It was a very quiet day in the junkyard. A Little too quiet but that didn't concern the three hosts of the junkyard as they were all sitting in their retro van with the flame streaks on the sides that they call 'Central Command.' After yet another day of just avoiding extermination by the hordes of robots that were hunting them down and patrolling the many areas of the Cul-De-Sac, the Ed's finally decided it was time to sit down and come up with a real plan.
"So any ideas Einstein?" Eddy groaned sitting drivers sit of the van spinning the steering wheel in frustration not coming up with any ideas he could think of even though he actually was thinking of one since he finally came to realization in the past few days on how he narrowly avoided vaporization and nearly losing his two friends in the process.
"I'm afraid not Eddy, I'm at quite a quandary" Double Dee replied sighing as he went through many of his notes and wrote another log for his journal.
Ed on the other hand was sitting on the edge of the van dangling his feet twiddling them around reading another one of his comics smiling at reading Sci fi type one looking at humans fighting hideous looking monsters as they were retreating towards a rocket ship to make their escape but when Ed laid his eyes on the rocket his brain started to pop like bag of popcorn being made in a microwave.
"Guys look!" Ed yelled falling backwards rolling back into the van as he looped over the edge of the waterbed colliding with the back of the passenger seat.
"What is it Ed?" Double Dee asked as Eddy looked at Ed to see what was up.
Ed opened up his comic book pointing at the last page he was reading pointing at a specific rocket in it. Double Dee leaned in to get a better look at what he was pointing at and suddenly just like Ed a makeshift light bulb lit in his head.
"By Jove He's got it!" Double Dee smiled putting his hands on his head lying back on the water bed wondering how could he not remember such a simple thing.
"What What?" Eddy asked with impatience wanting to know what Double Dee was thinking seeing how he was smiling so widely along with Ed who was giggling to himself.
Double Dee took a few seconds to calm himself sitting back up. "Eddy, remember what we did when we pretended to do all of this?"
"No." Eddy answered plainly not knowing he was talking about at all.
"Eddy, remember what we had to do to escape the so called planet we were on?" Double Dee explained trying to get Eddy to remember the specific mechanism he was suggesting.
Eddy took a very long minute to think what was Double Dee talking about as he thought back to their early days when they played out the little adventure before they came into doing the real one now. Suddenly just like his friends it hit him like a ton of bricks.
"You mean the Rocket ship?" Eddy suggested hoping that he got it right.
"That's it, Eddy!" Double Dee confirmed Eddy's answer with a wide grin making the short Ed threw his arms up and down giving a silent yes to himself for having the right answer.
"Good Work Lumpy!" Eddy complimented the tall Ed giving him a high five as Ed laughed.
"Yes, well done on yet another great idea my friend." Doubled Dee added in giving him a gentle pat on his eyes making Ed almost purr like a kitten.
"Double Dee, I hate to kill the mood but how in the heck are we going to build a so called rocket?" Eddy pointed out with his arms crossed "and it better not fall apart again!" He quickly added remembering the last time he made a makeshift prototype that he was launched in and shattered as he was in the air causing him to fall back to the ground hard.
"You do have a valet point Eddy." Double Dee replied as he gathered his notes finding a blank page to write on what they were going to need since they would have to build a real rocket this time and not some makeshift one.
The Hat Wearing Ed worked on his notes for almost an hour writing down what he believed they would need and making a makeshift blueprint on what it would look like taking in the structure of the one from Ed's comic book.
While Double Dee worked Ed was outside tending to his chickens as Eddy was watching the periscope for any signs of trouble in the outskirts of the junkyard and beyond. Surprisingly he wasn't spotting any robot patrols. Not a single Robot marching around or any signs of them being present which made Eddy wonder why they would they be gone just like that.
Eventually Double Dee finished the first set of his list and called for his two friends to gather round him. "Alright Gentlemen, I think I have a good idea of what supplies and materials we will need first to construct our escape vessel." He explained showing the list on his notes and showing the makeshift blueprint of the rocket to his friends
"Double Dee you're a genius but where are going to get all of this stuff? I don't even know what most of this is?" Eddy complained reading Double Dee's list not understanding the complicating big words on the piece of paper.
"Don't worry Eddy, I think we will be able to find the materials in the junkyard and we will search together." Double Dee assured him.
"Well let the mighty space outlaw forge on to our quest." Ed narrated jumping out of the van throwing on his armor grabbing his mini laser, ready to set to find what they need.
"You heard our pal Sockhead, let's go!" Eddy nudged Double Dee to side quickly following Ed gathering his armor and laser pistols as Double Dee followed suite getting outside and went to his work bench where he left his armor and weapon while taking a quick look over to the latest project he started to work on when they got back the other day with the new tools they salvaged.
