Chapter 4: The First Rides

"Okay, I've got a map right here. Where should we go first?" Eddy's Bro asked.

"For Double D's sake, I think we should first go on the Midway Carousel." Eddy suggested. They liked his idea. It was good to start with easy rides. So that's where they went.

They marched over to it but they realized when they made it there, they were the oldest ones there. Eddy's Brother scratched the back of his head and backed away. He was not going to be seen on the Midway Carousel with five-year olds, that would be too degrading. After the Eds had gotten on, he took a cigarette, lit it and then began to smoke it. So the Eds sat by each other on three identical ponies. They were surrounded by five year olds that were scared out of their minds. Now the Eds weren't scared, but that didn't mean they could pretend they were. So to freak the kids out even more, they acted like they going to die on this ride. Very unlikely though, or so they thought.

The man working the carousel turned it on. It went fairly slow. While Ed and Eddy were bored, Double D was actually enjoying himself. The slow moving ponies were quite serene and relaxing. Ed and Eddy were about ready to fall asleep.

"Yawn!" Eddy exclaimed. He crossed his arms and pouted. "Can't this thing go any faster?" The man saw that as a challenge and nodded. He pulled the lever from 'sluggish snail', to 'turtle', to 'fairly slow', to 'fast', to 'super fast', and to 'are you crazy?' So then instantaneously, the carousel spun around at super speed. This time, the Eds all held on tight to their ponies as each of the little kids were being flung from their seats.

"This changes EVERYTHING!" Eddy exclaimed. He was about to lose his grip on the pony, but luckily, Ed held onto him. After five more minutes of this torture, it was finally over. Double D let out a sigh of relief. The Midway Carousel was obviously not what it seemed.

Eddy's Bro asked, "Where to now, Pipsqueak?" Eddy glared at him and then looked back at the map.

"Another simple one for Double D. The Disaster Transport." They all nodded. The Disaster Transport was so close. Eddy's Bro led the way with his Haters Gonna Hate Walk and passed the Demon Drop, the Sky Ride, Kiddy Kingdom and the Space Spiral. They went inside the dark room where head bangin' Heavy Metal music played. This time, Bro was going to get on with them. There were only a few other people going there as well, so there wasn't much of a line. It was just them running through it because they could.

They went in and found their seats in the cart. It turns out; the Kankers were going on it too. The Eds and the Kankers in the same dark together at the same time is never a good thing. "Let's get 'em girls." Lee said with a devious smirk. All three Eds gulped. By the look in Lee's eyes, or her eyes cover by her hair rather, Eddy could they tell were going to enjoy more than just the ride.

Ed screamed, "K-K-Kankers!"

The ride began and Eddy sat by Lee, Edd by Marie, and Ed by May. Eddy's Bro fortunately got to sit by a hot girl around his age with a real rack. The Eds rode into a tunnel that would lead them to the wildest ride of their lives.

So the Eds left the Disaster Transport with kisses, bruises and no pride while Eddy's Bro left with a phone number from the girl he sat by. They wiped off the kisses from their faces and then each had a sigh of relief.

"I'm glad that's over. It wasn't even the ride I was scared about." Double D said. "What are we going to ride now? Hopefully not the Mantis."

"Heh, we'll save that for later," Eddy smirked a devilish smirk of a smirk if ever a smirk there was, "I know a better one. How about… The Millennium Force?" Ed and Bro laughed.

"Bro, we're trying to show your girlfriend here a good time, not kill him!" Bro exclaimed. Ed nodded. Double D scratched the back of his hat perplexedly.

"It'll be fun!" Eddy urged, elbowed Double D to the side.

"What's wrong with the Millennium Force?" Double D asked.

Eddy had that same smirk, but this time with a glint in his eyes that Edd didn't like, "Just this crazy fast, huge ride." Eddy chuckled, "Let me put this in a way you can understand: It goes 93 miles per hour, the first drop is 80 degrees, the height of the first hill is 310 feet, and it's two minutes and twenty seconds of torture for you. It makes the Mantis seem slow." Double D shook his head.

"Alright, we'll save that for last," Bro said, "Let's go on the Skyhawk for now." He led the way.

