Beginning A/N: Okay, so I was watching episodes of Avatar The Last Airbender and clips from Legend of Korra, as well as some of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, and this idea got into my head after I watched an episode of Ed, Edd n' Eddy. And so, after some time and careful thinking as to how this story will go, The Avatar and the Ed was born! Now, the story will take place in the timeline of Avatar The Last Airbender, but there will be some key differences which you will see soon enough. I hope that you all enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Ed, Edd n' Eddy, Avatar The Last Airbender, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, or Legend of Korra!
The End of the Big Picture Show!
Eddy and his two friends, Ed and Double Dee, walked up to the door of the whale-shaped trailer with anticipation. Finally, after all of that traveling, all of the false leads, the heart-to-heart that Eddy had with Double Dee, and especially all of the pain, they had finally arrived at Eddy's Big Bro's place! Now, they could finally live in peace and safety until this whole thing with the kids of the cul-de-sac and Eddy's messed up scam blows over!
"Super sweet!" exclaimed Eddy.
He was about to knock on the door, when he was grabbed by the hand… and pulled into an unwanted embrace by one of the LAST three people any of the Eds ever wanted to see in their lives! The Kanker sisters, Lee, May, and Marie!
"Your queens in shining armor have arrived!" exclaimed Lee.
"May? Lee? MARIE?!" panicked Double Dee.
"We got your back, cutie pie." Marie said.
She tipped over a wheelbarrow that she and her sisters had brought along to reveal the three oldest kids of the cul-de-sac, besides the Eds themselves. Kevin, Rolf, and Nazz. All three of them were restrained by the Kankers in an obvious attempt to keep them from running off, but that wouldn't stop whatever happens next.
"Double Dee Ed-Boy?" Rolf asked as Double Dee began panicking.
"It's the dorks!" exclaimed Kevin.
Eddy tried to pry himself from Lee's grip as he too became panicked by the current situation.
"What are they doing here? What are YOU doing here?!" Eddy asked incredulously.
Lee pulled him close and replied, "Taking care of our boyfriends."
"They were chasing you to beat you up." May said, backing Ed into a corner.
"Yeah, and no one beats up our little love muffins." Marie said with Double Dee literally backed against a wall.
"Uh, y-yes. I-I mean no. One? Yes?" stuttered Double Dee.
Everyone stopped what they were doing when they heard a pig squeal. A pig squeal that was very familiar to a certain son of a shepherd.
"Wilfred! Is that you?" Rolf asked as he sat up.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Rolf's pig, Wilfred, walking along with Ed's little sister, Sarah, and her best friend, Jimmy, close behind.
"I swear, if he eats one more corndog off the ground, I'm gonna-"
Sarah was interrupted by Marie's outraged cry of, "Look! It's those twerps!"
"Baby sister!" Ed cried with joy.
"Jeepers, Ed, you're still in one piece." complained Sarah.
"Did we miss the Eds' beating?" Jimmy asked with his usual nervous tone.
Kevin managed to free one of his arms from his binds, smirking cruelly at the thought of finally beating up the Eds for their scam that caused them so much pain and damage to the cul-de-sac. In fact, he looked almost demented about it.
"No, you're just in time!" Kevin said as he grabbed Eddy by the ankle.
"No! Don't!-"
Eddy paused as he soon remembered where he was and who lived here. Soon, it was he who was smirking down at Kevin. He yanked his ankle free and walked up to the front door of the whale trailer.
"In your dreams, Shovel Chin. Tell you what: why don't you," Eddy kicked Kevin in the head while he was down, little bit of payback for all the times he tormented Eddy. "Talk to my bro? He lives here, you know."
Now this REALLY took the kids of the cul-de-sac by surprise.
"Hmm?" Nazz grunted through the bandana around the lower half of her face.
"No way!" gasped Kevin.
"Can this be true?" Rolf asked.
