Who: Max & Dustin What: Max and Dustin out for trick-or-treating when Max decides it’s purge night. When: Halloween Night (backdated) Where: Streets of MV Rating: Mediumish to highish considering Max will be in purge mode and will be hitting things (not people).
Max was super excited for the evening! Not only did she have a freaking awesome costume, but she was planning to hit as many houses as possible with Dustin and the others who decided to come along. Max figured her guardian would come to join them at some point; however, for a bit, she was on her own. Deciding to go all out on her Purge costume after watching all the movies and episodes, she got herself all ready. A light up mask, which was one of her favorite parts of the whole costume. Even went for a look that wasn’t Max with a lavender tutu style dress that had fake blood on to look like she already had been out hunting on purge night. Fake blood was very much Max, the dress, especially the one she had on, was far from what she would normally be caught wearing. But for this costume, she had some fun since it made her look like a psycho out for a wild night of Purging.
Come on, if this was a real thing, she really doubted anyone would have messed with her on that type of night! On her way out her bedroom door, she grabbed her wooden baseball bat that was meant to be her weapon of choice along with her pillowcase for all the candy she was planning to get. “See you later!” She called before heading out to where she had agreed to meet Dustin, hoping she was first. Which she was and she went to hide like old times to see about scaring him once he had shown up. Max was rooting for a high pitch scream, but any kind of scream would work for her.
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Dustin had ended up coping out a little. He hadn’t meant to, but without the rest of his friend group here, he had left really doing anything about his costume to the last minute. So he ended up in a red hoodie with the hood up tight and blue jeans - he was the kid from E.T. Dustin hadn’t been able to find an E.T. doll in time, but he did have his bike and he put a basket from the dollar store in front of it with duct tape. It would do.
He headed towards the place he was meant to meet Max and slowed down when he saw no one waiting for her. He checked his watch - he was definitely on time. Frowning a little, her looked around. Had he been stood up?
– Max did feel a little bad about not doing some costume theme with Dustin, but it wasn’t really her thing. She often thought it was nerdy on her friends and their whole thing. Though if they were still here next year, and she could convince him of a better theme, then maybe, just maybe she might go along with it. However, she was not going to tell him that cause she didn’t want to be held to that if she changed her mind or the idea was lame.
From where she was hiding, Max waited as he looked around. “Little closer,” she whispered to herself. Once he was in the spot that she had been previously before deciding to hide, she jumped out. “Boo!” She pushed her mask up on her face as she started to laugh when she saw his face. “I couldn’t help myself. I was early and the spot was calling to me,” she said, still very much amused by the reaction that she had gotten. “Not the type of costume I was expecting from you,” she commented, noticing it better now that she wasn’t hiding. “Anyways, you ready to go. We can start with this house,” she said, nodding to the one right by them. –
Dustin offered a shrug. “I didn’t make a decision until it was too late. It’s fine though. I’ll still get tons of candy with this.” He offered a grin because, let’s face it, that was one of the best things about Halloween - the candy.
“This one looks good.” He nodded, then parked his bike and made his way toward the path to the door. “How many houses are we trying to do? Twenty? Thirty?” Dustin liked to have a plan when it came to Trick or Treating. Usually they had a map of the good places and where to avoid, but they didn’t have any experience here to know what was good and what wasn’t.
– Max raised an eyebrow, questioning that, but she figured he probably couldn’t get anyone interested in a theme idea. “All that matters is the candy, and we’re dressed up so I’d say we’re good to go.” And they were kids, so Max figured there be no problem and they could have a fun night filling up their bags. Shifting the bat in her hand so she’d be able to open the bag, Max followed him up the walkway to the first house. “As many as we can do until we’re tired or the lights start turning off,” or one of their guardians called/texted to find out where they were. Though, Max figured it’d probably be one of the two that she said would happen first before the guardians reached out. “Do we want to go straight down this row then up the other row or hit here, then go across and keep doing that?” She asked just as they reached the first door, pulling the mask down and making sure it was on before knocking.
