Arc One Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town
~Elmore Graveyard
It starts in a graveyard at night, but then lights shine on an unmarked gravestone with sounds of people playing the trumpet, saxophone, flute, and trombone are heard as strange creatures pop out of the headstone.
The being appears like a rabbit wearing a white top hat with a pink strap and a magenta horseshoe on the cap, a long white coat with dark pink straps and a pink zipper that covers its mouth, dark brown pants with pale rose fur and bubblegum eyes.
He starts dancing along to the beat of the song. As he jumps into the air outside the Graveyard and a town with a sign above him that reads "Elmore Population: Weird," it starts to glitch.
He begins singing a song as he strolls through town. He encounters various townspeople in different animation and art styles.
Rabbit-
He looks at the people and waves at them, but they don't respond as he sings while looking at the reader.
"Mysterious faces keep on passing me by."
He touches his chest and then moves from left to right.
"The void in my heart pulls me from wrong to right."
He then stops in the street as a car passes through him. While still being optimistic.
"There are endless adventures just waiting here in this bizarre town."
He raises his hands and shouts as the camera zooms in on the town.
"Oh Yeah!"
The camera zooms back to Elmore, where we see the car that went through the wall. Inside are a teenage girl and her parents, who have just moved to this town.
A teenage girl with her hair covering her eye arrives in Elmore sadly, seeing that her old life is over. (No matter what the future holds.)
The Rabbit then skips on the streets near the van with a smile.
Rabbit-
"I will keep on smiling."
Another one is a ghost girl who just woke up from bed. She looks around her room and finds a black conductor hat, but she cannot see her reflection in the mirror except for the conductor hat.
(Should the darkness claim victory.) - A Ghost girl somberly clenching an old hat and then wearing it on her head, looking at the mirror with just the hat on before leaving her room with a melancholy sigh.
He holds a magnifying glass.
Rabbit-
"I would uncover the mystery."
A car arrived at the police station. Inside was a large blue feline wearing a police uniform.
(Though the starting point looks hazy.)- A blue female cat with a tired look then changes her glasses into prescription sunglasses as she goes to work. She then opens the back of the car, revealing a criminal who is a thumbprint in handcuffs.
He shouts at her as he tries to break free from the cuffs but gets slammed into the police car by the growling feline to shut him up, and then drags the criminal into the police station.
The Rabbit is now at the center of the Elmore Mall near the fountain, and he's holding a magnifying glass and then falls into the fountain.
Rabbit-
"We'll unravel the truth, hiding somewhere within this town."
He then emerges from the fountain.
"Oh Yeah!"
The townsfolk then begin dancing and singing along with the Rabbit to the song in the center.
Townspeople and Rabbit-
"So let all your cares fade away
The ticking clocks will capture the beat
As we dance the night away in this."
Rabbit-
"Crazy, Noisy, Bizarre Town!"
The Rabbit fires a bow and arrow, and then the hand turns into him. As he's flying into the air, he lands on the ground near a specific Jr High.
Rabbit-
"Like a drawn archer's bow
With its arrow pulled high
You have to let yourself fly
Towards your uncertainty."
While dancing to the song's beat, he raised his arms high into the air with a smile as he shouted toward the sky.
"Release all your fears, take a stand
Now you're future insight
Oh yeah!"
We zoom in behind the Rabbit as an Eyeball with wings and a Balloon wait together for the bus. With them are a Hot Dog reading something, an upside-down face waving her hands frantically, and a Peanut Girl with six arms.
(Should the darkness trap your voice.)- Everyone on the bus is talking to the balloon boy. The eyeball tries to communicate with them, but unfortunately, no one can hear him.
His eye turns red, along with a shockwave that destroys the windows in the bus. The students move to the other side of the bus. The eyeball then sits down on the seat somberly.
The Rabbit appears atop the bus but then gets hit by the bridge.
Rabbit-
"Fight against the silence!"
Then we don't see the top of his head, but his paw picks up a frame with two people on it. We don't see the image but only an unhappy frown on his face with his eyes covered.
(It's time to live for yourself.)- A Blue creature tears off the face of the older person in the picture.
The Rabbit appears with a cape striking a heroic pose. Oblivious to what's happening around him.
Rabbit-
"And take hold of your destiny!"
A random character hears something in an alleyway. Unbeknownst to the creature, someone is watching.
A mysterious figure lurks behind you. The shadow with fangs attacks a blue creature in its underwear, but it cuts to black as we only hear its screams.
The Rabbit opens his eyes but can't hear the boy screaming as he continues to walk around town.
Rabbit-
"So, open your eyes to see what's hidden within this town!"
- The Rabbit And The Townsfolk
The citizens were dancing while the town everything was glitching.
"So let all your fears wash away."
"As we laugh, the days start to fade."
Ironically the sun is rising behind him.
"Just let your heart begin to dance
Crazy, Noisy, Bizarre Town"
The Rabbit and Townspeople-
"So let all your cares fade away."
"The ticking clocks will capture the beat.'
"As we dance the night away
-Just Only The Rabbit
"Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town!"
He then claps his hands together with a flash. He vanishes without a sound, leaving the townspeople still dancing and wondering what happened as if they were under some spell—the townsfolk return to what they were doing a few seconds later.
Then an alarm is heard as the town fades to black.
~Watterson Home
It was morning on a cloudy day when he heard his alarm clock beeping loudly at 8:00 AM. A preteen boy, who had been sleeping, slammed the alarm clock so hard that it shattered into pieces. He woke up and looked at the destroyed alarm clock.
He sighed heavily as he got up from his single bed. Grabbing the destroyed alarm clock, he threw it into the trashcan before heading to the closet. Opening it, he revealed several more alarm clocks. Holding one in his hand, he placed it on his nightstand beside his bed.
His room was spotless and well-organized, but it was also really empty. He had a computer near the window, some posters, one of the desert with a cactus, A wolf devouring the sun and moon, and A snake eating its tail with the words "Never Ending Cycle" on it. A picture of a female skeleton with Day of the Dead makeup on it dressed in a flamingo dress with a sombrero on her head while fire surrounds her. The walls were a dark brown to the point that they almost looked black. His shelves had a lot of books about mythology, history, science, and algebra.
