You know how I named the city shown in BPS as "Citrus Harbor?" Well, I renamed it "Orange Harbor" so it sticks with one fruit like my other towns and cities.
Oh, and I got ONE HUNDRED REVIEWS!!! CELEBRATION (nah, just kidding)!!! Anyway, here's chapter twenty-two! Enjoy and review!!
The next morning, Eddy meets up with the other boys at the bus stop. Kevin has the Dan's Donuts box, but he's passing out some donuts to the others.
"KEV, YOU SAID THOSE WERE FOR ME!" Eddy shouts as he runs over.
"Chill, man. I didn't say I was givin you an entire box." Kevin replies as he hands donuts to the other boys.
"Rolf hasn't had tasted such good snacks since Mama's botargo pastries!" Rolf comments.
"Deeeeeelish!" Ed comments while enjoying his donuts. Only three donuts are left for Eddy.
"Well, here ya go!" Kevin gives the box to Eddy so he can have the last three donuts.
"... Hymph." Eddy takes the box and eats the donuts as they ride the school bus.
"Hey Eddy, were those good?" asks Nazz, who's sitting in front of Eddy with Jenna.
"Of course, Dan's are the best!" Eddy finishes his last donut, causing Nazz to frown.
"Oh... I was gonna ask for that last one, but oh well." Nazz returns to chatting with Jenna, gossiping and giggling.
In algebra class, Eddy is doing classwork when his lips start itching. He's unfazed at first, but as time passes, he starts scratching his lips more frequently and vigorously.
"Argh!" Eddy rubs his face against his desk to releive the itching, but it doesn't help.
Eddy continues scratching his now-pink lips in history class, and the itching is now interfering with his ability to focus on his classwork. He then raises his hand: "Mr. G, can I go to the nurse?"
Mr. G gives Eddy a pass to go to the nurse's office. But en route...
"Ohhhh God!" Eddy runs into the bathroom, and we hear him screaming on the toilet. Kevin and Rolf are walking by the bathroom when they hear Eddy screaming inside. They open the door, and hear Eddy doing diarrhea!
"Dude, Eddy's doin diarrhea!" Kevin points out, chuckling.
"Blagh!" Rolf recoils and holds his nose. "It smells as foul as the jelly-filled spaces between Nano's toes, man."
Later in gym class, Ed, Kevin, Rolf and Paul are teaching Double-D how to play basketball:
"Like this, DD!" Paul shows Double-D how to shoot the ball into the hoop. "Now you try."
Paul passes the ball to Double-D. Double-D shoots, but misses horribly. Kevin and Rolf laugh.
"That was so uncoordinated, hahaha!" Kevin laughs, grabbing the ball and easily making a hoop.
"Don't worry, Double-D." Ed puts his arm around Double-D. "You're still a smarty-pants!"
"That won't assist me here, Ed." Double-D sulks.
"Here, try again man." Paul passes the ball to Double-D again for another try at the hoop.
"Focus, Eddward. Focus." Double-D readies himself, and shoots again. He misses gain, and the ball falls towards and hits Eddy as he enters the gym, knocking him down. "SORRY, EDDY!"
Eddy gets up uninjured, but now his lips are red and swollen!
"Eddy, what happened to your lips?" Double-D asks, approaching Eddy.
"Better stay away from him. It might me contagious." Kevin stops Double-D from getting any closer to Eddy.
"Shut up, the nurse said I just got some bad sores." Eddy scoffs at Kevin, then he scratches his itchy lips.
"Those some pretty bad-lookin sores, McMoney." Paul says.
"Paul's right, Eddy." Double-D says. "Those look too severe to be cold sores. And you shouldn't be scratching them, either."
"Hey, the nurse said they're cold sores, and nurses are certified professionals, alright." Eddy gruffly dismisses Double-D. "Let's continue the plot and play some basketball, boys."
After gym, the boys go into their locker room to shower, during which they complain about Ed's horrid armpit odor.
"Good lord, Ed! Your armpit odor's just FETID!" Double-D complains as he and the other boys start drying themselves.
