Hey guys. Sorry it took so long to make this last chapter, but its finally done! I give you the last chapter of my second story. Enjoy!

Chapter 24: Its Now or Never.

Gumball open his eyes and found himself in back at his home. He saw that he was in his room and saw his black uniform and mask on the computer chair. He saw his family was there right by his side, so were the members. Gumball asked "Guys, is that you?"

Nicole cried in a worried tone "Oh, my poor baby!" She hugged him very tightly, causing Gumball to get a sharp pain.

"Ow! Mom! You're crushing me!"

"Oh, sorry, sweetheart!" Nicole then put away from her son.

"Where am I?"

Darwin answered "You're back home, buddy."

Gumball notice the bandages from his head and all around his chest. Anais explained "We had to take you home, Gumball. You were in pain and beaten. You almost died."

"I did?"

Alex added "Yeah, but luckily Arnold and Shannon were able to help you with your wounds."

Gumball looked at the white wolf couple, saying "You too are doctors?" Arnold and Shannon nodded their heads. He then looked at his worried family. "Listen guys, about what happened-"

Nicole interrupted "Wait, Gumball. Let me start. At first, we didn't know why you had to do this, but now we know why. You're doing this because you wanted to make a difference for not just for yourself, but for this city. You were able to prove to us that you can change, and we didn't see it. We're sorry we put you through this, Gumball. Can you forgive us?"

"Of course, I can forgive you. You're my family." The family smiled at the young blue cat and all of them hugged him. They put the hug away from him, who asked "How long was I out?"

Anais answered "About an hour."

"What did you guys do when I was out?"

"We used one of the TORTOISE Troopers Walkie Talkie we took from one of them." Alex explained. "We were able to find out where Petersons might be."

"And?"

"He's at City Hall. Also, we found something that you might want to take a look."

Lana hands Gumball a piece of paper as he asked "What is it?"

"It's a list of names that people had signed up for the program and two of them happened to had your teacher and principal's name on it." Lana explained.

"What?"

"I guess that's how they could afford the program at the school." Recalled the little pink bunny.

"And there's something else." Paul added. "You know those guys we fought tonight with Lawton? It seems that Lawton wasn't working alone. The three of them that was with him were criminals."

"We manage to go to the police files again and find out that there were four criminals had been release before their sentence was up. These are the people." Jack said as he hands Gumball another paper. Gumball took it and saw the files of the four criminals. Gumball knows three of them; those were the guys that almost beaten Gumball to death.

Alex explained "According to one of the troopers we interrogate back at the room, we learned that all four of the criminals were released by the Warden, but in reality, it was Petersons."

"Also, we learned that those troopers that are on the streets right now are cops that had been on the payroll for the last couple of years." Arnold added.

Gumball asked "So what's the plan?"

"From what that trooper was saying, Petersons has an army of 100 TORTOISE Troopers. We go to City Hall and we shut down his operation for good." The leader declared to his team. "Let's go, everyone!"

They were prepared to leave, but was stopped when Gumball said "I'm not going."

The members turned around with Lana asking her boyfriend "What do you mean?"

"I can't come with you guys."

"But we need you."

"You guys can do this without me."

Darwin asked "Gumball, why don't you want to go with them?"

"I been thinking about this, Darwin, and I think its time for me to give up." Gumball answered.

Everyone in the room yelled in unison "Give up?!"

"But why, son?" Alex asked.

"When I was being tortured and beaten, I think back that all those times people had been scolded at me for quite sometime. When I put on this outfit, I wanted to prove to everyone that I can change this city, including me." Gumball explain as he turned to his family. "You guys say that this was an insane idea, and tell me that I should give up, but I never did. And after being tortured for 24 hours, I remember of what you guys have said about me giving up this whole thing, and I thought 'I can't. I won't. I not going to stop.' But then here comes the fire, and that changes everything."

Anais begged "But Gumball, they need you, so does this city. You can't turn your back on them."

"Anais, I almost died in there. What if that this time I could really died? Beside, you guys were right the whole time. I not going to change, and I may never will."

"Honey, you won't died." Nicole reminded.

"And how will you know? I made a lot of mistakes and I almost died based on those results. But this-this is dangerous. It goes about everything that I had done for the past. I never learned guys." The blue cat's eyes started to lay out tears. "When will I learn guys?" He put his hands on his eyes.

Nicole put her hands on Gumball's hands and put them down. She said softly "Why do we mistakes, Gumball? So we can learn of what we had created just now? You may had done a lot of mistakes in your past and we told you that to always make the right decision. Now we're telling you to finish what you and your gang had started. You already prove yourself that you can do this by yourself like a young adult."

Gumball smiled as he whip his tears with his arm "You guys haven't given up on me, right?

Nicole and her family smiled back at the young blue cat. She said one word to him "Never.

"Well then, I guess its showtime." Gumball suddenly got up from his bed with confidence and take off the bandage from his head. He grab his uniform and mask. He put it the uniform first and was prepared to put his almost broken mask on, but stopped. He then put it down on the table, saying "You know, guys, I been thinking about that mask. I know that we can't show our faces to everyone in Elmore when we first started out. But since everyone knows who we are, well, almost us, maybe it's time for us to stopped hiding ourselves and show everyone what we can do without hiding ourselves. What do you say?"

"You know what, kid? You're right. For the past couple of months, we been shielding ourselves from society, and now we're going to save society by giving these people one heck of a show. So, if you're not wearing a mask, then I'm not wearing a mask also." Alex took off his mask and throw on the ground. Then the rest of The City Watchers Program took off their masks as well and throw it on the ground. Now The City Watchers Program was ready to kick some ass without their masks.

Darwin said "Well, I just thought of something just now. We don't have a weapon."

"No problem, Darwin. I can give you guys some spare weapons." Gumball smiled as he goes to his closet and tear off a wooden plank on the ground. He grab a crate from under it and place it where everyone can see it. Inside in it were full of gadgets. There were night vision goggles, solar power grappling hooks, pistols with stun bullets, the whole thing. The family saw this with their jaws hanging open.

Darwin asking in shocked "Dude, you build these?"

"Yep." He nodded. "Grab what you can and lets head out."

