> The Cat and the Drone
>  by MetalBrony823
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> The Drone
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Gumball Watterson, a blue cat that is rather trouble prone, and he was prone to going on adventures that many don't even make sense, or get into even more trouble at times. Next to him was his brother Darwin, his adopted younger brother who is a goldfish with legs, and both of them were enjoying a little prank on their father: the fat, lazy, yet lovable Richard Watterson. Pranking their father is one of their usual things they liked to do since Richard is possibly the heaviest sleeper in all of Elmore, and possibly: the most gullible. Snickering and laughing quietly, Gumball and Darwin were having the time of their lives pranking him like that. The prank was pretending to be police officers while Richard believed he is about to go to the stony lonesome in his slumber.

"Hurry Mist- I mean, Richard! We're gaining on ya!" Darwin said

"You'll never take me alive, Copper! Please don't take me to jail! I didn't do anything wrong!" Gumball and Darwin tried their hardest not to laugh and not wake him up, because they were to his right.

Nicole Watterson, Gumball and Darwin's mother came outside to look for the boys, and she scowled in annoyance seeing her husband get pranked like this. "Gumball Watterson!" she yelled. Her scream was enough to catch the two boys off-guard, and back away from Richard. The mother motioned her right fingers at the boys to come over to her, possibly to scold them. The boys wanted to run, but they knew it wouldn't work since their own mother has amazing speed and agility.

Gumball and Darwin remember the last time their mother chased them over some DVD rental return. Alas, running away from her was completely futile, so they walked up to her, and went inside the house through the back door. As soon as Nicole closed the door behind them, she was ready to let the boys have it.

"Boys, you two need to stop pranking your father like this."

"But it's so much fun." Darwin said, protesting.

"How would you feel if you were being pranked like that?" Nicole said.

The boys looked a little guilty and Gumball said. "Sorry mom. We're just bored. There's nothing good on TV today, and our girlfriends are busy with their own stuff right now."

"Why not watch those funny internet videos that you like to watch?" Nicole suggested.

"We've watched so many of those videos over and over again. Those videos can get ild fast. Besides, you'll never know when a new video will be posted. Right?" Gumball explained

"True, you got me there. But try and find something else fun." Nicole urged in a more sweet voice. In a more stern voice with her eyes narrowed, she added: "and I better not catch you pranking on your fatherr again. Or else, you're gonna be staying in the room for many, many, many, many days with no TV, Videos games, internet, dates, or going out of the house."

"Ok mom." said the boys, not sounding excited about this. Nicole smiled and she went upstairs to use the bathroom.

"Man. What can we do for fun?" Darwin said

"I have no idea, buddy." Gumball admitted. Suddenly, something came up on the TV, and it was a commercial.

"The Wasp 9000 drone is here!" said a tough announcers voice on the screen "The nee and improved drone of the century! This baby is completely water proof, and you can use it's controller to fly at very great heights, as high an airplane even! Marked with artificial cameras with twenty-one megapixels, and it can even withstand the coldest and hottest of weather! About the size of of a large parrot, but the camera features can make up for it's size. Almost completely indestructible, as long as you don't get it into the sun. This special drone is only ninety-nine-ninety-nine. But wait! There's more! Call now: and we'll send you this replica of a Space Odyssey CC-33 blaster rifle from the actual movie!

Gumball and Darwin looked amazed by this amazing invention that is ending showed on the television screen.

"Wasp 9000, order today so that you can have a camera of great heights, even get away with seeing Area 51. Must be eighteen years or older to call."

Luckily, Gumball was writing down the phone number so that he can get the one person to call the company to purchase it. "Did you get that?" Darwin said.

"Yep! This is going to be so fun." Gumball said.

So they went up to mom and they were begging her to call the company so that they can have the drone over and over again. "Boys! BOYS!" Nicole calmed them both down. "Please! No need to make a federal case about this. And anyway, you have to pay for it yourselves since it is something you want and I don't."

"Well, I do have a hundred dollars on me." Gumball said. "I was going to buy a case of ten pizzas with it, but after seeing the drone, we want it!"

"Oh, okay." Nicole said. "As long as you are paying it with your own money. This is something you need to do if you live on your own someday." As she called the company who owns the device, the doorbell rang five minutes later and it was quite a surprised for the cat mother to receive this package so fast. "Gumball, care to pay for it?"

"Yeah mom." Then the cat boy paid the mysterious delivery man with the cash and it drove off in an instant. Funny thing was: it didn't look like a truck, it looked more like a minivan of some kind. Still, the boys were happy either way with the drone and blaster replica.

The boys immediately unboxed it and revealed the drone, looking black and shiny under the light. Then they opened the second box with the blaster in it. "Nice!" said Darwin. Suddenly, his phone was going off. "Hello? Oh, hey Carrie... oh really? A date with me? Sure, where?... at your house? Cool. Be there in a few." then he hung up the phone. "Sorry Gumball, I have a date with Carrie. Man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."

"No problem. Besides, maybe I can see how to work this thing in the meantime. Ooh! And it even comes with goggles over your eyes to see what the drone sees! Later dude."

"Later buddy." Then Darwin went out the door and Gumball was alone, working with the drone. Of course, he had to go outside in the backyard where his sleeping father still was. Turning it on, the cat boy was amazed at how it was floating. Boy, he can hardly wait to see what this drone can do. Turning on the camera to reveal what it looked like from thag point of view.

One button caught his eye however, and it was labeled: "worlds" on it.

"Odd," Gumball said to himself. "What does it mean by worlds?" He clicked the button and a large, green vortex appeared out of thin air, and it made Gumball curous enough to see what this world would lead to.

He used the control pad to move the drone over the portal and there were green flashing lights over the world button titled: "Equestria" on it.
> Strange New World
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Gumball was absolutely amazed to see that this drone was able to transport itself to another world with a portal. Through the camera he saw that the world didn't really look different than the world that he was living in. It looked so much like Earth and it had a very beautiful view and scenery. This looking and zooming around, the cat boy said: "oh my gosh, this is so cool!"

He moved the drone around some more and after a few minutes of sightseeing with this device, he decided to see if there was anything that could be amazing or if there was any life in this terrain that the camera was looking at.

Flying over many trees, he saw what appears to be a town overhead and it just made Gumball even more amazed than ever. "Let's look and see what the people look like." He said to himself before flying over to this settlement. What he saw next made him look a little confused, but, remarked: "wow. A city full of ponies. I wonder if they talk. Looks like something out of Daisy the Donkey."

Despite what he said, he looked around some more and a blue, cyan pony appeared in front of the drone, startling Gumball.

"Whoa! What the heck?" He yelped like a little girl.

"Huh, what the hay is this thing?" Said the chan Pegasus in a slightly raspy voice. "Looks like an alien or something Twilight would invent."

"Ha! What's wrong with her voice? Is she still going through puberty?" The cyan Pegasus continued inspecting the machine and Gumball decided to go somewhere else and look at other things with his drone.

"H-hey!" The pony squeaked, "where are you going?"

Gumball himself was persistent and wanted the drone to get away from this equine-like creature, so he tried moving it faster than before.

"You think you can fly faster than me, alien thing? Well think again. I'll race ya!" Then she flew after the drone.

"Oh boy. Let me see here... cheetah, falcon, plane, a-ha! Missile launch speed! Time to show her who's boss." The cat boy let out a sneaky smile and moved the drone faster than before on the speed switch on was on right now. He was going to have a fun time teasing her and making this pegasus go crazy.

It took about thirty seconds, but Gumball was having the drone move as fast as this pony now.

"What?" Said the Pegasus. "How did you?" She tried flying away from it and and hid behind a large Boulder, only for Gumball to find her. "Huh?" As she flew away once again, the drone was just catching up to her and it was sloely starting to kake her go insane. Many abd many failed attempts to outfly the drone was just simply to much for her to handle.

"Oh this is fun." Gumball exclaimed triumphantly.

"Dah! I'm gonna go crazy!" Then she began blubbering in frustration and fell down on tbe ground, twitching and throwing a tantrum. It was rather funny and disturbing at the same time because: she was wallowing around on the ground and flailing her head from side-to-side in a crazy fashion over sjd over again.

This was only making Gumball laugh even more. "What a baby." He wiped a tear from his eye. "Man, I wish Darwin was here to see this."

Gumball wanted to look at other things with the drone and found a cool, crystalline castle in a far distance.

"Oooh. Hello. What have we here?" Feelijg quite curious, the cat boy flew the drone over to where the castle was. And a certain pony lived in this palace.

"Spike, would you like anything to eat?" said a purple Allicorn pony. It was Princess Twilight Sparkle, the intelligent princess of Friendship, and future ruler of Equestria. "I can make you a zesty cucumber sandwich, or some yam slices."

"No, it's okay, Twilight." said Spike, her baby dragon friend that always acts like a big sister to him when needed. "I don't need anything. I already ate some ice cream earlier."

"Oh. Okay, but let me know when you've changed your mind." This purple allicorn is one to study herself with many books up her sleeve, and knowing many things more than most ponies would.

Going back to Gumball, he used the drone to sneak into the castle and look inside. "Whoa, now I really Darwin was here to see this place. Why can't we live in a house like that? That is the kind of life we all need. Greedy capitalists with corporate takeovers and money all around and... hold on."

He swooped the drone down and hovered it in front of Twilight's face, making her yelp in surprise. "Agh! What in the name of Celestia is that?" She gently touched it with her right hoof and tapped it three times. "It appears to be... metal of some kind.

Gumball used the drone to fly under Twilight's belly and fly around her torso, making her dizzy. Laughing in amusement, the child moved over to Spike's room and surprised him as well. Like Twilight, the baby dragon didn't know what to think of this drone and had no idea what it was.

He gasped and had a realization. "Oh no! Aliens! They have come to invade Equestria and turn it into a a tyrannical dictatorship! I gotta tell the princess' the earth is doomed!" Seeing as the machine was flying out of his room and out an open window, Spike tried catching it, but it was too fast for tbe child could catch.

Many other ponies didn't really know what to think of this drone. It would be quite unsurprising if they have never seen this drone either. Admiring the scenery and seeing the colors of the ponies, Gumball was still operating his machine to see any more extraordinary things in Equestria
> Twilight Looks at the Drone
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Within the large, crystal Castle just many yards outside Ponyville, There lived a magical, beautiful, and adorable allicorn that was the color of purple with a mane and tail in a darker purple color with a single, pink streak on them. It was the newest Princess in Equestria, the princess of Friendship herself, Twilight Sparkle. This adorable and cute pony was reading some of her books, which was one of her favorite things to do; considering the fact that she was a major "bookworm" to everyone she has ever known in her life. Alas, she was adorable either way. Meanwhile, she didn't live alone. No. In his bedroom was a little baby dragon with wings named Spike, who was like a little brother to Twilight, and her "number one assistant" because he helps her in any way possible.

The baby dragon was just reading his comics, one of his favorite hobbies to do, considering that he was still a little boy. Suddenly, the drone that Rainbow Dash has gotten before flew into his open window, looking around for some more beautiful scenery.

Young Gumball has no no idea what he is getting himself into, being the mischievous cat boy he was. He used the control stick that was on the remote to move aroudn the whole baby dragon's bedroom, and wondered who lived in it. He was caught the attention of Spike reading his comics and tried to get a closer look at his face, but alas, the baby dragon was on his back, and the comic book was covering his face while he was was reading. "Come on, look at the camera, little crocodile thing." Gumball complained.

Speaking of the devil, Spike noticed the mild buzzing sound as if a pesky fly was in the room. Putting the comic down, he was suddenly startled by the sight of the black drone hovering over him. "Uhhhh, hello?" he said in confusion. Spike then slowly gotten out of bed and out the comic down.

It was no surprise he didn't know exactly what a Drone is since this place looks like it is not technologically advanced enough to have drones. "Heh, this guy looks like a dragon. Little small to be a dragon, but still. At least he has wings." Gumball though to himself. "Still, I wish he was bigger and breath fire."

"What exactly is this thing?" Spike said, looking at the drone more closely, into the lens. "Some sort of... camera?"

"Yes and no." Gumball smirked. "At least they have cameras in this place. Maybe it's not so medieval." he thought out loud to himself again. He stayed the drone still, and didn't move it a muscle. Spike still looked a little nervous and confused by the sight of this device. He remembered seeing something like this before, but he couldn't put his claws on it exactly.

"Well... whatever you are..." he said, looking uncomfortable, "make yourself at home, I guess."

"Ho ho, don't mind if I do." Gumball chortled.

Spike then ran off as fast as he could like a rabbit on the run from being coursed by greyhounds in the woods, and Gumball couldn't help but follow him and flying the drone to where he was running to. "Wow, look at these halls and corridors. Looks like something from Europe a little bit." the blue cat admitted while sightseeing some more with the drone. Ultimately, Gumball managed to get the drone to catch up with little Spike and followed him to Twilight's study library.

"Twilight! Situation! Situation!" Spike called back before running behind her for protection.

"Spike, what's the matter?" Twilight frowned. "There is a gigantic fly that's flying after me. I think it wants to eat me!"

The purple allicorn looked confused and at the drone. On the other side of the dimension, Gumball was laughing at what Spike just said. "Eat you!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh this is just too rich! it's like he's seen a ghost or a poltergeist." he even wiped a tear of laughter from his eye. At the controls, he noticed that there was a button that spelled: "Airhorn" at the bottom of it. This gave Gumball a more mischievous type of face and pressed it. In Equestria, it made the sound of a loud air horn, or a similar sound an air horn or a train horn would make, making Twilight and Spike yell and squirm from the noise, and it even made them tumble into some books, making them panic a little.

before those two knew it, they felt a gigantic pile of books fall on top of them like the library had an avalanche. It was a little painful and it just made Gumball laugh even more and kneeled over. He instantly turned from laughing to guffawing after that little prank. It was so much for Gumball to handle that it made him almost bust his ribs from all that laughing and he was even crying tears from all of it for at least a few minutes.

Coming out of the books, Twilight and Spike looked like a mess a little bit. "Okay, I think I might have seen this thing before." Twilight said. "I can't put my hoof on it but... I think it has to do with the human world that we visited a few times before."

Spike wiped some dust off the scales on his arms and asked: "Did we?"

"I think so. I just don't know what it's called." the purple allicorn replied. "I think we should take a closer look at this thing."

Suddenly, someone came in at the doorway, and it was a yellow pegasus pony with a pink mane and tail, along with light green eyes and three butterflies as her own cutie mark. "Excuse me, Twilight?"

"Oh. Fluttershy." Twilight said. "Come on. What can I help you with?"

"I was wondering if you could help me with my pigs. I am giving them a bath, and you know how much of a handful they can be."

"Sure Fluttershy. But I just need to look at this... thing." She mentioned the drone in front of her. "Spike found this device and I want to know what it is."

Fluttershy looked at the drone curiously and looked rather nervous to see this peculiar device. "Ph goodness. I've never seen something like this before." She inspected it more closely and tilted her head slightly a few times like a curious dog.

Gumball then remarked: "she looks so cute! Like a little pomeranian puppy. Well, I wanna see what else there is in this world." He controlled the drone by flying it out a nearby open window and did some more sightseeing. Nearby, he saw an elegant building and decided to check it out with Fluttershy, Twilight, and Spike riding on the purple allicorn in hot pursuit.

"Wait! Come back!" Fluttershy called to the drone.

Gumball looked around for an open window and noticed one on the second floor, hearing a lady taking a shower. "Looking so fabulous." The female pony sang. "A pony so fabulous."

"Hmmm, I wonder." Gumball had that mischievous look on his face again, and pressed the air horn button again. The female pony gave a funny wail and spazzed out from the blare, making her stumble and fall into the shower curtains, panicking. The blue cat simply loved these kind of pranks and admitted: "this is funnier than the sleep walking dad bit!"

The poor white unicorn got up, looking soaking wet and shaking like a cat in the rain. "What in the name of Celestia was that?!" she exclaimed.

"Uh-oh. I gotta bail." Gumball remarked before getting the drone out of the nice house. He wondered what more there was to see in this world. He hovered the drone more upward to get a clearer shot of what there is to see in Equestria. Below in the east, there seemed to be a large, agricultural field that looked like some kind of farm in a distance. This made Gumball all the more curious, and zoomed the drone in with his controls.

This farm looked rather nice and lively. Below, there was a large, red stallion pulling a wagon in the fields, and Gumball decided to look at him with the drone. "Ooh, look at this big guy." He thought. "Looks strong, cool, and looks like he can push a tree from the ground."

The big, red stallion, like Twilight, Spike, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash didn't know what to think of this drone. "What in tarnation?" said the red stallion in a low, booming, southern voice. "That's a weird looking doo-hickey here."

Gumball turned the drones attention towards an orange earth mare woth a cowboy hat hauling baskets of apples, and flew over to her, startling her. "Who the hay now?" She said. The blue cat used the water spraying button and sprayed the mare like a squirt gun. "Gah! What? Stop that!" This made her a little startled by the sudden reaction of the drone. After Gumball was done spraying her, the orange pony growled at it, and tried grabbing it with her arms, but Gumball managed to get out of there. "Y'all get back here you extraterrestrial varmint!" She called out to it.

Seems like Gumball was having some endless fun with the drone and he was just laughing at these cool pranks he can do with them.
> Pranking the Princesses
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Gumball was steering the drone around Equestria some more and he eventually flew around a nice city called Canterlot. This was the capital of all Equestria, and home to the beloved co-rulers of this enchanted kingdom: Princess Celestia, the guardian of the sun and keeper of the day. The other was Princess Luna, who is the guardian of the moon, and keeper of the night. These two play an important part in keeping the balance and the peace in all of their land, for they loved everything, including their subjects who worship them as goddesses. Little did they know that they would be in for something very wacky. The drone was flying past many fancy buildings and fancy ponies in Canterlot, who had no idea what to think of the device as the inhabitants of Ponyville did.

"Heh, look at this place." Gumball snorted. "It looks like one of the snobby British gated communities or country clubs. How dare those pompous idiots have all the money and all the fun! I think that the common people should have as much fun as they do."

