"I hope this outfit Amber's aunt made for me isn't too flashy." Darla said as she wore a puffy white shirt with a pink plaid skirt with her white knee socks and tiny black shoes.
"No, it isn't." Annie smiled.
"You look like a golf princess." Cherry deadpanned.
"Ignore her." Atticus comforted his little sister.
"Aren't you going to dress for the games?" Darla asked her big brother.
"Yep, got my outfit in here." Atticus smiled as he brought out his gym bag.
"Put it on! Put it on!" Darla beamed.
Atticus chuckled and then changed his clothes, of course by super-speed. "Well, how do I look?" He asked once he was changed.
"Amazing," Darla smiled to him. "Do you think you'll win?"
"I'm sure I will." Atticus smiled back.
"How can he not?" Hallie smiled. "He looks like he could take on every sporting event."
"Aw, you guys..." Atticus smiled bashfully while Cherry rolled her eyes.
"Never a dull moment..." Cherry muttered as she walked off to explore once they left the airport.
"Little Dipper, here I come." Patch whispered to himself once he woke up in his carrier cage while Domino was still asleep.
Atticus soon saw how he looked in his reflection in a window. He posed as he loved the color red on him with a golden crest of his initials at the front.
"Jessica did a good job of making that for you." Bud smiled to Atticus.
"Wanna have a go, Bud?" Atticus smirked.
"Oh, no," Bud chuckled. "Save that energy for the Highland Games."
"Trust me; I'll have plenty of energy." Atticus smirked.
"Maybe another time." Bud ruffled up his hair.
"Aw, okay," Atticus replied. "So, um, where's our ride?"
"Yeah, Shell, where's our ride?" Bud asked his wife. "You said you call us an uber."
"You said you would do it." Michelle replied.
"Uh-oh." Bud and Michelle frowned.
"Wow," Cherry deadpanned to her parents. "If I had a door in front of me, I would slam it."
"Oh, would you like to try the automatic door, Cher Bear?" Bud smiled innocently as he never caught on to his daughter's moments of sarcasm or snarkiness.
"I think I know who might give us a ride." Atticus said.
The others then looked to him curiously of what he would say.
Domino soon woke up, but was still sleepy since he had to take an extra pill before going in the luggage cart to calm down. "Are we there yet...?" he then muttered.
"Yes, Domino, we're here," Patch smiled to his nephew. "We're just getting a ride into town now."
"Oh... Who's going to drive us?" Domino smiled back tiredly while still yawning.
"Is that the Mystery Machine?" Cherry asked as she saw a familiar vehicle.
Everyone looked over and did in fact see the Mystery Machine riding along until they came to a stop.
"Isn't that Cherry and Atticus?" Daphne asked.
"I think so." Fred replied.
Scooby soon ran over to Atticus, Cherry, and Patch; happy to see them.
"Wah!" Cherry yelped, but was soon taken down by the Great Dane who licked her. "Get off of me!"
"Ri, ruys!" Scooby smiled to Cherry, Atticus, and Patch.
"Hey, Scoob, are you and the gang here for the Highland Games too?" Atticus smiled back.
"Reah!" Scooby smiled. "Raphne's ramily!"
"Daphne's family is from here?" Patch asked before he thought back. "That explains Shannon Blake then."
"Ro you need a ride to the rames?" Scooby asked them.
"Yeah, we could use a ride," Atticus replied. "Cherry's parents apparently had a miscommunication with each other."
Scooby then led them to the Mystery Machine which had the others follow as they had plenty of room.
"I'm still so tired..." Domino pouted as he had a hard time walking.
Patch then bit on Domino's collar and carried him like his father did when Lucky was too cold to go any further.
"Aw!" The twins smiled.
Domino fell asleep once he got on the van floor.
"Come on in, there's plenty of room," Velma smiled and then saw the redheaded twins. "Oh! Hello there."
"Hi." Annie and Hallie smiled back.
"Who're you?" Velma asked.
"I'm Annie." Annie replied.
"And I'm Hallie." Hallie added.
"Uh, Atticus, do you have twin cousins?" Velma asked Atticus since she didn't know where Annie and Hallie came from.
"No, no, these are Darla's friends." Atticus said.
"Oh, hello then, Hallie and Annie." Velma smiled.
