And here we go with Part 2 of Arnold's Halloween AKA the finale of Arc 2! Anyway, enjoy!

"Well, this is lovely!" Nadine said as we were sitting with the PS 118 students, some of the adults who had their little siblings were comforting them, Olga and Sharlene were keeping an eye out the window to see the surrounding police cars and television studio cars around, even most of the citizens of Hillwood were there and surrounding us. Carver was keeping an eye on the television.

"This is just turning into the worst Halloween ever!" Sid groaned.

"It's just... so scary!" Sheena took deep breaths.

"This is freaking awesome!" Curly smiled as he relaxed. "We should have Halloweens like this more often."

"NO!" We all said to Curly.

"This is all Arnold's fault!" Harold muttered. "Why did he even do this to us?"

"Now, now, Harold, I'm sure there is a reason for this..." I tried to ensure him.

"This is like the Cupcake thing all over again!" Harold frowned. "I don't want to be here anymore!"

"Calm down!" Phoebe said. "We'll get out of this!"

Phoebe then turned to me. "Rhonda, what's the plan? I don't have any."

Olga quickly went over as I pulled out my phone, Olga saying, "Okay, boys, girls, I'm here to assure you, we're going to be fine, we'll make it out of this misunderstanding! Just hang tight, okay?"

We all nodded nervously as I dialed the phone, calling up Arnold. Phoebe asked, "Who are you calling?"

"The one who started this in the first place, first!" I said angrily as I put the phone to my ear as I heard it ringing.

"Hello?" Arnold said in curiosity.

"Arnold, what the heck did you do?" I frowned.

"I don't know, Rhonda. What did I do?" Arnold asked in a confused voice.

I could imagine the cute confused face he was making... no, no, angry at him right now. "Have you ever heard of this film called 'The Night That Panicked America'? You know how it's television drama of Orson Welles' radio show that panicked an entire nation?"

Arnold paused. "Where are you?"

"Listen for yourself." I said as I got up and went towards the window where Sharlene is and put it up towards the window.

"Come out with your hands and/or tentacles up! We have you aliens surrounded!" I looked out as we heard the police say.

Sharlene opened the curtain a little as she yelled back, "NO DICE! WE'RE ARMED! WE'RE DANGEROUS! AND WE ARE OFF OUR MEDICATION!"

Most of the kids in there, yelped as Olga shook her head, as she muttered, "Sharlene..."

I sighed as I put the phone back to my ear. "I hope you heard all of it..."

"I did..." Arnold yelped. "I didn't actually think the prank would go this far, it was just for the adults at my home!"

"Well, your little prank EXPANDED, buddy!" I frowned. "As you may have gathered, me, along with our friends, and some adults are in BIG trouble!"

"One of you is always in trouble, Rhonda." Arnold groaned.

"Yeah, but this is OFF the charts trouble... this is 'Holy Crap, we're stuck in a real life situation we may not live through' sort of trouble!" I explained.

"What happened?" Arnold asked. "Where are you?"

"Well, our adult supervisors took us into the lounge room of Hillwood Community College to relax... oh, it all started out fine, you did pull quite a scare back there, buddy... but if you truly didn't know about what was going on..." I explained.

"I didn't realize the amount of trouble you guys might have been... well, ARE in since I heard Grandpa saying Douglas Cain got in the act! I originally was doing it to prank the Sunset Arms! I didn't mean for all this to go astray! Gerald didn't mean it either! I'm sorry, Rhonda!"

"You'll have a lot of apologizing to do if we get out of here and live!" I glared at my phone. "Right now, we're trapped and we are currently scared out of our wits!"

"Can't any of you make a run for it?" Arnold asked.

I sighed. "I take it you didn't see the ending to 'Apocalypse Now' either, then?" I sighed.

"Well, no, Rhonda, I didn't!" Arnold said, worried. "But you guys have to do something! They might storm the room you're in now!"

Sharlene, hearing the buzz of my phone, paused as she turned towards the window. "WE GOT HUMAN TEST SUBJECTS IN HERE!"

