AKA: Ground Zero
"Hey sockhead, get up and make some food!" Eddy awoke the boy from his peaceful slumber shaking him gently. "Oh fine…" Edd moaned getting to his feet and starting a fire by rubbing sticks together. Ed and Eddy brought over strange meat and plants. Double-d shivered just thinking of what they got the meat from. Nonetheless he prepared an excellent breakfast and Eddy took the job of putting the food into Nazz's mouth.
She immediately awoke upon the flavor and screamed, "Eds! Oh I was so scared! One day I'm all like playing with Kevin and then all of a sudden some guy with weird hair drives by on a motorcycle and sweeps me up kidnapping me! Thanks for rescuing me, you guys are the best!" She gave each of the eds a hug and a kiss and then sat down to eat as they turned red and muttered.
Meanwhile a few a certain madman is watching them from his perch in the trees plotting their demise. "Enjoy your days while you can children!" Jack hissed to himself battered and beaten, "For I shall have my revenge and it'll be oh so fun for me!" With that he leapt off towards the horizon unknown to the group.
"And that's basically what happened." Eddy finished explaining their adventure up till now. "Whoa!" Nazz exclaimed, "That's so rad!" "It was hard to get this far." Edd told her as he chewed on his meat. "Well, I hope I won't be too much of a burden." Nazz told them apologetically. "Don't worry, you won't be." Jeff told her approaching the group. "JEFF!" the eds exclaimed joyfully. "Yeah, it's me. So I was thinking I could take the girl off your hands. I'll keep her safe, but Jack got away and you guys should really go after him." Jeff announced. "Well…I guess." Eddy said. "Sure, I'll hang with you!" Nazz said cluthing the dark haired man.
"Well, let's go guys!" Ed exclaimed as he grabbed them and rushed them off. "But Ed!" the other two shouted, "Your choking us!"
"So these intruders pose a real threat you think Shadow?" asked a blond haired woman around Jack's age to her colleouge. "Of course, Shelaunda! Anyone here that's not with us is a threat and must be taken care of immediately!" the man with no body replied as Jack listen over the computer. "Right, so I can use it?" Jack asked. "Just be careful silly." Shelaunda told him and clicked off the monitor.
"But seriously, what can three boys do to us?" Shelaunda asked confused. "Ever heard the story of David and Goliath," asked a man with mask that remembled a warped clown face asked, "It's just like that, they're David and we're Goliath. Except Goliath must crush David this time!" "Oh, okay Masks." Shelaunda said unsuredly and continued working on robots.
"Yeesh, you nearly severed our necks with your grasp numbskull!" Eddy shouted wildly. "Hey look," Double-d told them pointing out into the distance of the forestlike area. A creature with spikes coming out of its back and shoulder blades stood upright.
Rye
Type: Endoskeleton
This dangerous creature was created mainly for the sole purpose of scouting out certain areas and eliminating any threats there. One hand wields a deadly scythe as the other has a cannon attached to it. Use extreme caution.
Letting out an alien roar the monster leapt at them attemping to strip them of their armour. "Fire boys!" Eddy commanded. The creature fell rather easily and they moved onward. "If that was scouting out here a base must be nearby." Double-d reasoned in his mind, "And there's a cave. There's probably something past it. Even though I don't like the idea we probably should go through."
"Guess you're right sockhead." Eddy agreed and they went in. "What's that?" Ed asked as he pointed to some standing creatures as they entered. "Get down!" Eddy whispered as he shoved his friends behind some rocks.
Letyon
Type: Alien
These creatures are usually known as renegade extraterrestrials traveling through space at high speed with the jet packs infused in their backs and their run down ships. Shadow came up with the great idea of enlisting these beings into his army in hopes that they would increase his chances of universal domination. They often don't use their jet packs and use their raptor-like legs to leap dozens of feet in the air. Wielding two arm cannons and two hands that end in swords make these foes among the top threats to not only humanity but the universe as well.
The two aliens were currently in what appeared to be a social conversation and were acting pretty bored. Their glowing eyes were very dim. One's upper jaw and two lower jaw pieces were moving and making low roaring noises. Its companion seemed to politely respond by holding out one of its sword hands and moving its mouth pieces. "Come on guys, these things aren't going to bother us…now." Ed told them as he crept behind stone pillars to the other end of the cave. The other two followed without being noticed once and exited into the deserty wasteland beyond. "There."Edd told them pointing at a huge crater with doors all over it. "Let's have at it boys!"
