I wanted to thank wiseguy1107 and Supergogeta14 for their suggestions in this chapter
The Newcomer
An Amazing World of Gumball Story
By NeoNimbus
Chapter 26-The Revenge
It was just another typical day at the school cafeteria and as usual, Gumball, Darwin and Brian were sitting at their usual spot, eating today's menu and brainstorming some things they can do this afternoon.
"So Gumball…" Brian began. "Any idea on what we should do after school?"
"I've got nothing so far." Gumball replied. "The latest video game isn't out yet and Darwin and I couldn't find any interesting comic books to read at the moment."
"Don't worry about it, Gumball. We can deal with our after school plans this afternoon." says Darwin. "For now, let's just enjoy ourselves."
"Good idea, Darwin." Brian agreed with the two-legged fish. "But first, I'll go get some napkins."
With that, the purple fox got out of his seat and headed off to the lunch counter. But the moment he made his first move, Brian accidentally stepped on a discard cupcake and ended up sliding off in a completely different direction, sending him far away from the cafeteria and out into the hallway, all the while narrowing avoiding every student and teacher along the way.
'Oh man! This is not cool!' Brian thought, as he attempted to stop himself from continuing this surprising turn of event. As he pondered about this, a discarded sneaker unexpectedly showed up in his path, causing the purple fox to trip, just as Tobias was coming around the corner.
"Tobias, look out!" Brian called out.
Surprised by this, the jock turned around and saw Brian heading straight right at him. But before Tobias could react, one of Brian's arms made contact with his face, sending the jock all the way down to the hallway at high speed, before slamming hard onto the wall. Once the dust had settled down, both students and teachers alike stopped what they were doing and saw the unconscious jock lying on the floor, just as Brian got up and regained his composure.
'Oh no!' Brian thought. 'I need to see if Tobias is alright.'
Before the purple fox had a chance to come to the jock's side, Brian suddenly felt a hard grip on his shoulder, prompting him to turn to see Miss Simian staring at him with a sneer on her face.
"And just where do you think you're going?" asked Miss Simian.
"Um, I'm about to check up on Tobias." Brian answered honestly.
"Sure you are." Miss Simian said in a sarcastic tone. "If you don't mind, it's off to the principal's office."
Brian tried to voice his objection, but the stern expression on the cantankerous ape's face was enough to silent the purple fox, as he is soon escorted to Principal Brown's office.
The afternoon went by pretty fast at Elmore Junior High without any further incident. As the school bell rang for the final time, as every student left the premise, with Gumball, Darwin and Brian coming out last, though the day proved to be anything but good for the purple fox.
After Brian explained to Principal Brown on what had occurred, the furry slug took pity on the purple fox, but still gave him an hour of detention, regardless of the circumstances, much to his dismay. Even so, Brian was just glad to serve his time in detention and both he and his friends decided to come by to his house for a change, mainly just so the purple fox could forget about the entire ordeal.
"I can't believe I have detention." Brian said in disbelief. "I took full responsibility and told him what had occurred today and I still got into trouble."
"So today didn't turned out the way you wanted." says Gumball. "Just be glad that he didn't give you three hours of detention."
"Just take your mind off of what happened and just focus on hanging out with us as always." Darwin said to his friend.
"You're right Darwin" Brian agreed with the two-legged fish. "I should just forget about my worries."
As Brian and the Watterson brothers continued to talk with one another, the trio eventually made their way at the O'Quinn residence, as the boys spotted Gordon washing his car on the driveway.
"Hey dad." Brian greeted his father.
"Hey Mr. O'Quinn." Gumball and Darwin greeted Gordon.
"Hi boys, how was your day?" Gordon asked, before he noticed a look of displeasure on his son's face. "Brian, what's wrong?"
Before the purple fox could say anything, Darwin cut him off almost right away.
"Brian's down because he punched Tobias in the face today."
"You did what?!" Gordon asked his son, clearly aghast what he just heard right now.
"Dad, it wasn't on purpose." Brian replied. "I just slipped on a cupcake, tripped over a sneaker and I just ended up knocking him down by accident. I even try to check up on him, but I got sent to the principal's office and got detention instead."
"Now that makes sense then." Gordon stated, somewhat relieved that his son was being honest with him. "Even so, you need to be very careful next time."
"Don't worry about it, dad. I'll be careful next time." Brian assured his father.
"That's all I wanted to hear." says the grey wolf. "Now that everything is settled, why don't you and your friends just get inside and relax for a bit?"
