Sorry for my bad English.
Since this chapter is not so original like my other fics, I decide to give the reader the opportunity to jump straight to where the story change if they want to. All you have to do is ignore all the words written in like that and go straight to where the story changed with Erika's presence.
To the fic!
Erika walked calmly in the corridors of the school.
However, the calm did not last long for she start to hear Johnny running around all happy about something.
- Right on! –Erika heard Johnny say while running in circles. -B's and C's for me! B's and C's for me! –After declare his grades to anyone who might be hearing, he shoved his giant head on the locker. -All that extra tutoring you gave me really paid off, buddy! –Erika heard Johnny say, probably to his wood friend.
-Someone thought in find help for him? –Erika asked to herself and then, she notices that most of her classmates were chatting happily about the same thing as Jonny.
-Hey, Johnny. She saw Nazz calling the boy while waving her card. -Check that out. -Nazz showed her card for Johnny looks over
-An A in cheerleading? You sure must have brains!
-I hardly call cheerleading something to need brains to do it. –Erika said to herself.
She also heard Kevin said something about his father being stoked. Then she heard Rolf cursing something about present day. How come someone can get a D in typing? She stopped eavesdropping them when notices the Eds not so far.
-Hey guys! –Erika happily greeted but notice Eddy seething and Ed all tearful. –Something's wrong?
-I tell you Erika. While those dorks get their report cards give to them in their own hands, some back-stabbing jerk is hand-delivering ours to our parents!
-Life can be so cruel! -Ed stated before slam his face into his locker.
-Wow. That's rough. -Erika said.
-I mean, what kind of low-down miserable two-timing double-crossing slimeball would do something like that? -Eddy asked and then Double D began to speak.
-Well, look at the bright side, gentlemen. –Double D began as Eddy start to check Johnny's backpack. -This could be a great opportunity for the two of you to sit with your parents and find a corrective curriculum to overcome your academic shortcomings.
-Something is wrong Double D? -Erika asked noticing his strange smile. -You seems a little nervous.
-M-me? Nervous? -Double D stammered. -I assume that is just your imagination Erika. N-now, if you all excuse me? -Double D take his leave but steps on an apple and slip on the floor. His bag flies open, and papers spill out all over the place.
The other kids saw this and start to laugh.
-Smooth move, dork! -Kevin said.
Erika just puff her cheeks and helped Double D.
-Are you okay? -She asked but he seemed more worried about something else.
-For me? -Erika hear Ed say. -You shouldn't have, Double D. -The boy with the monobrow start to pick up the papers repeatly. -Pick paper up, pick paper up, pick paper.
-No Ed, let me do that. -Double D says tring to get back the paper, but failing in grab then.
Erika now was sure. Something was making Double D nervous.
-Double D! -Ed speaks. -Your report cards look the same as mine and Eddy's!
After heard that, Eddy let go of Johnny's backpack, making him fall backwards while Eddy look back to his friends.
-Lemme see those! -Eddy grabs Ed's ankles and push them making Ed fall down, losing the hold of the papers. Eddy then look at the papers and becomes angrily. He then backs Double D into a locker.
-So you're the backstabbing jerk!
-Who, me? -Double D said trying to bluff his way out of the acusation. -Why, never! Um, uh, perhaps I should hang on to those for safekeeping?
-In your dreams! -Eddy shout and then throws Double D into a locker.
-You like to throw your friends, huh Eddy? –Erika asked crossing her arms.
-May I might? -Ed said while getting his report card and checking it. -I bet I'm doing real good, guys! Oh, oh! Listen to this! -Ed start to pretend to be his teacher as he reads from his card. -Ed has difficulty with his ability to concentrate for even the smallest period! -Erika giggled a little at his pretending. Ed on the other side, wiggles his finger, becoming entranced and proving his teacher's statement. -Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock.
-The teacher's got you pegged, Ed! -Eddy said.
-Deplorable grades do not a joke make, Eddy. -Double D said inside of the lockers.
-Who's got de-horrible grades, smart guy? Not us, not anymore! -Eddy said as he runs over to his locker. -Time to get to work, Ed.
Erika stood in the background, watching everything as if was one of her favorite cartoons.
-I should be doing something but what would be the fun in that? –She shrugged and keep watch in everything. - Eddy pulls a guitar case out from his locker and opened it, saying that was a hand-me-down from his brother.A report-changing kit with a litany of tools to change report cards.
While Ed changes Eddy's grade, a large shadow appear before the duo. Eddy turns around to adress to ,from what Erika heard, the principal. Ed shout "I surrender" as Eddy notices that was just a silhouette created with a flashlight.
