The Scooby-Doo! Mysteries: Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders

Lester led the gang and the Rainbooms to his one-story house in the middle of the desert. He flipped on the light switch and walked inside his front door.

"Well, come on in," Lester said, gesturing the eleven teens and Scooby-Doo inside.

Everyone was amazed when they walked inside Lester's home. Fred, Daphne and Twilight noticed various newspaper clippings on his wall with articles dating back to the 1940's. One of the articles managed to catch Twilight's attention. It was an article from July of 1947 of the Roswell Daily Record when RAAF personnel mistook a crashed balloon for a flying saucer. Twilight adjusted her glasses to get a better look at the article.

"I remember my grandparents telling me about this incident here in Roswell. Apparently, the rubber and metallic debris from a crashed military balloon made it seem like a flying saucer had landed on Earth," Twilight explained.

"Now, that one I can believe, young lady. That's the only article I don't take all that seriously, since it was the early days of the theory of flying saucers," Lester said.

"Have you, uh, told the media about your experience with these green aliens, Lester?" Fred asked as Scooby sniffed Lester's model flying saucer next to a message on the wall that read, ALIENS GO HOME!

"Oh, yeah. A number of times," Lester scoffed. "But they think I'm some kind of nut!"

"Honestly, I can't imagine why they'd see you as a bit of a nut, given how vague and disturbing your story is," Rarity admitted with her arms folded.

Shaggy opened the closet door, causing a green alien figurine to fall off the top shelf. The sight of the doll scared Shaggy, Scooby and Fluttershy so much that they ran in the opposite direction close to a flying disk UFO model hanging from the ceiling.

"Be careful with that!" Lester snapped.

"Like, is this the kind of spaceship you went on?" Shaggy asked as Scooby and Fluttershy were trying to catch their breath after being startled by the creepy-looking alien doll.

"Yep, heh. Something like that," Lester chuckled.

"But you said you had pictures," Fred said, reminding Lester of what he told them back at the diner.

"You bet I do," Lester confirmed. "Lots of pictures."

Lester walked over to an area that was covered in a white sheet. He yanked the sheet away, revealing a plethora of beautiful paintings.

"Oh! Paintings," Daphne said, feeling a little bit disappointed, as she was expecting actual photographs.

"Yep, I'm a landscape artist," Lester said proudly.

Rarity knelt down and started flipping through the middle stack of paintings.

"I-I-I-I-I do believe that they are very interesting, Lester," Rarity said nervously, trying not to hurt his feelings.

"Well, thank you," Lester replied, letting out a chuckle. "I've been tryin' to show people the danger out there, but no one is believing me."

Rarity eventually flips to a paining that depicts a spaceship shaped like a deerstalker hat with multiple lights coming from the windows above what appeared to be satellite dishes. Rarity gasped upon seeing the ship and picked up the painting for the others to see.

"This looks like the ship we saw earlier," Velma pointed out.

"You saw it too, darling?" Rarity asked.

Velma nodded her head as Scooby-Doo agreed with her.

"We don't even know we saw a ship," Fred said, trying to be logical.

"Well, all of us definitely saw something that resembled this spaceship in the painting, Freddy," Rarity said.

Twilight adjusted her glasses as she looked at the dishes intently.

"Lester, what are these supposed to be?" Twilight asked as Rarity turned the painting around to face him.

"SALF dishes," Lester said looking outside his window. "The government up 'em about a year ago."

"What are they for?" Daphne asked.

"SALF means Search for Alien Life-Forms."

"They send and monitor messages to and from space, hoping to find intelligent life," Velma explained.

"Ever since they built them dishes, aliens started to show up. And I know why."

Hearing this, Shaggy accidentally broke the model cruiser he was holding in half. Seeing this, Fluttershy put her hands on her hips and glared at him annoyingly. Curious, Fred asked why aliens would start showing up after the SALF dishes were built by the government.

"TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

Lester suspiciously walked over to Shaggy and Scooby, who were trying to put the model back together. Noticing Lester, the two friends hid the pieces behind their backs as Lester walked away. Fluttershy face-palmed in disbelief at what she had just witnessed.

