Fanon:Big Nate: Halloween Quest

Halloween Quest is a special Halloween Big Nate fanfic written by Ned Dickens (Smith ghast4). Enjoy!

Story (written a bit like a Wikipedia film plot)
It starts with Nate, Francis, Teddy, Chad, Dee Dee, and Randy running away from an evil pirate ghost in a haunted house, all wearing fantasy costumes. When they reach a dead-end, Nate pauses the scene and takes us back two weeks prior. On a mid-October Saturday morning, Nate leaves his house and goes to Francis'. Over there, they watch a new episode of their favorite TV cartoon, "Aeon Quest". The show is about an independent and fearless 13-years-old boy named Jim and his pet dog Fetch. One day, Jim was walking Fetch around their neighborhood when they find a mysterious book peaking out of a sewer drain. Once opened, there is a message in the book that Jim reads out loud, and they are magically transported into the fantasy realm of the Oddlands. Jim is given a mechanical glove with different weapons created from it, while Fetch is given the ability to talk, plus grow and shrink in different sizes. They meet two new friends; Edwin, a (11)17-years-old telepathic vampire with a halberd made into a keytar, and YLO, an anthropomorphic robotic video game console system with different features. Together, the team go up to a large tree palace to see the lovely princess Cereta Crow, whom Edwin has a crush on. However, Cereta Crow is captured by the evil fire king Flameson who gives her an ultimatum; either she marries him or he burns her to death and burns down her tree palace. Together, Jim, Fetch, Edwin, and YLO rescue Cereta Crow and defeat Flameson. Nate and Francis enjoy the show so much that they decided they would dress up as Jim and Fetch, respectively, for Halloween.

Then on Monday, during lunch at the school cafetorium, Nate and Francis discuss with Teddy, Chad, and Dee Dee, who all also like the show, about the idea of dressing up as the 5 main heroes. Besides Nate being Jim and Francis being Fetch, Teddy would dress up as Edwin (Teddy even has his own keytar at home that he can customize to make it look like the halberd-turned-keytar Edwin uses), Chad would dress up as YLO, and Dee Dee would dress up as Princess Cereta Crow. The other kids overhear the idea and talk about how much they and every kid in the city like the show, and applaud the group's idea to dress up as the show's main characters. The 5 friends are all happy to get their praise. However, a mysterious figure, who's sitting in his own table, only likes the show because of King Flameson and wants to see him win for once, thinking of his own idea of dressing up as Flameson and capturing Dee Dee (as Cereta Crow) just so he could experience Flameson winning.

When Nate gets home later that day, he tells his father Marty Wright about the Halloween "Aeon Quest" plan. Ellen overhears and tells Nate to "grow up and stop imitating a kiddy show", which was about to cause a fight between the two, but then Mr. Wright says that he has to go to a store to buy Halloween treats. Nate face-palms in dismay. He asks his dad to let him tag along, not wanting a repeat of last year when Mr. Wright handed out carrots and spinach (dramatic flashback to when an angry mob of trick-or-treaters egg the house, toilet paper it, and set it on fire, followed by firefighters putting out the fire and the vandals/arsonists being arrested by police).

Despite Nate wanting to go to the grocery store, his Dad drives himself and Nate to a store called "TR&T" (Tree, Root, and Twig). The store lady helps Mr. Wright look for healthy treats. One healthy treat example is "Witches' Brooms", a piece of celery attached to a fat-free cheese cube slice, which Mr. Wright finds it fun, but Nate does not. The lady gets Nate to try healthy chocolate. She tells Nate the ingredients that are cacao powder, stevia, and unsweetened soy milk, prompt him to spit it out in disgust. At the end of the trip, Mr. Wright buys freeze-dried mango chips and the "Witches' Brooms".

In the last week before Halloween, Nate and his friends have another discussion in the school cafetorium. They all need enough money to buy their respective Aeon Quest costumes, but they barely have any money. Dee Dee asks the 4 boys to meet her at her place after school, saying that she has a special surprise for them. After school, Nate, Teddy, Francis and Chad go to Dee Dee's house. As it turns out, the special surprise is, Dee Dee already has the costumes for all 6 characters of the show, so they're all set. When Nate asks Dee Dee how she bought them, she says with her own money that she won in a Summer talent show last August. The group agree to come here everyday for costume rehearsals. However, the front door is unlocked and, without them noticing, the mysterious figure sneaks in and steals the King Flameson costume.

A montage follows that shows the group rehearsing their costumes and character lines at Dee Dee's house in the days leading up to Halloween. On the last day before Halloween, Nate was about to throw the healthy treats into the trash but, before he could have the chance, was caught by his dad, who tells Nate not to sabotage the healthy-treat-handing-out plan if Nate wants to trick-or-treat this year.

Then the big night arrives, Halloween! After warning Mr. Wright about the possible dangers of getting vandalized, Nate, having his Jim costume and mechanical glove (a silver-painted cardboard prop), meets up with Francis (as Fetch), Teddy (as Edwin, with his halberd-turned-keytar), and Chad (as YLO), then all meet up at Dee Dee's house. With Dee Dee dressed up at Princess Cereta Crow, and everyone having their bags to store candy, they're all ready to go.

