G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?

In the last chapter of our story, the Mane 6 and their friends, new and old, were split up during a chase by the army of the undead, with Pipp, Izzy and Misty being with Shaggy and Scooby and the others being with Hazina, Fred, Velma and Daphne.

But during the chase, the girls, Shaggy and Scooby (who lost his collar in the process) fell into a sarcophagus filled with sand, which fell through the tomb floors and slid down into a series of tunnels.

It poses the question... what was going to become of our heroes now that they were separated and vastly outnumbered by the army of the undead?

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“Come on! Down this hallway!” Sunny shouted to her remaining friends as they ran. “Maybe it can get us back to our friends somehow!”

Hitch panted tiredly as Sparky clung to his back, not sure how long they had been running. “Let’s hope so,” the earth pony stallion said, “cause I think my legs are just about to give out!”

But as she followed after her friends, Velma suddenly tripped and lost her glasses, which landed on the floor not far in front of her, causing her to crawl around and look for them. “My glasses!”

As Velma crawled around in search of her glasses, she had no idea that she was really slipping into a hidden doorway that mysteriously opened up in front of her. “Ugh… I can't see a thing without my glasses.”

But as she stopped to think for a moment, a hand reached her the glasses in question, causing her to smile as she faintly recognized the blurry image. “My glasses! Gee, thanks!”

But as Velma put her glasses on and was able to see who handed them to her, she honestly wished she hadn’t when she saw who it was.

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“JINKIES!!!”

The shrill cry of Velma caused the group to stop in their tracks, with Hazina being on high alert. “What in Egypt’s name was that?!”

“It’s Velma!” Zipp cried out. “And it sounds like she’s in trouble!”

“Come on!” Fred said, carrying the torch as he led the group down the dark hallway. Eventually, they were able to spot the doorway Velma traveled into, but the second the group began to step inside, they saw a sight that made the ponies, Sparky and Hazina gasp in horror, tears filling their eyes at the horrible sight.

Velma, now as a stone statue, stood before them, looking absolutely terrified.

Daphne was the first to speak after the stunned moment of silence. “Oh, no! Velma’s been struck by the curse!”

“This… this has to be some sort of sick prank, right?” Sunny said, her voice thick and wobbly with emotion. “She can’t… she can’t really…”

“Sunny, I… I don’t know what to say,” Zipp said, her voice just as thick with emotion as Sunny’s was. “She… she’s gone…”

Sunny finally broke down in tears, causing Zipp and Hitch and Sparky to hug her in comfort while Hazina tried to clear the tears from her eyes.

Velma was so strong, so formidable… why was she a victim of the curse and not one of them?

But as the ponies, Sparky and Hazina mourned for Velma’s loss, Fred suddenly gained a new wave of determination. “Okay, that's it. This curse is goin' down. This time it's personal.”

“First Omar gets struck with the curse, then Hazina’s friends get captured, and now Velma’s gone?” Daphne sighed shakingly as she tried to comfort their Equestrian friends. “Which one of us is next?”

That was when Fred noticed Velma still had Omar’s journal and the ankh necklace in her possession. “We’re not beat yet, guys,” he said, taking them before handing Daphne the necklace. “Here, you carry the necklace. I'll take the journal.”

“But… what about Shaggy, Scooby and the others?” Hitch asked with confusion. “We can’t just leave them in this place all alone!”

“We’re not going to, sheriff,” Zipp said, trying to be brave. “We're gonna find them and solve this mystery… and hopefully before anyone else gets hurt.”

“...do you really think we can?” Sunny vulnerably questioned. “I mean… they could already be stone statues by now, and I can’t lose anymore friends, not now! I’ve already lost my dad, and my mom’s gone, and now…”

“Hey hey hey hey, Sunny!” Hitch tried to hold his friend comfortingly. “No one else is gonna be a stone statue on our watch. We’re gonna find our friends, and hopefully, when all this is over, we’re gonna find your mom too.”

