SWAT Sleepover, Part 1

The time had at last come for yet another demo team spook alley of epic proportions! Every year, the SWAT demo team puts on a spook alley around Halloween for all the other students, family, and friends to enjoy. We were determined to make this year’s the best! I arrived at the studio to find that it had been turned into a maze of blue tarps hanging from the ceiling. “BANDIT!!!” Jay-spoon yelled as he jumped out from behind one in his usual overly hyperactive way.

“Hey Jay-spoon!” I laughed. “Where is Man Cub?”

“I’m over here” came an unmistakable Scottish accent from behind some tarps. I went around the corner and found him standing on top of a kick target and hanging a tarp with duct tape. Tio was there as well.

“What can I do to help?” I asked. The two looked at each other.

“You and Tio could block out the windows.” Suggested Man Cub, no longer using his Scottish accent. So Tio and I went over to the windows armed with duct tape and sheets. The studio was mostly made out of windows, making our task more difficult than it sounds, but we didn’t want people looking in and being prepared for what was jumping out at them!

More team members started showing up to help and soon we had a pretty amazing spook alley! Upon first walking in there was a white sheet hanging to the right with a strobe light going behind it and blood splattered all over the sheet. This was where one person would drill behind another person’s head, while the other person thrashed around and screamed. But all the guests would be seeing was the silhouette, giving the appearance of a person getting their head drilled into. After turning the corner there would be assorted horrors hidden behind judo mats, kick targets, and other meticulously placed items. We also had Michael Jackson back from the dead! The next corner was the kid’s room. The kid’s room had a window in it so you could see in from the outside. We filled that room with smoke and put a blacklight inside. We had no idea what to do with it, but it sure was fun to play in! “What are we doing with this?” Man Cub asked.

“We don’t know.” Zombie shrugged as I waved at him through the window, then backed up and disappeared into the fog. “But that looks cool!” Then I went to the window and started mouthing ‘help me’ and slowly sunk into the fog. I heard a bang on the window and reappeared in behind it. Fuzzy was outside with a few other people.

“That looked scary!!” he said. “We should do that!”

“Wait! I have an idea!” said Man Cub. He then came into the smoke filled room with me and told me to do what I had just been doing. I complied, but instead of slowly sinking into the fog, Man Cub grabbed me around the throat and pulled me into the fog. We heard the response immediately. “That was awesome!” “Do it again!!”

“Okay, we are definitely doing that!” I said. We exited the kid’s room.

“That was so awesome!” Brick King said. “You both totally disappeared into the fog!”

“Wait until I get my gorilla suit on!” Man Cub replied.

It was now time for everyone to change into their costumes. Coconut, Jay-spoon, and I all went outside to drench our clothes in blood, while others waited in line at the bathroom to get changed.

I reentered the studio tattered and bloody. Treasure, whom Tree and I had been trying to convince to be a leprechaun all week (but he refused, I can’t figure out why), didn’t have a costume. He went into the bathroom and came back with several rolls of toilet paper. “I am a toilet paper mummy!” he proclaimed. “Come help me into my costume!” So a bunch of us started wrapping Treasure in toilet paper. Tree came out wearing a plaid shirt and jeans.

“Tree, I feel like you should be saying ‘git ‘er done’, or something." I observed.

“GIT ‘ER DONE!” he said with perfection. Apparently he was going to pretend to be fake werewolf while holding the bowl of candy at the end and jump out at older kids and give them one more scare for good measure.

When Treasure was finally done with his last minute masterpiece of a costume, we were ready to begin. People started showing up, and the spook alley was a huge success. Unfortunately, toilet paper mummies shed, leaving Treasure without a costume halfway through, so he finished the spook alley off by running around with a clown wig.

It was the most successful spook alley we had had in a long time. However, we still had to clean it up. We blasted some music and took everything down. “Somebody come sweep up the toilet paper trail!” somebody yelled, earning a glare from Treasure. When we were finished, a few of us went to go see Where the Wild Things Are, while the majority of the team stayed at the studio and played games.

Bambi, Jay-spoon, and Man Cub piled into my car and we drove about a block to the nearest movie theater. When we got back, we realized that we shouldn’t have left a bunch of teenage boys alone with a shocker game.

Tio, Slacker, Tree, and Brick King had filmed themselves shocking various parts of their bodies with the shocker game. “Aren’t we awesome?” Brick King asked in what would have been a superior tone, had he been capable of one.

“No, you’re morons” I said.

They ignored me and continued thinking they were 'manly'. “Let them dream.” Treasure advised.