With Duncan, Abby, Spuds, Cindy, Alfred, and Madeline...
"Find anything, my dark princess?" Alfred asked Madeline.
"Just that fat lip of yours." Madeline said.
"What fat-" Alfred was about to ask.
Madeline soon powed him in the face with a dark glare. There was a portrait and the eyes on it, was following them.
"Find anything, Spuds?" Abby asked her dog.
"Nope, not yet, dudes." Spuds said before he soon suddenly stopped after bumping into a brunette lady.
"Ugh, get away from me, you filthy dog!" The woman glared.
"Hey, I'm not filthy, I just had a bath two weeks ago!" Spuds growled.
"I know her, that's Mr. Henderson's ex-girlfriend, Elana Lockhart," Alfred told Abby, Duncan, and Spuds. "She's really mean."
"What're you doing here?" Madeline gloomily asked the sadistic woman.
"Why should I tell three snotnosed brats, a possum, a stupid dog, and two juvenile delinquents who should be in jail?" Elana huffed.
Abby morphed a lion's head and snarled at Elana. "YOU WANNA TEST MY PATIENCE RIGHT NOW? LET'S GO, LADY!"
"Whoa, there, take it easy, Abby," Cindy tried to stop the shape-shifting delinquent girl. "I think you're scaring Alfred and Madeline."
"I'm not," Madeline muttered. "I had to see something really scary when I was a little kid, it kinda made me who I am today. I don't like to talk about it very much."
"Just get out of my sight with your magic tricks, I'm busy." Elana glared to the group.
"Can I bite her?" Sledgehammer asked Cindy.
"I wish." Cindy said.
"Can I bite her?" Spuds asked Duncan and Abby.
"Later, you can." Duncan smirked.
With Jo, Justin, Justine, Steven, and Jackson...
"Okay, I'm baffled, Justin," Justine said to her twin brother. "Why are we going down into the basement?"
"Well, we're looking for clues, everyone else is going anywhere but here, so why not?" Justin told his twin sister.
"Fair point." Justine admitted.
"You're not scared, are you, Sis?" Justin asked.
"Me? Scared down there?" Justine replied. "No way!"
"Come on then." Justin told his sister.
Trent walked down with the Reid twins as Steven and Jackson followed them with their cameras ready.
"Ooh, it's so creepy." Jo deadpanned.
"I know, right?" Steven smiled. "Isn't it so cool?"
Jo just rolled her eyes to that.
"Hm... Maybe we can find some stuff down here that the ghosts left behind." Jackson suggested.
The air pressure then sizzled which made Justine yelp a little bit.
"It's okay, it's just the air pressure sizzling." Justin comforted his sister.
"Oh, um, I knew that..." Justine said shakily.
"It's all right, Sis..." Justin soothed. "Jo and I are here to protect you."
"Hey, guys, look at what I found." Steven told the others.
"It looks like a blueprint, but why would a ghost need that?" Jackson added. "Probably for a plan to destroy the hotel."
Justine was looking at the blueprints as well, but a hand grabbed her and pulled her away.
"Justine!" Jo and Justin cried out.
"That's it... Someone's gonna die tonight." Jo glared as she rolled up her sleeve.
"Oh, my God, did you see that?!" Steven asked Jackson.
"Yeah, someone took Justine away!" Jackson replied.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious clones." Jo deadpanned and soon stormed toward the direction where Justine was taken from.
"Wait, how are we going to find Justine?" Jackson asked. "They could've taken her anywhere!"
"Will you just let me do my thing already?!" Jo glared.
"Jo, calm down, they're just kids." Justin told the jockette.
"Sorry," Jo said. "I'm just worried about Justine."
"I am too, but try to relax, okay?" Justin told her.
Jo just sighed and rolled her eyes.
"I can't feel a light switch anywhere." Steven told Jackson.
"Keep looking, it must be around here somewhere." Jackson replied.
Someone then turned on the lights, and it was the ghost of Herbert Milton.
"Oh, thanks." Jackson said.
"No problem." Herbert said.
Jackson smiled until his eyes widened.
"Hello~" Herbert smirked.
"REAL LIVE GHOST!" Jackson called out.
"Where?!" Jo and Justin asked.
"There!" Jackson pointed out.
"What's wrong?" Herbert mocked. "Missing anyone special?"
"Yeah, you ghouls nabbed my girl, and don't even bother trying to deny it." Jo glared at Herbert.
