A LITTLE WHILE LATER...
Penn, Teller, Cherry, Daphne, and Velma were onstage checking out the disappearing box, while Fred was up in the rafters, adjusting some pulleys he'd set up.
"By using Professor Markson's cabinet as bait, I'm confident we'll capture him this time." Velma told the others.
"Alright, then let's do this." Cherry said.
"Like, we're ready, Mr. Jilette!" Shaggy called out.
Everyone then looked over to see Shaggy in a colorful and flashy costume that looked like something out of a magic show with Siegfried & Roy's magic shows while Scooby and Scrappy were both dressed up like stereotypical stage magicians with capes and top hats along with suit jackets, canes, and bow-ties.
"Who gets to be the lovely assistant?" Daphne asked as she wore fishnet stockings along with opera gloves, a corset-style costume top, and her own bow-tie.
Cherry just glanced at Daphne with wide eyes briefly before settling down again.
"Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!" Scooby cried out as he waved his paw in the air.
"Hmm..." Atticus paused as he looked over. "Cherry, you wanna help out your two favorite magicians?"
"Oh, uh, I don't think I'd be very good, especially in an outfit like that." Cherry remarked as she pointed out what the redhead had on.
"You could just go casual." suggested Lionel.
"Well, uh, I dunno..." Cherry shrugged.
"Come on, Cherry," Sabrina advised. "Have your moment. It's okay."
"I mean I wouldn't mind being Zatanna's lovely assistant if someone asked me." Salem smirked.
Patch rolled his eyes with a smirk at that.
"Well... okay," Cherry then relented as she shrugged again. "You only live once after all."
"Attagirl!" Lionel beamed as he did a whistle and applauded for Cherry as she went up to help.
"Sorry Daphne, but it looks like Cherry is perfect for this." Penn said to the redhead.
"Oh, that's fine," Daphne replied. "This is probably more important to her than it is to me anyway." She headed off the stage as Cherry got up there.
Cherry stumbled a little, grunting as she almost slipped and fell. Teller then grabbed Cherry's hand and pulled her over to prevent her from falling all the way off the stage.
"That was close," Cherry said to herself. "I almost had a Kelsey Grammer moment of my own."
"Who?" Atticus wondered while Patch shrugged in reply.
Cherry soon came over and climbed into the cabinet to help out her two most favorite magicians of all time.
"She'll explain later," Lionel shrugged. "I know I could use some context, too."
"Alright, Professor Markson, we are onto your tricks!" declared Penn. "This is Penn & Teller! Let's show everyone how the magic is done!" He and Teller let Cherry step into the box, before they closed the doors shut.
Cherry sat comfortably until the magic happened.
"It's as simple as tapping this cabinet!" Penn then said before opening the doors with Teller again to find Scooby inside.
Scooby roared as he tried to look scary. "I'm a monster! Rawr! I'm a monster!" he then snarled.
Penn and Teller then closed the doors on Scooby again before Teller turned the cabinet around.
"With a sleight of hand with a secret compartment in the back." Penn then said as the cabinet turned around and he and Teller opened the doors to show Cherry again.
"Ta-freakin'-da." Cherry said with about as much energy as a sloth, though in her own way, she was very excited to be apart of this.
"Trust me, she's excited in her own way." Atticus remarked to everybody else.
Just then, they heard something set off in the distance.
"We did it!" Fred exclaimed before running that way. "One of my snare traps must've caught the ghost!"
Penn, Teller, Cherry, and Lionel went with Fred to check the trap.
"Now let's see who the ghost of Professor Madds Markson really is." said Fred as he found someone caught in his snare. And so he whirled the person around, revealing a bespectacled brunette.
"It's... it's..." The gang started before losing steam.
"...yeah, I—I don't know who this is." said Velma.
"Me neither, and I think that goes for all of us." replied Lionel.
Everyone else seemed to agree that they were stumped about who this was supposed to be.
