Author's Notes: I know I'm very late again, I know! I apologize, I have had a severe case of writer's block. I need to fix that now, so I came up with this new chapter. A bit short, but I hope it makes up for that long delay I've had. And yes, now that the next crossover is appearant, I'll state that Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is copyrighted by Cartoon Network. Enjoy!

Chapter 11: The Strange Foster House

"This is it." Frankie said. "My home."

Everyone else gasped as they pulled into the driveway. It was no ordinary house. In fact, it was a mansion, a huge mansion. The doorways and windows where all arced and enormous, and the house itself was jut as colorfully designed as Frankie's bus was. It must have been as tall as twenty stories, with a piercing turret that could be seen for miles away. Indeed, this was no ordinary house.

"You live here?" Eddy asked. "Are you rich? What's your secret? Tell me!"

"Well, not really. I live here with my grandma." She said.

"Heh, you think there are imaginary friends, then you say you live in this weird house with your grandma?" Eddy asked. "Now, if that doesn't prove your nuts then-"

Eddy was quickly cut off when Double D elbowed Eddy.

"Well, we made it back to your home, so there's no need to worry." Double D said. "Make sure you stay in there for a while. If anything else happens, don't hesitate to call the police, ok?"

"Wait, you mean that's it?" Frankie asked.

Double D blinked. The rest of his friends seemed just as confused. "…well, we do have to go and look for something very important."

"Can it wait for a little bit?" Frankie replied. "I want to reward you guys for getting me out of that tough spot back there." She walked toward the front doors of the house. "Really guys, come on in."

The group looked hesitant at first.

"Eh, what's the harm." Eddy's brother said.

"Let's-a do this." Mario said.

The large group slowly proceeded their way toward the house's enormous doors. They must have been two stories tall all by themselves. Though the enormous place looked very expensive and luxurious, there was also no question that the house was also considerably very old. Frankie was definitely not it's first owner. The house must have been at least a hundred years old, possibly more or less.

Frankie reached into her pocket and pulled out her keys. Then, taking one of the many keys, and setting it through the slot, the door slowly creaked open.

The main foyer was big enough: a large chamber with marble floor. A large, elegant staircase that led up to the second floor, lined all the way by a red carpet. An old statue of an old woman's head to the left of the staircase, and an old grandfather clock to the right.

"…Wow." Koops said. "…I'll hand it to you, Frankie, this place has class…"

"Thanks." Frankie said.

"So, do you live here all alone?" Goombirro asked.

"Nah." Frankie said. "You won't believe how many imaginary friends live here."

Double D slapped his face. "Dearest Frankie, I think you may have gotten a bit of trauma from that incident at the diner."

"Oh, there you are!" an elderly voice said.

Everyone turned their heads and spotted an old woman walking toward them from behind a hallway. Her gray hair was curled up into a bun in the back, her green wool shirt looked warm and comfortable. She walked around with a cane and at a slow pace, and she was pretty short, no taller then Jimmy even.

"Hi, grandma!" Frankie shouted, launching herself on her grandmother.

"…you live with your grandma?" Eddy's brother asked.

"Eddy." Double D sighed, giving him an elbow nudge.

"Everyone, meet Madame Foster." Frankie said. "Grandma, meet everyone."

She gave a polite wave.

"So then, in order." Double D said. "I'm Double D, this is Jimmy, Rolf, Marie, Mario, Peach, Goombella, Goombirro, Koops, Koopie Koo, Punio, Petuni, Eduardo jr, Vivian, Ms. Mowz, TEC, Eddy, and last but not least…" Double D paused when he pointed to Eddy's brother. "….um…"

Eddy's brother hold out both hands. "Ok, is everyone going to stay quiet?"

Everyone there nodded. There was a few moments of silence. Eddy's brother sighed. "Ok, good. My name is-"

"WHOOOO!" a voice shouted from somewhere upstairs. "FRANKIE'S HOME!"

Eddy's brother looked just about ready to rip his hair off his head. "WHY?" he shouted.

"That one seems a bit loco, if you know what I mean." Madame Foster said.

