Skippy Doo
I Do NOT own Scooby Doo or any of the Scooby Doo Charcters!
This story was thought of by me and one of my old co-workers!
Ted and Selma were lying in the grass discussing the fact that they should just head home. Sprint, Skippy and Tiffany were by the car, watching to see if they could spot the Mystery Machine and while they did that, they were discussing why they shouldn't have ran away and stole the car.
"That's it, we need to go back." Tiffany finally said loud enough for Ted, Selma, Skippy and Sprint could hear.
"Go back." Selma said, getting to her feet. "Are you nuts? There is a ghost in that building, we stole a car, who knows what else we've done that is against the law. Solving this mystery is not worth going to jail."
"Jail?" Ted said, sitting up. "I'm too young for jail."
"No one is going to jail because of this. The car is fine, I've double checked it." Sprint explained. "There are just a few scratches that can be fixed with paint."
"Alright, so we fix the car. Big deal." Selma said. "But how are we going to tell our parents what happened? What if the news stations get wind of how the Mystery Inc.'s cousins stole a car and drove it into a ditch? We could ruin our cousin's reputation! Mystery Inc. could lose everything."
"That would never happen." Tiffany stated. "We didn't go too far with the car, and our cousins will be here in a bit, so unless you guys want to wait for our cousins to show up, I suggest that we start walking about to Playtime Furniture."
"I am NOT going back." Ted said quickly. "I think I will wait here for the Mystery Machine and have Fred take me home."
"Same."
"Well, I'm not going to let you go alone." Sprint started. "So we better get moving." He looked at Selma and Ted. "Keep an eye on the car and tell Shaggy and Daphne where we've gone." Sprint, Skippy and Tiffany walked in the direction they drove the car from and started heading back towards Playtime Furniture.
Ted and Selma waited until their cousins finally arrived.
"Is everyone all right?" Fred asked as soon as they got out of the Mystery Machine. Ted and Selma nodded.
"Like, dude…where is Sprint and Tiffany?" Shaggy asked, looking around to see if he could spot his cousin.
"They headed back towards Playtime Furniture." Selma said. "And we want to go home." Fred looked at Velma, Daphne and Shaggy, before tossing the Mystery Machine keys to Shaggy.
"I'll drive this..." Fred said, touching the car gently "Back to Playtime Furniture. Shaggy, follow me in the Mystery Machine."
"What about us going home Fred?" Ted asked.
"You started this Mystery; it is only fit to finish it." Fred said, getting into the car. It took Fred quite some time before starting the car. Ted and Selma sighed before getting into the Mystery Machine. Fred drove off, back in the direction of Playtime Furniture and Shaggy followed behind him in the Mystery Machine.
"Ok, so…how are we going to solve this mystery?" Sprint asked as Tiffany looked around the area the ghost appeared before they ran off.
"We need to find clues to help direct us in the direction of the culprit." Tiffany explained. "Ah ha! Look." Tiffany said, headed towards a pile of white powder. She carefully wiped her finger through it and felt it between her fingers. Sprint came up behind her.
"What is it?" Sprint asked.
"Sodium Bicarbonate" Skippy said, sniffing at the white floor.
"Salt….wait…what?" Sprint asked confused.
"Baking Soda." Tiffany told Sprint. "And if I'm not mistaken…" Tiffany looks around. "Ah ha!" She reached under the receiving line and pulled out a tennis ball. "A home-made smoke bomb."
"Home-made…meaning that someone wants to sabotage this plant." Sprint said as if he was getting what was going on.
"Yes…and if we look at what we have as evidence, we would know…"
"There they are!" A voice sounded from a distance behind Sprint and Tiffany. They turned around and saw their cousins heading over to them. Daphne was first.
"Tiffany, are you alright?" Daphne asked quickly.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"What do you go there?" Fred asked Tiffany. Tiffany smiled, glad to answer that question.
"A tennis ball," Tiffany said simply. The Mystery Inc. gang, Ted and Selma looked kind of confused. "It was used in making a home-made smoke bomb, to make the Warehouse Ghost seem to appear and disappear with ease."
