Upgrade and Infiltrate

"Hey, Double-d?" Eddy asked his friend as he turned on his lamp and sat up in bed. "Yeah?" Double-d asked shuddering, "I haven't been able to sleep that well by the way." "Me neither, I blame lumpy, it's his snoring mixing with my thoughts. But anyways I was thinking about what we could actually do to affect Shadow. I mean he's like an allpowerful mighty emperor of criminals and he's a freakin' genius to boot! No offense sockhead, but not even you can match his intelect from what we've seen." "None taken, Eddy, I know he's far more than enyone else that's alive. I just can't believe he's still alive even after losing his body. I know and admit that I would never be able to just create the creatures I think of whereas he has been able to construct these labs and beasts all in a matter of months. It's rather scary actually, when you think about it he could outmatch all the armies and governments on earth combined, but a group of misfits or something always ends up beating him." Double-d told him.

"So what do you think we should do now? Keep going or send an SOS?" Eddy asked the smarter boy. "Well, since this place is safe now, it would only be reasonable to send out an SOS. But you guys destroyed the Nucleor earlier, that I am thankful for, which powered the labs and we can't call with just the backup system so the answer is no. We'll have to send out a signal from somewhere else and that means we might have to…" "…get past some of Shaodw's other things." Eddy finished grimly.

"WARNING, WARNING, DELTA DECK ANIHILATED! WARNING, WARNING!" the speakers blared in a computerized voice as the three boys erupted from their bunks, strapped on their suits, helmets, and weaponry, and headed into the hallway. "Over here!" came Jeff's voice from inside a ventilation shaft under some pipes. The trio sped into the tunnels of ariways as adrenaline pumped through their viens and the speakers kept yelling.

"What's going on!" Eddy hissed through clenched teeth looking around wildly. "Someone or something seems to have broken in here and with the pollution gone a lot more creatures would be able to survive here, but I was never told any other labs became like ours so no animals should roaming around the surface of the planet." Jeff told them, "However I have something I would like to show you boys just in case, so follow me!"

The group headed through the endless hallways of the vent system lead by a scientist and defended by three gun wielding boys. Along the way they saw some skeletons. "Over here!" Jeff told them pratically running and stopped at a metal door. "What the! Why's there a metal door in a ventilation system?" Double-d asked. "You'll see! Darn it's stuck!" Jeff pouted angrily. "This should work!" Ed cried shooting the bolts on the frame allowing the metal slab to fall with a clang. "Hurry!" Jeff said pushing them through.

"WOAH!" the three boys said in usion wideeyed at the site before them. There stood about ten metal pods with neon lines running from them into the walls illuminating the room. Above each of the pods sat the symbol of Shadow's criminal group, his V shaped head. "He's more egotistical than you are Eddy." Ed piped as he walked towards the pods. "Shadow had these babies designed because he knew that there might be an outbreak or something like there was here. They are ment to upgrade your weaponry or defenses in some way or another depending what facility you're in. Too bad none of us were ever able to get to these in time, would've helped a lot. Of course since the vents were the main things that had been polluted for so long one would die by tavelling through them at that time." Jeff explained, "Just step on in and see what happens."

Ed immediately tackled headfirst into one of the pods as Jeff activated them and the tops lifted open with a hiss of steam. "Will it hurt?" Double-d asked the man as he got in his. "Not a bit." "This is so awesome!" Eddy cried leaping in the third one. The doors closed automatically and scanned the lifeforms within. The shapes of the eds bodies appeared on a computer screen on the wall and blinked on the body parts it was adding onto.

After a few minutes whirling and clicking the tops finally lifted open again and Jeff gawked at what he saw. There stood the eds only now their normal spacesuits were clad in black shimmering armour and strecthed into certain shapes. Their helmets had been warped into shapes to fit their heads with pipes running from the filtering mouthpiece into their backpacks supply them with oxygen and a jetpack. The gloves they had been whereing were now metal as well as their feet. They had also obtained red shoulder pads, leg pieces from the knees to anckles, arm pieces from the elbows to wrists, and black chest pieces. On the front of their black head pieces were green orange visors which their eyes stared curiously out from.

"I hope it went okay." Double-d told the older male. "Jus-just look!" Jeff told them pointing to a mirror. "AWESOME!" they shouted at once looking at some bodysized mirrors. "Hey guys, the computer slab is infused into my armpiece now, look!" Ed told them joyfully as he held up his arm and metal flaps flipped back revealing the technical gadget. "And we have jet packs now!" Eddy exclaimed excitedly floating in the air for a bit, "Now let's see what that ruckuss was all about. Yeah, we can take on anything now!"

