This is hard already...Oh well, time to check in on, as many have come to think, the damsel in distress. Or, Ed!

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"Ed's been taking an awefully long time for that delivery..." Deets said, walking away from the window. She had been looking out of it for about an hour now.

"Yeah, he should've been home an hour ago at least!" Fizz agreed. It was nightfall now and totally dark outside. Everyone was worried.

Ol' Skool came down the stairs for the first time since they got back to the Dojo. He looked around at all their worried faces and then noticed Ed wasn't with them. He grew serious.

"Where's Ed?" he tried to ask calmly.

"I wish we knew. He was going to deliver the pakage of flowers for us and, well, he..." Burn trailed off, afraid of Ol' Skool's reaction when he found out that they didn't know where Ed was. But of course Loogie had to continue it for him.

"He hasn't come back!" Loogie exclaimed. Ol' Skool's expression made them all almost visibly wince.

"For how long?" Ol' Skool rushed.

"About an hour," Deets replied.

"Okay, maybe he just took a detour. Or his board broke. Otherwise, he should be home by now for cerfew...I'll go search around town for him. As for you guys, try to get some sleep,"

They nodded and headed off for bed as Ol' Skool grabbed his board and helmet and left. It was a restless night for everyone.

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Ed woke up and realized he was tied to a bed. He struggled but couldn't break free. Kora (is it Kora or Cora?) appeared.

"Stop struggling. It will hurt worse if you keep it up," she said.

"Let him struggle. The more pain the more entertainment for me," Bedlum said, comming out of the shadows behind her. The room they were in was totally dark. The only thing that was keeping things illuminated was the glow from Kora.

"Bedlum, I should've known. Let me go!" Ed grunted.

Bedlum pretended to think it over. "Hmm...No. I'm not done with you yet,"

Ed caught that. "And when you are...?"

Bedlum smirked. "You'll be free to go," Kora looked at him sort of confused. "But you won't want to," she got that.

"Shall I start the expirementation?" she asked.

Bedlum turned and started out of the room. "Start."

The next thing anyone in the tower heard was Ed's screams...

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Ol' Skool got home late in the afternoon. Everyone was awake by now. They looked at him hopefully, but noticed he had no Ed with him.

"I looked everywhere and he was nowhere to be found," he said.

"But where else could he be?" Burn asked.

"There is one place I have yet to look..."

"Bedlum." They all said together. Ol' Skool nodded.

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A long five hours went by and finally Kora appeared by Bedlum's chair with him in it. He smiled evilly when he saw her.

"It's done." she smiled.

"Perfect...Let me see him." Bedlum said. Kora nodded and led him to the room Ed was being kept in. He was asleep. Bedlum went up by the bed and looked down at him. The binds had been undone from Ed's wrists and ankles.

Bedlum smiled in appriciation and awe. Ed now had red-black hair in replace of his blue-black. His courier outfit was warped too. It was red in the places it had once been blue but was still black in the places it had originally been black. He even seemed a few skin tones darker as well. More tanned.

Ed yawned and opened his eyes. He sat up and looked around, noticing Bedlum. He gave them a confused look. Bedlum was amazed. Even Ed's eyes had changed to the color of deep red (like in Static).

"Uh, who are you?" Ed asked.

Bedlam smiled. This worked out perfectly. He even had it all thought through this time. "I am your father. You work for me. It's late now so I shall explain everything once you wake up. Go to sleep now..."

Ed yawned and nodded. Once he was sure Ed was asleep, Bedlam latched a bracelett around his wrist.

As he was walking out of the room, he addressed Kora who was waiting outside it for him.

"You did well, Kora. Nice work."

"Did I just hear a complement?" she asked.

"Don't get used to it..." With that, he walked off for bed himself. Happily keeping in mind that his plan had worked out perfect.

Now for phase two.

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I know, I know, short. Very short. But this was all I could think up for this chapter. Anyways, read and review!!