After leaving Breena, Eden and Pavari SirenSong behind to look after Emma and her parents, Mystery Incorporated and the Mane 6 ran down the hall as fast as they could, hoping to catch Dewey before he stole the soap diamond from the mineralogical society.
But, the ponies didn't realize how much of an effect this particular fight would have on their powers.
Pipp panted as she and Fred ran beside Shaggy, and the pink pegasus looked at her friend with wide eyes. “Is he saying anything?!”
Shaggy listened closely before faint sounds reached his ears. “Oh oh, I can hear traffic! He's outside!” he told his friends before hearing something else. “Like, he just said 'Got it'! We might be too late!”
“Not if we get there first!” Sunny cried. “Follow me! I know a shortcut!”
Everyone followed Sunny out of a side door in the alley, and ran out of the alley to where the mineralogical society was, where Scooby suddenly saw something at the top of the fire escape. “There!”
Turns out, Scooby had saw Dewey in his phantom disguise making a break for it down the fire escape, and the two combined groups ran across the road to stop him. “Dewey!” Fred cried, and Dewey froze before donning a phantom-like voice. “I am the phantom! I know nothing of this ‘Dewey’!”
“Dude! We know it’s you!” Shaggy cried. “You’re still wearing your headset!”
“Huh?!” Dewey took off his headset and realized that he had been caught… big time, I might add. “Oh, darn…”
He continued trying to make his escape down the fire escape, but he got wrapped up in his own cape, causing him to tumble down the fire escape before reaching the bottom, but the diamond fell out of his reach. “The soap diamond!” Velma cried as it fell out of its pouch. Luckily, Scooby ran and caught the diamond in his mouth while Izzy managed to catch its pouch on her horn. “NO!!” Dewey shrieked. But… the others didn’t know that he wasn’t going to give up.
Not by a long shot.
As Dewey climbed down the fire escape, the others came to congratulate their friends on catching the diamond. “Way to go, Scooby-Doo!” Shaggy scratched the dog’s head. “And you too, Izzy!”
“Yeah,” Zipp agreed. “That was close.”
“Thanks, guys,” Izzy said as Scooby put the diamond back in the bag… just before the headlights of Dewey’s car turned on, making the ponies slightly... incredibly worried. “Uh-oh!!”
“I want that diamond!!” Dewey shrieked as he drove straight at them. “RUN!!” Hitch cried, and the ponies led their friends down the road to try and escape Dewey’s reach. “Izzy, toss me the diamond!” Pipp cried. “I’ll try to fly it out of harm’s way!”
“Here you go, Pippster!” Izzy tossed the bag to her friend, to which Pipp grabbed in her mouth. But, when she tried to fly out of harm’s way, her wings glitched and she fell back onto her hooves, letting the bag fly into Scooby’s mouth. “Pipp! What’s wrong?!” Misty cried. “It’s my wings!” Pipp explained. “They’re not working!”
“Ugh… my horn isn’t either!” Izzy strained. “It’s the diamond!” Zipp realized as she, Sunny and Hitch ran beside Fred and Daphne. “It must be shorting out our powers as long as we’re close to it!”
“What are we gonna do?!” Daphne cried. “That’s easy!” Sunny explained. “Keep the diamond from Dewey and RUN!!”
Pipp, the unicorns, Shaggy and Scooby continued to be chased by Dewey, but it was clear they couldn’t outrun him for very much longer.
That’s when Scooby decided to dash his fears aside and protect his friends.
He jumped right up onto the front of Dewey’s car to try and block his view, but the bag flew out of his mouth and into Dewey’s grasp.
As Dewey’s car sped toward them, Fred pushed the girls out of the way while the ponies were able to leap aside as the car zoomed around the corner. “He’s got Scooby! And the diamond!” Zipp realized. “We have to help him!” Misty said frantically. “We will!” Fred reassured. “Everyone, to the Mystery Machine!”
“Hang on, Scooby!” Izzy called as they rushed toward the van. “We’re coming!”
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At the same time, Dewey’s car tore down the street with Scooby hanging on for dear life. The Mystery Machine raced up behind him, surprising Dewey. Scooby, realizing that this was his chance, crawled onto the car hood and nabbed the bag in his teeth before he leapt off.
