The family were in the house today just relaxing, there was nothing on the agenda for today. Aside from a light cleaning that Muriel was doing, which apparently involved vacuuming the curtains, Courage was making balloon animals together on the floor, while Shaggy and Scooby were eating snacks and watching Courage.
Muriel stopped cleaning for a bit before turning to Courage, "Beautiful work Courage."
"Amazing balloon animals little pink dude," Shaggy complimented with a smile, as he gave a scratch behind Courage's ear.
"Rou have real talent," Scooby added, with a beaming grin.
"Thanks. It's all in an artist's work,"Courage smiled with satisfaction, as he made a balloon duck, placing it down, Courage admired the others that he made as well.
Suddenly, Eustace, not caring, walked over the balloons and DESTROYED them.
"My work!" Courage mourned, shaking his head as he tried not to tear up at the sight of his popped balloon animals.
"Roh, Rourage...RI'm sorry," Scooby said with sincere sympathy, as he picked up Courage who look like he was about to cry.
"Okay, next time, I'm putting them on the table just in case they don't pop," Courage sniffled.
Eustace groaned in pain while he sat down on his chair while holding his back in pain, as a loud cracking sound came from it. "My backs killing me, I ain't got no pep, no moxie. It's getting so, I don't even have the energy to kick those stupid dogs!"
"Leave them alone Uncle Eustace!" Shaggy growled.
"I know how your feeling Eustace, the works just keep getting harder," Muriel said agreeing as she turned off the vacuum, she then turned to the window and saw white things falling from the sky. "Oh, my, is it snowing already?"
"Like, in the middle of summer?" Shaggy asked, wrinkling his brow.
"Summer snow, you can never predict it," Courage observed, as he jumped off Scooby's arms.
"Rut still, it's snow," Scooby affirmed.
"Which means…" Shaggy began, slinging an arm around his dog's shoulder, "Snow day!"
The two dogs shared an excited gasp at this.
"Yay!" Courage cheered.
"Roh-boy!" Scooby barked happily.
"Let's go out and play!" Shaggy told the two dogs happily.
At that moment, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage went upstairs and cane back downstairs wearing their winter coats. They all went out the door.
Courage was trying to make a snowball, only to fail when he realized it was not snow. "Wait a minute, snow isn't made from paper-OOF!" he said, before getting a piece of paper flowing to his face.
"RI got it," Scooby said, as he got the paper off his face, before he and his best friends were reading it, "Live longer live better/Rive longer live better,"
"Like, how exactly?" Shaggy questioned, with a wrinkled brow.
Scooby and Shaggy shared a confused look.
Courage looked at the flyer in puzzlement, "Hmm."
Scooby looked up to see something in the sky, "Rook up there!"
Courage and Shaggy saw Scooby's point to the sky. Turning to where he was pointing, Shaggy and Courage saw an old plane that looked like it would break apart any moment, from it, tons of paper like the one Courage caught came out of it.
Not to mention, a large smoke trail that seemed to indicate engine failure or something.
"Huh?" Courage felt very confused when he and his best friends saw the pilot start using a smoke trail to write in the sky.
"Live longer. Live better," Shaggy read the message in the sky.
Courage wrinkled his brow, as he considered the writing in the sky, "Any ideas, what that means guys?"
Shaggy scratched his head, "I hadn't gotten a clue."
"Re either," Scooby chimed in, also confused.
The plane created a giant smoke cloud that blackened out the sky completely.
Shaggy's heart stopped as he saw the plane started losing control and HEADED TOWARDS THEM.
"Zoinks, It's coming right this way!" Shaggy screamed.
Shaggy quickly grabbed Scooby and moved to the side, while dived in the other direction. However, the plane changed direction mere centimeters from having the propellers threatening to tear Courage to shreds, after it passed, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage looked up and saw the pilot fly right into the windmill, destroying the plane and windmill.
