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Chapter 1: The Box
It was a clear and peaceful night over the town of Elmore. The streets were empty,
most stores where closed and many of the inhabitants of this quiet place the call home
were resting for the upcoming day. Only a handful of night active people and workers,
who are working during there night shift were awake. It was a night as calm and usual
as always in this small place. But at this night, something was different. Not far away was
rather strange, yet deep forest, known by the nearby locals as the ,,Forest of Doom".
It truly lived up to its name. Not only had it the shape of a skull, when viewed from
a high altitude, but mostly because of the great dangers within. The wild and diverse plant live
made it hard to move properly around, therefor many unlucky souls got lost, but that is not
the worst part. Bears, wolfs, pumas, snakes and every possible predator you could find on the North American continent and even some you must first see to believe its existence was living in this fascinating, yet highly dangerous piece of nature. Whoever happens to go to deep inside, is most likely not coming out of this alive. This is the reason to why it got its name and why barely anyone dares to enter it. But this time was different. The animals living there were in turmoil. All of them
were running in all directions or hid from the loud noises emitting from deep within the forest.
In this dark ocean of trees and bushes was wide clearing. But instead of the ground being covered
in grass, the ground was poured up and with an large hole that was just dug up. The entire area full
with excavators, mining vehicles and several transporters. The workers however were not
wearing the clothing anyone would expect seeing the vehicles and machines. All of the staff were wearing black uniforms with modern protective gear in an similar color. On there heads were dark colored helmets that covered there faces resembled a mix of a compact and advanced gas mask with custom visors in front of there eyes, which were glowing red, due to there night vision mode being activated, to save the installation of laps to properly see the area, they were operating. Most of them were equipped with highly specialised assault rifles, sidearms and other weapons. Everyone was doing his task, whether it was patrolling the area of operation, operating the machines or preparing other equipment for it to be used, everyone working. Suddenly all of them near the digging site stopped, as one of the overseeing officers gave the order to halt. He ordered a couple of his men down into the hole. Shortly after the guards with shovels and chains. They dug up the remaining dirt and then put two chains around the object they were extracting. A mobile crane lowered its hook to lift it out of the hole.
At the edge of the digging site was a tall cat in his late thirties with dark, gray fur, wearing a long, black trench coat, black pants with same colored boots, observing the entire scene. Once the object was lifted to his eye level, he inspected the it very carefully. Dozens of feet away from him was a white box, roughly half his own size, with golden lines and circles all around its surface being illuminated by the spotlights of mining vehicles. With a small satisfied grin he turned to one of the guards standing to his right side.
,,Commander, inform the head quarters that we found it." The cat said in a calm, yet intimidating
voice.
The soldier saluted and said, with a deep, altered voice through the helmet: ,,Right away general." And ran to the mobile communication center, that was staying close to dug up hole.
The general faced the box again, that was about to be loaded inside an armored transporter.
,,We are so close." He spoke to himself.
Near the clearing, hiding behind some bushes and tall grass, were two people, one of them wearing a red protective armor and the other one a green armor of the same type, covering them both from head to toe, watching the whole event. The one in his red armor, using a pair of binoculars turned to his partner.
,,Our intel was correct, they found it. Now all we`ve got to do is hijacking that transporter and arrive at home to supper." said the red armored figure with the binoculars to his partner with a mix of enthusiasm and sarcasm.
The green one looked at him and answered: ,,I hope you got a better plan than last time. Its an armored truck with two IFVs, four armed jeeps and at least thirty guards."
He patted his partners shoulder: ,, C`mon, when did I ever let you down? Now follow me." He replied while slowly crawling away.
,,Aw man, this will be boring." Said a blue twelve year old cat.
,,Come on buddy, its our last day before we get our report card, also we are having a class trip to the woods, so no boring lessons with miss Simian."
Gumball turned around and looked at his brother. With a sigh he answered: ,,I know, but I dont know what is worse. Listening all day to an ancient ape or walking all day trough a forest."
