1 E-for-Ed-CLASS
A/n: With their permission, I was allowed to use the drawings of the Eds in their e class uniforms for the title card. Credit for the Eds for goes Petrus-C-Visagie on deviant art. But Eric and Korosensei are my drawings.
On a bright sunny day, in the city of Tokyo, Japan, all was peaceful. The butterflies fluttered and the bird flew over the houses and apartment complexes.
Standing at a train station, which had only a handful of people waiting for their trains, four boys of American descent around the age of 15 stood side by side near the edge of the tracks, each carrying a leather handbag.
"Do you guys think that we'll see Godzilla," the boys on the far left end of the group asked his friends. This was Ed, the strongest of the four, but the least intelligent. He's tall for someone of the age of 15, has yellow skin, a light-colored tongue, ginger hair in a buzz cut, a black unibrow, and turquoise eyes.
He was wearing grey trousers with a matching grey blazer that he left unbuttoned with lined-black edges, a white button-up shirt, and black loafers.
"How many times do I have to explain this, Ed," said the boy standing on his left side. "That only a monster created from imagination, just to make a movie." This was Edd—most commonly known as Double D. He was most physically weak of the group, but makes up for this with an intelligence higher than anyone around. He wore the same clothes as Ed, but neater, with the blazer buttoned close, a black-tie tucked into the blazer, and had on his signature black ski hat was two white stripes on each side, with three black hairs that stuck out from under the hat. His skin was a desert sand-beige, a mint-green tongue, and blue-green eyes.
The third member was standing on Double D's left side, with a soured expression. "This is stupid," he complained. "How come we have to wear this sucky uniform?" This was Eddy, the self-proclaimed leader of the boys and the more short-tempered one. He has pink skin with a lighter complexion around his blue eyes and on his eyelids, black hair that was spiked up into three points, and a green tongue.
He wore the same uniform as those before him, only he didn't wear the tie and had his blazer buttoned halfway.
"Just be glad we got into the school together," said the last boy of his left. "And that it's an English speaking school." This was Eric, the fourth member of the boys. He was a Japanese American male and was the second tallest with a thin body. He had messy black hair, pale skin, bags under his eyes, and a normal colored tongue. He also wore the same clothes as the others but he had the blazer unbuttoned all the way, and instead on wear the typical grey dress pants, he decided to wear cargo pants of the same color.
However, unlike his friends, if you were to look at him for the first time, he was frightening to stare at. This is due to two features on him.
His most distinct feature that stood out was his completely black right eye, caused by an 8-ball hyphemia fracture. His left eye was red. He almost had razor-sharp teeth that were almost like those of a shark. And out of all the group, he had the most normal looking head and neck. I'd say features but I'd be a liar.
"Eric's right, Eddy," Double D pitched in, being enthusiastic about going to their new school. "I must say that I'm quite excited to learn from one of the most successful schools in Japan! Not to mention we get to learn all about the culture of this great land."
"That, and our old school wouldn't let us come back after last year," Eric reminded him. "That's why we were almost forced to go to separate schools."
Ed suddenly looked like he was about to cry. "Life is so cruel to those seeking their fortune!" He sobbed, bailing out a fountain of tears that soaked Eddy and Eric. Only Double D was spared when he pulled out an umbrella to put over his head.
"Cheer up, Ed." Double D placed a hand on the big Ed's shoulder after he stopped his heavy tear works and was now looking down at the ground with puppy eyes and quivering lips. "Let's not look back on the bad times."
"That's right, Ed," Eric said with a smile. "Even with all the mayhem and destruction we've caused, my parents were able to convince yours to let all of us come here."
"One-Eye's right," Eddy said with a smirk, calling Eric by his nickname that he hated. "I promised you guys I was going to help turn our lives around, and that's what I'm going to do!"
That immediately turned Ed's sad attitude around and he faced his three friends and brought them into a bone-crushing hug. "I'M IN MY HAPPY PLACE, GUYS!" He then dropped them on the ground, just before the terminal train arrived and stopped. The ones that were down quickly got back up, and the four stood aside to let the passengers get off, before rushing inside themselves.
"This is it boy's!" Eddy exclaimed as he and Ed sat down next to each other, while Eric and Double D sat down behind them. "Second chances start now!"
Eric couldn't help but smile at his friends' enthusiasm. He then closed his eyes and took a nap.
Here we go.
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Cue Seishun Satsubatsuron by 3-nen E-gumi Utatan)
{Intrumental}
{Seishun... Satsubatsuron!}
(The opening starts with the crescent moon as it gradually change to Korosensei's head. Then Ed, Double D, Eddy and Eric appeared upside down with their names shown as they fall and tried to attack Korosensei as he panicked before dust picks up around them as the title appeared.)
Welcome Back, Mr. ED!
{Kuchi ni dasu no wa jikkō suru toki}
{Sore ga kakkoī koto shitteru sa}
(The scene start with Eric waking up in bed as he gets up and gets ready for school. As he walk out of his room, Eddy and Double D were at the living room while the latter was preparing breakfast. He look around only to see that Ed's not up yet so he went to his room to wake him up, only to find that he was not here and saw his window was open.)
{TARGET, sagashite bokura wa satsubatsu}
{Omoi wa mayou mayoedo susumu}
{Migite to migiashi issho ni de sōda}
(Eric panicked and ran out of his room to tell Eddy and Double D that Ed's gone. Eddy groaned in frustration while Double D worried about him, Eric ran back in to his room and came out with his uniform on and a toothbrush in his mouth. Double D quickly pack small breakfast along with their lunches before they head out to find Ed.)
{Nan nanda iraira no hadō wa}
{Bokura no sonzai no shōmei?}
{Tsuki wo miagetakamaru}
{Sā sā! Satsu satsu sattō START!}
(Scene changes to Eric opens a fridge of their neighbor's house and found Ed sleeping in his underwear and half eaten food. Eddy laughed while Eric took Ed out of the fridge and slaps him back and forth to wake him up. Double D look at the time and finds that they are going to be late for school, Eric and Double D panicked while Eddy groaned as Ed woke up from Eric's slapping before he was pulled by Eric and ran out the door along with Eddy and Double D.)
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai}
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai}
{Genjō daha wo chīsana koe de yagate zekkyō shitaku naru}
(The Eds and Eric, with Ed now in his uniform, rushing to the train station but they missed the train. As Eric and Double D mope in depression, Eddy yelled at Ed before he had an idea as he grabbed Ed the the other two. They're now at a park as they sitting in a box with a tree that is cartoonishly pulled down like rubber below them while Ed was holding the tree down by sinking his teeth in another tree. Double D was calculating their trajectory while Eddy was getting impatient and Eric was starting to regret it. Double D conclude that they would land in the field behind the building but isn't sure about it. Eddy isn't surprised as he signals Ed to let go as they're launch in the air heading to towards school.)
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai (Yareba dekiru sa)}
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai (Kitto dekiru sa)}
(Eddy, Double D and Eric screamed while Ed laugh as they flew through the sky. Then Eric saw Korosensei flying by as he pulled out his anti-sensei knife and tries to kill him but no avail as Korosensei sped up ahead of them.)
{Dōse, to iu no wa kantandakedo}
{Ima wa agaite mitainda kimi to hajikete mitainda}
(Meanwhile in E-Class, Yada was sitting by her desk and glance at Eric's desk in front of her as class was about to start. Korosensei arrives through the window and begun roll call, Yada asked him if he seen the Eds and Eric this morning making Rio teased her about it as she blushed in embarrassment. Korosensei answers as the Eds and Eric crashed through the roof and landed in the floor next to Korosensei, surprising the students.)
{Saredo seishun wa mirai he GO!}
{Sā sā sā! Seishun satsubatsuron!}
(Ed recoiled from the floor as he pulled the other three out with him as the class aside from Korosensei look at them with white eyes and jaws dropped. Korosensei tells them to take their seats as Ed lets go of them and went to their designated desk thus begins class.)
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EDventure #1 — "E-for-ED Class"
"Do you think we'll see the moon, guys," Ed asked, looking up and scanning the sky with anticipation. The Eds and Eric were now walking down the sidewalk towards their new school after getting off the train.
"Hardly likely, Ed," Double D said, knowing why the lovable oaf wanted to see it. Around the time they got to Japan, which was three days ago, a sudden and unexplainable explosion detonated on the moon, taking with it most of it and leaving it in a permanent crescent form. "I'm still baffled about how such an event is capable of taking 70% of the moon in a single blast."
"I'm wondering why we're going so early to school," Eddy grumbled before yawning, having been wakened from a nap he was having on the train. "Classes don't start until over an hour."
"Because we need to know the layout of the school. The quickest ways of getting to the next room. To greet the men and women responsible for bringing us to a higher level of knowledge. The—"
Eric stopped him by smacking him over the head. "Okay, we get it," he said, annoyed. "Geez, when are you going to learn we don't share your same likeness for learning?" Double D blushed in embarrassment.
