After drying off, Dipper walked outside. He pulled out a Universe X5, one of the great smartphones on the market. The Pines twins' parents gave the kids the Universe's due to their excessive begging for better phones. They've only had them for a few weeks, but Mabel had already taken over 300 photos, most of Waddles and her together. Dipper downloaded a few apps, but mainly texted and called Pacifica.
Dipper opened the phone and went to his contacts, he dialed Pacifica. After a few rings, she answered.
"Hey there my big Dipper!" Pacifica said, Dipper smiled, and blushed at the sound of his nickname.
"H-hey Pacifica! So you told Mabel you wanted to meet me somewhere? Uh, where would you want to go?" Dipper asked, still blushing.
"Well, you see since you left last summer, I did a little reading and found out some facts about this town even YOU probably didn't know about. I mean I had to do a lot of research to find this stuff. Let's just say that it's really REALLY interesting. So, I think we should meet near the statue of Nathaniel Northwest, which shouldn't even BE up anymore. Either way, meet there, then I'll bring you to the place I learned about."
"Cool, I told you there was a lot of history too this town, it's really mysterious and interesting!"
"Haha, yeah, it kinda is fun to look at the old history. Anyways I'll see you there Dip, byeee!"
"See you then Pacifica." Dipper ended the phone call. He grabbed the lumberjack hat, which was laying on the bench next to him. As he turned to leave, he was stopped by Wendy, who had just arrived for her shift at the Mystery Shack.
"Oh, hey dude, I was actually just looking for you!" Wendy said, walking over to where he was.
"Hey Wendy! What's up?" Dipper asked, adjusting the hat as she got to where he was. As he was adjusting the hat, she took it off his head. Dipper looked at her and frowned. "Hey! Why'd you-" Wendy then put the old Pine tree hat onto Dipper's head, adjusting it a bit so it was firmly on his head. He looked up at the hat and smiled. Wendy put her lumberjack hat on her own head.
"You know, I missed this old hat, and since we're here for the summer again, I thought it'd be nice to switch the hats up again for now. Don't worry though, we'll switch back at the end." She hit him in the shoulder lightly. Dipper laughed and smiled up at her.
"Ok, sure! I did miss having this hat on my head."
"Well, I better get inside before Soos gets on me for being late, or Stan, or both of them, jeez. See ya Dip." Wendy walked into the Mystery Shack, waving at Dipper before going in fully. Dipper smiled, then grabbed the number four book that was sitting on the bench as well. He stuffed it in his vest and walked towards the town, passing multiple signs telling him to go back.
Little did he know that those signs would've helped him if he had listened to them.
As Dipper walked away, the shadow of the triangle appeared again on the Mystery Shack. Slowly, the shadow gained color of yellow. It grew detail with a bowtie and one closed eye. Soon the color of everything in the background had turned to a blueish grey. The figure had gained full color, all detail on it's body had returned, it opened it's one eye, thunder sounded as it's eye opened.
Bill Cipher looked around at the Mystery Shack, he took everything in, and laughed.
"I… I'm back! Look at me, I have color! I can see again!" Bill yelled to nothingness. He pulled his eye out of his triangular body, revealing a dark void. He put the eye back on his body again and laughed again.
"But how? I was erased from the mind… The barrier! It must be breaking even more than I thought it could, this is perfect! Oh man, I can't wait to…" Bill slowly turned around, he looked straight at… something.
"Oho, look at that. People are reading what I'm saying, fun. Oh? You didn't think I could see you? You thought I was a being that wouldn't be able to see through the fourth wall? You thought fourth wall breaks couldn't happen in stories, huh? Well looks like you were wrong buddy. And no, Jeff, you aren't going to get that raise you wanted. Sally, your dog will die in… let's see, uh I'd say 4 days. Keith, no more looking at those pictures on your phone, it's bad for your health, and for your life.
"Oh, and if you all are wondering, yes, I plan on destroying the Pines family. I just don't have a physical form anymore. What you see of me is actually a form of your imagination! This isn't a picture book after all. Anyways, I do have some physical abilities, for example…" Bill lifted his hand up, he pulled 6 splinters of wood from the bench. The marks from the splinters remained. Bill took the splinters and threw them at the door of the Mystery Shack, they all hit the door, but then bounced off. Bill grunted.
"As you see it's only a small bit, but at least I can do SOME stuff. Anyways, since you're only readers, you can't interfere with my plans, so I could tell you it all right now, and you couldn't do ANYTHING… but why spoil the fun? I'm not telling you anything, so enjoy reading through all this. Farewell measly readers." Bill disappeared quickly, and all the colors of the background returned again. After a second of silence, Stanley walked outside in his slippers and saggy clothes. He walked forwards a few steps, then stepped on the splinters shot by Bill.
"Hot Belgian Waffles! How did a splinter get through my slipper! Also, why is there a splinter?" Stan looked down at the splinters, then turned around and walked back inside.
"Soos! You got termites or something! There are splinters everywhere!"
Pacifica Northwest stood leaning on her Great something grandfather's statue, the one put there so Gravity Falls didn't look too ridiculous. Dipper walked up behind Pacifica quietly, he got behind her and covered her eyes.
"Guess who?" Dipper asked in a Mabel-ish like voice. Pacifica laughed a bit.
"Dipper, you're not fooling me. That trick barely works anymore. Nice try though," Pacifica replied, turning around to look at Dipper. As she turned around, Dipper's arms wrapped around her neck. Pacifica leaned towards Dipper and laid her lips onto his. They sat there for a moment before Pacifica leaned back.
"My my Dipper, I've missed being able to do that." Pacifica stepped back and grinned at Dipper. He smiled.
