Chapter 11: Betrayal

A small army of reptiles stood in the tall grassy field. Most of them were at least seven feet in height brandishing sharp spears and covered in hard leather armor. Raynard led his group of rebels towards them. Many in the group looked unsure of how this was going to end.

"We have guns. They have spears," he had told his group of fighters. "This will be an easy battle."

Ford walked alongside Selese whom he sensed was very frazzled right now. She usually was so calm even during a fight, but right now, she kept her gaze forward as her lips trembled.

"Are you okay?" he whispered to her. She didn't respond, which really worried him. "Selese?" he tried.

Rayard stopped and everyone halted behind him. He looked towards the tallest one who was no doubt the leader.

"If you want a fight, you're gonna get one!" he yelled. "You may out number my clan, but as you can see, we have superior weapons." The reptile leader pointed passed Raynard, straight at Ford.

"Him," the being uttered. They only knew a few words in the 'common' language used in this realm, so they spoke one-word requests or responses.

Raynard turned towards their newest member. Before he answered, Selese beat him to it.

"What do you want with him?" she asked hastily.

"Reward," he answered. He held up Ford's wanted poster.

Of course. Ford thought gloomily to himself. Selese aimed her gun at the leader.

"Well, you're not getting him!"

"Selese! What are you doing? Stand down!" Raynard growled.

Selese didn't budge. "I said stand down!" Raynard yelled louder.

"And what? Let these fiends take our comrade?" she asked crudely.

Raynard suddenly grabbed Selese and shoved her onto the ground. Ford reacted very quickly aiming his gun at the spiked skinned being.

"Go ahead and shoot me, you lower class meat sack! You had to know that you were expendable!"

"Run Ford! Get out of here!" Selese yelled.

Light glowed from all around her until it exploded, blinding everyone. She grabbed Ford by the hand and the two kicked their legs as fast as they could away from the angry shouts of the reptile army.

The Pines family awoke, chained up in a room of bright fluorescent lights. They all tried to shield their eyes from the light, but the reach of the chains around their wrists wasn't long enough. Dipper's eyes adjusted so he could at least see electric beams surrounding him, keeping him inside a small tube-like prison. If he moved too far in any direction, he was pretty sure he'd get a huge shock from those beams or worse. Turning to the left of him, he saw Mabel in the same type of prison a few feet away.

"Mabel!" he yelled.

She turned with slanted eyes. "Ack! Dipper is that you? Why is it so bright in here?"

"Wow! It's even too bright for you? Usually you like this type of bright," he said lightly.

"Not this much," she answered.

"Kids?" they heard Stan's gruff voice. "Oh God! It finally happened. The cataracts completely took over and now I'm blind!"

"It's like this for all of us Grunkle Stan," Dipper responded. He turned the opposite way to see his other uncle still passed out.

"Hey! Great Uncle Ford!" he shouted.

"Hey Poindexter!" Stan yelled. Ford's eyes fluttered open. He shook his head, and then glanced at the rest of his family stuck inside electric cages. He tried moving his arm, and legs, but found them bond by thick chains.

"What the hell just happened?" he gasped.

"My, my, Stanford." A mild voice cooed. "I thought you were smart. Can't you figure it out?"

Ford narrowed his eyes, focusing on a lone figure walking towards him. When the man came into focus, Ford felt a sudden shock rise from his toes to the top of his head.

"A-Andrew? W-why are you here?"

"Why am I here?" his usual casual tone dramatically changed to harsh grinding. A maniacal laughter erupted from within him. "You don't know?" He gazed at Ford's clueless expression. "Oh, you really don't know. Well, that's disappointing. I'm here because I have a portal that can take me anywhere I want. You're here, because you and your family are idiots and you fell for my trap."

By now, Stan's emotions began to boil over. "Oh, so you were evil this whole time? Well, I'm not shocked!" He glanced in his brother's direction. "We did try to warn you, Ford."

"Actually Stanley, Dipper was the one who was suspicious."

"I was too! Don't you remember back at the shack. I was like, 'why is your friend getting a hold of you now after all this time? And you're like I don't know, maybe he just wants to catch up. Well I guess we're all catching up now!"

"I guess I can ask now, Andrew," Ford began. "How did you get my cellphone number? You sent me a text message."

"Text message? I sent you an email, which I got from the sign up list at the Worldwide Scientist Convention last year. You didn't even know I was there, did you?" Ford was about to respond, but Andrew cut him off. "You're telling me you can't tell the difference between a text message and an email? Have you been trapped in another dimension for thirty years or something?" Ford turned away. "Oh, right. I guess you were." He laughed crudely thought his nose.

"Wait, how did you know I—"

"Went to another dimension? Well, I just found out actually. I've been communicating with some dream demons from this realm and they all seem to know you very well."

"Wait, I only know one dream demon and he's—" Ford thought about the yellow triangular dream demon he made a grave mistake in making a deal with, but he got erased...

"I'm not talking about Bill," Andrew said coyly.

All eyes of each member of the Pines family shot wide open.

"H-how do you do about Bill?" Dipper shouted.

"Oh, I think anyone who has spent time in the multiverse and is paying adequate attention knows his name. I never met him, however. Although, I am aware of the deal you made with him, Fordsy—that's what he called you, right? Such a cute pet name!" At those last words, Ford gritted his teeth and tried to lunge at Andrew, only to be held tight by his restraints. "Anyway," Andrew went on, not at all concerned about Ford's rising anger. "I'm working with a different dream demon. Bill is a little too silly. I'd rather work with someone more serious and predictable."

"So, what did this other dream demon promise you?" Ford finally asked.

"Oh right, like I'm going to share that with you. You'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, you can just hang around here."

"Where is here?" Mabel asked. "Aren't we in that future place?"

"Oh, you're in a new dimension now. This is my partner's world, I guess he calls it his Dream Realm. Geez kid, by the way you speak, I can tell you didn't get the intelligence gene. Well, then again, your great uncle here isn't as smart as he thought he was—I mean, how did you screw up your chance to get into West Coast Tech, Ford? I thought that science project of yours was going to redefine the definition of Physics." Ford wanted to scream at him that it wasn't his fault. However, he didn't want to bring up the event that detached him from his twin brother for ten years.

"It was my fault," he suddenly heard Stan's voice. He turned towards his brother with genuine eyes.

"Stanley, you don't have to—"

"It was my fault!" Stan said firmly. "I got angry and maybe even jealous that my genius brother was going to a big name university while I would probably end up working at a fast food joint all my life. I ruined his science project and he didn't get into that fancy smancy school!" Andrew studied Stan for a moment.

"You're saying that he should have gotten in?" the sinister old scientist asked.

Stan gave a short laugh. "He definitely would! And I'll tell you one thing, if he did go to that school, he would have been the top graduate, not you! He would have knocked your sorry ass out of first place of anything! You're the idiot!" he finished triumphantly.

"I don't have time to match wits with you. In fact, it would be a waste of time to do so! None of you know the bounty on your heads. In many ways, I can't believe you're the family that defeated Bill. I'm really floored. It shows that the dream demon really wasn't much of a threat at all." Andrew began walking away. With each step he took, he felt the hardened eyes of the four family members searing into him. He ignored a feeling of impending doom as he swore he could feel each one of their death stares. Maybe I over did it. He thought to himself.

NA: Okay, so I know the big reveal with Andrew was obvious, but now the question is, 'why is he doing this?' and 'what's going to happen next?' Also, I hope everyone likes where the story is going. Please leave a comment for likes or dislikes or any suggestions for the story. I haven't seen a review for a few chapters, but I see people following the story, so that's great!

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