Scooby-Doo! and The Mystery of The Mystery Machine

Chapter 5

Now, we join Mystery Inc. at a Malt Shop, their usual post and pre-mystery hangout spot. Right now, Shaggy and Scooby were chowing down on a large sandwich. As usual, Fred was the one with the newspaper. The main article as on their last case, the one with Zen Tuo.

"Hey, like, Fred, check the front page. there's something you'll wanna look at." Daphne states, looking at the front page of the newspaper

Fred turned over to the front page of the newspaper and the main article was about the main power plant North California  loosing amounts of power for no known reason.

"Hey gang, listen to this. 'North California main power plant mysteriously loses power'." Fred reads

"Man, like, I would hate to be anyone living in North California right now." Shaggy states as him and Scooby finish their sandwich

"That's not all, 'Plant Manager, Joseph Abacard, thinks it may be the ghost of former Deep Sea Diving legend, Marsove Ecton Blaste who is making the power vanish' " Fred further read

"Ghost???" Shaggy and Scooby asked in unison with fear in their voices before ducking under the table

"Why would a deep sea diver's ghost be stealing a power plant's power, though?" Daphne asks

"I don't know." Fred answered

"I don. it has to do with the legend. That deep sea diver legend died from excess radiation during a non documented outing. Bur what I don't get is why is he haunting a power plant and not the area of the sea where he died." Velma explained

"Well, gang, it looks like we've got another mystery on our hands." Fred says as he rolls up the newspaper

"Indeed, and our first step is to go to that power plant and see what we can find out about that  ghost." Velma added

"B-B-B-B-But, like, what if we get attacked by something on the way there?" Shaggy stutters, clearly not wanting to go to a haunted power plant

"Shaggy, nothing can attack us on the way there." Fred stated

"Besides, the quickest route to the power plant has nothing but dead trees surroundinig the road, so nothing can ambush us." Daphne added

"RYou sure?" Scooby asks, shaking

"I'm sure." Daphne re-assures, kneeling down to pet Scooby

"Fine, but, like, if we get hurt, don't say I didn't tell you so."  Shaggy says

Later, Mystery Inc. found themselves driving down an old, creepy road surrounded by nothing but dead oak trees and dead bushes.

"Wow, I hope we never have to use THIS route ever again." Fred says as he drives

Shaggy and Scooby poke their heads out the front side passenger window and look around. Yep, this place is definitely creepy. They really wanna go back to the Malt  Shop but they know they can't.  They're too far from the Malt Shop to easily get there on foot. However, he went wide eyed when he sw a semi truck approaching the cross-point of the upcoming 4-way intersection.

"Fred, watch out for that semi-truck!!!" Shaggy yelled

Fred then stomped on the breaks just before a semi truck that had a blue paintjob with flame decals drove past, just narrowly missing The Mystery Machine.

"That was close."  Fred said as he sighed with relief. "Everybody okay?"

Everyone nodded but Shaggy was the first to say something.

"Like, next time that happens, somebody get that driver's license plate." Shaggy said, dazed a little

Fred chuckled  little before resuming to drive towards the power plant. However, what they didn't notice was when they passed by what looked like a currently seeming to be shut off pickup truck. The bed of the truck was black while the rest was red. The windows were tinted preventing vision into the driver's cabin.

"So, like, what does this ghost t the power plant look like?" Shaggy asked Fred, Daphne. and Velma

"No one knows." Fred started

"No one's met him and live to tell it and those who did were traumatized by their experience keeping them from describing the experience." Velma finished

Scooby and Shaggy gulp. This was gonna be one of their most dangerous mysteries ever possibly.

....How bad could it be?