It was a warm, sunny afternoon in May, and LJ and his friends were over at Ambrose's house, kicking back and watching TV. Jane came downstairs, but she looked pretty shaken-up.
"You okay?" asked Eric as he looked over at his adoptive sister.
"Huh? Oh, I'm fine..." Jane smiled wearily as she rubbed her eyes, though she had dark circles under her eyes. "It's okay."
Eric and the others looked at each other, very doubtful of that.
"It's fine... Don't worry..." Jane said softly as she soon walked off to get something from the kitchen. "J-Just don't worry about me."
"If you say so," called Eric. "But if you wanna talk, remember that we're all more-than-willing to sit down and listen!"
Jane grinned bashfully and went back to getting some food.
"She okay?" LJ asked Eric and Ambrose.
"She's been acting funny lately," Ambrose replied. "I wish she would tell us. I can tell that something's bothering her."
"Okay, just spitballing here," said Dorian as he came into the room. "But perhaps it has something to do with the nightmares/night terrors she's been having recently."
"How do you figure?" asked Eric.
"For one, I know when she's not sleeping peacefully," replied the cat. "And second, she's woken up screaming and flailing in the middle of the night eight times this month," he rubbed a bruise on his head. "I've got the injury to prove it."
"You mean you haven't noticed this?" Zofia asked Eric and Ambrose.
The boys looked bashful. Jane soon came back out of the kitchen, mumbling to herself as she made a sandwich out of a kitchen sponge, hand lotion, mustard, and eggshells.
"That's an interesting sandwich," Ambrose said to his adoptive cousin. "Are all the cool kids eating sponges these days?"
"Huh? What?" Jane blinked as her eyes seemed to flash into a crimson color before going back to hazel and she grimaced. "Augh!" she then slammed the sandwich into the trash and shuddered. "How did that happen?"
"It sounds like you are not sleeping well," Zofia remarked. "Having some sort of... Nightmare if you will."
"Nightmare?" asked Jane sheepishly. "I'm not having nightmares! That's crazy talk!"
"I wouldn't think so," Dorian replied. "Especially since when you freaked out last night; you knocked me off the bed, and right on my head."
"Did not." Jane pouted.
"I'd like to think differently," Dorian glowered at the witchling. "Now tell your friends and family what's going on!"
Jane frowned before sighing sharply. "Well... Okay..." she then began to admit. "...I guess I have been having trouble sleeping lately."
LJ shut off the television. "Alright then... Explain. What happened in these nightmares?" he asked calmly.
"All right, but just don't freak out or panic when I tell you, alright?" Jane asked. "They're pretty gripping for me every night, I'd hate to imagine what it would be like if you went through them like I did."
Everyone then sat on the floor and gathered around to let Jane take center stage, ala, sitting on the couch across from them with Dorian beside her.
"Well, one dream was that in this spooky and creepy looking forest, I saw this woman carrying her baby and was trying to quiet the baby down," Jane explained one part. "The woman was trying to look for someplace safe like a consecrated ground or a church. This man soon spotted her with a bunch of other women and stalked the innocent woman, saying they made a deal and she begged to stay with the baby a little bit longer, but they didn't listen to her. They just took the baby away from her!"
"...That sound too scary..." Zofia paused thoughtfully.
"The man and the women with him believed in the powers of Lucifer... Also known as The Devil from Hell." Jane explained.
"Whoa..." LJ was shocked by this. "Talk about horrific."
"...Anything else we should know about?" Raul asked Jane.
"Yes, a lot more," Jane nodded. "The women usually cast dark and evil spells while trying to make the girl do the same even though they promised her parents would be back for her soon and it got harder and harder to wait on her birthday."
"...Jane, no offense, but this girl you're dreaming about... Is that girl you?" Eric asked his big sister.
"She might be..." Jane said softly. "I don't have very fond memories from back home when I was the same age as the Cherry, Atticus, Lionel, and Mo of that universe... From what Uncle Drell told me anyway before he led me away from that old home and brought me here with you guys in what he called The Prime Universe and calls that one The Justiceverse. It's very weird."