"I found it, guys!" Ed shouted out, bringing their attention forward. They were amazed to find a huge building with a spacious campus that was reminiscent of a small college campus. All around the building, a few students were walking into the building. The male students were dressed in the required uniforms, like the Eds and Eric, and the female students were wearing grey skirts of various sizes with black-lined edges in place of the trousers.
"Whoa," Eddy said with wide eyes.
"Nice." Eric nodded his head in approval.
"Ooo wee beans," Ed said, being the simpleton he is.
"Oh! This is going to be grand!" Double D exclaimed with joy and excitement. "It's like you said, Eddy, our lives are sure to turn around." He then jogged—if only he could run—towards the entrance. "Shall we?"
Eddy and Eric stayed behind with unimpressed expressions, while Ed was dancing on his feet with some excitement of his own. "Come on," Eric said, starting to fellow Double D. "Better not keep him waiting."
"Fine." Eddy grumpily followed close behind, leaving Ed there in his 'happy place'.
Double D opened the doors and felt as though he's gone to heaven when he saw the clean floors, the flawless interior, and anything that he could see was spectacular in his image. "Isn't it absolutely wonderful, gentlemen," he asked when Eric and Eddy walked up to his sides. They were also impressed by what they were seeing but weren't going to say it to their brainy friend.
"Let's get this over with," Eric said before he and Eddy attempted to take a step forward, only for Double D to block their path with an extended arm.
"Hold it!"
"What?" He demanded with annoyance. Double D then pointed to a wet floor sign in front of them. The way that it shined the light and had suds of soap, meant the floor was just recently wiped.
"Oh, come on, sockhead!" Eddy complained, equally annoyed. "It's just a stupid sign."
"Do we need a recap of the last time we broke the rules, Eddy?" Double D scolded them. "We'll have to find another way inside. Maybe another entrance on the other side."
Eric scuffed. "Yeah, like that's going to happen."
"Beep. Beep!"
The three boys didn't have time to reach when Ed ran into them, forcing them onto the extremely wet floor.
The three boys screamed while Ed laughed, as they found themselves sliding down the hall at breakneck speeds. Students in the hallway quickly got out of the path of the human bullets, as the Eds and Eric left a trail of fire behind them.
"Double D, do something!" Eddy screamed as he, Double D, and Eric clenched onto Ed, as he was the one sliding down the hallway on his feet.
"An object in motion stays in motion," Double exclaimed, keeping a hand on his hat to make it didn't fall off. "We have to either ram into a wall or let Ed slow down!"
Eric looked forward and started to panic when he saw what was in front of them. "Look out!" He pointed his finger.
In front of them was a large glass case display with many trophies and rewards.
The two Eds stared at it with widening eyes, knowing full well what's about to happen to them. Eddy grabbed Ed's blazer collar and shook it. "Ed! Stop yourself, wil'ya!" He yelled into his face, not wanting what about to happen to come about. However, Ed's smiling face only brightened when he saw something in the glass case display.
A trophy that had a falcon on top of it.
Now anyone would see that and know that it was a falcon or some kind of bird-of-prey.
But not Ed.
"Ch-ch ch-ch CHICKEN!" He yelled out loud in pure joy and excitement for his favorite animal in the world as he held out his arms as if trying to hug the chicken.
"Not a chicken, Ed! Not a chicken!" Eric exclaimed as Ed held his arms out like he was going to hug someone. He knew full well that when Ed sees a chicken, nothing was going to stop him.
"Stop, Ed!" The three of them shouted as they got closer to the display. "Stop! STOP!"
WA-BAM
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The Eds and Eric were now walking up a 1-kilometer muddy trail that led up a mountain, each carrying a yellow piece of paper. Their uniforms were tattered and torn in various places. There were a few bruises and cuts on their bodies from the impact against the glass case display, but Ed had lost the blazer part of his uniform and just had his white shirt on.
Eddy was walking with his back hunched, his arms hanging down, and a sour expression on his face. Eric was behind him, walking straighter, with his hands in the pockets of his trousers, with a bored expression. Ed was the happiest one, as he was holding the falcon piece for that one trophy and petting it while making kissy noises at it. Double D, however, was unusually silent, with wide eyes and his body trembling.
"Ya' know, I'm starting to see a pattern in our lives," Eddy said before pulling out a shard of glass from his head, commenting on how their lives seemed to be nothing more than an endless cycle of slapstick.
"In all honesty, I was expecting some more," Eric said, dusting off his arms. "Whenever we do something bad or destructive, it ends up being a week to a month worth of detention." He looked at the paper they were given with a raised eyebrow. "But all we got some new homeroom in the mountains, instead of being expelled and sent back home. So I suppose it might not be all that bad. Truth be told, I thought we would've been expelled then we'd be back to trying to finding another school that we all could go to."
"What, and ruin the plot?" said Eddy.
"I love stories, Eddy," Ed said, before a rock slammed into his face, leaving a purple mark on his face.
"Way to go, lumpy!" Eddy yelled angrily after he and Eric stopped and turned towards him. "Our first day here, and you had to ram into the trophy case!"
"Well, it wasn't completely Ed's fault, Eddy," Eric said to him, scratching his head. "How were we to know that case would be there?" He shrugged his shoulders. "This is just a setback. Don't worry. We still have a chance to pass this year."
"You two don't get it, do you?" Ed, Eddy, and Eric looked behind the big Ed boy and saw Double D standing there, seemingly paralyzed with a frozen blank expression.
Eddy and Eric looked at each other, confused by their smart friend's attitude compared to this morning. They were half expecting him to be ranting on about how they were being sent up a muddy trail into the mountains and how much damage they caused. But he wasn't. He was just silent. "Are you okay, Double D," Eric asked, pointing at him.
They could almost hear the sound of shrieking steam before Double D finally snapped out of it and jumped up. "This is just some setback, Eric!" He screamed out loud hysterically, waving his arms in midair. "It's the end of the road!" The smart Ed landed but wasn't done ranting, fast walking around the other Eds and Eric in a circle. "Oh, why didn't I take this into consideration? That one day our rotten, appalling, awful luck would come back to haunt us!" He stopped when Eric grabbed him by his left shoulder and slapped him hard across the face, leaving a red mark.
"Chill out, will you!" He exclaimed with a snarl, baring his sharp teeth. "You're scaring Ed!" He pointed to said Ed boy, as he was hiding behind Eddy with a frightened look on his face.
After a few seconds to calm down for a moment, Double D looked back at Eric. "You don't understand, Eric," he said anxiously. "The school just sent us all the way to Class E!" The others just looked at him with confusion.
"Yeah, it's a long way to go, but want choice do we have," Eddy asked.
"No, Eddy!" Double moved around Eric and approached him. "This isn't just some secluded run-of-the-mill class, this is the lowest class in all of Kunugigaoka Junior High School's caste system. It's called E because it stands for 'End Class'. It's where students who either failed to keep their grades up or have broken school regulations are sent. Once you're sent there, there's no hope for a good education. Face it, gentlemen, our futures are gone!" He exclaimed as he began to sob.
Ed, when his tiny brain started turning its gears, started to panic. "Oh no, future!" He started to run around as if he had lost one of his toys. "Say it ain't so!"
Eddy started to get angry, with tears leaking out of his eyes. "I can't believe this," he exclaimed. He was hoping this could be their big break. He really wanted to become a better student, but in the end, his life screwed him over. Again!
Standing only a few feet from his best friends, Eric could only watch with disbelief, before starting to get upset. However, it wasn't because he was going to a place where there was no chance of passing. "Fine!" He yelled, making them stop whatever they were doing to look at him. "If you guys want to give up on this then go ahead!" Eric jabbed a thumb into his chest. "But I'm not going down without a fight!"
"But Eric," Double D attempted to reason with his friend, only for him to be interrupted.
"No!" Eric took a few deep breaths to calm himself before continuing. "So what if we've been sent to a classroom for outcasts? We've always been outcasts." He points to Ed. "Ed with his mental retardation." He moved his finger to Double D. "You with your vast vocabulary and high-level smarts, not to mention your OCD." Then to Eddy. "And you for your greed, scams, and narcissism. And me because of my eye and teeth. This isn't anything new. The school may be against us, but together, we can take on the world. So what do you say?"
Ed answered by giving him a cheery, bone-crushing hug. "The Eds and Eric will take over the world like the Mutants for the Planet of Potatoes," he exclaimed with glee in his own Ed way.
"You're right," Eddy said with a confident grin. "Let's show those jerks that you don't screw with us!" Even Double D was going to join in on the celebration when his head told him to check the time. Rolling up his left sleeve to look at his watch, he panicked when he saw that there were only fifteen minutes left before the first bell.
