I don't own any of this Paranorman belongs to Laika, all other characters belong to their respectful companies. And The Stand belongs to Stephen King.


September 10

The night has driven on and the zombie invasion is in full swing, Bill helped with this invasion by shooting down lighting at anything that he randomly saw, destroying whatever he saw with a bang.

Frannie couldn't believe that this is happening, were these zombies brought up by the dark man her lover Stu had went off to confront?

Must be, though she couldn't care at the moment since she was on her rear, dragging herself away from a zombie that's crawling after her. The zombie manages to get on top of her, Fran screamed as the zombie lunged for her neck, only to stop short as a sharp knife jabbed into its head. It immediately goes limp and falls to her side, Frannie is stunned and full of terror from her near death experience to say anything as she looked at the more lifeless zombie.

A hand is offered to her, looking up from who the hand belong to, Frannie sees that it belongs to that girl Caroline. "You alright Mrs. Goldsmith?"

Frannie gladly accepts her hand and gets herself up. "I am now, thanks to you." Frannie now takes a look up to the sky with fear. "What's happening?"

"It's hard to explain, but it's best that you and others that you find take shelter immediately and defend yourselves as much as possible." She explained to her with a serious tone.

Continuing to look up at the stormy sky, Frannie couldn't deny that. "Promise me you'll find shelter yourself."

"Don't worry I will."

Frannie not wanting to be out in the open of this hell, Frannie ran off back towards the safety of her house. Leaving Coraline to stand there feeling quite proud of herself on saving Frannie's life from that zombie, yet she couldn't congratulate herself just yet as there were many more zombies that are trying to eat other helpless citizens.

With her trusty spear in her hands, Coraline will not let any of those zombies make a meal out of anyone. Quickly rushing off to spear more zombies, Coraline doesn't wait for the others who have just arrived in the area.

"Phew! Coraline sure doesn't want to wait." Neil panted.

Feeling a bit out of breath himself, Wybie slowly spoke up. "You kidding? Coraline fighting the undead. It's a dream come true for her."

Not wanting to loose her, they all run to catch up with her. Aggie meanwhile; felt very guilty for all of this was her fault. If she hadn't fallen for Bill's trick, then this whole thing wouldn't have happened in the first place. This also gave her a good perspective on things, was this what it was like for Norman when she did this a year ago. Granted she didn't bring the judge and her other accusers back to kill anyone, but still Norman must've been terrified when she did this.


Raz and Lili ran into the wilderness, Raz had a determination on him while close behind him Lili wondered on why they were here? Instead of back in down fighting some zombies?

Using his psychic, Raz senses that they were close which is perfect, although what he is planning to do is a very dangerous game. "So care to explain to me on why we're frolicking around through the woods while a zombie apocalypse is happening?" Lili finally asked him.

"We're getting some extra muscle." Raz calmly replied. They continued to walk further into the wilderness, until Raz stopped Lili in front of a bush, motioning for her to keep silent, Raz pushes aside the bush to show Scarface looking down a hill.

"Scarface." Lili muttered to herself for this night was just going peachy. Then to her absolute surprise Raz moved right out into the open, Scarface's ears turned to the noise of rustling leaves and the crunch of grass. He slowly turned his head around and looked at Raz.

They stare at each other silently for a moment, Scarface then turned to fully face him and snarled loudly, Raz just remains silent as he simply gets ready for what he wanted to do.

Scarface snarls again, then charged at him in full speed. Raz waited until he was close enough to suddenly dash off, he calmly leads him right to a tree. Raz suddenly jumped up to a branch and grabbed hold of some vines while Scarface got on his hind legs and snapped his jaws shut just short of Raz's foot.

Doing a back flip Raz lands on Scarface's back and uses the vines to wrap around his neck. Scarface snarled in anger, he thrashes around to get the human off of him. Raz hung on tightly, then raised his hand up with his two fingers held out, he slams his two fingers on Scarface's head, releasing blue energy that instantly calmed Scarface down.