A moment later, the cowardly trio heard the pilot yell out.
"Help," the pilot weakly called out, he was in trouble.
"Rome on!" Scooby cried, as he and his best friends went over to the windmill.
But the windmill manage to crash down onto the three best friends. The windmill landed with a thunderous crash, dirt flew into Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's eyes. The cowardly trio groan in pain, as Scooby manage to moved the plane wing from crushing them.
"H-Help me," the pilot called out, from underneath the rubble of the plane.
Getting there, the three best friends saw the pilot underneath the body of the plane, grabbing his feet, the trio pulled him out to see two things. One, he is unconscious, and the second, is that he is not human.
"Don't worry green dude, My Aunt Muriel will help you get back on your feet," Shaggy told the green man, as he lifted him up and begin to bring him to the house.
Getting there, Scooby and Courage opened the door, while Shaggy help the old man and headed inside.
"Like Aunt Muriel, this dude's plane crashed into the windmill and he needs help ASAP," Shaggy called to his aunt.
"Oh my! Put him on the couch and I'll come and aid him," Muriel said, when she saw the trio enter with the pilot.
Shaggy moved to the pilot and laid him down.
"What happened boys?" Muriel asked, in a motherly voice.
"Turns out it isn't snow, it's paper," Courage began.
"Rhen his plane landed dangerously, and it almost hit us," Scooby continued.
"But his plane crashed the windmill, and it landed on us along with his plane," Courage finished.
"Oh my, are you boys alright?" Muriel asked with concern, as she check on his nephew to make sure there were no injuries.
Shaggy gently remove his aunt's arms off of him, "We're okay Aunt Muriel," he promised.
"Oh, heavens, the poor man is hurt," Muriel said, looking the pilot over on the couch
"Big deal, tell him to fix my windmill," Eustace grumbled.
"Not helping Uncle Eustace," Shaggy said crossly, at the old man.
"Blah, blah, blah," Eustace taunted, not caring one bit.
"Like, should we call a doctor?" Shaggy asked, putting a hand over his mouth.
The man started muttering very weakly.
Courage wrinkled his brow and tried to understand what the man is saying, "What did he say?" he asked, as he moved closer to him.
"Maybe a hot soak, or a nice cup of tea," Muriel said trying to make out what the man said. But he shook his head and continued to mutter weakly. "What can I get you?"
"Rif you can speak up, we can get you help," Scooby encouraged.
The man weakly muttered again.
"I think he said sludge," Muriel told the trio.
"Sludge?/Rudge?" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all echoed, while looking at each other in confusion.
Shaggy looked at the green man in disbelief, "Like, how can sludge help?"
"I'm not sure, boys, be good dears and go and see if we have any sludge," Muriel told the trio.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage couldn't help, but reviled a bit in disgust.
First, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage went into the kitchen where Courage grabbed a giant container while Shaggy put on some gloves. The trio then head over to the stove and opened, reaching in, the trio pulled out some sludge that was trapped there, then the three best friends went to the roof and collected what they can from the gutters.
And finally, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage went back downstairs and took off Eustace's shoe's and began to remove the sludge from his feet.
"What's huh?" Eustace asked confused moving his paper to look at the trio.
Courage let out a nervous laugh as he, Shaggy and Scooby took the sludge from his foot into the bowl.
"Hope you don't mind Uncle Eustace, but we need sludge from your foot," Shaggy said defensively, his nose cringed.
"Whatever, me foot's been stinking for a week anyway," Eustace shrugged, as he went back to reading his newspaper.
Once the trio were done with taking the sludge off of Eustace's foot, they all brought it over to the man.
"Rhat does he want with the sludge?" Scooby asked Courage.
"I don't wanna know. Here you go," Courage told the pilot, as he handed the jar over to him.
The old man took it, and Shaggy, Scooby and Courage let out sounds of surprise and disgust, when he started to CHUG IT down like water.
