The Pompeii of Mystery

## Summary

Ryder Katie Ace Carlos and Tracker go to Italy for fun food and frights as a gladiator terrorizes the destroyed city of Pomepii

## Transcript

(We open on tourists walking around and taking pictures a horse is heard a gladiator on a chariot comes wiping cuts to tourists)

Man:How is a gladiator still alive?!

(They run and gets to a dead end)

(We cuts to the gang in their teen years with Carlos wearing an orange hoodie version with long sleeves and doesn't wear the hat Katie wears a pink version of Daphne Blake's scarf and dress they are all sitting around eating gelato)

Ryder:Hey listen to this group.(Reads)Pomepii Paranormal Activity. Naples police department are baffled by this terror.

Ace:Garbage captain Marco Guzman claims it's the gladiator zombie still thundering through the volcano destroyed city bringing mayhem to tourists.

(Cuts to Carlos and Tracker eating gelato)

Carlos:Zombie?

Tracker:Zombie? Oy oy oy. It's times like this I wish we weren't in Italy. But this gelato is Delicioso.

Carlos:So much for our trip to Rome.

Ryder:Maybe we could hitch a ride to Pomepii on that garbage barge.

(Rubble and Danny don't appear in this story)

(Takes out cellphone)

Katie:Who ya gonna call?

Ryder:Not the Ghostbusters.

(Says something in Italian)

(We fade to the boat)

(Cuts to Tracker sniffing at a fish)

Carlos:(OS)Hey Tracker you think we can go back to our archeological days?

Tracker:Si why do you ask amigo?

(Cuts to him with a coin)

Carlos:Because I found a coin with a man who isn't any president ive ever heard of.

Guzman:It is very old you may keep it.

Ryder:So Captain Guzman can you tell us about the Gladiator Zombie?

Captain Guzam:Well the only thing I know of is that the zombified spirit of a warrior died during a battle of men and lions his portrait is only on the pile.

(Cuts to the portrait and back to the gang)

Ryder:We got a mystery to solve.So Pompeii here we come.

(Cuts to Alexandra Viggi a tour guide)

Alexandra:If you must know the Gladiator only shows up at night.

Ryder:Well is this place closed after dark?

Alexandra:Only if you have an excuse to come.

Carlos:Well meddling is always on our list.

(We fade to night a guard stops them)

Guard:(Says something in Italian)May I help you?

Ryder:(With his book)Bonjerno signer Ugo. We are here to investigate the case of the Gladiator Zombie.

Ugo:I'm sorry but you can not enter now.

Ace:But you give night tours right?

Ugo:Si signorina but nobody is allowed.

Katie:(Wisphers)Carlos while they're distracted you and Tracker sneak in.

Tracker:Sneak in?

Carlos:OK. As long as we get a Tracker Snack.

(They tiptoe in and then cuts to inside)

Carlos:Gladiator, spaghetti, lasagna, pizza.

Tracker:Macaroni.

Carlos:That's the only Italian we know.

(Looks around)

Carlos:No sign of him.

(Cuts back to the gang)

Ryder:That sign says always open to the public.

(Carlos and Tracker come back)

Tracker:We could find him.

Ryder:That's ok Tracker. We'll all go in.

Ugo:But I am warning you! Things can get very scary in there!

Tracker:Scary?

Carlos:Well we were in there and we didn't get scared.

(Cuts to them walking)

Carlos:Well no gladiator mystery solved let's go rest up for the next one.

(About to leave)

Tracker:Escuchie I hear something.

(Sounds like cheering)

Ryder:Didnt they says nobody's lived in Pompeii for a thousand years?

Ace:Let's follow that sound.

(They run)

Katie:Boy their team's winning.

Carlos:It's the coliseum where the people were entertained by sports and music and games and circuses and men battling lions and bears.

Ryder:Come on let's see what kind of games are going on right now,

Tracker:I just hope the lions are having a timeout.

(They look around)

Katie:There's nobody here but us.

Carlos:And him!

(Cuts to Gladiator)

Ryder:(OS)The Gladiator!

(He come at them)

Ryder:Take cover gang.

(They do Katie goes off Ryder dodges the attacks the gang cheer)

Ryder:I should warn you I'm a retired junior heavy wight boxer.

(Gladiator looks up and bows)

Voice:Those who are about to fight.(Cuts to Ryder confused and looks up) Salute me! (Cheering is heard)I am the emperor Caeser Saladicus do you have any last request?

(Cuts to the gang Tracker is in Carlos' arms and Ace is behind them they cower)

Carlos:Hold the anchovies.

