Slices of Life and Family

by bluefrostyy

PART 3 of The life of Sebastian Pines! (Read that first, I doubt you'll understand what's going on) The story follows Seb's life after Gravity Falls. Bill was defeated, but the Pines family still have thousands of adventures together. Old characters will come back, new characters will make an appearance, all to accompany Seb through his journey as a human (Cowritten with Mizuuma)

42. Ch 41 Mini adventures and mini surprises

This chapter is very interesting! Hope you like it!

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(This section takes during spring 2019, before the 'Max is banished' time period, which happened in the summer of 2019.)

MizBill was incredibly clingy to Melody during her pregnancy and even more so when little Maria was born at the beginning of 2019. She was amazed by the whole thing. Sure, she'd Seen plenty of people pregnant, and even been there for Pyronica's pregnancy. And sure, Miz had been rather terrified of the idea, but that was a long time ago. Well, she was still rather intimidated by the idea of it, but she couldn't help her fascination with it.

And for even more of a coincidence, every time she went into town, she saw a pregnant woman! They were everywhere! Little lives growing inside, glowing faintly in a way that she couldn't help but stare at. This was torturing her! Was everyone in town getting pregnant just to drive her (more) insane? Even Linda was-

She...she wanted babies...She really wanted babies. The...getting pregnant thing didn't scare her as much anymore, she...was actually drawn to it in some morbid way. A want to see what the big deal was. A want to experience something new. (Just like Melody said, new experiences for the sake of growing up and becoming an adult!) Even if it was kind of scary. Fordsie knew this and he said he'd help find a way so she could have children without the nasty part…(She wasn't even expecting him to be the father or anything, he wasn't into that and she wasn't going to force this on him! She just needed him to help her figure out how to have babies on her own.) But he hadn't brought up the subject in a while...Sigh.

Adoption was fine, she would gladly adopt all the babies! But they would just… well, she didn't really want a human baby. They were so fragile. And their lifespans were even shorter than a Cyclopian. A shape baby was fragile, but Shapes didn't age like most creatures.

The only thing limiting a Shape's lifespan was their size/age. Once they grew too big, they collapsed under their own weight as their sides gave out. But if they were like Ammy…

Ammy didn't grow bigger, he just grew a new block. It was still a type of aging, but his blocks were small, and he could detach them as much as he wanted. So they weren't an issue for him in terms of growing too big/old. Meaning that in terms of his biology, Ammy was effectively immortal so long as any of his blocks remained, even if one or two were destroyed.

But Ammy had been a miraculous accident. Bill had even tried ejecting more Pieces into the Nightmare Realm and nothing came of them. They simply crumpled into dust after a while.

So making her own baby was going to be a different thing to sort out. And Fordsie said he would help.

Sigh...well, she'd just have to wait then…

-.-

(Around November 2019)

"And then after being worried about them for months, we saw the plantimals crawl out of the ground and Ford, I swear Sir Bedazzle and Queen Flutter have full ears and tails now! They look like, almost a real dog and cat!" Xin laughed. He was sitting on Ford's lap as the man typed down the information. He was getting bit by bit convinced to start using laptops, it was one of Fiddleford's, so it was incredible and customized for Ford's comfort, but Ford still liked his old Journals better. "This is incredible! And are you sure you didn't know?"

"Well, when the plantimals started trying to escape to the park and burying themselves under the ground I knew they wanted to hibernate...but I never thought they would evolve like a BackPack Monster!" Seb had wailed about it, how the plantimals were bigger now and how much trouble it was, but Xin knew Seb was relieved that they were safe. Xin leaned back, put his head on Ford's chest and grinned at Ford from his position. "The twins are really happy about them though…" He shyly, almost tentatively, reached a hand to stroke Ford's strong jawline. Ford blushed but smiled a little. Their...dating consisted of this. Xin had admitted to himself that he liked Stanford, and for his part Ford understood that while he didn't feel a physical attraction for Xin (or Yun or Miz) like the demon did towards him (though MizBill claimed it was an aesthetic attraction and not sexual, even if the distinction was hard for Ford to really understand. Apparently it was also different from emotional attraction or romantic attraction. Ford could feel his head spin at all the different terms), Ford was still quite clearly attracted to him, to MizBill's self, and he absolutely loved spending time with him (no matter the form or persona). He liked seeing him and, even when he wouldn't admit it out loud as often as MizBill did, Ford enjoyed when he/she stroked his face and petted his hair. Ford also loved when they held hands. And he couldn't help the pleasant shivers whenever Yun or Xin caressed his hands. It felt different when Miz did it, Ford found his feelings towards her to be different from that of Xin or Yun. Simply put, Ford wasn't into children, and Miz told him that's a good thing. Still, Ford got plenty of sensual cuddling with Yun and Xin.

They were really close without actually taking that next step that people always said they should do in their relationship. Because they were happy with this decision, because neither of them wanted that sort of thing (aside from Bill's mild longing to play with and touch Ford's body because he was curious. He wouldn't do that without Ford's consent though.) They didn't feel any need to go further in physical intimacy beyond cuddles. So Xin simply had his fill of intimacy by pressing himself into Ford's crevices, against his chest, hanging off his back, wrapped around his arm, tucked under his chin, laying over his lap...

"And you know what else happened?" Xin asked. Ford raised an eyebrow. "No, what else?"

"We saw a tree growing in the yard a few days ago, just where the plantimals buried themselves. I'm waiting for it to grow to know what we can harvest."

They laughed when Xin showed him a picture of Seb holding the two plantimals. Ford let out a soft gasp. They really HAD tails and ears now! Sir Bedazzle even had a little nose! "Ok! We've procrastinated enough! Let's work!" Xin jumped off Ford's lap to put on a lab coat and goggles to start working. They had talked with some of the other scientists about what to do about the declining environment. Stanford looked at Xin dutifully revising their procedure before starting to work on the experiment. They were building a cloud machine, to try and create rainfall for areas in drought. Xin had mentioned how they could use the planet's own winds and movements to seed clouds in an area to be carried off overseas. Ford remembered the discussions Xin had with Dr. Jeremy over in the Meteorology department, and smiled at the memory. He liked how Xin and Yun were actually working together with the rest of his staff now. He cast a look at his blue journal before closing his eyes. "Xin?"

"Yes, Fordsie?" Xin asked, not looking up from his work.

Ford took a deep breath. They had been 'partners' for a while now (both in the lab and in their personal life), and the topic about 'gimme babies' had been haunting him for a while. But he thought he finally had an idea.

"Bill," Ford said, catching Xin's attention. Fordsie normally avoided calling him Bill (even though Bill secretly wanted him to. And Ford had noticed that, so he would sometimes say it, when the two were alone.) "I was thinking on how you-er-reproduce, and how you've been wanting babies for a while...And…" At Xin's shocked face (and the test tube with the blue liquid spilling over the table), Ford took a deep breath. "I think I have an idea of how you can have babies."

"Oh…" Xin wiggled from side to side and grinned softly. "You-you have?"

Ford nodded professionally. "Yes. I was thinking...Your...Bill form… you once told me your species-" He coughed, his face bright red. "Your species has some kind of… egg that is incubated… and…" he trailed off.

Xin cleaned the mess he made and stared at Ford wide-eyed. "What you mean is… I should put a piece in an incubator?" As opposed to just burying it in the Nightmare Realm? Well, he hadn't considered that, wanting to infuse the Piece with Weirdness in some hope of creating someone similar to Ammy.

Ford made a so-so gesture. "Well, I was thinking that your magic would make it easier… We could keep watch here in the center… for-for science?"

