Disclaimer: I still don't own Ed, Edd n' Eddy. Marvel, or DC!
Previously on Injustice Syndicate: The Rise...
"Please ask my family to remember well of me." Zilius Zox squeaked in fear.
He was soon gulped down in one bite by the construct, held prisoner within its impenetrable gut as the rest of it rose from the rubble, roaring with a struggling Bleez held tight within its tentacle arm.
"GET HIM OFF! AHH, HE'S TOO STRONG!" screamed Bleez as she was carried away by the beast.
But Atrocitus and Dex-Starr weren't going to let him get away like that.
"HANG ON, BLEEZ, I'M-"
Unfortunately, their rescue effort was halted as Skallox rose up out of the rubble with a black eye, some missing teeth, and looking as dazed as Eddy usually does when he takes a big hit. Not that either Red Lantern knows who that is, mind you.
"Hey, if you find any teeth laying around, they're mine…" Skallox said in a dazed state.
As he fell back to the ground, Atrocitus could only sigh in annoyance at how incompetent these guys could be sometimes. He just hoped that his reinforcements would arrive soon.
Now…
Raging Red Ed Part 2
Bleez grunted as she continued to squirm in Edzilla's grip. The new Red Lantern had dragged her to what appeared to be a hastily constructed lair of sorts, and she knew that whatever he had planned for her, it wouldn't be good. Hence why she was struggling desperately to get out of his grip and make her escape.
"Where are you taking me?" she demanded.
Ed's answer was to hold her up to eye level and open his monstrous maw wide, prompting Bleez to begin panicking.
"Please, don't eat me!" Bleez begged.
She closed her eyes and prayed that he would make her death as quick and painless as possible but found out he didn't intend to eat her. Instead, he brought up a box of Chunky Puffs and took a bite out of that. Chewing for just a moment, Bleez found herself covered head to toe in a sticky layer of chewed up cereal as Ed regurgitated it all over her.
"Okay, this is by far the second grossest thing to ever happen to me…" she mumbled.
Right as Ed stuck her to the wall. And she wasn't the only one. Zillius Zox and his pet chicken, Gertrude, were also stuck to the wall along with a few other Red Lanterns that Ed had ran into on the way to his lair. They were two males and one female, all of them aliens.
This was the scene that Atrocitus, Dex-Starr, and Skallox happened upon.
"Ed seems to be reenacting a science-fiction movie he must have seen..." Atrocitus theorized.
"Ed stuck them to the wall with chewed up breakfast cereal! Man, this kid's good!" laughed Skallox.
"I fail to see the humor in this, Skallox." growled Atrocitus.
Suddenly, Dex-Starr's ear started to twitch and swerve as the cat's pupils narrowed into slits, and his fur started to stand on end.
"Danger! Must hide!" exclaimed Dex.
And Atrocitus noticed this, too, as he saw the faint glow of Ed's monster construct becoming brighter and brighter. He was coming out of the cave, and they were in that beast's path!
Quick as he possibly could, Atrocitus grabbed his fellow Red Lanterns and dragged them into some bushes to try and hide. Ed looked around, briefly stopping his gaze upon the bushes as he heard rustling, but quickly slithered off away from his chosen den. Once he was gone, Skallox popped his head out of the bushes and laughed and the currently beastial Ed-Boy.
"Skallox, come! This way!" hissed Atrocitus.
The leader of the Red Lantern Corp and his two fellow lanterns made their way to the innermost chamber of the cave where they found their fellow Red Lanterns still stuck good to the wall. They were all yelling for the others to let them down as, for reasons unknown, they couldn't use their power rings to get themselves free. Whatever Ed did, it was interfering with their connections to their rings. Atrocitus found himself pitying his fellow lanterns as he seemed to realize this immediately.
"Worry not, Lanterns, we'll get you down now." he assured.
"Say what?" asked Skallox.
"Come on, Skallox, enough is enough! Look at them!" exclaimed Atrocitus.
The gazelle-looking alien scoffed and rolled his eyes at this. Leave it to their leader to spoil all of the fun. He would have talked back about this, but he didn't want to take a chance of Dex-Starr going full on mad cat and literally clawing his face off.
"Fine, we'll get them down." Skallox groaned… before giving a greedy grin that would've made Eddy proud. "For fifty creds a pop!"
The stuck Red Lanterns gave cries of protest at Skallox's way of thinking, not about to be extorted after being stuck to a wall by a beast who is, apparently, the newest Red Lantern recruit. Dex hissed at Skallox as Atrocitus glared due to his antics.
"Skallox…" Atrocitus growled in warning.
But he and the rest of the Lanterns soon looked on in fear as a large shadow cast over them all. And it wasn't due to the sun setting outside. But Skallox merely created a jar construct using his ring, having not noticed the impending danger standing right behind him.
"What? No skin off my bones, heh-heh. Who's first?" he asked with a quip.
