One night, Mayor Jones is examining a piece of Planispheric disc that he keeps in a safe above his bed. Suddenly there is someone outside of his door.
Mayor Jones: Huh? Hello? Is someone there? Oh, cartwheeling kitchen camels! Fred, if you've snuck in here again to conserve body heat by lying across my legs.
The door opens and no one is there.
Mayor Jones: Fred?
The bed gets lifted and it shakes and throws Mayor Jones off. Mayor Jones grabs his glasses and sees the shadowy figure.
Mayor Jones: You! No! Not again!
He backs up as the figure approaches. In Fred's room he was sleeping when he heard Mayor Jone scream.
Fred: Santa? Wait, no, dad!
Fred gets up and runs towards his dad's room as they bump into each other. Mayor Jones gets up.
Mayor Jones: I've gotta get out of here!
He runs downstairs.
Mayor Jones: Let me go!
Fred: But, dad, what's happened?
He then hears laughing in Mayor Jones room and sees the shadowy figure closing the door.
The gang was at school as Y/N and Daphne held hands as Fred spoke.
Fred: Gang, there's something wrong with my dad. Every day for two weeks now, he runs screaming down the hall and ends up sleeping in the yard. Is that normal?
Velma: For your dad? Probably.
Daphne: My mom was doing that for a while. But it just turned out to be really bad gas, according to the men who took her away.
Shaggy: I hear that. Like, a couple of late night jalapeno-stuffed clam poppers and it's another all-nighter on the porcelain!
Scooby: Raggy, please!
The bell rings.
Shaggy: Dude, Fred, if you want, Scooby and me could sleep over tonight.
Velma: And my mom has a whole section of herbal sleep remedies at her shop. We could stop by after school.
Fred: Oh, I'd really appreciate that. Thanks, gang. See you after class.
He walks off as Y/N looks at Daphne and Velma.
Y/N: Daphne, Velma quick question. When you dated Fred and Shaggy have, they been well... obsessive?
Daphne: With traps, yes.
Velma: Food, yes.
Y/N: No, I mean obsessive with us. Like, have they ever had trust issues?
Velma: He dumped me for a dog. A dog! Then he started acting all, "I want you, Velma" again before I sent him back to his dog.
Daphne: He dumped me for his traps.
Velma: So, yeah, there were a few trust issues. Why?
Y/N: It's best if I show you.
Y/N opens Fred's locker, and a long list falls out of his locker.
Y/N: This is literally his schedule and that's only today. Part one of twelve! He is literally losing it.
Soon after the gang goes to Angie, and she prepares tea.
Angie: Here ya go. A sampling of my best herbal teas guaranteed to relax body and soul. Who wants to try?
Lady Marmalade: Your father don't need no tea, man. Your father need an exorcist, man. A ghost hunter.
Velma: I'm sorry, but who are you and what are you doing skulking in my mom's bookcases?
Angie: It's ok, Velma. This is my new barista, Lady Marmalade.
Daphne: Barista? Is that like a massage therapist? Because I have got this knot-
Lady Marmalade: I make coffee drinks, girly. Espresso, chai latte, mocha chaka lata yayas, and the like. I also cast evil spirits out of unclean souls.
Fred: You think my dad's soul could be unclean?
Lady Marmalade: Hmm, from your aura? It could definitely use a good washing.
Y/N: I mean, she's not wrong.
Lady Marmalade: If you need me, boy, I'll be behind the milk steamer.
She glides away.
Angie: Isn't she great? I'm just a sucker for that accent!
Night came and Shaggy, and Scooby, arrived at Fred's house.
Fred: Hey, guys. Thanks again for spending the night.
Shaggy: Why, no problemo, Fred.
Scooby: If mayor dad is in trouble We're here to help.
A picture falls as Scooby catches it.
Scooby: Whoa-ho-ho. She's hot.
Shaggy: Cool it, scoob. Like, that's Fred's mom. She left when he was a baby. He doesn't-
Fred: Talk about her much.
Scooby: Sorry, Fred. I didn't mean anything.
Fred: It's ok, scoob. She was pretty. Maybe someday I'll get to tell her that in person. So, uh, anything else you guys need?
Shaggy: Well, maybe just one other thing.
Shaggy and Scooby go to the kitchen and see the fridge.
Shaggy and Scooby: Oh! Heaven!
Soon after they watch a Vincent Van Ghoul movie.
Van Ghoul: The doctor is in, and I'm sorry to inform you, but, your health insurance has been denied!
He fights the zombies until Shaggy turns off the TV.
Shaggy: Like, man, I am stuffed.
Scooby: Yeah. I need another stomach for my stomach.
Shaggy: Pre-bed pizza?
Scooby: Absolutely!