The Watterson family all looked inside the crate and took out the things they will need for this job. The City Watchers Program grab night vision goggles, solar power grappling hook, and a gravity pole. The Watterson family got a weapon as well; Richard got eletro nunchucks. Darwin got a pistol. Nicole got a staff. Anais still got Gumball's Zero-G device. They all went downstairs and stopped at the living room.

Anais said to Gumball while holding the pole "Here's your weapon back, Gumball."

Gumball was looking at his sister holding his device. He wanted to get it, but instead said "No. This is your weapon, sis. You seem to know how you handle it like I do."

"But what would you used, Gumball?"

Gumball then took out batons from his back, exclaiming "With these!" He press a small button and out pops small spike from it. He press it again, which the spikes had disappeared, and put them from his back. "All right, gang. Lets go!"

Everyone got out of the house and went to the car right before driving away to City Hall. As they were driving, Nicole asked The City Watchers Program "Okay, so what's the plan?"

Alex explained "All we had to do is to find out how to get into City Hall. According to the blueprints Lana has printed out, there's TORTOISE Troopers all over the building. So we need to think of a way to draw them out of the building."

Then the news just came up as the radio was on.

"We're interrupted this brief bulletin for a special report from Councilman Chet Petersons."

The Councilman's voice spoke through the station, alarming the heroes. "I had just received word that Gumball Watterson is still alive. I had tried to be fair with The City Watchers, but no more. You had force me to do this. Attention citizens of Elmore, I know that a lot of you blame for them for what's happening in here. So I came up with a plan that is going to change everything. A 50 million dollar bounty for anyone to bring Gumball Watterson and the rest of The City Watchers Program in City Hall at midnight. What happened at midnight you may ask? Well, this. At midnight, I will blow up this city sky high from the heavens. You all don't believe me. Watch this."

Then they looked out and see a bright star by the heavens and crashes into a building, destroying it completely. The Watterson and the members were shocked of seeing this.

"Are you all convinced? Bring me all of them at midnight tonight at City Hall. Hurry, it seems the Watterson's family are heading as well. See you soon."

Gumball said to his mother "Mom."

Nicole said "I know, sweetheart. I'm on it." She press the gas pedal and the car move forward at full speed, taking them to their battle with the corrupted Councilman.

The car made it to City Hall, but they found out that there was a gate entrance at it. Also they were four TORTOISE Troopers; two at the gate and the other two at two separate guard towers right beside the gate. All of them were armed. At top of the gate, there stood a giant television from above.

Nicole said "What the hell? A gate?" She step out of the car and the two of the troopers pointed their rifles at her. One shouted "Halt! Who goes there?"

Nicole stopped and put her arms up in the air. "Identified yourself."

The other trooper check her with his helmet, identifying her "Name: Nicole Watterson, mother of three kids. One kid is Gumball Watterson. Wanted for being a vigilante."

The first trooper asked with authority "Where is the fugitive?"

"That's my son you're talking about."

The other trooper pointed his rifle on the car, shouting "Everyone, get out of the car!"

Everyone got out of the car got out with their hands up, including The City Watchers Program.

The trooper spoken to the heroes with his rifle at them "You seven are all under arrest for vigilantism! Stay there so you can be taken for the Councilman's decision!"

The other trooper looked at Nicole, saying "Your family had done well of bringing the criminals alive. You will be award the bounty when the Councilman came for them."

"We don't want you money!" Nicole yelled. "We came here with them as well!"

"Then you and your family are all under arrest as well."

Gumball spoken "We came here to see Councilman Petersons."

"Then you're all going to see him." Answered the trooper as he was about to unlock the gate, until Anais saw something from behind her. She said in shock "Guys, look."

Everyone saw what Anais was pointing at. There were a group of people walking to them. Gumball lean it close and, to his shock, know who they are. Almost the entire citizens of Elmore were walking to them It seems that they had heard the radio and learned about the bounty that they're taking upon himself to arrest The City Watchers Program. They were carrying weapons such as pipe, crowbars, chains, baseball bat, etc. There was also the students of Elmore Junior High.

"Its the entire city." Gumball answered

Darwin remarked in shock "Oh, dear God."

Anais shouted "We need to stop them!"

The angry mob was walking to City Hall, where one of them yelled "There they are!"

"Let's get them!"

Soon, with a war cry, they charge at full speed at them with their weapons. They were almost there, until one trooper came in and fire a warning shot at the skies, making them stopped. One screamed "We're here for the bounty!"

"The bounty has been collected! You can all go home!" The trooper spoken to the angry mob.

"Like hell we are!"

Then the screen of the television begin to out pop the tortoise's face on it. He begin "Attention citizens of Elmore, this is your Councilman speaking. Now what is the problem?"

An angry member shouted, looking at the screen "We're here for the bounty, but the Wattersons made it first!"

Gumball shouted at the big t.v. "We don't want the money! We just want to see you! To stopped all of this!"

"Well, I'm sorry, son, but you and your club started this and now you must faced the consequences." Chet said as he turned to the angry crowd. "People of Elmore, I had change the rules of the bounty. It's decided. Kill the Watterson's family and you all should received part of the bounty. Good day to you all." The screen had turned off.

The crowd turned their faces onto the family and notice that they were all still holding their weapons. They take one step onto them.

Anais asked "What do we do now?"

"We need to get into the building without the troopers seeing us or the crowd following us. So when the crowd is too busy fighting, we'll sneak inside the building" Alex answered.

Nicole asked "What about me and my family?"

"You guys need to control the crowd."

Gumball declared "And I'll help you guys."

"No." Nicole said. "We'll take care of this, you need to go with them."

"What? No. I not going to leave you guys to died."

"Son, we done this when we save your life. We can handle this." Richard said.

Darwin added "Just go, bro."

Anais smiled "And make sure you whup that tortoise's ass for us, Gumball."

"I'll do that, sis." The blue cat replied.

Everyone took out their weapons and face the angry mob. They stare each other for a long time. Some of them took a step forward. The City Watchers Program clutches their weapons tight. The troopers who were guarding the gate went inside of it and closed it. Alex, Nicole and Gumball all countered one at the time.

"One."

"Two."

"Three!"

