'Almost there….'Robbie internalized as he trudged over to the next Time-Storm, being old has made him slow and the fact that his legs got rashes didn't help either, with his bear and his damaged cloth made him like a crazed homeless old man, one time he saw a group of people and tried to ask help from them only for them to immediately leave with their care and he could swear one of them whispered to a kid "Don't look at the homeless man and follow me, honey, he may be contagious."No need to say his luck was rotten to his internal grumbling, not emo whining, old man grumbling.
Since he had trouble walking fast thanks to his new limitations, so instead he waited somewhere on the way to a Time-Storm with ropes which got by borrowing from a store locking himself to a light bulb, as well as a bunch of other stuff which he borrowedgenerously. He waited for the incoming storm until it came and moved past him, this one was a bit stronger so he momentary levitated to his yelped reaction, if it weren't for the rope and himself holding to it for his dear life he would have been thrown away to the other side of the country with sufficient velocity to a grizzly death like an ant crushed by a boot. When the dust settled and the storm moved away, he dropped to the ground, next he got up from the ground and checked himself, he felt his strength and his youth had finally returned.
"I can't feel my rashes any longer…I'm-I'mYOUNG AGAIN!" he declared and nearly done a victory dance before the dust got over and got a good look on his face from a small cosmetic mirror which was one of the borrowed junks, he indeed was young; however, he was younger than his original age
He stuck there just looking at the mirror with his poker face and his eyes went short in length for sixty seconds until the sixty seconds was over.
"...ff..ffffFFuuuuUUUUU!-"
*Heavy breath* Whe-re Am I?" Dipper woke his head up from underwater and looked around, despite the water he could walk in it without being drowned, there was a blue sky with stars shining, and in front of Dipper meters away, he walked toward it "Am I dead?"
"Not the right question."An unknown voice said just when Mason opened the door, then a flood came and took him, now he was in what looked like deep in an ocean, yet he didn't feel like choking or lose of oxygen, when he looked around what he saw froze him. Deep a giant Axolotl was staring directly at him, both kept staring at each other and none making a muscle until abruptly for nearly twenty seconds, next the giant salamander moved from back to the deep and disappeared in the darkness, after which a force moved him and he was no longer in an ocean, what he saw next was like some weird hallucination in some freakish world with flying dolphins, magmas colored in rainbows and there were these blue humanoids which for some reason kept shouting "HI I'M MR.MEESEEKS!","LOOK AT ME!" Each in various activities, fishing, walking, teaching to others, and even saw one trying to ride one of those flying Dolphins before it ate her whole and spilling out a literal football and fly away only to then get grabbed by some floating giant dragon-like flying whale with tendrils spreading around its body as it flies slowly'Okaaaay…did Mabel feed me Smile Dips?'He tried to comprehend all the insanity as he walked around. Only to stumble upon two giant statues growing out of the ground like trees.
Both Statuses were of Rick and his Great Uncle Ford, the first one was made of Silver and the other was made of Gold, both statues were gazing at each other in perpetual disdain, at least perpetual before both shaken leading to both statues being knocked down and the world suddenly going black, the Pines boy on instinct ran to not be crushed, he managed to prevent being crushed; however, he got swallowed by a storm of dust resulted by the fallen statues.
Darkness took before everything appears like flashes of a film, a mighty giant humanoid creature with a skull face and canine and cat-like characteristics fall to its death only for days and night coming and going fast as it dissolved by maggots and weather until only skeletons remained with a village slowly being built near it which become a full-blown city. A giant flying castle floating and darkening the sky by eclipsing the sun. A city of emeralds and crystals. An X-like black hole that sucked planets. Galaxies floating together. Magenta-colored ships floating in space. A city filled with towering futuristic apartments each green thanks to plants on their balcony in perfect harmony between man-made and nature. Planets fall into a purple sun only for the sun to explode. a fusion between a city to something akin to a DDD setting with all manner of monsters. A fish that grows legs and walks before it evolves into a 4 legged lizard, next a mammal, then becomes a monkey and finally becomes a modern human. At last, what was shown was a young-looking Rick, wearing a brown coat instead of his white one and a different hairstyle eating noodles from a dish in some restaurant filled with diverse types of aliens, and another showed Bill on a throne made of frozen human agony with his henchmaniacs surrounding him.
"Says he's happy."
The scene shifted to a slightly older Rick having a heated argument with Ford with the latter barking mad at him.
A cackling Bill with fire all around him and floating.
"He's a liar."
It was the current-looking Rick, sitting in some chair looking miserable and drinking from his flask.
