Chapter 12

Edd and the others were baffled. They were on a ship, not just any ship, but a huge vessel made only from wood. The rain was continued to fall. They were wet, tired and eager to reach safety. Mojo was still frightened by the sheer disaster happening below him as Blossom took his ship down to Texas. He was shaken in fear.

"How long we can reach the Ark?" Mojo asked after a few hours flying down from Oregon. Moments before, Townsville was devastated by a huge volcano which popped out from the ground in a huge earthquake. Professor Utonium had evacuated the citizens of Townsville to the Kids Next Door Ark when his sensors detected the rising lava underneath Mojo's volcano. After Blossom taken his ship out from Townsville, he encountered another volcano which popped out from the ground. "Blossom, there is a volcano under us!"

Blossom made a sharp left when some of the rocks that had blown from the volcano rained down like hail storm, except these were not ice, but hard, molten rock. The air inside his lungs suddenly burst out, "Get out from here!"

After that unforgettable ride, Mojo finally arrived to Texas and began their flight to the Kids Next Door Ark when Bubbles picked Edd's van up.

"Where is the entrance of the Ark?" Edd asked, after looking around the deck of the Ark.

A loud, high pitched voice replied, "The door to the underside of the deck is over there." The voice turned out to Dexter. Boy genius of the 21st Century. He once owned a lab in his Miami family house until the La Palma tsunami destroyed the cold fusion reactor inside his lab, causing a meltdown that destroyed much of Florida, he and his sister, Dee Dee survived the meltdown. His had a small plump body with curly orange hair, wearing nothing a lab coat, black boots and purple gloves. His spectacles had created an image (impression) of a young professor in the making. "You must be the Ed boys and the other Cal-de-Sac residents. I am Dexter, boy genius"

"Boy Genius?" Eddy mocked, "You looked like Jimmy than a boy genius."

"You looked like Dee Dee than Eddy." Dexter shot.

Edd suddenly running out of words until a warning siren was sounded. It was the "Great Wave" which was flooding every centimetre of land of planet Earth. Dexter ordered everyone to evacuate to the underside of the Kids Next Door Ark. They hurried to the door of the Ark but it refused to budge as if someone or something locked the door from the inside.

"What the hell is this?" Dexter cursed, "Can this can get any worse?"

"I think it did." Rolf said, his finger was pointing at the 8850 meter high wave which was 40 meters away from them.

Ronald felt this was the time. He pulled the trigger of his Minigun and shot at the locked door. It worked like a charm, the door opened so that everyone could get in, but it was too late. The wave had hit the ship and long before Ronald could get in, he was swept away by the monster wave. Seeing that the wave had swept Ronald away, Dexter hurried closed the door and fused the metal plate of the door with the steel wall surrounding it using his laser pen. That should take care of it.

On the other hand, Edd's initial shock turned saddening after seeing Ronald was swept away by the wave. As he went down the staircase down to the living courters of the Ark, he almost broke down. Sarah tried to confront him, "Come on, Edd, you could not possibly save everyone."

Edd looked at her and said, "No, I tried to protect you all from this disaster and this is the first casualty." He was right, for almost a full day, he tried to protect everyone to insure that everyone was safe and sound. He could remember Sarah's injured knee and Eddy from the mysterious gunman which turned out to be a US Army Corps.

They stopped at a room with a label: CAL-DE-SAC RESIDENTS. "You will be surprised to see someone you know." Dexter proclaimed before opening the door. He turned the knob slowly and they were shocked to see Nazz, Kevin and the fat ma which flew the Pupae Cherokee from Los Angeles to the Kids Next Door Ark. Kevin and Nazz looked tired from their survival ride from Los Angeles. Edd looked down to saw a piece of red cloth was wrapped around Nazz's knee.

"Kevin, Nazz, is that you?" Edd asked.

"It is us alright." Nazz replied.

Now Edd was getting more puzzled, "I thought you and Kevin are in Los Angeles. What happened?"

Nazz exhaled, like something had stuck her deeply in her heart. "There is an earthquake and we had to escape from the city before it sinks into the ocean."

Then, the ship began to rock, as if it was almost burst into pieces, they panicked. They ran out from the room, until they saw a wall of water was surging into the ship. They were swept by the huge wave, as the ship began to flood; millions of people were trapped in the so-called Ark. Until every part of the ship was filled with water, Edd and Nazz were the only survivors of the flood.

"This is the end." Edd said.
"Yes." Nazz agreed.

"Everyone is gone now."

"Yes."

The last thing Edd knew was he slowly drowned with Nazz as the water slowly filled the ship and blew itself apart as the water overload the reactor inside.