Author's Note: In this chapter, now that Dipper and gang have found Mabel at last, they aim to rescue her and get back to safety, but it seems it'll be easier said than done to convince her to leave the imagination land she calls 'Mabel Land' behind and face against the reality of the dire situation going on in Gravity Falls. Meanwhile, Bill is angered to find there's one more obstacle that stands between him and total universe takeover. The sibling bond will be tested and the past remembered here in Weirdmagedon 2: Escape From Reality AU!
Family Tree:
Stanley and Carla - James and Jessie Pines
Stanford and Addi - Shauna, Shannon Pines and Shifty 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 "Spriggs" Valdez - Quincy Pines (7)
Shifty Pines and Tate McGucket - Isaac McGucket (14)
Shannon Pines and Clyde Bone (dating) - Drake Bone (5)
Tanya Pines, Frederick "Fred" Palovich, and Kyle Harper - Cadence Pines (unborn)
Enjoy Fellow Gravity Fallers!
Gravity Falls the next day….
Day four in the formerly sleepy town and everything is still in destruction and mayhem; an animated mailbox eating an unsuspecting squirrel scampering by. Everything reduced to a barren, almost lifeless wasteland in contrast to the vibrant woodlands it once was.
And those at the Mystery Shack still hanging on to survive and forming a plan to carry on what Ford, Adeline and their children could not. And terribly missing those they love and care for.
Within the Fearamid….
All of Bill Cipher's hench-maniacs kept partying on in their twist fun, dancing and drinking all the while. However, as Bill likes to keep partying, he has to put the next phase of his world-ending plan into action. Then, much more celebrating to be had!
Bill taps a fork on Ford like a wine glass, who is still turned to gold, and the music stops on cue for him to have everyone's undivided attention.
"LADIES, GENTLEMEN, THAT CREATURE WITH LIKE 87 DIFFERENT FACES," begins Bill.
"88 different faces!" snaps the creature with 88 different faces, appendages and a pair of white wings and bright halo, arranged in a grotesque appearance as if he was put in a blender then stitched together in an even bigger mess.
"WHOA-HO, SORRY - TOUCHY SUBJECT," Bill half-heartedly apologizes, adjusting his black bowtie before continuing. "ANYWAYS, IT'S BEEN FUN TURNING GRAVITY FALLS INSIDE OUT, ROUNDING UP ALL ITS TERRIFIED CITIZENS AND THEN STACKING THEM INTO THIS MASSIVE THRONE OF HUMAN AGONY," Bill's voice echoes, pointing over to the enormous structure in the form of a throne fit for him, made of the stacked statues of the many denizens of Gravity Falls. Bill sits on the throne to assure darkly. "Don't worry, they're not conscious anymore. Probably."
However, Bill is proven wrong when one of the statues, Lazy Susan, reverts back to normal, but she is dazed as if just waking up from a deep sleep. "Uh, my omelettes. They-they have friendly faces," mumbles Lazy Susan tiredly.
"WHOOPS. HEHE, BACK, BACK YOU GO THERE," coaxes Bill, pushing the older woman back into place until she turns back into stone. Bill continues. "BUT GRAVITY FALLS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUR CHAOS WORLDWIDE! ALRIGHT BOYS, TO THE CORNERS OF THE EARTH. SET THE WORLD AFLAME WITH YOUR WEIRDNESS, THIS DIMENSION IS OURS!" With that, Bill opens a hole behind him to the outside, allowing his minions to fly up towards the sky, prepared to cause as much havoc and weirdness as possible.
Bill lets out a satisfied sigh, enjoying his victory before it even starts. "AH, GLOBAL DOMINATION. I COULD GET USED TO -"
THUMP!
Seeing his minions hit hard against an invisible force in the air and falling from the sky, Bill is angered to see there is a great flaw in his grand scheme. "WHAT?!" miffed Bill. He flies up to the sky and touches the invisible force shield, causing it to ripple around the entire town and land like a snowglobe but without the snow. "HMM, THIS MIGHT BE MORE COMPLICATED THAN I THOUGHT."
"I think I broke something," aches Paci-Fire along with the other injured minion.
"WALK IT OFF!" shouts Bill, his once good mood now soured by this discovery. He's hellbound to find a way to tear down the dome once he figures out how he never knew this after all these many years, never noticing it's all part of the Weirdness Magnetism containing him in.
Meanwhile within Mabel's prison bubble….
Dipper, along with his cousins, Soos and Wendy find themselves in a white room, void of anything of note and Mabel herself it seems. Only their reflections on the pristine clear floor can be seen. Still they call out for her.
"Mabel!" calls Quincy.
"Mabes!" adds Junior. "It's us!"
The triplets let out an audible "Awhhhoooooo!" that echoes throughout the place, but no response back.
"We're here to save you from whatever this is!" says Ty.
"Dipper's here, too!" chimes Isaac, but there's no answer nor any sign of her from what he and the others can see, greatly concerning them.
"Mabel! Mabel!" Dipper calls for as well, but nothing. He turns to his cousins and friends, reminding them of the plan. "Okay guys, Bill has taken over the town and if his weirdness spreads he's gonna take over the whole world. Our first step to stopping him is rescuing Mabel, but he's got her trapped in this strange prison bubble."
"What is this place anyway?" wonders Wendy, looking around the empty white void while holding up her trusty ax with both hands, prepared to throwdown if need be.
Without warning, the ground starts cracking with rainbow-colored fractures. The floor caves-in and causes all of them to fall and scream. There was nothing to grab onto that can save them as everything around the sky is shimmering rainbow.
Quincy desperately holds onto Dipper. "Ah! My wings are too small to fly and we're gonna die!" cries Quincy.
"Guys, if I die, I wanna die hugging," says Soos, grabbing Dipper and Quincy in his arms. "Sorry! I can't hug everyone."
This gave everyone else the idea to hold onto each other.
"Soos, you're choking me," utters Dipper, gasping for air with Soos holding onto him too tightly.
"Let my body be your shield!"
They all continue screaming until the ten of them land on a bouncy-house, breaking their fall and leaving them unharmed upon contact. It made Quincy giggle in delight when he sees it's a bouncy house that saved them.
"Bouncy castle!" exclaims Quincy.
"And we didn't die!" says Isaac in relief, patting on the bouncy castle floor.
"Whoo!" cheers Junior.
"Huh? Is the entire ground a bouncy castle?" questions Dipper, thinking it would be something Mabel would want to have.
A minute of silence is disrupted by the sound of 80's synth music playing throughout the zone on constant loop.
"Do you hear 80's music?" asks Wendy, putting a hand to her ear to focus on it.
"And does the air smell like childlike wonder?" wonders Soos as well.
"And why it looks like cotton candy rainbow barfed on everything?" adds Ty.
Dipper and everyone else opens the bouncy castle's curtains, revealing an extremely bright and colorful world of Mabel's imagination. The pink sign read, "Welcome To Mabeland", introducing them to the incredible; amazing; wondrous; Lisa Frank meets Yellow Submarine meets Mabel's chaotic imagination world with 80's and 90's music playing.
"Whoa…."
"So pretty!" says Quincy with a bright smile.
All of them were in awe of it all, Arya and Isaac covering their eyes from looking at the bright colors too long.
"This is Mabel's prison?" inquires Dipper. Knowing his sister, this is exactly the kind of thing he'd see in her mind.
"Yes. Definitely. Absolutely," says a green shirt boy, holding up the letter Mabel wrote him once, but he isn't real.
Inside Mabeland….
There's a whole city full of imaginary characters conjured from Mabel's imagination. Such as Shimmering Twinkle Heart acting as a crossing guard for the crosswalk. A giant Waddles acting as a bus for the denizens and many more fun and whimsical activities in the wondrous dreamland. And a clocktower that only tells it's summer all the time. The stop light going from 'Stop' to 'Hug', prompting characters near to hug each other. Fantastical and Mabel's plush toys inhabit the bubble from what they all can see.
"It's fun-o'clock everyone. Today's weather calls for rainbows with a chance of dance parties. If you are the owner of a unicorn with a top hat, please come to the ice cream beach. Your unicorn is being towed," speaks the disembodied voice of an announcer.
"What is this new world? Shining, shimmering, splendid," says Soos, growing fond of the world.
A talking pineapple and plush hippo runs screaming as the familiar faces of Xyler and Craz drive up in a swank vehicle and almost run them over. Craz and Xyler sporting new outfits and acting as rule enforcers.