"We better get moving or we'll be late for class, gentleman," he told them. Eddy and Eric walked past him with a bored expression.
"Oh, right. School," Eddy groaned. He may want to be a better student, but that doesn't mean he doesn't still hate school. Eric just wanted to get the day over with, while also wondering how it was all going to go.
"Stinky butt! Stinky butt! Stinky butt!" Ed sang as he skipped his way up the mountain, shaking his butt left and right. Double D stood there for a moment, watching them go, before sighing with a small smile.
"Some things never change, I guess" said Double D as he then followed them up the hill.
The three friends then made to the top of the hill and soon stopped by a post that had a sign on it that said "E-class"
The 4 friends then looked at the building, which would be their classroom. It looked like a rundown old, rectangular building, with glass windows on both sides of the entrance way into the building, as the entrance was underneath a roof, extending outwards, brown tile roofing, two white polls outside, and a lot of weeds surrounding the building.
"Well guys, it may not look like much, but we might actually like it" said Eric as the Eds soon followed him towards the building.
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The students of Class 3-E sat in silence and anticipation. Their heads down with safety glasses covering their eyes, as the air hanging above their heads, was enough to make your heart beat faster.
The building they were in was an old rundown wooden school building with several places on the roof and a few windows boarded up. The classroom they were in was a simple one, with a blackboard and the desks they were sitting in. There was a small faculty lounge down the hall. The building had no air conditioning and had various places in the ceiling where there're leaks.
In other words, this was truly a place for failures.
The sound of the building doors opening was heard. This confused the students, as they were expecting for a booming sound to come first before the doors open.
"Where the hell is it," said an unfamiliar, annoyed voice.
"There's only one classroom, so it shouldn't be that hard to find," a more pleasant voice said. The students turned their heads towards the wall to their left, which had a window that extended from the end of it to the sliding door. The window had its blinds down and closed, so when they saw four figures of various heights walking down the hall, all the students saw were their silhouettes.
"I think this is it," said the second tallest person. They then stopped in front of the door.
"Allow me," said one of them. Suddenly the person opened it with such an incredible and an untamable amount of force that he damaged the door frame, startling the students. "Ding-dong! I am Ed!" Ed exclaimed before walking into the room with a grin. Eddy poked his head inside and looked at the damaged door, before laughing.
"Who needs a key when you're here, Ed," he giggled, walking behind him. Double D's hands were on his head as he walked back into the room, staring at the damage done.
"For heaven sakes," he said with dread. "Can't you go a day without having your brute strength to demolish everything you touch?" Eric then entered the room but stopped just before the doorway.
"You're asking for miracles, Double D," he said, showing his sharp teeth to the class, startling them a bit, before turning and shutting the door. He felt his heart jump when he heard a few girls gasping, causing him to look at them. Almost all the students were staring at him in shock, surprise, or fear from most of the girls. "What?"
"Uh, Eric." Double D leaned towards him, and whisper to him, "your eye."
Eric immediately knew what he meant. This was what he feared would happen, that he eye would prevent him from fitting in with others, like when he came to the Cul-De-Sac. "Oh, right," he groaned with a frown and just walked over to stand next to his friends in front of the class.
Silence returned to the room, as the student stared at them with white eyes and some sweat on their faces.
'Who the hell are these weirdos?'
Eddy then took notice of the fact that they had nowhere to sit. "Where the hell do we sit," he asked. The other three looked around to find empty seats but were unsuccessful.
"It seems that the teacher must not have been informed of our arrival," Double D said.
"Don't worry, guys," Ed said before walking down toward the back of the room. "For I, Ed, will lead by existence." When he reached his destination, he turned around, leaped off his feet, crossed his legs in midair, and landed on his butt hard enough to leave a crack in the wood floor, shocking the other students.
"You mean 'example', Ed," Double D corrected him and quickly walked over to him. He didn't like being in the back of the room, preferring to be more upfront to gain more knowledge, but without the chairs, it wasn't going to happen. Eddy just shrugged and followed, with Eric being the last one to go to the back.
As he did, Eric couldn't help but feel as though more eyes were on him than the Eds. It's something he was used to but still felt very unconformable of it, making him lower his head even forth. Trying to keep himself from looking at anyone else, he headed for the back.
However, as he walked down the alley of desks, he looked to his left and stare down at one of the students for a brief second. The person was a girl with a petite-frame, blue-haired done in two ponytails, and azure eyes. To his confusion, she was wearing a uniform that wasn't like what the girls were wearing, but rather wearing a blue overcoat instead of the grey blazer.
The two looked at one another for about a second before Eric looked away, knowing she was paying a great deal of attention to his blacked-out eye. When he reached his friends, Eric leaned against the wall, with Eddy sit against it and Double D sits on the floor in front of them, next to Ed, laying out all his school supplies neatly on the wood floor.
However, one thing that Eric did notice was the safety glasses the other students wore. He raised an eyebrow in confusion.
Suddenly, from outside, there was a booming sound from outside, starting the Eds and Eric. The other students weren't surprised at all by the sound. Eddy went to the window to look outside but saw nothing. "Want the hell was that?" He exclaimed.
"Seems that a jet of some kind was close to the ground when it broke the sound barrier," Double D lied, knowing the sound of the jet's engine would have stayed around much louder than that.
"No," one of the students said, not looking at the boys, "he's here." The other student looked towards the door and waited nervously for something. That got the Eds and Eric worried a bit.
The door opened, catching the four transferred students' attention. They were shocked beyond belief at what entered the room.
A yellow limb that resembled a feeler with two fingers placed an attendance book on the desk. "Alright people," said the owner of the feeler, and it was unlike anything the Eds and Eric had ever seen. Its appearance was close to a yellow bipedal octopus about three meters tall and possessed a large, bulbous head with a large smile and small, beady eyes. Along with its two feelers as arms, the creature had many tentacles that it used to stand up. It wore a yellow tassel and a large black tie with a yellow crescent-shaped moon on it.
"Let's start homeroom now. Whoever's is on day duty, issue your commands!"
The same girl that Eric looked at pecked his head up a bit. "Right. Ready!"
All the students in the suddenly stood up, with either AR-15 assault rifles or M1911 pistols aimed right at the yellow creature.
The Eds and Eric watched the scene with eyes bulging out of their sockets, absolutely surprised and frightened by what they were seeing. "What the hell," Eric said.
"Class party!" Ed cheered with a big grin.
"Aim!" The blue-haired girl continued her command, as the creature just stood there and smiled at them. She gulped. "FIRE!" After that, everyone with a weapon fired on the creature. However insisted of hundreds of bullets flying at it, hundreds of pink BB pellets shot out of the barrels, hurdling towards the being. Just before the pellets could even touch it, the creature disappeared, and the BB's hit the blackboard behind it, bouncing off it before falling to the floor.
However, it didn't disappear. As the Eds and Eric stared at the front, they could see that the strange octopus-like entity was moving side to side and such an incredibly high rate of speed that it left afterimages of itself in a few places at the front of the room, and with none of the pellets being able to hit him. "Oh! Oh my!" Said the creature as it dodged the pellets with ease. "Good morning! Alright, seeing as you're still firing, I'll just take attendance. Isogai?"
"Here," one of the male students replied over the gunfire.
"I'm sorry, but as we're in the midst of gunfire, could you speak up?"
"Here!"
"Okano?"
"Here!"
"Kataoka?"
"Here!"
"This is insane!" Eric exclaimed as he, Eddy, and Double D were lying on their stomachs with their hand over their heads. Ed was simply standing there and smiling, entrained by the battle before him.
"Neat-O!"
"Ed, get your head down!" Eddy got on his knees and pulled Ed down to the ground with them by his blazer. With the simpleminded Ed laying on the ground with his friends, Eddy turned his head towards Eric and Double D. "You know, maybe this was a bad idea after all."
"Let just wait until it's over and then..." Eric stopped his own sentence when he looked up and saw the yellow creature appearing in and out in front of them, looking down at the boys.
"Hi, there!" It said.
The Eds and Eric stared up at it, as pink pellets were now flying over their heads. About three seconds later, the four boys screamed in terror.
"I see that you four aren't from around here, and yet have school uniforms," said the creature. "Please explain."
"We-We're the transfer students from America," Eric replied nervously, as he and the Eds hugged each other out of fear for their lives. He knew they were in it deep now. With the speed this entity was traveling at, they weren't going to get away that easily. They're trapped.
"WE ARE SO SORRY, ALIEN OCTOPUS MUTANT FOR THE PLANET OF SHRIMP-OKANA!" Ed cried, before getting on his knees and bowing to it. "We did not mean to stumble upon your nest and break your loyal servants from your evil mind control! Let us go and we will never tell a soul and let you rule the world!"
