Dr. Quest and company huffed along as they tried to track down Speedy.

"He's getting away..." Stanley stopped to catch his breath. "Fortunately, we can use his remote control to stop him."

"How in tarnation are we gonna catch up that little jitterbuggy?" asked Tinker. "By now, he is probably too far for me to shut him down."

"I don't know, but we'd better think of something!" said Race. "Who knows the damage he could cause?"

"Not to mention that he'll get ticketed by the police for running around without a driver behind the wheel." Mark added.

"So how are we gonna capture him?" asked Henry. "It's not like we can just bring him to us."

Just then, Stanley got an idea. "Or can we?"

"What do you mean?" asked Mark.

"What exactly do you have in mind?" Dr. Quest asked as he and Race turned to Stanley.

Meanwhile at the elementary school, Nancy was still in class, still not knowing what to do during the lecture.

"What should I do?" She wondered to herself in her thoughts.

Nancy continued staring at her worksheet, still not noticing the girls behind her whispering and pointing at her.

"What to do...what to do...?" She wondered.

She looked at the questions on the worksheet and started to circle random answers, not knowing what the questions or answers said.

"Maybe this is what I'm supposed to do..." she thought.

Some minutes went by before the bell rang.

Feb 4"Okay class, lunchtime!" said the teacher.

The kids all got up, picked up their lunchboxes, and headed towards the cafeteria.

Nancy then followed suit as she handed in the worksheet before making her way out of the classroom.

She then made her way to the cafeteria, where other kids were eating lunches.

"This must be the place where the kids eat." she thought.

She then looked around and found an empty table and moved to sit there. She opened up her lunchbox and started to eat the food that was inside. While she was doing that, the girls from class threw a sloppy joe right at her.

However, that sloppy joe ended up hitting someone that was walking right by her; it was the principal.

"Hey!" shouted the principal. "Who did that?!"

"She did!" the leader of the mean girls said as she pointed to Nancy.

The principal turned to Nancy, who is at her left, before eyeing the slop on her right shoulder, and her eyes narrowed at the mean girls, who were further away on her right.

"Oh, is that so?" She asked the mean girls as she walked towards them. "If Miss Chan there was indeed responsible for this, then how did the slop end up on my right shoulder if Miss Chan was seated at my left and that I did not hear any footsteps close by beforehand?"

The mean girls, upon seeing the principal glaring at them in anger, all swallowed as the realization that she had seen through their lies sank in.

"You girls wouldn't have something to do with this, would you?" The principal continued with her arms folded.

The mean girls all swallowed and didn't say a single word, and the look of guilt on their faces said it all.

"I've thought so." The principal nodded. "You girls sure wouldn't stop looking for trouble, huh? I believe a good talk in my office is in order, as with a phone call to your parents."

By this point, two lunch duty teachers have joined the principal and the mean girls realized that the game is up.

"Get up!" One of the teachers bellowed, having had witnessed the deed and heard the confrontation earlier. "Off to the principals office you go!"

As the mean girls all got up and get escorted to the principals office, Flip and the others joined Nancy at the table with their lunches.

"What just happened, Nancy?" Flip asked as he nodded at the teachers escorting the mean girls out of the cafeteria.

"Beats me." Nancy shrugged.

"So how's class?" asked Flip.

"Oh, I don't know." Nancy shrugged. "Had to work on some worksheet and circle stuff."

"Gee, that sounds hard." said Flip.

"In our class, we had to learn how to do this stuff called, 'adding'." said Scooter. "I don't know what it is, but it sounds kinda hard."

"Boy, This school stuff is hard work." said Flip. "I wonder how Suzie and the others are doing..."

Meanwhile, over at the high school, Suzie and the older siblings were having their own discussions.

"So, how was class today?" Suzie asked her younger siblings.

"I don't get this math stuff." said Anne. "All these numbers and pi things are so confusing. I don't even know how to count!"

"I don't know Anne, math seems pretty interesting to me." said Tom.

"What about you, Alan?" Suzie asked. "What do you think of the classes so far?"

"I think they're okay, though I am kind of not-so sure about gym class." Alan replied.

"Yeah, gym is very hard." said Tom. "I can't climb up that rope and ring that bell. My arms are all noodle-like."

"Don't be ridiculous guys, gym is the best!" said Anne.

"Easy for you to say!" Tom retorted. "You managed to ring the bell and climb the rope before I could!"

"Tom, you fell down every time." Anne pointed out.

"Oh well." Suzie said. "I sure wonder how are Henry and Stanley doing?"

"Hopefully having more fun than I am..." Tom sighed.

Meanwhile back in town, Henry, Stanley, Mark, Tinker, Race, and Dr. Quest were ready to put their plan into action.

"This plan can't possibly fail." said Stanley, who was dressed as a hippie.

"So what're we supposed to do again?" asked Dr. Quest.

Stanley sighed. "Like I said before, once Speedy comes here, I'll pass myself off as a hippie selling organic fuel, and while he's enjoying it, you guys dogpile on him and take out his chip. It can't possibly fail."

"Just like all your other brilliant plans." Henry said sarcastically.

