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After safely placing the totem in Robbie's backroom, the Pines twins had been forced to go perform a magic show, which went about as well as can possibly be expected. With no prior knowledge of what to do the Twins failed miserably and were promptly booed off the stage and yelled at for ten minutes, before their agent sent them to their rooms. They fell asleep almost immediately upon lying down, and entered a deep restful sleep.

Dipper was the first up and had to practically drag his sister out of bed. They were picked up by Gideon in a golf cart. Apparently someone had broken into the library, and now the totem had disappeared. When they arrived at the library Sherriff Durland and Deputy Blubs were bumbling about and seemed confused by the notion that there was a place where people came to read, and that Robert was running the library all by himself. "Aren't you kids into the hip hops and the jam boxes nowadays? I didn't know teenagers even read books…" Robert glowered at the two men, "I'm going to tell you one last time, there are plenty of teenagers who read, and I am the assistant to the actual librarian, who isn't here most of the time. Now are you going to help me or not?" The officers shrugged, "We'll get back to you." Said Durland as the two strutted away calmly.

Robert fumed; "How-why-I, I need to sit down." he sat behind the desk and began squeezing a ball of clay which lay on the desk. Pacifica was already there; she rolled her eyes at the teenager's rage, and turned to the two of them. "He gets like this sometimes, he has a lot of resentment towards the government, and society, and the media. And most people in town now that I think about it." Mabel frowned, "Really? He seems so nice…" Gideon walked up to them, "He keeps it all underneath. C'mon, it looks like we're going to have to figure out who's responsible for this."

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"He said to make sure that you got his facial structure right, what do you think that means?" Mabel sighed as she began on forming the legs of clay. "A joke? You said he didn't have a face anyway." The boy was flipping through the journal with a 3 on it like a madman, and he seemed to have developed an unhealthy obsession with the triangle man. "Mabel, I'm telling you, who ever this guy is, he has left marks all over this town, the attic window is triangular, the symbol on the top of the museum is a triangle with an eye, and those playing cards back at the shop have triangle men on them and the rug in the shack, on a container of makeup. He's everywhere, everywhere! Ev-" She turned around and slapped him across the face. "SHUT UP! God, you're so annoying when you start babbling about demons, and signs, it makes me want to just- chop off your head!" She screamed out the first despicable act which came to mind.

He sneered, "You don't understand anything. This isn't just a demon, he has a name. A HUMAN NAME. He has left his mark all over this town, which means suggests he has some huge plan for this place. And-" She turned back to him with rage in her eyes, "SHUT UP! Go do something useful, and let me finish working on this stupid, stupid, statue. Okay?" She was seething, and the hammer in her hand swung back and forth. Slightly intimidated, her brother glowered at her and left the cave, grumbling something about ignorance. Returning to her work, Mabel smiled at the thought that once she became a goddess she would never have to deal with him again.

"I know right? He's soooooo annoying." "AH!" She turned around to be shocked by the appearance of a floating yellow triangle, with an eye. "I mean it's ONE thing for him to make you do all of the work, but then to complain to you and distract you while you're doing his work, that's just despicable." At first she was intimidated, and then she thought about it for a second. He's a triangle, worst case scenario he makes me take algebra. "Yeah! He is always making me do all the work, I have to make the statue, I had to kill that monster for him, and he still acts all high and mighty!" He flew behind her and made a knife appear in front of her, "Don't you just want to kill him?" She looked at the knife and watched as blood began to cover it, "Yeah, I do."

"Of course you do! But we need him for the ceremony…" the triangle flew of, pretending to think, "I got it! As soon as the ceremony is complete, I'll give you the signal," the word GO appeared on his chest for a second before disappearing, "And you and me will finish him, then you can go be a god and do whatever you want for eternity!" He turned to her and extended his hand so that it was right in front of her, "Let's shake on it!" She looked at the hand before glaring up at him, "Do you think I'm stupid? What kind of idiot would shake hands with a demon?!" Bill audibly sighed, and turned away from the maniacal artist, "Fine. If you want to spend eternity being bossed around by your brother as he fools around with the redhead, and you don't get to do so much as ZIPPIDDY-DO-DA, then be my guest."

She stared at the demon's back, and then at the hammer in her hand. "Fine, I'll do it." He turned around in a flash and their hands collided creating a whoosh of blue flame. "EXCELLENT! Alright see ya' tomorrow kid, Oh, by the way," He became serious, "don't take off any of Red's fingers." She blinked at the odd request, but nodded complacently. He disappeared in a flash of light, and she opened her eyes, blinking rapidly.

