"That's the last net, can we go home now? Dylan," The woman complained.
"Come on Brenda, I promised the Trickell's Triquid people, we'd do a good job setting up for the tournament," Dylan replied.
"Oh, I'm so bored and sweaty, I hate Manual Labor, I can't wait for a time where robots do everything for us," Brenda whined.
"Here I brought some water," Dylan offered.
"Ew, I don't want any of that fatty fat water, I want Trickell's Triquid," Brenda demanded.
"Trickell's Triquid is water," Dylan corrected.
"Um, no, it's 100% Diet Moisture, you want me to look good in my bathing suit, don't you?" Brenda disagreed shaking her hips.
"Man, you are in a Crabby Mood," Dylan answered walking to the truck.
As something came moving through the sand heading to where Brenda was.
"Please, you wanna see Crabby, I'll show you..." Brenda threatened.
As it came out of the sand and jumped in front of her.
"Man Crab," Brenda shouted.
As it walked towards her.
Dylan chuckled and said, " Brenda, where did you get that? the Fake Crab Parts Emporium."
The Man Crab grabbed her and began dragging her down.
"It's real, help me," Brenda called out trying to hold on to something.
"Nice try, what'd you dig a big hole under the sand?" Dylan questioned.
Brenda screamed one last time before it took her down into the sand.
"Bravo, oh bike, got an Air Tank under there?" Dylan interrogated as he leaned over where she got taken.
As one last bit of sand came up indicating something else.
"Brenda, come on, stop joking," Dylan ordered as he put his ear to the sand.
Suddenly the earth shook and the Man Crab emerged.
Dylan screamed as it approached him.
The Next Day at The Volley Ball Tournament.
"Hey, this is K Ghouls, Angel Dynamite, live from the Crystal Cove Girl Volley Ball Tournament, sponsored by Trickell's Triquid, what Mother Nature drinks when she doesn't want to look fat," Angel Dynamite said.
"Oh boy, like, what a crowd, I hope they saved us some food, Scoob," Shaggy stated.
"Yeah," Scooby agreed.
"I'm so excited for the Tournament, this event looks so exciting and it brings a whole new meaning to Girl Power, that and because this is my first time seeing it," Louis warned.
"Trickell's Triquid, Trickell's Triquid here, the non-fat liquid diet, Gluten Free moisture supplement, now in wet and extra wet," The mascot announced.
"Well, like, we want some real food, right Scooby-Doo?" Shaggy asked.
"Uh Huh, like that," Scooby suggested.
As him, Shaggy, and Velma walked over there.
Louis looked around and saw his Grand Mother in the crowd glaring at him indicating to him that he was making a mistake.
Louis sheepishly chuckled and pretend he never saw it.
"Uh, Scooby wait up," Louis warned as he rolled after them.
"Uh, not that place, that guy's a freak," Velma complained.
"No like, he's totally cool, just don't mention his nose," Shaggy suggested.
While they walked over there Louis rolled as fast as he could next to Scooby.
"You good?" Scooby wondered.
"Yeah," Louis replied kind of freaking out about it.
"Hey, chillax, you don't need to be nervous anymore, you're away from your Grand Mother," Scooby reassured.
"Not really, she has been following and glaring at me in the crowds," Louis informed.
Scooby looked behind them seeing her in the crowd watching them and glaring at Scooby and Louis.
"Don't worry, just stick close to me," Scooby mentioned putting his arm around Louis and moving closer to him.
Louis sighed and tried to forget about it.
"Hey there, Cappy, what happened to the old sniffer?"Velma teased.
As Shaggy, Scooby and Louis did a face-palm.
"What happened? I'll tell you boy oh, that was a clam that took it, fierce and mighty was he and reduced me to wearing facial underwear he did, but I'll find him and I won't stop shucking until I do, understand," Skipper Shelton explained as he kept throwing clam as one landed on Scooby's head.
Louis giggled seeing that as another one went flying and bit Louis in the nose.
"Ow," Louis muttered.
Scooby giggled seeing that and licked it off his nose.
"Yes sir, Captain Admiral Sir," Velma responded.
"It's Skipper, Skipper Shelton, clam hunter and orphan crippler, so what will it be? Skinny Shanks," Skipper corrected.
