"I can't believe what gumball did" Nicole said angry.
"Yeah and it worse than you think mom" anais said.
"What do you mean anais?" Darwin asked.
"if anyone from school finds out about what we did, and thanks to gumball they will, kids will be so angry out us that will be kicked out of our clubs, be forbidden to join new clubs, and Rachel will break-up with you" anais said to Darwin.
"What? I don't want Rachel and I to break-up" Darwin said nervous.
"Well she well once she reads what gumball wrote, assuming she didn't already" anais said.
"So we are screwed after all" Darwin said.
"Yup pretty much" anais said.
"Oh no were not" Nicole said then continued "were going straight to granny jojo's and after I scold and punish him for disobeying me and blabbing to people on Elmorebook, I'll have him write a retraction to it" Nicole finished.
"but mom he might not even be at jojo's right now, and what he did to Darwin happened only a short while ago, so even if he headed back to jojo's after that will still beat him there and there won't be anyone to confront" anais argued.
"So if there's no one there then will just wait at jojo's for him to come back" Nicole said assuring anais.
"But granny jojo said she would be gone till 1 a.m., so what if gumball doesn't come back till then?" Darwin asked unsure.
"If that's the case then will wait till 10 p.m., and if he doesn't return by then, will go home and then will return tomorrow to punish him" Nicole said reassuring Darwin.
"Now if no one has anything else to say, then let's go" Nicole as her, Darwin, and anais headed out of the house and to the car.
"Hey wait for me" Richard said following his family to the car.
As soon as everyone was in the car and buckled up, Nicole turn it one, pulled out of the drive way, and speed off.
After they left, gumball and Jamie came out of the push underneath the window.
"Oh god, what am I going to do? As soon as they get to jojo's house and see I'm not there, im screwed" gumball said nervous.
"Calm down gumball, I have a plan" Jamie said then whipped out her cell phone.
"Hey it's me" Jamie said talking into the phone.
(Meanwhile on Elmore highway)
Nicole was driving really fast almost breaking the speed limit.
"Nicole honey can't you drive a little slower" Richard asked.
"Richard, you know how I get when I have to get somewhere while I'm a little upset" Nicole said clutching the wheel.
Just then Nicole was pulled over by the donut cop.
"ma'am, do you know how fast you were going?" the donut cop asked.
"YEAH I KNOW" Nicole yelled then continued. "Just give the stupid ticket so I can go punish my son" Nicole said grinding her teeth.
"s-sure, here you go" the scared donut cop said giving Nicole the ticket.
"Thanks" Nicole said then drove off down the highway.
After that the donut cop pulled out his police walky talky.
"Attention all units, if you see a green/brown car heading down the drive way, ignore it, its NICOLE WATTERSONS CAR" shouted the donut cop through his walky talky.
After 10-15 more minutes, the Watterson's had arrived at jojo's house.
"Okay everyone out of the car" Nicole ordered has she got out of the car.
As everyone got out of the car, Nicole was at the front door of the house trying to find the key to it on her key ring.
"Dammit, it has to be here somewhere" Nicole said getting angry.
"Uh how about this?" Richard said pulling a key out from under the door mate.
Nicole then grabbed the keys from Richard, opened the door, and looked around the living room for any sighs of her son.
"So he's not here after all" Nicole said getting angry and then shouted. "GUMBALL TRISTOPHER WATTERSON, YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TRUOBLE"
After Nicole shouted, a voice came from upstairs.
"Good god who's shouting so loud?" asked the voice.
The Watterson's followed the voice and after looking in the middle of the stairs saw who the voice belonged to, gumball.
"Oh it's you" gumball said displeased.
"You're here?" Nicole said in disbelieve.
"Of course I am, you're the one who put me here" gumball said in an angry tone. He appeared to have just come out of the shower, with his fur a little wet with a towel around his head and clean clothes on.
"Now what do you want?" gumball asked angry.
"Did you tell people on Elmorebook what we did to you or tell them to hurt Darwin?" Nicole asked.
