"Dipper, stop! This isn't like you!" Mable yelled, struggling. Dipper was crouched in front of her, his palm on the ground. His shadow expanded to her and giant, black hands came out of the ground and wrapped around her. "Why are you doing this?" Mable held back tears. "You're my brother! You're my best friend! Why?" "Why? You wanna ask 'why'?" Dipper yelled. Mable flinched. Dipper rarely raised his voice, and never to her. "You're my 'sister'? You're my 'best friend'? Then why didn't you act like it?" Dipper stood up as the hands tightened their grip on the girl. "You're so selfish! You always have been! I've made sacrifice, after sacrifice, after sacrifice for you! I've helped you out! I've been there for you when you needed me! But you never return the favor!"
Mable's eyes widened as memories filled her head, from Dipper saving her from the gnomes, even though she had doubted and argued with him, to silly things like letting her keep her few inches on him. "I'm sorry." She muttered, looking down. "You're sorry? After all that, you're sorry? That's not gonna fix everything, Mable!" She noticed one of her eyes turn yellow and the pupil dilated. Her eyes widened. "I gave up Wendy so you could have Waddles! I was beaten by a video game character to save Robbie, who I don't even like! I didn't go to the Summerween party with Wendy to Trick-or-Treat with you instead! All I ever do is sacrifice for you people! Well, I'm done! You couldn't even support me when I decided to stay here!" Mable looked down again.
"I know. I was wrong." Mable said. "I should've been able to let you go, to do what you wanted, but I didn't. Candy and Grenda couldn't make it to our birthday party, and Wendy was telling me how horrible high school is, and then you were leaving? I couldn't handle it. I felt so alone." She cried. Dipper laughed. "It's all about you, again! Just like always! Well, I'm done sacrificing! I'm going to stay here and get what I want!" He yelled. "But you won't be Grunkle Ford's apprentice! Bill's going to kill everyone!" Mable objected. "No, Ford's been invited to join us. He just needs time to think about it. And with Weirdmageddon, there's so much more things to discover." Dipper smirked. "The rest of you don't matter to me. You're Bill's toys." Mable's eyes widened. "Please, Dipper. I know you don't want this. You-" She was interrupted by his laughing.
"You know what I want? How would you know what I want when I'm always sacrificing it? You don't know anything about me anymore, Mable, because I've changed." He started backing away from her. "We both have." "Dipper, I'm your sister. I've known you your whole life. I'm sorry I'm selfish, and I'm sorry you give up things for me, but-" A giant finger covered her mouth. "I'm done talking to you." Dipper said, walking away as the hand threw her into a tree. He heard her body drop. "Later." He grinned. "D-Dipper, wait." He glanced behind and saw her injured body moving toward him. Blood dripped from her mouth. "Dipper-" "Bye, Mable." He walked away as a hand crushed her. He paused, his eyes widening, before he shook his head and continued.
Stan punched Ford as soon as he was released. "This is your fault!" He spat. "You and those stupid journals and coming here! You caused this." Wendy, Soos, and a few other townsfolk held him back as Ford got up. "What happened?" He asked. "Dipper joined Bill, and Mable disappeared." Pacifica explained. "No, I saw her. She was on the ground, talking to her brother." Stan said. "But we need to get out of here." "Ford, do you know a way to beat Bill? Mable mentioned-" "Ah, yes." Ford interrupted Wendy. "I need a pen or- This'll work." He said, picking up Robbie's spray paint. "We can beat him with this." Ford gestured to the circle he had drawn. "These marks represent people. The question mark." He pointed to Soos, who stood on it. Wendy pushed Robbie onto his mark, and slowly everyone found their mark.
"One problem." Ford sighed. "The pine treeā¦" McGucket sighed, looking at the mark next to him. "And the shooting star." Gideon sighed, finishing the sentence. Suddenly, a clang was heard. Mable showed up on her grappling hook, looking tired and beaten. "Mable!" They yelled, people running to her. "Mable, we-" "I heard." She interrupted Ford. "Where's Dipper?" Wendy asked. Mable looked down, then stood up and limped to her mark. "Dipper is too strong. He has half of Bill's powers. He disappeared." She sighed. Everyone looked down. "Get out of here! It's dangerous for the rest of you." Mable ordered. "The shack won't distract Bill for much longer."
They looked over and saw Bill taking off a leg of the building as the Shack stood on him. The townsfolk nodded, running out. "We need to figure out how to get Dipper here, to join us." Ford said. "Can't someone else stand there in his place?" Stan asked, going to his spot. "No. It has to be Dipper." Ford shook his head. "That'll be impossible." Mable put in. "I talked to him, there's no way he's coming back." "Maybe you weren't the right person to talked to him." Pacifica said. "Then who is? You?" Robbie asked. "Pretty soon, everyone was arguing, trying to find a way to defeat Bill. "I thought I took care of you." A voice said. Everyone froze as Dipper appeared, standing in the opening on a giant shadow hand. "Why are you here, Mable? You should've given up."
Everyone shivered at the coldness in his voice as the hand moved in. "Dipper." Ford gasped, noticing the yellow eye. "You made a deal with Bill?" He yelled. Dipper laughed. "Of course. How else would I get this power?" He grinned as blue fire surrounded the group. "In return, all I had to do was break some glass." "Dipper, stop! What are you doing?" Wendy yelled. "Why are you doing this?" "Can you imagine what will come out of Weirdmageddon? There will be so much more to investigate and explore. C'mon, Ford. You know I'm right." Dipper smiled, putting a hand out for him. "Maybe. But it'll put people at risk!" Ford yelled. "It didn't seem to bother you before." Dipper pulled back, frowning.
"Well said, Pinetree." Another voice said. Everyone froze and looked at Bill, who was spinning the totem pole, the shack on the ground in pieces. "Gideon, why aren't you dancing." Everyone backed away from him and Dipper. "And look, it's everyone who could get in my way in one room to get rid of." Bill caught the circle on fire. Red hands wrapped around Ford and Stan. Bill snapped and Gideon, Wendy, McGucket, Pacifica, Robbie, and Soos turned into tapestries and hung on the wall behind them. The Pines' eyes widened. A giant, blue, pyramid prison trapped Mable. Dipper stared at the tapestries, almost regretting what he had done to cause it, but he shook the feeling off. "They were all against me." He muttered, then turned as Mable sprayed painted Bill's eye. Dipper laughed. "I just regenerated that eye!" He exclaimed.
Stan and Ford fell down as Bill lost his grip on them. Mable pulled out the flashlight, growing the cage so she could get out. "Mable-" Stan called before black, shadow hands grabbed him and Ford. "You're not going anywhere." Dipper said darkly. Mable looked at him, before yelling at Bill, getting him to chase her. Dipper dropped the older twins in the blue cage, before using the hands to climb the opposite way Mable went. He watched her use the grappling hook and escape Bill's grip, then went outside. He saw Mable break the wall before she shrunk her hand again, then she noticed the survivors were captured. Suddenly, Dipper's shadow hand grabbed her. "Tag." He smirked, then tossed her backwards. "Catch." Bill's hand suddenly wrapped around her.
To be continued...
