What To Do When You Are Dead

A.N. – Here's a new chapter! And yes, I am somewhat getting back on track with updating! I apologize for not having the final chapter to 'The Confusion' finished; I kinda ran out of a long ending to it, so please just be patient! I will try to update this story more often, and probably daily (o_0 is that possible?) if I get to finish the last chapter for the other story. Anyways, R+R+E! (Read, Review, Enjoy) Also, I may not add cameos for my Thompson OC's, as I agree with 'FudgeBall' that it might mess up the story a bit because I want the story to be in order. Also, I may wanna warn you that Gumball swears a lot in this chapter! :X

Disclaimer : I do not own The Amazing World Of Gumball. The Amazing World Of Gumball Belongs to Cartoon Network.

All the songs from the album belong to Armor For Sleep and Equal Vision Records.


Chapter 4 - Remember To Feel Real

As the two ghosts were resting themselves at the cemetery. Gumball was on the large tree and Carrie was floating around a couple of old cracked tombstones below. The unsullied night released a cold breeze that both the spirits could feel. A dribble of rain arrived as it made rather calming noises as it hit different surfaces. The rain only passed through the non-solid entities as they looked at each other. Carrie then began to wander around the area, as Gumball looked up in the sky, with raindrops passing through his face. A tingling sensation started to startle the girl ghost as she closed her eyes to concentrate hard. What she was detecting was also caught by Gumball, but he took no other notice of it. Carrie could not help it but to pace around uncontrollably around the cemetery premises as Gumball could only stare at her emotionlessly. She felt an uneasy feeling inside her, which Gumball could feel as well but he ignored it.

"Gumball…something's about to go down at the church…this is bad!" she said with anxiety as she slowly opened her eyes. "We have to stop…whatever this is, right now!"

"Why should I care? Let them get hurt. They don't know what it feels like to be dead." Gumball spoke but got no response. He looked at the place where Carrie used to be and saw that she was already gone. He quickly caught a glimpse of her and quickly tagged along with her. Meanwhile, at the Church entrance, an old car had pulled up next to the holy building. The rusted frame of the car was rather ear-annoying but the occupant of the vehicle paid no attention to it. He grabbed a small pistol from the glove-box that had no door and then concealing it inside his dirty jacket. He slowly made his way to the entrance while he suspiciously looked to the left and right, not wanting any other form of life to spot him. He got in and gave a good quick shout to the occupants, who were asleep.

"EVERYONE HERE IS GONNA DIE!" He screamed out loud as he whipped out his firearm. The Wattersons sleeping in the church immediately woke up and saw the man, who was masked and wearing large black glasses, but his massive purple ears were visible. The family ducked down as he fired the first shot which ricocheted off a wall, bouncing to a bench. He fired another shot, almost hitting Richard's massive build. Nicole jumped to grab her young daughter, who was crying in fear, as a bullet bounced off the tiles, sending shrapnel of ceramics to spike around. Another shot was fired as the bullet scratched Nicole's cheeks, narrowing killing her. She fell down in pain, accidentally dropping Anais. Nicole accidentally had her head totally exposed to the upcoming bullet's path. Without warning, the assailant pointed the gun right at Nicole and fired another raging bullet right at her, but for some reason, the bullet stopped and fell on the ground midway. Anais crawled back quickly to her mother, who was holding a bloody cheek, as the red fluid flowed to the ground. The assailant was a bit dazed at this but disregarded the apparent illusion and was about to fire another shot when his hand was forcefully pulled down by an unknown force. Carrie, who was completely invisible, used all of her remaining energy without showing herself, to throw the gunman, who fell hard with a thud. He attempted to grab the gun which fell a few inches from him, but it mysteriously was thrown away from him. The attacker tried hard to get up, but the same unknown strength was holding him down. Richard then quickly ran full speed at him, as he was defenseless right now in his position. However, the assailant quickly got up and ran away through the front doors of the church as he escaped in his car. Richard went back to comfort his family. They looked around and noticed that Darwin and Penny were missing, but decided not to search around for them right now. Nicole weakly got up, still holding Anais, who was panting heavily. Anais was spoilt by a bit of blood from her mom, as well as Richard who tried to find something to cover it with. He grabbed a small blanket and gave it to her, as the white sheet began to paint itself red. Richard quickly dialed a number on the phone, trembling from the actions that had just happened.

