It was a normal and regular time before Halloween night which was a treat for all those young and old. Darla was with Jessica, who was on a small Fall Break vacation from her school, and Atticus who was supervising, like a good older brother figure.

"I just can't decide what costume I want to wear..." Darla sighed as she saw all of the little girl costumes that really caught her eye. "So many choices..."

"Well, which one do you love the most?" Atticus asked.

"I love them all!" Darla cried. "It's too hard to pick!"

"Why don't you close your eyes, spin around once, and run to one costume, and the one you run into will be your costume." Jessica suggested.

"Hey, great idea!" Darla smiled, then tried it out.

"Where'd that come from?" Atticus asked his older sister.

"Something an old babysitter taught me..." Jessica smiled with a shrug.

"Cool," Atticus smiled. "Alright, Darla, close your eyes and then spin around."

Darla shut her eyes, did a quick spin and ran blindly forward. Cherry was in the costume shop, she was putting on a black suit with matching pants and shoes as she was fiddling with a red tie and smiled to herself, but stumbled forward and looked over her shoulder.

Darla looked to see what happened. "Oh, sorry, Cherry..."

"That's okay..." Cherry said to her. "What in the world are you doing, Dimples?"

"Trying to find the right costume." Darla told her.

"Oh, sorry..." Cherry got out of the way.

"Now I have to start over..." Darla sighed a little, she shut her eyes again, did a quick spin and ran back to the little girl costume section of the store.

"I'm gonna go as Hercules." Atticus said.

"Going as Hercules? That's a change, but not in a bad way." Patch said.

"Well, you know how much I look up to him." Atticus laughed a little.

"Hm..." Patch smirked.

"You gonna dress up, Jessica?" Cherry asked after she was trying to straighten her tie.

"I might..." Jessica shrugged. "If I can find something nice enough for myself."

"Well, let's see, maybe go as a Geisha?" Atticus asked his older sister.

"Oh, I never considered that..." Jessica smiled thoughtfully. She then looked to the adult female costume section.

Cherry growled a little with her tie. "Ugh..."

"Here, let me help you." Atticus decided to tie her tie for her, being a guy and all.

"Thanks..." Cherry sounded relieved.

"No problem, besides, what are friends for?" Atticus asked.

"Okay, now to find what I'm going to go as." Patch said while looking around at the costumes.

"How about a hot dog?" Cherry attempted to joke.

Patch gave her a glance before continuing on. Cherry shrugged and put her hands in her suit coat pocket.

"Hmm..." Patch hummed. "What to choose, what to choose?"

"Need some help, buddy?" Lucky asked.

"Lucky!" Patch called in surprise and rushed over to him with a giddy smile and his tail wagging in the air.

Lucky chuckled. "Good to see ya, little buddy..."

"What're you doing here?" Patch asked with an eager smile.

"It's almost Halloween and I live with a little girl, what do you think I'm doing here?" Lucky asked with a friendly smile as always.

"Oh, right, I should have known that you and Dot would be here too, anyway, I'm looking for a costume to wear." Patch smiled.

"Hm... What's Atticus going as?" Lucky asked, thinking of a way to help him out.

"Hercules." Patch replied.

Lucky shrugged with a smile. "What about Pegasus?"

"That's perfect!" Patch smiled.

"Oh, Lucky, I think I found the perfect wig and costume for you!" Dot called out.

"Oh, and I think I know what the wig and costume might be." Patch said, trying to hide his laughter.

"Oh, boy..." Lucky sighed slightly.

Dot rushed over to her new pet dog and put the wig and costume on, showing his new reflection in the mirror. "Well, whatya think?" she smiled to her pet.

It was the same wig and tutu that he wore at Dot's school the first time before the talent show.

"Nah, it's not you, ooh, I know," Dot said before taking the tutu and wig off him and then put sunglasses, a rapper's hat and bling-bling around his neck. "I think this is more your style."

Patch hid a chuckle at Lucky's new looks. Lucky had to admit that the costumes that Dot put him in were a bit much, but he didn't mind or care because he finally had an owner who loved him for who he was.

"Oh, Patch, hello, I think I know what would look perfect on you." Dot said as soon as she saw the Dalmatian.

Patch's eyes widened, but he gave the best friendly smile he could to the little girl. Dot giggled, she gently took Patch by his collar and found a costume for him to wear and forced him to wear it.

'Hopefully this won't be humiliating or embarrassing.' Patch thought to himself.

"Aha!" Dot beamed and put a yellow jumpsuit over Patch with green fuzzballs, a white floppy collar, big red shoes, a blue round nose, a puffy red wig, and a matching hat onto the Dalmatian puppy. "You look funny!" she giggled innocently.

"I look totally ridiculous, well, at least no one else I know is around to see me wearing this." Patch said.

"Hey, guys, I was thinking of getting all my nails painted instead of-" Cherry walked by, then started to hyperventilate at Patch's new look and ran away with a startled shriek.