"Well Granny jojo has an old laptop for 1999, but it doesn't really work well" gumball responded then said. "But your more than welcome to check for yourself" pointing to the laptop.
The Watterson's knew that even thou gumball was stupid, he was still smart enough to have delete his internet history, and it would be pointless to check.
"No that won't be necessary" Nicole said still suspicious.
"That all" gumball asked.
"No, did you leave the house and attack Darwin 20 minutes ago in Elmore?" Nicole asked angry.
"Well I couldn't have, because how could I have hurt him in Elmore and make it back here in 20 minutes, not to mention the fact that I just came out of the shower" gumball said.
What gumball said did make the family think, and realized it was impossible for gumball to have hurt Darwin, especially since they knew how long gumball liked to take his showers.
"So you didn't leave" Nicole asked.
"Well after breakfast I went to the park to play with some of my friends, but I got back over an hour ago so it still would have been impossible for me to hurt Darwin" gumball explained.
"So you did leave" Nicole said upset.
"Yeah, but like I said I didn't hurt Darwin" gumball said defending himself.
"Well even so you shouldn't have left to begin with" Nicole said sternly.
"And why not?" gumball asked.
"Why not?, You were forbidden to go outside this weekend, that's why not" Nicole said getting angry.
"Yeah by you, not by granny jojo, and since this is her house I go by her rules, and you can't tell me to what to do or were to go while I'm not living with you. Meaning that you can force me out of the house but after that I can choose were to go and who to stay with, and that means jojo can only take me if I want to go and if she wants me, which she did. In fact I was planning on going to someone elses house and stay with them for a fun weekend, which you cant stop me from doing for the reasons I just explained" gumball explained repeating Jamie's words.
"Well…I…um…well" Nicole said trying to think of a comeback but couldn't. As much as she hated to admit it, her son was right. She couldn't punish him for disobeying her while not living under her roof.
Crap it isn't a punishment if he can do anything he wants, I really should have though this through. Nicole though angry at the fact that her son doesn't have to stay with jojo and can do anything he wants.
"So did you all come here just to accuse me of doing stuff I didn't do without proof" gumball said still a little angry.
What gumball just said made is family feel sort bad for falsely accusing him of hurting Darwin without any actual proof.
"uh no, we also came to take you out to dinner to talk to you about last night" Nicole said trying to cover up the fact that they just through false accusations at him, and this also gave her a chance to apologize to gumball for hitting him, and to talk to him and Richard about the meeting with principle brown.
"No thanks, I still have a hard time eating after the slap you gave me" gumball said towards Nicole in an angry tone.
Nicole flinched at the remark knowing she shouldn't have slapped him, and if he wasn't going to eat out with them, then she'll have to apologize to him here.
"Gumball about the slap," Nicole started but was cut off by gumball.
"You know what, just forget it" gumball said sounding pissed and head up the stairs.
"Gumball wait" Nicole said pleadingly then heard anais speak.
"Ah ha" anais said which got everyone's attention.
"What is it anais?" Nicole asked curiously.
"Gumball did tell everyone on Elmorebook what we did" anais said turning the screen to her family.
"So he did" Nicole said angry, and then turned toward gumball.
"But how did you know? I erased my history" gumball said confused.
"You can erase the history in your browser, but you can't erase the history on your Elmorebook account" anais explained.
"You hacked my account? How did you get the password?" gumball asked more confused.
"It's Penny Watterson" gumballs family said together.
"Seriously dude, it's not that hard to figure out" Darwin said to gumball.
"Well you still had no right to look" gumball said angry.
"And you had no right to tell everyone what happened" Nicole said getting even angrier.
"Oh yeah, and who are you to tell me different" gumball said still angry.
"Your mother, who is getting very upset with you" Nicole said trying to calming down, not wanting a repeat of last night.
"Yeah well you're a pretty shitty one at that" gumball said in a hateful tone.
The Watterson's especial Nicole were shocked at what gumball just said.