"Detective Hunter, please come to the church, we just got attacked by someone!" The call was quick as Richard put the phone down. He hugged his family as they waited for the canine. Meanwhile, Gumball waited outside, still staring at where the attacker had gone. Before he knew anything else, he was, surprisingly, slapped by Carrie, wearing an annoyed facial expression.

"Why the hell were you just watching? Your whole family would've died right now, if it wasn't for me!" Gumball didn't want to take notice of the very solid-like slap that just hit him.

"I don't care about them Carrie, I already told you that!"

"Gumball, I just-I just don't know what's wrong with you anymore!" Carrie began to shake her head as she oddly felt head aches. Gumball felt this but didn't care.

"Well that's just fine! You shouldn't understand me at all! You don't understand shit!"

"What the hell is your problem?" asked Carrie as she began to grind her non-hard teeth. Gumball simply began to build up energy again, as both ghosts don't realize that they were manifesting again. Gumball quickly gave a massive push to Carrie, as she flew back at least 5 meters away.

"My fucking problem is my fucking mom!" Gumball cursed out loud as he tried to free the inner anger and pain. The memory of his confrontation with his mother was still fresh. The pain that was inflicted on him still hurts. The crushing swears at him only made his soul fill up with hot embers. His massive building rage was transferring to Carrie, who was beginning to understand his rage inside. She wanted Gumball to release the tension inside, as of right now, it was the only way to give some relief to Gumball's enraged core. Gumball felt that his whole misty body was about to explode. "SHE FUCKING HURT ME FUCKING HARD FOR FUCKING BLAMING ME FOR FUCKING SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT FUCKING DO! IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO FUCKING UNDERSTAND, YOU FUCKING WORTHLESS, GOOD FOR FUCKING NOTHING-" before he could finish it up, Carrie tightly embraced the angry spirit as she transferred a cold feeling to him, which greatly composed him down. Gumball began to shed tears as he breathed irregular breaths.

"No…don't feel this anger…please calm down…" she whispered. Gumball's quick panting morphed into slow controlled breaths as his energy faded away, making both of them invisible again. Right on queue, the Wattersons slowly walked out the building, looking around taking, great caution. Gumball fixed his small black eyes on the blue individual below as he the abhorrence slowly rose up again.

"If you could hear me mom, I just want to say, fuck you. Fuck you for bringing me here." He said as he turned around in anger. Before he floated away with no thought, his arm was grabbed by Carries finger-less hands as she gave him a caring look. Gumball looked hard at her expression, but his eyes accidentally spotted his mother, who he now sees that she was bleeding on her cheek. "I wish she bleeds to death!" he added, before getting composed by Carrie once again.

"Gumball, let's go back to the cemetery. If you don't want to see her again, that's fine. I just want you to stay calm." Gumball nodded his head, as both the spirits left the scene. The feline never looked back, while his only friend looked to see the family retreat back in the building. As they were flying in the cold wet night air, Gumball began to hear a voice in his head.

Gumball…this is not your fault… someone set you up… nothing was your fault…

The feline specter brushed it off. Carrie heard the voice as well, but she concentrated in whose it was.
The voice began again, this time slowing both the ghosts down.

nothing was your fault…

Carrie paused as Gumball turned around to look at her. The eerie thought was too much for him as he looked at Carrie straight in her simple oval eyes.

"Carrie, we need to find out where Tobias is." He said monotonically. Carrie looked at him, tilting her head.

"Tobias? That was Tobias all along?" she said with a confused frown on her white face.

"Yeah…before I died, I saw him and I heard his voice saying that I was set up…maybe that assailant earlier had some connection with the incident…"

"Why didn't you say that before? Let's look for him. This may be first step to ever finding anything to close your gaps." The two floated away, but unknown to them below, the RV that contained the boy they were looking for arrived to the Church. He got out, along with Morrison, Penny and Darwin. They came through the entrance, quickly spotting the gunshot holes on the walls and the benches. The kids gasped at the injuries on the building, but Morrison ignored the holes on the walls. The group slowly approached the shooked family as Darwin ran up to his mother. Penny shrieked when she saw the massive gash on Darwin's mom's face. She went back to the RV to grab some medical items. Darwin started to rub the cheek as blood was transferred on his flippers.

