Meanwhile...
"Ugh, I have a worse headache than when I missed the school bus because of that stupid Goose Lady who tried to tell me a story..." Cindy groaned as she rubbed her head before looking around. "Huh? Where am I? Is anybody here?" she then gasped as she was chained up against a wall trapped in a cage with Dakota, Bob, and the kids and Xeno, who was chained up as well.
Xeno was seen chewing on his butt and growling slightly.
"Guys?" Cindy asked. "Where are we and what happened?"
"My ancestors happened." Dakota sighed.
"Awesome!" Steven and Jackson beamed.
"No, not awesome." Samantha told them.
Xeno grunted and groaned.
"Oh, Xeno's fleas have come back since he doesn't have his collar." Stacey pouted to her dog.
"So, finally awake, I see." Herbert said to the hostages.
"What do you want from us?" Cindy asked.
"It's not so much as from all of you, it's mostly from our descendant," Charlotte replied as she glared to Dakota. "Give us your father's inheritance!"
"No, my father earned it, and it's not his or my fault you were cut out of Magnus's will centuries ago!" Dakota glared back.
"Then you shall pay the consequences as for you guys, since you didn't heed our warning." Herbert told them.
"My friends are going to save us, you shall see, and they will kick your butts!" Cindy glared.
"Ooh, mighty fierce words for a little runt." Herbert mocked.
"Sticks and stones..." Cindy rolled her eyes.
"Ooh, those break your bones..." Stacey winced. "My dad taught me that."
"So, lemme get this straight," Bob looked in deadpan. "So, our fate is in the hands of a gender-confused girl, a preteen girl with superhuman strength, a ditzy ballerina, The Three Stooges, a couple of delinquents, a cheerleader, an Olympic athlete girl, pretty faced twins, an angry jock girl, a punk, an Elvis wannabe, a so-called teenage detective, a rat, a possum, and a mutt? Oh, yeah, we're so gonna be saved!"
"How very kind and motivational of you, sir," Madeline deadpanned. "And you're always telling us to follow our dreams, the grass is always greener on the other side, and that to live would be a wonderful adventure."
"I hate to admit it, but those guys really are our only hope," Linda said. "Especially Trent, he's so dreamy~"
"But not as dreamy as Justin." Samantha added.
"Drooling zombies." Madeline rolled her eyes.
"We just have to have faith they can help us, guys," Travis said. "Dakota, I don't know these people well, but are they trustworthy enough to help us out of this sticky situation?"
"Oh, you bet," Dakota smiled to the black-haired boy. "They do this kind of stuff all the time, and sometimes I even help them."
"See that?" Travis smiled back to the others. "We can trust them."
"They don't call themselves The Howling Wolves for nothing." Dakota nodded.
"Sounds like you know them really well." Steven said.
"Oh, yes, they're the best group at our school." Dakota replied.
"And that Mike Mazinsky is the leader of the group?" Jackson asked.
"You got that right," Dakota replied. "Mike calls a lot of the shots. They say she's a born leader like her father."
"I wish my parents could be proud of me, but no, my mother has to complain to me about her trips to the hospital..." Bob rolled his eyes.
"And if Mike's not around, she usually puts Sky or June in charge." Dakota said.
"And you're apart of this group, I take it?" Steven asked.
"Well, of course I am." Dakota said like it was obvious.
"How come you're never with them then?" Linda asked.
"I'm usually busy with work, school, or my boyfriend." Dakota said.
"I'm part of the group too sometimes," Cindy added. "I help them in any way that I can."
"Can't you guys, like, I dunno, use your own powers to get us out?" Alfred asked. "I mean, I'd do something, but I'm kinda chained up."
"What can you do?" Cindy asked.
"I know the Vulcan Nerve Pinch." Alfred smiled proudly.
Everyone just rolled their eyes and noticed a big screen, showing the others.
"Time to have fun with those kids." Herbert said before pressing a button on the computer.
"We've been running around in circles for half an hour," Duncan groaned. "We don't know where they could be."
"We'll find them, Duncan, be patient." June told him.
"Uh, dudes, look!" Spuds cried out.
Everyone looked up and saw a skeleton cloaked figure who shot dark energy at them. Suddenly, everyone ducked down.
"What the heck was that?!" Dee Dee gasped out of fright.
The skeleton cloaked figure just laughed and shot more dark energy.
"Who cares? I'll defeat it," Jo told Dee Dee. "The only one who has dark energy around here is me!"
"Go for it." Mike told Jo.
"With pleasure." Jo nodded.
"Be careful!" Justine told her.
"Don't worry, Babe, it will take about five minutes." Jo reassured.
