Work Text:
~Unexpected Help
The irate adolescents push Darwin, Anais, Nicole, and Richard back to the front of the queue once more.
Should we contact the cops, Darwin?
The police have more important things to do than disperse a group of teenagers, says Anais.
Nicole: (Dejectedly sighs) Yeah, we're doomed.
Richard: If only a vengeful divinity could strike forth with its iron fist and smash this happy pandemonium...
[Carhax, disguised as a police cruiser, arrives at the Watterson household. When the door is opened, a blue cat with dark blue fur resembles Nicole, and she wears a cop uniform with a name tag that says Doc. Two additional children emerge from the back of the automobile, hinting they are hers. One is a turquoise cat who resembles Gumball, but his clothes are the opposite, and he wears shoes and a bandana around his neck. His fur was lighter in color, and his ears were longer. The other was an albino rat with extended arms, bright red hands, and feet resembling blood and red-orange fur. She had crimson eyes but no nose. She was also dressed in a little green frock with a hood that resembled a Venus fly trap.]
Anais: Wait. Who is that?
Darwin: I'm not sure.
[The Rat and Gumball follow "Nicole" as she makes her way to the house. As she approaches, she stops to look at Nicole, Richard, Anias, and Darwin, who all sob quietly.]
[As the blue cat approaches the entrance, two buff security guards in suits bar the way.]
Security Guard 1: Hold it right there!
Doc: Why not? If I'm mistaken, you two are trespassing on my personal property.
Security Guard 2: I'm sorry, but we can't let you or your children in.
Doc: (Calmly but irritated) Really, how so?
[The first security guard takes a list from his pocket.]
1st Security Guard: (Reads the list) Zach has rated you as "Unworthy" based on this list. That signifies you're no longer welcome in this ho-(choking)
[Doc then shoves the list down the security officer's throat, causing him to choke as he attempts to extract it. The other security officer tries to stop her, but the blue cat hits him with her elbow and then her fist, knocking him out with his swollen face and sending him off the balcony and into the yard. She kicks the choking security man in the roundhouse, propelling him into the following three houses.]
[The blue feline cop then looks unhappy at Nicole.]
Doc: (disappointed) Was that so difficult?
[Nicole looked embarrassed that she hadn't considered it sooner. The rat child looks directly at Nicole's face ]
Rat Plant: (Hisses at Nicole) Patheic.
Conversely, Doc is dissatisfied because there are only two guards, and she needs to alleviate her stress.]
Doc: (Rolls her eyes, then looks to her children) Both of you go inside and get those brats out of my house for me.
Turquoise Cat: What about you?
Doc: I'm giving these idiots a ticket to punch town.
Anais/Darwin/Nicole/Richard: WHAT!?
Doc: (Cracks her knuckles and smiles)
[It zooms out from the beating they receive as punches, kicks, bone-cracking, and screaming are audible.]
~Party Crashers
Zach is lying on the couch when suddenly, his head begins to shake violently.
Zach: Well, well, well! It seems like my little hostage is starting to wake up!
[He snaps his finger at Julius and Mowdown, leaning against the wall by the staircase.]
Zach: Servants! Take me to my room, will you?
Julius: O-Okay...?
Both of them need clarification. [They stroll to Zach.]
Mowdown: Do you want us to guide you there, or...?
Zach: (annoyed) What do I look like, a hiker? Carry me!
Julius and Mowdown both groan. [They reluctantly lift him and carry Zach with one arm each.]
[Then, before they can carry him upstairs, the front door breaks open, alerting the teens and Zach as they stop what they're doing and turn to see who it is.]
Zach: (Angry exclaims) WHAT?! That's impossible! How did they get past the?
The gumball lookalike and the albino rat appeared in front of them. This needs to be clarified for the party guests and Zach.
Turquoise Cat: I will say this once, so all of you pay attention. You'll clean this place until it looks better than when you arrived. Then you will leave and never come back.
Zach: (Smug) Zach doesn't follow. Zach plays by his own rules, and so do his followers.
Albino Rat: Zach sounds like a complete poser.
[The Crowd glares at the two as the music stops.]
Zach: You watch your mouth...
Jamie: (her first together) Do you think you are talking to Zach like that?