There was a sudden bit of rumbling. It sounded like a series of people upstairs were all running toward the stairs.

"Oh, it's the imaginary friends now!" Madame Foster said.

"They're coming down to eat, probably." Frankie said. "I'm going to go into the kitchen to begin cooking… you guys… please take a step back. Some of the friends here can get really messy."

Double D folded his arms. "…we'll see."

The rest of the group took a step back, along with Madame Foster.

Double D looked up to the top of the stairs expecting to see a ground of kids running down the steps.

Suddenly, to the amazement of everyone in the chamber, a series allsorts of things began to rush down the stairs in a massive flood of colors: white and brown and teal and blue yellow and red, purple, green, it was a rainbow of friends. From dragons to chickens, clowns, knights, some looked like monsters, others like innocent dolls, some were towering over others, some were very small. Then there were the kinds of things that were left completely indescribable, only the creator seemed to understand what it was.

Double D clamped him hands over his mouth to keep himself from shouting in shock. Instead, he slowly fell back and fainted.

"…uh, is he ok?" he heard a voice ask.

"…think so." Another said.

"…why do you think he crashed like that? Sorry, but falling like that is not ok."

"Dunno."

Double D realized his was in a bed of some sort. He shot open his eyes and shot out of the bed.

"Whoa, you're awake!" the first voice said. "Great news, I thought you were in much worse shape!"

Double D looked around. He was in a strange room, oddly tall. He was in a bunk bed, and by the looks of it, the bottom bunk. There was a window nearby with sunlight pouring in. Two doors were on the walls of the room, one was open, leading into a closet with a strange, large nest in it. The other door was presumably back into a hallway or the foyer.

"…ow." Double D said. "Goodness me, I took quite a fall."

"You ok there, buddy?" the first voice asked.

Double D looked around for the source of the voice. "…yeah, I'm fine."

"Cool." the first one said. Double D finally saw the one talking to him. He must have been one story tall. His legs towered over Double D, and he was red from head to toe. His left arm was as tall as his legs, nearly reaching the floor (his right arm, however, seemed to have been amputated, because there were stitches at his right shoulder. The number "1" was on his chest. His face was wide, as was his smile. Both of his eyes were on stocks, (though strangely, his right eye stock was crooked, so he was probably blind in this eye).

Double D gasped. "…oh, um…"

The tall red one frowned. "Something wrong?"

Double D tried to be polite as he could. "Well, um…. It's just… I have never seen anything like you before… what are you?"

"Oh, I'm an imaginary friend!" he said. "You can call me Wilt!" The tall one held out a friendly hand, looking for a handshake.

Double D looked a bit nervous. "Imaginary friend?" Double D thought. "…how can that be? Is this my imagination? Or is this a new species? Or perhaps this has something to do with that other world I went too almost 4 years ago?"

Double D then realized that in all of his thoughts that he had not yet shaken the hand of the tall one. "Oh! Um, I apologize for my rudeness." He replied with a handshake.

"Oh, oh, is he alright?" another voice asked, coming from the other person in the room.

Double D realized this was not a human either. He was also huge, but not in height. Instead, he was very muscular. His entire body was covered in purple fur. Two horns came out of his head, and a purple, spaded tail cam from the back. He was wearing dark gray pants with a black belt with a skull for a buckle. His mouth was huge, with two huge fangs growing out. He had huge, wide-set eyes and a mono brow. Unlike the tall, friendly one, this one looked a bit more intimidating.

"Oh, my!" Double D exclaimed. He held out his hand, right in front of the intimidating one. If the creature were to attack, Double D could fire a blast.

This large one, however, thought that Double D was about to attack. He let out a terrified yell in a low voice and ran away. Double D, now confused, slowly lowered his arm.

"Uh…" Double D let out the moan. "……."

"Oh, it's ok Eduardo, it's ok!" Wilt shouted at the large one.

Double D tilted an eyebrow, placing both of his hands on the bed. "Eduardo?"

"Ahh! The sock-head one, he say my name!" the large one known as Eduardo shouted.