"Gumball don't talk to me like that or else" Nicole said threating her son.
"Or else what? You can't punish me while I'm here" gumball said calling the threat.
"Then I'll just take you home and punish you there, since this punishment obviously isn't working, and you're not learning to be respectful" Nicole said about to go up the stairs were her son is, but stopped when gumball spoke.
"No you can't, you can force me out but you can't force me to come back unless I want to come back, especially when I'm at someone else's house or that's kidnapping" gumball said in a bitter tone then continued. "Plus whoever said I would want to go home with you anyway"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Nicole asked confused.
"I don't have to tell you" gumball said then head up the stairs.
"Gumball get back here" Nicole said pissed off.
Gumball ignored his mom and continued up the stairs.
Nicole got angry seeing her son ignore her, so she went up the stairs after him and then grabbed him.
"Now look here young men…" Nicole said grabbing gumball by his arm.
Gumball then pulled out of her grasp, and as soon as he was free, he unsheathe his claws and did something that shocked his family, he slapped Nicole with his hand while at the same time scratched her with his unsheathe claws, leaving her cheek red with claw marks on it as well.
Nicole was in a total state of shock. She didn't think anyone, let alone her own son would have the balls to slap/scratch her.
Gumball was also in a state of shock. He didn't know how to react. He was happy that he got his mom back for slapping him, but at the same time was terrified. I mean if she slapped him and sent him away just for pushing anais, imagine what she would do to him for slapping/scratching her.
Just then gumballs bag of cocaine fell out of his pocket for all to see.
Nicole's eyes widened when she saw the bag and knew what it was.
"GUMBALLLLLL" Nicole shouted from the top of her lungs.
Gumball backs up to the top of the stairs terrified.
The family is confused as to what Nicole was yelling about.
Nicole picks up the bag before examining it.
"What is this?" Nicole asked on the break of tears.
"It's nothing" gumball said a little scared.
"DON'T LIE TO ME, IT'S COCAINE" Nicole said screaming.
The rest of the family was shocked at what Nicole just said. They couldn't believe it but they saw the bag filled with cocaine, even though they were a good distance away from it.
Nicole was trying hard to hold back her tears. She just couldn't believe this was all happening, Gumball skipping his detention, being a suspect in the pool incident, and doing cocaine.
Am I that awful of a mother? Nicole though.
"Gumball, where did you even get this" Nicole asked trying to calm down.
"From Jamie" gumball answered shocking his family even more. They didn't think gumball would actually take something from Jamie, let alone cocaine.
"From Jamie? Why in the world would associate with that kind of person?" Nicole asked confused.
"Hey, don't talk about me girlfriend that way" gumball said deafeningly.
"YOU'RE GIRLFRIEND?" the whole family said in shock.
"Yes, my girlfriend, and for the record she did try to tell me how dangerous it was" gumball said defending Jamie.
Was all of this really because of one slap? Nicole though, she couldn't believe all this was happening.
"Gumball what is with you?" Nicole asked then continued. "I mean when slapped you, did transform you into a different person?"
Gumball turned to his side after hearing that. Nicole ignored this and continued.
"And aside from that, your also a suspect in the pool incident at school" Nicole said, which got not only gumballs but also the rest of the families attention.
"What do you mean?" Richard asked.
"On my way home today, I got a text from principal brown saying that some unknown students set the school pool on fire, and that gumball was one of the suspects" Nicole explained to her husband.
Richard, along with Darwin, anais, and even gumball were shocked at what Nicole just said.
"And that's not all, brown also said you skipped your detention yesterday" Nicole said starring gumball in the face, hoping to get an answer from him, but gumball looked away again and didn't respond.
"Gumball I get how me slapping you could make you what you did today, but according to brown, everything he mentioned happened yesterday afternoon before I slapped you, so how can I be responsible for that" Nicole explained confused.
Gumball was starting to get angry, angry at the fact that his mom still didn't understand how wrong she was.
"Mom you slapping me is the least of your crimes" gumball said angry.