The students stared at Ed in disbelief, while continuing to shoot at the yellow octopus. 'Is this guy for real!?'
"You quite the imaginative one, aren't you," it said. "But I'll have you know that as your teacher, I'm not an 'Alien Octopus Mutant' as you call me."
That got the other two Eds and Eric to stop trembling and their expression to change to confusion and shock. "Teacher?" They questioned simultaneously.
Ed raised his head off the floor, with a blank look. "Oh, there it goes. My brain stopped."
"Excuse me!" The thing called over its shoulder at the shooting students. "Could you please stop for a moment, so I can talk to these boys, please?" The kids obeyed and ceased firing. Lowing their guns, the students panted lightly from the constant shooting and failed attempts to hit their target. The being stopped moving and stood before the Eds and Eric. "That's better." He turned his attention back to the Cul-De-Sac boys, who cautiously stood up. "Now then, if your new students, why wasn't I informed of this?"
"Well," Double D spoke up, not sure how to handle the fact that their new teacher was an octopus-like being. But nevertheless, it was still a teacher at their new school. "We were the cause of some... collateral damage, so to speak."
Eric then dug into his left back pocket. "Yeah, uh." He pulled out the piece of paper given to them by the main school building. "They told us to give the teacher here these if there was any." The Eds pulled out their papers and presented them to the teacher. The teacher grabbed the papers with the assistance of two more tentacles, freaking the boys out, and start looking at them.
"Hmm... Oh my. Nice I see." It looked back at the four boys. "You four certainly have got yourself in quite the pickle."
"How were we suppose to know that stupid trophy chase would be there," Eddy asked, throwing his hands up.
"Yes, well, let's put that behind us. Welcome to E-Class, boys." It then moved to the right to show them to the other E-Class student, who were still holding their airsoft gun. "Everyone, please put away your guns and give your undivided attention to your new fellow students." The students obeyed putting their guns either on their desk or tucked them in their pants. They then stood to stand on the side of their desks and stared directly at the four transferred boys. "Go ahead and introduce yourself," the thing told them.
"Ooh! Ooh! I know," Ed exclaimed happily, taking a step forward. "I am Ed, and I love chickens and gravy!" The students gave him a confused expression but didn't question it.
Double D smiled happily and took a step forward too. "Greetings, fellow students! I'm so excited to be learning alongside all of you. My name is Ed too but spelled with two D's instead of one, so it'd be best if you'd called me Double D. I enjoy the mind filling sensation of knowledge. The joys of discovery. And—"
"Get on with it!" Eddy complained, have enough of listening to his friend's ongoing love of learning. Double D blushed in embarrassment when he realized he got carried away.
"Oops." He chuckled nervously. "Sorry about that." He stepped back, which allowed Eddy to step forward with a confident grin.
"S'up everyone," he said to them with the confidence he developed after their quest to find his brother, an adventure that Eric called their 'Big Picture Show'. "The name's Eddy—AHH!" He didn't even finish his sentence when Ed pulled him and Double D into a hug, lifting them off their feet.
"And together, we are the Eds and Eric!" He proclaimed with a big happy grin, crushing the life out of his friends.
"Ed," Eric said, standing a few feet away, "I didn't even get to introduce myself."
"... What?"
Eric sighed at his idiotic friend and looked at the other kids. He knew that their attention was drawn to his right eye, but he pushed the unnerving feeling away from his thoughts and cleared his throat.
Before he could start talking, the door opened and in came someone else. The person was a dashing young man around the age of 28 with spiky black hair and eyebrows and piercing dark eyes. He was tall and dressed professionally in a black business suit with a white shirt and a black tie.
The man looked around the room for a moment before spotting the Eds and Eric. He then fast-walked towards them, approaching them. Stopping a few feet from them, he looked down at them with a piercing stern stare. "Are you four Ed, 'Double D', Eddy, and Eric," he asked.
"Who are you," Eric asked, crossing his arms with a raised eyebrow.
"I'll need the four of you to come with me for a moment," the guy said, ignoring Eric's question.
"Oh come! What did we do now?" Eddy exclaimed in annoyance. "We already said we're sorry for destroying that stupid trophy case and your rewards! What else could we have done wrong?"
The E-Class student stared at them with wide eyes. Did they destroy the trophy case of Kunugigaoka Junior High School? That explains so much why they're sent here.
"It... has nothing to do with that," the man said, taken a little back by their mentioned action. "It's about your enrollment in this class. Trust me, it's of the utmost importance."
The boys stared at him for a moment before Eric shrugged his shoulders. "At least we get to get out of class for a few minutes," he commented.
The boys followed the man out of the room and walked down the hall to another room, the faculty lounge.
Once they entered the room, the man closed and locked the door behind them. "I have to say, I feel sorry you four," he said, walking around them to stand in front the boys, leaning back on an office desk. "Having just come to the country and then be accepted into one of the highest-rated schools, only to have one accident push you into the pavement."
"Unfortunately, it's not the first time we had a downfall," Double D replied.
"Allow me to fully introduce myself. I'm Karasuma, and I'm from the Ministry of Defense," Karasuma told them.
"Right, and I'm King of the World," Eddy said sarcastically, obviously not believing him.
"I understand that you find this far-fetched, but I'd like for you to understand is that what I'm about to tell you four is classified government information." He took in a deep breath. "Ah hell, I'll just cut straight to the point. That thing that's your teacher, he's the one who blew up the moon."
The Eds and Eric's eyes bulged out of their sockets.
"And he plans on doing the same thing to Earth next year. You and your fellow classmates have a mission: For the sake of mankind, I want to you kill that monster."
There was nothing but absolute silence in the room, as Eric and his friends took in the information given to them. Eric felt shocked and somewhat doubtful of it all. Double D seemed to be taking it a little more seriously, but he was very doubtful about it all too. Ed was probably excited to fight the monster.
Eddy... he burst into laughter. Holding his stomach, he fell over on his back and kicked his feet in his state of laughter. Ed follow his example and toppled onto of Eddy, knocking the air out of him. While the bigger Ed boy laughed, the shortest one attempted to push him off. "Get off of me, Ed!"
Eric turned his attention from his friends towards Karasuma, who glared at the two, greatly annoyed. "You're kidding, right?"
"I'd have to agree with my comrades," Double D said, "as brutally honest as they act, you cannot really expect us to believe that the teacher in that room, while very strange and unusual, is the one responsible for demolishing such a huge mass of the moon's surface?"
"I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to discuss anything in particular but do know that it's the truth," Karasuma stated. "That creature's threat is all too real. As of this coming March, he will obliterate planet Earth."
"... Cool," Ed said.
"No, Ed, not cool," Eric told him. "We live on Earth."
Ed took a minute to connect the pieces. "Oh."
"Do the other governments of the world know about this," he asked Karasuma.
"Yes. The world leaders are the only people who know about this, apart for you four and your classmates, and myself. If word of this gets out to the public, we'll have a widespread panic on our hands. You must terminate him soon, and with extreme prejudice." He reached into his suit and pull out what appeared to be a green combat knife. "Which means you must become assassins."
This greatly shocked the Eds and Eric. Sure they've done crazy things in the past, but was something they never have to do. They've never killed anyone before. Greatly hurt people and cause thousands of dollars of property damage, but never took another person's life. And the fate of the world in their hand, how were they not to feel overwhelmed.
"As you must have seen, he's incredibly fast. So fast, that when you try and fail to kill him, you would've had your eyebrows trimmed by him. Meticulously, even."
"That's... okay," Double D, his encyclopedia of a brain not even sure how to put the right words together.
"He's a super being possessing enough power to destroy the moon within seconds. With a maximum speed of Mach 20. In other words, if this guy were to seriously run freely without consequences, we would be helpless until the day of our destruction."
"Then why is he here," Eric asked, finding the task given to them almost impossible with a target like that thing. "Why at some backwater school building like this?"
"He made the world leaders an offer," Karasuma stated, before sounding annoyed. "Stop making fools of ourselves and let him teach here, at Class 3-E."
"Seriously," the Eds and Eric asked doubtfully.
"We didn't have much of a choice. We have no idea what his motives are. In the end, the Japanese government reluctantly agreed, under the condition that he causes no harm you four or the other students. Our reasons are twofold. As he will come to this classroom every day to teach, we can observe him. Above all else, with 34 people, including your four, you have to make the kill at point-blank."
There were so many questions going through Eric's head. Why did this thing want to be the teacher? How were they going to kill him when he travels faster than a missile? He was about to ask when Eddy beats him to the punch.
"Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! So what do we get out of this, huh?" He demanded. "We came here to finish junior high together, without being separated, and now you want us to kill the octopus?!" He then put on his signature greedy grin. He may have wanted to be a better person, but he couldn't let old habits die too quickly, right. "Come on, the fate of the world has to be worth something."
