In the McBruces' backyard, the girls were playing frisbee.
"Heads up, Kirby!" Rylie shouted as a sleepy Kirby woke up. The frisbee hit him on the head, causing him to cry. Leah came up to the little alien and cradled him.
"This is what happens when you stay up for three days watching 'Snooper Dawg and the Klue Crew'," Tania groaned. "You end up getting sleepy."
"It's no use," Paige replied. "Kirby can't go to the Mystery Solver State Finals looking like this."
"You gotta be kidding," Leah replied. "We've been looking forward to the finals for months, and we can't do it without Kirby."
In Leah and Tania's bedroom, they tucked Kirby in his little bed. "Why can't we leave him behind?" Tokkori asked. "He's annoying."
"Because he's a Klue Queen member," Leah replied.
"Listen here," Tokkori said. "Junior here is a male, and a male monarch is called a king. You girls are female, and a female monarch is called a queen."
"We should probably give him some privacy," Paige replied. "We can't wake up Sleeping Gumball."
"Gumball?" Tokkori asked. "That's another nickname I give Kirby."
Leah picked Kirby up, gave him a goodnight kiss, placed him down, and left along with the other Klue Queens. Kirby was in a deep sleep.
XxoxX
Suddenly, Kirby woke up and looked like he was in an early 1970s cartoon. "Kirby," asked Leah as she walked in, "did you sleep well?"
"Poyo (I did)," Kirby replied.
"Then it's time for us to go to Harmon Manor for the MSSF," Leah replied.
XxoxX
At Harmon Manor, they saw a bunch of mystery-solving teams with a bunch of pets. One had a group of African-American basketball players in blue tracksuits, one was a rock group, one was a group of female mice that looked like teenagers, one had a white blob with a face, and one group had two dogs.
"The Harlem Globetrotters of the 1970s?" asked Estrella. "Some of them might be old right now."
Swinger started going up Dribbles. Dribbles barked at Swinger who crawled back on Estrella. "There, there, mono," she said to him. "It's only un perro."
Leah walked up to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, saying in admiration, "I can tell you guys have the same name as the famous bandit himself."
"Something like that," the handsome guitarist replied.
"But don't forget," the blonde tambourinist replied, "Butchy here is mine."
"Merilee..." replied Butch.
Tania spotted the rodent girls who are known as the Thea Sisters.
"G'day," said the mouse with red hair. "I'm Nicky."
"The name's Pamela," said the African-American girl mouse.
"I'm Violet," said the Asian mouse.
"My name is Collette," said the blonde mouse with a French accent.
"And I'm Paulina," said the Latina mouse with a long braid.
"I'm curious," Tania asked as she adjusted her glasses. "Are you rodents?"
"We are," Nicky replied. "But we're also called the Thea Sisters because we honor our one-time mentor, Thea Stilton."
Paige came up to the trio with the little white blob. "Hey there," said one of the blobs. "You must be one of the Klue Queens. I'm Mickey and this is Nita, Billy Joe, and Shmoo."
Shmoo came up and gave Paige a big old hug. "Far out," she said. "A moving blob."
Rylie and Kaylin walked up to a group called the Clue Club, which consisted of Larry, Pepper, D.D., and Dottie. "Do you like our dogs?" Larry asked as Woofer and Whimper started licking their faces.
"I'm more of a cat person," Kaylin explained, "but these guys are adorable." Woofer and Whimper got off of them and went back to everyone.
"Attention, everyone!" shouted Mr. Harmon. "Welcome to the Mystery Solver State Finals! Tonight your mystery will be..." After he opened the letter and saw a strange note. "The identity of Professor Vanish?" asked Mr. Harmon. "But this was supposed to be a treasure hunt for a treasure chest of cookbooks."
"Slight change of plans," said a bishonen man with a grey mask and a magician's outfit. "Hocus, Skippy-Pocus."
In a flash, all the humans disappeared. "Where did they go?" asked Woofer.
"I don't know," answered Colette, "but maybe Professor Vanish kidnapped them."
"Clever you are, my dear," said Professor Vanish. "I hid them somewhere in this lovely mansion. You have until sunrise to find them. Don't even think about calling for help, or else their time here will be up."
In a flash, Professor Vanish vanished. Violet suggested that they should split up to find the missing mystery solvers.
Kirby, Swinger, Rick, Paulina, Pamela, Elvis, and Shmoo were in the garden, where numerous paintings of other mystery-solving teams were left standing to dry. As he was about to eat a paintbrush, Pamela came up to him and said, "Kirby, paint brushes aren't food."
"Poyo (Sorry)," Kirby said as he turned his head, seeing a painting on Snooper Dog and a miniature version of himself. He began to wonder who that was.
