Chapter 1: Kill the Odds of a Successful Scam

It was another ordinary summer day in the sub-urban cul-de-sac located in a town known by the name of Peach-Creek. It was high noon as three young teenage boys stood in the driveway of a house constructing some sort of stand. One of the boys was sitting in a chair behind the stand balancing what looked to be a jar on his index finger. He was short in stature and wore a yellow shirt with a navy blue collar with a scarlet stripe running down the right side of it and baggy blue jeans. He kicked up his feet onto the counter and allowed his red shoes to rest on the stand. In this "media", he didn't have much noticeable hair. Only three giant strands on top of his head that waves towards the back of his head.

"Uuuggghhh. Hey Edd? Where's Ed? He's supposed to be back here with the ice his parents said he could have fifteen minutes ago!" The short boy asked in an irritated tone. "This snow cone scam isn't supposed to run itself y'know."

A second boy who wore a dark orange short sleeve shirt and violet shorts looked at him. He had red socks that came up to his knee caps. He also wore some sort of black snow cap or beanie on his head. Three strands of black hair stuck out from the back of his hat.

"Honestly Eddy, I'm kind of busy at the moment. If you're so worried about him, why not go search yourself? It wouldn't kill you to look for him yourself you know."

Eddy grunted before getting out of the chair and storming up to the front door to go inside the house and check on Ed

"Fine. I wouldn't be surprised if his stupid sister Sarah is making him do stuff for her again. That spoiled rotten loud mouth..." He grumbled before opening the front door to Eds house and walked in searching for his friend. "Hey lummox! Are you still alive!? The kids will be flocking to us any minute! We need the ice out here! Pronto!"

Eddy's question was answered with random household objects whizzing past his head and crashing into the wall behind him. Eddy looked at what in this "media" appeared to be a tall teen with a green jacket over top of a striped red and white shirt with long, baggy blue sweatpants. He appeared to have a uni-brow and very short hair.

"Hey Eddy, is ice kept under the sink?" The boy asked him. Eddy simply sighed before walking over to him and grabbing his companion by the ear and dragging him over to the refrigerator before opening the freezer shoving his face into the freezer.

"Ed, get the ice and HURRY UP!" Eddy screamed in his friends ear as he pointed to the gigantic bag of ice in the freezer. The boy known as Ed responded with his trademark stupid smile before obediently grabbing the bag of ice with both hands and trying to tug it out of the freezer. Eddy had returned back outside to check on Edd and how progress was coming along for his scam.

"So Double D, is the snow cone machine ready yet? Are we in business?" Eddy asked rubbing his hands together with a grin on his face hoping for a positive response

"As soon as Ed brings the ice out, our Ed-laskan snow cone project will be up and open for the public Eddy~!" Edd replied wiping his forehead off with a white rag as Ed could now be seen in the background. He was still struggling with the large bag of said ice. By now, the bag was out of the freezer, but it was stuck in the doorway. Ed continued to tug and yank at the bag. It began to stretch the size of the doorway as he did so. After a few seconds of extra effort, the bag finally tumbled out of the doorway and rolled onto Ed.

"Ice is ready for grinding Eddy!" Ed shouted as he stood up hauling the massive bag over his head with surprisingly little effort.

"Good lord Ed! How much...-a-are you sure it's okay with your parents that we use all of this ice!?" Edd asked in amazement surprised by the sheer size of the bag

"...Wow. That's gonna be lot of snow cones...WE'LL BE SUPER RICH!" Eddy added in with dollar symbols in his eyes

"Oh yeah guys! My parents told me that if they didn't use all of the ice, we get to use all of it!" Ed said opening the bag of ice as Edd walked over to the stand and placed the snow cone machine on the table. Ed set the bag of ice next to the snow cone stand and Eddy then grabbed a mega phone and began shouting advertising his scam

"Works for me! STEP RIGHT UP LADIES AND GENTS! GET YOUR ED-LASKAN SNOW CONES HERE! ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!" Eddy shouted out looking around expecting the neighborhood kids to flock to him throwing their money at him. An hour rolled by and just his luck, there were no customers to be spotted anywhere.

By now, half of the bag of ice had melted. Edd(or Eddward) and Ed had already begun making snow cones for themselves at this point. Eddy on the other hand was severely ticked off due to the lack of attention his scam was getting as well as sitting in the sweltering heat. He waited a good fifteen more minutes before finally speaking up.