The angry mob and the Watterson's family and The City Watchers Program charges forward at each other. They started fighting each other. The Watterson's family used their weapons on them, while The City Watchers Program and Gumball sneak past along the crowd as they were fighting their way out. Soon they made it to an alley and open the door that was part of City Hall. They entered it as the crowd were fighting and the TORTOISE Troopers were seeing the fight and not doing anything.

Inside of City Hall, The City Watchers Program make their way in the middle of the building. With their night vision goggles, they'll be able to see the inside and outside of the building. They can also heard voice conversation. Gumball was inspired to make this by the cameras created by Chet Petersons. From the windows they can see the fight. They climb upstairs to the second floor. As they were running, they stopped at a door and see about ten TORTOISE Troopers in a large room, guarding and armed.

Lana answered to the gang "There's got to be about ten troopers in there."

"We need to sneak in quietly and take them all down one by one." Alex suggested.

The City Watchers Program sneak in quietly into the room and each of them hide into a secret area. The ten TORTOISE Troopers were guarding the room separate from each other and armed with a rifle. With the coast is clear and each one is alone, The members all grab each trooper they find and secretly take them down quietly.

Now there were only three troopers guarding the front door. They stopped when they were confronted by three other troopers.

One asked "Is everything alright, trooper?"

The trooper answered "Everything is all right."

"Then return back to your duty."

"We will, but first I like to give you something."

"What?"

"This!" Yelled the trooper, who punch the other trooper with his rifle, sending him on the ground. The other two troopers pointed their rifles at him, but the other troopers knock them out cold. One with his electro nunchucks and the other with with a silver pole with a controller on it. After that, three of the troopers took off their helmet, revealing Gumball, Jack and Lana.

Alex and the rest of the members came in, saying "Great job, you three."

Gumball said as he and his friends were taking off the armor "Thanks."

Lana declared "Now let's go see a certain Councilman."

All of them yelled "Right!" The City Watchers Program process to the next room.

Outside of City Hall, the crowd were still fighting with the Watterson's family. They really wanted that reward money.

Richard said to Nicole as he was fighting one "I don't know how long do I had to keep this up!"

Nicole yelled at him "Be strong, Richard! You just had to do it for Gumball!"

Darwin shouted "That's easy for you, mom! We not the only ones who is facing almost the entire city!" He fired his pistol on to someone, stunning them on the ground.

One people declared "Get the fish!"

Most of the people turned their attention on Darwin and started pulling into the crowd. Darwin randomly shooting them, but the crowd was too strong. Darwin scream as he was getting mauled by the crowd. Then someone from the crowd shouted "Get your hands off of him!" right before a bat had swing one on the face very hard. The crowd backed away as Darwin got up to see his girlfriend, Rachel, who was holding a bat.

Rachel asked him "You okay, Darwin?"

Darwin answered "Thanks Rachel. What are you doing?"

"Saving you and your family, duh!"

Darwin saw that she wasn't alone; there was Carrie, Leslie, Molly, Teri and Penny. All of them had a weapon of their own. Darwin asked "What are you all doing?"

Carrie answered "Saving your ass, of course!"

Penny notice that Gumball wasn't here. She asked "Where's Gumball?"

Darwin was about to answered, until his sister yelled "Look out!" Anais swing the device on one member of the crowd. "Get your head in the game, Darwin! This is not the time for socializing!"

"Right!"

Darwin and the girls fought against the crowd of angry mob. Penny said to Darwin while fighting "You didn't answer my question, Darwin. Where is your brother?"

"He's with the members in City Hall! They're about to take care of the Councilman!" Darwin answered while firing.

Unknown to everyone, they didn't seem to notice that the troopers at the guard towers were listening to the whole thing.

One trooper said in his helmet "Sir, The City Watchers Program and Gumball Watterson are in the building."

"What? How can you let this happened?"

"They must have slipped right past them. Should we get over there and handle this?"

"No. You must stay here and keep an eye on the crowd. No one must know about it. I'll make sure our guest will never ruin my plan. Understand, trooper?"

"Understood."

Back at City Hall, Councilman Chet Petersons was watching the whole thing from one of his row of televisions. The whole thing were cameras of different angles inside the building. He wasn't alone; there were also the members who had watched the attempted murder of Gumball Watterson. Also Floyd and Satan were in there.

He turned to them, saying "You heard that, ladies and gentlemen? That is the sound of a city losing their sanity."

Miss Simian commented "You're doing a wonderful job, Councilman."

"I agreed." Principal Brown nodded. "You know how to do your job."

One member objected "This has gone out of control, Councilman!"

"Stop this madness at once!" Shouted another member.

Chet answered "I will, as soon as my guards had killed The City Watchers Program once and for all."

"I hate to break it to you, Councilman, but it looks like your guards wasn't able to stopped them."

They turned to one television and saw that the heroes had already taken down another set of TORTOISE Troopers. Chet felt his anger boiling up.

Satan declared "Sir, let me go after them and kill them myself! I will break their bones!"

"I afraid you will not be able to do the deed, Mr. Satan. I had seen your performance back at the warehouse. You had failed me, so is Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lawton."

"These fools didn't had a chance against them! But me! I'm the strongest!"

"Careful with that temper, Mr. Satan, or else you're in a lot of trouble."

Satan laughed as he was walking to the handicap tortoise. He asked "And what are you going to do about it? You just a old man, with skinny arms and broken legs." He laughed at bit more at him, then Chet started to get up. Literally getting up from his chair. Satan stopped laughing when he was seeing this. The other members were stunned as well. Chet kick Satan in the head with his knee quickly and punch both of his legs, breaking them. Satan scream as the tortoise put him in the wheelchair. The red tiger was seeing the tortoise standing right in front of them. There was something about him. His shell. It wasn't old and worn out; it was new and shine like a new shell.

"Like the new shell?" Chet smiled evilly. "I had the professor modify my shell here to improve me. Now I can walk like a man and fight like a man! Told you I kill you first before you kill me when this is over. But this will not end. Soon after you're gone, I guess I should take care of this by myself. If you want something done, you had to do this by yourself. Never send criminals to do a physical challenge person job. So I bid you goodbye, Mr. Satan, and may God had mercy on you."

Chet then kick the wheelchair with Satan on it will full force, sending him out of the office and sending him to his doom as he scream. Then the scream slowly decrease. The members were shock of seeing this.

