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A bright, early to mid autumn day had just begun. The sun spread its bright, golden light across the almost red and orange leaves of trees that surrounded a colourful apartment block.

Inside this brightly painted building, (Y/n) was wrapped within her cozy bed cover, savouring every last second of warmth from the blanket.

She stared out of the window that she was facing with lazily open eyes as she layed on her comfy mattress, although in a slightly tense position, watching the gentle breeze blow through the crimson leaves. She had been rolling around almost all night, so hadn't gained much sleep throughout the relatively cold dark hours.

(Y/n) sighed deeply, the early morning sunlight rays bursting through the window's glass and lying against her curled up posture underneath her (b/c) blanket.

She had been thinking about Gummy for most of the night - about how he'd been behaving around her, what he'd been doing for her, like asking her to stay over and dressing up as a unicorn to make her happy.

Today was going to be the day.

Today she was going to admit her feelings.

Hoping he would like her back...

(Y/n) smiled, closing her eyes while turning onto her back and stretching out from her tense position. Her toes just poked out from the blanket as she stretched her legs, the cold breeze tickling them.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of running footsteps patting against the wooden floor, coming closer and closer towards her. She opened one eye lazily, waiting for someone to come dashing into her room.

That someone was Gummy.

"!!(n\Y) yeH"

(Y/n) shot up from her laying position, only to be met by Gummy's big, blue eyes - although they seemed to be filled with panic.

"!eciov ym ot deneppah s'gnihtemoS" Gummy cried from the end of the bed frame, earning a confused look from (Y/n).

Gummy continued to ramble on in pure panic, but all his words sounded muddled up...

"Woah, woah, slow down..." (Y/n) held her hands out, holding onto Gummy's to reassure him, earning a warm smile from him as the panic in his eyes seemed to fade.

"I know who might be able to find out what's wrong..."

She leapt from her bed, still gently holding onto Gummy's hand, guiding him towards Harry's apartment.

~

Harry was still curled up within his bed covers, not wanting to let the cold morning breezes hit his body.

He snored lightly, grumbling a little in his sleep.

Gummy and (Y/n) quietly stood by the doorway, watching him sleep so peacefully, wondering if it would actually be a good idea to wake him up.

Gummy couldn't wait any longer, the panic returning to his thoughts and expression.

His fingers slipped from between (Y/n)'s as he ran towards Harry's bed.

"!yrraH yeH"

Harry woke up very suddenly, jumping up in shock mixed with surprise at the sound of Gummy's worried voice, as well as confusion from his jumbled up words.

"!eciov ym ot deneppah s'gnihtemoS !pu ekaW"

"Gummy!" Harry cried, sounding slightly frustrated. "Why did you wake me from a wonderful dream about... well that's not important... WITH THAT AWFUL NOISE!?"

"!enog si eciov yM"

Harry held his hands over his ears and groaned at the panicking sound that echoed through his room, before swinging his legs over his mattress to exit.

"OK OK let's go..."

~

Gummy sat uncomfortably squashed in his bright pink beanbag, feeling almost intimidated by Harry as he stood on his tiptoes to tower over him. He waved a magnifying glass over many parts of Gummy's body to see why his speech might be all jumbled.

Harry shifted the circle of glass towards Gummy's mouth, an idea jumping into his thoughts.

"Wide." He stated slightly sternly.

Gummy opened his mouth at his command.

"Wider." Harry continued, and Gummy did just that.

"Widest!" Harry said, making sure Gummy's mouth was as widely open as it could possibly be.

His magnifying glass entered Gummy's mouth, examining down his throat and around the inside of his mouth.

Harry's concentrated gaze became more of a disgusted expression as he pulled his face away from where he was examining. He took back his magnifying glass and wofted the air between himself and Gummy.

"P-U! Don't you ever brush!?" He cried in pure shocked disgust, as the scent that flew from Gummy's mouth hit him up the nose. (Y/n), who was stood just behind Harry, couldn't help but laugh.

"There's a piece of last week's meatloaf surprise still stuck on your bicuspid!" He cried, switching his magnifying glass over to a small pair of tweezers. Panic returned to Gummy's eyes as he predicted what Harry was about to do with them, so terrified that he couldn't bring himself to close his mouth.

