Just a couple of months after the series finale "The Inquisition", blue cat Elmore resident Gumball T. Watterson, his adoptive fish brother Darwin, and shapeshifting fairy girlfriend Penny Fitzgerald have finished middle school at Elmore Junior High and are off for the summer, planning on spending it together and doing whatever they want to. One of the things that Gumball and Darwin do during the summer is play their favorite board game Dodj or Daar and build a flying car as a "daar" that they have to do. Miles away from their home in Elmore, the evil California governor Danny Burns, who is a mustached jaguar, notices Gumball and Darwin's flying car and sees it as an opportunity to get military weapons out of them, so that he can control all of the Californian citzens' minds to do as he says. This worries Penny, who fears that they are going to be controlled by Governor Burns as well. So it's up to Gumball, Darwin, and Penny to save California from its greedy, sinister governor (and by coincidence, his savage Tasmanian devil minions Gabriella, Ray-O, and Eddie) or else everyone will be under his control forever.
