Author's Note:
On the imaginary map, the three red figures of the Eds are shown running over boulders and hills until they finally arrive at Eddy's palace.
As the readers toss away the map, they see that the weather around the palace has turned rainy. The Eds had managed to find the secret door to Team Rocket's lab. To gain access to it, they needed to pull one of two levers.
On one side of the room, a door opens up and a sorely drenched and very irritated Eddy stomps into the room. The cause of Eddy's irritation was Frankie the shark's jaws biting into his feathered butt.
"Okay, why the heck does she even have that lever?" growls Eddy, kicking the shark off with his clawed foot back through the door.
Eddy walks over to where Ed and Edd are standing next to the two levers. Since Ed pulled one lever, resulting in Eddy falling through a trap door into the shark pool, by logical deduction, Edd told Ed to pull the other lever. When Ed pulled the correct lever, the secret door instantly flipped the trio into the next room. The Eds were surprised to find themselves seated in a roller coaster car, the same one Jessie and James were placed in earlier.
"Alright dudes and dude-ettes, this ride is about to start. Wave your hands like crazy and have a blast, seriously!" said the Motor Ed announcer voice.
Before they knew it, the roller coaster car began speeding down rapidly along the tracks. Edd and Eddy clung to each other and screamed for dear life while Ed raised his arms and laughed gleefully all throughout the ride. Just as suddenly as the ride started, it quickly stopped as the Eds were thrown into the lab.
When they landed on the floor, Edd and Eddy looked at each other quizzically because they were wearing lab coats that didn't fit them at all. Edd was wearing James' lab coat which was too long for him and Jessie's lab coat was meant to cover a woman's curvy body instead of a short, portly chicken. Both of them looked over at Ed, who surprisingly was dressed like a clown, with a red nose and a funny hat to boot.
"Where did Chuckles the Clown come from?" asked Eddy, sarcastically.
"I guess the author didn't want Ed to feel left out since the original scene called for two costumes," surmised Edd.
"Yay! I love clowns! They have big feet," Ed squealed dumbly.
"Aw forget this!" Eddy snapped. He tore his coat apart with his wings and then yanked off Ed's and Edd's wardrobes, causing the two to spin around dizzily. "We got to find that human potion, remember?!"
The three dashed over to a large table filled with various, colored chemicals in different size beakers, flasks, and test tubes.
Picking up two flasks and looking at each of them, Eddy asks, "So which one is it?"
"I'm not sure. It'll take me a while to analyze all of these chemicals, and we still might not find the antidote," reasoned Edd.
"Hey guys! Look at this stuff!"
Eddy and Edd look over to where Ed is standing. In front of Ed is a tall cabinet filled with numerous potions with labels underneath them. Edd and Eddy rushed over to the cabinet. The human potion might very well be there!
Edd looks at one shelf and reads the following potions, "Lions, tigers, bears…" When he came to a spot reserved for the human potion, there was nothing at all!
"Oh, my," mocked an eerily familiar female voice. Wicked laughter is heard from that voice combined with that of a male voice. The Eds suddenly hear some dramatic background music playing out of nowhere. Suddenly two shadowy figures jumped up and landed on the lab table. Voices from those mysterious figures began to chant:
To protect our rep as villain raiders
To unite ourselves against all you haters
To rid this kingdom of goodness and hope
And spread our message from coast to coast
Jessie!
The red-haired villainess stepped out of the shadows with a bold, evil smirk on her face and much to the boys' shock, Jessie is holding the vial containing the human potion within her hands.
And James!
Soon, Jessie's partner in crime revealed himself with a red rose in his gloved hand and a dangerous glint in his green eyes. Both Jessie and James stood in dramatic poses with the final lines of their chant.
Team Rocket will rule this empire with an iron fist
Betcha didn't think we could come up with something like this
Even though they finished their little chant, the music continued playing as if someone else was supposed to say a little something at the end. Jessie and James looked at each other bewilderedly as they realize something was missing.
"James, where exactly is Meowth? I haven't seen him since this poor excuse for a parody started."
James scratches his head, trying to think of the loud-mouthed feline Pokemon's whereabouts, until he remembered something. "Oh, I almost forgot. Meowth said he wouldn't be able to act in this story because he's too busy practicing for his role in one of the author's upcoming stories."
"Oh, he's such a diva," Jessie remarked, rolling her eyes.
"Hey! Can we get back to what's going on here?!" Eddy snapped in annoyance. "Like how you two got here before us?"
Jessie smiled smugly as she held up her finger, looking as if she was going to gloat about their arrival. However, her face showed obvious puzzlement. She looked to James and asked, "That's a good question. How did we get here before the twerps?"
"Beats me." James pulls out the map previously used in the last chapter. "Judging by this map, the twerps should have gotten here first. Go figure," he shrugs.
"Oh well, it doesn't matter who got here first." Sporting an evil grin, Jessie looks at Eddy with narrowed, menacing eyes. "What's important is that I eliminate you so that I can become empress."
Sweating profusely under her murderous glare, Eddy nervously takes a step back. He knew Jessie was upset at him, but he never thought she was angry enough to actually kill him.
