Terror Striking Ed

Chapter 1: The Case of the Century

"Alright gentlemen, and as always I use that term lightly, our detective agency is open for business!" Double-d exclaimed as Eddy and Ed cheered. The three walked into their newly decorated office, which was just the shack out in the woods, but quite a bit spoofed up if you ask me. "It's, it's just beautiful!" Eddy gasped, "Think of all the money we'll rake in!" "Yes indeed," Edd agreed sighing and looking at his handiwork. On the left wall was hung a portrait of the three in their hilarious poses they always did while along the back wall was Eddy's main desk (Double-d's was at his house, which he had soup can telephones connecting the two together).

"What's that spify looking thing?" Ed asked befumbled at the site. It was a little robot Double-d had created to clean up after the Eds and take care of them so that Double-d wouldn't always have to. "Well I made this little assistant so that I wouldn't be the only one taking care of things around here," Double-d replied checking to see if the box head was screwed on all the way, "Don't ya just want to hug him!" "Yap yap yap," Eddy said slumping back into his chair, "Ya know it's kinda late so you guys might wanna get home, my parents are out so I can stay here for the night. Oh and Double-d, thank you for making the hay filled bed!" "No problem Eddy, oh yes, mother and father will be worried, Ed you're sister's gonna have kittens!" Double-d yelled and ran off. "Aw, why couldn't it have been chickens instead?" Ed moped while walking off, "Tootaloo Eddy." Eddy just sighed and layed back on the bed as the door closed.


"Where am I?" Eddy asked whipping his head about hysterically looking down the deserted lane where the kids always played, "Where is everybody? And how the heck did I get here! Ah well, might as well take a walk…" So Eddy trotted off towards the direction of the cul-de-sac. Every now and then a can might blow by due to the wind but other than that everything was still and eerie, there wasn't even any noise. "Hello!" Eddy yelled angrily then shuddered not hearing his voice bounce off of anything, it was just…there. Suddenly Eddy tripped over something, something odd. There it was! A skeleton, he had fallen over it….wait…a skeleton! With that Eddy ran as fast as he could away screaming, "man I wish my subconcious wasn't so creepy!" WHAM!

Eddy fell backwards after slamming into a taller figure. "Heya heya bro, haha, nice to see a friendly face," Eddy sighed getting back up with a smile. The sihlouette mearly glared down at him staring into his eyes and asked, "You didn't see anything did you!" "Um…no…why?" "Good!" he yelled and shoved Eddy to the ground. Suddenly a little toy ran up to him and crawled on top of his head. It looked like a robot that would have been built by a little kid or at least drawn by one and said, "Keep walking, ignore it okay?" "Why should I do what a little toy says?" Eddy hissed anxiously. "You wish to stay safe from your brother do you not?" it asked back and Eddy nodded with a bead of sweat slipping down his brow, "Then run!" Eddy did just that, he ran and ran and ran, not stopping, not even to catch a breath as he knew his brother was hot on his trail from the start and had seen right through his little lie.

"Wait a minute!" Eddy said stopping in his tracks, "This isn't even real! Why the heck should I be scared of an illusion!" "It was real at one point was it not?" the robot asked from his shoulder, "Is it not as scary as in reality?" "What! What do you mean this was real?" he asked. Suddenly he heard the breathing of his brother's breath above him and ducked as he nealy took his head off with an axe. No time to think now, just to act. As cunning as he ever was Eddy slammed through the fencing in the alley and made a surf board of sorts from a broken piece riding down the creek. "Good job Eddy!" the robot exclaimed happily as they heard police sirens where Eddy's brother was and heard him getting taken away and cursing, "But it's time for you to face the day ahead!"


