It was a afternoon at the farmhouse, and Courage was playing his tuba, with Shaggy and Scooby listening.
"Rou're getting better, Courage," Scooby said to the pink beagle, smiling as he and his owner listened to Courage play the tuba.
Unfortunately, one of his audience is not happy to hear him play with his tuba.
"THAT'S IT!" Eustace shouted, getting the trio's attention.
Turning to him, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw him get out of his chair and make his way over to Courage.
He then grabbed Courage and threw him out of the house, followed by the tuba, "LOUSY, NOISY HORN-BLOWING DOG!" and before he slammed the door, Shaggy and Scooby ran outside to check of their best friend.
Courage freed himself from being trapped inside the tuba, and was now in the shape of the tuba.
"Little pink dude, are you alright?" Shaggy asked as he and Scooby reached him.
"Yeah I'm fine Shaggy. Ugh, the farmer is such a grouch," Courage spoke before putting his thumb in his mouth and blowing, which caused him to return to normal shape.
"Ron't listen to him Rourage, everybody's a critic," Scooby said with a warm smile.
"Like, we think your performance on the tuba is amazing," Shaggy complimented, trying to help one of his best friends feel confident.
"Rand pretty awesome," Scooby added, with a smile.
"Thanks, guys," Courage smiled, as he grabbed the tuba. "And a one, and a two, and a one two, three four," he then resumed his practice.
The cowardly trio then saw blue worm with big eyes bobbing back and forth to the music.
"Huh?" Courage uttered in confusion.
However, as soon as he stopped playing the tuba, the worm went back into its hole.
"That was odd," Courage replied, before resuming playing the tuba, which drew the worm out of its hole.
"RI think it likes your performance," Scooby said, with a smile.
"You got yourself a new fan," Shaggy put in.
"Hello boys," Muriel said behind Shaggy, Scooby and Courage.
"Aunt Muriel, come look. This worm is starting to like the little pink dude's performance," Shaggy said, pointing at the hole.
"I'm happy to hear that someone is enjoying Courage performing," Muriel said, as she came up, "Courage, I'm glad to see you found another friend who likes your tuba-playing."
Unfortunately, scared the worm back into its hole.
"Huh?/Ruh?" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage asked in unison.
"A shy one, he is," Muriel said, before giving each of the trio a sandwich, "I made you boys your favorites. For Shaggy and Scooby, Peanut butter and pickles on a submarine bread."
"Looks good Aunt Muriel, thank You," Shaggy said, as he took the sub sandwich.
"Rhanks Ruriel," Scooby added, as he also took the sub sandwich.
"And for my wee little Courage, a peanut butter and jelly," Muriel said, as she handed the peanut butter and jelly sandwich to Courage.
"Thanks Muriel, you always made the best sandwiches," Courage said with delight, as he took a bite of the sandwich, while Shaggy and Scooby ate the sandwiches whole.
"With just a wee dash of vinegar on Courage's and a wee dash of hot sauce on Shaggy and Scooby's," Muriel said.
Vinegar? Courage thought, he almost dropped his sandwich and stopped chewing when he heard this last bit of information.
"Hot Sauce/Rot Sauce?" Shaggy and Scooby both asked.
Then the burning started...
Shaggy and Scooby's faces turn red, they burst into flames and the hungry duo ran into the house for water smoke following them in their wake, while Muriel follows them.
"Phew," Courage gagged, as he took this opportunity to spit his food out and buried it in the hole he made, before putting his sandwich into his pocket. He hated doing this, but there was simply too much vinegar in the food to enjoy it, "Sometimes Muriel gets a little bit carried away. Especially when it comes to vinegar. Bleah!"
In the kitchen, Shaggy and Scooby put their mouths into the sink as water pours into their mouth and stay under the sink as long as possible. Eustace begins to laugh at their misery, until Muriel hits him with a rolling pin.
"Ow! What did I do?" Eustace asked, as he rubbed his head in pain.
Shaggy, Scooby and Muriel came back outside, where Courage was, with Shaggy and Scooby having some steam coming out of their heads.
"Whoa, are you guys okay?" Courage gasped, as he saw the steam rising from his best friends' heads.