Shaggy and Scooby begin to make a pizza while Fred sleeping is interrupted by Mayor Jones screaming.
Fred: Dad! I'm coming!
He runs into his dad's room and sees Mayor Jones on the ceiling as everything in the room is spinning around.
Mayor Jones: Toddling timber monkeys, Fred! Help!
Shaggy and Scooby finish making the pizza as they hear Fred.
Fred: Shaggy, Scooby, I need you now!
Shaggy: Zoinks! That sounded like Fred!
They run but the kitchen doors close as the pizza comes alive.
Pizza: Going somewhere? I am an evil pizza!
Shaggy: Like, that is so wrong! Zoinks!
The pizza attacks them as it leaps at Shaggy, and he throws it as it recovers and turns and the two are gone. Fred was trying to grab his dad.
Fred: Hold on, dad!
Mayor Jones: To what? I'm on the ceiling!
Mayor Jones begins to go around the room as Fred grabs a golf club and holds it up to his dad.
Fred: Grab this. It's a fairway wood, it's safe!
Mayor Jones grabs it and they both go around the room. Meanwhile Shaggy and Scooby are hiding inside a counter.
Scooby: It's really quiet out there.
The doors open and the pizza finds them as they run out as the food from the refrigerator chases them, meanwhile Fred was running with his dad. They all run out of the house and the doors close. And the shadowy figure is Mayor Jone's room as the lights turn off. The next morning the gang was at City Hall with Mayor Jones.
Mayor Jones: Forget it, Fred, I'm not going back.
Fred: Dad, please. I can solve this mystery.
Mayor Jones: Fine, solve away. Oh, and when you're driven mad and screaming into the night without me, could you remember to grab me some more socks? I'm short a few pairs.
Sunflower seeds fall out of Mayor Jones socks.
Mayor Jones: And what's with the sunflower seeds? I've been finding them all over the house.
Fred: I don't know. It's ok, Fred.
Shaggy and Scooby were talking with Velma.
Shaggy: You don't understand, dude. Like, food turned against us.
Scooby: There's no reason to go on living.
Velma: I'm sure you two will eat again Probably in the next ten minutes or so.
Fred: Listen to me, everybody. Something's trying to hurt my dad and I'm going to figure out what it is. But I can't do it alone. I'm going to need all of your help, including yours, dad.
Mayor Jones: What? I can't hear you, I'm too comfortable.
He lies on the couch.
Fred: I'm serious. And to prove it, if I can't solve what's happening to you, I'll give up mystery solving forever. And I'll be whatever you want me to be.
Mayor Jones sits up.
Mayor Jones: Really?
Y/N: Fred-
Mayor Jones gets up and gets between the two.
Mayor Jones: Too late, he said it. No going backsies. I've got witnesses, Fred.
Night came once again and at Fred's house, Fred was carrying cameras.
Fred: With these cameras set up around the house, we'll be able to watch and record anything that comes after my dad. But there's only one problem. I'm a trap guy. I have absolutely no idea how this stuff works.
Velma: Don't worry. I've been stripping dialectic insulation off my coax since before I could walk. Get ready to worship the Velma.
The gang begins to set up cameras as Shaggy struggles to hold Scooby as he sets up a camera, Daphne was with Y/N as she stapled the wires to the roof. She falls but Y/N catches her, and they smile at each other. The gang installs cameras in Mayor Jones room as Mayor Jones looks at the hidden safe. Afterwards, they go to the computers and the camera all activate and they cheer. There's then a knock at the door.
Fred: Almost forgot. One more part to my plan.
He opens the door, and they see Lady Marmalade.
Gang: Lady Marmalade?
Lady Marmalade: That's right. Now let's get started, man. I got a pile of chicken bones and scented candles stinking up me butt bag.
They all gather in Mayor Jones room and sit on the bed.
Couldn't we have done the seance somewhere else? This comforter is genuine ermine.
Lady Marmalade: Fred, not now, man. This room is the focus of the haunting.
Scooby: Are we going to talk to g-g-ghosts?
Lady Marmalade: Yes, barky. With this spirit board.
She holds up a Spirit Board.
Shaggy: I saw one of these in a van ghoul movie once. You ask it questions, right?
Shaggy takes planchette.
Shaggy: Spirit board, if Scooby Doo and I were superheroes, what would our names be?
Shaggy moves the planchette himself.
Shaggy: Steel Panther and the amazing fanglorious!
Scooby: Cool. Uh, who's who?
Lady Marmalade takes the board.
Lady Marmalade: The spirit board is not to be trifled with. This is serious stuff, man.
She places the planchette on the board and the candles all go higher as they all place a hand on the planchette.
Lady Marmalade: The spirits have heard us. Now, who would like to ask a real question?
They all look at each other.
