The ghostly princess went back into the mountainous
hideout of Dr. Kendall to let him know the situation. "Everything
has gone well. The intruders will be left to suffer in the harsh
conditions outside."
The scientist turned to the Nepalian princess.
"You've done very well, my dear, scaring those young intruders and leaving
them trapped in the cold of the Himalayan mountains."
"So, all is ready for the vegetation device?"
"Indeed, Serena. The alignment position
will come within the next two hours. In the meantime, stay prepared
in your costume, since by now the Super Friends themselves have figured
out about the phoney diamonds and transmitters. They're all going
to be here soon."
"I understand. I will gather the remaining
agents and get them ready for the arrival of our enemies."
"Very well. Proceed, Serena."
She left the laboratory and started preparing
for the coming of the battle with the Super Friends.
In the lab, Dr. Kendall checked all his calculations.
"Now, if the satellite deflects the beam exactly the way it should, this
will make instant vegetation in the Sahara desert, and all the world's
hunger problems will be solved in this one moment! At last, those
scientists will understand what this means to me…and the world."
Meanwhile, inside the cave, the Wonder Twins,
Gleek, Shaggy, and Scooby started feeling the effects of the cold conditions.
"Like, what'll we do?" Shaggy asked in near
panic. "We'll freeze to death before we can get out and face that
creepy lady again."
Both Scooby and Gleek held each other in fear
as they shrieked at the same time.
"Don't worry," Zan said with confidence.
"Just leave this to Super Zan." He then started walking towards the
snow pile.
Jayna started suspecting her twin brother
was acting a little too confident. "Um, how are you going
to do this, silly?"
"Simple, super sis. I just become an
ice jackhammer."
Shaggy stood up and shouted, "You crazy, man!?
Do that and we'll be buried alive!"
"No, we won't. Trust me, we'll get out
of here in no time. How about it, Jayna?"
"Okay, but I still don't like this idea."
The two clenched their hands and connected
while shouting, "Wonder Twin powers--activate!"
Zan then said, "Shape of…an
ice jackhammer!"
"Form of…a grizzly bear!" shouted Jayna.
When both converted into their requested forms,
Jayna took hold of Zan and placed him against the snow pile. As Zan
started getting to work on moving the pile out of the way for them to escape,
Jayna turned to Gleek.
"Gleek, do you have the Justice League radio
with you?"
He reached into his pocket and quickly found
the little communicator.
"Good. Now, Shaggy, use it to call the
other Super Friends and tell them what's happening here."
"Right." Taking the little radio from
the blue monkey, he started speaking into it. "Um, hello? Is
anybody out there? Like, we need help, fast! Can anybody hear
me!?"
Wonder Woman and Daphne picked up Freddy and
Aquaman in the Invisible Jet and were all on the way to Nepal when they
heard a strange voice on the radio.
"Hello, hello? Like, where is everybody?"
Daphne and Freddy knew right away who it was.
"Shaggy!"
Wonder Woman then spoke into her radio.
"Shaggy, it's Wonder Woman. Where are you right now?"
"Here in Nepal with the Wonder Twins, Gleek,
and Scooby. We're kinda stuck in this cave with about 100 tons of
snow in front of us."
"Okay, are you feeling cold right now?"
"Like, yeah. It's freezing in here."
"What are the Twins doing right now?"
"Jayna's holding Zan while he's being an ice
jackhammer to get the snow out of the way for us to get out of the cave.
I think there's something else ya need to know, too. There's a *gulp*
ghost here."
"A ghost? Are you sure?"
"Yeah, she's this Nepal princess's ghost or
something. All we know is we're stuck here."
Aquaman then took the radio. "Try to
stay calm, Shaggy. We're on our way to Nepal now with all the others.
We'll contact the others and let them know what's happening to you.
We'll be there in no time."
"Okay, Aquaman, but hurry up and get here,
or you're going to find all of us as popsicles!"
Switching frequencies, he contacted everyone
else. "Aquaman to Justice League. The Wonder Twins, Gleek,
Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo have all run into trouble in Nepal. Everyone
converge at Kathmandu."
