It was a beautiful summer afternoon at the Peach Creek cul-de-sac. Everyone was out enjoying the day. Sarah and Jimmy were playing doctor with dolls and stuff animals on Sarah's front lawn. Rolf and Kevin were seeing who could throw a football the farthest as Naz watches. And Johnny, well, he was having a conversation with his piece of wood, Plank. Everyone was having fun. Ok, almost everyone.
Just outside the cul-de-sac was Peach Creek's garbage dump. There, sitting on the ground were the Eds. They sometimes come to the dump to try to get ideas on how to swindle the other kids out of their money, which is mostly Eddy's plan. Otherwise, they sometimes just go there to hang out. However today, they been at the dump almost all day trying to think of their next big scam.
"AAAAHHH!! I can't come up with ANYTHING!!" Eddy shouted, yanking on the only three hairs on his head.
Double-D, the brains of the three, looked at Eddy and rolled his eyes. "Eddy, I doubt you'll think of anything if you keep torturing yourself like that."
The short boy let go of his hair and gave Double-D the evil eye. "Yeah, well I don't see you coming up with anything, sockhead!"
Before an argument was about to start, they both heard a familiar voice.
"EDDY! DOUBLE-D!"
Ed, the tallest and rather dumbest of the group, came running toward them, completely covered in garbage and whatnot. The other two Eds gave their looks of disgust at their friend.
"Ed! Back off, you reek!" Eddy said holding his nose.
"What in the world have you been doing?!" Double-D asked him. They both realized they haven't seen Ed in the pass couple hours.
"I've been on a treasure hunt!" Ed said with a big goofy smile on his face.
"Whatcha find? A brain?" Eddy said sarcastically. The fowl smelling Ed stood there for a few moments, staring off into space before giving an answer.
"No, something even better!" He reached deep into his coat pocket and pulled out something that looked like a CD player. "I found it under a huge pile of-"
"WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW!" Eddy and Double-D yelled in unison.
Eddy took the thing from Ed and examined it. "…It's just a piece of junk." He said with a scowl on his face. On the other hand, Double-D gave it a look, and then said, "Whatever it is, it looks like there are some parts missing."
"Like I said, It's JUNK." Eddy repeated.
Ed suddenly perked up. "Oh, wait!" Reaching into his other pocket he pulled out a couple wires, a fancy looking game paddle with two joysticks and a D-pad, a huge book based on some video game, and some small rectangular shape thing. He dropped all of it on the ground and looked back up at his friends, who were surprised of how much room he had in those pockets of his.
The two boys looked at their friend's findings on the ground. Eddy glanced at Double-D. "Well genius, what is it?"
Double-D took the "CD player" from Eddy and carefully looked it over once more. He noticed a round button on the right side of the device. When he pushed it, a lit popped up on it, revealing inside a round disk. He then went back to the other stuff. Kneeling down, he begun to assemble whatever it was Ed found.
About five minutes later, whatever it was, was all put together. The brainy Ed looked at it once more, and then smiled. "I got it!" He said rather cheerfully.
"It's about time." Eddy said. Double-D stood up and cleared his throat. "Gentlemen, what we have here is a video game system!"
Eddy didn't look too impressed. "So?"
"So? Eddy, a piece of equipment like this shouldn't belong in a dump." Double-D said. "I don't understand why anyone would would what to just toss a perfectly good device like this away. As you can see, there's a game still inside it, and if I'm correct-"
"It's gotta be busted!" Eddy interrupted. "It wouldn't be in a dump if it wasn't!"
Suddenly, a huge smile grew on Ed's face. "VIDEO GAMES!!" He shouted. "TO MY HOUSE!!" The big Ed snatched the game system from Double-D and ran out of the garbage dump.
"ED! GET BACK HERE!" Eddy shouted.
"Well, we'll see if that little machine still works, won't we, Eddy? Besides, we're obviously not getting anything done here." Double-D said exiting the dump. Eddy followed, grumbling under his breath.
At Ed's home in his room, Ed and Eddy watched Double-D as he hooked up the system to Ed's T.V.
"I am almost done." He said.
Eddy sat on Ed's bed with a scowl. "This is a total waste of time!" He barked. Double-D just ignored his friend's comment as he connected one last wire.
"There, it's all hooked up." The hat wearing Ed announced.
"Hey guys, look at this!" Ed said. He was looking through the book he found along with the game. It was a guidebook to a game called, "Final Fantasy 7". He ran up to Double-D and asked, "Don't this look like the pretty disk?" He pointed at the title of the book. It had a figure with a large sword and a tower in the background.
Double-D observed the book, then opened the lit on the system. The CD inside had the same title on it. "Why, yes it is Ed." He answered.
"Let's play!" Ed said grabbing the paddle and plopping himself on the floor.
He pressed the ON button on the system. On the T.V. screen, a symbol that looked to say 'PS1' came up. "It's working!" Double-D said with a smile.
"It is?" Eddy sat up from the bed and looked at the T.V. He was suddenly interested now…
About an hour went by and Ed was still playing. Double-D and Eddy continued to watch, and so far, they figured out it was one of them RPG games where you walk around fighting monsters and stuff. It looked like you couldn't get Ed off that thing now, he was hooked.
"Hey, I'm bushed." Eddy said with a yawn.
"Yeah, me too." Double-D added.
Ed looked wide awake staring at the screen.
"Hey, Monobrow! I think its time to call it quits." Eddy said.
"Awww, but its getting good." Ed whined.
Eddy stood up and stretched his arms. "Look Lumpy, I don't know about you, but I'm going home."
"Same here." Double-D said. Ed looked away from the game and at his friends with puppy dog eyes, wishing they could stay just a bit longer. Eddy let out a sigh and said, "Look Ed, we can play more tomorrow, alright?!"
The tall boy perked up a bit. "Okay Eddy!" He said. He then reached over to turn off the game.
He pressed the OFF button, but nothing happened. He pushed it again; the game STILL wouldn't shut off.
"Uh, guys?" He said. "The game doesn't what to quit." The other two Eds, who were just heading out the door, turned and looked at their friend.
"Whaddaya mean it don't want to quit?" Eddy asked.
"I pushed the OFF button, but its not going off." Ed explained.
"Hmm, maybe the screen froze." Double-D assumed. He went over to the system and pressed the buttons on the paddle; still nothing.
"Oh great. Ed, what'cha do?" Eddy asked.
"Nothing, Eddy, I swear!." Ed said in his defense.
Double-D fiddled with the system for a good ten minutes. "We're going to have to unplug it." He said. He went to pull the cord.
But before he even touched it, the screen suddenly flicked and then flashed back so bright, it lit up the whole room. The Eds were taken back as the light seemed to engulf them all and they felt like something was pulling them forward.
"WHATS HAPPENING?!" Eddy yelled in a panic. He and the others tried to run, but they found out they couldn't move.
"My T.V. never did this before!" Ed said in a shaky voice.
The luminous glow got even brighter before the Eds suddenly went into a blackout. When the light finally disappeared, the room was empty. They were gone.
TBC.........