"Mom what happened?" he stuttered as the blood still continued to pour out.

"A man came in here and tried to kill us all…but he started to act strange, and then he left…like something hit him…" Morrison quickly spotted the rusty gun that the attacker had used, resting underneath an unscathed bench. He grabbed it with his gloved hands, trying not to contaminate any fingerprints on it and placed it in a plastic bag. Meanwhile, Penny came back with a first aid kit. Darwin made his mom sit down as Penny continued to properly clean and cover the wound. Nicole placed her hand, stained with dried blood, on Darwin's head as she tried to compose herself. She looked at Darwin, who wasn't here in the assault earlier and so was Penny.

"Anyways, why did you and Penny leave and why are you with Detective Hunter?" Before any of the children could speak, the large dog wanted to explain everything that's going on, on his own.

"You see Nicole, they want to help me with my investigation." Nicole tilted her head in confusion as she sat down straight.

"Why them? Don't you have any colleges?" The dog looked at the ceiling and gave a sigh.

"Unfortunately, I was dismissed from the job for not investigating something I didn't want to investigate…" Nicole quickly cut in as she grabbed Darwin, who tried to break himself free.

"So you're an illegal investigator? Morrison, I can't have Darwin working with-"

"Missis Mom, no!" screamed Darwin as he struggled to break free.

"Darwin, but you can't…I can't…I don't want to-"

"I want to know about the truth. Gumball ain't going to rest in peace, knowing that he did nothing wrong! I won't let my brother die in vain with so many spaces in his past life!" butted in Darwin as he gave a concerned face. He managed to break free as Nicole was not sure whether to let him go or not.

"He's right, Miss Watterson." Added Penny as she got closer to Darwin's mom. She held her hand tight as Nicole started to gain confidence. "It's for the best. It's for Gumball. We are all doing this for Gumball." Nicole looked back at her son's coffin as one of her tears mingled with her blood. Maybe the horned peanut was right. Maybe Gumball isn't at peace. Maybe he needs help. She looked back at the canine as she stood up.

"Okay…but please Morrison, I want you to take care of them. We don't want anything bad happen to them."

"I understand the consequences of bringing children to a potentially risky environment, but I assure you, they will all be safe. Now go get some rest." The canine turned his head to the rabbit as he grabbed something in his trench coat. "And Richard…" Morrison slowly paced to Richard, as he handed him a pistol and some ammunition before backing up with the kids. "You will need it, this can happen again, and I fear it will."

"Thank you." replied Richard as he stared on the shiny silver firearm. The group left as the headed for their van. Nicole waved at her orange son as he looked back with his smile, which returned to him.

"Good Luck Darwin!" she shouted. Darwin gave her another smile and waved back to her. The group slowly closed the doors, as Richard re-set up the sleeping equipment. Nicole placed Anais back into her place as Nicole could only sit and try to ease the pain on her cheeks. The large rabbit stared at the gun that Morrison had given him, and hid it under his pillow, not knowing when another strike could occur..

TOBIAS' HOUSE

"He's not here…" said Gumball quite irritatingly. The two spirits had arrived at Tobias' house, however, the whole property was void of any active occupants, and all the lights were off. Gumball slowly slid his hands down the window as he started to shed tears. "What if he gave up on me…" He then remembered the image of his mom beating him up for no reason at all when he was alive. He then got a quick taste of the kick from Darwin again. Memories of bad days flooded in as his heart sank in misery. Instead of feeling hate, Gumball just felt empty and helpless. "Dammit everyone gave up on me…" Carrie only looked at the feline as she leaned closer to him.

"I haven't…" added Carrie softly. Gumball quickly felt some hate inside as he yelled out loud. Gumball was beginning to get tired of Carrie constantly supporting him. He just hated it that she was the only one he could talk to, and right now, he thinks that she ain't helping much.

"Oh yeah? What makes you so different! You can't help me! You can't! No one can!"

"Unlike them, I am the only one that CAN help you openly! So shut up and accept me to help you! Just accept the things you got to do right now! Do you want to be free? Do you want them to be free, knowing that you are happy? WHAT?" she shouted with authority. Gumball couldn't find an arrogant and loud response, so he just started to cry miserably. Carrie shed out a tear as she whipped it off. "I'm…I'm sorry…I…I didn't…"

"I don't need help…" he sobbed back wretchedly. Carrie began to calm herself down as she touched him. "I just…I just don't care anymore…I can't go on…why is life so short?" Carrie darted her eyes around and gave him a ghostly kiss on his forehead as he quickly stopped sobbing. Both felt warm and cool at the same time. Carrie didn't kiss Gumball before but it felt…good to her.