They walk to the first house. An old man opens the door. He doesn't get the costumes even after the group says some of the characters' catchphrases. Nate and Francis decide to say some of Jim and Fetch's smack-talks towards King Flameson. The old man laughs and gives the group candy. Their next stop is a few houses away. Right after Nate knocks the door, a teenage punk opens it and tells the group to go away. He doesn't even ask who they are, instead just slamming the door on them. They're upset about that, especially Nate and Teddy. Nate pounds on the door with his glove, while Teddy whacks the walls with his halberd-keytar. Francis peeks through the window and notices a lady assumed to be the punk's mother calling 911 on her phone. She's calling the police on them! Francis swipes the halberd-keytar from Teddy and smacks Nate with it, telling them that they have to go before the lady busts them. The group run off, narrowly avoiding the chance of getting arrested. They turn to the next street and knock on the first house seen. Then, a lady in her 30s carrying her toddler son opens the door. The kid gets scared of Teddy's Edwin costume and halberd-keytar and his mother tries to calm him down, but fails. Dee Dee sings to the toddler an operatic lullaby, and that calms the kid down. With that, the lady gives the group candy. They knock to another house, but nobody opens. You wait a moment, but there's still no reaction. After a few minutes of Nate ringing the doorbell once a minute, Francis, who knows the owner, calls him. Turns out, he's on vacation. The group thinks of other houses to go to. Francis thinks they should head home, but Nate wants to keep going and earn more candy. Francis and Nate are about to argue when they hear Dee Dee scream. She's being carried away by a kid dressed up as King Flameson! The boys chase after him.

King Flameson takes Dee Dee to an old abandoned house. Francis tells Nate, Teddy, and Chad that this is the haunted Chapman House. Legend has it that deep in the dark basement of that house is Cap'n Chapman's treasure chest filled with tons of gold and candy that is purified to never expire no matter how old they are. Anyone could take it, but no one has ever dared, because if they do, they have only one minute to escape the house or be trapped and killed by the ghost of Cap'n Chapman with their souls forced to join the crew of the ghost ship. It is a scary legend, but not only does the group wanna be rich of money and candy, but they also need to fulfill the heroes' bravery to stay in character, track down kid Flameson, and rescue Dee Dee, so into the Chapman House they go.

They silently enter the house and watch out for kid Flameson, Dee Dee, and the ghost. They find Flameson, with Dee Dee tied up to a chair. While Nate, with the help of Teddy and Chad, untie Dee Dee, Francis takes off the kid's Flameson mask, revealing the kid to be Randy, who tells the group that he stole the Flameson costume from Dee Dee's house and kidnapped Dee Dee (as Princess Cereta Crow) because he wanted to experience Flameson winning for once because that never happens in the show. Francis explains that he's sure that after a show episode where the villain gets defeated, in the next episode, the heroes and the villain reconcile and become friends. He also reminds Randy that the entire group is in a haunted house, and this kind of situation is real not based on kids' show. Right when Randy says there's no such thing as ghosts, an evil pirate ghost appears, and a Scooby Doo-like chase commences.

The group reach a dead-end, just like in the beginning prologue. Nate finds a dog-whistle and blows it, which turns out to be a ghost tamer that works for 10 minutes. The tamed ghost introduces himself as the late Cap'n Chapman. Nate asks the ghost to lead them to the basement where the treasure chest of candy is, and if they take too much, they'll pay him back later. The group make it out of the basement with the treasure with 5 minutes left. The ghost is still hypnotized, but becomes pretty suspicious of them. Nate thanks the ghost for the treasure and says "Yo-ho-ho, ghost pirates rule!" and that's enough to leave the ghost in trance and for the group to safely leave.

Nate and Francis finally agree that it's the end of trick-or-treating for the night and time to go back to their homes. The group all fill their bags with as much gold and candy as they can carry, but the treasure chest is so big that there's still a great amount of gold and candy in it. Then Randy has an idea; there's one more place in the neighborhood for them to go, a homeless shelter. There are some people there who lost their homes after a recent tornado in nearby states and need food and money to help with their goal of getting enough to be able to go back to their normal lives, so it would be a good idea to donate the remaining gold and candy there. Every little bit helps! And that's what the group has done. They've applauded Randy's idea of a good deed, which was very nice for a someone who's normally a bully. On the way back to their homes, Dee Dee invites the rest of the group including Randy to her house to watch the next episode of Aeon Quest on Saturday, and they all accept. Right then, they see a house set on fire, with firefighters putting out the fire and the vandals/arsonists being arrested by police. Nate face-palms knowing very well that's his house. He agrees to stay in Dee Dee's house until his gets fixed.

After we see a couple newspaper headlines ("Kids save homeless shelter with tons of gold and candy. Hailed heroes!" and "Angered trick-or-treaters burn house whose owner was handing out fruits and veggies. Firefighters and police show up."), Nate's friend group and Randy at Dee Dee's house are watching the next episode of Aeon Quest on Saturday morning. Francis is right about what the episode is about; Flameson explains to the heroes that he just wants to be happy like them, and eventually he agrees that capturing a princess is wrong and decides to just hang out with the heroes, which they agree, but little did they know a mysterious villain is lurking around the corner. After that show's episode ends, Nate gets a call from his dad saying that the house has been fixed after only nearly a week, having only sustained minimal damage from the fire in time for the firefighters to put it out. So Nate packs up his things and is ready to head out, along with Francis, Teddy, Chad and Randy. When Dee Dee opens the door, an angry mob of people from the homeless shelter appear, having suffered from cavities from eating so much of the candy they've received, with one person currently hospitalized for diabetes. Randy runs off saying to the boys, "Good luck, Aeon-losers!", leaving them to be confronted.

THE END!!!

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