A Glass of Warm Ed
It was the night that the heroes had recovered the Thunder Demon Chi from Drago and while most were already in bed the Ed Boys were sleeping over at various places on Sodor. The reason being, the Forces of Darkness had taken over Seattle and turned Peach Creek into a shadow town in retaliation for losing the Thunder Demon Chi.
Double-D was sleeping peacefully until he heard some breaking sounds, "What was that?" He got out of bed and grabbed his cactus Jim to use as a weapon.
As he made his way through the darkened Steamworks he heard eating sounds coming from the kitchen area. He peeked and saw something at the refrigerator. he spoke to himself sounding freaked, "Oh, dear. An intruder, eating all the food out of the Steamworks' fridge, in bare feet! So unsanitary."
He peaked in and saw the intruder was gone, with the refrigerator door left open and cleaned out. Double-D braced himself as he was staring, specifically, at the bottom left drawer. He reached for it and opened it slowly. There was something inside which suddenly rose up.
He screamed before realizing it was Ed who was still eating some food, while also looking asleep, "Ed?" he asked in relief, "You practically scared me out of my one-size-fits-all pajamas. Do you know what time it is?"
Ed said nothing, but just kept eating, "Ed?" Ed got clsoer to Double-D, "Don't make me use this." he held out his cactus.
Ed took a bite out of the cactus. Double-D looked horrified, "You ate Jim. Ed, cacti have feelings just like you..." He stopped and saw Ed coming back carrying many various foods, "Hold it right there, Mr. Ed! Stop! Where are you going with all the Steamworks' food? Ed, they'll spoil!"
Ed came back to take Jim as he left the Steamworks with the supplies, "Ed, Come back here and close this refrigerator door!" Ed paid Double-D no mind, and continued onward, "Ed! I need to wake Eddy. Oh, dear. A paradox."
Fortunately for Double-D, Eddy was snoozing at the sheds of the Skarloey Railway since he was wiped out from yesterday so all he had to do was jog there. He not only found Eddy but he found all the Skarloey Railway Engines.
"Eddy? Eddy, are you awake?"
Eddy and the Skarloey Railway Engines heard Double D and woke up on cue albeit Eddy, Sir Handel and Duncan grumbled about the wakeup call.
"Who turned off the sun?" Eddy groaned.
"This better be important. Tomorrow's Market Day." Duncan added.
"And we got a lot to deliver." Sir Handel put in.
"Good, you guys are awake. We have a problem." Double-D began.
Skarloey spoke, "Just take a deep breath and tell us what is going on."
"You see Ed was at the Steamworks. The kitchen. The refrigerator! Not that it's any different than any other day. But, well, it was late, y'see. And I usually like to get eight hours of sleep. But Ed was eating. Has eaten. Has taken all the food! I asked him. Talked to him. But no reaction! He just kept eating. Do you hear me, fellas. Ed. Is. Sleepwalking!"
Sir Handel, Duncan, and Eddy yawned due to being tired but before anyone could say anything Ed walked out carrying armloads of food.
"What's Ed doing with the Thin Controller's food?" Peter Sam asked in confusion.
Double-D answered frantically, "Ed is like a swarm of locusts ready to purge the island and all its good people of their food!"
Rheneas spoke in worry, "That's a scary thought."
Eddy spoke feeling unmoved, "And you scare me when you talk like that. Let's go see what big Ed's up too."
Duke spoke, "You two go do that. When dawn comes we'll tell the Thin Controller what's going on."
Eddy and Double-D left to go follow Ed and they somehow tailed him all the way to Knapford. Ed had come out of one the sheds carrying a whole fridge. He opened and all the food fell into his wide open mouth.
Eddy and Double-D saw everything. Eddy cheered in entertainment, "Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Man, tell me I wasn't dreaming. He scarfed the whole fridge!" Double-D hushed him, as they continue to trail Ed.
Ed continued entering and eating all the food of the other residents till he got to the home of the Fat Controller.
"Oh, I hope he doesn't wake the boss. This is not good." Double-D feared.
Eddy pulled Double-D to two fold out chairs, "This is rich Double-D. Have a seat. Front row center to the greatest show on earth." Pulls out a bag of popcorn and begins eating.
"Are you gonna share those?"
Ed was putting food after food in his mouth swallowing it whole, before tossing a single piece of bread up and caught it in his mouth.
