Dipper and Mabel were both sitting on the bus for there uneventful journey back to California. Dipper decided to work on a crossword puzzle he ripped out of the newspaper that morning and Mabel just leaned against Dipper holding Waddles as she began to doze off into a light nap. They expected nothing more of their bus ride back home but that changed fast.
The bus was just cruising up along the hill with no cars in few but a forest surrounding them when all of a sudden the bus crashed.
The impact of the crash caused Dipper and Mabel flying forward out of their rubber seats, with Waddles in Mabel's arms and Mabel in Dipper's arms. Dipper always made sure he protected his sister and this crash had no exception. Though as they were in mid air, it felt like everything was in slow motion for Dipper. The split second it felt like this he asked himself,
"What caused the bus to crash?"
He did not have any time to try and answer his question as he hit the floor a few seats in front of their original seats. The floor felt cold and very dirty but Dipper was not concerned about the public buses health concerns, he was more worried about other things at that moment.
Once he knew the bus was no longer moving he pulled himself up and looked at Mabel. She was huddling in a ball on his lap with Waddles squished against her chest as she hugged him for dear life. Dipper then looked at his surroundings, though his vision was kind of blurred. He could make out though that the bus was pushed in some in the front and a ton of windows were shattered but nothing else seemed to be horribly wrong.
He then brought his attention back to his twin sister as he wondered what to do, he had never been in a crash before (he never wanted to be in one though!)so he didn't really know what to do after or even what to expect. He decided it would most likely be best though to try and comfort his sister and try to calm her down has it seemed she was breathing quit heavily at the moment.
"Mabel its okay, are you hurt anywhere?" Mabel jumped up at Dipper's voice, it was almost as if she forgot he was there or even why she was squishing Waddles on a bus floor.
She pulled herself up and wiped the sudden tear that streamed down her face. "Y-Yea I'm Fine" was all she managed her mouth to say. She wanted to ask so many questions though but decided they could be saved for later. She then looked around also to see what was happening, her vision was clear so she did have any trouble seeing the damage done around them, but she was confused on why she didn't see anything in front of the bus even though is was crumbled inward as if it hit something huge.
She then placed Waddles down and pulled herself to stand.
Dipper did the same though it seemed he was struggling to keep standing as he had to hold onto the seat next to them for support.
"Are you kids okay!?" Came a sudden yell. It caused both Dipper and Mabel's heart to skip a beat and they both turn around to were the voice had come from as they were not ready to hear another voice around.
"I think so!'' Dipper yelled back as he swayed and kind of fell into the seat that he was holding onto before.
"Dipper!" Mabel called to her brother as he slumped more into the seat.
"I-I'm fine Mabel, j-just a little dizzy, that's all"Dipper forced himself to say with a small laugh. He was actually in much pain as he was the one that took the fall for them both.
"I-I don't think you are" Mabel said with a huge wave of concern in her voice.
"Help, I think Dipper is hurt!" Mabel called out to the voice they heard before.
'I'm Fine re-" Dipper started but was immediately cut off by the voice they had heard before.
"We're coming in pumpkin, don't worry!" With that response, both Dipper and Mabel knew it was there grunkle who was yelling to them.
Dipper just closed his eyes has a wave of nausea ran over his kept trying to reopen his eyes but every time he tried he just kept feeling worse. He didn't really understand why he was feeling this, as it seemed he did not hit the ground that hard, but as he kept thinking about it, the more he seemed not to remember the crash. With this he just kept his eyes closed and slumped in the uncomfortable seat in confusion.
Mabel just continued to stand over her brother as she watched his face go pale. She knew this was not good. She then took her eyes off her brother and looked around to see if their grunkles had made there way in yet. While she was looking, one of the windows shattered and in came both Grunkles.
"Are you kids okay?" Ford asked running over to the two with Stan not far behind.
"I-I am but I'm not so sure-" Mabel said though she couldn't seem to finish her sentence as she watched her brother curl up in a ball and clutch is legs tight to his chest.
"We heard the crash and came running up here as fast as we could" Stan said leaning down to check Dipper.
"Do you know what caused the bus to crash?" Ford asked walking towards the front to get a better view of what caused the front to cave in.
"N-no" Mabel's voiced trembled as she was still in shock about everything around her.
"I was just starting to fall asleep and Dipper was doing some nerdy puzzle when all of a sudden we went flying forward." Mabel said as she moved her arms as if trying to demonstrate what had just happened.
"I didn't see any cars or anything of that matter around us." Dipper said trying his best to pull himself together and sit up, though his attempt failed as he winced from a sudden sharp pain in his stomach and went back to clutching his stomach in a ball form.
"Take it easy Dipper."Stan said placing his hand on Dippers leg trying to give him comfort.
"This is interesting" Ford said as it looked like if he was hitting an invisible wall.
"Stop messing around idiot and help me here." Stan snapped at him. Looking back down at Dipper.
"I'm not, it seems that a barrier is here" Ford said still feeling around an invisible wall.
"How-" cough " How is that poss-"cough"ble" Dipper manged to say as another wave of nausea went through his body.
That's when the thought hit him, did they completely defeat Bill? They did though! But, what about the stone? The dream scape? The Wheel!
It had to be the wheel, he knew they had seen a ton of the mysterious wheels around the town the whole summer but didn't really think much of them until now.
"Lets worry about the damn invisible wall later, we need to make sure these kids are okay!" Stan yelled at Ford as if the Mabel and Dipper were not right in front of them.
Without waiting for an answer from Ford, he started to pick Dipper up to carry him out of the damaged bus.
Dipper did not like the thought of him being weak.
He did put up a pretty good fight though.
He kicked and threw some punches but, because of his blurry vision, all his attacks just hit the air, just draining his energy.
"Calm down kid, if you keep resisting you wont get better any faster" Stan said
This made Dipper stop immediately because he really did want to get better fast, though he still did not want to admit he was hurt. He just thought he had to be in his best health to be able to protect Mabel no matter what the situation.
"I'm fine Grunkle Stan" Dipper started but was cut off immediately.
"From the way your acting kid, maybe its a concussion" Stan said standing outside the crashed bus now, waiting for Ford and Mabel to make sure they add there bags out of the bus.
"Oh Hell no, I have no concussion, no way " Dipper said shaking his head and moving his hands to form an X.
Grunkle Stan just rolled his eyes to his decline (and the kids choice of words).
After a few seconds of complete awkward silence between the two, Mabel and Ford were finally coming out of the bus. Mabel had Waddles in her arms with a backpack hanging from her arm. Ford had Dippers Backpack on him while carrying the two twin's duffle-bags in his hand.
"Looks like you two aren't leaving Gravity Falls quite yet" Ford said looking back to the mystery of the Barrier before them all as they made their way down the dirt filled road.
Wow there's the First Chapter done! Sorry if there were any spelling errors or that kind of stuff, I'm a new writer so I'm not the best xD Hope you enjoyed this and um...yea, hopefully I'll see you next Chapter!