G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

“Attention, ladies and gentle monsters!” Dracula’s voice boomed across the loudspeakers stretching across the entire castle-grounds. “The 753rd annual Monster Rally is about to begin!”

“Yay…” the peasants droned on, enthusiastic for the event to begin.

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At the same time, as Shaggy tried to navigate the Werewolf Wagon toward the starting line, the car bucked around like a wild bronco, causing the six teammates to brace themselves. “Boy, guys,” said Shaggy in concern, “like, this car is weird!”

“Tell me about it-- the only time the Marestream ever bucked this much was when there was ice on the wings,” Sunny said in thought. “I guess we’re just gonna have to improvise and do the best with what we have.”

“Ohh! I hope you’re right, Sunny,” Indigo groaned. “I don’t know if I can take much more of this!”

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At the same time, Dracula was announcing all of the teams and their vehicles as they made their way to the starting line. “Introducing in position number one, Frankenstein and Repulsa in the Freaky Franken-Wagon. In position number two, Swamp Thing in the Slime Speedster. Number three is the Witch Sisters in the Cauldron Coup. Next is Mr. Bonejangles in his Bone Bomber.”

“Yay…” the peasants droned on as Dracula continued with the introduction of the racers. “And here comes the Mummy in his Mummy Mobile! And here is Dr. Jackal and Mr. Snide in the Split-Personality Special. The Dragonfly in his Dragon Dragster. And last, but not least, Shaggy the werewolf in the Werewolf Wagon.”

But as he and Vanna Pira looked, Dracula saw that Shaggy was having a tough time keeping the Werewolf Wagon in check… so much so that as Shaggy’s team approached the finish line, the Werewolf Wagon slammed into the other teams’ vehicles, causing the teams to grumble, and Dracula to sob in frustration. “Oh, no-ho-ho-ho!!”

“There there, Dracula,” Vanna Pira tried to be comforting as Dracula continued to vent his frustration. “It's enough to make a grown monster cry…”

Shaggy saw that the other monsters were glaring at the group, causing Sunny to try and make the situation less tense. “Sorry about that, everyone! Shagster here doesn’t quite have the hang of this thing yet. Heh heh heh…”

“Yeah,” Scooby said before chuckling nervously. But the more Indigo thought about it, the more she thought that Dracula had more to do with the Werewolf Wagon acting suspicious than any of her other friends thought.

They would have to keep a close eye on this during the race.

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Within a few minutes, the mess with the vehicles was quickly cleaned up, and all the vehicles were ready to start the race. That's when Googie's voice began to echo through Shaggy's in-car radio system. “Breaker, breaker. This is Looky Lady calling Wheely Wolf. Come on back.”

Shaggy grabbed the radio and pressed the button upon hearing Googie’s voice. “Loud and clear.”

“What’s the story, Shaggy?” Zipp asked through the radio as well. “When’s the race gonna start?”

“It’s gonna start any minute,” Misty said out loud to her friends as she flipped through her spellbook. “In the meantime, I can look at these defense spells in case anything fishy were to go on.”

At the tent, Vanna Pira held up the starting gun to her husband with an optimistic smile. “Can I shoot off the starting gun now, Dracky? Huh? Can I?”

“Be careful-- just a minute,” Dracula said firmly before looking over at the Werewolf Wagon, unaware that Indigo was watching him closely. “I can't have Shaggy fouling up everybody's car again.”

In an instant, he poofed over to where the Hunch Bunch was hiding. “Ya-haa! Look alive! Attention!” he shouted in a military-like fashion, startling the two and making both Crunch and Brunch salute before Dracula spoke again. “I got a job for you boys. Make sure that werewolf car gets a bad start.”

“You can rest assured, sire,” Brunch reassured before Dracula poofed away, letting the Hunch Bunch get to work once again.

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Just a few minutes later, Dracula spoke to the crowds once again. “All the necessary repairs have been made. The race is once more ready to begin.”

But what anyone didn't realize was that Crunch and Brunch had tied chains around the back end of the Werewolf Wagon, connecting it to the stage so it would be stuck in place.

And seeing that this was going as he planned, Dracula continued with the rousing of the crowd. “The crowd is going wild with anticipation.”

