The atmosphere between the five members of the investigation team was tense and serious and all of them could feel the weight of the upcoming fight pressing down on them as they slowly neared their destination of the CN City in B and Q"s Chevy Impala. Aside from going through their plan together a few times to make sure all of them remembered everything correctly, all of them stayed silence ever since the left the HQ of the watchers. Even Q was quiet and it was something unusual for her. Her quietness confirmed to everyone just how serious the situation was as well...

The silence between them was interrupted a few minutes after they arrived at this world through the portal as 21O contacted them through 9S's Pod to perform a status check on them or rather perform it just on 9S. Even though she made it to clear it was a status check on all of them, she mostly focused it on 9S as she asked him countless questions on how he and the others were doing right. She asked him about some personal stuff as well, much to his embarassment.

"....Understood." 21O replied with understanding evident on her face, showing her understanding of whatever he just told her, "I'll call you again in an hour to see how you're doing and to check if you came across anything that might take us to our target."

9S gave her a nod of understandng, "I'll remember about it. If we'll be fortunate enough to stumble upon any leads during this hour, I'll make sure to report it to you and the rest."

"Understood. Watch out for yourself out there, 9S. You know what to do if you'll come across an opponent, right?" 21O asked in a tone which made her look like a worried mother, much to 9S embarassment as B and Q exchanged slightly amused glances at this. 2B and A2 didn't show any notable reactions to this as 2B silently stared at 9S while A2 kept glancing out of the window next to her.

"You don't need to be worry about me, mom." 9S replied as he turned away from 21O to hide his embarassment from her and everyone else. Even though his attempt was futile as it remained pretty evident to everyone, "I'm going to be fine. I have 2B and A2 with me. Not to mention two of the watchers are with me as well..."

"I'm simply being cautious by reminding you to be safe." 21O pointed out to him with her worry remaining evident in her tone, "After all, we don't want anything to happen to you, right?"

"I suppose..." 9S responded in an embarassed tone.

21O gave him one last last smile before ending the call with him. 9S sunk in his seat and placed his hand on his forehead as he could tell how amused everyone must have been at their expense right now even if 2B and A2 were probably not showing it.. He was not embarassed by 21O treating him like a child because he had gotten used to it a while ago back when he first accepted her as his mom. He was embarassed because she did it when he was with someone else. 

"Is this how humans felt like whenever their mom was embarassing them in front of someone?" He internally asked himself.

"Good thing Devola is not here." Q's voice pushed him out of his thoughts as she looked over her shoulder at the embarassed android behind her with a slightly amused look on her face, "Otherwise she wouldn't let your hear the end of it."

"I know." 9S replied, sounding a bit relieved that Devola was not with them in Impala. The saying that the red haired android enjoyed teasing Popola after it was revealed that her twin sister and A started an relationship was the understatement of the century, "She is doing her best to be a good mother and live by the advices you guys gave her on the family related stuff once you came to our world, but I really wish she stopped doing stuff like this among other people."

"You'll have to get used to it, Nines." B said to the male android, keeping his gaze on the road in front of him as he made sure to referr to him by the nickname he had picked for himself, "A lot of the parents embarrass their kids in front of their friends like this."

"He's right. I lost the count of how many times it happened to me or my younger sister back home." Q nodded in confirmation, cringing a bit the embarassing memories flying through her head right now. However, at the same time she couldn't help, but feel slightly nostalgic and saddened about having those memories.

9S' expression went from embarassed to curious in an instant at this, "Really? What happened?"

Q shook her head, not wanting to go into details her as she didn't want to embarass herself, "You don't want to know."

"Whatever it is.." B began to say as Q and 9S shifted their attention to him, "I'm certain it's not as awkward as the situation you got yourself into with your younger sister when you sneaked into her room to suprise her." 

Q chuckled a bit at the situation brought up by him, "Yeah. Nothing will be more emarassing than that."

"What happened?" 9S asked with curiosity evident in his voice.

Q once again shook her head at him, "I don't think my sister would appreciate it if I told you about it."

"But you told B." 9S pointed out.

"He's someone different." Q explained.

9S shifted his gaze to A2, "Do you know anything about this A2?"

"No." A2 gave him a short answer, keeping to look out of the window at the world outside.

"I would stop bothering the watchers if I were you, 9S." 2B told him, "If this is something they want to keep to themselves, then they have all the right to do so."

9S sighed, "Fine..." 

Q smiled slightly at the interaction between 2B and 9S as she shifted her gaze to B and looked at him with a questioning concern on her face, "How are you feeling now? We'll be reaching the town soon so..."

"Don't worry. I'm fine." B replied, trying to reassure her that he was fine, "While I'm still a bit nervous about all of this, I'm sure we'll get through this. Protecting the multiverse is our job and we need to honor this duty and this is something we need to take care of. Regardless of our little experience in it."

Q nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh, "Yeah. I know."

"I just hope everything will work out fine in the end." B voiced his hopes to her.

Q smiled at him slightly in a reassuring manner to hide her own nervousness, "Don't worry. I'm sure everything will work out fine. We're not alone here, after all. We have many people to support us. You'll see. By the time we'll be done with Kaltan, we'll be back in the HQ and will be finishing planning out visit to the universe we had agreed to visit together."

"Yeah. You're right." B nodded in agreement, feeling himself getting slightly cheered up even if he remained nervous on the inside as he gave Q a grateful smile and she smiled back at him. He looked over his shoulder at A2, 2B and 9S a second later, "Even if I'm certain I already said this to you guys, thank you for helping us."

9S nodded at him, "Don't worry. It's no problem. It's the least we can do for you for everything you've done for us."

"It is our duty as the androids to protect the mankind. It included the mankind across the multiverse as well." 2B added as A2 didn't reply to B's words in a notable way and continued to stare out of the window. B nodded back at them, keeping the grateful look on his face and his and Q's Chevy Impala would be engulfed in a silence if it wasn't fo Q.

"On the bright side. I still can't believe I saw the Doom Slayer in person." She said, trying to talk about something postive when it came to this situation and something which didn't had anything to do with how this situation was making them feel like.

"You and me both." B nodded in agreement, seeing what his best friend was doing and appreciated it, "If there's someone from us who would befriend him, then it definitely would be her. Not to mention he'll be a valuable asset for us in this fight."

"Yeah." Q smiled when she imagined the Doom Slayer assisting them against any threat they would have to face in the future, "I wonder which one would be scaried for it's opponent. Him or angry A2?"

A2 shifted her gaze from the window to Q, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Do you really need to ask, Miss. Tsundere.?" Q smirked at her in a playful manner.

A2 glared at Q, hating the way she just called her and shifted her attention back to the window, "Whatever and don't call me tsundere!"

Q kept her smirk on her face, "I will stop calling you that once you'll stop behaving like one~."

"What does tsundere mean?" 9S asked with a raised brow, having no idea what to think of this term.

"Nothing you should be interested in." A2 replied before Q could say explain what the word meant to 9S, not wanting him to learn the meaning of it. Something on the back of her mind was telling her he'd start calling her that if that happened. She quickly tried to change the subject of the conversation to something else as she shifted her gaze to 2B, "What about you, 2B? What are you thoughts on everything?"

"Other than what was already said by the rest of us, I wish  we could send more people here to investigate and find Kaltan's possible whereabouts." 2B voiced her thoughts on the matter, her voice lacking emotion as usual. B and Q exchanged glances with each other. Even with so many stuff in her world having changed, 2B remained the same when it came to expressing her emotions, "It would increase the chances of finding this Kaltan before anyone gets hurt, but I know that the chances of him finding out about us and why we came here for would massively increase if everyone who stayed behind came here with us. "

Q sighed, "Yeah. I know."

"I had the same thoughts when we've been filled in on this idea." B admitted, letting out a sigh himself, "However, we couldn't send more people here to investigate this matter. If it happened, then the risk of Kaltan sensing our presence would massively increase and it is something we should avoid happening if we want everything to go according to the plan."

"I see." 2B said in understanding.

