Eddy and Rolf will only be seen in flashbacks in this chapter.
You know the drill with reviewing and updating.
FanofDa'EdBoyz: You will definitely see all the other cast members, I never ignore characters, especially in situations like these were everyone is bound to be effected. While I definitely plan to develop the legendary rivalry between the Ed's and the Kankers, I need time to pull it of properly, so while we will see the Kankers, I will explore their rivalry in full depth later, as for Jimmy and Johnny you will definitely see them. And do not count Rolf as a good guy just yet, but he will have a mentor-ish role.
TBSparky: Like I said that is not the last of Ed and Eddy, but they will be absent for a few stories.
Ziggon: Thanks for you're advise, I did make the dialog a bit short, I will have to fix it. And about Kevin getting what's coming to him… You will not be disappointed.
Kaiser Aldamon: Not so fast, Edd hasn't got Nazz, yet. Put it will be explored.
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Kevin was riding to school on his precious bike faster than he had before. His speed was created by pure rage. He had been betrayed by one he thought a friend, technically everyone was in on it, but why him? He remembered the day which was making his blood boil all too well:
Kevin was chatting with several new jocks, apparently Lemon Brock had been hit harder than Peach Creek, causing it's students to be moved to schools all over, many found themselves in Peach Creek. Since Kevin was the only real jock there and Rolf had quit the football team, they all rallied around him. He had promised them that he would make sure they retained the dominance they had at their former schools. He promised to give them a special treat today.
Kevin was emptying his locker when suddenly he heard the all too familiar voice he wanted to hear.
"Ah three haired Kevin boy, Rolf sees that you are adjusting well to your sporty new friends from the town of the Lemon." Rolf said walking into the hallway on his crutches.
"Yeah Rolf, me and the boys here wanted to talk to you about something."
"Then speak with haste as Rolf is due for another tedious like watching Victor feed from the food spoils Biology class."
"According to a little rumour I've heard, you are going to be home schooled in a few days."
"Oh Ho, you wish to offer Rolf your congratulations!" Rolf said happily.
"Actually maybe you could have told… Oh I don't know, maybe…You're best friend?!?" Kevin almost shouted those last three words causing their conversation to draw lots of attention.
Rolf started to walk past Kevin on his crutches with an expression of impatience "Rolf did not realize he needed the permission of the three haired Kevin boy…" He continued mumbling, switching from English to foreign.
Kevin then pulled out a metal ball and threw it right at Rolf's limp foot, but Rolf amazingly managed to move his foot out the way and avoided the ball perfectly. He then turned towards Kevin way too fast for a disabled man to do "Have you gone crazy like Wilfred after not being fed, three haired Kevin boy?"
Kevin walked towards Rolf with a satisfied expression and said. "We all saw what you did there Rolf, time to come clean." He said as though he were a parent trying to calm down their child. "You claim to have been limp for two weeks, but limp men would take much longer than that to go up the stairs on their own, but you have been doing it perfectly since we got back to school." He then gently took away Rolf's crutches and everyone gasped and some screamed when they saw that he was standing on two feet perfectly.
"What do you want three haired Kevin boy?"
"To give you your first "Welcome to being a dork" beating." As soon as he said this he and his friends started walking towards Rolf.
"Goodbye" Rolf said hurriedly as he ran down the hall.
"GET HIM!" Kevin shouted as they ran after him.
Rolf continued running until he bumped in to none other than Eddy. "Watch were you're going, stretch." he said angrily as he got up. But Rolf stayed on the floor.
"Protect Rolf, greedy Ed boy!" He said, pleadingly.
Just then Kevin and his friends came round the corner "Time to fight and die, Rolf" Kevin said evilly.
"Dude, that's intense" Nazz said walking over concerned. "Rolf's you're friend Kevin." She said angrily kneeling down beside Rolf.
"Not anymore Nazz, Now get up Rolf and fight me, NOW YOU DORK!" He shouted in rage.
Eddy turned to look at Rolf and said "Why does he think you can get up?" Eddy said suspiciously. Rolf then gave a sigh of frustration and then smiled as he got back on his own two feet. "YOU SON OF A--" Eddy shouted in spite.
"Calm down Ed boy" Rolf said in panic as he started backing away from Kevin and Eddy.
"And people used to say I was low." Eddy said angrily walking towards Rolf alongside Kevin and his friends.
