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Method Eight: Mongolian Death Worm

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Late one night, Mystery Inc. found itself solving a mystery at the Coolsville Zoo. It had opened its Gobi Desert exhibit just hours earlier, but tremors in the dirt not only terrorized animals but also resulted in soiled trousered tourists fleeing. If the quintet and Scrappy could not figure out what was happening, the zoo could face bankruptcy.

The gang split up to search for clues. Fred, Daphne, and Velma explored the small, educational sub-section soapboxing desert conservation. Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy explored the bulk of the exhibit: the barren, boring, simulated desert. The zoo apparently did its research, as the Faux-bi Desert was cold after hours like the Gobi Desert after dark.

The boys made true "boys will be boys" when they boys took turns boy after boy breaking into the exhibit. They unlocked an authorized personnel only door with a swiped personnel ID card. Scrappy ran outside first, followed by his uncle and his uncle's master. Seeing as how this exhibit both lacked animals and supplied only a potential sand-throwing contest as pre-first-monster-encounter-goofing-off, the monster appeared immediately after Scrappy entered.

First aroused a slight tremor. Then arose a gigantic, slithering worm. Unlike the Great Alaskan Bull Worm Scrappy saw within television's glowing warm glow, this cryptid's red blood circulated under transparent derma. Acid drool dripped and ate the ground.

Scrappy prepared to fight as the elders preferred flight. Perhaps the worm believed the dog was no mortal threat, as it promptly thundershocked Scrappy a la Pikachu. Scrappy died immediately. His body stayed put until Stacey and Harvey picked him up before the animals were put out.