How long had it been? That's what went on in Stanley Pines' head as he sat on his couch reading his book. It had been a month since his little grand niece and nephew, Dipper and Mabel arrived to spend another summer with him and his six fingered twin brother, Stanford.
It had been a day Stan and his brother had been waiting for since seeing them go back to Piedmont one summer ago. Even during his and his brother's sailing journeys, the chance of seeing his niece and nephew made him smile.
But when he got back, the chaos and excitement hadn't changed. There was monsters, siblings learning about each other. Heck, Stan fought a dragon with the new Mr Mystery, Soos.
But also during that time, something amazing happened that not even Stan expected. Mabel may have had a lot of failed summer romances, but Dipper's first summer romance turned out to be an unexpected success. During Dipper's second summer in Gravity Falls, he started an unexpected relationship with none other than Pacifica Northwest, the former richest girl in Gravity Falls, Oregon; And also, Mabel's former enemy.
The relationship took some time but it did come to be after mishaps that include forgetting a first kiss, some bickering, some finger pointing and worst of all, an almost break up.
But during that time, Pacifica kind of had to be moved away from her parents due to their attempt on Old Man McGucket's life and she moved in with her former bodyguard, Herman Trout. But that didn't last long because he recently sacrificed himself to save Earth from Darkness. And now, Pacifica had been staying with the Pines for like a day or two ever since the funeral and that strange incident where he and everyone were standing out in the back of the Mystery Shack with Ford describing an event he doesn't remember. Something about, zombie woodpeckers.
Stan was sitting on the couch, wearing nothing but his tank top and underwear as he read Battle of Thrones.
Stan was looking quite tired reading the book that there were bags in his eyes. "Must keep reading this overlong book. Only 356 pages to go." Stan sighed and rested the book on his lap. "Relax Stan, you just need something that will keep you up. Good thing I have this cup of smoking hot tea right beside me." Stan took a large swig of tea that he suddenly fell asleep.
Stan started to sleep peacefully, with the drool pouring out of his mouth and the snoring being as loud as a dog sleeping.
But unbeknownst to Stan, somebody was approaching him. It was the familiar lizard known only as Toffee, and beside him was Pennysmart, The Singing Clown. Feaster of old people.
"What am I to do with him, mr Toffee?" Pennysmart asked his master.
"Go into his mind." Toffee replied.
"Love to." The clown started to use a felt tip to draw on Stan's head which got him a disapproving stare from the blue lizard.
"What are you doing?" Toffee asked.
"You told me to go into his mind." Pennysmart replied.
"And..."
"Well, I have to make the incision in order to-"
Toffee then grabbed the demonic clown by the lips and calmly narrowed his eyes at him. "You are a demon with the powers to devour people and enter their dreams. Use the power that allows you to enter their dreams."
It didn't take long for Pennysmart to finally get what his master was implying him to do and he nodded his head as a response, closed his eyes and then turned into a black energy and flew right into Stan's ear.
This slight irritation only caused Stan to itch his ear hole while Toffee stood in place, watching Pennysmart do his magic.
Toffee smiled as he watched Stan sleep, not knowing what was about to happen to him. He gently pressed his fingers on Stan's cheeks and made him look like a blowfish. "Soon, the thing that is rightfully mine will be out of your head and the madness will once again, begin."
Just then the lights turned on and Toffee turned around to see Soos drinking a glass of milk and staring at Toffee like he just saw a ghost.
Despite being caught, Toffee still remained calm and stared at Soos looking disinterested.
"Uh...Am I sleepwalking?" Soos asked.
"There's a giant lizard in the living room." Toffee replied. "Does that answer your question?"
"I guess it does." Soos yawned. "I'm off to bed. Nice seeing you again giant lizard man."
As Soos walked back to his room, Toffee rolled his eyes and snuck out of the window.
The next day.
Morning was strange for Pacifica Northwest as she woke up in the guest bedroom of the Mystery Shack. At first she was confused by her surroundings, but she then realised where she was. At the Mystery Shack, not the Northwest Shack or McGucket mansion, the Mystery Shack.
She got out of bed, got dressed in a pink shirt, purple shorts, pink shoes and finally, the blue Pine Tree hat she had been wearing all summer.
Despite the fact she was living here, legally, it was strange living at your own job. But she was getting used to it due to the generosity of her boss, Soos and sets of Pines twins.
She stared at herself giving a brief smile, getting ready for work.
She then heard a knock on the door and Dipper, her geeky boyfriend entered her bedroom, still wearing his arm cast due to him breaking his arm the other day.
"Morning." Dipper greeted his girlfriend.
"Dipper, you're supposed to knock until I say you can come in." Pacifica reminded her boyfriend.
"Right...Of course..." Dipper stuttered nervously. "...Of course I have to knock before I...I mean.."
Pacifica laughed as she approached her stuttering boyfriend and gave him a quick kiss on his lips.
"You need to stop stuttering, dork." Pacifica said. "We've only been together for like a few weeks."
"Two, actually." Dipper reminded his girlfriend.
Pacifica gently pushed her boyfriend. "Quit being a dork." Pacifica said in a teasing voice. "What did you come down here for?"
Dipper's dorky smile vanished and he gave his girlfriend a sympathetic look. "Pacifica, are you okay being here?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Pacifica laughed. "It's simple and best of all, it makes coming to work a lot easier."
Dipper gave a brief small smile at Pacifica's brief joke but it soon disappeared as he approached her, trying to act gentle.
"Listen Pacifica, I just need to know if you're feeling okay." Dipper gently explained. "Because, according to Mabel, it is my duty as a boyfriend to know if the girlfriend is okay. Because, well...Y'know."
Pacifica looked sad, since she knew Dipper was talking about her deceased father figure, Herman Trout. But she pulled a calm expression as she turned to face her boyfriend. "Dipper, I'm fine. I know I went through something absolutely horrible, but I assure you that I am fine. I'm just worried about you Dipper." Pacifica pointed to her boyfriend's arm cast which he took a brief glance at.
"Well, apart from the fact my arm is broken, it should be out of the cast in a few weeks." Dipper said. "Just hope that won't make Mom and Dad from stopping me and Mabel from coming back here."
"Are there any mysteries to be solved?" Pacifica asked.
"Well, I wanna find out what's been going on with rumours of a painting that tells anybody's-"
"I'm going to stop you right there." Pacifica interjected. "I don't want you to go out mystery hunting."
"Pacifica, I'm fine." Dipper assured his girlfriend. "And it's just a simple mystery, what can go wrong with that?"
"Well, I'm worried that simple mystery will cause you to be chased by a giant monster." Pacifica said.
"But Pacifica-"
"Don't but Pacifica me." Pacifica interjected. "Since it is your boyfriend duty to comfort me, it's my girlfriend duty to make sure you don't get into a mess that might be dangerous. And don't whine, okay? I'm doing this because I love you."
Dipper sighed. "Alright. For you."
"Thanks Dipper." Pacifica said before putting on some red lipstick. "Don't forget, dork."
Pacifica then kissed Dipper's arm cast, leaving a red lip stain on it. Pacifica then grabbed a quick permanent marker and wrote on Dipper's cast, 'Get well soon, dork. Love from, your Mystery girl.'
"And don't criticise the nickname. There's stuff you don't know about me." Pacifica said while smiling.
Pacifica then kissed her boyfriend on the lips, giving him a red lip stain on his lips, which made Dipper blush very hard.
"See you around, dork." Pacifica said before walking out of her bedroom, leaving Dipper blushing and smiling.
It had been two weeks since Dipper and Pacifica had got together and those two weeks had been the best for Dipper. Sure them two had arguments, but they hadn't broke up, as far as them two are aware of.
