Chapter 11: The Six-Fingered Hand's Day

Since day one Stanford Pines was a puppet for Bill Cipher to use, as agreed with their deal.

After a week of making the deal Ford was forced to where the stupid getup that he is now known for. He always had to wear the long yellow coat, the dress pants and shoes, the top hat, black gloves, and the bow tie. At one point he did wear a triangular eye patch over one of his eyes, but it was scrapped, Bill saying it was almost insulting to him because of his one eye. Ford still wore his glasses though, since obviously he has had vision problems for most of his life.

Ford's day starts the same every day. He wakes up in a cell with the collar and chain around his neck on a stiff bed. There is always a tiny plate of food and a glass of water on a small table in the corner, it was usually bread and an apple, depending on Bill's mood; if Bill was angry the food then becomes so disgusting it made prison food look like a five star rated meal.

After Ford would his food he sits in a chair where he had a pathetic excuse of a puzzle book waiting for him. It was infinite pages, with such simple puzzles that he could solve hundreds in less than an hour. Ford would normally try to sleep more, but his mind scape is always haunted by Bill.

These images that Bill implants in Ford's head is unspeakable. Many of the times it images of his family dying while he watches in agony. Sometimes it was when he and Stanley were younger, in their childhood, which they would be screamed at by their father, reminding Ford that night when his twin was kicked out and forced to be homeless. Other times it was when Bill actually killed Mabel, or even tortured Dipper.

And Bill loved to tell Ford on how he would use Dipper as his puppet, to torture his family and to kill his own sister. The images of Dipper with glowing, yellow eyes disturbs the old scientist.

As Ford sat in his cell, eating a pitifully small apple while doing his useless puzzle book, he hears a thunderous roar of flame. He sighs, he knows Bill is angry.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Bill roars in anger from his throne room. "YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THEY GOT GIDEON GLEEFUL!?" Something explodes, no doubt a wall was obliterated.

Good job, guys… Ford smiles to himself. He knew his brother and the kids would try to get the wheel back together. Ford knew this as soon as Bill had mentioned that Stan had been planning something. Keep it up…

Ford knew where the other tapestries were, he had visited them as Bill's puppet. Soos was in Mexico, the reason being because of his Latino heritage. Pacifica was in South America, and Bill's reason was because there was a lot of llamas there. Wendy was in Greenland, the land covered in ice and snow. And Robbie was in Italy, that being because his last name being Valentino.

Bill had odd ways of choosing the places for them…

Like how Fiddleford's tapestry was in New Jersey. Ford and Fiddleford went to college there together, at Backupsmore University. Or Gideon's was in Texas because of family being from there…

There was another roar and something else exploded. Bill was pissed. Ford had no doubt in his mind that at some point during the day Bill will use Ford to kill humans to calm his anger… memories of piling bodies fills Ford's mind as he shakes his head.

"And now… you're telling me that the Question Mark and the Llama are missing too?!" Bill's shrill voice shrieks. The sounds of screaming demons fills the pyramid, Bill mercilessly killing them.

Bill Cipher then appears in front Ford, who had dropped his book and apple in the sudden surprise. The apple rolled on the ground in front of Bill, it started to shrivel up and brown and soon was turned into charcoal from his flames. It eroded away into dust.

"You and I are going to have a little fun today, Fordsy!" Bill informed angrily, each word fueling his fire.

And Ford knew what he meant. He gets up and puts on his long yellow coat and accessories he absolutely hated. He fixed the top hat on his head so that it was straight/

Bill then snaps his fingers, the collar and chain around Ford's neck disappearing. The old scientist then ties up the bow tie to complete the look of the human puppet. Ford holds out his hand and Bill grasps it. Bill's form turned into stone as he went and possessed Ford's body. There was no time for cackling at the misery of Ford… he had people to kill.

Then he would cackle with joy.

Using Ford's body, Bill goes to his map of known human populated areas. He sees the biggest one had about 100,000 people living nicely in a city in the Midwestern part of the United States. Since day one this city had pledge its allegiance to Bill, putting up statues of him in his honor and worshiping him.

And he was going to kill them all today.

All because Pine Tree and the rest of them had piss him off.

Bill uses Ford to snap his fingers, a portal forming in front of him. He steps through, seeing the town that worshipped him as a god.

And they were going to feel a demon's wrath…

With a delirious cackle of laughter, Bill-Ford's hands glows with bright red flames. He throws the fire into the streets and it begins to spread. As soon as a flamed licked over a person, it slowly burned them alive as their skin turns into a charcoal black, splitting to have yellow fat and red blood escape their useless bodies.

People were screaming. People were praying. People were running. People were dying.

As Bill cackles as he uses his flames to engulf an entire building of innocent people, Ford was biting back his sorrow and guilt. Ford was aware of everything Bill did with his body… He felt the intense flames of Bill's killing his nerve endings in his hands. He felt his chest tighten with complete depression of sadness, seeing people begging to hold on to their lives.

Flames engulf the town, people screaming in pure agony. The dead lie in the streets, people burnt to a crisp. Some people who were still alive were trying to crawl away, the fat and blood oozing from their split skin. Bill uses his powers to lift many of the burning people and forces them into a certain shape… A shape of a throne.

"I think I'll make a new throne for my main pyramid…" mused Bill. "Oh… how these screams of eternal pain bring joy to me…!" The people screamed in agony, blood slowly dripping. He was using his powers to keep him alive for as long as he wanted, making them beg for death. But of course, Bill wouldn't give it to them.

Ford couldn't believe this was happening, his internal mind screaming with sorrow. He wanted Bill to stop, to stop making him kill innocent people. Ford knew Bill was doing it because of how the rest of the Pines were screwing the demon over.

But Bill is going to go after Dipper in less than a week… Ford thought in the deepest part of his mind.

Please… get the rest of the tapestries… hurry…

AUTHORS NOTE: Sorry for this slightly boring chapter after the last one. I figured people would want to know a bit about Ford's day with Bill and how Bill is angry about how they're getting the tapestries.

Thanks for reading everyone! It means a lot!

~Skye Hendersen~