"I'll take an extra large please," Shaggy answered.
Velma went up behind him and elbowed his back, she then whispered something to him, Didn't we agree that you would cut out the junk food."
As his assistant made two.
"I should like, totally eat something healtier," Shaggy stated.
"But, but, huh," Scooby mumbled confused.
"What about you wolfie and blondie, is is a cone stuffed with the fruits of the sea or are ye afraid," Skipper wondered.
"Aye,aye, Captain,no fear too cold here," Scooby and Louis responded in unison as Scooby giggled.
The assistant picked them up as he prepared to give it to them.
"Mm, those look good, a big, salty, clam would sure go good with this heat, you want one? Daph," Fred mentioned walking over with Daphne.
"What, no, Fred, you know what happens when I get near seafood, you remember my sister's wedding," Daphne reminded.
As it went to a flashback when they were taking a picture and Daphne swelled up when the waitor fed her shrimp.
"I was so swollen, I couldn't even fit in a Bridal Airlock," Daphne complained.
"Hey, don't worry, Daph, those clams aren't close enough to cause you any trouble, hey skipper, didn't your cabin used to be over there where the volley ball court are," Fred replied.
"Aye, every time that town has an event on the beach, they move me business, blasted Civic's Council,aaah," Skipper shouted as he gave them their cones.
Scooby put both tops in his mouth and swallowed it.
"Hey," Louis yelled.
Scooby heaved his shoulders and regurgitated one of them.
"Aw thanks, Scooby," Louis thanked as he ate it.
"I need a clamming break, watch me cabin," Skipper commanded as he picked up the barrel and left.
"Come on, let's get our seats for the first match," Fred suggested.
Shaggy looked at the food wanting to eat it, Velma glared at him, and walked away.
Shaggy followed leaving just Scooby and Louis.
"Well, it's just us," Louis brought up.
The Man Crab watched them as they were there.
"Wait for me," Scooby said as he ran after them.
Louis let out a short sigh and rolled after them.
A Sea Gull landed where it previously was, so it grabbed it.
The Crowd applaused as it was about to start.
Louis sat down near the others as he saw his Grand Mother further down the bleachers glaring at him.
Louis just sighed and clinged to Scooby.
"What?" Scooby wondered.
"She is right there," Louis notified.
As Scooby looked where he was looking and saw nothing.
"What, she was right there," Louis stated.
"It's okay, I know what's going on," Scooby told Louis.
"You do?" Louis questioned.
"Yeah, you just wanted to be near me and to touch me, don't worry it's fine, I don't mind," Scooby eludicated.
"But, never mind, that was totally it, I'll just uh," Louis answered as he put his arm around Scooby and leaned his head onto his shoulder.
The matched started.
Shaggy looked at everyone else's food as he licked his lips.
Shaggy and Velma looked at one another as Velma scooted over to him.
"Great game, huh?" Scooby asked.
"Yeah, great," Velma responded.
Scooby went and scooted Velma over away from him and put Louis in between him and Velma.
Velma glared at Louis and Louis mouthed sorry to her.
Scooby put one arm around Shaggy and put the other around Louis, when he did that Louis slightly blushed really happy that he was at least starting to do friend gestures.
"Best seat in the house?" Scooby wondered turning his head to Louis.
"Yeah," Louis said happily.
"You know, we're still close to the water, all kinds of fish in there," Daphne mentioned to Fred.
"Yep, they're so beautiful," Fred mumbled to himself not even listening to her.
"The girls?" Daphne interrogated.
"No, the nets," Fred answered.
"Nets," Daphne repeated.
"I wonder what their tensile strength is, they're nylon, absolutely perfect for traps," Fred stated.
Daphne sighed clearly tired of his constant net talk.
"Would you like going for a walk?" Daphne whispered to Velma.
"No one's gonna miss us here," Velma muttered.
All of a sudden the earth shook.
"Scooby-Doo, is that your stomach?" Shaggy asked.
"Nuh, uh, not my stomach," Scooby replied.
"I don't think it's anyone's stomach," Louis warned.
One of the girls hit the ball as a claw came out and grabbed it, then the creature flattened it and revealed itself.
It was the Man Crab it stood and screeched.
The Man Crab cut the net as the girls ran.
