Episode 1: Fut-Ed-rama
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"Finally! Summer vacation!" Eddy yelled, disembarking from the school bus for the last time.
"Yes, indeed," his close friend, Eddward, replied as he, too, stepped off the school bus. "Seems like the semesters fly by every year…"
"Guys…" Their tallest friend, Ed said, concern spread across his face.
"Take in that sweet summer air, boys!" Eddy wrapped his arms around his friends and held them close. "This is the start of the greatest summer of our lives!"
"But Eddy, technically, summer doesn't start until June twenty-first!"
"Guys!" Ed reiterated, still obviously concerned.
"Why do you always have to be such a buzzkill, Double D?" Eddy growled at his sock-hatted friend.
"Guys, I've lost my glasses!" Ed finally blurted out.
"Um, Ed, they're on your head…" Double D grabbed Ed's glasses and placed them on his face where they belonged.
"Ed can see once more!" Ed embraced his friends with a bone-crushing bear hug.
"Don't…mention…it…Ed…" Double D wheezed.
"Let…go…Ed…!" Eddy pried his friend off of him. "As I was saying, we've got a lot of stuff to do this summer, boys! Because cha-ching!" Eddy whipped out his wallet and flashed it at Ed and Double D.
"Why Eddy, you've got your learners permit! Congratulations! Now Ed and I just need to…"
"Too late, Double D!" Ed pulled his shoe off and shoved it in Double D's face, showing his learner's permit stuck to the bottom with chewed gum.
"Looks like you're the only one without a permit there, buddy boy!" Eddy teased. "Don't worry, we'll learn ya once we get the van fixed up!"
"Um, th-that's okay, Eddy…" Double D stammered, obviously afraid. "I think I'll just study my driver's manual and-"
"Save the studying for next year! Like I said, me and Ed'll learn ya to drive!"
"That's teach Eddy…" Double D corrected. The Eds began walking down the sidewalk.
The Eds have all three grown up since they went off to find Eddy's brother, only to find he was just a big jerk. The Eds were now sophomores at Peach Creek High School, but they were still the same old Eds. Ed had only grown slightly, but was still the tallest Ed. He wore his same clothes and jacket, only he had finally grown into that oversized, green army jacket that he never washed. He also now has to wear a pair of square framed glasses from sitting too close to the TV. Double D hadn't changed much either. He was still obsessed with knowledge and cleanliness, and still wore that black ski cap he had worn most of his life. Eddy had experienced the most physical changes. He was still the shortest Ed, but had grown another two hairs on his head and had started developing his father's large chin and shoulders. But, he was still the same large-mouthed megalomaniac everyone knew and loved (or not.)
"Yo, Ed and Double D!" A voice called after the trio. A teen riding a beat-up old motorcycle cruised up beside the Eds and removed his helmet; Kevin.
"Oh, great!" Eddy said sarcastically. "Ladies and gentlemen, Shovel-chin…"
Kevin hadn't changed much, save for his clothes and peach fuzz. He still wore a red sports cap, however this one had "Peach Creek Crumblers" embroidered on it. He had long since traded his old bike for a slightly junky motorcycle, but he has been working on it since he got it on spring break.
"Can it, dork!" Kevin snarled. "You're not too far behind me…" Kevin grabbed Eddy's growing chin and laughed, infuriating the short Ed-boy. "Anyways, I need to ask Ed and Double D a favor."
"Sure, Kevin," Double D replied.
"I'm starting my summer job this weekend to pay for my new wheels, and I need you, Ed and the dork…I mean, Eddy, to straighten out my garage this Saturday while I'm at work."
"And why should we help you?" Eddy asked.
"Because, Dorky, I happen to know that you guys are fixing up that old van in the junkyard, and I was going to lend you guys some tools in exchange for cleaning my garage, but since you're not interested, I'll just ask Rolf and see if he…"
"Hey, we'll clean your garage for ya, Kev' ol' buddy, ol' pal!" Eddy exclaimed.
