G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

Indigo trudged back into the castle after her heartbreaking ballad and walked to the throne room, where Shaggy and his friends laid upon the stone tables in front of the crowd.

Just seeing them trapped under the moondust's magic just made her heart sink.

She knew she had to help them, but... even she was unsure how.

Dracula, on the other paw, seemed pleased that they finally had a werewolf to be in the Monster Road Rally in just a few days. “Ah! At last, I have my werewolf!” he said before turning to two of his loyal minions. “Crunch? Brunch? Bring the revival spray and awaken our guests.”

“Yes, master!” Crunch said obediently, holding the container of revival spray in his reach. “Turn it on, turn it on!”

“Roger, old boy!” Brunch smiled before turning the container on full blast. “Roger?” Crunch looked back at him, unknowingly let the revival spray go in Dracula’s face. “I'm not Roger. I'm Crunch.”

“You’re going to be history,” Dracula promised Crunch with a mad expression, “if you don't take that thing out of my face!”

“...oops…” Crunch realized his mistake before doing as told. Once Dracula was no longer being sprayed, Crunch sprayed the revival spray on the group, causing them to slowly stir until Dracula stopped them. “That’s enough already!”

“Yes, master,” Indigo said and quickly shut off the container, stopping the flow of revival spray. At that moment, members of the group began to wake up slowly, with Pipp being the first to speak. “Oh, man, what a nap!” she said with a smile. “I feel like a whole new… pony…?!”

That’s when the group saw the monsters and ghouls surrounding their stone tables, causing them to immediately react with fright. “W-W-Where are we?!” Scooby asked with wide eyes. “I d-d-d-don’t know, Scooby,” Misty stammered. “Yeah!” Izzy nodded fearfully. “This is almost too horrible to be real!”

Suddenly, what Izzy just said rang a bell inside Shaggy’s head, giving him his own personal theories about what was going on. “Hey. Hey, wait a minute. That's it!”

“That’s what?” the others seemed to chorus. “It’s not real! It’s a dream!” Shaggy said with a laugh. “Like, we're having a nightmare.”

However, even Scooby seemed skeptic. “Really?”

“Sure!”

“A nightmare?” Googie repeated. “All of us?”

“Well, it is possible,” Sunny said. “Throughout Equestrian times, some ponies had shared dreams, so maybe it’s possible here too.”

“I mean, come on, Sunny-- it has to be a nightmare! Get a load of the rag-and-bone crew over there,” Shaggy pointed to the mummy and Mr. Bonejangles nearby. “If they're not out of a nightmare, I don't know what is. Which one do you think is creepier?”

“He is!” the mummy and Mr. Bonejangles pointed at each other. “And, like, nothing as gruesome as those two clowns could possibly be real,” Shaggy said with a chuckle before pointing toward Frankenstein and Repulsa. “Hey, Scoob, dig the puss on that chick. It's so awful, it's funny! Ha ha ha ha ha!”

“Yeah!” Scooby agreed with a light smile before laughing himself. Even Frankenstein was humored enough to laugh... much to Repulsa's dismay. “What are you laughing at, bolt breath?!”

Frankenstein yelped as his bride tugged on his bolts, but no one paid any attention to this. “And look over there!” Shaggy pointed at the Dragonfly and the Swamp Thing nearby. “Yuck!”

“Ewwww!!” Izzy said as she groaned in disgust. “Yuck is right!”

“If you ask me,” said Hitch, “that’s a whole WEEK of nightmares right there!”

The Swamp Thing laughed and pointed at the Dragonfly, making the Dragonfly buzz in irritation. “He’s talking about you!”

“He means you, gnat nose!” the Swamp Thing continued to tease, much to the Dragonfly’s annoyance. “Who you calling names?!”

The Dragonfly tried to swat the Swamp Thing with his large tail, and the Swamp Thing tried to hit the Dragonfly with one of his slime balls. However, the slime ball hit one of the witch sisters in the face, causing the second of the witch sisters to laugh out of personal enjoyment, only for the first witch sister to hit her on top of the head with her broom.

This action caused Frankenstein to laugh as the second witch sister approached him. “You think that was funny, eh? Well, you'll laugh your head off at this!”

She zapped Frankenstein's bolts with her magic wane, causing him to screech out in pain just before his head pretty much vanished, causing Indigo to shriek in surprise.

The mummy and Mr. Bonejangles laughed in amusement at this, but soon after, Frankenstein's head reappeared before he threw the mummy right into Dracula and some other monsters, causing the Mane 6 to wince as they saw everyone wrapped in the mummy's wraps.

