Oh you thought last chapter was depressing? Well you ain't seen nothing yet folks! More depression!

Or.. Not really. It's more or less sad, but action-packed! So.. I hope you like action!

Also, this chapter is the first to start referencing stuff from the Frankenstein novel, so.. Yeah there's gonna be a lot of references to that.

And a reference to chapter six I guess! (of this story)

Oh, and I changed up G/D's thoughts. Because it was confusing. So it'll mostly go like Gumball's thoughts: or Darwin's thoughts. Or mostly just Gumball: Or Darwin: I guess. It makes things a whole lot easier.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter!

Btw sorry for not updating.. I was just busy with this chapter and other stuff.. Anyway onto the story.

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Previously on FDAU..

Oh wait actually last chapter there was some depressing questioning crap, that really doesn't seem right to include in a previously on FDAU thing. So.. No previous stuff. Sorry about that.

Now onto the chapter!

Well, it seemed all hope was lost.. OR WAS IT?

Before Gumball/Darwin could continue to question this whole mess, the prison door opened again.

They watched, as Vanessa was thrown into the cell somewhat harshly.

"Ow! Watch the hair you jerks!"

The door was soon shut and locked once again, the sound echoing through the cell.

Vanessa angrily grumbled to herself, but stopped once she saw the sorrowful look from the two.

She looked down to the ground,feeling pretty bad about the situation they were stuck in.

"Hey um.. I'm really sorry.. That we're stuck in this mess.."

Gumball/Darwin only glanced over at the door, not bothering to look at her.

"Look, maybe we can get out somehow? We could probably escape through that window, or break the door down, heck, we could do that old fashioned way of digging out with spoons! You guys get what I'm saying, right?.."

"Forget it Vanessa.. We're stuck here.. X is gonna kill us, and there's nothing we can do about it.." Gumball said, finally breaking the two's silence with sorrow.

"Hey, don't give up yet.. We can still-"

"Still what?!" Gumball/Darwin stood up, looking pretty frustrated and upset. "Try and fix everything?!"

Vanessa looked startled, the two looming over where she sat. "Okay I-"

"No! You don't get it! We're pretty much waiting for death to happen! That's our fate okay?!" Tears were still streaming down their cheeks, Gumball/Darwin's hands balled into fists. "So stop trying to say that everything's gonna be okay! Cause it's not!"

Vanessa had to scoot back a little, since the two were really close in front of her. She had never seen them this upset before, and it was honestly concerning.

"Yeah I know, everything's not okay.. But it doesn't mean you just give up entirely!"

"What's going to happen when we do escape then?! It doesn't mean anybody's opinions about us are gonna change! They're still going to call us a freak and a monster! They'll keep hurting us! They'll keep getting angry at us! They'll keep chasing us! And for some dumb reason that reset button from the universe won't reset either!"

"Wait.. Reset button?.." Vanessa questioned with confusion, having no clue what that was.

"That doesn't matter! But what about that whole aging thing?! We don't even know if we can die like everyone else! And if we can't, then literally everyone we know and love is gonna die except us! We'll be all alone, and there's still gonna be those people, it'll just be an awful nightmare forever!"

Vanessa was starting to get a little angry. "Oh yeah? Well you weren't complaining about that before!"

"Well neither were you!"

"Cause I didn't want to be worried as heck about it!"

"You just don't get it!"

"No YOU guys don't get it! You don't understand-"

"Look we just can't take this anymore! All this running, all this pain, we just can't! We never wanted this! We never wanted to be a weird version of ourselves! It was that stupid Gilson guy that forced us into all this mess! We never wanted to be stitched into this thing! All we wanted, was to just be who we originally were!" Gumball/Darwin looked down at the ground with sorrow, finally done yelling. "Gumball and Darwin.." They uttered, the words nearly being whispered out.

Vanessa looked at them, a look of hurt in her um.. Eye.. She understood how that felt, since she had gone through the same pain before, wanting to be back to her old self, and everything back to normal. But.. That never happened.. She didn't really get her happy joyful life back..

Gumball/Darwin looked away, one arm clutching the other. "Sorry.. I-" Gumball quickly corrected himself. "We just had to get that out of our system.."

"No it's okay, I get it." Vanessa stood up, brushing the dirt off her pants. Not that it was important. "You guys don't like being this way. I know how that feels. Heck, I even reacted the same way almost to my.. Um.. Parents.." She trailed off, painful memories of hers coming back in her brain. "Uh.. Yeah.. Um.. Basically that.."

