MEANWHILE...

The Skyvan continued its flight over a grassy field, crossing over a fence. "Yee-haw!" Eddy whooped as they flew over.

"Private property?" asked Double D. "We shouldn't be on this land!"

"Relax, sockhead; it's a shortcut!" Eddy replied as they flew over a field of cows.

"Look, guys! This place is either a dairy farm or next to a slaughterhouse!" Ed exclaimed.

"Heh... Kinda reminds me of how dad would make lunch when we were little." Candy chuckled.

"My bro's got a billion cows," Eddy replied. "A regular stampede of 'em!"

"For real?" asked Ed, curious.

"You sure are talking up your brother." said Martin. "Too bad Kimberly and Chrissy couldn't be here to see for themselves."

"Well, we can tell them once they get back from their training quest," LJ replied.

"Haven't we poked and prodded fate enough for one day, Eddy?" asked Edd. "I'm frightened."

"My big bro would never let anything happen to me," replied Eddy. "and I'll tell you what; I'll put in a good word for the rest of ya."

"Thank you, Eddy!" smiled Double D. "Your brother certainly is a kind, upstanding and generous human being."

"So you continuously claim..." said Jenny, feeling suspicious.

"Tell me about it." Zofia said softly in the background.

"Eddy, do you know long it will take to come to your older brother's sanctuary?" Angelica asked her boyfriend.

"Beats me," Eddy shrugged. "I don't know where he lives."

Suddenly, everybody came to a dead stop.

"Pardon?" Double D spoke up. "Are you saying all this time you've been leading us to nowhere?"

"Nope. I'm taking you to my bro's house, Smart Guy," Eddy shrugged. "You just have to figure out where it is."

"Well, that makes about as much sense as buying a map from Mrs. Bogmelon," Candy rolled her eyes. "How do you not know where your own brother lives?!"

"Nah." Eddy replied as he kept walking.

"Hold it right there!" Double D told him sharply. "We're not taking one more step until we deduce the whereabouts of your brother, Eddy!"

"Forget to pay the brain bill?" Eddy replied smugly.

"Eddy, stop being a pain." Angelica pouted.

"Dude, we can't just go in circles," Ed explained. "We need SOME way to find your bro!"

"Well... I might have somethin'." Eddy shrugged.

"Whatever it is, maybe you'd like to share with the rest of us," Jane suggested. "It's from your brother, right?"

"Yeah, he sent me a postcard!" Eddy replied as he took out his wallet and brought something out to show them.

"You do that, and I'm gonna lay on this nice, soft rock." Eric said as he sat down and laid back against something squishy.

"MOO!" A cow mooed loudly as that was its udder.

"Whoa! Sorry!" Eric yelped as that startled him.

"A postcard? This could provide the very clue we need!" Double D said as he examined the postcard closely. "A postcard should lead us directly to-Drat! It's illegible!" he then frowned as the postcard was smudged.

"Well, that's a big bummer." Jenny crossed his arms.

"Gah! You probably smudged it." Eddy grumbled as he took the postcard and put it in his wallet.

"Could I borrow a pen?" asked Double D.

LJ handed him one.

"Thank you!"

LJ gave a thumbs-up.

"Hey, Sockhead, where'd ya go?" Eddy asked, as he went looking for Edd. He found him sticking leaves to a spiderweb.

"Eddy! I've found the link to key communitives we have with your brother!" exclaimed Double D. "Among those, his shuddersome stink bomb recipes, his heinous hot sauces, oh and my favorite, malicious misleading treasure maps, together with other contentious callous cons, lead me to suspect your brother's quite the jokester."

Eddy winced from the memories of those incidents. "You better believe it! He's the king, baby!" he replied, sweating a bit.

"Yes, well, where could one groom this tendency to pranks and puerile practical jokes?" asked Double D.

Just then, inspiration struck Ed. "I got it! It says so on my comic book!" He exclaimed, sticking it to the web. "'Pranks and puerile practical jokes at the Lemon Brook Gag Factory'."

