Eddnapped!
by: Double T
Edd’s (Double D) parents were on vacation. They told Edd to behave while they were away. Edd made it a promise. "Nothing wrong can happen while I’m watching the house. You can make sure of it, Mom and Dad." Edd’s friends, Ed and Eddy, also knew that his parents were going on vacation, so they just invited themselves in, and asked if Edd would join them into playing their usual scams on the cul-de-sac. On their way . . .
"Double D!" Eddy yelled, "Come on, will ya! Those jawbreakers aren‘t going to wait forever!" "Coming, Eddy!" Edd said. Edd and Eddy bumped into Ed. "Ed!" said Eddy, "Why did you stop?"
"Look," Ed told him, "See?" The Eds saw a strange black car parked in front of Edd’s house. "Who’s that, Double D?" asked Eddy. "I don’t know," Edd answered. "Cool car!" Ed said. Soon they saw someone, all covered in a dark overcoat, leaving Edd’s house.
"Quick!" whispered Eddy, "Hide in here!" The Eds hid in a bush nearby, and watched the mysterious person walk around Edd’s house. "Oh my," Edd said, "I hope I remember that the doors and windows were all locked." "Look, Double D!" Ed yelled, nearly out loud for the stranger to hear. "What do you want Ed?" Edd asked, turned around, and gasped. He saw the stranger taking away his stuff. "Put that back!" he muttered. The stranger left with Edd’s stuff in the back of the car. "We better check this out," Eddy said. "How are we going to do that, Eddy?" asked Ed. Edd just kept saying, very sadly, like he was in a trance, "M-my stuff!" After that, he just sobbed there on the sidewalk.
After the stranger left, the Eds went to Edd’s house. "Aaahhhhhh!!" Edd screamed, "Look at this mess! Pardon my English, but my parents will kill me if they see this mess! Oh, messy, messy, messy!" The Eds saw that Edd’s house was a total mess. It looked like a tornado, a hurricane, and an earthquake hit, all at once, leaving a disaster area. "Come on, guys," Edd told Ed and Eddy, holding out a broom and a mop to them, "Help me clean up. Here." "Yeah right, why?" asked Eddy. "Because," Edd answered, "if you don’t want to assist me in cleaning, I will be unable to help you and Ed in creating our daily scams on the other kids in our cul-de-sac." "Good point, Double D." Eddy said. "What point?" Ed said, looking around the room, "Show me where it is Eddy." Eddy looked at him angrily, and said, "Come on Frankenstein." Ed then followed after a few seconds. Ed, Edd and Eddy then cleaned the house.
By nightfall, the Eds were then finished with the house cleaning. Edd sighed, and said, tiredly, "Complete." "Finally," Eddy said, with a sigh. Even Ed was tuckered out from all that work. "Gravy," he said. They were all exhausted from cleaning up.
The Eds went to the kitchen. They made a sandwich and the wondered who the stranger was. "Who was that?" Edd wondered. "What do you think the stranger wants from you, Double D?" Eddy asked. "An old shoe?" Ed suggested. Edd and Eddy just looked at him. "So," Eddy started to say, "What are you going to do Double D?" "I don’t know," Edd answered, "This situation is too complicated and risky to figure out just what this stranger wants and who this stranger is."
Ed and Eddy were getting ready to go. "Well," Eddy said, "See ya tomorrow Double D." "Hello!" Ed said. "Good night guys," Edd told them, "We’ll try to figure this out tomorrow, okay. If my parents find out, I surely don’t know what I’ll do." "Okay, okay," Eddy told him, "Just calm down Double D. We’ll see what we can do tomorrow, okay?" "What will we do, Eddy?" Ed asked. Eddy just grabbed Ed by the collar of his jacket. Ed kept asking questions to Eddy. "Bye guys!" Edd said.
The next day, when Edd woke up, he fixed himself up, and went to look for his friends, Ed and Eddy. He looked for them and he finally found them. They were in the cul-de-sac playground. "Give it up, Rolf," said Eddy. He was trying to make Rolf pay money to him for having a music class. "You do have to pay for your lessons. It’s not a free world, ya know," Eddy continued. "Only in Eddy’s world," Ed said laughing. "I don’t have any money right now Eddy," Rolf said. Eddy growled, that it scared Ed. Edd watched what happened and laughed quietly. After a while, Rolf left and said, "You have gone crazy money-crazy-Eddy-boy." Edd saw him left and went to see Ed and Eddy. "Hey guys," Edd called out to Ed and Eddy, running down to them. "Hey, Double D," Eddy responded. "Hello!" Ed said, standing on his head. "Ed," Edd said, "Why you standing on your head?" Ed, already upright, said, "What Double D?" Edd shook his head. "Never mind, Ed," he said. The Ed and Edd saw Eddy leaving. "Come on guys!" Eddy called out. "Shall we follow, Ed?" Edd asked. Ed laughed and said, "I’m Ed." They started to catch up with Eddy.