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"Are you sure about this?" Pacifica asked as they walked through the town's museum, "I mean, what if this cult is based somewhere else, it is a different dimension now isn't it?" Robert was looking down at his wallet, "They better be right about this, I payed for all of your tickets." Dipper stopped moving and turned to them with a glare, "Guys! WE found the symbol of The Order of the Blind eye back at the library, and if they aren't below this museum, then we will most likely NEVER find them, now will you all stop complaining! I need to figure out which room has the secret passage!" Pacifica was shocked by his outburst, and found that for once, she did not have a comeback. Gideon mumbled "I didn't say-" But he was paying interrupted as Mabel ran out of a nearby room and said "I found it!"

The room was full of eyes. Eyes in jars, carvings of eyes, stuffed animals with eyes far too big for their owners. Mabel had apparently opened some kind of secret passage which led deep underground, Dipper smiled and spoke smugly as he descended into the tunnel "Guess who made the right call? Me, that's right, I made the right call." Pacifica had the urge to throw one of the eye shaped vases at him, but instead she just followed him into the tunnel.

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Mabel had told him about the password, and while the old man was trying to contact the redhead's parents he punched in the combination, then the old man called after him, "Hey Dipper, have you seen Wendy around. She didn't go home last night." Frozen in place he sighed with relief, and smiled, "No. I haven't seen her." After a moment he stepped into the elevator behind the snack machine. Selecting the bottom floor, Dipper spent a few moments in the darkness before the doors opened and he stepped out into the basement.

He was fascinated by what he found, a portal, the other two books, and lots of charts and graphs. This could all be extremely useful. He glanced at the ceiling. In the right hands.

"Cause' these hands were made for Evil! And that's just what they'll do!" Dipper turned around to see Bill, dancing around in the air and humming the tune of some stupid pop song, "Hey Not-PineTree, didja' miss me?" The boy hushed him, "Be quiet, someone might hear you." The triangle rolled his eye, "Relax kid, no one can hear or see me, besides you. I'm like an annoying voice in your head. LALALALALAALA!" Dipper put his hands over his head and hushed him again, "What is it that you want?" Bill lowered himself to Dipper's level; and grabbed his shoulder with one hand, before speaking "Listen ConstellationHead, can I call you ConstellationHead? Ah, who am I kidding? I'm totally goanna call you that! Annnywwway, what I wanted to talk to you about was your sister." He frowned, "What about her?"

The demon rubbed the area where he should have a chin, "The thing is, she's not really made for the whole god thing, what do you think she would do to you if she got that much power?" Dipper's eyes widened and he gulped, "And you know that I know that she doesn't know that once the ceremony is complete, getting rid of her would be easy." A smile crossed the face of the boy referred to as ConstellationHead, "Besides, would you really want to spend eternity with a mouth breather like her?" Dipper shook his head, "PERFECT! So, just shake my hand and when I give say-" a screen appeared on his chest, it showed Bill say "GO!" "Then you'll attack your sister and I'll help you." He extended a hand and Dipper stopped himself mid way to shaking it, "Why do you care?"

The demon flew up into the air and stared at nothing for a second, "I don't want to live in a universe ruled by a crazy little girl. DO YOU?" He turned back to the preteen and extended his hand once more, Dipper bit his lip, and then he leaped forward and shook it with vigor. Blue fire engulfed it and maniacal laughter filled the basement, then Bill floated up into the ethos "Well see ya' tomorrow, and remember," He peered down at the poor sap below "Don't knock off Stan Pines until I give the go ahead."

Then he disappeared, leaving the young magician alone in the dark, unknowing of his inevitable doom.

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"Weird, how this keeps happening." Mabel stated, as her companions wriggled against the ropes which held them to the pole. The Society of the Blind Eye all stood around them, their hoods concealing their true identities. The same bald headed fellow with the words inscribed on his head was talking, but Dipper and Mabel weren't paying attention to his words, having already heard them. "You all have been a thorn in the Society's side for far too long, and do to the honors of wiping your minds, our founder, and the richest man in town, inventor of the Amnesia-gun, and the Microwavable Quesada…" Everyone turned to him and shouted "GET ON WITH IT!"

