Okay guys, I'm really sorry for keeping this story on hiatus for so long (especially after we ended the last chapter on a cliff-hanger! :O) I just wanted to get my other story, The Adventures of Shaggy, Pugsy, and Flip, done and out of the way. But, I'm back to this story, so lets see what's going on!

And here's the list again, just to give everyone (including myself) a re-cap on who is featured in this story.

-The Pussycats: Josie, Alan, Valerie, Melody, Alexander, Alexandra, and Sebastian

-The Neptunes: Biff 2, Shelly, Bubbles, Clamhead, and Jabberjaw

-The Chan Clan: Mr. Charlie "The Amazing" Chan, Henry, Stanley, Suzie, Alan, Anne, Tom, Flip, Nancy, Mimi, Scooter, and Chu-Chu.

-Funky Phantom: Mudsy, Augie, Skip, April, Elmo and Boo

-Mystery Inc: Freddy, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and Flim-Flam

-Fangface: Biff 1, Kim, Pugsy, Fangs/Fangface, and Baby Fangs/Fangpuss

-Speed Buggy: Tinker, Mark, Debbie and Speed Buggy

-Teen Angels: Dee Dee Skyes, Brenda Chance, Taffy Dare, and Captain Caveman

-Clue Club: Larry, D.D., Pepper, Dotty, Woofer and Whimper

And the authors and OC…

-Owned by Wherever Girl: Brielle, Kiff, Chance, Jo, Lamone, Gin, Hardy, Drew, 'Luna' and Stalker

-Tracker78: Kassandra/Hunter, Samantha/Storm, and Elizabeth/Tracker

-Fangface the Second: Edwin, Kite/Kitefang, Lilly/Blackrose, Sirius, Marlow, Norm, 'Shaun' and Silver

-Scoobycool9: Chase Hunter/Chris Howard, Nessie, Matthew 'Twiggy' Thorn/Nightclaw, Erica/Claw, Time Lord, Alexia, 'James' and Aaron.

-Me: Riffraff, Drista, Xyro, Zane, Fikk, LaRael, Ryoji and 'Ezekiel'

-and Mr. Cartoon: Cartoon All-Star Shawn K.

And the disclaimer clearly shows that I only own myself and OC. Lets get on with it!

~14~

The East Side Kids were walking down one hallway when they saw a maid run, screaming by. "Something tells me trouble's that way," Mugsy commented, pointing down the way the maid came.

"Then I'm heading this way!" Scruno replied, trying to run the opposite way, though Mugsy yanked him back.

"What are you, yella?"

"No, I'm black- and I don't want to add any blue to it!"

*CRASH!*

Everyone jumped at the noise.

"C'mon, we need to investigate! Lets go!" With that, the East Side Kids ran down the hall, coming across the others.

"We heard a crash from this way," Brielle told them.

"I think everyone in the hotel heard it," Danny replied.

Scooby ran up to them, barking frantically, then ran back down the hall. "He wants us to follow him," Pugsy said.

"What gave you that idea?" Glimpy asked- and no one knew whether he was being sarcastic or just stupid.

They followed Scooby, who lead them to a most frightening scene.

A kretin had Aaron by the throat, Ryoji twisted around its arm to make him release him, Ezekiel was trying to wake up an unconscious Shaggy, and Alexia was… just standing there, talking. Though what she was saying was frightening. "James, calm down! It's us, remember? We're your friends!" she cried.

"And brother!" Aaron choked out.

"HOLY-" Skinny shouted.

"What is that thing?!" Peewee yelped.

"I don't know- but I'm getting away from it!" Scruno shouted, then ran inside a closet.

"I'm coming with!" Glimpy added, running inside the closet next.

"Ditto!" Fangs cried, following.

"Our knights in shining armor," Brielle sneered.

The kretin, James, only roared at them, throwing Aaron at the East Side Kids, where he landed on Mugsy and Pugsy. "Typical…" Pugsy grunted.

James then swatted Alexia back, making her slam into Kasandra and Brielle, then turned to Ezekiel. "Uh… hi, remember me?" he asked, meekly. "I had a cameo in Reality Twisted 4?"

James only growled, clearly not recognizing them, and prepared to lunge…

Until Scooby ran in front of him, growling yet whimpering. The kretin roared at him, but the Great Dane stood his ground.

James and Scooby had a history together- the famous dog had been the first real friend the boy had when he came to the toon-world, and stayed at his side no matter what disasters struck. Even with James appearance now, Scooby still knew who he was… he just needed to remember it for himself.

They had locked eye-contact, the dog giving the kretin a sad look, and for a moment, it seemed James was about to come to his senses…

Until he swiped at Scooby, growling. The dog dodged-

BANG!

Everyone froze at the gun-shot, seeing a bullet-hole in James' head… and Aaron holding a gun. "You dumbass! You killed him!" Alexia snapped as James fell to the ground.

"No, I didn't. Regular bullets can't kill kretins, remember? Only fire-bullets can." Aaron said. "They're half-vampire, therefore being shot in the head only knocks them unconscious for a few minutes."

"What kind of crazy world do you guys come from?" Mugsy asked, still in shock at seeing a kretin.

"Mugs, look!" Dave gulped, pointing at James.

They watched as the kretin reverted back to human, looking just like Aaron, but with a black jacket over his shirt. "Ohh…" he moaned, then coughed out the bullet as his wound quickly healed. He gave a dazed look at Aaron and Alexia, before passing out.

