The Incomplete World Of Elmore
Part 17 (7 of 9)
~Carmen Verde
"Officer Watterson." Carmen feels like she's trying to talk to Nicole about her son.
Nicole [exhales] I never thought to come across you again.
"I guess I...got a new leash on life?" Carmen has a nervous chuckle.
"No matter the differences, you're still the criminal I've locked up. And here you are, in my clutches again." Nicole.
"Well, my little siblings woke me up this morning," Carmen said as the flashback started.
~[The art style becomes more like El Tigre.]
Carmen was sleeping, using her punching bag as a snuggle pillow with a blue cat and lipstick-covered lips on its face. She was kissing the bag while kissing it.
"Smooch! Oh, Gumball, you don't have to be so sweet," Carmen said as she slept. "Smooch!" Hermes, the hummingbird, came out of its cage and started pecking at Carmen's head, trying to wake her up.
Then the door bangs a bit until someone opens it to reveal a nine-year-old mountain ball cactus who kicks the door open.
"Hey, Carmella, get up! " The Cactus shouts at Carmen, who has Hermes pecking her head.
Carmen starts to wake up, but the saliva on the punching bag and a bit in her mouth while rubbing her eyes.
"Ugh, Sasha, do you have to yell so loud? I had a lot of work to do last night." Carmen then felt the bed shaking as another cactus, a totem pole cactus five years old
"Despertar, Despertar, Despertar." The young cacti shout as Carmen gets more irritated.
"Alright, alright, I'm getting up. Can you get off my bed now, Ceasr!" Carmen pushes him off her bed.
[The two siblings looked at each other and dragged Carmen out of the bed]
" [yelps] Que?!" Carmen flopped to the floor.
" Date prisa, Hermana," Sasha shouts as she and Ceasr drag Carmen to the bathroom and kitchen. Their parents are there. Carmen was on a chair next to her siblings.
Maria- So how's the new school going?
Carmen: It's getting good, Mama. I made new friends, got good grades, and was on a cheerleading squad.
Luis- That's great to hear that You have been getting better. So anything other new about school?
Carmen: It's getting there. More refreshing than the last school I had been to.
Sasha: Hey, Carmen! Should we tell Mama y Papa about another student you see from the punching bag?
"Expuesto!" Cesar smiles.
[Her parents tilted her head]
Carmen: [slowing blushing as she glares at the two] ¡Silencio, ustedes dos!
[Carmen's siblings start to chuckle as she scoffs]
Luis: Who is he, Carmella? Please tell us in case something happens.
Carmen: His name is Nicholas, Papa. He prefers to be named "Gumball."
[The parents gasped a little bit]
Maria scratches her chin] Nicholas. [raise eyebrows] Wait. That name sounds very similar to the police officer that arrests you.
Carmen: Si, Mama. And he's not a threat, unlike his mother, Padre.
Luis then [narrowed his eyes] Should anything befall you, he and I will have a highly charged discussion."
Carmen: [eyebrows shifted down] I'm sure he's not like that.
Maria- I hope he's different from the last one.
Luis- That fire extinguisher? What was her name again?
Carmen-(Bitter) I refuse to talk about her.
[The siblings scratched their heads and looked at each other]
Cesar/Sasha: [narrowed eyes as they understood who they meant] Oh...
Maria: [nods] Fair. The last thing we need is a bitter ex.
Maria- So, what are you doing today?
Carmen- I have cheer practice at the stadium at noon.
Luis: Take care of it with pride, Carmella. And be cautious of what happens next, even with the boy's involvement.
Carmen begins to leave the house. Her dad shouts before she's out of sight.
Carmen: Si, Papa.
"Oh, and get back home before night. It's a half moon tonight." Luis
" Si Padre." Carmen rolls her eyes before getting on the bus.
~Elmore Jr High Football Stadium
Plus, the girls and Leslie, wearing uniforms, were being shouted at by their new captain, who was working them all like a drill sergeant.
"OKAY, WE'RE NOT LEAVING HERE UNTIL WE GET THIS ROUTINE RIGHT, MAGGOTS. " Carmen, holding a megaphone, also wearing the Elmore Ducks uniform.
"PEPAKUMA, BE MORE FLEXIBLE"! Carmen shouts at Teri, who is crumbled up.
"Jardin, stop looking at yourself in the mirror and focus on the routine"! Leslie freaks out and grabs the pom poms.
"Collins, this isn't the ice age; get moving, or your gonna be extinct." Molly was on the bench.
"LATO, GET OUTTA THE BOYS SHOWER"! Sarah is dragged out of the shower by Penny.
"Carmen, can you settle down just a little bit 'cause we've been doing this for 45 minutes, and we need a little break". Penny is talking to Carmen, who is not having this.
"DON'T THROW A FIT AT ME IF THIS IS TOO HARD FOR YOU, FITZGERALD; YOU NEED TO LEARN TO HANDLE THE PRESSURE SHELLY"! Carmen uses her megaphone at high power to Penny's face.
"But I see your point that we should take a break." Carmen looks at how tired the girls and Leslie are.
"Okay, we're taking a break for only ten minutes. After all, of you get your asses moving, Especially you, Penelope." Carmen looks down to see Penny, trying to get her hearing back.
"WHAT"? Penny shouts at her due to her trying to get her hearing back.
"Penny, stop being dramatic. You don't have ears." Carmen and everyone here except for Teri don't have ears.
"YEAH, BUT IT STILL HURTS A BEING HIT POINT BLANK BY A MEGAPHONE, CARMEN"! Penny shouts at her.
The girls and Leslie were exhausted after Carmen's drill sergeant attitude during cheer drills to help the morale of the Elmore Ducks football team.
"Well, that's enough for today, girls." Leslie is the least exhausted of the squad.
"Yeah, but I must lay down and rest until my life ends." Teri is lying face on the ground, all flat like paper.
