Here's part 2, ready for reviews. I squeezed in a lot, so it may be a bit on the long side.
And another OC from Epic Ed-venture returns, in a differnent incarnation...
Students enter the cafeteria to eat lunch. Today, the cafeteria is full of college medical students, wearing white uniforms. They are surveying the high school students' lunches under the supervision of their professors and Principal Antonucci.
One of the medical students resembles Nazz, but has brown hair with red twin-bangs and a ponytail. "Ok guys, remember! Don't go overboard on those calories!"
Nazz herself approaches Ian's table: "Easy girls, one at a time! One at a time!" Ian tells the amorous girls who are all over him while he eats! But when he sees Nazz... "Whoa!..."
"Hey, Ian! Let's eat together!" Nazz says as she approaches.
"Um, sure! But..." Ian, turned off by Nazz's fat, makes a lie and hides his tray: "Uh, I gotta go get my lunch first. I'll be back!"
Ian zips away, with his "harem" chasing after him with high-pitched screams! Jenna comes and tells Nazz "he ain't comin back."
Nazz sulks: "It still isn't enough..." so she goes to the lunch line. Today's serving is porkchops, carrots and rice. After she eats her tray in one go...
"...Nazzarine?..." the medical student resembling Nazz approaches her.
"Erin, oh my God! What are you doing here?!" Nazz asks, suprised.
"Medical school nutritional survey." Erin answers. "Now I got a question for you. You're gaining weight again, and you know that's bad for you. So why are you overeating after all the dieting lectures your mom and I gave you?"
"I know, but.. well... you see..." Nazz tries reasoning with Erin. Meanwhile, the other boys get their food in the lunch line while Double-D presents his prepared lunch for Ed: "Here you go, Ed! A nice n juicy ham-&-cheese sandwich, a fresh apple, salad complete with dressing, a high-calorie granola bar, and 100 percent fruit punch!"
"I... don't like granola..." Ed says, but Double-D tries encouraging him: "Ed, beggars can't be choosers, so you have to eat."
"Ok..." Ed tries eating the apple, but he can barely bite through it so he (weakly) tosses it aside. He tries the salad, but he doesn't like it and spits it out.
"How about some ham?" Double-D gives the sandwich to Ed. He takes a bite, but then discards it: "Ohhhhh... It's just not the same..."
The boys come with their trays, and see Double-D feeding the fruit punch to Ed.
"Any luck, Dr.D?" Eddy asks.
Double-D nods: "As much as I'd hate to admit it, but no."
"Oh, Godammit!" Eddy points Ed's face towards his so they look eye-to-eye: "Look, Skeletor! Unless you wanna rot away, you gotta eat somethin." Eddy gives Ed his porkchops: "There's no chicken, but we got porkchops and that's the closest thing to chicken we got right now. So eat up! Guys, let's all give our porkchops. Ed needs em more than we do."
"Right." Kevin, Rolf, Jonny and Paul give their porkchops to Ed. But he doesn't eat, so Eddy force-feeds him, shoving porkchops into his mouth. But Ed doesn't chew and it slips out! Eddy gets impatient.
"Ed come on, chew!" Eddy tries again, but Ed still doesn't chew. "FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, CHEW!!" Eddy manipulates Ed's jaws to make him chew: "See, meaty meaty porkchops! Ain't it good?! Now swallow!" Ed doesn't swallow. "Swallow, Ed!" Ed still doesn't, so Eddy uses a plunger to force it down Ed's gullet: "THERE! SWALLOW, DIGEST, AND TAKE A SHIT!!"
Ed chokes on the porkchops and SPEWS it out at Eddy and the boys, sending them flying and sticking them to a far wall, cracking it upon impact! Having been so weakened, Ed can barely stand now. Erin sees this while leading Nazz out of the caferia: "Oh, dear lord... Is that you, Ed?"
"...E-E-Erin?..." Ed whimpers. Double-D, Eddy, Kevin, Rolf, Jonny and Paul shout "ERIN!!" as they have met her before.
"My God..." Erin tends to Ed and calls for help: "SOMEBODY CALL AN AMBULANCE!!"
Principal Antonucci and Erin's peers gather around Ed. The Kankers and goths watch from their table in worry.
"Whoa..." Bill utters in shock, then May loses it: "I GOTTA DO SOMETHING! BIG ED NEEDS ME!!"
May leaps from her table and takes a few seconds to regurgitate (yes, REGURGITATE) a whole chicken! But while she was regurgitating, Erin and her fellow medical students have already taken Ed away from the cafeteria along with Nazz. May tries to follow, but Antonucci stops her.
