Take it back, take it back my friend

All the things that you said about the end

This is it, this is me telling you

It ain't over till it's over.

-It's Over When It's Over by Falling In Reverse.

Something was wrong. Gumball had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach ever since the school day had ended. He couldn't get his mind off of everything that had happened. Usually whenever he had a wacky adventure he could brush it off pretty quickly, but something was different about this one. Something about it felt...unfinished. Like there was more to the story that he just wasn't seeing. Maybe he should've let Rob finish his sentence back there. He would've been willing to listen to what he had to say if Tina hadn't interrupted him, but he didn't exactly stop her. He wasn't going to try and take on a T-Rex. Still though, he probably could've at least moved him out of the school. No one knew where he lived so they just kinda left him there after he was knocked out. He should probably go check on him later, make sure he was okay. This whole thing didn't make any sense. Why would Rob want to transform everyone into whatever those creatures were? He said something about trying to save them, But save them from what? And how would transforming everyone help? So many puzzle pieces didn't add up here. He was going to have to go to Rob and get the story straightened out, it was going to drive him crazy until he did. Gumball was lost in thought when he heard a low rumbling sound reverberate throughout the house. "Um, guys? Does anyone know what that was?" He shouted across the house. Darwin poked his head into the living room, following the sound of Gumball's voice.

"I have no idea." He said. They both heard a shrill scream coming from upstairs in the direction of their bedroom. Both siblings eyes went wide and Gumball's ears pricked up. That sounded just like their little sister. All thoughts of Rob and his plan immediately flew out his mind as fear for his sibling took its place. "Anais!" they shouted as they ran up to go check on her. They burst into their room to see Anais looking fearfully at a giant static patch that tore a hole into their bedroom. Gumball and Darwin's jaws dropped as they took in the sight.

"What…the...what is that thing?" Gumball whispered.

"I don't know. I just came up to our room and it was here! I kinda assumed you guys had something to do with it." Anais explained. Normally Gumball would be insulted by this statement but there were bigger things to worry about right now.

"Trust me, I had nothing to do with this one." Gumball said. Anais nodded, she could easily tell that his fear and confusion was genuine. All three of them looked at the hole curiously. What was it? And how did it get here?

"It almost looks like, TV static?" Anais said, inspecting it.

"But that doesn't make any sense! Why would there be a hole of TV static in the real world?" Gumball asked.

"Um, guys? Is it me, or is that hole getting bigger?" Darwin chimed in. The other two looked closer and saw that Darwin was right, it was getting bigger. In fact, it was starting to swallow up the furniture in their bedroom.

"Oh, that's not good." Gumball mumbled.

"I think we should get out of here." Anais said. Gumball and Darwin both nodded and they ran, wordlessly deciding to go try and find their parents. Usually they could handle things on their own but this? This felt out of their depth. They ran downstairs and stopped short when they saw another patch of static eating up their living room. All of the Wattersons turned tail and ran outside, away from the static patch. They closed the front door and leaned up against it, breathing heavy.

"There's another one? Where did that even come from? How did it get there so quickly?" Gumball asked.

"And more importantly where are Mom and Dad?" Darwin asked. Gumball and Anais both looked at him surprised. He usually added a formal Mr. and Mrs. to their names. For him to forget to do that meant that he was seriously worried.

"I don't think I remember seeing them since this morning." Anais added worriedly. They didn't think much of it when they first got home. Their mom worked late sometimes and maybe their dad just went out to get food or something. They were left alone pretty often so it wasn't a big deal. But combined with the static patches this could be really bad. A sense of dread swept over all of the kids. They'd seen the static eat furniture, could it eat people too?

"Just calm down, everything will be fine." Gumball said, more to convince himself than anyone else. "We've gotten into plenty of sticky situations before and we've always come out ok! We just need to think of a plan or something!"

"Um, Gumball?" Anais said, pointing upwards. Gumball's eyes followed her finger and he saw that the sky itself was splitting open to reveal more static, and more static patches were starting to appear all over Elmore. Everyone's eyes went wide as they tried to process what was happening in front of them.

"What is going on? Why is this happening? Why is all this static showing up?" Darwin asked, voice teetering on the edge of hysterical.

"I….I think this is what Rob was trying to warn us about." Gumball said. He didn't realize it until the words were out of his mouth, but it was true. Darwin nodded in understanding as the puzzle pieces clicked for him too while Anais just looked confused.

"What are you talking about?" She asked.

"Oh, right, you weren't there. Where were you anyways?" Gumball asked. Anais opened her mouth to respond but Gumball interrupted her. "Never mind, it's not important. What you need to know is that Rob tried to transform us into these 3D meat puppet things, I don't know what they're called, you know, these." He pulled up a picture of a live action human on his phone and showed it to her. Anais nodded as if to say, "I get the concept, keep going." "We stopped him, of course, but after he was caught he said something about how he did it for a reason. That something was coming and this would save our lives. What else could he have been talking about but this?"

"But how would turning you into whatever those things are save your lives?" Anais asked.

"I don't know, and now I never will." Gumball said sadly. Suddenly he heard a rumbling coming from underneath him. He tried to run but it was too late. The ground gave way and all three of the Watterson siblings went tumbling into the void.