I'd like to say something real quick before we get started. Just so you know, the kids are fifteen in this story, except for Sarah and Jimmy, who are thirteen. The reason you need to know this is there are a few things….Well, just read.
Eddy woke up with a stabbing pain in his left ear. He opened his eyes and everything was blurred for a moment. When it cleared, he saw himself in a sorta like a jail cell. Two red laser-like things were holding his wrists and holding him a few inches off the floor. Two aliens- grey, with big heads- entered carrying staffs with glowing light blue gems at the top. One banged the bottom of the stick on the ground and the lasers holding Eddy vanished, making him drop to the ground. The aliens laughed quietly as Eddy stood up and glared at them.
"Hey, what gives?" He snapped. One alien hit him on the head with the stick, "OW!"
"Silence, human!" The alien ordered. Two blue light rings appeared around Eddy's wrist, and he found he was now unable to move them. He was jerked forward by his wrists and began to walk inbetween the two aliens, who were leading him somewhere. They entered an escalator that was round and clear on the doors. The escalator began to drop, startling Eddy slightly. On the ride down, they passed several floors, the one above where they stopped filled with tables with kids working at them. They stopped on a floor similar to the one above and the doors opened. One alien shoved Eddy in the back with his stick and they started walking.
The walked down an aisl, and Eddy saw that each kid, at each table, was building or making something. One foot was chained to the floor with a blue light 'rope' like the one on Eddy's wrists, and a little tag on their left ears. All the kids, from ages 6 to 18, looked depressed.
The aliens led Eddy towards a row of empty tables. One girl, next to an empty table, looked up and gasped. Eddy's eyes widened as he was shoved into the table next to her and the blue light rope connected to his ankle.
"Eddy!" The girl cried, throwing her arms around Eddy.
"Bella!" Eddy said, hugging her back.
"I've missed you so much," Bella sobbed.
"So this is where you've been," Eddy said.
"Alright, back to work!" The alien ordered, zapping Bella with the gem. She winced slightly but continued working on what looked like a large blanket. Eddy glared after the alien but didn't say anything. As soon as they left, Bella looked up from her loom and over at two boys next to her.
"Guys, they're gone."
The boys looked up and Eddy saw it was Ed and Edd!
"Eddy!" Ed cried, standing up to hug the short Ed, but due to the blue light chain, he couldn't reach farther than a foot.
"I was hoping you would've escaped," Edd sighed, but then smiled slightly, "I have missed you, though. We all have."
"Yeah, but...what is this place?" Eddy asked. Edd frowned again.
"We're...not quite sure," Edd said.
"I told you, it's an alien space ship content on taking all humans children as slaves!" Ed almost shouted.
"Ed, keep it down," Bella hissed, looking around nervously, "And look like you're working!" An alien walked passed and the four began working on their projects: for Bella a blanket, for Ed a comic book, for Eddy something, he wasn't quite sure yet, and for Edd a real book. When the alien guard passed, the four looked up.
"I think Ed might be right," Bella said, "It certainly looks that way."
After a few hours of chatting quietly and working, a buzzer sounded and the blue light chains recoiled from their ankles. They followed the flow of exiting kids to a group of elevators. They shoved their way into one and the elevator went up a floor or two, where all the kids filed out. Eddy was in shock by what he saw.
A huge water park was in the middle of an even bigger room, and along the walls were different shops. In the hallway leading into the large room were smaller rooms with automatic orange doors labeled 'CHANGING ROOMS'
"What is this place?" Eddy asked in slight awe.
"This…" Bella smiled slightly, "Is the hang out room. There's any shop you could imagine: candy store, library, comic book shop….You know those little coins they've been giving us?"
"Yeah," Eddy said, taking three small coins from his pocket.
"Well, they give us those for every five projects we complete, and we can spend them here!" Bella explained.
"Cool!" Eddy said, looking around, "Wait, did you say candy store?"
"Yup," Bella nodded, "But I prefer the free stuff-" She entered a changing room and came out a minute later wearing a rainbow-colored bikini and a swimming mask that covered her nose as well, "-like swimming!" Cheering, she ran to the water and dove into the pool with a splash. The three Eds went different ways: Ed to the comic shop, Edd to the library, and Eddy- where else?- to the candy store.