"May, everything's gonna be ok! Edwin's gonna be nursed back to health!" he tells May but she tries forcing her way past him, screaming Ed's name as her sisters and Rachel jump in to help Antonucci restrain her. May continues struggling against them to the point where she finally goes into emotional breakdown, hysterically screaming and crying for Ed!!
Erin takes Ed and Nazz into the nurse's office, keeping Nazz at her side while seating Ed: "I'm calling the hospital for you now, Ed." she heads over to the phone on the other side of the office. Ed tries moistening his dry lips by licking them, which causes his also-dry tongue to disintegrate cartoon-style!
"Belly... dying... So... hungry..." Ed weakly utters, but then he smells something... "That's... that's the smell of..." Ed musters up enough energy to follow the smell, leading him out of the nurse's office and past a hallway corner towards 2 shadowy boys, the same ones from the end of the first part of this episode. We see their outlines more clearly this time: One is big and burly with stubby legs and only a small tuft of hair, while the other has a skinnier physique and has messy neck-length hair. The skinny one is holding the source of the smell, a jar of gravy!!
"Gravy! Is that... gravy?!" Ed asks in exhaustion.
"You betcha! Come n get it, Big Ed!" the skinny guy shakes the gravy in his hand to entice Ed, who snatches it and gulps it down!
"Ahhhhh, YES!!!" Ed is instantly revitalized by the gravy! "Any more?"
"Todd, get the chicken out." the skinny guy instructs te burly guy.
"Where is it, big brother?" Todd asks.
"In yer pocket, ya dumb shit." the skinny guy (the older brother) reminds Todd.
"Oh ok, ehehehe!" Todd takes the chicken from his pocket as he and his brother emerge from the shadows to give the chicken to Ed. Both are pale-skinned. The older brother's messy hair is brown and he has a thin beard. He wears a white tanktop, ripped blue jeans, and white sneakers that look worn-out. Todd's tuft of hair is brown, and he has a tooth jutting from his lower jaw. He wears a beige vest, and the same jeans and sneakers as his brother. He offers the chicken, and Ed quickly devours it as if he hasn't eaten in days!
"Ya like that?" the older brother asks. "Good, cuz we got plenty more where that came from!"
"You got more?" Ed asks, drolling in hunger.
"That's right!" the older brother answers. "But they ain't free like the treats we just gave ya. Let's say... ya do us a few favors, and we'll reward ya for each!"
"Yes, I'll do anything!" Ed complies.
The next day, Ed has fully recovered, and May is happy to see this. She hugs Ed: "EEEEEEEE, I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE OK!! I WAS SO WORRIED!!"
"GIRL GERMS!!" Ed runs screaming, running through walls and leaving Ed-shaped holes in his wake. Later in gym class, the boys, wearing their basketball jerseys, are suprised to see Ed back at full health!
"OK LET'S PLAY, GUYS!" Ed leaps up with renewed energy.
"Hold on, Ed." Double-D stops Ed for a moment: "Yes I'm happy for your recovery, but... where were you yesterday after school?"
"Oh, I was at-" Ed is interupted by the boys calling him out to play basketball with them, so Ed goes, telling Double-D "I'll tell you later."
Later, the boys get onto their bus to go home, but when it leaves...
"Hold on a sec, where's Ed?" Eddy asks.
"Armpit told me he had business with Ray Ray." Paul answers. "But the funny thing is, I just noticed Ray Ray's car right there in front of us." he points out Rachel driving in front of their bus, taking the Kankers home.
At Ed's house, his mom and Sarah check the time, 7:12 PM. They're concerned, and Mom worries: "Edwin's always home by six. What if something happened? Stan, we need to do something."
"Don't jump to conclusions, Angela." Ed's dad (Stan) tells his wife (Angela) while watching TV: "He's probably out havin chicken and gravy in some secret hiding spot, which is pretty likely after what you did."
Ed comes in: "Ok, I'm back!..." he tries making up an excuse: "Just, um... I was playing games with Eddy at his house and... we lost track of time! Ehehe!"
"See, there ya go, dear!" Stan tells Angela. "Now could you whip me up some buttered toast?"
The next day after school, Ed once again isn't on the bus ride home.
Lee works at a supermarket called "Dickie's," and her uniform consists of a blue shirt and a white apron imprinted with the market's logo. Her job is a cafe worker, which she wears a hairnet for. She sees that they're out of bread for sandwiches.
