Hey everyone. If you've ever been on Youtube and seen a fanfic called Ed Edd N Eddy Z by Ssj7G/Ssjrandommaster, this will be my own fan universe, which is a parallel to that animated crossover. I'm inept at Sprite Animation, and I don't really have good software, plus the series is soon to be possibly removed due to that FTC/COPPA thing, which is pretty much a bad thing for fandom creators on Youtube as I understand.
The setup for this crossover is that the Dragon Ball world(Universe 7) is the same universe as Ed Edd N Eddy. This series also takes place 500 years after Dragon Ball Super, and after Ed Edd N Eddy's Big Picture Show. The Eds are Saiyans, and will train to help protect what's precious to them. The characters, like in Ssj5G's series, will use techniques from other Shonen series besides the Dragon Ball franchise alone.
Without further ado, let's get this started.
On a rather not so special Tuesday, a group of neighborhood kids were gathering in a house on Rethink Avenue, in the sleepy town of Peach Creek.
The lot of them were there for a party.
Kevin, the neighborhood jock, a boy of about thirteen, wearing a green shirt, and black shorts sits on a beanbag chair in the corner, chatting with the subject of the celebration.
Nazz, a girl with short blond hair, wearing a black tank top with white t-shirt underneath and blue-grey pants sat at his side.
Music played through the air as they mingled about.
And what was the party about, one might ask? To celebrate Eddy's triumph over his brother. Even if he received help.
It happened just a week ago. All the neighborhood kids that Eddy and his friends had grown up with had set out on a cross country hunt to assault him, and his two similarly named friends, Ed, and Edd(or Double D.)
The only refuge the boys could seek was to find Eddy's older brother Edmund.
(Author's Note: I now know Eddy's bro's name is Matthew McGee, but to keep with continuity of my other fic, for all intents and purposes, his name is Edmund for this fic too)
But little did the children really know, Eddy's brother was less than the illustrious demigod Eddy had made him out to be. He was in fact, cruel and torturous, dragging Eddy into a deranged game of uncle, beating him in front of his peers and friends.
It wasn't until Ed, having had enough of Edmund's treatment of his brother reached for and removed the screw in the door hinge Eddy was clinging to for dear life, sending the shortstack, and the door itself straight into Edmund's face. With a weary cry of "Uncle!", the bully fell, and lost consciousness, being left at the mercy of the Kanker Sisters.
Back to reality, Ed himself was enjoying himself, stuffing his face with white cheddar dusted popcorn, and wearing a lamp shade on his head.
A younger boy with curly hair and a retainer that circled around his head, wearing a baby blue shirt and white pants, Jimmy, and his dearest friend, Sarah, a girl with pronounced lips, and long ginger hair wearing a pink shirt and blue pants, wretched at the sight of the charred creatures on the snack table.
"Rolf...what...is that?" Jimmy wretched.
The tall blue haired foreign boy smiled, and picked one up with a pair of tongs. "Grilled bacon-stuffed eels! A must for any celebration! Try one, yes?"
Moving past them, Nazz smiled to the three haired boy across from her. "This is such a great party, Eddy."
The pink-faced kid smiled cockily as he rubbed his fist on his shirt. "Well, if there's one thing I did learn from the bro, is how to throw a nice shindig!"
"Right." Kevin said, folding his arms and leaning back. "But we're serious. No more scams from now on. Got it?"
Eddy had a history of swindling his Cul-de-sac neighbor's cash in less than legitimate ventures. In fact it was one such that proved disastrous that flung the rest of the Cul-de-sac kids into giving up their pocket change, so that he, Double D and Eddy could spend it on Jawbreakers. But these were no ordinary Jawbreakers. They were enormous, head-sized jawbreakers that really shouldn't be consumable, and yet, everyone seemed to have no problem stuffing them into their mouths.
Eddy sweatdropped. "Of-of course not, Kev, whaddya take me for, some kinda jerk?"
"I mean it now." Kevin said, waving his finger suggestively. "We wouldn't want a repeat of last week!"
Eddy nodded and gulped.
