"Jinkies, Fred; I always wondered where the crooks we catch get all the costumes & gadgets they need to pose as ghosts!" said Velma as she and the others stood outside a massive warehouse.
Cherry shrugged. "I just figured they had a supplier; a guy who knows how to 'get things'." she replied.
"Well, with Batman and Robin's help, we'll solve that mystery in a minute, Velma;" stated Fred. "Especially since the trail ends here!"
At that point, Batman and Robin II kicked the door in, and stormed the warehouse.
"Too bad your friend Lionel couldn't come," Daphne told the Adventure Team. "He'd probably get a kick out of seeing the Dynamic Duo in action!"
Atticus and Mo shrugged, with knowing smiles.
"Well, he might just be closer than you think," said Atticus, as Mo chuckled.
"Just as I suspected..." stated Batman, as he looked around. "the costumes & equipment are being supplied by 2 of our old foes: The Spook, and False-Face!"
In the midst of the place were two creepy-looking characters: one wore a shadowy green cloak, and the other wore a tux, dressing gloves, and a black plastic mask over the front of his face.
"Batman and Robin!" exclaimed the second guy.
"Hey, neat; I was right!" Cherry smirked.
"Of course... False-Face is a master of disguise," said Robin II. "and The Spook is a human crook who uses tricks to make himself seem like a ghost!"
"Just the thing for the kind of crooks we face!" replied Daphne.
"You won't capture us!" declared the Spook; he waved his arm before Batman, and a cloud of smoke surrounded him. "Not when the MISTS OF THE NETHERWORLD are at my command!"
Just then, Batman burst through the cloud and socked the Spook in the face. "You mean a smoke bomb!"
Meanwhile, Scooby was stumbling through the smoke, trying to find the door. "Where is everybod-?" he coughed. "RHOOOOPS!" he ran past False-Face, bowling him over. "Sorry!"
"That's my Uncle Scooby for ya," Scrappy beamed proudly. "Everyone underestimates 'im, but he ALWAYS manages to prove himself when the chips are down!"
"We did it!" Velma smiled. "We cut off the Underworld's supply of monster costumes!"
"Maybe, but things aren't always what they look like with these two villains." Robin II remarked.
"I'll say! Look!" Fred added as he removed the masks off of the two captors. "'False Face' is really The Spook! And 'The Spook' is really False Face!"
"Whoa." Atticus said.
"But that doesn't make any sense," Velma spoke up. "I'll bet we have to go further to find the... Truth!" she then added, removing the masks to see two familiar faces. "Huh? 'The Spook' is really Shaggy! And 'False Face' is really Daphne!"
"Holy Multiple-Personality Disorder! Unless..." Robin II said before removing the masks again. "'Shaggy' is really Scooby and 'Daphne' is really Batman?!"
"Time out!" Cherry complained. "This is more questionable than Pooh's Adventures getting an IMDb page! Just what is going on here?!"
"Like, what's going on?" asked Shaggy. "All these quick changes are making me dizzy!"
"It's like some kind of crazy prank, or a magic trick!" Daphne added.
A look of absolute dread crossed Batman's face. "'Crazy prank'...? 'Magic'...?" he face-palmed. "...oh, no. That's enough; the fun's over! So show yourself!"
"Bra-vo, bravo! Glad you finally figured it out!" remarked a familiar voice, accompanied by sarcastic clapping. And in a BLIPT! of energy, Bat-Mite himself appeared. "But you got 1 little fact wrong. The fun isn't over... why, it's barely just begun!" he added.
Robin II gasped in surprise. "Bat-Mite!" he exclaimed.
Scrappy was ecstatic. "Oh, boy-oh-boy! Now things are really getting fun!" he exclaimed.
Shaggy rubbed his eyes. "I gotta be seein' things, man! A bite-size Batman?" he asked.
You've met before, Shaggy. Remember?" explained Mo. "The magical imp in the Batsuit who prides himself on being one of Batman's biggest fans, next to Lady Gothika."
"I'm also a big fan of Lady Gothika at times." Bat-Mite smirked.