"Welcome to Mabeland," says Craz, thumbing to the sign behind him that reads, 'Mabeland: Perfection But Better!'
"It's like perfection but better!" remarks Xyler.
"And this is worse than the apocalypse," says Dipper, unamused by what he's seeing and knowing it's all fake.
"Dude, this place hurts my eyes," complains Wendy, shielding her eyes from the brightness of the popping and saturated colors. All of them covering their eyes as well.
Xyler steps up. "Oh that's normal. Mabeland's rainbows have colors only bees and art students can see," Xyler explains.
Craz, too, jumps out of the car. "You might as well get used to the bright blorange and mega green!" Craz doing a small dance in place.
Wendy looks down to see an animated bucket full of colorful shades.
The living bucket with legs talks and giggles. "Hi! I'm Shadesy! Look into my brain and pull out some shades!"
Wendy shrugs, seeing why not since he gave permission to rummage through his head for some shades. Wendy ends up pulling out all of them at once, being tangled up in string. From doing just that, it kills Shadesy as he falls back on the ground. No one was fazed by this. Wendy puts on a pink cat themed shades, as well as the put on different kinds of shades as well.
"That was wack," says Junior.
"Now who wants to go on the grand tour?" ask Xyler and Craz in unison with happy faces.
"Do we have a choice?" asks Dipper, him and his cousins and friends tired and want to just get Mabel and leave.
"No!" joyously says Xyler and Craz in unison.
With that answered, Xyler and Craz lead all ten of them in the car, expanding bigger to make more room for everyone to comfortably sit. They begin driving around Mabeland with Xyler and Craz, the two colorful men showing them the sites around the city, town and beach areas.
"Mabeland is the ultimate paradise! Summer lasts forever, all dreams come true and the only rule: there are no rules," informs Xyler.
"Except for one rule which is very serious. But no one would ever break it, so it's not worth mentioning," says Craz with a brief serious expression.
"Yeah!" cheer Xyler and Craz.
They drive under the braid-train bridge where the train toots. "All aboard the braid-train! Braid! Braid!"
Dipper was not in the mood to deal with Xyler and Craz and in illusion of Mabel's imagination. "Listen creepy dream guys, we're not here to party, okay? We just need to find Mabel and get her out of here. Where is she?" questions Dipper.
"Oh! Mabeland is broken in by five fun zones: Cold Stream Forest; Hunk Mountain; Sweater Town; Scrapbook Topia and Radicool Beach. Our home girl Mabel lives there, along with her co-mayor, Mermando!" Craz happily answers. He crashes through a building, hits a fire hydrant, and skids through the street in his reckless driving.
It surely scared Quincy, but is held tight by Isaac as they all the cousins held each other. Dipper puzzled at the mention of Mabel's boyfriend, Mermando, being inside the prison, too.
"No rules!" exclaims Xyler.
They arrive at a Radicool Beach where many colorful people, animals and so forth were also having fun playing volleyball, serving delicious food and drinks and more!
Dipper was not having it. "Ugh, even the temperature here is perfect. Those guys aren't even wearing shirts."
"Oh yes they do!" Xyler points to the sign 'No Shirts During Sports.'
"Now, come have rad snacks served by awesome penguins," says Xyler, pointing them over to the three catering magenta, cyan and purple penguins with silver trays of food and drink in their flippers. "And a change of clothes!" Xyler snaps his fingers, replacing their clothes with beach and floral themed beach attire for.
All but Dipper were more than happy to have some proper food and drink after having to survive off of the bats and berries they had to eat for three days.
"Nice! Better than eating those bats any day," says Ty accepting the fries.
"I didn't think the bats were that bad when their screaming and begging stopped," Isaac shrugs, taking the hotdog and coconut drink. "Less meat, but kept us alive."
"Fair point."
The triplets drool looking at the whole cooked turkey on the platter. The kind penguin settles it down on the ground for them.
Junior gladly takes the boiled lobster and chips and dip while Quincy gets the hot fudge sundae. It was such a wave of relief to them to be eating cooked food.
"Oh, score! I'm so hungry," says Wendy, accepting the red punch and Junior giving her the chips and dip they'll share.
Soos accepts the punch as well. "Yeah, I haven't eaten much, only berries in the last three days."
Soos and Wendy and Isaac clink cups and coconuts. Dipper's eyes grew wide, reminding himself the whole bubble was created by Bill and that everything they're interacting with is fake and twisted somehow. Dipper's not taking the risk and doesn't plan to let his cousins and friends consume anything created by the bubble in fear they'll eat something terrible in disguise.
"Hah!"
"Can you guys just hold on a second?" asks Dipper to his friends and cousins, pulling them aside and whispering close together. "Do you see what's happening here? Don't forget this world was created by Bill," sternly reminds Dipper, slapping drink out of Soos' hand, making him drop and spill it. "That punch is probably blood!" Dipper points up to the raining glitter cloud. "And that glitter rain is probably ground up bones, or babies, or something." Dipper collects some glitter in his hand and drops it. "Bill's using Mabel's own fantasies as some sick trap. We need to grab Mabel and get the heck out of here."
The cousins and friends, it made a lot of sense and remember. They sadly leave behind the food and drink, even if they wanted to eat and drink. Quincy almost starts to cry, but he gets a hug from Isaac.
"Oh, Mabel? She's at the top of the tallest tower guarded by those big buff waffle guards. There's no way to get past them!" notes Xyler, pointing to the large sand castle guarded by waffle guards with buffed arms and weidling butter knives in their hands.
Soos narrows his eyes, knowing exactly what to do. "Someone hand me some syrup," requests Soos, getting a glass bottle of maple syrup from Craz. Soos jumps on a guard from behind and starts eating him with the syrup in hand.
"Aaah! It's happening! The moment we've trained for!" screams the waffles guard being eaten alive while getting drenched in maple syrup Soos pours on him.
The second guard frantically thinks. "Oh, don't worry, man! I've got ya-" he lets out a scream as his face is punched out by Wendy from behind.
"It's now or never, guys!" says Wendy.
Inside the tower, several cartoon animals were innocently frolicking and playing games.
Dipper and his cousins and friends punch open the door, alarming the cartoon animals.
"This is a rescue! Everyone hit the deck!" announces Dipper.
The group didn't want to take a chance to see if the animals would attack or not. Soos picks up one of the animals and throws them, followed by Wendy punching one to the ground, and then Ty scaring off the rest of them with his lightning as they make their way up the stairs.
"Hang in there, Mabel!" cries Dipper.
All of them burst through the colorful doors to the dimly lit bedroom full of rainbow and start themed furniture and plush animals that aren't alive. The dim light coming from the glowing blue star above Mabel's curtain bed where she's sleeping soundly.
"There she is!" alarms Dipper, turning to Soos and Wendy and his cousins to order them. "Soos! Grab her! Wendy, guys, barricade the door!"
Wendy and the cousins grab whatever they can find in the room to block the doors from anymore waffle guards from breaking inside. They hold the line and push the stuff hard against their only entry and exit they see.
Soos picks up Mabel in both arms, cradling her, who is still fast asleep. "Up you go, little lady."
However, Mabel stirs awake, rubbing her eyes and was surprised to see her brother, cousins and friends present in her world. "Soos? Wendy? Dipper? Cousins?" Mabel questions, confused with what's going on around her.
Wendy, along with the cousins, push the soft and light items against the door as hard as they could, but the other waffle guards manage to poke their weapons through. "The waffles are coming back! We gotta hurry!" urges Wendy.
"Keep pushing, guys! Hold the line!" encourages Ty, using his left arm to push against a blue inflatable chair.
Soos puts Mabel down on her feet to go help Wendy and the others, same for Dipper. However, Mabel is miffed to see her family and friends reacting like this when there is nothing to worry about. Mabel literally has everything under control in the bubble.
"Uh, guys?" says Mabel, raising her brow in confusion.
"Don't worry, Mabel, we'll get you out of this!" screams Dipper, struggling to keep pushing with his cousins and friends, not entirely listening to Mabel.
Mabel furrows her brow, seeing they won't listen to her unless she makes them stop what they're doing. And she'll do just that. "But, Dipper!" Mabel raises her voice.
