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Cherry and Atticus Get Stage Fright

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Meanwhile, Emma was playing her music with glee while the audience looked amazed at her wonderful ability.

"She's amazing..." Leo smiled as he watched Emma.

"She sure is talented on the violin." Luna said.

The audience soon applauded for Emma once she finished her music.

"Emma Gale, everyone. Fantastic. Just fantastic, heh," Brick chuckled as Emma finished. "Hey, look at those numbers. Oh, it's going to be close. Oh, it is going to be close, and the voting closes now!"

And where it soon shows Emma, Atticus, Fred, Daphne, Leo, and Luna had the same amount of votes.

"Fantastic. Fantastic. Unbelievable. It's four-way tie." Brick said as he rated the voting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to need a tie-breaking encore performance," Brick told the audience with a big smile. "Right here tonight, right after these messages," he then glanced over and came to the Gale family. "This is--"

"Fantastic?" Emma guessed.

"Yes. A tie," Brick smiled. "Do you have another piece you can do?"

"Yeah, but Daphne and Fred--" Emma replied.

"What about them?" Brick asked.

"They aren't here," Mike said. "They're chasing down another Phantom."

"This time it was Dewey." Meg said.

"Another? Heh, always knew there was something not right about that guy," Brick replied before pointing to Colette. "You. You're the new assistant director."

"Sir, you won't regret this!" Colette replied out of glee.

"Yeah. Don't care," Brick told her. "Emma's up after the break. We'll just hope Blake and Jones get back in time. And... Go!" he then walked away from them.

'I know that they'll make it back.' Luna thought to herself.

Leo looked a bit worried about winning because he felt bad for Emma.

"You okay, Leo?" Luna asked. "Hey, Leo!"

"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine." Leo told his sister.

"Then why were you looking worried?" Luna asked.

Leo looked to his sister.

"You can tell me..." Luna said to him.

Leo sighed softly. "I'm worried we might win."

"...You're worried about that?" Luna asked out of confusion.

"I want Emma to win so her family can keep their farm." Leo frowned.

"Ohh," Luna said, now understanding. "But you know, with the prize money, we can do anything we want with it like spend it or..."

Leo looked over to her. "Donate some of it to the Gales?"

"I think she would really love that." Luna smiled.

"Yeah, I think so too." Leo smiled back.

"You really like this girl, huh?" Luna guessed.

Leo blushed to his little sister with a sheepish grin.

"Yep, you do." Luna smirked playfully.

"Ah, you'll understand someday," Leo smiled to her. "Someday you'll find a boy who--" he then paused before feeling his big brother instincts flaring up. "Erm... I'll talk with him first."

"Of course you will." Luna said.

"If he breaks your heart, I'll break his legs." Leo glared.

"Leo, I haven't met a boy yet," Luna reminded. "I don't think you have to worry about that for a while."

"Hmm... All right..." Leo replied.

Meanwhile back with Cherry and the others...

The bridge soon came down, allowing people to cross the road again.

"Blake, and Jones?" The officer asked.

"That's us," Fred replied. "We caught--"

"Dewey Ottoman," The officer interrupted as he already knew. "Yeah, that Brick guy called, we know everything."

"Then you'll be happy to know that we kept the Soap Diamond from him." Cherry said.

"Good work. Now, hop in," The officer replied before looking to Daphne and Fred. "You tied with the violin girl and those musical siblings, so you gotta do a tie-breaker. We'll take you back to the show."

"Oh, you don't have to do that." Daphne replied.

"Yes, I do!" The officer replied before smirking. "I got 50 bucks on you to win."

Cherry and Patch glanced in deadpan from that.

'Wow.' Patch thought to himself.

They soon rode away with the cops all the way back to the opera house while Cherry played with the handcuffs to practice a magic trick with them.

"So Dewey was the Phantom who 'faded away' in that stairwell." Velma said.

"How did he do that?" Shaggy asked.

"We checked the camera in the stairwell," Velma explained. "He had made a video loop of the empty stairwell, and spliced it into the camera feed."

"So that's how he made it look like he was a real phantom." Patch said.

"Of course," Daphne replied. "So when he ran in there--"

"He activated the loop with a remote, switching the view on the monitor to the empty stairwell, and making it look like he disappeared." Velma concluded with a smile.

"Very clever." Fred said.

"Yeah." Patch nodded.

"But guys you'll never believe what Cherry, that Stardust girl, Tanya, and I found when we went through all the backstage footages," Velma then said as she pulled out a disc. "This is gonna blow your socks off."