"That's quite a coincidence." noted Angelica.

Eddy fumed. "Lemon Brook? Bunch of mascot-hating, lemon-sucking-"

"That's it, Eddy! Your brother may very well work there!" Double D exclaimed. "Or at the very least, be a regular customer!"

"I bet he's there right now!" grinned Eddy.

"Hopefully anyway." Angelica smiled at her boyfriend.

"After you, Candy." Ed said to his princess.

"Why, thank you, Ed." Candy smiled.

They soon went to keep going while Zofia tried to keep calm about her nervous instincts, though she took a look at her phone and scrolled past various pictures on Felicity's Facebook page which included tags from Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos, though also Chip.

"You miss her again?" LJ asked. "Well, don't worry. She promised she and Chip would come visit again soon."

"I know," Zofia sighed. "Sometimes I wish she didn't go to that school far away from home."

"Yeah, me too," LJ nodded. "But at least we get to visit her."

As they drove through a sunflower field, Double D was inspecting a device, which Eddy took from him a half-second later.

"What's that stupid thing? Can you see cartoons in it?" he asked, spinning it. "It's a wheeze-widdler!"

Double D took the device back and reset it. "Yes, well, it's all fun and games, but merrymaking nearly cost us this sextant!"

Ed and Eddy abruptly stopped.

"You catch that, Ed?" Eddy asked. "Ah, the what? I missed that. What's it called?"

"It's called a sextant." said Double D, and Ed began to giggle. "An astronomical instrument used to-"

"Again, sorry, I missed it. What's it called?" asked Eddy, smirking.

"It's commonly known as a sextant, Eddy-"

Ed and Eddy burst into laughter, as Double D thought about it.

"Say it again, Double D!" Ed guffawed.

Double D face went bright-red. "Oh, my!" he exclaimed "You won't be giggling when this... Unnamed device... Triangulates our position and gives us a precise heading to the true direction of the gag factory!"

"Wanna bet?" asked Eddy.

"Boys..." Jane rolled her eyes at how Eddy and Ed were being immature about the "sextant".

"But in order for me to calculate our bearings to the gag factory, I'll need-" Double D told the others before he walked right into a brick wall.

"Oof," Kimiko winced. "You okay, Edd?"

"I'm okay..." Double D muttered wearily.

"Land ho!" Ed proclaimed as he pointed to a loading dock for the building: The Lemon Brook Gag Factory.

"This is it!" Eddy cheered.

"Let's just hope those Lemon Brook Lumpers I heard about aren't anywhere near here." Candy muttered as some eyes seemed to be waiting in the darkness with creepy smirks from the inside of the factory.

"Sanctuary at long last!" Double D announced.

"HEY, BIG BRO!" Eddy called out as he tugged at the door. "IT'S ME! EDDY!"

"I wonder if there's any ACME supplies in here?" Eric wondered.

"ACME supplies?" Jenny asked in deadpan.

"Just wanna make things a little more interesting." Eric shrugged.

"If there are, be careful," Jane told her little brother. "Some of that stuff from ToonTown can mess you up."

"Noted," said Eric. "Like we need any more problems."

"Perhaps the front doors will yield a response!" Double D suggested.

"Good idea!" Eddy remembered suddenly. "I forgot my big bro hates back doors."

"So does Sarah whenever I come home late from BattleToads training," Ed rolled his eyes before smirking as they went in through the doors of the factory. "Luckily Candy helps me in before Mom and Dad can bust me."

"I really hope those Lemon Brook jerks ain't here," Marie huffed. "They're worse than those creeps at Mango Swamp."

"Mango Swamp?" Ambrose asked.

"Trust me, Brose, you don't wanna know." Marie shuddered.

Ambrose nodded as they came into the factory.

"Where is he? Do you see him?" asked Eddy, ignoring that the factory was completely dark and nonoperational. "Where ya hidin at, ya big lug?"

The doors slammed behind the group shortly after they came inside.