Dipper smiled happily as he rested his back against the wall, feeling very happy how things had been going.
Meanwhile, at the gift shop, Mabel and Wendy were chatting with each other about, random girl stuff.
"And then, Candy tried walking on water like her uncle said he did, but she instead stood on top of a turtle and got whisked away by it that..." Mabel had to restrain herself
It had been a while since Wendy had been possessed by the evil entity known as Darkness, which left her traumatised so bad, that she doesn't wanna talk about it.
"So, Wendy, you feeling okay?" Mabel asked looking worried.
"Why wouldn't I?" Wendy responded while pulling a smile.
"Because, well...Y'know..." Mabel then picked up a piece of dark paper and used a white crayon and drew a sinister smile on it and showed Wendy.
Wendy's confident smile then disappeared and gave Mabel a sharp glare. "Don't Mabel." Wendy begged. "I don't wanna talk about it."
"But Wendy-"
"I said, I don't wanna talk about it!" Wendy angrily interjected.
When Wendy was angry, Mabel wasn't exactly terrified, but something about Wendy's anger this time made her feel quite scared of the redhead.
Ever since being possessed by Darkness, Wendy had been traumatised and didn't exactly wish to talk about it.
Then, Pacifica entered the gift shop, ready for the day ahead of her. She walked in seeing Mabel and Wendy chatting about things that don't have anything to do with possession.
She approached them just as Melody threw her a rag which she caught.
"Don't forget about the windows, Pacifica." Melody requested to the Northwest girl.
"Okay Melody." Pacifica said.
"They're pretty filthy from all blind fairies that crashed there." Melody explained. "I mean, they can't get any filthier, right?"
And because the universe just hated her, a random metal circular rolled up beside Melody's leg. Soos' girlfriend picked the little device which looked similar to grenade up off the floor.
"Melody, be careful I-" Before Ford could stop Melody, a little hose poked out and squirted black liquid on the already filthy window.
"Whoops." Ford said.
"Whoops?!" Melody exclaimed. "Whoops?!"
Ford took the grenade out of Melody's hand and put it in his pocket. "Sorry, I know the blind fairies crashing into the window was annoying, sorry I made things worse for you."
Melody sighed. "It's fine, Ford, really. What is that, by the way?"
"This was meant to be a device that can help you enter dreams, but unfortunately I read the instructions for the fake grenade." Ford explained.
"Sorry this had to happen Pacifica." Melody apologised to the Northwest girl.
"It's okay." Pacifica said as she grabbed the spray. "Not afraid to get dirty."
Pacifica then put on her yellow rubber gloves and grabbed the spray bottle to work on the windows that were in desperate need to be cleaned.
Pacifica then started cleaning the windows, not noticing Mabel approaching her with her typical huge, energetic smile plastered on her face.
"Soooooo..." Mabel beamed.
Pacifica sighed. "Not now Mabel, got work to do."
"Come on Pacifica, you can work and talk." Mabel encouraged her future sister-in-law.
"I know, but problem is with you, I might accidentally spray you in the eye." Pacifica said sternly.
"As long as it isn't lemon, I'll be fine." Mabel assured her.
Pacifica sighed. "Aren't you meant to be forgiving Gideon for his acts?"
"Whaaaat?!" Mabel exclaimed. "Why do you have that idea?"
Pacifica then stopped to think about why she said it and then replied, "I don't know. I'm sorry."
"It's okay." Mabel said. "I've been having a dream that was saying the same thing. It was some random six fingered dark haired blonde girl with a pointy nose telling me I have to forgive him."
Pacifica stared at Mabel unsure of how to respond to such a strange response. "That's rough, Mabel."
"Yeah. But on the bright side, my dream boy kind of showed up." Mabel said. "Prince Ruko from my favourite TV show, Chosatar: The Last Windbender."
"What the heck's a Chosatar?" Pacifica asked.
"I don't know." Mabel said. "It's probably a mixture of Chosen one and...I think you get it. I'll let you continue with your work with no distractions."
Just then, Soos ran into the gift shop and then tripped and fell on the floor, flat on his face. Soos then got off of the floor, still looking panicked and ran to the vending machine. He started reaching into his pocket for a dollar but unfortunately he was too shook up to grab the dollar from his pocket and instead, smashed the glass casing and reached into the vending machine with his hand, somehow not cutting his hand in the process. Soos then grabbed a lot of candy bars and started eating them without moving the wrappers.
"Woah! Soos, honey, what's wrong?" Melody asked her boyfriend as she gently approached her boyfriend, who spat out the candy wrapper.
"I-I-I-I-Mr..." Soos stuttered while chomping on another candy bar.
"Soos, take deep breaths, take deep breaths." Melody requested gently. "Breathe. Breathe."
Soos took a deep breaths and then started choking. But Melody saved his life, by hitting his back hard and that caused a candy wrapper to come out of his mouth.
"Thanks Melody." Soos said.
Just then Dipper ran into the gift shop, wielding a a baseball bat in his unbroken hand. "Who broke into the shack?!"
"No one dude." Soos replied. "I broke into the vending machine because...Just follow me, dudes!"
Soos motioned Dipper, Mabel, Ford, Wendy, Melody and Pacifica to follow him into the living room, where Stan was sleeping on the couch.
"That's the problem, dude!" Soos exclaimed.
Everyone stared at the new Mr Mystery with a disappointed look on their faces. This was why Soos died almost choking on a candy wrapper?
"This was why Soos almost died choking on a candy wrapper for?" Wendy asked, disappointedly.
"Soos, why is my brother sleeping such a disturbing sight?" Ford asked.
"In a way, it kind of is." Pacifica said, pointing to the long piece of drool, hanging off of Stan's mouth.
"It's disgusting, yet a mystery how it's still dangling." Melody said.
"That's not the problem dude." Soos said. "Mr Pines is asleep and he...He...He...He can't wake up!"
"Soos, have you tried waking him up?" Dipper asked, annoyed.
"You think that wasn't the first thing I did?!" Soos exclaimed.
"What did you do?" Pacifica asked. "Gently rub his finger on his face?"
"Dudes! I'm telling you!" Soos exclaimed. "I can't get him up!"
"His hearing aid is probably faulty again, you know how it is." Ford theorised.
"That's the thing dude..." Soos said as he approached Stan and twisted his hearing aid. "...This is where the high pitched noise would come in and annoy Stan, but...Nothing."
Ford then pulled a worried look, ran up to his unconscious brother and pushed Soos out of the way. He started to inspect his brother and noted that he was mumbling quite a bit.
"Well, is he just a heavy sleeper?" Wendy asked.
"Stan may have been a heavy sleeper, but he wasn't a heavy, heavy sleeper." Ford replied. "Something is wrong with him. It's like, he can't wake up."
"Grunkle Stan!" Mabel shouted. "Wake up! There's a thousand dollar bill in Pacifica's pocket!"
"That won't help, Sweetie." Ford said.
"What'a his problem?" Melody asked.
"Is he dead?!" Soos asked. "Did he die in his sleep?! Did he Dleep?!"
"Soos, he's fast asleep." Ford groaned. "Something's wrong with him and I don't know what."
"Is there something we can do?" Dipper asked.
Ford stood in place thinking about what to do about the situation while Soos started panicking while Dipper was thinking of what to do about Stan's situation, while Melody was trying to calm her boyfriend, while Wendy couldn't exactly care less, while Mabel was shouting inane nonsense to try and wake Stan up, while Pacifica was just trying to cover her ears due to the noise.
Just then, there was a loud bang and everyone went silent and turned to see Ford holding a gun that was called, 'Noise gun.'
