I could before we had to run again.
I was confused as I didn't stop leaning and I took too long to realize that the wall was shifting.
Last thing I saw was Randy turning around and looking at me with wide eyes with something in his hand as my vison went black.
~Third person P.O.V~
"Riley?! Riley!" Randy shouted as he banged on the wall that swallowed up the red head.
"Randy? Howard?" Randy heard a muffled voice in the wall.
"Riley! Are you okay!?" Randy asked still trying to find a way in.
"Uh... Cunningham!" Howard called out in alarm when he saw the zombies making their way up the stairs
"I'm fine, I'm gonna try and find a way out. Just get somewhere safe!" Riley's muffled voice said back.
"But-"
"Cunningham!" Howard shouted making Randy look towards him and the cluster on zombies honing in on them.
Growling, he said one last thing to the girl in the wall. "Stay safe Riley!"
"You too..."
A with that, Randy donned his mask ready to fight.
"Stick close Howard."
A munching sound drew his attention from the zombies to Howard who was munching on McFizzle...
"You got it, Ninja." Howard said still eating.
"Howard!" Ninja yelled frustrated. "You're eating McFizzles!"
"Aw man, I forgot!" Howard yelled as he threw down the rest of the candy. "Eh, maybe I'll be fine. I have a really strong stom-". He then transformed into a zombie with his wig falling off. "Candy!"
Ninja looked at the scene with wide eyes as he backed up. He then jumped on the rail and took out some tripping balls. "Ninja Trippin' Balls!"
Throwing them, the zombies tripped and fell on each other.
He quickly ran through a door to the roof and slammed it behind him and reached into his suit. "Ninja Stalling Wedge! That'll hold 'em."
Zombies started tearing down the door. "Not gonna hold 'em!"
Ninja went to the railing and looked down at the mass of zombies that kept groaning candy. "Candy. I hear you! You're zombies!"
~~With Riley~~
After putting on her mask and taking out some glow balls, Kunoichi looked around the room she was in.
It looked to be an old storage room with no windows.
Walking along the wall with her hand against it, her hand bumped into something metal. Bringing the glow balls closer to the object to reveal a metal latter. Looking up, she was able to see a hatch with bits of moonlight shining through the cracks.
Climbing up and opening the hatch, Kunoichi sighed in relief with being outside. Even if it was on a roof.
The sounds of a fight caught her attention, so she climbed the roof and peered over to see Ninja fighting off some zombies.
Jumping high into the air, Kunoichi launched and landed a kick on a zombie that was coming up behind a distracted Ninja.
Hearing a thump, Ninja turned around to see his partner.
"Kuno?!" Ninja said surprised.
"Hey Red." Kunoichi greeted casually as she punched a zombie away.
More zombies started closing in one them making have to jump over them to avoid being grabbed. "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" Ninja said.
After landing back on the ground closer to the edge back to back, Ninja realized who he was facing. " Howard, what have you done to you?" Kunoichi looked back ad saw him to.
"Candy!" Howard growled out and tried to grab them only for them jump over the fence and off the roof.
The two screamed when the realized they were falling off towards the ground and towards the zombies.
"Ninja Scarf!" Ninja grabbed Kunoichi by the waist while quickly tied the end of his scarf to the roof's fence. He then adjusted it so they could stand on it.
Kunoichi peeked up at Ninja as she hugged his neck and saw the strong, determined look in his blue eyes as he looked towards the ground.
~B-Bump~
"You okay Kuno?"
Ninja's sudden question snapped her out of her daze. She blushed under her mask and turned her head to the side to hide it. "Y-yeah, I'm f-fine."
Ninja gave her a confused look before looking back down at the zombies. "OK, just gotta stop a zombie plague. One question: How?"
Howard started pulling them up.
"They ate the candy and turned into zombies, so to change them back..." Kunoichi trailed off.
Ninja finished for her. "They have to un-eat the candy! How do you uneat candy?"
The two looked down and the Nomicon doodles illustrated the zombies barfing.
Kunoichi's face went a little green. "Oh no..."
Ninja frowned. " Aw, that's the worst."
When they made it back to the top, they jumped over the zombies.
When they landed they were quickly surrounded. Ninja spotted Howard. "Here goes nothing."
He slid forward, poked and then tickled Howard's tummy as Kunoichi covered Ninja.
Immediately, Howard gagged before rushing to the rail and puked over it.
The two heroes watched with wide eyes as Howard's puking started a chain reaction as the rest of the zombies on the roof started puking as well.
"Ewwww ..." Kunoichi gagged and shuddered as she and Ninja got up and stood next to Howard.
Ninja patted his back."That's it, buddy. Let it out. Let it, Get it all out."
More zombies joined the three at the railing to puke with Kunoichi and Ninja rubbing their backs in comfort.
Looking down, they see vomit raining down on the zombies on the ground causing them to puke as well.
"Aw, schnasty!" Ninja cried shuddering.
"Well candy is now ruined forever..." Kunoichi mumbled while looking up, trying to avoid looking at the vomit party as much as possible.
After a few more seconds of puking, Howard straightened himself to show he was back to normal. Same for everyone else after another few seconds.
"Well that was...disgusting. I'm gonna head out now, Later Ninja." Kunoichi said as the two did their high-five before she smoked bombed away.
~Riley's P.O.V~
I went back to the storage room and went in the wall entrance and started banging on it.
"Hello! Can someone get me out of here please!"
I banged on it some more just a I heard a familiar muffled voice come from the other side.
"Riley?"
"Randy? Randy is that you?"
"Yeah its me! Howard s' here too, Ninja and Kunoichi stopped the zombies!"
"That's great! But could you get me out of here? I think this wall spins, try to push on your right and I'll push on mine."
"Got it!"
After a minute we were unsuccessful when i heard Howard's muffled voice say. "Hey Cunningham, I found some kind of button here.."
Before I could register what he said, the wall suddenly spun opened quickly, making me stumble forward from the force I was using to push.
"Whoa!"
"Gah!"
I felt arms wrap around my waist as I fell into a warm body.
Looking up, I see I landed in Randy's arms with our arms wrapped around each other.
I notice his face go pink but I ignored it as I began to notice that his blue eyes and this position seemed...familiar.
"Ahem.."
My head snapped towards Howard, who was crossing his arms and had a teasing smile.
"Do you two need me to leave?"
Blushing, realizing how awkward this was, I tore myself off of Randy while looking away.
After a moment of silence, I said. "L-lets go find Rachel and get out of here, okay?"
"Y-yeah sure."
"Whatever you say Davis."
We found Rachel in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs having little recollection of what happened. I told what happened on our way out with boys lagging behind us.
"-and from what Randy told me, Ninja and Kunoichi made all the zombies upchuck to get the infected candy out of their stomachs and now, here we are." I explained as we exited the old house.
"Crazy! But I'm glad everything's back to normal." Rachel said.
Howard then appeared beside us with a nervous looking Randy, making us stop."Well, hello, ladies. Funny stor-"
Howard stopped himself when it suddenly started raining candy.
"It's raining McFizzles." Rachel said while holding out her hand.
I caught a few in my hand. "You don't think anybody'd be stupid enough to eat them now. Right?"
A crunching sound answered my question as Randy, Rachel and I turned our heads towards Howard...who was eating McFizzels.
"Howard! Seriously!" Randy said frustrated. I face palmed in disbelief.
Howard got defensive. "Oh, I'm supposed to say no to free Mc-CANDY!" He then turned into a zombie.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The three of us screamed.
Worst. Halloween. Ever.
