The Medicine
A.N. – Sorry for the wait, but I was busy doing some stuff for my Dev-art page. Let's say, I got addicted to making art! But nevertheless, here we are, the second chapter to my newest story. I'm gonna include my OC's here, but only give them minor appearances. Enjoy!
Disclaimer – Hats. Yellow hats are cool.
Chapter 2 – Reversal
"Class, I want your homework on the solar system that I asked for yesterday. No homework will mean DETENTION!" screamed the grouchy and rusty 700 year old monkey known as Miss Simian. The class already brought out their homework, even Gumball, oddly, who did it in less than 5 minutes in the bus when he found out there was homework to do. The ape walked down the class, collecting everyone's paper, but stopped to grin at Gumball, her mortal enemy.
"Ah, Gumball Watterson. Where's yours? Was it eaten by your father again?" laughed the Monkey.
"I wanna truthfully say that I probably didn't do much, so yeah, here." Gumball handed out a crude sheet of A4.
"Didn't do much, hmm? Let us see…" As soon as the paper left Gumball's hand and into Miss Simian's, the paper unfolded to 6000 other pages. Miss Simian gawked at the alleged 'homework' that dropped to the floor. The other students also had the same expression.
"Are you sure that's not enough?" gasped Tobias in shock.
"Are you kidding me? I forgot to put a bunch of important stuff like three-billion-years-ago-there-were-once-living-beings-on-Mars-that-were-as-smart-as-us-and-how-Mars-used-to-have-water-but-due-to-the-ozone-of-the-planet-breaking-from-the-the-solar-radiation-everything-was-destroyed-and-
10 MINUTES LATER.
"-I-also-forgot-to-put-why-Pluto-was-not-considered-a-planet-due-to-its-abnormal-size-and-its-abnormal-orbit-around-the-sun-and-"
"I…think we all ge-get it Gumball…" butted in Tobias, with his eyes almost the size of his desk. Even the old baboon was surprised of the sudden knowledge spark.
"Interesting work Gumball, but I still doubt this!" The old monkey looked closer at Gumball, who was oddly wearing glasses. Miss Simian then thought it hit her. "AHA! It must be these… glasses!" Miss Simian removed the thick framed accessory and hid it on her desk. She came back to Gumball with one of her billions of devious grins.
"Okay Gumball, let's have a test! What is three-thousand-four-hundred-and-twenty-two multiplied by five-hundred-and-three?"
"That would be exactly one-million-seven-hundred-and-twenty-one-thousand-two-hundred-and-sixty-six Miss Simian." Gumball said with great rapidity. The whole class ooo-ed in amazement. Bobert the robot beeped at the statement.
"It is correct miss Simian. Gumball's answer is correct." Cheena, the cheetah that accidentally kissed Gumball, was at the back, hmph-ing in annoyance. Her other sister rolled her eyes and handed her homework. Back to Gumball, his alleged girlfriend poked him in the back, making him turn around to look at her.
"I never knew you were that smart Gumball!" flirted Gumball's peanut girlfriend, Penny, who grinned hard. Gumball gave back a smaller smile.
"Thanks." The monkey shook her head to wake her up, and decided to leave the suddenly smart feline and walk up to his adopted brother. She looked on the goldfish, who stared up with teary eyes. Miss Simian was dumbfounded by the make-up, but ignored it.
"What about you Darwin Watterson, where is your homework?"
"What's the point? I'll die soon."
"What? Don't talk back to me! I just want your homework!"
"What's the point? I'm not supposed to live."
"Just hand me your homework!"
"What's the point? MISERY IS ALL I FEEL!"
"That's it! DETENTION AFTER SCHOOL!" with that, Darwin grabbed out his plastic knife and tried to cut himself again, wailing in dramatic agony in the process. For a strange reason, Carrie the emo ghost girl was turned on by his talk and actions. She found the profound behavior to be highly attractive. She looked at her own homework and thought for a while, before ripping it apart, confusing her classmates, especially to one who was made of paper. The paper bear sitting close to her gasped by her action.
