Author's Note: In this chapter, Dipper and Mabel have begun to recognize one another on their shared road down memory lane that's in need of repair. The Pines family aim to jog the twin's memories of their times together and the weirdness of their family coming to light among other memories their own friends will bring back to them. However, in remembering the good, the twins must remember the unpleasant. And some things weird remain here in Chapter 81: Aftermath 2.

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!


The next day at the Mystery Shack, Dipper and Mabel spend the day getting to know more about each of their family members and the secrets they learned about them over the eventful, life-changing summer. Everyone is feeling good about this as they gather in the living room.

"Alright, Dipper and Mabel, ready to know the more weird side of our family?" Stan grins at the twins. "I mean it in a good way. Everyone in our family has something unique about them."

"Ooo! Family secrets. My brain is ready!" exclaims Mabel with a pack of chipackers in hand, sharing them with Dipper.

"Of course!" agrees Dipper, him being excited himself.

"You already know about Maurice and his kids being half demon, but we'll remind you of the times we revealed our own secrets. The good and the bad." Tells James and he eyes over to Shifty, Tate and Isaac. "You guys can share first."

Shifty, still in his Charlie disguise as a human, steps forward and smiles over at Dipper and Mabel. After a few days to recover from the ordeal, he felt ready enough to shapeshift again. "I introduced you two as Charlie, but that's not my real name and this isn't what I look like as you see before you."

Mabel gasps. "Are you secretly a voice actor and using the name Charlie as a pseudonym?" Dipper rolls his eyes with an amused grin. Everyone else chuckles.

"Oh no, Mabel. I'm something else entirely. Now… don't freak out. It's still me." Shifty takes a deep breath and morphs into his true form, revealing his white slimy body with four slender limbs and his blue eyes turned pink; his right arm is long and slender while the other is swollen and claw-like. His voice deepens when he speaks. "My name is Shifty and this is the real me, kids." Dipper and Mabel were stunned, but they seem to take it well when the boy with the pinetree hat takes out the third journal.

"Oh yeah! I remember Great-Uncle Ford wrote about you in the journal and how him and Grauntie Addi raised you since you hatched and everything. It's amazing getting to see you for real!"

Shifty grins and starts changing his shape into a combination between Mabel and a unicorn, making Mabel squeal in glee before changing back, happy that it jogged her and Dipper's memory.

"Now I remember my shapeshifting uncle!" Mabel runs up to hug her uncle Shifty while he is still in the Mabelcorn form. He shifts right back to his natural form as soon as Mabel releases him. Tate and Isaac walk right beside Shifty.

Isaac cares to share his story behind his hair and parentage, even if it still stung him since those days to learn he wasn't what he seemed. He put it as best he can remember with family helping him with the details. Including the origins of his golden magical blonde hair.

"But despite all that happening, I know who I am and where I belong; and it's with everyone here," Isaac concludes with a tear about to fall from his blue eye.

It almost had Dipper and Mabel in disbelief to hear Pacifica wasn't the girl they first met earlier this summer; where she was standoffish, entitled and down right degrading. It'll be something to see for themselves. But for now what's more important is being reminded of what their family truly is: Weird, and in a great way.

Next is James as he talks about being a spirit medium, having been so since the age of four and how this gift has benefited him and others along with the cons when it came to the spectres of the malicious nature, stepping up with something behind his back of what looked to be a sweater. He begins to share his issues about the Northwest family and the scars that were inflicted upon him and his family. Especially his own family that includes the nature of Maurice's death at the hands of one Northwest in particular: Preston. The twins listen and are saddened to learn the terrible cause of their uncle's death and what had happened to their uncle James in his youth. James does smile and reassures the twins.

Jessie frowns as well in remembering her and her brother's old dog from their youth, thinking back to that night when James and Maurice told her what happened and how she, Lillian and their children felt. At least they know who to truly blame.

"Even if my mental health has had ups and downs, I am greatly thankful for my family keeping me on the right path." James shows the knitted burgundy sweater with his old shepard dog Butch's knitted image on it. "Mabel, you knitted me this sweater of Butch after what happened in Northwest Manor with those malicious spirits of Pacifica's ancestors that we banished and… Butch's spirit was too in order to keep them in the spot long enough to complete the process. It comforts me remember him and the good he did in life and death."