"Well, I might as well start this day," he said, getting his clothes from the drawers and heading towards the bathroom.
When he returns to his room, he's wearing jade green pants with a blue-green button, a raspberry sweater with red cuffs, and a collar. He returned to his room to grab his green and white costume, which was a mix between a cat and Rabbit with long ears and buck teeth, but he also had cat teeth; his tail was shorter than a cat's tail, and his fur was a turquoise color.
He walks out of his room and then towards the stairs of his house. Behind him is a family portrait, but only with his mom with a stern look, himself having a monotone expression, and holding some Venus Fly Traps with teeth inside their mouths.
Down the hall, the turquoise kid is about to leave, but before he does, there is a note on the wall. He takes it off the door and then reads it out loud.
"I left you some instructions on how to make the ham. You'll need to make your dinner tonight since I work until 2.00 AM. Try to behave yourself on your first day, son. Don't burn the kitchen down like you did last time. And remember to feed her when you get back."
-Mom
He sighs after reading that he will have to make dinner again for himself. He tosses the note into the trash can and then opens the door.
Today, he starts his first day of actual School. He walks outside his house with it being a typical day, except for the sky having holes revealing static like the things you see on T.V. Half the grass on his lawn is glitching. Some cars are floating in the air while seeing his neighbor Gary tries to grab the car to no avail. Also, some of the sidewalks are incomplete, as if they were sketches of a drawing or digital lines like 3D drawings.
As he runs towards Elmore Junior High, he sees his neighbor, Gaylord Robinson. He waves at the 67-year-old man. However, Mr. Robinson has an annoyed grunt after seeing the feline.
"(Bitter) Oh great, it's that kid again." He said while mowing his lawn. His wife glared at the turquoise as he chopped the heads off the garden's flowers.
~49 Minutes later...
As the feline tries to find Elmore Junior High, the turquoise cat finds a gumball machine and then uses a quarter from his pocket to obtain a piece of gum in the shape of a ball in the color blue, which he will eat later. After running around town for ten minutes, he stops and realizes he has no idea where he is going.
Slapping himself on the face for his carelessness, he starts running again until he sees a school nearby. At the same time, he is avoiding the falling rocks in the sky that used to be clouds. Plus, it was snowing for some reason, even though it was September.
He still runs towards School incredibly fast, not seeing the graffiti and vandalized walls everywhere. He turns his head for a second, not seeing where he's going until he is stopped after bumping into someone in front of him.
A thud is heard; for some reason, he feels something sharp and full of spikes stabbing his chest. Looking down, he sees that he has run into a cactus. Although it would have been painful for anyone else in his position, he only finds it a minor annoyance as his body has a lot of endurance.
"QUÍTATE DE MI COÑO"! The cactus shouted, then angrily shoved the turquoise cat to the ground.
The cactus had long black lines for arms and legs, a yellow-green cactus body with two branches on each side, a red bandana with white dots on it, and a mouth with a green tongue and teeth, plus two dot eyes with eyebrows. He looked furious at the cat, although he probably was in a bad mood before he bumped into him. The cactus was glaring at the turquoise cat who was on the ground. It didn't take long for the cat to figure out what the cactus was doing.
"What do you think you are doing here pussy". The cactus demanded him to answer her with its hand curled up into a fist. The cat got up and explained himself, seeing that he was taller than the plant.
"Do you know where Elmore Jr High is, sir"? He asked the cactus, but this caused it to get angrier at him turning his face red in the embarrassment of being called sir.
"First of all, this is Franklin Jr High, and second I'm A GIRL!" She screams at the turquoise cat for mistaking her for a boy. Then he bends down to her level, almost close to her face, and gets angrier by the second.
"But you don't have any visible eyelashes, and skipping school would damage your grades-"(not seeing how angry she is) "Wait, now that I have a perfect look at you, besides that, your face is turning into a watermelon"(she then raises her fist)." You have eyelashes, but they're tiny, and also are those fans-"The cactus girl's fist lands on the cat's face, sending him flying into the air."
"If you come near me again, I will send you to the hospital, Cabrón!" she shouted at the sky as he flew away.
"Geez, what is wrong with that dumbass," she said in disgust as she walked away from the blue cat. She felt like her hand was a bit sore for some reason.
~At The Bus Stop
A gloomy teenage girl with lime green hair that covered the right side of her face wore boots, a pink jacket with sprinkles, a white t-shirt, and black pants. She was waiting for the school bus that arrived late. She then started to monologue to herself in her head.
"My name is Clare, and today is the start of my new miserable life here. My family had to move to this messed-up town full of weirdos because the homes here were cheap. Now I'm going to this School filled with incompetent teachers leading a bunch of misfits rejects." Saying this bitterly and being a drama queen.
The bus arrived at her stop. She opened the door just as she was about to step off. But before she could take another step, she saw someone falling from the sky above her.
"Seriously, can my life get any worse?" She then screams as the turquoise cat lands on top of her back. She groans a bit until she realizes the bus is leaving without her.
Noticing this, she panicked and shoved the feline off her back, who was still lost in thought. She ran to catch up to the bus only to be hit by the stop sign, causing her to fall on her back with a groan.
The turquoise cat gets up and walks towards the unconscious pale rose or gray teen. He bends down next to her head and then taps her cheek with his paw but to no avail. She's still unconscious. He slaps her several times until she finally wakes up but still beats her, thinking she is still sleeping.
"Hey, I'm awake, I'm awake, stop slapping me!" she protests, hearing her voice. The cat stops what he is doing, and the teen gets up, feeling her sore face. She looks down angrily at the cat, still rubbing her face.
The cat said in a harsh voice, "It was the only thing I could think of to wake you up."
"You could have just shaken me awake rather than keep slapping me repeatedly," Clare yells at him while rubbing both cheeks after he slaps them.
"Also," she shouted at the top of her lungs, "YOU MADE ME MISS THE BUS ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!" He screamed at the feline, but he just had a blank expression after she said that. She was out of breath after saying that.
The teenage girl then notices something on his face.
"So, where did you get that black eye?" she asks, pointing to his eye.
"A cactus punched me." As he was thinking about her, he started to feel a bit warm for some reason.
