A few days have passed and Nicole's mental health was slowly deteriorating more and more. Darwin, Richard, and Anais were becoming more and more concern for Nicole's well-being. Her husband would try to find ways to make her laugh, including putting two watermelons in his shirt to make it look like he had women's body parts, and shake them around in a crazy manner. Usually, this would make Nicole laugh uncontrollably. But this time- she wasn't laughing. No, she had a bored, blank expression just watching her goofy husband being silly.

Realizing this was all for not, Richard had his "Backup plan" and put the watermelons on his buttocks and bonked them around many times like bongos or a sort of drums. Surprisingly, this didn't work either, for this too would make his wife laugh like crazy. Nicole was basically a zombie at this moment. An unpredictable, ticking time bomb kind of zombie.

Of course it made Darwin and Anais laugh since it was really goofy of Richard to do. Frowning, Richard said: "Honey, is there anything you'd like to say about that at least? You really loved these skits i put on for you guys. You would be on the floor laughing your skirt off."

"Well i'm sorry to disappoint you." said Nicole flatly as she blinked three times. "What's the point of laughing at that since I'm a bad mother." Then she got off the sofa. "I need a drink."

"Come on, drowning your sorrows is not going to help you," said Anais

"What? No, i'm just gonna drink a glass of chocolate milk, Anais." Nicole said. "Why would you think i would try to drown my sorrows?"

"Because of what happened with Gumball, Mrs Mom." said Darwin

Clenching in-between her eyebrows with a deep breath, she said: "I know that as much as the next person, Darwin." in an annoyed voice. "Sooner or later, Gumball will realize that he will need me way more than I need him. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow; but one day, he will feel that way. And i know i cannot rush it in him since he probably won't listen to me." Little did she know that she was accidentally slicing at the cutting board with a kitchen knife into little pieces of wood as she was talking. Her intention was to make herself a sandwich for lunch.

Of course it scared the other family members with her brute strength. "Uh, honey, the... cutting board?" said her husband.

Realizing her mistake, Nicole dropped the knife and sighed in sadness. "I'm sorry guys, this is really getting to my head. What else can i do? I tried yoga, therapy, counseling, nothing seems to be working."

Looking worried about her, the three family members tried consoling her, and Anais said: "Maybe a movie should help you out."

"Yeah, maybe you're right." Nicole gave her daughter a sad smile. She sat on the couch and turned on the TV with the remote to ease her mind with a movie

Back in Equestria

Fluttershy was telling her closest friends about what happened between the two boys and the Chimera. All of her friends were shocked and intrigued by how Fluttershy was telling them about the scary encounter. "I dealt with that varmint before." said Applejack. "they didn't hurt you boys, did they?"

"No. not really." said Gumball. "But they were about to eat us whole if Fluttershy didn't come and save us."

"Yeah, Fluttershy really scared that monster." Pip smiled. "Probably sent them back wherever they came from.

"Well, according to Applejack, that dreaded chimera lives in a fire swamp a little far from here." Rarity pointed. "Near some swamp village that eats..." the white unicorn gave a dreaded look. "Swamp water caseroule. Goodness me! who even thought it was a good idea to invent that kind of specialty dish?"

"Huh. That's something i will never eat in my life." said Rainbow Dash

"me neither." said Pinkie Pie with a grossed out look on her face.

"But all and all, i don't think that mean chimera will be coming back any time soon."

"With that stare of yours, i believe you, Fluttershy." said Twilight. "Spike," she looked at her baby dragon friend, and asked: "Are you ok? Are you sure that monster didn't hurt you?"

"Twi, i told you. I'm fine." the baby dragon replied, looking a little irritated by his closest pony friend dotting on him like this. The purple allicorn can be quite a "helicopter mother" or a "helicopter sister" on him sometimes. Sure, Spike is a baby dragon, but he's not that kind of baby anymore.

"Sorry." Twilight frowned. "I worry about you sometimes."

Deep down, Gumball wished that his mom was as caring and loving as Twilight was, and of course; Fluttershy. It would be better if Nicole was that kind of mother instead of a ticking time-bomb that could blow up at any second over the smallest of mistakes.

"Well we're all glad you're both ok." said Fluttershy. "Heaven knows what would happen if i didn't show up in time."

"There you go, Fluttershy." said Rainbow Dash looking annoyed. "Overthinking things again. You gotta learn not to do so much of that."

"Heh, tell that to my mom." Gumball scoffed. "Though a good anger management councilor would be a good option too."

"Well why don't we all get a nice cup of apple juice and or apple cider together?" said Applejack. Her closest friends agreed and went to her farm to get a nice glass of those beverages. Gumball was finding himself happy here in Equestria than he is at Elmore, though he was still thinking about his family members back home.

In Elmore

Darwin, Anais, and Richard were weirded out by what Nicole was doing next. She was blubbering her lips and tongue while flailing on her head and hands on the floor. "Uhhhhh, mom?" said Anais. "What are you doing?"

But Nicole didn't answer and continued being a weirdo