"You know, Eddy... Something's been bothering me…" Edd, the ski-cap wearing boy who sat at the side. "Ever since we came back home, I haven't seen hide nor hair of Jonny...or Plank."
"Ah, forget him. He beat the tar out of us, remember? Just as everybody was huddling around us and going on about how they were willing to let us be friends with them, remember?"
"I'm aware of that Eddy." The sockhead added. He was the intellectual of the group. And a born pacifist. "Still. He doesn't deserve to be shut out. He had no idea we were redeemed. How could he have? He only arrived by bus moments after your brother fell."
"Eh...well... he'll show up. He's a loner anyway."
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At this very time, in a dark underground area, a boy was jabbing needles into what looked like voodoo dolls made of cloth in the visage of the Eds, and the other kids. He had a crazed smile plastered on his face as he rose up. "Today is the day, Timber! Today is the day we finally have our revenge!"
Jonny 2x4 rose to full height, his eyes wide and wild as he turned to his "friend", and cohort, Plank, a piece of wood with a face painted on it seated in a broken watermelon shaped chair.
"Those ungrateful worms battered us when we brought justice on our tormentors, and now they are all our enemies. But today is the day that we strike back!" Jonny donned a helmet that was literally made from a giant squash. "This is the day of the Gourd! A day that will ring destruction on all those that wronged us!"
He picked Plank up and twirled a mop handle around, tying it to the end of his wooden comrade, and strolled to an overlooking indoor balcony, seeing an assorted batch of fruits and wooden boards with faces on them, lined up almost like an army standing at attention.
"There will be nothing to stop us this time!" Jonny, or "The Gourd" smirked evilly, reveling in his own insanity.
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Later that evening, the Eds walked out by themselves to their hangout, the Peach Creek junkyard.
"Eddy...might I ask why we're back here for?" Double D asked. "After all, you DID say that we were giving up scams for good."
"I know, sockhead!" Eddy smiled. "I just wanna reminisce about the good old days. And what better way to do it than with my best pals?"
"Aww!" Ed wiped a tear from his eye. "Come here, my best bosom buddy!" He smiled, picking Eddy up and giving him an unnecessarily tight bear hug.
"Ed! Let go o' me, dammit!"
"Language Eddy." Double D chastised before he smiled. "And here I thought you reviled bringing up the past. You've matured a bit, Eddy."
"Yeah, well, don't expect it to last too long." The shortstack added, before a loud crash caught their attention as soon as Ed put him down.
"What the-!?" Eddy gasped as he almost lost footing.
Double D covered his ears. "My word! That almost sounded like a bomb went off!"
"Cool!" Ed smiled.
"It is most certainly NOT cool, Ed! We don't know what caused that, and we most certainly don't want to go rushing off into an unknown situation."
Several loud thuds sounded as well, with the two meeker Eds leaping back. "Good lord!" Edd continued. "What IS that!?"
"Ed must see!" Ed shouted, running forward further into the Junkyard.
Inside, two older males, who looked as though they might be around 17, stood across from each other.
The first, one with well combed jet black hair, and wearing a lime green gi, with blue wristbands, obi, and white shoes, stood, striking a pose. He had a few scrapes on his face and chest, but otherwise seemed okay.
The second, a boy with tan skin and wild self-cut hair sticking upward here and there, and wearing a red shirt and camoflauge pants. He had a fiercer demeanor, carrying a fiery air about him.
"What am I lookin' at here." Eddy asked amongst his two friends. They were at a distance, but not really wanting to cause any problems.
"It appears to be a duel of sorts." Double D noted, scratching his chin. "They seem to be fighting, but about what, I can't surmise from the scene."
Ed's eyes widened, as if taking immediate interest.
With a yell, the two combatants charged each other, trading blows at lightning quick speed. Punches, kicks, chops, grapple holds, all at a speed that seemed inhuman.
"Man, I'm not even sure I could've moved that fast when Sarah chased us…" Eddy recounted as he struggled to keep up with their movements.
"These two are engaging in some form of martial arts, that much is clear." Edd added.
"Like Kung-Fu, and Karate?" Ed asked.
