KNOCK KNOCK

Kevin looked over at the metal door to the basement. He slowly moved towards the door, clutching a baseball bat as he did so. His breathes were almost silent and came out in an uneven fashion. He reached for the little slider on the door and just barely slid it open. He sighed in relief when he saw a familiar boy standing at the door. After hearing the password, Kevin quickly opened the door and let Edd into his basement.

"Salutations, Kevin," Edd greeted, all business.

"Where are the other dorks?"

Edd just chose to ignore the other boy's rudeness.

"They are gathering the rest of the food and supplies from the houses."

"Good, we'll need that stuff."

Kevin turned around and headed deeper into his large basement, followed by the smartest of the kids. Soon, they reached the entertainment room of the floor. Kev flipped the light switch on to show Edd that everyone was there, even the Kanker sisters. Everyone had different expressions on their face: some looked angry, some looked scared, others looked unsure and confused.

The things that had only just happened a few hours or so ago left them like that. It was all so sudden. Everyone was doing what they usually do when...they just came outta nowhere, taking all the adults first, then going after the kids. They managed to escape and hide out in Kevin's basement, like they did when they though Rolf's relatives were aliens. Everyone remembered that, but that was all just a misunderstanding and now there was a threat that was certainly real and it freaked them out to no end.

Everyone just sat there for the longest time, until Kevin heard another knock; he came back with the other two Eds, carrying bags over their shoulders.

"You guys got the food too, right?" Kevin asked.

"You bet!" Ed replied cheerily.

"Good. Did you see anymore of those guys up there?"

"No," Eddy answered, "The whole place is like a ghost town, not even any squawks from those annoying birds."

"That's unsettling," Edd cut in.

"What do we do now?" Jimmy asked in his usual timid manner, "Our parents are gone!"

"It's okay, Jimmy, we'll get through this," Sarah comforted him.

"They even got our parents," Lee said, gesturing to her and her sisters.

"Look, we should all stick together for one thing, right now we need each other...never thought I'd say that," Kevin said, "My house is the biggest, so we should all just camp out here for a bit until we know what's goin' on."

"I nominate myself as leader!" Eddy suddenly cut in, puffing his chest out heroically.

"Not a chance, dork!" Kevin said as he raised his fist, immediately shutting Eddy up.

"Nobody threatens my man!" Lee said as she stood up.

"I'm not your man!" Eddy shot back.

"Don't yell at my sister!" May also stood up.

Suddenly this huge argument just broke out between everyone over nothing. Edd pinched the bridge of his nose and leaned against the basement wall.

'Idiots,' he thought as he shook his head.

"QUIET!!" Kevin suddenly yelled, making everyone freeze in place, "Look, arguing isn't going to do sh-- right now! We need to stick together, it won't help if everyone's at each other's throats, we don't even know what's going on."

Everybody just sorta went all 'alright' after that as they sat back down.

"Hey, turn on the news, maybe they have something about this," Nazz said.

"Good idea." Kevin picked up the remote to the big entertainment TV and flicked her on.

After flipping through some channels, all of which had the multi-colored bars going through the screen. They eventually found a channel that actually worked and listened into the news.

"To anyone who is tuning in, it has only now just been a few hours after legions of mysterious people, and in some reports 'monsters.', attacked all over the world and captured, or killed, various people. Our news crew have been able to hide in this old part of the ATS news building and will continue to broadcast as long as we can. Currently we have no information, but we are taking calls if anybody is still out there and has information. Stay tuned for, hopefully, upcoming coverage of this crisis."

Kevin flicked the TV off and put the remote down.

"What should we do?" Johnny questioned.

"Just...lay low for a while, I guess," Kevin replied.

"We can't just stay here," Sarah said.

"Well we can't go out there, it's a global takeover, we've got nowhere to go to."

"For once, shovel-chin is right," Eddy said.

"Yes, but how long will we be able to hold out in this basement?" Edd questioned.

"Maybe...maybe we can make it defense-ready. I mean, we need to be ready if any of those guys come back," Kevin began, "You can build and hook up pretty much anything, right, double dork?"

"Well, yes, nearly anything. What are you thinking, Kevin?"

"I'm thinkin' maybe we can get some security cameras and other types of defenses set up outside the house. Double D, take whoever you need with you. Everyone who he doesn't pick is comin' with me on a hunt for some decent weaponry and anything else that might be of use. Got that?"

Nobody had any objections, Kevin seemed to know what he was doing and everyone just followed his lead, that's just about all you can do when you don't know what to do yourself. The teams set out, Edd taking Ed, Eddy, Rolf, Sarah and Jimmy with him, everyone else followed Kevin.

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The figure was resting on his throne, waiting for any news from his commanding officer.

"Where is he?" He half-snarled in impatience.

Just in time, the commander came busting through the door just before his superior thought about having him executed.

"Sire!" The commander saluted.

"Have you done it?"

"Yes, sire! We faced almost no resistance."

"Excellent! Those puny mortals still don't have a clue after all this time, not even a whole day and I'm already ruling with an iron fist...you left enough people to rule over, right?"

"Of course. Very few of them put up any resistance."

The figure scoffed.

"Pathetic mortals."

"But..."

Oh, that was never a good sign.

"'But.' what?"

"...Some people did escape-"

WHAM

He suddenly found himself thrown hard against the wall, being held up by an invisible force. He struggled and gagged as he felt pressure being applied to his neck and head, the pressure building every second.

"Who?"

"Some...children, sire-"

"FOOOOOOOL!!"

CRUNCH

The commander's helmet suddenly crushed into itself, sending a spray of blood coming from the eye holes of the battle piece. The figure lowered his hand and let the corpse drop to the ground.

"So, some people escaped, children no less. No matter, they can't hide from me, and soon, the whole word will know the wrath of Evil Tim!!"

Tim then looked around the throne room, noting its emptiness.

"I've gotta stop talking to myself."

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Well, there's the first chapter of my latest story.

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