"Alrighty then," Kevin grinned. "If you guys do a good job I might throw in some jawbreakers." All three of the Eds' mouths watered; even in high school they still loved jawbreakers. Kevin put his helmet back on and rode away. "Catch ya' later!"
"Double score!" Eddy yelled. "Not only will we get the van fixed, but we'll get jawbreakers to slurp on while we work on it!"
"I love jawbreakers, Eddy!" Ed said.
"Speaking of the van, Eddy, I bought some carpet powder to de-lice the van with."
"Well then what're we waiting around for? Let's go!" The Eds started to make a mad dash for the junkyard, but someone stood in their way.
"Where do you dorks think you're going?" A voice demanded.
"Naomi…" Eddy sneered.
"Naomi bad for Ed!" Ed wailed, cowering behind Double D, who was shaking uncontrollably.
"We're not afraid of you!" Eddy yelled, standing his ground.
"Really?" Naomi asked, a sinister grin spread across her face.
Naomi was the newest member of the cul-de-sac. She arrived during the Eds' eight-grade year and was the only kid to move in to the new cul-de-sac down the street from the Eds' own home cul-de-sac. She had short, black hair, with a longer strand hanging between her cold, violet eyes. She was like all three Kanker Sisters rolled into one, only she wasn't interested romantically in any of the Eds; she just seemed to enjoy tormenting them along with the other members of the cul-de-sac. She had helped the Eds out on a few occasions, but on a normal day, she was the last person the Eds wanted to run into.
"W-we were j-j-just headed on our way, m-miss Naomi, so I-if you'd be so k-k-kind…"
"You dorks ain't going nowhere!" Naomi interrupted. "I've wailed on every kid in Peach Creek but three…" She grinned even wider at the Eds, her right fist balled up in her left hand.
The Eds recoiled in fear, all three shaking with fear. "Run boys," Eddy mumbled, and in a flash, the Eds took off across the street, bypassing Naomi and heading straight for the junkyard.
"Get back here and take your lumps, ya dorks!" Naomi screeched, running after the Eds.
"Once we get to the junkyard," Eddy panted, "we'll split up and hide. She'll never find us!"
"Pummeling bad for Ed!" Ed cried.
The Eds ran down the lane, the piles of wrecked cars and trash slowly coming into view. Naomi was hot on their heels and gaining fast, nearly able to reach the collar of Ed's smelly jacket. Just as the Eds caught a glimpse of the junkyard, they were struck by a brilliant flash of light from the sky, blinding the Eds and Naomi, causing to stop in their tracks.
"Forget this…" Naomi shrieked as she turned tail and ran to escape the blinding light.
"What the heck is that?" Eddy asked, his hands covering his eyes.
"We're being abducted!" Ed screamed.
"I don't think so, Ed…" Double D said, pointing at the sky.
The light faded, revealing a flaming ball in the sky. It sped towards the ground over a few houses, then pulled up and slowed down a bit. Then, it dove right into the junkyard, creating a huge shockwave. The Eds were all blown backwards into a tree.
"That was strange," Double D remarked, peeling himself from the tree trunk he was embedded in.
"Aliens have landed in the junkyard!" Ed yelled with excitement. "Must touch the aliens!"
"It looks like it landed near our van! It better not have a dent…" Eddy worried.
"Aliens? Please, Ed! It was obviously a meteor or some falling space junk."
The Eds ran towards the junkyard to check out the object and make sure their van was okay. When they got there, the junkyard laid mostly undisturbed, save for a few piles of junk that were knocked over and a huge, blackened ditch in the ground. On the other side was the Ed's van, still sitting on the cinder blocks the Eds left it on, not a scratch on it. Eddy let out a sigh of relief. But there was still the matter of the fallen object. Eddy grabbed a broken hockey stick, Ed grabbed an old umbrella, and Double D grabbed a bent golf club. They peeked around the corner to see a big hunk of burning metal lying in a crater.
"Whoa," all three of the Eds said in awe.