"Hooray." Cherry said lowly.
"Uh... I can see you're busy now..." False-Face said as he went to sneak away with The Spook.
"We'll just be going..." The Spook added.
Batman and Robin II then suddenly struck the two down before they could escape any further.
"I don't think so!" Robin II glared at the foes.
"Maybe you've read my blog about Batman?" Bat-Mite asked the others. "'Mite Makes Write'?"
"You 5-Ds sure love your media," Cherry crossed her arms. "I bet you spend all your time on there, though I'm not one to talk. I bring my laptop with me everywhere like Coco Bandicoot."
"You have a blog too?" asked Velma.
Bat-Mite gave a casual shrug and smile. "Sure, everybody back on Zrrrf does; they love the Internet, it's prime for making mischief," he replied. "I used ta have a podcast too, but the Pod People got a little too frisky!" he said to the person reading this.
Nearby, Salem did a little rimshot on a cat-sized drum set.
"See, for those who don't know me, I used to come every once-in-a-while to this world to lend a hand to Batman." explained Bat-Mite.
"Because it is true." Bat-Mite countered.
"So how do you help Batman?" asked Daphne.
"Why, that's easy," Bat-Mite smiled. "By making his adventures even more awesome! After all, this is a comic/fanfiction! People read them for the awesome stories!" he took out a Bat-notepad and pencil. "Like for one; this team-up is okay, but it could be cooler... if you guys were APES!" He twitched his nose, and the group members all turned into various simians.
"...anybody else have the urge to groom someone by plucking ticks out of their fur?" asked Mo.
Bat-Mite crossed something off his notepad. "How's BIES?" Another snap of the digits, and the group became a bunch of toddlers.
"Hey, look; it's, like, a pup named Scooby-Doo!" exclaimed Kid Shaggy.
"I'm not sure how I feel about this." Cherry said awkwardly as she looked at her kiddy body.
"Or... Oh, why didn't I think of this right away?" Bat-Mite smiled. "We're supposed to be teaming-up, right? But before we team-up... We have to fight!" he then announced as they were all suddenly in a boxing ring with gloves, back to normal.
"Is this really necessary?!" Atticus asked Bat-Mite.
"You know, he sort of does have a point." False-Face remarked to The Spook.
"It does seem to be the way these things work most of the time." The Spook replied.
"Us?!" Shaggy gulped. "Fight the Dynamic Duo?!"
"I didn't say it'd be a long fight." Bat-Mite remarked.
"Erm... Bat-Mite, I don't think it should have to be this way," Cherry said to the imp. "Can't we settle this some other way?"
Bat-Mite smacked his forehead. "Of COURSE! Lady Gothika, you're right!" he exclaimed. "Even if it is in the book, I'll admit it's really kind of repetitive," he turned to face the Mystery Incorporated group. "But if you're gonna team up with the Terrific Trifecta, you'll need to look the part!"
Scooby looked confused. "Rook the rart?" he asked.
The Zrrrfian imp wiggled his fingers, causing magical energy to surround the group. "To the rest of the world, you're Mystery Inc.," he stated, as the gang soon found themselves dressed in customized Bat-suits. "But here in Gotham, STERIES 6! Little reference to the original pre-development title for 'Scooby-Doo! Where Are You?', especially since there were originally planned to be six members on the team."
"But what would we even do in these outfits?" asked Fred. "We already caught False-Face and The Spook!"
Bat-Mite took out a copy of 'Batman: The Black Casebook', and began flipping through it after page marking his entry. "Yeah, yeah; ya caught a couple o' guys who like to dress up. Scintillating. Where's the challenge in that?" he replied. "I say we make things interesting!"
Daphne paled a bit. "...'fun'?" she asked, curiously.
"Like for one, what if instead of pretending to be a ghost..." exclaimed Bat-Mite as he blasted the Spook, transforming him into a malevolent specter. "...The Spook was a genuine ghost with nigh-omnipotent power?!"
Batman clutched the bridge of his nose. "...this is Calendar Man all over again..." he mumbled.
