A/N: I am aliiive! Um…yay!

The Randomness

Pebbles pretended to fall asleep and snore. There was a huge line of people waiting to get an assignment of jobs, and she was getting kind of sick of people gazing at her in awe, as if she were on display.

When it was her turn, Sally ran up with the most nervous look in the world.

"Hi Sally!" Holli said enthusiastically, waving. (Sally had always been her favorite character.) Everyone else gave her polite hellos.

She waved distractedly to them, but told Jack about a weird vision she'd had about how his Christmas wasn't going to work. He replied that it wasn't in HIS Christmas.

"Do you have ANY idea how insane this idea is?" Victor asked Jack, putting on a disbelieving look.

"I think he's quite considered that," Erik said back.

They began a heated discussion about it while Jack sent Sally off. 3 kids in costumes approached him.

Willy laughed. "You look weird!"

Jack gave him a dirty look. "They're not weird. In fact," he said, gesturing toward the kids, "They're some of the best trick-or-treaters in Halloween Town!"

"That's right, Mr. Jack," the kid in the devil costume said. He removed his mask and grinned. "Lock!"

The girl dressed as a witch did likewise. "Shock!"

The last one, a boy in a skeleton costume, came between them, also with his mask off. "And Barrel!"

Cricked screamed and latched onto Jack's shoulders. "NOOO! Don't trust them! I swear, one of them looks like Lil from Rugrats!"

Amanda took a good look at the trio. "You're actually right. Heck, Barrel might even BE Lil from Rugrats!"

"That'd be so scary."

Pebbles said, "Sorry, Shock and Barrel, but Lock just…kicks your asses." She shook her head and held up her hands. "Sorry, but it's totally true."

Lock smirked at his comrades, who glared back at him.

Jack peeled Cricket off of him. "Stop being silly. Now…"

He brought all of them in close and whispered his plans to them. The Mayor, who was standing next to Jack, tried to listen in, but Cricket whacked him upside the head.

Back to the discussion between Victor and Erik…

"We've agreed then?"

"Yes, Erik. Jack has gone completely insane. Just like the rest of us."

"You're not insane. I am."

Holli interrupted them. "Isn't the sun in Teletubbies scary? It's just like…" She put on a creepy happy face to show what it looked like, and then proceeded to ramble on about how the staff of Chuck E. Cheese had to search the place thoroughly after hours to check for hiding toddlers, in case they got out and hotwired the robots so they'd become their zombie slaves…

Aaaand…back to the other people!

"And don't tell a soul. Got it?"

"Got it, Jack!" The kids chorused, although they had their hands behind their backs. They started to leave, but Jack caught them and added seriously, "Least of all Oogie Boogie!"

Lock, Shock, and Barrel insisted they wouldn't tell anyone, then kept walking along, giggling madly to themselves afterward.

"Who's Oogie Boogie?" Victor asked, having broken free of Holli's random ranting.

Pebbles said, "He's a giant, gazillion foot tall burlap sack! AND HE'S GONNA EAT YOU!"

Victor didn't really say anything for the rest of the day, but kept glancing over his shoulder.

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A/N: Okay, the things about the scary sun in Teletubbies and the Chuck E. Cheese robots were excerpts from conversations with a kid in my grade named Brett, who happens to be on my bus as well.

We're so weird…