“Hitch is right,” Hazina said, trying to be encouraging. “All we have to do is maintain a little bit of hope… and that hope starts by finding the rest of our friends before it’s too late.”

“Oh, Scooby-Doo…” Daphne sighed in worry. “Where are you?”

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No one else was aware of this yet, but Shaggy, Scooby, Pipp, Izzy and Misty were still sliding through those tunnels underneath the tomb, screaming their heads off out of fright. Eventually, those tunnels showed that they were heading toward an exit within the side of a cliff, and as they passed through that small hole, our heroes (human, canine and Equestrian alike) screamed as they fell toward the treacherous waters below, holding on for dear life as they were carried down by the swirling rapids.

Izzy lurched as the waters tossed the sarcophagus back and forth through the rapids, trying not to lose her lunch, but it was very hard, given the circumstances. “I think I’m gonna be sick…”

“I’d hold your mane back, Iz,” Pipp called out to her friend, “but my hooves can’t seem to let go off the side of this thing!”

Soon, the waters seemed to get a bit calmer, but before our heroes could relax, they soon saw why the waters suddenly got calmer-- they were heading for a massive whirlpool, straight ahead!

Shaggy whimpered nervously as he and Scooby closed the sarcophagus to ensure no water seemed to get inside. “Goodbye, cruel whirlpool!”

The sarcophagus seemed to swirl around and around in the whirlpool's waters before getting pulled further and further down below, with our heroes holding their breath, just in case some of the water were to get inside.

The sarcophagus was then swept down an underwater tunnel before eventually coming back to the surface again, and once it did come back to the surface, it quickly hit some rocks on the shore of wherever they had come up, causing the group to be jolted. “Ow! What in the hey?!” Pipp groaned, putting a hoof to her head. “Where in Equestria or Egypt are we?”

“I'm not sure, but we're definitely not in the tomb anymore,” Misty said as she lit her horn again. “It seems like our magic is working again.”

“Well, that's a good thing, at least,” Izzy tried to point out a positive. “Come on, let's get this big coffin open and see where we are and who we might meet on the other side!”

The two unicorns and Pipp immediately pushed open half of the sarcophagus lid with Shaggy’s help, suddenly revealing the fact that they were definitely not in Cleopatra's tomb anymore.

Instead, they seemed to be in some sort of giant cavern with a huge crater that let in the moonlight, and underneath that crater was a huge, Egyptian-styled city, hidden off from the rest of the world.

Shaggy and the ponies stared at the sight with eyes wide in wonder. “Hey, Scoob!” Misty called to their Great Dane companion. “You've gotta see this!”

Shaggy laughed a little bit in relief. “I think we might finally be out of danger!”

Suddenly, the four of them were surrounded by spear tips, causing the ponies to freeze while Shaggy raised his arms in fright. “Like, zoinks!”

The spears were being held by a large crowd of people, both men and women alike, and they didn’t look that happy to see a bunch of strangers at their doorstep...

...and neither did the lionesses that were standing alongside them.

The three of them all looked rather similar, with the same golden-colored fur, but the one in the middle had teal eyes and the other two had golden-yellow eyes. In addition, the lioness on the left had a dark stripe going down her forehead and had white facial markings, and the lioness on the right had two dots on her face, one above each of her eyes.

After a few moments of Misty, Shaggy, Pipp and Izzy freezing in fear, Scooby finally popped up to see what was going on, and a few young men gasped upon seeing him.

That was when one of the men suddenly bowed in front of Scooby. “All hail the great Ascoobis.”

“He has returned!” a second man spoke before doing the same, and soon, the lionesses bowed before the rest of the city followed suit, with all of the humans saying one word as they did so. “Ascoobis. Ascoobis. Ascoobis. Ascoobis. Ascoobis.”

