AN: Hey everyone! Sorry it took so long! School's a murder in 8th grade! Anyway, here's the chapter with a guest appearance!

Searching for Clues: Part 2

Somewhere in the farthest part of the hotel, a window suddenly burst opens by some magical force as the chilly wind began to spread across the room.

"W-Why d-did the t-t-twerps h-have t-to g-go s-s-somewh-where s-s-s-so c-c-c-cold?" A man's voice shivered as two gloved hands gripped the window's shelf, though it looked to be covered in frost.

"H-How a-a-am I s-s-sup-pose to k-know?" A woman's voice spoke up, showing she was just as cold as the man while another frosted covered gloves gripped the shelf alongside the other pair of gloves.

"W-Will y-y-you t-two st-stop t-t-talking a-al-ready a-and g-get in-inside?!" A raspy and shivering voice yelled at them.

"W-W-Wo-b-bu-f-f-f-fet!" Another shivering voice called out.

"A-Alright!" The first two voices called out. Soon a frost-covered Jessie and James were revealed as they lifted themselves from the window and into the room. They both reached back into the window and pulled two shivering Meowth and Wobbuffet with icicles sticking from them.

"You think a m-millionare w-would pick a b-better place to host a h-hotel." Jessie mumbled as she and James begin to start a fire in the small fireplace of the room. Wobbuffet was busy rubbing himself together in hopes he will heat up.

"W-Well, he is the t-twerp's uncle, i-it would make sense." James said, making Jessie give a grunt of agreement.

"We're not here to talk about the Twerp and his Uncle!" Meowth yelled, after nearly five hours on hiding in the airplane wheel compartment with no food, and having to trudging through the snow for about seven hours had finally made him snapped. "We're here to get Pikachu, so stop fooling around and let's go look for it!"

"Oh, calm down, Meowth," Jessie said after the fire started, taking no signs of being bothered by his snapping. "We're free from the cold, not to mention we got a nice, warm, and cozy fire."

At the mention of the word "fire", Meowth suddenly sat in between the two humans with a satisfied cat face.

"Though I personally do enjoy a good fire." He said, making Jessie and James smile in triumph.

"Wobbuffet, will you do us a favor get the blankets from that closet over there?" Jessie said, making Wobbuffet nodded and went over to the closet. But as soon as it opened the door, it suddenly screamed and backed away into its other team members and wrapped its arms around Jessie as it continues to stare at the closet in fear.

"Wobbuffet! What's wrong with you?!" Jessie yelled in irritation while trying to get so-called Patent Pokemon off of her, but whenever she try to pry its arms loose, they only wrapped tighter around her.

"Wo-Wo-Wo-Wo…." Wobbuffet stuttered, while the Jessie and James couldn't understand it, Meowth did, though he didn't look too happy.

"'Gh-Gh-Gh-Gh', use your words, you blockhead!" He yelled.

"WOBBUFFET!" The Patient Pokemon finally screamed, pointing at the still opened closet. Hearing Wobbuffet's words, Meowth gave it a confused look.

"What did it say?" James asked once he saw Meowth's face.

"Something about a Ghoul in the closet." Meowth mumbled, making the two humans looked confused.

"Ghoul? Please," Jessie said with an eye roll, "That's just an made-up fairytale that this World's Government used as an excuse to get rid of all the Pokemon."

"Well, something must have scared Wobbuffet." James pointed out to the shaken Pokemon.

"Uh, guys?" Meowth suddenly spoke up, looking fearful as he gazed at something. "I'm thinking what blockhead said is true!"

"What makes you say that?" Jessie asked.

Suddenly Meowth pointed to the closet. "'Cause there's a Ghoul in the closet!" Hearing those words, Jessie and James snapped their heads to the closet and what they saw horrified them.

Right in the closet was the Ghoul (The one without the corset) was right inside the closet. However, its posture seemed strange, almost like a turned off robot. Not to mention that its eyes weren't glowing. But this brought no concern to Team Rocket because all they could think about is that there is a Ghoul in the same room with them.

"AH!" They all screamed and quickly hold each other as they shivered at the sight of the Ghoul. They waited for the Ghoul to jump right at them.

