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Later, the gang regrouped and Freddy asked "So, did any of you have any luck finding any clues?" "Yeah, like Scoob and I found this weird key" said Shaggy as he presented the key. "If you think that's weird, you should see all the clues that I've got" said Velma as she took out a piece of metal that had the Lockheed symbol on it, beach plums, little vials, and a broken piece of a stilt. "None of this makes any sense" said Freddy "How do all of these clues fit together?" "I don't know either, but it looks as I need to have all of these pieces analyzed" said Velma.
The gang then headed back to the Mystery Machine, but a piece of paper was beneath one of the windshield wipers. "It' better not be a parking ticket" groaned Fred as he went to get the paper, but he read it, then turned to the gang and said "Looks like that we now have a new suspect in this mystery." The gang looked confused, and then they went to Freddy and read the note:
Dear Mystery Inc.:
I have heard a lot about you from my dear friend, Professor Pericles. I warn you that this will be your last case. I hope that we all meet face to face before your time is up.
Signed,
M.M.
"Who's M.M.?" asked Daphne. "I don't know, but whoever M.M. is, this suspect has terrible handwriting" said Freddy as he looked at the note.
Later, the gang went to the Malt Shop to eat and drink something while they tried to figure out the mystery. "First the plums at the beach, then all of those clues at the prison. What's the connection?" said Freddy. "I don't know, but I have to have all of those clues analyzed at the High School's lab before I can give you an answer" said Velma. Shaggy and Scooby, on the other hand, were busy eating a lot of ice cream.
After the Malt Shop, the gang left to find another piece of paper beneath the windshield wipers. "Is it another clue?" asked Daphne as Freddy approached, and read the note. "Yeah, it is. It says that we have to go to the Renaissance Fair grounds. We'll find our next clue there" he said. So, the gang boarded the Mystery Machine, and they drove off to the old fair grounds. They found the place in ruins, with trees rotting and the grass dying. "Like, what happened?" asked Shaggy. "I don't know, but it looks as if we have to find out" said Freddy as they split up again to investigate the grounds.
Above them, on the wooden walkway, the cloaked figure from the jail was watching them. "Come on, a little closer" he croaked as he was eating a beach plum. "Ah, so I see that you're here" said Professor Pericles. The cloaked figure turned his head and said "Long time no see, Pericles." "So, how was your time on Plum Island?" asked the bird. The cloaked figure growled, and then croaked "It was horrible. Those scientists tested and experimented with my body as if I was some sort of alien. Many of my siblings have died as they tried to escape that accursed place." "How long, my friend?" asked Pericles. The figure coughed, and then said "I only have a few more weeks left; then I'm done for. You won't believe the horrible diseases that those scientists injected me with. It was a horror beyond reality." A sudden scream caught their attention, and they saw Daphne and Freddy falling into a hole in the ground.
"I always love those humans doing stupid things" laughed the cloaked figure. Professor Pericles turned his head and looked at his friend and said "Really, a hole in the ground? Is that all that you've got?" "Heh, but not just any hole. I placed a few of my vials in the dirt surrounding the hole. They'll be coming out of that hole, but with a disease" croaked the cloaked figure.
Velma was busy investigating another part of the fairgrounds, when she encountered more broken vials. "Hmm…it seems as if our suspect likes to use these vials. Whoever has these vials must work in the disease laboratories of Plum Island" said Velma. She heard some screaming, so she turned around and ran to find out where the screaming was coming from. She found both Freddy and Daphne in a hole in the ground, and their skin was covered in purple bumps. Their hair was also beginning to fall out. Velma looked around, and she found a large, long stick. "Grab hold!" called out Velma as she lowered the stick into the hole. Daphne grabbed hold, but Velma couldn't pull them out. "Wait here while I get Shaggy and Scooby" called out Velma as she turned around to find Shaggy and Scooby.