Bill in a room lit up with blue fire begging to Grunkle Stan as he kept shapeshifting and saying in gibberish.
"Blame the Arson for the Fire."
A bomb fell and explodes on two blondes, one a woman and the other a girl with a very young Rick screaming.
It was Bill all around the fire, but this time he was crying and his hands extended as if he was screaming out to someone.
Meanwhile, there were violent flashes each going so fast, Rick killing a lot of his alternate versions, Stan punching Bill into the oblivion, a tear into the reality by some Citadel-like structure in space, a younger Ford making a deal with Bill, Morty but with an eyepatch smiling, Rick yet young and in a different black attire wandering around a jungle and a giggling unhinged Mabel with a staff that has a broken snow glass with a Shooting Star inside it, the mere sight of her scared him.
Fire engulfs everything until it disappears with only darkness, then liquid-like forms of Dipper and Mabel first blue and the latter pink merging into a singular entity that looks like the head of a scary black wolf in Aztec-like style and it stares back until it breathes fire.
"AAAH! WHAT THE H!?" he wakes up frantically only to find himself with others still on the ship waking up in a similar state to him.
" *groans* not even my antique wine gave me such hangovers." Beth's one hand was on her head and was having the mother of all hangovers.
"I feel like that starfish barfing all over me again," Wendy stated as she woke up.
Morty was busy looking around erratically.
"Did I get high or was there some giant salamander?" Summer wondered out loud before she stopped upon seeing her hand.
That caught Dipper's attention "wait, was it an axolotl?".
"I think so."
"I-I did see some frills," Morty muttered.
everyone nodded.
"Was there a group of blue humanoids shouting cheerfully 'HI! I'M MR. MESEEKS!' ?"
"No, I think I just saw a version of me and fam as zombies which for some reason kept whispering like someone could hear." Summer explained, little did she know that it wasn't an alternate timeline, but a future.
"Me neither dude, I saw some pizzas ordering humans and conversing on which skin color is tastier, I'm not going to look at pizzas the same way ever again!" Wendy shuddered at that memory.
"I t-think I just saw myself but they were like twins of me, one having a hat and the other was a girl, it wa-was so-so weird." Morty was weirded out upon seeing himself as the younger Pines Twins.
"Alright kids, enough competing on who got the weirdest tripping balls, the ship has crashed in case you haven't noticed." The blonde adult interrupted.
It crashed, to some pink-colored ground which got cracked, when they got out of the crashed vehicle, they saw a landscape with giant crystal-like rocks towering, when they looked around they saw a castle-like place which looked like Disneyland and a Medieval Castle having a baby.
"Well, that isn't ominous at all," Mason commented snarkily.
"Which means we are going to break in, either way." The adult declared blandly.
The Lumberjane's eyebrows got up, and the female Smith's nonchalant attitude rubbed on the Pines boy.
Slowly, his eyes were open, slowly when Rick got up, he checked around his body, his wounds were healed with just some bandages around him, from the looks of things as he perceived, he was on a bed in some room made out of woods with a window which morning light shined, he looked around. He tried to find any weapon on from himself and around the room but there was none, suddenly the door to the room opens and came a figure, on instinct he tried to use his cybernetics but he was unable as he found out when he tried to turn his limb into a gun, the figure was a purple humanoid with 5 eyes, female he guessed in traditional black clothing with a human infant warped around, she didn't look shocked meaning she expected him to wake up.
"Who the dicks are you? And don't think carrying an infant will give you any plot armor, I'm not a fucking Disney character." The dimensional hopping criminal threatened them while he took a surgical knife from a table and pointed it at her.
"A thank you would suffice, though I shouldn't expect much from your kind." She said in a monotonous tone, betraying no emotion which only got on Sanchez's nerve.
"My kind? What the fuck do you mean?"
"Come with me."
"Oh sure, like if I woul-" before finishing his sentence much less command a weapon from his cybernetics again, his mouth to his surprise got shut, his body moved and walk with him, his mind raced as this was not under his control, as if his body was working against his mind while walking with the multi-eyed woman in the corridor, she started talking.
"Apology for taking your cybernetics under my control, I had to check them out to heal you for any defense mechanism and with people of your reputation there is no guarantee you wouldn't do something foolish at first glance."
" *Muffled sound*"if his mouth was open, he would make a series of obscenities that would put even Stanley's mouth when there are no children in shame.
"Your partner or rather yourex-partneris okay and currently on the bed resting, the babe you see in my care is an unwanted guest thanks to the Portal incident who suffered from the effects of entropy and the-entropy storms of a dimension, he tried to fix himself after he got affected by them for the first time, numerously I may add, but alas, the effects were unpredictable."