"Aw, man…" Dipper shakes his head, the tension he felt that night and the fear him and Mabel shared along with the anger. "I remember…"

"It was a rough night for us, too," spoke Anais.

"We were there," adds in Arya. Aria nodded at the twins to confirm her presence having been there, too, and witnessed everything that was intense, eye-opening and almost not surprising to learn about the Northwest family's darker secrets.

"Me too, but I'm glad to have made that for you, Uncle James. And things are better now for you, right?" Mabel brightly smiles at him. James has to be honest and shows a smaller smile and lets out a small laugh.

"I'll be okay. Things are… okay right now, too. But we'll get them to be better in time." It was enough to reassure Dipper and Mabel. Even everyone else a little. And it was something James was telling himself, too.

"Now then," Tara steps up and beckons her four children to come near her, "there is more about us for you two to learn."

Next, Tara, Cormac and the triplets show themselves to be werewolves the second the four shift into their wolf forms right in front of the twins who go wide-eyed in amazement that Mabel drops a chipacker from her mouth. Tara and her children's fur pattern and color are unique to one another. Cormac's fur full white, pinkish nose with the silver scar and his red ruby eyes standing out like autumn leaves in the snow. Tara's fur being a fiery ginger color with a paler underbelly and chin and dark nose like her daughter's. As for the triplets, the girls have deep auburn fur and each having their own patterns distinct from each other.

Dipper and Mabel being reminded of that night they went camping with James and everyone else out in the woods and encountered a larger pack of werewolves Tara and her children managed to save them from. It was amazing yet terrifying in one night.

"Incredible!" exclaims Dipper. Mabel gets up from her seat and goes up to Cormac to face-plant herself into the mane of his fur and hugs his neck.

"You're still so fluffy as I remember!" Mabel proceeds to hug Tara and the triplets each in addition with glee. Cormac laughs and then shares casually.

"I have some psychic ability to sense disasters, and knowing when people are going to die around me. Don't worry; it's not any time soon now." Dipper and Mabel exchange looks, feeling awkward with a hint of dread but relieved at the same time to know it's not going to be too soon. The death that Cormac sees in Dipper and Mabel's future is fuzzy to him; for it is beyond what he can determine as he won't live long enough to see it.

Jessie breaks the awkwardness as she grins at the twins. "Speaking of being psychic, I'm the real deal! That's pretty much it besides the tarot card reading and able to predict aspects of the future for those around me." Lillian walks besides her wife.

"And I'm just your friendly, informal OBYN/Gynecologist. All human," Lillian says brightly.

"And I am a clairvoyant on my end in addition to what I have already," says Tanya, her mom Lillian putting a hand on her shoulder. "The best GPS when getting out of the woods and reading the energy of all living things."

"That's pretty cool," smiles Dipper.

"Awesome!" remarks Mabel, high-fiving Lillian, Jessie and Tanya but isn't that hard with them. Mabel and Dipper face Shauna, Shannon, Spriggs and Quincy as the remaining ones to relearn before Ford, Stan, Adeline and Carla reveal the largest secrets for last.

Shauna puts on her garnet gloves and picks up her old skateboard engraved with runes in the wheels and underside as her own 'broomstick' from before. She has on her helmet, elbow and knee pads for the occasion too; trying to be a good example in front her own child and the others.

"In short, I'm a witch, but I'm a different kind of sort," smiles Shauna as she settles her skateboard down and gets onto it, using her foot to push forward and the wheels rolling across the dirt ground until the spinning wheels begin to glow a burgundy red.

Dipper and Mabel watch in anticipation, then gasp in unison when Shauna is flying in the air while riding her skateboard as if surfing the sky around her. Shauna uses the shift of her weight to steer the board and the magic keeping her feet locked onto the flying skateboard. Shauna felt good enough to even perform a few loopty loops and ollies in mid-air that got everyone anxious and excited to witness at the same time. Shauna has not done her tricks in a long while, but she still knows how it's done. Shauna missed this.

Spriggs couldn't help but to grin while watching his wife having fun in the air, feeling compelled to join her when he transforms into his true nature fairy self in a glowing green flash and flies in the sky with her. Spriggs performs his own aerial stunts with his wife like they used to do in their teens, scattering fairy dust all the while. Everyone watched the couple happily from the ground below until they descended while laughing together. Shauna and Spriggs share a kiss on the lips the second the nature fairy changes into his human form to make it easier.