"Get in line, girls." Lee said as her sisters walked over.
"Yeah. And just wait'll he hears what you were gonna do to his little bro." Eddy said with glee.
He turned around and knocked on the door a few times. The door opened a crack to reveal that it had been held shut by a multitude of locks, but Ed, Double Dee, and Eddy stood there smiling and waiting with anticipation at who was on the other side.
"Park don't open till noon." said the voice of a man.
A voice that Eddy easily recognized.
"I told ya he's a wiz at tellin' time!" said Eddy.
"Pipsqueak?" the man asked, recognizing Eddy.
"BRO!" Eddy shouted with joy before pushing Ed and Double Dee to the side. "Look out!"
"Mom and dad know you're here?" asked Eddy's brother.
For the sake of the story, we'll call him Matthew.
"As if!" Eddy replied.
"Anyone know you're here?" Matthew asked, putting emphasis on the word 'anyone'.
"Only these chumps who chased us here." Eddy said.
There was a pause as if Matthew was thinking, but that didn't last too long.
"Just a sec." Matthew said.
He closed his door and undid all of the locks before opening the door and stepping outside where he saw Kevin, Nazz, and Rolf sitting around restrained.
"Aren't those ankle biters from the cul-de-sac?" Matthew asked.
"Yeah, and they want to beat me up! All for nothin'!" Eddy said as he hid behind Matthew's legs.
Matthew turned his gaze to the three kids of the cul-de-sac, and they could feel his eyes boring into them from behind the shades he was wearing. Naturally, this made them very afraid.
"He's looking at you, man! Later!" Kevin said to Rolf as he tried to slink away.
Getting a good look at Matthew, we see that he bears a striking resemblance to his younger brother. They both have the same flat head with three long hairs, same skin color, the same body type, though Matthew is taller, being an adult, and instead of the long, pointed upper lip that Eddy has, Matthew has a large chin with a small beard that gives off the impression of having an underbite. Matthew took off his shades and hooked them to the collar of his shirt as he gave the kids a look.
"All for nothin', huh?" Matthew asked before looking down at Eddy… and pulling him into a headlock. "Still the troublemaking Eddy, I see."
Matthew gave Eddy a noogie which Eddy chuckled at as he pushed his brother's hand away.
"Stop it, bro." Eddy said.
"I smell my fingers after I eat cheese." Ed said stupidly.
There was some pause after that as Matthew didn't really know how to respond to that.
"Um… I told the guys you'd put us up. Ed, and Double Dee." Eddy explained as he introduced his brother to his two oldest, and only, friends.
Double Dee attempted to make a good first impression, but he couldn't say anything but random gibberish as he fainted from his nerves. Matthew laughed hysterically at this reaction while Eddy gave his own nervous laugh as he was dropped onto his back. As the older brother stopped himself from laughing, he kneeled down and whispered something to Eddy.
"Why's your girlfriend wearin' a sock on her head?"
Eddy was stunned by this question.
"Girlfriend?" he asked.
Could Matthew not tell that Double Dee was a boy? He couldn't really ponder this as he was soon helped to his feet by Matthew.
"Yeah, sure. I'll help you out." Matthew said.
Eddy's eyes grew wide as he smiled with overwhelming joy.
"Really?" he squealed before tackling Matthew into a hug. "Aw, bro! What would I do without you? You are so my hero!"
"Happy place, Double Dee, happy place!" Ed said as he ran around with a dopey smile.
The reactions of the kids of the cul-de-sac were a little varied. Especially from those who had been hunting down the eds in the first place.
"Isn't it touching, Sarah? It's like a fairytale come true!" Jimmy said with a smile as Sarah rolled her eyes.
"Eddy and his two stooges got away with their lives, man. We got burned again." grumbled Kevin.
Nazz just smiled at the scene as she was untied by Kevin while Rolf managed to undo the ropes around Kevin. But everyone was startled out of the moment as Matthew soon picked Eddy up by the upper lip.
