Prodigal Gem ch. 21
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
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Now for most women, the knowledge that they were 'expecting'. Would be a time of celebration!...However, most women don't usually die when they give birth...Also, most women weren't about to have a a galactic empire blow their world to pieces. So-
OH MY GLOB! OH MY GLOB! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! I DON'T WANT OUR CHILD TO DIE! I DON'T WANT EITHER ONE OF US TO DIE! ON TOP OF EVERYTHING HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEAL WITH THIS!?
Exclaims a hysterical Wendy. Dipper was also panicking, but he kept it from showing. He had to be strong here! If not for Wendy's sake, than for his child's sake!
"Wendy it's okay! Calm down! I'm here! Everything's going to be okay! I'm going to make things okay!" Wendy sobbed. "How!?" She demanded. "How are you going to make this 'okay'!?" Dipper took a deep breath. "By doing whatever I have to." He says determined.
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The Gems gaped in horror. It was what they'd dreaded for years...Dipper had that same look in his eyes that Stanley did when he was about to do something crazy! While the Gems were living their worst nightmare...Stan was actually reassured! Wow...it's almost like he's back. Thought Stan with a bittersweet smile.
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And so Gems continued to watch as Dipper began to dig through Stanley's things, notes, equipment, and experiments with renewed, dangerous zeal! Meanwhile; Wendy(in order to calm herself) immerses herself in human culture...one thing in particular...music...She listened...but she also created...And Dipper...Dipper Sang!
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This time of peace is almost gone
And I don't feel any closer to saving all that I love
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Dipper grunts as he kills yet another Robonoid. He feels his chest and sure enough, he can feel that some of his ribs are broken. His tracker beeps as it detects five more Robonoids coming into the atmosphere.
Dipper groans as he leans against an injector. I-I can't do this! This is insanity! More and more come each day!
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I can't pull back the veil
I solve a problem, but it just leads to...100 more on a neverending trail
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Dipper blasts another Robonoid...but it's unfazed! Their getting stronger! Thinks a horrified Dipper. Thankfully, he's able to cause an injector to fall on top and smash it...Just as his tracker gives out a warning of fifteen more Robonoids. Dipper ignores the heatstroke as he limps to the warp.
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Books, and runes, and dreams
Oh, nothings as it seems
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I can't do this! No one can do this! How on earth dose Garnet do this!? It's inhumane!...I need help!...Who are you kidding Dipper? Bill shut off the only possible help! An armies...not...going...to...pop...out...of..the..earth. Dipper inwardly trails off as he looks toward the Kindergarten...He quickly shakes head. What! No! Bad idea Dipper! Garnet...Your mother...The Gems...They sacrificed everything to shut these places down! You can't! Dipper inner musings were cut off as his tracker detects twenty-five Robonoids!...Dipper can't help it...he weeps...
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So much to see...So much to find
Common sense comes crashing down
When you set foot in my town
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"Yes!" Exclaimed Dipper! He found a way to keep both Wendy and their child alive! Apparently his father discovered it...Wait, if it worked...Why didn't dad use this instead of Bill- Wait, Mom refused it!? Why would she...Oh, because the 'solution' required grinding up 'corrupted gems'...Like Mabel's Centipeetle...Ho boy...
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Try not to lose your mind
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Dipper continuously banged his head on the keyboard...All the while Wendy watched helplessly from her Robonoid. My child...Whatever else happens...Know that you will come into this world to a father that loves you very much. Thinks Wendy quietly to herself...
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Welcome to my home
Where nothing is normal
And I wouldn't have it any other way
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Dipper sighs as he brings up a picture of Wendy...Then the ultrasound of their child...Finally he comes to a decision. Garnet...Mom...I'm sorry...But I have to go my own path...
It's a determined Dipper Pines that enters the kindergarten...
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Welcome to my home
Where gravity is the only thing that keeps me from floating away
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Dipper frantically looked around as he snuck into the Burning Room. He hesitated...but then stiffened his resolve by thinking of Wendy and their child. What choice do you have Dipper? This is your only viable option you currently have! And between the Robonoids and keeping things a secret from the gems...there's no time to figure out a new one! Dipper sighs as the scanner shows that the Centipeetle is the most viable for extracting the nutrients he needs. Why dose this not surprise me? Groans Dipper to himself...