Nodding their heads in agreement, both Brian and the Watterson brothers went into the O'Quinn residence. While Gumball and Darwin went to the living room to watch some TV, Brian was about to head to the kitchen when his cell phone suddenly rang, to the purple fox's curiosity.
"Who could be calling me at a time like this?" Brian asked himself, before he pulled his cell phone from his hoodie and answered it.
"Hello?"
"How dare you pulled such a move on me!" the voice shouted back. It didn't take Brian too long to realize who he was talking to.
"Tobias, is that you?" the purple fox asked, much to his surprise.
"Don't try to act so innocent! You just made a complete fool out of me! Mark my words; I'll get even with you one way or another!"
"Tobias, what I did back there was-"
Before Brian could explain to the jock his side of the story, he found himself cut off, as Tobias suddenly hung up on him. The purple fox pondered for a moment, as he considered talking to the peeved jock once more. Eventually, Brian decided against this, feeling that Tobias just need to cool his head down and have some space for the moment.
The next day at Elmore Junior High, Brian explained to Gumball and Darwin of his brief conversation with Tobias on the phone yesterday and when he was finished with his story, both brothers were understandably surprised to hear this.
"Didn't you try to explain to Tobias that it was all an accident?" asked Gumball.
"I did, but he just hung up on me before I have the chance." Brian replied.
"Don't worry too much about it…" Darwin began. "I'm sure Tobias had calmed down by now and you should give him a proper apology for yesterday's fiasco."
"I just hope that he sticks around and here what I have to say." says Brian.
"Say what exactly?"
Both Brian and the Watterson brothers yelped and turned around to see Tobias, along with Banana Joe, standing right behind them. Though somewhat relieved to see the jock, Brian also felt rather nervous upon facing him face-to-face.
"Oh Tobias…it's nice to see to you're in a good mood today." Brian greeted nervously jock. "Listen, about what happen yesterday-"
"Don't worry about it, Brian." says Tobias, cutting the purple fox off. "What's done is done and it's time to move on."
Brian, as well as Gumball and Darwin, was stunned to hear the jock being so calm today. The fact that he had already forgiven the fox so easily was quite amazing, despite the fact that it was never on purpose to begin with. Even so, Brian felt relieved that the jock was willing to at least willing to let go of his grudges.
"Alright then, Tobias…" Brian began. "I'm glad that everything's cool between us. Anyway, I have to get going now. See in you class."
With that said, Brian and his friends went off to get their stuff from their lockers. As the trio disappeared from around the corner, the calmness that was on Tobias' face suddenly changed to outright anger, an expression that Banana Joe noticed right away.
"Dude, what's wrong?" Banana Joe asked with concern.
"Didn't you see what happened right now?! Brian thinks he's so high and mighty and acting all cool."
"Tobias, I think you're just exaggerating the whole thing." says Banana Joe. "Besides, I thought you forgave Brian for what he did yesterday."
"Only so he won't keep his guard up." the jock insisted. "It's the perfect opportunity to exact my own revenge and show that fox a thing or two for punching me in the face."
As Tobias smiled deviously, rubbing his hands as he ran through his minds the kinds of plans he had in store for Brian, Banana Joe just shook his head and sighed with exasperation. If he knew Tobias as well as he did, his best buddy would only end up embarrassing himself and at the very least, he needed to try to get him grounded to reality before he makes his day much worse.
The day at Miss Simian's class went off like any other day: the elderly baboon would always come up with any excuse to hand out any surprise pop quiz and today was no exception. As expected, her students moaned in dismay at this, a reaction that Miss Simian enjoyed so much, before she handed out their quizzes. As always, every student, including Brian, struggled to find the correct answer for each question.
'Geez Louise! I don't recall seeing these questions before!'
While Brian panicked and tried to think of the right answer for some of the questions, unbeknownst to him, a certain jock eyed on the fox right next to him, hoping that he wasn't paying any attention to his scheme. After a minute or so, Tobias decided it was the right time to make his move.
"Hey Brian…" Tobias whispered in his ear. "I'm looking at your test and I'm going to copy every answer you make. I'm sure hope you don't try to stop me."
Tobias wasn't really copying Brian's answer, but he hope that it was enough to get the fox's attention, as he pretended to jot down the answers to each question. As he was doing this, Banana Joe whispered at the jock to get his attention.
"Tobias, I don't think that was such a good idea."
"What makes you say that?" Tobias whispered back, before he felt some heavy breathing behind his back. With some reluctance on his part, the jock turned and saw Miss Simian right in front of him, displeased to see that one of her students was 'cheating' to begin with.
"Wait, it's not what it looks like." a nervous Tobias attempted to explain.
