(Sterin House, 5:00 pm)
The rest of the kids came out. Altogether, there were 9 kids, including Caity, Skye, Sonic, Sonia, Sunny, Cosmic, Bobby, Ashura, and himself. Manic saw Sonic with a plastic machine gun strapped over his shoulder, most likely given to him by Skye. There was also Uncle Chuck who was there to chaperone, making the total number 10.
"Alright, there's me and Ashura. Who is going with who?" asked Chuck.
"Skye, Caity, and Manic are with me," said Ashura.
"Kind of a small group. Are ya sure you don't need anymore?" asked Chuck.
"We'll be alright. Besides, a smaller group is easier for me to look after," replied Ash.
"Alright then, we'll see ya in an hour," said Chuck, waving.
He and Sonic, Bobby, Cosmic, Sonia, and Sunny went down the left street while Ashura's group went down the right.
"Alright, the prank stuff's a bit limited this year, so we'll have to pick our targets carefully," said Ashura.
"That's where these extra costumes come in," said Caity, opening her bag to reveal several other cosutmes she smuggled in, "We go to all the houses marked on Skye's map and we use these costumes to get candy from them twice, and if we can fool them into giving us candy a second time, then we move on. If they don't give us our treats, we give them tricks. :3"
"OO That's actually pretty clever," replied Ashura.
"Ash has the tricks, Skye has the map, Caity has the costumes, but what do I have?" asked Manic.
"You are our cover. We needed one more person in our group so your Uncle Upchuck wouldn't get suspicious, so I picked you since you kinda already knew about our little game," said Ash.
"Oh. Is there anything I can do to help?" asked the spiky haired cop.
"We'll see, but for now, let's have some fun," said Ashura, "Now where's our first target?"
Skye pulled a map out of his firefighter costume and unfolded it.
"The first one is old man Jenkin's place, around the corner at the end of the block to the right," he said, pointing in the direction of their first target, "This guy likes to play loud music just to annoy his neighbors and then acts like an innocent old man when the cops tell him to stop, and he usually gets away with it."
"Prime candidate. Looks like he'll be the first to donate free candy to us," said Ashura.
They went to Jenkin's house and said "Trick or Treat" and waited for him to come to the door. After a few seconds, the door opened to reveal an elderly doberman. Manic was a bit surprised at how kindly he seemed for an alleged prankster. Not as devious as his younger counterparts.
"Happy halloween, kids, :)" he said, dropping kit kats into their waiting bags.
"Happy halloween," they replied, and then left.
They went back around some bushes and got down behind them.
"Alright, one of us is gonna have to sit this next attempt out or it'll be too obvious we're the same kids as before. So whose it gonna be?" asked Ashura.
"This is my first time, I'll sit back and watch," replied Manic.
"It's our first time, too. We just go back and make like we just arrived at his place. Ya sure you wanna wait here?" asked Ash.
"Yeah, I already got candy from him anyway, ;)" winked Manic.
"Alright then. Caity, let's see them costumes," said Ash.
A few minutes later, a ghostbuster, a frankenstein monster, and a vampire emerged from the bushes and approached Jenkins' house for the final time. The oldest one, the vampire, opened his cape and stuck out his hand to ring the doorbell. The doberman opened said door and smiled at the "new" comers.
"Happy halloween, :)" he smiled, dropping candy into their baskets.
"Thank you," they all replied.
With their union dues collected, they left and Manic followed them.
"Who is next, mortal?" asked Ashura.
Frankenstein checked the map again.
"Next, we have Mr and Mrs Goddy down the road. Not much about them except that they're a couple of stuck-ups who need a little halloween excitement," said Skye, putting the map away.
They scurried over to the Goddys' house and got their candy, then switched back to their original costumes. This time, Ashura stayed behind while the rest went up to the door and rang again, and it worked, just like with Mr Jenkins.
"Well that was easy. They weren't expecting anything unusual," said Caity.