"Well, you guys got a better idea?" Stanley asked.

We could flatten his tires." Tinker suggested.

Everyone thought for a minute. "Nah..."

Just then, the gang saw Speedy coming up the street.

"Guys, shut up!" Stanley whispered. "Here he comes now!"

Henry, Mark, Tinker, Race, and Dr. Quest hid behind the sign for organic fuel as Speedy approached the disguised Stanley.

"Sp-sp-sp-what's this you've got?" Speedy asked when he saw the sign.

Stanley cleared his throat and spoke with some kind of surfer dude accent. "Hey man, like you need to try some of my delicious homemade organic fuel."

"Sp-sp-sp-organic fuel? How is that different from sp-sp-sp-regular fuel?" asked Speedy.

"What's the difference, you ask?" said Stanley. "It's a conspiracy man! The government is feeding us a bunch of lies with their big shot motor oil companies controlling them!"

"Sp-sp-sp-oh dear..." said Speedy.

"So, what do you say, man?" asked Stanley.

Speedy thought for a while before nodding.

"I'll give them a try!" He said.

"Good, now just let me get you settled down first." said Stanley.

"Sure thing." Speedy nodded, completely unaware that he was stepping into a trap.

He parked himself right next to the stand.

"Now just relax and this organic fuel will soothe your system..." Stanley said as he opened up the fuel tank.

Stanley poured the organic fuel right down Speedy's tank.

Speedy's eyelids then grew heavy "Boy, this is really soothing...what's...in this..."

"Ah...organic oil from coconuts." Stanley smiled.

Speedy sighed. "Sp-sp-so soothing..."

Just then, Speedy fell asleep and was out like a light.

After making sure that Speedy was completely out cold, Stanley turned and gave a thumbs up.

"All set, guys." He said.

The others came out from their hiding spot and opened up Speedy's hood, which had the chip inside of it.

"Alright, stand back everyone, this could be dangerous." said Dr. Quest.

Everyone else nodded as Dr. Quest donned a pair of rubber gloves.

He then put on a pair of protective goggles and took out a special pair of tweezers. The doctor then carefully reached into Speedy's hood and ever gently took the chip out, getting rid of his sentience.

"And done!" he said.

"So that's that." Mark remarked.

"So what next, Doc?" Stanley asked as he discarded his disguise.

"Well now we have to install the chip onto our copter and use it track down our missing craft and teleporter." Dr. Quest explained. "Then, you guys can have it back in time for the race."

The boys all nodded.

"Well we gotta get back to the lab and start our search." said Race. "See you boys."

Dr. Quest and Race walked back to their lab together.

"Come on guys, we gotta get back to the shop." said Mark. "Customers are probably waiting."

"Yeah, and we've gotta pick up our brothers and sisters in a couple of hours." Henry added.

"I sure hope they're having fun on their first day..." Stanley remarked.

"I hope so too." Henry nodded.

Back at the elementary school, lunch and recess had just ended, and it was time for the kids to go back to class.

Nancy made her way to her class, during which she walked by the main office.

At that exact same time, the mean girls were heading back to class, looking bitter and frustrated.

They had just received a reprimand from the principal, who ordered them to serve detention after school for a couple of weeks.

"That new girl has made me look like a fool in front of the principal, she is so gonna pay!" said the leader.

"But how, Lori?" asked one of the girls.

"You'll see..." Lori grinned evilly.

Later in art class, the kids were all ready to paint pictures. Nancy was bringing the paints to the teacher.

"This oughta fix her wagon!" Lori thought as Nancy came right by her.

Lori stuck out her leg in front of Nancy, causing the chubby girl to trip and fall right onto the floor, covered in splotches of paint. All of the kids laughed at her. Nancy felt sad and embarrassed.

"Nancy, are you alright?" The teacher asked when she witnessed the fall.

"I'm fine...I guess." Nancy said as her cheeks burned in embarrassment.

"Klutz alert." Lori smirked, causing the other kids to keep laughing.

"Well, you certainly don't look find at all." The teacher said with her arms folded before gesturing to the closet and added, "There are some clean spare clothes over there. I suggest you change out of your stained clothes."

She then looked up to the class and added, "In the meantime, I need someone else to finish delivering the paints to my desk so that I can distribute them while Miss Chan here cleans up."

Nancy sighed and walked away.

Eventually, the school day was over and it was time for everyone to leave.

Lori and her gang snickered as they watched Nancy picking up her belongings. She was wearing clothes that was obviously too large her size.

"Serves her right for embarrassing me in front of the principal." Lori snickered.

"No kidding." Her friend nodded.

Seeing that the teacher was busy doing her stuff, the girls decided to do another swipe at Nancy.

Lori crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it right at Nancy, which was successful in hitting her.

At this moment, the teacher was busy speaking on a desk phone and didn't notice the carnage.

"Loser." Lori laughed as Nancy turned towards them.

The sadness engulfing Nancy grew as Lori's gang walked towards her menacingly, unaware that they were walking on a puddle of clumsily-mopped soapy water that was at where Nancy had tripped and splattered paint earlier.