Chat, now walking, declared "Now if you excuse me, I had some important business to attend to. Come along, professor." He was walking with to the door, with Floyd right behind him. He stopped when he was about to open the door, adding "Nigel, Lucy, you may come along as well."

Brown and Simian both got up from their seats and headed with the tortoise. Chet said to the other members "You folks can stay here and watch the city tear itself apart under guarded."

The four people walked out the room and two TORTOISE Troopers came inside the door before closing it.

The City Watchers Program were headed to the next room when they stopped to see the red tiger crashed to the floor. The ground had cracks on it with pieces of the wheelchair.

Jack exclaimed while looking at it "Oh, man!"

"You think he did that to himself?" Arnold asked.

"No, this wasn't a suicide. Look at this." Lana answered while pointing at a foot mark on the dead red tiger chest. "Looks like somebody kick him hard. Very hard."

Gumball looked at the pieces of the wheelchair, saying "Wait, this wheelchair belongs to the Councilman. Why would he be sitting on that?"

Jack guessed "Maybe he killed the Councilman. An act of treason, perhaps?"

"No, something not right." Alex shake his head negatively.

Lana conclude as she was looking at it "My guess is that he was dropped about five stories from here to up there." She was pointing up to the railing. The rest of them all took out their solar power grappling hook and fired on top of the railing. They all went straight up in a quick distance and land safely on it. They all ran to one of the door and climb the stairs. Soon they found themselves in another room, but this one was different. The whole room had each fire cannons all around the place and are targeting onto a building. There stood a computer there at the center. They all ran at it.

Lana typed on the computer and the screen pop off of locations of where the cannons will be firing at. She said while typing "All of the cannons are set to fire to each at a building. He wasn't lying."

Alex asked "You think you can shut it off?"

Lana answered "I think so." She started typing as she can, then an alarm had went off throughout the room. "Oh, crap!" She type very fast of turning off the alarm, but the loud sound was making her hard to concentrate. Then out of nowhere, the lights quickly turn on and a squad of TORTOISE Troopers had them surrounded with their rifles. The City Watchers Program were watching them with their backs all together.

Then a voice had said "Well, well, well. If it ain't the mighty heroes themselves."

They turned around and sees the Councilman up in a large office that build up the entire room. He wasn't alone; there was Miss Simian, Principal Brown, and Floyd.

Chet finished "It looks like you folks are in a mighty deep of trouble here."

Gumball demanded "Chet, shut these weapons down!"

"Oh, I can't do that, Mr. Watterson. You see, this is all part of the plan."

"Plan?! What plan?! All you're doing is making these people kill themselves and blowing up buildings!"

"Exactly! These folks here need to learn that we don't tolerant vigilantism in this city!"

Lana declared "We're going to stop you!"

Jack yelled "That's right!"

"If you can handle my army."Chet smiled. The TORTOISE Troopers dropped their weapons and drew their batons on them. "And what is a good old fashion fighting without being televised?" He press a small button from the controller.

Outside of the fight, the big television at the gate began to show the face of the tortoise.

"Ladies and Gentlemen!"

The fight then went to a pause and looked at the big television. Chet continued "At this time I will like to had all of your attentions from this, and joined us for the battle between order and chaos!"

The camera to show everyone the fight between the TORTOISE Troopers and The City Watchers Program. The Watterson's family then saw Gumball appear on the screen with the heroes.

Darwin shouted "It's Gumball!"

Chet continued "Who will win?" The camera to the troopers. "Order." Later it moves to The City Watchers Program. "Or chaos? Let's find out, shall well? Troopers, charge!"

The TORTOISE Troopers charges at them with their weapons, the heroes took out their weapons as well and blocked their attacks. The fight between them has erupted. Everyone was seeing the whole thing. It was just like the attempted execution of Gumball, only this time, it was going to be a blood bath. The City Watchers Program fought on against the troopers. Jack uses his stun batons on a trooper and another trooper in the balls. He laughed "I love this thing!"

Lana uses her gravity pole and swing one hard three troopers. Gumball, with his two spiked batons, fight against three troopers. He blocked one and swing another trooper in the helmet. He kick the second one in the chest armor and the last one with both of his batons.

The Watterson's family cheered for their son. Nicole cheered "Go Gumball!"

Richard shouted "You can do it!"

Anais screamed "Go bro!"

Gumball block one's attack with both of his batons and kick one right behind him. Another trooper came in and swing his baton on his head. Gumball falls on the ground, and three of the troopers were beating him with their batons.

Penny gasped "Gumball!"

One member from the crowd yelled "Yeah! Beat the sinner!"

Nicole and Richard looked right behind him and Nicole punch him in the face.

Paul and Alex used their rifles onto the troopers that were beating Gumball. Gumball got up, saying to them "Thanks guys!"

Paul yelled "Don't mention it!" He block one's attack and punch him in the chest armor. "Damn, there's too many of them!"

Alex ordered to Gumball while fighting "Gumball, listen! I just got a quick word with Lana! She said that the cannons are set to launch in about fifteen minutes. You had to disable it!"

Gumball asked while blocking one's attack "How do I do that?!"

"It's inside the office! Now Go! We'll take it from here!"

Gumball then ran pass troopers as he was fighting and blocking them at the same time. He climb on top of the office and break the widow with one of his spike batons before going inside of it, alarming the people inside of it. The camera was now pointed to him by Floyd.

Gumball said "Hello, Councilman."

Chet replying to him "You sure don't know where to give up do you, boy?"

"I going to ask you once again to shut the cannons down."

Miss Simian then charges at Gumball, but Gumball quickly grab her and throw her out of the office.

The rest of the students cheered at that. Banana Joe shouted "Way to go, dude!"

Nicole was cheering as well "That's my boy!"

Darwin and Anais high five each other and said "All right!"

Principal Brown yelled "Lucy! You'll pay for this, Watterson!" He charges at Gumball, but Gumball quickly swing his batons on Brown's face, knocking him down cold. He turned to the scare professor, who replied "Allow me!" He then jumped out of the office. Now it was the Councilman and Gumball.

"Its just you and me, Councilman."

"Quite right, Mr. Watterson. Should we fight?" Asked the corrupted Councilman.

"As if I had a choice."

