This is the first story I've ever written. As I'm not an experienced writer, i'm sure it is expected for it to be weak at points.
Minecraft is NOT a huge plot-point. It is only a set-up for the plot, and the game will be addressed in a later chapter, as well as other Video Games/Media.

It's a quiet Saturday morning for the Wattersons. Gumball, Darwin and Anais are cooped up on their computer, eyeing a game that has been popular recently.

"MOOOOOOOM, CAN WE BUY MINECRAFT?!" Gumball shouted out loud enough for his mother, Nicole to hear. Nicole was in the hallway getting ready to do laundry. She put down the basket and entered the room as the kids were ready to tell her about Minecraft.

"What's a Minecraft, honey?" Nicole asked.

"A game where you get to kill cows and burn forests!" Gumball replied.

"Yeah, and we can go in caves and kick Creeper BUTT!" Darwin shouted out loud.

"Huh." Nicole wondered. The Watterson children showed their mother a gallery of Minecraft images. Nicole spotted an image of a Creeper and started to worry. "...I don't think any character with that design is appropriate for a game rated E10 and up..."

"Let alone anything in the E-Rated Area. I mean, why would there be a kids game where you can breed pigs?", Anais replied.

"A-Animal breeding?!" Nicole blushed. "Euuuurgh...Kids, I don't think that-" Nicole was cut off before she could finish her sentence.

"Pleeease?" Gumball and Darwin asked, with puppy faces.

"What else can you do in the game?", Nicole asked.

"You can go into Creative Mode!", said a happy Gumball.

"Yeah, Mrs. Mom!", Darwin added. "You can fly around and build as you please without having to collect any resources!"

"Unless you count time-wasting as a resource", Anais shrugged off.

"And with mods, you can add in whatever you please!" Gumball said.

Nicole started thinking of what she could add into Minecraft. "Can you add in an Apache Attack Helicopter to easily destroy all of those enemies?" Nicole asked as she pointed at a hoard of zombies.

"Anything you want." Gumball and Darwin said at the same time.

"How much does it cost?" Nicole asked. Gumball searched up the price for Minecraft and found it was $26.95.

"TWENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS?!" Nicole got angry. "We need that money for groceries tonight!"

"Ohh, COME ON!" Gumball moaned.

"If I pay for the game instead of getting us dinner, what're we supposed to eat later?", Nicole asked angrily. "Basement fiberglass with a side of "the leak from the living room ceiling"?"

Richard suddenly appeared at the bedroom door. "Sorry, honey, we're all out of that.", Richard said with a muffled mouth. He then fell to the ground, as a panicked Nicole approached him.

"Not again." Nicole sighed. "Anais, can you please call 911 for your father?", Nicole asked as she started to drag him out of the bedroom downstairs. "Kids, we'll be back. Make sure NOT to go looking to buy Minecraft."

Later in the evening, Gumball, Darwin and Anais were still on the computer, watching Minecraft videos.
"DARN IT! I don't wanna wait to play Minecraaaaaaft!", Gumball moaned.

"Well, why don't we find it for free online?", Darwin said.

"What?! Piracy?!", Gumball shouted. Gumball got angry at Darwin. "...Good idea, Darwin!" Gumball's happiness was restored.

Anais sighed. "The best you'll find is a fan-game, or-"

"Found it!", said Gumball, who interrupted Anais. "It's a Java-supported website with Minecraft Classic! It's the closest we'll get, but we found it."

"Dude, that says Minescraft. With an S." Darwin found the site pretty fishy.

"So? It's probably a spelling error, or something", Gumball said, expecting a fine and playable freeware Minecraft. Gumball soon found that the game was actually a scary maze game. "Aaaaand it's one of those screamer games."

A screamer popped up and the Watterson kids screamed along with it.

"AAAAAND CLOSED THAT OUT!" Gumball closed the window and opened a new tab. "Maybe I can find Minecraft for free in the Elmore Videos section..."

