This is my first story I've written for the Amazing World of Gumball so I hope you like it. If you didn't read the summary, this story is just a bunch of short adventures featuring the characters from the show that aren't Gumball and Darwin. This story in particular features Tina Rex. Why her? To be honest, I can't really remember why I chose her for my first chapter in this story. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this first chapter.
It was another day of cheer practice out on the field at Elmore Junior High for Penny, Sarah, Molly, Carmen, Teri, and Leslie. Penny was attempting to give the others a pep talk.
"Okay girls, let's get this one right." Penny told the others. "Also, Carmen, we need you to stop poking holes in Teri."
"I can't help, I'm a cactus. She needs to stop being so thin skinned." Carmen replied. "The only solution is if I get de-thorned which is a highly painful process I don't wanna go through."
"Uh, Penny, I know the moment kinda passed but you realize I'm not a girl, right?" Leslie asked.
"Sorry, I forgot about you." Penny apologized.
"Really now? Your own cousin?" Leslie said, sounding offended.
"Wait, you're a guy?" Teri asked.
"Yes. Why do you find that so shocking?" Leslie asked.
"Uh… Well, you have such a feminine voice…" Teri meekly replied. "And uh… Leslie is usually a girls name."
"This is getting really uncomfortable." Sarah commented.
"Well, at least it can't get worse." Molly said.
"Guys! Don't move! I'm coming to get you!" A deep voice yelled from out of view of the cheerleaders.
They looked behind them and saw Tina menacingly running at them.
"Ah! Take my lunch money!" Molly screamed as she threw some coins on the ground.
Tina stopped running once she got close enough.
"What? No, I'm not here to take your lunch money." Tina clarified. "Jamie said she'd do that later."
"Why are you here?" Teri asked.
"I wanted to invite you guys to my sleepover." Tina explained. "My dad's gonna be away so I thought I'd invite people over to my house. I'm only inviting my closest friends."
"You consider us friends?" Sarah asked.
"Not really." Tina admitted. "But the only other people that actually wanted to come to my house are Jamie, Anton, and Gumball... And I think Gumball was just afraid of me."
"Uh… Don't you live in a warehouse in the middle of a junkyard?" Carmen asked.
"Yeah, so?" Tina asked.
"Um, I'm busy tonight, with… Something else." Sarah lied.
"Yeah, what she said." Carmen said.
Molly, Teri, and Leslie nodded in agreement with the other two.
"Uh, I guess I wouldn't mind going to your sleepover." Penny told Tina, sounding slightly nervous.
"Good. The rest of you had better be there too. Or else!" Tina threatened.
Tina turned around and walked away from the cheerleaders.
"How can someone with such tiny arms be so scary?" Sarah asked.
Later in the halls of the school, Tina, Jamie, and Anton were walking together.
"Hmm… Who do you think would wanna have a sleepover with me?" Tina asked.
"We can just intimidate people into being your friend like we did with Anton." Jamie suggested.
"Heh, I don't know, what you're talking about. I follow you around because I want to…" Anton told them, sounding suspicious.
"Either way, Jamie has a good idea." Tina said. "C'mon, I already hit the cheerleaders. Let's go to the rest of the school."
"Let's check up on the library first." Jamie suggested.
In the school's library, Alan, Sussie, Carrie, and Juke were all using the computers.
"Yay! Sussie gave a thumbs up!" Sussie cheered.
"Sussie, you don't have to tell us every time." Carrie told her.
"I think what she does is delightful." Alan said.
"Haha! Delightful!" Sussie enthusiastically repeated Alan's words.
Juke made his usual unintelligible beatboxing noises.
"Yeah… I think I'm gonna go use the computer somewhere else." Carrie decided.
Suddenly, the doors to the library burst open and Tina entered with Jamie and Anton following her.
"Everybody in here had better come to my slumber party!" Tina yelled.
"Shh! This is a library." The Librarian shushed her.
Tina snarled at the Librarian who promptly backed off.
"Yeah, that's right, walk away." Jamie said.
The three bullies walked over to the table where the four students were.
"Hey, come to Tina's sleepover or else you'll get it!" Jamie threatened them.
