"You guys think that there really are aliens?" Sammy asked.
"Come on, aliens don't exist, they're like the Cuzzlewitz," Lu scoffed. "Next thing you know, she'll be asking about the Easter Bunny like on Mike's first day of school with me."
Lester opened the door and walked them inside his place which looked bigger on the inside with papers on a coffee table with a lava lamp and a lot of open range and photographs or anything relating to extraterrestrials, not to mention newspaper articles about UFOs.
"Have you told the media about your experiences, sir?" Cindy asked as she stood with Fred and Daphne.
"Yeah, a number of times!" Lester scoffed. "But they think I'm some kind of nut!"
Fred and Manny looked to each other and then rolled their eyes at his answer.
Brianna saw portraits of spaceships and other sci-fi stuff. "Did you draw these, Lester?" she then asked.
"Indeed I do, little lady." Lester smiled proudly.
"Oh, paintings..." Velma was expecting photographic evidence.
"You're talented." Cindy smiled to him.
"I'm a landscape artist." Lister informed them.
"Umm... They're very nice, Lester." Daphne smiled as she looked through the collection with Brianna.
"Mike, I'm telling you, this guy is nuts, probably more insane than, well, you." Lu whispered.
"Hey!" Mike growled to her, but Lu looked away with a teasing and playful smile.
Daphne stumbled across a familiar painting and picked it up to show to her friends. "Hey..."
"This looks like the ship we saw earlier before we picked up Manny, Lu, Eddy, Frida, Cindy, Mike, and Sammy!" Velma recognized it too.
"Reah..." Scooby saw it too.
"Very interesting..." Cindy said in a German accent to pretend to be a mad scientist and came to the man with the painting. "Mr. Lester, what are these?" she then asked in her normal voice.
Lester looked out the window and showed her. "SALF dishes, the government put 'em up 'bout a year ago."
"What's a SALF dish?" Frida asked. "Sounds like some kind of cream."
"SALF means 'Search For Alien Life Forms'." Lester explained.
"They send monitor messages to and from space, hoping to find intelligent life." Velma continued for him.
"Ever since they built them dishes, aliens started to show up," Lester scowled. "And I know why!"
"Why?" Fred asked.
"We know, we know, take over the world." Brianna sighed.
"Exactly!" Lester pointed to her.
"Yes, always." Cindy added, doing an imitation of The Brain.
"Well, I still think it's a load of baloney!" Lu refused to believe in all of this alien nonsense.
"How long are you gonna say that, Princess?" Mike asked.
"Until he admits I'm right." Lu narrowed her eyes.
"I think Lester's been painting in the sun too long." Fred whispered.
"Maybe, but there may be a connection between those dishes and the aliens." Velma was determined.
"Our mission was to go and have a word with those people, but I think we should wait until morning, it's very late," Cindy suggested. "Sir, please give us the direction to the nearest hotel."
Lester chuckled. "There ain't no hotel... But yer welcome to stay here for the night."
"Do we really have a choice?" Cindy asked, a little weakly.
"Yeah, this, or the river..." Mike muttered.
"Then we'll stay here." Brianna replied.
"Where do we sleep?" Sammy asked.
"You ladies can sleep in the back room," Lester opened a door to show some cots by a bunk bed. "Used to be the kids before they moved out," he then looked to Fred. "You fella, can sleep on the couch."
"What about us?" Shaggy asked as he, Scooby, Mike, Manny, and Eddy were left out.
"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.
"Well, this is just great," Eddy groaned. "I can't believe we have to sleep on the roof. I feel like a dog."
"At least you're not outside..." Mike took slight offense to that.
Frida and Lu came to hug Eddy and Manny good night and kissed them, going back to join the girls for a good night's sleep.
Sammy sighed a little sadly, a little jealous too. "I wish I had a boyfriend..." she whispered softly to herself, feeling like Abby did before she met Kevin Levin.
"Wow, it's a pretty great view, guys." Shaggy smiled as he took a look.
"Ruh-huh!" Scooby agreed.
"You boys get a good night's rest!" Lester called as he tossed them a blanket and went to get some sleep himself.
When the blanket landed on Shaggy, he looked like a ghost which startled Scooby, but they sorted it out before bed.
