Eddy was deep in a forest using the trees for cover as he continued to run, "Thanks to this bracelet we can't be found so easily, but it does force us to run... Good thing I'm in shape," Eddy said as he continued to run. After several minutes of running, Eddy finally came to a stop in front of three trees. After looking around and making sure no one was watching him, he placed a hand on the middle tree. After a few seconds the tree began to move forward and Eddy walked through the other two trees and several layers of vines. The tree then moved back to its original place.
After a few seconds of walking, Eddy finally came to the end of the vines and into a hallway lit with torches. "Home sweet home," Eddy said as he walked down the hall until he reached a large room where two people were sitting. One was Nazz who no longer had her white sleeveless shirt over the black T-shirt and her hair was tied behind her hair with a rubber band. The other was Jimmy, whose sweater had its sleeves tipped off. He also seemed more muscular than he did three years ago and his braces were removed. "I'm back," said Eddy and both Nazz and Jimmy turned to look at him with a smile. "Glad to see you made it back OK." said Nazz.
Eddy took off a brown jacket he was wearing showing he still had his signature look, "Yeah, thanks to this bracelet Double D built we can't be traced through our energy when we leave the base." Eddy said, sitting down. "Oh, before you rest, Rolf has a bag of Senzu ready." Jimmy said and Eddy got back up. "Well, I guess we can get some training in today now," said Eddy. He walked to another hallway entrance that was diagonal aiming down. Eddy walked down down the hallway for a few minutes and as he neared the bottom the hallway grew brighter and brighter.
Eddy continued until he reached another room that was lit bright with glowing yellow stones. The room had a stream of fresh water and plants growing on it, each row labeled with something different. The last row was smaller than the others and was labeled "Senzu." "Rolf, you here?" said Eddy as he looked around. "Over here, pink head Ed boy," said Rolf from the other side of the room, pulling some carrots from the ground. Eddy walked over to Rolf who was not wearing his shirt and he was a lot more muscular than before.
"Jimmy said you have some more Senzu ready?" Eddy asked the farmer. Rolf nodded, then reached into his pocket and pulled out a small brown bag. "Eight in total, Ed boy. Use them wisely," Rolf instructed, who then tossed the bag to Eddy, who caught it. "Don't we always?" Eddy replied, placing the bag in his pocket. Eddy got an apple from Rolf's basket then walked out of the room and up the hall again. "I wonder where the guys are, probably training..." Eddy thought to himself as he continued to walk.
Instead of going all the way up the hall, Eddy took a left at an opening to another hallway. Eddy continued to walk for a few minutes until he reached a door that had a sign on it that read 'In training' but that didn't stop Eddy from opening it. As Eddy walked inside he could hear the sounds of sparing taking place, the room was probably fifty feet high with the length and width of a football field. In the room stood four people, two were fighting while two were watching. The two fighting were one male and one female; the female was wearing a pink shirt with blue pants and had long red hair. It was Sarah who was probably a foot taller now and a lot stronger from three years of training.
The person she was sparing with was none other than her brother Ed, who was wearing the same clothing he always wore, except now his regular green Jacket was black. Ed had a serious look on his face as he trained his sister; he has also not said a word since that horrid day Corey, Drew, and Kevin died. Ed clearly had the advantage, but he did not let up on Sarah, forcing her to fight as hard as she could. The other two were Edd and Jonny, Edd wore his regular red shirt but has not worn his hat in years and has replaced his short pants for long ones of the same color. The other was Jonny who looked different than before. His body was also muscular but he looked a lot stronger than Rolf and, other than him wearing sneakers instead of his flip flops, he wore the same thing he always does.
"So how long have they been at it?" asked Eddy while Edd and Jonny were still paying attention to the spar. "Probably half an hour," Johnny replied. "Ed always gets harder on Sarah this time of year," said Edd still not taking his eyes away from them. "I could imagine, Sarah is all he has left in this world, he's done everything he could to keep her alive..." said Eddy. He then remembered when Ed started training Sarah, a few days after the battle with Utonium Ed took Sarah to a well hidden area. "What's wrong, Ed?" she asked as Ed stood there staring back at her, Ed then drew a line on the floor with his foot and stood in front of it.
Sarah did not understand as first but Ed motioned her to attempt to push him behind the line. Sarah ran up to Ed and tried to a tackle Ed, but before she made contact with him he responded with a punch to the face sending her back a few feet. Sarah sat there holding her cheek and crying, "What'd you do that for?!" she yelled, but Ed's facial expression did not falter. Ed motioned her to get up and try again. She did so, but each attempt ended the same, with Ed knocking her flat on the ground. Sarah did not know why Ed was doing this and eventually she started to grow angrier with each failed attempt.
After an hour of constantly failed attempts Sarah was breathing heavily, bruised all over, and very angry. Sarah stared at Ed's face, which still had the same look as before, only now she began to hate to that look... "Are you mocking me?!" she yelled as her anger continued to climb. Ed did not say a word which only angered her more to the point where she exploded. "Say something!" she yelled again and this time a pale pink aura flared around her as her power level grew at a great speed. Sarah then charged for Ed faster than a blink of an eye and landed a punch to his face. There was a moment of slow motion after Sarah made contact with Ed, but before she could hit the ground Ed had already grabbed her arm.