Both Shaggy and Scooby were investigating the walkways in the trees. They walked around without as much as a single clue. "Like Scoob, I'm beginning to think that this part of the mystery is nothing but a wild goose chase" said Shaggy. "Reah" said Scooby. Suddenly, they heard Velma calling out their names, so Shaggy called out "Like Velma, we're here!" "Shaggy!" she said as she ran up to them "Both Daphne and Freddy have fallen into this large hole, and we have to get them out!" "Come on, Scoob. Looks like that it's up to us to get them out" said Shaggy to Scooby, before the three ran to the location where both Freddy and Daphne were.
When they got there, they found both Daphne and Freddy covered in many purple blisters, but they were bald this time. "Like, how did you capture these monsters?" asked Shaggy. "Those aren't monsters, Shaggy. They're Daphne and Freddy" said Velma. "Like, what happened to them?" asked Shaggy as Scooby said "Reah, rhat rhappened?" "I don't know, but they both need to get to a hospital. Help me pull them out with this branch" said Velma as both Shaggy and Scooby grabbed one end, and lowered it into the pit. Daphne grabbed the branch first, and after they pulled her out, they pulled out Freddy.
After getting the two out of the pit, Velma drove the two to the hospital, with Shaggy and Scooby riding in front (the other two had to ride in the back.) Within the tree tops, both Professor Pericles and the cloaked figure watched them leave, and then Professor Pericles said "With those two out of the picture, that leaves Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby. How are we to deal with them?" "Just leave that to me, Pericles. I'll make sure that something happens to Velma, so we only have to deal with Shaggy and the dog" laughed the cloaked figure, before he began a coughing fit.
"Aw, come on. I want to go to Crystal Cove peak and set up my greatest trap ever" said Freddy in the hospital bed. "No excuses, Freddy. What both you and Daphne have is very contagious, and the both of you need to be in the hospital for the next two months" said Velma. In the next bed, the both of them could hear Daphne screaming on how she was bald, and how messed up her skin complexion was.
Elsewhere in the hospital, both Shaggy and Scooby were in the cafeteria, eating a lot of the food. "Like Scoob, this hospital food ain't half bad" said Shaggy between mouthfuls. "Rhea" said Scooby as he continued to eat. Deep within the subconscious part of Scooby's mind, the entity was finishing looking up Scooby's memories, before he set in for a long sleep. "Hopefully, I won't have to wake up for a long time" he thought as he headed back for the unconscious part of Scooby's mind. How very wrong he was.
Much later that night, Shaggy and Scooby were at their home while Velma was doing some research at the library of Darrow College. She was looking up Plum Island and its history, and she happened to find a newspaper article relating to the Montauk Monster sightings on Long Island. She read on how the bodies were claimed by a mysterious person and took them and buried them in the woods, but never revealed was the identity of the man, nor the location of the bodies. "Jinkies" said Velma, before she heard a repeated clunking sound echoing within the library. "Jinkies, what was that?" said Velma. She left the microfilm projector, and went to explore the library. She never found who made those clunking sounds, but she heard a thump behind her and turned around.
"Jinkies, who are you?" she asked. The figure croaked and laughed at her, and said "I'm surprised that you haven't figured out yet, Velma. I warned you that this would be your last case." He then reached into his cloak, and threw a vial at Velma, but she ran as the figure ran after her. How the cloaked figure ran was really laughable; he ran like a tall guy that had two sprained ankles while tripping over a bunch of branches. Velma managed to escape the library and headed for her car, where she then drove off towards her home. The cloaked figure paused as he tried to catch his breath, then said to himself "It doesn't matter…I left a rather nasty surprise in her car" before breaking out in crazed laughter.
While Velma was driving home, she began coughing and felt dizzy. "Huh?" she said as she coughed hard. Her skin began to swell as black lesions began to appear on her skin. Panicking, she drove immediately to the hospital and checked herself in.
