The final and most epic battle has come and everyone has a part in it!!! So get some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy!!!
Edatron (Edroid especially) is shocked to see Ed alive and holding back their fist.
"Sarah, Jimmy!" Double-D takes Sarah and Jimmy, regrouping with Eddy.
"I thought you killed him, Edroid." Eddybot scolds Edroid.
"How the hell did you survive?" Edroid asks.
"Because I'm Ed!" Ed answers, grabbing Edatron's 2nd punch and throwing them into the air. From mid-air, Edatron opens an arm to reveal a missle launcher, and fires at the street. Ed quickly throws a nearby coach bus to shield himself and his friends. The Eds, Sarah and Jimmy escape under the cover of smoke, and Edatron loses them in the crowd. But Meta-D tracks them down with his X-ray vision looking through buildings, and they attack again. The process repeats like a cat-and-mouse game, much to Edatron's amusement.
Nearby, May is lost in the crowd and tries to hide in a car. But the goth boys are inside.
"This one's taken." Sean says, and May moves on. She eventually bumps into Lee.
"LEE!!!?" May hugs Lee. "Where's everyone else?"
"Don't know." Lee answers. "We better go find em."
They see the Eds, Sarah and Jimmy running by up the street. Lee calls out to them, but Edatron reaches them first thanks to Meta-D's X-ray vision.
"THERE'S NO ESCAPE FROM THEM!!!" Jimmy panics. Edatron then grabs the street and pulls it up like a carpet to send everyone and everything on it flying into the air and back down in a mess. Edatron laughs sadistically as the Eds, Sarah and Jimmy fall with several other people. Ed grabs Sarah and Jimmy to cushion their fall as they land on a car. Eddy bounces off a pole and drops onto Lee, and Double-D lands crotch-first on a fire hydrant (Ouch)!
"GYAAAH!!!" Double-D yelps, his face scrunched with pain. "Even by cartoon standards, this is extremely painful."
Meta-D fires eye lasers at the Eds to make them "dance."
"DANCE, DANCE!!!" he laughs as he corners Double-D against some rubble. He charges a laser in one eye to finish Double-D, but before he fires...
"YAAAAAHHH!!!!!" Marie leaps from a telephone pole towards Meta-D and destroys his other eye with a furious kick that causes his laser to misfire, blowing out his remaining eye and sending Edatron into a building, stunning them!!!
Rolf watches from a nearby hardware shop. "... Rolf is amazed!..." he comments, heading over to the Eds, Kankers, Sarah, Jimmy, Nazz and Erin.
"YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY DOUBLE-D!!!" Marie shouts at Edatron as she, Erin and Nazz join the Eds, Lee, May, Sarah and Jimmy.
"Thanks, Marie!!! Now we only got 2 pairs of eyes to worry about!" Double-D says as Meta-D is now blind and can't track them down anymore!
Meanwhile, Kubat tries to lose Danny and the cops as he runs through the streets. He throws his cape as a decoy to fool his pursuers, who take the bait. Kubat hides in a dumpster, where Kevin is also hiding.
"AHA!!!" Kevin grabs Kubat and as they struggle against each other, Danny sees the dumpster bouncing back-and-forth. Kubat bursts out with Kevin on his back.
"OVER HERE, I GOT HIM!!!" Kevin yells to alert the others, but Kubat pulls his tongue and lets go to sling him away into Danny. Then several Brotherhood members arrive to cover Kubat.
"DISPOSE OF THEM!!!" Kubat orders. The cops hold off Kubat's henchmen while Danny and Kevin continue after Kubat.
Meanwhile, Edatron recovers. "Uuuuuugggghhh..." Edroid and Eddybot groan.
"Great, now we can't track them anymore." Eddybot says.
"I'M GONNA KILL HER!!!" Meta-D screams about Marie. He fires his hat's laser cannon, which is now much larger and devastates the surrounding area. This catches the attention of the police chief.
"WHOA!!!" the chief screams, taking cover and using his radio: "Bring in the SWAT teams!!!"
To uncover the Eds, Edatron blows up stuff, including the restaurant Jonny and Terry are in.
"HOLY CRAP!!!" Jonny drags the unconscious Terry while searching for another hiding place. Other people run around in panic. Jonny finds the Eds, Kankers, Sarah, Jimmy, Rolf, Nazz and Erin searching through Terry's ruined van for first-aid supplies. "GUYS, OVER HERE!!!"
