The Newcomer
An Amazing World of Gumball Story
By NeoNimbus
Chapter 46-The Closet
It was just another day in Elmore Junior High and as always, Brian, along with Gumball, Darwin and Mike, were sitting at their usual spot in the cafeteria, eating their food, while Gumball was telling his friends of one of the many misadventures that have occurred in Elmore.
"So let me get this straight…" Mike began, looking at Gumball with curiosity. "Are you telling us that you and Darwin created some sort of living creature, just by using a microwave?"
"Of course Mike. Believe me, Kenneth was more than a handful for me and Darwin." Gumball insisted.
"You named it Kenneth?" Brian asked with incredulity.
"We could have given it another name. It was the only one that Gumball and I could think of." Darwin replied.
"Anyway, long story short, Darwin and I were able to stop Kenneth's rampage, before we sent him off to the Forest of Doom." Gumball explained.
As Gumball was finished telling the latest story, a certain 8-bit spider suddenly made his way to the boys' table.
"Hey guys." Ocho greeted the four.
"Oh…hi Ocho." Brian nervously greeted the spider, while Gumball and Darwin reluctantly waved their hands at him.
"Hey Ocho." Mike nonchalantly greeted Ocho, before turning his attention to his friends with curiosity. "Why are you three looking at him like that?"
"Sorry if we're acting like this." Gumball apologized to the maroon badger. "It's just that, Ocho has quite the temper and would get hostile without realizing it, so everyone has to be careful what they're saying without upsetting him."
Puzzled by his friend's statement, Mike looked down at Ocho on the floor, who was still in a happy mood, something that left the maroon badger dumbfounded.
'How could someone so small pose such a big threat?' Mike thought, before the spider looked up and noticed the badger staring at him.
"Why are you staring at me like that?"
Mike didn't respond to the spider's question immediately, instead pondering on how to answer Ocho. Eventually, the maroon badger managed to come up with a response to test Gumball's claim.
"Because staring isn't illegal and I'm weird, FEAR ME!" Mike stated out loud.
The maroon badger's answer, however, ended up irking Ocho and before Mike knew, the spider floated right at him, getting closer to his face.
"Are you sure about that? ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?!"
As the spider's words were intensified with each passing second, Mike continued to look at Ocho with astonishment at the change in attitude.
'Wow! Gumball wasn't kidding!' Mike thought, before he gave the spider a smile and resumed eating his lunch.
Ocho, for his part, continued to look at the maroon badger, curious as to his demeanor. Eventually, the spider shrugged his shoulder and left the table, before Mike looked at Ocho with a disturbed look and turned to his friends, a bit shocked by the spider's erratic behavior.
"Okay so he's a bipolar 8-bit spider. That's fine, but what's so threatening? He's the smallest student here that I've met and I don't think he's going to beat me up."
In response, Gumball, Darwin and Brian explained to the maroon badger of their own encounters with Ocho, with the Watterson brothers telling Mike on how the spider attacked them after Gumball unintentionally insulted his mother, while Brian admitted on upsetting the spider for bumping into him. After several minutes of listening to their stories, Mike couldn't help but be amused by their tales.
"Really? You guys can't handle a little spider? You're worse than my mother." Mike began to chuckle at the thought of his mother meeting Ocho.
"Believe me Mike; you do not want to underestimate someone like Ocho." Brian insisted. "Look, all I'm saying is that you should keep your guard up the next time you see him."
Mike looked at Ocho, sitting at a nearby table, happily eating his food, before turning his attention back to the purple fox, smile not fading.
"I'll keep that in mind." said Mike, much to Brian's relief.
As soon as everyone was done finishing their meals, everyone headed to the school gym for a game of dodge ball.. After what seemed to be like an eternity, the school bell finally rang, as everyone exited the gym, tired and worn out. Everyone except for Mike, that is.
"Wow, talk about a game!" Mike happily exclaimed. "That must have been the 11th one since I came here."
"Glad you're happy and all…" Gumball began. "Me, Darwin and Brian barely managed to survive the onslaught."
"I can hardly feel my legs." the two-legged fish complained.
"Look guys; let's just be glad that we managed to make it through another day." Brian commented, prompting everyone to nod their heads in agreement. Satisfied, the purple fox decided to check his cell phone, but upon reaching into his pockets, he noticed it was nowhere to be found.
'That's strange, where the heck did it go?' Brian thought, before he turned to the gym behind him. 'I wonder…'
"Brian, are you alright?" asked Darwin, snapping the purple fox back to reality.
