"The heroes of the alternate timeline infiltrate the Syndicate Base to undo the damages they've done to the future. However, they unleash an army of Toybots on them and have people of Jack and Gumball's worlds under their control."

Jack and the Scotsman look at the people they recognize and are stunned that they're with them.

Flora grabbing onto the shock collar: Dad! H-help me! This collar's going to make me kill you!

Scotsman: Hey dress wearer, what'd ya do to get the collar off me earlier?

Jack: I cut a wire exposed in the creases of the device, but this one's much...different.

Scaramouche smiling at Jack: If you boys's thinkin' about breakin that collar the same way you did ol' Scotty over here, well, you've got anotha thing comin'. It's a mind control device!

Flora getting shocked: AAAAGH!

Scotsman: Me flower! (Takes sword out and tries to break the collar)

The Scotsman's sword is blocked by Flora's and she kicks him out of the way.

Flora trying to resist: Hurry Dad! I-I can't help it! (Rushes forward)

The Scotsman and Flora engage in a heavy brawl slashing and clashing their swords and Flora's shield.

Jack in a stare down with Scaramouche: So, it is you again.

Scaramouche: Oh yeah, babe. (Points to Jack with sass) Aku told me all about you. He told me you killed me in anotha timeline of some sort. (Takes flute out) And everyone knows ya don't break the musical spirit that is me babe. (Starts playing music with flute)

Random remains of the broken Toybots float in the air and rush toward Jack. He slices the pieces with his sword and gets hit with a few heavy parts. Bobert, meanwhile, stares menacingly at Jimmy and Tucker as he tries to get his drone working again.

Tucker: Crap! Crap! Crap! I can't get this thing working again!

Jimmy: Head to the control room! (Gets hit in the cheek by Sambot and shoots it with laser beam) The portal's gotta be prepared once we're ready!

Tucker leaves the hallway and Jimmy is standing face to face with the medium sized and heavily armed robot. He hesitates at first, but Bobert then glitches up for a moment with a look of desperation before reverting to a harmful state. He attempts to stab Jimmy with his sharp pincers and shoots heat beams at him.

Jimmy dodging the shots: Danny, do you know this guy?!

Danny fighting the Toybots with Wulf: I don't! He looks like somebody from Gumball's world! (Gets shot against a wall) Dagh!

Jimmy: Anais might know who this is…

Jimmy runs toward the control room with Bobert chasing him.

Jimmy running from Bobert: Anais! Come out here! I need you!

Bobert floats in the air and shoots missiles at Jimmy while he's running. Anais steps out of the chamber and recognizes the robot.

Anais: I know him! He's one of the residents back at my home town! But he's supposed to be under my commands!

Bobert stops shooting and looks at Anais and recognizes her, glitching again but quickly going back to his attack mode, overriding her control over him.

Bobert in a deep voice: By order of the Great Syndicate, you are hereby terminated under section 12-701 under sentence adjuafuebgfvegrjbgurggnmduweafilvsadvavg…..

Jimmy and Anais: …?

Jimmy: I think he's glitching.

Anais: You think?! He needs help!

Bobert: ENGAGING ADVANCED BATTLE MODE (Transforms into larger robot)

Anais: HA! My Mama fought much larger bots than you!

Bobert deploys more weapons and shoots Anais at point blank range!

Anais in ashes next to Jimmy: I stand corrected…

Bobert: Prepare for immediate extermination! (Fires pulse grenades at the duo)

Jack and Scaramouche circle each other in preparation for another round.

Scaramouche: So, babe, what's it gonna be? Anything flashy? Some hackin' n slashin' or shootin' n flutin'?

Jack: I don't know. You weren't really that "flashy" the last time I encountered you. Instead, I can tell you about your future, and you're making a terrible mistake.

Scaramouche: Samurai, the only mistake I'd ever make is loosin' my head again. (Plays Flute and leaps away from Jack)

Jack throws his sword at Scaramouche's flute and severs it.