"That's Snippy Doo," said Paulina. "He was the nephew of Snooper Dogg. He was popular in the late 1970s, but after the '13 Monsters of Mix Up' series, fans started to hate him for constantly harassing the suspects."
"He's worse than Scrappy-Doo," Rick said.
"I know," Paulina replied, "but at least Scrappy got straightened out thanks to Hayes' agreement on being his permanent legal guardian."
Kirby was a little confused about Snippy, wondering if Snippy loved his uncle or not.
XxoxX
Meanwhile, Dribbles, Tokkori, Nicky, Colette, Violet, Woofer, and Whimper were in the billiard room going around for more clues.
"Hey, guys!" shouted Nicky. "Look what I found here!" She showed a dartboard of Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew. This only meant one thing: Professor Vanish must really hate Snooper Dog. The other team came in and had a feeling that someone is kidnapping the humans so one of the non-competitors can compete.
Kirby started to worry. "Kirby," Rick reminded, "when you get bummed, think happy thoughts."
"Poyo, poyo (Think happy thoughts)," Kirby said to himself. "Poyo, poyo (Think happy thoughts)." He started to think of excessive amounts of pastries, tomatoes, and watermelons. Then he spotted the Klue Queens dressed in lolita apparel. As Kirby was eating the cake, someone shouted, "Hey, Gumball!"
Kirby looked down to see that he was chewing on Rick's head. "Easy, mate," Rick replied. "Don't overdo it on the happy thoughts. Are you daydreaming about the Klue Queens in lolita dresses and serving you junk food again? We need to find them before their parents ban me from the dessert table."
They needed to figure out where Professor Vanish hid them, then Colette just thought of something. "You know how magicians love to perform on stage?" she said. "I have a feeling they might be in the theater."
XxoxX
In the theater, they saw the human mystery solvers tied up in chairs and were forced to watch Professor Vanish's magic acts. "Hey, Vanish!" shouted Tokkori. "Why don't you make yourself disappear?!"
The words from Tokkori's beak hurt him. That was when Pamela got an idea. "You keep insulting that psycho professor," she suggested to Tokkori. "We'll untie the humans."
"Thank goodness you're here," said Rylie. "That magician's acts are lousy."
One by one, the dog sidekicks freed the heroes with their sharp teeth. After one more insult from Tokkori, Professor Vanish saw them escaping. "Apra Dippy-Dabra!" he shouted as he summoned some magician cards.
"Kirby, suck it up!" shouted everyone.
With one suck, Kirby ate the cards and turned into Magic Kirby. He got out some hankies and tied up Professor Vanish. Then Shmoo started pouncing on him in victory "Alright, Kirby and Shmoo," declared Paige. "Now let's see who Professor Vanish really is."
With the removal of the mask, they showed a small pup with dreadlocks. "Snippy Dog?" asked everyone in shock.
"It all makes sense now," Rick said. "The Thea Sisters weren't kidnapped because they're mice, not humans. Another clue is that he said 'Hocus Skippy-Pocus' and 'Abra Dippy-Dabra', which is similar to his catchphrase 'Skippy Dippy Dog'. Also, there was that dartboard of Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew."
"But how did he get so tall?" asked Estrella. "Unless he's wearing a robotic suit."
Snippy removed the suit, revealing a robotic armor that controlled the Professor Vanish uniform. "All I wanted is to let my Uncle Snooper join the Mystery Solver State Finals, but they couldn't because of me. So I decided to use my magical skills to stop you losers. And I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling animals." Then Chief Hess and Deputy Downs carried him away to the car.
As a reward, Mr. Harmon served Kirby with the world's largest cake. Unfortunately, Kirby ate the entire thing and passed out.
XxoxX
In a second, Kirby woke up and was back in Leah's room. "Kirby," Leah said, "wake up. You were just dreaming."
Estrella got out a jester's hat to cheer Kirby up. As he rolled out of bed, he placed on the hat. He explained, "Poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo (I had the craziest dream that we were at the Mystery Finals, and we met some talking mice, some rockstar spies, a white goo-piece, a bunch of dogs, and the Harlem Globetrotters)."
"Kirby," Tania replied, "the finals are tomorrow. That means you can go."
"I hope you like the hat I got you," Estrella said. "I got that at the thrift store."
Kirby nodded his head, meaning that he liked the hat. Then he wondered who was going to be in the Mystery Solvers State Finals. Tania got out the list of who would be in the finals.
Mystery Solvers State Finals
Ghostly Groovsters- Philadelphia
Kirby Klue Queens, - Lititz Heights
Mystery Mambo Society- Harrisburg
Steeling N'Lifting Stoppers- Pittsburgh
Paradise Paranormals- Lancaster
"Besides," Tania said, "We warmed up a bath for you when you wake up"
Kirby cheered and rushed off to take his warm bath.
The End.
