(I woke up this morning and was like "sure, I can speedrun a one-shot in one day, how hard can it be?" Well, somehow I did it. This was rushed, so it's certainly not my best work, but here ya go!)

(also, this might be the first thing I've written that doesn't have angst.)

The thing I did was I took 4 AU prompts I found, and shoved them all into one story. This may have been a mistake.

"Come on, it's right over here!" Mumbo was practically dragging Grian to the top of his mountain base.

"What on Earth do you have up there?"

"It's a surprise! I can't believe nobody's noticed this yet." Mumbo called back. Grian finally reached the top and the redstoner spread his arms out, gesturing to a decent sized field. It was full of pumpkins. Sure, very small pumpkins, about the size of a fist, but dozens of pumpkins.

"Woah," Grian was astonished. "You gew all these?"

"Yup!" Mumbo was beaming with pride. "Took nearly all season, so they haven't had a chance to grow fully."

"This is perfect!" Grian jumped up and down, clapping. "They're the perfect size!"

Mumbo faltered at the smaller Hermit's sudden burst of excitement. "The perfect size for what?"

"For throwing at people!"

"What? Woah woah, no," He grabbed Grian's arm, as he was now trying to pick up one of the pumpkins. "We're not throwing pumpkins at people, what is wrong with you?"

"It'll be hilarious, we'll scare so many Hermits!"

"You'll give them a concussion!"

"... You raise a fair point."

"Alright," Mumbo picked up one of the pumpkins, handing it to Grian. "Don't throw it. My plan was to leave these at everyone's bases. Since it's Halloween and all."

"Yeah, that's a much less violent idea. Let me guess, you need help?"

Mumbo nodded. "At first, I was going to see if I could get all of Boatem, but Impulse is busy, movie marathon or something, and I couldn't find Pearl or Scar."

"Well, I've got nothing else to do." Grian elbowed him. "Let's just hope you didn't spend all of Boatem's budget on this."

"Haha." Mumbo started picking up more of the small pumpkins and sending them into his inventory. "I've already gotten the Boatem bases. So you can help with the farther ones."

Once both men had what seemed like enough pumpkins, they took off flying in the direction of the Octagon. They weren't sure which building was for what, so they put a couple of pumpkins in what looked like a barbeque area next to a van with wings.

Next, they flew over the spruce woods South of Boatem, but started descending in the middle of the trees.

"Wait, what are we doing?" Grian asked as he realized how low they were getting.

"Hels and EX live somewhere in these woods. I'm not skipping anyone."

"Wait really? They're right out here and I never noticed?"

"Yup," they spotted the cabin and landed. Mumbo noticed the lanterns outside had purple filters on them, and some of the trees had cobwebs hanging from them. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised they've already decorated. No pumpkins though..."

"Well then, it's a good thing we got here, isn't it?"

<~~~>

"So you two are coming to the party later, right?" X asked.

EX looked at Hels, who just shrugged in response. "I mean, sure, probably." The two had gone to Horsehead Farms to see if they had decorations(they did not) when EX's twin kinda showed up out of nowhere to ask that.

"Great! It'll be over at spawn. See you there!" X flew off before EX even thought to say bye.

"Weird family," Hels said under his breath.

"Yep. Well, we should probably head back-" EX was cut off by a scuffling sound. Hels must have heard it too, because he started looking around as well.

An unlit jack-o-lantern sat just a few feet away, and it was shaking. Confused, EX walked over and looked inside. Yellow eyes stared back up at him.

He jumped back as the pumpkin tipped over, and a small calico cat lept out. He laughed, realizing how ridiculous it was to be startled by such a small animal.

"Where did you come from?" The cat just meowed, still looking at him.

Hels reached down to pet the cat, and it tilted its head up, purring. "Aww, he's cute."

"Yeah. I've never seen this cat around, but he probably belongs to someone here. Well, farewell, strange feline." He waved to the cat and turned to find the Nether portal, Hels eventually following.

Most of the Hermits rarely used the Nether for travel, since elytra worked just as well, but it was the fastest method for Hels and EX, especially with Hels being able to navigate the terrain.

They eventually reached the Boatem portal, the closest one to their cabin, and stepped back into the overworld. The sky was already turning reddish.

A meow caught EX's attention, and he turned to see the cat from before stepping out of the portal.

"What- did that cat just follow us through the Nether?"

The cat just meowed again, walking around EX's legs.