"Are you two always this jittery?" Fluttershy asked.

"Ruh-huh," Scooby said, nodding his head.

"I think Lester's been painting out in the sun too long," Fred said.

"Maybe, Freddy, but there could be a connection between those dishes and the aliens," Velma informed. "I think we should investigate."

"I agree with Velma on this one. Something suspicious is definitely going on here," Twilight said in agreement as she walked towards the window. "And I'd like to get to the bottom of this and find out if aliens really do exist!"

"I got more of them pictures in the back room, you young'uns want to see 'em?" Lester asked as Scooby and Shaggy kept tossing the model cruiser like a hot potato back and forth until it landed safely on the top shelf.

"No thanks, is there a hotel in this town?" Fred asked.

"There ain't no hotel," Lester chuckled. "But you're welcome to stay here for the night."

"That would be absolutely lovely, but we didn't bring our sleeping bags," Rarity admitted nervously.

"You mean these things?" Pinkie asked, pulling seven sleeping bags out of her hair.

"How did she?" Shaggy asked, in confusion.

"It's best not to question how and what with Pinkie Pie. It's just the way she is," Twilight explained, nervously adjusting her glasses.

"Well, now that that's settled, you two young ladies can sleep in the back room," Lester said to Daphne and Velma, opening the door to a bedroom with bunk beds and more of his paintings. "It used to be the kids' 'til they moved out."

He then picked up the daily newspaper off of his couch, showing Fred where he'd be sleeping.

"Like, what about us?" Shaggy asked.

"Don't worry. I've got a place for you, too," Lester informed. "BUT QUIT TOUCHING MY STUFF!"

Shaggy and Scooby nervously agreed to stop touching his stuff in exchange for a place to sleep for the night.

*****

Lester opened a door to the roof of his house and showed Shaggy and Scooby where they'd be sleeping.

"Oh, my goodness, Lester! This is beautiful. Um... If you don't mind, I'd like to sleep up here tonight," Fluttershy said, holding her sleeping bag.

"Well, don't see why not, young lady. It's real nice up here, ain't it?" Lester admitted, as Shaggy, Scooby and Fluttershy admired the desert landscape. "Now you kids get a good night's rest."

He tossed a white sheet towards Shaggy, which landed on top of him, making him look like a ghost. The sight of which ended up terrifying both Scooby-Doo and Fluttershy.

"Thanks, Les!" Shaggy called as Lester went back into his house. "Oh, sorry you two."

Scooby breathed a heavy sigh of relief when he realized that it was just Shaggy.

Later on, after everyone had settled down for the night, two of the aliens that Shaggy described at the diner exchanged glances as they stopped in front of Lester's house. Fred was on the couch with his shoes off, bundled up with a blanket. Rarity slept soundly in her sleeping bag while wearing her purple sleep mask with hair curlers in her hair. Pinkie was in her sleeping bag, as well, muttering in her sleep. Applejack had her Stetson hat covering her face while she slept in her sleeping bag. Rainbow and Sunset were peacefully asleep in their sleeping bags as they had settled in for the night. In the back room, Velma and Daphne were asleep on the bunk beds. Velma had her glasses on the nightstand and the girls' shoes were on the floor next to the beds. In the same room, Twilight also had her glasses off. She had also removed her star hair accessory and her star-shaped scrunchie, letting her hair down for the night as she slept in her sleeping bag. On the roof, Scooby and Shaggy were asleep in the two chairs while Fluttershy was tucked in her sleeping bag in between them.

Unbeknownst to Shaggy, Scooby and Fluttershy, an alien spaceship that was hovering above the house slowly approached them while a bright green light illuminated from the bottom of the ship. The light shone brightly on the three friends, which slightly disturbed their sleep.

“Like, turn out the night light, Scoob,” Shaggy said in his sleep.

From the underbelly of the ship emerged three pairs of metallic claws that lifted Shaggy, Scooby and Fluttershy inside. Once they were inside, the hatch on the underside of the ship closed and the ship flew away from the house.

