Zone of the Eds
An Ed, Edd n Eddy mecha Fanfiction
Written by SilverThorn2000
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"Ami! You've got to go!" Ami Weston's father shouted at her. "No! I don't want to!"
"Ami, you're our last hope! Please! Get on the ship!" Her father shoved her into the cold sleep capsule. "Dad! No! Please!"
Her father turned away, and the hatch shut. She felt the chill of the cryogenic suspension fluid welling up around her. Her tears froze instantly on her cheeks, the saline hardening as the cold robbed her of consciousness.
The massive carrier launched from her homeworld, headed across the cosmos in it's mission to stave off the inevitable, and save other worlds from the destruction that faced her world now.
Behind her, a great darkness swept over her world, and then, there was nothing.
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Four months later:
Eddy Sterling strode out of the new arcade, grumbling. It felt like all he'd done was waste his playing fee. Custom Mekton was a great game, and it allowed you to customize your own mech, but Eddy felt like he could never win at it.
And given that he kept loosing to Kevin only made him angrier.
"Oh, come on, Eddy. It's just a game!" Double D called to him, emerging from the door. Eddy spun back around. "I'm sick of loosing!" He snapped, burying his head in his hand.
"I know what will cheer Eddy up, Double D!" Ed yammered happily. "A chicken!" Double D sighed.
"NO!" Eddy fumed, "No chickens! No more loosing! You hear me? No more loosing!" Double D sighed. His shorter friend had a habit of being a sore looser. "Eddy, everyone looses sometime!"
"But not all the time! Not like us! It seems like nothing goes our way!" Eddy slammed his fist into the brick wall. Double D sighed, and simply stared. "We'll get there eventually, Eddy. Just be patient!"
"Be patient? BE PATIENT? How can I be patient when I can't win?!? Huh? Do you have an answer for that, Mr. Wizard?" Eddy spun around, and pointed his finger at Double D, who summarily backed away.
"Now, Eddy, you know violence doesn't solve anything-" Double D looked up, and saw something descending towards the junkyard.
"What on Earth?" He asked softly, and Eddy followed his gaze. Ed watched it with an ear-to-ear grin. "It's an alien star cruiser, sent here to deliver Captain Amazo from the death of his world!"
Double D sighed. "Ed, I'm sure there's a more rational explanation than that. Come along, gentlemen." Edd walked off, Ed close on his heels. "I hate my life." Eddy muttered before sulking off behind them.
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Edward "Double D" Hunter stared at the sight. It turned out to be an alien spaceship, but not like the one Ed had anticipated. It was much larger than the capsule that had appeared in Ed's Captain Amazo comics.
He strode around it, looking for an entrance, wondering how it was possible that this thing could've even been airborne. It wasn't aerodynamic in the least...
He looked, and saw something: There was lettering on the side. He read it slowly:
"Polaris?"
Eddy looked at him. "What?" Double D pointed to the word painted on the ship's side. "Polaris, Eddy." Eddy looked, then shrugged. "So?" Double D sighed. "Polaris is a star, Eddy. This craft is clearly human-made. It's the human designation for a star in the little dipper constellation."
Eddy sighed. "So, where's the door?"
"Found it! Ha, ha, ha!" Ed's laughter echoed as he walked through the door.
"Ed! Wait!" his friends cried out together.
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Ed Wolff stood before the open corridor into the depths of the ship. His friends swiftly ran up beside him. "Hello, Double D. Hello, Eddy. We can go in, now."
"Ed! There may be some unknown kind of disease on this ship! We can't just-"Double D was cut off as his two friends strode down the corridor. "Why do I even bother to try?" he asked the empty air as he followed carefully.
It was eerie. There was nobody on board. The ship was deserted, and empty. No cargo. Nothing in the forward launch bays. Nobody on the bridge. The three boys had been searching for over an hour, Double D was sure, but they'd found nothing. As Eddy had said, "It's definitely a case of lights being on but nobody being home."
It gave all three of them the creeps. They finally strode into one room next to the engine room, and the sight took their breaths away.
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Double D knocked on the vertical tube, wondering how such a feat was possible. Cryogenically preserving someone wasn't a possibility. Such processes caused massive cellular damage upon resuscitation.
Nonetheless, here was a girl their age, frozen solid in a vertical column. It looked very much like she didn't want to be frozen in there, and Double D was wondering exactly what happened. Eddy strode around the room, looking for some trace of an answer, while Ed placed his hand over the girl's. "I think she wants out, Double D."