With influencing the world she created, Mabel claps twice and levitates everything in front of the doors off the ground, including her brother, friends and cousins that caught them off guard. Mabel puts everything down the way the room was before and seats everyone on some different chairs. The buff waffle guards come in and point their spears at them. With another two claps, Mabel orders the guards to stop so she may talk to them.
"Mabel! What are you doing? We're trying to save you from this prison!" questions Dipper, not understanding why his sister isn't leaving with them.
"This isn't a prison! I made this world!" objects Mabel, proving it when she claps to turn the lights on, revealing the whole room in a better light where she has busts of herself and Mermando, along with the other colorful, glittery furniture. She smiles and shrugs. "Well, I sort of woke up here. It's complicated."
"Wait, what?" wonders Isaac, putting himself to sit upside down. It's the bubble's doing; they know this for sure.
"What are you saying?" Dipper voices in bewilderment himself. Thinking is Mabel really out of her mind not to see she's imprisoned inside a bubble Bill created to keep her in. He wasn't the only one thinking this.
Mabel reveals a plaque on her nearby desk that says "MAYOR MABEL" and the other reading "CO-MAYOR MERMANDO" on his own desk. "I'm saying this is my home now. And I don't want to be saved!" stated Mabel firmly.
All of them were flabbergasted from Mabel's insistent choice to stay in the prison bubble.
A bear wearing a suit and hat riding a cloud car and holding a large bubble blower hits Mabel's window, bumping the windowpane. "Sorry, Mabel," apologizes the bear.
"No worries, Bubble Bear," accepts Mabel, watching him leave.
The doors to Mabel's bedroom/office open, having everyone in the room face behind them to see Mermando himself, but his green merman tail replaced with human legs and he's now sporting a green floral shirt with purple shorts and pink flip flops. This Mermando isn't real.
The fake Mermando smiles pleasantly at Mabel when he apologizes for his tardiness. "Hola, my dear Mabel! Sorry I'm late on arrival, the big beach party preparations held me up a bit longer than intended." He walks up to his desk and gives Mabel a peck on her cheek.
"Mermando?" inquires Dipper, making a brief disgusted expression from seeing the merman kiss his sister.
"Yeah! My boyfriend/co-mayor has helped me loads with everything around here when he just appeared when I woke up in this place," supports Mabel, giving him a peck on the lips back when he sits at his own desk. "And no, you're not late at all, Mermando! I just woke up from my nap," says Mabel to her boyfriend.
"Oh, muchos gracias!" thanked Mermando.
"Ugh," mutters Dipper, getting a strong feeling the Mermando in front of him and everyone else is not real. And that he was getting an off putting vibe from the fake Mermando as well.
Mabel sighs, explaining further why she opts to stay in the prison, her not knowing it's even a prison to begin with thanks to the bubble's manipulation. "Look, after you said you wouldn't come back home with me at the end of the summer for your "apprenticeship" and me able to stay in Gravity Falls without our parents and grandpa, I wanted to hide in my sweater forever. But then I woke up in a place that gives me exactly what I wanted: an endless summer where I never have to grow up! Here the sun shines all day, the party never ends, and now that you guys are here, it's finally perfect!"
Dipper was not buying into it. He had to try to convince his sister to come with him and the others back into reality and save the universe somehow. "Listen, Mabel, we're not here to party. All of this is crazy!"
The fake Mermando gives Dipper a brief displeased scowl, seeing that he's going to be a problem. His facade smile returns the moment Mabel speaks in response.
Mabel didn't understand why her brother didn't want her to be happy with everything she's been given, though she knew he was going to disapprove of her choices. "Ugghh. I figured you might say something like that, Dipper. That's why I prepared a backup Dipper with a more supportive attitude." Mabel points over to the doors with everyone looking behind them to see for themselves.
Not a moment too soon, a fake Dipper comes bursting open the doors riding an orange skateboard. A rock note plays when confetti is shot nearby to add to his grand entrance. This fake Dipper looks like one of the 'radical kids' with his backwards hat,, green belt, green and purple shades, lightning bolts on his blue vest, neon green stylish sneakers - the embodiment of a stereotypical 90's 'cool boy'.
"Wohoho!" The fake Dipper rides up to Mabel and gives her and Mermando a high five. He then turns to Dipper and the others to greet them. "Yeah! Wiggity-wiggity-what's up, dude-bros? I'm Dippy Fresh! I like skateboarding, supporting my sister, and punctuating every sentence with a high five! Hup!" He holds up his hand, expecting at least one of them to give him a high five.
"Mabel, that's cold," comments Junior, not liking that Mabel opted to replace her brother with someone else.
Seeing Dippy-Fresh made Dipper hate him with an undying passion in an instant, Dipper glaring right at the fake self as he's everything he despises. Especially since Mabel coldly replaced him with… someone such as Dippy Fresh. "I want to snap his neck and end him," Dipper thinks darkly aloud. Ty, the triplets and Quincy having heard him look incredibly concerned for Dipper.
Soos is more than happy to fulfill the high five. "Oh! Don't mind if I-"
Dipper clears his throat audibly to interrupt the exchange, silently telling Soos not to do it.
Soos frowns to this, but he wanted to at least humor the fake Dipper. "I'm sorry, I can't leave him hanging! Yus!" He high fives Dippy Fresh.
This greatly disappoints Dipper. He'll remember that. "You're dead to me, Soos," Dipper deadpans.
Mabel reassures her brother, cousins and friends. "Trust me, you guys are gonna love it here. This world always knows what you want. Sometimes even before you do!" Out of nowhere above her, a chinchilla drops into her arms. "Apparently I wanted a chinchilla! Right again, Mabeland!" She hands to little critter to Mermando where a full proper enclosure for the chinchilla appears as he puts it inside.
"Mabel, listen to yourself. This is crazy! I'm sorry about our discussion, and I'm sorry things aren't great right now but that doesn't mean you can just stay in here forever!" argues Dipper. Dipper's not planning to give up on his sister. He has to keep trying if no one else will.
"Hey, take a chill pill! Those grow on trees here!" insists Dippy Fresh with his big, ever-smiling face.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS, DIPPY FRESH!" Dipper yells at Dippy Fresh, definitely not in the mood to put up with him. He hates him so much.
"Dude, calm down; Dippy Fresh didn't do anything to you, dawg," says Soos, trying to mediate the situation and prevent Dipper from literally killing Dippy Fresh then and there.
Dipper growls angrily at Dippy Fresh as he watches him skate out of the room to who knows where, so wanting to kill him then and there, but not in front of Mabel and the others. He lets him go. For now.
"I know it sounds too good to be true, but just give this place a chance! Mabeland knows just what you want and always provides!" says Mabel. Wanting to make her friends and family more comfortable, she claps and within an instant, all of their clothes are back to the way they were, but restored from their dirty and torn appearance; even the triplets get reverted back to their human selves. Mabel frowns seeing Ty's missing his right arm, and claps for a blue cybernetic arm to cover that stump. And a flying hamburger goes up to Soos.
Arya and her sisters smile with glee as it is what they've desired for the past few days. Not that they didn't enjoy being in their wolf form; they love their human selves as well.
"Yay!" cheers Aria. "Finally! Coherent sentences!"
"Fuck yeah!" says Arya with her arms in the air.
"Girls, back to the task at hand," reminds Anais, grateful that they've been turned back, but she shares Dipper's worries.
Ty gives his new arm a test in movement, feeling how fluid it is as if his real arm is back and better than ever. "Ah, man! This is… this is real cool of you, Mabel. It feels so real," choked up Ty, feeling more eased than he's been in days. Then a violin and bow appear in his hands, the plane knowing how he wanted to play his favorite instrument. He squeals and starts playing the instrument a happy melody.
Soos bites the flying burger with small white wings, loving how it tastes with the inclusion of chocolate pudding in the center. "Pudding center. Nice!"
Wendy, Anais, Junior, and Isaac share Dipper's concerns.
"Uh, actually, Mabel, I'm with Dipper on this. Gravity Falls is in trouble and I really think-" starts Wendy before being interrupted by the honk coming from Thompson's car that's familiar to them.
Outside of Mabel's bedroom/office, Thompson drives up in a dark green monster truck, along with Lee, Nate, Tambry, Robbie, Carrie and Juliana in the seats with large fireworks and rockets. All of them saying, "Guys!" in unison. And all of them are creations of the bubble.
"Juls? You're alright!" smiles Isaac, relieved to see her.
"And Carrie!" adds Ty.
