G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

Shaggy had just been turned into a fuzz-faced werewolf by the Hunch Bunch and Indigo (the latter being forced to, of course), and while Googie had been paying no attention to the change, too enamored by the moonlight, Crunch and Brunch hopped up and down in celebration while Indigo sat in horror at what she had just allowed to happen.

Finally, Googie spoke up to her boyfriend again. “Oh, Shaggy-kins, what a dreamy night.”

Shaggy growled at her a bit before hiccupping again, and as he reverted back to normal (much to the shock of the Hunch Bunch), Googie turned to him with an annoyed look. “Shaggy, I told you you'd get the hiccups if you drank too fast.”

“Like, I’m sorry,” Shaggy apologized. “ Besides, I don't have the hiccups. That was just one.”

“It was not just one,” Googie said back, “it was two!”

“Well, like, I don't have them anymore, okay?”

“Well… okay.”

Shaggy then took another slurp of his drink, but when he hiccupped again, he returned back to his werewolf form. “Oh, give me that!” Googie tossed the drink out the window, landing on Indigo and causing her to shake her fur out to get it off.

Shaggy growled at Googie’s actions before he hiccupped again, returning to normal before Googie turned to confront him. “Oh, don't you growl at me!”

“Growl?” Shaggy questioned. “Like, I didn’t growl at you!”

“You did too!”

“Did not!”

“Yes, you did! And just don't bother me!”

Shaggy continued to hiccup and change back and forth between forms, and eventually, Crunch turned to his partner-in-crime for an answer. “What's going on?”

“Beats me, old boy,” Brunch answered honestly as they continued to watch the situation. “Oh, for goodness sakes, Shaggy… go and do something for those hiccups.”

“Like, okay, okay,” Shaggy sighed, getting out of the car, having reverted to normal. “I guess I need something to eat.”

“That boy…” Googie sighed to herself as she watched him walk off. “It's a good thing for him that I'm crazy about him.”

“Boy, like, I don't know why she gets so uptight…” Shaggy said as he continued to hiccup and change forms. “Just because… hiccup… I have… hiccup… a little case of… hiccup… hiccups.”

However, as he walked past many of the different cars with people watching the movie, he noticed a lot of them screaming their heads off just as he walked past. “Like, why do girls always scream at these drippy horror movies?”

Once he hiccupped again and returned to normal form, everything seemed fine for a minute or so… but when he hiccupped another time and returned to werewolf form, the people started screaming again, causing Shaggy to chuckle, still thinking that they were watching the movie instead of him. “Incredible. Some people get shook up by anything.”

And so, he finally made it to the snack bar, talking to the attendant while the Hunch Bunch and Indigo watched from nearby. “You know,” said Shaggy, “I don't believe how these bird-brains go so nuts at this dumb horror stuff.”

“Yeah, well, you know, your kids nowadays are really goofy. In my day, we had our heads on a lot straighter,” the attendant said before turning to Shaggy, not noticing his werewolf form right away. “What'll it be, pal?”

“A triple guacamole dip, please.”

“Coming up!”

Shaggy hiccupped again as soon as the attendant turned around, reverting to normal before speaking again. “Oh, like, hold the onions. I'm with my girlfriend.”

“Uh… no onions,” said the attendant. “Right.”

As Shaggy kept hiccuping and reverting back and forth, Indigo found herself growing confused. “Brunch? Why do you think he keeps changing?”

“Shh!” Brunch shushed her to keep her voice down. “I must confess. I'm at a loss for an explanation, Indigo.”

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The Mane 6, Sparky, Scrappy and Scooby had left the snack bar just before Shaggy had gotten there, and were now arriving back at the car with their boatload of snacks. “We’re back, guys!” Sunny said as they set the snacks down. “Yeah, dig in,” Scooby said before noticing Shaggy’s absence. “Uh… where’s Shaggy?”