The somewhat evil smiled appeared back on his face, and he decided to turn the drone invisible again. A couple of ponies who saw the drone were quite confused to see it before. It was obviously no surprise they have never seen a drone either. Gumball used one of the buttons to splash one of rich mares with cold water and getting her clothes wet, making her shriek. "Ah! These are dry-cleaned only!" then she ran away down the streets while making a funny scream

Gumball was laughing to himself again and he even wiped a few tears from his face. "Oh i love this thing." looking down on his control, Gumball saw a voice modulator that he can control with the done too, and it gave him a new idea. He noticed Fancy Pants and Fleur de Lis having some usual tea together as good friends. "Oh zis is very nice." Fleur said before taking a sip of her dar jeeling. "You and me on this usual, wonderful day."

"Spot on, Fleur my dear, I could not concur with you more." Fancy replied with a small laugh.

In a high-pitched French accent, Gumball cleared his throat and into the speaker, he said: "Although I feel like you smell like a butt right now."

Fancy couldn't help but spew out his tea hearing that kind of insult. "What? Why would you say that about my derriere?"

Poor Fleur was confused and she said. "I didn't say zat. I don't know where that came from, but I think this is a prank.

"Good thing this thing is invisible." Gumball snickered. "I wonder what this can do." This time in a British Accent and a lower voice, Gumball said: "Madame, can you give me some fries with that shake?"

Fleur looked very offended and she slapped Fancy Pants two times, leading to them both arguing. Gumball found this rather amusing and saw a bunch of ponies playing polo like many rich folk would do in their free time, and it gave him another idea. With his drone still invisible, Gumball snickered and waited for the perfect to blare the air horn button. One stallion was about to hit the ball with his mallet, but when the air horn blared, he accidentally threw his mallet and he was screaming, along with the other polo players.

"Gah! What was that noise?" A mare shrieked

"Oh nothing you should worry about." Gumball said to himself. "Ooh, let's have a look at this castle." he noticed the beautiful architecture. He noticed that there were guards standing in front of all the doors and entrances, so he had to be careful not to have the drone get caught, or it can sound the alarm. He flew the device around to look for any open windows, but almost all of them were shut. Luckily, there was an open round window in the back of this beautiful castle, and Gumball took that opportunity. "Let's see what I can find." he lowered the invisible machine to see a pair of two tall ponies that were bigger than an average pony. His mouth was agape and he thought: "Wow, they look so beautiful, so majestic."

Indeed, these ponies looked very extraordinary and intriguing to behold, even in a camera or a picture. Gumball almost wished he can ride on one of them. "You know Luna," said Celestia, "Things can be a little boring in the castle."

"Indeed, why can't we go on one adventure like Twilight does, Celestia?" Luna agreed.

"Alas, we are princesses, and we have royal duties to fulfill as long as the thrones are ours."

"True. Also true."

"Well, what if I can make it less boring for them." Gumball eavesdropped. He blared the air horn behind the two, scaring them both and shrieking. The cat boy could not contain his laughter at all, and he was guffawing again.

"What was that? What was that?" Celestia looked to and fro.

"It sounded like... an air horn?" Luna replied

They both got off the thrones, and a couple of guards came inside the room. "Your majesties!" said a guard, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know." Luna said. "There was just this blare."

"We cannot really describe so much of it." Celestia admitted.

"Well, alright. Let us know if something is wrong." then the guards left the throne room to resume their duties, leaving the princess' alone again. Gumball snickered some more and made the drone reappeared with a push of a button, making the princesses intrigued and curious about it. They looked into the camera lens and they looked like curious pigs.

"What is this thing?" Luna asked

"Beats me. Maybe I should talk to Twilight about it."

The drone then flew behind Celestia and Luna, and it began shooting flames at their butts, making them both scream and shriek in funny wails as they were running and dragging their butts like dogs or cats. Gumball pulled a big stunt on two royal figures and the princess' don't even know it. "Oh this is fun." he remarked. The guards came in the throne room and noticed the princess' butts were still on fire, and shrieking like crazy.

Both the ponies flailing their heads around was making them look like crazy ponies that needed to be in the insane asylum, but the guards knew what was going on. The tried to have the fire extinguished but to no avail, but the captain pulled out an extinguisher and put out both the fires.

"Okay, that thing is dangerous!" Celestia said. "What kind of creature or thing is it?"

"I would like to find out too!" Luna had her eyes narrowed at the drone.

"Uh-oh." Gumball looked worried. "Gotta go." then he flew the drone out the window to safety.
> Bringing the Drone Home
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Gumball was still having fun with the drone and it could not get any more fun then this: all the pranks he was causing in this mysterious land in Equestria, and all the ponies he was pranking, scaring, and messing around with. He really loved trying to mess with these ponies' heads and make them confused like scared chickens or turkeys acting like the sky is falling. Laughing and guffawing for a period of time, Gumball was also a little worried that he would get in trouble by the princess' because he caused so much funny business and anarchy in this different dimension.

After he stopped laughing, he wiped a tear from his right eye and said: "Ah, I doubt those ponies would find me here. The drone can come and go to other dimensions as I want it to, but those cute talking horses would be able to come track it once I bring it back. Matter of fact... I think I'm done with these pranks and want to take a break.

He pushed the dimension button and hovered the drone to him. Gumball smiled and realized how precious and valuable this flying object was to him. He even kissed it like it was a dog or pet.

"Drone, you are my metal angel." Gumball said before going inside to have himself a snack.


Back in Equestria


Everyone in Ponyville was in a little bit of a state of panic from the pranks the drone has caused, and wondering what that thing was. "Goodness, this is just terrible!" Fluttershy said.

"Not to worry," said Twilight. "I managed to see the drone teleport somewhere else and it dropped what seems to be a propeller. She picked it up with the magic from her horn and inspected it. "With enough research, I can find the origins of that drone, or whatever that was. yeah, I think it was a drone." she and her friends went back to her castle to examine the fallen propeller.

Spike was drinking some apple juice while looking at the research. "Is this going to take a while Twi?" the baby dragon asked curiously

"I honestly don't know, Spike." said Twilight.

"Well, I would like to find that abomination and give it a piece of my mind. Nopony sneaks up on me and plays me for a complete and utter fool!"

"Same here." Rainbow lowered her eyes. "When I get my hooves on it, I'm gonna throw it to the scrap heat from whence it came from." she cracked her wings and she was more than ready to demolish the pesky drone. "So bring it on! I'm ready to do it once we find it."

"What if somepony was controlling it?" asked Fluttershy

"What do you mean, Sugarcube?" Applejack asked her.

"I mean machines don't really have feelings, unless they are robots."

"Good point." said Twilight theorizing. "Maybe someone was controlling the device. He's the one who is pulling the strings. I doubt the Canterlot library will have the answer we're looking for, so I'm going to have to do this the old fashioned way." Suddenly, a weird creature appeared out of nowhere and was hovering above the ponies and baby dragon. "Discord, are you sure you are not involved in this?"

"For the last time: No! You gave me a lie detector test, remember?" the Drancequus said. "Have I ever been wrong to... on second thought, don't answer that. We all know the answer for that. I can go and look for this little troublemaker causing all of this beautiful chaos."

"Discord!" Fluttershy reprimanded. "What did we discuss about chaos?"

"It's not beautiful if somepony gets hurt." Discord rolled his eyes

The yellow pegasus smiled hearing that. "That's better."

"That could work." said Spike. "What do you think we should do?"

He was obviously looking at his closest friend, and Twilight was thinking long and hard for a possible answer to this problem. "Well, remember why you couldn't accompany me to the human world? Maybe if we do that, it might disrupt the balance and order to the other world."

"Hmph, I can't see anything wrong with that." said Discord.

"Yeah, of course you can't." said Rainbow Dash sarcastically.

Silent and thinking again, Twilight had the answer. "I think that drone thing will be coming back soon. It loves to mess with other creatures and cause pranks. So he might come back for me. As soon as it come back, we follow it to the world it transported to and find who is responsible for all these mean pranks in Ponyville and Canterlot."

"Brilliant idea, darling." said Rarity.

"I can throw a pie at his face!" Pinkie Pie shouted

"And scrap it into oblivion." Rainbow cracked her wing bones again


Back at Elmore


It was certainly a good thing for Gumball to have recorded some funny pranks he did with the drone causing havoc in Ponyville. It was later in the day and it was dinner time with fettuccine alfredo. The whole family was eating together at the table and Gumball asked Darwin: "So how was Carrie?"

"It was fun. Got to be in a conjuring circle and talk to one of Carrie's great uncles." the fish boy replied. "Yours?"

Gumball couldn't help but snicker and tried his best not to try and guffaw just thinking of all the pranks he pulled in Equestria today. He wanted to wait until he and his brother were alone so he wouldn't have to get in trouble with his mom. The last thing he wanted to see was his mother angry and infuriated again, and she was much scarier than a Spinosaurus and Tyranosaurus Rex combined. "Well, I was watching those funny videos of goats screaming like humans."

"Oh, those videos are really funny." Darwin admitted. "We can watch some later if you want."

"You guys can do it after you eat." said Richard. "Don't wanna go to bed on an empty stomach... Or maybe you can just give your extra plates to me, and-"

"Richard!" Nicole reprimanded her husband. "Don't worry boys, he won't eat your dinners, but he's right, you can't sleep and go hungry, waiting until breakfast. That's not good for your body."

"Are we going to have dessert mom?" asked Anais.

"Of course. Chocolate Mousse." The whole family gasped and their eyes were glittering like stars in the night. They loved chocolate mousse and they would love to have some of it after dinner. For a whole ten minutes, everyone ate their pasta than ate the mousse after. So chocolaty, so creamy, and delicious for everyone to enjoy on this fine evening. Gumball had a thought that maybe this was a good idea to show his brother the footage. "He dude, wanna see something funny?"

"Yeah! What is it?"

Gumball pulled Darwin upstairs and showed him the drone. "I got this from the internet."

Darwin looked surprised to see the drone at how beautiful this thing was and liked the design. "Cool! What is it?"

"A super cool drone that can travel to other worlds."

"Wha?" Darwin sounded more surprise. "Did you get any photos."

"And videos." He showed Darwin some footage of Equestria and how he pranked so many ponies and scaring them, along with setting Celestia and Luna's butts on fire. Darwin looked quite baffled while Gumball was laughing at these moments he caught on video, and he was laughing so hard, he almost bust a gut.

"What the heck is wrong with you? You're causing an uproar in another universe!"
> The Plan
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Twilight and all her friends were hatching a plan to give that visiting drone a peace of of it's own metallic mind (although drones do not really have minds, no matter how bug-like they looked). Twilight was pacing to and fro in her library to think of a possible solution and she (mostly) had the best ideas. Alas, the purple allicorn was still thinking of the perfect idea on how to catch the drone. "Come on, you said we would just surprise the drone when it comes back to cause more pranks." said Rainbow Dash. "I know we'll get it."

"And give the creature controlling it quite the talking-to about how wrong it can be to go pulling off pranks all the time." Rarity added

"Yeah, but what if the drone doesn't come back?" Twilight asked. "Maybe that was the last time we would be able to see it." she was starting to "Twilighting" again, which was usual for her sometimes. "Or maybe he is on to us and he might get rid of the drone."

"Oh come on." said Applejack. "I think the guy pranking us had a blast like a hedgehog on a water slide."

"I think it has to come back so he can prank more ponies." added Fluttershy. "All we have to do is be patient. Patient like a heron trying to catch and eat fish from a river. And we'll put that meanie in his place."

Pinkie jumped excitingly and said: "And i can throw a ton of pies into his sorry face for pranking us! Normally, I'm okay with pranks, but they were getting mean!"

"I'll say. I actually thought the drone was going to cut my head off." said Spike, protecting his neck from an imaginary sword or ax.

"Oh, don't be silly." said Twilight. "I would never let anyone hurt you like that. I promise that we will catch it."

Her friends looked confident and suddenly, the princess' came up to the group with smiles on their warm, motherly faces. "We are ready to follow the drone when it comes back, everypony." said Celestia. "And we will make sure that this... clown, whoever he or she might be, will get his or her comeuppance."

"I second that." Rainbow dash cracked her knuckles. "he is going to feel sore in the morning when I am done with him."

"And we'll so how he likes being pranked without a second thought." said Applejack

"And if I have to use the stare on him, so be it." Fluttershy said. "He could be more troublesome than Discord. Oh! No offense."

"Nah, none taken, my dear." said the master of chaos. "I take great pride in that actually."

"And why are we not surprised to hear that." Rarity rolled her eyes."

"It will only be a matter of time before that... device comes back, so we have to be ready for an ambush."


Back in Elmore


It was in the morning when Gumball was showing the pictures and videos of all the ponies he pranked to Darwin. He was laughing and guffawing before he said: "I gotta make these my Christmas cards! You should have seen their faces yesterday!" However, Darwin was not really amused and had his arms cross, along with a look of disapproval. "Come on, why aren't you laughing?"

"Because this is wrong! Crazy and wrong! Don't you know the bad effects you can do to all these adorable little horses? They could be traumatized. It's like butchering a puppy or a kitten!"

"Oh no! No! No! No. I would never in a million years do that."

"Well, this looks just as bad."

"No, it's hilarious. Come on, just look at this video." then he showed him the video of Rarity taking her shower and Gumball scaring her with the drone, making her scream and squirm like a snake with a bad hiccup. Over the course of time, Darwin still looked a little unamused, but after seeing more funny pictures and videos of these ponies being pranked, Darwin tried all his might to hold back the laughter, but after hearing some more funny screaming, he ultimately gave up and guffawed himself.

"See! I told you this is rich! Oh, I think I am going to bust my ribs open! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"I second that!" Darwin rolled around on the floor with his big brother. They were laughing so uncontrollably that they were having the case of giggle fits, almost unable to control their laughter. "OK, i take it back, this is really funny."

Nicole suddenly came in the room and asked: "What in the world is so funny, boys? It's like I am having striped hyenas from upstairs, without the stripes."

"Oh, it's nothing mom. We were just watching these funny videos of these ponies getting pranked." Gumball got up and wiped a tear from his eye, and picked up the drone. "I love this thing mom, I really do. And it was so worth the money.

"Here, Mrs. Mom, you gotta look at the pranks that Gum-" before Darwin could finish, his brother clamped his mouth shut with his right hand

"Gerald! Yep, that's the guy's name who did the pranks. Gerald." Ole Gumball knew that if his mother find out about the pranks he caused in Equestria, Nicole would really give him quite a lecture that might involve screaming and yelling in the talk.

"oooookay." Nicole looked a little confused. "Sure, I guess I can watch some of those videos." The mother began seeing the videos too and she was rather laughing too, but there were times when she said that some of these pranks were rather mean and hurtful. "Oh, that's not very nice." she said about the video of Gumball spraying Rainbow Dash with water like a misbehaving cat. Deep down, it made Gumball a little worried, and he really needed to keep this a secret.

"Well... it's your opinion." said Gumball.

"Well, I gotta go to the store and get some fruit. I wanna get them while they are on sale." Nicole said. "And I know how those fruit thieves in the market are."

"Got it." the mother left the room and Darwin looked at him.

"Why didn't you tell her that you were the one causing the pranks?" the fish boy asked

"Are you kidding?" Gumball said in disbelief. "This is mom we're talking about. You and I both know that she is scarier than Tina and her dad combined."

"Point made."

"Well, I gotta pull more pranks in Equestria and get a lot more laughs. Don't worry dude, I'll get more pictures for ya."

"Just don't go too overboard." Darwin said

"Don't worry, you have my promise, dude." Gumball said. He went outside in the backyard and created the portal for the Drone to travel to Equestria once again, heading for the dimension. "So who is going to be my next prank guinea pig? Hehehehehehehe."
> Capturing a Naughty Child
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Everything was going to be at full swing and the Mane Six were ready to catch whatever was controlling the drone and they just needed to wait for it to come and make it's move so that they can all ambush it like a leopard hiding in the tree to catch an impala on the ground. But first, they needed to be perfectly still and wait for the drone to come to them. Twilight and her close friends were pretending to have a picnic so that the drone wouldn't find it interesting. Yes, they wanted to make it look boring, much to Pinkie Pie's dismay, and she really wanted to make this picnic fun.

"I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, you guys! THE BORING AIR IS KILLING ME!"

She suddenly had her mouth clamped shut by Rainbow Dash and Applejack. "Shhhh, stay strong, Pinkie." Rainbow said. "We just gotta do this a little longer. Then we can find out what's going on. It will come. Right Twilight?"

"It has to." said the purple alicorn. "I don't think it's bored of Equestria just yet." she sees the drone in the far distance, flying towards them like a bird or a missile. "Look! Here it comes! Everypony be as boring as possible."

"Got it." said Fluttershy. She just put some tea in her cup and began drinking it as if nothing exciting was happening at all. "Nothing is really happening right now, girls. It is such a boring day." she pretended to be bored stiff.

"I absolutely concur, darling." Rarity said. "If only there would be color splatted on this gray day."

"I would take that any day." Applejack played along. "Yep, nothing is happenin' at all, y'all." The drone got a closer look at the ponies and Spike, pretending to be bored and not acknowledge it. On the other side in Elmore, Gumball was feeling a little confused and didn't know what was going on, scratching the top of his head with his finger.

"Huh? Boring day? Come on. It's a beautiful day. That's like someone wants to live in a world without music." he had a rather dramatic look on his face before adding: "And that would be a reality I do not want to exist in." Getting back to the ponies and baby dragon, Gumball got a closer look at Spike, who was clipping his claws as if nothing had happened at all. "Don't you have anything to say?" Gumball asked through the drone (Though he wasn't talking to Spike through the drone). At last, he had to face the fact that thee was nothing really happening going on right now. "Gah! Forget it." he nodded his head in irritation. "Uh-oh, probably need to charge this bad boy up. The battery is almost dead.

