Again, a special shout out for Extreme Light 9, who gave me the idea for this story and is helping me write it. By the way, the next "Last Time" is a bit shortened so it doesn't take too much time.

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Last time, on Trapped in the Closet

"Crying about it won't solve anything, Mabel." told the teenager to Mabel, continuing as she wiped off the tears on the girl's face. "What we need to do is find your brother and Soos. Then, we will all find an exit to this messed up place, and then we confront Mr. Pines about it, okay?"

"...Okay." replied Mabel.

Having come to an agreement, a path suddenly formed near the girls, with some arrows also spontaneously appearing to do the obvious: show the only way out of the room. Having seen that, a worried Mabel grabbed Wendy's hand before the two ventured into the path.

(Meanwhile, at another part of the closet)

"Dipper, I think the path just opened itself." spoke Soos.

Having heard that, Dipper stopped searching the walls and went to Soos, looking at the path with surprise as he approached the man. Once the two were together, Dipper exchanged looks with Soos before he grabbed his hand.

"Lead the way, Soos." said Dipper.

Nodding in response, Soos and Dipper went to the path, the arrows once again turning into bloodied eyes once they went inside.


(Back with Mabel and Wendy)

Wendy and Mabel were walking around the path and following the direction the arrows pointed at, looking around just in case something changed. The arrows then started to turn into bloody eyes as the girls continued to walk.

However, one of the eyes soon turns into a golden one, which actually moved and saw the girls pass him by. Having seen that, the eye then swapped places with another eye, and continued and continued to follow the girls.

"Okay, here goes a question: if this place's lights were to suddenly turn off, what would you do?" asked Mabel.

"Remain calm and try to find a way to generate some temporal light." answered Wendy.

"But your phone is dead and I threw away my glow stick, which doesn't work anymore."

"Mabel, glow sticks and phones aren't the only light source we can use. They are the ones we had in the beginning, but they won't be the only ones. I hope." "So, now's my turn to ask a question: if you dyed your hair, what color would you most likely choose for the dye?"

"Strawberry." answered an excited Mabel.

"Strawberry?" inquired a bemused Wendy.

"Yeah! I would dump my hair in a pot filled with mashed strawberries so it would get both the color and the taste!" the golden eye followed the girl by swapping places with many of the bloody eyes, but making sure that the girls wouldn't spot it or feel like they were being watched. "And now that I mention that and see your hair, do you use the same trick?"

"Not frequently-I mean, uh, not at all."

"I heard a frequently!"

"No, you didn't."

However, a whisper was heard coming from somewhere, one that was heard by Mabel while Wendy completely overlooked it. Another path was formed with the arrows now pointing towards it, although this is something only Mabel could see. When the two stopped and Wendy turned to see the path, all she saw was a wall with an arrow in it.

She then turned to see Mabel looking firmly at the wall with a worried look. "Mabel?"

"I think someone...or something, is calling me."

Mabel let go Wendy's hand and walked to the "path." But before she could go through it, Wendy reached for and grabbed the girl's arm.

"Mabel, don't!" exclaimed Wendy. "Remember what Dipper said: bad things happen when a group of friends separate."

"We were already separated from a group of friends not too long ago, all because of me, and the worst thing that happened was that our light sources ran out of power." said the girl, who continued to look at the "path" in front of her. "Maybe nothing bad will happen this time. I mean, I already screwed up once, I can't screw up again!"

The instant she said that, Mabel's confidence changed to worried doubt as she released herself from Wendy's grasp and walked forward to the wall. What Wendy saw once Mabel went into the path was the girl walking through the wall like she was a spirit, and she walked to the wall in order to see if she could do it too, only to get a solid wall when she hit it a few times.

As the teenager wondered how this could be possible, the lights started to flicker, with the eyes-including the golden one-glowing in the dark a few times before they turned back into arrows. The golden eye looks a bit worried before turning back into an arrow, and underneath the arrow where he was an axe suddenly appeared. And curiously enough, this was the first thing Wendy noticed once she turned around.

"What is an axe doing here?" questioned Wendy as she walked to the axe.