Satisfied with managing to tame the savage beast, Raz leads him towards a stunned Lili like a knight on a horse. "Need a lift?"

Lili smirked for this was going to be good. "Let's do this!" She climbs herself behind Raz and hung on to him tightly. Snapping the vines Raz rides Scarface back towards the Free Zone.


The park is absolutely filled to the brim with zombies and the kids were beginning to get overwhelmed. They have come to the park to rid it of these zombies as well as save a few citizens, they fought the best they could, taking out a good portion of the undead, but the numbers were too much and they lost several of the citizens who got ripped apart without mercy.

Wybie fired at the zombies with the nail gun, they dropped dead from each impact to the head, but unfortunately after firing another round of nails, the nail gun clicks much to Wybie's terror. "Oh no! I'm out of nails!"

"Kinda having my own problems!" Coraline stated as she's in the middle of a tug of war match with her spear. Meanwhile the Pines twins are back to back with each other using pipes, (that they had picked up earlier) to wack the zombies back, Neil charges at a zombie kid with a can of peaches and bashes her in the head several times until she dropped down. Norman meanwhile; swings a stick at two zombies, keeping them back.

This is bad, there was just too many of them. It wasn't going to be very long until they overwhelmed them, they would get tackled or bit and when that happens, well, then it's game over for them.

"We're done for!" Neil cried as he's being chased by four zombies. "Come on! We can't give up!" Dipper called as he bashes the pipe against the zombie's head. Another zombie flanks his blind spot and tackled him down, knocking the pipe out of his hands.

"Dipper!" Mabel cried, a zombie grabs her pipe and engaged in a tug of war with it, preventing her from helping out her brother who is struggling to keep the zombie back from biting his face. It moves down snapping its rotting jaws at him, spit lands on him in splatters, it looks like that this is the end for him.

"Hey! You guys called for backup!" Raz's voice suddenly called out.

The zombie stops its attack on Dipper and looked up, while Dipper tilted his head up to have a look himself where he couldn't believe on what he was seeing. Here was Raz and Lili coming into battle, while riding on Scarface's back.

The zombies turned and raise their hands towards them, only to get burned from Lili who raised up her own hand and pointed at groups of zombies that she saw, setting them ablaze as well. Scarface jumped over the burning zombies and landed on top of a group that surrounded Wybie who cringed in fear from the reaching corpses. The zombies fall under the dogman's weight, while one who avoided being crushed got his head slashed off from the razor sharp claws. Wybie stood there absolutely flabbergasted for he totally wasn't expecting this, Raz meanwhile turned to him and winked. "Come on Wybie, we got some zombies to stomp!"

Guiding Scarface like a horse, Raz uses him to slash, chomp, and run over zombies. Raz helped as well by using his psychic powers along with Lili against them, it was thanks to their backup that they saved their friends by biting off a zombie's head that was about to chomp down the back of a unsuspecting Coraline's head, lifting the zombie that tackled Dipper off of him and throw it at three zombies that cornered Mabel, and burned a group that circled Neil.

They were all very grateful for the saves, but are utterly speechless that Raz and Lili are riding the very creature that nearly killed them several times during their journey here, they regardless fight right along side of them for the battle had taken a good turn for them. Norman meanwhile had taken cover inside a band stand to catch his breath, beside him the sock Aggie possessed floated ideally. "Looks like this fight is turning in our favor." She spoke up in hope.

"There's still too many though." Norman countered. "We're going to need more help."

"Did you say help?" A familiar voice called to Norman. Looking up in surprise, Norman felt his mouth open as his grandma floated proudly above him with a loving smile. "Grandma!"

"Hi kiddo, long time no see. Sorry that I haven't visited you for so long." Grandma Babcock then looked up to the ensuing zombie battle. "Hmm, seems that you have a little zombie problem here, luckily I've brought some people with me." Looking behind her, Norman and Aggie couldn't believe their eyes as every single ghost from Blithe Hallow floated there ready for battle.