"Bro, don't!" exclaimed Eddy.
"Just for old times' sake, let's play Uncle." Matthew said.
"...Uncle?" Eddy asked uncertainly.
He was dropped upside down on his head as Matthew kept a grip on his ankle.
"You want to crash at my place, don'tcha?" Matthew asked.
"That's why we came all the way-"
But Eddy couldn't finish that sentence, because he soon felt a terrible pain coming from his ankle as Matthew began to twist Eddy's foot as though it were a wind-up key! Which, of course, was causing Eddy's leg to twist like a rubber band and cause unbearable pain to the boy!
"UNCLE! UNCLE! UNCLE!" screamed Eddy.
"Say what?" Matthew asked with a cruel grin.
"UNCLE! UNCLE, UNCLE!" Eddy continued to scream.
"Oh my…!" gasped a horrified Double Dee.
Matthew set Eddy on his one good foot and released him causing his foot to spin like a helicopter propeller and make him spin and bounce around uncontrollably as if he were on a runaway jackhammer. And Matthew just laughed himself to pieces at his little brother's pain like the cruel and sadistic man he was turning out to be. Once that was done, Matthew picked his little brother back up.
"That was good, Pipsqueak." he said.
"So, can we go inside now?" Eddy asked.
"Why not? Don't forget to wipe your feet." shrugged Matthew.
Right before he threw Eddy right into his trailer door! As Eddy bounced back to the man, he repeated the process over and over again with each hit becoming more and more painful than the last! Suffice to say, the kids of the cul-de-sac were quickly being disillusioned about the stories that they'd heard in the past about Eddy's brother.
"Dude, Eddy's brother is a real jerk." Nazz said.
"What's he doing to MY man?" Lee angrily demanded.
The red-head Kanker wanted so badly to march right up to Matthew and give him what for, but she was just barely held back by her sisters who could do nothing more than watch in horror.
"Bro, give it up!" begged Eddy.
"Give it up? I thought you wanted to hang with your 'hero'." Matthew said with a cruel grin.
"I do, bro, I do!" Eddy said, close to tears.
"Mister Eddy's Brother!" exclaimed Double Dee as he marched up to the man, fully intent on scolding him for this behavior. "As the older sibling, don't you think you should rather be setting an example for Eddy, and not, um…"
Double Dee grew increasingly nervous at the look on Matthew's face.
"Belittle him… in front of his… friends?" Double Dee asked, feeling like he bit off more than he could chew.
"Belittle? He's always been little. I like you, girlfriend." Matthew said before using Eddy to literally hammer Double Dee into the ground. "You got spunk."
"Double Dee!" Ed and Marie cried out in horror.
"What the heck?" gasped Sarah.
"Somebody do something!" screamed Jimmy.
Watching what was happening to Eddy, from his own older brother no less, Rolf could take it no more! He refused to sit on the sidelines like a coward while the Ed-Boys were beaten to their deaths by Eddy's sadistic older brother! He puffed out his chest and rolled the skin on his arms up like sleeves to reveal powerful muscles as he prepared to fight.
"Rolf has had enough of your flapdoodle, elder one! Prepare yourself for a merciless thrashing!" declared Rolf.
He shoved Kevin forward causing the kid to stumble. At first, Kevin didn't want to get involved due to many bad memories involving Eddy's brother. But seeing what he was doing to the eds, essentially torturing them for no reason, it moved something within Kevin. He narrowed his eyes and summoned every ounce of courage he had left in his body as he also prepared to fight for the eds.
"Hey, bro guy! Lay off him, man!" demanded Kevin.
Matthew turned around as Eddy held on to his trailer door for dear life and saw the kids of the cul-de-sac actually rallying against him. He would be impressed if he didn't think it was so pathetic.
"Yeah, mister macho man!" exclaimed Nazz.
