It was a beautiful day out in Cartoon Network City. Pops was shown putting up a poster on the wall and then walked back to his diner. Cindy and Eddy were shown to be walking together, chatting along, until the girl noticed the poster.
"Hey Eddy, look at this," Cindy said before she read the poster. "'Come to the 1st Annual Toon Band hosted by Bugs Bunny with bands coming over such as: The Impossibles, Josie and the Pussycats, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, The Chan Clan, The Neptunes, The Hex Girls, and Puffy AmiYumi, to compete to win the trophy and the cash prize of $1,000. Other contestants are allowed to join, and sign-ups are down in City Hall. The contest starts Saturday at 7:00'."
"$1,000?!" Eddy asked eagerly as he had money signs in his eyes.
Cindy rolled her eyes slightly to that, but didn't say anything. "I didn't know the Chan Clan played music anyway..." She then said.
"Cindy, you know what we should do?" Eddy prompted.
"Uh, watch the bands play?" Cindy guessed.
"Let's make our own band, we can be managers; I'll split the money with you." Eddy offered.
"Uh, I don't know about that..." Cindy said.
"Come on, Cin, have a sense of adventure..." Eddy said, putting his arm around her. "What could happen?"
"I doubt Jo is gonna let you drive her car if you get her in the band." Cindy replied.
"I don't care about that; I care about winning," Eddy told her. "Don't you want to be famous?"
"That sounds kinda nice." Cindy had to admit.
"Then come on!" Eddy told her before pulling her arm and taking the poster with them.
"Whoa!" Cindy gasped in surprise and accidentally fell in a mud puddle beside two blonde kids. "Oh... Sorry..."
"Hey, don't worry about it, chica~" The blonde girl replied, sounding quite hip and trendy and smiled.
"Do you need any help?" The blonde boy asked.
"Sure, thank you." Cindy told them.
The two blonde kids soon helped her up.'
"Say, aren't you those Shuttleworth twins, Bunny and Bunsen?" Cindy asked.
"That would be us, my dear," The blonde boy smiled like a gentleman. "Oh, is that a poster for something downtown?"
"Yeah, it's something for a Toon Band, you guys wanna check it out?" Cindy smiled, showing them the poster.
The Shuttleworth twins then looked to the poster and gasped at it slightly.
"Is something the matter, you guys?" Cindy asked her new friends.
"Oh... Nothing... Nice meeting ya though, kid... You got an ID or what? We might have to hang sometime in Groove Central." Bunny asked, using slang.'
"Uhh...?" Cindy blinked.
"She wants to know your name." Bunsen explained.
"Oh, I'm Cindy." Cindy smiled to the blonde twins.
"That's a groovy name." Bunny smiled back.
"Uh, thank you." Cindy said.
"And who's that little fella beside you?" Bunsen asked.
"That's my friend, Eddy Sampson." Cindy said.
"That's nice, well, we'd hate to go down Splitsville in a dash, but we gotta jet, K?" Bunny replied.
Cindy blinked, feeling confused again.
"We gotta go home, we'll catch ya later, my friend." Bunsen told Cindy.
The Shuttleworth twins then walked away as Eddy and Cindy just looked at each other in confusion.
"Did you get that?" Cindy asked.
"Nope." Eddy said.
"Come on, let's get to the others." Cindy suggested.
"Sounds good to me." Eddy said.
The two of them soon walked off while the twins mysteriously disappeared.
Meanwhile, the others soon met up at Eddy's house.
"No, absolutely not, I refuse to be in some silly band!" Jo glared. "What am I, from some kind of cheesy 70's cartoon?!"
"Come on, Jo, think about how famous you'll be." Cindy said.
"I said no, and when I say no, I mean no." Jo glared firmly.
"I told you." Cindy said to Eddy.
"Are you sure...?" Eddy asked Jo.
"YES!" Jo replied.
"Are you sure you're-" Eddy was about to ask.
"If you do that 'Are you sure?' game with me, I swear I'll kick you into the next continent." Jo warned.
"Okay, okay, just calm down." Cindy said.
Jo just folded her arms, muttering under her breath.
"Come on, Jo, we're talking $1,000 here!" Eddy replied.
"Oh, why didn't you just say so?" Jo said. "In that case..."
Eddy looked eager at first.
"Heck, no!" Jo replied. "I don't make music, alright?"
"But..." Eddy frowned.
"I'm not a fighter, I'm not a musician like Elvis over here." Jo said.
Trent looked at her while tuning his guitar.
"No offense." Jo said.
"Eh." Trent shrugged.
