Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby went to talk to Brick.
"Hi, there." Shaggy smiled.
Brick sighed to them. "Fantastic..."
"Like, I know we were a little unprepared before, but now, we have got the act for you!" Shaggy smiled.
"Reah!" Scooby added.
Brick just looked nervous to them.
"We are, hold for it," Shaggy said before posing with Scooby. "Contortionists!"
"Ta-da!" Scooby added.
"All right, well, let's see what you got." Brick smiled politely.
Shaggy and Scooby were cracking their necks and hands to get ready. Velma was walking around the dressing until she heard Shaggy and Scooby screaming which made her run to see what was going on, but she ran into Brick.
"You might wanna go help your friends. They've gotten themselves a little tangled, heh. Fantastic." Brick said to Velma before he then ran away.
Velma soon poked her head in to see Shaggy and Scooby were tied up like a pretzel.
"We need aspirin, a chiropractor and some baby oil," Shaggy told her before they crashed in the middle of the floor. "Right now."
"Ooookay." Velma replied.
Back at the stage...
"Next up is Lotte Lavoie." Dewey said.
"All right, all right! Throat spray!" Lotte demanded.
A bodyguard soon handed her her spray. Lotte took it and sprayed her throat before tossing it and taking her microphone as it was her time to shine.
"Good luck, Aunt Lotte." Anne Maria said.
Shaggy and Scooby hid behind backstage in fright.
"I don't need it, Annie, I was born amazing." Lotte told her young niece.
"I'm sure you were." Anne Maria replied.
Lotte tried to sing, but she couldn't which made everyone look confused. Johnny and Anne Maria looked a bit shocked and surprised. Lotte coughed as her singing sounded very raspy and off-key. She then tried again, but it got worse.
"Who did this to me?!" Lotte gasped wheezily. "Someone is gonna pay for this! Someone is gonna pay!"
"Aunt Lotte!" Anne Maria cried out and rushed over to her.
"Oh, Annie, my singing voice is gone!" Lotte said to her niece.
Backstage, a doctor was examining the diva.
"How is she, Doc?" Anne Maria asked.
"Her throat has been sprayed with some kind of chemical irritant," The doctor told her before looking back to Lotte. "There's no permanent damage, but you won't be able to sing for a week."
"I'm gonna sue you," Lotte glared before pointing around as she got angry. "And you. And you. And everyone! Somebody had better fix this or I am going to get mad! Annie, find the someone who did this!"
"Sure thing." Anne Maria replied.
"You help her, Johnny," Lotte then demanded as she grabbed Johnny by his collar. "And make sure that she doesn't get hurt, or else I will tear you apart!"
"My name is-Oh, wait, you said it right." Johnny replied.
"NOW!" Lotte glared before coughing.
"Uh, sure thing, ma'am." Johnny replied.
"Do you think that maybe the Phantom is behind this?" Brianna asked the others.
"Hmm... It could be." Fred replied.
"We're behind schedule, people," Dewey called out. "Next up are Blake and Jones."
"Okay, we'll keep an eye open for the Phantom." Velma suggested to Fred and Daphne.
"Don't worry about a thing." Shaggy added before coming out the door with Scooby to go and explore.
Fred came to the center stage, playing his guitar as Daphne came to the center stage as well and starts singing.
"Rainstorm over the ocean, Sunshine after the rain, Clouds rise up from the water, Nature's endless chain~" Daphne began to sing.
"I'm going with you guys." Johnny said as he came to Shaggy and Scooby.
"Same here," Anne Maria glared. "That Phantom Bozo needs to pay."
They soon saw someone running.
"Like, I think we found the suspect." Shaggy said to them.
They chased after the phantom, and even climbed up the ladder to see the Phantom, but it wasn't, it was only Brick.
"Like, it's only Brick." Shaggy said.
"Thank goodness, I thought maybe I'd have to take some drastic action." Anne Maria muttered to herself as she hid an orange gemstone which was known as the The Orange Citrine of Fire.