While this was going on, Ed looked between the situation and the door… and narrowed his eyes as Eddy's brother had done something that very few people have ever done before. He made Ed mad! Now, Ed knows that he's not the brightest bulb in the bunch, but for the second time since he and his friends started out on the lam, he got an idea. Carefully, Ed reached over to the door's lower hinge and pulled the pin keeping it in place. This caused the door to be pulled free from the trailer! Matthew turned around and in a split second, he was slammed in the face as the door continued onward and tumbled along with Eddy, causing more damage to the already hurt Ed-Boy! Everyone gasped at what happened.
"Uhhh… uncle…" Matthew said in a daze.
The demented older brother of Eddy stumbled back and fell to the ground completely out of it, thus giving Double Dee enough time to be helped out of the ground by Ed. And seeing what happened to their friend, the two naturally ran in to help him.
"Eddy, speak to me! Are you alright?" Double Dee asked, kneeling down beside Eddy.
Eddy just looked up at the sky with a sad, blank stare. Every last memory he had of his brother when he still lived with Eddy and his family was forcing its way to the surface. And the more he saw, the more he realized how wrong he was to practically worship such a demon in human skin. If anything good came out of this, it's that the past few days on the run have given Eddy a chance to truly reflect and realize what a fool he's been. He simply pushed Double Dee's hands off of his chest as he silently began to cry.
"I made it all up, Double Dee. Everything about my brother was a lie. I just made things up so people would like me, think I was cool. But boy was I wrong! The scam, my brother, this." Eddy admitted.
Double Dee and Ed couldn't help but feel sorry for Eddy. He had finally learned his lesson, and it took being on the run and being beaten up by his own brother for him to do so. The rest of the kids of the cul-de-sac also heard Eddy's heartfelt confession but did nothing for the moment.
"When'm I gonna learn, Double Dee?" whimpered Eddy.
Double Dee just took Eddy's hands in his own in a brotherly manner and said, "I think you just have, Eddy."
Eddy couldn't stop himself from smiling. He could always count on Double Dee to be there for him and Ed in their time of need, even if they didn't want him around at the time.
The moment was ruined, however, when Kevin yelled the one phrase that might have condemned the Eds.
"Grab him!"
The Eds looked up to see Kevin, Nazz, and Rolf charging like wild bulls ready to take their ten pounds of flesh!
Running to intercept, Ed frantically said, "No! Take me!"
"OKAY! I'M SORRY, HONEST! I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOU GUYS!" Eddy wailed.
But rather than pain and possible death… Eddy was being tossed into the air as the kids cheered for him, Ed, and Double Dee! Ed halted his charge and fell to the ground confused. Especially as Sarah threw her arms around him in a hug. This was very strange behavior from the other kids. It was like every last ounce of animosity that the kids of the cul-de-sac had felt towards them had just totally dissipated. The kids set Eddy on the ground and Rolf lifted one of Eddy's arms.
"Let Rolf rub the pit of victory, Ed-Boy!" Rolf said as he rubbed Eddy's armpit.
Much to the boy's confusion.
"I'm so glad you're okay, dude!" Nazz said as she gave Eddy a kiss on the cheek. "You're awesome!"
"I am?" Eddy asked.
"I gotta admit, pal, that was so choice!" Kevin said as he gave Eddy a pat on the back.
"It was?" Eddy asked with a smile.
While the Eds and the other kids continued to celebrate, Lee, May, and Marie surrounded the unconscious Matthew.
"What a deadbeat this guy turned out to be." Lee said.
"He don't look so tough." said Marie.
The celebration was suddenly cut short when a bus came screeching to a halt right beside them. The doors opened and all was silent for a moment, the kids watching tensely before a familiar voice resonated through the area.
"Your time of reckoning has come, rapscallions!"
Launching out of the bus was none other than Johnny 2x4 and his best friend, Plank, in their superhero personas: Captain Melonhead and Splinter the Wonderwood.