The skeleton cloaked figure shot more of the dark energy to the jockette.
Jo rolled her eyes. "Oh, please, is that really the best you can do?"
The skeleton glared back through its eye sockets.
"Azarath... Metrion... ZINTHOS!" Jo muttered before her eyes turned red and she summoned her dark inner demon abilities.
"I wonder what those words even mean?" Duncan wondered.
Eddy just shrugged as he didn't know himself. The skeleton was blown back by the dark forces from Jo. Jo glared and continued to fight him without mercy from Raven's teaching.
"Nobody is better with darkness than me; because I am the darkness." Jo glared as she then punched the skeleton into the wall, but what was weird was the skeleton was actually a robot, and not an actual skeleton.
"Is it a pile of bones now?" Justine asked Jo.
"You guys, Bonehead here was a robot!" Jo told the others.
Everyone gasped.
Mike looked over at the skeleton, now robot. "Jo's right, it is a robot." she then told the others.
"And look at this, it has wristbands attached to it." Brianna said as she pressed a button on the wristband which made dark energy shoot out.
"Something sure smells fishy about all of this." Mike crossed her arms.
"Sorry, Mike." Ed pouted.
"Not you!" Mike told Ed.
"This is really a lot like the older cases I had with Mystery Inc." Brianna told the others.
"Come on, let's keep walking." Mike told the others.
"Hey, Jo, do you want this skeleton's costume?" Duncan asked the jockette.
"If not, we can use it for Halloween." Abby added.
"Knock yourselves out." Jo shrugged to the Nelson siblings.
"All right!" Duncan and Abby cheered before stuffing the skeleton's costume into a bag.
"Let's keep moving." Mike told the others.
Meanwhile...
"All right, you guys!" Cindy cheered.
"I'll be darned," Bob said. "That was amazing."
"That was just a warm-up; time to pull out the big guns." Herbert signaled.
Charlotte grinned and then pressed another button.
The group was walking upstairs, walking around, looking for the others.
"Phew! Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?" Brianna asked the others.
"I feel it too, and something is coming up," June said. "Look."
The group gasps as they saw a lava monster and roared in their faces. Justin and Justine looked to each other before laughing at the lava monster. The lava monster growled and grabbed the Reid twins, roaring in their faces.
"Look out!" Sky warned the Reid twins.
Of course, there was nothing to worry about as Justin and Justine handled the lava monster like it was no big deal.
"Oh, no, Sis, it's the big bad lava monster." Justin mocked fear.
"What can we do, Big Brother?" Justine added, mocking fear as well.
"Gee, I dunno." Justin replied.
"Yeah, it's not like we're lavabending superheroes or anything." Justine nodded.
"Oh, wait!" The Reid twins then said in unison before bringing out their scepters and slashing against the lava monster's arms to make it drop them.
The two soon fell down and they used their scepters, defeating the lava monster.
"Not so tough," Justin commented. "We've handled bigger monsters than him."
"Hey, guys, look, it's another robot." Ashlyn said.
"I'm getting sick of robots right now." Sky rolled her eyes.
"Come on, guys, let's keep going." Mike told the others.
Justin and Justine stopped as their eyes glowed white as they saw something.
"I think they're seeing a vision from the future or something." Double D commented.
"We know where they are." Justin said.
"Uh, you do?" June asked. "Where are they, and, how do you know?"
"It's one of the walls, it leads to a secret entrance." Justine said.
Everyone then touched the walls so they could get to Bob, Stacey, and the others.
"Ugh, this is hopeless." Eddy groaned before he kicked the wall in anger, and the wall opened up to reveal a secret entrance.
"Hey, way to go, Shrimp." Jo smirked.
"Huh? What?" Eddy asked before looking over and smirked to himself. "Heh, not bad if I do say so myself."
"What kind of hotel is this anyway?" Sky asked.
"Who cares? Come on!" Ashlyn told her.
Everyone soon rushed to the secret entrance.
"Wait a minute, you guys, I have a plan," Mike stopped the others before she whispered a plan to them. "Okay, here it goes. June, Dee Dee, you guys..."
Everyone gathered together and listened to the plan. Of course, June and Dee Dee agreed with Mike since they were all best friends like how close the Eds were.
"All right, everyone understand the plan?" Mike asked.
"Yes, Mike!" The group told her.
"All right, then move out." Mike told the others.
"What's this?" Herbert asked. "I don't see them anywhere on screen!"
"What do you think happened, ya donuts?" Bob deadpanned. "They managed to escape and outsmart ya."
"Shut up, Fatso!" Charlotte glared.