"Show offs," remarks Shannon with a grin. Shannon hadn't seen Shauna and Spriggs having done something as she and everyone else witnessed in a long time. As if the horrific events of the past week had never happened. But they have. Yet watching the pair let her know they'll be okay, always finding a way to bring the light back into their lives; that not everything will be terrible and dark.

Dipper and Mabel, along with the other family members clap for the pair as Quincy ran up to his parents, showing his own small wings for his cousins to see. Even more memories come back to the twins. The night Shauna shared what happened at the carnival and introduced them to her study and apothecary room. And the day Quincy revealed to them and Dani he is part fairy from his father in the cave while avoiding Gideon when he escaped from prison the one time.

The memories of their family were almost complete. Almost.

The twins take a minute to piece everything together in their minds about their family, appearing satisfied with what they relearned thus far. Everyone appears much more clearly now that the mental haze is mostly gone. Dipper smiling up at his grunkles, graunties and everyone else.

"It's amazing to learn all this about each and every one of you and… and I think that takes care of what we wanted to learn about you guys before we go into town and see our friends." Ford clears his throat, knowing it's not over.

"Not everything, Dipper, but we can talk about it later. You and Mabel have friends around town to get to know again." Dipper and Mabel exchange grins, the two more than ready to see their friends again.


Soon in town….

Dipper and Mabel, along with all the rest of the family, made several stops across town and talked to locals and their stories of the twin's antics and assistance they've done over the summer, but being reframed from mentioning Weirdmageddon, for now. One by one, the mystery twins were beginning to remember many of the familiar faces they've come to mostly like. Even Toby Determined, who somehow returned from the future a changed man, no longer being the stalking creep he once was. However, they couldn't help to notice something is amiss about the town as if something happened and changed everything while appearing the same as the day they first came. Though people were quick to cover up any images of Bill without the twins noticing. Although, there were strange things happening all the same when a small portal the size of a quarter opens on the eye of the statue of Nathaniel Northwest.

Dipper and Mabel made their way to Grenda's house, where Grenda, Candy, along with Taro, David, Pacifica, Patricia and Kevin ran up to the twins and embraced the dynamic duo.

"Dipper! Mabel!" The kids and newly repaired robot dog cheer.

"Friends!" Dipper and Mabel respond in unison.

"We heard you two lost your memories, so we're gonna help you remember all the times we had together!" says Grenda, letting go of Mabel.

"I like the sound of that!" brightly smiles Mabel, letting her best friends lead the way.

Before Dipper and Mabel proceed, they are approached by Pacifica and Patricia who smiles at them.

"I'm so happy you guys are alright and so is Patricia here." The golden retriever happily barks at the twins.

Not remembering Pacifica's change of heart, the twins squint at their friend in almost disbelief that the seemingly snobby rich girl is talking to them in a more friendly manner than ever before. Mabel being first to point out.

"Pacifica? When did you get all nice to me and my brother? Last I checked, you'd insult us and now you're even around our own friends. What's your angle?"

Pacifica blinked, as did everyone else to see they haven't remembered everything that happened in their summer. Candy being swift to make things clear.

"It's okay, Mabel, Pacifica is good now! She is no longer the snobby, entitled girl who used to make fun of us!"

"Yeah!" David steps up in support. "You guys helped her see the error of her ways and now she's one of our friends."

"We did?" Dipper and Mabel voice, still confused.

Pacifica walks up to Mabel, taking a deep breath. "Mabel, you were the first to show me kindness that night at your great-uncle's party, giving me the party crown even though I didn't win. I felt sore over losing because I felt I had to abide by my stupid parent's rules. Of course, it took me time to finally see the worth in the friendship you offered me. Especially the fun we had at competing in mini golf despite those crazy golf ball people attempting to kill us. And invited me and my dog on your roadside attraction trip I had a lot of fun in."

Mabel and Dipper begin to recall those memories of Pacifica.

"Yeah that's true!" Mabel beams at Pacifica. "I knew I saw kindness pass that stereotype exterior. I'm glad to call you my friend, Paz."

