Sorry I was a bit late, but here's Chapter 5!
Episode #5: I Get an Ed Out of You
We see a large pile of leaves that Jenna raked up on her lawn. Tired, she sighs with relief.
"That's my workout for the day!" she wipes the sweat off her face, then hears someone's giggling. She looks around, sees nothing, then hears the giggling again. Ignoring it, she proceeds towards her house. But just as she opens the door...
"YAHOO!!" we hear Zoe's excited scream, and Jenna turns around. She finds Zoe playing through the leaf pile, scattering the leaves all over the lawn, much to Jenna's chagrin.
"ZOE!" Jenna shouts. "I JUST MADE THAT PILE, SO BEAT IT!"
Zoe merely smiles... "But it's fun! Join me; raking em again's no big deal!"
"It IS for Mami and Papi, and I don't wanna hear their mouths." Jenna replies. "Now SCRAM!"
Jenna shoos Zoe away with her rake. Zoe runs until she reaches Paul's house near the corner.
"YO PAUL, WHATCHA DOIN?! she calls out as she goes up to Paul's front door, where she finds a note for her. She rips it off and reads it:
"Dear Cray-Z:
Ur a fun n sexy lil' thang, but I cant chill with ya 2day cuz I'm at my family reunion. Gramma would kill me if I didnt go. Sorry 2 disappoint u girl, but hey I promise 2 bring back sum goodies ;)
Ur homeboy, Paul!"
Then Zoe hears Julian's bellowing down the street...
Rolf is using Julian to pull a large carriage: "Make haste, Julian! The sooner Rolf gets these newcomers to the farm, the better!" but suddenly, Julian stops... "Julian, Rolf did not give you permission to stop!"
"Hiya, Rolf!" Zoe popped up in front of Rolf's carriage, which is why Julian stopped.
"Oh hello, nutty-as-a-fruitcake Zoe girl!" Rolf greets.
"What's in the carriage?" Zoe asks.
"You wish to see the passengers of the carriage?" Rolf asks in reply. "Very well, Rolf will show you! After all, it's thanks to you that Rolf's family learned of and desired these denizens of nature from the zoo!"
Rolf reveals what's inside the carriage: several horses, peacocks, and a llama. "Some fine equines for labor and honored old-country sports, peafowl for glamor, and a llama for fine wool!"
"Oh, goodie!" Zoe exclaims on top of Rolf's head. "I got this idea where we take the horses and-"
"Nooo no no." Rolf declines, dropping Zoe to the ground. "Rolf does not wish to experience de-ja-vu as a result of Zoe-girl's hyperactive noggin. Rolf must continue on now."
"Wait!" Zoe begs as Rolf continues on with the carriage, chasing after him. "I promise not to be reckless! I'lll even make sure- AH!" she trips over something...
... And sees it's a bananna peel. She picks it up, then sees several empty cans, a deflated basketball, apple cores, discolored papers and cigarette butts. In fact, the entire street is covered in trash!!
"I'll take that!" Jonny uses a litterstick to take the peel Zoe's holding, and drops it into a litterbag. Then he sees all the trash on the street... "Man, there's so much trash."
"Hey Jonny, how about we take all this garbage and build it up into a monster robot or somethin and go scare the crap out of everyone?!" Zoe suggests. "It'll be a total THRILL! Think of the lulz ratings!"
"Think of the evironment, Zoe." Jonny declines. "This crap's all over the place: on the streets, the park, and even the creek! And it's up to me to get rid of it. You could join anytime if you like!"
Jonny continues picking up trash, while Zoe sighs with boredom.
Zoe sits on her stoop with Sarah, Jimmy and Kyle, who's playing his guitar. Sarah and Jimmy move along to Kyle's melody, but Zoe just sits idly.
"What's the matter, Zoe?" Jimmy asks. "You love Kyle's music; it isn't like you to not move along to it."
"I know, I'm just bored." Zoe answers. "I HATE boredom! There's nothin to DO! I NEED to do somethin besides listen to guitar tunes all day! I wanna do somethin to get my ADRENALINE rushin!"
"How about you do some tricks with Sparky!" Kyle suggests.
"Mom and Dad took him to the vet." Zoe explains. "And my baby brother's asleep all the time, so I can't do nothin with him."
"Go find my brother and his buddies!" Sarah suggests. "I'm sure they're workin on some crazy scam as we speak!"
"OF COURSE, THE EDS ALWAYS GOT SOME CRAZY KICKS I'LL LOVE!! COME ON, LET'S GO!! YAHAHA!!" Zoe takes her friends and drags them along to find the Eds.
Double-D watches as Ed and Eddy press themselves against the candy store's window. Why? Because they're looking at one of the store's new items: Jawbreaker Minis, of which there are dozens of bags inside.
"Jawbreaker Minis!! So close, yet so far away..." Ed sulks.
