Yikes! This is the latest I ever released a chapter, but it's here and ready to deliver...
... And blow away, because a certain someone is returning to the spotlight in this episode.
Episode #20: Return of the Eds
The sun rises over Peach Creek, and from Eddy's room, we hear Eddy showering inside his shower stall with steam fuming from under his bathroom door. Eddy comes out wearing a towel.
"Ah, another day, another shower!" he exclaims as he closes his bathroom door. Then he hears the phone ringing in the living room.
"Eddy, could you get that?" Gladys's voice asks Eddy from the kitchen.
"Sure, Mom." Eddy rushes to the phone and picks it up: "Hello?"
"Congratulations!" a man's voice says: "You have just won a free trip to-"
Eddy hangs up the phone and returns to his room, dresses into his usual clothes, then pours himself a bowl of Chunky Puffs at the kitchen table as Gladys serves fried eggs and sausages to him and Roger. At that moment, the phone rings again.
"I'll get it." Eddy goes to answer the phone again: "Yo!"
"Hello!" a woman's voice greets. "I'm calling about your current credit card-"
Eddy hangs up again and returns to breakfast. When he and his parents are done, the phone rings once more, to which Roger remarks "Damn phone calls." Eddy, also showing irritation, goes to pick it up:
"Hello!" a man's voice answers: "I'm calling to give you a special offer!"
Eddy hangs up the phone before going into the bathroom to brush his teeth, then to his room to messily stuff his school items into his backpack. After a moment of mirror-posing, he heads towards the front door to leave, but en route, the phone rings yet again.
"God, stop calling!" Eddy shouts in annoyance at the repeated calls before answering the phone: "HELLO!?"
"Hello, Pipsqueak!" greets the voice of Eddy's brother, greatly shocking Eddy!
"Br-Bro?..... Is that you?" Eddy asks.
"Indeed!" Eddy's bro confirms: "I'm comin home soon! Go ahead and tell Mom & Dad if you like! Later!"
Eddy's bro ends the call, leaving Eddy shocked and in disbelief for a few seconds before he shouts "MOM!! DAD!!"
"What is it?" Roger asks as he and Gladys rush over to Eddy.
"Bro just called." Eddy tells them, and they GASP!!
A bloodmobile bus stands in front of PCH, and we see "Blood Drive" flyers throughout the hallways. Ed is with Double-D as he goes through his locker, then Eddy rushes up to them.
"Hi, Eddy!" Ed greets with his usual goofy grin.
"Oh, Eddy, you missed the bus." Double-D says. "Care to explain why?"
"Oh I'll explain alright." Eddy replies. "My brother called my house."
Double-D and Ed gasp, and Ed shouts "YOUR BROTHER?!"
"Yeah, my fuckin brother." Eddy says. "Dad called the police already. They've been lookin for him ever since..."
Flashback: A snowy winter night, two-&-a-half years ago.
Ed, Eddy, Nazz and Jenna are watching football on TV in Double-D's living room while it snows outside. All have gotten taller, though Eddy only grew a few inches. Ed now has his hair combed like in "Over Your Ed." Eddy now grew his goatee but is still wearing his cartoon clothes, though long-sleeved since it's winter. Nazz has developed her curves and still wears her cartoon clothes, but she now has long tight sleeves like Jenna's, and Jenna has long pants like Nazz. Ed has a football, and Nazz is snuggling with Eddy as they watch the game.
"Come on, come on!" Eddy crosses his fingers as he watches a player dash towards the opponents' end zone. "Oh, oh!..."
"TOUCHDOWN!" all four jump up and cheer, with Ed joyfully slamming his football through the floor. Then Double-D comes from the kitchen with his house phone. Double-D grew his hair, and has long sleeves for winter.
"Eddy, it's your mother." Double-D hands Eddy the phone, and Eddy greets "Hey Ma, wassup?"
"Eddy, are you watchin the news?" Gladys's voice asks.