"I'm sorry for shouting at you…Gumball…you'll make it through, I know you can. This is going to be a long journey, but I know that it will be over soon when we look on to it…" Gumball gave a weak smile as he embraced the ghost female back.

"Thanks Carrie…thanks for being the only one to be with me through all this."

"It's what I have to do. You just gotta remember to feel real even though you're not." Gumball gave a stronger smile as he let the female go. "Now come on, why don't we look inside the house? If Tobias isn't here, then we'll find out any secrets ourselves."

"You're right. Let's go." The two spirits went through the walls as the searched around the house. There was not a lot in the living room, so their best bet was at Tobias' room. They floated to it from the bottom and noticed Rachel on Tobias' couch, placing a rather dented tape in a cassette player then watching what looks like a security camera video. Rachel was completely overwhelmed at what she was seeing. The two ghosts slowly headed for her, as they had their eyes fixed on the screen. The video showed a man, dressed in a lab coat, who had walked in the very room where Gumball had placed his pranking solution. What was distinct of him was that he had huge ears. Gumball opened his mouth wide. The individual on the video was the same one that attacked his family back at the church. The shady character then pulled out a small box, placing it on the table. He opened it, and revealed a rather chunky metal container that had wires and dials on it. Then pressed a few buttons on it and swiftly placed the item under the table, and made a run for it. The camera finally saw a large flash, before the camera's recording stopped. Rachel removed her earphones in shock. Tobias had been on the sidelines, researching and desperately trying to find out what the hell has been going on.

"What the f-" she whispered in awe. "Everyone else must've only seen Gumball doing…" she stopped as she rewinded the tape. The video then shows Gumball, preparing his solution. "…but…but it wasn't his fault…" A few minutes after him, a large portion of the gap was some static, but then comes Darwin. Rachel tilted her head in confusion. Darwin placed another bit of the powder on the solution thinking that Gumball was in another lab. "Darwin was right…but…" Rachel fast-forwarded to the part with the Large eared creature. "What's wrong with the cops! They have to know this! Why did that guy not show this to them? I gotta go give this to the cops…" she sped downwards, carefully grabbing the car keys in her parent's bedroom. The ghosts simply stared at her as they watched her accelerate. Rachel was panting hard as she made a quick turn to the Elmore Highway.

"Godammit Dad!" yelled a purple rat at his large brown obese father. The larger vermin turned his Computer chair around to face his apparent son. The two weren't alone though. There were other rodents in the area, who held threatening rifles in their hands.

"What's the matter son?" he said with a deep but raspy voice. "Did the mission go according to plan?" His son only kicked a piece of trash on the ground as his heart filled up with impatience.

"No!" His father stared at him with angry eyes.

"Why not?" said the large rat as he slammed his fists on his ancient desk, rattling the objects on it. This startled the other rodents in the area as his son jumped a bit. He then leaned on the desk as he made direct eye contact with his father.

"You know you won't believe me with this reason, but…I DON'T KNOW!"

"What the hell do you mean, 'I don't know'?"

"Exactly! I had my damn gun, which is fucking gone now, pointed directly at that stupid bitch, Nicole Watterson! I was gonna shoot but then something, SOMETHING, pushed my hands down! Next thing you know it, I got pushed over, then I couldn't get up-"

"Enough! Seems you had quite a day. Go get some rest; you are now not in a good situation to work." cutted the fat rat as he pointed his stout finger to the left. His son only made a grunt as he followed the direction of his dad's stubby finger. He then relaxed a bit as he ordered his personal guards to go get some rest as well, except for one. He grabbed the skinny henchman's arm as he then grabbed an old revolver and began loading it up. He placed it on the palm of the rat's hands, as he also gave him a crude looking box that felt as heavy as five bricks. He didn't make contact with his minion as he still stared on the picture of Nicole Watterson, with a bright red circle highlighting her. The scrawny mouse, known as Phil, stared at the image, as he looked back to the two objects his boss had just given. The rodent was probably the only one to look 'decent' as he was dressed in a clean red shirt and some clean khaki pants.

