Ed popped his head out of the boat and into Edd's hat.
"Sauna's make me sweat," Ed said, "More."
"That's the point," Bella said, licking the berry paint off her hands, "Mmm, tastes like strawberries." Edd pulled his head away from Ed's causing his hat to stay on Ed's head and Edd's to be revealed. Eddy stared.
"MY EYES!" He cried, "They're burning!"
"You stop that!" Edd yelled angrily, pointing at a laughing Eddy.
"Doppio D, it's gotten worse," Bella frowned and winced. Felice paled under her fur and hit behind Bella.
"Does it hurt, Double D?" Ed asked.
"Oh shush," Edd said, grabbing his hat back and spraying it with disinfectant, "Can we please get down to the business at hand?" Ed scratched the back of his head. Edd put his hat back on, "Thank you. Ed, drum roll please?"
"For what?" Eddy asked. Ed pulled his shirt up and started tapping on his stomach, making a drum sound. Bella did the same, except without pulling her shirt up, because she wore a dress.
"By the authority vested in me," Edd began, standing on a nearby rock and holding a bottle on a string, "Sanctioned by moi, I hereby christen this seaworthy vessel the esteemed…" He looked at the name, "S.S Mutant Almost A Chicken Duck?" Ed laughed.
"Surprised you didn't run outta paint," Eddy said.
"I made it work," Bella smiled proudly.
"Stand clear, lady and gentlemen!" Edd announced. He threw the bottle, but it stopped within an inch of the boat and swung back. Eddy laughed loudly as Edd blushed.
"Hey mussles!" Eddy taunted, standing on Ed's head, "Can we go now? We might see a barnacle if we show up while he's watching Madlock." Eddy picked Edd up by his hat and dropped him in the boat.
"Into the barka!" Bella announced, jumping in with Felice.
"Really?" Edd asked Eddy.
"He's gonna feed us, Eddy?" Ed asked.
"Heck yeah!" Eddy said, jumping on the duck head of the boat, "He was the royal cook for the king of Englishland."
"You mean England, Eddy," Edd said as Ed crawled in.
"Ally oop!" Ed said, pulling the edge of the shore in so the boat fell into the water and started to float along the current.
"And away we go!" Eddy grinned, "It ain't nothing but smooth sailing, straight to big bro's place, guys!"
"Onward!" Bella cried happily, giggling.
The Kankers were walking through the sunflower field, looking for Sarah and Jimmy.
"Where'd they go?" May asked.
"You see 'em, May?!" Lee asked, running forward and crashing into her sister.
"Watch yer back!" Marie warned before crashing into May and Lee. Brandon walked up.
"How clumsy can you get?" He asked himself.
"Get off me!" Lee yelled at Marie, pushing her off.
"I coulda sworn they went this way," May said, standing up.
"You'd lose your head if it weren't nailed down!" Marie snapped. May got in her face.
"My head ain't nailed!" She glared. Unknown to any of the Kankers, Sarah and Jimmy were right above them, hanging to the underside of two giant sunflower leaves.
"It's made of wood, ain't it?" Marie asked.
"No it's not!" May snapped.
"Yes it is!" Marie argued. A ladybug crawled onto Jimmy.
"No it's not!" May repeated.
"Pinocchio head!" Marie said. Jimmy was about to freak out, but Sarah covered his mouth.
"Lee, Marie swore!" May lied. Jimmy and Sarah looked down at the Kankers. Marie and May were pulling on each other's hair.
"Why don't you two quit thinkin' about yourselves?!" Lee yelled, holding the two by their necks. She slammed their heads together and dropped them, "And think about our dates!"
"Yeah," Brandon agreed, "We have to hurry. I need to pound the living daylights outta anyone of those nerds that even think about hurting by babe."
"Yeah, they need us more than ever, girls," Lee said. Sarah got an idea and flicked the ladybug off of Jimmy and into a flower, causing that flower to shake. Lee lifted her head and looked around.
"It's those two runts," Lee said, picking her sisters up and throwing them in the air. Brandon and Lee ran the direction that Sarah flicked the ladybug as Marie and May landed, "Move it!" May and Marie got up and followed. Sarah and Jimmy crawled down the tall sunflower.