“Oh, he went to get something for his hiccups,” Googie explained. “But where are the napkins?”

“Oops! I knew we forgot something! You guys stay here… we’ll be right back!” Misty said, realizing their mistake before guiding Scooby back the way they came.

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Around the same time, some of the kids who had seen Shaggy had called an officer to the scene to report it, but the officer didn’t seem to believe it at first. “Ah, come on now. You're pulling my leg.”

“No, sir!” said the first girl. “We all saw him!”

“It was totally weird!” said one of the boys. “He changed right in front of our eyes!”

“That’s right!” another girl agreed. “It was horrible!”

“No lie, officer,” said the second boy as Misty and Scooby trotted past. “There’s a real werewolf in this drive-in!”

“A real werewolf?!” Misty and Scooby repeated, stopping in total terror. “Oh no!”

And so, the two leapt inside of a nearby car to hide. “And he went toward the snack bar! 'Come on!” said one of the boys, and the kids proceeded to run with the officer in the direction of the werewolf sighting.

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Indigo and the Hunch Bunch proceeded to watch Shaggy for a few moments before the trash can they were hiding behind moved, causing Indigo to shriek in surprise. “Hello? What’s this?” Brunch looked confused before Dracula popped out of the trash can. “Oh, it’s you, master.”

“Yes,” Dracula removed a banana peel from his head. “Well, where is my Shaggy werewolf?”

“Shh! Over there, your awfulness,” Brunch pointed to the now-werewolf Shaggy. “Excellent!” Dracula smiled, pleased. “Well, what are you waiting for? Go and get him!”

“Uh… just one minor problem, sire,” Indigo said politely. “It seems like Shaggy has… well… he has the hiccups!”

However, Dracula was confused about why this was a problem. “Hiccups? Hiccups? Big deal! So what if he has the hiccups?”

But, when Dracula saw Shaggy’s hiccup-induced transformations, he knew they had a real problem. “Oh, no! A convertible werewolf!” he muttered before turning to his three servants. “You'd better cure his hiccups fast, or I'll put lumps on your humps!”

“Rest assured, sire,” Brunch smiled. “We’ll have him back at the castle within the hour.”

“Um… I’m gonna meet you guys back at the copter,” Indigo said before sneaking off as the Hunch Bunch made themselves ready to grab Shaggy.

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However, as he turned to face Shaggy with his guacamole dip, the attendant at the snack bar saw Shaggy’s werewolf form. “Here’s your triple… WHAAA!!!”

As he zoomed away, Shaggy moved back, letting the Hunch Bunch crash into the snack bar and sending Shaggy on the run. “Yikes! Monsters! HELP!!!”

Crunch began to give chase after him, but Brunch pulled him out of sight as the kids from before and the officers began to give Shaggy chase instead. “That’s him!” one of the boys shouted. “That’s the monster!”

“Huh?!” Shaggy cried out. “No, not me! WAIT!! YEOW!!”

“Get him!”

“That’s him!”

As the crowd proceeded to chase after Shaggy, Crunch prepared to go after him again, only for Brunch to stop him before he could. “Wait, Crunch. We can apprehend him easier from the BatCopter.”

“Okay,” Crunch nodded and proceeded to walk off to where the BatCopter and Indigo would be waiting for them.

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Shaggy proceeded to run from the crowd, unsure of why anyone would think he was a monster (of course, he still didn't realize he was a werewolf now). “Hey, like, I know I'm not handsome but I'm no monster! Like, I give up!”

But as he hid and hiccupped again, he reverted to normal and this let the crowd run past him, causing Shaggy severe confusion. “What gives here, anyway?”

However, when he hiccupped again, his werewolf form was once again revealed. “There he is!” the officer cried. “Let’s get him!”

“Not again!” Shaggy cried as he bolted off again. “Like, this is nuts!”

“Get him!”

“Grab that werewolf!”

“After him!”

