Gumball woke up to a scream. Not just a scream, Darwin's scream. Gumball jumped out of bed, panicked. What if the bowl dropped on the floor and Darwin was helplessly flopping around gasping for breath? Then he saw it. Darwin, standing up, face outside of his bowl. Darwin standing? Darwin has legs?! Gumball couldn't help himself, he started screaming, which got Darwin screaming again.

"What the…..what? How? How did this happen?" Gumball asked, flabbergasted.

"I don't know! I just woke up this morning and suddenly I have these." He gestured to his newly formed legs. "It must have happened while I was sleeping or something."

"Alright, let's not panic." Gumball said, trying to get some composure. Yes, he was freaked out, but he could clearly see that Darwin was freaking out even more. That was understandable, he was the one this was happening to. The most important thing was that this was his best friend, he had to help him. "Does it hurt?" He asked.

"No, actually it doesn't." Darwin said surprised. Weren't these kind of transformations supposed to hurt?

"Well, that's good." Gumball said "Do you think you can get out of your bowl? It can't be comfortable in there anymore."

"I can try. I'm pretty wobbly, I've never had legs before."

"Just go slow, ok? I'll help you." Darwin slowly stepped out of the fishbowl, legs shaking the entire time, but he couldn't manage to get down from the table and he fell, only to be caught by Gumball.

"Are you ok?" Gumball asked

"Yeah, I'm ok." Darwin said "you know what? This is the first time I think I actually touched you."

"You're right." Gumball realized "We always had the glass and the water separating us before." Gumball suddenly put the pieces together in his head and came to a realization. "Do you realize what this means?!"

"No, what?" Darwin asked, confused.

"It means we can do everything we talked about doing but never could! You can come to school with me! I can teach you how to play videogames! We can hang out at the park! Go to the movies! Ride rollercoasters together! The possibilities are endless!"

"Endless?!" A huge grin slowly appeared on Darwin's face "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me!"

"I know! Come on, we have to go tell Mom and Dad." Gumball grabbed Darwin's arm and started pulling him excitedly

"Dude! Not so fast! I still don't quite know how to use these yet!

"Oh, sorry." It took them awhile, especially teaching Darwin how to go down the stairs, but eventually they made it to the living room.

"Ok, you go hide, I want this to be a surprise."

"Ok!" Darwin said, heading off to the kitchen. Gumball stood in front of the TV to get his parent's attention.

"Mom, Dad, I have something amazing to show you."

"Oh, well, what is it honey?" Nicole said, both parents were unconvinced that anything a seven year old could show them would be that amazing. They were expecting a messy arts and crafts project. So when Darwin awkwardly shuffled into the living room they were shocked. Gumball was oblivious to this and started excitedly talking a mile a minute.

"Isn't this great?! Now we can actually go places together and do stuff! We don't have to just talk anymore! I can teach him everything like riding a bike, playing a videogame..." Gumball kept talking until Nicole finally interrupted him.

"But….how did this happen?"

"I don't know Mrs. Watterson." Darwin said "I just woke up this morning looking like this. I hope you're not mad at me."

"Mad at you?" Nicole said "I'm not mad at you, this is a good thing, and you had no control over it, I was just surprised, that's all. But, I don't think I'm comfortable keeping you as a pet fish anymore."

"What?!" Gumball and Darwin said in disbelief.

"What I meant was, you're clearly not a pet anymore, so we should probably adopt you as a member of the family."

"What do ya say?" Richard asked

"Oh thank you Mr. and Mrs. Watterson! Thank you!"

"Please, don't call us Mr. and Mrs. Watterson. You can call us Mom and Dad."

"Thank you Mrs. Mom and Mr. Dad."

"Eh, close enough." said Nicole

"Oh man dude! We're gonna be brothers!" Gumball said excitedly

"Brothers!" Darwin repeated, just as excitedly. Then all the Wattersons gathered together for a group hug. The first of many for the growing family.