The Case of the Man-Made Menace

==Summary==
When a man made monster called the Man-Made Menace is haunting Canterlot the gang have to investigate.
==Script==
(We open on night at the Canterlot Puppet Hall where inside a puppet man known to the public as the Man-Made Menace we then fade to daytime in Canterlot at the school)
Sci-Twi:Did you guys hear about the Man-Made Menace that's been going around the old Canterlot Puppet Hall?
Big Macintosh:Eyup. And it's hauntin the place. Been hauntin it for the last couple'a weeks.
Snails:We caught the Rouge Robot and the Giant Wax Monster during that time. A newspaper once said on the front page reading Teenagers deactivate Rouge Robot. It was haunting the old amusement park. And the Giant Wax Monster was haunting the old abandon wax museum and it said in the paper Meddling Kids melt giant wax monster.
Rarity:Should we go to the puppet hall after school? I mean the Man-Made Menace has only been seen at night.
(Principal Celestia comes by and hears all of it)
Principal Celestia:You're free to go and solve the mystery.
Sci-Twi:But Principal Celestia...
Principal Celestia:I know Twilight that it may get me fired from being the principal but you kids solve mysteries.
Rarity:And before that we stopped magic from taking over people who ere corrupted by it and wanted to rule the world.
Sci-Twi:Yeah and the way it happens is because of the other world magic getting through the statue.
Spike:Yep and we gotta go solve the mystery and save the day. But you guys can drop me off at the house.
Snails:Yeah and drop me off at my house and....
Sci-Twi:Come on guys. We'll go to malt shop after the case.
Spike and Snails:Done!
(Cuts to the Canterlot Cruiser arriving at he Canterlot Puppet Hall and exit the van)
Big Macintosh:Well this here's the place.
(They walk into the place to look around)
Spike:What's this?
(Takes out a twenty dollar bill)
Snails:It looks real. Is this a brand new twenty dollar bill?
Big Macintosh:Sure looks like that.
Sci-Twi:It's genuine.
Snails:(Confused)Genuine?
Sci-Twi:That means it's real!
Big Macintosh:Ya think that twenty was planned there to throw us off?
Snails:Huh?
Sci-Twi:Like what?
Big Macintosh:To make us think that nuttin fishy was goin on in this here theater.
Rarity:I get it. Then we'd leave and we wouldn't think of going back.
Snails:So now what do we do?
Big Macintosh:We stay here to try and find the Man-Made Menace.
Spike:(OS)Hey guys over here.(Cuts to him)I found a suitcase. Let's see what's inside.
(Big Mac opens it to reveal lots of money)
Big Macintosh:Well I'll be. Money. Lots and lots'a money.
Sci-Twi:Now that is phony money.
(The Man-Made Menace appears he is a purple skinned man with a tuxedo suit and a hat and black pants and shoes and a long flowing cape and yellow eyes with black dots on his eyes)
Man-Made Menace:Leave now and never return. Or you will become puppets yourself. The Man-Made Menace has spoken.
(Goes away)
Big Macintosh:(OS)After him!
(They run after him and he is no where)
Big Macintosh:We lost'em.
Snails:I can't find my bag of Spiky Snacks. What else can go wrong?
(Spot light falls from the catwalk)
Big Macintosh:Look out!
(They run as he says that and it misses them)
Spike:That was close. (To Snails)And you shouldn't say things can go wrong. Things'll always find a way to get worse.
Rarity:Where are we anyway?
(They look around)
Sci-Twi:(OS)It looks like an old stage. Where they use to preform their puppet shows at.
Snails:(OS)I'm like exiting this stage too. (Cuts to him)It's like got the creeps.
(Cuts to Rarity who is shocked as to see something)
Rarity:Uh-oh. Do you all see what I see?
(Cuts to some footprints in the dust)
Snails:(OS)It's dusty spooky old footprints.
