G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness

The Sly Star One had been struck by a strange alien's attacks, and because of such, they were quickly losing oxygen.

And the worst news was that they wouldn't be able to get back to Earth before their oxygen ran out!

Our heroes slowly began to get more and more worried, since it seemed like there was nowhere else for them to go, but... Sly Baron knew of one other place that they could go to get the oxygen that they needed and craved...

...but only if the crew could get there in time.

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Sunny glanced out of the bridge window to see where exactly Shannon was steering the ship, discovering that they were getting closer and closer to the moon, much to her confusion.

The moon didn’t have any air that she knew of, so why was Sly bringing them here?

But at the same time, Velma was standing off by herself, watching as Shannon and Daphne continued to talk to each other while Zipp, Pipp and Shutter Snap talked with each other and with Clark, with Clark hoping to get an interview with the pegasus princess sisters before this was all over.

Velma hated to admit it, but... she was starting to feel a little bitter over Daphne's newfound friendship with Shannon.

And this was just the situation that Aruna was hoping to take control over.

So, hoping to make a good image of herself, Aruna walked over to Velma and tried to hide the smirk she had on her face. “Velma… is something wrong?”

However, Velma didn’t say anything, causing Aruna to slowly nod. “I thought so. I understand completely to what you’re going through.”

Velma raised an eyebrow to this. “Wait… how do you…?”

“You feel like your friend is changing and drifting in another direction,” Aruna continued, “while your feet remain planted on the ground.”

“How did you know that?” Velma asked the Sun Jaguar in surprise. “Shannon and I grew up together… we even shared similar dreams-- reaching for the stars, I mean. Even when we chose different careers, we were always there for one another.”

That was when Aruna faked a couple of sniffles to pull Velma in further. “But now that she’s hanging out with Daphne, Shannon doesn’t have time for me anymore. Maybe… maybe Shannon thinks Daphne's better than me and that… she won’t want to be my friend anymore. Then… then I’ll be all alone…”

Velma frowned out of sympathy for the Sun Jaguar, not realizing that Aruna was simply manipulating her, and got down on one knee to stroke the jaguar’s fur. “Well… you do have one friend, Aruna-- me.”

Aruna lifted her head in surprise, remembering to try and play along. “Do you really mean that?”

“Of course I do. You did say we were going through the same thing,” Velma told her, “so we have to look out for each other.”

Aruna reluctantly let Velma hug her, internally gagging at the sickening sweetness, but when Velma let go, Aruna began to take her leave… but not before Velma spoke up again. “If you ever need to talk…”

“...I'll look you up... girlfriend,” Aruna said affectionately before she walked away. But once she was out of earshot, Aruna snickered wickedly and looked back at Velma with a dark look on her face. “And they call her the smart one… like taking candy from a baby. Now, all I have to do is keep up the act, and Alterro will have TWO minions helping him in this mission.”

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After traveling across the surface of the moon for what felt like a long time, the Sly Star One finally touched down onto some sort of landing pad embedded into the moon’s surface. And as the dust began to clear, Sly gestured to something right outside the window. “You don’t need air for something to take your breath away!”

The Mane 6 seemed a bit confused at this, but that's when they and all their friends saw it-- a gigantic, moon metropolis with glowing lights, tunnels and all sorts of advanced technology, just waiting for them to explore it. “Oh my gosh…” Zipp was the first of the Mane 6 to break the silence. “We definitely didn’t see this on the moon the last time we were here.”

“We could’ve passed right over it and we wouldn’t have known!” Hitch agreed before becoming confused once again. “But… there are SO many questions running through my brain right now, it isn’t even funny.”

“We can talk about questions later,” Starshine dismissed, eyes wide in awe. “But right now… I have to go check this place out!”

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Soon after everyone left the bridge, a tunnel extended to the doors of the Sly Star One, and once the doors opened, everyone onboard stepped into the tunnel, and the floor began to move on its own, as if it were a treadmill moving forward, letting our pony heroes and their friends, new and old, marvel at the sites in the city.

And as they began moving, Shannon took the liberty to explain. “The Baron has been secretly building on the dark side of the moon far over 10 years. It's quite an achievement, don't you think?” she asked. “Furthering his dream of making space travel available for anyone.”