"Then lets fight!" Declared Chet, who got out from his chair and faced the young blue cat. Gumball was surprise by this. He remarked "I remember that you were in a wheelchair."

"Yes, but it seems that my former bodyguard here was using it. I like to send my regards to the professor here who give me this, if he survive the fall cause by you."

The two stared each other for a moment; everyone was seeing Gumball facing against the Councilman on the t.v. Then they fight.

Gumball used his spiked batons on the walking tortoise, but, surprisingly, the tortoise block it and punch him. Gumball take a step back and said "All right, that was a lucky shot." Gumball charges him again, but Chet did a flip right before Gumball got him. He landed safely on the ground and kick Gumball in the back.

Chet said to him "Was that a lucky shot, Watterson?"

Gumball got up and asked "How are you doing that?"

"Oh, did I forget to tell that my shell not only send me walking again, but gives me a boost? Must had slip my mind."

Gumball got up and charges him again for the third time. Chet take a step back and blocked his attacks. He said while blocking "You're good, son, but I can do better." He then started punching the young blue cat; Gumball took a step back, not blocking his attacks. Gumball falls down on the ground. Chet send a mighty fist down on him, but Gumball got out of the way and went back on his feet. Gumball did a kick on the tortoise's face and then a swift kick on his both of his legs, sending his down on the floor. The tortoise tried to get up, but the weight of his shell was preventing him to get up.

Gumball remarked "Let's see if you get yourself out of that."

Then he heard his leader's voice "Gumball!"

Gumball looked at the window and saw The City Watchers Program still fighting the TORTOISE Troopers. Alex asked while fighting a trooper "Are you done stopping the cannons?!"

Gumball answered "I'm about to! I just had a run in with the Councilman!"

"Well, stop talking about politics to him and stop the cannons!" Jack screamed.

"I'm on it!" Declared Gumball, who went to the controls and started typing on the keyboard. The screen pops up the cannons in the room. There was a little timer on the screen; it said the cannons will launch in about ten minutes. Gumball typed as he could. Unknown to Gumball, Chet struggle to get himself back on his feet by swinging himself with his shell. He had done it.

Outside of the building, the Watterson's family and the students saw Chet getting up and he walked to get a sword that is pinned on a wall. He walked toward Gumball, who was too busy typing.

Nicole shouted "Gumball, behind you!"

"Watch out!" Richard screamed. The family and the students were trying to warn Gumball that Chet is right behind him.

Gumball was almost there of stopping the countdown when he notice a blur reflection of the tortoise on the computer screen. His eyes notice that there was something he was holding. Something large and sharp. Gumball quickly turned and got out of the way right before Chet brought the sword down. Gumball got up and battle the armed tortoise with his spiked batons. Both of them charges and the sword and the spike batons cling when they came in contact.

Chet smiled evilly to Gumball "I'm been wanting to used this sword for a long time, boy."

They both break away. Gumball swing his weapons on Chet, who blocked them with his large sword. Gumball does it again and again, but no luck. Chet then kick Gumball in the stomach and pinned him against the wall with the tip of the sword against the blue cat's neck.

"Any last words, Watterson? Come on! Spit it out!"

Gumball then spit it out, literally, on the tortoise's old face. Gumball run to the computer to stop the cannons, but Chet throw his sword on Gumball. Gumball stopped as soon as the sword landed on the ground. He then grab Gumball and throws him on the wall. Gumball tried to get up, but he was grabbed again and throw into the controls panel. Gumball fall down on the floor.

Chet growled to Gumball "Did you know what you and your gang of freaks had done to me, Watterson?" Gumball tried to get up, but was pinned down by Chet's strong leg. "Answer me!" Gumball tried to talked, but the weight of his foot was crushing him and not making any words. "Well, if you're not going to answer me, then I'll answer it for you. You and your little hero gang had cause me to lose my Governor election. Did you remember that?!"

Gumball struggled "Yeah, you bombed at that election!"

Chet then kick him in the stomach, shouting "Because of you and your gang! You made me lose my election as Governor!"

"Why would you want to be Governor? It is being a lazy Councilman is bad enough for this city?"

"I was going to change everything in Elmore when I was Governor. I was going to introduced a program to that fat slob of a mayor after I will get him on my side."

"Like your TORTOISE Program?"

"Yes. This program was going to help this city changed. Crimes being prevented. Arson. Murder. Meth labs. You name it. This was going to be my legacy. But then you all came in and ruin everything!"

"So that's why you're doing all this? Kidnapping me? Almost killing me? Threatening this city? Not to mention turning everyone that I love and care against me and my family?"

Chet laughed "Did you really think this city cares about you, son? I had seen your file, Watterson. I know everything about you and I got to say that this city has a history of you causing a lot of mischief around this city. You think you're a hero to them, son? Take a good look around, son. You think you can change this city by dressing up all in black and calling yourself a hero? You're nothing more than a joke to them. You're the black sheep to your family. An abomination to this city. Not to mention, an embarrassment at your school. Now I'm going to spend the next five minutes killing you and watching this city burned to Hell, for the sins that you and your gang had cause."

He grab Gumball's spiked batons and started beating him with him. Gumball screamed as the spikes were hitting him. He tried to get up, but the spikes were preventing him to do. The City Watchers Program were getting beaten by the troopers. Everyone outside of the building were seeing this in horror. The rest of the crowd had heard what Chet was saying to Gumball just now. The Watterson's family were seeing their son getting killed out their. It was just like the attempted execution they had saw just now, only this time there wasn't any tortured or burning him alive. This was too much for them. Chet had just finished beaten Gumball with his own spiked batons. Gumball got scratches all over his suit and was bleeding. Chet then pushed him aside to the other room, scoffing "Maybe that will teach you a lesson, son. You were too stupid enough to call yourself a hero, but you were too stubborn to think about it." He throws the two spike batons onto the floor right next to him.

Gumball was breathing and think back of what he had just said right now. He was right about everything. He wanted to change not for this city, but for himself. He thought that dressing up like a hero can do that, but instead, it brought more trouble to this city. Maybe he was right. Maybe it was too stupid to think that he can change and this city. All he does is cause trouble and right now he made the biggest one yet. It was just like what happened back at school when he cause everyone to hate him, including his family. But he remember what his mother had said back at the house when he thought about giving up. He struggled to get up. Chet raises an eyebrow. Gumball slowly got back up, with his suit torn and bleeding from his wounds.