Eddy burst in the doors of the white-and-pink swirl building and his jaw dropped. Covering every inch of wall were every type of candy you could think of: white chocolate, dark chocolate, regular chocolate, Twizzlers, Tootsie Rolls; but what caught Eddy's widened eyes were the jawbreakers. Grinning widely, Eddy grabbed a jawbreaker and hurried up to the counter. An alien was sitting there reading a magazine that also caught Eddy's eye. The alien glanced at Eddy then hurridly put the magazine away.
"What?" The alien asked. Eddy put the jawbreaker on the counter, "That'll be one token." Eddy almost slammed the gold coin down and ran off with the jawbreaker.
"I can't believe I actually got a jawbreaker!" Eddy laughed, shoving the treat in his mouth. He slowed down a bit and walked around the pool area with his hands in his pockets, searching for Bella. He spotted her and sat down in one of the lawn chairs.
Bella was wearing a fake mermaid tail while swimming.
"I've always wanted one of these," Bella said to herself as she swum in the pool area and not the water jungle gym area. One guy wearing a swimming mask popped his head above the water nearby. Two more guys who were wearing goggles appeared next to him. The first guy smirked slightly as he sunk under the water, followed by the other two.
Bella took a deep breath and went under water. Just floating there in the calm, quiet 'ocean', which was what she was pretending it was, was oh so relaxing. Her eyes relaxed so they were half closed and a smile crept up her blown-up cheeks. Her eyes widened in fake fear as she spotted the three guys swimming towards her. Letting a small smile appear on her face, she turned around and swam off, but they guys caught up.
"Catch the mermaid!" The second guy cried, pouncing on the underwater Bella and holding her around the middle. She scream-laughed as she pushed on his arms, but they didn't budge. The third guy grabbed her mermaid tail and held it up.
"Yeah, the mermaid!" He repeated with a dumb laugh. The first guy stood up next to them.
"Well, well, well," He said with a smile, "What do we have here? A mermaid? Think of the money I can get for her."
"Yeah, the money!" The third guy repeated.
"Shut up, Mike," The first guy said.
"Oh, no," Bella said in a fake gasp, "What ever am I to do? I don't what to be discovered!" She laughed.
"Ooh, sorry, little mermaid," The first guy smirked playfully, "I'm gonna be rich."
"Um, you mean, 'we' right, Micheal?" The second guy, who was holding Bella's arms, asked.
"Yes, Mikey," Micheal sighed.
Bella wiggled out of Mikey's grasp and took a deep breath as her head plunged underwater. Mike, who wasn't that strong, dropped her legs- or tail- and Bella swam off with a non-verbal laugh. She popped her head above the water and saw a floatie in the water. She clambered onto it, pretending it was a mermaid rock perch. Micheal swam under water and surprised attacked her from behind.
"Ahh!" Bella cried out, laughing. Micheal wrapped his arms around her, but Bella escaped and, doing an underwater back flip, swam off. Unfortuantly, due to her back arching the way it did, the back of her bikini top snapped. Bella crossed her arms over her front, trying to kick the mermaid tail off. When she did, she hurried out of the pool, "Crap crap crap crap crap!"
Eddy and the three boys, Mike, Mikey, and Micheal, stared after her.
"Damn," Micheal whispered quietly, smiling slightly, "She's hot!" Eddy's head whipped around to glare at the boy.
"Hey!" Eddy snapped, "She's my girlfriend!" Micheal turned to glare back. He snapped his fingers and Mike and Mikey pinned Eddy against the wall by his arms.
"A'ight, you listen here," Micheal said, "And listen closely, because I'm only sayin' this once. That girl is one of the finest pieces of ass on this ship, so unless you wanna find yours in a jail cell for 'trying to escape', I'd suggest you'd keep your mouth shut. Got it?"
"'Jail cell'?" Eddy asked.
"Pff, you're new here, aren't ya?" Micheal said, "It's where they keep the kids that break the rules. Trying to escape gets you the longest period in there." Eddy paled slightly.
"Um, ok," He said.
"Good," Micheal said, "And not one word of this to Bella." He snapped his fingers and Mike and Mikey let go of Eddy. Rubbing his arms, Eddy walked off. He saw Bella coming out of a changing room wearing a pink t-shirt and skinny jeans. Her face was tomato red under her cat whiskers.
"OMD," Bella whispered. Eddy walked over.
"Uh, hey," He said.
"I. Am. Sooooo embarresed," Bella mumbled, burying her face in her hands.
"Um, it can happen to anyone?" Eddy tried to cheer her up.
"Yeah, I guess," Bella sighed, "C'mon, I got a few tokens to spend." Bella slipped her hand into Eddy's and they walked off, passing the Mikes as they did. Micheal wolf whistled and smirked slightly. Bella looked back at them, "They really are nice boys."