"You said something you planning to visit a new universe once this will be over." 9S brought up Q's words from earlier, "What is the universe you are going to visit next."

"Hazbin Hotel." B explained.

9S raised his brow at the name, "Hazbin Hotel?"

B nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. It's a Hell dimension from a cartoon for adults."

"A hell dimension?" 9S asked in suprise, "Why would you want to visit a world like this?"

"Because I'm interested in it." B gave him an honest answer, "I was interested in this universe ever since I watched the pilot of it as the normal human when it first came out in 2019."

"It was mostly B's idea." Q added, "I asked him if there was a universe he would like to visit, and he answered me with this."

9S raised his brow, "B's idea? You didn't suggest anything on your own?"

Q shook her head, "Nope."

"Why?" 9S wanted to know.

"Because It would make it fair." Q gave him her answer, "We visited the world of Team Fortress due to my interest in it. I figured out I could return the favor now and have him visit a world he likes with me."

9S nodded in understanding, "I see."

Q looked at A2 questioningly, "Will you join us for this visit as well, A2? We already know Pyro will be joining us for this visit as we talked with him about it yesterday."

A2 shrugged with a disinterested look on her face, "As long as it will keep me occupied."

"Just admit that you want to come there with us." Q told her, "You know there's nothing wrong about that."

"Whatever." A2 once again shrugged her shoulders as Q smiled bitterly at her behavior, letting out a sigh. Even though A2 made some progress when it came to her behavior, she still had a long way to go.

The female watcher shifted her gaze to B a second later, "Hey. Would it be okay if I turned on some music?"

B smiled a bit, "By turning on some music, do you perharps have a certain song in mind?"

"Maybe. After all, we are driving our Impala right now."  Q smiled back at him, "It can help us relax a bit before we'll reach the city."

"Hit it, then." B gave her his permission as Q hit play. The song started to play a second later and A2, 2B and 9S glanced at the radio when it happened. The lyrics of the song where something 2B and 9S were unfamiliar with. A2, however, was more than familiar with the song by this point.

Carry on, my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more

A2 groaned a bit, "This song again? Just don't sing this time."

"Don't worry I won't. It's not the time for that."  Q shook her head as A2 looked almost relieved by that. She had lost the count of how many times she heard either Q or both her and B singing this song together while she hung out with them. The female watcher sighed a second later, "I just think listening to my and B's song will make us more relaxed about everything."

"Your song? What do you mean by that?" 9S asked in interest.

B glanced over his shoulder at him and gave him a nod of confirmation, "We consider it to be our song as it came from our favourite TV show from our homeworld. It's called Supernatural."

"Sam, Dean, Bobby and Castiel forever." Q added with a grin on her face as she thought about her beloved characters, "You know. This show is the reason why I and B became friends in the first place."

9S looked at her with an obvious interest on his face, "Really?"

"Yes." B nodded in confirmation as he stopped the Impala because the traffic light became red, unaware that a familiar van was driving his and the rest of the investigation team way.

"How did that happened?" 9S wanted to know.

B smiled fondly and sheepishly at the memory, "When all of us woke up when we were first brought in to become the watchers and were trying to figure out what's going on around us, T said something about us getting kidnapped by the aliens and I thought it was a nice to say something by making a joke referencing one Supernatural episode."

"Let's just say I recognized the reference and it immediately got my attention." Q recalled the memory fondly, "We started talking afterwards and we started getting along. We even spent our entire second day as the watchers watching our favourite episodes and getting to know each other, finding out we have many shared interest in the process. I think it was the moment both of us said to each other "Yeah. I'm going to hang out with him/her"."

"Yeah." B's smile grew a bit. Who could have known making a simple joke about slow-dancing angels would give him such a good friend like Q.

"It was the first thing B ever uttered to us as well." Q added, "The confusion K had on her face when her made that joke makes me laugh to this day."

B shrugged his shoulders in a sheepish and an embarassed manner, "H-Hey! I had to somehow make myself present to you guys. T's words seemed like the best opportunity as I tried to be funny..."

"Hey. I'm not laughing at you." Q smiled in an amused manner at his sheepish and embarassed reaction, "I don't mind you made that joke as well. It's what made us start talking with each other after in the first place and look where are we now."

"Yeah. I suppose." B smiled at her, his embarassment caused by the mention of it slowly fading away.

"If it wasn't for it, then who knows how long it would get you to start socializing with the others." Q's tone grew slightly playful when she brought this up to B, "You haven't said a word to anyone who wasn't me for the first few hours until Z approached you and asked you if there was something wrong as your silence was making her concerned."

B's embarassment came back to him in an instant as soon as it was brought up by Q, "H-Hey! You know how I can be like around strangers until I'll get comfortable around them! Not everyone is an easy going and extroverted like you. It always must have been so easy for you to make friends..."

"Y-Yeah! Y-You're right!" Q suddenly began to stutter when B brought this up to her as B raised his brow at her sudden change in behavior. She quickly tried to change the subject of this conversation as she shifted her attention to 9S, "D-Do you understand why we consider this song to be our song, Nines? If it wasn't for Supernatural, then maybe we wouldn't start talking when we did and wouldn't have become as close friends as we did."

"I see." 9S smiled slightly at the story, "It really..."

"Hey fellas!" Everyone turned to the source of the voice, finding their conversation by this voice and Q and B's eyes widened upon laying their eyes on the source of it as they saw a blonde haired young man who happened to be no other than Fred Jones from the Scooby Doo franchise. Fred offered them a friendly smile, "Whoa, nice ride."

"Thanks. Me and my friend here do our best to keep it in a good shape." Q smiled at Fred in a grateful manner, showing her apprecation for the compliment. A part of her grew slightly excited as well.  She expecting to met some of her favourites from the classic Cartoon Network shows but now that it already happened, she couldn't find but form a smile on her face,

"I can see you've been doing a fine job at it." Fred replied as he gestured towards his van "What do you think of my van, by the way? I call it my Mystery Machine. Pretty cool, huh?"

B nodded at him, "Yeah."

"It is pretty cool." Q added, "I can easily say that you care about your ride."

"You know it. I customized her myself." Fred smiled proudly, "What about your ride? What year is this Impala? 1969?"

"1967." B corrected him, "You were close."

"Nice." Fred nodded his head, smilling, "Haven't seen you around here before. I bet that you came here for the festival."

Q scratched her head in confusion, "A festival?"

"What? You haven't heard of it?" Fred asked in confusion as B and Q exchanged glances with each other and silently came to a mutual decision. What was going on this world right now could be a great help for them in locating Kaltan. 

Q shifted her gaze back to him a second later and gave him her answer, "You see. We're not really from around here so we wouldn't really know about the stuff going on in your city right now."

"Oh, I see." Fred's suprised expression shifted into a smile, "You're on the road trip with your friends in the backseats."

"Exactly." Q confirmed Fred's theory, lying. She couldn't just tell him that she and everyone else in the Impala came here to kill a universe destroying creature. She couldn't risk their target finding out about their arrival in this universe, "Our lives got pretty boring and we decided to go on one. We've been traveling from town to town, with hopes that we'll experience something exciting."

"If you want to experience something exciting, then let me tell you, you gotta check out the festival which I brought up to you. Everyone from my city will be attending it from what I heard." Fred told her, "One of the things you might want to check out are the performances of many popular bands, like the Hex Girls or Puffy AmiYumi. Me and my friends were on the way to the festival. We can take you there and show you around if you're interested."

Q put her hand on her chin with a thoughtful look on her face as she exchanged glances with B who had the same look on his face. Both of them found themselves thinking back about what they learned about Kaltan and how he had to perform his expansion in an area attended by many people if he wanted to finish the process quicker. With the festival surely having many attendants, they knew it was a perfect place for them to start their investigation.

The two nodded their heads at each other a second, coming to a mutual agreement as they knew this festival could have been one of their best chances at locating Kaltan. The two watchers of the multiverse shifted their attention away from each other a second later and shifted it to the andree YoRHa androids behind the,m, wanting to know their thoughts on it. A2 and 2B, especially the former, looked indifferent and 9S nodded his at head at her, silently telling them it was a good idea.