"Will this do?" His grandmother innocently asked him. Norman just slowly nodded, mumbling. "Yeah, that will do."

"Excellent" She then turned to the ghosts with a serious look on her face. "Come on, let's teach these undead fiends some manners." Charging forward Grandma Babcock leads the army of ghosts towards the zombies, where they slammed them off their feet, as well as whacking them with whatever they had in their hands.

The mobster who had concrete on his feet fired ghost bullets at them as well as using his fish to attack them, the soldier on the horse slashes them with his sword, even the woman Norman usually sees hanging from the tree uses her parachute to stop them in their tracks, so that the greaser could hit them with a pipe.

"I think that's enough help." Aggie simply said in which Norman nodded in agreement. Aggie then looked up to the stormy sky, she knew that the only way to stop this whole ordeal is to retake control of her body.

"Come on, we to get my body back." Without another word, she moved off with Norman quickly trailing behind her, the rest took notice of Norman and the sock moving away from the battle and followed, but not before Raz ensures that Scarface will still attacked the zombies only. They quickly catch up to the two, staying in pace with them. "Where you going? The battle is that way. And it just got more interesting since invisible forces started to beat the tar out of the zombies." Coraline stated.

"I need to get back in control of my body. If I can do that, then I can end this nightmare." Aggie informed them.

"You want to confront Bill?" Dipper question with uneasiness.

"If it means getting my body back. Then yes."

"If you only know on what Bill is capable of, then your going to need some serious help." Dipper told her, beside him Mabel does a fist pump. "Yeah! Eight heads are better than one."

Though they couldn't see it, Aggie had a appreciated smile for she is very glad that her friends were here to help her get back her body. So together they ran off towards the visible tree rooted fortress where a green tornado is rotating within it.


They reached the treeline leading into the wilderness. From here the fortress stood tall and looked intimidating as it was triangular shape with sharp roots pointing out. "Are you sure this is a good idea?" Wybie trembled for this was not something he wishes to face.

"We have to Wybie. If we don't then the whole Free Zone is doomed." Raz told him, up in the sky a long lighting bolt zapped out and destroyed something else within town.

"Case in point." Lili said.

They slowly began to walk into the woods, besides Wybie who uncomfortably stood there wondering if its not too late to grab his bike and ride on out of here. His good constance eventually gets the better of him and fallows the group.

Walking through the wood made them feel uneasy for the atmosphere wasn't at all nice; what with the stormy weather, colds chills, and knowing that a dangerous being is just hanging around in that fortress that's getting more closer with each step they took. They reached the bottom of the fortress, more lighting flashed above them as the wind picked up a bit. "So, how are we getting in?" Neil quietly asked.

"I got this." Lili simply raises her hand and a small fire envelopes it, using it, she creates a circle of fire that drops the roots down in a perfect hole for all of them to fit right through. After it was done, Lili simply blows her hand like a recently fired gun.

"That was pretty cool." Neil said in awe.

"Neil focus here." Raz reminded him.

"Oh right, sorry." Slowly they climbed in through the hole, once inside they take a good look around in their surroundings and see that they were in a corridor with random colorful pillars that stuck out from all sides.

"Well this is interesting architecture." Wybie quietly commented.

"It's very random." Neil added.

"This is what Bill does. He does things randomly, so keep a watchful eye out." Dipper warned.

"Over exaggerating much?" Coraline takes a step forward and suddenly a random hole opened up beneath her making her fall in screaming. The others quickly gather around the hole in concern for Coraline's safety, another hole formed on the wall on their left where Coraline shot out and crashed into Wybie who both flew and crashed into a blue piller where they both laid there dizzy. "On second thought, maybe you have a point." She muttered to herself.