The teen just had an uncertain look on her face after hearing that. There was a moment of awkward silence before she decided to walk away from the strange cat.
"So, which school are you going to?" the feline asked the moody teen as it followed her.
Clare stopped to catch her breath and said, "I was going to Elmore Junior High."
Upon hearing this, he stood up straight and faced her.
"What a coincidence! I was also supposed to go there today as well."
"Well, because of you, we missed the bus to get there," the teen reminded him again.
The cat replied to her, "If we run, we can catch up to the bus."
The cat grabbed her arm and ran to catch up to the bus. In contrast, the teen was screaming as if she were being dragged like a rag doll.
~Elmore Jr High
The bus arrives at School. Just as Rocky opens the door, a light blue blur shows up and hits the side of the bus so hard that it causes it to tip over. The students and the driver screamed as the bus fell to the ground, causing some of the kids to be injured by the impact.
The cat then let go of the teen's hand, whose hair was now messed up due to him running so fast. He looked down to see the cat.
"How did you do that?" he asked in amazement as the cat moved with incredible speed like a motorcycle.
"I did training with my mom when I was around five," he remembered some of the intense training he received but wanted to change the subject."
"So, what is your name?" The blue cat asked the teen who had just fixed her hair.
"She looks down at the cat and says, "It's none of your business, kid."
"Okay, Noneofya," thinking that was her name.
"No, it's Claire, you moron," she corrected herself.
"Clare Youmoron"?
"No, my last name is Cooper," I said, getting mad again.
"Okay, Ms. Pooper."
"It's Cooper!" Clare shouted at the feline.
"Sorry, Ms. Cooper," he apologized, which calmed her down, but she still found him annoying.
"In any case, what's yours?"
The cat was uncertain about what she was saying.
"I meant 'Your name,' dimwit."
He looks around, then takes something out of his pocket, the ball of gum he had earlier.
"Gumball," he answered the teenage girl, who looked confused for a second.
"I'm sorry, could you please repeat that? I want to be sure I heard correctly."
"My name is Gumball Watterson." He told her his name.
"Okay, Gumball, I'm just going to head to my class before the bell rings. So anyway, see you later, kid." Clare waved at the cat.
Gumball asks Clare, "Do you want to meet up after school?"
Clare turns her head to the side so that her visible eye can be seen.
"Sure, I would love to hang out with someone who missed the bus and dragged me across town like a rag doll. Why don't you show up at my house later?" Saying this in an oblivious sarcastic tone.
"Really"? Gumball thinks that she invited him to her home.
"(Sarcastic) Sure you can. Let's meet at School, okay?" Still in a very sarcastic tone with a fake smile and a thumbs up, then frowns with a thumbs down. With that, she slams the door and goes inside School. The turquoise cat follows her until he gets to his classroom.
~Ms. Simian's Classroom
Gumball walks into a classroom he was assigned. There he sees a very grumpy chimpanzee who is glaring at him. He was sure that this was his homeroom teacher. Ms. Simian, on the other hand, sees that this turquoise feline was a dead ringer for her mother. She didn't like Nicole at all. She thinks Gumball seems to be a troublemaker due to the black eye on his right eye.
"Students, we have a homeschooler joining the class, so why don't you introduce yourself," Simian says, pointing to Gumball. Gumball gets up to meet the other students.
He looks around. Most of his classmates are pretty strange in their unique ways. One was a multicolored cloud with an inferiority complex, an 8-bit spider, a balloon with a face on it, a Sauropod, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a banana, two nerd eggs, a toast with legs, a showy flower, an eyeball with wings, an upside-down chin girl, a paper bear, a ball of clay, a minotaur, an emo ghost (punk rock), a potato, a robot with one eye, a floating cloud girl, a cyclops, and a person with a jukebox for a head.
The last two were the strangest out of all of them. A peanut girl with six arms and five eyes had antlers on her head like a deer, which was odd because only male deer had antlers. She also had more of an appearance of an arachnid, with her eyes furiously looking at him with the glowing yellow for some reason. The other was a light orange goldfish with legs and dead fish eyes, and he had visible eyelashes that could mistake him for a girl. The fish was waving at the feline, but he seemed somewhat off as if something wasn't right about him, and he wore a necklace filled with rabbit feet.
Gumball also noticed that they all looked angry except for the goldfish and glared at him. It might have been because he damaged the bus earlier, as he saw most of them had bruises on their bodies. He wasn't sure how to react to this. However, he knew that the teacher was also hostile toward him, so he decided to make an excellent first impression on his new classmates.
"Greetings, classmates, my name is Gumball Watterson, and I hope we can all get along this semester; that is all," Gumball said, giving out a creepy smile with his fangs showing before returning to his regular stoic expression.
He gets mixed reactions, as some view him as creepy and odd. At the same time, others hear the name Watterson and show some concern as he is "their" son. Along with someone saying, what kind of parents name their kid Gumball?
Ms. Simian said, "I had your mother in my class."
"Was she a grade A student?" Gumball asked his teacher.
No, she was a loser, just like you are going to be now. Return to your desk." Simian.
"Okay," Gumball said, not bothered by this, and returning to his seat.
Ms. Simian said as she slurped her coffee, "That kid is going to get beaten to death before this day ends."
He was listening to Ms. Simian's lecture about some history of Elmore or the Civil War. Then a ball of crumbled-up paper hit his head, and he turned to see the peanut girl whose hand went across her neck as if she were slitting someone's throat. She didn't seem bothered by this and wondered what she was doing.
She gets mad and then puts her hands up as if she will strangle him. But he still doesn't understand what she's doing. Penny, annoyed, slaps her head and then texts him something.
She sends him a message saying, "I know you'll do the right thing with a thumbs-up emoji." She corrects herself, saying he was the closest thing she had to a fingerless hand. Also, to clarify, it was a threat.
He turns to look at the peanut girl. "I'm sorry, but who are you?"
She was on her phone, not looking at him, and sent another text message, "You know what you did."
"Did what? You're not specific about what I did to you and how you got my number?" He asked the peanut who was far away.
She then puts one of her hands on her face. Seeing that don't know. She gets up from her desk and then walks towards his desk.
"The fish gave me your number." It almost sounds like she's snapping at him.
