Okay, guys, it's time for this mystery to finally end.

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Everyone froze as the mysterious figure aimed the gun at them. "Who are you?" Freddy asked.

"My name is Jack Matthews, the owner of that map you found," he replied. "I've been exploring these caves and finally managed to find the treasure I've been looking for… and I'm not about to let a bunch of meddlers take it away!"

"Sir, just put the gun down…" Josie coaxed. "We don't want the treasure…"

"Yeah, we just want to pummel these guys for ruining our prom!" Alexandra put in.

"Well, I'm sorry… but I can't take that chance." The figure replied, cocking the gun…

Not noticing that a certain cat was sitting on a rock above his head. With a screech, Sebastian leaped down and pulled his hat over his head, blinding him and making the gun go off, just an inch from shooting Shaggy's head. "Zoinks!" he cried.

The figure stumbled around, and Speed Buggy stretched out his left rear tire, making the man trip over it. Woofer and Whimper then ran over and grabbed his cloak, wrapping it around him and tying him down, and they rolled him over to the other creeps.

"As I was saying before… lets find out who these psychos REALLY are," Velma said, and she, Valerie, Biff, Debbie, and Larry pulled off their masks…

Seeing that they were the kids from the yearbook, only now grown up. "Who are they?" The sheriff asked, confused.

"Their names are Thomas, Marco, Toby, Louis, and Jenna," Dotty replied. "They once went to school here, and were known for making their own horror films. They had a friend named Ralphy…" she turned to Jack Matthews. "…Who I assume is this man,"

"I knew you looked familiar!" Marco, the man dressed as Eddy Grueler, exclaimed.

"We thought you were dead!" Jenna, aka Michelle Mayors, gasped.

"I thought the same about all of you guys," Ralphy replied. "I had heard rumors that you all died at that camp, and as revenge I dressed up as one of our old horror movie characters, Jack 'Ripper' Matthews, to scare everyone into closing down the camps. I dressed up as all our characters… except Bucky. I constructed a small robot to play him and a little suit to put over it."

"So why were you all after the treasure?" Daphne asked.

"Here, we'll show you," Louis, aka Bucky (who was a midget), explained.

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They led them all to a hidden cavern with a tunnel that led to the canyon's river, where they had set up a small campsite. To everyone's amazement, they had old cameras, a screen, a film projector, and a generator. "This is where we kept all our equipment. We also had canoes that we took down to the camp's lake, where we made most of our films back in High School," Jenna explained.

"When we found our old costumes lying around, we thought about having some fun, for old time's sake," Thomas, aka Nail-Scalp, added.

"We had a map that led to our caves so we wouldn't forget… but then we found out someone had gotten their hands on it and took it away." Louis continued. "When we found out it was Joe Maxwell, the famous movie director, we decided to give him a scare, in hopes that he'd like to put us in one of his movies."

"But when we got there, he was knocked out, and the map was missing." Toby, aka Mason Doorkeys, said. "We saw you kids snooping around, and thought you had taken it."

"We thought about tracking you down and asking for the map back…" Thomas said, then smirked. "But, we became inspired instead."

"We decided to make a whole new movie out of it! A bunch of teens go searching for answers about an old treasure map, only to run into old horror legends," Marco exclaimed.

"We've had hidden cameras on us while we were stalking you, and even had a few set up around the camp and caves," Jenna said, then clicked a remote, where several scenes appeared on a small TV, showing all of them chasing after the meddlers.

"But why didn't you tell us?" Kim asked.

"We wanted it to be as real as possible," Thomas answered with a shrug. "Audiences go for good acting."

"Yeah, except this chick kept over-acting." Marco said, thumbing at Alexandra.

"Why I oughtta…!" Alexandra snarled.

"One question that bothered us was… who had the map?" Louis asked.

"That was me," Ralphy sighed, taking out the map. "When I saw that someone had stolen most of the costumes, I got paranoid, thinking someone knew my secret… and I believed Maxwell was one of them so I knocked him out, stole the map back, and came back to the caves. I've been hiding here my whole life."

"Why were you hiding?" Pepper asked.

"I was sent to an abusive foster-home years ago after my father left me, so I ran away back here and hid in the caves in case the police came looking for me. I didn't want to go back into foster-care, but be with my friends again, so I lived in the caves and scared off anyone who tried to come looking for me, too. I also didn't want anyone to find our equipment and mess with it, either."

"How ironic. We've been looking for each other, but only ended up scaring each other instead!" Jenna laughed.

"So… this was just all-acting?" Valerie questioned.

"Yeah… and it would have been a great thriller, if you meddling kids didn't spoil the ending," Marco scoffed.

"You know… Maxwell happens to be my uncle," Daphne said. "Maybe we could work something out… on one condition."

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Next chapter, a deal takes affect. And my apologies if the solving was a little cheesy.