Erin hears Jonny and helps him with Terry. Edatron comes right next to them, but they're on Meta-D's side and thus aren't seen! Jonny sees Meta-D plug his eyeholes with his palm-wires.
"HURRY!!!" Nazz calls out as Jonny and Erin bring Terry over, and they head towards a subway, with Double-D and Rolf carrying first-aid from Terry's van. As they enter the subway, they see SWAT vehicles and helicopters arriving to battle Edatron.
"Oh, come on." Eddybot complains. The SWAT quickly open fire on Edatron, but Edroid's fire-breathing keeps them from getting close. Eddybot charges lightning in his antennae to fire at the helicopters.
In the subway, Erin and Jonny tend to Terry with first-aid. "He'll be ok, Plank." Jonny tells Plank.
The Eds, Kankers, Sarah, Jimmy, Nazz and Rolf sit and pace around nearby.
"Now what?" May asks.
"We can't run forever." Nazz adds.
"I say we stand up and fight." Ed suggests.
"Rolf agrees, yo!" Rolf cheers.
"How?" Sarah asks. "We don't got weaponry, and brute strength obviously ain't enough."
"And I just got a lucky shot, to be honest." Marie adds.
"Ed's right, guys." Eddy says. "Those rust-heads are after us Eds, so I say we give em what they want! My brother told me that everyone and everything has an Achilles heel. We just gotta figure out those robots' weakness."
Double-D thinks long and hard. Lee does the same...
"I think I'm onto somethin!" Lee says, flashing back to her fight with Eddybot in Chapter 10. "I threw water inside that Eddy robot's tail, and it paralyzed him."
"I remember something quite similar while fighting my own metallic self." Double-D flashes back to his fight with Meta-D in Chapter 16. "I somehow managed to open his shoulder, and when I accidentally spilled coffee onto it, it had similar effects. Their skin may be extremely durable, but I believe their inner workings are suspectable to damage."
"I second that!" Jonny says. "A few minutes ago, I saw one of em plug his eyeholes with wires from their hands."
"So if we get rid of their steel skin, it'll be smooth sailin from there!?" Ed guesses.
"But how can we if even the SWAT can't get near em?" Jimmy asks.
"We need a distraction to find an opening for the SWAT." Double-D says. "And we must do something about their wings, too."
"Then I got a plan!" Eddy says. "Everybody, come here!"
"Ok!!!" Jonny says, leaving Plank with Terry. "Watch over Terry, Plank."
Kubat enters the mall to hide from Danny and Kevin. He runs up an escalator, then stops to catch his breath, allowing Danny and Kevin to catch up.
"Just give up, gramps." Danny suggests as they ascend the escalator.
"It's over!" Kevin says. Kubat throws down an avalanche of mannequins nearby, but they're all repelled. Then he throws down a piano, but Danny throws it back and flattens Kubat. Kubat slinks out and tries to run, but hasn't regained his stamina and he quickly stumbles and falls. He staggers into a store to grab a spray can, using it with his lighter to blow fire at Danny and Kevin. Kevin counters it with a fire extinguisher. Kubat then hops into a cart and tries to ride away. Danny and Kevin do the same to chase him.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN CATCH ME!!?" Kubat rams his cart into every stand he passes to hinder Danny's and Kevin's pursuit.
Meanwhile, half of the SWAT have been defeated and all the helicopters were shot down by Eddybot's lightning. The remaining units hide behind corners, vehicles, and rubble.
"Guys!" Nazz finds some units to tell them about Eddy's plan. Erin, Sarah, Jimmy and the Kankers do the same with other units.
"HEY!!!" Jonny calls out from a street corner to catch Edatron's attention. "THE EDS ARE OVER HERE!!!"
Meta-D is suspicious. "Wait, why is he leading us to-"
"Oh stop, he's actually smart!" Eddybot says. "He knows we won't stop until those fake Eds are obliterated!"
Edatron follows Jonny, but they suddenly lose him. Jonny reappears near a tall building.
"UP THERE!!! THEY'RE ESCAPING BY HELICOPTER!!!" he shouts.
"Hehehe!!!" Edatron (except Meta-D) chuckles as they spread their jet wings. But before they could fly up the building...
"YAAAAARGH!!!" Rolf leaps up onto Meta-D's side and tears off their left wing with his brute strength!!!
"AGH!!!" Edatron yelps in pain, turning over towards Rolf.