"Carrie, why did you just destroy your homework?" whispered Teri with worry. Carrie didn't talk and gave a shrug. Carrie stared at the suddenly-now-emo Darwin, still attempting to cut himself. She then began to get weird day-dreams and even began to wear a smile. She wanted to go to him and just-
"CARRIE BELMONT!" screeched the baboon just an inch next to her transparent face. Carrie immediately woke up. She maintained her composure and remained cool from then on.
"Belmont's not my last name." Carrie said back calmly while she whipped her hair upwards.
"Well true, no one knows your last name."
"So why did you call me that?"
"I do believe you have some homework for me!" Carrie gave out confused smiles and waved her finger-less arms about.
"Uh, hehe, um, nope. Not today Miss Simian. Uh, uh, no homework nope, nope, not today!" she chuckled awkwardly. The whole class was now calling her bluff for this weird change in her.
"Okay, since you are so cheery today, which is unusual, I will give you a two hour detention with Darwin!" shouted Miss Simian. She continued walking down the class to collect all the homework, but Carrie let out a cry that made everyone look at her.
"Yesss!" whispered Carrie in weird glee. Everyone else was confused so much that the only way to continue was to ignore her. Time went on and it was now break time, and the canteen was already filled up with either hungry students or students who just wanted to hang out with their hungry friends. Gumball entered the place to get weird looks from other students, especially the bully named Tina.
"Nerd!" she boomed. Gumball walked up to the counter and looked at what he wanted. He looked back at the orange fuzzy man behind it.
"Yes Gumball?" asked the orange being named Rocky.
"Rocky, can I have a burger that's been well done? Oh, make sure the breads have been toasted with sesame seeds, some tomato, lettuce and cheese so I get all the essential nutrients for today, okay?" Rocky was completely confused at this.
"Uhh…you feeling okay dude?"
"Exquisitely Fine!"
"Okay dude, but you do know the burgers have always been like that, right?"
"Err…sorry man, I'm not really feeling like my old self today."
"I can see…" Gumball left with his tray and sat down next to Bobert. He was so confused right now, and now was the only time he could ponder about his weird behavior. He looked at the robot and gave him a tap, giving him his attention.
"Hmm, can you help me out Bobert?"
"Sure Gumball, with what?"
"Can you use your systematic scanning processes to quickly analyze the main composition of this hamburger?"
"Uh…O-okay…" The robot sent out a green laser that scanned the food. After it was done, a long piece of paper printed out Bobert's chest. The robot grabbed it and read it.
"Here are the results Gumball." Gumball grabbed the paper and read it for himself, murmuring about it.
"Hmm…zero percent meat…One-Hundred percent Monosodium Glutamate…I can't eat this if I base my caloric intake on about… Three-thousand calories…so if I eat one of this…I'll take in just about five-hundred calories…so I only get two-thousand-five-hundred to take for the rest of the day…this is not right…but the sodium takes up about ninety percent of this burger…and about ten percent of fat…so this thing is not safe to eat because it's full of sodium and fat and cholesterol! It makes-"
10 MINUTES LATER
"Gumball, can-ca-can youOOUuuu heee—ii-ilp me to re-ro-ru-ri-reboot?" beeped the robot with massive difficulty. Sparks began to fly out his metallic head, which was lagging hard. Gumball stopped midway his informative but unimportant talk about the burger and pressed the button on him. Cheena was on the other side of the canteen, staring in anger. Her sister wasn't angry anymore about the whole 'I kissed my cousin and I didn't know' incident. Cheena nudged the shark with force.
"Listen, I'm gonna destroy Gumchops, what are you gonna do?"
"Uhh…Stay here and eat?"
"No, dummy! I want you to come with me and beat him to a pulp!"
