Edwin frowned as he woke up.

He frowned BECAUSE he woke.

The reason he frowned because he woke up is that it shouldn't have happened. He hadn't been asleep… or, rather, he hadn't been asleep, last he remembered.

The last thing he remembered was being at the Hellfire Gala, dueling in yet another tournament, and praying that it wouldn't turn out that Stolas or Charlie or Ozzie had some crazed cousin that was evil and wanted to take over all of Damnation using card games.

And yet there he was, waking up in his suite in Hazbin.

"What the fuck?" he muttered as he looked at the clock. It was around 9am, which made sense if it were a normal day. The staff tended to like to stay up late, with even Charlie going to bed around 2 or 3 in the morning, so 'mornings' tended to be far later in the day. If one could claim that there were 'days' when there was no sun the Pride Ring. But Edwin, who in life had at most slept in til 8, had found himself more and more waking up at 9, one of the earliest risers. Only Niffty tended to get up when he did, while Alastor was usually awake but that was because he kept weird hours; honestly Edwin couldn't remember when he'd heard of Alastor sleeping.

But he was the one that got up the earliest and thus he and Niffty had fallen into a routine of waking up and getting started on breakfast for everyone, even if it was putting out everyone's favorite bowls of cereal.

"We need a fucking cook," Edwin muttered to himself. He didn't mind cooking for the gang, actually enjoyed it, but he had other things to deal with. He was a secret fucking overlord, after all, and eventually that wasn't going to be a secret anymore. When it got leaked out it wouldn't be 'proper' for him to make half the meals at Hazbin and honestly if he left Charlie and the rest of the gang to make their own meals they'd starve.

Getting up Edwin stretched, rolling his shoulders and cracking his neck… before looking down at what he was wearing.

Orange pajamas with a familiar basic face on them. Round eyes. A triangle nose. Mouth full of square spaced out teeth.

"Oh no," he whispered in growing horror. "No no no." He tugged on the pajama shirt like it was an enemy and if he were able to rip it off he would be saved from the horror he found himself facing. "No. No. No."

"Edwin?" Aria said, emerging from the second bedroom. He had tried to get her to sleep in a different suite but Aria had said that now that they were pack she had to be close to him or she'd never be able to rest. So Charlie had moved him from his original room to his current suite, with its two rooms and common area. Aria was in her human form, letting out a jaw-cracking yawn that spoke of her Hellhound form. "What's going on?"

Edwin turned and saw she was wearing pajamas with little white ghosts on them.

He was dead. He was dead and in Hell.

And somehow he STILL COULDN'T ESCAPE FILLER ARCS!

"noooooooo," he groaned out… just before the door to their room opened and Charlie burst in. She was all grins and laughter… and was wearing an orange and black variation of her normal suit.

"IT'S HALLOWEEN!" she exclaimed, grabbing the two and giving them a big hug. Or attempted to but instead it resulted in the two basically in headlocks. "I couldn't sleep, I'm so excited! Aren't you so excited!"

Edwin tried to answer but considering he currently had his face buried in Charlie's right boob it made it impossible for him to say much.

"Alright," Charlie said, releasing them. "I have the plans all written up! First we have breakfast… Pumpkin spice and Apple Cider spice everything!"

Edwin… didn't mind that. He actually REALLY loved Apple and Pumpkin spice so getting a full breakfast of that was fine.

"Then we are going to get fitted for our costumes. Mr. Rodrigo is coming over to take our measurements and make sure that everything is fitted just right."

Edwin… frowned at that. Unfortunately his morpher was still on Earth, locked away in his safe. Which meant that his normal costume was out of reach. And while he hadn't been too bothered by that when he'd ended up in Hell, as he had worried just what would happen if infernal energy was introduced to the Morphing Grid, considering all the other Halloweens… he had he really wished that he had it.

'Knowing my luck Parker will be down here and will torture me some more.'

~Meanwhile, on Earth…~

"Edwin Chaos may have been my enemy," Parker said to the gathering of prisoners, each holding a remembrance candle, "but he didn't deserve to die as he did. I wished only for him to learn how to be a good person and now that will never come to be." He sniffed. "Goodbye, Edwin Chaos… may a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

~MC~MC~MC~

"Then we have lunch," Charlie said. "I'm still debating on what we should do for that. Don't want to get spiced out-"

"Goulash," Edwin stated. Chalie and Aria looked at him and he shrugged. "One, it works for the pun. Ghoul-ash or Goulash. But its also a really good dish. Elbow macaroni or another tube-like noodle, some kind of ground meat… hamburger works but we can do sausage, let ME fucking order it and not Alastor, and tomato sauce."