"That means their guard is down, X3" snickered Ashura, "Whose next?"
"Next on the list is "Scotty Flander, but my dad calls him Potty Flounder because he uses bad words, even around kids," said Skye.
Potty Flounder? That's definitely something Harvey would call him. thought Manic, trying to stifle his laughs.
They went over to Mr Flander's house and yelled "trick or treat" but all they got was a grouchy orca telling them to (bleep) off.
"Bingo!" whispered Skye as they left.
"Looks like potty mouth fishpaste is our first victim. Let's see what we got," said Ashura, opening his "bag of tricks."
"Since he likes making his mouth sound like a toilet, his car will have to smell like one, X3"
Ashura pulled out what looked to be a small change purse with a dollar sticking out of it.
"What else is in it?" asked Manic, knowing that couldn't be all there was to it.
"The result of someone's pet eating laxative," said Ashura matter-of-factly.
"It's going in Mr Flanders' car?" asked Manic.
"Only if it's unlocked. If the alarm goes off, run like your life depends on it," warned Ashura, nearing Flanders' sports car.
He looked inside and sure enough, the driver's seat was unlocked.
"He's just asking for it," snickered Ash, opening the door and sticking the poo filled change purse into the glove compartment.
It was sure to give off a horrible smell, and when Flanders found the purse with a dollar sticking out, he'd reach inside to get the rest, only to find the source of the smell.
"Run like the why-nd!" ordered Caity as soon as Ash silently closed the car door.
"It's wind, :P" said Skye flatly.
"Right," said Caity.
They ran to the next house, and the costumes worked there, but at the next one, their attempt at extra candy was ratted out by a kid, of all people.
"You already came here, you fakers!" shouted the three year old.
Everyone was D:
They ran into some nearby bushes.
"Manic, you're up to bat," said Ashura.
"Kay, what do I do?" asked Manic.
"I just need you to ring the door bell, then run back here," replied Ash.
"Alright," said Manic.
He ran up to the door, rang the bell, then ran back to the bushes. Ash waited until the silhouette of the kid could be seen through the glass door, and then lit the firecrackers he had with him and threw them. They landed in front of the door just as the snot nosed little punk opened it and he was met with blinding flashes, mixed with deafening pops that nearly shattered the windows. The pranksters ran for it while the kid freaked out and ran back inside his house.
"That'll teach him to interfere with our attempts at extra CANdy, :B" said Skye, sounding like a retarded hillbilly.
At the next house, they were told to buzz off before they could collect any candy at all. The house looked like a mansion, similar to the Hedges' house, and it was white, to top it all off, so Ash pulled a couple of red chalk pieces from his tricks bag.
"Take a piece and go crazy," he said.
Caity and Manic both took the red chalk and snuck back to the house while Skye and Ashura watched from the bushes for any bypassers.
(5 minutes later)
The two hedgies joined Skye and Ash in the bushes. They all looked back at the house to admire their handiwork. Written in big red letters on the front of the house was: Halloween party, 6:00-8:30. Everyone invited.
"They're gonna blow a fuse when people start showing up, XD" laughed Skye.
"I'm impressed," said Ashura, an eyebrow raised.
"Ready to pay up?" asked Caity.
"It's not over yet," replied Ash, "There's still a few more targets left.
"What are you talking about?" asked Manic.
"They got a bet going to see who can do the best prank," said Skye flatly.
The next three houses netted them extra candy, but at the next one, they got sprayed with a water hose by some jerk wad rabbit lady trying to be funny (but failing miserably). Manic got out dry, and Caity and Skye made it out with only a little bit of water on them, while poor Ashura was soaked, having been sprayed at point blank.
"So she likes spraying people, eh? Let's see how she likes...the Nuclear Prank," said Ashura in a freaky voice.
"What's the Nuclear Prank?" asked Manic.
"It's when we use all our remaining pranks at once," replied Ash.
"This should be good, :)" said Skye in anticipation.
