Back in their quarters aboard the space station, Robin revealed to the gang the new information he had uncovered.

"What does Amber have to do with anything?" Daphne asked.

"I bet she holds a critical role in the conspiracy!" Fred replied, conviction in his voice.

Robin scratched his chin with a gloved hand, frowning in thought. Shaggy and Scooby then entered the room.

"Hey gang!" Shaggy greeted. "Like, that alien food court sure knows how to satisfy!"

"Reah! Ratisfy!" Scooby agreed.

Shaggy noticed the look of contemplation on everyone's face, and asked, "Like, is there something we missed?"

"Shaggy, did you come across Crystal and Amber?" Velma questioned.

"Like, yeah! It was wonderful!" Shaggy replied, his eyes once again beginning to look like hearts.

"Rand re saw Ramber!" Scooby added, jumping giddily.

Robin and the others shared a look, and Robin knelt down to Scooby's level. Place a hand on the dog's back, Robin asked, "Scooby, did you notice anything different about Amber?"

"Nuh uh!" Scooby denied.

"Well, actually, like yeah!" Shaggy answered. "She was very quiet. But, like, that's not the weird part; the weird part was that she seemed shyer than she was when we met her."

"And how was she when you met her?" Robin inquired.

"Well, like, shy, but very active!" Shaggy answered, frowning in thought. "This time she seemed, like, depressed almost."

Robin stroked his chin again, and then made for the door.

"Where are you going?" Daphne asked.

"I feel like we should do some more digging up on Amber. If the Cisceerians know something about her, the rest of the Alliance doesn't, I feel like someone's being had." Robin answered.

Commander Rulaf was strolling through the hallways, a silver bespectacled alien following him. Said alien had a data-pad in hand, and was currently skimming over schematics.

"Her genetic code is exactly like that of a Dogean's." The bespectacled alien spoke.

"How they expected to keep this from us forever is beyond me." Rulaf said.

"Look," The other alien showed Rulaf the data-pad. "The only thing different is the gene that dictates appearance."

"I saw it Doctor."

"It's a mutagen!" The "doctor" continued. Rulaf sighed. He turned to look the doctor in the eyes.

"Go work on your research Doctor Cryse, I'll will bring this up with the council." As the doctor scrambled away, Rulaf scratched his chin. Perhaps, he thought, the human meddlers can help us.

It had been done. Rulaf had approached the gang and had asked for their help. Meanwhile, Robin had started his own investigation. He stealthily made his way to the hangar bay, looking for any ship that would give him access to a Cisceerian computer. He pulled out a small pair of binoculars, searching the area, before spotting a ship surrounded by a few Cisceerians.

"Bingo." He said.

Quickly moving towards the ship, he launched himself upwards, and took the guards by surprise, kicking one across the face. He pulled out his Bo staff and twirled it, spinning around and jamming guards with the tips of the staff. Cracking it over the last guard's head, Robin headed inside. From inside one of the surrounding towers, Stargon looked on. He smirked, and made his way down to the hangar.

Inside the ship, Robin found it empty. He quickly made his way to the control room. Once there, he cracked his fingers, and got to work. He tapped some suspicious looking icons, and soon brought up a lab report. When it came up, Robin noticed a picture of what looked like a golden retriever. No, he frowned, maybe it was a Labradath. He skimmed the file, finding that most of it was in an alien language. Robin pulled out a circular disc and placed it on the keyboard, then tapped a few keys.

Now, the screen was in English, much easier to understand. Now then, Robin cracked his fingers again, let's do this. He read the file name, Project A-2637. He read some details about a project referred to as "Infiltration", then read where it had failed, and saw that special attention needed to be given to Project A-2637. He saw where the Project had been subjected to a chemical noted as "Mutagen R". Robin shut out the window, and pulled up the file on Mutagen R, easier to find now that the file names had been translated.

He pulled up a picture of a dark blue four-legged alien with four legs. Realization hit him, and he pulled up the previous file on Project A-2637.

"Holy…" He started.

"Impressive, is it not!?" came a triumphantly deep voice from behind. Robin spun around. There stood Stargon, troopers flanking him.

"You won't get away with this." Robin pulled out his staff once more, and twirled it.

"Don't attempt to stop us, for once the invasion of Dogea begins, all will fall into place, and be revealed." The thick necked alien smirked in victory.

"Not buying it." Robin lunged at the alien and his men, and a fight broke out.

Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby Doo were investigating Amber and Crystal's quarters, access granted them by Rulaf. Scooby sniffed under beds, while Shaggy rummaged through the closet. Velma was looking in drawers when she absent mindedly started conversation with Shaggy.

"Shaggy?" She started.

"Like, yeah Velma?" He replied.

"What're your expectations for this mystery?" Velma asked. She heard the rummaging noise stop. She looked behind her. Shaggy's fists were balled, and his eyes were tightly shut. He let out a breath, and started looking through the closet again.

"I have no expectations Velma." Shaggy replied. "Not anymore."

He stopped his search for clues and left the room. Scooby whined at Shaggy, sensing his best friend's rather poor mood.

As Shaggy left the room he ran into Crystal. The alien lifted her eyebrow quizzically. Shaggy chuckled nervously. "Like hey!" He greeted. Crystal smirked.

"Shaggy?"

"Yeah?"

"What were you doing in my room?" Crystal asked seductively, causing Shaggy to sweat bullets.

"Like, we were called in to investigate, like, government stuff!" Shaggy answered. The door opened, and Crystal looked inside. Velma and Scooby walked out.

"Oh, hi Velma! How groovy to see you again!" Crystal greeted, sparing a glance at Shaggy.

"Hi Crystal! It's nice to see you again, too." Velma replied. She glance between Shaggy and Crystal, and said to Scooby, "Come on, Scoob, Shaggy and Crystal have a few things to talk about."

As they retreated, Shaggy shouted out, "Like wait!"

"So," Shaggy gulped. "What do we have to talk about Shaggy?" Crystal asked.

This wasn't gonna be fun.

CRACK!

A Cisceerian cracked Robin across the face, sending the Boy Wonder down for the count. It had taken twenty-four men and sixteen rounds of ammo, but they had finally got him.

Robin was brought before Stargon and thrown at his feet.

"Orders, my lord?" The Cisceerian asked.

"Throw him out of the ship; have him held for meddling with our tech." Stargon ordered. The alien complied.

When Robin was handed over to Rulaf and two S.A.S.S. troopers, the Cisceerians said, "We found him hacking our computers. He was trying to steal government secrets!"

"You did well." Rulaf said his tone cold. The aliens nodded and walked away. Robin, regaining consciousness, lifted his head to look at Rulaf.

"Don't trust them." He said.

"I don't." Rulaf replied, lifting the teen to his feet. "Now boy, what did you learn?"

A/N: It's going down. Now that the foundation of the plot has been established, the real fun begins. As always, Read and Review.