PE had just begun at the school gym and as expected, every student was getting active for the day, but for Tobias, his day was turning out not as well as he had hoped for.
After Miss Simian caught the jock 'cheating' on today's surprised pop quiz, Tobias was forced to retake the entire quiz this afternoon. Despite the setback, Tobias remained undaunted by his revenge scheme for today, much to the displeasure of Banana Joe.
"Tobias, are you sure about this?" the banana asked his friend. "I mean, your first attempt did get you an F on the pop quiz."
"Don't worry about it, Joe. There's no way I'm going to mess this one up." Tobias adamantly insisted. Banana Joe, on the other hand, had his doubt, arching an eyebrow in curiosity.
"What makes you so sure it'll work this time?"
"That's easy…" Tobias explained. "When Brian goes up to climb the ropes, I'll put some oil grease right underneath it. As soon as he steps on it, he'll slide right towards the ladder and he'll get cover in paint in a few seconds."
"That's it?" Banana Joe asked incredulously. "That's how you'll get your revenge on Brian?"
Before Tobias could offer an explanation, he noticed the purple fox is starting to climb up on the rope, prompting the jock to shush his friend for the moment, before he quietly snuck among the crowd, making his way towards his destination, before he pulled an oil can out of nowhere and began creating a puddle underneath Brian's position.
The purple fox, meanwhile, was struggling to make his way to the top, even though his arms were starting to feel numb. Even so, Brian struggled his way to the top as best as he can, but he was only able to reach midway up to the rope, his arms starting to feel weak at this point.
'It's not much, but at least this was an improvement on my last attempt.' Brian thought, before he climbed his way down to the gym floor.
But as soon as his foot made contact to the floor, Brian found himself skidding on the floor once again, this time heading towards a ladder with a paint container on top of it. Despite his attempt to slow down, the purple fox hit the ladder, sending the paint container towards Tobias, landing squarely on his head, wedging it in the process.
'What just happened?' Brian thought in confusion, before he could hear laughter behind his back, prompting the purple fox to see a large crowd gawking at Tobias, as he wailed all over the gym, while his best friend tried to pry the paint container off of the jock's head.
The afternoon had finally arrived, just in time for all the students to gather in the cafeteria for lunch before the next bell rang. As always, Brian sat at his usual spot with Gumball and Darwin, somewhat a bit weary how his day was turning out so far.
"So how is today turning out for you?" Darwin asked the purple fox.
"Not as good as I had hoped, but not bad at the same time." Brian replied.
"Don't worry about it, Brian. Your day will get better." assured Gumball.
While the trio continued to discuss with one another, just a few tables away, Tobias continued to spy on Brian with determination, while Banana Joe was eating his meal, somewhat annoyed that the jock is still obsessed with getting even with the purple fox.
"Tobias, I think you should just forget it about and move on." says Banana Joe. "Every time you come up with your so-called revenge scheme, you end up humiliating yourself."
"Don't worry about it…" Tobias began. "This time, my plan is full-proof and there's no way it won't fail."
"What do you mean by that?" the banana questioned his friend.
"I'm glad you asked." Tobias responded, before he pulled what appears to be a burrito out of nowhere to Banana Joe, much to the banana's surprise.
"Are you serious?!" Banana Joe questioned the jock. At this point, he began to question his friend's sanity.
"I am dead serious about this." Tobias insisted. "In fact, I'm just going to add in a few more extra ingredients to it."
Before Banana Joe knew what happened, the jock began to add in various spicy materials to the burrito, from chili peppers, chipotle, jalapeno and even Tabasco sauce. After this was done, Tobias added what appears to be a hot sauce made out of pure scorpion pepper for the final touch. Banana Joe took one sniff of the sauce and the banana quickly gagged and covered his nose in response; it was clear that this sauce is quite intense and it didn't take him too long to realize what his friend's intentions were.
"Tobias, this is crazy!" the banana objected. "Now you're just becoming obsessed with the whole revenge scheme!"
"Don't be so overdramatic Joe!" Tobias dismissed his friend's objection. "This time, I just know it'll work out."
Banana Joe was about say something to the jock, only to find him getting up from his seat and making his way towards to the table where Gumball, Darwin and Brian were sitting. Unwilling to stick around and find out, the banana immediately went to the trio's table, both out of concern for Brian's safety and to get Tobias to change his mind.
"Tobias, reconsider what you're about to-"
But the jock, however, put his mouth over the banana's mouth, as Tobias began to have a conversation with Brian.
"So, you're looking fine today…" Tobias began. "By the way Brian, what's that you're having?"
