I lean back in my chair, letting Nicole finish her struggle to rant, despite the fact that I just removed her lips. Spawning in a medium Pepsi cup from McDonalds in my hand, I lean back and experience the sensation of being Almighty. Pretty nice if I say so myself.

"So, uh, what happens now? We've broken the Fourth Wall, and we've reached you. Now what happens? Does the story end? Is the universe going to die?" Gumball asks, anxious to find the next event. I shake my head, setting down the cup.

"No, no. You're right, Gumball. The story is over. You've reached the end once you've reached hvn_gds, which was where you would live on while the universe would collapse below you." Anais raises a confused eyebrow.

"To leave everyone else to DIE?" she snaps. "What kind of monster are you-"

"Oh no, there was supposed to be another part of the story where they would reach you guys here on their own rockets. Princess Bubblegum would stay behind and go back to help Ooo before they too would end in a huge gravitational squash. Everyone would end up here, in hvn_gds, safe from the eternal death of the universe."

Everyone stops to ponder the alternate timeline of the story, if they hadn't ended up in this region. Frankly, I wanted it to end this way. Making up a story about an alternate timeline was just funny because they believed it too. But whatever, onward with the rest of this story I guess.

"So...what now? Are they coming soon?" Darwin questions, feeling shameful of leaving them here. He wanted to be the one sacrificed in place of the others. Not to be a hero and gain fame, of course.

"And what about my baby? It never cried, asked for food, or do anything!" Carrie says, wondering if her baby was dead.

"That was just a plot advancement. I needed to add a filler to make the story interesting," I reply. "It's just a prop." They all give angry, but relieved, glares at me. "So, you, guys wanna head back home safely? The story's over, there's nothing left for you to see, and there's nothing else to do. You've done it. You survived."

"Yeah, but we were never supposed to die," Darwin points out. I smirk. That's true.

"I actually wanted one of you to die, which would add tension and drama. Well, I did. But I can bring Richard back," I say, clacking on the keyboard. Richard opens his eyes, gasping for air. He was still in Nicole's arms, and she drops him onto the soft cotton of the cloud ground I custom made. It's much better than dirt, anyways. Richard stands up and looks up at me, his eyes sparkling with awe like the rest before.

I unmute Nicole, and she looks up at me with unsure emotion. Was she supposed to be angry or grateful for me? Well, to be honest, I only made her confused so she wouldn't start ranting again, which was okay with all of us. The Wattersons were simply relieved that Richard was back from his...long sleep.

"Please, DWalk...DWalk..." Anais stutters.

"DWalkthroughGuy..." I correct.

"Right...if you have the power to dismantle the universe, cause deaths on command, and create intelligence high enough to perceive the Fourth Wall, can you at least bring us back to the way it was before?" she pleads, getting down on her knees. "We want the old Elmore back, before any of this chaos and madness ever happened. Please!"

I considered it. I worked pretty hard for this story. Almost 30 chapters now, but the story is over.

There's nothing past this point; nothing to enjoy and nothing to get out of it. The adventure they went through was all for the joy of it, the joy of us, reading this message in a higher universe, through a computer screen, phone screen, tablet screen. All of this was just an adventure to give us a laugh and to pass time when we needed it the most, or when we were bored out of our minds, and humans needed something to do.

Literature, including FanFiction, was all just the joy of passing a story onto one another, generation through generation, passed through families and curious browsers of the Internet searching for a good read. Now that the characters have done their part, did their acting and said their lines, it's all over.

Just like Shakespeare once famously said, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts."

I sigh in serenity. It's all over now, isn't it? This must be the end. It's time to put the Wattersons, and the rest of the universe, back in their places, like a kid sampling a toy in a store.

"It's all over, guys, let me set back the time..." I reach over to the analog clock on my desk and reset the current date back, far back, to the 26th of September, 2014. I look back at the little characters and the broken down KV-1 standing beside my swivel chair, marveling at the fiction of the situation. It was unreal. "You have to remember to change something with the past, change something that'll ensure that your journey to here will never have to happen ever again." They all nod like eager schoolchildren.

"Do you promise to never throw another event that might potentially cause something like this ever again?" Gumball asks, looking at me hopefully. I laugh wholeheartedly, shaking my head.

"No, I promise," I reply. My fingers were on the SET TIME button, ready to reset the date back to 9/26/2014, when this whole ordeal even started. "Alright, here we go." I press the button with more fervor than I expected, letting the good joys of writing and laughing at my own work go, ready to start a new story.


ONE MORE CHAPTER LEFT!

(also, I don't own Pepsi Corporation or the McDonalds Franchise)

Thanks anyways!
-DWalkthroughGuy