It a very hot day in Nowhere, and a very hot day equals a very dry drought, Courage has been trying to get the water pumping out of the well for five minutes, with Muriel, Shaggy and Scooby watching.
"Come on. Just a drop," Courage grunted as he kept on pumping the well, the sun was cooking his back, it was broiling hot and his fur was soaked in sweat. After about ten more pumps, a single drop came out but instantly vaporized as soon as it hit the ground.
"You can stop pumping Courage. The well's gone dry," Muriel ordered him, as Courage stop to catch his breath.
"Like, talk about a really dry drought," Shaggy commented, his shirt was soaked with sweat, he felt was though he couldn't get enough air.
"Rou could say that again Raggy," Scooby agreed, with his best friend. The days were scorching hot, and he was shifting uncomfortably on the dry cracked soil.
Muriel then turned to where Eustace was. "Eustace!"
"WHAT?" Eustace shouted.
"The well is dry. I want you to get to work right away and dig us a new one," she answered before handing him a shovel.
"You heard her dogs and hippy. DIG!" Eustace shouted at the cowardly trio before hitting them by throwing the shovel at the three friends.
Shaggy took an offense by his comment, "Did he just called me a hippy?"
"Res. Res he did," Scooby replied in a deadpan voice.
"Well, we all know the farmer isn't gonna dig so it's up to us," Courage said picking up the shovel.
"Well, come on guys, let's get this over with," Shaggy said as he took the shovel and began to dig.
Scooby then put a paw on his owner's arm in a signal to stop for a minute, "Rait Raggy, leave it to the dogs."
The Great Dane then turned to the pink beagle and both nodded and and in less than a second, both dogs were already digging a hole ten feet deep by eight feet wide.
Shaggy chuckle, "Like, oh right, dogs." He threw the shovel to the side and jumped in to help his two canine friends.
By the time Shaggy joined them into the hole the two dogs had already dug a hole about thirty feet down.
"Rogs rule," Scooby declared, as he give Courage a hi-five.
"Yeah, but this is tiring," Courage said panting, a little tired, the heat was taking his energy out like batteries on a flashlight being drained out.
"Like maybe we should-" Shaggy began before he heard muffled crowd from beneath his legs. "Like, do you dudes hear that?"
"You mean what sounds like chanting?" Courage asked which Shaggy and Scooby nodded."Sounds like it's coming from beneath us."
"Guess we should check out what's that chanting," Shaggy sighed, "Right dudes?"
Scooby and Courage both nodded as the three dug a bit more and saw that they're right above an underground cave. But that was not what caught their attention as an underground cave was something almost normal. What really caught the cowardly trio's attention was the fact that there were hundreds, if not thousands of living, breathing eggplants down there.
"Huh?" Courage asked confused by what he and his friends were seeing.
"Reggplants?" Scooby asked, also confused.
Like, how could the Eggplants be alive? Shaggy wondered, Then again, this is Nowhere any crazy thing can happen here.
"We shall invade the above world. And attack the one called Muriel," The trio heard the apparent leader of the eggplants declared as a screen behind them turned on to reveal Muriel talking to Eustace. About what Shaggy, Scooby and Courage couldn't make out.
"Attack Muriel," the supposed second in command eggplant that almost looks deranged repeated.
"YEAH! YEAH!" All the other egg plants shouted/cheered.
This made Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's blood all ran cold.
"Zoinks! They're after Aunt Muriel!" Shaggy remarked, worried about his aunt.
"Oh, no," Courage gasped.
"Rome on, we have to warn her!" Scooby said, as he, Shaggy and Courage started to climb their way out of the hole.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage headed inside the kitchen and saw Muriel sitting at the table deciding various ways on how to cook an eggplant.
"Aunt Muriel! You're like, not going to believe what we discovered," Shaggy told his aunt while Courage ran off into another room before coming back dressed in an eggplant costume.
"Rhe-Rhe eggplants!" Scooby began.
"Bad eggplants. Bad," Courage tried to explain.
"You're trying to tell me something about the eggplant, aren't you?" Muriel asked.
"Uh-huh. Uh-huh/Ruh-huh. Ruh-huh," Scooby, Shaggy and Courage nodded.
"I know what you three are trying to tell me." Muriel said smiling.
Scooby and Courage both sighed in relief.
"Like, good," Shaggy said, relived that his aunt once was finally listening.
"And the answer is yes," Muriel said while putting the book down.
"Huh?/Ruh?" Courage and Scooby asked both confused.
"Like, what?" Shaggy asked, also confused.
"Of course, you boys can have some of the eggplant," Muriel continued.
Shaggy facepalmed at his aunt.
"NO!" Courage wailed in dismay.
Scooby shook his head at the elderly woman, "Roh Ruriel."
"Don't worry. There will be enough for everyone," Muriel said before getting up and leaving the room.
"Now what?" Courage asked.
Before Scooby nor Shaggy could reply, Eustace barged in.
