Meanwhile, the car coming was the Mystery Machine. Shaggy and Scooby were listening to rock and roll music while everyone else was trying to sleep and they wanted to get something to eat despite eating dinner two hours ago. Mike, Lu, Manny, Frida, Sammy, and Cindy yelled out, trying to get the drivers' attention as they were stranded.
"Hey guys, stop for a minute." Brianna told them.
"Huh? Oh, sure, Brianna." Shaggy tried to stop the van, but he had a little trouble seeing because of the incoming dust storm, but he managed to stop and saw some old and familiar faces.
"Mike?" Fred was surprised as he hid a yawn. "What're you doing way out here?"
"We were on our way to a mission, but the jet broke down a few miles back," Mike explained. "We were looking for a gas station with some food."
"Like, what a coincidence, we were about to get some food ourselves," Shaggy smiled. "All this driving's been making me hungry."
"Re roo." Scooby added.
"Need a ride?" Daphne invited.
"You have no idea..." Lu groaned.
"Hop in then, you know we got plenty of room." Brianna opened the back doors for them.
Everyone hopped on board and shut the doors and Shaggy went to keep driving once they were all settled in.
"I don't believe I've seen you two before." Velma said to Manny and Frida.
"What's your guys's names?" Fred asked.
"I'm Manny Rivera and this is my best friend, Frida." the boy introduced.
"We date Lu and Eddy," Frida smiled. "Man, it's hotter than Miracle City out there and we have a volcano!"
"Yikes..." Velma cringed. "Hope you don't get turned into molten lava on a regular basis."
"Nah, but I wouldn't mind if my sisters got burnt by it." Frida scoffed a little, folding her arms.
"Like, what kind of mission were you guys having, Mike?" Shaggy asked.
"We were supposed to meet these people named Laura, Steve, Max, and their two college interns about intelligent life on other planets." Mike explained.
"What sort of intelligent life?" Daphne asked. "You don't mean like aliens, do you?"
"Yeah, Dexter heard that people around here have been visited by aliens, but so far, no one can prove it." Sammy added, explaining.
"I don't think there's such thing as aliens." Velma sounded doubtful.
"Well, we'll never know unless we look," Manny shrugged. "I've met skeletons and zombies..."
Shaggy continued to drive, but the storm got worse and covered the whole windshield. "Like, I can't see a thing!"
"STOP THE CAR!" Mike cried.
Shaggy kept driving and trying to stay safe as they were riding along somewhere else, passing a sign and now they were on a bumpy road.
"Hey, what's with the road?" Fred panicked a little.
Daphne heard a strange noise. "And what's that sound?" she then asked.
There was a bright light coming from the back door windows with an intergalactic humming.
"ALIENS!" Shaggy cried.
Everyone saw a ship hovering above them and the bright light was too much and Shaggy did his best to drive out of the way.
Unfortunately, Shaggy had crashed into a cactus and he rubbed his eyes. "Like, sorry about that..."
The air bags popped up and hit Shaggy and Scooby in their faces.
"Is everyone alright?" Fred asked.
"That could've been worse..." Cindy said as she put her glasses back into their proper adjustment.
"What was that thing?" Brianna wondered as they got out of the Mystery Machine. "It was so big."
"You guys sure that wasn't your jet?" Daphne asked Eddy, Lu, Manny, Frida, Cindy, Mike, and Sammy.
Velma popped open the hood and saw that the radiator was broken now.
"This is not our lucky day..." Cindy sighed a little.
"So, now what?" Brianna asked, now bored.
Fred looked around, then looked to the distance and led the others to where he was pointing. "Hey, that looks like a town! Can't be more than a mile away."
"More walking in the desert?" Lu groaned. "Why did I agree to this...?"
"Don't worry, Lu, we'll be fine as long as we're together." Manny comforted her.
"But there's snakes and stuff out there!" Shaggy cried.
"Reah, rattlesnakes!" Scooby added, demonstrating one of the reptiles himself and even slithered and stuck his tongue out.
