Author's Note:

Well folks, here it the big surprise I teased in the previous story. This is the kick off to season three! It is a prologue to a future arc that some of you must know quite well.

And now ladies and gentlemen, Ellis97 and wsdsrdbw4096 proudly present...

FLIM FLAM'S GANG!


Our story begins on a dark and stormy night in some kind of city. A woman carries a basket in her arms, frantically running away from something or someone.

As the thunder roared in the background, she continued to pant and looked over her shoulder as she ran on.

It was then that she came to some sort of building with a sign on it. She knocked on the door frantically, hoping someone would answer before the people she was running from got to her.

As the minutes went by, though, there was no response from the occupants of the building. The woman continued to knock on the door frantically, turned her head back to see if the people she was running from is getting close.

Just then, she heard the sound of footsteps come from the other side of the door. Before the door was opened, the people captured her and took her to some undisclosed location. In the ensuring struggle, she left the basket behind at the doorstep of the building.

As soon as the woman had been taken away, the door opened to reveal a woman. She wondered who was knocking at the hour when all of a sudden, she heard a noise coming from the basket on the doorstep.

Looking down at the basket, she unveiled the blanket, revealing a small bundle of joy. The baby was sleeping and sniffling in his sleep, unaware of what was going on. The woman then took the baby into the building, which had a sign that read, "ORPHANAGE."


We then cut to around eight years later, where we see the orphanage kids in the living room together, watching television.

The room was a little crowded and some of the kids were trying to find a way to get into and have a good view of the television.

"Out of the way! Down in front!" The boys shouted as they struggled.

One of the boys, a mop topped Latino boy got pushed off the couch and fell onto another kid's block tower.

"Hey!" The kid building the block tower exclaimed as the mop topped kid fell on it.

"Sorry." the mop topped kid shrugged.

The boy started crying. "Waaahhh...hahaha..."

Just then, the orphanage director, Lou Strickland stomped over to the living room.

"What is it now?!" He barked.

The crying boy pointed at the mop topped kid. "Fernando...did it..."

"Mr. Rodriguez, I should've guessed you were behind this!" Strickland stomped over to the boy. "You are the biggest troublemaker who has ever set foot in this orphanage!"

All the other kids moved out of the way as Strickland stormed his way to the mop topped boy.

"It was an accident." Fernando folded his arms.

"No excuses! Go to the box right now, mister or no TV privileges for any of you!" Strickland ordered the boy.

"Fine!" Fernando pouted.

Fernando pouted and walked to an empty cardboard box in the corner of Strickland's office. He grumbled under his breath as Strickland returned to his desk.

"I hope you boys can learn something from Mr. Rodriguez here." Strickland told the other boys. "Now go get yourselves dressed! You've got candy to sell!"

"Yes Mr. Strickland." said the boys.

Strickland huffed before turning back to his desk.


Much later, it was time to go out and sell candy.

"Alright boys! Time to go sell some candy!" Strickland said before turning to a spiky-haired Asian boy. "Mr. Chang! Go get your friend, Mr. Rodriguez out of the box!"

"Yes Mr. Strickland" the boy nodded.

The two boys then joined the others as they lined up to get their supply of candy.

"I hate Strickland, Logan." Fernando angrily said. "He's such a jerk!"

"Hopefully selling some candy will have Strickland forgive you, Fernando." Logan said.

"That is if we make any sales this time." Fernando remarked.

"Yeah, you're telling me." Logan nodded.

The two boys went to the first house and rang the doorbell. A man came out of the house.

"Yes?" said the man.

"Hello sir, we're from the local orphanage and we were wondering if you would like to buy some candy." said Logan.

"Yeah right! I ain't buying that scam!" the man angrily slammed the door in the boys' faces.

"Gee, that certainly was a success." Logan rolled his eyes.

"You're telling me." Fernando folded his arms.

The boys walked to another house. They still didn't make a sale. Every house they went had turned them down, either because they thought it was a scam, had diabetes, or were just plain crabby. Fernando and Logan sat down on a bench, feeling real down in the mouth.

"Well, it looks like Strickland is gonna take away our TV privileges again." Logan remarked.

"Why did I have to end up this crummy orphanage? I hate it!" Fernando mumbled. "At least tomorrow is Adoption Day, maybe I will get adopted."

"I wouldn't really get our hopes up..." Logan sighed.

Fernando grunted and didn't say another word.


The very next day, it was Adoption Day. All the boys were gussied up for hopes of finally getting a home and family. Sadly though, the potential parents only seemed to eye the younger kids, as opposed to the older ones.

There were mostly frowns from Fernando and his group as a small number of prospective parents did take the time to take a look at them.

"I ain't getting adopted, none of us are." Fernando sighed. "We're like dogs, and everyone will just want the puppies. Come on guys, let's go."

The boys sadly walked outside to the playground to sulk.


Author's Note:

Well folks, it's Flim Flam's introduction story, and it couldn't have come at a better time either, cause he is back in the next DTV film! In said film, we are finally going to see who the last two ghosts are, which means we will not being seeing the ghosts from the Boomerland stories in this series. So stay tuned for more chapters in Flim Flam's big epic story and for Scooby-Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost coming in 2019! Stay tuned!