"The Hex Girls and Puffy AmiYumi, you say? You can color us interested." Q replied as she shifted her attention back to Fred with a smile on her face while the traffic light turned green, "Lead the way. We'll be right behind you."

"Alrighty, then! Just don't stay behind." Fred shot them one final drive as the Mystery Machine sped of along the street in the direction of the festival. B and Q exchanged glances with each other and nodded, certain about their decision of following the Scooby Gang as B wasted no time and followed them with his Chevy Impala.

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B parked his Chevy Impala in the parking lot not too far from the festival, having just reached his destination of the place where the festival was taking place as he turned off the engine of the car and looked around his vehicle before seeing everyone slowly getting themselves ready to leave. Knowing he should get himself ready as well, he pulled the keys out off ignition and placed them inside his pocket as 9S used this time to contact 21O and inform her about the recent development.

"Operator 21O. This is 9S." The male android called out for his maternal figure as a light suddenly flickered on in his pod as a projection sprung to life in front of him. A hologram of 21O appeared in front of him a second later

"I'm here, 9S." 21O made herself known to 9S a second after she appeared in front of 9S, "Is there something you need?"

9S nodded in confirmation, "I'm here to perform a status report. Something happened since our last conversation."

"Very well." 21O said in understanding, "What is there to report?"

9S wasted no time and provided her an explanation, "We managed to come into contact with a few locals from this world and we learned about a festival currently happening in it. Apparently all the residents of this city will attend."

"Hmm. I see." 21O nodded in understanding and quickly typed on her keyboard as she wrote this information down on her computer, "From what the tone of your voice and the fact that your vehicle is not moving right now, I assume you and the rest of the investigation team just arrived at the festival?"

9S nodded in confirmation, "Yes. With Kaltan preferring to expand himself in the populated areas, we figured out that would be our best move if we want to track him as quickly as possible."

21O once again nodded in understanding, "Very well. Good thing you informed me about this. I'll go relay this infomation to the rest of the watchers right away. Keep me informed about everything."

"I will." 9S reassured 21O who ended the conversation with him a second later. 

B looked over his shoulder, seeing the conversation between 21O and 9S ending and knew it was time for him to speak up, "Alright. With this conversation settled, you and 2B should hide your pods out of view. They will definitely raise some eyebrows from everyone and we should avoid something like that."

"Okay." 9S nodded in understanding as B opened one part of his car and pulled out his backup wallet out of it. He and Q always kept one in their Impala just in case if they would need it for something. This situation felt like the situation they would need it.

2B nodded as well, "We will hide them in our bags as soon as we'll leave your car."

"What about the tracker?" 9S asked, "This device will definitely be something the inhabitands of this world will definitely be unfamiliar with as well."

"We'll come up with an excuse for it." Q gave her the answer answer as 9S glanced at her and gave yet another nod of understanding.

"We should leave the Impala" B's voice got their attention back on him as he pointed towards the Scooby Gang who was waiting them outside, having already left the Mystery Machine, "We shouldn't keep them waiting."

"Yeah. You're right. Let's go." Q nodded in agreement as she opened the door next to him and got herself out of the car.

The others wasted no time and followed Q's example, getting themselves out of the car as well. B looked around himself, making sure everyone was outside and locked the door to the Impala. B, Q and A2 exchanged glances with each other a second later, knowing they had discussed everything they had to discuss back in the car as 2B and 9S hid their Pods in their bags. They afterwards  shifted their attention to the Scooby Gang who was waiting for them patiently. The group of five wasted no time and made their way to them.

"Hi there. Sorry if we kept you waiting." Q apologized to the Scooby Gang in a slightly sheepish manner when she and her group stopped in front of them.

"We wanted to talk some things through before we'll join you outside." B added.

"Don't worry. We have no problem with it. You didn't make us long as well. By the way, I don't think we had properly introduced ourselves to each other. My name is Fred Jones." Fred shrugged their concerns off as he held his hand out towards them with the same friendly smile on his face. Just as B grabbed it and shook it, the rest of the Scooby Gang introduced themselves to him and the rest of the investigation team.

Daphne offered them a nice smile, "I'm Daphne."

"Velma." Velma added without much enthusiasm in her voice as Q did her best not to compare her to A2 only with the cold mean aspect of A2's tone cut out.

"Like I'm Shaggy and that's Scooby Doo." Shaggy said, introducing both himself and Scooby as B pulled his hand away from Fred, ending their handshake. Despite the situation both of them were in, B and Q couldn't help themselves and smiled a bit at Shaggy's introduction as their minds flew to the Ultra Instict Shaggy joke they saw on the internet of their homeworld.

"Rice to meet you." Scooby said as Q couldn't resist herself and patted his head. Even though she was more of a cat person, she couldn't resist herself as it was Scooby Doo himself standing in front of her. Scooby didn't seem to mind it, though as he let out a giggle, "Ree-hee-hee."

"Guys. This dog is talking..." 9S stated in weirded out tone, now holding the tracker and trying to make it look like a normal thing in order to less as little attention with it from the locals as possible.

Q nodded in confirmation, "Yup."

"What about you?" Fred asked in a friendly manner, "What are your names?

Velma nodded at the question, "Yeah.  It would be rude of you not to introduce yourself in return after we gave our names to you."

B rubbed the back of his head in a slightly awkward manner, "Right. You can call me B."

"I'm Q. Nice to meetcha." Q added with a sweet friendly smile on her face.

"I'm 9S. People call me Nines." 9S introduced himself a second later, keeping a firm grip on the tracker as he glanced towards 2B who remained silent next to him, "This is 2B."

"Hello." 2B greeted the Scooby Gang as Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby exchanged glances with each other at how disconnected she sounded from her emotion. All five of them shifted their gaze to A2 a second later, waiting for her to make her introduction, but didn't get anything out of her. A2 silently stared at them with a cold look on her face, giving Scooby and Shaggy creeps.

B noticed the way A2 was acting right now and quickly introduced her to the Scooby Gang, "This is A2."

"Don't mind her acting like this. She's just like that towards new people." Q added as she glanced at A2 for a second and smiled playfully at her, "Once you'll get to know her, she's like a cuddly like bunny."

"Cuddly like bunny? More like an angry big tiger..." B muttered under his breath. He was slightly amused by the way A2 was just called by Q.

"I see." Fred chuckled as A2 glared at Q, not pleased with getting called a cuddly little bunny. 

"I gotta say, though. Your names are really unusual." Daphne commented with crossed arms. She didn't meant anything mean with her comment, though and it showed in her tone.

Velma raised her brow, "Those are really your names? Because I find that hard to believe if you ask me."

"It wouldn't be so weirded out about their names, Velma." Fred pointed out to her and shifted his gaze to Shaggy with a playful look on his face, "After all, we're friends with a guy named Norville."

"Don't call me Norville! Like nobody calls me that!" Shaggy complained to his friends.

Fred laughed, "What's the matter Norville?"

"Something wrong, Norville?" Daphne added, playing along.

"Norville. Norville." Fred went further into her messing with Shaggy.

"Norville!" Scooby laughed with his friends as B and Q exchanged amused glances with each other while A2 shot Shaggy a sympathetic glance, knowing what he is going through right now as she had gone through the same with numerous times with Q calling her a tsundere. Which she wasn't.

Shaggy sighed in defeat and betrayal, "You too, Scoobs?"

"Alright, guys." Fred said after laughing at Shaggy's expense for a moment, remaining amused by the situation as he shifted his attention from him to the investigation team, "Alright, gang. Let's give Shaggy a break and show our new friends around the festival. If we'll get lucky, we'll introduce them to some of our friends as well."

Daphne nodded in agreement as she set her eyes on the group of five in front of her and her friends, "Alright. Follow us. By the time we'll be done showing you around, you'll see how much fun you will have today."

"I'm sure we will." A2 rolled her eyes. She shook her head internally. If only the Scooby gang knew what was about to happen in their world today.

