G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

The witch sisters had just taken the lead, having shrunk the Werewolf Wagon and its passengers to a very tiny size along the race track, leaving our heroes to wander through the grass, completely unsure of how to handle this unexpected transformation.

Shaggy was the first to speak, his eyes wide with horror. “Oh, no! Look at us! We’re a pint-sized werewolf, tiny ponies, a little leopard, and a half-pint hound!”

“I know I’m probably gonna regret asking this,” Pipp groaned, “but what do you think is worse than this?”

Upon hearing revving coming up from behind them, Scooby looked back in order to see the other racers quickly gaining on them. “That could!”

“Uh-oh!” the group cried and braced for impact, just as the racers sped past them, leaving them to spin around helplessly…

…at least, until Somnia put a paw on top of the car, stopping the spinning. “Somnia!” cried Indigo. “Boy, are we glad to see you!”

“I’ll wait here until your friends can come and find you,” Somnia said, taking the car to the side of the road and curling up beside of it. “After what you’re doing for us… it’s the least I can do.”

And just like that, the young blue and purple leopard yawned and began taking a short nap while waiting for help to arrive.

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“Well, well,” Dracula smirked, having watched everything from the monitors. “It's a real race once again as the werewolf car has shrunk from the battle. Heh heh heh heh!”

But upon realizing that Vanna Pira didn’t laugh, Dracula turned back to her. “I said ‘shrunk from the battle’. Get it?”

“Get what?”

“...sheesh…” Dracula muttered before turning his attention back to the race. “Anyhow, the witch sisters are still out in front.”

And that's when the Freaky Franken-Wagon appeared back on the race track, having been pushed out by Frankenstein and Repulsa a few minutes before now. “And here comes the Freaky Franken-Wagon back into the race!” Dracula cheered. “The crowd is electrified!”

However, the crowd made no kind of response. “I said,” Dracula repeated, “the crowd is electrified!”

Frankenstein then shot the crowd of peasants with a bolt of electricity, causing them to cheer wildly. “Ohh… I like that…” Dracula smirked before his attention turned back to the group, still being protected by Somnia. “And as for the poor little teensy-weensy werewolf car…”

However, he was interrupted by Vanna Pira’s laughing, causing him to become confused. “What’s so funny?”

“Shrunk from battle!” Vanna Pira answered. “I finally got it! Ha ha ha!”

Dracula sighed to himself at this. “Her mind wanders and she just goes along for the ride…” he muttered before seeing Googie’s team approach the tiny Werewolf Wagon with Somnia waking up. “Wait a minute, wait a minute! What’s this?”

“It’s Shaggy’s pit crew!” Vanna Pira answered. “They’re the pits all right,” Dracula laughed as he pointed to Scrappy. “Just look what that little mutt is doing.”

Scrappy was using a tire pump to blow up the Werewolf Wagon back to full size, which Vanna Pira thought was really cute. “He's trying to pump up that little car! Ha ha ha!”

Dracula scoffed at this. “How pathetic.”

But when he and Vanna Pira looked again, their eyes went wide-- the car was full size now, and so were the crew inside of it.

Now they were back in the race again!

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Dracula continued to commentate on the race after a moment or two of being angry that the Werewolf Wagon was back in the race. “Well, fans, the competition for the "Monster of the Year" trophy' is getting even tougher. The Dragon Dragster is lashing out at the Mummy-Mobile. 'The Franken-Wagon and the Slime Speedster are in a real flap. And Bonejangles and Dr. Jackal' are each trying to get an oily lead.”

Upon making another joke about the cars spewing oil at each other, Dracula expected Vanna Pira to get this one. “I said oily lead. Get it?”

“Get what?”

“...stay with me,” Dracula mumbled. “I want to be alone.”

“Oh, look, Dracky!” Vanna Pira pointed to the Werewolf Wagon, still in the lead. “That precious Shaggy and his friends are way out in front! Oh, he's so cute in his fur. I wish I had a fur. Dracky, honey, will you give me a wrap?”

“Oh! You're going to get a rap, alright!” Dracula threatened. “Pow! To the moon!”