"That's right, and you'll never see her again." Herbert replied.
"Oh, I don't think so." Jo glared.
"You all should've left when you had the chance, one of you might be next." Herbert told the guests.
"Return my sister now!" Justin demanded.
"Never!" Herbert replied.
Jo snarled and soon lunged out to Herbert, but the ghost man disappeared instantly.
"He's gone!" Steven and Jackson cried out.
"He took Justine away." Steven said.
"What are we going to do?" Jackson asked.
"I'm gonna kill him!" Jo threatened.
"I don't think you can kill a ghost." Steven said.
"You know what I mean," Jo folded her arms. "One way or another, I'm gonna find Justine."
"We're going to help out too," Justin told Jo. "She's my little sister, and I gotta protect her."
"This is weird." Jackson said.
"What? Your face?" Jo rolled her eyes.
"No, there's footprints left behind, but the ghosts Steven and I know don't have footprints." Steven told the jockette.
"Since there are no footprints, maybe he really is a ghost." Jackson said.
"Jackson, I just said there were footprints." Steven told his friend.
"Oh, whoops." Jackson smiled sheepishly.
"Come on, let's follow them." Justin suggested.
Everyone then followed the footprints, but they stopped at the wall somehow which confused them all.
"A DEAD END?!" Jo snapped. "UUUUGGGHHHH!"
Meanwhile with Trent, Brianna, Ashlyn, Samantha, and Linda, they were checking the main hall.
"So, where are you guys from?" Samantha asked Trent, Brianna, and Ashlyn.
"Cartoon Network City." Trent said.
"Too bad it can't be exotic like Paris or Europe." Linda said.
Ashlyn and Brianna just rolled their eyes.
"Hey, guys, look at what I found," Brianna said as she found a pad with some substance on her fingers. "Powder."
"Powder?" Samantha asked.
'Oh, good, I could use some for my pores, don't hog it, Samantha!" Linda told her best friend.
"Why would ghosts lay powder on the floor?" Ashlyn wondered.
"Maybe they had bad wrinkles?" Samantha suggested.
"I don't think so," Brianna replied. "This is starting to feel like one of my older cases with Mystery Inc before we met actual ghosts and goblins a little more down the road like when we came to Moonscar Island."
"There's a powder trail towards the hall." Trent told the others.
"Let's follow it." Brianna suggested.
"What are you, a detective?" Samantha asked Brianna.
"Well, yeah..." Trent replied. "My girlfriend here's the real professional though, she knows Mystery Inc."
Samantha and Linda didn't say anything to that, but scoffed at that.
Meanwhile, Sky, Sammy, Drake, and Luna were in the library, but Drake and Luna were looking at Sky as if they knew something.
"Maybe there's more information on the hotel in one of these books." Sky suggested.
"Maybe..." Sammy said before skimming through the books.
Sky groaned and turned to Drake and Luna. "Okay, what is your deal?" she then asked them. "Didn't your mother teach you two not to stare at people?"
"We know what you are." Drake said.
"Yes, we know that you're a werewolf." Luna added.
"What makes you say that?" Sky asked.
"We can sniff it out." Luna said.
"And don't try to hide it from us." Drake added.
"Um... Right... Okay?" Sky shrugged as she wasn't sure what to say or do about that.
"Because you're not the only one." Drake said.
Luna then let her eyes turn red and her fangs popped out.
"So, I see." Sky replied.
Unknown to them, a knight starting to walk towards them with a sword out.
"I can't really find many books that can help us..." Sammy said. "I was hoping to maybe find a history of the hotel."
"Or we could ask that knight." Luna suggested.
The knight then raised its sword to attack The Kryptonian and the three werewolves. "Okay, Knight, let's dance!" she then challenged.
The knight growled and then went after the athlete.
"Is she crazy?!" Drake asked about Sky.
"Yeah, a little, but she's quite amazing." Sammy told Drake and Luna.
The knight sheathed the sword with a glare towards Sky. Sky looked around before finding fencing swords and then decided to use one to sword-fight against the knight.
"Wow!" Drake and Luna exclaimed.
"I told you." Sammy told them.
Sky narrowed her eyes at the knight as they fought almost to the death. The knight then fell down in defeat.
"Now, let's see what's underneath that armor." Sky said as she then took off the helmet, but everybody gasped as they saw no one was inside of the armor.
"There's no one there, but how?!" Sammy gasped.
"Unless you think that it might be a ghost?" Drake asked.