"We'll be right behind you." Q added, trying to cover A2's sarcasm as the Scooby gang, aside from Velma, didn't seem to notice it.

"Come on., then." Fred nodded with a smile on his face, waving at the investigation team to follow them as he turned away from them and pushed himself into walk towards the entrance to the festival grounds. His friends followed his example and did the the same as the investigation team wasted no time and followed them.

"They seem friendly." 9S commented on the behavior the Scooby Gang displayed towards him and the others so far.

"Too friendly for my tastes if you ask me." A2 added, "It's almost annoying. At least the mercs were suspicious of us when we first met them. Even if we helped them save Scout and Spy from whatever shit they got themselves into."

"I wouldn't be suprised by it if I were you." B told her, "Keep in mind that the inhabitants of this world are a bunch of cartoon characters. What you're seeing right now is something completely different from you've experienced in you world and the Team Fortress world."

"Unless we would run into a cartoon villain." Q added.

"Yeah. Unless that would happen." B nodded in agreement as he started to rub the back of his head, "Which actually can happen as the villains from the cartoons lived in this city as well."

"I see." 9S said in understands, keeping his eyes on the tracker as he watched it do it's job. The results wee non-existent for now, though,  "Do you think we have to worry about them causing us any trouble?"

Q shook her head, "Not really."

"We should worry more on what will happen once we'll find Kaltan." B added as he looked over his shoulder at 9S with a questioning look on his face, "Speaking of which, has the tracker detected anything yet?"

"Nothing for now." 9S shook his head, "I won't leave my eyes off of it, though so you don't have to worry about me missing anything."

"Alright." B nodded at him, having just reached the entrance to the main ground of the festival.

"No way! Is this a Chevy Impala?!" A young male voice rang through their ears just as they were about to enter the festival with the Scooby Gang. All of them turned around towards the source of the voice and were greeted by the view of Duncan from Total Drama Island admiring their vehicle. He wasn't along, though. He was accompanied by Geoff, DJ, Bridgette and Courtney from the same show with Geoff and DJ showing their vehicle the same interest.

Q frowned a bit at the view of Duncan, "You know. I will never understand why he's your favourite character."

"What? I just think he's neat. He had his moments as well until All Stars ruined him." B gave her an honest answer to her words, "The other versions of him showed more of his good side a well, Like the one universe where Total Drama and The Walking Dead took place in the same universe and the cast joined Rick's group."

"I suppose you're right. The friendship between him, Daryl and Carol was kind of wholesome." Q admitted as they shifted their attention away from Duncan,  Geoff, DJ, Bridgette and Courtney to what they were doing and entered the festival.

The investigation team looked around themselves upon entering the festival site, all of them wanting to get to know the place better as they stepped further into it all the while still following the Scooby Gang. B and Q exchanged glances with each other a second later, seeing how there wasn't anything unusual about this happen as it was a normal festival they'd see in their homeworld and silently nodded in agreement on their thoughts regarding this place.

The place was filled with many stands and all of them presented something different. Some were games with rewards to win and some were selling food. The investigation team could notice some party games in the distance such as bumper cars and the scare house as well.  B and Q once again exchanged glances with each other upon seeing all of this. If they were honest with themselves, if they weren't here under such grim circumstances, then they, especially Q, wouldn't mind having fun with all of this.

What was however worth mentioning for them were the attendants of the festival as all of them consisted of the cartoons both B and Q had watched when they were younger and had grown up with. One of the examples of that was them seeing Lazlo, Raj and Clam from Camp Lazlo trying to win a reward at one of the reward stands with Mac and Bloo from Foster's House waiting for their turn and the latter getting impatient. It was just one of the many examples of what the characters from their childhood they had walked by right now.

"Wow." Q whispered in awe to her best friend, watching all the cartoon characters from her childhood around her. Scooby with his extended dog hearing glanced at them with a confused look on his face before shaking his head, shrugging it off as nothing important, "You know. Under different circumstances, this would be totally awesome."

B nodded in agreement, "Yeah."

Daphne broke the silence between them as she slowed down a bit and now walked right next to 2B, "So, 2B, right?"

2B glanced at this, "Yes? What is it?"

Daphne pointed at 2B's black dress, "I just want to say I really like your dress. Even though black isn't exactly my style, I would definitely buy one for myself. It really fits you as well. I can tell black is your style."

2B was unsure how to reply to this, "Thank you."

"What about your blindfold, though? Nines seems to be wearing one too." Daphne asked as she pointed between the two blindfolds the androids had on themselves, "

"Um..." 9S struggled to answer to it in a way which would not raise any suspicions.

"Are you perharps blind?" Velma theorized as 2B glanced at B and Q. The two nodded at her, telling her to go along with it.

The stoic android shifted her gaze back to Daphne a second later, "Yes. It's exactly what we are." 

Daphne nodded in understanding with a pitful look on her face, "Oh, I see. I'm sorry if I offended you in any way by asking you about that. I can't imagine how it must feel like to be unable to see what's around you."

"Don't worry about it. We learned how to live with it." 2B lied further, playing into this story like an expert and not showing off a single sign that she was lying right now.

Velma pointed at the tracker in 9S' hands, "Is this why Nines is carrying this device? Does it help you with walking around?"

"Yes." 2B nodded in confirmation, not giving 9S a chance to reply as she explained her lie further, "Nines is a bit clumsy when to walking around in new places like right now, though and he needs to use this tracker whenever that happens to stop himself from bumping into things and other people."

"I see." Velma nodded in understanding even if she was a bit weirded out by the explanation as she couldn't recall ever hearing about such device.

"Neat device." Daphne smiled a bit. If she was blind, then she would certainly be interested in owning something like this, "When your friends talked with Fred on the road, they mentioned something about you being on a road trip. How did you ended up on it?"

"B and Q came up with this idea and invited us for it." 2B explained, "They thought it would be good for me and Nines to travel a bit even if we're unable to see."

Fred looked over his shoulder at B and Q and smiled at them, "Really? Wow! That's so cool of you two!"

"Yeah..." B replied in a slightly awkward manner, rubbing the back of his head.

Daphne nodded in agreement with Fred's words and shifted her attention to A2 and looked at her questioningly, "What about you A2? How did you became a part of your little road trip with friends?"

A2 shrugged, "I had nothing better to do."

Q smiled at her, "You really can't  admit that you wanted to come with us. Don't you?"

A2 glared at her, "Shut up."

"Hey, Fred." B called out to Fred a second later, wanting to have his attention as there was something he wanted to ask him about.

Fred raised his brow at him, "Yeah?"

"Has anything weird happen in your city over the course of the last few days?" B asked him, doing his best to play off as more curious than suspicious. With Kaltan having arrived at this world, then maybe the inhabitants of this world noticed something off. If that would be the case, then maybe it would narrow down their 

Fred looked slightly suprised by the question, "Why are you asking?"

"Just curious." B gave him his answer, "We read something about strange happening taking place in this city about a day ago and I'm just curious to know if that's the case here or if the media are once again making idiots out of us."

"Yeah. Same here." Q nodded in agreement, "To be honest it interested us so much that we agreed to ask some of you locals about it once we'll reach your city to see if that's true or not."

Fred nodded in understanding, not thinking much of it as B and Q's answer made sense to him, "I see. Alright."

Velma placed her hand on her chin, "Hmm. Now that you mentioned it, there's something worth mentioning here."

"Really?" B asked in interest as Velma's words got Q, A2, 2B and 9S' attention as well. All of them intended to carefully listen to everything she had to say.

Velma nodded in confirmation, "Yes. Around the time of the new year a few days ago, a massive star was recorded falling down from the sky at night when most of the city was sleep. I'm not exactly sure if we could call it a star, though."

B's interest grew at this, "What do you mean?"

"It was too big to be a star." Velma explained further, "From what I saw in the news when I woke up the following morning, it was more of asteroid than a star."

"You can ask Shaggy about it as well if you want a confirmation." Daphne added, "He claims to have seen it."