"Not now." Eddy answers while Double-D freaks out at the floor-hole made by Ed.
"Look on channel eight." Gladys tells Eddy, who grabs the remote while telling the others "I'll change it back." He changes to channel eight, the news channel. It's showing the "Orange Harbor State Penitentiary," surrounded by police cars and policemen. A newswoman explains what happened via voiceover:
"At about 6 AM this morning, police noticed that Orange Harbor State Penitentiary inmate Daniel McGee wasn't in his cell. Only minutes later did they discover that the twenty-three-year-old escaped the compound, and the police have, so far, no leads on where he might be right now. Here is his picture."
Danny's picture is shown, revealing that he is...
"THAT'S MY BROTHER!!" Eddy shouts in shock. Ed gasps, and so does Double-D as he uses the coffee table to cover the floor-hole Ed made.
"Oh my God!" Nazz utters with a hand cupped over her mouth.
"That's your brother, Eddy?" Jenna asks. "I remember him from Mondo-A-GoGo. He used to work there."
"Yeah, until he screwed with the boys and me when we went over a year-&-a-half ago." Eddy says. "Yet, that's what got HIS ass screwed!"
"I only hope that the authorities track him down and impound him back inside the brig where he belongs." Double-D says.
End Flashback
"We need to inform the others. This is urgent." Double-D says.
"Right." Eddy and Ed agree.
Ed's history class is shared by Kevin, Jonny, Paul and May. Ed whispers Eddy's news into May's ear, and she gasps as her eyes bug out. She then leans cartoon-style into Jonny's hear to tell him. His eyes narrow intensely, then he passes the word to Paul, who is surprised. He passes it into Kevin's ear while he lazily lays his head on his desk. Upon hearing it, Kevin jumps up and yells "WHAT?!"
In Psychology class, we see Double-D, Nazz, Jenna and Rachel doing classwork. The first three are sitting next to each other in the front row while Rachel sits on the far side by the window.
"Nazz, there's something-" Double-D tries whispering to Nazz, only to be hushed by a loud "Shhh!" from the teacher. So Double-D rips out a sheet of paper from his notebook, writes on it, and gives it to Nazz. She reads it, gasps, and shows Jenna, who is also surprised. Jenna takes the note, folds it into a plane, throws it at Rachel, and it lands in her flower clip. Rachel takes the note and reads it after unfolding it. Once finished, she gives Double-D a thumb-up.
Next period, Rachel has study hall with Lee, Marie, and Rolf. Rachel sits with Lee and Marie.
"Hey, Rach!" Lee greets.
"I have news for you two and Rolf." Rachel says. "Rolf, come here for a minute."
"What it be, Rachel girl?" Rolf asks as he joins the girls.
"You know when Eddy's brother escaped prison two-&-a-half years back?" Rachel asks. "Well, he said he's coming back."
In the gym, the blood drive is taking place, and Nazz's cousin Erin is among those who are drawing blood from the student donors. She is finishing up drawing blood from Sheranne.
"......... Ok, we're done!" Erin removes the needle and tourniquet from Sheranne's arm, then applies a bandage. "Now come rest over here for fifteen minutes."
Erin leads Sheranne to the resting area, where Erin also checks up on Nazz, who donated off-screen. "You doin ok, Nazzarine?"
"Yeah." Nazz answers. "But Erin, wait. There's somethin I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Erin asks.
"Come here." Nazz motions Erin over to whisper the news into Erin's ear. Erin is greatly shocked, but her shock quickly turns into disgust.
"Errrrr.... Danny...." Erin flashes back to her time in PCH...
Flashback: The teenage Erin walks down a PCH hallway with two female friends. Back then, Erin's hair was shoulder length but still had her red twin bangs, and she wore short-sleeved pink shirt with a sun logo, blue jeans, white sneakers, and a silver necklace with a heart-shaped locket. Erin has a worried look on her face, which concerns her friends- one is black, the other Asian.
