"Perfect."

Matt's POV

Shame on Tom for attending a party without me! if he was going to wear that formal faux-pas as part of his disguise, why not let me attend as his prettier s/o? There were so many dresses I went through like that one with the black gown chiffon layers and blue beads or the red cocktail dress with sequins but I decided to go for the lightest and fluffiest one since I did want to look like a god sent and thank God for the internet, which helped me with my hairdo! (BTW I should put my hair down more often.)

It may have been Edd's party but if you ask me, I was the belle of the ball because all the soldiers went gaga over me and my beauty to the point where two of them even asked me to be their bride and with a stubble like that, why wouldn't I? on the other hand, there was a reason why I went as Tom's s/o~ *giggles*!

Edd's POV

Just where the heck and what the heck was Tord doing? it's been 30 minutes! it seemed as if he ate a little too much of the chili…

…but don't get me wrong, I was fine by myself while at the same time I had the urge to check up on him but I didn't want to fall into a pool of sharks like last time so I continued to sit patiently until he came back.

All of a sudden, another young man sat on the couch with me with a stoic look on his face; I wondered if he was upset, tired or if he had trouble seeing through his glasses but I didn't want to be rude by asking him anything a little too embarrassing so I just said: "Hi." to him and gave him a wave, in which he responded to with a smile.

Tom's POV

Man, Edd looked adorable but gushing aside, I did not know what to do other than to watch over him and try my darnedest not to seem suspicious.

Maybe after the bachelor party me and Matt could sneak Edd far, far away from here, change our names and move to another location so you-know-who couldn't separate either of us again but the problem was that I didn't want to let Matt and Edd suffer with me and even though the lad and you-know-who appeared to genuinely love each other, I did NOT trust the latter with any of us, especially with how manipulative and deceiving he was the last time we dealt with him.

Oh, Edd….you're just like an innocent little baby toddling around and lost in a dangerous jungle without anybody to save you from the feral, untamed beast known as reality, it just makes me want to hold you close and keep all the bad things in the world away from you because one day you'll get sucked into it and you'll never escape.

Tord's POV

It just so happened there was a pile of familiar-looking clothes lying on the floor in my room full of traps, funny, I didn't remember bringing it here with Edd so I suspect that someone broke in and is currently lurking around.

"Intruders, eh? I wonder where you're hiding…..I'll deal with it after the party."

I put the evidence in my room for safe keeping, then I came back to the dining room and held Edd closely while stroking one of his pink cheeks and whispering: "Did you miss me, darling?"; he replied with a kiss on the nose and "Of course I did, honey." I always get a kick out of whenever he reacted to my gentle touch, it was just so mesmerizing that I could see why Tom and Matt hung out with him so much, what a babe.

…..

Tom's POV

After the party, Matt and I quietly hid in a nice guest room and locked the door so no one but us could open it until the time was right; we also smuggled some leftover food for us to eat for whenever we got really hungry.

"When will we save Edd?" asked Matt, then I replied: "Tonight, when the time is right." I replied in a more quiet manner.

While Matt began to rest well on the bed, I was spying through the keyhole to see which room Edd was gonna sleep in so we would know which room he was staying in and not go on a while goose chase all night; the room he entered was the first one Matt entered back when we first came here (come to think of it, it may have also been where he got those tacky gowns from) and now that I know where Edd is, all I needed to do now was wait until everyone in the building was completely asleep.

When the time was right, I woke Matt up, unlocked the door and we crept out of the door as quietly as-

*WHACK*

…..

When I woke up from the painful hit, my mouth was covered in duck tape and my body was wrapped so tightly in thick rope I felt as if my body was numb; I also found myself trapped in a metal box with a little bit of light peaking from a small crack…and that crack began to leak water very slowly from the outside.

"Is he drowning me!?" I thought to myself until the water briefly sprinkled on my face and made my skin feel a burning sensation-"Wait a minute, this isn't water now is it?"

The truth especially became obvious when my cheek started melting the more it splashed onto me and I heard Matt's muffled voice in the distance: "NOT THE FAAAAAAAAAACE!"

Tord's POV

At last! with Tom about to drown in a tub full of acid and Matt slowly getting crushed in a coffin-style bed full of sharp, rusty nails with his arms and legs chained to the walls and neither of them having any way of escaping, I can finally succeed in making Edd become my bride with the wedding ring/mind control device that will wipe out his memories of everything that happened to his life prior to the wedding, then when he eats the slice of cake I poisoned, I can and take him to my lab, make him my highly-advanced cybernetic servant and even control him into destroying entire continents that oppose the new order!

I was so proud of the fact that I spied on them almost all night while they where spying on me all day and that little role reversal right there was absolutely perfect.