"It's melon time!" cried Johnny.
He and plank rushed in fully intent on doing harm to the eds, having missed out on what happened earlier and clearly not about to stop and listen.
"WHERE'D HE COME FROM?" Eddy screamed in terror. "JOHNNY, WAIT-"
But Eddy, Ed, and Double Dee were quickly slammed into by Plank and sent into the air before falling down on each other in a pile as Johnny and Plank stood on top of them, standing proud and victorious. But for all the wrong reasons.
"No thanks are necessary, citizens." Johnny declared.
He and Plank stood there expecting to be showered with praise and cheers… but instead, the two were slammed down by a very angry Sarah as she began to beat them up.
"You idiot! Leave our friends alone!" exclaimed Sarah.
"Back off, melon dude!" Kevin said as he joined the fray.
"Leave some produce for Rolf!" Rolf said as he also proceeded to beat up Johnny.
Nazz also joined the fight as Johnny and Plank were beaten to a pulp within a cartoon dust cloud. In the meanwhile, Jimmy helped Double Dee back to his feet and dusted him off. My, how polite of him. And it wasn't long before the others were done beating up Johnny and Plank.
"Sorry about that." apologized Kevin. "Hey, let's go to my place! Jawbreakers are on me!"
That got cheers and big smiles from everyone, especially the Eds who realized something. They were finally being accepted as friends by their peers and being invited for a get together! Sure, they may receive the punishment of a lifetime from their parents for this whole debacle, but in that moment, they came to the conclusion that it'll all be worth it in the end.
"We did it, Double Dee! Everyone loves us! We're finally in, baby!" Eddy said with joy as he and his fellow eds were lifted into the air.
"And it only took one-hundred-thirty episodes, four specials, and a movie, Eddy." Double Dee said.
However, before they could go anywhere, Ed felt something in his jacket pocket. Something that wasn't there before. After being set down by his equally curious new friends, Ed reached into his pocket and pulled out a strange glowing orb. The orb itself was about half the size of a basketball.
"Wow, lookie here, everyone!" Ed said.
The other kids gathered around looking confused at the strange glowing orb.
"What's that thing?" Nazz asked.
"I don't know, but it sure don't look like a jawbreaker." Eddy said.
That's when Double Dee noticed a silver button on top with writing beneath it.
"'In case of crossover, press button'?" read Double Dee.
"Oh, oh, I'll do it!" Ed said excitedly.
"Ed, wait!" exclaimed Eddy.
But he was too late. Ed pressed the button and triggered the mechanism of the orb. It began to glow brighter and brighter which forced the others to close their eyes. A high-pitched screeching sound resonated through the area, somehow not awakening Matthew or alerting the Kankers, who had dragged the unconscious man back into his trailer, nearly deafening everyone.
"Double Dee, what's happening?" Eddy asked over the screeching.
"I don't know!" replied Double Dee.
In a split second, it was over. Everyone shook their heads and opened their eyes. It took time for them to adjust due to the blinding light from before, but they could soon see again. And the first thing that they saw was that Ed was missing! All that remained in his place was a black scorch mark where he had previously been standing.
"Ed?" Eddy asked hesitantly.
"Oh dear! Ed!" Double Dee said, worry clear in his voice.
Everyone started looking around for their one-eyebrowed friend as they tried not to assume the worst.
"What happened to Ed?" Nazz asked.
"He was here a second ago." Sarah said, worried for once for her brother.
What nobody knew at that time was that Ed was embarking on an important journey in another world. A journey that would decide not just the fate of that world, but quite possibly their own as well. One thing is certain, though…
Ed won't be alone.
***To Be Continued…***
Ending A/N: Okay, and that is it for the first chapter of this story! I hope that you all enjoy this first chapter, and I hope that you will prove me with any constructive criticism when you can. As usual, I thank you all so much for reading, and I will see you all in my next update!