However, the witches’ cackling on the monitor caused Dracula’s attention to return to the race. “It looks like the witch sisters' in the Cauldron Coup are making another challenge for the lead.”

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“Come on, honey!” the first witch sister shouted. “Let’s give that wimpy werewolf a double freezy-frost whammy.”

“You’re on, sis,” the second witch nodded. “It’ll stop him and his little friends cold.”

“Ice cold!” the first sister agreed. “Testing.”

Both witches began to shoot out beams of icy magic, causing Misty and Sunny to try and block them with their alicorn powers.

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“Go, ghouls!” Dracula shouted with a smile. “I mean, uh, girls, go!”

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“Hey, Shaggy!”

The crew in the Werewolf Wagon noticed Cyrus flying beside of them, clearly worried. “You’ve got two haggy hot dogs coming up on your tail, and the girls look like they’re getting pretty tired!”

Shaggy wasn’t worried when he saw that Sunny and Misty were having a hard time deflecting the blasts-- he already had an idea of his own. “Don’t worry about us, Cyrus-- just get back to the others before ya get caught!”

“Okay… good luck!” Cyrus said before he flew off, and Misty and Sunny stopped deflecting the blast so Shaggy could turn to the others. “Time to cool those two cacklers right, Scoob?”

Scooby nodded and pulled out a mirror from under his seat. “Right!”

“Great idea, Scooby!” Pipp smiled. “Mirrors aren’t just for fashion-- they’re for function too!”

As soon as the blast struck the mirror, it went right back to the witches, trapping their car in a huge snowball that rolled back into the others, causing everyone to scream as they finally stopped rolling and landed in a huge snow pile.

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Dracula, on the other hand, was not happy with this development. “You wacky witches! Why don't you learn to hit what you aim at?!” he growled. To this, the witches sent a snowball right at his face, causing Dracula to sigh. “I had to ask…”

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A little bit later, Dracula had another idea for how to get Shaggy out of the race, and asked Vanna Pira to take over his duties once again. “Hi, horrible hot rod fans. 'Vanna Pira subbing for Dracky. Well, all the monster cars are back in the race again,” she said, turning to a monitor that showed Shaggy and Scooby eating pizza as the team in the Werewolf Wagon continued on, and Indigo was enjoying a nice brushing from Pipp. “But Shaggy is so far out in front, it's gonna take something really weird to catch him.”

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But around the same time, the sound of sirens caught Shaggy and Scooby's attention, causing them to look back and look at each other, surprised. “Like, weird!”

Behind them was Dracula in a police officer get up, riding a motorcycle as he pursued them. “Transylvania highway patrol. Pull that heap over for an inspection.”

Not realizing this was Dracula right away, Shaggy pulled over and did as he said. “Inspection? Yeah, like, what are you looking for?”

“Yeah,” Scooby nodded. “What?”

“None of your lips. Open this hood,” Dracula commanded, and Shaggy did as told. “Aha! Just as I thought. This engine is stolen property.”

“Stolen property?” Pipp obliviously cried out. “Since when?!”

Dracula then ripped the engine out of the car. “Since right now!”

“But, but…” Shaggy, Indigo and Scooby began to protest as Misty and Sunny suddenly figured out what was really going on. “No arguments!” Dracula snipped. “Now get that car off the track or I'll run you in.”

“But, but…”

“I said get it off!”

Misty whispered a plan, as well as the comment that the officer was really Dracula, into Shaggy's ear, causing Shaggy to smile and shrug in response. “Like, okay.”

With the simple press of a button, the engine sparked to life in Dracula’s hands. “What the…?! YEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWW!!!” Dracula screamed as the engine flew off with him, sending him bumping into every single tree in the area.

But that left our heroes with another problem… without an engine, they were probably out of the race for good.

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Once Dracula returned to the tent, all banged up from his engine ride, Vanna Pira took over commentating as the other racers began to pass the stuck Werewolf Wagon on the side of the road. “This is Vanna Pira again, fans,” she announced. “All the monster cars have passed Shaggy. With no motor, it looks like he's out of the race.”