"Excuse me, ma'am, but do you mind telling us who you are?" Sabrina asked the mystery woman.
"My name is Tess. Tess Flemmings." The woman introduced herself.
"Tess Flemmings?!" Everyone else repeated with a gasp.
Penn then helped the woman down from the trap she was caught in.
"Thanks, Mr. Jillette." Tess said to him.
"Tess who?" "Scooby wondered.
"Okay, lady, tell us your story." Scrappy requested.
"I'm a Las Vegas history buff," Tess began to explain. "I snuck into the museum hall to get some last footage of the place before its controlled demolition and thanks to you meddling kids and magic legends, Penn and Teller, I've got some great footage."
"Uh... well, you're welcome." responded Lionel.
"Why were you masquerading as Professor Madds Markson?" Penn soon demanded.
"Yeah, you've got some explaining to do, lady." Mo added with her hands on her hips.
"Excuse me?" Tess asked out of confusion.
"You know, the ghost." Scrappy added.
"I don't know what that is," Tess then said until she thought about it and asked, "Oh, you mean that crazy monster? I thought it was part of some TV special Penn and Teller were doing."
"The ghost!" Scooby yelped.
"No need to yell, Scooby," Daphne chided quietly. "She heard you the first time."
"No! THE GHOST!" Scooby pointed out to them.
"Get out!" rasped the sickly purple apparition. "GET OUT!"
"C'mon, gang," declared Penn. "It's not too late to grab this ghost!"
"GETTTT OUUUUUUUT!" bellowed Madds Markson as he attacked.
"We have to get him back on the stage!" exclaimed Velma, and she and the gang made a break for it.
Penn and Teller soon came up on stage along with Tess. Teller glared as he tried to face Madds Markson only to be taken over by the ghost.
"Teller, watch out!" Patch cried out to the kind, silent magician.
Teller soon fell right into the cabinet and the doors shut on him, and after an electrical surge, the doors opened again to show that the silent magician had vanished. Everyone then gasped at that before the cabinet doors shut again suddenly.
"Teller?!" Penn yelped for his longtime partner.
Another electrical surge shot around before the cabinet exploded and the rabbit monster was shown again before it then whacked away everyone on stage, even Atticus and Patch despite their infamous strength as they landed in the audience seats below the stage.
"What did you do with my little buddy, Teller?" Penn glared at the rabbit monster.
The rabbit monster roared before it leapt from the stage, then uprooted an entire row of seats and threw it at the gang, knocking them all backwards.
"...how did he knock me and Patch back like that?" asked Atticus. "We have the—"
"The strength of Hercules, WE KNOW!" chorused Lionel and Cherry, rolling their eyes.
The rabbit monster then ripped the seats off from the front row and threw them at the group, knocking them further back. Atticus and Patch both suddenly looked dazed from that, unable to fight back.
"Ugh..." Cherry groaned and rubbed her head. "That's gonna give me a headache in the morning."
The rabbit monster snarled, coming in through the hole they had landed in.
"Not so fast, Professor Markson Monster!" Fred glared once he stood up only to be grabbed by the monster. "Hey!"
The rabbit monster growled and then threw Fred all the way across the room and hitting one of the pillars that had dynamite strapped to it, causing the timer to activate and suddenly go down from 10 minutes to one minute.
"Aw, Fred!" Cherry complained once she saw that. "You triggered the control of the demolition and now this place is gonna blow in less than a minute!"
"RUN!" exclaimed Scrappy.
And immediately, everyone made a break for the exit, while the rabbit monster came tearing after them.
"Over here, guys!" Daphne exclaimed as she led them to another hotel room; inside was a spring-loaded bed trap with a massive hole in the wall.
"C'mon! We can use the spare bed portion of the trap to escape!" explained Fred.
"Fred, why do you always have a spare catapult portion in every single trap?" asked Daphne.
