The dismission

Once they were at home, they gave a deep look to the comic especially to Nancy uncapped.

"Oh…. my…. God…!" said Darwin looking at her.

"She's not so bad!" said Gumball.

"Not so bad? She's horrible. Look at our sister Anais!"

"Bad bad bad veeeeeryyyyyyy baaaaaaad…. Terrible!" screamed the pink bunny shaking and lying on the floor terrorized as she saw Nancy without her cape.

In the comic book Nancy reveals to the world to be a slime with shapeshifting powers, she turns into a monster when she thinks to be too ugly for Billy causing havoc in all Leafville. The comic ends with Billy kissing Nancy and she turns back in a slime form.

"I don't get it! Why Nancy is a shapeshifter?" said Darwin.

"She's a slime, so her body is shapeable!" answered Gumball.

"I don't like this comic!" said Darwin.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? Really? What's wrong? Everything in my opinion! Nancy is not as I imagined under her cape! Whole the story makes absolutely nonsense. Even the kissing scene is not as I imagined. I mean… is not romantic, is forced. Nancy is destroying everything and Billy kisses her in order to keep her cool! That's not love it's…..it's….. blackmail!"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, Nancy is subtly blackmailing Billy. If he stops to love her she'll turn into a monster and she'll destroy whole Leafville!"

Darwin gave another look at the slime-ball.

"Yet, didn't you realize how she looks similar to a slime from "Daggers & Wizard"? So that's why she can't be a cat? Then she's an athlete, how can she do gymnastic without her arms and legs? She needs those parts! Why uncapped she has no arms and legs? That's so ridiculous!"

"Calm down Darwin, is just an episode. I'm sure Nancy will return in her cape in the next episode!" said Gumball in order to calm down his brother.

"Really?"

"Yes, there will be a status quo and it will be as if none of this ever happened!"

Darwin was sceptic but he felt like his brother was saying the truth, so he calmed down and helped Anais to get up on the floor.

One week later, the issue 21 was out in store, "Dating with spaghetti!" was its name. It was about Billy's first date with Nancy. He was dinner with her in an Italian restaurant eating a dish of spaghetti. Nancy was before him and, despite what Gumball said, she was still uncapped.

"Where are you going Darwin?" asked Gumball watching his brother leaving the store.

"I need to talk with Lâne!"

"Wait, I come along!" said Gumball following him.

"What do you want?" asked Jenny Brocket at the reception.

"I want to talk with Lâne!" said the goldfish.

"A moment, please!" said Jenny pushing a button.

"What's wrong, Jenny?" said Lâne's voice coming out from the speaker on the desk.

"Sir, the Wattersons are here, they want to talk with you!"

After a minute of silence;

"All right, bring them up!" answered James.

"Ok!"

"Third floor, you know where he is!"

"All right, thanks Jenny!" said Darwin reaching the elevator with Gumball on his side.

They found James cleaning his trophies; he was also creating a new shelf in order to place his last one.

He was smiling (as usual).

"What wrong?" said taking a sit on his chair. He was watching Gumball.

"Is not me, it's Darwin!" said pointing his brother.

"What's wrong Darwin?" said looking at the annoyed goldfish.

"What is this?" said showing a picture of Nancy-slime on the comic.

"Don't you see? It's Nancy!"

"What animal she is?"

"Is not an animal, she's a slime!"

"Why uncapped she's a slime?"

"Eh eh….." laughed James mockingly.

"I bet you didn't see that coming!"

"No I didn't!"

"Then I surprised you. I'm so ingenious!"

"Why she's a slime?"

"What did you expect she was?"

"A cat! Have you seen a pic?"

"Ah the cat….. yes I'm aware about that myth but I didn't see any pic and, honestly, I don't want to see any of them!"

"Then why she has cat ears and a cat tail?"

"Have you seen a slime with cat ears and tail?"

"No!"

"That's the point!" answered James.

Darwin was confused.

"But our fans don't like Nancy as a slime!"

"Why?"

"Because she's ugly and nasty!"

"That's not my problem; it's not my fault if they don't like her. I always imagined Nancy as a slime!"

Darwin was speechless: how can someone have such a twisted imagination?

"But Billy could never fall in love with a slime!"

"That's what you say, I created one of the most original couples in the world!"

"But she's an athlete, how can she do gymnastic without arms and legs?"

"Don't worry she'll find a way!"

"Will she turn back in her cape?"

James laughed.

"No, that would make no sense. We established that the status quo is not always a good thing!"

