"Why are we letting Ed take care of the horse again?" Eddy asked Double Dee.
Of all people who could have volunteered, Ed made a profound 'case' for his desires.
"The men in suits will capture sneaky horse, and feed her to the aliens!" Ed yelled from a pillow fort, throwing wads of paper at the unicorn. Said unicorn also had a pillow fort of their own, though Ed's mattress was the main wall facing Ed.
"Right..." Eddy sighed.
However eccentric Ed may be, Double Dee reasoned that a trailer wasn't the best place available to raise a unicorn. Eddy didn't really care, because he didn't want to take care of it anyway. Double Dee couldn't take care of the unicorn either, as he had an ant farm to care for, on top of his parents being home the most often. Seeing that Ed was mostly left to his own devices in his parent's basement, and the fact that he was extremely protective by default, it fell to Ed to care for the 'magic horsey'.
All of these reasons were further tempered by the fact that Ed was strong enough to sleepwalk through buildings while carrying a fridge. If anyone could protect the unicorn, he could.
"Ooh, Tricky horse!"
Said unicorn was levitating wads of paper behind Ed's pillow fort, striking him unexpectedly.
"Tix-we!" The unicorn blubbled in baby speak.
This caused the Edboys to freeze, because horses dont speak.
"Horsey has name, Eddy!" Ed bellowed, walking through his pillow fort and lifting the unicorn's mattress defense with one hand over his head. He scooped up the unicorn and hucked his entire mattress and bedframe included to it's original spot, covering his collection of comic books.
"Twix-ee!" The unicorn chirped happily, her hooves resting on Ed's chest.
"Tricky horsey's name is Trixie!" Ed announced, hugging the foal tightly. The smell from his clothing caused her nose to wrinkle, but she was otherwise happy with the discovery.
Eddy was busy thinking of all the ways he could use a talking horse to get them all some cash, but Double Dee had other ideas.
*****
For the most part, the Edboys had managed to keep Trixie a secret from the cul-de-sac. Their usual scams or pranks having all but vanished in their absence, and this lead to some of the residents wondering where they had run off.
"Sarah, where are we going again?" Jimmy asked nervously. He was following Sarah, Ed's younger sister into a nearby forest. Jimmy didn't like scary things, and a forest is scary enough on its own, let alone during the night.
"Don't be such a baby, Jimmy. We're going to find my dumb brother and drag him back home."
"B-but what if theres monsters out here?" Jimmy stammered.
Sarah turned around, pointing her flashlight upwards to illuminate her face like so many campfire ghost storytellers. "Then the mean monsters will eat us, and it will be all Ed's fault. Wooo~oooo!" She wiggled her fingers at Jimmy, spooking him.
Then a rustling of leaves caught their attention; Sarah flicking the beam of light towards the nearest bush. Jimmy clung to Sarah's side, but she was too busy getting ready to pummel whatever came out of the bush.
"Trixie, come back to Ed!" She heard her brother yell somewhere in the distance.
"You will never find the Stealthy and Sneaky Trixie!" The bush yelled in response, giggling.
Oh, Sarah HAD to see this. She parted the bushes with a hand and flashlight to see a small blue shape hiding inside. She was startled by this, expecting to find some new kid on the block, but she also didn't want to scare Jimmy anymore than he was. Her leg might lose circulation if he clung any tighter.
"Hey, what are you?" Sarah asked. She figured if the thing replied to Ed, then it could talk. Why not ask it a question?
The thing turned to look at her. Large purple colored eyes widening in alarm before it bolted away.
"Trixie is being followed by the humans in suits! Save Trixie!" It shouted, running in the direction of Ed's last yell.
"Ed will save you, Trixie!" Sarah heard her brother yell.
"S-sarah?" Jimmy asked while shivering.
"I'm done. Ed can go be stupid in the forest with animals if he wants." Sarah grumbled, walking peg legged with Jimmy clutching to her leg and refusing to let go.
*****
Trixie had taken after Ed in more than a few ways. She followed Ed's example of talking about herself in the third person, she read comic books (Ed had taught her how to read them with a combination of sound effects and alphabet soup. If she read the word in the soup correctly, she got to eat it,) and she had a tendency to get in trouble. She was also showing influences of the other Edboys as well. Eddy would teach her about scamming people to get money from them, and she had combined those lessons with Double Dee's books on Psycology to weaponise her cuteness and get cookies from Ed. The only thing that the Eds couldn't help her with was her 'magical unicorn powers' as Ed put it. She could lift objects with her mind, and turn her horn into a sparkler. This hypnotised Ed, so Trixie used that particular talent to get out of trouble if she did something wrong.
What really suprised everyone, was what happened while watching a monster movie in Ed's room. The Edboys and Trixie had gathered around Ed's Tv to watch a movie about aliens sneaking onto a ship and scaring the crew. For some reason, Trixie felt it should have been more violent and tried to use her magic on the TV to change the movie. This caused the TV's circuitry to overload and the feedback caused the screen to crack. Dissapointed, Trixie tried to make up for her mistake by putting everything she had into her Sparkler to escape, and ended up shooting several magic fireworks into the room. This both provided her an escape from being scolded for busting the TV, and commemerating the moment on both of her flanks. A blue star wand with a sparkling trail.
Double Dee had no idea what to make of it, and Eddy thought that she got a tattoo while she was out. Ed saved everyone the trouble of figuring out what it was by pointing to a white horse unicorn in his 'Magic Space Horsey' comic book. Completely seperate to the other one, he explains.
With her special talent being loosely related to 'spectacles' (not the kind you wear, Ed,) Eddy's dream of a perfect scam came into being. He was going to have the cul-de-sac watch a fireworks show, and he didn't have to pay for the fireworks! A hundred percent profit with no effort.
It was perfect!