Before they even got within twenty feet of the new finding the boys were greeted by a swarm of Letyons riding twowards them on rocket levitating platforms. "Alright, here we go!" Eddy exclaimed and began the battle by knocking one of the alien renegades off its platform with his gun's ammunition. Blam! Blam! The battle finally dove into action and shots were being fired rapidly as both teams charged at each other. Ed managed to jump up and flip one of the Letyons off its platform with arm and leapt on it. "What the?" the lumox asked himself as he viewed the controls and looked around. The other creatures had their sword hands in the slots on the controls. "Mind if I borrow these? It's for a good cause!" he exclaimed as he ripped off the swords of one of the dead Letyons and jammed them into the controls.
"Come and get some!" came Eddy's cry as he ripped through a pack of the man sized aliens blowing them to bits with his gun. The creatures fell one by one to the kid's shots until finally one of them rammed a platform into Eddy. "Ah!" he yelled as a Letyon pointed a cannon at his face. Ed rushed by on his platform just in time to swoop up Eddy and crush the alien. "Nice work lumpy!" Eddy complimented, "Now let's go get Double-d!"
Edd had been fending off a few groups of Letyons with his firepower, but wouldn't hold out much longer it seemed like. They were circling him like a pack of sharks when shots descended from the sky. Eddy blasted the creatures as Ed piloted towards their endangered companion. Eddy grabbed him by the collar of his suit and they headed towards the crater once more.
"Ed a bit to the left!" Double-d announced a few minutes later as the Letyons chased after them determined not to be fired and lefft without a job. "RARRR!" a Letyon cried as it leapt onto their platform and began to beat it with its swords. "You got something on your face." Eddy told the creature pointing at its nose area. It tried to look inbetween its face and Eddy flicked it with his finger causing it to fall off. "Haven't these things ever heard of pranks?" the leader asked no one in particular. "We're here!" Ed told them as he rammed the platform into the rock wall around the crater. The boys fell to the ground as Eddy said, "Ed?" "Yes Eddy?" "You're a moron."
Thud! They got up as fast as possible and shot open a door to escape the Letyons. "Phew!" Eddy sighed as they bolted the door back up, "Whoa, they must have done some renovating!" They were now in a hallway leading towards an elevator with glass walls and ceilings showing the rocky formation of the crater it was in. Lighting up the path were a series of glowing lights casting a blueish hue across it.
They continued onward, their guns held ahead of them, towards the elevator. "Hit it big guy." Eddy commanded and Ed pushed the down button. The platform lowered extremely quick and was a very lenghty ride. One the way down there were glass walls like in Jack's old hideout except it showed the outside into the middle of the crater instead of labs this time. In the very center, a few miles away, was what looked to be an ancient crashed spaceship.
"What do ya suppose that is?" Ed asked his two friends as they looked at the pitiful space craft. "By the looks of it and judging from everything on this planet, I'd have to say…it's a trap!" Eddy figured. "Agreed." Double-d added. The two turned away to discuss what to do when they reached the bottom. Ed however kept his view locked onto the derilect vehicle in wonder. He could feel something in the very corners of his mind from that ship. Even though it looked ancient the villains hadn't seemed to have done anything at all to it except build a base around it. Something wasn't right it just seemed to go beyond even them.
"I say we blow their brains out!" Eddy screamed. "And I say you had better observe things first, you could be destroying valuable information!" Double-d retorted. Finally the elevator stopped. Their sunlight had vanished a few minutes ago from going beneath the planet's surface and they were now in front of a glowing door. After a while Ed got nervous and decided to ram open the door.
The boys were immediately greeted by bright computer screens bustling with information. "Einstien's ghost!" Double-d pratically screamed in excitement and ran over to the computers. SPLOOSH! Edd was instantly hit with a jet of water from a randomly placed fire hydrant. "What the!" Eddy said as the room began to floos with icees, "Come on boys!" "Just a sec Eddy!" Double-d shouted in reply as he attempted to scan the computers' info before being tossed through a door by Ed.
"What was that about!" Eddy yelled in annoyance. "Well he is obssessed with candy and other sweet stuff." Ed reminded him. "He's a lunatic." Edd told them, "This is all I could get before Ed shoved me out."