"What do you mean?" Nicole asked.
"I mean that the slap started the transformation process, but you sending me to jojos finished it. In other words it was more wrong for you to send me to jojos then it was to slap me" gumball explained.
"But gumball, you misbehaved, and as a parent it's my job to punish you when you do" Nicole said deafeningly.
"Mom I get that, but what I'm saying is there are some ways you shouldn't punish a child, and this is one of them" gumball said then continued. "I mean when you punish like this, your basically saying you don't want me in the house, and that's not something any parent should do to their child, even if it's only for 3 days"
Nicole felt a chill go up her spine, after which she started to feel some guilt building up inside her. She didn't know what to say and continued hearing her son out.
"and there were other punishments that you could have used like sending me to my room, grounding me, or taking away privileges, but you didn't, and why you didn't I'll never know" gumball said starting to get sad then continued. "I mean look at Jamie's mom, when Jamie or her sisters does something wrong, she listens to their sides of the story, and if they need discipline then she'll ground them like a really mother, plus what gives you the right to give me any punishment after slapping me like that instead of apologizing for the slap"
Nicole's guilt was almost at the breaking point. Darwin and anais for some reason felt a chill go up there spines as well and they also started to feel guilty.
"You see Jamie's mom listens to her kids and gives them fair, reasonable punishments. You didn't even try to listen to my side, and just assumed I behaved that way because I felt like, and you gave me a unfair, and unreasonable punishment" gumball explained near the point of tears and continued. "How could you? How you guys could hurt me like that?"
His family looked at him and noticed the tears coming from his eyes.
"How could you send me away like that? I mean what kind of mom are you that you punish your own son by sending him away right after you hit him like that and not allowing him in his own house for 3 days?, instead of apologizing to him" gumball asked now starting to cry and continued. "You treated me like trash and you made me feel like shit. You did this to teach me respect, but you don't deserve it, because of what you did. At least I know how you really feel about me and that is if you could, you would get rid of me without any regret"
Nicole, Darwin and Anais finally understood that they punished gumball too seriously, and he took it too seriously. They felt guilty that they were that wrong to gumball and hurt him this much
"Gumball were sor-" Nicole started then continued.
"Save it actions speak louder than words, and your action of sending me away proves how you feel" Gumball said then continued "it's not fair, I gave you me people my heart and you stomped on it, you spat on my feelings, and caused me both physical and emotional pain without any regret. How could you act so poorly to my mistakes like that. I guess what anais said back during the helmet incident, about how you're nothing without me, was a lie"
Anais heart sunk. She felt ashamed that she had said that to her brother, but still did this to him.
"I guess it is true what they say, love is 0. No matter how many 0's you had to it, you'll just lose out to misery" gumball said unable to hold back his tears and begun to cry.
Nicole, Darwin, and anais guilt finally broke them along with their hearts. They realized that they took the wrong approach, and they now realize they punished him to seriously, and he took it to seriously. They regret punishing gumball how they did. No matter what gumball does, he's still a member of their family. They decided to end this on fair punishment and bring gumball home.
"Gumball please we-" Nicole begun but was cut off by gumball again.
"At least I have my new family to take care of me now" gumball said trying to whip the tears from his eyes.
"New family? What are you talking about?" Nicole asked confused.
"I mean that I've replaced you and the rest of my former family with a new one. The raid club" gumball said with pride.
"The raid club?" Nicole asked.
"yes, you see since you wouldn't stop pestering me to join a club, which is another reason when I misbehaved, I had to try and join one, but the only one that was up my alley was the raid club, and when I told them about how much of a bitch you all were being to me, they were there to comfort me when I needed it. That's how they became my new family" gumball explained.
Nicole was speechless. He knew he and the others were wrong to gumball, but wrong enough for gumball to replace them.
"Gumball, I know your upset, but when family members are angry with one another, they talk about, and don't just go to replacing one another" Nicole explained.