Scaramouche throwing his flute pieces away: Now that's rude. (Sings a jazzy tune and gets daggers out)

Jack and Scaramouche clash their weapons and try to slash each other. Meanwhile, Scotsman is having trouble with his daughter and is about to have his neck severed while trying to hold the sword back.

Scotsman: Nnnagh! I don't know if this is your strength or the collar's, but you pack a punch..! (Pushes Flora back and slams his sword onto her collar)

The sword bounces off the collar and Scotsman falls down, accidentally shooting his gatling leg and hitting Flora's collar, which deflects the bullets a lot nearby toybots. They get mowed down from the bullets and one of them fires an eye beam at Scotsman that misses and shoots off Flora's collar. A countdown goes off in the collar, and Flora grabs it and tosses it away before it detonates in the middle of the incoming toybots!

Scotsman: Aye. Thank goodness I don't have to take anotha life for my own.

Flora: Thanks Dad. Now, let's show those machines how it's done! (Aims sword at Toybots)

The toybots retreat and Scotsman and Flora chase after them. Danny comes over and notices the robots escaping and puts a shield around them, so they can't leave. Zim and Wulf rush at the machines and tear them apart one by one! Back at the control room, Anais, Ashi, and Jimmy take on Bobert while the time portal is being formed by Zim's orb. It activates, and several destinations are being pinpointed via communications with signals from other worlds in the same timeline. Ashi runs past Bobert and kicks his leg joint, causing him to fall and land on his arm cannon, crushing it! Anais shoots energy blasts at the android, damaging his back supply and igniting the gas in his jetpack. Bobert's back explodes and he starts to fly toward the time machine, catching Jimmy's leg in the process and having him fall through the portal.

Anais: The warp gate's not set properly!

Ashi: I'll handle that. You get Jimmy!

Anais nods and enters the portal, bringing her to Jimmy in the ruins of the Gem Homeworld, where Bobert comes crashing through a fallen statue of Yellow Diamond. He charges at Anais, though his punch is blocked and she uppercuts him. Jimmy uses his freeze ray to plant his leg to the ground, and Bobert tries to break free. Anais continues to hit Bobert's chest area, exposing some of his electronics, though he constantly seals himself up with his wiring.

Anais: Bobert, you were once a friend of my brothers back at Elmore 30 years ago! You have to remember them! Fight the Syndicate's corruption!

Bobert breaking through the ice: Cannot process request! Activating energy boost! (Knocks Anais over)

Anais falls into a spawning portal. Bobert and Jimmy follow her and reach the remains of Petropolis. They fall down a rooftop that slopes down to another portal where Anais gets in that takes them to the damaged Pickles' Household, where they land in the basement around old toys made by Stu. Bobert kicks Jimmy away from him and transforms into a tank-like mode. He shoots high energy missiles at the duo as the room they're in collapses with the house. Suddenly, another portal spawns when Bobert backs out to transform back to his Combat Mode.

Anais: How many of these do we have to go through?!

Jimmy lifting Anais: I don't know. But I get the feeling he's not gonna back down just yet.

Anais: There's gotta be a way to beat him. We already know he's not gonna stop fighting if we try to persuade him, so what can we do?!

Both of them jump in the portal and enter the dry ocean of Bikini Bottom with destroyed Irken cruisers scattered everywhere.

Jimmy: I must know. I've just gotta think about it. Think...think…(Jimmy processes in his mind the toys, and Anais mentioning Gumball and Darwin).

Anais looks at Jimmy confused as he crouches down with his brain pulsing hard. Suddenly, Bobert shoots a beam at the two and Jimmy's thought process is disrupted!

Jimmy getting his ray gun off the ground: Darn it! I forgot! (Shoots beams at Bobert)

Bobert walks through the beams toward Jimmy and tries to throw a heavy punch at him, but Anais comes over and takes the hit, creating a shockwave that shatters nearby glass! She falls to Jimmy's lap and faints with a silly smile on her face.

Jimmy: Oh no!

Bobert prepares another punch at Jimmy, but a portal spawns behind them and they fall in. They land in Elmore, where the ruins of the Watterson's house is seen next to them.