"Sharlene!" I heard Olga groan as the kids were shaking nervously. "Stop escalating this further!"

I paused as I listened to my phone. "You heard that, right?"

"Yeah..." Arnold said.

"I think that'll at least buy us enough time... they won't at least try to storm the place." I sighed. "Listen, buddy, could you call my parents and tell them what is going on? I know they're worried about me... and you better explain the prank to everyone!"

"I will, I will!" Arnold said. "Me, Gerald, and Grandpa will come right over to the community college, and hopefully your parents will be convinced of what's going on!"

"They will be, they know you're a very truthful guy!" I said. "But hurry up! I don't think the others will be as forgiving or even listening to us, if you catch my drift!"

I hung up the phone as I went back to my friends. "Okay, guys, Arnold is on his way, he'll try to get everything straightened out..."

"And then we pound him, right?" Harold frowned.

"We'll have to see..." I said as we all turned towards the window.

About fifteen minutes later, we were gathered around the window as we took a peek outside through the curtains. Outside, more police cars and a few more citizens with pitchforks and torches were starting to gather as we saw Douglas Cain coming in, with Pinky alongside him.

Sharlene then started to yell, "AND IF YOU TRY TO COME IN HERE, YOU'LL BE EATING OUR ELECTRIC RAYS FROM OUR SPACE GUNS!"

"Sharlene, shut up!" Olga said, gagging Sharlene. "Stop baiting them!"

I leaned my ear towards the window as I saw Douglas Cain and Pinky talking, "Gee, Brain, we certainly have a crowd."

"It pleases me to see, Pinky. All part of what being a national TV star is all about." Douglas Cain said to his assistant. Douglas went towards the police cars as he asked one of the police officers, "Could I borrow your megaphone, sir?"

"Sure, Mr. Cain." The officers said, handing over the megaphone.

"Excuse me, fellow aliens! I am the Brain... eh, Douglas Cain!" Douglas called through his megaphone. "We want to ensure that there is no harm between us!"

"If you screw this up..." Olga groaned as she let go of Sharlene's hand.

"Only if you provoke us, pal!" Sharlene yelled. "One wrong move, and you're distintegrated!"

"You say you have human test subjects in the place? How do we know they are okay?" Douglas Cain asked.

"One moment..." Sharlene said as she shushed us. "How is everybody?"

...Uh... you're not going to believe this...

Sharlene started imitating voices in different pitches to make it seem like actual hostages! In each different voice, she said a sentence. "Fine! Great! Good! Couldn't be better!"

Sharlene then shushed us as we turned back towards the window, Sharlene said, "There you have it!"

"You didn't have to do that!" Olga frowned. "We already HAVE a lot of humans here, we could have just did a group thing!"

"Yeah, but it's more fun to do voices." Sharlene smiled.

Curly smiled as she said to me, "I like your mall friend, Rhonda."

I rolled my eyes. "Of course you would."

"There's Arnold, Gerald and his grandfather!" Nadine whispered as we saw a car pull up with Arnold, Gerald and Grandpa Phil running out.

"There are my parents!" I whispered as I saw my parents pulling up.

Olga's eyes widened when she saw a huge green tanker with her father, Principal Wartz, and the post man, among many others. "Oh crap!"

Everyone turned to Olga... she then smiled nervously as she quietly ducked down. "I have no idea who these crazy men in the green tanker are... but they seem pretty dangerous!"

"Arnold, come on, you've got to convince everyone it's all a prank!" I whispered as I crossed my fingers.

We all watched as Arnold and my parents went to the front of the line, as did Olga's father as they were talking. I couldn't quite hear their conversation, but Big Bob seemed to be WINNING.

"If you alien scum don't come out, we're going to use tear gas!" The police officer called from his car.

"YES!" I heard Big Bob yell as Olga's eyes shrank. "Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas..."

"Not this again..." Harold yelped as Jackie and George were comforting their siblings. Outside, Big Bob had got a crowd going with the tear gas chant. Arnold and my parents looked over in concern outside. Back inside, the PS 118 students and I were looking at each other in concern. Carver, the only one keeping an eye on the news, frowned as he tried to change the channel to find some good sound effects.

