Hello again readers! If you're reading this, then you're at chapter 11 of 'Starting Anew'. What could the future hold in this story? Only time will tell. That said, another chapter to read, so sit back and relax. I'll see you on the other side. Enjoy!

Starting Anew

By: Aero Alpha

Chapter Eleven-Pass Up

Alpha ran to Gumball's aid, seeing that he wasn't moving. Apparently, the others heard Alpha yell because they immediately came by. When they all saw Gumball lying on the floor, most of their faces were shown in shock. The group quickly circled around Gumball's motionless body, worried about him.

"Holy cheese dude. What happened Alpha?!" Darwin asked.

"I-I don't know!? He picked something up and there was a flash…then this happened!" Alpha explaining the best way he could.

"Is he alright?" Carolina questioned.

"Let me see." Alpha said then kneeled down to check for a pulse.

"He seems to be breathing.." He sighed in relief, luckily finding one.

"Well, lets take him to the hospital." Carrie told the group.

They all nodded, so Alpha and Darwin picked up Gumball, carrying him as the gang made way to the hospital.

Once they left the area, Tobias came out of his hiding spot, followed by Banana Joe. The two checked to see if it was clear and when it was, Tobias laughed before speaking.

"Yes, it worked. Can't believe he fell for it."

"Ha ha. Yeah, sucks to be him." Banana Joe did his weirdly chuckle.

"Like they say, curiosity killed the cat." Tobias punned as they started to walk in a direction.

"More like the cat went night-night." The fruit added.

Then Banana Joe thought about it.

"But.. do you think it might have hurt him a little too much?" He questioned Tobias.

This made the rainbow humanoid stop in place.

"I mean, it could have killed him." Banana Joe wondered cautiously.

"Whoa whoa, are you going soft on me Joe?"

"What? N-no dude, I'm not." He replied.

The two continued walking.

"Good. So now that Gumball's out of the picture for now, I guess I should move on the next part." Tobias showing a grin on his face.


At Elmore Hospital, in Room 152, a group of young teenagers were sitting in the room, with looks of concern for a blue feline that was lying in the hospital bed. After a short time of waiting, a doctor opened the door and walked right in, as his presence made Alpha and his friends get up from their seats.

"So Doc, how's Gumball? Is he going to live?" A really worried Alpha asked.

"Don't worry, your friend here is not in a dying situation." The doctor told them.

Sighs of relief came out from everyone, then the doctor's face changed to a look of disappointment.

"But the bad news…is that he's in a coma." He informed them.

"We had examined your friend here, and the reason that this happened is that the flash had send a shock to the nerves in his system from his eye-contact to it, making a shutdown to the brain and lastly, putting him a coma. I'm sorry that this occurred." The doctor explained.

The group were shocked about it, especially Darwin and Lexy. The two were sadden to know, because when they first got to the hospital, they called their parents. Now that Gumball is now in a coma, Nicole and Richard are going to know to hard way when they get there. Alpha held his head down and Carolina took notice, so she went up to him and put her paw on his shoulder, giving him support due to Alpha's best friend in such a condition.

"Hey, it's going to okay." She quietly told him.

Alpha then looked up at her and gave her a small smile.

"Do you know how long he's going to be in this condition?" Carrie asked the doctor.

"Well, luckily we know that he's not going to be a coma forever but only an amount of time can tell." The doctor telling her with a reasonable choice of words for an answer.

"Just great…" Darwin sadly said, standing beside Gumball's bed.

Suddenly, Alpha's phone went off, so he left the room and into the hallway.

Ring

Ring

Ring

"Hello?" Alpha answered.

"Alpha Wolfe?" Someone on the other side of the line wondered.

"Yeah, that's me." He replied.

"You have a brother, Omega Wolfe?" The person asked.

"Yes, yes I do, who are you?" Alpha questioned.

"I am Rigby Salyers, I'm a close friend to Omega, and I need to talk to you about something." he replied.

"Okay, but first tell me what Omega's done wrong." Alpha ordered.

"He's in a hospital." Rigby answered.

"Oh, okay explain why he's in there." Alpha said, a little worried about the fact.

"We were on a field trip to a place called Pinevalley, when my friends and I got lost, including Omega. Omega started to feel unwell, until suddenly his eye changed to a weird black/red color." Rigby began.

"Oh…" Alpha began to worry, obviously understanding what Rigby was explaining.

"Then he pounced on one of my friends and tried to kill him, after a few seconds of fighting, I managed to climb a tree to escape him from killing me, but then he looked into my eyes for a second, then I shivered. Then I…" Rigby continued.

"He what?! Alpha began to panic.