Double Dee put on his armor with haste picking up laser rife and went beside two friends as they nodded at each other showing they were all ready for their mission. They forged on hopping over their makeshift wall and ventured forth into the junkyard to find the materials they needed not realizing there were intruders within the junkyard and they were eyeing the Ed's with their glowing eyes as cybernetic evil chuckles escaped their mechanical lips.
The Three Ed's walked around many of the large mountains of junk and waste every now and again examining one piece after another looking to find the right item that would be suited for the rocket they will build. Every now and so often a strange noise would loom over the junkyard gaining one of the Ed's attention. They looked around for anything suspicious or a possible robot but there was sign of anything and went back to their search and salvage mission.
Time passed on as the Ed's gathered some materials that seemed to be in fine condition or able to operate with a little fix up as they came upon the car crusher device within a very open area of the junkyards as they decided to take a break sitting down in a circle to keep their eyes out for any signs of trouble. Even though they kept their eyes out they were not paying special attention to the eyes they were watching them from separate directions within piles of the junk around them.
Double Dee laid out what they gathered on the ground and went through his list to see what needed to be checked off and what still needed to be found for their upcoming project. "Well my friends from what we have gathered we still ne..." Suddenly a large cackle of laughter was heard in the area making Double Dee cease what he was saying as quickly scooted closer to his friends making a frightened face along with Eddy and Ed who were both scared for that laughter was something they were very familiar with all be it sounding different.
"Guys my underwear is riding high!" Ed informed in a panicked tone as he quickly stood up along with Double Dee and Eddy as they didn't acknowledged him for they understand he was scared just as they were.
"Co...Come on guys. It can't be who we think it is, can it?" Eddy uttered in a weepy voice truly hoping it's not the ones he was thinking off.
"Of...of course...not. It couldn't be so." Double Dee answered with a nervous laugh as they all looked around frantically as the cackling laughter was growing louder and louder as the Ed's shook violently in fear.
Suddenly three shadows stood upon over the Ed's coming from a direction they were not looking. The Shadows looked all too familiar as they truly didn't want to see where they were coming from but they slowly craned their heads up towards where the shadows originated from and their mouths dropped as they layed their eyes on none other than the Kankers.
But more to the shock of the Ed's these were not the Kankers they always despised and feared they were completely different but now more horrifying. They were now Cybernetic Robots! Their entire bodies were covered in armored plating molded into metal forms complete with no inch of skin left as they stared down at the Ed's with their glowing yellow eyes and their cackling robotic laughter poured icy fear into the Ed's souls.
What more of the changes of the Kankers were there was a specific difference to each of the Kankers body parts.
Cyber May Kankers legs were replaced with two wheels. Lee Kankers arms had many blades sticking out of them on a chain that was hooked onto her arms and Marie Kankers head had two metal rolls on it with red beams charged up inside them showing they were lasers.
"Ka...Ka…Kankers!" Double Dee screamed in complete fear pointing up at their long adversaries that they thought perished at the lemonbrooke factory by the cruel robots.
"I thought they died!" Eddy panicked not believing that this was happening.
"Our Fallen foes have transformed into Robot bounty hunters!" Ed narrated out even though he was just as scared as the Kankers cold cyber laughter taunted them.
"We must…" Cyber Marie started to say in cybernetic tone
"Destroy all…" Cyber May said next in the sentence with her voice transformed with a cyber tone as well.
"Organics!" Cyber Lee finished as her arm blades began to spin.
"Oh Come you don't want to kill, you always wanted to kiss us." Eddy nervously said slowly walking up to the Kankers with an awkward smile hoping to get them to stop but as he walked up Lee jumped from the mountain and came straight down on Eddy with her spinning blades ready to cut Eddy in half but right before she did Ed quickly reached over and pulled Eddy back but Eddy lost half of his threw locks of hair as Lee spun hard blades into three locks she cut making them go into a million pieces showing that she and the other Kankers are there to terminate the Ed's.
"This would be a good time to retreat." Double Dee suggested slowly backing up getting ready to run just as the other Kankers jumped down to Cyber Lee but what happened next stopped the Ed's in their tracks.
Cyber May's head transformed into her body along with her arms leaving her wheeled legs out with a portion of her body. Cyber Lee's head did the same but jumped into the air transforming her legs into her body leaving her bladed chainsaw resembling arms out with the bottom part attaching to the top of May's body. Lastly Cyber Marie jumped up into the air transforming her whole body inside all but her head attaching to the top of Lee's body thus forming a giant Kankers Robot three times taller than Ed, all three of them combined up into a killing machine each with their unique weapons ready to use for the purpose they were made for.
The Ed's screamed in terror as they took off running but the Kankers Robot with its wheel legs quickly speedup to them getting in their way of escape showing they were not going to outrun it. Cyber Marie's head lasers began to fire on the Ed's barely missing them as they all ducked and dodged the incoming fire.