He sighed, "Well, if you insist. Behold, our leader, Furgas Fiddleford Cedric, McGucket!" Dipper and Mabel were shocked to see old man McGucket walk out from behind the red curtain, the amnesia gun in his hands, and a cruel smile on his face. Except he wasn't an old man, he looked thirty years younger, and was clean shaven, with grey streaks in his impeccably combed hair, and he wore a suit, one not unlike Grunkle Stan's. Dipper turned to Mabel, "You know considering the past few days, this really isn't that shocking."

He laughed manically, a sound similar to his crazy old man laugh, and pointed the gun at them. "The Pines twins, I never expected to see you two here, but I suppose two birds with one stone are as good as one in the hand." He laughed giggled and began picking his nose with the end of the gun. Mabel cocked her head, "Oh I get it; he's crazy in a different way." The bald man sighed, looking embarrassed and tapped his leader on the shoulder. "Are you going to, you know, zap them?" The old man stopped and looked confused for a moment, "oh right, sorry 'bout that." He charged up the gun, Gideon spoke up "We just want the totem that you stole from us! We'll leave you and your society alone after that." Robert interjected, "No we won't! The townsfolk must know the truth; we shall burn your web of lies and disperse them to the four winds." Gideon frowned and kicked him, as Pacifica told him to shut up, and Dipper gave a nervous smile, "He's just kidding, a real joker. So what say you guys about letting us go?"

Their leader looked thoughtful for a moment, and then he leaned over and laughed in their face as he yelled "NO! HAHA! You shoulda' seen the look on all your faces!" He began doing a little jig around them, sticking out his pale tongue fire his ray gun at the ceiling, his right hand man sighed, "We can't allow you to disenchant the totem. It would cause too much havoc, and make it too hard for us control the townsfolk." Mabel looked pitifully up at him, "But it would just be for long enough for us to return to our world..."McGucket shook his head, "Totally out of the question! Don't worry, you'll forget all about wherever it is you came from, it'll be great!" He raised the gun in their direction and was about to fire, when Gideon finished cutting the ropes with his Swiss army knife and jumped onto him, winding the old man and causing his gun hit to the floor and fire off, striking one of the hooded men. He asked aloud why there was a woodpecker on his shoulder just as Gideon's companions leaped up and the fight began, there was much banging, crashing, and assorted slaps, as wells as all other sound usually attributed to an all out brawl.

Fiddleford was like a rabid animal, leaping and hissing, slashing his unkempt nails at Gideon and drawing blood after striking the boy's cheek. He grabbed a sword off of the wall and was about to bring it down, when Dipper slammed a book into his stomach, causing the man to spit violently. Gideon pulled the other boy away as McGucket roared in anger and charged after them. Robert slammed into the bald man; and pounding him on the head with his fists. "THIS IS FOR SCIENCE! AND THIS IS FOR KNOWLEDGE! AND THIS, IS A FOR A WELL INFORMED SOCIETY!" He knocked the man out cold with one last punch, before another cultist jumped on top of him.

Pacifica ducked out of the way as one of the cultists tried to grab her, and he ran straight into the wall. A woman ran at her, but Mabel stuck out a foot and whistled innocently as she tripped and crashed into the other man. Pacifica ran over and they leaped in the air as they fist bumped, just before Dipper and Gideon ran past them and were soon followed by an enraged Fiddleford. Both girls glanced at each other for a moment before sticking their legs out and causing the man to trip, regain footing, and trip once again, before falling flat on his face. Gideon picked up his sword and swung it in the direction of the two burly men who were struggling to hold Robert in place. They were surprised and loosened their grip, allowing the teen to unleash a flurry of fists upon them, and making the two men collapse.

A few moments later they had the entire Order of the Blind Eye tied up; Mabel rubbed her head "I'm getting serious déjà vu now." Dipper leaned close to the angry Fiddleford, "Tell me who the author of these books are, and we won't completely wipe your mind." The man shook his head, "You'll never find that fool, he lost his mind years ago!" He cackled evilly, and Dipper shook his head, before turning to Gideon and nodding. The white haired boy smiled, and pressed the button, causing the Order of the Blind eye to disappear from their enemies minds in a puff of smoke.

