No author's note this time around, so read on.
Ed steers Double-D's snowspeeder through the snowy streets, taking Sarah, Jimmy, Kyle and Zoe towards Big Prune Hill. Sarah's and Zoe's hair blow in the wind, and Sparky is barking at passing cars. En route to Big Prune Hill, they pass by Rachel's house. A few blocks later, they pass a pharmacy named "Ivanickis" (which parodies Walgreens in appearance, but Ivanickis has a green logo instead of red), standing across from a frozen pond. Big Prune Hill can be seen behind the pharmacy.
"There it is, dudes and babes! Big Prune Hill!" Kyle points at Big Prune Hill as Ed turns another corner and onto a wooded road to reach it. Sarah's, Jimmy's, Kyle's and Zoe's school friends are snowboarding and snowtubing down the hill's snowy slopes.
"Here we are!" Ed drops off the four kids on a parking lot at the foot of Big Prune Hill, a nearby sign revealing that the hill is actually a part of "J. HOWARD MEMORIAL PARK."
"Yippee, Sparky and I are so excited!" Zoe exclaims while Sparky wags his tail. "This is gonna be a BLAST!!"
"Kyle, you got the camera?" Sarah asks Kyle, who pulls out a videocam and answers "You betcha!"
"LET'S GO!!" Zoe runs up the hill with her snowtube and Sparky, Kyle and Sarah following close behind with their tubes. Jimmy takes his tube last and goes to catch up with the other three, shouting "WAIT FOR ME, GUYS!"
"HAVE FUN, SARAH AND FRIENDS!" Ed waves to Sarah, Zoe, Kyle, and Jimmy before turning the snowspeeder around: "Ok Ravenous Rex, here I come!"
Ed speeds back down into town, passing the pharmacy and frozen pond again as he goes. Sarah, Jimmy, Kyle and Zoe watch Ed go, as the road they took- as well as the Ivanickis pharmacy and the frozen pond- can be seen from the hill. Zoe looks at the frozen pond:
"Hey, looks like we could ride down from the top and go into that pond to skate!" Zoe points at one of the hill's slopes, which goes down past Ivanickis, across the street, and into the frozen pond.
"And get hit by a car while doin it? Forget it." Sarah dismisses Zoe's idea, then Jimmy adds: "And when we passed by that pond earlier, the ice looked pretty thin, don't you think, Zoe?..."
Meanwhile, Ed is approaching Rachel's house. As he comes closer, he sees Rachel running out through her front door and porch, waving for him to stop. Ed pulls over and stops in front of Rachel.
"Oh Ed, I'm so glad I saw you coming by!" Rachel exclaims.
"Why, do you need me for something?" Ed asks.
"Yeah." Rachel answers and explains: "You see, my mom is sick with pneumonia and she can't get out of bed, so I have to stay at her side just in case she needs anything. Her medicine is waiting at Ivanickis. I tried calling the Kankers to get it for me, but Lee is working, Marie is applying for jobs, and Ursula & May are filling out paperwork so May could also apply."
"Soooo... you want me to get her medicine?" Ed asks.
"Yes, please Ed? This is urgent." Rachel says. "Ivanickis is just a dozen blocks down. I'm sure you passed it. It should just take three minutes to go there and back here."
"Ok, that isn't much time. I'll go." Ed says.
"Thank you so much, Ed!" Rachel thanks as Ed turns around to speed back to Ivanickis.
"Rachel!..." Rachel's mom Nikki calls from her bedroom off-screen.
"Coming, Mom!" Rachel hurries back inside to take care of Nikki.
Ed arrives at Ivanickis and parks in the parking lot. He hops out of the snowspeeder and rushes into the pharmacy. Inside, music plays as people go around picking various items from the aisles and paying at the registers.
"Medicine, medicine." Ed repeats while looking for the prescription area, which is near the back of the pharmacy. Ed finds it, and waits in one of the long lines. As the line slowly moves, Ed looks at the clock on one of the walls. It reads 1:42 PM, causing Ed to worry inside. When he finally reaches the pharmacist...
"Hello, I'm here to pick up the medicine for Nikki Owens." Ed says.
"Nikki Owens? Wow, this is the first time someone other than her daughter came." the pharmacist says.
"Rachel couldn't come, so she had me do it." Ed explains.
"Ok, I'll give you Nikki's prescription in a moment." the pharmacist goes to get Nikki's medicine. While Ed waits...
"Huh?..." he hears a faint panic from the street outside, which is gradually getting louder. Then the pharmacist returns with Nikki's medicine in a bag.
"Here ya go, and have a nice day!" the pharmacist gives Ed the medicine, then Ed heads outside with it.