"Scatter!" Eddy screamed taking off in one direction as the other Ed's took off in other directions. The Giant Kankers Robot went after Eddy first as Cyber Maries head kept her head on Double Dee firing at him as the Robot quickly gained on Eddy. The Robot raised chainsaw resembling arms up determined to get Eddy this time bringing it to the left of Eddy about to cut his body in two.
Ed saw this coming and aimed his mini laser at the Robot and fired rapidly screaming a battle cry hoping to save his friend. His shots hit the Kankers Robots arm but the shots only hit the blades destroying them saving Eddy from a fatal blow but the big fist hit Eddy so hard that he shot into the sky being knocked out of view.
"Eddy!" Double Dee cried out to his friend who went out of site and feared the worst as Ed continued to lay fire on the Kankers Robot as it started to move on Ed while still firing at Double Dee as one shot hit his rifle causing it to blow up leaving Double Dee defenseless.
Meanwhile Eddy screamed as he sailed through the sky as he watched as friends were fighting the massive figure and by sheer luck he was about to land hard right into their central command. He landed right on top of Double Dee's work bench hitting it hard with loud bang as a cloud of dust came from the impact. Eddy groaned in pain sitting up but something attached to his back when he did.
"What the…" Eddy groaned in pain but felt two belts wrap around his chest and tightened in place. He heard something charging and looked behind him to find a black backpack looking device attached to him and looked lower to see flames shoot out from the bottom. Before Eddy could ponder he was shot into the air yet again but this time he wasn't knocked.
Eddy screamed trying to control himself as he didn't have any control on what he was doing as he instantly realized what was on him was a jetpack which apparently was the thing Double Dee was working on. He did accidently did makeshift loop de loops and whooshed across the sky fast as a rocket. Eddy did what he could to angle himself where he was flying till managed to figure out the angles that made him move to where he wanted to though the jetpack was not letting him slow down.
He angled himself into the direction where his friends were and flew that way hoping that it wasn't too late to help them. Just as he flew into view of where he was knocked away he seen the Kanker Robot knock Ed away with the destroyed arm making him drop his weapon right into Double Dee as they collided with the nearby car crusher. Double Dee and Ed were fazed from the hit and weren't getting up as the Robot quickly made its way onto them and preparing to finish them both off charging up its head lasers.
Eddy angled himself directly at the robot causing him to fly straight at it leading with his shoulder ready to save his friends. Before the Robot could fire its lasers Eddy collided into the back of Robot hard making the Robot fire its lasers but missed the phased Ed and Double Dee as it tumbled straight into the car crushed as Eddy landed on the junkyard floor hard as the jetpack failed from the hit ceasing his barely controlled flight.
"Double Dee the controls!" Eddy Yelled being still being attached to the jetpack as couldn't get up for he was in a lot of pain from the hit.
Double Dee quickly regained himself and ran for the nearby controls of the machine and quickly turned them on. The Car Crusher machine activated and began to close heavy metal walls onto the Kankers Robot it crushed the entire robot from one side to the next as it electrically cackled away as sparks flew and the crushing of metal could be heard. Within a minute a gate opened up on the other end of the machine and out fell a very large crushed up metallic cube that was once the giant Kankers Robot.
Ed quickly ran for it after regaining himself as well grabbing it and twirled it around in a few circles "Cherrio Kanker Sisterio's!" He yelled as he let go and sent the cube flying straight out of the junkyard and out of view as the cube of the disappearing with a twinkle in the sky.
"Eddy!" Double Dee cried running up to Eddy who laid on the ground in a lot of pain but was still alive and well with the jetpack still attached to him. "Are you alright?"
"Ah…I'm bruised bad like a banana." Eddy groaned in pain but slightly smiled along with Double Dee who was happy that he was alright.
"I see you stumbled upon my new invention nosy parker." He chuckled helping him out of the belts as the Jetpack cackled as it was out of fuel as a beat of smoke came out of it.
"The Jetpack needs work." Eddy complained but then chuckled along with Double Dee who both then were embraced by their big friend Ed as they all just survived the return of their old nemesis but managed to win thanks to Double Dee's invention and the sheer luck that Eddy managed to land on it.
"Let's get back home." Double Dee suggested as Ed picked up the hurt Eddy cradling him like a baby with picking the jetpack as Double Dee gathered the materials they found and their weapons and together they went back to the van to reveal in another day of survival and soon begin work on their rocket.
Elsewhere in gray field far out of the town of peach creek layed a certain metal cube that used to be the Robot Hordes new addition to their ranks laying motionless all crunched up in the makeshift cube. Suddenly a hand started to form out of the cube as it slowly raised from the top making a fist as other pieces started to rise and slowly detach from the cube and began to tear it apart as the pieces were forming back into place thus remaking each of the Cyber Kankers as they were before turning into the Mega Robot they were.
To Be Continued…..