Later that night, the hospital called up Velma's parents. "Hello?" said Velma's father into the telephone. "Hello, , this is Crystal Cove Emergency on the line. Your daughter has just checked herself in, and she has anthrax" said the voice over the phone. "Wait, what?" said Mr. Dinkley. "You heard us. Your daughter has anthrax, and we did an investigation, and her car is infected with anthrax spores. We had to burn the car to avoid further contamination and avoid an outbreak. Your daughter is in quarantine at the moment, but it'll be three weeks before we can release her. It appears that her strain of anthrax is a military-styled bio-weapon" said the voice on the line. For once in his life, Mr. Dinkley felt afraid for whatever was causing this destruction to Crystal Cove.
Both Shaggy and Scooby were informed at what happened to Velma, and they both felt afraid. "Like Scoob, who could do this?" said Shaggy. "Rhi ron't rhow, rhut rhi ron't rike rhit" said Scooby. Tonight was the last night before the inevitable meeting at Crystal Cove peak.
While they were sleeping, a few shadowy figures were sneaking up to Scooby and Shaggy's house. "So, my friends, do you remember the plan?" asked Professor Pericles. "Yes, we hypnotize them into a deep sleep, and we take them to Crystal Cove peak. We ask them where the Planispheric Disks are, and if the human doesn't comply, we toss the dog off the cliff" said a clown. Professor Pericles looked at him and said "You're correct, but we hypnotize them only if they wake up first." He then looked at a faceless zombie, an ape with a jaguar head, and an old miner and said "You three; sneak up there and take our two friends. The Ghost Clown and I will be waiting down here."
Jaguaro, the No-Face Zombie, and the Miner Forty-Niner all snuck up to Shaggy's and Scooby's window, as the animal beast opened it up with one claw. The No-Face Zombie and the Miner Forty-Niner had lengths of rope, and they tied up Shaggy and Scooby pretty tight. The two sleepers were in a very deep sleep, so the three monsters had no trouble taking down the two cowards from the window. The three of them made it back to Professor Pericles without a problem, and the five of them walked off into the night.
"Yawn" said Shaggy as he woke up the next day. "Like Scoob, can you please pull down the shades" yawned Shaggy as Scooby moaned. "Ah, but Shaggy, you're not at home" said Professor Pericles as the two cowards woke up immediately. They saw themselves surrounded by Jaguaro, the No-Face Zombie, the Miner Forty-Niner, the Creeper, and Que Horrifico, along with Professor Pericles. "YAHHHAAAHHH!" screamed Shaggy and Scooby at the same time. "Now, I'm sure that you have lots of questions, but some of them will be answered in time" said Professor Pericles "But what we want are the Planispheric Disks." "Like, we-we don't ha-have them, r-ri-right, S-s-scoob?" said Shaggy as he shook. "R-rhe-reah" chattered Scooby. "Ah, but you do, but the thing is, we don't know where they are" said Professor Pericles.
All of the shaking that Scooby was doing woke up the entity within his unconscious. Now what thought the entity as he transformed and flew up to Scooby's conscious. He managed to hear Professor Pericles say "If you don't tell us where the Planispheric Disks are, Shaggy, Scooby will have to suffer the consequences." The entity recognized Professor Pericles and the other monsters when it watched Scooby's memories earlier, but he knew that he could do nothing…for now.
"Like, like I'll tell you" said Shaggy after giving in "The Planispheric Disks are in our refrigerator, right by the ice cream cake and the salami." "Ah, I knew that you would give in" said Professor Pericles. He then turned to the other monsters and said "Jaguaro, you may do whatever you wish to Scooby. The rest of you, take Shaggy and come to Creepy Spooky Terror Land. We'll get the rest of the gang later" before the others left. Jaguaro then picked up Scooby and roared, before tossing the dog off the cliff!
The entity within Scooby's head felt a hard THUMP and a loud SPLAT, then saw Scooby within the conscious part of the brain with him. He approached Scooby from the shadows. He had a proposition to make.
Scooby was in intense pain as he felt his world fading. He saw a large creature coming out from the shadows with blood-red eyes, sharp spikes on his body, and was massive in appearance. "Scooby-Doo" the entity said "I was asleep within your unconscious until I was awakened three nights ago, and during that time, I explored your mind to learn about you. I have learned that you trust your friends very much, and would do anything to protect them, even if that means facing your fears. I also saw all the monsters that you've defeated over the years, and I saw some of them coming back to get you today. I know that your body is dying, and if you die, my essence will be lost for all eternity. I grant you this power: merge with my conscious and I will protect your friend Shaggy."
