Chapter 2

The Mystery Shack was bursting with business, as usual. Mabel sighed with relief to see they had merely just been transported outside of the shack, for whatever strange reason. "Look! We're home!" She pointed at the shack, running towards it.

Dipper grabbed Mabel's shoulder out of nowhere. "Hey! What are you-"

"-That's not the Mystery Shack." Dipper said.

"What are you talking abou-" Mabel's jaw dropped when she read the sign on top of what looked like her home. "It says...Normalcy House?"

The twins inched slowly towards the house, frightened by their surroundings. This didn't seem to be the town they loved and knew.

Once they finally came to the glass double doors, they looked to find a paper taped to them; it read "Therapy Groups take place on Monday through Friday, from 7 AM to 5 PM."

Dipper looked at his sister in confusion. "Therapy Groups?"

"Since when has anything in this town not been as crazy as shisa?" Mabel yelled, looking up at the building's sign.

"What does 'shisa' mean?"

Mabel patted her brother's back. "You'll understand when you're older, little bro."

"I was born literally minutes after you! MINUTES!" Dipper yelled as his sister dashed to the other side of the building.

Dipper followed her to find Mabel watching in oddity as a therapy session took place about ten feet away. A circle of people sat in white lawn chairs, speaking to each other in awkward, short sentences about something that was wrong with them, while the man leading the session nodded in understanding. A teenage boy in a sweater-vest and glasses came up a couple minutes later with a tray full of lemonades to give to the group, and the twins recognized him only as...

"Robbie?" Mabel said, looking up at the boy as he walked by the twins.

Robbie looked back down at the children. "Are you two here for the therapy group?" He squinted at the twins. "You look a little too young to be dealing with smoking addictions."

"What are you doing working here?" Dipper asked.

Robbie rolled his eyes. "That's what I'd like to know. Tell me why a person with crippling misophonia would work at a place where people have terrible throat problems and are coughing every five seconds?"

Robbie then walked back inside of the Normalcy House, and the twins looked back at the therapy group, who was just ending their session. The man leading the session waved goodbye to all of the leaving participants.

"Oh my god," Mabel gasped, "isn't that Gideon's dad?"

Dipper looked at the man and saw he was dressed kind of like his Grunkle Stan, except with a golden peace sign on his hat. He ran up to Mr. Gleeful with Mabel.

"What are you doing here?!" Dipper yelled.

Mr. Gleeful turned around and gasped. "What...what are you doing here?"

"We literally just asked you the same question!" Mabel yelled angrily, her floppy sweater sleeves bopping up and down.

The man pulled a cellphone out of his pocket. "I'm calling the police. Reggie, hold them down!"

"Yes, Mr. Pines!" A man that looked a lot like Soos came and tied the children up with tape as the kicked and screamed in response. "STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Mabel screeched.

Reggie laughed. "You Gleeful Twins thought you could come into here after breaking out of jail and just take over the Normalcy House for your own, huh?" He laughed. "I don't thi-"

Mabel kicked him in the jaw and took off running with Dipper as soon as the Soos-ripoff fell to the ground in pain.

"Reggie! What are you doing?!" Mr. Gleeful shouted.

Two girls nearby watched the spectacle in awe, as if something wonderful had just happened.

Reggie sobbed like the man-child he was as the twins ran into the forest to hide.

Mabel finally caught her breath. "Wh-What did...did he mean...by 'broke out of jail'?"

"I don't know..." Dipper sighed.

"What did he mean when he called Mr. Gleeful the name Mr. Pines?"

"I don't know, Mabel..."

"And why did that guy call us the Gleeful Twins?"

"Mabel, I literally have no answers for you! I'm just as confused as you are!" Dipper groaned.

"You're supposed to be the smart twin! Tell me what's happening!" Mabel flopped her sweater sleeves up and down.

Suddenly two girl about Dipper's and Mabel's ages came up to the twins. One was a Japanese girl, the other a tall brown-haired girl. They were both wearing expensive-looking designer clothing and looked stuck-up.

"We saw what you did back there, Mabel." The Japanese girl laughed. "How'd you get the 'Get Out of Jail Free' card?"

"Candy? Is that you?" Mabel looked closely at the people that seemed like her friends, but...different.

"Ugh, don't call me that. I hate that name." Candy scoffed.

The girl that looked like Grenda stepped forward. "Ew, what are you wearing? You must just be wearing those clothes so that no one will recognize you, right?" Grenda said, pointing at Mabel's fluffy pink sweater.

