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[Start in the afternoon to Poppy Partridge decorating the cookies in the kitchen of her barn while her friends do anything in Poppy's barn; Wally and Barnaby are decorating the cake with piping bags as Wally shoot Barnaby who cover with blue icing as they both laugh, Julie holds the balloons and Sally holds the box while they walking, Frank and Eddie making party decorations when their hands touch each other as made blushes as continue making it, and Howdy holds ingredients of cakes as passing his friends while he toward to Poppy as put it on the table.]
Howdy: (breathing) Phew! Poppy, are you sure about that? Like... special day or something...
Poppy: (nervously) It's a... secret. Yeah, it's a secret day!
Howdy: (cautiously and suspicious) Right...? (Walk away slowly while his friends look at him in pauses, nervously.) I'm...er...getting...more ingredients... (Open slowly the door as he steps out of Poppy's barn, then close the door, sighing in relief as quietly.) Okay. I'm gonna sneak around outside the barn to peek at the sense of secrets.
[Howdy walks slowly under the window until he hears voices of Frank and Eddie as he puts his ear on the wall to hear which gasps in surprise. Pans as wide the camera to inside the barn where Frank and Eddie who got covering art and craft bits on the corner.]
Frank: Eddie! This is getting so difficult for a special day!
Eddie: I know! (Take a breath.) We told Poppy about the plan to Howdy for his first date yesterday without telling everyone while we're hiding our secret.
Howdy: (shocked) WHAT?! (Covers his mouth in surprise with his lower hands, mutters.) Uh-no!
[Howdy running around hiding anywhere in the barn while Seven Neighbors stunned silence after hearing Howdy's shout. Cut to Frank and Eddie surprised in freak out.]
Frank: Oh no! He's figured it out about that!
Wally: (offscreen) Figured it out about what?
[Frank and Eddie pause to turn around Wally in surprise and cover red icing.]
Frank: Wally! What are you doing here?
Wally: Poppy calling you... Just come with you.
[Wally, Frank, and Eddie walk out of the corner and toward Poppy look at the cookies on the silver serving tray as if it's like Eight Neighbors.]
Eddie: It is done, Poppy?
Poppy: Yes. It's done. (Opens the oven and puts it inside, then closes it as it turns up the heat.) Guys, I-I thank you for helping me out.
Wally: You're welcome.
Eddie: (puts on Poppy's shoulder) Poppy... I have to tell you about that... (Walks off of the kitchen along Poppy while Wally and Frank look at them in blank, offscreen.) Did you hear the shout?
Wally: So... Did you give an object to Poppy?
Frank: Yup. It's a Silver Serving Tray. Which Home created it as I chose her. (He and Wally look at the oven.) Is it done?
[Cut to Howdy slowly popping out the window as he looks at Wally and Frank through the window.]
Wally: Almost. And... (Kitchen timer starts ringing.) ...done! (Press it to stop the ring, he wears oven mitts to open the oven and takes cookies on the tray out of the oven, then he closes it and puts the tray on the table as he and Frank look at it in amazement.) Wow. Poppy's such great cooking for it.
Frank: (nods) Mm-mhmm. Which means... Start to infect her by it. (Points at Silver Serving Tray which Howdy gasps in quietly as red aura comes out from Silver Serving Tray.) It's time...
Howdy: (whispers) Oh! I knew it!
[A red aura into a cookie of Poppy as turns a perfect shape of her which Wally and Frank smiles in evilly while Howdy watches in horror and then pops in to under the window.]
Howdy: (quietly) I knew it! I just...knew it! (Starts to run but gets stopped by Poppy who holds his shoulders while Eddie looks surprised, nervously.) Oh! Hi, guys. What are you doing here?
Poppy: You are coming to us! (Beats as pause.) Wait... You didn't get the ingredients, did you?
Howdy: (nervously) Uh...uh...
Eddie: Forget it! Come on! Cookies are done!
[Poppy and Eddie run as Poppy dragging Howdy who left the trails on the ground by his four feet. They enter Poppy's barn to the kitchen where Wally and Frank are waiting in here.]
Poppy: He's here! We found him on the side of my barn!
Frank: He's on the side of your barn? (He and Wally look at each in confusion, then back look at them.) I thought he'd get more ingredients.
Eddie: No. No, he doesn't.
Wally: (he and Frank look at each in suspicion, then back look at them.) Just get over it already because the cookies are done.
[Wally holds the cookies on the Silver Serving Tray which Poppy, Howdy, and Eddie look at it in amazing even Howdy barely amazing at it.]
Howdy: Wow, Poppy. Nice making the cookies for us.
Poppy: Yup.
Frank: So... Who goes first to taste that? (He, Wally, Poppy, and Eddie turn and look at Howdy who starts to get scared.) Howdy? Can you eat it first?
Howdy: (nervously) I...uh... (Shouts in fast-talking.) Poppy! Why didn't you go first?! (Covers his mouth in his upper heads, normal-talking.) Oops!