Eddy sighed. "We heard you the first time, monobrow." He glanced around one more time, before a dull green and red glittering caught his eye. "Hey, sockhead, I found something. Come over here, will you?"
Double D walked over and looked. "I think it's the control panel to the freeze cell. Yes, here we are, the thaw sequence..." The lean boy's voice trailed off as he pressed the lit display that read, "Thaw".
The result was immediate, as the room grew much warmer than it had been. All three boys fixed their eyes on the cell, as the liquid from it drained, and color slowly returned to the pale form of the girl.
She began to frantically pound on the cell's glass barrier, and Ed reached out a massive hand and placed it on the now-warm glass. The girl's motions slowed, then, almost awkwardly, stopped. She looked at Ed for a long moment, then placed her hand on his, and looked at him. Her shoulders shook, and fresh tears slid down her face as she began to cry.
Ed's eyes watered in sympathy, and the girl smiled sadly as the glass descended into the floor, opening the cell and allowing her to leave.
"Thank you," the girl whispered, before she collapsed into Ed's arms with a sob.
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The girl sat in the ship's lounge, huddled under a blanket, her head on Ed's shoulder, still sniffling. Eddy couldn't decide whether to chalk her sniffling up to her half-hour sobfest or the cryo cell. His mind finally settled on it being a combination of the two, and sighed. She'd not said one word to them since she'd fallen into Ed's arms and began bawling.
"Well, I suppose we'd better start with introductions," Double D began. The girl looked at him, tears still fresh in her eyes. "I'm Edward Hunter, but you can call me Double D. Everyone else does." She nodded, and smiled her sad little smile. "This," Edd continued, "Is Eddy Sterling." Eddy waved once, and the girl nodded. "And that's Ed Wolff, the young man you're leaning on." She smiled up at Ed, and Ed smiled back happily.
"I'm in my happy place, guys!" The girl giggled, and Double D inwardly sighed. At least they seemed to be able to snap the poor thing out of her fugue. She spoke up, this time much stronger than the last time they'd heard her. "I'm Ami. Ami Weston."
"So, Ami, how'd you get here?" Eddy asked. "That's our Eddy, master of the direct approach," Edd sighed from his chair. Ami sighed. "My dad shoved me into the cold sleep capsule when the Hive was about to destroy our world. He set the ship on a random hyperspace vector to keep them unawares of his final destination. He never told me where that destination would be. All I know is that the hive swarmed over my homeworld like a plague...and now, it's probably gone...."
The boys sat in shocked silence for a long moment. "I can hear the dead still, Eddy," Ed piped up, breaking the silence. "What?" Eddy asked Ed, believing the tall boy had finally gone all the way around the bend. "I can still hear the dead, Eddy. Just like Fang Zhaarnak in the book!" Eddy stared at Ed incredulously for a long moment before asking one question: "What book?"
Ed reached down, the motion shifting poor Ami around slightly as his hand dug around in his coat pocket before it finally emerged, holding a slightly worn paperback novel in it. Double D took the book from his friend's hand and looked at the cover.
It was exactly the type of thing one would expect Ed to read, Edd thought from the slightly faded picture depicting a large star-faring fleet annihilating an entire planet. He looked at the title. "The Shiva Option?" Eddy read aloud over his shoulder. "Looks like a good read," Eddy continued after a moment. "I'll have to borrow it when you're finished."
"Oh, no, Eddy," Ed said as he dug in his other pocket, before producing three other books. "You have to read these first." Eddy took the offered books and looked at them. "Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground?" Eddy asked aloud, before turning back to Ed. "Ah, thanks, big guy." Ed nodded happily, and Ami smiled on his shoulder. She at least seemed to be warming up to them.
Double D laughed softly and looked over at Ami. "Anything we can get you?" He asked softly. "No, thank you, Double D. I'm okay for now, but I'm going to need somewhere to sleep. And a crew to help me stop the Hive. And something containing mecha structural data..." Her voice trailed off. Ed held up his Custom Mekton disk. "Like this?" He asked happily.
She took the disk and turned it over in her hands. "What's this?" Double D smiled as Eddy laughed. "It's a Custom Mekton disk," he said, grinning at Ed, "It's for a game in which a player makes a mech and uses it to do battle. So, in essence, it could be said to contain mecha structural data. But one has to be able to understand the CM Construction Computer Code to know exactly what it means."