After Coraline and Wybie dusted themselves off from the floor, they moved on through the hallway of colorful pillars. The kids then entered a hallway of various paintings of Bill in various poses.

Looking at them the kids, (sans Dipper and Mabel), didn't know what to think as he presented himself in various phases of time: from Egypt where he representative himself as a giant pyramid, the middle ages of doing bunny ears next to a dragon, pioneer times posing next to George Washington's legs as he crossed the water, World War 2 laying on the atom bomb before it was dropped on Hiroshima. But the one that got them very uneasy is of Bill with a crown on his head as he sat on a chair made out of people turned into stone, while holding a skull like a cup.

"Well that's intimidating." Coraline quipped as she walked past it. They soon exited out of the hallway of paintings and entered a pool room with the pool that's triangle shape with the floor made out of a gold. They had to admit that even though Bill was evil, he does have a nice pool, though they wouldn't want to go in it considering that the liquid in the pool was radioactive green.

Going through the doorway leaving the pool, they finally come across some stairs that go up all the way to the top, much to their dismay as those stairs were steep. This was going to suck big time.


By the time they made it to the top of the stairs, they felt exhausted as they panted from being out of breath, while their feet were also killing them. The only ones who weren't bothered with the climb is Aggie since she just flew and Raz and Lili because of their training, and mostly because they used psychic balls to travel up them.

Neil climbed himself two steps away from the top, panting heavily before collapsing down. "Oh man. We actually made it."

Mabel meanwhile had her tongue out like a dog. "Why does he have so many stairs? He doesn't even walk."

"At this Mabel, the question of why Bill does things is best left unanswered." Dipper panted as he leaned against the wall. Meanwhile Raz and Lili looked ahead of them where a golden, triangular door stood at the end of the hallway with some suspicion as this had been too easy to get here, they just had a gut feeling that this Bill guy wanted them here.

"Guys be careful, I have a gut feeling that we're heading for trouble." Raz warned.

"You got that right goggles." Bill suddenly floated down in front of the door with a crazy smile. His sudden appearance makes the air go cold as he lets out a series of laughs. "Well, well, well. If it ain't pinetree and shooting star. It's been such a long time, I bet you missed me."

"No way! Your as rotten as the gunk in-between people's toes." Mabel stated in disgust.

"How are you even back? Ford erased you from Stan's mind." Dipper pointed out. All this did is make Bill laugh harder. "You really think that it was that easy to get rid of me? You flesh puppets are more stupider than I thought." Bill holds his stomach as he continues to go into his fits of laughter.

"Jeez, milk it why don't you." Coraline commented.

Eventually Bill stops his laughter and looked at them with that malicious smile. "It's simple pinetree, just before Stanley punched me, I used the ancient A-X-Z-O-L to invoke that I may returned. It worked great and I've been living in Stanley's mind ever since. When he died from the superflu, I honestly thought that I was done for, but then I was saved by Flagg who kindly returned me to my psychical body."

"Wait, who's Flagg?" Neil asked.

Snapping his fingers, Bill pointed to him. "Glad you ask carrot top. He's the top dog of the land. He lurks in the darkest shadows and your deepest nightmares, always watching. In fact he's going to be dealing with those committee members when they reach Vegas and once their down and this town is destroyed, he shall rule this country. It's just too bad he's not letting me do my very own spin on it as I'm sure my friends would like to join in on this party."

"Not if we stopped you triangle boy." Coraline snarked.

"Ha! Fat chance button eyes. With this new body I possess, I'm unstoppable." Bill shot back, enjoying the visible cringe that Coraline made after that button eye jab he made at her.

"You tricked me out of my body! I demand you hand it back right now!" Aggie demanded as she floated forward a bit.

"Or what? You going to cry to your mommy?" Bill mocked.

"Hey that's uncalled for." Norman said in defense of his friend, beside him Dipper stepped forward. "We beat you before Bill. You might as well give up."