Hallie and Annie got to know Mystery Inc once they came up close and even introduced their sleeping puppy, Domino. Once they were all settled in the Mystery Machine, they rode off and peeked out the windows to see the majestic and wondrous sites of Scotland.
"How beautiful," Daphne smiled. "This Scottish countryside is so lush and green."
"Yeah," Fred added. "Just like a giant golf course."
"Can't wait to get to the castle." Darla smiled.
"Jinkies, Daphne!" Velma added. "It must be exciting to visit Blake Castle the ancient home of your Scottish ancestors."
"It sure is, and I can't wait to help my cousin Shannon, host the Loch Ness Highland Games," Daphne smiled back as she brought out a special scarf. "I'm planning to wear this for the opening ceremonies... In honor of the Blakes of Loch Ness."
"Cool." Darla smiled.
"It looks so chic!" Annie approved. "Mum would love it."
"Like, it's not the Blakes of Loch Ness that I'm worried about." Shaggy muttered.
"Oh, don't tell me, you're afraid of the Loch Ness Monster, aren't you?" Cherry scoffed to Shaggy's fear.
"Monster?!" Scooby yelped before running off.
"That answers my question." Cherry said.
"Yeah," Shaggy shivered. "And like, why are we going to some place that's already got a monster named after it?"
"Rakes ro rense." Scooby added as he popped out of Shaggy's shirt.
"Monster...?" Annie and Hallie asked nervously.
"It's not real." Cherry said.
"I'm not so sure about that." Velma told her.
"Gadzooks!" Bud gasped. "You believe in the Loch Ness Monster, Venda?"
"Velma." Velma corrected.
"That's what I said." Bud shrugged.
"How can you believe in something that doesn't exist?" Cherry asked Velma.
"Well, I believe it's a mystery," Velma told her. "This monster is different. There have been over 2,000 sightings dating all the way back to 540 AD. That's almost 1,500 years ago."
"Those were only things people thought that were the monster." Cherry said.
"Interesting." Atticus said as he came beside Velma to see her book about the Loch Ness Monster.
Cherry just rolled her eyes. "It's just a log."
"She's right." Michelle agreed.
"Don't worry, guys," Daphne smiled. "Loch Ness has plenty of Shore Line, and I bet Shannon knows a lot of good places to have a beach party."
"Beach party?" Shaggy beamed. "Hear that, Scoob?"
The cowardly duo soon zipped and soon had their own beach gear on as Bud chuckled to them.
"Like, we can have a Clam Bake at the Clam Lake!" Shaggy chuckled as he beat a bongo while Scooby shook his maracas.
"Reah, ram rake!" Scooby agreed with a chuckle.
There was then a beeping heard from the GPS.
"That's it, gang!" Fred smiled to the others. "Loch Ness dead ahead!"
"Please don't say dead." Bud begged.
"Ah, Bud..." Michelle sighed to her husband slightly.
Annie shivered nervously when she looked out the window and saw crows and creepy trees which made her feel a little scared. Domino could feel how scared his owner was and decided to nuzzle up to her. Annie blinked and gave a small smile to Domino before hugging him.
"Ooh, creepy~" Cherry smirked as she teased the younger ones to scare them. "It's so foggy and gloomy here."
"Tell me about it." Patch added.
"Yeah, this fog is as thick as pea soup!" Fred added as he had a hard time seeing through the window.
"Roh, roy!" Scooby beamed as he came out the back doors with a picnic basket in his mouth. "Rea roup!"
"It's just a figure of speech!" Domino told him.
"Oh, good, you're awake." Patch smiled to his nephew.
Scooby was about to start eating until he saw something in the lake.
"Come on, we better get to him." Patch told Domino.
"Okay, Uncle Patch." Domino replied.
Patch chuckled. "Uncle Patch... I just love it when you guys call me that."
They soon saw Scooby running back in the Mystery Machine.
"Well, that was easy." Patch chuckled sheepishly.
They then came back into the Mystery Machine and Fred drove off with them once they were all back inside.
"What's the matter, old buddy?" Shaggy asked Scooby.
Scooby soon grabbed Velma's book on the Loch Ness Monster. "Ronster! Ronster!"
"Monster?" Shaggy replied before turning away. "Like, don't tell me; I don't wanna know."