"Is that a Crab or a Man?" Daphne yelled.
"Like it's a Mab, no, Cran," Shaggy guessed.
"I-it's a Man Crab," Scooby guessed.
The people ran off the bleachers as they saw it.
The Man Crab grew legs and jumped on the bleachers where the Gang was.
The Man Crab hit Louis onto the ground as it tried to hurt him.
The rest of the Gang weren't paying attention and were running.
Scooby looked back seeing Louis in trouble and went running to him.
The Man Crab lifted it's claw ready to hurt him, Scooby slid underneath the Man Crab grabbing Louis in the nick of time.
The Man Crab roared missing, Scooby put Louis on his back and while the Man Crab was roaring he slid back underneath the Man Crab joining the others.
"Nice Moves,Scooby-Doo," Louis complemented.
"Thanks," Scooby responded.
The Man Crab chased after the Gang along with three innocent children.
Angel saw them and gasped seeing them in trouble.
The Man Crab hit them multiple times missing as it kept coming up from underneath the bleachers.
Mystery Inc. and the kids ran onto a platform when the Man Crab got on it, it sling-shotted them all in the air.
Each member shot up in the air as they all fell.
They all fell into a net that some of the girls held to save them as they ended up in a perfect Human Pyramid with Shaggy, Scooby, and Louis at the bottom and Daphne and the kids at the top.
The Gang all got off the net as the Man Crab attempted to go down there to attack until Angel threw something at it.
It turned around as Angel threw three disks at it but it didn't work as it bounced off the Crab and hit the support beams.
The Man Crab jumped onto the roof of the platform she was on and impaled the roof.
It jumped off the roof and into a hole under the bleachers.
Mystery Incorporated walked over to near where it disappeared.
It roared and went under the sand charging the gang.
Most of the gang got out of the way but since Louis couldn't walk he couldn't move out of the way.
Scooby instantly stood over Louis, standing his ground and growling at the Man Crab as it moved around them and zoomed past the net.
It jumped in front of one of the ladies, grabbed her and took her under the sand.
It jumped out since she was still not going down with it.
It jumped on the bleachers and headed for the tent.
"We can't let that thing get away," Fred ordered.
"Sure we can,Fred, all we have to do is stand right here," Shaggy disagreed.
"Yeah, stand right here," Scooby repeated with Louis on his back.
"Come on you two we've got to save her," Louis pleaded.
"No way," Scooby and Shaggy answered.
As Velma grabbed Scooby and Shaggy by their collars.
The Man Crab roared, tore a hole in the tent roof, and jumped in.
Fred opened the curtain to see nothing.
The Gang looked confused.
"What they're gone," Fred said.
Later the Sheriif arrived and Shaggy was explaining to him.
"It went urrgh, and it ah, and it had like, huge claws, man," Shaggy explained.
"Yeah, and it had weird eyes like," Scooby added as he put Louis down and blubbered with his paws raised high.
Scooby then went and grabbed Louis's wheel chair and put him in it.
"Sheriff Stone, you have to close the beach," Daphne commanded.
"The beach stays open," a man walking in insisted.
"Hi Peter Trickell, President of Trickell's Triquid," Peter introduced.
"You can't just ignore a giant Crustacean attacking your Tournament," Velma informed.
"Ha, clearly you haven't been to Business School, young lady, no one's sure what they saw, could have been a Man Crab, Could have been a Man Lobster, could have been a really out-of- shape person who should probably be drinking Trickell's Triquid," Peter eludicated.
"Well, it's pretty clear to me that something did happen here and there's nothing I can do about it," Sheriff Stone responded.
"Tell Me, why we bother calling you?" Louis asked Sheriif Stone.
"Cause you love me," Sheriff Stone stated.
Louis laughed for a minute and then replied, "No."
"But Sheriff," Fred tried to convince.
"Hey, hey, hey, we're not set up for this, our motto is to serve and protect not to serve and protect from Man Crabs," Sheriff Stone corrected.
"Yeah, it goes with protecting," Louis muttered.
"Well, you know what this means, don't you? Fred questioned.
"We respect authority, we go home and forget this ever happened?" Shaggy wondered.
"It means, we investigate," Fred said.
"I was afraid you say that," Shaggy complained whimpering.