"Kevin, Rolf was a jerk for doing that but I think you're overreacting" said Nazz trying to halt Kevin's steady advance towards Rolf.
"Out of my way Nazz, this is between me and that bastard I called a friend." Kevin said pushing Nazz out of the way but trying not to hurt her. His expression became more angry and hateful as he took more steps towards Rolf, he was going to make him pay for this.
Just then they heard giggling and laughing from several familiar voices. "Plank says that was the best performance ever Rolf." Said a familiar happy voice. They all turned to see a smiling Johnny with none other than his best friend "Plank".
"Thank you Johnny the wood boy." Rolf said walking over to stand next to Johnny. "Our Prank went well, you may now thank Rolf for his assistance Johnny wood boy."
"Couldn't have done it without Ya Rolf!" Johnny said happily as they both stared at the supposed victims of the "victims" of Rolf's apparent deception.
"Oh I get it, Kevin, it was just a prank" she then walked over to Rolf and put an arm around him. "Lighten up Kevin."
"Nazz, our relationship is under threat from a total dork, DON'T TELL ME TO LIGHTEN UP!" He shouted at her impatiently.
Johnny was one of the many victims of Kevin's reluctance to evacuate anyone other than Nazz to the basement. The only effect the meteor seemed to have on him seemed to be that some of his ties to reality had been repaired to the point that he has doubted the authenticity of plank as a living being, but he always seems to convince himself Plank is still real and continues to carry him around.
"Do you realize how betrayed we felt when you sent Nazz down to the basement but left us to fend for ourselves while trying to make sure the Eds didn't become heroes? You're no better than you said Eddy was." Johnny said practically in tears. "We wanted you to taste betrayal."
Kevin ran at Johnny in rage and grabbed him and started to choke him, how dare he say that about his actions that day, he was a hero. "Let's get one thing strait, clueless. The only reason I haven't made all you're lives a living hell by now is because of Nazz. You're all losers, but Nazz…Nazz is the most righteous girl on this whole F**king planet, I would give anything to have her." He out spat in rage with his grip getting tighter with every word. "The Eds have given you reasons not to like them, but everyone you're all much more like them than you think. I knew you would come out on their side eventually, if it weren't for Nazz I would have killed you all on that day, which is today. If you ever suggest that I should have left her to die again I will not let go." He then let go of Johnny who fell to the floor choking, Kevin stood there hyperventilating in anger before going over to Nazz and putting an arm around her shoulder and walking down the corridor with her. She was shivering uncontrollably, obviously terrified of what Kevin had done. Kevin gently whispered into her ears "It's all right".
The jocks began whispering to each other excitedly as they began following Kevin, this was definitely their kind of guy.
"Kevin boy has gone crazy!" Rolf said with an expressionless face and an emotionless voice.
"tell me about it." Eddy said half expressionless half shocked. "I knew first hand he was a complete jerk, but this… This is pure evil. By the way, How long have you been able to walk stretch?"
"Ever since his first day back at school." They heard Johnny's voice say. "Me and Plank found him out on his first day, we then made a deal to teach that mean old Kevin a lesson. Rolf originally wanted to use it to gain sympathy."
Eddy turned towards Rolf and said "The Handicapped card eh? Now THAT is low." Eddy said angrily.
"Ed boy, last time Rolf checked he was not the one who threatened Johnny the wood boy with death." Rolf said calmly.
"I had no idea you were capable of something like that." Eddy said angrily. "But then again you did cheat me out of all my belongings just for a magic money tree seed, I needed to threaten to have you arrested to get it back."
"Yes Ed boy, an unpleasant business." Rolf said walking away still as calm as ever.
"Someone needs to keep an eye on you." Eddy called after him.
"Who Ed boy? Rolf will not be here, you seem to think Rolf poses some kind of threat like a wolf in a sheep's folding." he said still walking away.
"And we all know what "Wolf" spells if you replace the W with an R." Eddy said.
Rolf just continued to walk away only this time he was giggling and mumbling something in foreign.
"Couldn't have done this without him." Johnny said happily.
"You mean almost get murdered by Kevin?" Eddy said slightly annoyed.
"Look on the bright side Eddy, now everyone sees Kevin for what he is." Johnny said trying to rationalize to Eddy.