"It's ok, it's ok!" Wilt shouted, rushing over to help the big, yet terrified purple one.

Double D realized that Eduardo must have been more scared of Double D, then he was of him. Double D started to look around the room a few more times, but found the room empty.

"Oh… well, I'm sorry Eduardo." Double D said.

Eduardo slowly came a bit closer. "…oh… um, do you mean it?

"Why, yes." Double D said.

"Oh, yay!" Eduardo shouted, rushing at Double D.

"HEAVENS!" Double D exclaimed, before Eduardo grabbed him and gave him a rib-crushing hug.

"Yay!" Eduardo shouted. "Sock Hat and I are friends!"

Double D nodded, then turned to look at Wilt as his face turned blue. In a small, barely audible breath, he whispered: "Help me."

Wilt sighed. "Eduardo, that's enough for the hug."

Eduardo let go of Double D, who took a long deep breathe as he was allowed oxygen again.

"…so then, Wilt, and Eduardo." Double D said, adjusting his hat. "…um… do you know were my other friends are?"

"Oh, those guys?" Wilt asked. "Their down in the banquet hall eating lunch with the rest of the friends."

"Oh, that reminds me." Eduardo said. "Coco must be down there too!"

"Coco?" Double D asked.

"Oh, we share this room with her… and someone else. Come to think of it, Bloo has also been gone a while." Wilt said.

Double D got up from the bed. "…well, I better go and make sure they are all ok. I mean, we'll probably be on our way soon." He slowly began to walk toward the door.

"Ok, nice meeting ya!" Wilt said. "Oh, and can you do us a favor? If you see Coco or Bloo anywhere, can you send them here?"

Double D turned around. "…what do they look like?"

"Well, Coco looks like a cross between a bird, a plant, and an airplane." Wilt said.

"Yeah, and Bloo es Azul!" Eduardo stated. "He's a blue little blob, gets into trouble mucho tiempo."

"Yes, yes, I'll try." Double D said. "Um… nice meeting you, and goodbye!"

Double D didn't waste any time: he immediately bolted right out of the room and into the hallway.

"Geez, what were they?" Double D asked himself.

"…surely they could not have been figments of my imagination, for I could see them." he contemplated. "…perhaps they don't come from Earth. …perhaps this is up for speculation, but their strange and cartoon-esque features remind me of the same world Vivian comes from… perhaps, just perhaps, they may have some sort of connection."

The others had adapted to the interesting looking friends a little better.

"Oh, how delightful!" Peach said. "Some of these creatures are quite cute!"

TEC examines some of the other friends that were floating about. "…strange entities. These are quite unusual, even by my data. I am left compelled."

"Eh, I figure it's better not to question this kind of weird stuff." Marie said, kicked back in her own chair.

Ms Mowz was seated next to a rather not-so-cute friend nearby. In fact, this strange friend looked as though she were the result of a Picasso disaster. However, the gems that she was covered in caught the eyes of the little Mouse thief.

"Say there, missy." Ms Mowz said, approaching the jeweled ugly one. "…but where did you acquire those interesting gems?"

"Missy?" the one replied. "…how dare you insult me, Duchess! I'm not a "Missy," I am a Duchess!"

"Well, then…" Ms Mowz said, equally as offended. She turned her head back and spotted Eddy and Eddy's brother in the corner. Her sensitive ears picked up their conversation:

"So this house has got a lot of weird creatures." Eddy said. "…but more importantly, way more hiding places."

"Ah, I see." Eddy's brother said. "It will be easier to keep an eye on Goombella and Goombirro that way."

"Yeah." Eddy said. "…so bro, you brought those magazines like I asked?"

"Yup." Eddy's bro said. "They are all in the van. Come with me and I'll show you all you need to know about how to do this."

The two brother slowly walked out of the room.

Ms. Mowz sighed. "…what's this? Eddy and his brother, up to something?"

Double D was in the foyer, walking back and forth.

"Oh, Double D." he said to himself. "You brought back friends from another dimension, then enemies appeared here too, Nazz has been kidnapped, Kevin's missing, Ed, Sarah, Jonny, Lee, and May are all trapped in another dimension, me and my remaining friends have skipped school and ran away to stop Beldam, we've wound up at a foster house for unexplainable creatures… oh dear, what do I do?"