“Boo…” the peasants in the crowd groaned. “Yes!” Dracula said triumphantly. “And now that he can't win, Shaggy will be a werewolf forever, and all of them will be under my power! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

However, as the crowd booed again, Vanna Pira looked back toward the monitor and smiled. “But wait-- Zipp, Hitch, Izzy, Sparky, Googie and Scrappy have just arrived with a spare engine!”

Truth be told, Izzy just got done installing the new engine, and as soon as it was in, the Werewolf Wagon sped off. “Shaggy’s back in the race!” Vanna Pira cheered, and the peasants in the crowd smiled. “Yay…”

Dracula scoffed and glared at them. “Make up your minds, peasants!”

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As the Werewolf Wagon continued to sail down the road, Googie spoke into the radio to contact the others. “Looky Lady calling Wheelie Wolf. We're going to cut out for the cutoff and cut a corner so we can cut in front of the pack again. 10-4.”

“Uh… yeah!” Hitch agreed as Sparky babbled. “Whatever Googie just said!”

And just like that, the group sped off to get ahead of the other racers.

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Unfortunately, Dracula was watching everything from the monitors... especially the fact that Shaggy was now talking about their fellow teammates. “Gee, guys,” he said to Scooby, Indigo and the ponies. “I’d hate to think where we'd be if anything happened to Sparky, the other ponies Googie and Scrappy.”

Unfortunately, this gave Dracula another, dirty idea… possibly his worst one yet. “Ohh. It would be just awful. Oh, Crunchy and Brunchy…”

“Uh, yes, master?” Brunch and Crunch chorused as they met up with him, and Dracula smirked down at them. “I have a real dirty job for you.”

Crunch clapped his hands at this. “Goody!”

“Ripping!” Brunch smiled. “Top ho!”

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Once he and Crunch had gotten their assignment, Brunch flew the Bat-Copter over the track to search for Googie and the others in Shaggy’s car. “Keep a sharp eye out for our target vehicle, old boy.”

“There! There!” Crunch pointed down to the car in question below. “There it is!”

“Indeed,” Brunch nodded before pressing a button, releasing a claw from under the copter. “Prepare the Sky Claw.”

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Now that they were getting closer and closer to the other racers, Shaggy's competitve spirit began to shine through more and more. “Come on, you guys like, move it over. Let me past! Let me past!”

However, Mr. Snide had other ideas, judging by the way he was holding a flask and beaker and driving at the same time. “Let’s see you get past this!”

Zipp hummed in thought as she watched this through her visor. “What’s Mr. Snide cooking up…?”

Mr. Snide poured the liquids in the beaker and flask together, creating an eerie purple mist that formed into a growling monster, scaring Indigo, Shaggy and Scooby out of their wits. “Shaggy, don’t get freaked by that geek!” Googie told her boyfriend over the radio. “It’s not real. Repeat-- the monster is not real!”

“Yikes!” Shaggy gulped nervously. “Are you sure the monster knows that?”

“She’s right, Shaggy!” Sunny pointed out. “Just race right through it!”

“Okay…” Indigo took a deep breath. “Here we go!”

And so, Shaggy slammed his foot on the gas pedal and sped off, past the other racers until they were neck and neck with their friends again. “Yay!” Izzy cheered while Hitch smiled at them. “Way to go, guys!”

“You’re in the lead again!” Scrappy agreed as Shaggy looked over at them. “Oh, boy, what a team, what a team! We could never win without you guys!”

“Precisely, old chap!”

Zipp, Hitch and Izzy gasped as they saw a huge claw coming at them from above, and Hitch grabbed Sparky and took emergency action. “Guys! Abandon funny car!”

The three ponies and Sparky leapt from the car and landed right on the side of the road, but unfortunately, Googie and Scrappy weren’t able to jump in time, getting captured by the Sky Claw and being taken away! “HEEELP!!!” Googie screamed in panic, and this caused fear to be instilled right into the others’ hearts.

All the other stuff may have been evil, but this?

This was way too far and way too dastardly for them to handle.