Well the next one will come when you die and rest well. 1/3/2013
This is the second chapter, amazing that this story is very confusing to even me, there is so much I can do with it the potential and surprises are endless, I can start a war, make people hate the Sun Shadows, so much, so little time.
Okay time for some info on what this story will hold for all of us. First off:
Techlin: Now in the past story I saw that I was giving my first OC a little too much spotlight. At first I was like no way, but then I grew a pear!( Yep, right in the back yard in a tree. It juicy and delicious, so good.) So realizing my wrong doing of Ed, Edd n' Eddy I decided to remedy that by making him a very very much side character in this story. You see as not once have I introduced him much, but in the first chapter. His role in this whole story is minor like any other person that is paid no mind, he will make appearances though so that's it.
Abilities and skills: Now the abilities and skills and equipment is almost like an rpg, their missions are much like it, but has a more in-depth story like to it. They will activate them, and so on and so on. So bear with me.
Settings: The settings, I won't lie, won't be much like the first where they were almost everywhere. The settings are most likely in Chicago area and Sun Shadow Base.
Zombie Story?: Zombies will be featured, obviously, but not even as close as much in the last story. They were pretty much the only main enemy that stuck to the group and all. So you will see them in some chapter, not in some others or whatever.
Hopefully this help clarify the direction of this story and I hope you all like this.
Just for you all wondering what the date up there is, I will be marking each chapter with the date that it was started. The first one is obviously 12/12/12. Just look at the top for the date.
Chapter 2: The Crisis Begins II: Times in Paradise II
Ed. At the Coffee Bar. 1:13 P.M
'' Mom! Please don't ban Eddy he may be a little selfish and rude, but hes a good guy!'' Ed pleaded with his mom as she and her son clean up the mess. The customers went back to talking and made glances to the pair now and then.
'' No Edward he may be good, but hes also bad. He still hasn't paid us back for all the drinks he had and no your not using your own money to pay it for him. Plus he pulled the chair from under the man and started to chain effect of him falling and knocking down the table he was using, that adds on to that for the cost of the table, plus he has to pay for the man's coffee like you said, he needs to get out of here before he causes anymore accidents.'' Ana told her son as she stood up and took the glass shards to the garbage. Ed followed.
'' Mom...'' Ed started but didn't finish,
'' No! End of discussion Edward now get back to the counter.'' His mom ordered and Ed couldn't protest to his mother and stood there. Ed didn't want Eddy to get banned from this store, he may be a little rough around the edges but he was still good. Eddy was still too sore over Lee's death to be like his normal self, Ed thought as he went to the counter.
'' I need to do something to cheer Eddy up.'' Ed said as he laid his head on his hands. A bell was rung as the door opened and Sarah came in with four bags in both her hands. Sarah has gotten a bit taller over the months reaching over Eddy's height which add to his anger of being short. Her hair was slightly longer and kept like their moms. Her clothes was a red long-sleeve shirt and gray jeans with black boots. Over all that was a white winter jacket, a winter hat and ear muffs. Sarah's appearance looked a little more ruffle up and the anger etch on her face added more to that as she stomped into the back and came back with her uniform on and sat next to Ed with her head on her hands.
'' Whats the matter with you, you don't usually come in angry from the groceries.'' Ed said to his younger sister.
'' Some guys jumped me in the alley not far from here saying that they was '' Going get money and get a small prize.'' a bunch a dicks is what I say. Too bad they're the ones in garbage cans with no clothes on and three feet in snow.'' Sarah said.
'' Nice, but why are you angry?'' Ed asked actually seeing her smiling after such a victory over grown men.
'' Because at the store some old man called me a sweet, innocent girl, I'm not sweet and innocent that stupid old prick.'' Sarah said, definitely a tomboy.
Ed didn't want to admit it, but his younger sister was completely gone from the old ways. She started by being an actual sister, then she and Jimmy stopped playing with dolls. Then they started to hang around with different kids and they were distant, then the End Began they got closer and after Jimmy's death. She started by abandoning her girlish ways, she said that it was time to stop being like a brat and be like a teen, she didn't like being call girly the old man that said it didn't know that.
'' Anything happened while I was gone?'' Sarah asked.