He weakly said "I will...I will stop you."

Chet angrily asked "Why won't you died?!"

"Because I don't care what you say. You're right. These people don't care about me. For so long I had been causing trouble around this city, and they think bad about me. But I don't care. I don't care what they think of me. They told me to change my ways, but I won't listen to them. I am who I am, and who am I is the guy that's going to kick your ass. Sure I made a lot of mistakes from my life, but my mom once said "Why do we make mistakes? So we learned what we had created just now." And I'm going to learn from my mistakes by taking you down." Gumball answered with determination as he grab the spiked batons and faced the Councilman.

Everyone from outside of City Hall had heard what Gumball was saying just know on the big television. They had no idea that he was going to risk his life for them, even after they hated Gumball for his mischief ways. The students were stunned as well. They felt bad of being angry at Gumball for ruining the championship game. Then one member cried "You can do it, Gumball!"

The Watterson family and the students looked to see who it was. "Yeah, kick his ass!"

"Save our city, Gumball!"

Then more and more people were shouting and cheering for Gumball as he was fighting against Chet. The Watterson and the students were stunned of hearing this from everyone. Then one TORTOISE Trooper said outside the gate "Hey, knock it off or we'll shoot you all!"

The crowd went to the gate and one member shouted "Let us in, man!"

"Yeah! We want to help them!"

One trooper ordered "I order you all to stand down! Stand down or you'll be shoot!"

The crowd was started to shake the gate a bit. Then most people are climbing up to one of the guard towers. The trooper at the tower draw their rifle, but someone quickly took it out from his hand. The trooper then was thrown out of the tower. The other guard from the last tower fired his rifle at the rebellion crowd, but was thrown out of the tower as well by an angry crowd member. With all the people pushing the gate with their mighty strength, the gate drops down on the ground and ran into City Hall.

One remaining trooper shouted from his helmet "Sir, the crowd has ordered a riot! I repeat, a riot has been-!" He then got punch by Richard and process to the building.

Gumball and Chet fight for the second time, only this time, Gumball got the upper hand. With his ambition still in his place of mind, he swing his spiked batons on the tortoise. Chet punch him, but Gumball quickly dodged it. Chet kept punching him; Gumball blocked them and swing his weapons on one of his leg. Chet scream as the spikes were in his leg.

"Are you kidding me?!" He shouted.

Gumball smirked "Stings doesn't it?"

Chet charges in anger at him, but Gumball quickly hit him with his weapons on the face. His face was scratched and bleeding. He charges him again, but was hit in the other leg. Chet collapses on his knees. Gumball went behind the tortoise's back and and hit him in the shell. Gumball swing it hard on it, until it started cracking. Then with a final swing, the spike batons had went inside the modify shell. There were sparks coming out of it. Chet tried to get up, but he wasn't getting up. He was now crippled again. With him not getting up, Gumball goes to the computer and find out the cannons are set to launch in less than one minute. He was about to typed in the keyboard, but saw The City Watchers Program were having trouble with the troopers. He had to think: save them or save Elmore.

"You think you can still stop the cannons and save your friends at the same time?" Chet mockingly said while being on the floor. "My, my. Such an awful decision. Too bad you don't have any reinforcements."

Then a burst to the door was erupted and a crowd of angry mob charges at the TORTOISE troopers. Gumball was surprise of seeing this.

Chet asked "What is all that racked?"

Gumball smiled "Reinforcements."

As the crowd and The City Watchers Program were taking care of the troopers, Gumball typed very fast on the keyboard as the countdown was slowly dropping to 15.

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The Watterson family were fighting the troopers as they helped The City Watchers Program. The members who were against Councilman Petersons had been released and are fighting with them as well.

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One trooper charges at Richard, but got kick by Nicole so hard that it launch him into the office. Gumball was typing very fast as the countdown was almost there. The cannons were slowing turning on as rays of energy becomes one and was about to destroy a building.

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Gumball was almost there…

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Almost there…

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Gumball then press one button on the keyboard, and the cannons had stopped! Gumball sighed in reviled as the energy from the cannons had decrease. He exclaimed "Thank God!"

The TORTOISE Troopers had been defeated. The City Watchers Program, the Watterson family, and the citizens of Elmore stood there in silence. Gumball looked out the window and shouted "Hey, guys!" Everyone turned around to faced the young blue cat. "I shut down the cannons! No building won't be destroyed on our watch!"

Everyone cheered at Gumball. Gumball looked at the cheering faces by everyone that hated him, but with those words that the blue cat had said, it was time to put aside their differences. The Watterson family were proud of him for not giving up and handling it like a young adult. However, their moment of celebration has ended when Gumball felt electricity right through his body and collapse at the ground. Right behind him was Chet, holding a stun baton. He was seeing the crowd looking at him and the troopers on the ground. He tried to keep standing up due to both of his legs were bleeding by Gumball's spiked batons.

"I don't believe this." Chet growled in defeat. "I give you this program to make this city crime free and you all burst in here like a banshee and took down my troopers? I knew this would happened, but you all didn't believe me. Now this city had taken the law in their hands and ruined my creation. Are you all satisfied with yourself?"

A member from the crowd declared "Get him!"

Soon the angry crowd charges and most of them climb to the office to get the tortoise. Chet needs to think fast and saw a solar power grappling hook sticking out of the unconscious cat. He grab it, fire at the roof, and swing himself out of the office and the room. As he got out of the room, he fall down a flight of stairs and landed onto the fifth floor. The angry crowd then got out of the room to get the mad Councilman, while the Watterson's family went to get their son. Chet walked to his office, but falls down. He tried to get up, but couldn't. His legs were still hurt and bleeding. He grab a hold a the ledge and got himself right up as he walked to his office. He could heard the angry crowd coming at him. Chet finally made it to his office; he jumped from the ledge and grab the doorknob of the door. He quickly open the door and went inside right before he locked all of the locks from it. He crawl onto his chair before sighing in relief. The angry crowd got out of the door and looked to find the Councilman.

One member shouted "Look!"

They all point at a trail of a mixture of oil and blood on the floor. They all follow the trail and it leads them into an office. One member open the door, but it was locked. He declared "Its him!" They knock on the door, alarming the tortoise.