Turquoise Cat: Oh, right. We never introduced ourselves. (He points to the rat.) Her name is Aphrodite, and my name is Gumball (eye-squinted) Watterson.
Everyone froze and gasped at the same time. [Looked at "Gumball" and Zach back and forth.]
Tobias: There's two of them?
Zach: That can't be. This guy is just a pale imitation of me.
"Gumball": So you're saying you are?
Zach: I am not a gumball anymore! It's Zach!
"Gumball: (disappointed) You're still the same obnoxious, self-centered loser you always were.
Zach: [growls] No, I'm not! I'm far better than that "annoying pest" Gumball is. Besides, who needs an idiot running around ruining people's day, huh? It's a miracle he isn't a social outcast yet! Am I right?
[The Crowd cheers]
Aphrodite: You are nothing but a pathetic poser who doesn't believe in his hype.
Zach: [narrowed eyes] Because being an incompetent moron is much better.
Jamie: [rolls eyes] Or causing trouble?
Clare: [shrugs] Or annoy us to death with his idiocy?
Bobert: [scratches head] Arrange our lives to his liking.
Banana Joe: [raises an eyebrow] And everything else warrants arrest?
Clayton: [tilting his head] Or even restraining orders?
"Gumball": You guys are very lousy "friends."
Clare: [crossed arms] Well, pardon us for seeing the reality of the situation.
[raises an eyebrow] "Gumball: " You'd rather deal with a phony who lacks all of Gumball's qualities? [shrugs] You are likewise a bothersome bug. What? Do you expect him to be flawless for your sake? What happens after the destruction is over? This guy will use you all and dump you like garbage.
[The students get angry]
Zach: My guests have grown tired of your insolence.
"Gumball": (sighing) You guys made me resolve things the hard way even though I wanted to attempt to talk things out. (He does a tail and knuckle crack.)
[Aphrodite licks her lips and smiles, seeing that they are going to do this the fun way. as the students surround the two]
Zach: You two should know not to need a king in his castle. So, you losers got any last words before they pulverize you?
[He gets close to their faces as Aphrodite utters these words. ]
Aphrodite: But a kingdom that has been destroyed can never be rebuilt, and the dead can never be brought back to life.
This statement confuses Zach long enough for Aphrodite to duck down, and Gumball slams his fist into Zach's face.
~Ballroom Firestorm Blitz
Zach receives a hit that knocks him off his throne and into the air. He lands on the stereo as Firestorm by Sabaton plays in the distance.
After standing up, Zach cleaned his face. His sunglasses lenses started to fracture.
Zach: GET THEM! (Crying)
[The teens glare as they charge at the duo, and Zach runs away upstairs and into his bedroom. Aphrodite jumps on his back with her legs wrapped around his chest.]
[Gumball quickly avoids the crowd's incoming blows while punching a few. Reaper, Hot Dog Guy, Scythe, Cupcake, Jodie, Jared, Anton, Debbie, and A Yellow Pixel Dog are among the teenagers they eliminate. Aphrodite leaps off of Gumball. She gets onto his body and scratches Mowdown's body and eyes out as he tries to hit them. Gumball cuts off Leslie's pot and tosses it at Aphrodite, who snatches it and knocks the bear out. Gumball hits Tobias in the face, snatches his sweatband, and slings it back at him. Tobias shouts before kicking him in the face. Bobert attempts to blast him, but Gumball uses his power to pull Bobert's arm off before headbutting him so hard that his lenses fracture.]
[Aphrodite climbs the ceiling, rips a piece of the fan, and hands it to Gumball below. She screeches like a lunatic, scratching and biting the incoming students, including Sussie, Anton, and Molly. She swallows Idaho before spitting his remains at the Egg guys, who collapse. She climbs the ceiling, rips a piece of the fan, and then delivers it to Gumball below.]
[Ocho, Masami, William, Carrie, and Josh are among the kids who receive blows from the board as he begins to assault the others. After striking Jamie, the board split in half as he attempted to grab him while their hands were still linked. Gumball uses his hands to crush Jamie's hands, causing her anguish. He releases his hold on her before grabbing her chest and suplexing her to the opposite side. Gumball repeatedly punches Julius till he kicks him in the stomach as he tries to turn him inside out. He throws his head after ripping it off.]