Ami looked at the disk for a long moment. "Maybe the computer will be able to decipher it," she said after a moment, standing up and leaving the lounge. The Eds scrambled after her.
She strode into the forward bay, finally stopping in front of what Double D had assumed to be a crane control. She slid the disk in, and checked the readout. Double D glanced over her shoulder as she let out a shout of triumph. "Yes! It can read them!"
The bay whirred to life, and Ami turned. "Nano-Industrial facility. It'll build mecha from material stores kept in the ship. Ed's mech is being built as we speak," she pressed another two buttons, and the whirr rose in pitch, "As is mine. You two have these disks too, I assume?"
The two boys nodded, and promptly surrendered their disks. Ami slotted them in, and the whirr doubled in pitch, becoming nearly unbearable. Ami shooed the boys from the hangar, and shut the hatch behind them.
"Ugh, I hate that noise..." She muttered. "Well, you just became my crew, and we have the mechs, so that leaves sleeping arrangements."
"I've got a guest bedroom she can crash in for tonight..." Eddy piped up. Double D blinked. "What? It's not Jake's room I'm talking about. The one down the hall from my parents is a guest room. We just don't use it much."
"Jake?" Ami asked. Ed laughed. "Eddy's brother who got sent to military school for wrecking his parent's car." "Actually, he's in college now, lumpy." Eddy snapped bitterly. "And he rarely writes or calls anymore."
"Well, college is a busy time of life, Eddy." Double D said, patting his stocky friend on the shoulder. "I guess I'll crash at Eddy's place. We'll talk more about my past tomorrow."
The boys nodded. They'd been here for nearly four hours, and their parents were bound to start wondering before too long. That thought snapped something into Double D's head. "Eddy, how do you intend to sneak her past your parents?"
"They're off visiting Jake. Won't be back until tomorrow night. I'll think of something by then. Heck, I could probably tell my dad the truth and he'd believe it. He loves that old RoboTech show so much, he'd probably help." Eddy grinned, and laughed at the thought.
Ami shook her head. "Whatever. Let's just go get some rest."
"But you just woke up!" Ed cried out. Ami shook her head. "I'll be fine, Ed. Trust me."
An Ed, Edd n Eddy mecha Fanfiction
Written by SilverThorn2000
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"Ami! You've got to go!" Ami Weston's father shouted at her. "No! I don't want to!"
"Ami, you're our last hope! Please! Get on the ship!" Her father shoved her into the cold sleep capsule. "Dad! No! Please!"
Her father turned away, and the hatch shut. She felt the chill of the cryogenic suspension fluid welling up around her. Her tears froze instantly on her cheeks, the saline hardening as the cold robbed her of consciousness.
The massive carrier launched from her homeworld, headed across the cosmos in it's mission to stave off the inevitable, and save other worlds from the destruction that faced her world now.
Behind her, a great darkness swept over her world, and then, there was nothing.
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Four months later:
Eddy Sterling strode out of the new arcade, grumbling. It felt like all he'd done was waste his playing fee. Custom Mekton was a great game, and it allowed you to customize your own mech, but Eddy felt like he could never win at it.
And given that he kept loosing to Kevin only made him angrier.
"Oh, come on, Eddy. It's just a game!" Double D called to him, emerging from the door. Eddy spun back around. "I'm sick of loosing!" He snapped, burying his head in his hand.
"I know what will cheer Eddy up, Double D!" Ed yammered happily. "A chicken!" Double D sighed.
"NO!" Eddy fumed, "No chickens! No more loosing! You hear me? No more loosing!" Double D sighed. His shorter friend had a habit of being a sore looser. "Eddy, everyone looses sometime!"
"But not all the time! Not like us! It seems like nothing goes our way!" Eddy slammed his fist into the brick wall. Double D sighed, and simply stared. "We'll get there eventually, Eddy. Just be patient!"
"Be patient? BE PATIENT? How can I be patient when I can't win?!? Huh? Do you have an answer for that, Mr. Wizard?" Eddy spun around, and pointed his finger at Double D, who summarily backed away.
"Now, Eddy, you know violence doesn't solve anything-" Double D looked up, and saw something descending towards the junkyard.
"What on Earth?" He asked softly, and Eddy followed his gaze. Ed watched it with an ear-to-ear grin. "It's an alien star cruiser, sent here to deliver Captain Amazo from the death of his world!"