The witch sisters cackled in amusement just before the mummy angrily threw a spear right at them. “Wait a minute!” Dracula cried, dodging the spear as it hit the two witches, knocking all of their clothes off.

This seemed to be the final blow, and the witches pulled out their wands and fired... much to Dracula's dismay. “WAIT A MINUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!”

But it was too late... the magic blasts had burned a hole right through Dracula's cape, causing the witches to smile sheepishly and hide their wands behind their backs, as if trying to hide what they had done.

At the same time, Sunny felt a mix of emotions rushing through her as she and her friends watched the events unfold. “Yikes! If this is a dream,” she said, “let's all wake up!”

“Good idea, Sunny,” Zipp nodded firmly. “All together, gang. On the count of three!”

And so, everyone closed their eyes and counted in unison, hoping to wake up by the time it was finally over. “One... two... three!”

However, when they opened their eyes, they found themselves still in that castle, gazing over at Dracula, who grinned at them with his fangs still showing. “I bid you... welcome.”

Shaggy gulped nervously upon realizing that it didn't work the way he had hoped. “Like, we're still asleep, gang. One more time, and give it all you got!” he said before they all closed their eyes. “A-one, a-two...”

“Never mind! This is not a dream!” Dracula snapped at the group, frightening them before smiling at them again. “Permit me to introduce myself. I am Count Dracula, and I have brought you, Shaggy, to Transylvania to drive the werewolf car in the monster road race.”

“Monster road race?” Scooby repeated while Hitch looked shocked. “T-Transylvania?!”

“Werewolf car?!” Pipp shrieked, and suddenly, for Shaggy, a lot of things finally started to make sense. “Don’t tell me that's why I got turned into a werewolf!”

“Precisely,” Dracula flashed a fangy grin. “Ohhhh...” Izzy groaned with worry. “He told you not to tell him that!”

“And besides, you can't do that to Shaggy!” Zipp declared with anger in her tone. “We know him too well to know that he doesn't wanna be any old werewolf!”

“And he's not gonna drive in your old road race, either! Not for a million dollars!” Googie agreed before glancing at her boyfriend. “Are you, Shaggy?”

Shaggy crossed his arms with a serious look on his face. “Like, nooooo way!”

“Um... forgive me for interrupting,” Indigo said as she hesitantly approached, “but you would be racing for something a lot better than a million dollars... however much that is. Uh... r-right, Vanna Pira?”

“That’s right, Indigo honey!” Vanna Pira said to get the attention off the young leopard. “Our second-place driver in the monster road rally will receive, as a consolation prize, a two-week vacation in... Hawaii!”

“Oooh!” Izzy and Pipp chorused in unison, completely entranced with the idea of going to Hawaii for two weeks. However... the other monsters seemed to be less than thrilled about the development.

“Aww, boo!”

“Blech! Pooey!”

“Who wants that?”

“Uh... I kind of would,” Indigo raised her paw timidly, only lowering it with pinned ears when the Hunch Bunch were found glaring at her.

However, Vanna Pira moved over to another set of curtains not too far away. “But our road race winner will receive, all expenses paid, an entire month in...”

She opened the curtains, causing a scream to echo through the castle and scare the Mane 6 half to death. “...the black hole of Calcutta!”

Now this was a trip that the other monsters seemed to really be into.

“Oh, wow!”

“That's mine!”

As the other monsters cheered at this, Shaggy turned to Zipp with a whisper. “Like, these guys have totally gone to Weirdsville!”

“And of course, the biggest honor of all...” Vanna Pira said before pulling open a final set of curtains, revealing a trophy designed to look like a skull. “...the Monster of the Year trophy!”

This caused all the other monsters to cheer excitedly, hoping to be the new Monster of the Year and get that trophy for themselves.

Of course, this made the Mane 6 worry about what Dracula would do to get Shaggy to participate in the race.

One thing was for sure, they weren't about to let this fanged bully hurt their friends.

Speaking of Dracula, he turned to Shaggy with a sinister grin. “So, Shaggy, you still refuse to remain and drive in our big race?”

Shaggy nodded without hesitation. “Like, you got it, sir.”

“...very well,” Dracula responded with a smile. “Then, you may all leave.”

“Hold on a second, sire,” Indigo said as she came over, while the others looked at one another, shocked themselves. “You're gonna let them go free? I mean... just like that?”

“Oh, Indigo, of course!” Dracula wrapped an arm around the cub, much to her surprise. “I mean, would I lie?”

“Ohhhh yeah, sure,” the other monsters said with a sinister wink. “Silence!” barked Dracula before turning back to the group, feigning kindness. “Believe me, you are all free to go.”

