The family were currently in the master bedroom taking care of a critically sick Eustace, he had an ice bag over his hat to try and bring his temperature down. He was sneezing almost constantly and violently at that, his skin took on a light blue hue, he also kept throwing up everything time the family tried to feed him or give him something to drink.
"AH-CHOO!" Esutace sneezed loudly.
"Poor Eustace, you're burning up," Muriel said as she took the thermometer out of Eustace's mouth.
"Like, normally I never feel bad for my uncle, but I don't like seeing him sick," Shaggy told his friends.
"Reah, not even jerks like Rustace deserve to be this miserable," Scooby agreed.
"Shaggy, pass me my special remedy,"Muriel asked turning to the trio.
"You got it Aunt Muriel," Shaggy said turning to the table behind him and picking up a tray that a test tubes with some strange liquids inside them. A cup full of capsules of some kind, and a purplish gelatin dish. "Like, here you go."
"Thank you," Muriel said, as she picked up the gelatin and turning back to Eustace. "Now, Eustace, just try a bite of this special gelatin. See it jiggle? Just one bite."
"I don't eat-" Eustace began to complain but couldn't continue when a nasty sneeze got him, some snot even hit the gelatin. "Well, I suppose."
Muriel basically shoved a spoonful of gelatin into Eustace's mouth.
Eustace screamed, grabbing his throat before spitting out the gelatin. "What's in there anyway?!"
"Oh, just a wee drop of vinegar," Muriel answered with a smile.
Oh Aunt Muriel, like when are you gonna stop putting vinegar on everything? Shaggy thought.
Once he heard this, Eustace grabbed the hat that Courage was wearing and vomited in it before handing it back to a grossed-out Courage.
"Thanks a lot," Courage said sarcastically, with disgust.
"Oh boys, what am I going to do? I tried every remedy I can think of except, what was it?" Muriel wondered before remembering. "Oh, yes, artichoke syrup soup."
"Well, I hope that works, if the farmer is ever gonna get better," Courage responded.
"How does that sound Eustace?" Muriel asked as she patted his back.
"Anything but these leeches," Eustace answered, as he laid back down while lifting his shirt to reveal two leaches on his chest that laughed when they got revealed.
The family were in the kitchen looking through tons of different books and filing cabinets in an attempt to find a single recipe. Yet after an hour of searching, everyone still have yet to find it, the family found many different recipes for many strange and in some cases, dangerous recipes.
"Let's see, I know that artichoke syrup soup is around here somewhere." Muriel said as she looked through an old and worn-down cook book. "Any luck you three?"
"Nope," Courage answered, as he took off the glasses he was wearing and stopped going through a filing cabinet full of recipes.
"No, like, not yet Aunt Muriel," Shaggy answered, as he put the book the teen had down.
"RI have not yet either," Scooby answered, as he skimmed through a few books.
"Hmm, now this looks promising," Muriel said, as she found some recipes and began reading. "Let's see, Aardvark syrup soup, Armageddon syrup soup, Artichoke syrup soup, there it is! Oh, my."
"Like, what's the problem Aunt Muriel?" Shaggy asked, as he walked over to her only to discover that she found the page title but the rest of the page was torn off.
"Oh boys, where on earth are we suppose to find that recipe now?" Muriel asked, worried that she and her family would not be able to find the recipe.
"Hmm…I think I might have an idea," Courage suggested.
The family then proceeded to the attic to ask the computer, Courage hopped onto the chair while Scooby turned the computer on, and almost immediately, it insulted the cowardly trio again.
"Oh, I see you all brought your mommy," the computer taunted, which made the trio roll their eyes in annoyance.
"Ron't start," Scooby growled.
"Oh, so many pretty buttons, what does this one do?" Muriel asked as she pressed a button.
"Don't press it! Don't press it!" Courage yelled, as he moved Muriel's hand out of the way.
Just then, some naughty pics Courage had came on screen.
Scooby screamed, "Ry eyes!"
Shaggy immediately covered Scooby's eyes.
"Oh my," Muriel said.
"Don't look Scoob! Preserve your puppy-like innocence!" Shaggy said, dramatically.
Courage chuckled in embarrassment, as he used his body to cover the screen.
"I could use a cup of tea," Muriel said, giving a little laugh.