"Good morning Eddy," Double-d said wearing a detective hat and wandering about the office, "came over to tell ya something great ya know. We got ourselves a case!" "For real!" the short ed asked leaping high out of bed, "That's awesome, how much we gonna get paid!" "Five hundred dollars each!" Double-d replied with a huge smile, "But there's just one thing…" "Yeah? What is it? Murder, incest, torture, don't worry I can take em all Double-d my man," Eddy said assuringly getting on a nice leather coat to face the snow outside. "Well, we were assigned to Nazz." "Sweet!" Double-d put his hand up and continued, "Ed's already there, but it's odd, he reported that Nazz was not knocked out or unconcious or anything at all, just sitting there smiling into space with her eyes wide open. Her parents have asked us to find out who the predator was and deal justice." "One sockhead, it's Ed we were talking about, who knows what he actually means, and two, no low brain 'predator' Cough Kevin Cough, is gonna stop this detective!" Eddy said patting his chest then grabbing Double-d's hand and dragging him out the door into the winter snow.


"Alright, let's go over this one more time," Ed said looking into Nazz's eyes with a flashnight, "Nope, nobody's home. Anyways, you say she was found like this at the AKA makeup department? Just breathing happily with her head drooped over a bit?" "That's correct," the older woman replied with tears and looking at her daughter, "Just out of touch with anything it looks like." "I see, you know I've only read about this kind of thing happening in comics, and believe me even in them it's rare, but I honestly have no clue of what to do until my partners get here…let's see, was there anyone with her that night? Anyone that might've been able to identify anything?" "No I don't believe so, she had been so distraught before though, like she was going a bit insane, but not too much." "Well, let's just have her body resting here till my partners come, we're not used to getting up at 2 in the morning for a case ya know." Ed told her and sat down in the factory.


"Yo, Rolf, what's up dude?" Kevin asked excitedly sliding into the house on his snowboard and getting a mug of hot chocolate. "Oh nothing much, Rolf's nana is finally away in bed so Rolf is at peace for the moment. I heard that googoo Nazz was attacked earlier this morning," the foreign boy replied cracking his back in multiple places. "WHAT!" Kevin screamed, "Who on earth could have done this!" "Well I heard that the ed-boys had just recently also finished constrution on their detective agency and are checking the case in." "That's out dude, and what!…again, I mean come on it's two in the freaking morning!" "Rolf suspects that Kevin jockboy is sleepy?" "No way on earth dude! Not when something like this has happened!" he yelled and bolted out the door grabbing his snowboard again, "Come on dude, we're finding out what happened!" "Er…Right away, yeesh, Rolf finally gets a chance to settle down and he's off again, my oh my oh my!"

The bluehaired adolescent chased after Kevin as fast as he possibly could stumbling a bit through the gushing snow. SLISH SLOSH SLISH SLOSH! Rolf's feet were unbearably cold in this sort of weather even with his boots and snow shoes strapped on. Just about fifteen minutes before Kevin had arrived for the visit they had had planned Rolf had been out all night raking his nana's weeds out of the freezing cold ground with his bear hands, and let me or him tell ya, it's no picnic! Anyways, suddenly Rolf slipped though Kevin continued onward not taking much, if any notice, of what had just happened. "Rolf can go on no longer," the farmer boy sighed lowering his head, "Perhaps just a quick rest…" Struggling Rolf crawled over into a box between two houses and wrapped his scarf tightly around him.

"Rolf feels to numb to go on much longer, just get some energy back and get home Rolf must," he whispered to himself. Sniff sniff. Rolf smelled a familiar scent behind him. Looking curiously around he spotted something odd, a little tiny, metal man, probably something a child had dropped a while back, but oddly enough it was clean and not covered in snow as everything else was. Suddenly a movement stirred in one of the joints and Rolf perked his head forward some. "Rolf could have sworn…" there it was again! Movement in the right, and then the left as the little humanoid flipped itself over and looked up at him with a cute painted on smile. "Hello," it said playfully getting into a sitting position and looked about anxiously, "Why are you here?"