Scooby-Doo was frightened at the massive creature, and then he spoke "Rhut, rhat rill rappen rho re?" The entity looked sad and said "Your memories will join mine, enabling a complete memory for me. I'm afraid in the process, you will die, but your life force will join mine as one being. You will be able to live on in my body, but only as memories. In the process, I'm afraid that you can never see your friends again, but I will be able to protect your town and your friends." Scooby though hard at his choices: Die, or exist only as memories. He would be able to save the town and his friends, but he would never be able to see them again.
The entity looked down at the dog, before Scooby looked up crying and said "Rhi'll ro rit." The entity looked down and smiled sadly and said "I promise that this'll be painless." Scooby then floated up, and merged with the entity's head; dissolving into white sparkles as he passed through.
Scooby's body then began moving, as his eye opened up to reveal a blood-red glowing eye burning in vengeance and hate. There was a loud metallic shifting sound, before a metallic roar echoed across the sky.
(Author's note: You have to play "Roar" from Cloverfield during this part!)
Shaggy was chained up over a vat of tar as he was surrounded by monsters. There was maniacal laughter, roaring, cackling, groaning, and other haunting sounds that echoed around the human. Professor Pericles was there as well, with all of the Planispheric disks in his possession. The mysterious cloaked figure was there as well, holding an ancient book of some sort. "Looks like that we've done it" croaked the hooded figure as he held the text. "Yes, but who knew that the Salem Book of Shadows would have actually worked on making all of the monsters that they've ever faced come to life?" said Professor Pericles. The hooded figure laughed, then croaked "You'll be amazed at all the ancient books that they have in the New York Public Library. Many of them go back centuries."
In the far off distance from Creepy Spooky Terror Land, the engines of a spacecraft were flying in at full speed. A few dragons and Shagzilla were patrolling around the palace where the monsters were gathered, before they saw it. A few blasts from the spacecraft were shot, and the dragons retaliated by shooting fire back at it. The spacecraft transformed into a gigantic robot with spiked armor as he landed on Shagzilla's head, before he extended a blade from his arm.
Inside the palace, all of the monsters heard screaming coming from outside, then they all rushed out. When they all got out, the sight horrified them. The dragons and Shagzilla were dead, and there was a robotic monster fighting the Ghost Truck. The Ghost Truck tried to run over the robot, but he extended his blade again and sliced the truck in half. Turning his head slowly, all of the monsters saw pure evil in the red eyes of the robot. He roared in anger, then retracted his blade and aimed his gun at the other monsters.
Inside the building, Shaggy heard lots of screaming, before a purple blast shot through the room. A few monsters were running away from something, but the wall broke as the robot forced his way into the building. A few monsters that were up on the ceiling and floors of the palace jumped down and tried to attack the monster, but he just laughed before he grabbed them and crushed their little bodies. He then looked in Shaggy's direction, and walked towards him. Reaching up with one claw, he yanked on the chain holding Shaggy to the ceiling, making it snap, and held the human close to him. "Shaggy, are you ok?" asked the robot. Shaggy trembled, then asked "Like, like h-how d-do you k-know m-my n-name?" The robot smiled sadly, then said "Hang on" before he transformed with Shaggy inside of him.
Blasting his way through the palace, the robot flew out, before he began vaporizing the last of the monsters. Professor Pericles and the cloaked figure tried to run away, but the robot transformed and landed in front of them. He growled at them, and said "I've had it with you two." A large robotic hand reached out for the bird and tiny cloaked figure. Their screams could be heard for miles.
Author's note: Can you guess the entity from Scooby's head? Before you read the next chapter, here's a hint: The same voice actor who does Scooby also does the voice of this Transformer (I was shocked to learn that he did this particular Decepticon's voice…pretty much on how Peter Cullen does Eeyore's voice and Optimus' voice.