"Well... We're more than willing to help you make some better memories here," Eric told his sister. "Besides, you had your friends to help you out in the other universe, and you'll have us to help you out here!"
"Yes, they were the highlight of my time down there..." Jane said before holding her head. "I guess I'm... Concerned... Something might come out."
"Something like what?" Ambrose asked.
"My darker side..." Jane gulped before her eyes flashed again and she shivered suddenly. "No... NO! Stay away, Madame Satan!"
The others began to panic as it seemed like the house was about to shake as Jane hyperventilated while her eyes turned blood red.
"KID! IT'S GONNA BE OKAY! CALM DOWN!" Dorian yowled.
"Jane! Stop!" Eric shouted as he clung to her in a tight hug. "Deep, slow breaths! Deep, slow breaths!"
Jane soon squeezed her eyes shut and took deep breaths in and out before she soon calmed down a little. The house soon stopped shaking as she slowly calmed down.
"Phew... Thank you, Eric..." Jane sighed softly.
"Maybe you need to go out for some fresh air?" Raul suggested. "Clear your head a little."
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea," LJ agreed. "You just need to be reminded that you've got a great life here."
"Uh... Yeah, sure..." Jane nodded. "Erm... Where's Aunt Hilda?" she then asked, noticing that the woman wasn't home right now.
"She and my dad went to the Other Realm for a while," Ambrose replied as he stood up on his feet. "They said they'd probably be back in time for dinner."
"Well... At least they're safe from me." Jane pouted.
"Ah, Jane, I know your old life was rough, but you should focus on the now," Eric advised. "I mean, you remember what Splittsboro did to me until I was brought here to live in and I couldn't be happier."
"Pretty hard to forget," LJ replied. "You know... Maybe we ought to pop by Peach Creek and pay the Eds a visit. We haven't heard from them in a long while."
"Okay..." Jane said softly. "Let me just freshen up first."
The others gave small smiles as they stepped outside of the house to wait for Jane.
"So, your parents say why they had to go to the Other Realm?" Zofia asked Ambrose.
"They said it was personal," Ambrose shrugged. "Hopefully it's not filing for divorce though."
"Don't worry, no way it's anything like that." Martin reassured.
"Your dad might be a pain and your mom puts up with it, but I doubt they'd divorce." Jenny added.
Ambrose bit his lip nervously. "...Aunt Diana and Uncle Edward did though." he then said softly.
"Yeah, but that was because of the law from back when your cousin Sabrina was a teenager," Zofia replied. "But then they got remarried, remember? There's no way Drell and Hilda would divorce each other."
"...Maybe you're right." Ambrose then said softly as he rubbed his arm.
"Attaboy!" LJ smiled. "Now we'd best go get ready to visit Peach Creek."
Jane soon came out the door once she was ready and Dorian decided to keep her company just to make sure she would be alright.
"Let's go, buds!" Raul beamed.
And at that, they walked down the street, though as they left, they were due for some company.
"Ugh... This town is making me sick already..." Vana groaned as she was walking into town with Trevor and Kitty. "You sure Eric's around here somewhere, Trevor?"
"Sure! I got a scent on Eric with his old gym bag!" Trevor smirked as he brought out a bag with disgusting and dirty laundry inside. "He's definitely gotta be around here somewhere. I have like a Wolf Sense for this sorta thing."
The wristwatch on Vana's wrist turned on, showing a screen with eyes, a mouth and a mustache. "Remind me again why we are even here?" asked Maxum Brain. "I was enjoying my 'No More Eric' party! Since he got adopted again, I no longer have to look out for him!"
"Relax, Maxum Brain," Vana rolled her eyes. "We just wanna say goodbye to Eric one last time... If ya know what I mean." she then flashed a manic looking grin on her face.
"We're going to apologize for being so awful to him and let him move back over to Splittsboro so we can all be happy, especially me and him?!" Kitty grinned a bit hopefully.