And believe me, the others didn't hesitate to give a response.

“Well... okay then!”

“Goodbye!”

“Thanks for everything!”

“See you around!”

“Have a nice day!”

“See ya!”

“Well, it's a shame you're not staying,” Indigo said softly as they began to leave. “We have a pre-race party coming up later that I think you guys would really like. I mean... if you liked that sort of thing.”

“Yep,” Shaggy said without looking back. “Too bad.”

“And the dancing,” Dracula added on with a smirk. “Uh, yeah...” Pipp said, trying her best to not change her mind. “Too bad.”

“And all the delicious food!”

“Too bad--” Shaggy began to say before he and Scooby stopped in their tracks. “Food...?!”

“Guys, this is no time to mess around!” Zipp said, trying to pull Shaggy away. “We gotta get out of here!”

However, Shaggy brushed her off and turned back to Dracula with a bit of interest. “Uh, what kind of food?”

“Yeah,” Scooby nodded. “What kind?”

“All kinds of delightful treats,” Dracula told them before turning to the Hunch Bunch. “Hunch Bunch-- bring our guests one of our delicacies.”

“Yes, master,” Crunch said obediently before he and Brunch zipped off. After a few minutes, they returned with a tray with two simple burgers on it, and Shaggy had to admit-- his new wolf-like senses were making that burger seem heavenly. “Hey, looks good, Scoob!”

“Yeah!” Scooby said as he and Shaggy got a burger each, but before they could bite into the burgers, they each sprouted a pair of bat wings and flew away! “Hey!” Izzy shouted. “You burgers get back here!”

“Uh... Dracula? If you don't mind me asking,” Sunny said politely, “what was that stuff?”

“Bat burgers,” Dracula responded with a smile, and suddenly, Shaggy, Scooby and the ponies felt like they were about to hurl. “Bad burgers?!” they cried in unison. “YUCK!!!”

“Oh, uh... that's my bad,” Indigo said as she watched the bat burgers fly off. “I think the bats were a little undercooked.”

“You actually eat this stuff?” Hitch asked with a shudder. “How do you survive?”

“Well, uh... I just survive however I can, I guess,” Indigo muttered, not looking the ponies or their friends in the eye.

Deciding that this was the perfect time to leave this place in the dust, Shaggy spoke to Dracula while he and the others tried to make a slow break for it. “Uh, listen, like, thanks a lot anyway, but we don't want to hang around for your little party, so we'll just like, uh, see ya around, okay?”

However, Dracula turned back to them with a glass. “Just a moment!” he shouted. “Stop!”

“I knew it!” Zipp shouted with anger before pushing Shaggy in the direction of the exit. “Come on, gang!”

Luckily, Dracula was already one step ahead of them. “Wolfgang, drop the cage!”

However, when Wolfgang hit the lever and activated the cage, the cage accidentally fell on Wolfgang himself, much to Dracula's irritation. “Not on you, stupid! On them!”

“Oh...” Wolfgang nodded and activated another lever, dropping a cage onto the gang as they were trying to escape. “Ha ha!” Dracula boasted. “Gotcha!”

“Hey!” Hitch shouted as he and Sunny tried to kick the door down, but to no avail. “What’s the big idea?!”

“Yeah! If I remember correctly,” Pipp said sassily, “you said we were free to leave!”

“Ah, yes, but I had my fangs crossed when I said it. Besides, I can't let you go!” Dracula snapped as he marched right over to their cage to confront them. “You must drive in the race, Shaggy.”

However, Shaggy stood firm to his original answer, shaking his head negatively. “Uh-uh!”

“No way, Jagged Jaws!” Zipp said fiercely. “You're gonna regret trapping the Unity Squad in here, trust me! We've got magic and we're not afraid to use it!”

Indigo gasped lightly at the sound of them standing up to her master with such confidence, but Dracula didn't seem as happy about such a development. “You will drive! You will! You will! You will! That is an order! You must!”

With each snap, the Mane 6 could see Indigo hunker down and whimper more than before, obviously frightened by the shouting...

...but Zipp sensed there was more to this leopard than even they knew.

After a moment, Dracula calmed down and sighed. “But you are tired from your journey,” he said before snapping his fingers. “Indigo? Hunch Bunch?”

“Yes, sire,” Brunch said obediently as they came forward. “My guests wish to freshen up,” Dracula told them simply. “Take them to the... ghastly room.”

Crunch cackled menacingly at this, and our heroes looked at each other in concern.

It seemed that getting out of this place was going to be a lot harder than it seemed.

But they had to find a way to escape...

...they had to.