Shaggy, Scooby and the ponies glanced at one another strangely when this happened, unsure of what the heck was going on, when all of a sudden, another voice interrupted the chanting. “SILENCE!!!”

Everyone then turned to see the leader of the city (the hotep) as he was called, approach them, and while this man had fancy red and gold clothing on, he didn’t look all that thrilled to see the social gathering and these strangers. “What is the meaning of this outrage?”

The lioness with teal eyes, named Taraji, scoffed with the roll of her eyes. “This guy again... when will he learn to not jump to crazy conclusions?”

However, no one seemed to head Taraji's remark as one of the men who had seen Scooby first thing came forward. “Almighty Hotep, the Pharaoh Ascoobis has returned.”

“Really?” Scooby said as he looked around. “Where?”

“It may just be me,” said Pipp as she slowly put the pieces together, “but I think they're talking about you, Scooby-Doo!”

Scooby looked at her, bewildered. “Me?”

It was then that the second of the men who seen Scooby gestured toward a large painting on the wall that actually looked a lot like Scooby, if you looked at it a certain way. “It as the prophecy foretold. Our great Pharaoh Ascoobis has returned to us.”

The first young man quickly pointed to the picture of the man beside Pharaoh Ascoobis' painting, eyeing Shaggy as he did so. “Along with Shagankhamen, his lanky man-servant.”

“Then... what do you make of those strange creatures?” one of the woman said, pointing to Misty, Izzy and Pipp. “They are not in the prophecy, yet Shagankhamen and Pharoah Ascoobis seem to be friends with them.”

That was when Shaggy seemed to find an opportunity to try and clear things up, hopefully before someone got hurt. “Like, I hate to break it to you guys, but we're not really...”

“SILENCE!!!” the Hotep said to ger everyone’s attention again. “The prophecy has been fulfilled. We must prepare a great banquet.”

Both Shaggy and Scooby seemed to change their hearts' direction at the sound of this. “Banquet?”

“Uh-oh... guys, we have to be honest with ourselves here,” Misty tried to be gentle, yet scolding, all at once. “You can’t just...”

However, Shaggy was able to cut Misty off with a smile at the sound of the banquet in question. “That's right. Like, he's Ascoobis, and just call me Shagankhamen.”

The crowd then cheered before Shaggy and Scooby were drug away from their friends and put on thrones before the citizens of the city began to carry them away, causing Izzy to blink in confusion before turning to her friends. “Um... what just happened, exactly?”

“I... think Shaggy and Scooby just got mistaken for a pharoah and his man-servant,” Pipp voiced her opinion before she saw the three lionesses from before coming toward them. “And, uh... I think we might end up being a trio of lionesses' main course!!”

Taraji was the first to approach the ponies, looking a bit suspicious and wary of them. “Who are you? And how do you know the great Pharaoh Ascoobis and Shagankhamen?”

“Well, uh... the thing is, that's not really Ascoobis and Shagankhamen,” Misty said slowly. “Their real names are Shaggy and Scooby, and we're their friends. I'm Misty Brightdawn, and this is Pipp Petals and Izzy Moonbow.”

“Shaggy and Scooby, uh... they're not the people you think they are,” Pipp said slowly. “And we really, REALLY do not wanna end up being somebody's lunch so please do not eat us!!!”

The lioness beside Taraji (the one with the white facial markings) let out a soft chuckle at this. “Eat you? My dear, we only eat antelope and other small mammals. We would never eat friends of the pharaoh and his man-servant.”

Izzy sighed in relief to this. “That’s a relief... I think.”

“My name is Taraji,” Taraji then introduced. “And these are my younger twin sisters-- Raheema and Ovelia. We're sorry if we seemed threatening at first-- it was never our intention.”

“Oh, heh... no harm done,” Misty said with a sigh of relief. “We’re just happy to know we have friends here in... uh... where exactly are we?”

“Well,” said Raheema, “you’re in...”

“Mama! Aunties!”