Shaggy nodded in confirmation, "Like yeah! It was so massive that I almost dropped my food when I saw this!"

Q raised her brow, "Your food?"

"A midnight snack!" Shaggy explained with a chuckle.

Q chuckled a bit, "Right."

"What happened to the star or the asteroid? Whatever it was." B wanted to know.

"We won't know." Velma gave him her answer, "It vanished without a trace just as it was about to hit our town." 

"Dexter and the Powerpuff Girls investigated it, but nothing came out of their investigation." Fred added to her explanation, "When they were asked about their investigation, they claimed to have nothing which could have been left behind by it."

"Like, which is kind of crazy and weird if you ask me!" Shaggy voiced his thoughts on the matter, "You'd expect some traits to be left out of something massive and yet, like, there's nothing left of it."

"I see." B said in understanding, writing all this information down in his mind. The male watcher exchanged glances with Q a second later and nodded at her as both he and his best friend suspected what or rather who was the massive star/asteroid must have been. It falling straight into the city and just vanishing just as it was about to hit it, laving no trace behind just confirmed it to them. 

It showed them they were on a good trail as well as they now knew Kaltan must have been somewhere in the city. Now they wished they could ask 9S to contact 21O and ask her about it but having him do this right now out in the open would destroy their cover. 9S must have been thinking the same thing right now as muttered something under his breath about contacting 21O.

The male watcher crossed his arms a second later, "You're right. It is weird indeed."

Shaggy nodded in agreement, "Like, that's what I'm saying."

"We thought about investigating that ourselves as it would be an interesting mystery for us to check out but Dexter and the Powerpuff Girls told us we would be wasting our time with it." Velma added.

"Which is a shame if you ask me. I can already smell a great mystery coming out of it!" Fred added, "Maybe I could convince the gang to give this mystery a chance 

"Like, no way, man!" Shaggy wasted not time and quickly reacted to this idea by shaking his head, "If even they told us to stay away from it, then we should take their advice!"

Scooby nodded in agreement, "Reah!"

"What about you guys?" Fred asked the investigation team, paying no attention to Shaggy and Scooby's protests, "The five of you could join you if you're so interested in it."

"Yeah. The more the merrier!" Daphne nodded in agreement as B and Q glanced at each other at their offer. Even though they knew their investigation regarding the falling star won't happen due to what will happen today once Kaltan will be discovered, both of them knew they had to keep playing their role.

B glanced back at the Scooby gang and gave them his answer, "We'll think about it."

"Yeah. It will depend on how long we will stay in your city as we haven't really decided how long we will stay here." Q added.

Fred nodded in understanding, "Alrighty."

"What about people who investigated it earlier? Dexter and the Powerpuff girls, right?" B asked, acting as if he had a hard time remembering their names, "Could you introduced us to them so we could question them about what happened?"

Fred nodded in confirmation, "Sure. We could ask folk around the festival if they saw them somwhere."

"That would be great. Thanks." B nodded at him gratefully. Just as their conversation was about to continue, they got cut off by a male voice speaking up to one of them.

"Hey there, baby." All of them looked towards the voice and saw no other than Johnny Bravo standing in front of a very displeased A2 with his usual attitude evident. B and Q held back chuckles as Velma blushed a bit and pouted with a bit of a jealous look on her face after seeing Johnny flirting with A2, "You know what I would do if I could rearrange the alphabet?"

"..." A2 stared at him silently, looking at Johnny like she really didn't want to talk with him.

"I would put u and i toge...." Johnny paused for a moment with his flirting and asked, "Excuse me, but what is your name?"

"Her name is A2." Q replied for A2 as she would know A2 would probably not answer to Johnny's question or would tell him to piss off.

Johnny nodded at it and quicky went back to A2, "Well I would put the letters J and A together. So that the first letters in the names Johnny and A2 could be closer together."

B and Q chuckled a bit, trying not to laugh more at A2 getting the Johnny Bravo treatment in front of them as 9S watched the scene in amusement while 2B remained blank faced. Even if she was amused by it on the inside. A2, however, was far from amused and words couldn't describe how annoyed she was right now. She smacked Johnny in the head with all he might which sent him to the ground like a ton of bricks. She then looked away from him and pushed herself into walk away from him.

"I already have to deal with R and Scout on a daily basis. I don't need this shit..." She muttered under her breath, walking past the rest of the investigation team and the Scooby Gang as she wanted to distance herself from the situation. She shot B and Q a glare when she walked past them as well, seeing how amused they were by what just happened to her.

Johnny got up from the ground a second later, shaking off the rejection from A2 in an instant and set his eyes on Q. Q's eyes widened a bit as he moved towards her and began to flirt with her, "Hey there sexy momma. How would you like to go..." 

"Heh...?" Q replied, not knowing how to react to this as Johnny began flirting with her. Should she react like the women always did in his show or should she react differently to it?

"I wouldn't flirt with her if I were you, Johnny." Fred chuckled, making Johnny glance at him as he pointed at B, "Otherwise you may anger her boyfriend a bit."

B snapped his head towards him, "What?"

"A what now?" Q acted in a similiar way to B.

"What? She has a boyfriend?" Johnny asked Fred, having fully shifted his attention to him as Fred nodded in confirmation while still pointing at B. The blonde haired man sighed in disappointment, snapping his fingers, "Aw. Just my luck. Why do they always need to be taken when they're about to meet Johnny?"

"Sorry about that, pal. Maybe you'll get lucky next time." Fred chuckled, giving Velma a sideglance as  Velma blushed and glanced away from him.

"Actually me and B aren't dating." Q felt like she needs to clear out this misunderstanding. She shook her head to herself at the same time. Why couldn't people understand that a man and a woman could be best friends and be purely platonic with each other?

"Yeah. Me and Q just close friends. Nothing else." B nodded in confirmation.

Fred looked confused by it, "You're not?"

"Yes!" B and Q uttered at the same time, looking like they have done this many times at this point. Which they did.

Fred was slightly taken aback by their reaction at first. He quickly composed himself, though and looked at them with an apologetic look on his face, "Alright. I see. Sorry about that. You just gave me vibes of a happy couple ever since we first met each other on the road."

"Same here." Daphne nodded in agreement, "I thought you were together too."

"Like same here!" Shaggy voiced his agreement as well as Scooby silently nodded in agreement.

"Really?" B deadpanned at them, "Do you know a man and a woman can be best friends without any romantic stuff between them?"

"Yeah. If you want a couple in our group, then you can look at these two!" Q added, pointing at 2B and 9S as both of them instantly froze upon being brought up. 9S blushed heavily as 2B glanced to the side, hiding the blush which was starting to form on her face.

Johnny looked more disappointed by it, "So she's taken too?" 

"Yeah." B nodded in confirmation, feeling amusement replacing his irritation when he saw Johnny's disappointed reaction.

"Sorry about that." Q added, amusement replacing her previous feelings as well as 2B and 9S remained too embarassed by their relationship being brought up by them to reply to that in any way.

"No need to worry about that, momma. It will take more than that to keep Johnny Bravo down." Johnny replied as he striked a few poses. He set his eyes on the Scooby Gang a second later and bid farewell, "Alright. I'll see you some other time. Some ladies need some attention from Johnny."

"Before you leave Johnny, have you seen Dexter or the Powerpuff girls anywhere?" Fred asked as Johnny turned away from and started to leave.

Johnny shook his head, "Nope. Haven't seen any of them all day."

"Alright. Thanks. I'll see you later, then." Fred bid him his farewell as Johnny waved his hand at them while having his back turned to them. Velma looked slightly disappointed after him leaving but didn't say anything.

"W-Who was that guy?" 9S asked as Johnny walked past A2 who was waiting for the others to catch up to her. He glanced at her, looking like he wanted to try his chance with her again, but quickly backed away from this idea after A2 raised her fist at him in a threatening manner.

"Johnny Bravo. A good friend of our gang." Fred explained.

Daphne nodded in agreement, "Even though his flirting can get a bit annoying at times, he is a pretty cool guy. He knows when to back away from flirting with someone as well. Like he did with me once he found out about my relationship with Fred."