"Turns out, Uncle Eustace tricked Aunt Muriel into convincing her to put hot sauce in our sandwiches," Shaggy explained, panting.
"Ro he can mess with us," Scooby pipped in, also panting.
"What a lovely cloud formation," Muriel said coming in, as she look at the sky, "Looks like my Aunt Gertrude, but without the ugly mole."
The cloud explode with a spaceship flying towards the family right after. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's faces drained from color and they all gasp with fright.
"Did you like the sandwich?" Muriel asked.
"Muriel! Behind you!" Courage warned his voice cracking with panic, as he pointed his finger at the UFO.
Scooby merely screamed, he jumped to Shaggy's arms.
"Zoinks! A UFO!" Shaggy yelled.
"OOH, MY!" Muriel gasped when she finally noticed the spaceship.
The spaceship landed nearby, with steps coming out of its door a moment later. Courage whined while twisting his ears. An unsettling feeling of dread was growing steadily in the back of his mind.
Then two creatures that resembled teddy bears ran up to the family.
"Reddy bears?" Scooby asked, confused.
"What are they doing on earth?" Shaggy asked cautiously.
"I don't know, but I don't think I wanna find out," Courage shuddered quivering, as he, Shaggy and Scooby hid behind Muriel.
But what drew Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's attention immediately was the large space gun that one was carrying, the other one was holding what appeared to be a tracker of some kind.
"Questions first! Sheesh!" The yellowish, greenish teddy bear reminded the brown teddy bear when it aimed the gun at the family.
This action alone told the three best friends that the yellow-green one was in charge while the other was only following orders.
"You see a worm around here?" the yellow-green bear asked, clearly impatient and in a rush.
"What do you want with a wee worm?" Muriel asked, confused.
"Gonna take it captive, bring it back to where it belongs," The yellow-green teddy bear answered.
"That hardly seems nice," Muriel said, upset.
The brown teddy bear fired a laser from his gun, which destroyed the farmhouse. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage all felt the pits in their stomachs drop.
"HEY MURIEL! SHUT THE WINDOW!" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage heard Eustace shout, somehow still alive and unaware of what had just happened.
Really Eustace? Courage thought with annoyance. He wanted to growl at the farmer right now, but he was too concerned about what the teddy bears would to do them.
"So, tell us where the worm is or fry," the yellow-green teddy bear threatened while the brown teddy bear aimed his gun at the family again. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage felt their blood turned to ice.
"I must say, you aren't very polite," Muriel said, getting more upset.
"Tell us where the worm is, or fry! Please?" the teddy bear repeated.
Scooby shrugged, "Rell, he did say please."
This left Shaggy and Courage glaring at Scooby.
"Rhat?" Scooby questioned.
Courage remembered of the worm he played for earlier, the thought hit him like a lighting bolt. He gasped, "I know how to get the worm," he grabbed his tuba and began to play some notes.
And a second later, the worm returned and started bobbing back and forth to the music.
"Like, here is your worm little bear dudes," Shaggy said as he pointed to the worm on the ground.
"Thank you," the yellow-green teddy bear said.
But to the family's surprise, instead of gently digging around the worm, they grabbed it and began to yank on it.
"You're going to hurt the sweet, little thing," Muriel said, not liking how they were treating the worm.
However, as soon as Muriel said that, the family found out why they were trying their current method, as the worm soon revealed itself to be a GIANT SPACE WORM MONSTER.
"ZOINKS!" Shaggy screamed in surprise.
"RIKES!" Scooby yelped out of fear, losing all color from his cheeks.
Courage screamed with his mouth going through the tuba and ending up on the other side, horrified at what he witnessed.
Courage, Shaggy and Scooby hid behind Muriel holding onto each other, shaking with fright. Muriel screamed in terror.
"Okay, worm! You're coming home!" The yellow-green worm said, as both teddy bears hung onto the worm's head, "Tulip wants you back! So just give it up, bucko!"
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage could only watch terrified as worm threw the teddy bears into the air before EATING THEM and letting out a loud belch afterward.
"Maybe Eustace was right about the tuba," Muriel said, worried and scared.