"Like, me and Scooby are gonna get a snack downstairs," Shaggy said, avoiding eye contact with Courage, as he took his dog, while still covering his eyes out the door.
"Hey... Push that button again," the computer said, laughing.
"Oh shut up!" Courage rip the button off the keyboard and toss it away and began to type on the keyboard.
"Recipe for artichoke syrup soup. How boring," the computer said before showing a bar that showed the downloading progress. "Downloading time: 43 Hours."
"You gotta be kidding me," Courage complained with a whine, at how long it's going to take to get the recipe.
Courage exited the attic and closed the door.
Courage went to the kitchen, and saw that Shaggy and Scooby having a big plate of cookies and glasses of milk.
"Rahh…" Scooby began.
"Don't talk! Just please give me some cookies!" Courage said, while red in the face.
Shaggy and Scooby looked at each other and shrugged, it was probably best to never speak about this again.
Courage sat down next to Shaggy and started to eat and drink the cookies and milk.
"So like, did you find the recipe yet?" Shaggy asked, breaking the awkward silence.
"Yeah, but it's gonna take forty-three hours to download," Courage replied, with a sigh.
"Really? Like, that's gonna take three days!" Shaggy complained.
"Rnd we don't know if Rustace will survive until than," Scooby added.
"I know, but for now I just don't wanna deal with this right now," Courage said, as he dip his cookie in his milk.
"Rike the stuff you have on the internet?" Scooby asked, teasing.
"Scooby!" Courage rebuked, while blushing.
A few minutes later, Courage suggested, "You guys wanna play a game or something?"
"Sure, it's not like, we have any better to do, right Scoob?" Shaggy asked, the Great Dane.
"Reah, why not," Scooby shrugged.
The three best friends exited the kitchen and back to the attic, to just playing maybe a card game. But as the trio, got by the doorway, they gasped, as the trio saw Muriel pressing a button on the keyboard and turning green with numbers appearing on her body.
"Boys! Help me!" Muriel shouted, before she was fully sucking into the computer.
"NNNOOOO!" Courage screamed when the light faded.
"Like, what just happened?" Shaggy asked, as he and his best friends dashed over to the computer.
Getting there, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw sparks coming from all over the computer as if it was about to explode.
"Help," the computer begged in a tone that clearly told the trio it was in pain and struggling just to speak.
"What do we do? What do we do?" Courage asked, as he pulled down his ears in fear.
"Scanner…" the computer said before going eerily silent.
"Rhat did it mean scanner?" Scooby asked, not getting what the computer meant.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage looked over to the side and saw the scanner still active and working.
"I think it meant to scan ourselves, to go in the computer and get Muriel," Courage guessed.
"Looks like we're going digital again," Shaggy said, remembering the time him, Scooby and the rest of the Mystery gang getting beamed inside a computer game a year a ago.
"You've been in a computer before?" Courage asked.
"Rong Story," Scooby replied.
"Okay, I'm gonna scan myself, Scooby hold my paw and Shaggy hold Scooby's paw," Courage instructed.
Courage lifted the cover of the scanner and placed his head on it, with Scooby holding his paw and Shaggy holding onto Scooby's paw. Bringing the cover back down over Courage's head, the scanner began to scan him.
And the next thing the three best friends knew, their minds were falling down a giant hole with the sides being zeros and ones, after what felt like a long time of the same and the trio screaming, they all saw a bright white light coming up quickly. The trio braced themselves and within a few seconds, they reached the light.
After that, it felt weird. Like the trio's minds were trying to reboot themselves as they recreated their bodies. Their digital bodies anyway.
"Whoa, like, talk about an out of body experience man," Shaggy said, as he finally was able to move again.
Looking around, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw that they were in a giant room that is made up of some kind of glass. But as the three looked around, they saw themselves almost seemed rubbery but also digital as well.
"Whoa, we're all bulgy!" Courage replied, checking his best friends out.
"Rhat is the fifth strangest thing, I've ever seen," Scooby commented.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage screamed, as they saw their reflections.
"Like, it's okay buddies, it's just our reflections," Shaggy calmed down.
Courage laughed at what he saw, he even flexed a bit. This caused Shaggy and Scooby to laugh a bit at him.
"Rhere are we anyway?" Scooby asked.
"I don't know Scoob, all I know is we're in a part of the computer," Courage answered.
Suddenly, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage jump in shock when they all heard Muriel's voice call out to them.