"I think they're gone, Jimmy," Sarah said, looking around, "Ssh." She put her finger to her lips, "Let's get the heck outta here." The two started crawling the opposite direction of the Kankers. The heard snorting and Jimmy wrapped his arms around Sarah fearfully. Sarah moved a leaf and saw a pig rubbing against a sunflower stem.
"Ew, it's a pig!" Sarah cried. It heard them and turned around.
"That's Rolf's piggy, Sarah!" Jimmy smiled, crawling towards Wilfred, "Oh." Wilfred started sniffed Jimmy and he giggled. He patted Wilfred on the head, "Hello, Wilfred."
"Don't touch it, Jimmy," Sarah said, walking over, "Enough with the pig. Let's just go." Jimmy giggled when Wilfred put his snout in his pocket. Jimmy pushed him away.
"He must smell the sweet aroma of my mealtime nibble," Jimmy said, pulling out a wrapped caramel-covered apple, "See? A candied apple, Sarah!" He unwrapped it.
"Why does this look familiar?!" They heard Lee yell.
"Cuz we're just wandering around in a circle!" Marie snapped. Sarah quickly grabbed the apple from Jimmy, climbed on Wilfred, and held it in front of him like bait. Jimmy climbed on as Wilfred started following the apple out of the sunflower field.
"But that would mean we're lost," May said.
Meanwhile, the bus pulled up to the stop that Jonny was waiting at with Plank. The doors opened.
"Woah," Jonny said. He nervously climbed aboard and Plank 'paid' the driver with some coins. The bus closed its doors and took off, making Jonny and Plank tumble towards the back into a group of people. Jonny dropped Plank as he got shoved into his melon helmet. He stood up, sweating nervously.
"Woah, sorry mister. Buses sure pack a wallop, huh Plank?" Jonny finally noticed that Plank wasn't in his hand anymore. He looked around, "Plank? Buddy? Quit freaking me out, Plank." Jonny bumped into a woman, "Oh, sorry. Excuse me. Pardon me. Has anyone seen my pal?" Jonny ran through the crowd to the front of the bus. He slammed into the front and looked at the driver's seat, "Plank, is that you?" Plank was 'driving' the bus. He changed the destination to 'Vengeance.' Jonny looked worried for some reason, "PLAAAAAANK!"
Meanwhile, the boat Bella and the Eds were riding in had crashed into a swamp. Edd, Eddy, and Bella were standing on a nearby log. Ed was nowhere to be seen. Felice was standing next to Bella.
"Where's your fauna now, Mr. Duck Boat?" Eddy asked, irritated. He had taken his shirt off.
"The collision was unavoidable, Eddy," Edd said, "It was the unpredictable current that proved unfavorable." Eddy frowned and slapped a bug on the back of his head. He looked at his hand.
"Unbelievable," Eddy mumbled. Bella was scratching her arms and legs, "All I know is we're stuck in a swamp in the middle of nowhere!" He tied his shirt around his head, "Big bro ain't gonna be impressed." He slapped a big on his stomach. Bella looked around.
"Hey, where's Ed?" She asked quietly. Felice meowed and shrugged. Edd and Eddy didn't hear.
"Is that what you think?" Edd asked Eddy, "That I'm here to impress your brother?" Ed climbed on top of a rock a few feet away, "That I would forsake my home and family for something as tribual as-"
"BUTTERED TOAST!" Ed yelled happily, jumping off the rock and into the swamp water. The three looked over at where Ed jumped, surprised. Eddy slapped another bug on his cheek.
"Found him," Bella said, scratching her arm, "Ugh, stupid bugs."
"Perhaps we should talk about you and Ed's immature behavior," Edd said, "I'm sure he'd like to hear about that. Why, I'll have you know, if it hadn't been for my-" Edd was cut off.
"Crocodile attack!" Ed yelled, jumping on Eddy.
"Ed!" Eddy yelled as Ed pushed him into the water.
"Ah!" Bella jumped half a foot. Eddy laughed and forced Ed's mouth wide open.
"He's a mean one!" Eddy said, jumping out of Ed's mouth. Ed pounced on him again. Eddy picked him up in the shape of a handbag, "Ah-ha!" Ed started biting at Eddy.
"I will chomp you!" Ed yelled, chasing Eddy into the swamp. Edd and Bella stared after them.