'' Eddy, Double D, and I went to do one of the few good missions still on the board, it was just a few left over Townies nothing big. But when we came back Double D went back to base and me and Eddy came here. Shortly after arriving Eddy got into a fight with some stranger and mom banned him for the shop, but Eddy needs to pay up for breaking a table and a laptop adding on to his tab here. Eddy could build a company, burn it down, build it back up, then burn it down for fun, then build it again.'' Ed chuckled at his little joke.
'' So now I'm trying to figure out how to help Eddy without giving him my own money and making him happy. In case you don't know, Eddy is a hard guy to please.'' Ed received a small laugh from his sister.'' Could you help me a little I'm having a hard time thinking of something.''
'' Sure.'' Now the siblings sat and thought.
Rolf, Nazz and Kevin.
'' Come on Rolfy boy! We need to hurry!'' Kevin said as the three shadow lieutenants ran down the snow covered street their black boots stumping through the snow. Kevin lead the way in front of Rolf and Nazz. His dark blue trench coat flew behind him in the wind, his dark green shirt fluttering on his body and his black baggy pants with dozens of pockets wet as snow flew up and stuck to his pants. In his hand was a suitcase, filled with tools of all kind, and on his back was a two small backpacks. His goggles that were on his head, and under his red cap, beeped rapidly.
'' Man we're running out of time!'' Nazz said, dressed in a white heavy snow coat, black hat, and white pants.
'' I agree with Nazz-girl, we won't get their in time.'' Rolf said running beside Nazz. His dark brown sweater and black pants were wet as he was the one to run right into a pile of snow that reached to his torso and stayed for a while before melting. Over the sweater was a small dark purple jacket and across his back was a red ax with spiked ends. On the back was the Sun Shadows insignia and it was, obviously, zipped.
The three turned the corner and saw their destination.'' Come on we're almost there!'' Kevin encouraged them as they came closer to the target: a wooden door with a women dressed head to toe in brown winter wear. Her hair was brown and her eyes as dark as the ocean abyss, but had small hint of blue if you looked close enough.
The three ran faster as they came ever so closer, but a drawled out beep came next and they all can to a skidding to a stop as they stopped just a few feet away from the stairs. The woman smirked at the three teens and they all sighed.
'' Five second head start and you still didn't make it on time, you guys are getting sloppy.'' The woman said to them.
'' Come on Callie, its cold, slippery, and the way you send us in had lots of people!'' Nazz exclaimed to the older woman.
'' No excuses, that's what they taught us in the Academy, a soldier will have to go through the coldest and hottest weather in the world with a damn more than what you have on right now. Your enemy won't give a flying shit about how the weather is, but their only problem will be trying to kill you. You also forgot to use nature to your ability. This snow is thick enough to hide behind and for bullets to be stopped, the ice can be used to make your traveling across the sidewalk or road easier as you gain speed from sliding across it, and finally, if you are cold the running should make your blood pump faster. So go back and do it again, no head starts.'' Callie instructed to the three teens as they groaned.
'' Man why did we come to you for training?'' Kevin muttered under his breath.
'' Cause your mentors told me to do so, you may get their training, but you also need basic training so that you could at least rely on something else if your skills fail, plus they don't have time especially with the many things they need to do for you two's clan. But Nazz is here cause she wants to, so you two were just a dropped off at the last minute.'' Callie smiled at Rolf and Kevin as the two boys turned away and followed Nazz who was walking back to the starting point..
'' I think Techlin's older-girl- who is friend is more brutal than mentor Frantz.'' Rolf said.
'' Yeah never thought story telling for eight hours was hard.'' Kevin said.
'' We do not only tell tales of old country, we also talk of how we battle our enemies. My comrades though have always seemed annoyed by our talks.'' Rolf said. Nazz and Kevin shared a small laugh at what Rolf said, but the farm boy was left confused by their actions.
'' You guys should be careful, especially with those symbols on Rolf's back and on your hands.'' Nazz said after a few minutes of walking. The two looked at the blonde teen in confusion as they stopped their walk, stopping at a corner where crowds of people were gathered near the merchant stalls. They were in the biggest market area of the city: Chicagoan Merchant Quarters.
