It was Lex Luthor in his mecha war suit. He was making his way.

"Oh Superman" he called out "Come out and play."

At that moment, Krypto started growling.

"Lex Luthor!" Streaky hissed.

"Oh, yeah?" Dynomutt shouted as Streaky started hissing. "There's no one here but us, Luthor!"

Luthor flew his rocket jets over to our protagonists.

"Like run gang" said Shaggy.

"Not a bad idea" Mudsy turned invisible.

"Meow" Boo turned invisible as well.

Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Augie, Skip, April and Elmo ran into an alleyway.

"We will handle this" said Dynomutt "You guys run to safety and we'll catch up!"

"You wanna piece of me baldie?" Scrappy raised his fists at the landing Luthor.

Scooby grabbed Scrappy and carried him to safety.

Luthor landed in front of Krypto, Streaky and Dynomutt "It's not Superman. But the next best thing. His mangy mutt and his cousin's mangy feline."

"Surrender immediately Luthor!" Dynomutt spoke into a megaphone "We can do this the hard or difficult way!"

Luthor used one of his war suit's mecha arms to flick Dynomutt away.

"Okay" Krypto growled "If that's the way you want it! Ruff ruff and away!"

Krypto and Streaky flew right to the mecha suit.

"Oh heavens me" Luthor said dramatically "What shall I do?"

Luthor pressed a button on the suit's control panel and a large glowing, green rock was pointed right at Krypto and Streaky.

"Zoinks! That's kryptonite!" Shaggy exclaimed when he turned and looked back and saw the criminal scientist displaying the hazardous mineral at Krypto and Streaky. "That's the stuff that will harm Superman!"

"Or anyone from Krypton." Skip added. "Like SuperGirl, SuperDog, SuperCat, General Zod or Faora."

"Exactly." Luthor sinisterly grinned.

Krypto and Streaky got weak and fell down to the ground. Just then, a vaccumm-like nozzle came out and sucked out Krypto and Streaky's hearts. Luthor grabbed them and put them in a cage in his suit's control room (with Kryptonite of course).

"Guys come on!" said April "We gotta help them!"

"Normally April," said Augie "I'd offer to protect you and keep you out of harm's way, but this guy is totally nuts. We gotta find the others!"

"I hate to say it and I really do mean that," said Skip "But Augie's right."

"We need to find BF and the Teen Angels" said Daphne.

"Hey!" said Scrappy "Where is Dynomutt?"

"Over here!" Dynomutt said from outside the alleyway. "I got flickered, but now I'm okay."

"Quick!" said Mudsy "Onward to the Daily Planet!"

"Like, we better warn BF about Luthor, gang!" Shaggy said as they took off racing for the Daily Planet.

"Not so fast, meddling kids." Luthor cut in.

"Alright, Luthor, what do you want?" Scrappy asked as the criminal scientist landed in front of them.

"Simple. Either tell me where to find that alien or I'll drain your hearts out!" Luthor smirked with the vacuum-like nozzle aimed towards them.

"Never!" Daphne replied defiantly.

"Oh, is that right, lady?" Luthor laughed. "In that case, prepare to meet your doom!"

He then activated the vacuum with the nozzle aimed towards the gang.

At that moment, Scooby saw something and tapped Shaggy's shoulder.

"Like, what is it, Scoob?" Shaggy asked as he can felt his heart trying to hold onto him.

Seeing the large rock Scooby had picked up, Shaggy understood what Scooby intended to do.

"Like, good thinking, Scoob!" Shaggy said as Scooby quickly threw the rock towards the nozzle, leading it to get sucked into the vacuum, which then started making funny noises.

"Alright, Luthor, like, release our friends or be prepared to be launched into the air." Shaggy turned to the criminal scientist.

"Release your friends?!" Luthor asked before starting to laugh. "What a joke! You're even funnier than the Joker!"

"And it's going to get even funnier if you don't shut off your vacuum, man." Shaggy replied evenly.

"Huh?" Luthor asked, realizing something was jammed in his heart-sucking vacuum.

Just then, the whole battle suit started sputtering and short circuiting.

"You haven't seen the last of me!" Luthor pressed a button his arm chair.

His chair turned into an escape pod and he escaped the suit which was about to self destruct.

"Oh no!" Daphne gasped "Krypto and Streaky are still in there!"

"Don't worry Daphne" Mudsy reappeared "I'll save them! It's Funky Phantom Time!"

Mudsy flew right up to the battle suit and flew right into it and went to Krypto and Streaky's cage inside. The war suit started to count down just as Mudsy managed to find the two super pets and get them out of it before the massive explosion.

In the air, Luthor saw the massive fireball consuming what was once his proud warsuit.

"Blast those meddling kids!" He thought angrily. "Well, it's a good thing I've built a backup warsuit for an emergency like this. Then, I'll be able to capture that alien for real without those meddlers to worry about."

In addition to those thoughts, the criminal scientist also made a mental note to not underestimate cowards.

"I can't believe I ever thought ghosts were evil" said Streaky "You saved us, Mudsy."

"Yeah" said Krypto "Kevin's dad always tells us scary stories about ghosts and that they're bad, but you saved us. Thanks."

"You're welcome, guys." Mudsy replied. "I'm just glad to help."

"Gee, that was smart of you to throw that rock at Luthor, Uncle Scooby!" Scrappy said.

"Reah. Re-he-he-he-he!" Scooby laughed.

"Boy, that was a close one." Skip remarked.

"Yeah." Shaggy nodded. "Like, we now better go find BF and the rest of the gang, gang."

"Right. Let's go!" Dynomutt agreed as the heroes quickly made their way to find the Daily Planet.


Author's Note:

Well our heroes have encountered Lex Luthor, but he's coming back for Superman of course. Now, Scooby and the others have to go reach the rest of the gang to find Superman. Will our heroes find Blue Falcon, the Teen Angels, Captain Caveman and Superman in time? Stay tuned!