"We're gonna be rich!" Eddy said.
"I'm going to offer them some of my gravy cakes!" Ed beamed.
"It just looks like a giant wad of space junk…" Double D said.
"What're you calling space junk?" A voice from inside yelled.
A door on the side of the ship flew open, revealing a person in a large, baggy, silver suit and holding what looked like a fire extinguisher. The person ran out and began dousing the flames in foam. The Eds ducked behind a junked car and watched the scene unfold.
"Wait, I wanna help, too!" Another voice from inside.
A teenage girl with long blonde hair and a tail ran outside, trying to put on a similar suit, but she just wound up ripping a hole in it and tripping all over herself.
"Oops…" She said, still lying on the ground.
"Don't just lie there," The person with the fire extinguisher yelled. "Help me out, here!"
"I've got this," a mechanical voice stated.
Water spewed from the top of the craft, dousing the flames. The person wearing the suit took off their mask; another girl, only older. She looked to be at least eighteen with short, brown hair. The other one, the blonde, was now up on her feet, splashing around in one of the puddles that formed from the water.
"Who are they?" Eddy asked.
"They look like people," Ed observed.
"Yeah, but they certainly don't look like astronauts…" Double D remarked, looking closely at them.
"We did it!" The blonde girl cheered, kicking water everywhere. "We're not burned up!" She chanted.
"Actually, I did it," the mechanical voice corrected. "And you humanoids would have been burned to a crisp by Earth's atmosphere if I hadn't raised the heat shields…"
"Knock that off," the girl in the suit said, hitting the blonde in the head with her fire extinguisher.
"Ouch…"
"Ha-ha, they're funny!" Ed laughed, getting up to walk over to them, but Eddy pulled him back.
"What are you doing? Are you nuts? They could be spies or Feds!"
"They don't seem to be hostile…"
"Okay," the girl in the suit screamed. "Who's the dead-man that called my ship a hunk of junk!?"
"Never mind…"
"Who's back there?" She screamed again, pointing some kind of gun at the car the Eds were hiding behind.
"Woah, don't shoot!" Double D yelled, jumping up and dropping his golf club. The other two Eds followed suit.
"We come in peace!" Ed said.
"Yeah, we had no idea that thing was you're ship, so if you could just chill and put away the gun…"
"Where are we?" The girl asked, still pointing her weapon at the Eds.
"Why, you're in Peach Creek," Double D answered sheepishly.
"What's the year?" The girl asked again, easing her grip on her weapon a bit.
"Um, 1995…"
"1995!?" The girl yelped. "Guess what they say about black holes was right…"
"So… are we cool?" Eddy asked nervously.
"Hang on just a minute. I need to converse with my… friend." The brown-haired girl walked over to the blonde, who was sitting on the ground rubbing her head. "Carrie, we have a problem…"
"You hit me…" Carrie growled, rubbing the large bump on her head.
"Never mind that! You know that black hole we got stuck in?"
"Yeah…"
"Well, it sent us back in time! Waaay back in time! We're in 1995!"
"Cool!" Carrie replied.
"No, not cool! We're going to tell these guys we're astronauts or something, and we're gonna try to get the heck out of here. You got it?"
"Yup!" Carrie replied.
"Now, stick to the plan and don't blow our cover!"
"You got it, boss!" Carrie chirped, saluting her superior.
"TOMAS, you keep quiet. We don't need them asking questions about our technology."
"Very well," the mechanical voice sighed. The two girls walked over to the Eds, who were trying to listen in.
"Sorry about the misunderstanding before," the brown-haired girl said. "I'm Mei-Lin and this is my colleague, Caroline, and we-"
"Woo!" Carrie howled, wiggling her fingers at the Eds. "My name is Carrie and I'm from the fuuuture! Ooooh!" Mei-Lin face-palmed.
"So cool!" Ed beamed.
"I don't believe it," Eddy snarked.
"But we are from the future!" Carrie argued.
