It was a clear night in Coolsville, the bright full moon was shining and fans of both Mystery Inc and Danny Phantom had gathered at the brand new Coolsonian Criminology Museum. A news reporter named Jason said to the live news camera, "Here we are folks, on the red carpet of the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum. Tonight's premier exhibits a rousing look back at the exploits of both Mystery Inc and some of their latest cases they have sold with Danny Phantom and his ghost fighting team located in Amity Park"
A limo that had the colours of the Mystery Machine pulled up at the front of the building and the crowd cheered as Fred Jones first came out of the limo in a blue formal suit, Daphne in a purple formal gown and then Velma in an orange formal gown.
Some fan girls of Fred then came over begging for his autograph. Fred smiled and then said as he handed out some red ascots, "Here you go girls. I got an ascot for each of you"
The girls screamed in excitement and then walked away and then from out of the limo came Shaggy in a brown and green tuxedo and Scooby Doo wearing a blue bow tie instead of his blue collar. All around they could hear the crowd cheer, "Scooby Doo! Scooby Doo!"
"Check it out. It's a Shag and Scoob Quake and the whole city's shaking" Shaggy laughed in excitement.
"Yeah" Scooby said and then took Shaggy's milkshake cup but suddenly got it stuck on his lips as Shaggy left.
He tried to shake it off but then finally did, but the entire milkshake accidently spilled all over their limo driver. Scooby cringed in embarrassment and said, "Whoops! Sorry"
"I consider it a privilege sir" The limo driver said and simply wiped the juice off his face with a handkerchief.
The limo then drove off to allow the next one to come, the gang all smiled as they watched now 16 year old Danny Fenton wearing a black tuxedo and then from out of the limo came his girlfriend Sam Manson wearing the same dress she wore during her freshman dance only the sleeves were longer and she left her hair down and pinned back one side of it with a black and silver rose shaped pin and then Valerie wearing a light yellow formal dress stepped out of the limo along with Tucker who was wearing a grey tuxedo.
The crowd cheered for the arrival of Team Phantom. Danny then said, "This is amazing guys, all of Mystery Inc's cases along with the ones we helped them solve over the last year and a half on display"
"And to think it all started from us getting them back together on Spooky Island" Sam said and then Danny wrapped his arms around her shoulder.
"May I escort you inside my lady?" Tucker offered his hand.
Valerie giggled and then said as she took his hand, "You may kind sir"
"Oh I wish mum, dad, Dani and Jazz could've come" Danny said with a sigh. "They're part of the team too"
"I know Danny but they didn't want to leave Amity Park unprotected" Sam said. "Let's just enjoy the night"
Two twin girls walked up to Daphne and handed her a purple rose each. Daphne smiled as she accepted them and said, "Don't you two look beautiful! Thank you"
"Danny! Danny! Can I have your autograph?" An eight year old boy that was sitting in a wheelchair with a cast on his right leg asked on the side of the fence. Danny smiled and nodded.
He walked over and not only signed his book, he signed his cast as well and then the rest of Team Phantom signed it as well. The little boy smiled and then his mother said, "Thank you so much. I've never seen him this happy"
"Your very welcome" They all said and then continued on up the stairs.
Velma, Shaggy and Scooby all signed autographs from their biggest fans and Scooby even talked to a lot of dogs who were fans of him as well. A reporter named Heather Jasper Howe then asked Fred and Danny, "May I have a world with Coolsville's hottest detectives and the ghost boy who saved the entire world?"
They both nodded and then Heather started as her assistant Ned held the camera at their faces and started reporting, "Heather Jasper Howe at the grand opening of the new Coolsonian Criminology Museum with the guests of honour the master detectives of Mystery Incorporated and the leader of Team Phantom Danny Phantom"
"First off Danny I understand that it has been a year and a half since the Disasteroid Incident when you saved the world and when you solved a mystery with Mystery Inc on Spooky Island. How does it feel to be part of this?" She asked Danny first.