Harry grasped the piece of meatloaf attached to one of Gummy's two teeth with the tweezers, tugging harder and harder by the second as it wouldn't pop off as easily as he thought.

Gummy's eyes widened and (Y/n) covered her gasp as Harry pulled so hard that Gummy was beginning to sit forward on his beanbag, almost sliding off as a result of the force.

Harry suddenly shot across the room as Gummy bounced back into his slouched position. Harry smashed against the wall with a thud, the tweezers still in his grasp and the meatloaf chunk propped between them.

"...semitemoS !hsurb oot od I" Gummy cried, although no one understood the tangled sentence.

Harry sighed, sitting up against the wall while holding up the tweezers, to show Gummy and (Y/n) he had succeeded with what he had planned to do.

"Well, there's only one scientific conclusion..." Harry stated, although his voice began to seem more concerned and frustrated as the sentence came to a close.

"Something's not right! We need to ask Kala!"

~

Meanwhile, Kala was preparing to perform some new ninja tricks, taking a deep breath as she stood in the middle of her dojo, where an exercise mat was rolled out ready to catch her performance.

She began her routine, although within a few seconds it was interrupted by a familiar face...

"!ymmuG ma I"

Kala landed with a thud from where she had just leapt out of surprise from what interesting noise just echoed through her dojo.

She lied on the ground and sighed. "What in the wide, wide world of ninjutsu was that!?" She raised her head to now be met with Harry, Gummy and her sister stood at the entrance of her dojo, all with concerned looks on their faces.

"Gummy! Something's not right with his voice!" Harry cried, turning his view from Kala to his panicking green pal.

Gummy began to try and talk again, as if he thought talking more would somehow fix it.

(Y/n) noticed the panic flowing through his higgledy-piggledy sentences, and it sent sadness through her heart.

She sighed, reaching her hand out to her distressed crush, grasping his hand as he flung it all around in panic and discomfort.

He stopped trying to un-jumble his voice as soon as he felt (Y/n)'s gentle touch against his fingers as she intertwined hers with his. He smiled, contentment filling his eyes as he looked down towards their joined hands.

"It'll be OK, Gummy, we can fix it..." She said with support and reassurance, resting her head against Gummy's tense shoulder, feeling it relax in response to her touch.

Kala watched her sister and smirked teasily, then returned her thoughts back to the current situation. Her deep thinking became more obvious through her expression.

"Hmmm... somehow... someway... Gummy's talker must have been jiggered...

...and we have to un-jigger it!"

~

Gummy had almost collapsed onto the floor of Kala's dojo, panting from exhaustion due to the events of the last few minutes.

Harry, Kala and (Y/n) had been trying any and every way to try and 'un-jigger Gummy's talker', from sending fishing rods down his throat to shaking him upside down by hanging him from his legs.

"?tey retteb I mA" He asked, even though he understood that no one would be able to answer.

Kala sighed, thinking about anyone else that could give any help into solving this problem. An idea then sparked into her thoughts like a firework bursting in the night sky, although she seemed a little reluctant to suggest it.

"Maybe Granny Peters could help..."

~

In Granny's apartment, Gummy was strapped against the kitchen table, with a scientific cap on his head and his neighbour examining his body.

Granny pressed a button on a small remote control, sending a bright green electrical shock through Gummy's body from the little hat. His body twitched slightly in response.

(Y/n) watched with slight concern flowing through her eyes with Harry and her sister stood beside her.

"Where did Granny Peters get all of this scientific equipment?" She asked, gaining a surprised and almost scared look from her friend and sister.

"Ssh! Don't ever ask that question! Ever!" Harry whispered, the pitch of his voice rising as his warning progressed.

(Y/n) decided it would be better not to ask any more about their whacky neighbour, so turned her attention back to Gummy, whose nose was now being pulled by Granny's tweezers.

"Did that hurt?"

"!!keE"

"How about that?" Granny pricked the bottom of Gummy's shoeless feet with a tiny needle.

"!wO"

"Wait, what about this!?" Granny took a feather and brushed it against Gummy's chest. He started laughing as a result, although even his laugher seemed to me jumbled up.

"!selkcit thaT"

(Y/n), Kala and Harry shared confused glances, before turning back to the sound of Gummy shrieking in response to another electric shock.