Sly, who was at the front of the group, smiled proudly with his hands on his hips. “You're welcome, average people.”

“Average?!” Pipp looked enfuriated. “Oh, for the love of…”

“I wouldn’t let it bother you, princess,” Cloudy Dash tried to reassure. “I’m sure he does this with pretty much everyone.”

That was when Velma chuckled to herself from the back of the group. “I guess he really is a man of mystery.”

That was when Sly turned back to the crowd of passengers once again. “You are the first to experience the very finest space has to offer.”

Soon, the moving floor within the tunnel brought them to another door that led to a much larger part of the complex, to which everyone followed Sly into. Daphne and Shannon giggled and talked with each other during the walk inside, and this made Velma feel a bit left out.

It was then that Sly finally stopped in front of four robots with faces drawn on them with pieces of paper and markers. “Welcome to Sly Moon Prime, the moon's first luxury resort” Sly said to the rather stunned, yet amazed, group of passengers in front of him. “It's not quite finished yet, but the air generators are online and producing more air than we could ever breathe.”

And so, hearing this, Aruna popped her air bubble as everyone pressed the button to turn off their helmets… well, all except Fred, causing Steelcase to glance over at him. “Your helmet?”

“What?” Fred asked again, not able to hear Steelcase, but this remark caused Steelcase to sigh in aggravation. “Forget it.”

“Anything you want or need, just ask a Slybot,” Sly told the group. “That’s why we made them.”

“We?”

Before anyone could ask about this voice, an older man with a grayish-white beard, glasses and a space suit walked from the shadows between the Slybots, causing Cassiopeia to gulp nervously and hide behind Zipp and Shutter Snap.

Sly seemed to notice this man and chuckled a bit. “Forgive me. I had little to do with actually building them. Nothing but the money to make all of this possible,” he said before gesturing to the man in the shadows. This is Hudson, my right-hand space man… and my twin brother. He made them.”

Everyone looked over at Hudson in complete surprise, and then, dramatic music filled the air, coming from H.A.M, and this caused everyone to look at him with a deadpan/annoyed expression. “Sorry.”

“Rumor has it,” whispered Aruna, “Hudson has been here since day one.”

“Eleven years, two months, 12 days, mast of it alone,” Hudson spoke up again, catching everyone's attention. “It's great to see friendly faces. Or any faces at all.”

Hudson’s eyes swept across the crowd of visitors, but when his eyes fell on Scooby, he stared for a moment before walking over and examining Scooby’s face, causing Pipp to gasp. “Oh my pony!”

“Uh, guys?” Misty whispered to her friends, eyes wide in surprise. “Should we say something?”

“I don’t know what we could say,” said Zipp, “to make this less awkward.”

“This isn't all happening in my head, is it?” Hudson asked, looking over at Sly. “It's all real, right?”

“Yes,” Sly nodded. “It is, brother.”

That was when Hudson began to run around the large room in excitement, clapping and laughing like he thought there would be no tomorrow. People, people, people! Ha, ha! People, people, people! You're really here! You're all real! Ha, ha! It's been so long…!”

“...I take it that it’s been a while since Hudson’s seen any form of life,” Hitch whispered awkwardly to Sunny. “It’s… kinda…”

“Sad?” Sunny finished softly. “Yeah… sad,” Hitch nodded, causing Sparky to nod with him. “But… just a little.”

“I love him, but he's a little odd,” Sly whispered to the group before he turned to his still-celebrating brother. “Hudson. Why don't you make the introductions?”

“Ah. Yes, yes, yes. Introductions,” Hudson took a breath and approached the first of the four robots. “This is Frank, he keeps us all honest.”

Then, he moved to the second robot, whose paper face fell off, causing Hudson to quickly put it back on. “This is Linda, our ray of sunshine.”

“Wha…?” Morpho and Zipp tilted their heads in confusion. “Here's Reggie, the comedian of the group,” Hudson continued, listening to the robot’s silence for a moment before laughing. “Good one, Reggie. Oh. Oh, that's funny.”

Finally, Hudson stopped laughing, cleared his throat and approached the other robot, his smile falling into a stern look. “And finally, there's Twiggy. She's not happy with me at the moment. We are having a disagreement. Isn't that right?”