Double-D looked impressed, "That was very good."
"I can't figure out where he's putting it all," Eddy replied. There was a crash and they saw Ed was no longer in the kitchen, "Where'd he go?"
"Do you think Ed swallowed himself?" Double-D asked. They heard more crashing.
Eddy and Double-D ran up stair and followed the noise. They opened a door seeing Ed above the Fat Controller who had earplugs in his ears while fast asleep.
That wasn't all they saw. Katherine Shiba, who looked like an older and more developed version of Arisa and Kaoru with longer hair, wider hips and curves was also snoozing away with a mud mask and cucumbers over her eyes.
"What do we do?" Eddy whispered.
"Hope for a miracle." Double-D whispered back.
Fortunately for Eddy and Double-D, Ed only took the cucumbers before leaving through the window and somehow landing on his feet.
"Phew." Double-D sighed in relief.
"Let's go. I don't wanna miss Ed getting heartburn." Eddy pushed him along.
The duo were on the trail of Ed as the chase took them to the Little Western Branchline. The trail was easy to find as it was a pile of food and food containers.
"Check it out. He must've bilked the whole island of its food." Eddy said.
Double-D picked up an empty milk container, "Messy-messy-messy. Sleepwalking and eating everyone's food is one thing. But littering!"
"Check it out. Ed at a whole box of bran muffins!" Eddy noticed.
"This could be dangerous, Eddy." Double-D feared.
"Oh, yeah."
The two followed the trail as it led them to the Small Railway where even more food containers could be found.
"This mess should lead us right to him," Eddy saw a string of sausages slink on the ground leading to a shed. He quickly grabbed the sausages, "Bingo!" Eddy screamed as he was tugged along into the shed.
"Careful, Eddy." Double-D entered the shed.
Eddy popped out from a pile of food holding a turkey, "Finders keepers!"
"Um, Eddy. Its sunrise and look."
Eddy looked over and held in a giggle. It was Ed sleeping on his bed covered in food. Eddy eventually burst into laughter.
"Ed seems content among all that food." Double-D noticed.
"Yeah like a beached whale," Eddy joked before climbing on top of Ed, "He looks so natural. Ed? Oh, Ed? Wake up Goldilocks!" He shook Ed until he woke up.
"Hi guys!"
"Ed, do you know that you walk in your sleep? And that you've consumed all the food within a 500 mile radius of your bed?" Double-D questioned.
"Not only that, but I feel as though I have consumed all the food within a 500 mile radius of my bed," Ed answered before seeing the cactus, "Oh, Jim got a haircut."
"Don't you remember anything, Ed?"
Eddy spoke, "You were great, Ed. You at everything including the boss' food."
Ed saw his belly got so big it popped the button off his pajama shirt. The conversation however didn't go unnoticed by Kiva the Small Railway's resident Norfolk and Western J Class Northern who was already up at the Crack of Dawn as usual.
"What's going on?"
"Oh, Kiva. We were just telling Ed here how he was sleepwalking all night and ate everyone's food." Double-D explained.
"Well, then I suggest you brace yourselves for the phone calls that the cops are gonna get."
"Oh, dear. I can't go to jail! I won't survive!" Double-D panicked.
"Calm down. It's not your fault but half the island isn't gonna be in a good mood." Kiva said.
Kiva was right. The Chans were at Knapford for a museum exhibit and Uncle had woken up to see all his mung bean sandwiches had vanished.
"Who ate all of Uncle's mung bean sandwiches?!" Uncle demanded.
"I didn't do it." Jade answered.
"Don't look at me." Tohru spoke.
"Maybe you misplaced them?" Jackie suggested.
"Uncle does not misplace!"
"Just calm down." Jade calmed him.
"I will phone police at once." Uncle announced.
"Uncle, I do not think the cops will put out an APB for a couple of sandwiches." Jackie replied.
"Especially mung bean." Jade gagged.
"And in case you didn't notice there have been a rash of break ins all last night." Tohru added.
"I wonder how the Steamworks is doing?" Jade wondered.
Over at the Steamworks, Team Avatar was discussing what happened last night while completing the last of Monica's restoration.
"I can't believe a burglar was able to get into so many houses without anybody noticing." Maggie said in disbelief.
Everyone else was confirming it happened to them too.