A small voice cut through the air as a small figure rushed over to the three lionesses, and once it got closer, the ponies could see that it was a small lion cub with spotted golden-brown fur, blue eyes, a small, narrow brown nose, and small dark-rimmed ears.

Taraji glanced down at the cub scoldingly. “Sarona, I thought I told you to wait for me back at the den.”

The cub, now known as Sarona, looked down at the ground in slight shame. “I'm sorry, Mama... I just wanted to see who it was and say hi. You know we don't get a lot of visitors around here.”

“...let her stay, Taraji,” Ovelia said kindly. “She and these newcomers might become very good friends as time goes on.”

Raheema still stared at the ponies in suspicion. “We don’t even know if we can trust them, Ovelia. How are we going to be sure they...?”

“Enough! Both of you!” Taraji snarled at her younger sisters. “This isn't the right time to be fighting. We have guests to tend to, and as far as I'm concerned, they are guests just like the pharaoh and his man-servant. They are to be treated with respect. Is that clear?”

“...yes, sister,” Ovelia and Raheema said in unison. “Good,” Taraji smiled before looking down at her young daughter. “Now, Sarona, why don't we take our new friends to the banquet hall and reunite them with their friends? I'm sure they would love to see them.”

Sarona nodded excitedly to this. “Sure, Mama! I know this city like the back of my paw! I can take them there no problem!”

And so, the four lions began to lead Pipp and the two unicorns further into the city in order to find Shaggy and Scooby and hope this situation didn’t turn sour in any way.

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Back in the tomb, the other ponies, Hazina, Fred and Daphne continued their search for their friends, with Fred’s torch giving them some additional light. “Shaggy?” Daphne called out. “Scooby?”

“Sis? Izzy? Misty?!” Zipp called. “Are you out there?”

Hazina shuddered as she saw a scorpion run in front of her. “This place is awful…”

Suddenly, a bright light flooded their vision, but when it returned, they saw Rock Rivers with his camera pointed right at them. “That's it, fear. Show fear on your faces!”

“Rock Rivers?” Fred questioned. “Is that you?”

Rock Rivers sighed and pulled his camera back at this. “Don't talk to the camera,” he said. “Scream in terror!”

“I knew it!” Daphne suddenly accused, getting in the TV host's face, with fury written all over hers. “You’ve been behind this mystery all along!”

“No way, I'm on the real this time,” Rock Rivers told Daphne before gesturing for the group to follow him. “Come on, I'll show you.”

And while the others seemed suspicious of the TV host, they had no choice but to follow Rock Rivers to wherever he was leading them. That was when they finally stopped in a large chamber and this gave Rock the time to gesture around them. “See? I couldn't fake this.”

Daphne gasped as she saw the hundreds of mummified warriors laying around the tomb, not believing what she was seeing. “It's the entire undead army!”

“Oh my gosh…” Hitch said as he glanced around the large room, keeping Sparky on his back the entire time. “This must be their secret burial chamber!”

Rock Rivers nearly shuddered as he videoed the mummies with his camera. “Heh, it's almost too grody, even for me.”

“Jeepers,” Daphne muttered as Rock pointed the camera at her. “Look at all of them.”

“That’s it,” Rock Rivers said with a smile. “Now, take a close look at their dried-up skin and freak out. Come on, show me the mummy.”

However, Sunny turned off the camera from behind, sparing Rock a scolding glance before rejoining her friends. “But you know… something about this doesn’t add up for me,” said Hazina. “These mummies are still covered in cobwebs. How could they have been chasing us?”

“Hazina’s right,” Zipp said as she took pictures of the mummies. “They don't look like they've moved an inch since the day they were buried. And that was well over 2000 moons ago.”

That was when Rock Rivers spotted a scroll on the nearby pedestal, running over to it and unfurling it all while recording it. “Hey. Check out this gnarly scroll,” he said, calling the others over. “See the ancient text, no doubt written in blood.”