"It's been really great because my friends and I have not only been successful with solving some cases with Mystery Inc but we have all become close friends with each other as well" Danny answered. "It's been a really great year and a half for all of us"
"Do you feel the same way Fred?" She asked Fred.
Fred smiled and answered, "Absolutely. To be honest if it wasn't for Danny and his team, we would have gone our separate ways after the whole incident at Spooky Island"
"Fred with all your team's success, will you still have time for us in little old Coolsville?" She then asked Fred.
"Of course little old Coolsville can solve its problem without us but we'll always be here to help" Fred answered. He then turned to the crowd and shouted, "The people of Coolsville are the best in the world!"
Everyone cheered at Fred's statement, all of them were unaware that a balding man in the crowd was frowning at them and then walked away and on the other side some sort of man wearing a trench coat and a hat covering his face was watching them from the crowd as well and ran off.
Inside there were people dancing, eating, drinking, looking at all the costumes that was donated by Mystery Inc, showing all the criminals that they had caught including the ones that during the year and a half Team Phantom had helped capture as well.
"Fred can you tell us more about the exhibit?" Heather asked.
"Of course" Fred answered as they walked around the exhibit. "Mystery Inc is proud to donate the costumes of the criminals we along with Team Phantom have unmasked in the past"
"Like the Black Knight Ghost which was Mystery Inc's very first case" Daphne presented while gesturing to a knight's costume.
Velma, Shaggy and Scooby gestured to a costume that looked like it had electric pulses as Velma presented, "The Ten Thousand Volt Ghost"
Sam then presented as she gestured to a twin pair of skeleton costumes, "The Skeleton Men which became Team Phantom's second mystery to solve with Mystery Inc"
"And even the dreaded Pterodactyl Ghost" Daphne added as she gestured to the dinosaur ghost costume.
"Team Phantom also helped solved the mystery behind Captain Cutler last year" Tucker added as he gestured to an old diver's suit. Velma then stood beside a Frankenstein costume that had chicken like features on its face as she explained, "We've also donated the costumes of some of our more ridiculous foes like Chickenstein"
As Velma left to introduce some of the other costumes, Shaggy and Scooby walked around and looked at the other costumes. Shaggy scoffed at Velma's comment about Chickenstein and said, "Ridiculous? Obviously she forgot that dude tried to pluck us"
Scooby nodded in agreement and said, "Yeah"
Daphne walked up to them and said, "Guys come on remember what I told you"
"Never pick your nose in public" Shaggy said. Daphne cringed in disgust but said, "No but that's good too"
"Image is everything" Scooby said. Daphne smiled and said, "Yes image is everything. The whole city's watching so try and keep a brave face"
As much as they both tried to keep a brave face, as soon as they stopped in front of the case that held the Pterodactyl Ghost's costume, the froze and whimpered in fear"
"Relax they're costumes" Daphne reminded them and then walked off.
"She's right Scoob" Shaggy said nervously. "Up close they look, totally fake"
Suddenly both the eyes blinked, which made them look a little nervous and then walked far away from it as possible. Danny was having a good time but still something was on his mind, Sam saw the troubled look on his face.
"Are you okay Danny?" Sam asked.
"Yeah I'm fine" Danny said. She then gave him a knowing look and asked, "You're thinking about that newspaper article again aren't you?"
"Okay yes" Danny admitted. "It's just that since Vlad somehow escaped prison, he's out there somewhere right now and for all I know he could come after any of us at any time"
"Look I know you're worried but try and relax. He can't stay hidden forever and as soon as he show's his face, we'll take care of him" Sam assured him.
Danny smiled and asked, "How did I get so lucky to have you as a girlfriend?"
"Kiss me and find out" Sam said. Danny chuckled and then they both hugged each other as they shared a kiss.
