Fred sat in the chair while Daphne laid down on the couch. A lot of time passed as Fred struggled a bit to get comfortable.
"This is ridiculous," Shaggy complained. "We've been waiting forever. And, Velma, would you get your elbow out of my ribs?"
"I'm over here, Shaggy." Velma said as she came out from behind a sweater.
"Then whose elbow-" Shaggy was about to ask.
Behind the clothes was the Phantom, growling and laughing evilly. They all yelled out and soon ran out of the closet in fear.
"What is it?" Fred asked them.
"Ph-Ph-Ph-Phantom!" Shaggy replied.
"He must've gone through here." Fred said as he looked through the closet before finding the door.
"Like, I hate hidden passages," Shaggy complained. "They never lead anywhere good."
Everyone went through the door minus Sugar who got stuck.
"Hey! I'm stuck!" Sugar complained.
"Oh, well, looks like we'll have to go without her." Brianna said.
"Come on." Fred said.
Everyone just went down to find the Phantom
"Hey! Hey! Hey, you can't just leave me here!" Sugar cried out to them.
"Sure we can." Alexandra replied.
"Get me outta here!" Sugar cried out. "I'll sue!"
Everyone just ignore her and walked down, looking around.
"When's the last time we were in a hidden passage and it led to, like, miniature golf?" Shaggy sighed to himself.
"I'd rather not meet The Great Puttinski, thank you very much." Brianna replied about the villain of miniature golf.
A rat saw them and then hid away.
"We're in the sewer below the Opera House." Velma commented.
"Hey, maybe we can meet the Ninja Turtles down here." Stanley suggested.
"Oh, brother." Henry rolled his eyes.
"Like, these sewers have so many passageways, how are we gonna find...?" Shaggy was about to ask.
"Shh!" Nazz shushed him.
The others looked around as they hear organ music playing.
"This is just like the actual Phantom of the Opera show." Nazz commented.
They soon ran off to follow the sound of the organ's music. They soon came up to a closed pipe and were surrounded by a swarm of rats.
"RATS!" Shaggy shrieked.
They backed up away from the rats. Shaggy started to lose his balance and was about to fall, but Scooby pulled him back up. Shaggy smiled and petted his best friend on the head in gratitude.
"It better not be mutant rats or other mutated animals that tried to live off of the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Brianna said.
"Oh, you mean like those other groups with animal mascots that do the same with Scooby-Doo?" Trent replied.
"Exactly." Brianna nodded.
Henry and Alexandra glanced over.
"Uh, no offense." Brianna smiled nervously.
"None taken." Henry and Alexandra replied.
They soon went to keep going.
"Besides, those were mice, not rats." Trent said.
"We just met rats?" Brianna replied.
"Oh, no, I mean The Biker Mice from Mars." Trent said.
"Oh, yeah... That was a pretty good show." Brianna commented.
"I know, I grew up watching that show." Trent added.
Soon enough, they had to climb over a pile of rocks, but they had to be careful. Luckily, they made it over. Scooby looked over in the shadows to see lots of red eyes.
"Huh?" Scooby blinked.
The figures were then bats who came out of the shadows.
"BATS!" Scooby yelped.
"Man, this sewer is crazy!" Anne rolled her eyes. "You okay, Alexandra?"
"Just because I'm a bit more feminine than you doesn't mean I'm afraid to get down and dirty." Alexandra replied.
"Because her other half likes to get down and dirty." Eddy whispered to that.
"I heard that!" Alexandra glared.
"Uh, guys, watch out!" Nazz warned.
The others screamed as the bats came towards them. Everyone soon ducked down as the bat colony flew on by, but they all fall to what appeared to be a slide and they all went down.
"Oh, my! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" Ella gasped.
"Someone stop this crazy thing!" Eddy cried out.
Fred soon saw a ladder and grabbed onto it while he was sliding and everyone else soon grabbed together once they saw what he did. Velma yelped and was about to meet her demise until Scooby grabbed her by her sweater and pulled her back.
"Jeez, that was close." Brianna breathed in relief for Velma.
"Good thing this sweater's a cable-knit!" Velma replied.
Everyone heard the organ music again.
"There it is again." Suzie said.
"It's coming from over there." Flip pointed out as he heard the sound get louder from the door near them.
They went to the room where the Phantom was there, playing the organ. The music soon stopped.
"I suppose it was only a matter of time until someone found me," The Phantom said as he soon stood up in front of them, surprising the others about his speaking. "Welcome to my home. I have lived here in the dank, reeking sewers all my life, forced to hide from society to conceal the hideous, twisted mass of flesh that is my face. But now, I can hide no longer. Behold, the Phantom of the Opera!" he then removed his face, revealing it was a mask, and he appeared to be an older blonde man.
Everyone then looked confused towards the man.
"Um, you look fine?" Nazz replied.
"Fine, what?" The man asked.
"I mean, you're no Brad Pitt or anything, but you're okay." Daphne said.
"But look. Gaze upon my foul, deformed visage," The man replied, glancing at his reflection before crying. "I'm hideous. Hideous!"