"I think our investigation is off to a good start," Velma mentioned pointing to a clue.
"A locker spilling sand," Daphne replied confused.
"But look who's it is," Velma pointed out.
"Skipper Shelton," Daphne announced.
"I don't know it seems to easy," Louis added.
"And who wasn't around when the Man Crab grabbed that girl," Velma reminded.
"He's so angry at the city for moving his cabin, he has the perfect motive for ruining the Tournament," Fred brought up.
"What we need is a trap for the Man Crab, right? Fred," Daphne asked.
"Actually what I was thinking is that we need a trap for the Man Crab," Fred repeated.
Daphne sighed and whispered, "Good Plan."
"Thanks, Daphne you used to play a little Volley Ball back in the day, didn't you?" Fred questioned.
"Well, I wouldn't exactly say play," Daphne corrected as she remembered what happened.
Daphne stood in a confident stance and got hit in the stomach, the next time she avoided it, and the last time she got hit in the face.
"You'll be perfect bait, what Man Crab wouldn't want to drag you beneath the sand," Fred attempted to complement.
"Ouch, that sounds like an insult," Louis informed.
"Oh, Freddy,that's so sweet, sort of," Daphne answered.
While Fred was preparing the trap, Shaggy, Scooby, and Louis were looking at The Clam Cabin.
"You know Scoob, before all this started, I really loved Crab, Crabule," Shaggy said to Scooby and Louis.
"Crabaroni and Cheese," Scooby added.
"Crabsicles, I can't talk about this I promised Velma, I mean, I promised myself that I would eat more healthy," Shaggy mumbled as he noticed Scooby looking at him confused as he cleared his throat and corrected himself.
"Look out time's over, come see what I made," Fred notified.
Shaggy left after Fred as Scooby was about to follow.
Louis tapped on Scooby's shoulder to talk to him.
"What is it?" Scooby asked.
"I know I said that what you said was true but it's not she's right over there, see," Louis warned.
Scooby looked seeing her there this time glaring at him with her arms crossed.
"Don't worry, I'll make things clear to her just stay behind me," Scooby reassured as he walked over there with Louis on his back hiding his face with Scooby's neck.
"Well, if it isn't the mutt," Tanya insulted.
"Listen here, Granny, Louis is staying with me and there is nothing you can do about it, so stop following us and glaring at him, he's my acquaintance, and I'll be here for him," Scooby eludicated.
"Of Course, you can't even see what is right in front of you, Louis has been trying to befriend you but you are too idiotic to listen," Tanya complained.
"That doesn't matter right now, what matters is you respecting his decision and leaving him alone before me and Shaggy call the police," Scooby threatened.
"Louis, you're making a big mistake, come home with me now, stay away from this mutt," Tanya demanded attempting to grab Louis's wrist.
Scooby's fur on his back stood up and he stood his ground as he growled at her making sure she stayed back.
"I'm never coming back, Grand Mother, and you can't change that," Louis informed.
Scooby turned around leaving.
Suddenly Tanya grabbed hold of Louis's wrist.
"You have no idea what you are getting into brat, now come home," Tanya commanded getting hostile and getting a tighter and tighter grip on Louis's wrist.
"Let go of me," Louis said.
Scooby turned his head around growling at her.
She let go of his wrist and allowed them to leave.
On the way to see the trap Scooby turned to Louis concerned about him.
"Are you okay?No bruises or scratches? " Scooby interrogated.
"No, I'm fine," Louis responded.
They headed over there and Fred explained.
"Here's the plan, Daphne will run across the sand here, where the Man Crab will step on this plunger and when he does a big a big lid will spring up under him and dump him into that pot," Fred explained.
"Like, where's Daphne? anyways, the match is about to start and Scoob and I have to get back to keeping an eye on the Clam Cones," Shaggy questioned.
"And Louis too," Scooby added.
Velma glared at him.
" I mean keeping an eye on the Skipper," Shaggy corrected.
"I'll go get her Velma suggested.
The Man Crab watched The Mystery Machine from the parking lot.
Daphne grunted putting it on and came out as Velma came to their parking spot.
"Wow, who are you trying to impress?" Velma asked.