"Go to the Watterson's house and bomb it. If you find any of them or just anyone, kill them. Got it Phil?"

"Got it boss." Replied the thin rodent as he walked out the rusty doors of the hideout. The fat rat got his large body up as he slowly made his way to his bedroom. He quickly took out a notepad and wrote a couple of things on it. The note had his plans on it as he chuckled evilly.

Cause an accident to blame one of the Watterson kids - Complete

Wait until child commits suicide - Complete

Assault the remaining Wattersons - Failure

Destroy the Watterson's property - in Progress

The rat then quickly placed the book back in it's original place as he took one more cigarette before he fell asleep.

Meanwhile, Rachel was still driving fast to the police station to share the shocking news that she just found out earlier in her brother's room. She rushed at the road limits, careful not getting spotted by any cops hidden behind a sign or a wall or whatnot. As she rushed through the streets, she spotted Jamie, walking alone in the middle of the night. She gave a weak honk as she looked back. Rachel stopped the car as she got out, walking to Jamie.

"Jamie, what are you doing out here at this time?" The buffalo girl grabbed the taller girl's arm and looked at her golden watch. Jamie let go as she gave a small shrug.

"Rachel, it's just 11:00 pm, don't get too excited…" she replied without any sort of emotion.

"Whatever, but why?" repeated Rachel as she knelt down to the girl's level.

"I just need to think things out…" Rachel looked deep at the girl's expression that was slightly covered by her hair. Rachel bit her lip as she looked hard at Jamie's concealed eyes.

"Is it about Gumball's death?" The multicolored hair teenager got no response as she patted the horned girl. "Look, wanna have a small cruise around?"

"Sure." Both the girls got into the car as they slowly toured around the city of Elmore. Rachel tried to keep a conversation, but Jamie always found a short answer that ended it. Jamie kept looking out the window while she bit her lower lip. The two remained silent as they passed around a park that Gumball used to hang out in. Jamie's heart started to sink as she remembered those days. Finally, the horned girl broke the silence.

"Rachel…" Rachel quickly looked at her before concentrating back on the road.

"Yeah?"

"Have I ever told you that I…" Jamie stopped as she sat back, looking at the road. Rachel kept exchanging her looks as she slowed the car down.

"Told me what?"

"That I actually…"

"Well?"

"I have a crush on Gumball?" Rachel accidentally pressed on the brakes as she stared in a bit of shock.

"What? Really?" The horned girl gave a hesitant nod as she gave out a tear. Rachel slowly wrapped her arm around her as she accelerates the car again.

"It hurts that I hated him for nothing now…I didn't even get to apologize to him…" Jamie began to sob as Rachel grabbed a tissue box and handed it to the crying female. "I don't know anymore…I liked him…but why did this have to happen?"

"Look ,no one knows, but for sure, that accident was not his fault." Jamie plopped her head up as she held back a tear or two.

"Re-really?" Jamie stuttered as she stared at the driver in slight glee.

"Yeah." Tobias found out a secret that everyone should know about." Rachel quickly opened the glove-box and gave Jamie a black cassette tape that just had a label that read;

#25/21/12 EV.3

The girl stared at it with confusion as Rachel stopped the car momentarily.

"Jamie, can we go to your house?"

"I guess…but how to we play this thing?"

"The thing is at the trunk." The two looked back at the road as Rachel headed for the buffalo's house. They narrowly got caught by a patrolling squad car, but swerved to a corner and drove round in circles until the cop disappeared in the street. The continued on and finally made it to Jamie's house. Jamie carefully opened the door with her keys, as Rachel followed her with a large cassette player. They carefully got in and headed to Jamie's room. On her bed was a small photo of a class photograph with Gumball circled in it. Rachel grabbed it as she stared on a written text as Jamie had begun to set up the equipment.

"Gone, but forever in me." Rachel said out loud as she read the text. Jamie looked back as she plugged in the cassette player.

"Yeah…I'll always have that motto inside of me." She then placed the tape in the player as she started to watch the security camera, while turning down the volume by a notch. Rachel sat on the ground with her as they focused on the video. When everything was done, Jamie cried uncontrollably as Rachel embraced the pre-teen girl.

"Why…" she sobbed as Rachel patted her back.

