"How?" gumball said looking up at Marcus. Marcus laughs a victory hero laugh. "It's simple gumball! All I need to do is build your confidence and put you threw are task of trials and errors building your confidence, it will be a piece of cake" Marcus said walking with gumball. "Where are we going?" Gumball asked gumball.

"We are going to Tina's place" Marcus said with wide smile. "WHAT THE WHAT?!" Gumball said shocked "Why? Why do we need to go to her place?" Gumball said scared. "Well. there! We begin in your first lesson Young gumball" Marcus said smiling. "Lesson in What? Getting beaten to a pulp?!" Gumball shouted "Well I can't really assure you of protection but it's all for the lesson young kitty cat" Marcus said arriving at the junk yard.

"And what's the lesson here?" Gumball said shaking "gumball if you want confidence you need bravery!" Marcus said pushing gumball into the junkyard. Gumball falls in and quickly gets up. "HEY!" gumball shouted at Marcus. "All in the lesson!" Marcus shouted and throws a large rock in the distance hitting Tina in the head.

Then a loud roar is heard and Tina comes jetting from the background. Gumball screams. "MARCUS! LET ME OUT!"Gumball shouted bagging on the junkyard gate. "Be Brave Gumball!" Marcus shouted back. Gumball turns around and sees Tina Running at gumball. Gumball yells and runs to the right of the junkyard.

Gumball hopes over a car jumps and threw another car but goes through the window. Tina Steps on the car and knocks the other car in the air. Gumball turns his head and sees the car coming at him and quickly jumps out the way. "THIS IS CRAZY!" Gumball shouts and runs the other way going back to the front gate. "MARCUS! MARCUS!" gumball shouts bagging on the gate. "Come on gumball you can do it!" Marcus said lying back on the chair reading a comic book.

Tina loud footsteps could be heard. Gumball turns around and screams and gets knocked out of the gate into the air and lands In front of Marcus. "ow…" Gumball whined. Marcus puts the comic away and looks at gumball and shakes his head. Gumball gets up and looks at Marcus Angry. "ARE YOU INSANE!?" Gumball yelled. "Dude you should have took her on" Marcus said

Gumball widens his eyes. "What?! You expect me to fight a Giant T Rex?!" Gumball shouted. "Well…Yeah" Marcus said and shrugged. "Dude! You Are Crazy!" Gumball shouted. Marcus sighs and stands up. "Ok ok, you're right that was way too extreme I admit it, sorry" Marcus said looking at gumball. Gumball glares up at Marcus Angry but then calms down.

"Fine, but don't do anything crazy!" Gumball said pointing at Marcus. "Sure, nothing crazy" Marcus Said Smiling. "So what now?" Gumball asked. "Well gumball since your still at the bravery level, we are still going to need to work on that" Marcus said rubbing his chin. Gumball sighs. "Please tell me It doesn't involve Tina" Gumball said worried. "Nope" Marcus said taking Gumball to the park.

At The Park

"Alright gumball since you failed the Tina T Rex lesson it's time to move on" Marcus said bringing in a box of honey. "What's with the honey?" Gumball asked. Marcus Gets a paint brush and splashes honey on gumball. "Dude what the heck?" gumball said glaring at Marcus. "This is the bee honey test" Marcus said looking at a bee hive.

Gumball eyes widen. "NO WAY!" Gumball shouted. Marcus gets the bee hive and bees come out swarming on to gumball. Gumball panics and stays still. "Marcus!" Gumball said trough his teeth. "Yes?" Marcus said looking at gumball. "Get them off!" Gumball shouted trough his teeth. "Look at gumball you need to stay calm, if you panic you'll mess up big time" Marcus said with his eyes closed and arms crossed.

Gumball looked at Marcus and just stood there. "Got it?" Marcus said looking at gumball. Gumball nodded slowly. "Good, now stay there for 40hours. "WHAT?!" Gumball shouted and then the bees started stinging gumball. Gumball runs around trying to get away from the bees. "I told you to stay calm!" Marcus shouted and shake his head.

An Hour of sting cream and bandages later.

"sooo how ya feeling gumball?" Marcus asked looking a gumball. "I'm fine…Yeah after getting beat up by Tina and got stung by a bunch of bees, yeah I'm doing swell!" Gumball shouted. Marcus sighs. "Gumball you are falling to see what I am teaching you here" Marcus said lying back on his chair at his home.

"What am I failing to see?! You haven't done anything besides almost killing me!" Gumball shouted. "How is any of this going to help me ask penny out? What has anything you shown me suppose build my confidence? YOU'RE NOT TEACHING ME ANYTHING!" Gumball shouted louder. Marcus just laid back and closed his eyes. Gumball clinched his fist.

"Fine I've had it!" Gumball stormed out of Marcus house and left. Marcus sighs and just shakes his head. "Darn it gumball"

End of Chapter 2