"Sis, you still haven't got over that yet? Besides, I thought Darwin was-" The cheetah pinched Sharza's fin, which caused massive damage to her.
"F-f-f-f-fine! LET ME GO!"
"That's a good girl!" Cheena and Sharza 'ninja-ed' their way to Gumball. As soon the girl was in a clear distance, she jumped. She pounced in the air to try and destroy Gumball, but the cat walked to the trash can, making the girl slam on the ground, face first. Gumball noticed the girl and walked around her, greeting her while doing so.
"Oh, hi Cheena! I got stuff to do, so see you later!"
Meanwhile, Anais was sent to Mister Brown's room after an unfortunate incident in a supposed 'silent reading session' back in the library that gone horribly chaotic. Anais arrived in the office with glue on her face, attaching pieces of destroyed and burned paper on her face. The now dumb girl laughed with glee as she smacked one of the displays on Mister Brown's desk on his head, knocking him down his chair for a while. He got back up and adjusted his glasses, acting like nothing happened, even though a massive thumb bump grew out his head. He gave a gentle cough, which gave his attention to the silly girl.
"So Anais, how do you feel today?"
"Like a sick doodle husky puppy fuchsia, Mister Fuzzy-Wuzzy!"
"It's Mister Brown. So, how's your family?"
"Oh! My brother Gumbadoodoo is smart but booooring, Dabble, that fish guy I don't know, hates himself, my mom is watching TV before she watched TV, just so she could watch TV while she could watch TV, and dad went to work and baked us spaghetti!"
"Oh, that's…that-that's great Anais! Now, why don't you go back to your less-" The little girl slammed through the door, leaving her imprints on it, while her laughs echoed in the hallway. The brown man then cleaned his glasses, and gave a cough.
"Mister Globule?" The same blob from yesterday appeared and gave the principle an awkward salute.
"Yes sir?" The principle then slammed his fists on the table.
"WHAT did you put in the potions?" He roared in anger. The blob was so scared, that pieces of him fell off.
"WOW, I don't know! You just told me to put together a concoction to reverse their behaviors!"
"WHAT?"
"Well that's what you wanted from them right? You wanted them to change right? So I reversed them! Ingenious!"
"NO, YOU FOOL! I just wanted something to tone down their behaviors, not reverse them!"
"Wait what?"
"ARGH!"
"Ohh…sorry, you know my hearing is impaired!"
"Yes. Must be that glue on your ears! Now seriously, can you at least find a way to stop this?"
"Look relax! It can't be all that bad! Maybe something didn't work too well with that bunny! The rest of the family might be fine…"
"I hope you're right…" The day ended and kids ran out, except for a few, two of which were stuck in Miss Simian's class spending a hefty two our detention. Darwin, who was STILL trying to cut himself, sat emotionlessly, while Carrie stared at him dreamily. She looked around then hovered next to him, giving a good sniff.
"Mmmm…you smell like old mummy shoe covered in dead seaweed with a pinch of hamster pellets that were found in the ribcage of an old smelly drunk pirate off the coast of Mexico… Darwin…can I lick you?" described Carrie with a grin.
"Whatever…I don't care…" Moaned the fish monotonically.
"Mmmm…you taste like old zombie socks with a hint of dead caterpillar that had been spat out by the smelly breath of a crow that was raised from the dead in a diseased part of an abyss by some witch…I like it…" Carrie then spotted a tiny scratch FINALLY formed from the plastic knife. Carrie licked her and got closer to the wound. "May I lick that wound?"
"I want more pain and suffering..."
"Mmm, pain and suffuring! My favorite flavor!" Unknown to the two emos, a group of 6 made of Jamie, Molly, Leslie, Teri, Masami and Sharza stared on this ongoing event that was making each and every one of them raise an eyebrow.
"This…is awkward…" noted Jamie, who was filled with shock.
"What…is…going on with Carrie?" added Molly who was seriously grossed out by the scene, placing her small hands on her weird mouth.