Daphne: I guess I will. Um, hi, spirits. Thanks for coming. I'm Daphne. And I guess my question is, if you dating a boy-
Lady Marmalade: Okay, that's it! We're done.
Y/N: But, Lady Marmalade, the haunting!
She blows out the candles.
Lady Marmalade: I am a fourth-generation voodoo goddess! I sleep on a bed of alligator skull and hot coal. That takes skill, man. I'm gone.
Mayor Jones: No one's going anywhere. It's my haunting. I'll ask a question. Ok, spirits, listen up. Who are you, and why are you doing this to me?
The planchette moves by itself.
Velma: What's it saying?
Fred: "I am an old friend "and I want what you took from me." Dad, does that mean something to you?
Mayor Jones: No, of course not! Lady Bouillabaisse-
Lady Marmalade: Marmalade.
Mayor Jones: Whatever. Is obviously trying to pull some sort of scam.
The planchette catches on fire and soon the board.
Mayor Jones: My ermine!
Fred puts out the fire.
Lady Marmalade: Oh, you done it now, man. You've disrespected the spirits, and now they're mighty angry!
The drawers open as the closet opens, the clothes fly out, the drapes wipe around Velma, the pillows and blankets are tossed, as the figure speaks.
???: Give me it!
Shaggy: Like, this is worse than being attacked by our favorite foods!
Scooby: I'll say!
They all run out of the room and a bear rug comes alive and roars. It gets up and roars as all the animals come alive. They run down the stairs as a moose grabs Daphne's hair.
Y/N: Daphne!
Y/N starts to pull Daphne as Fred smacks the moose with a tennis racket.
Fred: Knock it off, Tyler!
Y/N frees Daphne and grabs her and the three run.
Daphne: Fred, you know that moose?
Fred: I spent a lot of time alone. He's a good listener.
They all run outside and fall to the ground.
Shaggy: Dudes! Like, that was close!
Y/N: No kidding.
Y/N was holding Daphne close to him.
Fred: I'll say. Dad, I don't know what's in there, but it sure hates you. Dad?
Fred turns and Mayor Jones is pulled back into the house.
Mayor Jones: Fred!
The doors close.
Fred: Dad!
Fred runs over to the doors.
Fred: Dad! Can you hear me?! Dad!
Daphne: Lady Marmalade, you've dealt with this kind of thing before. What do we do?
Lady Marmalade: Voodoo is very clear in what to do in situations like this, girly.
She runs away.
Lady Marmalade: Run!
Shaggy: Like, wow. All this time I had no idea running away from monsters had anything to do with voodoo.
Fred runs around the house.
Y/N: Fred!
The gang chases Fred and they find another way into the house.
Fred: Dad, dad, can you hear me? If you can't speak, just blink twice. Wait, that only works if I can see him.
Daphne: Fred, what about the cameras? We can rewind them and see what happened.
They run to the computers to review the cameras.
Velma: I'll cue it up right before the door slammed.
Fred looks at a picture of her mom. Y/N walks up to him.
Y/N: What's wrong?
Fred: It's just that people around me, people I care about I keep losing them. I'm sorry, you're the last person to talk about this.
Y/N: Fred, look I know I am sarcastic here and there, but I know what you are going through better than anyone. I have not really told anyone this. After I lost my parents, I became a mystery solver to find out what happened to my parents and if it were not for that, I would not have you guys. So, trust me, me and the gang are here for you.
Fred smiles.
Velma: Got it!
Y/N and Fred go over to the cameras and see themselves running out, but Mayor Jones stops.
Fred: That's right before he was grabbed. Play it forward, Velma.
Mayor Jones backs up and shuts the doors and runs off.
Shaggy: He wasn't grabbed. Like, he did it himself. That can't be.
Fred: We missed something. Find another camera.
They switch the camera to the bedroom and see Mayor Jones open the safe in his room and pull out the Planispheric disc.
Daphne: That looks like the thing we found in the Darryl Mansion.
Velma: No, the markings are different. It must be another piece.
Fred: But why does my dad have it?
They then hear Mayor Jones scream in the house.
Fred: Dad? But why is he screaming? He's all alone.
Velma: What we're watching is a minute behind. That could mean-
Fred runs off.
Fred: Dad! Hold on, I'm coming!
He looks around the house.
Fred: Dad, where are you? Where are you? Dad, are you in here?
Fred falls to the floor.
Fred: No. He's gone. I failed.
Y/N: You did not fail, Fred. We'll find him.
Velma turns to Scooby and Shaggy.
Velma: Let's go, you two. There has to be some clues around here somewhere.
The go into Mayor Jones room and Scooby sniffs as he finds sunflower seeds.
Scooby: Huh? Hey, I found something.
