Soon, the main monster group along with Lionel and Cherry came into Dracula's car which was, not really surprisingly, a hearse, and they soon drove away from the hotel to begin their new quest as Wayne stuck his head out the window with his tongue dangling out. They went underground temporarily and soon came out from the ground as they drove deep into the woods.
"Okay, okay, where am I going?" Griffin asked as he was driving.
"The human world, before Johnny's gone forever." Dracula replied.
"Do you think you can handle the sun though?" Cherry asked as she looked up in the sky.
"I don't know," Dracula replied. "I'll just have to roll."
"He just rolls. Rollability." Wayne commented.
"So we follow his boot-prints," Dracula then said as they kept riding along. "When they run out, that's where you come in, Wayne."
"Me?" Wayne asked.
"There!" Dracula then called out suddenly before the car came to a stop and he stepped out to find a T-Shirt on the ground as Cherry came out with him and picked up the shirt. "Yes, I knew something would fall out of that backpack," he then went to sniff it before instantly cringing. "Yowch! That stinks!"
"Okay, Wayne, was it? Your time to shine." Cherry then told the wolfman as she picked up the shirt with a stick.
"Wait, you want me to track the smell?" Wayne replied. "No. My sniffing tracking days are way behind me. Do you know how many diapers I've changed? How many number twos have destroyed this thing?"
"So, what do we do?" Cherry asked him.
"I have a Plan B." Wayne told her before he put his fingers to his mouth and began to whistle, but it was quiet to everyone else like a traditional dog whistle.
Within moments, the forest was soon flooded with the werepups who were all fighting and playing with each other viciously and playfully.
"Hey! Take it easy! Watch it! Sit!" Wayne told his children. "Smell. I said smell."
One of the werepups soon sniffed Wayne's butt.
"Not me, the shirt! The shirt!" Wayne complained.
"TenSHUN!" Cherry soon called out in a dominant way as best as she could. "You all better stop that right now or there is going to be big trouble and don't even tempt me or think that I'm kidding! I will not tolerate any ill behavior, even if you're all still learning! YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME!"
The werepups soon stopped suddenly and looked scared of her as she gave them all a stern look in her eyes.
"Do any of your kids still respect you?" Cherry asked Wayne who was gobsmacked at what just happened.
"Uh... Mm... Give me a second," Wayne then said before he thought of someone. "Oh, yeah. Winnie! Front and center!"
"Winnie the Werewolf... Of course..." Cherry then said before she held out the shirt to the werepup who stood out among the crowd while her siblings continued to attack each other. "All right, Winnie. What do you sense?" she then asked.
Winnie soon came up to the shirt and sniffed it and told the story behind the scent. "He got into a car. An '86 Fiat. It needs a little transmission work, but otherwise okay. It drove through town to the airport. Flight 497. 8:00 AM departure." she began to report intelligibly.
"That's in 15 minutes." Dracula realized with wide eyes.
"Seat 23A," Winnie then continued. "He ordered the vegetarian meal."
"Okay, thank you, cutie." Dracula then said so that she could stop.
"All right, now all of you get out of here and go back to where you came from before you all get hit so hard that it makes your fur fall off!" Cherry then told the werepups who rushed off and did exactly as she said before she smirked to herself. "Hey, not bad... Maybe I CAN be a mother..."
"See? I toldja so!" Lionel grinned. "It takes both a tender touch AND a firm hand, hon. And together, we're pretty much both!"
With that said, the group clamored back into the hearse and continued on their tumultuous quest.
Cherry looked bashful about what Lionel said before she gave a small nod.
The sun was soon coming out and it began to bake the monsters in the car which seemed to be too close to comfort.
"It's okay, you guys, you can do it." Cherry told them.
"SHEEP!" Dracula soon cried out.
A random sheep was shown as Griffin swerved away from it in the middle of the road before the sheep looked over. A whistle was then blown, prompting the sheep into running away as an army General appeared to be chasing the sheep with a net before they began to run away into the big city.
The hearse was then rocking down the hill and soon ended up on the road as Murray nearly fell right out before he made it back in as Griffin drove them down the road below.
"High five!" Griffin then cheered for himself. "Don't leave me hangin'."
The others then began to look wide-eyed as Griffin was about to drive into even more sheep.
"Lots of sheep!" Murray cried out.
"I got this one," Wayne said before he zipped out of the car and was heard growling before he came back in the car with a smirk, then burped up some wool before the others flashed him a look. "What? Now there's no sheep in the road. Let's go." he then defended.