The worm roared, getting the family's attention, they all screamed in total fear. Shaggy watched in horror as the worm's mouth grew nearer and nearer to him and his family. How could this be happening? They were all gonna get eaten! He couldn't stand for this. He'd never let it happen. Without thinking twice, Shaggy pushed Scooby and Courage out of the way, and tried to do the same for Muriel.
Unfortunately, Shaggy was too late as the worm picked him and Muriel up, it's breath was hot and rancid smelled like and old skunk and meat. This made Shaggy felt like a rag doll, visions of sharpen teeth impaling them, crushing them and rendering them into a bloody pulp within seconds filled Shaggy with an absolute and all consuming dread. The cowardly teen and his aunt let out guttural screams of pure terror, as they both fell head first into the worm's mouth and slid down its gullet and ate them.
"Roh no!" Scooby cried out in horror.
"Muriel! Shaggy! No!" Courage screamed.
Steeling themselves, Scooby and Courage jumped into the surprisingly deep hole.
"Rour owners have been eaten!" Scooby shouted, worrying about Shaggy and Muriel. He felt helpless, never in all of his life thought that his owner and first best friend would be eaten up by a giant worm. Granted Shaggy was eaten by a clown, when Mystery Inc was solving a mystery in a golf game. But this was no fake, it's all real this time.
"Follow that worm!" Courage declared.
Dusting themselves off, Scooby and Courage stood up and began to chase the worm. Thankfully, the worm wasn't that fast, which allowed the two dogs to catch up quickly.
But the both knew they couldn't keep this up for long, so Scooby and Courage lunged at the worm and landed on its tail. Once they felt secure, they both began to move up the worm's body to where its stomach was. However, Scooby and Courage nearly fell off when Muriel's form appeared on the worm's stomach.
Meanwhile, darkness engulfed Shaggy. And for a moment for one horrifying moment, he thought this might really be the end. Like, am I dead...?
After a couple of seconds, Shaggy decided that if he was able to ask himself that question then he must not be dead. This air felt hot and wet and he gagged as a foul stench like an old skunk has been here for decades and was decaying and rotting meat nearly overwhelmed him. He opened his eyes and found himself staring into darkness.
"Courage, Scooby it's me Muriel," she said, scared. "I'm inside the worm."
Courage let out an ear piercing scream, as he fell onto the ground.
Scooby's heart started beating out of his chest, "Rait where's Raggy!?" he yelped, fearing that Shaggy might be digested already. Never had he been so afraid.
"Scooby-Doo, Courage, I'm in here!" Shaggy's voice was high-pitched with terror, panic flooded over him, fear blossomed into his heart, and his form appearing next to Muriel. The petrified teen's heart was racing and beats of sweat of heat and fear formed on his brow. He tried to avoid the guts and who knows what else that was floating down the worm's stomach into his digestive system. The whole place smelled rancid and reeked of death, blood, and guts.
Scooby gasped out with relief, Shaggy hadn't been digested….yet. Courage climbed back into the worm's stomach next to Scooby.
Courage glanced up at Muriel and Shaggy's forms with pin-prick pupils. Despite the bile rising in his throat, he forced himself to remain calm and take back control of the situation before his own fears incapacitated him completely. Especially since he knew Shaggy was probably scared out of his mind right now. He knew he would be if he was in his shoes."Are you two okay?"
"It's really not so bad, except for the getting digested part," Muriel answered.
"LIKE DIGESTED!?" Shaggy exclaimed in horror, he didn't not want to meet an unpleasant end, and he couldn't suppress his frightened whimper. Shaggy didn't know it was possible to be even more horrified than before.
"Okay dogs, listen up," one of the teddy bears said, its form appearing next to Shaggy, "GET US OUT OF HERE!"
"What do you want us to do?" Courage asked, as he and Scooby got off the worm since it stopped moving.
"Rand how?" Scooby added.
"It's easy, get us to Tulip, the worm's her pet," the teddy bear told the dogs.
"Is she nice?" Courage cautioned, worried that she might attack him and Scooby as soon as she spotted them.
"Oh, yes, she's very nice, she'll know what to do," the teddy bear answered.
As the teddy bear was giving instructions to the dogs, Shaggy notices the smell was getting worse by the second, and he was feeling fatigue, and finding it more difficult to focus.
