Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls
Author's Note: In this chapter, you've all been waiting patiently for, the mind of not only Stan, but Ford as well is in peril when an old enemy makes himself known. It's up to Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Wendy, Carla and Adeline to save Stan and Ford in this au version of Chapter 38: Dreamscaperers AU!
Family Tree:
Stanley and Carla - James and Jessie Pines
Stanford and Addi - Shauna and Shannon Pines
James Pines and Tara Grayson - Cormac (19), Arya, Aria, and Anais Pines (15)
Jessie Pines and Lillian Prescott - Tanya (21), Stanley Jr aka Junior, (16) and Tyrone Pines (14)
Shauna Pines and Marcus Valdez - Quincy Pines (7)
Shannon is still single.
Enjoy Fellow Gravity Fallers!
At the Mystery Shack on a dark rainy day…
Dipper and Mabel were playing a game in their attic room, thankfully not having to deal with a leaky roof as the two enjoy themselves. Waddles sleeping right behind Mabel.
Dipper thinks of a strategy in trying to guess which peg to aim for as he calls out, "I'm gonna say… B5."
Not taking the game as seriously as her twin brother, Mabel grins as exclaims, "Miss!" She proceeded to place a peg on her side, though having multiple pegs arranged to make the shape of a kitten's face.
Dipper catches on to his twin sister's antics as he says, being a stickler for the rules, "I don't think you're playing this right."
The two suddenly hear their Grunkle Stan's loud voice, calling for everyone in the house it seemed, "GUYS! COME QUICK!"
Mabel and Dipper stop what they're doing, quickly heading down to the living room -thankful the blood stains got completely clean- where not only Stan watches tv, but Carla, Adeline, Ford, Soos and Wendy were there too.
Stan laughs as he says, "I need you all to laugh and hate at this with me!"
On the tv, it showed Gideon Gleeful's commercial, singing while strumming a guitar, "~Who's cute as a button, and always your friend? Lil' G-I-D to the E-O-N! Wink!~"
Bud Gleeful on the tv's voice adding, "Lil' Gideon!"
Dipper groans in discontent seeing Gideon's face, "Ugh, Gideon!"
Mabel frowns as she recalls the bitter experiences with the horrible kid, "Remember when I wouldn't date him and he tried to destroy us?"
Stan adds to the conversation, "He's always trying to trick us into losing the Mystery Shack." Carla and Adeline nod in agreement with him, not being fond of Gideon themselves.
Adeline being disappointed that the corruption caused by the mystic amulet hadn't faded from Gideon since breaking it. It'll take a good while before Gideon, and his once brown hair, to revert back to the way they were; if any of that innocent part of him still remained. The same having happened to Shannon at age twelve, but at least she didn't wear it as long as Gideon had, thanks to her sister getting through to her to forsake the amulet from her possession.
"One time I caught him stealing my moisturizer." Wendy comments.
Ford adding his input concerning Quincy as he bitterly mentions. It was something similar to what himself and some of his family had been through, "Gideon having traumatized and physically harmed my grandson, to a point where he gets panic attacks at the mention of that brat, causing him to dread going to the same elementary school. Not only that, Gideon almost destroyed Quincy's social life that possibly psychologically scarred him for life, making him feel like an outcast. Gideon having abused Quincy's trust for his own cruel, manipulative purposes. And I should mention Gideon stole something personal from me." Ford sighs in empathy for Quincy, thankful that he now has friends he could trust and will never intentionally harm him. Having heard Ford said that left almost everyone in silence, fully agreeing with him that Gideon has been an absolute monster.
"Dude…" Wendy thought to herself, having sympathy for Quincy.
Soos breaks the silence with saying in an optimistic manner, "And yet, our mutual hatred for him bonds us together!"
The tv commercial with Gideon continues, the boy laughing as doves fly across the screen. Bud Gleeful voices over, announcing that raised alarm bells in everyone's minds, "Come on down to Lil' Gideon's Tent of Telepathy, opening soon at this location." It shows the image of the Mystery Shack getting crushed right underneath the Tent of Telepathy.
Dipper voicing his great concerns, "Uh, should we be worried about that?"
Stan assures his great-nephew, "Please, the only way Gideon's taking over this shack is by stealing Stanford's deed."
As if on cue, a crashing sound of a window was heard, coming from Stan and Carla's office.
"You mean like, right now?" Wendy asked in worry.
"That little runt!" Ford growls, him and the others making their way to the office where Gideon was pressing buttons on the safe in the attempt to unlock it, only to fail as he didn't know the combination.
Gideon getting frustrated as he mutters with each failed attempt, "38? 41? Oh heavens to Betsy!" He broke through the small window right above the office desk and chair to invade the home.
"Gideon!" Ford and Stan exclaim in unison.
Gideon turns to face the older men and their family with a smug grin, "Well, well, Stanford and Stanley, my arch-nemesis'; Quincy included, since he doesn't seem to be here at the moment. We seemed to have entered a dangerous game of cat and mouse. But the question remains, who is the cat, and who is the-"
"Soos, broom." Ford and Stan interrupt the twisted child, Soos handing the old men both a broom to use on Gideon.
Gideon exclaims in fright, "Oh no, not the broom!"
Ford and Stan chase Gideon around with the broom. The terrible boy hissing at them before he got hit by the brooms four times, the old men not hitting him really hard, but lightly enough that he bolted out of the office and out to the rain making a "WREEEEEE!" sound. The others snickering all the while, finding it funny in a sense. They needed a good laugh after so much happened the last several days.
Getting rained on, Gideon makes a vicious vow to take them all down with a shaking fist, one way or another, "You mark my words, Stanford and Stanley, one day I'm gonna get that combination. And once I steal that deed, none of ya'll will ever see the Mystery Shack again!"
"Good luck, bucko!" Stan said with a smug face, heading back inside while Ford warns.
"I'm warning you, Gleeful, this is the last time you're pulling this stunt. I'm filing a restraining order on you!" Ford shows a piercing glare at the tenacious child before entering back inside his home.
Gideon wasn't willing to give up just yet. He goes up to the window of the office again, hiding while watching Ford place the deed inside the safe and pressing the lock button to secure the document. Stan being there to remark in confidence with a laugh.
"The combo to the safe is the two places he'll never find it: our brains."
"Let's hope it stays that way, Stanley…" Ford voiced in concern, surely hoping that even Gideon wouldn't dare resort to summoning… Him. However, there was no telling what the kid will do to get what he wants. The older men leave the office as Gideon's forms a maliciously cunning grin on his face.
Gideon walks away from the window, pulling out Journal 2 from his suit, turning to the page where His image was depicted with the circle of the Zodiac symbols, telling himself, "Your brains aren't as safe as you both think they are, Stanford and Stanley Pines! This is the last straw! It's time to unlock the journal's greatest secret…" Gideon grins at the monovalent being himself and the Pines family's mortal enemy: Bill Cipher.
Later that day...
It was still raining at the Mystery Shack, Dipper, along with Mabel, Stan, Carla and Wendy taking time to unwind from today's happenings by watching tv in the living room. Everyone else in the family having had things to do, such as Shauna returning to work since making a full recovery, but now with scars to show from her ordeal.