He muttered "How did they found me?"

He saw a tail of oil that leads to him. The oil was coming from his broken shell that was leaking fluids. He also notice that the spiked batons were still in there. The crowd were banging on the door. The tortoise laughed "Fools! This door is indestructible! There's no way you can break it down!"

The door was banging so loud that the locks from it were started to break. The cracks were getting bigger and bigger by the minute. Chet was started to get nervous. His opinion was to drop down from the building, but when he take one good look down from his office window, he notice how long the fall is. His legs were already bleeding and probably broken, so what's the point of having his entire bones broken? Chet saw the door was collapsing piece by piece. Chet then took out a small pistol from his drawer and pointed at the angry crowd. He was pointing at it as soon as the crowd had break down the door and confronted the tortoise. Chet fired the gun at them, but soon find out that it didn't had any bullets on it. Chet saw the bullets standing there in the drawer. He wanted to get them, but it was too late as the angry crowd walked to him. Chet looked from right to left and saw that there was no way out. Chet looked on in horror as he dropped down on the ground and the sound of what it appears to be a hundred of punches and kicks was heard outside of the office.

The Watterson's family climb up to the office and saw his son was on the ground. They all went to his aide. Gumball's body was smoking from the stun baton earlier by the tortoise.

Anais asked, worrying "Gumball, are you all right?"

Gumball open his eyes slowly and stared at his family. They sighed in reviled that he was okay. Nicole cried as she was hugging him "Oh, I so glad you're safe!"

"Where is everyone?" Asked the blue cat.

Darwin answered "They went to get Petersons."

"Did you all see that they were helping us?"

Richard answered "Of course we did. We were there, you know."

The rest of the family chuckled. Gumball said to his mother "Mom."

Nicole said as she was still hugging him "Yes, sweetheart?"

"I think I like to go home now."

Then Nicole took Gumball with her arms and soon the rest of the family walked out of the room. She added to her little kitten "You know, while we were fighting back there, I notice that one girl from your gang has the name Lana. You mention that you were dating a girl name Lana. So is she-?"

Gumball said as he closed his eyes "Yep, she's my lady."

"That's my boy!" Richard exclaimed with a fist pump.

As the family walked out of the building, they drive into the night in their car, knowing that the fight was over. They went inside their home and Nicole placed her son in his bed and planned a small kiss on his forehead. She sighed "Goodnight, Gummy Puss."

Anais and Darwin went inside the room and was about to go to their bed, but instead, they went to sleep on Gumball's bed. Anais smiled to her big brother "Good night, big bro."

"Good night, buddy." Darwin said before the two have fallen asleep.

The next day, the Wattersons were enjoying a nice family breakfast, except that Gumball was there. They were no longer angry at him. Both Darwin and Anais shared a smiled to their big brother. Gumball smiled at them back. Nicole was checking out the newspaper when she caught something from her eye. She said to her family "Looks like someone is on the front page."

She show everyone the front page of the paper; it was a picture of the aftermath from last night outside of City Hall. Above it had the headline "City Watchers Saved All." Also, at the bottom of the big headline reads "Local Councilman Disappeared After Battle." The rest of the family praised Gumball for the action he and his gang had done.

Nicole also pointed out something from the paper. She added "And that's not all. Look at the bottom."

The family looked down from the headline to another headline at the bottom of the paper. It was another picture, except this picture had made every faces of a Watterson into joy when they saw a picture of Miss Simian and Principal Brown had been arrested for being involved in Peterson's plan. However, the rest of the members who joined in on the tortoise's plan did not go to jail since they had nothing to do with it. It also mention that all charges against The City Watchers Program were dropped. The TORTOISE troopers were arrested, so were the criminals who were released by Chet. The entire police force were brought back by the mayor.

Darwin praised "Thank God those guys are out of our lives for good."

Anais nodded to Darwin "You said it, brother."

Richard asked Nicole "So whose going to be the new principal and teacher at the school?"

Nicole checked more on the newspaper and concluded "It doesn't say."

"Well, I just hoped that they're better be good than them." Gumball stated while eating.

"I agreed."

"Amen to that." Both of the siblings nodded in agreement.

The family returned back eating their breakfast when the phone ringed. Nicole got up and answered it. She held it up to her ear and listen to what the speaker was saying. After a few minutes with the phone, Nicole hanged up and faced her family. She had a smile within her face. Her entire family looked at her. She stated "That was the mayor. He said he wants all of us to down at City Hall for a ceremony."

Gumball asked "What ceremony?"

The sound of an marching band was heard right at City Hall. Everyone in Elmore were standing right at City Hall as they stare a large stand. They were all there, including the Wattersons and the rest of Elmore Junior High. They were cheering loudly at the rhythm of the marching band. Colorful balloons were floating into thin air. The police were also there too. The mayor of Elmore, a pink pot belly pink in a suit, wearing a top hat and a sash that reads "MAYOR", stands in front of everyone. Besides him were seven familiar faces, wearing black uniforms and black mask.

The mayor stands on the microphone and spoken "Ladies and Gentleman, we are all gather here for this celebration. We will like to thank seven individuals for helping us in our time of need and exposing a mad man to our very eyes." Right behind him was another pot belly pig. He was holding a pillow that contains seven golden medals. The mayor walked to them, grab all of the medals and walked to The City Watchers Program. He put on each medal to each member. "And so, without further ado, I would like to give these medals to Elmore newest heroes, The City Watchers Program!" At the end of the last member, he finished his sentence with an exclaimed. The crowd cheered more than before.

The Watterson's family cheered at the new heroes, but more louder to Gumball. Nicole shouted "That's my son!"

Darwin praised "Hooray!"

"Awesome, Gumball!" Anais cheered.

"Way to go, son!" Richard hooted.

The rest of the students from Elmore Junior High cheered at the young blue cat. They held up posters and banners to the new heroes.

The mayor continued "And as of now, I would like to declare that they will be part of the law enforcers and their new headquarters will be located at Chet's mansion. Everyone here will get to experience of what it takes to become a true City Watcher."

The crowd continued to cheered more than before. The mayor looked at the new heroes, asking "Does one of you all would like to make a statement?"