"Yes, Ed, although there are quite a few different such fighting arts. I'm not sure which one this is though. I'm not an expert, and I really can't get a good look…"
"Wowww!"
The red-shirted boy landed a chop to the green-clad fighter's back, seemingly dealing good damage. But his target managed to recover, twirling around and sweeping his feet out from under him with one leg. Next, the gi wearer watched his opponent rise up and charge at him, punching, but grimaced as he was blocked.
The green-dressed warrior slammed his fist into his foe's side, but all it did was knock him back. Red countered with a kick to Green's chest, but he was not deterred, jumping and hitting him in the face with his leg and quite literally sending him flying!
"What in the-!?" Eddy cried out as the older boy crashed into and through a pile of trash. "How did he do that!? He'd hafta be as strong as Ed!"
Double D merely stood with his jaw agape. Given that Ed could casually lift a house, it struck fear into him that someone else could potentially have the same strength.
Red shook himself off. This was when the confrontation got really wierd for the Eds. The red-shirted fellow opened the palm of his hand and thrust it. And as he did, a ball of light shot from his hand!
"Wha-!?" The three Eds gasped in unison.
Green covered his face with his arms, as the ball impacted, exploding into a cloud of smoke, which cleared almost in an instant. The guy looked stunned, but not badly hurt.
"You're as good as ever, Leon." The green gi wearing boy said aloud.
"Leon" scoffed with a grin. "Well, as you recall, I never slack off with my training. As I'm sure you don't either, Aleister."
"That's good. I can tell, we're going to need all this strength." "Aleister" replied. "Now, let's kick it up a notch!"
"Right!"
The two of them balled their fists and put them to their sides. The air tensed throughout the junkyard.
Then, suddenly, the two of them were surrounded in a dull aura, a white one for Aleister, and a pale blue one for Leon as they shouted.
"What in the ffff-!?" Eddy gasped as the two engaged each other again, rushing each other and clashing with their fists and feet. The shortstack turned to Edd. "Double D, you're the resident genius, explain this! What's goin' on with these guys!?"
"They look like they're on fire!" Ed noted, leaning in to get a better look.
"I-I don't know, Eddy!" Double D shivered, not knowing what to make of the situation. "This defies logic! Human beings aren't capable of moving that fast, nor can they produce some sort of aura phenomenon...Much less shoot orbs of light from their hands! This is very strange!"
Aleister threw a punch that hit Leon in the belly, causing him to double over. The wild-haired boy scowled, drawing his fist back and slamming his own fist into Aleister's chest, and knocking him to the ground on his back. Aleister leapt up and did a high aerial somersault, landing a kick to Leon's back before landing behind him.
Leon rose up and took off running around him, shooting more of those light orbs from his hands. Aleister somehow swatted them away with his hands.
Eddy saw a few of the blasts coming their way. "Ah! Duck and cover!" The three of them screamed as they each ran and leapt for whatever hiding ground they could. The light balls hit the ground, and various junk, including the derelict van they liked to hang out and relax in, destroying it in an explosion. The three-haired boy immediately jumped up as his face turned from pink to red.
"Hey! You crazy jerks! That was our favorite spot!" He yelled before Double D covered his mouth and dragged him back down.
The two strangers stopped what they were doing and took wary stances, as if someone was going to attack them.
"All right, whoever was spying on our sparring match, come out right now." Leon demanded. Silence prompted him to raise his hand in a similar fashion as if he was going to fire another light blast. "Unless you want somebody to have to come along and clean you up."
The Eds slowly started out from behind the overturned cement mixer they were hiding behind, Ed was being mildly cautious, unlike his usual self, while Double D and Eddy were shivering with fright.
"Ease up on 'em, Leon. They're just kids." Aleister said.
"Y-yeah! W-we're just kids! J-just don't hurt us!" Eddy added.
Leon squinted at them as if scoping them out before he slowly started to approach. Eddy threw himself back and started to crawl away. "No please! Don't!" He picked the short boy up by the collar of his bowling shirt.
"You will go home and forget what you saw today. Don't. Tell. Anyone! Got it?"