'Stop carrying me like a baby you alien spider lady!'Internally the little one whined, or rather that's what he would say if he was developed enough, it's more a juvenile kind of way resulting in him crying.
"Hush little Robert, before I return you to your original form, you have to regain your energy." She brought a baby bottle with orange liquid inside it, at first the infant tried to resist but to no avail, as the Oracle put the bottle in his mouth.
'This is the most embarrassing moment of my entire life! Oh God, just kill me now!'Robbie thought as he suffered this humiliation, his pride will never recover from this.
"Oh, where are my manners? I'm Jheselbraum the Unswerving, Oracle of Axolotl, one of Stanford's friends." With one gesture of her hand, any control over the interdimensional criminal stopped as he felt a shock around his body from his sudden return of control.
"Thanks, asshole." He tried to balance himself.
Jheselbraum ignored him while she put Little Robbie in a crib after finishing his drink, comically he was scowling in a cute kind of way that would get a million likes and memes a lot if that face got pictured and shared in the media, and then start walking in this old fashion way building.
"Follow me, I will lead you to Stanford." The Oracle said, after a few moments of walking they reached a room in which Ford was there.
"Well, good morning to you too, sleeping beauty." The nihilist man remarked sarcastically to the existentialist scientist, whereas the sage was making cocktails in a cup. "Hey lady, you haven't told me yet what ya meant about my kind, or is this one of those sagely bullshits on riddles?"
"The entitled kind." She bluntly uttered as she crushed some nut-like things with a wooden object. Before the white-coated scientist could reply anything she continued "The type that thinks just for their achievements or powers they can do anything free of consequences and are above morality."
"Watch it, nun! That oversized amphibian's oracle or his personal whore or not, I'm the smartest man in the multi-" he was cut short before he finished his sentence.
"Men like you with such boasts have come and gone, Bill could warp reality to his will yet he too fell by earthly beings." The purple woman spoke calmly, albeit in a way like a teacher scolding a wayward child which infuriated him.
"Oh please, That Dorito is a crybaby who wastes an obscene amount of time making a party in his name to cope with his escapism problems and plays tough, while secretly an insecure wreck." The interdimensional scientist scoffed.
"Like you?" She asked, with no hint of mocking.
"What's that supposed to mean?" He narrowed his eyes, her pity tone angered him more than if she had any hint of ridicule.
"We both know what I mean, and we both know 'Vague Power' was not what Bill has promised you."
Those sentences gave him flashbacks to when Cipher came into his dreams.
"I CAN GIVE YOU, YOUR SPOUSE, AND KID BACK, NOT ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF THEM BY THE WAY, THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE! ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO SHAKE ON IT! SO WHADDYA SAY, SMART GUY?" Bill brought his blue fiery hand with his eye turning into a picture of his original family.
The flashback ended and Beth's father came back to present "My crybaby backstory is not your's or anyone's fucking novelty book to read and I could care less what some Mother Teresa wannabe who worships an overgrown salamander thinks." The nihilistic scientist retorted in a threatening tone while getting a bit close menacingly; nonetheless, she wasn't intimated a bit or refused to back down "And having the favor of some Aztec god with anonymity issues would not save you from breaking you easily in half."
"You think breaking is hard? Try healing"- the multi-eyed woman debated as she walked around to grab the wood and return back-"it's easy to snap"- she snapped a wood which poured yellow powders on a cup with a green liquid -"But it could take forever to fix." She said in a soft but also distasteful tone with a pointed snapped wood at the furrowing blue-haired man before he used the wood in question stirring the yellow substance with the liquid of the cup. The smell from the mixture was foul, The blue-haired traveler stiffed upon smelling it. The Unswerving put the cup near the Six-fingered scientist's nose, upon smelling it he woke up a jump out of his bed.
"HOLY WAFFLES!" He shouted upon waking up.
"Yeah, because swearing with food is a better alternative to real swears." The cybernetically enhanced man is supposed to be in a satirical tone.
"Rick? And Jheselbraum!?" He was bomb shelled upon seeing one of his past acquaintances.
"Greeting Stanford, though I wish we stop meeting each other without you not being hospitalized." Forsey's eyebrow got raised from the joke, he didn't count her as the joking type. "Apology at my attempt in humor, my lord said I need to 'light up a bit." She nearly rolled her eyes from saying those two words.