Fred: Sunflower seeds. Hey, my dad said he'd been finding them all over the house.
Scooby goes underneath the bed and a trap goes off on Scooby's nose and they run over and take it off.
Shaggy: Like, what is that thing?
Fred: It's one of my traps. But it looks like someone has modified it-
Fire shoots out.
Fred: To shoot fire!
Daphne: Why would one of your traps be under your dad's bed?
Fred: I've got traps all over the house. I mean, how would it look? Me, an expert trapper, letting someone break into my house and not trapping them?
Velma: Fred, that's exactly what's happened here. Could someone have accessed your traps to use them against your father?
Fred: Well, they'd have to outsmart me first. I mean, come on.
They all look at Fred as Y/N raises an eyebrow.
Fred: Ok, maybe, if they hacked my computer. It controls everything I've set up. But still, it would take a genius.
Y/N: I'm going on a limb here and saying your password is "trappin' guy".
Fred: ...Well... uh...
Velma: A genius that eats sunflower seeds. Gang, I think we're close to solving this mystery. But to do that, we're going to need to make sure no ghost gets out of this house.
The gang begins to set up a trap and set the cameras.
Velma: Now, time to abandon the house and put our trap in motion.
The house is empty as the shadowy figure appears with the Planispheric disc.
???: Scared away so easily? I'm disappointed, Mystery Incorporated. I expected more from you.
The shadowy figure goes to leave but the door handles move by themselves as the bear rug comes alive along with the other animals. The figure goes upstairs but two spears come down and hit the drum and traps the shadowy figure and it drops the Planispheric disc. Fred takes off the bear mask.
Fred: We got 'em!
Y/N walks up to the stairs and grabs the Planispheric disc and a massive light overtakes him. It soon vanishes and Y/N looks around and he is in a village, and it is on fire. Y/N looks to the side and sees Fernando El Aguirre and his men raiding and destroying the village as they search for gold and jewels. When they do find it, they grab handful of it and smile evilly. The massive light overtakes him, and he is back in Fred's house as the others join him. Y/N hands the piece to Fred as Scooby walks up to the figure.
???: Wood gets older than kindle!
Scooby: Nice to see you again.
Scooby unmasks him and they see Professor Pericles.
Gang: Professor Pericles.
Professor Pericles: Well, hello, children. How did you know?
Velma: Simple. There's only one brain large enough, beside my own, that could have pulled this off. We found the trojan horse program you put on Fred's laptop.
Daphne: That let you control all of Fred's traps remotely.
Professor Pericles: Fred really should have come up with a more secure password than "trappin' guy".
Shaggy: Once you had control of the traps, it was like totally simple to simulate a haunting and terrify the Mayor.
Velma: And your avian attributes provided the means to make your spooky shadow creep float like a real ghost.
Daphne: Too bad for you your avian diet gave you away.
Professor Pericles: Oh, what can I say? A bird's got to eat.
Fred: It still doesn't explain where my dad is, and why you were haunting him.
Professor Pericles: Why do you think? I wanted his piece of the planispheric disc, of course. I knew he would have it close. I just didn't know where. So, I decided to scare it out of him.
Fred: Planispheric disk? But how did you know he had it in the first place?
Professor Pericles: Because, dear friend, he stole it from me a long time ago. Don't believe me? Ask him yourself.
Professor Pericles activates a trap on the stairs and all the gang slides down as Professor Pericles grabs the disk.
Professor Pericles: I am the smartest criminal parrot in the world! You didn't think I have a back-up plan? Until we meet again. Auf wiedersehen, Mystery Incorporated.
He flies off with the disk. Meanwhile the gang was in the basement as Y/N was holding Daphne in his arms.
Y/N: Did you know we were standing on a trap?
Fred: Honestly, there's so many in this house, I've kinda lost track.
They then hear a noise and see someone in a blanket.
Shaggy: Zoinks! Another ghost!
Fred: Dad!
Fred runs over and takes off the blanket.
Fred: You're okay!
Mayor Jones: Dimpled puppet eggs, Fred! I am clearly not ok. Untie me.
Fred unties him.
Fred: Dad, the house wasn't haunted at all. It was Professor Pericles.
Mayor Jones: Pericles? Are you sure? Did he get the-
Daphne: Planispheric disk? Yeah. He said you stole it from him.
Mayor Jones: That's absurd! We confiscated it off him years ago, when we locked him up. I've felt it was best to keep it here, safe. That's why I went back in for it.
Velma: Mayor Jones, why would Professor Pericles want that piece of the disk so badly?
Mayor Jones: How should I know? Are you kids trying to imply something? Because if you are-
Fred: No, no, dad. We're just all really happy you're ok. That's what's important, right, gang? This mystery is over.
Daphne: I'm not sure this mystery is over at all.