Aurora placed the bowl of soup down on the table in front her, not breaking eye contact with Stanford Gleeful, before she spoke, "Hello, Stanford. I've... brought you some food. Of course, it's been a while since we've talked. Father is gone at the moment, and Dad... is elsewhere. It doesn't exactly matter. I know that Star and Mason are asleep at the moment, but... I'll bring them some food soon. I... really wish I could come down here more, but... I can't really risk it. I'm sure you understand and know why. I could come down here more..."
"I'm glad you're trying not to cry and worry about me. You're being very brave, and I'll be glad to show you, my gratitude. However... to be able to, I'll have to be out of this cage. Of course, you don't have to." Stanford smiled, "We can be apart for a few months. It won't do much, don't worry..."
Aurora smiled, "I hope not..."
"Anyway... how's the child?" Stanford asked, seriousness in his voice.
Aurora frowned, "... They're... fine..."
"You're leaking on the floor, dear," Stanford told her.
Aurora gulped, looking down, at the medium sized puddle around her, before he face went red, and she ran to the elevator.
The next time Aurora came back down the elevator, was a few months later. She held the small toddler in her arms, as she walked towards the cage.
"Is this the child?" Stanford asked, looking at the small bundle, smiling.
Aurora nodded, "Yes. His name is Oliver."
"He's very beautiful, love." Stanford admitted, "Not as beautiful as you, of course."
Aurora blushed, "Thanks..."
"I'm assuming that your father is not happy about our child?" Stanford asked.
Aurora nodded, "He doesn't like him... even though Cosmo is very happy about there being another boy."
"Well, it doesn't matter what he thinks. We're staying together, no matter what," Stanford smiled.
Aurora smiled, "Exactly."
"What's been going on upstairs?" Stanford asked, "I heard squeals and excitement a few months ago. What month is it?"
Aurora laughed, "A lot has been going on. It's October."
"So, this is... a hybrid," Mason spoke up.
Aurora nodded, "Yes. He's a hybrid, like me."
"So... how would that work?" Star asked.
Aurora frowned, "That... I'm not sure about."
"What's his name?" Mason asked.
Aurora smiled, "This is Oliver."
"... So... where's my child?" Mason asked.
Aurora bit her lip, "Maya? She's with Wendy. Errr... Father's Wendy, not yours."
"What about any other kids?" Star asked.
Aurora smiled, "Lily and Nick are with us."
"Who's Lily and Nick? Are they twins?" Stanford asked.
Aurora shook her head, "They're babies. No."
"How is Will?" Mason asked.
Aurora sighed, "He's fine. He's a lot better than he was."
Aurora went back up the stairs, looking at the two oddly colored cats.
She was confused, "Uh... there are oddly colored cats in the living room!"
"I'll let the kitties explain what they're doing for Halloween!" Mabel giggled, giving both oddly colored cats some paper and pencils.
Aurora stared at the paper being held up by the blue furred kitten. She sighed, "Okay, I guess... I should have expected this from you, Will. I think Father would've done something more scary, though." She watched the yellow furred kitten hold up the paper, that read, "No scaring Blue." She laughed, "That makes a lot more sense." He made what looked like an annoyed face, before he angrily meowed at her. She sighed, backing away, "Alright! Alright! I'm sorry!"
Dipper laughed, walking over to her, he cupped his hands, and sat down, "He probably didn't like you laughing at him. Come, Gold!"
He ran towards Dipper, his tail in the air, before he sat in the center of Dipper's hands, meowing annoyingly.
"I'm assuming that's what we're calling them, incase anyone asks?" Aurora asked.
He meowed in agreement, making Aurora laugh. Dipper got back up, the yellow kitten still in his hand.
"Come here, Blue!" Mabel grinned, sitting down on the floor.
The light blue kitten frowned, looking up at the yellow kitten, before running to Mabel.
"Come on... don't be shy. Let Aurora hear you meow," Mabel smiled.
The light blue kitten meowed, and everyone cooed and awed at the adorable, high pitched, noise. The yellow kitten meowed in annoyance, before Dipper started to pet him, "You're adorable too, don't worry."
The light blue kitten started to paw at a strand of hair, that had fallen by Mabel's face. She laughed at this. The yellow kitten meowed, making the light blue one look at him, before he shook his head. The light blue kitten jumped away from Mabel, and the yellow kitten jumped off Dipper's hands. Both twins yelped, backed away, as the kittens both went towards each other, before walking out of the room.