"That was amazing girls were going to raise the team's morale on the upcoming game. Although I think Sarah might've messed up the landing on that last part." Carmen sees Sarah annoyed, but she looks melted as her ice cream part drips.
"Well, at least I didn't join the team just so some blue hybrid with a stupid nickname that I'm too embarrassed to talk to so he can gawk at me." Leslie is referring to Gumball.
Carmen's jaw drops, and her face turns to a shade of red. While frantically waving her arms around in a panic.
"Wha...wha...wh..th...that.. that's not true. I joined so that I could..be more athletic and cheer for everyone. I didn't do this for a green-eyed, long-eared, bucktooth snow-colored fur knight who acts to adore- I mean to help everyone rather than anything else." Carmen regained her composure.
"(In their thoughts) She's doing this for Gumball." The girls and Leslie.
"But Gumball isn't a car"? Molly, which causes the others to laugh.
On the other hand, Penny had tick marks on her face and a scowl just like her dad after hearing that boy's name.
"No, Molly, he's a mixed breed of two animals," Carmen explained.
"Huh"? Molly looked confused.
"He's a Cabbit, Molly." Teri is face-first on the ground but gets back up.
"But he's, isn't a vegetable"? Molly.
This does cause Penny to laugh along with the girls after hearing that. William is on the stands rolling his eye.
"Other than seeing the Cactus girl going all drill sergeant, this whole keeping an eye on her made me lose interest." William looks bored.
Leslie stretches his arms, is seen walking away from the girls, and is about to change out of his uniform to the bathroom.
"Well, girls, I have to get going now, 'cause I have to meet Masami at the mall-" Then Leslie's head falls off his body, as a Frisbee, that is a giant buzz-saw.
This shocks the girls, including Penny, who seems the most surprised by her cousin being decapitated. LESLIE"! Penny screams in shock as she runs towards her cousin, whose headless body is on the ground. However, he was still alive even though he was decapitated.
~Vs. Metall
It's been a while, hasn't it, Doncella De Fuego." A familiar voice that Carmen recognizes as she's shocked to see this person.
It was that of a human female with a tan and piercings on her ears, lower lip, and eyebrows. She wore a sleeveless shirt with an F on it, shorts, and fingerless gloves all colored red, but her shorts were a darker red, and she was wearing long socks and red and black sneakers. Her brunette hair is tied into a ponytail with a long bang parted to the left side of her head.
"Metall"? Carmen is shocked to see her here.
"In the flesh pin cushion, It also looks as though the abrasive thug turned into a soft cheerleader." Metall is holding the buzz saw disc like a Frisbee.
"Who the hell do you think you are, going around and attacking my friend Piercy"! Penny is still holding Leslie. Who is still alive even without his head.
"I'm Metall, the head cheerleader of the Franklin Jr High ya Nut-sack, and I'm here for spiky over there." Metall points to Carmen, who appears frightened.
"Wait, what do you want with Carmen"? Penny
"That's none of your business, rejects, 'cause when I'm through with all of you-" This causes the girls to glare at Metall for that insult.
An explosion is heard behind them as a giant smoke cloud appears far from the school. Metall looks behind her and smiles.
"I Guess Luft managed to kill that feline." Metall.
"Wait a minute, that explosion was near the golf course. We're Gumball, and the guys are." William's pupils shrank as he thought the worst had happened.
"What? That can't be"!? Carmen looks shocked after hearing this.
"Yep, Luft went to that golf course that cold heart brat was with the short temper pixel and the sunglasses-wearing weenie was at." Metall
Carmen is shocked to hear that Gumball might be dead. But then Penny puts her hand on Carmen's shoulder. Set lets after getting pinched by the throne.
"I doubt some blowhard human full of hot air would take that imbecile down." Penny is also reassuring Carmen that Gumball isn't dead.
"Not if he had one of these; now behold My METAL DANCE"! Metall then activates her stand.
Metall's stand transforms her into a humanoid robot of average height with red eyes, wearing a black skin-tight suit covered by red armor with yellow accents. Her helmet is red and holds a small round saw blade on the forehead, and she has yellow knobs with spikes on the sides where her ears are; she also sports a red mask that covers her nose and mouth. Her armor is red with a blue trim surrounding a yellow circle on the center of her chest plate, and she also has two round saw blades where his shoulders meet her body. She also sports a red pelvic plate, gloves, and yellow boots.
This shocks the girls who are witnessing Metall's transformation.
"Oh, you can't be serious"? Penny sees the teenager turn into Metal Man.
"Is she trying to cosplay Optimus Prime as a DOCTOR"? William.
"Now, this is Metal." Metall now holds six metal blades like kunai on both hands.
"You better watch out for these blades, or you'll end up headless." Metall throws the blades at the cheerleaders.
With Carmen covering her face and closing her eyes, Penny grabs Leslie and tries to get Molly out here because she is a colossal target. Teri then bends and folds to avoid the upcoming blades thinking it will be her final moments.
But then the blades stopped as they were close to the cheerleader's faces. There was a long pause as Carmen peeked open her eyes to see that the blades had stopped midair just as they were close to their faces.
"WHAT"?! Metall is shocked about this and wonders who stopped her blades in midair. Then the blades fly towards Metall, who dodges them frantically.
"Who threw my Frisbees back at me?!" Demanded the punk who did this.
William then flew down from the sky, his red eye turning back to its standard green color, his gaze still glowing with anger as he glared at Metall.
Who the hell is ruining my Metal Dance?!
"William"? Penny, Carmen, Molly, Sarah, and Teri look at the floating eyeball.
"William"? Metall then remembers the names of the targets.
Metal then laughs at the eyeball, who still has one of the saw blades in his hand.
"Are you freaking serious? This pipsqueak's going to be an easy target?" Metal then had some of her blades on her arms.
One eye, I intended to fight the furball, but since he's dead, I have to now settle with you. After this little warm-up, I will go and kill my former classmate. Metall points to Carmen.
Then a ringtone is heard on Peanut's phone from William, who says, "Get the squad outta here." Penny reads the message.