"…that does sound yummy," Aria said.

Charlie beamed. "Perfect! So we'll do that. Then everyone will have a few hours for themselves but at 3 we'll meet up and get in our costumes before we go Trick Or Treating!"

"…we go Trick Or Treating?" Edwin asked.

Charlie blinked before smacking her head. "Duh, Charlie! I keep forgetting you are new here, Edwin! It just feels like you've ALWAYS been here… you fit in so well with the rest of us, you know?"

Normally Edwin would be offended that he was told 'you fit in so well with porn stars, cannibals, and the princess of hell'.

And… he was offended. Incredibly offended. Halloween didn't make that much of a difference.

But he didn't tell Charlie any of that because he didn't want her to get upset and begin crying.

"So every Halloween everyone goes Trick or Treating. Some stay to hand out candy and that's perfectly fine. Razzle and Dazzle are doing that for us. But everyone goes out Trick Or Treating and we get SO much candy! Then we spend the rest of the night eating it!"

"…what's the catch?"

"Uh… you get a belly ache sometimes?" Charlie said.

"And by Belly Ache you mean a monster bursts out of one of us and now I'm in Aliens, game over man, game over?"

Charlie giggled at that. "Oh, you are so silly."

Edwin looked at Aria who shrugged. "It is like that. One of the best days of the year in Hell. Like our version of Chr-" Aria caught herself. "Uh… I'll explain when we get closer."

"What the fuck?" Edwin said in confusion before brushing aside what the hell was wrong with Christmas. Considering the last few had seen him duel a mind controlled Santa and Frosty the Snowman, deal with the Peanuts Gang as terrorists, and worst of all be stuck in a Hallmark Christmas Special… well, he could kind of get it. "Listen… can I be frank with you?"

"You can be Frank or Jim or even Carol," Charlie teased and Edwin scoffed.

"I am the one doing the Dad Jokes around here," Edwin pointed out. "Unless your dad is actually here. But anyway… I've had some bad experiences with Halloween. Twice I've had to deal with a deranged man turning me into things and after that I dealt with a masked killer. So I'm a bit… leery… that things are going to turn out bad."

But Charlie just waved away his concerns. "Oh, it will be more than fine, Edwin! Halloween is a special and amazing time in Hell! It's the most peaceful day of the year!"

"…bullshit."

"It is!" Charlie declared. "Unless Vizziepop forces a retcon."

"What?"

"What?" Charlie said, blinking before she grabbed Edwin's arm and tugged on it. "Come on, let's get down the breakfast!"

Edwin just barely managed to grab his robes, Aria grumbling about needing to snag his slippers as 'that's a cliché'. 'Okay… so let's see how bad this is… at least the Filler Arc stuff will only be in Hell and spare my friends."

~MC~MC~MC~

"Morning Grandpa," Yugi said with a yawn as he entered the kitchen.

"Braaaaaaains."

"…what?" Yugi said only for his grandpa to turn, revealing that instead of his normal bearded face his flesh was rotted, with the skin peeling away to reveal graying muscle, one eye a green color and the teeth in his mouth cracked and broken. His clothing was torn and covered in dirt and blood and he held out one gnarled dirty hand towards his grandson, the cracked dark nails clawing towards him. "G-Grandpa?" Yugi stammered in horror.

"BRAAAAAAAAINS!" his grandpa declared again.

BOOM!

Yugi let out a scream when his grandpa's face was reduced to mush.

"Come along, Yugi!" he heard and her turned to see his grandpa, healthy and whole, holding a shotgun. "Seems like some fool opened a portal to another reality where we are all zombies and they are invading! I already killed your doppelganger-" He pointed to the living room and Yugi's eyes went wide as he stared at the corpse that looked like him, only it had a knife driven through the eye socket, "-so now we need to check on your friends!" He tossed Yugi a revolver, which the boy quickly caught.

"Yugi," the Pharaoh said, "should I be disturbed that I can see a phantom version of myself that looks like a zombie trying to eat your counterpart?"