He turned the drone away and prepared to get the machine back so that he can get both the drone and remote to be recharged. The cat boy was having so much fun with it yesterday that he didn't even pay attention to the battery. Suddenly, Twilight yelled: "NOW!" before she and the others grabbed on to the drone, much to Gumball's confusion. The camera was blocked by Rainbow Dash's belly, and the cat boy didn't know what else to do. He pressed the portal remote to get the drone back. To his horror, the ponies were still holding on to it (except where the propellers are), and they all crashed on to the ground of Gumball's backyard.

Poor Gumball looked shocked and horrified to see what had happened. "Oh no." he breathed. Yes, he knew what was going to happen next. "Oh no, no, no. This is not happening right now." He knew he was busted after all he had done in Equestria, and he does not want to get his retribution since he can be a coward, especially when it comes to facing consequences.

Dizzy, Spike and the Mane Six saw Gumball and looked confused. "You." said Twilight. "You're the one controlling this device?"

"Nope!" Gumball gave a nervous chuckle. He accidentally showed the remote to them, and hid it behind his back. "I mean, I wasn't... GAH!" he immediately dropped the remote and made a break for it in the house, causing the ponies and baby dragon to chase him.

"Get back here!" Rainbow said. Gumball was screaming like a little girl and ran out the door, with Nicole and Darwin noticing the commotion.

"Come on! Where's the car? WHERE'S THE CAR?!" Gumball looked to and fro in a panicky manner. He knew it was against the law for him to drive a car at this age, but he believed this was a "life or death" situation. He most certainly wanted to live and not be killed by the colorful ponies who he pulled pranks. He tried opening the door, but noticed the car door was locked and Nicole had the keys. Suddenly, the ponies, with Spike on top of Twilight, came out, read to confront him.

A crazy idea came in Gumball's head, and he made the drone come to him, and he latched onto it with his hands as it took off with great speed. "Oh my!" said Fluttershy. "He looks scared."

"He has every right to be scared." said Applejack. "He pulled pranks on us."

"Well, maybe he thinks we're going to kill him." the yellow pegasus said

"No. We just want to have a talk with him." said Twilight. "And prevent him from causing any more trouble. After him!" Nicole and Darwin noticed how these colorful ponies and baby dragon were trying to go after him.

"Oh no! My baby!" Nicole exclaimed. Anais and Richard came out, hearing the commotion. "Guys, come on. Get in the car! We need to help him!"

"What's going on with Gumball?" Richard asked

"I don't know, but it doesn't look good. NOW GET IN!" the rest of the Watterson family did just that and followed the colorful ponies to where Gumball was going. The drone was moving with lightning speed and Rainbow Dash was not far behind him. She was gaining on him and she met face to face with him.

"Stop kid! Slow down!" she exclaimed

"So you can kill me? No thank you, Rainbow Dash!" Gumball exclaimed back before blowing a raspberry in her eyes, making her go off-course for at least a moment. "You'll never take me alive!"

The ponies were chasing him for at least half an hour, and the Watterson family was trying so hard to find him while riding that drone. "He's gotta be around here somewhere! GRR! I knew he shouldn't have pulled those pranks!"

"What pranks?" asked Richard

"We'll tell you when we get him." Darwin replied. Little did Gumball know that while flying the drone, the battery was slowly running out of juice overtime, and it would be a matter of time before he would crash into something with that kind of speed. There was a nearby gas station where Larry worked at, and it was a usual day for this workaholic. Larry had many jobs and he noticed something like a bug coming towards the gasoline. It took him seconds for him to realize that it wasn't a bug, and he let out a shriek.

"Sweet jumping jellybean!" he exclaimed before running out the way by hiding behind a desk for safety. Gumball knew he had to jump into something soft, so he thought a lone mattress next to the dumpster was a good idea. He waited for the last second to jump and the drone immediately got on the ground, and Gumball felt a sharp pain on his right leg.

Screaming in pain, he said: "Ah! My foot! I broke my foot! It hurts so bad!" He tried to limp away so that the ponies couldn't find him, but the pain was too unbearable for him, and he was crying with agony. "Come on foot, don't fail me now!"

"There you are!" said Rarity. Her and the others caught up to him. "Now, we want a simple explanation. What in the name of Celestia is going on with the pranks?"

"And how you pulled those mean pranks on me!" Pinkie added.

"Please." Gumball whimpered. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was just trying to have some fun!" he shed more tears. "Please don't kill me! I don't want to die!"

"Kill you?" said Spike.

Just then, Discord appeared with Celestia and Luna, ready to bust the blue cat boy for all the pranks he caused into their world. "So, this is him?" asked Celestia

"And is he crying?" Luna added

"I think he is." Fluttershy looked sympathetic. "He looks like he is in great pain."

The others, except for Rainbow Dash were a little concerned too, as if they made him think they were going to end his life. It was just then Nicole and the family came and the mother skidded the car behind Gumball. "Get away from my son you... adorable... ponies?" nevertheless, she was ready to tear them all limb from limb if they tried to hurt him. "If you want to kill my baby, you will have to go through me!"

"Kill him?" asked Celestia

"Why do you keep saying that?" Twilight asked

"You guys looked pretty mad." Gumball whimpered

"Gumball, what happened?" asked Richard

"I broke my foot. Gosh it hurts. I guess the mattress wasn't as soft as I thought."

"Here. Let me help you." said Fluttershy.

"What? No! Please don't hurt me!" Gumball said

"I will not hurt you, sweetie."

"OK, OK. Let's just start all the way back to the top." Nicole took a break. "Now, what could possibly be going on here?"

The princess looked at Gumball in a rather stern look, and Celestia answered: "Well, your son has been causing quite a lot of mayhem with his drone." Nicole looked suspicious. "Messing with my subjects and pulling pranks galore with that... metal bird."

Nicole gave Gumball a suspicious look and she asked: "What is she talking about, Gumball?"

"Nothing!." the blue cat lied. "They are on sugar too much, their heads must be turning into ice cream and lollipops."

The mother gave him a rather stern look, narrowing her eyes at him. "Gumball..." she said calmly and suspiciously.

"OK! OK! Yes. I was pulling pranks with that drone I ordered over there." the child admitted. "But come on, I was only having fun, I would never try to hurt anyone. It was all just harmless pranks on all of you."

"harmless?" said Spike.

"You scared me to death while I was in the shower!" Rarity exclaimed

"And how you were messing with me on how fast your drone was. It was driving me nuts!"

"I actually thought it was going to eat me!" the baby dragon added

"And throwing pies at my face!" Pinkie said

"Or how you blared an airhorn without me looking!" said Fluttershy.

"Need we remind you that: you set our butts on fire?" Celestia looked unamused

"And we can still feel the burns a little." Luna added

Nicole gave her son another frown and crossed her arms at him. Gumball knew that he was probably going to be in big trouble now. He knew he was going to face a really angry mother, one of the scariest things in the world (for him). "Gumball," she sang, "Can you explain, please?" At last, the blue cat boy couldn't hide it anymore and he confessed to everything and all the pranks and stunts he pulled on everyone in Equestria.

Looking guilty, Gumball said: "I was only just having fun. Just some good pranks to get a good laugh."

"Well, it is completely out of line and inappropriate behavior." Nicole sounded stern, but calmly. "You are lucky they are not going to press charges on you."

"Please don't send me to jail!" Gumball said. "You would have to put me in juvie!"

Twilight and the other ponies noticed how guilty Gumball looked, and walked up to him, along with Fluttershy. "Hey, come on now, sweetie. It's alright." she gently lifted his chin with her right hoof so that he could make eye contact with her

"You are not a bad cat. You were just taking things the wrong way." Fluttershy said

"But you need to think about other people's feelings. Find out what is the best time for pranking them and the time to not prank them." Twilight frowned.

"She speaks wisely Gumball." Richard said

"True. So mom, I'll be ready for any punishment you can give me."

"Well, I could say what you have been through was punishment enough, especially your broken foot. Although... I would like to add: No TV, video games, internet, or any of those fun things for a week."

"No come on, let me help you with that foot." said Fluttershy, gently picking him up.
> The Cast
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gumball was being tended on his broken foot by Fluttershy, who was kind enough to help him out. The broken foot on the cat boy really hurt as if millions of splinters were being lances in it. Despite how unbearably painful it was, Fluttershy was doing all that she could to make an effort to make the boy's broken foot heal quicker than normal, and make it less painful for him while putting the cast on Gumball's foot. "I'm sorry if this hurts you little angel." Fluttershy said gently. "I know it's painful, but after i'm finished, you will be better."

"Little angel?" Rainbow Dash asked in confusion. "He committed all those pranks on us without a second thought for hays' sake!" The other ponies just glared at the cyan pegasus.

"Rainbow!" Twilight said. "He's hurt, and his mother said that he learned his lesson." then she looked at Gumball with that concerned look on her face again. "Does your foot still hurt, Gumball?"

"Yeah. It does. Before it felt like a large kitchen knife was lodged in it from being stabbed by a crazed maniac."

The ponies looked a little shocked by that kind of metaphorical saying. "Goodness me, darling." said Rarity. "That's a rather... light way to put it."

"Yeah, sugarcube." Applejack said. "That's completely crazy-talk. I mean what kind of saying is that?"

"Our world is a very strange place." said Nicole. "By now, you've all noticed how there are many kinds of people living in this city. Dinosaurs, ghosts, monsters, mutants, and people with different animations than we have."

"Right, good point." said Rainbow Dash pointed. "We saw a realistic-looking t-rex while we were chasing Gumball down, right when I was about to clobber him into a cube of gar- Ow!"

She felt her head being bonked by Fluttershy and looked quite stern at her. "Not helping, Rainbow. Like Twilight said; he's hurt and needs some care. Now, I am almost done with the cast, Gumball. Don't worry, it will only be for a few more seconds."

Gumball gulped and said: "OK. I hope you're right."

"Oh come on." said Nicole. "She's doing a nice thing for you, honey."

"So, you love to eat cakes and cupcakes, Pinkie?" Richard asked the pink earth pony.

"Ooh, I don't just love to eat them, I know how to bake them! I can make the yummiest, most delicious sweets that nopony can ever dream of making in their entire lives! I got a whole recipe book that can show you how to create the yummiest cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts. Created by your truly!" the excited pink pony showed him her book and began showing him the yummiest kinds of cake on the pages. "We got Maretropolan canolies, Creme Hoof tarte-"

"OK, Pinkie." said Applejack. "I think he gets the point."

"Ooh, do you think you can create the yummiest cake ever?" Richard's mouth began watering sine he is a big eater. "I'll give you my wife's whole credit card for the biggest one you can make."

"Richard!" Nicole scolded. "Forgive my husband, he's... not the brightest bulb around here."

"I hate to say it mom, but a lot of people in town are like that." Anais pointed

"True. So true." Nicole admitted.

"Well, your son didn't really hurt anypony at home." said Spike. "...mostly. It was mostly harmless pranks."

"Good." Nicole said with great relief. "I am very sorry for his behavior, your highness. Gumball can be... rambunctious and it often gets him into trouble."

"Hey, it's not my fault that people don't want to have f- Ah!" he felt the last cast wrap around his foot, completing it finally. "Have any fun. I'm just trying to have as much fun as possible."

Celestia and Luna went up to him, and the princess of the sun remarked: "Look, we know that you are still a little boy that wants to have as much fun as possible, but, it's not always fun and games. There are some times when you have to take things seriously."

"Especially if they are life or death situations." Luna added. "Not everything should be taken lightly."

"Like how you broke your foot just now." said Fluttershy said. "It hurt, right?"

Gumball bowed his head and replied: "Yeah. It really stung as if my foot was being amputated from having a zombie virus spread to the brain after being bitten."

"Jeez, where do you get all that stuff?" Pinkie said

"From zombie video games." Darwin said. "Those are really good stuff, but really sad. Especially when Dale-"

"Don't spoil it for me, dude!" Gumball said to his adopted brother. "I have not played it yet, so do not spoil it!"

"Sorry." Darwin said flatly before covering his mouth. "How does your leg feel, dude?"

"A little better." Gumball looked at the cast before now looking at the yellow pegasus with a grateful look on his face. "Thank you so much Fluttershy." he tried standing on both his legs while holding crotches that Twilight had given him. He was struggling a little bit at first, and felt a small pain after his cast gently touched the floor of his own house. "Ow!" he said

"Goodness. Be more careful, Gumball."

"I'm trying." the blue cat grunted, trying to adjust to his cast. He felt Fluttershy sweetly helping him by giving him an ice bag to make it a little less painful than before.

"Hope this helps."

Gumball felt the soothing feeling of he ice right on his foot slowly taking away the pain like a magic mosquito taking away the pain nerves in one's body. "Oh yeah. He sighed. "That really hits the spot." he felt the yellow pegaus pony gently hug him on the left side of his body to s how more thanks for letting her help him out. Deep down, Gumball felt a warm, fuzzy feeling in him, like Fluttershy was a living stuffed animal intending to give him comfort in bedtime after a nightmare. She was so warm, and so fuzzy, that it made Gumball's fear and all that negative feelings go away.

It was like an angel hugging him or his mom hugging him when he was a little baby.
> Fluttershy Saves Gumball
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In Watterson household with the ponies and princess inside, gumball was resting comfortably in his bed along with Fluttershy who still with him. Gumball was never felt like this to be hugging by a pegasus pony, that will be the first time because he begin to love this yellow pegasus pony a lot since she was take in care his foot. Gumball and Fluttershy then felt something each other, they noticed it but they believe that they are fell in love. Which it doesn't please to someone who hate than Fluttershy replacing him by another one. And it's obvious that someone is discord who spying them outside through the window. He was looking at the cat boy with pure anger and jealousy, at the point to get inside and put away Fluttershy so they can no longer fell in love.

Downstairs, the ponies and the princess are talking about gumball and his mischief towards peoples of Equestria.

"Again your majesty i'm very very so sorry what my son did." said Nicole trying to convince them

"it's fine Mrs Watterson, he have already have his lesson learned, that should be enough" said twilight reassured her.

"just make sure he won't do it again, or i'm gonna teach him some manner, manner of mine of course" rainbow crack his hoof, making everyone glared at her with angry look "what?"

"don't you dare to hurt my son, or i'm going to show how a mother can do to protect his son" replied nicole with an anger who make rarity scared but not everypony's around.

"just try it" said rainbow.

"enough, we aren't there to get some problem with other, rainbow calm yourself please" replied twilight to her.

"fine" she muttered

Celestia and Luna turned to her "Mrs Watterson i would'd like to forget what he've done, but before, we want to know much about him, what he do in his free times, how he doing at school and mostly how he do to get himself in trouble quickly, ith that we might help him for his problems that made him troublemaker."

"i tell you, but don't expect something that will made you both disappointed, which i am so often, besides that's not really what he truly do more often, there are time who he running away from home after i gave him a lot harsh punishments to drove him to my sister Penelope so many times without stopping, that's just ridiculous. But i won't talk much about my sister, speaking of her made me out of control, can't see the point to see my son to compare with me."explain Nicole

Applejack raised an eyebrow about Penelope "why not?"

Nicole throw an angry face to her "because it's none of your business and that won't matter who she is and what she do."

"Goodness Mrs, calm down no need to be rude." said rarity with a bit of anger

"don't you dare to said to me calm down."

Luna then clearing her throat "should we go back talking about your son instead of throwing your anger in our subjects?"

sighed in relief she smiled and said "oh yes, sorry about that, i'm just have a little problem temper, but that doesn't appear often, i assured you."

"Oh yeah?" said Rainbow in a sarcastic voice, not believing at her fake happy and fake smile

Rarity said "sure why i am not surprised."

Outside, Discord have found everything he need to know about the boy and all of his mischief he made all the time, her mother did everything but feel that she failed many times to making behaving which it end to make him running away from home many times he do and get refuges at penelope's house. At the school, his grades are also worse than the ponies have he didn't care a lot of school and resume mischief who end at detention who doesn't work him great that lead him also to running away from his mother's monstrous anger!

"wow, all stuff to end in your sister Penelope, that's unbelievable." said spike.

"i know right" said rainbow.

"and yet it's all wrong, even for a boy." added applejack

"oh dear" said a surprised Luna

"didn't expect that before, for a young innocent boy it appear he needed more attention and more help than punishment who still failed." said Celestia.

"so what are you going to do then? i did everything i do, but he won't behaving" said Nicole downcast of her mother duty who are less effective.

"could you give us a moment will you? we need to figure out all we heard and need thinking about" said Celestia as she and the other ponies retire outside, but the forgot about about Fluttershy who are still with gumball and pinkie pie who made a huge cake for Richard.

"there you go, i hope you will like it, in fact that's the best i can ever do if you want ask me to cooking another one but huge." said pinkie who she over the cake to Richard with his huge mouth open and drooling like a fountain, making the table dirty and also the floor.

"hey Sugarcube, come with us outside, we need you to give our answers at the family."

"sure, right away" she walked out of the house, along with Fluttershy who are behind her.

after a huge moment of reflection, they all return inside, the family hold their breath for what will happen next, they hoped that won't kill them all or even their son who are the one to cause all the mischief.

they began to gulp as Celestia spoke first "Well Mrs Watterson,we've made our judgment"

fear began to be put on their face, expecting, the worse coming.

Celestia smiled as she said "we forgive you for what your son did and that you can be relieved" they all sighed in relief "however, according to his reputation as troublemaker, this should facilitate the deal i'm offering to you."

both are confused of what she talking about, Anais said "what kind of deal? we never talked about deal before."

"we're going to take him in our world so he can have a rightful education in our world, i can guarantee Twilight Sparkle will do everything to put him in the right path. Don't worry he will be fine with, even though he will feel uncomfortable to surrounded by ponies, but he'll get used to." explained Celestia to the family who just had their jaws dropped to the floor. They couldn't believe what they heard, gumball will be taken away from home and received an education from ponies"so what do you think? are you agree with?"

Nicole just stand there with her shocked reaction, she then frowned and replied "no"

there are confused by her answer, Twilight said "why?"