"But there wasn't any smoke when the ghost appeared." Selma said. "Was there?"
"Apparently." Tiffany said, examining the tennis ball. "It was too dark to see anything though." Tiffany turned to Sprint and Skippy. "Are you sure you didn't find anything in the warehouse where the ghost first appeared?"
"Positive. Why?" Sprint asked.
"Well, when the ghost appeared, there was a small explosion. There would have to have been something left behind from that."
"Yeah…you're right." Sprint said. "It's possible that we missed something."
"We better go back and have a second look around the warehouse." Tiffany suggested. Sprint nodded and before anyone could say anything, they were gone. Daphne and Shaggy looked at each other and then to Fred.
"Well Fred, what are we going to do?" Velma asked.
"We'll split up. Daphne and I will follow Sprint and Tiffany. Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, Ted and Selma, go in the opposite direction. Search for clues." Velma and Shaggy nodded. Velma led Shaggy and Scooby, who kind of led Ted and Selma, in the opposite direction of Daphne and Fred, who went in the direction that Sprint and Tiffany had disappeared.
"Are you sure this is where the explosion happened?" Sprint asked Tiffany. Tiffany looked at Sprint, uncertain.
"It's the only window that peers out to the parking lot, break area. It has to be." Tiffany said as she continued to look around. "There has got to be something around here."
"Hey over here." Skippy called from behind some pallets. Sprint and Tiffany quickly hurried over to Skippy. Skippy rolled out another tennis ball. Tiffany bent down to examine it.
"Was there any powder?" Sprint asked.
"Loads, but this time it was a red-orange color." Skippy said.
"To make it seem as if there was a real explosion inside here." Sprint stated. Tiffany nodded, getting to her feet.
"That's why we couldn't find anything to show us where the explosion was. There was no explosion." Tiffany said.
"Sounds like you two have got something on this mystery." Fred said behind them, making Tiffany and Sprint jump slightly. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you."
"Well you did." Tiffany stated. "What do you guys want?"
"We're here to help." Daphne said.
"Well, it's supposed to be your mystery anyway, so if you want it back, take it." Sprint offered.
"No, we don't want to take the mystery from you guys." Sprint and Tiffany sighed. "We did this so that you can show who you really are." Fred said.
"And you're hoping that it works?" Sprint asked. Tiffany wasn't paying attention now, her focus on something near the office windows. It looked like an extension cord.
"Hey, look." Tiffany said, pointing towards the windows of the office. Sprint, Fred and Daphne turned and looked where Tiffany was pointing.
"What are we looking at?" Fred asked. Tiffany sighed and started to see where the cord went, as it was heading away from the office. Sprint followed and soon spotted it. Tiffany and Sprint didn't say a thing, but they choose to follow it. Fred and Daphne still haven't spotted the cord, but followed Sprint and Tiffany anyway. Tiffany followed the cord until she reached a high shelf that she couldn't see on top of.
"Sprint, give me a boost." Tiffany said, heading over to the shelf. Sprint looked at Tiffany.
"Are you nuts?" Sprint asked. "You could fall or I could drop you."
"Do you want to solve this mystery or not?" Tiffany asked. Sprint nodded. "Then give me a boost." Sprint sighed and cuffed his hands to give Tiffany a boost.
"Tiff, be careful." Daphne said, standing next to Fred.
"I hope what's ever up there is important, because if you get hurt…" Fred started, but stopped as Tiffany grabbed on the top of the shelf and pulled herself up and sat down. She looked around and did something that Sprint, Daphne and Fred couldn't see. Suddenly, the Warehouse Ghost appeared.
"Tiffany!" Sprint said, worried that she might fall now that the Warehouse Ghost had appeared.
"Don't worry Sprint." Tiffany said, turning her head and picking something up. The Warehouse Ghost moved as she did. She turned back. "Projector." Tiffany smiled, obviously pleased with herself. Tiffany unplugged the projector power cord.
