The Entity

Level 2

"W-Well, can you send me back to the real world then, please!? Both of my siblings are in mortal danger! This ghost possessed my brother and now he maybe has killed him if-", Gumball rambled on.

"I can reassure you there. Pfahlius did nothing of the sort to your brother. Darwin's body is still completely fine.", The Void interrupted him.

"R-Really, he is okay? You know everything that's been going on!? He-He didn't do anything after wandering over to Anais? *Sigh*", Gumball smiled a little in reassurance that his brother was alright.

"But that means he's in my sister's body now and she needs to be saved, right?"

"...He...did with her what he was planning to do, yes.", The Void answered after a little hesitation.

"Alright so, how do I go back?", Gumball asked.

"You can't. There is no way out of here. I should know, I've been trapped here for like a week already. I doubt it would want to let you go anyway. The Void is not your ally. It wants to suck in all of Elmore, which is exactly what I've been trying to stop before being sent here myself.", Rob clarified.

"Pfft, right. Why would I believe you after all the lies and torment you put us through? This Void probably had a good reason to suck you in here.", Gumball said while pointing his finger at Rob accusingly.

"No, I'm afraid he's correct. I'm not your friend and while he clearly needs to work on the moral execution of his plans, Rob was trying to save you all.", The Void revealed.

"Wait, so that whole thing of kidnapping Barbara and turning us into these ugly creatures-", Gumball began.

"An attempt to let her show me the future so I could find out enough to stop it and transform you all into something that could send us to another place and avoid finding our end here.", Rob finished for him.

"And the part about playing with my feelings and kidnapping Penny?", Gumball asked with a raised eyebrow.

"...You kept annoying me so much with that nemesis thing that I got desperate to end you so I could focus on Banana Joe and get to his mother that way. But I went too far.", Rob admitted shamefully while rubbing his head.

"You think?", Gumball asked sarcastically although he wasn't quite as angry at him anymore after finding out why he did that.

He didn't make Banana Joe his nemesis to hurt him, but to get to his mother to find out more from her about this bad future he wanted to stop. And Gumball made that unnecessarily difficult for him with his clinginess, if not straight up ruined his chances to fix everything.

Gumball remembered. That's what Rob was saying when he told him about only being interested in Banana Joe's mom and not him on that skyscraper when he kidnapped his girlfriend.

It still didn't excuse what he did to Penny who had nothing to do with that, but it made the whole situation a bit more understandable.

"I was also the one who kicked his whole villain role off before you and your brother even suggested it to him, just so you know. Barely any of what happened was truly his fault.", The Void added.

"What the-and why are you telling me all of this!?", Gumball asked, wondering why this Void would intentionally reveal itself as the bad guy in front of him.

"I saw the two of you fighting more than enough in the show. I don't need more of that right now. If we're already gonna stay here together, it's better if we all learn to get along.", The Void casually answered.