"Um, Dot, maybe something else so then we don't scare Cherry again?" Patch suggested.

Dot hummed as she tried to look for a better costume. Atticus found Cherry clinging to a wall, shivering like a scaredy cat.

"I-I was just worried that Patch had fleas and ticks or somethin'!" Cherry replied shakily due to her fear of clowns.

"Let me guess, he was dressed as a clown, right?" Atticus asked.

"Maybe..." Cherry said, then started to slide down and fell on her back. "Ugh, that could've been worse..." she then helped herself up and dusted herself clean.

Darla walked over in a Princess Aurora costume with a satisfied smile.

"Well, looks like someone found herself a costume to wear." Atticus smiled.

"Isn't it just me?" Darla smiled fondly as she did a little twirl in her new dress.

"Seems that way..." Cherry chuckled a little. "I bet you're excited about trick-or-treating."

"Yeah, I never did it in Hollywood," Darla admitted. "I'm really looking forward to the candy, but I promise not to eat any until I get back home."

"Wow, she's really changed from since we first met her..." Cherry commented to Atticus. "You guys must've done a great job raising her."

"We sure did." Atticus smiled before going over to a Hercules costume just his size.

Darla smiled and admired herself in the mirror, but wasn't being a spoiled brat about it, she just giggled, enjoying her new costume.

Meanwhile, Forte came back from the grocery store and took out a large bag of candy, ripped it open, and poured it into a skull-shaped bowl. There was a knock at the door which puzzled him, because this church was believed to be abandoned and whenever Cherry would come to the door, it would either be because of lessons after school or that her WiFi would be out for the weekend. He went to the door and found no one there, but he saw an invitation with a familiar Mouse logo on the envelope.

"Well, it seems that I have been invited to a party," Forte said. He looked to the invite and frowned a little. "Oh, my..." he muttered, seeing that the invite included that he would be among the many villains attending the Halloween celebration for each of the villains to plan revenge on a club known as The House of Mouse. "Now, what is that place?" he now wondered.

Jessica decided to be a nurse after the costume store did not have any Geisha costumes in her size, Darla was Aurora, and Patch was going to be a dog version of Odysseus to fit with Atticus's mythical hero theme.

"Wouldn't it be awesome if we were invited to a Halloween party?" Atticus asked.

"We have those all the time at my school," Jessica smiled. "They usually cancel class and we all get together and there's a dance after dinner, but I'll have to miss it this year so I can be with you all."

Darla loved that and hugged her. "And I'm glad for that."

Atticus then accidentally bumps into Mo who had invitations for all of them including herself. "Oh, I'm sorry!"

"That's okay, I-I got them..." Mo bent down to pick up the envelopes.

"N-No, let me help..." Atticus bent down with her.

The two then stopped slightly as their hands touched over one envelope.

"Mo, what are you doing here?" Patch asked. "And what are those envelopes you're holding?"

"I was actually just about to come see you guys," Mo explained, showing the invitations with the Mouse logo on the envelopes. "I got these from the post office when I went with my dad during walking the dogs." She then handed each of the invites to them.

"Cool, these are from Mickey Mouse." Atticus said recognizing the Mouse logo.

"Mickey Mouse?" Darla asked in surprise.

"I hear he runs a night club these days," Jessica replied. "I go to school with Goofy's son."

"Really?" Darla looked to her. "Goofy has a son?"

"Yeah, his name's Max," Jessica explained. "He's a nice guy, but he really needs to treat his father with better respect."

"Well, it looks like we're all invited to Mickey's Halloween party." Patch and Lucky said.

"Even you guys got invited." Mo smiled to the dogs.

Patch and Lucky smiled in gratitude.

"It's Halloween though..." Darla got a little nervous. "Plus, a lot of people come to the House of Mouse... What if, ya know, run into villains?"

"Don't worry, Darla, we'll all be alright." Atticus assured her.

"Well, all right..." Darla shrugged.

"Come on, Darla, I'll help you with your costume." Jessica offered.

Darla smiled to her adoptive big sister and went off with her.

"Halloween's pretty fun," Mo smiled. "I know this sounds pathetic, but I've never been trick-or-treating in my life."

"Never?" Atticus asked.

"Never..." Mo shook her head. "My grandmother hated it and said I'd just rot my teeth like a spoiled child... Well, I guess I better find myself a costume, see you at the party..." she then walked off to get home.

Atticus wanted to help the girl he loved, but he went home himself for now.

"Atticus, wait up!" Patch called out, catching up to his owner.

"Oh, sorry." Atticus chuckled and went off with his puppy to get prepared for the Halloween festivities.

Patrick and Emily were decorating the house together.

"Oh, I can just tell this is going to be a great Halloween or maybe even a fantastic Halloween." Patrick said while decorating.

"You say that every year..." Emily giggled after she lit a pumpkin spice scented candle.

"Well, it's true..." Patrick replied innocently.

Emily laughed a little again and put ghost figurines by the family pictures.

"And remember you're doing the treats as always because the last time I did it, the treats weren't that good." Patrick reminded her.

