Pain was the first thing Michiru was able to register when she woke up on the floor in her room. She gathered she must have hit her shoulder on the end table when Bill knocked her out by the dull pain throbbing there, but she also felt a sharp pain in the palm of her right hand. She lifted it up and saw her fork from dinner sticking out of it. She must have stabbed herself it while she got knocked out. Oh the fucking irony of it all.
Ahahahahahahaha. I like the new jewelry piercing Mich. Looks good on our body.
"Baka… And it's still my body!" she replied with a growl as she yanked the fork out of her hand and watched the blood well up out of the wound. She heard a chuckle in her head as she felt a strange feeling in her limbs and her hand moved to her mouth without her doing it and licked at the blood running down it.
"Ohh you blood is tasty Mich," Bill said with her mouth in his voice. He was using her mouth! She panicked and fought at the strange feeling, but it only made Bill laugh at her attempts to regain control. "Really now, I told you we are going to be sharing. I need time to get used to your body."
Go back to being a dang voice in my head already Bill! You know what, just go back to being a fucking cartoon already! I liked you better when you weren't real!
"Hate to break it to you toots, but I always was real, just not in your universe," Bill crackled as he stumbled around the room in her body. He was able to find his way to the bathroom and examined themselves in the mirror. Michiru saw just by what Bill meant by changes when they talked in the Mindscape. Her eyes were now liquid gold instead of her usual hazel, her hair that was once all brown now had blond bangs that could cover one eye if she wanted, and when Bill decided to open their mouth she saw her upper and lower canines were now fangs.
Great, guess I'm not leaving the house again. My id won't match with those eyes Bill.
"Relax, the eyes will change back once you get full control, and once we learn to work together it will only be one of our eyes that changes. Neither of us want to be just a voice in the head anyway, which is what you are now by the way," he said while checking out our face. When he started unbuttoning the pjs Michiru really had enough.
Oh come on, don't do what I know you are about to do.
"What I never had boobs before," Bill commented while rubbing their hands on them. Michiru just sighed and yelped when Bill started pinching the nipples. It was with that she felt she had control of the body again and the fact the eyes turned back to hazel in the mirror.
"Really Bill!" She buttoned the pjs back up and walked right back out of the bathroom and sat on the bed with a huff, "You better not try to take over and play with my vagina either asshole. That's off limits." She could just feel his eye roll in her head and his disappointment at not getting more time with the body.
Yesh, even I know my limits kid.
"Sure ya do," Michiru said with an eye roll as she leaned over the bed to her nightstand and open the cabinet for a certain bag of snack food she enjoys. The red bag crinkled as she hauled the cheesey treasures into her lap and opened it up. As she brought out the first triangle shaped chip she felt the strange feeling being in the hand that held the chip.
You are not eating that.
Damn he read her intentions with the chip. Must not like it when meatbags eat triangle shaped things. She smirks as she quickly brings her head down and snaps at the chip in her hand. The nacho cheese flavor just runs down her throat and puts her in a state of bliss.
"Fuck off Bill. I ain't stopping myself from eating doritos just because you don't want me from consuming mini yous," she growled as she fought for control of the hand that held the remains of the chip she already ate. She could feel the anger of him in the back of her mind. Shit, her vision was turning red from him now.
So that's why you've been calling me that name! Well you throw that out right now because you ain't eating them anymore Mich.
Michiru laughed as her vision turned redder from his fury at finding out where her nickname for him came from. She ate some more chips while they fought for control of the body to stop her from eating them. She found it funny that he got mad over a fucking corn chip. Later she might look back on this and think this was the point where she might have just started losing her mind because of the fucking demon, but right now she was enjoying herself since the whole incident started and poking the demon triangle with the stick so to speak was making all this seem normal. Well normal as things would be now it seems.
"Make me Dorito, your children are dying as we speak," she taunted as she ate a few more chips. Her vision went full on red and flames engulf her hands and the bag in a blaze of fury from the mind demon. "What the hell Bill! You didn't have to burn them!"
The remains of the doritos laid on the floor in ashes and Michiru pouted at her lost of her favorite snack. Her only hope was that he doesn't try to burn the pizza when she eats that for breakfast in the morning or she might actually have to go out and eat. She doesn't even want to think what might happen if she went out in public with Bill being able to take control at any time. She shivered at the thought.
That's better. No more of you sexually teasing me. And be realistic, do you really think I would go out of my way to embarrassed you in public.
Michiru was dumbstruck by the first comment.
"Sexually teasing you! With fucking doritos! You have got to be kidding me!" she shouted.
Not kidding Mich. So no more of these doritos things or you are getting some steamy dreams in your mindscape tonight.
