The Arrival

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It is a perfect day in Elmore. The sun is shining and everything is just right. Until...

"Hey, hey, hey, Darwin!" "You're doing it wrong again!" I cry. 

"Sorry." Darwin says. 

"...why don't we try it again!" I replied. 

"Okay!" He said cheerfully. It is a per- 

"Noo!" "Darwin!" I scream again. "You are supposed to say Normal. Not perfect!" I say, trying to calm down. This was so frustrating! -- Wait. Okayokayokay. Let me tell you from the start.

This morning Darwin and me went to school holding our scary project. When we got inside, Ms.Simian was already out and lecturing us on "How well we did on our story project" to be exact. Story project?! I thought. I thought she had said SCARY project!!! Oh man, oh man. We were in BIG trouble. And for us, big trouble means two things: angry teacher and ANGRY MOM. Which means that we would go to Principal Brown's office, which means when we got home there would be a DE-MOM FROM HECK (ha-ha! pun!) waiting for us.

 The rest is this: de-mom got angry and tried to eat us, and now we are upstairs doing our story project. Now you know the story.

...

"WAKE UP GUMBALL!!" Is the first thing I hear this morning. 

"Uhhmmnm" is my response. I open my eyes to find Anais and Darwin leaning over me. 

"You overslept." says Anais. What?! I overslept? Oh my gurd. What is wrong with me? 

"... this is the fifth time this week!" Mom says. I shoot up and out of bed like a bullet. I rush to get dressed, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, and run to the bus. But, of course, we miss it. 

"Hey mom" says Darwin "Can you drive us?" 

"YEAH!" Anais and me shout. 

"Of course!" mom says. Then she turns to me. 

"If you don't oversleep again" she adds, frighteningly. My brow is beaded with sweat, but I manage to nod. 

"S-sure M-mom." I say.

...

We're almost at school when I see something strange in front of it. 

"MOM!" I scream,"STOP THE CAR!" 

"Why?" she responds. 

"BECAUSE YOU'RE ABOUT TO DRIVE STRAIGHT INTO A PORTAL!" 

"AAAAAAAAAAHH!!" we all scream at once. Just in time, mom veers to the right, narrowly missing two girls and a boy. Wait. Two girls and a boy? They weren't there before... And then it hit me. 

"Guys! Those people came from the portal!" 

"Wait, what?" Anais whispers. We all peer out the window.

...

The first girl looks kinda like me, actually. She's pink with a purple muzzle, purple-tipped ear and a purple-tipped tail. She has a little tuft of hair on her forehead that sticks out cutely. She has a sweater exactly like mine, and grey pants cuffed at the ends, like mine. And these big eyes, that when she looked at me, I could barely look away. I blush and reluctantly tear my gaze away to look at the second girl.

She looks like Darwin in the fact that she has this kind of innocent look about her. She... looks like a sweet person, and she also looks like a fish in the same way Darwin's a fish. She is yellow, and has shoes that look like Darwin's but red. She has a bow on her head, but it has a red flower in it. She also has the same fin at the side of her head, like Darwin's. She also has this thing about her that makes it seem like she is blushing, but probably not.

The boy looks about Anais' age, and intelligence level from the way he observes the peeking heads of me, Darwin, Anais and Mom. He is blue all over. He wears an orange shirt cuffed at the ends with white, and orange pants. He is wearing white socks. He is also a rabbit, like Anais.

...

"Hi!" says the first girl cheerfully. Oh my gurd. They have seen us. Anais basically reads my thoughts and says: "Well, yeah. Of course they see us, dummy. We almost ran them over!" 

She has a point, though. We did almost run them over... 

"Hello-o. Anyone there?" repeats the girl. 

"Bubblegum, I don't think they want to know us." says the boy.

Bubblegum? That's almost exactly like Gumball! What the heck! Who are these people? Suddenly, the second girl runs up and talks to us, saying: "Hi! I'm Darla Firedautter." 

Darla? That's so much like Darwin!! 

"That girl over there is my sister. Her name is Bubblegum. That boy over there is my brother. His name is Andrew." hmmm... So Andrew equals Anais! "Nice to meet you!" she continues.

"Ummm, Hi...?" I say.

"What are their names? Darla, can you ask them what their names are?" Says Bubblegum. "Waitwaitwaitwait." I say. "Let me introduce myself. I am Gumball Watterson." "And this," I gesture to my family, "Is my family." 

"This is Anais," Anais waves. "This is Darwin," Darwin makes a funny face and Bubblegum and Darla giggle. "And this" I say, "Is Mom, otherwise known as Nicole Watterson. So, welcome to The Amazing World of Gumball!" I do a bow and sit down. They laugh a little harder and I beam.

...

"So, Bubblegum, which school do you go to?" Asks Mom. 

"I go to Almore junior high." Responds Bubblegum. "Why?"

Mom looks shocked. "Well, they all go to-" "ELMORE JUNIOR HIGH!" We all chorus. Now it's their turn to be confused. 

"Oh." Is all Andrew manages to say.

...

"Why did you come here?" I ask Bubblegum later. We hear some shuffling downstairs. Whatever. "We came here to escape the wrath of our dad." She responds. "He's a bit like your mother, from what I can tell, except maybe a little bit more... extreme." She concludes. 

Suddenly, the door creaks open. 

A man who I have never seen in my life, but looks familiar comes in. "You... you came here to escape me?" whispers Nicholas Firedautter.







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