"my answer is no and i mean it." she crossed her arms

Celestia frowned "let me make things clear, Nicole, you're son have some major issues and it is up to us to help him, if you want to see you're son again, let us just take care of him, once we done, we'll give you back."

"nNcole, you have to understand this, you did everything you can do, but it clearly looks like it didn't work many times,so why not let us educate him?" twilight said.

before Nicole replied, Fluttershy spoken something that will put nicole out of her shell "Gumball also told that you did bad things to him and his brother" this made Nicole confused, but she knew what exactly she was talking about, and wanted to never be reminded of it. "you kicked out gumball and Darwin of the house because they hurting their father's feelings, but also starved them almost to death, no allowing to use the bathroom or their rooms until they forgive the father"

"and we calling you a punctual and perfect mother, looks like this is so wrong for you to be an abusive mother, especial with Anais who follow you but in her monster's way."

"hey, this is their fault, we wanted to teach them a lesson, they brought it upon themselves." retorted Anais.

"exactly what an abusive person will do." added Rarity in a disapproving tone.

"look, i made a mistake, all i want is to forgive their father, that's all" replied Nicole while holding her anger.

"a huge mistake i may say." corrected Rainbow Dash

"but if gumball's feelings was hurting by you or by one of your family member, will you do it the same abusive you did to him?" asked twilight, wanted to know more if the mother have really did something wrong again.

now this time, it made Nicole speechless, she didn't know how to replied but she obviously forget that her mistakes lead her in a awfull situation, knowing it's about ponies and princess.

"mom?" said Darwin worry.

she raised slowly her arm and soon her finger pointed the door "get out."

"Excuse me? what did you say?" asked luna.

she showing her red eyes full of flame, Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy were scared enough to hide behind the princesses. But it wasn't enough to scare Applejack, rainbow, twilight and the princesses. they just frowned to the livid mother.

"I SAID GET OUT AND NEVER COME BACK" she screaming out loud.

"We won't get out till we have gumball in our world" replied luna.

"oh no you don't!"

"wow, I've never seen her so stubborn" said rainbow dash.

Celestia then turned to purple Allicorn "Twilight, go get gumball and tell him he leaving right now" and Twilight go get upstairs only to be blocked by the angered mother.

"stay back"

Discord was watching the whole scene and he admit to have so much fun, he described her as a mother with a huge temper problem.

"well this looks fun as usual, but let's see the little boy how he doing." he said flying to the top, looking inside the room, he saw gumball hidden in his bed crying."oh poor poor little boy, are you frightened at this point or this is obviously your mother's temper?" he didn't looked concerned about, but all discord can do is to put him away of Fluttershy at any cost.

He was getting inside without being noticed by gumball, he remove the cover when he saw Gumball crying. he smiled and put his hand on his shoulder.

gumball looked at him and was scared"who are you? don't take me, please."

"now now now, little boy, it's okay, i just wanted to know if you feel okay despite your foot.", he looked at his foot and nodded to him. "that's good because if i were you i won't staying here for awhile, unless you want to be taken away by the ponies to get some manners to learn? Believe me, this is no because there are gently and wise that you have to trusted them, in fact i think rainbow dash wanted to teach you a lesson about how fast you're drone flying."

"really?" gumball was confused "but Fluttershy was kind with me by helping my foot"

"yes but after what you did in our world, sure they want to keep you there forever until they are sure you go back, but believe me, it can take a whole life." explain discord

"no, no you're lying, they wouldn't do that, would they?" said gumball as tears still coming down his face.

"i'm so sorry gumball, you have to face it, it's reality." said discord in his sympathetic voice and smiled.

after wiping some tears, he asked "tell me what can i do to avoid them."

"first, i'm not an expert of giving hideout." he admitted "but you, do you know one a safe place?"

"yes i know one, they won't find me, my family does but not them" explained gumball.

"very well, and what is it?"

before he replied, princess's regalia and crow have made hole like a pistol, gumball looked down and saw her mother fighting the ponies.

"oh the nerve she got." discord said before he turned to gumball "you have to hurry up before it goes wrong." and all regalia and crown who are stuck in the ceilings falling down to the floor at gumball's feet.

"ok" he checked out his drone now full of battery, he then packed his stuff and electronic stuff till he was ready, he brought some money and take princess's regalia and crown. He took also clothes to be ready and even red shoes. he was now ready.

"but tell me, before you leaving, what is the hideout."

gumball the pressed the teleport button from his remote before he said by smiling. "aunt Penelope" and he vanished from his room.

"perfect" he smiles nastily, knowing that his plan to get rid of him has just been fulfilled.

outside of the street, the ponies along with the princess have been kicked out of the house with a powerfull kick from nicole in a great anger that throw them away off of Elmore.

"man, i can't believe it" rainbow said before she feel her bones being broken "ouch that hurt" her face was covering of bruises and it was bad enough to proceed any further.

any of the friends have got the same way that Nicole give them.

"ow, my beauty is ruined, i can't stare in a mirror" said Rarity in a dramatic tone.

the two princess got up but their injury avoid them to get up as Luna said "never thought Nicole will do that to us, that was so painful."

"you said it" said Celestia in a moaning tone from her mouth.

"where are our regalia?" Luna noticed their regalia are off of their body.

"probably in the house"

Fluttershy was crying to see her body beaten up badly by a mother who helped his son. Pinkie have two black eye on her and a multiple bruises around her body. Applejack have lost some teeth and with a black eye, her hat was a bit destroyed.

Twilight moaning in pain, her nose bleeding,a black eye, bruises everywhere as she asked Celestia "now...what?"

"this time,she doesn't give us choice anymore," her voice was stern "we're going to take him by force." she said before she fainted

"well, actually it's best if we could see a doctor first" added Luna as she lost some teeth of her mouth.
> Gumball in Equestria
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Young Gumball was getting more acquainted with Equestria, mostly because the drone showed him some really beautiful footage of this magical land. It was even better in person and up close for the cat boy to endure.

While still missing his family, he felt the most special kind of welcome to him. It was like setting foot in heaven after death or going into a place so similar to the Garden of Eden.

He got himself a nice zesty cucumber sandwich from Fluttershy in the kitchen, for he was hungry. "Wow. Yum!" Gumball said after taking the first bite of the lunch Fluttershy gave him. "But I wish there was ham or salami on it. Or other kind of meat."

Fluttershy made a small gasp from herself and said: "Goodness! ponies don't eat me, sweetie."

"Ohhh. right. ponies and horses are herbivores." the kid remembered. "But still good anyway. But I don't want to go hunting like a cave cat."

"because you love animals too?"

"And it's too much work." Gumball remarked. "if there is one thing I hate, it's work."

The yellow pegasus made a small chuckle before saying: "you sound a little bit like Rainbow Dash. She can be lazy sometimes and doesn't really like to do heavy lifting... unless it involves sports and racing. It's probably not a good idea to challenge her to a race." she gave him a nervous smile.

"Heh, yeah I noticed with the drone. From what I've seen with the camera attached to it, I think she was going to have a nervous breakdown. Something like punching through lava that she didn't care how much it would hurt or if it burnt her flesh off."

"Goodness!" Fluttershy sounded a little shocked to hear that kind of expression.I don't even want to think of my friends getting hurt like that. It must sound awful. But it's a good thing Spike's fireproof."

"He can be in lava?"

"Of course. It's a dragon trait. Teenage dragons also surf in lava waves just for fun."

"Ooh, it does sound like it." Gumball had that mischievous smile on his face, and he was trouble-prone after all. "Maybe we can find a fireproof surfboard for me to buy.

"Oh no." Fluttershy said. "Absolutely not. It is much too dangerous for a cute, baby cat like you."

Gumball growled and said: "I'm not a baby, I'm twelve!"

"I know, I know." Fluttershy soothed him by gently massaging him with her gentle hooves. "It was just a figure of speech. I know you're a big cat."

These massages were out of this world and out of Elmore at the same time for Gumball. He was simply enjoying Fluttershy's massaging techniques. "Yeah, that feels so amazing." he sighed as he felt his back being gently rubbed by the warm hooves.

"So, your aunt Penelope sounded really nice and sweet."

"Uh-huh. She's like the exact opposite of my mom. She's always calm, cool and collected without getting mad over the smallest things. I wish mom would be more like her."

"You know, Gumball?"

"What's that, Fluttershy?"

"I think she would love a real good friend of mine."

"Who?"

"Tree Hugger. She's like your aunt Penelope. They both care about the environment so much and they are full of calmness and peace."

"Huh. sounds like they can really hit it off after all." Gumball said. "But what if mom comes here and tries to kill me for running away?"

"Don't worry." Fluttershy pointed. "your mom won't be able to find you here from her dimension."

Gumball sighed before saying: "I know, I know I should work about this so much, but I have known mom longer than you have. You can't even begin to manage the things she would do if angry."

"If she does try to hurt you, i will give her the stare."

"The stare?"

Fluttershy blushed and looked embarrassed. "Yes," she admitted. "It's the trick i would use to make animals listen to me if I can't reason with them."

"Oh. Maybe you can do it on mom if she starts foaming at the mouth."

The yellow pegasus began to chuckle at what the kid said. "Sure. maybe I can do that."

It was quiet for a minute as Fluttershy was still giving him this nice treatment. "So, Gumball, why do you get in trouble so many times?"

the cat boy frowned and replied: "Well I don't like to get in trouble. But, I'm a fun kid. I'm just trying to have as much fun as possible. Besides, my teacher is an evil baboon that is like... a gazillion years old, and my principal can be a little... weird sometimes. Besides, Anais isn't perfect either. She doesn't have many friends and and do you want to know what she does to try and make friends, Fluttershy?"

"What does she do?"

"She would be too clingy and too grabby to the point where it would look like a woodpecker trying to dive bomb into a log. You know that she fused with a classmate like an alien parisite?"

Fluttershy laughed some more. "Oh Gumball, you're a card."

"No, I'm serious. Look at what I recorded on my phone."

The yellow pegasus stopped massaging him and Gumball revealed the video of how he and Darwin were trying to save Anais and her friend from this morphing parasitism.

It caught Fluttershy by surprise and she said: "Goodness! that must have been awful."

"And really messed up." he took another bite of his sandwich. "but we managed to get her back to normal and make her realize what she was doing... mostly. But she still behaved the same way as before."

"That is no way to make friends at all." Fluttershy pointed. "You have to let them chose for themselves on whether they want to be your friend or not."

"Try telling that to Anais." Gumball rolled his eyes. "But some people just never learn."

"And i still don't know how your own mother can just kick you out of the family for dissing day. I mean, why she would do this to you and Darwin."

"It's a very simple reason, Fluttershy." Gumball said calmly. His demeanor changed in an instant like a mood swing. "Because she is a gigantic bottle of crazy sauce!"
> Massages and Sandwiches
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Young Gumball was getting more acquainted with Equestria, mostly because the drone showed him some really beautiful footage of this magical land. It was even better in person and up close for the cat boy to endure.

While still missing his family, he felt the most special kind of welcome to him. It was like setting foot in heaven after death or going into a place so similar to the Garden of Eden.

He got himself a nice zesty cucumber sandwich from Fluttershy in the kitchen, for he was hungry. "Wow. Yum!" Gumball said after taking the first bite of the lunch Fluttershy gave him. "But I wish there was ham or salami on it. Or other kind of meat."

Fluttershy made a small gasp from herself and said: "Goodness! ponies don't eat me, sweetie."

"Ohhh. right. ponies and horses are herbivores." the kid remembered. "But still good anyway. But I don't want to go hunting like a cave cat."

"because you love animals too?"

"And it's too much work." Gumball remarked. "if there is one thing I hate, it's work."

The yellow pegasus made a small chuckle before saying: "you sound a little bit like Rainbow Dash. She can be lazy sometimes and doesn't really like to do heavy lifting... unless it involves sports and racing. It's probably not a good idea to challenge her to a race." she gave him a nervous smile.

"Heh, yeah I noticed with the drone. From what I've seen with the camera attached to it, I think she was going to have a nervous breakdown. Something like punching through lava that she didn't care how much it would hurt or if it burnt her flesh off."

"Goodness!" Fluttershy sounded a little shocked to hear that kind of expression.I don't even want to think of my friends getting hurt like that. It must sound awful. But it's a good thing Spike's fireproof."

"He can be in lava?"

"Of course. It's a dragon trait. Teenage dragons also surf in lava waves just for fun."

"Ooh, it does sound like it." Gumball had that mischievous smile on his face, and he was trouble-prone after all. "Maybe we can find a fireproof surfboard for me to buy.

"Oh no." Fluttershy said. "Absolutely not. It is much too dangerous for a cute, baby cat like you."

Gumball growled and said: "I'm not a baby, I'm twelve!"

"I know, I know." Fluttershy soothed him by gently massaging him with her gentle hooves. "It was just a figure of speech. I know you're a big cat."

These massages were out of this world and out of Elmore at the same time for Gumball. He was simply enjoying Fluttershy's massaging techniques. "Yeah, that feels so amazing." he sighed as he felt his back being gently rubbed by the warm hooves.

"So, your aunt Penelope sounded really nice and sweet."

"Uh-huh. She's like the exact opposite of my mom. She's always calm, cool and collected without getting mad over the smallest things. I wish mom would be more like her."

"You know, Gumball?"

"What's that, Fluttershy?"

"I think she would love a real good friend of mine."

"Who?"

"Tree Hugger. She's like your aunt Penelope. They both care about the environment so much and they are full of calmness and peace."

"Huh. sounds like they can really hit it off after all." Gumball said. "But what if mom comes here and tries to kill me for running away?"

"Don't worry." Fluttershy pointed. "your mom won't be able to find you here from her dimension."

Gumball sighed before saying: "I know, I know I should work about this so much, but I have known mom longer than you have. You can't even begin to manage the things she would do if angry."

"If she does try to hurt you, i will give her the stare."

"The stare?"

Fluttershy blushed and looked embarrassed. "Yes," she admitted. "It's the trick i would use to make animals listen to me if I can't reason with them."

"Oh. Maybe you can do it on mom if she starts foaming at the mouth."

The yellow pegasus began to chuckle at what the kid said. "Sure. maybe I can do that."

It was quiet for a minute as Fluttershy was still giving him this nice treatment. "So, Gumball, why do you get in trouble so many times?"

the cat boy frowned and replied: "Well I don't like to get in trouble. But, I'm a fun kid. I'm just trying to have as much fun as possible. Besides, my teacher is an evil baboon that is like... a gazillion years old, and my principal can be a little... weird sometimes. Besides, Anais isn't perfect either. She doesn't have many friends and and do you want to know what she does to try and make friends, Fluttershy?"

"What does she do?"

"She would be too clingy and too grabby to the point where it would look like a woodpecker trying to dive bomb into a log. You know that she fused with a classmate like an alien parisite?"

Fluttershy laughed some more. "Oh Gumball, you're a card."

"No, I'm serious. Look at what I recorded on my phone."

The yellow pegasus stopped massaging him and Gumball revealed the video of how he and Darwin were trying to save Anais and her friend from this morphing parasitism.

It caught Fluttershy by surprise and she said: "Goodness! that must have been awful."

"And really messed up." he took another bite of his sandwich. "but we managed to get her back to normal and make her realize what she was doing... mostly. But she still behaved the same way as before."

"That is no way to make friends at all." Fluttershy pointed. "You have to let them chose for themselves on whether they want to be your friend or not."

"Try telling that to Anais." Gumball rolled his eyes. "But some people just never learn."

"And i still don't know how your own mother can just kick you out of the family for dissing day. I mean, why she would do this to you and Darwin."

"It's a very simple reason, Fluttershy." Gumball said calmly. His demeanor changed in an instant like a mood swing. "Because she is a gigantic bottle of crazy sauce!"
> Gumball in Ponyville
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looking at the fresh air, Gumball was greeted by a number of ponies being nice and friendly to him, even after he unleashed a drone to cause fun mayhem and pranks. A few of them were still mad at the pranks he caused to Ponyville and Canterlot, but most of them were... rather warm to him and polite.

He was with Fluttershy and her close friends who looked around at their beloved home range.

Gumball was still very worried that this was going to be a prank to get him back for all the tomfoolery he caused with that drone he bought with his own money. He read that horses in his world were nowhere near as intelligent as the ones here, but these ponies seemed to be the dominant species.

At last, Gumball said to the six ponies and baby dragon: "I don't know guys, what if they all hate me because of the pranks I did?"

"Come on." said Fluttershy with doubt. "Nopony would hate anypony at all."

"Well, there are a few buttheads out there that might not like you," said Rainbow dash, "But, to Tartarus what they think! It's their loss, Gumball."

"Rainbow Dash is right." Twilight smiled. "Some ponies here can't really be reasoned with. Not everyone will want to be your friend."

"Yeah! take me with Cranky Doodle Donkey for example!" said Pinkie Pie.

"But he accepted you eventually." Fluttershy pointed out.

"Oh I know. but he was a tough nut to crack."

"Got that right." said Applejack. She looked at Gumball, and said to him, "Don't you worry, sugarcube. Everyone here will warm up to you. we ponies of Ponyville are quick to accept others."

"OK. That's good."

"Although I am curious," said Rarity. "Why are you named after a specific type of candy? Don't you have a normal name?:

"There's nothing wrong with his name." said Fluttershy. "I think it's very cute."

Gumball flushed at her comment and said: "thanks, but I'm not cute."

"No need to he embarrassed." said Spike. "I mean, Rarity calls me Spikey-Whikey, and I have no problem with that."

"Fair enough." Gumball rolled his eyes. "I do, or did have a real name. My real name was Zack, but it was an... alter ego of mine. Like an evil twin version of me that almost got control of me forever."

The Mane Six and Spike were silent for a moment and then guffawed at what Gumball just recalled. "You are just so funny." Fluttershy wiped a tear from her eye. However, she can plainly see that Gumball was not amused and how he had his arms crossed in irritation. "Oh, you're telling the truth, sweetie?"

"Of course I'm telling the truth!" Gumball said. "Do I look like I'm laughing right now? huh? You saw how weird Elmore is by now. Right?"