Pacifica smiles sweetly at Mabel, then turning to Dipper. "And you, Dipper, you gave me tremendous help to be more open about myself. You saved me from a vengeful ghost, that face-stealing weirdo; you helped me find my long lost older brother; protected me from that spider creep, and then some! Without you, I wouldn't have become the true me I wanted to be."

Dipper blushes, he doesn't understand why his heart is beating faster in Pacifica's presence, catching similar feelings he had before. It almost felt like to him he was in love with her, but he had to know if it's true. "Uh, were you and I boyfriend and girl-"

"NO!" Pacifica clears her throat from the quick outburst, though couldn't help to feel that sounded nice, but it wasn't true. " I... I mean, we aren't, but you are one of the greatest friends I've ever made." She clears her throat and takes out a twenty dollar bill awkwardly. "Um, can I pay you not to mention what I'm about to do?"

"Um, I don't see why not," Dipper shrugs, about to be reminded of that awkward moment he had with Pacifica.

Pacifica goes up to hug the boy with the blue pine tree hat, in doing so, unlocking those key memories of his time with her and how far she's come since the day he met her.

Mabel, along with their friends snicker as they watch the hug happen before their eyes.

Dipper chuckles to Pacifica, him being flustered by the request, now the scent of flowers and champagne in his nose he caught a whiff of during the hug, just like before and while in the sack of Mr. Whatshisface. " … I remember now, Paz. You definitely changed a lot since we've known each other. I'm… actually glad to be friends with you and never thought that we would even be."

"I know, right?" Pacifica laughs with him. "Now come on, you and Mabel. We have a lot to talk about."

Inside the house, all of Dipper and Mabel's friends share their stories of all the exciting and dangerous adventures they had together throughout the summer, making sure to leave out any mention of Weirdmageddon. Though there were a few slips here and there that the twins caught, but were dodged when David reminds the twins of the alien he and his sister really are, wowing the twins into remembering. Pacifica bringing up to Mabel.

"Say, Mabel, have you heard from Mermando, lately? I'm sure he's been wondering about you."

"Ugh, Mermando," Dipper rolls his eyes.

"Mermando… Mermando… oh yes!" Mabel exclaims. "I need to call him when I get home, but I don't know why."

"He's your boyfriend," says Kevin with a grin.

"Boyfriend? Like an actual boyfriend?" Mabel was astounded that she finally has a boyfriend to call her own. "I thought he was engaged to marry the Queen of… wait." Mabel quiets as images flash in her mind, the times she had with Mermando leading up to the day he came back to Gravity Falls with the rest of his family and the manatees. Including the second kiss they shared together and the dolphin song he sang to her. "It's coming back to me."

"Yeah… me too." Dipper holds his head.

"Yes," Pacifica nods at the twins. "Me and Patricia were there and Mermando and his people drove those hunters and my parents to go back home so they wouldn't be hunted."

"That's right!" Mabel beams, hugging Pacifica. "Thank you for reminding me! I'll give him a call when we're done here."

It would be a little while longer until Dipper and Mabel decide to leave, waving goodbye to their friends for now, and make their way to the cemetery to meet up with Wendy and her friend group consisting of Robbie, Tambry, Lee, Nate and Thompson, along with a couple of their teen cousins.

The twins find themselves at the usually quiet cemetery, walking past the headstones to find Wendy talking to her friends, not far from the quaint funeral home where Robbie and his parents live. Wendy turns and sees the twins, waving over to them.

"Yo, what up!"

"Wendy!" Dipper and Mabel greet their best friend.

It is there Wendy reintroduces the twins to her friends and how they all met the two, filling in the memories of their time at the haunted convenience store and what happened the day of the Woodstick Festival as the twins intently listen to the teenagers while sitting on the grass. Having helped Robbie and Tambry get together and everything else that happened. Except for mentioning Weirdmageddon to the twins.

"So a lot has happened since our memories were donked up."

"Yeah, like the time you put on that puppet show to impress some weird guy who liked kissing puppets, and Dipper you got possessed by Bill and he ruined that killer play and-" Wendy stops the second she sees her friend group visibly shake from hearing the name Bill, their eyes showing fear at the mere mention of the demented triangle's name. It has the other teenagers gulping and shaking their heads to have Wendy cease further mention.

"Actually," Wendy is quick to change subjects, gasping with remembering an incredibly important day coming soon, "you guys remember your birthday is coming up, right?" Dipper and Mabel's eyes go wide.