"Yeah, and now I see Rolf for what he really is too." Eddy said angrily as he walked of in the other direction.
Rolf, Ed and Eddy left shortly after and to ad to Kevin's problems, the headmaster heard the whole thing and told his parents. They threatened to send him to a local military academy if he tried that again. Of Coarse, in his mind, only one person responsible… Double D… The very name made his blood boil, he would not get Nazz, he would NOT. And if that meant Kevin might wind up in prison or the electric chair, so be it.
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Edd had not slept that night, he got up early to examine his new muscular body in the mirror then went out to practice his strength. There was not much to use outside to demonstrate his full potential, so he jumped over the fence to the lane and sure enough there was something there. One of Rolf's many broken and discarded tractor engines. He then tried to pick it up, it was difficult at first, but to his astonishment managed to lift it with practical ease,
"DAD!!!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.
His father ran out as soon as possible "Eddward! Son!" he shouted.
"Over here." he called from over the fence.
Richard climbed over and saw his son holding the engine. "How do you? What are you?".
"I can lift it" he said excitedly. He then threw it up and it must have flown all the way to the junk yard. "This is great" he said excitedly.
"I don't want you going to school today." His father said panicked.
"Not a chance, I will have the advantage when Kevin comes at me next time." He said happily.
"Exactly, I don't want you hurting anyone." His father said desperately.
"Don't worry, I think he is smart enough to lay of with just a demonstration." He said with a slightly sinister tone.
"That's not the point son, What will people do if they see that you can do things like… well.. That?" He said pointing in the direction that the engine had flown.
"You think they will go all X-files on me." He asked sarcastically as he climbed back over the fence into his garden.
His father followed and said "I understand that you might--"
"NO YOU DON'T" Edd shouted angrily. "Do you have any idea what it's like do be called "Dork" everyday? To be threatened to get beaten up if you stand up for yourself?" He said, how dare his father tell him that he couldn't get back at Kevin for how he treated him.
"Son, I know what it is like, but with this kind of… Power… You need a sense of… Responsibility." He said all this without trying to push the wrong buttons with his son's emotions.
"You mean a "responsibility" to let Kevin walk all over me? Sorry Dad, but this is one time I am not listening to you." He waited for his fathers reply, "What would you do if you lived a life like mine? And for the record, I'm not doing it just for myself… I'm doing it for Ed and Eddy, Kevin ruined their childhoods here, he is not going to ruin mine ANYMORE." He pushed his father out of the way so as not to hurt him. "Now I need to get ready for school."
He ran up to his room and slammed the door. "He doesn't understand" He thought to himself. "I am just not going to be pushed around anymore, Kevin is going to pay, the more he challenges me the more I'll remind him that I am not "Double Dork" anymore." He thought to himself trying to imagine Kevin's reaction to when he starts fighting back. "And Nazz… I can't wait to have a real chance to win her love."
He then heard a knock on his door "Son, I know you're angry about how you've been treated over the years, but I want to remind you, How are you any different from Kevin if you beat him up?"
"That doesn't matter anymore dad, this is war, the point of war is to win, no matter the cost." He said seriously.
"Listen to you son, you sound like a… A… Conservative!" He said desperately.
"If "Conservative" is the word for someone who will fight against the type of oppression I went through and win, then you're right."
"I am not going to try and stop you son, just remember innocents die in wars too."
Edd finished getting ready and opened the door. He seized his chance to speak and said "Only one will walk out of this fight with any dignity and that's going to be me." He walked past his father and ran down the stairs to catch the bus. Leaving his father standing on the landing to contemplate how the day will end.
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Edd was at his locker when he heard two familiar voices and turned around to see Jimmy and Johnny who were in panics.
"Double D, Kevin's after us and this time he may kill us for sure." Johnny said in panic.
"Yes, we require someone of you're immense strength to challenge this adversary." Jimmy said trying to sound as calm and civilized as possible.
"What makes you think I can beat him?" Edd said trying to sound clever.
"Because we need you too." Johnny said desperately.
"All right I'll take care of him" After he said this he noticed many people staring at him in apprehension.
Just then he felt a tingle in the back of his neck and ducked out of the way just in time for two forms to fly over and hit the ground. He immediately recognized the two forms as those of the Lee and May Kanker who had obviously tried to get the jump on him.