(We pull back to see them all there)
Big Macintosh:It's another clue. If the Man-Made Menace was really a ghostly puppet master then he wouldn't be leavin his footprints.
Snails:But the footprints end at the wall. How do we get in? And how did he do it?
Sci-Twi:(Rubs her hands through the wall)There must be a secret passageway if he walked through the wall. There's got to be a secret switch.
(Presses a button revealing the secret door)
Sci-Twi:I found it.
Big Macintosh:Great Twilight. Let's go in and look around.
(They walk in the room)
Big Macintosh:Alright, Keep on the lookout for anything outta the ordinary.
(We pan though the room to see a harp case we cut to Rarity)
Rarity:That harp case is big enough to hide something.
(Big Mac opens it)
Big Macintosh:I wonder where this tunnel leads....?
(Cuts to Twilight who snaps at him)
Sci-Twi:Oh come on Big Mac! Isn't it obvious?!
(Cuts to Big Mac who is speechless)
Big Macintosh:Welp. Let's go see where this thing leads to.
(They find the printing press)
Snails:Hey what's that?
Big Macintosh:Looks like a printin press.
Rarity:You mean like the ones they use for making money?
Big Macintosh:Eyup.
Sci-Twi:And look at this. Here's a plate for a twenty dollar bill.
(They hear the Man-Made Menace laughing)
Snails:(Spots him beside the door)Yikes it's him!
(They run and the ghost follows and the door they go through closes and the lock closes it and the screw falls out cuts to them still running)
Man-Made Menace:(OS)You know my secret!
Snails:Golly, where's that voice coming from?
(Cuts to Big Mac)
Big Macintosh:In this tunnel. Who knows?
(Cuts to darkness up ahead)
Sci-Twi:(OS)It's getting dark up ahead.
(Cuts to them at a ladder)
Big Macintosh:This ladder's our only way out. But it's too dark to see at the top.
Snails:Start climbing I'm not waiting for what's down here.
(Big Mac starts climbing cuts to the stage Big Mac lifts up the trapdoor with the girls behind him)
Big Macintosh:I don't see'em.
Rarity:Where are we?
(A foot closes the door)
Man-Made Menace:You know my secret. Now you will never go.
(Cuts to the darkness)
Snails:(In the dark)What do we do?
Big Macintosh:(In the dark)Look one man isn't heavy. If we pull it all together maybe we can though him off.
(Cuts to the man's foot getting off)
Big Macintosh:(OS)Ready? Go!
(They launch off and crash the door off)
Sci-Twi:He's gone!
Rarity:Where are we anyway?
(Cuts to their POV)
Big Macintosh:(OS)We're back on the stage.
(Cuts to them already out of the hole and Spike comes out)
Big Macintosh:Com on guys let's look around. He could be anywhere.
Spike:Wait for me!
(A pirate and viking puppet appear out of nowhere yelling startling the gang but Twilight is on to it)
Sci-Twi:Wait a minute guys.
Snails:Me wait? Why?
Sci-Twi:Remember this is a puppet theater right?
Rarity:Yes?
Sci-Twi:Then what do you think these are?
Big Macintosh:(Puts it all together)You're right! Puppets! Then there must be a puppet master!
(Cuts to the Man-Made Menace operating a puppet and Spike goes after him and pulls on a rope and goes up and the Man-Made Menace runs as the background music from the old Scooby-Doo cartoon plays where they set a trap for the villain plays)
Big Macintosh:(OS)There he is!(Cuts to them Big Mac points)We gotta catch him!
Sci-Twi:Look at Spike.
(And with one final tug he goes up and a sandbag comes down cuts to Spike running after him and cuts back to the gang who are impressed)
Big Macintosh:How do ya like that? Ol' Spike's got'm on the run.
(Cuts to Man-Made Menace running still Spike runs faster and barks at him as the crook hangs onto a rope cuts to Big Mac by the ropes)
Big Macintosh:Good work Spike! I'll give ya a hand!
