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.
Back in the real world; the others with the help of Lili got out of their wooden bounds. Once free they looked at Raz and Bill who stand there motionlessly with closed eyes. "What's going on?" Wybie question.
"Raz is currently inside Bill's mind in order to rid him out of Aggie's body." Lili explained.
"Wait? He went into Bill's mind?" Dipper places both of his hands on his chin in worry for Raz. For who knows what sort of madness awaits him in the mind of Bill?
Norman meanwhile looked around for Aggie, as without her sock he couldn't see or hear her anywhere within this room. "Aggie? Aggie, are you ok?"
Nearby on his right, Aggie floated herself up at about one foot off the ground. Her ears were ringing and she felt weak, she could just barely look forward to see the damaged sock a few feet away from her. Slowly Aggie flew her way over to the fabric and placed in her hand where two of her fingers are poking out. "I'm alright." She said with a cough getting Norman's attention as he turned around to face her.
Slowly Norman walked over to her with relief, stopping just five feet away as he worried that he might accidentally go into her. "Thank goodness. Are you hurt?"
"A little, but I believe that I'll be fine. Besides, it's not like he can kill me."
Just then the doors burst open, spooking all of them with a jump. They turn around fast to see Gunt standing in the doorway, holding the ripped up remains of Mabel's grabbling hook in his hands that he then proceeded to drop down. "Though now, I don't think you and the others aren't going to be fine." She piped in worry.
The humongous Bill stared down at Raz with a red eye. Raz was very scared, but he needed to free Aggie's body from this thing, so that she can stop the whole zombie invasion.
Bill's eye suddenly turned into a cannon and fired a red beam. Raz dodged the beam and continues to roll and dodge it as Bill swept the beam all over the platform Raz stood on. The beam finally ends and Bill's eye turned back to normal, yet he immediately goes into another attack by tearing apart a huge chunk of the platform and throwing it at Raz who caught it with telekinesis and threw it back at Bill who effortlessly slapped it away.
"I say it's time to turn up the heat!" Snapping his fingers a ring of blue fire appears, trapping Raz within it and yet that wasn't all as Bill enlarged his fist and after correcting his bowtie, slams it down on Raz.
A sadistic glee filled Bill for that was one ant squashed. Lifting his fist back up, he's very surprised to see that Raz's smooshed body isn't in the crater. "What the?" He then looked to his fist and saw him holding on to his finger.
"Surprise you one eye demon!" Raz jumped off with a large fist appearing next to him, aiming for the eye. Unfortunately it didn't go in Raz's favor as Bill crossed his eye and blocked the oncoming attack with a forcefield that sent Raz back, he crashed against the platform, rolling a few times until he rolled back up to his feet.
"Nice try kid! But it's utterly useless as I know everything that you're going to do, everything that you're thinking of, and I know- Ow!" As Bill gave out his speech, Raz used his telekinesis to bring in a platform behind Bill and smacked it into the back of his pointy head.
"You talk way too much." Raz snarked with a smirk.
Bill's color now changed into a light red as he crossed his eye into an angry scowl. "Enough games!" Snapping his fingers, Raz suddenly felt his feet getting wet, looking down to his feet he saw the platform is gone and instead he was standing in the middle of the ocean.
With a splash! Raz fell into the water and sunk to the bottom like a rock as he tried in vain to swim up. Out of everything he feared its large bodies of water! Not just because he can't swim, but mainly because of the curse that his family has fallen victim to. Mainly if they come into contact with water they would die, it's no wonder why Raz felt panic once his head fallen beneath the surface. So far he didn't feel like death was taking him, but he held on to his breath as he didn't want to loose any oxygen.
His problems of being underwater was just beginning however as coming in at him in full speed is Bill in the form of a yellow sea serpent that still had his one eye, hat and bowtie. He bumps his massive head against Raz's back, sending him forward a bit. Raz turned to look at him, but Bill had went to his side and whipped him with his serpent tail knocking some more air out of him.
Bill swims away and then turned back for another strike with a sadistic glee on his face.
Back in the physical world; the rest of the kids fearfully watched Gunt who is still standing at the doorway. The wooden knight looked at them before slowly laying his eyes on Raz and Bill, upon seeing that his master may need help and the fact there's a easy target in front of him. He Goes on over to Raz, Gunt raised up his sword, preparing to slash him in half. A audible gasp is heard, then suddenly Lili jumped in front of him and blasted him in the face with a full power of fire, the force from the sudden attack makes him stumble back five feet, until he fell on his bottom. "Stay away from my boyfriend! You useless batch of twigs!"
Getting back up to his feet, Gunt raised his sword in a prepared for battle motion. Lili showed her teeth as she let out a small growl. "We need to keep this guy away from Raz!" She told the others.
"That's going to be a hoot." Coraline sarcastically remarked.
"Just do it!" She ordered making them all flinch a bit. Ignoring them Lili ran forward, ducking underneath the swinging sword, she blasts a huge amount of flames at his chest. She rolled out of the way as he slashed his sword downwards, Lili rolled over to the left side of him and blasted another large amount of flames, this time at his leg.