Monica the Great Western 4700 Consolidation that was due to go to Japan had to speak, "Well, if you ask me the cops need to get their fucking shit together before this punk ass burglar strikes again." They agreed.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders were at Crovan's gate as they were watching the Skarloey Railway Fleet tell the Thin Controller about Ed's sleepwalking.
The Thin Controller spoke, "So what you're telling me is that my food was stolen by one of the Ed Boys who was sleepwalking?"
"We know it sounds far-fetched, sir, but we're telling you the truth." Duke assured him.
"Given the description of how the big one is like I can see some truth to the matter."
"Maybe we should call the current Fat Controller and his wife and let them deal with this?" Rusty suggested, "Katherine is a member of the Shiba Clan after all."
"I'll make the call."
Rheneas spoke, "In the mean time we had better get to work. It's Peter Sam's turn to take the old coaches out." Rusty agreed, as they got right to it.
Over with Sir Richard Hatt he was giving out the jobs for the day along with Katherine Shiba when Sir Richard got a phone call, "Sir Richard Hatt speaking."
"This is Mr. Percival the Thin Controller. We've got a problem. It turns out the big Ed boy was responsible for the thefts from last night."
"He what?"
"Perhaps I better explain what's going on," So Mr. Percival explained everything that the Skarloey Railway Engines told him, "And that's the story. Ed sleepwalks."
"This is indeed a problem."
"We'll discuss a solution later." Mr. Percival then ended the call on that note as the engines were confused but Nicole was the first to speak.
"What the fuck was that?"
Pinkie Pie appeared from out of nowhere holding Nicole's Cursing Jar, "Nicole. You just cursed. You know what that means."
"All right." Nicole's Driver put a dollar into the jar.
"What's with the jar of dollars?" Akiza asked.
"It's Nicole's cursing jar." Pinkie answered.
"Each time Nicole curses. Her driver has to feed the jar a dollar. One for each curse." Barry explained.
"Okay but on an unrelated note what are we gonna do about the theft of the food from last night?" Akiza wondered.
Sir Richard Hatt spoke, "Well, it turns out the large Ed boy is responsible for it. But not on his own accord. He sleepwalks."
"You're kidding right? Sleepwalking? That's hilarious." Rainbow Dash laughed.
"I've done it before. Nearly cleaned out all of Sugarcube Corner." Pinkie Pie said.
"All I know is that the people including our crews are going to be hungry and irritable." Gordon replied.
"Gordon's right," Bear agreed, "We'll need a plan. I vote we send Ed to the Crystal Empire Tonight. At least one of the Princesses can keep him from doing any damage."
"Yeah. I kinda doubt that. Ed's not so easily contained." Rainbow Dash said.
"We gotta do something. At least we should try it." Barry agreed.
The others agreed and went to work. Later that evening James had taken the Mane Six and the Ed Boys to the Crystal Empire as planned where Quintessa, Cadence and Shining Armor were waiting.
Quintessa spoke, "Long time no see, guys. So what's up?"
"You look distressed, Twily. What's going on?" Shining Armor noticed.
"See our friend Ed here has developed an issue and the island of Sodor wants him currently far from it as possible."
"Who is Ed?" Cadence inquired.
"I am Ed!" Ed announced.
Quintessa continued, "Okay then. Back to the task at hand, what is the issue that has caused you to bring Ed and his pals all the way to the Crystal Empire?"
"Ed Sleepwalks and eats." Double-D explained.
"He what?" Shining Armor asked.
"The big guy goes on an eating binge while he sleep walks. He bilked the whole railway of their food supplies." Eddy explained.
James who had spent the night at one of the Sheds in Equestria was shocked upon hearing that, "He what?"
"We know. We were hoping to keep him contained here until we rid him of his sleepwalking problem." Double-D said.
James spoke, "This had better work, cause if my Driver's daughter and her cousin do not get some of the Spicy or Mexican food that they like then they're going to be irritable and running on empty."
"Well, we'll do what we can." Cadence promised.
"And we'll stay over to help out as well." Eddy offered.
"If anyone knows Ed, it's me and Eddy." Double-D added.
Later that night everyone had fallen asleep with the Eds in the same room. Ed had been tied to one of the beds in the Crystal Empire Palace hoping that it would keep him contained. He was just sleeping peacefully before his body moved up and started walking which didn't go unnoticed by Double-D.