"Yeah, nice," Eddy said, looking back at them and glaring a little. They walked around and arrived at the book shop.
"Ok, I'm gonna see if they have the 'Harry Potter' series," Bella said, "I've been missing it like crazy." She entered the shop and Eddy stayed at the entrance, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. He was looking around him and didn't notice someone walking up to him.
"Dorky?" A voice said. Eddy turned to see Kevin standing in front of him.
"Hey, shovelchin!" Eddy smiled. He and Kevin had become good friends since the Incident, but they still used their old nicknames.
"What're you doing here?" Kevin asked, "I never pictured you as the book type." Kevin laughed at his own joke. So did Eddy.
"Nah, Bella's inside looking around," Eddy said.
"Oh, Bella's here?" Kevin asked, looking in, "When'd she get here?"
"I dunno, but I just got here today," Eddy grumbled, "The work sucks, but the rest of this place is fricken awesome, man!"
"I know," Kevin said, "Did you know they got a basketball court in this place? Score! And they even have a bike shop!"
"Saving up to buy one?" Eddy asked, "I bet your old one got left behind."
"Yeah," Kevin mumbled, looking down, "That's the worst part. Well, I better get going. See ya, Dorky!" Kevin waved as he walked off.
"Later, shovelchin!" Eddy called, waving back. A few minutes later, Bella walked out with a bag, and plopped it on the ground.
"They don't have 'Harry Potter' but they do have something similar," Bella said, "Whew, this is heavy."
"Want some help?" Eddy asked.
"Sure," Bella smiled. Eddy picked up the bag and almost dropped it.
"Wow, these are heavy," Eddy groaned, "So...where do people live in this place?"
"Oh, follow me, I'll show you," Bella said. She led Eddy over to the elevator area and they entered on with a few other kids. She pressed the second-to-bottom button and they exited on that floor with a few other kids. That room was filled with little houses that looked like they only had one room. Numbers were writen in bright blue above the doors. Bella and Eddy walked over to a house.
"Each house is shared by two kids," Bella explained, "See, there's a line splitting the rooms down the middle, and each kid can decorate their side however they want. Ed and Doppio D got lucky and were placed in the same house, but I'm by myself. Hey, maybe we'll be lucky and be roommates!"
"Yeah, that would be awesome!" Eddy said, "Wait, how do we know which house is ours?"
"Well, we each have a number, and we just have to find our number on a house," Bella said, gestering up at the blue numbers above the doors.
"How do we know what our numbers are?" Eddy was really confused.
"The tags," Bella sighed, pointing up at the tag on her left cat ear.
"Well, how am I supposed to know what numder I am?" Eddy asked, slightly angry, "I can't see my ear!"
"Oh, let me see," Bella said, looking at Eddy's tag, "You are number 375. I'm number 352." She looked up and spotted her number, "Ooh, I got a roommate! Number 379. Hmm, not familiar with that one. Must be one of the kids from the new batch. I saw some aliens leading a few kids to different seats."
The two entered Bella's house. She had her side painted all pink with a few stuffed animals around her pink-sheeted bed with soft red-and-pink blankets. She had a brown bookshelf that was completely bare, except for an MLP lamp on top next to a purple lava lamp.
"In the few days I've been here, I sure got a lot done with my side," Bella said, "What do you think?"
"It's certainly you," Eddy said, sighing as he set the bag down, "Is that a lava lamp?"
"Yeah, I used to have one in Italy, but I, uh, lost it," Bella smiled sheepishly. She took the books and set them on the bookshelf, making sure they were all nice and neat, "Now I'm saving up for some art supplies, like markers and crayons."
"Cool," Eddy said, sitting down on the bed. Bella sat down next to him and laid her head in his lap.
"I really have missed you," She said quietly. Before Eddy could say anything, an alarm sounded throughout the whole ship, making Bella sit bolt upright.
"Attention, human slaves," A voice said, "Return to your houses idmediantly. I repeat: return to your houses idmediantly."
"Bye," Bella said as Eddy exited the house. She sighed, then brightened slightly, "At least I get to meet my new roommate. Ooh, maybe it'll be a girl who loves to read and talk!" She turned around to the changing room located in the middle of the room. She went to enter it, when she heard the door open and close.
"Hello, new roommate," Said a familiar voice. Bella paled as she turned around and saw Brandon Kanker leaning against the doorway.