Yugi glanced over to see exactly that. A zombified Pharaoh ('shouldn't he be a mummy?!') trying to lean down to eat that Yugi only to keep passing through him. "Yes… yes you should Pharaoh!"

"Okay… good. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" the Pharaoh screamed shrilling and passed out, disappearing.

"Talk to your boyfriend another time, Yugi!" his grandpa said sternly. "We have zombies to kill!"

~MC~MC~MC~

"I feel like you should have been Dorothy," Vaggie said as she looked down at her outfit. While it was nice that Charlie had gotten her a dress to wear (she loved her dresses, which was odd because everything else in her life was focused around repelling all 'girlness' she could thanks to Adam's fucking chauvinistic ways) it still felt odd for her to be wearing the outfit. It wasn't her style at all. Too… naïve. Not innocent… in all honesty, while she'd never openly admit it, her choice in dresses tended to fall along the lines of 'sweet innocent girl'. She liked that… it made her feel even more badass when she pounded some stupid fucker. But the outfit she had on now wasn't something innocent. No… this was the garb of someone that didn't understand the world around them-

Vaggie blinked as she realized just how insulting it was to claim that such an outfit would be perfect for her girlfriend.

"Who else could we get to be Toto?" Charlie said, flicking the ear of her onesie and grinning. "We can't do Aria… that would be racist!"

"I'm good with my outfit!" Aria said, giving a spin. She was dressed as Glinda the Good Witch and was delighting in how poofy her dress was.

"And Husk? That's offensive."

"I'm still not sure why I have to be the Tin Woodsman," the bartender said, shifting up his hat.

"Really?" Angel Dusk said dryly… almost as dryly as the straw that made up his scarecrow costume. "You really don't know why YOU, the grumpy kitty, is the heartless Tin Woodsman?"

"Don't understand it at all." He shrugged as he took out his oil can… and filled it with booze. "At least it comes with a travel mug."

"Well, I for one love my cossssssssstume," Sir Pentinous hissed, running his fingers through his furry mane.

"You look great boss!" several of the Egg Bois declared as one, each of them dressed as Flying Monkeys.

"FLY MY PRETTIES, FLY!" Niffty cackled, lifting up her broom in delight.

"I personally think we all look rather spiffy," Alastor said as he adjusted his suit; he'd only agreed to join them because he got to be the Wizard of Oz and that meant wearing a suit. "While I would have preferred something from a radio show I suppose a talkie is better than something from that infernal idiot box." He glowered at the TV in question.

"Exactly!" Charlie said before turning to the dressing room where Edwin still was changing. "Edwin? How goes it?"

"I think your tailor gave me the wrong outfit," Edwin said. "No, check that… I know he did. Is it too late to have him come fix it?"

"Come on out and let us see it first… what, he give ya a stripper outfit?" Angel teased.

"No," Edwin said dryly, emerged from the dressing room. He was wearing a dress shirt, a long gray cloak, half pants, and his feet were completely uncovered, blue curly hair coming off the top of them. To complete the look he carried a rumpsack with pots and pans.

"It… is… perfect!" Charlie exclaimed.

"Charlie… the rest of you are dressed as the cast of the Wizard of Oz. I'm a hobbit."

"And?" Charlie said, confused. "Everyone knows the Hobbit was the most important part of Dorothy's party." She placed a hand on his shoulder and said tenderly, "Dorothy would have never made it far without Sam."

"…I think you are mixing movies up."

Husk though frowned. "What are ya talkin' about?"

Edwin looked at the others and saw they all… didn't have a problem with his costume.

"You too?" he asked Alastor.

"I know I enjoy our little games but this is Halloween… a time for truces. So believe me when I say you look perfect as Samwise."

"The Hobbit… from The Wizard of Oz."

"But of course! Sam wanted to ask the Wizard for potatoes."

Edwin shut his eyes and rubbed his forehead. "I'm going to look like an idiot but okay."

"That's the sssssspirit!" Sir Pentious declared with a cheer. "Now let'sssss get out there and look like idiotsssssss!"

The rest of the staff, even Alastor, cheered at that, leaving Edwin just shaking his head.

"I can't wait to see how badly this blows up in our faces."