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Dipper walked up to the cage which held his new favorite pet. He wanted to give her some food before Mabel got a shot at her, his sister could get wrapped up in what she was doing, and forget to feed her pets. And with tomorrow being the big day, he knew he would be very busy. She was still struggling, even after a night of rattling chains and screaming at them she was still struggling. He liked that. She has some fire in her; and it's no fun breaking them if they don't have any fire. She gave him a weak but determined smile when he stepped out of the shadows "I don't care if you're a clone or a demon possessing my friends, but as soon as I get out of here I'm going to kick your ass." She pulled on her chains for emphasis.

He raised an eyebrow humorously "Clones are from movies, and being possessed is a weak storytelling device found mostly in children's TV shows, and in 'scary' movies. This is realty, and you are being held captive alternate version of your friends from another dimension." Her expression changed, "What did you do-" His smile widened as he interrupted her, "To your friends? Nothing. As far as I know there having a wonderful time in our dimension, although our enemies might not have taken a liking to them, and with the level of incompetence shown in this crummy place, I assume that they are trying and failing to return to this dimension. You'll most likely never see them again." She pulled against the chains once again, almost startling him, she growled like an animal. Fitting. "Stop that, you're wasting valuable energy and causing nothing more than minor discomfort for me. Not to mention they'll start scraping your wrists soon."

"Cut the crap, and tell me what the hell is it that you want with me!?" He clucked his tongue, and waggled his finger "You have quite the potty mouth on you. But as for my intentions, all I want at this moment is to feed you and supply you with an adequate amount of water." She seemed surprised by this, as expected. "Why? Are you going to fatten me up and eat me later?" He was visibly disturbed by this suggestion, "Goodness no, what kind of things do you think go on in other dimensions?" She met his question with a skeptical glare, "No, I want you alive, because you are going to be my...well I suppose queen fits rather well, you are to be my queen come ascension." She was incredulous, "What are you talking about?" He sighed, "Let me use small words. Me and my sister will do whatever we want to you until you submit to becoming my queen, and you will be my queen because me and my sister are going to become gods come 3:00 tomorrow. This world will burn and in exchange we will rise to a level of incredible power and knowledge. Now eat this." he revealed a bowl and slipped it between the bars, she looked down at hit and shook her head defiantly.

"You do realize that I'm doing you a favor? Everyone else on the planet will die, and I chose you to ascend with me and my sister. Once I become a god, I could give you anything you wanted, if you submit now then I might bring your family with me, that way I won't make you watch them burn." She looked doubtful, "Give up now or face the brutal consequences. I'll get you to be mine one way or another." She looked down at the soup, then she slammed it with her chin, and its contents spilt all over Dipper's silk magician's shirt. He groaned at the stain, but she saw him smile, and he started laughing as he looked back up at her. It wasn't like in the movies, when the bad guy tries to convince the good guy to join them and then gets enraged when the good guy spits in their face.

She saw the truth in his eyes, as he started laughing hysterically. He wanted her to do that, and more importantly, he knew she would. He lifted a hand in the air and the soup removed itself from his shirt, hovering like a blob in the air. Then he flexed his other hand and Wendy cried out as she felt an invisible hand pry open her jaws, she tried to fight it but the power was too strong. Her mouth wide now open, he smiled at her obvious distress and flexed his other hand, causing a stream of soup to invade her throat. Her gag reflex activated and she spat it up all over her shirt, causing him to laugh. He flexed his hand once more, and the liquid on her shirt removed itself from the fabric and entered her mouth again, and once again, she spat it up. He repeated this process again, and again, and again. Until her throat was sore and she had vomited up her last meal onto herself.

His smile disappeared and he let go of her mouth, she gasped for breath and he saw tears forming in her eyes. That brought a smile to his face. "I'll give you tonight to think about being co-operative, and if you aren't…" He flexed his hand and his prisoner went flying into the wall of the cage. The redhead fell over and groaned in pain, clutching her side, and trying to catch her breath. He turned and walked towards the exit, smirking as he made one last comment "Have fun pissing on yourself."

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"Okay, this spell ought to disenchant the totem." Robert muttered something in Latin, and the totem glowed blue, but otherwise nothing really happened. He shook his head and looked back down at the page.

Dipper, Gideon, Mabel, and Pacifica were eating their late lunch, curtsey of McDonalds. They were all exhausted from the day, and had collectively decided to leave the disenchantment's to Robert. Just as he muttered something and threw some powder onto the floor the totem began to glow ominously, and the world began to go black and white. Dipper felt something awful move in his stomach, and he whispered "No…." as blue fire filled the air, and a monstrous voice filled the room and echoed through the library.

