Hey, look, I finally had time to write again! Sorry this wasn't up sooner, life got in the way. Warning, very obvious hints to abuse and a bit of description regarding it.

Mabel

Dipper was being especially stabby with his eggs the next morning after the whole fake ghost thing. Honestly, what had he expected? Anyone with half a brain could see Ford was a born liar. I didn't trust him at all.

Stan just pushed his eggs around. I think having his brother around again was both a blessing and a curse. I couldn't imagine if Dipper left and we grew apart. It would be like…like a dull blade. Painful and not nearly as fun.

Just then Ford entered the hall, brimming with unearned confidence and excitement. Great…

"Family! I have an announcement!" he called as he stood at the head of the table. "I, Stanford Pines, have found a way to bring the creatures of my old dimension here, into this dimension!"

"Creatures?" Grunkle Stan repeated.

"Yes, Stanley. The ones who obeyed me and would've given me ultimate power if you hadn't ripped me back here," Ford snapped. Then he smiled at Dipper and I. "This is our chance to finally make those below us bow to our every whim. To have ultimate power."

"We'd rule over everyone?" Dipper gaped.

Ford nodded. "We'd start small, take over Gravity Falls first, then move to the whole globe."
"What creatures are you bringing here, Ford?" Stan demanded.

"Ones loyal to me," he replied. "I've seen more then you could even comprehend and now we will turn this dimension into our personal playground. All I have to do is stretch a small rift that was left over from when Stan brought me back and my army will be able to march right through."
"That sounds-" Dipper said.

"Too good to be true," I finished. "There's always a catch. What's yours?"

"Catch?" Ford asked. "What do you mean?"

"You're not a selfless family guy. What do we have to give you for sharing your power?"

Dipper kicked me under the table as Ford's fake smiled. "Well, my dear, all I'm asking for is loyalty. Loyalty and that pesky cipher you twins have."

"Will? What do you want with him?"

"Well you two may have not realized it but he is the most powerful being from my home dimension."

"That sniveling coward?" Dipper laughed.

But Ford wasn't laughing. "Indeed. And he will be the key to me taking over this town and this dimension."

"Us."

"What?"

My eyes narrowed. "Us. You said you would take over the town, but you meant us. Right?"

"Yes, yes, of course," Ford replied waving away my concerns. But Grunkle Stan still looked uneasy.

"Get ready family. Tonight, we begin."

Pacifica

"What are we looking for exactly?" I asked, pulling out drawers of a very fancy desk.

Gideon shrugged as he stumbled into the room through the wall vent. "Anything. Just grab everything and we'll figure out what's incriminating when we get home."

So while I filled my backpack with any fancy document I could find, Gideon filled his with techy gadgets including what looked like weapons and something that looked like a future snow globe.

But then, like in all the scenes like this in any show ever, we heard them. Footsteps.

"Paz!" Gideon whisper-shouted and ran for the gate. "Come on, we gotta go!"

I didn't hesitate and raced into the vent after him, making sure to close it silently.

Just in time too. That new guy, Ford, walked in just as I closed it and sat at the desk. Gideon pulled my arm and we started to move just as the man started to notice his things were missing. I really hoped he wouldn't suspect us. This was my first crime and I would rather not get caught.

Ford

My desk was messy, not a surprise considering I tend to do that when genius was happening. But this was a different kind of mess. A looking kind.

I ran to my bookcase and started searching. No, no, no, no….

"Uh, Ford?"

I turned and saw Stanley standing in the threshold, awkwardly wringing his hands. I did not have time for this.

"What, brother?"

"Look, I know you went through a lot on the other side of that portal-"

"Life changing stuff, really." I turned back to the bookcase.

"But I went through stuff on this side too. I…I lost you. I didn't think I was ever going to see you again and then I found this portal and-"

"Get to the point Stanley." It should've been right there…

"I want you back. How things were before…before they broke."

"To do that you'll have to go back to night you betrayed me. When you chose Dad over me!" I shouted, pushing the bookcase over. Stanley jumped back as the books scattered. "Where is it?"

"Ford!"

"What?!"

"I don't want this. This plan of yours, this take over. I want to be a family!"

"We will never be a family, you and I, never again. You betrayed me by standing with Dad. You betrayed me by taking over my estate, by bringing me back to this wretched hole of a dimension. You ruin everything I create! And if you stand in my way one more time, brother, then I swear to you, you will never see your precious twins ever again!"

Stanley blinked at me. "You're not my brother."

I watched him leave once more and felt nothing. I was beyond his little family wishes, his feelings. Right now I had important things to be concerned about.

"Cipher!"

The demon appeared, his eye already watering.