"There's something really funny going on in this hotel." Luna commented.
"And we're going to find out what," Sky added. "Come on!"
With Bob and the Eds...
"Why are we looking in the dining hall?" Eddy asked.
"Because I got the munchies, and I'm in charge." Bob told him as he held his stomach.
"Who says that you're in charge?" Eddy asked.
"I'm older than you." Bob replied.
"Well, we have more experience than you!" Eddy retorted.
"Oh, really?" Bob rolled his eyes.
"Yes!" Eddy glared.
"Well, not right now, I'm in charge." Bob glared back.
"Sir, please, no arguing, you too, Eddy." Double D told the two.
"Mike said that we're in charge." Eddy told Bob.
"Well, I'm not going to listen to you." Bob replied.
"Stop arguing, it's not gonna get any work done!" Double D told Eddy and Bob.
Eddy and Bob didn't say anything, but mumbled underneath their breaths. They soon came to explore the dining room which was next to the kitchen with a chair for Room Service. There seemed to be two telephones by the Room Service hotlines, one was black for the usual Room Service that came down from rooms in the hotel and there was another one that was pink which had Dakota's name on it.
"I'm so hungry that I could go for some buttered toast." Ed stated.
"Too bland, I'd like to have chicken nuggets..." Bob said as they explored.
Double D saw a silver cloche and soon removed it to find something, but soon yelled out as there seemed to be a severed head.
"What are you yelling about, Sockhead?" Eddy asked.
"HEAD!" Double D yelped.
"Head?" Ed and Eddy looked over.
Bob leaned over and did a double take. Bob and the Eds soon yelled out all together in a panic from the severed head.
"SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!" Bob cried out.
"You're the one who wants to be in charge!" Eddy replied.
"Oh, no, you said you're in charge, you think of something, kid." Bob smirked innocently.
"We must be seeing things..." Double D said uneasily as he put the cloche back onto the severed head, looking white as a sheet.
"Nope, it's real, Double D." Ed said as he then opened the cloche again with a smile.
"Ed, stop that!" Double D told him. "Who could that be though?"
Ed soon took a picture on his phone and closed the cloche before walking away.
"We should show the others." Bob suggested.
Mike, June, Dee Dee, Ling-Ling, Travis, Stacey, and Xeno were in the front hallway.
"Did anyone find anything?" Travis asked.
Xeno quietly whimpered.
"Just some old clothes in here." Mike said, pointing to an old suit and a dress which looked like they came from the early 1900's.
Ling-Ling sniffed the clothes out and soon growled.
"What is it, Ling-Ling?" Mike asked her battle monster. "You smell something weird?"
A mouse then came out of one pocket and ran away.
"It was just a mouse." June said.
"Ling-Ling know there something fishy here," Ling-Ling glared. "Mouse no come in take-out container like cat."
Dee Dee just leaned against the wall, then the wall moved, showing stairs that leads to somewhere. "Hey, guys, look." she then told the others.
Everyone soon turned around.
"Huh?" June asked. "Where did those stairs come from?"
"We better follow them in case there's something or someone down there." Travis suggested.
"Come on, Xeno, let's go." Stacey held out her arms for her pet dog.
Xeno barked and jumped into his owner's arms, then they went downstairs to see what's down there. Everyone stood close together as they came down the stairs.
"'Dakota wuz heer, Age 5'?" Mike read aloud one part of the wall which had a crayon drawing. "Man, Dakota really was a hotel child."
Ling-Ling's ears twitched and he heard a muffling noise. "Guys, Ling-Ling hear something." he then told the others.
"I heard it too." Mike and Travis said together, before they then looked to each other in confusion.
Ling-Ling led the way to where he heard the noise. Stacey held Xeno in her arms as they followed the battle monster. Everyone gasps as they saw Justine tied up with a handkerchief around her mouth. Justine muffled and struggled from where she sat.
"Justine!" Mike cried out and ran to the shy beauty before helping her out and took the handkerchief off of her. "Justine, what happened to you?"
"Thanks, Mike, I really appreciate this." Justine said before she then broke free from the ropes.
"Are you okay?" June asked.
"I'll be all right." Justine replied.
"Who did this to you?" Dee Dee asked.
"I didn't see, I was with my group, and then I suddenly got taken and I woke up here." Justine shrugged honestly.
"Well, come on, let's regroup with everyone to see what they found." Mike suggested.
"Okay." Justine agreed.