Ford then concealed his weapon and looked to the others, narrowing his eyes. "Alright, now that I have everyone's attention, I might have something that might help."
Later, Ford came back into the living room with a device that looked similar to a briefcase which baffled everyone.
"A briefcase?" Wendy reacted.
"Grunkle Ford, what are a bunch of pieces of paper gonna do?" Mabel asked.
"This isn't a piece of paper." Ford explained as he opened it up to reveal that it was some kind of computer. "This is a device I have invented that can allow people to enter anyone's dreams. Even an animals. Speaking of animals, I tried on Waddles and he has some bizarre dreams about mud pits shaped like Mabel."
"Oh, that's where Waddles was." Mabel said.
"So, you're going in there?" Wendy asked.
"I can't." Ford replied. "Because when I first tested it, I couldn't get myself out of Waddles' dream. I was lucky when he eventually woke up. I need to monitor the computer so I can wake up the subject if things get too hectic."
"Subject?!" Dipper exclaimed.
"Yes, I need some of you to go in so I can help guide you." Ford explained.
"Wait, who are you sending in?" Melody asked.
"Anyone, who's willing." Ford replied. "Is anyone willing to enter the dream realm?"
"I am." Dipper replied.
"Dipper!" Pacifica exclaimed.
"What?!" Dipper reacted. "It's not like I can die in a dream."
"Actually Dipper, one flaw of the machine is, you might be able to die in the dream." Ford explained. "And that will cause you to go into limbo."
"But will it fix the broken arm?" Dipper asked. "I mean, in a dream, you can do whatever you want."
"Yeah! I remember when we first entered Grunkle Stan's dreams, I gave my hands kitten hands." Mabel said, reminiscing that day.
"What was I doing that day?" Wendy asked. "That sounds a whole lot of fun."
"You know what?" Pacifica asked. "I'm going in."
"What?!" Dipper exclaimed. "Pacifica, are you crazy?"
"Well compared to you, not really, dude." Soos replied.
"Look Dipper, you know I don't want you going anywhere due to...Y'know." Pacifica motioned to Dipper's arm.
Pacifica placed a gentle hand on her boyfriend and sighed. "Dipper, I'm not doing this as an effort to avoid cleaning the window, I'm doing this because this is something stupid and I don't want you to be hurt."
"I don't want you to be hurt either, Pacifica." Dipper replied gently. "Heck, Ford said you could die and-"
"Dipper, when has a life and death situation ever killed us?" Pacifica asked as she placed a finger on her boyfriend's mouth.
"None." Dipper replied.
"Exactly." Pacifica kissed her boyfriend on the lips before walking up to Ford. "I'm in."
"And so am I." Mabel interjected. "By the way, I'm doing this just make sure she's safe."
"And I'm going." Wendy said as she pulled out an axe. "And so is my axe."
"Wendy, I can't actually send an axe to Stan's dreams." Ford said. "It's not exactly a physically living thing."
Wendy groaned in annoyance. "Had to ruin a cool moment didn't you?"
Later, Ford placed some sticky rubber on Stan's, Pacifica's, Mabel's and Wendy's head so they can enter the dream world.
"You sure you don't wanna come Soos?" Mabel asked.
"Forget it dudes." Soos responded. "I don't want to encounter that British dog man, again."
"And I have to calm him down just in case he has a panic attack." Melody explained.
"Hey Pacifica..." Pacifica looked at her boyfriend who gave her a thumbs up. "...Good luck, stay safe and I love you."
Pacifica smiled at her boyfriend and replied, "I love you too."
"Okay girls, I would come in, but I will guide you through." Ford explained. "You'll be hearing my voice when you're in the simulation. And in order to enter it, you need to fall asleep."
"Fall asleep?" Mabel asked. "No problemo."
Mabel closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep, but she unfortunately couldn't. So, she started moving around on the floor, which unfortunately did nothing.
"I would fall asleep, but I've had way too much coffee." Wendy explained.
"And I only got up and can't fall asleep." Pacifica said.
"Hmm, then we'll need something that might help." Mabel said. "Dipper, talk."
"What do you want me to say?" Dipper asked.
"Dipper, try reading a bedtime story." Wendy suggested.
"Or we can try knocking each other out." Pacifica suggested.
"Pacifica, I'd rather go with the psychologically painful then the physically painful." Mabel protested.
"Mabel, quit-"
"It's okay Pacifica." Dipper said as he got his Pine tree journal and opened the first page. "The Manotaurs, I encountered them in 2012 when me and Mabel went to Gravity Falls to spend time with our crooked great uncle, Stan. There, I was being ridiculed for being weak so I joined a-" Dipper stopped once he heard some snoring.
It was at that point, Dipper knew that Mabel, Wendy and Pacifica had fallen asleep due to him boring them to near death.
"Wow, even my girlfriend thinks I'm boring." Dipper commented.
"Okay everyone, I am going to need every one bit of silent." Ford requested. "I need everyone to close the Shack down just in case someone might come in. They're gonna be in, in about 1 minute."
"Hey Ford." Soos exclaimed from the window. "Do you know the thing I'm supposed to do when I see government vehicles?"
Ford quickly ran to the window and saw three black government cars parked outside the Mystery Shack.
"Oh no." Ford said. "There's three of them."
Everyone froze upon the information about government vehicles, knowing why they are here.
Pacifica woke up in a dark and empty void. She looked at her surroundings, feeling lost, confused and a little bit cold as to where she is right now.
"Where am I?" Pacifica asked before Mabel landed on her. Like she had fallen out of the sky.
Mabel sat up and groaned in pain. "Ow! This landing mat feels like bones."
"Because they are bones!" Pacifica yelled.
Mabel then stood up and pulled Pacifica up from the floor. "Sorry Pacifica."
They looked around the black void for Stan or Wendy, but unfortunately they couldn't find anything until...
The two future sister-in-laws heard some screaming. They looked up to see if Wendy was going to land on them, but they couldn't see her falling anywhere.
Just then, Wendy crash landed in front of them, which caused the two to be startled.
Wendy stood up and dusted herself off as she looked around the void. "Ow! Worst landing ever!"
"Tell me about it." Mabel said. "I had her as a safety mat."
"Wait, did that by any chance affect what's going on in the real world?" Pacifica asked.
"I don't know." Mabel replied. "Should we test it?" Mabel then started to hit Pacifica on the back of the head repeatedly to see if she felt any pain in the real world.
"Ow!" Pacifica screamed.
In the real world, the sleeping Pacifica made a hissing noise like she was trying to resist screaming. This sight worried Dipper, who instantly bent down to his knees.
"Dipper, leave her." Ford requested.
"I thought you were supposed to be monitoring her." Dipper argued.
"Oh yeah." Ford ran from the window and went back to the computer to see what was going on. He tapped the screen which turned itself on to reveal, Mabel slapping Pacifica on the head, while she was folding her arms in annoyance.
Dipper wiped away the sweat off his face over his relief. "Oh thank goodness, it's just Mabel being stupid."
"Yup. Thank goodness." Ford agreed before pulling a microphone from the computer. "Mabel, stop hitting your brother's girlfriend or he won't forgive you for the rest of his life."
As soon as Mabel heard her Grunkle's voice, she froze and stopped smacking Pacifica on the back of her head.
"And before you get creeped out about how I can see you, I can watch every action you do on a computer screen." Ford's voice explained. "Now, first task is to find Stanley. Stanley!!!! Can you hear my voice??"
There was only silence as a response to the question.
"Stan!!" Pacifica shouted.
"Grunkle Stan!!!" Mabel screamed.
"Mr Pines I have 100 dollars!!!" Wendy shouted.
