Meanwhile, Ed was running to the main room. Even though it was literary a few feet from his bathroom, Ed wasn't anywhere near it. Have you ever SEEN how that guy runs! Eddy easily caught up.

"Eddy?"

"I'm not letting you and Double D take the Kankers alone. If you're gonna run screaming from them, I will too!" Ed hugged Eddy, nearly strangling him. Running much faster, they arrived at the entrance to the main room.

"Alright, villains!" Eddy called in, "Come out and fight!" They were promptly trampled by Johnny being chased by the Koopas. ("PENNY, PENNY! I SEE A PENNY!") Eddy groaned and got up. "Koopas? I knew it!" The other kids ran out, including Calvin and Edd, and Ed and Eddy were trampled again. Edd didn't even notice them. Ed and Eddy got up and ran after them to the football stadium, where the fight was taking place.

Calvin noticed them when they arrived. "You guys came!" he cried as he knocked a Koopa henchman called Lakitu off his cloud.

"Let's face it..."said Eddy, "to have true happiness, we need one more person." Calvin was touched. "Well, Eddy, I'll always be right---"

"I WAS TALKING ABOUT DOUBLE D!"

"He's over there," grumbled Calvin, pointing to Edd, who was surrounded by several of the Koopalings, all with their wands. Ed and Eddy surprised them from behind and knocked them away. Edd was surprised. "Eddy? Kevin said you moved!"

"Kevin says a lot of things! Now, are you gonna sit there and let yourself be killed by a Koopa or what?"

"It's good to see you again, too, Eddy."

"And I can sing!" said Ed. But the reunion was cut short as the Kankers jumped out. "Ah, yes. I knew we were missing someone," said Edd. In typical fashion, the three Eds ran and hid behind a column. It was there where they saw Kevin about to be killed by Wendy Koopa. Ed kicked her into her shell and threw it into the distance. It ended up hitting Roy Koopa, who was about to pound Charlie Brown. Kevin was amazed. "You dorks saved me..."

Eddy wasn't happy, of course. "And even after that, you just said we were dorks? Forget you, Kevin!"

"Even if we are dorks, we're dorks who stick together!" said Edd.

"A pair of peaches are we!" Triumphant, they walked away. Of course, the Kankers resumed chasing them in one second. "I knew we forgot something!" moaned Edd. "Well, some things never change."

"They're about to change!" smiled Eddy. "Before we banished, I brought THIS along!" Eddy happily held up one of the Mario books. "It ends here!" The Eds jumped into the book, followed by the Kankers. Edd wasn't much happier as they fell through the sky. "Eddy, we've increased our change of dying by coming in here!"

"We did not! All the Koopas are out there!" They landed on the ground. A ton of other enemies jumped out. Edd rolled his eyes. "Well, that still doesn't count Nijis, Shyguys, Nippers, Cheep-Cheeps..." The Eds screamed and kept on running. The Kankers followed. The enemies started throwing fireballs and other weapons at them. While the Eds got hit with every shot, the Kankers avoided it all. "How do they DO that?" gasped Eddy.

"My name is Ed!"

They reached a fortress and ran inside. Edd looked alarmed as they barely made it across huge jumps with lava and Podabos splashing underneath them. "Oh no! Not a fortress! From the looks of things in here, I'd say it was from 1985's 'Super Mario Brothers.' This was the first game to have the characters Toad, Princess Toadstool, and Bowser. The actual Koopa Troopas were in a previous game, but called Shellcreepers. The Goombas, on the other hand..."

"Shut up!" screamed Eddy. "We're about to die!" Ed held up an item he had just found. "I have a mushroom!" Edd looked hopeful. "A mushroom? A Super Mushroom? I have an idea..."

The Kankers were right behind them. The Eds jumped onto a bridge and cut it with an axe. The bridge broke, and the Kankers fell towards the lava below. Even though they were their worst enemies, Edd felt shocked. "Oh my."

Suddenly, the Kankers came out, riding a Blaarg. "Blaarg? But he didn't appear until..."

Eddy grabbed his friends and kept running. "Forget the lava thing! There's a warp pipe!" They jumped in, followed by the Kankers. When they emerged, they were in Sky Land, in an area made of moving platforms.

"How are we gonna get across THIS one?" asked Eddy. Ed used his jacket as a parachute and flew them across the moving platforms. It seemed to be working...until they fell. "Ran out of gas," reported Ed.

A Blue Paratroopa caught them and flew away. The Kankers chased them, but ended up jumping onto a faraway platform and were unable to jump back. They were trapped! Something actually went right for the Eds! They cheered as the Paratroopa flew them into a warp pipe.

They were now in the real world, and flew up to Calvin, who was fighting Bowser. They tossed him the Super Mushroom and watched him grow to full size and defeat the Koopa king.

"We did it!" cheered Eddy!

"Together," added Edd.

The Paratroopa calmly flew back into the book, as the Koopas were tossed in, too. Ed summed up the entire adventure. "Hakuna Matata!"

Yes, I had the whole Paratroopa thing planned from the start when I wrote the original "Calvin King."