Gumball then hears a tap on his shoulder. He turns around and sees the goldfish named Loki, and Gumball is confused because Loki's eyes are unfocused.
Just don't sleep with the fishes before school ends, Gummy." Loki said.
The cat did not respond. Then, the goldfish returned to what it had been doing.
"Just ignore them," a voice said to the cat. "Like everyone does with me."
"Excuse me?" The cat said this out loud, causing Ms. Simian to shout at him to pay attention and confuse another student in the classroom whose eyes widened in surprise.
"(In Thought) Wait, did he just respond to my sentence"? The floating eyeball with its eyeball shrinks as if he was surprised that someone heard him.
~Lunchroom
In the cafeteria, Gumball held his food tray that was mixed and filled with meats and vegetables, but they were all covered in mustard. He saw some of his classmates at one table.
He decided to go to one of the tables to sit down. When he got there, half of the people at the table moved to the other end, leaving only the ghost girl, the balloon, and the eyeball with wings.
The balloon decides to talk to Gumball first as the feline eats some of his food, takes a bottle of mustard, and drinks from it.
"So Gumball. You were in our class earlier, so I should introduce myself and everyone else here. I'm Alan." Alan then points to the others at the table.
"This is Banana Joe." The banana is seen laughing at his joke.
The cat asks Alan, "What is he laughing about?" But the banana doesn't tell them.
This was a joke from earlier, but here's how it goes. He clears his throat and then tells it.
Why did the fish get in trouble with the fisherman?
"Why"? Gumball.
"He got caught playing hooky," the banana laughs, but everyone else sighs. Gumball looks confused as he doesn't understand humor.
He then sees a paper girl in the shape of a bear. She is using a disinfectant spray on the table, looking disgusted at the filth everywhere.
"This is Teri. She can be a bit of a hypochondriac, but she's a nice girl." Alan assures Gumball about the paper bear.
"I don't like germs, that's all. You do realize that most of the surface of the keyboard in the library is filled with bacteria, including the."
As Teri continues her little rant, the ghost girl speaks to Gumball with a mischievous look.
"Hey, Frost, do you want to see something amusing?" The emo asked the feline.
"Okay." Hearing his approval, the ghost smiled then she jumped into the paper girl's body controlling it.
She then made Teri eat all her food like a pig. Then ran to the trash can while making her roar like a bear, scaring some students. She opened the lid and lifted it onto herself. As she did, tons of garbage fell on her, then she rolled around in it and snorted like a pig.
She then pops out of Teri's body and wonders what has happened until she realizes she is covered in blood. Feeling disgusted and filthy, the paper bear screams and runs from the cafeteria with tears in her eyes while trying to get to the showers to clean off the blood on her body.
The ghost laughs at this, while Gumball disapproves of what she did to Teri.
The ghost replied, "That was funny."
The girl who left was disappointed and had her arms crossed.
The ghost girl suddenly disappears, exclaiming, "You're no fun at all, you know!"
Then the multicolored cloud boy tried to flirt with the floating cloud. However, they didn't hit it off, and it ended with the cloud hitting him in the face with her lunch tray.
"This is Tobias, and the Cloud Girl is Masami," Alan explains to Gumball, then introduces everyone in the cafeteria.
Tobias tries to flirt with her first with a lousy pickup line like the "Is heaven missing an angel?" line. Masami responds by making some noises, only to get smacked again.
Gumball tells Tobias, "Maybe you should give up. It seems like she isn't interested in you."
"Finally, a boy here with some common sense." Masami rolled her eyes.
"Nah, she's just playing hard to get. Masami's just rough around the edges, that's all," Tobias explained to the cat.
"Really?" the cat inquired.
"No, I'm not. Tobias is just an idiot," Masami said, displeased. Then all of a sudden, she felt something soft on top of her head and face.
Masami is a mix of flustered and furious as she exclaims, "Hey!"
The cat was touching Masami's face with its paw, petting her like a house cat, feeling her softness. "She's as soft as a cloud," he thought.
"Her head doesn't seem rough, and her edges are soft and fluffy like a pillow," Gumball said, surprised at how soft the cloud girl's head was. She blushed from embarrassment at being petted like a house pet. Unknowingly, he had pressed his paw on her back with a squeeze, making her eyes widen in shock.
Unable to handle it anymore, Masami turns into a storm cloud and then hits Gumball with lightning, electrocuting him. However, all this does is make his fur darker, and smoke comes out of his body, with sparks of electricity on his coat. He then removed his paw from Masami's head, whose face was still red, almost like a pink cloud with red blush.
"That was a warning. If you touch me like that again, I'll smack you so hard that you'll need jaw surgery," Masami said in a grumpy tone as she let out a slight hmph sound.
"Understood." Gumball then sees the floating eyeball with them.
There's also Anton, Leslie, Idaho, Sarah, Molly, Tina, Jamie, Bobert, Loki, Ocho, Hector, Susie, Julius and his gang, A Yellow Dog, Rachel, Juke, Green Bear, Billy, Jodie, Clayton, Colin, Felix and... Alan doesn't remember the Cyclops' name.
"Roy... I think?" The Cyclops looks disapprovingly at him.
"Can you tell me who this one is?" the feline asks Alan about the eyeball with wings.
"Oh, that's William; he can't talk. What I mean by that is, he's incapable of talking because he doesn't have a mouth." Alan explains that he is also uncomfortable seeing William's eye turn red.
The cat explained to the balloon, causing William's eyes to turn back to their green color, and it was also gaining the attention of Masami and Tobias.
"Wait, what? You can hear him?" Tobias asked, trying to understand the cat's words correctly.
The cat responded bluntly, "Yes."
William warns Gumball, "You should turn around, and she's on your left." Hearing this, the feline turns his head to see what it is.
The feline sees the six-armed, five-eyed peanut she meets in class. She looks steamed with one of her hands on her hip, mad at Gumball for something he did to her, which he doesn't know.
"Oh, you're the peanut girl from my class; what exactly did you want to talk about"?
"My name is Penny Fitzgerald, and you killed my pet. Prepare to die," she says to the cat, clenching her hand into a fist.
"I killed your dog"?
"No, he was my pet spider, Mr. Cuddles. You squished him like a bug," Penny tells Gumball what her pet was.