Penny grabbed Leslie and a terrified Teri while instructing Molly to hold Sarah's pieces.
He uses his telekinesis to through the bench at Metall, who quickly slices it with her blades. Then he pulls off the top parts of the stadium's seat and throws it at Metall.
Seeing what Penny and William were doing, Carmen followed them as they left the stadium while Metall was distracted.
Then a metal Frisbee was thrown and cut the left side of her branch. She turned to see that Metal was glaring at her.
"Stay where you are bitch; after I'm done with one eye here, YOU'RE NEXT." Metall glares at Carmen, who covers her missing branch as some of her juice emerges. Carmen then uses fire and flames to seal the wound close so that the liquid wouldn't keep falling out. She did feel a bit of pain after doing this, but it needed to be done.
Metall then looks at William, who sees him as not a threat even though he manages to stop her blades, Believing that it was just dumb luck that he did so. She lowers her guard, knowing he can't take her down.
"This has been a bit of a fun warm-up, kid, But just to be a sport here, I'll let you take the first shot, Batboy." Metall, who closes her eyes
Shush, a shame that I didn't get a chance to kill that loser Gumball, But so that you know, you've got no chance of ever bringing me d-" Just as Metall opened them, her forehead was hit with the metal blade that she used to stop Carmen with.
"Ugk," Metall only sounds as her body falls to the ground after getting hit.
"You need to shut the fork up, 'cause you would've lasted three seconds with Gumball seeing that your just all bark and no bite, Doctor Saw." William, but no one was able to hear him.
Carmen seeing this feels anti-climatic for some reason.
"Guess I didn't need Watching Me after all." William was about to fly away, but then a blade was about to hit him until a fireball melted the Metal, Frisbee, before it hit him.
"What the"!? The eyeball then sees Metall, who is still alive even though she now has a blade on her forehead. Her eyes were spirals, her face furious but covered by her mask.
"You Think I'm Gonna Go Down That Easily, You'll Fall to my METAL DANCE"! Metall now has multiple buzz-saws on her hands.
She then throws multiple frisbees at William, as in twelve metal blades at a time.
"Oh, Crap"! William is now flying swiftly to avoid the blades as the blades also damage parts of the stadium.
Metall continues throwing her blades at the flying eyeball, like trying to swat a small fly that keeps getting away.
William continued aerial dodging of the blades, but he was panicking.
Carmen saw an opening as Metall was distracted by William. She uses fire and flames, as in the hummingbird.
"I'm gonna make your sliced body into a trophy, then deliver it to your friends-AHHHH." Then as Metall was monologuing, she was engulfed in fire while screaming.
William then uses his telekinesis to stop the blades as they fall to the ground. He floats down and sees Carmen running towards him.
He tries to land on her head. But as he lands, the pins from her body give him a sharp pain in his hand.
"Ow," William said with a tear in his eye as he jumped off the cactus girl.
"Are you alright"? Carmen
"No"! William "shouted." After getting the pins of his hand foot. He glares at Metall, who now appears to be melting.
"So you wanna ruff, huh?, Okay". William then summons his stand, giving him a pyramid body with a white bow tie and blower hat. But this time, it was a more diminutive form with just two arms and legs.
"(Jack McBrayer) Let's have to do this the (Demonic voice) HARD WAY "!" William then slams his fists to the ground.
"What the What, you're a stand user, and your voice is Jack McBrayer"!? Carmen sees William's transformation.
"Yeah, I'll tell you about that later; let's finish her off." William
"Right (Though that voice, on the other hand)." Carmen then summons fire that spreads around William and Metall making a ring of fire. Then the flames rise to make a massive wall of fire that surrounds the two stand users as Carmen is outside the circle.
"You think having one of those stands will make a difference in this fight; guess what? It doesn't, and You want to fight and try to be the one to bring me down,
But I know there's no chance, and as soon as you step inside this cage, You'll fall victim to my METAL DANCE!" Metall, whose arms are still melting along with her face. She then fires multiple blades at him as her body starts falling apart. William uses his telekinesis and then grabs the metal frisbees. Then he combines them with his arm to form a chainsaw and starts spinning. Along with the flames engulfing, the chainsaw is now on fire.
"The only one who shall fall to this dance..." William then flies towards Metall, who tries to attack him, but the blades she throws melt due to the fire.
"(Demonic voice) Is You"! He then slams the chainsaw down her head and slices her in half.
"I...Lost...To...These. Rejects"! Metall's body is sliced in two and then explodes, destroying the stadium.
The pyramid boy raises his chainsaw, flaming his arm into the air, then slams it to the ground.
~Save The Handsome Blue Idiot
"This is not good." Carmen
"What that fact? Because of that fight, the stadium is gone". William
"That and my former schoolmates are trying to kill us." Carmen
She sounded like she was going to stress out. She hears her phone ringing with the ringtone is Frosty The Snowman. With Snowball as the number, she then answers the phone.
"Hello"? Carmen. She hears a long pause until the person on the line answers.
"Um...hi Carmen...is that you"? Gumball called from his phone while he was at Elmore Park during this call.
"Yes, he showed up when Metall appeared. Why?" Carmen
"William told me he was doing charity work at school with his brother?" Gumball
"Alan doesn't have any charity work to" Carmen also glares at William with the same face she had during her thug self as she ended the call.
"You need to explain to me what you are/Why is William doing at the stadium?" Carmen demands answers.
"Explain!" Carmen said, revealing fangs and flames coming from her mouth.
"Well, Ocho didn't believe you when you said you hadn't changed, so he, Carrie, and Darrel got me to check on you to see if you were faking it," William explains this to Carmen using his wings.
"So You didn't have anything to do, Metall showing up?" Carmen
"No, I arrived only to spy on you... And this isn't going to help my case." William, with his pupil, shrinks.
After hearing this, she still looks mad at him, but her voice sounds distressed after Gumball says, "Others."