"Oh it is. We have a pack of forks, a bannana, a pack of pepperonis, seran wrap, vaseline, some more firecrackers, and some super glue. We're going to make that hag pay dearly for wetting me- I mean us- with that green snake she carries," replied Ashura.
Everyone huddled around their older cousin.
"Here's what we'll do..."
(1 minute later)
Vanilla Rabbot never thought that spraying trick or treaters with a hose could be so much fun, but it was. And sure it was mean, but everyone was getting pranked this time of year and she wasn't gonna let that happen to her.
"Yoohoo!" sang a voice from behind her.
She turned around to see someone disappearing behind her large house and she ignored it, knowing they'd probably just throw something at her as soon as she followed them to that area, but then she heard loud popping noises coming from behind her house and turned the garden hose to full blast and charged to the backyard, ready to spray whoever was lighting fireworks. But as she got to the back, she didn't see any rowdy teenagers. Instead, she saw the picnic table and chairs overturned or stacked on top of each other, and the grill had somehow been placed on top of the pool house, but worst of all, there was toilet paper strewn all over the yard, on the table, on the pool house, and even on the branches.
"Come out! I know you're here!" she shouted, spraying the hose at the surrounding bushes.
No one appeared.
She then remembered the teens she'd soaked earlier and wondered if perhaps spraying them hadn't been the smartest thing to do. If she had learned anything from her teenage daughter, Bunnie, it was that teens were creative, especially when they tried to get back at someone.
She then remembered the pool house and hoped they hadn't put anything dirty inside the pool, but when she tried to pull the door to the pool house open, her hand slipped right off the knob.
They put vaseline on the knob!
She began to grow nervous when she realized that the toilet paper wasn't the only thing they'd done to her yard. She wiped the vaseline off the knob and pulled on it, but the door wouldn't budge, so she pulled with all her might until it finally flew open. She noticed something sticky on the door frame and recognized it as super glue.
"Oh Gawd no," she growled, running back to her house.
She tried to open her back door, but that was also glued and vaseline'd shut. She looked at her yard one more time, scanning for any further destruction wreaked by teens out for revenge, but saw nothing and breathed a sigh of relief...until she realised her front yard wasn't entirely safe, and rushed back around to find her worst fears confirmed: her car had seran wrap on it, preventing the doors from being opened any time soon, and forks were stuck all over the yard, spelling out the word payback.
"YOU BRATS WILL PAY FOR THAT!" she shouted.
A block away, four hedgehogs stopped running and fell to their knees laughing.
"She still doesn't know about the bannana in her car's tail pipe, or the pepperonis underneath the seran wrap, X3" giggled Skye.
"She also doesn't know about the super glue and vaseline on her front doors, either, XD" laughed Caity.
"She's gonna be ticked in the morning, cuz she'll still be trying to get inside her own home, :)" chuckled Manic.
"Well that's what she gets for pranking pranksters, and I have you guys to thank for helping me. Our little spree may have been cut short, but that last prank made it all worth it," gushed Ashura.
"Okay, you are still the best. I did good at that chalk prank, but you beat the crap out of mine. I bow to your skills, master," groveled Caity sarcastically as she handed Ashura the prize money.
"That's okay, Caity, I don't want your money," said Ashura.
"You don't?" asked Caity, raising her gaze toward her black and green cousin.
"No, I just want you to say that last part about my skills to me everyday for the rest of my life, :)" said Ashura.
"O_O Take the money! NOW!" said Caity shoving the five dollar bill at Ashura, who pocketed it gladly.
He then looked at his watch and got the D: look on his face.
"What time is it?" asked Skye.
"5:49. We only have 11 minutes before the party begins," replied Ashura.
Everyone looked up to see the sun disappearing behind the tree lines.
"We don't have that much candy. How will we get more in just 11 minutes?" asked Manic.
"Run!" said the other three in unison.
They'd have to do this with sonic speed.