"...Huh"? He still doesn't understand what she is talking about.
She screams as her fist lands on his head, only for her to get electrocuted instead due to Masami electrocuting Gumball earlier.
Penny is knocked out with five Xs on her face. Her mouth looks shocked, and she has smoke coming out of her. Gumball, Tobias, Masami, Alan, Joe, and William surround the unconscious peanut, concerned, while the cat is confused about what just happened.
"What, you killed her pet?" Masami exclaimed in shock.
I didn't know it had an owner, and it was mainly self-defense on my part, as anyone would do the same when a giant insect tries to attack them.
"Don't feel too bad; Penny's just a little nutty, that's all," Joe laughs at this, but Gumball still doesn't get the joke, and the banana stops laughing.
"Wow, you don't have a sense of humor...bummer." Joe
"Well, we gotta take Penny to the nurse; Billy, can you keep an eye on him?" William glares at the balloon boy as he, Tobias, Masami, and Joe take Penny's unconscious body and leave the cafeteria.
This leaves William alone with Gumball. The eyeball looks at the turquoise cat.
"So, are you interested in horror stories or movies?" William asks the feline, who turns his head to look at him.
~After School
A bell rang for Gumball, who walked outside with William at the end of School. The two were conversing about how people have evil inside them.
Gumball asks him if he is sure about that, as he does not seem to have any hidden agenda for his kindness.
"Of course, I'm right about everyone having a dark side, and Alan's is just so well hidden that he doesn't even know it," William informs the blue cat about the darkness in people's hearts. Then the eyeball is right in front of the cat, with its eye now red as the ground shakes.
I highly doubt that he has any evil intentions, but if the execution of his plans is too extreme, I will not hesitate to stop him," Gumball says as he opens his claws, intending to use them with his eyes glowing green.
"That would be a problem," he said in a harsh and monotonous voice.
"Well, you're quick to violence the minute you think he's a threat," William thought, but only Gumball could hear him in his thoughts. Gumball then returned his claws to his fingers.
"The point is I gotta get going, and I have a lot of schoolwork due because Ms. Simian gave me a lot on the first day," he says, pointing to his backpack, which had a lot of papers in it. The bag was heavy, but he could carry it without any problems.
"So I will discuss our conversation with you another time, Will," he says, and William nods in agreement.
"Alright then, see you later, Gumball," he said as he flew away, following the school bus.
As the blue cat starts to walk towards Clare's home, he is stopped by a hand on his head.
"Where do you think you're going, Buck Teeth?" a voice behind him said.
Gumball replies, "I'm going to Clare's house; she said I could visit her."
The person behind him turned the cat around to see him and his crew.
His appearance was of an old cartoon character from the 1920s who also had a literal bomb for a head. In contrast, others included a giant pink teddy bear wearing a shirt with a heart on it, a big human hand with tattoos with a skull for its face, a cupcake that rotted wearing gloves and boots with a cherry on top, and finally, a rat in a hoodie.
Julius, Reaper, Mowdown, Scythe, and Rotten Cupcake surrounded him and appeared to be looking for a fight. They all smiled wickedly as if Gumball was an easy target because he was just a weakling. The rodents and the bear's fists were together.
The bomb boy was mocking him as he said, "So you're leaving to see your girlfriend?"
"No, she's more of an acquaintance who barely tolerates me," Gumball thought about Clare's attitude toward him earlier.
Really? How about we help you get there, and by that, I mean the morgue." Julius said, clenching his fists together.
The turquoise feline looks bored and then starts to walk away, feeling not threatened by them. This causes the bomb guy to get mad with his fuse to light a bit. He grabs the feline and pins him to the wall of Schoolhool.
"Hey, we're not done talking to you," Julius said as he had Gumball by the throat but still showed no fear.
"I'm pretty sure this conversation has already ended. I don't need assistance from a bunch of pitiful thugs who only feel superior by picking on the weak," he says, causing Julius to slam him into the wall.
"Hey, I'm talking to you. Do you know what happens to people who cross Julius?" the bomb kid threatened him with his hand on the cat's neck and fist in front of Gumball's nose.
"Not really, Julie."
Julius got angrier as his fuse got shorter. He raised his fist.
"That's a girl's name!" he exclaims, landing his fist on the cat in the Gumball. The sound of bones breaking can be heard, but the feline feels no pain. On the other hand, Julius screams and releases his grip on the cat as if he had just hit hard concrete.
The bomb emitted a loud shriek as it hit the felled cat. The crew looked confused at seeing their boss kneeling in pain.
"(Groaning in pain) What the hell is this cat made of?" Julius notices his right hand is broken, with his fingers dislocated and bleeding through his glove. His face becomes even angrier as this feline manages to make him bleed.
"You broke my hand, YOU DICK"!
Angry that the feline broke his right hand.
The feline looks confused and asks, "How did you know my middle name?"
Julius's temper shortens. He then glares at his crew.
"Don't just stand there! Kill this bastard!" Hearing this, his crew charges at the feline.
The Turquoise cat pops out his claws as the Julius thugs close in on him. Mowdown attempts to hit Gumball, but the feline dodges his attack, then slashes the bear's arm, causing some of his stuffing to come out. Then Gumball kicks Cupcake's face, and Mowdown tries to hit him again but hits Reaper instead.
Reaper was dazed momentarily, allowing the feline to slash his face with his claws, blinding him. The cat then kicked the back of his fingers and thumb, breaking them. As Reaper screamed in pain, Gumball kicked him hard in the face, sending him flying into Mowdown.
After that, he punches Cupcake's face, then zips the Scythe's hood closed to blind him. Angry, Cupcake hits Gumball but uses Scythe as a shield to cover the blows. He then pushes the rat at the Cupcake, knocking her down. He then kicks the Cupcake's face so hard that her face is ripped off, knocking her out.
Reaper attempts to attack him once more, but the feline punches him so hard that it breaks his Reaper's front fingers. This causes him to fall. The cat then jumps onto the hand's body and hits Reaper multiple times, knocking the needle out.
