Phoenix's Note: The end of the first slice is here, everyone! If I can just weasel past some other things in my life, I'll try and update faster! Also, I've got some good news and bad news. The bad news is that things have reached a point in my life to where I need to relinquish some of my free time. Meaning, I have decided not to go through with having 4 seasons of Edolescence, but instead, 3. I'm sorry. The good news is that I still plan on doing an epic movie to end the series with! Now, that's a MUST! But enough of that! On with show and by far, the longest chapter in Edolescence history (so far)!
(WARNING: This chapter possesses some strong sexual content. All younger fans make sure your door is locked!)
The screen opened up in the jawbreaker factory, where an angered and horrified Eddy and Edd watched as Nazz dangled helplessly over the hot-water-filled cylinder vat, which was still having water poured into it! Unwilling to watch anymore, Eddy ran towards a set of stairs and ran up them as Edd shouted, "EDDY, STOP! WE NEED TO-"
"FIND A WAY TO SHUT OFF THE MACHINE! I'LL GET 'ER!" Eddy swiftly ran up the stairs before Edd, frustrated, ran up an alternate set of stairs to find the machine that activates the vats' function!
Eddy ran across the stairwell and the moment he could look directly over the rails, Edd reached the machine's activation wheel and began to turn it using what little natural strength he had! He turned it to the right, but the shower-head-like device only intensified water production as it emitted more steam!
"OH, DEAR!" Edd sweated!
"OTHER WAY, SOCKHEAD!" Eddy climbed on top of the rails' bars and dove off before he beamed headfirst towards Nazz and the vat!
"EDDY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Edd frantically turned the wheel to the left and just as the showerhead ceased emitting water, Eddy grabbed onto the pincher and was now facing Nazz eye to eye! Eddy bit the tissue off of Nazz's mouth and uttered, "Looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't listen!"
"Like, what makes you think you're the only who can rebel?" Nazz retorted.
"Since it's in my character description…"
"EDDY!" Edd ran over to the staircase and looked down at the hanging Eddy and Nazz!
"I got 'er! Sorta!" Eddy looked up at Edd and looked back at Nazz.
Suddenly, a high-pitched beeping noise filled the air. Though it sounded like it was close to the kids, none saw it and only Edd heard it!
"Do you hear something?" Edd pointed his "pistol" upwards.
As the beeping grew louder, Nazz uttered, "Yeah! I hear it, too!"
"Me too!" Eddy turned his head another direction. He then turned it to underneath the stairway that Edd was standing on and saw a small, silhouetted object. He could not make out what it was because it was too dark, but then, he saw a small, flashing red light and developed bug-eyes! "DOUBLE D!"
But it was too late! The "object" exploded and not only emitted a giant cloud of dark blue and somewhat stinky smoke, but also destroyed the stairway that Edd was standing on before the young genius took off his hat and used it to grab onto the rail that Eddy and Nazz were on before he hung over the hot-water-filled vat for dear life! (Without his hat, you could see that Edd had long black hair that went slightly passed his neck)
Now on the same level and right behind Eddy and Nazz, Edd uttered, "OH, DEAR! OH, DEAR! OH, DEAR!"
"THINK HOW WE FEEL!" Nazz yelled.
"GUYS! SCREAMIN' AIN'T GONNA GET US OUTTA THIS! Eddy reprimanded. "WE GOTTA THINK!"
"HOW EFFICIENT CAN YOU BRAINSTORM WHEN YOU ARE UNDER THE PRESSURE OF POSSIBLY RELENTING YOUR GRIP AND FALLING INTO A VAT CONTAINING H2O AT A TEMPERATURE AS HIGH AS 2,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT?" Edd shrieked. Soon afterwards, the trio started to sweat unnaturally. Not due to fear, but due to the intense heat that derived from the vat!
Ignoring his friend's overwhelming fear, Eddy looked around for a way to circumvent this new, seemingly inevitable obstacle! Eddy looked up at the rail that was holding Nazz and his fellow Ed up for a few seconds before he (Edd) urged, "EDDY! HURRY UP!"
"I GOT AN IDEA!" Eddy looked back at Edd, "DOUBLE D, SHOOT THE RAIL!"
"WHAT?" Nazz and Edd looked at Eddy like he went off the deep end!
"SHOOT THE RAIL! BEHIND YOU!" Eddy repeated. "THE WHOLE THING'S GONNA SWING US OVER THE FLOOR AND GIVE US TIME TO LAND BEFORE IT SWINGS AGAIN! DO IT!"
"MY DEVICE'S PROJECTILES ARE FUTILE AGAINST METAL, EDDY!" Edd reminded. "THEY WERE ONLY ENGINEERED TO WORK ON HUMANS!"
"THE BULLETS IN THAT THING ARE MADA METAL! METAL CAN SCREW UP METAL!" Eddy justified. "BESIDES, YOU'LL BE AIMIN' CLOSE RANGE! WE GOT A WHOLE 'NOTHER CARD TO PLAY!"
"BUT WHAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK?" Nazz shouted apprehensively.
"IT'S GONNA WORK! TRUST ME! BOTH OF YOU!" Eddy looked at both of his friends before he focused solely on Edd. "NOW, DO IT!"
Reluctantly, Edd pointed his pistol extremely close to the rail right behind his head to consummate his friend's order. As he closed his eyes, "BLAM" he shot the rail and it suddenly broke off before the rail that all three kids were on, swung low and towards the vat!
"AAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" Eddy, Nazz, and Edd looked as if they were finished, but in slow-motion…THE RAIL AND THE KIDS ONLY SLIGHTLY FLEW OVER THE VAT'S EDGE AND OVER THE FLOOR DOWN BELOW!
"NOW, DROP!" the teens fell from the rail and plummeted towards the ground far below! In the air, Eddy wrapped his arm around Nazz's waist and pulled out a pocketknife before he jammed it through another cylinder vat and slowly slid down as Nazz held onto him! Simultaneously, Edd used his hat as a hot air balloon to drastically soften his landing!
When all three teens finally touched floor, they panted uncontrollably!
"Thank you. Thank you for listening!" Nazz thanked Edd, who shrugged and cocked his pistol, "You are quite welcome, Nazz! But our mission has not yet been accomplished!"
As Edd ran towards the front doors of the factory, Eddy used the pocketknife to pick the locks of the cuffs on her wrists and ankles respectively.
"OH!" Nazz embraced Eddy in a hug of gratitude before she kissed him on the cheek! He got out of her grip and uttered, "We ain't done yet! C'mon!"
As Eddy and Nazz ran after Edd, the latter had just now busted the doors open as he pointed his pistol out! He watched as the grinning Alex and Lee prepared to drive away in Nazz's Nissan Altima! Just then, Lee tossed a basketball-sized sphere out of the window and at Edd's feet as they drove off. The sphere read, "SKUNKSHARK 110" and had a timer that was already at zero!
"EDDY!" Edd turned around and saw his friends running towards him before the "SKUNKSHARK 110" blew up and emitted a huge cloud of dark blue smoke with pressure so great that it sent Edd flying and crashing into both of them!
Just outside the front doors of the factory, the SKUNKSHARK smoke started to evaporate into the air and the night sky before the screen faded to black.
The screen reopened in Eddy's room, where Edd had just now walked into as he put his shirt on. Eddy sat in his recliner chair while Nazz lied stomach-first on his bed as she swung her feet in the air.
"Now that I've sanitized my bodily being, we can continue to discuss our next act!" Edd leaned on the wall.
"We know for a fact that Frost and Lee are behind the whole thing!" Eddy started. "But we still don't know what the "whole thing" is!"