Dipper and Wendy casually shooting at each other with Nyarf brand dart guns. The tv showing a program of an old western movie, the tv announcing, "He put the "old" in old west, they call him: Grandpa the Kid!" Then the main character of the program quoting, "I'm tired during the day."
"I can relate to this." Stan comments, having an arm around Carla beside him.
"Does feel that way sometimes…" Carla says to herself, even she admitting it's relatable.
Mabel turns to her great aunt and uncle to say, not wanting to watch the movie, "Grunkle Stan, Grauntie Carla, why can't we watch a movie we'll all enjoy?" She gets out an old video cassette, showing it to the others, "Dream Boy High! "Where love is on your permanent record!"
Stan, Dipper and Wendy were not pleased in Mabel's choice of movie, "Boo!" The three groaned in unison. Stan getting flashbacks of Shannon watching those movies on tv, in the 90's, whenever he wanted to watch something. The bright colors were touch much for him, even back then.
"How about a no, sweetie." Carla politely puts it.
Mabel, not following the majority vote, she simply puts, "You'll learn to like it."
Suddenly, a crash was heard in the kitchen, Soos coming running to the living room in panic, "Aaah! Dudes, there's a bat in the kitchen! It tried to touch me with its "weird little bat fingers." He spoke softer at the mention.
"Oh my!" Carla gasps, starting to get up from sitting next to Stan, "Well I ought to go take-"
"Nah, don't, Hotpants. Unwind with me." Stan says, wanting her to relax with him for today, reclining back in the loveseat recliner as he orders his great-nephew, "Dipper, take care of it."
Mabel laughs at her brother's expense, thankful she wasn't the one to be put up to the task, "Yes!"
Dipper groans in reluctance, really not up to the task of handling one of his great-uncle's chores to perform, "What? Why can't Mabel do it?"
Stan simply puts in his usual gruff manner as he thumbs over in the direction of the kitchen, "'Cause life ain't fair. My kids had to do chores, my nieces and nephew, and my grandkids. They didn't want to do them, but they had to. Now go fight a bat so we can watch TV."
Dipper gets up from where he sat, staring Stan right in the eye to act in rebellion, "No way, Grunkle Stan! You always make me do dumb chores. I'm putting my foot down this time!" Dipper declares with a stomp of his foot against the carpet.
Stan sits right up, staring his great-nephew down, recalling how defiant Jessie and Shauna were to do chores, "I said do it, kid. Now!" He commands as old western music from the TV plays, setting the mood where Dipper and Stan have a stare off, growling at each other.
Stan defeats Dipper in that regard, the boy groaning as he goes off to the kitchen, "Okay, I'll do it!" He grabs up a net beside the wall, dejectedly muttering, "Stupid chores…"
Mabel follows her brother to give him some advice, even if it wasn't the most uplifting or encouraging, "Remember, bats are more afraid of you than you are of them." She sees her brother go into the kitchen, then having a second thought to what she said, "Maybe I'm thinking of ducklings."
Dipper's, screaming and crashing can be heard from the kitchen, having a difficult time getting at the aggressive bat. Soon after dealing with the small flying critter, Soos spreads disinfectant on Dipper's bat bite on his arm, and Mabel wrapping bandage around his head from where he hit himself against the stove from falling over in panic. Then Wendy wrapping the bandage around his arm after Soos was done. The twelve-year old sighs as he laments, "Why does Grunkle Stan always pick on me? Think about it! The more painful or difficult the chore is, the more likely it is I'll have to do it. Why doesn't he pick on you guys? At least Grunkle Ford, Grauntie Addi and Grauntie Carla are more easier on me…"
Soos explains as much as he could, though be it somewhat limited as Stan even keeps secrets from him, "Dipper, Stan's personality is one of life's great mysteries. Like whether or not it's possible to lick your own elbow."
Mabel excitedly wants to see it proven, "I bet you can't!"
Soos accepted her challenge with a grin, "I bet I can!" The two head outside as Soos attempts to lick his own elbow, Mabel and Wendy chanting as they follow him.
"Lick it! Lick it! Lick it!"
Dipper face grew crestfallen as he says, "Sometimes I think Grunkle Stan hates me."
"He doesn't hate you, Dipper. That I know for a fact." Carla comes in to comfort her nephew. Dipper really wants to believe her, but he wasn't so sure. He did remember Stan having mentioned he treated his own kids and grandkids the same way, and they turned out alright, for the most part. Stan meant no harmful intent of trying to toughen up his young, but knowing when not to push them too hard.
Stan then yells for Dipper to do something, "The sink's clogged. Dipper, get in here and fix it!"
Carla puts a hand on Dipper's shoulder, winking to him as she yells back to Stan, "Have Ford do it this time, hun!" Dipper lightly smiles up to his great-aunt, being grateful she's there to be that soft hand.
Out in the woods...
As soon as it stopped raining, Gideon sets up a circle of candles surrounding two pictures of Stan and Ford with their eyes crossed out with a red marker.
With the final candle lit, Gideon opens Journal 2 to the page where he'll recite the incantation to summon Bill as he says with a cunning grin, "You think that combination is safe in your minds, Stanford and Stanley? We'll see what my new minion has to say about that!" Gideon starts his chant in broken latin as he reads aloud from the passage, "Triangulum, entangulum. Vene foris dominus mentium. Vene foris videntis omnium!"
Meanwhile, Mabel and Wendy were doing their own chanting for Soos, which he has yet to succeed, but he kept trying, "Lick that elbow! Lick that elbow!"
Soos came to a realization he cannot lick his own elbow as he says something poetic, "Like the infinite horizon, it eludes me."
"Least you tried, man." Wendy remarks.
They all stop what they're doing when they hear the mad cackling of Gideon Gleeful nearby.
"Is that who I think it is?" Mabel wondered as they follow the laughing. The three hide in the bushes as they watch Gideon recite more of the chant.
Gideon grunts, clasping to his stomach as he felt a powerful force inside him was about to be unleashed. Gideon's eyes began to glow a menacing red, his voice distorted to become much deeper than it was, head spinning a full 360 rotation at least three times, as he continues chanting that disturbs the three watching nearby, "Egassem sdrawkcab. egassem sdrawkcab. Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab!"
The sky and surrounding area turned black and white, time slowed down in that moment. A luminous triangle forms above the summoning spot, lighting a flame around the form as Bill menacingly laughs. Wendy, Mabel and Soos gasp as they lower themselves down to hide better. Even Gideon, returning to himself, cowers in fear of what he just done.
Bill completes his entrance, going from a dark color, to his yellow appearance, happy that he returned to Gravity Falls, "OH, OH, GRAVITY FALLS! IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK." The psychotic illuminati figure descends to Gideon's level, introduces himself, already knowing who the boy is, "NAMES BILL CIPHER, AND I TAKE IT YOU'RE SOME KIND OF LIVING VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY?" He lets out a laughs and says, "I'M JUST KIDDING, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, GIDEON!"
In a defensive tone, Gideon questions the malevolent corn chip, "W-what are you? H-how did you know my name?"
"OH I KNOW LOTS OF THINGS…" Bill's body shows various, cryptic locations that his "eyes" have seen for eons, emphasizing in a slow, menacingly deep voice, "LOTS OF THINGS…" His voice and form returns to "normal" as he gleefully demonstrates his dark power, "HEY, LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!" Bill gestures over to a nearby doe, the deer's teeth flying right out of the mouth and to his hands, giving them to Gideon, "DEER TEETH! FOR YOU, KID!" He laughs, reminiscing on what he did before that gave him the utmost pleasure in a disturbing sense.
