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Chapter 7: A New Passenger

"Are you sure he's possessed?" Hana's tone was serious with a hint of desperate hope. "There's not the slightest possibility you're wrong?"

"Of course I'm sure! Aside for the fact I'm looking right at the guy via Eddy-Vision, sock hat reeks with an imagin's aura."

"That thing's going to try and get to the past unless we stop it. Tell Eddy everything you just told me and that he needs to somehow get the imagin back here. There's no telling how much damage it'll do in Double D's body."

"Don't have to. He's heard everything we've said so far."

Naomi listened with perked interest as she cleaned out a mug. "Looks like we'll be getting another guest," She said with a smile. "I can't wait; it's always exciting to have a new customer."

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Eddy slapped his hand over his face. "Of all the rotten luck..."

"What's wrong Eddy?" Ed asked.

Eddy grabbed Ed by the arm and dragged him towards the gym doors. "Come on lumpy, we need to talk. Double D, Edwin, you stay here."

Edwin and the imagin possessing Double D looked after the two, confused as to what just took place. After a few moments, the imagin shrugged and walked back to the waiting group of cheerleaders, who giggled at his approach. That left Edwin standing alone and trying to figure out just what happened.

"...Did I just miss something?" Edwin asked nobody.

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"No way!" Ed yelled. "Double D's been body-snatched!"

"Shut up monobrow, ya want him to hear you?" Eddy scolded. "We need to drag him back to the DenLiner before he goes wrecking stuff in Double D's body."

"How do we do that, Eddy?"

"Just follow my lead, I got a plan." The two re-entered the gym and walked up to the imagin as if nothing was amiss.

"Come on Double D, we need to go."

The cheerleaders to either side of the possessed Double D grabbed him defensively. "He can't leave now." One of them whined. "He was going to help us out with a routine."

The being in Double D's body grinned slyly. "It seems my hands are tied, how unfortunate."

"I guess so," Eddy sighed in mock disappointment. "Too bad though, the girls are really going to be upset." He turned away and slowly shuffled away

Upon the mentioning of girls, the being raised an inquisitive eyebrow. "Upset about what?"

"Sucker," Eddy snickered to himself. He turned around and put on a dramatic performance. "Wow, how could you forget, Double D? You're supposed to be judging a bikini contest this afternoon down at the creek!"

"Really?"

"Yeah! All the best-looking babes in town'll be there! It's a once in a lifetime gig! Right Ed?"

"I like chickens, Eddy!"

"Ed meant chicks, yeah, chicks. Lots of chicks down at the creek. So why don't we ditch this scene and head down there?"

It seemed as if the being was going to fall for the lie, until Sarah opened her mouth.

"Wait a minute, buster. Nobody said anything about a bikini contest before." She haughtily declared. "If there really was one, I'd be invited."

"Keep telling yourself that." Eddy stated dully. "Anyways, we gotta get going."

"I really should go. It would be rude to not fulfill a prior engagement such as this." He started to rise from his seat until Nazz chimed in.

"But I thought that the bikini contest was only in the summer and spring." She stated. "We've just entered autumn."

"We actually have bikini contests?" Edwin asked. "When did we start that?"

Eddy bit his tongue to keep himself from screaming in frustration.

The being looked down at Eddy suspiciously. "It seems you were trying to string me along." He retook his seat and fiddled with his fingers. "Now why would you want me to rob these girls the pleasure of my company?"

"I bet there just jealous of you, Double D." One of the cheerleaders stated. General agreement rose up from the rest of the squad.

Sarah stomped toward Ed and Eddy threateningly. "Get out of our practice, you two!"

Ed and Eddy ran as fast as they could across the gym and back out the gym doors, once again, leaving Edwin completely puzzled.

"I'm... just going to excuse myself," He said quietly. He walked unsurely after the two.

When he made it outside the gym, he saw Eddy and Ed huddled together and whispering secretively.

"What was that all about?"

Ed whipped around and yelled at the top of his lungs. "Double D has been possessed by an entity from the dimension of soap and broccoli!"

"What?"

Eddy jumped on the back of Ed's head, slamming his face into the ground. "What Ed meant is that Double D's acting all weird because of the hit he took."