"Go fuck yourself then," Michiru growled, "Damn it all Bill, those are my favorite. And I don't even want to know how you would even get "steamy" in my mindscape. I have enough imaginings for that in my head for a lifetime thank you very much."
What's that suppose to mean? And I can't fuck myself. I'm a fucking triangle toots.
Michiru just face palmed at Bill's cluelessness and then got an idea.
"Why don't you find out yourself then? I bet you haven't even explored my memories yet right? Tonight I'll show you what I mean," she said with a smirk. Bill could read Michiru's mind, but the intention behind that smirk was hidden by some ever changing thought he couldn't grasp on. Before he could try to figure it out he saw a flicker from the tv and a gasp from his Mich.
"Hey the final episode in on again. Strange seeing it now since you're here," she commented staring at the screen.
How is it strange? Don't they have reruns of shows in your world?
"Well yeah, but it will be the same failed ritual again that got you here right? I guess it wouldn't be like it was happening again, but playing more like one of your memories or something. I mean, since when they created the show in this universe it was said it was based off of your point of view watching the twins," Michiru explained.
Whoever thought to do it like that must have been a genius. But yeah, it should be like a memory being replayed. The ritual shouldn't have any effect this time around. Honestly if Pine Tree never messed up the spell in the first place your world would have never gotten involved.
"Then what would have happen to you?" Michiru asked curiously.
Eh, just would have trapped me again in the Mindscape with no physical body. I'm too powerful for the spell to fully work to banish me all the way to the Nightmare Realm. I'm surprised they never noticed their mistake till it was too late. It was so unlike Pine Tree to be honest.
"Hmm… I thought that about Dipper too. He should have saw that way before starting the spell when he first looked over the notes. I only didn't because from my point of view I couldn't read the notes, not that I could read latin anyway. I saw the mistake once the others started chanting, but Dipper didn't even realize it till way after then," she replied only slightly focus on the tv replaying the events of Dipper and Mabel saving Ford and the others captured from Bill, "I only wonder if there was anything after you knocked me out. Like a final cipher after the credits and of course the final picture. I haven't dared to look on tumblr or twitter about it yet."
Why would you care about some silly codes?
"Think about it Bill for one second. You are now in my world because the ritual that you assume that was suppose to go right for so long went wrong. The "creator" of the show Alex said that Gravity Falls was ending this season. This was suppose to be the final episode for the entire series. Does having you and the entire Pines family disappearing into a vortex sound like a proper series end to you? If it was just you, maybe, but the supposed main characters of a tv series that people are crazy about? No, that ain't happen in this universe or any that I know of. So I have a feeling we need to discover just what happen after you all disappeared into the portal and exactly how the show "ended" for us in this universe," Michiru explained.
Bill pondered on what she said to him. It made sense. He never saw the ritual failing till he was actually trapped in that forsaken circle. It was like something blocked his vision of it till that final moment. He wasn't the type to like being played with, especially when it involved his all-seeing eye, and now he felt the lost of it greatly. He has to rely on his memories of the knowledge he has gained over the years instead of just plucking it out of his realm like he used to. He still had plenty of his knowledge, enough to still claim to be all-knowing, but now there was going to be holes, and the knowledge of knowing that was driving his own tattered demonic mind even more to the brink of insanity. He wished Pine Tree was here just so he could shove more forks into him. Not only because seeing Pine Tree do it was more hilarious, but he noticed from waking up with his Mich earlier with the fork in their palm that it hurt more than when he did it in Pine Tree's body. It must be because what he had to do to stay his Mich in the first place. He didn't like the fact that he did it, but he had no choice. It was either that or he would have disappeared.
Michiru paid attention to the first set of ciphers that she had already solved with her friends from the first half hour of the show to see nothing new in them. Just the usual warnings about a Pines not surviving and some random fact about what happen during the first part of the show. Some weird fact about Shermie liking bow ties till he turned blue in the face. It was a bit odd for the final episode, but she also remember something of the sort from the 3ds game she played. She wondered why Bill was only mentioned vaguely in that game once, yet the twins were in the actual cave where Ford found his summoning ritual. Strange and stranger.
You'll hurt your head thinking about things that don't matter.
"So you say jerkface," Michiru muttered under her breath, "Why can you read my mind easily, yet I only hear you if you speak to me? If we're so called mindmates shouldn't it work both ways?"
Wow someone seems to have forgotten her demon history already. Hello, I'm Bill Cipher, Dream Demon and Master of the Mind. Yesh, and I thought Pine Tree was dense at times but you can take the cake Mich.