But rather than the sound of people paying up, Skallox heard a loud dripping sound. Like someone left a faucet running and it was just drip-dropping away. He looked in his jar construct and saw that it was filled with some sort of liquid. He glanced up and saw Edzilla looking at him like a lion eyeing a tasty antelope. He just barely dodged by the skin of his teeth as Edzilla tried to chomp down on him! The now frightened Red Lantern clung to his leader like his life depended on it!
And it just might!
"HE WANTS THE SKIN OFF MY BONES, ATROCITUS!" screamed Skallox.
Edzilla roared as he closed in on his chosen prey but paused as Atrocitus stepped up and showed no fear to the giant monster construct, or the child within.
"That's quite enough! Haven't you caused enough trouble today?" Atrocitus asked, scolding Ed.
"Check it out, the boss is yelling at him!" gasped Zilius Zox.
"It's all fun and games until someone gets suspended from a wall!" Atrocitus further scolded.
Edzilla roared in his face as a response and looked like he was about to chomp his head off… if he hadn't had blood from the blood oceans of Ysmault dumped over his head. This not only disbursed the construct, but also snapped Ed out of his rage. And once Monobrow saw Atrocitus and the others, that same dimwitted smile that he usually had made its way back to his face.
"Cool, aliens!" Ed exclaimed in excitement.
"You guys couldn't have thought to do this earlier?" a female, cybernetic voice asked.
Turns out the Green Lantern known as Aya, who is a sentient machine, had been on Ysmault to visit her friend Razer, who was also a Red Lantern. But this reveal of what Edzilla truly was really put the shock to the Red Lanterns who weren't there when Ed first arrived.
"The beast is no more than a child!" said a human Red Lantern called Guy Gardner.
"Right on! The kid really had me goin' there!" the second female Red Lantern named Layla said with a big grin.
"These new recruits get more and more twisted every time, I swear." Zilius complained.
Bleeze made a noise of disgust as she was still revolted by what Ed had done to them.
"I'm off cereal forever." she said.
But that's when the other male Red Lantern, an alien like Atrocitus and the others, made his presence known to a certain Green Lantern.
"Aya?" Razer questioned as he looked back at her.
"Oh no!" gasped Aya as she dropped the bucket that she was using to transport the blood.
"That boy, Ed… he was too strong." Razer said, disappointed in himself for being defeated so easily.
Aya grunted as she tried her best to pry Razer off of the cave wall, but the cereal was too sticky and held tight. She growled as she pulled harder but still made no progress… and then got pulled back so hard that her face splatted against Razer's back.
"Aya? What happened to you?" Razer asked, worried for his friend/love interest.
All he got back were muffled grunts as Aya's mouth had been sealed shut by the sticky chewed up Chunky Puffs. She growled as she managed to pull herself back enough to free her mouth, but she was now stuck tight like the others.
"Eerrggg… Atrocitus? A little help here?..." grunted Aya.
But there was no response. Atrocitus, Skallox, Dex-Starr, and Ed had disappeared. Naturally this made everyone else voice their concerns at where they went, as well as their anger at being left stuck to the wall of a cave. Meanwhile, back at the Red Lantern HQ, Atrocitus looked around before ducking his head back underneath Skallox's bed as the gazelle alien was occupying himself by reading a magazine.
"Skallox, hiding underneath your bed isn't going to save us once the others eventually pry themselves from that cave wall." Atrocitus said with legitimate concern.
"Relax, will ya?" Skallox waved off as he gestured to the supplies he had stashed. "I always keep a couple of months' worth of supplies in case I need to hunker down for a while. They'll forget about us in no time."
Skallox grabbed a can of ravioli, but soon noticed that something was missing.
"Did you see a canopener?" Skallox asked.
"I AM CANOPENER-MAN!" exclaimed Ed as he popped out of the can while holding the canopener.
"Ed, calm down!" ordered Atrocitus.
"No, no, wait!"
Ed grabbed a box of tissues and put it on his head as Skallox was starting to get annoyed.
"Give me the stupid canopener, Ed!" he demanded.
Only for him and Atrocitus to get knocked down as Ed became his latest monster creation.
"I am tissuehead!"
"We've lost him!..." squeaked Atrocitus.
"I WILL BLOW YOUR NOSE!"
"Ed, stop!" Skallox and Atrocitus yelped.
"No, no, wait!" Ed said as he sprung his entire upper body through Skallox's bed. "I AM BED-BODY! SLEEP ON ME!"
"ED!"
***To Be Continued…***
Ending AN: And so ends the Edzilla arc. I had hoped to end it with a big fight scene, but for the life of me, I just couldn't think of a fight scene suitable for Ed when he's using such an OP construct. Anyway, I apologize for the short chapter, but you know, I got sick last month so plans ended up falling through. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter anyway. Thanks for reading, and I'll see you next time!