Xin sighed. For science generally was an acceptable response for all sorts of crazy things they did. Like altering a Cow-owl to produce ice cream instead of milk. But…

"I've already tried that, Fordsie, tried incubating it in the Nightmare Realm like Ammy but nothing came of it." Xin pouted. They simply didn't seem to develop at all.

Ford stroked his chin. "Yes but...you...biologically possess an actual...incubator for your piece."

Xin frowned before his eyes widened as he got what Ford was implying. "Wait. You mean…" His hand hovered over his belly. "You're saying I should grow my piece in… myself ?" Xin whispered.

Ford winced a little and nodded, his face going red. "That's...the only thing I have been able to think of...that could actually work for you...And you can flow weirdness to the piece yourself so it's a less fragile Shape Baby."

Xin really thought about it.

"Well...Flowing weirdness directly might work better...And...no one would know about it if I use my Bill form." He grimaced. "I… never really tried that before. And it's… kinda scary to think about… but…" he thought back to the pregnant women he's seen around town and how happy they all looked about it. How much they were pampered by the people around them. Melody had looked so happy when she was rubbing her own belly during her pregnancy. Xin thought about it. "Don't really wanna do it as a triangle though…" he muttered under his breath.

...Bill really hadn't done much study on his own shape anatomy. He looked up at Ford, who was trying very hard to sink into the ground in embarrassment over the suggestion and sighed. Well, why not?

"Yeah… I think that could actually work...Inserting the piece will be...very scary though…" Xin pouted. Ford stared at him.

"Huh? I was thinking you'd just put it there, by… uh, teleporting it." Ford clarified and the dragon smiled. That was a better idea! Well, teleporting things inside himself wasn't something he's really tried all that often, but he had lots of experience with teleporting food into people's stomachs. So this shouldn't be all that different.

"I'd just… like to study the Piece first?" Ford asked, trying to hide how curious he was about it.

Xin snorted. "Of course you do, neeeeerd~But shoo! Need to do this on my own."

Ford didn't understand what Xin meant. His clueless face made Xin roll his eyes. Xin crossed his arms, his long tail twitching.

"You want to watch me get myself off, or what?" Xin blushed.

Ford flushed as he finally got what Xin was implying. He nodded. "I will leave. You...do your...thing…" he said awkwardly before he headed out of his lab. As soon as Ford was gone, Xin had to sigh. Well...time to try and arouse himself...it was easier now that no one was in the room. (Even though a part of him almost wanted Ford to watch.) He shifted back into his triangle form and opened a screen displaying a live feed from the very lewd-ish world he created a while back (which was something he learned to do, with some experimentation, opening Screens to See what was happening even on the other side of a Door, so long as it was a place he knew intimately enough to connect into it) and stared at it with interest.

Ooh…

Meanwhile, outside the lab, Ford was leaning against the door to his lab with a bright red face. Why had he suggested this?! He groaned into his hands. One of the other scientists walked by. "Dr. Pines? What are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm just giving my partner some privacy." Ford sighed. Dr. Wexler blinked before deciding not to ask and hurried off. Ford leaned against the door and heard faint sounds coming from inside. He pressed his ear against the door, curious what was going on. It sounded like…

"Oh my god! I really need to check on them more often! I wasn't expecting THIS." Some faint shuffling sounds.

Ford had no idea what Bill was talking about but the whining sounds made him pull his ear away and cover his face again. He jumped when a loud thumping sound came from inside his lab. It sounded again and again, a heavy, rhythmic thumping interspersed with loud moans. Ford whimpered. Maybe this was a bad idea.

Finally he heard a crashing sound and some grunts before a loud "FUCK!" and then he fell over when the door opened, Ford blinked up at Xin, looking a little disheveled. "I got it." He held up a flat yellow disc. Ford got off the ground and saw his lab in mild disarray. Xin closed the door and waved his hands to fix the place. "Sorry. I got a little...too into it."

"It-It's fine! Ford squeaked before coughing and repeating in a deeper voice. "No. It is fine." he tried to look unruffled, but the idea of what went on in his lab was a little… well, Ford knew he gave Xin permission to go do it, but it was still a little weird.

He coughed. "Anyway, thank you very much for allowing my selfish request." Xin poked Ford's nose. "Yeah, whatever. I'm gonna go get some lunch, be back in a few. Have fun studying my Piece." Ford laughed. "Alright, bring some food back for me too?" he joked, knowing Xin was going to do that regardless. The dragon snorted. "Of course! There's this new restaurant in France with some really nice bread that I wanted to check out. So prepare yourself for some yumminess!" Ford laughed as the dragon Blinked away.

Now that he was alone, Ford looked down at the yellow disc. Well, it was yellow. As Ford stared at it, the disc was losing color, turning transparent. Fascinating. It looked much like a CD. He walked over to his lab bench and traced the edges of the disc with a finger, wincing when he realized that due to the thinness, it was quite sharp.

"Ow!" He hissed and pulled his finger away. Oh damn, he cut himself quite hard with it! He held onto his finger with his free hand as blood slid down his hand faster than he anticipated, dropping onto the table and the piece.

Ford was going to pull away but...he noticed that the blood that had dripped onto the disc had been...absorbed? Curious, he placed his bleeding finger onto the smooth surface and watched as the disc sucked up even more of his blood, changing color mildly from transparent to a reflective silvery color. Now it looked even more like a CD, but without the hole in the middle.

How interesting. Ford wondered why it did that! It was acting like a sponge but the surface was smooth. Maybe their shell was made of an absorbent material? (It was, as a Piece was meant to absorb nutrients from their parent to begin gathering the raw material to grow and develop) He hadn't seen MizBill absorbing anything through her yellow shape though (not that he got to see their triangle form all that often)...He...He should...take-take notes...Ford groaned and used his wrist to massage his temples as both his hands were covered in blood. He looked down and saw his finger had been on top of the disk, getting its blood sucked away. It was...making him feel very dizzy.

Ford frowned a little as he thought. He was sure he didn't cut himself THAT bad! Right? He shook his head, finally lifted his finger off and stumbled out of his lab to get some bandages. Curse himself for not listening to Yun about this!

After he left, there was a knock on the door and the new intern came in, he was assigned to one of the other scientists but all the Interns were supposed to check in with him or Fiddleford every few days, for security reasons. And Ford had asked for him to drop off some papers. "Dr. Pines? I have those printouts you wanted…" the teenager looked around. Oh, looks like Dr. Pines stepped out for a bit. He put the papers down and made to leave when his eyes were caught by a glimmer.

He glanced over and saw a CD. That's weird. He was sure Dr. Pines didn't use any computer stuff. He knew the man was starting to test out computers...oh. A laptop.

The intern (Andy) went over and slid the disc into the CD drive, curious as to what it would be…Though he found out it was the worst idea he could have had. The computer screen began glitching out and making odd sounds, which made him start to panic. "Oh no! Nonono! What do I do?!" Andy cried before running off, "DOCTOR PINES!"

Andy ran around the research center screaming until he finally found the man eating a cream puff in the cafeteria with his partner as the dragon bandaged Ford's hand. "I told you to refill the first aid kit!" Xin scolded. "Really, I come back from France to see you bleeding out…" Andy ran towards his boss, sobbing his eyes out. He even fell to his knees to explain what happened and to beg for forgiveness. "You put my ONLY SAMPLE in a computer CD drive?!" Ford pulled his hair as he all but screeched , and the intern flinched. "I thought it was a CD, Dr. Pines!" The poor young man cried (only realizing afterwards that there was no hole in the middle of that disc). "You shouldn't have been messing with my work to begin with!" Ford thundered even as he rushed out of the room.

Xin gasped and followed.

