Chapter Notes

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Me: Something New! Bill: It's about Time! Me: Shut up Bill!

Bill: How dare you-

Me: Shut your face you stupid Dorito

Bill: (looks stunned, speechless that I would dare talk to him like that.)

Me: HA I WIN!

Bill: (growls and mutters under his breath) You are so getting nightmares tonight!

(Back and forth between Bill at the Fearamid and our friends in the Bubble)

"Mabel what exactly are you saying?" Dipper asked.

"Look Dipper after our fight I met Blendin in the woods." Mabel explained.

"The Time Traveler?" Dipper exclaimed.

"Yes only it wasn't him, it was Bill possessing him." Mabel went on.

"Mabel, please tell me you did not make a deal with that thing!" Wendy exclaimed.

"I did." Mabel confessed.

"You did what?" Dipper snapped.

Mabel rolled her eyes. "Look, after you said you wouldn't come back home with me at the end of the summer for your 'apprenticeship,' I wanted to hide in my sweater forever. But after I gave Bill that orb thing, I woke up in a place that gives me exactly what I wanted: an endless summer where I never have to grow up! Here the sun shines all day, the party never ends, and now that you guys are here, it's finally perfect!" she exclaimed happily.

Bill couldn't help but laugh. Boy did Pine Tree have his work cut out for him. Shooting Star was now completely under the spell of the bubble's power. Her greatest dreams had come true, and now all she had to do was do the same for her brother and friends and then their fates would be sealed.

Dipper shook his head in disgust "Listen, Mabel, we're not here to party. All of this is crazy!"

Mabel groaned in annoyance "Ugghh! I figured you might say something like that, Dipper. That's why I prepared a backup Dipper with a more supportive attitude."

Suddenly a more hip version of Dipper rides in on a skateboard and high fives Mabel. "Yeah! Wiggity-wiggity-what's up, dude-bros? I'm Dippy Fresh!" Dippy Fresh exclaimed.

"Oh no she didn't!" Wendy gasped.

"I like skateboarding, supporting my sister, and punctuating every sentence with a high five! Hup!" Dippy Fresh holds up his hand to Soos.

"Oh! Don't mind if I-"Soos began to return the gesture.

Dipper clears throat.

Soos looks at him apologetically "I'm sorry, but I can't leave him hanging!" He high fives Dippy Fresh happily.

'Okay not even I'm that cruel' Bill admitted.

'Poor Pine Tree I almost fell sorry for him.' Wrath sighed. 'NOT!'

Bill chuckled he had to admit it was quiet a hilarious situation, besides Pine Tree was the cutest little thing when he was frustrated.

"You're dead to me, Soos." Dipper said half-heartedly.

"Trust me, you guys are gonna love it here." Mabel assured them, But Dipper wasn't so sure.

"Mabel do you hear yourself?" he yelled. "You know nothing good ever comes from Bill! How could you make a deal with him?"

"If I remember correctly you made a deal with him too." Dippy Fresh pointed out.

"And it was a mistake!" Dipper yelled in Dippy's face. "Just like this was a mistake Mabel." Their eye's met, "Please hear me, we…I need you."

"Dipper the outside world is full of pain and sadness, and death." Mabel reasoned. "But this world you never grow old, get sick; it always knows what you want. Sometimes even before you do!" she clapped again and a chinchilla drops into her arms. "And apparently I wanted a chinchilla! Right again, Mabeland!" Mabel laughed

"This is crazy!" Dipper screamed. "Listen I'm sorry about our fight, and I'm sorry things aren't great right now, but that doesn't mean you can just stay in here forever!"

"Hey, take a chill pill! Those grow on trees here!" Dippy Fresh advised.

"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS, DIPPY FRESH!" Dipper snapped, and Bill swear he could see venom spouting from his mouth.

'Oh he's ticked!' Pride pointed out.

'Ain't nothing like a brother's scorn' Envy agreed.

'Perhaps we can use that to our advantage.' Wrath thought.