"You say something?" Johnny asked his girlfriend.
"Oh, nothing~" Anne Maria replied innocently.
"You guys were great!" Emma smiled as she ran towards Daphne and Fred.
"Thanks." Daphne smiled back as she hugged Emma.
Shaggy, Scooby, Anne Maria, and Johnny landed on Brick's back.
"Sorry, sir. So sorry." Shaggy said.
"Was that your new act?" Brick asked until he stood up with them. "What are you, the human cannonball?"
"No, we thought you were the Phantom." Shaggy said as he gave Brick his blazer back.
"What? Why would you think that?" Brick replied with a chuckle. "That's crazy."
The four looked at each other as Dewey looked at the clipboard.
"The Great Pauldini and Magic Megan!" Dewey then announced.
A drum roll was heard before the two suddenly appeared in a puff of smoke. The Girl-O-Saurus group were in the audience, and the green-haired one looked excited while the others looked bored. Magic Megan stood beside her godfather as a disappearing instrument came down and The Great Pauldini was suddenly gone and she acted surprised, putting her hands to her face. Everyone then clapped for the magicians.
"Still no sign of the Phantom." Tom commented.
"Maybe this whole thing is over?" Suzie suggested.
"Hmm... I doubt it." Brianna replied.
"Waldo and Hufnagel?" Dewey called.
"Say, Hufnagel, are you an actor or a dummy?" Waldo asked his dummy.
"I don't know, what's the difference?" Hufnagel replied.
"He is so hot~" Nancy gushed.
"Oh, my gosh, he's on fire!" Cathy added.
"Totally!" Donna added.
"No, I mean, he's really on fire!" Cathy told them.
"Hey, Hufnagel, do you... Smell something burning?" Waldo asked until he looked over.
Everyone then yelped as they saw a fireball on stage.
The phantom laughed as Velma put out the fireball then the lights went off. "Christine must win!" he then proclaimed.
"Security, find that Phantom," Dewey demanded. "Find him, find him!"
"This is terrible! I'm scared Sky, what should we do?" Jessie panicked until she looked around to see that her big sister was gone. "Sky?"
"Jessie, you okay?" Ella asked the young girl.
"I'm fine, but Sky is gone." Jessie frowned.
"Oh, don't worry, honey," Ella soothed. "I'm sure that she is okay."
Jessie smiled to the fairy tale princess. Ella soon gave Jessie a hug and hummed sweetly to her.
"Oh, Ella, I just love your songs." Jessie smiled as she hugged against Ella thankfully.
Sky was in the bathroom, looking around. Luckily, nobody was there and she looked at the mirror.
"All right, Phantom, you want to play games?" Sky scoffed. "Well, two can play at that game. Nobody hurts innocent people around me and gets away with it!" She soon put on a mask and suddenly, flying out of the bathroom came the superhero who was known as Knight Wolf.
Waldo was dragging Hufnagel backstage.
"Hey, you're not leaving, are you, buddy?" Brick asked him.
"No, heh, I thought I'd stay and risk my life for a stupid talent show." Waldo smiled before glaring sarcastically.
"Hey, that's fanta-Hey!" Brick replied.
"Of course I'm leaving, and the rest of you will too, if you have any sense," Waldo told the others before coming up to the punk rockers and held out something for them. "Ahem. My card."
Cathy took it until the others began to fight her for it.
"Girl-O-Saurus Rex, you're on!" Dewey called out.
The others sat down in the audience to watch them preform.
"Do you think Sky's okay, Ella?" Jessie asked.
"I'm sure she's fine, sweetie, don't worry too much." Ella soothed.
"We are Girl-O-Saurus Rex!" Cathy called out.
The girls roared like dinosaurs which made Scooby cower in fear.
"One, two, one, two, three, four!" Nancy counted to start the song.
"I think Duncan and Abby would like this, maybe Ashlyn too." Brianna commented.
They played their song only for their guitars to get destroyed along with the drums.