Caeser:My gladiator has challenged you to mortal combat he awaits me to choose your fate.

(Does the sideways thumb Gladiator goes to Ryder then they move around)

Ace:Watch out Ryder!

(He dodges it the gang cheers then Gladiator catches him with the net tying up his legs with it and laughs evilly Caeser does the finish him thumb and is about to kill Ryder)

Carlos:(Dressed as a hot dog vender)Get your Hotus Dogus only five dollars.

(Tracker eats some)

Tracker:Mmmmm. Deliciouso.

(Gladiator comes over Carlos splashes Ketup and Mustard and he is mad Katie comes to the rescue with the tour tram and rescues Ryder and Carlos and Tracker and Ace gets on Gladiator throws staff)

(Ryder drives)

Ryder:Dont worry gang we're out of danger now.

Katie:We're gonna need some faster wheels if we're gonna catch that Gladiator.

Ace:Well we won't find them here the closes place is probably Naples.

(The next day they rent mopeds)

Katie:Great idea to rent these mopeds Ryder.

Ryder:I'll never forget that guy's face when I asked him for something that could out race a chariot.

Ace:That's because your Italian meant out race a flying hamster.

Carlos:I think Tracker was born to be wield.

Tracker:Aundala, aundala!

(At a place Ace reads in Naples News)

Ace:Scungimondo just brought out another company. And the Vice President is happy.

Katie:We gotta get back there to Pomepii.

(They take a speed boat the Gladiator chases after them)

Ryder:Quick into the boat!

(Tracker has lifejackets they take each and drive off with the Gladiator right behind them they make it the Gladiator gets wipflash and the gang make it to a tour trolly Carlos puts a coin the Gladiator doesn't make it he sees the machine and check his pockets)

Carlos:See ya later Gladiator!

(Cuts to them)

Ryder:We gotta get back to Pomepii.

(Ugo has a neck brace mopeds race by him)

Ugo:Hey I told you not to go in there!

Ryder:Too bad.

(They go in and he rubs the back of his neck)

(Cuts to the gang setting up the trap a net)

Ryder:Ok the chariot will run right into the net while the mopeds squeeze between the collums.

Ace:How bout we just wait for him to come?

Ryder:That could work.

(They wait)

Ryder:This'll do good.

Katie:Here he comes!

Carlos:Get down!

(He jumps it)

Katie:He jumped the net!

Ryder:After him!

(They chase him all the way to the old abandon castle of Italy)

Carlos:Where are we?

Ryder:The Castle of Italy.

Carlos:This place is like Uber creepy.

Tracker:Si über creepy.

Ace:Hey this permit looks like a clue.

Ryder:We'll have this Pomepii of Mystery solved. So what's with the permit?

Ace:The ink is runny.

Ryder:We have to stop this gladiator.

Katie:We need to come up with a plan.

(Cuts to the gang the Gladiator chases them Tracker and Carlos gets separated)

Carlos:Tracker-Doo! Where are you?!

(Runs down hall way as Third Eye Blind version of Scooby Doo plays it's like the gang's moat monster chase so think of it with Carlos and Tracker instead of Shaggy and Scooby and Ryder, Katie and Ace instead of Fred, Daphne and Velma and the Gladiator instead of the Moat Monster and then the Gladiator crashes into some armor trapping him Ace unmasks him to be)

Gang:Ugo the night guard?

Ugo:Nobody's perfect.

Ace:The neck brace is what ticked me off and Caeser Saladicus was really.

(Carlos unmask him to be)

All:Captain Guzman?

Ace:They work for the Scungimondo Corporation. Ugh as the Vice President and Captain Guzman as an agent they've been digging up illegally for the money and it explains that Nero coin and that portrait of the Gladiator and they were using a fake dig permit with runny ink. And doing all this to scare away intruders.

Ugo:Si and especially meddling bambinos.

Carlos:Kids pal not babies.

Alexandra:I have brought the police now how about I give you a ride home or back to you're hotel?

Carlos:Sure.

(Cuts to Naples they are reading in the Naples News reading AMERICAN SLEUTHS GROUND GLADIATOR headline is above)

Ryder:Well gang another mystery solved.

(Carlos and Tracker act like Lady and The Tramp they slurp spaghetti together and realize and go blah yuck and start to act silly wide shot of the gang laughing and cuts to Tracker)

Tracker:Tracker Doo arebadurchi.

(Iris on him ending the episode)

## Trivia

This focuses on the gang in the future as teenagers

Tracker doesn't wear his PAW Patrol uniform

This is based off of the What's New Scooby-Doo episode Pomepii and Circimstances.