'Perhaps…' Bill agreed as he continued to watch.

"Dude, calm down;" Soos said trying to intervene "Dippy Fresh didn't do anything to you, dawg."

Dipper growls at Dippy Fresh.

"I know it sounds too good to be true," Mabel said as she forced herself between them. "But just give this place a chance! Mabeland knows just what you want and always provides!" She claps and Dipper, Soos and Wendy's clothes go back to normal.

A flying hamburger goes up to Soos he bites "Pudding center. Nice!"

"Uh, actually, Mabel," Wendy knelt down beside her. "I'm with Dipper on this. Gravity Falls is in trouble and I really think-"

Bill smirks and snaps his fingers.

Wendy jumps at the sound of a familiar horn, she turns to see her friends in a black monster truck. "Thompson, Tambry, Lee, Nate, Robbie?!" she asked in disbelief.

"Wendy!" they exclaimed.

Wendy was speechless, "Wha- guys? You're safe!"

"We've got a monster truck full of fireworks, fake IDs, and pranking supplies." Lee told her.

"Wanna drive this truck to the high school and glue this plunger to the principal's head?" Nate asked mischievously.

Wendy looks at them with starry eyes. "Yes. Yes I do."

Dipper grabs her hand. "Wendy no! Don't you see its Bill he's-"

"Hey Wendy what's taking you so long girl I threw my phone away just for you." Tambry exclaimed.

Tears seem to form in Wendy's eyes at her words. "You did that just for me?"

"Yeah now come on let's go!" Tambry was begging now.

"How's about it Wendy?" Robbie asked. "Will you join us?" he reached a hand out to her. Wendy stepped forward and reached out to take it.

"Please don't go!" Dipper begged grabbing her arm.

Wendy turned back to Dipper, their eyes met.

"We need you here." Dipper pleaded.

"Sorry, Dipper, but I've always wanted to do that. I'll be back in just a few minutes." She promised and takes Robbie's hand.

Robbie pulls her into the truck and the teens drive away cheering.

'And Red has left the building!' Lust exclaimed.

'Bye, bye Red!' Envy mused.

Bill laughed. 'One nuisance down and two to go.'

"Wendy!?" Dipper screamed after her. 'It wasn't real, how could she not see that it wasn't real?'

'Because she didn't want too.' He realized.

Soos gave his shoulder a reassuring squeeze. "Don't worry, dude. There's nothing in this world that could break me from our mission."

'Oh really?' Bill snickered. 'We'll see about that!' he thought and snapped his fingers again.

Suddenly A muscular man with a belt that says "PAPI" enters. "Soos, mijo." The man said. "I have returned."

Soos was amazed by the sight of his wildest dream materializing before his eyes. "Holy- whoa, whoa. Dad?"

"You don't remember what I look like," His Pa said. "So I have the body of a pro wrestler and a face you once saw on a hot sauce bottle. I was never there for you, but in this world, I can be."

"You're perfect!" Soos exclaimed.

"No Soos!" Dipper stopped in front of him blocking his path. "It's a trap! Don't go with him, Soos No matter what he offers you!"

Soos' Pa holds up ball and baseball glove, "Want to play catch?"

Soos gave Dipper a pained look. "I'm sorry, dude. Even if it is all a dream, I've got to play just one game." Soos runs up to his dad "Hahaha! Come on, Dad let's go!"

"Soos please-" Dipper begged.

Bill smiled. 'And then there was one!' he laughed and snapped his finger once more. 'Alright Shooting Star, win him over.' he ordered.

He knew that the girl could not resist the order; the power of the bubble compelled her to grant everyone's fantasy.

"Dipper, stop fighting it." Mabel urged to her brother. "You have to let them go; they deserve to live their dreams." She puts her hands on his shoulders.

Dipper shakes her off. "This has gone too far! You can't honestly think these fantasies are good for anyone!"

Mabel sighed. "You can't argue with the results: people are happy here! Does it really matter if it's real or not?"

Dipper could feel the magic of the bubble working against him, he fought it; with all his will… It wasn't easy!