"Um…lunch." Brian answered the jock's question, not sure what else to say.
"Don't eat the garbage. In fact, I got something much better."
Before Brian and the Watterson brothers knew what happened, Tobias grabbed Brian's tray and quickly threw it, along with the food, to the trash and immediately showed the purple fox a tasty-looking burrito, much to his own surprise.
"Is that for me?" Brian questioned the jock.
"Of course it is. After all, this is just to show you I have no hard feelings about yesterday's incident." Tobias insisted.
Brian was quite puzzled by the jock's offer. He wasn't so sure what to make of this and as much as he wanted to turn it down, the fox's stomach suddenly growled, making it clear it wasn't satisfied by what he already ate. With that in mind, Brian faced Tobias with his answer.
"Alright Tobias, I am kind of hungry."
Ecstatic to hear the fox's answer, Tobias allowed Brian to take the burrito from his hand, all the while imagining the look on his face the moment he took a bite out of the spicy meal itself. There was no way that this revenge scheme will fail horribly this time around.
'Here it comes!' Tobias happily thought.
But when Brian took the first bite from the burrito, the jock's joy suddenly faded, replaced by astonishment and curiosity. Likewise, Banana Joe was also surprised by this as well. For the strangest reason, the purple fox didn't cringe by the slightest with each bite from the burrito; in fact, he was enjoying himself.
"Thanks for the burrito, Tobias." Brian thanked the stunned jock, before he took another bite from his meal.
Dumbfounded to see Brian enjoying the meal, Tobias, suspicious by this, grabbed the burrito right off of Brian's paw and decided to take a bite of his own. Initially, Tobias didn't felt anything from that one bite, but the jock suddenly felt extreme heat coming from inside his mouth and sure enough, fire spewed out of Tobias' mouth, causing him to panic all over the cafeteria, much to the shock of the four boys.
"Here, drink this Tobias." says Brian, as he quickly handed over what he thought was a water bottle, as the jock quickly took it and drank it. Unfortunately, the bottle turned out to be one filled with chili sauce, which only intensified the heat in Tobias' mouth, causing him more pain, before he quickly fled to the hallway, leaving only Brian, his friends and Banana Joe in the cafeteria.
"Oh man." Brian muttered. "I accidentally gave him the wrong bottle. I really need to apologize to him about it."
"Don't worry about that…" Banana Joe began. "I'll search for him and inform him what happened."
With that, the banana headed straight to the hallway, hoping he could find the jock and make sure he was alright. Gumball and Darwin, meanwhile, looked Brian with curiosity and astonishment, much to the purple fox's confusion.
"What?" Brian asked his friends.
"How were you able to handle something that intense?" asked Gumball.
"Yeah, I mean you just ate that burrito like it was nothing." Darwin noted.
"Oh, that's simple…" Brian began. "My mom cooks spicy food a lot. I've been eating them so much that my taste buds just got use to the heat."
As soon as Brian gave his answer to his friends, they continued to look at him, more astonished that the purple fox was able to tolerate any meal that was hot and spicy.
The next three hours of school went by without any further incidents, as the school bell rang for the last time, before every student left the premise until the next day. But for a certain jock and a reluctant banana, this was one final attempt to get even with one purple fox, as he spied on his intended victim from the roof.
Tobias was starting to become unhinged by his plans. No matter how much he thought out of it, they ended up putting him in harm's way, including the spicy burrito plan. He could still feel the stinging sensation in his mouth, but at this point, he didn't care about it anymore. All he wanted was to get payback at Brian for making a fool out of him.
As the jock was still fuming over the fiasco back at the cafeteria, Banana Joe, becoming rather bored, finally decided to break the silence by asking his friend about their situation.
"Tobias, care to explain what are we doing up on the roof?" asked the banana, prompting the jock to stop what he was doing and turned his attention to his friend.
"That's easy…" Tobias started to explain. "I'm going to give that fox boy one powerful wedgie he'll never forget. Before you ask, I'm going to do so with this."
The jock then pulled a fishing rod out from behind his back, much to his friend's surprise. However, Banana Joe quickly became unimpressed by this discovery.
"Are you serious, Tobias?" asked Banana Joe. "You're going to give Brian a wedgie with a fishing rod?"
"Of course I'm serious! I thought you would be impressed by this!" Tobias exclaimed, annoyed by the banana's reaction.
"I haven't been impressed by anything you come up with all day!" Banana Joe responded. "I only stuck by with you so I could convince you to let go of this nonsense and just accept Brian's apology."