Edwin looked back into the gym. "But it's seems like he's a completely different person. It's almost like someone else is walking around in his body."

Ed sprung back up, launching Eddy into the wall. "He's been body-snatched by the dreaded Space Pirates from Uran-!"

Eddy tackled him by the neck and pulled him into a chokehold. "Shut up, monobrow! Don't pay attention to this sack of lump, Edwin. He doesn't even know his own name half the time."

"Sure I do, Eddy. It's on my underwear, see?" Even though Eddy still held on to him, Ed effortlessly lifted Eddy off the ground as he rose back up to pull his pants loose.

Edwin shielded his eyes. "I believe you; just keep your clothes on! Geez Ed, what's wrong with you?!"

"Nothing's wrong me because I had breakfast," He announced proudly.

A moment of silence passed as Eddy and Edwin stared blankly at their bizarre acquaintance.

Eddy returned them to the matter at hand. "…Anywho, we need to get Double D out of there, but how?"

*I have an idea.* Momotaros said mentally.

Second afterwards, the Ogre Imagin possessed Eddy's body in his usual burst of red energy. Before Ed and Edwin could react, He kicked in the gym door and marched his way over to the Imagin.

The cheerleaders faced away from the bleachers as they ran through an extensive routine. Their music blared loud enough to block out the sounds of the struggle that took place between Momotaros and the mysterious being, though one of the girls could have sworn that she heard a tough voice yell out, 'I appear'.

In a burst of red and blue energy, Momotaros abandoned Eddy's body, taking the being along with him. This left Eddy in an uncompromising position when the squad turned around to see him holding an unconscious Double D by the collar of his shirt.

"What did you do to him?!" Sarah shrieked.

All Eddy needed to do was take one look at the murderous eye around him to realize that he should run as fast as he could. He dragged Double D along with him on his mad dash, causing his intelligent friend's body to flail in the air like a flag. Eddy knocked the gym doors open and passed by his waiting friends.

"Looks like Eddy's in a big hurry," Ed said with a wave.

"Run you idiot!" Eddy yelled back.

The roar that rose from the mob of angry cheerleaders was more than enough to make Ed and Edwin follow Eddy's lead, no questions asked.

The three turned down hallways and corridors to evade their school-spirited pursuers, but the cheerleading squad stayed hot on their tail. Not having as much experience in this daily occurrence in the gang's life, Edwin soon began to fatigue and fall behind.

"Come on, Edwin!" Ed grabbed his lagging friend's arm and dragged him across the ground. "We must escape the clutches of the Pompom Wielding She-Demons from the Planet Ra-Ra!"

Eddy pulled the Rider Pass out of his pocket. "Leave him, Ed, we can't take him with us!"

"What do you mean 'leave me'?!" Edwin yelled hysterically.

"Sorry Edwin!" Ed hurled his reacquainted and unfortunate associate through an open window in a nearby classroom.

Having carried out the sad act, Ed caught up with Eddy, who had just grabbed a door handle to one of the many restrooms in the school. They rushed into the bathroom and slammed the door behind them. A few seconds later, the cheerleading squad gathered around the door and knocked it open.

What they expected to see was the two boys they wanted to rip apart, but what greeted their sights was a rather messy, but empty restroom.

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The two Eds and the unconscious one collapsed on the cabby floor, completely winded but thankful for having escaped impending pain and suffering.

Eddy pulled himself into a seat and flopped back. "They're going to kill us tomorrow."

Ed jumped into a seat as well, but with an adrenaline fueled smile. "Let's do that again, Eddy!" He laid Double D out on the table like a limp rag.

Before Eddy could rant about Ed's stupidity, the connecting car door in the front burst open as a blue figure fell to the floor. It was followed immediately by an enraged looking Momotaros, who leapt into the air and came down on it with an elbow drop. The two beings fought in a tangled heap, exchanging vicious blows.

The cabby erupted into chaos. Eddy and Ed ran in any direction they could when the fight moved onto the furniture. Naomi tried stopping the quarreling pair by squirting them with a mister full of water, but this showed to have little to no effect.