From the way she spoke, the two noticed the look in her eye, which they could tell meant she didn't really want to go in that topic.

"Look." Vanessa's sorrowed expression then changed, turning serious. "Life's crummy at the moment. You're technically at the verge of death."

"You don't have to remind us Vanessa.." Gumball said, the two somewhat trying to roll their eyes with nonexistent pupils.

"But," Vanessa continued. "Just because all that's happening, doesn't mean you just quit. It's all or nothing. Mostly like a relay race. If you stop running, then the race won't finish until you continue. Right?"

"Relay race?.. What kind of example is that-"

The fox quickly cut the Gumball off, grabbing the two by the shoulders and forcing them to look at her. "Sorry Sir. Sarcasm, but I won't let you bring yourselves down like that."

She gave a stern look, which meant she obviously meant what she was saying. "Obviously not everyone's going to like you. Sure, you get called names, but so what? You aren't those names. You're not a freak like that lunatic X keeps saying you are. You're just the same as you guys have always been. Don't, forget that."

Vanessa let go of them, stepping back quickly. "For the record, not every cell has no escape route. You just have to.. Figure it out. Like a password."

"Oh! Like the new strength thing we have!" Darwin added with realization.

"Exactly! But.. We don't have much time.." Vanessa glanced over at the cell door, hearing voices coming closer.

Gumball/Darwin went to the window, a little hesitant. They gripped onto the bars, and pulled. Eventually, the bars, along with parts of the wall around it, began to break. The two nearly let out a scream, as it was quickly demolished, the barred window now in their hands.

"That.. Was surprisingly a lot quicker than I thought.." Gumball commented, the concrete feeling light as a pillow to them.

Before G/D and Vanessa could even move, the door was unlocked and swung open, two or three of X's Group looking quite excited.

"Time to- HEY!"

"Go!" Vanessa shouted to the two, who were frozen with fright.

"But what about you?" Darwin asked, clearly not wanting to leave the fox girl behind.

Vanessa did her best to hold off the guys, but the guys were getting a little stronger for her. "I'll be fine! Just go!"

"But-"

"JUST GO!"

Gumball/Darwin quickly climbed out of the broken window part, and began running for their life.

"GET BACK HERE!" One X Group member called after them, the three men quite enraged.

The two ignored the shouts, running into the forest.

"Um.. X?.."

X looked over at the "guard", who was really just an X Group member, with a slight scowl. "What is it?"

"I.. hate to say it.. But one of the experiments broke out of the cell.."

"Which one?" X questioned, already muttering to himself for not getting a better prison to rent. Yeah, they rented a prison.

The "guard" was greatly concerned by how venomous X's words were, hoping he wouldn't get scolded at or kicked off the group. "Uh.. the cat-fish one?"

"Oh. Those two." X didn't look surprised. "I was hoping they wouldn't try anything."

"Um..Yeah.. So.. What do we do?.." The "guard" asked.

X examined his recent edition tool, a knife. "Alert the others immediately. Did you see where that freak went?"

"To the forest sir.."

"Good." X set down his weapon, looking up at the "guard" with a dead stern tone.

"Bring me Gilson's monster.. Death will be their fate the moment I see them.."

Gumball/Darwin soon paused, stopping to catch their breath.

Gumball: Do you think they're gone?

Darwin: I don't know.. Maybe?..

Suddenly, an arrow struck the tree beside them, missing the two by an inch.

Gumball: Or... Maybe not.

Pitchforks and arrows started flying, as Gumball/Darwin ran again.

"Where do you guys even GET that stuff?!" Gumball exclaimed, as they ducked, avoiding a fire covered arrow.

"The Mobs R Us store!" One follower shouted. "They've got every source of mob material!"

"It was fifty percent off today too!" Another added.

Unaware of it as they ran, Gumball/Darwin tripped over a fallen over tree branch, and fell to the ground.

Fear overcame them, seeing the mob coming closer.

"Kill it with fire!" One of the angry followers yelled.

Gumball: See I told you they'd say that!

Darwin: Now is not the time Gumball!

They quickly got up, and continued to run, the followers close behind, many of which they knew were people they'd helped out in the past during their adventures. However, those people now despised the two for what they've become.

As they moved past branches and trees, rain started pouring heavily downwards, nearly soaking their clothes with water.