"You won't beat me this time." Bill snapped his fingers and from the left wall, it began to shake with the sound of wood breaking, suddenly a humongous wooden knight erupted out with a iron sword. The wooden knight took three steps forward before stopping in front of Bill, facing the kids it then raised up its sword and let out a deep grunt.

"Go get those brats, Gunt." Bill commanded.

"Oh please, I can take care of this guy in a snap." Lili snarked. Lifting up her hand with a recently lit flame, she shoots it at the tree knight which explodes in a brilliant light that made them all look away. "Well that was easy, I didn't even have to drop a sweat." She exclaimed in pride with her hands on her hips and eyes closed.

"Uh, Lili." Raz spoke up.

Opening up her eyes, Lili couldn't believe her eyes for as the smoke cleared. The tree knight stood there completely unscathed. "What? But how is that even possible?"

"Gunt is made out of Ipe wood, pintail. The most fire resistant type of wood. Now if you excuse me, I gotta a Free Zone to bring down so have fun with Gunt." Letting out another series of laughter, Bill retreated back through the door, leaving the kids with his knight.

"So, uh, what are we supposed to do now?" Wybie nervously asked as his whole body shook in fear, while the knight slowly approached them.

"I got an idea." Mabel spoke up, the knight raised its sword. "Run!" The kids scattered in two different directions as the sword crashed down and smashed the floor.

Lifting up his sword, Gunt looked in the direction that Norman, Neil, Dipper, and Wybie are in. Raising his sword he tended to swing it to slash their heads off, only to get pushed forward from a sudden rush of air. Turning to face whatever hit him, Gunt sees Raz rushing at him with a psychic fist that he sent flying at him that Gunt effortlessly blocked with his arm, he then reached forward and grabbed Raz off the ground.

"Hey! Get your hands off my boyfriend!" Lili came rushing at him with both of her hand envelope by flames. Gunt throws Raz at her in full force, sending them both back a good meters.

Coraline and Mabel ran to a corner, watching Gunt look towards the guys. "This guy is tough! What are we going to do?" Mabel cried.

"I don't know, but we gotta bring it down." Coraline stated, which gave Mabel an idea. "That's it."

"What's it?" Coraline asked.

"Bring him to the the stairs." Mabel instructed.

"Why?"

"Trust me. I got a great idea." Before Coraline could utter another word, Mabel left her there, leaving her to look at Gunt who began to walk towards the boys. Sighing as she didn't want to get close to that thing. Coraline ran up behind him, took off her shoe and threw it at the back of the knight's head getting his immediate attention.

"Come get me wood boy!" Slowly Gunt moved his way towards Coraline, making her move back to the very edge of the stairs. "Mabel! Hurry up!" Coraline felt borderline terror as she watched him raise up his sword.

"Grappling hook away!" The end of Mabel's grappling hook suddenly hooked itself inside the wooden right leg. Running around the wooden knight, Mabel wraps the grabbling hook around Gunt's legs three times until it reached its limits. Struggling and stumbling to keep himself upright, Gunt tried to break the rope that's wrapped around his legs.

Having recovered from his throw, Raz took notice of the opening that's now presented to him. Closing his eyes Raz releases a big PSI punch that crashed into Gunt's back, it pushes him forward and made him fall down the stairs which Coraline was lucky enough to get out of the way just in the nick of time.

The crashing sounds from the colossal knight falling reverberated for awhile until it suddenly stopped altogether. The kids ran up to the edge of the stairs and saw that he smashed his hand into the wall to stop himself from falling past the twenty fifth step as he laid on his stomach.

"That can't be good." Neil commented in dread.

"No, that's not good at all." Dipper confirmed. Gunt began thrash his legs violently, they could hear the rope straining under each thrash. "We should get to Bill before he gets free from that rope."