–"Meu deus, esses garotos são burros." –Erika stated in portuguese.
Double D put the cards back into his pack, running down the hall but was stopped by Eddy.
-Hey! What's the big idea!?
-I've been entrusted with a very important task, Eddy, and neither rain nor sleet nor you nor Ed shall stop me from completing this duty. I'm sure your parents will be very understanding and... -Whatever he was going to say, was stopped by Ed beseeching in his ear, followed by Eddy demanding the report cards.
They kept begging and roaring to Double D until he runs away from his friends. The bell rang and he went straight to the math class.
Double D walks in calmly, followed by Ed and Eddy. Through the day, Eddy and Ed keep watch on Double D until the final class of the day. Before the final bell, Double D raises his hand.
-Pardon me, sir, may I be excused to the restroom? Thank you. -Double D did not wait for an answer and left the classroom.
-Sucker punch! -Eddy angrily said.
Double D run throught the hall, heading for the door.
-Now if I could just get to the outside before the final bell...
His plan failed when the final bell rings and the kids trample over him in a rush to get out. The doors close itself and Ed and Eddy approach from each side of the outside, ready to surprise Double D.
-Weasel-boy's still inside, Ed. -Eddy began. -Once he comes out, let him have it! Then I'll grab the report cards.
Double D who see his friends outside, start to think in away to pass through them.
-ED-BOY! -He was startled by the sudden appearance of Rolf and leaps to the ceiling. Rolf then pull him back to the floor. -Rolf asks a favor from you. Have mercy, and hold Rolf's rucksack so that Rolf can carry this cursed menace home for further torment! -Rolf says reffering to the typewriter.
The door open and Eddy leaps into the air, brandishing an improvised weapon, but stops when instead of Double D, he sees Rolf. Ed, not paying attention, scoops Rolf up in a butterfly net.
-You idiot! -Eddy shout. -Does Rolf look like Double D?
Ed looks at Rolf and think for a minute.
-Maybe with a hat?
Eddy frustrated, jams the cone over Ed's head and look inside the school, looking for Double D.
-Hey Rolf! -He calls Rolf. -You seen Double D?"
-Double D Ed-boy? Um, I am an innocent son of a shepherd. Heh I know nothing. Goodbye.
Rolf's rucksack begin to tear, and its contents spill out on the field. The last to come out is the typewriter. Double D appear from the typewriter like a sheet of paper.
-It's the rat! Get him, Ed! -Eddy shout.
-Run, Ed-boy! Run like the wind! -Rolf shout.
In the parking lot, Kevin is, polishes his bike and then turns to Nazz, before she could enter in the bike, Double D comes and steals the bike, asking for forgiveness. Kevin shout demanding his bike back and was trampled by Ed and Eddy who were chasing Double D.
While Double D bikes through the construction site, a garland lands around his neck. He then discover that just enter into the Sarah and Jimmy's After-School Carnival. Double D tried to ask to them give space for him to pass through, but Jimmy just warn Sarah, who turns angrily to Double D.
Eddy and Ed were still chasing after Double D, who has turned around to run away from Sarah. Eddy points to Ed turn around. Ed turn his head in confusion, allowing Eddy to see Sarah coming closer. Ed then turns around, destroying several fences in the process. Double D returned to the school and was lifted off the ground by Kevin, who wanted his bike back. Before Kevin could do anything against Double D, Ed and Eddy run over him again. Eddy catches Double D in midair, with Kevin's bicycle landing on Sarah. When Eddy thought to have cornered Double D, he get from his bag an umbrella and hooks it around a branch nearby, forcing his friends to let go of him. Double D flies away and the opened umbrella allow him to float down far away.
-How'd he do that? -Eddy asked.
-He's too smart for us, Eddy! -Ed tearful state and blows his nose on Eddy. -We will never catch him!
-Don't count your biscuits before they hatch, Lumpy! Sockhead may be smart, but he's weak! And he'll never deliver those report cards alive!- Eddy declare and laughs evilly.
Double D drifts down in the construction site and start to run again, but stopped when see a giant hole in his way. Down in the hole was Eddy and Ed, with Ed digging. Double D simply detours around the hole. With their first plan failed, they went to the plan B. While running through the lane, a trailer dragged by Ed gets in his way.
Eddy, stuck in the antenna, declares.
-Just like our report cards, you failed!
With little choice, Double D enter inside of the trailer, where the Kankers are eating meatloaf.
-Oh dear. I hope you're decent. Pardon me. Excuse me. -Double D said while running through the kitchen with his eyes covered.