"WARNING, WARNING! GAMMA DECK SUFFERING SEVERE DAMAGE! WA-" the computer voice shouted before finally being put rest by a flying metallic creature. "That's it!" shouted a man in joy, his lab coat smeared with what looked to be candy and soda stains. His slim figure stood firmly on the ground with his sonic the hedgehog-like hair swept backwards. BAM! "What? NO!" he cried in horror as the beast fell to the ground lifeless. "Dr. Jack Kite, what might I ask are you doing here?" Jeff asked while leaning on platform above with a steaming revolver in his hand. "Huh, people are still alive here!" the man asked angrily.

"Why, I believe I am the only survivor, but some people, boys actually, found their way through the place and fixed the polution problem yesterday." Jeff told the person lazily, "and you're here because?" "To destroy this place, it's no longer of any use to us, but you are, we still want people to work for us." Jack told him swiping his black hair back with his three clawed fingered hands and smiling genereously. "That boat has come and gone, I'm against Shadow and the rest of you now." Jeff countered. "Well, to bad for you." Jack said and pointed a gun at him all the while laughing insanely with his wide smile and sharp fangs.

PTSWU! The shot was neutralized as Eddy jumped out and fired at it with his gun. "Scan!"

Dr. Jack Kite

Type: Human

Dr. Jack Kite is King Shadow's first and best friend. Being from the island Silver Jack possesses the three segmented clawed hand just as all Silveronians and the two other friends of Shadow and himself do. What seperates Jack from the rest of the group is he is known to go insane if he consumes candy and can even be homocidal at times while in this state. Very dangerous and one of the smartest men on earth, even if he doesn't show it much.

This information all appeared on the inside of all the eds' visors and Ed's computer slab this time around so no one needed to warn everybody. "So I'm guessing these are your saviours, eh? Well they're so dead!" Jack announced pointing his gun at the flying boys. Blam! Blam! "Duck!" Eddy managed to shout as the shots passed over their head and they fired their own weapons at the madman.

"Take this… Yarnada!" Jack cried and a monster with four wings erupted from the ground. Its skin looked to be that of metal and its two eyes glowed blood-red as it eyed its prey. It stood like a human with advanced lazer cannons as hands and dinosaur legs. With one roar of its toothfilled maw it took flight after the heores. "Scan!"

Yarnada

Type: Metal Warrior

Yarnadas were created for the soul purpose of being special soldiers in an army of mutant beasts. Being the end products of a special fusing of metal, firearms, and organic compounds it is extremely lethal and can down a helicopter with ease. They rarely use their mouths and do not need to eat, but will use them to tear things away sometimes. Its wings are very light and its chest is the only place known to be harmed as it has a much thinner layer of metal than the rest of it.

"Guys, you know what to do?" Eddy asked them. "Sure do!" Ed replied. "Then fire!" their leader commanded swooping out of them monster's way. BAM! BLAM! PTZOOU! Edd and Eddy fired at the Yarnada's chest while Ed burnt off its wings. The creature fell to the ground with a demonic scream and landed like a cat. Getting back to its feet it could only watch as the eds battered its chest with constant wildfire. Finally the creature fell down on its knees and with one last cry stopped moving.

"Impossible!" Jack yelled in anger with hate and rage in his eyes, "You can't do this, no one can! Well at least now we know who to look for, during your battle I was copying data of you three into our computer systems!" "What!" the eds and Jeff asked wide-eyed. "Let's get out of here!" Jack yelled and a Yarnada swooped Jack up into the sky flying towards an unknown destination.

"So that was the guy you told us about in your story, Jeff?" Ed asked. "Yeah, that was him. Dr. Jack Kite, a true madman genius. He makes most of the mechs, robots, and machinery for the team and takes part in making the designs for most of the creatures on the planet. He's probably the most vicious in the group also, other than of course King Shadow himself. He looks pretty young for his age." Jeff told them. "Oh, and how old is he?" Eddy asked curiously. "Twenty something." "Twenty something!" the short leader exclaimed, "He looks more like an old teenager!" "And he's the most immature of the group." Jeff added, "Thanks for saving me from that blast."

"No problem, but do you know where they're headed?" Double-d asked. "Probably back to his base. He just came here to level the place to the ground seeing as it has no value now." Jeff said turning his face to a window, "But I doubt even with the equipment you have now you could take his base, let alone him, down. He would go psycho and kill you three." "Yeah, probably using his claws of doom to strip us of our skin!" Ed cried. "Probably," Jeff agreed.

