Things had really gone pear shaped back in 2012. It was referred to as Weirdmageddon by those who dared speak of it.
A rift into the reality of living nightmares had torn through the sky. Gravity had fallen. And all had feared the beast with just one eye.
The insane triangle had been intent of laying waste to the dimension for the pleasure of a giant party. He had trapped Mabel Pines in a bubble, created a living throne of petrified citizens and turned Stanley Pines to gold. Announcing Stanford Pines had 24 hours to share the weirdness barrier secret, or his brother would die.
Threatening a Pines is a very bad idea. Dipper and Wendy had quickly freed Mabel. Reunited back to the shack the kids optimism had inspired their Grunkle Ford to build a machine to shrink the weirdness barrier. After activation the towns magical boundary had started to constrict. A few of Bill's hellish friends had dissipated into nothing as the barrier rolled through them. A very angry Bill had uprooted a concrete apartment building and batted away the shack like a golf ball. Sending the shack flying into the distance and leaving a stunned group stocked still in the basement.
"Dudes, If we stand real still, he can't see us." Soos said through his teeth.
Dipper groaned and corrected "that was the Tyrannosaurus Soos!"
"Oh yeah.." And then Soos grabbed Mabel and Dipper, squeezing them under his stinky pits and ran for it. Promptly followed by all but one of the survivors.
The kids yelled and kicked, Mabel even bit. But Soos didn't put them down till they were all partially hidden behind the tree line.
The precious weirdness confinement machine had been knocked out of whack by the house literally being uprooted. The floor a broken and uneven jigsaw puzzle of concrete. Ford recalibrated and reprogramed desperately whilst Bill Cipher laughed. The barrier had stopped shrinking, his friends were all converging. All he had to do was reverse the machine and the world was theirs!
"I've got you now Sixer! The human race thanks you for its extinction!" Bill's nasal voice boomed from his giant, pyramid body.
That's when a roar made everyone look up. Blindly searching the bright red sky. High above Bill, flying on an eye bat, was Stanley Pines. All set for some thrillin heroics.
The refugees all whooped and cheered as Stan steered the bat towards Bill. He pulled open the creatures eyelids to shoot a medusa ray at Bill, turning his right arm to stone.
Stan dissented onto the bewildered pyramid and clocked him straight in the eye, with a horse shout of "NO one bullies MY brother!"
With a howl of rage another three black arms sprouted out from the glowering triangle. Pulling the old man dangling from its face off with a snarl. Bill's arm elongated as he tried to throw Stan away, hitting the somehow intact forcefield which caused him to drop the geezer with a yelp.
Stan's body rocked the section of shattered concrete basement floor he landed on. His head lolling back and his body limp. On a table next to him a machine was jolted and began to slowly spin.
Whilst Stan had passed through the houses protective shield like butter, Bill had no such luck. Preoccupied which trying to grab at Ford, Bill failed to notice his boundary closing in again. Until an alarmed Pyronica yelled out "RUN EVERYONE!" At which the remaining nightmares all retreated back to the nightmare realm.
Meanwhile Ford was shaking Stanley uncontrollably, unable to see through blurry eyes. "Stan OHMYGOD STAN STAN! Wake up PLEASE!"
That's when he hear the scream. The scream of his all too young great nephew. Bill had the kid in his grasp and was yelling something at Ford.
"Turn it off Sixer or I'll use the kid as lipstick!" Bill threatened the stunned Stanford.
"Don't do it Grunkle Ford! Wait what?" Dipper turned back to the pyramid, "that's weird man."
"SHUT UP!" The towering red menace screamed.
The gigantic fist squeezed around Dipper's body. Causing a pained scream to be choked right out of his lungs. Breathless, his mind feeling hot and churning; Dipper blacked out as he was dropped to the ground.
Through half lidded eyes Dipper tried desperately to process what was happening. Blood was raining, and the sky was howling, and then there was Wendy, pretty, pretty Wendy. And then everything went black.
A grappling hook was embedded deep into Bill's eye, the barrier was weirdness was boxing him in. Blood gushed from a smoking hole through his top hat. He shrank smaller until his tiny fists could no longer beat against the field. And then with a *pop* he was flattened. Still talking and moving but 2D. The weirdness barrier had condensed as far as it could onto him. Keeping him flat like a laminated craft project.
"When I get out of this I'm going to sew you all into a living cape and fly through this dimension! Killing everything I find whilst you're all forced to watch! Unable to play hero for the rest of time!" Bill hollered at the shuffling humans around him, sharing glances and poking his restrained form with sticks.