"So, Sammy, how are you?" Daphne made conversation.
"I've been okay... It doesn't feel so bad with Amy around anymore since I got real friends this time and she didn't turn anyone against me like at school..." Sammy smiled softly.
"How about we go to the city and you guys stay here?" Mike suggested to Shaggy and Scooby. "We can all get refreshed and catch up."
"B-But, what about the aliens?" Shaggy asked in fear.
"Look, tell you what, me and Frida will stay with you." Eddy offered.
"We will?" Frida sounded worried.
"Right, I'll stay here with Eddy, Frida, and Scoob and guard the van." Shaggy agreed.
"That's a very brave thing for you to do, Scooby." Velma ruffled up the Great Dane's fur on his head.
Everyone waved and went their separate ways.
"We'll be back with some help!" Daphne called to the ones staying by the van.
"And bring back some food too!" Shaggy called back to them as they left.
"And morchata!" Frida added.
"Not to mention jawbreakers!" Eddy finished.
"What's a morchata?" Shaggy asked.
"Morchata..." Frida smiled in zen, really wanting some. "The sweet and silky drink which Manny and I both oh-so love~... It's like milk made from a sugar frosted dairy cow!"
"Man, I'm starved..." Eddy rubbed his stomach. "We should've brought sandwiches from one of the fridges back at headquarters."
"Don't worry, guys," Shaggy tried to cheer them up from their hunger. "I know where Velma keeps the stash!"
Scooby licked his lips hungrily. "Roh roy!"
"You guys have food all this time and yet you want them to bring some back!?" Frida was surprised at them.
"He probably means Scooby Snacks." Eddy told his new girlfriend.
"Oh... Right... I shoulda known..." Frida shook her head at Shaggy and Scooby once they opened the van doors and found a Scooby Snack box, but there was only one snack left.
"Uh-Oh." Shaggy frowned.
"What's wrong?" Frida asked.
"Like, it's the last one." Shaggy frowned as the piece ended up in his hand.
"Bummer." Frida muttered.
Shaggy and Scooby were still hungry for it, so they nearly wrestled each other for it.
"This can't end well." Frida said to Eddy.
"It's mine, gimme it!" Eddy joined Shaggy and Scooby to fight over the last snack. "I'm more hungry than you!"
Frida sighed. "Boys... Go fig."
The boys kept trying to get the last Scooby Snack and it was dangerously close to going down an opened crack in the middle of the ground, but luckily for them, it fell to the opposite side and didn't go down.
"Come on, guys," Shaggy told Scooby and Eddy, shaking hands with them. "We'll split it 50:50...50."
It was agreed, until a jackrabbit with antlers came to the snack and sniffed it.
"What the heck is that!?" Eddy scoffed.
"Zoinks! A jackalope?" Shaggy recognized it. "I thought those things were fake."
"Re roo!" Scooby replied.
The strange creature picked up the snack and ate it up after sniffing it.
"HEY, THAT STUPID RABBIT ATE OUR SNACK!" Eddy growled.
Shaggy and Scooby got mad and decided to chase after the animal. The jackalope hopped and leapt far away from them and burrowed under a fence to get away. Scooby growled, he decided to dig under the fence to get to the other side while Shaggy and Eddy were going to climb it. When they all got to the other side, they lost the jackalope into a dark and possibly abandoned mine and had no way of getting back to it.
"Aw man, he's gone." Shaggy frowned.
"What's glowin' in there?" Eddy wondered.
"Ri ron't row." Scooby shrugged.
"Maybe it's cash, we'll be RICH!" Eddy grinned eagerly.
"You're gonna share with me, right, Eddy?" Frida asked.
"Oh, right, of course." Eddy smiled to her.
They went to take a closer look, but unknown to them, there were creepy and strange shadows behind them that did not look human.
Shaggy gulped instantly once he got a chill down his spine. "There's something creepy behind us, isn't there?"