"Perhaps we need the light on." Mabel said. "Hey dream! Light it up in here will ya?!" But unfortunately, nothing happened whatsoever, it was still a dark void.
"Light!!!!"
"This is Stan's dream, he's the only one who can control it." Ford explained.
"Aww man!!!" Wendy groaned.
"Aww man what?!" Asked the familiar voice of Stan.
The girls looked at Stan, who was approaching them with a serious expression while rubbing his head. "I was having this amazing dream where I was fighting a shark. Until, I wake up in a dark room with you three for some reason."
"Stanley, they're in your dream." Ford explained.
"What?! Who said that?!" Stan shouted as he looked around the room to spin around the room to find the voice.
"Stanley, it's me, your brother."
"Ford? Are you dead?" Stan asked. "How big is your gravestone?!"
"Stanley, you're dreaming." Ford explained.
"What kind of dream is this?" Stan asked. "If this is the kind of dream where there's supposed to be women, then I think I need to get my priorities straight."
"No, we've come to rescue you." Wendy explained. "You've been sleeping for a day."
"A day?!" Stan exclaimed. "That's impossible!!! No one can sleep for 24 straight hours!"
"Well, we did and we couldn't get you up." Mabel explained.
"How do I wake up?!" Stan asked.
"We have to find the source." Ford replied. "Stanley, did you notice anything strange while in the dream?"
"How about you in a hula outfit?" Stan asked.
"That...Anything that isn't that."
"Yeah, thanks for giving me some disturbing visions." Wendy said.
"Wait, I forgot to ask, where are we?" Pacifica asked.
"Yeah, a black void isn't exactly a very distinct location." Wendy commented.
"Perhaps if the black void had a face, you might recognise it." Said a familiar sinister voice.
The four subjects looked down on the floor and saw none other than the face of the entity that haunted them throughout the first half of summer, Darkness. The evil entity that tried to black out the sun and possessed Wendy.
"Aahhh!!!" Wendy screamed as she fell on the floor and started to crawl backwards. While everyone else stared at the face in disbelief.
"Darkness!" Stan exclaimed.
"That's impossible!" Ford exclaimed.
"Believe in the impossible." Darkness said as he turned from a sinister void into a dark version of Wendy.
"Ruuuunnnn!!!" Mabel screamed before she, Pacifica, Wendy and Stan started running for their lives.
In the real world, Ford, Dipper, Soos and Melody were watching the screen in constant worry and panic.
"Pacifica!!!!" Dipper screamed.
Outside the Shack, FBI Agent Clyde Chiu had poked his head out of the window, letting the fresh air in.
When he heard Dipper's scream he just sighed in annoyance. "I'm going in."
"Why?" Rachel P asked from her vehicle.
"I heard some kind of...I think it might've been a little girl with a voice box scream, Pacific, Aaaahhhh!" Clyde replied. "I wonder if it's a bizarre fear of the Pacific Ocean?"
Back in the dream world, Stan, Mabel, Pacifica and Wendy were running through the mysterious white void with the dark Wendy chasing them.
They were running as fast as they could, but Darkness was gaining on them.
"I wouldn't run if I was you." Darkness said before snapping his fingers and a wall grew in front of them, causing them to crash into it.
"Ow!" Stan exclaimed before being dragged into the arm's of Darkness, who laughed sinisterly.
"Give it up Darkness!" Wendy shouted. "I don't know how you came back after being destroyed by a blue sky beam but you need to release Stan!"
"Kill Grunkle Stan and you come through me!!!!" Mabel screamed.
"Yeah Darkness!" Pacifica responded threateningly. "How are you alive anyway?! The one man who was more of a father to me than my actual father, died defeating you."
"Oh I am not Darkness, I am something less worse." Darkness replied while pulling sinister grin which quickly disappeared. "Although, that makes me less threatening doesn't it?"
"Yeah." Wendy replied.
"Totally." Mabel and Pacifica agreed simultaneously.
Darkness groaned before pulling a sinister grin. "Oh, I am not even Darkness."
Darkness started to laugh sinisterly as his body started to morph into a funny clown suit, his face turning white, his hair popping from the side of his head, his lips turning red, his nose turning red and two distinct buck teeth sticking out. It was at that moment, they knew that Darkness was in fact, Pennysmart, The Singing Clown.
"Hello there, did you miss me?" Pennysmart asked while sporting his sinister grin.
"Pennysmart!" Mabel exclaimed in fear.
"Aww! You look surprised." Pennysmart noted.
"But I thought the newt destroyed you." Pacifica commented.
"It was an axolotl." Wendy corrected her.
"Axolotl!"
"Aww! You thought some ancient amphibian was going to stop me?" Pennysmart laughed. "That is adorable."
"Listen to me you old people eating freak!" Stan demanded. "This is a dream! If you kill me, I'll wake up!"
Pennysmart laughed. "Oooooooo! I hate to break it to you."
Stan stared at the singing clown in confusion before staring at his niece and her girlfriends.
"I'm sorry Grunkle Stan." Mabel apologised.
"Stan, if you die in the dream, you die in real life." Pacifica explained.
"What?!" Stan exclaimed. "Who changed the dream rules?!"
"That's because of me, Stanley, sorry." Ford apologised.
"Hey Ford, next time you make an invention, can you make sure that the invention doesn't cause your brother to die?!" Stan asked angrily.
"Oh, what a bad brother." Pennysmart laughed.
"Kill my Grunkle and I'll make sure my grappling hook goes through your eye so far that it sticks out of your skull!!!!!" Mabel screamed.
"Who said I had to kill him?" Pennysmart laughed. "You're too late anyway. I have this old man and my plan will come to fruition."
The girls tried to run up to the clown, but he snapped his fingers and another wall popped up in front of them, blocking their chance of rescuing Stan.
"Noooo!!!!!!!" Mabel screamed with tears falling out of her eyes.
"Stanley, this is your dream, do something!!!" Ford demanded.
On the other side of the wall, Pennysmart was laughing sinisterly while attempting to do something horrible to Stan.
"You have something Stanley, I want it." Pennysmart explained.
"Yeah well, if you want it, you're going to play for it." Stan interjected while pulling a confident smile, like he had a plan.
Pennysmart looked quite confused by why Stan looked confident "You don't seem scared."
"Yeah. This isn't my first rodeo, moron." Stan responded. "This isn't my first time I had to find a way to save myself from death. What do you say, Pennysmart? Do you wanna play a game for what's inside my head?"
"Okay." Pennysmart reluctantly agreed while smiling. "I decide the game, I get what's inside your brain in case I lose."
"Buddy, you're the first clown that's ever made a reasonable deal with me." Stan said.
On the other side of the wall, the girls looked kind of confused as to what's going on.
"Did Stan just make a deal with a clown?" Wendy asked.
"A demonic space clown of all things?" Mabel asked as well.
In the real world, Ford and Dipper were pulling a face of mixture and confusion at what Stan just did.
"Did Grunkle Stan just make a deal with a demonic clown?" Dipper asked.
"I-I-I-I don't know how to even describe it." Ford said as he placed his hand on his head.
In the dream world, the wall disappeared and Pennysmart walked up to the girls with Stan in his hand.
"Okay Mr Pines, what did you do?" Pacifica asked. "Did you agree to be the clowns balloon butler?"
"No. The clown says you're playing for what's in my mind." Stan replied while smiling.
"What?!" Mabel asked angrily.
"Why us?!" Pacifica exclaimed.
"Because you came in to save him and that's what you're going to do." Pennysmart replied. "You have to play my game, if you want to save the crook. If you don't play my game, I'll have what's mine."
"Stanley, what are you even doing?!" Ford asked.
"Do you trust me Ford?" Stan asked.