Wendy couldn't believe her friends actually appeared when she's been thinking of them, but not knowing they aren't real. "Wha- guys? You're safe!" says Wendy, really wanting to believe they were set free somehow.
"We've got a monster truck full of fireworks, fake IDs, and pranking supplies," says fake Lee, holding up a ring of keys.
"Wanna drive this truck to the high school and glue this plunger to the principal's head?" asks fake Nate as he thumbs the high school behind him, then looking to the triplets. "You girls can come along and change your class schedules!"
The fake Carrie beckons Ty. "Come along! You can play me some more of that violin music after the school thing. And then, we can go on the most perfect date ever!," tempts Carrie.
"Sure! I wanna make use of this cool robot arm," happily agrees Ty, part of him having wanted a perfect date with Carrie.
"Then we can explore the forest together, Isaac," adds fake Juliana. "There's a lot of cool bugs here."
"Oh you bet!" says Isaac, wanting to have some fun before getting Mabel out of the bubble.
"Yes!" agrees the triplets with excitement in their eyes.
Wendy couldn't say no to that offer of a lifetime. "Yes. Yes I do. Sorry, guys, I've always wanted to do that. I'll be back in just a few minutes," she says with sparkling eyes as her, and the other teens get into the truck.
Junior frowning to Dipper. "Sorry, Dipper, can't ditch Wendy and the others," says Junior as he sits with his girlfriend.
All of the teens drive away on a rainbow road, cheering and laughing all the way, leaving Dipper, Soos and Quincy behind
"Wendy!? Guys!?" cries out Dipper, dismaying him that his friend and most of his cousins fell for the bubble's temptations.
Quincy goes up to assure Dipper with a hug. "It's okay, Dipper, I here to help! Bet there's nothing here that can-"
"Quincy!" speaks the familiar voice of Dani.
Quincy quickly turns behind him to see his best friend, Dani, with her riding on a colorful feathered T-Rex. "Dani!" Quincy gasps happily. "I'm so happy to see you!" he runs up to her and the T-Rex.
"Quincy, don't!" Dipper cries out, reaching for his younger cousin, but it's too late.
"Come play with me and our friends with these harmless dinosaurs we found," beckons fake Dani, having the T-Rex kneel down and help Quincy climb onto it and sit behind Dani. Quincy didn't need to verbally answer yes he will.
"I promise to be back, Dipper!" says Quincy as him and Dani ride the dinosaur out on the rainbow road as well, giggling with glee, leaving behind a saddened Dipper.
Soos tries to cheer Dipper up and aims to be there for him like a loyal friend would. "Don't worry, dude. There's nothing in this world that could break me from our mission," reassures Soos.
Suddenly, A muscular man named Ernesto with a wrestling mask and a champion belt that says "PAPI" enters through the doors in a heroic pose and a bright light behind him.
"Soos, mijo. I have returned," announces Ernesto, pointing to Soos with a grin on his face.
Dipper and Soos couldn't believe it. Soos definitely knows that's not possibly his real father, having long forgotten what he even looked like, but seeing the man before him made him feel that that hole of the lack of a father-figure is being fulfilled. "Holy- whoa, whoa. Dad?" questions Soos.
"You don't remember what I look like, so I have the body of a pro wrestler and a face you once saw on a hot sauce bottle. I was never there for you, but in this world, I can be," offers the man.
Soos couldn't deny this opportunity. "You're perfect!" Soos beams.
"It's a trap! Don't go with him, Soos! No matter what he offers you!" begs Dipper, needing Soos the most when everyone else became enthralled by the distractions.
Ernesto holds up ball and baseball glove, asking Soos one thing. "Want to play catch?"
Soos frowns, turning to Dipper. "I'm sorry, dude. Even if it is all a dream, I've gotta play just one game," says Soos, turning back to the man and goes with him to play like he always wanted to do. "Hahaha! Come on, Dad!" He chases the ball his "dad" throws.
Dipper grows angry he was left alone now, and taking it out on Mabel. "Okay, this has gone too far! You can't honestly think these fantasies are good for anyone!" argues Dipper, facing Mabel and pointing to her.
Mabel calmly and patiently reassures Dipper. "You can't argue with the results: people are happy here! Does it really matter if it's real or not? For once, stop listening to your head and listen to your heart. Mabeland has something for everyone! Even you! In fact:" says Mabel, presenting the doors with a bright light as it began to open. (A door begins to open)
Dipper is not falling for anymore of the bubble's temptations. "Nope. Not looking. Not looking," says Dipper, looking away from the door and leaving the sand castle altogether to have some time alone to think of another way to convince Mabel to abandon the fantasy being created for her.
The fake Mermando narrows his eyes at Dipper, knowing more now that he'll be harder to convince than he previously thought. But they have an idea that may do to trick to sway the boy to stay.
Back at the Fearamid….
The demons groan in pain from the wounds they received from crashing into the barrier.
Bill, still fuming from the event, paces back in forth and addresses his minions with a thunderous cloud forming over his triangle self. "ALRIGHT, CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY, EVEN WITH OUR NEWFOUND INFINITE POWER," the lightning strikes a stone column, "NONE OF US CAN ESCAPE THE BORDERS OF THIS STUPID HICK TOWN!" Bill stands and points at several of his minions. "ANYONE? ANYBODY? I'M LOOKING AT YOU, EYEBALL, LAVA LAMP GUY! ANYONE WITH SUGGESTIONS?"
Paci-fire raised his hand.
"PACI-FIRE?" says Bill.
The large demon brings up a screen, taking out his pacifier to explain what he knew. "It appears this town functions as a weirdness magnet. Which draws strange things towards it. If we don't find a way to reverse the polarity, we'll be trapped in Gravity Falls forever," tells Paci-fier, displaying his high intellect.
Bill can care less about how intelligent his minions are, only wanting to know how to destroy the barrier and unleash chaotic hell upon the world and the universe. "OK! GREAT! DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW TO FIX THIS?!" Bill demanded.
8 Ball offers his suggestion. "Okay. I've been reading some science books, and I think we can achieve this by… hitting harder!"
Bill is not satisfied. "WRONG! AND YOU'RE DUST NOW!" Within an instant, 8 Ball is reduced to a pile of dust, with only his 8 ball eyes remaining.
Another minion brings up an idea that hopefully won't get him killed like 8 Ball. "Well, maybe if we, uh, get a big trampoline. A really big trampoline."
Again, Bill was getting fed up and decides to kill another one of his minions. "WRONG! YOUR BONES ARE NOW MY COAT!" With a snap of his finger, all of the demon minion's bones leave his body and morph into a morbid cape and bone cap. Bill is still enraged over everyone's unhelpful, pathetic solutions. "SO YOU'RE TELLING ME I'VE PLANNED THIS FOR A TRILLION YEARS TO FIND A NEW HOME DIMENSION, AND WE CAN'T EVEN LEAVE THE FRONT STEP!"
Bill walks angrily to the corner where Adeline glares at him when he picks up Ford, still petrified in gold. "BLONDIE, I NEED TO BORROW YOUR HUSBAND HERE." Then he walks back to this throne and ponders. "IF THERE'S ONE MORE BIT OF BAD NEWS TODAY, I'M GONNA-"
Keyhole runs up to Bill to deliver the unfortunate news. "Bill!" Bill sets Ford down and engulfs himself in raging flames, turning around to face Keyhole, the minion cowering. "Uh, sorry, Boss, but Gideon let the Pines family escape! They're inside Mabel's bubble as we speak!"
Bill finds himself laughing, doubting that the Pines and friends can even get Mabel out of her prison. "BUDDY, MABEL'S BUBBLE IS THE MOST DIABOLICAL TRAP I'VE EVER CREATED. IT WOULD TAKE A WILL OF TITANIUM NOT TO GIVE INTO ITS TEMPTATION. FETCH ME GIDEON AND TAKE THE REST OF THE DAY OFF. THINGS JUST GOT A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING. THERE IS HOPE AFTER, OLD PAL." Bill gets the awful idea, knowing Ford may know how to get rid of the weirdness magnet one and for all.
Adeline could only look on in dismay of what Bill plans to do with Ford.
Meanwhile in Mabeland….
Dipper is standing on the shore of Giggle Creek, contemplating what to do next, while the animated tree with stuffed animals sing their peppy song.
"~Bum ba bum bo, I'm a stuffed animal tree…~" sings the tree.