A few seconds went by….

Silence…

They soon relaxed a bit when they made sure the Ghoul wasn't moving. Soon Jessie let out a nervous laugh. "S-See you two, I told you Ghouls weren't real."

"Yeah, that's probably just a dummy someone used for Halloween." James agreed, but his tone matched Jessie's.

It all seemed okay at first, but then the Ghoul's suddenly began to glow and it sprang to life! It lurched forward, moving away from the closet in lightning speed right towards them!

"AH!" They all screamed, before making a break for the window. They tumbled into the cold snow, but ignored the bitter cold as they got up and continued running before yelling, "TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

Meanwhile, the Ghoul remained in the same position it was before, it suddenly limped forward with its eyes dying down. As if it was floating, the Ghoul moved back into the closet. Once it was inside, the door slammed shut and what sounds like mechanics began to run.

Fred, Velma, and Daphne were right outside Sally's apartment (Which was Room B123) where they were discussing on how to speak to her.

"Okay, remember… Don't tell her anything directly. Trick her into saying anything about the Ghoul." Freddy whispered to the girls so Sally couldn't hear.

"Right." They whispered together, before Velma knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Sally's voice answered through the thick door.

"Uh, Sally? It's us, Daphne, Fred, and Velma. Can you let us in?" Daphne called out.

"Oh!" They heard a few jingles that sound like locks unlocking. Soon they saw Sally's green eyes through the small opening of the door. "Boy, am I glad to see all of you."

"Is it alright if we could come in?" Fred asked.

"Sure!" Once that was said, Sally opened the door wider enough for them. When they were inside, Sally began to lock door as she continued. "I was so worried about you guys when I heard the Ghoul chase your friends and the children. Are they alright?"

"They're fine." Fred waved off, as he was too focus on looking around the room to find some possible clues. "But we were wondering where you when the Ghoul was around?"

"What?" Sally was completely caught off guard by what the young teenager just said, but continued. "Well, I was in my room, working on my article. I hadn't left my room ever since."

Velma walked over to the desk that had the large lamp hanging over it. On the desk it appeared to be what looked like the beginning stages of an article.

"Say, Sally," Daphne spoke up as she walked over to the Fashion Artist, showing her the ripped cloth. "What can you tell me about this cloth?"

"Well, it looks to me like a modern-day wool knit together to look like a business suite." Sally said straightforwardly, but then she frowned. "Although, I have to say this cloth has been poorly made."

"Really?" Daphne asked, looking very interested "How come?"

"Well, whoever did it must have been in a rush. The string is loose, probably the reason why it fell apart." Sally continued.

"Can I talk to my friend in private for a moment." Before Sally could answer, Daphne was already huddle with Velma and Fred.

"Guys, I don't think she's behind all of this." She whispered so that only they could hear.

"What makes you think that?" Freddy asked.

"Well, while Sally's career is on the rocks, she's an expert fashion designer. She just doesn't make clothing like it was some sloppy joe." Daphne told him firmly.

"Wait, so if Sally isn't the Ghoul, then what about-" Before Velma could continue, they were interrupted by familiar screams.

"What was that?!" Sally yelled, perplexed at what just happened.

"That sounded like Shaggy and Scooby!" Daphne realized.

"Not to mention Taku's nephew! I told him and his friends to stay in their room and lock the door!" Freddy grumbled to himself before breaking into a run towards the source, following behind them was the girls and Sally.

In the dark corridors of the Hotel, Serena, Clemont, Dedenne, and Bonnie were searching the halls for their friend. They all had woken up from a nightmare about the Ghoul, once they saw Ash's empty bed it didn't take them long to figure out where he was heading. But concerned that the Ghoul will find him before he could get back, they decided to go look for them.

"Why does Ash's stomach always wakes him up at the most dangerous times?" Bonnie mumbled as she and brother hid behind Serena, who was in the lead with a candle as her light source.

"Well, this is Ash we're talking about, Bonnie." Clemont tried to explain, though he was shaking like a leaf. "You know how his stomach is."

