Dipper Pines woke up slowly to the sound of the rain. He looked around and noticed he had been brought back to the shack and was lying on Gideon's bed.
His whole body felt stiff, and his joints all ached in protest as he sat up. His mind rushed trying to remember what had happened. The last thing he really rememberd clearly was Mabel pinning him against the wall, everything fading out, her electric blue eyes being the last thing he saw before he passed out.
"You're awake!"
Suddenly someone threw their arms around his neck and pain shot throughout his body. They leaned back and Dipper saw that it had been Pacifica who hugged him. "Are you... alright?" Pacifica asked, scooting away from him awkwardly.
Dipper nodded and rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, I'm alright, but what the heck happened?" He replied. "You don't remember?" Pacifica asked him. He shrugged and shook his head.
"You went crazy. Mabel put you under some sort of spell, a spell that made you think you were her actual brother, and it made you forget that we were your friends. You looked at me like you wanted to attack me." Pacifica explained. Dipper scrunched his eyebrows together. Had that really happened? He searched his brain for the memory.
Dipper cried out and held his head as the memories flooded back. It felt like the inside of his brain was freezing over with ice.
"Dipper! Are you alright?!" Pacifica put an arm around him and he leaned forward, clutching his head in pain.
The memories came back in shattered bits and pieces, some moments and people blurred out, the sound being uneven, being loud and quiet, somehow all at the same time, and echoing all around his mind.
One of the memories were his, the memory of when Paz had rescued him from the dining room and mansion, but there were so many other memories that weren't his, memories that, from what he could gather, were from the other Dipper. He watched and listened with horror as the other Dipper did gruesome, twisted, horrible things to people and animals of all kind along with his sister. He watched the entirety of Dipper's life flash through his mind, right to the moment of the abandonment of his mother.
They had been at the carnival that lived on the pier of Piedmont, California. Young Dipper held his mother's hand, a compass in the other. He hadn't been happy with the prize at first, his horrible dart aiming at balloons was to blame, but his mother assured him it was a great prize.
"This will always help you find your way home. A stuffed teddy can't do that." She had said. He wanted to believe her, but he felt doubt flash through his mind as he looked at his sister, who was grinning giddily and held a giant teddy bear almost as tall as her.
Suddenly, Dipper's hand slipped from his mother's, and Mabel's did as well. They crashed into the crowd around them and looked for their mother, but she had disappeared into the crowd of people. The twins clung tightly to each other so they couldn't get pulled apart by the bustling people.
Dipper pulled Mabel to the side of the walkway, scanning the crowd for their mother. He cried out for her, hoping she'd hear him and come, but she never appeared.
Dipper turned to Mabel at the sound of her sniffling. She gripped her teddy and looked at the ground, tears streaming down her face. Dipper wrapped her in a hug and she took it gratefully.
They wandered around the pier, searching for her, but instead ended up going up to the police who had parked their car at the beginning of the pier. They sat the twins down on the roof of their car. "Don't worry, kiddos. Your mom will show up eventually." The policemen assured, and his buddy went off to look for her after a description and name from the twins.
Dipper and Mabel held each other as the sun slowly set in the horizon. Dipper looked up at the crowd, and he felt his hopes skyrocket as he thought he saw his mother staring at him and Mabel. She had a look of despair on her face, tears trickling down her cheeks. She smiled at him sadly, one last time, and then she was gone. Disppeared into the crowd.
"Dipper? Dipper!" Paz shook him and he gasped and sat up. "What happened?! Are you alright?!" Paz asked him worryingly. "She implanted his memories into my mind." He muttered. "What?" Paz looked at him in confusion. He repeated what he had said.
She sat back, slowly processing it. "Is that even possible?" She asked. "I guess so." Dipper shrugged and winced. A headache had taken place in his brain. "She tried to make you hate us, and she implanted her brother's memories into you. But why? What, is she trying to make you just like Dipper?" Paz paused. What had seemed like a joke now took a realistic turn. "Wait, is she?"
Dipper and Paz looked at each other. He couldn't answer her. Dipper felt fear course through his body. He couldn't let that happen, he had to get back to his dimension as soon as possible. If he was turned into this world's Dipper... no, he couldn't imagine what would happen. The memories of what Dipper Gleeful had done and the thought that he would ever do something similar made him sick.
He didn't know how he would get home, but he'd find a way. And he'd have to avoid Mabel every step of the way, as much as he could.
Boom, two chapters in one day! Didn't think I'd be able to pull it off but I did. Told ya the next chapter would come out soon.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed and I'll see ya later, entertainers!