"Take it easy. no need to get mad." said Twilight. "I mean, you did pull those pranks on us yesterday with that drone, and you love to cause this what you call 'fun' whenever you feel like it."

Gumball was about to give out a big protest, but felt defeated when he sighed: "touche. point well-made. really good point."

"Still, we forgive you for that."

"Although I couldn't help but wonder, Gumball," said Fluttershy. "Do you do these things because of your mother?"

"What do you mean?"

"With all the screaming and yelling she does, did it make you act in a mischievous way?"

"No! of course not. This might sound mean, but being dumb and stupid runs in the Watterson family. Our Watterson motto specifically says: 'Insert family motto here', simple as that."

Rainbow Dash couldn't help but laugh at that and she was rolling on the ground as she was laughing. "Oh that's hilarious!"

"Rainbow!" said Rarity. "Don't be crude."

"No, it's fine." Gumball said. "What are we even doing here anyway?"

"To show you around Ponyville." Fluttershy said. "To get to know everypony.' Gumball still had an uncertain look on his face, and still filled with some regret after all he had done. Sure, he can be rude and insensitive at times, but he can still have a good heart, no matter how trouble-prone he is in life.

"I don't know. what if..." he made a gasp. "wait a minute," he said suspiciously. He narrowed his eyes at them all. "I see what you're all doing,"

"What are we doing?" asked Pinkie Pie

"Oh don't give me any of that doo doo." Gumball crossed his arms again. "This is all a trap, a setup, an act of revenge to get back at me with all the pranks I did to the drone. I told you a i was sorry, but you don't have to pull a prank on me."

"Come on." Applejack scoffed. "now you're just being paranoid."

"Yeah, you should just lighten up and calm down." said Twilight. "We know you promise to never do those pranks again."

"I did." Gumball repeated. "I gave you my word I wouldn't do these pranks."

"And we belive you, sweetie." Rarity said.

"You want to know what you need, Gummy-wummy?" Pinkie said.

"What's that?"

"A nice treat from Sugarcube Corner! we make the best cakes, cupcakes, candy, and other pastries you can think of!"

"That does sound good." Gumball thought. "OK, I guess I can have a cake or at least a cupcake."

"You will love all the yummy treats Pinkie makes. You will really love them." said Spike. "And she makes the best parties."

"It's true." said Fluttershy. "She knows how to put a smile on Everyone's faces when they feel sad."

"I'll take your word for it, Fluttershy." Gumball said before they all went inside the sweet shop.

"Welcome to Sugarcube Corner," said Mrs. Cake, one of the owners of this place. "Ah, Pinkie and her friends, my number one customers." she looked at Gumball. "And who might this be?"

"Mrs, Cake," said Pinkie, "this is Gumball Watterson. He's the one that caused all the pranks with the-" she was cut off by Gumball clamping her mouth shut.

"Don't tell her that!" he said in an exasperated voice.

"Oh, so you're the one who was flying that mechanical... wasp or hornet?" Mrs Cake recognized the drone.

"Well, i... yes. Look, I'm sorry about the drone. I was just having fun and I didn't make anyone go to the hospital."

Mrs. Cake smiled and was happy to see him apologize to her for what he did with the device. "Well, admittedly," said she, "you caused me and my family quite a little bit of grief and annoyance, but I see how sorry you are, dear."

Gumball felt relieved to hear those words, but he realized he will need to give out more apologies to everyone around here besides these ponies. "Thank you, Mrs. Cake." he said.

"Can you please give him one of the yummiest cakes you have right now, Mrs. Cake? he wants something really yummy."

"Well, Pinkie did make a nice triple chocolate cake this morning with me and my husband, Fluttershy." said the female owner of the shop. "This will not disappoint."

Gumball and his new friends sat down in a booth while they waited. suddenly, a small foal appeared from above Gumball with his face upside down, little out a small, adorable giggle, making the cat boy shriek in surprise. it was a male pegasus colt who laughed at his reaction and clapped his hooves.

Suddenly, a female unicorn baby appeared in front of him, and let out a cute laugh. "Who are you?" Gumball asked. He felt the foals hug him and clung close to him.

"This is Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake." said Twilight. "The Cakes' foals."

"Oh. Babies. just great."
> More Time In Ponyville
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Baby Cakes seem to be taking a liking to Gumball, and Pound Cake even sat on top of the blue cat's large head like he was a bird on a nest. Gumball was annoyed at this, but Pound was just a baby and he had to be content with it.

Plus, if he and her sister Pumpkin Cake did something a little outlandish, Pinkie Pie can always try to keep them under control (mostly).

"They seem to really like you." Fluttershy pointed. Pumkin Cake was sitting on Gumball's lap like a cat or a lapdog. "Oh, this so cute." Fluttershy made an adorable look on her precious face.

"A little annoying." Gumball admitted.

"Oh come on, let them have this." said Twilight. "They seem to really like you."

"Yeah, I can see that." Gumball remarked. "So what else do you want to show me after this, guys?"

"Well," said Rarity, "I was up a little late in the night creating some new garments for you, Gumball."

"Garments?"

"You know, clothes, anything you wear." Rainbow Dash said.

"Oh. What kind?"

"Admittedly," Rarity sighed, "You are still rather a mystery, darling. No offense, but I have created shirts and pants and shirts for you to wear so you won't have to wear that turtleneck all the time."

"What's wrong with my turtleneck?" Gumball looked a little offended.

"Oh no! no! I never said that. There is nothing wrong with your Turtleneck at all, Gumball," Rarity clarified, "no, it is just rather a new thing for you to try. After all, it never hurts to try on a new ensemble."

"True. I always wanted to have cool shirts, but my family is so poor." Gumball admitted.

"And I have placed a little razzle dazzle in a few of those new garments I have created." the white unicorn sang. "Something you will certainly love."

"Are you sure I will love them?" asked the skeptical blue cat boy.

"Of course. Granted, I have had a few unsatisfied customers and clients, but that is a very very small percentage."

"OK." Gumball still looked a little skeptical, but he decided to go along with it. "But I want to finish my ice cream."

"No rush, sugarcube," Applejack said. "No rush. Take yer time."

This kind of ice cream was so good that Gumball couldn't help but eat faster than how he would eat them. "Hey hey, easy Gumball," said Spike, "You don't wanna get brainfreeze."

"Don't worry about me, dude. I have a gift where I can eat ice cream as fast as I want without getting brain- Ahhhh!" he felt the ice cream headache coursing through him and he began twitching on the floor like he was being electrocuted by lightning.

"Uh-oh." said Fluttershy. The cakes got off of Gumball, looking a little confused, but then laughed at how Gumball was making funny faces as he was feeling the brain freeze. It was almost like to was incapacitating him from living. Luckily, Fluttershy came up to him and gently massaged his neck to soothe the nerves.

"Oh." A great relief soothed the blue cat boy and he sighed as he was feeling her nice massages. "That feels good."

"So much tension in there, Gumball. You should be careful not to eat so fast."

"OK." Gumball said. "How... do you do this, Fluttershy?"

"It's a gift." the yellow pegasus sounded modest. "But I'm not as good as the ponies in the spa."

"Do you think... you can massage my back?"

"Oh boy." Twilight smirked.

"But of course. I would love to. But I'll do it when we get back to my cottage."

"OK."

"How's everyone enjoying their ice cream?" asked Mrs Cake, coming in the room.

"Delicious!" said Pinkie Pie. "Really really good!" She began eating another Sunday like how a pig would eat from a trough.

"What about you, Gumball?" asked the blue cat.

"Yummy! this ice cream is nothing like back home in Elmore. Can I have another?"

"Absolutely!" said Mr. Cake. "And look at our babies. they seem to really like you."

"Yeah, like I'm their favorite toy, or plaything."

"Oh it's not like that." Said Mrs Cake. "they warm up to others really easily."

The Cake twins laughed and got Gumball's lap again. "Well I hope you guys are not mad with the pranks."

"Oh, it's no big deal." said Mr Cake. "Pinkie and Rainbow Dash are quite the pranksters themselves, so no hard feelings, Gumball."

"Good."

After everyone was done, they all went to Rarity's boutique and went upstairs to Rarity's personal quarters. "Well, here are the outfits I have designed for you, Gumbal." Rarity smiled. "Take a look and tell me what you think."

"Sure." One shirt was colored black with a scooter on fire. The second one had a couple of snakes on it with fangs and scary faces

These shirts seemed to depict how normal boys would like these things like skating, sports, rock and metal music, and other boy stuff. "Well? do you like them?"

"I should try one of them on just in case."

"Of course." said Twilight. "pick which ones you want to wear. The blue cat did just that, and changed clothes to clothes behind the changing wardrobe so that the others wouldn't have to see him naked.

After coming to a conclusion, Gumball said: "Yeah, I guess i can wear these. they fit well."

"Parfait!" Rarity exclaimed with joy. "I am really flattered you love my new ensemble just for you."

"I do." the blue cat admitted. "But I shouldn't probably give my old clothes a wash. Pinkie Pie couldn't help but smell his old garments, making her gag.

"Ah! pee-yew!" she exclaimed. "That smells awful!"

Rainbow Dash herself went up to the dirty clothes and sniffed it, almost feeling like throwing up. "Yeah, that is one of the worst things I've ever smelled!"

"I'll take care of your old clothes for you." Fluttershy kindly offered. "Anywhere else you want to go, sweetie? There's much to do and apologize to everyone in Ponyville."

"I know, I know." the cat sighed. "Where else should I go?"

"I got it!" said Applejack. "Mah home sweet home." They all agreed and Gumball went along with this. Gumball went with his new friends to Sweet Apple Acres, the farm outside of Ponyville. It looked like any other, rustic farm, except it's run by ponies and not by two-legged creatures. There were cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chicken, ducks, and other kinds of livestock here (except for horses and donkeys for obvious reasons).

There was Big Macintosh, AJ's elder brother feeding the hogs as usual. "Big Mac," said Twilight. "Are you busy?"

"Nope." said the red stallion, putting down the bucket of food.

"Big Mac" said Applejack, "This is Gumball Watterson, the one who pulled off the drone prank."

The child gulped since Big Mac looked like someone who is terrifying when he is angry.

"Oh. It's you, huh?" said Big Mac, walking up to him.

"Please don't stop me to death like a rolling pin!" Gumball screamed.
> Farm Life
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Gumball looked rather scared at the sight of a big, powerful stallion like Big Macintosh. He looked rather stern at Gumball for the pranks he had caused with the drone. This stallion, to him, looked he was about to kick Gumball's mischievous butt after the pranks he pulled on everypony in Ponyville.

Gumball gulped and began to sweat like crazy as if the sun was going to hurl towards the planet and destroy everyone on it.

"So, Gumball," said Big Mac in his deep voice. He literally had a big Adam's apple in his throat, and the tone of it was enough to almost make Gumball pee his pants: "You're the one who-"

"I'm sorry!" Gumball dropped on his knees in front of him in a pleading scream. "I am so sorry for pranking everyone on the farm and scaring everyone! I was only trying to have some fun! just don't ruin my beautiful face! it's a money maker!"

The other ponies looked at Gumball's begging in confusion like it was judgment day.

"Look, i was just trying to have fun, come on. we all gotta have fun once in a while! otherwise it would he boring. Can't a guy have a little fun once in a while?! i swear i wasn't hurting anyone with my pranks! i didn't mean to do that! Just please don't hurt me!"

"Calm down kiddo." said Big Mac with a chuckle. "I'm not gonna hurt you. Come on, why would you think that?"

"Because I pranked all of you with my drone and made you all like you have seen a ghost maybe?" Gumball pointed. I mean, I scared many ponies here really good with it."

"Well, admittedly, I was not happy with how you tried to scare and confuse everypony with a drone like that. Maybe if it was like a whoopee cushion under everyone's backside as they sit, it would have been fine, but you set Celestia's butt on fire."

"I know. And I'm sorry about that. It was just a prank."

"I understand, Gumball. But you need to think about other ponies' feelings. Do you know what empathy is?"

"Well... no, not really." Gumball admitted, getting on his feet.

"It's when you put yourself in somepony else's shoes, so you can understand how they feel, when they hurt you." said Fluttershy."

Gumball's eyes went wide and he realized something. "Oh... Ok. I see your point."

"Besides, you're not the only one to pull some crazy stunt." said Applejack. "Long before we met y'all, Rainbow Dash pulled tons of crazy pranks one time."

"Oh boy, here we go." Rainbow sighed, rolling her eyes back.

"She was being absolutely obnoxious by pranking everypony here and there. It was almost unbearable for us to handle." said Rarity. "It was driving us absolutely crazy!"

"And she wasn't taking the time to understand the empathy for everypony." Twilight admitted. "So we got her back by pretending to be cookie-crazed zombies."

Gumball couldn't help but laugh at that and he said: "Oh that's pretty good."

"Come on." said Rainbow Dash. "I said I was sorry, didn't i?"

"Yeah and we forgave you for that." said Pinkie Pie.

"So, you're Big Mac?" Gumball asked curioisly.

"Eeyup. that would be me." said the stallion himself. "Aj's big sis and farm-hoof around Sweet Apple Acres."

"Look, I understand if you're mad at me, Big Mac. I did pull the pranks."

"I'm not mad at ya, Gumball. Besides, your... thing didn't really cause that much physical damage to anypony around here."

"I agree." said Fluttershy. "It just spooked everypony."

Gumball smiled to hear that. "Good. I mean, I wouldn't mean to actually hurt anyone." Everyone smiled to hear that. after all, Gumball was still just a kid. "I got in trouble at school many times, but I would never actually hurt someone."

"Well, I can tell by that drone, you're kind of a mischievous kid." said Big Mac. "Matter of fact, you and Rainbow Dash are kinda similar. You both like causing trouble like that."

"Well, I don't really like sports as much as she does." Gumball said. "And I love to be lazy."

"Actually," said Twilight, "Rainbow Dash can be lazy herself."

"It's true." said Spike. "One day, she fell asleep on a cloud on saturday morning, and didn't wake up until midday on Sunday. And the funny part is: it was supposed to be rainy season and she forgot to get the clouds over Ponyville with the other pegasi."

The cyan pegasus couldn't help but scowl in irritation before saying: "Ok, A: i overslept. B: i was cleaning around the Wonderbolt headquarters for three hours. Three hours!"

"So it was ok for you to sleep for a whole day like a lion?" asked Fluttershy.

"Well... yes, i mean... That's not the point!" said Rainbow Dash.

The others laughed at her in response.

"Look, Gumball just wanted to apologize for what he did to Sweet Apple Acres." said Rainbow Dash.

"Right." Gumball remembered. "Will you take my apology, Big Mac?"

"Oh sure." said Big Mac, hugging him tightly. "I'm a very forgiving pony." the he immediately let him go. "And i think there is one thing you can do to make it up to me."

"What's that?" asked Gumball. It was just ghen Granny Smith came out to greet the young cat boy.

"Ah, and who is this adorable little bundle of joy?" she asked, gently squeezing his cheeks.

"Granny," said Applejack. "This is Gumball Watterson. He's the rascal who unleashed the drone onto Ponyville and Canterlot."

"Oh. It's this one eh?" said Granny Smith. "A pleasure to meet ya, sonny."

"Thanks. You seem... nicer than my actual grandma." Gumball admitted.

"You mean she wasn't nice to you?" asked Fluttershy, frowning.

"She's more of a judgemental kind of grandma." Gumball admitted.

"Well I am certainly not like that at all, Gumball." Granny Smith reassured.

"Good. So Big Mac, what can I do to make it up to you and Granny Smith?"

"Well, you can help me, and Applejack around the farm."

"You mean work?" asked Gumball.

"More like volunteer." said Applejack with a smile.

Gumball then made a whining sound since he can be the lazy one. "Aww, I don't want to do work."

"Come on. You want to make things up to us or not?" asked Big Mac

"Yes."

"Then come on. it's not that hard." said the red stallion.
> Flashback
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gumball really hated work and labor but in this case, he was starting to slowly feel atoned to working a farm like Sweet Apple Acres. The animals here seemed far more nicer and gentle than the ones back home, although Applejack did mention timberwolves, which were wolves actually made of wood. Gumball wondered what other cool creatures there are out here in Equestria besides ponies and dragons. He moved on to the pig pen, and he hopped over the fence to feed the hungry piggies. Dozens and dozens of them crowded around Gumball, squealing and grunting happily as they are seeing their dinner being put in the troughs.

Sweat was slowly starting to form on Gumball's body from all of the hard work he was doing right now, and he was starting to pant from some of the heavy-lifting and moving around the farm, but he wanted to make it up to his new friends after pranking them with the drone.

All the pigs were happy to receive their meals in the troughs, and they helped themselves in digging in their food with loud, smacking noises heard from their chomping mouths. Typical for farm pigs to do while eating, but they're just animals and they couldn't help it if they were chomping really loudly. "Whew." Gumball wiped some sweat from from his forehead and sat on the ground to take a minute rest. "I feel like a big, juicy, baked ham right now."

His friends went over to where he was, and noticed him resting and sitting down. "You ok, Gumball?" asked Fluttershy

"Yeah. Just... just trying to catch my breath." said Gumball. "I've heard running a farm is hard, but not this hard." he wiped his head from any sweat some more, and saw how moist he was. "I feel like it's humid today!"

"It is humid today, Gumball." said Rainbow Dash. "Speaking of which, it's going to rain tonight."

"Oh, wonderful." the blue cat sarcastically said. "But there's only a few clouds in the sky."

"Yes, but we pegasus ponies have to put the clouds there to make it rain every once in a while." Rainbow noted.

"Ah. That's right." the blue cat remembered. He remembered Fluttershy telling him that fact about the weather in Equestria. He got back on his feet and saw a bunch of pigs walking up to him with their adorable, smiling faces, and before the blue cat knew it, he felt them pile on him and began licking his face all over like they were dogs. Laughing from how ticklish their tongues were rubbing all around his body and face. "Help!" Gumball laughed.