"Looks like somethin's botherin you, E. You ok?" the black girl asks.
"I've just been wondering about Danny ever since he stopped callin me last week." Erin answers.
"Relax, Erin!" the Asian girl says. "All boys do that at some point. He'll call again! Just give it another day or two."
Then Danny's voice is heard over the intercom: "Helllllooooo, PCH! El Hombre speaking, and I got news for you all! Actually, just for you, Erin. You see, Erin, I know you asked me out to the dance comin up on Friday, but..... yeah, I ain't takin you anymore. I know you're a sweet piece of ass, babe, but you ain't the only one. So I'm flyin solo with my boys so we don't gotta be stuck with the same chicks all night. It's high school, so I'm sure you understand! That's all for my announcement! Have a nice day, and catch me if ya can, Principal! Gyahahahahaha!!"
Danny ends his announcement, and as he walks out from Antonucci's office, we see that he wore the same clothes as in BPS, minus the red jacket and he wore a cap like the one Sarah wore while impersonating him in "Ed, Pass it On." In the hallways and classrooms, everyone is shocked at his announcement, especially Principal Antonucci (who looks the same), the other school authorities, and Erin. Erin's eyes fill up with tears as she starts to cry, dropping to her knees in despair.
"Erin." Erin's Asian friend kneels to comfort the devastated Erin, while her black friend curses Danny: "Fuck that asshole."
"WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Erin cries as she rips off her necklace and throws it into a wall. Her necklace's locket breaks open upon hitting the wall and falling to the floor, revealing a picture of her and Danny in a romantic embrace.
End Flashback
Erin sheds a tear: "I thought we had somethin real." she angrily mutters.
"Erin?..." Nazz looks at Erin with concern.
"I'm ok, little cousin." Erin wipes her tears and turns to go. "I have to get back to drawing blood. I'll see you later."
Later at sunset, Sarah, Jimmy, Kyle, Zoe, and all the all the teens except Eddy, Kevin and Rachel are in the lane. Double-D & Marie and Jonny & Nazz are sitting together on the dumpster while the rest stand.
"Is it true? Is Eddy's brother really coming back?" Jimmy asks in a worried tone.
"From what Sarah and Nazz told me, he doesn't sound too wicked." Zoe says in a rare showing of seriousness.
"Whatever reason he's comin back for, it can't be good." Kyle says, his and Rolf's arms crossed.
"One thing I do know is that he's definitely got revenge in mind." Lee says as Kevin arrives.
"Yo where's Eddy?" Kevin asks. "He said he'd meet us all here to discuss what to do about his bro."
Rachel answers Kevin's question as she arrives: "I saw him enter the church on my way over here."
We see the church from "From Ed to Eternity," and its name is revealed on a sign in front: "ST. VINCENT CATHOLIC CHURCH." Inside, Eddy is praying on his knees in one of the seats, his head down and his hands folded. He is alone in the church until Double-D comes in through the middle of the three front doors. He walks up to Eddy, waiting until the latter finishes his prayer. Eddy then sees Double-D:
"Considering how you haven't been present here in ages, you must really be worried, huh Eddy?" Double-D asks.
"Yeah." Eddy answers. "I know how pissed off God is at me for all the stupid things I say and do, but... now is one of those times where I really need him, y'know?"
"I understand." Double-D says. "But never forget. The Lord is always watching over us, our families, our friends, and everyone else. Speaking of our friends, they're waiting for your arrival down in the lane."
"Yeah, we better get goin and talk about the plan." Eddy gets up and leaves the church with Double-D to meet up with his friends in the lane:
"Ok guys, let's get started." he begins.
Later, at nighttime while watching a movie in his living room, Eddy goes to the kitchen to pop some popcorn. While his bag pops inside the microwave, the phone rings. Eddy goes to pick it up: "Hello?"
