It was an incredibly lazy Saturday. Roughly 11:30 am. A family of five would most likely watch the super bowl while it's on.
Four of The Wattersons were in the living room, enjoying this occasion. One more than the the others.
"Pass the ball! Pass the ball! C'mon C'mon! If I were there in my younger years, I would have schooled all of them! I've won 4 Super Bowls!" Richard exclaimed from where he sat.
"Dad, even if that was true, it's highly improbable for the players to hear you through the TV screen." Anais inquired.
"Keep yelling dad! I think there'd be some kind of wave link sending messages to the players." Darwin exclaimed.
"Well yes! What does it look like I'm doing?!" Richard replied loudly.
"Oh that's ridiculous." She grumbled.
"Oh yeah? Well this one time, I yelled at our team to win, and they won. Coincidence? I think not." Darwin countered.
"Oh wow I'am surrounded by sUuUch intellects." Anais commented sarcastically.
"Thank you Anais. You know a smart guy when you see one." Gumball said ignorantly. Finally speaking from where he sat.
"Oh come on you fat lazy pieces of turd! Unlike you all I maintain a healthy diet..." Richard complained... Before his stomach growled. "Does any one know where the hot dogs and dipping sauce are?" He blurted.
"Oh yeah, I threw them away." Gumball said. Before the rest of them gasped.
"You could have given it to a homeless person! You're not supposed to waste food like that dude." Darwin shouted.
"Well I'm afraid of dad and grandpa Frankie's genes being manifested into my metabolism. So my inner fatness might have told me to eat it, so I got rid of the junk food before it could. In conclusion it's waste either way." Gumball explained. The three of them just gazed at him dumb founded.
"It's another phase." Nichole called out to them from the kitchen, then set a freshly baked pie on the table. The fragrance, caught Richard's attention. He followed it, and attempted to pinch a piece out for himself but Nichole had pretty quick reflexes, allowing her to smack his hand away. Richard winced and sucked on his sore fingers.
"Not every thing cooked in this house is made for you Richard."
She grumbled. "It's for our new neighbor." She stated.
"That weird one that wears a black cloak all the time?" Darwin asked
His mother nodded before deciding to set the pie somewhere safer for it to cool.
"Mom I don't think he's going to accept this gift. I don't even think he'd want to hear your voice or even look at you! He doesn't even allow insects to crawl on his front lawn..." Anais warned.
"D'aww I'm sure he's just shy. I'd be grumpy to if my neighbors didn't do anything to make me feel welcome." Nicole stated before walking to the windowsill and retrieved the gift. "You can come to if you like." She ensured her children.
Anais and Darwin shook Their heads, looking a little scared. Gumball shrugged and smiled.
"Just to make sure he doesn't try anything." He lied. The true reason was to see what this "new neighbor" was like for himself.
...
Outside they found that his home was just like they described. For some reason everything around it, compared to the other houses, was grey and dull. The plants looked dead, and a stormy cloud loomed over the house, while every other part of the neighborhood remained bright and sunny. Gumball was rather shaken by this and was already anticipating on going back home
After seeing this Nichole still tried her best to look friendly. She rang the doorbell with her free hand and waited for an answer...
"WELP! Looks like no one's home... Maybe next time!" Gumball said before attempting to leave, Nicole however, was able to quickly grab her son by the back of his sweater, before he could escape without having to look back at him.
He whined and shuddered when the door opened. Worst of all, it was one of those creaking doors...
Sure enough, the man... or whatever he is, himself, peeped to see who it was.
"Hi! My name's Nicole, and this is my son Zack, though we prefer to call him Gumball. We hope that you'll enjoy your stay in this–"
"Bright..." He grunted in a deep raspy voice.
"Oh yeah. The sun is usually at its brightest at this time of the day. Isn't it beautiful?" She commented.
"NO IT IS NOT BEAUTIFUL! STOP GROWING!" He seemed to yell at Nicole with first sentence, and then at the sky with the second.
"What?" Gumball finally spoke.