"Eddy! Ed's walking in his sleep again!" Ed had already slept walked out of the room and onto the palace grounds. He walked in making his way to the royal kitchen, "I hope the guards remembered to double security around the Royal Kitchen."
"Somehow even that's not gonna stop Ed." Eddy replied.
Ed entered and found a walk in fridge and began pigging out.
"Well, at least it's filled with nothing but vegetables and other things the inhabitants of his land eat. So at least Ed's eating healthy." Double-D admired.
"Where's the Junk food?" Eddy grumbled. Ed then began making his way to the dessert kitchen after cleaning out the fridge, "Oh, that big lug is cracking me up." he laughed.
"I think I know how to lure him back." Double-D said.
"Why?"
Later on after Ed had bilked most of the Crystal he was still sleep walking when he caught a whiff of his dirty shoes. They were hanging on a tick as they were being led away, and Ed followed the smell.
Double D who had a clothespin over his nose spoke, "The familiar scents of one's personal belongings always makes one long for their natural environment."
"You must be a riot at parties, Double-D." Eddy replied.
Ed then reentered the room that he was staying in at the Crystal Empire before hitting the wall giving Eddy and Double-D the time needed to tie him to the bed yet again.
"I believe Ed isn't going anywhere anytime soon." Double-D said.
"You know I got a good idea how to feed the starving people of the island." Eddy smirked, until the smart one cut him off.
"Don't you even think about it. This isn't the cul-de-sac."
"I know. Other places people can be twice the suckers."
"Let's just get back to sleep. I'm sure Twilight can figure something out."
Next morning Shining Armor and Princess Cadence woke up to make an inspection when Flash Sentry arrived and had a distressed look on his face.
"Your highness. It's horrible. Somebody broke into the royal kitchens and raided all the food."
"What?" Shining Armor gasped.
"I'm serious. All the food's been eaten. See for yourself." They trotted in seeing the walk in fridge cleared out.
"Ed's Sleepwalking problem is worse than I thought." Cadence feared.
"What can we do?" Flash Sentry asked.
"We'll have to tell Princess Celestia and Princess Luna about the situation. There's no way around it." Shining Armor answered.
"And what do you suggest we tell them?"
"What else but the truth." Cadence replied.
"Maybe Princess Luna can help him with his sleep walking?" Shining Armor suggested.
"I just hope he hasn't gotten into Quintessa's stash. You know how she can get when she's hungry." Flash replied. The two nodded.
Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle Princesses Celestia Luna and Prince Zuko were having a discussion about what happened on Sodor when Zeng flew in.
"Your highnesses, I bring news from the Crystal Empire." Zeng began.
"I take it this is bad news?" Zuko asked.
"Unfortunately. Ed's Sleepwalking eating binge struck again."
"How bad could it be?" Luna asked.
"Perhaps I better show you some footage of what it is that's going on."
Right on cue Zeng showed the footage that the Shiba Clan gathered of Ed's sleepwalking eating binge over the last night and the night before to give Zuko, Celestia and Luna an idea of the situation.
"This is serious." Celestia said.
"This is worse than I thought. Luna, think you can do something about it?" Zuko asked.
"Perhaps his mind during the night needs some corrections. I should be able to figure this out in his dreams."
"I warn you Princess," Zeng began, "Ed's mind is the most disorganized mind that Mai's seen yet and she's been busy teaching Astral how to enter the Dreams of others since Zuko gave Camille and Carol the week off."
"Moving on. Let's just get Ed over here and see if we can cure his sleepwalking. We might also be able to learn something else in the process." Zuko said.
"As you wish." Zeng replied.
Meanwhile in the Crystal Empire the Ponies were starving from lack of food. James had to work double time to bring in supplies from other Areas of Equestria to keep the empire from starving which in turn would've invoked the darkness in the hearts of the ponies. Eddy and Double D were riding in James' Cab with the Crew while the J28 in question was having a word with them.
"I thought you said that you two could keep Ed in check." James spoke to the two.
"Well, we got him back to the room." Eddy reminded him.
"But not before he cleaned out the fridge."
"He's got a point, Eddy." Double-D noted.
"Not helping."
James pulled into Canterlot Station just as the Royals were there with the last of the supplies for the Crystal Empire.
The three Eds presented themselves, "You're excellencies." Double-D greeted them.
