Author's Notes: Yes, after another bit of a delay, I got this next one up at last. This may answer a few questions. I hope you enjoy this next piece!

Chapter 13: The Chaotic Plot

"Ok, so just do me a favor and run this by me." Eddy's brother said. "Exactly who is Jib?"

Eddy was still shaking a bit. "He was Ed's imaginary friend."

"Ed had an imaginary friend?" Eddy's brother asked. "What a weird kid."

"Yeah… but this Jib guy that Ed made. I don't remember too much about him… well, other then he was a jerk."

Eddy's brother raised an eyebrow. "And you think he exists?"

"Er… yeah. Somethin' happened to me a while back that makes me sure about it." Eddy said.

"…uh, and what was-"

Eddy held out his hand. "Well, I don't want to talk about it. Point is, that jerk's around here somewhere."

"Whatever this Jib guy is up to, I think we shouldn't get involved with it." Eddy's bro said. "As soon as everyone's done at the house, we're going to leave to go find the star. So Let's just finish up out practicing, and-"

"C'mon out, Jib!" Eddy shouted, pointing the unloaded slingshot in random directions. "I know you're there, you invisible… thing."

"Um, Eddy?" Eddy's brother asked, poking him on the shoulder.

"What!" Eddy asked back.

Eddy's brother sighed. He took one of the eggs from the box, and placed in on the slingshot. "Maybe you can scare them better with actual ammunition."

"Ok, ok." Eddy said.

Just then, he could hear footsteps approaching. Eddy gasped, and swung himself to face a corner. There was something coming from behind a corner of the house.

"Eddy, that's not cool." Eddy's bro said.

Eddy turned back to face his brother. "I know what I'm doing-"

"Hey!"

That shout was Eddy's cue. He quickly turned around without looking and fired the slingshot. Instantly, the egg hit it's mark, smashing in the unsuspecting face. She gave a shriek and slowly fell backwards, until hitting the ground. Her companion also gasped, as he could only watch her fall down on the ground.

Eddy gasped himself, not realized whom he had hit until the companion exclaimed: "Goombella!"

Eddy's eyes widened and his mouth fell open. "Oh crap! I can't believe it! Why didn't I at least hit Goombirro, he was standing right next to her!" He looked everywhere, looking for a solution. "Ok, Eddy, think fast."

"What the heck just happened!" Goombirro exclaimed.

Eddy looked over at his brother, and quickly threw the Slingshot at him. Eddy's bro rose his hand and caught it quickly.

"Uh…" Eddy's brother said. "…Oh, Goombella! Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was aiming."

Goombella slowly got back up, with her face covered in egg liquids. "…ew…"

Eddy rushed from his spot and stopped at Goombella's side. "Sorry, my bro isn't all that good with a slingshot. You know, kind of a klutz."

Eddy looked back up and spotted his brother, who gave a very angry face. Eddy replied with a sheepish smile before looking back at Goombella. "Oh man, are you ok?"

Goombella gave back a face of a little disgust. "…oh… I need to take a shower…"

"Want me to go and get you a towel?" Eddy asked.

Goombirro smiled. "No, I'll get it."

The two of them walked away from Eddy and back toward the house. Goombella walked back inside first. Goombirro, however, looked back toward Eddy. However, now his face was of anger.

"I hope you don't take me for an idiot." Goombirro said. "I saw you fire that right at her."

Eddy gasped. "…No, I mean…"

"First, you attack my girlfriend, then you frame someone else about it even though it's obvious that it's you. You're a real punk, you know that?"

"Look man, I'm real sorry." Eddy said.

"Just do us both a favor and stay as far away from Goombella as possible." Goombirro said, before rushing back into the house.

Eddy gritted his teeth. "Oh, that jerk!"

Though his response was a quick slap on the head. Eddy, now with a brand new red mark on the back of his head, turned around to face his brother. "What's the big idea?"

"I should ask you the same!" Eddy's brother shouted. "You owe me big-time now, baby bro."

"Bro…" Eddy asked. "Give me the slingshot."

"What for?" his elder brother replied.

Eddy looked back up at his bro. "I got a score to settle. To both Jib and Goombirro."

Mac led the group into Bloo's room. Mac and Goo walked in first, followed by Double D, Vivian, and Eduardo jr. Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo were all also in the room, sitting around.

"Oh, hello there." Wilt said. "Welcome back, guys."

Mac still had a look of distress on his face.

"What's the matter?" Wilt asked.

"…hey, do you mind if we talk to Mac alone?" Double D asked.

"Uh… sure, ok." Wilt said.