"Eddy!" Double D scolded him with a hand on the side of his head. "You can't seriously be thinking of profiting off of this."
"Yeah. Besides, isn't living to see another day worth more than money," Eric asked.
Karasuma was silent for a moment before speaking. "Okay, I'll play your game," he said, sent the knife down on the desk. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a yen coin. "This is a yen coin. The currency money in Japan. It's practically worthless in American, but if you are successful in your assassination attempt, we can convert the reward for success from our currency to U.S. dollars. Out of it, you'll be rewarded a total of about 126 million dollars."
Eddy's closed eyes snapped open, with big green dollar signs on them, while Double D and Eric snapped their head towards Karasuma with widened eyes of shock. Eddy then started to giggle as he bodied trembled, chattering his teeth with pure excitement, bring the other two boys' attention back to him.
"Oh god," Eric said before looking at Karasuma again with a panicked expression as if a siren warning of a nuclear threat was going off. "Do you have any idea what you've just done?!"
"Eddy, please, calm yourself!" Double D pleaded with his shorter friend. "Get a grip, man!"
"Eddy should eat more cereal," Ed suggested.
"Eddy!" Eric grabbed him by the shoulder and shook him, trying to get him to snap out of it before his greed overtook his rational thoughts. "Eddy! Can you hear me?!"
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BAM!
A girl with long, straight blond and blue eyes, wearing an assigned yellow sweater shoots her M1911 airsoft gun at the teacher. However, the yellow being caught the pink pellet with a pair of white chalks.
"Rio Nakamura!" His head turned red, showing he was angry. "I believed I told you I guns discharging in the classroom."
"I'm sorry," she said with a hand on her head.
"Back—"
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The sudden yell startled everyone in the classroom. Then there was the sound of running footsteps coming towards the room before the door slides open to reveal Eddy with a baseball bat.
"BANZAI!" He yelled with the bat raised over his head, before rushing at the teacher. He jumped at him, but the creature used his speed to move to the side, letting Eddy sail past him and collide into the wall.
The other students stared bewilderingly at Eddy, whose head was stuck in the wall, as he tried to pull himself out while yelling in a muffled voice. Ed, Double D, and Eric rushed into the classroom and stopped, spotting their friend.
"I'll help," Ed proclaimed before running over to free Eddy.
"I take it that Mr. Karasuma has explained the whole 'killing me' plan," the thing asked the calmer boys.
"More like he explained it and our greedy friend wanted a reward," Eric said, pointing at Ed as he pulled Eddy out by his feet and held him up. The leader of the small group had his face all bruised up, with a bit of the wooden wall around his neck. "Once Karasuma told us the prize money in American dollars, it was all over."
"A feisty fellow, huh? I like that." He then pointed at Eddy with his fingers. "But it's a shame you couldn't land on hit on me, too. Just like your classmates' previous attempt to kill me, where they all fire on me at the same time, charging at me with a weapon that'll not harm me will not be how you get your money." He reached over and took the bat away from Eddy, snapping him out of his painful daze.
"Most of all, it wasn't much of an assassination attempt, more like being a monkey on steroids. You'll need to think outside the box for a target that travels at Mach 20." He then reached into his desk and brought out an AR-15, M1911, and green knife with his tentacles. "And the right tools for the job."
"Awesome!" Ed threw Eddy away, causing the wood around his neck to break apart before three of the tentacles handed him the three weapons. Ed took them all with an excited grin. "Now I can protect the Earth for the dreaded, mind controlling Octo Alien!"
"Ah-bup-bup-bup-bup! I told you I'm not an alien! I am an earthling born and bred, thank you very much, and I don't have the ability to control minds,!"He exclaimed angrily with steam coming out of his head.
Recomposing himself, he told the Ed's and Eric as he reached down and pulled out the same weapons "but I am more than willing to shape your minds into intelligent and sharp ones" as he dumped them into Double D's arms, who struggled to keep them together and ended up falling over, causing some students to laugh.
"These weapons that I'm giving you are issued by the Japanese government to be used against me." He then handed Eric his set of weapons. "These knives are special made for damaging me." He then placed Eddy's weapons on his lap, as he was sitting down. "And for your airsoft rifles and pistols there—" he then brought out plastic bottles that were filled with the same pink pellets that the students fired. "—they normal airsoft guns, but you'll be using these specially made Anti-Me BBs that are harmless to you but are fatal to me." He then hands them to the four boys. "Don't worry, you'll be supplied with more. This is just to start you off."
Eddy took his bottle and stared at it critically, before looking at his given knife. He touched the blade, but it didn't cut him, before bending the blade. It wasn't even a real knife. "Is this some kind of joke," he demanded. "Because I ain't laughing!"
"I'd have to agree with him," said a fairy tallboy, maybe about the same height as Eric, with orange-brown hair and eyes, wearing a yellow sweater
"No freakin way you dodged that hail of pellets!" Said the kid named Maehara.
"He's got a point," said a normal-looking boy, with the generic short, spiked black hair for some male shōnen characters, dark blue eyes, wearing only the white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a black tie, and a wrist sweatband on each arm. His name was Sugino.
"When you look at them, they're only average BBs. For all we know, you just took them like a champ." Said Sugino.
The other student voiced their agreement as the teacher was silent for a moment. He sighed. "Okano," he called for a girl who had short brown hair and pink eyes in the front row.
"If you would please hand me your gun?" Okano complied and held out her M1911, and the teacher took it from her, as the Eds and Eric give him their full attention. "As I said, they're Anti-Me BBs." He raised his right arm and points the gun at it. "Harmless to you, but...". He fired, and his arm was blown straight off, with yellow liquid splatting like blood.
Almost every one of the students gasped in shock and horror.
"Holy shit!" Eric exclaimed with a freaked-out expression, dropping all his weapons.
"Oh shit!" Eddy exclaimed with equal shock.
"It's still alive!" Ed pointed at the severed arm, as it wiggled violently on the floor.
"Sir, are you alright," Double D asked the teacher worriedly, as liquid spewed out of his severed area.
"I'm quite alright, Double D," the teacher replied. "But as you can see, those bullets are specially developed by this country for use against me. Of course, after a few seconds, I can regenerate as good as new." After saying that, a new arm popped out of the severed area. "A luxury you wouldn't have if you shoot your eye out. So just like I told the others, no discharging firearms in the class during teaching hours." Suddenly a bunch of green stripes appeared going around his head. "So go luck trying to kill me before graduation. You're gonna need it."
"As you see by the stripes," Karasuma said, leaning against the door frame, drawing everyone's attention to him, "it's him mocking you, as he doesn't believe you can do it. Use that to your advantage to take him down."
"Quite bizarre," Double D commented.
"It's only natural for me to think some," the teacher said. "There's no way all of you will be able to kill me when the government couldn't. When they attacked me with state-of-the-art fighter jets I gave them a midair waxing instead."
"Great, another Double D clean-freak," Eddy grumbled, making one of the girls giggle.
"You're going to have to strike if the opportunity presents itself," Karasuma stated. "This must be kept a secret from your family and friends." The Eds and Eric glanced at one another anxiously. "The clock is ticking. If the Earth disappears, there will be nowhere to run."
"And now that you Eds and Eric understand everything happening in this classroom," the octopus-like creature said in a cheery tone, "let's spend your final year in a meaningful fashion!"
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The teacher was now writing out a sentence from a book he was holding on the blackboard. With his back facing them, the students stared at him, wait for him to move so they could write down the sentence.
The Eds and Eric were placed in the second row of desks, making the four of the students originally seated there to move back into the third row, causing those in the back row to move into new seats, creating an even number of rows and columns of desks. Eddy was seated next to the blue-haired girl, tapping his heel on the floor as he waited impatiently. Double D was on his right, finding himself adjusting and readjust his school materials on his desk. Eric was next to him, his right cheek resting on his fist with a bored expression. To his right, and the last desk in the row was Ed, who was sitting still with a happy smile look, and his tongue sticking out.
A few seconds later, the school bell rang.
"It's lunchtime, everybody," the teacher said, before going over to the window and open it.
"Excuse me while I hop over to China for a quick bite. If there is anyone who would like to try and assassinate me, please call my cell."
He suddenly disappeared and a blast of wind hits the students, forcing them to put up their arms to protect themselves.
"Great, now he can fly," Eddy said in annoyance.
Then all the students turned their heads towards Eds and Eric, and an uncomfortable silence filled the classroom, as they stared at them with curiosity. "What?"
"So you guys are from America, huh," asked Maehara.
"Yes, we are," Double D answered with a smile, happy they were starting to talk to them. "We come from a cul-de-sac in a town called Peach Creek."
"But what are you guys doing here in E-Class," asked a tall girl with long, light brown hair kept in a ponytail with straight bangs. Her name was Meg Kataoka.
She obviously wasn't expecting transfer students to be sent on their first day. None of them were.