Vana rolled her eyes at Kitty's dangerous, fatal, creepy, and frightening stalker-like crush on Eric.
"Dude, I thought you said you were gonna pound him for desertin' us or somethin' like that." Trevor said to Vana.
"Well, that's what I'm here for anyway," Vana replied. "He abandoned us and left us, so he has to face the consequences of his actions!"
"I didn't understand a word of that," said Trevor. "But I do like the smashy parts!"
Kitty noticed something out of the corner of her eye. "Uh, is it just me, or does that kinda look... And smell... Like Eric?" she asked, pointing towards our group, who were headed out of town.
Vana and Trevor soon looked over with Kitty.
"I gotta follow him!" Kitty grinned eagerly, rushing down the sidewalk.
"Heel, Kitty!" Vana scolded, making the other girl suddenly stop. "We don't know that for sure!"
"Yeah, but who knows Eric better than I do?" Kitty shrugged defensively. "I memorized his scent too from the moment I first met him and laid eyes on him," she then smiled dreamily with hearts in her eyes. "So sweet... So delicate... So... Sweet Babooey...~"
Trevor and Vana blinked at this, mildly creeped out.
"Let's just go," Vana said, annoyed. "The sooner we find Eric, the sooner we can give him what he so richly deserves."
"Right!" Trevor replied. "Onwards, mi amigas!"
Vana and Kitty soon went to go with Trevor to track down their so-called old friend.
Ambrose smiled at the others as they walked off together. "So, uh, my Charm School is having a dance coming up," he then said. "I can bring a date if I really want."
"Does it matter if they're mortal or not?" Zofia asked.
"Professor Geist said that I could bring anybody," Ambrose replied. "I'm just glad that Atticus changed the rules and now mortals can know about magical creatures like this. So... I'm thinking of who to bring."
"You're thinking?" Dorian smirked. "I thought I saw the initials M.K. on your journal the other day."
"Zip it!" Ambrose hissed. "I figured I'd invite Marie Kanker."
"Hopefully she's okay with the whole having magical powers thing," LJ replied. "I don't even know if she knows yet."
"It's... Complicated..." Ambrose blushed. "But yes, I'd love to invite Marie to a dance."
"How would that go?" Jenny asked with a slight roll of the eyes. "She wears a suit and you'd wear a dress?"
"You make that sound like a bad thing!" Ambrose pouted. "But... I dunno... She and I had a lot of fun at my house at Christmas."
"Well, I think it could work!" LJ replied. "Besides, if she does really like you, then she'll be cool with you, quirks and all!"
Ambrose smiled and blushed.
And so, they began to enter Peach Creek.
"Seems to be a normal day so far." Jane said, but that would change rather quickly.
"Yeah, but if I know Peach Creek, things don't stay quiet... WHAT IN THE MATRIX?!" LJ exclaimed.
Before him laid an enormous path of destruction that had demolished The lane completely.
"You were right," said Eric. "Things didn't stay quiet; clearly something has happened. Question is, what?!"
"Looks like a twister hit this place or something." Martin commented.
"We better find the source of this mayhem." Jenny added.
And so, the group rushed all around and began to look for someone to talk to, though preferably the Eds as they were the only kids in Peach Creek that our young adventure group trusted and liked, aside from Nazz and also maybe Rolf some of the time. A silhouette of Nazz could be seen splattered against one fence along with various debris, including a bag of cement, spilled black paint, an oven mitt, a toaster, and a cinder block with a balloon tied to it. It was also replete with footprints, downed trees, and boxes. Among the destroyed items are a record and a bowling ball. In addition to the lane, a house has suffered remarkable damage, and there was even an ice cream truck in its backyard. Not only this, but a water main had been broken, flooding an area near the woods, and there was, strangely enough, a broken canoe by another house. The kids explored the area and called out for Ed, Double D, and Eddy, though the Eds seemed to be missing.