"That was pretty sick, man." Murray complained.
"You eat lamb chops, it's the same thing," Wayne scoffed. "We don't have time for this. Come on, let's move it!" he then suggested.
Griffin then drove the car away before a shepherd girl was shown to be coming over with her crook to get her sheep before she saw that they were gone and she looked concerned.
"...Should we be worried about that?" Lionel asked, glancing out the window back at the shepherd girl, before pulling his head inside. "Just curious."
"She'll probably be fine." Wayne shrugged.
Cherry and Lionel shared glances with each other as they continued to ride off while the shepherd girl pouted. The hearse continued down the road and someone was shown to be walking up beside the road ahead of them.
"Look, a human!" Griffin pointed out.
They soon rode up right beside the person.
The person walked before stopping and seeing them. He wore a vampire cape with fake ears and a nose. "Welcome to Transylvania!" he then told them before howling like a wolf.
"...That was trippy." Frank muttered.
"I feel so insulted for you guys." Cherry spoke up.
As they continued their drive towards the village, they saw a banner that read "WELCOME TO MONSTER FESTIVAL".
"'Monster festival'?" asked Wayne. "What's a monster festival?"
"I guess we're about to find out," Lionel shrugged.
While the hearse drove into town, the group looked around and saw banners with sayings like "I HEART DRACULA" [with the heart having a stake instead of an arrow through it], "I CARRY A TORCH FOR FRANKENSTEIN", and "I WANT MY MUMMY".
"Did they know we were comin'?" asked Murray.
"Uh..." Cherry just blinked with wide eyes as she didn't expect this at all.
The monsters just all looked at each other, feeling very puzzled. A kid with a mask who was being carried by a witchy woman soon came by and the kid then waved at the monsters with a friendly smile on his face. Two guys in a Frankenstein mask and a vampire mask soon began to roar and growl at each other. A mummy woman then walked by before she then winked at Murray on her own way, exciting him instantly. There was even a very large inflatable Frankenstein that stood above all, leaving a large shadow underneath.
"They like us?" Frank asked in surprise. "Really?"
Dracula soon saw someone coming right by and he decided to lower his window. "Excuse me? Do you know the best way to the airport?" he then asked the costumed man.
"Yes, fellow Dracula," The man, dressed as a vampire, replied with a smirk as he pointed down one way. "There's only one way. Bleh-bleh-bleh."
Dracula looked over, only to be very frustrated once he saw the path was blocked. "But it's all blocked. We'll never make it in time!" he then said.
"You should have left an hour earlier," The guy told him while sipping a drink. "Bleh-bleh-bleh."
And of course, that insulted Dracula as Cherry cupped her mouth and snickered. "I don't say 'Bleh-bleh-bleh'!" he then retorted before looking at his fellow monsters. "All right, let's just run through it on foot." he then told them before zipping out the car.
"All right, guys. What time is it?" Cherry then rhetorically asked.
"Well, judging by the sunlight, I'd say it's daytime, so we should be very careful out here." Frank said simply.
Cherry groaned and face-palmed.
"Yeah, it definitely isn't night anymore." Griffin added.
"Which might be hazardous." Wayne warned.
"That was a rhetorical question," Cherry rolled her eyes. "Anyway... It's adventure time!" she then announced.
Soon, they all came out of the car as Dracula mostly cloaked himself to avoid the sunlight while they wandered out to make it to the airport in time to bring Johnny back for Mavis.
Frank looked around before finding a sombrero in the crowd before he decided to snatch it and put it on his vampire friend to help save him more from the lethal sun's rays. "Drac, this'll protect you." he then said hopefully.
"Bleh-bleh-bleh." Dracula grumbled, still annoyed with that catchphrase.
"Imagine if that guy knew he was talking to the real Drac," Frank then said to help comfort Dracula. "He'd run for the hills!"
"Or make a mess in his pants out of excitement," replied Lionel. "Either way, someone finds it funny."
"I'd almost pay to see that." Cherry smirked a bit.
"Hold it, now. Hold it, now. That sounds spot-on," Murray spoke up as he suddenly had an idea. "But the only way they'd know the real us is if we show the real us."
"Uh..." Cherry blinked as she felt unsure about this idea.
"This could work." Dracula remarked.