"On my way, Aquaman," said Superman, who flew
over Austria when he received the message.
Batman, Robin, and Velma were in the Batjet
over Madagascar. "We're coming, Aquaman." As she placed the
radio back in its place, she became very worried. "I just hope Shag
and Scoob are okay. I mean, Nepal's a lot colder than Colorado."
Robin tried to comfort the bespectacled detective.
"Don't worry, Velma. If I know Shaggy and Scooby, they're probably
thinking about the cuisine they'll get after this is all over."
"Yeah, if they make it out alive."
"They will. The Wonder Twins know not
to panic in situations like this."
As they seemed to make progress, the cave started
falling down. "Watch it!" Shaggy screamed.
The Wonder Twins had to move back quickly
to avoid being crushed by the ice above them.
Jayna looked at her twin brother with disgust.
"'Trust me, we'll get out of here in no time,' he says. So much for
your brilliant idea, Wonder brother."
"Well, at least I tried something instead
of doing nothing."
"Quit it, guys! Help's on the way anyhow.
The rest of the group is coming now."
"We'd better change back," Zan said, "before
we use up the available oxygen."
"Yeah, let's do that."
Touching each other again, they yelped, "Wonder
Twin powers--deactivate!"
The Twins reverted back into their human forms
again.
"Sorry I got on your case, Zan. I didn't
mean--"
"I know, sis. It's just this situation
driving both of us crazy. As long as Shaggy did call for help, though,
we'll get out of this…somehow."
Back at the hideout, Agent 2-19 picked up something
on the radar. "Boss, looks like the Super Friends are all here now!"
Dr. Kendall looked at his remaining group
and Serena. "Serena, see if your being the ghost of the Nepalean
princess will scare them off. The rest of you, get ready to spring
some traps on the Super Friends, in case her disguise doesn't work."
"Yes, sir!" they all shouted together.
Serena then went back outside into the frigid
cold and looked through her binoculars. "Hmm, seems they've landed
here in Kathmandu. If I know them, they'll concentrate on their friends
first."
Sure enough, the Super Friends, along with
properly dressed Freddy, Velma, and Daphne, went into the area to find
their lost friends.
Using his super hearing, Superman was able
to pick up the sounds of Shaggy's shivering. "Hold on, I think I
know where they are." Pinpointing his shivering, the Man of Steel
came up to an area which looked like it had completely been covered in
snow. "Let me check something out here." With his X-ray vision,
he saw past the snow and found the three teenagers and two animals.
"They're over here!"
On the inside, Gleek was slowly losing consciousness
in the cold.
Jayna did her best to comfort the blue monkey
and keep him warm. "Don't worry, Gleek. Help's coming.
I know it's coming."
Suddenly, Zan heard a strange noise.
"Am I totally frozen, or do I here something like a drill?"
Scooby also listened to the sound. "Rr-it
does
sound like a drill."
In a matter of seconds, a drill of red and
blue came through the snow pile. Coming out of the tremendous spin,
the person said, "You kids need a rescue?"
Shaggy became excited. "Superman!
Are we ever glad to see you! Is everybody else here?"
"Yes, we're all here, since this is where
Dr. Kendall has had things set up. However, you shouldn't have come
here; it was too dangerous."
Jayna stood up and said, "We're to blame,
Superman, not Shaggy and Scooby. We tricked them into coming with
us so we could try to do something ourselves. We didn't mean to worry
all of you."
"We're not upset with you, Twins, but you
scared us half to death when you didn't respond to our signals before.
Now, let's get out of here and find Dr. Kendall before he uses the vegetation
ray and starts all kind of trouble with the irregular climate."
As the heroes and detectives began walking
up the mountain to locate the hideout, a woman suddenly screamed, "You
have been warned, intruders! Do not proceed any further!"
Wonder Woman looked up at the
individual. "Who are you?"
"I am Princess Terrina of Nepal! You
invaders have no right to be here. Now leave!"
"You don't understand, Princess. We've
only come to find someone doing something wrong, not create problems in
your country."
"No, wait a minute," Batman interrupted.