"I..." began Fred, before he trailed off. "Could you rephrase that question?"
"How about LATER? When we're not in danger?" asked Sabrina, as the rabbit monster was getting closer.
"I'm with Sabrina on this one!" Cherry agreed.
The rabbit monster began to come closer to where they were right now.
"Yeah, good idea!" Shaggy agreed as he picked up both Scooby and Scrappy. "Come on, everybody, we gotta go right now!"
"No! Teller's still in there!" Penn cried out as he reached out for his partner. "Teller!"
"You can't go back after him, Mr. Jillette, it's too dangerous!" Fred told the large magician, holding him back.
"16 seconds, let's go!" Salem alerted as he checked a random wristwatch he suddenly had on.
The rabbit monster snarled once he found them and soon came right into the room.
"Pull the trigger, Freddy! We gotta go!" Shaggy cried out nervously.
There was then a single second left as the rabbit monster lunged out, making them all fall and land onto the mattress and they were sprung right out of the hotel just as the explosions started.
"Holy, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, that was too close!" Cherry noted once they began to fly with the mattress.
"And I think it's about to get closer!" Lionel exclaimed as they hit the pavement, while behind them the Savanna Hotel tumbled down in a hail of explosions.
"That's amazing." commented Tess.
"Teller!" screamed Penn as he reached out futilely. "TELLER...!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Jillette," responded Velma. "Wait 'til you see who the Madds Markson monster REALLY is!" And so she walked over to the rabbit monster, before unmasking him, revealing his true identity as...
"TELLER?!" exclaimed the gang in awe.
"That's just crazy." Scooby remarked.
"You said it, Uncle Scooby." Scrappy agreed.
"Teller, you were the horrible Markson monster?" Shaggy asked.
Teller simply smiled and nodded in reply.
"You were the ghostly specter of Professor Madds Markson?" Fred asked.
Teller again nodded in response.
"You were eccentric billionaire recluse Hugo Houser?" Daphne asked.
"You pulled a birthday cake out of nothing?" Patch also asked once he and Atticus finally came to.
Teller nodded to both questions.
"Mr. Teller did all of it," Velma then concluded before being interrupted suddenly. "He-"
"Velma, can I have this one? I'm such a big fan." Cherry requested.
"Oh, well, um, go ahead then, Cherry." Velma then said.
"Thank you," Cherry said before she began to explain everything to everybody. "You see, guys, Mr. Teller here played all of the parts. He prerecorded all of the phone conversations using a computer-generated voice, he rigged traps all over the hotel ceilings to hang his ghost and monster and operated them with a remote control. With the hotel rigged for demolition, the traps were easily hidden. He created cardboard cut-outs on train tracks to create the effect of reclusive billionaire and the monster in shadow play."
"Guess that explains that set of train tracks we saw earlier." Sabrina remarked while Salem nodded.
"Teller then created the famous cabinet trick from careful research, then faked the attack upon himself so he could put on the mantle of the monster for the final fight," Cherry then continued before she started to conclude the reasoning. "Teller did it all by himself..." she then glanced over with slanted eyes. "Which I assume is payback for the ending of their movie from 1989 which I recommend for any fan, such as myself." she then ended her little story before pushing her glasses back with a small, rather knowledgeable smirk.
"Why did you do it?" asked Daphne.
And then, to almost everyone's surprise... Teller spoke. "Because I wanted to pull off a magic trick big enough to impress Penn." he replied.
"Huh?" Scooby asked. "Did you know he could talk?"
Cherry flashed a small smile. "Maybe, maybe not."
"You remember how Penn says he loves a good scare, how he loves getting fooled, but it's never real or very exciting?" Teller reminded the others. "Except for a few exceptions on our show on The CW channel." he then added.
"Also, that time when he wished someone was trying to kill him and you guys were pranking each other until it ended badly." Cherry piped up.
"Did you guys hear? Cherry's a Penn and Teller fan." Salem snarked to himself.
