"You're nuts," Eddy muttered, after Double D finished explaining the plan to them.
"It's the only way, Eddy," Double D said, grimly. "But I admit that it is a stroke of luck if it does work."
Meanwhile, Ed was hopping with energized excitement. "This is going to be so cool!"
The Eds started their voyage to Ed's house through the rain, concealing even the full moon that shone widely across the horizon of the Cul-de-Sac.
"Messy, messy, messy," Double D muttered. "My clothes are soaking wet, think of the unsanitary materials getting into the cloth."
Eddy opened Ed's window leading to his room. The lights were still on, shining brightly on the cluttered dirty floor.
"Alright, I'll get to work, you two can… um… do whatever you do," Double D ordered.
"Geez, Ed, do you have any REAL comics?" Eddy spat, munching on some half-eaten chips, throwing comics across the room.
Double D pulled out Ed's comics from his pocket.
"It seems that this "Slenderman" monster emits a sort of battery charge. That might be the reason why no electronics are useful near him, like the radio. We know that he uses a symbol to warn us about a murder; Jimmy died and there was the symbol engraved on the tree, and Nazz died almost right after we saw that symbol in the junkyard. But… the thing I'm wondering is why doesn't Slenderman try to murder us? He only seems to be interested in the others… " Double D said, laying out all the facts. "And then the notebook… Nazz mentioned that the tree in which Jimmy died in was a musical instrument, almost like a piano."
"So what're we gonna do?" Eddy mumbled, content in Ed's recliner chair.
"First, we're going to take a look at the tree, and then plan "Evil Tim" will go into action," Double D said proudly.
"I still think that's nuts," Eddy argued.
The Eds slowly let themselves out of Ed's window and ran to the now infamous tree. The rain hadn't given up yet, it was still pouring, determined to give the three friends a cold.
Double D began to examine the tree while the other two kept watch. He suddenly pulled a branch and a loud note played out through the drizzle.
"Eureka!" Double D cried out. He began to pull the other branches. "They seem to emit letters and words. Let me see… 'You destroy natural. Cutting down and creating non-legit for your amusement. The people of this place will pay for this destruction of home.'… What do you think that means?"
Eddy gazed at the wondrous tree before Double D spoke up.
"Wait… I think 'natural' is referring to the natural environment and 'cutting down' means we cut down trees to create things… the reason Slenderman attacked us is because we're destroying his home. I can see why… how would it feel like if someone cut down your home?" Double D theorized.
"I would be sad, Double D," Ed spoke up. "Then Sarah and I would have no place to go."
"So what now? Are we sticking to the plan?" Eddy urged.
"…" Double D thought for a while. "Yes…except we're going to change a few things."
"Okay," Ed spoke up. "First we need rocks."
Eddy sighed as he went to get makeup.
"Alright Double D, " Ed said, dropping a boulder in Double D's frail, weak arms. "Drop it on the X." Ed began to draw the letter Q all over the lane and leading into the junkyard.
Double D sighed as he held the rock in his trembling arms. Ed ran off and looked everywhere for Eddy.
"Eddy! Where are you? Are you in the chamber yet?" Ed yelled out.
"Go away!" Eddy hissed in a muffled voice under a porta-pottie.
Ed instead lifts the whole porta-pottie off of Eddy. Eddy had the makeup of a skeleton/ clown/ zombie.
"It's time for lunch!" Ed called out while throwing down a table and lunchbox out of nowhere.
"Why thank you Ed," Double D said, making his way to the table. "This is very nice-"
"BACK TO WORK!" Ed yelled, throwing the table away and dropping the rock in Double D's arms. "Eddy! Come on! We have to find rotten spaghetti noodles!"
"What are you!?" Eddy protested.
Double D searched in every direction. "Ed! I only see Qs! No Xs!"
Meanwhile, Ed and Eddy ran back to the lane with a plateful of pancakes. Double D was closely following with an astronaut's suit on.
"Okay, Double D. Give these pancakes to Eddy," Ed urged
"Sigh… here's your pancakes, Eddy. I'll go find another "X," Ed," Double D said, unamused, and returned to the junkyard.
"Shhh! Look! The perfect sacrifice," Ed mumbled, pointing at a stuffed rabbit on the ground.
"…That's Jimmy's stuffed animal, Ed," Eddy said, bored out of his skull.
Ed grabbed the stuffed animal before getting up and staring into the faceless face.
"ED! Look away!" Eddy yelled.
Ed grabbed Mr. Yum Yum and ran back to the junkyard. Eddy stood, petrified.
"Uh… pancake?" Eddy said, offering the plate to Slenderman.
The 10 foot beast knocked away the plate, but Eddy managed to dodge him as he ran back to the junkyard.
Ed stood on a huge pile of trash and manure reaching into the sky.
He raised the worn out stuffed rabbit to the dark skies and shouted. "FOOLS! Evil Tim has beckoned you all; now you will pay with your brains!"
"Brains… what're we going to do with brains?" Eddy said, clearly not interested.
At this point, Slenderman had reached the junkyard and seemed to stare at Ed as he bit into the stuffed rabbit with foam drooling all over his mouth.
"Double D! Now's our chance to put the plan into action!" Eddy said, tugging on Double D's sleeve.
Double D pulled out a device with a bid red button on it.
"I never thought it would resort to this," Double D said, staring at the red button. "The last time we pressed this, we had to escape from the Cul-de-Sac… Eddy, you really want me to press the button again?"
Eddy hesitated for a moment, then shut his eyes closed. "Just do it."
Double D dramatically pushed the button. For a moment, nothing happened. Even Slenderman paused at their attempt. Then suddenly, a huge sign sprouted out from an earthquake starting in the ground. By this time, Ed was done with his… ritual. Crows started pouring in from nowhere, closing in on Slenderman as he stood motionless. Knives cut through kitchen walls along with other sharp garden tools and closed in on Slenderman.
"Quick! Now's the time to get away!" Eddy yelled, grabbing the other two and running in the distance. But he was astounded when he saw that he was running towards the thing that had caused despair over the Cul-de-Sac. Slenderman calmly made his way toward Eddy.
"Why won't you leave us alone?!" Eddy shouted, tears starting to well up in his eyes.
Double D closed his eyes. "Eddy, it's clear. We can't escape him."
"It's OK, guys. I don't care what happens to us as long as all three of us are together," Ed said, tearing up himself.
Eddy looked mournfully at the beast approaching them and closed his eyes.
"So I guess this is how it ends, after all we've been through." Eddy muttered as Slenderman was nearly a feet away from them.
In the distance was the sound of a horn.
