Let me retry this. As promised

Ch. 10 The Find

Tin and Tick woke up early in the morning. They wanted to check up on Gumball in the hospital. Entering the hospital, the first thing they noticed was Clin talking to a nurse.

"Clin?" Tin asked Clin turned to them.

"Sup? I was just asking the nurse where Gumball ran off too." Clin said.

"Wait, Gumball isn't here?" Tick asked. Clin shook his head.

"The nurses say that he disappeared sometime into the night. He was ranting on in his sleep about a fight between somebody they say." Clin said. Tin thought on this.

"Gather the gang together. I think I know where he might be heading." Tin spun on his heels and walked out the hospital. Clin and Tick exchanged glances

Penny decided to drag Carrie along.

"Why am I here again?" she asked.

"We are to stop Gumball from getting himself killed." Tin said.

"Any hints on his where abouts?" Darwin asked.

"Yes, actually. When Clin metioned that one of the nurses heard Gumball talk about a fight between two people, it brought me back to the research facility." Tin said

"Why there?" Penny asked.

"When we were there that one time, I could feel a tremble underneath our feet. As if there was a battle going on in the facility. And that gas masked man made my hunches correct. There is a test going on down there and The Plague is trying to hide it. We have to stop Gumball from going in there at the state he is in." Tin said.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Darwin said.

Gumball stood out side the research facility. He stared up at the ominous building and nodded. Carwling through the hole Tick made, Gumball walked out into the open. Surprisingly, there were only two guards outside the main entrence. He walked up to them.

"Hey, what do you think you are doing kid? Go play somewhere else." one said.

"Yeah, this ain't no play ground." the other agreed. Gumball shook his head.

"There is something I have to see." Gumball said. The two men exchanged glances. 'How much does this kid knows?' they thought.

"Look kid, just walk away and pretend you didn't set foot in this place." one guard said. Gumball still refused to follow.

"You left me no choice." Gumball cleared his mind and thought back on the lessons he learned from Penny and Clin. He crouched low into a fighting stance. The guards laughed.

"What do you think you are doing kid?" one said wiping the tears from his eyes. He was answered by a fist to the face. The man flew back and hit the wall. Gumball didn't give the other a time to react. He grabbed the gun on the man's belt and pistol whipped him in the head. The man fell to the floor bloodied and unconcious. Gumball tossed the gun away as he walked through the entrence. Doing the training exercises with Clin and Penny helped him learn what it is like to be able to do all that kind of cool fighting tricks. But now was not the time for Gumball to marvle at what he just did. He had to see if Xmortis won.

The Street Rats stood out side the hole in the fence where the facility stood inside. Tin saw a peice of Gumball's sweater hanging on the edges.

"He's here already. Crap!" Tin said.

"We have to hurry and make sure he doesn't go any further!" Penny said crawling through. The others followed and ran toward the main building entrence. Carrie spooted the knocked out guards.

"When did Gumball learn how to fight without some one being in his head?" she asked. Penny blushed and Clin rubbed the back of his neck trying to not be obvious.

"Come on, he can't have gone far!" Tin said rushing into the building. The others followed as they walked down the twists and turns of the building. They finally came to stop and saw Gumball being surrounded by some of The Plague members.

Gumball watched them as the drew out their weapons.

"It's best if you turn around now kid. Or prepare to get the beating of your life!" one said tapping his metal baseball bat on the ground.

"You couldn't even hit a dinosaur with that thing." Gumball said to the man with the baseball bat. "And trust me, they are pretty hard to miss." The man was pissed now and swung his bat at Gumball. Gumball stopped it by grabbing it and pulling it out of the man's hands. The man felt the wind knocked out of him as Gumball rammed the bat into his gut. Gumball followed it up by cracking the man's head into the ground with the metal bat. The others seemed to hesitate.

"What the hell? It's just one kid! Get 'em!" They all advanced. Gumball spun with the bat and knocked them all back. One didn't attack however. He fell onto the floor frightened. Gumball pointed the bat to him.

"Go home to your mommy. I'm sure she wants to hear her older boy cry." Gumball threatened. The man scrambled away but stopped. He felt a blade go into his jaw. He was lifted into the air.