Poppy: (shocked) What?! What are you talking about?
Howdy: (grows nervously as uncovered his mouth) I... No! Well...uh... (Covers his mouth again but gets covered by Frank, muttering.) Hey!
Frank: Because! You're a girl! Uh...that's right! He thinks you're going first...
Wally: Because...uh...
Eddie: Lady first?
Wally and Frank: (muttering in agreement) Oh, yeah! That's right!
Wally: Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's what he was thinking!
Frank: That's right! That's what Howdy's thinking about that!
Howdy: (surprised) WHAT?! I'm trying to...! (Sighs in defeat.) You're right, guys. I'm such an idiot about this!
Eddie: No, you're not. Question; why are you always alert about that so quickly since you moved to our place?
Howdy: I've been traumatized about a childhood accident that hurt me.
Frank: Wow. That's dark. (Whispers to Wally.) Literally. That's when Howdy got a phobia of the dark. While he's alone himself. (Speaks out.) Anyway... Poppy, are you ready?
Poppy: Yes, I'm ready. (She slowly takes a cookie of herself which makes Howdy start worrying.) I take a cookie for myself.
Howdy: No! Don't take it! (He's towards her but stopped by Wally and Frank who are holding him.) Don't do it! (His mouth is covered by Frank, muffled in panic.)
Poppy: What's going on for three guys?
Eddie: I have no idea. Just take one. I'll get the art and craft tools. (Walk off the kitchen.)
Poppy: Okay.
[Poppy slowly takes a cookie of herself, she takes it, a red aura around her arm/wing while she starts to get scared while Wally and Frank smiling and Howdy screams in mumbling, she screaming, a red aura going in her head as his eyes glowing red and hee voice getting eerie until her passed out and stopped it which Wally and Frank let Howdy go as they look at Poppy.]
Howdy: Oh no.
Frank: (giggles) Thank you for helping us!
Howdy: (surprised) WHAT?! Frank! You're lost your mind?!
Frank: Uh, no. I just listened to your voice. It sounds like attention to me... (Giggles and start blushes while Wally and Howdy are shocked.)
Wally: Wait! Frank, are you in love with-- (Cut off as cover his mouth by Frank who starts nervously while blushing getting more red.)
Frank: Oh no! (Howdy slaps his head to spin as he holds his head as uncovers Wally's mouth and stops blushes.) Ow! What was that, Howdy?
Howdy: (displeasure) Now we've got caught, Frank! Nice one! Good job!
Frank: It's not my fault, okay?! (Notice the shadows of Barnaby, Julie, Sally, and Eddie as he and Wally gasp while Howdy's in stunned silence.) They're coming! Do you guys have any ideas? (Howdy faints and passes out while he and Wally are shocked.) Howdy! Wake up! (Holds Howdy to shake him but doesn't wake up.) Come on! Wake up! (Being shocked by Barnaby, Julie, Sally, and Eddie scream while Eddie drops a box of art and craft as he and Wally look at them, laugh nervously.) So... We've got a problem about these two. (Points at Poppy and Howdy who both passed out.)
Eddie: Oh no! (Barnaby, Julie, and Sally run toward Poppy and Howdy.) Frank! Wally! What happened to them?
Frank: They're both passed out. (Whispering for closer to Eddie.) Even Howdy. He faints out after Poppy when he's stunned.
Eddie: What?!
Frank: That wasn't me to do that, okay?!
Wally: We're gonna take them into Home!
[Wally, Julie, and Sally take Poppy while Barnaby, Frank, and Eddie take Howdy, they run out of Poppy's Barn and then go to Home. Fade to black.]
Frank: (echoes as offscreen) Oh, Eddie! This is completely worse today now!
Eddie: (echoes as offscreen) Yeah! But don't worry, Frank. Wally and others take and wait for Poppy to wake up.
Julie: (echoes as offscreen) Frank! Eddie! Poppy's awake!
Frank: (echoes as offscreen) She's awake already, Julie?
Julie: (echoes as offscreen) Are you coming?
Frank: (echoes as offscreen) Just a moment! (Whispers.) Don't worry about our secrets... Howdy-howdy...
[Fade into Frank and Eddie sitting next to Howdy who is laying the couch in Home in the dark. Frank and Eddie look at Howdy in despair as they touch Howdy's cheeks on each side of them.]
Frank: (sighs) I'm so sorry about what I said to you earlier. (He and Eddie kiss Howdy's cheeks.) Come on, Eddie. Let's go to Poppy.
[Frank and Eddie walk left Howdy as they go to the bedroom. After they walk off, Howdy wakes up and rubs his head while groaning.]
Howdy: Ouch! I'm surprised! But thankfully, I fainted while they were coming. Where am I? I am in Home... (Realized to starting to get scared.) In the dark?! (Screams to stand up as running around until trying to open the door but it is locked which he starts crying.) Help me...! Please...! I'm so scared! (Start worrying when the footsteps approach as he hears.) Leave me alone! Please! Don't hurt me!