"Now why would a ghost need a projector?" Fred wondered as Tiffany climbed down from the shelf. When she got close to the bottom, Sprint helped her down.
"The ghost needed to fly somehow, didn't it?" Tiffany stated. "Using the projector helped make the Warehouse Ghost feel real."
"Then why didn't the ghost use the projector in the first place?" Daphne asked.
"They couldn't." Tiffany said. Sprint, Daphne and Fred looked confused. Tiffany grabbed a piece of paper out of her pocket and unfolded it. "From the looks of the work schedule, there are three different shifts, meaning that Playtime Furniture is running twenty-four hours a day. The REAL Warehouse Ghost couldn't have set up the projector with everyone around, so that's where the real ghost comes from."
"Wow, Tiffany, you really know what you're doing." Daphne said with a proud smile.
"It's just a matter of time before we finally figure this out." Sprint added.
"Yeah, I hope so." Tiffany stated.
"Come on, let's go find…" But Fred stopped because he heard something.
"GHOST!" Shaggy yells as he was running past, followed by Scooby, Ted, Velma and Selma. Fred, Daphne, Sprint, Daphne and Skippy watched them run by, before turning to spot the Warehouse Ghost coming after them.
"Run!" Fred yelled. Daphne, Fred, Sprint, Tiffany and Skippy ran in the same direction Shaggy, Scooby, Velma, Ted and Selma went. When the eight teens and two dogs reached an area where they could go three separate ways, Sprint and Skippy followed Shaggy and Scooby going right. Fred followed Ted going straight. Velma and Tiffany followed Selma and Daphne going left. The ghost stopped went straight, but two other ghost appeared, one going left and the other going right. Scooby looked behind them.
"Rikes! Rits rollowing us!" Scooby said speeding up.
"Like, what are we going to do?" Shaggy wondered as he tried catching up with Scooby. Sprint looked at Skippy.
"I have an idea." Skippy said, turning quickly. Sprint followed. "Now, when the ghost past us, we just have to check to see if it's flying or running." Sprint nodded and they hid between some boxes until the Warehouse Ghost finally flew past them.
"It's not touching the ground, meaning that there is a projector around here somewhere." Sprint stated.
"Yeah, we just have to find it." Skippy said. "Come on." The two of them came out from where they were hiding and went in the opposite direction of Shaggy, Scooby and the projector ghost, hoping to find where the projector was hiding.
Velma, Tiffany, Daphne and Selma were running from the Warehouse Ghost. Selma looked back behind her.
"We're being followed!" Selma said quickly.
"This way." Tiffany said turning to find a hiding spot in a pile of boxes. Selma, Daphne and Velma were right next to her.
"What are we doing?"
"Shh." Tiffany said, watching closely as the ghost went by. Tiffany stood up. "It's not real." She finalized.
"What?" Velma and Selma said confused.
"The real ghost can't fly." Tiffany said. "We found a projector and it had the Warehouse Ghost flying. Come on." Tiffany came out from where they were hiding.
"What do we need to do?" Velma asked.
"Find the projector, unplug it and find the real Warehouse Ghost." Tiffany stated. "Come on, let's find that projector."
"Ted! Slow down!"
"No way Fred! That Ghost is gaining on us!" Ted said, speeding up. It had to be the fastest he has ever run before. Fred grabbed him by the back of the shirt and pulled in aside, hiding from the Warehouse Ghost. The ghost ran past. Fred stood up.
"Come on, we need to find the others."
"I'd rather go home." Ted said simply.
"Come on." Fred turned around and headed in the opposite direction. Ted hesitated, but quickly followed after remembering that the warehouse ghost was still around.
Skippy and Sprint headed back to where they split up with Fred, Ted, Daphne, Tiffany, Velma and Selma.
"It has to be around here somewhere." Skippy stated, look around.
"How do you figure?" Sprint asked.
"This is where we split from the group."
"If we split, the real ghost could have followed Tiffany!"