"Take me to them...NOW !" She shouted at him as she grabbed William's leg as they flew away from the stadium.
~Elmore Park
Meanwhile, Carmen is running downtown bringing the eyeball Keane with her, and towards the park after hearing the call, which Gumball forgot to hang up earlier.
"Okay, I know the park is at, so if we hurry, there could be a chance that an adorkable blue idiot will get himself and everyone else killed." Carmen
"Adorkable"? William was typing this on his phone. Carmen then turns around with fire in her eyes along with her fangs.
"(Demonic) NOT NOW"! Carmen shouts at him, causing his pupil to shrink.
As they approached the park, they saw a familiar face walking away from the garden and drinking coffee. Carmen recognizes the hot dog guy from school that hangs out with Clare and Gumball.
"YOU THERE, STOP!" but when he saw her, the hot dog ran away in fear dropping his coffee on the ground, while the cactus girl chased after him, but her short legs couldn't catch up to the taller person.
"STOP, DAMN IT. " Carmen, annoyed, then grabs William's hand.
" Wait, what are you-ahh!" she throws him just as Darrel is about to run to the next street, and William hits him in the back of his head, causing Darrel to fall flat.
A few seconds later...Darrel regains consciousness to see William with a dizzy expression and a very angry Cactus right before him.
"Uh, hey...Carmen,(weak laugh) funny meeting you here. I thought you have cheer practice-" He gets cut off by the Cactus.
"Where are they," Carmen demanded an answer from the hit dog, who was too scared to answer her as he uttered a massive groan.
Then a massive noise was heard that shook the ground carrying the Cactus to lose a bit of her balance.
"What Was That!?" William.
When the three kids turned their heads, they saw smoke from the forest inside the park.
"Didn't he and Ocho follow that flytrap to the woods"? Darrel
"GUMBALL"! Carmen and William shouted(mostly Carmen), and the two ran to the forest, leaving Darrel alone.
"Well, I'll just be on my way and-" The hot dog is then floating, much to his confusion and realization of what's happening.
"You're coming with Sausage." William who's hand was on his Bun(the jacket bun).
"God Damn it." Darrel is being literately dragged with them to the park to find Gumball and the others.
"Gumball, please be alright." Carmen worried about the Cabbit boy.
" You better not be dead; you're the only friend that I got." William flew with Darrel behind him, whimpering.
"Why me"? Darrel whimpering.
They arrived at the lake where Gumball, Ocho, Clare, Carrie, and an unknown albino rat plant were with them.
Carmen lets go of the two boys as she sees Gumball as a more handsome version of himself but with a fantastic mustache and emerald eyes. She kept looking at him while a rat plant hybrid attacked Darrel and William.
"Aphrodite spits him out; William isn't a snack!"
"APHRODITE!?" Carrie/Darrel/Clare look in shock at the hybrid plant thing now the same size as a five-year-old child.
"Who's Aphrodite?" Carmen questions about this.
"She's Nicolas's pet plant, a Venus flytrap that grew arms, and somehow she's now that." After getting all the water out, Darrel points to the plant thing. She showed Gumball managing to get the rat plant to spit out William.
"...Okay, How did that happen?" Carrie
"She ate the bark ranger fighting us and then exploded." Ocho
"She exploded?" Carrie
"So, how did your plant evolve?" Clare
"She was hangry." Gumball
"That still doesn't answer my question." Clare.
A bubble then hits William caused by Blase, who escaped the lake. He fires a harpoon at Aphrodite, who Gumball pushes out of the way and shoots through the chest. This horrifies Carmen then Blase prepares to fire at the Cactus next.
"This is my redemption song"! Blase is about to strike with his harpoon arm. Then S and T's detached fist decks him in the jaw and sends him into the air. Clare then starts a massive beat down on the scuba diver. She is hitting Blase, repeating as multiple zippers appear all over his body as it is torn to pieces before exploding in midair.
Clare just gave a cold stare with her redyed eyes seeing Blase's remains fall into the lake. She then collapses after the fight as Carmen tries to catch her, but her pins hurt the teen. This causes some issues with Carmen as she tries to walk her to the hospital until Gumball gets Clare from Carmen and carries her by his shoulder.
"Gumball, You're seriously injured, and you must pit Clare down and let us take you to the hospital. Carmen worried about him. The cabbit looks at his wound and seems apathetic about it as he's more concerned with Clare and William.
"I'm fine, besides I had worse injuries than this." Gumball
"Dude, you should seriously see a doctor." Darrel.
"Just flesh wound." Gumball ignores his wound, and the blood is dripping out.
"You had a harpoon stabbed through your heart and ripped it out." Carrie is very concerned.
"I can handle it. I need to bring William and Sis to the hospital." Gumball stubbornly tries to walk out of the forest until Aphrodite stops him from going further.
"..St...to...stop..Ni...col...as...". Aphrodite
"(woozy)Aphrodite... Why do I feel so cold right now ?" Gumball gets dizzy and then starts, then passes out.
"We've got to get them to the hospital!" Darrel shouts as he grabs Clare, while Aphrodite and Carmen get a hold of Gumball, and Ocho brings William. They all start running towards the hospital.
~Elmore Hospital
They got Clare, William, and Gumball to the hospital and waited a few hours until they could get in the rooms. Alan showed up mad at them. He tries to call Nicole about her son in the hospital, but she hangs up. Carmen opens the door to the room where Gumball, Clare, and William are. Aphrodite runs past Carmen towards where Gumball is and then jumps to the bed to see him. The rat plant bites his hand, causing him to open his eyes to see that Aphrodite is now looking at him. He then pats her head while she's biting his hand.
He had one of that IV poles with a blood transfusion connected to his left arm, including a scar on his chest after having seemed to be doing fine despite what happened earlier.
Carmen was distraught that he was in this condition but was relieved a bit, seeing that he was doing okay, but when she got close to his hospital bed, she noticed that he looked upset.
