Meanwhile, Vincent kept dodging Asmodeus and Asmodeus was being confronted by Trigon who helped out.
"Never did I ever imagine receiving help from Trigon." Vincent commented to himself.
"Don't get used to it, van Ghoul," Trigon replied. "I'm only doing this because I want to get rid of Asmodeus for betraying me!"
"Fair enough." Vincent replied.
"As for you!" Trigon soon grabbed a hold of Asmeodeus and flung him against the wall. "That's for betraying me!"
"I didn't need you!" Asmodeus glared. "I would've ruled the world all by myself!"
"I'm going to make sure you get put back in that chest where you belong." Trigon glared to his so-called old friend.
"Not before I send you straight back to Hell!" Asmodeus retorted.
"If I have to go, then you're going down with me!" Trigon scowled.
They soon heard some moan which made them look around.
"I am the 14th ghost..." A 'sheet ghost' said as he moaned and groaned, coming toward the two demons. "Whooooohhh~"
"Oh, dear." Vincent face-palmed to that.
"There's no 14th ghost!" Trigon remarked.
"He's right!" Asmodeus added.
"Like, that's what yooooou think!" Shaggy's voice replied.
Asmodeus snarled and soon went after the sheet ghost.
"No!" Vincent cried out, throwing the chest and soon went to stop the winged demon as he lunged out.
The two then ended up on the floor with the Chest of Demons beside them.
"The chest!" Scooby gasped.
Asmodeus soon grabbed the chest and ran.
"NO!" Vincent called out as he chased after the winged demon.
The others soon came over top.
"Is that Asmodeus?" The teen boy asked.
"Nope, but a ghost's a ghost!" Velma smiled, about to shoot the sheet ghost.
Scooby looked over and waved with a smile. "Hi."
"It's doing something!" Fred pointed out.
"Velma! Now! Use the VacuuSpook!" The teen boy cried out.
Velma did just that and the machine began to charge up.
"No!" Scooby panicked. "It's me!"
The sheet was soon lifted up.
"Daphne? Shaggy? And Scooby?" Fred asked. "Huh, nice human pyramid!"
"Did you say 'Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby'?" The teen boy smiled brightly.
"Flim-Flam?!" The trio asked in shock.
"I thought your name was Benny?" Velma asked the teen boy.
"Oh, no. Benny owns the shop, I'm just the eye candy." The teen boy smiled as he came down the stairs.
"Flim-Flam, is that you?!" Brianna called out.
"Brianna, you're here too?" Flim-Flam smiled. "Of course it's me!"
"Like, dude! You've grown up!" Shaggy said.
"Fast!" Scooby added.
"I was long overdue for a growth spurt," Flim-Flam smiled. "Daphne, your hair is totally different! Shaggy, I've never seen you wear a shirt that isn't red!"
"Hiya!" Scooby smiled as he jumped into Flim-Flam's arms before licking his face.
"Scooby-Doo, you and Brianna haven't changed one bit," Flim-Flam smiled as he held the Great Dane in his arms. "You know, I thought that red van was familiar."
Trigon looked over and didn't want to deal with the cheery demeanor and happiness, so he went back to Jo's mind.
"Flim-Flam?!" Vinny gasped.
"Vinny, you're here too!" Flim-Flam replied.
"Well, looks like the gang's all here." Fred commented.
"Except Scrappy." Flim-Flam remarked.
Fred and Velma looked to each other in confusion as though they forgot all about Scooby's nephew.
"What's a Scrappy?" Velma asked.
"Velma, that's not very nice." Brianna scolded.
"Oh, Flim-Flam, it's good to see you, I feel like I haven't seen you in years." Vinny smiled.
"I feel the same way about you," Flim-Flam said as he began to look at his best friend differently from when they were kids. "You were... You were..." he then paused as he looked into her eyes and she did the same to him.
"I missed you too..." Vinny soon smiled before blushing as well as he did.
The two smiled to each other.
"Come on!" Daphne told the others.
"She's right," Vinny said. "We have to help Uncle Vince."
"Vincent's here too?" Flim-Flam replied before deadpanning. "Was nobody going to pick up a phone?!"
"Eddy, would you go and get Jo for us?" Mike suggested.