"Sorry about that, you guys. I need to get my cell phone from the gym. Don't worry; I'll catch up with you guys later."
Gumball, Darwin and Mike accepted Brian's decision and turned to head back to Miss Simian's class, while the purple fox went into the gym, searching for his cell phone.
'Now where did I put it?' Brian thought, as the purple fox searched the bleachers, the trash cans and even in the discarded sports equipment. After a few minutes, Brian finally spotted his cell phone inside the gym closet, much to his surprise.
"How did that get there?" Brian asked to himself. "No matter, I need to get it and head back to Miss Simian's class."
With that, the purple fox made his way inside and picked up the cell phone down on the ground. But as Brian tucked his phone inside the hoodie, he failed to notice the presence of a certain 8-bit spider.
"What are you doing here?" asked Ocho, causing Brian to yelp and fall on his back. As the purple fox got up, he was about to ask the spider when he hesitated for a moment.
'I need to be careful what I'm saying.' Brian thought, before he spoke once more to Ocho.
"I just came by to pick up my phone, that's all."
"Oh, that makes sense." said Ocho. "Anyway, we should head to Miss Simian's class before-"
Suddenly, the two heard a loud bang behind them, prompting both Brian and Ocho to turn around and see the closet door was no longer open. Curiously, the purple fox approached the door and attempted to open it, to no avail.
'You can't be serious!' Brian thought, as he turned on the knob a few more times, before giving up. Desperately, he banged on the door as loud as he could, hoping for somebody to show up; a few minutes later, he decided to stop what he was doing, realizing there was no one in the gym. Soon, panic and anxiety expressed itself on his face.
"Oh no, we're stuck!" Brian shouted in panic, frantically pacing himself back and forth, while Ocho looked on rather calmly.
"Brian, you need to get a hold of yourself…" the spider began."Just take a deep breath and everything will be alright."
The moment Ocho talked, Brian stopped what he was doing and stared at the spider, realizing that his situation had gotten much more complicated: being stuck inside a closet with a classmate that has an extremely hot temper.
Normally in Miss Simian's class, everyone would be paying attention to their teacher's lectures as best as they could. Today turned out quite different, however, as Gumball, Darwin and Mike noticed a certain purple fox missing among their classmates.
"Guys…" Gumball began to whisper. "Where the flip is Brian?"
"I don't know, Gumball. He's taking much longer than usual." Darwin whispered back.
"I just noticed that Ocho is not here too." Mike informed the Watterson brothers, prompting the two to turn around and see an empty desk not far from where they're sitting, leaving them quite worried.
"That's not good." Gumball muttered.
"I know what you mean, Gumball." said Darwin. "If Ocho and Brian aren't here, then something bad is going down."
"Oh come on! It can't be that bad." said Mike, trying to calm Darwin.
"Let's not stay here and find out." Gumball stated. "Let's get of here and find them before-"
"Alright class, get your pencils ready, because it's test time!" Miss Simian declared, as the class groaned in disbelief, including Gumball, Darwin and Mike.
"It looks like we won't be leaving anytime soon." Mike commented, before the cantankerous baboon began to hand everyone their tests.
Several minutes have passed since Brian and Ocho found themselves trapped in the gym closet. The spider remained calm and collective in the situation, while the purple fox desperately tried to open the door, to no avail.
First, Brian used some baseball bats to bash the door knobs, but only ended up getting them destroyed instead. Then, the purple fox used a football helmet to charge right through it, only to give himself a painful headache. Finally, Brian threw a dodge ball right at it, only to have it bounce right back and hit him squarely in the face.
"This is ridiculous!" Brian angrily exclaimed. "Nothing's working! At this rate, we might be stuck here forever!"
In the midst of his thoughts, the purple fox turned to Ocho, who had remained patient for the last several minutes…wait a minute! That's it!
"Ocho, do you have a way to get us out of here?" asked Brian.
"Why me?" asked the spider, much to the purple fox's discomfort.
"...You see… you might be the only one who could get us out of here." Brian explained.
"Wow, I never thought of it that way." said Ocho, before the spider pondered for a moment, while the purple fox let out a sigh of relief, silently thankful that he didn't upset him.
"I got it!" Ocho happily exclaimed, as he made his way to the closet doors, much to Brian's curiosity.
"What are you doing?"
'Isn't it obvious? I'm going to blast our way out."
With that, Ocho began to charge himself, while in a panic Brian frantically dove into a bin of random balls for safety, just as the spider prepared to blow the doors.