"Shaggy? Scooby? Courage? Can you hear me?" Muriel shouted from somewhere.
"OH!" Courage said as he tried to follow the voice.
Scooby and Shaggy followed him as well only to bump into another wall a moment later. The trio then heard Muriel shout from their right and the trio quickly turned and ran in that direction, only to stop just short of the wall.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage screamed when they saw their reflection as giants.
"Okay, like, we gotta stop doing that," Shaggy told his friends trying to calm himself and his friends down.
But Courage didn't listen and just ran to the right, where the trio saw a distorted image of themselves, the trio had a big body with really long necks.
"Even by our standards, this is really weird," Scooby said, as he and his best friends saw their reflections.
"BOYS?! SAVE ME!" Muriel shouted again.
Turing to it, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw a door to their right and saw Muriel on the other side of it.
"AUNT MURIEL!/RURIEL!/MURIEL!" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all shouted, as they ran to the door.
Trying not to fall down while doing so as it felt really strange.
"What is this?" Courage asked, as he and his best friends arrived at the door and saw what looked like a gelatin like mass separating them from Muriel.
"Like, I have no idea little pink dude," Shaggy answered, as he moved forward and pushed my arm though it.
Shaggy gasped in surprise, when his arm changed to the color green and the numbers one and zero appeared on it. Like his arm became coding in a program. "Zoinks! Like, that's freaky."
"Boys, is that you all? Save me!" Muriel shouted to the trio.
"Well, here goes nothing," Courage said as he and his best friends took in deep breaths before jumping through the door and weird substance and came out the other side.
But Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were all green and hand zeros and ones on them. Courage screamed in terror at what they become.
"Like, we all have numbers on us," Shaggy said, as he looked down on his body.
"Reah, all numbers," Scooby agreed.
"I think is because we became coding for the computer," Courage said, as he began to examine herself.
Looking around, The trio saw that they were in a hallway with walls the look like motherboards or parts of a computer.
"I must have hit the wrong button again,"Muriel said, sounding upset.
"Like, now that we found Aunt Muriel, let's get out of here," Shaggy said.
"Wait a minute Shaggy, there's just something that doesn't make any sense," Courage said, having a feeling something's up.
"Rhat do you mean Rourage?" Scooby asked.
"What cause Muriel to be beamed in the computer anyway?" Courage questioned.
But either Shaggy and Scooby could answer, everyone heard cackling coming from nearby. A giant green creature laughed surprising the family, it was made up of a couple of giant zeros and ones with the end being a head with a giant nose and eyes.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy shouted.
"Rikes!" Scooby cried.
"EEK!" Courage shouted surprised.
The creature than grabbed Muriel.
"Aunt Muriel!" Shaggy cried.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage quickly moved and grabbed into Muriel and tried to pull her away but their grips slipped, causing them to fall down. The cowardly trio were about to get up and follow, but the creature turned around and sneezed on them, which caused all three of them to get sent flying down the hall.
Muriel screamed, while the creature cackled and moved down the hall and out of sight.
"Rre you guys alright?" Scooby asked.
"Like yeah, just a bit grossed out," Shaggy answered, as he wiped where the snot got on him from the giant creature, but froze when he saw little numbers get sent flying as a result.
"Same," Courage said as he shook himself dry, with numbers flying from him as well.
"Come on! Let's before we lose Aunt Muriel and the creature!" Shaggy said, as he and his best friends headed down the hall and followed where they last saw the creature.
Only to stop dead in their tracks when the trio saw about thirteen different paths to choose from.
"Um, like dudes, which path should we take?" Shaggy asked, looking between each one to try and see if he could find a trace or something to tell them where the creature went off to.
"I do not know, and I don't think splitting up would be the best idea," Courage answered, as he looked between each pathway as well.
"Rhank goodness Rred isn't here," Scooby commented, one of their Mystery gang members Fred, always split up to go look for clues, and he was thankful him and his best friends are sticking together.
"BOYS!" Muriel shouted.
"Rhat sounds like Ruriel," Scooby said.
"HELP!" Muriel's voice suddenly yelled startling the trio.
"It is Muriel! I know her voice anywhere," Courage cried.
"We gotta save her!" Shaggy exclaimed.
"We better find Muriel and get out of here, or my name is Bill Gates, and it's not," Courage declared.