"What are you talking about?" Nazz looked at Eddy. "They destroyed the X-House just because I didn't want to go with Alex and you didn't want to go with Lee! That's it! Case closed!"
"Forgive me, Nazz, but I must disagree with that theory!" Edd began to pace back in forth. "Alex stated that he had sent both Eddy and myself on a wild goose chase earlier on! That implies that the so-called clues that we have unearthed as well as the ruffians we've encountered were merely…diversions!"
"Which means, somethin' else is goin' on around here!" Eddy deduced. "And fer some reason, I think it has somethin' to do with all that crappy perfume the Kankers got!"
"How do you figure?" Edd stroked his chin hairs.
"Think about it!" Eddy pounded his fist into his hand. "Wood rot is what leveled the X-house! Crankshaft almost hit me when we were in Flavorcrest! And that dark blue stuff that blew up in yer face and broke the stairway had a really sick smell to it! Ya can't tell me that that ain't more than a coincidence!"
Edd looked down and thought for a minute about what Eddy had just said. He replied, "What do you suppose we do?"
"Best way to find out what the hell's goin' on is to snare the ass-clowns themselves!" Eddy stood up. "And lucky for us, Frost and his brother live alone in their trailer, so they'll be easy to screw some answers out of!"
"Great, let's go!" Nazz hopped off of Eddy's bed.
"Hey! Whoa! Whoa! Where do ya think yer goin'?" Eddy stepped in front of Nazz.
"Uh, with you to Alex's trailer! Move, please!" Nazz tried to get pass Eddy, but he kept on stepping in her way!
"Why?" Eddy retorted. "So, you can get captured and play a double-role as a damsel-in-distress…again?"
"For your information, I was knocked out while fighting! Thank you!" Nazz glared.
"That's what happens when you don't listen!" Eddy frowned.
"Like you're one to talk!" Nazz pushed Eddy.
"I'll be in the living room should you need me!" Edd power-walked out of Eddy's room and closed the door behind him.
"Why are you so stubborn? It's like no matter what happens, you feel like you should do what you want and expect people to just follow you all the time!" Nazz clinched her teeth.
"YOU DON'T GET IT, DO YOU?" Eddy bellowed back. "I'M THE WAY I AM BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT PEOPLE! ESPECIALLY YOU! I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET INVOLVED IN THE SAME MESS I DO CUZ IT ALWAYS ENDS UP BAD JUST LIKE IT DID TONIGHT! THAT'S WHY I DON'T WANT YOU TO COME!"
"I CARE ABOUT YOU, TOO! THAT'S WHY I WANT TO BE THERE TO HELP YOU WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!" Nazz roared with emotion. "WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO IMMATURE AND MAKE THINGS SO HARD?"
"I'M IMMATURE? Eddy interrupted. "YOU ALWAYS STUCK WITH OR HUMORED KEVIN OR OTHER GUYS WHENEVER THEY WE'RE BEIN' AN ASSWIPE! JUST LIKE WHEN YA TOOK THAT JOB BABYSITTIN' ME!"
"I TOOK THAT JOB TO GET CLOSE TO YOU!" Nazz softly continued.
"WHAT'RE YA TALKIN' ABOUT?" Eddy uttered softly.
"I DID THAT, AMONG OTHER THINGS, TO BE WITH YOU! TO SEE YOU!" Nazz explained. "THAT THING THAT HAPPENED WITH KEVIN AND THE OTHER BOYS WAS ACCIDENT! I ONLY DID WHAT I DID BECAUSE YOUR IMMATURITY GOT IN THE WAY AND INDUCED PEER PRESSURE! EVERY TIME I TRIED TO BE WITH YOU, YOU DID SOMETHING LOW AND TURNED ME AWAY! BUT I NEVER GAVE UP ON YOU! BECAUSE I KNEW DEEP DOWN INSIDE, THAT THERE WAS A SWEETER, BUT MISUNDERSTOOD GUY! AND UNTIL THREE YEARS BACK, THAT'S HOW IT WAS!"
Flashback- 11 years ago in the Van Bartonschmeer house. Bradley, Rachel, and a 5-year-old Nazz sat at the kitchen table. Nazz was wearing a version of clothes quite similar to that of what she wore in the old series. She wore a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and a smaller version of her present day sneakers. Her hair was also the same as it was in the old series and she was wearing a purple bowtie on the top of her head. Bradley read a newspaper while Rachel and Nazz talked. "But mommy!" Young Nazz whined.
"Nasina, I've explained this to you already!" Rachel pointed her finger. "The tuition fee for that child development center has gotten far too expensive and your father hasn't found the right job to pay it off! So, I'm afraid you're just going to have to go to an average school and make friends that way!"
"That is, wike, so not fair!" Nazz pouted in her seat.
"Van Bartonschmeers don't have the luxury of getting what we want yet, sweetheart!" Bradley put his newspaper down. "Now, please, for me, go make some friends, while I yell at your mother for something related to the bathtub!" Bradley twitched slightly.
Still pouting, Nazz hopped out of her chair and walked off-screen as she folded her arms and looked upwards. As she stomped down a sidewalk, she mocked, "Go make some friends! We don't have the "wuxury" to get what we want! Yeah, whateva, daddy! Probably got nothing but ugwy…"
Nazz looked over at the lane and saw the Eds, Kevin, and Jonny were hanging out in the lane. Ed and Eddy were halfway into the dumpster as they searched for something. Kevin, Jonny (with Plank), and a revolted Edd stood there and watched. (Rolf did not move in yet and Sarah and Jimmy were too young to speak coherently during this point in time).
Back then, Eddy wore a yellow shirt with a cent-sign on the front, blue shorts, and red sneakers. Ed wore a vertical version of his shirt in the old series, green shorts, and black sneakers. Edd wore an orange shirt that read, "Learning is Fun" on the front, purple shorts, and blue sneakers. Kevin wore a short-sleeve light-green shirt, brown shorts, and gray sneakers. Jonny wore a white shirt with the Canadian leaf on it, indigo shorts, and sneakers.
"Find anything yet, Eddy?" Kevin shouted.
"NOPE! WAIT! WAIT! PULL ME OUT! PULL ME OUT!" Eddy swung his feet in the air.
"Mortification finally struck a cord, Eddy?" Edd folded his arms.
"NO! NOW, PULL ME OUT! QUICK!"
Kevin and Jonny each grabbed one of Eddy's legs and yanked him out of the dumpster as Ed fell completely into it!
"Look what I got!" Eddy showed Kevin, Edd, and Jonny an old, gold tire rim! "Bet if we fix it up and polish it, we'd get big bucks!"
"Eddy, you do realize that that metallic vehicular part is composed of false bullion, right?" Edd tried to help a filthy Ed out of the dumpster as he (Edd) looked at him (Eddy). Just then, Kevin and Jonny went bug-eyed when they turned their head in another direction.
Eddy continued, "Who's gonna know? Trash inspectors? Kev and Jonny-boy'll-"
Kevin turned Eddy's head to the direction that he (Kevin) and Jonny were facing and dropped his tire rim as he developed bug-eyes as well! Edd and Ed then turned their attentions to the thing that their friends were looking at and developed bug-eyes of their own before the latter fell on top of the former! The camera shifted to the thing that the boys were all looking at: Nazz!
"Hey, guys! What's up?" Nazz smiled; but it looked as if she was only smiling at a certain person. The boys swiftly stood back up and started sweating and babbling incoherently as Nazz giggled, "Guess I should start! I'm Nazz! And before you say something, I lived here for as long as you have! I just spent my time in a development center! So, wike, what's your name? Or do I have to make one up for you!"