"Oh-man-oh-man-oh-man!" yelled Ed as he raced into his bedroom where Candy was packing a suitcase of her own. The yellow-skinned kid began packing his suitcase with comics, graphic novels, and action figures. "Figures... We just get outta 7th grade, and this happens to butcher everything!" Ed groaned.
"I'm sorry that this had to happen to you, Ed," Candy frowned. "I'm not mad at you though."
"Oh, it means so much to me that you're not mad, but those other kids are gonna want my blood!" Ed pouted before sighing and smiling. "At least I have ya."
"Of course, you always will." Candy smiled back, though it was a bittersweet moment right now.
Meanwhile, a box was being cut and it was shown to be in the shape of a camera with Sarah dressed as a Hollywood director and focused on Jimmy, who was dressed as a pirate. "Okay, Jimmy. Ready? Aaaand... Action!"
"Okay. Arr!" Jimmy smiled as he acted like a pirate, though he was no Johnny Depp. "Avast thee, barnacle-ridden bully! For I, the great pirate, Keelhaul Crewstain, will swash your buckle, and yardarm your sea leg!"
"Cut, cut, cut, cut!" Sarah complained. "What the heck was that? C'mon, say it like you mean it! You're a bloodthirsty scourge of the seven seas, silly!"
Jimmy then stopped for a moment to find his inner pirate and soon got into it. "I found it, Sarah!" he then beamed.
Sarah nodded and "rolled" the camera again. "Aaaand... Action!" she then told him through her megaphone.
There was then suddenly an explosion as Ed and Candy rushed out of the house with their stuff and they trampled Sarah and Jimmy on the way out, either not meaning to or by accident, but who cares?
"Gotta ditch the contraband!" Ed yelped, throwing out his old sponge collection. "Maybe this'll make 'em think I'm still that same-ol' lunkhead..."
The kids glanced at one another.
"I think we'd best contact Professor T-Byrd and get to the junkyard." LJ suggested. "This could be trouble."
MEANWHILE...
Double was in his room, with Kimiko, who was packing her own suitcase. A bunch of clothes were on the bed, next to an empty suitcase.
"Beloved parents," Double D soon narrated. "By the time you read this, I will be long–far–oh dear." he picked up the note, folded it, and put it in the trash, along with many other failed attempts, before he started again. "'Dearest Mother and Father. It is with great sh-shame'..." The boy put down his pen and began to cry, while Kimiko patted him on the shoulder. "'That I regretfully con-fess... To..." he continued, as a few tears leaked out. "'I regretfully confess to my involvement in the inexcusable, unconscionable, reprehensible, abhorrent, detrimental, detestable, immoral, thoughtless, hurtful'-" His writing went jagged and he stopped. "OH, WHAT HAVE WE DONE?! AND TO THINK, WE DRAGGED THE WOMEN WE LOVE INTO THIS AWFUL MESS!" he bawled.
"Oh, Double D, it's going to be okay," Kimiko frowned. "You didn't mean for anything like this to happen."
"It's just so hard!" Double D cried before he hugged her through the tears.
Kimiko gently patted Double D on the back, trying her best to soothe and comfort him and did her best not to cry along with him as she tried to stay strong for his sake. Suddenly, in came Ed and Candy.
"Ed! Candy!" Kimiko called to them.
"I can see our recent events aren't much better for you guys either." Candy said softly.
"Yeah, you'd be right about that," Kimiko agreed. "Hopefully Eddy and 'Gelica still have the keys to the Skyvan..."
"We better pay 'em a visit and see!" Ed replied. "C'mon, get it in gear, guys! Hopefully there's at least someone we can rely on..."
Meanwhile at Eddy's house...
Eddy was shoving things into his suitcase. He finished and tried to slam the overstuffed case shut. Angelica soon sat on the bag to help him out once she had her own bag ready. Eddy smiled once the bag was finally closed shut and tried to lift it, but it was too heavy, so it burst open and scattered the contents all over the room which made both Eddy and Angelica groan and fall in the middle of the floor. That was, until they heard a banging coming from the door which made them jump up suddenly.