The two went back to the lab. His laptop was still making unusual sounds as colors and distorted text flashed across the monitor. He pressed the eject button multiple times but it didn't seem to be working. Frustrated, Ford picked up his computer and shook it. The whirring sound got worse but Ford smacked the side of the laptop to try and jostle the piece out.

Xin grimaced. "Be careful!"

"Come. On. Just. Get. Out!" He slapped his laptop and the piece finally slid out.

Ford didn't have time to be relieved, he desperately reached for the piece but it slipped between his fingers (why even have 6 of them if NONE would be helpful to grab things?!) and hit the ground, where it shattered.

Xin and him let out equally panicked screams. "Oh no!" Ford bent down to try and pick up the pieces, cutting himself a few more times and wincing.

"Dammit Fordsie!" Xin made him stop and waved a hand to float up the rest of the shards into a nearby petri dish. "Fuck it, just gonna heal you. Is that ok?" Ford nodded and felt his cuts closing up as his fingers stopped stinging.

"It's just a piece. In a week or so I'll just grow another. I don't want you hurting yourself over it, geez." Xin sighed, holding Ford's hands gingerly, making sure those precious limbs were ok.

Ford was still staring at the shards. The pieces were...were they pulsing? "Uh...Xin…" He nodded at the petri dish.

The broken pieces had felt...warm...in his hands. Were they alive?! Bill did say it was something like an egg… Ford was terrified that he had accidentally killed the piece (?), Ford gasped. Eggs needed warmth, right?!

"Xin! Look! We need to put them in an incubator now!"

Xin blinked. He picked up one of the pieces before pausing. "Wait, should I do that as Bill or…"

"I-I don't know?!" Ford gasped. Xin looked at the shard he was holding. And then looked at the others. "I don't think they'll fit inside my Slot now…" he realized. There wouldn't be enough room. Also, he'd have to stay in Bill's form for the duration to incubate them. And he couldn't do that-

"I'll just have to use a humanoid form." Xin shrugged. He held the piece in his hand as it glowed faintly (absorbing his Weirdness) and held it over his stomach.

"XIN! You have a male body!" Ford cried, completely shocked at what Xin almost did. He shuddered faintly. How would that even work?!

Xin blinked. "Oh right, don't have a womb right now." he said sheepishly. Wait, Yun's got a working womb. And she's a form that he could stay in without issue. Wow, looks like he was panicking more than he thought, if he wasn't thinking clearly like this. He shifted into Yun and gathered up the other shards, feeling each of them pulse at the new energy they were taking in. Xin and Yun might be the same entity, but their energies felt subtly different. The first shard was still pulsing with Xin's energy, while these others more resembled Yun.

Oh gosh, she was doing it...she was doing it right now! "Ok… so… just need to…" Yun furrowed her brows as she formed a little bubble to place the shards into, and then placed it against her belly. And Ford watched as the bubble, with the shards, began sinking into her. Phasing through her clothes and skin until it was inside her. As they were very small, the bump was barely noticeable. Yun shivered. "Oh, that's so weird. Oh… fuck…" she placed her hands on her belly, suddenly rather anxious about all this. She was pregnant now. Oh shit. Oh fuck. What had she been thinking? She- she couldn't do this-

"Yun, breathe!" Ford placed his hands over hers. "L-look, if you really can't do this, you don't have to! Don't push yourself!"

Yun shuddered, gasping for air and pressing her fingers into her abdomen. "I-I-I…" she closed her eyes, feeling the heart-like organ in this vessel race. Oh, this was terrifying. She was pregnant. B-but she didn't want to back down. She wanted to experience this. To finally know , firsthand, what this was like. She wanted to experience it. To learn, and grow and mature. "I can do this!" she said, more to reassure herself. She was scared. But she wanted to stop being scared of things she didn't know anything about. She wanted to learn and grow. She had to. So she could grow as a person.

This was something she'd decided for herself.

"I can… do this." Yun repeated, a little more calmly now. Her hands reached up, clinging to Ford and pulling him close to herself. "B-but I want you here for me to do this, with me." she almost begged. Ford wrapped himself around her in a hug. "Oh course I'm going to be here." he leaned his forehead down to press against hers. "I'm right here. You can do this."

And Yun felt a little of the fear abade. Just a little.

And she felt the pulsing inside her, resting one of her hands right above it. Over her belly.

Oh void, she was going to have a baby.

Ford patted her head. "It'll be ok, you'll do great with them!"

Yun giggled nervously. "Them, huh? So it's gonna be more than one?" Ford blinked, realizing his slip. "W-wait! Are they actually going to be separate babies? O-or a segmented shape like Ammy?"

Yun shrugged, "Actually, I'm sure the pieces will just join together, you know? To form an irregular. Ammy was a Piece that had broken into different pieces after all. So, irregular." Which was even better than a circle baby, in her opinion.

"Like...like Ammy?"

"Yeah! They're gonna be just fine like him! I can't wait to tell him that he's gonna be a big brother again!" Yun giggled, still rather hysterically.

Ford remembered the alien...He wouldn't describe Ammy as 'fine'. He winced at the idea of another Ammy. He secretly hoped the new child wouldn't resemble their older sibling in terms of personality. He really hoped so.

They didn't tell anyone until some months later. Their Christmukka with the family (and Max's first winter as a human) raised suspicion because of her Yun form being all bundled up in thick sweaters, but she managed to bullshit quite well. She didn't want to tell people until she knew for sure the baby was going to actually live. She was terrified of a miscarriage, having never done this before. But she could feel the pulsing from inside her. It was so scary and thrilling at the same time.

They were so careful that even their housemates didn't know. (Well, they thought Soos and Melody didn't know. In truth, it was very noticeable.)

Ford seemed to be excited about the Shape baby too. "I raised Shifty, I can help you with your kid!" He declared proudly.

"Didn't he try murdering you and Fiddleford?" Yun raised an eyebrow.

"..." Ford fell silent. "...You know what? You-You'll do fine on your own." He laughed sheepishly and tucked his hands under his armpits. Fine, so Shifty didn't end up growing into a good person. So sue him.

He was writing an entry about her pregnancy though. So far, the weird things happening for her were WAY MORE cravings than normal. Yun was ravenous . And even sending another vessel as Xin off to the Island wasn't really doing it for her. Her energy was fine, but it was like her body craved food, craved nutrients. She was devouring everything and anything that was left near her. Not just food, she even crunched up some nuts and screws that Ford had left on his workbench while they were working in his lab. She had been reaching for the bowl of chips and missed, but hadn't even noticed the difference until Ford began freaking out.

Her belly was also growing bigger than a normal pregnancy for the amount of time that had passed (which was fine because it wasn't a normal pregnancy) It was making this harder to hide without a perception filter. Walking was getting harder too. And Ford was worried now. "Shapes are small, you… shouldn't be getting this big…" he pointed out.

"It's fineee~" Yun groaned. Ugh. Her back...It's only been three months! Why was her belly so large? She couldn't quite hide the swell in her belly anymore, especially with how slim Yun's vessel was. Everyone thought she was gaining weight from eating so much. She considered using a perception filter, but decided against it.

Ford wanted an echography, just to be sure the baby was doing ok, being in a different type of womb than they were supposed to be. And also to see what the fuck was happening in there.

"Don't you think a doctor would freak out if they saw an alien in me?" Yun deadpanned.

Ford scratched his head. "We could bribe the Center's medical wing to let us use the equipment. They already know you're an alien."

Yun grinned largely. "Foooordsie~ You're baad~ I love it! Let's do it!" She tried jumping but her belly stopped her. Ooww!

As they made their way to the clinic, the gossiping four narrowed their eyes, suspicious as hell.

