Chapter Three

Dipper ran into the room. "Grunkle Stan?"

Stan turned around. His expression was one of shock. "Dipper? Mabel? What are you doing down here? Did Soos let you down?"

Just then, Soos came rushing in. "It wasn't me, Mr. Pines! I didn't let them down!"

Stan sighed. "Kids, is Soos lying?"

"No Grunkle Stan," said Dipper. "Mabel pushed random buttons, and she was able to break the codes."

Stan shook his head. "Fair enough." He turned back to the machine.

""Grunkle Stan," Mabel asked "What is that thing?"

"It's a portal."

"A portal?" said Dipper. "Gideon wanted the books so he could build a portal."

"No. Gideon wanted the books to 'unlock the power'." Stan made finger quotes as he said 'unlocked the power'. "What he didn't know was how the power was unlocked." Stan sighed. "This portal is a doorway to other worlds. The designer built it to revolutionize humanity."

"Well," Dipper questioned. "Who designed it?"

Before Stan could answer, there was a crash from upstairs.

"What was that?" asked Mabel.

It hadn't been hard for Bill to crack the codes. He, after all, was a brain demon.

He, Charlie, and his servant were in the elevator. The servant spoke up.

"Master?"

"Yes?"

"Why does everything go black and white when Mr. Cipher is here?"

Before Charlie had a chance to answer, the elevator doors opened. Bill floated quickly down the long room. Charlie and his servant had to run in order to keep up. Bill and the other two burst into the portal room.

Dipper, Mabel, Stan, and Soos, noticed that everything had gone black and white.

"Uh-oh." said Stan.

Before they knew what had happened Bill and two other men burst into the room.

"Well, hello, Stanford!" Bill exclaimed. "Nice to see you've set it up for me. Excellent."

Before Stan could say anything, Dipper interjected. "What do you want, Bill?"

"Just total control of the portal." Bill answered. "I need the portal for a little pet project of mine!"

"Yeah, well who are your little friends?" asked Mabel.

"Oh, where are my manners?" said Bill, sarcastically. "This," he said, gesturing to the professionally dressed man, "Is Charlie. And this," Bill chuckled. "Well, Stan can tell you who this is."

The twins turned to Grunkle Stan, who had turned white as a ghost.

They then turned to look at the other man. Dipper was the first to realize that the man had an uncanny resemblance to Stan. The only difference were that his glasses were rounder, he had a butt chin, and wore no fez.

"Stan, who is this…"Dipper began, but was interrupted.

"Stanley?" Stan said. "Stanley is that really you?"

"He's just a shell of his formal self." said Bill. "If you want his sould back, it's located in dimension 641A."

Stan ran over to the monitor. The others followed him. He was just about to type in the code when he realized something. "But that's where.."

"Why do you care?" asked Bill. {It's a win-win situation for the both of us. You get your brother's soul back, and I get infinite cosmic power."

"Infinite cosmic power? Bill why do you want the portal?" Dipper questioned

"Jeez, Pine Tree, you're full of questions today." Bill replied. "So allow me to monologue bit."

"You see, I am an extremely powerful being. I however, have one flaw. I can only appear in a form with limited power and I can only appear in a mindscape. To truly be the most powerful being in the universe, I must be able to a) appear in reality and b) have my entire essence in reality. Unfortunately, my other essence is located in my dimension. And in order to appear in reality I need a…"

Before Bill finished, Dipper and Mabel were running towards the portal.

"What the heck are you doing, kids?" yelled Stan.

Before they entered the portal, Dipper kicked the lever. The twins disappeared a split second before the portal turned off.

"Psshht." said Bill. "They think turning off the portal can stop me? I'll just restart it using the…WHAT!" Bill yelled. "No, no, no! Pine Tree and Shooting Star took two of the journals, if I don't have all three, I can't restart the portal!"

Stan just stared at the portal. One thought went through his head.

Where are they?

Where have dipper and Mabel disappeared too? What strange world will they find. All these questions will be answered in Chapter 3! Thanks for reading!-Mr-Dippingsauce.