Chapter 12: Alone..?

## Plot

After being suddenly kidnapped, Gumball/Darwin find themselves stuck inside a mysterious hidden building with no way out, and they're not alone. Meanwhile, their family is out searching for them.

## Chapter (WARNING FOR SPOILERS)

It begins straight after chapter 11, with Gumball/Darwin very much still stuck inside the sack as they're in an unknown car, panicking. They try to come up with reassurances and plans with each other mentally, but are cut off by the car suddenly stopping.

They try to think positive of this, but it's in vain as they're taken out and dragged into a building inside a room implied to always be locked. They're dropped in, as the mysterious figure remarks to someone of the two's arrival. Once the man is gone, the sack is untied, and Gumball/Darwin are sent falling out. They look at their surroundings and are greeted with pairs of all kinds of white glowing eyes looking at them.

The two then meet Vanessa, to which they realize the room is full of past experimented children. Naturally they are questioned, and introductions are done. Vanessa remarks that they seem to be the actually successful experiment, and goes to explain bitterly where they were. The figure now known as Dr. F, reveals to be a man who kidnaps Gilson's experiment victims to therefore well, experiment on them, to see how they work.

Vanessa and the others notice Gumball/Darwin's implemented claws, but suddenly the man comes in to snatch a child. Once gone, the fox girl reveals that nobody ever returns from here. This devastates the two, and everyone sits in silence.

Meanwhile, Nicole, Richard, and Anais are in the station wagon, going around town looking for Gumball/Darwin. The older feline becomes annoyed by her husband not fully participating, however is abruptly stopped by him, whom thinks it's just a false alarm. Nicole and Anais notice that it's a man similar to Gilson's stature, and decide to investigate, the feline at first not wanting her daughter to come but the latter resisted.

They sneak into the building, Nicole keeping watch while Anais goes to find her brothers. The young bunny soon discovers sounds inside a room, and investigating, she can hear Gumball/Darwin inside. Entering, she finds them safe and sound for the most part, as well as the other kids much to her surprise. The three hug, relieved to see each other, however Gumball/Darwin can't bear to leave with the other experiments in Dr. F's hands. However as Anais regretfully declines, Nicole's scream can be heard.

The three race down the hall, and at one point Gumball/Darwin's stitching in the arm gives way, but there is no time to repair it. Once arriving, they find Nicole fighting Dr. F, scalpel in her hand. The man ends up stabbing her in the arm. Anais notices her brothers quiet, and turns to see them in utter fright under flashbacks.

Unable to handle their horrible memories, the two out of complete fear approach Dr. F and throw him off Nicole. When the man is angered, he is met with sharp claws piercing his head, killing him instantly. Nicole and Anais are startled by the events, the young bunny helping her mother up, as the older cat goes to comfort Gumball/Darwin. However, they are silent, and very much terrified as well as guilty of their actions.

The scene cuts away to the family preparing to return home. Gumball/Darwin's arm has not been properly fixed yet, held together in a makeshift bandage. However as everyone else is grateful to be okay, they are not, instead contemplating everything that has happened and what they had done.

Vanessa startles them by her sudden presence interrupting their thoughts. She questions if they'll be alright, to which they reply that they might, soon asking whether or not they'll see her and the kids again. The fox admits that her and the other experiments can't just go back to normal life, and mentioning having to find the youngest children's loved ones if able to, anyways. The two wish her luck, and they say their goodbyes, Vanessa thanking them for saving the other experiments.

They're interrupted by Richard's joyous honking of the wheel, and they bid farewell, as the two join their family to head back home, unaware of the angry stranger watching them.

## Fun Facts!

-This is the first appearance of Dr. Frank Gilson, known more as Dr. F, Gilson's brother.

-This is also mainly the first appearance of Vanessa.

-Several things from the original Fanfiction.Net chapter were changed, including old bits of lore that just don't make sense anymore. Such being, in the original, when Vanessa remarks about Gumball/Darwin's shared body, she originally remarks "Huh. Gilson's never tried to do that before, those stupid experiments usually fail. I guess you're the lucky ones."

-In the original, when the two mention killing Gilson, Vanessa congratulates them for the deed, claiming that "Nobody's really tried to stand up to him really, so this is a first."

-In the Fanfiction.net version, Richard does not startle Nicole into stopping. Instead she says "Wait a second.. Do you see that?". She also does not verbally state for the other family members to stay put, as well as Anais disobeying by following with no conversation started at all.

-The old version contained a little author's joke about the "Finding a switch" line, in referring to the console game. This was changed just because it was kinda unnecessary to be there.

-Lastly, two scenes from the original chapter were cut in later versions. The first scene depicted Gumball/Darwin falling after their leg stitching from the theater gave way, to which Anais quickly grabbed scissors off a shelf and patched it together in a makeshift bandage using a bit of her dress sleeve fabric. Later, the second scene shows Anais trying to help Nicole, only to be thrown to the ground by Dr. F. This would prompt Gumball/Darwin to attack him and kill him, to which the man utters "Crap..." as his final words. These two scenes were cut and changed because they were pretty boring if anything, and didn't really make sense. It also much less repeated Chapter 9's fight with Anais getting hurt and all, so it was changed to be more original and better suiting.