"I'm out of here..." Jo said before walking off.
"What if Justine told you to do it?" Eddy asked.
"Eddy, forget it, she's not interested." Cindy told him.
"Justine, aren't you gonna say something to her?" Eddy asked the shy beauty.
"No, I'm not her boss," Justine told him. "If she doesn't want to, then she doesn't have to."
"That's a good girl," Cindy approved before asking, "Do you want to be apart of the band?"
"Sure." Justine accepted.
"Really? That's cool!" Eddy beamed. "You get to play the tambourine!"
"Uh... Why?" Justine asked.
"Don't you see most of those bands?" Eddy asked. "Most of them have the cute girl on tambourine."
Cindy and Justine just both shared a look of deadpan to him.
"Trent?" Eddy invited.
"Sure." Trent nodded.
"So, what instrument would you play?" Cindy asked Justine.
"She could play the tambourine." Eddy suggested.
"Eddy, please, let her pick." Cindy told him.
"Tambourine?" Eddy asked.
"Shut up about the tambourine already!" Cindy told him. "Justine?"
"My uncle once taught me how to play ukulele." Justine smiled.
"Justine, no offense and everything, but this isn't Hawaii, so I think you should play the-" Eddy began.
"Hush!" Cindy scolded him.
Eddy grumbled to that.
"You think just because I'm Hawaiian I picked the ukulele?" Justine glared in slight offense. "I happened to choose it because it reminds me of when I was a little girl with Justin and we had simple and happy lives!"
"Just ignore him, he suffers from Foot in the Mouth Disease." Cindy smirked.
"Hey!" Eddy glared while Cindy snickered to that. "Fine, you can play it, but you better not mess up! Who else wants to play?"
"I can play the guitar." Trent offered which was an obvious choice for him.
"Good, good." Eddy nodded to that.
Cindy then pulled out her notebook and wrote this down. "Kinda obvious for you actually." Cindy teased Trent.
"Yeah, I guess." Trent smiled bashfully.
"I can play the Bass." June said.
"All right, now we're getting there." Eddy nodded.
"Ma taught me how to play the drums when I was a kid." Duncan said.
"Good... Good..." Cindy said.
"Cindy, do you play an instrument?" Eddy asked.
"In my old hometown, I played the recorder for Music Class, but I wasn't really good." Cindy said bashfully.
"Question?" Brianna raised her hand.
"Yes, Bri?" Cindy replied.
"You said that The Neptunes were entering, right?" Brianna asked.
"Yeah?" Cindy replied.
"Isn't there a black-haired girl in that group?" Brianna asked.
"Yeah, her name is Shelly Tanner," Eddy said. "She plays the tambourine, Cindy!"
"Ah, get over it," Cindy rolled her eyes at him before looking back. "Why do you ask, Bri?"
"She went to Coolsville Elementary with me," Brianna glared. "I always hated her because she was always taunting me and making fun of me just 'cuz I'm not famous like her!"
"Ooh..." Cindy winced.
"It really stinks..." Brianna complained.
"Hmm... It might be hard to get you two away from each other, but try to ignore her for right now, okay?" Cindy suggested.
"I'd like to be in the band though." Brianna said.
"Oh, um, okay, what do you play?" Cindy asked.
"I used to play the keyboard in elementary school." Brianna told her.
"Do you think you can still play?" Cindy asked.
"Talent doesn't go away, it just happens." Brianna smiled.
"Okay, sounds good to me, anyone else?" Cindy replied.
"I heard Sockhead play the trumpet the other day." Eddy said.
"My mother suggested it." Double D added.
"I guess at least it's better than that pedal steel guitar." Cindy said.
"Tell me about it." Double D agreed.
"I can play the violin!" Ed blurted out, looking like he was about to play the instrument.
"NO!" Everyone else panicked.
"Yaaay!" Dee Dee beamed.
Ed was about to play it. Cindy took the violin and put it in the closet.
"But I have to practice, Mom said so!" Ed said.
"Oh, you can, but, uh, Ed, your violin playing is more of for... The finalé." Cindy told him.
"Great, as long as I'm not last." Ed smiled which made Cindy roll her eyes to that.
"Okay, I think we've got our band," Eddy said. "Now, grab your gear and we'll meet up at Cindy's house to practice."
"My house?" Cindy glanced at him.
"Yeah, why not?" Eddy asked.
"My mother runs a Bed & Breakfast, we might have guests." Cindy reminded him.
"That's even better, an audience," Eddy smiled. "I'm sure that they'll love some music."