"Dude, this is a fun house mirror." Shaggy told him.
"It is? But this is the only mirror I've ever looked in. I mean, I don't have any others, and when I go out I always wear the mask," The man replied until Daphne took out her compact mirror for him to borrow. "Hey, I look good. Well, this is embarrassing. Wow, uh, ehh! I wish I had the last 40 years back. Uh, so it's super awkward right now. I, uh... Anyway, yeah."
"Uh, Mr. Phantom...?" Henry blinked.
"Steve," The man smiled as he shook hands with the eldest Chan sibling. "Steve Trilby."
"Uh... Steve... Why have you been sabotaging the talent show?" Henry then asked.
"The what now?" Steve asked.
"Talent Star? The TV show?" Suzie replied. "You wrecked instruments, and set fire to a dummy, and-"
"Not me. I haven't been up at all lately, except to get food." Steve replied.
"Is that why you were in our dressing room?" Daphne asked.
"That's the secret door to the vending machines," Steve replied. "I like those burritos. The bean and cheese ones?"
"But, back in the 70's-" Alan spoke up.
"Oh, yeah. I mean, I did some stuff back then. Stuff I'm not proud of. It was when they turned the Opera House into a disco. I had loved the opera so much. I can hear everything from down here, but that disco music made me crazy, and those ridiculous outfits the people wore," Steve replied before looking to some of the group as they wore some outdated clothes. "You know, the little neck scarf thingies, and the mini-skirts and-Oh! But on you guys they work. Anyway, that was when I was young and impetuous. I haven't bothered anyone for almost 40 years now," he then sat down on his couch. "Could I, um, see that mirror again?"
Daphne then took out her mirror for him to look at his reflection.
"Look at me," Steve smiled. "I'm an Adonis!"
"You guys, I think he's telling the truth." Tom said to the others.
"But if he isn't behind everything that's going on, then who...?" Stanley wondered.
Everyone heard a woman screaming which made them ran off to see what was going on. Horror music seemed to play as they ran off.
Colette was seen screaming on stage as they came over to see her. They came to see her, and it looked as though a man was hung by his neck at the lofts, but Fred soon turned on the switch to show Pauldini was hanging by his back.
"Hello? I'm kind of stuck up here!" Pauldini called out.
"Oh." Colette said and soon walked off to go and help him.
"So, could someone get a ladder or something?" Pauldini asked.
"What happened?" Velma asked.
"The harness is part of my disappearing trick," Pauldini replied. "I was working on it when the Phantom shoved me off that catwalk. Now, I wonder where my little Megan wandered off to?"
"Right over here," Megan said as she was hanging beside him with a rope. "The Phantom grabbed me and put me up like this."
"Hey, what's that?" Steve asked as he saw something.
"It's the Phantom!" Flip replied.
Everyone looked up to see the Phantom was setting the curtain on fire.
"I'm going after him," Fred told the others. "Watch the exits!"
"And we'll put out the fire!" Eddy replied.
"Reah!" Scooby added.
"He's gonna need help; I'm gonna help Fred." Henry said.
"How?" Anne Maria asked.
Henry turned around, giving a little smirk with his eyes turning green which made Anne Maria gasped a little. Fred soon ran to the steps as he got to work. The Phantom saw him and began to throw a sandbag at him. Henry grabbed the sandbag and tossed it aside.
"Thanks, man." Fred smiled.
"Save the thanks for later," Henry replied. "We got a phantom to catch."
The Phantom laughed and ran away from them.
"You're not getting away that easily!" Henry glared.
Shaggy tried to use the fire extinguisher, but it didn't seem to work. "Come on! Work!" he then cried out.
"I think you have to pull on it first." Eddy suggested.
"Oh, right. Like, thanks, Eddy." Shaggy replied.
When that happened, the fire extinguisher foam seemed to go everywhere by accident.
Shaggy almost lost his balance, but Scooby grabbed his shirt and pulled him up. "Like, double thanks." he then said.
Eddy soon used the fire extinguisher and put the fire out. The Phantom kept running from Fred and Henry until he soon jumped off the end of the line.
"Okay! Get ready to jump!" Henry told Fred.
"Right!" Fred replied.
The Phantom soon jumped which prompted Fred and Henry to jump after him. Henry made it, but Fred not so much, and was dangling for his life.
"Aaaugh!" Daphne panicked as she grabbed onto Brianna.
"Ow! You're squeezing my arm!" Brianna complained.
"Sorry!" Daphne replied nervously.
Brianna pulled her arm back and rubbed her arm. The Phantom laughed as he towered over Fred. Fred soon took off his ascot and slid out of the way as the Phantom tried to stomp on him, but he soon got his ankle tied up by the ascot. The Phantom fell down and soon got back up.
"Watch out!" Daphne cried out.
"Ow! Quit it!" Velma groaned.
The Phantom laughed and pulled a weapon that he put the curtain on fire with.
"I hope you have a plan, Henry, otherwise we're toast." Fred said.