"What da up nerds?" That familiar voice made The Old Pines switch his attention to the door, his jaw gaping upon seeing none other than his twin brother, Stanley Pines himself. unharmed with his typical showman attitude.
"You got to be fucking kidden me." The interdimensional inventor barked in outrage, clearly not happy at seeing his face.
"I'm back baby! Did ya miss-?" he soon was attacked by a bear hug from his brother, "Woah there Poindexter! My bones are not what they used to be." He jested before corresponding.
"I thought I lost you for good!" Relief was washing all over Stanley's twin
"It takes more than some sci-fi-sci fi dimension to separate us Pines! Also, the lady over there helped, and really, you're putting Soos's hugs in shame."
"Oh! Sorry." Ford complied with Stan's request.
"Not that I want to interrupt your tender moment, but your equipment is in the next room. I suggest we hurry because we don't have all the time in the world." The Oracle advised.
"But-" Stanford tried to finish.
"The fate of your family is in balance as we speak."
"You heard her shitheads." Rick pushed both Elder Pines to move.
"Rick, about-" Stanford was about to talk about their fight before he was cut off.
"Save it, I got way worse beatings than some Professor Oak's dimensional hopping junior's hissy fit, besides Ikindahave that coming." Ford's ex-associated shrugged with Stanford looking at him meaningfully "What are you all waiting for? A kiss? move it, idiots!" As he pushed them.
To say it was the child of a carnival and a haunted house but on a much bigger scale would be a clear description of what kind of place Dipper, Wendy, Beth, and Summer were walking around. Everything was dead with deafening silence, Morty was the one nervous by the atmosphere the most, and Dipper couldn't help but think that this place was suspiciously familiar. Summer and Wendy were armed with an iron lid and a broken candy lollipop respectively, Beth with a scrap of metal, Dipper with a small spear he found, and Morty with a shard of glass.
"Why did I end up with a giant lollipop again?" Ginger's head whined.
"I'm the most experienced in survival and took Apocalypse Training every winter." The Redhead reasoned.
"Well, I had a role in destroying a galactic government." The pink-shirt teen remarked
"I survived a literal apocalypse." The flannel-wearing teen retorted.
"*Puff*I ran a post-apocalypse mad max style tribe!" Morty's sister was not impressed.
"I fought a shapeshifter who shapeshifted himself to me!"
"I crashed a ship into some god's chest!"
"Hey! I was the one driving it!" Summer's brother informed everyone.
"Ladies, ladies, not the time for 'Who is the baddest ', leave that when we get out of here." The adult commanded the kids.
*blaster sounds*
"What's that?" Morty quizzed.
"Did you guys hear that?" The Pines boy asked with everyone nodding in answer.
The sounds came from an alley, slowly the group moved toward the alley until they reached it, after which they hid near the walls' entrance with Morty, Dipper, and Wendy on the left and Summer and Beth on the right of the entrance.
*explode sounds*
That prompted them to take a peek to see what was going on, what they saw was the same flight cruiser they saw in the bounty hunter's ship that had flown away shooting red blasts from its wings with the 3 yellow-eyed humanoid and the crab-looking centipede shooting with the ship at the assaulters they guest the mercenaries managed to find what dimension was transported into by perhaps their hijacked ship having a tracker. The attackers were swarms of maggots and worms shapeshifting themselves together in numerous forms from humanoid to else, crystalized pink faceless bipeds on a form reminiscent of raptors with sharp crystal spikes all over the back of their bodies shooting crystalized spikes and rotten-looking humanoid waffles which their rotten forms had made them look repulsive with mushrooms growing from them and walked in a zombie-like state, the last one with the morphic vermins clicked on Mason's mind on why this place looked familiar. 'This…This place is…is Mabel land!'He realized to his stunned mind, before his mind raced on why this place even exists as his sister destroyed this place a growl took his and his friend's attention.
*ALARM! ALARM! ALARM!*a long-beaked rainbow bird with red eyes shouted literally alarms, that took the attention of the denizens of this misbegotten place, the crystal raptors roared and started running towards the stranded group with the whole place almost becoming alive with weird horrors awaking.
"We s-should go." The Smith boy suggested.
"Yeah…good idea dude!" The Corduroy concur.
And so they ran, not knowing this is not even the worst thing this twisted realm has to offer as they will learn when the Queen of Madness reveals herself.
Notes:For clarification, this story is set before RM's season 5 final hence all the foreshadowing to later episodes.
And yes I made references to Star Vs, The Owl House, Invader Zim, Amphibia, Helluva Boss, Steven Universe and even a SCP one, catch which SCP it is if you can!