"You loafing dogs and Shaggy-haired-fella. Didn't I tell you three to dig?" Eustace growled, before grabbed Courage's costume by the stem and dragged him outside.
"Uncle Eustace, wait!" Shaggy called out to his uncle, before he and Scooby followed them outside.
Courage struggled to get out of Eustace's grasp, but his grip was too strong. They walked by the well and the hole that he and Scooby had dug earlier.
Courage looked at Eustace for three seconds before he snarled, "Stupid dog!" He then let go of Courage and he fall down to the hole.
Shaggy and Scooby finally catch up to Eustace, but we're too late for Courage.
Eustace turned to the cowardly teen and dog and demanded, "Don't just stand there you two, get back to work!" he then walked back to farmhouse.
Looking down the hole Shaggy sighed, "Come Scoob, let's go and rescue the little pink dude."
Scooby nodded, before he started digging a new hole.
Courage was screaming as he fell all the way down of the bottom of the hole, The ground zoomed up to meet her in a gray blur before he crashed through the ceiling of the underground and landed the eggplants.
"IT'S THE GREAT EGGPLANT!" one of the eggplants gasped.
"IT'S HIM! IT'S HIM!" another shouted.
"The great eggplant," yet another gasped.
Courage didn't grasp of what their saying, as he was dizzily looked around his surroundings.
"MY FRIENDS! THE GREAT EGGPLANT HAS ARRIVED!" the leader declared.
Courage then realized what were they getting at. They think he's The Great Eggplant, by the costume he was wearing.
"The time has come for the great eggplant to lead us to the surface to destroy Muriel," the leader continued.
Courage gasped in horror, as he looked around and see that the other eggplants were cheering. He needed to distract them before they go up and give time to possibly Shaggy and Scooby to get Muriel away from the farmhouse before they invade.
"The great eggplant really thinks you guys need some more training before you go up there," Courage quickly told the eggplants.
"The great eggplant has spoken," the leader declared.
"Train us, oh, peppy one," the second in comanned cheered.
"All right. Do as the great eggplant does," Courage told them, as he thought of a game Shaggy and Scooby taught him weeks ago. "The Great Eggplant says, run in place."
He began to run in place, and the eggplants did as they're told.
"The Great Eggplant says, do this," Courage demanded, as he slammed his rear-end on the ground.
Again, the eggplants did as they're told and slammed their rear-ends on the ground.
"The Great Eggplant says, do this," Courage instructed them, as he lied down on the ground, began spinning and screaming.
The eggplants shrugged, but did as they're told anyway.
"Now do this," Courage told them, as he spun himself into the air, before landing on the ground.
But this time, they didn't do as Courage told them. Courage's heart pounded, have they discover he's not The Great Eggplant after all?
But fortunately, the leader spoke up, silencing his worries, "You didn't say The Great Eggplant says."
"Wow, that's a pretty sharp bunch of eggplants," Courage said to the readers, breaking the fourth wall.
"I think we have demonstrated our physical condition to The Great Eggplant. Well, sir? Are you ready to lead the attack?" the leader asked.
"Um, I am," Courage said worried, trying think of an another idea for another distraction. Then he thought of something, "But fellow eggplants. Please hear me. The one called Muriel is not our true enemy," he told them which caused them to gasp in shock. "I shall lead you to our true foe."
"YES! Lead us," a random eggplant yelled.
"Who is it? Who is it?" another asked.
"We shall defeat our foes!" a third eggplant declared.
Forgive me Shaggy and Scooby. "The true enemy has crated us and callously sold us as food," Courage told them.
"WHO IS IT!?" an eggplant asked.
"We must attack the grocery store!" Courage answered which caused all the eggplants to cheer.
"ATTACK!" some of them even chanted as well.
"Follow me!" Courage ordered before leaving.
As he was began to lead them away from the farm, he suddenly heard a crash and turned and to his horror were Shaggy and Scooby bursting through another hole.
"We're here little pink dude!" Shaggy declared bravely.
"Rour rescuers, as arrive!" Scooby added, bravely.
Courage felt the cold weight in his stomach, his cover was blown!
"Wait a minute," the leader said in suspicion, as he went over to the nervous beagle and tore the costume off!
"This is not The Great Eggplant. This is not even a pretty good eggplant," the leader said disgusted which caused shocked gasped and mummers from the other eggplants.
"I've seen this one on the surface. With the one called Muriel and those two," the second on command said while pointing to Shaggy and Scooby.
Courage felt his blood turn to ice.
Like, busted. Shaggy thought nervously as his eyes widened.
"Rello," said Scooby nervously as he timidly smile and wave nervously.
"I knew it. The cunning Muriel sent spies down to lead us off her trail. Well, it won't work. Tie up the spies," the leader ordered.
Some eggplants came and tied Courage up with some vines, while the other eggplants captured Shaggy and Scooby and them up to some vines as well.
"No more waiting for The Great Eggplant. Fellow eggplants. ATTACK!" the leader commanded.