"What?" Rigby asked.

"He did that…? Oh…continue…" Alpha biting his claws a little bit.

"Okay…well, his claws and mouth were covered in blood and he passed out, so we got someone to take us to a hospital not too far from Twin Peaks, in a town called Cartlyn Falls." Rigby finished.

"Should I come down?" Alpha asked.

"I don't think that'll be necessary." Rigby answered.

"Alright, I'll talk to his father, thanks for calling Rigby, I'll save your number onto my phonebook in case you wanna chat." Alpha told Rigby.

"Okay, bye Alpha." Rigby said goodbye.

"Bye." Alpha hanged up.

The conversation ended.

"Sweet Jesus, if Omega did that to Rigby, he's in deep trouble…" Alpha muttered.

"I better call dad…" Alpha dialing his father's number.

'First Gumball…now Omega's in the hospital. Shit this afternoon isn't going so good, why the hell today and to them?.' The wolf thought.

'I think I should head over to Cartlyn Falls anyway.'

Alpha's father answered his phone.

"Hey dad, something happened to Omega…" Alpha started.


After he was done talking on the phone with his dad, Alpha went to go back to where the others were still at. As he walked in, he saw Gumball's parents right next to Gumball, with such worriment. He must have failed to see them out in the hallway when they past by. Also, it had seemed that the doctor had told them what he told to Alpha and his friends because Nicole was on the verge of crying, her eyes had tears building up, trying to hold back. Alpha and the rest were sad of a burden to witness the hurt. After the doctor left the room, Alpha motioned his friends to come with him out the room as well so he can talk with them about something and to give Mr. and Mrs. Watterson some privacy.

The group went out into the hallway and stopped as Alpha turned around to face them.

"Okay guys, someone had called and informed me that my brother Omega, is in a hospital somewhere in a place called Cartlyn Falls, just some place near Twin Peaks that he currently lives. It also means that something terrible had gone down, so I called my dad and told him this, because only my dad and I are aware of my brother's condition that he has. Any questions so far?" Alpha started telling.

"Yeah, you have a brother?" Darwin asked.

"Yes." Alpha flatly replied.

"So what is this condition that he has?" Carrie said.

"Well, it makes him dangerous and unpredictable…it-it's complicated." Alpha told them.

"So I am going to head over there to check on him. I'll be gone for a few days." He continued.

"What about Gumball?" Lexy questioned with concern.

"I know he's in a coma right now but I have to look out for my brother as well." Alpha reasoned.

He then sighed and before he spoke again, Alpha's father showed up down the hall.

"Alpha, let's get going! Before Omega gets worse." Jason told him.

"Alright, well I have to go. Call me when Gumball wakes up you guys, I hope he does eventually. I don't really know how long I'll be gone, it depends on how the situation goes down." Alpha quickly finished.

But before he was about to leave, Carolina stopped him.

"Wait Alpha, let me see your phone for a second." She said.

Alpha nodded and did what he was told, handing his cell phone to her. She then put a number down on his phone and handed back to him.

"Here's my phone number. Be careful Alpha." Carolina said to him.

After giving each of his friends a farewell, he then turned around and made his way to his dad. When Alpha got to where his father was, the two wolves walked out the hospital. Once they where in the car, Jason turned on the engine and started to drive on the street. Alpha then realized something.

"Hey dad, mom isn't coming with us." The young grey wolf asked.

"You know about your mother…it's too dangerous for her to come and confront Omega when his condition takes place.. and especially when it goes out of control." Jason replied with a serious tone.

Jason became serious ever since Alpha told him about Omega's current state and he was right about Alpha's mother, Rose because she wouldn't be safe due to the fact that she was a gentle fox.

"It's going to take us till tomorrow morning to get there, so sit back and relax champ." Jason telling his son as he continued to focus on the road.

And their trip to see Omega in Cartlyn Falls began.


Back at the hospital, nighttime had fallen, Lexy, Darwin and their parents were still in Gumball's room. Carrie had left since her parents expected her to be home and Carolina had her mom come to pick her up, so she had also gone home. After a few minutes, the doctor told the Watterson that visiting hours were over and told them to get some rest. As much as Darwin wanted to wait by Gumball's side when he would wake up, he agreed to get some sleep and come by tomorrow morning so he went along with his family back to their place. The entire drive there was in dead silence as they approached their household. Once inside, Darwin went straight to his and Gumball's room, yawned for a second, and jumped into his rounded fish-bowl. Just as he was about to end the day, there was a knock at the door, prompting Darwin to get up.

"Who is it?" The orange fish said, sounding a bit exhausted.

