A/N Sal Here and he knows just what you want!

Saw "Halloween" and I could say a lot about it but I will say that I did enjoy watching it. Not my favorite and I'm not too pleased with the writers breaking their own lore but if they can do it, so can I! What do I mean by that? I gave Carrie the physical form of my favorite animal!

You've probably by now noticed the summary change and me scraping the picture I had up there. Right now I can hear the readers going "What are you up to Sal?"

You'll see soon enough but enough about me… what about Gumball?! Be aware... I use big words...

Ch.2 Stolen

Gumball and Darwin continued to walk to their new bus stop after walking with Anais to hers to go to grade school. They arrive early as usual due to their new bus driver being as unpredictable as Gumball himself. They see their friend Carrie by the bus stop waiting. Ever since summer vacation, Carrie was given her life again… although not in her original form but that's another story for another time. She was now a white wolf but her nose was shorter than other wolfs. She now wore a gray sweater that covered her hands a bit with black jeans and gray shoes. She was just a little shorter then Gumball was. The only thing that made her seem like the old Carrie was her hairclip and her hair covering her left eye.

"Hey Carrie! You're early!"

"Hey Gumball…Darwin." Carrie's greeting to Darwin was emotionless.

"Still sore about our breakup huh…"

"It's only been a week so yeah Darwin… I'm a little sore with you… Girls like me can hold grudges for a while…"

"That's fair I guess…"

"I was actually surprised. You two seemed happy together!"

"Yeah but the fact that Darwin could fall for any chick in a dress just made it impossible for me to stay with him. Though it was a good solid eight week run…"

"I can change if you could consider giving me another chance…"

"I believe you could but I'm not going to give you anything right now… I just want to clear my head right now and focus on my new chance at life. Don't forget I'm still not used to having a body…"

"Still? It's you think with all the times you possessed my dad just so you could binge plus the ten weeks of being alive now that you would be used to it by now."

"Maybe but for right now I just want to enjoy being alive…" Carrie said as she lied down on the bench. As the rest of their friends arrived so did the bus as they all took off for the school. The first person he saw was the girl of his dreams, Penny. For about a year now, Penny hadn't been the antlered peanut she used to be as her shell one day got destroyed and landed her in the hospital. She was not a peanut… she was a deer. But to Gumball that just made him want her more. She now wore a bright orange cheerleader's outfit as the football team was playing today and she was on the cheerleading squad… but only just. She was also a bit taller then Gumball but only by an inch or two.

"Hey Gumball!"

"Hey Penny!" Gumball had gotten better at not letting his feelings for Penny overwhelm him as he waved back to Penny and sat down with Darwin.

Darwin and Gumball sat in silence with each other.

"Darwin, you ok man?" Gumball had to break the silence of his friend or it would drive him crazy.

"Yeah I'll be fine!" Gumball wasn't convinced. Gumball raised an eyebrow at the fish. "Maybe I'm not ok…"

"Dude… you've been staring at your feet for five minutes straight… You are not ok."

"Yeah…"

"Carrie?"
"Carrie."

"Dude, it's not the end of the world if she dumps you."

"Like you would know… When's the last time you went out with someone?"

"Good point. But I thought you were ok with you two not being a couple."

"I did too… till ten minutes ago…"

They arrive at school and head for their homeroom class and sit down wait for their first announcement.

"Good morning class." Their teacher was a talking peach whose name was ironically enough, Mr. Peitch (Pronounced Peach). Now first things first, I'm to explain how the reps of Homecoming are to be elected. The females will vote for theirs… while the males will compete for theirs." Every male in the room was confused by what Peitch meant… until he pulled out an orange flag. "Whoever has this flag at three o'clock will be the rep for this class. I'm gonna pull a name out of this hat to see who starts with the flag…" He grabs the hat that was sitting on his desk and pulls out a name… "Joe will start with the flag!" Peitch said as he handed Banana Joe the flag.

Gumball needed to make sure that he had the flag and Penny gets elected… but needed help.

"Carrie… can you help me?" Gumball whispered.

"Sure what?"

"I need you to make sure Penny gets elected…" Carrie seemed to look away briefly but at no one in particular. She looked down… although Gumball was too wrapped up in his plan to notice.

"Sure… I think I can do that…"

"Ok thanks! Darwin…"

"Yeah bro?"

"I need your help to get that flag and keep it…"

"You can count on me!"

"Thanks."

*Ring* the bell rang to go to the first real class but one person was still in his desk… and that was Tobias. "So that's their plan huh… Nows my chance to take Penny from him…"

The day turned into a madhouse of destruction. Though the entire class wasn't in on the fight for the flag… the masters of disaster were. Gumball, Darwin, Leslie strangely as well was in on this, Tobias, Joe, and weirdly enough Bobert was also in this. That's only because since he got struck by lightning and grew a personality… Bobert was less of a walking, talking trash can and more of an actual person.

The flag switched hands quite frequently. Mostly because if you to fend off one person… another came up behind you and swiped it from your hands and then ran away to put distance between them and the chaos behind them.

With twenty minutes to three, right now the holder was Bobert… and he was in defense mode. Everyone (minus Tobias as he was hiding behind a wall like the pansy that he was) was working on how to take him out of the equation until Bobert stepped into a puddle that the janitors made when trying to clean the floors and short circuited. Darwin took the flag for the first time and ran around the corner with Gumball. While no one was looking, Darwin gave the flag to Gumball and they ran in different directions to throw them off. Of course everyone believed Darwin had the flag as he ran away.