"Wilt, what's going on with them?" Eduardo asked.

"Not sure, but we better let them sort this out." Wilt said.

Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo got up from where they were sitting and quickly walked out of the room, shutting the door behind them.

Double D turned toward Goo. "Uh, Goo, I think you may need to go now as well."

"We don't need to hide this from everyone, you know." Vivian said. "I'm pretty sure you told me that is was not good to hide things that are important."

Double D nodded. "Alright. Goo can stay too."

"Alright!" Goo said, with a feeling of victory.

"So then, are you going to tell us the story?" Eduardo jr said.

"If you are, then let me go and get my camera! I want to remember this." Goo said.

Mac shrugged. She quickly sprinted out of the room, and returned only a minute later, busting through the door. Propped up against her shoulder, she had a huge film-camera. She had both of her hands in the front, holding a black bar that connected the lens to the camera itself. On the top where two large canisters that were used to hold a reel of film. In all, this camera seemed very outdated.

"…what an old thing." Double D said, looking at the camera.

"Yeah, it belonged to my dad, and it's been in the attic forever." Goo said. "You like? It's a 16mm. The film is black and white, though, but it's got a mic."

"Alright." Mac said.

Double D began: "Well, you see… it all began-"

"Wait." Vivian said. "Why tell them when you can show them?"

Double D rose his eyebrow. "We can't just take them all the way to-"

"With the Eye of Wisdom. Remember what Rolf did before, when he used it to project memories." Vivian said.

"Oh, right." Double D said. He reached into his pocket, and revealed the small eye-carved golden item.

"Whoa, cool, what is that?" Goo asked, walking toward Double D.

"Gather around." Double D said. "I'm going to tell you guys a story that happened to us three years ago."

Mac got up as well, as the 5 of them surrounded the Eye of Wisdom, which was left on a nearby table.

"…before, I start, is everyone ready?" Double D asked.

They heard a click on the camera, followed by the sound of the film rolling in Goo's 16mm. "Ok, ready." She said.

For a brief moment, the only sound they could hear was the camera rolling. After a while, Double D approached the table, and put his hand on the Eye of Wisdom.

As soon as he did, it began to give a glow.

"What the heck?" Mac asked.

The glow suddenly began to grow brighter and brighter. It began to blind everyone who was standing there.

"Ow, ow!" Eduardo jr exclaimed, covering his eyes. Mac watched in amazement as Goo closed her eyes.

"What's going on?" Mac asked.

As the light faded away, they had all noticed something strange. Each and everyone one of them had the symbol of the Eye of Wisdom on their heads. Even Goo's 16mm had the symbol on the eyes on both of film reels, indicating that it was also picking up the images.

The next thing that they realized was that none of them were in the room anymore. Instead, they were all standing on a stone ground. There was a few rails nearby, and some salt-water flowing on the other side of the rails. They were all standing near a dockside.

"…what is this place?" Goo asked, examining the area with the 16mm.

"This is Rogueport." Double D said. "My story begins here. This was almost 4 years ago, back when I was 13."

Double D pointed to the side of the dock, where a small, battle-scarred sailboat was being anchored. There was Double D and Nazz, at ages 13 and 12.

"…is that… you?" Mac asked. "…but how? Double D!" he turned toward Double D. "How are you doing all this?"

"It'll be explained as the story moves along."

All of them walked closer toward Double D and Nazz's younger selves, Goo leading, getting the camera very close to Double D's face.

"…uh, Goo." Mac asked. "Don't you think he'll get mad?"

"Nope." Double D said. "…this is just a memory, so we can't effect it be seeing it."

"Rougeport?" Nazz asked. "Never heard of this place."

"I personally don't like the name. It's probably best if we remain prepared for anything around here." the Younger Double D said. They jumped out of their boat. "Nazz can you help me for a second? I want to secure a rope so we don't loose our ship."

The watched in pure awe as the entire journey began to play out before their very eyes...

Bloo watched on from behind the window as the conversation went on between Terrance and Masque.

"So, all of those annoyances aside…" Masque continued. "…you ready to carry out that idea?"

"Oh yeah." Terrance said. "Now more then ever, we're gonna do it. Mac and all his dumb friends are going to pay."

"Good, good." Masque said. "Now, don't you remember the full plan?"

"Of course I do." Terrance said defensively.

"I want to make sure you don't screw things up." Masque said. "Tell me everything I told you before."

Terrance place his hands on his hips, letting the breeze brush against his hair as he spoke. "…so, at dawn, we show up here, right? And I'll bring that little suitcase you told me to bring. We'll go into the back and release all of those extreme-whatever imaginary monsters, and they'll go running into the house. We'll cause all sorts of chaos!"