"Um, Eddy?" Ed asked. "Where are going?" "Yeah Eddy," Edd started to say, "Where exactly are you directing us?" "Where do you guys think we’re going?" Eddy said, nearly all annoyed, "We’re going to the Peach Creek Candy Store" "But, Eddy," Edd said, "Do we even have coinage change with us?" "Aw, come on," Eddy said, not making a very good comeback to Edd. "Hey look!" Ed said, pointing to one of Eddy’s most top favorite things, money. Eddy gasps and ran toward the money. "MINE!!" he yelled, "MY MONEY!!" Eddy was so happy in seeing cash was in his hands. "So Double D," Eddy said to Edd, "You were saying about money and us?" Edd just gave a sigh and asked, "Shall we precede guys?"
The Eds were on their way to the candy store, and Edd noticed that ahead of them was a strange car. "It’s the same car from the previous day!" Edd thought as his mouth gaped. He didn’t tell Ed and Eddy, because if Ed knew, Ed would pretend to be a something, like being a policeman, and if Eddy found out, he would make a big deal out of it, and would find a way to make money on capturing the stranger. These thoughts made Edd pretend that he didn’t see a thing. He just remained quiet until they reached the candy store.
When the Eds finally reached the candy store, Edd nearly forgot about the stranger. "We’ll have 3 jawbreakers," Eddy told the sales clerk. "Okay," the sales clerk said, and grabbed 3 huge jawbreakers, "Here you are," he said. The Eds walked out of the store, with their jawbreakers in their mouths. When they stood out the door, Eddy noticed the strange car. "Hey Double D," he said, slurping his jawbreaker, "Isn’t that the same car that was in your house the other day?" "Oh my!" Edd exclaimed, nearly being choked on his jawbreaker, "It is the car from yesterday!" Edd pretended like he didn’t see the car earlier, before they went to the candy store. Eddy decided that they needed to check what’s going on, and as usual Edd tried to prevent him from doing that. Eddy ignored his warning and told them to follow him. "There he goes Ed," Edd said, "involving you and I in his use of plural pronouns." "Yeah," Ed said. Edd sighed and said to himself, "Ignorance must be bliss."
The Eds followed the stranger, all the way back to the cul-de-sac. Eddy hid behind a bush, Edd behind a tree, and Ed was trying to hide behind a post, but he kept bumping himself in it. Eddy who was nearby, corrected Ed, and pulled him behind the post. Back to reality, Ed and Eddy watched as the stranger went back to Edd’s house, again. "What does he want from you, Double D?" Eddy asked. "Maybe his-"Ed tried to answer, but Eddy stopped him. Eddy knew that Ed would just say nonsense. "Look!" Ed finally said, when Eddy removed his hand away from his mouth. Edd and Eddy looked at the stranger, who carried more of Edd’s stuff into the car. Edd couldn’t take it anymore. He ran straight outside, exposing himself in the open. "DOUBLE D!" Ed and Eddy yelled, "NO!" By the time Edd heard their warning, the stranger was coming out of Edd’s house, still carrying some more things from Edd’s house. Edd ran back to his hiding place. "Hey kid!" the stranger yelled, "you better not tell anyone, or else, something might happen that you might regret!" Then the stranger turned and left, forgetting the rest of Edd’s stuff. Edd, already in his hiding place, was very worried. "Oh, this is not good," he said, "Oh, what are we going to do now?" Eddy gave a little thought. "I’ve got it!" he said out loud, after a few minutes. "I was afraid of that," Edd said to himself. Ed, thinking that Edd was talking to him, said, "Afraid of what?" "Nothin’," Eddy told Ed, then he said to Ed and Edd, "Come on guys, I got an idea to stop that strange guy." Eddy soon led them to Edd’s house to check out what has happened.