[Aphrodite leaps to the ground, takes Joe by the fangs, shakes him, and pops him out. His peel hits Teri. Aphrodite captures Juilus' head and then feeds Clayton, who bursts, and his part is all over Teri's body; disgusted by the filth on her, she tosses Sarah's head at the paper bear's body, covering her body with her. Teri cries in terror before collapsing. Clare tries to sneak attack her until Aphrodite bites her neck, coils her body, and hurls her against the wall like a ragdoll.]
[Carmen runs at Gumball, who grabs her arm and kisses her on the lips, making Alan and Penny envious.] When he demands him, Penny transforms into a dragon. Carmen flushes and becomes enraged. Gumball kisses her again and apologizes before throwing the cactus, popping Alan, and becoming lodged in Penny's neck. Aphrodite bangs on Penny's back, spitting Carmen out before striking the fairy and knocking her unconscious. Carmen hits Clare, who cries as she tries to tackle Gumball from behind, only for him to duck and punch Clare in the chest, knocking her to the ground with a thud]
~ Contacting Gumball
[Scene cuts upstairs to Gumball, Darwin, and Anais' room. Their bedroom has been converted to a throne room, as a giant throne made of scrap metal is resting where the bunk bed used to be. There there is another text with red spray on the written paint. The text on the wall behind it says: "PROPERTY OF ZACH WATTERSON."]
Zach: Now it's time for me to meditate.
[Inside Zach's newly possessed brain, Gumball wakes up slowly...]
Gumball: What the?! Where am I?
[He notices that his arms and legs have been restrained by some electromagnetic force, making him immovable. Looking at it, I see that the walls have a gray, hexagonal pattern.]
Gumball: (Straining himself) Hnghh! What is this place?
[Suddenly, Zach teleports in front of him. He has a smug grin on his face.]
Zach: We meet again, Gumball, that's in my head!
Gumball: (He gasps, then glares) Zach... I knew I recognized that annoying tone in your voice!
[He approaches Gumball and confronts him.]
Zach: How have you been, my alter ego? I have been swamped being in jail. Y'know, after you... (Hostile) ...IMPRISONED ME!
Gumball: What are you- What are you even talking about?
Zach: Don't you remember anything from that day?! (He performs a speech) Since you changed your name back to all," my spirit was entrapped in those sunglasses I used to wear.
Gumball: You mean those sunglasses you're wearing right now?
[Zach becomes quiet, remembering that he is wearing pink sunglasses with a crack on them.]
Zach: (Awkward) ...Yes, but I was coming to that. (He turns vengeful again) Luckily, you fell into my trap again by putting on the sunglasses...
Gumball: (Angrily) That still doesn't explain what you've done to me! Where am I?
[Zach rotates away from Gumball.]
Zach: You are inside my brain right now. I have changed your boring lifestyle while you were stuck in the force field!
Gumball:...What has changed?
(Ominously) See for yourself! Zach:
[Zach raises a massive, floating TV screen in front of them. The screen illuminates and displays Zach's perspective as he returns to the living room.]
So, dweeb, two punks dispatched by your lousy family showed up and tried to crash my celebration. My underdogs are most likely dealing with those losers, asking for their -(Shock) WHAT!?
[When Zach returns downstairs, he finds the same two party crashers still alive, surrounded by the battered and writhing-in-pain partygoers.]
[Inside the subconscious...]
Zach: (Frustrated and losing his cool) This can't be, can it? How did those two cowards attack all the students so brutally!? For crying out loud, he's GUMBALL WATTERSON!
[Gumball observes the growing fear Zach is beginning to experience.]
Gumball:(Unamused) "What are you afraid that "Gumball Watterson" took down your underdogs?"
[Zach turns his head in rage]
Zach: (Hostile) SHUT UP! The only thing I'm going to Enjoy is last minute, loser!
[Zach teleports away. Gumball struggles to break free.]
Gumball: (Enraged) ANSWER ME! What are you planning to do with me-?!
(Tsch!)
Gumball: (In pain) Arrgh!