"Bummer." Brianna frowned.
The drum rolled down the theater. Cathy smiled sheepishly as she started to sing just to keep going until everyone heard a laughing sound and they saw the Phantom's face on the screen, laughing.
"Christine must win!" The Phantom laughed.
"That Phantom sure is persistent." Trent commented.
"I want to tell them, but if I do, I will face grave consequences." Kasey whispered to herself.
Alexandra looked over to her after she heard that, but didn't say anything.
"The Phantom!" Sugar panicked. "Protect me, Henry! Save me!"
"Uh, excuse me?" Henry blinked.
"Protect me!" Sugar cried out as she hugged the eldest Chan brother.
Henry then gently got Sugar off of her.
"Wah!" Sugar yelped.
"H-He's everywhere... What the heck?!" KT asked once he saw the Phantom again on screen.
"Don't worry. We'll find him," The other security guard said. "Let's split up."
The security guards then ran into each other.
"Okay. The other way." The other security guard then said.
They then fell right off of the stage and on their faces.
"Find him!" Dewey begged while shivering. "Now, now, now, NOW!"
"Right. We're out of here." Nancy said.
"Ladies, where are you going?" Brick asked. "Come on."
"Dude, someone busted our instruments, what's next, our heads?" Donna glared, shoving her guitar into his hands.
"Think we can still catch up with Waldo?" Nancy asked the others.
"What do you mean we?" Cathy smirked as she had the paper and snuck away only for them to come and chase her.
"We've gotta do something," Fred said. "Velma, you've seen all the acts, right?" he then asked.
"Yeah." Velma replied.
"Who you think the front-runners are? I mean, of the ones that are left?" Fred asked.
"Honestly? You guys, Nazz, Sky, Ella, Brianna and Trent, Henry and Alexandra, the violin girl and Chrissy." Velma replied.
"So if the Phantom wants Chrissy to win, he'll try to get rid of Emma and us." Daphne said.
"Velma, can you get Emma's parents to take her someplace safe?" Fred suggested.
"Sure." Velma smiled.
"We're gonna set a trap for the Phantom, and Daphne and I will be the bait." Fred replied.
"Oh, heh, good," Daphne smiled before trying to look like she didn't really care. "I mean, yeah, whatever."
"And the rest of us?" Trent asked.
"You guys will set the trap, then get into hiding positions, then take him by surprise." Fred suggested.
"You got it." Brianna replied.
Jessie just looked worried about her sister.
"Don't worry, sweetie. I'm sure she's fine." Ella comforted.
"I really hope so." Jessie said to her sister's friend.
Kasey looked at them, looking worried until she saw Chrissy backstage, glaring at her.
"You better keep your mouth shut." Chrissy glared.
"Why do you guys have to be so harsh to me?" Kasey asked. "What did I ever do?"
"You were born." Chrissy replied evilly.
"I'm a human being! Not a dog!" Kasey told her.
"Chrissy told us about how you stayed in a room with someone else last night." Barb replied.
"Y-Yeah... Alexandra Cabot." Kasey admitted.
"You're in a lot of trouble now." Chrissy said.
"At least she cared about me unlike you jerks!" Kasey glared before gasping at what she said.
"What did you say, you little wench?!" Lance glared.
"I-I-I-I didn't mean it! I'm sorry!" Kasey replied.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Chrissy said, about to lunge out for her sister.
"No, Chrissy, don't ruin your perfect figure..." Barb cooed before glaring to Kasey. "We'll take care of your sister for you!"
"Thank you, Mommy~" Chrissy smiled, then smirked evilly at her sister who backed up in fear.
Barb soon took Kasey's arm a bit angrily.
"Let go!" Kasey cried out.
"Now it's time for you to be taught a lesson." Barb glared.
"Mom, let go! You're hurting me!" Kasey cried out.
"Good, you deserve it!" Barb replied.
Chrissy just smirked. Knight Wolf took a look around until she caught a glimpse of the Damon family.