Suddenly, Hana rushed over from the same car as the other two. "There you two are!" She ran up to the pair and sent them to the floor simultaneously with a powerful hammerfist. Momotaros and the mysterious being went out like a pair of broken bulbs.

"Let's do that again!" Ed shouted excitedly.

"Shut up, Ed." Eddy moved closer to the unconscious combatants and gave them a good look over.

Momotaros seemed to be okay; aside for the fact that he was covered in bruises and had a large bump protruding out of the top of his head.

The other figure appeared to be the same height as Double D, and around the same age as well. That's where their similarities stopped.

The creature in front of them was definitely an imagin, and from the looks of it, one based off of a turtle. It had no shell, making its body the same shape and form as a human's, but its blue skin was decorated with black hexagons in the shape of shells. Three small horns-like fins lined the top of it's head, and its body was clad in a brown vest with a white, long-sleeved shirt underneath. It strangely wore blue khaki pants and black, formal shoes with blue wingtips.

"Ugh, this guy's just as ugly as peach boy over there," Eddy said with a grimace. "So this is the imagin that hijacked Double D?"

Hana dusted her hands off in accomplishment. "Yeah, pretty much. I think we should throw him off the train while he's still unconscious."

"He has permission to ride."

The group turned around in surprise as the Conductor mysteriously appeared at the back of the car.

"Wow, he's a ninja, just like that kid in the orange jumpsuit!" Ed said enthusiastically.

"I don't believe it," Eddy said. "Who cares how he got here, I just wanna know why we can't dump this thing out in the desert."

The Conductor pointed at the Turtle Imagin with his ever-present cane. "This being has possessed your friend, therefore they are together. All rights that Double D have to this train apply to him as well."

"That's insane!" Hana declared. "He's an imagin, a monster bent on destroying time."

The Conductor's face showed no signs of emotion at Hana's outburst. "It is the same with Momotaros," He continued. "Whether it is imagin or human, all who have a ticket or special privilege may ride the DenLiner."

"Cool, we get a new inter-dimensional being of evil!" Ed grabbed Double D and shook him wildly. "Wakey, wakey Double D! We have a surprise for you!"

Double D stirred slightly as he rejoined the waking world. Opening his eyes weakly, he found himself disoriented from both his long bout of unconsciousness and Ed's energetic wake-up call.

"My word, how long was I unconscious?" He hoarsed out. "The last thing I can remember is the soccer ball."

Hana helped him sit upright. "You'll have to ask Ed and Eddy about that, but what I do know is that we have a problem right now."

"We sure do!" Momotaros got up and limped over to a seat. "Why'd you hit me?! I was trying to help you stop that guy, ya miserable hag!"

Hana glared daggers at him. "Yeah, and tearing the train apart in the process!"

"Don't blame me; it was all that stupid turtle's fault!"He rubbed gingerly at the bump on his head. "Hey Naomi, can I get a pack of ice over here?"

"Coming right up." She went into the freezer behind the counter and pulled out an icepack. She made her way over and gently pressed it against the ogre's abrasion. "I should get another one for our turtle guest."

Double D looked back and forth between the two. "Excuse me, but what do you mean by turtle?"

Everyone pointed at the unconscious form of the Turtle Imagin. Double D stared wide-eyed before jumping back in fright. "Why in heaven's name is one of those monsters on the DenLiner?!"

"I take offense to that," Momotaros said. "Well, not that much offense. Anyways, that turtle guy over there took your body for a ride after you were knocked out."

The revelation echoed throughout Double D's mind. He collapsed to his knees as the color drained from his face, making him even paler than usual."

"Why's Double D turning into a chameleon?" Ed asked dumbly. Nobody bothered to answer him.

"Y-you mean t-that t-t-thing p-poss-ss-ssed m-me?" Double D stammered.

"Quite true."

Everyone turned to see the Turtle Imagin sit up. The Eds backed away, but Momotaros and Hana approached the creature fearlessly.

The Turtle Imagin looked around at the expressions on everyone's face. "I see my presence isn't exactly celebrated."

"Get lost punk, this is my stomping grounds," Momotaros growled.

Eddy scoffed. "A few days ago, you said you couldn't wait to get outta here."