Without thinking, she turned her head to see that two other people were with him on the other side of the room. The Cactus could only feel guilty as they were caught in the crossfire of her former schoolmates wanting revenge on her.
Clare and William, whose beds were next to each other, were wearing blindfolds after getting their eyes flushed. William covered his body with a blanket using his wings as hands; next to a table had some get-well-soon cards from his mom and dad.
Alan floated towards the room and went to his brother's side.
"Willy, I know you can't hear me now, but I am right here for you." Alan
"I know I can't see right, but I can still hear that obnoxious holier-than-thou voice of yours from anywhere," William said, but no one could hear it.
"He's defiantly pleased to see me." Alan smiled, but William, if he could, rolled his eye in annoyance.
"So, how's Clare holding up"? Carrie asked the Cabbit.
Next to William, Clare has bandages around her face, but she seems to be sleeping.
"The doctor said that she drank some of the sulfuric acids while in the water; after flushing her eyes, they had to remove the acid from her lungs before it became fatal." Gumball
"Is she gonna be alright?" Ocho
"Of course, she'll have to stay here for a couple of days until she recovers." Gumball sounds a bit calm due to the fact he suffers from physical injuries all the time.
"You seemed to think that people heal quickly, like you, Nicolas." Darrel
"Quickly? He just got out of surgery after getting harpooned through the chest!?" Carmen
"He had a lot worse that happened to him, Carmen; trust me, I know a lot more." Carrie, who still thinks of all the blood the Cabbit on him, gets distracted by him being shirtless, which causes her eyes to go upward with her having a weird smile and ghost saliva coming from her mouth. She was like this for a few seconds.
"CARRIE"! Carmen shouts at the ghost, who snaps back to reality. She saw everyone in the room looking at her with confusion, and saliva on the floor came from her mouth.
"What were you thinking about?" Carmen asked, which got Carrie to mumble before forming a sentence while rubbing her mouth to get the drool off her face.
"Uh..what...Oh, that was nothing, Guys...Nothing at all." Carrie
"Then why were you drooling"? Darrel
"I wasn't drooling." Carrie
"You were thinking of something that caused you to drool"? Carmen
"There's ghost saliva on the floor." Alan
"No, there's not." Carrie denies this, but then a bandaid nurse comes to the room but slips on Carrie's salvia and then breaks and falls out the window.
The group looks out the window to see the nurse falling into the hospital's street. Then just when the nurse gets up on the sidewalk ambulance parks backward and runs over the bandaid.
"That was your saliva, Caroline." Carmen
"And you did make that particular face my uncle made when he saw a hot lady once." Ocho looks at Carrie after seeing that.
" I wished you didn't bring that up." Darrel looked disgusted after remembering that image.
"Okay, first of all, I didn't drool over the floor and wasn't thinking about anyone." Carrie
"The nurse that got run over by the ambulance would say otherwise." Darrel points out the broken window. Then Gumball looks at William, who is tapping his hand foot in Morse code.
"William, what do you mean she was thinking of a shirtless boy"? Gumball, who doesn't know that it's him?
But Carrie's face was pink as a peach, with Carmen glaring daggers at her, wondering what boy Gumball was talking about, Alan still at his twin's side, Aphrodite eating one of the flowers in the pot which glitches into an orange, and Darrel knowing what boy he was talking about.
" I...gotta go home". With a flash, Carrie disappears.
Carmen is not happy. She then taps her feet then utters these words.
Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, (then breaths in and out) Carrie". Then just like that, the ghost girl returns to the hospital room.
Shocked to be back here, the ghost girl turns to see the Cabbit and glares at him.
"You told her, didn't you." Carrie but Gumball needs clarification about this.
"No, that was me." William raises his wing, and if he could see, his eye would look like it was smiling.
"Why"? Gumball
" I just wanted to mess with her." While you can't see it, William looks like he's chuckling.
Carrie is angry and becomes a horrifying ghost that scares everyone except Gumball, Aphrodite, who is not frightened by this. William laughs over his brother's scream, and Clare, who is sleeping, mutters something.
"But Mommy, I wanna ride the daisy go-round." Clare then starts snoring.
Carrie then approaches Clare, who is sleeping. Carrie is about to apologize, but then Clare grabs her causing the ghost to scream.
"Daisy." The moody teen then holds Carrie
Like a plushie as Carrie struggles to break Clare's firm grip.
" You know, for a feeble teenager, she's surprisingly strong"? Carmen
"No, it's actually due to Carrie being surprisingly weak." Darrel
"SHUT UP"! Carrie sternly says this while waving her arms back and forth; Clare starts to snore and drool on Carrie's beret.
Then, a few minutes after that humiliation, Dickson shows up after opening the door.
"Visiting hours are over; you all need to go home." As told the kids, he then closes the door.
Hearing this, Alan pets Williams's head with his string.
"I hope you get well soon, Willy." Then Beck's eye much to the eyeball's irritation. Then floats away from the room.
Carmen goes to Gumball's side with concern. She tried to look at him but couldn't.
"I'm very sorry you were caught up in all of this, Gumball." He then saw that the cactus girl looked like she was about to cry.
Gumball then pats his paw on her head. She looks up and sees him in the eyes with a tired smile on his face.
"It's alright, Carmen; none of what happened today was your fault. Clare and William wouldn't be here if I were a little faster." Then he falls asleep with his face on the pillow.
"But Gumball"-. Then a large white flower with yellow centers blooms on her left branch with a popping sound. Then more white flowers pop out of the top of her body, everyone staring at her in confusion, leaving her expression from sad to embarrassed with a shade of red similar to cherries.
"Umm...I'll see you all later." Carmen feeling awkward, starts to walk away from the door and then runs off. Ocho then squint's his eyes and starts to follow the cactus girl.
~Outside The Hospital
Carmen Is walking out of the hospital. She shakes the flowers off her body with only one bud on her left branch. She then starts to feel a headache and sweat as she looks at the half-moon.