"Wait!" Edd cried, worried, "Where are you two going?!" Edd and Bella started stepping on lilypads, rocks, and bits of land to follow, Bella picking up Felice, "A malodorous marsh is not a place to play, gentlemen!" They finally reached dry land, "Do you hear me?!" They found them in a pond of some sort.
"Over here, Sockhead! Hey!" Eddy called. Edd and Bella looked over, "Help me out of this molasses. It's trying to swallow me." Ed and Eddy were sinking.
"Wiggle my toes, wiggle my toes," Ed said happily.
"Make no sudden movements," Edd said, starting to sweat, "You're sinking in QUICKSAND!"
"Quicksand?!" Eddy cried, trying to get out, "Ed, we're done for!"
"We are so in manure!" Ed yelled.
"Immature, stupid!" Eddy yelled, "Immature! Oh man, we're really sinking now!"
"To all the girls I've loved before!" Ed cried, his head sinking under the muck.
"No! Ed!" Eddy grabbed his head and tried to pull it back up, "Hang on, man! GUYS!" Edd and Bella were trying to make a rope out of some cattail plants.
"Stay calm, don't panic," Edd said, panicking slightly, "I've got it!" Edd turned around and threw the 'rope' into the quicksand, but Ed and Eddy were already gone, "Quickly, take hold of the-" Edd stared at the spot where his friends had been, "No. No! NOO!" Bella and Edd started digging through the quicksand, trying to get Ed and Eddy, "Where are you?! Eddy? Ed!" They started crying, "Oh, don't you give up on us! Answer me! Pleease." Edd looked at his hands and cried harder, "Why oh why did you listen to me?! This is all my fault! I should have never let you leave the cul-de-sac!" Ed held out a handkerchief. Edd reached out to grab it, "Th-thank you, Ed. Goodness Ed, that's filthy." Edd's eyes widened as he finally realized who was standing in front of him.
"Gotcha," Eddy grinned. Ed waved. They started laughing loudly. Edd and Bella stood up, "This mud's only ankle-deep! You can't sink in it!"
"Got that right, Eddy!" Ed agreed. "Because sinks are mother nature's own cereal bowls!" Eddy stared at him as Edd and Bella walked away.
"Hey Sockhead, Bella!" Eddy yelled, "Where are you going?! You guys got somewhere to be? What?!"
Edd and Bella climbed up on the dock in the swamp, Bella holding Felice. Edd fell down from the dock being wet. He stood up, put a label reading 'Caution' on the dock, and continued walking. Bella and Felice followed. They were back on the road as Edd out his labeler back under his hat and Ed and Eddy caught up.
"Hey!" Eddy yelled, "Where're you guys goin'?! You're heading back into the swamp!" Eddy put his hand on Edd's shoulder, "My bro don't live-" Edd slapped it away.
"Don't you DARE touch me!" Edd yelled angrily, "A sap?! Well excuse my sincerity for thinking I had lost two of the only three people I have left in this world! Edd grabbed Eddy's shirt, who snickered, thinking Edd was just pretending.
"And?" Eddy asked.
"It's surprising, because your stubborn, inane desire to shock, sandbag and swindle is what put us here in the first place!" Edd yelled.
"I helped too!" Ed added. He and Bella were off to the side, watching. Bella seemed worried. Edd turned around to glare at him.
"Ed, shush," Bella whispered quietly. Ed frowned. Edd turned back to Eddy.
"You and your nefarious scams!" Edd continued. Eddy frowned, now angry as well.
"Like you were picking daisies!" Eddy said, "You built the stupid thing!"
"If you had paid attention to what I said and not pushed the red button-!" Edd began. Ed and Bella were now hiding behind a large sign post.
"Stop!" Ed cried, "I demand you tickle each other right now!"
"STAY OUT OF IT, ED!" Edd and Eddy yelled at the same time. Ed jumped slightly in shock and turned around fearfully to see Bella, who was now crying due to all the fighting.
"The evil dark side has consumed them both!" Ed said, "Trouble! Bad! Big!"
Edd and Eddy were now physically fighting, with Eddy trying to hold Edd down, who finally kicked him off.
"I've had enough!" Edd shouted, getting up, "I'm returning home!"
Ed scooted over on his knees.
"But we can't go home, Double D!" He said.
"Yeah, what about the others?" Bella asked, wiping her eyes on her hands.
"I'd rather face my consequences, Ed and Bella, than wander aimlessly with a so called friend!" Edd snapped, walking off.