"What she said." Anton said.
"Get what?" Carrie asked.
"I think you know." Jamie said.
"Sussie doesn't know anything." Sussie said.
"Well I for one would love to come to your house." Alan told them. "I bet it will be amazing fun."
Juke made some more beatboxing noises.
"Was that a yes?" Anton asked.
Juke waved his arms around frantically and made some more sounds.
"I think that was a yes." Anton said.
Upon hearing Anton's misinterpretation, Juke slammed his head against the table multiple times.
"Good. What about you Carrie?" Tina asked her.
"Why aren't you asking Sussie?" Carrie asked.
"Not even I'm not that desperate for house guests." Tina answered.
"Yay! Sussie was mentioned!" Sussie exclaimed.
"So, Carrie, wanna come to Tina's sleepover." Jamie asked.
"She lives in a junkyard. Pretty cool, right?" Anton tried to convince her.
"Hmm… Yeah, I'm busy tonight. I have to… Wash… My cat." Carrie lied. "So bye."
Carrie very quickly phased through the ground causing Tina to angrily growl.
Later, in the cafeteria, Banana Joe, Masami, and Idaho were eating next to each other.
"And so then I told him that he needed a new cellphone." Banana Joe said. "Get it, cell phone. Haha!"
"What's a cellphone?" Idaho asked.
"How did I end up sitting next to you two?" Masami wondered out loud.
"What's wrong with us?" Idaho asked.
"Yeah, I think we're pretty fun." Banana Joe told her.
"I'd rather not say it." Masami replied.
"Oh, all right." Idaho said. "But what's a cell phone? Nobody's told me yet."
"Dude, are you serious?" Banana Joe asked.
"Ugh… At least this lunch can't get any worse." Masami grumbled to herself.
Just then, Tina and her two friends burst through the doors to the cafeteria.
"I'm having a sleepover!" Tina aggressively announced.
"Aw come on… Seriously?" Masami complained.
Tina, Anton, and Jamie went up to their table.
"All right you three, if you don't come to Tina's sleepover you will answer to me!" Jamie shouted at them. "Understand!"
"Wh-what would you do to us if we said no?" Idaho asked.
"Mashed potatoes." Jamie bluntly stated looking at Idaho before shifting her gaze to Banana Joe. "Banana pudding. And… What are you again, Masami?"
"Uh, I'm a cloud." Masami answered.
"Tina, Anton, help me out. What's something I can do to a cloud?" Jamie asked her friends.
"I got nothing." Anton replied.
"Yeah, same here." Tina said.
"Well, whatever I do will not be pleasant." Jamie told her.
"So come to my party or else we're gonna get ya." Tina told them. "Mostly Jamie though. She'll do most of the work."
Tina, Anton, and Jamie walked away from the three people at the table.
"So… Are you guys gonna go?" Banana Joe asked.
"I'll have to ask my mom and dad first." Idaho said.
"Why is this place so terrifying?" Masami wondered out loud.
Later, Jamie, Anton, and Tina were walking through the halls of the school together.
"Thanks for helping me find people to invite to my slumber party guys." Tina said. "We intimidated everybody in school."
"We're not gonna actually beat them up if they don't come to the slumber party, are we?" Anton asked.
"It depends on how many don't show up." Jamie replied. "The more no-shows, the more motivation to punch people."
"I can't really punch people with these hands." Tina pointed out.
"Punch, stomp, bite, whatever, it all ends up hurting somebody in the end." Jamie said. "See you two at the sleepover tonight."
After school that night, Tina was all alone inside of her warehouse.
"C'mon, what's taking them so long?" Carrie asked herself. "I hope my house isn't too hard to find."
The sound of somebody knocking on the door was heard.
"It's not locked, you can come in." Tina told whoever was outside.
The door opened and revealed Jamie, Anton, Penny, Alan, Gumball, and Masami.
"Uh… Hi… Nice place you've got…" Penny nervously told Tina.
"Why isn't there anybody else?" Tina asked.
"Because you live in a junkyard and look like you're perpetually angry." Gumball replied.
"Uh, what Gumball means is that… We're sure they're just late." Masami said. "Yeah, that's it."