"Buenos nachos, Manny." Lu smiled as she went downstairs.
Frida rolled her eyes at Lu's Spanish error. "Yeah, night Eddy..." she smiled with a wave and followed Lu and Lester down.
"But, I'm not a-" Mike was about to protest, but decided to just go along with it. "Aw, forget it."
"Boy, the full moon looks great out tonight." Shaggy said.
"Reah..." Scooby yawned a little.
"Night guys..." Manny muttered, falling asleep despite sleeping on a lawn chair.
Eddy wrapped himself in a blanket and got comfortable enough to instantly fall asleep.
Sammy felt uncomfortable for some reason and wrapped her blanket around her and left the room.
"Sammy?" Cindy woke up with a yawn. "Where are you going?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Cindy, I didn't mean to wake you," Sammy came to her. "I'm gonna sleep on the roof with the guys, you go back to sleep."
Cindy hummed and turned over, curling up in a ball to continue sleeping.
Mike looked at the full moon and didn't sleep like the others.
Sammy climbed up the stairs and yawned, feeling the cool air in the night transition of the desert, she found Mike's chair wasn't being slept in, so she decided to sleep in it. "I wonder where Mike is?" she asked herself. She then ignored it and went fast asleep.
However, the ship from earlier that Mystery Inc saw came over them and a glowing beam emitted from it like an alien abduction. In fact, that was what it was. It grew pinchers that were reaching down and taking Shaggy, Scooby, and surprisingly, Sammy with it very slowly and swiftly. The beam closed up once they were inside and the ship was hovering away from the roof while Eddy and Manny tried to block out the bright light that was briefly casting over their shut eyes of sleep. Even brighter lights shone as Shaggy, Scooby, and Sammy were strapped to metal tables.
"Scooby, shut off the lights, will ya?" Shaggy groaned.
Scooby woke up to do that and saw a few aliens surrounding him and Sammy was there with them and he just realized they had been abducted. "R-R-Raggy!"
"Not now, Scoob," Shaggy smiled in his sleep. "I gladly accepted position of a food critic for your magazine..." he then said sleepily as he ate dream food, unaware of his actual surroundings.
Sammy yawned and woke up, seeing the aliens and panicked and it didn't take long until Shaggy would wake up himself.
"ALIENS!" Shaggy cried. "Let us go, we taste terrible!"
"What do we do!?" Sammy panicked.
"Do not fear us, earth creatures..." one alien said to silence their worries and fears.
"It's too late for that!" Shaggy shivered. "Don't you guys need to phone home or something?"
"Y-Yeah, if you wanna eat someone, I know someone who looks exactly like me, but she has a beauty mark!" Sammy smiled nervously, trying to bargain with them.
The aliens took out tendrils to attach to them, they were actually pretty ticklish. The aliens seemed surprised that their victims were now laughing instead of cowering in fear.
"Hey, man, that tickles!" Shaggy laughed.
"Reah!" Scooby agreed, also laughing.
Sammy wasn't as tickled as the boys, but she laughed too.
"Cooperate and you will not be harmed," one of the aliens demanded. "You will be released after questioning and physical examination."
"Okay, but no splits..." Sammy shuddered, having hated doing those in cheerleading at school.
The aliens hooked up their machines, making them all nervous and scared. Scooby got his tail free and tried to push one of the buttons on the lab table to release them. Once Scooby got his straps off, he popped off the devices and went to save Shaggy and Sammy. Sammy was able to free herself too and she ran with Scooby as Shaggy was still strapped down to one of the tables and they had to escape and fast!
"Get them!" the alien called. "Do not let them escape!"
The other aliens chased as Scooby and Sammy ran with Shaggy to find a way out of here. However, they ran into the other alien which stopped them and they tried to outrun him as well. This alien tried to grab Shaggy, but Scooby and Sammy kept pulling him back. Scooby and Sammy fell back with the alien and Shaggy was crashing against another alien and he actually started running for his life. The other aliens decided to try to grab Scooby and Sammy. The four aliens took out a device which looked really painful and it caused for Shaggy, Sammy, and Scooby to faint from the excitement and they blacked out.
