Remember how I said I would have 2 more chapters? Well, I realized that I did not need an extra chapter, so here, instead, is the final chapter of Cipher.-Mr-Dippingsauce

Chapter Nine

Bill was pressing buttons seemingly at random. "That's why it took you so long, Glasses? You were trying to code it to get your great-niece and nephew and keep me out? Lucky for you, a machine is very similar to the brain, so…" Bill placed his finger on one of the buttons, and a spark of electricity flew from his finger to the machine, and the portal whirred to life.

"Wait, why didn't you do that before?" asked Stanley.

"I still needed all the journals. I don't know exactly where my dimension is on this. I need the plans to figure out which symbol you placed me at." Bill's single eye scanned the page. "There." He said, pointing to one of the alchemy symbols. He pushed the corresponding button.

The bright white light of the portal turned into an image. "This," said Bill. "Is the Beyond."

A desert landscape was what met them. There was nothing but red sand for miles, except way back, where one could see a sort of castle. "My house," said Bill. "But enough staring. Let's get down to business." Everyone but Charlie suddenly found themselves thrown backwards, as Bill sent a mental wave of energy towards them.

"Come to me, uh, me." He said.

A howling suddenly filled the room, and it sounded like howler monkeys, screaming people, and a tornado had all been thrown in a very loud blender. Bill seemed to glow a bright white and he seemed suddenly to drip at the edges with power. He laughed maniacally.

"And now to finish my monologue." Bill declared, but it sounded like his voice was in slow motion, and yet talking at a normal speed. "You see Shooting Star and Pine Tree, I now have so much power that I could practically step on your puny planet and turn it to ash. Not that I'd do that. No, I'm just going to wipe all life off the face of the planet. But I can't do that. Know why?" Mabel was about to answer but bill interrupted her. "It's a rhetorical question, Shooting Star. Anyways, I would be able to destroy your world, but I can't. You see, by myself, I can't appear in reality. For that I require something else. A host."

Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and both Stans woke up. They looked around. "Where's Bill?" asked Stanley.

"Why I'm right here." Everyone turned, but it wasn't Bill that was there. It was Charlie. His eyes were glowing bright blue.

"It begins..." Bill/Charlie said. He floated into the air and his eyes glowed an even brighter shade of blue. Papers flew off of desks as they formed a whirlwind around Bill. Dipper and Mabel were thrown against the wall. The adults struggled to stay in place.

"Dipper!" Mabel yelled. "We need to find a way to stop Bill!" Dipper could barely hear her over the noise.

"I know!" he yelled back. "But how…" He was cut as a large, heavy object hit him in the face. He grunted, and snatched the object. To his surprise, it was the first journal. "Hey!" he called to Mabel. "There's probably something in here that can help us!"

Dipper struggled to turn the pages in the ferocious wind. He scanned the pages, but he couldn't find anything. He began to get frustrated and flipped more rapidly, but stopped when something caught his eye.

It was the page on Bill, but that wasn't what had caught his eye. It was the section on the page labeled "Banishment" in fancy cursive.

Dipper read as fast as he could on how he could banish bill. This isn't that complicated, he thought. It's just a spell. He crawled over to Bill. He was about to stand up, but he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Mabel. "Dipper," she said. "Let me help you."

"I can't risk it, Mabel. What if the spell goes wrong? I can't risk having you die. I mean, what would Mom and Dad say?"

"What would Mom and Dad say if you died? Come on, Dippingsauce, we're in this together." She held out her fist. "Mystery Twins?"

Dipper smiled. "Mystery Twins."

And the twins stepped out to face the most powerful being in the universe.

Bill looked over at the twins and smiled. Pine Tree and Shooting Star as my first victims I would be most pleased to…

Mr. Cipher?

Bill mentally snarled. What do you want? And don't interrupt my thought train!

I have no control.

Control over what?

Well, uh, me.

You're my host! You're not supposed to…

"Hey, Bill!" Dipper yelled.

Bill's attention snapped back to the twins. "You and Shooting Star got something to say before your deaths, Pine Tree?"

"Yes, we do!" Mabel yelled. She looked at her brother. Dipper nodded, and they began to chant in unison.

"Triangulum, derelinquet vos. Unde venistis eieci…"

"Ha ha ha!" Bill cackled "That banishment spell won't…wait, what!" Bill looked down at the body of his host. It was slowly disintegrating and the dust was flying into the portal. "Wait, no, wait!"

The twins continued chanting. "…Te ultra. Ibi erit, daemon, donec septem…"

Bill was disintegrating faster. "No!" he screamed. He made one last mental effort.

The twins kept changing. Their eyes faintly glowed blue."… Aut aliquid tibi gignat alas laoreet quicumque primus!"

Bill was now hanging on to the edge of the portal. "Noooo!"

The twins eyes were now fully blue as the finished the chant. "Et vade! Et vade! Et vade! Et vade! ET VADE!"

With that, they released a wave of magical energy. Bill tuned back into a triangle as the rest of Charlie disintegrated, bill flew back into his own world, and the portal collapsed into a pile of scrap metal.

Dipper and Mabel lay passed out on the floor.

"Dang it!" Bill ranted in his castle. "That spell should have worked unless…wait!" He ran over to a wall on the opposite end of the long Great Hall. He looked over the inscription. He snapped his fingers. "Dang. Off by eight days."

"And now you're banished forever."

Bill turned to Charlie. Or, rather, Charlie's soul. Charlie had died after his body crumbled to dust. Bill couldn't do anything about that. He was, after all, just a brain demon. Though "just" probably wasn't the right word.

"Not forever, Charlie." Charlie tilted his head in confusion. Bill sighed. "I had just enough power to change what Pine Tree and Shooting Star thought they were reading. I'll only be gone a week."

"Well, what do we do then?"

"There's one other way I know of on how to destroy the word."

"How?"

Bill gestured to him and Charlie floated over. Bill pointed out a section of the inscription. Charlie read it, and his eyes widened. "Really? Is it that easy?""

"That one's got a lot of energy."

"And you just have to…"

"Yes."

"They will be assembling the rest of the ten, you know."

"So, what? I know how to get to them. How to turn them against each other."

"Well, it's not like they need any more turning against."

"They do. And when they are distracted and fighting among themselves, I will strike, and there will be nothing they can do to stop us from reaching our goal."

The two chuckled together.

"So, we didn't banish Bill?"

"You can't permanently banish Bill. If someone wants to summon him while he's banished, then he will reappear and be able to go where he pleases."

Stanley wiped a cold cloth over Dipper's head. Spell casting had given him a fever. "On the bright side, he won't be here for a week. Don't worry about it."

"But what do we do?"

"We can only prepare. There's a whole prophecy on how to stop Bill."

Dipper sat up. "What is it?"

"Not now. You're still weak. I'll tell you in the morning. Okay?"

Dipper laid back down. "Okay."

"Now, go to sleep. You'll need rest to recover." He rubbed Dipper's forehead, and left.

5 minutes later he met Stanford in the kitchen. "You get her in bed?" Stanley asked. Stanford nodded.

Stanley sighed. "You know what we have to do."

"We don't get along with some of them."

"Gideon…"

"I'm not just talking about Gideon. The broken heart is a kid named Robbie, and the boy loathes him. And you know the Northwest girl?"

Stanley nodded. "Ever since I saw their family crest I knew a Northwest was the llama."

"Yeah, well the girl hates her."

"Oh, dear." Stanley said. He sighed deeply. He was still sort of processing the fact that he was alive again after being gone so long. "Well, we have to make it work. For the good of the world."

"For the good of the world." Stan agreed.

END OF PART ONE

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