Ford dropped his atom destabilising gun and rushed to Stan's side. Feeling his weak pulse that kept skipping. Every time it did Ford's world ended, but then he'd be back and Ford wanted to slap him.
Mabel had rushed to Dipper ready to perform CPR, but Wendy stopped her just in time from further breaking Dipper ribs. He was still breathing at least.
After that Mabel fell and skidded down into the pit that was once the shack. Rushing to Stanley's side. His head was propped up on a folded trench coat and Ford was madly digging through rubble.
"AHA!" The old scientist cried, holding up a very dusty medical kit.
The crowd around Dipper looked down to see Ford carrying the kit back to Stanley. Including Tambry who had had her hand furiously entwining a jumper.
"I need some bandages Ford! Robbie, get them! And hurry!" Tambry yelled as she pushed through the crowd to kneel by Dipper's feet. Depositing a pipe she had picked hastily from the rubble and her jumper that now looked like a donut beside her. He had landed on his legs rather than his head which was good. But one leg was impaled on a broken piece of metal, probably the remains of the telephone pole. Whilst the other leg had sharp protrusions of bone coming out between two slices of bleeding meat.
She was giving Wendy instructions as Robbie threw her a roll of bandages. She started to wrap the broken section of leg tightly, before binding the whole shin to the pipe she placed atop his leg.
"Um Tambry, since when do you know first aid?" Wendy asked in confusion, still holding the jumper down tightly. The pole of metal sticking up through the hole of the donut.
"Online course." Tambry replied, watching with horror at the amount of blood soaking through everything so rapidly.
Meanwhile Ford was giving Stan an adrenaline shot, ready to give a blood transfusion, when he bolted up. His big eyes snapped onto Mabel's as he gasped. "Honey.." He croaked, his voice almost illegible.
Ford dropped his kit, rushing to Stan's side before stopping like he'd hit an invisible wall. "Stanley! WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WERE YOU THINKING!"
Stan groaned, pain contorting his face and looked back to Mabel "Bill?"
"Gone." Ford replied curtly, holding Stan's wrist to check his heart rate.
"Well.. Not quite.." Mabel looked back towards where Bill had fallen. Grenda and Candy were standing over him like wardens.
"Where's D-" the hoarse grunt was drowned out by the loudest thing Tambry had said in years.
"We have to get him to a hospital NOW!" Tambry yelled to Ford.
Soos immediately came swooping in, lifting Dipper up and carrying the twelve year old to the Gravity Falls hospital. Mabel had just gone to run after her broken brother when she turned back to offer her Grunkle a hand up. Yelling at others to help them all up the sloping rubble that was the basement.
As the crowd rushed off to take the wounded to the hospital, Ford stood over Bill. Lying flat on the ground Ford could tell his enemy was yelling, even though no sound was coming through the barrier.
Dipper was in surgery later that day. His parents were called and tensions were high. It of course broke out in a fight about unsaid thank you's and science projects and crushed dreams. Until Mabel sprayed them both with water.
"HE'S IN SURGERY!" She yelled at the two bickering men. "If you even feel half of what I feel for Dipper then you'll both look at each other right now, say your glad each other's alive, hug and MOVE ON!" Tear streamed down red cheeks as Mabel wheezed. Eleven fingers extended out to her instantly but she tore away from them. Running into a lonely corner of the hospital.
The two twins looked at each other, ashamed at the reaction the had induced from their precious niece.
"I'm real glad you're alive." Stan said, his eyes glued to his shoe.
At that Ford let out a soft laugh and pulled his brother into a hug. "I'm really glad you're not dead too. I'd hate to ever stop correcting your grammar."
Stan huffed indigently as he tightened his grip.
Ford's eyes prickled and he couldn't help smiling as he said "plus I don't even know how I'd go about getting you a second death certificate."
The two stood in a crushing bear hug until a nurse came round to tell them that Dipper was in recovery.
Bill didn't sleep. He had finally freed himself from one prison, only to be trapped in another. But in the quiet darkness of his first night, he told himself one thing over and over. He was one step closer.
Deleted Scene:
- Back at the hospital -
A dark figure stood watching the brothers hug through a window "~Now Kissss~" It said before ducking down into the darkness.
"Huh what was that?" Ford peered around for the source of the weird hiss.
"Oh don't worry about it. Disney's censoring this fic so you've got nothing to fear brother." Stanley said not letting go of his twin.
"Um ok..?" Ford let out curiously, still searching for the source of the anonymous sound.