It was laundry day at the farmhouse, and Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were all helping Muriel with the laundry.
"Heavenly," Courage said, after taking a big whiff of Muriel's freshly dried apron.
"I love the smell of Muriel's laundry," Shaggy said, after smelling his freshly dried clothes.
"Re too," Scooby agreed, as he also smelled Shaggy, fresh clean clothes.
"Aunt Muriel like, how did you get these clothes to smell so groovy?" Shaggy asked, as Scooby helped her fold some of her clothes.
"It's my homemade fabric softener," Muriel explained as she showed the trio the glass bottle containing the fabric softener before taking a whiff of it as well. "Ahh."
"EEE!" Courage said, excited as he took the bottle, he turned to Shaggy and Scooby. His smile grew to mischievous, he give out little laugh before he splash the bottle to Shaggy and Scooby.
"Hey!" Shaggy chuckled.
Scooby turned to the little pink beagle, he saw Courage giggling a little.
"Roh yeah?" Scooby said, in a teasing voice. He splash a little fabric liquid onto Courage.
"Hey!" Courage laughed.
"Rou started it," Scooby snickered.
Muriel pulled out one of Eustace's shirts from the dryer, although, his shirt seemed stiff as a board. "Too bad Eustace won't let me use it on his clothes."
"Like, I don't think that will be a problem," Snaggy said with a chuckle, as he pointed to Scooby and Courage, who were both laughing on the floor while the bottle was empty. Muriel extended her hand towards Courage.
Courage nervously laughed as he handed her the bottle, "Sorry Muriel."
"Re're just having fun," Scooby added apologetic.
"That's okay boys, it looks like I'll be needing to make a new batch," Muriel said, as she held the bottle upside down to see if there was any left. "But I'm all out of my special secret ingredients. Time for a trip to town."
Eustace, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were all already in the truck waiting for Muriel, Eustace was grumbling, heading to the truck, Muriel got into the the front before letting her husband know she was set. Grumbling, Eustace started the vehicle before driving towards Nowhere town.
The family were now in a small town, walking towards the store.
"So, what the first stop?" Shaggy asked.
"Oh, our first stop is Dil's general store." Muriel answered.
However, they were greeted by a familiar face as they reached the store.
"Good day to you, Muriel, Hello, Scooby and Courage," the lady greeted with a smile before each pet on the heads to Scooby and. She then turned to Shaggy and smiled. "And good day to Shaggy."
"Hi," Shaggy waved.
"And good day to you too," Muriel replied with a gentle smile, before the family entered the store.
"RI got it," Scooby said, when he noticed a lady and her child were about to exit the store, so I held the door open for them, "Romen and children first."
"Morning," the lady said as she exited the door before turning to the Great Dane, "Thank you, dear dog."
"Rour welcome," Scooby said, as he let the door close.
"Like dudes, Nowhere has to be the nicest place in all of existence," Shaggy said as, the the three best friends followed Muriel to one of the aisles in the back.
"Reah, everybody is in a good mood today," Scooby agreed.
"But you wouldn't expect that if the first person you met was the farmer," Courage said, frowning when he saw Eustace cut the line in the deli meats section.
"Courage, be a dear, and get that vial on the top shelf," Muriel said, getting the trio's attention.
"Okay,"Courage said before climbing up the shelves to retrieve a bottle that vaguely looked like the bottle that Muriel kept her special secret fabric softener in.
"Thank you, Courage," Muriel said as she placed the bottle into her handmade basket.
"You're welcome," Courage said, smiling.
However, the family became confused a sudden pink wall went through the store and us before leaving.
"Oh, my," Muriel gasped in surprise.
"Like, what was that?" Shaggy asked, confused.
"I have no idea Shaggy," Courage shrugged.
"Reats me," Scooby added, in confusion.
"Come on boys, let's get some ground beef for tonight's dinner," Muriel said, unaware of what just happened.
"Like, oh yeah, Aunt Muriel is gonna cook burgers tonight," Shaggy said, happily.
"Roh boy, burgers," Scooby exclaimed, as he licked his lips at the thought.
Courage rolled his eyes, while smiling at the hungry duo, "Oh you two."
The family made their way to the deli section, where the trio noticed that Jean Bon was working here today.
"Like what's up Jean?" Shaggy greeted, to which, surprisingly, he only huffed in annoyance. Like, that was weird.