"Greetings. I believe that we have a way to cure Ed of his sleepwalking." Zuko began.
"How're ya gonna do that?" Eddy asked.
"Princess Luna, if you please?" Zuko asked.
"By entering his dreams I can correct whatever issues he had that's leading him to these eating sleepwalks."
"Good luck with that. If Ed's mind is anything like his hygiene then it's gonna be a pigsty in there." Eddy said.
"I'm willing to take it on."
"Well, you better hurry cause it's almost nightfall in six hours." James said. Luna nodded as they hurried.
By the time night came Luna was ready to enter Ed's mind.
"Now remember, Luna. You have to find out what's going on in Ed's head and correct it. Canterlot already handed it's spare supplies to the Crystal Empire so we cannot mess this up." Celestia instructed.
"I'm ready. Ed just needs to fall asleep."
"That's easy enough. Just let Double-D talk and he'll be passed out." Eddy joked.
"Eddy, how can you say such ludicrous..." They heard snoring and saw Ed was already fast asleep.
The Royals were stunned at how quick Ed had fallen asleep, "Well, this is a shock." Celestia said in surprise.
"What'd I tell ya?" Eddy asked.
"Anyway let's just send Luna in there while we watch from here." Zuko said.
Luna concentrated her magic. She then entered Ed's dream while Zuko cast a simple spell that would allow Celestia, Double-D, Eddy, and himself to watch what was going on in Ed's dream.
Luna had found herself in Ed's Dream as she was looking around, "Oh my. Zeng did say Ed's mind was very disorganized."
Ed's whole mind looked like a garbage dump, "My word it stinks. Well, I better find the source of the problem."
As Luna went to work, in the Real World, Zuko, Celestia, Eddy, and Double-D were watching the dream cloud.
"Perhaps we should've gotten Twilight and Rarity to help clean Ed's mind up?" Zuko suggested.
"Good lord. No one could clean up all that!" Double-D gasped.
"Don't be so sure. Twilight can handle just about anything." Celestia said.
"Let's just get back to watching Luna find Ed." Eddy replied, as they watched.
Luna made her way through the repulsive mess before finding some doorways. Luna opened one of the doors hoping to find answers. She found herself on some strange planet with robots and monsters. Luna stepped in carefully having never seen this before as Zuko and Celestia were in the real world talking to Eddy and Double-D.
"Do either of you two know what that place is?" Celestia asked the two.
"That must be Ed's imagination. He's thinking about the Robot Planet from the movie we wanted to see." Double-D said.
"And ended up LARPing." Eddy added.
"LARPing?" Zuko asked curiously.
"Live action role play. It's very popular these days." Double-D explained.
Celestia looked impressed, "That could be very interesting to help spread Creativity and imagination across Equestria. But for now let's get back to Watching the show."
So the four continued to watch Luna make her way through the planet.
"Ed certainly has an active imagination," Luna then found herself in the den of the Robots and she fought her way out but she didn't see any trace of Ed, "Perhaps I'll have better luck in one of the other doors."
She went inside another. She found herself in what appeared to be Princess Peach's Castle, "Where am I now?"
In the Real world Zuko remembered that place, "That's Princess Peach's Castle. Luna's in the Mushroom Kingdom."
"Ed remembers that through videogames." Eddy said.
"Which means Luna will have to get past Bowser in order to escape that door." Double-D added.
Luna entered the castle, "Hello?" Suddenly was greeted by Goombas waddling in her direction.
"I don't suppose you can tell me and Zuko what those are?" Celestia asked the Eds.
"Those are Goombas." Double-D answered.
"Which means Bowser's taken over the castle." Eddy added.
Luna blasted at the Goombas destroying them as she went though the Castle. She then found herself at the door to the highest room in the castle which no doubt was where she assumed the answers would be.
"I remember this. That door leads to the final battle with Bowser." Eddy said.
Luna entered and to her shock found Bowser at the end of the room with a lever behind him, "Okay who are you?"
"I am Bowser and I rule the mushroom kingdom!"
"Okay so where's Ed?" Luna inquired.
"He's not here. Ask the boss in the room with the big Red R on it. If you want to get in there. You'll have to defeat me first." Bowser explained.
"Then have at you!" Bowser shot fireballs at Luna. Luna dodged before countering with her magic.