"But we need to go after him!" Eddy announced angrily as he took off his helmet and threw it to the ground, "He probably has the equipment to get us off this planet!" "I doubt it, that's stuffs all at King Shadow's base and that's on another side of the planet." Jeff told the boy calmly. "Well, we're going after him," Double-d told him catching everyone's attention, "He may have some equipment actually especially if he designs most of the robots." "He usually does with Shelaunda, but he's your best bet other than King Shadow." "Then let's get going!" Eddy shouted. The three flew out a hole in the ceiling as Jeff stared after them doubtfully.

BAM! The three boys' cries could be heard as they hurtled to the ground. Apparently Jack Kite had suspected they were going to come and had them shot out of the air via a cannon. Luckily their suits cusioned their fall so no one ended up with any broken bones. But that would have been the least of their worries as some strange creatures had currently decided to propel themselves into the eds' bodies.

Tetradons

Type: Lizard Anihilators

These lizards resemble many pictures of the dinosaurs on earth except for one major difference, these creatures have snouts that protrude farther from the rest of their head and they have four eyes, two in each socket. Also they do not have any teeth with which to bite.

The eds weapons immediately downed the monstrosities and they continued onward towards some other distant objects. The objects however were not docile, but were approaching them at a rather fast pace. "Get ready boys!" Eddy whispered to his companions through his helmet. The eds had expected the animals that they had always encountered in the past, not the case.

Instead they were greeted by hovering robots with a shiny coat of black paint. "Whoa!" Ed cried as his legs were swooped out from under him and he was flipped over forwards. "Help!" Double-d cried as one bashed him in the visor with a metal fist. "Oh, come on!" Eddy desperately yelled while firing at the metal beings. Biff! One nailed him in the stomach with its foot. "The info.'s coming up guys!"

Jackbot

Type: Robot

These metal creatures were originally designed by Dr. Jack Kite as a security defense system for their meteor base. Nowadays they come in a variaty of colors including black, blue, purple, green, and most others. They sometimes wield cannons or a weapon of some sort on their hands. Relatively easy to beat, but very quick.

"Just keep firing boys!" Eddy command as he grabbed a Jackbot, pinned it to the ground, and blasted its head off. Three others circled the group hovering all the while and never taking their seeing sensors off the targets. "Hiyah!" Ed cried leaping at one and tearing its arm off with his hand. "Oof!" Edd puffed as one punched him in the stomach. "Take this!" Eddy cried firing all he could at the metal person. "Eddy!" Double-d shouted destroying the one floating silently behind him with his gun.
"Nice shot sockhead!" the leader commented, "We need to find that base now."

And so they continued to treck onward taking down a few Jackbots and Tetradons every now and then. "Man, how much farther!" Eddy shouted through the fog and bumped into something. As the fog cleared the trio could see a capsule structure. "What is it?" Double-d asked in a whisper. "Alloyoop!" Ed chirped as he tore open the doors of the object with his hands and jumped in. "Come on sockhead!" Eddy said following the big ed's lead. "Of course." Edd moaned stepping in and the elevator rushed them down into the earth of the planet.

"WHOA!" they exclaimed as they viewed the scene outside the glass sides of the lift. There were pods everywhere below along with lab equipment, blueprints for who-knows-what, acid, stasis tanks, and other strange structures. The elevator finally stopped at the bottom and let them out into the lit laboratories. "Amazing!" Double-d gasped taking in all the vibrant colors and objects.

Some weird creatures bubbled in the stasis tanks to the left of them which Ed went over to view. "Just like my B-movies!" he commented and flipped on his scanner so the other wouldn't be bothered by the words appearing on their visors.

Creatures Found!

Status: Living

Life Signs: Normal

Sidenotes: These buglike creatures are being fed some unknown substance through a tube in the ground. Caution, might be dangerous if awoken.

"Just like everything else here." Ed told himself flipping off his scanner and wondering back over to his friends. Eddy was busy looking at the capsules on their right which contained more Jackbots and some mechs. "We could use these." He said and moved on to the blueprints, "Darn, another parasite thingy? How many types are they planning to make?" The blueprints contained white lines resembling a four tentacled octopus-like creature with a back tentacle and a huge eye for a face.

"Well, you got here faster than expected!" echoed the annoyed voice of the mad-scientist, Jack Kite, "May I offer you a tour then!" Sliding down the railing of a flight of stairs he managed to nail their leader, Eddy, right in the jaw with his foot. "And for you, get away from my stasis tanks!" He yelled at the dumb boy who had found his way back to the tanks of liquid and uppercutted him with his fist.

"Notice the bright lights as you go up and you might also find a few Tetradons sleeping behind a wall of glass!" he told his victim as he flew to places unknown, "And for you, gap-tooth, a grand tour of my virus room!" With that he picked up the third boy and threw him into a closet and locked it. "Ah, come on, no more!" he shouted annoyed at the lack of a challenge. "Oh, there's more!" Eddy said getting up and pointing his weapon at the scientist.