~MC~MC~MC~

"Oh, what lovely costumes!" the old granny-looking Sinner said as she held out the bowl of candy. "All of you look so sweet and adorable! If it weren't Halloween I would drag you inside of here and try and make dresses out off your skin!"

Charlie giggled at that. "Well, I know which house we won't be visiting tomorrow!"

"Oops!" the granny said, placing a hand to her mouth and tittering. "Silly me! Well, I suppose mistakes will happen. All of you have a piece of candy!" Each of the staff of Hazbin grabbed some candy, happily adding it to their bags. When it was Edwin's turn the granny beamed. "And aren't you a lovely Samwise! You know, my favorite scene with him was when he dove into the river to reach Dorothy, telling her how Glinda told him not to leave her."

"…right," Edwin said, very much disturbed by the entire interaction. "And, uh… thank you."

"Of course! You have fun, kids!"

And with that she shut the door to her house.

Edwin slowly backed away from it, eyes darting about wildly for traps and the like. He was tense and ready, prepared for the Sinner to suddenly leap out with a chainsaw or to open up some secret tunnel under their feet which would send him plunging into the secret catacombs beneath her house.

But nothing happened.

He reached the sidewalk and was perfectly fine.

"You know, I should let Rosie know about that woman. I'm sure some kind of trade could be made between them. Sometimes getting rid of the skin is the hardest part of making a meal, after all!" Alastor reached up and twirling the fake mustache he was wearing.

"Okay, Alastor I get not having a problem with that," Edwin said. "But none of the rest of you aren't worried about the old woman that wants to make lamp shades out of our skin?"

"I actually think she said dresses," Husk pointed out, taking a drink from his oil can. "And besides, why the fuck would we care today? Its Halloween, man. She ain't gonna do anything to us."

Edwin looked at Vaggie, hoping maybe she'd agree with him, but she just shrugged. "They're not wrong, Edwin. Things are different on Halloween. Its truce time in Hell so we can all celebrate."

"…right," Edwin said, knowing that this was simply too good to be true. If there was a truce he was willing to bet his eye-teeth that someone would looking to take advantage of the situation and hurt him and his friends.

And he wasn't going to let that happen.

'If I have to reveal myself… if I have to call in all the souls I earned… we are all making it back to Hazbin safe and sound!'

"Okay, where to next?" Charlie asked, so excited that Edwin have expected her costume's tail to begin wagging. "Do we want to stick this neighborhood or move someplace else?"

"We could swing by the clubs!" Angel Dust said. "I heard Valentino whispering they were giving out Full Size candy bars this year to try and compete with Carmilla doing those finger puppets last year; people are claiming she's going to be adding more toys this year too so we should probably hit there as well."

"And what's in the full size candy bars?" Edwin asked suspiciously. "Drugs?"

"Candy."

"…and mixed with the candy?"

"Wow…" Vaggie said, "it's so weird to be reminded that this is all new to you."

"Its adorable!" Niffty said, popping up on Edwin's head and playing with some of his hair. "Like watching a baby take their first steps."

"Yeah yeah yeah, mock the guy actually thinking ahead," Edwin said. "I know Halloween… it ends badly. Every time. We are going to find some secret portal to another realm of Hell that is all just fire and brimstone. Or learn that Charlie's dad isn't the real Lucifer and the real one is a blood thirsty baby rapist who wants to use Angel Dust as a cock ring."

"Oooooo!" Angel Dust said, perking up at that.

"Or there will be a threat from the Vees since they hate Alastor-"

The streetlamps suddenly went out.

"Alright, here it is!" Edwin declared, tensing and preparing to call for Gleipnir; he'd been forced to leave the weapon hidden in his backpack since it 'didn't go with the costume' but with a flick of his fingers it would be in his hand, ready to take out whatever was coming at them. "Alastor, Husk, Vaggie, form a box around everyone else. We're the best fighters. No offense, Sir Pentious, but unless you have your gadgets you can't help us. Aria, be ready to-"

"Prepare for Trouble!"

"Make it double!"

Edwin blinked at that familiar set of phrases and could only watch, utterly battled, as one street light came on… revealing Vox and Valentino dressed as Jessie and James of Team Rocket, respectively.

"To protect the world from devastation!" Vox declared.

"To unite all people in our nation!" Valentino added.