While Ed was in Ivanickis, the snow clouds have given way to sunshine, and upon going outside, Ed sees a crowd of people gathering across the street along the frozen pond. Some are worrying.
"SPARKY!! SPARKY!!" Zoe's panicked voice is heard from within the crowd.
"ZOE, STOP!" Kyle's voice yells, then Sarah yells Zoe's name. Ed goes into the crowd to see what's going on.
"OH, THE HORROR!" Jimmy screams as Ed comes by him.
"What's goin on?" Ed asks, then sees the source of the panic: Sparky somehow ended up in the frozen pond, where he fell through thin ice and is unable to escape because the thicker ice is too high for him to climb. He is about a hundred feet away from the shore.
"We were snowtubing down Big Prune Hill." Jimmy explains: "Then Zoe and Sparky went down that slope right there." Jimmy points to the slope leading down from Big Prune Hill to the street, then continues: "But Sparky picked up too much speed and he went all the way out into the pond, then he fell through the thin ice."
Sparky barks and yelps in distress as he frantically tries to climb out. Sarah is holding back Zoe from going out onto the ice to save Sparky.
"LEMME GO, THAT'S MY DOG!!" Zoe screams, kicking Sarah's chin to break her grip. After freeing her self from Sarah, Zoe runs onto the frozen pond. Everyone watches on.
"ZOE, GET BACK HERE!!" Sarah and Kyle yell as Ed and Jimmy come.
"I've never seen Zoe so serious like this." Jimmy comments.
"ZOE, WATCH OUT!" Ed shouts to Zoe, whose weight is cracking the pond ice. Zoe hears Ed, then sees the pond ice crack and break apart into floes. The ice floes drift apart, stranding Sparky in the middle of the pond where he struggles to keep his head above the surface, crying and yelping for help all the while. Meanwhile, Zoe's parents are watching the whole thing on the news, and so are Double-D and Rachel in their respective living rooms.
"Linda Simensky here at Peachtree Pond, where a small dog has fallen through the thin ice." news reporter Simensky reports: "Witnesses say that the dog is a smooth-coated Jack Russell named Sparky, and it appears that his owner Zoe Navarro is out on the ice trying to rescue him."
Zoe takes off her coat (revealing her normal clothes underneath), then approaches the edge of the floe she's on: "MAMA'S COMIN, SPARKY!!"
Zoe dives into the freezing cold water and swims towards Sparky.
"Is Zoe insane? Swimmin in that kinda water with that much skin exposed, she'll get hypothermia for sure!" Kyle worries, but Zoe determinedly braves the icy water to grab the fading Sparky and take him back to the ice floe she was on. Ignoring her own wet and freezing self, Zoe wraps the now-numb Sparky in the warm inner lining of her coat.
"Huh?..." Zoe then notices that the ice floe she and Sparky are on is melting away along with all the others due to the sunlight, so she takes Sparky and starts ice-hopping in an attempt to get back to shore. But as the floes melt more and more, Zoe ultimately finds herself standing on one foot on an almost completely molten floe: "This is so not wicked."
Then she and Sparky fall back into the freezing-cold water.
"ZOEY!!" Jimmy cries and everyone panics, but Zoe and Sparky quickly resurface. Zoe grabs Sparky again and tries swimming back to shore, but the cold water gets the better of her. She starts to numb and hypothermia kicks in:
"Must... r-r-reach..." Zoe loses her ability to swim thanks to sheer cold, and after a short struggle to stay above the surface, she and Sparky start to sink down. Her parents see this:
"AAAMMMYYYYY!!!" Laurie screams her daughter's real name, while Thomas shouts "We gotta get over there NOW!!" and he jumps outside to start his SUV.
"Zoe and her dog have just sunken under the pond's surface." Simensky reports: "If something isn't done right away, this will end in tragedy."
Ed looks at everyone else. Sarah and Kyle are bug-eyed with worry, and Jimmy is breaking down. Seeing that nobody else will do it, Ed bravely dives into the pond.
"ED!!" Sarah yells for Ed, who swims out to where Zoe and Sparky sunk. He takes a deep breath and dives below. Pond weeds carpet the bottom, and the remains of an old boat can also be seen. After a few seconds of looking around, Ed spots the unconscious Zoe and Sparky...
At the pond's shore, everybody is tensed up, waiting for Ed to surface. He eventually does, with Zoe and Sparky in his arms, and everyone CHEERS!!! Double-D and Rachel, watching from their TVs, are relieved.
"It's a miracle to behold!" Simensky exclaims as Zoe's parents arrive at the scene. They see the crowd cheering as Ed returns with Zoe and Sparky.
