The Fine

Chapter 5 - The Chase

"You stupid couch!" grumbled Kyle, trying to get the couch off of him.

"Oh that hurts" was the response the couch gave. But Kyle didn't notice it's anthropomorphism, too busy trying to free himself.

After a few minutes of struggling, Kyle was free from the bounds of the couch. His relief was short-lived when he got a startle from two kids in the house.

"KYLE, WE NEED YOUR HELP!" Gumball and Darwin shouted after zipping down the stairs.

"AH!" gasped Kyle. "Don't do that! If I had biological organs, you could've given me a heart attack-".

"Not the time!" interrupted Gumball. "We-need-your-help-to-get-this-evidence-to-the courthouse-to-prove-that-Elmore-Stream-It-is-behind-all-this-".

"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU SAYING!?". Kyle couldn't understand the young kitty through his speedy blabbering.

"What he was trying to say was..." began Darwin "WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET THIS EVIDENCE TO THE COURTHOUSE TO PROVE THAT ELMORE STREAM-IT IS BEHIND ALL THIS!"

Kyle found he preferred incoherent fast-talk when Darwin's screaming almost literally knocked his head off. "OKAY! I GET IT! Now, my first question; what is your 'evidence' as you describe?".

"Anais found it online" answered Gumball. "She added up the information from news articles and pages relating to the entire thing".

"Okay?". Kyle was still unsure of how a little girl could be that smart. "Well, if it's real evidence, why can't you just send it via email?"

"We already tried that" replied Darwin. "But Stream-It partnered with a dangerous hacker to make sure we don't spill the beans".

"Anais is still upstairs trying to combat both of them" added Gumball.

"Alright, show me" smirked Kyle with his rotating 'mouth'. He was convinced this was part of the kids' childish games.

Gumball and Darwin did as Kyle asked them to and pulled him upstairs. When they opened the door, Kyle's mechanical eyes enhanced in awe when he saw Anais at the desk, typing into the keyboard, with digital texts on the screen".

"I won't give up, not without a fight" she declared, obviously in response to an order to delete the email. "You want it, come and get it".

"Okay, the intelligence of that girl literally scares me" whispered Kyle to Gumball and Darwin before they left the room. He didn't know wether to doubt anything now.

"Anyway..." continued Gumball, "We need your help to get this printed evidence across town to the courthouse so we can both prove the DAO was really not the bad guy and that they should take action".

"Now why the heck would I do that?" snarked Kyle, obviously not in the mood to be involved with these kids any further.

"BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, ELMORE STREAM-IT WILL TRIUMPH EVILLY AND TAKE HOLD OF THE WAY WE USE THE INTERNET! THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT US! IT'S THE ENTIRETY OF FLIPPING ELMORE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!?" shouted Darwin, inadvertently spitting on Kyle's face while shaking him violently.

"Whoa, dude! Chillax" said Gumball, pulling his adoptive brother away from the steam-robot.

"Okay! I get it!" replied Smith, getting back up. "I'll help you. But how? I don't have a car. My roommate just drives me from point A to point B when necessary. So I can't drive you there-". Kyle stopped when he saw the cup of lemonade from earlier downstairs, right next to the box labeled "Dodj or Daar".

"But..." continued Kyle, gesturing to the kids to come closer. "...a little 'daar' can".

Gumball and Darwin looked at each there confused, but went along with Kyle's idea.