"Th-Th-The name's, K-K-Kevin!" Kevin gulped.
"Tell me again what my name is before I wet myself, Plank!" Jonny whispered. "Oh, right! I'm Jon…ny!" he farted!
"Hello, pretty girl named Nazz!" Ed waved as he sweated. "My name is Ed; the Thor to Peach Creek's Asgard!"
Edd and Eddy looked at Ed annoyed as they continued to sweat uncontrollably and the former uttered, "S-S-Salutations, Nazz! My name is Edd also, but I prefer to be addressed as "Double D"!" before the latter introduced as he looked down to the ground, "I'm…uh…Eddy! Yeah!"
Before Nazz could say something else, Bradley called, "NASINA! TIME TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM!"
"Whoops! Gotta go, guys! See ya!" Nazz blew the boys a kiss before she ran off; and from the direction, it looked as if it was blown at Kevin and/or Eddy, who fainted!
Sometime later, the Eds were on the playground alone. Ed was running on top of and underneath the monkey bars repeatedly while Edd and Eddy were on the swings. Edd was swinging while Eddy just sat there and moped as he thought about Nazz.
"Still thinking about that wondrous display of unimaginable beauty, Eddy?" Edd stopped swinging.
"Yeah!" Eddy replied dreamily before a shadow approached him and covered his own. He looked up and, much to his bug-eyed surprise, saw that it was none other than, "NAZZ!"
"Hey, Eddy!" Nazz greeted. "I went to Kevin's house, but he wasn't there! So, wike, can I play with you or what?"
Eddy looked at Edd excitedly before a brief montage began. Eddy and Nazz were smiling at each other as they dug into the sandbox together. Just then, a barrage of sand started to hit both children as Nazz screamed, "My hair!" and the two angrily turned around in time to see Ed digging a hole into the sandbox like a dog!
Sometime afterwards, Nazz slid down the slide before Eddy followed and accidentally hit her! But instead of crying, the two laughed until Ed slid on the slide and knocked both Eddy and Nazz off-screen with his head!
Prompting this, Eddy and Nazz jumped onto the merry-go-round and yelled joyfully as Ed pushed it and Edd dug into the sandbox alone. Just then, a bee came from behind Ed's head and stung him before he painfully ran and fearfully got on the merry-go-round and spun it at EEnE-speed! Wanting to avoid injury this time, Eddy and Nazz jumped out of the merry-go-round before both it and Ed sunk into the ground and Eddy and Nazz laughed while Edd ran on-screen to help him!
The montage ended when the camera slowly shifted to Kevin on a bike with training wheels across the street, who watched the whole thing between Eddy and Nazz and instantly became disgruntled.
Now sunset, the Eds and Nazz (who was eating a large cookie) walked to Eddy's place through the alley. Ed destroyed the fence as a way of making an entrance to the back door of Eddy's room.
"Hey, Lumpy! Break enough stuff with that merry-go-round, already?" Eddy pouted.
"You know, Nazz! As delectable cookies may be, over-consumption of them can result in immediate weight gain!"
"No way, Double D! I'm never gonna get fat! EVER!" Nazz bit into her cookie.
"And I am never going to wear deodorant unless it attracts chickens!" Ed twiddled with his eyebrow.
When the children walked into Eddy's room, an angered Kevin was sitting on his (Eddy's) bed waiting for them! Eddy's room consisted of posters of childish toys, a small TV, and a smaller version of his round king-sized bed.
"Huh, I ain't know my parents were here!" Eddy looked at Kevin with a smile.
"They ain't! I let myself in!" Kevin replied bitterly: causing a change in emotional mood for all four kids.
"Kev, you o.k?" Eddy scratched his head.
"Don't talk to me like we're bwos, ya neck-wess chump!" Kevin stood up angrily.
"Say what?" Eddy got angry and walked towards Kevin.
"You heard me!" Kevin fired back. "You just couldn't wait to get yer hands on Nazz's cooties, could ya?"
"Ya bein' a dummy, Kevo!" Eddy retorted. "Now get outta here before I-"
"Or what? You gonna run to mommy and daddy like a little…dork? Huh?" Kevin pulled Eddy's nose!
"Why you…!" Eddy pushed Kevin back with one hand!
Kevin responded by pushing him with both hands before Eddy did the same even harder! Just then, Kevin tackled Eddy to the ground and a fighting cloud formed and started to roll all around the room under the watchful eyes of Nazz, Edd, and Ed!
"Oh, man!" Nazz tried to intervene, but was stopped by Edd.
"Situations like this must be handled-"
"Let her go, Double D!" Ed pointed to Nazz. "For it is her who brought this plague upon our chums!"
"Ed, stop it!" Edd reprimanded. "And please disintegrate that fracas before someone gets truly injured!"
Ed did a military-salute before he took off his eyebrow, spun it around like a bullwhip, and lashed it right in the middle of Eddy and Kevin's fighting cloud; ending the brawl! Both boys had black eyes, torn clothes, and dirt stains all over! Eddy and Kevin glared at each other; having went from close friends to mortal enemies for years to come.
"Get out of my room…Shovelchin!" Eddy clinched his teeth.
Kevin got up and stormed passed the other Eds and Nazz, but turned around to tell the other guys, "Just so ya know, if I catch you guys hangin' out with that loser, yer on the official dork list, too!"
Kevin barged out of Eddy's room just as Nazz and the other Eds ran up to Eddy.
"Are you okay?" Nazz asked.
"Yeah! But you better get out of here!" Eddy replied.
"What're you talking about?" Nazz asked innocently.
"Boxhead's the most likeable guy in Kindergarten! He'll tell everyone to hate anyone whose pals with me!" Eddy replied. "And that's not gonna look good for a new girl like you!"
"So, do you believe that you and Kevin can never be friends, again?" Edd asked.
"Don't look like it!" Eddy looked down in sadness. "But that don't mean Nazz can't be!"
"Eddy!" Nazz looked at Eddy.
"Look, this is my problem, not yers!" Eddy smiled at Nazz. "Tell ya what, though! If Kev and I do make up, maybe you and I can be somethin' later on! But right now, you got a reputation to build! Now, get outta here!"
Nazz smiled sadly and reluctantly ran out of Eddy's room to catch up with Kevin, who walked through the entrance Ed made!
"Hey, Kev!" Nazz caught up with Kevin and the two talked a little bit. As Kevin turned his back, Nazz gave Eddy a sad look as he watched her walk away via his window and the screen flashed white before it reopened in the current time.
"Obviously, all those years of you getting abused by your brother and Kevin's friends must have made you forget and focus on being a complete asshole." Nazz continued. "And I waited…seven years…for you to break out of that seriously messed-up shell…and be you again. Seven years! That kiss I gave you…in the big picture show…wasn't just because I was glad you were all right." Nazz touched Eddy's left cheek. "It was because…I was emotional about having you back. The only boy…I truly ever loved…was just…wearing a mask all that time. And I was the only one who saw through it. You're the one, Eddy."
Eddy walked away from Nazz and turned his back as he chuckled, "I was a dumb-ass. I know…yer the one for me, Nazz. But all this time…I couldn't bring myself to accept it, cuz…I don't deserve you. Even though you said you'd wait for me…I always thought…you'd be better off with some other dude…like Nate." Nazz developed an emotional smile. "That's why I…put on the whole playboy bullshit...after me and yer cousin broke up. I was tryin' to see if any of the other girls had the spark to replace you…but I ain't never find it, cuz…no spark could…replace you."