"Velma is super fond of him as well." Fred added in a playful tone as Velma decided not to make comment about it and remained silent while still blushing.

"Like yeah!" Shaggy nodded in confirmation, letting out a chuckle and causing Velma to become more embarassed.

"Alright, gang. Let's stop teasing Velma here." Fred chuckled one last time as he turned in the direction where A2 was waiting for them and pushed himself into walk towards it, "We should get going. We have some stuff to show our new friends, after all and have to look for Dexter and the Powerpuff girls as well."

"Lead the way." Daphne nodded at Fred, following him as Velma, Scooby and Shaggy silently followed him as well.

"We'll be right behind you." Q added as her and her group pushed themselves into walk to follow Fred as well. Shortly after they started walking, they walked past A2 who wasted no time and rejoined the group. From the look on her face, everyone could tell she was still annoyed because of what happened with Johnny.

"Not a word." A2 said to B and Q, now walking next to the two watchers as she saw the way both of them looked at her just now. Needless to say. It just made her more annoyed.

"We're not saying anything." Q replied with a hint of smirk on her face.

A2 glared at her, "You're doing that on the inside!"

B smiled a bit in a amused manner as he shfited his gaze to 9S and 2B, "Nines. What about the tracker. Is it detecting anything?"

"N-No. Still nothing." 9S gave him his answer, shaking off the embarassment from a moment ago.

"Alright." B voiced his understanding to it as Q silently nodded in understanding and kept on doing what they were doing. Neither of them felt the need of reminding 9S to keep his eyes on the tracker, because they knew they didn't have to remind him of it.

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About an hour had passed since the investigation team and the Scooby Gang had their encounter with Johnny Bravo and nothing notable had happened since then. The Scooby Gang continued to show them around the festival, showing them various attractions and even convinced them to participate in two of them alongside them even if the investigation team was against it for all the obvious reasons.

The said attractions were the bumper cars and the scare house. Even though the Scooby gang was extremely reluctant about it at first due them working on limited time here, they knew they couldn't refuse as it could make them appear nervous to them. They came up with a solution when it came to this, though. The said solution was only B and Q participating in the attractions while A2, 2B and 9S would go explore the area.

They came up with an explanation to why they only B and Q would participate in the attractions with the Scooby Gang as well.  2B and 9S brought up being blind to them and A2 was excused under being either too tired in the bumper cars case or too afraid in the scare house case, much to her dismay when it came to the latter. She was forced to go along with it, though. Even if nothing came out of it in the end, B and Q had to admit it was kind of nice seeing Shaggy and Scooby panicking in their usual manner in real life when they visited the scare house.

Nothing changed regarding Kaltan's status, despite all this time passing, though as his presence was not sensed by the tracker in the slightest and the investigation team was looking out of place in the festival zone to explore. If they won't stumble across anything in the zone of the festival they were exploring right now, they knew they would have to move to search the other parts of the city of the city. If that would be the case which seemed rather likely to all five of them, they knew they would have to come up with some kind of excuse for the Scooby gang to why they had to leave.

They were yet to find either Dexter or the Powerpuff girls as well. despite the Scooby gang efforts at finding them and asking some of the festival attendants if they saw them. If the investigation team was honest with themselves, all of them were slowly beginning to lose hope in finding them and were growing convinced they won't be able to talk them about their investigation regarding the falling star/asteroid/Kaltan until they'll leave the festival zone.

That was until they finally made some progress regarding their search for them shortly after stepping into the last part of the festival they hadn't checked out, yet....

"...Did we see either Dexter or the Powerpuff girls? Yeah. We did." Eddy gave Fred a nod of confirmation as he looked at the group consisting of the Scooby gang and the investigation team in front of him. Ed and Double D were right next to him. Ed had his goofy friendly smile on his face and Double D was blank faced. 

Fred's eyes lit up slightly at this, "Really? That's great!"

"Could you tell us where they went?" Daphne asked with a smile on her face as she pointed at the investigation team when she added, "Our new friends are really interested in meeting them."

"Sure. We can tell you." Eddy nodded at them with a hint of mischievousness, looking like he just came up with an idea. A smirk began to form on his face when he added, "Nothing comes free with our serve, though. We'll tell you only if you pay us enough."

"Eddy..." Double D began to say, looking like he wanted to scold his friend as B and Q glanced at each other. Neither of them were suprised by it as they knew it was Eddy they were talking with right now.

Eddy ignored his words and held his hand out towards them with his smirk now evident on his face, "Only 25 cents."

A2 glared at him, "Listen, kid. We ain't got time for..."

"We'll give you five dollars if you'll tell us this info." B cut her off, knowing starting an argument would get them nowhere and would just waste their time. He didn't worry about the money as well. The watcher didn't have to worry about stuff like this.

"Five bucks? Are you serious?" Eddy's eyes lit up and B and Q could have sworn they saw dollars bills appear in his eyes.

"Yes." B confirmed it to him with a nod of his head as he pulled out his backup wallet and opened it. He pulled out a five dollar bill and held it out for Eddy to see, "So? Do we have a deal?"

"You know it!" Eddy accepted the deal with a nod of his head in an instant as he wasted no time and grabbed the five dollar bill from B. He eyed it with a massive smile on his face, looking like he had just opened Scrooge's McDuck vault.

"Now can you do your part of the deal and tell us where you saw them?" B asked as Eddy kept himself silent for a moment, not paying attention to anything but the five dollar bill his grasp.

"We would really appreciate it." Q added as A2 glared at Eddy, looking like she was daring him to back out of their deal.

"Sure. Sure." Eddy said, his eyes refusing to leave the five dollar bill as he pointed in the direction he and both of his friends came from there, "I saw them hanging out around there by one of the food stands. If you'll get lucky, you'll find them there."

B nodded at him, "Alright. Thanks."

Eddy shifted his gaze away from the money bill and looked at his friends with a grin on his face, "We're eating good today guys! We're rich!"

"Yes! Time for Jawbreakers!" Ed cheered, almost shaking with excitement.

"You know it, Lumpy!" Eddy nodded in confirmation as he turned away and began walking off with Ed instantly following him, "Come on! Let's go buy ourselves some!"

"Eddy! But there aren't any stands selling those around!" Double D reminded as he followed his two friends.

"Meh. We can always go to the candy store close to the festival. If we'll be fast enough, then we'll make it before the Puffy AmiYumi performance!" Eddy shrugged it off as he and his friend distanced themselves from the Scooby gang and the investigation team, vanishing from their view a moment later.

Velma shifted her attention to B a second later and raised her brow, "Did you really had to give him that bill if he just wanted 25 cents?"

"Kids will be kids. He and his friends could use some fun as well. It's the festival, after all." B shrugged at it. The other reason why he gave Eddy that five dollar bill was because he wanted him and his friends to have some fun before Kaltan will be located and everything will start going down.

Q nodded in agreement, "It's not like five dollars is much for us as well as let's just say we don't have to worry about the money."

Velma raised her brow in interest, "Really? Why is that?"

"Let's just say we have access to a lot of money." Q didn't want to go into details here, "It's why we could afford this road trip as well as without having to work during it."

"I see." Velma nodded in understanding. Even if she couldn't help but question herself why was Q so secretive about it.

"Neverthless. At least we know now where to find the Powerpuff girls." Fred stated as he looked in the direction Eddy had pointed towards a moment earlier and pushed himself into walk towards them, "Let's go. Hopefully they will still be there."

"How about you go check if they are here without us?" B suggested, seeing this as an opportunity to finally have a conversation with the rest of the investigation team about their situation without having to worry about the Scooby gang overhearing them.

Fred stopped in his tracks and looked at him with a confused look on his face, "What? Why?"

Q saw what her best friend was doing right now and quickly aided him, "We have something we want to discuss in private. It's about our stay in your city in the following few days. If you'll go get those Powerpuff girls, then we'll kill two birds with one stone as you'll find them and we'll have our conversation."