"I missed just being able to see your beautiful face, Pacifica." Dipper grabbed her hand and smiled.
"Aw haha, thank you Dip. Ok, so I feel like it may be hard to travel to the area I want to show you without you seeing, so I want you to wear this;" Pacifica pulled out a purple scarf, she gave it to Dipper, who stared at it for a second.
"Uh, why do I have to be blindfolded?"
"Because Dipper, what I want to show you is special, and seeing where it is might spoil the fun! So put it on! I'll lead you there, don't worry." Dipper opened his mouth to argue, but closed it fast. He nodded and tied it around his head. He couldn't see anything through the thick fabric.
"Ok, there you go. Just please don't trip me on accident, alright?" Pacifica giggled a bit.
"Of course Dipper, I won't let that happen." She laid another kiss on him before directing him around the city. They went left, right, even more right, right again, left finally, then they started going up a slope, like a hill. Dipper sighed as he was walking blindly and feeling rocks under his shoes.
"So where ARE we going anyways?" Dipper asked, looking in the general direction of Pacifica's footsteps.
"You'll see, we're almost there sweetie. Just wait," She replied. Dipper blushed a bit, but sighed again. After a few more minutes of walking, the two of them stopped.
"Ok Dipper, you can take the scarf off." Dipper untied the scarf and took it off slowly. He was greeted with a dark cave. He looked around and saw an entrance behind him. Pacifica was in front of him, smiling.
"What is this place?" Dipper walked forwards, he stopped suddenly when he saw a giant hole in the ground. "Woah…"
"When I was looking around, I found information about some sorta war. It turns out that that war was against Humans and Monsters, and the monsters were sent underground. This cave is the only way to access the underground. Obviously we can't go down there, but it's still cool to know that there's a cave leading to a whole new species of monsters in-"
"Mount Ebott… We're at Mt Ebott?!" Dipper turned around fast, looking Pacifica sternly.
"Well yeah, wait, how'd you know?"
"Pacifica we have to go, Great Uncle Ford told me that this place is really dangerous, if we aren't careful, things could go bad." Dipper grabbed Pacifica's hand quickly, but she pulled it out of his grip.
"Dipper, I know you're uncle knows a lot, but I'm sure you'd be fine just looking around the cave. Besides, the worst stuff is down the hole." Pacifica walked towards the hole. DIpper put his hand out to stop her, but then put it down after a second and followed her. The two of them looked down into the hole. Dipper got on his knees and looked farther down into the hole. For a second, he thought he saw a figure standing on a bed of flo-
"SURPRISE MABEL!" Mabel screamed from behind the two of them. Pacifica jumped and Dipper almost fell into the hole, but caught himself. They turned around and looked at Mabel, who was laughing at the two of them.
"Mabel! What are you doing here? I told you not to follow us!" Dipper said. Mabel continued laughing.
"You should've seen the look on your faces when I scared you guys. HA, it was priceless! I wish I got that on camera!"
"Mabel are you serious? You could've killed us! Don't you see the pit next to us?" Pacifica asked, pointing to the hole in the ground. Mabel walked towards the pit and stopped, gasping at the size of it.
"Wow! That's deep! I wonder what's down there?" Dipper sighed.
"It's, uh… let's just say that basically creatures 5 times worse than the one's we've seen are down there." As Dipper was talking, Pacifica stiffened up a bit. She looked forwards and twitched a bit. Dipper noticed and got up. "Pacifica? Are you alright?" Pacifica didn't answer, she just stared in front of her. Mabel got up and waved her hand back and forth in front of Pacifica's eyes, but Pacifica didn't budge, no blinking, nothing.
After a second, Pacifica looked at Dipper and smiled.
"Hey Pines, want to go look closer in the pit? Don't worry, I'll take us there," Pacifica yelled in a deeper, darker voice. For a split second, Dipper saw Pacifica's eyes flash red. As DIpper opened his mouth to talk, Pacifica ran at the two twins. She pushed them into the hole, causing the three of them to barrel down the pit. Before they fell too much, Mabel yelled at Dipper.
"Dipper! Grab Pacifica and grab my hand!" Mabel yelled, lending her hand to Dipper and pulling something out of her sweater. Dipper grabbed Mabel's hand and then grabbed Pacifica. As Dipper saw the ground coming towards them fast, they suddenly stopped just short of the ground. Dipper looked up at Mabel, who had something in her hand that ejected a rope out of the pit.
"GRAPPLING HOOK!" Mabel squealed as she held the grappling hook in her hand. Dipper started laughing in relief.
"I didn't even know you still had that thing! Yeah Mabel! Great job!" Dipper yelled, still holding onto his sister and Pacifica. Mabel pulled on her grappling hook, causing it to slowly start to lift the three of them towards the entrance of the pit. Dipper looked up at his sister and smiled at her, still laughing a bit.
As he was looking at her, he looked at the hook and saw a shadow. The shadow manifested out of nowhere, almost just appearing out of thin air. Dipper watched as the shadow inched towards the hook, it manifested a foot and put the foot onto the hook. As Dipper was watching the shadow, speechless, he thought he saw a triangular shape form with the shadow. Before he could say anything however, the shadow managed to push the hook out of its anchor and off the cliff, Causing the kids to fall down back into the pit. If it had been a few seconds more, they would've been close enough to climb up.
As the kids fell, the echo of laughter rang through the cave and the pit. And as the kids hit the ground, their landing caused an eruption of golden flowers to fly around in the air around them. Pillars stood around the area they fell into, manmade pillars. The golden flowers were perfectly grown so they were just around the area light shined into the cave they were now in.
Many would think the kids would be dead, no chance of survival for that high of a drop, but most are wrong. For these kids journey was only just beginning.