"~He's a stuffed animal tee-hee-hee!~" sing the stuffed animals in the tree.
Dipper angrily throws a stone across the river; it makes a child's giggle with each successful skip. "Ugh, even my stone skips are perfect!" Dipper sighs in frustration, thinking he should just give up at this point. "Who am I kidding? Maybe Mabel's right. It's a horror show out there. At least the air in here is breathable." He looks at his reflection at his saddened self.
That quickly changes when Pacifica approaches him from behind him and sees her reflection in the water.
"Paz?" wonders Dipper.
Pacifica giggles that familiar giggle of hers Dipper likes, her standing by his side. "The one and only, Dipper!" chirps Pacifica.
Dipper has never seen Pacifica as happy as she is now. He couldn't help to feel suspicious all the same, yet seeing another level-head like himself was refreshing to see. "Glad to see you managed to find this place somehow."
"Mmm, there's a funny story to that, but I won't drone on too long," says Pacifica, taking note of all that she sees. "This place is so Mabel, yet, it's so calming for me." She looks at her reflection. "Best part is that my parents aren't here at all to push me around and take away the most important things to me." Pacifica smiles fondly at Dipper, making him blush.
"Hehe, yeah, me," says Dipper, clearing his throat. "Think you can help me out with talking to Mabel? Everyone else went off to have their own fun." He was still salty about his friends and cousins having gone off, though not taking into account they've been through as much as he has and need some time of levity.
Then, as if Soos knew, he finds Dipper with Pacifica. "Sorry for the hold up, Dipper! I promised I'm going to help and I am! Just had to tell Dad I had to honor my word to my friends," says Soos, not seeing an issue with seeing her. "Oh, hey, Paz!"
Pacifica was caught off guard but says nothing, though Dipper was elated to see his friend come back. "Soos! Awesome, dude! Well, now we just need a plan."
"Don't worry, you always think of something," supports Pacifica. She throws a stone toward the water, making it skip perfectly with giggles being heard and the stone explodes in the sky to say '100 Points'. "You're, like, the smartest person I've ever known."
"She's right about that, dawg," remarks Soos, pointing at his own head. "With our heads together, we can rescue, Mabel! Dipper?" inquires Soos, seeing that his friend wasn't paying attention.
Dipper wanted to hear more what Pacifica really meant by that, never having heard her say that about him before. "Wait, do you really mean that?"
"I mean, from all the adventures we had together and you helping me loads, maybe, just maybe we can finally be happy. I mean, this is the happiest I've ever been. Especially with you, Dipper," confesses Pacifica as she lies on her side on the grass, playing with the flowers and making them grow at her touch.
Dipper was taken aback by this, feeling his heart beating fast and his face blushing more and eyes sparkling from this feeling. This warm welcoming feeling he can't describe and never felt about a girl; even when he was pining over Wendy in the past. He wanted to say yes. "Wait, really?! I mean, I don't know if I-"
Pacifica stands up and hugs him, then stepping back. "We can talk to Mabel about possibly having our own home here," says Pacifica, offering her hand. "Just take my hand." Pacifica winks.
However, Soos makes a note that something is amiss. Neither him nor Dipper see Patricia anywhere in sight. Pacifica is almost never seen without her faithful emotional support dog around. And it became more and more apparent that something isn't right.
"Say, Paz, didn't you have a dog? Where's Patricia?" questions Soos.
"Yeah, Paz, where's Patricia?" asks Dipper, smiling at the thought of it may not be so bad after all.
Pacifica shifts her eyes. "Um… I don't need her anymore since I'm happy in this place," admits Pacifica, revealing she is a creation of the prison bubble's attempt to get Dipper to stay. And it failed.
Dipper grew horrified to see the Pacifica he's been talking to isn't real and nearly fell for it. "Wait, aaahhh,... this isn't real!"
The fake Pacifica turns into a bunch of centipedes and other disgusting bugs in a grotesque appearance, crumbling down and the sky darkens in a deep red like blood. The prison bubble unveiling its true sinister nature before Dipper and Soos' fear filled eyes as they hold onto one another. The wind ominously blows their way.
"That's so messed up, dude!" exclaims Soos.
Dipper and Soos scream in unison in horror to see the bugs crawl away.
The once cheerful stuffed animal tree changes his expression into a more dark and terrifying one with glowing yellow eyes. "You shouldn't have done that, Dippeerrrr! Soooosss!" he screams at the two. "We're watching you," he darkly warns.
The once overly sweet stuffed animals face the two with large single eyes. "THERE ARE EYES EVERYWHERE."
With a blink of their eyes, the sky brightens again and the stuffed animal tree and animals revert back to their innocent sugary illusion. Sev'ral Timez rides by on a long bike and greet a stunned Soos and Dipper..
"Hey, Dipper and Soos," greet each member of the fake Sev'ral Timez.
The stuffed animal tree sings his song like nothing terrible occurred. "~Dup a dup dup I'm a stuffed animal treeee…~"
Dipper and Soos back away, panting and collecting themselves from that terrifying experience. Soos picks up Dipper and makes a run for it to the beach.
"Dude! We got to tell Mabel! That's going to be in my nightmares when I sleep!" urges Soos. He pushes past his fake father. "Sorry, can't play right now! Or ever!"
At the big beach party, everyone was having a blast! Mabel sits at a long table of food and decorations with her cousins and Wendy in beach attire. Stuffed animals and merfolk dancing to good synth music filling the air. And dolphins serving non-alcoholic cocktails.
Soos and Dipper approach Mabel directly in front of her with the table in between them.
"Mabel! Please you have to listen to us!" cries out Dipper. "None of this is what you think it is."
At this point, Mabel was having none of Dipper's warnings. Seeing that he's not going to take her word of comfort to heart no matter how much she insists things are fine. But they're not fine.
"Yeah! The plush animal tree and the sky went all crazy when Dipper and me saw a fake Pacifica dissolve into creepy bugs, and the stuffed animal tree going crazy and-"
"The point is we have to get out of here. We have to go back to the real. WORLD!" screams Dipper. The very mention of the real world echoes throughout the realm within the bubble.
All of the fictional creations of Mabeland stopped everything they were doing and are astonished to hear that the one and only rule was broken. Mabel gasps in shock, while Wendy and the cousins appear greatly concerned from witnessing all of the reactions.
To make matters worse, the waffle guards tackle Dipper down to the ground and hold Soos back from doing anything to help him.
"Hey!" yelps Dipper.
"Dipper!" cries out the cousins, leaping over the table to go to their cousin and friend's aid, but were stopped by several buff waffle guards.
"Under Article Smiley Face of Exhibit Squeaky Duck, you are hereby accused of breaking our one rule: mentioning reality," recites the waffle guard.
Around them, the crowd mutter amongst themselves, watching the scene unfold before them.
"Prepare to be banished from this land FOREVER," says the fake Mermando. He opens a portal to Gravity Falls, aiming to send Dipper outside alone while the others get to stay.
Dipper makes one more attempt to get his sister to see reason. "MABEL!" he calls for her. "You're smarter than this! Bill has you hypnotized or something! Are you really gonna let them banish me?!"
Mabel frowns in seeing her brother so distressed in what was supposed to be her escape from the horrors of reality. She will at least give him a chance to make his case. "No! Of course not; that's my brother, guys! There's gotta be another way," says Mabel.
Mermando and the guards abide by her rule and offer a solution. "Very well. If Dipper wishes to stay, he must plead his case in the ultimate trial. Of fantasy vs. reality," speaks a waffle guard
Soos takes a bite out of the guard, unable to resist eating his waffle flesh again like before with maple syrup in hand.
"Hey! Seriously?" reprimands the waffle guard being eaten.
Soos side-eyes the purple plush rhino next to him. "It was him," Soos falsely accuses.
Soon in the colorful courtroom, many of Mabeland's denizens crowd the yarn seats. Soos, Wendy and the cousins take up the first row right behind where Dipper sits angrily next to Mabel near the front in blue bean bag chairs. Quincy shooing away Duck-tective from Soos.
Dipper faces his sister, incredibly displeased he and the others now have to go through the trouble of a court case to settle this once and for all. "Seriously, Mabel? You're letting them take our argument to court?" argues Dipper.
"Hey, I didn't make the rules in Mabeland," lies Mabel.
