A/N: The following contains original characters I would have used for my What a Cartoon! pilot if I ever had the chance to make one. Unfortunately, the age I am now would've been perfect, but I had to be a rugrat during the 90's, so I never had the chance. They will be used in this story, and CartoonNetwork90sFan was kind enough to help me develop and create them, and will be used in this story, and possibly more, but we will find out in the near future. Read & Review!
Bob was with Stacey, Travis, Drake, Luna, Alfred, Madeline, Samantha, Linda, Steven, and Jackson and driving on a dark, spooky night.
"I don't see why we have to go with you." Samantha complained.
"Your parents are gone for the weekend and left me responsible for you kids." Bob reminded.
"This gives me a chance to be with my Dark Princess." Alfred smiled towards the gloomy goth girl.
"Gag." Madeline grimaced.
"So, where are we going, Mr. Henderson?" Jackson asked.
"We're going to stay at a hotel tonight, then we're going to a concert where my old friend is going to be playing in." Bob informed.
"Awesome, Uncle Bob!" Stacey beamed.
The van soon pulled up to a hotel and the kids all came out with their stuff.
A certain teenage girl was at the front desk, sitting next to a portrait which was of a six-year-old girl in blonde hair in a fluffy pink dress.
"Hi, there, we're here to rent a room," Bob told the teenage girl. "It should be under Henderson."
"Of course, now, let me see here..." Dakota nodded and typed into the computer.
Stacey looked over to a luggage cart with her dog she got for Christmas and climbed into it. The other kids waited and other guests were going about their business until suddenly, Stacey and Xeno were riding in the cart together, causing slight mayhem.
"I'd get out of here if I were you." The Red Guy warned as he suddenly appeared, dressed as the hotel manager.
"How come?" Jackson asked.
"Don't you know that there are ghosts haunting this hotel?" The Red Guy asked.
"Ghosts?" Linda asked.
Ghosts?!" Jackson and Steven grinned.
"Why, yes, in this very hotel, there are ghosts, and I don't just mean Space Ghost~" The Red Guy warned before he soon got run over by Stacey and Xeno.
Stacey stopped and called back with a smile. "Sorry, Mr. Hotel Manager!"
"I hope that wasn't karma..." The Red Guy groaned.
"What ghost are you talking about, sir?" Travis asked as he helped the man up.
"It's Dakota's great-great grandfather Herbert Milton, and his wife, Charlotte," The Red Guy explained, ominously. "They want the hotel for themselves!"
"Oh, please, I ain't afraid of no ghosts," Bob scoffed. "Next thing you know you're gonna tell me the Plaza Hotel has a ghost that haunts every Halloween."
"Uh..." The Red Guy blinked.
"Don't worry, Madeline, I shall protect you!" Alfred proclaimed as he hugged the goth girl. "I be brave like Captain Picard against Wesley Crusher's unnecessary addition to the Star Trek cast!"
Madeline didn't say anything, but then pushed him.
"I'd be careful if I were you." The Red Guy told them.
"Whatever, man... Come on, kids, let's check out our room." Bob told the kids.
"Would you believe that this very room is the room they stayed in for their honeymoon?" The Red Guy mysteriously asked.
Bob and the kids then stopped and looked at him. "What did you say?" he then asked.
"Yes..." The Red Guy told them. "In fact, they haunt anybody who checks into this room, and they never allow the guests to CHECK...OUT..." he then said dramatically with a flashlight to his face.
"Please..." Samantha rolled her eyes.
"You will hear a rocking chair going back and forth, and not to mention, a crackling sound..." The Red Guy warned them about the ghosts.
Xeno barked to the Red Guy.
"The lights will flicker on and off... And you will hear the humming of The Wedding March..." The Red Guy told them.
"That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard." Linda scoffed.
"That's what the last group that came here said, but they never came out alive." The Red Guy replied.
"All right, well, thank you, sir, but we gotta get settled in, we'll order some room service later, we've been driving for seven hours." Bob said as he pushed the Red Guy out the door.
"Do you think that he was telling the truth?" Travis wondered.
"I doubt it." Bob replied.
"I say that we check it out." Steven suggested.
"Yeah, maybe we can get some real good footage." Jackson added.
"Okay, tell you what: we'll get settled in, and then check this place out." Bob said.
Everyone agreed and got settled in, then they checked all around the hotel even the front desk, but Dakota wasn't there.
"Okay, nothing's here, let's go back." Samantha told the others.
"Wait, what's up there?" Drake asked.
Everyone then saw a familiar group running.
"We have company." Luna said.
"And I don't think it's a welcoming company!" Alfred yelped.
"Xeno, go check it out." Stacey told her dog and gave him a dog biscuit.
Xeno ate the snack and soon looked sharp like a brave dog and snarled towards the other group, going towards them.
"Aww... It's a cute puppy~" A girl in a ballerina outfit cooed to Xeno. "Oh, can we keep it, Mike, can we, can we?"
"Dee Dee, that dog obviously belongs to someone else," A redheaded tomboy in red clothes told the ballerina before looking at the dog and looked closer. "See? He has a collar."
"You dare try to attack Mike-san and friends?" An orange creature glared at Xeno. "Ling-Ling will kill you!"
Xeno glared back and seemed to stand up on his hind legs and move his front paws like karate hands.
"YAAAAAUGH!" Ling-Ling glared as he soon made a Shadow Ball from his hands.
A terrier wearing a shirt and a pink possum were about to go help the battle monster.
"Think he needs any help, Sledge, dude?" The terrier asked the possum.