"You mean, like, scare them? We haven't scared people in centuries," Frank replied, unsure about that. "I don't even think I have it in me anymore," he then tried to roar before he patted his chest and tried again, but his roaring sounded very weak and tired like an old man. "I got nothing. I really got nothing."
"Let's just move this along." Griffin suggested before he brought out a match, lit it up, and then showed the flame in front of Frank.
Frank's eyes widened before he panicked at the sight of the flame instantly. "Fire! Fire! Fire!" he then roared viciously before he stomped over to the balloon of him and climbed up it and let out a mighty big roar, almost in a King Kong-like fashion.
The crowd, though they looked alarmed and surprised at first, soon began to applaud and cheer for Frank for being so scary.
Frank looked even more frustrated before he called back out to the crowd. "I'm trying to scare you! The real Frankenstein!"
"We know!" called a tourist. "We LOVE you!"
"Can you sign my torch?" asked another tourist, holding his torch up.
"Aw, jeez..." Cherry groaned and rolled her eyes during the excitement of the tourists.
Frank looked a bit frustrated before he kept trying to talk down the crowd. "Listen, before anything else, down there's the real Dracula!" he then told them.
"Prove it." A third tourist challenged.
Dracula then shot blood-red eyes at him.
The tourist then grabbed his mug and smashed it on his head against his will. "All right. Continue." he then said out of defeat.
"Drac's daughter's in love, and he's got to get to the airport! And he can't get through this crowd!" Frank continued to the crowd down below.
"Why doesn't he fly?" A guy in a Frankenstein's monster mask asked.
"The sun, you idiot," The guy next to him in a Dracula mask scoffed at him. "He's a vampire."
"That's right. Thank you, Monster Nerd," Frank then replied before he kept calling out to the crowd. "So, people, if you really are our friends, clear a path for the man!" he then concluded,
"Okay!" said a man in Dracula make-up. "All Draculas, line up! Bleh-bleh-bleh!"
At once, the crowd stood aside, parted like The Red Sea.
"Everyone else, lift the capes! Protect our friend! Bleh-bleh-bleh!" The man added.
Everyone did so, holding the capes up like tarps to keep Dracula from burning up.
"It's all for you, buddy." said Frank.
"Even if they're saying the annoying catchphrase," Cherry added. "Probably like people telling William Shatner 'Beam me up, Scotty'."
Dracula smiled, looking happy and relieved that these people were helping out and not being scared to death of him and his friends which would lead to an attack.
"Good luck! Go get 'em! Go, Drac, go! Go, Drac! Go, Drac! Go, Drac! Go, Drac! Go, Drac! Go get 'em! Go, Drac, go! We love you, Dracula!" The crowd chanted.
Dracula had a very jovial smile on his face before he then dashed off through the capes to be protected from the lethal sunlight.
"Well, at least no one's scared in a Shaggy or Scooby fashion." Cherry said, a bit relieved about that herself.
"Yeah, it's very fortunate," Lionel responded. "Should we go with him from here, or what?"
"Let's go," Cherry replied. "I guess we could use a little bit of adventure during this vacation. Just to make sure he gets Johnny back so that Mavis can be happy again and maybe start a new tradition for Hotel Transylvania." she then suggested.
"Alrighty then!" Lionel replied as he picked Cherry up, and then made a run for it, following behind Drac.
After quite a while, they made it past and soon made it out of the crowd and out of the monster convention altogether.
"Phew! What a rush..." Cherry said as she looked around. "Must be what it feels like if you went in a race against Sonic the Hedgehog or The Flash."
"And Road Runner, and Speedy Gonzales." Lionel added as he shifted into bat form.
"Either way, it was very speedy." Cherry noted.
"Not too fast for you two though, right?" Dracula smirked.
"No way!" Cherry smirked back. "You just try to keep up the same speed you've had since 1897."
"Hmph..." Dracula scoffed before looking around as they made it out of the convention. He then looked around before finding the airport and set his sights on Johnny on one of the planes about to take off. "There's no choice. Follow my lead." he then said before he dashed off running.
Cherry and Lionel soon followed him and soon, Dracula and Cherry turned into bats after him and followed with Lionel as they headed to the plane as it took off away from the runway. As Johnny sadly gazed out the window, Dracula was quickly flapping behind the plane, as a trail of thick black smoke began rising from his back.
"Uh-oh! You're burnin' up like an overcooked burger!" Lionel exclaimed. "So we'd better make this real quick!"
"Let's just hope it's enough time!" Dracula told him as they flew.