"Yes-sir, we-won't tell anyone." Double D chirped from the side, turning pale from the dangerous air the stranger seemed to exhibit.
"Who are you guys? Are you some kind of comic book heroes?" Ed asked, as he was a well read comic and video game fan, having his bedroom(Which was also in the basement of his house) plastered with B-movie posters, shelfs stacked with toys and action figures, and old monster comics and shonen manga usually littered the floor and furniture.
"Honestly, you two don't need to know who we are." Aleister added. "We're dangerous men, so you shouldn't be around us for very long. You might get hurt."
"Men? You both seem to be in your late teens."
The two older boys ignored their comment. "Come on, Leon. Let's get out here."
His friend nodded. "You'd better not tell anyone what you saw here!"
The two of them started to leave, when suddenly they stopped, as if feeling some disturbance.
"What?! I thought you were getting out of here?" Eddy asked.
The two black-haired guys turned around to face the Eds. "Look here, brats, get going! This place is about to light up!" Leon shouted.
"Light up?" Ed asked. "But the sun's already out."
Both boys looked at him oddly. "Dumbass! I mean it's about to get-!" Leon paused as the ground started shaking. "Run, NOW!" He roared, thrusting his hand out. Unlike before, instead of being blasted with light, the Eds were pushed back, like an invisible wall smacked into them and knocked them back onto the ground.
Double D sat up and backed away. "What was that!?"
"Forget that, Edd, What in the hell's that!?" Eddy gasped as the three of them saw a monstrous figure rise up from underneath the earth.
Leon and Aleister looked up to see the eight and a half foot-tall humanoid glaring at them. It had hulking muscles, wearing a caveman-like tiger pelt for clothes. It had dull blue skin, and blunt horns atop it's head, with a pronounced chin.
"Raaaaaaaaahhh!" The titan howled.
"Guys…" Eddy said. "I think we should run!"
"I most definitely concur!" Double D nodded. As they took off running to hide from the behemoth, Ed stood firmly in place.
"It is the cat wrestler of the underworld!" Ed cheered with a goofy smile.
"Run, you IDIOT!" Leon hollered again.
The giant looked toward Ed, baring his fangs. "Nhhhaaaaa!" It growled, rearing it's fist back and slamming it into Ed.
"Whoooa!" The burly boy cried as he was sent flying and landed through a pile of old electronics.
"Ed!" Double D and Eddy called, running over to check on him. "Ed, are you okay!?" The former asked as he reached down to help him out.
"Yeah, Double D…" Ed replied with a cough. He didn't seem badly hurt, but was covered in scrapes and bruises from the impact of the horned giant's fist and the fall.
Eddy grit his teeth before turning around to face the creature. "Why you! You hurt Ed! Nobody hurts Ed but me or himself!" He spat.
"Rah-ha!" The beast snorted, as it turned away from Eddy.
"Don't you turn your back on me!" Eddy demanded, shaking his fist.
Aleister looked at Eddy with interest. Sure, on the outside, he looked unassuming, but he was more attuned than ordinary people. He could feel something was different about him.
As well as Double D and Ed, who had crawled his way out of his crater with little difficulty. The fighter looked them over. They had about the same feeling about them as Ed did.
Then he turned back to the giant, cracking his knuckles.
"Go time, Leon."
"You don't have to tell me that." His friend stated. "Let's just get this over with!"
The two of them took off running at the monster, whom most people would flee from in terror. But these two had no fear.
They were warriors.
Aleister leapt up and delivered a sharp kick to the creature's chest, making him stagger back. The titan growled, slamming his fist into empty earth. His shorter adversary was fast, having ducked to the side.
Leon delivered a punch to it's gut, making it double over in pain. The giant snorted, angrily. It drew it's fists back and clotheslined them both, sending them down.
Eddy went back to check on Ed. "Do you see this? These guys are nuts!"
"That being...perhaps some form of mutant?" Double D asked.
Aleister rose up, grabbing the monster by the leg. With little difficulty, the strongman twirled him around, throwing him into Leon, who ducked away and kicked it in the back, and casting it to the side.