"Well, if you're from the future, then what will I do tomorrow?" Eddy asked.
"Carrie…" Mei-Lin said.
"Hmm…." Carrie thought for a minute. "Tomorrow…you will…get up and eat breakfast!"
"Whoa, she's good!"
"Carrie!" Mei-Lin screamed.
"What?"
"You blew our cover!"
"Leave it to a humanoid to be so ignorant…" TOMAS, the mechanical voice, said in disgust.
"The future…" Double D said, examining the wreckage. "This certainly doesn't look like a futuristic craft…"
"Well, I'll admit, she's a bit lackluster, but she's the fastest piece of junk on this side of the Milky Way- oops…" Mei-Lin covered her mouth, realizing she was blowing their cover further.
"What year do you hail from, time-travelers?" Ed asked dramatically.
"That's easy!" Carrie replied. "Uh, um…"
"2625," TOMAS answered.
"Yeah, that."
"What brings you guys to our time period?" Double D asked, getting almost as excited as Ed.
"We were trying to escape some thugs, but got sucked into a black hole," Mei-Lin answered.
"Do tell!" Ed said.
"Yay, story time!" Carrie chimed in.
"You were there, boobs-for-brains!" Mei-Lin snapped. "You should know what happened!"
"Well, I forget!"
"Isn't this amazing, Eddy?" Double D asked his friend. "People from the distant future! Imagine…"
But, Eddy was paying no mind to his smart friend. He was eyeing Carrie the same way he eyed Nazz in the episode "Boys Will Be Eds". The world seemed to stand still as he gazed at her clueless, soot-covered face, light-green eyes, and her large, ample…
"Oh, Eddy!" Ed yelled, breaking Eddy's daydream.
"Huh, what? Where?" Eddy responded. Eddy then noticed that everyone was standing in front of the opening of the craft, staring at him weirdly.
"Mei-Lin invited us to look around in her ship," Double D explained. "Are you coming?"
"Uh, of course!" Eddy ran after them.
"Do I have something on my shirt?" Carrie asked, looking at her shirt.
"Yeah, lots and lots of dirt," Mei-Lin replied dryly. "Watch your steps!" Mei-Lin blasted a small flame with her fire extinguisher.
"Fascinating…" Double D said in awe, looking around.
"Hey, are you guys human?" Ed asked.
"Yup," Mei-Lin answered, Carrie peering over her shoulder. "Well, I am, at least. Carrie's a bit more…complicated." Carrie smiled and wagged her tail.
"Cool…" Ed and Double D both said in awe.
"What is she?" Ed asked, teasing Carrie with a gravy cake.
"She's a Sepian, some kind of extinct, ancient human hybrid race. I can't remember the details. So, who are you guys?"
Eddy was still staring at Carrie, who was happily snapping at the gravy cake Ed was dangling over her head, but the question snapped him out of his daze.
"Huh? Oh, I'm Eddy!"
"And I'm Ed!" Ed then nearly lost his fingers as Carrie finally caught the gravy cake in her teeth and swallowed it.
"And I am Edd also," Double D answered. "But with two D's. My friends call me Double D, so as not to confuse me with Ed."
"Ah," Mei-Lin nodded her head. She then turned her attention to some large pipes. "TOMAS, what is the extent of the damage?"
"Structural damage is only at thirty-eight percent, however, our main power generators have all been burned out, and most of our wiring has melted."
"You said you guys got here by using a black hole?" Double D asked. "How did you know it would send you back in time?"
"Space cadet Ed reporting for duty!" Ed said, wearing Mei-Lin's flame suit.
"Is Carrie single?" Eddy asked.
"Augh, one at a time!" Mei-Lin yelled. "No, we didn't know the black hole would send us back in time. We were trying to escape some thugs, so we jumped to hyperspace, but Carrie decided to eat the navigational computer!" Mei-Lin glared at Carrie.
"What? I was hungry."
"You had snacks!"
"Well, I ate them all!" Carrie retorted, folding her arms under her ample bosom and puffing out her face.