Gideon cries out in shock, dropping the deer teeth on the ground as he exclaims, "You're insane!"
Bill shrugs it off, having been called worse things before as he says, "SURE I AM, WHAT'S YOUR POINT?" Bill returns the deer teeth back, with a wave of his hand, to the deer's mouth as if it never happened, the deer skipping off to elsewhere.
Getting back to why he originally summoned Bill, Gideon instructs the dream demon of what he wanted he can't do alone, "Listen to me, demon! I have a job for you. I need you to enter the mind of either Stanford or Stanley Pines and steal the code to their safe."
Soos, Mabel and Wendy gasp from within the bushes, needing to go warn the Pines back at the Mystery Shack as soon as they gather more intel.
Bill's eye widened from hearing the names, facing away from Gideon in thought for a moment, "WAIT… BOTH STAN PINES?" His body shows the images of a younger Ford and Stan Pines before he reverts himself back. If he could maliciously grin, he was doing it now with a narrowed eye as he knows exactly how to perform such a task, turning back to face Gideon to tell him, "YOU KNOW WHAT, KID? YOU'VE CONVINCED ME! I'M SOLD! I'LL HELP YOU WITH THIS AND IN RETURN YOU CAN HELP ME WITH SOMETHING I'VE BEEN WORKING ON! WE'LL WORK OUT THE DETAILS LATER."
Gideon reaches out with his hand to shake Bill's, not truly knowing what he's getting himself into as he seals the agreement, "Deal!" Blue flames engulfed both their hands for but a moment upon the evil corn chip's part, then dissipating when Bill lets go.
Bill bides the human boy before he enacts his evil plan into motion, eager to deliver his vengeance against Ford especially, "WELL, TIME TO INVADE BOTH STAN'S MIND! THIS SHOULD BE FUN! REMEMBER: REALITY IS AN ILLUSION, THE UNIVERSE IS A HOLOGRAM, BUY GOLD, BYE!" With those parting words, he disappears in a blink of an eye in a great flash of light, everything returning to its natural color as Gideon rubs his eyes.
Gideon evilly grins as he says, "It worked!" He manically laughs while Mabel, Soos and Wendy take their chance to go back to the Mystery Shack to warn everyone.
Back at the Mystery Shack...
Dipper was sweeping the floor with Carla, while Stan rests on his recliner. Ford taking a moment himself to nap on the couch next to his brother. Adeline herself sitting on the couch with Ford reading a book to relax. Carla hums a tune, while Dipper does a little jig in his step while cleaning to his great-aunts musical hums. The three catch Stan and Ford stirring in their sleep, muttering words from their active dreaming. Adeline rarely heard Ford talk in his sleep, not having seen him do so for years.
"Does that usually happen?" Dipper asks, but before he gets an answer, Mabel, Soos and Wendy come bolting into the living room in urgency.
"Guys we gotta help Grunkle Stan and Grunkle Ford!" Mabel cries out, waving her arms.
"Wait, what?" Dipper questioned, baffled what his sister was going on about at first.
"Dude, that punk Gideon summoned this floating, demonic symbol from the dollar bill, with a top hat and cane, is having him steal-" Wendy was cut off by the loud shut of Adeline's book.
Adeline and Carla's face paled, recalling exactly the being Wendy described. They anticipated Gideon to summon Bill Cipher, having wished that Ford should have torn out the page long ago. Dipper and the others showing a look of worry for the older women.
Adeline gives a serious look to the others, specifically to Dipper, "Dipper, I'm gonna need Journal 3 right now… We have to work quickly!"
Dipper and the others were caught off guard by Adeline's insight, never having thought she'd know he had the journal for all this time. Mason does as he was told and gave Adeline the journal, asking, "Grauntie how did you-"
"We really have no time to explain, Mason! Stan and Ford are in grave danger." Adeline flips to the page where the incantation for entering one's mind can be found.
"I'll get the candles!" Carla says, rushing off to the kitchen's cabinet for what candlesticks she can find.
"Who is this Bill Cipher guy anyway? How do you know him?" Soos asked while nomming on burrito bites.
Adeline sighs, glancing to Soos and voicing in a quiet tone, "Let's just say, Ford and myself have had terrible encounters with him. Know that Bill Cipher should never be underestimated, no matter how playful he seems. Gideon was foolish for summoning him..."
Carla comes back with the candlesticks in her arms in a huff, "These are all of them I can find-"
Suddenly, Stan and Ford start grunting in their sleep even more than before, causing for alarm from the others.
"Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Ford!" Mabel exclaims.
The dark shadow of Bill Cipher descended upon Stan and Ford, making the older men's eyes to glow blue, causing them to not only grunt even more, but move about randomly that Carla and Adeline had to keep them steady, so they wouldn't fall off and hit themselves.
"There's an incantation in the journal that can stop Bill Cipher, but I can't do it on my own. We'll be able to enter Stan and Ford's mind with it." Adeline frowns, her face pleading the others to cooperate, "I know I'm asking a lot -"
"Oh we're with all the way, Addi!" Soos cheered, as did Wendy, Mabel, Carla and Dipper even. Dipper still loves and cares about his great-uncles, even if one of them gives him a hard time.
It gave Adeline hope that they all can save the older men, knowing Bill may do extra damage to Ford especially, she wanted to act immediately. She then tells them, "Alright. We'll all be entering in the minds of Stan and Ford."
Soos then asks a simple question, "You think I can take these Burrito Bites into Stan's brain? Thumbs up? Thumbs down?" No one responds to him. Soos concluding, "You know what, I'm just gonna bring 'em."
"Can we call the family too?" Mabel wondered, but that idea was immediately dismissed by Carla.
"I'm afraid there's no time to call them."
"Besides, I can't send in too many people at once into the minds." Adeline adds, beginning to fret over her husband and brother-in-law every second that passes by.
Soon afterwards, Carla was quick to set up the circle of candles around where a sleeping Stan sat in the recliner. Soos and Wendy having moved a slumbering Ford to join his brother in the same seat, making it easier to make the connection.
Adeline gets to the page where the incantation is found, instructing the others, "Okay, is everyone ready to enter into Ford and Stan's mind?"
Dipper gives a determined nod, "Let's do this."
Everyone places their hands on both Stan and Ford's forehead as Adeline began to recite the incantation from the journal.
"Videntus omnium. Magister mentium. Magnesium ad hominem. Magnum opus. Habeas corpus! Inceptus Nolanus overratus! Magister mentium! Magister mentium! MAGISTER MENTIUM!" As Adeline spoke the verse, all their eyes began to glow a similar blue hue and each of the candles blown out by an unseen force.
Inside the Mindscape...
After the incantation was spoken, there was a blue explosion that transported them all into a linked version of Stan and Ford's minds. It had a more balanced atmosphere where the sky was in a permanent state of the sun setting, making everything colorful and almost serene. They could see the familiar Mystery Shack and the surrounding trees, having a more calm air about it, along with finding an intact swing set and other playground items. To top it all off, the Stan-O-War sailing out in the distance. All of them were in awe of what they're beholding.