"30 dollars, she's pregnant." Dr. Clark deadpanned. "She's been hiding in huge clothes for a while. And eating more than usual." The rest of them didn't even bother trying to bet against him.

"...60 dollars they're having twins." Dr. Wexler couldn't believe she agreed with Clark, but it wasn't a very well kept secret, since practically everyone working here was sure that Ford's girlfriend was pregnant. And the fact that they were using the ecography equipment (Dr. Betty Brewster snitched on them when they asked to borrow it) only solidified that thought.

Once Ford and Yun had the ecography room for themselves, Yun heavily laid down on the bed as Ford searched for the things they needed. To be honest...she was excited. The first month she practically forgot about it until a month later when she could see the bump. She didn't want to see what the echography showed, one part of her wanted it to be a surprise! But another one was itching to know! And she hadn't dared to See for herself. Seeing inside herself didn't work very well. She laid her hands on her belly, which was… actually a lot larger than she thought. Yun winced. She hadn't really noticed since the growth was gradual, but… it was protruding out nearly a half foot. Yun blinked. How had she not noticed how big she'd grown?! Well, yes, her clothes didn't fit. She had just… ignored the changes happening to her body...

"Me and Fiddleford received a letter from the CDC, after the first case of covid reached the country." Ford said conversationally as he found the gel and squeezed a whole lot over her bare belly. Bbrr! Cold! She shivered as he rubbed her swollen belly.

"They wanted to know how dangerous it actually was. From what we know, it's not so different from pneumonia, right?" Ford continued. People weren't all that worried at the moment, what's another new disease popping up? Triple E was a thing everyone panicked about over the summer, there was that ebola thing a few years before, and this was just yet another new thing for the masses to panic over. That was what people thought at the moment.

"To be honest, viruses are the worst. I can't understand them very well. But don't worry, I'll protect y'all if things go for the worst. As long as people wash their hands and keep their distance from each other…" Yun shrugged. "If we get a sample, I can study it."

Ford laughed and rubbed the device over her belly before he looked into the monitor. "Also, the fire in the amazon is… worrying." he sobered at that thought. Yun Flickered and winced. "No shit. I can send Xin down to try and put it out?" Ford understood her question to be one asking for permission to do so. He thought about it. "Yes. That would be good. But don't let anyone see you." Yun nodded at that, tilting her head back and Flickering more to get the details on what was going on. And then she got mad. Because the fire wasn't some naturally occurring wildfire from neglecting to clear underbrush like in the west coast USA, this was deliberate arson.

"I've been contacted by some other institutes to ask if the Center can take in some of the injured animals."

"They're sending them all the way up here too?" Yun gasped. She frowned as she continued Looking. "...guess I'm setting up islands for the animals too…" or maybe just a Glade that had a rain forest-type of environment.

"...I confess, I haven't been really Looking around recently." Yun muttered. "Because everything is awful and I've been wanting to not stress out." But that was selfish of her. Because so many things needed fixing.

"That… might be a good idea actually." Ford blinked. "I'm worried about some of the species that are native only to the amazon going extinct from habitat loss. But I don't want you stressing yourself out while you're pregnant."

Yun was frowning as she continued looking around. The amazon had been burning for a while. Why was news only reaching here now? She also did a Look around and found more places on fire. Also… she started getting worried when she actually got a look at what was happening in China. Specifically, that virus ravaging the population.

This… wasn't good at all...

Unaware of Yun's thoughts, Ford continued, "With the deforestation and yet more carbon released into the atmosphere, I'm starting to think that we need some way to get more trees to combat it…" he patted Yun's belly, snapping her out of her thoughts. "Those plantimals you made can photosynthesize, right?"

"Ah… yeah. They're pretty good at that. Leave sugar water everywhere if we don't take them out to the yard for a 'walk'."

"I'd like to study them sometime. See if maybe I can find a way to reverse engineer their effects to create clean oxygen." Yun shrugged at that, still feeling a little unsettled by what was happening elsewhere in the world. Ford went back to moving the device around.

"Ok let's see...I...don't see any Shape...Where are...they…" Ford moved the device lower and his breath was taken away.

"Y-Yun…"

Now she was a little worried. "What's wrong?" She couldn't see from here.

"Uh...Ok so...Or...Well...I think the baby is...made up of a bunch of human parts…?"

"HUH?!"

Yun made the monitor move towards herself and snatched the device from Ford. He MUST be seeing things wrong. "There! There's a human head and a whole body in there you dumbass. It's not some disembodied limbs-" She groaned in exasperation. And then she shot up in bed. "Wait one fuckin' second! WHY is there a HUMAN baby in there?" She frowned. She moved the device from side to side. And another...and another… "There's… more than one human baby in there…" she said weakly.

Why were there so many? Four...six...maybe seven forms...and all of them had little hands and legs and heads...Whywhywhywhywhy? They were also developed! It's only been 3 months! Each of them looked to only be the size of a banana but there were so many of them- and… they were going to get bigger.

Ford stared at the monitor, wide eyed and gaping. "What...happened to the pieces?"

"I don't know! Why did they turn human?! I-I thought they were going to be one Shape baby!" Yun cried. And where THE HELL was the bubble she put them INTO? It must have popped at some point. These fetuses were- They were in her uterus! Connected to a placenta even!

"Ford. What happened. Theory. Now." Yun gasped, unable to think clearly.

Ford pulled at his fingers. "Uh...Your body plus the weirdness energy your vessel has… might have changed the pieces into a humanoid vessel as well? To… match your own vessel? Uh, the pieces might have acted like some sort of fertilized egg that settled in… your… body and went through an...accelerated process of embryonic development?"

Yun was holding her belly, finally really thinking about how large it was. She hadn't really thought about it, was sort of trying to ignore it, really. "Okay… maybe. I-I mean… oh shit. How…" those fetuses, even with how developed they were, weren't fully grown yet. "How big am I going to get?!" she gasped, feeling terrified all over again. And...her breasts were growing too weren't they?! She'd noticed that her bras were getting tighter but hadn't really put two and two together until now. Oh fuck, oh fuck. Was she going to produce milk? She didn't even know this body could do that!

Ford winced. He leaned to look at the monitor again as Yun hyperventilated.

There were multiple babies in here. And they were gonna get even bigger. Oh… shit. Oh fuck!

"Yun, breathe." Ford squeezed her hand. "You… you're gonna be fine. I mean, just…" he waved his free hand. "Make… erm… your vessel more… stretchy?"

"Y-yeah, I can do that." Yun shivered. "Oh fuck. How big am I going to get?!" She was really scared of that particular idea.

"You're a shapeshifter...You...you can make your body look however you want. Once the babies are born you can turn yourself back to normal." Ford tried to reassure her.

"My belly's gonna be HUGE!" Yun was not listening. "How-How am I taking care of like, 6 humanoid babies?! Shapes would have been much easier! Will they look like me?! Will they have a Shape form?! Why do they have a human fooorm!" she wailed. Ford knew by this point that Yun wasn't listening, too lost in her own growing panic. He wrapped her in a hug, careful not to crush her belly. "Everything is going to be ok." He repeated. "I'm right here. I'm going to be here for you through all of this." He stroked her hair. "And… look on the bright side, I don't see any extra limbs, so they probably won't have four arms like you do."

Yun's eyes welled up with tears but she smiled a little. "O-Ok…" The babies looked like they were 5 months along. Which means that she was going to get HUGE in the following weeks. There would be no way to hide it anymore. "Thanks…"

"You're welcome." Ford sighed. "I think you need to tell everyone you're pregnant...at least Seb and Wanda."

Yun groaned. "Seb will laaaauuugghhh!" And Ford had to laugh at that.

-.-

"Hi, Yun!" Seb picked up his phone. "How do you feel knowing you left a poor human with two little kids who need nourishment and attention? Miz has been passed out in their room all day!"