"Rut how do we get to her?" Scooby asked desperately.
"Just get us onto the ship and fly us back to planet Eck in galaxy L7X," the teddy bear answered.
"Planet Eck in Galaxy L-Seven X? Do you know where that is Scooby?" Courage asked warily, as he turned to the Great Dane.
"Rot a single clue," Scooby shrugged with a frown, having no idea either.
"Boys, we've got to get to this Tulip person if we're going to get out of here alive,"Muriel told the dogs, "I'm feeling woozy."
"Like, your not the only one Aunt Muriel," Shaggy added, feeling dizzy himself, his vision was beginning to get blurry. He snapped his eyes back into focus he felt fear cutting through his dizziness. He had to wait for their rescue and hope they can get out in time.
Scooby looked at his owner's form in worry, he wouldn't last long in there, and neither will Muriel, "Re have to get to that planet that one of the teddy bears told us about."
"Well, what are we waiting for!? Let's hurry up!" Courage said, feeling the urgency like a kick to his stomach.
Scooby nodded, "Rany ideas?"
Courage gaze down on his tuba, this gave him an helpful idea. "The tuba, follow me," he said, as he and Scooby made their way back to the surface.
Once on the surface, Scooby and Courage headed towards where the pink beagle had left his tuba, Courage then began to play, which quickly attracted the worm back to the surface. After a moment, Scooby and Courage led the worm onto the ship towards the center of the room.
However, the worm became hostile as soon as Courage stopped playing the tuba, making Scooby and Courage gasp in fright. As Courage began to himself sweat in fear he quickly grabbed some headphones and a cassette on him that played classic, relaxing tuba songs, and once on, the worm instantly became docile again.
Scooby sighed with relief, still feeling his heart pound wildly in his chest. The last thing they needed was for him and Courage to be eaten as well, he shuddered, thinking the thought of being in the worm's digestive tract. "Row what?" he asked, looking around the surprisingly big yet empty room.
"Are we on the ship?" the teddy bear asked.
"Yes, we're on the ship," Courage responded with a nod.
"Okay, drive it out of here!" the teddy bear ordered.
"Rith what?" Scooby asked, he wasn't the best driver in the world, but he couldn't see where the controls are.
"It's easy. Ever fly a tri-neutronics split-vector interstellar transport with an acceleron sub-particulate field generator?" the teddy bear asked.
Scooby and Courage looked at one another in confusion.
"Ro," Scooby said, scratching his head.
"We have no idea what that is," Courage added, shaking his head also confused.
"Ever ride a bike?" the teddy bear asked.
Looking at the the stomach shape teddy bear in confusion Courage said, "Uh-huh, many times."
"Rhy?" Scooby added.
"Same thing," the teddy bear said before pointing behind the two dogs.
Turning around, Scooby and Courage saw what seemed to be an exercise bike that acts as the ship's controls.
"I'll ride," Courage volunteered, as he got onto the bike while putting on the helmet.
"Rif you get tired, I'll take over," Scooby offered, not wanting his little best friend to get tired along the way.
"Okay," Courage nodded.
Inside the worm the teddy turn to Shaggy and said, "Those dogs know how to compromise."
Despite Shaggy's growing fear and anxiety, he cracked a smile, "Like, what can I say, they're the best friends I can ask for."
Back outside, for a moment, Scooby and Courage thought they had to turn a switch or something to turn on the spaceship. Thankfully, the both dogs didn't need to worry about that, for as soon as Courage began peddling, the spaceship activated before closing its doors, it let out a loud hum before ascending from the ground and speeding towards outer space.
Luckily, it seemed that the ship had artificial gravity that kept the two dogs from floating around the spaceship, unfortunately, Scooby and Courage were nearly sent flying to the back of the room from the sudden burst of speed. Courage screamed in terror, as he held onto the bike for dear life.
"Rill you give us directions, please?" Scooby inquired as he took deep breaths and calmed down, and the ship slowed down to what he presumed was cruising speed.
"Okay. Left at Saturn, take the Nebulon off-ramp to Interstellar-SO," the teddy bear instructed.
Courage exhaled his frenzied panic from the peddling he did to get them from space, and calm down from the scare he had earlier.