Valerie stood with Fred, Daphne and Velma next to the Tar Monster costume as Fred explained, "The Tar Monster scared the locals of the city of Byzantius away to take their treasure, but on the positive side he could pave your driveway for free"
Everyone laughed at his small joke. He then asked, "Isn't that right Velma?"
But Velma wasn't paying attention, she was too busy staring at a guy in a grey tuxedo, with brown hair and wearing glasses. His name was Patrick Wisely and she had a major crush on the guy, as he walked over to her he accidently tripped over but immediately got back up and recovered quickly and then stopped as soon as he reach her.
"Hi" He said with a smile. She smiled back and said, "Hi"
Daphne immediately saw the look on Velma's face and smiled knowing that she liked the guy. She walked over to them, Velma shook her head and said, "Oh Daphne this is Patrick Wisely, he's the curator here at the museum"
"It's very nice to meet you Patrick" Daphne said. "I'll hope you'll be working closely with Velma on this ever-expanding exhibit"
She nudged her closer to him and then left them to be alone. Patrick then said, "Listen Velma I know that you're a glamorous, mysterious, jet-set adventurer preoccupied intrigue and all but there's a symposium coming up on the syntactic reasoning in the criminal brain…"
Velma gasped in amazement and said, "I have always found a criminal's inclination to incorrectly use the interrogative pronoun in the place of the relative delightfully absurd"
"Me too" Patrick said with a wider smile. Velma smiled back and asked, "Really?"
"Yeah so maybe you'd want to go together?" Patrick asked which caught Velma off guard.
"You mean like a…" Velma tried to ask nervously. Patrick then finished her question, "Like a date. With me"
"Uh…no I can't Patrick" Velma answered. Patrick nodded in understanding as she finished, "Mystery is my mistress and I must heed her sweet call"
"Okay" Patrick said.
She turned around and walked away, she looked down sadly feeling stupid for how she reacted to that. Suddenly lightning flashed and then all the lights went out causing slight fear and confusion in the exhibit. Another bolt of lightning hit and then suddenly it broke an entire window, causing everyone to get frightened and scream.
Danny, Sam, Tucker and Valerie stood by Fred, Daphne and Velma. Valerie then asked, "What's happening?"
Sam suddenly saw something going on in the Pterodactyl case, there was a green glow and the curtains were flying around it. She walked over to it and then pulled back the curtains to reveal the Pterodactyl Ghost was alive! It roared in anger and caught everyone's attention.
"Oh boy" Sam exclaimed and then without warning the Pterodactyl Ghost broke the glass and caused Sam to fall over in fright.
"Sam!" Danny yelled and helped her stand up.
"Go Ned get it!" Heather said as she was pushed away with the crowd who started running out of the building.
The Pterodactyl Ghost kept on roaring and then took to the air and started flying around the room, Danny changed into his ghost from ready to fight.
"This is bad and none of us brought our ghost hunting equipment" Tucker said.
"We need to come up with a plan" Fred said. Scooby and Shaggy then came out from behind the Frankenstein costume as Shaggy exclaimed, "Hiding is our plan! In case you haven't noticed, there's an unidentified freaky object in here!"
The Pterodactyl Ghost landed down and started grabbing all the pieces of the Black Knight Ghost's costume. Velma then thought of a plan and said, "Danny blast it with a couple of ecto blasts while we wrap it with the curtains"
"Got it!" Danny said and then flew over to the ghost while the others went over to the curtains.
Velma then turned to Shaggy and Scooby and said, "Come on you chickens! Grab those ropes!"
"Okay!" Scooby said still scared and then he and Shaggy grabbed the ropes from the other curtains and headed over to the ghost.
Danny kept on blasting the ghost down with his ecto blasts and then stopped as Sam, Fred, Velma, Valerie and Tucker wrapped it up with the curtains and held onto it, Danny then joined and held onto it as well. Velma then shouted, "Shaggy, Scoob use the ropes to tie him up!"
