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"Dude! Your parents are gone!" Benny says running into Ethan's room.

"And we have the run of the house!" Gabe says following behind her brother. "Well except for your sister and Sarah."

"Your babysitter." Benny teases, and Ethan just rolls his eyes.

"Do you have any idea what this means?" Gabe asks.

"Does it rhyme with... Gideovames?" Ethan asks now excited.

"Almost. Knights of Ninjitsu IV!" Benny interrupts. That's not what Gabe had in mind though. She wanted to invite Rory over and hang out with all of her best friends. It seems like Benny and Ethan had different ideas though.

"Wick!" Ethan cheers.

"I had to wait 5 hours in line for this puppy, and I had to pee, the entire time!" Benny says.

"Well, this is going to be worth every bit of kidney damage. Wait, why do we need the run of the house for this?" Ethan asks.

"You know, so we can... yell and stuff," Benny says.

"You yell in here all the time. My mom is constantly telling-"

"Do you want to play or not?" Benny asks interrupting Ethan. The boys run over to Ethan's desk to start playing the game.

"Whatever, I'm gonna go hang with Jane and Sarah," Gabe says, knowing they probably won't talk to her for the next few hours.

She leaves Ethan's room and heads to Jane's. She sees Sarah and Jane sitting on the bed. Jane holding a doll with blue hair and a pink shirt and skirt. The doll seems to be broken.

"Debbie's my favorite, and now she's ruined," Jane says, a sad look on her face.

"I'm sure I could fix her with some tape or something," Sarah says grabbing the doll.

"Then we can have a dance party?" Jane asks.

"Uh, sure. What else am I gonna do till your parents get home?" Sarah tells her.

"Did I hear dance party?" Gabe asks, finally making her presence known to the other two.

"Gabe!" Jane yells jumping up to hug her.

The phone starts ringing. "He right back!" Sarah says as she leaves to answer it.

"Now why were you sad a little bit ago?" Gabe asks.

"My Debbie Dazzle doll broke. She was my favorite." Jane explains showing the broken doll.

"That's not good. Maybe if I just..." Gabe waves her hand over the doll's broken leg. "And just like that, she's good as new!" Gabe smiles.

"Thank you so much, Gabe!" Jane hugs her. All of a sudden Gabe's phone rings. She sees it's Rory.

"I'll be right back you and Debbie stay here," Gabe says before leaving. Jane smiles and starts to play with Debbie again, once again she accidentally breaks the doll. She wants to call Gabe back to fix it again but doesn't want to bother her.

"Noooo!" She hears Ethan groan from the other room. She goes to his door and places her ear against it to listen. "It's not fair!" Ethan whines, as he tries to fix his broken game. "I can't believe we burned out the processor now." Benny is flipping through his spell book, looking for a way to fix it. "Wait..." Ethan says getting an idea. "I think if I can jump these cables, we can get it working." He says as Jane opens the door and peaks her head into the room very sneakily.

"Or, we could just use a minor reparation spell. It can fix anything! It says so right here." Benny says pointing to the spell in the book.

"Anything?" Jane thinks to herself. "That must of been the spell Gabe used."

"Hah! Booyah We're back in business!" Ethan yells, having fixed the game. Benny smiles and puts the spell book down on Ethan's side table.

"Sword chopping business," Benny says, grabbing his controller as the two boys start to play the game again. They're too distracted to see Jane snatch the book off of the side table and shut Ethan's door back.

Jane goes back to her room, she flips through the book until she finds the spell she thinks Benny was talking about. She picks up her doll. "Don't worry Debbie. I'll fix you."

She places Debbie next to the spell book and waves her finger around as she reads it. "Glondo frum... frumundo vela." She reads. A blue light flashes as Sarah comes back into the room.

"Hey, Jane." She stops when she's another person standing next to Jane.

"Hey look what I made." Jane smiles.

"Hi! I'm Debbie Dazzle. Wanna play?" The blue-haired woman asks with a smile.

"Gabe! Gabe get in here!" Sarah yells. Gabe runs back to Jane's room.

"What is it-" She too freezes upon seeing the now human doll.

"Hi! I'm Debbie Dazzle!"

"Uh... Jane? What happened?" Gabe asks, slightly afraid that it's her fault the doll is now alive, that she messed up the spell.

"Ethan! You're gonna want to see this!" Sarah calls the boy. He doesn't listen at first but then Gabe goes and drags him and Benny out of his room.