Fred turned the van sideways and Velma opened the passenger side door, letting her catch the Great Dane in her arms. “Way to go, Velma!” Zipp smiled, letting Velma giggle. “Thanks.”
Dewey looked back angrily, but he should’ve watched where he was going. He turned a saw he was heading right for a flatbed truck. He screamed and hit the brakes, but it was too late-- his car side-struck the massive vehicle. The truck’s load dislodged from the flatbed and drums of sticky, pink slime splattered all over Dewey’s car.
This left the rest of the ponies to groan and wince.
“Oooh…”
“That’s gotta hurt.”
“He’s gonna need to buff that out.”
As the Mystery Machine sped away, Dewey desperately wiped away the slime off of himself before he growled and sped off after the gang.
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Back with the gang, Misty sighed in relief. “Thank goodness that’s over…”
“I don’t know about that,” Zipp hummed with a frown. “It seems a little too easy if you ask me.”
That’s when Scooby looked back and saw Dewey speeding toward, laughing like a maniac. “Yikes! Freddy, he’s gaining on us.”
Fred hardened his gaze and floored it just before they weaved past nighttime traffic and into an alleyway. Dewey was right behind them, crashing through two trash cans, causing a tidal wave of garbage to cover his windshield. “Eww! Icky!”
The two vehicles darted from the alleyway and into another road. “He’s still right behind us!” Fred looked back at Dewey’s car. “Watch the road! Watch the road!” Misty shrieked. That's when the gang rocketed through a busy intersection, with cars stopping and veering out of the way to avoid a collision. Fred looked and noticed Dewey was nowhere to be seen, causing the ponies to sigh in relief.
Maybe they finally lost him.
Suddenly, those smiles of relief turned into gasps of horror when they saw that Dewey was veering into their side of the road. Suddenly, Fred glared at the incoming car and sped up, causing the ponies, not to mention, the other members of the gang, to panic. “Fred what are you doing?” Velma asked nervously. “Are you trying to get us killed?!” Hitch asked. Fred didn’t flinch and neither did Dewey. The two vehicles side-swiped each other, causing them to spin out of control.
The gang all screamed as the van spun like a top, but unfortunately, once the spinning ended, Dewey didn’t give up and sped after them once again. “What is with this guy?!” Zipp asked. “You think he would have some kind of boundries!”
“Boundaries were thrown out the window when he decided to pretend to be a phantom!” Sunny pointed out. Then, the two vehicles swung around oncoming traffic, putting the entire gang on edge. “I can’t watch!” Shaggy stammered just before Scooby put his paws over his eyes. “Thanks, Scoob.”
The Mystery Machine veered onto the opposite lane where two cars were driving toward them. “Look out!” Sunny screamed, and luckily, the van scraped past the two cars with Dewey right behind them. “There’s no way we can lose him!” Fred said. “He’s just too fast!”
“Look out!” Daphne pointed up ahead where a set of crossing gates lowered in front of traffic. There was a lift bridge up ahead, beginning the open up for a passing garbage barge. “What are we gonna do?!” Pipp cried. “We’re completely cornered!”
“Give me that bag.” Fred held out his hand, and Velma handed him the bag just as Dewey pulled up behind them and Fred floored it and tore past the waiting vehicles. He crashed through the crossing gates and up the lifting bridge. “Fred, are you crazy?!” Misty asked in shock. “We don’t have our powers to protect us, remember?!”
“Trust me, guys!” Fred cried. “I know what I’m doing.”
Dewey then sped after them, and as the bridge lifted higher into the air, the two vehicles began losing speed and traction on the asphalt. “Ooooh... I think I’m going to be sick...” Pipp said while holding her mouth closed. Fred remained concentrated on the edge of the bridge, right before Dewey rammed them from the behind, jolting them out of their fearful stupor. He rammed again, this time more violently and the van swung out of control. “Everybody hang on!” Sunny shouted. “I’m not sure what’s about to happen, but it can’t be anything good!”
As the others held on for dear life, the Mystery Machine crashed through the guardrail and hung precariously over the edge, teetering just like a seesaw. All the while, Dewey’s car lost all traction and began to slide down the lift bridge, but Dewey was able to escape and grab the van's back doors before Dewey's car smashed back down to the road and exploded into flames.
