Author notes:Last chapter didn't have enough action, so there will definitely be action in this chapter. I'm going to also try better throughout the story. Like I said, this is my first time doing an action story, so it's gonna take some time for me to get used to. I'm more in the drama/mystery genre. Anyway, with this said, onto the story! I do not own Ed, Edd, n Eddy, Johnny Bravo, PowerPuff Girls, Code Named Kids Next Door, Billy and Mandy, Freakazoid, Samurai Jack, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, Courage The Cowardly Dog, and Dexters Laboratory, they belong to their respected owners. I also do not own any of the racing tracks, they belong to Naughty Dog's Jak X, although I do own the vehicles, except for Freakazoid's Freakmobile. I do own any OC characters, but I do not own any guest appearances. Now to respond to the recent reviews:
The Ghost Reviewer:Yes, of course, it be easier to keep up with the characters. Also, I haven't forgotten about your OC, he'll make an apperance soon.
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Chapter 22:Act 1:Fifth Race:Part Two
Last Time:
Meanwhile Jack had a mad face as he swings a big sword on top of his car at the droids. The sword is similar to Glorious club, only the weapon was a sword. If the droids had faces, then they would be smiling right now.
It's not true...it's not true! Jack kept saying in his head...
Now:
The Eds and Freakazoid exited the cave, with Rick right behind them shooting missiles at the four heroes.
"Doesn't this guy ever gives it a rest?" Eddy said as he just dodged a missile.
"Yeah, just how many missiles does this guy have?" Freakazoid said.
"To answer your question you blue freak, unlimited!" Rick said. "Now hurry up and get out of the way!"
Rick shot another missile, which scraped Edd's car a little to the side. The missile explodes right in front of Edd, causing the smart Ed to swerve to avoid the fiery flames. It was a good thing he turned left. If he would have went in the opposite direction, he would have collided with the wall. The other two Eds and Freakazoid turned left to avoid crashing. Rick followed as well.
"Talk about cutting it close," Eddy said.
"Yeah, I think luck is on our side today," Freakazoid said.
"You better think again, you still have me to deal with!" Rick said, shooting a missile at the blue hero.
Freakazoid dodged the missile in time for it to hit another driver in front of him, causing that driver's car to explode.
"This guy is starting to bug me!" Freakazoid said.
"Well then let's how he likes a little taste of oil!" Eddy said.
Eddy pressed a button in his car. In the back, a compartment opened and oil started pouring out of it. Rick dodged the oil with ease, turning to the right. Freakazoid then used his cannon type laser and pointed it at Rick. When he fired, a blue type laser shot out from it, going straight to Rick; Rick not having enough time to avoid it.
"I got him!" Freakazoid said. Unfortunately, Rick opened a shield around his car, causing the laser to bounce off the shield. "Are you kidding me?" Freakazoid said.
"It's a wonder how you guys got this far in the first place," Rick said as he continues shooting missiles at the group.
While Rick was shooting missiles and the four heroes trying to avoid it, the track started curving to the right.
"What's going on, why is the track curvy?" Ed asked.
"From what I'm seeing," Edd said, "it looks like we're heading into a big and huge area."
What Edd said confused the three heroes, but when the heroes got there, they understood. The track led into an wide and huge area, much like a coliseum. The walls were curvy around this area, and it looks like the tip of the curvy walls could roll something down, like a ball. The other drivers, as they struggle to get to the finish line, were confuse as to why the area is like this.
"This may be a hard part for the drivers. On the top of these curvy walls, big metal balls with spikes will come rolling down and will crash into the drivers!" Bob said.
The four heroes tries to put this information into there heads.
"So huge metal balls with spikes will come rolling down on us?" Freakazoid said.
As if to further this fact, big metal balls with spikes started rolling down on the curvy walls, coming straight onto the other drivers.
"Again, I HATE it when the author does stuff like this," Freakazoid said.
The ball started impacting on some of the drivers already, there cars smashed to bits as the balls roll down on them. The Eds and Freakazoid starts to avoid this balls with great difficulty.
"It looks like we'll have to destroy these balls, there to hard to avoid," Edd said.
"Piece of cake!" Eddy said as he pressed a button in his car.
When he did, a missile launched out of his front bumper, and impacted on one of the balls coming to him, causing it to explode. The other three started to follow Eddy's example, using macing guns and other types of weapons at there disposal.
"Like I said, piece of cake!" Eddy said.
"Piece of cake? Did you guys forget about me?" Rick said from behind.