"Sure thing, Mike." Eddy replied as he went off.
"Lift with your knees, not your back." Mike said.
"Yeah, yeah," Eddy replied only to struggle with lifting her up. "Man, she's heavier than I thought. Come on, Jo, wake up!"
Meanwhile, Jo was waiting for the results, then she saw Botan coming over with a small smile.
"Well, what's going on?" Jo asked.
"You'll get to live." Botan smiled.
"What's the catch?" Jo asked.
"No catch, as long as you continue to use your powers responsibly, and-" Botan smiled.
"Yo, Botan?" A voice called.
Jo turned to see with Botan that there was a boy around teenager age with spiky orange hair in a black robe.
"What's the verdict?" The boy asked.
"Jo is going to live until her time eventually does come," Botan told him. "You don't have to collect her soul, Ichigo."
"Dammit! Rukia told me that she was ready!" Ichigo complained. "What a waste of my time!"
"I don't know what gave you that thought." Botan smirked.
"Hmph." Ichigo pouted.
"Uh...?" Jo blinked.
"Don't worry, you'll find out later." Botan told Jo.
"Whatever you say." Jo shrugged to that.
"Ready to go?" Botan asked.
"Yeah, I'm ready." Jo nodded.
"Close your eyes." Botan told her.
Jo then did as told.
"Now open them." Botan said.
Jo soon opened her eyes and found herself back in the temple with the others as she was brought back to Earth to continue living her life.
"Man, she's heavier than I thought." Eddy grunted as he still struggled to pick up Jo.
"Hey!" Jo called out to him.
"ZOMBIE!" Eddy then panicked and rushed off, dropping Jo and hid behind a pillar.
"You don't change much, do ya?" Jo deadpanned as she fell to the floor from that.
"Jo, is that you?" Eddy asked.
"Who do you think it is?" Jo deadpanned.
"Well, uh, it's just that you were kinda dead or something, I thought maybe you weren't conscious." Eddy shrugged.
"Well, no, I'm not dead!" Jo rolled her eyes.
"How was I supposed to know?" Eddy replied.
"At least you didn't draw on my face for once," Jo rolled her eyes. "I don't know how you and Duncan think you can get away with pulling that shit on me."
"Aw, Jo, would I do that to you?" Eddy replied.
"Let me think for a min-YES!" Jo glared.
"Uh, let's go see the others." Eddy said, trying to change the subject.
The duo ran over to catch up with the others, but they were surprised to see Vincent unconscious.
"Vincent!" Flim-Flam cried out.
"Uncle Vince!" Vinny added.
The two ran over to the fallen wizard.
"Flim-Flam?" Vincent muttered. "Oh, this is quite a reunion," he then looked to see his niece. "Virginia Maurecia van Ghoul, haven't I told you to go back to school?"
"I'm sorry, Uncle Vince, but I had to see you." Vinny frowned.
"Well... It's good to see you," Vincent admitted. "But I'm afraid it's too late. The world is doomed! And it's all my fault!"
"That's crazy; we fought all of the 13 ghosts," Flim-Flam replied. "If it really is the end, we're all responsible."
"Yeah!" Vinny added.
"No, you don't understand, the portrait, hanging in the family's castle, isn't of me, but of mine and Vinny's ancestor, the first to bear the name 'van Ghoul'," Vincent replied. "He was the most powerful sorcerer the world has ever known, but power corrupts... Little by little, he used his magic to twist the will of man into his service, but the powers of good conspired to elite my ancestor from his appointed throne. He was defeated, stripped of his mortality, and trapped in a specially crafted, inescapable prison, where unfortunately, he had nothing but to wait and grow his already substantial powers. In life, he was called 'Asamad van Ghoul', but now he goes by..."
"Asmodeus..." Flim-Flam and Vinny whispered in realization.
"Vinny, her mother, and I are the last of the van Ghouls," Vincent continued. "And as such, the crimes of our ancestor are my responsibility as the man of the family, and mine alone. I'm sorry I never told you."
"Old fool!" Asmodeus scoffed.
Everyone turned around to see the demon coming out of the shadows with the chest in his hands.
"It's finished!" Asmodeus grinned darkly as he put down the chest. "The Chest is mine!" He soon opened it up.