"There are moments where I have to."
"Then trust me." Stan requested. "Okay Pennysmart, what are they to do?"
"They are to face the things they refuse to face." Pennysmart. "The fearful, the things you don't wish to confront and the traumatising."
"Girls, I know you wanna back out of this, but a deal's a deal." Stan commented while pulling a strict face. "Trust me." The girls couldn't see it, but Stan was crossing his fingers in front of them.
"Now, time to face your fears!" Pennysmart announced before he snapped his fingers and three separate trap doors opened below the girls, causing them to fall.
"Oh and Stanford..." Pennysmart said in a sing song voice. "...No peeking."
In the real world, Ford's computer started flickering before turning itself off.
This caused Dipper to have a panicked look in his eyes and he grabbed the computer and started shaking it aggressively. "Pacifica!!!!!"
Dipper quickly tried to hook himself up to the machine but Ford stopped him.
"Dipper, I think she's okay." Ford exclaimed.
"How do you know?!" Dipper angrily asked.
"Because she's still breathing!"
Dipper looked to his sleeping girlfriend and saw that she was still sleeping peacefully.
"Is she okay?!" Dipper asked.
"I hope so." Ford replied. "I mean, hoping for the best is the best we can do."
"Yeah Dipper." Soos agreed. "We just gotta hope for the little dudette. I mean, how bad can things possible get?"
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door to the Mysterh Shack, startling everyone.
"FBI!" The voice shouted. "If anyone's here, open up! I need to speak to someone on this property and also, get a gift for my niece. She lives here and I promised I'd bring her a gift."
"Aahhh!!" Soos screamed. "Government agents!"
Melody quickly placed her hand on her boyfriend's mouth, trying to calm him down.
"Okay, government agents are here." Melody said. "What do we do?"
"Dipper, you need to be calm." Ford requested. "I need you to talk to the FBI agent."
"What do I tell him?" Dipper asked.
"Improvise." Ford replied. "We don't have enough time to stage the act. Who knows how long he'll take to ram the door down?"
Outside the shack, the FBI agent Clyde Chiu was practicing pulling a card out of thin air. He flipped his hand and a card appeared out of thin air. "Still got it." He suddenly froze and started pulling a regretful face. "I should've brought the ram. My new friends would've helped me out."
"We wouldn't!" Richard shouted from the car.
"Thanks Richard!" Clyde yelled.
The door opened and the FBI agent straightened himself so he could try and look formal to whoever answered the door, which just so happened to be Dipper.
"Hi there." Clyde greeted Dipper with a smile.
"What can I do you for?" Dipper asked while pulling a nervous face.
"Ah, don't be frightened." Clyde requested. "I'm not that serious like the four buzzkills behind me."
"We can hear you!!" Trigger shouted.
"I can't be that loud!!!!" Clyde yelled back.
"And you are?" Dipper asked, pulling a little more confident face.
"Clyde Chiu." Clyde replied before flicking his hand to reveal flowers. "FBI agent and aspiring magician."
"Uh..."
Clyde then pulled an embarrassed look on his face. "This was supposed to be my card. This was embarrassing. Okay, Mr..."
"Pines, Dipper Pines." Dipper said.
"Dipper Pines?" Clyde laughed as he pulled out his notebook and started writing his notes in. "Boy, your parents must've hated you."
"Actually-"
"Kid, I'm being sarcastic." Clyde assured him. "I'm here to ask questions. First question is: Do you know anything about the blue sky beam?"
"Blue sky beam?" Dipper asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Kid, when someone pretends to not see a blue sky beam, then you're lying." Clyde commented before noting the arm. "How did you break your arm?"
Dipper took a glance at his broken arm and replied, "I broke it exploring caves."
"So, due to cave exploring, you weren't aware of a giant blue sky beam?"
"That is correct." Dipper replied.
Clyde smiled and made the pen disappear. "Okay, sounds logical. Now, I should inform the buzzkill squad..."
"Please don't call us that!" Rachel shouted from the car.
"You know what you are!!!!" Clyde shouted back.
"Anywa, best be off before I...I...I..." Clyde then sneezed on his notebook, which turned into crows that started pecking on Dipper.
Dipper tried to fight them with his unbroken arm, but they flew away eventually.
"Aww man, they were meant to be doves." Clyde groaned. "I must've given them to that goth informant I have. Anyway, nice seeing you Mr Pines, hope we run into each other more often."
"Hope not." Dipper said as he spat out a feather.
Clyde then noted Dipper's arm cast and noticed Pacifica's name on it. "Oh, got yourself a little girlfriend?"
"Yeah." Dipper replied with a smile.
"Is she here? Perhaps I could talk to her."
"She's resting and won't be up for another hour." Dipper explained. "Along with some other friends of hers."
In the dreamworld, Wendy woke up looking at herself in a mirror while dressed in a white flannel tank top.
"Huh?" Wendy reacted, confused. She looked around the bathroom with a confused expression and realised, she was in her bathroom. "Was that a dream?" Wendy sighed. "Oh dear, I must've fallen asleep while standing up again."
Wendy opened the bathroom cabinet and pulled out a razor to shave. And then she closed the bathroom cabinet and saw in the mirror, a female therapist, causing her to scream.
"Wendy, my name is Dr Nelfi." The therapist said.
"What are you doing in my bathroom?!" Wendy asked angrily.
"Wendy, I am here because I need you to talk." Dr Nelfi explained. "About what happened between you and Darkness."
"Yeah well, it happened and that's it." Wendy retorted before pushing the therapist out of her way.
She opened the bathroom door and saw the therapist standing in front of her.
"Listen Wendy, you need to talk to someone about what you're going through." Dr Nelfi said to a frustrated Wendy.
"I don't wanna talk about it!" Wendy exclaimed as she pushed the therapist out of the way.
"Wendy, you can't throw people aside." The Therapist continued. "You need to talk to someone about your problems. Not talking to someone about your trauma is only going to make it worse."
"What do you know about it?!" Wendy asked angrily.
"I have a degree in psychology." Dr Nelfi replied.
"Zip it Dr Nelfi!" Wendy demanded. "I'm going out!"
"Wendy, if you walk out that door then you're letting your problems, win." Dr Nelfi said.
"Well, I need to get to work!" Wendy exclaimed before she walked out of the door and slammed it shut and realised that there was a dark void in front of her.
"Well done Wendy, that's the way to do it." Darkness laughed. "Yes! Don't let that stupid therapist ruin your life."
Wendy sighed reluctantly. "I wont."
While Wendy stood in place, looking reluctant while dark tentacles started to wrap around her.
"Don't let her bother you, you have nothing to hide." Darkness said before he laughed sinisterly.
In the real world, the sleeping Wendy was sweating madly while Dipper was dabbing her with a napkin.
"Grunkle Ford, how long before you can fix it?" Dipper asked.
"Not sure." Ford replied. "Give it ten minutes."
"Ten minutes?!" Dipper exclaimed.
"There might not be a ten minutes!" Melody shouted.
"What if she dies?!" Soos exclaimed. "Or worse, what if everyone in the dream dies?! Oh dudes, this is getting intense, I don't know how much more intense this will get!"
Just then, another knock on the door was heard and Soos screamed and hid behind the TV.
"Can the owner of this property come answer this door before we knock the house down?!" Agent powers demanded.
"Hold on Soos, I got this." Melody said to her boyfriend before kissing him on the cheek and getting up off the floor to answer the door.
Outside the Shack, Agent Powers and Agent Trigger were adjusting their ties, trying to look formal.
"We should've come tomorrow." Trigger said.
"And let the FBI rub their achievements in our faces again?" Powers scolded his partner.