The teenager crouched down and grabbed the axe, getting up and checking it right before she felt...something. The lights continued to flicker as she watched her back and saw...nothing. Only the path and the flickering lights.

"Hello?"

She didn't get any answer.

"Is-is anybody out there?"

Same result.

Wendy tightly held the axe and continued to walk the direction the arrows pointed at, the flickering lights briefly revealing some shadowy figures which looked...strange. The teenager watched her left and her right as the shadowy figures approached, hissing in an angry manner as they did. They got closer, and closer, and closer, up until Wendy couldn't help but her the hissing.

The lights flickered and Wendy soon turned around, lifting her axe and getting ready to strike at the figures.

By the time the girl had swung her axe, she discovered that the shadowy figures had disappeared, leaving no trace behind. Honestly confused, Wendy looked to her left and right and failed to find anything. She sighed in relief, turned around...

And she was greeted by the growling faces of the figures, who revealed themselves to be decayed versions of Wendy's friends. Suddenly startled, Wendy screamed and ran away, her friends giving chase, screaming eerie howls along the way. As she ran, Wendy looked back to see more clearly how decayed her friends had become:

Robbie had his lower jaw missing, his tongue was hanging and his heart looked like it had been freshly pulled out and stitched on his clothes.

Nate and Lee both had part of their legs stripped to the bones, and their eyes had been ripped off, leaving empty eye sockets.

Unlike the others, Thompson didn't just lose part of his head, he lost the whole upper half of it. He also had an open wound on his stomach, with his intestines hanging from there.

Tambry, for the most part, was normal, but her eyes were completely red and she looked like she had been depraved from water and food for a long time. Her hands were also gone, and her arms were mutilated enough to show some sharp bones.

Having seen that, Wendy looked back to the front only to see that she had somehow arrived at a dead-end, stopping just before she hit the wall. Having been cornered, the girl looks as her zombie friends get ready to kill her, only to remember that she had an axe and she showed it to them. This seemed to scare them temporarily, but this only raised another problem for the redhead.

"Wait, who do I attack?" mentally thought Wendy, who eyed her friends as she got ready to swing her axe and they...stood still. "Robbie? I'm not that angry at him. Tambry? No, she's a good friend of mine. Nate and Lee? Those idiots can kill themselves without my help. Thompson? I might mock him like the rest of the group, but this is too extreme."

Unable to decide, Wendy randomly swung her axe and hit Robbie's face, which enraged the decayed Tambry. The girl leapt straight for Wendy and attacked her with her sharp bones, managing to slash some of her clothing and stab her arm before Wendy counterattacked with her axe. Tambry simply dodged it and slashed it in two, the part with the head striking the teenager, who let out a painful shriek.

Just as Tambry got ready to kill Wendy, the lights flickered, the golden eye appeared in the dead-end wall and, once the lights returned to normal, the decayed Tambry stopped and saw that Wendy had disappeared.

(At another part)

Wendy breathed heavily as she wondered what just happened. One minute, she's being attacked by a horrific version of her friend, and in the next she's perfectly fine in a room where her rotting friends are nowhere to be found. She then felt some pain on her arm and ripped off a part of her jacket and covered the wound as the golden eye reappeared in the wall behind Wendy.

She felt the light of the eye and turned to see it, having the appropriate reaction towards it: confusion and disbelief. The eye blinked once, which surprised Wendy, and the teenager cleaned her eyes before she saw the eye again.

The eye pointed to it's left and, when Wendy looked at the direction, she saw one of the arrows from before in the wall, hearing something materializing and turning forward to see another path being made, with arrows and everything. Wendy turned back to look at the eye, but it vanished just as she caught a glimpse of it.

However, she remained on the ground and took a few breaths before she spoke.

"Fine, before I even try to do what the eye wants me to do-I can't believe I just said that-I need to relax for a moment." Wendy sat there "I need to calm down, I need to calm down, I need to calm down-"

And then Tambry's grotesque mutilated hand pierced the wall near Wendy, followed by cracking two holes and trying to grab, and Robbie's head. A single drop of blood comes out of Robbie's severed jaw, and once it hit Wendy's hat...