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Now I finally met the woman
Who I was told long ago would light the spark inside
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I may not be able to directly help him while trapped in this mirror, but I can still make him enjoy life! Exclaims Wendy to herself as she 'fuses' with a grateful Dipper...
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She drove me to figure out who I really am
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Dipper looked up at the statue of Rose in a resolute way. "No more shadows mom...it's time I cast my own"...
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I'm learning to get by
I've been told nothing but lies
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Dipper got more and more irritated as Stan told him more and more things about what the Gems kept from them. Why didn't they tell me about Bill!? I wouldn't be in this mess if they were straight with me for once!
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Am I alone
in fighting for what I love?
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Wendy practically dragged him from his work; to mix more songs with her when she heard that last verse!
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Who can I believe?
Oh, what have I achieved?
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Still no luck summoning a weapon! If I had Dad's journals I could probably find some other stuff to use...GAH! What am I thinking!? If most of them are where I think they are, there's no way I can get them without The Gems finding out!
Dipper sighed...The Robonoids were getting stronger...His other project had fallen into a standstill...What other choice did he have?
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There's ancient power here that can't be confined
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Dipper pretty much emptied most of the contents of his stomach within the first 5 minutes of reading his dads private file on Gem upgrades...Now he didn't know if his dad had been planning on doing this to him and Mabel...Or if it was just a thought experiment...either way it was really creepy...
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But I'm still growing,
Undergoing changes.
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GAH!
Cried out Dipper and agony. Thanks to a special mini-portal his dad built, he'd been able to travel to the pocket dimension in Lion's mane to get his mother's sword...which he was now fusing to his very being as an artificial summoned-weapon. And his Dad's notes were right...IT HURT LIKE CRAP!
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time is ever flowing by
I try not to lose my mind
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Dipper injects a strange chemical into his body...
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welcome to my home
Where nothing is normal
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Dipper frowns. He'd overheard the Gems talk about how they'd been finding more and more Gem Temples that were destroyed. They'd dismissed it as just the ravages of time at work, or the Blindeye Society initiating a 'Purge'(In truth; the Gems had been too busy focusing on the outburst of Cipher temples to really care about it). But now that Dipper had inspected it...He wasn't so sure. There wasn't as much rubble as their should be...
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And I wouldn't have it any other way
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Dipper winched in pain as he carved more mystic runes into his flesh...
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Welcome to my home
Where gravity is the only thing that keeps me from floating away
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I knew it! Shouted Dipper to himself. He watched as some human goons ransacked the temple...then blew it up to cover their tracks! He wished he could let the Gems handle it...Unfortunately, he couldn't think of a way to tell them about it without also telling them WHY he'd looked into it...which was to see if he could recover anything to use for his 'projects'...Which of course would break the deal with Bill...Dipper sighed as he added one more thing to worry about to his ever growing pile...
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Welcome to my home
Where nothing is normal
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Oh, this is going to suck. Thought Dipper as he looked at a jar full of alien leeches...He then began to take off his pants...
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And I wouldn't have it
any other way
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Norhtwest Industries? Thinks Dipper to himself as he stares at the place where he tracked all the stolen Gem Tech to...
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Welcome to my home
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Dipper reads "performing open heart surgery on yourself; for Dummies." Wendy's Robonoid smacked it out his hands. "NO!" She snapped...
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Where gravity is the only thing
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Dipper sighed...as curious as he was about what Preston Northwest was up to...The priority right now was Stopping the Gem Empire and saving Wendy and their child...He'd have to put this mystery on the back-burner...for now...
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that keeps me from floating away...
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There weren't that many videos left...The Gems already knew how it ends...Mabel catches Dipper making out with the mirror and overhears it talking...She then panics and tells the Gems...and the rest is history...
Finally, the code for the Journal finder is revealed: HELP ME
No one spoke for along time...Finally, Pearl turned to Garnet. "Garnet...What are we going to do?" Garnet stood up and walked over to the console; to punch in the code. "Isn't it obvious? It's time we put our family back together."...
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TO BE CONTINUED?
The song is based on "Mandopony's" work
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