'' Alright, spill, what are you talking about?'' Kevin asked.
'' I thought you guys knew already. Well, there has been some tension between the factions, and to be exact you guys and the runner ups.'' Nazz informed.
'' Runner ups? Rolf does not like that our power is undermined by others, we should be one of the best.'' Rolf's words caught the ear of other faction members that were around the area and they all shot dirty looks at Rolf and Kevin.
'' Saw those looks they gave you, they now want to kill you. Also you guys may have powerful members but so do the other factions! There are guys and women that are probably stronger than Frantz, Cori, Brunzo, La, June, Antony, Kasumi, Oron, and Corvo.'' Nazz told them, but the two couldn't believe that there was people stronger than their mentors, that was nearly insane.'' I don't even need to say Techlin and Jon, they already are unbeatable. Kinda.''
'' Kinda? Now what are meaning about that, they are considered one of the top ten of you-know-what.'' Kevin said.
'' Yeah, but I did my research. I wanted to know about and asked Tech could I see the American, Japanese, Chinese, and Europe ranks and I found out something that Tech confirmed a day before he left.'' Nazz stopped to look around and saw people minding their own business and not paying any attention to them.'' That all of their skills are natural.''
'' Natural? One confusing thing after another eh Nazz-girl?'' Rolf asked.'
'' Start studying a little more and maybe you'll get what I'm saying.'' Nazz said to them.' Ugh, boys!' She added as an extra thought.'' What I mean is that all their skills that they hold, like Cristian's speed, was all natural, but were vastly improved do to the injection of nanotrites into their bodies. All of the top ten to top fifteen had shown to have made their own personal way of fighting and thinking. Techlin knows hows to use any type of weapon, even ones that he never even used before, Jon invented something that would change humanity but was classified, and Cristian was the most fastest as he broke records that the fastest man in the world couldn't.''
'' Oh I get what you saying Nazz-girl! So even though they have all these abilities that are their own worth and the nanotrites just boosted their skills to super-human level, but since its natural that just mean that they are even harder to kill, but if one was to find their weakness they would be able to easily kill them.'' Rolf said, after thinking on her words for a few seconds.
'' Exactly!'' Nazz said to the farmer as they high five. Kevin moved in putting his arm around Nazz waist and pulling her close.
'' All that smartness and beauty surely make you one of the angels.'' Kevin said and Nazz chuckled at the cheesy compliment.
'' Oh you!'' Nazz said bringing him in for a kiss. Until a very angry Eddy came and ruined it for them by pushing them on the ground. The couple got up from their position and quickly made the snow on them fall to the ground before it melted and gave them pneumonia or some other kind of disease caused by cold water.
'' Short-Ed-boy what has gotten your yacks in the wrong patch?'' Rolf asked as he walked by him.
'' Shut up Rolf, need to find a bar.'' Eddy said as he stomped away.
'' What his deal?'' Nazz asked looking at Eddy's back as he glanced to the side of each store he went by and turned back, more angry than before.
'' Eddy better stop acting like a dork and get his act together, if he does anything like that again, hes getting a pounding!'' Kevin shouted just loud enough for Eddy to hear, only for said boy to give him the bird.'' Why that short ass...''
'' Come on, lets head back to the start, we wasted enough time out here and Callie will get mad at us for being so late.'' Nazz said to the two as they continued their walk through the crowd. Rolf took a final glance at Eddy as he stormed through people and pushed them out of the way, he turned back and caught up to his friends.
Eddy 5 minutes later
Eddy angrily smashed his fist to a wall, leaving his hands slightly scraped and a little blood starting to come out.'' How hard is it to find a damn bar?''
Eddy continued on his rampage to find a bar. As he went further and further the large crowds started to get smaller and the buildings started to change. Before Eddy knew it, he was in the Badlands, otherwise known as the red zone, where the law doesn't apply to anyone. The government have better things to do than worry for this part of the city, so they put a small steel gate that separated them and said to the people '' You want crime all the time, then go to the Red Zone for some fun.''
'' They pretty much just dump any and all criminals here for fun, good plan, let the same thing fight over and over til they cancel each other out or one gets the upper hand. My part of town.'' Eddy smiled at how this government actually done something right besides capitalism. The young boy thought that there has be a good bar around here.