(Lets go of the rope and it's the same one the man is hanging on and he lands in a drum and and pokes out of it and Snails puts a tuba on him cuts to Spike with his legs laid across to each other like he's laying there and he laughs about the Man-Made Menace's defeat)
(We blackout and fade to the police cuffing two more crooks and one holds the main crook)
Policeman 1:You kids deserve a lot of credit, this town's been flooded with phony twenties for weeks.
Snails:Ah it was nothing really.
(Goes over to him to unmask him)
Snails:And the Man-Made Menace is really!
(Pulls mask off revealing a sort of elderly or late middle age white skinned male)
Policeman 1:(OS)Well, well. If it isn't our old friend Mr. Snyder. (Cuts to him)A local counterfeiter who's been printing up ten and twenties and fifties and hundred dollar bills.
(Cuts to Rarity)
Rarity:But what's he doing here?
(Back to scene)
Policeman 1:He musta thought it'd be the perfect hiding spot for his counterfeiting ring. Since nobody comes here anymore.
Sci-Twi:(Cuts to her and Snails)I've got it. He thought that since the place was supposedly haunted by the ghost of the puppet master. Which it isn't. He thought he could frighten away all the interlopers and construction workers.
Big MacintoshAnd when he saw us comin in to investigate, he thought his Man-Made Menace disguise would scare us away.
(Wide shot of Rarity with the two police and the two henchmen/ assistances/ accomplices)
Rarity:And these two were retired actors who were paid to play the part while Mr. Snyder was busy making money.
(One is African America and one is white skinned)
Sci-Twi:(OS)Exactly Rare.
Snails:Well it looks like his counterfeiting and scaring days are over.
Big Macintosh:Eyup. Looks like he's printin up and scarin up jail time.
Snyder:And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and that mutt!
Spike:(To the gang)That's me right?
Snails:The real hero is Spike here.
Sci-Twi:You should feel happy and proud. How do you feel?
Spike:Hungry.
(They laugh and even he laughs and they stop laughing when he says)
Spike:No seriously. I'm starved. All that running around has got me a Scooby-Doo sized appetite.
Sci-Twi:Everything gives you a Scooby-Doo sized appetite.
(Cuts to SugarCube Corner and we cut to inside where they are gathered around and Big Mac has an early edition of The Canterlot Press and he reads the case on the front page about them while Spike and Snails have hot dogs, hamburgers, cupcakes sandwiches and sodas and fries)
Big Macintosh:Hey listen to this gang. (Reads newspaper) Canterlot Mystery Club cracks case of the Man-Made Menace. (Cuts to the article and the headline is capitalized and "Canterlot Mystery Club" is with the "Cracks Case Of" and the bottom reads "The Man-Made Menace" and the picture of them with the police is under the headline and under the photo Big Mac reads some more)Mr. Snyder and his counterfeiting cohorts taken into custody by police for scaring people away, haunting old theater and counterfeiting up lots of crooked fake and phony money and cash.
(Cuts to Twilight)
Sci-Twi:That:Was some plan they had. First hearing about the legend of the Man-Made Menace on the internet then bringing it to life.
(Cuts to Rarity and Big Mac)
Rarity:They thought that the place would be the perfect place for their counterfeiting ring and then they'd make their own money.
(Cuts to Snails and Spike)
Snails:Yeah and he thought that with the legend being told he thought that would bring no one to the place. That's why he haunted the theater.
(Back to scene)
Big Macintosh:And that's when the Man-Made Menace story came to life from.
(Cuts to Spike)
Sci-Twi:(OS)Well that closes the mystery.
(Spike sucks his drink and we cut to the gang's drinks where they are being sucked up as well and we cut back to scene where they give Spike angry looks)
Rarity:How did Spike do that?
Big Macintosh:I guess that's another mystery.
(Cuts to Spike who chuckles and breaks the fourth wall by winking and smiling at it we then blackout ending the story)
END
==Trivia==
*This story was inspired by the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode, "The Backstage Rage".