"That's no excuse! You're always trying to eat my ship! Why are you even on my crew!?" Mei-Lin screamed back. Not wanting to get involved, the Eds quietly made their way into the next room.
"I dunno," Carrie growled. "Why don't you ask your talking bug friend?"
"For the last time, TOMAS is an AI unit, not some talking but that lives in the computer!" Carrie merely responded by sticking out her tongue and blowing a raspberry at Mei-Lin.
"Oh, yeah! That was mature!"
"Thank you," Carrie replied angrily. "Hey, what happened to those three other guys?"
"Other room," TOMAS answered. "Humanoids…"
Mei-Lin and Carrie ran into the other room, where the Eds were looking around. It was a lounge of sorts, with an old, worn sofa, a couple of busted reclining chairs, and a piece of glass serving as a TV screen.
"So, this is our lounge," Mei-Lin said. "That piece of glass is our TV, and-"
"Oh, oh, show them my room!" Carrie yelled.
"No one wants to see your messy room…"
"I wanna see it!" Eddy blurted out.
"Yay! Follow me!" Carrie pranced down the hallway, everyone else following behind her. Carrie then stopped in front of an automatic door, which she busted down, revealing her bedroom. All three of the Eds peered inside.
The room was almost as messy as Ed's room. On either side of the room were two huge piles of clothes, all of them dirty. Various articles of clothing and half-eaten junk was strewn across the floor, the dresser in the corner had various shiny objects crammed in it, and everything, everything in the room was riddled with teeth marks. Carrie then ran inside and jumped on her bed, which was just some old mattresses with a mountain of blankets piled on top of it; Sepians liked sleeping in warm places. She then buried herself in them.
"Smelly, smelly, smelly…" Double D remarked, holding his nose.
Eddy picked up one of Carrie's discarded bras. "Woo, PG-13!" Ed swiped it from Eddy and put it over his head. Eddy scowled at Ed.
"Cool!" Ed picked up a chewed training sword and swung it around. "I am Bat-Head!"
"Cut that out!" Eddy snatched the bra off Ed's head. "You're making me look bad…"
"You guys wanna see the bridge?" Mei-Lin asked.
"Thanks, but we better get going," Eddy said. "It's dinner time."
"Aww, but you can't go, yet! You haven't seen my collection of shiny stuff!" Carrie whined.
"We'll do that later," Mei-Lin replied, looking at a holographic screen. "From the looks of this damage, we will have a lot of time…"
"Is there anything we can do to help?" Double D asked.
"I'm afraid not. It looks like we're going to be stuck here for a while."
"Yay!" Carrie cheered, poking her head out from under her blankets.
"C'mon, Ed! We gotta go!" Eddy yanked the sword away from Ed and threw it aside.
"Aw, but I want to stay…" Ed said.
"Okay, I know I just met you three, but could you do me a huge favor?" Mei-Lin asked. "Since our credits won't be any good in your time, I need to try to find a job and work out a cover for me and Carrie tomorrow, and I need you guys to keep her out of my hair all day."
"I don't know," Double D replied. "I guess I could move my schedule around a bit and-"
"Sure, we can do that!" Eddy yelled. "We'll give her a grand tour of the neighborhood!"
"Sounds like fun!" Carrie said.
"Thanks! I wish I could pay you guys…"
Eddy looked around. "I'm sure our van could use some of these broken futuristic parts…"
"You want me to give you technology from the future!?" Mei-Lin folded her arms across her chest. "Ugh, fine, just don't tell anyone where you got it and don't tell anyone we're from the future!"
"Don't worry!" Eddy reassured her. "We're the most trustworthy guys around!"
"For some reason, I highly doubt that…" Mei-Lin mumbled.
Next episode: "Tour of Eds"- In an attempt to get closer to Carrie, Eddy decides to give her a tour of Peach Creek and teach her how Earth works, but with her short attention span and bottomless appetite, will the Eds be up to the task?