"I'll see ya tomorrow mornin, pipsqueak!" Danny's voice says in a creepy tone before hanging up. After the call, Eddy takes out his cellphone and calls Rolf's house:
"Hello, Eddy!" Rolf greets.
"Rolf, start buildin the wall." Eddy tells Rolf. "I'll call the others. We gotta be ready for morn."
The next morning, we see that Rolf constructed a huge, rectangular wooden wall around the first cul-de-sac, similar to the one built in "Ed, Pass it On" but much bigger and higher. It has an entry gate in front, and a watchtower at each corner. Each watchtower has a chair with swiveling telescopes attached to them, and they are occupied by Jimmy, Nazz, Kyle and May. Down in the center of the cul-de-sac, we see all the others. Double-D is handing them radios and launchers he created, and for ammo, Rolf supplies them with...
"Rolf filled these balloons with Mama's volcanic pepper sauce, sure to send even the mightiest of ogres crying back to their caves!" Rolf exclaims as he supplies the sauce-filled balloons to his friends.
"Ready!" Sarah cocks her balloon launcher once it's fully loaded. Zoe does the same while exclaiming "Oooo, I'm gonna like this!"
"Let's get to our posts." Lee says as she and the others- except Double-D, Kevin and Rolf- split up to separate sides of the big wall and climb ladders leading up to lines of holes, through which they will fire their pepper sauce balloons when Danny comes. Ed and Eddy take the wall's front on opposite sides of the gate; Lee, Marie and Rachel take the right; Sarah, Zoe and Jenna take the left; and Jonny & Paul take the rear. Kevin positions himself at the manhole cover in the center of the cul-de-sac should Danny come up through the sewer, and Rolf heads back inside his house. Double-D positions himself at the gate's crank handle under Eddy's position. Meanwhile, Roger and Gladys watch from their living room window.
"Is this really necessary? I mean, we called the police." Gladys says, but Roger replies "It'll keep the audience hooked."
Up above, the watchers look around with their telescopes, and Nazz remarks "It's quiet... Too quiet..."
Then Kyle calls the others via radio: "I see some dude comin."
Kyle spotted a tall white man approaching the wall's gate, carrying a toolbox. He has curly, shoulder-length orange hair with sideburns and curls covering his eyes, and he wears a long gray coat covering his legs, a green cap, and brown boots. He stops by a speaker next to the gate. Double-D looks through a peephole next to the gate's crank to see the man.
"Identification, please?" Double-D asks the cloaked man through the speaker.
"I'm the electrician that Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell called yesterday." the man answers, and Double-D relays this to Eddy: "It's the electrician that Jimmy's parents called, Eddy."
"Lemme see." Eddy drops down, lands on Double-D thus squishing him, and looks through the peephole. He sees the electrician: "Ok, he's too tall to be my brother. He's good, let him through."
Double-D gets up, unflattens himself, and turns the gate's crank while Eddy climbs back up to his post. The gate opens up to let the electrician in, and he slowly walks down the avenue. Everyone briefly looks at him as he slowly heads towards Jimmy's house, but Double-D gives them the thumbs-up to indicate that it's ok. As the electrician passes Kevin, he smirks, revealing that one of his teeth is blue. Kevin sees this:
"Is it me, or does this guy remind me of Lee for some strange reason?" Kevin mentally asks himself, but then goes "Huh?" when the electrician stops a few steps behind him. Lee and Rachel are the next to notice:
"Why did he stop?" Lee asks, and Rachel says "Something isn't right here."
The electrician drops his toolbox, side-kicks it open, and takes out a red-banded top hat from it.
"Hehehehe!" the electrician whisks his hand around the top hat's brim, then throws it to his side with a "HAH!"
All the teens and kids are alerted after the electrician throws his hat. It lands on Nazz's lawn, and out of it emerge........ ACIDS!!
"ACIDS!!" Jonny and Paul yell in alarm as Acid after Acid after Acid emerge from the "electrician's" magical hat!
