Author's Notes: Just a little experiment in first person POV adventure fics. Plus, I get to combined two of my favorite things, Ed, Edd n Eddy and Pikmin.
I do not own EEnE or Pikmin. If I did own them, the EEnE movie would be out and I'd be playing Pikmin 3 or sucking on a lollipop.
P.S. I have not played Pikmin 1 or 2, yet I know SO much.
WARNING: Pikmin 1 and 2, Ed, Edd n Eddy spoilers. No made-up Pikmin colors. References to TV shows, games, etc.
Prologue:
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Neutral POV:
The tallest and shortest Eds sat in Double D's garage, waiting for him to unveil his newest invention. Unfortunately he hadn't completed it when they arrived so he continued working under a tarp.
"What does it even do?" Eddy asked.
"It will fulfill all our dreams." A reply came from under the tarp. "It will make you rich, Ed will see his no longer sci-fi fantasies come true, and I will become a respected member of the world's community!" Double D walked out of the tarp. "Think of all the possibilities."
"At 13?" Ed asked. "Cool! Send me to the marsh planet of mud men!"
"Well, two out of three isn't bad." Double D sighed.
"Shut it lumpy." Eddy ordered, sticking a sock in Ed's mouth, which he began chewing on. "When will it be ready?"
"Soon. It only needs to charge."
"Then get the heck back under there!" Eddy shouted.
"I'm sorry, Eddy." Double D said, adjusting his hat. "I just couldn't contain myself. I need to unveil my invention."
"Then let's do it on a stage!" Eddy said, commanding Ed to pick up the machine. "Come on!"
The children approached a make shift stage on Double D's lawn. It was most likely set up earlier by the Eds.
"What are they planning this time?" Kevin grunted, passing a "Machine-O-Matic" sign. "It certainly sounds like something they'd do."
"Come on, Kevin." Nazz said, pulling him along.
They all took some seats in front of the stage. Ed, Double D, and Eddy walked on stage, wearing formal jackets over their usual clothes. Ed stood by the tarp, while the other two Eds walked to the front of the stage.
"Welcome, Ladies and Germs!" Eddy said, clutching the microphone. "Today, we are revealing a great, new invention. Courtesy of local boy genius, Double D!" Edd blushed slightly at the applause. "This invention is so great in fact…" He dropped the dramatic voice. "I have no idea what it is. So I give you its creator… Double D!"
There was more clapping than the capped Ed expected. Eddy handed him the mike. "Break a leg."
"Yes, well, um…" He started. "We are at a great turning point in our lives, a crossroads one might say, not knowing what the future holds for us. But this gave me an earth shattering idea!" He signaled Ed to pull the tarp at the end of next sentence. "So I have constructed a device that breaks the boundaries of the time-space continuum!"
Ed pulled the tarp, revealing a mirror with a large box-like contraption behind it.
"I give you, um…" Double D paused, trying to come up with a catchy name. "… The Temporal TV!"
A silence spread over the small crowd.
"Lame." Kevin said. "What good is that?"
"Well, as I was about to explain, this device can see one's future." Double D said. "I did this so we could steer our fates with precognitive knowledge." He looked towards the machine. The flashing red light on top told him it was fully charged. "It's fully charged and ready."
"So, who wants to test it?" Eddy said. "Only a quarter."
"How about you test it." Sarah said. "Last time you asked us test something, my hair turned purple!"
"Sure." Eddy said. "I'll laugh when you find out I'm a bazillionaire, and you're stuck working at the candy store." He walked in front of the Temporal TV. "Turn it on, sock head.
Double D and Ed grabbed a lever on each side and pulled in opposite directions. The machine began to release massive amounts of sparks. The mirror view static, similar to an unfocused TV.
"Ed, ease up on your end!" Double D advised. Ed let the lever lift slightly, and images came imprinted on the mirror, like one of those old black and white shows. A caption in the upper left read: Eddy, Future, 10 years. A screen Double D put up on top of the stage showed what was happening:
An older Eddy stood behind the counter. He had more hair than his younger counter part and seemed to be growing a moustache. He seemed to be rather bored, agitated, and disappointed. This completely disappeared when he started daydreaming.
A young boy, bearing several similarities to Jonny, walked into the shop.
"Hiya, Eddy!" He said.
"Oh. Hey Tommy." Eddy replied, snapping out of his daydream. "How's you're old man doing?" He started preparing Tommy's usual order of five jawbreakers.
"Dad's doing fine." Tommy replied. "I never knew that being a park ranger was such hard work." He stuffed the jawbreakers in a bag. "But it's what he always wanted to be."
"Glad his dreams came true." Eddy sighed, patting the four year old boy's head. "Mine sure didn't. I could have been an astronaut, or a salesman." He looked around the candy store. "But I tried to buy this place instead. Just to find out some else bought it first, and took my money."