"Okay, you've got a point." Trigger reluctantly agreed.
Just then, Melody opened the door, pulling a cheerful smile.
"Hi, welcome to the Mystery Shack." Melody greeted the agents. "Sorry, we are closed."
"Really?" Agent Powers queried. "Because if it was closed then the door would've been locked."
"Oh, right. Anyway, what can I do for you two intimidating, well-dressed government agents?" Melody asked.
"We need to ask you a few questions about the blue sky beam that was here a few days ago." Agent Powers replied.
"Oh, you mean that sky beam?" Melody asked. "That was the strangest sight I've ever seen."
"Well, what do you know about it?" Agent Trigger asked.
"I don't know." Melody replied with a shoulder shrug. "It was a bizarre sight that can't be explained."
"Hmm." Agent Powers hummed. "Okay, do you mind if we come in? We wanna investigate."
"Why?" Melody asked worryingly.
"I don't know." Agent Powers replied. "There's something strange about it."
"Well, you can't come in." Melody protested.
"Why not?" Agent Powers queried.
"Because...Everyone here is...is...is..." Melody started sweating nervously which didn't go unnoticed by Agent Powers. "...We're having a party."
"Then you probably won't mind if we crash it." Agent Powers said, intensely.
"I would! Because...we're having a naked party." Melody explained.
"Yeah right." Agent Trigger scoffed.
"We're coming in." Agent Powers announced. "And nothing is gonna stop us. Not even the sight of the naked form."
"Hey Melody!" Soos exclaimed as he walked into the gift shop, naked and covering his private area with a newspaper. "What day is it? Because this newspaper is saying..." Soos then lifted his newspaper to his face, causing his naked form to be in full view of the agents. A form that caused Agent Trigger to panic and Agent Powers to cover his eyes.
"Well, maybe this one!!!!" Agent Powers screamed as he and Agent Trigger started running away from the shack.
Melody turned around to face Soos, but she looked away from Soos to make sure she didn't eye her boyfriend's naked form.
"How did you get all your clothes off in a short amount of time?" Melody asked.
"Actually, I was sweating so bad that I had to them all off." Soos replied.
"Wait, did Dipper and Ford see anything?" Melody asked.
"Ah, no way, dude."
But in the living room, Dipper and Ford were sitting in awkward silence, looking very disturbed.
"Mabel...Was...Lucky...She...Didn't...Have...To...See...This." Dipper panted.
"I'm going back to work." Ford said, looking disturbed.
In the dream world, Mabel woke up lying on a wet, hard concrete ground. She sat up straight and saw what appeared to be a bar called the Slaughtered Dam.
Mabel scoffed at the bar. "Ha, nice try! This isn't my kind of place."
The name of the bar then turned into The Slaughtered Unicorn and had artwork of a unicorn's head on a stick. "Ah, that's better." Mabel said cheerfully before walking into the bar.
She walked in and saw a bartender pouring a glass of orange juice into a glass cup and handing it to a white haired guy.
Mabel sat on the stool with the white haired guy laying on the counter next to her.
"And what can I do you for?" The bartender asked Mabel.
"Give me a strong one." Mabel replied while slamming her fist on the counter.
The bartender then pulled a bottle below the counter and the bottle was shaped like a muscular man. The bartender placed the shot glass on the table and poured the orange juice into the glass and Mabel took a quick swig.
Mabel's eye then started twitching before she fell off the bar stool. Mabel was little dizzy, but she managed to sit back up on the bar stool and noted the strange white haired man sitting next to her.
"Hey buddy, do you like the drinks here?" Mabel asked.
"They help me forget." The white haired man stared at Mabel and he turned out to be none other than an older Gideon Gleeful, who looked older and had a very distinct white beard.
"Gideon?!" Mabel exclaimed. "What happened to you?!"
"You did!" Gideon shouted before throwing a bottle at the wall. "I've been trying, all these years to seek your forgiveness and...You just threw it away."
"Look Gideon, how can I forgive you?" Mabel asked nervously.
"It's simple!" Gideon replied angrily. "Just say, 'Hey Gideon, I forgive you for the awful things you did to me and my family!'
"Gideon, calm down, you're making a scene." Mabel said in an effort to calm down failed summer romance #62.
"Making a scene?!" Gideon exclaimed angrily. "I tried so hard to gain your forgiveness, heck, you're the only person who hasn't accepted my apology! I wish you could Mabel! Why can't you?! Why can't you?!"
Mabel stared at Gideon in worry and regret while Gideon continued to scream at her.
In the real world, Mabel was mumbling to herself in the sleep while Ford was hitting the computer to make it work.
"I need to know if Pacifica's okay." Dipper said to his Grunkle, in a panicked state.
"Dipper, I'm trying my best." Ford assured his nephew.
"Well try harder!" Dipper demanded angrily. "I don't know how long I can wait!"
"Well, I'll do my best." Ford assured his nephew. "I just don't need any distractions."
Suddenly, there was another knock on the door and Ford stood up to go and answer it.
"Grunkle Ford!!" Dipper shouted.
"I wasn't gonna have Soos answer it!" Ford shouted back.
"Naw dude, that would be a bad idea." Soos agreed.
"Oh for Pete's sake Soos, put on some clothes!" Dipper demanded.
Ford answered the door and there stood, Richard and Rachel P, both wearing sunglasses and narrowing their eyes at Ford.
"Can I help you two?" Ford asked.
"Are you Stanford Pines?" Richard asked the six fingered man.
"Why yes." Ford replied. "We've met before, haven't we?"
Richard and Rachel took a brief glance at each other before staring back at Ford.
"Mr Pines, we need to ask you a few questions." Richard said.
"Fire away." Ford requested.
"And don't tell any lies." Rachel requested. "We got feedback from Mr Illusionist and Tweedledee & Tweedledum when they interviewed the previous suspects. And don't lie about why that boy has a broken arm or if there's a naked party. Because, you have your clothes on and if there was a naked party, you'd be without clothes."
"Okay, what is it?" Ford asked.
"Were you in anyway aware of the blue sky beam?" Richard asked the six fingered man.
"I was." Ford replied. "And I saw it and I have no explanation for it. But, I am a conspiracy theorist and I like to believe it was probably something alien like."
"That would be too easy." Rachel said.
"Your friends didn't allow anyone else in." Richard mentioned. "We're wondering, is there actually a naked party going on?"
"Well, look down." Ford requested.
The agent couple looked down and noticed Ford wasn't wearing any pants. They cringed at the sight and then slammed the door in Ford's face.
Ford smiled and then walked to his pants. "Stanley was right. It does work."
But unbeknownst to Ford, the agent couple were watching their actions in the living room from the window.
They noticed that no one was naked, well, except for Soos, who was now in his underwear. And then they noticed Ford pulling his pants up.
"Wow, they seem fully clothed for guests at a naked party." Richard commented. "Heck, the majority of them are asleep."
"Hold on Richard." Rachel requested while pointing to the Stan, who was still sleeping on the couch. "They're with two Stanfords."
"How is that possible?" Richard asked. "They said his brother died in a car crash."
"Apparently not." Rachel commented.
"Any reason for Mason's broken arm?" Richard asked his wife.
"Well, broken arm during cave exploring seems likely." Rachel replied. "But, how he managed to get together with a Northwest, is beyond my resources."
"Wait, Mason got together with a rich person?" Richard queried with a surprise expression on his face. "Lucky of him."
"But they're here for summer." Rachel said. "And you know what they say about summer romances."
"Oh, they lead into what happened between us at camp-"
"Richard!" Rachel interjected. "What I've learnt about summer romances is: They don't last forever."
In the dream world, Pacifica woke up tied to a chair in a dark and empty room. She analysed her surroundings, but she came out clueless as to where and how she got here.