Both Gumball and his adoptive brother Darwin, were standing in front of there house, waiting there school bus. It was a nice and warm morning in the town of Elmore. People were going to work, Larry was trowing out the newspaper and the children were about to go to school, as did Gumball and Darwin. Being the last week before summer, there class doing a trip to the nearby forest this day. Most would be quiet happy with the opportunity to do something different every now and then, rather than having countless boring and repetitive lessons at school. But the blue feline didnt held much of that idea, simply walking around in a field of trees was not a very interesting idea for him.
He thought of the things the other classes were doing this day instead. By the looks of it, his class got the most lame activity. Other had much more amazing things to do this day. One class is going with there teacher to play bowling, another one was going to a water park. One of them is even going to play laser tag. And what can he do? Walking around until his legs fall of.
He snapped out of his thoughts, when he could hear a bus stopping right in front of him. As the
door opened and the brothers got into the bus, they werent greeted by an ,,Whats up dudes" from
the driver Rocky, but instead by an old and screeching voice.
,,Gumball and Darwin Watterson, your are the last ones that we were waiting for, now get seat and stay quiet." yelled there teacher miss Simian.
As told the two went up to a free seat in the middle of the bus. As soon as they sat down there teacher spoke to the class.
,,So, now that we are complete, we can begin. I`m going to explain it to you now one more time how this trip will go. Once we arrive at the forest, I want you all to pick a partner, with whom you
will be able to move freely, but only in the designated areas, so that you don`t get lost. Any question?"
The bus was all silent.
,,Good, Rocky you can go." Told miss Simian to the orange Puppet, who pushed the pedal to drive.
During the ride Gumball looked around. Most of the students had backpacks with snacks and drinks and were in a good mood. The sun was shining and was going to be a warm day according to yesterdays weather report. Today was going to nice, calm and fun. Well, for most at least.
Gumball started to look out of the window and thought about all to cool things the other classes were doing instead. How much I would give to just switch classes for one day? He asked himself inside his head. But he knew that it was pointless. All he could hope for, was that it would not turn out as boring as he predicted.
Little did he knew, what he would witness this day.
An hour and a half later, the young cat could already see the edge of the forest. It was far less intimidating than the rest of it, due to being one of the few sections that were considered safe to enter. Shortly after, they arrived at there destination. In the middle of a parking lot the bus came to a halt. Once the students exited the vehicle, they were greeted by a mild, warm breeze and the smell of all kinds of leaves from the forest. Next to the parking lot was an open wooden gate leading into the woods. Everyone of the class was chatting with each other until they were all interrupted by there teacher.
,,Alright we are here. Now I want you to pick a partner and you are free to go." screeched the old teacher.
Gumball raised his hand. ,,Why cant we go in bigger groups? I mean it would be safer for everyone."
His teacher gave him an evil stare. ,,Are questioning my judgment Watterson?" She asked the blue cat.
He gave a sigh. ,,No" He answered. Knowing that arguing would just give him a few hours of detention, something he had no interest at that moment.
Miss Simian continued: ,,Good, now I want you all back here in three hours. If you would excuse me, I`ll be taking a nap in the bus."
After this everyone got themselves a partner to go with. Gumball and Darwin, being the close friends they were, have decided to go together and with the rest of the class they entered the forest.
Shortly after the class was split in all different directions, due to the many ways and paths.
Among one of these routes was Gumball with his brother walking aimlessly around. Darwin noticed that the feline was still bored, so they decided to play little games, in hope to lift up Gumballs mood.
,,Is it the...ground?" Gumball asked to the walking fish.
,,Nope" he replied.
,,Is it the the trees?" he asked again.
,,Still no."
The cat sighed I defeat. ,,Okay tell me, what is it you see that is brown?"
Darwin answered with a slight grin: ,,It your collar."
Gumball looked at his collar and said:,,Dude that wasnt fair, it should be something natural in here.
Now is my turn."
He started to look around to find something, that Darwin would not guess and after a brief search
he found something, that he believed to be perfect.
The feline turned to his best friend and said: ,,I spy with my little eye, something with the color white."
