Mar: My way!
A fanfic by: Half-wit Ed-boy
Chapter 1: The Otaku from Japan
Disclaimer: Now, read closely, because I'm only putting this in the first chapter. I don't own the anime or manga, Mar, the show, Ed, Edd n Eddy, the characters off these shows, or the surprise character that appears later on in this series. However, the original characters are mine.
Note: I'm changing the story around so Carrie, my OC, is in it, instead of meeting Ed after the return from Mar.
Ginta is an average, otaku, foreign exchange student from Japan who came to Peach Creek yesterday. He isn't a very tall person, nor is he smart or athletic, and he can't really see that well. On his first day in an American town called Peach Creek, he has made four new friends, a three-haired kid who's shorter than he is, a kid wearing a beanie on his head, a tall kid who smells like a dumpster, and a blonde-haired girl who likes wearing novelty t-shirts with unusual sayings on them. Other than making these four new friends, nothing else really happened that day.
It's now Monday, the first day of the school week, and Ginta is walking to school with his friends. He's wearing a collared shirt with a pocket on the front and has on large, round glasses. His hair is blonde and spiky. Walking beside him is Eddy, the short kid wearing a yellow shirt that has a red stripe going down it and there's a wallet chain dangling out of his pocket. Double D is in the middle, wearing his hat, a yellow tie, and a red t-shirt. Ed is the tall, smelly guy wearing a red/white striped t-shirt and a green jacket. Carrie is on the other end. She has blue eyes and her hair is blonde and spiky, like Ginta's only much longer. She's wearing baggy, gray jogging shorts and a black t-shirt that reads, "You shouldn't let your mind wander. It's much too small to be out on its own."
"So, what's school like here?" Ginta asks his new friends.
"Well, unlike your school, our school doesn't get out every two weeks and at the end of the year, but we have a summer vacation, which lasts about two or three months," Double D responds.
"Not to mention a duck!" Carrie says happily. Double D and Ginta stare at her.
"You will like this school, Ginta!" Ed says. "The teachers are funny and today is bottomless gravy day in the cafeteria!"
"Yeah, and I get to help make the food!" Carrie says excitedly. "Who are you guys again?"
"After school, we can go over to my house and play video games!" Ed says.
"That sounds cool!" Ginta shouts.
"But Ed, we have other plans," Double D says. "Don't you remember? Today is the day we first met each other."
"The day you four first met each other?"
"Actually, we met Carrie over the summer at a traveling freak show." Double D says. "She played stringed instruments with her teeth."
"Oh, you mean like this?" Carrie asks, pulling out a violin covered in drool. She puts the strings in her teeth and plays it exceedingly well.
"So unsanitary!" Double D nearly throws up from the sight of food scraps from between Carrie's teeth covering the violin strings. Carrie stops playing and laughs.
"Hey, Dorks!" A voice yells at the group of five. A kid with a large chin and wearing a red cap walks across the street. "Think fast!" He throws a basketball and it plows into Eddy, knocking him against a wall made of wooden boards. Kevin rides up to the injured Ed-boy and laughs mockingly. He climbs off his bike and strolls up to Carrie.
"So, Carrie, how about you and me go down to the creek and, oh I don't know, talk?"
Carrie looks at Kevin, confused at first, and then she smiles and answers with, "I would like a pizza with chocolate sauce, anchovies, mustard, and shoelaces!"
Grossed out by Carrie's unusual comment, Kevin jumps on his bike, rides away, and yells, "Dork!" as he rides away.
"Duck?" Carrie asks, confused. "I thought my name was Carrie."
Eddy gets up and screams after Kevin, "That'll teach you to hit on my girlfriend, Shovel-chin!"
"Um, Eddy, Carrie is Ed's girlfriend," Double D reminds his short friend.
"Quack!" Carrie says.
"Do you guys have to put up with him every day?" Ginta asks Eddy.
"Pretty much," was the answer he received.
"Kevin reminds me of that leprechaun from that cereal commercial," Ed says. "They're always after me Lucky Charms!" The Eds eventually reach Peach Creek School. Because Peach Creek doesn't have a lot of kids, the middle and high schools are joined together, and there really isn't an organized school grade. Seventh graders are placed with eighth-graders; high-schoolers are placed with the lower grades, and so on.
