Hey my comets! So, I was reading the reviews and I gotta say, love the enthusiasm! My only problem is the cursing. That was a bit of an issue with my other fanfics until I asked you comets to not curse in the reviews, so I'll ask this bunch of comets; I'm glad that you love my story and that you find a bunch of energy and joy in the chapters that I write, but I would appreciate it if you wouldn't curse in the reviews; we have children who read these things and I try to write chapters that are okay for all ages. I would be grateful if you would write reviews that are safe for all ages.

That being said, keep it up with the energy in the reviews, did you catch the surprise that I left at the end of the last chapter? Because nobody was talking about that and I think that I didn't make it obvious enough. That new character will be showing up again, and just to let you know; almost all the characters will be adults. The only characters who are not adults (so far) are Mabel, Candy, Grenda, and Dipper.

Because I want to clarify; Dipper is NOT in the style of the Transcendence AU, he is only a daemon because of some ritual I will make up as the story goes along, Dipper and Bill don't have a, erm, pet and master "relationship", they are just pet and semi-caring owner, there will be NO Pinecest (I don't really write that kind of thing unless I am asked for it explicitly), and, as you will see in a moment, Dipper is human at this point in time (for reasons that I will explain later on in the chapter).

I will be leaving a few easter eggs for you GF fans, so be on the lookout for them. (Most of them will be quotes said by other characters in the theme of AU-ness, although I will also have a cipher in there ;) Hope you enjoy the chapter, it probably isn't as good as the others but I hope you like it anyway!

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Pine Tree's locket had begun to glow brighter than It ever had before as he neared the edge of the Gravity Falls forest. Bill hadn't returned to the Fearaplex since he realized that Pine Tree had reverted to human form, most likely to get the supplies to turn Pine Tree again. Permanently this time. Pine Tree looked around to make sure that he wasn't spotted by one of the eye-bats or one of Bill's friends, and entered the pine forest. The tracking spell he had used on the strange liquid that had covered him a few days ago (Pine Tree had since deduced that it was saltwater with DNA and magic mixed into it so he believed it was the girl in the locket's tears) seemed to be leading him into the forest surrounding Gravity Falls. The glow became blinding as he stepped up to a very tall tree that seemed to reach into the sky and anchor it to the ground.

Despite having The Overlord as his master and living with a bunch of daemons for the fifteen years of his life, Pine Tree had never felt fear like what he was feeling now. It was a deep, primal fear that shook him to his core; he had never been in danger of death before, he had been living with an omnipotent daemon for crying out loud, but now that he was away from the Fearaplex Pine Tree had no assurance that he would come out alive… unless he counted Bill trying reincarnation. He shivered, Bill had done reincarnation for one of his other companions before… it didn't go very well for the companion.

Pine Tree walked around the base of the tree, it looked like it was a natural tree that had sap oozing out froM a few too many injuries, but he knew firsthand that looks could be verY deceiving. He uttered a few words in Latin for a revelation spell to reveal a secret lever high above him. Pine Tree clapped his hands and the lever flipped, causing the tree to sink into the ground and a stairwell circling the trunk to emerge from the metal walls surrounding it. Pine Tree smirked at the ease of his entry, this was child's play.

Unbeknownst to Pine Tree, a sparrow was Watching him from the trees above.

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Pine Tree wAlked down into the dank depths below, guided onward by the blinding glow of his locket. He finally reached the base of the stairs to find a strange, thick ring of rainbow-colored string circling the hall in front of him that emitted a light that seemed to wash over his entire being and cover him with a warm sensation that Pine Tree had never really known before. He sighed contentedly and pressed onward, following the brightening of his locket.

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Mabel's lockeT had begun to glow at around 0800 this morning and had only brightened since. She hadn't taken it off, mainly because she wasn't able to, and had been confined to quarters until the glow lessened and she could walk around without causing the many magic-sensitive people on the base to go into anaphylactic shock. Mabel had mainly been going over reports on her tablet about Bill leaving the Fearaplex and going to certain sections of the world for hours and then leaving without causing too much damage. This puzzled her because Bill never went anywhere without causing pain and destruction to the inhabitants of the place he visited.

Suddenly, a video feed popped on sCreen to show a boy with a blue light on his chest enter the secret stairwell entrance to the bunker. Mabel stood up and opened her door, confinement be darned, she ran down the halls to the B.R. and opened the door to find Ford and Candy already there with a few other senior officers.

Mabel raised Her tablet, "Have you seen this?" Ford's eyes widened in surprise as he saw the video playback again to show the boy enter the facility. Candy gasped and went straight to the computer to check the security protocols.

Stan, who had been sItting in a chair with his feet on the long table in front of him, shot up, "Why didn't you get rid of that entrance?!"

Ford whipped back to look at his twiN, "Nobody else knew about it but me, you, and Mabel, I wanted there to be an extra entry point in the event that our other entrances were compromised! I hadn't even remembered it until now, how on earth did that boy know?"

"Uh, commander?" Candy said as she looked up with horror hanGing off her face.