Being sure of his victory Gumball crossed his arms and with a grin in his face he watched as Darwin was searching the area. Gumball was felling something that miss Simian once called ,,schadenfreude". He was imagining his brothers reaction, as he tries to find out what it could be he was suppose to find and attempts become more and more desperate, not knowing what it was and...
,,Is it the rabbit over there?" He snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the direction Darwin was pointing at with his fin. A little further down the path was a small white rabbit sitting in the grass near a tree. Gumball looked back at Darwin.
,,Aw come on. Yeah it is the rabbit. Now your turn." he replied.
The goldfish scanned his surrounding until his face turned into a worried expression.
,,Eh, I spy with my little eye something yellow." he said, while pointing towards Gumball.
He on the other hand just turned around, as he thought that Darwin was pointing behind him. They were standing right next to a steep slope leading several hundreds of feet down. Confused he turned back to Darwin and asked: ,,Is it the leaves?"
Darwin slowly shook his head as his expression became more frighten with each passing second.
,,Dude whats wrong." Gumball asked perplexed.
Darwin just pointed towards the blue cat and said: ,,Bee."
Gumball raised an eyebrow. ,,What?"
His brother shouted: ,,Bee! Right there on your neck!"
His eyes widened in shock and a moment of silence passed. The two of the were looking deep into each other eyes. The wind has stopped, there was no rustle from the trees leaves and all wild life seemed to join in in this haunting moment of silence. One could even say, that you could her the grass growing or the wing flap of a butterfly. A true moment of silence only the fewest would ever experience. This moment didnt last for long, bsince a highly pitched scream was going through the deeps of the forest, so loud that nearby birds flew away.
,,GET IT OF! GET IT OF! GET IT OF!" screamed the blue feline as he was running and jumping around in a circle.
Darwin quickly looked around to find something he could use to help. After a few moments he found an old piece of bark next to him. He picked it up and said. ,,Dont worry, I save you."
And with his eyes closed he struck his target. After hearing the bark breaking he slowly opened his eyes to see a staggering Gumball with a bee on his neck. Right when Darwin was about say sorry the bee took of and flew away. The orange fish sighed in relieve and proudly said: ,,Hey it worked."
Right after he said this, the cat started to fall backwards. Darwin tried to grab him, but it was no use. He fell down and started to roll down the slope. Hitting all kinds of bushes, smaller rocks and trees on his short yet painful way down. Finally landing face first on the ground, it took Gumball a few seconds to process what just happened. He slowly lifted himself from the grass and gave a painful moan. Looking down at himself he noticed, that apart from a bunch of scrapes and bruses, he was perfectly fine. Not a single broken bone. After realising his luck he heard his brother calling for him.
,,You alright down there?" his voice slightly echoed.
Gumball looked up to him. ,,Yeah I`m alright...kinda." he replied.
,,You think you can climb back up" Darwin asked with concern.
The blue feline took a look at the slope. It was covered with sharp stone edges and small root sticking out of the side of the hill. Overall it didnt looked very save to climb it back up, due to looking like anything could break of and fall down.
,,Nah I think I go find another way around, dont worry about me I`ll catch up to you." He shouted back to Darwin who answered: ,,Okay then, I`ll wait at the bus at you."
And with that the goldfish went followed the path back the way he came from. Gumball on the other hand looked around to do the same. In this deep ocean of trees he just barely saw a road leading parallel to the hill he fell down. Taking his chances and hoping for the best he started to follow the with gravel covered road.
The sight and experience was not much different then before. The trees above his blocked a good portion of the sunlight, birds and rustle could be heard all the time and to both of his sites the forest seemed to keep endlessly going. He never understood why some people like it to take a walk in the woods. Surely the nature could be quiet interesting for someone like Anais, but it never really got into Gumball. For him it all was the same, just like in any other place that happens to have a few extra trees. Boring. That is the word that would describe his relation to all of this. Even now, in moment where he has to find a way back to his classmates, he is still quiet a bit bored. Thinking about this actually surprises himself. He then tried to think about other things will walking down the dirty road.