"YEAH!" the rest of the eggplants shouted before they left the cave.
Scooby and Shaggy give nervous smiles to Courage as he glared at them.
"Like, maybe we should have waited a little longer to the rescue plan," Shaggy spoke.
"You think?!" Courage asked sarcastically.
"Come on guys, we gotta save Muriel," Courage told them, as he he stretched a bit and reinflated himself out of the rope vines.
He then untied Shaggy and Scooby.
"Rhanks Rourage," Scooby said to the pink beagle.
"But now like, how do we stop the eggplants?" Shaggy asked.
The three friends stayed silent for a moment before sighing as they knew that the only thing that could help them.
"The computer/Rhe computer," Shaggy, Scooby and Courage sighed.
Going to the side of the cave, the cowardly trio began to climb back up into the tunnel we dug. But as the three climbed up, when they saw Eustace's body dangling. Confused, Courage dug his friends another path around him. Getting to the surface, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw that the eggplants had already capture Muriel. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's stomachs flutter anxiously.
"So what do you say boss, we grilled her right?" the second in command asked, much to the trio's horror.
"Grill?" the leader asked, looking at him like he was crazy. "No way, Fry her!"
"Fry?" the second in command answered, "She'll dry out."
"Not if you used a low flame," the leader replied.
"That will take forever, I'm hungry now," the second in command complained.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage gasped in horror, their hearts seemed to stop.
"Like, their gonna eat her!" Shaggy exclaimed in terror.
"Re have to get to the computer!" Scooby told his friends.
Shaggy and Courage both nodded. Not wasting a moment, the trio ran around them while making sure not to get spotted and entered the house. Running up the stairs, the trio entered Shaggy's room and quickly turned on the computer.
"Computer. How do you get rid of bad eggplants?" Courage typed in.
"Throw them in the garbage. You twit," It answered which made Shaggy, Scooby and Courage facepalm.
"Ro! Rad eggplants that attack people," Scooby told it while Courage typed it in.
"Oh, well. That's different. Eggplants only attack when they run out of water," the computer told the three friends.
"Water. Of course," Courage said realizing the solution, as he snapped his fingers.
"Of course. Of course. What do I look like... a toaster?" the computer asked.
Heading outside, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage ran over to where Eustace was.
"We'll be back. We must look for water," Courage said while wiping Eustace's forehead with a wet towel.
He then threw away the towel before he and Scooby dig into the ground to look for water, while Shaggy went way to the well.
Scooby and Courage dig around in circles, as fast as they could, after two minutes, Scooby manage to find water.
"Rourage, I found it!" Scooby said, to the pink beagle.
"Yes!" Courage cheered.
Together, Scooby and Courage manage to bring the water to the bottom of the well.
Shaggy began to panic, when the eggplants came to a compromise on how to cook Muriel. Luckily, the two dogs came back just in time.
"Like, did you find some?" Shaggy asked.
"Yes. Just need the eggplants attention," Courage answered while beginning to pump the lever of the well.
"REY EGGPLANTS!" Scooby shouted getting their attention.
"Hey didn't we tie you three up?" the leader asked, before turning to his second in command, "Didn't you tie them up."
"Yeah, we tied them up boss," the second in command replied.
"I thought we tied them up, get them!" the leader ordered.
The other eggplants charged at the three, and Courage pumped the water as hard as he could, but the trio feared they might not make it, but just as about they're done for, the eggplants were all stopped when water gushed forward from the well in a large amount. So much that it covered the ground completely. For a moment at least before quickly sinking back into the ground. But that was all they needed as the eggplants 'legs' started to take root into the ground.
"We're taking root," the leader exclaimed.
"Yes. This feels nice," the second in command said, relaxed.
"Mmmm. Yeah," the leader said in a bliss like tone.
"What a nice garden you have here Muriel," the second in command told her.
"Very nice. The soil is so warm and comfy. Oh yes. Grow baby. Grow," the leader added.
"They seem like such nice eggplants," Muriel said as Shaggy, Scooby and Courage untied her before helping her up. "It would be a shame to cook them."
Then Scooby thought of something. "RI have an idea," he told his family.
"And the award for eggplant most likely to succeed, goes to Babighanoush. Raised by our own Muriel Bagge," The announcer declared. The family were at the annual eggplant completion. Scooby's plan was to put them in a contest to help raise money for them.
"And the award for most surliest eggplant. Eustace Bagge," the announcer declared. Looking to the side, the family and the eggplants saw Eustace still buried in the tunnel the eggplants buried him in.
"I HATE EGGPLANTS!" he shouted bitterly.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage just laughed at him.
"Like, I guess that's what he gets for hating eggplants," Shaggy chuckled.
"Reah," Scooby agreed, before giggling. "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
Well that's all for this chapter, next will be Little Muriel. Let me guys know in the comments/reviews of what ideas and quotes should I do for the next chapter. Until then this is vakarns sighing out.