"Yes, you did! There's a tapestry of you making the rules!" noted Dipper, gesturing to the tapestry depicting Mabel establishing the rules of Mabeland with various plush animals writing them down.
"All rise! For the honorable Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein," directs the police giraffe with pink shades, having everyone rise up and be quiet as the court case starts.
A large pink cat wearing an official black robe, white powder wig, and a pink squeaky mallet comes poking his head out of his cat scratcher and climbs up to the top and bangs his squeaky mallet to get things started.
"Order! Order! This trial begins right meow!" announces Judge Kitty. However, like any cat, he gets easily distracted the moment he sees a loose string hanging from the ceiling and bats at it. "Ooh! Hahaw! Oh!"
The police giraffe clears his throat to remind the judge. "Judge?"
Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein faces back, getting back on track and apologizes. "Sorry, sorry," he clears his throat and begins. "We are here to try Dipper Pines in the case of fantasy vs. reality." The words "FANTASY," written in fancy handwriting, and "REALITY" written like a stamp, appear next to him as he continues with stating the terms of the case. "If Dipper wins, Mabel will return with him to the real world! But if he loses he will be banished forever! And replaced with town darling, Dippy Fresh!" The cat judge points at Dippy Fresh, who is standing next to the cats cratcher. "Dippy, come on out," he orders.
"Flip-a-dip-dip!" catchphrases Dippy Fresh, doing a pose that angers Dipper so.
Dipper pounds table out of from the frustration of having to hear and see the flanderized persona of a self he never wants to become. "I hate him. So. much!" hisses Dipper.
"The final decision will be made by a jury of your peers," says Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein.
One would expect the cousins and friends being one to be in the jury, however, Mabel takes the liberty of creating the jury by making six copies of herself in the jury stand, each wearing a different themed sweater that she's worn in the past during the summer in Gravity Falls.
"Hi, there! I love your headband!" compliments Mabel 2.
"Shut your mouth, I love your headband!" responds Mabel 3.
"We're all wearing the same headband!" acknowledges Mabel 6.
"HEADBANDS!" laughs the jury of Mabels in unison.
Dipper turns to his sister in dismay, seeing that things are going to be harder for him than he thought, but it was not surprising. "Look, Mabel, this whole thing is ridiculous. But if winning a trial is what it takes to get you to come home with us, then so be it," says Dipper.
"I'm sorry, Dipper, but I can only speak through my legal team now," responds Mabel in a nonchalant manner, directing her gaze to her dream boys who enter the room, now wearing near professional suits but with their sleeves cut off to show off their arms.
"We have a doctorate degree in hunkiness!" says Craz.
"Also criminal and international law," adds Xyler when they walk in and head toward the front.
"Let's hear openin' statements," says the cat judge.
Xyler is the first to speak. "Your honor, townsfolk, lovely ladies of the jury." The fake Mabel giggle and acknowledge the compliment.
Craz speaks next with all eyes to him as he presents the case. "My case is simple: this very unrighteous dude thinks that reality is better than fantasy," he says directing to Dipper, presenting a colorful orange board holding a blue stick. "But reality is bogus, lame and whack." The words "BOGUS," "LAME," AND "WHACK" appear on the board as he says them.
"Objection your honor, that's conjecture," objects Dipper.
"Meowverruled," dismisses the judge for Xyler to continue.
"I'd like to show you this "reality" that Dipper loves so much, and show you how it has wronged my client, and Dipper, their entire lives," says Xyler, taking out the all too familiar pink scrapbook belonging to Mabel with the title "Mabel Memories" from a case Craz is holding. "Exhibit A."
The crowd mutters among themselves.
"Mabel's scrapbook." Xyler opens the book to a picture of a younger Dipper and Mabel in the second grade in the fall. "Second grade. October tenth."
The scene changes all around them to a playground in Eggbert Elementary in autumn. The fallen orange, brown and red leaves covering much of the elementary school Dipper and Mabel once attended. A scene where the twins remember all too well.
"Photo day," sighs Dipper, frowning to watch the scene in full of that bad day.
The young Dipper and Mabel, in second grade, are sitting in a chair with some other kids getting their picture taken, looking forward to their picture being taken. Younger Dipper was wearing a blue wool beanie with a heavy green parka and stuffy nose, while young Mabel wore a more bright pink attire with her rainbow shirt and pink skirt, multiple slap bracelets on each arm and her brown hair in pigtails.
"Darn allergies," sniffled younger Dipper.
Young Mabel slapped on another slap bracelet on her already covered arm in them. "Boom! A million slap bracelets! I'm gonna have the best photo ever! And how d'you like my new pigtaaailllls?" asks younger Mabel cheerfully, waving her head back in forth without care.
"Have fun, brat!" said one bitter girl who purposely puts a chewed wad of gum in Mabel's hair, ruining her hair and the other kids present, but Dipper, laughing at her.
"Ah! Gum! You ruined my hair!" cried a now distraught young Mabel. "Dipper, what do I do?" she asked, hoping she can count on him to help her.
"Um, well, I, um. I don't-" stammered young Dipper, trying to think of something, anything, he could do to remedy his sister's predicament.
Before young Dipper could give his solution, young Mabel runs away crying and shedding tears, breaking young Dipper's heart.
"Mabel!" young Dipper called out to her.
Dipper and Mabel watch the scene with sadness in their eyes, something they never wanted to look back on.
"Mabel's fantasy was having a great school photo, but reality had other plans," says Craz.
"Look, that was one bad day!" defends Dipper, not wanting to let just one bad day be entire proof that reality is terrible.
"One of many. February fourteenth, fourth grade. Valentine's Day," says Xyler when he opens the scrapbook again. Dipper knew exactly that day and what happened to him in school.
"Oh, come on, man, you can't," voices Dipper.
The scene changes to Dipper and Mabel in fourth grade in their classroom. It was Valentine's Day and the classroom was decorated in pink and red hearts. Each student's desk had a paper bag they decorated to receive Valentine's Day cards. Young Mabel was wearing her hair in a ponytail then with a pink sleeved shirt. Young Dipper wore his old brown star hat, red coat and space themed shirt with brown pants. Young Mabel's bag was full of Valentine's cards.
"How many valentines did you get, Dipper?" happily asks young Mabel to her twin brother.
Dipper shakes out his bag, but nothing comes out. He received no cards whatsoever.
The larger boy sitting next to Mabel laughs and degrades Dipper for not getting any cards. "Oh, hey, haha! Dipper didn't get any! Oh, man, I thought I was the class loser! Hey, everyone, Dipstick didn't get any!" calls out the boy for everyone but Mabel to ridicule him.
"Dipstick! Dipstick! Dipstick!" chanted the other kids.
Dipper runs out, crying, then trips over a wastebasket before leaving the classroom entirely.
"I can't believe that kid's your brother," remarks the boy.
Young Mabel looked sadly at her own Valentine's Day cards on her desk, thinking of something she could do for Dipper.
The room changes back to the courtroom when Xyler closes the scrapbook.
There was a lot to be said on Dipper's part. Sure, those were a few of the bad days him and Mabel went through, but they also had their happier and exciting days as well as the worst of them.
"Hey, what's the point of all this? That was in the past!" argues Dipper.
"Is your life any better now, bro?" questions Xyler, opening Mabel's scrapbook that flashes different images to the worst times of the summer. Such as Dipper going through a broken heart. "Heartbreak. Disaster. Too much change at once. That's reality for you."
"Out there, it's nothing but heartbreak. But in here, who wants pug sundaes?!" joyfully asks Craz, making pug sundaes appear in the hands of all the Jury Mabels.
The Jury Mabels lick their sundaes in unison.
"Hand me a microphone, Xyler," asks Craz.
Xyler hands him a microphone and Craz drops it on purpose for dramatic effect. There was no reaction from everyone else in the room.
"Totally righteous, bro!" compliments Xyler.
"Are we brothers?"
"I don't know!"
Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein gets the case back on track while batting at the string again. "Well, I think we're ready for a verdict."
Dipper interjects, needing to make his case before the verdict can be reached. "Wait! I haven't even presented my case!"
Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein faces Dipper. "Do you even have a case?" he inquires in doubt.
Dipper looks at Mabel with paper in hand, who is rocking in her chair and singing to herself, then gets out of his chair and goes up to the judge. He had to keep trying for her and everyone's sake. For the sake of their family, friends, and the universe. "Yes, I do, your honor. I call as a witness: Mabel Pines!" Dipper announces, pointing right to his sister.
