The Scooby-Doo! Mysteries: Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
Stranded in the Desert
Load Full StoryNext ChapterIt was late one night outside of Scorpion Ridge near Roswell, New Mexico. Three members of SALF were monitoring the stars for alien lifeforms when suddenly a huge auditory blast came over the headset of the operative at the control panel. The man's name was Max. He wore a blue shirt and a blue baseball cap. His partner, a woman with brown hair tied in a ponytail wearing a yellow shirt named Laura, asked him what had just happened.
"I got a blast from something," Max said, rubbing his left ear from the pain in his eardrum.
Laura walked over to the console and confirmed that Max was telling the truth.
"It's over 120 on the meter," Laura said, concerned.
Max put his headset back on to try to pick up the signal again, but it had already vanished. Just then, a man walked in the station with a white popped collar shirt and blue-green vest. His name was Steve and was with the other two people.
"What's going on?" Steve asked chuckling.
"We just got a reading," Laura explained.
"A loud one," Max said, pointing to his headset.
Steve couldn't believe his ears and checked Max's sonar monitor, but there was no signal.
"Whatever it was, it's gone now."
Steve mentioned that despite them wanting to work another shift, that all three of them need to get their rest.
"Well, we've earned our pay from Uncle Sam today," Max informed, handing the headset over to Steve.
"Who knows? We might've actually reached someone out there," Laura said confidently.
"Maybe they're already here," Steve said smugly as a blip appeared on the sonar monitor.
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Meanwhile, out on the dusty New Mexico roads was a rainbow-colored bus with seven emblems on the side. The bus had looked like it had seen better days, though, as it across the desert landscape with its driver being their lead vocalist, Rainbow Dash. She had the radio tuned in to a rock and roll station with the volume turned up very loudly.
"Rainbow Dash, would you mind turning down that insidious racket? I am trying to get some sleep!" Rarity hissed as she angrily lifted up her sleep mask.
"Way to spoil my fun, Rarity," Rainbow groaned, turning off the radio. "I was going to wake you guys up anyways. We're coming up towards a town, which means that they could have some good food there!"
"Rainbow, we just had dinner a couple of hours ago," Sunset yawned, looking at her phone.
"I know, but the food wasn't even tasty and the service was absolutely terrible," Rainbow groaned as the dust storm started picking up.
As she continued driving, the storm eventually got so bad that she couldn't see where she was going. She eventually turned off the road and onto a rocky path in the desert that was actually private United States government property.
"What is... with... this road?" Twilight asked between the bumps while trying to keep her glasses in place.
"Oh, my goodness! What is that awful screeching sound?" Rarity shrieked, covering her ears upon hearing the ominous sound.
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, bright lights appeared outside of the bus. The lights were coming from what appeared to be a giant alien spaceship. The lights eventually blinded the girls as the ship flew away, causing Rainbow Dash to veer the bus towards a guy wearing a green t-shirt and his giant Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. The two of them barely managed to get out of the way as Rainbow Dash veered the bus straight into a rock, bringing the bus to a complete stop. Thankfully, the airbags barely managed to save her life.
"Is everyone alright?" Applejack asked.
The other six girls in the bus replied to her that they were all okay. Soon, the whole group exited the bus and were curious as to what the flying craft that they saw was.
"Well, at least the tour bus is okay."
Applejack gently patted the bus, which eventually caused the entire thing to fall to pieces.
"Or rather it WAS okay until you decided to not bring any tools along," Sunset retorted, folding her arms.
"Yeah, guess I thought she could handle one last road trip before we'd have to make any repairs," Applejack said, chuckling nervously.
From the shadows, the teenage boy, named Shaggy, and his pal Scooby-Doo, emerged from their hiding spot and started walking towards the seven girls.
"Like, wow! That's even worse than the condition of the Mystery Machine, eh, Scoob?" Shaggy asked.
"Ruh huh," Scooby replied.
"Well, looks like we'll have to go in to that town over there and ask if anyone can fix it, because I'm not getting any signal on my phone," Twilight said, pointing towards what appeared to be lights in the distance.
"Like, hello," Shaggy said walking towards them with Scooby-Doo.
Sunset took one look at Shaggy and immediately felt as if her heart stopped. Her face became bright red. Her knees began to knock and her palms became sweaty. She knew in an instant that she had fallen in love.
"H-H-H-H-H-Hello," Sunset stammered. "W-W-W-W-W-Who are you?"
"Like, I'm Shaggy, and this here's Scooby-Doo," Shaggy said, introducing himself and his talking dog.
"Wow. Spike would be impressed. If he wasn't back at home being watched by my parents, that is," Twilight said, feeling embarrassed.
"Like, who's Spike?" Shaggy asked.
"Oh, Spike's my dog. He's a lot smaller than Scooby," Twilight replied. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends. Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Sunset Shimmer."
Sunset let out a nervous wave as she continued to blush.
"Pleased to meet all of you. Scoob and I are watching the Mystery Machine while the gang went into town to get help on fixing it," Shaggy said.
"Fix it? Is something wrong?" Twilight asked, feeling surprised.
"Like, the radiator's busted, so we can't leave to get back to Coolsville until it's fixed," Shaggy said.
"We're headed into town ourselves for help on our tour bus. If we come across your friends we'll tell them that you're still here," Twilight said as she and the others trailed off towards the town of Roswell, New Mexico.
As they were walking, Applejack tried her best to keep from laughing.
"What's so funny?" Sunset asked sharply.
"Nuttin'," Applejack giggled.
"Adorable," Rarity said in a sing-song voice.
Unbeknownst to the girls, however, something extremely creepy was about to go down in their first true mystery with Scooby-Doo and the rest of the gang...
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