Scythe attempts to grab Gumball, but the feline dodges him, grabs his arm, and breaks his right arm. He then catches the rodent on his midsection before doing a suplex on the rat, sending him to the ground. The feline punches him in the snout, breaking it and causing him to bleed. Hearing something behind him, the cat dodges the attack, leading Mowdown to crush Scythe instead of him.
"What is wrong with you guys? He's just one kid. How are you all losing?" Julius screamed at his crew's incompetence. The giant bear was trying to focus as Gumball outmaneuvered him with every hit, causing him to become increasingly exhausted.
"We're trying, don't stand there and watch. Come over here and help us!" Mowdown yells at his boss for assistance. The feline continues to scratch him in the face while he is distracted, causing him pain. Mowdown attempts to attack it again, but the cat is too quick.
Then the bear feels a massive pain in his belly as the cat's fist punches him so hard that it causes the bear to hold his stomach in pain. He also hears, "I love you this much," but he is in agonizing pain as Mowdown goes down on the ground defeated.
Julius sees all this in shock that this guy has taken down his crew. In anger, his dukes go up and then explode. The bomb boy tries to attack him with his good arm. But Gumball, without even looking, punches the bomb in the face and follows it up by repeatedly hitting the bully like a ragdoll until he is full of bruises, has some of his teeth missing, a swollen mouth, and two black eyes.
"Ugh (groans in pain)...No, stop! Stop, please...I give up; I GIVE UP!" Julius begged the feline to stop. Gumball then dropped the bomb guy to the ground, where he was moaning in pain. Afterward, Gumball stomped on Julius's broken right hand, causing him to scream like a little girl.
"I should go," he said, "and I have a lot of work to do. Also, I need to go and visit Clare at her home." The blue cat then left the school grounds, never fazed by what had happened.
Unbeknownst to him, Penny saw the whole thing and trembled in fear.
"Oh, my god. That could have been me earlier if I had tried to punch him." Penny thinks to herself. She then runs away in fear and jumps over the school fence.
Another person hiding in the shadows was a goldfish who witnessed everything unfold.
"Hmm, I guess I underestimated that cat a bit," Loki smiles, but then he hears a ring on his "phone."
The person on the other end of the line says, "Hello?"
...
"Hey, Bro, how was your day?"
...
"Oh, the news about how it went."
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"Well, he took them all down."
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"Yes, I should not have sent those delinquent kids after the police officer's son."
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"Yes, brother, I will keep an eye on him," he said joyfully.
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"After I finish my detention, I will return home."
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"I understand. I will be on my way home now." He drops the phone, a pencil that comes alive, and calls him a weirdo before snatching it and then breaking the sentient pencil in two while it screams in agony. As he walks away from the room, his circle pupils shift into slits for a second before hissing.
~Downtown
Gumball was walking to find the Cooper residence. He sees Larry Needlemeyer on a motorcycle with him, delivering a pizza box. He runs towards the Rock Man and asks where the Cooper residents are. The Rock Man informs Gumball that they are located at Elm Street, which is four blocks away, in a very navy blue-colored house.
The feline thanks him for the information as he gets off the street. Larry gets hit by a car while he is distracted. The kitten continues to walk until he hears something whimpering, and he looks to see who is making the noise.
To his surprise, the cactus from earlier had her hands over her face as if she was sad. The cat went to where the cactus was and stood right behind her.
"Um, are you okay"? Gumball
Upon hearing that, the cactus turned around to see the blue feline she met earlier. Her mood changed to the aggressive look she had earlier in the Day.
She screams at him, "What do you want, loser?" But he stares at her.
It was the Cactus Girl, but her appearance was different. She now had a more humanoid body, though she was still invisible except for her eyelashes, which were a lemon-yellow color. Her hair was shorter, and she wore a white t-shirt and teal shorts with brown cuffs at the bottom. She also had bandages on her arms and still wore the red bandana she had before.
"You better get outta here, or I'll make both your eyes match in color." They notice that something is wrong with him.
"Wait, are you even listening to me"? She asks him.
"I just want to ask you something." The feline is feeling nervous now, not knowing why.
They were confused about the change of personality of the feline, and the cactus was still hostile toward him.
Glaring at him with her eyes, she asked, "What?"
He breathes a bit heavy and then clears his throat.
"Your...name."
"What about it"?
"We met earlier and never really introduced ourselves, so I should tell you my name first, then you can introduce yourself."
Carmen glares daggers at him and says, "Get to the point."
"Hello, my name is Gumball Watterson," he introduced himself to the cactus girl.
She then walked towards him, his face redder and redder as she approached him. She stood there face-to-face with him (she was shorter than him, so her eyes looked up at him). She glared at him while he was nervous, but it wasn't out of fear.
She takes a huge breath and then looks him in the eyes.
Carmen says, "It's Carmen, and that's all you need to know." She then slaps him in the face, leaving a mark on it.
"And if you value your life, you will not come near me again," she says as she turns her back on him.
But weren't you crying earlier? Sounding concerned for the cactus. She stops in her tracks after hearing that. She then walks closer to the cat.
She told him, "I wasn't crying, Dick, and I can't shed tears." But she was still in a bad mood.
"What are you doing in my neighborhood anyway?" she questioned him.
"Well, I'm just trying to..find where my friend's home is." He sounded nervous but not sure why.
She didn't buy what he was saying; she started walking back home.
"By the way, Carmen," Gumball said.
Carmen turns her head and says, "What?"
"I like your name, and it reminds me of a character from an opera with the same name as you. Your branches are cool, and two arms are raised, making you look like you're always winning. Or you look like you're wearing one of those giant cowboy hats. Plus, the red bandana on your head goes very well with the green all over your body."
He tried to compliment her in his way, but he felt he wasn't doing it well. Carmen stood there with a confused look on her face instead of her usual aggressive one as she was trying to process if this guy was trying to flirt with her or if he was using those words to distract her while he ran away.
There was a massive awkwardness between them, as neither one knew what to say next. While Gumball was distracted, Carmen grabbed his wrist and sucker-punched him in the jaw, sending him to the ground, and Carmen stomped on his chest.
"You think a few sweet words are going to 'woo' me? I'm not some pathetic dweeb who easily falls for insecure, cowardly losers who are too nervous to talk to me."
She stomped on his chest and slapped him for his stupidity. "Remember this if I see you again, I will send you to the After Life," she threatened him as she saw his nervous face understanding her words.