“Ewww!!” Sunny and Hazina reacted with disgust just before Daphne gasped, seeing something on the scroll that looked very familiar. “Freddy, look! It's the ankh necklace!”

“I’ll translate the ancient writing,” Fred spoke, taking out Omar’s journal before turning to the scroll again. “Help, the heavy tourist is pinching my kitten.”

The others gave Fred a bit of a look before Sunny swiped the journal from him and read it herself. “I think it more or less reads, ‘The necklace is the key to the curse’.”

Fred blinked at her in surprise for a few moments before smiling. “Ooh, even better.”

“This is the key to the curse?” said Daphne in confusion, pulling out the ankh necklace. “But what does that mean?”

“It means the necklace is mine.”

Everyone turned at that moment to see Amelia von Butch, Natasha and Campbell enter the room, still dragging Anga, Ulaghai and Tofauti on their ropes, and Amelia took the lead as she led her team down the steps toward them. “Hand it over and nobody gets hurt.”

“Back off!” Fred said, getting in front of his friends with a determined look. “I know judo!”

However, Natasha merely picked him up and threw him into the wall, causing Fred to groan in pain. “I didn’t say ready…”

“Dr. von Butch, please, let my friends go!” Hazina pleaded as she watched her friends’ faces get more and more frightened. “My friends don’t have anything to do with this-- they’re innocent!”

“Of course they are-- that’s why they’re the perfect pack mules,” Amelia said with a smirk. “And as soon as I get my hands on that necklace, you’ll be the perfect pack mule to carry my golden crown!”

“Hazina wouldn’t serve you in a million years!” Zipp said fiercely as she, Sunny and Hitch got in front of the golden zebra. “And if you wanna hurt our friends, you’re gonna have to get through us first!”

It was then that Campbell seemed to sense something on his radar and stopped the others from making any more movements. “Hold it. We've got company.”

Anga trembled nervously at this. “Do you think it's more undead soldiers…?”

“I don’t know,” Tofauti answered back with his head held low. “And honestly, I don’t think I wanna find out.”

“Who dares disturb my sacred tomb?!”

It was then, within a flash of light that appeared near the pedestal, emerged a figure that none of them had ever seen before. The figure was dressed in traditional yet tattered Egyptian clothing, appearing to be human and had a golden mask over her face.

And upon recognizing her, Daphne let out a stunned gasp. “Jeepers! The ghost of Cleopatra!”

“Awesome!” Ulaghai said, her eyes wide just before Hitch nudged her scoldingly, causing her to glance around, a bit nervous. “I mean, uh… so NOT awesome.”

“Behold, she who commands you!” the ghost of Cleopatra boomed, holding out a graceful hand. “Leave this place and never return!”

“Cough up the crown,” said Amelia with a frown, “and we’ll talk.”

“Uh, heh… she doesn’t mean that!” Anga said with a nervous look before turning to look at Amelia. “Tell her you don’t mean that!”

However, the ghost of Cleopatra glared right over at Amelia, apparently not pleased. “Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Cleopatra!”

However, Amelia didn’t seem at all threatened. “Bring it, sister.”

“Now,” said the ghost of Cleopatra, raising her arms to the sky, “suffer my swarming vengeance! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!”

It was then that a swarm of hundreds of flying insects came flying in their direction… a bug that caused Hazina to scream in disgust. “Locusts! I can’t stand locusts!”

“We have to get out of here!” Fred cried, grabbing Daphne’s hand and making a break for it. “Good idea, Freddy!” Sunny cried. “Let’s move out, team! Hurry!”

Tofauti finally headbutted Campbell, who was holding his rope, which allow Campbell to let go, prompting Anga and Ulaghai to do the same before they ran after their friends with the treasure hunters and the locusts trailing right behind. “I don’t understand!” Daphne exclaimed as they ran. “The curse didn't say anything about locusts!”