"YAHOO!!!" Ed jumps in to take the other wing. But Edatron turns and sends Ed flying through 4 buildings.
"ED!!!" Jonny screams.
"I KNEW this was a trick!!!" Meta-D shouts.
"NOW!!!" Eddy signals. As Edatron approaches Ed, the SWAT arrive behind them and fire harpoon guns. The harpoon cords wrap around Edatron's arms and legs, and are pulled to slam Edatron into the ground.
"YES!!!" the Kankers, Sarah and Jimmy cheer.
"BLAST EM!!!" Erin shouts as the SWAT take aim at the grounded Edatron. But then Edatron opens up their back to reveal a cannon-like weapon, which unleashes a huge shockwave that destroys every building in the area and everyone is buried under the rubble. Double-D watches from a distance.
"Oh no, I gotta hurry." he tells himself, heading towards a fire station.
Ed, Eddy, the Kankers, Sarah, Jimmy, Nazz, Erin, Rolf, and the SWAT emerge from the rubble. But the SWAT have lost their weapons. Marie and Nazz help out Sarah and Jimmy while the SWAT help out Erin, Jonny, Rolf, and other people.
"IS ANYONE HURT BESIDES JIMMY!!!?" Eddy asks, but only Jimmy's hurt (as usual). Edatron approaches Eddy, and Eddybot charges lighting in his antennae.
"NOOO!!!!" Lee jumps onto Eddybot's neck to turn his lightning away. The lightning instead hits the mall, leveling half of it and burying Danny, Kevin and Kubat under rubble.
"My gratitude, Lee!" Eddy thanks Lee. Edatron notes this, flashes back to Marie saving Double-D, and they catch onto something:
"Those girls... they appear to hold out imposters quite close to them." Eddybot notes.
"Well if that's the case..." Edroid looks at May, who's helping Ed out of the rubble. Edatron shoots palm-wires to capture May.
"AAAAAAAHHH!!!!" May screams as Edatron takes her away, much to her sisters' horror.
"MAAAAY!!!!" Ed yells out, running after Edatron to save her.
"ED!!!" everyone tries calling Ed back, but to no avail.
Edatron reaches the Kubat statue and, with their remaining wing, rocket-jumps to its head.
May tries squeezing out of their hand. "LET GO, YOU-"
"SHUT UP!!!" Edatron shouts, then they see Ed on the green below, glaring at them angrily.
"ED!!!" May shouts in joy.
"Hehehe!..." Edroid flicks his RIDICULOUSLY long, drill-tipped tongue at Ed, but Ed dodges. Edroid's tongue loops around and chases Ed all over the green, even underground!!! But Ed tricks the tongue into knotting itself at one point, and tears it off at the knot!
"YEOW!!!" Edroid yelps, retracting his damaged tongue. His mouth fills to near-bursting, and spits out a barrage of bombs that rain downwards. Ed dodges a few, using Edroid's severed tongue to deflect directly incoming bombs.
"Errr... HOW ABOUT THIS!!!!" Edroid fires a massive shoulder rocket towards Ed, then fires another "just in case." Ed's eyes bug out, knowing he can't dodge the rockets. So he jumps to GRAB the first rocket and throws it back at Edatron. They block with an arm, but the force of the blow breaks their guard and they stumble back, dropping May. And by the time Edatron regains balance, Ed has already thrown back the 2nd rocket!
"NOOO!!!" Edatron screams as their rocket blows off their chest armor, exposes their insides, and sends them flying off the statue towards the ground!!! "GAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"
"WAAAAAH!!!!!" May screams as she falls. Ed dives to catch her at the last second. Then Edatron hits the ground heads-first. And with Edroid's head in front, he is crushed under his body's sheer weight!!! Now only Eddybot and Meta-D remain!!!
Danny helps the injured Kevin out of the mall's rubble and brings him to a safe resting spot. Then he tackles Kubat to the ground to prevent his escape. Kubat finally loses his composure.
"DAMN YOU!!!!!!" he screams, his eyes bulging with rage. "DAMN YOU ACCURSED WORMS!!! ALWAYS DISRUPTING MY PLANS FOR PEACE LIKE THEY'RE DIABOLICAL!!! YOU'RE NOT HEROES, ALL YOU DO IS INTERCEPT THE PEACE I SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE TRYING TO SPREAD!!!!! NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!"
"You just don't understand, do ya?" Danny asks.
Eddy, Lee, Marie, Sarah, Jimmy, Jonny, Rolf, Nazz and Erin arrive at the green.