"Where are we?" Carrie asks, lost and confused.
"We have entered an alternate dimension where everything is the same, except the teachers are Martians who want to suck out our brains and Carrie's name is Duck." Ed answers.
"Quack!" Carrie exclaims again.
For Ginta, the school day isn't much different than his old school back in Japan, except the only people that torment him are Kevin and the Kanker Sisters. Ginta is also ridiculed by the teachers for constantly falling asleep in class and telling about these dreams of another world. For example, this is Ginta's math class, which has the Eds, Kevin, all three Kankers, Rolf, and Johnny and Plank. Ginta is at his desk with his head resting on it; he's fast asleep.
"Check out the new kid!" Kevin whispers. He throws a paper wad at Ginta, but he doesn't even move.
"Hey, Marie, give me a piece of paper!" Lee, a teenage girl with a red beehive hairdo and a white, red polka-dotted shirt demands. Marie, a blue-haired girl with a black sleeveless shirt, hands her sister a sheet of notebook paper from her binder that has pictures of Double D pasted all over the front of it. Lee tears it into small pieces, sticks them in her mouth, and spits them at Ginta through a straw. She hits him in the face several times and gets one to stick to his glasses, but he doesn't move. Kevin and the Kankers sneer at the slumbering boy as he drools on his notes.
"Hit him with this thing!" May whispers, holding a large textbook labeled "MATH". Marie takes the book and chucks it across the room. The book misses and crashes to the floor. Hearing the commotion, the teacher turns around. Her class is peacefully sitting at their desks taking notes, except for the new kid. She walks up to his desk and slaps him in the back of her head with her ruler. Hurt and panicked, Ginta jumps out of his seat. The Kankers, joined by Kevin, laugh at him.
"Ginta Toramizu!" The teacher yells. Ginta looks up at her, rubbing the large bump on his head. "I don't tolerate lazy students who sleep in my classroom, young man!"
"Um, sorry…" Ginta answers groggily.
"I don't know how teachers let their students act in Japan, but you're in America, and you will abide by my rules!" The Teacher snaps. "Understand?" Ginta nods his head. "Good!" She walks back to the front of the classroom.
Eddy leans over to Ginta and says sarcastically, "Boy isn't she a ray of sunshine?"
"Eddy!" The Teacher screams at the three-haired Ed-boy. "Just because Ginta acts up doesn't give you a reason! Since this is the sixth time this week you've interrupted my lecture, you've just earned a trip to detention for your free-period!" Eddy groans in disgust as the teacher gives him a yellow note. The bell rings.
"Rolf is watching you, Kevin!" Rolf warns. "Rolf was once a foreigner in this land and Rolf will not tolerate your mocking of the Ginta-boy!"
"Yeah, Plank likes the new kid, so lay off!" Johnny adds. "You tell 'em, buddy!" He says, listening to Plank.
Lunch is next, but unfortunately, there's been a bit of an incident in the lunchroom…
"Carrie, where's all the gravy for today's lunch?" One of the lunch ladies ask.
Carrie looks into the bone-dry gravy vats and answers, "It's gone! You don't think...oh, my gosh! The school is infested with…MOLE MUTANTS!!!!! What if they come for me next? I think I better leave town!" Carrie tries to run out the door but is stopped by the lunch lady.
"Not so fast, young lady! I think I know what happened to the gravy!" She wipes off a splotch of gravy on the corner of Carrie's mouth. "Just as I suspected! This is the third time this week you've eaten all the food! What do you have to say for yourself?"
"Um, quack!"
"YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!!"
"What does that mean?" Carrie asks.
"That means you don't work here anymore! Now leave!!!"
"But McDonald's doesn't sell shoes!"
"GET OUT OF MY KITCHEN!!!!!!!!" The lunch lady swings a frying pan at Carrie, but she dodges the lunch lady's wrath and runs out of the kitchen.
"I better do what she says! She knows how to make food!" Just as Ginta and the Eds are entering the cafeteria, Carrie nearly hits them with the door. Okay, so she misses Ginta, Double D, and Ed, but poor Eddy isn't as lucky as the impact sends him sailing across the hallway and he lands in an open locker.