"Oh my gosh!" Mabel lightly puts her hands to her cheeks and faces Dipper. "We totally forgot our own birthday is coming up!"

"Yeah! Thanks a bunch, Wendy," Dipper shows a relieved smile up at Wendy.

"You two will become teenagers like us!" exclaims Lee as he and Nate high five.

"Turning thirteen, right?" asks Robbie, needing a reminder.

"Right!" Mabel and Dipper confirm.

"We haven't even finished planning everything, but you guys are totally invited to come." Mabel beams brighter when Wendy and her friends give her a thumbs up.

"None of us would miss it for anything else," affirms Wendy. Her and her friends swearing they will be there for the twins. No matter what.

"Then afterwards, we can go graffiti the statue in the-" Wendy jabs Thompson at his side.

"You mean the Northwest statue?" inquires Dipper.

"Nah, not that kind of statue, don't worry about it," affirms Wendy. "So, where are you guys off to after stopping here?"

"Going into the woods to get reminded more of our adventures." Dipper and Mabel high-five each other. "And see more of the sites in town!"

"Awesome!" Robbie shows a more apologetic look to Dipper. "Hey, Dipper, before you head off or whatever, I never got the chance to say I'm sorry for the crap I put on you earlier this summer. I was a jerk, and you know, I feel bad about it."

Dipper grins up at Robbie. "Water under the bridge now, Robbie." Dipper and Mabel wave to their friends as the teens wave back at them. None of them noticed the small portal opening on one of the tombstones.

When they were well enough away, Dipper and Mabel discuss the unpleasant memories at the mention of Bill. The two not being able to get it out of their minds as they stand by a tree in the woods.

"Hey, Dipper, have you started to remember more about Bill and… what he did this summer?" Mabel combs her long brown hair nervously.

"I do, Mabel. A lot of… horrible things he did to people since forever. And worse: what he's done to our family for years. Like what happened to aunt Shauna and Shannon's respective eyes, now that I remember them telling us. Grunkle Ford, Grauntie Addi and so on." Dipper lets out a saddened sigh to express to his sister. "But I feel there's more that's happened with Bill than we know."

"I feel it, too. When Wendy mentioned Bill, it brought back some of those more… horrible memories." Mabel rubs her arm. Dipper gives his sister a comforting hug.

"It's okay, Mabel, we need to remember the good and the bad to get all of our memories back and return to ourselves again." Mabel brightly smiles back at her twin brother.

"Amen to that, Dipdop! Let's go meet more people!"


Meanwhile in the basement lab…

Ford and Adeline, along with Fiddleford, Shifty, Spriggs Shauna and Shannon are examining a small white portal, that's the size of a golf ball, having randomly appeared on the surface on the ground where the mechanical portal once was. They knew something weird was going on. Not everything from Weirdmageddon left upon Bill's defeat, it seems. The six appear to take this seriously as they should as Ford writes down notes.

Shauna kneels down to get a closer look at the small portal, her husband kneeling down with her to keep her safe as he touches her shoulder, just in case something were to happen.

Ford immediately warns his daughter. "Careful, Shauna, something could be on the other end of that portal."

Shauna gets a closer inspection with her eye. She gasps to see what she's seeing. Spriggs turning into his fairy self to stick his head into the portal for a better peer into what is being seen. When he lifted his head, his eyes were wide.

"What are you seeing?" asks Adeline. Shifty and Shannon follow their example and get a peek into the small portal, none of them answering her right away until they knew exactly. Then it dawned on Shauna in sudden realization.

"It's… it's what's left of the Nightmare Realm, Mom," Shauna says in a low tone. Ford, Adeline and Fiddleford kneeling down to see for themselves.

"Well kettle my corn! I see some other planets or whatevermajigs in there, too!" acknowledges Fiddleford.

Ford rises up in panic. It wasn't just what is left of the Nightmare Realm itself, but a plane where the multiverse connects to different worlds entirely; something Ford and his wife and children knew all too well no unfortunate soul should be. "We have to seal these portals up before anyone in Gravity Falls falls through any of them! Right now they may seem small, but if they get big enough, someone can either fall through or -"

GRRRRRRREEEEEE!

Spriggs yelps as he removes his head from the portal as everyone hears the loud, horrifying piercing shriek coming from the portal. Fiddleford leaps into Ford's arms. Even Shifty steps back as do his sisters.