"Whoa…" Wendy couldn't help to grin, having once thought it would completely different than she expected. Having thought it would be more dark, dreary and somber.
"So, this is Stan and Ford's mind?" Mabel wondered aloud, turning to see everything around her. A group of flying brown and blonde hair flying past them in an organized group.
"Hmm, figured it'd be all crazy with the Pines' opposing personalities." Soos commented.
Adeline reminds everyone, "Alright, be on the lookout for Bill Cipher."
By the sound of that familiar cackling from Bill, everyone halted right in front of the porch, hearing him say as he appeared on the porch, twirling his black cane in hand, then tipping his hat to an angry Adeline, "ALWAYS THE INSIGHTFUL ONE AS ALWAYS, BLONDIE! LONG TIME NO SEE…" Bill manifests two small glowing orbs, one brown and blue, infuriating the older blonde woman further from his taunt. "AND HELLO TO YOU TOO, FLOWER!" Bill greets, Carla being none too pleased herself.
"It's him! It's the guy!" Soos exclaims.
"You better leave my bosses minds, you demented dorato chip!" Wendy threatens, hitting her fist against the palm of her hand.
"Yeah! You leave my uncle's brain alone, you isosceles monster!" Mabel threatens with Wendy, but she was held back by Adeline from charging at him.
"AH, SOME OF THE PINES FAMILY I HAVEN'T FORMALLY MET YET! QUESTION MARK, SHOOTING STAR, PINE TREE, ICE, I HAD A HUNCH I MIGHT BUMP INTO YOU TOO!" Bill addresses, pointing his finger in the shape of a gun at Dipper, shooting out a red laser right at him.
Carla pushes Dipper out of the way of the shot out of protective parental instinct, her ending up taking the hit instead of her great-nephew. Dipper screams and deeply breathes, "Grauntie Carla!" as he sees Carla now had a hole going through her body, but she remains alive.
"It's okay, Dipper." Carla assures, showing she's unharmed that sets the boy at ease.
"Thankfully we're in the mind…" Adeline sighs, incredibly thankful they are.
Dipper demanded answers from the triangle entity, "What do you want with our uncle's minds anyway?"
Bill nonchalantly tells them, pointing inside the shack of memories behind him, "OH, JUST THE CODE TO THE OLD MAN'S SAFE! INSIDE THE SHACK IS A MAZE OF THOUSANDS OF DOORS REPRESENTING YOUR UNCLE'S MEMORIES. BEHIND ONE OF THEM IS A MEMORY OF THOSE TWO INPUTTING THE CODE! I JUST NEED TO FIND IT AND GIDEON WILL PAY ME HANDSOMELY. I'LL ONLY NEED ONE, BUT WHY NOT BOTH?"
"Not if we stop you!" Mabel aggressively threatens at the evil nacho chip.
Bill scoffs at the child, "Hah, fat chance! I'm the master of the mind." He claims as blue fire encircles him, "I even know what you're thinking right now!"
Mabel rolled her eyes, highly doubting the sadistic tortilla chip, "That's impossible!"
"Actually, it really is possible here, Mabel." Adeline reminds her great-niece. Mabel gulps, knowing Adeline's not kidding around in the slightest.
Bill makes Mabel's dream boys appear, like the ones from the movie she mentioned earlier, Xyler and Craz. The two older teen boys remarking in confusion.
"Whoa, where are we, bro?" Xyler wondered.
"We must be in heaven, 'cause I just saw an angel!" Craz responds in affection for Mabel, pointing right at her as she runs over to him to hug his leg.
"I'm never letting go of your leg!"
Adeline sighs in frustration, snapping her fingers to turn the dreamboys into hamsters, to which Mabel coos in delight. She didn't need anymore distractions, but not wanting to totally get rid of them either for Mabel's sake. The older woman shooting a glare at Bill, thinking up a cosmic crossbow that appears in her hand, aiming it right at Bill as the others gasp in awe.
"I won't hesitate, Bill!" Adeline's cosmic crossbow shoots out a bolt that Bill managed to dodge.
"WHOA!" Bill exclaims while getting out of the way, growling that Adeline knows how the mindscape works too, "FORGET YOU, LOSERS! I'M GONNA FIND THE MEMORY FIRST BEFORE ALL OF YOU! LATER, SUCKERS!" Bill bids, crashing through the Mystery Shack instead of going through the open door.
Mabel smiles to her new dreamboy hamsters, "I'm giving you two a shoulder throne!" The two hamsters squeak in delight.
"Grauntie Addi, how did you do that?" Dipper asks with a big grin on his face that Adeline stood up to Bill like she did.
"We're in the mind, Dipper. Whatever you can think of here, it's possible to accomplish." Adeline lightly smiles to him, fixing the hole in Carla.
"Sweet!" Wendy remarks, summoning up a large ax to carry with both hands, attaching it behind her on her back. "Always a must to have on me."
Soos thinks of the burrito bites he was eating earlier, starts eating some from the bag, "Dude, these taste even more delicious here with every bite!"
Mabel gets some great ideas, but before she can conjure them, Adeline reminds them all, "We have to find the memory before it's too late."
Mabel places hamster Craz and Xyler on her shoulders, "Shoulder throne!"
Soos, in the attempt to be playful with Dipper, does the same, "Shoulder throne!" But Dipper wasn't having it, not being the most playful type like his sister.
Soon enough, all of them head inside the large Mystery Shack full of both Stan and Ford's memories, some doors open while others are closed. The hamsters exclaiming, still having their voices, though they're squeaky, making Mabel laugh in delight.
"Radical!"
"I also think it's radical!"
Looking down the long steps, Adeline formed an idea in her mind, instructing everyone else to do the same as she says, "Everyone, think of floating down; not falling." Adeline takes a deep breath, jumping off the platform, floating down as she wants it to be.
Everyone else follows her lead, going down faster than they would have climbing down the steps. All around, Dipper sees doors that lead to Stan and Ford's hopes, dreams, and fears hidden behind the doors, becoming even more curious about what's there. Especially the closed off hall with a blinking red light that says, "Restricted!"
They all go through the hall of many memories where they catch glimpses of Ford and Stan's past. Most of them Carla and Adeline remember themselves, since many of them revolved around family.
"Whoa, look! All of Stan's and Ford's memories! Many of them good." Soos remarks with a grin, hoping to see some involving himself in a positive light, and learning more about him.
Dipper groans, commenting in his dismay with crossed arms in a pout, "Great. Sure there's memories of Grunkle Stan bossing me around, can't wait to see more of that."
"Oh Dipper, stop." Carla reprimands spoke in his direction, not trying to be harsh with him, only to help him see he's wrong about her husband, "He does love you as much as he loves all of us. While we're here, I can possibly show you his better side, and what he really thinks of you. And find the code too."
Dipper wants to believe his great-aunt, though he still has doubts in the back of his mind.
"Let's all get searching already." Wendy adds.
"Remember, know everyone here. Bill can look like anyone in this plane." Adeline tells them before they all head off and start opening doors to find the code, finding many other memories along the way.
Dipper opening one door with Carla to find a younger Stan at age seventeen and a half, holding a newborn James and Jessie in both arms, right next to Carla, of the same age, in the hospital bed, along with younger Ford, Shermie holding a baby Alex, and Ma Pines being there too in the year May 5, 1972. Dipper and Carla watch the touching scene play out, bringing the older fond memories of that day. Dipper and his sister never had the chance to know his great-grandma, Ma Pines, before she passed away years prior. Seeing his dad as a baby with his grandpa there, filled Dipper's heart with some warmth.