Yun rolled her eyes. "You're a grown ass dad! You can handle your own kids. Besides, you have Max there to help you cook." She did need to wake Miz up soon though. The alien rubbed her swollen belly and bit her lip. "So...Seb...What would you think...if I ever got preggers?" She purposely said the word wrong, to relieve the tension. Seb laughed and floated the phone close to his mouth to keep drawing.

"I'd say it's not from my brother, cuz his ace ass wouldn't do it. Then I'll say it's not yours either cuz your ace ass wouldn't do it. So what and from where did you steal a baby? Or a fetus?! Did you steal someone's fetus?!" Seb cried over the phone.

Yun huffed.

"Nope. It would be my own baby." stealing babies. Heh. "So… you wouldn't mind if I was pregnant?" she pressed. Seb shrugged. "What kind of thought experiment is this? What are you asking me for?"

"Because I'm three months pregnant. And it's gonna be a multi-twin birth. I think there's at least six. It's a little difficult to see since they're all overlapping each other."

Seb dropped the phone.

Miz blinked her eyes open and sat up from her nest with a groan. Well, Seb just had a blue screen of death. She stretched, appreciating how light she felt, unlike the heavy ache of Yun's body, and floated out of bed. Time to get Max and make some food for the kids, since Sebastian was going to be out of commission for a while.

While Miz did that, Yun hung up and called Wanda instead.

"Hello? Yun? You know I don't want to get calls while I'm at work-" The voice on the other end spoke before Yun interrupted with a cheerful, "Hiiii Waaaanda! Guess what?"

"What?"

"I'm pregnant!" Yun said cheerfully, sounding much more at ease than she actually felt. Ford was still moving the device around, trying to pinpoint exactly how many babies were in there. He frowned when he noticed something and his eyes went wide. He dropped the device and fell to his knees. "Y-Yun…"

"Huh? What's up Fordsie?" Yun asked, listening to Wanda sputter over the phone.

"There's six fingers." Ford said weakly. Yun's eyes widened. "WHAT?!"

"What? What's going on? What's happening? You- you said you're pregnant?! When did this happen- how did this-" Wanda was crying over the phone.

Yun waved a hand to float the device into her hand, staring at the monitor herself. One two three four-

"Dammit Ford!" Yun cried. "You're the FATHER?!"

"He's the WHAT?!" Wanda screamed over the phone. Ford's eyes rolled up and he joined Seb in a faint.

-.-

It took less than three days, THREE DAYS (days he took off work because he needed to process the current events in his life), to have his ENTIRE family, even his older niblings (who ditched classes in college for this very serious reason), behind his door demanding answers.

First of all, it took Seb a whole half hour to calm Wanda down as she raged at Ford and tried to hit him with a metal pipe. "I'll CUT YOUR DICK OFF!" she screamed. "WANDS, PLEASE! I'm sure there's an explanation!" Seb held her back. "Don't kill Uncle Ford, mom!" Zach wailed. "LET ME GO!" Wanda struggled against Seb's hold, a metal pipe in hand.

On the other hand, Ford's mother was confused as hell, because Wanda was acting all crazy about this for reasons she didn't understand. Kari was also annoyed because her oldest son didn't tell her he had knocked up his girlfriend. And a larger part of her was excited because she was getting more grandbabies.

"Why didn't you tell me, Stanford! I'm your mother!" Kari scolded lightly. "Also, I thought you weren't comfortable with sex?"

"I'm not- I didn't-" Ford rubbed at his eyes. "We didn't have sex! I don't even know how this-"

On the other, other hand, he had his other brothers just...staring at him, kind of...disappointed? "You...know condoms exist right?" Stan deadpanned. "I expect this from him!" He pointed at Shermie ("Fair, but HEY!"). "But you are like... way older than he was." Stan wasn't even screaming. He was speaking calmly and it was way more unnerving.

"This is all a misunderstanding! I told you, we DIDN'T have sex!" Ford tried to tell them.

Seb full on started wailing, hugging Wanda who was still glaring at Ford. "They exchangeedd fluiiiddsssss!" He sobbed. "That- that artificial insemination thing!" Wanda and everyone else had to pause and glance at Seb. "Ah… yes. That is what goes on to create pregnancies…" Wanda said slowly. Seb should know that... They had kids!

"But we didn't do that!" Ford protested. His family wasn't listening though, all of them jumping onto the 'artificial insemination' idea, since it made sense to them.

"Oh Stanford, I'm so proud of you. You're going to be a father!"

Ford groaned and buried his face in his hands. Yun patted his back. Dipper was the only one listening to what Ford was actually saying. "Wait, if it wasn't artificial insemination, then how is Yun pregnant, and how are you the father?"

"...the stork?" Mabel suggested and Dipper facepalmed. "Can we like...calm down please? I am missing classes for this screaming? Let's get to the point already." The young man glared at everyone until they all quieted. "Are you really pregnant?" He asked Yun directly.

The alien patted her belly, no longer wearing an oversized sweater so the bump was now exposed for them all to see. "As pregnant as my species can be." She sighed. "They're… only three months along. I knew about them, but I hadn't wanted to say anything until I was sure they were stable."

"Ok. There. Just get over it, everybody!" Dipper massaged his temples. Ford ran a hand across his face and looked at his family, all staring at him. "And… how did you get pregnant?"

"I implanted one of my Pieces- er… it's sort of like an egg, inside myself to incubate." Yun answered. She groaned when he saw Ford pacing nervously. "And I don't know WHY this idiot is the dad apparently!"

"You...don't know..." Seb grimaced.

"I intended to only have one of my own, I didn't ask Ford for anything-" "-And I appreciate that." Ford added as Yun continued. "-But my piece broke and they didn't join into one individual like I thought! I was even more clueless as to why they turned human!" She laughed, a little hysterically as she leaned back against her boyfriend. "But I've been replaying the events of that day, literally, I've been Seeing them. Ford cut himself and accidentally bled over the Piece. They absorbed it so I think that would explain why the babies resemble him."

Ford twitched. He really hadn't expected that to happen.

"..." The family twitched. Max, who barely understood the biological process of creating babies the natural way, was so confused. Pieces? Implanting?

"Yun has everything under control. She'll take care of the kids." Ford assured everyone.

Seb waved his hands. "Woa woa. Are you implying you're not going to be part of this?!" He paused. "You're just going to… foist them ALL onto Yun? Didn't you say they were like, hundreds of babies in there?"

Ford grimaced. "I'm here for Yun. And I said I would help. Look, the idea is not quite disagreeable to me, but I never thought I'd be a father, the time I tried it turned out horribly, I don't want babies and Yun knows that." He nodded with a calm smile. "I helped Yun create a child because she wanted one. The fact that they're genetically mine was an accident."

Yun nodded. She hadn't asked him to be the father, she only asked for help to find a way for her to have a baby, and he did, and he had been very supportive until now. A part of her wanted him to say he wanted the babies, that he wanted to be their father, but she knew Ford didn't want to raise babies, from what they talked about, he wanted an older child, one who could already talk and reason. He didn't want a baby, and that's ok, she respected that.

That didn't stop the agonizing pain in her chest, the anxiety building up and tearing her up inside, making her feel like Ford didn't want them. Her kids. He didn't want them. Were they not good enough for him? Because there were so many of them? Because they weren't fully human ? Because they were hers ?! No. No. She couldn't let her dark thoughts spiral out of control. She knew that wasn't true at all, she was just being down on herself again. But shit, she was having trouble keeping her poker face. Yun could see Miz wincing and turning away to hide her own expression from the rest of the family.