"WHERE THE HECK IS EVERYBODY!?" Eddy blurted out. After sitting in the hot sun for an hour, he had lost all patience.

"Well, that proves how little you actually listen to what I say, Eddy." Edd replied nearly dropping his snow-cone from the sudden outburst. "I told you before, they're all gone off to that summer camp the school was advertising before we got out for summer break a few days ago. They don't come back until six o'clock today." Edd responded annoyed at the realization his friend pays little to no attention to what he says

Eddy let out a loud sigh before getting out of his chair and walking towards the house. "Fffffffff. Fine. Let's go inside and watch something. I'm tired of all this heat." Eddy grumbled as he stormed off inside dragging the now half water/half ice bag into the house to re-freeze it as Edd and Ed followed

Once inside...

Ed, Edd, and Eddy playfully ran down the stairwell into the basement (Or Ed's room. Whichever one you prefer) and flopped into Eds chair. They turned on Ed's television to relax for the time being. A commercial played advertising the annual Peach-Creek Technology fair.

"Hey Double D, I just remembered. You're part of that Peach-Creek science fair aren't ya'? How are those projects you're working on for coming along? I mean, not that it really matters what you make. You're pretty much always in the top three." Eddy asked grabbing the T.V. remote aiming it towards Eds television as he began flipping through the channels

"Oh! Thank you for reminding me Eddy. And yes, I am partaking in the event." Edd replied sitting next to him as he reached under his hat and pulled out the aforementioned projects. In the eyes of Ed and Eddy, they appeared to be much more high tech than the normal apparatuses Edd builds, but that's usually because he makes them out of everyday house-hold appliances. This time was different. There were three projects that he pulled from his hat. Each of them looked like a pair of high tech gloves that neither Ed, or Eddy could have imagined to see in their lifetime.

"Holy cow Sock Head! You made these!?" Eddy asked taking a pair for himself and dangled them in front of his face attempting to examine them

"I finished them about two days ago. I haven't found the time to test them out yet. They're part of a new experiment I'm trying out as per request from the contest entry rules." Edd explained.

"Gentlemen, what you are holding in your very own two hands are actually weapons. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about constructing such apparatuses however. I've never actually built, nor attempted to build any weaponry before." Edd replied he then switched his attention to the TV and noted Eddy to flip a few channels backwards, for their favorite movie: "Fish Bowl 3" was playing on TV

"Relax will ya' Edd? You're the greatest kid genius I know. You've got this contest in the bag!" Eddy replied slipping one of the three pairs of gloves on. "So, uh...how do these things work?" he asked wiggling his fingers around. He did not know that the gloves were reflex controlled. Before Edd could explain how to properly use them, nor actually look away from the television for that matter, Eddy had accidentally triggered the gloved to literally materialize a weapon right in his hand. Within a few seconds, a giant, metallic, buzz saw blade appeared in his right hand. The sight of it scared him to the point of dropping it onto the floor and screaming.

"Ah. It appears The Blade Gloves seem to function properly." Edd said picking up the blade that fell onto the floor. "Even though these gloves are complete, they're really just experimental prototypes right now. I'm surprised they function properly like a finished product..." Edd said as he slipped on a pair of gloves. "The weapons that the gloves summon are based off of whatever I could find around my basement at the time. Eddy, you are currently wearing what I've labeled "The Blade Gloves". I am wearing gloves that allow me to wield what I find to be a unique weapon based off of an old video game I once played."

With a flick of his wrist, he materialized what appeared to be a giant V shaped object.

"These are what I call "The Boomerang Gloves" gentlemen. With my precise aim and calculative mind, I think this weapon suits me well~" he said before noticing Eddy was being electrocuted by something, or someone

"Zappity Zap Zap Double D!" Ed cried cheerfully as he wore the last pair of gloves.

"Yes Ed. Zap indeed. My Elec gloves are capable of delivering and shooting high voltage beams of electricity. They're good for both long distance and close combat~" Edd explained nervously as he got up out of the chair trying to avoid getting shocked by Ed all the while dragging Eddy away to prevent him from being harmed any further.

"These are so cool Double D!" Ed cheered as a chaotic look flashed in his eyes. "I AM ED! THUNDER WARRIOR AND DEFENDER OF ALL TOAST THAT IS BUTTERED!" Ed shouted as he began running around his room firing beams of electricity everywhere laughing maniacally.