The new-&-improved Spook cackled evily. "Such POWER! I hold the power to reshape the universe! Power to exact my VENGEANCE!"
"Hey!" called False-Face, still tied up. "Don't I get near-omnipotent power, too?"
"Like, I'm not so sure this is a good idea," Shaggy shuddered.
Bat-Mite pondered. "Solid point there; it does feel like it lacks something... Gashplork! That's it!" he exclaimed, snapping his fingers and granting life to the monster costumes. "Howzabout that?"
"Oh, wow-oh-wow!" Scrappy exclaimed. "This is gonna be a K-9 cakewalk!"
"I smell trouble already." Atticus commented.
"Nothing we can't handle though." Mo remarked.
"It's not exactly what I had in mind." Shaggy said nervously.
"There's nobody inside these costumes!" Velma panicked.
"Zombie Island strikes again." Cherry commented.
"If there's no one inside, we can't knock them out!" Robin II cried. "How can we stop them?!"
"Like, maybe with too much starch?" Shaggy shrugged.
"Rangwaaaay!" Scooby cried out, suddenly running down a mummy and someone who looked like The Creeper.
"I guess either way we'll fight." Cherry then shrugged at herself.
"Looks like Scooby found the answer," exclaimed Batman. "We can't knock them out... but we can keep them off-balance until we find a more permanent solution!" He grabbed Captain Cutler and swung him, knocking over the Frankenstein monster and vampire.
"That helps with the living costumes, but what can we do against a vengeful specter with unlimited supernatural powers?" asked Fred, pointing to The Spook.
"I'm not sure," replied Daph. "So we'll do what we always do!"
"You mean, panic & hide?" asked Shaggy.
"No, I mean pull off his mask!" Daphne replied, reaching over and pulling the Spook's mask off, revealing the man in the suit.
"Wha...? You...you broke my power!" The Spook fumed. "I could've ruled the world if not for you meddling kids!"
"And the other monsters are collapsing!" Velma exclaimed as she saw the creatures changing back into suits.
"With the spell broken, they've changed back into costumes!" Batman added.
"And we're back to normal, too!" Fred beamed, as he and the gang were back in their normal garb. "Sure feels good to be wearing an ascot again!"
"Grrr... no fair!" Bat-Mite fumed. "I turned the Spook into a real ghost! It shouldn't be possible to change him back without Zrrrfian magic! Besides, ya didn't even stop him in a really awesome way, like makin' a brilliant deduction or through the use of awesome gadgetry! All you did was pull off the mask!"
"Well, what'dja expect?" asked a voice. "That was MY magic!"
This time, everyone was bewildered when a small imp in a Scooby-Doo suit appeared. "I'm Scooby-Doo's biggest fan!" he beamed. "You can call me... SCOOBY-MITE!"
"Scooby-Mite?!" Atticus, Cherry, and Mo asked.
"Ruh-roh!" Salem exclaimed as he was suddenly shown with Sabrina.
Cherry was shown banging her head against the wall.
"Hey, come now, you like the Mites." Atticus said to her.
"Bat-Mite, I'm used to, but a Scooby-Mite?!" Cherry replied.
"'Scooby-Mite'?" Robin II asked out of confusion.
"Sure! Bat-mite might love Batman, but back home in the 5th-Dimension, my hero is Scooby-Doo!" Scooby-Mite proclaimed.
"Rero? Rooby-Doo?" Scooby asked, sounding touched before giggling.
"Do you know this guy?" Atticus asked Bat-Mite.
"Lot of assumptions here," Bat-Mite replied. "No, I don't know him. This is the first I've ever seen of him."
"You're the greatest, Scooby," declared Scooby-Mite. "You should be in cartoons and movies and on lunchboxes!"
"Little late for that," Bat-Mite replied. "Plus, aren't you overdoing it? Scooby's okay, sure, but he's no Batman."
"'Okay'?!" Scooby-Mite exclaimed. "Scooby's way more awesome than Batman! You just think he's cool cuz he has that deep voice and cape and dances a wicked Batusi!"
