Disclaimer: Woo! Good news, everyone! I finally finished Bendy-until chapter 5's release in October or something-and I can fully focus on rewriting GFA's chapters! More content, better phrasing, and it will all be as fast as work will allow me to write! Sequel will still be far out, but now the writing can officially begin!

Hourglass Cipher: With two creatures that wouldn't be able to be seen by anyone else, they're forced to talk. The odd relationship with them was a blast to plan out.

Luckygurrl12: Well, you're gonna love this chapter then!

RainbowCelin: Hope you enjoy it!

If anyone's curious, the chapter length will increase with the AUs that span several chapters. For ones that are starting out/setting the scene, they're a decent starting pace.

"Speaking"

Thinking

Everything was... dark. Dark, and cold, and oddly enough... damp? Why's it damp? The surroundings didn't just confuse me, it also mixed with my feelings of absolute pain. Hurt, and torture; like the body itself was on fire from within. As if I had been dug into by wild animals, or was in a massive fire. Giving a whimper, I wearily blinked, letting my brain catch up with my body. Huh... that explains the damp part.

I was in a cave, possibly near a coastline, since there was small sand dunes around the rocky crops. So I was definitely not in my room, and-why the heck was I looking like some action heroine!? What was with all the bruises and scratches and blood!? Ow! The sand's irritating my cuts! "This is just a-you're dreaming, Elaine," I muttered quickly, trying to still my speeding heart. It wasn't like I had awoken far from my home, right? There were plenty of cliffs not that far off from my house, since we weren't too off from the ocean. I just... I just fell asleep by accident. Y-yeah. Fell asleep at the beach, which explained why I was still in a tank top and shorts.

"Now... how do I get out of here?" Standing up and supporting myself on the wall due to how weak my legs were, I surveyed the area. Holes in the cave's ceiling let in beams of sunlight, bathing a wrecked sailboat in a glow. Starfish, shells, and seaweed littered the sand, and small pebbles crunched under my feet as I neared the ship. The cave got deeper the farther you went, and it must have entered through the hole I saw across the water. The red boat was half stranded on the shore, with a ripped sail, and missing its back half. It was a large ship, with a cabin judging from the porthole on the side. It was a mess, but it was pretty impressive.

"Cool," I said, giving a small laugh. I took a few more steps to get a better look, until a bright light illuminated me from behind. Freezing, I whirled around to find two young boys, not that much older than my sister walking down the path where I came from. One had a tooth missing, a striped red and white shirt, jeans, and a bandage stuck to his chin. The other wore glasses, a brown coat with a light brown collar, a white shirt, and olive green pants. Are they... twins? Besides a few faint differences, they looked almost the same. Same basic facial structure, same brown hair. "Uh... hi?"

The glasses boy gasped, surprised by seeing someone else inside the cave, and dashed towards me. "Are you alright, miss? You're bleeding!" Oh, so it wasn't because of me being a random stranger. His brother followed suit, equally taken aback by my appearance. Did I really look that bad?

"I, uh, n-no. I don't really know how I got here." I scratched my head, trying to play off my situation casually. I didn't need to scare these kids away. As of right now, they were my only chance at getting some assistance. "I just woke up not that long ago."

"Maybe she fell through the top," the other kid suggested, looking to the ceiling. As his eyes followed the sunbeam, I could see the wonder as he locked onto the ship. "Whoooaa... Ford, look at that!"

Glasses, or Ford as his brother called him, peered around me. "A shipwrecked sailboat, possibly haunted by pirate ghosts!" He exclaimed.

"This is the greatest thing I've ever seen! And I've once seen a dead rat floatin' in a bucket!" I stuck out my tongue at the idea, while Ford pushed him teasingly.

"Ha ha ha, ew, what's wrong with you?" Remembering their audience, Ford turned to look back up at me. "Sorry, guess we should introduce ourselves. I'm Stanford, but he calls me Ford," he pointed at his brother.