"What's the matter, Carrie?" Ed asks his frantic girlfriend.
"What have you done this time, Carrie?"
"I don't know! All I did was say quack and a giant Swedish meatball attacked me!"
"Rolf has seen this meatball! It stalks Rolf and Wilfred in the dead of night!" Rolf cowers in fear of this "meatball terror" but is able to muster up his courage. "In honor of Rolf's ancestors and for the half-wit girl of the Ed-boy, Rolf will put an end to this terror!" Rolf removes his shoes and charges into the cafeteria screaming.
"Go get 'em Stretch!" Eddy cheers. "Man, Rolf will believe anything."
"Who's Rolf?" Carrie asks, confused.
Ginta takes a good look at his new host of friends. One is a short, loud-mouthed, megalomaniac who's a little perverted; another is a bald kid, who carries around a board with a face drawn on it, and there's Double D who's weaker than he is, only he's extremely smart, and there's Ed, who panics just at the mention of the word, 'soap', and is so big, he leaves people crying in his wake; and then this girl who can't remember anything and can out eat five sumo wrestlers easily, and last, this guy who talks in the third person and has these weird customs.
Rolf leaps onto a table wielding his shoe. "Evil meat product from who knows where, prepare for an unmerciful beating with Rolf's shoe!!!" He looks around, but the cafeteria is empty. He drops his shoe as a look of unbelief spreads across his face. "Rolf should have known better than to have believed the twisted fantasy of the chicken-brained Carrie-girl."
"Where's the grub? I'm starving!"
"Eddy, you're supposed to go to detention!" Double D reprimands the rude Ed-boy.
"In you're dreams, Mr. Clean!"
"Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Mr. Clean is here! He'll clean your walls and clean your floors with everybody here!" Ed sings.
"Shut up, Monobrow!"
"Um, where's the food?" Ginta asks. The lunch lady pops out of the kitchen.
"There is none. Madame Eats-a-lot over there ate all the food!"
"Carrie, not again! You're worse than Eddy and Ed about not learning from your mistakes!"
"Quack!" Carrie responds.
"That's okay, guys! I brought some food for everyone!" Carrie, Ginta, Eddy, Double D, Rolf, and Johnny gather around the Ed-boy.
"Way to go, Lumpy!"
"Got any granola?" Johnny asks.
Ed pulls out a huge pile of old food; half eaten sandwiches with mushrooms growing on them, an old turkey from last Christmas, candy from Halloween three years ago, some stale French fries from McDonald's and Burger King, a box of pork loaf, molded Oreo cookies, some fishing lures covered in lake muck, and to top it all off, everything is smothered in gravy that's dried out long ago. Everyone but Carrie recoils in disgust.
"Well, fine! Be that way!" Ed shouts at his friends, offended. Carrie, however, completely consumes Ed's pile of expired edibles.
From that point on, the day is uneventful, except for Ed and Eddy blowing up the chemistry lab and Carrie getting her hand stuck in the pencil sharpener. After eighth period, the kids all rush out of the school shouting out their plans for the afternoon; Kevin invites Nazz over to listen to some CDs, Rolf has farm work to do, Sarah and Jimmy are planning a picnic at the playground, Johnny challenges Plank to a game of checkers again, and the Kankers are fighting over who gets to make supper tonight.
"Well, we usually don't let anyone join in on one of the greatest days of the year, but since I like you and I'm the boss, I say you can join in on our celebration," Eddy says. He sprays his throat with breath spray and puts his arm around Carrie's neck. "And, of course, Carrie can join in, too!"
"Hello, George Washington! I'm Carrie!"
"You're really going to like what I've been working on all week, ladies and gentlemen!" Double D says, his voice filled with excitement.
"Oreo's for breakfast? This could be the start of a very cool day!" Ed shouts.
"Is it really Oreo's for breakfast, Double D?" Ginta asks sarcastically.
"Follow me to my garage and I'll show you!" Double D leads the way to his house.
What has Double D come up with? Why does Ed think Oreo's are the start of a very cool day? Will Eddy ever stop hitting on Carrie? Unfortunately, this is one of those annoying cliff hangers, so I'm not allowed to give away that information, so you're just going to have to wait until the next chapter…