"Ok, everything's ready. Be careful though; this machine is still a prototype and there are many things that can go wrong."

"Don't worry; I'm sure that whatever is wrong with him can be fixed somehow. Besides, it's my fault he's like this anyway."

"You'd better hurry, his heart is stopping. If you can get it restarted, then you can find a way to wake him up. But be careful, you only have three days before we have to get you out. Any longer and the effects will be permanent."

"Understood. Alright, I'm going in. My other friend is on his way to help out also, so let him in when you see him."

"Ok, be careful."

Eddy was walking toward the light slowly. The closer he got, the more at peace Eddy felt. He reached out his hand to touch it, when suddenly he felt something tugging at the back of his shirt and was pulled back.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Eddy" said a familiar voice. Eddy, broken from his trance again, turned around to see Edd standing in front of him.
"Double-D! It's you!" Eddy exclaimed. He was so happy to see his friend after being in this place for so long.
"I'm so confused, I don't know what's going on! I woke up with a spike through my head and then my parents started yelling at me and then I was going toward this light and--"
"Eddy, calm down. There's no need to use run-on sentences like that." Edd interrupted.
"Eddy, your body is in some kind of coma. You've been out of it for about two days or so."
"....Double-D, what happened before I passed out? I can't really remember." Eddy asked.
"You, Ed and I were testing out my latest invention. It was supposed to be a type of interdimensional portal, but it malfunctioned and exploded. Ed and I got to safety just in time, but you were caught in the blast and knocked unconscious. You haven't woken up since."
Eddy still didn't remember clearly, but he took Edd's word for it.
"Ok.....So how did you get here? Are you a vision or something?" Eddy asked.
"No Eddy, I'm using a prototype machine to transfer my mind into yours to see what's going on. By the looks of it, you're having one heck of a nightmare!"

Eddy winced as he thought about the experience he just had earlier. The pain was gone, but he could remember it as if it was still there.
"Eddy, may I asked what happened while you were here? Your heart nearly gave out two times and tests showed you were experiencing a lot of pain."
Eddy thought about the light he nearly went into and the ringing he heard. It must've been the hospital equipment that checks your heart rate while the worried voices were the doctors and nurses.
"Well, I woke up in this place with a spike going through my head. I got it out but there was no hole in it or anything, so I decided to walk around for a while until I saw that light the first time. After that, I saw an image of my brother and I heard my parents chewing me out for not being like him. Then I saw the light the second time and you appeared."
"Intriguing Eddy. This isn't like any nightmare I've ever heard of." Edd replied.
"....Where's monobrow? Is he grounded again or something?"
"No, but he should be here soon. He and his family took a one day vacation while you were in the hospital."

Edd and Eddy both thought about their friend. That thought turned to memories of the good times they had together, and suddenly two lights appeared from the boy's chests.
"What is this?" Edd inquired as he studied it. It looked like a little white ball that orbited around the boys' midsections. Then, Eddy started to lift off of the ground.
"Ah! Get me down from here!" He shouted as he tried to swim down. As if on cue, Eddy plopped down on the ground with the light following.
"Hmm, I wonder...." Edd jumped up and stayed in the air. He looked off to an imaginary point in the distance and thought about what it would feel like to fly there. Also as if on cue, Edd shot away from Eddy into the blackness and back. He landed next to Eddy, who thought about what Edd just did and found himself hovering in the air.
"Whoa, this would've been nice to have a few HOURS ago!" He exclaimed in ironic frustration.
After hours of walking, suddenly finding out that you're able to fly can be a bit ironic.
"It would seem that our good memories allow good things to happen to us in this world, Eddy." Edd explained.
The two boys started having a little fun by flying around, doing tricks and things in midair.

After a while, Eddy noticed something strange was happening. The area around them started getting a bit brighter, and soon random white number started appearing. The blackness started fading to a dark blue.
"What's happening, Double-D?" Eddy asked as a large number four slowly floated past him.
"The doctor said that the machine merges not only two person's subconsciouses, but also their imaginations. This must be my mind seeping into the world were in right now."
"And of course, all there is are numbers and stuff. Geese Sockhead, can't you get a hobby?" Eddy said.
Edd just rolled his eyes and went to the ground. By then the world looked like a giant blueprint sheet; numbers and graphs started forming and even the floor had a grid on it.
"Getting in here was easy enough, but how am I supposed to get Eddy out?" He thought to himself. Even though he and Eddy's minds were connected, Edd couldn't make anything happen in the place. Unlike normal dreams, neither Edd nor Eddy could just think about something and have it come true. It was as if they were in a whole different reality.