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea." Raz added and without a further ado they raced for the door. Upon bursting through it they were met with Bill in Aggie's angry form shooting out a ton of lighting up into the sky, laughing crazily as he does so.

"Bill!" Dipper shouted getting his attention, Bill blinked in surprise two times before morphing into annoyance. "Gah! You kids are more annoying than a swarm of mosquitoes!"

"That's not true! Mosquitoes are way more annoying!" Mabel shouted back.

"Not helping our case here Mabel." Dipper snarked, Raz and Lili stepped forward with determination plastered on their faces. "Bill Cipher! Under the law of the Psychonauts, I place you under arrest for the illegal hijacking of a body!" Raz said.

"Oh no! I'm under arrest, whatever should I do?" Bill then pointed his finger at them. "How about this!" Tree roots suddenly rose up from the floor and wrapped around them tightly, except for Aggie who phases through them, she can only watch in terror as her friends struggled within their rooty bonds. With a glare Aggie turned to face Bill who smugly looked down at them. "I had it with you!"

Without a second thought, Aggie rushed at him with utter rage. Bill shoots lighting bolts at her which Aggie dodged each strike, she gets up to Bill and grabbed hold of her own shoulders, she pushes him with all her might towards a wall that they smashed into with a smoke cloud erupting outwards.

When the smoke cleared they were holding on to their shoulder blades with Aggie having an angry scowl, while Bill had a joyous smile. "Is that all you got?" Lifting up his head, Bill shoves her electric her into Aggie's face. Aggie didn't feel anything, but it did blind her which gave Bill the chance to kick her off of him.

Now free from her grip, Bill rushed at her and duplicated himself where he circles around her, pushing her at every chance he got. Coming in for another push, Bill is caught by surprise when Aggie suddenly turned around, grabbed him by the collar, spun him around three times before throwing him to the floor.

"Not a bad move kid." Bill complimented as he got himself up from the floor. "I figured that you would be crying in the corner or something."

"Guess you don't know me well." Aggie said with a glare.

"Oh, but I do know everything about you. Besides I'm just going easy on you." Standing up, Bill snapped his fingers and Aggie suddenly got shocked as lighting from the overhead storm came down at full power. The kids cringe from the light the lighting fanned out, except for Norman who watched in concern as Aggie got bombarded by it, while letting out a scream of pain.

The lighting slowly ceases, until it finally stopped all together, leaving behind a very hurt Aggie who floated in midair for a second, then fell to the floor like a leaf as Bill laughed. "Well that take cares of you. Now to get rid the rest of these pests."

"Not quite!"

Turning around quickly, Bill is surprised to see Raz rushing at him. During the fight, Raz had managed to wiggle himself out of his bindings. Before Bill could do anything, Raz throws a small door that struck Bill's head.

"What the?" The door opens, leaving Bill motionless as a portal to his mind is now opened. Closing his eyes, Raz uses his psychic mind to go into the portal.


Traveling through the portal, Raz is met with various colors as eyes and other body parts, static, and backwards speech. It was a long fall, but at last Raz lands in the middle of a grey platform, creating a shockwave upon impact as he landed in a cool pose.

Standing up, Raz had a good look around the chaotic and weirdness that is Bill's mind. He didn't know which way he should go? The landscape goes everywhere and nowhere. He is also taken aback by whatever weirdness laid before him, he could hardly comprehend it.

Raz eventually picked a random direction which had some stairs that go downwards, he just got to edge when they suddenly dissipated like a mirage. Sensing someone behind him, Raz turned around to see Bill floating above him. "Well, well, well! If this a change of pace. I never had anyone enter my mind, I'd offer you a drink, but I'll just kill you instead."

"That's not happening." Raz gets himself in a fighting position which made Bill laugh some more. "This is priceless! You really think-" Bill suddenly turns himself into a giant and spoke in a deep voice. "That you can take me on?"

Raz held in a gulp as he maintained his fighting stance, it looks like this is going to be a tough fight.