Cindy just sighed as she felt like that wouldn't work out very well. "Let me talk to Mom first, okay?" she then said.
"All right." Eddy said.
Everyone then went back to do what they were doing before practicing. Brianna and Trent were soon walking together to go and get something to eat.
"So, you and Shelly?" Trent asked his girlfriend.
"I never liked her and I never will!" Brianna huffed.
"Settle down, Bri..." Trent said. "I'm sure it's not all that bad."
"Not that bad?!" Brianna growled as she pulled on her hair. "It was a nightmare!"
"Surely you had some fun then..." Trent said. "Besides, wasn't that when you first met Daphne, Fred, and Velma too?"
"That was the best moment of my life." Brianna smiled as she remembered when she first met Mystery Inc.
"Who knows? You might not even see her." Trent soothed.
"I don't know, Trent," Brianna sighed. "I just hope that I don't have to ever see her ugly face this week." She then didn't see that she soon bumped into another teenage girl with long black hair, in a pink top, a pink skirt over with pink pants, and yellow boots.
"Bri, are you okay?" Trent asked out of concern.
"I'm fine, I guess..." Brianna replied. "I'm sorry, I didn't see where I was going..."
"Clumsy little Brianna Smith... Pity... I thought you'd grow out of this phase." The black-haired girl replied.
Brianna narrowed her eyes as she recognized this girl instantly. "Shelly Tanner..."
"That's Shelly?!" Trent gasped.
"And who's this handsome devil?" Shelly smirked to Trent.
"My boyfriend!" Brianna glared.
"Really now?" Shelly asked.
"Yes, and he'll never love you!" Brianna glared as she protected Trent. "You'll never steal him from me!"
"Oh, I can't imagine why you'd think I'd do such a thing," Shelly pouted. "And here I thought I could try to apologize to you because I was quite rude to you when we were kids."
"Oh, really? Like when you said I'd never be successful like you, Shelly?!" Brianna snorted. "Well, guess what? I saved the world with my friends and solve mysteries with Mystery Inc! I almost died some times because we fought werecats, a crazy warlock with a witch ancestor, and we even helped KISS save the world for God's sake! So, how do you like that?!"
"Brianna..." Trent said.
"Don't 'Brianna' me!" Brianna replied. "She's just trying to make herself look good so I look crazy! She always does this!"
"Look, I'm sorry, okay? We were just dumb kids back then," Shelly said. "Just give me a chance and I'll prove myself."
Brianna was about to say something, but Trent soon put his hand on her shoulder.
"I may not know her as well as you do, but I think we should give her a chance," Trent suggested. "Maybe she's changed."
"But..." Brianna said.
"We gave Alexandra a chance, didn't we?" Trent reminded. "So, I think that Shelly deserves a second chance too. Please, for me, Bri?"
Brianna looked at him and sighed. "Fine... I'll give her a chance... For you..." She then said.
Shelly grinned and held out her hand so that Brianna could shake it.
Brianna glanced at her hand and then shook it. "You better not lie to me, because I will know." she then warned her rival.
"No worries, really," Shelly smiled. "Oh, what a beautiful city you live in!"
"Erm... Thanks." Brianna replied.
"I heard that you and your band are entering this contest?" Trent said to Shelly.
"Oh, yes, we're about ready for it," Shelly smiled. "Biff is just checking us in to the hotel."
Brianna kept a glance to Shelly as they all talked.
"Well, it'll be nice, we're gonna have our own band." Trent said.
"Oh, do you all have a name?" Shelly asked. "That's nice of you to have your own band~"
"Not yet, but we'll figure it out," Trent said. "Say, are all of the major bands coming here?"
"Some of them," Shelly replied. "I just saw Josie and the Pussycats pull up into the hotel after I left."
"We should let you get settled in," Trent said. "Have you met Dakota yet? Her father owns the hotel."
"Is she that little girl on the portraits in the lobby?" Shelly asked.
"Well, that was Dakota when she was a little girl, but yeah, that's her, she's a teenager now." Trent replied.
"Yeah, she seems pretty cool," Shelly said. "Well, I gotta get going to practice. See you guys later, and good luck."
Trent smiled and waved. "See, Bri? She's nice, you had nothing to worry about."
"I guess you're right." Brianna shrugged.
"She's probably changed now," Trent smiled. "Say, you wanna go see Josie and the gang?"
"Sure!" Brianna smiled back.
Trent and Brianna soon went to go and see Josie and her friends.
"I can't believe they bought it... I should've been an actress." Shelly smirked to herself before hiding away for now.