Chapter 6 – Interactions and Interrogations

Eddy sat in the middle of the lunch hall, head in his hands as he looked around the room. He noticed that the lunch hall was more crowded than the one his school had back home and therefore it was noisier than what Eddy was used to. He grew irritated as well as impatient.

"Where the hell is Sock-head?" said Eddy. "He better not have gotten lost"

It didn't take Eddy very long to realise his question got no reply. He turned his head to the seat next to him to find that Ed had wandered off.

"Oh, come on" moaned Eddy,

"ED! Where are you, you Lummox" he called out in a kind of half whisper, half shout.

Suddenly, Eddy saw something, 2 tables away from him, 2 guys were chatting with each other at one of the tables closer to the window, the taller grey-haired one being the talkative one, while the shorter hazel-haired one was much quieter. But what caught Eddy's attention most of all was a giant tongue, snaking up from under the table unbeknown to the 2 guys still chatting as the tongue slipped underneath one of the trays of food on the table and retracted back under the table, as well as the tray and its contents.

"Uh, What a Freak" fumed Eddy as he sneaked under his table and stealthily made his way over to where Ed was, who was eating a container of rice and curry, but in Ed's standards in eating he pretty much just dumped the whole lot in his mouth in one big shove.

When Eddy made his way over to Ed, he lightly punched him on his shoulder. "Ed, don't go off without telling me, are you trying make me look bad by letting me talk to myself" Eddy whispered.

"I'm sorry, Eddy, But I was so hungry, I couldn't control myself" said Ed sorrowfully. "But don't worry Eddy; I left some over for you too." He used his foot to gently push over some of the food left on the tray over to where Eddy to kneeling.

"Well…I am kinda hungry, Apology accepted, big guy. Let's dig in" said Eddy

For the next minute or two they quietly ate their lunch underneath the tables, so as not to attract unwanted attention by noisily eating too loudly. Ed has ended his lot first after downing his desert, and as soon as he realised the food was gone. Ed's look was fulfilment quickly changed to concern.

"Eddy, I'm really starting to worry about Double D" whispered Ed

Eddy lightly belched into his fist and nodded "Me too, Ed". I suppose we better go and find him after all. Eddy replied. He turned and made his way through under the table with Ed behind him. But with Ed with him this time, it became less stealthily and became clumsier. A handful of students noticed chairs and tables banged and jolted, some heard voices that were lightly muffled by the clattering

*Bang*… "Dammit"

*creak….CLANK*

"Careful, Ed…".

Everyone tried to find what was making the noises by looking under the tables, but it's was too dark and cramped underneath to see, a few students could only see a dark huge green-coloured thing roaming about underneath the tables. They were so distracted by the noises coming from two different parts of the lunch-hall, they failed to notice the culprits crawling out at the corner end of the room.

Eddy turned towards Ed and smiled as he watched everyone looking under table and chairs. "Oh well, at least we weren't caught for once. Let's go, Ed!" said Eddy enthusiastically as the both of them leaving in a dash to search for their friend.

Taniguchi finished his conversation and was finally about to eat his…

"Hey, what happening took my chicken curry and butterscotch pudding?"

Kunikida sighed and sweat-dropped.

Meanwhile, halfway across the school…

Haruhi Suzumiya had completed her personal objective and was now heading back to the clubroom with Double D in tow. She was dragging him by his tie, so Double D was having a hard time matching her speed with his scrawny legs, trying his best not to trip up. His face was a mixture of confusion, exhaustation and fear and the sweat was pouring down his face. He tried to speak, but failed due to the rate he was breathing; he felt if he spoke, his lungs would probably implode so he stayed silent.

He was so tired; he never noticed when she stopped running which caused him to bump into her, which she barely felt. Haruhi glanced at Double D, he was trying to support himself as his legs were shaking and he looked like his was about to vomit.

"Huh, You don't do much exercise, don't you" huffed Haruhi

"I'll admit, that physical exercise is not my strongest skill, but was dragging me along really necessary.

Haruhi just frowned and grabbed his wrist before he had a change to run away, and opened the clubroom door in a big shout.

"SUCCESS!" she shouted as she stood in front of the doorway. Kyon, Koizumi, Mikuru and even Yuki watched as Haruhi stood there holding onto Double D's left wrist like he was her puppet.

Everyone, I caught one of them just outside the southwest wing next to the payphone." said Haruhi triumphantly. She stood there with her right hand raised in the air as a sign of accomplishment, still holding tightly onto Double D's wrist.

Double D looked around the room, it's was no bigger than his bedroom back home. The room had the normal contents any normal clubroom would have, tables, black and white boards, chairs, books and a computer at the desk in front of the window. Then they were stuff that Double D noticed as being out of place. To his right, he noticed a clothes rank like that used for school plays or something, it had hung on it a frog costume, nurse, maid, cheerleader and a bunny-girl appearance. The last item of clothing caught Double D off guard.