"Well, well, well." Pennysmart repeated. "Well, well, well, well, welly, well, well, well. What do we have here?"
"Where are you Pennysmart?!" Pacifica exclaimed.
"Oh, I am not Pennysmart."
Pacifica looked forward and noticed the silhouette turned out to be none other than Herman Trout, who was smiling at her.
"Herman!" Pacifica happily exclaimed before shaking her head, realising this isn't reality. "Wait a minute, you're dead."
"Yes." Herman confirmed before his smile turned into a serious expression. "I am dead. I'm dead because of you."
"What?!" Pacifica nervously laughed. "Herman, you saved me!"
"I did. But at the cost of my own life." Herman said. "Because you couldn't help but be what your mother was. Nothing more than an object for a man to save or lay his hands on her."
"I did nothing!" Pacifica argued. "I mean, what could I do?! I was in the hands of a vampire!"
"You could've punched the vampire in the face!" Herman replied intensely while blue fire lit up behind him. "So he can fall into the pit and killing Darkness!!!!"
"Herman!! Please!!!" Pacifica tearfully pleaded. "Stop! I did not mean for that to happen!!!"
"I know!" Herman yelled. "But you could've helped!!!! What happens if someone closer to you gets executed?!"
Just then Herman turned to dust and blew away like sand being blown by the wind. Then, the tearful Pacifica fell off the chair and looked up to see none other than Dipper, hanging off the ceiling.
"Dipper!!!" Pacifica screamed worryingly.
Pacifica stared at his girlfriend, with panic and fear in his eyes and face, that tears were falling out. "Pacifica, help me!"
"Dipper, who did this?!" Pacifica screamed.
"The one who's angry that you've become a selfless caring human being!" Pacifica looked up and saw her father, Preston Northwest, holding a bell.
"Dad!" Pacifica shouted.
"You knew this day was coming Pacifica!" Preston shouted.
"Dad! Let him go!" Pacifica shouted.
"If you want to free him, then come up here and free him." Preston yelled.
Pacifica, with all her anger and sadness combined into one, tried to run up to her father, but somehow, something was holding her back.
She looked at her limbs and realised all four of them had been chained to the floor.
"What?"
Pacifica then heard a familiar laugh and looked up to see that her father had now turned into Bill Cipher.
"Well, well, if it isn't the llama?" Bill queried.
"Bill!!!!!" Pacifica sneered.
"In the flesh!!!" Bill confirmed. "Or...More of, in some gaseous, non-physical boring spirit form."
"Bill, you better let Dipper go or-"
"You want me to let Dipper go?" Bill asked sinisterly confused. "Why didn't you say so?"
Bill rung the bell in his hand and then Dipper screamed and slowly turned into a wooden statue version of himself, like when he got turned into wood at the Northwest Mansion last year.
"Dipper!" Pacifica screamed, tears now falling from her eyes.
"Now, when you said let him go, did you mean let him go from his prison? Or..." Bill then snapped his fingers and the wooden Dipper got lit on fire. "...Let go from life?" Bill laughed sinisterly while Pacifica started sobbing.
"Ha Ha Ha Ha! And I thought my ex girlfriend was shocking, but you are just the worst!" Bill yelled. "Couldn't save your true father or your boyfriend! What kind of person does that make you?!"
Pacifica continued sobbing while Bill started laughing sinisterly.
In the real world, the sleeping Pacifica was crying her eyes out while Dipper gently stroked her sleeping form to give her comfort, but it was doing nothing because she kept crying.
"Grunkle Ford, Pacifica is crying." Dipper informed his Grunkle. "What should we do?"
"I'm doing my best to fix the machine and...Wait, hold on." Ford slapped the computer and then the screen came back on. "Dipper, we're back!"
Dipper then pushed Ford aside, causing him to crash into the couch and Dipper bent down to look at the screen and what he saw broke his heart. He saw Pacifica crying on the floor, eyes balling.
"Dipper..." Pacifica cried sadly.
"Ford, is she okay?" Dipper asked his Grunkle.
Ford placed a hand on his shoulder and gently said to him, "Talk to her."
Dipper sighed, adjusted the mic and moved his lip close enough to speak into the mic.
"Pacifica." Dipper said gently.
In the dream world, Pacifica sat up straight and looked around the room to trace Dipper's voice. "Dipper?"
"Yes, it's me."
"Where are you?!" Pacifica asked.
"I'm in the real world speaking to you via a mic." Dipper replied. "Are you okay? I don't know what happened due to Pennysmart cutting the live footage."
"Dipper, Pennysmart made me see my worst fear." Pacifica replied.
"What was it?"
"I saw Herman Trout telling me it was my fault he died and then, I saw Bill kill you." Pacifica replied. "Pennysmart made me see my worst fear."
"What was it?"
"Losing the ones I love." Pacifica's reply made Dipper pull a sympathetic look as he watched her stand up and wiping away the tears falling from her face. "When I lost Herman Trout, I had this nagging fear that I might lose you. I didn't wanna tell you how I felt because I was scared that I might reveal what I fear. I wanted to tell you how I felt, but, I didn't know how you'd react." Pacifica's lips then started shaking but she then gave up and allowed tears to fall from her face. "Dipper, I'm so sorry I didn't tell you how I felt! I should've told you how I was doing instead of tossing it aside!"
Pacifica then collapsed to the floor and started balling her eyes out, feeling as though her life had crumbled. "I should've told you." Pacifica cried.
Pacifica felt useless, she was a crying mess and there was no one there to comfort her. Only a hand stroking her and that feeling that she was being hugged by a one armed person.
She opened her eyes and looked up to see none other than her boyfriend who was comforting her.
"Pacifica, it's okay." Dipper assured her.
Pacifica sniffled. "How do I know you're not one of my fears haunting me?"
"I don't know how to prove that I'm 'the' Dipper." Dipper replied. "But, it's me. And I know you're angry that I'm here. But...Listen Pacifica, I get you're worried for me. But, there are moments where you need to let that fear slide. Pacifica, I promise I won't die, well, I'll do my best anyway. I mean, I'm in a relationship and it'd be a bummer to go. You just have to trust me Pacifica. I know, fear is hard, but there are moments where you have to fight that fear and show that you aren't scared of it. Come on Pacifica, let's try and save Grunkle Stan and get out of here."
Pacifica, despite all the tears falling from her face, smiled at her amazing boyfriend and stood up.
Pacifica and Dipper then heard a loud, familiar laugh and noticed a wooden plank with a lever at the end just in front of them.
"Cross the plank one armed boy and pull the lever." Pennysmart laughed. "And we'll see if you can face fear."
Pacifica and Dipper stared at the plank with a hint of worry before the Northwest girl stared at her boyfriend with a sympathetic smile and kissed him on the cheek, causing the broken armed boy to blush.
"Good luck." Pacifica said to her boyfriend. She then took off her Pine tree hat and put it on Dipper's head.
Wearing the hat once again, gave Dipper a strong sense of nostalgia. He hadn't worn a hat similar to the one he wore last summer. It felt weird, sure, but Dipper, loved the feeling of the hat back on his head.
Dipper, despite the broken arm started to carefully walk across the plank. He wobbled a bit, fearing he might fall. But Pacifica, was confident in her boyfriend and gave him a thumbs up.
Dipper used his unbroken arm to adjust his Pine tree hat and he walked to the lever and it said 'End the trial.'
Dipper smiled confidently and pulled the lever. The lever and plank disappeared and then, Dipper and Pacifica arrived in a black void where Wendy and Mabel appeared with a loud, poof.
"Worst, therapy session, ever." Wendy coma pained.
