Gumball's Bizarre Adventure:

Schoolhouse Rumble

Chapter 3: Fools Paradise

With Tobaias down, Gumball and crew began walking the halls of the warzone they called a school with higher spirits and greater confidence.

"Man! I can't believe we managed to survive that!" Gumball exclaimed "I was sure we were gonners. Thanks for helping us out babe."

Penny blushed a bit "Oh it's nothing really."

Darwin glared at Gumball who he felt wasn't appriciating his help much. "I weakened him for you." He whispered to himself.

"That reminds me, we need to figure out names for our stands now since we're gonna be fighting with them alot more." Gumball pointed out. "But what should we call them..."

"I already have a name picked out for my stand." Darwin said, summoning the stand to his side. "His name is Laughin' Louie."

"Why Laughin' Louie?" Gumball asked

"Because his face makes me laugh" Laughin' Louie made a goofy smily face that made Darwin giggle.

"I just figured something like The Light would work for my stand." Penny mentioned. "I mean, all it does is get brighter and brighter."

"Yeah that could be dangerous if we're all 3 gonna fight together." Gumball pondered for a moment "We're all gonna need sunglasses."

"Ooh ooh! And maybe some cool jackets!" Darwin added "That way we look straight gangsta!" Penny giggled at the idea of Gumball and Darwin looking at all "gangsta".

Gumball snapped his fingers in realization "I've got it!"

Darwins face brightened "We're getting the cool jackets!?"

"Hmm, maybe. But no, I've got the perfect name for my stand!" Gumball summoned his stand and stuck a pose "Dire Straits!"

"Dire Straits?" The others questioned

"Because when I come into the field, the situation becomes Straight, Dire!"

Penny and Darwin gave Gumball a dissaprooving headshake. Gumball sighed "Whatever I thought it was funny." Just then they overheard a familiar, annoying laugh coming from down the hall. It was Banana Joe, laughing to himself, probably trying to be discreet for a second but couldn't hold it in.

"What's so funny?" Gumball asked. Joe wiped the tears of laughter from his eyes and tried to recollect himself to tell him.

"Because of your hilarious stand name!" He chuckled out "Straight! Dire!?" He began litereally rolling on the floor laughing, even though upon retrospect it wasn't really that funny or clever to begin with. But that was the thing with Banana Joe, he would laugh at just about anything, no matter how stupid or un-intentional it was.

"Right" Gumball said, rolling his eyes "So do you wanna have a stand off or...?"

"Oh! Um, right." Banana Joe got up from the floor and cleared his throat. "Prepair yourselves fools, for I'm about to reveal my super powerful, super awesome, super stand!"

"Super stands!?" Darwin said worryingly "What could that be?"

"It's probably just him trying to make his stand sound less cool than it actually is." Gumball pointed out "This shouldn't be much of a battle, more of a scuffle."

Banana Joe threw off his banana peel and striked his pose as he summoned his stand, a wrinkly old face, grinning with shinny perfect teeth. It had arms where its ears should be, and a set of really bushy hair. Out of all other things Gumball had seen today, this was by far one of the weirdest, and one of the creepiest things he'd seen.

"This," Banana Joe exclaimed pointing up at the sky "Is my Fools Paradise!"

There was a brief moment of silence before Darwin asked "Is that all?"

"Well no." Banana Joe pointed out "There's much much MUCH more to it than that."

"Like what?" Penny asked, crossing her arms in disbelief.

"Wha-what do you mean?"

"I mean I don't think your stand is really all that special." Penny harshly pointed out "It's just kinda eerie looking and doesn't really seem like it could do anything special."

"Outside of looking creepy~" Gumball whispered, with emphesis on creepy.

"HEY!" Joe yelled out "I'll show that my stand is way more than just a head with arms! Watch this!"

Joe yelled out to his stand "Hey Fools Paradise! What do you call a egg, in the ground?" He paused for comidic effect before shouting "An EGGPLANT!". Gumball and crew looked at eachother confused, were they supposed to be laughing?

Just then, Fools Paradise started belching out a loud, joyfull laughter. A laughter that felt genuine, like that joke was the funniest thing he had ever heard. It wasn't much special, but just then, Darwin couldn't help but start snrking.

"Darwin, what is it" Gumball asked, starting to smile and giggle.

"I don't know man" Darwin laughed out "I just had the urge to start laughing! What about you?"

"I don't-" Gumball broke out laughing like something was tickling his sides "I dont' know man! I just can't stop laughing!"

In just a few short seconds, Gumball, Darwin, and Penny were all down on the floor, laughing up a storm. They weren't sure what was going on, or why they were laughing so hard. Fools Paradise just kept giggling and laughing like he knew that he was about to win so shortly.

"Now you see my stands true power." Joe told them "As long as Fools Paradise keeps laughing, you have no choice but laugh along."

"You...you aren't gonna get away with this-s-s-s..." Gumball choked out trying to keep his breath. He summoned Dire Straits and took a large swing at Fools Paradise.

Fools Paradise stopped his laughter for a moment to dodge. And just like that, everyone could take a breath again. Dire Straits kept swinging and swinging, but Fools Paradise was just too fast for him, dodging and weaving every single swing. "Hold still you little-!" Gumball exclaimed. Darwin and Penny summoned their stands to help him out.

