Chapter 10: Friend to Foe
Gumball arrived to a small marketplace. He saw a man standing behind the counter in a green shirt. He looked bored, but when he saw Gumball, he slammed his hands on the counter. "You! Get out of here or I call cops!" the worker shouted. Gumball immediately threw his hands in the air in a sudden response, seeing the worker suddenly calm down fast. "Oh… you're not the shoplifter," he claimed. "Of course I'm not," Gumball replied while walking up to the counter. "That pink cat girl took away a lot of stuff while I was on break," he explained. This instantly clicked Gumball's mind that Amy had shoplifted. "Speaking of that pink cat, I'm going to egg her house," Gumball explained.
"Oh, really? Here, take these. They been rotting in the back," the clerk said, grabbing a carton of eggs from under the counter and lifting the lid. The eggs were a rotten brownish green which surprised Gumball, but he grinned, taking the eggs and paid for them with a ten dollar bill he received from helping students around the academy. "If you see her, throw one at her for me," the worker eagerly said. Gumball nodded and left the store. He looked around before seeing a barber shop and a few clothing stores. Gumball just walked back towards the academy with the carton of eggs on hand. He was going to a large building that was built right next to the academy. It was massive, and it had a pool in the back that was surrounded by a fence.
Gumball went and entered the preps' building. The security officer at the entrance was asleep, so Gumball just waltzed on through, hearing grunts as he went down the hallway. He saw fancy candles lining the wall along with some paintings of most of the founders of the academy. Gumball opened the door to see a massive gymnasium with multiple sandbags and weights around. There was also a big boxing ring in the center with a pair of people in fencing gear clashing blades nearby. "Ah, Mr. Watterson. You're here, and I see you have the eggs," Ron Bosher said, appearing before him and approaching him. "Yeah, I did. Where's Chavis and Lily?" Gumball wondered while handing the eggs to him.
"They are training. Lily is the fencer on the right over there," Ron claimed, pointing to the fencing pair fighting. One happened to be dominating the other, and Gumball saw Chavis lifting weights. For a skinny boy, he sure was tough as nails. "Come. Let's go pay that wicked she-devil a well-deserved visit," he said with a grin. Gumball nodded, knowing it was close to night time. Happily he followed the preppy leader out of the building. He was admiring the bravery of Ron and his group since he expected guards to be around the rich all the time.
While Gumball and Ron were walking, they were discussing what Gumball's school was like. "…the only rich person I knew was Masami. Dunno if she hated me or liked me, all I know is she struck me with lightning a lot," Gumball explained while talking about his friends. Ron gave his friend a chuckle.
"You certainly sound interesting, and so do your friends. It is a shame that only your siblings are here," Ron said sympathetically since Gumball had a lack of friends around here aside from Jamie, Darwin and Anais, along with Hank or at least that's what he saw him as. It was hard to tell, but he was thinking that he had just made friends with the preppy leader, which made him happy either way. They were now walking through a street with a neighborhood of big houses lined up with gates. "So… how do we get in?" Gumball asked while they were arriving to the gate of Amy's house. It was a two story building and it had a lock on the gate to keep all trespassers from breaking in. "Simple, my dear fellow. One of my chums stole the key to it from her parents," he explained, dangling a red key in front of Gumball's face.
Gumball let out a big smile, slapping a high five with Ron before he opened the gate, watching the lock slam onto the grassy ground. They entered the front yard while Ron closed and locked the gate behind them, just in case another individual came by. "Alright, here we go," Ron said, taking one of the eggs. They saw the lights off and inactive, and no cars were in the driveway, so they thought Amy and her family were out in town, but before the first egg could be chucked, a voice cheered to the ears of the duo. "Hi, boys!" They turned behind them and saw Amy standing there, somehow having opened the gate too. Gumball thought that he and Ron were now caught red handed.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the pink panther herself," Ron scoffed at his own joke. Gumball snickered Amy began approaching the preppy leader. "I don't believe it, Ron. You're helping the boy who paid me to go break all of your relatives' hearts," she said with her tail dragging on the ground behind her. "He what?!" Ron yelped. He faced Gumball, seeing him shake and flail his arms in denial. "N-no, no! I didn't say or do anything!" he wailed. Amy giggled while standing behind the rich boy. "Come on, Gumball. We all know what you said about Ron here. That he has webbed feet and twelve toes, and his relatives are sick for trying to inbreed to make the perfect person, and don't forget how you said his grandma is a twenty fingered freak," she continued. This only made Ron boil red with anger. Gumball let out a huge gulp, as if it was about to be the end for him.
"My word, Watterson! You will pay for saying these slanderous things! And I'll have you know that this inbreeding thing has been fine. My grandmother has five thumbs, and I only have one webbed foot! This won't be the last you see me!" Ron proclaimed aloud before running away, making his way through the gate without another word. Gumball was now in major trouble with Ron and his group. He turned to Amy with a look of disgust. "What is wrong with you? Why are you lying about what I say? What did I ever do to you?!" Gumball interrogated the pink kitten while she was playing with her own tail. "What do you think, loser. You didn't take my offer to help rule the school, so now, you are a plausible threat. I'm the queen of this chessboard, Gumball, and you are a pawn, just like everyone else in this school," she spoke evilly. Just then, Gumball took off full speed ahead, dropping the carton of rotten eggs behind him.
End of Chapter 10