Suddenly he was ripped out of his thoughts. Something caught his attention. A little further the road he saw black smoke over the trees. It wasnt much but Gumball thought that it might be a small fire. It could be a sign of other people, that could help him find a way back. Or it could be just as well be the beginning of a forest fire. Ether way, he had to find it out. Now jogging his way to the source of that smoke, he was hoping that it was just a chimney from a nearby residence. After a turn behind a large bolder he immediately stopped in shock from the sight he got.
Several dozen feet away from him was a armored car completely burned up on the side of the road. Out of all the possible scenarios he could have faced this was something he would have never thought of. With a gulp he slowly and carefully went closer to the destroyed war machine.
What happened here and why is here a tank? Those kinds of thoughts were going through his head as he approached the wreck. Getting closer to it he noticed another tank of the same type a little further. This one was just as burned up as the first, with the only difference being, that its gun turret was lying upside down, right next to the main part of the vehicle, still emitting thick black smoke.
Gumball remembered a movie, were the turret of a tank got blown up when the ammunition inside explodes. But in order to achieve this you need something that can penetrated its heavy armor. So however it was, those had some firepower. More creeped out he kept on walking closer to what looks by now as a battlefield with the wrecks. Both to his surprise and relieve he saw no dead bodies. A shiver went down his spine as he thought, that this could be because all the people that could have died where the crewmen of the tanks.
Gumball stopped again. Behind the second wreck was yet another vehicle standing there. Unlike the previous ones, this one wasnt a tank, but more of an armored truck. It also wasnt burned up like the rest of its escort. The only sign of a fight it had, was that its two back doors were open. One had a big hole in the middle and the other lied severed from the truck on the ground.
,,Hello? Is anybody there?" the scared blue cat asked, but no response.
He walked closer to the abandoned transporter to see if there were anyone inside. As he reached the open back of the vehicle he was again surprised. To his luck, there werent any dead bodies inside.
But instead the feline saw a white box with shine lines made out of gold, decorating the exterior.
This perplexed him. Normally everyone would expect to find guns, ammo, equipment or similar goods. That box seemed completely out of place. It was something you would find inside a king castle. What was it doing here? And more important. What was inside of it?
Gumballs curiosity was strong enough to forget his fear for a moment. After taking a deep breath he climbed into the hold of the truck and stood right in front of the box. It was around the same height as his shoulders. He carefully grab the cover and tried to open it up. Although it was far heavier than it first looked, the young cat somehow managed to push it under painful moaning. Once the lid was fully open, he took a deep look inside. Gumball raised an eyebrow in surprise after he saw what was inside of it. Within the white container was a pitch black, helmet with a slit opening for the eyes. Not knowing what to think of it, he decided to pick it up and took a closer look. Pretty much everything seemed off with this piece of armor. The color was so unnaturally dark, that it was almost like it would suck up all light shining on it, which made it appear as a helmet shaped dark void. Holding it in his hands made things more unsettling. Instead of being cold as expected, it was quiet warm. Neither too hot to hold, but also no were near being cold. The strangest thing was that it felt like it was...alive. Gumball cringed by that idea, but something inside him that there was more to it. But that was not the only thing he felt about this object. The more he looked at it the more he felt the urge to put it on. The cat knew he should not do this. He should just put it back inside, walk away and find some help. But he just could not resist. He took on last breath before he held it over his head and slowly put it on. It was just about the size of his head, so it was good fit for him.
Nothing happened.
Just as he was about to remove the helmet, Gumball could fell a warm and strong shiver going through his entire body. Completely taken by surprise he looked down at himself and was shocked.
A blue transparent and pulsing aura was surrounding him. Now he started to panic. He tried to shake it of but with no success. The he got the idea to remove the helmet. The cat grab it and pulled, but nothing. No matter how strong he pulled it, the helmet just didnt let go of him, it was stuck to his head. Soon after he realized this, the blue aura surrounding him vanished. Gumball quickly checked his lips and torso. It was gone. Heavily breathing the blue feline said to himself.
