"This is not looking good. Edd and Ed only have 3 hours until we have to get them out of the machine."
"Doctor, come here for a minute."
"What's wrong?"
"Look at this. The three boys' brainwaves are fading. It's as if their minds are starting to vanish into thin air!"
"What on Earth is going on?"
Edd started panicking when he realized that he was still in Eddy's mind. He followed the "sky" to the right and eventually went in a full circle around the cul-de-sac. The sky was a dome made of a solid material, and he, Ed, and Eddy were trapped inside.
"I have to warn Ed about this!" he said to himself as he started flying back to Ed's house. He knew that if they were separated, the Eds would start facing their worst nightmares and experiences. He was almost out of the woods when he noticed Kevin next to one of the trees. Edd stopped and hid. He looked at Kevin and gasped in horror as the boy started to change shape. Kevin started growing taller and his skin started going pale. His hair turned from a buzz cut to straight, black hair that went down an inch past his ears. His green sweatshirt turned into a black overcoat and his eyes changed color from his regular brown to a misty white. Edd no longer saw Kevin walking behind the lane; he saw Painajainen. Wasting no time, Edd quickly flew as fast as he could to Ed's house.
"Almost there..." Edd said to himself. He saw out of the corner of his eye that Jainen spotted him. As if he was faster than lightning, Jainen suddenly appeared in front of Edd. Edd looked into his disturbingly blank eyes, and couldn't stop looking. They were peircing him, freezing him in place with their ice-cold stare. After a few seconds, Edd started falling, and he landed in a small, burning house.
Meanwhile, Eddy was walking over to school with the other "kids".
"So, what's this surprise you have for me at school?"
"You'll see" said Nazz.
"....Where'd Kevin go?" Eddy asked.
"Uh...He had to go get something at his house. Yea." said Jonny. Eddy noticed some nervousness in his voice, but just ignored it. He and the rest of the kids got to the school and went to the auditorium.
"Get up on stage and we'll surprise you!" said Rolf. Eddy, thinking he was going to have confetti or water balloons rain down on him, excitedly got up on stage. He waited for a bit and noticed that the other kids were gone. Suddenly, a spotlight turned on. Eddy looked up in horror to see the silhouette of a man in front of him, casting a large shadow over the short boy's body. And then he started to hear his parents' voices.
Ed was in his basement, reading his comics like he normally does when he can't play with Edd or Eddy. He was a little upset at Eddy's betrayal, but didn't exactly understand why he did it. He turned the page and started reading when he heard a knock on the door. The boy got up and started walking toward it. The person knocking became impatient and started pounding on the door.
"Hold on, I'm coming!" Ed said, slightly annoyed. He got to the door and saw his mother, who was staring daggers at him.
"Edward, you're coming with me mister!" she shouted as he grabbed Ed's ear and started dragging him upstairs. Ed was confused at his mother's sudden bitterness. She dragged him to the front door and outside of the house. To Ed's horror, he saw Sarah on the front lawn. A 50 foot tall Sarah, that is.
Edd woke up and saw fire all around him. It was his worst memory, and once again he was reliving it. He tried to move out of the way when the flaming plank of wood fell, but no matter where he went it managed to set his hair on fire. And no matter where he ran, he couldn't stop hearing the screams of his parents. Everywhere he went there was fire and the screams of his dying parents. Suddenly, the other kids appeared and saw his burnt, scared head. They started laughing at him, and it sounded just as bloodcurdling as his parent's screams. Edd curled up into a ball as he realized that no one was going to save him this time.
Eddy was standing in his brother's enormous shadow while he heard his parents comparing Eddy to him in every way. Their voices were harsh and scolding, and though Eddy's parents have been hard on him they were never this bad. It was as if they never wanted to have anything to do with Eddy since he was born. It was nearly unbearable, but Eddy knew it was either that or death. He was starting to wonder if dying was all that bad.
Ed screamed as Sarah picked him up and slammed him to the ground.
"Now play with your baby sister and don't you dare think about hurting her!" Ed's mom screamed as she went back into the house. Sarah was having a good time pounding Ed into the ground, much to the poor boy's suffering. The boy was strong as well as durable (How many people can run into a solid wooden fence and break right through it without a scratch?) but Sarah was always able to pound him into submission at regular size. Now she was delivering ground shattering punches that caused Ed to cough up blood.
"Edward! Clean up that mess immediately!" his mother's voice scolded. Ed took his jacket and started cleaning up the blood, finally having earned a break from Sarah's beatings. But right afterward she continued mercilessly pounding Ed into the ground.
Meanwhile, Painajainen was standing on top of a nearby cliff. Even though he couldn't see them, knew the three Eds were suffering yet he did nothing.. He just stared at the cul-de-sac with his disturbingly blank, expressionless face.