"Oh dear" he gulped, "I looks like this encounter is going to cause me more psychological damage than I anticipated." He thought. No matter which continent he was on, his approach to the female sex was just as shy and timid as anyways.

Double D felt his hand go limp and realized that the girl had ceased gripping on onto his wrist and began talking to everyone else.

"It was too easy to be believed" Haruhi said as she continued bragging. "He never even put up a fight or struggled, it was like taking candy from a baby".

"Poor guy, I can feel his pain" said Kyon. "So is this the newest member to your club, whether he likes it or not?"

"Our club Kyon, you're part of the club too you idiot" replied Haruhi "Secondly, I want to ask him a couple of questions first before I consider on making him a fully-fledged member.

"If he survives the interrogation" Kyon muttered under his breath.

Meanwhile Double D had slowly backed himself to the edge of the room next to the costume rack once Haruhi had let go of his wrist. She hadn't noticed him as she was too busy talking to the others.

"Oh dear, this is so perplexing. I haven't be this confused since that time I fell from a tree stark naked next to a boomerang wandering the sam hill was going on" thought Double D. "Why would they want to interrogate me, what have I done. I, well we've only just arrived here.

Haruhi then turned towards Double D and smirked. Double D felt a jolt of panic run through his body as she made her way towards him again.

"N-No, Please" pleaded Double D hysterically. "I-I haven't done anything to you.

Nevertheless she grabbed his arm once again and brought him towards to the club members. Everyone got out of the seats as Haruhi moved the furniture about to clear a space. She drew the curtains and took a chair and sat it in the middle of the room and forcefully made Double D sit on it before finally switching off the light, making it darker, but not enough to make everything unrecognisable.

Double D sat there in the dark quivering like a newly hatched bird, feeling unfamiliar faces glaring right at him. He would have preferred a pounded by Kevin over this at this moment he thought.

Haruhi paced the room a number of times like she was thinking, until she eventually walked to her desk where she removed a flashlight. She switched it on and shone it in Double D's face, causing him to cringe as his retina shrunk as the intense lights and shut his eyes in an instant.

"Alright" began Haruhi "We'll start with the easy stuff pal, what's your name".

"Edward" cried Double D, still shutting his eyes. "My name is Edward Walker" -not proven, Double D's last name here is for this story only

"Good, next question" continued Haruhi. "Where did originally you come from?"

Double D opened his eyes a touch "Peach Creek….Colorado"

"And the same goes for two friends, the big guy and the short one, who are they?"

"Well, the tall fellow is… wait a minute, you were in same classroom as us this morning. You've got the window seat at the back, surely you know our names, we introduced ourselves" Double D replied

Haruhi brought herself face to face with Double D, Her impatience hidden by the smile on her face. Kyon knew that Haruhi had enter Bad Cop Mode

"Listen Edward, You don't need to tell me I was there. I know I was there. I'm the one asking the questions, and I asked you your name to see if you were lying. I can tell when people are hiding something."

"If that were true" Kyon thought as he looked at Nagato, Asahina and Koizumi. "She would have caught on ages ago."

"But why would I lie about my who I am?" asked Double D

"Why wouldn't you lie?" Haruhi retaliated, "Here in a different country where no one knows who you are? You could become a different person all together if you wanted.

"But I'm not" said Double D "I've nothing to gain if I wanted to"

Haruhi paused and drew her face away from his. She walked towards the nearest table and sat on it cross-legged. "Fine, if that's the cause, then why did you transfer over here at this time in the school year and on such short notice? I talked to one of the teachers earlier and they were never given any notice before today about transfer students, let alone from Colorado, USA.

Double D's heart sank how he was going to explain their current predicament without being made suspicious by this hyperactive control freak. "She would never believe that we only got here by accident only because Ed ignorantly dug through to the other side of the earth." He thought.

"She could give the Kankers a run for their money, and strangely I'd like to see her try" he thought.

Meanwhile

Ed and Eddy were searching the hallways of the school looking for Double D. Ed was panicky and was a bit frantic.

"Double D?" he asked as he looked inside a trash can…

"Double D?" he asked as he looked into a backpack that was still currently being worn by its owner

"Double D?" he called out into a girls bathroom, to which a reply was made by a girlish scream and a loud *SMACK*.

Eddy walked over to Ed who now hand a pink bruise in the shape of a hand on his left cheek.

"This is why we should have cell-phones" complained Eddy. "But no-oooo… apparently cell-phones cost too much into the show's budget"

"Breaking the four walls again, Eddy" replied Ed rubbing his cheek with his sleeve"

"I swear, as soon as something interests him, BANG… he wanders off" said Eddy making a gun sign with his hand, causing Ed to comically duck for a moment. "Then you can't find him, he's a curious as a cat"

"Like the one that was killed" replied Ed.