"I don't know, but I want to know a bit more on why Darwin's like that." Everyone minus Sharza stared at Masami, who was confused at this moment.
"MASAMI?" they hissed in unison.
"What?"
"What did you do? Did you tell Darwin about that kiss he got from his brother at the tree-house?"
"Wait what?" Sharza butted in with disarray.
"Oh, you didn't know?" Jamie gasped at the oblivious character.
"About what?"
"Darwin was supposedly gonna kiss this cloud girl-"
"Yeah, I have a name." cutted the cloud in annoyance. Jamie stopped for a while then continued on, ignoring the cloud altogether.
"Cool story, but anyways, Darwin was gonna kiss her but ended up kissing Gumball."
"That's kinda cute." The other 5 were grossed out by the shark's statement. "What?" The other's continued on to look at the duo in detention as Molly left the group.
"Uhh…yeah, go find out something for me, this is getting awkward." Sharza then looked at Masami.
"So, what did you do cloud girl?"
"Ugh, for the last time, nothing! And my name's Masami!"
"So why is Darwin all emo and stuff? Did you tell him, or did you tell Gumball?"
"Uh, no! I never told Darwin nor Gumball! Not even their sister Anais! I'm not like that…" Jamie then let out a cough and a whistle that made everyone stare harder at the cloud. She gave out a sigh and gave out the truth. "Okay, maybe I told Anais, so what?"
"What's his problem then?"
"I don't know!"
"So much for being a girlfriend for him!"
"SHUT UP!" The girls weren't too aware of their volume, and were inturppted by a cough from someone that wasn't them.
"Ahem." The girls looked around to see Carrie, unimpressed and angry. "May we get some space?" The shark looked at the ghost in anger and pushed the other girls aside.
"No, you may not! Darwin's mine!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah!"
"Okay, come get me!"
"Fool!" The two fought, and a massive grey cloud enveloped them. The rest of the girls stared at each other for a while, before walking away.
"Let's get outta here, this is stupid." moaned Jamie. In the library, Gumball was talking to Bobert. Bobert had finally notified Gumball of his weird behavior and has agreed to find out why.
"Bobert, are you sure you want to do this?" The robot gave a metallic nod. "Use that analysis chamber laser- I mean use that laser-a-tron-thingy-ma-jig and find out why I'm like this!"
"Yes, Gumball, I've noticed that change much. I don't know why I haven't checked you yet, so here we go, hold still." The same laser hovered around the cat's body and after a while, the results were printed.
"Hmm-" Bobert looked heavily on the results, and Gumball wanted to see them too. As soon as he saw the cat trying to read it, he scooted away, afraid of what Gumball might say again to make the robot jam. "No, I'll read! Anyways, the results suggest you have a chemical in your body called 'reversite kadabrite', and according to its components, the chemical has completely reversed your behavior and everything else in you."
"Huh…but where did the chemical come from?"
"That's what I want to know. I will take a blood sample-" at the speed of light, Bobert stabbed Gumball with a thin needle ,that came out his chest, in his arm, which sucked in some red liquid, and placed it back in his metallic frame. "-and analyze it a bit more at home."
"Thanks Bobert, hope you find something…" groaned Gumball, rubbing his arm that got stabbed. Unknown to Gumball, the rather vengeful Cheena charged at him. A thought then sparked in Gumball's head before babbling out a sentence in excitement, which might've saved his life.
"Oh yeah, I gotta check if there's an update on Gopher 7 on Mars!" Cheena completely missed her jump kick and slammed on a wall, screaming in muffled curses, before sliding down on the ground, exposing her red face…
A.N. – Seems to us my blobby OC has screwed things up, not just for the Wattersons, but also the whole of Elmore! Maybe except for Carrie… Will Gumball realize the problem and how will the rest of the family react once they figure this all out? Find out in the next chapter…