Rick unleashed a missile that was going straight towards Eddy. Edd saw this coming and quickly drove by his side. He then deployed a shield around him and Eddy, and the rocket ricochet to another driver struggling to avoid the balls to get to the finish line. Unfortunately, he never would. Rick continued to shoot missiles at the four heroes, while the heroes try desperately to avoid the missiles and the balls with spikes.
"Does this guy ever give up?" Eddy said.
"I've got an idea, listen up," Edd said to the other three.
Edd explained his plan to his three friends, and they all agreed. The four heroes stayed together, while Rick was right behind there tails. He fired another missile at the group.
"Now!" Edd said.
When the smart Ed said that, the group quickly going in random directions. But it was useless, as the missile impacted on the four heroes dead on, there cars turning into debris.
"Well, that takes care of those nuisance," Rick said.
A cloud of smoke was in front of Rick, where the debris was scattered all over. When Rick drove through the smoke, he was surprised to see that the four heroes were still driving and was right in the side of him!
"No way, you guys blew up!" Rick said.
Eddy and Ed drove to the side of Rick's car, touching the sides hard with there vehicles, making Rick turning his car impossible. Freakazoid was behind, touching Rick's back bumper in order for Rick not to hit the brakes.
"It seems you fell for the delusion trick (remember in chapter 3?)" Edd said.
"No way, I can't believe that I was tricked by a bunch of snot nosed brats and a retarded looking blue guy!" Rick said.
"Who's the blue guy?" Freakazoid asked.
The three Ed ignored Freakazoid's comment and went back with the plan.
"It doesn't matter anyway, I'll just unleashed a missile on...what the?" Rick said.
When Rick tried to unleash another missiles, none came out of the missile gun.
"You'll find that useless. While you thought we were done, I silently plugged your missile gun with one of my missiles," Edd explained. "Now guys!"
The three heroes then forced Rick straight ahead.
"Just what are you guys up to?" Rick said in agitation.
"Now!" Eddy said.
The three quickly parted ways in different directions. Rick tried to drive towards them and run them over, but he couldn't control his car because of the three heroes controlling his car. Due to this, Rick didn't have enough time to avoid a ball going straight towards him.
"No!" Rick said.
But it was to late. The ball rolled Rick and his car turned as flat as a pancake. The four heroes quickly drove past the now flat Rick.
"Ohh, I'd hate to be Rick right now! And what a fabulous move from the rookies!" Bob said, using the first sentence as humor.
"I have to admit Bob, the rookies are pulling it off today! Let's see if they can keep it up!" Jim said. "The drivers are now turning turning left."
The drivers after the four heroes took a left at a curve. The heroes did the same.
"All right, now that we've taken care of that guy, all we gotta do now is to find Jack and finish the race!" Eddy said as they were driving straight, where they drove past other drivers.
The track still had a prehistoric theme to it. Anyone can tell with the wooden structures on the sides of the racing track. The track was now straight forward at this point. If the Eds and Freakazoid were in front, they could have seen Jack fighting off the robot, which he was failing miserably. But it wasn't for long until the Eds and Freakazoid passed up the drivers. When they did, they could see the samurai in trouble.
"Looks like the racer named Jack is in trouble," Bob said.
"Yeah Bob, those robot droids are giving him a hard time," Jim replied.
"It looks like Jack could use our assistance," Edd said.
"Yeah, let's hurry up and-"
Before Eddy could finish his statement, a random driver from behind bumps into him, hard, causing Eddy's car to jump further upward. He quickly hit the brakes before he could crash into Edd. Soon after a lot of other drivers passed him up, including the one that just bumped into him.
"What's the big idea?" Eddy said as more cars drove passed him.
The driver that bumped into Eddy were on the side of the three heroes, trying desperately to pass them up.
"Aren't you kids a little to young to compete in a deadly race?" the driver asked. He had a car that had flames on it and hot rod wheels, which reminded Ed about the toy cars Hot Wheels.
"Aren't you a little to old to be wearing braces?" Freakazoid asked. Sure enough, the driver really did have braces on his face. The driver noticed this and covered his mouth in embarrassment. "I think you just got served," Freakazoid said, pointing a finger at the driver.
"You won't be saying that when I-"
Before the driver could finish taunting the blue superhero, the driver crashed into a wooden wall, due to paying more attention to Freakazoid rather then the road, causing the three heroes to pass him up.
"Get's them every time," Freakazoid said.