"Okay, where's the science fiction sound effects when we need them..." Carver muttered as he finally tuned into the science fiction channel. "Here we go!"

Carver then turned up the volume of the TV to make the sound effects seem real.

Everyone outside screamed as they ducked down.

Pinky ducked down as he yelled, "Douglas Brain, get down, they have a gun!"

"...So?" Douglas Cain looked around. "I don't see anything..."

"HEY! DON'T TRY ANYTHING FUNNY! WE GOT A WHOLE LOT OF SPACE GUNS TO BLOW UP AUSTRAILIA!" Sharlene yelled.

Olga frowned as she kicked her. "Stop escalating this situation!"

"Wow, Brain, blowing up Austrailia... where will all the kangaroos go?" Pinky asked.

"Somewhere in the deep recesses of your mind, Pinky..." Douglas Cain sighed as he held up the megaphone. "Hold your fire!"

Douglas Cain frowned. "Tell us what you came for..."

"Uh..." Sharlene paused. "I don't want anything for my race... BUT... our human test subjects are hungry!"

Sharlene turned as she whispered, "What would you guys like?"

"Sharlene, we are in a bad situation here! This is no time for food!" I whispered.

"Actually, pizza would be nice..." Harold whispered as everyone else nodded.

Sharlene smiled as she said, "Isn't that right, fellas?"

Sharlene then did her voice imitations again, each saying a sentence. "You said it! Sure are! Haven't had a thing since breakfast! I'm famished!"

Sharlene then turned towards the window. "You hear that? Uh..." Sharlene then counted each of us. "Send us two pizzas, one with cheese and pepperoni, one vegetarian!"

Douglas Cain nodded. "As you wish..."

We got away from the window as Olga sighed. "Well, at least we stopped them for now..."

I turned to my fellow PS 118 students as I told them, "I hope this goes over well..."

"I hate this hostage situation..." Phoebe groaned. "I wonder if our parents realize we're missing right now!"

I then heard my phone ring as I picked it up. "I'm sorry, Rhonda W. Lloyd is not available at this time, now if you don't mind, we're kinda busy right now!"

"Rhonda, wait, don't hang up! It's me, honey, it's your father!" I heard my dad say.

"How do I know this is my dad?" I asked, scared.

"Honey, remember the time I took you to the ranch when you were six... you loved horseback riding so much... you always wanted that pony after that experience?" My father said.

I smiled, sighing in relief. "Hi, daddy..."

"Honey, are you okay right now?" My father asked.

"Not really..." I sighed. "I'm panicking right now. All of us in here are. Please tell me Arnold is trying to tell everyone that he was just pulling a Halloween prank."

"He did manage to convince the parents of the other PS 118 students..." My dad said. "I'm not sure about the other members of the mob, though. Don't worry, we haven't forgotten about you or your friends. Arnold is doing his best to calm everyone down... but we're not sure if it's working..."

"Is that communication from the outside world?" Olga asked. "Do you have speaker on that phone? Maybe they can assure we'll be okay!"

I nodded as I put it on, everyone gathered around.

"Honey, there's something you should know! One of the police officers called the SWAT team!" I heard my mother say in worry.

We were all shocked at the moment as everyone in the room (except for me and a now worried Olga) were panicking again. I said in a deadpan voice, "Thanks, mom. I think you just calmed everyone in the room down."

Olga could only faint.

As soon as Olga went back into consciousness, we were gathered around the TV as we were watching Douglas Cain doing a report.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are now currently in Hour 2 of surrounding the aliens!" Douglas Cain said over the news. "We may be coming through with a breakthrough as of yet... but all we know is that this normally calm community college is about to run red with blood."

We all gasped in horror... as Curly blinked. "Oh wait, what am I worried about? My blood is green."

We just decided to ignore Curly's remark.

"Inside this community college lounge is where a group of aliens, along with an undetermined number of hostages, are inside, and these deranged aliens are holding the hostages at gunpoint." Douglas Cain said.

"Who is this guy calling deranged?" Sharlene and Curly frowned.