Flim-Flam and Vinny soon both gagged as that seemed to repulse them and even Vincent groaned.
"He's releasing the ghost!" Daphne panicked.
"We're too late!" Brianna added.
"What kind of attitude is that?" Fred huffed to them before taking out his pom-poms. "We've got spirit, yes we do! We've got spirit, how 'bout-..." he then paused as this wasn't helping anyone. "You know what? Bad time."
"Ya think?" Mike deadpanned.
Asmodeus laughed wickedly as it seemed like he had won this round between good and evil.
"Velma! Now!" Flim-Flam called out. "Use the VacuuSpook!"
Velma soon took out the weapon as she slowly walked up to Asmodeus before stopping. "No."
"What are you doing?!" June cried out.
"Mr. van Ghoul, something's bothering me." Velma glared.
"Is it your attitude lately? Cuz that's what's bothering me." Mike rolled her eyes.
"No." Velma glared back.
"Is it the smell?" Vincent asked as he plugged his nose.
"In the last day, I've seen everything I've believed turned upside down," Velma glared to him. "Ghosts and demons were real, so I decided to play by that set of rules."
"Along with acting like Scrappy doesn't matter?" Brianna replied. "Sure, he may be annoying, but he was just a kid."
"Anyway, I'm saying that rules are rules," Velma continued. "And the first rule of the Chest of Demons is that it can only be opened by the living."
The others gasped to that.
"Why, that's right!" Vincent remembered.
Asmodeus soon slammed the chest shut once he had been exposed and soon ran off with it.
"Yes," Brianna smirked. "It is time find out who he really is." She then used the VacuuSpook to suck up the demon.
Velma and Daphne both ducked down as Asmodeus tried to get away, but it was hopeless for him.
"NO!" Asmodeus cried out as he flew back before dropping the Chest of Demons and his head seemed to come off to reveal to be a mask.
"Another mask?" Mike face-palmed. "Man, this adventure's kind of a major letdown."
Vincent was shocked as the demon was actually Mortifer. "It... It can't be!" he then gassped. "My sister and I saw you die!"
Vincent's memory soon showed Mortifer being taken by the dark demons as Vincent and Vaskila looked horrified for their friend.
"You saw an illusion!" Mortifer smirked to him. "I was always good with illusions. A magician that tricked the wizards!"
"But why?" Vincent frowned.
"I wanted the Chest, Vincent!" Mortifer glared. "But you wouldn't let it go... You thought it called to you, but you never saw it for what it really is. An artifact... Ancient... Beautiful... And priceless!"
"Priceless? How did you come up with $10,000,000, that's your asking number, isn't it, Quinch?" A voice then asked. Out of the shadows was Bernie Alan who was apporching the group.
"Bernie Alan?!" Fred gasped. "Boy, you're a bad penny!"
"More like a bad check." Shaggy remarked.
"Bernie Alan? Ha! I think not!" The man smirked as his voice suddenly changed before he was revealed to be a totally different man in disguise. "Vance Linklater: Undercover Interpol agent and amateur figure skater."
"Don't let Josee and Jacques hear you say that." June smirked.
"Swarm, boys!" The man called out into his wrist communicator.
Out of the ceiling came the SWAT team and they surrounded Mortifer with guns as the others looked shocked.
"We've been tracking Old Quinchy here for months," Vance smirked to the group. "Ever since he's been reaching out to the world's wealthiest collectors about selling them the legendary Chest of Demons, but the trail went cold after your garage sale, kids. So, lucky I was in town in line for the Male Himalayas Interpreter's Semi-Finals."
"Like, if you're a cop, why did you run away from us?" Shaggy asked.
"I'm afraid of teenagers." Vance muttered.
"Does everybody have ephebiphobia now?" Cindy deadpanned.
"So it was only about profiting off the sale of an ancient relic!" Daphne glared. "It was never about releasing the 13 ghosts!"
"Like, speaking of which, where are they?" Shaggy wondered. "What was all that vapor?"
Scooby soon came up to the chest and sniffed it before groaning and taking out a decayed old sandwich. "An old sandwich!"
"That's disgusting!" Double D groaned as his face turned green.
