Soon, the plan was in motion. The group now go to the stage where the Hex Girls did their rehearsal. Braedey removed the dust cover their instruments were under, letting out a cough from the dusty patches, now wrinkling his nose. Scooby glanced at Dusk's drums which had cobwebs attached to them. He then played them by patting his tail gently on the cymbals, giving off a unique noise. Shaggy removed the cover for Luna's keyboard. and he started playing and laughed. Scooby kept playing but stopped once Dusk glared at him with her hands on her hips.
"HEY!" Dusk hissed.
"Rorry!" Scooby stopped and handed Dusk her drumsticks before dashing off.
"Like, why'd you stop, old buddy?" Shaggy asked as he kept playing rock and roll music.
"No one touches my keyboard." Luna scowled at him. Shaggy smiled apologetically and ran away with Scooby.
"Thanks for coming, girls." Velma smiled at them.
"We should all be home resting for the concert tomorrow." Thorn said. "We only came because Ben asked us to."
"Hey, I'm just following orders." Ben replied in defence.
"Well, what do you want?" Luna asked.
"We need your help." Scorcher said to them, much to Thorn's surprise.
"Scorcher?" Thorn asked in surprise to him. "What are you doing here?"
"Wait a second. Do you two know each other?" Braedey asked to Thorn and Scorcher.
Just then, before anyone could say anything, a gust of cold autumn wind came with some fall leaves, grabbing everyone's attention. There was wicked laughter again, which scared Scooby and Shaggy just as usual, while Braedey was spooked. Everyone looked up and they now witnessed the ghost Shaggy, Scooby and Braedey had been talking about for a while now. The ghost now threw fireballs on the stage, making everyone scatter and run to safety.
"This town must pay for its foul deed!" The ghost laughed wickedly and started firing for Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, whist Braedey then leaped up into a tree.
Velma ran as quickly as she could. She then tripped over something and fell forward. "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up!" she cried.
Shaggy and Scooby then run up to her aid, and they all looked back to see the ghost still hot on their trail. The ghost was about to finish them off.
"NOW!" Velma yelled.
Fred and Daphne, who have been hiding in the bushes and holding back the tree branch far back, released the branch, and it smacked the ghost right in the face. Everyone cheered with victory as the ghost was pushed back against a soccer net.
"Yeah!" Braedey jumped down from the tree.
"Nice shot." Scorcher commented.
"Okay, let's see who's behind all this." Fred said as he and Daphne came from behind the bushes.
"Braedey, would you like to remove the mask?" Daphne offered to him.
"It would be my honour." Braedey said before walking over to the witch to remove the mask. "But I think I might know who it already is, isn't that right, Mr. McKnight?" He then removed the mask of the witch's ghost to see it really was the pharmacist Mr. McKnight.
"No way..." Willow said in surprise.
"Like, it's the T-Shirt guy!" Shaggy gasped.
"Mr. McKnight?" Daphne sounded the most shocked. "The pharmacist?"
"Daddy?" Thorn said in pure shock as she walked up with Dusk and Luna.
"Hello, Sally." Mr. McKnight said his daughter's birth name.
"Your dad's the ghost?" Luna asked in surprise.
"Your name is Sally?" Fred added, which made Thorn look annoyed that she was called that. Braedey elbowed Fred, telling him that Thorn didn't like to be called Sally by anyone else.
"I don't believe this, Daddy." Thorn came closer to her father. "Why would you do something like this?"
"Wait, you mean you guys aren't involved?" Daphne asked the Hex Girls.
"The girls have nothing to do with this." Mr. McKnight explained to them all.
"What in the world is going on this evening!?" Corey rushed over to the group. He was rather shocked to see Mr. McKnight being the ghost himself.
"Maybe I can explain." Velma spoke up. "I found flash powder residue where Shag and Scoob saw the ghost." She then lifted up Mr. McKnight's arm to show a device around it. "This is a device to throw fireballs, which are just wads of flash paper."
"They burn too..." Braedey said as he rubbed his butt from earlier. Willow patted his head in comfort.
"He got it from his daughter's stage props." Velma added. Scooby clicked one of the buttons and it made another fireball fly through the air and landed in a far away place, the light from the fireball revealing the cherry picker truck Velma was talking about earlier.
"Like, what's that?" Shaggy asked, as they now walked to the cherry picker.
"A cherry picker truck." Amber noted.
"Precisely. It's the cherry picker that made the ghost fly above the trees. with the use of an extension device." Velma showed the parked truck with the flashlight in hand. "And there's the fan that created the eerie wind. It took more than one person to pull off this scam. Isn't that right, Jack?" The pudgy restaurant owner came over and rubbed his eyes from the glare of Velma's flashlight.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy couldn't believe it.
"It would take someone pretty strong to hoist Mr. McKnight around." Velma explained.
"Like, you should've been making pot roast instead of cooking up trouble." Shaggy snapped at Jack.
"That goes for all of you." Velma added. "There had to have been more people involved to make this hoax work." She told Mr. McKnight and Jack as she was referring to another person involved. But who? She shined her flashlight over to the trees and a couple of people came over that no one seemed to recognised.
"These people all conspired together to cause all this to happen?" Willow said in bewilderment and shock.
"Well, I for one, am totally shocked by this deception!" Mayor Corey snapped.
"You can stop the charade now, Mayor." Velma smirked at him, Corey looking rather taken aback by this accusation. "Because you're the one who made me suspicious from the beginning."
"Busted." Scorcher crossed his arms across his chest, Sheeva and Amber nodding in agreement.
"I...I...I..." Mayor Corey stammered, since he's now been caught red-handed.
"I'm very disappointed in you, mayor." Ben sneered at Jack, the townspeople, and Mr. McKnight with a scowl on his face. "All of you, for lining your pockets by dragging Sarah Ravencroft's name through the mud."
"How dare all of you..." Willow muttered at them.
Braedey and Scooby rubbed the back of their fingers to put shame on the people. After that, Thorn, Dusk, and Luna were heading back with Mystery Inc., Scorcher and the two women to go to Ben's studio. As they walked along, Willow saw Thorn next to Braedey and Scorcher, and she decided to let the lead singer of the Hex Girls talk to the young boy.
"So, Scorcher, how do you know Thorn?" Braedey asked to the pinkette.
"Oh, you don't know? Thorn and I are actually cousins." Scorcher explained, to Braedey's surprise. "We've known each other ever since we were young."
"And I would occasionally tease him and Scorcher." Thorn shrugged innocently.
"Well, you learn something new everyday." Braedey said to Scooby, who nodded in agreement.
"Reah." Scooby agreed.
Unbeknown to them, a white wolf was sniffing around the ground as if trying to find anything. It then sensed something wrong, and it began to head off towards the nearby trees, as if searching for whatever it might be...