"I NEED TO FREAK OUT!"

The girl screamed and got up, running away just as the rotting corpses broke through the wall and gave chase once again.

(With Mabel)

The lights flickered as Mabel walked around, trying to look for the source of whatever was calling her. For the most part, all she could find were arrows pointing forward, the cave-like walls and the returning blood stains on the grounds, though oddly enough without skeletons near them.

"Okay, this is definitely looking bad: I can't find my way out of this path, and I have been walking for a good while." said a worried Mabel as she walked. "I just hope the rest of team is doing better than me, walking aimlessly while looking for-"

The whisper returned, but this time Mabel could identify it was something different: a song. One sung by a voice that, somehow, tempted the girl to come looking for it.

"It's calling me again!" Mabel then saw that there were no doors or entrances nearby. "But from where?"

As Mabel looked around for the way to go to the voice, a path formed nearby, along with some arrows to point at it's direction. Once it formed, the song became louder and Mabel turned to see the path.

"These paths are appearing with strange frequency." remarked Mabel as she walked.

The golden eye reappeared and replaced one of the arrows and saw Mabel go in, getting a worried look before swapping places with the next arrow. It continued to do this as Mabel continued to walk towards the song, feeling slightly more and more...weird, as she approached it.

When she finally got in the room with the song, the eye replaced one last arrow before it stood still and looked at the girl. Mabel soon found out the source of the song: Mermando singing on top of a rock near what looked like a lake.

"Mermando?" Mabel cleaned her eyes and then looked at the singing Mermando again. Seeing that he was actually real made the girl suspicious. "Something smells fishy about this."

Mabel then paused and mentally repeated what she just said. She clutched her stomach and laughed out loud once she finished.

"Haha, fishy, I just understood what I said!" laughed the girl. "Oh Mabel, you can be funny without even knowing it. Okay, let's go see Mermando."

Mabel walked to the merman, but once he noticed her, the two exchanged looks and blushes...before Mermando jumped off the rock and went to the lake. He continued to sing underwater, although it wasn't distorted in any way by the water and Mabel could hear it just fine.

The girl walked to the lake as the eye continued to look at her, getting more and more worried as the girl got closer to it. Once she was close enough, she looked down and saw Mermando singing and gesturing her to come with him. Unable to resist the temptation, Mabel got on her knees, closed her eyes and submerged her head on the lake, the eye alarming and shining harder than before as Mermando went towards the girl.

Once she opened her eyes, however, she saw that Mermando had turned into a decayed being screaming bloody murder at her. The girl freaked out and took her head out of the water before "Mermando" reached her, taking a few steps back as "Mermando" got off the lake and wobbled towards her.

"You're not Mermando! He's a merman! You're a male siren!" Mabel immediately thought a new name for the siren Mermando. "Sirendo!"

Just then, a gigantic bee puppet appeared in front of "Sirendo", startling the monster back into the water. However, just as Mabel started to relax, the puppet turned to look at her just as a blue book puppet appeared too, giving the girl the same firm stare. Mabel then looked up and saw the two puppets were being handled by strings.

Who was the controller? A giant Gabe Bensen puppet without strings, one with also eyed the girl with a malicious look. Mabel nervously smiled and waved her hand, earning an attack from Gabe's puppets in response, which she quickly dodged. She went running away out of the room, with the giant Gabe and puppets giving chase.

"Since when does Gabe use strings?!" shrieked Mabel.

Mabel started to run as fast as she could and, while she ran, she went into an alley so the puppets would lose sight of her and she crashed into a familiar face: Wendy.

"Wendy!" exclaimed a happy Mabel.

"Mabel!" the duo hugged each other for a moment before separating. "You don't know how happy I am to see you. How have you been?"

"Well, I met a siren version of one of my past boyfriends and I'm being chased by a giant puppet version of another and his hench-puppets, but weirder stuff has happened to me before." replied Mabel. "What about you?"

"I'm escaping from zombie versions of my friends." the girls were then greeted by the puppets and the zombies teaming up and walking towards them. "And now that I remember, run!"