,,What the what was that?"
Right after he said those words, Gumball screamed up. Out of nowhere he fell the most intense pain in his entire life, all inside his body. He could swear that he was on fire while being submerged in highly aggressive acid. This suffering little cat didnt even noticed that he had fallen out of the hold and landed on the ground. Even if he noticed, he would not care at that moment. Too unbearable was the pain. Although it was only a few second, it felt like hours to him. Hours of unimaginable pain and suffering. Moments later, after the pain disappeared, Gumball was hyperventilating on the ground, but stopped when he realized, that he was no longer in pain. He got of the ground and tried to remove the helmet again. But his hands stopped, when there were in front of his face. Instead seeing his blue pawns, he saw that he was wearing gloves and forearm protection. Gumball immediately looked down and could see that he same has happened to the rest of his body.
He shortly after run up to the outside mirror of the truck to take a look of himself.
His body was completely covered in a modern looking armor. Underneath was a gray full body glove covering him from his neck down to his feet. On top of that were dark blue protective plates
with room at his joint, therefor barely limiting his mobility. The helmet on his head has changed in appearance. Instead of being an oddly shaped void, it was now in the same color as the plates and had a mirror like visor, making it possible to look outside of it, while letting no one see his eyes.
Lastly he noticed two kinds of extenges on his back that were folded to his body.
,,Wow." was the only thing he could say at that moment. He was far to amazed and shocked at the same time to think clearly. He just gazed at himself in the trucks mirror. This moment lasted only briefly, as Gumball heard a noise in the distance approaching fast. He recognized this sound as that of a car and by the looks of it, there were more then just one.
The feline became scared. What if they see him and think he was the one how did this? Or what if it were the once responsible for all of those destroyed vehicles and they would see him as a threat?
He had to hide. Like being stung by a tarantula, Gumball ran of the road and climbed on a small hill with some rocks, from where he could view everything. After arriving at his hiding spot he nervously waited. As he feared came four black painted military jeeps, with heavy weaponry mounted on top, from where Gumball came from. They all came to a halt a bit away from the first wreck and a group of black dressed soldiers came out of every car. Gumball studied the intimidating looking figures. They were very well equipped, so the were no criminals. But the also had no flags on there shoulders, no writings like ,Police“ on there backs or anything that showed that there some kind authority figures. Also there faces were covered with some kind of masks with red glowing lights, where there eyes were. The units scrambled around the site, with there guns holding in. After they scanned the area for threats one of them walked over to the transporter with the white box, that closed itself due to its own weight after Gumball picked up helmet that were inside. This one however looked different. While the rest of them had uniforms, that resembled a mix of police riot and a soldiers protective gear, the one approaching the abandoned transporter had a more specialized suit. There were several sensors all around the body, especially on the helmet. Integrated filters could be seen at the mouth, a small antenna was sticking out of the right side, where would be an ear and the rifle seemed more advanced. Upon reaching the open cargo hold the soldier pressed a button on his helmets side.
,,This is ST1-15, we have located the convoy. Cargo is still here. No sign of any survivors or the enemy. Continuing our objective." the figure said in his deeply distorted voice though his helmet.
The leader of the squad (at least Gumball believed him to be that) gave a quick hand motion to his comrades to get the box. Two of them ran up and each picked one side at the bottom to lift it up.
With all there strength the soldiers carried the heavy box to the nearest car while the others were kneeling or standing behind cover and patrolled.
,,Seems like they expect trouble, but from whom?" Gumball asked himself. All of this was too strange for him. He just wanted to sneak away from this scene, as he noticed, that the rock he was lying on top began to tilt down, due to the extra weight of the cat. He knew what was coming.
,,Aw man." was the only thing the feline could say before the rock started to slide down the hill towards the crowd. Just before the bolder reached the road, it crashed into a tree stomp and therefor catapulting the cat forward. Gumball gave a scream as he flew through the air and became silent when he made contact to the ground. The world was spinning around him. He landed face first on for the second time this day. The confused Gumball got sluggishly up to catch himself. But he was brought back into reality when he heard a distorted voice.