The crowd gasps.
"Uh, objection?" requests Mabel. She didn't want to be put on the spot and wanting to get the case closed as soon as possible.
Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein denied her request. "I'll allow it. Us cats are famously curious. Meow meow," reasons the judge.
Mabel leaves her seat and walks up to the stand while the crowd mutters.
Dipper sighs, hoping he can get through to her this way. If not, then all is hopeless. "Mabel, listen. I might not have all the answers. I'm not stylish" he gestures to Xyler, Craz and Dippy Fresh in that order, "and I'm not cool and I can't make pugs appear out of thin air." He snaps his fingers, nothing happening to make his point.
The jury of Mabel's disapproving and booing at him.
Dipper continues. "But I know one thing well, and that's you. And I know that although you might act like it, you don't wanna be in this fantasy world," says Dipper.
Mabel, of course, was in denial. "Uh, pffsh, yeah right."
"You're scared. Of growing up. And who could blame you; I'm scared, too," empathizes Dipper.
"Uh," stammers Mabel, refusing to hear bring up reality again as she covers her ears. "LALALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING! GUARDS!" She claps. "The FINGERS!" she commands, having the guards stick foam fingers in her ears.
But Dipper won't stop and raises his voice a little louder for her to hear. The foam fingers didn't do much to muffle the sounds anyhow. "Look, real life stinks sometimes, okay, I'm not gonna lie. But there's a better way to get through it than denial, and that's with help from people who care about you. It's how we've gotten through our whole lives," Dipper says genuinely, showing her just what he means. "Just look."
Dipper opens the scrapbook himself and shows the old photo day memory in full of how it turned out better than what was shown. It shows young Dipper smiling when he figured out a solution to the gum in Mabel's hair.
"Mabel! I figured out a way to fix your photo!" exclaimed young Dipper.
Young Mabel sniffled in her seat, her photo about to be taken. "What? You have a wig?" she asked.
"No! But, I have a razor!" said young Dipper, holding up a buzzing razor and shaves a line down his head with a bright smile on his face.
Young Mabel laughs, feeling better seeing her brother do something like that to his own hair Haha! You're crazy!" She took the razor and shaves the part of her hair with gum on it away.
With that great sense of comfort, the young Dipper and Mabel laugh and pose in a silly manner for the picture taken of them, ending the scene.
Watching the rest of the scene play out, Mabel is reminded of the better part of that day. Dipper made it better and shared that silly photo. She remembers how much it made her and Dipper's parents and grandpa laugh in delight to get that photo later. A bad day turned better. Mabel pushes the foam fingers away from her ears, willing to listen to her brother, now.
Dipper then shows the scene of himself on Valentine's Day. His younger self crying in the dark janitor's closet alone, not having gotten a single card or more like his sister and everyone else in class. Young Mabel created a collage of her own Valentine's Day cards into a bigger heart-shaped one and slips it under the door for young Dipper to find it.
Young Dipper sniffled, picked up the large Valentine and reads, 'For My Favorite Brother'. This brought a bright smile on his face, making his day much better than earlier.
The scene changes back to the courtroom where Dipper smiles, seeing that he's possibly getting through to his sister at last.
"We've always been there for each other," says Dipper as the scrapbook depicts all the events they have been through throughout the summer. From giving her a bandaid after defeating the Summer-ween Trickster, fist-bumping at the theatre, and Mabel saving herself and Dipper with the grappling hook and more. Dipper settles down the scrapbook and walks up to his sister. "Mabel, I thought you were living a fantasy, but look at me! I actually thought I was gonna stay here and be Ford and Addi's apprentice! Spend my entire teens cooped up in a basement with a lab coat? How ridiculous is that? I don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but whatever it is, you don't have to fear because we'll do it together. I'm not taking Ford's apprenticeship. We've traveled to Heck and back to get you and we're goin' back together. Leave this fantasy world. Let's beat Bill and grow up together," finishes Dipper, holding out his hand to his sister for his sister to accept.
"Yeah!" exclaims Arya, rising from her seat.
Junior gets up himself. "For as long as I got to know you two, every day has always been awesome, terrifying, and real eventful in great ways, dudes.
The rest of the crowd mutters.
Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein bangs his squeaky mallet. "ORDER! ORDER! ORDER IN THE COURT! DANG IT! why is this hammer squeaky?!"
Mabel gets out of her seat and approaches Dipper. "You mean it? You're really coming home with me? I don't think I'm ready to stay in Gravity Falls. Yet."
"Yes. Definitely. Absolutely. And I think they'll understand. Awkward sibling hug?" asks Dipper with opening his arms for a hug
The crowd shrieks, knowing what it means, save for the cousins who encourage them.
"Do it, guys!" jumps up Quincy.
"Do it! Do it! Do it!" chant the triplets and Ty, Junior, Isaac, Wendy and Soos join in along with Quincy.
"Just don't do it!" screeches a blue bird.
"DON'T DO IT!" screams Craz.
"NO MABEL!" yells the fake Mermando.
"You do this and it's all over!" threatens the cat judge.
Mabel was beside herself. She couldn't refuse Dipper's offer any longer, knowing now he'll always have her back like good siblings should. "Sincere sibling hug," accepts Mabel, opening her arms to hug Dipper and him in turn.
"YES!" cheer the cousins and friends.
"DON'T DO THE PATS!" yells the upset cat judge.
Dipper and Mabel pat each other in unison. "Pat pat."
A ripple comes from their spot, blowing Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein's wig away and one of the benches falls over. All of the jurors disappear and now Mabel no longer has control over the prison bubble. The triplets unfortunately revert back to their werewolf forms when they came in.
Mabel rubs her eyes, as if waking up from a dream and realizing how overboard she went with the themes of her imagination land. "Aw, man, I never noticed how bright this place is, ugh! Have I actually been listening to the same song for an entire week?" wonders Mabel.
Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein meows in a distressed manner, along with the rest of Mabel's creations groaning and appearing more angry in stark contrast of how joyous they were before. The prison bubble showing its true darker nature and colors. Save for Craz and Xyler, who seem unaffected by the change some how.
Mabel turns to face the cat judge, not aware she has no control anymore. "Whoa, time to calm you down." Mabel claps a second time when the first didn't work, but again, no effect on her characters. "Uh, why isn't this working?" questions Mabel, growing distressed.
"Ah!" Ty screams when his 'new arm' twists into a swarm of dark worms. "Get 'em off! Get 'em off!" In panic, he zaps all the worms on him dead. The teen heavily breaths, getting assuring pats from Junior and Quincy.
"Because your reign over this land is OVER!" announces the enraged cat judge, splitting himself open in a horrifying manner and becomes a nightmare-ish pile of years and the crowd of Mabel's creations turn grey and eyes glow red, save for Xyler and Craz, who hug each other and yell for their lives.
"We gotta get out of here!" exclaims Mabel.
"Soos! Wendy! Cousins! Paradise is canceled!" screams Dipper.
"No need to tell us twice!" says Isaac, having to kick the fake Juliana and Carrie away from him and Ty.
Dipper and Mabel, along with the rest of their cousins and friends run away as the whole world turns gray and falling apart at the seams. Creatures from the imaginary illusion begin attacking the group when a swarm of sweaters dive at them.
Junior punches at the sweaters with green fiery fists, and Ty with lightning from his hand. The triplets snarl and maul at them with their fangs, tearing them to shreds as well as any plush creatures coming at them.
Wendy punches away the flying sweaters when a larger, raging plush bear catches her in its paws and roaring with dangling button eyes. With her quick reflexes, Wendy reaches for the bear's head and tears it right off while kicking the body away behind her, letting it pour out stuffling as if it's blood, but not gory.
Skateboards launch themselves to hit Soos, but Isaac and Quincy help him out with taking a skateboard and hitting them against the other skateboards, breaking them all in pieces.
Dipper and Mabel fight back to back against the once friendly denizens of the bubble prison, but they can tell they were about to get overwhelmed fast. Mabel remembers she has a horn to call upon her trusty pig Waddles, the real Waddles, taking it out and blowing the horn as hard as she can for the large pig to hear before a sock monkey punched her face.
The nearby woods quake, trees falling left and right for the giant pig to come waddling toward Mabel and the others to save them. As the group were completely surrounded, Waddles comes charging in and squeals, "WREEEEEEE!" at the enemies to clear the way and make some of the enemies flee.