"Eh, why don't you sniff 'em, he seems to be a dog like you?" The pink possum suggested.
The terrier then came up to Xeno to sniff the other dog.
The others waited for Xeno to come back.
"I think your stupid dog got lost." Samantha told Stacey.
"Maybe the ghost got him." Linda smirked.
"Uh, guys?" Luna blinked. "Look!"
The other group crashes into the group, knocking each other down.
"Xeno, you silly doggy." Stacey giggled.
Samantha glared at the teenage girl with short dirty blonde and wearing a grey hoodie and sweatpants who was next to her. "You're so going to pay for my dry cleaning!" she then threatened.
"You wanna run that by me again, twerp?" The dark blonde glared back, looking a little furious.
"Pfft! You hard of hearing?" Samantha rolled her eyes. "I said you're going to pay for my dry cleaning!"
"Yeah, well, by the time I'm done with you, you're gonna wake up underwater." The jock girl glared.
"Whoa, no fighting!" Stacey told the two as she came between them. "We're all friends here!"
"I don't have to listen to you, loser." Samantha told Stacey.
The tan teenage girl with black hair in braid with another tan teenage boy with black hair and wearing a olive green shirt and jeans were right to Steven and Jackson.
"Look, Jackson!" Steven told his best friend. "Twins!"
"Twin ghosts?" Jackson asked.
Steven rolled his eyes to that slightly.
"Why, you, you wanna meet my fist, twerp?" The dark blonde-haired girl glared to Samantha, lifting her up off the floor with a deep and harsh glare.
"Jo, put her down," A black-haired girl with purple feather earrings went over to the two. "I'm sure she didn't mean it."
"I wanna rip her spine out!" The jock girl glared.
"What did we talk about?" The girl folded her arms.
The jock rolled her eyes and soon dropped Samantha like she was an object. Xeno sniffed Samantha and soon licked her.
"Get off me, ya dumb mutt!" Samantha glared.
Linda glared at the three pre-teens who were on top of her. One had yellow skin with a green jacket, the other boy had a black with white striped sockhat in an orange T-Shirt, purple shorts, and blue shoes, and the final boy seemed to have a yellow, purple, and red bowling shirt, blue jeans, red shoes, and three black hairs. "You losers get off me now!" she then demanded.
"Okay, what's going on here?" Travis glared slightly. "This is getting really confusing."
"It's probably Khan with an evil plan." Alfred suggested.
"So, who are you people?" Bob glared at the other group.
"Well, I'm Mike, this is my cousin Sky," Mike began an introduction. "That's Justin and Justine, The Reid Twins, Justine's girlfriend, Jo Elliot. The Eds: Ed Hill, Double D Vincent, and Eddy Sampson. My pet battle monster: Ling-Ling..."
Ling-Ling bowed when he was called.
"My three best friends from childhood: Juniper Lee, Dee Dee Tartovosky, and Sammy McAuley," Mike continued the introduction. "Duncan and Abby Nelson: the delinquent siblings, and their pet, Spuds McKenzie, Trent McCord, Brianna Smith, Ashlyn Pitstop, plus Cindy Butler, and her pet possum: Sledgehammer O'Possum."
"Hello." Cindy waved.
"Nice to meet you, I guess..." Bob replied.
"Can I pet your dog?" Stacey smiled to Duncan and Abby.
Duncan and Abby looked to each other and then looked back with a shrug.
"Sure, kid, go knock yourself out." Duncan said.
"Thanks!" Stacey smiled and soon gave Spuds McKenzie a gentle pet. "Nice doggy~"
"You're working for Khan, aren't you?" Alfred asked.
"Who's Khan?" Ashlyn asked out of confusion.
Trent and Brianna just shrugged.
"KHAN!" Alfred glared.
"Uh, it's a Star Trek character, sorry, this kid's kind of a geek," Bob whispered to the others before speaking up. "Say, what're you kids doing here?"
"We're staying at this hotel 'cuz we're going to a rock concert." Mike replied.
"Thanks to Shrimp over there who won tickets for us from a contest." Jo added, referring to Eddy.
"What can I say?" Eddy smirked. "I take care of my friends."
"So, what're you guys doing here?" Justine asked the other group.
"Going to a rock concert like you are," Bob replied. "My old friend is preforming in it, and it's called The Reaper Death."
"Sounds kinda cool." Duncan smirked.
"Oh, you got that right, buddy," Bob beamed. "I'm so thrilled!"
"That is, if the 'ghosts' don't stalk us first." Madeline deadpanned.
Cindy let out a nervous gulp at the mention of ghosts.
"Did you say ghosts?!" Eddy asked.
"Yeah, it's cool," Jackson smiled. "The hotel manager said that this place is haunted!"
"What's so cool about ghosts?" Cindy asked.
"Well, we love ghosts," Steven beamed. "We're always looking for mysteries and supernatural characters in school."
"These two kinda remind me of Dil Pickles and Dib Membrane." Mike muttered to the others.
Travis, Drake, and Luna looked curious at Mike, Jo, and Sky.
"What are you twerps looking at?" Jo glared back at them.
"Jo..." Mike and Sky told the jockette.
"They're staring at us!" Jo defended before glaring. "You guys wanna take a picture? It'll last longer!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, please forgive us," Luna said. "We were just thinking about something."
"What about?" Jo glared.
"Jo, stop it, they're not doing anything." Sky told her.
Jo just rolled her eyes.
"Look, it's been a long day..." Bob said before yawning and stretching. "I need to hit the hay before I collapse."
"Good idea, we need the rest anyway." Mike agreed.
With that, both groups went to get some sleep, well, tried to anyway.