All day long, the students of Miss Simian's class were busy finishing up their tests as best as they could, all the while trying not to make a single mistake. But then, out of nowhere, an explosion suddenly occurred, shocking everyone in the classroom.
"What was that just now?!" asked Tobias.
"I don't know…" Miss Simian began. "But I do know that this is the time to start panicking!"
Immediately, everyone did exactly just that, as everyone ran around the classroom, with some hiding under the desks. Gumball, Darwin and Mike, were quite suspicious about the sudden explosion.
"Are you thinking what am I thinking?" Gumball asked his friends.
"I think it's now or never, Gumball." Darwin replied. "Anyway, this is our chance to find Brian and Ocho."
"So let's not keep them waiting." said Mike, before the trio quietly crawled their way of the chaos and into the hallway.
Brian couldn't believe what had happen just now, as he slowly crawled out of the bin. Somehow, Ocho rendered the closet door into various bits, each scattered all over the place. For someone so small, the spider can pack a powerful blast.
'Wow! I definitely do not want to get on his bad side.' Brian thought, before he and the spider exited the closet.
Just then, the purple fox heard several footsteps coming right in their direction and before long, he spotted three familiar figures showing up, much to his joy.
"Guys, it's so good to see you!"
"It's good to see you too, Brian." Gumball said to the fox.
"At least we know that you and Ocho are fine." Darwin commented.
"By the way, why do the doors to the gym closet look like a kindergartner's building block play set?" asked Mike.
"You might want to ask Ocho on that one." Brian replied.
"Okay…" the maroon badger began, before facing the spider."Ocho, same question."
"Why are you asking me about that?" asked the spider, much to Mike's surprise.
"Because Brian told me to ask you." the badger replied.
"Is that so?" Ocho asked the maroon badger, getting close to his face. "IS THAT SO? IS THAT SO?"
Mike didn't respond right away, irked by the spider's sudden change in demeanor and behavior.
'Okay, this was cute at first but now it's just obnoxious.'
"You guys, this is no time for chitchat." Darwin said, getting himself between Mike and Ocho.
"Besides, we need to head back to class before Miss Simian finds out." Gumball informed the two.
"Gumball and Darwin are right…" Brian began. "We need to get back right now."
Mike and Ocho looked at the trio, before turning to each other; reluctantly nodding their heads in agreement and with that, the six left the gym, running as fast as they could.
Once they were certain that the coast was clear, Brian, along with Mike, Ocho and the Watterson brothers, proceeded to tiptoe as quietly as they could, not wanting to cause another ruckus in the school. But the pace they were going in was like a slow locomotive, something that the purple fox noticed.
"Guys, I think we need to tiptoe a little quicker here." Brian informed his friends.
Gumball, Darwin and Mike nodded their heads in agreement. Ocho, however, was somewhat annoyed by it and before the purple fox knew it; the spider was right up in his face.
"What do you mean by that?"
Brian could only look on at the agitated spider, too nervous to respond. But before the purple fox could answer Ocho's question, Mike suddenly cut in front of him and confronted the spider face to face.
"Quit asking the obvious and just go along with it! It's becoming really annoying!"
"Annoying?!" Ocho shouted. "You think that I'm annoying?!"
Before Gumball, Darwin and Brian knew what happened, the maroon badger and the spider began to argue with one another, each pointing out the other's faults.
"Guys, we gotta do something." Gumball informed his friends.
"Don't worry Gumball, I got this." said Brian, before he confronted Mike and Ocho.
"Guys, quit arguing! We need to get back to Miss Simian's class on the double!"
Brian's attempt, however, proved to have little effect on the two, as the maroon badger and the spider continued with their argument. Dissatisfied with this, the purple fox was about to make another attempt when he suddenly heard footsteps coming up right behind them.
"What was that?" asked a fearful Gumball.
"I don't know and I'd rather not find out." Darwin replied, before staring at the janitor's closet. "Everyone, let's get inside there until the coast is clear."
Agreeing with the two-legged fish, all six immediately entered the closet and quickly closed the door right behind them.
"Great." Brian muttered to himself. "I just got out of one closet and find myself stuck in another."
Gumball shushed the purple fox, prompting Brian to stay silent, as Rocky suddenly showed up, looking around in the hallway.
"That's strange…" the orange puppet began." I thought I heard someone right here. Oh well, I guess I was just hearing things. I hope that there are no more explosions today."
With that, Rocky continued to walk down the hallway, while the boys sighed with relief that they were safe for the moment.
"That was a close one." Brian remarked.
"Tell me about it…" Darwin began, before he confronted Mike and Ocho. "If you two weren't arguing, we would have made it to Miss Simian's class by now."