"What?" Ford looked back at CandY, "Things couldn't possibly get any worse!"

"They just did." Candy's eyes watered and her face paled as she lOoked back at the screen. She turned it to face the group of officers in front of her; on the screen was a video feed of the boy passing through the SUHD, Secondary Unicorn Hair Defense, and looking happier than he had earlier.

Mabel set her face in determination, "We shoUld tell all nonessential personnel to head to their quarters and all essential personnel to barricade themselves into their assigned areas. We may need to fight and we shouldn't send more people than we need to." Her locket was glowing brighter and brighter by the second until it became difficult to look at her without straining eyes.

Ford winced as he shielded his eyes, "Alright, but you aren't going anywhere. I'm not magic-sensitive by any means and even I can feel that thing Pulsing with energy from ten feet away; you need to find a way to dampen that magic or you're going to send every magic-sensitive person here into a coma!"

Mabel rolled her eyes, "FIne. I'll stay here with Candy to make sure that everyone gets to their assigned positions." Ford nodded and sent everyone out of the room beside Candy and Mabel. In case of an event like this one, Ford had intercoms connected to all the major rooms including the briefing room to allow senior officers to communicate with the whole base at any time.

Mabel walked over to the iNtercom and pressed the button, "Code Violet, Code Violet, this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill." Everyone on the base had been through the color code drills at least once and they all knew that Code Violet meant that an intruder had breached security and the safety of the base was compromised. It also meant that all personnel who had been trained for Knock Out ops were to gather tranquilizer guns and darts and were to head to the c-ter because all entrances and a handful of senior officer quarters led to that room.

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PinE Tree was walking down the hallway to a door with a keypad on it when a loud voice came through a speaker above the door right next to the two red lights above it.

"Code VioleT, Code Violet, this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill." Pine Tree would recognize that voice anywhere, even if it was covered by the buzz of magic and he had only heard it once, he did have an eidetic and photographic memory after all. That was the voice of the girl from his locket, she must have been warning someone about his entry. But that wouldn't make sense, no one was supposed to live this close to the Fearaplex besides the-

With that thought Pine TRee halted, there was no way that the girl from the locket was part of the resistance, that group was supposed to be on the other side of town. That was why Pine Tree had gone into this strange place because he wouldn't be around the resistance and he would be relatively safe. The resistance was supposed to have technology and magic that could stop daemon magic from working, something that would probably be very bad for him. Pine Tree shook his head, he was going to get to the bottom of this.

PinE Tree got to the keypad and clapped his hands, activating the door to open up to a room with people in black suits and masks carrying guns running in. He furrowed his brow in worry; apparently, this was where the resistance hid after all. Well, he would just have to take them out and get the girl from his locket out of this place before they got to him. Pine Tree clapped his hands, focused on the energy in the room, much stronger than even in the Fearaplex, and blasted the guns away from the people in front of him. He grinned lopsidedly and clapped again, the resistance's efforts would be adorable if he wasn't so scared.

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MabEl was still repeating her warning over the intercom while Candy was working on getting all the door locked and protecting the personnel that were unable to get back into their quarters or into an S.P. (safe point). Suddenly, Mabel's locket flashed and the two girls covered their eyes. Mabel felt a vibration in her locket and the light dimmed, allowing her to see the boy in her locket grinning lopsidedly at her.

"Hiya Shooting Star! At least, I'm guessing that's what you're called, going off your locket there. That thing was full of magic, haven't you learned how to dispel magical energy yet?" The boy was looking around at the place, "I guess this place isn't big on keeping with the times, this is the most boring building I've ever seen." Suddenly he caught sight of Candy and he began to blush, causing Candy to blush as well, "Hi there! You must be a tech lover, nice job on covering up the bug by the way. You could have done a bit better with the relay point codes though, that was the part that tipped me off. Try making it go to a point where there would be daemon activity and then take the info from that point next time."

Candy started shaking in fear and Mabel pointed her finger at the boy, "How do you know about that? Who are you? Why are you here?"

The boy turned his attention back to her, "I know lots of things." With that, his eyes began to show images of other places, "Lots of things. And to answer your question, my name is Pine Tree. Companion to Our Master and Eternal Overlord Bill Cipher and I am here to find you." With that, Pine Tree tapped Mabel on the nose, "Now let's get out of here before Bill gets back to the Fearaplex, I would really rather he didn't find out about my little excursion. He gets upset when I go out without someone to make sure that I'm safe."

Mabel backed away from him, "What makes you think I'd go anywhere with you? You just admitted that you're with Bill, I'm not going with you!"

Pine Tree laughed, "It's funny how you think you've got a choice! Now come on, I don't have all day, just hold my shoulder or something and I'll get us out of here." Mabel backed away a bit and pushed the emergency button under the table to call for reinforcements.