"Oh, my," Muriel said, recoil in shock that he finished the entire container. "You finished the whole thing."
"Yuck," Courage recoiled in revulsion while sticking out his tongue.
"Like, it almost killed my appetite," Shaggy said, with a somewhat repulsed frown.
"Ry too," Scooby gagged, holding his arm around his stomach as he felt himself growing sick.
The man then sat up on the couch with Muriel moving to sit next to him.
"Feeling any better mister...?" Muriel asked.
"The name's Conway my dear, and yes, thanks to you, I am on the road to recovery," Conway answered.
"Rand the sludge help?" Scooby asked, wrinkling his brow.
"Always does, but I am still a little weak. I think it's the air, something is in the air," Conway answered.
"Oh my, I should finish vacuuming," Muriel said, as she got up and used her foot to turn on the vacuum.
"No, no, no, no," Conway said immediately, "My dear, you're using that machine all wrong. Flip the switch in the other direction."
"But I've always done it this way. Well, you are the guest," Muriel said unsure, before flipping it the switch on the vacuum,
Which proceeded to throw all the dust it sucked up back into the air. The dust swirled up into Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's noses and into their mouths. Shaggy covered his nose and mouth, but it did no good
Shaggy could see all of his family members all to choke and cough a bit.
The dust made the cowardly trio's throats burned, their chests felt as if it would explode! It clogged up the cowardly trio's noses and block off their throats.
"Out with the good air, in with the bad. Out with the good air, in with the bad," Conway chanted happily.
"Like, how is this supposed to help us?" Shaggy gagged and coughed, as he helped steady Scooby who seemed to be struggling to breathe.
The three best friends coughed hard and blew their noses and spit out mouthfuls. But it was coming in too quickly, they couldn't clear their noses and mouths fast enough.
They would all suffocate if this kept up.
Then Courage had an idea, he handed his best friends two gas masks over to them to use, Courage put on a gas mask as well. "Put them on!"
Shaggy and Scooby put their masks on, they and Courage gulped the fresh air into their lungs.
"Rhat's better, thanks Rourage," Scooby rasped.
"Now, this can't be... good for you," Muriel struggled to say in between coughs.
"Would you all believe I'm one hundred-and-three years old?" Conway asked, before getting up and doing a perfect backflip.
Courage's eyes grew wide, "One hundred-and-three years old?" he echoed, how can anyone live that long?
"Like, I've never met anyone that's one hundred-and-three years old," Shaggy titled his head.
Conway, went over the the cowardly teen, as he touch his shoulder. "Now you have my boy."
Shaggy felt a deep disgusting shudder rose up his back, as he move his shoulder way from the disgusting old man, "Like, please don't touch."
"My dears, not only are there health benefits to living like this, but think of the money you save on cleaning bills," Conway quickly said trying to convince the family.
"RI don't think so," Scooby didn't hesitate to reply to saying no to Conway's offer.
"Works for me," Eustace spoke up, at that mention of saving money.
"Well, honestly, I love to feel young again," Muriel said, coughing.
"Me too," Eustace agreed.
"Then I'm the guy to help you," Conway declared.
"Like, Aunt Muriel, I don't think that such a good idea…" Shaggy cautioned worriedly, rubbing his hands anxiously.
"Nonsense, I know how teach this for I am self-taught. Now, first of all, you must breathe deeply," Conway argued, before showing what to do.
"It doesn't feel so good," Muriel said after trying to take a deep breath.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to it, just do as I say, I've got many ways to help you live longer and live better," Conway told her.
Courage starting to sweep up the dirt, that was already starting to pile up from the vacuum cleaner that was still on.
"You know, it's not so bad, once you get used to being woozy," Muriel said, before falling backwards.
Shaggy gasped, "Aunt Muriel!" he cried, as he and Scooby caught her before she fell and moved her to the couch. Shaggy's body started to shake, worried for his aunt greatly.