Ed and Double D tried to follow him but were stopped by the Kankers. Ed and Eddy start to cry as Double D escapes out the window.
Exhausted, Double D makes his way to Cul-De-Sac.
-Tired, so tired...I can't go on. So close... -Seeing how close he was, Double D cease hs whimpering and get up. -I must! I will! I shall! -With some effort, he makes his way to a Eddy's house.
-I commend your efforts, gentlemen! -Double D declares as he holds up his bag. -But as always, the sanctum of education champions the day!
Double D went to ring the doorbell but the door open and he was crushed by Ed, who was throw by Eddy.
Eddy look for Double D and finds him trapped in Ed's belly.
-Who's the smart guy now, huh? -Eddy then grabs the bag and hunts the report cards, not noticing Double D smiling. -What the–where'd the report cards go?
Suddenly, a bugle plays in the center of the cul-de-sac. The Urban Rangers were gathered there congratulating Rolf for a completed task.
-Congratulations, Ranger Rolf, on your task well completed. -Jimmy says. -It is an honor to present to you the Report Card Delivery badge!
-Thank you, yes, is good, thank you, thank you. Rolf is pleased.
-Our report cards? -Eddy asks stunned.
-Honestly, I just feel sick about all this. -Double D began, trying to justify his act. -But when the principal asked me to take on this responsibility, I had no other recourse than to accept! And risk you being upset for your own good.
Eddy advances angrily on Double D but stopped when notices Erika standing not far from where they were, a knowing smile in her lips. Double D turns to see what Eddy was seeing and raise an eyebrow at Erika's smile.
Double D was about to ask why she was smiling like that when he notices something in her hand, and his eyes widened when he notices what was.
Eddy's report-changing kit.
She did not do it ... did she?
-Erika! How could you?! –Double D asked. He and Erika were below the electric pylon close to Double D's house. Before he could ask why Erika had Eddy's kit with her, Eddy's father dragged him to inside his house and heard that was satisfied with his grades this year. The same thing happened to Ed. –I have a mission, and you just sabotaged it. How did you do it?
Erika chuckled before answer.
-When they were shouting at you from both sides at the corridor, I got the report cards from your backpack. You was so distracted that did not notice. Then I just put them back during the history class.
-You did that before I gave the report cards to Rolf? –Double D asked, shocked.
-You was so focused to where to go that lost focus in what you have.
-And why did you not tell to Ed and Eddy about this?
-If they had stopped chasing you, you might have noticed.
-ERIKA! –Ed shout while capturing the poor girl in a bear hug. –No auntie for Ed! No auntie for Ed! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-Ed, I can't breath. –Erika said.
-I hate to admit but I owe you this one. –Eddy said scratching the back of his head.
Erika then grab both Ed and Eddy by their noses and pull them closer.
-But if you two don't get more serious in your studies, I don't care the problems this will get, I will say everything to the professors and your parents, I am clear?
-Alright mom! –Eddy bitterly said.
-Okey-dokey, monkey. –Ed saluted.
Double D was now on his knees, feeling disappointed with himself for fail in his task.
-I can't believe this. How could you Erika?
-First of all, I do not have much friend to take the risk of losing them to meanie aunties. And who are you to talk? –Erika walks over Double D. –No every parent is like yours Double D. Some of them are not so understanding.
-How are you so sure of that? –Double D asked, sounding upset.
-Mine would not. –Erika said in low voice.
The three friends look t each other in confusion before Erika left in silence. The Eds left as well, with Ed and Eddy warned about what would happen if they did not start to get school serious. Double D walk back to his house with his head low, it was a defeat for the sanctum of the education and by the hands of his new friend.
However, something Erika said making Double D think a little. Not every parent is understanding like his, and it seems that Erika's parents are not like his either.
End of the chapter.
Someone actually PM me asking about shipping. I think I mentioned before that I would not ship Erika with the Eds for one, problems with the Kankers. Two, I just do not see this happening to them but would be good for a change since almost all fics are about yaoi.
Erika's relationship with the Eds is something I put deep thought before start the fic, and I think that would be better for all of them stay as friends.
When I mentioned this the one who PM me asked if I was going to ship Erika with another character. To be honest, I did not thought about that, I will put some thought before the next chapter and see what happen.
Edit - Meu deus, esses garotos são burros: My god, those boys are dumb.
I decide to time from time make Erika speak portuguese when not in the company of someone. It is like that everywhere right? I mean, have a chinese family running a little market and when they talk with each other, they speak chinese.
That's all folks. See you next time.