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EIGHT YEARS LATER...

Shaggy backed away a bit as he rubbed his face. "Ow! Like, what's that for, Scoob?"

"Rorry. Rou had a rug on rou." Scooby said sheepishly with a grin, putting his paw down innocently

"Oh, I had a bug on me, huh?" Shaggy glared at his dog.

"Boys, don't make me turn this van around!" Daphne called from the driver's seat, rolling her eyes as she gave a small smile.

Indeed, Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby had came home and got out of their superhero cosplay, getting back in their regular attire as they were returning to the closed-up movie theater in their red van, the Miss-tery Machine, since Fred had previously taken the Mystery Machine to the camp he was going to. Sure, while the van wasn't as classic as the van the gang drove around was, it was a suitable substitute for driving around and solving mysteries. Daphne remembered the last time this van was taken out for a spin was when Scooby's nephew had accompanied them. In fact, Daphne had to admit, she does her best mystery solving when it was just her with Shaggy and Scooby. Though she didn't mind that Velma and Fred accompanied them all the time, since after all, they had their roles as the smart girl and leader respectively, whenever they weren't around, she took charge in quite a few mysteries.

Granted, she knew Scooby and Shaggy, along with the Great Dane's nephew, went off on their own a few times to do mysteries of their own, but they don't usually bring them up as much. She couldn't help but remember a time when she heard about Shaggy's first girlfriend, Googie, who had went along with Shaggy from the time he was a race car driver. She was a bit huffy about it, though she didn't know why. So, the fact that Shaggy and Googie broke up after almost a year and a half gave her relief was nothing to be concerned about. But still, to think Shaggy would actually get a girlfriend during his time was surprising, even to her.

Still, she put her mind aside on that... Googie girl. All she knew about her now was that Shaggy and her haven't been in contact since their break-up, and that was more than enough for her. Sure, she knew that Shaggy was older, but maybe it's because of his slight immature behavior that turned Googie off, or maybe he learned how controlling girls could be when he's in a relationship with one, but he always told Daphne, Fred and Velma that 'Like, I'm happy living the bachelor life'.

Though, she could see it in the boy's eyes. Deep down, he was a bit heartbroken that a girl broke up with him, all because she didn't like the same things he usually does. Maybe that's why Scooby was always there with the teenage boy, to comfort him when times were rough. After all, that was a good reason why Scooby would always stick with Shaggy. And... she adored the dog for it. Though, she couldn't help but wonder if because of the break-up the two suffered that Scooby became MORE protective of Shaggy. There was a time when he and Velma went out... for like, two months before deciding the relationship wasn't going to work. Even Daphne noted that Scooby was a bit on edge, which was odd, knowing that Velma was Scooby's friend. Maybe he didn't want Shaggy to be hurt again.

Regardless, she still stuck with her friend and his dog through thick and thin. To think, a rich girl that belonged to a high profile family like the Blakes would stoop herself to the lower class... but she didn't mind it. She didn't want to be part of rich family traditions for the rest of her life, even though she didn't mind some occasional get-togethers, but she was more happy with the group she got...

Eventually, the car calmed down as Shaggy and Scooby were occasionally whispering to each other, no doubt about food. Pretty soon, she put the car to a stop as she got out. "Okay fellas, we're going to leave the car right here. We don't want to have it too close to the movie theater without it rousing suspicion."

"Uh, right..." Shaggy chuckled nervously as he and Scooby jumped out of the vehicle before shutting the doors.

Daphne then pushed a button to lock the car before inserting the keys in her shirt pocket. Daphne then nodded to her two friends as she motioned the girl to follow. Shaggy and Scooby did so, shaking nervously as they walked cautiously.

It took a good few minutes, but eventually, they reached the empty theater, which, as she figured, nobody was surrounding the streets. Shaggy and Scooby peered in from behind Daphne as they noted the location. Daphne nodded, "Seems nobody's around at the moment."

"Like, you don't need to tell us twice." Shaggy said as Scooby nodded.

Before Daphne could motion for the two to follow her once more, she noted a car entering from the left. Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby backed away as they noted the car stopping by. The three watched as a mysterious driver in a beard and blue suit came out.

"Like, will you look at that?" Shaggy pointed. "I wonder who that guy is."

Daphne frowned as she put her hand on her head as if saluting to lean in to get a better look. "I don't know, but he seems to be getting something out."

Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby watched as the mysterious man in the blue suit pulled out what seemed to be a strange box. The man cautiously looked both ways before walking over to the front of the theater, before pulling out a key and unlocking the front.

"Like, you saw that, didn't you?" Shaggy said as he turned to Scooby.

"Ruh-huh." Scooby nodded as the mysterious man walked inside.

"Jeepers, sounds like somebody's bringing in something to a closed theater. And he seemed to have the key. We can easily chalk him up as a suspect." Daphne said.

"Well, what do we do? Do we follow?" Shaggy asked.

Daphne paused, before shaking her head. "We can't just enter from the front of the movie theater. If we just walked right in, we might stumble into trouble."

"Yeah, and we know how you Blakes have a tendency of running into trouble." Shaggy smirked as Scooby gave a slight chuckle.

Daphne gave an annoyed sigh, turning to her friends, "You know, you two, I don't get captured all the time in my cases!"

"Oh sure, like the time you didn't get captured when we were doing most mysteries. No offense, Daph, but your family has quite a history in being captured." Shaggy pointed out.

"Danger Prone Daphne, yeah yeah..." Daphne rolled her eyes. "But I wasn't always easily capturable, you know."

"Are you sure? Because Scooby kept a little history book of the times you were." Shaggy said as Scooby pulled out a book titled 'Times Daphne Has Been Captured by the Villain'.

Daphne stopped as she raised an eyebrow. "You actually kept a record of the times I got captured?"

"I rot rored." Scooby shrugged as he opened the book and flipped all the pages.

"Let's see..." Shaggy noted as he looked through the picture book. "There was the time when we were caught by the Cheese Monster back when we were starting out."

"That shouldn't even count." Daphne frowned.

"Captured by Velma's super computer that went rogue when we were kids..." Shaggy pointed to another picture.

"I get the idea!" Daphne frowned.

"Oh, hey, this was the time you first discovered your love for comics!" Shaggy chuckled. "Like, how I never figured out you were Gorgeous Gal was beyond even me."

Daphne paused as she looked towards the picture that Shaggy mentioned. She couldn't help but give a warm smile... before frowning and grabbing the book before shutting it. "As much as I want to go down memory lane of the times the bad guys keep capturing me, we have a case to solve. Now come on!"

Shaggy and Scooby groaned as they followed Daphne to the back of the theater. As they did so, Daphne couldn't help but give a small smile, thinking back to eight years ago...

And that's the fifth chapter done! How did you guys like it? We'll go back to the Pup Named Scooby-Doo universe to see how Daphne got herself 'captured', but that's a story for next time! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, everyone!