"Oh, no." She looks worried and then looks down to see her hands change as her bean eyes start to change, and she starts to grow fangs.
"(In Thought) I gotta get home soon before-."
"HEY, VERDE"! A voice shouted behind the Cactus.
Carmen turns to see that furiously angry Ocho has caught up to her. She turns around while holding her head as if she got a headache.
"What's with you and these Franklin punks putting half my friends in the hospital? I guess that you called your old buddies to go after us"? Ocho accuses the Cactus of thinking that she's working for them. He couldn't tell she was nervous but was too angry to care.
"(In pain) There not my friends." Carmen
"Ophiuchus said that they came from your old school." Ocho
"I have no idea what you're talking about, ugh." Carmen puts their hands on her head as she's having a migraine.
"Hey, don't play dumb with me; this "nice girl" act might work on Gumball, but I'm not that stupid to fall for it." Ocho is about to walk closer to confront the former thug, but a voice is heard behind him before he makes contact.
"Harry(Catching his breath) What...the... hell!" Looking behind him, Ocho sees Darrel and Carrie.
With Darrel trying to catch his breath, Carrie glared, thinking that Ocho was attacking Carmen, who his rubbing her head.
"So what exactly are you trying to do to her?" Carrie
"All I want is this plant girl to give some answers to what is going on." Ocho
"We're you going to attack her?" Carrie
"NO!...Maybe." Ocho
"Then why does it look like she's having a migraine." Carrie points to Carmen, who starts to moan.
"She was like that when I got here."
"Likely story." Carrie
"Carrie, he didn't attack me. I have a headache, and I need to go home soon." Carmen
"See, I was telling the truth, unlike you sent everyone a cursed email and hoped they would be stupid enough not to forward it." Ocho
"Wait... How did you know that?" Carrie
"William told me." Ocho
Carrie looks annoyed and irritated about this.
"Damn it, Watterson." Carrie
"And unlike you, at least he was honest and cared about the life of his friends." After hearing that line, Carrie was very offended by this. This starts as the two yell at each other.
Darrel sees this and tries to get them both to stop before it becomes needlessly violent. He stands in the middle of the two pushing the other away.
"Guys knock it off, and I'm sure that Carmen will cooperate with us; it's been a long day; how about we just calm down and settle this like civilized people." Darrel, but the two keep butting heads, causing the hot dog to struggle with them.
"WHOSE IDEA WAS TO BRING THIS 8-BIT PIECE OF SHIT INTO OUR GROUP"! Carrie
" Carrie Language(Ow)". Carmen, who ironically called Ocho that.
"HAVE YOU LOOKED AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR LATELY? YOU DRESSED LIKE SOME FRENCH HIPSTER?" Ocho
"Well, Jokes On You, Tooty, Cause I DON'T Have A reflect...ion?" Carrie then looks at Darrel's shades to see something that shocks her.
She stops and takes Darrel's shades from him. Which he was annoyed about with a hey. Ocho was still mad and was about to strike Carrie, but Carmen got in the way.
He was about to yell at her when she grabbed him—made him look directly at her eyes that glared at him with fire coming out of them.
He noticed the fangs in her mouth and saw that claws were forming from her fingers; for the first time, he stopped and calmed down, which caused Carmen to let go of him.
Carrie, while holding on to Darrel's sunglasses, couldn't believe her eyes that she was seeing her reflection for the first time. This shocked her as she was a ghost who should not have one due to being dead.
"...This can't be real.?" Carrie looks at them. Then looks at her face again.
"Is...this..how I look?" Carrie asked them, with Darrel only giving her snark.
"That your face is just one dot and two lines, and I know that you're shocked about looking at yourself in the mirror for the first time, But can I please have my sunglasses back?" Darrel
"Why are you wearing sunglasses at night"? Carrie was now lower beside him as he snatched them from her hands.
"They are prescriptions, my eyesight isn't that bad, but I need glasses to see far away places." After cleaning them, Darrel cleans them with a cloth in his buns, then puts on his shades.
Then the group sees Carmen, who looks exhausted. She knows that all had a rough day and sees that the trio wants answers to what's happening.
"Look, I'll tell you all that's going on after Gumball is outta the hospital, but right now, I must go home as soon as." Carmen starts to walk away but then.
"HEY, YOU GUYS"! A female voice shouted as a giant fireball was fired at the four, who quickly scattered when the ball of fire crashed into the pavement.
When the smoke cleared off the damaged block, the four children saw a teenage girl who looked like she was from a biker gang without a jacket. Her hair was a shorter mohawk style haircut, and her appearance looked like a lit cigarette.
Carmen was startled at seeing Hitze standing in front of them with a slasher smile on her face.
"Entonces, mi llama, ¿me extrañaste?" Hitze spoke Espanol and then winked at the cactus. Carmen looks with an expression full of shame. Carrie looks confused.
"Uh, what is she talking about?" Carrie
"She's...my ex-girlfriend," Carmen says nervously.
"...WHAT"!? Ocho/Carrie/Darrel.
" Yeah, it was last year, and out of nowhere, she dumped me." Hitze then says that as she sounds hurt.
"That was because you turned your back on me after you joined the student council!" Carmen sounded angry/hurt.
"Oh, don't be such a crybaby, Carmy; you know you've been a thorn in Kopie's side since you came to our school." Hitze
"Wait...you two used to date?" Ocho pointed at both.
"Got a problem with that"? Hitze
"Not much; my friend here is playing for the other team." Ocho points to Darrel.
"So Hot Dog Guy, how long did you-"? Hitze
"Well, I was about ten then- Hey, wait a minute, why am I telling you all this?" Darrel
"Well, your buddy over there started that conversation, and I was curious about it." Hitze
"Look, I don't care what you bozos want; we won't let you hurt our friends."Carrie, along with Ocho, was ready to fight.
"Speaking of friends." Hitze snaps her fingers as two people arrive. They appeared in the blink of an eye and stood next to Hitze. At the same time, the third one jumps from the hospital sign and lands next to them in a three-point landing.