"Geez Ed, why'd you have to spend your paycheck on chicken and gravy?" Eddy asks. "If you didn't, those Minis would be meltin in our mouths right now!"
"Well Eddy, you'd have money if you never got yourself fired by Rolf." Double-D says.
"Hey, that was stupid Wilfred's fault!" Eddy scoffs.
"Maybe so, but even if you did have money, why spend it on a few bags of Jawbreaker Minis when you could save up and purchase that fancy Murcielago you've always wanted?" Double-D asks. "The world doesn't revolve around mere candies, you know."
"But Double-D, the Minis are LIMITED STOCK!" Ed reasons.
"Ed's right, man!" Eddy says. "WE GOTTA GET SOME BEFORE THEY DISAPPEAR!"
"HEY, GUYS!!" Zoe speeds towards the Eds with her friends in tow, and they loudly crash! Double-D gets up and brushes the dust off his shirt. Jimmy and Ed are stuck together just like in "Stuck in Ed" until Ed pulls Jimmy out.
"Yeesh! Was that necessary, Zoe?" Double-D asks as the others get up.
"Sorry, I couldn't control my speed, hehehehe!" Zoe apologizes. "Now I'd like to talk small talk but I'm too BORED for that right now so let's cut to the chase!"
"Wait, you're bored?" Eddy asks. "Well we just happen to be broke, my friend! So today's a lucky day for all of us! I mean, it will be if you pay us some handsome cash!"
"You read my mind!!" Zoe gives Eddy 10 dollars. "THRILL ME, EDDY!!"
Eddy smirks: "As you wish!"
Jonny has finished picking up all the trash in the neighborhood.
"Whew, my work here's done!" he sighs in relief, but then he hears a speeding car. "Huh?..."
A car turns onto the street, and gyellow-wearing angsters pop out of its windows, holding out more trash!
"HAHAHAHAHA!!" the gangsters dump the trash all over the street (and Jonny) as they go by! One of them shouts "ANOTHA DAY'S SHIT DISPOSED OF! LET'S ROLL, BOYS!"
"HEY!!" Jonny chases after them, but they drive away and Jonny coughs from their car's exhaust. He takes out Plank from his backpack pocket: "You saw that, Plank? Who the hell do those guys think they are?"
"Them Acids think they're on top of the world." a voice answers. Jonny looks and sees several more gangsters, wearing orange. Their leader is black and wears an orange bandanna, a white jacket with orange sleeves, black jeans and boots, and a neck-chain.
"Don't you guys hang around that old warehouse past the stores?" Jonny asks. "I heard you're called Drupes."
"Yeh, we're Drupes. I'm Dave." Dave introduces himself.
"Well, I'm Jonny!" Jonny introduces himself. "And this is Plank!"
"... Uhhh, ok..." a Drupe says, thinking Jonny is wierd.
"So those guys were Acids? Who're Acids?" Jonny asks.
"The Acids are gangs from Lemon Brook." Dave explains: "They been wagin turf wars against us for years. They think they got our Peach Creek hub, so they dumpin their shit around like they own the place. They think they unbeatable, but they nothin but shitty little pussbags and we gonna drive em back before they go any furtha. But we need more Drupes here cuz them Acids aint lettin in Drupes from our otha hoods. You look like Drupe material, so how bout ya join and make the streets a betta place?"
"Hmmm..." Jonny thinks... "If it means gettin rid of those litterbugs, then I'm in!"
In the 2nd cul-de-sac, the Eds used junk to build a centrifuge-like ride called "EXTREME E-FORCE." At each end there's a pod that accomodates 2 people.
"Please put any loose items in the bin before you go in the ride." Double-D instructs. "And don't forget to buckle up!"
Zoe and Kyle sit in one pod with Sarah and Jimmy in the other. Zoe gives an enthusiastic thumbs-up once they're ready.
"Alrighty, then!" Eddy motions Ed to start the ride. Ed lifts the ride from its center and starts spinning. He spins faster and faster...
"WHHHOOOOAAAAA!!" Sarah and Jimmy are stuck to their seats.
"YES ED, SPIN FASTER!!" Zoe shouts in joy, so Ed spins even faster. "FASTER!!" Ed spins faster. "FASTER FASTER FASTER!!"
Ed spins the ride so fast that it becomes a blur and loosens the screws on Zoe's and Kyle's pod, causing it to fly off, crash through Jenna's house , and skid to a stop in her backyard!
"MY HOUSE!!" Jenna screams upon seeing the hole ripped through her house. Zoe and Kyle emerge from their totaled pod.
"WHOOO, THAT WAS FUN!!" Zoe exclaims, then offers Eddy 20 dollars. "GIMME MORE!!"