Space Vessel Mizar
This ancient craft was discovered by King Shadow and me when we were trecking the crater dubbed 'Ground Zero'. It seems to have been made by an alien species and was carrying something when it impacted the surface of this planet because there was a storage room busted open. None of the survivors, if there ever were any, were onboard, just dust. We soon found out what happened to the crew when we found what they had been carrying, it was-
"DARN IT!" Edd cried in fury, "if only I had retrieved more data! If only there had been more time!" "Yeah, like I'd let that ever happen." Jack told them over a nearby computer screen, "Your not going to find out anything about that ship. I'll make sure of that first hand! Mecha-Melon!"
At that instant a door slid open and out stepped a bionic version of a very familiar figure. "Melon Head!" Eddy hissed and launched himself at the supposed hero. THWAK! Eddy was slammed into the ground by the metal version of his super nemesis with a pole. "Take this imposter!" Ed said attempting to slam his mighty fist into the freak. It mearly sidestepped and elbowed him into the back.
"Give it up fools! This 'imposter!' has all the qualaties of that hero and more!" Jack roared in laughter. As if on que the metal boy's arm extended at the elbow and a huge blaster emerged from the opening. BLAM! It stuck Ed in the back knocking him farther down the room. "Now!" Eddy exclaimed, "Operation: BAKA mach 2!"
Ed leapt up and joined his friends to form a ring around the opponent. They began running as fast as they possibly could aroun the creature. "Use your boosters!" Eddy commanded and they hovered above the ground even faster, "NOW!" Ed jumped in a smashed the robot Melon Head on the melon while the other two fired at it. The melon burst to bits revealing the computerized brain beneath. They kept firing at the brain and it eventually fell over. "It may have the skills," Eddy commented, "but it don't have the defenses!"
"Well, you sure know how to wreck a perfectly good creation! You really need to put out of your poorly animated misery!" the computer clicked off and the eds were left confused as they continued deeper into the planet. They walked through another door and were surprised at what they found. There in the room to the side were the devices Jeff had scanned them in to give them their current armour, ten of them. "Scan!" Ed said.
Modifier
Type: Enhancer
These devices were made by King Shadow, Masks, Jack Kite, and Shelaunda in an attempt to help squads of troops that might be needed in combat.
"Whoa, those thing have an entry file?" Eddy asked, "Ah well, jump in boys, I'll get it set up!" Eddy clicked random buttons rather rapidly while his friends waited impatiently. Finally Eddy hopped into his pod and they shut. The computer scanned them and showed them onscreen. The eds stepped out a few minutes later fully energized and with more armour than before. This new armour was a bit more bulky, but they could move around just as easily.
"Let's go boys!" Eddy shouted and jumped through a hole in the wall only to be greeted by Dr. Jack Kite on a motorcycle. "About time you got done!" Jack exclaimed with a sigh, "I think I fell asleep for a bit." "What the heck are you doing in the line of our vision right here?" Edd asked curiously. "Well, I got tired of you trying to reach me so I decided to zoom down here." Jack answered lazily resting his head on his clawed hand.
"Ok, let's just get this over with." Jack told them as he motioned for them to get on the back of his spiffy red and black vehicle. They warily hopped on and he started by saying, "Here your tour of the place and don't touch anything you can't afford. You'd already be drowned in debt. If I wasn't evil.
A little while later they began to slow down in a room full of glowing blue veins covering the walls. "Yeah so that's what happened." Jack told Edd laughing. "Yeah, I know how those things work out. Maybe you should have used a quantum turbo thruster." His enemy politely responded. "Probably should have." Jack agreed with a snicker. Ed took this chance to tell the bored Eddy, "Double-d and our enemy are confusing me with all this technical stuff, Eddy." "Just ignore it, you'll live longer lumpy," Eddy responded. "Thanks Eddy!" Ed cried joyfully. "Ok, everybody off, let's battle!"
Jack Kite let the three get off his cycle and then motored away from them and pulled out a gun. The Eds avoided all his shots and began firing their own weapons hitting the man a few times. Jack decided it'd be best to fire while driving actually and somehow managed to drive on the walls and kept firing. PZTZOO! Edd was hit from behind, but luckily his new armour easily absorbed the blast.
