Shaggy, Scooby, and Cherry crashed against a cactus candy billboard and kept running until they made it into a diner in the small town that the desert was inside of.

"Help!" Cherry begged.

"What's going on?" Atticus asked as he helped her up. "I thought you guys were watching the Mystery Machine."

"L-L-Like, a-a-aliens are after us!" Shaggy replied.

"Reah, raliens!" Scooby added.

"What?" Patch asked.

Fred looked out the door and shrugged as it looked empty. "Aliens? I don't see anything."

"Really?" Cherry asked.

"They were big! And green, and slimy, and had big bug eyes!" Shaggy told the others while Scooby demonstrated for everyone else to believe them. "They were eight feet tall, and glowing, and had long creepy fingers! And... And..." he then got distracted by a case of donuts. "Are those glazed?"

"Oh, brother." Cherry rolled her eyes.

Shaggy and Scooby began to help themselves to some donuts.

"I am kinda hungry..." Cherry had to admit. She soon joined in on eating the donuts.

Brutus and his brothers soon made it in.

"Were there other aliens?" Patch asked them.

"Yeah, only we didn't recognize them." Nawt replied with a shrug.

"Yeah, they were weird." Brutus said.

"You sure you didn't hit your head too hard?" Drell asked before knocking on Cherry's head while she ate donuts.

"I'm sure." Cherry muffled.

The waitress glanced back to the cook behind their counter as they watched them eat their donuts.

"So, what about these aliens?" Fred asked the waitress.

"Ain't no big deal, darlin'," The waitress replied. "Lots of people have seen 'em."

"They have?" Brutus asked.

"Yeah, that's why we don't go out much after dark." The waitress nodded.

"Whoa." Atticus said.

"Have you seen them too?" Velma asked her.

"No, just the strange lights and the funny sounds at night." The waitress replied.

"What kind of funny sounds?" Cherry asked.

"If ya wanna know more, I'd ask him," The waitress gestured to an older man eating his soup. "He was taken aboard."

"He was?" Atticus asked.

"I told ya they're real!" The old man glared as he put his spoon back into his bowl. "Them aliens are here to take over the world!"

"That there's Lester." The waitress informed the others.

"Is he known as someone who is crazy?" Patch asked.

"Just a tad bit." The waitress replied.

"Lester!" The cook glared slightly. "I told you to keep it down or you'll have to leave!"

Lester grumbled to himself before sitting back down.

"Why's he crazy?" Atticus asked.

"Oh, Atticus, you don't just ask someone why they're crazy, you just ignore them and walk away slowly." Drell replied.

"He thought they experimented on him." The cook smirked.

"Experimented?" Shaggy asked while Scooby gulped out of fear.

"See, about a month ago, some local cattle vanished overnight without a trace!" The cook informed.

"Yep, some folks moved out of town." The waitress said.

Lester quietly slurped his soup. The cook then held out desserts which of course excited Shaggy and Scooby.

"Ah, you like to eat, no?" The cook smiled to them.

"They sure do." Cherry said.

"Uh, excuse me," Velma said as she walked over to Lester as he ate his soup. "But we understand you've had some contact with aliens?"

"That's right, young lady," Lester replied. "Took me aboard their ship, they did!"

Brutus had a feeling Lester was only tricked into believing he had been abducted.

"Sit 'er down." Lester told them to take a seat so he could tell them his story.

"Do you believe this?" Atticus asked Drell.

"If there's aliens in this town, then I'm a Valkyrie." Drell deadpanned.

"Yeah, that settles it." Atticus said.

"Don't be messin' with me, boy!" Lester snapped at Drell. "The aliens looked just like yer friends said... I was out one night, by Scorpion Ridge, there was this loud hummin' and a bright light came up from behind me, it got brighter, and brighter, and then, I blacked out... I woke up strapped to a cold, metal table inside a spaceship, and these aliens was lookin' 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."

'Oh, brother...' Drell thought to himself.

"What kind of questions?" Atticus asked.

"Like who I was and what I'd seen that night," Lester explained. "But then, they probed me."

Brutus and his brothers felt insulted about that stereotype.

"And then what?" Atticus asked.

"I don't remember much after that," Lester replied. "I woke up the next morning outside my house."

"Wow." Patch said.

Shaggy and Scooby didn't say anything as they were stuffing their faces with the bundles and bundles of food.

"Has anyone else in town had this experience?" Fred asked Lester.

"Don't know," Lester shrugged. "If they had, they's ain't tellin' it."

"Ooh, that's creepy." Daphne shivered.

"So, y'all better watch out," Lester warned as he stood up. "Or they'll take you aboard their spaceship TOO!" he then sharply pointed and accidentally knocked down a plate to the floor that the waitress carried.

"Lester!" The waitress glared while Patch was eating the food from the tray off the floor.

"Sorry, Dottie," Lester told the waitress. "It was an accident!"

"So juicy~" Patch smiled once he finished the burger so it wouldn't go to waste.

"Oh, what a mess," The waitress before smirking to the cook after seeing Patch eating the burger. "Hey, Serge! Looks like I finally found someone who likes your cooking!"

"Ha, ha, very funny!" Serge called back sarcastically.

Patch soon finished the burger.

"Was it good, boy?" Atticus smiled.

"Yeah, I don't see why people hate burnt burgers, it gives it a nice toasty taste." Patch smiled back.

"It just doesn't taste good." Cherry said.

"Suit yourself..." Patch shrugged as he quite enjoyed the burger.

"So, Lester, do you have any proof that you were abducted?" Drell asked the crazy old man.

"Yeah," Lester smirked. "I got pictures."

"Can we see them?" Brutus asked.

Lester smiled and nodded as he decided to take them to where his pictures were.