"The fact that Batman's a more competent detective doesn't hurt either..." Bat-Mite muttered.
Velma glanced at Batman. "You dance?"
Batman looked embarrassed. "...I don't want to talk about it." he replied.
Cherry snickered as Batman flashed her a sharp look, though she didn't look too scared, but she did quiet down once she met his gaze.
"Scooby never gets to shine on his own because he's always being overshadowed by his sidekicks!" Scooby-Mite then said, gesturing at Shaggy, Daphne, and Fred.
"'Sidekicks'?" Fred huffed as he crossed his arms. "Who? Us?"
"Scooby just needs a chance!" Scooby-Mite replied as he snapped his fingers. "Better pronunciation!"
"I say, old chaps! These ghastly wraiths are deucedly vexing, eh, wot?" Scooby then remarked, suddenly speaking in a British accent.
Cherry and her friends cringed slightly at that new language barrier.
"And superpowers!" Scooby-Mite continued as he then made Scooby into a superhero with a cape and uniform like Superman. "Faster than a speeding bulldog! More powerful than a Loco Mastiff!"
A group of past Scooby-Doo villains were soon gathered around like Batman's rogue gallery.
"So when danger strikes..." Scooby-Mite continued.
"Egads!" Scooby panicked. "A bevy of beasty behemoths! Or in other words... RIKES! RONSTERS!" he then cried out as he suddenly ran away, running through a brick will from his own cowardice.
The group then sweat-dropped at that.
"...He can crash through a wall and run away at super-speed." Scooby-Mite soon finished his narration.
"Congratulations, you can make him easier to understand, you can give him superpowers," Bat-Mite smirked. "But no matter what you change on the outside, he's still the same cowardly Great Dane on the inside. Besides, if you were a Scooby-Doo fan, you'd know that the Mystery Inc gang is not Scooby's sidekicks, they're equal members of the team, even if Scooby and Shaggy are frequently used as monster bait."
"Uh, yeah!" Atticus added. "What he said!"
"And you are?" Scooby-Mite asked.
"I'm Atticus and I go on adventures with my friends through different worlds, realities, and-" Atticus explained.
"Ahem?!" Cherry glared sharply.
"What?" Atticus asked. "I was gonna talk about you too."
"Yes, but need I remind you that these started out with me?" Cherry replied as she crossed her arms. "You're merely a sidekick."
"Me? A sidekick?" Atticus narrowed his eyes. "You're the Daffy Duck to my Bugs Bunny."
"Maybe I was better off before you came around!" Cherry snapped before looking at Scooby-Mite. "But yes, my friends and I are close allies and partners with Mystery Inc on special occasions."
"Ah, yes, you're those lazily added in self-inserts who're just part of the story to change it and make it worse when it was perfectly fine the way it was." Scooby-Mite retorted.
"LAZY?!" Cherry growled. "Of course you realize this means war!"
"That's it!" Bat-Mite declared. "Sir, you have insulted my lady's honor!" He took off one of his gloves and pimp-slapped Scooby-Mite into a wall, which he peeled himself off of. "Nobody insults my friends like that!"
"All right, perhaps I struck a nerve." Scooby-Mite remarked.
"Nah, really, you think?" Atticus glared.
"But we can still make Scooby more contemporary to relate to today's mass audiences!" Scooby-Mite soon said, suddenly looking like a business executive as he brought out a chart. "What's hot these days?"
"According to the modern Cartoon Network, hashtags and twerking." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"Heavens! Even I wouldn't stoop so low!" Scooby-Mite said before changing her, her friends, and Mystery Inc into Men in Black based outfits. "I know! Shadow Government Conspiracies!"
"Does this count as a Men in Black crossover?" Cherry asked the audience.
"Or high-tech ghost-chasing gear!" Scooby-Mite then suggested, changing them into Ghostbusters-esque outfits and then to an equine design that was all too familiar. "Or ponies! Ponies are very popular in these types of stories, right?"