"Rhat next?" Scooby asked for Courage, since he was pretty occupied at the moment.
"When you see the intergalactic house of sausage, count to twelve," the teddy bear instructed.
"I'm writing it all down," Courage said, as he had a notepad and was writing everything down.
"Think lovely thoughts and press the big red button. Got it?" the teddy bear finished.
"Got it/Rot it!" Scooby and Courage said in unison with confidence.
As the teddy bear was giving the two dogs instructions, Shaggy felt the worm's stomach slowly fill with liquid, as it came in contact with his skin a strange sensation filled the cowardly teen for a brief moment, almost like static across a TV screen. And then... he felt some weird tingling…he then gasped with horror. he knew what this meant, as his blood ran cold, terror surging through his veins.
"By the way, the worm has started the active digestion phase. So, if you don't mind...MOVE IT!" the teddy bear shouted.
"Courage, Scooby, hurry!" Muriel shouted, with fear.
"Like, hurry old Buddies! OLD PALS!" Shaggy screamed, terrified for his life. He, Muriel and the teddy bear disappeared back into the worm.
Scooby and Courage gasped in horror.
Scooby's heart was breaking, Shaggy must be terrified. He couldn't let him be digested, they mustn't lose them.
Hearing Shaggy and Muriel's cries of terror gave Courage a surge of adrenaline, he speed up his peddling.
"Hold on to your claws Scooby we're in for a bumpy ride!" Courage screamed with determination.
Inside the worm's digestion phase, Shaggy tried desperately to grabbed onto something in a mindless effort to keep him and the others in the worm's stomach for a while longer. He had to stay for a bit longer, they had to get out whatever it took! But the worm keep mercilessly pushing them down, to the digested system, he was helpess against such power. Shaggy squealed in absolute panic, he wanted to get out!
Suddenly mallets came down from all around hitting him, Muriel and the teddy bears, making the poor cowardly teen wailed.
"Just what is it doing now?" Muriel asked, in exhaustion.
"Tenderizing," the teddy bear reply, dizzily.
Like great, why not add Uncle Eustace's mallet to this situation and just make it a party? The teenager thought sarcastically.
Suddenly more mallets came down on all of them. Shaggy wanted to scream, but all he could do was helplessly whimper as more mallets came down he was filled with more dread than before. he breathed in and out quickly, his mind raced. He hoped that somehow, someway his best friends would safe them in time...he feared the worse.
Back outside, Scooby looked towards the front of the ship and noticed that the two dogs were quickly approaching Saturn.
Scooby hold onto the bike when Courage did a sharp left when they reached Saturn. Unfortunately, he was too late to turn and knocked Saturn's ring off.
Scooby and Courage noticed a sign quickly approaching.
"Rake a right, Rourage!" Scooby exclaimed to the pink beagle, which he did so.
"Got it!" Courage said as they 'entered' the off-ramp.
This made Scooby yelped from the shift turn.
Back inside the worm, Shaggy, Muriel and the teddy bears were being dumped by the pepper and salt from the worm's intestinal helpers.
"I must say, I don't like being so quite tender," Muriel said, as she covered her nose.
"Like, me neither," Shaggy agreed, as he also try to block his nose.
But everyone was sneezing repeatedly, from the pepper. Shaggy tried to scream, or call for help, but his throat felt raw from sneezing. Shaggy breathed heavily, terror was gripping his mind and tore at his very being. He could feel his heart racing, he had no idea what was going to happen to them next, he had no idea if they're going to get out of this alive or not and see their family again.
"Ro right! Ro right!" Scooby pointed with a panic expression, when he noticed that Courage had entered an asteroid belt.
Courage grunted as he tried his best to get then out of danger, all the while alarms rang throughout the spaceship. Thankfully, after a couple of minutes, and a few near misses, they escape the asteroid field.
"Nice biking, Rourage," Scooby said, relieved to be out of danger.
But the cowardly duo tensed up when the radio came to life, luckily it seemed to be a broadcast from a restaurant.
"Mom and Dad, come on down to the international house of sausage. Free balloons for the kids," the message read as the restaurant came into view.