That statement made no sense to Darwin. Their comic book was already full of nonsense stuff but the idea to give to Nancy her cape back was excessively nonsense even for James.

Darwin had only a question to do.

"Will Nancy turn into a cat?"

James laughed again.

"Oh no, of course not!"

"Why?"

"Because that's what the audience want. As a cartoonist, you have to be unpredictable and you never have to listen to your fans, even if they suggest you great ideas because their ideas are never good. In order to be a great cartoonist you have to abuse them, giving exactly what they hate! I see you don't appreciate my ideas but, sadly for you, you have signed a contract where I can do whatever I want to your comic book, and will be like this until I'm gone. Did I answered at your question?"

Darwin was discouraged;

"Yes!" answered sorrowing.

Silently, he turned back and left the office.

"Just read the comic and don't take it too seriously!" said James.

"Thank you for your time!" said Gumball a bit embarrassed for Darwin's lack of regards.

"Come back anytime!" said James.

Once at home, Gumball tried to cheer up his brother.

"Why are you so sad?"

"Is for James, he ruined our comic book! Nancy is not like I imagined!"

"Oh come on, Nancy is not that bad. Yes, she may look a bit awkward but…"

"No, you don't understand!" said Darwin interrupting his brother.

"I can't accept to see Billy falling in love with a slime. It's way too weird! Yes, Elmore has many strange people; Teri is a paper bear, Banana Joe is a fruit, Masabi a cloud, Karrie a ghost….but, animals should fall in love with other animals. I don't know if you understand me! What if, one day, you should fall in love with a…"

Darwin gave a look around home in searching of a particular item. The first thing he found was a small bag of peanuts that Richard was eating on the couch.

"….peanut?" asked Darwin taking a peanut from the small bag.

"What?" said his brother shocked.

"Yes, what if you should fall in love with a peanut?"

Darwin started to mock his brother;

"Hey look, I'm Gumball Watterson and this is my girlfriend: Miss. Peanut! Oh Miss. Peanut, you look beautiful today. Here, let me kiss you….."

Darwin started to kiss the little peanut;

"(Smooch)…(Smooch)…(Smooch)…..(Smooch)…(Smooch)…"

"Stop it!" screamed Gumball.

"See how strange it looks?"

"Stop being ridiculous. That won't happen. I won't fall in love with a peanut!"

Darwin kept quiet.

"I was saying Nancy may look a bit awkward but she's not ugly. She has…uhm…..an exotic look!"

Darwin was a bit shocked for his brother's last statement.

"Would you like to kiss Miss. Simian?" he asked.

"No, absolutely I won't kiss her!" said the blue cat shivering for his brother's proposal.

"Why?" asked the goldfish curiously.

"She's ugly!"

"Oh no, you wrong. Miss Simian is not ugly; she has an exotic look!"

Darwin dropped the peanut in the floor and went to his room.

So did Gumball.

Richard, meanwhile, picked the peanut from the floor and ate it.

Later that night, before he went to bed, Gumball found his brother writing something on a piece of paper.

"What are you doing?" asked, but his brother gave no answer.

"Awww…screw it!" he thought. He was a bit too upset to talk with him. He went to bed and fell asleep while his brother was still writing.

The next day the issue number 22 of "The greatest adventures of Billy Bunny" was out. It was an episode were Billy and his friend Peter join a team of wrestlers. Nancy wasn't in the story. Gumball noticed something strange on the cover;

It was written: "The greatest adventures of Billy Bunny By Gumball Watterson and James Lâne".

Darwin's name mysteriously disappeared from the credits.

Gumball replaced the comic book on the shelf.

"What's wrong? Don't you like your comic book anymore?" asked Mr. Larry watching the blue cat all alone.

Gumball kept quiet.

"You look quiet depressed!"

Gumball was a bit depressed; Darwin refused to come along with him at the comic store.

Mr. Larry took a brand new comic book on the shelf.

"Here, read this brand new comic book. Is quiet amusing. It may cheer you up!"

Gumball picked the comic.

Its name was "The perfect strangers". It was a funny love story between a panda and a bear.

The drawing was rough but the story was actually funny. Gumball laughed to see how clumsily the female Panda was trying to teach how to eat grass to his carnivore boyfriend.

Gumball gave a look at the cover;

"The perfect strangers by Darwin Watterson".

"Yes, I made a brand new comic book. Yesterday I wrote a letter to James. I asked him to remove my name from the credits!" explained Darwin when Gumball was at home.

"You gave up your copyrights! Why?"

"Because I won't be a part of a comic book which I can't recognize as mine!"