" YOU HAVE DISRUPTED AN ANCIENT POWER, TURN AWAY OR I WILL DESTROY YOUR PSYCHE-Oh, hey Robbie." The fire subsided to reveal a floating blue square, with a massive eye in the center of its body, and little arms and legs. The square wore a bowler hat and held an umbrella in his right hand. Robert sighed, "Bill, we've discussed this, could you stop calling me that? It makes me feel like a kid..." Bill giggled, "I know that Robbie, that's why I'll continue to use it whenever it is possible. Robbie." He scanned the room and looked surprised when he caught sight of Dipper and Mabel. "Perhaps someone could explain to me why you are trying to open a PORTAL, and why are ConstellationHead and ButcherKnife are here?" Gideon stood up, "They…are from another dimension…guys, this is a dream demon that sometimes helps us, his name is-" Dipper interrupted, a glare on his face "Bill Cipher?" The demon floated over to him, "Well YOU'RE perceptive! Well that dimension story must not be cockamamie; this one had shinnies' on her pearly whites." He floated next to Mabel and pointed at her teeth, she smiled "You smell like bubble gum!" He tipped his hat, with a "Milady." Before floating around her head and next to Dipper, "You gotta nasty bump on your noggin," He rapped on it, causing the boy to cry out and cover his head, "So what's the plan PineTree? You were hoping Robbie here…" The librarian fumed, "Would mumble some mumbo jumbo and you would be back in your dimension before you can say 'There's no place like home!' Well, did ja'?" Dipper rolled his eyes, and was about to respond when Mabel stood on her chair and said with a smile "That's the gist of it, Reverse Bill!"

"What do you mean, -ESREVER- Bill?" He floated over to her and created a mirror on his chest, "Well in our world, you're a triangle, and you wear a top hat, and carry a cane. Also, you're evil." He nodded along, "A triangle? That must be inconvenient for getting through revolving doors. And a cane? An umbrella is a THOUSAND times more useful, what if it rained?" He snapped his fingers and a rain cloud appeared near the ceiling and began pouring water down upon them. "But evil I can believe." Robert was grabbing books and trying to shield them, "Bill will you stop it you're getting everything wet!" The square would smile if he could "Sure thing… Robbie." He snapped his fingers again and it started snowing. Pacifica, red face by now walked up to him and screamed, "Will you stop it! WE WERE JUST ABOUT TO TRANSPORT THESE BOZOS TO THEIR DIMENSHION AND YOU ARE WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME WITH YOUR ANTICS!"

The dream demon did not look remorseful to say the least, "You 'know MagnifyingGlass you're pretty cute when you're angry. I don't know how you lost those beauty pageants, should a' just came out on stage angry." She looked ready to tackle him, despite knowing it was impossible. "Alright, alright. Hey Multi-Tool!" Gideon looked up, reacting to the nickname instinctively, "Have these two and the totem at the cave on Scraggle tooth mountain by 8:58AM," A digital clock appeared on his forehead "Bring Robbie as well, once you have disenchanted the totem I'll select the correct portal and keep it open long enough for you two return to your world and for the rest of you to follow them in and help them fight ButcherKnife and ConstellationHead, then bring the Gleeful twins back with you." He looked around; the twins were startled by how quickly the square had created the plan. Everyone else seemed to be only slightly annoyed by it, as if it was a habit of his.

"Great! GOoOd work everyone, just remember to defeat the psycho twins within 90 minutes, 'cause that's how long I will be able to hold the portal." He disappeared in a flash of blinding blue light, and they all opened there eyes. Dipper turned to Gideon after a moment, "So, we'll be able to defeat them in an hour, right?" Gideon's eyes shifted uncomfortably, "To be truthful, we never exactly defeated them, just the monsters they sent at us." Dipper stared at him incredulously, while Mabel scratched her head, "I'm not sure whether I should be terrified or flattered." She turned to Pacifica, "Can I be both?" The blonde shrugged and returned to sucking on the nearly empty juice box. Mabel smiled, "Then I will, I'll be Flatterfied!"

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry this took so long; hope fully it's pretty good. WRITING BILL IS HARD BUT OH SO GOOD! We are nearing the climax of our story, which, and I don't want to toot my own horn here, but its goanna be AWESOME! Everything will come to together. Bye bye!