"Oh great, now we've lost Eddy," Edd said, noticing his short friend was not with them...
Meanwhile more in front of the Eds and Freakazoid, and more further then most of the drivers, the samurai Jack was having a hard time fighting the robot droids. It was a surprise, knowing that Jack was one of the top drivers in the competition so far. But his performance isn't the reason why Jack was losing; it was because of bloody rage. Jack and the droids were in a metal cave, Jack trying to fight off the droids with the sword on top of his car, and the droids just dodging it and shooting taunts at him. Not to mention bullets. Jack's car was completely thrashed with bullets holes. It was a good thing that Dexter built his car tough, otherwise his car would have exploded a long time ago.
"Why don't you just give up Jack, everyone you know is going to die, and it's all your fault!" one of the droids said.
The anger was obvious, it was right in Jack's eyes. "Shut up, your wrong!" Jack screamed as he swung his sword at the droids.
But, as usual, the droids dodged it with ease.
"We're disappointed in you Jack, we thought you would put up more of a fight then this," another one of the droids said. "I can see why everyone you loved is about to die, because your so-"
"SHUT UP!" Jack screamed as he swung the swords again.
This time, the sword hit it's target with ease, causing the droids car to flip over. Was this enough to cast away the void in Jack's heart, to get rid of the burning anger inside him? No, it was just beginning. Jack swung the sword again at another of the three droids, hitting one of them, although this one did not flip over, but was just sent back a little. That same droid then started shooting at Jack with a heavy machine gun on top of his car. Jack kept swerving in order to avoid getting shot at again. Jack then thought of something. He remembered that the kid with the sock on his head, Edd, used a shield once. If Dexter installed a shield on Edd's car, then he must have did the same with his car as well. Jack stopped swinging his sword and looked around his car frantically to look for a button that would at least have a sign that says "shield" on it, but that also left the samurai wide open.
"Your mine!" one of the three droids said.
Jack found a button with the sign "shield" on top of it. He quickly pressed it before the droid could unleash his bullets on him. A big shield appeared around his car, and the bullets quickly reflected back at the droids. The droids were swerving away from Jack and his shield, to avoid the bullets. Jack took this chance to swing his sword, which was outside of the shield, and wing it hard at the three droids. He was successful in doing so. As a matter of fact, the swing was so hard that it cut up the droids car with ease, causing there cars to explode. Jack deactivated his shield and placed the giant sword inside the top of his car, where all of his weapons are.
"There, now that's done. They won't be back," Jack said as he continued driving out of the metal cave.
Unbeknown to Jack, the scattered wreckage of the droids started gathering together...
Back with the two Eds and Freakazoid, who are now in the middle of the metal cave where Jack was in, were having a rough time with other drivers, as they kept throwing there weapons at them. Edd was using his machine gun and started shooting at a random driver in the side of him, who was doing the same thing. Ed had his shield around him as he struggled getting away from a driver who was shooting some kind of laser. Freakazoid wasn't having so tough a time, as he continued to blow up drivers from the sides with his blue laser.
"You guys need some help?" Freakazoid asked.
"Yes, we could use some assistance!" Edd said, just dodging a missile from a driver on the side.
Freakazoid then shot his blue laser at the driver who just shot a missile at him, and it impacted right on it's target, causing his car to explode in debris.
"What would you guys do without me?" Freakazoid asked.
"Tickle our toes?" Ed asked.
"That sounds like a great idea Ed!" Freakazoid said.
Ignoring Ed and Freakazoid's comment, the smart Ed looked around the cave. There was still no sign of Jack nor Eddy.
"I wonder where Eddy and Jack went?" Edd wondered.
"Looks like we're gonna find out soon, we're exiting the cave!" Freakazoid said.
Sure enough, the three heroes exited the cave. When they did, they noticed that the racing track ground changed into a more rock structure. There were also wooden walls with fire torches on them, which made the track more of a prehistoric theme.
"Oh look, I see big car!" Ed said.
"Where do you see that Ed?" Edd asked.
"Up ahead!" Freakazoid said.
The smart Ed looked ahead, and sure enough, there was a big car not to far from them, although the term monster truck would be more subtle for a car like the three heroes were seeing. The car was completely bronze, had spikes on the wheels, and spikes on the sides of them as well. There was also a heavy machine gun on top that looked like it could blow up as soon as one bullet even scratches the side of a car.
"I have a bad feeling we're gonna go head to head with that car," Edd said.