Tina's guests entered her house and Jamie closed the door behind her.
"This house looks fun." Alan remarked. "So, what do we do now?"
"We can play a game." Tina suggested.
"Like what?" Jamie asked.
"How about we have a rock paper scissors tournament?" Penny offered.
Alan looked down at his lack of hands.
"Uh… I think there's a slight problem with that." Alan pointed out.
"Oh, sorry Alan." Penny apologized.
"It's fine, I'm used to people forgetting it." Alan said. "I got it! Let's play truth or dare."
"Yay! That sounds fun." Anton said.
The group formed a circle in the middle of the warehouse.
"Who wants to go first?" Gumball asked.
"I'll go." Jamie replied. "I choose truth."
"What kind of creature on you, Jamie?" Penny asked. "I can't tell."
"Oh, that's easy, I'm a… A… Hang on…" Jamie trailed off.
"How do you not know your own species?" Masami asked.
"My mom's a giant red cube and my dad looks like a green gremlin wearing a hat!" Jamie shouted. "And I don't even wanna get into my extended family! Can you figure out what I am?!"
"Wow, that sounds like a weird family." Tina commented. "And I'm a dinosaur that lives in a garbage dump."
"You look kinda like a Minotaur with a lion's tail. And like, five percent gorilla." Gumball told Jamie. "Uh… In a good way."
"I wanna go next!" Alan enthusiastically volunteered. "I choose Dare."
"Hmm… I dare you to prank call… Mr. Small." Masami instructed him.
"Does anyone have a phone?" Alan asked.
"One second." Tina said.
Tina began to make choking noises before coughing up a rotary phone. The guests of the party gave Tina a disgusted look.
"What?" Tina asked. "Don't look at me like that. I don't have pockets, there's nowhere else I can keep my cellphone."
"That's not a cellphone." Penny pointed out.
"Close enough for me." Tina said.
"Uh… Could someone dial that for me?" Alan asked. "Please?"
Gumball picked up the phone with a grossed out look on his face and dialed a number.
"Here you go." Gumball said as he held it up to Alan.
"Hello, who is this?" Mr. Small asked from the other side of the phone.
"Hey there Mr- Uh, person I don't know. Is your refrigerator running?" Alan asked.
"Let me go check." Mr. Small replied followed by a silence from the other side of the phone.
"What did he say?" Masami asked.
"He said he's going to check." Alan answered.
"Huh, never heard that one before." Anton remarked.
"Hello? Are you still there?" Mr. Small asked from the other side of the phone. "I wanted to thank you for calling. It turns out my fridge somehow got unplugged. Crazy right? Well bye."
Mr. Small hung up from the other side of the phone.
"Now what happened?" Penny asked.
"His refrigerator actually wasn't running." Alan replied.
"Wow, I can't tell if he's just messing with us or we just have really weird timing." Gumball commented.
"Who would like to go next?" Alan asked.
"How about you, Masami?" Penny asked.
"Uh, you know, as much as love a good sleepover with throwing up phones and creepy warehouses, I should probably get home. It's past my bedtime and such so-" Masami began before Tina snarled at her, cutting her off.
"Nobody leaves until the party ends." Tina told her. "Got it?"
"But I-" Masami began before Jamie and Tina both glared at her, causing her to stop talking.
"No exceptions!" Tina yelled.
"Tina, maybe you should calm down." Penny suggested.
"Don't tell me how to feel!" Tina snapped at her.
"Hey, not to butt in or anything… But are there any snacks we can eat?" Gumball asked.
"Hmm? Yeah, my dad likes to stockpile junk food he bought with coupons out behind the house." Tina answered.
"Uh… I'll go grab some." Masami offered.
"You stay here, traitor!" Tina aggressively told her. "I'll send someone I trust. Like Anton."
"Okay. You got it." Anton replied before getting up and leaving the room.
"See, unlike you he actually respects me as a friend." Tina said to Masami.
"I'm not your friend. I'm only here because you guys scare me like crazy." Masami told them.
"Good. You'd better be scared." Jamie told her.
"Can I use my cellphone?" Masami asked.
"I don't see any problem with it." Jamie said. "But you'd better not try and use it to get out!"
