To the guest that made the latest review for Summertime Murder in Coolsville on July 23, Dimension One basically consists of my modern-day reboot of the Scooby-Doo franchise in the form of my Coolsville Central series, starting with Coolsville: Year One. Any Scooby story that does not have a "D#" or "AD#" in their titles is part of Dimension One.
It is not to be confused with my City of Mysteries series, which belongs to Dimension 52.
Chapter 7: Some information
"What do you think you're doing here, Mr. Rogers?" Officer Drumpf demanded. "This is a police operation!"
"Related to the Blake kidnapping case?" Shaggy folded his arms after they tied up the two rogue officers. "If that is so, why are the two of you here? There should be more officers here if it's to keep an eye out for the kidnappers to arrive to collect the ransom!"
"Your father is here directing us, Mr. Rogers." Officer Poilievre said. "You've made a mistake."
"Nonsense." Shaggy gritted his teeth and frowned as Scooby started growling at the corrupt officers. "Scoob and I and Pops know your tricks. He wouldn't have send in dirty officers like you to do this operation, and besides, he's back at headquarters investigating a leak."
When the two officers snorted in reply, Shaggy grabbed one of them by the collar and said angrily. "Scoob and I may be cowardly, but you should know that my last name wouldn't be Rogers if I don't learn anything about policing and reading people. Pops taught me the trick on how to detect if someone is lying without a lie detector, so you can try to say rubbish but you're not going to fool me or Scooby Doo."
Seeing that the two officers have sighed, Shaggy continued, "So tell us. Who hired you to do this? What have you done to Daphne?"
"We're not talking!" Poilievre spat. "That billionaire should've minded his own business in the first place!"
Shaggy and Scooby turned to Tom and Jerry, both of whom frowned and nodded.
Hissing at the two rogue officers, Tom and Jerry marched towards them with Tom revealing his claws.
Seeing the cat and mouse, the two officers' eyes widened just as Tom and Jerry jumped at them and broke into a large dusty fighting cloud.
Standing by, Shaggy and Scooby watched in surprise as the cat and mouse started giving the officers some well-deserved beating, including hitting them with a baseball bat, hitting them with an anchor and scratching them.
Finally, after the fight, the two officers were obviously scratched and bruised before Drumpf said, "Okay, we'll talk."
"So who are you working for?" Shaggy demanded.
"It was this guy who the Blakes fired years ago." Drumpf said. "Name's Sebastian Jelenic and his main security chief, who actually planned all of this."
"Who's the security chief?" Scooby growled.
"Not sure." Poilievre said. "We never saw his face when we took part in this, but he had this eagle tattoo on his left arm, near his wrist."
"Eagle tattoo?" Shaggy asked as his eyes widened when he remembered seeing one earlier, in fact just less than half-an-hour ago.
Turning to Scooby, Tom and Jerry, he said, "Like, that's Lieutenant Titley! The guy that took part in the failed raid at the abandoned bank at Ruby and Silverman this morning!"
"Ro wonder ri felt suspicious rabout that ruy." Scooby remarked.
Tom was quick to wave his arms in a fashion as if he was saying, "That also means your two friends are in trouble if they were accompanied by that police lieutenant!"
Without hesitation, Shaggy and Scooby raced over to the nearby public payphone, which was somehow still working, where the former dialed his father's office phone number, while Tom and Jerry kept a sharp eye on their prisoners.
"Like, Pops!" Shaggy said when his father answered. "Lieutenant Titley is your leak! He must have took care of the bomb disposal robot when he was the first to arrive at the scene, which is how the robot failed to detect the bombs near the bank entrance."
"I know, son." Sam replied. "We've dug up his investigative records at headquarters and found his connection to a fraud ring operated by those three former Blake Industries employees who were fired for fraud. How did you know?"
"Scoob, Tom and Jerry and I were snooping around in the Convention Center when we encountered two phantoms that tried to scare us away." Shaggy explained. "They had an accident and we caught and unmasked them. They're Officers Drumpf and Poilievre, but anyways that's not important right now. Right now, Fred and Velma are in great danger when they went to the closed down fish processing plant with Titley and we're going to need more officers there!"