Henry soon jumped up behind the Phantom, grabbing a hold of him with his extra strength.
"Make sure he doesn't hurt Fred!" Daphne cried out.
"Gotcha pal, and you're not going anywhere." Henry replied.
The Phantom was struggling to get out of his grip.
"Ah, I don't think so... BODY SLAM!" Henry smirked before body-slamming against the Phantom.
"All right!" Alexandra cheered to that.
"Let me give you a hand." Fred replied as he jump-kicked the Phantom and he fell again.
The Phantom grabbed Henry and then pulled out his blowtorch.
"Watch out!" Fred cried out.
Henry strained and struggled against the Phantom until suddenly, Steve swung in on a rope, kicking the Phantom onto another loft, but soon, the support beams broke, and both of them fell onto the stage floor. The others went to the Phantom and Steve. Tom pulled off the mask, revealing to be Mel Richmond.
"Mel Richmond?" Anne asked.
"Of course! I knew it all along!" Alan replied.
Anne just gave her brother a deadpan look.
"Okay, maybe just a little bit." Alan replied then.
"I think I'm dying." Steve frowned to the red substance.
"Um, actually I'm pretty sure you're okay." Brianna told him.
"But look, I'm all bloody!" Steve pointed to the mirror that was smeared with red paint.
"There's just some red paint on the-" Daphne said as she slid her finger through he paint. "Do you understand how mirrors work at all?"
"Cut me a break, I grew up in a sewer." Steve defended.
The security guard ran over and put handcuffs on Mel.
"So you were gonna burn the place down for the insurance money?" Suzie guessed.
"Yes, and I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling kids and your nosy dog." Mel glared.
"Dog? Where?" The security guard glared as well.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy yelped as he tried to hide Scooby.
The two soon ran away only for the security guard to chase after them. Mel tried to sneak away, but Alexandra stepped on his cape so he wouldn't go any farther.
"Relax, Richmond." The former mean girl told him.
"Is this the guy?" A cop asked as she came with her partner.
"That's him, Officer, Mel Richmond." Dewey replied.
The two cops then picked up Mel and began to leave with him only to be stopped.
"Wait," Velma told them. "This still doesn't make sense."
"If you wanted the insurance money, why didn't you just burn the place down?" Alan asked.
"I didn't, but whoever did gave me the idea to put on this costume," Mel stated. "Stupidest idea I ever had."
The lights went out and they could hear The Phantom's laughter which made Kasey's eyes widen in fear.
"No. No. Please don't hurt them." Kasey whispered fearfully.
"Christine must win!" The Phantom's voice laughed.
"Okay, now I'm even more confused." Alan then groaned.
"What the heck?!" The other cop asked.
"Otherwise, I will rain death, and destruction down upon this place!" The Phantom continued. "So swears the Phantom!"
"No, no, no!" Dewey cried out. "Now will you take this seriously? I want as many officers as you can spare here for the show tonight."
"I was thinking the same," The female cop replied. "We're on it."
"So you'll do it?" Dewey smiled hopefully. "You'll put all your men on this? And can you keep that dog out of here too?"
"Hello! I still need a ladder!" Pauldini cried out as he was still dangling. "Hello! The Great Pauldini is not pleased!"
"Kasey, are you okay?" Alexandra asked out of concern. "You look a little shook up."
"Sorry, I can't tell you." Kasey replied.
"Tell me what?" Alexandra frowned.
"I will have grave consequences if I tell you." Kasey said.
"Kasey, let me help you," Alexandra said. "I know you're scared, but it can't be worse than having to deal with your so-called family."
Kasey then looked around to make sure that nobody was around. "Please don't tell the others about this," she then told Alexandra. "Let them figure it out for themselves."
"I won't, I promise." Alexandra replied.
Kasey then looked up into Alexandra's eyes as she told her, "My dad is the Phantom."
"Really?" Alexandra asked.
Kasey nodded.
"I knew your parents were bad news and up to something to make your sister win the contest." Alexandra replied.
"Chrissy is the one who thought of it because I overheard them talking about it, and they told me if I tell anyone, then I'll face grave consequences," Kasey warned. "Please, you have to drop out, for your safety!"
"I can handle anything, I'm more than I appear to be." Alexandra reassured the younger girl.
"But-" Kasey frowned.
"Look, I got this, especially Henry," Alexandra told her. "Your family has no idea what we can do."
"You don't know what my family can do." Kasey replied.
"I think we'll manage." Alexandra told her.
"I hope so." Kasey said.
"Trust me, I know so." Alexandra smirked as her eyes flashed green.
Kasey tilted her head at Alexandra, she was going to be in for a surprise, along with the rest of her family.
"Come on, let's go catch up with the others." Alexandra told her.
Kasey nodded and followed the former mean girl.
"Don't worry, Kasey, things are going to get better for you, I promise." Alexandra said.
"I really hope you're right... That means a lot to me, Alexandra." Kasey replied.
"They are not going to hurt you as long as I'm here." Alexandra promised.
Kasey came closer to Alexandra.