Glimpy, Scruno, and Fangs peeked out of the closet. "Is it over?" Fangs asked.

Shaggy then came to. "Like, I need to start carrying aspirin if I'm going to be getting knocked out like this," he groaned.

Aaron got James to his feet, Pugsy helping. "Something tells me we shouldn't stay here tonight," Aaron said, looking around at the damage the kretin had caused.

"We still got two other authors to find," Ezekiel said, taking out the phone and looking at the tracking app again.

"Two? Don't you mean three?" Brielle questioned.

"I had a vision—a friend of mine rescued Liz, and they just saved several meddling kids,"

"When did you have this vision?" Kasandra asked.

"Half an hour ago. Glad to know the plot is moving right along, right?"

"Lets just find WG and FF2 before we run into any more trouble," Pugsy replied.

"Don't count on it, Pugs- finding them is going to be full of trouble. James here was our easiest find,"

"Hold it! How come my brother was the easiest find?" Aaron scoffed.

"Considering all the crap he's gone through in his stories, I've decided to give him a break,"

"Oh, and my cousin hasn't?" Fangs retorted.

"He won't be hard to find, either."

"So WG is the only one we're going to have trouble with?" Alexia asked.

"Why does that not surprise me?" Pugsy sneered.

"How come WG gets all the effort?" Shaggy asked.

"Two words, dude: Portal power," Ezekiel replied, and held up the phone, showing the GPS for WG's whereabouts went from Colorado to Nebraska.

"So… she still knows how to use her powers! That's a good thing, right?" Brielle asked, hopeful.

"Not quite. Luna never perfected her power, remember? She might know how to open portals, but not to the right place… either that, or she doesn't remember who she is and just remembers her power, and is wandering around."

"So how are we going to find her if she keeps going from one place to another?" Danny asked.

"I guess we'll just have to be at the right place at the right time. Lets go find Shaun- hopefully, wherever he is, Luna will show up,"

They headed out, Mugsy stopping at the desk. "Nice place, we enjoyed our stay." he said. "Next time, try to keep the riff-raff out," With that, he left, the desk clerk giving him a look.

~13~

Back on the road, the gangs headed to Burbank, California, where Shaun was to be found. It was still dark out, and almost everyone had fallen asleep, except for Peewee, who took over the driving, and Ezekiel, who sat in the clear back with the rest of the Kids, staring out the window at the stars.

This is where we get a little reminiscence-like scene.

A younger version of Ezekiel is sitting on a curb, next to a younger Luna, the former weeping. "It's okay, Zeke, they say stupid things about me, too. I've just learned to deal with it," Luna told him.

"But I can't! I can't just ignore them and try to move on… and let them keep talking like that to either of us," Ezekiel weeped. "I don't see how you can… You run off all the time, but always come back- if I were you, I'd never come back! Where do you go, anyway?"

Luna smiled a bit, then held up a wand. "I think it's about time I showed you… but you have to keep it secret,"

"Okay…"

With her wand, she opened a portal to the tooniverse. Stepping through, Ezekiel could only gape. "This place…"he gasped.

"Pretty cool, right?" Luna asked.

"No… I mean, I've seen it before. I…" and then he passed out.

"Zeke?! …Shock must've been too much for him. Wake up, Zeke!"

He jolted awake. "Gah! I'm up! I'm up!"

"What happened?"

"I… I don't know. I just blacked out and had this weird vision- our sisters were making us watch a movie about emo girls and sparkling vampires, and we hated it so much that it burned our eyes."

"Sparkling vampires? Who the heck would think vampires- blood-sucking bat-winged creatures of the night- would sparkle?"

"You got me. …So, Luna, how long have you've been coming here?"

"A while… also, in this world, you have to come up with a new name for yourself. I decided to go with Wherever Girl- that name you gave me because no one could understand the way I spoke and thought I was from another country, and so you said I just came from 'wherever'."

Ezekiel laughed. "Oh yeah! …So, what should I call myself?"

"You come up with the name yourself, that really describes you? What comes to mind?"

Ezekiel thought about it. "Well… based on that vision I had… how about Anti-Twilight Forever? ATF for short,"

"Cool, people call me WG for short, too. C'mon, I'll introduce you to my other friends!"

"Okay!"

Ezekiel smiled at the memory. Though, two years later, it took a sad turn…

"I'm running away," he told her bitterly one day as they sat by a pond outside the city, in the tooniverse.

"Why? What's wrong?" WG asked.

"It's these visions… I think everyone thinks I'm a weirdo for them,"

"Dude, the tooniverse is FULL of weirdoes, you're not the only one."

"I'm not the only one who has visions of sorcerers and kretins and time-warping villains?"

"Uh, sure… it must happen to a lot of psychics."

ATF shook his head. "I think I might go back to the real-world, try to find some time to myself until I can figure this out."

"Okay, well… be careful, and you know where to find me." she handed him his medallion. "I put a little magic in this necklace, so that you can open a portal back to the tooniverse anytime."

"Thanks." They went there separate ways, and ATF entered the real-world…

And that's when he spotted a statue of what appeared to be an angel, weeping, far away. He shrugged, figuring one of the buildings was putting up some new decorations…

Until he blinked and found himself in 1935.

Zeke shook his head at the memories, then shut his eyes to get some sleep… before the worse ones came forth.

~13~

A/N: Seems like I included a bizarre backstory, eh? Don't worry, I'll drop in more hints, and won't shy away from our favorite characters.

Please review… but no flames or we'll sick James on you!

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