"The universe is too big! So big that even the stars are a waste of energy! Why must they be so apparent and so hot? Not to mention everything being so old, I mean we're talking millions and billions of years of what? Rocks? Gas? Clouds? And balls of evil heat." He ranted.
"What are you suggesting?" She asked.
"I'm suggesting that everything in existence is uneducated, pointless and ugly. And you're a good example of that, lady!" That same finger he used to point at her, knocked the pie right out of her hand.
At this point Nicole would have given him a round house kick to the stomach, launching him across his living room. But the most important thing that she learned from anger management classes, was that two wrongs never made a right.
"Alright Gumball, I think we've heard enough." She stated calmly before beginning to walk back to their home expecting her son to follow.
Gumball looked up at him, "H-hey mister... Everything in the universe is relevant, Einstein said so."
He stuttered.
He bent down to his height and scowled. "Well then prove it."
...
The scene is now set in the library, where Gumball was looking through a rather large book.
"What the what? That can't be possible! How can things be relevant, if video games weren't created yet?" He then slammed it shut, but it was revealed to be an inspirational novel. "Oh. Wrong book."
"There you are." A familiar voice piped.
"Oh hey Anais, Darwin. Our neighbor was probably right. Einstein's an idiot. I bet no one's ever heard of him." Gumball grumbled.
"Well that's what we came to the library for. To learn more about the universe. How it began, how it's going to end, and to see if theories, are correct." Anais explained.
"Don't we have the internet for that?" Darwin asked.
"Well when we read books it uses up a lot less energy." She countered
Gumball smiled. Of course he would want to help out with something like this.
...
Their father had the same intentions. But it was very strange.
They were by the sidewalk in front of their house. There were candles set everywhere, and a circle drawn with chalk around them as they surrounded it.
Of course his children questioned if he was sure about this.
"Of course I'm sure. I saw it in the premier episode of my new favorite show.
Now to tell you the story of how the universe came to be. It all started, when Mother Nature rose from the clouds and created all the things. But then, the spirit of energy attacked the sun and the earth was formed."
The boys nodded their heads, but Anais knew better.
"...That's not how it happened!" She hollered.
"Is too!" Richard countered. "Now, if we squirt ketchup on the ground-"
As soon as Richard brought out the bottle and squired it,
Their rude new neighbor slammed his door open.
"Gah! Wasting food for stupid reasons? How disgusting. Did you ask the ketchup's permission to do that or not?!"
The four of them looked at each other confused.
This guy must be mentally disturbed or something.
All Richard did was slowly shake his head, 'no'.
"I... Will... Legally sue you for common ketchup indecency!" He then whipped out a rod. It had a glowing grey colored crystal at the top of it. The crystal shot a beam which landed a direct hit on Richard.
"DAD!" The kids cried in unison, as their father fell to the ground. Once he did his his bright pink color faded into a dull grey. They gathered around Richard to see if he was still breathing. Once they were sure he was still alive they called for their mother for assistance.
...
Richard was laying on his bed looking grey and miserable. If someone would have hit him he would have gotten over it easily, but this time something was affecting him. Of course his family members tried how best to comfort him.
"My body may be in one piece, but my heart isn't." He mumbled and sniffled.
"N'aww it'll okay honey. Do you want to watch 'Thing fall together'?" Nicole asked.
"Ew. That show is too interesting."
Everyone around him gasped. "Oh no we're loosing him! Don't worry dad! We shall confront this mysterious cloaked villain, find dad a cure and bring him to justice! Or my name's not Gumball."
"And Darwin!" His brother added.
"And we are a team?" They said in unison.
"That rarely fails." Nicole added.
"Well mom you're usually not part of the team but we'll let you in on it this time." Gumball ensured.
So the 3 Wattersons set off to their neighbor's to find potential cures and weaknesses, while Anais stayed and looked after Richard.
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Credit to MarioWario. She inspired me to write this story. So it kinda belongs to her. You can check out her channel. Also I had to Add an Oc in there unfortunately. (I despise OCs). But in order for the story to make more sense I guess I had to. More chapters to come