Halloween Special

The **Halloween Special** was an exclusive *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* seasonal event that premiered on Halloween of 2023 to celebrate the Halloween season with a spooky normal-length episode.

## Synopsis

Llama visits The City of Nexus so he can recruit the trio's help in stopping a phantasmal force that has been casting ghosts upon the world every Halloween night.

## Plot

   **"EVERYONE SCREAM AND RUN AWAY!!!!" - Turtle Man**
This section contains spoilers for the storyline of Turtle Man and DaPhantom, proceed with caution!

In an opening scene, it is night and DaPhantom is wandering through a mysterious graveyard looking for something - he examines inside the many tombstones and looking under them but finds nothing. He is suddenly surprised by the sight of a glowing cyan light.

Meanwhile, the Vice President is hosting a Halloween party inside the Nexus Town Hall that anyone can come to with or without costumes and have some fun. Turtle Man is dressed up as a witch and bringing along Officer M. who begrudgingly agrees to go in after some convincing from Turtle Man, as he would have rather stayed home and relaxed. The Vice President welcomes them into the party, dressed as a ghost pirate, and they decide to look around at some of the activities and snacks available. They meet Officer Jones who is chugging many bottles of a mysterious purple liquid since Boss bet him to for a million dollars, but Officer M. declares that the liquid is probably safe after looking at the label. Everyone at the party is started by the door slamming open and the shadow of a skeleton entering; Turtle Man promises he will protect anyone who stays behind him and Officer M. gives his gun. But the skeleton is revealed to be Llama, who approaches Turtle Man and Officer M. saying that he has been looking for them for help since he has detected high concentrations of ghostly energy within the City which could be dangerous to life if nothing is done about it. He also asked them if they know where DaPhantom is, and Turtle Man says that he hasn’t seem him for a few hours since he claimed he was off to find something. Officer M. doesn’t want to help with this wacky Halloween scenario as he’s tired but Turtle Man insists it could be fun since they haven’t done anything big in a while, so they agree to help Llama out.

Llama takes the two to the local graveyard outside of Nexus since that is where he has found the biggest traces of ghostly activity, and they look around for a bit until they stumble across DaPhantom. He tries to tell them that he saw a huge ghost that attacked him, but is interrupted by a gravestone which Llama noticed breaking open and releasing a swarm of ghosts. Turtle Man did not even notice the attacks of the ghost whereas Officer M. and DaPhantom were horrified - Llama gave them a thumbs up and used his crucifix which caused the ghosts to all melt into a pool of ectoplasm. He spends a suspiciously long time licking the ectoplasm and informs them that he has seen this before: the ghosts are all coming from an evil Soul Witch. This witch spends her time absorbing ghostly energy from across the world and every few years on Halloween night, uses this energy to conjure ghosts which attack whatever places she chooses to visit. Llama had previously encountered her one year when she attacked Yoshi Resort and he almost defeated her with his crucifix but she got away, so this time he plans to defeat her once and for all with the help of Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. They follow a long trail of ectoplasm which Llama suspects leads to her house, defeating ghosts along the way and refusing to free SpongeBob SquarePants from within a cage since he was calling them rude words until they arrive at the local swamp. Here they are greeted by Snappy, and the group ask him if he’s seen any ghosts or a witch nearby but he tells them that he was too busy catching tiny fish before they keep following the trail. After a while the four finally arrive outside the Witch’s ectoplasm-covered house and are prepared to go inside, but Llama stubs his toe on a rock and falls to the ground in pain; the trio have to go inside without him as it injured him that badly.

Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. enter the house as the door slams behind them, and the Witch appears before them then unleashes a flurry of magic soul attacks upon the trio. Turtle Man tries to give Officer M. his gun back from earlier, but the gun flies into the Witch’s hands thanks to her telekinesis and she snaps it before casting some more attacks. They dodge some of the spells though get hit by others, and try to attack her with their remaining abilities but the Witch teleports away which makes their efforts futile. As the Soul Witch begins to charge up a huge soul attack, they begin to panic and try to look for places inside the house to hide but find nothing. Turtle Man looks through his shell for anything that can help them to find only a couple of sticks, though this does remind him that Llama used a crucifix to defeat the Witch’s ghosts and so makes a makeshift crucifix out of the sticks which he tries to use for defence. This does not work as it is literally only two flipping sticks which causes the Witch to laugh manically for a while - DaPhantom gets the idea to throw the sticks into her mouth so Officer M. grabs the sticks from Turtle Man and throws them into her mouth. The Soul Witch then chokes and dies, which causes all of her ectoplasm and ghosts to fade away and Llama congratulates them for defeating her on their own. With the spooky threat defeated, Llama agrees to accompany them back to the party in Nexus and Officer M. is finally happy to go and even dress up as Hector Flores. Back at the party, Officer Jones passed out from drinking too much liquid and more people like Bill and Victor are there as Groovin' Grover begins Halloween party hour, leaving everyone to dance away into the night.

## Characters

### Major

* Turtle Man
* DaPhantom
* Officer M.
* Llama
* Soul Witch
* Evil Ghosts

### Minor

* Vice President
* Officer Jones
* Boss
* Snappy
* Victor
* Bill
* Groovin' Grover
* Shimi
* SpongeBob SquarePants

## Trivia

* The Halloween Special premiered as an actual video on the YouTube channel of showrunner Max on October 31st as an epic recreation of what happened in the episode.
* The plot for the special was written by noneother than Gogabago, a writer for some other episodes.
* This special occurred between Seasons 8 and 9 of the main show, as the Soul War was mentioned a couple of times.

Tunnels
**Season 2**
He Shoots, He Scores
**Season 3**
Moon Lair
**Season 4**
Final Showdown
**Season 5**
Evil Chef
**Season 6**
Farewell, Friend
**Season 7**
Restaurant War
**Season 8**
Soul War
**Season 9**
Cursed
**Specials**
Easter Special