Pete did try out for football. However, he caught the ball in his mouth, which kind of defeated the whole 'blend in' thing because that was just weird.

The next thing was watching Ethan audition for Macbeth, "I come to you by that which you profess. How ere you come to know it. Answer me."

"He's pretty good," Marnie told Aggie and Maisie.

"I think he's amazing," Maisie told them, watching intently.

Marnie gave Maisie a knowing look. 

"Oh, Shakespeare offered me a part in the original play," Aggie said.

Maisie found that a little hard to believe, because women weren't allowed on the stage at that time period.

After the unveiling of the haunted house poster, it seemed like the Boo Crew had finally found their place in high school.

"I'm glad that they finally found their place," Kimberly told Maisie. She watched as Aggie feed her bag the halves of a sandwich.

By Saturday, Marnie decided to show the crew a mall. 

So, when all of them gathered in the dining room, Marnie clapped, "Okay, guys, come on! Let's move!"

They all started heading towards the front with Marnie ushering them, "Okay, guys, let's go. Move it!"

She opened the door. Cody was there, "Hey."

"Hi," Marnie replied.

Dylan said, "Ooh, there's that witty repartee again." Marnie shoved him.

Maisie felt the confusion come from Cody.

"All right, okay," Aggie said. "Let's go, everybody. Let's go to the car. Follow me, follow me, follow me."

Everyone filed out like it was a train and headed for Aggie's car.

"No, I get the window seat," a boy said.

"Everybody can have a window seat," Aggie told them.

Maisie managed to cram herself into the backseat of the car. 

The inside of the car was like the inside of a Volkswagen bus, but with more seats and space to move.

When Aggie said that everyone gets a window seat, she wasn't kidding.

Magic was cool.

She sat in an empty seat, expecting Marnie to sit next to her. She reached in her bag and took out a book to read.

Maisie felt someone sit next to her. 

"What are you reading?" asked Ethan.

Maisie felt her face heat up. Why was he sitting next to her when he could sit next to Cassie? She said, "It's a book called The 22 Murders of Madison May."

Ethan seemed intrigued, but Maisie couldn't figure if he knew that she knew that he was suspicious and was trying to wiggle information out of her about the Knights, so he can run it back to his Councillor father. 

She needed to pull herself together, because he was obviously there for a reason, and she needed to stop getting distracted by a cute boy.

"What's it about?" asked Ethan.

"One day, a man confesses his love for a real estate agent, before murdering her. Then a journalist finds the man on the subway, and she suspects that she changed universes," Maisie explained. She handed the book to Ethan, "Here, you read it."

Ethan took the book, "What are you going to read?"

Maisie took out a different book called Nevermoor: The Trails of Morrigan Crow, "Don't worry. I got another book right here."

"You have two books?" asked Ethan, confused.

"Yeah, one to read on the way to the mall and one to read on the way back," Maisie replied. 

Ethan looked at Maisie, "Do you by any chance have an extra bookmark in your bag?"

"Bookmarks are for quitters," Maisie replied.

Sophie, who was sitting next to Dylan, whispered to him, "Mai is going to marry Ethan one day."

"Not if I have any say in the matter," Dylan replied. Sophie elbowed him. "Ow!"

Gwen looked back at them, "What's going on back there?"

"Nothing," Sophie and Dylan said in unison.

When they got to the mall, the Halloweentowners looked around, although some guys seemed to stop in their tracks.

Marnie called over her shoulder, "Boys in the back, come on!" She cleared her throat, "Okay, now, I know that this may seem a little overwhelming at first. I mean, we're definitely not in Halloweentown anymore."

Cassie and Dylan stopped to look at an arcade.

Marnie continued talking, "But if you really want to get the full human world experience, it's important that you sample all of our customs."

Mai wondered what other people were thinking once they overheard Marnie's little speech, because Marnie really wasn't talking all that quietly.

Mai noticed how the creatures started breaking off from Marnie's group as Marnie continued speaking, "And like it or not, the mall is definitely one of the most human things that—"

"Who are you speaking too besides Maisie?" interrupted Aggie.

Marnie started talking as she turned around, "I'm talking to the—" She turned around, looking at the crew as they headed off.

Mai watched as Ethan headed away with two of his friends. She said, "I take it that they have malls in Halloweentown?"

"I guess it doesn't matter what dimension you're from. Teenagers are teenagers," Marnie said.

Aggie put her arm around Marnie's shoulders, "True."

While they walked, Marnie started talking about her boy problem, "Well, yeah, he's cute, but I haven't said one intelligent thing since I met the guy. I'm always making some lame excuse, and then just running off. Maybe I should just tell him to forget it."

"Yeah, well, so he's gonna be very disappointed." Aggie said, "Especially since he drove all the way here and followed you to this spot."

Marnie seemed confused, "What...?"

They spotted Cody.

Maisie couldn't tell if it was sweet that Cody followed them or if it was creepy that he followed them. She chose the latter.

Kimberly came up to them and grabbed Maisie's arm while Cody went to talk to Marnie. "I saw Principal Flanagan here. It was so weird. I thought he lived at the school." She smiled, "I'm joking about the living at the school bit, but it was weird to see him here. He talked to me. Let's go miniature golfing." 

"Aggie!" called Principal Flanagan, coming down the stairs. He went over to Aggie, so they can kiss each other on the cheek.