A few minutes later, the two boys both walking into their room. One of them looking annoyed, and the other looking very happy.
"Last time I'm turning into a cat," He grumbled.
Will laughed, "It was fun, though!"
"No, it wasn't," He grimaced.
Aurora sighed, "What exactly are we going to do, since it's close to Halloween?"
"Actually... we're doing something different," Dipper smiled.
Aurora smiled, "A haunted house?"
"Yep. A haunted house," He grinned.
Aurora laughed, "Don't show them something too scary."
"Don't worry, we already know what we're doing," He laughed.
Aurora frowned, "We?"
"Will and I," He smiled.
Aurora nodded, "Alright, then."
Soos and Wendy had agreed to take the kids' trick-or-treating, while they were doing the haunted house.
Stan walked towards the front of the house, where a few teens and kids were waiting. Surprisingly, Gideon had decided to see what they had done to make it a haunted house.
"This better be good, old man," Gideon scowled, his arms against his chest.
Stan grinned, "It'll be good, don't you worry, buddy. Anyway, welcome to the haunted house! There are plenty of creatures in here, waiting to scare you! Come along now, and be quiet. We don't want to bother them, do we?"
The kids nervously laughed, shaking their heads, "No!"
"This is going to be dumb..." Gideon grumbled in annoyance.
Stan sighed, going into the shack, spiderwebs and lit pumpkins everywhere, as the only light.
Gideon scowled, noticing a blue fire in some of the lit pumpkins, "He's here, isn't he...?"
The two boys peaked out from behind the door.
He laughed, closing the door, "Alright, so Star Boy's here. This is going to be a lot more fun than I first thought."
"Why do you say that?" Will asked, frowning.
He grinned, "Well... Gideon is Mason's counterpart. So... we're going to scare him more than the others."
"... so that's why you asked to help light some of the pumpkins..." Will laughed.
He nodded, "Yep. To warn him. Okay, now we have to be quiet."
Stan opened the door, letting Gideon and the other kids and teens inside.
Ford, Dipper, and Mabel were in the room. They were all kind of doing their normal things... Ford was mixing chemicals (it was actually lemonade and koolaid), Dipper was reading out of a book, and Mabel was just laughing and being her weird self.
"October 31st, XXXX,
I forgot how much my power would peak on Halloween... I feel like Bill would've really liked this holiday. He'd probably like the scary stuff about it... but I just like the candy. It's been a while since I've hurt someone... but it was worth it." As Dipper read aloud, he spoke of an awfully bloody scene, but once he was close to being done, he looked up at the group, "Yet, the best part of all... is that everyone will know how that feels. Everyone who's ever angered me or my older brother."
Gideon gulped, before they all left for the next room.
Everyone went into the two boys' room, and Ford, Mabel, and Dipper followed them in curiosity.
The first thing they all saw, was Will... who was crying. Mabel frowned, wanting to hug him, but knowing that she shouldn't. She can't mess with what they were planning.
After getting annoyed by the crying, Gideon ended up walking towards him, and hugged him, "Can you shut up?"
"Gideon Gleeful... Leave him alone," He scowled, picking Will up from Gideon's grasp.
Gideon bit his lip, "Why should I?"
"Because you won't like what happens next if you don't," Will frowned.
Gideon smirked, "What are you going to do, little boy?"
"Leave me alone!" Will shouted, trying to get out of his grasp.
Gideon grinned, ignoring him, before facing Mabel, "How are you, m'lady?"
"Gideon..." Mabel frowned.
Gideon smiled, "Well? Why haven't you come running to me, yet? Aren't you tired of being alone?"
"Excuse me?" Will asked, glaring at him.
Gideon frowned, "This doesn't concern you. Her dating life doesn't matter to you."
"... Excuse you, but I am her fiancé," Will growled, "so... this does matter to me."
Gideon laughed, "Yet you're being held back by a demon, and you don't seem to care. Why?"
"Because he's my little brother. That's why he doesn't care," He grinned.
Gideon gulped, "Mabel... did you know about this?"
"Of course I knew about this. Why wouldn't I?" Mabel asked, before kissing Will, who blushed.
Gideon scowled, "I'm telling everyone about this."
