The Old Ship Mystery

== Summary ==
The gang head for a museum opening on an old pirate ship and run into some ghosts along the way where it is being turned into a props factory
== Script ==
(We open on a foggy night at a dock where a pirate ship is and the Canterlot Contraption is parked by a sign in the shape of a ships wheel it reads on top of each other MARINE MUSEUM on top of each other and THEATER PROPS FACTORY BELOW is under it "Theater" is on top of "Props Factory" and under that is "Below" Spike stares at the ship Big Mac is in the van and Rarity looks at the sign)
Rarity:(Reads sign)Marine Museum. Theater props factory below? (To the gang)What does that mean?
Snails:I'm sure it's also just a factory that makes props for theater plays and stuff.
Sci-Twi:The only thing is, is that we've come to investigate the mysterious sounds coming from the ship.
Spike:Yeah it's probably ghost crew.
Rarity:It's not a ghost crew Spike.
Big Macintosh:Well there's only one way to find out. (Gets out of van)Go about and find the answer if it's not a ghost crew.
(Cuts to the top deck of the ship)
Rarity:What a great place for a marine museum. But it's strange there's a props factory below. That's what the sign says
Big Macintosh:Let's get off and look at the dock.
Snails:Hey! The gangplank's gone! How do we get off? They must have thought we had gone!
Big Macintosh:Somebody must be around. Let's down those stairs. Maybe that's where Spike went.
(At the foot of the stairs Snails cried out)
Snails:Spikey-Doo where are you!?
Sci-Twi:He's disappeared! Look there's a trapdoor in the deck that says "Keep Out".
Snails:Yeah and it's capitalized.
Sci-Twi:What's so important about that? What's so important about it being capitalized Snails?
Snails:Nothing. I just wanted to say so.
(They all groan he looks at them)
Sci-Twi:Anyway maybe he got on that and fell in.
Big Macintosh:Let's find out.
(Big Macintosh and Snails stepped on the trapdoor immediately it swung downwards the girls grabbed at the boys and all four slippy down a wide chute into darkness)
RarityAnybody hurt? I've go a tiny flash in my pocket. There's Spike! He did fall in!
(He little light sent slender beam over the room)
Snails:Yikes! Masks! Costumes! Weird!
Big Macintosh:Anybody around?
(From outside a voice answered)
Voice:That you Sid? You're early! You had to swing a plank from land didn't you? You'll need a light.
(A light went on and a door opened a man stared at the group openmouthed then he grabbed a mask from the wall and put it on)
Man:What are you kids going here?!
(From a dark passageway behind the masked man a woman's voice cried)
Woman:They could be spies Glug! They probably hid upstairs till the plank was pulled. Lock'em up!
(Glug backed up and shut the door and locked it)
Rarity:They must be the crooks bad guys.
Big Macintosh:Sid must be one of them. That's why they closed the museum so early. Snails climb on my shoulders. See if you can push the chute door open with that false shepherd's staff.
(Snails does as instructed and the staff does no good)
Snails:It's cardboard. Not strong enough!
Sci-Twi:Shhh! Somebody's outside!
(The door was unlocked and Glug and the woman both masked came in carrying guns)
Glug:Trying to get away? No use we're taking you down to the ship's hold workroom. And we're putting you into a tank of water and we'll keep you there for awhile. Hustle! Watch'em Lil!
(The hold was a big room with bolts of cloth and machines and other things about a tank used for shrinking theater curtains stood there with hands tied behind them they were made to climb into it they stood helplessly in water to their chest Spike crouched outside the tank whimpering)
Lil:What about the dog?
Glug:That mutt's just a plane old ordinary mutt. He can't do nuttin.
(They leave cuts to inside the tank)
Big Macintosh:Think gang! how can we get out? Move about and see if your feet can feel a plug. If we can drain this thing it might help.
Snails:There's a plug on a chain. It won't budge! I'm glad Spike's not in here too!
(It was not for long Spike jumped on a chair and spraying into the tank diving down he grabbed the plug chain in his mouth and pulled the plug came free Spike was trying to do a doggy paddle)
Gang:Spike! Spike! Get your head up! Swim!
(When the water had drained the four wet teenagers and Spike grinned proudly then Spike chewed the bands on Big Mac's hands and when Big Mac was free he untied the others they all scrambled from the tank)
Sci-Twi:(Hears something)Listen. Thumps! Sid must have come and is putting something down the chute.
Rarity:What now? This hatch isn't locked
Big Macintosh:I've got a plan. Maybe we can stop this crooked business. We've faced danger before. Peel two large pieces of cloth from the bolts. We'll need them!
(They get the cloths moving noiselessly they made their way from the ship's hold along the passageways to the door of the chute room there holding the cloth they huddled listening)
Voice:That's the last box of goods. Pay me and I'll get going!
Glug:(OS)Okay Sid! Pull the gangplank ashore when you cross so nobody can come looking for those kids.
Big Macintosh:(Whispers)Unfold your cloth. One piece for each pair of us! Hold the ends and get ready. Rarity and I to the left. Twilight you and Snails to the right. Move fast! Spike charge the middle!
(Lunging forward the group flung the door wide and rushed into the room before the three people inside realized what was happening Spike was upon them Big Mac and Rarity circled Glug and Lil and wound the length of the cloth around them cinching it tightly Twilight and Snails trussed up Sid with them tied up they were mad and Spike was between them grinning)
Sci-Twi:I'll go back to their living quarters and phone the police. They can take over from here. Sid had to have a gangplank to get his boxes on board so I guess the police can use it too.
(The next scene shows the chief and his men)
Chief:Alright this'll be good to hear.
Rarity:Time to see who these ruffians really are.
(Unmasks all three of them the other two pirates are the ones on the cover of a Scooby-Doo book)
Chief:Well well. If it isn't our old friends Glug, Lil and Sid. International criminals who have been stealing all of the stuff. This was a cleaver set up. (Says that as his men took the crooks away)The museum was a foil. The props company made loading and unloading seem usual. Nobody suspected that stolen merchandise was stored on the ship. Thanks to you kids it won't work again.
Sci-Twi:You're welcome chief.
Glug:And we would have gotten away with this too if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dog.....!
(That's all he can get out before having the door slammed on his face)
Glug:(As door slams in his face)OOF!
(Next scene shows the gang in the van with the evidence the Canterlot Contraption was headed away from the ship)
Snails:I'm sure glad we got out of that tank. We'll soon dry out in the sunshine.. Spike won't stop shaking and sprinkling us with water!
(Everybody laughed and Spike thumped his tail ending our story)