"Get a load of this crazy stuff!" exclaimed Ed.

"Bro! It's me, Eddy! You know–Pipsqueak?" Eddy asked, looking around. "Where is everybody? Are you sure this is the gag factory? 'Cause I ain't laughin'!"

Ed popped up, wearing a pair of gag glasses "Looks gaggy to me, Eddy."

Double D held his hand out. "Ed, comic book, please."

Eddy looked at Ed's glasses. "Man, that joke's old."

"Exactly!" Double D held up Ed's comic book. "This publication was printed over 10 years ago!"

"Revolt of the Rotting Brains! A classic." Ed stated.

"This comic's useless!" Eddy spat as he tossed it away.

"Hey, uncool, man!" Ed shouted as he ran after the comic.

The eyes blinked from in the darkness.

"Anyone else feel like you're being watched?" Martin asked nervously.

"Relax, Marty, you're probably imagining things." Jenny replied.

Someone from the darkness soon grabbed Ed when the others weren't watching.

"We're hooped!" Eddy groaned before he fall flat on the floor. "We'll never find my brother, Double D."

Eric, Martin, and Ambrose were soon taken.

"Never say never, Eddy," Double D reassured. "Perhaps old customer receipts or employee records will unearth a clue to his whereabouts."

"Hmm... I wonder what's in here?" Angelica wondered before she opened up a box with Candy and Kimiko.

"A rubber chicken?" Zofia asked once she looked with the other girls.

"Can't have a party without a rubber chicken, girls!" Eddy smirked. "Big Bro said so."

"Edifying. I'll go examine the factory's filing cabinets and see what I can find." Double D replied as he approached some steps and soon went climbing up them. Suddenly, he was then taken next.

"Anyone else notice that we seem to be... Short on team members?" asked LJ, noticing that most of the kids were now gone.

Someone came for LJ right behind him.

"BEHIND YOU!" Zofia cried out and tackled LJ to the floor.

"Oof!" LJ grunted. "Thanks, Sis."

"Freeze, dirt bag!" Zofia glared, shining the light from her phone in the person's face.

The person hissed before she suddenly fell from the shadows before showing that she appeared to be a gothic girl scout of some sorts.

"Who the blinkin' hell are you and what did you do with our friends?" LJ demanded.

"We just wanted some playmates." The girl smirked innocently before she stood up.

"Especially boy playmates!" Another goth girl added. "To appease the Princess."

"Princess?" LJ's eyes widened before glaring. "What the barnacle is going on here?!"

"Uh, guys?" Ambrose called as he was stuck to a spider's web. "I have no idea what's going on here, but I feel very uncomfortable."

"You're uncomfortable?!" Martin grunted. "I'm the one out of my element!"

"What did you idiots do this time?" A voice complained before showing that it was the goth girl that Jeff the Spider and Velma Green the Spider Queen had adopted from "Wrath of the Spider Queen".

"VICKI?!" The group gasped.

"Hey, guys, I am so sorry about this," Vicki scoffed. "I guess The Black Widows got out of control. I'm just here making a random cameo appearance to promote an upcoming crossover until I reunite with Gaz again."

"The Black Widows?" asked LJ, confused. "Elaborate, if you will."

"And maybe make it fast?" asked Martin. "I'm getting kinda sorta VERY UNCOMFORTABLE HERE!"

"Sorry about that, kid." Vicki said.

"My name is Martin!" The redheaded boy told her.

"Whatever..." Vicki ignored him for now. "The Black Widows: Nocturna, Annasthesia, Willow, and Narcissa here, are more or less my followers and I don't just mean on social media."

"Is there more to that?" LJ asked.

"I'm getting there," Vicki nodded as she continued. "They're formerly a girl scout troop who hung around Pier 13's warehouse in San Francisco where they told me about how the scout troop called The Honeybees scared them off while looking for another troop called The Dragonflies. They soon found me and looked up to me as their Spider Princess and more or less act as my bodyguards and protectors, even though I tell them not to kidnap boys to make into my Spider King!" she then flashed a sharp look at the girl who looked nervous from her anger.