His new friends couldn't help but laugh at how funny and adorable this was. "Aww, they like you." said Fluttershy

"Don't worry. These piggies are the friendliest in Ponyville." said Applejack with a chuckle. In a way, pigs can belike dogs, but only smarter than dogs. Pigs can even be more quick to adapt than dogs can be like. "So after this, you wanna help us out in the fields? You know: plowing them?"

Gumball got back on his feet again and moaned: "Oh, not that kind of work."

"Come on." said Twilight Sparkle. "You won't have to do it alone. You got Big Mac and us to help."

"Eeyup." said the big red stallion.

"Fine." Gumball sighed. "Let's do this." he grabbed a hold of a plow and tried to push it down the shire lines, and he was having a little difficulty in pushing it since it looked a little heavy (That, and the plow was more for ponies to pull since the ponies are the dominant species). Alas, he tried so hard and tried pushing it, but with some difficulties still. Another difficulty he had was trying to keep it in a straight line. "Gah! This is ridiculous!" he exclaimed. "I give up!"

"Don't give up." said Twilight. "I know this plow isn't really meant for creatures who use two arms instead of four, but it's not that heavy."

"Uh, yeah, it is." Gumball sang to her. "I'm not as strong as Big Mac."

'Maybe not." Twilight said. "But we're here to help you."

"Fine." the blue cat sighed. He tried it again but still had some difficulty in moving tbe stupid device. If he was as strong as Big Mac or if he was a large stallion like he was, it would be so much simpler for him. Alas, it was not very simple for him.

Ultimately, his friends helped him out and the fields were done in almost an hour. Gumball was grateful for the help, nut he was still soaked with sweat from all that work. He decided to take a little break and he was given a glass of iced apple juice from Fluttershy.

"Here you go, sweetie." said Fluttershy kindly. "You must be thirsty from all of that work."

"Thanks." Gumball smiled before taking big gulps of the juice.

"Goodness darling." said Rarity, "You must have been really parched

"Uh-huh. My body's not used to all that work. Ah! matter of fact, my arms are a little sore."

"Should I give you a massage?" asked Pinkie Pie

"No!" Applejack said abruptly. "I mean, remember the last time you massaged Applebloom?"

Pinkie remembered of how nice her massage was to Applejack's little sister, and thought of how nice it felt on her. Applejack however, remembered how painful it was on her back and how she was yelping and screaming from how rough it was.

"I think you should leave that to Fluttershy." said Rainbow Dash.

"Fine." Pinkie said

"So how did you get here?" asked Granny Smith


Flashback


In Elmore, after he ran away from home, Gumball wanted to pay someone a visit before going to Equestria and it was a family member. In a far side Elmore, there lived a female adult blue cat who looked like Nicole, but was lighter in color and had long darker blue hair going oast her shoulders.

Her name was Penelope Senecourt. She was Nicole's twin sister, who was far more laid-back and easygoing than Nicole.

Unlike Nicole, who is known to lose her temper frequently, Penelope is known to "chill it out" and feel the vibes kick in her to ignore problems and not be so deep in them.

Penelope is someone like... like a polar opposite of what Nicole would be like. While Nicole would be one for violence, Penelope does not believe in violence whatsoever, and she is a pure pacifist at heart, like a hippy or someone who would always attend a Woodstock concert to watch Jimi Hendrix play his guitar in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

She was was doing her little yoga routine in the living room with the TV off and the room was dark with flower-scented candles around to make her more calm than ever.

This little yoga was interrupted however when she heard the doorbell rang. "Ooh, company." said Penelope. "I love company." she nonchalantly got up and went to answer the door and she gasped, looking so happy to see her nephew. "Gumball!" she said before picking him up to hug him. "It is so good to see you again."

He was looking uncomfortable as his loving aunt was giving him such a nice treatment. "Penelope." Gumball groaned. "Not in front of my new friends."

Penelope looked at the colorful ponies and smiled. "Well, this is radical." she said. "They all look so cute." she gently put his nephew down on the floor.

The ponies introduced themselves and Gumball explained to her the situation on what was going on.

Penelope frowned and didn't really understand some of it. "It's totally cool that they are from another world." she admitted, "but, what about your family? Won't you miss them?"

"Of course i'll miss them. But, bot really mom, because... you know how much of a screamer she is."

"Hmm, fair enough. She has too short of fuse to be gaining chacras."

"You know," said Fluttershy, "you remind me of a good friend i know in Equestria. Her name is Tree Hugger and i think you two would really like each other."

"Well," Penelope said, "When you all come to visit, be sure to take me to this mystical. majestic land of yours. Peace."

"Well, i just wanted you to know what's going on." Gumball said.

"Why are you going to this land anyway?"

"It's a really long story." Gumball admitted. "Besides, it's very very complicated.:

"He's right." said Rainbow Dash. "his mother is a bottle of crazy cider." she felt her right torso get bumped by Twilight. "Ow!"

"Rainbow!" Twilight reprimanded. "Don't say that in front of Gumball."

"No, it's ok, Twilight." Gumball told her. "I mean you haven't known her as long as I have."

"Maybe." said Rarity. "But it'snot really nice to be quick to judge."

"I keep telling her about that blood pressure problem of hers. One of these days, it's going to lead to her untimely death."

"That's just silly." Applejack said.

"No, Applejack, she's right." said the cat boy. "She is stressed twenty-four seven. Like i said before: you haven't known her as long as I have."

"Well, good luck on your new journey, sweetie." said Penelope. "I hope you come to visit me. I am just so happy to see you, Gumball."

"Thanks Penelope." Gumball smiled. "I'll be sure to bear that in mind." he looked at Celestia. "OK, your majesty. Fire it up."

Celestia smiled warmly and nodded her head before creating a portal to Equestria for them all (minus Penelope) to enter inside.


End of Flashback

> Nicole's Growing Frustrations
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Penelope is so much like a more mellow version of my mom." Gumball continued explaining to Big Mac and Granny Smith. "If you guys were there, you would tell the difference between them." he was drinking a tall glass of apple juice that Granny Smith was more than happy to offer him after helping out with the work around the farm. "And my mom was not too happy to hear about it. Maybe if she was here, she would probably make a trophy out of my head."

Everyone sounded shocked to hear that. "Goodness, that is just too barbaric." said Fluttershy while covering her mouth with her hooves.

"Come on, she is your own mother." Rarity doubted. "I highly wouldn't believe she wouldn't do that to her own children." then she had some thoughts in her head about how Gumball told her about how she intentionally neglected her boys after hurting their father's feelings. "Although she refused to help you and your brother out one time."

"Honestly," said Rainbow Dash, "That woman's got a ton of anger problems. She really needs to go see an anger management doctor. And I thought Short Fuse had anger problems, but I think your mom takes the cake, Gumball."

"Who's Short Fuse?"

"Former Wonderbolt, but got kicked out for being too angry over the smallest problems." Rainbow Dash explained. "He joins a group of ponies who are like the Wonderbolts, but are a little more extreme called; the Washouts."

"Washouts?" Gumball made a small laugh. "Washouts? Huh, sounds like a name for a bunch of losers."

"Gumball!" said Fluttershy scolding him, "That's rude."

"No, you can say that." said Rainbow Dash. "They're like a darker, more extreme version of the Wonderbolts."

"But they do perform many impressive stunts." Twilight winked. "You should see how they perform."

"They're led by a former Wonderbolt named Lightning Dust who was a little too extreme and went against the rule of Wonderbolt traditions." Rainbow Dash remarked

"Who is a more extreme and disloyal version of Rainbow Dash here." Applejack whispered to Gumball.

"Hey! I heard that!" Rainbow said.

Applejack whistled innocently. "Look, I hope my mom is not making it bad at home. You've all seen her angry." Gumball explained. "And you haven't known her as long as I have, me being her son and all." he took another nonchalant sip of his drink. "I'm starting to wish I had my camera to record mom's angry moments. She's like a volcano."

"Look, I'm sure she's doing just fine, Gumball." Fluttershy tried reassuring him. "I'm sure she misses you."

"Yeah, it's not like she's gonna make the rest of your family never say his name in her presence again." Spike pointed

"Not helping." said Big Mac in a mildly stern voice.

"No, no. It's ok, Big Mac." said Gumball. "It wouldn't even surprise me if she did. I tell you, that woman is crazy!"

"Well, you're in good hooves with Fluttershy right now." said Twilight. "She has a degree in animals and in child care."

The yellow pegasus flustered in flattery, and she said: "Oh well, I love to help anypony and any creature however I can help them."

"Why can't my mom be more like you?" said Gumball.





Meanwhile, back in Elmore, Nicole was pacing to and fro in the house, looking frustrated and angry, like she was fuming over what had recently happened. Darwin, Richard, and Anais were obviously scared by how Nicole was worried an infuriated right now. She even let out small growls of anger every once and a while while pacing, and Richard decided to help out since he is her husband, and knows how to (mostly) calm her down. He slowly walked up to her, and said: "Uhhhh, honey?"

He was about to gently tap a finger on Nicole's left shoulder, but she turned around, looking scary and having fire in her eyes "What?!" she shrieked

"Look, why don't we just call the police and have them find Gumball?" Richard gently suggested

"How can the police travel from one dimension to another, Richard?" asked Nicole. "And what's our evidence to the police, huh? That our son has been abducted by colorful, adorable ponies from another dimension? They'll think we're crazy and throw us in the funny farm! Nothing but padded rooms and straight jackets over us to keep us from moving our arms!"

"This town can be crazy, mom." said Anais

"I know that already, Anais!" Nicole snapped. "You think I'm unaware of that?! I know that as much as any of these gosh-darn inhabitants of this town!" Nicole realized she was losing her cool, and took a long, deep breath, "But I don't think even the police here would believe that creatures from another dimension have abducted your brother." she sat on the couch, trying to relax, and tried to think things over in a more calm manner. "Have i really been a bad mother? What did I do to deserve this?"

"Come on, Mrs Mom." said Darwin, "You're trying to be a good mother."

"Then why did this happen?" Nicole felt like crying at unintentionally loser her son like this. "What can I do to find him?"

"Well, maybe we can ask aunt Penelope for-" Darwin was suddenly interrupted by Nicole getting in his face, looking peeved again.

"Never!" said Nicole, with fire showing in her eyes again. "I will never ask that... that... peace-loving vegetable for help! Penelope is off-limits! There is no way in Hades that I will ask my stupid sister for help."

"But she's our aunt." said Anais.

"And your sister," said Richard. "You can't just not ask a family member for help."

"I can if I hate her!"

"Why do you hate her?" asked Darwin.

"Mom and dad always loved her best. They were hard on me, and expected unrealistic expectations on me, but... Oh ho ho, they were always sweet and gentle with that tree-hugging sunshine!" her breathing began to sound more heavy and it made the family a little more afraid of her.
> Gumball With the Crusaders
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Chores were finally done at Sweet Apple Acres and Gumball was so relieved to have completed them. He admitted his hard it was to take care of a farm like this. Good thing he had his new friends to help him out, otherwise he would been through quite. a nightmare if he did all of this by himself.

"Oh my hands." said Gumball in a complaining voice. He also collapsed on his belly, face-first on the ground with a muffled groan.

"Aw come on, Gumball." aaid Fluttershy, "You did great out there. The animals are happy, the crops are harvested, now Applejack and her family are done for the day quicker than ever."

"True." the cat admitted. "If Darwin were here, he would have loved it."

"I'm sure he would have." Applejack said with a smile. "So you deserve a little reward fer helping us out."

Gumball's eyes perked up with excitement. He loved rewards as much the next guy, and his heart was pounding. "Ooh! what is it? Is it a new car?"

The others laughed. "No, that's ridiculous." Rainbow Dash. "I don't think there are cars here in Equestria anyway."

"Oh. right... What is it?"

"We're gonna get you an ice cream." Pinkie made a goofy smile.

Gumball gasped and said: "Whoo! ice cream! Ice cream! ice cream!"

"OK, OK, take it easy kiddo." Big Mac chuckled. "You can pick whatever flavors you want.

"Can I get the biggest sundae?"

"Yes, you can get whatever you want." Twilight noted. "And any kind of flavor for your sundae."

"What about me?" the baby dragon asked.

Twilight emitted a cute laugh and said to her little brother, "Yes Spike, you can get whatever you want, too. Just don't get a stomachache."

"I won't, Twilight." said Spike. They all sat in the front booth together and ordered themselves some ice cream. In courtesy of Fluttershy; she bought a neopolitan sundae with chocolate syrup and sprinkles on it.

Gumball loved the look on this kind of dessert. His eyes grew wide and immediately dug into the first three bites of his sundae. He could hardly describe the taste but something told him that: the ice cream here in Equestria was far better than any brand made in his homeworld. Yes, he fell in love with it.

He had no problem just taking many more bites of his ice cream and he felt something sore rushing through his brain and sides of his neck. "Gaaaaahhhh!" he began squirming on the floor in a seizure-like manner, and flailing his arms and legs in a crazy manner.

"Gumball!" Fluttershy gasped. "Are you alright?!"

"gah! Brainfreeze!" the cat shouted as he was screaming like a girl some more, and flailing like a ragdoll. "So cold!"

"He's fine." Twilight smiled. "He's just eating his ice cream too fast."

"Oh." Fluttershy became less worried and Gumball got back on his feet, as if nothing happened at all.

"Yeah Fluttershy, I'm just fine." he smiled and looked casual before sitting back on the stool to eat his treat some more. "Nothing but a little brainfreeze. Penny used to see me getting brainfreeze all time whenever we would go out for ice cream."

"Who's Penny?" asked Rainbow Dash

"My girlfriend. She used to be a peanut, but now she's like a golden fairy after I... accidentally cracked her shell open."

"Yeesh." said Pinkie Pie. "That must have hurt."

"Not really." said Gumball. "She's glad to have gotten out of her shell. It's like an inner beauty thing."

"A peanut?" asked Rainbow Dash in confusion

"yeah yeah i know, it's weird, but you would like her if you'd met her." Gumball rolled his eyes before taking another bite of his sundae.

"You have other friends in Elmore?" asked Rarity.

"Yep. And they're cool... kinda."

"Kinda?" asked Applejack

"I'm the best-looking out of all my classmates." Gumball boasted. "I can't help it if I'm so good-looking, or if the ladies find me too adorable." he lounged on the stool to prove his point. "I don't call myself handsome for nothing."

"And trouble prone." said Twilight with a smirk

"What? I'm not that trouble-prone." Gumball tried to defend himself. "I'm... adventurous. Besides, most people don't know how to have fun."

"Not everything is fun and games, sweetie." said Rarity."

"I know." Gumball sighed. "Like when my family's in danger and if someone's life is on the line."

"Right." said Spike. "You don't know how many times these guys here save Equestria on more than one occasion."

"More times than we can count." Fluttershy smiled. They all laughed and enjoyed their ice cream some more. As soon as they were done, the ponies were happy to give a tip to the owner of the parlor before heading off.

Three fillies went up to the group to greet them. It was the three fillies that Gumball pranked and scared with his drone a few days before, and he remembered how scared and hysterical they were when they saw the thing. On one hand, it was a good scare. On the other hand, he was a little afraid that the three were going to be really peeved at him for causing that prank on them.

"Hi Guys!" said Sweetie Belle

"Hello Sweetie Belle!" said Rarity, happy to see her little sister. "What brings you and your cohorts here?"

"Just wanted to meet thr visitor." said Applebloom.

"Yeah, it's cool to have someone from another universe in our own." Scootalooadded.

"Oh. You guys aren't mad?" asked Gumball

"No. We were mad at first," said Sweetie Belle, "but we got over it because sometimes, pranks can be fun."

"True." said Gumball.

"So what's your name?" asked Scootaloo.

"Gumball. Gumball Watterson."

The three fillies made a small laugh, and Applebloom said: "you were named after a type of candy?"

"I know I know, it's funny, but my real name is Zack. But... I chose Gumball because of a... gumball incident when I was a baby, having a gumball... stuck up my nose."

Rainbow Dash couldn't help but snicker at hearing that. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." she giggled. "I know it sounds traumatic for you, but that just sounds hilarious!"

"Rainbow!" Fluttershy scolded her.
> Sneaky Plan for Payback
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gumball was happy to be acquainted with the Cutie Mark Crusaders right now, even though they were pranked by him before with his little drone. These three fillies looked alright to him, even if they weren't really Darwin or his other friends from school.

"I'm Scootaloo." said the tomboyish filly.

"I'm Applebloom," the country girl added.

"And I'm Sweetie Belle." said Rarity's little sister to finish it.

"nice to meet you, I guess." said Gumball. "Look, you guys aren't mad at the prank I did?"

"Nah, it was just a prank." said Scootaloo. "I used to pull pranks on my aunts all the time."

Gumball couldn't help but chuckle at what fhe tomboy just said. "That sounds fun."

"Really fun." said Scootaloo

Applejack cleared his throat in a stern way. The fillies looked at the grownup mares, and Spike, knowing what they meant by clearing their throats. Applejack did it to tell the fillies not to give the cat boy any ideas to pull more pranks for his own amusement.

"Anyway," said Sweetie Belle, "We're not mad at the prank you did with that electric bird thing."

"You mean the drone?" Gumball pointed.

"Right." said Applebloom, "the drone. We all gotta laugh at ourselves once in a while."

"I do it all the time." said Pinkie Pie as she held a handheld mirror with her tail like she was a monkey or a lemur, and before everyone knew it, she was guffawing at her own reflection over and over again

"Pinkie, we get the point." Fluttershy looked a little annoyed with Pinkie's silly antics.

"Granted, we all make fun of ourselves once in a while." said Twilight, "but you always need to think about your pranks or whom it's ok to prank at."

"Somepony like a baby in the hospital." Rainbow Dash, "or a little foal in his bed."

"I know that." said Gumball. "Why can't you guys just trust me like Fluttershy?"

"No, no, we're not saying we don't trust you." said Rarity. "Quite the opposite."

"Yeah sugarcube." Applejack added. "We do trust you."