Pine Tree sighed dramatically, "Fine, I guess I can try without you touching me, but that will make it more likely for you to become dismembered. That's what happened the last time I tried this, so I'm just warning you." Before he could do anything else, however, the door to the room whipped open to reveal several guards with magic-proof armor and weapons made specifically to harm daemons. Pine Tree's turned around and his eyes widened as the guns fired blasts of rainbow energy at him, causing no effect to occur. Pine Tree sighed in relief, then made a sweeping motion with his hands to flick the weapons away from the officers. Mabel grabbed the tranquilizer gun from an emergency kit, whipped around, and shot Pine Tree three times on the neck.

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Pine Tree felt three sharp spikes in his neck and a strange fog went over his mind, he turned around slowly to see Mabel holding a gun in her hands. He looked down and tried to clap to teleport himself away but was stopped by a man with cracked glasses and a golden six-fingered hand hanging off a small silver chain around his neck. Pine Tree gaped at the necklace for what felt like an eternity, then looked down at his own which had begun to glow again thanks to the close proximity of the other ones. He closed his eyes and began muttering, words a bit slurred thanks to the tranquilizer that should have knocked him out cold by then.

The man in front of him covered Pine Tree's mouth with a six-fingered hand while his other hand held the boy's wrists so that he couldn't do his trigger to escape. Pine Tree was left with no other options, if he didn't get out he would be in serious trouble and maybe in danger of dying. He thought about all the people with guns and all the strange technology surrounding him, and finally about how the girl from the locket didn't want to come with him just because he was Bill's companion. Anger boiled and bubbled inside of him and fear coursed through his veins until it burst in the form of golden light that erupted from his eyes. The glow lasted a full minute before it faded and Pine Tree slumped forward in exhaustion, sleep overtaking him and everything going dark.

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Bill floated back to the Fearaplex with Darkweed in hand, the final ingredient in the ritual of The Turning for Pine Tree. Finally, his last pet would become a daemon and the zodiac would be unable to work, he could also pull the magic out of his pet for his own use if Pine Tree didn't contract that disease again. Bill floated through the doorway into the Fearaplex to find all the daemons staring at one of the walls in the Fearaplex while his other three pets huddled by their walls in fear.

"Hey what's going on?" Bill asked his first pet, one he had named Stitches because of the locket that he had forced the man to give him in exchange for his sister's life. Stitches had black hair with graying streaks that usually covered one of his eyes and had a habit of wearing sweatshirts with his locket's symbol on the shoulders.

The pet looked up from his wall with terror in his eyes, "They got 'im." He barely whispered those words before one of the other pets, Llama, burst into tears at the opposite end. Bill squinted his eye in confusion before his third pet, Pentagram, pointed to Pine Tree's side of the Fearaplex Party Central. Bill's eye shot wide open as he saw an image of Pine Tree play back a message.

"Master! I've been captured by the resistance! It's in the forest opposite of where you thought they were, under a tall pine tree. There's at least one zodiacine here, but they're no-" The message ended there and started from the top.

Suddenly, Bill flared black, red, and white with fury, "WHAT?! I'm gone for ONE DAY and Pine Tree goes MISSING?! What is so hard about keeping the zodiacines in the Fearaplex? Answer me!" Bill was completely justified, his favorite pet and the only one he had taught how to use mind magic had just been taken by the resistance. Pine Tree was the strongest of the four, but he was also the most knowledgeable, so the resistance would stop at nothing to crack into that mind of his to get information on how to beat Bill.

He was also the only one who wasn't a daemon yet, meaning he would be especially vulnerable to the human's tactics; Llama was a shapeshifting daemon and could change her form to anything she wished but was extremely emotional, Stitches was a whisper daemon and could block any and all magic but had lost the ability to use his own after turning, and Pentagram was a mind daemon capable of controlling parts of the mind but was eternally trapped in a twelve year-old's body. All of them had turned and all of them were as close to Pine Tree as family. Bill calmed down a bit, he would get Pine Tree back if it cost him the lives of all his eye-bats, they were replaceable anyway.

~Where this story's headed isn't sure, head to the past to reveal the future~

The woman entered her room to fall on the bed and look at the ceiling, wondering why she had to give up her children. She knew why, they would be in great danger if they grew up in Piedmont because of the fact that weirdness had to be reintroduced every week for some reason, but why did she need to give up her only children? A tear fell unbidden from her eye and dampened her pillow, and she pulled off her wig to reveal waist-length red hair that glistened softly in the light of the bulbs hanging from her ceiling. She opened her locket to show the images of her two children, magical images that would change as the people in the images grew and changed. Her husband had already documented several oddities of the lockets that had appeared around their necks the day Weirdmaggedon had begun. The image of his sister had changed a bit, she now had fangs and she was surrounded by a strange mist that changed her form every once in a while.

The woman sat up and checked her tablet to find out her next assignment, it said that she would be going with her brother to an FH to grab some food before they had to go into hiding because of daemon arrival. She sighed and set down the tablet to open her locket and slide down the hidden compartments that had appeared as soon as her children were born to reveal the image of her brother and her husband, both with their lockets of a question mark and spectacles hanging in front of their shirts.

So, yeah. That was an interesting chapter, and surprisingly hard to write. Hope you guys liked it, please review and tell me what you think, ciao for now!