A/N: Hello my readers and reviewers, my friends and storytellers, my loyal audience, it's SaurusRock625 here with a brand-new fanfiction story and the long awaited sequel to Injustice Syndicate: The Rise! Now, it is here where our three protagonists truly take off on their adventure to truly clean up crime around the world by doing what hero organizations like the Justice League refuse to do! Oh, but don't worry, they're not going to kill indiscriminately, they'll spare any villains who can be reformed or who are only on the path of villainy due to circumstances forcing them on that path. But that'll be explained later. For now, let's dive right in and see how the Eds are going to meet up again now that they've had time to truly train in their new abilities, particularly Ed and Double Dee. Now, without further ado, let's begin the new story!

Disclaimer: I still don't own Marvel, DC Comics, or Ed, Edd n' Eddy!


Red, Riot n' Jaguar!


Five years have passed since the Joker's assault on the cul-de-sac and, for the most part, life continued as normal. Grown-ups went to work, children went to school, bad guys caused trouble, and the Justice League fought and imprisoned those bad guys only for them to break out of prison about two weeks later, only to repeat the cycle all over again. Needless to say, hero teams like the Justice League got a lot of negative publicity because of this. Especially when people were tortured or killed in these attacks. And President Luthor was planning on capitalizing on that. But not now. He had to wait for just the right time.

But in the meantime, let's check out the old stomping grounds of one of the founding members of the Justice League who is also a Justice League part-timer.

All was the same as it's always been for Gotham City. Dark, gloomy, trash everywhere, and criminals lurking in the darkest of shadows. Speaking of criminals, it would seem as though some of Intergang's thugs have been sent to Gotham from Metropolis to perform a little heist of their own. They were currently holed up in a bank with the workers and civilians inside being held hostage. The police couldn't do anything without risking a shootout, and the thugs had the hostages at gunpoint. One wrong move, and somebody was losing their life!

"Report! What's the situation in there?" asked Police Commissioner Gordon.

"Not good at all, chief. We can't stop these guys without risking any civilian deaths!" reported an officer.

"Damn! As much as I hate to say it, we could sure use Batman's help right about now." growled Officer Bullock.

The police chief could only hum in agreement with the overweight cop who usually has it out for vigilantes such as Batman, Robin, Nightwing, and even Batgirl. If they were here, they could infiltrate the bank and sneak behind enemy lines to get the hostages to safety before taking down those thugs. It'd be easy as pie.

Of all the days for Batman to be away on League work!

Meanwhile, some members of Intergang were cleaning out the safe as they prepared to make their getaway with their ill-gotten loot. The hostages were paralyzed with fear, completely unable to do anything to try and get help. Being held at gunpoint will do that to most people.

"Alright, that's the last of it. We cleaned it out." said an Intergang thug with a mohawk and a nose ring.

He and two others had just finished loading the last few wads of cash into a large burlap sack as they started to load everything up into their armored truck.

"Right then, we don't need the dead weight anymore." said the leader of this operation, who had a snake tattooed on his face. "Take out the hostages."

If the civilians in the bank didn't have the fear of death put into them before, they certainly did now. The one thug who'd been ordered to carry out the killings had a cruel smirk on his face as he walked towards his first target. A woman who looked to be in her mid twenties, and was seven months pregnant. She was in tears as she thought that both her life would soon be over, and her baby's life would end before it truly began. Just just as the thug took aim and was about to pull the trigger, a mass of gray sludge came out of nowhere and grabbed the thug's hand, crushing both the appendage and the gun at the same time!

The thug screamed in pain as his hand and fingers were totally shattered, before he was lifted up into the air and something dropped from out of the shadows. Everyone immediately thought that this was the villain known as Venom, but right away they could tell that even though he looked like Venom, he wasn't. Mainly because he was gray with red vein markings on his body and lacked Venom's iconic white spider symbol. This, whoever it is, lifted the thug to eye level and proceeded to run his tongue along the man's face as if tasting him.

And truly, he was.

"Eyes, lungs, pancreas. So many snacks, so little time." he said.

Naturally, everyone was freaking out at the sight of this Venom lookalike. But none more so than the rest of the Intergang members.

"Oh man, what the fuck is that?" asked one thug with a shotgun.

"Who cares, man, just shoot it! Shoot it up!" exclaimed another.

And shoot him, they did. Their bullets all hit their mark as they continued to fill this creature up with lead, but all they did was literally splash against his semi-liquid body! They caused him no pain at all! The creature merely turned his head to look at the men as they emptied their guns into his semi-liquid flesh and quickly ran out of ammo. They looked on in morbid awe as the bullets seemed to be slowly pushed out of the creature before falling harmlessly to the ground. Then it grinned a sinister, toothy grin that put the thugs on edge. And for good reason. This was not simply the smirk of a murderer. No…

This was the look of a predator staring down its helpless prey.