"Something's in there!" warns Spriggs, having seen something that horrified him something fierce. Shauna holds onto her husband when he changes into his human self.

Adeline and Ford take some time to think before coming up with an idea that may just work. The older couple exchange grins.

"You're thinking what I'm thinking, Addi?" Ford being excited about it.

Adeline looks over to where they keep the alien adhesive from the spaceship. "I sure do, Ford!" She looks at everyone else. "Alright, everyone, I think we know just how to mend these portals. Fidds, you wanna help us make some gear?"

"Boy, do I!" Fiddleford laughs with glee. "What are we makin'?"

Ford grabs a dabble of the alien adhesive while wearing his gloves and moves quickly to the small golf ball-sized portal. "Let me test a theory here first." He carefully dropped the adhesive along the rim of the portal, and within seconds, the portal began to seal until it was like it wasn't there at all. "Bingo!" This impresses everyone else.

"Well I'll be," Fiddleford says in awe.

"Yes!" Adeline cheers. "Now we can work on a device that can shoot this adhesive and seal up any portal we can find in Gravity Falls. And we're going to be needing a lot more adhesive to accomplish this, and help from family."


Later that night at the Mystery Shack…

Dipper and Mabel are nestled in their respective beds across from each other while the rest of their cousins sleep within their sleeping bags, or on a large dog bed for the triplets and Cormac's case, as everyone tries to get some sleep after today's achievement: the twins finally remember each other. And the rest of the day was reminiscing on good and bad memories of their early childhood and what was said and done in the beginning of the summer. In addition, remembering the weirdness that surrounded their extended family and then some with their birthday coming up soon.

Despite the chamomile tea having worked the first few nights, there are some that still toss and turn in their slumber from what they're experiencing in their own dreams turned nightmares that stemmed from what they each endured during Weirdmageddon.

Arya quietly whimpers in her sleep, Aria moves her arms and legs as if running on all fours as if trying to run like her life depended on it, Anais moves herself closer to her sisters to comfort them while still half asleep. Arya going silent and Aria ceasing her limbs from moving upon feeling one other closer together.

Cormac wakes up to see his sisters in distress in their sleep and is careful in tip-toeing over everyone else to get to them, but he notices Quincy quietly crying in his sleep thanks to his great hearing and carefully scoops the small boy up in his arms to hold him close while he lays by his sisters. Cormac stroked Quincy's brown hair in short motions as his younger cousin started breathing easier and the tears ceased.

Isaac awakes, making a small yelp, but he hushed himself to not wake up his cousins as he then lets out a small yawn. But he wakes up right when he sees small flashes of blue, green and red appear on Ty, Junior and Tanya respectively on their bodies while in their sleep and unaware of it happening to them. Not until Isaac gets up to jostle Ty first.

"Ty…" Isaac audibly urges in his whisper, but the likeliness of Cormac and his sisters hearing him are higher than it would be for most humans. "There's somethin' going on with you and…"

The black teen rubs his eyes with the one hand and groans from being stirred awake. "Wha do you - Ooooh shit!" All it took was one glance at his blue-glowing stump, along with the lichtenberg scars doing the same on his intact arm to become alarmed. What he can't see are his own eyes glowing blue, but he can see Junior and Tanya glowing green and red respectively and the rest of the cousins waking up alarmed themselves. Except for Dipper and Mabel remaining in their deep sleep.

Ty takes a moment to breath and calm down, thinking of what his dad told him and his siblings while talking with the rest of the family. It must be the very occurrence Maurice was warning about. It didn't take long for Junior and Tanya to wake up, being jostled by the triplets and Cormac to see for themselves.

"Tha fuck, Cory?" groans Tanya, rubbing her blonde head of hair before looking at her arms, seeing the glowing otherworldly marks for herself and her whole left side of her discolored skin glowing the eerie red too. "I see…" Tanya responds in a low tone, knowing what it means.

In combination to this discovery, Tanya feels even stranger as if her senses were turned up to eleven. She can see everyone in the dark so much more clearly than before, and smell every little thing in the room that makes her nose twitch, and hear the quiet sounds from outside as if they were all present within the room. Something else awakened within her - something with fangs and a haunting howl. And Cory and the triplets can sense it that has them tense something fierce.