Gumball found a video he liked.

"Minecraft Free Working 1994 Tested *March 2014 Working*" Darwin read the title of the video out loud. "Dude, this isn't gonna work."

"Stop being a negative nancy, DUURRRRR-WIN." Gumball shouted in Darwin's face.

"Dur-win? What does that mean?" Anais asked.

"I-I, uhhh...Darrrr-lose?" an upset Gumball said.

"Stop it." Darwin said.

Gumball got scared. "okay.", said Gumball in a quiet manner.

Gumball played the video and found that there was gameplay. "Hey, look! There's proof that it works in the video!" Gumball said.

"How are you so sure that it's real?" Anais said. "The creator probably took gameplay off another video or something."

"Let's click the link, anyway." Gumball said. He clicked on the website linked in the description and found it was a fake site.

"YOU ARE DUUMB! YOU ARE DUUMB!", a voice kept yelling. It was the website that was linked in the description of the Minecraft video. The site featured googly-eyed smileys flashing neon colors with the text "YOU ARE DUMB" at the top, which is what a repeated voice clip on the site says.

Gumball face-palmed. "Troll." All the Watterson children said.

It was late night and the kids were feeling sleepy, waiting for mom to get home. Gumball, Darwin and Anais were still on the computer searching for Minecraft.

"My stomach is eating itself", a hungry Darwin said.

"Yeah, and i'm positive that my stomach is slowly eating its way up to my mouth", Anais said.

"Huh?" Gumball saw an advertisement on the Elmore Search Engine. "WHOA-HOA! Check it out!" Gumball pointed at said advertisement and read it out loud. "Free game juegos Super Mario, Pac-Man, Call of Duty and Minecraft! All games for FREE!" Gumball said. "Free Minecraft!"

"Uhhh...I don't know dude, I'm PRETTY SURE that these sites give you viruses" Darwin worried.

"PSSSSSSSHHHHH, don't be a sour puss, we'll be able to play the MOST. EPIC. GAME. EVER." Gumball said.

"How are you so sure Minecraft is all that good, anyway?" Anais asked.

"My favorite E-Celeb played it." Gumball replied.

"Oh, that makes so much sense! A literally who from a social media website played Minecraft, so it must instantly be good." Anais said, sarcastically.

"I tried it at school with Banana Joe", Darwin said. "It's pretty good, but I don't think that it's good enough for us to spend twelve hours of our day trying to find it on the internet for free."

"Just shut up." Gumball said. "This site is the answer to all of our problems~! And we get to play other games for free as well!"

"O-K, whatever you say." Anais got upset.

Gumball started downloading the Free Game Installer to play "All games for FREE!". Little did he know he was downloading Ransomware.

"YEAH! WE DID IT!" Gumball shouted out loud, happy that he was almost ready to play Minecraft.

"What's that?" Anais said, looking at the screen.
The computer screen went white, and then lines of text slowly popped up.

"You..." Gumball was reading the text as it went by, loading slowly.
"Have been"
"BLOCKED"
"By the"
"Federal"
"Bureau of"
"InvestigatiiioooOONS-AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Gumball was frightened.

"DUDE, WE'VE BEEN JACKED BY A VIRUS!" Darwin was even more scared as he grabbed Gumball by his shoulders and started to shake him around.

"SEE? I told BOTH of you that we'd get a virus if we clicked that DUMB advertisement!" Gumball put the blame on Darwin and Anais. "NOW LOOK WHAT TROUBLE YOU GOT US INTO!"

Darwin and Anais gave Gumball an angry stare.

"Yep, keep staring. Your anger is only fuel to the fire." Gumball said, only before he got slapped by Darwin.

"OOOOWWWW!" Gumball shrieked.

"You deserved that." Anais said.

Gumball sighed. "So how do we get rid of this virus?" Gumball worried. "What will mom think?"