"I haven't seen much black smoke in the sky since The Wicked Witch of the West threatened Dorothy Gale." Cherry remarked.
Meanwhile, inside of the plane, the passengers were either already asleep, about to fall asleep, or were just sitting around quietly and a bit dully once the plane took off. The three bats soon flew over and Dracula spotted the wheels of the plane about to go into the plane before he flew that way and held onto them before turning back into his human form.
"Augh! Come on! You can do it!" Cherry said, though she was very concerned as Dracula had a lot of burns and singer on him now because of the sun before she muttered to the fourth wall. "Well, at least he's not sparkling."
"Ow... Ow... Ow..." Dracula winced as he clung to the landing gear... Before it started going up, and flung him backwards.
"Should I put sunblock on him?" asked Lionel.
"Not unless you've got SPF +5,000 on you!" Cherry replied.
Dracula soon turned into a bat and kept trying to keep up with the speeding plane. Cherry and Lionel helped him out as best as they could before they made it to the window and suddenly clung onto Johnny's window as the mortal had his head bowed down low.
"Jonathan! Jonathan, can you hear me?!" Dracula called out from out the window.
"I don't think he can hear you," Cherry said. "He has those headphones in and the altitude is kinda drowning you out."
Dracula then looked over to see the in-flight movie which was a bit insulting as it showed a buff, shirtless teenage vampire with a silly, clueless looking mortal girl.
"Tell me, do you dream of being a vampire?" The vampire asked the girl, sounding very uninterested in what he was saying.
"Sorry you had to see that." Cherry told Dracula.
"This is how we're represented?" Dracula complained. "Unbelievable. Jonathan. Jonathan. Can you hear me?!" he then called out into the window again before Cherry and Lionel tapped on the window to get some sort of noise through to Johnny.
Johnny continued to stare off into space before he looked over and heard the tapping. "Whoa! Bats!" he then smiled once he saw the trio of bats outside his window. "Wait, one of them's talking... Dracula? Is that you?" he then asked.
Dracula continued to try to talk to Johnny, but it was useless.
"Huh? Dracula. I can't understand you." Johnny told the vampire from inside.
"What? My hand's in a tan shoe?" Dracula asked out of confusion.
"What? Japan's eating lamb stew?" Johnny replied in the same way before he saw smoke coming from Dracula. "Hey, do you know you're smoking?" he then asked.
"There's no use doing it this way," Cherry told Dracula. "We need a Plan B."
"Yeah! We need to get you somewhere that you can communicate easier!" exclaimed Lionel. "Hey... I think I know where to go: the cockpit! The captain has a headset up there, where he can talk to the whole plane!"
"Right! The cockpit!" Cherry agreed. "That should do it."
"Pardon me. Sorry, excuse me. Whoa! Excuse me." Johnny said as he fumbled along passengers.
Dracula, Cherry, and Lionel soon flew away from Johnny's window and they were suddenly slapped onto the front window of the plane, sticking like bugs, but luckily not squishing like bugs.
"What the heck?" One of the pilots blinked once he saw the three bats on the window. "How'd some bats get up this high?"
Dracula soon saw what Lionel was talking about as one of the pilots had the headset and he flashed his eyes to turn blood-red as his eyes met the captain's eyes.
"Folks, I'm gonna turn on the seat belt sign. Just a precaution while we-" The captain began before he soon was suddenly stunned and his eyes flashed red before he spoke in a rather robotic way once his mind was being controlled. "While we hear a special announcement for my dear friend Jonathan."
"Dracula?" Johnny mumbled as he thought he recognized that voice.
"My dear boy, I have made a terrible mistake," The captain continued to speak as Dracula told him what to say while everyone else began to look confused over what was even going on. "I was trying to keep my baby to myself, because I knew I would always protect her, but I realize now, children need to discover things for themselves. The truth is, you and Mavis are meant to be. You Zinged. If she must give her trust to someone else, I'm thankful that it is you, Jonathan. I hope you can hear me and forgive me." he then concluded.
Johnny began to feel happy before looking out his window and the passengers around his seat saw the bats and panicked, but he was not afraid anymore.
Dracula smiled back at Johnny before he continued to make the captain speak. "Okay, folks, we're going to make a quick turnaround to refuel, and then we'll be back on our way." he then added, making the flight longer for the passengers.
The passengers all groaned and complained about having a longer flight and having to turn around.
"Quit your whining!" Dracula then snapped. "I'm burning up out here!"