"What this whole thing? I've had it forever, I just wanted to do a good job, could you rub oil on my back? Fred likes shiny things, I'm tired of him looking at nets," Daphne said.
Velma played with the lid while she thought about something.
"Hey Daphne, let me ask you something," Velma requested.
"If you liked a boy," Velma mentioned.
As Daphne gasped.
"Who told you? Was it one of my sisters? Dawn, she thinks she's so perfect, well what no one knows is that she has a sixth toe on her," Daphne interrogated.
"Um, what are you talking about?" Velma wondered.
"Clearly not what you were talking about," Daphne whispered.
"Well, I mean, I'm just wondering, do boys like it when you tell them what to do?" Velma questioned as the Man Crab passed by one of the cars.
"Of Course they do, without my mom around I don't think my dad could feed himself, I remember she went away once and when she came back we found my dad half-naked and sucking on an unopened can of soup,Why? Daphne answered.
"Well, I'm just working on a science paper, that's all," Velma made up.
All of a sudden the Man Crab grabbed Velma and replaced her.
"Did you say something? make sure to get me in between the Shoulder Blades, okay, when I burn there, it makes me look like," Daphne requested.
As she gasped as the Man Crab put a lot on.
"Hey, that's a little much, don't you, aah," Daphne complained as she screamed seeing the Man Crab.
The Man Crab tried to get a swig at her but she ducked and shouted, "Help."
As for Shaggy, Scooby, and Louis they were looking outside the Clam Cabin once again.
"No Skipper Shelton but man do those clams smell good," Shaggy stated.
"Stay focused Shag, where did he go?" Louis asked.
"Go for it, I won't tell Velma," Scooby suggested.
"Oh well, I guess, one chewy, briny, doughy, treat can't hurt that much," Shaggy replied chuckling and running over there.
Shaggy stepped in the trap as he fell in the pot.
Scooby and Louis weren't paying attention as they talked.
"You sure that was a good idea Louis wondered concerned.
"Of Course, it'll be okay," Scooby reassured.
"You know, I don't get why I'm on this team, I don't really help much," Louis mentioned.
Scooby cradled Louis's face and told him, " you are a useful member, you help a lot."
"I don't know," Louis muttered.
"That and I consider you very good looking," Scooby complemented.
"Thanks," Louis answered.
"No Problem, that and you have that adorable nose," Scooby stated lifting his paw and putting it on Louis's nose.
"Oh, I always considered my nose huge," Louis said muffled since Scooby had his paw on his nose.
Scooby took his paw off his nose and laid there against the rock next to him.
Scooby took out his paw and held Louis's hand, Scooby then intertwined him and Louis's fingers.
"Why don't we look at clouds while we wait," Scooby suggested.
"Sure," Louis agreed.
Scooby picked up Louis and put him in his lap.
Louis laid back onto Scooby's chest as they looked at clouds together.
Daphne was still being chased by the Man Crab as it went under ground she jumped as she looked for the trap," Trap, Where's the trap?"
"Like, help," Shaggy said.
The Man Crab grabbed Daphne as it began to pull her under neath.
"Daphne!!" Fred shouted.
"Fred ," Daphne cried out back as it took her into the sand.
"Daphne," Fred yelled.
"What happened?" something that smelled like skunk butter, threw me in the van," Velma wondered.
Scooby and Louis finished looking at clouds and went looking for Shaggy.
"It was the Man Crab, it took Daphne," Fred lashed out.
Fred continued digging.
"Fred, calm down, we'll get her back," Velma reassured.
Fred still continued digging.
"We have to, Velma, I don't know what to and she was so shiny," Fred complained.
Scooby and Louis walked and rolled over to the trap as they opened it and found Shaggy.
Velma looked at Scooby and Louis's hands and asked, "Jinkies, did we miss something between you two? Or did you guys just become closer?"
Scooby and Louis looked at their fingers still intertwined, they chuckled sheepihly and just let go of each other's hands.
"You do know that is what couples do? right?" Velma notified.
"No, that is what acquaintances do, silly," Scooby told Velma.
"Yeah, Me and Scoob, do it all the time," Shaggy agreed.
Velma did a facepalm.
Later that night at K Ghouls.
Fred was still digging on the floor in shock by what happened.