"Eh, I don't really see the appeal." Bat-Mite remarked.
"Wait, you know what's really popular right now?" asked Scooby-Mite. "...ZOMBIES!"
Suddenly, the group was surrounded by hordes of shambling zombies!
"Bring it on, you undead creeps!" Scrappy declared. "I'll make mulch outta youse!"
Shaggy and Scooby huddled together. "These crumbly creeps wanna, like, eat our brains!" Shaggy yelped. "And I need what little brains I've got!"
"Relax, Shaggy, they don't want to eat brains!" A familiar voice exclaimed.
"N-No?" Shaggy asked before turning to see Batman and Robin II coming back.
"It's a simple deduction," Batman replied. "Remember, these zombies were created by Scooby-Doo's greatest fan!"
"Then I hope he didn't see Zombie Island." Cherry commented.
"Of course! They don't wanna eat brains; they're hungry for Scooby Snax!" Velma realized.
"Fortunately our utility belts hold something for every type of emergency!" Batman then said, tossing the Scooby Snax over to the zombies.
"That explains your Bat Shark Repellent," Cherry smirked. "Does Catwoman know you're here?"
"I wouldn't worry about her too much..." Batman replied mysteriously.
"Zombies eating Scooby Snax!" Fred remarked. "Now I've seen everything!"
"Don't say that, Fred!" Daphne warned. "Those imps might take it as a challenge!"
POOF! A wolf-like imp appeared with a picket sign which read "SHADOW WOLF x KALA THE VOLCANO TWIN 4EVER" as she looked around. "Is Shadow Wolf here?" she then asked.
"Wrong universe, Shadow-Mite." Bat-Mite and Scooby-Mite told the imp.
"Oh, darn it!" Shadow-Mite glared before disappearing.
"See?" asked Bat-Mite. "Batman figured it out and saved them from the zombies!"
"Maybe," replied Scooby-Mite, snapping his fingers. "But now it's Scooby's turn to save the day!"
Suddenly, Batman and Robin II were tied to tables with buzz saws coming towards them.
"Wrong!" Bat-Mite snapped his fingers and poofed up an army of skeletons. "Batman is gonna save them from a legion of skeleton warriors!"
"What is even happening?" Salem asked.
"Dude, I don't even know." Cherry replied.
"No! Scooby's gonna save yours from dynamite, and a buzzsaw, and lions!" Scooby-Mite argued.
"No, Batman's gonna save yours from skeletons, quicksand, and an army of ghouls!" Bat-Mite retorted. "Although I have to admit, dynamite, and a giant buzzsaw and lions... That's pretty good!"
"The army of ghouls isn't bad either," Scooby-Mite replied. "Ya know, there's only one thing that could make this even better."
"MORE!" The two imps beamed at each other.
"And I say no more!" Cherry called out. "Bat-Mite, you will stop this right now!"
Bat-Mite skidded to a halt. "...yes, Cherry. Sorry, Cherry," he replied, his ears drooping. "Sorry, everyone; I got carried away... again."
Scooby-Mite snickered. "Hah! You got told off by your girlfriend!"
"And you!" Scrappy pointed at him. "You're seriously overestimating my uncle! Sure, I know he's not brave, which is why I gotta be brave enough for the both of us! I mean, honestly, saving Batman from dynamite and lions and a buzzsaw?! Are you screwy?!"
"I was just trying to have some fun and make your uncle cooler so they could see what I see." Scooby-Mite pouted.
"Well, you guys didn't have to go to such extremes," Atticus replied. "We already know how cool Batman and Scooby are and it's fine that we do as your friends and it's even greater that you guys are fans too."
"But maybe they just don't need all of this craziness," Mo added. "It doesn't matter whose hero is better than the other, we all contribute in the best we can! We all work together!"
"Mo's right." Daphne added in agreement.
"You guys also say that you're Batman and Scooby-Doo's biggest fans," Sabrina smiled. "If that's true, why would you try to change them? You guys already think that they're great just the way they are!"
"The kids have a point, fellows." Batman added to the two imps.