"I get the feeling that's happened more than once?" asked LJ.

"Way too often, to be honest." Vicki replied.

"Yeah, yeah, that's great! Can someone let me down now?!" Martin cried out.

"Willow?" Vicki signaled.

A pigtailed goth girl soon cut Martin and the others down from the spider webs.

"What're you guys doing here anyway?" Vicki asked. "This factory is kind of deserted nowadays."

"We're going with Eddy to look for his brother," Zofia informed. "The craziest thing happened back in Peach Creek."

"Really?" asked Vicki. "How crazy?"

ONE EXPLANATION LATER...

"...No wonder you guys are takin' off," One goth girl remarked. "Those kids are out for BLOOD!"

"Yeah," Zofia frowned. "We're trying to help with good company and all that."

"Seems like we're the only ones who like the Eds," Jane added. "...Well, aside from the Kanker sisters."

"Minus one." Marie reminded.

"Yes, yes, minus one." Jane then nodded since Marie was with Ambrose nowadays.

"Well, if they ever come around here, we could give 'em an old Black Widow scare," One of the other girls grinned. "It's what we do best and no one ever makes us sell cookies, especially since we have Vicki."

Vicki rolled her eyes before smirking.

"Well, I guess if we're intruding, we'll get out of your hair." Zofia suggested.

"Not really, but we'll catch you guys later," LJ replied as he helped the others down. "Burning daylight here, we are!"

"Good luck, my friends," Vicki told them. "Be sure you tell Gaz that I miss her. She's cool."

"We will," Jane smiled. "Take care, Vicki."

Vicki and the Black Widows said goodbye before they escaped back into the darkness and the shadows of the factory as it looked like the group was ready to leave.

"Well, your brother wasn't there, but it's good to see that those gloomy girls, though a bit frightening, were very helpful." Double D said to Eddy.

"I'm just glad they didn't harvest your organs or something like that," Kimiko replied. "They seemed a bit scary until LJ was able to take one down."

Eddy smirked as he looked ready to do something.

"Edwin Skipper McGee, you better not be doing what I think you might be doing." Angelica said firmly.

"What's wrong with a little prank in a gag factory?" Eddy replied innocently. He pulled open the can, and...

KA-WHOOZLE!

...Hundreds upon hundreds of can snakes rained down from the sky as the Eds got into the van which flew off shortly after.

"You know what they say, always go out with a bang!" Eddy snickered.

"Now where do we look?" Candy sighed. "Eddy's brother wasn't there."

Meanwhile, Kevin, Vana, Nazz, Trevor, and Kitty seemed to just come by and noticed that.

"Whoa! What's that?" Nazz gasped.

"Dorks." Kevin grinned evilly as he spotted the factory.

"We must be getting closer," Vana smirked with Kevin. "I hope you're ready for an old friendly reunion, Eric, 'cuz we've been waiting for this for quite some time."

And so on they rode.

"Maybe it's somewhere near the ocean," Eddy shrugged. "After all, my bro WAS a whaler!"

"A whaler?" Angelica asked as she sounded curious. "What exactly does this mean?"

"I think it's a whale catcher." Jenny shrugged.

"He is?" Double D asked Eddy, almost sounding doubtful. "Your brother is a whaler?"

"My mom's got 50 pounds of blubber in the freezer as we speak!" Eddy nodded.

"That's more blubber than my mom's got." Ed smirked.

"I hope they're better than Farmer Ahab's Blubber Nuggets." Jenny commented.

"They're chewy!" Martin added.

"And he's got a peg leg too!" Eddy soon continued. "But that's what you get for wrestling walruses. I'd like to see folks like Popeye The Sailor or Sinbad try and keep him down!"

"All right, now we need to find the sea," Zofia said. "...How do we find the sea?"

"It's quite simple, Zofia," Double D educated. "You see, this stream is a veritable highway that will lead us straight to it. We merely need to float upon the current, and it will carry us to its opening and Eddy's brother's retreat."