Meanwhile, Jonny talks with Plank in his room as he changes into orange clothes: "Will you stop already, Plank?................ Why shouldn't I join the Drupes? It's for a good cause, so gimme a reason not to........................ Pots callin kettles black? What does that even mean?............... No, the Drupes are NOTHIN like the Acids!......... Whatever, Plank; let's go. Stay in my bag so you don't get hurt."
Jonny puts Plank in his backpack and heads outside.
The Eds have built a huge wooden bucket-shaped pool called "MAELSTROM ABYSS." A staircase goes to the top, where there's a platform with a big waterslide that spirals down into the whirlpool below, which has pipes that pump water up to the slide. Pirate music plays as Double-D and Eddy wait at the top, dressed as pirates.
"Ahoy, mateys! Welcome to Maelstrom Abyss!" Captain Eddy greets as Zoe, Sarah, Jimmy and Kyle arrive in their swimsuits. Sarah's is the same. Jimmy wears white trunks. Kyle wears blue-&-pink boardshorts. Zoe wears a bright green bikini.
"Ahoy, Captain!!" Zoe greets excitedly.
"Yarr, now listen up!" Capt. Eddy explains the ride's rules: "Ye must slide down, dive into the whirlpool, and find the exit hatch! But be be quick, or else the Kraken will come and drag ye down to Davy Jones's locker! Yahahaharr!"
"Looks like fun!" Kyle comments.
"Ehehehe, most WICKED!!" Zoe exclaims, while Jimmy is unnerved by... "Th-The K-K-K-Kraken?..."
"Yarr! And just so ye don't hurt yer little legs on the way down, use these!" Double-D supplies swimtubes for the 4 kids.
"Gimme that!" Sarah snatches her tube and slides down. Jimmy hops into his tube but is too scared to slide down, so Kyle nudges him! Jimmy SCREAMS as he slides dwon, then Kyle slides down with a "KAWABUNGA!!"
"Screw the tube, I'M GOIN HARDCORE!!" Zoe discards her tube and slides down penguin-style! "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, WHOOHOOO!!"
"THERE YA GO, LASSIE!" Capt. Eddy cheers as Zoe belly-slides past her 3 friends and splashes down into the whirpool. When Sarah, Jimmy and Kyle splash down, Ed dramatically rises up from the whirlpool in a Kraken costume!
"RRROOOOOAAARRR!!!" Ed swooshes his tentacles around as the 4 kids swim against the whirlpool's pull to find the exit hatch.
"ANYBODY SEE THE HATCH!?" Kyle asks, dodging a tentacle.
"NOT YET!" Sarah answers as the whirlpool starts pulling them in. Ed grabs Sarah. "AH!!"
"NOO!!" Kyle and Jimmy are grabbed, then Zoe sees that there's no hatch in sight. Then the whirlpool sucks her underwater!
"OH, LORD!" Double-D panics. "DID YOU GUYS FORGET TO PUT THE HATCH!?"
"Take a chill pill, will ya?" Eddy says. "We put it underwater to increase the thrill factor!"
"WHAT!?" Double-D's eyes bug out in shock as Zoe opens the exit hatch at the bottom, causing all the water to BLAST out and Zoe, Sarah, Jimmy, Kyle and Ed are blasted out with it. The water surges through the hole in Jenna's house, washing her out through the back with everything in her house.
"IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT!!?" Double-D asks as he and Eddy head inside Jenna's drenched house. Ed's in the living room with Sarah on the ceiling fan above him, Kyle revives Jimmy via CPR in the hallway, and Zoe's in the kitchen.
"What a doozy!" Ed says, taking off his torn Kraken costume.
"Ok, I've had enough." Sarah says. Jimmy and Kyle reply "Ditto."
"I LOVED THAT, CAPTAIN!! But I still hunger for more!" Zoe says, pulling 30 dollars from under her bikini top!
"Are you serious, Zoe? Look at all the damage done to Jenna's house!" Double-D reasons.
"30 MORE DOLLARS!? I LOVE THIS GIRL!!" Eddy exclaims before seeing Jenna step inside, her teeth sharp with anger.
"GET... OUT... OF... HERE!!!" Jenna yells in rage, and everyone quickly runs out!
To be Continued...
Trivia: The names of the Drupes and Acids gangs are based on their towns of origin. Lemons are highly acidic citrus fruits, while peaches are classified as drupes (fruits that have their seeds encased in tough shells). Speaking of the Drupes, Dave is named after one of the show's storyboard artists, Dave Mah.
Character Inspiration: Zoe was by far the hardest OC for me to create because I couldn't find a good personality or base her off a single person. But over the years, I've met many girls that influenced Zoe's design. My 8-year-old niece is hyperactive from too much sugar. A close friend of mine frequently makes obscene remarks. One of my classmates hated boredom and always wanted excitement (unfortunately, this led her to drugs), and another classmate was really crazy (wild crazy). Her favorite word "wicked" is the source of Zoe's "most WICKED" catchphrase!