Nervously chuckling, Eddy says, "Okay, so maybe I'm not the nicest guy in the world. And maybe I shouldn't have fired you like that. But c'mon, do you really want to kill me?!"
"Well, let me break it down for you. You're being let go, you're no longer wanted, we're both going in different directions, take your pick, I've got plenty."
Eddy's mouth gaped in shock, trembling as he hears the words coming from Jessie that sounded eerily similar to what he said when he fired her. If his life wasn't in danger, he would probably ask Edd if this was an example of irony.
"Hey Jess, aren't those the exact words he said to you when he fired you?" asked James, clearly stating the obvious.
"Yes, James. That's what you call a cruel irony, like my dependence on you," she dryly answered back. Sometimes James could be a complete idiot.
"Aahh! I can't believe this is happening to me!" Eddy screamed.
"And I bet you weren't expecting this, huh?" asked Jessie, grinning mischievously as she lifts up a side of her skirt, exposing much more of her right leg.
The Eds shielded their eyes and all three screamed in terror .
"NO! I'm too young!" screamed Eddy.
"Good lord! Put your skirt back down! This story is rated K, not M for mature audiences," yelled Edd.
"Make it go away!" shouted Ed.
Ignoring their screams, Jessie reaches up and pulls out a silver pistol that is strapped around her upper thigh. Afterwards, she briskly smoothed out her skirt. When the Eds see what Jessie was really up to, they all sigh in relief. Apparently, as teenaged boys tend to do, their minds were thinking about something that is too PG-13 to be written here.
"James! You know what to do." Jessie hands the gun to James, then stands back with her hands on her hips, looking at Eddy and his friends with an evil smile on her face.
It was déjà vu all over again for James. Not only was this the second time that Jessie entrusted him the job of finishing off Eddy, but he was also experiencing some inner conflict within his conscience as to what would be the right thing to do. Follow Jessie's orders and shoot the Eds, who he really didn't have a grudge towards, or refuse to kill the emperor and his friends at the risk of feeling Jessie's terrible wrath.
Like before, his consciences come to help James out. 'Bad James' pops up, standing on James' left shoulder, and says, "Don't tell me you're thinkin' bout' chickening out!"
"So if you're here, then where's my good conscience?" asks James. Just as soon as that question was uttered, 'Good' James arrives, landing on his right shoulder. Though this time, the good conscience was sitting in a salon chair underneath a hair dryer reading a Disney magazine. Looking up from the magazine, 'Good' James realizes that he's supposed to be on the job. The chair and dryer instantly disappear and 'Good' James has his halo back around his head.
"Hey, sorry I'm late. Did I miss anything?" asked 'Good' James.
"Well, first off, Jessie gave me this gun and wants me to eliminate them. Then my bad conscience shows up and then we waited for you to arrive. To be perfectly honest, I really don't want to…"
Deep in his conversation between his good and bad consciences, James doesn't realize that his moral guides were invisible to everyone but him. So to anyone watching James, it looked like he was talking to himself like a crazy person.
Jessie looks at James with wide-open eyes with her mouth dropping to the floor. She looks at the Eds and jabs her thumb at James with a facial expression that clearly read: 'Has he gone completely loco?' The boys all shrugged, they didn't know why James was acting so strangely.
"James!" yelled Jessie. The conversation between James and his consciences comes to a halt as all three look up at the seething redhead.
"Why did I think you could do this? All I wanted you to do was kill the twerp and his annoying friends, but I guess you're too much of an idiot to accomplish that."
"Hey, take it easy there!" cautioned 'Good' James.
"A whiny, incompetent, bottlecap-lovin' idiot named James!"
"Ouch. That burns!" commented 'Bad' James.
"Do you want to do know something else? I never liked your strawberry rice cakes." Jessie's harsh remarks made James and his consciences gasp in astonishment. Never had they heard Jessie say something so cruel.
"They're better as coasters than as cakes!" she finished with a hiss.
James' eyes began to tear up. He didn't care so much that Jessie insulted his competence at doing evil dirty work, but her harsh comments about his culinary delicacy really struck a cord in his heart.
'Bad' James had enough. Even he thought Jessie had gone too far. And he was from the evil side. Positioning his pitchfork as if it were a weapon, he growled, "That's it! She is so going down."
"Wait a minute, fellas. There's a wise saying that goes like this. "From above, the wicked shall receive their just reward," reassured 'Good' James.
Suddenly a beam of bright light showered all around the room. The three James looked up and see a lit chandelier hanging directly above Jessie.
"That'll work," all three agreed simultaneously.
Showing a rare display of confident courage, James takes out a bottle opener that he kept in his pocket for his bottlecap hobby and uses it to cut the rope that is tied to the chandelier. With the rope loosened, the chandelier falls by way of gravity towards Jessie. The Eds covered their ears as they await for the eventual crash. Once the chandelier crashed to the ground, the boys look up and to their shock, as well as Jessie's, the chandelier missed Jessie due to the giant hole in the middle of it.
"That's odd. Usually that works," commented James, perplexed at the strange turn of events.
"Don't worry, James," said Jessie in a dangerously low voice. "THIS WILL!" she snaps, then pulls a nearby lever, which causes a trapdoor under James' feet to open up.