"Oh, it couldn't have been that bad..." Emily insisted.

"Need I remind you?" Patrick prompted.

"Here we go..." Emily mumbled with a small smirk.

"I gave nearly every kid tummy aches thanks to my horrible cooking." Patrick reminded her.

"All right, I'll make a quick batch..." Emily giggled as she went to the kitchen to make Halloween cookies to make for the kids and would make a separate batch for Darla to take to school before trick-or-treating.

Atticus and Patch both then entered the house.

"Hey, Atticus, did Darla find a cute costume?" Patrick asked.

"Yeah," Atticus laughed a little. "She's going to be Sleeping Beauty."

"Great, so then, where is she?" Patrick asked, not seeing Darla or Jessica with him.

"I saw them come in earlier," Emily called from the kitchen, then pulled herself out. "They're in their room, Jessica's helping Darla get her costume ready for school."

"Oh, right." Patrick said.

"You and Mom gonna dress up too?" Atticus asked with a smile.

"Of course," Patrick smiled back. "What would Halloween be without costumes? Boring, I tell ya! How about your emo friend, is she gonna dress up too?"

"I think so, oh, and me, Jessica, Mo, Patch, Lucky, Darla and Cherry have been invited to a Halloween party at the House of Mouse." Atticus told them.

"The House of Mouse, huh?" Patrick smiled. "That's pretty lucky, you must be VIP's."

"VIP's?" Patch asked.

"Very Important People," Patrick explained. "We'll be at the house dealing with trick-or-treaters."

"Just don't let it be like last year, Dad when you get the whole neighborhood stomach aches." Atticus reminded him.

Patrick rolled his eyes about that. "No problem."

"I'll be handling the treats this year." Emily told them.

"Whew, that's a relief." Patch sighed.

"You're telling me." Atticus added.

Patrick glanced at them.

"Come on, Patch, let's get ready!" Atticus quickly changed the subject and rushed upstairs with Patch to try on their costumes.

Meanwhile in the abandoned church...

"I find it amazing that I got an invitation in the mail..." Forte said as he sat on the bench while Cherry was slicking her hair back to put in a ponytail.

"Oh, yeah, really interesting..." Cherry said, not really listening to him.

"I mean, of all people in this neighborhood to get an invitation..."

"Uh-huh..."

"And maybe we'll see a few clowns there as well." Forte said, already getting the idea Cherry wasn't listening.

"Oh, yeah, very nice..." Cherry continued, not even 'clowns' got her attention.

"Are you even paying attention?!" Forte glared.

Cherry blinked and looked back to him. "Yes!"

"What did I just say?" Forte prompted.

Cherry paused for a bit and tried to think. "Something about death, right?"

"Not even close." Forte glared.

"Uhh..." Cherry scratched her back with her magic wand.

"The Halloween party!" Forte told her.

"That was my second guess..." Cherry said to him.

"Oh, for the love of peat!" Forte groaned.

"Hey, I'm sorry, but you know how important this holiday is to me!" Cherry said to him.

"Why don't you wear the costume you did last year?" Forte sounded disappointed in her choice this year. "You were so beautiful and majestic..."

"Because I like magicians now!" Cherry gestured to her outfit and looked around. "Never wore a suit before, probably never will again."

"You're right about that." Forte said.

Cherry then got her hair ready and smirked. "Now I just need to book a manicure appointment to get my nail painted."

"Your nail?" Forte realized she used the singular term.

"Yeah..." Cherry replied like it was obvious. "Duh!"

"Don't you mean your nails?" Forte asked.

"No, I mean my nail..." Cherry said, she then took out her autographed picture of Penn Jillette with his hands shown to show Penn had red nail polish on his left ring finger.

"Oh." Forte said.

"Geez, Louise..." Cherry grumbled under her breath.

"Well, I guess I won't be taking care of trick-or-treaters like I promised your mother..." Forte leaned back a little, resting his arms against the closed keyboard.

"She'll get over it..." Cherry said as she took a picture of herself on her iPhone and posted her new photo to Facebook.

"Let's hope so." Forte said.

"I just wanna know..." Cherry said, then looked back at him. "Who'd invite you to something?"

Forte had to admit that that remark stung, but he said nothing of it. "Perhaps someone who wants to get to know me better..."

"If they wanna take you, they can have you..." Cherry shrugged, again, blind to how he felt about her.

"Well, we'll never know." Forte said.

Cherry hid a scoff and then walked off.

"Leaving so soon?" Forte rushed to her side.

"Yes..." Cherry said to him. "I need to use my computer."

"What if your WiFi isn't on?" Forte asked.

"I'll turn it on..." Cherry continued to walk back home. "If my WiFi won't work after like ten tries, I'll come right back..." she then got out of his grip and ran off back to her house.

"I'll hold you to that." Forte said.

Cherry ignored him and kept walking off. Forte sighed, knowing Cherry would not be back after tonight and decided to just let her get lost in her social media.