"It's just my manly stench, ok!" Ed defensively replies before smelling his armpits with joy.
"Yeah right, Armpiticus. THIS is manly!" Eddy shows his body spray, sprays it onto himself, and poses: "The ladies love it!"
"Eddy, what's that red thing on you?" Kevin points out a round red spot on Eddy's shoulderblade, surprising Eddy.
"What red thing?" Eddy asks in shock. "Is it a rash or somethin? Show me." Eddy looks and feels around for the red spot, but Kevin turns him around to show his red spot to the boys.
"Right there." Kevin points to Eddy's red spot. Double-D checks it out...
"It appears to be some type of sore." he says.
"Great!" Eddy sarcastically exclaims: "First I got diarrhea, then my lips swell up, and now I got... AH!" Eddy discovers several more sores on his body! "WHAT'S GOIN ON!? I'M BREAKIN OUT!!"
"Rolf no longer feels safe in the presence of the mutating Ed boy. WE MUST EVACUATE BEFORE THE TRANSFORMATION COMPLETES!!" Rolf takes out Bobo (the giant clam from "It Came from Outer Ed") from inside his gym locker, shoves the boys and himself inside Bobo, sticks his legs out, and runs out through a wall!
After school, Eddy's parents wait outside their son's bedroom. Both are heavyset, big-boned, and wear rings on their fingers. The mother more closely resembles Eddy, and she has curly reddish-brown hair and red lipstick. She wears a pink housedress with a white apron, low-heeled red shoes, and gold earrings. The father more closely resembles his older son (Eddy's bro), and he has a brown toupee and moustache, plus some chin hairs. He wears a buttoned shirt with a green-checkered pattern, blue jeans, brown shoes, and a wristwatch.
"Is everythin alright in there?" Eddy's mom asks in worry.
"We're coming out now." Double-D answers from inside Eddy's room, and he comes out with Eddy, who's quarantined inside a plastic bubble.
"Mr. and Mrs. McGee, I have have quarantined your son because I conducted research on the symptoms he has shown today, and I'm afraid he has...." Double-D swallows: "........................ the fatal Kubat's Syndrome."
Eddy's parents gasp, and Eddy himself screams "FATAL?!! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME IT WAS FATAL!!!"
"OH MY GOD, MY POOR BABY!!!" Eddy's mom screams and runs off.
"HONEY, WAIT!" Eddy's dad goes to stop his hysterical wife."
"DOUBLE-D, THERE'S GOTTA BE A CURE FOR KLUCKETT'S SYNDROME OR WHATEVER-IT'S-CALLED!!" Eddy panics.
"No worries, Eddy! I'm hopeful that there's a cure." Double-D says. "I'll do everything in my power to look one up."
"You gotta hurry, man! I don't wanna die!" Eddy panics, and starts sweating heavily.
"Oh, no..." Double-D utters in horror: "Heavy sweating is an advanced symptom!"
Upon hearing this, Eddy freaks out and starts hyperventilating!
"HYPERVENTILATION IS ANOTHER ADVANCED SYMPTOM!!" Double-D shouts in panic. "STAY HERE!! I'LL GO LOOK UP A CURE!!"
Double-D hurries away to find a cure, leaving Eddy alone. After a while...
"Oh, shit. I gotta use the bathroom." Eddy holds in his diarrhea as he makes his way up to the bathroom. But the door is closed, and he cannot open it because of the bubble he's quarantined in: "Agh, stupid bubble. MOM, DAD! COULD ONE OF YOU OPEN THIS DOOR AND LET ME OUTTA THIS BUBBLE?! I GOTTA TAKE A CRAP!"
There is no response........ "Mom?..... Dad?..... HELLO?!" Eddy calls out, but there's still no response. So Eddy tries forcing his way through the bathroom door, but this causes the bubble he's in to bounce off and ricochet around the upstairs hallway.