However, the robot with the angry look on it's face stood silently in response. “Oh, is that so? Well, we'll talk about this later!” Hudson barked before turning back to his twin brother and the Sly Star One crew. “So... what can we do for you?”

“We need to patch and seal our air tanks. Probably gonna need two welding rigs,” Steelcase said before Fred raised his hand. “Make it three.”

Tidal sighed under her breath. “Like Steelcase said... we'll need two rigs.”

“Yes, yes, of course!” Hudson said rather enthusiastically. “I'll put my best bot on it. That's Caroline Prime!”

With that, Hudson pressed a button on his space suit, which made some very large doors open behind him, and a second or two later, a pair of large eyes began to glow and peer at them from the darkness.

Izzy, Misty and Scooby gulped nervously at this while the rest of the Mane 6 tensed up, ready to spark a fight for their friends' safety if need-be. “Caroline!” Hudson called. “We have guests!”

A gigantic robot then began to roll out of the shadows toward them, all while the others watched its giant caterpillar tracks, hands and small door on its body in action.

As it got closer to the group, Hudson put his hands up to stop the robot in its tracks. “Stop! Stay...” he said, and Caroline did just as he commanded her to do. “She was just stacking supplies. She can move thousands of food crates in a matter of minutes. Heh.”

“Food crates?!” Shaggy laughed in excitement. “Like, I think I found my favorite robot, Scoob!”

Scooby licked his chops with an eager smile on his face. “Yeah. Me too.”

“Aww...” H.A.M pouted, feeling a bit hurt by this claim just before U-Boat stepped forward, glaring up at Caroline with a distrustful gaze... a gaze that sent chills up Cloudy Dash's spine. “I don't trust anything that's not human.”

Pipp didn't want to admit it in front of the others, but even she had to admit... Caroline made her a bit nervous too. “Maybe you shouldn't get too close, U-Boat.”

“Oh, don't worry,” Aruna brushed off with the most cheerful smile she could muster. “She's perfectly safe. Wouldn't hurt a fly.”

Shannon nodded in agreement before walking a bit closer to Caroline. “I checked her protocol myself. She'll do anything we ask. Watch. Sit!”

Shaggy, Scooby, Izzy and Cassiopeia immediately sat down at this, and Sunny tried to hold back giggles at this. “She didn't mean you, guys. I think she meant Caroline.”

“Let’s try that again,” Shannon turned back toward Caroline. “Caroline, sit.”

That was when Caroline lowered her head down, obeying the command instantly. And once the others had finished staring in surprise, Hudson approached the hippogriff cousins, Steelcase and Elvin. “It'll take some time to get the rigs prepped and of course you'll be needing to cri-gen-down the mag coils in synth-mix first. Right?”

“Uh...” Tidal and Starshine had no idea what the heck he was talking about, and honestly, Elvin and Steelcase weren't even sure what to say in response. That was when Ridley stepped forward, a smug and confident expression plastered onto her face. “He said, the engines will need to cool.”

Hudson immediately caught sight of her, a lovestruck look in his eyes as he slowly nodded in response. “That’s right...”

There was a brief moment of silence before Morpho cleared his throat to stop the mushy-gushy somance stuff. And once she had snapped out of the moment, Ridley stepped forward. “I speak nerd.”

Velma rolled her eyes sarcastically to this. “Of course you do.”

“Watch it, four eyes,” Ridley mocked, causing Hitch to raise an eyebrow in disappointment and confusion. “You wear glasses too, you know.”

Ridley scoffed with the roll of her eyes, completely dismissing the earth pony stallion's statement. “Whatever.”

“...okay, good, good! Let's get to work,” Hudson said quite eagerly. “Might take a day or so.”

“Sounds good to me,” Zipp said. “That’ll give us some time to deal with this alien.”

Hudson froze at this. “Alien?”

That was when H.A.M began playing dramatic music from his speaker again... that is, until Daphne shot H.A.M a scolding look. “Uh... you’re not helping.”

“Sorry,” H.A.M apologized before stepping away. “That's what ripped the oxygen lines on the Sly Star One,” Sunny explained. “And it could easily still be somewhere onboard the ship.”

