Standing, a bit bewildered at the sudden shriek and the door being pushed open, was Shaggy and Scooby. Each of their outfits were splattered in colors on a white suit that covered most of them. An outrageously poofy afro colored wig adorned both of their heads and a bright red nose sat in their middle of their faces. They were a pair of clowns.

"Velma! Like… Velma… We're sorry…"

Shaggy stuttered, quickly pulling the curly bright yellow wig off his head revealing a mangle of his normal brown hair. He removed the nose and pulled open the Velcro that kept the little kid clown suit together. Scooby only had to remove a wig and nose before he was de-clowned, though he did it quickly for Velma's sake. They both moved to comfort their Coulrophobic friend, helping her up from the floor. It took a bit to calm her down; Shaggy led Velma to his messy bed and had her sit on upon it as she relaxed down from her scare.

"…I…I don't like clowns…"

She muttered with a bit of a shake. She didn't forget what had given her that fear. Though her family had replaced the set of encyclopedia's that got shredded, her memory of the event wasn't so easily repaired. Once she got a grip on herself, she turned to the two fussing over her.

"What…. Were you even doing? In," She paused to look over at the discarded yellow wig on the floor. "...That?"

She couldn't even bring herself to say it. She knew there was no logical reason to be so scared. But that was the thing with a Phobia. It's an abnormal, and unnatural fear of something. Logic had nothing to do with it. Shaggy looked over and kicked the wig into the rest of the clothing on the floor, trying to hide it in the mess that occupied the middle of the room. He then looked over at Velma, feeling guilty for giving her a scare.

"We were planning for Halloween. What are you like' doing here? I didn't expect you for another hour or so…" Shaggy commented. His parents let him know before hand that she, and the rest of the gang were going to come over today. But she had come earlier then he anticipated and ruined the surprise before he was ready for them. He wasn't even sure if he was going to let them in on it as well, but thinking ahead, it was better that they knew about it and didn't warn their parents ahead of time of his masterful plan. Velma looked over the massive pile and her mind was a whir of thoughts. Pieces were slowly falling into place as she was figuring out Shaggy and Scooby's master plan, as only one who knew their thinking could puzzle out from all that she had seen.

"…My mom dropped me of early. I think I'm getting an idea of what you might be planning…"

Velma's interested was definitely peeked, but she would wait till the others arrived before she thought any further ahead. Shaggy grinned deviously, seeing as it didn't take much to get where he was going with it all.

Moving back to the mass of scattered clothing, he picked up a tattered shirt and vest. Looking them over together, he pondered the combination. Scooby had already disappeared under the mass in the middle. With clothes going flying, Scooby emerged wearing a stylish gray Italian hat and a blue-ish gray dress jacket. He made a scowl that made Velma laugh.

"You just need a white wig Scooby, and you would look just like Al Cabone, that skeleton bad guy we caught that one time at the game show. Oh what was it called... "For letter or worse"? I think that was it."

Scooby looked down at himself and agreed. With a flurry of more clothing, Scooby disappeared into the pile once more in search for the last part of his costume. It took only a matter of time before he returned with his complete outfit.

"R'wah! R'wah!"

He made a big grin and sneered, attempting to look as much as the bony ghost they had captured once before. Shaggy looked over at the sound and yelled, quickly jumping across the room and into the lap of Velma. When she heard the yell, she moved instinctual to catch the airborne boy, catching him expertly. He looked down from her arms and sighed in gratitude.

"Like' Thanks Velms."

"Don't mention it." She said cheerily, letting the older boy down back on the ground. Scooby laughed, and soon was joined by Shaggy. It was a really good looking costume, and would be perfect for his plan.

"Good one Scoob. Let's put that one on the complete pile."

Velma found herself, wandering about the room and moved to the piles of clothing to investigate. A lot of the stuff on the piles was old clothing, or ones that seemed to be borrowed from Shaggy's parents. Some of the other one's she recognized, were past Halloween costumes Shaggy never wore, since normally he was afraid to go out on these days. But this year was different. This year would be the start of something special. They could just feel it.

It didn't take long before Fred and Daphne were dropped off. They found Velma had also joined the fun and was trying on costumes. She even had gotten over her earlier fear and was wearing the yellow wig on her head. Though she was wearing a white dress that was far too long on her. Trying to look like a famous actress but failing due to she was too short and wore glasses.

"What… Velma…" Daphne said with an exaggerated sigh at the younger girl. Hands resting at her hips and she looked in from the door. She rolled her eyes as she critiqued the younger girls attire. "That Wig SO clashes with your eyes."

Fred snickered at the comment, though looking over; the bright yellow did look odd on Velma since she normally was a brunette. The younger girl just chuckled and tried to get out of the dress. It was a bit of a struggle, but with some rolling on the floor she was able to extract herself out of the outfit.

"This… Is like' the problem. I could really use all of your help on this." Shaggy said, trying to get everyone's attention in the room.

"Fred. Close the door, will ya? I don't want the parents listening in."

Fred looked over at the door then back at Shaggy. With a nod from the other boy, Fred walked over and closed the door. Coming back, Shaggy motioned everyone to come closer, so that the ears on the walls didn't over hear his brilliant plan.

"Like' here's why I asked all of you to come over. Though. You were going to come over anyway, but still, you're here now." He had at one point planned to keep everything to himself and Scooby, but what were friends for but helping you with pulling off masterful plans?

"I need help. This year is a big year for us. I over heard that our parent's, as long as we are all together, will let us to go trick-or-treating all on our own. And you know what that means…"

Shaggy grinned. He could just taste all the candy that was awaiting them. Endless streams of candy flowing out of bags aplenty. As many as they could get their hands on... But there was a slight problem to it all, as problems always were in the way of greatness.

"...But… We are only allowed to go on this block. Thus, a big problem."

Shaggy looked disappointed for a second, but this is why he needed their aid. The more people, the more candy; and the more to be able to pull off his devious plan he had thought up of.

Velma then shifted to take over, since Shaggy hadn't been able to wait till Fred and Daphne to arrived, to let Velma into his plan. Being impatience to share his brilliance of the situation, he told her as they played around and made outfits. It was better anyway, she was more skilled at explaining things then he was. Easier to leave it to the expert then try his hand at it, and that wouldn't be any less of his plan. So it was all hers for the explaining.

"…The problem with a limited area of occupation is the quantity of the products wished to be obtained in the set proximity, to optimize the acquired goods. "

"Eh?" Pondered Fred and Daphne together, confused at what Velma had just said. Even Shaggy and Scooby knew what she was talking about but was caught off guard by her way of putting it. Velma smiled and reworded it, because sometimes she just liked talking over their heads for a bit. But she always explain better afterwards.

"The problem is we only have a few houses to get candy from."

"Ohhhhhh…" They all said in chorus. Finally getting it.