Author's note: I hope you are enjoying the series so far! Chapters like this have been a little bit easier to write since these types of chapters don't leave me at a brick wall, so expect chapters like these to come out a little bit faster. Chapter 8 is already being written right now so expect that to come out in the next few days.
The Amazing world of Gumball is owned by Cartoon Network and Ben Bocquelet and Sonic the Hedgehog is owned by SEGA. No copyright infringement intended.
Gumball sprinted off the roof only to fall flat on his face of the soft grass in the front yard.
"Ouch..." Gumball said as he got up. He stretched a bit as he jogged to the middle of the street.
"Here we...GO!" Gumball said as he quickly went into a sprint, rushing down the street. As he continued running, he felt like he was getting progressively faster. 15 mph, now 20 mph, and within 5 minutes he was going at a constant 25 mph.
"Woah, this is fast already, are you sure we should go faster Sonic!?" Gumball said, moving his arms back and forth as he ran in order to keep blood going through his body.
"I'm sure you'll be fine!"
"How do I go faster than this even?"
"Just move your legs and hold your arms back and keep moving faster!"
"But isn't the motion I'm going at more beneficial?"
"Not to me really...All I can say is follow my word and flow like the wind."
Gumball started to do as Sonic told him as he moved his arms back and started to push himself more, going up to about 35 mph. Gumball was now struggling to keep going at this speed, since this limit has never been experienced by his body before.
"I can't...keep...this...up any...longer!" Gumball said as he was continuing to run.
"Don't focus on how fast you are going right now, just go at any speed you like, I'll teach you how to run at really high speeds later. Stop by the park, there we will teach you something of my "nature" if you can call it that."
Gumball then started to slow down back to 25 mph, now feeling a lot more calm as he ran along the streets. He ran into Elmore Park, and went into a halt.
"Alright Sonic, what am I supposed to do?"
"Jump as high as you can, there's more to the move, but you need to know how to jump really high to begin with..."
"Alright, here I go!" Gumball did a small jump, but with more and more strength and from Sonic motivation Gumball started to jump a lot higher. Gumball felt energized after jumping about 12 feet in the air.
"What's next?" Gumball asked. "Do a sommersault as you are in the air, and then we'll continue..."
For a minute or two Gumball was sommersaulting in the air as he jumped, then stretched as he awaited his next step in the process. He looked at a trash can in the park. "Your final step is launch yourself forward while in a ball formation towards the trash can" Sonic said.
For about half an hour Gumball was learning how to home into the trash can, and in the end succeeding. "That's your default attack you'll be using, the homing attack!"
"Alright, what's next?"
For the next 3 hours Sonic taught Gumball most of the moves he should know, from wall jumping, sliding, quick stepping, Drifting, and most importantly the spindash. During an hour and a half of the three hours, Gumball struggled with the spindash, as he struggled to roll himself into a ball for the maneuver.
Gumball successfully spindashed along the park's path, now starting to run quickly.
"Alright Gumball, now the test really begins! I want you to put all your might in and go at 50 miles per hour!"
"50!? Sonic are you crazy!?"
"You said you wanted to go fast, so 50 should be a great start!"
"Ugh, something in me regrets of what I said earlier, but here I go!"
Gumball prepared himself and started himself off with a spindash, blasting a good 30 feet and moving into his running position, letting his arms go back like Sonic said earlier. Gumball was easily faster than he was 3 hours ago, he felt like he was going as fast as a highway car. He saw something in the distance.
"Sonic there's a pedestrian!" Gumball screamed.
"Jump!" and that he did, flying above the pedestrian and landing far behind them, keeping up the speed.
"That was really close Sonic...I didn't know if I was going to make that one..." Gumball started to lose concentration of what he was doing at the speed he was going.
"Gumball you're being a bit scatterbrained, pay attention of what's in front of you!" Sonic said as Gumball rushed out of the park and onto the streets again where cars could loom about.
Gumball went back into concentration and continued to speed about. Eventually he saw a car on the lane he was on. "Remember to quick step!" Sonic said "Got it!" answered Gumball as he quickly side stepped and ran past the car, the driver of the veichile going to a complete stop to marvel what or who just went past them.
Gumball continued to run, not knowing he was now well faster than a car on the highway by the time he started to struggle keeping a normal speed. He ran to the Elmore mall until he stopped to take a breath.
"Alright Gumball, now to teach you one last skill, best used when you get some sneakers, but we can try it out now. It's called the boost! It's usually accoustomed to me, but with the power of that emerald, you can accomplish this quite efficiently. Plus were a fusion, which makes this boost feature probable." "That's true..." Gumball said "Alright, how do I do it?"
"That Chaos Emerald is giving you all the energy you have used at this point, focus all of your energy gained from it and blast forward! My challenge for you is to get from here back to your house in less than 5 minutes!"
"Alright..." He tried to concentrate as he started to glow a light blue. After 5 minutes of concentrating, Gumball stopped concentrating and stretched his legs.
"HERE WE...GO!" Gumball said as he blasted off at an incredicble speed. He could see things very well in front of him, but on the sides of his vision, things were blurry.
"How fast am I even going!?" Gumball asked Sonic, starting to panic a little.
"You're going by my experiences about 500 miles per hour!"
"500!? So this is the speed you're used to, right?"
"Correct-omundo!" Sonic responded. "Don't stress over it, just move like the wind."
Gumball tried to calm down a bit, continuing to run as he went as a blur around Elmore. After what seemed to be minutes he started having some fun with it, soon he was jumping over cars like they were just small rocks in the park, and running up walls, jumping from roof to roof at incredible speed, doing tricks while in the air.
"Woo hoo! This is feeling good!" Gumball said out loud as he soon made it to his house, stopping at a dime. Gumball then started to feel some pain from his feet. He took a look down to see that his feet were on fire. Gumball screamed and stomped the fire out quickly with success.
"Anais, what was that?..." A sleepy Darwin said as he was still in his fish bowl.
"Probably just an owl Darwin...go back to bed..." Anais said as she rolled in bed and continued to sleep.
"When you said I need shoes, I know why I need them!" Gumball said as he tried to tend to his soot covered feet, cringing in pain.
"Alright, let's wash them off, then we'll head back to bed..."
"Got it..."
Gumball went ot the back yard and turned on the hose, washing off the soot from his feet.
"How long did it take to get from the mall to here?" Gumball asked
"Likely a minute or two..." Sonic said "but that's still pretty good for someone who's not used to the speed I go through. Anyways let's jump to the roof leading to your room..." Sonic said.
Gumball then ran to the front and parkoured from the fence to the house facade leading up to the window to his room. Gumball cringed and checked on his feet again, then pulling out the Green Chaos Emerald.
"I really need this dealt with now, the pain is really starting to get to me..." Gumball said as he took Sonic words from earlier and thought about having his feet healed. Then nothing really happened.
"Sonic, are you sure this will work? Nothing happened..."
"Just give it time and patience, not everything's instant you know, let's just head to bed..." Sonic said as Gumball tip toed to the window and opening it, climbing in and closing the window. Gumball changed into his pajamas and crawled into bed in the best comfort he could.
Gumball then closed his eyes, and drifted off to sleep.
