Looking out the window of form inside the cottage, Gumball was seeing beautiful sunshine and birds flying around randomly. Yes, this place looked like a paradise only one can dream of. Gumball is lucky to be in this kind of place. Or perhaps... a little too lucky.

Deep down, he was missing the craziness of his home life back in Elmore. He hoped that his family was alright and in good health.

"Gumball?" Said a very soft voice startling him and making him look back like a deer feel like he was being hunted by a big game hunter and his foxhounds. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. I... I'll just leave you alone."

"No, no, no, it's ok, Fluttershy. Really." Gumball said. "Nothing to worry about. I was just thinking."

"About what?" The yellow Pegasus walked up to him, standing next to him.

"Thinking about home, I guess." Gumball turned away from her."

"Oh. I see. Feeling a little homesick."

"Don't get me wrong," said Gumball. "This place is much better than back home, but... I don't know how to say this."

"No. it's ok, Gumball. I remember when I moved out of my parents house when I was old enough to do it. The first night alone was a true nightmare for me."

"Why? Did you cry yourself to sleep?" Asked the blue cat boy. "Oh, why did I say that?" He realized he made a false move on that one.

The response from him was rather surprising to him. Fluttershy was making some cute giggles from herself and she replied: "yes. I was, but I made some friends out here around in my cottage to make me happy and feel better when i was feeling sad and very alone." Harry the bear walked up from behind and huged her gently. "Aww, yes. You were one of them, Harry."

Gumball smiled at this adorable sight. "I wonder how my family's doing."

"Oh why do you care?" said a male voice. A creature appeared out of thin air, and it revealed to be Discord himself. He has a way of making an entrance. "Your mother is a crazy prude, and a neurotic mental case." he poofed himself a straightjacket and looked crazy with loopy eyes, and then conjured himself a wheelchair to sit on. "And she did starve you and your brother one time. What more can that heffer even do to you if you go back to her?"

"Discord!" Fluttershy scolded him. "That's very rude!"

"No, it's ok, Fluttershy." Gumball pointed. "saying that would actually be an understatement. He thought of what to say about her and her past actions, but ultimately pointed: "I can't really say it. It's a naughty word.

"What if your mother went through a lobotomy to control her temper?"

Fluttershy made a gasp of horror. "My goodness!" she exclaimed with her hooves over her mouth. "That would be very horrible!"

"What's a lobotomy?" asked Gumball.

"You... don't really want to know." said Fluttershy in her sheepish tone of voice. "You might throw up or faint from finding out what it is."

"Nonsense. It doesn't hurt." said Discord. "Look, it involves a surgery where they take out part of your frontal lobe in the brain." he then transformed himself into some kind of surgeon with the hat and face mask with an ice pick and a needle. "What they would do is take this icepick and shove up close to your-"

"ENOUGH!" Fluttershy exclaimed, making the cottage mildly shake like an earthquake was hitting it, making everything stop in time, and even the animals living in and around her cottage halted like they were under the command of a spell. The yellow pegasus realized her outburst and looked to and fro. "Sorry, but it is very graphic. Some things are not meant for many ears."

"No. I want to know what it is." Said Gumball."

"No you do not." Fluttershy said. "You wouldn't be able to handle it. And you might throw up. I don't want to see you throw up."

"ok, ok. Forget I said anything."

"Well I am sure she does not need a lobotomy. Discord." Fluttershy began scolding him again. "But it is a very terrible medical procedure. They have not been around since before I was born."

"They sound horrible." Gumball said

"They are horrible." Another shiver went down the yellow Pegasus' spine once again just thinking about that outdated procedure. "But I don't want to talk about it anymore. From what I hear, his mom is a little... unstable, but it doesn't mean she should go through that."

"unstable would also be an understatement." said Gumball. "But I wish there was a way for Darwin to come visit me."

"Not to worry, my dear boy." said Discord. I can always bring him here in case when you want him to be with you."

The blue cat boy made a small facepalm to himself. "Why didn't I suggest this before?"

Meanwhile, back on Elmore, Darwin, Anais, Richard, and Nicole were watching a little tv together, and the three family members were still concerned with the latter. Nicole still hasn't been a little right since Gumball decided to leave with those ponies.

the doorbell was heard and Nicole didn't feel like going to the door and went to the kitchen for some apple juice.

Richard was the one to answer the front door, and he gasped with joy to see who it was. "Richard, far out, baby." It was Nicole's own sister

"Penelope!" Richard hugged her. "It's so good to see you!"

"What?!" Nicole popped her head out of the kitchen, looking angry and disgruntled like a bear disturbed from his hibernation. She rushed over to the front door. "What are you doing here? I told you not to come anywhere near here!"

"Calm down, little sister." said Penelope. "Why aren't you happy to see me?"

"Let's see... because you're insufferable!"

"Come on Nicole, remember your boiling point mom and dad warned you about."

Nicole seethed and made a growl, looking like she wanted to break a python in half with her hands. "You think you are full of hot air, just because mom and dad love you best!"

"Hey hey hey! Stop fighting!" said Anais