Double D sighed. "Ed, I'm sure there's a more rational explanation than that. Come along, gentlemen." Edd walked off, Ed close on his heels. "I hate my life." Eddy muttered before sulking off behind them.
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Edward "Double D" Hunter stared at the sight. It turned out to be an alien spaceship, but not like the one Ed had anticipated. It was much larger than the capsule that had appeared in Ed's Captain Amazo comics.
He strode around it, looking for an entrance, wondering how it was possible that this thing could've even been airborne. It wasn't aerodynamic in the least...
He looked, and saw something: There was lettering on the side. He read it slowly:
"Polaris?"
Eddy looked at him. "What?" Double D pointed to the word painted on the ship's side. "Polaris, Eddy." Eddy looked, then shrugged. "So?" Double D sighed. "Polaris is a star, Eddy. This craft is clearly human-made. It's the human designation for a star in the little dipper constellation."
Eddy sighed. "So, where's the door?"
"Found it! Ha, ha, ha!" Ed's laughter echoed as he walked through the door.
"Ed! Wait!" his friends cried out together.
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Ed Wolff stood before the open corridor into the depths of the ship. His friends swiftly ran up beside him. "Hello, Double D. Hello, Eddy. We can go in, now."
"Ed! There may be some unknown kind of disease on this ship! We can't just-"Double D was cut off as his two friends strode down the corridor. "Why do I even bother to try?" he asked the empty air as he followed carefully.
It was eerie. There was nobody on board. The ship was deserted, and empty. No cargo. Nothing in the forward launch bays. Nobody on the bridge. The three boys had been searching for over an hour, Double D was sure, but they'd found nothing. As Eddy had said, "It's definitely a case of lights being on but nobody being home."
It gave all three of them the creeps. They finally strode into one room next to the engine room, and the sight took their breaths away.
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Double D knocked on the vertical tube, wondering how such a feat was possible. Cryogenically preserving someone wasn't a possibility. Such processes caused massive cellular damage upon resuscitation.
Nonetheless, here was a girl their age, frozen solid in a vertical column. It looked very much like she didn't want to be frozen in there, and Double D was wondering exactly what happened. Eddy strode around the room, looking for some trace of an answer, while Ed placed his hand over the girl's. "I think she wants out, Double D."
Eddy sighed. "We heard you the first time, monobrow." He glanced around one more time, before a dull green and red glittering caught his eye. "Hey, sockhead, I found something. Come over here, will you?"
Double D walked over and looked. "I think it's the control panel to the freeze cell. Yes, here we are, the thaw sequence..." The lean boy's voice trailed off as he pressed the lit display that read, "Thaw".
The result was immediate, as the room grew much warmer than it had been. All three boys fixed their eyes on the cell, as the liquid from it drained, and color slowly returned to the pale form of the girl.
She began to frantically pound on the cell's glass barrier, and Ed reached out a massive hand and placed it on the now-warm glass. The girl's motions slowed, then, almost awkwardly, stopped. She looked at Ed for a long moment, then placed her hand on his, and looked at him. Her shoulders shook, and fresh tears slid down her face as she began to cry.
Ed's eyes watered in sympathy, and the girl smiled sadly as the glass descended into the floor, opening the cell and allowing her to leave.
"Thank you," the girl whispered, before she collapsed into Ed's arms with a sob.
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The girl sat in the ship's lounge, huddled under a blanket, her head on Ed's shoulder, still sniffling. Eddy couldn't decide whether to chalk her sniffling up to her half-hour sobfest or the cryo cell. His mind finally settled on it being a combination of the two, and sighed. She'd not said one word to them since she'd fallen into Ed's arms and began bawling.
"Well, I suppose we'd better start with introductions," Double D began. The girl looked at him, tears still fresh in her eyes. "I'm Edward Hunter, but you can call me Double D. Everyone else does." She nodded, and smiled her sad little smile. "This," Edd continued, "Is Eddy Sterling." Eddy waved once, and the girl nodded. "And that's Ed Wolff, the young man you're leaning on." She smiled up at Ed, and Ed smiled back happily.
"I'm in my happy place, guys!" The girl giggled, and Double D inwardly sighed. At least they seemed to be able to snap the poor thing out of her fugue. She spoke up, this time much stronger than the last time they'd heard her. "I'm Ami. Ami Weston."