"Rolf must be going out of his head…" he gasped a bit and rubbed his eyes but the robot stilled remained and asked again, "What are you doing here…Rolf?" The being was actually talking to him, the simple son of a shepherd, "Is it something you remember?" "What?" Rolf asked picking up the being, "What does the little one mean?" "You know of this place at all Rolf?" it asked again. The foreign boy finally got it and looked around at the walls. Yes, yes it did seem a bit familiar but from where? When? It must have been something imporant, something just there above the surface of his mind. "Remember the mud?" Suddenly Rolf's eye's lit up and a shadow moved across the alley, a humanoid figure with three fingers it had looked like, but it had only been a flicker, a little spark of the imagination, it must have been.

"Rolf is sorry, but he must be going now…" he told the littler being and got up with the robot still in his hands. "May I come as well?" it asked quivering, "the cold snow is ever so solidifying on my joints and it is hard to move around in such weather." Rolf pondered for a minute or two and finally answered, "Sure, why not, as long as you act like a normal toy when nana is around though, she mustn't find out." "And she won't," it assured him and hopped on his shoulder as the two departed leaving the alley and the shadow behind. Rolf's shadow stretched and stretched in the darkness and finally disappeared leaving only a little image of the three fingered begin that had been there…


"Hey dude, how ya holding up!" Kevin shouted back after not talking for quite a while, "…dude?" Finally the boy stopped and spun around looking about, "Where'd ya go man?…Ah well, he can make it back on his own, I however, have to go for Nazz." He sledded off seeing the candy store finally pop into veiw down below the hill and a few stores away was AKA Makeup Department. "Finally!"


"Yo Ed!" Eddy yelled hopping in and taking a look at the victim, Nazz, "Whoa, what's with her?" "Please detective!" the mother cried, "You must find out who did this to my dear dear daughter!" "Of course miss," Double-d let her know patting her bck and trying to comfort her, "We're going to find her, but first we need to know everything that went on that day." "Oh, would you like me to tell you everything I know?" she asked looking at them. "That would be helpful," Double-d replied pulling out a notebook, "You may start whenever you're ready."

"Okay, okay…" the woman set straightening up and beginning to murter a few little things then started, "Well, as you three should know yesterday was an extremely snowy day as it is a snowy night right now. Nazz was hanging out with her two dear friends, Jimmy and Sarah, after getting past a little depression that morning. She told me about something she really wanted to forget and just ran off to play. That was the last I really heard of her that day, then I got a call from factory workers here that a girl had entered after it was closed and I rushed over wondering what she could possibly be doing at this hour."

Double-d viciously took down note after note while Eddy checked out Nazz's body looking for any clues (Shouldn't Ed be even better suited than Eddy to do that kinda thing? With Eddy…bad thoughts being thought…;). Ed mearly looked over all the equipment in the area and hit his fist against a huge metal sphere making an echo. "Well thank you…" Double-d said putting his notebook back in his detective's coat, "I think we'll do some investigating with other people, you probably should get your daughter home." "Yes sir," Nazz's mom replied picking her up, "You just make sure you catch this person you hear me!" "Of course, of course mam!" Double-d said jumping back a bit, "Gentlemen, we better depart as well, I wanna get back to bed, we'll continue in the morning." "Right," Eddy agreed and grabbed hold of the big boy, "Hey Ed come on!"

"Um, guys, what if this attacker is like an interdimensional alien of the cosmos!" Ed exclaimed as he was being dragged out by the ear. "Ed get real and read a real book or something, TV really has rotted your brain to the core," Double-d said as they followed Nazz's mom out into the cold and Double-d wrapped his clothes tighter around himself. Just then something slid into the cold factory on a board.

"Oh great, Kevin!" Eddy yelled in frustration looking at the jock boy who just sneered at them. "What happened to Nazz? Who attacked her, I'm gonna kill them!" he exclaimed walking over to Double-d and pulling out a fist, "Just tell me who it was and they're dead meat!" "Kevin," Edd sighed with glazed eyes and a bored expression, "Don't get so excited just yet, we have no idea who it was but we're gonna be doing some investigating. So if you have anything you know of Nazz doing yesterday, would ya please tell us?" "Yeah, I'll tell you, she was hanging out with me and Rolf for a bit yesterday before she said she had to pick up something at the makeup store," he told him. "Thanks…" Double-d said and took a note, "Well listen we need to get home and get some shut eye before trying to solve this okay?" "Sure, but I'm gonna find whoever did this first and have the last laugh way before you guys do!" he said. "I wish you would…" Double-d sighed and headed out.