"Well then why won't we avoid it with your delusion thingy?" Freakazoid asked.
"That's a great idea!" Edd said as he pressed the delusion button in his car.
When he did, three holographic images appeared out of Edd's car. There were three of them, one of Ed, Freakazoid, and himself. The three fake images drove up to the heavy machine gunned car. When they did, the real heroes quickly drove past the heavy gunned car, hoping that whoever driving it didn't see them, and just saw the fake images. Unfortunately, it didn't. When the three heroes drove past the heavy gunned car, they could see Jack's car driving not to far from them. The three heroes quickly drove up to Jack. When they did, they noticed that the track was curving to the right. In front of them, there were a group of hard rocks that separates two paths. Before the Eds and Freakazoid could say something to Jack, he quickly took the opposite path of where the other heroes were going. The Eds and Freakazoid were confused by this.
"That's weird, it looked like he saw us, but he didn't say a word to us," Freakazoid said as the three heroes took the opposite path.
"We'll just have to see," Edd said.
Little did the three heroes knew, Jack did see them come by. But with blind anger and deep thought, he didn't have time to talk to them. He didn't wanted to talk to them. He had only one thing in mind:his responsibility. To bad he was so much in deep thought that he didn't noticed that a big car with a heavy machine gun was coming straight towards him...
"Right now the rookie Edd is now in first place!" Bob said.
"That's right Bob, it looks like it could be another win from...whoa, that's one giant car!" Jim said.
Jim's attention was on the giant bronze car with the heavy machine gun on top, the one that was after Jack.
"And it looks like that he has his sight on Jack!" Bob said.
When Jack heard this, he quickly looked at his rear view mirror to find that the announcer was right, a giant car was right behind him with a heavy machine gun on top of it. Jack took noticed of the car's color, and quickly recognized it as the robot droids color.
No, don't tell me they reformed again! Jack thought.
Jack was right. Although he couldn't see the driver, the front bumper had the face of one of the robot droids. It quickly started accelerating speed as it reaches Jack on the side. Jack tried to get away from it, but it was to late, as the car starts shooting off rounds at Jack. Jack quickly starts swerving to avoid getting hit by the bullets. Soon, Jack and the heavy machined gunned car drove out of the rocky path, and was soon quickly met with the two Eds and Freakazoid. They quickly took notice of Jack getting shot at.
"Jack, hang on!" Edd said.
Edd quickly pressed a button in his car, and turned on his computer scanner.
How may I assist you Double D? the computer asked.
"I need you to scan for weak points on that car with the heavy machine gun!" Edd said.
Scanning weak points...
As the computer starts scanning weak points, Jack's tire gets hit by one of the bullets. His car starts spiraling out of control.
"Jack, look out!" Ed said.
Jack was going to crash straight into a wall. He quickly hit the brakes before this could happen though. When he did, Edd drove to the side of him.
"Jack, your car is completely totaled! Don't worry, we'll handle everything from here!" Edd exclaimed.
"No, I need to destroy them..." Jack said.
"But your car..."
"Don't worry, I've been in worst situation's then this," Jack said.
Edd decided not to further argue with Jack. Besides, Jack could pretty much handle himself.
"Okay," Edd simply stated.
Jack started revving his car again, and he quickly drove after the heavy machined gunned driver, who was now before Ed and Freakazoid. Edd did the same.
"We're close to the finish line ladies and gentleman!" Bob said to the crowd.
"Yes, and it looks like it's between the two Eds, Freakazoid, Jack, and that heavy machined gunned car!" Jim replied.
The track yet again split up into two path. One path led to a cave, and another path led to the another path.
"Oh man, which one should we take Double D?" Freakazoid asked.
Edd looked at the heavy machine gunned car. Right now it was gaining speed, getting a little further away from the heroes. His computer was still scanning for weak points. When his computer was done scanning, it said, Weak points, the giant vehicle can't handle that much pressure.
With this weakness in mind, Edd started forming a plan.
"Listen guys, I've got an idea, listen up," Edd said as the heroes gathered together while driving there cars.
"It looks like the Eds, Freakazoid, and Jack are coming up with a plan," Bob said.
After Edd explained his plan to the group, Edd and Jack took the path with the cave, while Freakazoid and Ed took the other free path. The heavy machine gunned car was going for the cave, because it's target was Jack. After going in the cave, the two heroes noted how dark it was, and only fire with torches on them illuminated some light. This made Edd's plan even more effective.