Nazz walked up behind Eddy and turned him around before she touched both of his cheeks and they touched foreheads. In slow-motion…Eddy and Nazz kissed slowly, but passionately before time flew by and showed the couple making out on Eddy's bed in his dark room as a woman softly vocalized as background music for the purpose of the mood.
Nazz slowly removed Eddy's shirt and threw it to the side before the two continued to make-out fervently. Nazz pushed Eddy down onto the bed and removed his jeans to show his white boxers with dollar signs on them before she lied on top of him and continued to kiss him with her hands on his face. Eddy unbuttoned Nazz's jeans and slowly removed them to show her black panties. Once she shook her jeans off of her legs, she began kissing Eddy's chest and abs before she stood over him with her knees and removed her shirt to reveal her light-blue bra. She continued to ardently kiss Eddy before he suddenly flipped her over and began sinking his face into the side of her neck. Nazz moaned pleasurably before the screen faded to black and the woman ceased vocalizing.
The screen reopened to show Eddy and Nazz asleep under the bed's covers. The latter was lying on top of the former's back as he rested on his stomach. Eddy suddenly opened his left eye and looked at Nazz. Remembering his previous plans, he zipped out from underneath her EEnE-style and put some extra pillows there to replace him.
Eddy swiftly put his clothes back on before he armed himself with a baseball bat. He looked at Nazz lovingly and kissed her on the forehead before he ran out his backdoor to carry out his mission.
It was morning already, but it was still unbearably dark outside like it was at night. Eddy could be seen running through the streets as off-screen owls hooted and crickets chirped. He hopped over some bushes and went through several trees until he reached Park n' Flush trailer park.
"KNOCK, KNOCK, DOUCHEBAGS!" Eddy kicked the door to Alex and Brandon's trailer down and swung his bat around like a sword. But when he walked in and stood still for about ten seconds, he saw that the place was deserted. "Pussies!"
Eddy walked into the kitchen and saw that there was nothing wrong in there except for a few dirty dishes in the sink. He smiled slyly, "Upstairs!" before he went upstairs and busted the door open in Brandon's room, but didn't find anything out of the ordinary. He then slowly turned around and kicked Alex's door open and saw a large amount of papers on his bed. Some were written and others were designs that looked as if they all went together.
"What the hell?" Eddy dropped his bat as he picked up some papers. One he was looking at in particular was one that read, "OPERATION: BLACKMARK"
Meanwhile in Eddy's room, Nazz had just now woken up and realized that Eddy was gone. She thought for a moment before she sighed angrily, "Damn it, Eddy!" and began to put her clothes back on.
In Eddy's dark living room, Edd was sleeping peacefully on one of the black sofas until Nazz tiptoed out of Eddy's room as she put her shirt on and spotted him.
"Double D! Double D!" Nazz whispered loudly. "DOUBLE D!"
Edd swiftly awakened from his slumber as he muttered incoherently for a moment. He looked up at Nazz, "What are you still doing here? And where's Eddy?"
Nazz sighed, "I think I know."
In the interim, Eddy was in the Frost Brothers' kitchen table as he looked through the designs and notes; trying to figure out what his enemies was planning. He squinted as he studied two designs and one page of notes and drunk some vodka to keep himself awake. On the notes page, Eddy focused his attention on the words, "KANKERFROST POISON" before he looked at the designs. Both looked as if they were part of something bigger. Frustrated, Eddy tossed the papers on the floor.
"THIS WHOLE THING, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IS HAPPENIN' CUZ YA SPAT IN MY FACE…AND LEE'S!" Alex's voice echoed through Eddy's head as he took a sip of his vodka. Soon, voices based on the previous events of the episode began overlapping within his head as he held it.
Eddy fell into a dream-like state as a montage of everything that had happened earlier began. The Crankshaft explosion in the junkyard. The Eau de wood rot Eddy found on the X-house's support beam. The scene where the big kid tossed him against the wall. The scene where he and Edd were in the factory and Alex uttered off-screen, "THIS WHOLE THING, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IS HAPPENIN' CUZ YA SPAT IN MY FACE…AND LEE'S!"
"I highly doubt that this is the idyllic asylum for our antagonistic delinquents, Eddy!" Edd's voice overlapped the scenes where the house in Flavorcrest Hills exploded and the tall kid from earlier on was electrocuted by the streetlight Eddy kicked.
Eddy was quickly seen lying on a couch twitching as a feminine hand wiped his face clean of sweat and Nazz's voice uttered, "Shh, I'm here" and the montage continued with the SKUNKSHARK bombs blowing up in Edd's face, Eddy finding Kyle's initials on his cigar, and him and Edd first seeing the gang that attacked them.
The montage continued with Eddy grabbing the tall kid's shirt and aggressively interrogating him before a glimpse of Nazz could be seen. This time though, she appeared to be tugging on something with a concentrated facial expression. The montage ended with Eddy looking up after his encounter with the electrocuted tall kid as Alex's voice echoed, "GIVE IT UP, GATES!" and we could see his sinister face as the echo concluded "THIS IS ONE FIGHT YOU AIN'T GONNA WIN!"
Eddy then found himself in front of the SKUNKSHARK bombs rather than Edd before they blew up in his face and…
"AAAGGH!" He woke up to realize that the whole thing was a dream! He looked around and saw that he was lying on the Frost brothers' couch before Edd walked in with all of the notes and designs from earlier in his hand.
"Good morning." Nazz stood over Eddy as she held his hands and looked into his eyes.
Five minutes later, the kids were sitting at the kitchen table.
"Gotta give Frost credit." Eddy looked through some notes. "For a crackhead, he could be what Ed calls a criminal mastermind."
"Unique this plot is indeed, Eddy." Edd started to put certain different designs together like a puzzle. "I still find it rather a challenge to assemble the correlation between the destruction of our clubhouse and this conspiracy against us."
"We'll find out. Hopefully." Eddy sipped his warm vodka.
As Nazz read the rest of the notes, she squinted when she stumbled upon a colored, but transparent folded-up sheet of paper.
"Hey, guys! Look what I found!" She began to open it up as Edd moved the papers out of the way. When she and the two Eds flattened it out, they saw that it was a map of the entire Peach Creek neighborhood!
"It's...a map!" Edd pointed out the obvious. "And a very valuable clue at that!"
"Put it on the floor!" Eddy hopped out of the chair and pushed the table back as Edd and Nazz placed the map on the floor and began flattening it out before they started skimming. To Edd and Nazz's attention, the map had quite a few red dots on certain places marked on it.
"What are all these marks?" Nazz touched her chin as Eddy kneeled down to their level.
"Well, let's look where they are, shall we?" Edd looked at one mark while Eddy looked at another and pointed, "Hey! That's yer house!"
Edd looked down at the map, "Oh my! You're right, Eddy! And there's Cody's!"
"Oh, man!" Nazz pointed to another mark. "And that one's Maggie's!"
The trio looked at the other marks until Edd uttered, "Oh, my God! These dry-erase speckles cover everyone's residences with the exception of this trailer park and…"
"Mine and Eddy's houses!" Nazz shouted. "Even though I don't know what's going on, I know that there must be something seriously screwed-up about to go down! But what?"
Eddy thought for about fifteen seconds before he snapped his fingers and grabbed Alex's notes and designs off-screen. He swiftly brushed the map aside and began putting the designs together like a puzzle at EEnE-speed as Edd scratched his hat, "What are you doing?"
He closed his mouth when he saw that the designs, together, were a skyscraper-shaped machine. Nazz raised her eyebrow, "What…is that?"
Eddy shuffled through Alex's notes a little before he skimmed and developed bug-eyes. He softly gulped, "Crazy son of a bitch!"