Bloo's mouth went agape.

"Good, good." Masque said. "At least I know you're not a complete idiot."

"Hey, shut up." Terrance said. "I'm not an outlaw like you, buddy."

"An outlaw and an idiot." Bloo thought. "And all this time, I thought they were both."

"All you got to do is show up tomorrow with the suitcase." Masque said. "Can you at least handle that?"

"Yeah, sure." Terrance said.

"You better not fail me, kid." Masque said.

Terrance walked away, giving a sinister laugh as he walked off and back down the street.

Bloo ignored Terrance, keeping his main focus on Masque. He watched as my mysterious person walked around the yard.

"…that idiot." Masque said. "He thinks I was to cause mere mischief and chaos. I can't believe that he just thinks I'm here for little meaningless pranks."

Bloo's eyes watched around as Masque began to pace back and forth.

"Those… morons." Masque said. "Yes, we will release extreme-o-saurses into the house. …but what he doesn't realize is what comes next."

Masque rose his hands from his cloak, shaking them as he did. "…in the midst of all the chaos, I'll run on in and take her. Oh, how long I have finally awaited this opportunity."

"Her?" Bloo asked.

Masque gasped. "Who's there?"

Bloo quickly ducked under the window. Masque looked around, but saw nobody around. After a few seconds, Masque shrugged.

Bloo slowly got back up, and continued peeking out the window. "Whew, that was close."

"…and after I get her." Masque resumed. "I can finally take down this house, once and for all."

Bloo's eyes widened. "He's… planning to destroy the house and kidnap some girl?"

Bloo slowly sank down onto the ground. "Oh man, oh man, oh, boy."

He had a horrified expression now. He leaned against the wall, looking down as he sat.

"Ok, ok." Bloo said. "Local bully and criminal have joined forces. They want to kidnap someone and destroy the house, and I'm the only one that knows it."

Bloo could hear Masque walking away from the window, but Bloo no longer cared.

"Everyone who lives here in in danger." Bloo said. "Including those guests. Oh boy, what do I do?"

"THIS IS ENOUGH! I WILL DESTROY YOU FOOLS!"

All four of the remaining younger versions of Rolf, Eddy, Double D, and Vivian glanced back at the shadow queen, the most evil being in this dimension. Meanwhile, the current Double D, Vivian, Eduardo jr, Mac watched from a distance, although Goo, being fascinated, stood alongside the younger versions while holding the 16mm steady.

"I think I speak for us all when I say just how much we hate you. Never in all my years have I seen such a horrid demon! You are worse then anything!" the Young Double D shouted. (the older one blushed, a bit embarrassed about how he saw himself) "TAKING INNOCENT LIVES!"

"Oo!" Goo shouted, keeping the camera pointed at the Shadow Queen's face. "Thisisjustlikeamovieonlyit'snotamovie'causeit'srealandsoamazinghowdidyouguysdealwiththisqueendemon?"

"So this is what happened when I was out cold." Eduardo jr said. "…cool."

Mac only stood there during the entire event, watching the past that was unfolding before his eyes.

As they all watched in awe, the scene continued:

"Is this a trick?" the demon asked.

All three of the spell-casters began to glow. Energy was radiating from them all, forcing Rolf to take another step back.

"Take this!" the three of them shouted in unison.

Suddenly, all four of them where enveloped in a tower of light, that blinded the shadow queen. Goo had to take a step back herself, forgetting for a moment that it was just a projection. She continued to keep the film rolling all the while.

"Oh!" Goo shouted. "Ibethisisthepartwhereyouguysdefeatedherhuh?"

However, there was the sudden call of "MAAAAAC!"

Mac turned around, looking about the projection. "…Bloo? What is he doing here?"

Just as Mac asked that question, all of the scenery suddenly flashed and was gone. The sights, the noises, the battle, all vanished, being replaced by Bloo's bedroom. All of the symbols of the eye of Wisdom vanished from their heads and from the 16mm.

The door burst open, and Bloo rushed into the room in a hurry, rushing toward Mac.

"Aw, and right at the best part." Goo said disappointedly, still rolling.

Mac looked at a nearby clock. It was about 7:20PM. Double D's story had gone on for 5 hours, but he left like he had been watching it for over a day.

"Bloo, what is it?" Mac asked.

"It was Terrance!" Bloo shouted. "I saw him outside! And he was with Masque!"

Everyone in the room watched Bloo as he sat down on the bottom bunk. They all exchanged serious faces.

