CaliburVI: Hello all! This is the express to chapter four! Let's see how training goes... And who knows, soon they may encounter the Great (but extremely evil) Simian! It's a long chap guys so be prepared.

Jack: Huh. You and your drug induced stories.

CaliburVI: What is up with you?

Jack: Of all the prisons, Alcatraz leaves the greatest impression.

CaliburVI: ...

Gumball's POV

I was fighting back the sting of tears as they were threatening to well up in my eyes. First hour of training and I was wishing for death... A little too dramatic? Well that was how I felt!

"Come on boy! It's not that difficult!" Alternate Gumball yelled at me as he paced before me.

I was lying on the ground with a cinder block on my back. Our first training session was that for speed, reflexes and agility. We would focus on this for three days.

Alternate Gumball instructed me to run a short obstacle course with the block on my back. Although the block was immensely heavy, the obstacle course wasn't the real challenge of the day. It consisted of rope net I had to move through, stepping in the gaps. Then I had to climb a small rock wall. The trick was that the hand-holds came off if you lingered on them for too long. Lastly was a tire track. I had to hop in each tire to move forward. They were filled with a dense mud that clung to my legs.

The obstacle course was the simple part. Not that I could complete it. I say simple in comparison. I fell countless times and could not complete any aspect of it smoothly or in a single attempt. But at least I was able to get up, (although slowly, with some difficulty and a lot of whining,) and carry on.

What killed me came after the course. As I finished Alternate Gumball told me that I had to remain inside a square painted on the ground. Sound simple so far? Well then I had to dodge a countless barrage or tennis balls, water balloons filled with gelatin and clay discs. All launched from a convenient contraption from hell, controlled by my other me.

I never lasted six seconds. Literally! I had to dodge all those projectiles. Dodge that chaos. Without leaving a three by two meter block. I don't see how he could think ANYONE could do it.

"Get up and do it all again!" He yelled at me, tugging me up by the tail. I'd only done the obstacle course and the evasion training session four times each. It took me an hour to do it four times! I still had to do each another sixteen times! "I caaan't!" I whined, falling back to the ground, the cinder block knocking the wind out of my lungs. "Why not, weakling?" Alternate Gumball yelled. "My everything..." I managed to say. "What about it?" He asked. "I think it's broken!"

Mean while: Darwin's POV

"Why are we walking through the forest?" I asked as my alternate self led me through the brambles. "We need to find you a decent wall." He stated, tearing through another wall of foliage. "Ok." I said. At the time I thought it was a good enough explanation. I just couldn't wait to get my wings! It was going to be SO great!

After a while longer we reached a clearing. "Here we are." He said. "Great!" I skipped out in front of him. I looked around. A shear cliff face stood before us. "But, where's the wall?" I asked, a little disappointed. Alternate Darwin pointed at the cliff. "Right there." My jaw hit the ground... Maybe cause my legs gave way with fright. "What?! You said a wall, not no mountain!" Alternate Darwin smiled a shark like smile. "Get climbing"

Three hours in and I'm stuck on a ledge. Before I began to climb, Alt Darwin blew some dust, supposedly from that orb, on me. Now I was meant to 'strain' my muscles to kick start the evolution process. All that was really going to happen was that I was going to die soon. Die, from falling from the side of a cliff.

Gumball's POV

"And that's how it's done." Alternate Gumball said as he walked towards me. My eyes we're wide and my jaw wide open. He just demonstrated how to do the obstacle course and evasion session for me. He had four cinder blocks on his back, but moved through the course like a wraith. His total time was 31... SECONDS! And he ended doing a perfect triple somersault, landing in a crouch! I was allowed to fire the projectiles at him for the next part. He avoided it all with ease. Even miming a yawn as he added ANOTHER block to his back.

He saw my expression - which really would have been hard to miss - and put a chiseled hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry Gumball." He said. "You'll get there soon. With the progress we're making you'll be able to do all that just as well in no time!" That really boosted my spirits and I decided to do it all one last time. This was number twenty-one.

Four days later...

Gumball's POV

Today is the first day where we've made any noticeable progress. I've moved on to carrying THREE blocks and it now takes me 39 seconds to complete the course, and I'm still improving fast. Yesterday we started with another training objective. I was instructed by Alt Gumball to reach the other side of a small room, where the floor boards had been removed leading to a pit filled with water. "How the heck am I meant to do that if there's no ground to stand on." Alt Gumball gave me a sly look.

"Since there is no floor, use a wall." He ran straight for the gap and as he reach the end of the floor boards he leapt left arcing his body as he did so, so that his feet came into contact with the wall. As this happened he sprinted with unnatural speed and reached the other side of the wall. He ran along THE SIDE of a wall!

He gave me a few pointers on technique and then I had my first go. I managed to get two steps before falling that time, and I improved quickly due to my heightened physical condition brought about by the other training sessions. By the end of the day I could complete the task without faltering.

Today however, it seemed that the task of running along the side of a wall was child's play, even when the length of the gap was increased. I couldn't believe it. I could RUN on walls. No jokes, I could literally run along the side of a wall... It was... It was a dream come true! Having mastered speed and agility, wall running and evasive aerial acrobatics, I was well on my way to becoming a ninja master, and in so short a time!

Darwin's POV

A web of lightning snaked through the black clouds above us. Wind, rain and snow whipped against our faces as we entered the clearing once more. I gulped as I knew what was coming. "This is your final test!" Aternate Darwin yelled against the roar of the thunder. "Get ready to climb!" I nodded and moved towards the cliff.

Over the past days I've grown stronger and more than once reached the summit. My farms (fins/arms) were developing into powerhouses and I had begun to see the signs of claws beginning to develop on my hands.

This training was supposedly going to kick start my natural evolutionary abilities, after all, I did grow legs! Now only the claws and wings were missing. So far, I think it's working... I can feel the changes in my body! Either it's evolution or it's puberty... Hopefully the former.

Half why up and my muscles were beginning to strain... But I knew I could do it. After this Alternate Darwin will let me touch the orb and my transformation will be complete.

I was nearing the top. The storm raged around me but I knew that I could do it. Soooo close...

Later that day: Gumball's POV

YES! YEESSSSS! I've finally done it! I finally reached the same time as my alternate self and with four blocks on! But I'm not done yet. Well most people practice until they get it right, a ninja master practices until he doesn't get it wrong. I've got to do it the obstacle course, the wall running training course and the evasion course ten more times each and if I do each of them perfectly each time, we will move on to combat training. I'm so freakin' awesome!

Darwin's POV

I reached up to grab the ledge of the cliff. The rain whirled around me and as I was about to reach my goal, a great flash of light erupted before and unbelievable pain surged through my body... Before I knew what was happening... I was falling to my death, as everything grew darker...

CaliburVI: Really Jack? A cliffhanger?

Jack: Obviously

CaliburVI: Sorry guys, it seams you'll have to stay tuned to find out what happens... Maybe it's okay to be evil once in a while.

Jack: That's more like it, Calibur.