While waiting, Max started to feel a little weird. Her head turned as if trying to figure out her surroundings. The sight of the pumpkin brought a devilish little smirk that couldn’t be seen behind the mask. Confused by the bag, she tossed it and moved near the pumpkin just as the door started to open. Max pulled her bat back and smashed the pumpkin right there into pieces, laughing as she did it. Bringing the bat back to hit it once again, finishing it off. —
After answering, Dustin held out his bag as he could see the elderly woman start to open the door. Of course, he also heard the smashing and turned to see Max murdering a pumpkin. Reacting on instinct, Dustin reached for the door. “Sorry! Never mind” and he yanked the door closed. “Max, are you crazy?! You can’t do that if you want to get candy from people!”
This was definitely counter productive to candy-acquiring which was their whole objective tonight.
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Max tilted her head and though it couldn’t be seen behind the mask, she smirked, raising an eyebrow at Dustin on hearing him call her crazy. “It’s my right to purge,” she said to him as if he was the crazy one for even disturbing her when it was her night to go wild. Only one night for the chaos to exist and Max was ready to finally take full advantage of it. Or at least until the alarms went off to signal it was the end of Purge night. “The old lady should be feeling lucky that I’m not deciding to purge her. Why are we getting candy?” She asked, confused and not remembering any of that before shaking her head. “Just tell her to give the candy or else,” she said bringing the bat back to hit the pumpkin again before looking to see what else she could smash and frowning at seeing nothing worth her time. “You done here? Cause I want to find some other stuff to smash and break.” —
“What?” Dustin was dumbfounded. Max was talking crazy and he was worried the old woman was calling the cops. Though after what Max said about purging the old woman, he wouldn’t hold it against the lady. This was already starting to smell like Dome shenanigans. Did it really have to do that during Halloween of all times? Didn’t they already get screwed over last year with the Upside Down? Would the Dome ever let them Trick or Treat in peace?!
“Uh. Okay. Yes. Sure. But can we agree to keeping the smashing and breaking to inanimate objects?” Dustin was picturing broken kneecaps and it was not pretty. “We could… we could make it a contest! To see how many… pumpkins we can smash!” He hoped this might sound appealing to her.
– Max had to admit the idea of purging the old lady was tempting and she still had quite a few hours to think it over. Be a great way to end the night though she had only planned on destroying a whole lot of property. Waiting another year or two before she started the killing aspect unless someone got in her way, which she could say the old lady was. Then again, she was old and probably didn’t have many years left so it wouldn’t be as much fun in the end.
Her head tilted to the side at the comment about sticking to keeping her purging to smashing and breaking inanimate objects. “And why would I do that?” She asked, moving the bat slowly in his direction as if she was going to hit him with it but stopping with a good distance between his head and the bat. “It’s my right to purge whoever and whatever I want,” she said before sighing as if already bored by him trying to ruin her fun, especially since he was wasting her limited purge time. “I was waiting until next year to move up to people unless they get in my way, then I might change my mind,” her threat left very open to where he could be a target if he kept her from smashing more. “Or step up the challenge to who can smash the most? And I’ll try not to be a sore loser and break your kneecaps if you end up beating me.” Though she doubted he would, she would try hard not to lose her temper if he did by some miracle beat her.
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Max was generally terrifying on a good day, but today? Yeah, this sucked. Not that he showed that. Instead, he put on his big boy boots and grinned like maybe he’d just been messing with her this entire time and of course he was a delinquent who didn’t want candy and actually wanted to smash all the things. At least it seemed like she didn’t want to kill anyone yet. Except maybe him.
“Okay, fine. Yeah.” He got more into it as he said it because he knew the better he sold it, the better she’d go with it. “Let’s see who can smash the most things and the other person has to do whatever the winner says tomorrow. Deal?”