"Dipper!!!" Mabel exclaimed before she ran up to her brother and gave him a sibling hug which he accepted. "Pat pat!"
The two siblings unwrapped themselves just as Wendy slapped Dipper on his back.
"Back to the cap, dude." Wendy commented while smiling. "Honestly, I missed that."
"Girls, did you two fess your fears?" Pacifica asked.
"Uh..." Mabel and Wendy replied.
"No!!!" Screamed the clown.
Just then, Pennysmart and Stan popped up in front of them, with Stan pulling a confident smile.
"You all failed." Pennysmart informed them. "Well, two out of three of you to be precise. I mean, Pacifica did it with the help of her boyfriend and you know what? People need motivation."
"Look, can't we do it again?!" Mabel asked.
"Yeah! I'll take those stupid therapy sessions so I can discuss what I've been through!" Wendy exclaimed.
"Let him go, Pennysmart!" Dipper demanded to the clown.
"Come on Dipper!" Pennysmart laughed. "You think I'm the kind of clown who'll listen to such a cliched threat? I am going to get what Stan has in his brain. Something powerful, something that will bring about the end to you all! And you won't stop me from gaining that power! I am the eater of worlds, I am the feaster of the old, I am the most powerful being in the universe!"
"If you're so powerful why have I found out your weakness?" Stan asked the clown, who stared at Stan with a concerned expression.
"You do?"
"Yeah clown!" Stan retorted. "It's quite a funny one if you ask me."
"You're bluffing!" Pennysmart retorted in disbelief. "How were you able to find out anyway?"
"You're in my head, moron." Stan replied. "Anyway, I have to say, you look amazing in that outfit."
Pennysmart froze when Stan complimented him and that caused him to let go of Stan and clutch to his heart like he was having a heart attack.
"Wait, what happened?" Mabel asked pulling a confused expression along with Dipper, Pacifica and Wendy.
"Kids, his weakness is compliments." Stan explained. "Say something nice about him!"
Wendy grinned. "Hey Pennysmart p, your name is amazing!" Pennysmart's leg twisted upon Wendy's nice compliment.
"Hey! Your makeup makes Lady Maga look jealous!" Pennysmart screamed at Mabel's compliment, like he was in absolute pain.
"Your outfit is hot!" Pacifica exclaimed.
"What is happening?" Ford asked in surprise. "Sorry you didn't hear my voice, I had to deal with nosey government agents."
"Nice hair!" Dipper exclaimed at the clown, who spun his head while screaming.
The five together, all either said or repeated nice compliments about the evil clown, who was backing up slowly and shrinking.
He tried to attack them with an outstretched arm, but it then turned into a long noodle arm that was longer than Dipper's.
Then, Pennysmart's face then stretched down, like he was suffering a very bad stroke. And then, the clown then turned into a small version of himself and looked like he was melting to the floor.
"AAAAHHHH!!!!" The clown screamed.
"Now that you're weak, I have to take out the one thing you've been trying to get from me, but with you." Stan said while putting on his brass knuckles.
"No!!!" Pennysmart screamed. "Stop it!!!"
"Did you scream, sop it?" Stan asked, pretending he wasn't listening.
"No! No! No! No!" Pennysmart screamed.
"Never mind." Stan said before jamming his fist in Pennysmart's head and then pulling his brain out.
Pennysmart screamed in pain just as Stan continued to pull out the evil clown's brain. As soon as Stan pulled out the brain, his hand was covered in black blood.
They watched just as the deceased clown started to fade away from existence, never to be seen again.
As soon as Pennysmart died, the black void started cracking and white flashes flashed all around everyone.
"What's happening?!" Dipper asked.
"The dream is collapsing." Ford replied. "You're coming back to the real world."
"Soos, you better have your clothes on by the time we get back!" Dipper exclaimed.
In the real world, everyone who were in the dream world, woke up alive and well, not even a minor injury.
"Oh yeah! Real world, I missed you!" Mabel exclaimed before kissing the carpet repeatedly. She stopped and spat some hair out of her mouth. "Eww! I think I had Grunkle Stan's armpit hair in my mouth."
"Mr Pines!" Soos happily exclaimed before pulling Stan into a massive bear hug. "I'm so glad you're alive!"
"Soos, you do realise I have a fragile back, right?!" Soos asked angrily.
"Sorry, dude." Soos apologised while backing up.
"Why is Soos in his underwear?" Stan asked.
Dipper and Pacifica woke, realising they were holding each other's hands. The two stared at each other with a relived smile and then gave each other a hug.
"So, what happened in there?" Melody asked.
"What happened was, I realised, I need some therapy." Wendy replied.
"And also some soap." Mabel replied. "I think I have more armpit hair in my mouth."
"How are you feeling, Stanley?" Ford asked his twin brother.
"Jeez Ford, I'm fine." Stan assured his brother. "I just got lost in my dream. All because some clown wanted me to give something up."
"What was the something?" Dipper asked his Grunkle as he unraveled himself from his girlfriend.
"I don't know." Stan replied. "And I am telling the truth, I seriously don't know. I doubt it's the deed to the shack because Soos has it."
"That's true dude." Soos confirmed.
"And the clown mentioned that I have something in my brain that might bring about the second Weirdmageddon." Stan replied.
This info caused everyone to freeze and stare at Stan in complete worry and fear. But Melody then shook her head and stared at everyone in confusion.
"Wait, Weirdmageddon?" Melody queried. "What's that?"
"We have much to discuss." Soos replied.
"Well, it's best I get breakfast." Stan announced as he stood up.
"What?" Soos reacted. "But it's 12:15."
"Well, then I'm getting brunch." Stan announced. "If, that's the correct definition of brunch. But, I'm gonna have toast with lettuce and tomatoes in-between."
Stan walked out of the living room so he could make himself some 'brunch.'
Ford on the other hand, was staring at his brother with suspicion, like something wasn't exactly right with him.
"What is it Grunkle Ford?" Mabel asked.
"Brunch is a late morning-"
"No, we I don't mean that." Mabel explained. "But, what's wrong with Grunkle Stan?"
"I don't know." Ford replied. "Pennysmart was in Stan's mind for reason's I don't know about and I don't think he knows either."
"What did he exactly forget?" Dipper asked his Grunkle.
"Something powerful, probably." Ford replied. "But, what could be so powerful in Stan's mind that it can cause another Weirdmageddon?"
In the kitchen, Stan was making himself a sandwich while unknowingly being watched by none other than Toffee, who was smirking.
"You may have taken out one of the horsemen, Mr Pines." Toffee said before pulling out a piece of paper. "Taking out someone with immense power is a task I've seen accomplished before. And just because you've taken out one horsemen, doesn't mean I'll not try and find others. Besides, I've been cordially invited to a party." Toffee smiled sinisterly as he stared at invite for the Northwest party, hosted by Charleston Northwest, father of Preston Northwest and grandfather to Pacifica Northwest.
Epilogue.
Wendy entered a room that had shelves all sorts of random ornaments of ceramic penguins, babies and little Bill's.
The redhead sat on the chair where a random therapist walked in dressed in a white shirt, a brown overcoat and a grey skirt.
"Miss Corduroy?" The therapist asked.
"That's me." Wendy confirmed.
"My name is Jennifer Bracco, I'll be your therapist. And how are you feeling today?"
"A little nervous." Wendy replied. "I haven't told anyone about what I've been going through. Will this in anyway leave the room?"
"You don't need to worry Miss Corduroy." Jennifer assured her as she adjusted her glasses. "It won't leave the room."
But unbeknownst to Wendy, Dr Jennifer Bracco was actually Agent Rachel P.
"So, if you want, you can tell me everything."