“No, but you gotta admit,” Fred pointed out. “It’s pretty Egyptian.”

Once the group finally made it outside, Daphne saw a motorcycle and hopped onto it, revving it up. “Freddy, come on!”

“Follow them, everyone!” Hazina cried as Fred hopped on the motorcycle. “Don’t lose sight of Fred and Daphne!”

And with that, the motorcycle sped off with the remaining ponies, Hazina, Ulaghai, Anga and Tofauti following them into the desert. Amelia von Butch gazed off after them, determined to get the necklace one way or another.

Not long after losing the locusts, Anga suddenly had a thought. “What about Velma and Omar? We can’t leave them in that big scary tomb by themselves!”

“It's no use running around in the tombs, Anga,” Fred pointed out. “We need to find some help.”

“Good plan, Fred,” Sunny sighed before thinking of their missing friends. “I just hope the girls, Shaggy and Scooby are okay…”

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Back in the city where the other ponies, Shaggy and Scooby washed up, Shaggy and Scooby had been placed in royal Egyptian attire before the great banquet, with Pipp, Izzy and Misty sitting beside them, and the citizens bowing to them while Sarona, Taraji, Raheema and Ovelia looked on. “Ascoobis,” the citizens repeatedly chanted as they bowed. “Ascoobis. Ascoobis.”

“All hail the prophecy,” the Hotep exclaimed, gesturing to the munching Shaggy and Scooby. “The great Pharaoh Ascoobis has returned!”

“Ascoobis,” the citizens chanted once again. “Ascoobis. Ascoobis…”

“Uh, wow,” Pipp said a bit awkwardly as Shaggy and Scooby continued to pig out... well, so to speak. “These people must really love Ascoobis, huh?”

“Tell me about it,” Misty whispered back. “It’s almost creepy. But... we don't wanna be disrespectful, so... I guess we just need to play along with it.”

It was then that Shaggy stopped eating, a sudden thought coming to mind. “Just one question. Like, where have you guys been all our lives?”

“And on a second related note,” Pipp spoke up, “where in Equestria/Egypt are we?”

“Welcome to the Lost City of the Ancients,” the Hotep told the group. “We have come here from many lands, choosing to live according to the ways of the pharaohs of old.”

“That means no TV,” said the first man who saw them an hour prior to the feast, “no computers…”

“And,” said the second man, “no fast food.”

Shaggy and Scooby seemed to pause when they heard that, glancing at each other before turning back to the citizens and the lionesses. “Wow,” Shaggy commented. “So you guys are, like, seriously old school.”

“The citizens, and… well, us, in a way,” said Ovelia politely, “prefer the magic and the mystery of ancient Egypt to the ways of the modern world. It… completes them in some way.”

“You know what would be really magical?” Shaggy asked, throwing a corn cob away before pointing to several items on the table. “Some extra scoops of this and another dozen of that.”

Scooby then chose to whisper in Izzy’s ear, causing her to nod before turning to the Hotep. “With some chocolate sauce if you have it.”

“Yeah,” Scooby nodded in agreement. “Yeah.”

“As Ascoobis wishes,” Taraji said as she and her sisters and daughter bowed to the newly found pharoah. It was then that the Hotep snapped his fingers, bringing more food to the table and causing Shaggy and Scooby to dive right in.

However, no one saw this yet, but the Hotep pushed a panel on the nearby wall of hieroglyphics, activating a secret doorway that he walked into. The tunnel was cold and dark, and at the end was a rather large cage door, which the Hotep stood in front of with a cold, murderous smirk. “If only Pharaoh Ascoobis knew the rest of the prophecy. Isn't that right, my pet?”

It was then that several large red eyes appeared from the darkness, and the Hotep cackled victoriously at the sight, knowing that the prophecy would be fulfilled…

…starting with the pharaoh’s certain death, along with the deaths of his friends.