At the driveway of Edd’s house, Edd picked up his stuff up and put it inside his house. Ed and Eddy were already inside. It looked the same, as the first time they saw it, only to Edd, it seemed to be worse than before. He almost fainted at the sight. Ed was rummaging through Edd’s mailbox. "Look, Double D," Ed said to Edd, "you got mail." Edd grabbed the letters, and looked though them. After a few letters, he saw one from his parents. Knowing that his parents didn’t forget to write to him soon cheered him up. He quickly opened the envelope, practically ripping it apart. Ed and Eddy watched him open it by his "non-careful" ways. Soon Edd finally reached the letter. It said:
Dear Edward,
How are you doing? Are you keeping the house tidy like we told you? Remember that you made it a promise. We are counting on you. If you invite your friends, Ed and Eddy, be sure you don’t cause any trouble. We have decided to come home early. We should be coming probably at the end of the week. We miss you and we both love you. Hugs and kisses to you.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Edd was soon terrified by his parents’ notice. "I’m in big trouble now," Edd said, starting to cry, "My parents are coming home early guys. What am I going to do?" Edd felt that he shouldn’t have said that in front of Eddy, but it was already too late. "Oh! I know Eddy!" Ed pleaded Eddy, "I know how we can stop the stranger man!" Eddy decided to let Ed give it a try to say something, hopefully useful for once. "Ed," Eddy said, pointing at Ed, giving him the chance. "Okay," Ed said, "Let’s make a trap." "Ed!" Eddy said, in amazement, "You’ve found a brain!" Edd couldn’t stand it. He knew that to build a trap, that would mess up the house even more, but if it’s the only way to stop the stranger. Besides, he couldn’t call the police, because the telephone was taken the first time the stranger came. "All right," Edd agreed, "I’ll draw out the plans for our trap."
The Eds soon started to build the trap. It took up most of the day. "Hey dorks!" Kevin asked on his bike, "What are you dorks doing?" "Uh, nothing," the Eds responded. "Yeah right," Kevin said, "Dorks!" "Dorks?" Ed said. "Just keep working Ed," Eddy commanded. "Eddy?" Edd asked, "Do you even think the stranger will even fall for the trap?" "And what’s up with you?" Eddy said, "You’re the one who made the plans, didn’t you?" "Yes," Edd answered, "I did. So?" "So," Eddy said, "that means, that Ed and me are just following what you wrote yourself." Edd realized he couldn’t top that. "It’s Ed and I, not Ed and me," Edd thought to himself, trying to keep his grammar perfect.
When they were done, it was already evening. "Finally," Eddy said. "Complete," Edd said. "Chickens!" Ed said. The Eds decided to take a break. "Let’s make a pizza!" Eddy immediately said. "No!" Edd shouted. Ed and Eddy looked at him, as if he wasn’t Edd at all. "I would suggest," Edd started to say, nearly 100% embarrassed, "maybe a ready-made pizza." Ed and Eddy agreed to have ready-made pizza. As Edd placed the pizza in the oven to cook, he remembered the last time they made pizza. Sarah almost messed it up. Then he just thought of something, did the stranger rob the other kids’ houses too? Edd told Ed and Eddy to watch the pizza for him. Ed and Eddy soon heard the oven bell, telling them that the pizza is done. "Hey Ed," Eddy said, cleverly, "Too bad Double D can’t join us. I guess there’s more for us." Ed and Eddy started to eat the pizza without Edd.
"Anyway," Edd thought, "I am a bad cook, and I have more important things to do than to eat pizza. I have to see if the other kids have been raided." He ran to check on the other kids. Rolf, Sarah, Jimmy, Johnny 2x4 and Plank, Kevin, and Nazz all claim that a stranger has been in their house. Edd had an idea. "I have a suggestion," Edd said, "put a note on the door, telling the stranger that you don’t have anything left in your house." "Don’t be stupid," Sarah said, "The stranger wouldn’t believe that." "Then say another stranger took all your possessions," Edd said, the he acted brave when he told them, "and say that it is all at my house. Move all your things that are near windows, and move it to a place not visible to anyone out the window." Edd then ran back home.
When Edd came home, Ed and Eddy were stuffed with pizza. There was only one slice left. "Here Double D," Eddy said, "You can have the last slice." "No, thank you, Eddy," Edd said, panting from exhaustion, "Quick, help me move the leftover items near the window. Don‘t ask why, we have very little time." Ed and Eddy soon got everything needed done in a few minutes.