"Shh!" Scrappy shushed the cat so that they could hear more of Teller's story.
"I wanted to make it real and exciting for him, just this once," Teller then continued to explain himself to them. "And I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for meddling kids and Penn being so hard to fool."
"Sorry, buddy, but c'mon... a guy pretending to be a reclusive billionaire, a crazy ghost of an old magician and a horrible monster, all set to the backdrop of the controlled demolition of an entire building imploding and collapsing..." said Penn with a yawn. "...seen it a million times."
Teller sighed, feeling a bit bummed out.
"I'M JUST KIDDING!" Penn exclaimed. "That was CRAZY AMAZING! I want you to know this is the best present anyone's ever gotten me! I WAS SO SCARED! AND I LOVED IT!"
Cherry had a small visible grin, looking happy for Teller before she went back to her usual stoic and default face. Teller smiled as that began to make him feel a lot better now.
"Come here, you knucklehead!" Penn beamed as he hugged his longtime partner. "All of you!" he then added before pulling everyone else into the hug.
"So, uh, what about our money?" Cherry soon asked.
"Cherry, don't be greedy." Atticus chided his best friend.
"No, no, she's right, a deal's a deal," Teller replied as he took out his checkbook. "I think a reward is in order."
"He's giving us the million dollars!" Shaggy laughed as Teller wrote out a check. "Oh, boy!"
"Technically, Mr. Teller, you were the last person to-" pointed out Fred, before Daphne clapped a hand over his mouth.
"He's just tired, this kind of thing takes a lot out of you," Daphne said as she accepted the check. "The boy-scout honesty thing's nice, Freddy, but before you go turning down a million dollars, try consulting the rest of us instead of making the choice for everyone." she hissed through clenched teeth.
"Yeah!" Scooby and Scrappy added firmly.
Cherry cleared her throat and nudged Atticus's arm a bit.
"I didn't say anything." Atticus said to her.
"I know," Cherry replied. "I just wanna make sure that you don't."
Fred just grinned sheepishly at the others. Teller soon took out another piece of paper, then ripped it into pieces before he folded the pieces, then unfolded them to show them as a whole piece of paper again, then folded the paper into an origami bird before putting his hands over the paper, then brought out a white dove in his hands and allowed the dove to fly away out of his hands.
"Oh, that's amazing!" Velma beamed as they watched the bird fly off before she turned around. "How do you guys-" she was then about to ask only for the comedic magician duo to suddenly be gone.
"Magic Dooby Doo~" Teller's voice echoed.
"I love those guys." Cherry smirked warmly as another adventure came to an end.
A portal then opened up from where they currently were.
"A portal? I guess that means this adventure is officially over." Patch remarked.
"Sure, makes sense to me," replied Lionel. "Guess that's our cue to make like Blue... and skidoo!"
Everyone else looked at each other and soon jumped into the portal, disappearing as their adventure seemed to come to an end.
"I suppose it was nice seeing Scooby and the gang again," Cherry said on their way back home. "Especially with those other sudden crossover adventures like seeing The Hex Girls again or meeting Josie and the Pussycats."
"Plus that time with your favorite magicians." Sabrina added as a reminder.
"Them too." Cherry nodded.
"Looks like it's time for another adventure to come to an end." Atticus then remarked once they appeared in the Spellman household.
"Kids, your adventure isn't over yet." Zelda suddenly said as if she had been cued to say that.
"Whaddya mean, Aunt Zelda?" asked Sabrina.
"I knew it was too good to be true." Cherry snarked to the others.
"Come inside, we need to talk," Zelda nodded. "Are you kids hungry? We can get you some food." she then offered warmly.
"We love your company after all," Hilda added. "Though not as much as when Harvey comes over~"
"Aunt Hilda!" Sabrina pouted and blushed.
"Well, it's true." Hilda replied innocently.
And so the kids came inside.