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[sos_pilot]

Hey hey, party people! For all you new cats and kittens, the name's Della Duck! And... someday I will think of a less embarrassing way to introduce myself. Not today.

Anyway! I know time's on a big pause button or whatever back home, but if it wasn't, you know what my world would be celebrating later this month? Only the best holiday ever made - Halloween! Dressing up in costumes, free candy, and scaring the pants off everyone! If you wear pants, anyway.

I know world-hopping and all those kinda shenanigans make celebrating holidays harder, but... it's Halloween. We gotta at least try. It'll be on the last day of the month, so, plenty of time to prepare if you wanna chip in! We need to use one of the big carriage, gotta make a lot of sweets, and go to town on stitching up costumes.

Now, for those of you who have no idea what Halloween is... you've got my sympathies, I'm so sorry. But here are some highlights!

One -  Haunted Houses. Again, can't go the extra mile 'cause... train. BUT I'm sure we can come pretty close! Things popping out at you, spooky noises, fear pumping through your veins!

Two - Trick or Treating. Usually this is for the little kids. They go from house to house, knock and say "Trick or Treat!" and then get candy. Still no houses, but I say who needs 'em! If a kid says it on that special day, we should have plenty of candy to go around for the tykes... or for the tykes at heart.

Three - COSTUMES! Be someone or something you're not! The sky's the limit! This year I had planned to go on "matching opposites" costumes with my twin brother, like we did when we were younger - I'd be a devil, he'd be an angel - but since he's not around, what will I be? That's a surprise. Cause I haven't thought of it yet.

If you've got any questions, or suggestions, lemme know! Let's make this the best Halloween the train's ever had!

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[blue_ice]

If that's the time you're synced to...then my bi---

[ He thinks better of it and shuts up. ]

I know what Halloween is, I've just never celebrated. But I can donate some spooky holograms.

[strawberryprotector]

Will it be cheating if I use my mask as my "costume"?

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[theturksway]

That's the weirdest combination of shit I've heard of in a while for a holiday celebration. What's the point?

[Not that some of it doesn't sound potentially fun but...seriously. What do candy, costumes, and haunted houses have in common with one another?]

[extrasaltypotato]

I'll see what sort of spirited stories and devilish decorations I can scare up.

Samhain in Mundus was not nearly the same thing.

Also, if you want true terror, make your jack-o-lanterns with the traditional root vegetables. I have suitably ugly parsnips from the last mission that should do...

[myblueskies]

Oh mister Kaito told me about trick or treating!! [He grinned at her.]

It sounded really fun miss! He told me about it a few months ago... um Bassoon I think! Things were a bit sad and scary and we made faces in pumpkins and he said they did that on Halloween in his world.

[goingthroughaphase]

If you need some help with the haunted house, I'm more than happy to provide ghost.

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[learning about all these new communication possibilities is already a lot to take in, but sizhui can't help himself: whatever ‘halloween’ is, it sounds quite entertaining, like something that might prove to be a good distraction from being somewhere he has no idea of.]

I'm completely unfamiliar with this holiday, but whatever you need help with, I'll be happy to give you a hand, Miss Della!

[ramengroupie]

[ Ken is familiar with Halloween.

One could almost say he is already in the spirit of the season, considering he is wearing an ENORMOUS LARVA as a hat.

Thus, he asks a completely unrelated question! ]

What do you mean by "a big pause button"?

Ken-chan, I want candy.

[ Enormous TALKING larva that LIKES CANDY as a hat. ]

[sos_pilot]

That'd be so cool, Kaiba! Thanks!

... Your biiiii...?

[ Yeah, she heard that. ]

[sos_pilot]

C'mon, Ichigo! Haven't you ever wanted to be something or someone else?

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[sos_pilot]

Uh, to have fun? Is fun not a thing in your world?

[sos_pilot]

Oh man, I can't believe I left out Jack-O-Lanterns! You totally saved my tailfeathers!

[sos_pilot]

Sounds like I owe Kaito a big thank you. And we'll definitely be carving this time too! Maybe even make it a big contest!

[sos_pilot]

[ Theater gasp. ]

Kitty... are you ready to be a star?

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[sos_pilot]

Great! The more people that work together on this, the better holiday we'll have!

[sos_pilot]

[ Yeah, her eyes are definitely not on Ken's face. ]

... First? Nice hat.

Second, it's kinda my own theory, but basically whenever we go back is the same time as we left, so it's like we never left at all. I've gone on many world-hopping experiences myself, so it's a pretty standard hypothesis.

[ramengroupie]

I see. The flow of time runs differently.

[ That...had been the case in his worlds once, hadn't it? He thinks it might have, the first time he traveled to the Digital World. His memories of those events are inconsistent due to sloppy writing unclear.

And if she's right, and that's how things work for the Voidtrecker Express...which already definitely has time-manipulation powers at play, considering he arrived at one age and someone else he knows arrived at another....

Then back home, his parents won't... ]

That's reassuring.

So we can take the time to have candy?

[ Talking bug hat with the REALLY important questions. ]

[sos_pilot]

Well, again, it's only a theory...

... A theory that is so hard to think about when you have a super adorable bug on your head - DUDE TELL ME ABOUT THE BUG.

[ Look there's only so much curiosity she can contain. ]

[blitzcheer]

Biiiiiii?

[ He's helping Duck Mum and being Very Useful. ]

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[blitzcheer]

Finally ready to put on a show, D?

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[sos_pilot]

You know it, T!

... Did you talk to I... as in the dude whose name begins with I and not me?

[ NOT LETTING THAT GO - ]

[blitzcheer]

[ D-DUCK MUM!! ]

I did! [ Uh. ] ...well, I couldn't find him 'til the mission ended, but we talked.

[ And he didn't want to get too into in public, but with a pause- ]

We got you something, actually. Together! A gift.

[sos_pilot]

[ Now THAT throws her off. ]

Wha ... huh? Aw, guys! You didn't have to do that!

[blitzcheer]

We wanted to! I know I did. Call it a really late birthday present -- unless you wanna play Three Facts again.

[sos_pilot]

[ That makes her laugh. ]

I'll take the b-day dibs. I'm just glad you two could talk. So, we're all cool?