"EVERYONE PUT ON YOUR MASKS!!" Eddy tells his friends via radio before calling Rolf: "ROLF!! STINK BOMB!!"
Rolf blasts the car-sized stink bomb (from "Fool On an Ed") out from his chimney ala "The Eds are Coming," and the teens and kids put on their gas masks while the Acids and the "electrician" look up at the stink bomb.
"The hell is that?" an Acid asks as the stink bomb drops down, only to get shot by an arrow-tipped dart that also neutralizes and vaporizes the stinky chemicals inside it, making the Eds go "HUH!?"
They and the others remove their gas masks, including Rolf as he goes outside to see. Then we see that the dart was fired by another man, whose arm is sticking out from the "electrician's" top hat.
"I figured you'd use the El Mongo Stink Bomb against us, so I made a neutralizer just in case!" he says, with a familiar voice, from inside the top hat. Then...
...He emerges, revealing himself as Eddy's brother, Danny!!! He looks largely the same, but he now has a yellow cap, and replaced his old red jacket with a white-sleeved yellow one. He's also wearing new shades.
"I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKK!!!" Danny yells with his arms spread and he laughs, shocking everyone and alerting all the cul-de-sac adults. Roger and Gladys run outside while the other parents watch in horror through the windows as they see the Acid-infested cul-de-sac.
"Nice infiltration, Butch!" Danny comments the "electrician," revealed as Butch.
"It was nothin, really!" Butch replies before parting his hair to reveal his eyes, throwing off his coat to reveal a red-&-black magician suit with a black cape & red shoes, and discarding his green disguise cap for another red-banded top hat from his pocket! Lee looks at him, and remembers him from his photo in her mother's room ("My Ed for You").
"DAD?!!" Lee asks in shock, and Butch looks over to her: "So that's my little Leah, eh?!"
All the teens and kids drop down and approach Danny and Butch with their launchers, but Jonny stops them via radio
"DON'T SHOOT; THE ACIDS GOT REAL GUNS!" Jonny warns about Danny and the Acids as he and Paul head over.
"BRO, YOU'RE A FUCKIN ACID?!" Eddy asks, and Roger asks "SO THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN UP TO, DANNY?!"
"To be truthful, yeah Dad, it is." Danny answers. "I've hid in Lemon Brook ever since I escaped the big house, cuz me and some of my friends used to hang out there after school. I met up with em, and eventually we joined the Acids. From there, I hustled my way up to leadership of ALL the Acids. In other words, I became what you guys would call a 'drug lord.'"
"Are you fuckin kiddin me?" Eddy asks.
"If ya don't wanna believe it, Pipsqueak, then don't." Danny continues while twiddling his chin hairs: "Now where was I?... Ah! Anyway, me and my Acid boys already took over eight other towns, and we came here for two reasons: One, to get revenge on all you shitty little kids for what happened back in Mondo-A-GoGo. And two, to take over Peach Creek and expand my empire! But of course, since this is my hometown, I knew you guys would be on higher alert than the other towns. So I had to find a way to get in through stealth, and my boys spied around the neighborhoods every few days. Then I met Ballyhoo Butch here! His Magic Circus was goin downhill due to his losing court battles against Ursula Kanker, and he wanted to get his daughter Lee to use her to help revive his company. So we struck a deal: Butch would help me and the Acids sneak into Peach Creek, while we would help him get Lee!"
Eds' & Sarah's parents and Jimmy's, Kevin's, Jonny's, and Rolf's dads come out of their houses in anger, and Butch casually comments "Looks like we got quite an opposition, eh Danny?"
"Me and my boys will just capture em all and make em work for us." Danny replies.
"RAH, IT'S ABOUT TIME I DID WHAT I SHOULD'VE DONE A LONG TIME AGO!!" Roger yells as he swats aside numerous Acids with his huge arms to lunge at Danny, only to have his fist caught by an equally huge Caucasian Acid.