He glanced over to a door, where the words "Sarah: Manager" were nail to it. "The cruel irony." He whispered.
"I think you turned out okay. You're the only reason we come to this store." Tommy said, his words fading away.
The mirror stopped playing. The Eds, especially Eddy, stood bewildered, while the other kids were laughing their heads off. Kevin in particular. He was rolling on the ground in laughter.
The only one not laughing was Jonny, who seemed to enjoy the spectacle, or maybe he was amused by the fact that his possible future son looked up to Eddy. He walked up to the stage, shook Eddy's hand, silently handing him a twenty dollar bill.
"I want to see more!" Jonny said. He then stared at the machine in shock.
"Um, Double D…" Ed said, backing away from the machine. "That's wrong with your thingamajig?"
The Temporal TV, despite being drained of all energy, was shaking and sparking violently.
"Oh my." Double D said.
The children started backing away. Jimmy outright ran for home.
The mirror on the machine began flashing violently, showing a large amount of images from the past, present, future, and even beyond time itself.
A large white explosion of energy engulfed the entire stage. The Eds, being the nearest, were the first to be engulfed. Double D was so perplexed that he didn't even try move. Jonny made a vain attempt at running away, throwing Plank into the air. He too was engulfed. Kevin, having been on the ground, had also been caught by the explosion the moment he got up.
The other kids, however, managed to get far away from the stage. The orb created by the destruction of the Temporal TV had vanished. The stage, the Eds, Jonny, and Kevin were gone with it. All that was left was a crater were they all once stood. Even a small bit of Double D's front door was gone.
"Holy crud." Lee said. "W-what the heck just happened?"
"Rolf does not know." Rolf said, holding back tears. He covered his eyes. "The Son of a Shepard must be strong." He and several others cried out for their fallen friends as Plank dropped from the sky, charred as if he too had tears.
Double D's POV:
All I felt was numbness. Or I suppose tiredness. The point is: I didn't feel like getting up.
I suppose that the explosion killed us all and I'm simply lying in whatever afterlife that awaits me. Or that Death himself just stuck me somewhere, his quota filled.
A soft tap touched my nerves. A few more touched my cheeks. Numbness left, being replaced by touch.
I slowly opened my eyes, covering them to block the bright sunshine until my vision adjusted.
"I'm alive?" I asked myself. I checked my body. My formal jacket was gone, but I was otherwise okay.
I looked around in horror of my surroundings. Unfathomably tall vegetation rose upward seemingly breaking the skyline. A normally small pebble looked like as big as a person's skull.
"I must be the size of a nickel!" I exclaimed. I started asking myself several questions. Where did the cul-de-sac go? Where was the stage?
…
WHERE WERE ED AND EDDY?!
Deciding it would be a better idea to go look for them, rather than what for a giant caterpillar or something entirely different, I began to trek through the plantation.
"Astounding." I gasped, almost constantly coming across new types of plants. I pulled a small notepad out of my pocket. It was new and relatively empty, so I had plenty of room.
One plant in particular I found interesting. Labeling it as a "Pellet Plant", due to its top reminding me of food pellets that Ed eats regularly, I continued on.
"I must have been reduced in size and flung either into the past, the future, or somewhere else entirely." I looked at the plants more closely. Due to some of these varieties didn't exist in the past, so the future was more likely.
I looked towards the sky. The sun shined in its noon position. The need to find Ed and Eddy was my only thought. I put away my notepad, deciding I could take notes of my findings later, and moved at a faster pace.
For some reason, I found my situation to be pushing my body beyond my usual limits. I climbed a flower, one of the Pellet Plants I found earlier, much easier than usual. But it was still hard for me. I'm Ed or Eddy would have no problems with this sort of thing.
The next few miles, though I suppose it was only a few yards in my normal size, was completely devoid of civilization. There was nothing but the beautiful flora, and a small dirt clearing.
"Could it be?" I said, focusing on the clearing. A large lump of planks that was once the stage, reduced in size like myself, sat destroyed. A few figures stood about it, that, while visually unclear, none of whom were Ed or Eddy.
"Better get moving." I said as I slid down the plant. I do not know why I talked to myself. Perhaps it was the absence of my companions, or the silence. Either way, I continued taking notes of plants on the way to the clearing.
"It's going to be a long day." I knew that whatever lay ahead, I had to find Ed and Eddy to combat it.
Author's Notes: Here the start of it all. I don't whether or not I will update it. Depends on if you want it updated and whether I want to write a second chapter. Now to answer some questions that my friends asked me so you don't have to trouble yourselves by wondering:
Why Pikmin? I don't really know. Maybe it's all the oddities in both, and a lot of POV fics are in the Pikmin section. Plus, I like crossovers.
Will you add your own Pikmin colors? No.
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