"I hate it when Earth people pull the 'probing' thing." Pound complained to Brutus about Lester's story.

"I know, right?" Brutus asked.

"So, you guys don't really do that?" Patch asked.

"No, and I'm sick of that cliché..." Nawt grumbled.

"We'd never really do that." Bang added.

"That's good to know." Atticus said.


Lester opened the front door to what appeared to be his home, and turned on a light. "Well, come on in!" he told his guests as he smiled to have some company.

Everyone came in and looked around to see several alien items such as newspapers, figurines, and even something on the wall that said ALIENS, GO HOME. Brutus didn't find that sign as a threat at all. Blanko appeared to be trying to read it, though since he was him, it took a frustratingly long while.

"Interesting..." Velma smiled at the sights.

"Not really." Pound said.

"Have you told the media about your experience, Lester?" Fred asked after looking at newspapers with Daphne.

"Oh, yeah, number of times!" Lester replied as Patch and Scooby sniffed the UFO. "They think I'm some kind of nut!"

"You don't say." Cherry smirked.

"I wonder why?" Drell rolled his eyes.

Shaggy opened one door and yelped while running with Scooby as an alien figurine jumped out.

"HEY, BE CAREFUL WITH THAT!" Lester scolded.

"Is this the ship you went on?" Patch asked him while pointing to a UFO diorama.

"Yep," Lester chuckled. "Somethin' like that."

"But you said you had pictures!" Fred reminded the old man.

"You bet I do, lots of pictures." Lester smirked as he walked over to something covered and pulled back the tarp to reveal paintings and not like photographic evidence like what the others were expecting.

"Oh..." Cherry groaned.

"Paintings..." Velma sighed.

"Yep," Lester smiled proudly. "I'm a landscape artist."

"We were hoping for photographic evidence." Atticus said.

"I've been tryin' to show the people the danger out there, but no one is believin' me." Lester replied.

"Hey," Daphne pointed out to one painting which made Brutus come over with his brothers. "This looks like the ship we saw earlier."

'Crystal's ship.' Brutus thought to himself.

"Reah!" Scooby agreed.

"We don't even know we saw a ship." Fred reminded the others.

"Well, we know we saw something." Velma replied.

"Those look like S.A.L.F. dishes..." Cherry pointed to the other items in the painting.

"S.A.L.F. dishes?" Blanko asked.

"Ya seem to know what yer talkin' 'bout," Lester roughly patted Cherry on the head before showing her out his front window. "The government put 'em up about a year ago. Do ya know what they're for?"

"I'm not sure..." Cherry shrugged honestly.

"S.A.L.F. means 'Search for Alien Lifeforms'." Lester told her.

"Wow." Patch said.

"They monitors messages to and from space hoping to find intelligent life." Velma educated.

"Ever since they built them dishes, aliens started to show up," Lester informed which startled Shaggy into accidentally breaking the model he held in his hands. "And I know why."

"Why?" Atticus asked.

"TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!" Lester replied.

'I hate when humans think that all aliens only come to Earth just to invade!' Brutus thought to himself out of anger.

Shaggy and Scooby tried to put the model back together only to get glared at by Lester so they tried to hide it from him.

"I think Lester's been out painting in the sun too long." Fred whispered to the others.

"So, we've met a witch's ghost and an island filled with zombies and you don't believe in aliens?" Cherry deadpanned.

"Yeah, how does that make sense?" Atticus asked.

"I don't know about Freddy, but I think there could be a connection between those dishes and that ship," Velma commented. "I think we should investigate."

"I got more pictures in the back room, ya wanna see 'em?" Lester offered.

"No thanks." Drell said.

"Uh, is there a hotel anywhere near here?" Fred asked.

Lester chuckled at that question. "There ain't no hotel, but yer welcome to stay here for the night."

"Um, no thanks." Atticus said.

"I insist," Lester told them before he opened a door to a room with bunk beds. "You gals can stay in where the kids used to sleep before they moved out."

"Thanks." Mo said.

"You boys can share the couch." Lester told the guys.

"Yaaaaay." Drell deadpanned.

Cherry chuckled as that was a little funny before pausing as she, Shaggy, and Scooby seemed to be left out. "Wait... Where do I sleep?!"

"Don't worry, I've got a place for ya too..." Lester smiled, then looked firm before leading them to the roof. "BUT QUIT TOUCHIN' MY STUFF!" he then added very firmly.

"Yes, sir, of course." Cherry smiled nervously.

"Good night, Cherry." Atticus wished.

"Oh, uh, thanks, Atticus," Cherry replied. "See ya."


Lester soon brought them up to the roof to sleep on since there was no more room for anyplace else inside of the house.

"Wow, it's a pretty great view, guys." Shaggy smiled as he took a look.

"Yeah, it sure is." Cherry added.

"Ruh-huh!" Scooby smiled in agreement.

"You boys get a good night's rest!" Lester called as he tossed them some blankets and went to get some sleep himself.

"I'm a girl, sir?" Cherry replied.

"Oh, then you get a good night's rest too." Lester told her as he went inside.

"Thanks... I guess." Cherry replied.

Shaggy soon struggled with the blanket as it was on him and it made him look like a ghost.

"RIKES!" Scooby yelped.

"Thanks, Les!" Shaggy called out to the man before looking to his best friend. "Oh. Sorry, Scoob."

Once Scooby saw it was just Shaggy, he calmed down. They soon sat down in the lawn chairs, leaning down as they looked up to the night sky.

"Not a bad view I'll admit..." Cherry commented before yawning. "I guess I am pretty tired after a night like tonight."

Eventually, everyone began to fall asleep, and where it seemed to be a peaceful night.