“...yay,” the crowd deadpanned, and Dracula knew that he was going to have to try a lot harder in order to get the excitement he was hoping for. “Louder!”

“...yay…”

“LOUDER!!!”

“...yay…”

Eventually, Dracula sighed to himself-- if the crowd was going to be this enthusiastic, he may have had more problems than he would have liked to admit.

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The engines revved up as the race was just about to begin, and Indigo glanced around for any sign of the Hunch Bunch, having thought she smelled them a few minutes ago. “I was sort of expecting something really bad to happen,” she admitted, “that might put us behind schedule.”

“Uh… when you mean something really bad,” said Pipp, looking out the window, “do you mean the kind of really bad stuff that leaves our car chained to the stage?”

“What?!” Misty cried, looking back to see Pipp was right. “Oh, no… it must be Dracula and the Hunch Bunch at their old tricks again!”

“What do we do?!” Scooby yelped. “I got an idea,” Sunny said. “Shaggy, when I say 'go'… floor it!”

“Let the race begin!” Dracula shouted from the tent, and Vanna Pira shot off the starting gun, and the rest of the competitors shot out in front, giving Sunny the perfect moment to initiate her idea. “Shaggy, GO!!”

Shaggy slammed his foot on the gas pedal, causing the tires to spin for a few brief moments before Misty activated her magic, blasting at the chains near the stage and causing the stage to collapse once the chains broke free, letting the Werewolf Wagon zoom off after the others.

Dracula, who was picking himself up from the debris left behind, growled in irritation. “That Brunchy and Crunchy…”

However, as he grabbed the starting gun from the pile of debris, he noticed too late that the barrel had been twisted so it was pointing right at him, causing him to accidentally shoot himself in the process.

This caused the crowd of peasants to become enthusiastic, and the cheering escalated to ten times what it was a few moments before. “Pipe down!” Dracula shouted at them before marching off to get himself cleaned up so he could broadcast on the race.

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Once getting himself cleaned up, Dracula made it back to the repaired tent to continue his broadcast. “Well, fans,” he said, “the race is underway. The field is tightly packed as the monsters jockey for position. All except for the Werewolf Wagon which trails badly.”

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As it turns out, Dracula was right-- due to the tampering of the engine the Hunch Bunch did, the Werewolf Wagon was quickly falling behind, putting our small team of heroes in last place. “Like, this car's engine is nowhere,” Shaggy said before beginning to climb out of the window. “Stay here with the girls and take the wheel, Scoob. I'm gonna see if I can climb under the hood and fix it.”

Scooby gulped nervously, but slid into the driver’s seat and did as told. “Okay!”

“And I’m gonna start my livestream while you guys do… whatever else you need to do!” Pipp said, pulling out her phone and selfie stick before beginning the livestream. “Hello, Pippsqueaks! This is Pipp Petals coming to you live from the Monster Road Rally, where our hero Shaggy is climbing under the hood while on the road to try and fix an enormous engine problem that’s slowed us down! Can he do it and ensure we have a shot at victory? Let’s wait and find OOOOUUUUT!!!!”

As it turns out, Shaggy was able to quickly fix the Werewolf Wagon, causing it to shoot forward in a burst of speed, which caused Sunny to laugh as Shaggy took the driving position from Scooby. “I’d say he got it fixed all right!”

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“The monster cars are still closely packed in,” Dracula said before seeing something come up on the monitor. “But wait-- what’s this?”

As he saw the Werewolf Wagon zoom out in the lead, Dracula’s eyes grew wide. “Oh, no. The Werewolf Wagon comes out of nowhere to take the lead! Take over, darling. I'll be right back.”

And after giving Vanna Pira the microphone, Dracula poofed away, giving Vanna Pira the chance to be in the spotlight for a moment. “This is Vanna Pira again with some more color commentary. There's some orange and some red and some more red and…”

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Dracula swiftly appeared in the Bat-Copter with the Hunch Bunch, who were keeping an eye on the race from above, and it was clear to see that Dracula was not pleased. “I thought you two fixed that werewolf car so that it couldn't win!”

“Ah, yes, master,” Brunch said, “but Shaggy un-fixed it.”

“Well, then you un-unfix it!” Dracula snapped at the duo before poofing back to the tent. “Very well,” Brunch sighed before turning to his comrade. “Crunch! Tacks away!”