"Princess Terrina died several years ago in an avalanche when she tried
to become the first princess to climb Mount Everest."
Shaggy interjected, "Told ya she was a ghost."
"Maybe, but that won't stop us from doing
our job." He then looked up at the princess. "We already know
you are either her ghost or someone pretending to be Princess Terrina.
We have to get in there and stop a madman from causing environmental damage
to the world."
"I am her ghost! You will leave, intruders,
or face the wrath of my power!"
Superman looked at the woman in her royal
purple garb. "We can't leave here. We must find Dr. Aaron Kendall."
With a hand gesture, she started another avalanche,
one which was heading for the entire group!
The Man of Steel quickly flew upward and with
his heat vision made the snow turn into an ice shelter for all of them.
The snow went over the side of the mountain, making certain Kathmandu and
its citizens were safe from the disaster.
The princess growled angrily because of what
had happened. She then spoke into her radio. "Dr. Kendall,
what should I do now?"
"Make them follow you into the hideout.
If they want to get in so badly, we'll let them come."
"Right, I understand." She then faced
the group. "You may have stopped my avalanche, but you will not catch
me so easily!"
When she took off running, Aquaman yelled,
"We have to catch her before she gets away. She may lead us to Dr.
Kendall."
Everyone quickly started running to keep pace
with the princess, who herself was moving very quickly.
In a few minutes, she entered the secret door
of the hideout and seemingly vanished.
The super heroes and detectives were baffled
at her sudden disappearance.
"Like, where'd she go?" Shaggy questioned
in confusion. "She really is a ghost. I knew it."
Robin said, "I don't know about you, but I
personally don't believe in ghosts."
"Um, Robin," Batman noted, "don't you remember
that ghost we had, Gentleman Jim Craddock?"
"Holy memory lapse, I forgot."
Daphne then asked, "What should we do now?"
"I'm not sure," replied Freddy quickly.
"However, we need--"
Suddenly, from underneath them a door opened,
and everyone fell down into it!
Everybody except Superman landed hard in some
kind of prison cell.
After the teams had regained their composures
and got to their feet, they saw their main nemesis.
"Well, well, well," said Dr. Kendall, "it's
a pleasure to see you, Super Friends, and whoever your other friends are.
You're all just in time to see me triumph not only for my scientific achievements,
but also for the entire world! At last, the world's hunger problems
will be solved, and there will be no people suffering any more!"
He then came up to a large canopy and pulled
it off. "My vegetation ray is ready to give much needed life to the
Sahara Desert. The people there will be among the first to benefit
from my device."
Batman tried to reason with him. "No,
Doctor! You can't mess with the ways of nature. If you put
too much vegetation into the desert, it will disrupt the balance of nature
itself!"
"Do you really expect me to believe that,
Batman? I was a distinguished member of the scientific community
until my idiotic collegues thought I was crazy to come up with such a device
capable of giving new life to the world's deserts. Now, my dream
will come true!"
"Your dream will become a nightmare to everyone
else," Velma reasoned loudly. "What you do to one part of the world
will eventually affect the rest. You mustn't do this, Dr. Kendall!"
Princess Terrina's ghost then came up.
"Quiet, young fool! This man is giving something to the world which
has been desperately needed for years, even centuries: a solution to the
problem of world hunger!"
Superman tried to bend the bars of the cell,
but he suddenly weakened. "Something here must have kryptonite."
"Yes, Superman, the bars are lined with kryptonite,
which means you can't help them get out at all."
Falling to his knees, he felt as weak as a
scrawny kid. "Sorry, everyone, it looks like I can't get us out of
this mess."
Wonder Woman gravely stated, "We have to stop
him from firing the ray before he causes irreparable damage to the desert."
Daphne then remembered the lasso trick the
Amazing Amazon had done back at the Hall of Justice. "Couldn't you
control your magic lasso telepathically, like before?"
"Not a bad idea. I'll see what I can
do." Turning to the device, Wonder Woman focused her mental energy
on the Magic Lasso, to see if it could do something to throw the ray off
the interception point with the NASA satellite.
Slowly, the lasso moved on the ground.