"TAKE THIS!" Eddy exclaimed managing to hit Jack in the face causing him to spin out of control. "Oh," he moaned as he got up and hopped back on his vehicle, "Alright, let's heat things up a bit!" Ed could only think of buttered toast and various other images as Jack headed directly at him full speed. VREEEEE! Ed was run over, toppled through the wheels and there covering pieces, and spat out ten feet behind it. "DAMAGE: CRITICAL!" are the words that flashed in his suit as Jack came around for another try to finish the edboy off for good.
VROOM! The motorcycle was approaching Ed at deadly speeds sure to tear him limb from limb. "No way buster!" Eddy yelled and leaped onto Jack's head constantly firing at the wheels. PSTOO! PSTOO! Both wheel's popped and Jack's vehicle spun out of control for the second time. Eddy jumped off leaving the mad scientist to crash mercilessly into the wall. "Just give up!" Eddy complained sighing in the process.
"Never…" he hissed menacingly as he emerged from the rubble, "Now you'll see what it feels like to have all your plans wrecked!" "What's he mean, he can't beat us?" Double-d asked. "MORPH!" Jack jumped into the air and the motorcycle pieces seperated and floated in a vicious tornado around him. A few seconds later he dropped to the ground with all the pieces attached to him.
The handlebars were on his chest with the plate that holds the front wheel. Down his stomach and back were his ride's cushions. On his shoulder pads were the wheels on the very end and on his back were the motors pointing straight up. "Now let's see what you can do!"
Motor Suit Jack Kite
Type: Human
He is exactly the same as the normal Dr. Jack Kite only now he has fused with his specially designed motorcycle and can use its motors as a jet pack. The cushioned areas, preferably the stomach, are more than likely the weakest of his parts.
"Alright boys, this is it!" Eddy announced, "Give it all you got!" A huge barage of lazer fires followed from both sides. "UGH!" Jack stuttered painfully as one shot him in the stomach. He then rushed up to Eddy and leapt into the air bashing in his helmet with his foot. CRUNCH! Glass and metal shards flew everywhere as the leader fell to the ground and Jack began to chase the other two victims.
"Ed, FLY!" Double-d commanded as Jack grabbed him and threw him across the room. Jack then quickly took flight after his last enemy with his motors and attempted to grab Ed. Ed just shot him in the stomach and the dropkicked him in the helmet. "WRAHR!" he exclaimed as he fell to the ground yards below and into a randomly placed pit. "That's it!" he roared angrily in his young voice, "You are all so dead! You now have to face the last resort! MELTDOWN!"
He laughed insanely as the walls began to melt into magma and spew about sizzling liquid. "Jack, come on!" Ed cried trying to help the pitiful man but was responded by getting blasted by a gattling gun crumpling his suit into nearly nothing. He had no choice but to get his unconcious friends and rush out the door leaving Jack to his doom.
A list of the things damaged followed through Ed's helmet. Suit defense malfunction, breathing device malfunction, jetpack malfunction, scanning malfunction, weapons malfunction, tempurature regulation malfunction.
The mad scientist's laughter echoed through the whole structure beneath Ground Zero and wouldn't stop for some reason. Ed meanwhile did his best to jump from floating pieces of rocks to other objects all the while making sure he didn't damage his friends. "Come on! GOT IT!" he cried in joy as he grabbed onto a railing and rushed into the elevator.
"Come on, up, UP!" Ed repeatedly pressed the glowing and it finally began to acsend at an insane speed. Eddy and Double-d woke up just as the magma burst forth from the walls around them into the depths below. Suddenly the elevator came to an abrupt stop and a door opened letting the boys out into the frigid night air, at least to Ed anyways.
They rushed as fast as their legs could carry them not noticing that the hot liquid had stopped miles below. They finally, after trecking a few miles, came upon a door and it opened. "Good lord!" Double-d gasped, "This is-" "The ancient ship." They all finished as the door shut behind them blowing dead dust everwhere.
Next Chapter, Ghostship! What secrets lie even farther below the surface of the planet than Jack's lab and what could possibly be the beast mentioned in one of the ship logs? More mysteries are found in the next chapter. I really do hope you people are enjoying this as superdork is the only one reviewing (you're the best!). What do you guys think happened to Jack did he die or what? Only I know all the answers and you people can guess at them :) Staytuned for more!