"Getting Away With It"

A "Scooby-Doo" Fan-Fiction

Part #2 - "Volt City, California"

As they pull into Volt City, they saw a normal blonde hair woman with blue eye dressed in a exercise outfit holding a neon-pink purse.

After rolling down the widow, Freddie asked, "Need lift in the town?"

The woman replied, "I'm doing fine outside here. Sorry, about my name is Cassie Crumb. The town is being hunt down the Gas Ghost."

Freddie asked, "Gas? As in farts or vehicle fuel?"

Cassie remarked, "Who gives a fruitcake about that. I just happy just not be annoyed by that stupid ghost."

Freddie asked, "Where does the Gas Ghost hunt in the city?

Cassie replied, "The Gas Ghost is hunting the Wrigg Palace. Only four workers and the owner – Mistress Willihama Wrigg are still handing around. Just allow the arrows and you can reach the Wrigg Palace."

Freddie stated, "Thanks, Cassie."

Cassie stated, "No problem."

=SD=

Following the hair-do like arrows, the Mystery Machine pull into the packing lot of Wrigg Palace where Mistress Wrigg was pacing around her red sport car. She was a white hair woman dressed a long purple dress and white loafers.. Mistress Wrigg looked at the paint job on the RV and recognized it as a similar to the other Mystery Machines.

She saw the familiar faces: Freddie Jones, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Velma Dinkey, Daphne Blake, & Scooby-Doo exiting. And a small copy of Daphne Blake herself.

Mistress Wrigg stated "Hi, Mystery Inc. This is a lucky break for me."

Shaggy remarked, "Unlikely for us."

Daphne retorted, "Hush, you."

Shaggy rolled his eye as Daphne. A factory whistle is heard and four humans walk out. Two were males and two were females – thanks to the hair styles on them - since they were wearing blue uniform with a logo of Wrigg Palace on the shirt pocket come out. One of woman was carrying two lunch boxes instead of one like the other

Mistress Wrigg stated, "Those are my four remaining members: Thomas Taylor, Hellen Hatsmith, Miles Mercury, and Tina Cookie."

Tina Cookie stated, "Lunch break. I have some Tough Nuggets, my favorite cookies."

Donna remarked, "Don't offer that me. If I have a choice between a sixteen hundred meatloaf or sixteen hundred "Tough Nuggets" cookies, I take the meatloaves. Those thing has more calories and fat then a deep-fried dinner!"

Shaggy stated, "More for us then."

Freddie, Daphne and Velma roll their eyes.

Donna asked, "So what's this ghost like?"

Mistress Wrigg replied, "A large black ghost with yellow eyes. It's always appear. Thought I have four workers – they do not do the work on the wigs."

Freddie stated, "Can we help you solve the mystery?"

Mistress Wrigg fainted.

Tina remarked, "And I think you should take that faint as a yes. "

=SD=

Mystery Inc. stop into the lobby of the Wrigg Palace. Inside was statues of dressed mannequins with funny style wigs. Beauty parlors chairs were located all around.

Donna asked, "Are you going to say the usual, Freddie?"

Freddie stated, "Yes. Let's split up a gang. I will take Daphne and Donna."

Shaggy remarked, "And Velma get me and Scooby-Doo."

Freddie nodded.

Shaggy stated, "Let's hope that Gas Ghost is just a bunch of hot air."

Velma remarked, "That's one of your better puns."

=SD=

Freddie, Daphne and Donna were looking thought a dark hallway in the far left corners. A dark green costume ghost with neon red-eye stinking of pure gasoline appear before them.

The Gas Ghost spoke, "Who dares to step into the territory of terror and fear that is the the home of the Gas Ghost?"

Freddie asked, "Mystery Inc. dares faker."

The Gas Ghost boasted, "I am 100% real!"

Donna stated, "Let's make track."

Freddie states, "Hate to do a Shaggy, but for now that's seems like a good idea."

For the next four hours, Freddie, Donna, and Daphne get a understanding of how Shaggy and Scooby-Doo feel when chase by a ghost or monster. They duck into a room.

=SD=

Gas Ghost floated into the room that Freddie, Donna, and Daphne. The room was empty expect three status of Japanese heroes: Sailor Moon, Dawn from "Pokémon, and Goku from "Dragon Ball Z". The Gas Ghost look at another group of characters. Gas Ghost nodded – no one was moving his eyes or heads – and he leave via the door he come in.

Dawn remarked in Donna's voice, "That was a close call!"

Sailor Moon remarked in Daphne's voice stated, "Thank goodness for all of Shaggy's costume bill. He's
Goku remarked in Freddie's voice stated, "Looks like we find a clue."

As she removes the Sailor Moon costume, Daphne remark, "It's a white pearl necklace."

Donna states as she removed Dawn costume, "Kept anything not related to my mermaid creature."

Daphne nodded as Freddie removed the Goku costume.

Donna asked, "I wonder where Shaggy is?"

Daphne and Freddie replied, "Knowing them – either in the kitchen or cafeteria with Velma feeling like a third wheel."

=SD=

Ironically, Velma had been keeping Shaggy and Scooby-Doo on a short leash in the figuratively way. They were exploring the Wrigg Palace's warehouse. They were a lot of wigs from power wigs to modern TV character's hair styles.