The trio looked around to see if they can determine the path, but stopped when they a metal clanging sound.
"Rhat's that noise?" Scooby asked, nervously.
A second later, what appeared to be a flying iron mouth appeared from one of the pathways.
"RUN!" Shaggy shouted.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage ran as fast as they could to avoid getting destroyed by the thing, going down one pathway, the cowardly trio tried to lose the thing by constantly twisting and turning to confuse it but it was still chasing them.
Eventually, the three best friends came upon what seemed like a dead end but a mouse hole was at the bottom.
"Slide!" Courage yelled, as he and his friends neared it.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage jumped to avoid a bite from iron mouth and somehow slid into the mouse hole.
"RIt's it gone?" Scooby whispered.
Shaggy peeked outside and saw the iron mouth turn around and leave them.
"Like, the close is clear dudes," Shaggy told his best friends as they all crawled out the mouse hole.
"Phew," Courage sighed, as he wipe the sweat on his head. "I think we're safe now." But right after Courage said that, a hissing sound was heard.
"Rhat was that?" Scooby asked, scared.
Scooby got his answer when from the mouse hole, came out a mouse control for a computer which then hissed at them.
"Not safe! Not safe! Not safe!" Courage panicked, as he and his frightened best friends slowly back away from the hissing mouse.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all screamed in terror, but because they were not paying attention, the trio fell through a door that helped them escape the mouse. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all moaned in pain.
"Like, I never knew the inside of a computer could be this big or dangerous," Shaggy said, as he got up.
"Neither did I Shaggy, but then again, Computer isn't your average computer," Courage said, as he rubbed his head.
"AH-CHOO!" a sneeze caught the three's attention, turning around, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw that they were in a giant red room that looked like it was part of a motherboard or something nearby, the trio saw a pool table with some cues on it. Next to that, was a barn that had the words ram on it.
Another sneeze came, but much louder followed by some seriously bad coughing, turning to where it came from, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw that creature before sitting on a bed with a blanket while holding a cloth to blow its nose. But what caught their attention the most, was how sick it looked, almost if not worse than Eustace.
"Oh!" Courage said quietly as to not alert the guy.
"Roor guy," Scooby said, seeing the guy suffer from the cold he clearly had.
"Bless you," Muriel suddenly said.
Turning to where it came from, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw her trapped inside an indent in the wall that looked like it was the center point for something. Courage screamed when he saw this, unfortunately, this caught the attention of the creature.
"Uh, hello," Shaggy waved nervously, while Scooby and Courage give nervous grins.
"I'm sick, and now I gotta deal with you three. Okay busters, you all asked for it,"the creature said before turning and using its nose to press a big red button next to him.
"Oh, this is not good," Courage whimpered, as an alarm rang around them.
Turning around as it seemed to coming from behind the trio, they saw the doors on the barn open up. An actual ram was in there, and it started to charge at the cowardly trio.
"RAGGY! ROOK OUT!" Scooby shouted as Courage and the Great Dane pushed Shaggy to the side.
"SCOOBY! COURAGE!" Shaggy shouted worried, when he saw them get hit by the ram.
But grew confused when Scooby and Courage just became pieces of code that bounced up and down, after a moment, the pieces came back together and they became whole again.
"Say good bye to your mother, cause she's my mother board now," the creature said, as multiple tiny computer bugs came down from the sky. "Ok boys, go get them."
Shaggy screamed in fear, Courage seeing his best friend in trouble, transformed into a Viking club and destroy the bugs.
"Go on boys, you can all do it!" Muriel chanted for the trio.
After a moment, the pieces came back together and we became whole again.
"Row, that felt weird," Scooby said, at a complete loss of words for how that felt.
"Yeah, same," Courage said, as he shook himself off with pieces of cods coming off him.
"Scoob! Little dog dude! Are you okay?" Shaggy asked, as he rushed over to his best friends.
"Yeah, we're fine Shaggy, just feeling a bit weird," Courage answered.
"Like, I questioned that, but is not as weird as anything else that's happening today," Shaggy commented.
"Oh, so you wanna play rough huh? Will!" the creature asked before shouting out, to the trio's side, a door opened to reveal a hard drive.
"Uh, a hard drive?" Courage asked, confused.
Only for the cowardly trio to get scared when the driver floated into the air and quickly spun around to show razors on its back.