Just then, Fools Paradise went back to laughing right in their faces. The laughter it forced the three to do kept them from using their stands or abilities until they were able to stop. "How's this for useless!" Banana Joe shouted as Fools Paradise started swinging its arms rapidly, each swing hitting Dire Straits in the face, almost like it was like 6 punches a second.

"HAHA" Fools Paradise echoed with every successful swing. Until just like that, Dire Straits and Gumball went down, Gumball hitting the floor with a smile.

"Gumball!" Darwin and Penny shouted before being brought back into a world of laughter. Their stomachs and lungs almost couldn't handle it, they were gonna run out of breath very soon if they didn't think of something soon.

"Yes! Yes!" Joe cried out "Soon Fools Paradise and I will be able to defeat ALL of the other stand users, and the school will be all mine, ALL MINE!" He ran in the halls for joy, but like a student who never learned to run in the halls, he didn't see where he was running and ended up slipping on his own banana peel. His googly-eyed face hitting the tile floor with a small splat.

And in that moment, Fools Paradise stopped again, its face becoming more crushed and mashed rather than wrinkly and gross. Penny and Darwin started breathing normally again.

"Penny, The Light, now..." Darwin choked out.

"Right." Penny choked out in reply as The Light shined brightly and warmly, right in the face of Fools Paradise. It wasn't enough to completely blind, but the power was just enough to stun the head for a moment.

Laughin' Louie ran and grabbed Fools Paradise by the tounge, as it was doing that Banana Joe got back up and rearanged his face only to have his tounge forced out and gripped. "You joke wasn't even that funny in the first place!" Darwin yelled out as Laughin' Louie threw Fools Paradise by the tounge. It hit the lockers face first, its tounge getting caught in one of the little slits on the locker.

Gumball got back up finally and summoned his stand, thanking his friends for the help. Fools Paradise tried to get its tounge out of the locker door before it got in even more trouble. Banana Joe took a few steps back as Dire Straits and Gumball got closer and closer to the laughing little jerkwad. Dire Straits grabbed Fools Paradise by the arms so it had a clear target to its currently plated face before headbutting it. Joe and Fools Paradise both feeling their tounges getting mashed and broken and yelled in pain. "Are you satisfied? Because you just chuckled your last laugh."

Just as Dire Straits swung his fist at the poor, defeated stand, it disapated out of thin air. Joe had gotten back in his banana peel and started running as fast as he could away from the three of them, screaming in fear. But he didn't get far, because at the end of the hallway lied Laughin' Louie and Darwin who had gotten away from the fight between Gumball and Joe to catch him off if tried bolting it, using Laughin' Louies emotion sensing to read the fear in Joes body as he knew he was about to lose.

He tried to run the opposite direction, only to run into Penny and The Light. There wasn't any way to escape, poor Banana Joe was cornered. The others walked up to him, ready to finish off this stand off. Joe sighed and looked as though he had to face defeat.

"You leave me no thhoithe..." He got onto his knees and closed his eyes.

But in just another second, he pulled out Fools Paradise again "Thyche!" There wasn't much reaction from the other three. "Gueth it'th time for me to banana thplit, eh?" He said with a broken tounge. Fools Paradise took a deep breath, but before it could say anything, Dire Straits grabbed it by the lips and held them shut. Joe was in a gasp, he knew his time was up.

"Shows over Joe." Gumball said in a lower, grumbly voice as Dire Straits began pummeling on Fools Paradise.

"GABA GABA" It shouted with every punch, beating and bruising Paradise and Joe until Banana Joe was as black and brown as dirty coal.

Gumball dusted off his hands "And that's how the banana gets bruised." He quipped with a cheesy girn. Just then, a light from above shined down and started to shower Gumball with money. He smiled brightly with joy as he grabbed each and every single dollar bill he could see. The total ammount came up to one-hundred dollars!

"So that's what your stands power is!" Darwin exclaimed.

"Oh I'm sorry sir." Gumball said to his fishy friend "But I believe you just dropped A HUNDRED DOLLA~S!" He started dancing all around the hallway with cash in his hands.

Banana Joe started coughing, indicating that he wasn't dead, just really really really really badly bruised. Darwin and Penny went over to the shirvled up fruit.

"You guys are pretty dang strong huh?" Joe said with a smile.

Darwin and Penny looked at eachother with a feeling of sorrow "We're really sorry Joe. We had to do what he had to do."

"Nah it's my fault." Joe told them "I was talking all tough and big, when really, I guess my stand isn't really all that strong afterall."

"Hey, it's not like that man." Darwin reassured him with a smile "Your stand was really tough, really it was!"

"Yeah, I'm sure there's way weaker stands than yours." Penny stated "Plus I'm sure your stand will get stronger over time."

Banana Joe coughed up a little bit "Hey, before you guys move on, I have one last request."

"Anything you want buddy." Darwin promised.

"Pull...my finger." Joe insited. Darwin gave his finger a gentle pull and accedentally pulled off his whole hand. Joe farted shortly after. They all began to chuckle, not like a fools paradise chuckle though, but a real, authentic laughter. Except for Gumball, who kept dancing with his money in hand.