"Yeah, well I guess we shouldn't worry too much, as scrawny as Sockhead is, his brains is more than a match for anyone, Peach Creek or Japan" said Eddy confidently.

He nudges Ed's chest with his elbow in a friendly manner. "C'mon Pal, Let's go find our Cat in the Hat"

"WHATCHAMAJIGGER" Ed shouts gleefully as he starts to run.

Suddenly, Ed's run was cut short as he slipped on something and fell onto his back causing the hall to shudder a bit. The object Ed had slipped on flew into the air and landed on Ed's chest. It was small, squashy and sickly yellow.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" yelled Ed in shock He was now hovering in the air in shock, eyes outstretched (those who have seen the cartoon kind of get the picture). He leaped at Ed and held on the top of his head like a cat.

"Double D has been captured by the Relish people from 4th level of the underworld and worst of all" he pointed at the object now lying on the floor. "THEY REMOVED DOUBLE D'S BRAIN". *1

"And you'll be next if you don't get the heck of me" yelled Eddy struggling to remove Ed. "That's just Double D's stupid loofah, I repeat, why does he always carry around a…"

"NYAHAHAHA, you new guys are hilarious"

Ed and Eddy turned to where the laughter was coming from. In front of them was a girl with long knee-length dark-green hair. Whilst she was laughing fang like tooth could be seen from one side of the mouth.

"Get offa me, Ed" said Eddy throwing Ed off his head. "You're embarrassing me".

The girl's laughing finally started to calm down "Hey, are you guys lost?" she said

Eddy turned to face her, "Not really, we're trying to find our fr…"

Ed interrupted Eddy yet again. "Hey, I remember you; you're from our class this morning." Ed walked up to her with a big smile on his face. "Your hair is so cool, I've never met someone with green hair like yours and it's so long"

She giggled "Thanks, I'm quite good at styling hair and yes, it's a natural green. Your hair is pretty neat; you should let me style it sometime". Ed smile grew wider

Your name's Ed-san, right. My name is Tsuruya-san" she said as she bowed.

"You remembered my name from this morning?" said Ed

"Of course, you're the new exchange students from America, that's makes you guys megas-awesome" said Tsuruya

"You hear that Eddy" said Ed gleefully "We're megas-awesome" Ed started jumping up and down, with Tsuruya joining in too.

Eddy stood there confuzzled, "I never seen Ed connect with a girl this way. This place keeps getting weirder"

Tsuruya had stopped jumping and walked up to Eddy.

"And you're Eddy-san, aren't you" said Tsuruya

"Um…Yeah…I'm Eddy alright. Great to meet ya" said Eddy reaching out for hand-shake.

Tsuruya took his hand and shook it hard which took Eddy by surprise.

"Whoa, Your stronger than you look" replied Eddy, Tsuruya just tilted her hand and smiled, showing off her fang.

"Hey, where's your other friend? The one in the funny hat…um…Edward" asked Tsuruya momentarily remembering Double D's name.

"Who?" asked Eddy confused "Oh, Double D? Well, that's the thing. He went off to find a phone and now we can't find him. Just right now, we found his loofah, so he must've been here"

"Want me to help you, I know you layout of the school ya know" suggested Tsuruya

"Hang on" said Eddy "I've got an even better idea. ED!"

Ed galloped over towards Eddy "Yes, Eddy?"

"Heel…"

Ed sat on the ground like a dog, while Eddy walked over to him and held the loofah under Ed's nose.

"Get his scent, Fido" Eddy grinned.

"Ed sniffed and sniffed until…"Got it, Eddy"

"Great. Come on then Lumpy, let's follow that scent. Said Eddy

"Climb aboard" said Ed getting down on all fours like a house as Eddy climbed onto the back of his shoulders.

"Wanna come too, Tsuruya-san" said Ed

"Room for one more..." offered Eddy

"Are you kidding?" she smiled "I'm not letting you guys out of my sight, you're way too fun" She sat on Ed's back behind Eddy

"Please keep your arms and legs inside the lump at all times" announced Eddy

Ed reared upwards like a horse and sped off down the corridors shouting ""

"NYYYYYYOOOOOOORRRRRRROOO" cried Tsuruya.

WOW...THINGS ARE STARTING TO GET COOKING NOW AREN'T THEY? *Sniff* Sniff* "No...Wait, That's my Dinner I smell. Nevertheless, hope everyone enjoy this long-awaited chapter and if there's any quotes, references or anything you'd like to see in future chapters. Don't be afraid to ask in the reviews section.

*1 – Full Credit for that Quote belongs to Warlord-Xena

See You Soon -MentalHaggis