"These are my regular clothes, Grenda. And why is everyone saying we were in jail?"

Candy giggled. "Uh, because you were in jail, Mabel."

"...What?"

"Remember? You fooled the town into thinking you and your brother were Miss and Mr. Perrfect, and then you messed up in some illegal stunt and got sent to juvy. What the hell do they serve you to eat in that place, anyways? You seem...different."

"I think she may have gotten hooked on the wacky-tabaccy, or the mary-jane, or something else like that while she was there, if you know what I mean." Candy whispered into Grenda's ear.

"The only thing I'm hooked on is being too cool for you! Am I right?...Guys?..."

Candy and Grenda looked at Mabel like she just made a terrible joke. Well, she did, but that's not the point.

"Dipper, am I right? Bro-fist?" Mabel smiled.

"No thank you." Dipper sighed. "So...would you mind explaining to me what's with that get up?" The boy said, pointing to the girls' clothes.

Candy laughed. "Haven't got the slightest idea what you're talking about. But now that you're out...how about we go scare Gideon and Pacifica Pines?"

"Who?"

"You know. The bitches who got you put away in the first place." Grenda explained.

Mabel gasped. "Grenda! What a dirty mouth you have! I hope got some soap to clean it out with!"

The other girls stared at Mabel in disgust. "...Seriously, what happened to you in juvy? What did they do to you?"

...

Meanwhile, in the other universe, Gideon and Pacifica Pines settled down to explain what was happening.

"We come from an alternate reality where the Gleeful Twins, who are known as the Pines Twins in your world, our are enemies that fooled our town of Gravity Stands into believing they were perfect, but then me and Pacifica revealed they were psychopaths who were posing as child psychics." Gideon explained. "I suppose Pacifica and I are the villainous ones in this universe since everything is opposite to our world, huh? And the Pines Twins are the good guys..."

"Dudes, what am I like in the opposite universe?" Soos spoke up.

"You are married and successful in life. You're always busy with a big-time job."

Soos chuckled. "I'd hate to be that guy."

"Well...what do we do to get you back to your world and bring the twins back to our world?" Wendy asked.

"I'm not quite sure," Gideon said, "I'll have to consult the journal." He began flipping through the pages of his book. "We'll have to open the portal up again and summon the Pines Twins through. But it will have to take strength, courage, and-"

"-GLITTER!" Pacifica threw a bunch of glitter in the air. "Everything is always better with glitter!"

"You'll have to hold back on the glitter for a while, sis," Gideon opened his journal up to a page with a picture of a triangular creature like Bill Cipher, except he looked sad for some reason. "We'll need to call for help from Mr. Cipher."

Soos gasped. "Bill? The dream demon?"

"Well, where we're from, Bill Cipher is an angel that's quite the scaredy-cat, so I suppose here he'd be evil and cruel. But if we can summon our Bill Cipher, perhaps he'd be kind enough to go into the other world to go grab the twins for us and bring them back here. We haven't got any idea where they could be now, but an all-seeing angel might."

Gideon began the incantation to summon his Bill Cipher, and his eyes began to glow, and a strong wind blew throught he room as a bright light appeared. Once the commotion was over, a blue triangle was found floating in the air, crying.

"H-Hello?..." It whimpered. "D-Do you need something? Please don't hurt me..."

"It's us, Mr. Cipher!" Pacifica smiled.

The angel looked relieved. "Oh, thank goodness!" It floated over to the kids to embrace them. "I haven't seen you in such a long time! How are things?"

"Not so good. We need your help with something." Gideon said.

"Name it and it's yours!"

"We need you to go into the alternate universe and bring back some kids from this world who got in the other world. Their names are Dipper and Mabel Pines."

"You got it, kid!"

And with that, the angel flashed out of the room. A few short moments later, a blinding light filled the room again, and this time three figures walked out of the light. It was Bill, Dipper, and Mabel.

"Thanks, Bill." Gideon shook hands with the blue triangle.

"N-No worries. It was nothing." The angel blushed.

The two kids, however, were not pleased. "Where the hell did you bring us?!" The girl yelled.

The brother gave the people in the room an ugly scowl. "Who are you people?"

Pacifica gasped. "Wait...these...these aren't the right..." She mumbled.

Soos eyed the kids in confusion. "What's wrong with them?"

"Who...who are you two?" Wendy asked the twins.

The kids sneered. "We're the Gleeful Twins."