Shaggy hiccuped and reverted back to normal at a white convertible nearby… the same white convertible Misty and Scooby had been hiding in. So, without another moment of hesitation, Misty and Scooby grabbed Shaggy and pulled him into their hiding place as soon as the crowd ran by.

“There he goes!”

“After him!”

“Get him!”

And just like that, the crowd had run off. And once they were alone, Scooby shushed Shaggy in order to make sure he kept his voice down. “There’s a monster loose!”

“There’s two of them,” Shaggy said fearfully, referring to the Hunch Bunch. “And that crowd thinks one of the monsters is me!”

“You?” Misty blinked in confusion, and this prompted Scooby to laugh at such a ridiculous claim. However, when Shaggy laughed with Scooby, he hiccuped again, revealing his werewolf form. “AGH!!” Misty and Scooby shrieked, but only the latter was able to speak after this. “It is you!”

Needless to say, Shaggy was shocked. “What?!”

“Look!” Misty said as she tilted the rearview mirror in his direction, and this time, Shaggy was able to realize what had been going on. “Oh no… oh no! I-I’m a werewolf!” he cried out, completely in panic. ‘Scooby, old buddy, old pal, what'll I do?”

However, as he turned, he and Misty realized Scooby had disappeared. “Scooby?”

Scooby was currently trying to sneak away, causing Misty to sigh and grab his tail with her magic. “Come back here!”

Once Scooby was back in the safety of the car, Shaggy turned to them with a desperate plea. “You and Misty gotta help me, Scoob, old pal, old friend, old dear good buddy!”

“Uh… we’ll try, Shaggy,” Misty said with an uneasy frown, “but it may take a little time in order to figure out what to do next.”

“Misty?”

The three of them gasped and froze as soon as they heard a voice, and Misty turned to see it was just her friends. “Misty! We heard screaming coming from over here!” Sunny said as she, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Izzy approached. “Is everything…?”

But as soon as they saw Shaggy, the five ponies screamed in fright. “Guys guys guys guys! Calm down! It’s just Shaggy!” Misty quickly tried to reassure. “He’s just… well… a little… shaggier than usual.”

“...Shaggy?!” Zipp looked at him closer, realizing Misty was right. “What happened?!”

“Believe me, Zipper, I wish I knew!” Shaggy said. “One second, I’m fine, and then the next--”

“You’ve been turned into a werewolf!” Hitch cried out. “Ohhh… ohhh, this is bad! This is SO totally bad!”

“Not to mention there’s a whole crowd after Shaggy,” Misty added, “and there are some other monsters on the loose too!”

“What do we do?” Pipp asked. “We can’t let Shaggy get caught like this!”

“Especially when we don’t know who caused him to turn into a werewolf!” Hitch added. “And most especially,” Zipp added, panic laced in her tone, “since we don’t know how to break the spell!”

“Okay… nopony needs to panic just yet,” Sunny said. “First, we need to figure out how to get Shaggy past that crowd to where it’s safe. THEN we can search through Misty’s spellbook to see if there’s anything we can use to help us turn Shaggy back to normal.”

“Okay, but how are we supposed to disguise a full-fledged werewolf in plain sight?” Misty asked unsuredly. That’s when Izzy noticed the popcorn bucket in the seat Scooby was sitting in and got an immediate idea. “I have an idea, but Scooby, I’ll need that popcorn bucket and everypony's help!”

“We’re in,” Zipp smiled. “Just tell us what to do first.”

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“Rats!” one of the boys said in frustration, having lost Shaggy in the crowded drive-in. “We lost him!”

“He’s hiding here someplace,” said the officer, scratching his head. “But the real question is where?”

That’s when the ponies, Shaggy and Scooby, the latter two whistling, walked into view, Shaggy’s furry head coated by a popcorn bucket helmet that Izzy needed help to unicycle.

Unfortunately, Shaggy’s helmet didn’t stop the crowd from seeing him. “That’s the werewolf!” one of the boys shouted. “Come on!”