Conway, place his filthy hand on Muriel's shoulder. "Woozy? Well, I know just the thing to fix you up, follow me, he told her.
"Rand what would that be Mr. Ronway?" Scooby scoffed, hiding his worry.
"A nice soothing bath," Conway answered before helping Muriel up and heading over to the stairs, "Excuse us."
"I do not trust him fellas," Courage said under his breath, looking up the stairs, as Conway just left with Muriel.
"Like, we better follow him to see what he is going to give Aunt Muriel," Shaggy agreed, with the pink beagle.
"Rhat do you think he's after guys?" Scooby asked nervously.
"I have no idea Scooby," Courage answered with a frown.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage went up the stairs to the bathroom to check on Muriel, but as the trio climbed up the steps, they all became more uneasy and disgusted at the amount of filth and dirt that already piling up. The cowardly trio glanced at each other with nervousness, before swallowing their fear and continued forward.
There was even some mud and mold already there as well. Courage wrinkled his nose in disgust and walked around everything, getting to the top, the three best friends walked down the hallway to where the bathroom was located.
Once there, the cowardly trio looked inside the room to see Muriel in the tub that was filled with brown sludge.
"Ugh, gross," Courage groaned in disgust.
"Ruriel, use these to take a bath!" Scooby said, as he immediately pulled out a bottle of shampoo and a brush.
"That stuff won't help you live long like Conway," Conway said pushing Shaggy, Scooby and Courage out of the bathroom.
"Like, neither will whatever you put into the tub," Shaggy stated, with disgust.
"You're a teenage boy and you're both dogs, you understand the benefits of filthy disgusting filth," Conway said to the trio.
"Like, there are no benefits," Shaggy retorted, why didn't this guy understand they don't want any part of this?
"None," Courage added in with disgust, agreeing with with the cowardly teen.
Scooby stood his ground, "Reah, we're not interested Ronway," he declared.
"Well, then get used to is, with a little sprucing down, I think I can call this home," Conway said, laughing.
Shaggy narrowed his eyes, "Like, what's make you think we'll let you?"
"Heh, you think this is my first time doing this? Not to mention, all I need to do stay, is convince your aunt and uncle boy," Conway countered, before pulling the trio's masks and letting go which sent them flying back, he then went downstairs.
"Rhat can't be good," Scooby said ominously, as he got back up and helped his best friends up.
"We're definitely going to need a shower after this," Courage said with a frown, while readjusting his mask.
It has been three days since Conway moved in, and it became a total hazard mess to even be near here, the entire house was filled to the brim with dirt, mud, mold, grime and so many more things. And that was just the inside of the house, Conway also made sounding area as filthy as possible as well, there were mountains of garbage and cesspools filled with liquids that Shaggy, Scooby and Courage fear even going near, Shaggy was pretty sure he even saw bio waste barrels nearby.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage headed down stairs, to check on the old couple, and expressed their disgust at what had the living room become.
"Like, yuck!" Shaggy cringed and gagged, as he saw the old and grime on the wall.
"Reah, yuck!" Scooby yelped.
"And I thought my room looks this bad, back in Mom and Dad's place," Shaggy commented, his room seem pretty clean compare to this. Good thing Daphne isn't here.
"I never understood how people can live like this," Courage said with disgust, as he and his best friends made their way down the hall to the steps.
"Reither could I Rourage, I may not be a neat freak, but I do like having everything clean," Scooby agreed, cringing a bit.
Getting there, the cowardly trio went down the steps and saw something horrifying, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage gasped in horror and frozen with terror when the three saw Conway rolling a barrel that had danger written on it.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy gasped, backing away in horror.
"Of, course you have your health, you have better health than ever. Don't you feel fantastic?" Conway asked, as he pulled the barrel so that it was standing and ripped the tab on it which releases a purplish toxic cloud of some kind into the air.
"Oh, such a pretty cloud," Muriel said, when the toxic fumes went near her before coughing violently.