"Alrighty, then! Come on, gang!" Fred ushered his gang to follow him and all of them did as they were told. Velma couldn't help but look at them with a slightly suspicious look on her face, though when she followed Fred. Scooby shot them a glance as well. His glance was more weirded out than suspicious, though.

B, Q, A2, 2B and 9S exchanged glances with each other a second later, seeing the Scooby gang getting themselves out of their hearing range and nodded at each other as they knewy they finally got a perfect opportunity to discuss everything with each other. Not wasting any time, they stepped away from all the attractions to each other and made their way to the more safe to discuss zone of the festival.

The zone was located on the edge of the festival area, leaving them close to the trees to the park located near the festival zone. It wasn't too far away from the festival as well, leaving them perfectly visible for the Scooby gang when they will come back to them with the Powerpuff Girls. The group of five began their discussion straight away, knowing they had to do it quickly if they wanted to talk through everything before the Scooby gang will make their way back to them.

"...This is a waste of time." A2 voiced her thoughts on everything as 9S looked down at the tracker upon something. His face went pale in an instant. B, Q, A2 and 2B didn't notice this, though as they were focused on themselves.

"A2 is right." 2B nodded in agreement, "We explored the entire area of the festival and we haven't gotten any closer to locating Kaltan other than the fact that he definitely is somewhere in the city." 

B crossed his arms, letting out a sigh, "Yeah. It's hard to disagree here. We should move further into the city if we want to find him in time."

2B pointed at the forest behind them, "What about the park behind us? It's located close to the festival which pretty much has all the residents of this city attending it from what we've heard. Perharps Kaltan would hide himself somewhere in it."

"Not a bad thought." B nodded in agreement, "We won't have to go back to our car if we want to check it as well."

A2 sighed, "It will still be better than having to deal with this festival bullshit as well."

"What about the Scooby gang, though?" Q asked, "Are we going to just leave right now without telling them or should we wait for them to come back?"

"We should probably wait for them to come back." B gave her his reply, "If they'll have the Powerfpuff Girls with them, then we can question them. If we'll get lucky, then maybe we'll get some info on Kaltan and it will narrow down the search in this city."

A2 looked at him, "What will you tell them, then?"

Q quickly thought of something, "Maybe about something important coming up or us needing to take a break from the festival and needing a walk in the park. I don't know."

"Needing to take a break in the park could work." 2B voiced her opinion, "It would help us distance ourselves from them and proceeded with our investigation someplace else without raising much suspicion from them."

"Yeah. I agree." B agreed with Q as well.

"Alrighty, then." Q nodded at them, letting out a sigh, "I just feel sorry for the Scooby gang here a bit. You can tell they want us to have a good time and we keep making every harder for them. Now we'll be disappearing without a word as well."

"You know it has to be done." A2 told her, "We're working on a limited time here."

"Yeah. I know. It doesn't make me feel better about it, though." Q replied as she glanced towards the festival and let out a sigh, "Do you think we could attend or arrange something like this once we'll be done with all of this? We could definitely use it after the stuff between D and Devola and now this went down in such a short amount of time."

B nodded in agreement, "Maybe. We would have to ask the rest what they think about it."

"Speaking of D and Devola, what really went down between them?" 2B asked as soon as those two were mentioned as B, Q and even A2 got slightly uncomfortable about it. "Me and 9S tried A and Popola about it, but they didn't tell us anything and told us we should focus on preparing ourselves to face Kaltan."

"We don't want to talk about it, 2B. Now is not the time for t." B gave her an honest answer as Q and A2 nodded in agreement. He quickly tried to change the subject of the conversation by asking her, "How about you and Nines contact the operators and tell us how things are going right now? We haven't spoken with them for about an hour so they probably are wondering what's going on with us right now."

"Very well. I'll pull out my pod once we'll part our ways with them and use it to contact 6O and tell her how things have been doing for the last hour." 2B nodded her head, understanding the two watchers and A2 didn't really want to talk about what went down between D and Devola. She reached into her bag and glanced at 9S who kept himself silent.

"What about you Nines? Will you contact 21O as well?" B asked, having shifted his attention to him as well as 9S proceeded to remain silent with his face still pale and his eyes refusing to leave the tracker.

Q raised his brow at his behavior, "Nines?"

"What's wrong? You're so silent." 2B said, having grown concerned by his lack of response.

"...G-Guys. I-It's sensing him... " 9S broke himself out his silence state and revealed the reason of it to them.

"What?" B wanted to make sure if he didn't misheard him.

"I'm seeing a dot on the screen." 9S explained as B, Q, 2B and A2 instantly looked at the screen of the tracker and saw a white dot on the screen of it. All of them, especially B and Q due to them having more human bodies, felt all the air leave their lungs in an instant.

"...Holy shit." Q's voice instantly took a more serious tone.

"Are we certain this is true?" 2B wanted to be sure, "Perharps the tracker is malfuctioning after being used for all this time?"

B shook his head, his eyes refusing to leave the tracker as his breathing became heavier and more nervous, "I don't think so 2B. G would never built w device which would malfunction is a situation like this."

"W-Wait. I'll check this..." 9S said as he stepped in the direction the white dot was leading him towards. With each step he took towards the dot, he felt himself growing more nervous. He stopped after several steps and looked over his shoulder at the rest of the investigation team, "Guys. The dot. It's becoming more visible. He really is somewhere in this park..."

A2 shook her head, her cold demeanor vanishing from her behavior as she tensed up slightly and put herself on guard, "Shit..."

2B glanced at B and Q, "What now?"

B stayed silent for a few seconds, "...Let's follow the dot to confirm where he is in this park. While we will make our way towards it, you and Nines will contact the operators and tell them about this development."

"Very well." 2B nodded in understanding as she pushed herself into walk towards 9S with B, Q and A2 quickly following her example and doing the same. As they made their way to him, she asked them, "What about the tracker?"

"Me or Q will take it from Nines." B replied, having just reached 9S as he held his hand out to him to take the tracker from him. 

9S complied by giving him the tracker, having heard what B just said to 2B and he and 2B afterwards wasted no time and reached into their bags to free their pods from it. Pod 042 and Pod 153 were released into the daylight, now floating above the investigation team. The two pods knew what to do from the start and wasted no time when it came to doing it. It was just a matter of seconds before two holograms of 21O and 6O appeared in front of the investigation team.

"Hello 2B. This is Operator 6O." 6O spoke up to them a second later.

"21O is here again as well." 21O added, "Do you have anything to report?"

9S nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. We have stumbled upon something big."

"We believed we have found Kaltan." 2B added.

21O was silent by this for a moment, "...Are you certain?"

"Yes. We have confirmed him to be somewhere in this park as the tracker detected him." Q nodded in confirmation, her eyes on the tracker and the white dot on the screen as 21O and 6O looked at her.

"We still haven't confirmed where he is in the park, though." B added, "This is why we contacted you. We want you to be here with us once we'll confirm this so you can contact the others about it and have them move out from the HQ into this world."

21O nodded in understanding, "Very well. You may proceed with your investigation. Me and 6O will accompany you for the rest of it."

"Just be careful. Please?" 6O added as 21O nodded in agreement, her eyes set on 9S when she did so.

The group of five replied to 6O's words in their own ways and wasted no time when it came with proceeding with their investigation from there. Pod 042 and Pod 153 followed them, keeping themvelves closely behind them with 21O and 6O still displayed from their screens. All of the members of the investigation team slowly moved forward, walking in the direction the dot on the screen was leading them towards and all of them kept their steps slow and cautious to make sure they won't take any wrong steps or lose the track of the dot.

Q shifted her to A2 for a second, hearing her pull out her sword and saw her android friend now wielding her trusted sword. She wasn't suprised by it, considering it was A2 and she always was ready for a fight. She shifted her attention away from her a second later, knowing now it wasn't important and and focused herself on what was important right now. She paid no attention to 2B and 9S pulled out their swords as well.