"Hold on guys, lemme get more bread." Lee tells her fellow employees, going into the storage room to get more bread. Upon entering the storage room, she sees a slightly bony figure making off with several bags of bread. She immediately charges: "HEY, STOP!!"
The bony guy runs out through the back door, tripping as he makes his escape. From his tripping, Lee sees that it's actually ED, and she gasps in utter shock!!
The next day in school, Ed is absent, again upsetting May. Lee tells Double-D in the hallway...
"B-B-But Ed would... he'd NEVER do duch a thing." Double-D says in denial.
"I hate to break it to ya, but that's the truth." Lee replies sincerely. "He's lucky us Kankers like him enough to not call the cops on him."
Double-D tells Eddy in class: "..... No, no no no. I know Lumpy would NEVER do somethin THAT stupid." Eddy says in disbelief. "Why the hell would he-"
"Shhh, nobody can know about this." Double-D covers Eddy's mouth. They continue their conversation on the bus:
"We gotta find Ed ASAP." Eddy whispers to Double-D.
"I just don't understand... unless..." Double-D whispers a theory: "Ed was always good at heart, so there must be some kind of reason he did what he did."
"So, any guesses?" Eddy asks. Then their bus suddenly weighs down...
"Ok, boys and babes. Make room for Nazzilla." Paul clears people aside for Nazz to squeeze into the bus. Now she's so fat that her clothes are stretched to near-ripping and her fat squishes everyone against the walls of the bus as she heads to her seat in the middle with Jenna, squishing her and forcing her head through a window.
"I hate when she doesn't listen to her family." Jenna remarks as the bus moves out, and with her head sticking out the window, she's rammed against numerous signs as the bus takes them home!
"Ian keeps rejecting me. Why, am I not MEATY enough, hmm?!" Nazz shouts in frustration, rocking the bus with each word: "WHY-WON'T-HE-AKNOWLEDGE-ME?!!"
The bus snaps in half under Nazz's weight and caves-in through the street, holding up traffic and forcing everyone to walk home!
While walking home, Double-D and Eddy take a shortcut through the trailer park.
"Double-D, we wouldn't have to go through this damn trailer park if you never objected to using the van to go to school." Eddy scoffs.
"Oh don't complain, walking is good.' Double-D replies. "Besides, it means less exhaust fumes being pumped into our atmosphere."
Then they hear Ed nearby: "Ok, can I have the gravy now?"
Double-D and Eddy discover Ed hanging up clothes for the brothers, who smoke weed while relaxing on deckchairs near their trailer. Eddy identifies the brothers as: "Chaz and Todd. I should've known it'd be those 2 assholes behind all this."
Ed is turning bony again, but Chaz tells him "Just one more task, boy. Go steal us some pasta from Dickie's."
"I can't, I almost got busted last time." Ed reasons, but Chaz asks "Ya want chicken n gravy, don't cha?"
"Don't listen to him, Ed." Eddy and Double-D arrive. Eddy reasons "These guys are just using you!"
"Big brother, what do we do?" Todd asks Chaz, who answers "Nothin. If Ed listens to em, he won't get what he wants!"
"Oh ok, ehehe!" Todd chuckles, and Ed sweats.
"Ed, please!" Double-D begs: "Stop this, you're a good person! Think of the consequences! Think of how badly these 2 are changing you!"
"Ya need us, otherwise ya gonna starve!" Chaz tells Ed, who looks conflicted.
"Ignore him, Ed. Come with us and let em do their shit themselves!" Eddy shouts, and Chaz gets tired of him and Double-D: "GET EM, TODD!"
"I'm on it, big brother!" Todd grabs Double-D, but Eddy uses his small size abd agility to hold his own until Todd grabs his and Chaz's trailer and slams it onto Eddy. This alerts May in her bedroom, and she watches the commotion outside...
"TODD, YA DUMB SHIT! YOU'LL WAKE UP PA LIKE THAT!" Chaz scolds Todd for using their trailer as a weapon. Todd apologizes as he takes Eddy.
"EDDY, DOUBLE-D!!" Ed tries to help, only to get grabbed by Chaz from behind: "Ok, listen up. If ya stop workin for us, Todd will beat yer little friends til they nothin but pulp."
Ed reverses the hold on Chaz! "I'M DONE WITH YOU GUYS! I'D NEVER PICK MY FAVORITE FOOD OVER MY FRIENDS!!"