"You know Jamie, you're seeming a bit controlling." Alan pointed out.
"A bit? I think you're being generous there." Gumball said.
Tina and Jamie growled at Gumball.
"Uh, I'm sure Gumball didn't mean it." Penny told them.
"Good." Tina said.
Masami picked up her phone and dialed a number.
"Mom, I'm being held against my will by a dinosaur in a junkyard. Pick me up in like, right now!" Masami whispered into the phone before quickly hanging up.
"What did you just say?" Jamie asked.
"Nothing!" Masami exclaimed.
"Hey, Anton probably should have been back by now, right?" Alan asked. "Maybe we should go check on him."
"He's a piece of toast, dude. It's probably hard for him to carry whatever he has back." Gumball said
"I dunno, Anton is a bit accident prone." Penny pointed out. "Someone should go see if he's okay."
"I'll go." Tina said. "But nobody should try to leave while I'm gone. Can someone get the door for me? It's hard to open with my tiny hands."
Penny opened up the door for Tina and she exited the house.
"Hmm, I wonder where Anton is." Tina wondered out loud. "He'd better have not gotten himself killed again."
Tina walked out behind her warehouse and saw a giant pile of junk food.
"Hmm… I don't see Anton." Tina remarked.
"Uh, can I get a little help here?" Anton's voice asked from below Tina.
She looked down and saw Anton pinned down to the ground by a jar of pickles.
"Heh… Can you help me with this?" Anton asked. "This thing is heavier than it looks."
"Um… That might be difficult." Tina told him as she wiggled her small arms.
"Use your mouth." Anton instructed her.
Tina put the jar of pickles in her mouth and spat it out. The jar ended up going through one of the windows to the warehouse.
"Ah! We're under attack!" Alan screamed from inside.
"Wow, thanks Tina." Anton said as he stood up. "I owe ya one."
Tina sighed, looking sad.
"What's the matter?" Anton asked.
"This sleepover isn't going anything like I planned." Tina complained. "Everyone seems uncomfortable, you got stuck out here, and I think Masami's planning on leaving."
"Well I had fun." Anton remarked.
"Really?" Tina asked.
"Yeah, I made it through a whole day without dying. That almost never happens." Anton told her. "Now let's get back inside."
Anton and Tina entered the warehouse which now had broken glass and pickles lying on the floor.
"Hey guys, I got us some pickles." Anton told them. "Do you like them?"
"I would've liked them better if they didn't go flying through the window!" Jamie shouted at him.
"Hey, at least I got them." Anton said.
"Uh, yeah, this party is fun and all… But I should probably head home now." Masami told Tina. "You know, I've gotta go to school tomorrow and someone should probably be picking me up by now anyway."
"This is a sleepover. Nobody leaves 'til the morning." Tina replied. "Got it!"
The sound of a car horn honking outside was heard.
"Oh look at that, must be my mom." Masami hastily remarked. "Well gotta go. We shouldn't ever do this again."
Masami hurriedly left out the door.
"Come back!" Tina shouted after her.
"Tina, maybe you should let her go." Alan suggested. "After all, it's what she wants."
"Yeah, you're starting to sound a little crazy." Gumball told her.
"Gumball has a point. Maybe you should calm down a bit." Penny advised.
"I am calm!" Tina yelled even louder than normal, causing Penny to transform into a mouse out of fear. "Anton, Jamie, get on my back. We're going after Masami."
Anton and Jamie hopped up on Tina's back. Tina smashed open the door with her head and ran out of the room.
"Uh, should we stop them?" Alan asked.
"Probably." Penny answered as she returned to her normal form.
"Maybe we should see how it plays out first." Gumball suggested.
Penny glared at him.
"Fine, we'll follow Tina." Gumball said.
Meanwhile, Masami was on the street by the junkyard where a car was parked for her.
"Phew, I'm so glad to be away from that sleepover." Masami commented to herself.
The window to the car rolled down and revealed Masami's mother Yuki inside.
"Masami, you called at a very bad time. You had better have a good reason for bringing me all the way out here." Yuki sternly told her daughter. "This neighbourhood looks very dangerous."
