“Something doesn’t add up,” Gaggy says. “Charlie said he saw Shaggy heading for the big top and then saw him at the rides. But how could he recognize Shaggy when I never told him what my nephew looked like?”
“Ruh-roh!” Scooby says.
“He used a classic magic trick — misdirection!” Gaggy realizes. “He led us all around the circus to keep us from finding Shaggy.”
“Rut why?” Whoopsy-Doo wonders.
“Rat’s a mystery re’re ronna solve!” Scooby declares. He turns to his cousin. “Roopsy, Ri need your nose.”
Whoopsy takes off his red clown nose and hands it to Scooby.
“Not rat nose. Your real nose,” Scooby says with a sigh. He holds out his paw with the sticky syrup on it. “Smell this.”
“What is that?” Gaggy asks.
“Ri don’t know. Rit was on Rarlie’s hand,” Scooby replies.
“And you think Whoopsy can follow the scent! Scooby, that’s really smart!” Gaggy says.
“Ri won’t fail you!” Whoopsy takes a deep breath of the unknown goo. He thinks for a minute. “Rit’s motor oil!”
“Motor oil, like what a robot uses?” Gaggy realizes. “I’ll bet Charlie Equis is connected to the robot clown!”
“They’ve got Raggy!” Scooby concludes. “Ret’s get rem!”
Whoopsy puts his nose to the ground and follows the scent of motor oil. Gaggy and Scooby trail after him. Whoopsy leads them to a large barn filled with broken carnival rides.
“Scooby-Doo! Am I glad to see you!”
Scooby looks up and sees his pal tied to a Ferris wheel chair hanging from the rafters.
Suddenly the robot clown staggers foward. CLANK! CLANK! Its joints sound terrible. Its hands grasp at the friends.
“Yaaaa!” Scooby and Whoopsy yell in fright.
“That’s no way to say hello to a fellow clown,” Gaggy says. “Here, let’s shake on it.”
Gaggy grabs the robot’s hand. ZAAAAAP! His joke buzzer sends a shock through the robot’s circuits. It shudders and falls down.
Charlie Equis emerges from the shadows. “You wrecked my robot!” he says, kneeling over the fallen machine. “It was going to be a part of my act! I was going to be famous!”
“I think you need to work out a few kinks,” Gaggy observes.
A short time later, Charlie is put into a police car. The police untie Shaggy and help him down from the rafters.
“Scoob, you solved the mystery!” Shaggy says proudly.
“Awww. Ri had help,” Scooby replies and hugs Whoopsy and Gaggy.
“That’s what family’s for!” Gaggy says with a laugh. “Want to shake on it?”
THE END