"Yes, Master?"

"The rift is gone. Find it, find the person responsible, and make sure they regret it."

"Yes, Master."

He vanished just as quickly.

Soon everything would fall into place.

Gideon

I was already dreaming of the speech I would give, the look of triumph on my face as I locked up the Pines twins. Their despair. This evil would finally be gone from this poor town.

Yep, I was flying high as Paz and I walked back into the Wonder Shack.

"There you two are!" Uncle Preston exclaimed. Paz and I froze.

"Uh, yep," she nervously laughed. "We're here and you're here and now we're all here!"

"Gideon, we need to talk," Aunt Priscilla said softly, beckoning me over.

My feet felt like concrete.

"Y-yes?"

"As you know, the summer's almost over. And though we've loved having you here, your father has decided it would be best if you attended school back home. He's on his way and will be here tomorrow morning to take you home."

Your father. Your father. Your father…

Aunt Priscilla was talking logistics, Pacifica was whining to her father about my leaving, and all I could here was the blood rushing to my brain.

Your father. Your father. Your father…

My feet moved but I wasn't aware of it. I shrugged off my cousin without feeling her hand on my arm. I didn't realize I was in the forest until I felt the grass on my legs as I sat down.

Your father. Your father. Your father…

"Bud, please!" Ma screamed. "Bud!"

"He's an idiot, darlin'. A stupid boy who needs to learn some respect!"

The carpet was scratchy, and my eye was swelling. I heard footsteps and started to curl up, like an armadillo.

"Stand up, boy! Stand up like a man!"

"Bud, don't!"

"Do you want this, darlin'? Huh, do you?"

"I…I…"

I couldn't stand up, my legs were shaking too much. Ma had her head down as Father came over.

"Now let's see what kind of man you really are, boy."

I don't remember anything after that. Not until Ma was me that I'd fallen off the roof and would be spending the summer with my cousin.

"Gideon?"

I jumped, body curling up. But it wasn't Father. It was Will, poking his eye around a pine tree trunk.

"What…what are you doing here?"

A tear fell from his eye. "Oh no," he moaned. "Oh no, you have it. And I like you but I can't disobey, not again. Of course it's you, I just have the worst luck."

"Have what? Will, what are you talking about?"

He floated over and sat next to me. "You have the rift to my home dimension."

"The what?"

Will reached his hand into my bag and pulled out a future looking snow globe with a tiny galaxy floating in it.

"This," he explained. "My master wants it so he can open a new portal and bring all the horrible creatures from my dimension here, giving him ultimate power."

"Oh." I shrugged. "Okay."

"Are you alright? Normally I think you would react differently to an apocalyptic event."

"My…my father…he's coming. Here. To get me."

"Oh…" More tears fell from Will's eye. "He's your monster, isn't he?"

"Yeah," my voice shook. I looked at the sky, blinking rapidly. "This entire summer, I've been trying to bust the Pines twins. I knew they were doing bad stuff and they're scary, sure, but they're just kids. It was different, facing them, because I figured they couldn't hurt me as badly as…as him. But now the summer's over…I can't be brave anymore, Will."

"What if…what if the summer didn't have to be over?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I have to take the rift back to my master and I'm supposed to punish the person who took it. What if I put you in a bubble, one where time was frozen in summer, so you could be happy?"

"How is that a punishment?"

"Because you'd be trapped."

I met Will's eye. Phantom bruises ached on my back and I felt myself nod. "I've been trapped my whole life. Do it."

He snapped his fingers and everything went dark.

Dipper.

"Mabel?"

She was flopped on her bed, staring out the window.

"Grunkle Ford said to come onto the roof. He's ready to open the rift now."

"Oh, is he? How thrilling," she drawled, turning to face the wall.

"Mabel, what's wrong? Don't you want this? We'll finally have ultimate power over this town."

"You mean Ford will. He's the one controlling Will, he's the one opening the rift. He's the one who will really be in charge."

"And we'll be his second in command." Why was she being so difficult?

"You really trust him?"

Ah, that was it. "Why wouldn't I?"

Mabel glared over her shoulder at me. "Oh, I don't know, maybe because he's a sociopath who lived in another dimension for most his life."

"Look who's talking," I muttered.

A knife flew past my face and stuck in the wall behind me.

"I'm just saying, Ford's a lot like us. So why don't you give him a chance?"

"I suppose he's going to open the rift no matter what we say," she sighed, spinning to face me. "I'd hate to miss the show."

When we reached the roof the sky was already darkening and Ford was laughing.

"Welcome, children!" he exclaimed when he saw us, holding the rift high in the air. "Let's begin, shall we?"