Taking about a minute, the lasso finally reached the controls handling
the position of the ray in accordance to the satellite. With a simple
mental command, the lasso turned the ray off by a mere two degrees.
Princess Terrina saw the lasso, however, and
grabbed it instantly. "Nice try, Wonder Woman, but you cannot stop
Dr. Kendall now!"
At the controls of the vegetation device,
Kendall was ready to press the button to fire the ray at the satellite.
"Now, it is time to end world hunger once and for all!" He then pushed
the button, immediately emitting the light of the ray into space.
However, when he looked through the telescope,
he noticed the ray had completely missed the satellite and went harmlessly
through space. "NO! I don't believe it!
I missed the mark! I have to get it back on the mark or I'll lose
my chance!"
Batman and Robin saw this as the chance to
get them out.
"Quick, Robin, use the Bat acid pellets on
the bars. They'll disintegrate and give Superman his strength back."
"Right!"
The Dynamic Duo threw the pellets at four
of the bars, causing them to quickly dissolve.
"Come on, we've got to get him, now!" Freddy
shouted.
The twins helped Superman get out of the cell
as he slowly regained his super strength. "Thanks, guys. I'll
be all right now."
Dr. Kendall tried desperately to get the vegetation
ray back on line with the satellite but then saw his enemies escape his
trap. "Agents, get in here now! Stop the Super Friends before
they ruin everything!"
A group of at least 50 agents entered the
main laboratory and were ready to confront the heroes.
Wonder Woman looked at Scooby and his friends
and said, "Kids, take cover. This is too dangerous for all of you."
"Okay with me, man," said a relieved Shaggy.
Scooby added, "Rr-yeah, me, too."
As they sought shelter behind some barrels,
the Super Friends themselves were ready to tackle all the agents.
Wonder Woman and Aquaman started the battle
first when she telepathically called her Magic Lasso back to her and gave
part of it to Aquaman.
They proceeded to go in both directions around
about 10 of them and had them all tied up.
Batman and Robin were able to stop others
with their special Bat glue guns, which made them unable to move from their
running positions.
Superman used his chilled breath to freeze
another group in place. "There. You'll all get a chance to
thaw out behind bars."
Finally, the Wonder Twins knew what they had
to do to stop the last team of crooks.
"Wonder Twin powers--activate!"
"Shape of…an elephant!"
"Form of…frozen water!"
Jayna then used her trunk to grab all the
frozen water and spray it at the criminals, freezing them all in place.
Amidst all the confusion, only Scooby and
his friends noticed both Dr. Kendall and Princess Terrina escaping through
a side door.
"They're getting away!" Velma shouted.
"Come on, after them!" screamed Freddy.
Mystery, Inc. all ran after Kendall and the
princess to keep them from escaping.
Wonder Woman finished off the first part of
the operation by recovering the Clairborn Diamond from the part of the
device which held the jewel. "This is the one. I can see Superman's
fingerprint on it."
"That takes care of one part of the problem,"
said Robin. "Now, where are Kendall and the princess?"
"That's not the only people missing," Zan
noted. "Scooby and his friends are also missing."
"They must have gone after them. Come
on, maybe we can help capture those two."
As the Mystery, Inc. team continued to chase
Kendall and Terrina, the twosome split up into two different tunnels.
"Now what?" asked Shaggy.
Velma had a pretty good idea of what to expect.
"Unless I'm mistaken, those two will meet again at a nearby escape ship
at the end of both tunnels."
The Super Friends came up to the kids.
"A jet, huh?" said Wonder Woman. "Leave
this to Superman and me."
"Right. Let's go." Superman then
took her hand and flew into the left tunnel at high speeds.
Amazingly, Scooby-Doo himself followed them.
Shaggy dropped his jaw in amazement.
"I don't believe it! Like, he's flipped!"
"I think you're right," Jayna concurred.
"He wants to prove his bravery, but this isn't the way to do it."
At the other end, Dr. Kendall and Princess
Terrina reached the other side safely and were about to enter their getaway
jet when they were suddenly grabbed from behind by the two heroes.
