Disclaimer: I feel it's necessary to put this at the top of every chapter. So, yeah, I don't own anything. I mean, the characters, setting and aspects of the plot belong to Alex Hirsch and his gang at Disney, while the OCs belong to their respective creators. Kudos to anyone who actually reads this, by the way.

"Wanna hear a joke? Here goes: my ex-wife still misses me

*but her aim is gettin' better!*

*Her aim is gettin' better!*

You see, it's, it's funny because marriage is terrible!"

-Grunkle Stan. I love this quote. xD

It's been a week, but finally, Dipper and Mabel got the word around to the Guild that the laptop was fixed. The laptop found in the author's bunker, which might just be a giant clue to EVERYTHING! Dipper organised a time to meet at the town library, as soon as it opened. They settled in a quiet corner, where they couldn't be overheard by anyone.

"Alright guys, this is the big day," Dipper announced, drumming his fingers on the top of the laptop. He sat on the ground, while Mabel and Bear sat at his sides. Beside them, sat Joonie on Bear's right and Quinn on Mabel's left. Deon, Riyadh, Serena and Mika were squeezed on to a plush window seat. The final three, Penelope, Cleo and Emmett were leaning in as close as they could get at the edges.

"I'm so excited!" Serena exclaimed, bouncing up and down slightly.

"Do you think the author is, like, alive?" Penelope asked the others, glancing around the library suspiciously. The author could be anyone.

"I'm calling it now; it's a dude," Mika announced.

"What makes you say that?" Emmett asked. "It could be a gal!"

"I have to agree with Mika; I think it's a man. Plus, didn't the shape shifter say it was a 'he?'" Cleo reminded the others.

"Oh yeah.." Emmett agreed, but still not completely eliminating the possibility.

"Anyway, Soos finally fixed up the laptop. If this thing works, we could learn the identity of the author and unravel the greatest mysteries of Gravity Falls. You ready?" Dipper asked, slowly lifting the lid of the laptop.

"Hell yes!" Deon exclaimed, punching the air.

"This is it. This is it!" Dipper breathed, taking the huge step of powering on the laptop. The whole Guild's breath hitched, as the laptop seemed to take hours to power up. Then, the screen flashed on, reading 'Welcome' in large, blue letters. "Aha! It worked,"

"Alright!" Joonie smiled, a cheeky grin taking over his face. Suddenly, the laptop gave a loud beep. A quiet alarm sounded as it now read "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS FORBIDDEN". Riyadh groaned.

"Come on! Seriously?" she asked no one in particular, as the laptop changed again to read "Enter Password."

"Ugh! Of course, a password!" Dipper sighed.

"There are too many possible combinations.." Quinn muttered. The laptop gave eight spaces to type in the password. Annoyance was starting to set in among the Guild. Dipper was particularly frustrated. Mabel smiled and wrapped her arm around him.

"Don't you worry, bro bro. With your brains and my laser focus, there is literally nothing that can distract us from..." she paused suddenly, looking around the library . Did you hear that?"

"I dunno.. Music?" Emmett replied with a shrug.

"What now?!" Deon snapped, but Mabel had already wandered off. Bear got up to follow her, motioning for Riyadh to come too. They peeked from behind a large bookshelf at the source of a music. There was a small table with a keyboard set up. A boy, probably only twelve or thirteen, had two sock puppets on his hands and was singing. He had light blue eyes and thick blond hair pulled into a ponytail. He wore a headset and had a bee sock puppet and a book sock puppet. A small audience of amused children looked up at him, wide eyed and quiet.

"All my life I've been dreaming of a love that's right for me. And now I finally know her name and it's..." the boy stopped singing to talk to the kids. "-sing it with me kids." The kids looked up a him and finished the song along with him.

"Literacy!"

"Come on! That guy's pretty hot, but come on, sock puppets. Sock. Puppets." Riyadh rolled her eyes, putting emphasis on the last two words.

" I finally understand what all the buzz is about. Reading!" The boy said, 'speaking' as the bee sock puppet he held with his right hand.

"Give me some of that honey!" the boy said, putting on a higher pitched voice and 'speaking' as the book sock puppet. The two puppets 'kissed', as Bear, Riyadh and Mabel watched on, each with different reactions. Riyadh was just about ready to take the sock puppets and throw them across the room. Bear was confused, but she found the whole situation funny. And Mabel was in love. She opened a pop-up book she held in her hand, a large, red heart popping out.

"Ba bump. Ba bump," she said, in a daze staring at Gabe. At this point, the rest of the Guild turned up to see what was going on.

"I have a feeling this is going to end well!" Mika announced sarcastically, smirking wide.

The Guild managed to drag Mabel back to their previous spot, as they figured out their next move.