"Show us the footage." Patch smiled.

"Gladly, once I get my laptop," Cherry smirked before she looked down, and tugged out her arm, but her hand seemed to be cuffed to a bar. "Hey! Let go!"

"Oh, Cherry, what bad DOESN'T happen to you?" Patch sighed.

"That's not funny, Spot!" Cherry glared. "Now unlock this handcuff."

"Hmm..." Patch paused.

"PAAAATCH?!" Cherry complained as she kept tugging.

Patch soon unlocked the handcuffs, making Cherry fall to the floor.

"How did that even happen?!" Cherry complained about the handcuffs.

"I told you not to play with those." Patch told her.

"Oh, you did not!" Cherry glared.

"Back to the footage." Patch said.

"Oh, you'll see," Cherry smirked. "I'm so smart, sometimes I scare myself."

"Don't brag." Patch told her.

"I'm not bragging," Cherry rolled her eyes. "Let's go."

"Agreed." Patch nodded.

Luckily, they weren't too far away now from the opera house.

Leo and Luna practiced a bit before they would go on for the tie-breaker.

"Sorry we didn't make it, Atticus." Mo said about the finale.

"That's okay," Atticus smiled. "The bright side is that Chrissy didn't make it either."

"Yeah, that's true." Mo nodded.

"Those two are pretty good though." Atticus said, looking to the Stardust siblings.

"Yeah, they're amazing." Mo smiled.

Luna blushed a bit bashfully as she overheard Atticus and Mo talking about her and her brother.

"Hey, uh, Leo, is it?" Atticus said, coming to the blonde boy. "I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot."

"Yeah, I'm sorry too," Leo replied. "I guess I was kinda being a show-off. I mean, I DO have dinosaur DNA in me."

"It's alright, I tend to show-off at times myself, sometimes without meaning to." Atticus told him.

Leo and Atticus smiled to each other as they seemed to become friends right away.

'They're becoming friends.' Mo and Luna thought to themselves. The two soon looked to each other.

"Nice to see you close with your brother." Mo said to Luna.

"Oh, thank you," Luna smiled. "He really is my best friend."

"Aw." Mo smiled back.

Eventually, Emma began to take her turn, playing a new musical piece from her violin to wow the crowd in hopes of breaking the tie so that she could win the money for her and her family. And where Leo was amazed by Emma's musical piece.

"She can really play." Luna said.

"Yeah... She's incredible." Leo smiled brightly.

"You two have your work cut out for ya." Mo said.

Eventually, the girl soon finished playing as the crowd went wild for her.

"Fantastic, Emma, just fantastic, and look at those numbers." Brick said to Emma.

Emma smiled before looking backstage, seeing Leo wave to her and she soon waved back to him.

'He is so in love.' Mo thought to herself.

"And now, for those musical Stardust siblings," Brick told the crowd. "After them will be Blake and Jones, but apparently they're not in the building, so it looks like they forfeit there--"

"Out of my way!" Cherry's voice called out. "Out of my way!"

Atticus's spell soon wore off from Scooby and Patch.

"You can't bring that dog in here!" A certain voice snapped.

The audience turned around as that was right behind them.

"Try and stop us!" Cherry told the security with a sassy tone of voice.

"Gladly." The security guard said, about to take Scooby and Patch out of the building.

"You can't do that!" Cherry cried out.

"I'm gonna throw you out too if you don't pipe down, kid." The security guard glared at her.

"Hold it right there," The officer retorted, showing his badge. "That dog was instrumental in the apprehension of a dangerous felon."

Patch and Scooby simply smirked at the security guard.

"Oh, you CAN bring those dogs in here." The security guard smiled nervously.

The others nodded and soon kept going.

"Come on, we have to make some arrangements." Velma said.

'Ha! That security guard can't do a thing to us.' Patch thought to himself.

Scooby smirked, tickling the guard with his tail as he walked off with Shaggy.

Leo and Luna soon came out on stage as it was their turn for the tie-breaker.

'I wonder what their song will be this time?' Mo thought to herself.

"Whatya think this time?" Leo asked Luna. "I love that Money song, but it might not work if we did an encore just now."

"How about 'Listen to your Heart'?" Luna suggested.

"That's perfect." Leo smiled.

Luna smiled back. The crowd cheered for the Stardust siblings as they soon came out to play one of their songs. They played their instruments first before beginning the song.