"Oh, Brain!" Pinky said as he came in.

Douglas Cain sighed as he asked. "What is it, Pinky?"

Pinky winked towards him as Sharlene went back to the window. "YO, WHERE ARE THOSE PIZZAS?"

Douglas Cain and Pinky blinked before Pinky whispered in Douglas' ear. Douglas Cain smiled as he said, "It seems the food has arrived. If you are watching this aliens, come and get it. We won't bite."

"Boys, girls, don't go out there, no matter what!" Olga said as we all nodded.

"And there you have it." Douglas Cain said as we then saw Big Bob Pataki coming in. "...and you are?"

"Big Bob Pataki of Big Bob's Beeper Emporium!" Big Bob gave a smile. "Mr. Cain, I've been watching your show, and I have to say, I've been inspired by it!"

Olga yelped as she ducked down at the stares of the others. "I don't know who that man is, really."

"I'm honored, Mr. Pataki." Douglas Cain smiled as he shook Big Bob's hand. "We'll be back after this message!"

As the TV went to a commercial, Sharlene frowned as she looked out. "HEY! What's going on over there? Some of us think we smell pizza! Don't we?"

Sharlene smiled as she did her voice imitations. "Yeah! Smells like pizza to me! Me too! I smell it! Wish we had some!"

Olga yelped as she came over to Sharlene and whispered, "Don't fall for it!"

"Yeah, it just got here!" Douglas Cain called. "Come out and get it!"

"Actually, you know what?" Sharlene called. "We're not hungry anymore! Are we?"

Sharlene then did her voices again. "Not me! Couldn't eat a thing! Wouldn't touch it! Me either!"

We gathered around the window to see Douglas Cain groaning as I heard him whisper, "All I want is to get an alien sample! Is that too much to ask?"

Harold sighed as he said, "At least we're safe here..."

"But for how long?" Sid said in worry.

Nadine turned to me as she asked, "What is taking Arnold so long?"

"I better call him." I said as I dialed his cell number.

I heard it ringing a few times as I heard it being picked up. "Hello?"

It was Gerald's voice. "Gerald, it's me, Rhonda! Is Arnold here?"

Gerald paused. "No, I'm with my parents right now. They're not entirely convinced it's a prank!"

"Are the other parents of the PS 118 students?" I asked.

"Yes..." Gerald said through the phone. "We managed to do just that."

There was a bit of an awkward pause as Phoebe took the phone from me. "Give me that!"

Phoebe frowned as she started talking, "Listen up, Gerald, I don't know WHY you wanted to play along with Arnold's prank, but I will tell you right now, I am not amused!"

I leaned my ear towards the phone as Gerald yelped, "Sorry, Phoebe. I didn't think this would go this far. How are you doing?"

"Oh, perfectly fine, actually." Phoebe said. "My friends and I met these nice new people WHO WANT TO KILL US!"

Gerald yelped. "Just calm down..."

"Give me that..." I said as I took the phone. "Please tell me my parents or Arnold are on their way!"

"Don't worry, Arnold and your parents haven't forgotten you guys, they'll get everyone out of there!" Gerald whispered. "I got to go. My parents are getting suspicious. Good-bye."

"Good-bye!" I said as I hung up the phone.

We were all so scared, we didn't know what to do. Olga came over to us as she sat down with us. "You girls feeling okay?"

"We're just scared..." I said, hugging Olga. "I just want my parents to be here..."

Olga hugged us as she comforted me. "It's all right, hopefully, we can get out of here and live..."

Nadine and Phoebe came over as Nadine sat down. "We're a little scared too."

Olga pulled Nadine into the hug as we got in. "Everything will be okay..."

"Phoebe, come join us..." I said as Phoebe nodded.

"Okay... I'm scared too..." Phoebe said as she joined us.

For some reason, I seemed to have blacked out.

"Come on, I didn't mean-"

"Didn't mean to do what, may I ask? Hurt me? Use me as an excuse?"

"But, Phoebe, I-"

"You don't get it. I've been trying to get out of my own shell for years! I'm through playing a sidekick! I want to be my own person!"