Yun laughed, slipping on a mask of light-heartedness. "It's fine, guys! Don't glare at Ford y'all!" she pointed at all the Pines. "I've raised kids before. And...I can do it again. Ford and I went into this knowing that the kid would be mine and mine alone. The fact that they have his genes changes nothing. I'm fine." she lied. She knew that if they weren't shape children, then she would outlive them. Part human meant part mortal. This meant that she was making the same decision Pyronica made, thousands of years ago. Having kids because she wanted to, and knowing they would die long before she did. She still had that little spark of hope that one of them would want immortality… perhaps she could get at least one of them to agree to be hers forever-

But she didn't cling to it too much. Keep your expectations low, so you wouldn't be crushed when it didn't pan out- She rubbed her stomach.

Kari blinked. "So...no grandbabies?" Stan and Shermie groaned at their mom's insistence with the subject. Ford chuckled. "I'm afraid not. But there are a lot of them and while Yun is a goddess, I'm sure she'll still appreciate some babysitting help."

"I'll take what I can get." Kari nodded solemnly. Wanda huffed. She was still thinking Ford should grow a pair and be responsible for that yucky blood he spilled! But if Yun was really ok with this, well, that was her choice. And Wanda would respect that. And now she had the idea in mind of Miz wanting to have kids and she twitched. Nope. Miz was only 14, no way in hell was she allowed to have kids.

Seb leaned against his younger brother as he laughed at Wanda's scowl. "200 bucks he gives them his last name anyway." Seb told Shermie, who laughed. "That bastard?! No way! 1k he continues his life as it is!" Seb grinned and shook hands with him.

"Can you guys not." Carla deadpanned. Abigail was frowning, she just couldn't understand how Yun was ok with this. The very thought of Shermie doing something like that to her made her feel awful. "Shermie you dumbass...Bet more money!" She finally said.

"Yun? Are you sure you're going to be… ok?" Wanda asked softly, sitting beside her. Yun felt her expression crack a little. "I mean… I… wasn't expecting part human babies. Or more than one." she admitted, because she couldn't hide all of her feelings on this. And that crack turned into a shudder as her mask continued to chip. "Yun?" Wanda asked worriedly.

Yun shook. "S-sorry, I think the pregnancy is making my emotions go all weird." she tried to smile but couldn't. "J-just… kinda hitting me that they're gonna be part human… and they're…" she felt her eyes burning. Shit, she was crying. Yun wiped the tears from her face. "I don't know what to do." she whimpered. "I want them," She held her belly. "But I don't know what to feel. I don't know what they're going to be like. Ammy is immortal, but he's a Shape... as altered as he is, and I think half the reason he's unaging is because of that. But these kids are gonna be part human ." She bit her lip.

"I… I'm trying to make peace with that. With the idea of- of getting these kids, raising them a-and outliving them-" Everyone winced at that.

"I can't deal with mortal children! I can barely deal with the knowledge that you're all mortal!" It was bad enough knowing that Seb and the others were going to age and die and leave her- but her kids would be HERS! Losing them was like losing a piece of herself!

Wanda wrapped her arms around her. "Oh Yun…" she held the crying woman. "It's going to be ok. We're all here for you."

"I want them so much!" Yun sobbed, clutching her belly. "I don't want to lose them!"

No one could really say anything to reassure her in this. Stanford smiled sadly at her and pulled her close for a hug. Yun sniffed and clung to his sweater as he ran his fingers through her hair. "It's ok. Breathe. One step at a time." It took a lot of petting for her to finally calm down.

Mabel eventually declared she was making the tiniest of socks and Max cooed at the idea. "It's actually great that the Great Dragon is having her own babies." He hugged Mabel who purred at him. If Dr. Pines could have children with the great dragon, it made him hopeful of what awaited for himself and Mabel. "Now I won't have to be her baby!"

"Oh no, I already claimed you as my baby! You're not getting rid of me so easily!" Yun threatened the former Eix Leel. Max gasped, "Noooooo!"

-.-

The news remained hidden for a few more weeks, even as Yun's belly began swelling up even more. And even with her large coats, it was noticeable. It seemed the alien nature of the children would make the pregnancy slightly faster than a human one. That, or she was growing so quickly because there were seven of them. (They still weren't fully sure of the number of kids, having too much trouble counting them.) Yun didn't know for sure, but she felt really weird about her expanding waistline. The pregnancy wasn't confirmed by Ford or Yun to the rest of the staff at the Center, but everyone knew.

Everyone in Gravity Falls knew about that mysterious Indian woman Ford had been with. Along with that equally mysterious Chinese man. General consensus and gossip stated that the longtime bachelor was dating them both, but the jury was still out on whether they knew about each other or not. They didn't want to believe Dr. Pines would so blatantly cheat on his girl/boyfriend and when they questioned Dr. McGucket about it the mechanic had said "They're all happy together." Which was really the only confirmation they had.

(Some of the younger generation were convinced the three were in a polyamorous relationship with each other, and were quite supportive of it.)

But now, with what was CLEARLY a pregnancy- WELL, the rumor mill went into overdrive.

(Especially since Yun had started living WITH Ford, due to being unable to disperse this vessel now that there were living beings growing inside her, and having to keep her Yun and Miz vessels materialized permanently meant she needed a place to keep them. Miz lived with Seb and Wanda, so there was no issue there. Yun didn't have a home address, she had a PO box for mail and bills. So she and Ford talked it out and decided that Yun would stay with Ford for the duration of her 'pregnancy' while Miz continued living with Seb and Wanda. Ford didn't mind, since it meant he could have Yun in the lab with him everyday now!)

People at the Center started gossiping, ESPECIALLY his friends, whose favorite past- time was nothing but gossiping and making bets about their boss. Fiddleford actually knew nothing about the pregnancy, he had actually been away from town the entire month for some special classes he had been teaching at a college a state over. And that month he was gone was when Yun began really showing. So Fiddleford wasn't there to question it.

If he had been, Ford would have come to him first.

So, it was quite a surprise when Fiddleford returned home to Gravity Falls, to hear everyone, even his own wife, talking about Ford getting his girlfriend pregnant. Then, their friends cornered Fiddleford and begged him to confirm the rumor.

"I would have thought that after years of being friends he would have told us!" Dr. Clark pouted. "And she isn't fooling anyone with those jackets. We can clearly see that she's several months along."

Dr. Poddar nodded. "Didn't think the boss had it in him for this kinda thing." He blushed. "Lucky man, she's gorgeous."

"Does Xin know about Yun's pregnancy? I haven't seen that dragon around recently." Dr. Wexler frowned. She remembered seeing him around a few months ago.

"W-would Dr. Pines REALLY knock up his girlfriend and...still be together with his boyfriend?" Dr. Clark winced. "I don't think our boss is the type of man who would do something like cheat on his partner…" Dr. Poddar shrugged. "Maybe he's poly? That IS a thing now right?"

"The interns say he's definitely poly." Dr. Wexler pointed out. "I don't know how they're so sure of that."

"I haven't seen him around for a while." Fiddleford mumbled. He knew the truth about both people Ford was "dating", but...pregnancy ...

Fiddleford twitched. "Ah… hang on while I... " strangle my best friend "...go talk to Stanford." He marched off, eye twitching and ready to unleash a furious tirade on his friend if this was REAL and he HADN'T TOLD HIM about this before. He was going to be super angry if Ford was going to be a Father and he was finding out this NOW from OTHER PEOPLE!

He stormed into Ford's lab, "Stanford! What the he-" He paused when he saw what Ford was doing. "Are you… studying your partner's belly?!"