"See? It was never Gumball's fault…yet no one still too notice of this." The horned girl stood up as she wiped of a tear and grabbed the photo on her bed as she disassembled the set up. As they got out, Rachel leaned on her family's car as she stared at Jamie packing up the player on the trunk. "And that's why I was driving alone at night Jamie. I want to give this to the cops. We need to let them know."

"Yeah, let's go." replied Jamie with a sniff. They packed up and left the area, heading for the police station. It was getting late, and Rachel decided to use a shortcut; drive through the street where Gumball lived. The street was the closest path to the police station, and the two were anxious to get to it. Another late night driver was nervously looking around the road as he took a sharp left turn. He looked at the road and there was nothing but a straight path. With this, he took out the box and placed it on the seat when – CRASH – The car that Rachel was in crashed head on with the scrawny mouse's old rusty vehicle. Rachel was knocked out a bit but managed to wake herself up. Jamie quickly got out the car, and the rodent in the other one got out with a revolver. Jamie started to panic as she hid behind the car door. Rachel looked at the gunman who started to point his firearm right at her. Rachel kneeled on the ground pleading.

"Please mister, don't shoot us! Don't kill me! We're sorry! We didn't see you! Please!" The rodent slowly placed his gun down as he walked closer in the car. He then saw the black cassette that Jamie had been holding for a while. The rodent raised a brow as he grabbed the item. Jamie tried to get it back, but she was forcefully pushed away. Rachel ran to her friend and helped her up as the rodent smacked the black item on the ground and shot it with his pistol, blasting the object in to smithereens. The girls could only stare in horror. The one evidence that strongly claims that Gumball is innocent is now forever gone. He looked back at the kids and proceeded to point the gun again. Rachel then stood up trying to face off with the man. "Look, what do you want from us?" she said with fear as she trembeled.

"I'm gonna have to kill you. Orders from my boss." replied the rat monotonically. To the girls, the man looked like a criminal who'd kill anyone without mercy. But the truth is that the rat had running thoughts in his mind.

{I can't just kill these little girls…this is wrong…} he thought intensely. After a long gunpoint scene, the rodent holstered his gun and walked closer to the girls, who took a step back. He looked them all in the eyes as he walked back in his car to restart the engine that had stopped from the impact. He got his head out as he yelled back to the kids.

"I don't want to see your faces again. Got it? Now get outta here!" With that, the girls quickly ran back in their car as Rachel reversed hers to get some space to turn around the car. The plan she had tonight was foiled by this mysterious being. They looked back as he was out of sight. Rachel retreated back to Jamie's house as she punched the steering wheel, accidentally sounding the horn.

"Damnit!" she screamed loudly while tears came out her eyes. Jamie only clenched her teeth as she too was in the same anger and disappointment of Rachel. Back at the street where the confrontation happened with the teenage girls, Phil, the scrawny rat parked his car with the driver's door open, just opposite of the Watterson's house. He looked in the window, only to see that there was nothing inside of it. He looked around vigorously in the area to make sure no one saw him. He was being extra precautious, even though he wore a mask and some goggles to conceal his identity. He finally took out the item in the box, the same type of object that his college had used to destroy Elmore Junior High. He tapped in some numbers, as 00:30 lit up on the screen. The rat quickly made a run for his car and sped out the vicinity. After exactly 30 seconds, the bomb went off...

Darwin, Penny and Tobias were looking at the several pieces of notes, papers and other pieces evidences that the canine detective happened to have. They looked at it intensely, discussing each of their thoughts, but all of a sudden, the RV swerved sharply, causing everyone to fall back with some of the papers flying around. Tobias got up first and ran to the driver's seat as he looked to see that Morrison had got out the car. The kids got out the RV, as they saw a massive light shooting out at an area in Elmore.

"What the hell's that?" asked Tobias to the dog who watched the ball of fire intensely.

"Something's wrong there, let's head for it!" With that, the group got back in the RV and made their way to the explosion site. Meanwhile, Gumball stared at the dark sky which suddenly lit up. Carrie was looking at it too. This time, Carrie was too late to detect the explosion as she was in a short slumber. They flew their way above the several buildings of Elmore to get to the blast zone. As they arrived, they felt the strong heat of the dying blast. Gumball looked at the area, and noticed this was his street…and the house that was completely destroyed was his…He looked on, as the other houses were also destroyed, but still had untouched parts. He noticed on the far edge of the location, was lights of red, blue and white. He floated down as he stared at the scene. He noticed that Carrie was not down here. He looked up as he floated next to her.