"Just when I was getting over Mermando, of course, you show up at my doorstep!" Mabel swooned.

"Mermando?" Penelope repeated, raising an eyebrow. Dipper was busy taking books from a bookshelf, along with Emmett and Quinn.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot about Mermando. Did not care for Mermando." he mumbled, grabing a thick library book off of the shelf and flipping though it. "Okay, this cryptology book says that there's 7.2 million 8-letter words. I'll type, Penelope can read. We'll rotate every so often. Okay?" The Guild mumbled in agreement.

"Gotcha!" Joonie smiled, flicking through his own book he had found. It was (obviously) about bugs. But it was clear someone was missing.

"Mabel?" Dipper called, but she was gone.

"I think I know where she went!" Bear giggled, as she lead the group over to the puppet boy's table. The boy was in mid song, and Mabel watched on from behind.

"That's why we don't stick our hands in-" he sang, before motioning to the kids to finish.

"other people's mouths!" the kids sang, and the boy nodded.

"Hey, I'm Gabe Benson, ya'll. Good night!" he smiled, as the kids walked out with their parents.

"Gilipollas," Deon muttered. Joonie looked up at him, wide eyed and confused.

"What does that mean?" he asked innocently. Cleo caught onto this, and answered for Deon.

"Something rude," she explained forcefully, shaking her head. Deon smirked to himself.

"Hey, good job today, you guys," Gabe told his puppets. "You were late on your cue!" he said as the high-pitched 'book' voice.

"What is he doing?" Bear asked, looking at the others with a confused expression.

"WHAT?" he responded, speaking as the 'bee' puppet. "Hey, be good to each other. We're all stars." The last time was as his normal voice.

"This is an act, right?" Riyadh asked, motioning to Gabe. Mabel took her chance to make her move. She was lying on a cart of books, and rolled in behind Gabe.

"Hey! Guess who's Mabel! I am. Care to learn more? I bet you do. You like to learn- WAA!" she cried, falling off the cart. She quickly got her feet and walked over to Gabe. "And I'm up!"

"Smooth," Bear joked, but quiet enough so Mabel couldn't hear.

"Oh, hey, I'm Gabe. Master of puppets. Nice to meet you." Gabe greeted.

"You're amazing with those puppets." Mabel said, smiling wide.

"Really? A lot of people think puppets are dumb, or, just for kids or something." Gabe said, looking hurt at the memory.

"Are you kidding me? I'm puppet-CRAZY! People call me Puppet-Crazy-Mabel!" Mabel replied, getting a bit over excited. Mika looked over to Dipper for confirmation, but he just shook his head and went back to the laptop.

"Really? People used to call me Puppet-Crazy-Gabe! So when's your next puppet show?" Gabe asked Mabel casually.

"My huh?" she said, looking very confused.

"I mean, you can't truly love puppets if you're not throwing puppet shows, right?" Gabe explained.

"Is this guy serious?" Mika whispered. At this point, Cleo, Riyadh, Deon and Quinn had gone back to Dipper.

"Ha, yeah, I mean I'm TOTALLY working on a puppet show." Mabel lied, smiling to hide it.

"Oh, what are the details?" Gabe asked. Mabel bit her lip.

"There are soooo many details..." she said, running her finger along Gabe's table. Meanwhile, back with Dipper and the laptop, the five Guild members were trying to guess the password. Dipper was currently typing in 'password.'

"Didn't we try that already?" Riyadh asked.

"It's hard to keep track.." Quinn sighed, as the laptop rejected the password. Mabel, followed by the rest of the Guild, plopped down next to her twin.

"Huh... So, how'd it go?" Dipper asked, not taking his eyes off the screen.

"Dipper, how hard do you think it'd be to write and compose a sock puppet rock opera with lights, original music and live pyrotechnics by Friday?" Mabel asked, bracing herself for her brother's reaction.

"What? Mabel, are you serious?!" Dipper exclaimed.

"It's Tuesday!" Deon yelled.

"Come on, we can do it!" Joonie encouraged, squeezing in between Deon and Quinn.

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! I got lost in his eyes and his ponytails and I'm gonna be so embarrassed on Friday if I don't have ANYTHING!" Mabel said, shaking her head and looking at Dipper hopefully.

"What about cracking this password? You know, the author? The Guild?" Dipper reminded her, motioning to the Guild surrounding them. Mabel sighed.

"If you guys help me with this for JUST a couple of days I promise I'll help with the password! Please, pretty please! It'll be fun!" Mabel begged, before whispering. "It's for love, Dipper." Dipper exchanged a glance with the Guild, looking slightly apologetic as he gave in.