Eddy continued on his way with his pockets in hands as he passed a few homeless gathered around a barrel with fire inside. Eddy passed a good looking prostitute who tried to get Eddy, but failed when the gun came to her face, she walked away angrily hugging her fur coat that kept her warm. Eddy looked and saw a citizen getting mugged, Eddy felt like he should intervene but thought otherwise.
' You know what you get yourself into once you enter the Badlands.' Just when Eddy thought those words, he suddenly found himself surrounded by four guys that dropped down from the building above him. They all wore the same color, yellow, white and black. They were dressed differently than everyone else, yellow hoodies, white pants and boots, black gloves and shirt. The hoods was up covering nearly all their faces, but Eddy could tell that two of them were white and the other two, were Hispanic and African-American.
'' Hmmm...what do we have here?'' One of them said in cocky tone.
'' See his colors, hes one of the runner ups. I think they were called the Sun Shadows. And I think this is the Eddy Johnson a.k.a the Blaze. Also one of the lieutenants of his faction.'' Another said looking from a phone in his hand, Eddy's face was shown and also his stats in Speed, Strength, Intelligence, Agility, Endurance, and Precision.'' He has high speed and agility, low intelligence, endurance, and precision, and moderate strength. The Blaze will easily be snuffed out.''
'' Hey what's that in your hand?'' Eddy said hearing what he was saying about him.
'' None of ya business, you won't need to know once we get done with you. Now to see how great the Sun Shadows really are!'' The Hispanic charged at him with an elbow to his back. Eddy easily dodged, but didn't suspect him to turn around with a kick to his stomach and reacted quick enough to barely dodge, next was one of the white men came at him with a punch and Eddy deflected the attack and struck his chin, his head went up but came down and headbutted him.
Eddy stumbled back and an elbow made its way to his gut as the one with the phone uppercut him and he was sent flying. Suddenly the black man appeared over him and ax kicked him to the concrete ground. Eddy felt pain all over his body, never had he just get hurt like this, even the sparring with Cori was less painful. Then a thought of that came into Eddy and he smiled at what he just thought.
Standing up, with little trouble, Eddy put his arm around his stomach as he saw his four opponents in front of him. Cori had showed him multiple fighting styles and how to counter then, now that Eddy took a look at their stance, he had the perfect plan.
'' That's all you got? I've seen toddlers hit harder than you. I beat you all so weak, you need to be in a team to win!'' Eddy taunts got to them as they were about to charge, until the Hispanic man held his hands up.
'' I got this.'' He told his comrade.
'' Alright Joseph, hes all your.'' One of white men said.
'' You think we can't take you by ourselves? I'll prove you wrong!'' Joseph charged at Eddy with another elbow attack.
' Muay Thai, said to be one of the most destructive and fastest of fighting styles, uses fists, feet, elbows, and knees attacks. Weakness: Faster opponent, stronger defense. I need to be faster!' Eddy thought as the elbow came to him and he dodged, a foot came up to his head and Eddy dodged it as well. This continued for a few minutes with Eddy on the defense and Joseph on the offense. Then after a kick and fist combo, Eddy struck Joseph's side and went for his head, but the man dodged, and that failed as Eddy punched him in the gut.
Now with the tides turned, Eddy assaulted the man with hit after hit, when he dodged Eddy's fist, knees, or kicks hit him. When he blocked, Eddy went to the legs or chests, next was the counter which did connect but Eddy was successful with attacking an instant later. It wasn't soon before Joseph was on the ground, knocked out and beaten. The other three was left shocked at seeing their leader being beaten.
'' Hey pipsqueak! Don't think that its over, this is for Joseph!'' The African-American came at Eddy next with an aerial spin kick that Eddy blocked with his right hand.
' Tae Kwon Do, the use of legs and feet as offensive attacks and hands and arms as defensive, said to be like water, always changing like a river, but can be like ice in an instant. Very fast and very accurate. Weakness: Break the flow of attacks. Easy.' Eddy did the same thing with Joseph but only dodged a few attacks before attacking.