Alex then walked to the microphone with his hand raise "I had something to say." The crowd stopped cheering and listen to the leader's words. He cleared his throat and begin in the microphone "I would like to thank you all for supporting us of making a difference, but mostly, I want to thank my team. We had a dream that we were going to change this city around. Some of you all think that it was a crazy idea, but that didn't stop us. We made a change to this city, and this city is in our debt. So I say this to everyone around here, thank you for helping us. Now that we are part of the system, I hereby announce my retirement as leader of The City Watchers Program."

The crowd went into a gasp and murmur to each other. The team looked at each other, confuse by the words by Alex. The panda continued "Now, now. I know that it was a shocking moment to you all, including my team."

Jack murmured softly "Yeah, what gives?" Lana then hit him in the head. The weasel whispered loudly as he was rubbing his head "How did you know that?!"

"But there will still be a leader. I had given a thought of who that person might be. One of my team will be the new leader of The City Watchers Program." Alex continued before walking up to the team. "And I think I found him."

The team were confuse of who Alex was referring to. They looked at each other confusingly. They notice that Alex was looking at Gumball and realized what he saying. The crowd didn't know what he was talking about, but, to the Wattersons, they knew what he was talking about. Gumball notice that his team and most people from the crowd was looking at him, so did Alex.

"How about it, Gumball?" Alex smiled, putting his paw at the young blue cat's shoulder. "Would you do it? Would you take this position?"

Gumball's eyes widen and the crowd heard what Alex was saying. The Wattersons family gasped in response. Gumball was without words; he couldn't think of what he was going to say.

"I know that this require a grown up to take this position, but you fit this." Alex explained. "You joined in because you wanted to make a difference not just for this city, but for yourself. You had proven that by being responsible and learning all of the techniques that I had given you. You showed a lot of ambition out there, Gumball. If it wasn't for you or your inventions, we would had never made it out on last missions or last night. So what do you say? Are you ready to lean this team?"

Gumball looked at the panda's face. He wasn't kidding; he really wanted him to take the position as leader of the team. Gumball then found the right words. He exclaimed "I'll take it!"

Alex smiled and turned his attention to the crowd. "It is decided!" He shouted. "We have our new leader here! Give it up for Gumball Watterson!"

The crowd resume back cheering, but instead, they were cheering at the young blue cat. The City Watchers Program cheered and clapped their hands at Gumball. The young blue cat looked all of the cheering crowd. He felt proud that for the first time in his life he felt like a true hero to them.

Meanwhile, at Elmore Junior High, things felt different for Gumball Watterson. The whole school declared him as a hero and cheered at him. They put aside their differences between them and Gumball. The guys idolized him and give him and high five or a thumbs up when they see him in the hallways. The girls treated Gumball with respect. No more for them to be chasing him. Some of them now has a crush on Gumball and kept secretly his picture in their lockers. Tina and her gang never lay a finger on Gumball again, now that everyone was with Gumball side. Penny and Gumball never went back together, but they still remain friends. Rachel changes her attitude on Gumball. The cheerleaders had stopped hating Gumball for good.

As for the members of The City Watchers Program, their lives have been better. Jack was now the ladies man after that. He had the entire girls at school fawning over him. Arnold and Shannon were still doing their jobs of searching missing children in honor of their lost son, Jimmy. However, that all changed when Gumball found him while he was looking through the server of missing people. As it turned out he left the daycare to go to the bathroom on that day, and when he was gone, his parents assume that he went missing. Jimmy went back and waited for his parents to come to him, but they never came. Jimmy went out looking for him just like his parents were looking for him, but he never did found them. He was then eventually pick up by the police and sent to the orphanage. He brought him back to his family, who were thrilled to see him. Professor Webster got his job back and was now a full time teacher at the school. Looks like the students won't be feeling all bored after all by the lessons. Also the role of the Principal has been taken by Alex after retiring from his position as leader of the team. He was making this school a lot less boring. As the new principal, Alex declared that a new club will be added into the after school clubs. This new club will be part of The City Watchers Program's headquarters and everyone is welcome to joined in. Also, the leader of the team will be in charged of it.

Gumball was walking down the hallway with Lana, who became his girlfriend. He checked on his watch and said "Oh, man. We're late. Come on." They run down the hallway and went to the old music club, which became The City Watchers Club. They entered inside and saw a lot of people in here. Everyone that Gumball knows is here, including his family. "Hey, what's up, guys? Sorry I'm late. Lost track of the time. Anyway, uh, I want to welcome everyone to our first ever club of The City Watchers Program. Before I start up the agenda, I want one thing for you all. How many of you all wants to make a change?"

Everyone in the club raise their hands in the air, including his family.

"Whoa! I see that a lot of you wants to make a change!"

Everyone in Elmore wanted to make a difference also. They signed up for the program and they had been in charged in their neighborhoods to protect from criminals. They had been patrolling the streets and stopping secret criminal activities, while the cops were doing their jobs of putting people behind bars. Gumball and the rest of The City Watchers Program looked on to see what they had changed. They were going to changed this city with everyone on their side. Gumball felt proud as being the leader of the team. He was very good at it. At the club, he gave some tips of becoming a member of the team, show them a few moves and his inventions. He also demonstrated with his gravity pole by levitating a trashcan. That amazed in the audience, and freak the cheerleaders out a bit.

At night, in the Watterson's house, the family were in the table with an empty diner plate on their faces. Nicole carry the pots filled with food in the table, with the family helping her. After that, they were now preparing to eat. Darwin was the first one to get a piece of meatloft. Anais took the plate from him and filled it up with mashed potatos, then Nicole grabbed it and put gravy on it. Gumball looked as the plate was filled up by all kinds of food. He assumed that it was for his dad.

Figures. Gumball thought to himself.

That's what he thought when he saw his dad grabbed the plate and put a loaf of bread on it before heading it to Gumball. Gumball smiled at his family for this act of kindness. The family smiled back at him as they were getting themselves a piece from each pot. In the end, Gumball Watterson became a better person, but he gained something more than that. He got his relationship with his family back.

So what did you guys think of the ending, huh? Well, that's it. Here's my second story. I had spend almost four weeks working on it. Now its time for me to take a break and get ready for the other half of the semester. If you all had time please read my new story or my old story and post comments about it. See you all. NiteOwl18 out.