She got off of him and walked away to her home. Carmen felt her arm a little sore after she hit and remembered feeling the feline's wrist.
"Wait, what was I feeling from that wuss's arm? Was it muscle"?. She wonders about this but decides to ignore it.
After she left, Gumball then stood up from the ground. He felt his cheek but was unsure why he was still red on the face after his encounter with Carmen. He still saw her leaving as Carmen was still within a range where he could see her.
He saw the sun shine down on her from behind, illuminating the red leaves that fell around her. Unaware of the fire burning in the distance, she stood unaware of the firefighters working in the background, and he was too focused on her to notice anything else.
Gumball says, "What is going on with my head?" as he rubs his head in confusion.
~Clare's Home
Clare is at home eating dinner with her parents when the doorbell rings, and her mother gets up to answer it, leaving Clare alone at the table.
(In Her Thoughts) "Ugh, today wasn't too bad except for this morning when that feline with a stupid name landed on me, then made me miss the bus." Still feeling mad about the cat from earlier. But doesn't know that the same cat from earlier is at her home.
He is seen in the background talking to her parents about how they met, but Clare doesn't notice him.
"Although he managed to get me to School on time, he doesn't seem all that bad. I guess?" She rolls her eyes but does not see the cat she is talking about on her right.
Later...
Clare was in the bathroom brushing her teeth. She wore a long-sleeved shirt with buttons and long pants. The shirt was yellow with a pink image of Daisy, the donkey, on it. She put her hair in a ponytail with both of her eyes visible. Her room had many depressing books, including images of a weeping woman near a river and two kids drowning. She had many diaries herself.
She is on her bed and is about to go to sleep. She was tired from today, so she got Sally the snake stuffed animal she keeps on her bed to help her sleep. Clare looks at a photo of an emo girl barely smiling with an athletic girl with brown hair around her with a massive smile. Clare shuts the picture frame down to not look at it as it gives her bad memories.
She hoped tomorrow would be better. "Wait, it never will be better and always gets worse," she said, closing her eyes with a sniff as if she were about to cry. She felt something wasn't suitable as the stuffed animal she held vibrated on her bed.
"Wait, why is Sally purring?" she opened one of her eyes to see that it wasn't Sally, but it was that cat kid from School this morning.
This causes Clare's eyes to bulge wide open, and the irises and her pupils are visibly shrunken. She then kicks the feline off her bed and onto the floor. When the cat gets up from the bottom, Clare, who is mad, throws a pillow at him. He was going to talk to her, but he was confused when she hugged him, as if it was something new.
"What are you doing in my room?!" She shouts at Gumball, who, for some reason, is in her room. She was prepared to throw another pillow at him, demanding his answer.
"You invited me to your house."
"No, I didn't," Clare replied.
He said in a mimicked voice, "I would 'love' to hang out with someone I just met, and why don't you show up at my house later."
"So here I am," the feline responded usually.
The teen screams at him, "I WAS BEING SARCASTIC, YOU LUNATIC!" But he isn't fazed.
Gumball asked, "What does 'sarcastic' mean?"
"It's sarcasm, saying the exact opposite of what I mean," She explained to the feline.
"Oh, you didn't want me to come along?"
"Of course, I didn't want to hang out with you, ya idiot!" Clare screams at him again. She then tries to catch her breath after shouting at him.
He then noticed what Clare was wearing.
"Why are you wearing Daisy the Donkey pajamas?"
Clare looks down at her outfit; her face is now red like a strawberry. She then throws another pillow at him while covering herself in embarrassment.
Clare asks, "You tell no one about this, and how did you know where I live?" She's still embarrassed.
Larry told me where your house was, and I also had a run-in with Carmen.
"Who's Carmen?"
"The cactus I told you about earlier gave me the black eye," he says as he points to his black eye.
"...Right?" Clare still demanded an answer from him.
He thinks about the cactus girl but feels uneasy thinking of her. Seeing his face, Clare recognizes what he's thinking.
"Oh, God," Clare groans in annoyance as she touches her face while listening to Gumball talk fondly about the cactus delinquents.
"What"?
"Look, kid; I've had a long day, so could you please leave my room and stop talking about your crush on her?"
"But I don't want to pulverize her?"
"No, it's when you like someone that you feel like a moron around them." She gets her and covers her head in annoyance.
"Really? Did you feel like that towards anyone before?" Gumball asks her if she likes someone.
"No". Clare glares at him.
"Okay, by the way, you do look kinda adorable when you sleep, especially when you tried to squeeze me to death-"
She screams at him to "Get out!" and the cat leaves her room.
When he's finally gone, Clare grabs her stuffed animal Sally The Snake, but it only has one eye, and the color of the plush looks faded. She curls up in a fetal position, closes her eyes, and falls asleep.
~Downtown in The Parking Lot in The Mall
Loki was walking home toward a van in the parking lot. He whistled in a joyful tone, unaware that he was being followed.
"There it is, I hope Bro isn't so mad that I'm late, but I think he will forgive me," Out of nowhere, someone pins him to the wall. One of Julius' crew, Reaper, was still severely damaged from his fight with Gumball earlier in the Day.
"You brat, you said he would be an easy target."
"(groaning) What are you doing here? I already paid you guys $20 before the job!" Loki said this in fear.
"You promised we would have twice as much money if we defeated that feline." Reaper is trying to crush the fish's skull.
The fish then drops something that catches the thug's attention, causing him to lose his grip on the fish.
Reaper picks up a letter with something in it and asks, "What's this?"
"(Trembling) No, wait. Please don't read that; Big Bro will be angry." Angered by the fish's pleas, he punches him in the face.
"Shut up!" he starts to open it. Loki is still panicking.
"Maybe this is from your girlfriend, or maybe your grandparents gave you some money, and it will pay for the money you promised us earlier." He laughs gleefully, not noticing Loki's eyes shifting left and right.
Loki, in demented rage, kicks Reaper in the face and then easily overpowers the giant hand as he stomps on him with his foot.
Loki demanded, "Give that back. Don't you dare look inside?" The lights in the parking lot flickered and then went out, plunging her into total darkness.