But Ed's hold weakens, and Chaz merely replies "What a shame... cuz without chicken, gravy n butter, yer NOTHIN!" he takes advantage of Ed's weakened state and beats him into the ground. May seethes with rage as Chaz beats Ed and Double-D & Eddy suffocate in Todd's arms. Todd laughs as Chaz presses Ed's head under his foot, mocking "I AM ED, BIG AND RETARDED! I AM ED, THE FOOTBALL-PLAYIN ROCKSTAR AND SCIFI FREAK! I AM ED, WHO CAN'T LIIIIIIIIIVE WITHOUT-"
"ME!!!" May kung-fu KICKS Chaz in the jaw and sends him flying into Todd's stomach, releasing Double-D and Eddy while the brothers fly into their trailer, sending it somersaulting to the edge of the trailer park and flattening them under it!
Exotic jungle music plays as Ed, without his jacket and still reeling from his beating by Chaz, slowly regains focus and finds himself in a makeshift, candle-lit shrine made for him. He sees a shadowy, chicken-like figure rise up and dance around him, combining gymnastics with chicken movements that mesmerize Ed. He sits entranced as May (in her chicken outfit) dances circles around him, wraps her arms around his shoulders, and does a handspring over his shoulders towards the makeshift Ed replica, which is holding plates of buttered toast and a gravy jar in its hands. May brings them to Ed before regurgitating the chicken on a third plate, laying it in front of Ed to complete the meal. She kneels before him, and Ed sees that it's actually HER!!!
"I cleaned the dirt off your jacket; it's on the sofa downstairs." May informs. "But eat this first! You need it!"
".........M-M-May?..." Ed chokes out. "Is this... for..."
May bobs her head and nudges the meal closer, gently urging him to "Feast!"
Ed is speechless as he looks into May's eyes. Then... he gives a tiny hint of a smile before grubbing down the meal May prepared for him. Then he zips out of the closet, out of the Kankers' room, down the stairs, and grabs his jacket before zipping outside. Eddy and Double-D are gettng up and coughing up dust from the ground.
"Ack, Todd's armpits smell worse than Ed's." Eddy turns and sees Ed back at full health: "Dude, YOU'RE OK AGAIN!! How'd ya-"
"I... don't know how to explain." Ed answers. "But I'd rather not anyway. Besides, I got unfinished business."
Ed approaches the brothers as they squeeze themselves from under their flipped trailer. They look at him in terror, then WHAM!!!
The next morning, Angela, having decided to lift her suspension of Ed's favorite foods, gives him and Double-D buttered toast on the couch. As they eat, Ed tells something into Double-D's ear:
"....... Aww, what a good Samaritan she is!" Double-D replies. "And don't worry Ed, your secret's safe with me, because..."
Double-D tells his crush on Marie into Ed's ear, and he replies "Aww!"
"GUYS, HURRY UP OR WE'LL MISS THE BUS!" Eddy calls from outside. They join him, but then they scream "WHOA" upon seing...
NAZZ!! Now's she's so fat that her arms and legs no longer reach the ground and her clothes no longer fit, but she's covered with a sheet as she's carried on a stretcher to be loaded into an ambulance. Nazz's mom and Erin watch as Nazz is carried to the ambulance. Nazz's mom also resembles her, but has dirty-blonde hair and creases under her eyes. She wears a purple blouse, khaki pants, and brown shoes.
"MOM, ERIN, I'M SORRY!! I LEARNED MY LESSON!!" Nazz cries as she's squeezed into the ambulance.
"You can apologize afterwards, dear!" her mom replies.
"After what?" the Eds ask.
"She's undergoing liposuction." Erin answers. "Now she knows better than to fatten herself up to impress boys. The lesson here is to not let others influence you in self-destructive ways, right Aunt Tabby?!"
"Right!" Nazz's mom (Tabby) answers. Ed sighs, saying "I learned that, too." referring to him stealing for the promise of chicken and gravy.
"Ok folks, there's this episode's moral." Eddy tells the audience. "Now let's get to the bus stop, boys."
The Eds run to their bus stop while Nazz is taken away for liposuction.
The End!!!
Trivia: Dickie's Supermarket is named after Joel Dickie, the show's storyboard director. Chaz and Todd are named after storyboard artists Chaz Battista and Todd Damone. Nazz's mom Tabby is named after Tabitha St. Germain, who voiced Nazz in season 1. And cousin Erin is named after Erin Fitzgerald, who voiced Nazz in seasons 2, 4 and onwards. She won't be a major character this time around, but she'll appear a few more times.
So how can May's shrine fit into her closet? Well, let's just say it's the same as her trailer being huge on the inside. Anyways, see ya and stay tuned for my Halloween special next week!!