Eddy reflected a kick and pushed it to the ground hard enough for him to lose his balance. Eddy made a punch for his face and just like he predicted he protected his face with both arms. Eddy fist stopped an inch away from his guard, but the Blaze sidestepped and spun with an elbow directly to the black man's neck, knocking him out.
'' Pressure points, thank you La!'' Eddy never thought he would say that for that crazy lady.
'' Lets double team him!'' Said one of the final two. Both white men charged at Eddy, now wielding police batons in both hands.
'' Wanna play with weapons, fine!'' Eddy exclaimed as he brought out his yo-yos making the two stop.
'' Are those...'' One of them started.
'' Yo-yos!'' The other one finished and they busted out with laughter at the sight of the toys.'' Hes going to beat us with yo-yos!''
'' What a damn loser!''
'' Dumb ass.''
'' If the rest of Sun Shadowers fight with toys then they need to be dead.''
The comments continued as each one made the lieutenant angrier and angrier. It was then that Eddy was now red in the face as he pressed the button on the side, the four blades appeared in the yo-yos and they stopped laughing as the yo-yos came too fast and they found their clothes on the grounds in shreds. But then their eyes widen as they saw cuts appear on their bodies, some deep enough for them to bleed. Eddy wasn't done as he shifted the yo-yos again and was able to hit them directly on their next stomach area where the guts opened up and spilled to the ground, painting the snow and concrete red with their blood. They fell down dead on top of each other.
'' Don't ever mock me and my damn weapons again, I learned too much for these damn things to be useless!'' Eddy was hurt in both spirit and confidence, though slightly for the latter. Cori and La had taught him a few techniques that combined both Frisbee and yo-yo attacks. He worked day in and out to get strong for a few to mock him and his skills.
Eddy sighed as he realized what he has done. He let the anger get the better of him, now two people were left dead. Luckily this was Badlands, everything went with no rules, so killing was allowed. Eddy decided to check them out and see what they were about.
Joseph and the black man had credit chips that he took, they had no family, orphans, warranty for arrest on both of them. He put the credit chips into his pocket for later. He went to the dead ones and took their credit chips as well, took a look into their wallets and saw that one of them was single, had no family left. The other had a girlfriend and small letter saying to meet up later that day in his torn pocket. He felt sorry for the guy, she was hot, he hoped that they weren't too close.
He sighed as he stood and was about to leave til he saw the phone the guy had on the ground. Eddy took it and put that in his pocket as well. He left the scene quickly after grabbing it, knowing that people were going to see and didn't want his faction in trouble or with bad cred.
Eddy was still unaware of the man following him by rooftop, having seen and recorded everything.
Double D. 2:47 P.M
Edd looked through the sights of his scope, adjusting from 4x, 5x,6x,7x,8x,9x,10x,12x,20x,50x, and finally 100x magnification.' I can't believe this is actually working! Two months of research and experiments and five trips to the doctor for eye fixing, and its all coming together!' Double D had been working on a scope that was as able to scope distances farther than any other scope on the planet, though he would have to improve the power of his rifle in order to get up to fifty and a hundred.
The design of the scope itself was just like any normal scope. There was buttons on the side the digitally change the magnification level. Edd was too smart to know that he would need bigger scope for it to reach higher magnification, so he decided to make it digital. The inside was fully technological, there was a small machine that could enlarge the image of the objective lens at multiple levels and to see at a far greater distance. The only problem was that over 12x magnification required the device to use power, meaning for 20x, 50x, and 100x to work on optical functionality, it required a battery of some sort that could continuously transfer energy from it to the scope and reuse the energy power to keep it going for longer. It was proven as the other side started to break down and dematerialize, it automatically reduced to 12x.
'' I just need to find the right power source to maintain the high magnification levels. One problem fixed, another just started. Darn it.'' Edd muttered as he stood up, stretching and hearing a few cracks from his tensed bones for staying still for too long. Double D had to admit that staying out for two hours in the cold was tiring and he was surprised he stayed out this long. The cold didn't bother him as much as he thought, only when the wind blew did he had to stop.
Double D looked to the zipline above him and latched on, traveling at fast speeds towards the compound. As a way for snipers to get more experience for long range targets, Jon made this just a few days ago. For a mile there was stands on the roofs that were each ten feet high, Jon said that this was asked of him for June and did it personally in exactly one hour: twenty minutes: thirty eight seconds. June explained to the sniper team that he did it simply out of boredom as all papers and important tasks were done for that day.