"Could I get two pounds of ground beef, if you please?" Muriel asked.
"GRIND IT YOURSELF!" Jean growled out before picking up a slab of beef and throwing it at Muriel.
Eustace only laugh in cruelty, "Good one."
"Well, it will stay fresher that way," Muriel said, as he took the beef of her face and unsure of what to make at the moment.
"Rey, what was that for?" Scooby asked, in shock that Jean would act this way.
Yet, instead of answering, he turned to Scooby and Courage.
"HEY, DOGS!" Jean shouted before turning around and grabbing a marker.
The cowardly trio were confused about what he was doing, but realized that he changed the special on the menu today from fresh pork to fresh dog.
Scooby and Courage screamed in fear before running out of the store.
"Scoob! Little pink dude! Wait!" Shaggy called out to his best friends, as he dashed out of the store.
Looking around, Shaggy saw something that the cowardly teen never thought he would see in Nowhere.
"Like, what's going on?" Shaggy asked, confused as he saw people needlessly arguing with each other and, in some cases, brutalizing each other with weapons.
"RI don't know," Scooby responded.
"Me either," Courage said.
Just then, Muriel was thrown out of the store, Shaggy immediately came to his aunt's aid.
"Aunt Muriel, are you okay?" Shaggy asked with concern
"I'm alright dear," Muriel replied, as her nephew help her up.
"And if you ever say thank you in my store again, I'll wash your mouth out with raw meat!" Jean threatened, from the store.
"Like, that pig dude sounds scary when he's angry," Shaggy shivered.
"Reah, he doesn't sound friendly anymore," Scooby agreed, trembling.
"This is even worse when we thought he was a cannibal," Courage added, while shaking.
"HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" the trio heard Eustace shout.
Turning around, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw him running towards his truck, where a police officer was taking off the truck's wheels.
"OH!" the office gasped before running off with the tires.
"Why you lousy tire-taking-" Eustace began, but stopped when he spotted a stroller.
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" someone shout.
Turning to the voice, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw the lady that always wore a parachute chasing down a scared man, and in her hands was a rocket launcher that she fired to try and kill the man.
"Oh, my," Muriel said, worried and confused at what was happening.
"Like, this town is going chaos!" Shaggy pointed out, nervously.
"Yeah, something strange is going on, or my name's Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony, and it's not," Courage agreed, with a scared voice.
"RI wanna go home," Scooby whimpered.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw Eustace attempting to put stroller wheels on his truck.
"Eustace! Everyone's gone daft," Muriel said, as she opened the truck door.
"And it's like, not on full moon either," Shaggy added, worriedly.
"Muriel! Shaggy-haired-fella! Shut up, and let's git," Eustace shouted ,as he kept on trying to use the stroller wheels.
However, as soon as he finished installing the first wheel, a man in a blue suit walked up to him.
"Stealing from a baby, huh?" the man asked.
"YEAH! WHAT OF IT!?" Eustace challenged, while standing back up.
Yet, to the trio's surprise, the man smiled and shook his hand vigorously.
"That's what Nowhere needs in a leader," the man answered, "I nominate you for mayor!"
"WHAT!?/RHAT!?" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage shouted, shocked at what they had just heard.
The man led Eustace to the corner where a conveniently decorated banner that read mayor was hanging.
"IDIOTS AND SLIMEBUCKETS!" the man announced over the microphone, getting everyone's attention, "I give you a candidate for mayor, the meanest creep in Nowhere."
"SHUT UP! YOU STUPID PEOPLE!" Eustace demanded, which only caused the people to cheer for him.
"Aunt Muriel, can we please go home?" Shaggy asked, uncomfortable about this whole thing.
"Of course dear, I'm going to get Eustace," Muriel said as she exited the truck, only to hit a young girl accidentally, "OOH! Are you okay?"
"HELP! THIS CREEPY OLD LADY IS BEING NICE TO ME!" the little girl shouted, getting everyone else's attention.
"OH!" everyone gasped.
"The candidate wants the woman captured and reeducated so she'll learn how to be cruel and rotten," The man in the blue announced.
"Just like me," Eustace added with a smug tone that caused the crowd to cheer.
But before either Shaggy, Scooby or Courage could react, two policemen suddenly appeared and dragged Muriel away.
"EUSTACE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Muriel shouted, as she was dragged away.