"Um, my little Eddy's not home right now!" Eddy called out in a falsetto voice.
The door then flew open suddenly.
"If that's how you want it, don't say I didn't warn ya!" Eddy glared as he hid behind the vacuum cleaner with Angelica beside hm while trying to stay brave like his BattleToads counterpart.
The group was coming into the room to see the Eds and their lady friends going through mass hysteria.
"Oh..." Eddy sighed. "It's just you, guys. Just help me pack, wouldja?"
"Fine, fine," LJ replied as the group split up and threw things into Eddy's bag. "What's even going on? The Cul-de-Sac is demolished! I know you guys have had some wild schemes before, but they've never gotten THIS bad!"
"Yeah, uh, can someone please explain to us just exactly what the heck happened?!" Zofia added.
"Well, our brilliant friend Eddy here thought up of a scam and it all ended badly and now all the kids are coming to get their revenge on us for what the scam did to them." Double D replied.
"So that damaged was caused by you guys?" Ambrose asked.
The Eds and their girlfriends nodded.
"So, what was it?" Ambrose asked. "A carnival gone wrong? A zoo? An amusement park? C'mon, spill!"
"It's a long story." Eddy replied.
"We've got some time before the others come after us," LJ replied. "So just go from the start, and work from there."
Eddy sighed. "Fine, but for creative reasons, this was conceived by Nacho_the_troll of Reddit, all rights reserved," he replied. "Okay, so I figured that we could create our own Walk of Fame, like the one in Hollywood, see?"
"But we needed a reason for the Walk of Fame to be made," Angelica added. "So we put together a 'talent show' so that everyone could have a legitimate reason to write their name in the Walk of Fame."
"Double D built a mega-gizmo to safely pave a piece of the lane over," Ed continued. "That explains the cement and the black paint: the cement for the walk, and the black paint for painting the stars and names. To get enough water for the cement, Candy and I yanked up a water pipe to hook up to the machine."
"But how would we get the kids to that remote area of the neighborhood?" Kimiko stated. "To round the kids up, we got Professor T. Byrd to fix up this old ice cream truck from the junkyard to pick up kids off the cul-de-sac sidewalk, using an old-school phonograph inside to play that dingly music you usually hear from an ice-cream truck in New York."
The group nodded as they listened closely and carefully to the backstory of Peach Creek's downfall.
"It was a quiet day for those other kids until I came up with the big idea of the day," Eddy continued. "Nazz decided to lay out on her front yard and tan in her bathing suit before or after a swim in her backyard. Jonny was playing Checkers with Plank in his front yard, then went to go see Nazz, then Kevin saw her in her bathing suit and put on his sprinkler and probably said something like 'You wanna play in my spinkler?'. Wink, wink."
The group seemed to roll their eyes at that last part.
"Forgive me for this, but I have to ask... Were Sarah and Jimmy involved?" Jenny asked.
"No." The Eds shook their heads.
"We didn't wanna bother with them and they've seen the boys' downfall one too many times." Candy added.
"Yeah, my dad makes a drinking game out of that." Ambrose commented.
"When we got close, I might've lost control of the ice cream truck..." said Ed, embarrassed. "And then I crashed through the yard of whoever lived in the house in front of the scam part, which somehow led to a canoe crashing through another guy's fence. So we had to lead them to the lane where we set up the stand, and the kids were onboard."
"Kevin was given a bicycle other than his own, so he could do tricks with it, like balancin' on a bowling ball," stated Eddy. "Nazz, being Nazz, wanted to be in a magic act; Rolf wanted to wrestle some wild animal, and it was pretty damn tough bagging a coyote. Rolf was feelin' a little cocky, so he figured he'd mock it a little." he held up a hand. "Let's get to my brother's room, we can continue this talk on the way."
LJ made a "tsk-tsk" sound as he and the others followed their friends. "Mocking a caged animal... Never smart."