"I just hope we find him before the Ghoul does." Serena said, her eyes showing great concern. "Who knows what could happen-"

Luckily they did find Ash and Pikachu, only for them to barrel into their friends along with Shaggy and Scooby. They all fell to the ground with Clemont's glasses falling off.

"My glasses!" He shouted, trying to reach for them. "I can't see a thing without my glasses!"

Meanwhile for Serena and Bonnie, they weren't pretty happy being bumped into like that.

"Hey, what's the big idea running into us like that?!" Bonnie screeched, but her and Serena's scowling faces quickly went away when they saw the reason why the four boys were running as it's shadow covered them.

Clemont, who noticed the shadow, put his glasses back on and his vision cleared to reveal the Ghoul standing over them!

"Now I wish I had your sight Clemont and didn't see at all!" Serena screamed.

Later, Shaggy, Scooby, and everyone else found themselves being chased down the hall by the Ghoul.

"Like, I know you need your brain food," Shaggy called out to the Ghoul behind them. "But these are our brains!"

"And I don't think I have any brains!" Ash added. But the Ghoul didn't seemed to cared as it continued to race after them.

Just when he thought they were goners, Scooby saw an elevator wide opened for all of them to fit in.

"Shaggy!" He called out.

"Like, what?!" Shaggy asked, looking on the verge of panic. "Can't you see we're all about to be-" Shaggy stopped when he saw the elevator. "Oh, sorry…"

Taking a big U-turn, everyone quickly made their way into the elevator. The Ghoul was cut off guard by the sudden turn and ended up crashing into a door. Once the Ghoul had gotten up, it could already see the elevator door closing and the sound of it going down.

Figuring out where they were going, the Ghoul roared in frustration.

After taking deep, heavy breaths from their fiasco from the Ghoul, Shaggy begin to notice the floor he just pressed. "Like, Ash? Why did your Uncle installed a 'Gold Mine' on the elevator?"

"Wait, what?" Ash looked up and his eyes caught the label button. "I don't remember my Uncle saying about a Gold Mine under here?"

Before anybody could continued, the elevator suddenly opened and they were all met with an interesting sight.

Right before was a gigantic underground mine. The walls were etched with gold as some of it poked out. There were also about of dozen of mine tracks that lead into multiple directions. There was also mining tools lying around.

"Gee, talk about your spooky destination…" Shaggy mumbled as they all exited the elevator.

"You think your Uncle knows about this place, Ash?" Serena mumbled.

"If he did, I think he would have told my mom…" Was Ash's only answer, not getting a good feeling about all of this.

Clemont was busy looking at some of the mining equipment on the ground. He picked up a jack hammer and gasped. "Hey, this equipment is still warm!"

"Does it mean somebody's been down here?" Bonnie asked as she and everyone else came to Clemont.

"Well, by the way things look, I would think so." Clemont told her as he set the jack hammer down.

After a while of looking around by following the tracks, they were meet with a miner cart. They all looked down to find a large pile of gold inside.

"Looks like somebody's been mining down here…" Ash mumbled after he picked up a gold started to toss it up and down.

"Do you think it has something to do with the Ghoul?" Serena asked. Meanwhile, something caught Shaggy and Scooby's attention.

"Like, why don't we ask him!" Shaggy suddenly shouted, pointing at the darkness before them. The children looked and gasped when they saw the white eyes of the Ghoul.

"Run!" Ash told them, soon they all made a break for it to the elevator. The Ghoul right behind them.

When the Ghoul suddenly made a turn for the corner where they had run from, it was met with baseball bat to the face. There was a loud sound of clanging when the bat made contact, the eyes of the Ghoul died down as it fell backwards onto the ground.

Ash blinked as he stepped out of the corner with the bat in hand. Soon everyone else followed and they grew confused when they saw the Ghoul twitching.

"Like, I didn't know Ghouls had seizures." Shaggy commented on the strange sight.

"Hmm…" Clemont bent down to inspect the Ghoul. When he only gave it a light tape, the shaking got first then suddenly the Ghoul's chest opened to show gears running amuck inside it.

"It's a robot!" Bonnie realized.

"Like, no wonder it smells so bad, it's running with oil!" Shaggy realized.