"We were in the middle of a game! This better be important!" Benny says.

"Trust me B. It is." Gabe says. They get into Jane's room and the boys freeze.

"What the heck is that?" Ethan asks.

"That is a life-sized Debbie Dazzle. I think I had a dream about this once." Benny says.

"Jane, can I talk to you for a minute?" Ethan says pulling Jane to a corner. "Jane, how did this happen?"

"She had a broken leg, Gabe fixed it first, but it broke again, so I took the twin's spell book and used Benny's fix-it spell I heard him telling you about, and now, well, she's alive!" Jane smiles, handing the book to Sarah.

"Let's have ice cream and go to a roller disco dance party!" Debbie smiles.

"Yay!" Jane cheers.

"I'm in!" Benny smiles.

"No parties. We need to turn her back into a doll." Ethan tells them.

Debbie gets very upset. "No, I don't want to go back. It's so boring. I want to have fun. I won't go back. I won't!"

Jane runs over to comfort her. "Don't worry Debbie. I won't let them change you back. I promise."

"Oh, goodie! Let's celebrate. Cupcake dance party!" Debbie cheers. Jane holds her hand as they walk out of the room together, Debbie walking with a limp.

"Find a way to undo this. Now!" Sarah scolds as she gives Benny the spell book. Gabe shakes her head at her brother.

"It's not that simple." Benny sighs. "I think Jane used a different spell. Or different words. I can't reverse it until I know the exact spell." Benny says flipping through the book.

"Kitchen party!" Debbie yells from downstairs.

"Just find the spell. Fast." Ethan says leaving.

"Oh, so you get to go to the party. That's fair!" Benny says sarcastically.

"Benny, if you would've put the spell book away, like I always tell you to do. We wouldn't be in this mess." Gabe tells him, upset that she now has to deal with life-size Debbie Dazzle.

"Maybe if you wouldn't have fixed Janes doll, for her to break it again, she wouldn't have taken the spell book," Benny says.

"Oh, so this is my fault now? Whatever, Benny. Just fix this mess." Gabe says storming off downstairs, tired of her brother's carelessness.

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Benny finally joins the others downstairs after a while. Gabe, Sarah, and Ethan just watch as Debbie and Jane make a mess while baking in the kitchen.

"Woah! This is a cupcake party!" Benny smiles.

"Did you find anything?" Ethan asks.

"I've got good news and bad news." Benny sighs. "Bad news: I couldn't figure out the spell. Good news: I'm on level two of Knights of Ninjitsu IV."

"You've been up there for an hour!" Sarah yells at him.

"It's a hard game!" Benny defends.

"Did you even try to look for a spell Benny! You can never do anything right can you? You always have to fuck things up!" Gabe yells at him.

"Mmm! Lemon swirl." Debbie smiles holding out a cupcake.

"No, please. No more cupcakes." Sarah says.

"Ooh, I'll take a lemon swirl," Benny says picking up a cupcake, Gabe slaps it out of his hands and stares at him.

"Oh, no!" Debbie gasps as she looks at Jane. "Look at your clothes. I know just what we should play next. Debbie Dazzle fashion show!"

"Okay!" The two giggle and Debbie follows Jane upstairs.

"Ouch!" Debbie says, accidentally tripping because of her bad leg.

"Are you okay?" Ethan asks, she grabs onto him for support, and his eyes turn white when she touches him. He gets a vision of rotting fruit.

"I'm fine." Debbie smiles standing up straight. "Great in fact! Let's go have some fashion fun." She continues limping up to Jane's room.

"Woah..." Ethan starts to get dizzy.

"What happened?" Benny asks.

"Yeah E, are you alright?" Gabe also asks the boy.

"I had a vision. Debbie needs life energy to stay in human form. She absorbs it through contact. If... if we..." Ethan gets dizzy again.

"Woah, easy buddy," Benny says as he and Gabe grab Ethan and hold him up.

"He must have drained you a little," Gabe says. "What if she drains Jane-" Gabe gets a sick feeling at the thought of anything bad happening to Jane.

"Wait, maybe if we keep her away from people, she'll turn back into a doll," Ethan tells the others.

"Let's hope," Sarah says. All of a sudden the doorbell rings. Ethan and Benny go over to open it as Sarah and Gabe go back up to Jane's room.

"Yeah! The fun starts now!" Rory says as the door opens.

"Rory, now's not the best time," Ethan says.

"Wait, you're not gonna invite me in?" Rory asks.