"Let's stuff these guys in my basement, boys." Danny says with a dark smile, then another Acid jumps on Roger's back and knocks him unconscious with a gun whack to the back of his head.
"DAD!!" Eddy screams and Gladys screams "ROGER!!" before charging at the attacking Acids, and before long, the entire cul-de-sac is at war! Rolf fights alongside Noah, using bone-whips to fend off Acids. Kevin's dad Peter swings an Acid at several others, while Gladys lifts the old house from "Honor Thy Ed" and SLAMS it onto several more. Double-D and Jonny fire sauce-ballons to burn Acids coming at them. Nazz does the same to two more in front of her house before backflipping from a third, then he gets knocked out when Nazz's mother Tabby whacks him with the front door by opening it. Tabby winks at Nazz. Jimmy gets disarmed but his dad James punches the Acid in the stomach, while Ed ducks to allow Sarah to jump up and blast a sauce-balloon into an Acid's face at point-blank range, making him SCREAM in pain!
"YAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Zoe crazily fires sauce-balloons at the Acids as she somersaults around Yoda-style, then Marie and Jenna bash them with their launchers. Marie then rushes to Double-D's defense when he gets disarmed, knocking out the Acid attacking him and she helps Double-D up.
"Hey, aren't you Eddy's girlfriend?" Danny asks Double-D upon noticing him.
"WHAT?! DOUBLE'S A BOY, FUCKBAG! MY BOY AT THAT!" Marie yells angrily.
"Oh, I see! You two are lesbians!" Danny chuckles as Eddy tries firing a sauce-balloon at him, but he sees this and counters with a bullet from his gun. This signals the Acids who have guns to use them, destroying the balloon launchers and disarming the teens & kids. Ed, Eddy and Paul resort to physical combat while Ed's & Sarah's parents slam every Acid coming their way, with Angela showing ferocity much like Sarah's. Rachel swings Lee around so Lee can kick surrounding Acids. Another Acid shoots the ground near Jenna to separate her from the others and make her cower to her knees.
"You a pretty one, girl!" the Acid says as he unzips his pants, and Jenna has a horrified look on her face until...
"NOBODY'S RAPIN MY GIRL!" Kevin tackles the Acid and ties his limbs behind his back cartoon-style!
"Kevvie!!" Jenna thankfully hugs and kisses Kevin. Meanwhile, the Acids start to outnumber the Peach-Creekers. Jonny's dad Phil gets bashed unconscious, followed by Tabby, then Peter, James, Angela, Stan, and Gladys!
"MOM, NOOO!!" Eddy shouts.
"WE NEED TO RETREAT! WE'RE OUTNUMBERED!" Rachel shouts as she opens the manhole, motioning the others to escape through the sewers.
"YES, GO! OBEY THE RACCOON-EYED GIRL!" Noah tells the kids and teens as he fends off the Acids alone.
"PAPA, DON'T!!" Rolf screams, but Kevin takes him to escape through the sewers with the others. Eddy and Lee are the last to do so, and Lee glares at the grinning Butch before descending into the sewer. Eddy angrily watches as Danny PUNCHES Noah in the head from behind to knock him unconscious, then Eddy goes down into the sewer and closes it.
"Well, Danny, I'm off to Ursula's place now." Butch tells Danny as he starts walking off.
"Alrighty, then." Danny replies, motioning several of his Acids to follow Butch while the rest capture the remaining cul-de-sac moms plus Nano and Nana.
To Be Continued...
Trivia: St. Vincent's Catholic Church is a reference to Double-D's voice actor, Samuel Vincent.
I also believe that Eddy's brother's name is Danny for two reasons. One, when Sarah and Jimmy impersonated him in "Ed, Pass it On," Sarah was wearing a cap with a "D" on it. Two, when Eddy's mom showed Eddy his bro's room's key in "Smile for the Ed," the keychain said "El Hombre," which is one of Antonucci's nicknames.