The two soon arrived at a cliffside, water seen splashing down below it.

Shouts from the group were heard getting closer, which made them panic.

Gumball: Should we?

Darwin: Well, unless you want to get killed by these guys.

They took a deep breath, and jumped off the cliff, just in time before the mob could get to them.

Gumball/Darwin then plummeted into the water, making slight waves from the impact. They sank further down, but quickly tried to rise to the surface.

However, the air they had left was used up. With panic, they tried to rise up.

Darwin soon realized something, stopping him and Gumball in their tracks.

Darwin: Wait a second! Remember that night when you said something about us technically being part fish?

Gumball: Yeah..

Darwin: Okay, stop struggling for air.

Gumball: What?! Darwin are you crazy?! That'll kill us!

Darwin: Just trust me, okay?

The two finally stopped. At first, their lungs started filling up with water, which made Gumball panic.

Before he could try and struggle, the water soon released, making small bubbles come out of their mouth.

Surprisingly, they were breathing underwater!

Now a lot calmer, they soon swam up to see if the X Group was gone.

BANG!

Gumball/Darwin's eyes widened, a singeing pain forming at their right shoulder. Putting one hand on it, they felt blood leaking through their fingers, mixing into the water they were in. They had just been shot.

"Ha! That'll teach ya you wretch!" A follower cried, revealing to be the one that shot them.

Tears formed in the two eyes, as heartless laughter was all they heard around the area, nearly ringing in their ears.

With panic, they began quickly swimming away, bullets firing once more. Luckily, no more struck them.

Eventually, Gumball/Darwin finally got away, and arrived at a nearby shore. They gripped onto their new injury with pain, blood dripping onto the sand as the two got out of the water.

They didn't exactly know where they were, which was bad. The rain pouring heavily downward only made it worse.

However, they knew not to give up yet. Their friends and family were still in danger, and obviously they have to go rescue them.

Gumball/Darwin traveled through the dark forest, their eyes being their only source of light. They were tired, and their wounds, most considerably the bullet involved one, hurt like heck. But they had to keep going.

They soon stopped, hearing voices up ahead. Worried, they observed the area, trying to pinpoint where the sounds were coming from.

Figures could be seen from afar, appearing to look right at them. It must of been the two's eyes and their ragged tired breathing that caught their attention. Before Gumball/Darwin could even react, their eyelids drooped down, and they fell to the ground with a thud.

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Well that was quite a few words, huh? 2000 at least!

Anyway, next chapter we'll be kind of taking a break from all the 'things going wrong for Darball' business, and it'll be a bit calmer, though a bit more sad. You'll see what I mean soon.

With that said, let me know what you think! Was it good? Bad? Sad? Action packed like I said? Leave a review and tell me! :)

Also, if you'd like, share some ideas! I'll be glad to read em', and I might be able to use them in future chapters.

Again, sorry for the long wait, I've just had a LOT of procrastination, and I didn't really know what to write at first, until I got some inspiration in at least.. August or September? Idk, but at least I'm back.

See you in Chapter 20!

Quick Info

-Did you get that "kill it with fire" reference there? It's a little nod to chapter six. You know, when Gumball explains that the "typical movie tropes" could happen to them. I thought I'd finally use it. :)

-Mobs R Us mentioned here, was from the scrapped concept I wanted to use back in Chapter fifteen. Basically, torch N' pitchforks store. I just wanted to reuse it.

-G/D getting shot in the shoulder is a referral to the Frankenstein novel, where obviously Frankenstein ('s monster) gets the same thing. Shot in the shoulder.

-In G/D's little rant/breakdown, they almost say line-per-line of this story's description at the end! Maybe you noticed?

-Vanessa's backstory will be explored more soon. I thought I'd foreshadow it here. :)

-X will be explored more too.

-YES, the Gilson nightmare from Chapter sixteen, mostly it's foreshadowing, will come soon too. I do that. :)

-Ok, I just want to give a little Behind the Scenes thing here. I keep a journal with notes for FDAU, with other stuff for other stories too. Usually I take quite a few notes for chapters when I read stuff that sounds perfect to use for this. Basically, homework for me. I research too, and study some of the Frankenstein-related movies or paranormal-ish genres too. Believe me, IT'S QUITE A BIT OF WORK. Which goes to show that I work HARD on this story for you guys. Hope this was interesting to read!

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