One looked at a pale boy wearing a yellow/blue striped shirt, wearing a hat with the same colors as the shirt, And wearing light blue sunglasses, and navy blue pants with a long blue shirt tied to him like a belt. His appearance looks like he grew up in the 90s.
Then a tan girl with blonde hair with red tips pointed up to look like horns, wearing blue shorts and sneakers that looked like a blue hedgehog; she wore a red shirt under her yellow jacket with a hoodie with red cheek marks and a black stripe behind the coat.
The last one was a dark skin boy with orange hair that looked like a spikey afro. He is wearing a green, red sweater on the arms while the center is gray with a symbol of a bomb with x marks on his eyes covering his hands, orange pants with holes on to show his kneecaps, and sneakers with orange, green, and white colors. He also has red swirls in his eyes, along with a twitching sound.
With that, there were four people on each side. Three of them grind sinister while the afro looks at them menacingly. The four bizarre have no choice but to fight them before they go after their unconscious friends in the hospital. This was already bad enough until the Franklin students started a transformation sequence.
"Man On Fire"! Hitze
"Blue Like You"! Biltz
"The Quick And The Blue"! Schell
"Programmed To Fight"! Abdtuez
Then an explosion happened, and they transformed into their fighting robot forms along with the theme after you select one of the robot masters in Mega Man.
Hitz's body has a box-like shape that resembles a Zippo lighter, with a lid that she can use to retract his head for additional protection, but it can sometimes close down onto him and has a dial-in on her back that regulates the power of her flames.
Biltz wears a blue breastplate with a yellow glove on his left hand, and his right arm has a white cannon that lets him fire multiple shots. Beneath his helmet, there is no hair under it.
Schell has a v shape on her helmet and chest plate, wearing lightweight red armor with speed booster boots and black latex.
Abstuez has orange armor and cannons on his arms, allowing him to launch his weapons out of them with a helmet that looks like a drill.
After seeing the transformation, Ocho gives out this line.
"Oh, great, we are fighting the Robot Masters of Mega Man 2".
~Outside the Hospital
"(In thought) These guys will be a massive trouble for us; we need to get them away from the hospital." Darrel then gets Ocho and Carrie's attention while Carmen gets a headache. Darrel then thought of an idea.
" Okay, I think we need to split them up." Darrell
"Are you crazy? Just one of those punks almost killed you, and one put me into a tank"? Carrie
"I was doing well in the fight with Woodswoman before that plant thing killed her."Ocho
"I know, but it's our best shot; Carmen does have any knowledge of there-." Darrel notices that the Cactus is gone as she and everyone else there see Carmen running away after she pushes off a dolphin man from his motorcycle, takes his helmet,t and drives away with the stolen motorcycle.
"HEY, THAT"S RIDE!" Dolphin Man
"Oh no, you don't." Hitze powers up and starts to chase after Carmen leaving the other three behind.
"Huh, Carmen must've been one step ahead." Darrel then disappears in a flash which confuses Carrie, and when Carrie is about to reach, a red blur snatches the ghost far away from the hospital. Which only leaves Abstuz and Ocho renaming.
"Seems it's now just you and me, So come at me, you eight-bit piece of shit." Andtuez
Hearing that, Ocho pauses for a second, then screams in rage with his head red with anger as those were the exact words Carmen said to him before she beat him up.
He charges at him with full force sending him flying along with Abtuz holding onto him as there is now a twinkle in the sky. But zooming into the sky was a familiar small plane from WORLD WAR 2 that passed the two meatheads and was heading towards the hospital.
Carmen was driving the motorcycle across the road as Hitze, who was on fire, charged at her. The entire street turned into something you would see in a video game, along with the Heatman theme playing throughout most of the chase.
Carmen jumped on a ramp while avoiding the flying light shooting fire at her and trying to shove her off the road. She also midair the multiple cars that were in front of her. This stress was not helping as she had a headache and started sweating during this.
But then it hit her as the scene pauses as she is now in midair after jumping off the highway ramp.
"Hang on. I never rode a motorcycle before"? Then a scratch record is heard as reality kicks in as she falls off the motorcycle, screaming very high pitch. She bounces on the road like a tumbleweed in the desert, making pain sounds along the way.
Hitze stops chasing her, seeing the former delinquent and her ex-girlfriend now announcing like a ball making adorable pain sounds. She looks at her in disappointment at how hard Carmen has fallen.
As the motorcycle that Carmen was on hits a car that crashes into other vehicles, it is then slammed into a gas truck leading to an explosion and causing a massive hole in the street along with now flying burning tires. Carmen is screaming at the top of her lungs as she's sent flying with some fire on her body like a shooting star from far away.
Hitze stops chasing her, seeing that her former girlfriend bounces like a ball making adorable pain sounds. She looks in disappointment at how hard La Doncella De Fuego has fallen.
~Vs. HeatGal
Carmen continues screaming till she hits the wall, then bounces to the other partition, then again until she falls flat on her face with a thud uttering a quiet ow.
She gets up and then looks around to see where she is. She realizes that she's near Franklin Jr High alleyway.
"Never thought I would be here again. " Carmen sighs as she remembers that day when she first meets Gumball.
She was ditching school as she didn't want anything to do with the school rules or care what they had to say. Carmen was too angry and flipping off school, planning to leave it that day until someone bumped behind her.
She turns to see some stupid feline who told her he got lost finding his way to school. However, she didn't have time for his nonsense until he called her a boy. Which brought her mad then the turquoise cat got close to her face and got angrier as he compared her face to a watermelon. She retaliated by punching him in the beginning so hard that she sent him flying into the air.
"I should apologize to Gumball when he gets out of the hospital; I never actually did when I beat him to a pulp-" Then she gets hit by Hitze, who was charging like a fireball, and slams into Carmen, who hits a trashcan.
Hitze then looks confidently, looking down at the Cactus when she gets up and covers her head as if she has a headache.