"Please, I really need your h-"

"Help yourself. I don't want to converse with you anymore..."

"Phoebe... no... please... don't go..."

A slight murmur was heard in the blackness...

I was let go of the hug by Olga as I blinked. What was that? I clearly heard Phoebe's voice in the flashback, but she sounded bitter and hurt... and that other voice I heard... it wasn't my voice... NOR was it Nadine's voice. But I have heard that voice before... I could have sworn I just heard...

We started hearing three pairs of footsteps running towards the door to the lounge. We all gasped nervously as we were all cornered. Olga yelped. "This is it... we're going to die..."

We heard the opening of the door as we shut our eyes, preparing for the inevitable.

"Sweetie, we're here!"

I opened my eyes and looked over. "Mom? Dad?"

I sighed in relief as I hugged them. It was them. "It's okay, guys! They're from the outside who believe us!"

"Oh thank God!" Olga sighed in relief as we heard the kids cheer, Arnold coming in.

"It's okay, honey, it's okay..." My mom consoled me as I sobbed.

"I'm here, too!" Arnold said as the PS 118 students glared at him.

"Arnold, this is all your fault!" Harold frowned.

"I know, I know, what I did was wrong and it escalated. I can fix it, though!" Arnold said.

"Tell me you have a plan!" I said as we all sat down, surrounding my parents and Arnold.

Arnold paused as my parents looked at him. "I don't have a plan!"

I groaned as Sharlene frowned. "There are a LOT of people here without a plan! Right, guys?"

Sharlene then went into her voices again. "You said it! Absolutely! We're sunk!"

My parents blinked as I sighed, "It's been like this while we were in here..."

"Well..." My dad said. "Not the way you wanted to be introduced to a college at a young age..."

"I'm sure we'll look back at this moment and laugh, but right now, we need to get out of here..." I said as Arnold looked around. He felt around his pockets as he seemed to pull out a walkie talkie.

"Testing, testing, Stinky, can you hear me?" Arnold said into the walkie talkie.

"Yeah, Arnold, I hear you!" Stinky said.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Stinky, I have an idea! Can you turn the water tower off and flash the lights a few times?" Arnold said toward the walkie talkie.

"I'll try, Arnold." Stinky said.

Arnold then turned to everyone. "Okay, everyone, I need you to get to a few places... I have an idea that'll convince us the aliens will leave!"

We nodded as we all listened in.

Pretty soon, we were all in position of tied up kids as Jackie, George, my mother and father were near the light switch. Carver had set up the green lighting as Olga and Sharlene were looking near the windows.

Arnold nodded as he turned to Stinky. "Stinky, keep flashing the lights on the water tower, and don't stop until I say so!"

"Got it!" Stinky said in on the other side.

"Okay..." Arnold said. "Now!"

Carver started flashing the lights as Sharlene said, "Yo, humans! Can you hear me?"

"We are hearing you!" Douglas Cain called out.

"As you may notice, our motherboard spaceship is flashing... which means it is time for us to depart..." Sharlene called. "We shall leave the human hostages in the lounge room, unharmed and okay!"

"Wait!" We heard Big Bob call. "I still have a bone to pick with you aliens!"

Olga started whispering in Sharlene's ear as she said, "Big Bob Pataki... I understand there was an incident involving an alien back when you were younger... just so you know... that alien is not among us anymore, but has since passed on..."

"Really?" Big Bob called.

Olga whispered in Sharlene's ear. "Yes, we are positive he is dead. Move on with your life, Big Bob. Don't worry about aliens anymore... we assure you, we will be landing no more on your planet. It is too widely populated for us anyway."

"Wait!" Douglas Cain said. "What about the invasion, the whole thing?"

"We only came down for a..." Sharlene paused. "Candy test. It is now done. We are going to be leaving now... your human subjects will be left unharmed. We will now go and never come back!"

"No, wait!" Douglas Cain yelped in panic. "Pinky, tell them to stop!"

"Narf!" We heard Pinky call. "Bye bye, creatures from another world! Zort! We will never forget the times we had!"