Courage swallowed hard against the sick feeling in his stomach, "If we don't get Muriel or the farmer, good air soon, I don't think they'll both live to see another day."
Suddenly, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage heard a strange noise coming from outside.
A shiver of fear jangled Scooby's spine, "Rhat's that noise?" he asked, as he and his best friends headed to the door.
Opening it, the trio saw men in hazmat suits moving what seems to be something for containment.
"EEK!" Courage gasped, at what he and his best friends were seeing.
"Zoinks! It's the public health department!" Shaggy screamed, showing the two dogs the sign that they nailed onto the door.
"CONDEMNED!?" Courage exclaimed in surprise, at what he read.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage jumped back a bit when one of the guys in the suits popped out of nowhere, startling the trio.
"OKAY! SEAL IT UP!" the guy in the suit shouted, before leaving.
"Ro, wait!" Scooby shouted with urgency, trying to get the workers' attention. before jumping back to avoid the metal door the seal him and his family in.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage then heard a vehicle driving away signifying that the men left.
"Oh-no," Courage said his voice filled with shock and worry, realizing the situation. "This is bad!"
"Like, the filth isn't making things better, it's making things worse!" Shaggy said, panicked.
"Rell, Ronway doesn't know that!" Scooby frantically exclaimed.
"We need to vacuum the place now!" Courage urged in desperation.
Muriel cough again, as Courage began to try and vacuum up the mess.
"Silly dogs and silly boy!" Conway taunted, as he turn off the vacuum. "You'd need a much bigger vacuum to clean this up!" he laughed.
"A big vacuum…." Courage whispered pensively. Suddenly as if a idea dropped from the sky, he shouted joyously, "That's it!" he raced up to the attic.
Shaggy and Scooby both looked at each other, greatly confused. They both shrugged, hoping Courage has an idea to clean this mess up.
In the attic, that was messy as well, Courage darted through the attic searching what he was looking for. He dove for the box and started pawing through it.
"Come on, come on," Courage muttered, and sure enough he got out a package of a doggie door, and ran out of the messy attic.
Courage ran back downstairs with a package, and went towards the door.
"A doggie door instillation kit?" Shaggy questioned, his voice sounding just slightly detached.
"Rhey actually made those kind of things?" Scooby asked, confused.
"You'd be surprise of what people could sell now-in-days," Courage said, as he installed and the trio all slipped through it.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage then walked down the long tube that led outside that was placed here by the sanitation department. Even though they're outside the rotten stench was still here. They've had never smelled anything so disgusting, it was like someone had tossed a hundred skunks into a hot portable toilet and left them there for a month.
"Like, it still smells bad out here," Shaggy complained, when he and the two dogs all took off their masks.
"Rell, it's definitely better out here," Scooby chided in.
"So what's the plan little pink dude?" Shaggy asked Courage.
"That," Courage grinned, pointing with a paw towards the broken plane.
"Re're gonna fix his plane?" Scooby blinked.
"Uh-huh," Courage grinned.
Soon realization spread across Shaggy's face and he broke out in a wide grin, "Oh, like, I get it. We're gonna use that plane for a giant vacuum cleaner and get rid of of the mess that Conway dude made. Am I right?"
Scooby and Courage both eyeballed at Shaggy in amazement.
"Exactly!" Courage said cheerfully, "Come on guys, let's get to work!"
It was a painstaking hour building a giant vacuum, but the cowardly trio did it with only a few scratches from looking for certain parts.
"And done," Courage said joyously, as he and his best friends placed the finishing touches on the makeshift vacuum cleaner.
"Like, should we test it first?" Shaggy asked, wanting to see if this was safe.
"Good idea, you two may wanna step back," Courage told Shaggy and Scooby, as he had a remote.