"How did you find us so fast?" the princess
demanded.
Superman said, "Two tunnels, both coming out
the same place. We know all about this part."
Princess Terrina had one last trick, though.
She had a smoke bomb appear in her hand and quickly threw it on the ground,
causing it to explode on impact.
As Superman and Aquaman struggled to breathe,
Kendall and Terrina took their chance to escape and thought they did so.
Scooby then entered the area and accidentally
breathed in some of the smoke, causing him to sneeze uncontrollably.
The Great Dane's last sneeze forced him back
so hard he hit the two thieves and rammed them into their ship.
Superman went into a big spin and cleared
the air.
Wonder Woman then noticed a spectacular sight.
"Scooby-Doo did it! He caught both Dr. Kendall and the supposed ghost
of Princess Terrina."
The others came along and could not believe
their eyes themselves.
Robin exclaimed, "Holy quick capture!
Scooby captured both of them!"
Batman came up to the dog and petted him proudly.
"You're a hero again, Scooby. You nabbed the last two we needed to
end this whole operation."
"Awww," blushed Scooby. "Rr-it was nothing."
Freddy then came up to Princess Terrina.
"Now let's see who this phoney ghost princess really is."
Quickly pulling the mask off, a woman with
green eyes and beautiful red hair was revealed.
"I know who she is," Superman said in shock.
"That's Serena Millsford. She was one of the finest actresses in
the Metropolis Acting Company, but her career plummeted when she did a
bad play that closed on opening night."
"Guess you know, huh, Man of Steel?" Serena
said angrily.
"Why did you help Dr. Kendall?"
"He promised me a lot of money for my services
in helping him get the vegetation ray to work on the Sahara Desert.
I would have gotten it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids, those
two animals, or the Super Friends."
Dr. Kendall himself had something to say.
"I don't understand. Why did you stop me from trying to help the
world?"
The King of the Seas had a simple answer.
"Your intentions were noble, Doctor, but the consequences of your ray would
have been enormous around the world. Nature has the precious balance,
and you nearly destroyed it. You and all your group will have plenty of
time to figure out your mistakes behind bars."
As they escorted everyone associated with
Kendall to awaiting authorities, Shaggy noted, "We were promised we could
eat if we did the job."
"He's right," said Zan. "We did make
a promise they could eat the Nepal cuisine."
Wonder Woman rolled her eyes. "Okay,
let's get Shaggy and Scooby their food before they get upset at us for
not keeping our word."
A few minutes later, Shaggy and Scooby ate
every conceivable food item in the cuisine and said they would return again
for more, much to the chagrin of some of the locals.
Within the hour, the Super Friends and Mystery,
Inc. had all returned safely to the Hall of Justice.
When everyone came in, Superman wanted to
say something immediately. "Scooby-Doo, you and your friends were
able to prove yourselves worthy of being members of the Justice League
by using your brains and courage. You don't necessarily need powers
to be super heroes yourselves. In honor of that, we would like to
make all of you honorary members of the Justice League."
Freddy spoke for all of them. "We're
honored, Superman. We accept honorary membership."
Wonder Woman then gave Freddy a JLA communicator.
"If there is ever any trouble too big for you and your friends to handle,
just let us know with this, and we'll respond in a hurry. Just, um,
don't let Shaggy and Scooby use it to ask for the nearest restaurant."
Everyone laughed very hard at her joke, except
Shaggy
and Scooby, of course.
Velma said, "I think it's time for us to go."
"Won't you stay here with us?" asked Aquaman
sadly.
"I'm sorry, but there are still many mysteries
that need solving, mysteries that have our names on them."
"We understand. It's been such a pleasure
working with all of you. I hope we'll see each other again soon."
"So do I, Aquaman. It really was a lot
of fun to work with the Justice League, learning all the similarities between
our adventures, and then stopping a scientist from wreaking havoc around
the world."
The two groups shook hands one last time,
and then the Mystery, Inc. team went to their Mystery Machine van.
Driving away, the teenage team of detectives took special memories of their
incredible adventure with the Super Friends, the greatest team of super
heroes in the world.