About 5 minutes later, Edd heard something outside. "It’s the stranger!" Edd whispered. The stranger drove around the cul-de-sac, reading all the letters the kids wrote that Edd had instructed them to do. The stranger got really mad and looked at Edd’s house, and growled as he crumpled up one of the kid’s notes. The stranger was coming up to Edd’s house. Edd, seeing the stranger coming up, told Ed and Eddy to leave out the front door. "Quickly!" Edd whispered, "I’ll try to make him go away." "But," Ed said, "What about you, Double D?" "Don’t worry," Edd confirmed. He then told Eddy, "if anything happens, I’ll leave a message in this voice tape recorder, and place it under this table right here, okay?" Edd pointed to a table nearby. The Eds all agreed, and Ed and Eddy left. "All right," Edd said to himself, "it’s all up to me."
The stranger finally came to Edd’s house. When the stranger was inside, the stranger was ready to take on anyone, but Edd was ready too. Edd waited in one spot, near the table he told Ed and Eddy about. The stranger noticed the trap, and the stranger tried to break it apart. "Oh dear," Edd whispered to himself, "A faux pas. All my hard work." Meanwhile, the stranger took some of Edd’s stuff, and put it all in his car. When the stranger came back, Edd tried to stop the stranger by giving the stranger a headlock. But the stranger got the best of him. The stranger rolled him down, then got some rope out of his pocket, and tied Edd up. Edd tried to call for help, but before he can do anything, he was gagged. He only did one thing before that, he could only leave a short message on his voice tape recorder. Then when the stranger tied him, he quickly kicked the machine under the assigned table, where he was sure Ed and Eddy will find it.
The stranger was almost done, the stranger realized, "What am I going to do with this nosy brat?" Edd was really scared and disappointed. He tried to struggle himself out of his quandary, but failed. "The only way to get out," Edd thought, "is to think my way out mentally." He stopped moving, and thought of what to do next. The stranger got suspicious, and carried Edd to the car, and put him in the back seat. Now Edd really had to think as quick as he can.
Ed and Eddy were hiding in a nearby bush. They saw the car and ducked down. When the car past them, they noticed something moving in the rear-view window. "It’s Double D!" Ed shouted, "Quick Eddy! We must go save him, Eddy!" "No, you idiot!" Eddy exclaimed, grabbing Ed’s jacket. It was too late giving the warning. Ed ran after the car. Eddy was trailing behind, still grabbing Ed’s jacket. "Ed!" Eddy yelled, "Stop!" The other kids came to their windows to see why Eddy was making so much noise. They saw the car with Ed chasing the car. They ran out of their houses to see what was happening. They all met in the center of the cul-de-sac.
Eddy soon lost his grip on Ed’s jacket, and fell off. He started rolling down the street, from Ed’s speed. The kids came up to Eddy and asked, "What’s going on, Eddy?" Eddy shook his head, got back to reality and answered, "It’s terrible! Double D got kidnapped and his stuff got stolen by that stranger. Ed was chasing the car and - Oh no! Ed! Come on people! We have to go get Ed and rescue Double D!" They all went home and got their bikes, with basket-trailers behind the bikes. "Okay," Eddy said, "Ready, Set, let’s go everyone!" Eddy and the rest of the kids rode down the cul-de-sac, catching up with Ed and the car.
They all caught up with Ed, who jumped on Eddy’s bike, and the kids all chased the car, without being noticed by the stranger. Edd was the only one who knew they were following them. "Hurry guys!" Edd thought, "I need your help!"
The kids finally stopped when they saw the car pullover to a barn-like shack. They hid behind a tree and saw what happened. "Come on, you brat!" the stranger scolded Edd, but Edd refused to move. The stranger picked Edd up and carried him off to the shack. The other kids got worried, and waited for the stranger and Edd to go in the shack. When they were in the shack, the kids went up to the window. they saw Edd, still gagged up. He was tied very tightly onto a chair. "Help!" Edd shouted, as loud as he can, but the gag on his mouth muffled his voice. The stranger just laughed and said, "Ha! you can yell as much and as loud as your puny mouth can yell, but no one can never hear you!" "That’s ‘no one will be able to hear me," no double negatives," Edd thought, still maintaining his "perfect" grammar. "Ha!" Eddy said, quietly, "That’s what you think!" The stranger left the room, still laughing at Edd’s yells for help. "Okay everyone," Eddy said, "Let’s go." "Go where?" Ed asked. "Just come on, dork." Kevin said, and he and the others pulled him in the shack.
The kids were all very cautious when they came in. The first thing they did was remove Edd’s gag. Edd told them to hide and be quiet. The stranger came in to check on Edd. The stranger noticed that Edd’s gag was off. "Hey kid!" The stranger asked, full of suspicion and anger, "Why is your gag off your mouth?" Edd tried to think up an answer. "It . . . uh . . .fell off. It . . . was . . . uh . . . loose and fell off and I couldn’t put it back," Edd said weakly and chuckled. Edd wasn’t used to lying.