"Sorry, the fun can start later," Benny tells him, shutting the door in his face. The boys head upstairs and join the others in Jane's room. They watch as Jane and Debbie sit there and rip up clothes.

"Is this what girls usually do with their dolls?" Benny asks.

"You don't do this with yours?" Sarah laughs.

"Those are action figures." Benny glares at her. He then looks over to Gabe for an answer.

"Don't ask me, I was a gay child so I just made mine make out with each other," Gabe says.

"I so did not need to know that," Benny says, wishing she didn't tell him.

"You're the one who asked." Gabe smiles at him.

"We have to get her alone," Sarah says as the 4 teens watch as Jane and Debbie tear up clothes.

"Hey, Debbie. Guess what? I just found a bunch of... uh, things that girls say go with shoes." Ethan says luring Debbie into his bedroom.

"Ooh, I love accessorizing." Debbie follows him.

"Bedtime," Sarah tells Jane.

"Aw."

"Right in here. Go crazy." Ethan says opening the door for Debbie.

"But, I don't see any-" Ethan quickly shuts the door and ties it shut with a jump rope.

"Ah! Hey, let me out! I want to play! You two are real party poopers!" Debbie yells.

"What about the window?" Benny asks.

"We've on the second floor. It's not like she can fly." Ethan explains.

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"Jane's out like a light," Sarah says coming downstairs to help the others clean up.

"Great," Gabe says.

"Now we just have to convince her she dreamed the whole thing," Ethan adds.

"Hello, we're home! Hello?" Ethan's dad says as the front door opens.

"My parents! Can you go stall them?"

"Okay," Sarah says going to them.

"Gabe. Benny, quick!" Ethan says and they start cleaning double time.

"You think her batteries have run out by now?" Gabe asks as she, Ethan, and Benny come up the stairs.

"Probably, but we should still-" Ethan stops speaking when he realizes the jump rope is no longer on the doors.

"Is it...too much to hope that...she ran out of juice climbing out the window, and maybe fell into the compost?" Benny asks.

"Ethan, what's wrong?" Gabe asks noticing Ethan staring at his bed.

"Mom?Dad?" Ethan holds up two dolls that look like his parents and that are dressed in the exact clothes they had when they came home.

"I'd say she's now running on a full charge," Benny says.

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"I hope that's your good news face," Ethan says as he walks up to the twins in the hallways.

"I'm 99.9% sure that I've found the right spell," Benny says.

"Okay, let's do it."

"But we can't be sure how Jane pronounced it," Gabe adds. "She has to cast the reversal spell herself."

"Wonderful. And my parents?"

"They should revert back to normal once the spell's been reversed."

"Good. Then all we have to do is find a life-sized killer fashion doll and... bring her down. No problem." Ethan says. "Have you talked to Rory?"

"Yeah. He sent me a text saying he was busy
hanging out with his new girlfriend." Benny says.

"Ohh, he's mad that we didn't let him in," Gabe says.

"Or... he actually has a girlfriend," Benny suggests. They all start laughing.

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"Hey, Rory, we know you're mad about last night, but-" Ethan starts only to be cut off.

"Mad? How could I be mad? Last night was awesome! It's not every day you get to rescue
a fair maiden from your clutches. Especially one
who's so into me."

"Wait, what? You let Debbie out?" Gabe asks. Rory nods. "Why would you do that?"

"Because she's hot."

"Dude, she's a doll. I mean literally
a doll. As in she's made of plastic!" Gabe says getting angry.

"Yeah, all the hottest girls are."

"Rory, get this through your thick vampire skull:
She's not human!"

"Are you guys talking about me?" Debbie says

"There's my girl! How'd it go with Principal Hicks?"

"Oh, him. He was such a doll." She smiles. "Hi, guys." She turns to the others. "Did you miss me?" She goes to hug them but they all jump back behind Rory. "Jumpy much?"

"Flesh, blood, more than eight points of articulation. all things, I intend to keep, thank you." Benny says.

"You're coming with us, Debbie," Ethan says going toward her.

"Over my undead body!" Rory says stepping between them.

"Dude, listen. She's dangerous." Gabe starts.

"So am I, so... back off!" Rory says showing his fangs. "Besides you guys are just jealous."

"Whatever! Let her hurt you for all I care." Gabe says storming off. The others are following behind.

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"So it's settled," Benny says as He, Gabe, Ethan, and Sarah all sit together. "You'll kick Debbie's
sorry, plastic butt."