Though many objected to the easy access to their base, Jon was already a step ahead as he said that it was electrical wiring and from the base to the end of the zipline it was all electricity going through those cords, so anyone who will try to get past will get electrocuted enough to knock them out. The latch that he provided for everyone, was a special rubber wheel he made that will be able to safely get them across. The latch was electrical so when the wheel touch a wire it will automatically start and with a press of a button will speed it up to make it go faster.
Double D saw the base coming up fast and timed his ejection right. He was five feet away from the rooftop when he detached and Edd flew down as he landed on the roof with a roll that stopped when pushed himself up with his hands and landed on his feet.
'' Perfect landing. Nice one sweetie.'' A familiar female voice said and Edd turned to see Marie standing by the roof entrance, clapping. Marie hadn't changed much beside her longer blue hair almost being complete covered by a black bandana. She was dressed entirely like Kevin and the rest of the Shadow Machinist. The only difference was that she and a few others didn't carry just machinery and tools, they carried explosives and tools. Her clothes were inside out in color to Kevin and she showed the clan's insignia on her gloved hands and on her trench coat.
'' Thank you Marie.'' Edd said giving her a small peck on the lips.
'' So have you've been waiting for me this whole time?'' Edd asked as they went down the stairs and into the warmer building, the door closed silently behind them.
'' No, I finished building some parts that blew up in my face and took a quick shower before coming here and heard you were up there. So hows your little scope thingy?'' Asked the blunette after she explained.
'' My ''scope thingy'' is going fine thank you, I was able to figure out some of the technical difficulties of the digital magnification, but the problem is finding a source of power that can continuously give energy for the higher magnification levels.'' Edd explained the young woman chuckled.
'' I love it when you talk like a smart person.'' Marie said hooking her arm with Double D's and rubbing her asset on his arm making the boy squirm a little and a slight blushing.'' Don't even think by telling me to stop it, you love it. Especially last night, when our window was open and we needed a way to keep warm.'' Marie giggled as Double D blush heightened, some of the Shadowers in the halls heard and were snickering at the couple.
'' Why talk of our business while in public?'' Double D asked.
'' Because I have no shame in what we do at night, if they want to know we fuck like rabbits then let them know!'' Marie shouted and Double D covered her mouth as he dragged her away, the members across the first floor were now laughing at the two lieutenants and Marie's shouting of their time alone.
'' You just have to be like this to me.'' Double D muttered as they went through the door to the stairs and the two walked by Techlin who looked confused at the sight Edd's blush and why Marie's mouth was covered, so being the curious crazy person he was, he asked them.
'' So you guys are going to fuck like rabbits again?''
'' But didn't you just come from upstairs?'' Eddward asked shocked by Marie's shout being so loud.
'' No, I heard it each night you guys did it back at home. Trust me, you guys can muffle scream. We all wore ear muffs, but hid them before we got up, so you guys would have screamed and we be sleeping peacefully.'' Techlin explained, Double D couldn't believe what he was hearing, the embarrassment was too much for him as he fainted to the floor.
'' Funny business, well have you seen Oron, Kasumi, and Corvo, I want to see these new Elites myself.'' Techlin said cracking his knuckles.
'' I think Kasumi is in the Tech Labs, Oron is on the second floor in the Med Bay teaching some classes, and I think Corvo is in the gym working on something, you know where everything is right?'' The boy nodded.'' Okay, well see ya Techlin, glad to have you back.''
'' See ya!'' Exclaimed Techlin as he ran down through the door.
'' Now come on mister, there is a bed at our apartment waiting.'' Marie giggled as she took her man to their apartment in the base's walls.
Don't hate the player, hate the game...not working is it. Well that's life is it.
I'm pretty sure everyone gave up on this story, well not until the next chapter comes out.
Sorry for this one being shorter than the last, but also for taking a month to do this short chapter, I've been working on some stuff like school and trying not to fail the 8th grade, poems, my dream of being a writer for real!
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The Crisis Begins III: Eddy's Time and Fortune of the Night.