Granny took a sheet of black material, holding it in front of her view as Gummy's voice shook and vibrated as the shock continued to flow through him.

The sheet showed Granny that were Gummy's skeleton should be... it wasn't... he was simply just made of... jelly?

All she could see was his brain jiggling around at the top of his head.

"Well that's something you don't see every day..."

~

After a series of scientific experiments, Harry, Gummy, Granny, Kala and (Y/n) were surrounding Granny's kitchen table, concerned and confused looks on their faces.

Granny took a tiny microphone and a some sort of small recording device, holding it towards Gummy.

"Speak, Gummy." She requested in quite a dramatic tone.

"?yas ot em tnaw uoy od tahW" Gummy responded to her request into the microphone.

Granny took the audio tape from the recording device, turning it around and clicking it back inside, happily humming as she did so. Kala, Harry, and (Y/n) watched with interest and slight confused expressions across their faces.

"That should do it!" Granny finally said, overlapping with the click of the tape slotting back into place. She pressed another button that caused the recording to play - only this time, Gummy's voice wasn't all muddled up.

"What do you want me to say?" The recording played, and Gummy's voice was as clear as the blue sky outside.

Everyone else surrounding the table gasped.

"What did you do!?" Harry cried.

"What was that!?" Kala shrieked.

"It's Gummy!" (Y/n) exclaimed.

"!naiga em s'thaT" Gummy stated.

"Interesting - that's not gibberish...

...Gummy is talking backwards!" Granny stated, earning many more surprised gasps and expressions from her neighbours.

"Backwards?!" Harry, Kala and (Y/n) cried in surprise as well as unison.

"?sdrawkcaB" Gummy cried, making (Y/n) giggle a little since she assumed he had literally just said backwards, backwards.

"Is there an echo in here?" Granny joked, before returning her thoughts to what could have caused this disruption to Gummy's voice.

"I saw him last night, and he was speaking right way 'round, so, somewhere in the last twelve hours, Gummy must have reversed his vocal chords..."

"But how!?" (Y/n) just couldn't get her head around this scenario - how could Gummy's vocal chords be reversed!? Confused thoughts swung through her mind.

Other thoughts were more disappointed, maybe even sad, since she really had finally woken up with the mindset and confidence to tell Gummy what she'd been wanting to tell him for as long as she could remember.

It didn't seem like that was going to happen now...

"So what can we do!?" Harry cried, slapping his hands against the table in shock and panic. "How do we reverse a reversed voice talky-chordy-thingy!?"

"Well, Gummy must retrace his steps, until he comes to the point where his vocal chords got turned around!" Granny replied.

Kala slammed her clenched fist against the wooden table, shooting out from her seated position in determination.

"Right! We're on it! It's backwards Gummy time!"

Granny smiled, before turning back to her scientific equipment, ready to do what needed to be done...

~

Harry, Kala and (Y/n) stood beside Gummy's bed, watching as he snored gently and tossed around slightly.

They were back into the early hours of the morning, and Gummy's small grumbles within his peaceful sleep sounded as though they were the right way around.

This was the right time.

(Y/n) and her friends slid beside the mattress as Gummy began to stir, moving as though he was about to rise from his sleep.

Harry, Kala and (Y/n) popped their heads over the edge of the bed, their views facing where Gummy had just sprung from his bed, a still in deep sleep.

Gummy slowly began to sleepwalk into the small doorway within his bedroom wall that lead into his bathroom.

Kala raised herself higher from the floor, squatting beside the mattress rather than crouching on her knees.

"Quick! Follow him!" She demanded, glaring at Harry.

Harry gulped, his expression and voice becoming a little flustered. "Into the little Gummy's room? But that's... private..."

Kala rolled her eyes and groaned, grabbing Harry by the wrist and pulling him with her as she ran across Gummy's bedroom and through his bathroom doorway. (Y/n) giggled and soon followed.

~

Kala burst into Gummy's bathroom, a quivering Harry and a curious (Y/n) by her side.

Her concerned expression became more relieved as she realised why Gummy's voice was all muddled.

"Gummy must've gotten reversed with his backwards mirror image!!" She cried, earning confused looks from her friend and sister.