"Yeah, and not only should we not try to replace one another, but were not supposed to send each other away, so who are to tell not be wrong to you when you were wrong to me" gumball countered.
Nicole's heart broke even more at gumballs word, because they were true.
"Gumball were very sorr-" Nicole began but was again cut off.
"Just shut it, I don't want to hear anymore bullshit" gumball said, then reached into his pocket and pulled his ipod. He then threw the on the ground and stomped on it until it was smashed to hell, threw it at his mother.
The broke Ipod landed at Nicole's feet, and as soon as she picked it up, she noticed it was the ipod she gave gumball for charismas.
"Take it, better nothing then a useless burden weighing me down the rest of my life" gumball said in a angry tone with tears still running down his face.
Nicole's heart broke even more at what gumball just said and did.
"Gumball please we-" Nicole begun but gumball ran into his grandmothers room crying, not wanting to hear anymore bullshit.
"Gumball wait" Nicole said then chased after him.
Gumball ran into jojos room and locked the door.
"Gumball?" Nicole asked knocking on the door.
"Go away" gumball said crying into his sleeves with his back against the door.
"Sweetie were sorry, we didn't mean to make you feel like that" Nicole said trying to get her son to come out.
"But you did. You wanted to hurt me for what I did and you punished me by not allowing me in the house, how could you be so cruel to me your own son" Gumball said crying even more.
"Gumball sweetie we are really so-" Nicole begun but was cut off by gumball.
"No forget it. You wanted me gone so I'll give you what you want" Gumball said, and then nothing was heard.
"Gumball what do you mean by that?" Nicole asked but got no response.
"Gumball? Gumball?" Nicole asked starting to get worried. The thought of her son running away scarred her.
"Gumball if your there answer me" Nicole said worried, and after a minute knocked the door down to see if he was there.
"Gumball where are you?" Nicole asked looking around the room in a panic.
Nicole then saw the window opened and immediately inspected. She found that gumballs scent was on the windowsill and on the outside of the window from.
Nicole's worst fears were now conformed, her son has runaway.
Nicole came down stairs in a panic.
"What's wrong?" Richard asked.
"It's gumball he's runaway" Nicole said frantic.
"What?" everyone said shocked.
"Yeah I'm calling the police and telling them as soon as they find him to bring home where he belongs" Nicole said as she head for the phone only to be stopped by anais.
"Wait mom" anais said just as Nicole was about to dial 911.
"What is it anais?" Nicole asked.
"If gumball just ran away, then he couldn't have gotten to fair on foot, so let's get in the car and search around the area, and hopeful will find him" anais explained.
"Okay then, let's go" Nicole said then everyone headed at of the house, got into the car, went to search for gumball.
(Back at granny jojos house)
The closet inside granny jojo's room opened, and at came gumball and Jamie.
"Looks like there gone" Jamie said scooping out the place.
"Good, there gone" gumball said glad his family left.
"That was a good Idea to open the window and put your paws on the window, so your scent would be on it" Jamie said congratulating gumball.
"Thanks, but it was your idea that deserves the praise" gumball said remembering what Jamie did.
Flashback
"Oh man I'm screwed" gumball said knowing his family will arrive at jojos before he does.
"Relax gumball, I got this" Jamie said then got out her cell phone.
"Hey rocky, it's me" Jamie into her cell phone.
"Hey Jamie, what's up?" rocky said to Jamie.
"Nothing much, but enough with the pleasantries, I need your help, or more specifically gumball needs your help" Jamie said passing the phone to gumball.
"Hey rocky" gumball said into the phone.
"Hey gumball, what do you need?" rocky asked.
End of flashback.
"Lucky for me rocky knows all the shortcuts in and out of Elmore" gumball said relieved.
"Yup, so what now?" Jamie asked.
"Well you know the plan I had to leave granny jojos house and stay with one of my friends?" gumball asked.
"Yeah" Jamie said.
"Well looks like it got moved up, to now" gumball said getting ready to leave.