Mabel could see his eternal struggle, and pressed a little harder "Dipper, please for once, stop listening to your head and listen to your heart." She pleaded. "Mabeland has something for everyone! Even you! In fact-"

A door begins to open.

Dipper tenses as an overpowering feeling enters the room. He knows the owner of this presence all too well. "…Bill?" he whispers as he stares at the opening door almost hopefully.

'GET OUT, GET OUT NOW!' his insides screamed.

Dipper forced his eyes away "Nope. Not looking. Not looking." He exclaims, and marches out the room.

Mabel marches off in the opposite direction with an hmmm! Bill watches as his Pine Tree leaves the scene.

'Please tell me I'm not the only one that realized that we were about to be coming through that door.' Pride mused.

"So Pine Tree is still holding a torch for us." Bill asked in surprise.

'How cute.' Gluttony jeered.

'You know this could work to our advantage.' Envy pointed out the obvious.

Bill smiled, an evil smile. "Yes and I know just how to use it!"

(Still back and forth between Bill at the Fearamid and our friends in the Bubble)

Dipper angrily throws a stone across the river; it skips five times while a child's giggling is heard. "Ugh, even my stone skips are perfect!" He sighs as a stuffed animal tree sings.

"Bum ba bum bo I'm a stuffed animal tree..." it laughed happily as its stuffed animals sang along.

"We're the stuffed animals' teeheehee!"

Dipper shook his head. "Who am I kidding? Maybe Mabel's right. It's a horror show out there. At least the air in here is breathable."

"Yeah not to mention the views are quiet breath taking." A familiar voice, butted in.

Dipper jumped up "You!" he exclaimed as he turned to see the floating Dorito that he hated so much.

"Me!" The triangle demon declared as he floated just a little bit out of reach. "Get lost you crazy triangle!" Dipper demanded.

"Crazy, ME? You're the one talking to a river kid." Bill pointed out.

"You're not real!" Dipper snapped. "You're not really here!"

Bill's eye curved in a suggestive smile. "I could never pull one over on you kid." He said with a twirl of his cane. "Your right of course this is not the real me, it's the bubble projecting an imaginary imitation of me," his smile widen. "Because you wanted it to."

"What that's crazy!" Dipper exclaimed blushing slightly. "And so not true!"

Bill laughed. "Right because you were the one playing me the past few months and not the other way around." He teased.

Dipper growled with anger. "Just leave me alone!"

"And why would I do that?"

Bill watched as his fake-self floated to the ground and walked up to Dipper. Dipper backed up slowly, and yelped as he bumped up against a tree.

The fake Bill trapped him against the tree with his own body. "Now this sure does look familiar doesn't Pine Tree?"

Dipper's blush deepened as his mind eminently went back to the first time Bill had pushed him up against a tree.

How amazing it felt to have his hands all over him.

How his heart hammered in his chest with every intoxicating kiss!

"It can be that way again kid." Bill whispered in his ear.

Bill smiled as his fake-self palmed Dipper's already hardening member.

Dipper gasped, and rolled his hips into the touch instinctively. 'This is bad!' his commonsense warned. 'He's fooling you again! Can't you see he's just using you?!'

'Just five more seconds…' His body begged.

"I know you miss it kid, it's obvious." the fake Bill went on. "And the truth is I miss you too."

'He's lying!' Dipper's mind screamed. 'Don't be made a fool by him again!'

Dipper struggled to resist, to push him away, but he found that his arms wrapped around the demon instead. He moaned as Bill added more pressure at the source of his need.

How many nights had he stayed awake begging to fall asleep and see Bill? How long had he dreamed of just one more kiss?

How many times had he wished there falling out had just been one big nightmare? How many times had he wished they could be together….forever?!

"Out there in the real world, they would never accept us." Bill whispered. "But in here we can be together forever."

"…Forever…" Dipper whispered.

Could it be true? Could he really live here with Bill forever?

'It's not real!' His mind screamed.