Normally Scooby would wanna stop and get some sausages, but he hardly noticed. On his mind at the very moment was getting Muriel and Shaggy out of that worm alive.
"Let's count," Courage responded, pulling Scooby out of his thoughts.
"One/Rone, two/rwo, three/rhree," Scooby and Courage began counting.
Back inside the worm, Shaggy Muriel and the teddy bears were now in the green liquid which was thankfully not acid, but this did not stop the terror gripping Shaggy's chest and panic raced through his veins as he felt the green liquid begin to drag him further away, and making him feel funny. He began to churn with desperate arms, fighting from the effects. Even though his head was feeling woozy and his eyes were a little cloudy.
Then the cowardly teen became too tired to fight it, a strange peace had washed over him, as if he knew there was no point fighting anymore. Shaggy felt numbness spread through his body, he let his arms and legs grow still, allowed the green liquid to cradle him. He closed his eyes, suddenly feeling more tired than he had ever felt in his life.
His body relax, the digestive system no longer horrified him, it felt warm and soothing engulfing him like an embrace, and his mind started to grow hazy.
"The lake's lovely, but I don't have a bathing suit," Muriel's dizzy voice sounded distant.
Shaggy groaned, barely aware what was going on anymore.
"Ten/Ren, eleven/reven, twelve/relve," Scooby and Courage finished counting.
"Rhat wasn't so bad," Scooby spoke, surprise on how easy this obstacle was.
The two dogs began to think happy thoughts, as Courage pressed the button.
"Better hang on Scooby. We're going to where no man or dog has gone before!" Courage announced.
This result of the action caused Scooby to scream, as he struggled to stay upright from the sudden burst of speed. Looking back towards the screen, Scooby and Courage could barely make anything out as they were going so fast, they only appeared as blurs.
After a few moments, however, a red thing quickly approached and sucked the UFO in. For a few heartbeats, the two dogs were worried it might have been a trap but quickly realized it was a wormhole, but before they could try to figure out where they currently were, they crashed into what appeared to be TWO GIANT BLUE LEGS.
And judging from the sound of pain it emitted, the both could tell that Courage crashed into a young girl.
"RI hope, we're here," Scooby said as he helped Courage to his paws.
Suddenly the girl flipped the spaceship on its side and began to shake it.
"Hang on!" Courage yelled!
The two cowardly dogs held onto the bike in fear of letting go and possibly meeting their demise. But after the fifth shake, the two lost their grip and fell out of the spaceship along with the worm.
Getting up, Scooby and Courage noticed the girl was looking upon the worm with fondness.
"Wormy, I've missed you, you runaway worm you," the girl said while petting the worm, her attention then shifted to the two dogs, "Oh, hello, little dogs, I'm Tulip. Have you seen my teddies?"
"Rello Rulip, we have your teddies right here," Scooby uttered, as he pointed to the worm.
"But where are they?" Tulip asked.
Courage rolled his eyes at the Great Dane's simplicity, but answer the giant girl's question, "That's the problem, your worm ate your teddys along with my owner,"
"Ry owner too," Scooby's insides pulsed with fear, thinking about what Shaggy is going through right now. He blinked hopefully at the giant girl.
"Naughty, naughty Wormy," Tulip said, before on the worm's stomach. However, only the space gun the brown teddy bear used earlier came out. Terror overtook Scooby and Courage like a strong tide. "OH-NO!"
"What's...wrong?" Courage stammered.
"The teddies and everyone else are too far down to squeeze out," Tulip answered before beginning to cry, "Oh, oh, my teddies."
"Oh-no," a gasp tore from Courage's throat.
Scooby couldn't take his eyes off of that worm, he felt his heart break into a thousand little pieces, "Re're too late!" he sobbed, fearing that Muriel and their best friend in the whole wide world are gone forever. It was too much to bear.
Courage swallowed a hard feeling lump in his throat, knowing what he had to do next, "No we're not! Come on Scooby we're going in!"
Scooby didn't hesitate. Re have to save them! "Right behind you."
"Okay Scoob brace yourself, it's going to get disgusting," Courage warned.
Scooby nodded.