"Whoa. Should have seen that coming." James screamed, "Aahhh!" as he fell under the trapdoor with his two consciences, 'Good' James and 'Bad' James clinging to each other as they fell too.
While Jessie smugly grins at having rid of her partner, she fails to notice Edd who had snuck up behind her and snatched the antidote from her hands. Jessie turns furious as she runs after Edd. Having spent most of his energy in reaching the palace, Edd knew he couldn't outrun Jessie for very long. He spots Ed and yells, "Ed, catch!" and tosses the vial to him just before he was tackled from behind by Jessie.
Ed fumbles the vial in his hands for a brief moment but nonetheless has it secured in his grasp. Pushing Edd aside, Jessie runs toward Ed and leaps onto his back.
"Give me that vial, you big lummox!"
Jessie repeatedly pounds Ed's hollow skull with her fists. The headache created by Jessie's pounding momentarily distracts Ed, which allowed Jessie to take the potion from his flailing hands.
Her moment of victory is cut short when Eddy flew up and head-butted Jessie off of Ed's head.
"Hey! Only I get to call Ed that!" Eddy protested.
Not only did his head-butt caused Jessie to drop the potion. it also caused Jessie to be thrown towards the potions cabinet. With her ears ringing from sudden impact with the cabinet, Jessie is now mad!
"You twerps are going to pay for that!"
Out of nowhere, Jessie pulls out five red-and-white pokeballs. Throwing the spherical objects into the air, all of her pokemon from Arbok to Seviper were instantly released.
"Get them!" Jessie ordered her pokemon.
Just as the menacing-looking creatures began to move towards the frightened Eds, four beings suddenly flew into the lab's windows. They were none other than Starfire and the Powerpuff girls.
Jessie's jaw drops, but she pulls herself together to complain. "Hey, wait a minute! This didn't happen in the original movie!"
"What part of the word 'parody' do you not understand?" snapped Blossom.
"Even Bubbles knows what it means!" adds Buttercup.
"Yeah! What?...Hey!" retorts Bubbles, feeling a little insulted.
"Besides, we're superheroes and its our job to protect people from evildoers like you!" exclaims Blossom.
"Now let us commence the kicking of the buttocks!" announces Starfire, accidentally butchering the English language. After hearing her statement, everyone in the room, including the pokemon, sweatdropped.
"Uh, close enough, Starfire!" Blossom remarks with a sheepish expression. Then instantly reverting back to her trademark leadership mode, she yells, "Powerpuff Girls…and Starfire, let's go!"
All four superheroines speedily flew towards Jessie's pokemon, initiating a smackdown of great cartoon crossover proportions.
"Arbok! Poison sting attack!" Jessie commanded to the first of her pokemon. "Cha-Bok!" exclaims the purple, cobra-like pokemon, as it fired several light blue rays out of its mouth towards the girls.
"Go after the others. I'll take care of this one!" orders Blossom. Once the other girls flew off to fight the other pokemon, Blossom sucks in a huge gulp of air, then after a few seconds, she breathes out the air in the form of an icy swirl. The freezing air blast instantly freezes the poison stings as well as Arbok, whose entire body and the shocked expression on its face is frozen in a large block of ice.
Not ready to give up, Jessie goes to her next Pokemon.
"Dustox, use Gust on that blonde brat!"
The moth-like Pokemon obeys its master and creates a tremendous gust of wind with its beating wings. Bubbles counters its attack by using her sonic high-pitch scream. The sonic waves from her scream greatly overpowers Dustox's wind gust. The strong impact of the waves causes Dustox to slam hard into a nearby wall, causing a few painful cracks in the wall.
Dismayed and frustrated that the Powerpuff girls took out two of her Pokemon, Jessie called out for the next one on her Pokemon roster, hoping that the third time would be the charm.
"Lickitung! Go!"
A rotund, pink creature with an abnormally long reddish tongue hanging out of its mouth, quickly swings its tongue to paralyze its target, which happened to be Buttercup. But to Lickitung's surprise, the green-eyed Powerpuff grabbed hold of the powerful tongue seconds before it hit her face. With a mischievous glint in her eyes and a smirk on her face, Buttercup lifts the astonished Pokemon by its tongue and begins to swirl around rapidly into a green tornado. After a few minutes, Buttercup stops and drop kicks the dizzy Pokemon, whose tongue is now loosely wrapped around its body, onto the floor.
Unlike the Powerpuff girls, Starfire was having a bit of difficulty fighting her opponent, Wobbufett. No matter how many beams she shot out of her hands, the blue, blobbish Pokemon would instinctively use Counter, a move that blocked any of its enemy's attacks. After fighting off Arbok, Blossom was about to fly over to assist Starfire but out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Seviper, Jessie's other snake-like Pokemon, poised and ready to strike her. An idea quickly popped up in the brainy Powerpuff's head.
"Hey tall, dark, and scaly! Catch me if you can!" Blossom taunted. Seviper lunged at her and quickly coiled its long body in hopes of squeezing the pink-eyed girl to death. But to its shock, she was gone! Seviper looked up and spotted the smug Blossom hovering above its head.
