Chapter 4: The Odd World
Gumball groaned while he woke up. He held his head in pain and looked around. He was in an alley with a few trash cans in it. He rubbed his head looking around. "Where am I?" he asked himself confusedly while continuing to look around, but when he looked up he saw the clear blue sky and looked down to see a puddle of water at his feet, showing his reflection until he suddenly heard a robotic voice. "Thank you for repairing me," something said that tone of voice. Gumball screamed in surprise, looking behind him and seeing the Engi that he repaired which had caused the ship to explode.
"What did you do? Where are my friends?" Gumball asked a lot of questions in a fast voice in confusion and panic. The Engi's screen of a face turned purple and green again. "I can only process the first few questions you have asked… I am an Engi. Well, I do not know what happened to your friends when you began beating on my body. It reactivated but also turned on the emergency teleporter I set before the crash. Anyone in the explosion was teleported to a random location in the galaxy," the Engi explained. Gumball gulped afraid to ask any more questions.
"W-where am I again?" Gumball questioned in worry. "You are in the Civilian Sector 1 on the calmest planet. Thank you for fixing me, but I must leave. May we meet again," the Engi bid farewell to him before walking off, his metal feet clanking against the ground as he walked away.
Gumball stepped out of the alley just to have his jaw drop seeing a variety of different alien races that filled the streets, walking around and doing daily tasks just like everyone he knew in Elmore. He gulped seeing the strange aliens. "My mom's going to kill me… if my friends don't first," he said to himself in regret for getting his friends in potential trouble since he did not know what could happen. But was also worried they all would be mad at him, He started walking through the streets it was like a regular city.
After a short time of walking, Gumball had been thinking of what the Engi had said, his words echoing through his head repeatedly. "There are more planets? More sectors?" he kept his thoughts, wondering if his friends were safe or not, thinking that they were probably all mad at him. He was just walking the streets until he arrived to a huge crowd of aliens surrounding something while cheering and roaring in applause. Gumball squeezed through the crowd to see what was going on.
Gumball sighed in relief once he got through the crowd of aliens and saw a weird arena. An alien that looked like a mantis was fighting an alien that looked like he was made of rock. "Coooool!" he said in aw seeing it, but wondered what they were fighting over until he heard someone shouting about taking bets for scrap metal. He tilted his head hearing it but saw people giving actual scrap metal to bet on the mantis or rockman. Gumball thought about questioning the other aliens if they had seen his friends, but he thought that he would do this after seeing what the mantis and rockman would do.
Gumball heard a loud bell ring as he saw the rockman slam his palm into the ground, ripping out a big chunk of it and throwing it at the mantis, but he saw it and slashed the rock in half with one of its pincer like arms before it jabbed at the rockman. It blocked it with its tough arms and punched him away. He continued to throw his punches, swinging wildly but mostly missing the mantis, yet he sliced one of its arms off. The mantis replied by kicking the rockman against the wall of the arena and put his pincer like arms up to his stone neck in the fashion of an X. It slid its pincers and decapitated the rockman, its head smashing the ground and falling to pieces. Its body fell over and collapsed into chunks of rocks.
Gumball looked in shock at what he just witnessed as he heard some of the crowd cheering, and the others booing over the results of the fight. The mantis went to another room and left the arena once he had won. Gumball had to begin asking people about his friends and thought that perhaps this will be the best place to start. He went to the staircase nearby, heading down the steps which led into the fighters' locker room.
As Gumball entered the locker room he saw an Engi talking with a weird being that looked just like a slug. "Are you kidding?" the slug asked being one of the fighters as well. "I'm not joking. You should leave while you can the rebels will attack tonight to begin the plan to dominate every planet in the galaxy. Their only weakness is that flagship with their leader on it, and that's at Sector 9," the Engi responded. Gumball ignored them and continued looking around for the mantis he had watched at the match.
After a short time of searching, Gumball found him and went up to him. "Um, hello?" he tried to greet the mantis as he looked at him, giving Gumball a little scare. "What do you want, kid? An autograph?" the mantis questioned. "N-no, I was just wondering if you've s-seen my friends," he asked nervously still scared of the aliens. "No, not really many kids around here. Why? Did you get separated on a field trip?" he responded with a laugh while slamming his locker shut after cleaning his pincers.
Gumball sighed unhappily and looked down, knowing that it was going to be hard to find his friends. The mantis had an idea. "What kind of race are you?" he asked but Gumball was unsure on how to answer. "I-I don't think I should answer that. I'm n-not even from this planet. I just want to find my friends and get us home," Gumball answered and gulped. "Right… well I'm Kazaak, but you can call me Kaz. Maybe I could help you find your friends in my spaceship," Kaz offered with a grin. "Really? Oh, thank you thank you thank you!" he responded happily, glad that he was going to get some form of help but still had major guilt over getting separated from his friends.
"Yeah, yeah, it's no problem. We'll go searching when I finish my next five fights," Kaz implied with a grin. While he listening to Gumball explain what his friends looked like, Kaz just kept nodding, planning on capturing them all and selling them to slavers for a lot of scrap, because since they were unknown races they would be worth a fortune.
"That's great! Hey, by the way, what are rebels?" Gumball asked seeing a shocked expression go across the mantis' face. He looked around nervously. "You are dumb kid. They are the loons of the galaxy, evil people from all the races combined. They haven't been a problem yet but people keep rumoring of some galaxy takeover by attacking, planet after planet, sector by sector. They want to enslave us all. Personally, I don't believe it," Kaz explained everything behind the rebels and how they wanted to dominate every race.
"Oh… well I guess if you think it's nothing to worry about," Gumball said before sitting down on a nearby bench as Kaz walked away to get back to fighting like they had agreed on.
End of Chapter 4