Seventeen-year old Stan tells his babies something, his eyes swelled up with tears as he does so, "Oh man… I'm never gonna let you both go! I'm gonna be a better dad than my own Pa was… I swear to you two, I'll try my best."
Filbrick didn't even bother to show up to see his new grandbabies. Good riddance since Filbrick had always treated Stan so harshly; even in subtle ways that stuck to him for years like a illness. It was for the best that Filbrick wasn't there to possibly ruin such a precious moment to Stan and the family.
"Aw, you're crying, Stanley." Ma Pines remarks, overjoyed to see her son so happy with the family he's made for himself and Carla. She'll be sure to give as much support as they'll need.
Hearing him say those words tugged at a young Carla's heartstrings, as did Ford's, Shermie's and Ma's. Shermie vowed himself that he would be better father as well. As did Ford if he ever will have any kids himself, in the future.
"Can I hold my niece and nephew, Stanley?" Seventeen-year old Ford asks his brother. Stan was reluctant as he responds.
"Five more minutes, Stanford. I gave James here your name as his middle name, by the way. It suits him, don't it Little Sixer?" Stan smiled to his young son, Ford nodding as he understood, and honored at the same time that his brother would do that. He sees Jessie wiggle about, moving her small fists in the air, making him laugh a little, "I haven't forgotten you too, Firecracker. You may not have six fingers or toes, but I still love you, baby girl. Doesn't make you any less special to us." He cooed to his daughter.
Dipper closed the door, feeling a small tear running down his face. Carla wiping the drop away with a thumb as she giggles, saying, "There's plenty more where that came from, sweetie."
The two venture down, seeing memories of Stan and Ford celebrating their Bar Mitzvah together at age twelve. Stan having worn a pair of Groucho Marx Glasses to the temple; his father not having been pleased at all. One door opening with Stan, Carla, Ford and Adeline watching Cash Wheel with a young Shauna and Shannon eating cereal in James and Shifty's lap. Carla opens another where Stan was teaching a younger Soos, Tanya and Cormac boxing together. Cormac sending the punching bag flying across the room until it hit the wall with a loud slam, impressing his grandpa, cousin and friend. Stan and Ford having been there when all the cousins were born, including Dipper and Mabel date of their birth.
Meanwhile, Soos opens a door that shows a young man Stanley and younger woman Carla, along with seven-year old James and Jessie in Las Vegas.
Stanley was driving down the street with Carla sitting in the front passenger while James and Jessie were in the back seats. Carla noticing Jessie had stuffed her coat with something that made her look rounder than usual, asking her daughter, "Dear, what do you have in your coat?"
"Money and chips!" Jessie exclaims, showing the multiple dollar bills and poker game chips in the pockets, receiving shocked expressions from her parents and brother, "I lied about going to the restroom… I wanted to steal." Back then, Jessie's knack for stealing having been worse in her past, though over the years, she found ways to control those urges.
"Um, should we return all that?" James wondered, fidgeting his fingers in worry they'll get in trouble for it.
"I don't know whether to be really proud, or mad." Carla says, still astonished that her daughter got away with it, asking, "How did you manage to not get caught?"
Jessie giggled, finding it to be a game as she says, "I told the people I was just chubby for my age. My intuition being right once again!"
Stan couldn't help himself but to laugh, "That a girl, Firecracker! It seems like enough money to make it to Kentucky!" Carla gives him a "you're not helping" look, him defending, "Hey, I didn't put her up to it this time. Okay, we'll return the chips."
Soos closes the door to say, "Nope."
Mabel opens a small door to see Ford and Adeline out on their first date in their twenties, "Whoa, Grunkle Ford and Grauntie Addi on a date!"
In the scene at a restraunt, Ford and Adeline were enjoying dinner while making conversation. Ford having been nervous through the whole thing, even while Fiddleford and Shifty were holding up large, written cards to help him talk about topics with her.
"So uh… I was thinking we can head over to Gravity Falls Lake by the waterfall for our next stop after this…" Ford clears his throat as he tells her with a nervous smile.
"That actually sounds wonderful. We don't go there often." Adeline agreed with a bright smile.
Fiddleford and Shifty giving Ford a thumbs up before the door was closed by Mabel.
"Awe, so sweet!" Mabel remarks in a positive manner.
Wendy opens a door where she sees touching scene between Shauna and Shannon at age twelve. Shauna convincing her twin sister to let go of the mystic amulet from further corruption. Shannon having levitated herself in the air in the attic room, her hair almost fully white with a streak of brown left, every other family member being levitated in the air against the ceiling, toning out their pleas for her to stop.
"Shannon please… don't hurt our family. It's not like you to hurt them like you are. That power may feel great, but you're doing terrible things." Shauna was choking up in her words, pointing out, "Look around you, Shannon! Do they look impressed by what you're doing?!"
Shannon frowns, looking to the opposite reaction of what she's seeing from their saddened expressions, especially Ford who feels at fault for it all that his daughter got a hold of the mystic amulet that corrupted her in the first place. He and Adeline knew it was the effects of the cursed item to be influencing their daughter in the worse way.
Shannon lowers everyone safely down to the floor of the room, then taking off the mystic amulet to move it away from her, kneeling down sobbing in regret of what she did. To which, she gets immediately comforted by Ford and the rest of the family in an embrace. None of them hating her in the slightest.
"Aw man…" Wendy uttered, closing the door to look for the code memory.
Adeline opens a door, smiling to see the memory of when Shauna and Shannon were born; the year having been March 15, 1983, at Gravity Falls hospital. Ford, as well as Stan, Carla, Shermie, Shifty, Alex, James, Jessie and Ma Pines having been there for the occasion.
"Now all my boys have babies of their own!" Ma Pines cheered, feeling fulfilled in a sense to know that her sons have all made families of their own.
"Heh, you got two Lil' Sixers." Stan comments in fondness.
Almost getting lost in the memory, Adeline quickly shuts the door to get back to the task at hand.
His curiosity was peeked when Dipper finds a door that leads to memories relating to him, "Look, guys! Memories about me!" He opens the door, yearning to know what Stan really thought about him.
Soos suggesting, "That doesn't seem like a good idea."
"I just wanna know what the old guy really thinks of me." Dipper expresses, not being able to take much more of not knowing.
"Yeah, I mean not every thought should be known." Wendy adds, having heard enough gossip in her life to know what others may be truly think about certain people.
"We already know how Stan feels about us. He loves us! We're great!" Mabel walks away with Soos, Wendy and Adeline.
Carla and Dipper remaining behind. The older woman telling Adeline with an assuring smile, "We won't be long, Addi."
Adeline sighs, "Alright, but come find us when you're both done as soon as possible. No telling where Bill could be, or what form he took."
Carla and Dipper enter through the bright hallway, seeing many doors where they hear echoes of Stan's voice talking to the boy. Dipper opens one door where it shows Stan making him chop firewood on a stump with an ax.
"No buts! Now go chop that firewood already!" Stan hitted Dipper lightly on the head, making the twelve-year old groan in reluctance, going to chop wood with an expression as if wanting to complain more.