"Star Boy..." He growled.
Gideon grinned, walking towards the vending machine, typing the code, before going down into the basement. The kids and teens there had already left, out of fear, so they were safe. They all followed Gideon down to the basement.
Gideon opened the door, letting Stanford, Star, and Mason out. Bill glared at Will in rage. Will sat down, looking at the floor.
Gideon smiled, "Well? Aren't you going to tell him?"
"... No..." Will whispered.
He scowled, "Tell me what, exactly?"
"Go on, show him," Gideon grinned.
Will nodded, before he closed his eyes, seemingly trying to do something, before he opened them again with a gasp, the burning blue chains out on display in front of him, connected to his wrists as handcuffs. Will immediately started crying. Mabel gasped, running up to him, hoping to comfort him.
He scowled, "Shooting Star... don't."
"...but..." Mabel frowned, looking over at Will.
He sighed, "Forget him. It doesn't matter."
"... wha-what?" Mabel asked, looking over at him.
Will frowned, "I'm sorry..."
"You'd really be sorry if you choose now," He scowled.
Will tilted his head in confusion, "What?"
"Choose. Mabel & I, or them," He growled.
Will looked down, "... I... don't want to choose..."
"Them, us, or the pills. How about that? Keep in mind, which ever you choose, The Axolotl will still go after you," He sighed.
Will bit his lip, "... If I go with the pills... then there will only be two left... and Mabel would get really upset... There were only two before... now there's three, but... the only girl is just a baby. It'd take a long time... but it'd be worth it..."
"She's not the only one. You know this," He looked down.
Will nodded, "I know... but still... She's the only girl that's been found."
"What are you talking about?" Ford, Dipper, and Mabel asked.
He sighed, "Nothing. It doesn't matter."
"Can you tell us, if it doesn't matter?" Mabel smiled.
Will sighed, "Fine. A long time ago, there were six singularities..."
"That's not the story, Blue," He grumbled.
Will smiled innocently, "Sorry. Anyway... this ha-" "-We're back!" Cosmo interrupted him, running into the room, holding his basket of candy.
"We got lots of candy!" River grinned happily, holding her basket of candy.
He smiled, "I assume you had fun?"
"Yeah!" Luna smiled.
Aurora paled, noticing Stanford.
"Hello, my dear," Stanford smiled.
Ford scowled, glaring at his reverse self, before stomping over to him, "Are you insane? She's our daughter, you monster!"
"She's not my daughter. Besides, you're probably just jealous," Stanford grinned.
Ford growled, "Why you..."
"Stop! Dad, please!" Aurora frowned, "I love him, alright? There's nothing either of you can do to stop it!"
Ford sighed, "He's still a monster."
"... I know... but I still like him. Besides, I'm not abandoning Oliver, like you did with me," Aurora scowled.
Ford bit his lip, but also held his tongue.
Aurora sighed, "That's what I thought."
"... Gold..." Will spoke up.
He glared at him, "What?"
"... lla uoy llik em ekam lliw yeht taht deracs m'I," Will admitted.
He sighed, "...wonk I"
Everyone else was awfully confused as to what they were saying.
"... wait..." Dipper stopped, before sighing, closing his eyes, trying to remember something, "?gniyas uoy era tahW"
He scowled, "woH"
"... yrros m'I" Will frowned.
He sighed, ".retal nialpxE"
"... lliw I," Will sighed.
Mason scowled, "Before we go... Will... one last thing..."
"Y-yes?" Will asked.
Star smiled, "We want to make a deal with your older brother."
"W-what? Are... are you insane?!" Will shouted, startled.
Stanford laughed, "Maybe. However... there is one thing I want to mention before we begin." Stanford turned to him, "If you DARE try to twist the deal, we WILL torture him endlessly and you will NEVER see him again. Understand?"
"B-billy..." Will whimpered, scared.
He sighed, before nodding, "Alright, I understand."
"Okay... so here's our deal... we get to keep him, and we can do what we want with him, but you can talk to him," Mason offered.
He scowled, "That's not a good deal, you know... and it's vague."
"Oh yeah? You think you can do better?" Star challenged.
He grinned, "How about this... you can keep him, and do what you want with him, and in return... I won't attempt to hurt you, or try to get Aurora come back home."
"Please..." Will frowned.
Mabel frowned, "Why are you doing this?"
"Deal."