"All right, if these guys don't mind I guess it's okay-"

"YES! THANK YOU! THIS GUY! HE'S NUMBER ONE!" Mabel cheered.

"How hard can it be?" Emmett joked, smiling and trying to lighten the mood.

"Besides, we can do both! Help Mabel, and continue to guess the password!" Serena announced, happy they had come to a resolution.

"Okay, okay, okay, shhhh..." Dipper shushed Mabel, as he led the Guild out of the library."I can't wait to get to the bottom of this laptop. We're close to something big here; I can feel it..."

The next days wer e filled with the frantic glueing together of sock puppets, and countless attempts of cracking the password. They were trying to work out a plot, a set and making puppets for Mabel's play in the twins' living room. Also while trying to keep notes of what the password could possibly be, and what they've tried already. Everyone was busy making puppets, floating in a sea of socks, pom poms, glitter and glue.

"Alright. This is gonna be called Glove Story: A Sock Opera. Just to warn you, people's eyes will get wet. Cause they'll be crying. From laughter! From how tragic it is." Mabel announced, who was working on the score for the 'sock opera' on a keyboard.

"Yeah, um. That's sounds great." Dipper mumbled, trying to rip sock puppets that had gotten stuck to his face off.

"Sure does!" Joonie agreed enthusiastically, as he went back to carefully gluing eyes onto a sock.

"It's.. Unique!" Bear laughed, unable to find another word to describe it.

"I'll tell you what it is, it's-" Deon began, but Emmett cut him off.

"Amazing. Just roll with it, man," Emmett smiled, proudly looking at a sock puppet he just finished.

"Puppet boy, Puppet boy, you're the boy I-" Mabel sang, as (most of) the Guild sang the final song.

"Loooooooovvvveee!" Stan walked through the door, but quickly stopped as the glanced around the room.

"Not even gonna ask," he muttered, walking out of the room again.

"Hey, what time is it?" Serena asked, stifling a yawn. Mika quickly looked at his watch, his eyebrows rising in surprise.

"It's.. 9:45!" He replied, surprised it was so late.

"Really? My Mom's gonna be so mad!" Joonie said, freaking out a bit. He could just imagine his Mom at home, probably worried sick.

"It's pretty late. I better go," Quinn said, getting up and putting the sock puppets he was making on the ground.

"Hey, wait! We still haven't tried the password yet today!" Dipper cried.

"Boys, boys, I have a solution!" Mabel announced. "SLEEPOVER!" Joonie perked up significantly at this. But still, the concern for his Mom lingered.

"But what about my-" he began, but Penelope cut him off.

"Hey, don't worry. I'll call her! You know her number?" Penelope offered kindly. Joonie nodded. His mom had it drilled into his head in case of an emergency. Dipper gave a weak smile. Even if they got a few attempts, it'd be better than nothing, right?

After a while, everything was arranged so the Guild could continue working into the night. At around half-eleven, everyone was pretty tired and full of Chipackerz. The laptop was rejecting everything they threw at it, and Mabel had convinced everyone to settle down a bit and get ready to sleep. The Guild was squeezed into the attic, most on sleeping bags or air mattresses.

"Ugh, wrong password, WRONG, WRONG! UGH!" Dipper cried, flopping back on his bed.

"Hey, I'm sure we'll get it eventually!" Serena assured him.

"Probably not." Quinn said. "There are too many possibilities,"

"Not helping, Quinn.." Penelope mumbled, but gave him a quick smile to show him that she didn't mean any harm.

"Don't stay up all night, Dipper. Last time you got this sleep-deprived you tried to eat your own shirt." Mabel reminded him from her own bed across the room. Dipper, who was unconciously eating his shirt, quickly spat it out.

"Pleh. Just a few more tries."

Half an hour later, Dipper still hadn't given up. He decided to take the laptop to the roof, to at least give the sleeping members of the Guild some quiet. Deon, Riyadh, Emmett, Penelope, Quinn and Cleo were the only members still awake, so they followed him to the roof.

"Ugh, I can't take that sound anymore!" he exclaimed, punching the computer. "I. Hate. You. Sound. There has to be some shortcut or clue. Who would know about secret codes?" Suddenly, a wind picked up around them. A long, black line appeared on the moon, which changed into a strange eye. Glowing, blue bricks surrounded it, forming a triangle. In a flash, colour was gone from the world around them. The Guild were left speechless, as Dipper recognised the triangular demon.

"I THINK I KNOW A GUY!"

The bricks came together, shrinking down and turning yellow to form Bill Cipher. He floated in front of the group in all his glory; bow tie, top hat and all.

"Well, well, well. You're awfully persistent, Pine Tree. Hats off to you!" the demon said, taking his head off. As he did, the world flipped upside down for a minute, returning when he placed it back on his.. Head? Corner?

