Wow. It's almost Halloween and there's no snow on the ground for once. THANK YOU MOTHER NATURE! Incidentally, there's no snow at the Smash Mansion right now, either, but seeing as it's the only building there for miles around, the smashers won't be heading outside anyway. Plus, I have other things planned for them :)

Disclaimer: I do not own SSBB, or Thriller. They just happen to make an interesting combination.

The day before Halloween in the Smash Mansion was always a busy day, because everyone was busy preparing for the party. Early in the morning, a mysterious and anonymous list (which everyone knew was written by the president) would appear on the bulletin board stating the jobs for each smasher. Each task was carefully assigned to the smasher who would be able to complete it the quickest and with the most success. Donkey Kong, Bowser and Ganondorf were to carry up the tables from the basement into the large rec room where Ike, Marth, and Link were waiting to set them up. Pit was slated to hang up the decorations that Zelda and Peach would be making. Kirby, Jigglypuff, Meta Knight, and King Dedede were to help the angel as well. Lucas and Ness had been asked to use their PK powers to create special effects, such as PK fire in the cauldrons, and the pokemon trainer (who insisted on being called "Red" because he found "Ash" to be very insulting) was to direct Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, and Pikachu to help the little psychic boys. Yoshi and Olimar had been requested to use orange and black eggs and pikmin to create colourful displays. The Star Fox team (including Wolf) and the Italian brothers had to come up with the entertainment, and last, but not least, Sonic the Hedgehog had to dash back and forth between each group to make sure progress was being made. Any smasher without a job was to stay out of the way of the ones that did, especially Sonic, seeing as he might unintentionally run over anyone who got in his way.

At three o'clock, everything was well underway. Most tasks were already finished. The only ones still working hard were Zelda, Peach, Pit, and the entertainment team. King Dedede, Meta Knight, Kirby, and Jigglypuff had abandoned the angel, so Sonic sent Lucario out to see if he could sense their auras. He couldn't. Just as Pit was resigned to working alone, Bowser suddenly appeared and offered his services. This was extremely odd, but no one questioned it. The decorating team was finished in under an hour.

Meanwhile, Fox, Falco, Wolf, Mario, and Luigi were slowly but surely making progress. They had already devised a music playlist, and so were coming up with games. Luigi had just volunteered to disguise himself as a fortune teller, to the vociferous protests of Falco.

"No fortune tellers!" the pilot insisted. "'Fortune' is just a bunch of hooey. And you're not even a real fortune teller!"

"But that's-a the point!" Mario responded for his brother, who was embarrassed and fidgeting.

"Yeah, I think it's a great idea!" Fox encouraged. He gave Luigi a thumbs up, who smiled weakly.

"So do I," Wolf added, "which means, Falco, you're outnumbered."

"Fine, fine," Falco waved a wing in defeat, "but don't come crying to me when this all fails."

Ignoring that last part, Fox tracked down a round table and chair and set them up. Luigi created a non-explosive negative zone around them. After the dodgeball incident, he was much more careful about which type of negative zone he created. When he finished, the team decided that between the music to dance to, the food that would be later set up at the back, and the fortune-telling, everyone would be well entertained. When Fox closed the rec room door behind him, it would remain closed until the following day. Everything would be untouched.

When the chef who was to set up the candy opened the door early on Halloween, he was thoroughly impressed with the set up job. There were tables lined up at the back for him to display his Halloween goodies on, a round fortune-telling table in a corner that was glowing with eerie green light, a spacious area for dancing, and speakers at the front to play spooky music from. The decorations were impressive as well. Orange and black streamers were wound around the crossbeams, and little pumpkin decorations hung from every surface. Black cauldrons hung at intervals, and towers of alternating orange and black pikmin and Yoshi eggs were in three of the four corners. In the fourth corner sat a large spiked shell. The chef found this to be the most frightening because it seemed very, very lifelike. He decided to stay as far away from it as possible.

The chef went into the kitchen and turned on the lights. Already made and arranged on platters were the treats he had prepared the day before. There were chocolate cupcake towers with orange icing, several plates of cookies shaped like pumpkins, spiders, and ghosts, and the chef's personal favourite, rolls of dough he shaped to look like severed fingers. There were also the simple, classic things: bowls of orange and black jelly beans, bubble gum, and every other candy people get on Halloween. It took the chef several trips to get all of that set up, but he was very pleased with it all when he was done. He left, keeping as much space between him and the freaky shell as possible.

It was the best Smash Mansion Halloween party ever. The music was excellent, the food was delicious, and Luigi made a surprisingly good fortune teller. Hardly anyone was dressed up, but that wasn't particularly important to any of them. Costumes were hard to come by at the Smash Mansion, so many of the older brawlers went without. A few of the younger ones, like Lucas and Ness, just went with whatever they could find. Lucas was a toilet paper mummy, and Ness had a magnifying glass and called himself Sherlock. Everyone was having a good time. Or, at least everyone that was there.

"Has anyone seen Bowser lately?" was the frequently asked question. The frequent response was "He's anti-social. He's never come to one of these before, so why would he start now?" It was left at that.

With most of the lights off, the PK fire slowly burning in the cauldrons provided a flickering light that made everything all the more spooky, particularly the massive spiked shell. Once the brawlers got over their initial apprehension of the thing, they basically just ignored it and kept enjoying themselves.

Suddenly, everyone's favourite Halloween song started to play: Thriller! People cheered in delight, and those that knew the dance started doing it. Pit was even doing it in midair. Those that didn't know the dance just did their own version of the zombie, much to the delight of some of the others. Fox's "zombie" seemed to be one of the funniest. Wolf couldn't stop laughing long enough to get himself up off of the floor.

As the song drew to the chorus, people started to sing along.

Cause this is thriller, thriller night

And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike

You know it's…

Right where everyone should have sang out "Thriller!" a deafening roar sounded through the room, shaking the very walls and terrifying the brawlers. Peach and Zelda latched on to each other and screamed a scream that a banshee would've envied. Pit dropped like a stone, landing right on top of Link and crushing the Hylian as he tried to get as far away from the source of the roar as possible.

Standing in the corner where the spiked shell was, bellowing louder than Mario could ever remember, was Bowser. Slowly, everyone realized what had happened. They all calmed down, and the music came back on. Bowser laughed darkly, thoroughly pleased with the reaction he had received. Then, being the anti-social that he is, he left the rec room as everyone began to sing along once more.

You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!

Mwahaha, did I scare you a little? I'm not even sure where the idea to have Bowser do that came from…oh well. Sometimes it's better not to question it. Next up will be TheNinjaAlchemist95's request. And if any of you reading this have a request, TELL ME!