"I think mom will probably ban you from any type of technology since you're stupid enough to click obvious bait!" Anais replied.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU DO ANYTHING?!" Gumball yelled at Darwin and Anais.

Darwin and Anais were silent for a few seconds. "...free Minecraft?" Darwin said with a tiny voice.

"Look!" Gumball shouted as he pointed to the screen. "There's a Tech Support!"

"Well, fake tech is our best option at the moment..." Anais said. "I'd rather not have mom cook me alive."

Gumball, Darwin and Anais wrote down the onscreen number on a sheet of paper. They went downstairs and called the Tech Support, hoping that their computer would be unlocked.

The phone call was answered. "Welcome to IndiaNow Tech Support, how may I help you with your locked computer?", said a guy who works as Tech Support.

"Waaaait," Gumball was curious. "How did you know our computer was locked?"

"That's how they get ya!" Anais somewhat knew her stuff.

"That's what we exist for." The IndiaNow Guy said.

"Isn't that basically ADMITTING to creating that virus?" Darwin said.

"Kid, look, do you want to have a free computer or a locked one instead?" The IndiaNow Guy replied.

"WE WANT MINECRAFT! WE WANT MINECRAFT!" Gumball continued to shout about his favorite game that he has yet to play. "WE WANT MINECRAFT! WE WANT MINECRAFT!"

The phone call ended and the Watterson children sighed. Gumball, Darwin and Anais went upstairs to figure out things on their own time.

"So, how do we get rid of this virus?" Darwin asked.

Gumball gasped. "I know just the guy!"

The kids left the house to go to a location they haven't been to in years; The Internet's Basement.

The Internet was searching the web, looking at news articles.
"Ooooh, Local Russian Hotties! I think I can settle for two or three." The Internet said. Shortly after, the door to The Internet's Lair had been busted open by Gumball, Darwin and Anais.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The Internet screamed.

"H-Hi..." Darwin said.

"Y-YOU GUYS AGAIN?! What're you doing in MY base...ment?" The Internet said.

"We uh...heh, funny story..." Gumball got a little worried.

"In short, Gumball thought it was smart to download Minecraft for "free" and he got the computer blocked off." Anais said.

"What are you, a NOOB?" The Internet replied. "I can't believe you actually got a virus on your computer. Is it the computer with the little Indian Tech Support logo at the bottom?"

"Yeees, it's that one..." Gumball muttered back.

"I can't believe you ACTUALLY fell for ransomware. How gullible can you be?" The Internet laughed.

"JUST SHUT UP AND FIX OUR COMPUTER, ALRIGHT?!" Gumball yelled in The Internet's smirking screen face.

"Or you could just get a new hard drive." The Internet replied.

"..." Gumball was a little silent. "Can we have it for free?" Anais slapped Gumball across the face.
"OW! QUIT IT!" Gumball shouted at Anais.

"Well, I suppose I could give you an old 2GB." The Internet was shy. "But THAT'S IT."

"Two gigabytes?!" Anais was MAD. "What kind of storage is THAT?!"

"We'll take it." Gumball didn't care about any storage. "It doesn't matter as long as it can play Minecraft."

"implying that a 2GB could possibly run Minecraft" The Internet replied.

"W-Who are you quoting?" Gumball asked.

"Just give us a hard drive, already!" Anais was tired of waiting.

"Okay, but-" The Internet was talking before he was knocked out by Darwin with a plug.

"DARWIN! YOU JUST KNOCKED OUT THE INTERNET!" Gumball panicked.

"I-I THOUGHT HE WAS GOIN' TO SAY NO!" Darwin replied.

"Do you realize what this means?!" Anais was ready for the worst.

"If the Internet is dead, then what happens to the world?" Gumball said.

The Watterson children were staring at each other, wondering what would happen next. Suddenly, the world flashed white and everything disappeared into a void-like realm.

"YOU"
"HAVE BEEN"
"BLOCKED"
"BY THE"
"FEDERAL"
"BUREAU OF"
"INVESTIGATIONS"