"Is that the best you can do? No wonder Pikachu always kicks your butt!" Blossom flew towards the fight scene between Starfire and Wobbuffet with an angry Seviper bounding after her. Angering the snake Pokemon was part one of her plan to defeat Wobbuffet, and as she got closer to her destination, part two was about to come into play.
With Wobbuffet's attention on Starfire and using its power to block her attacks, he didn't notice Blossom and Seviper coming its way. Blossom flew behind Wobbuffet and quietly landed in front of its back, so as to keep the blobbish Pokemon from noticing her. She spotted Seviper and made faces at it, further teasing it. By now, Seviper had enough! He was going to teach the brat a lesson, even if it meant hurting his comrade in the process. Preparing for its Poison Tail attack, Seviper raised its tail, which began to glow in a light purple color, and rapidly swung its tail to strike Blossom. Fortunately, Blossom's super vision allowed her to see the tail's movements, which would have been too fast for the human eye, and had speedily moved out of the way.
Wobbuffet was not so fortunate. He did not notice the scene going on behind him. However, Starfire did and caught on to what Blossom was trying to do. The minute Seviper raised its tail to strike, Starfire stopped firing her beams, looking as if she was ready to give up. With Starfire ceasing her attacks, Wobbuffet stopped using Counter, a move that would have prevented from what was to happen next. Seviper's poisonous tail hit the back of Wobbuffet's head, causing Wobbuffet to reel in both shock and pain from the stinging, poisonous sensation.
Blossom then picked up Seviper and using her superhuman speed, she wrapped the snake Pokemon into a ball. She tossed the 'ball' up and down into the air, then yelled to Starfire, "Batter up!"
Remembering what she learned about the human sport of baseball, Starfire picked up the stunned Wobbuffet and raised it as if it were a bat. Blossom hurled Seviper towards her to which Starfire swung Wobbuffet until a contact was made. The strength Starfire put behind her swing caused the poor snake to soar across the lab and hit a wall, landing on the floor in an unconscious state. Wobbuffet was no better as Starfire released her grip on its body. Hitting Seviper had also taken a lot of energy out of it, so much so that it fainted on the ground.
The Eds looked at the four triumphant superheroines and the defeated Pokemon strewn out all over the lab. The three boys jumped up and ecstatically cheered for the victors.
"Yeah! We won! We won!" the Eds yelled. Starfire and the Powerpuff girls joined in their victory cheer.
But Jessie, on the other hand, was distressed at all that had happened. All of her Pokemon were quickly taken out, one by one, by the superpowered females. With her Pokemon posse momentarily knocked out, Jessie had one more trick up her sleeve.
While the Eds and the girls were busy cheering, Jessie quietly snuck over to a cabinet and pulled out a Team Rocket brand bazooka. With the bazooka strapped around her arm, she grabbed a couple of potions and hastily placed them in the loading portion of the bazooka. Her weapon locked and loaded, Jessie furtively snuck over to the lab table and slowly raised her bazooka to fire.
Out of the corner of his eye, Edd spotted Jessie. "Girls! Watch out!" he yelled.
But by the time the girls heard Edd's warning, Jessie had already fired one potion at Starfire and another at the Powerpuff Girls. When the dust from the potions cleared away, the boys were shocked to see what the girls had turned into.
For Starfire, the potion turned her into a turtle while the Powerpuff girls were turned into three cute, but slimy snails. With the girls incapacitated, Jessie knew that things were now looking up. She called out to her Pokemon who surprisingly were able to bounce back from their injuries and were now ready to fight. The Eds trembled in fear as they looked upon the advancing menacing Pokemon. Without the girls, they stood little to no chance of beating Jessie.
"This is it! We're done for!" cried Eddy.
Suddenly an idea popped up in Edd's head. "Not exactly, for I have a solution." Edd kneeled down to pick up a small pebble on the floor. "I hate to have to do this, but this calls for drastic measures."
Eddy looks at Edd with an incredulous expression as Edd dropped the pebble in the back of one of Ed's shoes without the big lug knowing it.
"A pebble?! That's your answer?! How's a measly rock going to save us?!" screams Eddy, who didn't stop to take note of the sudden changes in Ed's disposition.
Edd glances at Eddy with a knowing smirk as he explains, "It may just be an insignificant pebble, but combining the pebble with Ed's foot and you get…"
"ANGRY ED'S BACK!" roars Ed, his eyes blood-shot red and his mouth curled in a growling sneer, exposing his clenching, large teeth.
Anyone who knows Ed can testify that the guy rarely ever showed anger or rage. But Edd recalled an earlier instance in which Ed went on a fury-induced rampage in the village. By accident, Edd discovered that the cause of Ed's irrational behavior was a small pebble found in Ed's shoes. Feeling a pebble, a stick or anything in one's shoes would annoy most people, but for Ed, it was the one thing that undeniably pushed him over the edge!
As the enraged Ed stomped towards the now frightened Pokemon, Eddy cheered him on by screaming, "Go Lumpy Go!" And 'go' Ed did as he picked up the lab table, sending many glass tubes and beakers crashing onto the floor, and jumped in the air.
"PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER! YAAHHH!" Ed yells down to the terrified Pokemon with the large table tightly secured in his grasping hands.
Suddenly, the big fight scene with Ed and the Pokemon is abruptly paused. To the reader's surprise, the author, StarReader86's head pokes out, then the author continues walking to the center of the page.
The sheepish author clears her throat, then goes on to say, "I know all of you were expecting to see Ed beating the crap out of Jessie's Pokemon, but due to the remarks I've been getting from one of the cartoon censor ladies, who claims that the following scene is too graphic for anyone under the age of 18 who may be reading this."
"They have suggested," then StarReader starts fake coughing, "cough threatenedcough that if I want to continue with this story, then I need to block the violent scene. Otherwise, they'll tell the powers-that-be at Fanfiction and my story will be plugged." StarReader glares at the aforementioned cartoon censor lady, Histeria's very own Lydia Karaoke.
"So I'm going to take this moment to recognize and thank the awesome authors/reviewers who posted their reviews of this story. Thank you Wormtail96, Darkmagicianmon, Terranova210486, Energy witch, TinkerbelleTB, TLSoulDude, Lady Dragon010, and pastrygirl."
"For all those who have not reviewed but have read and/or faved my story, I still say thanks to all of you. The fact that you care enough to read my first story really means a lot to me."
StarReader looks at her digital watch and then back at the readers. "Okay, so it looks like the scene's over. Now back to the story!"
The readers now see the scene with Ed standing before Jessie's badly bruised and beaten Pokemon who are currently laying in a pile. Careful as to not startle Ed, Edd creeps up behind him and grabs Ed's shoe to shake out the pebble, then places the shoe back on Ed's foot. Instantly, Ed changes back to his happy-go-lucky self!
"I'm in my happy place again, guys!" Ed emphasizes his good mood by squeezing Edd and Eddy in a tight hug and swinging them around.
"We're happy for you too, Ed. Now please let us go," wheezed Edd.
"Yeah, before I hurl from smellin' your stinky pits," quipped Eddy. Ed released his friends, who were glad to get some air from Ed's oxygen-deprived hug. Other than that, it seems everything is okay.
Well, maybe not.
Jessie looks at her defeated Pokemon in shock, she couldn't believe that one boy, other than Ash, single-handedly beat her Pokemon. She fires a rageful glare at Ed as she exclaimed, "You…You…You'll pay for this, you brain-dead twerp!"
Before the boys could react, Jessie fired another potion from her bazooka at Ed. Edd and Eddy looked fearfully on as they watched to see what Jessie's potions have turned their friend into this time. Much to their surprise, Ed was transformed into a humanoid three-toed sloth.
Unlike his friends, Ed was thrilled at his new change. "Cool! I am now…Sloth-man! The furry fighter of the Amazon rainforest!"
Eddy slaps a wing across his head in frustration, while Edd is somewhat relieved that at least Ed could still find something to be happy about. "Hold on, Ed. We're going to use that human antidote and turn you and the girls back to normal," reasoned Edd.
"Hey, what about me?! I've been turned into a freak way before everyone else!"
"Focus, Eddy! We need to get that antidote, which is…" Edd trailed off, "…right in front of us!"
Sure enough, the vial that held the human antidote that Jessie dropped earlier was only a few feet away from the boys. As the boys began running towards it, Jessie thinks fast and pushes against the cabinet filled with the potions. This caused all the potions to spill onto the floor. All the potions were unlabeled, so there was no way to tell which one was the antidote!
"Uh oh! My bad!" said Jessie, pretending to look apologetic. While Edd and Eddy anxiously picked up several vials at a time to determine which one was the antidote, Jessie continued. "I would help you boys out, but I'm expecting company real soon!"
Jessie tugs on a cord hanging from the ceiling, sounding off a loud alarm. After the alarm sounded, several doors opened up to reveal some of Eddy's guards; Kids Next Door's Sector V and Jack Spicer. The six guards, equipped with their weapon of choice, stood ready to fight.
"Those two murdered the emperor! Get them!" Jessie ordered, pointing accursedly at Eddy and Edd.
"She's lying! I'm the emperor! It's me, Eddy!" he frantically yelped, but the guards ignored him as they charged towards them.
"I don't get it, Double D! Why aren't they listening to me?!"
"You're a chicken, Eddy. No one is going to take you seriously," reasoned Edd. "But that's not important. Grab as many of these vials as you can, we'll figure out which is the antidote scientifically."
"Oh yeah, how?" quipped Eddy, as both boys kneeled down to pick up the potions from the floor.
"By having you drink each potion and see the outcomes, until one of them turns you back to your human self."
By the time Edd finished talking, the guards have gotten very close to where they were standing. Since they had no weapons of their own, Edd and Eddy used the only resources they had at hand. The boys threw several potions at the surprised guards, effectively stopping them in their tracks. Once the smoke from the potion explosion cleared, the guards found themselves transformed into various animals. Numbuh One, a white seal, Numbuh Two, a hippo, Numbuh Three, a white crane, Numbuh Four, a yellow koala, Numbuh Five, a gazelle, and Jack Spicer, a baboon.