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

And that's when Velvette leapt out wearing a Meowth costume. "Meowth, that's right!"

Edwin just stared at the three as Charlie, Niffty, and Aria clapped for their performance.

"That was amazing!" Charlie said. "You three did so well… I can tell you practiced it."

"Oh, we might have," Valentino said, trying to sound aloof.

"I must admit I am impressed myself," Alastor stated. "I didn't think you had the hips to pull off that skirt, Vox, but you truly do!"

"Well, not all of us can look like a fraud so easily," Vox said.

"Uh…" Edwin said only for Husk to lean in.

"It's a truce, don't mean they won't shit talk each other."

"Ah." Edwin watched as Velvette broke away from her partners and moved over to him. She was swaying her hips and had a smirk on her lips but the cat costume was kind of ruining the seductive angle of everything she was attempting to do. 'I really need to figure out if this is just her being Velvette or something more…' Edwin thought to himself as he plastered a smile on his lips. "Velvette. I will refrain from any and all pussy jokes."

"Cheers on that," she replied. "I've already heard all of them tonight." She looked him up and down. "Samwise Gamgee."

"Yeah," Edwin said with a sigh. "They are Wizard of Oz and-"

"You know, the best part of the Wizard of Oz was when Sam rushed the tower of the Wicked Witch to save Dorothy." She reached up and began to walk her fingers along his chest. "He was so… strong… then…"

Half of Edwin's mind was screaming that somehow he'd ended up attracting the attention of yet another dangerous woman.

The other half was yelling about how this world's Wizard of Oz was really fucked up.

"You want to join us for a few houses?" Husk asked. "I think Vox and Alastor are going to be flirting with each other for a while." Edwin craned his neck to see that the two were trading barbed compliments like a pair of old gay queens. All smiles and sweetness but there was also utter sharpness to their words. Valentino had tried to make a move towards Angel but Niffty ended up being the one that talked with him, much to his discomfort and Edwin's delight.

"Why not?" Velvette said with a shrug. "It's a crossover where the Dorothy and all he friends team up with Team Rocket!" She smirked at that and Edwin chuckled. "Oi! Vox! Val! We're groupin' with this lot for a bit!"

"Works for me!" Vox said. "Alastor probably will need our help carrying his candy around. He's managing pretty good right now for someone with such spindly arms."

"Only as spindly as your legs, Vox my dear."

"Well, this is gonna be fun," Edwin remarked dryly. 'And maybe having them along will help when whatever Filler Arc Bullshit pops up.'

~MC~MC~MC~

"-told the author that yes, saying those things IS bad and perhaps she should check to make sure she removed all the black mold from her house as it seems to be affecting her brain. Jane Wright, NPR news."

"In local news it seems as if a portal to another world has opened up in the city of Domino, unleashing zombie doppelgangers of its citizens upon the populous. In a statement the governor said, "While its too early to speculate so we assume this is all Seto Kaiba's fault"."

Yugi didn't hear the rest of the news report… mostly to it being drowned out by his grandpa running over several zombies with his car.

"This takes me back, Yugi!" Solomon declared. "Back to the good ol' days when you could run people over and no one shouted that youweren't 'being a good ally'!"

Yugi gripped the armrest and prayed that they'd get through the drive in one piece. "How… how much further, grandpa?" he managed to get out.

"We should be at Joey's place soon. After that we can stop and get Tristan."

"I do not understand these undead," Neph said from the back seat. "Why do they simply not remain in their tombs with all of the goods that were left for them so they might be able to have a fulfilling afterlife?"

"We kinda don't do that anymore," Yugi said.

"And when we do we tend to rob those tombs blind," his grandpa added.

Neph shook her head at that. "Foolishness, in my opinion. If these corpses had books, statues, and Nintendo Switches they wouldn't be trying to kill everyone." She sighed. "This modern world… which I am a part of because I am NOT an ancient Egyptian Goddess pretending to be a high school student… could learn so much from the past."

"Right," Yugi said as they turned a corner and he finally spotted Joey's apartment building. "Alright, there it is. Neph, can you wait in the car for us?"

"I will protect this vessel with my godly powers… and since I don't have them I will not be able to protect it at all but it will not be harmed."

Yugi just nodded and him and his grandpa got out, Solomon making sure his shotgun was loaded before the two of them began to make their way up the stairs to the three story apartment where Joey lived.