"He's been digging like that since we lost Daphne, there's nothing but torn carpet all over the back of the Mystery Machine," Velma explained.
"Like, this is all my fault, if I never tried to be healthy, Daphne would be all right, Scooby-Doo more," Shaggy stated.
As Scooby walked in with plates full of food as he dropped it into Shaggy's mouth.
"I don't think that's why, I think it's my fault, if I wouldn't have spent so much time with Scooby none of this would've happened, Scooby again," Louis disagreed.
Scooby walked over to Louis and gave him his paw.
Louis grabbed the paw and hit it against his face over and over.
"You're gonna hurt yourself," Scooby warned.
"That's the idea, I'm an idiot," Louis said.
Velma hit her hand on her face and shook her head.
"Some one needs to make a plan, why isn't anyone making a plan," Fred ordered.
"That's usually you, Fred," Velma reminded.
"You're right what's wrong with me?" Fred asked as he went back to digging.
"I'll get it hold on a sec Louis, aah Mr. E," Scooby shouted as he grabbed his paw back and walked to the door when he opened it he saw a letter on the ground.
Shaggy grabbed it and handed it to Velma.
"Jinkies, this article is from years ago, it says four kids disappeared exploring the Crystal Cove Caverns," Velma informed.
"Let me see that," Angel requested.
"Is something wrong? Angel, do you know them?" Velma interrogated.
"No, sorry, it's nothing," Angel replied.
Louis looked up at her and saw her nervous body language, he then thought for a few moments.
As a sound track dropped out of the envelope.
"Zoinks, like it looks like, the article comes with a Sound Track," Shaggy notified.
Fred grabbed it, put on the record player and played it, " It's not working," he complained.
"It's an 8-Track, Freddy, old school, baby," Angel corrected as she took it off the record player and into an 8-Track Player.
"Hello Children, if you read the article, you know this Volley Ball Tournament isn't the first time kids disappeared from Crystal Cove, worth researching, don't you think?" Mr. E explained.
Once it was done it flew out.
Scooby walked over to Louis and gave him back his paw.
Louis kept hitting himself, Scooby feeling bad, licked Louis's face to make him feel better.
"What was that for?" Louis asked.
"To stop beating your self up, please stop hitting your self, Scooby pleaded nuzzling Louis's neck.
"Alright, I'll do it for you," Louis answered.
Scooby smiled and put his paws on Louis's knees and licked his face over and over.
"Hey, that tickles, doesn't that mean we have a lead?" Louis mentioned.
They all looked at each other, they then headed for the Library.
At The Crystal Cove Library they were searching.
"Welcome to where the Library keeps it's old news paper articles, they call it the Morgue," Velma stated.
"The Morgue, why do they have to call it that?" Shaggy wondered as Scooby jumped in his arms as they whimpered.
"Yeah, they're old articles, not dead," Scooby agreed
"Calm down, you two, the Other Morgue is in hospitals and stuff, you won't have to worry about dead bodies," Louis said.
Shaggy and Scooby smiled hearing that as they kept moving.
They continued looking around till they came to an old computer, Velma turned it on and sat down in the chair.
"There's a book over here, Daphne read a book once, and that chair, Daphne liked to sit in chairs and that Card Catalogue over there," Fred brought up all the things Daphne did.
"Not helping Fred," Velma warned.
"I know what's the matter with me?" Fred wondered.
"Hm, here's a piece on the founding of Trickell's Triquid and here's one about the City moving The Clam Cabin in the year the kids vanished, listen to this, Skipper threatened the whole town, he swore he'd take drastic action," Velma explained
"Daphne was drastically taken," Fred mentioned.
"Hey, is that the rest of that article Mr. E sent us?" Shaggy asked.
"Yeah, it says the Crystal Cove Caverns run under the beach, where the Volley Ball Tournament is being played," Velma stated.
"Like, I know that look and it's never good," Shaggy complained.
The Gang walked into the Crystal Cove Caverns with their flashlights.
Shaggy whimpered as Velma came and pulled him in.
The Gang looked around until they thought they saw the Man Crab and screamed.
Velma shined her light on it revealing it to be a small crab.
Scooby let out a sigh of relief as it pinched his nose.
"Stay still," Louis whispered.
Scooby stood still as Louis took it off.