With time running down to a five minute warning, Gumball had found his way to where no one could find him. Though he wasn't sure where he was…

"Just got to stay out of sight and wait till the buzzer sounds… and I win. But what if it isn't Penny… Carrie said she'd do what she could to get Penny elected. Let's hope she can do…"

*THUD*

As Gumball was thinking and not looking where he was going, a door opens fast and the handle knocks him for a loop. Even being as resilient as Gumball was, the handle managed to floor him and his vision started to fade… but not before he could make out the face of Tobias…

"Poor, Poor Gumball… looks like Penny's gonna be dancing with someone else… sorry but that's life."

Tobias grabbed the flag and dragged Gumball to a locker. He shoved him into the locker and then locked it to prevent Gumball from appearing at the rep announcement ceremony. "Goodbye Gumball…"

Gumball awoke sometime later to the sound of the locker opening. He opened his eyes to see Darwin's, Carrie's, and Penny's shocked faces.

"Gumball, there you are… why are you in my locker?"

"To-Tobias… he-he hit me with a door handle… and stole the flag…" Carrie's face got serious as she helped Gumball out. Penny covered her mouth as she gasped as Darwin was in disbelief.

"So he threw you in here to get rid of you?" Gumball could only nod as he nearly fell over from being as woozy as he fell towards Penny who caught him.

"Dude he hit you hard... You got a bruise on your forehead the size of a baseball…" Darwin said as he saw the giant purple spot on Gumball's head.

"What time is it? What did I miss?" They fell silent until Carrie spoke up.

"Its five-thirty and you missed Tobias winning… and he's going to the homecoming with… Penny…" Gumball was now fully awake and aware… but he was also depressed as he looks at a sad Penny.

"We should probably get home before someone kicks us out…"

"Were you guys here all day looking for me?"

"Yeah you just disappeared and we started to worry. We missed the bus so we go looking for you."

"We were about to leave when we finally found you because we thought you probably just went home." Carrie said as she grabbed her bag from her locker.

"I have to go get ready for tonight. Gumball, will you be there?"

"I don't know but right now I don't really want to go to anything in public after what happened… Right now I want to go home…"

"Ok. I'll see you guys later…" Penny said as she was a little sad but she understood.

"I'll walk with you guys. It's not like I have anything better to do."

"Thanks Carrie…"

The three walked home in silence, baffled at what transpired to Gumball. Their plan to get both Gumball and Penny elected as reps so they could dance together… was singlehandedly stolen by Tobias.

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Gumball and Darwin arrived home around seven. They waved goodbye to Carrie and went inside to see Anais sitting on the couch.

"How did it go?"

"I… lost…" Gumball said as he continued up to his room.

"Lost what? What happened to Gumball?"

"They had a challenge where whoever had a flag at the end of the school day would be the rep… Tobias stole it in the last minutes but hitting Gumball with at door…" Anais couldn't believe the level Tobias went to win.

"How could they allow that?!"

"They didn't know about it because after he knocked out Gumball, he stuck him into a locker. Me, Carrie and Penny had to help him out."

"That's not fair! We have to make him pay!"

"Yeah, but how?"

"Leave that to me. Just make sure Penny and Carrie come over to help tomorrow. I'm sure they would love nothing more than to help. But for now you should try to cheer Gumball up."

"Right, I'll do my best!" As Darwin salutes Anais, he goes up stairs to check on his bro.

Gumball just seems to get screwed over at every turn. He was that close to being able to dance with Penny at homecoming… but Tobias had to cheat to win. Gumball just wanted to lie in his bed and sleep it off. Maybe his fortune would change tomorrow… but in his mind it wasn't bloody likely.

"Gumball?"

"Let me sleep Darwin… I don't want to talk…" Gumball response was stern.

"Hey man cheer up! Tomorrow Me, you, Anais, Carrie and Penny are gonna get back at Tobias!" Gumball couldn't help but smile at the thought of getting his hands on Tobias.

"Ok… I'll think about it but right now… I just want to sleep…

"Gotcha. I'll leave you to your thoughts."

Later that night… Gumball's dream…

**********background chatter and music **********

Penny and Gumball are dancing at the homecoming…

"…I love you Gumball…So why don't you love me…?" The question startled him.

"I DO love you!"

"No you don't… YOU LOVE HER!" Penny voice turned demonic as she faded from existence… leaving only a silhouette in the distance.

"AHHH!"

"Gumball, what's wrong?!" Gumball thought it best not to talk about it.

"Nothing… just a little shock… that's all.

"Okay bro… if you say so."

As Gumball went to lie back down to go back to sleep he played the dream over in his head… trying to think if it meant anything. He soon just disregarded it and went to sleep.

To Gumball the dream couldn't possible mean anything… could it?

A/N You must have a lot of questions:

"What is Anais' "evil" scheme?"

"What up with Gumball's dream and does it mean anything?"

"Why use a door to knock out Gumball?"

"Why is Carrie a wolf?"

I can answer 1 of these questions right now: Because no one uses a door to knock people out and I think it's a great way to KO people.

Also the reason I picked a wolf is because there aren't any wolfs on this show… that I know of anyway and I couldn't use a human because humans don't exist in this world.

Also I've added Mystery as the other category simply because it's gonna get a little weird in a few chapters...

Till next time: review, fav, follow, VOTE for the poll on my profile, and all that good stuff and I'll see you guys next time! Sal out!