"Everyone get on!" urges Mabel, her and her brother, cousins and friends happy to see him.
They get on Waddles, who is the size of an elephant, and Mabel urging him. "Take us to freedom, Giant Waddles! Yah!"
With another squeal from Waddles, he rides off with everyone on his back as fast as his small hooves can carry in haste. Waddles running over several of the vicious characters and using his laser beam to zap at a muscular dolphin flying at him, exploding in a cascade of dismembered arms. Everyone ducks from them but Soos who gets slapped in the face.
Suddenly, Dippy Fresh managed to catch up on his skateboard and jumps onto the hindquarters of Waddles. He grabs onto Dipper from behind by his vest.
"Whoa ho! You're not escaping that easy, bro!" growls Dippy Fresh.
Dipper faces the fake counterpart, seeing his chance to attack. "Hey! Your head is on backwards!" He reaches for Dippy Fresh's head and snaps in a 180 angle, killing him and letting him fall off. Dipper felt invigorated and relieved.
"Badass, Dipper!" praises Wendy and giving him a fist-bump.
Mabel sees a multi-legged deer creature grabbing Quincy, making the boy yelp as it was about to bite his neck, so she grabs a nearby large lollipop from a tree and smacks the deer's face with it, making it fall off as well.
"Phew!" sighs Mabel, then offering Quincy to take a bite from it.
"Yum! Thanks, Mabel!" says Quincy.
Not long after, Waddle is about to approach the very edge of the bubble itself. Mabel readies herself and sees they're about approach large knitting needles and yarn she can use to burst the bubble and escape their nightmare.
"Alright, guys, are you ready for this?" asks Mabel in determination, getting nods as she grabs the giant knitting needle in time. Part of her almost hated to leave, but it was for the best. Mabel has to save her friends and family and put an end to the chaos once and for all. "Sorry, Mabeland. It's time to burst your BUBBLE!" exclaims Mabel, moving to his head and raising up the needle high.
As Waddles jumps, she pierces the bubble with the needle. The bubble instantly explodes into confetti as they all land on the ground of the cliff.
"Ugh. You all good, everyone good?" asks Mabel, helping her brother, cousins and friends to their feet.
Waddles shrinks back to his normal size and everyone is wearing the clothing they were wearing before, all dirty and covered in tears. Everyone huddles in to hug Mabel, at last having saved her from her bubble and returned to the real world.
The triplets lick Mabel's face, expressing how they've missed her so much since they can't revert back to their human appearances at the moment. Mabel smiles, understanding they missed her.
"Aw, Mabes! I thought we weren't gonna see you again!" expresses Junior.
"Same!" says Ty, then look to Dipper, frowning as he rubs the stub where his arm used to be. "And sorry, Dipper, for not helping. It was nice having a right arm again while it lasted… until it turned into bugs that'll be in my nightmares."
"I'm sorry, too," apologizes Quincy. "It all was…."
"Hey, guys, no hard feelings. The bubble almost tricked me into staying, too," forgives Dipper.
"We've missed you, Mabel," says Soos.
Mabel focuses back on Dipper, bringing up what he said before about his apprenticeship. "Hey, Dipper? I appreciate what you said back there, but if you want to take Ford's apprenticeship, I won't get in your way," she says, humbly allowing him to stay in Gravity Falls.
Dipper rolls his eyes and smiles. "Psh. And miss out on your awkward teen years? You wish," laughs Dipper.
Mabel laughs with her brother, then realizing how off she was back in the prison bubble. "Man, I went nuts back there. I mean come on. The real world can't be that bad, right?" Mabel turns around to the town, seeing giant Gompers doing his business and the Fearamid over the burning, desolate town below it in. All of them somber to see everything in a horrible state. "Oh boy," sighs Mabel.
Back in the town center….
Everyone heads to the center of the once thriving town, seeing no eye bats in sight along with Bill's minions or even the townsfolk; they were either taken or hiding incredibly well. The triplets frown while listening and sniffing the smokey air for any danger, thankfully, they are safe for the moment.
"Where is everyone?" asks Mabel, sad to see everything around them destroyed.
"The town's deserted," says Wendy.
"Did Bill already win?" wonders Soos, he frowns thinking of his grandma and the rest of the Pines family.
Dipper thinks back to the Mystery Shack, thinking they can still hide there like they originally planned. Part of him hopes the rest of the remaining family is there. "Come on, guys. Let's see if we can still go hide out in the Shack," says Dipper.
"If there's anyone there," sighs Junior, looking away. He was scared to know when they get to the Mystery Shack, yet hopeful his moms and everyone else are there.
Soon at the Mystery Shack….
When Dipper and the rest of the group made it safely back to their home, they are elated to find the place still intact after all that has happened. Except for the totem pole that lays across the law as if it was pulled out with great force. Other than that, they're happy to have returned, yet uncertain if they can even be safe there as well. They had to give it a chance.
"Yes! It's in shambles! Just like we left it," says Dipper, hoping Stan and the others have stayed at the shack.
"Oh, man, I'm so glad to be back here," says Wendy.
They all run to the front porch of the Mystery Shack with Mabel getting onto the familiar couch she'd see Stan and the other adults sit on, with the triplets joining her and making happy noises.
"Hello, house. Hello, porch. Hello, wads of gum I left stuck to the couch," says Mabel, lifting up the cushion to find wads of chewed gum under it.
As Dipper was about to reach the door handle, he stops to hear scuffling coming from inside the home. "Wait, what was that? Shh," he warns his sister, cousins and friends. He slowly picks up a nearby golf club.
Everyone arms themselves for a possible fight. Wendy picks up the nearby crossbow, aiming at the door. Junior engulfs both hands in green flames. Ty with sparks coming from his hand. Isaac taking out his hair. Quincy burping up magic green butterflies. Mabel holding up her grappling hook. Soos pounding his fists and turning his hat backwards, meaning business. And the triplets going into an aggressive stand, showing their fangs, ears pointing back and fur raised.
"Let's get 'em, dudes," says Soos.
Dipper kicks open the door and they all run in screaming their war cry. "Yaaahh!"
Facing against them and screaming as well was Stan; Carla; Celestabellebethabelle; Chutzpar; James; Jessie; Candy; Kevin; Grenda; Sheriff Blubs; Pacifica Northwest; Old Man McGucket Tara; Tanya; Maurice; Lillian and Cormac. "Yaaahh!" all of them scream.
As soon as it started, they all stop to get a closer look at who they're facing against.
"Moms? Dad? Tanya?" say Junior and Ty in unison.
The triplets whine to see their parents, brother and family members.
"Grandpappy?" says Isaac.
"Grunkle Stan? Grauntie Carla? And fam?" say Dipper and Mabel.
"Kids?" say Stan and Carla, along with the Pines adults.
Flush!
It got everyone to stop and face the bathroom, seeing Multi-Bear come out with a cardboard roll in paw. "Just so everyone knows, we're out of toilet paper." He looks to see everyone and wonders. "Did I miss something?"
Meanwhile….
Xyler and Craz emerge from the pile of colorful confetti that remains of the prison bubble. Having been the sole survivors of the prison bubble and who were not actively attacking Mabel and her friends and family.
"Woah! We survived!" cheers Xyler, not knowing why him and Craz did in the first place.
"Where are we?" wonders Craz.
Xyler and Craz get up and find a nearby bench to sit on, contemplating whether or not they're even real to begin with as they watch the chaos of the town below.
Xyler asks something aloud that has him and Craz pondering. They know they are figments of Mabel's imagination, but they did not disappear like the others. "Are we real? Is this reality?" Then, as if out of nowhere, Xyler speaks something perceptive and profound from what he knows. "Jean-Paul Sartre postulated that every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance," he reasons.
All Craz could say was, "Totally righteous, bro."
"I know!"
A/N: Another chapter done and just in time for Christmas and the fifth night of Hanukkah! To which, Happy Holidays everyone from me and SailorMew4! Only four more chapters left to conclude this fic three years in the making. Ups and downs have happened, but we're glad to keep this baby going as long as it has. Join us next time, Dipper and Mabel, along with the rest of their friends, family and remaining denizens of Gravity Falls prepare to take the fight to Bill Cipher and take back their home and save the universe! Will they succeed and who will fall here in the near final chapter: Weirdmagedon 3: Take Back the Falls AU!