'Is that so bad?' He challenged.

"We can start all over here, Wake up in each other's arms every morning" The fake Bill went on. "Make love every night!"

Dipper shivered at those words.

'EVERY NIGHT!'

"Forever and ever, and ever," The fake Bill kissed him deeply. Dipper gave into the kiss, hungrily kissing the demon.

'We can be together forever, no more heart ache, no more shame, just love.'

He allowed Bill to slip his hands under his shirt.

'You call this love?' his mind screamed. 'Bill doesn't love you! All he wants is to keep you out of the way!'

'That's not true!' Dipper argued as the demon began to lift his shirt. 'He loves me!'

'You idiot if Great uncle Ford could see you now-!'

Dipper's insides freeze up, and he pulled away from the kiss. "No…" he whispered.

"What?" Both the real, and fake Bill said in unison.

Dipper's eye's narrowed with rage as the Bubble's hold left him. "I SAID NO!" he shouted and pushed the fake Bill way with a hard shove.

The fake Bill stubbles back almost stunned.

"I WILL NOT BE YOUR PLAYTHING AGAIN!" Dipper yelled.

"You shouldn't have done that, Dippeerrrr!" The fake Bill hissed, turning red. "We're watching you."

Dipper trembled as a crowed of Mabeland's citizens surround him, each of them now had a pair of Bill's demon slit eyes.

Fear threatens to take over…

"Last chance Pine Tree." Bill warned. "Give in to your desires or parish!"

Dipper backs away panting, but he refuses to let the fear take hold. "…None of this is real! We have to get out of here. We have to go back to the real. WORLD!"

The fake Bill snaps his fingers and Guards tackle Dipper to the ground.

"Under Article Smiley Face of Exhibit Squeaky Duck, you are hereby accused of breaking our one rule: mentioning reality." One of the guards shouted.

"Hey get off of me!" Dipper demands as the ruckus draws a lager crowed. The crowd mutters as a portal to the real world opens.

"Prepare to be banished from this land FOREVER." The guards begin to push him Dipper towards the portal.

"You can't do this to me!" Dipper yelled at Bill who watched him being pulled away with amusement.

"Guys what's going on here?" Wendy exclaimed as she and Soos appeared. "Oh my gosh Dipper!"

"Guys help me!" Dipper screamed.

"Dude we're coming!" Soos yelled as he and Wendy ran to his aid.

Bill snapped his fingers once more, and more guards came and tackled them to the ground. "Stay down!" The guards ordered.

"Dipper what's going on?" Wendy shouted, struggling to get free.

"It's Bill, he's controlling the bubble." Dipper screamed as the guards continue to pull him away. The fake Bill laughs.

Wendy and Soos look up, and gasps as they notice the demon for the first time. "You one eye creep when Mabel sees this she'll-" Wendy began.

"Ha Shooting Star will not help you, you mean nothing to her; she has already replaced you all." Bill laughed speaking through the fake version of himself.

"You're wrong Bill" Dipper yelled as he fought. "Mabel would never agree to this."

"Yeah!" Wendy and Soos agreed.

"Well then if you're so sure, why don't you ask her?" The Fake Bill snapped his fingers again, and the crowd parted to reveal... Mabel.

And to Dipper's utter dismay she had yellow demon eyes too! "No" Dipper whispered in disbelief. "Not Mabel."

"Yes Mabel!" Bill laughed. "Your sister is completely seduced by the bubble's power."

The guards bowed before Mabel as she stopped in front of Dipper. "Mayor Mabel this child has broken our one and only rule."

"MABEL!" Dipper screamed. "You're smarter than this! Bill's controlling you! You know this is wrong?"

Mabel appears emotionless, "The law is the law!" She said. "Guards get rid of this thing." She ordered and then turned to walk away.

Dipper was dumbfounded. 'This Thing?' He couldn't believe his ears.

"Well you heard her" Bill snapped, and the guards got up and began moving again. "Bye-bye Pine Tree" He jeered.

