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A derelict room quickly became flooded with light, revealing a small control panel and a window, surrounded by blank concrete walls and a single sliding door. The Bearded Man along with Stanford took a step inside.
Stanford walked over to the panel and began to brush away the cobwebs with his arms and started flicking and pressing buttons in a seemingly random order, while the Bearded Man simply stood in the corner and watched. After a few more seconds of button-pressing, the door opened up, letting the pair in.
As they walked in, their view quickly turned to Sebastian, sitting in a chair unconscious, held down by large metal restraints. The Bearded Man pulled out a small flashlight from his pocket and began to shine it into his weary eyes. Sebastian's eyes cringed and he began to wake up.
"W-What the.. where am I..?"
The Bearded Man put his flashlight back into his pocket. "Good, he's awake." Stanford began to speak up. "Our apologies for the restraints and the way we got you here, but we had to make sure you wouldn't lose your temper."
"Lose my temper..? I just.. what? Who are you people?"
"Oh, of course. My apologies, let us introduce ourselves." Ford placed his hand on his chest. "My name is Stanford Pines." He then pointed to the Bearded Man. "And this is.. well, we don't know his name yet but he's here."
"Uh.. okay?"
"Due to the circumstances, we've had to unfortunately quarantine you from the rest of the town." said the Bearded Man.
Stanford pulled out a tablet from the inside of his coat and flipped to an image of the statue of Cipher.
"Do you recognise this?" he asked.
"Uh, yeah.. I do. It's that weird statue that I saw the just the other day. Why?"
Stanford passed the tablet over to the Bearded Man. "The statue you found is no ordinary statue."
"..What do you mean?"
The two looked at each other confused. The Bearded Man flipped through the tablet.
"The statue belongs to that of Bill Cipher." he said, showing Sebastian a photographed image of the Cipher Wheel.
Sebastian's eyes widened. "Bill Cipher? Who's he?"
Stanford followed up on his question. "He was a triangular demon from an alternate reality bent on domination of our universe. He very nearly succeeded last year when he ripped a hole in the fabric of our dimension and flooded the town with his weirdness."
"Weirdness? Alternate Reality? You guys sound absolutely nuts."
"We're not nuts. We're completely sane. Anyway, he was defeated by Stanford and his family which resulted in his body being turned into a mere statue. Everyone in town knows not to shake it's hand, but you didn't know any better." said the Bearded Man.
Puzzled was Sebastian's mind, so he asked a question. "But it's just a statue? How could it have given me these powers?"
Stanford spoke up. "There's a parallel pocket dimension that exists within our own, known as the Mindscape. It's a plain of existence where anything can be conjured using your mind, hence the name. It's the place Bill used to enter our reality, as he did not have a physical three dimensional form, so he would transport people to the Mindscape in order to make deals with them. As I already stated, the mind can be used here to create anything you wish, so when Bill gained a multi-dimensional form, he would leave his physical powers within the confines of his body and could use the powers of the Mindscape. However, after he was defeated we discovered he had a failsafe. If for some reason or another he was defeated and his body turned to stone, his statue would become indestructible and his powers accessible, so that he could rise up once again in the body of someone stupid or ignorant enough to shake it's hand.. and unfortunately, you are the idiot in this situation, but it's not entirely your fault. You just didn't know."
Sebastian was horrified. He knew that the statue had something to do with these powers, but he didn't know of their origin and he certaintly didn't know how serious the situation was.
"At the moment, this infection as we'll call it, is at Stage One and we hope to keep it there, if not then take you out of it. It's done nothing more than activated most, if not all of Bill's powers. Fortunately, you won't be able to access all of them until the infection has affected your Cerebral capacity. You see, even with Bill's powers, you're still a mortal being of flesh and blood. Still easily wounded by say, oh I don't know, a gun?"
In the few seconds it took to finish that sentence, the Bearded Man had pulled out a futuristic-looking gun and shot Sebastian in his exposed kneecap, causing him to yell in pain.
Stanford quickly grabbed the gun from the Bearded Man's hand and looked at him with frustration.
"What do you think you're doing? Don't you think that's going a little too far? We're only explaining to him what's going to happen, not testing his limits!"
"Well, what were you planning to do? Tell him it's all going to be fine and that we can save him? Because you know we can't."
A sudden electric blue glow caught the attention of the two and they turned to look at Sebastian, who's restricted hands we're both engulfed in the blue flames and his eyes glowing a bright yellow.
"YOU'RE LUCKY I'M NOT STRONG ENOUGH YET TO BREAK FREE FROM THESE BONDS. OTHERWISE YOU'D BE SORRY THAT YOU SHOT ME."
"Stage Two would be sudden loss of empathy towards others.." said Stanford.
Sebastian looked down at his hands and extinguished the flames and let his eyes return to their natural colour.
"..and it looks like it's starting."
"Leave me alone. I think I'd be better off being on my own for a few hours to grasp this."
The two once again looked at each other and nodded their heads before slowly backing off and closing the door.
A few hours later, the two were in the Mystery Shack, talking to everyone else, including Dipper and Mabel, about the situation.
"So, what's going to happen to him? We can't just leave him down there." said Dipper.
"Maybe we should give him some Mabel Juice! He looked very stressed out." said Mabel.
The Bearded Man spoke up. "Mabel Juice isn't going to help him, unfortunately."
"So, what, is this dude like the new Bill or something?" Soos asked.
Wendy started to talk."Yeah and is he as weird as Bill was?"
"Not yet and hopefully he won't be as weird as/or become Bill. We're going to keep him locked up in the bunker until-"
The sound of static flooded everyone's ears and Stanford pulled out his tablet again. Everyone crowded around to look at the screen.
The screen showed live security camera footage of the room Sebastian was being kept in. The sound of crying became audible. Sebastian slowly turned his head towards the camera. He gave a large and creepy grin.
we'll meet again...
don't know where... don't know when..
oh, i know we'll meet again..
some sunny day..
hehe.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The camera cut to static.
"He's entered Stage Two. We need to move quickly"
