The Man in the Mirror/Transcript (Toonwriter)

Mayor Nettles: Sorry to bother you so early, kids. But the neighbors have been calling in constantly with reports of unearthly moaning, inhuman howling, blood curling screams... Shaggy: In other words, same old same old. Fred: You can count on us, Mayor Nettles. Daphne: We'll see if there's anything mysterious going on here. Mayor Nettles: (leaves) Thanks, kids. Velma: Come on, come on, let's go! Let's get this over with. Fred: After we're finished here, we need to relocate the Planispheric Disk. Scooby: We'll do it. Shaggy: Good idea, Scoob. Yeah, you and I will re-hide the disc while you guys check out the scary house. Daphne: You're out of luck, Shaggy. Remember? Fred hid the Disk last time. And he's the only one who knows where it is. Velma: Oy, can we hurry? Please? Fred: Okay, let's get started. But first, well gang, it looks like we got another... Daphne: Mystery on our hands! Oh, Fred, we're such soul mates. We're finishing each other's sentences. Fred: Come on, let's... Shaggy, Velma and Scooby: Split up and look for clues? (The gang splits) Shaggy: Like, I guess that means we're all soul mates, haha. (Fred finds a strange mirror) Fred: Aaah! Ugh. Look at those creepy eyes! And that disgusting yellow hair! And the horrible tentacle around its neck! Makes me wanna hork. Oh. (looks his reflection) It's me! Phew, that was close. (tries to leave but his reflection moves differently, he noticed, then moves to make reflection normal) Hmm. (turns around and his reflection pulls him into the mirror) AAAAAAAAHHHH!! (drops his lantern) Evil Fred: Hello, friends. Daphne: Oh, Freddie. Thank goodness. Evil Fred: This place was a total bust. Nothing scary here. So let's get to school before we're late. Punctuality is an important facet of learning. Right, Daphne? Daphne: Um, right, Fred. (Fred wakes up in a destroyed and apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Fred: (looks at the mirror) What happened? (leaves the destroyed house) Gang? Gang! Daphne! (tries to call Daphne in his cell phone and reads) "No Signal Anywhere!". (walks the destroyed Crystal Cove street) Anybody! Hello! Hellooooo! (finds skeletons anywhere) No. No! This is all wrong. Crystal Cove has much greener lawns and fewer skeletons. Velma! Shaggy! Scooby Doo, where are you?! (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Scooby: (whimpering) Evil Fred: Does the dog need walking? Scooby: I walk myself, Fred. Evil Fred: (shows the Canine Grumpets) Perhaps you would enjoy a canine crumpet. Scooby: Hmm. That is not a Scooby snack, Fred. Humph! Evil Fred: What difference does it make? (Scooby is shocked) I'm sure they all taste the same. Scooby: (grumbling) You eat them, then. Evil Fred: What was that, Scoobert? Scooby: Uh, nothing. Nothing. (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Fred: (finds the Mystery Machine) There! (hugs it) Ahh! There she is! (looks the Mystery Machine's wreckage) I don't understand any of this. What happened to Crystal Cove? What happened to the people? What happened to your groovy paintjob? (Mystery Machine's door falls down and Fred finds the Mr. Traples half ruined) Mr. Traples. What happened here? Please, tell me what's going on. (finds the clothes of Velma and Shaggy in the floor) Velma. Shaggy. Scooby. They're... They're... Oh, no. No. It's impossible. How could it get any worse? (The green scarf appears and flies in front of Fred) Daphne's scarf. No! It can't be! It can't be true! DAPHNE! NOOOOOOOOOO!! (Fred is sitting outside the destroyed City Hall) Fred: (sadly) Daphne. Unknown woman: Fred? Fred: Cut it out, Mr. Traples. It's not funny you imitating Daphne like that. Unknown woman: Freddie, is that really you? Fred: Daphne? Old Daphne: (shows up) Fred, where have you been? Fred: (shocked) Aah! Old Daphne: Oh, Freddie, don't look at me. I'm hideous! Fred: Daphne, is... is that really you? Old Daphne: Of course it's me, silly. And jeepies, you found my scarf. (puts the scarf on her neck) I've been looking all over for this. Fred: I still don't understand. I came out of that mirror and everything had changed. Why is everyone a skeleton and why are you-- Old Daphne: Do I really look so awful, Freddie? Fred: Uh... no. Old Daphne: When you didn't come back, something went crazy with the Planispheric Disk. Velma said it created a vortex around Crystal Cove and sped up time here. We searched everywhere for it. You hid it too well. Decades whirred by in weeks. Everyone aged quickly and one by one, turned to dust until only I was left. Fred: I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I... I'm just a really good hider. Old Daphne: You've got to change it back. Right up till the end, Velma said the Planispheric Disk could reverse the process. Where did you hide it, Freddie? We have to get that disk. Fred: Then that's what we'll do. Daphne, Mr. Traples, load up. We've got a future to change. Old Daphne: The F-F-Fearatorium Food Emporium. Shaggy and Scooby loved this place. It was hidden here the whole time? Fred: Yep. Come