"What's wrong, Penny?" The blue cat asked his girlfriend in the cafeteria as they stools in line waiting for lunch.
Penny sighed. "I got grounded."
"What?" Gumball was shocked. She almost never did anything wrong or rebellious unless she had to.
"Surely you didn't actually do anything wrong, right?"
"Of course not! I got that text you sent me saying that Mindy chose Darwin as a target, so I walked to her house and we got into a huge argument. Before I knew it, I lost control and turned into a huge dragon, and then she made up a crazy story about me attacking her!"
"She's that manipulative, huh?"
"Yeah, I'd tell Darwin to be careful if I were you."
"I think if I get Darwin to stand up for himself now she'll back off"
"I dunno, Gumball, she doesn't back off easily."
Gumball shrugged. "We're still gonna try it."
Big. Mistake.
Gumball was now eating lunch with his best friend when he saw Mindy walk up to him. Here we go Gumball thought. He pointed her out to Darwin. "Remember, whatever she asks for say 'no' "
"I don't know about this, Gumball. Are you sure she'll leave me alone?" Darwin asks nervously.
Gumball sighed. "No, I'm not sure, but it's worth a shot."
"Hey Darwin..." she says tapping her two fingers together "can I have some money?"
"...no" Darwin said, quietly as possible.
"Excuse me?" Mindy said, highly and visibly offended. It was clear that she was not used to that word.
"I- uh..."
"He said no, now beat it" Gumball aggressively chimed it. Mindy started to cry.
"I can't believe you would say that to me! I haven't eaten all day! My family is poor and we try everything but they can't make enough money to provide for me and you can't even spare a single penny? You monster, we're supposed to be friends!"
"O-oh, I'm so sorry, I had no idea, here, lemme-"
Darwin reaches into his pocket. Wow, even Gumball felt bad for her for a moment, when he remembered... she's a spoiled brat, her side of the family thinks they're better than ours... Her family did provide for her. Her family was rich enough to spoil her. Wow, she really was manipulative and dangerous.
"-help you" Darwin pulled out a few dollars and was about to hand it to Mindy when Gumball grabbed him and pulled him away from her.
"Darwin no she's lying!" He yelled. Mindy ran away crying. The bell rung. Everybody left the cafeteria commenting on how horrible Darwin is. Even Rocky was shaking his head at him angrily. They left the opposite side of the cafeteria that she did, since Mindy took the doors to the back of the school. When everyone was gone from the cafeteria, Gumball and Darwin were left in shock.
Neither of them said anything for a while, until Darwin broke the silence. He looked at his older brother with tears in his eyes "You said you would be there for me..." Gumball could feel his heart breaking. "Darwin I-" before he could speak, his little brother ran out of the cafeteria crying. He wanted to comfort him, but he was too furious. If Gumball was gonna be soft with anybody, he needed to have a word with Mindy first. Gumball made a promise to himself to make this quick so he could go back for Darwin asap.
Gumball found Mindy behind the school reaching into her bag. What was she getting? She pulled out a chocolate bar and began to eat. Gumball couldn't believe it, she embarrasses Darwin by yelling at him for not giving her money for food making everybody hate him and then proceeded to hide behind the school and eat a perfectly good chocolate bar? Well, actually, he could believe it. This was Mindy after all.
"Hey!" He shouted, making her flinch. She gives him an "oh, it's you" look and the goes back to casually eating her chocolate bar.
"Well, aren't you gonna say anything?"
"What do you want me to say?"
"I don't know, maybe apologize for what you did to my brother?"
"Apologize for what? If anything he got what he deserved for not giving me the money."
"Excuse me? You clearly didn't need it!"
"But I wanted it." She says in a "duh" tone of voice.
"It's not right to treat people like this!"
"I don't care. To be honest, I don't see him as a person. Just a tool for me to get what I want. What I did just now was my way of teaching him to never step outside of line again, and I don't feel bad at all. I feel happy."
"Happy? He's probably somewhere crying right now because of you!"
"Good!"
"Ugh! You can't keep on making everyone around you feel like crap!"
"I don't! Only Darwin."
"He matters!"
"Hah, no he doesn't, he's nothing more than a doormat."
Mindy was about to take another bite out of her chocolate bar when Gumball grabbed it out of her hand aggressively, crushed it, threw it in the floor, and stomped on it.
"Don't. Call my brother. A doormat."
"Woah there Jamal, wouldn't wanna get on your bad side" Mindy began to laugh. Gumball rolled his eyes. There's one meme ruined.
"This isn't a joke" Gumball said, annoyed.
"Then why is it so funny?" Mindy said as she continued to laugh.
"You think this is funny?" Gumball asked furiously with wide eyes close to her face.
Without answering his question continued to laugh as she gave him the middle finger as walked away.
"Hey, this isn't over, I won't stop until you leave my brother alone!" Gumball shouted. This talk made him 1,000 times angrier, but he needed to find Darwin. Now.
Fun fact: The scene where Mindy fake cries to guilt trip Darwin was inspired by a real scene where Masami basically does the same thing to him (The Pressure)br /I still don't see how not only do people not recognize how shitty Darwin was treated by her in that episode but they also always either seem to ship them or take her side. It's literally abuse. I might as well go as far as to say Masami was nearly as bad as...you know who...the J name 😬 *cough* J*mie *cough*
Look about the doormat comment I know she's technically not wrong but ig Gumball was just mad at her for using it as an insult/taking advantage of him. Plus, Gumball is very territorial over who gets to use Darwin is a doormat.