Edd had dragged Eddy off into Eds bathroom and dunked his head in Eds gravy bathtub trying to bring Eddy back to consciousness. Seconds after, muffled screams from Eddy could be heard underneath the gravy as he pulled his head out of the tub gasping for air.

"HUH!? WHA!? WHERE-..." Eddy panicked before turning his attention to the bathtub and screaming in disgust. He then turned his attention to the bathroom door looking at all of the chaos going on in Eds room.

"Grrrrrrr. Why that no brained, gravy sucking...LET ME AT HIM!" Eddy said as he rushed back out of the restroom attempting to beat up Ed only to be greeted happily by the lovable oaf and knocked back into the bathroom by a beam of electricity

"Are you okay Eddy!?" Edd asked scrambling over to him keeping his head low trying to avoid getting shocked

"Going up on a Tuesday Double D~" Eddy replied as he watched the imaginary stars in orbit around his head

Edd looked back and out towards the bathroom door to notice that at some point between Eddy's return flight into the restroom, and the time it took for him to turn his head just then, that Ed had settled down. Edd decided to take a quick look out of the doorway. He was prepared to duck his head back into the restroom. He stuck his head out of the door to find Ed positioned next to his bed staring at the wall. Edd fixed his attention to where Ed was staring, and what he saw caught him completely off guard. The wall looked completely distorted. But no, there was something more to that. Eds entire wall had started twisting and swirling. If this wasn't a first time occurrence, Edd would've freaked out.

"Ed, you've somehow managed to brake reality...again." Edd sighed before walking up to him and taking his Elec Gloves off of Eds hands.

"How many times must I warn you? We don't know what happens whenever you manage to mess with the space-time continuum. You might wind up doing something that could seriously hurt you." Edd stated as he looked over at the wall with interest.

"Still, as many times as you- or, well, the three of us for that matter, have messed with the fabric of reality, we've always stayed away from these...portals."

"Uurk. Yo Double D. You might wanna turn the power down on those gloves." Eddy said staggering out of the bathroom. "I think I almost- OH COME ON! AGAIN ED!?" Eddy complained now catching glimpse of the 'portal'.

"Eddy please!" Edd responded looking back at him. "You know he literally can't control when this happens most of the time!"

"Yeah. But it's happening more often Double D! I'm telling ya', something ain't right about this. Something's bound to happen sooner or later." Eddy argued

"I'll admit Eddy. I agree with you on your theory that if we keep disturbing the space-time continuum that we may accidentally trigger...erm...some sort of event. But we can't be so quick to blame each other for these occurrences when we don't purposely mean to. Things could be a lot worse if they wanted to." Edd argued back. Fortunately, Eddy found Edd's last statement to be true enough for him as he peered over his shoulder and caught Ed examining the portal for himself. The next thing he knew, Ed had decided to do something that he thought might have been his biggest act of stupidity yet. That something was him sticking his head through the portal.

"Uh, sockhead? On a scale from one to ten, how bad is that?" Eddy asked pointing at his friend

"What are you talking about E-" Edd managed to speak before a horror stricken look crossed his face "OH MY LORD! ED! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

Muffled laughs could be heard through the portal as Ed now had half of his body through. Edd and Eddy rushed onto the bed and tried to pull Ed back only for him to have pulled himself out of the portal and grab his friends.

"Double D! Eddy! You gotta see this!" their mono-brow friend said with excitement in his tone. Ed then, much to Edd and Eddy's dismay, pulled them through the portal before him. Edd and Eddy screamed in complete fear. This was definitely not something either of them had wanted to do. Ed them jumped in after them shouting "Cannon Ball" as he entered.

The three of them were now in an area they couldn't even begin to describe. They felt weightless. The entrance to the portal had vanished behind them, not that it mattered to them at the moment. They were too busy screaming their lungs out at the moment. Edd and Eddy screaming in horror, while Ed screamed with joy. Just as the three managed to hug each other, their consciousness slipped from their minds as a blinding white light filled their vision. The last thing any of them felt was their bodies plummeting into something hard. They would soon wake up to find the world around them completely changed.

This was only the start of many things to come.

((Ummmm. Yeah. Not that good of a chapter. Next Chapter will definitely be more bearable to read. I'll re-edit this chapter when I find a better layout))