"When you've got a choice to make, And you don't know which road to take, Or how to feel~" Luna began to sing.

"Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo added.

"When you look into his eyes, And you're not sure if he's telling lies, Or if it's real~" Luna continued.

"Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo added.

"Listen to your heart, girl~" Luna soon sang on her own for a little while. "Listen to your heart, girl, 'Cuz the heart's not gonna lie to you~"

"Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo sang.

"Listen to your heart, girl, And I know you'll always be hearing the truth, If you listen to your heart~" Luna sang.

"I think I like this one." Mo smiled, bobbing her head to the beat.

"Me too." Atticus smiled back.

"They're really good." Emma smiled to her parents.

"They sure are, dear." Meg smiled back in agreement.

"Ahh... When there's people in your life, Trying to tell you what to do?~" Luna continued to sing.

"Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo added.

The audience seemed to love the song very much as well.

"Do you take a brand new road, Or the one you've always known, Am I gettin' through?, Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo and Luna sang together.

"Listen to your heart, girl, Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo sang.

"'Cuz the heart's not gonna to lie to you~" Luna sang.

"Listen to your heart, girl~" Leo sang.

"Listen to your heart, girl And I know you'll always be hearing the truth, If you listen to your heart~" Luna sang.

"You got to listen, listen to your heart~" Leo and Luna sang together to end the song.

Everyone began cheer and applaud the Stardust siblings. Leo and Luna smiled to that. Their numbers seemed to go up just a bit above Emma's numbers.

"Fantastic, you two, simply fantastic." Brick smiled to the siblings.

Leo and Luna simply smiled back.

"Where were you?" Brick asked Fred and Daphne once they came by.

"We caught another Phantom." Fred smiled.

"Fantastic, just fantastic," Brick replied. "How many does that make now?"

"Three." Fred informed.

"Four if you count the original Phantom." Daphne added.

'And he tells us his real name in 3, 2, 1.' Cherry thought to herself.

"Call me Steve!" Steve smiled as he waved his hand from the audience.

Cherry smirked to herself.

"You got cocky suddenly." Atticus teased.

"I just wanted to be right about something." Cherry smirked.

"And I'm guessing you were right this time." Atticus said.

"Totally." Cherry beamed.

Atticus rolled his eyes, but gave a polite smile for his best friend.

"Fantastic work. Fantastic," Brick said to Fred and Daphne. "Now, are you ready for your tie-breaker performance?"

"We have to do our song again?" Fred asked.

"Well, no, you have to do another song, heh. Grab your guitar, you're on," Brick told them before sending them backstage as he waved to the audience. "Blake and Jones, ladies and gentlemen. Aren't they fantastic?"

'What song are they going to sing now?' Mo thought to herself.

"Come on, let's show you guys that disc." Cherry told the others as she held onto the disc.

"Yeah." Patch nodded.

They soon went into the control room as Fred and Daphne wondered what to do next.

"What is it now?" KT asked.

"You're going to help us with a little surprise." Velma said, taking out the disc.

"And trust us, this surprise is big." Cherry smirked.

"Well... All right." KT soon allowed them to do what they had to do.

"Great." Patch smiled.

Fred and Daphne soon finished their song.

"Fantastic! Look at the scoreboard!" Brick beamed.

It seemed very close. Emma and her family waved from backstage with friendly smiles. Leo and Luna were also there as Spike, Chedra, Bullzeye, and T-Bone came to see the kids who were apart of their family. And when it almost seemed like Fred and Daphne were going to beat Emma, Leo, and Luna, except they started to tell bad jokes. They even began to laugh at their corny jokes while the audience had issues with them.

"Like, what the heck are they doing?" Shaggy asked.

"They're throwing the contest, so Emma can win, and her family can keep their farm." Velma replied.

"Or those Stardust kids can buy food for themselves since they're orphans." Cherry added.

The audience soon had enough of the jokes. Fred and Daphne laughed at the dumb jokes which began to make the crowd boo at them.

'Please make it stop.' Luna thought to herself referring to the jokes.

"Well, that was uncomfortable, heh," Brick then said. "All right. The voting closes... Now!"

The numbers soon continued, it was very close, but it seemed that Leo and Luna had won above Emma.

"Fantastic, and the winners are... Leo and Luna Stardust!" Brick announced.

'Wait for it.' Atticus thought to himself with a smile.

"Congratulations, Leo and Luna. Fantastic. Just fantastic," Brick smiled as he shook hands with the siblings. "And Blake and Jones, you may not have won, but congratulations on catching all of the Phantoms. All of them, every last one."