Stan sits on the couch with Soos, Carla, Ford and Adeline.
"I think you're being too hard on the boy," Carla in the memory remarks with a raised brow at her husband.
"I agree." Adeline defends with Carla.
Soos then asking of Stan, "Dude, Stan, I've been meaning to ask you. Why are you so hard on Dipper all the time?"
Stan sighs, exchanging a look with Ford, Adeline and Carla, who really know why as he tells Soos, speaking in a whisper, "The kid's a loser. He's weak! He's an utter embarrassment! I just wanna get rid of him."
Before Dipper could close the door in depression of what he heard, Carla stops him to reassure him, "Listen to the whole thing, Dipper. You'll find he's better than what you're thinking of."
With her guidance, Dipper stayed to hear more of what Stan had to say about him. Stan continuing what he's saying that surprised him, "Yeah… those were what my dad and other folk said about me when I was a boy."
"Life wasn't so kind to me either; myself having been bullied for having six fingers and toes. Stan had always been there to help me find them off. I still feel terrible Stan got the worse of it from our own father." Ford adds to the story. Dipper and Carla turning around to see a memory door open to show Stan and Ford as kids not only having been picked on by bullies, but Filbrick having disciplined Stan in a harsh way while giving more praise to Ford, making Dipper cringe a bit.
Stan continues on, "So one summer, Pa signs Poindexter and myself for boxing lessons." A memory door opens to show a young Stan getting pinned by a bigger kid in the boxing ring while Filbrick and Ford watched, "It was even worse than the schoolyard!" The younger Stan deliver a left hook against his opponent that knocked him out, earning a nod from Filbrick in only slight approval. "Y'know, that time I thought Pa was trying to torture us. But wouldn't you know it, he was doing us a favor all along, but it still didn't excuse him of the crap he treated us to. Shermie was able to get out of there as soon as he turned eighteen and joined the army, finding a nice woman and having Alex together, eventually." Another door opens to show a teenage Stan at the movie theater with a teenage Carla, waiting in line until a mugger went after Carla's purse while she cries out in fear. Stan immediately delivered a left hook punch against the guy, receiving not only cheers from the people around them, but a kiss on the cheek from Carla, starting their beautiful relationship together. "So you see, that's why I'm hard on Dipper, but not too much. To toughen him up like I did with my own kids, nieces and nephew, and my grandkids. So when the world fights, they all fight back!" Stan grins to them, "Of course, I give credit to Ford, Addi and Carla having taught them a thing or two. Quincy's gonna need some lessons too."
Listening to Stan made Dipper feel much better, learning that his great-uncle really does love and care for him, as well as his own family he reared.
"That explains a lot about Tanya and rest of them with how they approach a problem." Soos remarks with a smile.
"I can guarantee that it does work wonders." Ford spoke in a positive manner, all of them seeing memory Dipper successfully chop a piece of wood in two.
"We're all proud of him for improving so much over the summer." Stan remarks.
Dipper closes the memory door, smiling brightly at Carla, being grateful she had him stay, "Thanks for being here, Grauntie Carla. I'm happy he doesn't hate me after all."
"No problem, sweetie. Stan and Ford went through a lot in the past." She looks to the door and suggests, "We should meet back with the others." Dipper nods back to her as they both head out the door.
Meanwhile, Bill managed to blend into the group fully disguised as Soos while the real version was distracted from watching other memories. He calls out in Soos' voice, "HELLO? CODE TO STAN'S SAFE? WHERE ARE YOU?" He opens one door, inside seeing Ford press the button combination to the vending machine. The vending machine opens and a secret hallway appears. Ford, Stan, Carla and Adeline entering inside, looking to make sure they weren't noticed in the slightest. Bill/Soos shrugs, saying, "BORING!"
Mabel gasps, seeing a more special door in the shape of a red heart with the words "Private" written in yellow lettering in cursive. She touches the doorknob and says, "I have a great feeling about this door! Since Grunkle Stan or Grunkle Ford loves the shack so much." Mabel slowly opens the door, instantly hearing seductive 70's music in the background, seeing a seventeen-year old Stan and Carla in bed together at a hotel, giggling all the while as the two were making out and touching each other; thankfully Mabel not being able to see anything suggestive under the sheets. It was that exact night where James and Jessie were conceived...
The seventeen-year old Carla asking of Stan with a smirk, "You ready to tame this tigress?"
"Oh you bet I am, Hotpants!" Stan exclaims with raised brow and suggestive smirk of his own, proceeding to make out with her more before they got to the real fun.
Carla slams the door shut, knowing exactly what was going on; she didn't want Mabel watching at her young age and thankful she got there in time. Carla's face blushing red all the while. Wendy realizes from what she watched from the memory that it wasn't an appropriate one for everyone to see.
"Too young, too young!" Carla cries out as she blocks the door, sighing in relief.
"What was going on in that memory? Seems like the two of you were having fun." Mabel asked innocently, not knowing what goes one when two people are horny and need somewhere private to have their "fun."
"We'll talk about it later, sweetie." Carla suggested. Suddenly, an idea popped in her head as she does have an idea of where the code could be, "Let's check under the rug we passed by earlier! Stan tends to hide things under there."
"Grauntie Carla that's it!" Mabel cheers for her, figuring her great-aunt would know a lot about Stan and how he is.
Mabel and the others look around the corner, finding the very rug that could hold the code they were looking for. Mabel pulls off the rug and low and behold, a small door appearing right in front of them.
Everyone gasps as the girl opens the door, revealing Ford placing the deed inside the safe, Stan being there to witness his brother inputting the code. Eureka! It was the door they'd been looking for.
Bill/Soos remarks, "DUDE! WE FOUND IT!"
"Yeah!" Everyone cheered. Mabel and Dipper high-fiving one another in their success, the boy having since gotten used to the sting when his sister high-fives hard.
"But what do we do now?" Hamster Xyler and Craz wondered in unison, saying, "Jinx!"
"We can destroy it before Bill finds it!" Mabel suggests, getting a nearby pole axe to chop at it, until Bill/Soos stops her to say.
"WAIT! MAYBE I SHOULD DO IT? MY BIG FAT ARMS ARE GREAT AT DESTROYING STUFF!" Bill/Soos uses some psychic power to levitate the door off the ground.
Dipper and Wendy caught that off detail, knowing the real Soos was insecure about his body type; hating being called fat.
"Wait… Soos never likes being called fat about any part of his body." Dipper calls Bill/Soos out as he pointed with a glare, "You're not Soos!"
The real Soos comes running back, excited to share what he'd seen from one of the many doors he got distracted by, "Hey, guys! I just saw a memory of Stan and Carla roller skating and wearing short-shorts!" He pauses to take in the scene, unphased that there's an imposter of himself before him at first before he starts noticing something was off, "Missus Pines, your chemistry with Stan is awesome! Hey, something weird is goin' on here."
Bill laughs manically, reverting back to his normal, pyramid form, commenting, "BOY, SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE GULLIBLE! STILL A DITZ AS EVER, BLONDIE! PINE TREE HERE MAY HAVE FIGURED ME OUT, BUT IT'S TOO LATE! I KNEW YOU'D LEAD ME STRAIGHT TO THE CODE!" He evilly laughs in delight, "IT'S FUNNY HOW DUMB YOU ALL ARE! THE COMBINATION TO SIX-FINGERS SAFE. BOY THAT WAS EASIER THAN I THOUGHT!"