"Whoa!/Rhoa!" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage shouted, as the hard drive flew at us to try and hit us but missed.
It then quickly circled back around to face the frightened trio.
"Like, we're goners dudes!" Shaggy panicked.
"Not yet!" Courage declared, before shape shifting into a giant soda can.
Shaggy and Scooby were confused at how this was going to help them but got their answer when Courage began to shake himself for a moment before opening the tab on his head, and a rush of soda came out hitting the hard drive, causing it to spark violently.
"Now, is that anyway to treat your hardware?" the hard drive asked before falling to the ground destroyed.
"Oh, that kid and his dogs are terrible people," the creature complained before sneezing. "That woman is not leaving until I feel better, and that's, that! AH-CHOO!"
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all grunted as coding flew from the creature and hit them hard.
"Like, cover your nose worm dude," Shaggy said, as he wiped the coding of his face.
"Poor thing, have you tried artichoke syrup soup?" Muriel asked.
"Yes, I did, and it didn't work," the creature answered.
"Artichoke syrup soup didn't work? Have you tried anything else?" Muriel asked again.
"Anything else? What else is there?" the creature asked as tears dripped from its eyes and snot came out of his nose.
"Wait, the gelatin! The gelatin!" Courage stated mumbling before transforming into the gelatin he and his family tried to feed Eustace.
"Rourage, your a genius!" Scooby grinned.
"Brilliant idea Courage, we could try my special gelatin," Muriel said agreeing with Courage.
"I'll try anything," the creature said before adding another bit while shivering. "As long as it's not leeches."
"Do you have a phone?" Courage asked.
"You mean to get back outside of this computer? Hold on," the creature said before pressing a button with a phone appearing next to the trio "There you go."
"Thanks," Courage said, as he literally entered the phone.
Courage poked his head of the phone in the master bedroom.
"Excuse me," Courage said, to a confused Eustace before grabbing the gelatin.
"Oh, wicket!" Eustace exclaimed.
But Courage didn't hear anything else as he came back out with the gelatin and handed it to Scooby.
Scooby scooped a piece with the spoon while walking towers him, but the creature turned away looking hesitant. Scooby tried to get him to eat it like a baby, but he still resisted.
"Is it organic?" the creature asked, hesitantly.
"Rust shut up and eat!" Scooby nearly yelled, in irritation.
"Well, what's in it anyway?" the creature asked Muriel.
"Why, only a bit of vinegar, of course,"Muriel answered.
"Vinegar? Well, why didn't you say so? I love vinegar," the creature asked, before sucking the gelatin that was on the spoon and on the plate into his mouth like a vacuum.
"Feel better?" Courage asked, after he finished chewing and swallowed.
The creature took a deep breath before answering. "Aah. Hey, I can breathe again! Hot diggity!" the creature said before laughing in joy.
"Vinegar may taste disgusting," Shaggy started.
"Rut it can help you get better," Scooby finished.
"That's my Muriel," Courage smiled.
The family were back in the farmhouse, in the attic, Shaggy and Scooby told Courage their story of the time they're in a computer game.
"So there was this guy Bill Mclemore who created the virus and beamed you in the computer game?" Courage asked.
"Rep," Scooby responded.
"And like, we almost didn't get back home," Shaggy shivered, at the thought if they didn't defeat the phantom virus.
"And how did you guys solve the mystery?" Courage asked.
"One word," Shaggy began.
"Baseball/Raseball," Scooby and Shaggy both said.
"Huh?" Courage asked, not getting at what they're saying.
"Rorry Rourage, who had to be there," Scooby chuckled.
Then suddenly the computer spoke, "It just goes to show you, even twits can have good ideas….sometimes."
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage couldn't help, but laugh at that.
"Like, I guess these couple of twits can save the day, huh Scoob?" Shaggy asked.
"Reah," Scooby chuckled, "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
Well that's all for this chapter, next will be The Ride of the Valkyries. I like to thank schweenieboy for the quotes and ideas. Let me guys know in the reviews/comments of what should I do for the future episodes or next chapter. And what Courage should say in future chapters. Until then this is vakarns signing out.
The Ride of The Valkyries: While the family are on holiday in Norway, three Valkyries mistake Muriel as their sister and carry her off into the sky where they will fight against the trolls on the next day. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage sets out to win Muriel back.