Disclaimer: I do not own FFVII, Beethoven, or The Nightmare Before Christmas. Sad but true.

A/N Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see our town of Midgar! Life's no fun without a good scare and Hojo is no exception. So as the Pumpkin Lord of the evening it is my pleasure to welcome everyone who Hojo has ever experimented on for a Halloween death! So join us if you dare. And thank you to all for the ideas implemented here.

Hojo looked around the room; it looked like an ordinary party to the casual observer. People stood around with drinks in outfits of varying degrees of semi-outlandishness, music was blasting and people were dancing to it. A perfectly normal Shin-Ra Halloween party, finely spun sugar skulls sat with vibrant rock candy eyes glowing in the strobe lights. Streamers of black, orange, white and red hung from the ceilings; a disco ball in the center reflected the lights of the DJ booth.

He took another glance around the room, this wasn't a normal party, and he was recognizing everyone in there. Not in the, "see them in the hallway or the restroom every once and a while" way but in the, "oh crap why are they here?!" way.

The person on the DJ area stopped glaring at him, spiky black hair and a cross shaped scar, that SOLDIER from Nibelheim and the grunt with blond hair. And the one over behind him glaring at him, that meddling Valentine from when he'd just commenced the Jenova Project. Standing next to him was Lucrecia, and at a table nearby, Gast, and the last true Ancient Ifnala along with a five year old girl. Sitting on all fours by Vincent was his latest project Red XIII, the various members of SOLDIER were scattered all over the place. And walking onto stage was Sephiroth, which was an unmistakable face.

The SOLDIER General took a microphone off of the stand, "ladies and gentlemen how are we this evening?"

There was a scattered round of calls ranging from, "drunk as a python" to "fine and how are you?"

"Alright so we all know what tonight is right?" Sephiroth asked receiving a unanimous roar of yes from the gathered. "That's right tonight we're here to pay special tribute to the man who made all of our lives a living nightmare! Professor Hojo! Grab him boys!"

Three men with silver hair and green eyes came out of nowhere and started wrapping Hojo up in wet leather. When they had finished they hooked a needle into him and hoisted him into the air.

"Put me down right now!" Hojo called.

"No can do Prof tonight's all about you, now would everyone line up in order of worst affliction by Hojo," Zack called putting on Ode to Joy.

Sephiroth, Vincent, Lucrecia, Gast, Ifnala, Nanaki, the various members of SOLDIER including the grunt and Zack and finally little Aerith all lined up in front of Hojo. "Wait this is all some sort of misunderstanding!" Hojo whined.

"Oh no mistake," Sephiroth replied, "be prepared to suffer your worst nightmare." He summoned the Masamune and slashed into Hojo.

He felt himself die before coming back as good as new, this time Vincent walked up and glared at him silently, "now repent." He muttered before lifting his left hand and stabbing Hojo's eyes and digging into the brain.

Once again he came back just fine as Lucrecia walked up, she didn't say anything but she did beat him over the head with a clipboard until he was almost dead. And so it went with each person going over and over. The whole while the leather he'd been wrapped in getting steadily tighter also killing him.

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The next morning Hojo was found dead in his bed, sheets distinctly wet. The cause of death was put up to a heart attack though there were leather burns all over his body. Also found in the room was a black feather, a bullet casing, a pen and a pink ribbon.