"Alright, that's it." He grabbed Hels' wrist and took off into the forest, his friend yelling in confused protest.

When he finally got to the cabin, he noticed several tiny pumpkins sitting outside the front door. "What the heck?" They literally made sure not to put pumpkins out because, being in the middle of the woods, any sort of vegetable attracted every animal nearby.

"Well that's weird. Also, why were you trying to outrun the cat?"

"Why was it following us?"

"How should I know- hey, he's back." Sure enough, the cat had followed them again, and was now chewing on one of the pumpkins. "Hang on, I have an idea."

Hels ran inside, leaving EX with the cat. EX sighed and the cat looked up, meowed happily, and went back to the pumpkin. Hels came back out after a few minutes with a paper hat. He put it on the cat's head.

"There!"

EX couldn't help laughing. "What kind of plan is that?"

"Now he's all dressed up for Halloween. Isn't he adorable" EX hated to admit it, but Hels was right. "Hm, he seems to like pumpkins. That's it!"

"What?" EX was almost scared to ask.

"We should call him Pumpkin!"

"Seriously? Why are you naming the cat? He's not even ours!"

"Well then who's is he?"

"I don't know!" EX tried to take the hat off of the cat, but it jumped away, running behind the other pumpkins playfully. Pumpkin leapt up at EX, and he had to catch him. The cat meowed again, his yellow eyes shining and started purring.

"Well, it looks like he's ours now, huh?"

EX sighed, he couldn't even be mad about it. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

<~~~>

Zeddaph sat huddled in a blanket on the couch in his base, sitting between Impulse and Tango. He felt relieved as the end credits finally started rolling. "Did we really have to watch every horror movie Tango owns?" he groaned.

"What's the matter?" Tango teased. "Scared?"

"No! ...maybe. But isn't that the point, anyway"

"It's fine if you're scared, Zed." Impulse took the bowl of popcorn from Tango. "I'm sure Tango was scared of these at some point too."

"Nope! I'm fearless!"

Impulse sighed. "Or he's insane and doesn't feel fear."

"I'd place my bets on that one," Zeddaph said. Tango made a face of mock hurt.

"Either way," Impulse said. "Tango and I should probably go and get ready for the party. It's not long from now."

"What if we just stick together until then?" Zeddaph didn't want to admit it, but the movies had freaked him out a bit, and he didn't really feel like being alone right now.

Impulse looked like he was about to protest when something hit the window next to them, causing a loud BANG. Zeddaph shrieked, pulling the blanket over his head.

He looked out and saw Grian flying past the window with small pumpkins in his hands.

"Sorry!" The yell was muffled from behind the glass.

"You know what, maybe we should stay here." Tango patted Zeddaph's head, who glared back.

"Alright," Impulse laughed, making Zeddaph feel a bit better. After all, what was there to be scared of, really?

<~~~>

Xisuma was genuinely surprised that everyone showed up to the party at spawn, even his brother.

"Since when did you have a cat?" he had asked, noticing the calico by his side.

EX shrugged. "Since about an hour ago, apparently."

The one thing that wasn't quite going to plan was Grian, somewhat unsurprisingly.

According to Iskall, he had eaten way too much candy, and instead of getting sick, was absolutely hyper. Which was disastrous on its own, let alone when he had half a dozen small pumpkins at his disposal.

Xisuma sighed as he heard another flurry of rockets, this time pulling Grian out of the air by his jumper as he flew by.

"Grian, you need to sit down. I think you're freaking people out a little. Especially Zed, I think Tango's got him convinced you're haunted."

Grian grinned, way hyper. "So I'm winning? I'm scaring people?"

"Not in the way I think you'd be thrilled about later."

Instead of responding, the small Hermit just ran off. Xisuma heard him yelling "BOO" at people, and then Doc...

"Alright, try and scare me one more time, I DARE YOU!"

At this point, Xisuma didn't feel like stopping this, and was interested in where it would go. He made his way closer to see Grian smiling up at Doc, despite the man being over a foot taller than him.

Then Grian did something really stupid. He threw a handful of glitter in Doc's face.

"Boo." He whispered.

Doc easily picked him up by his collar carrying him over to Xisuma.

"Hope you don't mind, I'm throwing this one in the ocean."

Xisuma gave him a thumbs up. "Have fun, just don't drown him."

Well, he thought as Doc carried a kicking Grian off. I guess this year's Halloween was a success.