"You again!" Dipper snapped.

"Where are we?!" Cleo asked, looking around at the colourless landscape. "Are you in.. My head? Our head?"

"Nice question, specs! Welcome to the mind scape! Roomy, isn't it?" he asked, as the world around them seemed to close in like walls around them, forcing them to be squashed together between the 'walls' of lanscape. Then, just before they couldn't breathe, they were realeased, and Bill appeared towards them again.

"You know this guy?!" Deon asked Dipper, eyes darting between the two.

"Did you miss me? Admit it, you missed me!" Bill laughed, taunting Dipper.

"Hardly. You worked with Gideon! You tried to destroy my uncle's mind!" Dipper responded.

"When were you going to tell us this?!" Quinn asked, not taking his eyes off the demon.

"It was just a job, kid! No hard feelings! I've been keeping an-" Bill began, circling Dipper as he got slightly bigger and his voice got lower. "EYE ON YOU! Even your little associates!"

"You like what you see?" Riyadh asked flirtatiously, who had taken quite a liking to the floating triangle. But Bill was clearly more interested in messing with Dipper. The kid was desperate.

"Well, since then, and I must say I'm impressed!" he admitted.

"Really?" Dipper asked, clearly surprised. But he was suspicious.

"You deserve a prize! Here, have a head that's always screaming!" Bill clapped, and a screaming human head appeared. Penelope took a step back in surprise, as the head screamed at her feet. "Hahaha!" Bull snapped his fingers and the head slowly disappeared, layer by layer. "The point is I like you. Hows about you let me give you a hint, huh? I only ask for a small -" Bill's voice went suddenly low again, and his eye lit up like a flame. "FAVOR" Before gonig back to normal. "in return."

"Don't trust him," Penelope whispered to Dipper.

"Yeah, I don't like this at all.." Emmett added.

"You're the guy who have all the cryptic warnings.." Quinn noted.

"You're a fan of my work?" Bill laughed, as his body flickered like a T.V to show Dipper, Mabel, Soos and himself. It was when he was giving the warnings. After a few seconds, his body flickered back.

"Those warnings came from a dorito?!" Deon asked in disbelief.

"AHHAHA! You sure have a weird taste in followers, Pine-Tree!" Bill laughed, poking Deon hard with his cane. Deon attempted to grab it, but his hand fell right through.

"I'd never do a favor for you! Don't forget who defeated you last time!" Dipper yelled at Bill. Bill floated through the roof of the shack, and appeared again behind Dipper.

"Right, you 'defeated me'. Well if you ever change your mind, I'll be here for you, ready to make a deeaaall. " he told him temptingly. Three slots appear spinning on his chest, and stop at a pine tree symbol.

"And I'll be here for you." Riyadh winked at Bill.

"Not the time, Riyadh!" Cleo cried.

"Hey, wanna hear my impression of you in about three seconds? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Bill yelled, and with that, everything vanished. The Guild woke up again in a world of colour, with Dipper screaming just as Bill had predicted.

"You guys.. Saw that? That wasn't a dream?" Cleo asked, a bit speechless. Bill had that effect on people.

"The weird demon? Yup." Emmett nodded.

"I have a feeling that guy will be back. He didn't seem like a guy to just leave it when he didn't get his way," Quinn said. The others nodded in agreement. Without a doubt, Bill Cipher would be back.

A/N (PLEASE READ, PLEEEASSEE!): Wow, I didn't expect that to be so long. I just want to say, I felt like this was too heavily based on the episode. But I really love the episode. Anyway, this ended up kind of setting up the next chapter. Sock Opera may be a three parter, I don't know. I hope not; hopefully I'll squeeze it into the next chapter. I would've loved to have this more centred on the OCs, but I just couldn't. It had to be Mabel to fall in love with Gabe, and it will have to be Dipper getting posessed by Bill. I just don't think it would work otherwise. Fear not, there are a lot more OC central plots coming up, so stay tuned! Also, can I just say I love Bill. Bill is awesome. I can't wait to write Bipper in the next chapter. The OCs will have more time to shine! Also, the OCs that met Bill were kind of chosen by who I think would still be awake. Nothing else! xD Sorry if it seemed bias.

Did anyone catch on to what Bill said to Cleo? *cough* Symbol. *cough*

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED! I LOVE YOU ALL! Seriously, reviews make me so happy. I love them. Thank you guys so much! Cheers! Also, I know I've mentioned this before, but I go back to school soon. I don't know how much time I'll have for writing, but hopefully I'll keep up the weekly update.

Next Time: Things get.. Crazy. Dipper makes a dangerous deal, and the Guild are left to fix it. Plenty of Bill.