Jessie watched the boys make their escape. She turned to the animal brigade. "Well, what are you waiting for?! Go after them!"
"Hey lady, I've been turned into a baboon…again," groans Jack Spicer. "Can I go home?"
"Fine, you can leave," Jessie sighed. Swinging on his staff, the baboon Jack gleefully left the scene. "Anyone else?"
Choruses of "Nah, we're good," "I'm fine," and "Numbuh Five's okay" were spoken. It seemed that the KND kids were not overly weirded out by their animal forms.
"Great. NOW GET THEM!"
Edd and Eddy ran as quickly as their legs could carry them with the animal guards quickly closing in on them. As they were running, Edd plucked one potion hidden underneath his hat and popped the cork off.
"We need to change you back and fast. Try this potion," said Edd. He handed it to Eddy who gulped it down in seconds. Eddy quickly found out that the potion was not the human antidote, but instead, it was a penguin potion.
"Uh, Double D? A little help here!" squawked Eddy. Edd turned around and spotted the penguin Eddy frantically waving his wings and waddling at a slow pace. Just before Numbuh Five could stomp on Eddy with her hooves, Edd grabs Eddy by the wing and continues running to find an exit.
In their running, the boys stopped at a flight of stairs. Laying Eddy on his stomach, Edd hops onto his feathered back and pushes off to slide down the stair railing using Eddy as some sort of penguin sled. The quick, whooshing motion down the stairs prevented the KND from being able to land any of their weapon's firings upon the boys.
The boys reached the end of the stairs and continued their run. "Perhaps a potion that will give you flying ability is in order," Edd states, picking out another potion from the several he held in his arms. Since Eddy didn't have any fingers, Edd popped off the cork and fed it to him.
"Yeah, baby! I'm flyin' high tonight!" boasted Eddy. It turned out Edd got his wish, because this potion transformed Eddy into another bird, one that could fly.
But unfortunately, the potion turned him into a red robin. This spelled bad news for Edd who was holding onto Eddy's feet to keep himself in the air. Realizing how small a bird he was, Eddy squeaked, "Oh man."
Without realizing where they were going, Edd and Eddy crashed into a nearby wall. When they landed on the ground, the boys saw KND getting closer to where they were. They quickly recovered from their fall and started to run yet again from the guards.
"This isn't working, Double D! You're getting the wrong potions! Let me pick the next one!" protested Eddy.
"Fine! Be my guest!" snapped Edd, slightly upset that Eddy wasn't more appreciative of his efforts.
"Gimme that one!" Edd picks out the potion Eddy chose and feeds it to Eddy. For the third time, Eddy changed into another bird, this time a peacock. After finding out what he turned into, Eddy loses it.
"Why does every stinkin' potion turn me into some stupid bird?! I HATE BIRDS!"
In the background, if one listens closely, one could hear the author laughing mischievously while the clacking sounds of keys typing on a laptop are heard.
Suddenly, for no reason other than to add to dramatics, the bridge the Eds were standing on begins to crumble underneath their feet. Edd and Eddy screamed as they fell into the watery canals below the bridge.
Jessie and the KND group saw the Eds' downward fall. When they got closer to where the bridge collapsed, Jessie yells at the KND. "Hurry up and drain the canals!"
Wading in the canals, Edd picked out another potion for Eddy to try. "Try this one," Edd said. He opened up the vial and fed it to Eddy. This time the potion changed him back into a chicken.
"Woo hoo! I'm a chicken again! Yeah!" rejoiced Eddy. But after thinking that it was his human form that he wanted, Eddy paused and said, "Heyyy…wait a second!"
Before Eddy could finish out his thought, he is cut off by the sudden movement in the canal. By their empress' orders, the KND troop immediately drained the canals, resulting in Eddy and Edd getting sucked down into the drain at the bottom of the canal. From outside of the palace, there is a giant replica of Eddy's face carved into the gold-plated palace wall. The canal water, along with Eddy and Edd, poured out of the statue Eddy's nose. Fortunately for the boys, they reached out and grabbed onto one of the giant nostrils before they almost plummeted to their doom.
Jessie peered over the canal and turned to KND. "They're at the bottom! After them!" she ordered.
"Come on, team! We can't let them get away. Kids Next Door, Battle Stations," yelled the seal Numbuh One. The kids/animals yelled out their numbers, with Numbuh Five as the first to jump down through the drain and Numbuh One as the last to leave. When all five KND members slid down towards the drain, they realized too late that there was nothing for them to land on once they reached the bottom. As a result, the KND ended up screaming as they fell out of the giant nose.
Flabbergasted, Jessie looked at the entire scene and could not believe how the best sector of KND had easily failed. She pounded her head with her fists in aggravation, mentally and physically beating herself up for depending on a bunch of twerps to capture the emperor. After she finished, she rushed over to some nearby curtains and yanks on it to use as a make-shift rope. She wrapped one end of the curtain around her waist and with both hands clutching the curtains, she jumped down into the drain.
Meanwhile, Eddy and Edd had somehow managed to climb from the nose to the head. As they sat on the monument's head, Edd pulled out two vials from his pant pockets. "There are only two potions left. One of these has to be the human antidote," Edd said to Eddy, anxiously awaiting to drink the potions.