Seeing Lili fight the wooden knight inspired Mabel and in turn Mabel suddenly charged forward and shouted. "For the Free Zone!"
"Mabel! Get back here!" Dipper quickly runs after her. Mabel reaches one of Gunt's legs that wasn't being blasted by fire and latched herself onto it, where she proceeds to pound it. "Take that you big bully!"
Gunt looked down at her unimpressed and started to shake his leg to get her off, but Mabel clung on tightly while she still pounded it. Dipper comes in front of him and completely stopped once the knight turned his attention to him. "Oh wow, I did not think this through."
Coraline suddenly races past him, stopping just a foot away from Gunt, waving her hands around wildly. "Hey over here!" Turning to regard her, Coraline began to jump up and down. "That's right keep your eyes on me you little twig!"
A sharp stick suddenly hits him in the face, letting out a grunt of soft pain, Gunt pulls the stick off of him and turned to Wybie who had thrown it. Wybie stood there wide eyed not believing that he just did that, sheepishly he smiled and does a little wave. Before Gunt could take a step towards him another blast of fire strikes him in the side of the chest, annoyed by this Gunt used his unarmed hand to smack Lili away. He then reached down and pulled Mabel off of his leg and tossed her away like a discarded candy wrapper.
Swinging his arm, he smacked Coraline and Dipper away as well, then charged right at Wybie in surprising speed. In panic Wybie quickly got out of the way causing Gunt to smash against the wall, denting it badly. It didn't phase him in the slightest as he had recovered quickly by turning towards Wybie and gave chase to him. "Help!"
"Don't worry Wybie! I gotcha!" Neil announced as he suddenly charged forward. He cuts in-between the two surprising Gunt who had to stop suddenly and tripped with a loud crash.
As he got up to his knees, Aggie took the chance to fly into him and used what remaining power she had to possess him. She punches him in the face with his own hand several times, then stood him up and rammed him into another part of the wall, she also used his sword to chop off his own arm, then ran him over to the doorway and got out of him just as he ran out of the room and fell forward.
That definitely took a lot of energy out of her, but it was worth it by damaging this beast the most. She is sure that she just gave Raz enough time to get her back her body.
Raz felt that he was practically out of breath from each strike that Bill gives, he was just too fast for Raz to register him and Bill is absolutely enjoying every second of it.
Swimming teasingly around him, Bill felt thrill upon knowing that just one more strike and then this annoying flesh puppet will be broken. Turning towards him, Bill swam at him in full speed, Raz turned around to face him and glared for he only had one shot.
He waited until Bill got extremely close when he unexpectedly releases a PSI punch that made a direct hit at Bill's eye. Everything came to a freeze immediately, the entire ocean disappears returning them to the platform, and Bill shifted back to his real form as he held his eye in pain. "Ow! My eye! Why does everyone hit in my eye!"
Seeing a chance to do some further damage to Bill, Raz uses telekinesis to slam platforms into Bill who grunted in pain from each impact. Raz then held his hands together to create a gigantic fist, Bill blinked a couple times before switching to a blank expression. "Oh great."
"Time for you to get out of this ghost's body!" Raz slammed the gigantic fist into Bill and the whole place immediately turned bright white.
With a flash Bill flew out of Aggie's body in a uncontrolled spin. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Hey!" Raz meanwhile had open his eyes as he felt his mind come back to his body, he looks up to the drifting ghostly body that is no longer shooting electricity into the air. "Aggie quick! Retake your body!" He told her with urgency.
Aggie didn't need to be told twice, she quickly flies into her body and retook control of it, she let's out a loud gasp as if she just emerged from being underwater for a long period of time. "Much better." Aggie then looks up to the stormy night sky and cracks her fingers. "Right, time to put things right."
Using her powers, Aggie dissipates the storm and destroy the castle they stood in by lowering the roots back into the ground. In the park the zombies were still fighting against Scarface and the Blithe Hallow ghost's who by this point had been joined by the ghosts who inhabit the Free Zone. They were in mid-fight when the zombies suddenly stopped, fell to the ground, and all crumpled into dust. All the ghosts stood there watching this scene in silence for a moment, before erupting into a cheer of victory as the dark clouds disappeared to show the sky that is lighting up due to the sun beginning to rise.
"Looks like Norman and his friends did it." Grandma Babcock said proudly with her hands on her hips.
The castle is now completely gone and gone with it is Bill's creations; such as Gunt who is no more than a pile of sticks. The kids are now standing in the middle of a field of flowers that had sprung out in full bloom as they looked up at the clear sky with relief for now this crazy night is finally over.
Aggie now back in her normal ghostly form, floats down to eye level to her friends with a warm smile. "Looks like we won."
Suddenly Aggie found herself being in the middle of a circle as her friends congratulate her. "Nice job, Aggie." Neil exclaimed.