"You've got some nerve embarrassing us at the cafeteria." Lori said as she and her gang prepared more paper balls. "This should fix your wagon!"

Lori and her gang then proceeded to prepare to throw their paper balls, but suddenly their feet slipped on the soapy water and they were standing right next to a desk where some unused paint was placed at temporarily due to the teachers desk being packed with items.

They crashed into the desk and paint spilled all over them, making the other kids laugh.

"Just you wait, Chan!" Lori growled as Nancy tried to ignore her while walking away. "You won't be laughing tomorrow!"

Nancy sadly walked towards the exit, hoping she wouldn't have to hear those girls bullying her for the rest of the day.

As Nancy walked down the hallway, another girl walked up to her.

Nancy paused before turning to the girl tugging her arm.

It was one of the girls from her class, though she's not part of Lori's gang.

"Uh...hi?" Nancy asked. "What...can I do...for you?"

"Do yourself a favour and just ignore that trouble-maker Lori and her gang." The girl suggested.

"Oh, okay." said Nancy. "Thanks, Ms...um...uh..."

"Sarah, Sarah Rene DuBois." said the girl.

"I'm Nancy." Nancy shook Sarah's hand.

"Nice meeting you, Nancy." Sarah smiled.

"Nice meeting you too, Sarah." Nancy smiled back. "Why were those girls being so mean to me? I didn't do anything to them...at least I don't think I did."

"You didn't." Sarah said. "They just like picking on people who are new to the school, and besides, Lori is spoiled by her rich parents."

"Spoiled?" Nancy raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"It means she gets whatever she wants from her parents." Sarah said.

"Wow. She must really be lucky." Nancy said.

"I guess..." Sarah shrugged. "Say Nancy, do you want to come over to my house and play sometimes?"

"Sure." Nancy nodded. "I'd love to. But I've gotta go meet my brothers now."

"Okay then." said Sarah. "See you tomorrow then."

"See ya." Nancy waved goodbye.

She then walked her way down the hallway, which is when she saw Mimi.

"Hey Mimi." she said as she approached her baby sister.

"Hey Nancy!" said Mimi. "How was your day at school? And why are you wearing those clothes?"

"Oh, had an accident with paint and got it spilled on me, so I have to change into these clothes." Nancy shrugged nonchalantly.

"Okay." said Mimi.

"How was your day, sis?" asked Nancy.

"Oh, it was alright." Mimi shrugged. "Learned some stuff about counting or something."

"That sounds like fun, I guess." said Nancy. "Come on, let's go meet the others."

"Right." Mimi nodded.

The girls then walked right towards their brothers, who were waiting for them.

"Bout time you guys arrived." said Flip. "Henry and Stanley are waiting for us."

"Hey kiddos, how was school today?" asked Stanley.

"It was okay." said Flip.

"I guess it's not so bad." Scooter shrugged.

"I'm okay with it, sort of." Mimi added.

"Fine...it was...fine." Nancy chuckled nervously.

Stanley nodded thoughtfully.

Henry then noticed Nancy's new attire. "Say Nancy, what happened to your clothes?"

"I really don't want to talk about it." Nancy sighed.

It was then that took note of the time and saw that it was almost time to pick up the older siblings at the high school.

"Come on guys, let's go pick up the others." said Henry.

At the high school, Tom, Alan, and Anne were waiting for their siblings to arrive.

"Where are the others?" Anne asked Alan.

"How should I know? I go to this school too." Alan retorted.

"Has anyone seen Suzie?" Tom wondered.

Suzie was right near the bushes talking to some guys, who were flirting with her.

Alan was the first to notice that.

"Gee wilikers, it sure looks like Suzie has become pretty popular here." he remarked.

"Yeah, those guys sure seem to really like her." Anne added. "I wonder why?"

The others shrugged before noticing Henry and Stanley with the younger kids arriving.

"Hey! There are the others!" said Alan. "Anne, go get Suzie!"

"Sure thing, bro!" Anne said as she ran off to fetch Suzie.

While Alan and Tom went to the others, Anne ran to her big sister.

"Suzie, time to go home." she said.

"Okay." said Suzie. "See you tomorrow boys."

She then joined her sister and they went to meet up with the others.

"Hey guys!" said Suzie.

"So Suzie, how was your first day of school?" asked Stanley.

"Oh, it was swell." Suzie said.

"Well I'm not so sure." said Anne. "This schoolwork stuff is too hard! I don't even know how to read!"

"I wouldn't say that." Tom said. "I did enjoy math class."

"I really liked science, too." Alan added.

"And a bunch of the guys are really nice to me." Suzie added. "I don't know why, though."

The others all shared a look with each other.

"Oh, well." Henry said. "Time for us to head home."

The Chan Clan then headed home, ready to sit down after a long day and recharge for the next one. At that same time, Dr. Quest and Race were in their copter tracking down their missing hovercraft and teleporter.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Author's Note:

If you want to find out how this will turn out, stay tuned for the next story, "Stardom for Shelly", where we shall see if the Neptune's ever make it back home from Australia. If you want to watch it, it's in the Scooby-Doo section.