And that prey is them!

"Like lambs to the slaughter. And you lot are the lambs whose flesh shall be used to fill our belly." the creature said.

And right before their very eyes, he roared and proceeded to eat the head off the thug's shoulders! The very same thug that was being held in his hand! Ate his whole head in one bite!

"OH MY GOD, IT JUST ATE STEVE'S HEAD!" screamed one of the thugs.

"Forget our pay, man, let's get outta here!" exclaimed another.

But he was quickly impaled through the heart by a serrated blade made from the creature's own flesh, which had formed in place of his hand. He quickly turned his other into a spiked flail and with strength, precision, and wild instincts began to cut down and crush any and all intergang thugs in the area. One of the smarter thugs tried to grab a small child, hoping to use her as a bargaining chip, but he was quickly intercepted and his head eaten by the creature. The creature turned to the little girl and gave her as reassuring a look as he could give, due to his own face.

"Can you run?" he asked, getting a nod in return. "Then gather the others and run to the police! Run as fast as you can, and don't leave anyone behind!"

The little girl nodded and ran to do as she was told, feeling in her gut that she could trust this creature.

The creature roared in pain as he was stabbed through the back and out the stomach by a thug who was using a sword made from advanced technology. He could tell without having to listen that the blade was actually vibrating at a frequency that was causing him pain as if he were in the direct vicinity of a ringing church bell. In other words, it hurt like hell!

"Ah-ha! Not so tough now, are ya?" laughed the heavily muscled thug.

He yanked the blade out and went for another stab attempt, but cried out in agony as he was suddenly hit by what looked like a huge blast of blood! The gang looked on in shock as their fellow gang member's flesh was melted away until all that remained was charred bone.

"People like you make me sick! It's time for you all to pay for your crimes… in hell!"

Everyone looked up to see a member of the Red Lantern Corp floating there. He was totally human and looked to be about seventeen years old. He had olive skin and was built like a runner with lean muscles built for speed and agility while retaining strength, and from what they could see, he had reddish-orange hair, hazel colored eyes, and he had several scars on the exposed parts of his skin that looked to be the result of being mauled by an animal. His uniform was the standard red and black of the Red Lantern Corp, but it was different from any of the ones they've seen from past battles with Green Lanterns such as John Stewart and Hal Jordan. It seemed to be modeled after the clothing and armor of the Vikings. He wore a red tunic and black pants with a rope belt, and a red viking helmet with sharp horns adorned his head. He wore a red bearskin cape held in place by a pair of black armored shoulderpads, and a white Red Lantern logo was present in the center of the man's chest. But the strangest parts of his appearance were the gas mask he wore with a beard attached to it, and the fact that he was holding a construct of a giant spatula.

'A viking with a spatula for a weapon. Now, why does that seem familiar?' the creature, Riot, thought to himself.

"Prepare to be terminated, Intergang scum!" the Red Lantern exclaimed as he flew down.

Riot watched, amazed, as the Red Lantern used his spatula construct as the perfect blunt force weapon. He used it like a combination of a bludgeon and a bo staff, using severely dangerous combos that turned the intergang thugs into nothing more than bloody smears on the floor and walls. And within Riot's body, Double Dee began to piece together who this mysterious Red Lantern really is.

"Wait a minute… Is that Ed? He's a Red Lantern now?" Riot/Double Dee asked aloud as they stabbed another gang member through the head.

They would question that later. For now, they had to focus on the task at hand, which was killing off Intergang.

"You vile excuses for humans will taste the power of my rage!" exclaimed Ed as he incinerated a thug with his ring.

"Rage has no real power, my friend." Riot said as he ate another thug's head off his shoulders. "Or taste, for that matter."

"Says the guy who's eating human heads." Ed fired back.

To which Riot responded with, "Point taken."

The leader of this intergang group and the remaining few of his men who had been loading up the truck started panicking and tried to run in fear of dying themselves, but they were quickly intercepted by something as black as the shadows that easily ripped through his remaining men as if they were frail as tissue paper! The leader whimpered and backed up against the wall of the truck as Riot and Ed came out to investigate once all of the hostages had made it out safely. Walking out of the shadows was a man dressed in a full body outfit that resembled a black panther or jaguar with a golden panther tooth necklace around his neck, and some golden details such as they eyes here and there. His fingers were tipped with golden claws as well.

The man walked up to the frightened intergang group leader and asked him a simple question whilst revealing the man's name.

"Drake Sullivan, do you have any children?"

"...N-No?" whimpered Drake.

"Good. Because I would have had to kill them, too." the man said.