The girls came out of the alley, narrowly dodging the zombies and puppets, and they continued to run as the team gave chase. Another path opened just as the girls were about to hit a wall, and it continued to form as the girls started to wonder what was causing this. However, they soon became worried once the path finally finished with a left and right path forming.

"Which way?! Which way?!" exclaimed Mabel, who looked to her right and left.

"I go to the right, you go to the left?" suggested Wendy, doing the same.

"Sure!"

However, Wendy went to her left and Mabel to her right, causing them to crash. The paths then turned into slides as the girls took some steps back from the crash, falling into them and going down as the zombies and puppets caught up. They simply stood there and watched as the girls eventually left their view, looking one more time before leaving.

(Dipper and Soos)

Dipper and Soos walked through the path, Dipper firmly looking at the seemingly endless hallway while Soos looked around.

"Now remember, Soos, separating is one of the worst things a group can do in this situation. I'm saying this again because a lot of times, whether out of stupidity, curiosity, temptation or some combination of them, people tend to get separated, and everything goes downhill from there." explained Dipper, who soon changed his tone from serious to annoyed after a moment. "And you just went ahead and separated from me while I was saying this, didn't you?"

Dipper turned to see that Soos had already left, and his hand was grabbing nothing but thin air.

"Just what I feared."

The golden eye returned and created an intense flash of light, Dipper quickly noticing and blocking his eyes with his hands before he turned around. Once the flash of light finished, he removed his hands and saw that there was a lamp with a handle in it underneath the golden eye, which Dipper somehow failed to notice. Once he walked to and picked up the lamp, a pair of red eyes opened in one of the walls and a shadow-like creature came out of it, slowly moving towards Dipper as the boy checked the lamp.

Feeling its presence, Dipper quickly turned around and spotted the creature, who stood still for a moment with his hands extended before he lowered them.

"Who are you!" exclaimed Dipper.

The shadow remained silent and gave the boy a frozen stare, creeping him out even further. The shadow creature then snapped his fingers, and he vanished just as two holes opened on the ceiling, two bodies coming out of them and their landing being heard by Dipper. When the bodies suddenly rose and "spoke" with groans in familiar voices, Dipper, shivering as he thought he knew who were the two bodies, turned around and discovered that the bodies were actually a damaged Wendy and Mabel.

Dipper screamed and jumped in shock, grabbing the lamp just before it hit the ground. He then took some steps backwards as the girls approached him, and he saw more clearly their damage: both their legs and feet were stripped to the bone, one of Mabel's eyes had been ripped off and half of Wendy's face had melted, not to mention both their hands were also stripped to the bone.

"You...left...us." uttered Mabel.

"I couldn't have done anything about it, the ground beneath us broke!" defended Dipper as he took a few steps backwards. "Besides, you two can take care of yourselves just fine without my or Soos's help, you could have at least attacked whatever hurt you so much before-"

"...Behind..." uttered Wendy.

"*sigh* Look girls, I'm sorry I wasn't there to help, and now I wish I had but-" and then he noticed something...peculiar, about the girls. "Wait a minute...you're not bleeding-"

"YOU LEFT US BEHIND!"

The girls jumped towards the boy with their damaged hands extended and opening their mouths, ready to bite him...or worse. Dipper narrowly dodged the girl's leap and, believing that reasoning wouldn't work, he started to run away as the girls gave chase, shouting "You left us!", "It's all your fault!" and other stuff that Dipper tried to ignore.

(With Soos)

The man walked and looked around, holding his hand like he was actually grabbing Dipper's. Eventually, he came across a dead-end...which suddenly turned into a mirror which showed that he was holding thin air. As he soon noticed that, a shadowy figure suddenly appeared and startled Soos the instead he saw it.

"I...am your father." uttered Soos's Father.

"First you ruin my birthday, now you ruin Star Wars!" screamed Soos.

Soos's Father turned on a pink lightsaber and leaped forward. Soos managed to dodge his father's attack before he was sliced in half and he started to run away as Soos's Father turned around and breathed like Darth Vader, calmly walking instead of running as he chased his son.