"Why can't we go on a scarier ride?" Ed complained, hanging his head down. Bro laughed enthusiastically. The Eds stared.

"We're only going on the kiddy rides because Double D's just a big baby!"

Double D glared at him with narrowed eyes. Bro could be a real jerk sometimes.

Eddy tapped his foot impatiently. He pushed his brother along from behind.

"Come on, stupid! We only have eight hours left!"

"What did you-" Bro was shoved out of the way by Ed.

Ed proposed, "Let us run there!" Bro growled at him.

"I'll give you something to run away from if I have to!" Bro threatened during which he rolled up his sleeves. Eddy and Bro ran after Ed, but Double D just followed behind them slowly.

Elsewhere, Jimmy and Sarah were busy playing the carnival games. Jimmy was jumping up and down like the little kid he was because Sarah was about to win him a prize. He was eyeing that stuffed panda bear. Despite Sarah's annoyance with him, he kept cheering and encouraging her. She was only trying to knock down a stack of cups with a ball. It wasn't that hard.

"Come on Sarah! You can do it!" Jimmy encouraged. Sarah glanced back at him. She rolled her eyes and then went back to the game. She grabbed for her last ball without looking away from the stack of cups. She Sarah had to stay focused. But that was hard to do with Jimmy's ceaseless cheering. Doesn't he ever tire himself out? Sarah blocked out her surroundings and threw the ball. It hit the plastic cups directly and they all fell over. The woman worker gave Sarah the panda that Jimmy wanted.

She gave it to him and then he hugged her tightly. She had a disgusted facial expression. After about seven more seconds, Jimmy was still hugging her.

"Can someone please pry this kid off me?" Sarah demanded. After she had said that said that, Jimmy released her and smiled brightly. He knew she was just kidding, or so he thought. She brushed herself off and then looked back at him confounded. "What Jimmy?"

"I can't thank you enough for winning me this panda… I haven't even come up with a name yet." Jimmy said.

Sarah chuckled to herself with the wind blowing in her hair, "You're so lucky you're cute."

"Bro we're up!" Eddy called. Double D saw a person who just got off the ride that was crying. It was a grown man too.

They took their seats and fastened their seat belts. The teenage boy working there checked each of them to make sure they were secured. Everyone was fine so he left to start it up.

Double D braced himself. He sat next to a guy about 17 years old with bad acne and piercings. On the other side, Ed sat by him and Ed and his Brother sat next to Ed.

At first when the ride started, it just swayed back and forth slowly. Double D realized it wasn't so bad so he relaxed a bit. But that's exactly what he said last time and it turned out to be just that bad. It started going higher and higher and then it increased in speed. Double D turned over to Ed whom was very ecstatic. And the teenager next to him was laughing at the person next to him, his friend's, fear. Double D didn't blame them. It then began going faster and higher. It was so fast that the teenager began to shout and drop a few S-Bombs. Eddy's Brother did the same.

Double D was just stunned the whole time. Even if he wanted to move, he couldn't because his brain temporarily shut off and would not cooperate with him.

"Whoa! Woohoo!" Eddy cheered, raising his hands.

From all the way up there, he could see Kevin, Nazz and Rolf waiting in line.

Before they knew it, the Skyhawk slowed down and eventually came to a stop. They could get off now. Double D hadn't noticed until then that his eyes had been watering. He was crying. He wiped his eyes with his arm and then caught up with everyone else. When he did he panted heavily.

"How in foul swoop I managed to forget my inhaler, oh I'll never know." Edd said to himself between gasps for air. There was a long awkward silence until Bro cleared his throat.

"Where to now, pipsqueak? You decide." He allowed. Eddy smiled and then checked the map. Double D sighed. He didn't want to go on anymore rides. He had already faced most of his fears today. To him, this wasn't really the most fun experience ever. Everybody else was having a real good time. Recently, it seemed that really everyone was having for fun than he was.

"To the Raptor!" Eddy declared.

"To the Raptor!" Ed repeated.

"To the Raptor?" Edd questioned. He knew this would definitely not turn out for the best.