"Great, now my nose hurts," Scooby warned.
Louis kissed his nose and asked," There, better?"
"Yeah," Scooby agreed.
"Hey guys, I think I found something," Shaggy notified.
"What kind ofCrab Monsterwould need stairs to climb up into the Volley Ball Tournament?" Velma questioned.
"One that is very industrious and has a degree in engineering?" Shaggy wondered.
"One that is old and had a hip replacement," Louis guessed.
"The answer is, noCrab Monster,"Velma corrected.
"I don't care who did it, I just want Daphne back," Fred said.
"Fred, is that you?" Daphne asked.
"Now I hear her voice every where, and her voice sounds as sweet and as perfect as a trap snapping shut on a criminal, did I say that out loud," Fred shouted.
"Come on," Velma ordered.
"Help," Daphne yelled.
"Daphne," Fred called out.
"Fred," Daphne replied.
"Yay, Daphne, I missed you so much," Louis cheered rolling to next to Velma.
"Good to see you too, Louis," Daphne answered.
"Oh Fred, thank goodness," Daphne responded.
"I'm so glad you're, hey this is a nice cage," Fred complemented.
Daphne grunted in frustration.
Scooby took out a claw and unlocked the cage.
They all fell out as it opened.
"Let's get to the surface before," Velma commanded as she saw it behind her and screamed.
The Man Crab hit Louis to the ground and was ready to crush him.
"Be ready, I'm gonna pull you up slowly," Scooby mumbled.
Scooby slowly grabbed Louis's shirt with his mouth, he then put him on his back and made a dash for it.
The rest of the gang following behind them.
The Man Crab grabbed the Cage and threw it at Brenda and Dylan.
It followed after Daphne on the ceiling as she ran screaming.
It jumped in front of her as she ran the other way and fell, Fred picked her up as they both ran.
Scooby, Louis, Velma and Shaggy hid behind a rock until it impaled the rock.
They ran away from the rock screaming.
The Man Crab chased after Shaggy, Scooby, and Louis.
"Run Scoob," Shaggy demanded.
Fred,Daphne, and Velma threw rocks at it.
The Man Crab chased after those three.
Shaggy, Louis, and Scooby fell on the Man Crab.
"Where is everybody?" Scooby announced.
"Like,maybe, they got eaten by a Man Crab," Shaggy answered.
The Man Crab took out it''s legs and roared.
Shaggy, Scooby and Louis screamed realizing what they were on.
They got off and ran with The Man Crab following close behind.
"Scooby-Doo, Louis,do you smell what I smell?" Shaggy asked.
Scooby and Louis sniffed.
"Skipper Shelton's Clam Cones," Scooby and Louis shouted.
"Like, follow that scent to Syrupy goodness," Shaggy suggested.
"That's the way out of here, Scooby-Doo," Louis informed.
The trio ran up the stairs with the Man Crab following and destroying the stairs along the way.
The three ran as the Man Crab attempted to take them from under them, they went up the ladder with the Man Crab following.
The stairs fell to pieces since it was destroying it.
"We'll go out the way we came in," Velma ordered running that way with the others following her.
The Man Crab climbed up the ladder after them.
Shaggy, Scooby, and Louis pushed on the lid.
"Come on, push, give me all your paw," Shaggy demanded.
They pushed it open as they appeared in the middle of the beach at the Volley Ball Tournament.
The Man Crab grabbed Scooby's foot pulling him down.
"I'm stuck it has my foot," Scooby notified.
"Not for long," Louis replied jumping off Scooby and onto it making it fall down some stairs, Scooby caught Louis's hand before he could fall too.
They went up and joined up with Shaggy.
The Man Crab came up and Shaggy, threw balls at him.
The Man Crab roared.
"I told you guys, that would make him angrier," Shaggy complained.
It jumped out and continued giving chase.
They hid behind The Clam Cabin as the Crab climbed onto the roof.
They saw him and ran.
They ran around the trap but the Man Crab didn't and fell right into the pot cutting off it's arms and legs.
Shaggy,Louis, and Scooby cheered.
"Like, we got him," Shaggy announced.
"Good going but how did you find your way out?" Velma wondered.
"Clam Cones," Scooby said sniffing it again.
"You were saved by junk food," Velma questioned.