"Guys you're all… glowing! Like a nightlight!" exclaims Quincy.

"Like a what?" mumbles Junior, seeing his arms giving off a glow of green, then glancing over to his brother and sister before facing his blackened hands and arms as if covered in ink that reach to his elbow with dark green flames. "Oh man…"

It felt as though everyone was frozen in place, not daring to make a sound or move. No one knew what to do. Almost as if it is Weirdmaggedon all over again.

Ty broke the silence when he uttered. "Just like what Dad said would happen… like what happened to him." The triplets, their brother and cousins are perplexed.

"Wait, what?"

"How-"

"I never realized how strong everything smells in this room with all of us together. It's… something." Tanya speaks, breaking the questions. "Try not to be so loud," she says, lowering her voice that hints a growl. Cormac gulps, feeling like the white hairs on his body are bristling.

"You smell like a new werewolf, Tanya; mixed with demons and you get… something else."

"And it's making us hella nervous," voices Arya, smelling that Tanya's scent changed from ink to ash.

"But… we know you can't help it," says Anais in what assurance she can give.

Then it dawned on Tanya of how the werewolf part made sense. Those five years ago in high school where Cormac bit her hand during his panic attack. Instead of becoming a werewolf, she ended up incredibly ill instead to where it was near life-threatening, but ended up fine the next week after. The lycanthropy never went away. And that means her baby won't be mostly human anymore as Tanya comes to realize this with expectations and what she can do to help her child in the long run, but the lycanthropy was unexpected.

"Shit…" Tanya sighs, rubbing her head then placing her hand on her belly. "Cory, my lycanthropy didn't go away after all. It was just… repressed until now." Cormac gives Tanya a sympathetic and apologetic frown, not needing to say how sorry he is for it wasn't entirely his fault.

"Oof… Um, what are we gonna do?" wonders Aria, then looking at the sleeping Dipper and Mabel.

"Well," Quincy pipes up and smiles at Ty, Junior and Tanya in optimism coming back to him, "you're still our cousins; just the outside changed but not who you are as people and I still love you." From being reminded of that alone and remembering what Isaac had to go through, it made Ty, Junior and Tanya feel a little better about the physical changes they're going through.

"He's right. You're still yourselves, right?" Isaac presents to the three. From what he and the other cousins can tell, Ty slowly nods at them, Junior lightly smiles, and Tanya lets out a breath in wanting to believe that. "And… we'll always love you no matter what you look like."

"Yeah. I'm just feeling these new things I'm right now coming to terms with. And what it'll mean for my kid, but… I know I'll do my best to help her." Tanya wipes her eyes, hinting she was tearing up.

"At least Dad warned us about… whatever this is." Junior examines his arms and hands intently, being reminded of something familiar about the features but they don't come to mind at the moment of what they could be.

"It does feel strange being like this," acknowledges Ty, his stump emits blue sparks that light up the room more so, the crackling sounds waking up Dipper and Mabel in the process. Ty lets out calming breaths and rubs where his right arm used to be to make it stop.

"Hey guys… what's going on?" groans Mabel, rubbing her eyes. Dipper lets out a surprised yelp upon seeing Ty, Junior and Tanya as they are.

"Oh my god! You're all… glowing?" Dipper raises a brow and gets out of bed inspecting his cousin's altered appearances.

"You're like your dad now! Very cool in the dark." Mabel cheerfully remarks. This time genuinely getting more positive smiles from their cousins.

"Aw, thanks Mabes… this just happened and it just feels weird right now," says Ty with a small chuckle. It made the triplets and Cormac ease, as did Quincy and Isaac.

A knock is heard on the other side of the attic room door.

"Come in!"

Upon receiving permission, it is Maurice in his long-sleeved and pants orange pajamas of his own making by his whim who enters the room and immediately knows what happened to his children as said would happen. But Maurice is collected and says without being phased.

"Hey, kids, thought I sensed something was up and came to check how y'all are feeling."

"Weird," sigh Ty, Junior and Tanya.

"We're alright now," the triplets spoke up.

"I was having bad dreams again but I'm okay now," reassures Quincy, being honest even though Maurice could tell he was trying to manage the best he can.

Dipper brings up his concerns about his and Mabel's recurring dreams. Dipper rubs his head before he begins to share what him and Mabel have seen in their dreams.