"No Mabel!" Dipper screamed as the guards continue to pull him towards the portal.

"Mabel he's your brother!" Wendy exclaimed as she tried desperately to get free.

"Yeah dude this is wrong!" Soos agreed.

"Mabel please don't let him win!" Dipper was begging now, but he didn't care: he had to get through to her. "Look deep inside you, can't you see you're only fooling yourself?" Dipper's world suddenly slowed to a crawl as those words echoed around him.

'You're only fooling yourself?'

'You're only fooling yourself?'

'You're only fooling yourself?'

"Look, after you said you wouldn't come back home with me at the end of the summer for your "apprenticeship," I wanted to hide in my sweater forever. But after I gave Bill that orb thing, I woke up in a place that gives me exactly what I wanted: an endless summer where I never have to grow up! Here the sun shines all day, the party never ends, and now that you guys are here, it's finally perfect!"

Suddenly everything just clicked, and Dipper understood.

Mabel was not going to hear him, because he wasn't hearing himself!

'Mabel's not the one living a fantasy...'

'I am!'

"This is all my fault." Dipper whispered, and then louder he said. "MABEL I'M SORRY."

Mabel turned, her eyes flickered between normal and demon possessed. "…W-what did you say?"

The guards froze.

"What do you think you're doing?" Bill growled.

Dipper forces himself to continue. "Mabel, listen. I might not have all the answers. I'm not stylish" he gestures to Xyler and Craz. "And I'm not cool." He pointed out as he gestures to Dippy Fresh. "But I know one thing well, and that's you. And I know that although you might act like it, you don't wanna be in this fantasy world."

Mabel scoffed. "Yeah right." She turned her cheek.

Dipper gave her a knowing look. "You're scared…of growing up. And who could blame you; I'm scared, too."

Mabel covers ears. "LALALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING! GUARDS!" She claps her hands, and the guards continue to try to pull him away.

Dipper refused to move he fought tooth, and nail to stay in one place as he continued to try and get through to his sister. "Look, real life stinks sometimes, okay, I'm not gonna lie. But there's a better way to get through it than denial, and that's with help from people who care about you. Mabel, I thought you were living a fantasy, but look at me!" Dipper yelled as the guards lead him closer to his doom. "I actually thought I was gonna stay here and be Ford's apprentice! Spend my entire teen years cooped up in a basement with a lab coat? How ridiculous is that?"

Mabel sniffled as tears began to form in her eyes. 'Why am I crying?' she wondered as the Bubble's influence began to lose its grip on her.

"Mabel, look at me!" Dipper demanded seeing his opening.

Their eyes locked.

"Dipper?" Mabel rubs her eyes in disbelief as if she's seeing her brother for the first time since she had arrived to the bubble. The yellow slits in her eyes changed back to chocolate brown.

Dipper continued talking, "Listen I don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but whatever it is, you don't have to fear because we'll do it together. I'm not taking Ford's apprenticeship. We've traveled to heck and back to get you and we're going' back together. Leave this fantasy world. Let's beat Bill and grow up together!"

The crowd mutters.

Mabel moves to give a new order...

"Shooting Star don't you Dare!" Bill warned.

Mabel ignored him and claps her hands; the guards stop and release Dipper. "You mean it? You're really coming home with me?" She asked.

Dipper brushed himself off and nodded, "Yes. Definitely. Absolutely." He joked. "Awkward sibling hug?"

The crowd shrieks.

"DON'T DO IT!" they scream!

"You do this Shooting Star and it's all over!" Bill warned. "This dream world will be gone forever, and you will never know true happiness!"

Fear threatened to take over, but Mabel took a deep breath, and pushed the fear away. "Sincere sibling hug!" She said hugging Dipper.

"NO DON'T DO THE PATS!" The crowed begged.

Dipper and Mabel pat each other's back without hesitation. "Pat, pat."

"NO!" Bill's voice screams as a ripple erupts from them blowing a large whirlwind across Mabeland.