"Trust me, we didn't want to end up in this place," Eddy said angrily. "The only reason we came to this country, and this stinking school, was because our last school kidded us out and going to a foreign school was the only way the four of us were going to stick together!"
"The dark clouds have followed us yet again," Ed said in a spooky way, confusing the other.
"Oh come, you luck can't be that bad," said a petite girl with short, wavy orange hair and peridot green eyes. Her name was Hinano Kurahashi.
The other two Eds and Eric looked at her with faces that said 'you have no idea'.
Eric then felt a tap on his right shoulder and turned around to face the person. He saw it was a girl with brown hair held up in a ponytail by a red scrunchie and light purple eyes, who also had the largest set of breast out of all the girls. Her name was Toka Yada.
"H-Hey, um," she tried to ask her question. Eric ignored the fact she was probably scared by his freakish appearance and he stared at her, finding her to be very pretty.
"I was just wondering—and you don't have to answer if you don't want to." She waved her hands in front of nervous. "But... what happened to your eye?"
That brought Eric out of his staring state as a sense of bitterness and frustration filled his body. His fist clenched and trembled, which the girl noticed and started to feel guilt. She was going to say sorry to him, but Eric turned around and sat back in his chair, a scowl covered his face.
Eddy saw this and wanted to take the attention away from his friend. So he cleared his throat and looked at Double D. "Uh, so sockhead," he said while Double D continued to write on his paper. "What's the plan to kill the octopus?"
Double D's eyes widened instantly with his pupils shrinking, before looking at Eddy as if he's gone crazy. "You can't be serious!" He exclaimed before lowering his voice.
"Eddy, you've just quit our scamming habits, and now you want to go back to chasing after money? The last thing we need is to cause any trouble here than what we've already caused."
"Yeah, Eddy," Ed said, grabbing his head as he panicked. "If we do the school will call mom, and if the school calls mom, then she'll come for Ed, and if she comes for Ed, then I'll be forced back home, and if I'm forced back home, then I'll have to tell dad what I did wrong, and if I have to tell dad what I did wrong, then DAD WILL JUST SIT THERE AND WATCH TV!"
"Okay! Okay! I get it," Eddy said with a serious. "But I've been thinking, alright. And I mean really thinking! It's like you said, Double D, once we're here, there's no future in our lives. We'll always be the outcast in society. I know we were going to show the school we could make it big in here, but what if we fail? We need a backup plan!"
The other students around them looked at the four in disbelief. How could they talk about succeeding? Here, in E-Class? No matter how much they try, there's just no way out of it. "And that money is our fallback plan."
"Eddy, even if it was a fallback plan, there'll be no hope that we can do it. We're former scammers. What do we know about assassinations?" Double D explained. Eddy stared at him with a little scowl. Some much for getting him on board so quickly.
He looked at Ed, who was staring blankly at them and smirked mischievously. "Ed! Think about the things you can have with that money. Monster movies, comics, and all the gravy you can stomach," he said and then waited. Waited for those words to sink into the brainless Ed's head.
Ed suddenly grabbed Eric and shook him. "IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT, ERIC!" He exclaimed before Eric punched in the face, causing him to stop and let him go, before falling onto the floor.
"I know, Ed, and I was going to agree!" He exclaimed angrily.
"You were," asked Double D, shocked.
Eric sighed before facing his smart friend. "Eddy's got a point. And although, I want to pass this class, we're in a situation where the school's against us, and there's a creature capable of destroying the Earth. If all else fails, we can at least say we tried, right? Besides, what more do we have to lose?"
Double D remained silent for a moment as he thought about the situation. Eric and Eddy were right, there was no guarantee for success with the ruthless system the school puts into effect. It's said that if you're sent to E-Class, you're marked and blacklisted for life. No one would hire you, and no good schools will take you. That money could make a difference. And with the Earth on the line, what choice was there?
He sighed. "Okay, I'm in. But a successful assassination of our teacher will have to take time, trial and error, learning from mistakes, and then carefully planned, with flawless execution." He then started thinking. "Now if he's going at Mach 20 to China."
"It'll take ten minutes tops to reach his destination," the light brown-haired girl, named Meg, said, deciding not to do nothing. "Which is his favorite place in Sichuan."
"So just to be sure we've absolutely rules out missiles," commented Maehara.
"Are you kidding? Even if we have access to that stuff, he could break the sound barrier," said another boy with black and brown eyes whose name was Isogai.
"While grading," stated Nakamura.
"Mine even came back with a doodle on it." Isogai showed everyone his homework, which had a drawing of an octopus on it.
"By the way, isn't he unexpectedly good at teaching?" Said Nakamura.
"I know!" said the orange-hair girl cheeringly, whose name was Hinano. "He tutored me on algebra and I killed on our pop quiz the next day." Then everyone heard a loud grumbling sound and they turned to see it was coming from Ed. He lifted up his shirt and looked at his belly, which was rumbling.
Ed just chuckled as he said "I'm hungry. Time for some yummy-yummy gravy-cakes," he asked with a smile, before opening inside of his blazer, revealing to the class's shock and disgust his 'gravy-cakes' sticking to it.
"Ed! You actually brought those disgusting chunks of meat drippings into the classroom?" Double D exclaimed, detesting the sight of the things, as Ed pulled one-off. He then looked at Eric and smiled.
"You haven't tried one, have you," he asked and presented him the gravy-cake. Eric pushed it away with a forced smile.
"I couldn't, Ed," he told him, not wanting to hurt his feelings. "Those are yours after all." But the big Ed boy pushed it to his face, making the one-eyed teen to lean back from it.
"Aw. But I have been saving this one for you ever since we met two years ago." That made Eric face cringe and all the other students jump out of their seats and back away from them as fast as they could. Eric looked around to see them looking at him with expressions that screamed 'don't do it!' He looked back Ed and saw him with a sad puppy expression.
Knowing he wasn't going to get out of this without making his friend upset, Eric leaned slowly forward, opened his mouth, and took a small bite.
A second later, and he pushed the door wide open and rushing out of the classroom with a green face, hand over his mouth, and his cheeked puffed up. Behind him, he could hear Eddy's laughing. He ran past three students that were in the hallway, and throw open the front door of the building. Eric ran out in front of the entrance, stopped a few feet away and vomited.
After letting out everything he was holding in and his breakfast, he coughed for a second before wiping his mouth on his bare arm to get the remaining throw up and cleared his throat. He breathed heavily with his hands on his knees, still tasting the disgusting, moldy, slimy, soggy—
"Are you okay?" Eric looked up and was startled to see the blue-haired girl from class standing in front of him, holding a small bag in her hand.
He cleared his throat and straightened himself. "Yeah! Uh, yeah, um. Sorry, you had to see that, ma'am," he said, trying to be polite.
"Oh, that's good," the girl said with an awkward smile. "And by the way."
"Yeah?"
"I'm a boy."
Eric felt like reality has cracked like glass, as he stared him with wide eyes and his jaws hanging. The two boys then heard the sound of a high speeding object coming closer to them, so they looked in its direction, only to be hit with a dust cloud blasting in their faces. The cloud cleared and standing in front of them was the teacher, holding a missile. "Hello, boys," he said. "I'm back."
"Okay," the blue-haired boy said, as he and Eric were nervous by the sight of the missile while hiding the small bag behind his back. "Welcome back, sir. What's—what's with the missile?"
"It's a souvenir from a strike force that tried to bring me down over the sea of Japan."
"Don't you think it's a bad idea to have that around a school," Eric asked, pointing at it.
"Don't you worry," the teacher said. "I took out the warhead before arriving."
"Must be lonely being a target," commented the blue-haired boy.
"Not at all," he said proudly. "The fact that I'm targeted by everyone is proof that I'm powerful and amazing after all."
Eric didn't show it, but he felt conflicted after he said that. There were times in the past when he wondered what made him so special to the world. What did he have to offer? He would often feel this way when he was around his friends when they used to scam. His eye and teeth caused many to fear him, but in the end, they got him some good friends. But want did he have to bring to the table, when the three Eds fit with each other perfectly.
It turned out he tried his best to be a moral compass. He'd try and protect them from the Cul-De-Sac kids when they tried to hurt them for a scam screwing up. And he just tries to support them with everything that came their way, and they said that was all they could ask for, especially Eddy after their 'Big Picture Show' adventure.
"Now then," the teacher said, breaking him out of his thoughts, "inside for 5th period, please." The thing moved past them and went into the building, leaving the missile outside, as Eric watched him. He then noticed the boy next to him was looking at the ground.
"Hey." He was able to snap the boy out of his thoughts and he looked up at him. "You okay?"
"Y-Y-Yeah," he said. "Sorry about that."