"In and out, Yugi. And don't forget to double tap."

"Right," Yugi said only to spot the door to the apartment slightly open. "Oh, that can't be good…" he muttered before breaking inside…

…and finding Joey sitting at the kitchen table, eating cereal as the rotting reanimated corpse of his father sat next to him.

Yugi, without thinking, shot the zombie right in the head.

"Nicely done, Yugi!" his grandpa praised.

But Joey looked down at the corpse in shock and horror. "Yug! Ya killed my dad!"

"Don't worry, Joey!" Yugi proclaimed. "That wasn't your real dad! He wasn't turned into a zombie. That was just a duplicate from another universe."

That though made Joey scratch his head. "Wait… that was a zombie?"

Yugi's grandpa frowned at that comment. "Yes, Joey. Didn't you think it odd that have his face was rotted off?"

"I assumed he'd slept bad last night. Ya ever see Tea if she don't get a full night's sleep?"

"Joey!" Grandpa said. "You can't-"

"No no, he's right," Yugi said, holding up his hand. "Honestly I'm glad she's with Selene right now, as we might have confused her for a zombie." Yugi turned back to his friend. "But Joey, didn't you figure it out when you talked with him?"

"Well… he kept sayin' 'brains' but that was because I told him I'd passed my Math test. I thought he was givin' me a compliment."

"Oh… oh Joey," Yugi said.

"I thought he'd finally gotten himself out of the bottle, Yug," Joey said sadly, staring down at the corpse. "I thought we'd be a family…" He reached down and shut the zombie's eyes. "Bye Zombie Dad… may a flight of rotten birds sing thee to thy rest."

"…this is so fucking weird," Yugi's grandpa said, Yugi elbowing him.

~MC~MC~MC~

"So why so tense, luv?" Velvette asked as they left the club that Angel normally stripped at, getting plenty of candy from the whores. "Ya seem a bit tense."

"Just waiting for the bullshit to kick in," Edwin muttered.

"We keep tellin' him that Halloween is peaceful but he doesn't believe us," Husk stated. "Has it in that melon of his that things are gonna go bad."

"That's… aw, that's sad, Edwin." Velvette rubbed his back. "Halloween is the greatest day of the year! Ya should be enjoyin' it!"

"I will enjoy it when its over!" he snapped before shutting his eyes. "Sorry, sorry… I am trying but-"

Edwin froze as he saw who was walking towards them.

"-but I was fucking right, this is going to be bad!" He tensed as the group of adults, all in various sheet ghost costumes, came walking towards them. One was a witch ghost, another had a cloud of dust coming form under his sheet, and one was covered in black spots.

"Edwin?" Aria said, confused.

"It's the terrorists that took you guys hostage two Christmases ago!" Edwin said.

"Oh…" Aria said only to wave her hand. "HI!"

"Don't wave to them!" Edwin hissed but the terrorist group came up to them anyway. "Oh fuck…"

"Hello!" Charlie said with a smile. "How is your Trick Or Treating?"

"We are doing well," Charles Brown stated. "Other than the last house we went to gave out rocks for some reason." He held out the rock he had gotten.

"That's terrible," Charlie exclaimed. "The last place we went to has full size snickers."

"Wonderful!" Charles said. "Come along, we will secure our treats there… then we will get Linus ."

"That blockhead thinks that Eve is going to show up and do a bunch of stuff!" Lucy complained. "Like Eve is even real…"

Edwin watched them go.

"…what the fuck is going on!?"

~MC~MC~MC~

Nate, Sally, and Tom sat in the same bar they had been going to for the last few months, drowning their sorrows over their jobs ending due to explosion on the KaibaCorp tab. Neither of the men asked HOW Sally had stolen one of the KaibaCorp Credit Cards but they also didn't mind that she had. Honestly beer was beer, no matter who paid for it.

"What's going on out there?" Sally said suddenly, seeing people running past the window screaming.

"No idea but I don't want them coming in," Tom said, walking over to the only other occupant of the bar, save for the bartender. Hefting the nearly knocked out man's body up he dragged him to the door, plunking him in front of it. "There, that will keep them from interrupting our drinking."