"Jonny didn't wanna do anything, but knowing him, he wanted Plank to try out something," Double D continued. "Fortunately, we anticipated such a situation, and decided to, as Eddy would say, 'half-ass it'."
"They knew Jonny would just hand in the money to put his, or Plank's, name on the walk no matter what challenge they made up for him," added Kimiko. "So it wasn't much trouble."
"Gosh... This is a long story." Jane commented.
"We also had a toaster and used it for the cement for the Walk of Fame, though Ed put some bread in the toaster as a snack and the cement was made with water at a slow and steady rate," Double D then said as Eddy undid the locks and went to bring his friends into his brother's room to hide for now, though he had more plans than just hiding. "Eddy got very impatient of the extremely slow paving and so did the other kids."
"Even though Double D warned him not to, Eddy pushed a red button and the machine went into overdrive with too much power," Angelica added, though with a small scolding look over to Eddy who looked bashful and nervous that he was responsible for this part. "This short circuited the toaster, causing Ed's toast to fry to a crisp, and caused the machine to take in too much concrete and water."
"The impact then hit Nazz as it burned her skin and hair as she was still in the magic box and the others were burnt from the impact," Kimiko soon added. "It sent the bear trap from the animal's area straight at Jonny's head, and it blew the animal's cage to pieces. The explosion also sent Rolf flying into the fence, causing a bump in his head and giving the coyote a a chance to maul him before escaping. Kevin's clothes were torn to shreds from the wooden pieces of fence and the pieces that were along his track. The explosion even hit the machine and sent it into a Mr. Antonucci's house and filled it with cement and about all over the place, ready to explode and practically left Mr. Antonucci's house in ruins and the scam was destroyed."
"Luckily, Ed saw that the machine was about to blow, so he took us and brought us away to a dumpster for protection just in time, and then, well... KABOOM!" Candy then added. "After the explosion, we came out to see what happened and the kids were soon coming out of the rumble with no doubt, murder in their eyes.
"And then...?" Eric asked.
"And that's when we started running." Eddy replied.
"That... Is a pretty wild story," Jane exclaimed.
"And if we don't get lost, it'll have a nasty ending," Ed added as he pulled a rug aside and found a vent. "Eddy, look! We can crawl out through the heat vent!"
The wooden bar on the door of the room broke, and a foot kicked through the doorknob.
"Eddy! The door won't hold for much longer!" exclaimed Edd.
"Don't just stand there! Do something!" yelped Eddy, as the others did their best to fend off the attackers.
Candy, Kimiko, and Angelica soon looked ready to fight back just in case, looking a little like Charlie's Angels.
"Giddy-up, Camel!" Ed panicked as he rode the camel in the room. "Do not let your mutated lump slow you down!"
"Are you serious?" Candy face-palmed.
"I'm desperate!" Ed panicked before he fell off and suddenly slammed into the wall and slid down as he seemed to hit a fire alarm.
Meanwhile, Double D and Eddy finally got the vent cover loose, and Eddy leaped in only to find that his brother bricked up the vents as well.
"More bricks guys!" Eddy cried out.
"What's this?" Ed asked as he saw the fire alarm. "A fire alarm?"
"It says something." Kimiko remarked.
"'In case of movie break glass'?" Double D read aloud in confusion.
"Bingo! My bro's always prepared!" Eddy grinned as he grabbed the hammer and used it to break the glass and reached inside before he took out a certain legume food. "A peanut?"
"Cheap movie story adaptation." Ed scoffed.
"Why would your brother put a peanut in this emergency glass?" Zofia asked. "That's screwy. Even by MY standards."
An arm reached through the space where the doorknob used to be, felt the chains before it reached down and lifted one of the bolts. The door creaked open a little more, and the cul-de-sac kids were furiously straining to get into the room.
"Lemme through!" Kevin scowled. "End of the line, dorks!" Ed grabbed the peanut with his teeth.
"It was just a scam, Double D!" Eddy groaned. "How did it go so wrong?"