Bowser curled into his shell to protect himself. Luna tried using a water spell to soak Bowser which had a strong effect. Bowser jumped above and attempted to slam down on her.
Luna dodged as soon as Bowser slammed down which left him dazed giving Luna the opening she was looking for to grab him by the tail and toss him into a spiked bomb which stunned him and left him on his back.
Bowser groaned, "You beat me. Take the Key leading to the room I told you about. It is there that the boos in that room will tell you where to find the answers you seek."
"Thank you. And to finish this fight." She pulled the lever making the bridge disappear leaving Bowser to fall into the lava below.
Luna then exited the room with the Key in hand and headed to the room that Bowser told her about, "Now let's see what this is about." She unlocked the door and entered.
She found that door lead to an Icy Chamber where a platform made of Ice was waiting. As soon as she got to the door way however she heard the voice of Elder Red.
"I cannot believe this. How did you make it this far? No matter I will test you now. I was actually hoping that somebody would do something about the Ed Boy's stench cause this place smells fetid."
"I won't deny the stench either." Luna agreed.
"I can only guess why you're here."
"I am here to help Ed."
"Then you will have to go to the Door at the end of the hall. But be warned, what's behind that door will not be pleasant at least not to Ed."
"I'll risk it."
"Very well then but you do realize you'll have to face me in battle first. I can't just give you the key. I need to know if you're strong enough to face what is in there."
"I shall show you."
Red began firing ice shards from his Ice Wand at Luna who dodged them and used her magic to shield herself. Luna started thinking how to defeat him.
Right on cue some metal crates with Red's face appeared as Luna pushed one towards Red doing damage. She pushed two more to him and knocked off a third of his health before Red Spoke while raising the Arena.
"Impressive. You fight as well as the Ed boy. You may have a chance after all." Red said.
"I don't go down easy." Luna replied.
Red then stomped the floor causing ice boulders to fall forcing Luna to dodge as he fired his ice wand again. Luna flew around before blasting with her own magic. Red countered using his Fire Breath and Ice Wand before four explosive crates appeared.
"My turn!" Luna then fired three of the crates at Red before he destroyed one of them causing him to fall to one third of his current health as Red Spoke again.
"Well, well, you do have a lot of fight in you. But this is where the real battle begins." Red warned her.
Red then jumped into the Ice Floor causing them to ball to the lowest part of the Chamber where red sent a Fireball into the Arena causing it to melt forcing Luna to take flight.
Luna dodged before she blasted Red with some Explosive Boxes that caused the duel to end.
"Well done. You actually defeated me. Perhaps you do have a chance after all."
"Of course I do."
"As promised I will personally take you to the door that you seek. You'll need somebody who knows the way given how messy this place is."
"Very well."
Red then led Luna to the door that she was looking for, "There it is. This is the door that has the answers you seek," Luna approached, "I'm afraid this is where you will have to go solo. I took a peek inside and let's just say the place hasn't been the same." She then opened the door and found herself in a town filled with Monsters, trolls, and wizards.
In the Real World, Eddy and Double-D recognized the town that Luna was in.
"I don't believe it. Luna's in Halloweentown." Eddy gasped.
Luna looked around, "If I'm not mistaken, this is the place known as Halloweentown. I didn't know Ed thought about it so much."
Luna made her way through the town and she smelled something odd. The place was actually clean and up to the standards of those with OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
"All the other places weren't this organized."
As Luna continued onward she saw a female in clothes that were suitable on a female from Medieval England, "Maybe she can help."
Luna went over to the female who upon closer inspection had long blonde hair lovely emerald eyes and a well-toned figure indicating that she got some exercise. This was of course Sally Sinister, Scarlet, Sapphire, and Sage's older cousin by 3 years and Silas Sinister's niece but Luna didn't know this yet.
"Pardon me, but I am in need of assistance."
"Oh, hello. Welcome to Halloweentown in Ed's dreams. I'm sorry for the state of the area. Usually it is an area filled with activity."
"I am Princess Luna. Princess of the Night."
"You're not from one of the dream doors are you?" she asked.
"No. As princess of the night it is my duty to come into the dreams of others to make sure they have peaceful sleeps. But there is a problem with Ed."
"It's my fault. Well the me in the waking world. You see I came to Sodor a couple of day ago to find some help in taking back the town from the darkness. The one you call Ed had something so my real self left him a stone that would allow me to have a conversation at night with somebody who could help."
