"Leave them alone y-you jerks!" hissed Bill in an attempt to be aggressive. His red color had faded mid-sentence, The Gleeful twins weren't even going to touch Pacifica or Gideon. "Or e-else! I-I'll I'll do something!" If he had a mouth, he would be scowling to himself. Why couldn't he come up with good threats or insults?
"Acting weak won't stop us, Bill," replied Dipper. Who did this guy think he was? He acted like a total jerk the last time, and changing his colors to blue and trying to act weak weren't going to fool him. "Besides, they hurt us BEFORE we hurt them."
"Before? No, no, no, you've got it wrong, Dipper Gleeful." Bill wagged his finger before snapping them. Several floating doors had appeared out of nowhere and surrounded them. He had grabbed some of Gideon's and Pacifica's memories to make a point. He hoped they wouldn't mind.
"What are y-"
"Wait. And please change your clothes, Gleeful. I'm not comfortable with you wearing the same clothes as Gideon. It feels too weird." He snapped his fingers and Dipper was wearing a light blue outfit, similar to the one that Gideon would usually wear.
"Hey!" Dipper snapped his normal vest and shorts back on. "I always wear this. Gideon's the one who's copying me! And it's Pines. Dipper Pines. Pines."
"Quit copying Gideon!"
"I am not copying him! If anything, he's copying me!"
"Are you sure?" The doors surrounding them creaked open, showing some of Gideon's and Pacifica's memories.
The memories circled around Dipper, and he could catch quick glimpses of them before the next one showed. They all seemed to blur together in his mind. They seemed almost identical to his own, the only differences were mainly that they were replaced with Gideon and Pacifica. The memories couldn't have been constructed from Gideon's own, with characters just swapped, because some of them were from before they met him. It wasn't like Gideon was watching them the entire summer. Right?
The flying doors slowed to a stop. Dipper was dazed, and his head hurt. It was like the world was spinning. He held his head in an attempt to stabilize himself and glared at Bill angrily. He mumbled something before speaking. "What did you just do? Ow."
"Just showed you some evidence. These kids are nice. You're the bad ones."As he said his last sentence, his body displayed several scenes of the Gleefuls abusing the Pines, as if to make his point clearer.
Dipper crossed his arms before wincing in pain and putting his hands back on his head. "Uh, no. And how did you get those memories anyway? You couldn't have changed some of Gideon's. He didn't even know us for some of these."
"I told you, Gleeful. These are Gideon's and Pacifica's memories." He put his hands on his hips. "And if you're so sure about your memories, would you mind letting me enter your mind? I'd just check for a short time to see..." He was pretty sure that these kids were lying. But not quite sure. They didn't seem right. Not the way they were when he first met them. Speaking of kids...where was Dipper's twin?
"I'm not letting you into my mind." He tried making a mental barrier, so Bill couldn't enter his mind, before floating slightly backwards, away from him. "I know what you did in Grunkle Stan's mind, and I'd rather that not happen to me." He paused to think of something else before a thought crossed his mind. Nononono. Mabel was missing. Who knew what Gideon or Bill was doing with her?
"Where did you put her?" Bill shrugged, and Dipper's hands balled into fists before lunging and grabbing him. "Where did you put my sister?"
When Bill felt Dipper's hands grabbing him, he tried struggling free, but to no avail. His eye widened in fear. This scene was starting to remind him of the time he first met the twins. How the boy had grabbed him and threatened to eat him. How he had tried to struggle free, but couldn't, and was then paralyzed by fear. The scene wasn't identical, but it certainly did seem to draw a lot of parallels.
"Please let go of me, Dipper." He had wanted to call the kid by his last name again, but he was terrified of what the kid would do to him. He had made himself clear that he didn't want to be called that. Bill could teleport away, but Dipper knew the power of the mind. He could tell that when the kid flew up and was shooting fire out of his hands. "...Please?"
Dipper felt a small tug at his back. He paid no mind to it. He heard Mabel's voice, and his grip around Bill weakened as he turned his head and looked around for the source.
To Bill's surprise, Dipper's grip around him had loosened, and he could have managed to fly away. However, he wasn't sure if Dipper was actually letting him go. "Uh, are you letting me go, or...?"
Dipper's grip on him suddenly tightened. "Where is she? Where's Mabel? I heard her an-" Dipper let out a yelp as he was suddenly pulled backwards. The shock made him let go of Bill, who promptly floated towards Gideon and Pacifica before putting a protective arm in front of them.
"Hey Dipper!" Dipper whirled himself around to find a grinning Mabel.
Dipper yelled out a startled shriek as he fell over. "Mabel! Where were you?"
"I was in a dome you put me in," she explained. "After you went all crazy red on Bill, you put me in a big dome thingy. I tried to get out, when I realized that I could just walk through it."
"I never did that!" he protested. "At least, I don't think I did." He looked down to think.
Mabel perked his chin back up so they were looking eye to eye again. "Yeah you did. Besides, what are gonna trust more? Your grumpy, angry memories, or my fun, happy ones? Nobody remembers what they do when they're grumpy anyway."
Dipper chuckled. "Yeah, I guess you're right, Mabel."
His moment of joy was interrupted when he realized that they were still in the dreamscape with Gideon, Pacifica and Bill. That realization came a moment too late, because he had suddenly passed out as Bill had entered his mind.
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