"Eddy, the laws of probability can be a real mean-" Double D started.
"Shut yo mouth!" Ed replied as he cracked the nut, revealing... A key!
"Guys! A key!" Ambrose exclaimed.
"It must be for my brother's car!" Eddy exclaimed.
"Then let's hit the road!" Ambrose suggested.
The kids ranted and raved from behind the door, ready to come inside to tear the Eds from limb-by-limb.
"But guys, we're too young to drive!" Double D cried out as they rushed for the car.
"Who cares? Get in already!" Jenny told him. "I call shotgun!"
Everyone else soon dove in for the car while Jane began to pant like she was about to have a nervous breakdown of some sorts.
"Come on!" Eddy cried out, fumbling with the key before he finally put it in the ignition and the engine barely started, so he kept on trying.
"It's no use, Eddy!" Angelica pouted.
"It ain't workin'!" Eddy panicked.
The chains soon broke off the door as Rolf slammed his head through the door. "Rolf's vengeance will be slow and painful, like Papa's charcoal anecdotes, Ed-boys!" he then called out before he crashed through the door as Nazz, Kevin, Jonny, and Plank followed him in. Jane continued to pant until black smoke seemed to surround the car and it seemed to come alive somehow as it began to drive itself before crashing right out of Eddy's house and ended up in the yard outside as the cul-de-sac kids tried to ambush them.
"Did anyone else see that smoke?" Nazz asked.
"Who cares? We got dorks to fry!" Kevin told her.
"Gotta get to the junkyard!" Ed shouted. "Get van... Fly out!"
Kevin and Nazz took off after Rolf; Sarah and Jimmy peeked out from behind a house.
"Let's go see, Jimmy!" said Sarah, and they raced to the sidewalk just in time to see the car go by, followed immediately by Kevin, on his bike; Rolf, on his pig, and Nazz, running after them.
"Yowzers!" exclaimed the redheaded brat in glee. "Whaddya think they did this time, Jimmy?"
"Whatever it was, it must be worser than ever!" Jimmy replied.
MEANWHILE...
"I think I'm gonna be sick!" Double D groaned as the car tore down the road.
"Not in my brother's car, you're not!" Eddy retorted.
Jane panted a bit before looking around as they drove, though the car seemed to be a bit satanic looking.
"Jane, you okay?" Eric asked his sister. "You look flush."
"I-It's happening..." Jane groaned sickly.
"That's right, my dear... You can't ignore me forever..." A dark voice said in the girl's head. "You betrayed me and your friends... Now they're under MY control... If only you would go back to where you belong..."
"Leave me alone!" Jane cried out as she held her head.
"Clearly, we're gonna have to do something about that," said LJ. "But apart from going inside of her mind to investigate, I have no other idea what we can do."
Jane held her head as she looked around nervously. Plank, ripped and torn and almost destroyed, soon tumbled onto the windshield. The group let out a horrified scream and the car swerved and almost hit Jonny.
"Let 'em have it, buddy!" Jonny called out.
Rolf and Kevin rode into a field as Kevin stopped his bike. The car jumped and landed on the fences bordering the lane and was nearly closer to falling off which would lead to untimely deaths.
"So much undone!" Double D panicked. "Unsaid! Mother and Father will be so annoyed!"
"No offense about your parents, Double D, but we've got bigger problems." Kimiko said as she saw Rolf coming down the road.
Ed let out a yelp of pain; looking down, it became clear that Rolf had somehow torn through the floor and bitten Ed's leg. Double D, Eddy, and the others each grabbed an arm and pulled, painstakingly yanking Ed back into the still-moving car, although Rolf refused to let go.
"Looks like this is your stop!" Martin yelled, taking a crowbar from the trunk and slamming it on Rolf's head, sending him tumbling off. At that moment, they reached the end of the fence and flew out over a dumpster.
"Curse you, Ed-boys!" shouted Rolf angrily as he smashed into the dumpster.