"Sorry, I'm late," Principal Flanagan said.

"See you girls back at the car," Aggie said as she and the principal walked off.

Kimberly and Maisie wandered off but came across the group in front standing in front of a Halloween store.

"No wonder they're scared of us," Chester said. "I'm scared of us."

Cassie asked, "Aren't most werewolves vegetarians?"

"Yeah, but he kind of looks like my uncle Ernie," Pete said, pointing at the werewolf decoration that was holding a skeleton prop. 

"I hope this isn't what they're expecting in our haunted house," Cassie stated.

"Well, I find it offensive," Natalie said. "We're just a big joke. I mean...how many green witch zombies do you know?"

"Once a year, they'll dress up like us and laugh," Pete said. 

A guy laughed cruelly towards his two friends, "Man, don't you just hate Halloween? It's such a freak show."

"Seriously," another guy said. They stopped to look at the group.

"You would know what a freak show is, wouldn't you?" Maisie turned to look at them, "Coming from the ringmasters and all." These guys looked to be college aged, yet they were mocking teenagers. How much more of a freak can these guys be?

"Yeah, you're the freak," Ethan agreed.

"Uh, Ethan! Ethan!" Cassie and Dylan went to grab a hold of Ethan.

"What did you just call me?" the leader of the group turned to them.

"You heard him," Maisie replied. "Do you need your ears cleaned out too?"

Dylan grabbed Maisie's arm, "Uh, Mai? I think you better stop now."

Ethan kept going, "So, you think that anyone who has anything to do with Halloween is freak now, huh? I bet you think all monsters want to do is hide under people's beds. I bet you think all that all vampires want to do is suck people's blood. Like they don't have jobs or families..."

"I'm warning you and your girlfriend, you better shut it, all right?" the guy threatened, poking Ethan in the chest.

"Or what?" Maisie asked, "You're going to throw out your hip fighting us?"

"Mai, I think you need to back off now," Dylan tried. "Let's go."

The three guys started to walk away.

"Try not to break a hip on your way to the elderly person center," Maisie added.

The guys turned to them.

"And if Halloween is about scaring people, why don't they make a mask out of your face?" asked Ethan.

"You want to scare people, not make them throw up," Maisie told Ethan.

That was probably the last straw, because the guy shoved Ethan onto the ground, then got ready to punch him in the face.

Chester removed his disguise and grabbed the guy to make the guy look at Chester, "Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?" He grabbed the guy and tossed him into some decorations by the store.

And the next thing Maisie knew, she was getting off the ground and all of the Halloweentowners' human disguises had gotten undone. 

"What happened?" a guy asked.

"I don't know," the wood nymph said.

Kimberly got off the ground and asked Maisie, "Did you do a spell?" 

"No," Maisie replied, going to help Ethan up.

Maisie watched as Dylan got up and Natalie started brushing herself off.

"You're a troll," Dylan said. "You're a big, pink furry troll."

"So what?" asked Natalie.

Dylan asked, "What do you mean 'so what?'"

"So what? I never want to see you again you stupid human, so what," replied Natalie, before walking away.

"Oh, Natalie wait," Dylan called after her.

Marnie came over to them, "What happened? Is everybody okay?"

"There was a fight, and this smoke came out of nowhere," explained Cassie. "I - I couldn't see anything."

"It's okay," Marnie said. "Everything's gonna be fine." Ethan was looking at something. "What?"

"The knights," Ethan said. "They tried..."

Aggie went to the decorations that Ethan was looking at and picked something up, "The dagger."

There were gasps.

Maisie hoped that no one saw Aggie with a weapon. That wouldn't look good. 

Aggie said, "Oh, hurry everyone! Get back to the car! Find Natalie! Go, go! Go, go!"

They ran off.

Aggie opened the door as they all walked inside the house. Maisie went to the TV and turned on the news because Kimberly had called her about it. 

"Now, you all get cleaned up while I conjure us some hot chocolate," Aggie told them.

The news anchorman was saying, "Eyewitness accounts that monsters were destroying—"

Maisie scoffed at that because the Halloweentown creatures weren't 'destroying' anything.

"I can't believe I missed it," Sophie said, sitting down on the couch. "I miss everything."

The news anchorman continued saying, "Authorities have yet to determine what actually—"

"Yeah," Marnie said. "I'd kind of like to know what happened today too." She went to turn off the TV.

"...mall security guard who was eating a corndog when—"

Marnie turned the TV off and Marnie felt a little annoyed at her for doing that. Marnie said, "I just – it doesn't add up. I mean, the mall. There were no Knights there."

"This is the twenty-first century, Marnie," Maisie said. "I think a knight were to get more attention if they walked into the mall wearing a full suit of armor. Chances are, they probably regular clothes like a normal person."

"And that puff of smoke," Marnie said. "Somebody had to have been using magic." She looked at Maisie.

"I didn't create it," Maisie replied. "I didn't want their human disguises to fall off."

Gwen said, "The first thing we should know is, is everybody okay?"

"Everybody's fine," Marnie said.

The creatures chimed in with them saying that they were fine too.

"Yeah, you're all good. Good. We've got an even bigger problem," Gwen told them. "The Halloweentown council is here. They're waiting for you upstairs in—"

Marnie and Maisie both got magically pulled into the Council.