"I do mom, really." Masami insisted.
"Come back here now!" Tina shouted from behind Masami.
Masami turned around and saw Tina charging at her with Anton and Jamie on her back.
"Okay, that seems like a good reason." Yuki remarked as she opened up the door to the passenger seat. "Get in the car."
Masami got in the car and closed the door behind her.
"Don't you dare leave!" Tina threatened. "I need more friends!"
The car started its engine and drove away only for Tina to keep following Masami and her mother down the street.
"All right guys, if I jump down I think I can get in the car." Anton told the other two. "Ready? Here I go. One… Two… Three!"
Anton jumped off of Tina's back towards Masami's car. He overshot it and landed face first on the road in front of it.
"I'm okay…" Anton muttered as he began to stand up.
Before he was able to stand up completely he was squashed by one of the tires of the car as it sped over him.
"No! Anton!" Tina exclaimed.
"Don't worry, he's been through worse." Jamie reassured her friend. "I've eaten him several times and he was all right."
"I have an idea, hold on tight, Jamie." Tina told her.
Tina jumped up in the air over the car and landed in the road in front of it. Yuki hit the breaks and stopped the car right in front of Tina. Jamie slid down her friends back on the ground.
"Nice work, now let's take care of business." Jamie said as she cracked her knuckles.
Tina bit down on the roof of the car and pulled the top half off revealing the passengers inside. She spit out the top of the car and it hit a nearby street lamp.
"Be! My! Friend!" Tina roared at Masami.
Masami and her mother got out of the car and looked up at Tina.
"Are you crazy!" Yuki shouted at the dinosaur. "I will fight you right now, you psychotic beast!"
"Mom, that's a bad idea." Masami warned her mother. "She's twice your size."
"I'm sorry Mrs. Yoshida." Tina apologized. "All I wanted to do was hang out with your daughter. The truth is I don't really have that many friends."
"Well chasing me and my mom down doesn't really help." Masami pointed out.
"I just wanted to have a sleepover while my dad was away. I've never really done anything like it before." Tina said. "Gosh, I'm really sorry guys. I'll just let you leave."
"So wait, we're letting her go?" Jamie asked Tina.
"Yeah, I guess so." Tina said. "Now I feel like a real jerk."
"That's putting it lightly..." Yuki remarked. "You prehistoric moron!"
Gumball, Penny, and Alan made it over to Tina, Jamie, Masami, and Yuki looking out of breath.
"Tina… Tina… Stop…" Gumball panted.
"You need to… Think about what you're doing…" Penny told her, sounding tired.
"Oh… Hey Mrs. Yoshida…" Alan tiredly greeted Yuki.
"Yeah, we kinda resolved this on our own." Jamie told them.
"So you're telling we ran all the way out here for nothing?" Gumball asked.
"Uh, kinda." Tina said.
"Do we still have to stay at your slumber party?" Alan asked.
"No, you can go home." Tina sighed.
"Mrs. Yoshida? Can you give us a ride?" Penny asked.
"Fine." Yuki replied before looking over at Jamie and Tina. "And if I ever see you two near my daughter again… I will make you pay!"
"No need to be so over dramatic, mom." Masami told her mother. "Let's just go home."
Yuki, Penny, Masami, Alan, and Gumball got into the broken down car and drove around Tina and Jamie.
"So, now what do we do?" Jamie asked.
"Wanna come back to my place and finish the sleepover?" Tina asked.
"Sure." Jamie replied. "While we're there we can plot our revenge against the other kids at school. I'm thinkin' we make Teri into a spitball, suck Carrie into vacuum cleaner, and choke Tobias with his stupid headband."
"Sounds fun." Tina remarked. "Hey, should we check to make sure Anton's okay?"
"It's too late for him Tina. Way too late." Jamie told her friend.
Jamie and Tina began to walk down the road back towards the junkyard.
Well, that was the first chapter. Please be sure to leave a review and let me know what you think. Even if you didn't like it. I hope Tina was in character for this, she hasn't really been focused on since "The Fight" in season one so it's sorta hard to remember some of the time. Anyway, once again, I hope you liked the chapter and keep up with the series. Thank you.