"Mom, stop, you're hurting me!" Kasey cried out.
"You deserve it, you little filth!" Barb replied.
"I gotta save her..." Knight Wolf narrowed her eyes as she felt angry and disgusted with Kasey's family treating her so horribly. She then disappeared into the shadows to save the redheaded girl.
"After all we've done for you, this is how you repay us?!" Barb glared.
"Y-Y-Y-You've never cared for me!" Kasey replied. "You just treat me like a pack mule!"
"We put a roof over your head." Lance replied.
"Yeah, just to make me sleep in the garage." Kasey said.
"We gave you food!" Barb replied.
"You mean those table scraps?" Kasey replied.
"And buy you clothes!" Lance then said.
"Yeah, some crummy old hand-me-downs, and these glasses aren't even real, they're fake!" Kasey replied. "You know that I can't see!"
Lance soon lifted his hand, and suddenly, it seemed like Kasey was gone before she could get hit.
"WHAT THE-?!" Barb yelped.
Knight Wolf soon brought Kasey away from her family as she took her away. "Stay right here, sweetie." she then told the redheaded girl before going back to the Damon family.
The Damon Family looked to see a caped figure land right in front of them.
"Who are you?" Lance asked.
"My name is Knight Wolf, and you are an evil family." Knight Wolf replied.
"Look, little girl, Halloween is over, so how about you just run along like a good little girl?" Lance suggested.
"Who said anything about Halloween?" Knight Wolf replied. "You crooks must be working with the Phantom with the way you all act."
Lance and Barb looked at each other and started to laugh.
"Us? The Phantom?!" Barb replied.
"You're crazy, now how about you just run along to your mommy and daddy?" Lance added.
"Fine, bye then." Knight Wolf said as she took Kasey with her.
"Hey, come back here with our child!" Barb demanded.
"Oh, so now you care about her." Knight Wolf rolled her eyes as she ignored them and took Kasey away where her family couldn't hurt her anymore.
"W-Wow..." Kasey whispered as she looked up to see a figure wearing a dark blue bodysuit, a utility belt, black boots, black gloves, a purple cape, and a blue mask.
"It's going to be okay, Kasey, I'm not going to let them hurt you." Knight Wolf told the young girl.
"Who are you?" Kasey asked.
"I'm The Knight Wolf, and you don't need to be afraid as long as I'm around." Knight Wolf told her.
"T-T-Thank you, I was scared." Kasey replied.
"I know, but you don't have to be afraid anymore," Knight Wolf said. "I won't let these monsters hurt you."
Kasey whimpered and hugged her in fright. Knight Wolf then disappeared where Kasey's family wouldn't find her.
"Wow! That was cool." Kasey replied.
"Think nothing of it," Knight Wolf smiled to her. "Now, stay with the others, okay?"
"Where will you be?" Kasey asked.
"Don't worry about me, I'm going to get to the bottom of this whole Phantom mystery." Knight Wolf told her.
"Okay." Kasey replied.
"Be safe." Knight Wolf told her as she then disappeared into the shadows, leaving her with the others.
Meanwhile, Fred and Daphne went to the center stage as the janitor was cleaning.
"Well, uh, we're gonna take a nap now." Fred said out loud.
"In our dressing room." Daphne added in the same way.
"Um, no one cares?" The janitor replied to them.
"Yeah, so, uh, we'll be asleep and napping," Fred called out. "Just totally unprotected."
"In our dressing room. Asleep." Daphne added.
"Unguarded."
"In our dressing room."
"Unguarded."
The janitor just glanced at them as they announced themselves like that. The others then went into the dressing room to hide.
"Hang tight, something's bound to happen." Fred said.
"To you, right? Not to us?" Shaggy asked from inside the closet.
Velma gave him a look.
"What? I'm just asking." Shaggy replied.
"It's a fair question." Scooby added.
Fred then shut the door on them.
"Now, it's only a matter of time." Daphne said.
Fred clapped his hands only to have the lights shut off and they went to sleep.