Okay, everyone, let's address the elephant in the room. As I'm writing this chapter, it's Mace sheperd's birthday. So, if I'm unable to update today, I would like to wish him a happy belated birthday. May your day be filled with cake and happiness! Lord knows we all need a little more happiness during the current pandemic going on.

*I don't own Ed, Edd n' Eddy, DC Comics, or Marvel!*


The Calm before the Storm


All was quiet in the Cul-de-sac as Eddy's insanity induced rampage seems to have come to an end. Maybe now the sickly residents will get some peaceful recovery time.

Ch'yeah, right!

"Ham and eggs with buttered toast!"

Eddy popped up over a wooden fence and literally bit a chunk out of it before he began to chew it up like it was a piece of buttered toast. But before the currently crazy boy could swallow, he saw something on the ground that triggered a part of his normal personality. A single dollar bill laying on the sidewalk. A goofy grin appeared on his face as part of his old self started to resurface.

"Sweetheart…!"

Spitting out a few nails from the fence that have been bent from the boy's chewing, Eddy bolted for the object of his greedy affections. But he just hit the sidewalk as the dollar bill was tanked away from him. Turns out it's attached to a thin rope that's hooked to a clothes pin. But that's not gonna stop our crazy Ed-Boy.

"Baby, come back!"

Eddy ran after the dollar and used his long, green tongue to grapple a streetlight in order to make a sharp turn. He got closer to the dollar bill but it was tanked out of his reach just before he could grab it. We see the dollar fly past Ed who's running in the same direction, and now we see that Double Dee is running on ahead and reeling in the dollar. As they reached their destination, a shelter made from a combination of plywood and mattresses, Double Dee unhooked the dollar from the clothes pin.

"Stop teasin'!" said Eddy as Double Dee waved the dollar at him as bait to get him into the shelter. "Lucy, I'm ho-ome!"

Double Dee gasped as he realized the slight error in his tactics and took the full brunt of the missile known as Eddy. While Eddy laughed like a maniac, Ed just casually walked up to the shelter and looked inside.

"Ed, close the door!" Double Dee ordered.

Ed did so and chuckled as he turned away. But he was quick to realize that he's not inside of the shelter like he should be. He opened the door and walked in, closing it behind him in time to see a peculiar sight. Eddy, still crazy, running circles up and down the walls as well as across the ceiling.

"You and me against the world, baby!" exclaimed Eddy.

Once Ed was inside and the door was securely closed, Double Dee bolted over and began to lock a series of, well, locks on the door. When he was done, he gave Ed a bronze skeleton key.

"Ed, hide this key discreetly." he instructed.

"Okay."

"Will ya marry us?" Eddy asked Double Dee, referring to himself and the dollar bill.

"I-I-I-I'm not registered for that!" Double Dee exclaimed nervously.

"Then we'll elope!" Eddy said.

And while this was going on, Ed was body hiding the key. How does he plan to do this, you ask? Well, eating the key, as unsafe as it sounds, certainly comes to mind. And that's exactly what Ed's doing. He placed the key between two slices of white bread, and actually proceeded to eat the key in a literal key sandwich. And if one were to ask Shaggy and Scooby from Scooby-Doo, they'd probably tell you that it would need a little mustard.

They're strange fellows, that's for sure.

Eddy snickered to himself as he continued eyeing the dollar bill like it was a gift from God, when he was suddenly grabbed by the head by none other than Ed. The dimwitted Ed-Boy turned his friend around to show him what they'd prepared for him.

"Surprise, Eddy! You're rich!" Double Dee said as he revealed... "Voila!"

A huge horde of cash that would probably set them up until their high school years! Needless to say, Eddy certainly gave the reaction they'd been hoping for.

"Whoa-ho-ho! Cha-CHING!" Eddy exclaimed as he dove in.

As his mind started rapidly repairing itself, Eddy cartoonishly changed into a cash register that opened up and shot out money before his upper half turned back to normal as he dove in. He popped out grinning like mad as his eyes went big and sparkly, and his three hairs were replaced with dollar signs. But then he turned himself into a piggy bank with his head instead of a pig's, right before proofing back to normal with his three hairs taking the shape of dollar signs. Popping up out of the money, Eddy made an odd sound before he actually started talking sense.

"We'll buy a truckload o' jawbreakers!"

"Uh, whaddya mean?" Ed asked.

"Whaddya mean 'whaddya mean'? With all this glorious…" suddenly, Eddy noticed something that he hadn't before. "What the? It's fake!"

And he would be right about that. Every last dollar bill is just a piece of construction paper with Ed's face drawn on it. In crayon no less.

"I drew it myself." Ed said stupidly.

But unlike earlier that day, instead of going crazy, Eddy started growling loudly as he looked ready to erupt like the volcano known as Cracatoa.

"Eddy's mad." Ed observed.

"Correct! He's back to normal!" said Double Dee.

And he's happy to have his friend's mentality be somewhat normal again. Eddy almost screamed with rage before...

"Do ya hear that?" Eddy asked as he pressed his ear to the door. "Somethin' big is goin' on out there!"

And he would be right. For outside of the cushy shelter, the Joker has finally put his plan for the Cul-de-sac into motion. And there's no stopping him now!


***To Be Continued…***


So, here's the new update. I'm sorry that it's kind of a short one, but I've got something important that I need to tell you all.

You see, I'm working on a Yu-Gi-Oh GX/Bleach crossover where Jaden becomes a Soul Reaper. I've got a basic idea for how I want the plot to go, but I need some help from all of you. I'm putting up a poll for what I should make Jaden's Zanpakutō spirit. I have a couple of ideas, and these are the ones you have as options for the poll.


A Dragon - please specify whether you want it to be a European Dragon or an Asian Dragon.

A Jaguar


Please cast your votes on the poll and I'll see you all next update! Buh-bye now!