[Howdy covering and shielding himself while the eight shadows appeared, then someone press turned on the light. Cut to Howdy stopped crying as uncover himself to turn around Seven Neighbors surprised by him.]
Poppy: Howdy! What's wrong with you?! Did you hurt yourself?! I'll check. (Slowly put on Howdy but he's staying back from her.) Howdy! Wait! (Howdy starts to go out of Home which makes her and friends getting more worried as they all go out of Home, they follow him.) I'm being serious! I'm just gonna help you!
Howdy: I'm completely fine, Poppy! And you guys stop following me!
Poppy: Please! Stop talking about that! Just stop! (Tries reaching Howdy but her wings cover green liquid which makes her scream as flapping her wings, while in reality her friends start confusion and worry about her.) Get off! Get off! Get off!
Eddie: What's going on?
Frank: (whispers to Wally) She's on Stage 1!
Wally: Yup, she's hallucinating about her fear.
Howdy: Oh no... Poppy, it's okay. (Slowly reaching Poppy.) It's just-- (Cut off by Poppy who slapped his upper right hand.) Ouch!
Poppy: (panicking) Don't touch my wing! It's covered by a disease!
Sally: What? I didn't see that.
Julie: Me too.
Howdy: I think you're the only one to see that. It's just hallucination, Poppy.
Poppy: (paused) Hallucination? No...no, no, no, no, no! (Runs to her barn.)
Howdy: (whispers) Oh no... She's already infected...
Frank: (whispers to Wally) Howdy's gonna feel worried about Poppy.
Wally: (whispers to Frank) He knows about the last time of the second infection as you.
Frank: (whispers) Yup. Eddie and I will take care of him, then you take care of Poppy.
Wally: (whispers) Got it! (He and Frank notice Howdy already gone, speaking out.) And...he's already gone!
Frank: (speaks out) Eddie, where's Howdy?
Eddie: He's going to Poppy.
Frank: (Holds Eddie's hand) Come on! (Runs with Eddie while Wally is with them.) Let's go!
Eddie: Hey, hey, hey, hey!
[Cut to inside of Poppy's Barn where Wally, Frank, and Eddie run to Howdy comforting Poppy.]
Howdy: ...You don't understand, I'm completely fine... I just...freaked out by my nightmare.
Eddie: Howdy have a nightmare when he wakes up? That doesn't sound right.
Frank: You're right. I think... His nightmare is a major fear from an accident in his childhood.
Eddie: Really, Frank?
Frank: Trust me, Eddie. He has... (Whispers to Wally and Eddie.) ...a fear of the dark.
Wally and Eddie: Woah! Really true?
Frank: (nods) Sure he is. (Howdy walks out of Poppy's Barn.) He's going outside! Wally, now it's a chance! (Wally toward Poppy while Frank and Eddie toward Howdy.) So, Howdy. Listen, I'm really sorry about earlier. (Howdy has no answer and never pays attention to Frank and Eddie.) Howdy? Speak to me. (Howdy still no answer as goes to Howdy's Place/Bugdega.) Howdy? Howdy! (He and Eddie look at him through the window, groaning.) He doesn't pay attention to us, Eddie.
Eddie: I think he heard us as an eavesdrop.
Frank: Oh no! Now we've done that to him!
Eddie: Come on. Let's go to Poppy.
[Frank and Eddie leave Howdy's Place/Bugdega. Cut inside of Howdy's Place/Bugdega, Howdy looks at the Memory Book in sympathy as looks at a picture of Kid Frank and Eddie holding Baby Howdy while they are both happy and a mess of paints as Baby Howdy who happily expresses.]
Howdy: (sighs in sympathy) What a good memory. The reason why Frank and Eddie love me? I guess I found out about them. (Look at his fedora and coat on the wall hanger.) Now time for disguise...
[Howdy wears round sunglasses to start laughing. Cut inside to Poppy's Barn where Wally, Frank, Poppy, and Eddie.]
Wally: We know you're always paranoid when someone needs or wants help.
Poppy: Yeah. I'm very worried about Howdy.
Frank: I know. He just freaked out after waking up. Not a nightmare.
Poppy: What?
Frank: Trust me. Listening... (Whispering to Poppy's ear until Poppy starts to be surprised.) ...It was his major fear.
Poppy: (surprised) WHAT?! Really?! I'm going to him! (Runs away out of her barn while Eddie looks at her.)
Eddie: Wait for me! (Follow her to run out of Poppy's Barn while Wally and Frank.)
Frank: Wally! They're going to Howdy!
Wally: Yeah, which means...
Wally and Frank: New plans!
Home: (in Wally and Frank's head) Nice jobs, guys! If Howdy cares about Poppy. You need to pay attention to him.
Frank: We're trying...
Home: Good.
Wally: Come on then!
[Wally and Frank run out of Poppy's Barn to follow Poppy and Eddie who are going to Howdy's Place/Bugdega. Fade out as a pitched black screen.]