"And who is that?"
"I was actually hoping you could help. But, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Sally Sinister."
Luna was taken aback, "Sinister? Are you related to the Sinister Sisters?"
"Unfortunately. I'm their older cousin by 2 years and a graduate of Witch University. I did well at school and that was using my own skill. No magic involved. Anyway my cousins have taken over the town and it's under the forces of Darkness but it gets worse."
"I'm listening."
"Sage is terrorizing the skies with an Armada of Darkness, Scarlett herself has darkened the sky but Sapphire has taken all the food from this dream and given it to a nightmarish monster called the Hydra in an attempt to appease it enough into becoming her pet."
"Oh, my." Luna gasped.
Sally continued, "And here's more bad news, the lair of the hydra is accessible through the cleaning department. Filled with stuff like soap and toothpaste. The only other way is across the sea but we need a sea vehicle to get to it."
"Luckily, I am capable of flying."
"Let's go find Ed."
"Right." So the two hurried.
They didn't have to look far for the sound of Ed's empty stomach guided them to him as he was at the sea vehicle dock.
"This is it." Luna said.
"Let's go talk to him." Sally suggested.
Ed was lying down moaning, "I need food for my tum-tum."
"We're here to help." Sally promised him.
"Oh, bless the goddesses of Planet Vorpak." Ed said in relief.
"We can get you to the lair of the hydra and get back the stolen food." Luna explained.
"Thank you, Princess. Um, can you help me up."
Luna smiled, "Of course."
Sally helped Ed up so he was on Luna's back. Sally then summoned a Sea Vehicle as they headed to the lair of the hydra.
"When this is over I'm going to eat like I've never eaten before." Ed promised.
Luna thought, 'You kinda are already doing that.'
The trio descended into the lair of the hydra, "There's the food." Sally said.
"Yum." Ed salivated.
"Let's get it back to the town." Luna suggested.
The three approached. As they gathered up the food the hydra woke. It roared at them, as Ed screamed.
"We should leave. This food is too important to risk." Luna suggested.
"I came all this way and am not leaving without a prize!" Ed declared.
"That's why the food is coming with us, Ed." Sally reminded him.
Ed ran at the Hydra who tried to chomp him. But Ed got stuck in between his jaws and using his raw strength kept the mouth open.
"We need to bury the hydra under the rocks. That should keep it from escaping." Sally said.
"You help Ed. I shall bring down the house." Luna ordered.
Sally nodded as she jumped into action while unsheathing her sword. She struck the Hydra, while Ed got out of the mouth. Luna blasted the cave ceiling causing rocks to cave in on the hydra.
"Well, done your highness." Sally smiled.
Ed cheered, "Food! Glorious food!"
"Let's take this food back to the town." Luna ordered. The two agreed as they flew the food all the way back.
When they did the people of the town were grateful and Ed's stomach finally stopped growling.
"Belly satisfied." Ed said in relief.
Luna smiled knowing that her work in Ed's dream was done.
"So how did it go?" Zuko asked.
"Everything should be fine now. Ed's sleepwalking and eating binges are over."
"You found the issue?" Celestia asked.
"Yes. Turns out he was lacking mind food, so his belly wandered for physical food."
"Well, did you find anything else in there?" Eddy asked.
"Only that Halloweentown is still in peril. But I did meet an ally whose cousins to the Sinister Sisters." Luna began.
"Did you say cousin of the Sinister Sisters?" Celestia asked in shock.
"That's what I said." Luna nodded.
"And an ally?" Double-D asked.
"Again that is correct." Luna confirmed.
"Well, this is shocking." Eddy said.
"But helpful." Zuko added.
"Well, the better news is Ed's cured. Hopefully we won't be dealing with this ever again." Double-D said.
"Uh, guys. My stomach's feeling all crawling inside." Ed said They heard his stomach gurgling and Eddy and Double-D knew what was happening next.
"HE'S GONNA BLOW! Run for it!" Eddy screamed.
The two took cover as Ed let out a large belch they echoed throughout half of Equestria.
Zeng held his beak, "Jeez, does Ed not know the meaning of the word flossing?"
"I'll have a team clean and sterilize the place in the morning. For now let's just get some sleep." Zuko suggested. The others agreed to that as they went to hit the sack.