[Gumball gets electrocuted by the force field, making him grunt in pain.]
Zach: HOW DID YOU WORTHLESS PATHETIC REJECTED LOSERS? GOT BEAT UP BY GUMBALL?
"Gumball": The appetizers have been dealt with.
Aphrodite: Time for the main course! (Her eyes glowed red, and she was on all fours, with her lower jaws open.) COURSE!
~Zach's Breakdown
Zach: (Confidently) Do you think I'm afraid of you?
"Gumball: " Considering you did flee with your tail between your legs while we clobbered your "friends, " yes, that is the answer.
Zach: GUARDS, GET THESE TWO OUTTA HERE!
[When a tumbleweed sweeps across them, there is a moment of silence.]
(Confused) Zach: Where are the guards?
Aphrodite: They were taken down before we arrived.
Zach: (In shock) WHAT?
Aphrodite: [pointed her finger at them] Take a look.
[The guards are knocked out and lying on the ground.]
Zach: [whinges] Oh, no...
Aphrodite: [glaring at Zach with narrowed eyes] Only one more is left.
"Gumball": [arms crossed] Zach, you have nowhere to hide.
"Gumball": I'll repeat it only once. Take off those sunglasses, or you'll wind up like your underdogs.
Zach: Alright, I hissed. Let me demonstrate to you what a man I am! I'm not afraid of you (starting to tremble).
"Gumball" (Stoic): "Bring it on."
[Zach and Gumball performed fighting poses. There was a long silence as Gumball's face remained unchanged while Zach trembled. Zach fled in terror towards the stairs, where Aphrodite stopped him.]
Aphrodite: Stop running now. Go there and engage in a fair fight.
Zach is pushed down the stairs by Aphrodite.
Zach: "Fight Fair," he exclaimed. You and my impersonator defeated these mascot rejects like a fighting game.
[The students slowly recovered]
[Aphrodite hurls Zach back into the living room directly before "Gumball." His sunglasses crack more to the left and right, so he moves his head to the left and right.]
(Panicking) Good, you're all awake, HELP ME!
Penny: [widened eyes] Help...you?
Yes, babe! Zach: [panting] Quickly! I've seen what they did to you! I refused to go through this alone!
Juiluis: [becoming enraged] Alone? I just heard you refer to us as rejects and losers.
Banana Joe: [loudly] Yeah! We all struggled to fight them. What were you doing when that happened?
[Zach frozed]
Tobias: [scratches his head] Come to think of it, why didn't you help us out?
Zach started sweating.
Zach: [ears flopped down] Because I... didn't want to get scrapped, too?
"Gumball": Incorrect. You've been standing right there! We knocked them out, and you didn't try to fight back.
Teri: [scratches chin] Now that he mentioned it, I didn't see him fight. Like, at all.
Sarah: [gasped] Yeah! I didn't see him give us a hand, either! [eyebrows going downward]
Zach: [sweat drops] Zach was encouraging guys to fight back...
Penny: [clenched fists] Right...
Zach: [Realizing he's starting to lose the crowd.] [yells] Oh, come on! That idiot has more trouble than he's worth! [shrugs] So, yeah. He did good deeds, but didn't he cause enough problems?!
"Gumball." [narrowed eyes] Yes, but that doesn't mean he can't try to fix his mistakes. [to the crowd] Right?
Aphrodite: Zach's a coward.
[The Crowd glared at Zach]
Penny: [narrowed eyes] Fight him.
Zach: Uh...
Penny: [yells] Fight. Him!
Tobias: [shouted] Yeah! We did our part! Now, it's your turn!
Zach: [stuttered] I-I-I can't.
Jamie: [growling] Wimp! You're all talk. You won't try throwing a punch. Even Gumball confronted me!
Mowdown: [hissed] Not to mention a pushover.
Bobert: [narrowed eye] We demanded you show your worth and let go of cowardliness.
Zach: [tried to step backward] Uh... No...?
[Zach tried to run, and Aphrodite got in.]
Aphrodite: [shakes head] No. Fight Gumball.
[Zach turns around and sees Gumball in a fighting position.]
Molly: [yells] Fight.
Carmen: [shouted] Fight.
Carrie: [hissed] Fight!