Harry and (Y/n) popped their heads over Kala's shoulders to see none other than Gummy, sliding his head in and out of his the shiny glass of his large, oval mirror that was neatly stuck against his pink tiled wall.

Harry tried to understand the current situation. "Then we have to swap our Gummy with the reverse Gummy, who's actually our Gummy even if this one is our Gummy- I am so confused..."

Suddenly, while Gummy had his head slid through the strangely bendable glass, hands, that looked as though they were Harry's, popped from the other side, grasping onto Gummy's shoulders and pulling the rest of his body completely through the mirror.

"Follow that backwards Gummy!!" Kala cried, dashing towards the mirror, while tugging Harry by the wrist and with her sister close behind.

Kala leapt through, Harry being pulled in close behind and (Y/n) jumping in shortly after.

~

The other side of the mysteriously magical pane of glass was like another dimension. There appeared to be two of everyone - two Gummys, stood beside each other and smiling like nothing was wrong, two Kalas, both preparing to fight to bring the right Gummy home, two Harrys, stood quivering in the corner of the alternate bathroom, and two (Y/n), both looking more confused than anyone.

The real (Y/n) had only been in this alternate dimension for not even a minute, but she knew she already wanted to go back. She noticed Gummy and his reversed counterpart playing together by mirroring each other's movements. She giggled - even though Gummy was in a complete topsy turvy universe, he was still having a good time.

She turned her attention back to her sister as well as her reversed counterpart, who were kicking and punching each other as they were both aiming for the two Gummys, who were watching both with big goofy smiles across their faces.

"That looks dangerous, I'm not taking part in that..." Harry said, turning to his nervous double. "You?"

"...yaw oN"

Both Kalas began to bounce around the room against each wall to another as they were still fighting, grasping onto each other's arms and legs while swinging across the bathroom.

Meanwhile, Gummy's alternate, backwards counterpart decided to let the non-reversed version of himself know what had been happening with (Y/n) while he was in the non-reversed world.

"...uoy saw I gnikniht em gnitrofmoc dna dnah ym gnidloh dna em gnildduc saw ehs, uoy sekil (n\Y) kniht I, flesym fo noisrev desrevre-non, yeH"

Non-reversed Gummy stopped mirroring his movements, taking in what he said, somehow understanding. He turned his gaze towards (Y/n), who was stood beside both Harrys with the alternate version of herself on her other side. She had a panicked look across her face as she watched her sister battling with her reversed counterpart. Gummy smiled warmly towards her, processing what his alternate version of himself had told him.

The battle between the Kalas come to a close with a crash once they both smashed into the bathtub, water spraying all over the room since they bashed against the shower, switching it on. One Kala was sat up against the side of the bath, looking completely exhausted and panting aggressively, while the other Kala threw herself over the side of the bath, seeing that no-one else was attempting to encourage the correct Gummy to return home.

(Y/n) sighed, having completely enough of this. Her reversed version agreed, crossing her arms and yelling towards the two Gummys.

"!ymmuG, dnoura gnissem potS"

"Get to our world while you can!"

Since both versions of (Y/n) had spoken, both Gummys responded, both leaping through the glass as though it was water, but both getting stuck as if it was glue.

(Y/n) sighed as she witnessed four feet wiggling about as the bodies of both Gummys were unable to wriggle from their stuck position.

Both Gummys pushed against the bendable glass, both trying to shoot into the non-reversed world that they now both could see.

Eventually, the force of the pushing of four hands against the mirror's pane caused it to bounce back, shooting one Gummy into the real world, and the other back into the mirror's crazy dimension.

The non-reversed Kala, Harry and (Y/n) abandoned the alternate versions of themselves in the whacky reversed dimension, leaping through the mirror's glass back home, hoping the right Gummy had been thrown through.

The Gummy that had his butt flat against the pink tiled floor of the mirror's dimension smiled, watching the non-reversed counterparts leaping back home.

Especially (Y/n).

~

Meanwhile, the Gummy that had just rolled back out into the non-reversed dimension laughed at the events of the last few minutes.

"Aha! I win! And my voice is back to voicing! Yes!" He cried, turning to his friends as they shot through the flexible glass.

"I am Gummy! Here me roar! And not backwards..."

(Y/n) smiled at Gummy's