3 Months Later
G.W
I've been writing in this journal for a while, I feel sick, almost everything I find is either dead, dying, or in ruins. I'm somewhere near, what Oklahoma? I've been walking because if I wear to drive in an empty hallway I would get noticed very fast, all it takes is a soldier to spot me and I'm as good as dead. The walk did give me a lot of time to think, why am I even heading towards New York?
I've been having weird dreams, static, it calls to me. Whatever it is it wants me to head to New York for some odd reason, I don't care if I die, I just want to find a reason.
Gumball walked in the old recording room, some machinery was still running and the computer in the room was functional, the desk stood out in the small room which was littered with papers. The lights were barely working, emitting a dark green like effect on the room.
Gumball pulled down his scarf to examine the files, the computer was left on with a folder on the desktop, which contained a video.
Upon playing the video Gumball noticed an American soldier being held hostage on an old chair, his head was covered with a bag.
"Do you know why you are here?" Asked a voice
"You captured me right?" The soldier replied calmly, with no emotion at all.
"Correct, but do you know why?"
"Well you're going to interrogate me, I assume." he replied.
"You can begin." Said another female voice from behind the camera.
"You and your squad opened fire on evacuating civilians, women, children, and men were murdered." the main voice said.
The soldier begins to laugh quietly.
"Fucker…" whispered another voice behind the camera.
"Is that funny?" The voice asked.
"Sorry, I didn't mean for that to come out that way, I just think it's funny how you guys act like everything is under control, there is no escape from this. We will all die, and it's for the better, trust me." the soldier said before going quiet.
There is a pause.
"Sounds like you're speaking nonsense. I don't want to try other methods of interrogation, but trust me I will do it." the voice replied.
"Do what you want, it is all-" the soldier replied before catching himself mid-phrase. "No, you wouldn't want to hear that." he continued.
"No, I do." the voice replied.
"Are you sure?" the soldier replied.
"Spit it out, before we get to other methods to make you talk" the voice ordered.
"Fine…." the soldier says before whispering something that couldn't be heard.
"Sorry, what... did he say?" the men behind the camera asked.
"Louder." the main voice ordered.
Without explanation, screams were heard everywhere, and footsteps exiting the room are heard.
By the looks of it, the interrogation went wrong, somehow.
"Jesus Christ." Gumball whispered as he strapped his duffel bag and put his scarf over his mouth, exiting the building.
G.W
Saw a kid die today, could have helped, didn't.
I'm a piece of shit.
Oh... what even is the point of writing this.
Hey, it's been a while.
I haven't written in here for god knows how long, but who can blame me?. I'm somewhat close to my goal, I saw some really strange things on the way. On the horizon after a particular time, there is usually a distortion, it's weird. Kind of looks like those glitches in video games or animations. Back when those were still a thing. I feel like I'm close to the end of it.
I made it, I'm going in.
"Target is NorthEast of our position!" yelled the soldier as he opened fire.
Gumball rushed inside the old building, whatever it was that caused his journey to New York. It's here.
Gumball felt a sharp pain in his left leg, he dropped to his knees. This building had nothing in particular, it was a studio, just a bunch of computers with drawings scattered everywhere, of golden fishes, pink rabbits, and blue cats which were now filled with blood from Gumball's wound.
Footsteps come from below.
Gumball pulled out the pistol he had saved for a moment like this, he turned around and pulled the trigger.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The soldier dropped like a puppet.
Gumball manages to get up to his feet, dragging his wounded leg over the building.
This place seemed so familiar, but it was just a studio, there was nothing special about it.
They know I'm here.
I have to keep moving.
I'm so close.
we're both headed for the same place.
I have to get there first.
Gumball reaches a dark empty room and closed the door.
The static is there.
It calls to him, it tears everything apart.
Everything breaks.
G.W
Final entry before death.
It's not fair. It's not fair.
Why me? Why didn't I know?
They're watching me
Of course, of course.
It's taken me so long to realize it, I'm just a victim, I die for someone else's entertainment, I'm just a puppet to sing and dance and suffer.
Why is this happening? Why am I aware of this? Why did I take a broken remote control across the world? Why am I doing this? Why am I going to die?
I have to rewind things, set them back to normal
They're coming.
May 7th, 2020
The police approach the body, it looks like a crime scene, but none of it makes sense.
The body of a blue cat lays there, with a remote and journal in hand.
The cause of death was falling, but there were not many injuries that could match the death.
"Sir, you're going to want to hear this." Said one of the fry officers to the sheriff.
"We found an individual with the exact same DNA as the victim, they both look like twins, except that the body seems to be two months older than the individual, just like the remote and journal."
"What is his name?" The sheriff asked.
"Gumball Watterson."
"Those are the same initials in the journal entries."
"The FBI is getting involved in the case, Watterson will be peacefully interrogated."
"Alright, let's keep things steady here until they can get ahold of the situation." The sheriff replied as he went back into the scene.
Hey guys, I can understand the story being confusing a lot so what happened is, the government finds out about how they are non-existent and their impending doom caused by the void. Therefore they see the most humane thing to do is to end humanity as a whole to keep the void from expanding and leaving these characters in agony. Gumball, of course, wakes up in Elmore with no idea of his past life. The void calls to him to stop the extermination of humanity, Gumball was always aware of him being non-existent so the void uses him to get the remote, head to New York to access the void, and reset the timeline allowing the events to continue, Gumball is killed in the process but his past self is still alive, the timeline resets and everything is back to normal. So very much, what the void has in stock for Elmore is a lot worse than humanity being wiped out. This was my first attempt at a fanfic, I may work on this story again soon, who knows, but writing this was fun, thanks for reading.