Scooby and Shaggy started tying him around and around as Shaggy kept repeating in a panicky voice, "It's just a costume! It's just a costume! It's just a costume!"
Shaggy and Scooby then stopped and held onto the ropes as Shaggy said with confidence, "We tied it! Let go!"
They all let go and just when it seemed the plan worked, the ropes slid down and the curtains came undone to reveal a smirking Pterodactyl Ghost with its arms crossed. Shaggy's and Scooby's confident smiles dropped as it roared and took to the air with the Black Knight Ghost costume. Shaggy and Scooby then noticed that their hands were still tied onto the ropes and before they could do anything, they were being pulled along the ground by the ghost.
"We have to save Shaggy and Scooby!" Fred said as they went after them. Valerie then commented, "As usual"
As Shaggy and Scooby were still being dragged, dishes were broken and food was destroyed. Suddenly everyone heard two voices shout, "MYSTERY INCORPORATED! TEAM PHANTOM!"
Fred, Sam, Velma, Danny, Daphne, Valerie and Tucker all stopped at the sight of some sort of masked man wearing a black suit and Vlad Plasmius standing beside him on the broken window sill. News reporters kept their cameras on them as they both laughed.
"This is only the first rung on the ladder of your demise" The masked man said with a laugh.
"Well Daniel, it seems that even a jail cell could not contain me! Now I am free to get my revenge on you meddlesome brats and your so called famous Mystery Incorporated" Vlad announced.
Shaggy and Scooby were dragged through the glass case of the Skeleton Men costumes full on smashing it in the process and knocking down a pirate costume as well, its sword flew up in the air and then Daphne caught it.
"Danny give me a lift" Daphne said. Danny nodded and grabbed onto her and started heading for Shaggy and Scooby.
"This time you'll be the one's unmasked as the buffoons you truly are!" The masked man finished.
The Pterodactyl Ghost then grabbed the costume of the Ten Thousand Volt Ghost and started heading towards Plasmius and the masked man, Danny flew over near the rope and then Daphne cut it and released Shaggy and Scooby who landed right on top of the Frankenstein and Chickenstein costume.
The masked man then grabbed the rope and laughed evilly as he was taken along with the Pterodactyl Ghost. Vlad then said, "Oh don't worry Little Badger, we'll be back and soon you'll be destroyed and the Ghost Zone shall be mine!"
Vlad laughed and then disappeared into the night. A few minutes later after the lights came back on, the event was cancelled for the rest of the night and police and investigators started looking at the crime scene of the attack, the press stayed behind to keep people updated on what happened.
Danny, Fred, Sam, Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, Tucker and Valerie stayed behind not only to give their statements to the police but to also investigate in what happened. Velma crossed over the yellow tape into the where the Pterodactyl Ghost was displayed and noticed something on the pedestal, she lifted it to reveal it had the function to open and showed a secret hatch at the bottom of it.
"A secret hatch" Velma said to the others which caught their attention. "The real Pterodactyl Ghost must've come through here"
Velma then noticed on the side of the pedestal was a glowing green scale, she pulled it off and looked at it in amazement as she said, "A reptilian scale. A most wonderful clue"
"But what I don't get it is that he stole two costumes: The Black Knight Ghost and the Ten Thousand Volt Ghost. Why?" Danny asked in confusion.
"Maybe he's opening a new costume store?" Tucker joked hoping to brighten the mood. Everyone was silent and then Danny said, "Dude not the time"
That left them thinking, it was interrupted as Heather and a few other members of the press came over as she asked, "Fred, Daphne could you answer a few questions for the press?"
Daphne then whispered to Fred, "Fred I don't really think that's a good idea. We always face the press after we unmask the creeps. We looked ridiculous back there"
"Don't worry about us sweetheart" Fred said with a confident smile. "The press loves us"
And so they both turned and faced the press, if only they knew what would be on the news tomorrow morning.
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