“Or,” Hitch gulped nervously, “it could have gotten off the ship and is roaming around here somewhere.”

“Hitch!” Daphne scolded upon seeing Shaggy, Scooby and Cassiopeia begin to shiver. “So not helping!”

Hitch blushed nervously as Sparky also gave him a scolding glance. “Sorry...”

“Who knows what you saw. It was probably nothing but space junk,” Steelcase dismissed before looking at his partner. “Come on, Zip, let's get to work.”

“Right,” Fred agreed optimistically. “Let’s get to work.”

With that, Elvin and Steelcase, followed by Morpho and Ridley, Fred, the hippogriff cousins, Hitch, Izzy and Hudson walked off to get to work on repairing the Sly Star One, while Sly turned back to the others remaining. “I'm afraid I have to excuse myself for a satellite interview. Probably about some award the world needs to bestow upon me.”

Pipp scoffed to herself when she heard this. “Even I'm not that self absorbed...”

However, Sly didn't seem to hear this, thank goodness, and gestured to the glass doors that led outside, where a series of moon buggies were waiting for people to ride them. “Um, feel free to take the Slymoon buggy ride. It's fun out there. Now, watch me leave.”

And without another word, Sly walked off, leaving those remaining off on their own. Once Sly was gone, Shaggy turned to Scooby, Misty and Sunny. “Like, dudes, if the alien might be inside, maybe we should go where it isn't. Like, outside. What do you say, old pals?”

Scooby nodded enthusiastically to this. “Yeah, yeah. Outside.”

“We'll go with you to make sure that nothing out of the ordinary happens,” Sunny said before following Shaggy and Scooby away. “Come on, Misty.”

“Right behind you!” Misty said before galloping after them. And once the others had disappeared from sight, Daphne turned back to Shannon, since Aruna had walked off to see the station by herself and report back to Alterro. “So, where should we start?”

“I have to re-calibrate the oxygen levels for the station. More people, more air to breathe,” Shannon said. “Shouldn't take too long. I'll see you in a bit.”

And then, after a brief hair flick, Shannon walked off, leaving Daphne to giggle to herself.

Velma on the other hand, glared over at Daphne with her own agenda in mind. “So, Clark, didn't you mention that you wanted to do an exclusive expose on someone in the mystery-solving game? That someone being me?”

Daphne huffed and immediately turned around, while Clark seemed flustered about what just happened. “Oh, yeah. Well... whoa!”

“Clark!” Shutter Snap yelped as soon as Velma dragged Clark away. “What was that all about?”

“Something about test scores... hair... I'm not exactly sure about all the details,” Pipp said with a concerned frown on her face. “But, I do know that whatever is going on, Alterro could definitely take advantage of them if we're not careful.”

“You’re right… we better go and make sure everything is okay with them before it escalates any further,” Zipp nodded to her sister’s statement before going and giving orders. “Shutter, you and me will go after Velma. Pipp, you take Cassie and go after Daphne. We’ll text each other with updates.”

“Got it,” the other ponies nodded and they ran off after their friends, leaving Cloudy Dash and U-Boat alone with H.A.M, who turned to the duo with a smile. “Knock knock.”

“I’m not home, but these guys are,” U-Boat said threateningly while he showed H.A.M his two very large fists. “Come on, U-Boat,” Cloudy said gently. “We’ve got some drills to run anyway.”

And so, she and U-Boat walked away to do their training, leaving poor H.A.M all by himself yet again.

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Aruna had managed to go to a quiet part of the base where she could contact Alterro without anyone disturbing her, but once her magic mirror activated, she could see that Alterro wasn’t at all pleased. “What took you so long?! Did you find it?!”

“I’m trying, Alterro, but this plan has been, well, more difficult than we originally anticipated,” Aruna began, but froze upon seeing her master’s anger grow with his flames. “ But don't worry! Though I haven't picked up the piece of the map to Skyros per say, I have been spreading manipulation and I have gathered plenty of info about my new crewmates.”

“Oh?” Alterro raised an eyebrow. “Do tell me about what you’ve learned.”

“You’d better sit down for this, Alterro,” Aruna said with a tired sigh, sitting down on the cold, hard floor. “This is going to take a while.”