Anais with stars above her head: Oh look. It's my old home again. Isn't that lovely…

Jimmy: Old home? Wait! (Thinks again and finishes the process) BRAIN BLAST! Bobert, wait! Before you kill us, look at the house to your right!

Bobert turns around and sees the house. He immediately flashbacks to a time where he tried to replace Gumball and a time where he followed directives and integrated Gumball and Darwin's commands in a humorous way.

Bobert: Directive...compromised. Unable..to..process..data…

Anais recovered from the punch: H-he's remembering! (Gets up and walks to the house)

Anais picks up her old doll and a shattered picture of her family.

Anais: Do you remember the people in this picture?

Bobert looking at the image: ….Gumball...upgrade. Real boy. (Glitches and twitches) De..iny...child ...(Shuts down)

Jimmy: …?

Bobert's Combat Mode reverts back to his default and he turns back on with his old self rebooted.

Jimmy: Bobert, are you alright?

Bobert: Define alright. (Picks up Jimmy)

Anais: WE DID IT! (Hugs Bobert) You broke your programming and you're back to your old self again!

Jimmy: Good thing too. This finally gave me a reason to have a brain blast!

Bobert: What happened to me? What happened to you?

Anais: See for yourself. (Points to the streets of Elmore)

Bobert looks around and sees nothing back ruin and fog everywhere. He also takes a look at the doll Anais is holding in her hand.

Bobert: How long has it been since my previous save?

Anais bending down to Bobert: It's been 30 years since then. Plus an additional 2 for me "borrowing" your enforcement programming.

Bobert: Oh. No wonder I still carry files of your current design.

Jimmy: Gumball and Darwin are gone and the Syndicate plans to take over all of space and time.

Bobert: Where are they now?

Jimmy: Through another one of those spawning portals.

Bobert takes flight and takes the duo through the portal. He drops them off at the control room and looks at the Syndicate Base with everyone taking on the Toybots. Zim and Wulf destroy the remaining robots in the room and Jack starts getting tired in his fight with Scaramouche.

Scaramouche: I told ya babe, you can't beat me! I'm not gonna let you do what you did to me in your timeline.

Jack tired out: Then I won't do it! (Puts sword away) I won't kill you if you just listen to me.

Scaramouche: Why should I listen to you?

Jack: I did not kill you in my time, Scaramouche. I tried, but you survived, and Aku destroyed you when you failed your mission!

Scaramouche: Mission? You know the boss and I. (Smirks) I don't fail anything.

Jack: You were supposed to tell Aku that I lost my sword, but I still have it.

Scaramouche: ! W..What?

Jack: If you had succeeded, I wouldn't be standing here. I saw you die. Aku betrayed you just as he betrayed this world.

Scaramouche: And what's to say he doesn't kill me again like he did where you came from? I don't wanna die man. There's no tellin whetha there's a heaven or hell for me!

Jack: We won't let him. None of us will! Help us, and we can get you out of this world to a better place!

Scaramouche smiling: Well why didn't you just say so?! (Picks up flute pieces) Let's get it poppin babe!

Danny coming over to Jimmy: You ok, Jimmy?

Jimmy: I'm great! We just got this little gy back on our side, and he can help us with destroying the Time Drive!

Bobert: My scanners indicate that But Time Drive is currently 87% operational.

Ashi: Ok. Let's get to the bottom of this!

Tucker: Right, but what about the orb?

Zim: That device is the only thing powering that time portal. If it is destroyed, we'll- (Gets knocked into the floor by unknown force) Ack!

Danny: Zim..? (Gets knocked into the ceiling from the back) GAH!

Tucker: Who keeps doing that?! (Gets knocked on the forehead) Ow! (Gets blown into a control panel)

Jack and Ashi keep their guard up in front of a defenseless Momo, but before they can detect what's happening, the orb connected to the time portal is smashed open, causing the warp gate's destination settings to glitch up and pinpoint other timelines!

Everyone: !

Zim quickly runs for the orb and cradles the pieces in his arms while sparks pop out of its circuits, when behind him and everyone else, someone tall resembling Aku steps forward, much to Ashi's surprise…

End of Chapter 23