Two days later Shaggy and Scooby were on the road again and this time with Lute their new friend and teammate in the new Mystery Inc. Shaggy was now driving with Lute sitting with him and Scooby in the front as Scooby's eyes widened at something. "Something's up Scooby?" Lute asked feeling confused about how she had managed to get used to the talking dog that exists on Earth somehow.

"Reah; raps." Scooby asked as Lute and Shaggy just stared at him.

"Sorry Scooby but I don't think that I can help much with that... I'm a rock music girl than a rap one." Lute said and Scooby pouted in reaction to Lute's misunderstanding and Shaggy's eyes widened.

"Like I think Scooby has wondered about traps since in the mysteries we used to do; Fred always came up with traps to catch the monster when someone mostly Velma has solved the mystery. We usually end up as bait, something goes wrong in the trap but we end up catching the monster anyway. We may need to make traps again and I don't know if we will be end up good at it..." Shaggy explained as Lute listened to him and grinned.

At times during an Extermination; she decided that she wanted to play with her prey and would set up traps to lure them into a false sense of security and then take in their faces going from relief to terror right before she goes in for the kill...

"Lute... You are kind of scaring us both right now..." Shaggy gulped and Scooby shivered as it was clear that Lute got to into her trail of thought and her face morphed into a terrifying predator like grin.

"Oh... Sorry about that... I was just thinking that I could help with traps..." Lute said apologetically as she forced herself to calm down.

"So Lute... Where did you come from before we came across you? What have you been doing?" Shaggy asked as Lute blinked at his innocent question and he and Scooby looked concerned as Lute looked nervous.

How to explain it to them without leving out the key details...

"Well... I was kind of drinking away, kind of lost... You see I got laid off my job..." Lute then explained thinking that it could work well and Shaggy and Scooby looked at her.

"Wow... Sorry to hear about that as that's kind of a bummer..." Shaggy said as Lute coughed.

"Yeah... My superior died and our boss decided that our business wasn't really needed so..." Lute said realising that it was more that she got promoted to a meaningless position but this was easier to explain. "Didn't know what to do... My job was my existence and my boss was basically my best friend..." Lute said with a deep sigh thinking that it wasn't that she didn't like to have fun like going to see movies or play games or eat out or anything but...

Her dedication to being an Excorcist had been a large part of her life.

"Row... Rorry to rear about it..." Scooby said as he and Shaggy frowned sadly and Lute ruffled the fur on her head.

"Yeah but... I guess this means that I don't have to listen to his suggestive talking or pick up lines on women anymore... He could be a lot..." Lute said as they looked surprised to hear about that.

Thinking about it she did her best to hide her annoyance at the nicknames that he gave her and having to watch him use his status as the first man to pick up women...

Plus she managed to not show it but...

Adam calling Charlie 'babe' and calling her relationship with that traitor Vaggie hot; she found creepy considering Charlie is his first wife's daughter. How could Adam have not seen for himself how creepy that was?

"Wow... You know I think I just realised how much I put up with him... Somehow; it doesn't feel as bad about him being gone..." Lute realised out loud feeling weird in a low whisper as Shaggy and Scooby looked at her in sympathy.

"Well we will do our best to be the best friends to you that it can be and we won't be gross like that old boss of yours'..." Shaggy assured her and she smiled at him gratefully.

"Just be gross in a different way as I have seen how much you both eat and how you eat..." Lute answered with them looking sheepish and feeling the most optimistic that she had felt since the last Extermination.


At an airport from Transylvania to a tropical resort; there was a disguised Wolfman ready to board his flight to his vacation as he begins his retirement. A hard life's scaring and serving that egotistical Count Dracula and now he just wanted to settle down. He will be able to leave in time to go visit his daughter Winnie at the Halloween open house at Grimwood's and then pick her up when the school is off for the Summer.

Plus he would send his postcard to the Count after he male himself home at the resort and he wouldn't have to worry about being forced in Dracula's Monster Road Rally. Besides the Count can find another werewolf to replace him...