(With Dipper)

The boy continued to run away from the decayed girls, who continued to blame him for their current state. He soon found himself meeting a dead-end, what a shock, and the girls slowly walked towards the boy as he tried to think of something to do. Soon, the golden eye appeared behind him, and he turned around to spot it.

"Huh?" is all that came out of Dipper's mouth.

The eye soon flashed and suddenly Dipper had a lit match on his free hand, with a line of gasoline appearing just as the girls took another step. Once he turned to see the line, he immediately realized what he was supposed to do next, and he was understandably reluctant to do it.

Regardless, the other option was death and he had a feeling that the Mabel and Wendy he was seeing were not the real deal, so he frowned and took a deep breath before throwing the match. The instant it hit the gasoline, a wall of fire emerged and "consumed" Mabel and Wendy, who let out ear piercing screams as a hole opened on the ceiling above Dipper.

Once the girls ceased screaming, another scream-one that sounded more human-was heard getting closer and closer to the boy. But this scream sounded familiar.

So familiar, in fact, that Dipper failed to dodge the girl that fell from the hole.

Once the duo shook off their dizziness, the girl got off Dipper and he got up. But once he turned to see the girl, who he saw was his twins sister, Mabel, who also recognized him.

"Dipper?" asked Mabel with shock.

"Mabel?" asked Dipper with worry.

The twins touched each other-not in that way!-and soon saw that they were the real deal.

"Dipper!" exclaimed a happy Mabel.

"Mabel!" exclaimed Dipper with relief.

The duo hugged each other tightly with joy...right before Dipper separated with his sister.

"But wait a minute, didn't I just set you on fire along with Wendy back there?" asked the flabbergasted boy, who pointed at the hallway with the wall of fire.

"What are you talking about? I was with Wendy before we fell and went down two slides that helped us escape a team up by Wendy's zombie teenage friends and a giant puppet Gabe Bensen's puppets." replied Mabel. She soon got a surprised look once she figured out what she just said. "I just realized how utterly nuts that sounds."

The wall of fire turned into smoke and Mabel and Dipper got to see the burned skeletons of the zombie Mabel and Wendy. The duo reacted with short-lived shock before their attention was stolen by a path suddenly forming behind them.

Once they noticed that, they didn't question how it was even possible, instead Mabel grabbed Dipper's hand before the two went deeper into the path. When they had left, the skeletons briefly...shoot out sparks, right before the shadow creature from before appeared and saw the remains.

Displeased by the outcome, the creature turned to see the twins and he slowly flew towards them.

"So, have you seen anything interesting?" asked Mabel.

"Well, outside of the zombie versions of you and Wendy, I also saw a shadow-like creature with red eyes." answered Dipper, changing his tone to a more concerned one before he continued. "I don't know why he's even here, but I believe he is not good news."

The twins remained silent as the creature got closer and closer. By the time he was practically behind them, he raised his hands and the golden eye appeared under the floor the twins were on, briefly flashing before breaking it. The creature quickly tried to grab the twins, but he missed and heard their screams as they fell to an unknown location.

Annoyed by his failure, the creature raised his hand and he created a purple orb, which grew blank eyes and a malicious smile as the creature eyed it with approval.

(Back with Soos)

The man continued to run away from his father, who continued to walk calmly and without any hurry. Whenever Soos threw stuff at his father, mostly using rocks, he waved his lightsaber and cut them in two without losing his cool.

When he saw an opportunity, Soos's Father leaped straight for his son, getting ready to kill him...before the ground Soos was on broke, the man barely hitting Soos's hat before his son fell. The gap left behind mysteriously closed and a hole appeared on the ceiling nearby, where Wendy came off.

The hole in the ceiling closed, and the golden eye reappeared, flashing yet again and giving Wendy a lightsaber. As she questioned why she was given such a thing, she got her answer by Soos's Father spotting her and getting ready to attack. The teenager turned on her lightsaber, gave Soos's Father a determined look and got ready to attack.

To Be Continued...