"What? No, I never said that."

"Ugh! Come on!" Benny begs.

"She's got Rory wrapped around her little finger," Ethan says.

"I can't believe he got a girlfriend before me." Benny sighs.

" i can't believe it's not me."

"I heard that," Benny says to his sister.

"Heard what? I didn't say or think anything." Gabe tells him. (we luv gabe the gaslighter 😩😩)

"Well, we have to find a way to split them up, or someone." Ethan looks at benny.

"Nice."

"Okay, Kirk and Spock, you wanna fill me in on this little mind meld?"

"One word," Gabe says. "Erica."

The group watches from afar as Erica goes and tries to flirt with Rory. Gabe felt kind of jealous.

"Well, hello, handsome." Erica walks up flashing a smile n

"Who?" Rory asks confused.

"You, silly! So, I was thinking, since we share the same taste in food, I might let you take me to dinner."

"Nah, I don't think so."

"Great! So just ditch the third wheel here,
and... Wait, what?" Erica asks confused.

"You had your chance with this, babe. The Rorster's found his soul mate."

Erica grunts and storms off into the bathroom.

"I just have to go powder my nose," Debbie says going in after her.

"Rory. I need your help." Debbie says coming out of the bathroom, limping and her face peeling off.

"Ah! That's... Wow, that's, just-." Rory is speechless.

"The one who made me. She can fix me. You must take me to her." Debbie tells him.

"Listen, we had a good run, but I think we should see other faces-people! I meant people. Later!" Rory says walking off.

"Oh... Fine, I'll find her myself."
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"Whoa!" The twins say at the same time when they see Debbie laying on the grown all bent and decapitated.

"You pretzeled her good!" Benny says.

"Sarah, are you okay?" Gabe asks.

"I'm okay," Sarah says slightly out of breath.

"Ethan, what are you doing?!" Gabe asks when Ethan picks up Debbie's head.

"Scare Finder Rule Number 10: Nothing can do anything without a head. Heh!"

Debbie's body begins to twist and she reaches up, grabbing her head. They all scream and run up the stairs, hiding beside Sarah.

"Sarah, where's Jane?" Ethan asks.

"She's in her hiding spot," Sarah says. "You guys go, and I'll hold her off as long as I can."

"I'm gonna go find out how she read that spell." The twins say.

"What are you going to do?" Gabe asks Ethan.

"I'm gonna buy us some time. Come on." Ethan runs up the stairs, The twins following behind.

"Jane, I know you're in there. You always hide in there. And I know how your mind works." Gabe says trying to get Jane out of her hiding spot.

"We need to know how you said this fix-it spell. What's your price?" Benny says.

"I have some ideas," Jane says sticking her head out of the closet.

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"Jane! Where are you?" Debbie calls from the hallway.

"Oh, Debbie!" Ethan calls. Debbie walks into Ethan's room. Ethan is dressed in a sparkly blue shirt and has on a fake mustache and slicked-back hair.

"Dazzle Dan, what are you doing here?" Debbie asks.

"Become a doll with me again, Debbie."

"No. I don't want to go back. I'm alive now."

"Debbie, this world is boring. Do you want to have to work at a job?"

"No. Not really."

"Then let's be dolls again. And you can come with me and we'll dance party on my... speedboat."

"Dazzle Dan doesn't have a speedboat. He has a hover yacht."

"Hover yacht? Really? Cool!" Ethan says breaking character.

"You are a fake." Debbie grabs Ethan by the throat.

Jane is quick to run into the room and cast the reversal spell.

"Hi, Jane," Debbie says

"Onomonabeana!" Jane yells and Debbie turns back into a doll and falls to the floor.

"Are you okay, Ethan?"Jane asks.

"Yeah. Thanks, Jane."

"What happened to me? What happened to you?" Sarah asks coming into the room and noticing Ethan's new look.

"Why are we in our clothes?" Ethan's dad asks waking up.

"Why are we in Ethan's bed?" Ethan's mom asks.

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"So your parents don't remember anything?" Gabe asks.

"Nope. As far as they know, they came home and crashed for the whole day. We're off the hook."

"Less talking; More dancing!" Jane says.

"Come on, guys. We promised." Sarah adds.

"Party at the Disco Beach!" Ethan presses play on a radio and the music plays as they all have a dance party. Even Erica joins in.

Gabe can't help to think about Rory though. She could tell that he really cared for Debbie. It's just Gabe wishes it was her who Rory liked.

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