"MAY!!!" Marie and Lee hug May.
"Ed, you're one crazy dude!" Eddy tells Ed.
"Edroid's dead!!!" Erin cheers. "AND their chest's insides are exposed!!!"
Suddenly, palm-wires rupture from the ground and wrap around everybody! Edatron rises up angrily, revealing that they sent their palm-wires underground to catch everyone by suprise.
"I'M DONE PLAYING AROUND WITH YOU HUMANS!!!" Eddybot screams, charging lightning.
"SAY GOODBYE!!!" Meta-D charges his hat's laser cannon. But suddenly, gasoline is fired into their chest's insides.
"Huh!?..... AH, AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!" Edatron screams in pain as they stagger about and fall to their knees. Their palm-wires lose grip, and their control system makes clanky noises as the gasoline damages it!!! Everyone turns around to see the gasoline's source: Double-D has brought a firetruck and connected the hose to the fuel tank!!!
"QUICK, IGNITE IT AND FINISH THEM!!!" he shouts.
"No... NOOOOO!!!!" Edatron screams, defenseless as they can barely move now. Eddy steps up...
"I guess it's my turn now!!!" he grins. He lights his lighter as Edatron crawls towards him. He throws it in slow-motion...
... And it ignites the gasoline in Edatron's body. Edatron's insides burst into flames, and they reel back SCREAMING in agony.
"W-W-WORLD... D-D-DOMIN-N-NATI-I-IOOON!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Meta-D screams as his head spins crazily and finally explodes!!! Eddybot falls back onto the Kubat statue's foot as he writhes in agony.
"DAMN YOU, ED, EDD N EDDY!!!!! D-D-DAMN Y-Y-Y-Y-YOOOUUUUU!!!!!" Eddybot curses one last time as his eyes and mouth burst into flames, killing him and finally ending Edatron's rampage!!!!!
Danny lectures Kubat: "Look how low you went to bring about your so-called peace, tricking people like Eddy and I. Why did you go to such pitiful extremes? Because nobody supported the deranged ideals you and your 'brothers' embrace. So you went underground and conducted illegal operations to claw your way up. Using money you unjustly stole, you'd buy all your merchandise from Dr. Howard. But Principal Antonucci saw through your plans and took all the funds before deserting your cult. You ran out of ideas, so you used me and Eddy to buy your merchandise from Howard and finally put your plans in motion. But did you really think you won then? Look around you. Your 'brothers' were never brainwashed because they were your precious right-and-left-hand men; you trusted them. Did you ever think some could've been plotting against you? Even the Robo-Eds rebelled, and upon becoming Edatron, they broke away from you. All the destruction around us is their doing, and in essence, YOU'RE responsible. Even when you thought you achieved peace, it backfired and bit you in the ass. The bottom line is... true peace will NEVER come to exist. Not in our lifetimes, not ever."
Kubat is dumbstruck.
"It may sound cliche, but that's the truth, Kubat." Danny says. "Only through death can one attain true peace."
"... Only through death... can one attain true peace..." Kubat repeats. A lightbulb flashes above his head, it shatters, and he goes insane: "OF COURSE, THAT WAS THE ANSWER ALL ALONG!!! THROUGH DEATH, I'LL NO LONGER HAVE TO PUT UP WITH ALL THIS CHAOS!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
Edatron's corpse explodes, destroying the statue's foot and it begins to slowly tilt forward. Kubat sees this, smiles psychotically, and runs off towards the statue.
"HAHAHA!!! FAREWELL, CRUEL WORLD!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAHAAHAAHAA!!!!!!!!" he laughs hysterically as he runs off, much to Danny's confusion.
Kubat hijacks a police car and drives toward the green, laughing as he runs over everyone and everything in his way! He crashes into a fire hydrant, flies through the windshield and onto the green, knocking aside cops who try to arrest him! He zips by the Eds, Kankers, Erin, Nazz, Sarah, Jimmy, Jonny and Rolf as he heads to his statue.
"Is that Kubat!?" Double-D asks. Kubat stops in front of his statue as it tilts and falls down towards him...
"HAHAHAHAAA!!!!! PEACE IS RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES!!!!!!!" Kubat screams with excitement, his arms spread out in joy as his statue's shadow looms over him. It falls closer..... closer.....
..... and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!
End of Chapter 25!!!
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The epilogue chapter comes out next week. I'm so glad I'm almost done with this!!!