"Oh, yeah?" Well…" Mabel starts, finding it hard to come up with a good comeback on the fly in that moment of fear, "you're a stink face!"
"Awesome comeback, Mabel!" Hamster Xyler praised, having no sense to give critical thinking, not having a lot of depth to him, it seemed.
"Don't treat me like a child, Xyler!" Mabel snaps at him.
"We're not letting you get away, Bill!" Adeline barks at the nefarious nacho chip.
"HA, I LIKE TO SEE YOU ALL TRY! LATER, SUCKERS!" Bill flies away up the steps at a fast pace from the gang.
"Everyone, think of flying! We have to save Ford and Stan!" Adeline advises, thinking of flight as she zooms off where Bill was heading while the others follow.
"Wee!" Mabel and the hamsters exclaim from the thrill they're having.
Bill passes by each door, all of them opening as he does so, getting far enough ahead where he stops at the ringing of his bow tie. Bill answers the call from Gideon as he greets his client, "Y'ELLO?"
Gideon angrily questions the dream demon, "Bill! Did you find the memory with the combination yet?"
Bill assures the angry twisted child, "RELAX, SHORT-STACK. I GOT IT RIGHT HERE!"
Gideon grins to hearing the news and his plan coming together as he liked it to, "Ha ha ha! Perfect, now give it to me and I'll fulfill my end of the bargain."
Bill takes out the door he had stowed away on him somehow, happy that things seem to be going his way, "FINALLY! IT'S- YOU GOT A PEN THERE?" Gideon nodded as he got a pen and paper on hand. Bill continuing, "IT'S 13, 44… " The door gets hit by a cosmic crossbow bolt, sending the door flying away as Bill cries out in dismay, "AH! NO, NO, NO! WAIT, NO!" The triangle runs with his stubby little legs for it as the door traveled to a memory of the Bottomless Pit, losing it forever. The door closes, turning behind him to see a grinning Adeline with her trusty cosmic crossbow in hand.
"Looks like that'll be gone forever." Adeline comments with a satisfied grin and a raised brow.
"You did it, Grauntie Addi!" Mabel and Dipper cheered for her as did the others.
"The shack is safe!" Soos exclaims, high-fiving Wendy.
"Kicked your triangle ass, Bill!" Wendy says in victory.
Gideon having been disappointed by the turn of events, he ends his deal with Bill, "The deal's off!"
Bill frantically pleads to the boy, "WA-WAIT! NO! WAIT!"
Gideon would hear any of it from all the failures that have happened, he'll resort to his final trump card, "I'm switchin' to plan B!"
The screen on Bill turns off, the triangle cracking into many pieces from his dramatic emotions manifesting. His body reassembles, but is now a vibrant red from the rage he's feeling, eye having turned a void black with the pupil turned white, looking right at the group, "YOU! YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT YOU JUST COST ME! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M LIKE…" his voice changed to a low, demonic tone, "WHEN I'M MAD?!" Several characters blink in his eyes right at Adeline in the others, the older blonde woman not back down while the others seem to be more afraid of him than before. Bill conjures flames that surround them all, creating the shape of Ford and Stan's heads from the rock under their feet. The scene incredibly changes to that being in the cosmic space around them, no longer seeing any memory doors moments ago. Bill enlarges his whole body, becoming gigantic to intimidate them, but Adeline and Dipper were undeterred.
"So I guess gets really mad when he gets mad." Soos comments.
Bill emits electricity from his body as he threatens them, "EAT NIGHTMARES!"
"Oh no you don't!" Adeline takes out her cosmic crossbow once more, deciding to add an extra feature to her weapon as it changes shape to have a repeating mechanism to fire multiple bolts within seconds. "Everyone think of something crazy to fight against Bill! Use whatever you all can imagine!" She fires multiple shots at the dream demon, flying around to dodge his bolts of lightning.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU, BLONDIE! YOU'VE SPOILED EVERYTHING!" Bill transforms his arm into a giant flyswatter, using it to hit Adeline, but with quick thinking, she conjured large wings to shield her from his attack, knocking her down to the ground she craters into, but otherwise unharmed; though shaking from the impact as she slowly got up. Carla coming to her to cover her sister-in-law.
"Alright! Time to deliver some Flower Power!" Carla imagines a huge psychedelic tommy gun in her arms, firing out multiple pink fiery flowers at the demon, causing him pain.
"Bill! Nice bow tie!" Dipper fires a red laser from both his eyes right at Bill, creating a huge hole in his form.
"Kittens for fists! Pow pow pow!" Mabel announces, her hands being replaced with large kitten heads she shoots out from her sleeves in multiples at Bill's face. The kitten heads licking Mabel's face as she says, "Why hello, friends!"
Soos thinks of a good attack against Bill, "Anything, huh?" He lifts up his shirt, exposing his stomach as he announces his own attack, inspired from an old cartoon show he watched, "Soos love stomach beam stare!" Soos unleashed a multi-colored ray of question marks right at the demon, hurting him even more.
Wendy rubs her hands in delight, taking out her trust ax with an icy aura and she lunges for the demon, "Time to chop you down a peg!" She makes a gash against the malevolent being that forces him back. Wendy getting a great distance back herself to be near her allies.
Bill screams, having underestimated all of them and their vast imaginations, him backing away as he quickly mends the hole and wounds against him, "ENOUGH GAMES!" He shoots out a giant laser from his eye in the shape of a canon.
Mabel came up with a quick solution, "Hamster ball shield activate!" Everyone does the same as her, the laser reflecting right off them and back at Bill right in his eye!
Bill uttering in pain on his knees, "AH! OH MY EYE! AAH!"
The hamster balls break apart from the power of the laser, Mabel having another trick up her sleeves. She turns Xyler and Craz back to their dreamboy selves, conjuring musical instruments they can play to create synthesize music.
"Xyler! Craz! Play that music!"
As soon as the dreamboys start playing their music, it harms Bill even more so as he couldn't stand to hear it.
"NO! SYNTHESIZE MUSIC! IT HURTS!"
"And now to imagine your worst nightmare! A portal out of our grunkle's minds!" Dipper yells out.
"Out of our grunkle's mi-inds!" Mabel singed, though it being too loud for Dipper.
"Mabel!" Dipper composes himself as he and everyone else put their thoughts together to think the same thing, "Everyone, together!"
With all their might, including Xyler and Craz, they summon a black hole that starts sucking in Bill as he screams in fear.
"NO, NO, NO! ENOUGH!" With the wave of his arms, Bill turns the surroundings white, becoming yellow again in the process, finding himself intrigue in the humans who defeated him, "YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED. EVEN WITH BLONDIE HERE HAVING TOLD YOU, YOU ARE MORE CLEVER THAN YOU LOOK. ESPECIALLY THE FAT ONE." He tells, pointing at Soos with a side glare at Adeline, her having been his greatest threat to him while in the mindscape.
Soos whispers over to Mabel with a nudge from his elbow, playfully teasing, "He's talking about you."