"It's useless, why don't you give up weakling?" a mysterious voice said.
Edd and Jack were surprised that the vehicle with the heavy machine gun on top was actually talking!
"I can not believe that the car is talking," Edd said.
"Of course, there Aku's robot droids all put together, like the time at the DEATHMATCH challenge," Jack said. (Remember chapter 9?)
"What, you mean to tell me that they did it again?" Edd said.
"Yes, and together we are much stronger then ever before," the car said. "You will never defeat us weakling."
The car started shooting off rounds at the two heroes. Jack and Edd started dodging the bullets.
"Just look how weak you are Jack, being with these people. That's exactly why everyone you knew and love is killed," the car said as he continued to shoot off round at the two heroes.
Suddenly, like a television going off, Jack's mind went blank. After all, he made a promise that he broke. He then started having these visions...
A baby's scream could be heard. Fire is everywhere, as people run around looking for shelter. Suddenly, a dark shadow rises up from the grown, with a dancing flame on his head, looking down at the people screaming. He is laughing at them, laughing at their weakness, a sinister laugh...
"Jack, look out!" Edd said.
Suddenly, a set of bullets starts piercing off of Jack's car. Jack quickly swerves to the other direction, in order to avoid the bullets.
"Jack, what's wrong?" Edd asks.
"Yes Jack, tell him how weak you are, how you let everyone in your hometown die," the car said.
Edd looked at Jack. He was spacing out, looking at his foot at the gas pedal.
"Jack was to weak to protect his family, that's what's wrong," the car said.
The car quickly starts shooting at the smart Ed. Edd quickly swerves to avoid the bullets, but it proves harder then it seems. His car starts getting bullet holes on the side.
"Jack, help!" Edd said.
"It is useless, Jack can't protect anyone, he's to weak," the car said.
This thought quickly echoes in Jack's mind. He's to weak...he's to weak...he's to weak...
"Jack!" Edd screams again.
Jack snaps out of his trance with a serious look on his face. Jack then presses a button in his car and his sword appears on top. With a joy stick, he swings it at the car with great force and hits the side, but it was useless.
"Jack, Jack, Jack, don't you see, you can't protect anyone at all, you barely scratched me," the car said.
"I wasn't aiming for your body," Jack says.
The car was confused at what the samurai said. It then realized that he wasn't shooting at Edd anymore. In fact, it was impossible because his machine gun was gone.
"I see, you used your sword to swipe the gun away!" Edd said.
Jack nodded at this.
"Ha! You think that machine gun was the only weapon I had?" the car said.
Just then a huge missile appeared on top of the bronze car that could probably take out anything.
"Once the missile charges, you guys are dead," the car said.
Edd quickly popped out his machine gun on top of his car, and started shooting at the bronzed car. Jack did the same. After a few bullets, they stopped shooting to see that the car didn't had a single scratch on it. The car started to laugh.
"Is this the best you really have? How can you protect someone when your this weak?" the car said.
The missile was almost done charging. The exit of the cave was close.
"Because unlike you, we work together!" Edd said.
"Don't make me laugh," the car said. The missile was now done charging. "This is the end of you Jack!"
The car fired the missile as soon as Jack and Edd were exiting the cave.
"Now guys!" Edd said.
Unknown to the car, Freakazoid and Ed were at the exit of the cave charging there weapons, while Edd and Jack distracted the car. Freakazoid was charging his laser, and Ed was charging his new built laser that Dexter built for him as well. They both fired at the same time. Jack and Edd also fired there machine gun at the car as well. The two lasers, the two machine gun bullets, plus the giant missile that the car shot out collided with each other, causing a massive explosion, mostly impacting on the bronzed car. A big cloud of smoke covered most of the exit of the cave. Everyone in the crowd couldn't see a thing.
"Talk about suspense! Who in the world survived?" Bob said...
Author notes:Bad place to end a chapter eh? Well, I was going on over the word limit now. The next chapter will have the end of this race and the next challenge. Also, Rick wasn't an guest appearance, he was just a character that I wanted to make up. And who's to say he won't appear again...oops, I said to much!
As usual, I'm trying to pick up the pace with the chapters. Hopefully a challenge won't take four chapters to complete. That's not what I'm aiming for.
Another note, since this is a crossover, I'm going to have to give the Eds some off screen time just to let you know. Because this is a pretty big crossover to me, and I really have to focus more on the other characters. But don't worry, the Eds will get there screen time, as well as some others.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Until next time! R&R!