Michiru's face grew red at the insult the demon threw at her. It wasn't that she had forgotten the fact, but she just haven't thought about it much. Mostly because she thinks the master of the mind stuff was bullshit from what she has seen of Bill from the show and it was built up from cockiness, but that could have really been she never really knew anything at all. She only saw what she was allowed to see and that was mostly what Dipper saw, so just maybe Dipper made the same assumptions about the demon as well that led to all of this mess.
"Fine… Sorry…"
What? I don't think I heard that right Mich. Mind saying it louder?
Goddamn his cocky attitude.
"Sorry you fucking Dorito. Now take it or leave it before I find my extra hidden stash of corn chips and make the rest of your night a living hell," Michiru growled at the demon as he laughed at her.
More like hell for you, but go for it. I'll enjoy seeing that red face panting and moaning underneath me.
"Urg… No Bill. That will never happen even in your worst nightmares," she sighed. She glanced back up at the screen again and saw the show was almost back up to the point of the ritual. It was easy now to see where Dipper made his mistake with the spell. Ford was rushing him with setting it up. Anytime it seems when Dipper makes his biggest mistake it somehow leads back to that man. Not that she ever hated Ford, she even had her share of a strange dream or two about the man, but he was too egotistic for her taste. Well, so was a certain someone else, but she was trying not to think about THAT right now.
Too late. Plus you are wearing triangle pajamas, big give away kid. It's hilarious really.
"It was a present from someone, so no it isn't. I hate you Cipher," she muttered as she grew red in the face again. She could hear his laughter bounce around in her head.
The feeling is mutual, if I actual had any. Ahahahahaha!
"Yeah what a riot," Michiru said with a roll of her eyes, "Now can you please shut up so I don't miss anything! The ritual is starting again and I'm sure you would love to see yourself get beaten again." She could just feel the demon fume abit inside her head at the comment, but it was the truth, he did lose if he was now stuck here. Best to make focus and see if there was any hints here for a way to reverse things. If not, maybe option 2 would work now she is thinking about it, though she really doesn't feel up to leaving the house now she is in this situation.
What's option 2?
"I'll tell you when we get to that point Bill. And that will greatly depend on how you act if we can't find any clues here," Michiru simply said as they both watched the ritual on the tv again. Nothing seem different from before, it went as it did the first time and nothing stood out to either of them. The only thing new to Bill was seeing the aftermath of what happened after he entered the vortex. While he knew the Pines family had entered it with him, he didn't know how they struggled or cried out at one another. It was satisfying to see it playing out in front of him. Michiru sighed at feeling the demon's glee at the torment of the Pines, but she knew better than to comment on it. Bill did had some kind of obsession with Dipper after all it seems like from what she saw from the show, and it didn't help with all the fanfictions out there that go overboard with that fact. She smiled at the thought of her dare for him tonight. He was in for such a surprise.
Finally the light on the screen had disappeared, this was a part that neither human or demon had seen when they got knocked out by whatever happened when Bill entered this universe. The others that remained in the circle were in a state of shock as the magic faded around them. Even when the rift closed and the curses were lifted from those who were changed from the incident. Even the vortex was gone from the sky, leaving nothing but a clear blue sky, like nothing had happen for the last few weeks. Wendy fell to the ground first, unable to comprehend that she just lost her two best buddies.
"This can't be happening. Where did they go?" she asked. Fiddleford looked up to where the vortex was, eyes shining with tears.
"To wherever that demon went. Bill must have changed the spell after it backfired on us, they must have been dragged into it since their blood was used to make most of the trap to bind the demon," he explained sadly.
"What do we do now?" Soos asked the group, looking like a lost child. Wendy went to where the middle of the circle was and looked straight up into the sky.
"We wait. Dipper and the others will find a way back. If he found a way to save Mabel, free Ford, and even to defeat Bill three times, then I know he will find a way to get back home to us," Wendy said with conviction. The others stood there staring at the sky as well, then slowly the screen fades to black like a blinking eye. Credits rolled on the bottom of the screen as viewers saw the whole town of Gravity Falls in the top part as the seasons seem to change. As they roll to a close, Michiru noticed exactly three years passed by via the seasons before the cipher appear and she took the picture before it faded away. She was able to get the final cipher picture as well when it flashed up on the screen as well as the show finally ended. With the completion of the show she turned the tv off and got off the bed with her phone to move towards her desk on the other side of her room.
What are you doing?
