DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ED, EDD N EDDY. THE GREAT AND HONORABLE DANNY ANTONUCCI DOES.

Days passed since the shooting incident. As time went on the air outside smelled progressively worse, similar to rotting meat. The adults of the Cul-de-Sac got home later each day as time progressed, each of them claiming that they had an important meeting after work. Until one day the adults simply didn't return. They got phone calls from their parents, but the details about what they were doing could only be described as sketchy, at best.

June 30 20XX

11:00 AM

Cul-de-Sac

The kids of the Cul-de-Sac had gathered themselves in the center of the street. Each of them concerned about their families and well beings. Kevin is standing on a wooden crate in the center of the group.

Kevin (lifting his voice so everyone could hear him): "I trust that everyone knows why we're here? It's because we have been kept in the dark for too long! Why are we locked up here in our own neighborhood like common animals?! Why haven't our parents come home yet?! I demand that we break out of this cage and find them!"

Edd: "Now wait a second Kevin! Clearly the fence was put up as a safety precaution for our well beings. If we just break out we'll be throwing that away!"

Jonny: "Plank and I agree! We've been hearing strange things at night and we can swear that they aren't human!"

Kevin: "Not human? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week! Besides, if we stay here we'll run out of food and die!"

Marie: "You know what will kill us? Trying to go near that fence! We can't climb it and we can't cut it! Even then we have to get past the guards if we wanna go anywhere!"

Nazz (trying to calm everyone down): "Dudes, chill. Kevin's just worried about his family, just as much as we all are. Besides, if it really were dangerous outside I think we would have been told about it."

Sarah: "If there isn't anything dangerous then why would they put up a fence?!"

The group continued to argue, each remark growing more bitter than the last. The discussion heated up so much that it was going to evolve into a fist fight, until Ed distracted everyone.

Ed (facing the direction of the fence): "Dad? DAD ITS YOU!!!"

Ed started to run towards the fence. At the fence there were two guards holding down a tall man with red hair and a messy shirt. The man was bleeding profusely from a shoulder wound.

Guard: "SIR! You have to understand why we can't let you into the compound!"

Ed's Dad: "Please, I just want to say goodbye to my children!"

Guard 2: "We can't let you do that! You're too big of a threat now!"

Ed: "DAD! What are you doing out there?! Where's mom?! Is she okay?!"

Ed's Dad (being dragged away by the guards): "ED! Oh, I'm so glad I could see you! Your mother if fine, she's with the other adults. Ed, take good care of your sister, make sure she's safe! I want you to know how proud of you I -"

Ed's Dad stopped his sentence as he began to cough violently, to the point where he was coughing blood.

Guard: "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!"

Guard 2: "GET HIM OUT OF HERE! DON'T LET THE CHILDREN SEE!"

The guards quickly tightened their grip on Ed's Dad and ran him behind a tree off in the distance.

*BANG*

The guards emerged from behind the tree. Both of them had a solemn look on their faces and looked up at Ed and Sarah, who had just ran up to the fence as she saw what was going on. The guards broke their gaze on the kids and started to head back to their posts.

Sarah (shouting at them, tears welling up in her eyes): "HEY! WHAT'D YOU DO WITH OUR DAD?! WHERE IS HE?! WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME?!"

Sarah broke down on the ground crying. Ed bent down to comfort her, a dark, silent look on his face. He picked his sister up off the ground and started to head back to his home.

Edd: "Ed? Are you going to be alright?"

Ed (without stopping or turning around): "Only if we prepare ourselves Double D, only if we prepare ourselves."

Ed enters his house and closes the door.

Nazz (tears in her eyes): "Oh gosh. That was awful! I feel so bad for them!"

Everyone departed to their own homes with solemn looks on their faces.

June 30 20XX

2:00 PM

Eddy's Room

After the events of the morning Edd, Eddy, and the Kanker sisters went to Eddy's room. Each of them wondering what they could do to help Ed.

Edd: "What was Ed doing when you were there May?"

May: "Well, Ed put Sarah to bed and she hasn't woken up since. Right now Ed's locked himself in his bedroom. You can hear him working on something in there."