"No worries." Eric then put his hand out for a handshake. "I'm Eric." The blue-haired looked between his eyes and his hand, seeming to be a little confused by his kindness. After about three seconds of awkwardness, he grabbed his hand and accepted the handshake with a small smile.
"Nagisa."
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Nagisa and Eric returned to the classroom, where Eddy couldn't stop giggling and Double D handed the one-eye teen a toothbrush with toothpaste on it, demanding that he clean his teeth. Eric didn't argue and started brushing his sharp teeth. Ed apologized to him for not liking his gravy-cake, but Eric said that he was sorry for not liking it too, saying that it's the meaning behind the gift that mattered.
"Okay!" Said the teacher with the blackboard written in Japanese on one side, and English on the other. "Your assignment for today is to compose a short poem based on a theme. The final line should read 'was tentacles all along'."
"... Huh?" Everyone in the class said.
One very beautiful girl with long, straight black hair and light brown eyes raised her hand.
"Excuse me, sir... Really," she asked with a shy like voice, whose name was Yukiko Kanzaki.
"Yeah, really?" Eddy asked. "That's the best you could up with?"
"Oh, I can come up with more than that," the teacher said. "However, I want to see how well you can do with what you've been given. When you have completed your assignment, please bring it forward. You'll be graded on creativity, grammar, and overall beauty of expression. Here's an example: 'Not the storm of garden snow, Of flowers moving on, But sprouting there instead, was tentacles all along.'"
"That's... a little disturbing," Double D, not sure how to handle the poem told to him.
"Those who finish can go home for today!" That instantly got him, Eddy, and Eric working on the assignment.
"Done!" Ed suddenly proclaimed after one second had pasted, surprising everyone, mostly his friends. The dumber Ed boy got up from his seat and walked to the teacher, handing him his poem. The octopus creature took it and looked it over.
"Hmm...." He then looked up at Ed. "You certainly have a favor of horror, ain't you, big guy? A+!"
"HUH!" Ed's friends exclaimed, completely flabbergasted, as he walked back to his desk to wait for them to finish. "He got an A+!"
"Excuse me, sir." Raising her hand was that was seated next to Nagisa. She had a short stature, with a little frame, hazel eyes, and light green hair, which was always fashioned into unique, cat ear-styled pigtails. Her name was Kaede Kayano.
"I've got a question."
"Oh?" The teacher looked at her. "What would that be, Kayano?"
"It's kinda late to be asking this, but what should we call you," she asked, getting everyone's attention. "It's difficult to identify you outside the other teacher."
"A name... huh." The octopus-like being seemed to have been having trouble coming up with a response. "I don't really have a name that you'd call someone in particular. How about all of you come up with one, if you don't mind. But for now, concentrate on the task at hand."
"Kaay," she said with a smile.
"I'll just take a short break while you take up your pens." He sat back in a chair, sleepily, which caused his skin to turn light pink. After about three seconds, Eric was able to finish his poem. He stood up from his chair and walked towards the teacher, which caught his attention. "Ooh. Finished already, Nagisa and Eric?"
The mention of the blue-haired boy's name made the one-eyed boy look to his right to see him walking towards the teacher too, not seeming to notice Eric at all. However, Eric also saw that behind his paper was a knife. The other students noticed it too but didn't say anything in hopes of not alerting the target. Eric didn't say anything either and just continued walking to turn in his paper.
Eric had just been about two feet away when Nagisa pulled out the knife and thrust it at the teacher. However, the blade didn't make it to the being, for he stopped his arm by grabbing it.
"What did I tell you about thinking outside the box?"
What happened next shocked Eric, as Nagisa leaped forward as if he was going to hug the teacher. But tided around his neck was a grenade.
Acting faster than he could think, and just when Nagisa wrapped his arms around the teacher, Eric reached and grabbed the string holding the grenade, surprising not only Nagisa but also the yellow creature.
Then the explosion came, engulfing all three of them in a flash of light. Hundreds of BBs flew everywhere, hitting the walls and windows, forcing everyone in the room to put up their arms to protect their faces.
When the flash of the explosion cleared, there was nothing more than some kind of smoking scorched mass.
"Alright, yea!" Cheered a teen with a bulky body, light green eyes, and short, spiky, brown hair which was dyed blonde around the sides. His name was Ryoma Terasaka.
"We did it!" Celebrated the male teen in front of him, who had dirty blonde hair and eyes that were small and black, to the point of appearing like he had pupils, but no iris. His name was Takuya Muramatsu.
"Nagisa." Kayano gasped, with her hands on over her mouth, fearing for the boy's life.
"ERIC!" Double D exclaimed as he, Eddy, and Ed quickly got out of their seat and rushed to where the smoking mass was, greatly worried for their friend. "Eric, are you okay?!"
"Yeah! We're gonna be billionaires!" The two students who cheered, getting up from their desks, along with another male student with dark brown hair and sharp dark eyes, and ran to the front of the room. His name was Taisei Yoshida.
"So long, sucker!" Cheered the leader of the three, the bulky one. The other E-Class students turned their worried expression away from where Nagisa and Eric were to glare at the trio.
"You jerks!"
"What the hell have you done?"
The three back row students didn't pay any attention to them and pushed the Eds aside to look at their victory. "Never saw a suicide bomber coming, did you?" The bulky teen taunted at the smoking scorched mass.
Double D and his friends looked at them in disbelief and anger. "You planned this," he asked indignantly.
"Terasaka!" Kayano stood up from her seat, glaring at them. "What did you make Nagisa do?"
"What?" He looked over his left shoulder at her with a sinister grin. "I'm sorry, but while you were listening to some dreamers who wanted to pass this class, we've actually been working on a plan. I gave him a modified toy grenade, filled with those stupid BB's, and a spoonful or two of gunpowder so they scatter at a high enough speed."
"But what about Eric?!" Eddy yelled at him, extremely angry that one of his closest friends was hurt—possibly killed—in the guy's plan for the money. He was now starting to doubt the reward was even worth it. "Did he have to get hurt for your plan to work?!"
"It's his own fault, you know," Terasaka said, looking down at Eddy with the smirk. "You think that hard work and being good will get you out of this class, think again! When I saw him reach from that grenade, I knew I had to trigger it then and there. Your friend wanted to play the hero, and look where it got him. But relax, it wasn't enough to kill anybody." He turned back towards the mass and bent his knees to lower himself to get a closer look at his work. "I'll pitch in on his medical bills." His expression then turned to confusion. "Huh?"
When the smoke and dust cleared, everyone was surprised to see Eric and Nagisa laying on the ground next to each other, with some strange, yellow plastic-like sheet that was transparent covering them. They didn't appear to have any signs of injuries, buried, or even marks on them, and were breathing normally under the cover.
"What is it, Double D," Ed asked.
"I-I don't know, Ed," he answered, equally puzzled.
"What the hell is this membrane," Terasaka ask, pulling at it, which caused a tear. "Did the body—"
"It's not a body, it's a husk." Said the voice of the teacher.
The student looked around the classroom to find him, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"I shed my skin once a month." Eric and Nagisa came to and tore off the husk as they sat up. "I've wrapped it around your classmates to protect the boys from the blast."
Eric looked up for a second and gasped in shock. Terasaka and his friends looked in the same direction and were also surprised. Stuck on the ceiling was the teacher, however, something wasn't right. Despite the permit smile on his face, his eyes were glowing a frighten red, a shadow spelled out from his body and cover the whole class, sending chills down every students' spin.
"I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you didn't see this coming," said the teacher as his voice changed to a scary tone.
The Eds looked up at him with wide eyes, while the teacher stared directly at Terasaka and his two friends as they started to become very frightened.
"Terasaka. Yoshida. Muramatsu." The teacher stated each name, making each boy he called out stiffen. Now the other students were starting to worry and feel scared themselves. Then, not only did the creature's color change, but his face started to change drastically too. His body became black, his eyes grew large and narrowed, and started to look holes in his head, his grin widened and his teeth became sharper, and his head almost had what looked like throbbing veins.
Just by the look of him, everyone, including the Eds and Eric could already know what this face meant.
Rage.
"So you're the ones responsible for this...? Aren't you?" He asked with an anger induced voice. His rage filling every word that came out of his mouth, as he glared down at them. Now the three students were terrified, as they stared up at him in shock and fear.
"Who? Us?" Yoshida squealed.
"It was all Nagisa's idea," Terasaka lied. "Yeah, he just went off on his own and—"
He didn't even finish his sentence when the teacher suddenly disappeared, going at Mach 20, and blasting the three of them, the Eds and Eric, Nagisa, and anyone in the front rows with a strong gust of wind. After the winds died down, everyone looked back up at the ceiling and saw he wasn't there.
Five seconds later, he reappeared back in the room to their left, having used the door to enter. Again, Terasaka and his friends were hit with a gust of high-speed winds. As the winds calmed down, the teacher dropped three items on the ground. This made the three students look down at their feet, and their eyes to widen.