"So what's it like being in another world?" asked Applebloom.

Before Gumball could answer for her, he was interrupted by Sweetie Belle. "Yeah, and are there other worlds besides us?"

"You gotta tell us if there are other dimensions." Scootaloo also interrupted the cat boy.

"Hey hey hey!" Rainbow Dash intervened. "One question at a time, guys."

"Well yeah I come from another world." Gumball explained to them. "From Earth, and I am from a town called Elmore. It's a really weird place, trust me, when you see it, you'll be so weirded out."

"How weird?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"Like really weird." Gumball answered. "Here let me show you on my phone." so he did just that: showed the Crusaders the weirdness of Elmore on his cellphone and the girls were intrigued by this kind of world.

"It looks so... odd." said Scootaloo."

"Many people in Elmore are so weird and they come in many shapes and sizes. People call it the most random town in the world."

"I'll say." said Applebloom. "A walking and talking banana with googly eyes?"

"A flying eyeball with wings?" Scootaloo looked disturbed by one of the students in one of the pictures. "that's just disgusting."

"And a large wingless dragon?" Sweetie Belle pointed. "Weird class."

"Technically, Tina is a tyrannosaurus rex, or T. Rex for short. she's a kind of dinosaur. But it would be cool if she was a dragon."

"Who's the ugly peanut?" asked Scootaloo, noticing Penny.

Gumball looked offended and said: "Hey! that's my girlfriend you're talking about!"

The three girls looked a little frightened at this reaction and took a step back. "Now now, Gumball, they didn't know any better." said Fluttershy. "And they didn't know she was your girlfriend."

"Sorry." said the three.

"No, I'm sorry." said Gumball, realizing his little outburst. "Penny is a one of a kind girl and the best kind of girlfriend any boy can have. And she used to be a peanut, but now she's more like a golden fairy who can turn into anything of any shape."

"Ooh." the three fillies sounded intrigued by this kind of information. "A fairy?" said Scootaloo.

"Or i think she is a fairy. I accidentally broke her shell, and I convinced her to not be afraid of who she truly is, on the inside."

"Wow. Are her family members fairies?" asked Applebloom

"I... have no idea. They chose not to get out of their shells." Gumball rolled his eyes. "But they're happy and I can't force it on themselves to do so. Believe me I tried and it failed."

"Well you can't give up for trying." said the cyan Pegasus mare.

"Oh ho ho, easier said than done, Rainbow." said Gumball. "You do not know this family like I do."

"What do you mean, darling?" asked Rarity.

"I love Penny with all my heart, and I would die for her if needed." Gumball clasped his hands with a breath from his nose. "But her family is crazy! I mean almost deranged!"

"That's not very nice." Twilight said

"Come on, you said Penny was really nice."

"Yes, but... it's like this old saying: it's always the kind ones you have to look out for."

"Story of our lives." said Applejack.

Fluttershy blushed and knew that every one of her friends were looking at her. Yes, she can have outbursts of anger once in a while and it can give thr ines close to her quite a scare.

"I know it doesn't sound very nice, Twilight." the blue cat said. "But you weren't there when it happened."

"When what happened?" asked Fluttershy

"I don't wanna talk about it." was all Gumball replied.

"Well, we have to help our friend Pipsqueak with something." said Sweetie Belle. "Nice meeting you, Gumball."

"Nice meeting you guys, too." the blue cat smiled at the three fillies before they walked off.

"See, they easily forgive you." said Applejack. "Nothing to worry about, Sugarcube."

Whike walking, the Crusaders were smiling and Applebloom said: "He's a nice guy."

"I know." said Sweetie Belle.

"Though I kinda wish there was a way to do some payback for the prank he did to us." Scootaloo wondered. Suddenly, they all looked surprised and got a rather devious idea with evil smiles on their adorable faces.
> Tickle Attack!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

While enjoying his day at Fluttershy's cottage, Gumball was looking out the window and wondering how the rest of his family is doing back in Elmore. Alas, it's not like he can ask the co-ruling princesses of this peaceful, majestic land. And he would rather die than face a very angry and furious mother like Nicole. Yes, she would probably ground him until he is ninety years old. Plus it was angry to see her angry or hear her scream like an evil vulture or a wicked harpy.

"Gumball, are you up there, sweetie?" called Fluttershy from downstairs.

"Yeah, I'm up here, Fluttershy." Gumball called back to her. "What is it?" he stopped looking at the window to look downstairs.

"Are you hungry?"

Gumball heard his stomach growling and looked at it. "Yeah, i am." said Gumball. "I feel like my stomach is going to turn into a werewolf and pop out of my body to eat everything."

"What?" Fluttershy sounded confused.

"Just an expression." Gumball called.

"Oh! ok." said Fluttershy. "Well i have some watermelon for you to eat."

"Ooh. That sounds good." said Gumball. "I'll be right down."

"OK."

So the cat boy went down the steps to look at the fruit. the red juicy fruit inside the watermelon looked literally ripe for the picking.

He licked his lips and couldn't wait to take a bite out of these strips. Yes, his taste buds were just ready to indulge in the juicy sensation this melon will give him. "Wow, where'd you get this?"

"I was growing some in my garden and this was the biggest one i grew." Fluttershy smiled.

"Huh, no kidding." said Gumball. "Look at this baby. I wish Darwin was here to see this."

"Well grab a piece and enjoy." said Fluttershy warmly.

Gumball did just that and helped himself with the biggest slice if watermelon he can get his mouth on. Yes, the taste was so amazing to his taste buds that they all cheered like it was a concert.

"Oh boy!" said one of his taste buds, "That was deeeeeelicious!"

"Come on!" said another taste bud. "Bring in some more!"

"How does it taste?" asked Fluttershy

"Very yummy." Gumball smiled. "I've never had one like this before." he licked his lips before opening his mouth for another bite.

"Ooh! here comes some more." said another taste bud before all of them cheered as they felt the sticky and soft skin of the inner fruit.

Fluttershy was glad Gumball like the watermelon she picked from her garden. "I knew you would love it." she said.

"I love it alight." Gumball remarked. "I have a feeling that the food here is better than the food at home. And you guys don't have hot dogs or hamburgers either because ponies are herbivores."

"What are hamburgers and hot dogs again?" then she made a gasp. "wait, you cook dogs and eat them?"

"No! No! no!" Gumball reassured her. "No, that is just evil. No, hot dog is just a name for a pig intenstine on a bun that you put ketchup, mustard, and sometimes pickle relish on it."

"Oh." the yellow pegasus made a look of disgust. "Those poor pigs though. I can't imagine the suffering they would go through. So what are hamburgers again?"

"They are pieces of round, flat meat that usually comes from cows that we put between two buns and have condiments, lettuce, tomato, pickle, cheese, onions, and"

"Mayonnaise?" Fluttershy added.

"Ugh! eww! no, i hate Mayonnaise." Gumball made a face of disgust. "in my world, we call mayo the devil's condiment."

Fluttershy couldn't help but laugh. "That us a little funny."

"Heh, yeah I guess it is. How did you know?"

"Because we have hay-burgers here." said Fluttershy.

"Ah, I get it. because you ponies love hay"

"Right." the yellow pegasus smiled.

"Yeah, I eat meat but I'm a cat and cats are carnivores... or omnivores."

"True. That is true." Fluttershy giggled some more. "I mean, your world is a little weird."

"a little weird would be an understatement." the blue cat said. "If you stayed there long enough, you would understand." then he took another large bite of a watermelon strip, and he never got tired of the juicy deliciousness. "you probably wouldn't like some of the weird things that happen in my home. Elmore is considered the only place in town that defies the laws of physics... and nature."

Fluttershy giggled some more. "Well it would make sense. your dad is a rabbit and your mom is a cat like you. Naturally, cats would probably chase and eat rabbits... if the cats are big enough."

"True."

Suddenly, the doorbell rang and Fluttershy went to answer it. "I'll get it." she sang before humming over to the door. She opened it and it was the three fillies Gumball met yesterday. "Hello girls." she greeted warmly.

"Hi Fluttershy." the three fillies said in unison. "Is Gumball here anywhere?"

"He is just in the kitchen table. Just mind where-" but unfortunately, she was cut short when the three rambunctious fillies ran past her enough to make her spin and be dizzy.

The three fillies stopped in front of Gumball and they smiled. "Hi Gumball!"

After he gulped down another chunk of watermelon, Gumball smiled and said: "hey guys. What's going on?"

"We wanted to know if you wanted to come to the clubhouse with us." said Applebloom. "We wanna give you something nice."

Gumballs' eyes perked up with some kind of hope. "A present? for me?" he said. "Oh you shouldn't have!" he clapped his hands in excitement. "What is it?"

"It's a surprise." said Sweetie Belle. "Fluttershy, can Gumball come over?"

"Oh of course. Just make sure nothing bad happens to him." said the yellow pegasus mare.

"He'll be fine." said Scootaloo. "Come on, let's go."

The blue cat boy did just that and followed the three fillies to their little clubhouse. When they got there, Gumball was amazed at how bigger it was in person. The last time he saw it: it was through a little camera through his drone to create the pranks he did.

"Wow, this is nice." Gumball looked around the interior. "So you help ponies without cutie marks find them?"

"Yep. And we're proud of it." said Sweetie Belle

"Very proud of our work." Applebloom added.

"So what's the present you wanna give me?" instead of a response, Scootaloo locked the door so the cat wouldn't be able to get out and Sweetie Belle closed the window shut before locking that. "Uhhh, guys?" he said

"Our present is right here." said Scootaloo. "Something called payback for the you did." she and her cohorts had evil smiles on their adorable faces and Gumball immediately became scared of what can happen next.

"Oh no, don't tell me this is revenge for the prank."

"oh it is." said Applebloom.

"Let's see how you like being pranked, Gumball." Sweetie Belle added.

Gumball just gulped in fear awaiting what would happen next and the girls walked up to him menacingly with Applebloom pulling out a long rope to bind him.

"Gah! Ow! Agh!" Gumball exclaimed as he was feeling himself being restrained by the fillies and the rope force his arms against his side. Sweetie Belle pulled another rope and used her magic to bind Gumball 's legs so he wouldn't be able to run away. "Come on! It was just a prank, a harmless prank!" Gumball continued pleading. "Can't we just call it even?"

"Not until we're done with you, we won't." Scootaloo sang. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle pulled out one orange feather from Scootaloo's wings and they had a feather in their mouth.

"oh no. You wouldn't." Gumball slowly realized what was going to happen.

"We would." said Applebloom

"You didn't!" Gumball's voice began to raise up.

"We did." Sweetie Belle sang.

"no! no! anything but that!" Gumball pleaded one more time, but it fell on deaf ears for the fillies. They walked up to him and tickled him with the feathers and made him laugh crazily.

Yes it looked like Gumball was going to face retribution for pranking the fillies.
> Crusaders Being Punished
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Poor Gumball was endeavoring more tickle torture from Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle. He was laughing and laughing as he begs the crusaders to stop tickling him.

Alas, these attempts still fell on deaf ears to the girls, as they continued tickling him with feathers.

"I can't take it anymore!" Gumball laughed some more. "Hahaha! please! ah hahahahahaha! let me go! i beg of you! ha ha ha!"

"You want more?" asked Applebloom.

"Does he want more, Scootaloo?" Sweetie Belle asked the tomboy pegasus filly.

"I think he does want more." they all grunned evily again as they continued to tickle him further and further.

At last, Gumball felt his gut being a little sore from all of this uncontrollable laughter. "Ah! my ribs! ha ha ha!" he shrieked. "I think i'm going to bust my spleen!"

At last, the Crusaders had their fun and stopped tickling him (mostly because they were getting a little out of breath.)

Were they done? were they finished torturing him in a playful way like this. Suddenly, the door was knocked three times and the Crusaders looked at it in surprise.

"Hello?" It was Fluttershy. "Girls, are you in there? I hope i am not interrupting anything."

Sweetie Belle was the one to answer thr door with an "innocent" smile on her face, along with her friends. Gumball was panting and clutching where his stomach was, like it was about to burst out of his own body.

"Yep, nothing unusual going on." said Applebloom.

"We weren't doing anything to Gumball if that's what you're thinking." Scootaloo tried to help. She got her left torso bumped hard by Sweetie Belle. "Ow!" she exclaimed.

Fluttershy didn't exactly know what to make of this, and peeked over to find Gumball, and it looked like he was hurt or injured, but in reality: he was just all worn out by the tickling and laughing. The yellow pegasus gasped and flew over to the blue cat boy.

"Gumball!" she gently touched him. "Are you alright?"

"I'm... fine." Gumball said.

"Are you hurt? Are you sick?"

"No, i'm neither one of those things." said Gumball. "Those stupid so-called horses assaulted me by tickling me all over!"

"Hey!" the Crusaders sounded offended when they got called so-called horses.

"We're not stupid!" Applebloom said.

"Girls," said Fluttershy, sounding a little stern. "Is this true? did you tickle attack him?"

"No!" the three fillies blurted out. Fluttershy, however, was no fool and she just raised her left eyebrow at them, clearly not buying their response. At last, knowing they wouldn't be able to lie themselves out of this one. "Yes." they said in defeat.

Fluttershy looked appauled and said: "what? how can you do this to Gumball?"

"We just wanted to teach him a lesson." said Scootaloo.

"Yeah for pranking us with thay drone thing." Applebloom added.

"We weren't really going to hurt him." said Sweetie Belle

"Ah, well my gut feels like it's about to explode because of you guys." Gumball got up. "Ah!" he felt the cramp come back to his left side. "Ah, feels like an alien snake is going to pop out of me."

"Are you hurt, Gumball?"

"I just described it to you a few seconds ago." Gumball grunted.

"Oh, right." Fluttershy meekly said. "Here, maybe some ice can help with your gut." then she looked the Crusaders with a disapproving loom, whom knew were probably in trouble. "I'm going to have to speak to your sisters about this, girls."

The three fillies gulped, knowing that they were going to have to be given a lecture by their elder sisters... again.

"Come on, Gumball." said Fluttershy. "Maybe a nice dip in a hot tub will help that boo boo in you."

"Boo boo?" said Gumball, "i'm only twelve."

"I know. But it's not a serious injury."

"True." Gumball rolled his eyes. "Good thing there isn't a fire alien inside of me."

"Goodness. That's a little morbid." Fluttershy said.

"Sorry, just making a point."

So Fluttershy hauled Gumball back to her cottage and she gently sat him on the bed and Gumball gently clutched at where is side was sore. "Bag of ice, coming right up."

She did just that, and went into her freezer to get some ice for Gumball's sore gut. Immediately, he felt the cramp feeling slowly go away from his side, and the cst boy sighed in relief.

"Yeah, that hits the spot." the kid slowly turned his head on the sofa. "Thank you, Fluttershy."

"Happy to help you." Fluttershy proudly said. "I'll make sure their sisters know about this."

"OK. No one tickles me in a sneak attack and gets away with it."

"I have another idea." the yellow pegasus pointed. "You are more than welcome to use my humidifier."

"Humidifier?"

"Yes, the ones like in a steam room." Fluttershy said. "Nothing like warm steam to clear up sinuses or heal your gut."

"Sure, i'll try that." Gumball smiled. "So how did you get into animals so much?"

"It's my special talent." said Fluttershy. "I didn't know that i could do when until my later life as a filly."

"Ah."

The cat boy continued to gently press the ice bag down on where the gut was still a little sore.





Later on in the day, Fluttershy told the crusaders' sisters (or sister figure to Scootaloo) what had happened and what they did.

As expected by the fillies, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack were not happy one bit about it.

"Applebloom," said Applejack. "You know that it was wrong to prank Gumball like that, right?"

"Yes, but- he pranked us first." said Applebloom.

"We just Wanted to teach him a lesson." said Sweetie Belle.

"Two wrongs never make a right, darling." said Rarity.

"I mean, remember the pranks i pulled before the zombie?" said Rainbow Dash

"We do." said Scootaloo.

"He did apologize to you guys first, did he?" asked Twilight.

"Yes." said Sweetie Belle. "He did."

"but the least we can do is call it even." said Applebloom.

"But i am afraid y'all are still going to have to be punished." said Applejack. "You are all going to have to do all of Big Mac's chores for a week."

Rainbow Dash and Rarity nodded in agreement.

"All of those chores?" said Scootaloo. "We're not as big as he is."

"sorry, girls." said Rarity. "But it's the way it has to be."
> Might Have Found A New Best Friend
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Working and working all day, the Cutie Mark Crusaders already finished cleaning the pig pen at Sweet Apple Acres, and they were already sweating. Unfortunately for them, this was only the first chore they were doing today, the rest would be helping out in the fields, herding the sheep, and planting some new apple tree seeds in the orchard and getting rid of the the trees that were withering away out of old age. "I don't know how much longer i can keep this up." said Sweetie Belle, panting from exhaustion.

"Yeah, I feel like we are working like slaves right now." Scootaloo wiped a few drops of sweat off her forehead.

"Look, it's hard work." Applebloom admitted. "I did some of Big Mac's chores, but i think we kinda deserve it." she bowed her head in shame. "He was asking for mercy and we didn't listen to him." then she let out a sigh. "Rarity was right. Two wrongs don't make a right."

"It's not like we were going to through him into a furnace until he's cooked." Scootaloo pointed

"I know." said Sweetie Belle. "But come on, let's just finish the rest of the chores so we can relax."

"Now I know how it feels to be Big Mac." Scootaloo said

"Me too." said Applebloom before they both went back to work with the chores. The second one was an actual chore. The three of them had a little difficulty pulling the plough in the crop fields because they were three fillies against a plow made more for grownups. The more they worked, the sweatier they were becoming. Alas, this was their punishment for tormenting Gumball by tickling him over and over again. The sooner they would get these laborious chores today, the better. The worst part of it was; it would be for one whole week.

Of course, as for Big Mac himself; he was enjoying his week just relaxing and enjoying time to himself since this was a week off from his normal duties. Yes, he was sitting on his bed and napping. The strong stallion was glad to have been taken this kind of time off for himself. Everyone needs a vacation time every once in a while in their lives, otherwise; they would burn themselves out.





