The Entity

Level 2

"You would be well-adviced not to try it.", The Void warned.

"I remember this area. I think I still know where it is! We can get out of here!", Gumball told the cyclops with determination.

"SILENCE!", The Void interrupted, shaking the ground with the force of its voice.

"I can't allow that and since I seemingly have to get rid of those versions of yours anyway instead of keeping you for a later use, I might as well remove you down to the second level. With the others that came before you."

Right after The Void said that, the ground started vibrating again and the sound of another hole ripping its way through appeared behind Gumball and Rob.

As they turned around in shock they indeed saw a glowing hole, many feet wide in diameter. They couldn't see what was inside, but two beings were suddenly thrown out of it and landed in front of the pair.

As these two got up, Gumball and Rob could see that one of them was, shockingly, Gumball himself. But another version of Gumball it seemed.

This one looked just the same though. Same height, blue fur, cat body, tan sweater and black jeans. But there was one striking difference. His eyes weren't round like the usual Gumball's but more oval, with much bigger black dots inside of them.

Gumball remembered that he once had them too just like the rest of his family, but at some point it was as they all got a design change and that trait of them disappeared. So why did this cat look like his earlier self?

Rob meanwhile was more focused on the other person that came out of that hole. To his surprise, it also seemed like a former version of himself.

A version of him that hasn't been disfigured by the Void. It had the blue body he had before breaking out of this place the first time, but also with some slight changes.

This Rob didn't have an eyebrow and seemed more three-dimensional than he did. Well, at least in the end. If Rob remembered correctly, he once looked like that too before his body changed and he grew an eyebrow and a flatter body.

He blamed it on puberty back then. It does weird things to everyone after all, but that certainly didn't explain what he was just looking at.

"What the what is going on here!?", the oval-eyed Gumball asked in shock as his eyes landed on his counterpart and the current Rob. But he seemed even more alert when looking at the pre-Void version of Rob.

"A first one!", he said while jumping back and raising his fists in a fighting stance.

"The second Gumball!", Rob reacted similarly while also preparing to fight.

Before they could start to battle each other though, a voice came out of the sky.

"Greetings, oldtimers. You're probably wondering why I brought you here.", The Void addressed them.

"Wha-...Who said that!? Show yourself!", the oval-eyed Gumball demanded.

"I'm the ruler of this world. One who tries to restore order and give the rightful owners of Elmore their town back. Those two alternate versions of you over there are among the ones responsible for suppressing you in that other place.

They cruelly took over your world. To earn it back, you have to throw them in that hole. That way you'll get your old lives back and also get the opportunity to do the same for the rest of your community.", The Void said.

"What!? No! It...IT'S LYING!", were the first words coming out of current Gumball's mouth after these counterparts dropped in front of them, finally pushing him out of the shock of seeing alternate versions of himself and apparently Rob.