Sam nodded at the other end of the line. "I'll mobilize the department, son. We're on our way! Stay safe!"
Shaggy was quick to hung up the phone before turning to Scooby and they raced over to Tom and Jerry.
Shortly after tying up the two rogue officers, Shaggy said to Scooby, Tom and Jerry. "Like, we've got to get to the fish plant, guys. Fred and Velma might be in big trouble!"
The three animals nodded in agreement before they took off, leaving the two rogue officers at the entrance to the convention centre, to be picked up by Sam and the mobilized police department.
(Fred and Velma)
Meanwhile, in a dark room elsewhere, Fred groaned as he opened his eyes.
He tried to speak, only to feel something gagging him. It felt like a cloth.
"Oh boy, what happened?" He thought as he looked around, during which he felt that his wrists and legs are tied to something. "And where am I? Where's Velma?"
As his eyes adjusted to the darkness in the room, he saw Velma, also tied up to a chair and gagged and without her glasses.
"Well, at least I know that Velma's here with me." Fred thought just as the lights suddenly went on.
Turning their heads towards the front of the room, they saw three men standing by in the doorway.
"Ah, you're awake!" The first man said as they walked over to their prisoners and removed their gags.
"Who are you and what have you done to Daphne?" Fred blurted out as soon as the gag was removed from his mouth.
"And where are my glasses?" Velma added.
"Now now, my children." The first man said in a calming gesture. "No need to panic or get unruly."
"Unruly?" Fred demanded as Velma got her glasses back. "What have you done to Daphne? Why are we here?"
"Listen, kid." The first man said. "You know how dangerous playing detective is, and you should know that there are times where it is best that you have minded your own business."
"Well, Daphne is our friend and we demand to know what has happened to her!" Velma said. "What have you done to her?"
"Now now." The first man said. "I believe I should introduce myself. I am Sebastian Jelenic, who used to work for the Blakes, along with my pals here. You see, the Blakes had decided to meddle in our private business when we started using the company as a front for our protection and fraud rackets."
"But why?" Fred asked. "Didn't the Blakes paid you enough for your work?"
"Not exactly." Sebastian replied. "Blake is such a selfish man. He never paid us enough for our work and is always suspicious that we maybe using his company for illegal activities. Those rackets were meant for us to get extra cash and allow us to keep in contact with Oakley, who's been doing a great deal of good for the city but that knucklehead believes otherwise and has been wanting us to keep an eye on him."
"Well, he sure made the right choice firing you three." Fred said. "He doesn't like his company being involved in dirty business like that, and I won't be surprised if you three goons have used the corporate bank accounts in doing money laundering."
"But why did you kidnap Daphne now?" Velma asked. "Why didn't you do it, for the sake of argument, a few weeks after Mr. Blake fired you?"
"We weren't the ones that actually thought of this, even though we did want to get even with that jerk for firing us and meddling in our business." Jelenic gritted his teeth. "However, our friend in the police department, who was investigating us a year after we were fired, offered us this plan. For the next six years, he provided us intelligence on what the department is up to and how it operates. You see, we needed a clear picture and a better lay of the land before we put our plan to motion."
"Your plan was to extort Mr. Blake in millions of dollars in revenge for his termination of your employments." Fred said.
"Yes." Jelenic smirked. "We were not planning to actually harm your friend, but you know that we can't allow kids like you in snooping around and that we don't like anyone else meddling in our business, so you two are going to be good children and not to try to do anything funny."
"You won't get away with this, Mr. Jelenic!" Fred said angrily. "Our friends will be looking for us and the police will be hunting you down!"
"I don't think that will ever happen." Jelenic snorted. "Not with two of our security guys at the Harbor Convention Center taking care of your four friends."
He then turned to his two henchmen and added, "James, Joe, patrol the plant area and make sure we don't have any more snoopers snooping around here."
"Right." James nodded as he and Joe used the gags to cover Fred and Velma's mouths before getting to work.
Will Shaggy, Scooby, Tom and Jerry be able to rescue their friends?
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