on. (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Evil Fred: Everybody out. Shaggy: Like, this is more like it. (chuckles) The F-F-Fearatorium Food Emporium makes me, like, f-f-famished. Scooby: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Evil Fred: (grabs Shaggy and Scooby hardly) What's wrong with you two? You're like bottomless pits. We're not here to indulge your munchies. We're here for that Planispheric Disk. Daphne: Freddie, you're the one who hid it here. I don't understand why you don't know where it is. Evil Fred: Oh, you don't understand? Intellect isn't your strong suit, huh? What about you? Got any smarts in there behind those eye goggles? Velma: Hmmph. (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Old Daphne: Freddie, we've looked everywhere. It's not here. Fred: Hey, wait a minute. You're right. This wasn't the last place I hid the disk. The trip through the mirror must have jangled my memory. Now I remember. (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Evil Fred: Never mind, change of plans. This isn't where I left it after all. (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Old Daphne: The Arcane-A-Rama Movieplex? You hid the disk here? Fred: Sure. I would think you of all people would realize why this place would be so important to me, don't you, Daph? Old Daphne: Because we had our first date here, Freddie. Fred: I can always count on you to remember stuff like that. Come on. (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Evil Fred: It's got to be here somewhere. Keep searching. Shaggy: What's the score? Evil Fred: The score, Norbert, is that we're gonna find that disk tonight. Shaggy: I meant the score to the baseball game. That you're listening to. On that thingymabob. Evil Fred: Heh. I knew that. Velma: It's not Norbert. It's Norville. And nobody calls him that. It's always Shaggy. Evil Fred: I suggest less nitpicking and more searching. (talks through headphone) Wait. What? It's not here. Get back in the van. (Scooby thinks Fred is crazy) (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Old Daphne: The kennel of the horrible hounds? Fred: Shaggy used to board Scooby here when he and his folks went on vacations. I'm pretty sure I put the Planispheric Disk here. (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Velma: Fred, this is all very bizarre. Evil Fred: You don't know the meaning of the word, child. (grunts) I just remembered where I actually hid the disk. (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Fred: Here we are. This time for sure. Old Daphne: The education board of Crystal Cove? Why? That's so random. Fred: I'm surprised at you, Daphne. Education is very important to me. Isn't it, Mr. Traples? (plays with Mr. Traples) (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Evil Fred: I don't know. Look in all the desks, I guess. I'll check out the superintendent's office. (leaves the gang) Velma: Gang, something is definitely wrong here. (writes the blackboard with chalk) I mean, is it me or is Fred acting even stranger than usual? Scooby, Shaggy and Daphne: It's not you. Velma: Maybe if we can retrace our steps, we'll see a pattern. (writing) F-F-Fearatorium Food Emporium. Arcane-A-Rama Movieplex. Kennel of the horrible hounds. Education board of Crystal Cove. (marks the first and second 4 letters from top to bottom) Daphne: "Fake Fred"? Velma: I knew it. Scooby: Then who is he? Shaggy: And who sent the message? Velma: My guess? The real Fred. Wherever he is, he's probably in life-threatening peril. Daphne: And in the clutches of some hideous creature. (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Old Daphne: Where is it, Fred? Where is it? Fred: Take it easy, Daph .At least we now know it's not here. Old Daphne: You don't understand, Fred. We have to find that disk now. It's almost midnight. They'll be waking up soon. Fred: What? Who? (The skeletons rise themselves) Old Daphne: The skeletons. The skeletons walk after midnight. Run! Old Daphne: Fred Jones, you remember every trap you ever built. Why can't you remember where you hid the most important relic in the universe? Fred: Trap. That's it. Now I remember. (starts the engine of wrecked Mystery Machine) It's at the old abandoned factory. (In the present version of Crystal Cove) Evil Fred: Aha! Now that's more like it. Shaggy: Should I just keep driving around in circles, Mr. Fred? Oh, sir? (drives the Mystery Machine in a circle) Evil Fred: No, the old abandoned factory, hippie. And floor it. (In the apocalyptic version of Crystal Cove) Old Daphne: This isn't the way to the factory. Fred: I'm willing to bet it's the way to the factory. The real factory. Old Daphne: (a bit disappointed) Fred, we're headed straight for that wall. It's solid brick! Fred: Is it, or is it... (Fred accelerates faster the Mystery Machine into the wall) Old Daphne: Aah! Uhh! (The Mystery Machine breaks through the fake wall) Fred: Fake. As fake as everything else in the old abandoned Crystal Cove movie studio. And as fake as you, Daphne. Old Daphne: How...How did you