Mabel pulls away and rubs eyes. "Aw, man, I never noticed how bright this place is, ugh! Have I actually been listening to the same song for an entire week?"

Dipper smiled. "You're back!" he exclaimed.

The Fake Bill hissed with rage.

"Whoa, time to calm you down." Mabel ordered and claps twice, but nothing happened. "Uh, why isn't this working?"

"Because your reign over this land is OVER." The fake Bill declares and splits open and becomes a pile of yarn.

The crowd turns gray and their eyes glow red. Xyler and Craz hug each other and yell.

"We got to get out of here!" Mabel exclaimed.

"Soos! Wendy! Paradise is canceled!" Dipper ordered.

Wendy drop kicks the yarn monster's in their way and the team of friends run as the whole world turns gray, and starts to fall apart.

"We're not going to make it." Dipper exclaimed.

"Oh yes we are!" Mabel declared and then let out a loud whistle. Suddenly a giant Waddles appeared.

"Everyone get on!" Mabel ordered.

The team climbs on Waddles, who is the size of an elephant.

Mabel slaps him and he takes off. "Take us to freedom, Giant Waddles! Yah!" she exclaimed.

Waddles obeys and runs as fast as his large legs can carry him.

Mabel then grabs a giant knitting needle from a stack of large yarn. "Alright, guys, are you ready for this?"

The team nodded and brace themselves as Waddles jumped up towards the top of the bubble.

"Sorry, Mabeland. It's time to burst your BUBBLE! "Mabel shouted and breaks the bubble with the needle.

The bubble pops and everyone lands on a cliff; surprisingly unharmed.

Mabel forced herself to her feet. "Ugh. You all good, everyone good?" she asked as Waddles shrinks back to normal size.

Dipper, Soos and Wendy embrace her.

"We've missed you, Mabel dog." Soos exclaimed.

"Don't ever scare us like that again." Wendy warned.

Mabel nodded, and pulled away looking nervous. "Hey, Dipper? I appreciate what you said back there, but if you want to take Ford's apprenticeship, I won't get in your way."

Dipper laughed. "Pssh. And miss out on your awkward teen years? You wish."

"Mystery twins?" Mabel asked hopefully.

"Mystery twins" Dipper agreed, and they hugged once more. Dipper never wanted to let go, finally he had his twin back.

Mabel's laughs, and pulls away "Man, I went nuts back there. I mean come on the real world can't be that bad, right?"

Dipper bite his lip as Mabel turns around, and sees a giant Gompers, rampaging monsters, and the Fearamid. "This is all my fault..." she whispered and fell to her knees. "I should have never made that deal."

"No Mabel." Dipper bent down beside her. "Uncle Ford told me about the rift, I should have told you about it, just in case. If you had known then Bill wouldn't have succeeded in using Blendin to bribe you."

"It doesn't matter." Wendy assured them. "Our goal now is to fix this."

"But how?" Mabel asked.

"Before Ford was captured he told me there was a way to defeat Bill." Dipper told her. "If we could save him, then we might stand a chance."

"We'll need an army to get into that castle." Soos pointed out.

Dipper couldn't help but agree. "Let's go see If we can find anymore towns folk hiding out somewhere." He started off into town.

The other's nodded and followed his lead.

(Back at the Fearamid)

Bill hissed silently as he watched them from his orb.

'So they think they can just march into my castle and take what's mine.' Bill asked himself. 'Well their wrong.' He thought as he threw the orb across the room.

'Dead wrong...'

Chapter End Notes

So I got the Idea for this chapter from a YouTube video but I can't seem to find it anymore, but in the video it shows Mable getting her wish and her Bubble, but instead of Dipper being Bill's puppet Mable is the one with the yellow eyes. I thought that was a pretty cool twist so I decided to use it here instead of the trail.

The truth is I liked the trail in the original episode, but I also felt it was too drawn out and it frustrated me because I wanted to get to the real battle already.

Anyway Thanks for reading as always I ask you to leave a comment. The next chapter will be up tomorrow

So until then...

This is Emily signing off :)