The last Ed
Chapter one: a play-date
"For crying out loud, get to the good part lady!" Eddy mumbled, leaning back in a movie theatre like seat in his school's auditorium. Everyone in the Cul-de-sac had signed up for this afterschool drama club, but for the past few days Mrs. Violet, or Vi for short, had only covered things he already knew, "Props" and "Ambiance" and all the junk he learned from scamming already. Who needs to hear all that again? Ed and double d were sitting next to him, looking just as bored as he was, when Vi announced something no one expected, "Since you all seem so bored by me I might as well tell you about the project now."
"Project?" the word echoed from every mouth and back and forth through the auditorium. "That's right. By signing up for drama class all of you have become eligible for our night of plays. All of you will pair up into groups of three and write, make props and backgrounds for, and act in your very own plays."
"Awesome!" Nazz smiled, imagining time on the stage.
"I think that's illegal Plank." Johnny said to his board, which he still never let out of his sight. Apparently plank was describing some sort of prop.
"Rolf will take to this like papa takes to roasted sheep head!" Vi spoke again, "The theme of this year's night of plays is a journey of history, so each of the plays will have a historical setting. Other than that, you get the most artistic license you may ever get while in school."
"What's an artistic license, Double d?" Ed asked, smiling
"An artistic license is an artist's freedom to do what they will with a play, Ed."
Mrs. Vi turned on the overhead, which had a list of over thirty different time periods on it, from the stone age to the sixties, and just about everything in between. Already the kids had divided themselves into four groups: Team Kanker (May, Marie, and Lee of course.), team Rolf, (Rolf, Kevin, Johnny and "plank too") Team Nazz (Nazz, Sarah, and Jimmy.) And of course team Edd (Ed, Edd and Eddy.) each of the teams took their turn up at the overhead to claim an age. Team Kanker took the age of piracy, team Rolf took the holocaust (Apparently in honor of Rolf's great Nana, who according to him died in it.) Team Nazz chose ancient Egypt, but the Eds had a harder time deciding. "Aww Man! All the good ones are gone!" Double d looked over all the suggestions and chuckled to himself, as if they were all jokes to him, until Ed stuck his finger firmly on the one period right in the middle of the list, "This one sounds like fun!" the other Eds tried to see what was under Ed's finger, but all they could make out was "Eval period? Sounds sweet! We'd dress like demons, play some rock, get some fire . . ."
"Actually Eddy, I think that said Medieval." Double d's sly grin widened even more before returning to its more humble form, "That would be a fine period Ed!"
"Ah, Evil, Medieval, they're both pretty cool. Medieval it is!" But Eddy noticed the look on Double d's face a moment ago and asked him as they returned to their seats, "What's with you."
"Oh nothing, just something I want to tell you after this is done." Eddy considered what Double d could have been talking about before Vi spoke again, "All of you who enter this contest will get extra credit in both English and Social studies, and the winner will move on to state and national, where grants will be awarded."
"Grants? As in money?" after that all Eddy could think about was how to win this contest.
Three thirty came quickly, but already the gears in Eddy's head were turning at this prospect. He didn't expect Double d to pull him into the broom closet along with Ed not long afterwards. "Double d, are you nuts?" Eddy asked, peeking out of a crack in the door, "People are going to start talking if we start meeting in the broom closet!" Double d's grin had now split into a wide smile "Sorry Eddy, but I don't want anybody else to follow us; this is something I haft to show you guys and you guys alone." Team Johnny passed by the door, and the Eds fell silent. "Aww, come on Rolf! Do I really haft to be the chick?" Rolf glared at Kevin, who almost sent Eddy into fits of laughter, "Rolf's Great Nana was a brave, selfless woman. Feel grateful that you get to wear a dress in her name!" Johnny cut in then, "Hey Rolf, Plank's not good at memorizing lines. Can you give him a small part?"
"The wood can be my Nano, who could not himself speak at the time." They left, but Team Nazz came out then after, "Jimmy, are you sure we can do a story on Cleopatra?" Nazz asked a prancing Jimmy.
"Why shouldn't we? It's artistic license!"
"Well whatever, so long as I get to be Cleopatra!" Sarah responded as they left. Team Kanker and Mrs. Vi left through the auditorium's back door. "Gentlemen, I have something back at my house that will surely help with our play. I couldn't have timed this better!"
"Double d has something cool Eddy!" Ed repeated loudly, though out of earshot of anybody else. "Heard him the first time, Ed." Eddy replied, following Double d slowly and carefully back to his house.
"Gentlemen, when you hear the name "Einstein" What comes to your mind."
"Fuzzy hair?"
"You?" The two Eds offered, standing in front of a covered platter on an end table.
"Interesting. I always think of the theory of relativity, which states the possibly of time travel due to the curvature of space. Now for the past few months I've been pondering it deeply and I realized: Space can be folded and cut to our liking." Double d gripped the top of the cloth tightly and smiled proudly, "Behold, The ED mach 3." He pulled away the cloth, revealing what looked like a cross between a Wii-mote and a calculator. It had fifteen buttons on it: ten numerical buttons, one that looked like a cross between the Wii's cross button and a compass rose, a comma button, one BC button, one AD button, and a button that simply said Last, in an old looking text. It was a light tan color, and if it didn't have its name on the bottom in chrome you'd think it came from the Middle Ages itself.