"Batman escaped from the buzzsaw, the dynamite, and the lions?" Scooby-Mite's eyes widened as The Caped Crusader got free from his booby traps.
"Told ya." Bat-Mite scoffed.
"If you already love watching or reading about our adventures, then why not just go home and let us have more of them?" Batman suggested.
"Well... alright," Scooby-Mite replied. "See you around, Batso."
"Eh, so long, amigo," Bat-Mite replied. "Man, that was exhausting..."
"It sure was," Cherry said as she crossed her arms. "You okay, Mite?"
"Yeah," Bat-Mite replied. "I'm sorry I got all carried away. Now I know why I don't do that stuff anymore."
"Well... All right..." Cherry said as she patted him on the head. "I'm not mad, I just thought that you would know better than that."
"This is why I don't wear this suit too often," Bat-Mite sighed as he took his suit off and changed back into normal clothes. "I always get carried away with how I used to be. Which is why I chose to make a new suit to differentiate between my past and future."
"There you go!" Cherry cooed to him. "Now... Let's maybe do something else."
"So much for the imps!" Robin II commented as he gestured at False-Face and The Spook. "Now we just have to deal with these two!"
"Zoinks! With all of that wackiness, I almost forgot all about The Spook and False-Face!" Shaggy gasped.
"Well, you can forget about them soon enough," Robin II reassured. "Once we bring them to jail."
"What?! You can't put us in jail!" The Spook complained. "That's why we started this whole racket! We got tired of you guys catching us all the time, so we started selling our equipment to other people, to let them pull their own crimes!" he then explained.
"Yeah, there's no laws against selling costumes and equipment!" False-Face added as he removed his mask.
"There is if you sell it to help criminals steal or commit fraud or cover up their counterfeiting and smuggling schemes!" Batman smirked. "Helping you makes them accessories to every one of their crimes!"
This made the two fiends look nervous as they didn't even think about that.
"Guess that finally wraps up this case!" Atticus smiled.
"The crooks are in custody and it looks like we're free to go." Fred added.
"It's about time!" Shaggy remarked. "If I never see another magical mite besides Lionel, it'll be too-" he was then about to add, only to see himself and the others tied up archery boards and bowling pins. "Soon?"
"Uh, guys...?" Robin II blinked.
"Hey, Robin didn't get tied up!" Cherry realized before glaring at Lionel suspiciously. "Is there a Robin-Mite too?"
Lionel sighed. "...unfortunately."
"I thought Scooby-Mite went home!" Daphne grunted.
"He did!" exclaimed a high-pitched voice. "But you can't leave yet! It'll be so cool if Robin rescues you all first!"
"Who..." Fred started, as a pint-sized fellow dressed like Robin appeared next to him.
"You can call me Larry!" beamed the little guy. "And I'm Robin's biggest fan, regardless of the incarnation: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Carrie Kelly, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown..." he sighed longingly. "...also Damian, I guess. And Nightwing is awesome, too!"
Batman let off a groan.
"Like, here we go again!" Shaggy exclaimed.
"Who writes this crap?" Cherry rolled her eyes.
"We gotta get out of here." Sabrina groaned.
"How did we even get here in the first place?" Salem asked.
"Author Appeal?" Cherry and Atticus shrugged at the teenage witch and her cat.
"Look, I'm seriously sorry about all this kerfuffle, guys." Lionel sighed. "Really, I am." he took his suit and tore it to pieces. "From now on, no more Bat-Mite mischief. This time, I promise to actually help for others' sakes, not just for my own amusement."
"Mm-hmm..." The group nodded sharply.
"Can ya forgive me?" Lionel asked.
"Hmm... Maybe this time..." Cherry replied. "This was quite the crossover, so I guess it's time to go back home."
"Already?" Mo asked.
"Well, I don't know what else we can do after seeing Batman and Robin," Cherry shrugged. "It's not like there's anything else planned, right?"
"Well, nothing else for now," Lionel replied. "We should be good for a while." And he floated halfway out the door, before he dropped to the ground and trudged sadly to the car.