Cherry rolled her eyes before looking out the window and came closer as she looked at the lake beside them on the road. "There does seem to be something moving in the water..." She then told the others.
The others soon looked to the right side of the Mystery Machine to see what Cherry saw.
"Can we get closer?" Velma asked as she opened the window.
"Freddy, the road!" Daphne cried out.
They soon saw they were now headed to the lake. They soon crashed and ended up driving down the rumbling hill into the water which made most of them scream in a panic.
"When I said get closer, this isn't exactly what I mean't." Velma told Fred as they got out of the Mystery Machine.
"What was that?" Hallie asked.
"Maybe it was the Loch Ness Monster." Atticus replied.
"Oh, Atticus..." Cherry scoffed.
"Well, whatever that was, it's gone now." Fred told the others.
"Let's get the Mystery Machine out of the lake then." Patch suggested.
"He's right, come on, gang," Fred agreed. "The loch water could shrink my genuine vinyl upholstery."
Atticus soon lifted the Mystery Machine and carried it uphill.
"Thanks, Atticus, "Fred smiled. "I owe you one."
"That's okay, Fred." Atticus smiled back.
"Jeepers..." Daphne muttered to herself as she looked far out into the distance.
"Is that the castle?" Darla smiled as she saw what Daphne saw.
"That has to be it, guys, I think we're here," Daphne replied. "There's Blake Castle."
Everyone else then came beside Daphne and Darla to take a look to the castle in the distance with fog surrounding it.
After getting the Mystery Machine back on the road, they were soon on their way to Black Castle.
"Wow, look at all those tents!" Shaggy beamed. "I wonder if there's a circus in town?"
"Yeah, why are there tents?" Darla added curiously.
"That's the sports field for the Highland Games," Velma informed. "A competition featuring traditional Scottish sporting events."
"And I'm entering this year." Atticus smiled excitedly.
"You are so going to win." Patch smiled back.
"Like, who's ever heard of the telephone pole pitch?" Shaggy scratched his head when they saw one activity.
"Ruh?" Scooby added in confusion.
"That's the caber toss, Shaggy," Atticus said before flexing his own arm. "It's a test of strength of skill."
"When they invent a game that tests eating and sleeping, let us know." Shaggy replied before laughing with Scooby.
They all soon saw a shipwreck.
"The tent colors work for me, but that crashed sailboat totally crashes." Daphne told the others.
"Jinkies!" Velma gasped. "I wonder what happened?"
"Let's take a look." Annie said.
They all came to check out the shipwrecked sight. Patch sniffed the air as he felt a familiar scent and began to follow it as they went to the scene of the crime.
"Shannon!" Daphne smiled once she saw her cousin.
"Daphne!" Shannon called back to her American cousin.
The two cousins soon ran into each other and hugged in reunion like when Apple Bloom and Babs Seed reunited at the Apple Family Reunion.
"Oh, I can't believe I'm really here," Daphne smiled before looking to the others. "Guys, this is my cousin, Shannon."
Patch continued to follow the scent until he found the source.
"We should've known by her great sense of color coordination." Velma smiled to Daphne's cousin as she came down the hill with the others.
"Well, of course, after all, she is a Blake." Daphne smiled back.
"What're you looking for, Uncle Patch?" Domino asked his uncle as he sniffed around.
"I caught Little Dipper's scent." Patch said.
"Little Dipper?" Domino repeated.
Patch continued to sniff until a certain puppy came out with a bucket of paint in his mouth, carrying it by the handles. "Little Dipper!"'
The puppy looked and gasped, accidentally dropping the bucket. "Uncle Patch, is that you?!" He soon ran off to his uncle, happy to see him.
Patch smiled as he then put his front paw around Little Dipper to hug him before letting go. "Little Dipper, what're you doing all the way in Scotland?" he then asked. "Your brother lives with twins now and Oddball lives with Atticus's sister in college."
"I, um, kind of ran away." Little Dipper frowned.
"You ran away?" Patch frowned back. "Why?"
"I felt like I needed to find my person on my own, so I ran off and I kind of got myself lost out to sea while traveling by a box and I ended up here." Little Dipper said.
"Oh, poor Little Dipper," Patch frowned. "Well, I'm glad to see that you're okay."