Yun was seated on an examination chair, looking rather put off at all the sensor modules Ford had stuck all over her stomach. There were multiple machines nearby all giving out different readings. Ford looked up from one of the printouts to wave at Fiddleford. "Hi F! You've got to see this...all their little heartbeats~" he squealed.

Fiddleford deadpanned, "So, artificial insemination, I'm guessing."

"Er… it's… complicated-" Ford sighed. "No sex cells was involved."

"Just some blood." Yun added brightly. She poked at one of the sensors. "Why do you even need to do this? We already know it's gonna be at least six…"

"You can't see inside yourself very well, so I thought we should make a true scan of the inside and 3D print what shows up. So we can finally count the kids accurately."

Yun rolled her eyes, rubbing at her stomach again. It felt so weird. It was also cumbersome. Her pants didn't zip up anymore. She felt fat. (And another part of her, the perverted part, thought it was kinda hot, in a really fucked up way. And there was no fucking way in hell she was ever admitting the fact that she was sort of getting off on this whole thing, wondering how big she was going to get.)

Fiddleford looked between them. "So… You're actually going to be a dad...and I was the last person in town to know!" He glared at him. "I told you when I was expecting a kid!"

Ford winced. "It's ok. I'm not actually their dad though. Yun just wanted babies."

"I thought Yun was your partner."

"She is!"

"Then why-"

"Fiddlenerd, stop being annoying!" Yun shouted. "He's my partner because he agreed to be my partner. He doesn't want to be the dad, so he's not the dad, fuck! It's not hard to understand!" Dangerous hormones and elevated emotional shifts. Ford was quick to pet her hair and she settled back down. Fiddleford immediately shut up. Oh dear lord, a pregnant Bill Cipher, what the hell was Stanford thinking?!

"Wait, if you're not the father, then is this an asexual reproduction?" Fiddleford frowned. Pun not intended.

Yun shrugged. "Well, they are genetically his. But he's not the father."

Fiddleford's eyes widened and he turned to Ford. "You… you know… you're human...and she's an alien...right? You...you created human hybrids...You… know it's illegal to experiment with human DNA ...right?" Fiddleford grimaced.

Ford dropped the stack of papers. If anyone found out about this… human experimentation, he would get in SO much trouble with the scientific community.

Yun started cackling. "Aww~ lookie my widdle Fordsie~ commiting crimes against humanity~!"

"What?! No!" He cried. He quickly thought of how to save his ass. "I'm not experimenting if Yun's my partner. It's not my fault she's an alien!"

"You took my genetic material and added your own to it, accidentally." Yun leaned back with half lidded eyes as she picked at her fingernails, cleaning them absently. "Then you started keeping records of the 'progress' of your 'experiment' and even labeled them as Experiment: Incubation and Growth of Shape/Human hybrids…"

"I can't just… NOT keep track of this! It's fascinating! And necessary for their health!" Ford wailed. Yun giggled as Fiddleford ran a hand across his face. "Right, well." The mechanic groaned. "So. You're gonna have kids." He frowned. "Judging by the size of her, she's like, five months along?" He was going by experience with his own wife and how long it took her to reach this size.

"Actually, I'm only three and a half months." Yun shrugged. It wasn't like she'd tear open, no matter how inhumanly big she might get. But at some point she'd have to stay indoors and avoid people, just so they didn't find it suspicious how large she was. Uuugh that would be so boring~

"...t-three-No. You know what?" Fiddleford patted Ford's shoulder. "I'll meet my niblings when they're here. I'll bring presents."

"They're not gonna be my kids. So… I don't think it counts?"

Fiddleford opened his mouth and then closed it. You know what, not gonna bother. "Oh, and by the way… people know you date both Yun and Xin. You'll have to come up with something for that…" Fiddleford waved a tired hand before leaving. "Also, everyone's convinced you're going to be a father and I think some of them are planning a acongratulations party."

Ford watched him go before screaming into his hands. "THIS IS A FUCKING MESS!"

Yun just laughed loudly.

-.-

Yun's belly continued to grow, as well as Ford's stack of readings. He discovered that not all the babies had six fingers, but there were enough to confirm to him that they indeed inherited his DNA.

Yun was also demanding to be pampered more often, and to get all the food she desired. Ford had to massage her back and shoulders almost every night, before they curled together on his bed to sleep. As her belly grew, Yun felt Ford hugging the bump, his huge hands softly resting on her belly...It felt...nice...

Ford also saw her complain about getting too bloated to fit any of her cute clothes and how she hated it (the demon was rather vain at times), so he tried to make things more comfortable for her. "Just… modify your clothes?" he suggested. Yun did, fretting over whether or not she was still pretty. Ford had to assure her that she was always pretty. And he was not lying.

"So… are you doing okay, Yun?" Dr. Wexler asked, worried for the other woman. Her belly looked uncomfortable. Yun shrugged, absently rubbing her belly, as was the norm these days, she just couldn't keep her hands off it. "I'm doing great actually. All I have to deal with is sore feet and some back pain." And having to modify her clothes to fit. And having to zone out for most of the day so she could focus on being Miz while Yun's body laid around on Ford's bed. She could multitask them both at the same time, but Yun had to stay inside most of the time anyway and she got bored.

"So~ Are you having twins?" Dr. Poddar asked.

"Well, there are at least six or seven in here. So… lots of twins?" Yun shrugged, not really knowing or caring to know. They were healthy? Good, she didn't care about the terminology. Besides, it would be a surprise!

Dr. Wexler dropped her fork. Dr. Poddar started choking on his food.

"And… the boss man isn't… gonna be part of… this?" Dr. Wexler asked, frowning now.

"Yeah. It's fine. I'm the one who wanted kids, not him." Yun rubbed her belly. "Don't give him a hard time about this. He was never intending to be a father, and I knew that. The fact that they're his was an accident."

The other scientists still looked a little worried, but if Yun and Ford had decided this together, and were fine with it, then they couldn't say anything.

-.-

Yun was feeling sort of horny as her pregnancy continued, which she was a little embarrassed about… but despite part of her having these unwanted thoughts...This wasn't so bad. Yun was getting very excited about her impending kids and so was Ford.

Ford still liked hooking up machines along her body to feel the babies, but...sometimes, when he was feeling brave and slightly drunk with curiosity, he would put his head on her belly and would try to feel something. They knew it wasn't EXACTLY like a human pregnancy, but Yun did mention that the kids moved sometimes. The alien also thought it was hilarious the times Ford talked, but not to her, to her belly. She'd zone out and come back, and the owl would be massaging her belly, whispering things like "How are you doing in there?" "We really want to meet you already." or "Was my blood good enough base material?"

Yun snorted everytime she thought about it.

"Ok, get off, I wanna go to the lunch room." Yun nudged Ford's head until he moved. She tried to stand up and Ford quickly took her arm to help. With great effort, she heaved herself to her feet. This was too big already. She clung to Ford's arm and they started walking.

"How are you feeling? Are the babies moving more now?" Yun rubbed her belly just in time to feel one kick. "Oh yeah. Active little ones."

Ford grinned, and in a very gentleman-like way, pulled the chair so she could sit down. "You wait just here while I get us all some food! You want all of everything right?"

"If you don't want me eating everyone in this room, yes please." Yun smiled sweetly. He did as asked and came back with a plate piled high with everything she liked. Since she couldn't sit close to the table, with her belly in the way, Ford held her plate and helped feed her. Lucky for her, she wasn't having nausea at certain foods, that would have sucked. So having everything all mixed up in a plate together wasn't an issue at all. Ford was looking a little green at the combinations of smells but he pushed it down in favor of talking to Yun.

"Well, we've got some new regulations due to the new virus, I gotta tell F that we need to put more disinfectant dispensers around and stock for the bathroom and protection equipment." He sighed. "Also, we'll have to check our records on to who was out of the country in January and check to see if they are showing any symptoms… I think we'll have to relocate some people as well so they remain as distant as possible."