Carver then turned on the TV and tuned it to the science fiction channel as he turned up the volume to hear the sound of a spaceship humming. Arnold then whispered into the walkie talkie as Sharlene said, "Farewell, humans!"

"NO!" Douglas Cain yelled as the lights were shut off.

"Okay, get in positions!" Arnold said as Olga, Sharlene and the other adults sat down in the chair, holding on to the ropes as if tied up. My mom and dad nodded as dad turned on the lights as I said, "The light, is bright!"

"Okay, let's get you all out of here!" Arnold said as we untied ourselves.

We nodded as we all followed Arnold, and my mom and dad out. My mother and father exited the community college as she yelled, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! We saved the hostages! The aliens are no longer here!"

Everyone cheered as Douglas Cain just stared with a shocked expression. I ignored it though as everyone was chanting for my parents for the rescue of the kids... even THOUGH THEY held us hostage in the first place.

As everyone was celebrating, I heard Douglas Cain and his intern talking. I turned to see them, but only Douglas was still standing with that shocked expression... with an open door on his back that had a timer clicked on for ten minutes. Two white mice, one with a huge head, and one with a skinny tone were seen walking off. Hmm... odd.

"Well, I guess it's true what they say." I heard Douglas Cain say, even though his mouth didn't move.

"What's that, Brain?" Pinky asked, even though I didn't see him.

"There may be other life in this universe. Where or what it is, we don't know... but one thing's for sure... at least it gives us time to go back to the lab to prepare for tomorrow night." Douglas Cain said.

"Why, Brain? What are we going to do tomorrow night?" I heard Pinky ask.

"The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!" Douglas Cain said in a determined voice, even though I didn't see his lips move.

Whatever that meant, I didn't know. But it just felt so good to get out of it...

"Hey, Olga..." I said as I went to her. "What do you think of your first Halloween?"

"It was actually pretty fun!" Olga smiled. "I needed something like this to cool me down... sure, we were held hostage by some people who thought we were aliens, but I feel good! Just never invite me to another Halloween thing again... I prefer the quietness of my studies..."

I laughed as I hugged her. "Okay, Olga, we won't."

Olga smiled as she looked up. "I better go comfort my dad. He probably needs it."

I nodded as I waved to Olga as she went off. As I went over to my parents, I overheard Arnold and his grandfather talking.

"I'm never pulling a prank like that again..." Arnold said.

"Ah, what are you talking about, Shortman?" Arnold's grandfather laughed. "You terrified the entire city and almost caused the end of the world! I'm proud of you, boy!"

Arnold smiled as I frowned at Arnold, luckily, he didn't notice. I haven't forgotten it was him who pulled this off in the first place.

...Of course, I had plans to get back at Arnold...

November 1st, I smirked as me, Nadine and Phoebe had set up some scary masks to our faces. "Get ready..."

Arnold opened the door... as we jumped on the stair case and did some creepy sounds. Arnold shrieked as we giggled.

Arnold frowned as he looked up. "Rhonda..."

"Now we're even." I said as we took off our masks and we started walking together.

"You're not going to let that go, are you?" Arnold sighed.

"Well, it was kinda your fault we were being hunted down in the first place." I explained. "Promise me you let us in on the FULL prank BEFORE you go and do it!"

"Okay, I promise." Arnold said.

I smiled as I hugged him. "Thanks, buddy, that's all I ask..."

As we kept walking, I kept thinking about last night... most particularily, those voices I heard as I hugged Olga the other day... one of those voices was clearly Phoebe, but... that other voice I heard...

...it almost sounded like... Deep Voice... I knew I needed to have another conversation with him or her at some point in time...

And with part two of episode eighty done, we are now at the end of Arc 2! Arc 3 is about to come up pretty soon, so don't miss out! For now, I'll take a short hiatus, but don't worry, we'll be back in full bloom in no time! By the way, Pinky and the Brain do indeed cameo in this story! I couldn't help myself, though. It just seemed like a golden opportunity! But, anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks! And don't forget to check out and/or add to the TVTropes page! Arc 3 is coming soon!