"Can I have it?" Ed smiled.
"NO!" Eddy and Double D replied.
"Like, oh, man!" Shaggy yelped.
"What is it, Shaggy?" Trent asked.
"I think I shipped Vincent the wrong Chest of Demons," Shaggy said as he picked up the box. "This one's the cooler I bought off Flim-Flam!"
"Told ya I sold one." Flim-Flam smirked.
"That still doesn't explain the lights and screaming mist." Daphne glared.
"Heh, that's just part of the premium total immersion package." Flim-Flam chuckled as he showed a switch behind the box for on and off for the mist.
"Well, you kids have been a great help," Vance grinned as Mortifer was being taken away. "You should think about solving mysteries full-time."
Mike and June glanced to each other with slight deadpan to that statement.
"Wait a second! We're not done here!" Daphne glared before nudging Fred.
"Huh? Oh, yeah!" Fred replied before going to Mortifer and whispered him something to say.
"I... Would've gotten away with this..." Mortifer began.
Fred then whispered in his ear again.
"If it weren't for you meddling kids?" Mortifer then finished.
"Eh, we'll take it." Eddy shrugged.
Mystery Inc looked relieved once that was finally said, it was annoying, but they kind of missed it.
"That's better." Brianna smiled.
"I'm sorry, old friend." Mortifer bowed his head to Vincent.
"For impersonating my ancestor?" Vincent replied.
"And for this!" Mortifer smirked as he made the handcuffs disappear from his wrists and they were suddenly on Vincent's and the demon car came through, breaking the wall in the process. "That's my ride."
The others glanced to him.
"Don't look so shocked." Mortifer scoffed at them before running to the car and soon drove away.
"We gotta stop him!" June proclaimed.
"Oh, just let him go." Vincent suggested.
"No, the car's engine," Abbey clarified. "If he keeps revving like that-"
"The avalanche!" Vincent realized. "You're right!"
And with that, the others chased after Mortifer while the SWAT team looked at each other and shrugged. Mortifer soon drove the car through the snow tunnel and came out of the avalanche zone before he kept driving off.
"Mortifer! You must listen!" Vincent called out as he came with the others. "The engine-"
"Sounds fine to me!" Mortifer laughed before he drove down the bridge. "So long, Vincent!"
The mountains up above began to rumble and were about to bring out another avalanche.
"Mortifer, you fool! STOP!" Vincent cried out.
Mortifer didn't hear him as he was still driving the car, but there were cracks on the bridge, bringing it down and taking Mortifer down with it.
"NOOOO!" Vincent cried out.
Vinny soon hugged to her Uncle Vince with slight tears in her eyes. Vincent looked down and soon hugged her right back. There appeared to be a snowy ghostly form of Asmodeus and soon it turned into Asamad.
"Asamad..." Vincent whispered before the image cleared. "He's at peace... Asamad van Ghoul can finally rest, but I don't understand..."
"Well, it might have something to do with this translation." Velma said, handing him the big book from earlier.
Vincent took the book and cracked it open. "'Asmodeus will not rest until he achieves his revenge'."
"Only, the ancient Sanskrit word for revenge looks a lot like the word for redemption," Velma clarified. "Asamad van Ghoul had a lot of time in The Chest of Demons to consider his misdeeds. He wasn't looking for vengeance, he wanted to be redeemed. What I have to guess is that the 13th ghost, your ancestor, was looking out for you like a guardian angel, and now that you and Vinny are safe, he can finally rest."
"Yes, that's right," Vinny replied. "We're sure of it."
"Are you guys nuts?!" Eddy remarked. "That was a big clod-"
June stepped on his foot so he wouldn't say anything else.
"YEOWCH!" Eddy yelped from that.
"I'm sorry about your friend." Vance said to Vincent.
"Look!" Vinny cried out once she saw someone climbing on the other end of the cliff on the other side.
Mortifer soon chuckled once he made it out alive only to get tackled by the SWAT Team.
"It's okay," Vincent replied. "I can always visit him... In the 'Ghoul-log'."
Vinny rolled her eyes slightly as her uncle had a laugh to himself.
"He's gonna be fine." Daphne said.
"Yep." Brianna added.