The Entity

Transition

Of course he immediately knew who it was and countered with a backhand while still having his back turned to Zach, hoping to catch him off-guard but he was too slow again.

This time he got attacked from behind hard enough to get knocked on the ground. As he collected himself and looked behind him again he saw Zach standing there with his arms crossed.

"Of what use are your skills against someone you can't touch?", he said before suddenly disappearing again before his voice was heard from the other side of the backyard.

"Of what use are they against something you are too weak to stop?", he said while standing beside a tree, grabbing it and just ripping it out of the ground with one hand before throwing it at Gumball.

"AAAHHH!", Gumball could only scream out in fear while closing his eyes and shielding himself with his arms as the gigantic tree flew at him at high speed.

The impact never came though. After a few seconds, Gumball was brave enough to open his eyes and remove his arms from his face again, only to see Zach standing before him while holding and blocking the tree in the exact same position that it was just flying at Gumball a moment before.

"THAT'S why you're far from ready.", he said before dropping the tree to the ground.

"So, you're gonna teach me how to be as fast as you now?", Gumball asked in hope after remembering the moment where they were in the Second Generationer territory and Zach got them home in a second back then.

"No. Faster even.", Zach answered.

...

Back in the present:

After Nicole returned home, Gumball, Richard and her went on to further discuss the plan on how to exactly stop the Void.

"So how exactly are we going to fight this Void if it's a sentient place and not an actual person? Do we just like...destroy the place?", Nicole wondered.

"That's...wouldn't be quite as easy as it might sound. I guess the Void would unleash the first generation that I told you about upon us, so we need the numbers and strength to beat them first.", Gumball revealed.

"Only the first one? What about the second one that you also mentioned?", Richard asked.

Dammit, I didn't prepare an explanation for what happened to them. How did Dad of all people push me into a corner here?, Gumball thought.

"They would probably be an entire problem of themselves considering they still have the strongest fighter in all of The Void running around.", Gumball decided, settling on a half-truth so it technically wouldn't be wrong.

"So we take down that army of early Generationers and then we take down the Void? Sounds simple enough.", Nicole concluded.

"Yeeeah, something like that. Luckily, it's busy with creating the copy world for the new show right now, which means we can prepare as well as possible. Afterwards we focus on getting Pfahlius out of Darwin.", Gumball explained.

"Poor Darwin. He must be so frightened being with that monster alone. I wish he was here and I could hold him right now. I can't bear the thought of not knowing if he is safe, especially after what happened with Anais.", Richard stated as tears formed in his eyes again before Nicole hugged him.

"Don't worry, Dad. For better or worse, Pfahlius isn't going down easily. As long as he wants to keep Darwin's body, he should be safe. I'm more worried for the rest of the world with him out there doing who knows what.", Gumball commented.