"Oh, I'm so scared!" Jack whimpered sarcastically and then slashed his claws at the ed. "Ah!" was all Eddy could cry until luckily Ed fell back down and landed on the scientist. "I thought you were Tetradon chow!" Jack said getting back up and slamming the big lumox into a nearby door which happened to be Edd's prison currently. "Thank the lord!" Double-d cried jumping out, "I thought I'd never get out…of…there…" His face soon turned scared as he saw Jack look at him with a grin.

"Take this!" Eddy shouted firing at Jack and making a hit. Blood rushed down his arm as he leapt backwards up the staircase and into the room ahead. "After im'!"

The eds charged into the next room and saw a breathtaking sight. There was a huge boiling pool of acid in the middle of the room lighting it up and being turned by a huge egg beater like machine. Above it dangled Nazz to everyone's surprise in a mold with wires connected to her. Pillars stood on all sides of the room holding all the eqipment up.

"Try and get her before the acid is injected into her!" Jack shouted from a computer terminal, "That is if you truly care for her!" "Sure as heck we do!" Eddy shouted and they huddled, "Ok lumpy, you start knockin' down the pillars. Sockhead, you shut down all the terminals. And me, get up to Nazz and try to free her." "Right!" they all said not arguing about their jobs and who freed Nazz.

"Oh no you don't!" Jack sneered as he activated his rocket shoes and flew after Eddy who was currently climbing the wires to Nazz. "Back off jerk!" Eddy shouted as he fired in vain at the approaching enemy. "AH!" he cried as a fist smashed against his face and he fell towards the acid below.

"Hiyah!" Ed said as he rammed through another pillar bringing some machinery down into the acid. "EDDY!" he shouted as he ran towards his falling friend. He could only watch as his friend helplessly aproached the burning liquid. "Finally, two more to go." Double-d panted as he shut down his second panel and leapt towards another platform failing to see Eddy's form dropping to the bubbling acid.

"Whoa!" Eddy cried as he clutched onto the rim of the stirring acid machine and balanced himself on its beam. "You sure are persistant!" Jack exclaimed as he lowered himself onto the machine with a generous smile, "But your adventure ends here!" With that they rushed towards eachother, arms extended.

"Finally!" Double-d exclaimed as he shut down the last terminal and collapsed onto the platform.

The acid rocketed back down that had been traveleing through Nazz's wires causing the stirring machine to flip around. "WHOA!" the older and younger males said at the same time that were on it doing combat. Eddy was able to keep his grip on one of the beams, but Jack fell towards the acid below. "YOW!" he cried painfully as the acid ate away at his shoe and he used his other one to fly towards land.

Ed finally knocked down the last of the pillars causing Nazz's suspended altar to crumble allowing Eddy to catch her. He used all the force he had to jump off the stirring machine just as the last of the equipment smashed into to it. "You fools!" Jack yelled furiously, "Look what you've done to my underground labs! No matter, next time we meet you won't get away so easily!" With those words Dr. Jack Kite stepped onto a woblling piece of the floor and a jet of acid spewd it through the surface of the planet.

"Let's get outta' here!" Eddy exclaimed. The eds succesfully made it back to the elevator while carrying Nazz and avoiding the falling rubble. As they were lifted upwards they saw acid seeping into the room below as elevator music played. "Ahh!" they shouted jumping out exited the capsule into the grassy plains and morning dew as asid sunk the object back down into the labs and the elevator music died away.

"Whoaee!" Ed exclaimed and layed back, "That deserves some breakfast, let's eat!" "I'll stay here to keep Nazz company, you two bring me some stuff to cook and I'll start a fire!" Double-d commanded as he sat down in the grass as well taking his helmet off to breathe fresh air. "Right!" the other two exclaimed as Ed got back up and Double-d layed down on his back using Nazz's leg as a pillow.

Just as a little sidenote Nazz is unconcious during this whole ordeal. This probably isn't as interesting a story as my other Ed, Edd, n Eddy ones, but it will probably get better. The thing is I want to put every detail in that I can remember from Tron's version of my story and add a few more things. A few characters that will appear are King Shadow, Shelaunda, Masks, Jack Kite, Angel Amy, and Jake Diabolical. Amy and Jake live together and are two fourteen year olds. If you want descriptions on these people before I introduce them be sure to see Under the Head of a Shadow. The other villains consider Jake and Amy lame. Hope everyone liked this chapter and it's 3:00 am and I have school in 4 hours so I'm getting to bed! G'night and sweet dreams!