They were nameplates, with each of their names on one.
"That the nameplate off my house!" Terasaka exclaimed in shock, as the same feeling filled the other two.
"Here's the deal, kiddos." Said the teacher, holding a large bag of nameplates in front of him.
"The agreement I have with your government forbids me from harming you. But, there's a catch." He pulled out another nameplate and holds it out for all to see.
"If you pull another irresponsible stunt like that again..." He turned over the bag dumping out all the nameplates on the floor at his tentacle feet.
"There's nothing that says I can't harm anyone else. Family. Friends. Everyone in the world except for you if I feel like it" said Korosensei as he opened his mouth in a terrifying way.
After he told them that, the whole classroom stared at him with the frightened expression that stated that he drilled the point into their skulls.
And just like the other students, the reality of the situation snuck in for the Eds and Eric. They didn't want to run away, now they couldn't run. They couldn't hide. Everything they used to do when things went south wasn't an option anymore. Their friends and families back at the Cul-De-Sac weren't going to help them, because they couldn't tell them about the teacher, and they couldn't risk them getting hurt.
They were on their own.
The only out—the only thing they can do—was to kill this teacher.
"Go on! Threaten us!" Terasaka exclaimed, bring everyone's attention back to him.
"I ain't of no squid! Where do you get off blowing up the moon?! We got rights, you know?!" He continued yelling, but as tough as he's trying to be, the trembling of his body and the tears leaking out of his eyes made it clear that he was still terrified of the teacher. The octopus-like creature just continued to stare at him, with his eyes glowing brighter. "What's wrong with using an irresponsible killing method to defend ourselves?!"
Suddenly the teacher's face turned to a more positive look, with an orange head and a red ring on his face.
"Nothing at all," he said in his usual tone of voice. "I'm not calling you irresponsible for trying to kill me." He then reached over with one of his hands and pats Nagisa on the head.
"No, no, no. As a matter of fact, Nagisa here gets a perfect score for keeping the movement of your body entirely natural until the moment you closed in." He then pats Eric's head.
"And Eric's lightning-fast reaction to the danger he and his classmate was in, even though he didn't know it was a fake grenade, is truly remarkable." His face turned back to the usual yellow color as he took his hand away and pointed at Terasaka and his friends, making them stiffen.
"However! None of you cared if he was injured." The three looked away. "Not even Nagisa himself it seems. Students with that attitude aren't fit to assassinate anyone!" His head then turned purple, with a dark shaded X on his face, and throbbing veins.
The teacher faced Eric's sitting form. "And Eric, your bravery was outstanding, and your effect to save Nagisa was very admirable of you, but please don't make it a habit of risking your life in the future." He turned his body to the class and held out his tentacles.
"You must believe yourself worthy of your target. That means taking pride in what you do; in yourselves, and each other. Each and every one of you can do that. You are talented assassins with hidden strength."
Eric stared at him with both his normal and fractured eye, letting out a deep breath. They've just been chewed out at Mach 20, then he praised him with a wiggling tentacle. It was a strange thing for them to be in and be a part but it might be something they were going attached to. This truly was the strangest place he and his friends could have ended up.
And they've seen strangeness before.
But out of all the schools in the world, he felt like this classroom wasn't a death sentence, or just so obstacle, but just the right thing they needed to make the change in their lives. Was it fate that brought them here? Fortune disguised as bad luck? Or the will of a random guy behind a computer?
A hand lowered down to him, making him look at it. Looking up, Eric saw it was Nagisa's hand, with a thankful smile. He returned the gesture with a smirk and grabbed it with his larger hand, before standing up. The Eds gathered around him with smiles and pats on the back.
"Here's a puzzler for you, Nagisa," the teacher said, bringing the five boys' attention to him.
"Given that, I have no intention of being killed, though of course, I have every intention of enjoying our time together before the planet goes ka-boom, what are you going to do about it?"
The question seemed to have thrown him off for a moment and he didn't respond immediately. But soon he smiled and said, "I think you'll find out I can do plenty, sir. Just you wait and see."
The teacher chuckled in response, with his face gaining the green stripes again. "Okay then." He then turned his attention to the Eds and Eric. "And you boys?"
The four American boys looked around at each other. What were they going to do? They were former scammers, not heroes of the world. And yet here they were. With air-soft guns, fake knives, and an impossible target/ teacher to kill. It wasn't what they were expecting but it seemed to be one they were interested and happy to be a part of.
They looked at each other and the smiles, grins, and smirks of confidence, excitement, and mischief they gave each other were all they need to understand from one another. They turned to face the teacher, with Eric answering; "Before the world is destroyed, you're going to see what the Eds and Eric are capable, sir. Don't you worry, you're as good as killed."
The octopus creature chuckled again. "Excellent." He then turned to the class with his tentacles waving around. "No one leaves until I am vanquished!" Everyone started to complain.
"Way to go, Nagisa!"
"This is totally balls!"
The five boys ignored the yells and made their way back to their desks. Eric turned back around and tossed his poem at the teacher, which he caught, before going to his desk. As he did, the other students were holding out their weapons of choice out, as the teacher sat down on a stool. He grabbed a nameplate and started wiping down it down while muttering, "Wipe and clean, wipe and clean, wipe and clean..."
When the one-eyed boy got into his seat, Kayano spoke up. "How do you say 'unkillable' in Japanese?" This made Nagisa turn his head to her, while Eddy, Double D, Eric and Ed had to lean their head forward to look past his and each other's heads to look at her. "Koro...senai...?" She gasped in realization. "Korosensei!"
The boys looking at her let the name sink into their heads. "Unkillable teacher?" Double asked in a whisper, translating the name.
"I like it," Eddy said with a grin.
Eric nodded and looked at their target and target, Korosensei, with a smile.
'And so it begins. Our journey to assassinate our teacher. And a journey we will never forget.'
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{Playing Welcome Back by John Sebastian}
[Instrumentals] The opening fades into a scenery of Tokyo, Japan.
[Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out] The scene then cuts to the Eds and Eric walking on a sidewalk. Eddy in front of Ed, who was in front of Double D, with Eric behind him. They didn't seek to each, as they went to school.
[Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about] The next scene cuts to them in class with the other students as Korosensei teaches the class. The camera was positioned in the back of the room, so all you saw was their back and Korosensei teaching them.
[Well the names have all changed since you hung around] Korosensei's attention was caught by the bell and his speed out and back in with an arm full of sweets and candies, making the students sweat-drop anime style at him.
[But those dreams have remained and they've turned around] The next scene shows the Eds and Eric gathered around Double D's decks, with the smart Ed boy discussing a new plan from assassination, pointing to a piece of paper in his hand as he talked.
[Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)] Eddy points to paper and asks a question. Double D answers him with a smile.
[Back here where we need ya (Back here where we need ya)] With Korosensei out of the room, Double D was at the front of the class, stating the next plan for another assassination, as the class watched and listen.
[Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot] The scene then cuts to Ed, Eric, Isogai, Kimura, Maehara, and Chiba outside in front of the open window of the classroom that Korosensei used to exit when he wants to go to a far off place, putting up a large sheet of plastic to cover the open window frame.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] Double D, who was in the class as they worked, shows a description of the plan on the blackboard. Showing that when Korosensei came back, the sheet of paper would act as a trap to tangle him up, so they could jump him and kill him.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] The boys that were working outside came in through the classroom door, with Eric said they were done with a thumbs up. Everyone quickly sat down in their seats.
[Yeah we tease him a lot, welcome back, welcome back] Korosensei ripped through the sheet of plastic with his Mach 20 speed, and stood at the front of the class, shocking the students.
[Cause we got him on the spot, welcome back, welcome back] Korosensei then lectures them about their failed assassination attempt, as they all look down.
[Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot] The camera cuts to a hand holding a small yellow notebook with the description of the assassination, and a number to indicate what attempt it was. It was crossed out by a red marker.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] It is shown to be Eric who was holding the notebook, with the Eds around him. They signed in disappointment, as the sunsets.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] They look at each other and shrugged with a small in an 'Oh well' manner. Eric then flipped over to the next page and put down the next number for the next assassination plan.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] The Eds and Eric are then seen walking back home before everything fades to black.
Next time: EDventure #2: "Time for Plan ED"
Author's Notes
Hey, this is the first chapter of a story I have taken over from the Cowboy Alchemist. There are a few chapters that have been already been done but I plan to keep putting out more chapters of this story. When I saw it was being given up, I felt sad because I saw a lot of potential with this series so I decided to adopt it. I hope you all will enjoy this story. I love this story idea and I am going to have fun making it.
Also If you want to see my art for the story, click the link to go to my deviant art account.
https://www.deviantart.com/generatorrex20/gallery/78421515/welcome-back-mr-ed-