As they turn the next corner, they come up to a stinky ghost with neon red-eye stinking of pure gasoline.

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo shouted, "The Gas Ghost!"

The Gas Ghost nodded as Shaggy and Scooby-Doo nodded. For the next five hours, the Gas Ghost

chased Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo until they reached a van. This van was white van with the "Wrigg Palace" logo. Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo hop in and discover it was a match for the usual van for the Mystery Inc. uses in it's regular travels. The van crashed out of the building and went into a near-by mall. The ghost chased them until he got caught up in a group of girls with a love affair of the 1980s Valley Girl outfits. Shaggy drive the fan though the food court picking up a food order long the way and then drive back to Wrigg Palace cashing right thought the front doors – surprising Mistress Wrigg and awing Freddie, Daphne and Donna.

Freddie asked, "What were guys doing?"

Shaggy stated, "Escaping from the Late Mr. Limburger."

Donna asked, "Did you guys had a run with the Gas Ghost?"

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo nodded.

=SD=

Cassie Crumb come into the lobby. Mistress Wrigg looked worried.

Tina Cookie groans, "Oh, great. The wannabe tax agent."

Shaggy remarked, "Hey, even food needs to be tax."

Tina Cookie stated, "Don't remind me."

Mistress Wrigg stated, "Tina, you better pay them out of your parent's money – with that Gas Ghost hunting this place – I can't make wigs to pay the palace."

Tina stated hand, "I thinking I'm paying the Gas Ghost."

Cassie Crumb laughed as he expect the money. "Hey, I stay away the play until the government needs the check from this place."

Tina stated, "You didn't show up until that Gas Ghost started hunting. Your father was George Crumb, a famous hat maker. He died from mercury poison. You mostly like haunting this place to do something and when I find out – you going to be sorry."

Cassie Crumb stated, "I only do legal work."

As Cassie leaves.

Tina stated, "We could try to turn the plant on again.."

Miles stated, "Let's hope Mystery Inc. can unmasked our ghost."

Shaggy remarked, "If that Gas Ghost is 100% fraud, we got three subjects: Cassie Crumb, Mistress Wrigg, and Tina Cookie."

Velma nodded.

=SD=

With the Gas Ghost gone for a time period, the gang went to the costume room by the order of Freddie Jones who think it's a possible the Gas Ghost was a fake.

While the other were searching trash cans, and desk drawers. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo were goofy off with wigs by trying them on. When Scooby-Doo quickly place a Afro hair-style wig on Shaggy, a piece of paper fall out. Velma pick up.

Freddie stated, "What does it stay?"

Velma stated as she took out her lap-top, "Give a moment. It's coded." As the other tap their feet, Velma used a computer program to decode the message. She paused, "Will you guys stop tapping your feet. I just got done decoding the message. It reads: 'I have give you half your payment and a costume. Scare the living Wrigg out of my hair.' It's unsigned."

=SD=

As they turn into a work room, they saw the Gas Ghost with his head enough. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy smiled – they recalled the Ape Man remarked. "Hi, Tina Cookie."

Tina Cookie turned around, "Good. I finished my work here."

Daphne asked, "Work?"

Tina Cookie stated, "As you know people claimed our wig are the tough, but I accidentally spill "Tough Nuggets" on some of the wigs. Not many people know that a Tough Nuggets's chocolate center get melt faster then a regular chocolate bar even in a room temperature room."

Donna remarked, "That why I hate those things."

Tina Cookie stated, "Those chocolate center were worse then toxic waste on wig. I recalled a old Mystery Inc. mystery. The Medusa caper in New Athens, Washington a month ago. She used one of your wigs and it was ripped to shred in Freddie's trap thanks to the green-food colored chocolate she used to make her wig neon-green."

Freddie asked, "But what about the coded note?"

Tina replied, "Simple. What's the nickname of your famous lawyer + his name?"

Freddie asked, "That's easy. "Red herring."

Velma did a spit take.

Shaggy remarked, "You know that code was kind of fishy."

Freddie, Daphne and Velma laughed and then stated in unison, "We get it."

Donna stated, "It's one of your better puns."

As she removed the rest of the Gas Ghost costume, Tina explained the following: "I used that code in attempt to put the blame on Cassie Crumb. Until I found her wallet yesterday – I thought she was a spy from the other."

=SD=

With the Gas Ghost exposed and explained to Mistress Wrigg. They were no punishment for Tina Cookie, other then writing a very long "I'm Sorry" letter to Cassie Crumb. Lucky, Tina had one written for every she did to Cassie.

Using Tina's new formula, she makes a seaweeed green wig for Donna Blake.

Donna Blake stated, "Wig Mission completed."

Shaggy stated, "How about a big dinner to celebrate?"

Freddie stated, "For the first time in sometime, I think that's in good order."

=THE END=

Wig gotten. Next is the eye contract. Will it be another mystery for Mystery Inc. solve? Will be feature a ghost? Or is it a crime mystery? Or do Mystery Inc. get lucky in Tech City, Kansas? The only way to solve the mystery is to kept reading!

Logging off,

Dr. Thinker