When the stranger left, the other kids came to help Edd free. They untied him, he they tried to run away. The stranger came in and they were all caught. The Eds and the others were escaping through the window. Edd was the only one who got out. He ran away, but not very far. He heard the others cry for help. He had to choose whether to save himself or to save the others and risking his own life. The stranger was really dangerous, and not to be tampered with. Edd made his decision. He was going to save his friends. "It’s the right thing to do," Edd said to himself, despite the ways they have treated him in the past, and he ran to the shack.
When he reached the shack, he saw all of his friends tied and gagged up, just like how he looked before. Edd kept quiet and was very cautious when he tried to look for an entrance. After a while, just before he reached the front corner of the shack, the stranger came out the door. "Aw, be quiet, you noisy brats!" the stranger said, "You were as much annoying as the last kid." Edd hid close to the ground. He watched as the stranger left, and went to the car. Edd found a piece of paper in his pocket and wrote down the license number of the plate of the car. When the stranger as gone, and out of sight, Edd went in the shack when he found an entrance, which was the door. Edd went up to the group, removed their gags, and untied them. Edd and the group went out of the shack with some of Edd’s stuff. They placed his stuff in their basket-trailers.
The stranger was on the way back, and noticed that the kids were loose. "Quick!" Edd shouted. The kids then got on their bikes, with Ed and Edd on Eddy’s basket-trailer. They were on their way back to Peach Creek, with the stranger coming in quickly behind them. "Quick!" Edd told Eddy, "Go to the police department around the corner!" Eddy told everyone to follow him.
When they reached the police department, they went up the handicap ramp, and landed in the building. The stranger, without realizing it, ran straight in the police building. Then, the stranger finally realized where the place actually is. "Oh, no!" the stranger said. The police in the room arrested the stranger, and told the kids that the stranger was wanted in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Edd almost fainted. He had handled a wanted criminal who was wanted in 3 countries. The police called in the news reporters. The police told them that the kids were heroes. "Can we take your picture for the ‘Peach Creek Press?’" Edd couldn’t take it. People just don’t have the proper grammar as he had. "IT’S ‘MAY WE HAVE YOUR PICTURE,’ NOT ‘CAN WE!" Edd yelled out loud, enough for half the city to hear.
Everyone in the room looked at Edd. Edd was so embarrassed, and chuckled very weakly. Everyone posed for the picture. "Okay," said the picture man, "Is everyone ready?" "Yeah!" said everyone. The picture was taken, and was placed in the "Peach Creek Press."
Everyone started to help clean up Edd’s house, before his parents came back from their vacation. By the end of the week, they were done. In the afternoon, Edd saw a taxi pull up to the driveway. He saw 2 people come out of the taxi door. It was Edd’s mom and dad. "Mom! Dad!" Edd said happily and he ran to greet them. "Hello Edward," Edd’s mom said, "Look what we got you." Edd’s mom pointed to Edd’s dad. Edd looked at what his dad was holding. Edd looked in amazement and joy. "A jawbreaker?!" Edd said joyfully. Edd was so happy, that he grabbed it and put it in his mouth, and he sighed with relief and joy.
Ed, Eddy, and the rest of their group called Edd in telling him that they were done cleaning up a few more things. Edd trusted them and told his to follow. Edd was amazed to find out that his friends were also neat and tidy. Edd’s parents didn’t even know what had happened during they were gone. "What’s that?" Edd’s dad asked. Edd’s dad picked the object up. It was the voice tape recorder that Edd used to tell Ed and Eddy about what the stranger was doing. Edd’s parents pressed play. Edd felt his heart sink. Everyone in the house heard the message. It said:
"Hey Ed and Eddy, the stranger that is taking all my possessions broke the trap we made. The stranger is getting quite mad, and is about to get me. The stranger is taking all of my things. You guys have to help me! I’m about to-"
The tape ended there. Edd’s parents looked at Edd angrily. "Edward," they asked, "What did happen here while we were gone?" Edd gulped, nervously. "Well?" they asked. Ed, Eddy, and everyone else tiptoed out the door. Edd’s parents stopped them too. "Edward," Edd’s parents told him, "you have a lot of explaining to do." "It was nice knowing you, buddy," Eddy told Edd. "That didn’t help," Edd thought. "Okay," Edd started, "It all started on the day you left. Ed and Eddy invited me to join them in going to the candy store and . . . "
To Be Continued . . .