"Kick my feet, kick my feet, kick my feet!" Ed kicks his feet through the water until he reaches the shore, where Sarah and Kyle respectively take Zoe and Sparky while Thomas comes and helps Ed out.
A few minutes later, medical personnel have arrived to revive Zoe and Sparky and treat their hypothermia. Nearby, Ed, with Sarah by his side, is drying off with a towel provided by Thomas from his SUV.
"I don't know how to thank you enough, Ed! You saved my daughter's and her dog's lives!" Thomas thanks.
"Hehe, I'm just a good guy!" Ed replies.
"GUYS, ZOE'S OK!!" Jimmy exclaims after Zoe is revived, then Kyle adds "SPARKY IS, TOO!"
"MY HERO!!" Zoe jumps onto Ed and smothers his face with kisses.
"OH, MY BABY!!" Laurie pulls Zoe off Ed and hugs her.
"Ok, brother. You're freezing and soaking wet, so let's go home so you can warm up again." Sarah suggests.
"Not now, I still got things to do." Ed hops back into Double-D's snowspeeder and returns to Rachel's house with Nikki's medicine. Ed rings Rachel's doorbell, and she opens it:
"You're a crazy guy, Ed. I saw everything on the news!" Rachel says as she takes her mom's medicine: "You should get home now and take a warm shower or something. Oh by the way, tell Eddy, Kevin and Paul that if I see them showing off in thongs again, I'll snap their necks."
"Will do, after I get the new Ravenous Rex issue." Ed replies while going down the porch stairs, then looks back: "Wait, what time is it, Rachel?"
Rachel checks the pendulum clock on her living room wall to see the time: "It's 1:57."
"HWAAAAH, THREE MINUTES!! HUSTLE, I MUST!!" Ed makes a huge leap back into Double-D's snowspeeder and shifts to full speed. He speeds back past the cul-de-sacs and turns onto Main Street (the street with all the stores). After going a long way down the street and passing dozens of shops, he finally reaches the comic book store, named "KRAZY KOMIKZ."
Ed hops out of the snowspeeder with a hopeful smile, but upon reaching the store's front door, he sees a "CLOSED" sign on it. In utter disbelief, Ed looks at the clock on a nearby church (the church mentioned by Rachel in "Music to My Eds"), and it reads 2:04 PM.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Ed cries in despair.
Later in his living room, Ed has dried off and put on another set of his casual clothes, but he's still warming his feet in a large pot of warm water provided by Double-D.
"I'm very sorry to hear that, Ed." Double-D says after Ed told him about his failure to get the Ravenous Rex comic. "But I'm still proud of you for risking your life to save Zoe and Sparky! You might just earn a medal for it!"
"Medal schmedal." Ed dismisses. "That Ravenous Rex issue was a limited edition. LIMITED EDITION! AND I MISSED IT!!" he sobs.
"Now now, Ed. What's most important is that you've done good for others, like helping me assemble the snowspeeder!" Double-D comforts. "Speaking of which, then again, maybe you could have obtained that comic if the snowspeeder was completed sooner."
"Sooner..." Ed repeats, anger filling his eyes. At that moment, Eddy (still wearing his thong) comes in laughing: "AHAHAHA!! GUYS, GET A LOAD OF KEV'S-"
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!" Ed lunges at Eddy, who screams and jumps to dodge Ed's attack.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT, ED?!" Eddy asks, getting up.
"IF YOU HELPED DOUBLE-D WITH THE SNOWSPEEDER LIKE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO, I WOULD'VE GOTTEN RAVENOUS REX IN TIME!!" Ed answers, his eyes spiraling with rage and his hair flaming, scaring Double-D:
"Oh, God! TAKE COVER!!" Double-D hides behind the sofa.
"NO RAVENOUS REX BAD FOR ED!! BAD FOR EDDY!!" Ed yells as his shadow looms over Eddy: "ED WILL DO RACHEL A FAVOR AND SNAP EDDY'S NECK!!!"
"HOLY SHIT!! AAAAAAAHHH!!!" Eddy legs it and the raging Ed chases him through a wall and through the snow outside!!
The End!!!
Trivia: J. Howard Memorial Park is named after Jono Howard, one of the show's writers. News reporter Simensky is named after one of the show's production executives, Linda Simensky. And the Ivanickis pharmacy is named after Ginny Ivanicki, the show's background artist.
Also, I have Kevin, Jonny, Rolf and Paul up on deviantArt (if you still don't know my username, it's near the bottom of the Teen Series section of my profile, just above the "Ideas" part. Speaking of ideas, I'm still needing a bit of help with those).