"Gonna see if I can translate these codes or not now. One should be a simple caesar 3+, but I suspect the other one will be another vigenere cipher. Figuring out the key word might be a challenge if it hasn't been found yet," Michiru explained as she plopped down in front of the dual screen pc system she built herself. She loved this baby when she finally raised the funds to buy all the parts she needed with her freelancing. She opened her cloud to see the photos she just took with her phone to see the codes better on both screens. She then brought up the code site to see which code was the caesar code. Each code was odd, but she wonder which would be more revealing. The one under the town looked like this:
Wkhlu zruog lv pdgh xs, exw qrz wkhb'uh qrw,
Wkh ilyh duh orvw lq d zruog ri uhdolwb.
Wr ilqg wkhp vwduw zlwk d xqolnhob jluo,
Zkr pdgh d ghdo wkdw zloo qhyhu hqg.
The next one was a bit more worrying. It was from the center picture of the code map from the second season. It contained Bill's wheel, but Bill was still missing from its center and now four of the symbols were ripped out as well. The crescent, the six-fingered hand, the shooting star, and the pine tree. It was a clear sign that all five of them was no longer in that world and it made Michiru shiver at the sight. The code was a tad long around the wheel as well and went like this:
Fw ilb kbwu sjqv gzm obak zavo,
Olv Kqmt vn Ulwixn ayg tqfla syzqyy Hveav Gfm.
Iyemxwii otiv dij fgae, vru jqdght nbsb hvw yaplgu,
Mmyjgecmey ycua mex sb eci swsqpuqea.
She figured out the first code quickly as it was the caesar code. The lines were a bit odd though, it was like someone knew what would happen with the ritual. It was strange. There was no way someone in this world could predict this, could there. Not even Bill predicted this outcome fully.
Hey, I had you ready didn't I? Always have a backup plan, even if everything seems to be going right.
"Sure Bill. Still doesn't explain how you were blindsided at the last moment or how the code seems to know where you all are now. It mentions you are all here in this world by the first two lines alone. Though I know the third line means me, what does it mean by a deal that will never end?" Michiru questioned the demon. She somehow could feel Bill pondering on how to answer her question.
Honestly no clue kid.
"Bullshit," Michiru cursed at the demon, but she knew he wasn't gonna talk if he didn't want to. She sighed as she tried to figure out the second code. She was right with it being a Vigenere since none of the other combos of unraveling the secrets worked. Also none of the keys that she thought it could be worked. She tried looking online to see if anyone figured the second code out yet and came up with nothing surprisingly, which was even more strange. Even the best codebreakers would have broken the code by now, Alex had never made them this hard. And speaking of Alex Hirsch, there was no way he planned this ending of the episode so what did he had to say on it. She opened another window to twitter to bring up the popular twitter account and saw a shocking post made by the creator of Gravity Falls.
"I know what everyone is thinking and this final episode of Gravity Falls was not the original episode that was not suppose to air. Someone tampered with it just before launch which resulted in this type of ending to look like a continuation of the series, and at the same time we can no longer find any traces of the original episode. We are looking into the situation. Another odd thing is that our animators say the produced episode is their work, but they do not remember working on it. Even I cannot understand the meaning of the first caesar code or break the second code. If anyone has any information please contact me via my email "
It was contained in a few twitter posts, but the meaning was clear. The ending was not planned by the creator, meaning there was something transcending dimensions to change things around in the timeline. Bill even felt shocked at the thought that crossed Michiru's mind.
I really don't think it's something that big Mich. It could be just a cause and effort from the changes.
"Maybe…" Michiru amended, "Though we really need the key to that second code. At least Option 2 will work now. I wasn't sure before since he is a busy guy."
Now will you tell me what this Option 2 is?
"Well, Option 2 is a face to face meeting with your supposed creator Alex Hircsh. With this I can email him and tell him I have info that he will want to have, and with that party coming up, it's a place where we can meet and it won't be too strange if you happen to take over as long as you don't do any magic," Michiru explained calmly, though inside she was frightened, especially since the party means her few cosplay friends would be there.
And how won't this be strange?
She could tell he was intrigued about a party where he could be himself, even if limited by a female body and lack of being allowed to use powers. She smiled as her mind turned to her closet where a certain outfit was hanging. Oh yes, she might hate the demon for messing up her life tonight and for now on, but she did had a fascination about him before then. One that helped her break out of that shell she built around herself for all of these years. Especially with a certain friend that became her close companion at many cons as they put on acts on the floor and in the hotel room. She gave a small chuckle as she felt the demon try to pry into her mind about exactly her meaning was about it, but he'll just have to wait till she was ready, she was already learning how to block the demon from certain thoughts if she didn't exactly think about them.
"Well Bill, what do you know about Cosplay?" she asked innocently.
A/N: The first cipher is suppose to be solvable now while the second is not. If you do solve the second now, congratz! That just means you got creative with trying to figure out the key, but the translation for the second cipher will be in the story itself so don't worry for those non-codebreakers out there!