Hey everyone! I am uploading on time this time! (Edit: Spoke too soon) Someone call the president!

Don't… Don't actually do that. I tried it once. Lets just say the receptionist isn't very nice.

Anyways! These next two chapters are going to get… Complicated. So it should be normal to have questions. But if you figure it out, well you get an internet cookie.

Onto reviews!

Smiles1998: Something is rotten in the state of Oregon. Something is gonna happen I can feel it. Great job though!

You have a great instinct. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Gamelover41592: great work on this chapter well done :)

Thanks!

Zexo87: I liked that moment with Pacifica and her dad. I was also expecting the game system to be haunted or something.

Hmm. Maybe it is...?

Only time will tell… Thanks!

Ur fan: Its coool at a broadcastable level.. but i wud lyk to remind you that Grunkle Stan created a barrier that doz not allow bill or his goons to enter it.. sorry if i spoiled it.. HAPPY WRITING

Thank you? That was Ford anyways but I have seen the whole show so it's fine. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Tall T: Not many fanfic writers try to redeem Preston Northwest nowadays. I have to give you credit for going a different route there :)

Well I guess I will be either remembered for my stupidity or my genius. Taking the root that everyone takes, making him the true bad guy behind Pacifica's early bullying, was just… I don't know it felt too easy. Human beings have morals, beliefs, and ideas. Those are planted into their head by people they are influenced by. I don't believe anyone can be truly evil without a reason. There is a reason to everything. It's just how the world works. Glad you liked it though!

Meladi1: Oh Dipper Fanboying over Legend of Zelda is just perfect. I love the games, though I have never played the NES games. Oh boy, evil game?

Was truly ahead of its time in every sense of the phrase. If you can't find a real NES to play it I would suggest going into a local not GameStop and asking them about a NEW emulator. I would have to look for what I have, but it plays N64 games, Genesis Games, SNES games, and NES games with I think one more I can't remember there as well. And if that doesn't work, there's always emulators for the PC. Which you can get USB controllers for. Neat. Glad you enjoyed!

Bill's Remnant: (Reading this KEY comment fills you with DETERMINATION. )

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Beware the creatures beneath the ground,

as they were lost and I was found.

The crash buried them under dirt and sticks

Until discovered by a man with a hand of six.

Neeto!

Not to many reviews this week. Ah well. Still glad you guys enjoyed. Hope this second chapter is as good as the first.

Oh and to Alice, I hope you enjoy :)

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"What… What the hell just happened."

Dipper paced in the living room debating inside his mind what was going on. Chewing his pen he began to write down everything he could of his surroundings. The clocks read 9:45, the TV and game system were both still on, the light was on, and mysteriously his journal had laid to his side. His previous edits completely nonexistent. Continuously turning pages of acquired notes and things he had written down from memory he began to form a hypothesis.

"Before I went to sleep, I had turned off the lights and the console, I had written inside my journal and had corrected mistakes as well on the Mothman. These two events seem to have never took place and there are no signs of tampering. I can not be sure about the time I went to bed at, but 9:45 seems a bit too early to be getting tired." He reasoned to himself. "There is only possible explanation for it…" He closed his journal in the most dramatic way possible. "Time travel."

An surge of energy filled the room as something came down the stairs. This something wore a nightdress with a flash drive on it and had began jumping up and down in excitement.

"TIME TRAVEL DIPPER? What happened? Where did you go? Did you meet any presidents? DID YOU SAY HI TO QUENTIN FOR ME?" She grabbed Dipper now laser focused on him answering her question.

"What? Mabel no it's not that kind of time travel." He said pushing her away. "Well… It is, but I don't know how it happened and I don't even know if it did happen." He said scratching his arm.

Mabel looked confused. He tilted her head and asked "Well then what happened? You usually only save the dramatic pauses for things you are sure about."


So you're telling me that you decided you traveled through time based off a few lights turning back on and your book not having some drawings in it that you had drawn before you went to sleep? Doesn't seem like solid proof to me Dipper."

"I'm telling you Mabel they weren't just drawings. Spelling mistakes and additions in pen are pretty hard to remove! Especially with only like, 30 minutes at most!"

"It seems plausible. Anyone can erase their past with a bit of white out after all."

"Look Mabel!" He held open his book to one of the pages he knew he had edited. "No markings whatsoever from whiteout. No torn pages, no fixed mistakes, nothing."

Mabel held her finger to her chin and pondered the thought. "Well maybe you DREAMED you had drawn those pictures." She pointed out.

"What?! No I couldn't how would I know the exact mistakes in the book that needed to be fixed. It just makes no sense! Agh!" He fell down onto the couch and blew his hair out of his face. "I just don't think it could be anything else Mabel. Besides… I had a different dream anyways." His words grew silent.

"Was it about Wendy" mabel said nudging him knowingly.

"What?! No!" Dipper scooted away from her on his couch. "It was about some crazy beast monster that attacked me in a field."

"Did ya get a good look at it?" Mabel asked

"Not… Really. I couldn't tell where it was coming from and before I knew it, it had... " Dipper paused for a moment, his face going slightly pale. "It had bitten through my skull." Dipper began to shake a bit.

"What?!" Mabel exclaimed loudly before noticing her brother was obviously frightened. She sat down on the couch and gave him a hug. "Oh come on ya big baby. It was just a dream. Those don't hurt you."

"I guess…" He admitted defeated. "It's just… I for some reason feel like that pain in that dream was actually happening. I can distinctly remember the feeling of it. My entire head going crazy for a split second with thoughts, then just… Blackness. Then waking up." He looked to Mabel. "It felt so… real."

Mabel looked to her brother with sadness in her eyes. It pained her so much to see him in this state. "Aww come on bro-bro. It was all just a dream." He stood up and looked to him. "I'm sure the girls wouldn't mind joining us in some Zelda down here. I'll go grab them and we can all have some fun together to get you away from this mess." Dipper began to smile. "Yea... Sure that sounds great."

He got out of the little ball he had rolled himself into and sat himself properly down on the couch. His sister grabbed the controller herself and looked to the game. "So where did you get to anyways." She said while maneuvering Link out of a monster invested area. "Oh not far. Just to the third dungeon. At least… That's what I remember.

"Yep! We have more hearts than I remember! Oh shoot I bet you didn't save." She began to make her way to the save menu, and the thought struck Dipper like a rock.

"MABEL DON'T PRESS THE SAVE BUTTON!" He yelled. She stopped dead in her tracks. "What? There's no harm to saving is there?" She asked obviously confused.

"The last thing I did before I worked on my journal was save that game. Right after beating that third dungeon and getting pissed off at some bushes." Mabel laughed a bit at the last comment knowing exactly what he meant. "So? What's your point pointdexter?"

"My point," He said walking up to her and pointing at her abdomen where the floppy disk was located. "Is that the game doesn't just save progress in the game, it saves progress in real life." He finished. Mabel's eyes went wide.

"Dipper that's ridiculous! Even for this town! How would that even work? It's a game console! Not some ancient nerd artifact from before Grunkle Stan and dinosaurs were born."

"I don't know either Mabel but I know one thing about how that game works!" He paused and pointed at the screen that held the save screen. "The only times a save state loads is either when you load it yourself manually," Pausing again he fought back a frog in his throat. "Or you die."

Silence filled the air.


Yes I know it's half the length than usual, but I felt like this was a good place to stop. It just felt like the dramatic tension was well built up here. I promise 4 chapters for this story arc. The next one being the finish of this one. I know I haven't been very good to those promises so far but i'm trying!

So sorry about that. Combined with my "Artistic choice" It's also late and I want to get to bed. So thanks for reading!