"Why the heck was Kevin so nice to you!" Eddy yelled angrily as he rode on Ed's shoulders. "Well maybe it's cause I'm not a jerk to him, do you ever realise, Eddy, that he really only dislikes you? He doesn't really mind me and Ed," Double-d answered trying to walk through the blizzard, "You sorta act a bit like a nuisiance to him. Anyway's have fun in the shed Eddy, I need to get home now if we are to really tackle this case head on tomarrow." Eddy thought this over a bit and said, "Ed, you're staying with me tonight, get some detective comics and read up cause we are going to solve this case!"

This left just Kevin alone to think of what to do now. What Double-d said was true, to solve this case they do need rest, but Kevin wanted it solved now, before it would happen again. "Alright, I'm gonna take this guy down right now, he couldn't of gotten too far!" he yelled and grinded out on his board, "Now where would I hide if I had just attacked Nazz?" He passed the candy store after a few seconds and slid down town farther looking for anyone, anybody at all, but no one, none at all were there. Suddenly Kev fell tripping into steps flinging him to the snow covered ground below.

"Ugh!" he gasped trying to get up but to no avail, his feet were still attached to the board, "Man, this sucks, su…suks…ah choo!" The boy's sneeze echoed throught the entire plaza bouncing off of buildings, "Ah, geez, I got a cold now!" Shhrrrrshrrrr! Something was behind Kevin, following him. Hastily Kevin just ripped his feet out of the boards straps snapping them and took off running. SHRRRSHRRRRRRR! It was getting louder but Kevin still struggled, the snowy air burning against his skin as he crawled up a hill. His hands were numb by now as well as his feet which were soaked from snow leaking through his socks. "Hello," someone said behind him, "How are you tonight?"

Kevin turned around, somewhat afraid and saw the person talking. The boy trembled a bit looking at the dark figure in shadows. The more Kevin shook and tried to look away the more the being became more clear. It looked like a young boy in about his teens with probably a ripped up coat or cape draped down to his legs in back. On his waist hung a belt which's buckle was lower and off to the left side and instead of one strap there were two, one going around his hip while the other went around his waist and ended near the left side of his pelvis. His eyes had what looked like goggles covering them so the color of the eyes couldn't be identified. On each side of the head were what looked like horns or something only like…think of batman's mask and take away overything except the ears and that's the shillouete looks like. Finally on each hand were three long fingers with suction cup looking structures on the end.

None of the body features or colors could really be seen though as the person began walking towards him asking, "Do you need help getting home Kevin?" "What?" he asked backing up farther onto the hill with his arms, "Who are you? How do you know me?" The being just kept walking forward, his cloth twirling about his feet. Kevin could now clearly see that it wasn't a cape or coat but four strips of clothe running along down his back and he had a jagged design across the upper part of his costume's torso.

Kevin screamed and began running as he got up. He puffed and panted with his eyes trying to see through the white air around him. "Hey!" someone yelled in the distance, "Come over here!" The jock boy ran as fast as his legs would carry him towards the voice. "Come on!" it shouted again but Kevin couldn't reply, his throat would get too ripped up from the snow and cold and besides he probably had a cold by now. WHAM! Kevin fell to the ground unconcious.


Well, how do you lot like my new story eh? Oh and 8b-2q-7a, sorry I put this story up first but I am just about done with the next chapter of Freaks of Nature Unite or whatever, it has your character in it. So who do you people think this attacker is? A Kanker, Jimmy, Johnny? Who? Well wait for the next chapter and you just might find out...or not.