Scooby-doo! The Mystery Begins Page #3

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My parents both work

and I got the whole basement to myself.

Yeah, wait till you see it.

I mean, I got a TV, a CD, a DVD, an MP3,

and I even have my own bathroom...

-... if you have to go...

-We all got it, Shaggy.

-See you there.

VELMA:
See you tomorrow.

How about that, Scoob?

We're having company.

Oh, boy.

MRS. ROGERS:
Feel better, honey.

There's extra chicken soup in the fridge.

Thanks, Ma. And don't worry about me.

MRS. ROGERS:
I'll be on my cell phone

all day if you need anything.

Hey, come on, Scoob.

Let's get this place cleaned up.

SHAGGY:
Perfect timing. Fred, Daphne.

-Hey, Shaggy.

Welcome to the party.

Party?

Oh, like, yeah.

It's always a party here at Shagwell Manor.

May I take your coats?

I mean, please sit down.

Make yourselves at home.

-Sweet pad, Shag.

SHAGGY:
Thank you.

DAPHNE:
Oh!

FRED:
Uh...

I'm sorry.

-This is an old couch.

-Yeah.

-And legs.

DAPHNE:
Old. Yeah.

SHAGGY:

Bon apptit.

Thanks.

-Wow, these are really good.

-Yeah.

What are they?

No, they don't have a name,

just something I whipped up.

You know, eggs, water,

flour, cocoa, sugar...

...and a little dog kibble for texture.

-Mm. It was good.

-Mm. Delicious.

Oh, Scoob.

You didn't save any for Velma.

-Greetings.

-Hi.

I found those names

from the gravestones.

You are not gonna believe this.

Oh, sorry.

Prudence Prufrock and Ezekial Gallows.

The founding faculty of Coolsville Academy.

And time capsule? What's that?

It's a container used to preserve

historical artifacts...

...in order to capture a certain time.

What will they think of next?

According to this article...

...Gallows and Prufrock were set to open

the doors to their new school...

...when tragedy struck.

The flood destroyed Coolsville Academy,

and the two founding faculty were killed.

Spooky, huh?

It says here that like the rest of the town,

the new school was built...

...right over the ruins of the old school.

This is great, Velma. That explains two

of the ghosts, and if we figure out...

...who the third one is, we'll be

much closer to clearing our names.

You know what we need to do?

Go back to the scene of the crime.

But how? We can't be seen

back on school grounds.

Then we'll have to use the cover of night

as our silent ally.

Yes, it'll be just like in one

of our mystery books.

Have you been eating dog food?

Yeah. Good for the coat.

Oh, yum.

Okay. Let's do this.

Okay, we can cover more ground

if we split up and search for clues.

-Daphne, you come with me and...

-Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Why do I have to go with you?

Yeah, who made you boss?

Why can't we pick our own teams?

-Well, I just thought...

-You just wanted to go with the hottie.

I did not. And just for the record,

I don't even think she's that hot.

Oh, really?

-Well, just for the record...

SHAGGY:
Guys, like, can we just get to it?

Seriously, the school's scary enough

during the day.

Fine. How about we all just go together?

-Fine.

-Works for me.

-Touchy bunch, huh?

-Uh-huh.

SPECTER:
Find out what they're up to,

then get rid of them.

VELMA:
All right, guys. Our objective here

is to gather forensic evidence.

SHAGGY:
And keep an eye out

for that tooth I lost playing dodge ball.

Oh, hope you don't mind, I took the liberty

of borrowing this for our investigation.

Look at that. Groovy and practical.

-Jinkies. Look at this.

FRED:
What is it?

I'm not sure.

But this is directly under where the

spectral figure appeared and disappeared.

Do you always carry slides with you?

What good is a microscope

without slides?

Right.

SHAGGY:
You see anything?

-Shh.

-Shh.

-Shh.

Shh.

Ghost! Ghost!

Boo.

PRUDENCE:

Going somewhere?

Hey, how about playing a few downs

with me?

DAPHNE:
Go! Let's go!

PRUDENCE:
After them.

-Hey, come on.

-Care to play around?

-You think we lost him?

-I don't think so.

FRED:
Oh, too low, princess. Come on.

-Your luck just ran out.

VELMA:

The Specter.

Costume?

Come on, let's go.

All right, no more playing around.

Come at me. Come on.

EZEKIAL:
Come out, wherever you are.

-Oh, no.

I got it.

Is that all you got?

-Come on.

-Let's try a different game.

FRED:

Uh-oh.

Yeah. Now that's how a Cougar does it.

SHAGGY:
Follow me, Scoob.

I know the perfect place to hide.

Next time, ladies.

DAPHNE:
Come on, Velma. Let's make tracks.

VELMA:
I'm right behind you.

-Like, time for a nutrition break, eh, Scoob?

-Yeah.

First, a grammar lesson.

-Never start a sentence with "like. "

-Like, sorry.

-Let's go, Scoob.

-Okay.

Hey, Scoob.

-Where are we?

-I don't know, Shaggy.

SHAGGY:

Oh, no.

How do you like that?

Undone by the thing we love most.

Irony. Ech!

VELMA:

Giddy up, Daphne.

EZEKIAL:

Never come back.

Hey, wait up. Wait up.

You're okay. I was gonna call you

but I didn't know your last name.

Really?

You were gonna call me?

Yeah, I didn't... I thought

if you got stuck in the school...

...then we'd all get in more trouble,

I didn't want that so...

That's why you were gonna call.

My last name's Jones.

Mine's Blake.

-Dinkley.

-Pardon?

My surname.

It's Dinkley.

-Yeah.

-Oh, cool.

Yeah.

So Dinkley and Blake,

you guys heard from Shaggy and Scooby?

I was hoping they got out with you.

SHAGGY:
Help.

SCOOBY:
Help.

SHAGGY:
Someone help.

SCOOBY:
Help.

SHAGGY:

Help us.

Oh, we're saved.

-Oh, we're doomed.

-Doomed?

FRED:

Whoa, look at this place.

DAPHNE:

Wow.

-Extreme makeover, ghost edition.

-These paranormal poltergeists...

-... aren't pussyfooting around.

-What are we gonna do?

Same thing they do in our mystery books.

We have to examine the clues.

VELMA:

Way ahead of you, Freddie.

I analyzed that green residue

from the gym floor. And guess what it is.

Magnesium chlorate. Can you believe it?

DAPHNE:

Of course.

Magnesium chlorate

is a highly-combustible substance...

...that can be used to create an explosion

identical to the third ghost's smoke screen.

How did you...?

-I can read upside down.

-That's great.

But why would a ghost

need a smoke screen?

Because maybe...

Maybe he's not a ghost at all.

Remember, last night,

we thought we saw the third ghost...

...it was just one of the Greek chorus

costumes from Julius Caesar.

I guess that would explain

why there are only two graves...

...but I still don't understand

how someone wearing a costume could fly.

I do. The safety rigging. You know

that thing they use for gymnastics?

When I was facing off against the ghost,

you know, head-to-head, football style.

-Shake and bake and just a little stiff-arm.

-We get it.

Right, well, I used the gymnastics harness

to escape.

And I bet it sure looked like I was flying.

Okay. So what we've deduced...

...is that there's one sneaky human

working with two real ghosts.

Exactly. Come on, this has to be enough

to clear our names.

Principal Deedle, we have some

information about the ghosts.

The ghosts?

What more information do we need

except that they want us to leave?

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