"Carrie, what's wrong?" Carrie gave no response as she floated downwards with little speed. Carrie began to cry hard as she stared on the scene. Flashbacks of Carrie's memories came flooding back. She soon was then dreaming in her own world inside her mind...


In the central area of a small town, were two couples, who were exchanging flirts as they laughed throughout the day.

"Carrie, will you be my girlfriend?" asked a young boy, kneeling at Carrie, who was actually a living doll when she was alive. She wasn't an emo, but rather a typical average cheery girl. She smiled like there was no tomorrow as she gave laughs that made her beige skin turn pink. Carrie gave a chuckle as she gave a kiss to the boy's forehead.

"Unless you want to be my boyfriend!" she laughed back. The boy stood up and embraced her as he gave back a kiss to Carrie's cheek. The two were having a great time, hugging and sharing their love. They sat down on a bench on a park as they talked on about their likes and dislikes. Out of the blue, a large truck swerved near a tall bank that stood over the park. Two men ran outside and made a sprint. Carrie's boyfriend looked at the scene as he stood up.

"Hey, what's that-" before he could complete his sentence, a massive fireball blew out the truck as he and Carrie were thrown back. After what felt like an hour, Carrie woke up, looking at her boyfriend, who was out cold on the ground. She dragged herself to her friend, but she was having massive pains in her body. Then she felt her heart stop. She reached her hand towards her boyfriend, but everything was starting to fade away.

"No…no…no…" at that point, Carrie's visions ceased to exist. Her cold body lay soft on the ground. Carrie opened her eyes and she was in what looks like a hospital room. However, this room had a small slab on the center. Something was covered in a white sheet as she stared. She walked to it as she pulled down the sheets. Under the blankets…was her. Carrie screamed loud as her boyfriend's family arrived. A bunch of large eared and long tailed creatures mourned at Carrie's body. She looked at them as she tried to shout. No one looked at her. Then, her boyfriend, who was using a crutch to support his injured foot arrived. He cried hard at Carrie's remains. He cried loud as Carrie tried to scream at him. "I'M HERE!"

"Carrie, why…why you?" he screamed. Carrie looked down as her legs transformed drastically. She began feeling pain and denial as her whole world was spinning

"WHY ME? AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHH!"


...The flashback ended as Carrie began to cry uncontrollably. Gumball had seen her visions and felt her pain. Gumball remembered the line that she gave to him, as he started to feel broken.

"This is how I ended...The life I used to have..." Carrie whispered as a tear fell down her covered eye. Gumball stared at her as he quickly remembered the line that Carrie had given him. He placed his hand on her shoulder as he still looked down on the flaming neighborhood.

"Remember to feel real Carrie. That's what you said to me." Carrie pushed herself away as she looked at Gumball straight in the eyes.

"But it's hard to know what's real when your not!" she wept loudly as the ghostly wet tears flew around. Carrie then whirled out the scene as Gumball was left to examine the remains of his house. He didn't want to bother Carrie. But then again, Carrie had been with Gumball no matter what it was. Carrie never left Gumball's side even when Gumball was being arrogant and even when Gumball had lost control of his anger. He then quickly followed Carrie, hiding behind the dust and smoke that was up in the air, trying to reach the ghost girl to comfort her. The Wattersons at the church heard the loud explosion, as all of them were out, staring at the light in the sky, with tons of smoke floating above the location.

"I wonder what that was…" wondered Nicole as she walked back in.

Meanwhile, Phil returned back to his apartment, as he gave a quick call to his boss who gave a chuckle as he heard the good news for him. Shortly after, the 18 year old criminal stared at the floor, sitting on his bed as he slowly laid back and got to sleep. He didn't know why he had to do such destruction. But a job is a job and what's done is done…


A.N. – Updated as fast as I can. Can't do everything within my chosen deadlines. Got other people in my house to use this comp. Yes, the whole house uses the same one computer in my room -_- Neeway's, the next chapter might be short, it's gonna be Carrie remembering her final days before she was killed..Gumball also reminiscences…Everything about Carrie in this chapter and in the next chapter are non-canonical to any of the normal TAWOG episodes.