"Consider us lucky, lads," Professor Byrd replied as he pressed a button on the dashboard. "This baby can float, too!"

The van retracted its tires and grew massive pontoons underneath.

"Thank goodness." Double D sighed in relief.

A trio of girls soon wandered out from the woods.

"Hey, are you girls lost?" Zofia asked as she saw the three girls known as

"Uh... Yeah... We, uh, got lost on our hike in the woods away from our camp, Camp Lilac," The lead girl grinned innocently. "Can you maybe give us a ride back?"

"We totally won't jack your ride or anything!" The eyepatched girl added.

"Waitaminute..." LJ narrowed his eyes. "Aren't you those Flower Scouts who bully Kimberly Lodoza?"

"No...?" Erin, Sasha, and Tabi replied innocently.

LJ snorted. "You'd best watch yourselves. Try any funny stuff, and out you go! Yeeeees," he held up a flamethrower with a Tyrannosaurus rex head on the end of the nozzle, and shot a few blasts into the air. "See? It looks like the rex head is breathing fire!"

The Flower Scouts panicked and held onto each other.

"You better leave us alone and especially Kimberly!" LJ glared.

"What happens if we don't want to?" Sasha replied.

"Why do stupid bullies always gotta ask that to someone who has more power than they do?" Zofia sighed and rolled her eyes. "It's like bullying a dragon."

"Once again... NOTE, the flamethrower!" LJ gestured to his weapon, squeezing the trigger; the rex mouth opened up, and flames shot from it.

The Flower Scouts soon screamed and ran away into the woods.

"Well, that was random," Jenny remarked. "Think we'll ever see them again?"

"We will," Zofia replied. "Especially LJ if he sees them around Kimberly."

"Right," LJ nodded. "Now let's get going, guys."

And so, they went back on track after dealing with the Flower Scouts.

"Eddy's brother, here we come," Angelica shrugged at herself. "Eddy, what did you say your brother's name was again?"

But before that question could be answered...

Sarah strained against bonds that tied her back with a toilet seat wrapped around her neck like a horsecollar. She and Jimmy had been forced to drag the Kankers' wheelbarrow along, acting like horses for the Kankers before Jimmy suddenly fell.

"You've gotta get up, Jimmy!" Sarah cried out to her best friend.

"I'm not gonna make it, Sarah!" Jimmy panted.

"Quit your squawkin and keep it movin!" Lee snapped. "We've got boyfriends to save!"

"What about Marie?" May asked. "She disappeared!"

"Who cares?" Lee snorted. "Ya know what Mom always sez 'Survival of the fittest'!"

Sarah growled at Lee, but then got an idea as she hid a sinister smile to herself before she looked cute and innocent in front of the older girl. "Gee, Lee, I love your toenail polish!"

"I said move-" Lee glared until she realized what Sarah just said. "Isn't that adorable? The kid wants to be just like us! Aww."

"Who doesn't?" May smiled admirably.

"Here, kid. Knock yourself out." Lee then said, giving Sarah a bucket of paint.

"Golly gee wilikers, thanks, Lee!" Sarah grinned before she grabbed the bucket and then slammed it down onto Lee's hand, making the older girl scream in pain before flying backwards as Sarah hit her with it against her chin.

"We got chiselled, May!" Lee called out.

"Move it, Jimmy!" Sarah told her best friend as she freed him so that they could escape from the remaining two Kanker sisters.

"Why, you little brats!" Lee shouted. "Teach 'em a lesson, May!"

"You bet, Lee!" replied May as she chased the kids in circles, trying to grab at them.

"Ow, ah!" Jimmy yelped.

"I gotcha! I gotcha! I gotcha. I gotcha!" May grinned as she tried to grab them.

"Where is Marie anyway?" Lee wondered before shrugging. "Meh. She probably got eaten by coyotes or something."

Calamity Coyote randomly appeared before looking around and shrugged at himself while May went after Sarah and Jimmy.