Bill tells them before he leaves the mindscape, "SO I'M GONNA LET YOU KIDS, AND OLD LADIES, OFF THE HOOK. YOU MIGHT COME IN HANDY LATER. BUT KNOW THIS: A DARKNESS APPROACHES. A DAY WILL COME IN THE FUTURE WHEN EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT WILL CHANGE! UNTIL THEN I'LL BE WATCHING YOU! I'LL BE WATCHING YOU…" In a great flash, he disappears, showing the zodiac wheel, with his words echoing in their minds, leaving them all in the white void. Adeline was determined more than ever to stop him, as was Carla as they know how serious he's really being.
"He's gone! We did it!" Dipper cheers with Soos, Wendy and Mabel in a high-five. Carla and Adeline grimace in knowing it's far from over with Bill, sensing they'll be seeing him again. All of them start disappearing, Dipper surmising, "Grunkle Stan and Ford must be waking up."
Mabel frowns to her imaginary dreamboys, "Will I ever see you guys again?"
"In your dreams," Xyler tells her.
Craz commenting as she starts disappearing, "Good one, bro. Good one." Xyler winking back at him as Mabel and the others faded back into reality.
Inside the Mystery Shack...
Dipper, along with Mabel, Soos, Adeline and Carla wake up from where they all were when they entered Ford and Stan's mind. Seeing all their family members with worried faces having gathered around them. Waddles having slept right beside Mabel to keep her company.
The six screaming briefly when they become aware upon awakening.
"Hey, guys! You all had a good sleep?" Tyrone greets with a quirked brow, helping Dipper up, "We all got concerned when none of you answered our calls. Seeing you all sleeping did raise alarm bells. Plus, the candles around the chair too." The other family members help up, Mabel, Soos, Wendy, Carla and Adeline respectively on their feet.
Seeing that Stan and Ford haven't woken up yet, the adult members grew more worried.
The adults and cousins knew better as when they arrived earlier, the adults saw the page of the journal it was on, knowing Bill had something to do with it. All of them having kept watch in case something were to happen.
"We did it!" Mabel cheers again.
Hearing her stirred Stan and Ford from their deep slumber.
Stan wondering as he groans, gaining his bearings as he rubs his head, "What? Did what? What are you all doing here?"
"And why were we dreaming of two brightly colored and radical young men?" Ford wondered when he rubbed his eyes, getting a big hug from Adeline, whispering in his ear that brought great concern on his face as she tells him what happened in the mindscape. Stan being surprised to be getting a hug from Dipper, not something his great-nephew did all summer so far until now.
"What is this, a hug?" Stan rhetorically asked with a small grin.
"Nope! It's a choke hold." Dipper and the others laugh, pretending to perform the technique.
Stan chuckling, "Not bad, kid. Not bad. You may become as good as the rest of your cousins one day."
Dipper smiles back at each of his older cousins, nodding, "I think so too."
Mabel remarks in relief, "I'm just glad Gideon didn't get into the safe. I really love this old shack."
"Group hug?" Soos asks, getting at least a hug from Tanya, Cormac and Quincy to humor him, "Ah, this is enough." Soos smiled.
Suddenly, they all feel the ground of the shack shake under them.
Dipper wondering aloud, "Hey, do you guys feel…?"
"Everybody get back from the sofa!" Jessie warns, everyone moving in time when an explosion goes off right behind the sofa. Everyone shielding the other from the blast that went off from the office.
To their horror, Gideon makes himself known, entering through the hole he created from the dynamite used to open the safe with great force. The boy carrying Ford's deed in his hands.
Gideon shows his smug grin as he says, "Oh, I'm sorry, Pines family. Did I wake you?"
"But… we defeated Bill!" Dipper cries out, the adult members of the family gasping in unison.
Gideon hissed at them, "Bill failed me! So I switched to plan B: dynamite! I got your deed, Stanford!"
Ford growls at the boy, angered from the damage he caused to his home, and threatened the lives the old man holds dear, "You little brat! Hand over my deed… right now!"
Gideon backs away with the deed tucked in his coat, "You wouldn't hit a little kid, would you?" The boy nervously grinned, knowing the older man can't lay a finger on him.
"He can't, but we can." Junior tells, glaring at Gideon with the teen Pines locking their eyes on the boy, ready to deliver a beating. They didn't think Gideon would add salt to injury with what he does next.
Gideon yells at them, holding up the deed with a lighter in his hand, making an effective bluff, "I'll burn this deed if any of you take another step!"
"It's not worth it, kids." Jessie tells them, knowing what may possibly happen won't be good. The teens backing away in reluctance.
"The Mystery Shack belongs to me! So get off my property!" Gideon takes out a handheld transceiver, calling over his father to bring in the wrecking ball, "Daddy? Bring it around the front."
Dipper tries and fails to assure his family and friends, being in denial of what was happening in front of him, grabbing up Journal 3 to tuck in his vest, "Don't worry, guys! It's just part of the dream! We're gonna wake up any second now! Right? Right?"
Bud Gleeful comes charging in with a crane, dangling a wrecking ball, aiming to smash it against the shack. Everyone in the whole stead leaves, Mabel taking Waddles with her as they all flee for their lives until they all get outside. They watch in horror when Bud smashed the large ball against the Mystery Shack sign, destroying it and the roof of the home. The Pines family hearts shattering as they see the place now in the clutches of the Gleeful family. Quincy beginning to sob, covering his face by his dad's leg.
"NOOOO!" Stanford cries out, reaching out for his home. Ford vowing in anger, "I'LL GET YOU GLEEFUL'S FOR THIS! YOU HEAR ME?!"
Dipper and Mabel have never seen their great-uncle as enraged as he was being before them, having been used to his more composed demeanor, but all of that shattering as he was fuming with his voice full of wrath. It scared Quincy to see his grandfather they way he'd being; if understandable, hiding behind his mother's legs.
Adeline does her best to calm her husband down as everyone heads off the property. Adeline talking softly to Ford, "We should stay at our daughter's for now. I'll let Shifty know where we are. Where should we have Dipper and Mabel stay?"
Ford calms down enough to give his response in a quiet tone, "They can stay with either Soos or at Wendy's, if none of them mind."
Mabel sees a problem, like before with the room situation as she asks, "Why can't we stay with our fam-"
Stan tells her to not have Ford go off on her accidentally, "Please, pumpkin… just go along with it. You and Dipper will be fine with them. We've all had a pretty bad day. We'll see you two tomorrow. Carla and I will either be at James or Jessie's place."
Dipper and Mabel exchange looks with one another with a frown, then looking up to Soos and Wendy.
"You guys can come stay with me and my abuelita!" Soos gathers the two up in a hug, "It'll be like a sleepover."
Wendy gives the twins a sympathetic looks as she says, "Sorry, dudes. My dad likes that turd, Gideon, so… it wouldn't be a good place for you two."
For the first time, Dipper felt uncertain as to what to do next. For now, they all hope they can settle everything tomorrow, wanting things to go back the way they were; as a one big, weird happy family.
A/N: Another chapter written by vulpixen! Oh boy things have become dire for the Pines family! I'm writing these chapters as fast as I can… before the worse may happen. Let's all hope sailormew4 and myself can continue this fic through all the way to the end of season two! We'd hate to see this fic end before it's finished for everyone to enjoy. I took a bit of inspiration from the deleted opening on Gideon summoning Bill part. Join us in the last chapter of season one in Chapter 39: Gideon Rises AU!