'WHOA!" Eddy's bubble rolls downstairs, picking up enough speed to fly through the front door, flattening Ed who was knocking on the other side. "AAAH!" Eddy bounces off the door, off his mailbox and onto Jonny's house's roof. From there, Eddy's bubble bounces around the cul-de-sac and towards Jimmy, who's coming up the sidewalk.
"AAAAAHHH!!" Jimmy runs screaming as Eddy's bubble tumbles after him. In the lane, Kyle is playing a guitar song for Nazz and Jenna.
"Aww Kyle, you should totally record an album when you get older!" Jenna praises.
"Really, Jenn?!" Kyle asks. "Thanks!"
Then they hear Jimmy's screams...
"RUNAWAY BUBBLE!! RUNAWAY BUBBLE!!" Jimmy runs down the lane. Eddy's bubble ricochets off a pole and into the lane.
"NOT COOL, NOT COOL!!" Nazz runs, followed by Jenna, Kyle and Jimmy. Jimmy is flattened under Eddy's bubble, then it catches Kyle and his guitar. Jimmy, Kyle and his guitar stick to Eddy's bubble as it gains on Nazz and Jenna. Jenna manages to outrun the bubble for a while as Nazz gets caught, but seconds later, Jenna is caught too. They roll out of the lane and onto the street passing the shops (including Dan's Donuts).
"AAAAAHHH!!" everyone screams as they see a car coming their way. It smacks into Eddy's bubble, sending it skywards and over a passing helicopter. As Eddy's bubble begins to fall back down towards the ground, it hits the helicopter's tail-blade, popping it!
"AAAAAAAHHHH!!!" everyone falls back down into the woods, where Jimmy and Jenna land in the creek. Kyle hits the ground with his guitar, and Nazz is falling towards him.
"WAIT!" Kyle halts Nazz in midair so he can move his beloved guitar out of the way. "Ok, go ahead and I'll cushion your fall."
Nazz resumes her fall and lands on Kyle, cushioning her landing. And finally, Eddy lands inside a tree, but continues falling down the branches until one snags his shirt and he hangs from it.
"IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT?!!" Double-D and Ed arrive, and Ed helps Jimmy and Jenna out of the creek.
"I'm ok, but my guitar's strings broke!!" Kyle frantically runs off to fix his guitar strings. Double-D approaches the hanging Eddy with a grim look on his face.
"I don't like that look on your face, Double-D." Eddy utters. "You don't mean..."
"There's no cure for Kubat's Syndrome, Eddy." Double-D tells Eddy, shedding a tear: "You have twenty-four hours at most."
Hearing this, Eddy turns pale, and Nazz, Ed, Jenna and Jimmy gasp in shock!!
The next morning, everyone in the cul-de-sacs have gathered around Eddy's house. The pale-skinned, baggy-eyed Eddy is laying in his bed with full covers. His parents, Ed, and Double-D are at his side.
"This... isn't... fair..." Ed sniffles, blowing into a tissue.
"Eddy, you're our boy and we love you." Eddy's dad says.
"We love you always." Eddy's mom sobs.
"Eddy, I just... wanted to say that..." Double-D sniffles, and starts crying. "You're the best friend I've ever had along with Ed." then he cries more heavily: "Ed, gimme a tissue please!"
Eddy's dad goes to bring the others into Eddy's room, with the girls and Jimmy shedding tears. Everyone except Kevin is present.
"Thank you so much for being here, guys!" Eddy thanks. "But before I go on... I wanna say... I love you guys and... I'm sorry for all the times I've acted like a total asshole... and... Hey wait, where's Kevin?"
The others look around for Kevin, then Eddy's dad says "Here he comes."
Kevin comes in, hugs the crying Jenna & Nazz, and joins them and the others to see Eddy one last time.
"Ok... Now that everyone's here, I want you all to enjoy life to the fullest. Now if any of you got anything to say to me... come up and say it." Eddy says.