The others went to go and join him.
"So what do we do now?" Atticus asked.
"I dunno," Cherry shrugged as she looked through her adventure scrapbook. "Visit other multiverses?"
"Eh, sure, why not?" replied Lionel. "Might inspire me to properly re-invent myself."
"You always said you wondered what Universe 63 was like," said Mo to Cherry. "So... no time like the present."
"...Well, yeah..." Cherry said.
"Lionel, do you think you could send us to Universe 63?" Mo asked Lionel. "It might be an interesting experience for all of us."
"Well, alright." Lionel replied, raising his arm and snapping his fingers, teleporting them out in a flash of light.
They soon arrived in Greendale as it seemed to be like it was as... It always was with no differences.
"Is this it?" Cherry asked Lionel. "It doesn't look any different."
"Trust me, we're here," Lionel replied. "Let's explore."
"Hmm... All right," Cherry shrugged. "I'm very sickened and curious."
The group soon wandered into Greendale to go and meet their gender-bent counterparts as they passed various people on the streets.
"Hey, there's the house," said Scrappy, pointing to a nearby building. "May as well head on in and check it out."
"Come on then." Cherry nodded.
"Come on, Salem." Sabrina smiled.
"This is eerily a lot like our world," Salem said. "Maybe nothing happened."
"So why are you worried?" Cherry asked.
"...I dunno," Salem shrugged. "Let's get this over with."
The group soon walked over to the house and Atticus, being the congenial soul he was, decided to knock on the door.
The door eventually opened, and an oddly-short teenage girl with puffy brown hair opened the door. "Can I help you?" she asked, before getting a good look at the group. "...who are you?" she then added.
"My name's Lionel." replied Lionel.
The girl went pale. "...my name's Leanne...!" she replied before her eyes rolled back into her head and she went limp, passing out.
The group sweat-dropped on that.
"...What the fuzzy?" Cherry muttered.
Salem looked between Leanne and Lionel before he began to look a little cross-eyed.
"Is that the pizza, Leanne?" A raspy male voice asked before showing what looked like a boy with neck-length dark brown hair with glasses as he came inside. "We still have time before an emergency comes up." he then looked down to see what happened.
"Uh, hey?" Cherry called. "I'm Cherry."
"...My name is Chuckie." The boy replied.
"...Well, at least Lionel's spell worked." Sabrina shrugged at the others bashfully.
"Should... should we do something about Leanne?" asked Lionel.
"I'll get her to the couch," Chuckie said as he picked up Leanne and carried her off to the living room. "You guys look familiar... Have I seen you somewhere before?"
"Uh, no, I don't think so," Mo replied bashfully. "We're just, uh, exploring right now."
"Hmm..." Chuckie replied suspiciously. "If you say so."
The house looked the same as it did in the Prime Universe, though there seemed to be a female Atticus and possibly a male Mo on the couch, though Mo's counterpart didn't look that much different than she did right now.
"Okay, this feels pretty weird," said Lionel. "But apart from the usual expected weirdness, it's nothing outstandingly weird."
"So... Uh..." Cherry blinked. "You guys waiting for something?"
"Yeah, we're getting pizza before we have... Schoolwork to do..." The male Mo replied.
"Erm... Yes," The female Atticus added. "It's very important."
"...You guys are adventurers, aren't you?" Atticus asked.
The group looked wide-eyed.
"I'm right, aren't I?" Atticus smirked.
"...Are you some kinda mind-reader?" Chuckie asked.
"Actually, we're adventurers too, it's kind of a funny story..." Cherry chuckled bashfully.
"We're your alternate-universe counterparts," explained Lionel as Leanne woke up.
"So you're me as a guy?" Leanne then exclaimed.
Lionel nodded.
"Huh... cool~!" Leanne replied. "If not a bit dizzying!"
"This is really weird..." Sabrina commented before a short-haired blonde boy walked in.
"Whoa... Really weird..." The short-haired blonde boy replied.
"Looks like a certain someone has explaining to do..." The female Atticus narrowed her eyes.