Mike could only sigh in response from the two-legged fish's scolding, acknowledging that what Darwin said was indeed true. Ocho, on the other hand, only looked at the fish with curiosity.
"What are you talking about?"
Gumball, Darwin and Brian looked at one another, as the trio nervously stared at the spider and panicked in silence. Before Ocho could ask any further questions, an irate Mike grabbed a rag and promptly shoved it into the spider's mouth, angering Ocho in the process, before he calmed down after a few minutes.
"I thought for sure we were goners." said Darwin.
"No kidding. Now let's get out of here." Brian informed his friends, before he turned the door knob. But after turning it a few more times, a look of disbelief formed on the purple fox's face, as he turned to face his friends.
"Guys, I don't want to alarm anyone, but we're stuck in here."
"Are you serious Brian?!" Gumball shouted, before he made his way to the door and attempted to open it, to no avail. "This is just great!"
"Wait a minute, you guys. We still have Ocho with us." Mike reminded his friends, before he removed the rag out of the spider's mouth. "Ocho, we need your help to blast that door."
"I'm not going to help you guys out after what you did a while ago." Ocho flatly said.
"Ocho, we really need your help." Brian pleaded. "You're the only one who can get us out of this mess."
"…Fine, but only if that badger friend of yours apologizes." Ocho replied.
Mike was somewhat irked by the spider's demand of an apology, but at the same time, the maroon badger realized that he and his friends needed to get out of here before they all ended up getting into big trouble. Without further hesitation, Mike confronted Ocho, ready to give him his answer.
"Alright Ocho, I'm sorry for everything. Can we go now?"
"That was the worst apology I have ever heard." Ocho replied, much to Mike's disbelief.
"What do you want?" asked Mike. "One on a silver platter with a side of cheese?"
"What I want is a genuine apology." the spider replied. "Either you give me one or I won't help you guys out."
Mike pondered for a moment, trying to come up with a genuine apology for Ocho. After what appeared to be like an eternity, the maroon badger finally turned his attention to the spider, hoping that his response would be enough to satisfied Ocho.
"Ocho, I'm sorry if I got you upset. It was never my intention to call you annoying and I know that you're a good person at heart. I also know that you're doing your best to keep yourself as calm as you can, not wanting to sound intense. Again, I'm really sorry and I hope we can just let bygones be bygones."
"Now that's more like it. Apology accepted." the spider happily said. "Stand back guys, I'm about to get us out of here."
Without any further hesitation, Gumball, Darwin, Brian and Mike immediately backed away, while Ocho immediately shoot a powerful laser, turning the door into several small blocks, while the boys could hear their class yell in response to the sudden explosion.
"Looks like that's our cue to get back to class." said Brian, before he and his friends ran to their destination.
Miss Simian, along with her students, hid underneath their desks, cowering in fright due to the second explosion just now. None of them knew what was going on, but whatever it was, they would rather cower than try to find out the source of the explosion.
As everyone in the classroom continued to hide underneath their desks, Brian quietly opened the door, and along with Mike, the Watterson brothers and Ocho, all six managed to make their way back to their desks, just as Miss Simian spotted the fox and the spider.
"Care to explain where you two have been?" the elderly baboon asked, demanding an answer from them.
"We were, um, in the bathroom and then we tried hiding after that explosion." Brian lied.
"Yeah, we weren't paying attention. Sorry about that." Ocho insisted, playing along with the purple fox.
Miss Simian, along with her students, continued to look at the two, while Brian and Ocho looked on nervously. Eventually, everyone shrugged their shoulders, somewhat accepting the lie, before the cantankerous teacher regained her composure, while everyone got back to their seats.
"Due to today's unexpected incidents, I'll be postponing today's test until next week." Miss Simian informed her students, much to their joy. "Instead, we will be doing…"
As the elderly baboon went on with another lesson in class, Brian, along with his friends, let out a sigh of relief, glad that they managed to survive another day.
Next time on The Newcomer
Chapter 47-The Camera
Brian decided to film his life around Elmore to show his old friends back at Folsom. Unfortunately for him, he encounters some unexpected obstacles along the way.
Tidbits
-Finally got the time to do a chapter of Ocho and somehow, it wasn't as difficult as I imagined.
-I want to thank Sal for his help on this one.
-Just to clear a few things up, the explosions were never meant to offend anyone at all. Me and Sal only added that to be humorous in the first place.
I hope everyone enjoyed The Closet and I'll be seeing ya next chapter!