The monster shook his head as he rose, snarling and baring his teeth. It lumbered back over to them and punched Aleister in the face. He hit the ground, but wasn't out. He flipped back up to his feet. "That all, big guy?"
Annoyed, the giant raised his foot up and stomped on Aleister's chest, knocking him onto his back. Leon flew in and landed a few blows, but the creature slapped him into a pile of garbage.
The Eds all gasped and took a step back as the creature turned back to them and slowly started to approach, baring his fangs.
Ed warily stepped out in front of his friends and held his arms out wide, in a protective stance. "Uh...hug?" The giant snarled, obviously either not understanding him, or not caring what he suggested.
"Aleister! It's going for them!" Leon called.
"I know." Aleister said, dusting his pants off as he stood up. He held one arm out and put his hand in a finger gun position with his other arm on his wrist.
He closed his eyes, as if concentrating. Then, with a shout, he opened them. "Reigun!"
The blue giant loomed over the three boys, clawed arms outstretched, as if it were going to eat them.
"Goodbye cruel world!" Double D wailed with his eyes shut.
"I'm definitely not in my happy place, guys!" Ed shouted, still aiming to shield them from the creature's wrath.
"This ain't the way I pictured it!" Eddy added, imagining his death coming at an accident caused by Ed's foolishness.
Before the giant could attack, a painful burst of heat hit his back. "Gwwaaaaaaaa!" It screamed in pain, writhing about as light shone around it.
"Huh?" Eddy's eyes popped open to see the monster had collapsed, smoke boiling from it's charred back. He looked up to see Aleister and Leon, the former holding his finger like a pistol before they both got up and approached.
"What...was that creature?" Double D asked.
"You don't need to know." Leon answered. "But you should've gotten out of here when we told you to. You three idiots could've gotten yourselves killed.
"Eh...we've...been through worse." Eddy joked, taking a few deep breaths and acting like the whole occurence was nothing." He turned to Aleister, who was looking him over. "What? What're you lookin' at?!"
"I want you three to meet us in the woods outside of town tomorrow at seven AM." Aleister said.
"What!? I-I'm sorry, but I'd rather not!" Double D protested. "I have chores in the morning."
"I mean it now." The older boy affirmed. "If you don't, we'll come find you."
"Aleister, what are you getting at? What's at seven?" Leon asked his friend, confused by his request.
"Never mind. You three go home." Aleister said. "It's about what just happened, but it'll take about a full day to process."
"Like heck we're comin' back." Eddy grimaced. "Come on guys, let's get out of here!"
Double D and Eddy took off running. Ed turned back around, but fidgeted as if he wanted to stay. "I'll see you guys tomorrow!" He shouted as he took off after them, running at an angle that almost put his back parallel to the ground.
After the trio was out of sight, Leon turned to Aleister. "All right, out with it. What do you want with them?"
As he asked this, the blue giant emitted a purplish blue smoke from it's form. When it cleared, he looked much more human, with smoother skin, and an ordinary chin. It's horns were still pointed, but wider and much less sharp.
"Look at this guy, Lee. His description matches that of the Oni. According to the story, these ogre guys work for a judge in the afterlife that decides where you go…"
"Yeah, but we're a long way off from the Other World." Leon added, scratching his chin. "What do you suppose this one was doing in this town? And mutated no less?"
"That's what I'm hoping to find out. But those three...I felt something from them. Not bad, but it was something about their...Ki…"
Leon gave an inquisitive hum. "You think they're like us?"
"Maybe. We'll know soon."
After parting with his friends, the short Ed went back to his home, eager to settle down and put the day behind him. After greeting his parents, and going to his room, Eddy fell asleep listening to old vinyl records. His father was a fan of old jazz, so he had taken a liking to it.
As he turned around to lie on his stomach, he subconsciously scratched his lower back, feeling a horrible itch around the tailbone.
That'll be all for this chapter. As some of you may know, I'm not good with first chapters to fics, and this also addressed my personal thought that Dragon Ball Z fanfics are a bit hard to write given that most of their fighting is done faster than the eye can track, but I hope you all liked this. More chapters to come.