"Me and Mabel have been having weird dreams lately about things like burning and we saw what looked like doors that lead into moments in time we've started to remember, but there are doors locked shut we couldn't open."

"Yeah. I figure you two still have more remembering to do." Maurice moves over to stand close to Dipper and Mabel and knelt down to their height. "As you may have gotten some hints about it, something big happened in Gravity Falls not too long ago and it is tied to your lost memories and the after effects of the whole mess; what happened to me and my kids included."

"Like what?" asks Mabel. "Ooo, more secrets."

"Exactly. Now y'all get back to sleep and we'll talk about it all in the mornin'. It's morning since it's three a.m., technically, but you know what I mean." Maurice gives Dipper and Mabel a firm hug and then to the others and his own before leaving the bedroom and shutting off the light. Where Ty, Junior and Tanya's markings still give off their small glow of blue, green and red respectively.


In the morning….

The sunshine peeked through the windows outside as the sky welcomed the new day and revelations to be made. Everyone is gathered in the living room with the adults on the long couch along with all the kids and younger adults, some still tired and restless trying to sleep but it became more difficult that not even tea can manage forever.

Stan and Carla shared their loveseat chair while Ford and Adeline sat together on their own. Dipper and Mabel sitting between James and Jessie while the two sat with their own spouses. Shannon, Shauna and Spriggs with Quincy on his father's lap. Then Tate and Shifty with their son Isaac sitting in between them while upside down.

Ford as usual being the one to get everyone's attention with a clap of his hands.

"Alright, everyone. I think it's time we should discuss everything that happened to them and everyone. It'll make much more sense to bring in that context in order for the explanation to Maurice and my great-nephews and niece." Ford takes a deep breath, having rehearsed how he was going to explain everything to Dipper and Mabel about Weirdmageddon. "Dipper, Mabel, you don't remember it all, surely, but something did happen to all of us and within the entirety of the town itself and its people. An event we called… Weirdmageddon."

"Weirdma-what?" questions Dipper, having no idea that something like that happened, but just hearing the name of the chaotic event is beginning to unlock within his and Mabel's minds. A lot of it is painful to remember the horror he and his sister witnessed and went through together as the twins held their heads while processing it all.

"It's alright, kids," Adeline talks quieter as it seems the twins trying to remember all of it at once is causing mental pain, "don't force yourselves to remember all of it at once. But know that Bill is gone and he won't be hurting anyone ever again." Dipper and Mabel blink incredulously at Adeline and the others nodding at them in certain.

"Gone? Bill is finally gone?" Mabel spoke in relief. "That's great! Now it means we can have our birthday party in peace and - wait…" Mabel starts seeing flashes of her memories of that fateful afternoon when her and Dipper were planning their birthday party, but on her end facing disappointment when things weren't going to plan.

Meanwhile, Dipper's own memories start to recall when he, Ford, Adeline and their grown children ventured into the derelict spacecraft, finding the adhesive and then having to save the older couple from being taken into space by the security drone. After the fact, Mabel confronted him over what she heard him say over the walkie talkie and then running out of the Shack upset. Something Mabel remembers now in hearing the maddened laughter in her head.

In Dipper's own mind, he sees images during those days in Weirdmageddon and how desperate he was to find and rescue Mabel from her prison bubble thanks to help from his cousins, Soos and Wendy having been there.

Mabel finally remembers the scene that started Weirdmageddon, causing her to frown and her time in Mabeland and how her brother and family helped her see through the trapping fantasy. Tears forming in her eyes. "I remember now… I caused it to happen."

"Mabel, honey, no," reassures Ford when he kneels to give Mabel a close hug as did Dipper next to her, "you were tricked by Bill as he tricked me. It wasn't your fault." Everyone else tries to comfort Mabel.

"I think it's time to talk about Bill… and what you both did to stop him," Ford whispers to the twins, preparing them for the news about to be told, but they won't be emotionally prepared for what is to come.


A/N: No excuse for why this took over two months (mostly holidays and other life things) since the last chapter, but a new year and a new additional chapter for this fic! There's only one more chapter left and we look forward to post it at some point. Join us next time in the fic finale where Dipper and Mabel discover there is more to the defeat of Bill than they thought, and the repercussions of their joint decision in Chapter 82: Aftermath 3 Ending.