Lee: "I'm just wondering why those guards had to, umm.... give the axe to Ed's pa."

Marie: "I dunno, but it didn't seem justified."

Eddy: "I know that we're supposed to feel bad for Ed, but right now I'm worried about my own parents. What if they've kicked the bucket and I don't even know?"

*Ring Ring*

Edd: "Eddy, it would appear that your phone is ringing."

Eddy: "Yeah, no crap."

Eddy goes over to the phone and takes it off the receiver."

Eddy (talking into the phone): "Hello? Ed? Your place? Bring everyone? What time? Alright man, if you say so."

Eddy hangs up the phone.

Eddy: "Hey guys, Ed wants us over at his place, and he wants us to bring everyone."

June 30 20XX

6:00 PM

Ed's Garage

All the kids of the Cul-de-Sac were assembled into Ed's garage. All of them wondering why they had been called there. Did Ed want to have a funeral for his father, or was it something completely different? Sarah was sitting in the corner of the garage, Jimmy at her side attempting to comfort her.

Ed enters the garage, dressed in an odd manner of clothing. Gone was his stripped shirt and green jacket, in their place was a thick looking leather jacket zipped all the way up. Just looking at it made everyone feel sweaty and overheated. Ed then began to speak with an air of intelligence that he had never before demonstrated.

Ed: "Is everyone here? Good. I want to warn you all about what is coming and I wish for you all to prepare yourselves as I tell you to."

Ed then put some clippings of his comics onto the chalkboard behind him. Making various notes under each of them.

Ed: "I'll waste no time and just tell you that the source of our problems are zombies."

Kevin: "ZOMBIES?! Are you kidding me?! You called us here just because you think zombies are giving us problems."

Nazz (whispering to Kevin): "Kevin, quiet! Can't you see Ed just suffered a trauma? At least humor him."

Ed (continuing his presentation): "All of the things that have happened are just like what happened in my comics. First are the murders in town, each of them showed a struggle and broken body parts. Next is the fence, used to keep the zombies out of civilization. Then there's the constant gunfire we hear. Clearly the guards shooting any that get too close. And finally there's the bad smell in the air, the result of decomposing bodies."

All the kids listened to this line of logic. Each of them not really believing what Ed had just told them.

Rolf: "The Ed boy is right. Many times has the undead menace plagued Rolf's hometown. But never before has it gotten this big, surely your government is not familiar with this kind of situation?"

Kevin: "I don't know man, zombies? That just sounds too ridiculous, and it doesn't explain what happened to Ed's dad."

Everyone went quiet. Ed had a dark look on his face.

Ed (under his breath): "Zombie bite."

Kevin (feeling a bit scared): "What?"

Ed (now yelling): "THOSE BIT BY ZOMBIES BECOME ZOMBIES! MY DAD WAS BIT SO THEY HAD TO KILL HIM!!!"

A deadly silence spread over the group. Until Jonny decided to start the conversation again.

Jonny: "Plank and I want to know what we should do!"

Ed: "Prepare yourselves! For the protection that we have now will not last forever! Dress yourselves in thick clothing as to reduce the chance of getting bitten! Arm yourselves with weapons! One projectile weapon and a melee weapon for emergencies! These are mine!"

Ed quickly unveiled his weapons which were in the corner of the garage, one was a modified gas powered nail gun that they had taken from the construction site earlier. The safety latch at the tip of the gun was broken so that it would actually fire the nails, and a length of wood was tied to it to stabilize it on one's arm. Ed's melee weapon was a six foot long novelty oak baseball bat.

Kevin: "You can't be serious."

Rolf: "Oh ho, not bad Ed boy. You seem to have experience with the undead, yes?"

Edd: "Now wait a second! It is scientifically impossible for the dead to rise and attack people! It just can't happen!"

Eddy: "I don't know Double D, Ed makes a good argument. I say we prepare just in case."

Lee: "Short meat has a point. Besides, I want to get back at those things for what they did to my Ma!"

Everyone nodded in agreement and rushed home to prepare themselves for what they hoped would never happen.