"Ya… ya see Joey!" the drunk mumbled. "I… I can… least hold a door shut… better than ya… ya fucking idiot…"

"I don't know who "Joey" is…" Nate commented right as someone began to pound on the door.

"Please let us in, there are zombies out here!"

"Sorry, we already barricaded the door!" Tom called out. "Would take too long to unbarricade it."

"You could just move the body," Sally said as she ordered another drink.

"I could but that would mean touching the drunk again and… I don't want to?" Tom shrugged.

"Oi! Mate! Let me in. I got people with me!"

"Find someplace else," Tom called out.

"But we always drink here!"

"…and?"

"Well, it feels like the best place to hide!"

Nate frowned. "That feels like a stupid idea."

"I told him that," a woman outside called out.

"Shut it!" the man said before returning to addressing the door. "Come on, open the damn door, buddy!"

"Hey, I'm not your buddy, friend."

"He's not your friend, guy!" the woman snapped.

"I'm not your guy, buddy!"

"We're not your buddy, friend!" the group trying to get in called out.

"We're not your friend, guy!" Tom, Nate, and Sally shouted.

"We're not your guy, buddy!" was the response back… even as the sound of the zombies could be heard coming closer.

"We're not your buddy, friend!" Nate, Sally, Tom, and the bartender all yelled.

"We're not your friend, guy!" the street group said even as the zombies began to drag them off.

"We're not your guy, buddy!" the foursome bellowed.

"BRAAAAIIINNNSSSSS!"

"well, that settled that," Tom said. "Not sure who that wanker was… name tag said 'Shaun'. What kind of name is that?"

~MC~MC~MC~

"Alright, anyone like licorice?" Husk asked. "Can't stand the stuff."

"I'll trade ya for my Dots," Angel suggested. "Box for pack?"

"That seems fair."

"I like mini snickers over full sized ones," Niffy said. "Or as I like to call them… Me Sized!"

Aria shrugged. "Three mini for a full?" The maid nodded and began to count out how many full size snickers she could sell to Aria.

"So… this is literally it," Edwin said, looking around the lobby of Hazbin. Everyone was seated on the floor, their bags of candy poured out in front of them, and were swapping and trading to try and get the best haul they could.

"What do you mean?" Charlie asked. "Did you want to do something else?"

"No… no," Edwin said slowly, idly looking at his pile of candy. "I'm just trying to process."

Charlie giggled at that. "Aw Edwin… I know you've had some rough Halloweens but you don't have to worry about that anymore! Halloween is fun and delightful! A time of peace and happiness! Where every demon, young and old, gets a chance to just have fun!"

"Huh," Edwin said, tilting his head at that. "Interesting."

"No, not interesting. Fun!" Charlie declared. "Its fun!"

"Not used to this holiday being normal. Gonna take some getting used to."

"Aaawwwww," Charlie said, giving him a hug. "You will. Happy Halloween, Edwin."

"…happy Halloween, Charlie."

~MC~MC~MC~

"And that's the last of them," Tristan said as he throw the last zombie into the giant pit outside of the city limits. "Man… once Mr. Muto and Kaiba put their differences aside this got settled quick!"

"Sure did!" Yugi replied, looking down at the massive hole filled with twitching bodies. While they had done all they could to kill the invading zombies their numbers had simply been far too much for them to handle. But it had been Kaiba who had come up with the sonic frequency that lured the zombies to the pit, causing them to stumble and fall into it like it was a giant pitcher plant. With Yugi's grandpa helping lead the teams to eradicate the few stragglers Domino had been cleared just as night was beginning to fall and, much to Yugi's shock, not a single person had died in the attack.

"And now we can get back to doing what the normal humans do, of which I am one of them," Neph stated.

"Right," Yugi replied, turning to leave only to see Joey standing there with some flowers. "Joey?"

"Goodbye, Zombie Dad. You were da best dad I ever had!" Joey said, tears in his eyes. He tossed the flowers into the pit and sadly walked away, his friends comforting him.

"At least no one we loved was hurt, right?" Tristan stated.

"Right!" Mako Tsunami declared.

"No one," Duke added.

"Braaaaaaaaiiinnnns," "Espa Roba" declared.

"Yup, everyone is safe."

Meanwhile, in the pit, Espa Roba blinked in confusion. "Uh… what am I doing here? And why are there so many flamethrowers pointed at-"

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