"WHAT?" Edd and Nazz yelled interested.
" 'Ccordin' to this thing…Frost and the Kankers…" Eddy dropped the notes. "…wanna level everyone's houses. With the mixed-up formulas of weaponized Crankshaft, Eau de wood rot, and SKUNKSHARK."
Edd and Nazz gasped. They knew that Alex's gang and the Kankers were up to something, but they didn't think that they would go that far.
"Talk about crossin' the line, huh?" Eddy looked down.
"But why?" Nazz wondered. "And why ignore our houses? We're the ones they want!"
"Ain't it obvious, sweetheart?" Eddy touched his chin. "If everyone's places are wrecked and ours ain't, who do ya think their parents are gonna blame when these wise guys got ways of gettin' around stuff?"
Nazz developed bug-eyes of disbelief and surprise as Eddy continued, "Exactly! And when they blame us, we'll be grounded for life and both Frost and Lee are gonna have a field day with harassin' us until we break!"
"And, like, since our parents are already gonna be pissed off at us, the last thing they'll want to hear is us talk!" Nazz concluded. "Even if it is the truth!"
"If that is indeed the case, then we have no time to dispose of!" Edd reached off-screen and brought the map back over to the trio. "What we must do is assemble our friends and lead a campaign against the masterminds in their asylum before their intents become a reality!"
"But where are they going to be?" Nazz wondered.
Eddy shuffled through Alex's notes again and skimmed through a piece of paper before he circled one note and showed it to his friends, "UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVEABLE!"
"Surely this is a false indication meant to mislead us as before!" Edd developed bug-eyes as he and Nazz looked at the paper.
" 'Fraid not, Sockhead!" Eddy balled the paper up. "You and half the geography class said so yerselves: Notes are friends, denial's the enemy!"
"We better get the other guys and head down there!" Nazz took out her phone and called Maggie, but no one answered. "That's weird! Maggie always keeps her phone on ringer and in her pocket!"
Eddy took out his cell phone and called Kevin, but like Nazz, there was no answer!
"Kev's not answerin' either!" Eddy grew suspicious. "Somethin' ain't right!"
"Allow me to portray the saying "Third time's the charm", friends!" Edd took out his phone and called Cody. Someone answered, but the voice wasn't Cody's!
"What's up, Knight?" Travis' voice sneered on the other end.
"Travis Blake?" Edd put the phone on speaker. "Where…is…Cody?"
"Why don't'chu, Gates, and the blonde hottie find out for yerself?" Travis replied sinisterly and hung-up as Edd, Nazz, and Eddy looked at one another!
The screen shifted to the street Cody lived on before Eddy, Nazz, and Edd came running on-screen!
"Oh, my god!" Nazz covered her mouth when she and the others looked at Cody's house!
In the living room window, we could see Cody bound and gagged to a chair under the watchful, sinister eyes of Travis! The latter saw Eddy and co. and pointed to the garage, where the trio watched as Brandon poured gasoline onto the cruiser in the driveway! Brandon then smiled wickedly before he took out a lighter, ignited it, and dropped it onto the cruiser before he ran away and it caught on fire and began to spark!
"NO!" Edd screamed. Even though he was more concerned about Cody, he was crushed at the fact it was already too late to save all his hard work! Just then, the cruiser exploded before pieces of shrapnel began to fly towards the kids!
"GET DOWN!" Eddy grabbed both Edd and Nazz by the back of their respective shirts and in slow motion, lunged both himself and his friends backwards as they spun around and the shrapnel slightly missed each of them! When they landed, Edd's phone fell out of his pocket and rung in normal motion.
"Hello?" Edd put the phone on speaker before Travis replied, "Just so ya know, yer cousin ain't the only one stuck to a chair! All yer other retard pals are stuck, too! That includes Fuller! Douche-bag put up a fight, but still had no shot against that hardcore Kanker rubber cement! HA! HA! Later, losers!"
The trio looked at each other a tad discouraged, but Eddy kept the strong image of a leader and uttered, "Looks like we're on our own. Let's get to the Kankers' place!" before the screen faded to black.
The screen reopened with the trio looking at the Kankers' hideout spot from a distance. Which was the place that they were so sure would be gone for good: the Kankers' clubhouse from Vert-Ed-Go! Its design was strikingly similar to that of the Kankers' former hangout spot (paint-job included), but it looked more like a mansion than an outhouse! It also had a small, pink/white-stripped chimney on the edge of the left side!
"Wow!" Nazz uttered astonished. "They've got some serious connections!"
"Care to wager that the production was done via the use of unwilling set designers of the school's technical drama department?" Edd looked at Nazz.
"We ain't got time for sight-seein'!" Eddy told them. "Here's the plan!"
In a room with little light, May and Marie were among several crossbones gang members and their leader, Maurice (Hail to the Ed) that were watching as Kyle completed their machine, which originally appeared only in Alex's designs.
"Hurry up, Campbell!" Marie impatiently swung her hip.
"Huh! You almost sounded worried there!" Kyle smirked.
"I ain't!" Marie retorted. "I'm just itchin' to watch hell break loose already!"
"Surprised we got this far without gettin' stopped halfway!" May goofily grinned.
"Shut it, Bucky!" Marie banged May on the head. "Or you'll jinx us!"
"Stop hittin' me!" May delivered an uppercut to Marie before a fighting cloud broke out and the crossbones members watched amused!
From inside the attic of the clubhouse, masterminds Alex and Lee watched the commotion via gray surveillance screens as they sat at a table and drunk root beer victoriously! On the table was a remote-control-like device with two buttons (one red, one blue) and a pimple-shaped light (that was turned off) on it.
"Don't see how ya deal with that!" Alex smirked.
"Over the years, it just got entertainin'…when I wasn't in it!" Lee joked before the two chuckled and toasted bottles.
Outside of the clubhouse, the camera slowly shifted to Edd as he saw the inside of the former via the use of his upgraded heat-seeking goggles. Right then, he pointed a telescope-shaped device at it (the clubhouse) and pressed a button on the top of it before something big and pancake-shaped fired out of it and landed against the wall!
The camera moved down to show that the three were sitting in an old kayak that was set to be catapulted directly at the clubhouse! The eager Eddy sat up front while the slightly uneasy Nazz sat directly behind him and Edd sat down behind her.
"Good shot, pal! Now, for the openin' act!" Eddy took out a portable version of his jackhammer-like detonator from last chapter and pushed it down as he smirked, "KABLAM!"
Still inside the machine room, Kyle, Marie, May, Maurice, and the crossbones gang ducked in cover when the wall suddenly exploded tremendously as a large cloud of stinky green smoke inhabited the air and dramatic music played!
Inside the attic, Alex and Lee spat out their root beer and shouted, "WHAT THE FUCK?" as they looked at the screen.
Outside of the clubhouse…
"NOW, DOUBLE D!" Eddy turned to Edd concentrated.
Using hedge-clippers, Edd cut the rope that kept the kayak in place before the whole boat was flung directly towards the forced opening of the clubhouse at EEnE-speed! From inside the clubhouse, we could see the kayak emerge from the fading smoke and fly off-screen after Eddy, Nazz, and Edd (the former two were holding hands) jumped out and landed feet-first right in the middle of Alex and Lee's accomplices…who saw them!
"The "KANKERFROST POISON" machine!" Edd looked at the machine he saw in Alex's designs. "And it looks as if it had not yet been activated!"
"Yeah, well don't go thinkin' it won't be, Knight!" Maurice stood up; his gang members, Kyle, and the other Kankers followed. "Ya can't stop us!"