"Wait, what about the other-?" Serena began, but was cut off when a roar interrupted her. The whole mine shook from the loud noise. Shakingly they all turned their heads to see the other Ghoul glaring at them from the shadows.

"U-Uh, I-I think he d-didn't like me h-hitting his f-friend." Ash mumbled as the bat shook in his hands. Suddenly Shaggy and Scooby lost their fearful face.

"Hey, wait... Like, why are we so scared? That thing's a robot." Shaggy told them.

"Reah!" Scooby agreed, before they smugly marched over to the Ghoul.

"Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!" Ash suddenly sneezed uncontrollably. That's when the children realized something.

"Wait, Mr. Shaggy!" Bonnie tried to stop the two grown-ups as they pulled out two water bottles and began to shake them.

"Ash wouldn't stopped sneezing when we first saw the Ghoul!" Serena continued as Ash continued to sneeze.

"And he's been around oil before, and he never sneeze around it before!" Clemont said as the boys opened their water bottles.

"So that means, that Ghoul is-!" Before Bonnie could finish, the boys already spilled their water all over the Ghoul. However, the Ghoul didn't shake like they would expect it too. In fact, it looked even madder than before.

"Uh… Did you know that water cleans 57% of your clothes when you spill it?" Shaggy asked nervously, but the Ghoul only roared at his face.

"Like, here's another laundry day!" He yelled out before he and Scooby poured more water, only this time in its eyes. The Ghoul roared, trying to rub the wetness out of its eyes while everyone else made a break for it.

"Like, hurry!" Shaggy told the kids as they ran into the elevator. Shaggy soon followed after them and rapidly pressed the 1st floor button. "Like, start! Start! Start!"

Meanwhile, the Ghoul had recovered and was now coming in fast as them. Shaggy's hair stood up when he saw how close the Ghoul was. He soon pushed the button in light-speed.

Suddenly the door closed at the last second, making everyone winced when the Ghoul crashed into the door. They could hear its roar of frustration fading away as the elevator moves away from the mine. Once they were all safe, they all sigh in relief while sliding down the walls.

"Like, does crazy things happened to you guys all the time?" Shaggy asked in hopes to make light of the situation.

"More often than you know…" Ash mumbled with a slight smile, though his voice was hoarse from the sneezing.

"Well, nice to know someone understands our experience, right Scoob?" He looked at the exhausted dog.

"Reah," Suddenly, he and Shaggy suddenly lean over and fell to the ground as the elevator door flew open. They landed right before their friend's and Sally's feet.

"Shaggy? Scooby?" Freddy looked confused at the sight of his unconscious friends, before turning to the kids in the elevator. "What happened?"

"Oh, we'll tell you later…" Bonnie mumbled.

AN: Okay, hope everyone enjoyed it! I don't when I would be updating since I got so much writing to do, but I'll try my best! Here are the clues so far-

Clue 1#: Someone hacked in Taku's email, stopping him from delivering a message to Delia that Ash and his friends couldn't go to the hotel. Who would do that?

Clue 2#: There is a Ghoul who's wearing a Victorian Male Corset, but one without it? What could that mean?

Clue 3#: A piece of the Ghoul's clothes is found! But wait, it's not the same fabric used in the Victorian Era. Could Sally Evans be behind this?

Clue 4#: There's a chunk of gold lying around the Hotel halls. What could that possibly mean?

Clue 5#: There's an underground mine underneath the Hotel! Who else knows about this?

Clue 6#: The Ghoul without the corset is a robot! But, the other Ghoul isn't, what could that possibly mean?

Clue 7#: Ash won't stop sneezing whenever the Ghoul is around! Since he didn't sneeze around the robot Ghoul, it's obvious he's not sneezing from the oil, but what is it about the Ghoul that's making him sneeze?

SHOTOUTS-

FanficFan920: That is a clue, but I can't tell you what exactly it means.

Mr. R: Nice to know that someone agrees with me that sometimes school can be a killer. How do you like the story so far?

Matt: Here it is! The appearance of TR! They're not going to have a big role in the story, just minor guest appearances. And what do you mean JP reference?

Joltile: Wow, you may be close to finding out the mystery if you found a clue before I could announce it! Glad you like the mystery so far!