"AUNT MURIEL!/RURIEL!/MURIEL!" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all shouted, as the trio chased after them to try and save her, yet, he failed and only Shaggy ended up tearing the basket Muriel still had with her.
"Oh man," Shaggy groaned, in dismay.
"That young man and those dogs are showing sympathy, arrest and reeducate him," the man declared, with another two policemen showing up suddenly.
Courage screamed in fear, at the two policeman.
"RUN!" Scooby shouted, as he Shaggy and Courage ran away from the police as fast as they can.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage had been running towards the desert in the mountainscapes, from the place, and if that wasn't bad enough, now they're being chase by Eustace.
"Like, dudes, I think we lost them," Shaggy panted.
"What now?" Courage asked, while looking around.
"Rind out what caused all the citizens of Nowhere to act like jerks," Scooby answered.
"Like, what do you think could of cause it?" Shaggy asked.
"I don't know Shaggy, but we need to find out so we can unreversed the effects of this, and save Muriel," Courage pointed out.
Scooby turned his head, and his heart sank, "Rmm, guys…"
Shaggy and Courage turned to what Scooby was looking at, and froze in horror.
"HERE I COME! I'M A DOG AND NEPHEW BAGGIN' MACHINE!" Eustace declared, while running at them with a giant net.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage screamed, as they ran towards the side of the mountain, and hid behind it, praying that Eustace doesn't find them there.
"What do we do? What do we do?" Courage frantically asked.
Shaggy and Scooby were both being cut off by an animal snorting, before either of them could reply. Turning around, the cowardly trio saw a deer eating a bush.
"Oh, like, it's just a deer grazing," Shaggy sighed, with relief.
"Huh?" Courage suddenly said, he was staring wide-eyed into the distance.
Following his gaze, Shaggy and Scooby noticed that Courage spotted the same pink wall from earlier returning.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all give out screams of terror, as they all brace themselves for the inevitable. Luckily, the pink wall passed through the trio without incident after a few seconds.
"Rre you guys okay?" Scooby asked.
"I think so," Courage answered as he and Shaggy checked themselves over.
"We're good Scoob," Shaggy said, giving the Great Dane a thumbs up.
However, the three best friends soon heard snarling nearby, looking towards the source, they noticed that it was coming from the same deer that was grazing on the bush. But this time, it became near-feral and snarling before ripping the bush out of the ground before kicking it away and letting out a cackle afterward.
"Like, what caused that?" Shaggy asked, with confusion.
"RI don't know Raggy," Scooby shrugged.
"Wait a minute…" Courage said, as he was putting everything together, "That pink curtain, we saw earlier at the store, what if it's causing the townspeople to all act like so cruel?"
"Rut then, how come it didn't effect us?" Scooby asked.
"I don't know Scoob," Courage responded, he had no idea how he and his best friends aren't effect by the curtain.
Shaggy looked up, "Like dudes, look!"
Looking to where Shaggy was pointing at, Scooby and Courage indeed saw that it was the curtain going back into the mountain.
"Come on, we gotta follow it," Courage said.
Not wanting to lose it, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage quickly made their way up the mountain, where the three found the entrance into the mountain. Seeing that it was about to close, the trio entered before it did and nearly gasped when they realized we were in a secret laboratory. However, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage quickly looked around for a hiding place in case the owner was here with us.
"Huh?" Courage said, confused.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw a man watching in admiration as the pink wall went back into its device.
"My cruelty curtain is a success, and tomorrow, I shall unleash it everywhere," the man declared.
"Zoinks," Shaggy whispered in fear, "So that's what causing Nowhere to act like jerks."
"Row are we gonna stop it?" Scooby asked.
However, the man heard this and turned around before quickly spotting the terrified trio.
"Oh, hello," Courage smiled nervously, as he wave.
"INTRUDERS! WELL, I GUESS IT'S CURTAINS FOR YOU!" the man declared before activating his machine again, the cruelty curtain came out of the rod and quickly made its way towards the three best friends.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage gasped, before closing their eyes and waiting to be changed, however, like the previous times, they were all unaffected by it.
"Like, we're okay," Shaggy said.
"RI don't feel jerky," Scooby added.
"Whew," Courage said, relieved.
"You all should be cruel! What keeps you all warm and soft and fluffy, when everyone else is cold and hard?" the man asked.