"It me." The voice belonged to Lexy.

"I just want to talk to you for a minute." She said.

Darwin then went up to the door and opened it as he stepped aside, letting her in. The pink cat walked and sat at the edge of Gumball's bed, as Darwin flicked the light switch on since it was dark in the room. The lights turned on, as it illuminated the room. Darwin then sat next to Lexy on the bed, waiting for what she wanted to talk about.

"Alright Lexy, what is it?" Darwin was asking, seeing that she was fidgeting her fingers.

After she stopped, she faced towards her brother.

"I'm really worried about Gumball." Lexy told him.

"Yeah…me too." He admitted as well.

"How long do you think it's going to take before he wakes up?" Darwin asked, thinking what she would say.

"It probably won't be too long, maybe it'll be two or three days." She said in her opinion.

"I guess so. You know what?" Darwin realized.

"What?"

"We shouldn't be negative right now, we should be positive. Gumball would like that!" The fish happily thought. Maybe Gumball would.

"Yeah, you're right. Well then, we should have some shut-eye, we're going to check on him in the morning." Lexy said as she got up and walked out of the room.

"Okay. Goodnight!" Darwin jumped back into his fishbowl and eased his way to sleep.


A week and two days later…

Thursday-2:12 PM

A car drove into a driveway and parked there. It was at the Wolfe's residents and when the car passenger door opened, a familiar young grey wolf stepped out. Alpha and his father had returned from Cartlyn Falls and Pinevalley, with a crazy turn of events that happened. They were not the only ones that had returned, the two brought Omega back with them. After getting the medication for his condition and some time, Omega was now stable and would be for a very long time. Alpha was glad to have his brother back home with them, it had been so long. After Jason got out, Alpha told him that he was going to head over to his friend's place, his father agreed and took Omega inside to meet his mother as Alpha walked towards the Watterson's house.
He approached to the door and knocked on it. He waited until he was greeted by Nicole.

"Oh! Hello Alpha, didn't expect you came back today."

"Yeah, it's nice to be back Mrs. Watterson. So is Gumball and Darwin here?"

"Darwin is at the hospital, Gumball's hasn't came out of his coma yet." Her neutral expression had change to a sad one.

"Sorry about that." Alpha apologizing.

"It's okay. Anyways, I'm on my way to work, so do you want a lift to the hospital on the way?" She offered.

"That sounds nice, I would like to. If that's a problem with you." He accepted.

"Not a problem at all. Come on then." She assured.

"Okay." Alpha said as he got in the car.

Nicole started to drive Alpha to the hospital.


After she dropped Alpha off, she went on with her day and drove off. Alpha made his way in the hospital and checked in with the front office, telling the person that he was here for a visit. Once that was set, he then took the elevator to the second floor and went to the room number that Gumball was currently in. As he walked into the room, he saw Darwin sitting quietly by Gumball's bed, watching TV that was hanging on the wall. Darwin notice him at the door was happy to see Alpha, so he went up and greeted him.

"Hey Alpha. You're back!" He said.

"Yup. So how are you holding up?" Alpha wondered

"I'm doing good, though I can't say the same for him" Darwin replied as he nodded his head to Gumball.

"Man, that sucks…" Alpha hated fate.

"So how did it go with your brother?" Darwin mentioned.

"Omega? He's normal and shouldn't have trouble for now. A lot went down when I was over there."

"Well, at least you're back here in Elmore." Darwin told him.

"True." He agreed.

"I miss Gumball." Darwin said in disappointment.

"Don't worry buddy." Alpha sighed as the two let their heads down.

This kept going in silence for such a moment until a groan shattered the silence in the room. Alpha and Darwin looked at each other, knowing that they didn't make the noise, just shrugged. Then it happened again, someone was groaning but it was just someone, it was the blue feline that was laying in bed. The two were amazed that Gumball was finally waking up. They went to the side of his bed and looked at Gumball.

"Auuugh…" Gumball kept groaning as he shuffled around a bit.

"Wh-what happened…?" Gumball said.

Yay! Gumball is okay after all. So that concludes chapter 11 of this story. I plan on writing longer chapters like this one, so that means it will take longer to update than it was before in the beginning. But don't worry, I am working on the next chapter.

I would like to thank RegularShowMemorabilia for the cell phone call scene. He gave me the idea from a while back and I found the right time to do so. Check out his story 'Grey', as it explains at one point, what happened to Alpha when he got to Cartlyn Falls. Also, Omega belongs to him (Unless you want to want me to adopt him from you R.S.M., that's your choice.)

Enough said, I'll catch you on the next on.

Peace be with you!

~AeroAlpha