"Looks like the last Ed has got some reflexes May" said Lee who was the first to get up.
"Yeah, lets test them, Lee" May said excitedly as she got up too.
"Leave him alone!" They all saw Marie standing there with an angry look on her face like Edd had never seen before.
"Marie we may never know why you have changed so much, but we really don't care this one is the last Ed, so learn to share or you're going to bed with not only no boyfriend, but lots of bruises for the rest of you're life." Lee said in a very sinister tone.
"Do you want to be his girlfriends or his childhood tormentors, I mean it leave him alone." Marie said firmly.
"We'll get right back to Ya" Lee said to Edd as she and May got ready to fight their sister. "You really should be careful Marie, you know how animals get when food is scarce."
"Ok if you're such animals then why aren't you in the Zoo?" Marie said grinning.
"THAT'S IT!" Lee shouted as she ran towards Marie in rage only to get a swift kick in the face.
"WHY YOU!?!" May shouted as she jumped at Marie but found herself in a headlock.
Marie braced herself for another attack as she released May who fell to the ground. Sure enough Lee got up and flung herself at Marie only for Marie to jump out of the way and then grabbed Lee's hair and pulled a large chunk of it right out. Lee screamed in pain and fell over whimpering while May tried an almost identical attack to the one Lee attempted with equally fruitless results, Marie shoved her elbow into May's stomach and she gasped in pain and fell over.
"That's enough!" Lee said as she and May both got up and got ready for another attack.
This time they went at Marie simultaneously. Marie managed to kick May who let out a quick yelp of pain but was otherwise unfazed. Marie found that her sisters were now holding both her arms in an attempt to restrain her and started kicking her in the stomach. They kicked her four times as she fell to the ground with an expression of anger rather than pain on her face.
"Now, where were we?" Lee said turning towards Edd.
"Oh no" Edd said to himself. He had thought that with his newfound strength he could defend himself from the Kankers. But what if he wasn't strong enough? What if he made a mistake and wound up just like Marie? Maybe his dad was right, maybe he should just run away. NO that was not an option for him, he had to show he wasn't a dork anymore. "I don't want to hurt you." he said trying to hide the panic in his voice.
"Don't worry, we'll enjoy this." Lee said in a sinister tone.
They both ran towards him at high speeds and he almost instinctually grabbed them by their shirts an to his amazement lifted them of the ground. "Wow" he thought as he effortlessly held the two Kankers dangling a few inches above the ground. "I warned you" he said as he threw both of them into the lockers.
He stood there motionless for a while until he heard a familiar voice. "Hey Dork, I want a word with you."
Edd looked round trying to act calm when he was in fact angry at being called dork again. "Only if you stop calling me dork."
"Hey" Kevin said grabbing Edd by his shirt. "I know Nazz is giving you second looks, you better start acting the dork you are again before the damage is done. Nazz is the hottest girl in the school and if you make her look at you anymore than she is now… Ill kill you, If I cant get her no one will." Kevin said as his anger built up with every word.
"This isn't about Nazz, Kevin, this is about you making life a living hell for me and my friends for the last few years. If you don't stop now I will make you stop." Edd said trying to sound threatening but not angry.
"Are you threatening me dork? Are you trying to act cool? If you try to act cool around Nazz Ill smash you're head in. As long as you have even a chance of scouring with my girlfriend I will make sure that as long as you're in the school with her you will live in my shadow." Kevin said this time making his anger obvious.
"If this is you're way of saying that you want me to stay as a dork, then tough. I am not continuing the rest of my life in this academic facility in you're shadow." Edd said still trying to sound calm and not angry.
Kevin screamed in rage and punched Edd in the face, but he then yelped in pain and clutched his fist. All Edd had was a nosebleed and a small bruise, "You shouldn't have done that Kevin." Edd said, he then proceeded to do the same thing to him as he did to the Kankers. Leaving Kevin unconscious against the locker.
"ANYBODY ELSE?" He shouted in the direction of Kevin's jock friends some of whom ran over to help Kevin up while the others stood there. None took their eyes off Edd. He just ignored the stares and whispers of other students and walked off to class, looking quite pleased with himself. Even Johnny and Jimmy were amazed.
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In case you require translation that last scene was a transformers movie crossover.
Now Edd has finally stood up to Kevin, but their rivalry is just beginning.
Sorry it took so long.