"I doubt this has to do with our mission," Chuckie told her. "Unless... It is... And this is a test to see if we can make our gender-bent counterparts go away."
"Look, we're sorry we're bothering you, I just wanted to see what we would look like as the opposite sex or something," Cherry grinned bashfully. "There's no need to get violent."
"...Lemme guess, your Leanne or whatever your name is sent you to a different universe where you're you, but in a different scenario?" Chuckie rolled his eyes. "I've seen this a million times like one where we're Adventure Babies like that weird baby show: Carpet Critters."
"What are you talking about?" Lionel asked. "We have never found a universe like that! Who would be insane enough to send babies on life-threatening missions?!"
"I guess you haven't gotten that far yet." Chuckie smirked as the others shuddered.
"...Seriously?" Lionel asked.
Chuckie and the others nodded.
"What kind of world are we living in?!" Cherry flipped out. "I need to retire soon before I lose it!"
"CHERRY! YOU'RE BEING HYSTERICAL!" Lionel shouted, as another Dalmatian came over with a bucket of water, and dumped it over Cherry's head.
"...I guess I needed that, Spot..." Cherry remarked at the dalmatian, as Lionel conjured up a fluffy towel for her.
"My name's not 'Spot'," replied the dalmatian in a feminine voice. "My name's Smudge."
"Guess you're my counterpart," said Patch. "You also live with a blue cat, one of your cousins, and a Great Dane puppy?"
"Yeah: Fuzzball, Doubleday, and Shaney-Doo," replied Smudge. "They're good company."
"Smudge?" Cherry deadpanned. "Your name is SMUDGE?!"
"...Yes?" The female Dalmatian replied.
Cherry blinked a few times before she started to laugh.
"Hey! Don't make fun of my dog!" The female Atticus glared.
"Heh. Sorry about that... Whoever you are." Cherry smirked.
"My name is Atlanta," The female Atticus replied. "You shouldn't mess with me."
"Lemme guess; I don't know what you can do?" Cherry rolled her eyes.
"That and it's not very nice," Atlanta warned. "Drella must've set this up, guys."
"Okay, now I'm terrified to meet a female Drell," Cherry said as she faced Lionel and the others. "Let's get out of here before I have the displeasure."
"Alright, we outta here," Lionel waved. "So long, guys!" And with a twist of his neck, the group vanished back to the Prime Earth in a flash.
"...Well, that just happened." Atlanta remarked.
"Yep." Mo's counterpart, named Marc, agreed.
There was then a ring at the doorbell.
"All right, the pizza's here!" Samson cheered.
The group soon made it back home.
"So, this is Prime Earth... I think..." Cherry said. "This is gonna be a lot to take in, I can tell."
"It usually always is." Lionel replied dully, as he took the remains of his Bat-Mite costume and tossed them into the garbage disposal, making them get ripped into tinier bits.
"jeez," Scrappy winced. "Was he bummed or what?"
"I feel a little bad for him." Mo frowned.
"Maybe we should do something for him." Atticus added.
"Like what?" Cherry shrugged. "You wanna bake him a cake or something?"
"I dunno, just to show him we love him for who he is and he's our friend," Atticus replied. "Maybe make a cake, maybe have a special day with him before the crazy stuff really starts to happen."
"Besides, we've seen a bummed-out Batman before," replied Patch. "Do you really want to see what a depressed Bat-Mite would be like?"
"No, I don't think I would, Spot," Cherry said. "There just has to be something we can do to make it up to Lionel."
"Well, maybe we can help him see that just because he's not the same old Bat-Mite anymore, it doesn't mean he can't just try being a better version," suggested Atticus. "He seems kinda unsure about whether or not he's gonna actually make a new suit."
"No, I don't think I would, buddy," Cherry said. "There just has to be something we can do to make it up to Lionel."
The others nodded as they gave Lionel a bit of alone time to let him sit and reflect on what just happened.
"At least that trip wasn't a waste," Cherry commented. "It was good to see for a minute."