"Not after what he did yesterday. Tell me one good reason why I should-"
Before Tobias could say anything else, both he and Banana Joe heard one of the school doors opening, revealing Gumball, Darwin and Brian coming out of the school. The jock eyed on the purple fox with serious intent; As long as he had him on sight, he could finally achieve his revenge at last.
"Watch and learn, Banana Joe." says Tobias, as he focused on Brian, all the while preparing his arm for the swing. Once he made sure that the purple fox was right on target, he swung his arm, as he thrust the fish hook, certain that it would snag on Brian's boxer shorts.
Unfortunately for the determined jock, the fish hook missed its target by a long shot, as it ended up snagging on a passing truck and before Tobias could react, the fishing rod immediately dragged the unfortunate boy with him, as Banana Joe watched in horror.
"Tobias!" Banana Joe called out.
But the jock was too far for the banana to do anything, as Tobias soon found himself being flown around like a kite, screaming for dear life and clinging on to the fishing rod as best as he could, all the while avoiding a group of ducks, planes and kites along the way from every twist and turns. In doing so, he ended up getting hit by a couple of branches and leaves in the process.
'I can't believe this is happening to me!' Tobias fearfully thought. 'If this keeps up, I'm going to crash into something!'
Tobias then turned his attention right in front of him and to his disbelief, he noticed that not only had he veered off course, he noticed one of the building walls zooming closer towards his face.
"This isn't going to end well." Tobias muttered, before he closed his eyes and embraced for the impact.
For a moment, it appeared that he finally made it to the other side, as Tobias saw nothing but darkness. Slowly, the jock opened his eyes, though his vision remained rather blurry. Eventually, his eyesight managed to clear up and Tobias soon realized that to his amazement, he was alive and well in one of the town's local hospital, albeit heavily bandaged everywhere except for his face.
"Where am I?" Tobias uttered, before one band-aid doctor came by to see his patient.
"Hello there, it's good to see you're awake." the band-aid doctor happily said.
"What happened?" asked a confused Tobias.
"That's simple…" the band-aid doctor began. "After you suffered some serious injury from crashing through the wall, your friends called 911 and got you to the hospital on time. It was a miracle that you managed to survive such a crash at all."
"I'm just surprised myself." Tobias agreed with the doctor. "Wait a minute, what exactly do you mean by friends?"
Before the doctor could say anything else, Tobias spotted Gumball, Darwin, Brian and Banana Joe stopping by to see him, clearly worried for his well-being and hoping that the injured jock was at least alright.
"Hey Tobias." Brian greeted the injured jock. "I'm glad to see you're alright. Banana Joe told me everything that had happened."
"As soon as he did, me, Darwin, Brian and Banana Joe immediately followed you as fast as we could." added Gumball.
"By the time we arrived, you were a complete mess." says Darwin, picking off where his older brother left off.
"So Brian decided to call 911, hoping they would come to the nick of time." Banana Joe informed Tobias.
As soon as the boys finished their story, the injured jock couldn't believe what he had heard. Even after what he had set out to do, Brian, his intended victim of revenge, was responsible for getting him to the hospital on time. At this point, it was then that the jock had a sudden epiphany: his revenge schemes had done nothing except putting him in harm's way and he realized just how pointless it was to begin with.
Feeling ashamed for his actions, the injured jock turned to face Brian, deciding to do the right thing for a change.
"Brian, I'm sorry for trying to exact revenge on you. I guess I just overreacted by what happened yesterday at the hallway."
"That makes a lot of sense." Brian commented. "If it'll make you feel better, apology accepted."
The jock smiled in response, touched that the purple fox had accepted his apology, even though he was trying to make him his primary target to begin with.
"Anyway, we have to get going now. I'm sure your family will be stopping by to check up on you."
As soon as the purple fox mentioned his family, Tobias' face quickly froze with fear. He couldn't believe that he had forgotten about them in the first place. It was the last thing he ever thought of and now he's going to have a lot of explaining to do when his family shows up at the hospital.
Next time on The Newcomer
Chapter 27-The Mind
Brian reluctantly volunteers to test Bobert's latest project: the ability to read people's mind. But the project backfires on the purple fox and as a result, everyone began reading Brian's mind instead.
Tidbits
-First time I did a chapter featuring Tobias (along with Banana Joe). It was quite tricky than I thought it would be.
-Believe it or not, the scorpion pepper is currently the hottest chili pepper in the world, more so than the ghost chili pepper.
-I wanted to thank wiseguy1107 and Supergogeta14 once again for helping me out with this chapter.
I hope everyone enjoyed reading "The Revenge" and I'll see ya next chapter.