Grabbing the worm's mouth, Scooby and Courage managed to open it after a couple of tugs. The worm's breath made the two dogs gag. Entering, Scooby and Courage ran down the worm's throat while ignoring the squishing sound that came each time they both took a step. Although, the way down there was pretty ticklish. The insides of this worm made the dogs sick to their stomachs
Scooby and Courage manage to avoid getting crushed by two mallets wielded by mechanical arms.
This worm's digestive tract sure is weird. Courage thought as the two of them sneezed continuously thanks to being seasoned by pepper and salt from the worm's intestinal helpers.
Then they came by to a giant pool full of green liquid.
"I hope, this isn't stomach acid," Courage said, his stomach lurching as he stood in front of a giant tub of green liquid. I hope it didn't digest the teddies, Muriel and Shaggy.
"Ronly one way to find out," Scooby said instantly not wanting to waste a single moment as he took off his collar and threw it into the liquid, where thankfully, it didn't melt.
Scooby and Courage gasped with relief, small hopes started to grow in Scooby and Courage's chests. The teddies, Shaggy and Muriel could still be alive.
Scooby and Courage jumped into the green liquid. The further they swam across the dizzier and more tired Scooby and Courage felt, they could feel their strengths draining away.
This isn't ordinary stomach liquid...it's like it's taking all of my ENGERY away. Courage then remembered something he read on the computer last year, if a worm is digesting it's prey, it has some sort of green fluids that helps the victims calm down to be less struggling and relax, so the worm could not have an upset stomach. Courage blinked, as the information, sunk into his brain.
Courage gasped, "Scoob! We need to swim and quickly get onto the other side now! This fluid is gonna make us sleepy and less focus!"
"Ris that...why I feel sleepy all...of sudden?" Scooby expressed exhaustingly, he could barley keep his eyes open.
"Yes! Keep swimming Scooby! Don't let it take you over!" Courage bellowed for Scooby and himself.
Scooby nodded his head slowly, his head felt heavy and was hard to move. He realize the danger they're both in, if they let the fluids take over them, then they'll probably be helpless and be in the same state, as Muriel, Shaggy and the teddies. The thought of Muriel and Shaggy gave them will to live, their determination to live swelled within them, fueled by their wishes to save the ones they loved.
RI'm not gonna let this green stuff win! Scooby thought.
Even though the green liquid was sapping their strengths, they both swam as fast as they could and try not to let their minds get clouded by the liquid. Their vision blurred, but they focused on the end of the pool. Once there and on the ground again, Scooby and Courage shook themselves dry and panted from exhaustion.
"Are you okay Scooby?" Courage asked after catching his breath, feeling his full strength coming back.
"RI'm good," Scooby answered.
The two dogs took a moment to breath before moving forward. Luckily, after a couple more seconds, Scooby and Courage spotted everyone still alive and together, unfortunately, it seemed like they could pass out at any moment.
But what caught the two dogs' attention was what appeared to be the cliff that was quickly approaching, not wasting a second, the dog duo dashed forward and discovered that it was indeed a cliff, and at the bottom was the worm's stomach acid.
Scooby and Courage's eyed widened and they both recoil in horror before jumping to hang on two intestines.
"Oh, boys, I hope you enjoyed your lunch," Muriel said in a dazed voice, which got Scooby and Courage's attention.
They're completely out of it. Courage thought with a frown.
Turning around, Scooby and Courage noticed that she and Shaggy had their eyes unfocused and clearly out of it and were about to pass out.
"I'm going to take a nap," Muriel said, as she passed out
"Nightly-night old pals, tell Velma I love her," Shaggy slurred, his glassy unfocused eyes closing and he collapsed.
"Raggy!" Scooby shouted, terrified for his best friend.
Courage felt an idea formed in his head, "Wait, my lunch," he said, getting Scooby's attention.
"Rhat will that do?" Scooby asked, turning to him and seeing that he pulled out the peanut butter and jelly sandwich from earlier.
"Hopefully, get us out," Courage answered before tossing it down to the stomach acid, "We may need to hang on to something."
Not needing to be told twice, the two dogs quickly ran over to the others and pulled them close together.
Then the two dogs held onto each of them as they both heard the stomach acid levels rapidly rise. Soon, they both heard the worm itself begin to gag from what was happening. Shutting their eyes and holding their breaths, Scooby and Courage braced themselves for the explosion that came seconds later.