As the Crusaders were enduring their punishment, Gumball was reading some Power Ponies Comic books that Spike gave him. He was a little weirded out by the plot and realized that he shouldn't be surprised since ponies are the dominant species in this universe. For some reason, he keeps forgetting that key fact within him. Drinking some orange juice, he turned the next page, and Fluttershy gently poked him with a hoof. "Wah! What?" Gumball shrieked.

"Oh, i'm so sorry." Fluttershy said in her meek and adorable quiet voice. "I didn't mean to frighten you."

"Nah, i've seen scarier things." Gumball reassured her. "I told you about Carrie, and Tina."

"Right, you did mention them to me." the yellow pegasus remembered. "But you'll make plenty of friends here. I promise. You already have made some."

"True. Still I wish Darwin was here to see this."

"Maybe we can ask Celestia or Luna to help us with that... or Discord."

"Good idea. But i don't want to face the wrath of my angry mother. After what happened before, she is going to murder me big time, and i might be grounded for life when she sees me again. And I have dreams of being an actor or being successful with this handsome face. Mom can ruin all of that for me!"

"Gumball!" Fluttershy said. "You're spiraling."

"you're not going to slap me, are you? Because I might need that."

"Heaven. No. Why would I do that?" Fluttershy sounded surprised.

"Well that's how it works in my world for spiraling people sometimes." Gumball flatly said

"Why?"

"To snap them out of it. It works sometimes."

"I'm sure there is a better way to help somepony in need of regaining their sanity besides hurting them." Then she looked at her front door. "Like having some fresh air to inhale in our lungs. Nothing like enjoying the outside to help ease our tension."

"Sure, why not?" Asked Gumball. They both walked out the cottage together and Gumball was liking the air already just coming out in the atmosphere again.

As he was being greeted by Fluttershy's critter friends, a small colt that was white with brown spots on him approached. "Hello." Said the colt in a British accent. "So you're the cat from another world I heard about."

"Yes. That's me."

"Name's Pipsqueak, but my friends call me Pip."

"Names's Gumball." Said the blue cat boy.

"Heh. You were named after a candy?"

"Well my real name is Zack, but using my real name almost destroyed me on the inside."

Pip couldn't help but laugh. "You're funny. Do you read comic books?"

"I love comic books. What boy doesn't?"

"I know!" Said Pip. "I have lots of comics in my own room to read from."

"How many?"

"I stopped counting after fifty of them."

"Wow."

"Yeah there is just so many that I lost track. I probably have around a hundred of them."

"cool."

"So wanna get some cookies from Sugarcube Corner?"

"Maybe later. I was just about to finish the end of the comic where the Power Ponies are about to beat High Heel in foiling the great show heist.

"Ooh! Can I read it with you?"

"Sure. Why not. It looks very cool and action-packed."

"When it comes to the Power Ponies, anything is possible!" Pip said in excitement. Then both boys ran in together to read the last part of the comic. Fluttershy smiled at how adorable it is to see Gumball made a possible new best friend.

Yes, it can look like a new beginning for him.
> Nicole Begins To Go Crazy
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the Watterson household, Richard was getting a little worried about his beloved (but angry) wife. Darwin and Anais were also getting worried about Nicole since Gumball ran away with a bunch of adorable ponies from another world.

As of now, Nicole was sitting on the dining table and having some bottles of vodka, obviously getting drunk and pouting about believing that it was her fault her firstborn son got "kidnapped" like this.

"Uh... dad?" Said Anais, "maybe you should go talk to mom and see if she's ok."

"Why me?" Asked Richard. Whispering in one of Anais' ears, he added: "look at her, she is a mess and you know how scary your mother can get when she's mad."

"Yeah, but you're her husband and you usually know how to calm Mrs. Mom down." Said Darwin. "You know how to make her happy again and she's drank too much of that stuff."

"Ok, ok, I'll go talk to her." Richard looked afraid but took a deep breath before walking over to his wife. "Hi honey!" He tried to sound as happy as possible. Nicole just gave him a scary scowl in return. "Hello Richard." She said in a slurry voice. "I still can't find Gumball anywhere." Then she made a hiccup.

"Well honey," Richard still kept his smile, "I know you're still feeling down right now but-"

"Down?" Nicole said, "down?!" Then she made a laugh. "Come on, I am as happy as I can be! As happy as working at my cruddy job for chump change, and now losing my firstborn son to a bunch of colorful horses from another dimension? Hahaha! Yep, I am so a winner." Then she had another sip of her vodka

"Come on honey, you shouldn't be upset." Richard said.

"Well why not?!" Nicole suddenly snapped. "Why shouldn't I get gosh darn upset?! Just look at me! I am definitely mother of the year material. Ha! I'm the worst mother in history."

Richard made a gulp and tried not to feel uncomfortable. "You're not a bad mother, Nicole." He tried cheering her up. "You said it yourself; there's no such thing as a perfect parent or perfect family."

"Oh please." Nicole doubted. "I am no good mother. Do I really scream that much? So I really lose my temper that much? Or- or- do I really get angry that much."

"No!" Richard said. "No no no no no, of course not. You are the greatest mo-"

"Liar!" Nicole blurted, startling Richard.

"Mom, calm down!" Anais said.

"Calm down? Hic! Who am I kidding? Gumball, my- my firstborn baby gone like this, all because of me." She faceplanted her face on the table with a thud.

"Mrs Mom, we're worried about you. And Gumball."

"Oh, who am I kidding?" Asked Nicole before breaking down into tears. Mood swings were a common thing about being inebriated after all. "My little Gumball, my Gummypuss, my own firstborn gone all because of me! It's all my fault. I am not a good mother."

"But you're a good mom, Mrs Mom." Said Darwin, trying to console her.

"Don't lie to me, Darwin." The female cat brushed off. "I know a lie when I see and hear it. Now because of me, he's never coming back." Then she faceplanted on the table again while crying some more. "But hey," She suddenly got her head back up with a demented smile on her face. "Maybe that will be one less kid to worry about. Yes! I still have you guys. Who- who needs Gumball anyway? Hahaha! He was always a spoiled, insensitive twerp who is never grateful for anything!"

The rest of the family became a little weirded out by this change of behavior.

"Yep, I am better off without him. Mwahahahahaha!" She began spazzing out on the floor and moving around like crazy as she was laughing crazily and maniacally.

Richard, Darwin, and Anais looked on, feeling completely weirded out by Nicole's supposed loss of sanity. "I think her mind just snapped" Anais quietly said to Darwin

"Are you kidding?" Asked Darwin. "She's lost it! She's gone completely bonkers."

"let's give her some space." Richard quietly said to his kids.

"Maybe we should call the police on her?" Asked Darwin.

"Are you kidding? This is mom we're talking about." Said Anais. "She hates tattletales, hates them more than dad's ponytail."

"Hey! It's not my fault I grew hair like that one time." Richard sounded offended. "Things like those happen out of nowhere.

"We gotta do something about Mrs Mom." Darwin pointed. "If we don't call the cops, what can we do?"

"Let me try something." Said Anais. She went up to her mother still spazzing and losing her mind as she was laughing hysterically like a crazed maniac. "Mom, I think you had enough vodka for one day." She gently held her mother by the right hand. "Maybe we should get you to bed."

"What?!" Nicole got off the floor and looked offended. "I told you not to talk to me like I'm hysterical!" The today three family members looked scared at Nicole losing her temper as usual.

The mother of the family realized what she had just did. "I- I'm sorry. I am just so sad about what happened with Gumball."

"We all are." Said Darwin. "Maybe we can get aunt Penelope to help us."

"No! Never!" Nicole barked. "I want nothing to do with that hippie! Penelope is nothing but a deadbeat, nature-obsessed loser!"





In Equestria, Gumball and Pipsqueak were enjoying some comic books for themselves. It was the first time Gumball and seen the Power Ponies series newest edition.

"So Pip, what's it like in Trottingham?"

"The ponies are very nice and welcoming." Pip answered. "A little different from Ponyville. But it's a nice place. Me and my parents always go there for a few weeks in summer."

"Nice."

"Who wants apple cider?" Fluttershy brought in two glasses of the drink.

"Yay!" The boys exclaimed in joy.
> Chased by Fillies
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

another day full of wills start today in equestria. while ponies wake up in good feet for what's the days and previous upcoming day will as usual offer to keep in good mood everyone's joys.

But for some, it's another kind of surprise that could apppear and fall to someon either can be lucky or even unlucky. in two cases, this could be the worse one of the day right before you tell yourself this day will be the very easy day of your life.

take Gumball for example. his day with pipsqueak was quite fair, both sharing theirs though, theirs fav foods, reading also some comics. everything has going well for our little blue cat. Although his meet with Cutie Mark Crusaders have left some kind of unpleasant surprises as a tickling attack that end up in a punishment. He hope he could go there, not for work but mocking at theirs punishment.

Gumball walked around the land with nobody at sight. it was a great thing. he wanted to discover more of theses new, unknown lands he doesn't know about. Little did, doing that alone could be dangerous or even worse if people who don't know him, want to encounter him.

"wonder what else i didn't visit to. hope i can meet dragons somewhere nearby. only if i can ride them that'll be really cool. also, if they can me doing a favor like roasting up that scumbag simian. ha ha ha" his though sure want to make another mischief and being in trouble "oh and my mom. i want her big, fat, smelly butt, burning in Hades. ha ha ha. how long she can before being harsh on me while Penelope is not?" he laughed even more, before his stomach started to hurt him a bit. Starting to give him some cough. "ok ok. i get carried away much."

"hey you." a voice talked. making the blue cat stoped his walk.

"what the?" he turned his head. his eyes was big when he figured out a lot of foals spotted him. theirs eyes fully at aim on him.

"are you the blue cat that caused mayhem in our town?" asked the pink foals with violet white mane.

"oh shit. not again." he ran away in complete fear like a turkey escaping being a Thanksgiving dinner

"hey, where you going?"

"come back here."

"we want to talk."

"so, what are we doing?" asked Silverspoon to her friend who didn't break her gaze to the cat.

"like we always used to do when we want to have a thing with stranger we don't know. her hoof pointed to a running cat « after him. But don't hurt him. We want a talk. I'd just hope my parents will have agreements to keep so i can handled him.

"you want him ?"

"he's a cat. Whats the big deal of it ?

"nothing. Just, let's get the cat."

as far as gumball keep running to get off from this pack of foals. Many more of them started to split, taking different way to stop the cat's course.

"why in the world they have against me ? Oh, I don't need to ask, the pranks of course." his eyes widened as he was running away from these fillies that want him for some reason. He had endure a tickle torture before, but he was in no mood to do it again.

Gumball was a rather lazy piece of work, and he was not one to run long distances. But of course, if one's life was on the line, then one would have to run long distances enough to keep themselves alive (at least until they die of exhaustion, or gets some kind of lucky break.

Sweat was already starting to kick in on Gumball as he was running and running to get away from these fillies.

He can plainly see that these fillies were hot on their heels, and they were catching up quickly. "Gah! Curse these stupid two legs!" Gumball cursed at himself. Why couldn't I have been born with four legs to help me run like a regular cat would do!?"

"we almost got him, guys!" Said Sunny Daze.

"He won't get far!" Peachy Pies added

"Just keep running after him!" Said Diamond Tiara. "He'll get tired soon."

Gumball was trying to think of some options in how to get those fillies off his back. Sure he was not as smart as Anais was, but there had to be something he can do to get the fillies away from him.

He noticed that there were a couple of rose bushes not far from him on the left. He came up with a clever idea. He pulled out a couple of rose bush branches, though not without getting stung by the prickles from the process and laid down the branches on the ground to hope that the fillies would trip on them at least.

Removing the pricklier from his hands, Gumball can see that the girls did get caught in the prickles on their hooves, stopping them from chasing the cat any further.

"Haha!" Gumball laughed in triumph. "That should get rid of them!"

Running a good distance, it did look like that Gumball had lost those girls indeed. But just when he was about to stop, but then he saw the fillies gain up on him again.

"Oh come on!" He shouted in exasperation. "You've gotta be kidding me! How can they still be chasing me like this?! I thicker the rose thorns would get them for sure. Looks like I got blood on my hands, literally, for nothing."

Poor Gumball was already getting exhausted from all of this running. He just wanted to collapse and rest his muscles, but how can he when all these fillies are chasing after him. He saw a nearby tree to try and climb so they wouldn't be able to reach him. Gumball tried climbing one of the branches and he was already halfway there to the top. However, one of the branches couldn't support his weight and it snapped as Gumball fell on the ground.
> Gumball Meets Diamond Tiara
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

after falling from the tree, Gumball was dizzy and his head was spiraling as the dizziness was going through his big cat head. Both the fillies looked concerned and confused at the boy's safety and well-being. "Is he ok?" asked Silver Spoon.

"I hope that we didn't make him injure himself." said Diamond Tiara in a worried voice.

"Mommy, can i have my buttercup?" Gumball said in a silly voice, clearly still dizzy from the impact of the fall, then he fell on his back as the birds were still flying around his head.

"Come on, don't die on me!" said Diamond Tiara, starting to panic that Gumball might be... pushing up daisies. It was just then Fluttershy hovered over to where Gunball was faint.

"Oh my goodness." Fluttershy gasped with her hooves on her face, looking very worried about Gumball's well-being. "What happened to him?"

Diamond Tiara was the first one to speak and said to the sweet, yellow pegasus. "We didn't hurt him. We promise."

"yeah, he fell off the tree."

"Why in the whole world of Equestria were you two chasing him?" Fluttershy was starting to sound like an angry mother again.

"We weren't chasing him!" said Diamond Tiara. "We just wanted to talk to him and we were only running because he ran away from us like a scared rabbit." The yellow pegasus looked at Silver Spoon to see if her own best friend was telling the truth, and Silver nodded her head a yes.

Looking at Gumball again, the boy slowly got back on his feet, and still felt a little dizzy from the impact, but managed to regain his balance. "Gumball, are you ok?" asked Fluttershy as she was helping him keep his balance.

"I'm fine. These girls were about to beat me up."

"What?!" Said Diamond Tiara in disbelief. "That is not true! We weren't going to beat you up."

"we just wanted to know more about you." Said Silver Spoon.

"oh." Gumball rubbed the back of his head. "But you looked pretty angry when you were coming towards me."

"We were mad because you were running away from us." Diamond tiara stated. "If we wanted to beat you up, we would have looked way more mad than that."

Fluttershy gave Diamond Tiara a stern look in her face. "So you girls wanted to get to know him?"

"Yes." Both fillies said in unison.

"but, I... I pranked you guys with that drone before." Gumball said. "I thought for sure you were going to kill me."

"Why are you being morbid?" Asked Silver Spoon. "Besides, before we became friends with them, the Cutie Mark Crusaders have pranked us many times before. Like the time when Applebloom put a pig in Diamond's room, and the pig-"

"Silver Spoon!" Diamond Tiara scolded her bestie. "You swore you would never talk about it again!" She looked really embarrassed by something very humiliating and rather disgusting.

"you know," said Gumball, "I was going to ask what the pig did, but I think I'll not ask."

"Thank you." Diamond Tiara said. "It's not really any of your business anyway."

"Fluttershy, he just ran away from us, we swear to Celestia." Said Silver Spoon

"Ok, I believe you." Said Fluttershy.

"look, we're sorry we scared you, kid. We were just curious."

"Wait, how do I know this isn't a trap for you both to tickle me like the Crusaders did to me at their clubhouse?"

Diamond Tiara made an offended gasp. "Paranoid much?" She pointed.

"Well... those three were pretty convincing to me."

"Look, we won't tickle you." Said Silver Spoon.

"Can we get you a lie detector test at least?" Gumball asked, still looking a little suspicious.

"Oh don't be silly." Said the yellow Pegasus. "Granted, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have been bullies in the past, but they have changed for the greater good, and helping Diamond Tiara is what gave the Crusaders their cutie marks."

Gumball looked rather amazed. "Really?"

"Yep, they were just blank- I mean, ponies without cutie marks at first, but now they changed for the best." The pink filly pointed.

"So you guys were just looking to be my friends and learn more about me?" Gumball asked

"Yep. We promise." Said Diamond with a smile.

It was silent but Gumball finally said: "ok."

"So we wanted to ask if you can come over to my mansion." Diamond offered. "My daddy wouldn't mind if you came over. Though, my parents do have a strict clean feet policy. Especially my mother. She can be so unbearable at times."

"Ugh, I know how you feel." Said Gumball. "Mum mom can be an unbearable person too. Except she can get pretty nasty when she's mad, not to mention crazy, she might unleash kung-fu or Karate moves on you if she's mad enough."

Both Diamond and Silver began laughing at what he just said. "Oh that's funny." Diamond Tiara wiped a tear from her right eye.

"No, really, my mom is terrifying."

"Sadly," said Fluttershy. "He is not wrong. I have seen how angry his own mother can be, and she desperately needs an anger management counselor."

Then both the fillies' laughing ceased. "But enough of that, sure I can come to your mansion Diamond Tiara."

"Perfect!" She smiled. "Wait, how do you know my name?"

"Duh, my drone?" Gumball said. "It had a camera and a microphone? I forgot that drones don't exist in this world. But I'm Gumball. I know it's a funny name, but that's what I am."

"Why would you be named after a candy?" Asked Silver Spoon curiously.

"Why don't you ask my dad?" Gumball rolled his eyes. "He's... not smart enough to fix the zipper in his own pants."

Making a few small laughs with her best friend, Silver Spoon said: "you're funny, Gumball."

"Yeah, you want to be our friends?"

"Sure. I guess." Gumball said.

"I promise you will love my house." Said Diamond Tiara

"Can Fluttershy come too at least? She's one of the first friends I made here."

"But of course. She is one of Equestria's main heroes after all." Diamond smiled. "But seriously," her demeanor changed to a mildly stern one. "Please make sure your feet are clean or my mother will have a nervous breakdown."