"Come on, Sockhead!" Eddy shouted. "Hurry up!"
"Eddy, you know it's never easy to prepare for a TV show-themed sleepover," Double D replied. "There's the movie theater, the sleeping bags, and of course the DVD." Eddy practically drooled when he saw the DVD in its transparent case. He nodded, "Yeah, I'm just glad Ol' Shovel Chin gave it to us, since we're friends now." He grabbed for the DVD, but Double D pulled it away from him. "Actually," he clarified, "this belongs to his cousin. Also, Kevin finds the whole 'friend' thing questionable, which is why he lent it to me in the first place."
He looked at the disc with a red-haired man with a beard on it. He had cream clothing on with white armor on his collarbone, shoulder, and arm. The background was white and most of the wording was red. Double D said, "I just can't understand what makes this particular TV series so special. After all, it is just science fiction."
Eddy cried, "Just science fiction?! Double D, we're talking about one of the greatest movie series in the world! Or the universe, for that matter." "Yes, but I don't see the point in making a big hubbub about it," Double D said. Eddy pulled him close to him and explained, "Of course you need to make a big hubbub about it. This is Star Wars, for crying out loud!" He pointed to the DVD and continued, "This is The Clone Wars we're going to be watching! Hello? Now, come on! I want to see the big battles and lightsabers whooshing." As Eddy raced off making whooshing sounds, Double D followed him and said, "All right. If you say so, Eddy."
Double D placed the DVD in the player and turned on the projector. He got down on his sleeping bag alongside his friends. They were in the same tent they used for the cinema scam before Ed crashed it with his bad mood. Ed and Eddy were, of course, ecstatic. Double D found this evident by the way they fidgeted excitedly. He wondered what it was it about this Star Wars TV show that got them all revved up, so he decided he should watch it with them…just to see.
The Eds munched on the popcorn as the beginning title rolled on and the music was playing. They watched the Geonosis arc as Ed pointed out key details of each episode. Double D had special regard only for the fortune cookies, the technology, and the battles. Truthfully, he was kind of disturbed by the brainworms, but he certainly didn't show it. He did find most of the episode arc fascinating, but there were many elements he didn't understand. Whenever the credits rolled, he took a peek at his Nancy Drew book that he borrowed from the library.
He wanted to retire early after they watched "Brain Invaders", but his friends insisted that he would watch two more episodes with them. Double D, of course, relented. But what he saw in the next two episodes would be of valuable information for what was going to happen shortly afterwards.
After he read the fortune cookie, the newsreel had completely caught his attention. It was because of one character who was mentioned in the newsreel of the first episode was brought up again in this newsreel: General Grievous. He was an enigma to Double D. He had a robotic body, yet didn't move like one. He was lurching forward, unlike the rest of the droids. He had only one trait that set him apart from his mechanical soldiers: his baleful golden eyes.
The general's eyes pierced through Double D a bolt of fright, yet the boy genius couldn't help but observe them. They seemed reptilian in origin, but how was this possible when Grievous acted like a human? Double D had seen many aliens and cyborgs, but never one like Grievous, who was so almost completely mechanical yet he still retained his animalistic nature. Double D watched "Grievous Intrigue" with most of interest. There was another thing that disturbed Double D: the droid general's personality. Grievous was very fierce almost to the point of being murderous. Double D pitied the general's very hatred when it came to confronting the Jedi.
He was appalled by his brutal actions as he inflicted suffering on the Jedi Master he captured. There was also his voice, which cut through Double D as if he was shouting at him. Double D became nervous, yet utterly fascinated, with him. He vowed that the next morning, he would research about General Grievous.
After the boys watched "The Deserter", they found it hard to go to sleep. For that, Double D had a solution. He read to them the Nancy Drewbook and his friends fell asleep just like that. It took a while for Double D himself to fall asleep; he found Nancy Drew to be just as fascinating as General Grievous. Just before he drifted off into slumber, Double D wondered, I bet I could sleuth on General Grievous and see what drove him to such villainy. It would be amazing to actually get to talk to him in person. But he's a fictional character. What are the odds of me…talking to…*yawn*…Grievous…in person?