Courage then thought of something, he remembered earlier that day, he was playing with the fabric softener with Shaggy and Scooby. It's my homemade fabric softener. He remembered Muriel's statement. "Guys, I figure out why we aren't effect by the curtain!"
"Like, how little pink dude?" Shaggy asked.
"It was Muriel's fabric softener, it was protecting us, that's why we didn't turn cruel!" Courage explained, as he pulled out all the supplies needed to make Muriel's homemade fabric softener, before showing it to everyone.
"Row, so it was those things that were keeping us from becoming jerks the whole time," Scooby said.
"Surely, you don't think those common items alone could thwart the effects of my cruelty curtain," the man said.
"Oh yes they can," Shaggy declared.
Suddenly, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage heard someone banging on the metal door with the man going to see who it was.
"I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE DOGS AND NEPHEW! I'M GOING TO GET YOU!" Eustace shouted, while using his net to bang against the door.
"YOU CAN'T JOIN THE CRUELTY COMMISSION! IT'S JUST ME!" the man shouted, once he opened the door.
"Ruick, while he's distracted," Scooby said as he, Shaggy and Courage rushed over to the control panel.
Courage opened one of the consoles and dumped the ingredients into it before pulling a red lever.
"OH!" the man gasped when he heard the sound of his machine turning on, "YOU'RE A MEANIE!" he growled, as he grabbed Courage's neck and start to strangle him.
"Like, let our best pal go!" Shaggy demanded, as Scooby growl at the old man.
But everyone stopped when they all heard rumbling coming from his machines. For a moment, everyone thought it was going to explode but were proven wrong when the curtain came back, except this time it was blue in color instead of pink. Plus, it seemed like the effects were reversed as when it passed through the man, he smiled.
"My clothes... My hair... So soft and cuddly, I never felt like this in my life. I want everyone to feel this way," the man said as he pulled each of the trio into a hug, making them uncomfortable.
The cowardly trio then were quickly reminded that while they did solve one problem, we had another one that they needed to deal with right now.
"I'M COMIN' TO GET YOU!" Eustace shouted before laughing, yet, he became confused when the curtain passed through him. Unfortunately, it seemed like he was immune to the effects of the curtain, "YOU'RE MINE! STINKIN, DOGS AND NEPHEW!"
"Oh come on! Does anything ever effect this angry old dude!?" Shaggy complained.
"Well if the cannon balls of sadness doesn't effect him, why not the curtain?" Courage said, sarcastically.
"Ruys, right now we need to run!" Scooby said, with fear.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage screamed as they moved out of the way to avoid getting caught in his net, unfortunately, the man was caught in the net, yet, he didn't seem to mind as he continued to smile.
The cowardly trio continued to run, as Eustace chased them with the net, they all managed to ran back into town. They all passed a police officer and grabbing Eustace by his shirt just as he reached them.
"HUH?" Eustace asked, confused.
"YAY!" the townsfolk cheered, as the officer took him away.
"Well, that takes care of him, now, let's go find Muriel," Courage said, as he and his best friends made their way over to the man.
The family expect for Eustace were home watching TV.
"Isn't our new mayor the sweetest man?" Muriel asked, as she finished folding the clothes while watching the man get inaugurated as mayor.
"Mm-hmm," Courage agreed.
"Like, he sure is Aunt Muriel," Shaggy added, as he ate his burger.
"I just hope Eustace gets home in time to eat the hamburgers I made him," Muriel said, worried.
"RI don't think he'll be back for a while," Scooby said, with a smirk
In a unknown room, Eustace was chained by the neck, forcing to pet the hamster.
"Pet the cute little critter! Make nice," the mysterious voice ordered.
"OH!" Eustace grumbled, irritated.
Yet, the hamster didn't seem to mind as he climbed up Eustace before snuggling into his cheek.
"BETTER!" the voice said.
"LIKE THIS!" The hamster suddenly shouted, while reaching into its back pocket and pulling out a hammer. It then smiled wickedly, before raising it over its head and bringing it down on Eustace's head.
Eustace shouted in painm as the sickening sound of bone breaking resonated inside the concrete room. And before Eustace passed out, he said one last thing, "CHOPPED MEAT!"
Well that's all for this chapter, next will be Feast of the Bullfrogs. 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.
Feast of the Bullfrogs: Bullfrogs, who have had all the water in their pond dried up, start to invade the farmhouse for water. There, they enslave the family, forcing them to act like frogs.