"Bloo, are you serious?" Mac asked. "What happened?"

"They said, they are going to come here when the sun comes up tomorrow. They're going to being some sort of suitcase, and release extreme-o-saurses into the house!"

"Whoa." Mac said. "That's big."

"What is an extreme-o-saurus?" Eduardo jr asked.

"It's an imaginary friend, but they are actually monsters without brains that attack anything that moves. They are kept locked up out back." Mac said.

"But that's not the worst of it!" Bloo shouted. "Masque is going to kidnap some girl, then destroy the house!"

"What?" Mac asked, not on full alert.

"It's true!" Bloo shouted.

"Masque is trying to get Frankie, I'm sure about it." Double D said.

"…are you sure?" Vivian asked.

"Yeah, it's got to be it." Double D said. "…but why? Why does he keep trying to reach Frankie. Why does he want to destroy Foster's Home?"

"And what's my brother want out of all of this?" Mac asked. "I mean, he's always been low, but not that low… has he?"

"Bloo, for the last time, are you sure you heard them right?" Double D asked.

"I'm so positive!" Bloo shouted. "What do we do?"

"I got to tell everyone." Double D said.

"No!" Mac shouted. "If we let them all know about it, we'll cause widespread panic."

"…then what do we do?" Vivian asked.

They all sat down, and began to think. The room was almost silent, save for the sound of the 16mm still rolling.

"Wait." Goo said. "I think I got an idea."

She got back up, taking the 16mm and setting it on a nearby table. She then got back up and began to pace back and forth across the room.

"You still got your powers from that Eye of Wisdom thing, right?" Goo asked. "Well, can't you and Vivian and Eduardo jr use your fighting abilities to fight those guys?"

"That's a bit risky." Double D said.

"Like we have a choice?" Eduardo jr asked.

"I'm in… if you're ok with this." Vivian said.

"Fine, fine." Double D said.

"Listen, guys." Mac said. "I know how important that Crystal Star thing is to you guys. If you manage to protect this house from those two, I'll give you the star."

"Deal." Double D, Vivian, and Eduardo jr all said at the same time.

"I'm going to tell all of our friends." Eduardo jr said. "They got to know about this too."

"I don't think we should." Double D said. "This is too early to make them all put up with it."

"So then it's up to the six of us?" Goo asked.

There was a bit more silence.

"Yeah." Vivian said.

"…ok, so I missed a lot of stuff." Bloo said. "What's with this weird magic eye and star business?"

Goo walked back to the 16mm and stopped the recording. She picked up the camera and walked back toward Bloo. "I'll get the film on the computer and I'll show you the entire thing."

Goo and Bloo walked out of the room. Mac lay down in the bed, giving a sigh. "This has been a lot to take in."

"…well, now you know." Double D said. "I know you have learned a lot… and now you realized that star you have is one of the most important-"

"I know, I know." Mac said. "…I just feel like I just got this huge burden."

"…you going to be ok?" Eduardo jr asked.

"Yeah, I just need some time." Mac said.

"Alright, let's go." Double D said. "We got a lot of planning to do."

They all walked out of the room, leaving Mac alone. He rolled in he bed, placing his face into the pillow. Then, he gave another sigh and slowly fell asleep.

"…is it safe?" A small voice asked.

"Coco."

The closet door burst open, making Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco all spill out.

"Sorry, but that hurt." Wilt said. "Though it's a good thing those secret passageways were built."

"Cococo." Coco quickly jabbered.

"Yeah, I know." Wilt said. "We were all there, we all got to see what they saw, right?"

"Si." Eduardo said. "I cannot believe it all."

"But man, did you see all of that cool stuff they showed us?" Wilt asked.

"Oh yeah, that sock-hat hombre was muy lucky to have seen all those cool places." Eduardo said.

Eduardo nodded. "Yeah, Glitzville, Fhar Outpost, Petal Meadows."

"And The Excess Express, and Twilight Town, and Keelhaul Key." Wilt said.

"Coco, coco, coco."

"Oh yeah, those places too." Wilt said. He suddenly, however, frowned. "…but let's get serious, ok? Those no-good people are going to do terrible things here soon."

"Si, I es muy frightened!" Eduardo exclaimed.

"We all are." Wilt said. "…but we got to do something too, right?"

"Right." Eduardo said, with Coco nodding beside him.

"Hm…" Wilt said in thought. After a few seconds, he snapped his fingers. "Oh! I got it, the perfect plan!"

Author's Notes: That's it for now, though more is on the way. In the meantime, I would appreciate your comments and questions. Thanks for reading!