Twisted Metal: Cartoon Network
By RS
Brimstone: Fighting for his sanity, to retrieve something long lost
Driver: Eddward
Age: 16
Epilogue:
Calypso (narration): A vehicle that had once held the title of the world's first Record-Breaking-Rocket-Car pulled up in front of me. I awaited the winner eagerly, ready to grant them any wish they desired, having no boundaries such as size, price, or even reality. It was Eddward, or Double-D as he was once popularly known. He staggered out of the car towards me, barely even a shell of what he once was, but managed to still speak normally.
Eddward: Calypso, I take it? Pleased to make your acquaintance. My name is Eddward with two D's. I know it's not a very common name, but…
Calypso: Eddward…you have won the Twisted Metal contest and now have the once in a lifetime opportunity to receive any prize your heart desires. What is it that your heart desires, my dear boy?
Eddward: Oh, um, how am I to get my…ahem…"heart's desire"?
Calypso: By wishing for it, of course.
Eddward: Oh, but, Mr. Calypso, that is highly unlikely to be even the remote possible and…
Calypso: My boy, I have powers you no nothing about. Powers that bend the reality you and I live in. If there were one opportunity to be skeptical of those powers, this wouldn't be it. Make your wish, or turn away from something that could've changed your present life…or your past.
Eddward: (Pause; becomes serious) Very well…a long time ago, my parents were killed in a car accident by a runaway ice cream truck driven by some maniac! (Calypso smiles) It scarred me for life and broke my mind. That's where you come in. Calypso, I want you to make it not so, or to put it in the form of a wish, I wish my parents were never hit by that truck that fateful night!
Calypso: (Pause; Smiles)
Eddward: (Grows impatient) Well! You said you had magical powers!
Calypso: (Smiling) Oh, I do. Be sure to enjoy you're new life, Double-D. Hope you can live with the cost. (Laughs)
Eddward: What?
Calypso (narration): (Lightning) I granted his wish, and almost instantaneously, Double-D was flung back in time and landed in his old home. He once more was a child. As he looked around he noticed something…
Mother: Ok Honey, we'll be home later tonight, ok. Try not to stay up too late, and if you get hungry, I left a sticky note in the kitchen with instruction for dinner, ok?
Dad: Oh, and don't spoil your appetite with sweets. We don't want to have a little puff ball for a boy. (Chuckles)
Mother: Oh, and before we leave, remember to stay clean and to not make a mess, ok?
Eddward: O…kay Mother…(tearing up)
Mother: Oh, don't cry sweety. We won't be gone long. We'll be back before your bedtime, ok?
Eddward: (Wipes a tear) Ok.
Dad: (Kisses forehead) We'll see you later, Eddward. Be good.
Mother: (Kisses cheeks and hugs) Goodbye son. We love you.
(They leave)
Eddward (Thinking): (Pause) Oh my lord…he did it…Calypso…my parents…My God…I'm really back…I'm really home…and, my parents…(sobs in happiness for a few moments)…the wish! (Sees the clock) Will it come true?
Calypso (narration): Eddward grew anxious with every passing minute, wondering whether his parents would return alive, or whether a cop car would greet his home with it's presence. The hours grew painfully slow, and it wasn't because of me. Eddward would cry from time to time, sometimes about the fact that he saw his parents again, alive; other times about the fact that they might die this very night. Eddward kept the window open at all times to make sure that whether his parents survived or not, he would know immediately. Finally a sign came…
(A cop car with it's sirens on entered the Cul-De-Sac and parked in front of Double-D's house)
Eddward (Thinking): No…Calypso…he lied…he…(Eye's Widen)
(Double-D's parents come out of the cop car and rush towards the front door. Double-D meets them there and they all embrace)
Mother: (Sobbing) Eddward, sweetheart!
Eddward: (Sobbing) Mom! Dad!
Mother: Eddward, there was an accident…a horrible accident…
Dad: Some maniac driving an ice cream truck nearly hit us, but we broke just in time. I just wish…
Eddward: What is it?
Mother: It had hit someone else…someone we knew dearly…
Eddward: Wh…who did it hit?
Calypso (narration): But Eddward's question was answered for him when he saw that the cop car had made a U-Turn and parked across the street from his house…in front of Eddy's house. The same cop who would have approached him came up to Eddy's door. Double-D knew right then and there the cost of his own parent's lives, but there was nothing he could do but watch as a young Eddy pleaded with the cop that it wasn't so. Double-D knew what had to be done, after that. He had settled it right then and there that when Twisted Metal came in the future, he would make things right…for everyone.
I Am Calypso, And I Thank You For Playing Twisted Metal