"Stanley, but he calls me Lee," the twin added, pointing back. Stanley and Stan... ford? N-no way. No way. Those were the names o-of the uncles in Gravity Falls. That was just a coincidence. People name children, especially twins, with similarities all the time. Heck, I even knew a pair of boys a year younger than me with strikingly similar names starting with a D. N-nothing odd about this, right...!?

"I'm Elaine. Elaine Milton," I finally addressed myself, managing to keep my voice from stuttering. I held out a hand, but immediately retracted it when I saw my pale palm was stained in red. Ford seemed to realize the severity of my injuries, and turned to his twin.

"Lee, maybe we should come back for the boat later. She needs help." Lee gave a hard look behind him at the boat, with what was clearly a young child's adventure paradise, then to me. Me, who was barely thinking straight from blood loss and being supported by two kids. His eyes softened, and nodded as his expression was set once again. "I'll get one arm, you get the other."

"Wait, what? Uh, guys, you don't have to-" Ford and Lee didn't let me finish, taking each scarred limb and throwing it over their shoulders. I had small drops of blood still leaking from them, but they didn't either notice or were too wrapped up in getting me out. They didn't even care that I was leaking over their shirts. As a unit, they began to lead me back towards where they entered, and I saw a smashed hole in wooden boards covering up the entrance. They broke in? As we neared the beach on the other side, and more warm sunlight crept over us, I glanced at each boys' determined face. But when I went from Lee to Ford, I noticed something that... that finally made it all click.

Six fingers. Stanford had six fingers, tightly gripped around my arm to keep it in place. Lee and Ford... six fingers and a... boat. Holy-the Stan O' War. I-I was in Glass Shard Beach. I was in the Pines' past, decades off from the series, and... I wasn't in Cana-I wasn't remotely anywhere near home.

I wasn't in my own dimension.

"Elaine, are you alright? You look like you're going to faint." I blinked, fighting back the urge to either panic-vomit, pass out, scream, or some combination of the three, and shakily turned back to Lee. That boy... Stan Pines. Conman, Mystery Shack owner, and the greatest uncle Dipper and Mabel ever ha-err... would ever have. How could someone so coarse just... be so adorable right now?

"I-I'm fine. Just... just let's get me fixed up, huh?" The twins' voices turned to whispers, discussing what to do next, as my consciousness finally began to let up on me. My head slumped forward, and I felt the twins quickly grip tighter on my arms to keep me from falling. All I could make out was something about a pawn shop. I guessed that made sense. If anyone was going to help me, it'd be there parents. But still... I'm... in a different dimension and in the 1960s. I'm... gonna live through their rift and the portal. Oh, sweet potato pie, I was so screwed.

And that's that. I only have four more ideas as of right now to write about before I ask you which stories you would like to see more of.

One: the darker take of the Weirdmageddon finale that everyone wanted to see when I announced it in chapter 70-something of Gravity's Fallen Angel. When I post a chapter in GFA itself announcing the sequel's almost ready-which still is really far out-I'll say where that's posted. A lot of readers were interested in seeing how that would go, and it would be wise of me to direct them here.

Two: Elaine ends up in the Nightmare Realm, but it's at the start of Bill's exile. It would be a little like how Elaine ended up there in chapter 1 of the anthology, but with this, Bill is still somewhat mentally stable. He hasn't been corrupted yet, and we would have the two of them stuck in the crawlspace of the multiverse alone together until the other demons arrive.

Three: Elaine travels across the multiverse, going to a vast amount of different dimensions alongside Ford as he prepares to defeat Bill.

Four: Elaine, as mentioned in Dipper and Mabel vs the Future, wished to take a major in computer science to build a fantasy video game franchise. In this AU, which takes place in her own world, Elaine has a Bill-oriented program on her laptop that inserted itself without cause or reason. Imagine Monika from DDLC.

Well, that's all I have to say. I didn't go into detail the last time I listed the options, but that's because some of these ideas needed explanation.

Until next time!

Angel