"I'm not so merciful." a voice said. Gumball turned and saw Tin dangling the man in the air with the shoe dagger. Tin spun and threw the man off his shoe. He fell to the floor limp.

"Tin?" Gumball then saw the others. "What are you guys doing here?" he asked.

"Getting your sorry ass out of here." Carrie said. Gumball shook his head.

"I have to find out for myself that I'm not going insane." Gumball said. "Now get out of here guys. I don't want you getting hurt."

"Oh for the love of... Gumball, do you not see what you are doing to yourself!" Penny said. Gumball expected it out of Carrie. But to hear it from Penny, he felt guilty all of a sudden. "Gumball... you are hurting me more than you are hurting yourself... please stop it... I don't know what I would do if you actually do get killed..." tears welled up in her eyes. Gumball's ears drooped. She was right. He lost site of the fact that some people want him safe. And he completely ignored that. But... he couldn't go back on saving the town.

"Penny... I'm really sorry. But if I don't do something about this, all of us will be killed. You and me won't have a future and the same goes for everyone else. You have to believe me on this..." Gumball said.

"Then at least don't do this alone... there are people in this world that can help you... we are some of them." Penny said motioning toward the gang. Gumball silently nodded his head.

"Your right... then let's stop this... together." Gumball said. The intercom buzzed to life. They heard the maniacle laugh of the fox.

"You are too late kid! I already got what I came here for and now you will see your town parish before me! Long live The Plague! Oh and one more thing... by the time you here this... you would only have... I say... a minute to get out of there before it explodes? Yes that is right. Good luck!" the intercom died out.

"Already got what he came here for?" Tin asked. Now was the time to not ask. "Street Rats... let's get out of here now!" The Street Rats ran as fast as they can and out the door. The facility blew up, sending them flying. Clin recovered in the air by flipping and kicked off a piece of rubble and caught his falling friends with amazing speed. The facility crumbled.

Specter sat next to the fox. Lydia was sitting in front of them. They were ina helicoptor heading toward Elmore.

"You sure we should be doing this?" Specter asked. The fox grinned.

"Do you question my judgment? Of course! Soon this wretched little town will be the HQ of my faction and I will rule all over everybody. Yes... I can hear them now... chanting my name... Ebony... Ruler of All!" the fox laughed. After hearing his name, Specter realized who he was sitting next to. Anger welled up in him. This beast brutally murdered his wife and made him abondone his son. He was working for the one person he swore to murder. He stood up and drew out his arm blade. Ebony smiled.

"Come now, Specter. You didn't think I would know that you're the husband of that poor excuse of a wife? I did you a favor of getting rid of her." Ebony said. "Besides, I knew who you were when you first begged for me to let you into my little faction." Ebony stood up and opened the helicoptor door and turned to them. "I'll give you one good reason why you can't kill me." Ebony fell backwards. Specter and Lydia peered out of the door and saw Ebony being surrounded with yellow aura that suspended him in the air above the town. He laughe maniacly. "So what do you think of me now, Elmore?" he held out both of his hands and a swriling mass of aura flew down into the town. The sounds of people screaming could be heard. Specter looked at Lydia.

"Lydia... I need a favor of you." Specter said. Lydia looked at him. "Can you go down into the town and kill the memebers of The Plague. I'm sure Ebony will throw you away now that he has what he wanted." This convinced her and she nodded. They both jumped out of the helicoptor. Lydia descended into the town. She landed in the middle of the street. People were running in fear and The Plague members were whooping and hollering as they ran around causing havoc. Lydia summoned her whip sword and began to hunt them down.

Specter glided over to Ebony. He latched on to him and with his weight, he managed to bring down the suspended fox to the top of a building. Specter rolled out of the way when they landed to avoid being blasted by a burst of air. Ebony got up and licked his lips.

"You wanna play, huh? Very well... but I have to warn you." Ebony held out his hands and the aura swirled in his palms. "I play rough!" he launched it toward Specter.

Short chapter I know, but hey, what works works. Don't think this is the climax, cus it isn't. This is only the beginning. And here I finally introduced to you the name of the villian.

Character Bio:

Ebony: This fox is the leader of the faction called The Plague. He formed the faction during the time Elmore was under attack by Limbo's Servants. He has a brutal history with Specter all the while keeping a sadistic fake upbeat attitude.