,,Hostile sighted"
He turned around and saw half a dozen of the soldiers in front of him, aiming there rifles at him. In utter shock and fear Gumball threw his arms in front of him and tried explain, that he means no harm. Unfortunately he didnt got a chance to speak up, as the commander of the group gave an order.
,,Open fire!"
The scared cat wanted to jump aside and take cover, but he couldnt. He was too frightened to move a limp. His legs felt weak and would not respond and he could see his whole live right before his very own eyes. His friends, his family and the things he had done and experienced with them came all back at the same time. All those things he will never enjoy again, all those things he still wanted to do will never happen. How will his family react to this? Or his friend? Will anyone even know what happened here? Will it hurt much? Questions than flew across his mind. Then he heard an endless barrage of gunfire. Gumball could believe that an army would striking him down. It was impossible to him to hear out a single shot. It was like one long thunder.
Then the guns were silent.
He opened his eyes a bit to see if it was over and if he had landed in afterlife. But to his surprise he was still alive and standing at the same spot. The soldiers in front of him still aimed there guns at him, but apparently had no desire to shot anymore. He was yet again confused, but was soon after stunned in disbelieve, as he looked a little further down. The bullets fired at him were all hovering in front of his extended arms, blocked by an blueish aura.
,,What the..." more couldnt the cat say until the aura disappeared with a loud bang and throwing the caught projectiles in all directions at high speed. The soldiers got hit by this hail of lead. Two of them fell to the ground with screams of pain, as the bullets penetrated their flesh and made the unfit for fighting. The rest had more luck. They got hit in there more protected body parts. Those who could still standing up right ran to there vehicles or the wrecks to take cover. Gumball didnt understood the world. Was this real? Was all of this really happening? His thoughts came to an end, as the squad leader shouted.
,,Get some explosives over here!"
Struck by what he heard, Gumball did the same as his attackers and took cover by jumping behind the armored truck near him. That would not help for long, he knew that. The truck would shield him from bullets but not so much from explosions. This weird aura that protected him might help him out, but without knowing how to trigger it, it was basically useless. He could not relay on chances at this moment. The feline took a look over his cover to see the situation. Right away he saw on of the men coming behind his jeep, aiming his rifle at him. But Gumball noticed that the man wasnt about to shot with regular bullets. He saw that the man was about to pull the trigger of a small tube mounted underneath the main barrel. The cats eyes widened, as he knew from movies and video games what that was. Then the man fired a grenade from his barrel mounted launcher. Before Gumball could react, the explosive hit the ground only a few inches away from him and detonated,
sending the boy flying through the air. Once he landed on the ground, he saw that the explosion has done no damage to him whatsoever. Normally one should be dead by now or at least have his arms and legs ripped apart. But nothing. He was perfectly fine, apart from being involved in a shootout.
It had to be this armor, no doubt about that, but how much can it take before it fails? He got up as fast as he could, only to see another soldier with a small rocket launcher coming up and taking Gumball into his sight. Then something happened to his backside. One of the extenges on his back unfold like an arm and pointed over the side of his head to the man with the anti-tank weapon. Just as the soldier attempted to fire, he was struck down by a blue bold, burning right through his chest.
The man didnt even made a noise, as he fell down and stayed there.
To cat just stood there in absolute horror. This cant be happening. Was it him, who did this? Is he really responsible for the death of someone? Although they tried to kill him without mercy and one might say that this was an act of self defense, it was still devastating to know, that you killed another being. Gumball didnt even wanted to do anything like this. This thing on his back, now revealing to be some kind of weapon, just fired on its own accord. Right when he heard one of the others saying ,,Man down" the shoulder mounted canon started to point towards the jeep the sound was coming from. He wanted to stop it but the weapon of his apparently had other plans and fired rapidly at the vehicle. The blue, bright projectiles hit the side of the car and burned their way effortlessly through the somewhat thick armor of the vehicle, leaving melted holes behind. Gumball had no idea what the fates of the people was, that were hiding behind the car and he had barely any chance to think straight. The barrage came to an abrupt end when the gas tank got hit and exploded in a huge, yellow fireball.