Crunch chuckled sinisterly at this. “Tacks away!”

With the simple flick of a lever, Crunch was able to make at least 300,000 tacks fall into the middle of the race track, hoping this would slow Shaggy down and keep him from winning the race.

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Fortunately for Shaggy's team, Googie and her team were able to spot this road-wide disaster right away. “Looky lady calling Wheely Wolf!” Googie said into the radio. “We got a tacky track attack.”

“Turn another way, Shag!” Zipp cried out. “Detour! Detour!”

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Shaggy heard this and immediately veered off to the side of the road, leaving Indigo to cheer excitedly. “Shaggy’s got some smooth moves, huh, Scoob?!”

However, as she said this, Scooby's eyes widened as the group was heading toward a gigantic cliff... and there was no way to stop in time! “Yeah… real smooth!”

That’s when the Werewolf Wagon fell right off the cliff, and the group screamed as Misty and Sunny tried to lower their descent. Luckily for them, they were able to catch themselves on a tree branch sticking out of the cliff wall, but who knows how long that one branch will hold?

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“Calling the Hunch Bunch,” Dracula said into the radio as he got back to the tent and took over commentator duties. “Did you disable Shaggy's car yet?”

“Right-o. Indeed we did,” Brunch said sinisterly. “Our shower of tacks took him and his little pony pals right out of the race!”

Unfortunately, the sound of popping caused Dracula's attention to turn to the monitor again, and as it turns out, all the other competitors didn't see the tacks in time and had driven right onto them, popping their tires instead. “And… unfortunately, sire,” Brunch said hesitantly, “it took out all the other competitors as well.”

Dracula groaned in frustration at this, slapping a hand right on his head. “That Hunch Bunch would break my heart! …if I had one.”

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Scooby quivered and whimpered nervously as he, Shaggy, Indigo, Misty, Pipp and Sunny sat in the car on that tree branch, and this quivering caused the car to quiver as well. Shaggy knew that if they didn’t wanna plunge to their deaths, he had to calm Scooby down somehow. “Like, quit shakin’, Scoob!”

“Yeah, Scooby, it’s gonna be okay,” Indigo said calmly. “We’ll figure out a way out of this.”

“Hang in there, guys!”

The group looked out the window to see Izzy trying to lift the Werewolf Wagon off of the branch, and the others standing nearby for backup. “Yeah!” Scrappy agreed, looking down at them. “We’ll get you out of there!”

“Whoooo-hoo!” Pipp cheered before turning back to her livestream. “Hear that, everypony? Nothing bad can happen to us now!”

“Yay!” Scooby cheered, jumping in place a bit. However, as he did this, the branch broke underneath them, causing the car to immediately plummet, causing the girls to scream and hold onto each other, with Misty and Sunny trying to catch them again.

However, the alicorn/earth pony and unicorn duo were a bit too exhausted from the first try to succeed, and Indigo and Pipp couldn’t stop the falling car on their own, so Shaggy and Scooby clung to each other tightly, the former choosing to say farewell to his canine companion while they still had time. “Like, so long, ol' pal, ol' buddy ol' friend, oh-oh-oh!”

Scooby gulped nervously at this. “Goodbye…”

“Oh no you don’t!” Hitch shouted and slammed a hoof on one of the buttons in Shaggy’s car, causing a giant magnet to appear and stop the group from falling.

Shaggy was the first to open his eyes at this. “Huh?”

“What happened?” Indigo looked confused, causing Pipp to look up and smile. “It’s my sister and our friends saving us, that’s what! Hold on tight, everypony!”

The Werewolf Wagon was slowly raised to the top of the cliff again, allowing Googie to set it firmly on solid ground with the help of the magnet. “Yay!” Scooby howled a greeting as Sunny high-hoofed Zipp. “Great work, guys! Thanks!”

“No problem, Sunny,” Zipp smiled. “Just doing what we can to help.”

“Now get back and win this race,” Googie told the team (more specifically looking at Shaggy), “or you’re a werewolf forever!”

“Right!” Shaggy nodded firmly. “Like, hang on, guys!”

“Go, Team Shaggy!” Izzy cheered with Sparky giggling alongside her as they watched their friends zoom out of sight to resume the race, all of their fates hanging in the balance.