Just as Eddy was reaching out to try one of the potions, Jessie dropped in between the two boys and kicked both of them. The sudden kick caused Edd to drop the potions, with both vials rolling out onto the surface. Despite getting kicked in the noggin, Eddy spotted the vials and ran towards them just as Jessie was running towards the vials. Both Eddy and Jessie reached the vials at the same time, causing them to move in a blurry whirlwind until Jessie landed hard on one of the potions. A loud blasting sound and an accompanying puff of smoke kept Eddy and Edd at a distance from Jessie.
A pair of glowing yellow eyes and gleaming fangs are seen through the smoke with Jessie laughing wickedly in anticipation of her evil transformation. When the smoke finally cleared, Eddy and Edd are shocked, as well as Jessie, to find that the villainess had turned into a blue-eyed, magenta-furred Meowth.
With a smirk, Eddy snatched the other vial lying beside the feline Jessie. "I'll be taking that, you bad little puddy-tat!" he mocked, blatantly ignoring Jessie's murderous glare.
"By process of elimination, that last potion has to be the antidote. It looks like you'll be back to your human self, Eddy," said Edd, happy that his friend would finally be able to go back to normal.
But just before Eddy could drink the potion, Jessie pounced on the chicken emperor and viciously clawed and scratched his face with her Fury Swipes attack move.
"OW! GET THIS FURBALL OFF ME! GET HER OFF, DOUBLE D!" Eddy screamed.
Edd complied as he nervously moved closer to Eddy, wondering how on earth he was going to stop this ferocious cat creature. Jessie looked up to see Edd hesitatedly reaching out to grab her. Angrily growling, she swiped her claws at his face. Edd moved back to avoid the attack, but in his backing off, he lost his footing off the edge and began to fall. Fortunately, Edd reached out and grabbed onto the edge, keeping him from falling a long ways down. But there was no way of knowing how long he could stay like this!
Eddy puts a stop to Jessie's fury swipes by repeatedly slamming her into the wall. His actions both flattened and temporarily knocked out Jessie, who landed face first on the ground. Eddy glared at Jessie, but then smiles as he picks up the potion he dropped when Jessie attacked him. Before he starts to open the vial, he spots Edd frantically trying to hang onto the edge. Edd looked up at Eddy and yells, "Don't worry about me! Just drink the potion!"
"Will do," Eddy agrees. He raises his wing but to his horror, the potion had vanished from his grasp. "Oh no! Where is it?!"
"Lookin' fo' dis?" mocked an unfamiliar voice. Eddy turns in the direction of that voice and finds that it came from Jessie! To add more to his shock, she was holding the potion in her paws.
Hearing the sounds coming from her mouth, Jessie instantly clams up, then nervously asked, "Is…is dat my voy-ce?! Why do I have a Brooklyn acc-ent? I sound like Meowth."
She shrugs. "Eh. Whateva." She quickly puts on her evil, devious face and threateningly holds the vial over the edge.
"Ahh! Don't drop it!" screamed Eddy. Whether she was serious or she was merely calling his bluff, he didn't want to risk his only chance of being human again.
"I'm not goin' ta drop it, ya idiot!," Jessie snarled. "I'm goin' to drink it! And once I change back into my gorgeous self, I'm goin' ta kill ya!"
Jessie laughs wickedly at the end of her speech, then begins to open the vial. However, it's proving to be a challenge since she did not have opposable thumbs to pull off the cork. Then Jessie gets an idea to use one of her claws to pull it off. Sticking a sharp claw into the cork, Jessie pulls with all her might to get the cork off the vial, but the cork remained steadfastedly attached to the glass container. Frustrated, Jessie madly flings the vial off her claw, which bounced off against a wall and out over the edge.
Without thinking, Jessie jumps off the edge, hoping to catch the potion. Suspended in mid-air, she looked below her feet and realized the 'gravity' of what she had just done. She gulped, "Uh oh," then screamed at the top of her lungs as she began plunging downward.
Eddy watched as both Jessie and the potion were falling at a fast rate. But to his amazement, the vial landed unevenly on a structure jutting out from the palace walls. Eddy looked up to where the vial had landed and noticed that the vial was teetering unsteadily back and forth. Eddy knew he didn't have a lot of time; he had to grab the potion before it fell off the edge again!
Standing on his tip toes, Eddy slowly reached up to grab the potion, taking extreme caution as to not cause any sudden movement to the vial's insecure position. His concentration is interrupted by the shouts coming from Edd.
"Eddy!" Edd called out, as his grip begins to loosen up off the edge. Eddy turns around and sees that Edd is very close to falling off.
"Give me a minute! I'll be right there!" Eddy turned his attention back to the task at hand, grabbing the potion from its precarious perch.
"Oh no! Oh no! Eddy, help me!" cried Edd. He could feel every muscle in his skinny arms straining to hold him as close to the edge as possible. The sweat from his hands moistened the edge he was trying desperately to cling to. The edge's surface became slick and slippery, making it more difficult for Edd's hands to maintain a solid grip.
