"Well I am glad we are out of the woods for at least a while, but I don't like all these small ponds," thought Dipper as the lantern led them to this large valley filled with small ponds clumped together. The narrow rounded paths around the ponds made it hard to judge which way they should be going. In the forest they could at least go in the direct route, but now with the ponds in the way it made their game of hot-cold even harder.
Dipper could tell that Wirt was beginning to be frustrated also as he kept stopping and going trying to find the best route. Wirt's quiet mix of sighs and grunts were signs he was trying to keep his frustration inside him. "Hey if you need a break we can stop and rest," said Dipper.
"No, no I got this. We should be out of this valley soon," Wirt responded as his frustration was also coupled by stubbornness.
His stubbornness reminded Dipper of himself. He remembered the time that he tried to figure out of the passcode to McGuckets laptop and how his stubbornness forced his body to stay away for days trying to figure it out. This led him to making the bad decision of making a deal with Bill. Dipper would hate for Wirt to make a bad decision out of frustration and stubbornness. "Are you sure man, I mean you seem a bit tense."
"I am fine," responded Wirt annoyance in his voice.
"I agree with Wirt, you have been working hard and even though that is important, relaxing and feeling good is important too," encouraged Steven.
Wirt sighed again as he started walking backward as he spoke. "Guys, I am fine I might seem a bit tense, but we finally have a tool to get out of here! We can't just stop now and even if we wanted to rest there is no place to do. I mean a bench isn't going to pop out of no whe-!" He then shouted as he hit something, but his momentum made him not stop and did a back flip over the object and rolled down into one of the pools. The water was freezing as goose bumps covered his body, but was quickly able to recover and not roll into the deeper parts of the pool. Wirt crawled out of the pool and looked up to see a metal bench next to a large blue flower.
"Are you alright?!" asked Steven running over to help him up.
"Yeah, but my back hurts now," said Wirt.
"Well, at least now we have a bench," said Steven with a smile leading him back to the bench.
Wirt sighed as he went over and sit on the bench, though he froze for a couple seconds because how cold the bench was, though him being soaking wet did not help (as well as his sore lower back). Dipper meanwhile was examining the large flower. It was tall as him and the flower was a bit bigger than his head. It was also blue all over, unlike other flowers, which have green stems, this flowers stem was blue too, but what was more strange was it was glowing. "I never seen a flower like this before, it almost looks like it is radioactive," said Dipper before going over to sit down with them.
"I never seen a flower like this before, it almost looks like it is radioactive."
Dipper stopped in his tracks, he was about to sit down, but then turned around. "Did you guys hear that?"
"Hear what?" asked Wirt.
Dipper was about to respond before he was interrupted.
"Did you guys here that?"
"Yeah you just said that, what did you here?" answered Steven now looking at him concerned.
"That wasn't me… be quiet for a second," said Wirt now walking back toward the flower. The group was silent as they watched him walk toward the flower. Dipper stopped and listened eyeing the blue flower.
"That wasn't me… be quiet for a second." The flower repeated and Dipper smiled at his newfound discovery.
"It speaks!" shouted Dipper.
"It speaks!" the flower repeated.
"Well not really speaks, more repeats but still cool right?" asked Dipper.
"Well not really speaks, more repeats but still cool right?"
"Yeah, let me try!" said Steven going over to the flower. He then cleared his throat. "Steven is the best!"
"Steven is the best!" the flower echoed his voice perfectly just like Dippers.
"This is awesome!" said Steven
"This is awesome!"
"I know right?"
"I know right?"
"But world does it comes from?" asked Steven "You said you never seen a flower like this before."
"But world does it comes from? You said you never seen a flower like this before."
"Well it isn't from my world," said Wirt "And if it isn't from either of yours… I guess it is from this world."
"But… that doesn't seem right…" said Dipper.
"But… that doesn't seem right…"
"Ok I can see this thing becoming annoying…" said Dipper
"Ok I can see this thing becoming annoying…"
"Stop that," said Dipper.
"Stop that."
Dipper sighed as the flower yet again echoed him, which made Steven chuckle. "I don't know I think it is sort of funny."
"I don't know I think it is sort of funny."
"See even the flower agrees with me," said Steven.
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say," said Dipper.
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
Dipper sighed again as he then grabbed Steven's wrist and dragged him away from the flower back to the bench. Though this was a major discovery, he was now getting tired of the repeating flower.
"Aw come on, it wasn't that bad," said Steven.
"May be to you, but when you have a sister that does that to you every single day it can become annoying," said Dipper.
"I can relate," thought Wirt as he thought of the annoying stuff his brother loves doing to him, even though most of the time he doesn't not even know he was doing it.
"But even though it is annoying this is cool. We haven't seen any really plants out of the ordinary I mean if we were to see anything strange it would be from one of our worlds but this one doesn't belong to any of ours…" Dipper analyzed the plant.
"But all the more reason why we should probably keep moving… I mean everything else wants to kill us and even though it seems harmless… I do not trust it," said Wirt standing up lifting up the lantern still grasped in his hand.
"You do have a point…" said Dipper now having second thoughts.
"Come on," said Wirt as he then started to walk away. Dipper quickly followed him, but Steven looked back at the flower before following them the voice quickly fading away, but it was still repeating the last thing it heard.
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
"Steven it just repeats whatever you say."
"Steven it-"
"Steven"
"Steven"
"Ste"
"I am so close..."