Penny: [turned into a beast] Fight!
[Zach gulped as the crowd stood together]
The crowd: [yelling] Fight, fight! Fight, fight, fight, fight!
Zach: [yells] Alright, alright! [gets up] I'll prove my worth and reclaim my throne!
["Gumball" and Zach are in fighting positions. Zach thrust after him until Nicholas stopped him. It was causing him to hit his forehead. Zach threw punches but to no avail. Gumball punched him in the face, and Zach fell to the ground; the crowd cheered, but all was still in pain. Gumball keeps hitting Zach, not missing a beat as he keeps crashing Zach's glasses, causing them to crack more and more, just like Zach's confidence shattered. With a kick to the chest, Zach goes down his face and body filled with bruises.]
Zach:(In pain) Ughh, This can't be happening?
[The turquoise cat looks down on him with a disappointed expression. ]"Gumball": (Arms folded) Pathetic.
Zach: (Weakly) You monster, What is your real... Name?
["Gumball" was quiet until he responded by punching Zach so hard in the face that everyone in the room felt that final punch. Zach falls to the ground, defeated, with his sunglasses almost eradicated. ]
?:... It's Nicolas.
Zach: (Weakly) That... Name... Is... Way.. Cooler.. Then... Mine.
[He then passes out with a bleh with his tongue out.]
~Gumball returns
[Inside Zach's head, Gumball becomes determined and does everything possible to break free from the magnetic force field. He tries to push himself forward.]
Gumball: (Straining himself) Hnnghh! Come... on!
(Thud!)
[Finally, after struggling, he breaks free from the trap and plunges to the floor.]
[Gumball notices that Zach is weakened.]
Zach: Why...?
[Zach has made Gumball company inside the brain. He is lying in pain on the ground, still wearing the sunglasses on his face.]
[Gumball walks up to him.]
Gumball: I'm sorry, what was that?
Zach: (In defeat) Why, who was that weirdo that ruined everything I worked for? Don't you feel any shame for what you've done?!
Gumball: (Nonchalant) I stopped feeling ashamed of myself years ago. Also, I don't know, but I'm glad he showed up.
[Gumball grabs a hold of Zach's sunglasses.]
Zach: Wait, What are you doing?
Gumball: (Determined) I'm finishing what I've started!
[Gumball starts pulling. The sunglasses are seemingly glued onto Zach's face.]
Zach: Wait, no! You can't make me go back again!
Gumball: Gah!
[The glasses eventually come off. As a result, Zach's body and soul get sucked into the sunglasses until he completely disappears.]
Zach: (Echoing cries) NO-!
[The sunglasses fade away as well.]
[Back in the real world again, the sunglasses fall off from Gumball's unconscious body.]
Gumball: WAAH-
[Gumball wakes up in a startle shortly after. He is shown to be back in his body again.]
Aphrodite, Welcome Back, Gimball.
[Gumball stands up. He approaches Zach's sunglasses on the floor.]
Gumball: Time to make sure he's never coming back again...
[Gumball stomps on the glasses with his foot. They break into pieces, and so does Zach's spirit within them.]
Gumball: Who are you guys, and where's my family?
Nicolas: They'll be here in a second.
[Then Darwin, Anais, Richard, and Nicole came in, all beaten to a bloody pulp. Doc pulls Nicole by the arm and then throws her on the couch. Then, he pushes Anias and Darwin to the ground right before the destroyed sunglass.]
Doc: Eat it. (Points to the sunglasses.)
Anais/Darwin:(Confused) What?
Doc: Eat the sunglasses.
Darwin/Anias: Why?
Doc: You caused all of this. (Her eyes have blue flames, and she frowns.)
Aphrodite: Eat it, or I eat you. (Show her fangs with a hissing sound. )
[Anais and Darwin do as they're told, slowly eating the sunglasses, chewing, and swallowing the remains.]
Aphrodite:(looks at them with no expression) Good.
Doc: Now, the rest of you brats, clean up this mess.
Clare: Or What?
[Doc grabs Clare and stares, with a deathly apparition of souls in her eyes as they are on fire and screaming. Clare then submits to cleaning while crying silently, and the others, along with Anais and Darwin, quickly join her.]