(Loki/Bro voice in unison) "You think you can pick on those weaker than you just because you are stronger?"
"You're nothing but a small fish in a tiny pond!" he says as he pins Reaper to the back of a car.
Loki's pupils then shifted into slits. Then his head and tail extended out of his body. His arms and legs grew longer. His orange scales turned into a darker shade of orange, and his shoes merged into his body, forming pants. His body was covered in the darkness, but you could see his yellow eyes. He appeared to be massive as he looked down at the beaten hand.
So, was Reaper your actual name, or is it just one you and your crew came up to make yourselves more threatening?" The serpent asks the hand that is trembling in fear, and seeing the response is a yes.
"Anyone who tries to find out about my identity shall be terminated, and unfortunately, I'm going to be sending your crew a little parting gift from me. He then strikes with his massive jaws intending to eat him. The screen fades to black before we see what happens, but we hear a scream."
~Beresford Graveyard
Gumball is sitting in front of a gravestone with the name hidden while talking to the stone.
"It's been a while since I visited you. So today would be perfect for anyone on their first day of School." As he was talking, a ghost started to creep up towards him.
"I made some friends today, I believe."
Oh, Mom. She's still at work but doesn't worry. She's doing okay despite being a workaholic and mostly indifferent to me for most of my life. But she does miss you a lot.
"Well, I should get going now. It has been nice talking to you again. I'll see you soon," he said in his ordinarily calm voice.
Gumball then stands up then turns around as he sees a terrifying image of a ghost trying to scare him but to no avail. The spirit is revealed to be the same one from School who is laughing with her eyes closed, thinking that she scared the feline.
But when she opened them, she saw that he was still with that stoic look on his face. She blew raspberries at the cat.
"Ugh, You know you're supposed to tremble in fear right now," she growled.
"Why"?
"Well, duh, I'm trying to scare you." Still grumpy.
"That would have worked on someone more easily startled, like Teri or Tobias."
"Speaking of which, as I recall, earlier today, you possessed Teri and did her act like a pig during lunch," the ghost says, starting to snicker, remembering how much fun it was for her.
Heh, heh Hey, she needs to loosen up a bit. She has been acting that way since Elementary School,". She still laughs at the joke until she starts to wonder about that last name Watterson.
"So your last name is Watterson..right?"
"Yes."
"Hold on, you're related to Deputy Sheriff Watterson?"
The cat looked confusedly at what the ghost had said. "Well, she's my Mom," it replied.
"M.O.M.?!" She freaked out a bit with her eyes widened, and mouth opened in shock.
Yes, but the one thing we have in common is that we share the same name.
"(Confused) What? I thought your name was Nicolas?"
"No, Gumball is the name I came up with this morning. My real name is Nicolas, a masculine version of Nicole, my mom's name."
"Why didn't you just go by your real name instead"? The ghost wondered why he went with that stupid name.
"The reason is that I want to give myself my own identity. Rather than being seen as just a miniature version of my mom."
"So you decided to pick your name after an item you took out of your pocket?" Carrie thinks that he's an idiot.
"Correct."
"Whatever, Nic- Gumball. So who were you talking to anyway?" She wasn't looking at him with a don't care to look.
"I was talking to my dad... he's dead."
Carrie then turns her head.
"What"?
The feline points to his gravestone in front of him, and it reads.
R.I.P.
RICHARD BUCKLEY WATTERSON
BORN 1985 - DIED 2011
"Had a heart as big as his stomach, Joyful Burger will miss their best Customer along with friends and family."
"Man, this must be hard for you. I mean, you had a lot of great memories of him." The ghost girl.
"Not exactly."
She looked at the cat in confusion.
She sounded hurt as she responded, "How can you say that?"
It all happened on the Day I was born. There was an explosion at the factory he worked in, and he was caught in the blast. I can't remember him because I never met him. Additionally, I had two people I thought were my parents for the first four years of my life. The Robertsons were very dysfunctional, even though they enjoyed playing with me.
"Aren't you sad about your father being dead?"
"How do you feel sad about someone you've never met?"
She paused for a moment, not knowing what to say to him. The feline looked at the ghost, unsure if Carrie was okay and if he somehow hurt her feelings.
"Do you have anyone who is like a dad"? Gumball asks her who just got out of her daze.
She takes off her hat and looks at it with a melancholy expression on her face. The hat belonged to her father, who had been transformed into an evil phantom, but that's another story.
"(Sorrowful) Yes...but that was a long time ago. (In Her Thoughts), But I am going to get him back one day".
Hey, Nicolas? She uses his real name, causing Gumball to twitch his ear to turn his head towards her.
"What is it"?
"If you had a chance to save your father from his fate, would you take it?" Carrie asked this critical question.
The feline responds, "Yes," just five seconds after Carrie finishes asking her question.
She smiled, a bit reassured by his answer.
"That's all I needed to hear."
"By the way, my name is Carrie Lokowitchki," she says as she extends her hand to the cat.
"I'm Gum- Nicolas Dick Watterson."
He grabbed her hand, but it went right through her, and he shook her hand.
The two look up at the stars and see that a meteor shower is happening. As they lie down on the ground in the cemetery, the ghost looks at the blue cat next to her.
"So, does this make us friends, Caroline"?
Gumball questions her about this, and she jabs him in the arm. This doesn't hurt her due to her transparency.
Carrie says, "It's Carrie, and of course, it does, Dick." She snickers a bit during this.
While they were watching the meteor shower, unbeknownst to them, a ghost appeared from a gravestone. He seemed like a lean rabbit, but he wore a long coat covering his mouth and a top hat. His eyes glowed magenta.
He turns to look at the town seeing a dark aura around it forming into a shadow with glowing eyes.
The Rabbit trembles, "That's not a good sign." He fears the upcoming nightmares, and he turns to the ghost and the cat, who are ignorant of what will happen soon in the town of Elmore.
"(Confused) Huh, I wonder why that kitty looks so familiar"? As he scratches his head, trying to remember but to no avail.
Gumball's ears twitch as he turns his head but sees nothing.
"Did you hear something"?
"Besides the ghost that haunts the cemetery at night, nothing," Carrie said, still focused on the meteor shower.
He decided to sit back down and watch the falling meteors with Carrie.