All five of them stopped in their tracks a few minutes later upon seeing the tracker and the white dot going crazy. All of them mutually came to the conclusion something must have been off about this place if the tracker started going crazy all of sudden. All of them looked ahead of themselves a second later, seeing nothing unusual about this place at first. But upon further inspection, they noticed there was something off about the ground in front of them.

What was wrong about it? It looked so unnatural. It was filled with leaves, sticks and rocks. It looked like someone placed all of it on the ground instead of ending up there by itself. All five of them exchanged glances with each other, knowing they had to check this out. Q, A2, 2B and 9S quickly got to work at removing everything from the ground while B kept standing in front of them with the tracker in his grasp. Not wasting any time, all of them moved everything away and revealed there was something hidden underneath all of it. 

It was when an entrance to a cave appeared in their view. All of them quickly came up to a mutual conclusion this must have been Kaltan's hideout. They knew they couldn't write this off as his hideout straight away, though and knew they had to make sure of it. All of them glanced at each other, knowing what to do next as there was only one way they could have reassured themselves that this cave was indeed where Kaltan had hidden himself upon arriving at this world.

All of them moved into the cave a second later, holding their breath and keeping themselves as alarmed and as much on guard as possible. All of them kept themselves quiet as they moved further into the cave. In fact. All of them were so silent right now that they could hear everything more clearly now. It included things such as 2B and A2's heels clinking against the rocky ground. B and Q could hear their own breathing as well, feeling how it was slowly becoming more tense and nervous as well. They did their best to ignore it, though and focused on their mission instead.

The group of five reached the bottom of the cave a second later and looked ahead of themselves. They saw a large cave with lots of space in it. If they were here under any other circumstances, then they would question themselves how does this park have such a large cave underneath it. It would make for a good tourist attraction as well if it went even deeper beyond their sight.

All five of them froze in their tracks upon getting a better look around the cave. It was when they saw the person they were looking for for all this time in front of them. Kaltan stood in a stood away from them in his human sized form and with his eyes closer as his legs were burried into the ground, being in the process of expanding himself. The group of five remained in their state for a few seconds, feeling the aura Kaltan was giving off and all of them felt how terrifying it was. Even A2 and 2B had trouble hiding their feelings right now.

(Naruto Shippuden - Pain's Theme Song)

Kaltan sensed someone standing in front of him and opened his eyes, revealing his glowing yellow eyelids to the investigation team. His eyes narrowed when saw B and Q. Even though it was his first time seeing them, he knew who they were. He was more than familiar with the feeling he got by looking at them. This feeling itself was more than enough to make him angry as it was a feeling he despised more than everything.

"...The watchers of the multiverse." He uttered out his first words to them in his dark and deep voice upon laying his eyes on them and the group of five could feel the hatred the monster had for the watchers due to the tone of his voice.

Before anyone from the investigation team could react to what they were seeing right now, Kaltan made his move. He ripped his legs out of the ground, stopping his expansion as he felt rage and hatred filling his body once more at the view of the watchers of the multiverse right now. It quickly made him give up on what he was doing ever since he had arrived at this world and began his expansion to eat it once everything will be prepared. 

He had the watcher of the multiverse directly in front of him and he intended to take care of them. Right here right now.  Nothing else mattered in his mind right now. All the other thoughts faded away from his mind when saw B and Q. His move wasn't attacking the group of five straight away, though as he instead began to grow himself in his size. He continued to grow in his size all the while still keeping his gaze on the investigation team and it was only a matter of seconds before he reached the ceiling.

"Call everyone! Tell them to move out! They found him...!" Just as Kaltan's head began to crush through the ceiling, 6O's panicked voice rang through their ears as she jumped up from her seat and rushed out of the room.

"9S! Get out of there! The cave is going to collaps with you inside it if you won't move now!" 21O shouted in worry for 9S. She didn't have to repeat herself. Everyone turned away from Kaltan as continued to grow and his head continued to crush through the ceiling as he intended to leave the cave while being in his full form, making the ground shake more and the cave slowly started to collaps due to everything.

"They're right! Run!" B shouted as he turned away from the cave and began to run upwards as he intended to return outside through the path they had entered this cave in the first place. He didn't have to repeat himself. The rest o the investigation team followed his example and began to run towards the exit of the cave as well.

Just as they turned around and moved further towards the exit, they saw a group of people they weren't expecting to see right now and the said group wasn't someone who they want to be there. The said group was the Scooby gang but they weren't along. They were accompanied by the Powerpuff Girls. Eddy info's on their whereabouts must have been correct. Not that it mattered now, though.

"Guys! There you are! Where have you be..." Fred's words died in his throat upon seeing what's going on right now. His eyes widened in alarm. He wasn't the only one. The rest of his group reacted in the same way.

"Zoinks! What's going on?" Shaggy with a mixture of confusion and fear on his face.

"Run!" Q shouted, running past them like her life depended on it as something on the back of her mind was telling him it was a matter of life and death right now.

"Like, you don't have repeat yourself!" Shaggy shouted as he and Scooby instantly followed the investigation team.

Buttercup's eyes widened in confusion and alarm, because of what was happening right now, "What the...?!"

"Everyone! Get back!" Blossom quickly ordered everyone as they all quickly turned away and began fleeing in the direction they had came from.

The massive group continued to make their way out of the cave, feeling it collapsing more and feeling how it was just a matter of several before it will fully collapse. All of them felt Kaltan's body emerging from the ground as well as all of them felt the ground above them splitting. Even though the Scooby gang and the Powerpuff girls were still massively confused and some of them even scared by what was happening, the investigation team knew it must have been the case as they saw no other explanation fo this.

All of them reached the ground a few seconds later, reaching it in the exact moment as it collapsed. However, they didn't make it to the ground without any problem. Daphne's high heels finally made themselves known to her and she ended up tripping over a fallen rock, landing on the ground with a painful thud. She grabbed her leg, clutching it painfully as she tried to get herself back on her feet.

She couldn't, though. She must have hurt her feet in some way and the thought of it happening right now made her even more terrified. She looked at the running group ahead of them, crying out for help. A2 and Fred heard it. A2 looked over her shoulder just as he was about to leave the cave and saw what just happened to Daphne. She shook her head to herself, cursing under her breath as she pushed herself into run towards Daphne with an intention of picking her up.

Fred looked over his shoulder at Daphne after hearing her scream, feeling his eyes widening in worry upon seeing her in this position. Just as he was about to turn around to collect her, A2 ran past him and quickly took care of it. The android helped Daphne up, wrapping her arm around her as Daphne saw Fred standing in front of them and shouted to him to keep moving and how she will be alright with A2's help.

The blonde haired young man nodded to himself and reluctantly pushed himself into run. He made his way out of the cave a second later, letting out a deep breath as he stopped between B, Q, 2B, 9S, Pod 042, Pod 153, Velma, Scooby, Shaggy, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup and instantly looked towards the cave in worry. He instantly felt a wave of relief going through through his body as he saw A2 and Daphne leaving the cave just a second before it fully collapsed.

A2 and Daphne made their way to the rest and Fred quickly took his girlfriend from the android. He shot A2 a grateful glance for saving her, wrapping his arm around Daphne to keep her on her feet. A2 paid no attention to him, though and looked up towards the sky just like the rest of their group, intending to keep herself focused on what was happening righ tnow. Fred and Daphne followed her example and looked up, the former feeling all the relief leave his body in an instant.

All of them kept staring up, despite how they were feeling right now as they saw Kaltan flying in the sky in his full form. B and Q exchanged glances with each other. R and C's intel was not lying. His final form was massive. It was enough to cover sun with his shadow, leaving the park and possible the festival zone cover with it. If they were honest with each other, they wouldn't be suprised if the festival activities had stopped in this very moment and everyone who was participating in the festival was staring at Kaltan right now...

"The watchers of the multiverse. You have come for me yourself. Good. Now you shall pay for what you did to me and my master creator..." Kaltan declared loudly to the world, his voice filled with hatred as he glared at the world around him. His glare was filled with nothing but anger and hatred...

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Here we go with the second part. The next part will be the battle against Kaltan and I can already tell it will be tiring and time consuming.