The extenge retracted back, leaving an adrenaline filled Gumball within this mess. He just wanted to get the hell out of here and that is exactly what he did. In the moment of confusion for the small team of soldiers, the armored cat ran with all his strength he had left away. It was far to much for him to handle. The remaining squad members left there cover and saw their enemy running in the distance. Facing his troops, the commander spoke to his soldiers.
,,Dont pursue him, we have a mission to finish. Secure the target and take care of the wounded." As ordered, his men finally loaded the box they came for inside the hold of one of there vehicles.
The troops commander pressed a button on his helmet and said.
,,General, this is ST1-15, we`ve encountered another one of them and I believe this one might be a bigger problem sir."
Gumball was running. Never before he had to be so fast and in fear of his own life.
He got of the road earlier on and ran aimlessly through the forest in hope to escape. He had no idea where he was going, but it didnt matter to him right now. There was only one thing that mattered the most to him at the moment: Surviving. After a run that felt like an eternity, he decided to stop and see if he was followed. In the middle of the trees he ceased to run and looked at his surroundings.
Nobody was going after him. He was all alone.
The young cat took a deep breath in relieve. Finally he is safe for now. But the fear remained. These people were because of that box. Or rather, its content. Apparently it was the helmet and the armor it created they were after. The very thing Gumball was still wearing. So once they realize that its been stolen by him, they are going to hunt him down. A fact that didnt eased his emotions.
But there was something else he did not understood. How attacked that convoy in the first place and why did the left the box? Nothing made sense to him right now. What was he suppose to do now?
Will anyone believe his story? He then had an idea. Looking down at himself, he saw that he was still wearing the armor. If he just showed everyone what this could do, then they had to believe him and the they could get help to solve this mystery. But first he had to find back to his class. After running pretty much blindly in the forest, he forgot any sense for his direction. There was nothing that could tell him where he was. When he was running away, Gumball tried his best to go to the general direction, to where the bus was, but even that was no big help.
As he was about to carry on, the blue cat could hear a familiar voice calling for him.
,,Gumball!"
He would recognize this voice anytime. It was his brother Darwin. Gumball stood up and ran up to where the voice was coming from.
,,Darwin, I`m over here!" the feline shouted back.
Gumball was now more then relieved. At last he can get out of this nightmare. He could go home and be safe from those people. The voice of Darwin came closer with every step he made.
His happiness was suddenly interrupted, when he felt a shock wave going through him and consuming his entire body. He stopped and looked at himself. The blue aura all around him again. A cold and itchy feeling was going from his feet up to his head. Shortly after he saw why. The armor he was wearing began to vanish into thin air, starting from his feet and swiftly moving up to the rest , leaving him back with the clothes he was wearing, like nothing happened. Only a couple of seconds later he was back to his normal appearance. The only thing that was left of the armor, was his helmet, which had still the same shape after Gumball had put it one. He immediately grabbed and pulled it. And to his surprise it was no longer stuck to his head.
Being glad that he was free from that thing made him feel better, he clearly had no intention to stay in it forever.
,,Gumball, there you are." he heard Darwin to his left. The goldfish seemed exhausted but glad to see his best friend.
,,Where are just about to leave. You didnt came so I decided to go and look for you. What took you so long?" he asked.
The cats face became more serious as he remembered what happened to him. But there was a problem. His armor was gone. Only the helmet was left and it was unlikely that Darwin would believe him. Nevertheless he at least had to try it. He just could not keep this to himself. People had to know what happened here. Gumball looked one more time at the helmet before facing
,,Darwin, I know that this will sound insane, but you have to listen to me."
Thank you very much for reading my first story. I`ll be thankful for any constuctive criticism. I would also thank you if you would point out if I made any spelling or grama mistakes, because english is not my first language.