"I'll go first." Kevin walks up to Eddy's side: "Eddy... I remember how we always hated each other when we were younger. I always called you a dork, and you always retaliated with 'Shovel Chin.'" Kevin chuckles with the others, then continues "I take back everytime I ever called you Dorky... and Douchey... And I'm sorry for everytime I pounded you. Man, it feels as if it all happened yesterday. We used to be enemies, but now we're friends. And as friends, I just have one more thing to tell you..."
"... What is it?..." Eddy asks.
".......... GOTCHAAAAAAA!!!" Kevin LAUGHS, then everyone else start laughing at Eddy!!
"Huh?..." Eddy looks around at everyone laughing at him, even his fellow Eds and parents!! Kevin rolls around on the floor in laughter!! Eddy is confused: "WHAT IS THIS?!!"
"You were never really dying, Eddy!" Double-D chuckles.
"........ Then what about the symptoms?" Eddy asks in confusion.
"Think about it, Eddy!" Kevin tells him: "Diarrhea, itchy lips!..."
Eddy processes this and realizes.... "THE DONUTS!!"
"Yeah! I knew you're a fool for Dan's, so I laced your donuts with laxatives and itching powder!" Kevin reveals.
"Then why didn't the other boys get diarrhea or itchy lips?" Eddy asks.
"Didn't you hear me? I laced YOUR donuts, as in ONLY yours!" Kevin answers.
"How about the sores?" Eddy asks.
"Dude, those are slices of pepperoni! I put em on ya when we were showerin after gym class!" Kevin answers, flashing back to the showers: Kevin put the first pepperoni on Eddy's shoulderblade while they were coming out of the gym showers, then he put on the rest while showing Eddy's first "sore" to the other boys!
"NO WAY!!" Eddy is dumbfounded. "But... the sweating, and the heavy breathing..."
"Heavy sweating and hyperventilation are regular symptoms of a panic attack, Eddy!" Double-D explains: "I instilled panic into you by declaring Kubat's Syndrome as a fatal disease, and that the sweating and hyperventilating were advanced symptoms!"
"What?... YOU KNEW ABOUT ALL THIS?!!" Eddy asks angrily.
"I helped Kevin fool you because you never gave me the money you promised me after building that dummy for you." Double-D refers to the Eddy dummy used to fool Kevin in the previous chapter, which led to Kevin being pantsed by Eddy.
"In fact, we were ALL in on it, your parents included!" Double-D reveals. "Kevin spearheaded the entire charade! The rest of us played the act of panic and grieving to ensure you believed yourself to be expiring! And by the way, Kubat's Syndrome isn't real!!"
"WE FOOLED YOU ALL ALONG, EDDY!!" Eddy's dad laughs along with everyone else, while Ed mocks "HELP ME, I'M DYING!!"
Eddy jumps out of bed, fuming at Kevin: "YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! KARMA SUCKS, DON'T IT?!" Kevin asks, then adds "And that's not all! Check out my Youtube later on!"
Later on, after all the laughing ended, the Eds log into Eddy's computer and go to Kevin's Youtube channel (his Youtube name is CaptainKev).
"Ok, I'm checkin out his new vid." Eddy clicks on Kevin's newest video, named "AAAAARRRGH!!!!"
The Eds watch....... and Eddy SCREAMS as the video reveals that Kevin recorded Eddy from above while he was doing diarrhea in the school bathroom (thanks to the laxatives)! Eddy screamed "AAAAARRRGH!!!!" as he did diarrhea, hence the video's name! What's more, the video already has over a million views!!!
"WHAT THE FUCK?!!" Eddy screams. "MOTHERFUCKER!! HE WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!!"
"How will you get back at him?" Ed asks.
"Don't know, BUT I'LL THINK OF SOMETHIN!" Eddy walks off while facepalming.
The End!!!
Trivia: Kubat's Syndrome is named after one of the series writers, Mike Kubat.
By the way, I'm making a prequel to the Teen Series called "Ed, Edd n Eddy: Rise of the Gourd," which is set right after BPS. The first chapter will be released during Christmas break, but subsequent chapters will be released randomly. Also, stay tuned for my Christmas special next week!