"So you're leaving now?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah, I got to find a place to stay for a while, and hopefully the people I stay with wont tell anyone my whereabouts" gumball explained.
"Well gumball, I know a good place for you to stay where no one will find you, how about I have rocky drive you there?" Jamie asked.
"Really?" gumball asked curious.
"Yup, so how about it?" Jamie asked.
"Okay, let's go" gumball said then left jojos house with Jamie.
After the duo left the house, they then turned a corner and spotted Rockies bus hiding in the shadows.
Rocky saw the duo and immediately up the bus doors.
"Hey guys what's up?" rocky said greeting them.
"Nothing much, Listen can you take gumball to that place?" Jamie asked.
"Sure" rocky said then closed the bus doors as gumball and Jamie sat down.
Rocky then drove off the place gumball would be staying with for the time being.
Gumball was feeling very sleep at the moment, which was understandable considering the day he had.
Gumball then leaned his head against the window and drifted off to sleep.
Jamie not wanting gumballs head to bounce of the window from the bumps decided to take gumball and place him on his side and sat his head on her lap.
"I have to admit that the way gumball is sleeping is kind of cute" Jamie said then stroke gumballs head which made him purr a little.
(Meanwhile in the old person town)
The Watterson's searched around the small neighborhood for gumball for 20 minutes, but was unable to find him.
"I guest gumball got away" anais said in sad tone.
"Looks like have to call the police" Nicole said then got out her cell phone and called the police.
"So I'm guessing that the going out to eat offer is no longer on the table" Richard asked.
"Richard" Nicole said shocked.
"What?" Richard asked.
"How can you think about that at a time like this?" Nicole asked a little angry.
"I was just trying to lighten the mood" Richard explained.
"Whatever, anyway we won't be going out or doing anything family related until gumball is brought back home safely" Nicole explained.
(Back on the bus)
After an hour, rocky final arrived at the destination.
"Okay, were here" rocky said to Jamie.
"Okay, hey gumball wake up were here" Jamie said as she genteelly woke gumball up.
Gumball then woke up and after some stretching turned towards Jamie.
"Where are we?" gumball asked.
"Where at the place you'll be staying at for now" Jamie answered.
After that, gumball got off the bus to see where he was, but was speechless at the sight. He was on top of a hill.
"why are we on top of a hill?" gumball asked both confused and amazed at the same time.
"Because the place your staying at is on top of this hill" Jamie said then point the a house on top of the hill.
Gumball saw the house and was amazed out how big it was. It looked almost like a mansion.
"I'm staying there?" gumball asked amazed.
"Yup, all buy yourself" Jamie said then walked gumball to the house.
"All to me" gumball asked curious and excited at the same time.
"Yeah, you see this is Tobias's and Rachel's families summer house, so with Tobias's and Rachel's permission, the raid club gets access to the house anytime we want" Jamie explained to gumball.
"And because I'm a member of the raid club, I get access to this as well" gumball said assumingly.
"Yup, and since there is no one else here at the moment, you get this big house yourself" Jamie said.
"And your sure Tobias and Rachel won't mind" gumball asked unsure.
"Don't worry, I just have to tell them the situation and it well all be fine, but I think even if I didn't say anything, tell would still let you stay here after what you been through" Jamie said reassuring gumball just as the 2 reached the front porch.
Jamie then reached into her pocket, grabbed a key, and unlocked the front door.
As soon as they got inside, gumball gasped at how big and beautiful the inside was. He though he was in heaven.
"So do you like it?" Jamie asked.
"I LOVE IT" gumball said happy and loudly.
Seeing gumball happy made Jamie smile. She just wanted to make him forget about the pain he suffered through.
Just then, Jamie was given a hugged by gumball, which surprised her.
"Thanks for all of this Jamie, for everything" gumball said hugging Jamie tightly.
Jamie understanding the hug, decided to hug gumball back.
"You're welcome, gummypuss" Jamie said now also hugging gumball tightly.
The hug last for what seemed like forever, as the 2 enjoyed each other's body heat.