"So, Ami, how'd you get here?" Eddy asked. "That's our Eddy, master of the direct approach," Edd sighed from his chair. Ami sighed. "My dad shoved me into the cold sleep capsule when the Hive was about to destroy our world. He set the ship on a random hyperspace vector to keep them unawares of his final destination. He never told me where that destination would be. All I know is that the hive swarmed over my homeworld like a plague...and now, it's probably gone...."
The boys sat in shocked silence for a long moment. "I can hear the dead still, Eddy," Ed piped up, breaking the silence. "What?" Eddy asked Ed, believing the tall boy had finally gone all the way around the bend. "I can still hear the dead, Eddy. Just like Fang Zhaarnak in the book!" Eddy stared at Ed incredulously for a long moment before asking one question: "What book?"
Ed reached down, the motion shifting poor Ami around slightly as his hand dug around in his coat pocket before it finally emerged, holding a slightly worn paperback novel in it. Double D took the book from his friend's hand and looked at the cover.
It was exactly the type of thing one would expect Ed to read, Edd thought from the slightly faded picture depicting a large star-faring fleet annihilating an entire planet. He looked at the title. "The Shiva Option?" Eddy read aloud over his shoulder. "Looks like a good read," Eddy continued after a moment. "I'll have to borrow it when you're finished."
"Oh, no, Eddy," Ed said as he dug in his other pocket, before producing three other books. "You have to read these first." Eddy took the offered books and looked at them. "Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground?" Eddy asked aloud, before turning back to Ed. "Ah, thanks, big guy." Ed nodded happily, and Ami smiled on his shoulder. She at least seemed to be warming up to them.
Double D laughed softly and looked over at Ami. "Anything we can get you?" He asked softly. "No, thank you, Double D. I'm okay for now, but I'm going to need somewhere to sleep. And a crew to help me stop the Hive. And something containing mecha structural data..." Her voice trailed off. Ed held up his Custom Mekton disk. "Like this?" He asked happily.
She took the disk and turned it over in her hands. "What's this?" Double D smiled as Eddy laughed. "It's a Custom Mekton disk," he said, grinning at Ed, "It's for a game in which a player makes a mech and uses it to do battle. So, in essence, it could be said to contain mecha structural data. But one has to be able to understand the CM Construction Computer Code to know exactly what it means."
Ami looked at the disk for a long moment. "Maybe the computer will be able to decipher it," she said after a moment, standing up and leaving the lounge. The Eds scrambled after her.
She strode into the forward bay, finally stopping in front of what Double D had assumed to be a crane control. She slid the disk in, and checked the readout. Double D glanced over her shoulder as she let out a shout of triumph. "Yes! It can read them!"
The bay whirred to life, and Ami turned. "Nano-Industrial facility. It'll build mecha from material stores kept in the ship. Ed's mech is being built as we speak," she pressed another two buttons, and the whirr rose in pitch, "As is mine. You two have these disks too, I assume?"
The two boys nodded, and promptly surrendered their disks. Ami slotted them in, and the whirr doubled in pitch, becoming nearly unbearable. Ami shooed the boys from the hangar, and shut the hatch behind them.
"Ugh, I hate that noise..." She muttered. "Well, you just became my crew, and we have the mechs, so that leaves sleeping arrangements."
"I've got a guest bedroom she can crash in for tonight..." Eddy piped up. Double D blinked. "What? It's not Jake's room I'm talking about. The one down the hall from my parents is a guest room. We just don't use it much."
"Jake?" Ami asked. Ed laughed. "Eddy's brother who got sent to military school for wrecking his parent's car." "Actually, he's in college now, lumpy." Eddy snapped bitterly. "And he rarely writes or calls anymore."
"Well, college is a busy time of life, Eddy." Double D said, patting his stocky friend on the shoulder. "I guess I'll crash at Eddy's place. We'll talk more about my past tomorrow."
The boys nodded. They'd been here for nearly four hours, and their parents were bound to start wondering before too long. That thought snapped something into Double D's head. "Eddy, how do you intend to sneak her past your parents?"
"They're off visiting Jake. Won't be back until tomorrow night. I'll think of something by then. Heck, I could probably tell my dad the truth and he'd believe it. He loves that old RoboTech show so much, he'd probably help." Eddy grinned, and laughed at the thought.
Ami shook her head. "Whatever. Let's just go get some rest."
"But you just woke up!" Ed cried out. Ami shook her head. "I'll be fine, Ed. Trust me."