"Look who decided to show up." Derek grinned as Bill appeared in the middle of the throne room, holding his cane in his right hand. It was a requirement that all Gods bring their weapons to meetings and place them next their thrones. This way, they didn't start fighting in the middle of a meeting. Arguments were meant to be carried out verbally, not with action.

Bill rolled his eyes and sat down on his golden throne. "Nice to see you too, Echo." He placed his cane down hesitantly, and gave Holly a thumbs up to start.

Holly looked around the room, eyes scanning to make sure all weapons were placed in the right spot. When she was sure, she grinned. "Hello everyone to the bimonthly meeting of the gods. Today will will go around in a circle and tell what you have done recently. I'll go first."

Meanwhile, in the darkest shadows and corners of the throne room, two thieves sat on their haunches, waiting for the perfect time to take care of their job. The job: start a war.

Ember glanced at her brother, on three they would both creep to the side of the tall thrones and switch the weapons.

When it was Bill's turn to talk, the god didn't even have a chance to say anything before Derek interrupted.

"I heard you found Pine Tree. Ain't that right, Cipher?"

The other gods gasped and stared at Bill.

"Well, yes. I was just as surprised as many of you, but I would never forget a soul. Especially his soul." Bill held out his hands, showing a hologram picture of Dipper and a side-by-side comparison with Pine Tree. The gods in the room stared, awestruck. Both of the teens looked nearly if not exactly the same.

Now! Ember mouthed to her brother and they she crept behind Holly's throne, making sure her invisibility spell from Brandon was still working. It was. She grabbed the glowing two-sided coin and moved swiftly behind Bill's throne, placing the coin there.

Eric did the same thing, placing Finn's weapon behind Bill's throne. Both thieves weren't even noticed as they moved all the weapons to make it look like Bill had stolen them. Framing an innocent God to start a huge war. What a great idea! Ember and Eric left the throne room, the job was over.

"The heavens brought back Pine Tree. I can't believe it." Bill gave a huge smile as the holograms disappeared. His love had returned after so long of being dead. Bill still remembered the grave he buried Pine Tree in.

Holly looked over and noticed something. "Hey! My coin." She pointed to Bill's chair.

All the gods turned towards Bill's throne, staring in shock as all of their weapons were neatly stacked there.

Someone yelled out. "Bill distracted us with the whole speech and stole our weapons with magic!"

Bill looked just as surprised as the rest of them. "W-what?" He turned around to find it was true. He would never do something like this. It wasn't him. Someone was framing him. "Look, I would never do this, I stopped all my thieving ways a while back."

Holly shook her head. "Bill, you and Derek snuck out a month ago and I caught you. You can't possibly think I believe that you of all people are innocent." The goddess looked over at Derek's thone. "And he's the only one with his weapon still."

It was true, Derek's infinity sided die was nicely where he had left it.

Bill's mouth opened to try to speak but Finn interrupted him. "Yeah! Bill Cipher, taking a god's magic weapons is a sign of war."

Holly and Finn looked at each other before yelling. "We declare war on Bill Cipher and his Kingdom of Gravity Falls! Who's with us?"

The other gods in the throne room cheered, everyone except Derek was against Bill.

This was not good. Bill's heart pounded heavily and beads of sweat began to stream down his forehead. Golden eyes wide in fear of what this meant. "L-look... I'm sure we can resolve this without violence. P-please. I can't handle Pine Tree dying again. Holly..." Bill's golden eyes stared pleadingly at the goddess. "You know how much that hurt me..."

Holly stared back at him, quiet and considering what he said. She wasn't a heartless goddess, she just believed in Justice. "Look, Bill, I know but all the facts and evidence point towards you and Derek. Both of you have a long history of bad deeds. I can't get you out of this one. Stealing a God's sacred weapon is a more serious crime than ever. You must be punished. I'm sorry."

Finn stood by Holly's side, nodding at what she had said.

Bill stood up and held up his arms in surrender. "Have your weapons back. I surrender." He didn't want to fight.

Finn didn't look happy about that. Hw wanted to fight. "Surrender already, Cipher? Are you scared? Don't want to fight us again after what happened? Someone is just a chicken." Finn started flapping his arms like a chicken.

Bill ignored him, even though his annoying mockery sparked a fire deep inside him. The flames licked at his insides, begging to come out and fight. Bill held back, thinking of his ultimate demise last time. He had learned. "I said I surrender."

The gods in the back booed and looked disappointed, they wanted a fight. A good war like this hadn't been fought for one hundred years.

Holly took a good look at Bill. It seemed Cipher had learned from his past and his mistake. "Guys I think—"

"Everyone! Bill's Triangle Knights just attacked and killed ten of my citizens!" Finn yelled out, holding up a live feed of what was going on. Sure enough, a whole army had raided into San Francisco, Finn's kingdom.

Bill's eyes went wide for the second time that day. "B-but..." he started but it looked like there was no hope. He would have to fight another war. A war that was going to end in devastating disaster.

"Meeting adjourned. Everyone prepare for War." Holly called out as the gods grabbed their weapons back and disappeared from the throne room.

Soon it was only Bill and Derek. Bill turned to his friend. "Look it wasn't me. You believe me, right?" he asked softly.

Derek stepped over to Bill, his usual attitude gone. It was replaced with a serious face and mood. "I believe you. I don't understand why you would want to cause a huge war after all that happened last time. And great job holding back against the mockery. Cipher, you have changed. I'm not sure of there's anything we can do now to fix this. In the meantime, prepare for war. And maybe me and you can kick some ass together, just like old times." Derek gave a grin and disappeared.

Bill was left alone.

"Aww! Poor Cipher. Look at you, so sad." Bill recognized that voice.

"Brandon! Show yourself!" Bill yelled out, looking for the minor God.

Brandon walked out of the shadows a huge smirk on his face. His green eyes glowed brightly. "Long time, no see." he gave a mock bow to Bill.

"Where have you been?!"

"Regaining power to defeat you. Simple. You broke your promise to me. Now it's time for you to pay. Have fun fighting this war. I'm sure Dipper Pines will have a fun time getting burnt to death." And on that note, Brandon disappeared before Bill could get his hands on him.

At least now, Bill know who truly was behind all this. The real enemy who had manipulated all the gods on the board.