"But it didn't." Tiffany said behind him. Skippy and Sprint turned around. "You guys got a flying ghost too?"
"Yeah." Sprint said. "So, I'm guessing that since Fred and Ted aren't with you, they were followed…"
"By the real warehouse ghost." Fred said, making his way over to the rest of the group. Ted was behind them. "Where's Shaggy and Scooby?"
"They're…uh…still getting chased by the warehouse projector ghost." Sprint said slowly. "We were more focused on figuring out if the ghost was real or not, wed didn't pay much attention to them.
"The faster we find that projector, the faster those two realize it's not a real ghost." Skippy stated.
"There are no such things as ghosts." Fred said. "They just can't get that through their heads."
"So, wait…Sprint." Sprint looked at Tiffany. "You were chased by a projector ghost right?" Sprint nodded. "So that means there are two projectors around here, one on the left and one on the right, possibly pointing in the opposite direction." Everyone started look around.
"Where would we find them?" Velma asked.
"Up high and somewhere well hidden."
"There!" Sprint said, pointing towards a high place, surrounded by boxes. It was approximately 15 feet off the ground.
"How do we get up there?" Fred asked. Velma looked around.
"We could climb…" Tiffany suggested.
"That is 15 feet high, it's nothing like that eight foot shelf you climbed earlier." Sprint pointed out.
"Well, we could use a ladder." Velma said, pointing towards the ladder.
"But that's still not tall enough." Daphne stated.
"Tall enough to get us up to climb." Tiffany stated. "Come on." Fred and Sprint moved the ladder towards the shelf of boxes. Tiffany started to climb the ladder, but Sprint stopped her.
"Let me this time." Tiffany got off the ladder and let Sprint climb up the ladder and into the shelf of boxes.
"Careful Sprint!" Ted said quickly, obviously afraid his friend would fall. Sprint took it slow, but when he finally reached for the projector and unplugged it. From a distance Sprint could hear Shaggy and Scooby.
"Rey…where'd the rhost go?"
"Like, it must have decided to stop chasing us."
"Reah." Sprint smiled slight.
"Shaggy! Scooby!"
"Like, the ghost knows our name."
"Reah and rounds rike you're rousin."
"Dude, the ghost must have, like, kidnapped him."
"Shaggy! This is Sprint and the ghost didn't kidnap me."
"Shag! Scoob, follow the sound of my voice." Fred yelled.
"Like, OK!" Sprint climbed down the shelf to the ladder and used the ladder to join the others on the ground. By the time he made it down, Shaggy and Scooby joined them.
"Like, Sprint, where'd you disappear to? We thought the ghost, like, got'cha."
"Reah. Rot'cha."
"No, we went to look for the projector to stop the ghost from chasing you."
"We were, like, running from a fake ghost?"
"Yeah," Tiffany said. "The real ghost followed Fred and Ted."
"We need to find the other projector." Daphne said.
"Yeah, and capture the ghost and solve this mystery." Selma said simply.
"Actually. I have a clue on who done it; I just need to go check on a few things." Tiffany said. She looked at Sprint. "Come with me?" Sprint nodded.
"How are we going to capture the ghost?" Ted wondered. Everyone thought carefully.
"We'll need some cords and some empty boxes." Tiffany said.
"I think I know where you are going with this." Velma said.
"Can you handle capturing the ghost?" Sprint asked.
"Yeah, leave it to us." Fred said. "Come on gang, let's find that other projector."
"Great," Ted turned to Selma. "We're part of the "gang" now." Ted said.
"Come on." Tiffany told Sprint, quickly heading to the office. Sprint and Skippy followed behind her.
I'm taking a break from some of my other stories and decided to post this story. I've had it on the computer for awhile (and parts in a notebook). It is still being worked on, but everything is kinda laid out and just needs to be written on paper.
Don't worry, I'm not giving up on ANY of my other stories. I WILL finish them. Hopefully soon! I've started school again and I'm also a Nanny. So bare with me
Please comment!