Back in theComputer Lab, the Professor, Officer Wembley, Eric, Jessica, and Bill kept waiting for their friends to return, and eventually, the laser started back up and they all returned.
"I never thought I'd be happy to be home..." Cherry said softly, actually smiling happily for a change.
"You're back!" Eric cheered. "I thought you'd be stuck in the game forever!"
"Like, there's no place like home!" Shaggy praised.
Jessica hugged Atticus tightly, but of course, it would still feel light to him, she then hugged Patch. "Thank goodness you guys are safe..."
"Everyone okay?" Wembley asked.
"I think so." Velma smiled to him.
"Vell done," Professor Kaufman smiled. "You've saved the vorld from a terrible menace!"
"But did you find out who created the virus?" Billy asked then.
"We have a pretty good idea." Fred replied.
"Good, because whoever created zhe virus must be punished." Professor Kaufman declared strictly.
"Glad you agree, Professor, because you're as much a suspect as anyone here." Velma said to him.
The Professor was shocked at her accusations and insisted that he couldn't have done it. "I've dedicated my life to my students and my university!"
"But you also stood to make $250,000 at the science fair." Fred smirked as he folded his arms.
"If you also stole the invention." Daphne added.
"Preposterous!" Professor Kaufman refused to be guilty.
"Let's not forget Officer Wembley." Shaggy said as he gestured to the officer as a suspect.
"WHAT!?" Wembley barked at him. "I'm an officer of the law!"
Cherry gave him a look.
"Sorta..." Wembley then said rather weakly. "Anyway, I've never committed a crime in my life!"
"You were the person who was with us when we got sent into the game," Cherry told him strictly. "But once inside the game, we've found some important games." she then informed everyone else.
"Our first clue came when we were on the moon level," Atticus explained. "The Phantom Virus shouted out: 'Play Ball'!"
"And on the Coliseum level, we found some chalk lines like a large diamond." Fred added.
"But our biggest clue was on the final level when the Phantom Virus appeared in a batting cage." Velma finished.
Jessica was lost and confused about those clues. "I'm lost."
"Me too," Eric agreed with her. "All I'm getting is that the Phantom Virus had a thing for-" he then realized and glared at Bill. "Baseball!"
They all glared at Bill as he was trying to escape.
"Not so fast, kid." Wembley said to the ginger-haired college boy.
Bill tried to escape, he ran off from them and ran behind some shelves. Mystery Inc was at one end while Officer Wembley came the other way. Bill backed up until he tripped behind Scooby and Patch, setting a trap for him. Bill fell over and his game had 'struck out' as if to mock him for his personal game over. Officer Wembley came to take Bill away in handcuffs.
"Bill, you were my best friend." Eric said to him.
"Und my best student behind Miss Fudo." the Professor added.
"We were study partners!" Jessica sounded hurt and angry.
"But you didn't pick my project!" Bill sneered at them.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Eric and Jessica asked him, angrily.
"Professor Kaufman chose your video game designs over mine!" Bill snapped. "Even though I've been here two years longer!"
"Students are equal, Bill." Kaufman firmly told him.
"So, you created the Phantom Virus and stole Jessica's designs for the Sugar Rush racers hoping it would scare Jessica and Eric away?" Cherry concluded.
"That's right, and it worked til you guys showed up," Bill growled. "I don't know how that Taffy girl got out of the game, but I'm glad it got to work!"
"You were afraid that we would find out who created the virus." Fred put together.
"So you beamed us into cyberspace!" Even Shaggy was shocked and angered, he rarely got angry.
"The prize would've been all mine!" Bill yelled as he was being taken away. "If it wasn't for-"
"Us meddling kids..." Mystery Inc said together, annoyed, but amused at the same time from being referred to as such over the years.
This made everybody laugh together and the mystery was over, for now at least.
"Let's get a milkshake to celebrate." Jessica suggested.
They all went to the soda shop to relax and have some real fun now, however, Cherry seemed upset as she played with her root beer float.
"Vanellope will be dearly missed." Atticus said, comforting her.
"I just wish we could've known if she made it out alive..." Cherry sighed sadly, remembering that Vanellope had gone under the water from Cyber-Land with Taffyta.
Suddenly, there came a bunch of little kids that looked oddly familiar. They all walked in and they walked over to Cherry and Atticus.
"Who do we have here?" Jessica looked a little surprised.
The kids looked a lot like the Sugar Rush racers, only they were more flesh-colored and looked human. And where one of them looked exactly like Vanellope.
"Vanny...?" Cherry whispered.
"Cherry, it's us..." the Vanellope-like girl said quietly. "We traded our game lives for natural lives."
Cherry blinked, she didn't think that was possible.
The kids all smiled and hugged her and Atticus.
"Is there a Taffyta?" Cherry asked.
"Turns out Taffyta was the glitch of the game in real life," Vanellope explained. "She wasn't even really apart of our game and never meant to exist... She was a spawn of Turbo like Ralph told us about."
"Whoa..." Cherry and Atticus said, that was unexpected.
"What do we do with all the kids?" Jessica wondered.
"Jessica, these are the Sugar Rush racer kids, well all except for Taffyta, which I am so glad that she isn't here." Atticus said.
"We all are..." Vanellope said with a nod. "We were also thinkin'... Could we have different names? These names don't feel so right anymore."
"Especially my last name..." Citrusella frowned about her last name being 'Flugpucker', now being a twin sister to Jubileena.
"If it isn't too much trouble, could you help us start a new life?" Torvald asked.
"Please...?" the Sugar Rush racers all asked, being as sweet as the land they all came from.
Jessica chuckled and smiled, she wasn't sure how, but she promised to help them out somehow with Cherry and Atticus's help. This caused for all the Sugar Rush racers to cheer out of joy. Eric decided to catch up with Mystery Inc while Jessica went outside with Cherry, Atticus, and Patch with their new friends.
Cherry was looking around for maybe a homeless shelter, then saw her one of her aunts, happily running to her. "Aunt Mary!"
"Cherry!" Mary called out and hugged her. "What're you doing?"
"I've decided to find a business for myself," Mary said softly. "Wendy, John, and Michael are growing up fast... I didn't want to miss taking care of children... I run an orphanage now."
"Really?" Cherry sounded surprised.
"Oh, yes," Mary nodded with a smile, then saw the gaggle of kids with her. "Oh, you have friends..."
"Umm... Aunt Mary, these kids have lived on the streets all their lives," Cherry made up as she went along. "Could they maybe stay here with you?"
"Well..." Mary paused to think about it, then shrugged with a smile. "It's alright with me... Let's fill out their paperwork."
The kids gasped and cheered as they went into their new home and would be given new names. They were all now going to have new names with new lives along with making many more friends.
"Wow, Cherry, that was nice of you." Jessica said.
"Hey, I'm nice..." Cherry glanced back at her.
"Yeah." Atticus and Patch agreed.
Jessica decided to keep the Create Your Own Sugar Rush Racer feature in her game to make it more creative. This was truly a happy ending in video game history for them and Mystery Inc.