Maurice and Marie motioned for everyone to move in on the trio before Eddy and Nazz pushed Edd towards the machine as the former yelled, "Do somethin' about that thing! FAST!"
"Like what?" Edd shrugged.
"I dunno! Figure out how to take it apart 'er somethin! Ya took the notes with ya, remember?" Eddy and Nazz got into martial arts-based battle stances before Kyle, Maurice, and the crossbones gang charged towards them and a massive fight ensues as Marie and May watched on the sidelines!
Though the young martial artists were outnumbered, they were easily able to fight off the young delinquents! When one kid tried to strike Eddy with a metal baseball bat, he (Eddy) caught it and knocked the kid out when he punched him! After he cracked his knuckles, Eddy head-slapped one thug on the right ear, punched him in the rib, and grabbed the back of his head before he (Eddy) bashed it on his leg; knocking him out!
Just then, another kid ran up to Eddy and tried to deliver a sucker-punch, but the latter turned around once as he blocked the shot and turned around again to knock him out with an elbow to the face! Next, Maurice himself ran towards Eddy and tried to knock him out with a crowbar, but Eddy knocked it away, karate-chopped him in the neck, knee-kicked him in the stomach, and knocked him out with a blow to the back of the head!
From the attic, a disgruntled Alex and Lee witnessed the fight and decided the main problem was Eddy before former yelled, "TREY!"
Just then, the tall, muscular Goth kid that escaped into the sewers last chapter (Trey) walked up behind the antagonistic duo as Alex continued, "Time to visit yer old pal, Gates, again!"
Trey looked into the off-screen surveillance screen and huffed as he rushed off-screen to aide his fellow ruffians!
Lee looked at Alex angered, "What're you waitin' for? Turn on the damn machine already!"
"Ain't gonna happen, Lee!" Alex grabbed the device. "Just cuz they're here, it doesn't mean they can get in the way! I'ma turn it on when it's 5:00 like we planned! By now, their parents are gettin' ready to leave work!"
"What if Double D takes somethin' important off, huh?" Lee banged on the table frustrated.
"Trust me! He can't do that!" Alex smiled at Lee. "Cuz half the effort requires muscle…which he don't got!"
Meanwhile, Nazz was fighting off as much a barrage as Eddy was and was quite effective courtesy of all the private workouts and training sessions she underwent for a while! When an angered Marie ran up to Nazz and tried to deliver a powerful sucker-punch, Nazz blocked the shot and punched Marie down and over to May!
Next, a crossbones kid attempted to strike Nazz with a golf club, but she karate-chopped him in the forearm and made him drop it before she delivered a powerful blow to his carotid pulse; knocking him unconscious! She then grabbed the back of his shirt and used him as a shield to deflect an attack from another kid's shovel before she threw him (the unconscious boy) at the (the shovel boy) and both disappeared off-screen!
Nazz stepped on the shovel before it flipped up and the air just as two more kids ran up to her from front and back! The one coming up front tried to strike Nazz with a curtain rod, but she knocked it out of his hand, wrapped one arm around his neck, and knee-kicked him in the back before he fell to his knees in pain!
Not forgetting about the kid behind her, she kicked him in the groin without turning around just as the shovel finally came down in time for her to catch it, knock the first kid into unconsciousness when she elbowed his neck, and turn around to knock the kid behind her unconscious with the shovel! Nazz dropped the shovel and watched Eddy fight off Kyle and the last four crossbones gang members!
One kid tried to strike Eddy with a war-hammer-like weapon, but Eddy grabbed his wrist before he could swing and palm-punched him against a wall! Another kid ran up to Eddy and tried to sucker-punch him in the back of the head, but he saw this, blocked his shot, and knocked him out! Prompting this, the war-hammer kid got back up and tried to attack Eddy again as he bellowed, but Eddy kicked him in the stomach and delivered a roundhouse kick to the back of his head before he fell unconscious!
Eddy turned around in time to see Kyle and the last two crossbones gang members pin Edd against the machine and prepared to beat on him!
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME!" Edd struggled to get free, but his strength was clearly no match for the thugs'!
"Or what? You'll disinfect me?" Kyle cracked his neck and prepared to double-slam Edd as the other thugs held him into place!
Just then, Eddy pulled Kyle backwards and threw him off-screen before he fought off the last two thugs! The first one swung at Eddy, but he ducked, gave him an uppercut, and swiftly karate-chopped him on certain places on his head and neck before he fell unconscious! The other thug tried to strike Eddy with a wooden stick, but he caught his wrist and made him knock himself out with the branch!
Unscathed, Kyle ran up to Eddy and tried to knock him out, but Eddy palm-punched him in the chest and knocked him out by striking him in the face with the branch; ending the brawl against the crossbones' gang! Eddy dropped the branch and looked at Edd as he continued to figure out how to disable the machine.
"Ain't'chu done thinkin' yet?" Eddy tapped his foot on the ground impatiently.
Suddenly, Nazz looked to her right and developed bug-eyes before she yelled, "EDDY, WATCH OUT!"
Eddy looked at Nazz before he looked to his right and Trey swiftly ran on-screen and grabbed him before he crashed through a wall and continued to do so in an attempt to strip Eddy of his consciousness!
"EDDY!" Nazz screamed concern before Marie yelled off-screen, "Hey, hoe!"
Nazz angrily turned around and saw Marie zip in front of her as she delivered an uppercut to her (Nazz's) face before she (Nazz) fell to the floor! Marie grabbed the back of Nazz's shirt and held her into place as May repeatedly kicked her in the stomach! Marie then yanked Nazz upwards and kept her in a headlock as May came at her (Nazz) with a broken pipe!
In retaliation, Nazz bashed the back of her head against Marie's face, grabbed her arm, and flipped her over her shoulder before she (Nazz) knocked May's pipe out of her hand and punched her onto the floor! She then picked up the pipe and knocked both sisters out with a blow to the back of the head! Edd breathed a sigh of relief now that there was no present threat in the room.
In the attic, Alex looked at the enraged Lee and uttered, "Go 'head." knowing that things had just now gotten personal for her. Lee angrily got up and walked off-screen as Alex continued to look at the monitors.
Meanwhile, Trey still had Eddy in his clutches as he crashed through more and more walls!
"LET GO! LET GO! LET GO!" Eddy seethed with rage. "I said…LET GO!"
Eddy stretched his left leg out and kicked Trey in the groin before he (Trey) stopped in a room and held his crotch in pain! Taking advantage of this, Eddy grabbed the top of his hair and swung himself upwards before he wrapped his legs around a ceiling fan, grabbed Trey's head, and with all his might, picked him up and slammed him onto the ceiling! Eddy landed feet-first onto the floor while Trey fell face-first unconscious and defeated!
"Jeez, what's with all these rooms, anyway? Not like anyone would wanna stay here with those three abominations!" Eddy looked around and saw a camera that focused solely on him. "FROST! Sit tight! Cuz I gotta have violent chat with ya and Lee!"
In the attic, an enraged Alex threw his bottle at a wall before it shattered! He then took out his phone, which read "5:00" before he coldly and without hesitation pressed the red button on his remote!
In the machine room, Edd and Nazz stepped back and watched as the device activated by shifting it's mechanical structure around! The tip of the machine expanded into a cannon-like tube before the three ceilings above it (including the attic) opened up like an automatic door! Right then, the tube shot a missile-shaped probe through the ceilings and into the sky!
"NO!" Nazz screamed.
"Do not panic, Nazz!" Edd looked through the notes as he sweated nervously. "According to Alex's notes, the probe must reach the thermosphere and re-enter before it can consummate it's objective! And that will take approximately twenty minutes!"