Sarah closed her eyes preparing to take another hit... but that's not what happened. Sarah was hugged by her older brother "wa...Ed...?" she said, wondering why he didn't hit her, but as she looked over his shoulder and to the ground she saw it, one of Ed's feet was behind the line. The flashback ended and Eddy focused on the spar again. "From that day on, Ed took charge of her training. They have both grown closer after that day, as well as more mature." Eddy finished
After another few minutes of training, Ed and Sarah's spar was over "Can I go play with Jimmy now?" she asked and Ed nodded yes to her, Sarah gave her brother a thank you hug and ran to the door, waving hello to Eddy as she passed him. "So who's up next?" asked Eddy. Edd and Jonny walked forward while Ed walked out of the training zone. "I guess I drew the short straw for being away..." Eddy mused, knowing he would have to spar solo.
Edd and Jonny stood on the spar ground, but Jonny's eyes were closed as he was focusing, after a few seconds Jonny formed black marks around his eyes and as he opened them his eye color had changed to green. "Are you ready Jonny?" Edd asked as he took on a battle pose. "Ready to go," said Jonny, also taking one. There was a moment of pause before the two vanished from human sight, but Eddy and Ed could see what was happening. Edd and Jonny were taking their spar to close combat throwing kicks and punches while avoiding the other's attacks. "Jonny sure has become strong after mastering his Nature Mode. It doesn't drain him at all to use it anymore." Eddy thought. "Jonny was not much stronger than the others at first, but the more time we spent in nature, the more he seemed to grow stronger. Later he learned to harness it with the help of Plank and he became the strongest human in the group..." Eddy continued. Like last time he flashed back to when it first started.
Jonny was sitting on a stump in a meditation pose holding Plank; he stayed in that position for a few minutes before the black marks finally started to form around his eyes. Now in Nature Mode, Jonny stood and walked up to a large rock, he placed both hands on it and attempted to lift it. There was a moment of strain, but the rock finally started to rise until it was over his head. Jonny was breathing hard as he tried to hold on to the rock, but it was too much to handle, and he dropped it in front of him.
Jonny sat down and deactivated his Nature Mode. "I can't hold the Nature Mode any longer than a few minutes..." Jonny said, still breathing heavily. The flashback ended and now Edd was having an upper hand in the spar. "He is not as strong as the three of us, but he is a more or less even match for Sarah, and even that is impressive." said Eddy as the spar continued. "It took him a while, but after a few months he was able to hold it for longer periods of time." Eddy continued. " But he also learned something new with his power..." Eddy went back to his flash back; the gang was sitting in the cave they set up base in. Everyone was taking a rest but Jonny, who was meditating in the back of the cave "I...I can feel something..." he said and the others turned to his direction.
"Feel what?" asked Edd wondering what Jonny could be feeling when at the time he had not been shown how to track energy. Jonny stood up and opened his eyes showing he was in nature mode; he turned and placed his hand on the wall at the back. After a pause the wall began to crumble as a hallway began to form. Jonny opened his eyes in amazement "Did...did I do that?" he asked "What's that, Plank?" he asked turning to look at Plank. "I can?" he said, then walked into the hallway and placed his hand on the wall at the end of it, doing what he did last time.
The others followed Jonny with a torch to keep the hallway lit for a few minutes until they finally reached an opening. The room was lit with golden stones, in the middle was a large tree. "How could a tree grow in a place like this?" he wondered, seeing how there was no way the sun could reach it. Jonny walked up to one of the stones and touched it. "These stones...they're like a sun substitute, they gave the tree all the nutrients it needed..." said Jonny as if he could understand the stones' nature. Everyone looked around, wondering how that was possible or how Jonny would know that... "What's that, Plank?" he asked again looking at Plank then to the tree "You think I should?" he asked again, then walked up to it.
Jonny placed Plank on the tree and in a few second Plank began to merge with it. "What's going on?" asked Jimmy. Jonny took his hand off of Plank after Plank had fully merged with the tree. "Plank told me that I have only scratched the surface of my Nature Mode, but if I want to master it I need to stop relying on him..." said Jonny. The others looked in confusion. "So...you're going to give up Plank?" asked Nazz knowing, how much Plank meant to Jonny. "He said he will always be with me in nature so long as he is merged with this tree." Jonny answered.
The flash back ended again. "Jonny then learned he can manipulate nature to his will and after a few weeks he was able to make the base we have today." said Eddy as the spar continued. "The walls and ceiling of this training room are covered in strong roots. Not even an earthquake can take them down, but we can't use our energy attacks when training due to danger of starting a fire... but beggars can't be choosers..." Eddy finished as the spar came to an end.
"You're progressing quickly, Jonny" said Edd as the two walked towards Eddy. "Thanks Double D, but I'm still nowhere near as strong as you guys," said Jonny in response. "Ok Eddy, you can take the training floor," said Edd but Eddy felt a little disappointed he couldn't spar with anyone. "I guess I can practice my form or something..." said Eddy but before he made up his mind on what he would do, Ed walked past him. "I guess I get to spar with someone after all..." Eddy thought to himself as he walked behind Ed. Ed and Eddy stood face to face "We have all changed so much in the past few years...but we had to do it..." Eddy reflected on everything that happened over the years. "We will fix this together, take down Utonium, and go back to how our lives were in the past...or die trying..." Eddy thought to himself and the two Saiyans began their spar.