"Reah..." Scooby looked and saw the unfriendly shadows with glowing eyes. "Raliens!"
The aliens came out from the shadows and came closer toward the four of them.
"RUN FOR IT!" Frida yelled and dashed off with the boys to avoid being captured for their experiments, having seen a lot of movies like this with Manny.
"I don't want my brain experimented on!" Eddy added.
The aliens tried to catch up with the fleeing cowards as they used rocket-powered scooters after them.
Shaggy, Scooby, Eddy, and Frida kept running and even disguised themselves as desert cacti to blend into the background, but the alien invaders outsmarted them in that department. They ran through hills and even got caught at a ledge as the aliens were coming too close to them. The ledge broke off and they fell together on a flat rock surface with the aliens mocking them, but this rock slid down and became like a ride at the county fair for the four of them as it carried them.
The aliens continued to chase, but suddenly, Shaggy, Scooby, Frida, and Eddy crashed through a diner's front door just as Fred was about to use the telephone.
"Now what?" Mike looked to the four of them.
"ALIENS!" Shaggy, Scooby, Eddy, and Frida yelled.
Fred looked out the door. "I don't see anything."
"Frida, maybe you're just delirious..." Manny suggested.
"DON'T TOY WITH ME, TIGRE!" Frida grabbed his jacket, looking deep into his eyes. "IT'S TRUE! They were green and slimy and had big bug eyes! They were eight feet tall and glowing and had long creepy fingers."
"And... And..." Shaggy was going to carry on for her, but saw donuts in a glass container. "Are those glazed?"
Shaggy and Scooby then ate the donuts right away.
"Hey now, thems donuts are for payin' customers!" a girl who looked around thirteen scolded, she had shortish pale blonde hair that covered her ears, wore a purple headband, had bright sapphire eyes and wore a pink waitress uniform like the woman with her as she looked at the fry cook in concern for the rants of aliens, she also had gray and purple sneakers.
"Who are you?" Brianna looked at the girl.
"Name's Sandy," the younger waitress introduced herself. "I'll be here all summer..."
"So, about these aliens?" Manny spoke up.
"Ain't no big deal, darlin'," the older waitress who had curlier and bigger hair than the young teen waitress did. "Lots of people have seen 'em."
"Even I did when I done took out the trash last week." Sandy nodded in agreement.
"Wait, so you guys believe in aliens?" Mike asked.
"Yeah, that's why we don't go out much after dark." the adult waitress explained.
"Have you seen them?" Cindy asked, her eyes slightly widening.
"No, just the strange lights and funny sounds after night."
The group was a little surprised and frightened.
"But he was taken aboard..." Sandy whispered, pointing to a man with silver hair in a hat, vest shirt, baggy pants, and sandals as he sat at a booth and ate his soup.
The man stopped and looked firmly to the woman. "I TOLD YA THEY'RE REAL!" he snapped, standing up sharply, dropping his spoon into his hot bowl. "THEM ALIENS ARE HERE TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
"Like, we've seen the aliens." Shaggy told the man.
Scooby, Frida, and Eddy nodded in agreement.
"That there's Lester," the adult waitress told the group. "He's a little tetched."
"Lester, I told you to keep it down or you'll have to leave!" the fry cook shook his spatula firmly to the crazy old man.
The man, Lester, grumbled and sat back down.
"He thinks they 'experimented' on him." the fry cook explained to their visitors from out of town.
"Experimented?" Shaggy and Scooby gulped.
"About a month ago, some local cattle was gone overnight with no trace of who coulda done it or how." Sandy added.
"Yeah, a lot of folks moved out of town." the waitress included.
The fry cook then tried to offer desserts to Shaggy, Scooby, Eddy, and Frida and they were instantly hungry.
"Hey, handsome." Sandy walked up to Mike.
Mike glanced to her. "Um... Hi..."
"Sandra, what did I tell ya about flirtin' with customers?" the adult waitress scolded slightly.