"Yeah! You stopped the storm and a zombie invasion. Pretty good progress for one night." Mabel said with a smile.
"How do you know that the zombies are stopped?" Dipper asked.
"Well since Bill used her powers, it makes sense that Aggie will use them to undo everything he did." Mabel explained before turning to Aggie with question. "Right?"
"Pretty much." Aggie replied with a smile, she then felt a gentle hand being placed on her shoulder, turning she sees that it is Norman. "You did really good Aggie."
"Thanks, but I don't deserve all the credit. It was really Raz who managed to get that triangle thing out of my body." Aggie replied modestly.
"It was no problem. All it took was years of psychonaut training and determination to safe this town." Raz stated with a rather proud smile that was interrupted by Coraline bumping his side playfully with her elbow. "Hey don't forget about us. We might not have psychic powers, but we did a pretty good job on taking on those hideous zombies and that giant wood, knight thing."
"Zombie slayers for life!" Neil shouted with a stick raised up like a sword.
"I'm just glad things are turning back to normal." Wybie said as this had been quite a night. "Speak for yourself. It was actually quite the thrill that I got to do something with my powers." Lili countered.
The kids continue to talk all at once over their victory of saving the Free Zone, but their chatter soon died down when laughter cried out besides them. Looking over they see the sock Aggie had been using to talk through, is floating in midair as Bill's laugh came through. "Oh yes! A grand victory! Watching you meat puppets celebrate is very much amusing!"
"Why are you laughing? We just kicked your triangle butt." Coraline pointed out.
"Yeah! Now your a floating sock." Neil added in a mocking tone. "Um, not really good hero banter Neil." Coraline said.
Dipper then steps forward with a serious look in his eyes. "That's four times we beat you Bill. When are you going to give up and return back to your dimension?"
"Oh pinetree still as naive as always. You think that you have won, how amusing, but the fun has just begun. Once Flagg's business is finished with your committee leaders, he'll come here with an army that makes those zombies look like puppies." Bill exclaimed.
"Aw! I wish you did send an army of puppies." Mabel said in disappointment.
"I'm sure we can handle Flagg." Raz spoke up with Lili nodding in agreement. "Fat chance goggles. Flagg is a powerful being, why he's so powerful he forced me to make a deal with him."
"Wait, he was the one who gave you a deal?" Dipper said in shock as Bill was usually the one who gave deals.
"I know it's very shocking." Bill said with annoyance as he hated serving someone. "Anywho. I'll be watching the show once he comes. Remember that the moon landing is fake, the afterlife is an illusion, buy gold, Bye!" The sock puppet then dropped to the ground, leaving the kids to feel intimidated by Bill's threat.
Bill may be a being of other chaos, but this Flagg guy sounded powerful, possibly more powerful than any of their old foes that the kids have faced in the past. Going into a face of sheer determination Raz stepped himself forward getting the others immediate attention. "Alright guys. Flagg might be coming within any month by now."
"Wait how do you know that?" Neil asked in fear for that was a big thing to say. "Maybe Stu and the others have dealt with him." He finished with slight hope that what he said was true, he soon felt Dipper's hand rest on his shoulder. "Listen Neil. As much as I don't want to believe on what Bill said about this Flagg guy and trust me I have a lot of reasons not to trust Bill as most of you guys have figured out why. I have a strange feeling that what he said about him may possibly be true."
"Then what are we going to do? We fought for our lives against that triangle. Should we begin packing and move to a more secluded town?" Wybie wonder only to feel a hard punch on his shoulder that Coraline had so gracefully delivered. "We're not going anywhere Wybie! We are going to stay here and face that Flagg guy until he runs back to where he came from."
"Quite right Coraline." Raz agreed with great enthusiasm. "We'll defend this place, until Flagg retreats or we die under our oath to protect the Free Zone. If we do die then it's over."
"Ahem" Raz turned to Aggie who had her arms crossed and a raised eyebrow.
"Of course we'll fight even if we are dead." Raz quickly reinstated with a nervous smile plastered on his face.
"Can we really fight this Flagg guy?" Norman question for he had his doubts that they even had a chance against this guy.
"Of course we can. As long as we are together, we can handle anything that comes our way." Mabel confidently said with her fists clenched, then went into a series of kung fu moves.
"Despite Mabel's questionable kung fu skills. She does have a point on the power of numbers, if we stick together then their may be a chance that we can defend the Free Zone from an attack." Lili stated before reaching her hand out to signal that she will fight for the Free Zone until the very end.
Raz placed his hand on top of his girlfriend's showing that he will join her in defending the Free Zone, then so did Coraline, Dipper, and Mabel. The others are hesitant for they are scared about facing Flagg head on, he could kill them with just one fling of his wrist. Yet, they didn't want to let their friends down or let the Free Zone be burn to the ground. So hesitantly Norman, Neil, Aggie, and Wybie placed their hands on top as well, fully completely the pack to defend the Free Zone from whatever might come to harm it.