"How, like, can guys who fail math and science class think of something like this, anyway?" Nazz swung her hips in wonder.
"Desires of mindless destruction and defamation of one's enemy is motivation enough to allow one to incept a scheme that will induce a solace!" Edd folded his arms angrily.
"Speakin' of enemies!" the camera shifted to Lee, who was standing in front of an elevator on the right side of Edd and Nazz with an angered facial expression and her fists balled up.
Nazz glared at Lee and walked near her in rage and pure spite. The two archenemies stared each other down as they prepared for a showdown. Dramatic build-up-based music played as the camera moved down to Nazz's left hand, which made a cracking noise when she balled it up. She used that same hand to administer the traditional "bring it on" hand sign.
Lee zipped towards Nazz at EEnE-speed before the latter stopped her with a karate-kick to the abdomen before she delivered a head-butt to the Kanker leader's forehead! Angered, Lee sprung herself back up and took out a long chain before she swung it at Nazz skillfully! However, the latter stepped back and allowed the chain to wrap around her right wrist before she pulled Lee towards her and punched her on the ground!
"Give it up, Kanker!" Nazz cracked her neck. "I'm not the same amateur fighter you knew three years back! You think I won't kick your ass like I did your sisters?"
Lee sprung herself back up one more time and ran at Nazz when she threw a glass bottle at her. Nazz broke the glass bottle with a careful karate-chop, but saw that it was a distraction when Lee tackled her against a wall! Prompting this, Lee punched Nazz in the stomach three times and once in the face before the latter caught her other fist, head-butted her one more time, and kicked her onto the floor!
"Yeah, keep knockin' me down, Blonda!" Lee stood back up. "But I'ma be the one laughin' my ass off when this whole thing is over!"
"Hope you don't think that even if you do manage to level everyone's houses, that you're gonna get away without being in for a lesson!" Nazz spat.
"Yer the one who needs to be taught a lesson, bombslut!" Lee grinned mischievously. Behind her back was a spray-can of crankshaft. "And I'm the one to give it!"
Lee zipped up to Nazz and tried to deliver a punch to Nazz's face, but she caught it and Lee, suddenly smiled victoriously! With her other hand, she sprayed Nazz in the eyes and blinded her before she released her grip! Next, Nazz suffered at the hands of Lee during the climax of their battle!
Lee swung at Nazz and even though she blocked it, her fuzzy vision made it so she couldn't see Lee punch her in the stomach! Lee punched the wall after she failed to punch Nazz in the face, but did manage to knee-kick her face upwards and deliver a punch to her left cheek! Lee then delivered an uppercut that sent Nazz flying back until she fell on her back!
Lee then jumped in front of Nazz as she kneeled down in pain and delivered two punches to both of her cheeks before she kicked her in the face! Nazz sprung herself back up, but this proved to be in vain when Lee choke-slammed her onto the floor! Nazz got up again and tried to deliver a sucker-punch, but Lee caught it and knocked Nazz onto the floor!
Nazz got back up and at EEnE-speed unleashed a barrage of martial-arts-based punches, but Lee blocked every one of them and kicked Nazz against another wall! Lee then grabbed Nazz and threw her over to the machine, but Nazz maneuvered herself and safely landed feet-first! With her vision still cloudy, Nazz rubbed her eyes and ruined her eyeliner, but was able to see clearly again. But not before Lee delivered a flying kick to her abdomen that sent her flying against the machine!
"Oh, my!" Edd shouted appalled!
Lee kneeled down as she mocked Nazz, "How does it feel? Y'know, just cuz you've really pissed me off, I think I'll do what you did to my sisters to your gang of prostitutes, but with brass knuckles and a video camera!"
Nazz looked up at Lee fed up and weakly stood back up before she cracked her bones back into place EEnE-style.
"Don't know how yer still standin', but I'll make it so you can't even crawl, bitch!" Lee swung her left at Nazz, but the recovered bombshell blocked her shot and punched her in the left jaw before she screamed in pain! Nazz then head-slapped Lee on both ears before the latter tried to deliver a sloppy haymaker that Nazz blocked and responded to by punching Lee in the left jaw again!
Lee swung her right at Nazz, but she blocked it and punched Lee in the right jaw once more! Next, Nazz delivered two punches to Lee's ribs and two more to both of her jaws before she administered a powerful uppercut that made her (Lee) jump backwards! Disoriented, Lee tried to deliver a sloppy sucker-punch with her left, but Nazz caught it and ended the fight by taking Lee down in a scissor-motion-headlock!
"That was for stealing my car!" Nazz stood back up and glared down at her defeated nemesis.
Lee looked at Nazz and weakly threatened, "You take him from me…and I'll make the rest of your life a hell you ain't gonna ferget!"
"Then I guess…it's on!" Nazz violently kicked Lee in the face; knocking her unconscious! She then looked at Edd with a victorious smile before Edd smiled back.
Just then, Alex suddenly zipped behind Edd and grabbed him before he knocked him unconscious by banging his head against the machine's metallic surface!
"DOUBLE D!" Nazz ran towards Alex in anger, but he held up his remote device and made her stop in her tracks when he wickedly smiled, "Don't think so, Sexy! I press this button and yer friends' houses are toast!"
"He's lyin'!" Eddy suddenly appeared in the hole that Trey made earlier!
"EDDY!" Nazz looked at him relieved.
"His notes say he's gotta wait ten more minutes before he can push that button and wreck everyone's houses!" Eddy remembered.
"You saw him launch it?" Nazz yelled.
"No, I heard it!" Eddy replied. "Now, grab that remote!"
"Yeah, right!" Alex mocked. "She can tr—AAGGHH!"
Nazz kicked Alex off-screen and grabbed his controller after it twirled around in the air a little bit! "QUICK! THE ROOF! WE GOTTA KNOW WHERE THAT THING IS!" Eddy and Nazz climbed up the machine and skillfully (like true martial artists that perform stunts) jumped through the opening loops that the probe went through just as Alex tried unsuccessfully to pursue them!
"DAMN IT!" Alex turned his attention to the elevator and grinned devilishly!
On the roof of the clubhouse, Nazz front-flipped out of the last loop while Eddy back-flipped out of it. The two looked to the sky, but it was difficult to see a thing since the clouds were now dark! What's worse, they could not hear the probe's descent due to the random bursts of thunder!
"Well, this sucks! Now, we don't know how it's gonna show!" Eddy frowned. "Bet Frost's just jolly 'bout that, too!"
"Least he didn't follow us!" Nazz panted as she touched her knees.
"Yeah, but don't jinx our luck!" Eddy cracked his knuckles.
Suddenly, unbeknownst to the two due to their turned-backs, the chimney silently opened up like an elevator door and a silhouetted figure could be seen inside. The figure swiftly ripped the controller out of Nazz's hands before she gasped and the hole that she and Eddy came through closed! Both she and Eddy turned around and saw that it was Alex, who was now armed with the curtain rod that one of the crossbones' gang members had!
"SURPRISE! SURPRISE!" Alex impiously twirled his curtain rod around.
Nazz, being the closest, engaged with Alex in a brief scuffle, but unfortunately for her, her brutal fight with Lee left her exhausted and injured to the point where even a street-fighter like Alex could best her! She swung her left at Alex, but he knocked her hand away effortless! She successfully delivered a sucker-punch to Alex's left cheek, but when she tried to deliver another one, Alex struck her in the face with the rod and made her stumble closer to the roof's edge!
Eddy tried to intervene, but Alex kept the rod at her neck and silently threatened to knock her off of the roof unless he stayed where he was!