know? Fred: Two big ones. The real Daphne would never forget that our first date was at the Trap Expo 3000. But the biggest mistake was right at the start. Old Daphne: What? Fred: You said jeepies. Daphne says jeepers. Velma says jinkies. Nobody says jeepies. I mean, that's just plain silly. Once I knew you were fake, I figured Crystal Cove must be phony, too. It could only be the old movie studio made to look like a ruined town, complete with animatronics skeletons. Obviously this was all about the location of the Planispheric Disk. Convincing me that I needed to save my friends from a post-apocalyptic future was the most obvious way to get me to tell you where I hid it. It's exactly what I would have done. (In Steelco Industries, the gang and Evil Fred arrived) Evil Fred: Fan out. Search every inch of this place until we find that disk. Shaggy: Well, like, if you remember hiding it here, like, dude, where is it? Evil Fred: Well, the exact location slipped my mind. (leaves the gang to search the Planispheric Disk alone) Velma: We can't let that fake Fred get his hands on the Planispheric Disk. Scooby: What do we do? Shaggy: Like, we do what the real Fred would do. We trap him. Velma: Agreed. But it's got to be before he gets his hands on... Evil Fred: The Planispheric Disk. I found it! I found it! Velma: Okay, never mind. Daphne: Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it? Fake Fred. Evil Fred: Ahh, well done. You finally figured out I'm an imposter. So what? I'm taking the Planispheric Disk, and who's going to stop me? You? You? Fred: NO! (arrives) Me. I mean you. Me. I mean me. You me. I-- Aw, heck. You get the idea. (starts fighting Evil Fred) Daphne: Don't just stand there, Shaggy. Get in there and help Fred. Shaggy: Which one? Daphne: Uh, the good one. Old Daphne: (shows up) Be careful, Fred. Don't hurt him. (Scooby, Shaggy, Velma and Daphne look at Old Daphne) Daphne: AAAAHH! NO! NO! Scooby: (to Old Daphne) Daphne, you look terrible. You should get more sleep. Evil Fred: (takes the Planispheric Disk) I'll never give up this disk. You'll never beat me. Fred: (throws the chain to Evil Fred's legs) I don't need to beat you. I just need you to stay put. Evil Fred: Get me out of this. He's the fake. Shaggy: They're, like, identical, right down to the ascot. Scooby: Which one's the real Fred? Daphne: (to Evil Fred) Freddie, how do you feel about me? Evil Fred: What do you mean? You're my love, Daphne. I'm crazy about you. Daphne: (to Fred) And you? Fred: Uh, gosh. Gee, Daph, you know, I-- well, I guess aside from traps and solving mysteries, um... er, my stomach's getting hurty. Daphne: Oh, Freddie. It's you! (kisses Fred) (Velma shuts down the magnetic machine, Evil Fred and Fred fall down to the floor) Evil Fred: Well, if you're so smart, then who am I really? Fred: You're one of the most heartless criminals Mystery Inc. has ever faced. Aren't you, dad? (tries to unmask Evil Fred but realizes it's not a mask) Evil Fred/Brad: Ow! It's not a mask, you imbecile. I had plastic surgery to look like you. You would have spotted a mask too quickly. Fred: I don't know what you think you were doing. You're supposed to be my father. But how could you try to impersonate me when you know absolutely nothing about me? Velma: If he's Brad, that makes you Fred's sneaky criminal mom, Judy. (tries to unmask Old Daphne but realizes it's not a mask either) Old Daphne/Judy: Ouch! Watch it. I had plastic surgery, too. Velma: I know. Shaggy: Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves? (chuckles) But, like, why? Scooby: Yeah. Why? Brad: For the treasure. What else? It was the genius mind of Professor Pericles that thought up the whole plan. Wasn't it, Judy? Judy: That's right, Brad. While we went under the knife, Professor Pericles had Mr. E arrange for the Crystal Cove studio to be changed into an exact replica of the town. Brad: Except more end of the world-ish, obviously. Velma: I hate to be the one to point this out, but that's just crazy. Pericles: (shows up) Is it, Velma? Or is it so brilliant you cannot begin to fathom its true genius? Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and Fred: Professor Pericles? Fred: You failed, Professor. You'll never get your filthy talons on this disk. Pericles: On the contrary, Frederick. You are going to hand it over to me, along with my associates, your dear parents, or else I will destroy the one thing you care about most. Shaggy: Zoinks! Daphne: (2 Kriegstaffebots grab her) Freddie! Fred: Fine. You win. Take it. Pericles: Excellent. (takes the Planispheric Disk) Auf Wiedersehen, you beautiful kinder. (2 Kriegstaffebots throw Daphne into Fred and leave) Daphne: Freddie, I'm so sorry. Pericles got away with the disk because I got grabbed by robots. Fred: Don't worry, Daph. The important thing is that you're back safe and sound. And you look good again. Scooby: Only now, Pericles has the Planispheric Disk. (Pericles places the Planispheric Disk in a special location in Destroido) Pericles: I'm coming for you, master. I'm coming to set you free.