The car sailed into the woods, hitting many trees along the way and snapping them. The Eds scream as they go through the woods and fly over a ravine into the junkyard.
"Great," sighed LJ. "We're almost there, and once we make it, we can deal with Jane's situation."
Jane curled up in a ball as she seemed to shiver. Dorian nuzzled up against Jane to comfort her, acting like a pet cat this time.
Trevor, Kitty, and Vana looked around and continued to follow the cul-de-sac kids as they all looked very steamed and aggressive with their wishes to go and see Eric before they soon ran into Nazz.
"Whoa... What happened to you?" Trevor asked.
"I don't wanna talk about it," Nazz narrowed her eyes. "I'm just mad as heck!"
"Have any of you seen a stupid-looking kid with brown hair and glasses?" asked Vana, holding up one of Kitty's drawings of Eric for reference.
"I think he was in the car with the Eds." Nazz replied.
"Great!" Vana smirked evilly. "We came to beat up Eric and anyone associated with him. I mean, who'd be pathetic enough to want a loser like him in their family, when they could have somebody like moi?~"
"Uh... Yeah..." Nazz shrugged. "Gosh, am I this vain?" she then asked herself.
"We're getting warmer, guys, I can feel it." Vana grinned at Kitty and Trevor.
"Awesome!" Trevor laughed. "I just wish Master XOX could see this... He'd probably trust me with his fortune and family plan... I wish my dad could be as awesome as Master XOX..."
"You do realize your dad is XOX, right?" asked Kitty. "I mean, we found out a month ago!"
Trevor scoffed. "Yeah, right! My dad's so lame! No way he could be related to XOX, who rocks! Hey... XOX rocks! That rhymes!"
"Alright, let's go," Kitty remarked. "The sooner I have my Eric back, the better!"
MEANWHILE...
The group was making their way through the junkyard.
"Alright, soon as we find Professor T, then we trade up, and make tracks," Eric explained. "Shouldn't be too hard... Hopefully."
"Where is he anyway?" Ambrose asked the Eds.
"He shouldn't be too far off if he isn't too busy with his new computer." Double D replied.
"Meanwhile, Jane, just try to stay calm." Eric then told her.
Jane simply nodded, though she looked a little woozy right now.
"Maybe a walk outside wasn't such a good idea." Zofia frowned in concern.
"I thought it would help!" Eric exclaimed. "I'm sorry, alright? Sorry I made things worse!"
"Oh, Eric, don't think like that!" Zofia frowned.
"I'm messing everything up again!" Eric panicked. "Now you guys are gonna run me out of town if you don't beat me to death first!"
"Don't you see, my dear?" The dark voice mocked Jane within her head. "You belong where you originally came from. You can't turn your back from destiny."
"Alright, this has to stop," LJ groaned, reaching into his backpack and pulling something out.
"One of Mother's dreamcatchers!" Zofia exclaimed.
"I asked if I could borrow one," LJ replied. "Guess I never got around to using it until now."
"She's alright with that?" Zofia asked.
"Yes, as long as it's used responsibly," LJ nodded. "All right, before we find Professor T. Bird with the boys, it's time to sleep."
"How could you sleep at a time like this?" Kimiko asked.
"Oh, we won't be going asleep asleep," LJ chuckled. "We'll... Well, the ones going with me will find out. Eric, you should come too."
"Me?" Eric's eyes widened. "I might mess everything up like I always do."
"Consider this your way of making up for it," LJ replied as he held up the dreamcatcher towards Jane, and his and Eric's eyes glowed yellow, before the both of them passed out, and Jane passed out as well.
"Will this take long?" Candy asked.
"Not a lot," Zofia replied. "It'll be like they were knocked out for a minute and right back before those cul-de-sac jerks will have a chance to catch us."
"I sure hope so," Candy nodded before glaring. "If I could be Queen of this place, I'd have their heads chopped off."
"Yeah, those kids seem more angry than usual," Angelica added. "And I thought The Dark Queen was brutal."
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