"Didn't have to be this hard, all right?" Alex shouted. "None of this would be happenin' if you people weren't so stupid! Sorry, Nazz! But if I can't have ya, this spiky-haired son of a bitch can't either!"
"If you think any girl would want to even look at you after all this, you're the one who's stupid, Alexander!" Nazz spat.
Angered, Alex kicked Nazz off of the roof "300-style" before she quickly plummeted towards the ground! But then, Nazz took out a pocketknife and slammed it against the tree of the clubhouse before she slowly made her way down to the ground (a trick she learned from Eddy earlier on)! She uttered a sigh of relief before she looked up at the clubhouse and whispered, "Please be careful, Eddy!"
On the roof, Eddy and Alex engaged in the final fight of the season! After he put his controller away, Alex tried to strike Eddy with his rod, but the latter blocked it with his forearm before the former tried again, but missed when Eddy back-bended! Alex tried again, but Eddy caught the end of it and removed the extra rod inside Alex's as he (Eddy) palm-punched him in the face!
Alex ferociously and swiftly swung his rod at Eddy from left, right, and up-high positions, but he blocked every shot with his own rod thanks to his knowledge of battling with weaponry! With his free hand, Alex tried to sucker-punch Eddy, but he grabbed his wrist and swung him on the side of him! Alex fiercely swung his rod at Eddy three more times, but missed each time when he back-flipped twice and landed on the chimney!
Eddy balanced himself carefully as he blocked each of Alex's simple swings and used his limbs to dodge the more complicated ones! Just then, Eddy grabbed the tip of the chimney and swung his body horizontally before he double-kicked Alex off-screen! Eddy ran up to Alex as he (Alex) sprung himself back up and missed when he swung at the back-bending Eddy!
The teens clashed rods three more times from diagonal, left, and right positions before Eddy delivered a sucker-punch to Alex's left jaw! Alex retaliated by failing to strike Eddy from atop, but did successfully kick Eddy in the shin and knock his rod out of his hand! Alex tried to strike the disarmed Eddy four times, but missed all four times when he ducked, back bended, blocked, and he grabbed the rod!
The boys tried to wrestle the rod out of each other's respective grips until Eddy broke the standoff by kicking Alex in the abdomen before both fell back-first onto the roof! Just then, after a clap of thunder, the boys heard a rumbling noise that was coming from the sky! Eddy stood up and looked up at the sky with a wondering facial expression while Alex stood up and sneered victoriously as he took out his controller, "Time's up!"
At that moment, the probe shot into the thermosphere earlier emerged from the dark clouds and descended straight for the neighborhood!
"KISS THE LAST OF YOUR FREEDOM GOOD-BYE, GATES!" Alex cackled and pointed his controller at the probe! But before he could press the button, Eddy came from behind him and after struggling for about six seconds, successfully wrestled the controller out of his hand and punched him onto the side of the roof! As he (Alex) stood back up, he heard Eddy utter from behind, "Yo, Frost!" before he turned around!
Eddy jumped up in the air and in slow-motion, fly-kicked Alex in the chest before he (Alex) was sent flying and started plummeting down to the ground in normal motion!
"Enjoy the Orange Chicken!" Eddy grinned triumphantly!
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATES!" the bug-eyed Alex fell through the ground and fell unconscious as he entered China under the watchful and proud eyes of Nazz!
On the roof, Eddy saw that the probe was getting closer and closer to the neighborhood and he didn't have a clue in the world on how to stop it! At that moment, his quick-thinking skills struck a nerve and he placed Alex's device sideways on the roof before he smashed it into little pieces by stepping on it! As a result, something miraculous happened.
The probe began to shake out of control before it exploded and sent eleven missiles (one for every character's [or "characters' in Ed and Sarah's case"] house with the exception of Eddy and Nazz) spiraling uncontrollably around in the air before they each landed in random places contrary to everyone's houses! The first one tremendously exploded in the lane, the second one in the playground, the third in the junkyard, the fourth in the cul-de-sac, the fifth fell through a sewer-hole, but exploded out another one mushroom-style, the sixth one struck the Candy store, the seventh one struck jawbreaker factory, the eighth struck Peach Creek Jr. High, the ninth one destroyed Kyle's house in the second neighborhood, the tenth one destroyed Alex and Brandon's trailer, while the eleventh and final one destroyed the Kankers' trailer!
Eddy grinned softly as he watched the ensuing explosions around him, "Ka-blam!"
As the camera showed the entire district's post-explosive chaos from an aerial view, the screen faded to black.
The screen reopened the next night, where we could see the rebuilt X-House, which was the exact replica of its predecessor! Inside, all of the characters of the main and supporting cast (with the exception of the Kankers and the other antagonists) were partying as a way of celebrating the re-christening of the X-house and the defeat of the Kanker sisters. Among them, Eddy and Nazz were talking as they held each other's hands!
Ed walked up to them with a stack-load of furniture in his hand, "Yo, Eddy! Where do you want these?"
"Just put 'em in the basement for now, Ed!" Eddy smiled. "And watch'cher step for once, will ya?"
"You got it, hero!" Ed ran off-screen.
Just then, Kevin stood in the middle of the room and motioned for Nate to stop the ipod's music for a little bit before he did so. Kevin held up his cup of Jack Daniels, "Dudes! Dudettes! Know we've done this like fourteen times already, but…I don't care! One really huge cheer for my bro, Eddy and his new lady, Nazz for savin' our asses and poundin' our home wreckers! Hip-hip!"
"HELL YEAH!" Everyone roared with gratitude!
"Yo, saviors!" Nate yelled to Eddy and Nazz. "What do ya wanna play this time?"
"How 'bout…" Eddy raised his head up high. "…Oh, what the hell! The show's theme!"
Nate gave Eddy a thumbs up before he clicked on several buttons until the show's theme music started to play. The theme was Headstrong by Trapt. The lights went out before colored lights started flashing around the room and the characters started dancing before other teens came busting in and started dancing, bumping, and grinding as well!
When Nazz tried to join them, Eddy pulled her back, "Where do ya think yer goin'?" picked her up, and put her on one of the tables as she giggled. The two looked at each other lovingly before, in slow-motion, they passionately kissed…together at last! As the couple continued to kiss, the screen faded to black.
End of episode 10
Did you know: The SKUNKSHARK formula conjured by the Kanker sisters was inspired by the "Eau de wood rot" and "Crankshaft #5" perfume concoctions from "Know it all Ed". And Alex being sent to China by Eddy was a tribute to "For your Ed Only", where a very similar thing happened to Jonny.
Phoenix's note: As a kid, I noticed that Nazz's characterization has been explored only minimally. Which is why I created a backstory around her and to also show just how long she had it for Eddy (because if you pay attention to detail, you would see hints that ultimately led me to make this couple work). And I decided to have Nerf Herder's music be the revised basis for Edolescence's theme because not only do I think the music's cool, but also, believe it or not, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is an early inspiration I had for this series (which is having a bunch of teens take on things you wouldn't believe without seeing; something "Buffy" is known for)! And as for the places that the KANKERFROST missiles hit, well, I just thought it would be cool to show most of the places you remember in the first series even if I do wreck them just for the fun of it!
Parting memo: And, basically, that says it all for Season 1, folks and fans! Next season will explore the outside world of Peach Creek a little more and will, of course, have tons and tons of adrenaline-pumping action sequences! Also, as a recurring subplot, some of the characters will start looking for jobs. However, the next fic you should expect is my freestanding Halloween special, "You're in for an Ed"! Till that time though, Phoenix out!
Title reference: Third time's the charm