Double D looked up and suddenly heard running noises. He could hear some people running toward their front door. Double D began to walk toward the door, when suddenly, it burst open.

A boy no older then 8 years old, with brown hair, a red shirt, and green backpack ran in first. A blue, small little blob-looking creature rushed in next, and in the rear, a bizarre looking creature of a cross between a bird, airplane, and plant came.

Double D wondered why they were in such a hurry. He watched as the three of them jumped at the door and slammed up shut behind them. A second later, there was the sound of something banging on the door. It sounded like someone trying to attack them.

Double D immediately got up. "…what's going on, who is that?"

"I know you're in there, Mac!" a voice shouted outside. "Come and take your beating like a man!"

"Get lost, Terrance!" Mac shouted back.

"Who is Terrance, and who are you?" Double D asked.

"Hey Sockhead!" the blue one shouted. "Give us a hand!"

Double D ran to help block the door.

"Oh, I'll come back for you later, Mac!" the one called Terrance shouted. "Count on it!"

Double D looked through a peek hole, and spotted a tall kid. He had black hair and a mono brow. He also had tons of blemishes and a plaid red shirt. Judging by the way he talked and banged on the wall, he wasn't the nicest or smartest of people around.

Mac, along with his two imaginary friends gave sighs of relief.

"…so, what was that all about?" Double D asked.

"…Mac's mean older brother tried to beat him up again!" the blue one said.

"…oh wait, who are you guys?" Double D asked.

"I'm Mac, and this is my imaginary friend, Bloo." Mac said, gesturing to his blue friend.

"Coco!" the third one said.

"…pardon?" Double D asked.

"Oh, that's Coco." Mac said, pointing to the third one in the group. "…and Coco is all she can say."

Double D simply nodded. "…oh, two guys upstairs named Wilt and Eduardo wanted to see you."

"Yeah, we got to show them something super awesome we found!" Mac said.

"Coco!" Coco exclaimed in agreement.

"Let's get going!" Bloo shouted.

And just with that, the three of them were running up the stairs of the foyer. Double D was left there, to continue to question just what was going on.

"GUYS!" Bloo shouted, breaking into Wilt and Eduardo's room.

"Whoa, easy there." Wilt said. "Boy, you seem excited!"

"Oh, yeah!" Mac shouted. "We found some awesome thing!"

"Cool." Wilt said.

"Is it shiny?" Eduardo asked.

"Oh, it's very shiny!" Bloo said. "And it's gonna make us rich!"

"Coco-coco!" Coco shouted in agreement.

Mac placed his backpack down on the floor. The four imaginary friends around him all looked down in wonder.

Mac gave a laugh and opened up the pocket of his bag. "TADA!"

"Oooo!" they all shouted in wonder.

There, in his backpack, was a huge, glowing gem. Mac took it out, revealing the full sight of the item. It looked very shiny, and very old, too. It was a gem, a green gem, carved into the shape of a star, Though the item was clearly made of crystal, it was the color of emerald.

"Whoa!" Wilt said. "Now that's cool!"

"Where did you find that?" Eduardo asked.

"Bloo, Coco and I found the thing when we were looking at that crash site." Mac said. "We were going to bring it to the police, but when Terrance caught up with us, well, we had to make a run for it."

"The police?" Bloo asked, sounding distraught. "C'mon, Mac, baby!" Think off al the stuff we can get from this!"

"Yeah, Mac." Wilt said. "What are you going to do with that?"

"I don't know." Mac said. "…I guess I'll hide it for now. I mean, just until Terrance lets up. I'm sure he's still around here somewhere."

"Can I take it for a while?" Bloo asked. "I wanna exploit my richness in front of everyone!"

"No, Bloo!" Mac said. "…at least, not yet. I got to hide this thing."

Author's Notes: That is that. More is coming soon, hopefully my break won't be as long as that one, but to be truthful, I have no certainties. Please review in the meantime.