Lets get this out of the way first. Paraphrasing the words of the Immortal Sgt.

I own nothing, NOTHING!

I do NOT own any Buffy or Scooby Doo characters. This is just for fun, and no money is being made from this.

Spoilers: Buffy Season 5 and up. And the Scooby Doo cartoons/movies. (The Scooby Doo characters will be the movie versions in looks.) This chapter will involve both gangs to an extent.

Character thoughts will be in brackets and italics.

Setting Notes: I haven't watched season 5 of Buffy in a bit. And since this is just for fun, I'm not going to be doing a lot of research regarding canon. So any deviation from the set story line of BtVS will be from the butterfly effect (or the real fact that my memory is a bit faulty.) And changes will happen from there.

Chapter Opens a few hours after Shag and Scooby have been picked up.

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We have ignition

Chapter Two: Welcome To Sunnydale

"Are we there yet?"

"Yeah we there yet?"

Daphne twisted around in her seat looking at Shaggy and Scooby. "Guys we're ten minutes closer than the last time you asked."

"If you two can't behave I'll turn this van around and we'll go right back home. Fred piped in, trying to contain his chuckles.

"Alright alright you try to run and old gag." Shaggy was sounding just a little defensive.

"Shag the gags good, but you've run it into the ground. So we aren't going to fall for it again." Velma interjected while perusing the map.

"Well Scoob it looks like their on to us."

"The sign says the Sunnydale exit is only a couple miles from here. Velma which exit do we take?"

"There's only one so don't miss it. Or we'll have to go for another 15 miles before the next exit and will have to double back."

"Don't worry I won't miss it." Sheesh. Like I deliberately get off track. I'm not always getting lost like that blond to the bone cartoon version of me. Red herring indeed! Fred was a bit lost in thought until Daphne suddenly yelled. "Fred! Pay attention we're almost on top of it."

Oh God I can't believe I spaced out like that. "Don't worry I see it." As he stepped on the brake and shifted furiously.

Everyone heard a bad KLUNK! As Fred came to a stop and the end of the exit ramp. And everyone but Fred went "Oh Shit!"

"Don't worry were still good." Fred stated calmly. Please let it be good. But as soon as he took it out of first gear the transmission started vibrating badly enough to put them all on edge. "I think I see a full service station up the block. Lets stop there."

While Fred was trying to sound cheerful. Everyone else was exchanging a long suffering look. They got out ansd watched Fred go up to someone who looked like a mechanic.

"I'm having a little trouble, with my van."

"That things so old I'm surprised you even have it running."

"It's been all over the country. Hundreds of thousands of miles. It's been real dependable." Fred said rather testily.

"If you say so."

"Look I had it in storage for years. But I drained all the fluids etc. I even flushed out the radiator before I put it up for storage. I haul it out for the road trip and spend some time prepping it. Including putting fresh fluids into the transmission. When I down shifted coming down the exit ramp it felt like my transmission started to give up."

"Oh boy, did you put some," (leaning over he whispered to Fred,) into your transmission?"

"Yeah it's good stuff.."

"The problem is that there seems tyo have been a quality control lapse and some contaminants have gotten into some of the latest batch. On new cars it will wear out the tranny faster and you'd need servicing a lot quicker. But for something as old as your driving, well…. there's not much that you can do."

"Why hasn't there been some kind of consumer notice?"

"The maker is keeping hush hush and is denying everything. Anyone who says anything is getting sued for everything they own. We aren't set up to do the kind of work you'll need, and I already know most of the local shops are pretty booked. I had to get my truck towed in a week ago. But I can arrange a tow to a nearby shop in the morning, they should get to it in a couple of days. There's a hotel just up the street a couple of blocks. There's also a night club and coffee shop for locals near the hotel. I suggest you go for it. It'll be getting dark soon, and you don't want to be stuck looking for rooms after it gets dark."

"But we're on vacation. We were staying here for the night but we we're going to head out tomorrow."

"Them's the breaks. Welcome to Sunnydale, you can take it or leave it."

"I'll take it."

The mechanic handed Fred the shops card with contact information, and Fred walks dejectedly over to the gang.

"What's wrong Fred?" Daphne asked with a good deal of concern in her voice.

"According to him it looks like the transmission is shot. He suggest we get a room at the hotel up there and wait until morning to get a shop to look at it."

With that said Velma looked a bit concerned. "It's only about an hour until it gets dark. I suggest we get a meal and rooms. I don't want to be wandering around in this town at dark. We had reservations for a nice place. But that's clear across town. It would take forever to get there."

As they started off Fred asked Velma. "You think I can sue for damages? That guy told me that the brand of transmission fluid I used is possibly contaminated. Want to represent me?"

"Did you say contaminated transmission fluid?"

"Yeah"

"Fred I don't know how to break this to you. But I'm a junior lawyer on the defense team at Wolfram and Hart for any lawsuits rising from contamination claims. So I wouldn't make any of those statements near me. I'm not trying to be a hardass, but if I hear anything like that and don't report it. It could be my job." (AN:1)

"OK Velma I won't bring it up again." At least not around you.

"Huh look at that old cemetery over their. I'm kind of amazed they put so much business around an old spooky place like that." Shaggy pointed out.

"Uhm Shag I kind of hate to tell you this. But Sunnydale has over a dozen cemeteries just in town." Velma was looking kind of shame faced.

"Why would a town have that many cemeteries?" Everyone else was looking puzzled, as Shaggy asked.

"You might have never heard of it. But this town has a greater number of unsolved deaths than many towns of three or even four times it's size."

Fred and Daphne exchanged looks as if to say Oh no not again. While Shag and Scooby seemed to be a bit excited.

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Yes yet another cliffy. Don't worry a member of the Buffy scoobies should be on scene either next chapter or the chapter after that. I said I didn't have any real idea of what I was doing after all. So pipe up and let me know if you like or dislike the idea. No flames please.

Autors notes:

(AN:1) Yep I did say Wolfram & Hart.

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