Eddy anxiously looked back and forth between Edd and the potion. With both the potion and Edd close to slipping away, he knew he only had time to save just one of the two things that were important to him. In his mind, Eddy frantically considered his options: save Edd but remain a chicken for the rest of his life OR grab the potion but lose Edd, who had become a true friend to him, to a hundred feet drop to his death. He only had seconds to decide which option to choose.
"EDDY!" Edd screamed as both of his sweaty palms finally lost their grip and he began to fall.
But just as Edd began to think he was a goner, who should appear and grab his wrists, but the emperor himself! Edd smiles and sighs in relief when he saw that Eddy sacrificed his only chance of being human in order to save him.
Eddy smiled down at Edd. Eddy was beyond happy that he rescued Edd again, though this time he did not deny the truth behind his actions. He saw a real friend in Edd, one who went over and beyond to help him and was willing to forgive him during his selfish moments. It scared Eddy to see Edd so close to falling to his doom that he forgot all about the potion and rushed to pull his friend back to safety. Now that Edd was safe, Eddy felt a sense of relief and joy.
But while Eddy was busy helping Edd, the vial fell from its stand and began its rapid descent. Both boys spotted the vial dropping and said, "The potion!"
Meanwhile, Jessie was still screaming as she continued falling closer and closer to the ground. At the bottom near the palace entrance, Barkin, one of the emperor's guards, was currently talking to a yellow-skinned salesman, who had an over-sized truck full of trampolines.
"For the last time, we are not interested in buying a trampoline!" Barkin angrily replied. Gil, the salesman from Springfield, was getting on his last nerves with his constant pleas for him to sell one of his products.
"Oh, please, I beg of you!" Gil nervously yanked on his wrinkled tie and began to sweat feverishly. "I gotta make a sale! My boss is gonna fire me, and then my wife will leave me for her on-again/off-again lover and I'll have to go back to selling used cars…" As Gil rambled on and on, both he and Barkin failed to notice Jessie landing on a trampoline and being shot back up into the sky like a rocket.
Jessie continued to scream as the force from the trampoline propelled her into the air. As she was flying upward, the vial was descending at the same time. Suddenly, Jessie felt something fall into her paw. To her shock and delight, she found herself holding the human potion!
Eddy and Edd spotted Jessie flying past them, laughing maniacally as she gloated over snatching the emperor's chance of being human and using it for herself. However, Jessie was too busy wallowing in her supposed victory that she neglected to see the same stand that the potion was on earlier. Without warning, Jessie painfully hit her head underneath the stand, which caused her to drop the vial.
Both boys looked up to where the vial was now resting. The ledge from which the vial had landed was incredibly high up from where the boys were standing. Judging by the rather large distance between them and the vial, they would have to climb to reach it.
Eddy and Edd looked at each other and smirked, both thinking the same solution for their dilemma. "Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" asked Eddy to Edd. Edd nodded and both moved into position.
Just as they did when they were climbing the canyon the other day, the boys linked their arms together with their backs pressed against each other, and then begin walking right foot-left foot all the way up the palace walls. Having a stronger bond and prior practice, Eddy and Edd climbed up the walls as if they were pros. At the rate they were going, they were getting close to the prized potion.
Jessie somehow manages to recuperate from her head injury, albeit feeling dizzy at first. But she quickly shakes it off when she looks down and to her disbelief, she sees that the twerps are close to reaching the potion. She jumps down from nook to corner, determined to stop the boys at all costs.
Eddy and Edd finally reached their destination. Remembering the trick Ed used to help Edd reach for a rope in the canyon, Eddy grabbed his tailfeathers and started pumping them in order to extend his neck. After Eddy's neck was long enough, Edd was close enough to actually grab the potion without trouble.
But trouble came when Jessie made her appearance. She jumped onto the ledge and snatched the vial. Holding the potion in her claws, Jessie laughed evilly to celebrate her victory. Grinning wickedly, she said, "I win!"
However, her victory came to a halt when a door opened up beside Jessie and hit her on impact, crushing her into the wall. With the sudden shock of the door's impact on her feline body, Jessie's paw opened up, allowing the vial to drop into Edd's hands.
The person who opened the door and was responsible for the unexpected change of events was James!
Looking around, James wondered, "Huh. What are the odds of that trap door leading me out here?" James had no idea that his actions has stopped Jessie from her evil plans nor that he had indirectly helped Eddy and Edd.
Now that Jessie was defeated and the human potion was in their possession, the boys celebrated their triumph by laughing and hugging each other. But being adolescent boys who easily get embarrassed at showing affection, the two ended their hug and hastily stepped back from each other, both of them looking a little uncomfortable.
Edd cleared his throat. "Uh, here. Let me open this for you." He pulled the cork off the vial and passed it to Eddy.
"Thanks, Sockhead."
Just before Eddy began to drink the potion, he gave one last speech.
"As a wise man once said, "One small step for chicken, one giant leap for humankind.""
After that dramatic statement, he quickly gulped the potion down. Suddenly, a giant pink poof of smoke appeared, clouding all eyes from seeing Eddy's transformation.
StarReader86: So did Eddy return back to his human self? Or was the adventure all for nothing? Did Eddy learn anything from this? Has he changed for the better? Read Ch 11 to find out!