The captured kids soon found themselves tied up in the lab of Ludwig Von Koopa, the eldest Koopaling. The evil creature paced around in front of them. "Well, it's a good thing that someone told us where you were! We were just thinking about experimenting on a few brats right now!"

Toad was the most nervous. "Uh...what kind of experiments?"

Ludwig began to innocently pace. "Let's see...I could always try to revive the Monster-Mixer...nah. I could see if Grand Goombas from Giant Land like to eat kids...no." He suddenly got an evil look on his face. "I know! I could simply brainwash Toad into thinking that he worked for Eddy so he could advertize those stupid omelettes!"

"Eddy!" repeated Jason. "He paid you, didn't he!"

Ludwig laughed. "You don't know him very well, do you? Of course he didn't pay me with money! He just promised that I could do whatever I want to you, and he threw in his friend, Ed. That's payment to me!"

"Makes you wonder why we hang out with him," said Marcus.

"Yes, that stumps me and my siblings as well," agreed Ludwig. "Okay, onto the brainwash!"

"Gah!" cried Toad. "I knew I should have had this hat surgically attached to my head! Then he'd never get my brain!"

"That thing's a hat?" said Hobbes. "Live and learn..."

Toad was quickly hooked up to a huge machine. Roy leaned by the wall, watching and laughing. "This is great! You guys are such wimps! Especially the tiger!"

Hobbes gave him a dark look. "What?"

Roy kept laughing. "You don't act all fierce like a real tiger! You're nothing but a housecat!"

Hobbes glared. "You really shouldn't be saying that to me..."

"What are you gonna do?" Roy continued taunting. "Meow at me?"

"Someone said that stuff to me once..." Hobbes said quietly. "It didn't end well..."

Roy rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses. "Yeah, right."

"THAT'S IT!" Hobbes broke out of his ropes and violently mauled Roy and Ludwig before anything bad happened to Toad.

"Guards!" shrieked Ludwig, before he was knocked unconscious by Hobbes.

All of the Koopalings stormed in, along with many Hammer Bros, Fire Bros, Sumo Bros, and Boom-Booms. Hobbes fought, but was easily outnumbered.

"Great," sighed Jason, "even Hobbes can't fight them all off!"

Mario and Luigi randomly burst in and started fighting as well.

"It's about time!" called Jason.

"I've noticed something about those guys," said Marcus. "Aside from 'Calvin Clones,' they hardly appear! Even though they saved Eddy in 'The ProducEds,' they were nowhere in 'The Calvin King' and the 'Hercules' episode."

Jason shrugged. "Yeah, but it's more amusing when it's us who defeat the Koopas."

"I guess so." They turned back to the fight to find that it was over.

"Mama Mi-a!" said Mario. "That was an amazing battle!"

"Good thing that guy in an overcoat told us you were here," said Luigi.

Hobbes was confused. "A guy?"

"He called himself 'Deep Gap,'" said Mario.

"Weird," said Toad.

They returned to McDonald's just as Calvin came out of the bathroom. "I'm ready to go, are you?"

Everyone stood there awkwardly. "Uh...yeah."

Edd stood nearby outside, taking off an overcoat. Eddy stormed over. "I just heard that the guys escaped the Koopalings!" he yelled. "How'd that happen?"

Edd gave him the most honest look he could. "No idea. Eddy, can't we just forget this whole thing? If you're omelettes are as good as you say they are, you can just rely on your own cooking skills...right?"

"Nope," refused Eddy. "It's come too far."

"I was afraid of that. Where in the world is Ed?"

"Huh?" Eddy said absentmindedly. "Probably still with the Koopas."

Ed was suddenly launched into the real world. Attached to him was a note that says: "Take him back! He's driving us nuts! ---Bowser."

"Deck us all with Boston Charlie!" cried Ed/

Eddy jumped up. "Well, onto the next plan! We're gonna stop them from getting to that talent show! Double D, invent something to blow 'em right off the road!"

"WHAT!" yelled Edd. "First of all, how does preventing them from getting to the talent show help you exploit Toad? Second, why must we do something so violent? Third, DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP! I QUIT!" Edd stomped away.

"Fine!" Eddy called after him. "Who needs you? You'll be back in other episodes!"

"Unfortunately," Edd called back.

"Can we hire the Goodfeathers?" suggested Ed. "I love birdies!"

"I hate birds!" hissed Eddy. "We're gonna steal a design from another inventor! Jason Fox!"

Eddy quickly ran back to camp and found the kids' backpacks in the main room. After rummaging through Jason's backpack for a bit, he found just what he was looking for. "Let's see...aha! Here's something! 'The World's Biggest Whoopie Cushion?' I think we can manage that!"

"We are rockin'!" cheered Ed.

"We will be," Eddy said with a determined look on his face.

Calvin, Hobbes, Toad, Jason, and Marcus were again happily driving down the road. They told Calvin the whole story. "So Ludwig got you?" said Calvin. "Man, we can't make any more stops! It's straight to the talent show!"

"Great," groaned Hobbes. "There's Eddy." Indeed, Eddy stood ahead with something pretty big.

"What's that big pink thing?" said Jason.

"Hey, those are the designs we did!" cried Marcus.

"Eddy stole my whoopie cushion idea!" yelled Jason.

"Jump, Ed!" called Eddy.

Ed stood in a tree. He jumped and slammed himself onto the whoopie cushion, making a huge gust, blowing everyone in the Doombuggy away. "They're blowin' in the wind, Eddy!"

"Where's your Rainbow Connection now?" Eddy screamed hysterically to the flying campers, disappearing into the clouds. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"


Hobbes's outbreak is a refrence toa previous episode, "Hobbes of the Wild," where Calvin pushes Hobbes to the edge. Jason and Marcus's discussion on the Mario Bros. reflects my own thoughts on why they appear so rarely. Let's jsut assume they're busy playing golf or tennis or some other game. I don't know, the Koopas are just more fun to write about.