"Like, what can I say? Me and junk food have a very special relationship," Shaggy added.
"Maybe I should ask it for advice," Velma commented.
"Speaking of Clam Cones, I see Skipper Shelton isn't around again, or are you Skipper?" Fred mentioned.
"Ah, back from the Laundry Mat I am, and once more me knows, I am expelled fresh as the Morning Tide," Skipper Shelton announced.
"Oops," Louis muttered.
"Wait if you're not the Man Crab, then who?" Velma questioned.
"Everyone meet Bud Shelton," Velma stated.
"Who?" They all asked.
"Huh, I was wrong this time, I thought it was the Sheriff," Louis voiced.
"Hey," Sheriff Stone complained.
" The Trickell's Triquid Mascot, Velma answered.
"And the inventor, not that dirt ball Trickell," Bud added.
"Like, How did you know Velma?" Shaggy wondered.
"I knew it wasn't a real Crab because Daphne never got allergic when she was around it plus when I saw the mold pattern on the cheek on the man, next to Trickell in the newspaper, I remembered the same pattern on the mascot," Velma explained.
"He took credit for my creation, it was supposed to be called Bud's Bloosh, I was still working on the name, I spent countless hours making the Man Crab costume and even more time building my system of Trap doors and stairs under the beach and in case anyone came snooping in between kidnappings, i hid my costume in a locker big enough to hold it putting a label with Skipper's name on it over the real label, so if anyone found it ,they'd blame him," Bud eludicated.
"All that work just to get back on Mr. Trickell? Wouldn't it have been easier and more legal to sue him?" Daphne interrogated.
"Are you kidding? Lawyers take forever, I would have suceeded too if it weren't for you meddling brats probing into my Crustacean themed revenge Scheme," Bud complained.
"Well, almost doesn't shuck the Clam, does it Wolfy?" Skipper added.
As they both laughed.
"I have no idea, what you're talking about," Scooby warned.
When most of the gang was leaving Sccoby stopped Louis.
"you guys coming?" Velma questioned.
"We'll catch up with you," Scooby informed.
They got in the van and drove away.
"So was what your Grand Mother said is true? Do you really wanna be-friend me?" Scooby brought up.
"Yes, it is true, I have been trying but you haven't been ready," Louis admitted.
"This is too fast we barely know each other, I don't just be friend someone I don't know much about," Scooby notified.
"Then what's with the leading me on, doing all the nice things and doing these different ways of affection if we aren't friends," Louis interrogated.
"It's me trying to be friendly, look, we won't be friends for awhile because you don't have what me and Shaggy have, and we might never have that, so us being friends isn't happening, until I say so and after today that won't be for a long while,got it," Scooby explained.
"Crystal, my Grand Mother was right, you are a jerk, we'll walk to K Ghouls together but after that I don't want to see you near me again," Louis stated.
Back at K Ghouls Shaggy and Scooby were eating junk food as Velma watched in irritation.
"So Fred, Velma said you were kind of out of sorts when I got kidnapped," Daphne mentioned.
"Yeah, that well," Fred stuttered.
"I think, it's sweet," Daphne complemented.
"Oh really, that's so great,I thought that would mess up our friendship, don't worry I'll never have feelings again," Fred reassured.
"Will see, so Velma did I miss anything else when I was gone," Daphne wondered.
"Actually yeah," Velma agreed giving her the piece of news paper they got from Mr. E.
Daphne gasped seeing it.
"Like, what is it? Daph," Shaggy questioned.
"The Locket I found, the one with the boy and girl inside, it's them,"Daphne informed.
"Jinkies, I guess we have a new Mystery on our hands," Velma mentioned.
Angel was not happy to hear that.
Louis joined Angel in the room and talked to her, she admitted something to him since he confronted her about it.
"Don't tell them," Angel ordered.
"I won't, your secret is safe with me," Louis responded.
Later that night Tanya got a letter from Mr. E.
She opened it slightly concerned and began to read it.
"You've had your chance, Tanya, the boy will die, he doesn't want to get out, he won't make it past the week, he's done for," Tanya read.
"No Louis," Tanya cried out as she fell to the floor crying.
Louis went to Shaggy's room and slept next to his bed instead as someone watched from afar.