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Dipper stared at the star filled expanse. He could see the flow of the universe around him. Tiny lights eddied and washed across each other in a chaotic frothy sea foam.

"What… is this place?" Dipper asked.

"This… is the mindscape. Each point of light is an experience."

"A soul?" Dipper asked.

"Meh… experience is better way to put it. Each living entity is a sphere unto itself. Bumping and moving across this vast endless expanse." Bill reached out and held a single point of light in his hand. Dipper leaned close and saw it froth and bubble. It divided and filled his hand and overflowed.

"With each choice he made, he duplicated its sphere of experience until the versions of him were uncountable. The same goes for its parents, and its parents, and so forth.

Dipper's vision was filled with the frothing bubbling stars.

"This is the universe?" He said in awe.

"Oh dear boy… this is Gravity Falls! I wanted to start you off small." Bill chuckled.

"Start me small?" Dipper asked.

"Well… you won't take anyone's place… so I thought I'd let you make your own place to live."

"What… happened to everyone… from before? Mabel, Pacifica, DJ, Dharma… Billeah." Dipper asked. Bill looked away at the mention of her.

"They… are no longer here." Bill said solemnly.

"What? They're destroyed?" Dipper shouted.

"NO! No, no! You can't destroy energy… only reform it." Bill said. "And… since they were totems… here… let me show you."

Bill waved his hand and the experiences of Gravity Falls were wiped away. He was in empty space with twelve lights in a pattern.

"These are the experiences of the totems who fought Rick… They did a good job… Normally, I'd put them back into the experiences of others… but…" Bill almost looked longingly at them.

"They're special." Dipper finished his thought. Bill nodded.

"I couldn't do it. I… I couldn't lose them." Bill said. Dipper looked over and the Triangle form was gone. Billeah looked up at him with a smile.

"She… I… Billeah's form was offered a place in the middle. The endless field with her pine tree. She refused and joined back with me." Billeah reached up and took one of the spheres. She held it out to Dipper. He took it in his hands and could see into it.

"MOM! DAD! WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE!" DJ and Dharma screamed. Pacifica hefted herself up with a swollen stomach. Dipper pulled her up and gave her a kiss. He was covered in scars and had his eye patch.

"I'm going to kill you for knocking me up with another set of these monsters." Pacifica growled and grabbed her purse. She followed Dipper out the door with the kids trailing behind.

"Bye Grandpa!" Dharma said. Preston walked by and waved at them.

Dipper put the tiny speck of light back in its place and picked up his own. The image mirrored the events but from Dipper's point of view.

"They all chose to be together." Billeah said. I could give them any world they wanted… but this is what they desired… There was no Tyrone… no Rick… no… Billeah. Just the normal weirdness of Gravity Falls. Gideon came back and you two are slowly working out your differences. Wendy left Lee and is now dating Robbie…"

"There are no bubbles." Dipper noticed.

"There's not going to be… their choices and actions are their own. There's no alternates, no variables. Slowly they will dim and extinguish, their experience fulfilled and rejoin the rest.

"What about DJ and Dharma? Why don't they get a light?" Dipper asked. "Or Preston? Or Wendy?"

"It's not like that…" Billeah smiled. "They are reflections on the pond. DJ and Dharma are in the pool with the others, living exactly the same events as shown here… but… as you saw with Dipper… a new one and an old one can't be in the same place."

Dipper's mind tried hard to comprehend what she was saying... He didn't feel angry or scared for what he saw. They slowly orbited in the positions of the seal.

He took Mabel's orb and looked at her. She was busy working on some project in her own apartment. She looked up as someone knocked on her door. She rushed to open it and saw Gideon holding a bouquet of flowers and looking nervous. He chuckled as Mabel slammed the door in his face. She waited a moment, opened the door to the confused man, snatched the flowers from his hand and slammed it again. She leaned up against the door and smelled the flowers. A warm smile crept across her face.

"Is this what it's like for you?" Dipper asked and put the orb back. He felt Billeah wrap her arms around him.

"Yes… I watch and see your greatest achievements and failures… but that's not what's interesting."

"What is interesting?" Dipper asked, intertwining his fingers with hers.

"These little moments… the moments people don't think matter. A callous act… or an unseen gesture of kindness. The others don't understand like I do."

"I don't think you understand like you think you do." Dipper said. "That's why you wanted to live it."

"Guilty." Billeah whispered. Dipper turned around and stared at Bill in his triangle shape. He still held his hand.

"Why don't you drop the masks?" Dipper said. "I don't care what shape you are."

Bill looked to the side nervously.

"What about the Llama?" He asked.

"You know I love her, but she's happy and with me. I can watch over her and shelter all of them. I am their pine tree." Dipper said. Bill's shape fell away and a golden form of energy stood before him. "I also made a promise… that I'll shelter you too."

He embraced the glowing entity and felt himself fade away into the yellow light.

The glowing ball of light that was the essence of Bill and Dipper moved to the center of the orbiting stars.

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The grassy plain always felt like home. Dipper sat under his pine tree holding Billeah. His scars were gone. Billeah caressed his face; two blue eyes stared up at him.

"What does this mean?" Dipper asked, looking at his flawless hand. He noticed a gold band on it. Billeah placed her hand in his, and it had a matching band.

"We're one… I gave you all of my being… and you gave me all of you." Billeah chuckled.

"So… I'm part of you now? I feel like myself still." Dipper said.

"It's complicated. It will take some time for your tiny human mind to comprehend. When you do… I'll introduce you to my family." She said.

"There's more of you?" Dipper asked with a chuckle.

"The multi-verse is a big place… I hid this one away for myself. Eventually they're going to ask me where I put Rick… and well… I figured that'd be a good time to introduce you to Mom and Dad.

"Rick was your brother?" Dipper stammered.

"Something like that." She said coyly.

"You know… we can take on any form we want." She whispered.

"I know… I just like this one." Dipper said. He pulled her to him and kissed her.

"You humans and your physical contact." She chided, pulling away from him.

"I seem to remember someone begging for contact." Dipper said and rolled her over.

"Oh, Pine Tree…"

Author's Note:

So… Emersus means to rise out of the sea. I figured Dipper's ascension to a higher being would truly represent this word. Originally, I was going to have Bill place him back in the portal room and have Dipper choose to trust Mabel and follow up with the events of the show… but I think doing that would have threw away all the hard work and sacrifice Dipper went through to have him grow as a person.

I hope you enjoyed this. I want to hear your thought, comments, arguments, and this AU is open for stories! If you're feeling up to using Dipper and Billeah, be my guest! I would love to read some slice of life adventures or crazy journal mysteries! Just let me know so I can read them!

In other news…. the webcomic is going strong, we've wrapped up chapter 1 and I've scripted chapter 2 already! Cypher is working hard and I think her so much for all her efforts to visualize the events I wrote about.

I am re-editing this story as well. My goal is to have a professional looking novel ready for my readers where you can download an epub or pdf to read on any device you have. If there are any gramar nazies and tense police who want to endure a re-write with me, PM me and we can talk! I will be adding more chapters to Reboot and try to bump the word count from 3-5k a chapter to roughly 10k and give it meat.

I want to thank you all again. I'm excited my project finished just in time for the show to start next week. I want to see how many of my theories I've incorporated into the story are true (Already confirmed the names of the Stans were correct. I still believe Grunkle Stan is Dipper and Mabel's grandfather) I will be continuing to add more to Billeah's Secret Files… who can resist the creepy girl's twisted fan-fictions? I have all of your requests written down and I will try to get them written as soon as I can.

Thank you all again

and remember!

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