Shaggy and Scooby seemed a bit skeptical but did so anyway, pressing he button, the cowardly trio watched in amazement as the machine whirred to life before sucking up all the trash and muck that surrounded the house in one sweep, but suddenly the STATUE OF LIBERTY got sucked in as well.
"Rokay, how can that statue get from New York from Kansas?" Scooby questioned, turning to Shaggy.
Shaggy was unsure how to answer that question, "Like, you're telling me Scoob."
"Yes!" Courage shouted cheerfully, before turning to his best friends. "Okay, let's get this into place."
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage moved to the machine and moved it so that the opening was inside the tunnel.
"I know, this is gonna be so gross," Courage said, as he and Scooby and put on helmets and goggles. He tried not to imagine what disgusting things that were about to be stuck in his fur.
"Like, what are you dog dudes doing?" Shaggy asked with confusion.
"We are going to use the machine to clean the house, but Muriel and Eustace will be sucked into the machine if we don't catch them. That's what me and Scooby are going to do, go inside and use a giant net to catch them," Courage explained, as he and Scooby set up some bands to on the ceiling of the tunnel to keep them from getting sucked in.
"Okay, just be careful," Shaggy said with concern, as the two dogs entered the tunnel.
"Hit it Rourage!" Scooby encouraged the pink beagle, as the two dogs hooked themselves on and told Courage to turn the vacuum on.
And the two dogs discover that it was like being in a tornado from how string the vacuum pulled at them. Courage's skin almost nearly got pulled off him, even his brain from how far back his skin was being pulled.
Ruch, that hurts. Scooby thought, as the trash stated flying towards Scooby and Courage after the metal door was yanked open and all the filth started to hit them like miniature bullets.
"Here they come, get ready," Courage said with caution, covering his mouth to not let trash get in.
Nodding, Scooby turned back to the door and lowered the net they both brought with them to catch Muriel and Eustace that were sucked in. Conway screamed as he got sucked up as well, but the two dogs did not catch him and instead let him get sucked up.
"Rurn it off Rourage!" Scooby shouted, after a moment when no more trash came.
Courage turned it off, which allowed the two dogs to get down safely, Scooby and Courage then helped Muriel and Eustace out of the net and then out of the tunnel where they started to take deep breaths of clean air. Then, suddenly, they inflated and went back to how they were before Conway.
"Aunt Muriel, Uncle Eustace, are you okay?" Shaggy asked them with a soft voice, as he ran over to his elder relatives.
"Oh my, I haven't felt this good in days," Muriel answered.
"Speak for yourself, I was saving me some money on cleaning equipment," Eustace complained.
"Like, are you aware that Scooby and the little pink dude just save your life!" Shaggy interjected, folding his arms across his chest.
"Help, get me out!" Conway shouted before realizing something. "Well, you know it's actually kind of nice in here, so polluted."
"Well, I hope Conway can go where he can live like he wants to, like a pig." Muriel said, about Conway.
"And like, I hope we never see him again," Shaggy added, as Courage and Scooby removed the balloon from the vacuum before tying it up.
"Live long like Conway," Conway said happily as we sent him flying off.
"Courage, Scooby, you both look a fright. Let's go inside and clean you up," Muriel said pointing to all the filth that was on the two dogs.
"Hose them off out here, I don't want those stupid filthy dogs in my house," Eustace complained, before heading inside alongside Muriel.
Shaggy, turned to Scooby and Courage "Like, should we warn Uncle Eustace about that pig sitting on his chair?" he implored.
Before either of the dogs could respond, Eustace suddenly give out a loud scream from the house, "YUCK! PIG! MURIEL!
"I think HE got the message," Courage replied tiredly, with a sigh.
Well that's all for this chapter, next will be Katz Under the Sea. I like to thank schweenieboy for the quotes and ideas. 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.
Katz Under the Sea: Displeased by Eustace, Muriel takes Shaggy, Scooby and Courage with her and they go on a submarine vacation. They realize too late that it is being run by one of their old enemies, Katz.