“Well, that sure didn’t work!” Pipp yelped. “In other news,” said Zipp desperately, “RUN!!”

And so, the group broke into a sprint, being chased by the crowd through the drive-in and trying to find Shaggy's car so they could get into it and make a fast getaway before anything worse happened.

However, when they did this, Googie screamed upon seeing Shaggy’s werewolf form as they drove off into the night. “Oh no!” one of the boys shouted as they drove past the mob. “The werewolf’s kidnapped those ponies and that girl!”

“Quick!” cried another boy. “Let's get to our cars!”

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“Stop this car, you yucky monster!” Googie demanded furiously to Shaggy, not realizing that Shaggy was now a werewolf. “What did you do with Shaggy?”

“Knock it off right now, Googie!” Zipp said quickly. “That is Shaggy!”

Upon realizing Zipp was right, Googie let out a startled gasp. “Oh no!”

“Uh, guys! I don’t think we have time for a heart-to-heart moment right now!” Pipp cried, looking out of the back of the car to see the mob gaining on them. “They’re catching up to us!!!”

“Step on it, Shaggy!” Hitch cried. “Before we’re all killed, and we can’t help you change back to your normal self!”

So, Shaggy drove as fast as the car would allow, through the city and into the outskirts of town where it wouldn’t be as easy to navigate.

However, the rough terrain was enough to slow them down quite a bit, and Googie was able to see a startling sight just ahead of them-- a humongous cliff that, if they didn't do something, would cause them to be be trapped against it! “LOOK OUT!!”

Luckily, Shaggy was able to activate a spring on the bottom of the car, allowing them to leap up to the top of the cliff just as the mob was gaining on them.

And once they were finally a good distance away from the edge of the cliff, Shaggy finally stopped the car, slumped in exhaustion. “Oh, Shaggy! You poor dear!” Googie said, instantly concerned for her werewolf-transformed boyfriend. “Why would such a thing happen to you?”

“Like, how should I know?” Shaggy answered back before sighing. “I guess we lost ‘em.”

“That’s a relief,” Zipp said, getting out her Flypad to take notes. “Now we just need to figure out who turned Shaggy into a werewolf, why and figure out how to turn him back before anything worse happens.”

“But how can we do that without Misty’s spellbook?” Izzy asked. “We left it back home!”

“Actually,” said Misty, “I’ve been working on a spell that can help with that!”

She lit her horn with a bright white light, and within seconds, the spellbook flew from the town and into her open hooves. “Whoa!” Sunny smiled. “You’ve really developed a connection with that book, huh?”

“I guess I have,” Misty giggled before flipping it open. “Now, let’s see what we’ve got here…”

As the others craned their necks to see inside Misty's spellbook for a solution, the BatCopter hovered over them within the clouds, and Brunch knew that this was the right time to make his move. “Drop the moondust, Crunch!”

“Okay!” Crunch nodded and dropped the dust upon the group while Indigo watched in worry. As the dust took effect on the group, Shaggy yawned tiredly, his eyes struggling to remain open. “Well, at least I lost my hiccups…”

“That’s the least… of our problems…” Pipp yawned before she, like all her friends, fell asleep, causing Indigo to gasp. “Wait wait wait! The master never said to bring back anyone other than Shaggy!” she said. “What if he gets angry at us?”

“Oh, if his friends are the only thing keeping him here,” Brunch said, “then I think the master will find this most helpful. Now, activate the cable!”

“Ugh… fine…” Indigo sighed under her breath and pushed a button, activating a cable that grabbed onto the car and carried it up into the sky with them. “At last!” Brunch declared as they flew off into the sky. “The master will have his reluctant werewolf!”

Brunch and Crunch cackled happily as Indigo could only stare out the window in sadness.

What had she just allowed to happen?

These guys’ lives were gonna be ruined forever… and it was all her fault.