And Riot/Double Dee immediately recognized that voice.

The man in the panther suit stabbed his claws into Drake Sullivan, drawing a cry of pain from the man, and brutally tore out his still beating heart before crushing it in his hand and killing him instantly! As the group leader of Intergang fell to the ground, the man in the panther suit looked to Ed and Riot.

"I'm sure you have questions, but this is not the place to talk. Follow me. I will lead you to a more secure place." he instructed.

And so, they followed the man as the police began to investigate the scene of what would later be dubbed the "Intergang Massacre". About twenty miles away from the site of the massacre, the trio was able to stop on a rooftop where the man in the black suit turned to the Red Lantern and Riot.

"I don't know who you are, but I thank you. If you hadn't shown up when you did, things could have been so much worse." he said. "I am known as the Golden Jaguar."

"That may be your hero name, but you can't fool us! We'd recognize that voice anywhere, Eddy!" Riot exclaimed, happiness clear in his voice.

This stunned the Golden Jaguar who took an involuntary step back.

"How… how do you know my real name?" he asked, ready to fight if need be.

"Eddy, our dear old friend, it's us!" Riot said as he wrapped Eddy up in a great big bear hug.

"Er, do I… know you?" Eddy asked, clearly confused.

"You know us in another form." Riot said.

The grey liquid-like substance began to recede into the creature's body, and right before their very eyes, Eddy and Ed saw that Riot was really their old buddy, Double Dee! Sock hat, burn scars, and everything! Golden Jaguar's cowl retracted to reveal that it was indeed Eddy, who had grown much older and more mature with a more handsome, angular face that made him look far more masculine, and wearing a patch over his missing eye. And his skin and hair had remained the same bleached white and sickly green as they had been turned due to the Joker Venom he'd been hit by all those years ago.

"Double Dee? Is that really you? You're alive!" Eddy exclaimed with a happy smile.

"And mentally intact thanks to the Klyntar, Riot, here." Double Dee, said.

Riot appeared as a floating mass of goo that formed his head as he introduced himself to Eddy.

"Hey, man, how's it goin'?" he said casually.

Before Double Dee cast a worried look towards Ed.

"Although, I fear becoming a Red Lantern may have further broken Ed's already fragile psyche." Double Dee said before explaining, "Red Lanterns tend to have very strong rage, and with everything that happened that day, the Ed that we know and love may be gone forever."

"Ed? That you?" Eddy asked, hoping his friend was still in there.

Ed got a big old smile as his Red Lantern uniform vanished to reveal that he was wearing a simple black tanktop, blue jeans with a brown belt, and sneakers. He held out his arms and said something that only Ed would have said at that time.

"Hug me!"

"It's him." Double Dee said, relieved that their friend hadn't changed.

"Eddy! Double Dee!" Ed cried in joy.

The young man wrapped his two old friends, and brothers in all but blood, up in a big hug that had even Riot struggling to breathe because of Ed's natural strength. With a big, dopey grin, Ed started swinging Eddy and Double Dee around in his bear hug of brotherly love.

"Hello!

"ED!"

Hello!"

"ED!"

"Hello!"

"GREAT BASTE ABOVE, LUMPY, WILL YOU PUT US DOWN ALREADY?" yelled Eddy.

"OW! LOUD NOISES!" cried Riot.

And as an iris closed in to transition the scene, we can all be sure that the Mis-Ed-Ventures of the Injustice Syndicate have only just begun.


***To Be Continued…***


Ending A/N: And that's it for the first chapter of this new saga of Injustice Syndicate! I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter, because I had a lot of fun writing it! And Mace sheperd, if you're reading this, then I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well. Like the previous story, I'll be updating this one bi-monthly. So, each month this story will be updated with a new chapter. Maybe two if I can fit them into my schedule. Also, in this story, each of the Ed-Boys will be in a harem pairing as requested by Mace sheperd when he pitched this idea to me. Here are the ladies that each Ed-Boy will eventually be paired with.


Ed's Harem

Cheetah

Livewire

Blackfire

Batgirl

Starfire


Double Dee's Harem

Catwoman

Gali (Daughter of Galactus)

Ravager (Daughter of Deathstroke)

Raven

Terra


Eddy's Harem

Poison Ivy

Supergirl

Rogue (X-Men from Marvel)

Gwen Stacey/Ghost-Spider

She-Hulk


Ending A/N Continued: Anyway, thank you all so much for reading this chapter. Please don't forget to leave a review and tell me what you think of this chapter, and maybe drop some constructive criticism as well. I'm always open to constructive reviews. All flames will be used to eventually kill off Carnage. I hope everyone has a wonderful day, and I'll see you all in my next update! Buh-bye, now!