"Shut up! I'm trying to make a scene here!"

The Turtle Imagin chuckled as he got to his feet and brushed himself off. "It seems I'm not the only unpopular one here."

"Hey, nobody asked you what you think!" Momotaros snapped. "You better leave before I make you leave!"

The Turtle Imagin dismissed his threat with a wave. "I don't have to go anywhere. Before I lost complete consciousness, I heard everything that man over there said. It seems I was right to possess that boy over there."

"But when?" Double D asked. "I was with my friends the entire day."

"Unitl you were taken to the school infirmary. It's much easier to control a body without a consciousness." The Turtle Imagin took a seat and placed one leg over the other. "I've been waiting quite a while for a chance to attach to you, Eddward."

Hana stepped forward. "Whatever you're planning, we'll stop you. We won't let you go into the past."

"I don't intend to. I have no desire to do something so complicated and needless. Why else would I willingly attach myself to a Singularity Point?"

Everyone but the Conductor turned in Double D's direction, who seemed to be taking the news with as much surprise as the rest of them. "I'm a Singularity Point?"

The Turtle Imagin nodded. "Of course. Any Imagin worth his salt can tell a Singularity Point from a normal person." He sent a sideways glance at Momotaros. "But I guess for some of us, such ability is a bit too difficult."

"What was that, you cocky bastard?!"

The two imagin stood toe to toe until Hana pushed them down into their seats.

"Both of you, no more fighting." She glared at them menacingly. "Unless you want to fight me."

They instantly relented and faced away from each other.

"Great, now we're stuck with another one," Eddy groaned. "Might as well name him then."

Ed waved his hand in the air. "Ooh, I have a good one! Let's call him Kleptorscourge of the Forbidden Zone!"

"It's appreciated, but I had another name in mind, Ed," Double D said. He seemed to have regained his composure. "Since Eddy's imagin is Momotaros…"

"A name I still think is stupid."

"Get used to it, because I'm not coming up with a new one," Eddy grumbled.

"Ya didn't even come up with that one, genius!"

"Whatever!"

"I don't see what the problem is," Double D said "Momotaros is a great name. As I explained before, it's based off of an ancient Japanese leg-."

"Fine, I'll keep the name; just don't go back into that boring 'Japanese legend' stuff again, yeesh!"

"I guess some people just don't appreciate foreign culture," Double D sniffed. "I'm sure this new fellow will. He seems to have a refined air about him, If I do say so myself."

The Turtle Imagin bowed politely. "Why, thank you very much. I'm sure whatever name you choose for me will be well-suited."

"I was thinking along the lines of Urataros. It's also based on a Japanese legend where the protagonist one day finds-."

"NOBODY CARES!" Momotaros and Eddy yelled at the same time.

The newly dubbed Urataros held his chin in thought. "Urataros, huh? I do believe it fits me quite well."

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Hours after the soccer game, Jimmy locked himself in his room and sulked in the dark. The only thing that lifted his sullen mood slightly was talking to his stuffed rabbit, Mr. Yum Yum. He lay back on his bed, holding his precious stuffed toy out in front of him.

"You're one of the only people who actually believe in me, Mr. Yum Yum," Jimmy said sadly. "I know that I can get better and help out the team." He sighed dejectedly. "I just wish I got the chance to show that I can."

A low, gurgling chuckle filled the room.

Jimmy immediately shot up from his bed and jerked his head in every direction. "Who's there?!"

Suddenly, sand began to pour out of his clothes and into a pile on the floor. It built up quickly until it turned into a twisted sculpture of what looked like a man crossed with a crab. Its face was hideous with its jutting, jagged teeth and large bug eyes. Its hands had large pinchers sticking out of its knuckles, and its entire body looked to be encased in a shell-like armor.

Jimmy's horror only grew as the horrible statue turned into green flesh and shell. Its mouth foamed as it cackled.

"I'll grant your wish right away. Just be ready to compensate me with a certain something." The monster leapt out the bedroom window and pounded off into the evening.

Silence filled the room there after. Jimmy stared at the gaping hole in the glass for minutes on end before fainting.

A/N: Next chapter: Double Den-O