Sandy rolled her eyes. "I might as well have a summer to remember!" she then whispered to Mike. "Sorry 'bout Aunt Dorothy... She gets cranky easily 'cuz her husband walked out on her..."
"Uhh... Good to know..." Mike was a little nervous around Sandy.
Sandy giggled. "Y'all must be from the big city, huh?"
"Yeah, we are," Mike replied, shaking Sandy's hand. "I'm Mike Mazinsky, nice to meet you."
Sandy smiled, shaking back. "Like I said, I'll be here all summer."
"So, are you just spending the summer with your aunt then?" Mike was curious.
"Yeah... She's not really my aunt though, family friend..." Sandy rolled her eyes a little. "My 'rents back home didn't like my report card, so they dumped me here in Freak-Out About Aliens Wacko Town."
"Uhh... Excuse me..." Cindy then walked over to Lester with Daphne, Velma, Brianna, Lu, and Sammy. "But we understand that you had contact with aliens?"
"That's right, young lady!" Lester glanced to her. "Took me aboard on their ship, they did!"
"Oh, come on," Lu scoffed. "That's a bunch of baloney."
"Sit 'er down," Lester told them, even Fred and Manny didn't believe this, he was about to tell them a story. "The aliens look just like your friends said. I was out one night by Scorpion Ridge. There was this loud humming sound. And a bright light came up
from behind me. And the light got brighter! And brighter! Then I blacked out. I woke up strapped to a cold metal table
inside a spaceship. These aliens were looking down at me. They stuck a bunch of wires to my head. They told me not to worry 'cuz they just wanted to ask me some questions."
"What kind of questions?" Sammy asked.
"Like who I was and what I'd seen that night," Lester replied. "But then..." He then told them rather graphic details that made them all recoil in slight horror.
"And then what happened?" Brianna then asked.
"I don't remember much after that," Lester shrugged. "I woke up the next morning outside my house."
"I still believe it's a bunch of baloney." Lu mumbled.
"Has anyone else had that experience?" Manny asked, siding with Lu of course.
"Don't know, if they had, they ain't tellin'." Lester answered.
"Oh..." Daphne shivered, holding her bare arms. "That's creepy!"
"So you young ones better watch out," Lester firmly told the group, emphasizing his warning to the naysayer Lu. "Or they'll take you aboard their spaceship too!" he accidentally pointed and made a silver tray with a burger fall flat on the floor.
"LESTER!" the adult waitress scolded the man for making her drop the next order.
"Sorry, Dottie," Lester actually sounded apologetic. "It was an accident!"
"I'll get the mop..." Sandy muttered in misfortune.
"This guy is probably crazier than Old Queeks." Lu said to Mike.
"Maybe we should introduce them." Mike deadpanned in response.
Scooby decided to clean up the burger mess for the waitresses's sake, but before he could, Shaggy actually ate it clean off the floor.
"Gotta be quicker on the draw there, Scooby." Cindy advised with a small giggle.
"Hey, Serge!" Dottie yelled out as she went back to behind the counter. "I finally met someone who likes yer cookin'!"
"Very funny!" the fry cook scoffed in return.
Sandy looked at Mike and winked at her.
"Looks like you got another fan girl, Mike." Manny chuckled.
"What's next, my own booth at Comic Con?" Mike rolled her eyes slightly.
"So anyway, old man, you got proof about this alien invasion deal?" Lu glanced to Lester.
"Yeah... I got pictures..." Lester grinned rather oddly.
The others looked to each other as he didn't show them and they anticipated to see them.
"Uh... Can we see?" Cindy asked the man.
Lester smiled and nodded. "Come with me to my place... I'll show ya."
"Guess that means we gotta go." Eddy said as Frida was drinking a milkshake.
"Y'all have a good night now!" Dottie called to them.
"Especially you, city slicker..." Sandy smirked to Mike.
Mike rolled her eyes again and followed the others to Lester as he led them to where he lived.