"You should've joined us when you had the chance "babe." Hitze mockingly
"Well, at least I stuck to my principles, unlike you and the rest of those sellouts." Carmen was getting up.
"What was that?" Hitz's eyes squinted with her arms crossed.
" I said you guys are spineless losers who abandoned their unique traits just to fit in that wretched hive that bald bastard and pushover Kopie turned our school into." Carmen's eyes started changing from her beady black eyes with yellow sclera and brown pupils.
"I chose the strongest side!" Hitze shouts in anger.
"No, you're still the same cowardly fire extinguisher who threw away our relationship just to AHHHH" During Carmen's rant, Hitze hits her with the flames that came from her mouth.
Hitze looked angry after that remark as she set the cactus girl on fire, with a wicked smile as Carmen screamed.
"Well, if you not gonna join us, then I'm just gonna watch you BURN!" Hitze after hitting with her firepower.
" And when I'm done with you, that blue cat is next, and I'm going to enjoy hearing him scream your name in agony when the Heat of my flames consumes him"! Then she starts laughing like a mad woman seeing her former flame on fire. Carmen hearing this, was screaming not from fear but rage after hearing that.
"Then everything got fuzzy." Carmen was saying this next part.
She continues laughing like a maniac until she notices that the fire is now circling Carmen forming a small dome made of fire like a cocoon. As the shill tone of the Cactus starts to change, the fire gets hotter and hotter as the surrounding area overheats. The garbage inside the trash is incinerated, and the trash can starts to melt along with the bricks of the walls falling apart. Hitze felt the Heat as it was so hot that she started to sweat.
After a few seconds, the fire dome transformed into a hummingbird made of fire. It unfolded its wings to reveal that Carmen had transformed into a humanoid cactus resembling a dark green scarecrow made of cacti with orange crack-like lines around her body like a monster made of magma. With crimson red hair, her face has two eye holes through which glowing yellow scalars can be seen. She also wears Aztec clothing and blue earrings with her teeth barring vampire fangs when she opens them.
Hitze, after seeing this transformation brushes this off and doesn't view her new form as a threat. Not heard in the background is a very familiar beat.
"So you finally showed your true self La Doncella De Fuego?"Hitze, Carmen only smirks along with her eyes squinting.
"Well, then it's TIME FOR THE FINISHING BLOW!" Hitze then covers her head with the top of her armor, closing the lighter as she begins powering up as Heat. She goes in her turning her into a fireball. She charges at Carmen, cackling like a mania.
Getting close to its last breath
Carmen raises her arm and stops Hitzes's attack without moving. Much to the match girl's shock as Carmen starts squeezing her head.
"What?! How did you?!" Hitze
"Mi turno armor," Carmen said softly with a sinister smile.
Then she grabs Hitzes head, slams her onto the ground multiple times, and punches her head so hard that Hitze loses the top of her lighter as she slams into the wall.
REGLAS DE LA NATURALEZA
Then Hitze gets up after falling from the wall. He starts to shake nervously.
"No, this isn't happening. I won't lose to this walking pin cushion again." Hitze then repeatedly hits Carmen with her fire blast from her hands so many times that it causes smoke to cover the area.
"What's the matter? Can't you take the Heat of the flames from the depths of hell"? The lighter thinks she has killed the cactus scarecrow.
Y corren cuando sale el sol. Con sus vidas en juego (VIVAS)
Only for the smoke to clear with Carmen barely having any scratches on her.
"¿Eso es todo lo que tienes? Tus "llamas" difícilmente podrían quemar un trozo de papel." Carmen doesn't seem fazed at all.
Por todo lo que tengo (NO HAY OPCIÓN)
Hitzes starts to sweat more but this time with fear. As she tries to hit her again repeatedly, throwing fireballs at her, Carmen swiftly charges at her, absorbing the flames. Charges at Hitze devolve into a massive beat down on the lighter. The Cactus uses a lot of wrestling-style moves on Hitze. Then when the pyromaniac tries to strangle Carmen uses her she pushes her off the Cactus, causing her hands to get ripped off in the process. After her hands were torn off. The crazed lunatic, now filled with fear, starts to run away, flying into the air as she turns into a ball of fire.
Carmen seeing the lighter match cowardice uses fire and flames to give her wings that help her fly and are also made of, then flies up like a ball of fire.
TENGO QUE SEGUIR LAS LEYES DE LO SALVAJE (VIVO)
"No...No...No... STAY AWAY"! Hitze sees Carmen catching up to her. The Cactus manages to catch up to Hitze and then kicks her in the back, causing her then flies to kick Hitze's body like a soccer ball repeatedly. But then, having enough of her fun, she catches Hitze by the throat.
"(Struggling to speak)Do you feel my Heat, the Apocalyptic meltdown? Can you feel the fire? (The fire.),Can you see this city burn?
From the depths of hell, I call your name. Can you feel-."Carmen closes her mouth.
Con sus vidas en juego (NO HAY OPCIÓN)
"El peso de Muerte."Carmen then grabs Hitze, who is still confused, then opens her mouth. Then the cactus lock lips unleash flames for her mouth and don't stop until her breath burns Hitze's head but Causes her body to fall to the ground and then explode.
AQUÍ AFUERA, SÓLO SOBREVIVEN LOS FUERTES!
"Adiós mi antigua llama, Mi corazón ahora pertenece a uno hecho de hielo." The Tlahuelpuchi callously tosses the head to the ground beside a no-smoking sign. She then sees smoke coming from where the hospital is.
"Hablando de." Carmen smiles a twisted grin across her face. Then it fades to black.
[Art Style Returns To Normal]
Then I blacked out, but I did hear some that I woke up in your car next to..." Carmen's face turns a shade of red. Her losing her thoughts.
Nicole sighs and orders the guards to get the Cactus out of the room.
"That just leaves Nicolas. I'm getting tired of these stories." Nicole grabs the whole coffeepot then drinks all of it in one gulp.