Leo and Luna smiled as they won before looking to Emma and her parents, looking soft to them since Emma couldn't win to save her family's farm, and then to each other.

"Mr. Pimiento... We would like to share our prize with the Gales." Leo soon said maturely.

Emma and her family were surprised when they heard Leo say that as their smiles returned.

"Well, erm... I suppose that would be alright." Brick replied to Leo.

"Then I wish to donate half of mine and my sister's winnings to the Gale family!" Leo proclaimed.

And where this caused the audience to go 'Aww!' as that was very generous of the Stardust Siblings.

"Oh! Thank you! Thank you!" Emma beamed as she ran up to Leo, hugging him and giving him a kiss as a reward.

This caused the audience to go 'Aww!' again.

"No problem, Emma," Leo smiled, blushing a bit from the kiss. "You deserve it."

"At least all of the Phantoms are taking care of." Brick said.

"Not all of them." Atticus smirked.

"Hit it, girls." Mo added.

KT pulled down the lever and the screen changed into Brick dressing up like the Phantom, laughing evilly. Brick smiled sheepishly and ran off backstage, only to be blocked by two officers. He then went to the other direction only to be stopped by another officer.

"Busted, ooh, busted~" Cherry smirked to the TV show host.

"Care to explain yourself?" Luna added.

"Uh, I'm sorry?" Brick replied.

"You're sorry?" Luna deadpanned. "A little too late for sorry!"

"Why'd you do it?!" Leo glared at Brick.

"You don't understand. I HAD to do it," Brick frowned. "The ratings have been dropping for years. I needed the publicity. You don't know what it's like, being around all you talented people all the time, and being me. What am I good at? Nothing. All I do is smile and say 'fantastic' a lot. I'm pathetic."

"Yes, you are." Cherry smirked.

"I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for--" Brick then began.

"Those meddling kids and their nosy dog," The officer replied. "Yeah, yeah, we know."

"They've heard it before as have we." Atticus said.

"The price of being friends with Mystery Inc." Cherry added.

"Speaking of which, you two owe me 50 bucks." The officer told Fred and Daphne.

Cherry chuckled a bit from that as it was kind of funny. Fred and Daphne laughed nervously from the officer's response to them.

"With Brick going to jail, who's going to host the show from now on?" Mo asked.

Steve then got out of his seat and jumped onto the stage with a smile. "Well, a big thank you to all our contestants," The man then announced as he took over as the host since Brick was now arrested. "Live from Chicago, this is Steve Trilby for Talent Star, saying, if you've got the talent, we've got the star. Good night, America."

"Uh, that works." Cherry shrugged.

Everyone soon left the building.

"Congratulations." Atticus said to Leo and Luna.

"Thank you," Leo smiled. "Hopefully we can buy some nice food with this money, as well as some new clothes."

"While also paying the bills." Luna said.

"I'd like to see you try out Jurassic Park if you live with dinosaurs." Atticus smirked playfully to Leo.

"I bet I could." Leo smirked.

The two shared a laugh together.

"That would be interesting," Atticus replied. "I wonder if we'll see each other again?"

"Maybe, maybe not." Luna shrugged.

"You never know." Cherry said.

"Get home safe now." Atticus told the Stardust siblings.

"See ya." Leo waved as he took Luna to go back home with Chedra and the Extreme Dinosaurs.

"Eh, I might not have won, but at least someone got to have a happy ending." Shaz smiled as he stood with Olivia.

"True." Olivia smiled back.

"Should I say it even if I lost?" Shaz asked.

"I love it when you do." Olivia blushed.

"Well, in that case..." Shaz smiled before proclaiming his and the others' catchphrase. "Ducks ROCK!"

Everyone soon went back home.

"Well, that was fun," Cherry shrugged. "I guess for being apart of a show I'm not that crazy about."

"Yeah, I guess it was great." Patch said.

"That Leo kid sure was interesting," Atticus said. "Even if we butted heads at first."

"Yeah, guess so." Mo said.

They soon rode away out of Chicago to go back home.

"Well, I didn't get to meet the actual Phantom of the Opera, but I have to admit... I did have a bit of fun." Cherry said.

"On the plus side, we saw the Mighty Ducks again." Atticus smiled, remembering from when they first saw the hockey team in person and found out about their origins.

"Mm-hmm." Mo smiled back with a nod.

They soon continued to ride along back home after another adventure had been completed by them.

The End