"Yeah, Shannon's been really good to me." Little Dipper smiled as he then looked up to the Scottish girl as she met her cousin's friends.
"Shannon!" A man called out. "Your dog dropped this bucket!"
"Oops." Little Dipper whimpered.
"Oh, little buddy," Shannon sighed to the puppy before hugging him. "It's okay, just be careful next time, okay?"
"Aw! Shannon, I didn't know you got a puppy." Daphne smiled.
"I found him one night," Shannon replied. "I was with some friends on our boat and I found him all alone in a box. We weren't sure what to do about him, so I decided to adopt him, didn't I, little fella?" she then cooed and pet the Dalmatian puppy.
Little Dipper smiled as he loved Shannon's affections toward him as it really made him happy even if he was lost and separated from his family back in London.
"Now that I think about it, he seems to be like your dogs." Shannon said to Annie, Hallie, and Atticus about how much Little Dipper looked like Patch and Domino.
"He's one of my dog Patch's nephews." Atticus smiled.
"What happened to your boat?" Fred asked Shannon.
"Oh, that... Well, um... You see..." Shannon stammered as she hugged Little Dipper.
There was soon a beeping heard and everyone looked up to see a monster-like van riding up beside the Mystery Machine. Seeing this vehicle caused for Little Dipper to groan.
"Wow, cool ride!" Fred smiled.
"No, no, what're you doing?" A chubby guy with a camera rushed out of the van. "This whole area has to be roped off for evidence!"
"Not now, Del..." Shannon groaned with her new puppy and even face-palmed.
"Friend of yours?" Atticus asked.
"Hardly." Shannon groaned.
"W-We got 20 eyewitnesses, a large lake, something big, something really, really big!" Del panted as he ran down the hill and soon rushed to take a picture with his camera.
"Why can't it ever be something small?" Shaggy complained. "Something really, really small?"
"Why did he have to come here?" Little Dipper groaned.
"Is he that bad?" Domino asked his brother.
"Totally embarrassing..." Little Dipper face-pawed.
"Yikes!" Domino replied.
The man soon shoved over the helpers and snapped pictures on his camera of the wreck and told everyone that the games are distracting the creature, of course, hearing that scared Scooby and Shaggy.
"The only disturbed creature around here is you, Del Chillman," An older man laughed. "Why, me own sons were out there, and they're not spooked a bit."
"And you are...?" Cherry asked the older man.
"The name's Haggart, lassie," The man told her. "Lachlan Haggart."
"Well, hello there." Cherry said.
"Angus was scared." The blonde boy smirked to the brunette.
"I was not, Colin!" The brunette glared, pulling the blonde boy's hood over his head.
Soon enough, the two brothers began to fight. A whistle was soon blown by their father to make them both stop.
"That's enough!" Lachaln glared to the boys. "Save it for the games, laddies! Now, come on, go on down to the track!"
Angus and Colin then ran down the road together.
"Off ye go." Lachaln nodded and walked off to join them.
"No comment." Hallie muttered.
Del soon attempted to climb after them, though of course, he was a bit out of shape, so he was slower than they were. "Mr. Haggart, wait, you are in grave danger, sir, you can't just ignore this!"
"Or we could try?" Shaggy smiled innocently to the others.
"You'll see, man!" Del called out before looking to the Scottish girl. "I told you those games were a mistake, Shannon. Now the monster's after you and that little dog too!" he then shut his van door and drove off to warn everyone before backing up and coming back. "By the way, big party at Stubby's tonight, 'sposed to have a band."
"Just ignore him; he's a bit of a crazy fan guy." Little Dipper whispered to his uncle.
"Thanks for the warning." Patch whispered back to his nephew.
"So, shall we explore the castle?" Michelle smiled with a giggle. "It looks so adventurous."
"Yeah, please!" Bud begged.
Bud and Michelle then begged and pleaded their daughter about going into the castle, acting more like children than her parents right now.
"Well... All right..." Cherry told her parents. "But you better be on your best behavior."
"Oh, we will, Cherry!" Bud smiled to his daughter. "You don't have to worry about me, I'll just be myself!"
"That's what worries me." Cherry muttered in deadpan.
"Are those two okay?" Annie asked.
"They'll be fine..." Cherry muttered about her parents.
Everyone soon followed Daphne and Shannon into Blake Castle to take a closer look.