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Back in the Mystery Machine, Sunny groaned and rubbed her head just before looking at her friends. “Is... is everypony okay?”
“Other than being tossed around like a flapjack,” Hitch groaned, “I think we're all okay.”
Suddenly, the back doors of the Mystery Machine opened, revealing Dewey and making everyone gasp in shock. “Hold it right there.”
“Like, heh, that's actually a pretty good suggestion,” Shaggy fearfully whimpered as the ponies took fighting stances, even though they had no powers to fight back as long as the diamond was close by. As Dewey stepped into the van, a sword blade rose from his feather duster, causing Izzy and Hitch to shriek and whimper out of fear. “That,” Daphne told Dewey, “is the cleanest sword I've ever seen!”
“Thank you,” Dewey smiled and polished the sword blade a bit. “Now, I'll take that bag!”
But when he turned to the group again, he found that the driver door was open and the gang had escaped, prompting Dewey to growl and head out after them.
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The ponies scrambled after their Mystery Incorporated friends up the side of the bridge, and luckily, the gang was there to help them up.
But, their worries increased when they found Dewey at the very top of the bridge, just a few yards away. “The bag,” he ordered firmly. “Hand it over.”
“No way, neat freak!” Zipp snarled. “You’ll have to pry it from our cold, dead hooves before we hand the diamond over!”
“Uh... what Zipp means to say,” Shaggy tried to correct the pegasus, “is that maybe we could hand it over for a good price...?”
Luckily, Misty was able to elbow him into silencing himself. “Why do you want this diamond so badly, anyway?” Fred asked with a narrowed gaze. “I need it,” Dewey sneered, “to complete my collection of cleanliness themed treasures. I've already stolen the Ammonia Lisa and the Sponge of Turin.”
“So that was you!” Velma realized. “Uh-huh,” Dewey smirked with a nod. “But you need three things to make a collection. Three things. Two is just bookends.”
Pipp took one step backwards, but when she prepared to take another one, she realized that she was dangerously close to falling off, causing her to whimper... falling without wings to slow your fall was a serious thing.
They had to play their next moves carefully from this point.
However, Dewey wasn't going to make this easy. “Now give... me... the bag!”
The ponies looked at each other, then at the gang, unsure of what they should do, when Fred did one of the most shocking things the ponies had ever seen... he dropped the bag toward the waters below! “NO!!” Dewey shrieked, and without a moment’s hesitation, he dove right after the bag, leaving Sunny to gasp. “Dewey!”
As she tried to activate her alicorn form, Fred stopped her in her tracks. “Don’t worry, Sunny, he’ll be fine… trust me.”
But, Sunny was still confused, even as they watched Dewey continue to fall as he got hold of the bag... before eventually grimacing when Dewey landed right in the middle of a huge garbage pile on the back of a huge boat.
Luckily, Dewey was unharmed from the fall... even if he was caked in garbage. “Garbage! Unclean, unclean! Ew, ew, ew!” he said, trying to wipe the garbage off of him. “But I got the diamond!”
That’s when he realized that the soap diamond was probably under the trash, and began digging to find it. “Oh, the soap diamond, gotta find it, gotta find it, ugh!” he muttered before eventually finding the bag with the diamond inside. “Heh, I've got it!”
“Oh no! We have to get the diamond!” Zipp prepared to dive, but Fred quickly stopped her. “No, just wait. Trust me on this.”
The ponies reluctantly continued to wait as Dewey opened the bag… and revealed that no diamond was in there, but one of Scooby’s dog bones was. “Yuck!” Dewey tossed the bone away. “A slobbery dog bone!”
“Oooh,” Fred smirked, revealing the diamond out of his pocket, “too bad.”
Scooby giggled at this, and the ponies gave a huge sigh of relief.
That was WAY too close for comfort.
Dewey snarled as police boats surrounded them on all sides, and looked up at the combined groups with disdain. “And I would have gotten away with it,” he said, “if it hadn't been for you meddling kids, those disgusting horses and your filthy, germy dog!”
“But…” Pipp was about to say before she sighed. “...never mind.”
“Come on, everypony,” smiled Sunny. “We need to get this diamond to the proper authorities, and then make it back in time for the finale results!”
“Sunny’s right,” Hitch looked over at Fred and Daphne. “You guys have got a competition to win!”