*****

Inside the ship, several bright lights from a ceiling lamp lit up the laboratory-like room. Shaggy, Scooby and Fluttershy were all still fast asleep until Fluttershy began struggling. She slowly opened her eyes and immediately noticed that she was strapped to a metallic table just as Lester had described back at the diner.

"Scooby! Scooby-Doo! Wake up!" Fluttershy whispered, shaking.

Scooby was still sleeping until two of the aliens that both he and Shaggy encountered out by Scorpion Ridge started making noise and looked down upon him.

"What time is it?" Scooby asked groggily.

The aliens slowly came into his view and that's when he realized where the three of them were.

"Ruttershy? Rhere are re?"

"I hate it say it, Scooby! But, we're on these aliens' spaceship!" Fluttershy squeaked fearfully.

"Raggy?" Scooby asked fearfully, trying to get his friend awake.

"Not now, Scoob," Shaggy said sleepily. "I'd gladly accept the position of food critic for your magazine."

"Shaggy, now is not the time to be dreaming of food!" Fluttershy shivered.

Shaggy eventually woke up and saw the aliens that he and Scooby encountered earlier. His hair stood on end upon realizing where they were.

"ALIENS! Hey, let us go! Like, we taste terrible!" Shaggy said while shaking in fear as one of the aliens extended its green tube-like finger to touch his forehead. "We're all stringy!"

"Reah! Ringy!" Scooby agreed as another aliens touched his face as he shook in fear.

The last alien proceeded to touch Fluttershy's forehead as she struggled to get loose from the straps.

"No. Nononononononono! Don't touch me! Don't touch me! I'll scream! I'll scream!" Fluttershy said panicking.

As the alien touched her forehead, true to her word, Fluttershy let out a short scream.

"Do not fear us, Earth creatures," The alien looking at Shaggy instructed.

"Like, it's too late for that, man," Shaggy said as the three of them shook with fear.

The alien next to Scooby's table stuck two electrode wires on him. One on top of his head and one on his nose. Fluttershy shook uncontrollably as the alien over her table stuck one electrode wire to her forehead. The alien over Shaggy's table stuck one to the bottom of his neck near his chest. This caused him to laugh, as it ended up tickling his skin. One last wire was stuck to Scooby's left side, which tickled his fur. All of the laughing caused the aliens to glance at each other in complete confusion.

"Cooperate and you will not be harmed," The alien looking at Shaggy warned.

Scooby and Shaggy stopped laughing, fearing what the aliens might do to them if they didn't listen. One of the aliens nodded to another over by a console. The alien pushed a button, activating a machine, scaring the three friends. Scooby realized that his tail was free and tried to get it to push a button on his table. Fluttershy noticed what Scooby was doing and tried to get her left hand over to a similar button next to her as she struggled through the straps.

"You will released after questioning and physical examination," The alien told Shaggy, looking up from his flashing console.

"Like, sorry, but our health plans don't cover physicals," Shaggy said, trying to make an excuse.

Scooby's tail eventually hit the button down by his back legs, releasing him of the wires and straps. Fluttershy, strained as hard she could until she eventually pressed the button down by her legs, also releasing herself from the straps and wires.

"I did it!" She gasped.

The aliens realized what had happened, causing Scooby to push Shaggy's table as he ran away, with Fluttershy following close behind. The aliens chased them around the circular room until Scooby ran in the back of one with Shaggy's table. The two of them soon engaged in a round of tug-of-war, trying to claim possession of Shaggy, who was still strapped to the table. Eventually, they both let go and Shaggy's table went spinning around the room, knocking over the other two aliens. Shaggy noticed what he was looking at and ran away in fear.

"A little help, here, you two!" Shaggy screamed.

Scooby and Fluttershy ran away from the other alien, but eventually crashed into Shaggy, stopping the three of them in their tracks. The aliens closed in on them and one of them was holding what appeared to be a futuristic-looking taser. The three of them were so scared that they ended up fainting as the alien with the taser prepared to do some experimenting on them.