"Ed..." Double D asked cautiously.
"Yes, Double Dee?" Ed replied, staring with awe at a large, shimmering portal that had opened in his basement room.
"Have you been playing with the fabric of reality again?"
"Not me, Double Dee."
The two friends were sitting on the floor of Ed's room. Various comic books and movies, as well as clothes, were strewn about his room in a disorganised mess. Double Dee, or Edd, was disgusted by his friend's messyness but had grown to tolerate it over time. What was more concerning to them at the moment (apart from the cereal bowl in the corner that was showing signs of thought) was the large purple portal that had ripped itself open in front of them, nearly devouring the TV.
"Should we touch it, Double Dee?" asked Ed, slowly walking towards the portal with his hand outstretched like a moth to flame, slightly drooling.
Before Edd could reply, a flash of light blinded them both. Rubbing his eyes, Edd blinked away the spot of light obscuring his vision to find that Ed was petting something. Or at least he HOPED Ed was petting something. Ed's back was turned to him, and he was giggling to himself.
"Ed... what are you petting?"
Ed quickly twisted around, holding a small light blue horse.
"It's a Horsey, Double Dee!" He cheered happily as said 'horsey' squirmed half heartedly in his grasp.
The horse was no taller that Edd's shin, and had a light blue and ice colored mane and tail, with purple eyes. Edd had no idea what to make of it, but saw something strange when Ed's hand stroked its head. Reaching a hand out slowly, more to not startle Ed than the horse, Double Dee parted its mane and felt a small bump on its head. Moving the mane aside, he was dumbstruck to find a nub of a horn coming from its forehead.
Blinking his disbelief away, the scientist in him started to catalogue everything he was witnessing and cross referenced those findings with his knowledge of fantasy creatures that he secretly kept underneath his carpeting in the corner of his closet.
"U-Unicorn!" Edd blurted out after finally making the connection, sitting on the ground and holding his head.
"You mean we have a magic horsey now?" Ed joyfully asked, holding the small furry horse in the air with his arms outstretched above him, causing the horse to giggle.
Wait, giggle?
"Ed... Put the horsey down..." Edd said calmly. He knew how Ed was with chickens, and didn't want to risk-
"My horsey, Double Dee!" Ed shouted, jumping on top of the washing machine in his room and pushing the small horse through the window, squeezing himself through the small gap afterwards. Ed knew this couldn't end well, but he could probably convince Ed to take the horse to Rolf's. Rolf was a foreign immigrant and the son of a shepard. He also took care of animals and a small farm in his backyard. If anyone knew about raising animals, even ones that giggled, it would be him.
"Ed, wait!" Double Dee called out, running up the stairs out of the basement to chase after Ed.
****
Rolf had many things to worry about. His crops, his animals, his income to support his family and home, and stinky EdBoys. He was certain that the knocks and shouting from his door were from those Edboys.
Opening the door, he saw the smelly one and the smart one looking excited and nervous, respectively.
"Yes, Edboys?" Rolf asked, his eyes narrowing in suspicion at not seeing the greedy Edboy.
"Rolf, We found a horsey!" Stinky Edboy yelled, holding a blue pony in front of him and mushing the furry creature into his face.
Not wanting to deal with the Edboys and their scams, Rolf summoned the house guardgoat.
"VIKTOR, WE HAVE GUESTS!" He shouted.
Seeing their faces melt into sheer terror was more than worth the interruption to his busy day as the Edboys ran screaming as Viktor chased after them, bleating his fury to the world.
****
Eddy was usually one to sleep in. His blankets were thrown over his head to block out the daylight, and he was sleeping in striped boxers with a stained white tank-top. Imagine his annoyance when he heard the door to his trailer all but falling off it's hinges and accompanied by frantic battering.
Eddy groaned, throwing the blanket off of him and shambled to his front door. Opening it, he was bowled over by Double Dee and Ed. Shaking his head free of stars and hearing a slam, Eddy focused his vision on the forms of his exausted scam buddies.
"So... what?" Eddy asked, scratching his head and standing up to go find his clothes for the day.
"We found a horsey, Eddy!" Ed cheered.
Poking his head out of his dressing closet, there was infact a horsey. After a moment's thought, literal money signs rang like slot machine wheels in his eyes as a scam started coming together.
"Oh, this is gonna be perfect!" Eddy grinned maliciously, rubbing his hands together with the thought of all they money they could make opening a petting zoo.
"Eddy, no!" Double Dee protested. Eddy's visions of jawbreakers vanished with a groan.
"What, Double Dee? This would be perfect!"
"I don't think it's just a horse, Eddy. It has a horn!"
Eddy took a moment to process this, before his grin returned in full force.
"But Eddy, the suits would take her away" Ed protested, clutching the small horse protectively with his sleeves leaving only 'her' head poking out from them. The horse wrinkled its nose before lightly sneezing at the dust and dirt from Ed's clothing.
"D'aawww, she's adorable." Ed cooed, petting the horse.
"Ed, how do you know it's a girl?" Eddy asked.
"Ed knows things!" Ed replied simply, petting the horse.
"Right... Eddy, can I talk with you?" Double Dee asked, walking past Eddy to the back of his trailer.
"Yeah, what about?" Eddy asked, following him.
"I think that Unicorn isn't just some animal, Eddy. It giggled." Edd said ominously, his voice hushed.
"Yeah, so?"
"Horses don't giggle, Eddy!" Edd snapped.
"Alright, jeez." Eddy looked at the unicorn and Ed, who were happily playing together and rocking the trailer a bit. "So what do we do?"
Double Dee looked at the unicorn, lost in thought for a few minutes while Eddy amused himself with a paddle ball.
"We keep it, Eddy."