Chapter three is finally here! It'll definitely get interesting here, believe me. (and angsty) Sorry if it's short, but kinda saving some good stuff for next chapter. :)

Warning some of you who like supporting characters from the show might not like this chapter.. Just saying.

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Gumball could hardly remember what happened after that. Possibly sleep pills that knocked him out? He didn't know. All he could remember was waking up inside what appeared to be a courtroom, placed in a neat desk a few feet away from some important looking man wearing a suit.

"Wait.. Am I on trial or something right now?.." Gumball sat up, wiping the sleep drool off his mouth.

"Precisely. Now quiet down, your words can still be used against you." The man sorted through some papers, not looking at him in the slightest.

"Um.. Okay.." The cat looked around at the environment, seeing a court at the side looking pretty cautious, along with a judge that sat in the front. Gumball soon put one paw under his cheek, realizing how boring this was.

"Watterson."

He perked his head up, startled by the sudden mention of him. The judge looked at him with deep sternness.

"Are you ready to begin?"

Gumball nodded. "I guess so yeah."

Without hesitation, the man looked down at his papers, organizing them thoroughly. "Gumball Watterson, you have been shown to be accused of several acts of property damage, endangering the general public, assault, first degree murder and direct manslaughter. What is your defense for this?"

The cat almost froze in nervousness, as all eyes turned to him. "Uh… Well… Technically I didn't start it?.."

"And what do you mean by that?"

"Well.." Gumball looked down, not wanting to see the staring. "It was kinda a rough day for me.. I assume yesterday for how long I was out.. Tobias kinda set it off."

"Elaborate please."

"He was yelling at me for being a jerk.." He explained. "Everyone kinda was that day.. But Tobias kinda pointed out all my flaws, and.. I guess it ticked me off. By accident anyway.."

"Accident? Those murders and burns was an accident?"

The cat was caught off guard, trying not to cry in front of all these people. By now he was starting to wonder where his family was. "I didn't mean to do all that.. I was just.. Really angry with everything…"

"Is that any excuse for hurting innocent bystanders?" Another man at the side, which Gumball figured to be the opposing lawyer, stood up. "That monster of flames didn't touch that boy aside from one pair of burns, yet the rest of the student body suffered the most."

"I wasn't thinking.. I just thought I could take out my rage on something.." Gumball soon realized he wasn't exactly winning this battle now. The men were right.

"Now tell me Mr. Watterson, how long have you had this so-called 'monster of fire'?" The judge questioned, now looking at him.

"...I don't know.. It just happened…"

The man soon picked up a different piece of paper, reading it silently. "From what we have been told, you have injured ninety percent of the school, and severely burned ten students that have not survived this incident that we know of."

"..." Gumball looked visibly afraid, as he gripped his hand on the table. To his dread, the man was beginning to read off the dead student's names, each of which he had known.

"Jared Dawson, Billy Parham,"

Gumball had slightly tuned out at that point, only recognizing the first names, utter guilt coming back. He had heard Teri's name, Sarah's name, Leslie's, and a couple others.

".." The judge adjusted his glasses, as he looked closer at the final name. "Penny Fitzgerald."

Time had seemed to stop.

Gumball felt the hot tears roll down his cheeks, as he did not utter a single word.

His girlfriend was dead.

Penny was dead because of him.

Not able to hold back any longer, he started sobbing uncontrollably, trembling in fear and utter remorse.

The people around him grew alarmed, as flames too spread, beginning to burn away at desks and papers.

Carrie, being there for safety, was quick to summon a force field, trapping Gumball inside it. The desk and chair he was at had burned to the ground by now, the floor now charred black, as he sat there on the ground in tears.

Almost desperately, he stood up, face pressed against the dome as he looked at the judge. "What about my mom?! Is she dead too?!.." He was still heartbroken and crying. He was in deep denial, negative thoughts screaming at him in his mind.

"..She is with the other injured students in the hospital. There.. Is an unlikely chance she will live." The judge replied, giving a look of sorrow towards the cat.

The men begin to talk with one another privately, as Gumball waits for a response almost frightfully. With slight regret, but sternness, the judge looking back at him. "Gumball Watterson, you have been proven guilty of these acts. You are sentenced to life in prison."

"Wait no! We can work something out right I promise I-"

Gumball is cut off, as he is struck in the head with a sleeping dart, the force field now down. Everything fades to black.

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See? Angsty like I said heh. With that said, let me know what you think! Was it good? I know this chapter is pretty short, but I want to kinda save SOME of the more angstier and scary moments for next chapter. (you'll see what I mean)

Thank you for reading, and I'll see you in chapter 4!