Thankfully, it didn't hurt aside from the initial impact and launched everyone out of the worm in only a few seconds.
Shaggy awoke in a nervous sweat, shooting up with such ferocity.
"Raggy, you're awake!" Scooby wrapped his arms him squeezing tightly, "RI was so worried about you!"
Scooby jumped onto his owner and they give each other the biggest was relieved to be outside of the worm and not digested.
"Okay Scoob, you can get off now!" Shaggy chuckled, as he gently shove the Great Dane off.
"Rorry!" Scooby said, as he got off of his owner, "Row are you feeling?"
"Like I've was in a coma," Shaggy replied groggily, he put a hand to his head as a massive headache brushed away the memories, "Like, what happened?"
"Rou mean you don't remember?" Scooby asked, titling his head to the side.
Shaggy forced himself to dig deeper into his memories, sifting past what he could find after he and the other went into that green liquid, yet nothing from the rest of the journey into the worm. He shivered slightly, "Like, after I landed into that green stuff, it's all a blur."
"Rell that doesn't matter anymore," Scooby said, smiling, "Ras long as your okay." He smiled smugly, "Rhile you're acting weird, you said tell Relma you loved her."
Shaggy turned red, "Like, I WHAT!?"
"Muriel!" Courage exclaimed as he give his owner a big hug.
"Oh Courage, I'm so happy to see that you're okay," Muriel said, as he patted her little beagle's head.
"I love you, Muriel," Courage sighed.
"I love you too!" Muriel replied, with a smile.
"Teddies, you're okay," Tulip said, overjoyed to have her teddies back safely, "And now I have four more pets."
Muriel screamed in terror as Tulip petted her.
"Sorry, but we're not pets," Courage calmly to her before dashing forward and removing the bandage on Tulip's index finger.
"OUCH! NAUGHTY PETS!" Tulip exclaimed in pain.
Not giving her a chance to recover, Courage and Scooby grabbed onto the ends of the bandage while Shaggy and Muriel held onto the center. They all then hopped off Tulip's hand and used the bandage as a make-shift parachute to make it safely to the ground, once on the floor, they all quickly entered the ship, with Courage getting onto the bike.
"Like, let's get out of here!" Shaggy shouted in alarm, having enough for today.
"Naughty, naughty new pets," Tulip said, angry while waving her finger back-and-forth at the family.
The family all let out frightened screams of terror.
"RO COURAGE!" Scooby exclaimed.
"On it!" Courage shouted, as he began peddling with all his might.
The spaceship turned around and quickly flew away from Tulip.
A few hours later, Courage managed to drive his family back to earth safely.
"THANKS!" the family heard Eustace shout, as Courage involuntarily landed on the farmhouse.
"I sure could use a wee bit of dinner," Muriel said, as the family exited the spaceship. "How about a nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich Courage? With just a wee dash of vinegar?"
Courage felt a wave of unbearable sickness at the thought of having the sandwich. Clasping his mouth with his paw he turned away before most of his breakfast came back in the tuba with vengeance.
"Like, maybe no more vinegar Aunt Muriel," Shaggy told his aunt.
"Ro Relma huh..." Scooby chuckled.
Shaggy gulped, "Oh be quiet Scooby-Doo."
EPILOGUE
Eustace who had his dinner ready, made by Muriel was already eating when his face suddenly turned red and smoke came out of his ears, and fire out of his mouth. He screamed in pain and ran out of to the kitchen.
Shaggy and Scooby who were behind the dining room snickered to themselves as Scooby held onto to bottle of hot sauce.
"Like, he better think twice before adding hot sauce to are sandwiches huh Scoob?" Shaggy chuckled.
"Reah," Scooby laughed, "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
Well that's all for this chapter, next will be So In Lourve Are We Too. 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.
So in Louvre Are we Two: While the family are visiting the Louvre, Muriel is convinced that the Mona Lisa looks just like her, and they are like sisters. After the guard is convinced that it looks nothing like Muriel, he locks the museum, expecting everyone to be out. Little does he know that the family are trapped inside, and the paintings come to life.