"That's a good idea." Yun said with her mouth full of food. "I would like to get a sample of the virus to study. Maybe I'll be able to figure out how to kill it. It's like pneumonia but… worse." she frowned. "And pneumonia has been killing humanity since… humanity began, really." she grumbled. "Damn viruses, not alive so I can't kill them…"

Ford pulled out a paper from his pocket, that unfolded and reached the floor. "Well in more entertaining news~ I was wondering what names we could give our babies, there are a lot so I was thinking it should be a theme."

Yun choked a little. " Our babies?" her eyes went wide. Did she hear him correctly?

"Here, I made a list of possible names for boys and girls, as we don't really know their sex and you didn't want to know either." Ford continued, oblivious. Yun blinked, feeling so happy and confused right now.

"I looked up men and women of science, as I think it fits better, but if you think so, I also looked up other studies. Here I got social science, here I have more engineering/architecture ones, sports, and the fashion industry, just to please my triplets by considering their jobs as well." Ford rambled. "Let me tell you, finding women in most of this was very hard! I had to contact some colleges to get biographies."

Yun stared at him. And then she cackled. "Dude, I've already got names picked out. Gender neutral so it wouldn't matter if they were boys or girls or something else entirely." she shrugged. She pulled out another piece of food from the pile and nibbled on it.

"Oh...Yeah, alright…" Ford poked at his list. "I...might have gotten carried away, thinking about that…"

"Well, you can choose our kids' middle names." Yun crooned, shuffling over to lean against Ford while fluttering her eyelashes. "It would really make me happy… And you can choose the theme you like the most, really." She giggled when Ford nodded with a serious look on his face.

With how oblivious Ford was on some things, Yun wasn't really sure if he meant anything by it or… he simply didn't notice… but it was fine. Yun would take what she could get. She patted her belly. "Well? Do you guys want your daddy to name you? Or do you want cool names from me?" she cackled.

"Hey! I chose interesting people! They're cool names!" Ford complained, his brain lagging and still not processing Yun's complete phrases. His ego first!

"Neeeeerd~" Yun laughed fondly. "Alright, I'll trust you to pick cool names."

Later at night, when the two were curled up under the covers, soundly sleeping, Ford's internet explorer brain finally loaded. He woke with a loud gasp and sat up. He looked at Yun and grimaced.

Did she call him the kids' dad that afternoon?

-.-

(Beginning of March 2020)

Ford paled at the news. Corvid had spread so far and so fast that it was now classified as a global pandemic. And worse of all, no state was in quarantine or lockdown yet. Most had started closing schools and public places, but Oregon still had yet to come up with something, aside from banning public gatherings.

He heard his nephews complaining about it in California, how things were quickly starting to shut down, and how MUCH they hated online classes and how no one could go out anymore! Max also learnt to complain a lot. A LOT.

He was a little more worried about Stan and his mother though. Things were getting bad in New York. "Just stay the fuck home!" Ford told him when Stanley whined about having to send his workers home for 15 days. WITH PAY! "No, shut up. You can afford to pay them for a few weeks. So do it." Ford snarled at him. Yun had drilled it into Ford's head how important it was to pay your workers, especially in a time like this.

They were so close to China's numbers, this was ridiculous!

He turned to Fiddleford, who looked grim.

"Make an announcement." Ford said seriously. "We're putting the Center on lockdown. And I'm going to tell the mayor to close the town as well."

Fiddleford nodded. "I'm gonna make sanitation and decontamination rigs around the town. Especially near the entrance to the valley. And I'm gonna work with the others to see if we can make a vaccine." The blond man looked very serious about this. He was determined to work on it and find a solution.

The other scientists accepted the lock-down orders. Yun expanded the building, adding more rooms for people to stay and live for however long this lockdown would be. She also sent Xin to inform the Islanders that none of them were allowed to leave until this blew over, for their own safety. The children were fine with that, the adults complained but Xin explained what the virus did and how easily it spread, and that his priority was the children's safety. "If any of you leave and bring this back here, to make the children sick, I will be forced to expel you from the island." Xin didn't want to threaten them, he really didn't. "I don't want any of you to get sick." he softened his tone, lowering his head down into the sand, almost like he was bowing- begging them. "Please. I just want you all to be safe." They all agreed, not used to seeing their god so distressed.

The townspeople complained, but Ford put his foot down, wearing a mask during the press conference. "We are going into quarantine. This is for your own safety."

"But what about gettin' supplies and such?"

"We will set up a delivery spot near the edge of town. I will be having all the deliveries disinfected before they're brought in." Ford assured them.

"What about going 'ta work?"

"I'm sorry. But anything that requires you to travel or leave the house is going to be shut down for a while. Only essential workers can leave their homes. I know it seems extreme, but I've got masks and gloves for everyone. Wash your hands, keep yourself covered when you're outside, stay safe."

"How'm I gonna get paid if I don't go ta work?!"

"I was given the authorization so the whole town can use the electricity from the Center at no cost, so that should cut back on your bills. Please." The Center was partially paid by the US government so it was easier to get Cutebiker into talking to all the business owners and employers in town, dealing with people's paychecks. Ford didn't want to beg, but this was a serious situation and people needed to listen.

This was a small town, with a small hospital which was already understaffed as is, if it wasn't for the Center's intervention, it'd be way worse. Getting one person infected here would be terrible for everyone so they needed to make sure no one got infected.

To his relief, the mayor agreed with him. "Everyone!" Mayor Cutebiker had a mask on as well. "Gettin' yer house. Gettin!"

Yun copy pasted the bulk packs of toilet paper and had Void Deliveries send them for free to any household that wanted them. Ford worried about her using so much of her powers when she was supposed to be conserving her energy for the kids. She shook her head. "I'm doing ok." she lied.

Ford noticed. And he thought about everything he'd learned about his partner over the years. "...alright." then he pressed his forehead against hers. "You're doing so well. You're amazing. I love you so much."

And Yun's face blushed as heat practically burst from her body, her energy levels surging from the influx of emotional high at his words. Ford heard his Weirdness sensors going off and he grinned. "As I thought, as you are a being of pure energy and emotion, an emotional high will boost your energy levels." As well as that almost-worship-like thing that happened whenever Ford sincerely praised her, but Yun was still a little embarrassed by that.

Yun covered her face, squealing at the happy tingling racing up and down her spine. "W-wha?!" W-well yes, she felt her vessel's heart racing, and there was a surge of joy at Ford's words- but that wasn't-

"I love you." Ford said again, meaning every word. Yun made an embarrassed squeaking sound. He watched her wiggling, blushing form and laughed. "You're cute when you're embarrassed."

And that only made Yun's energy skyrocket even more.

Holy shit. Ford stared at the readings coming from his sensors. "Hang on, can I… hook you up to our energy storage unit? You're putting out enough to power the whole Center and the town for a month… "

Yun continued blushing. "...only if you talk about how cute I am." she finally said without looking at him. Ford grinned. "You're really, actually embarrassed, aren't you?"

"Shut up~!" she whined, hiding her face.

"But if I shut up, how am I supposed to talk about how adorable your bashful expression is~?" Ford teased.

His Weirdness sensor exploded.

April rolled around and Yun was almost immobile if she didn't use her powers to float herself. Her belly was huge! Yeah, she could have made her uterus larger on the inside, but modifying herself in that way worried her. She didn't want to mess with the babies' environment. So she made herself stretchier, allowing the babies to have more room to grow. But it also made her feel like a beached whale. And it also made her feel irritated and grumpy.

Ford was very worried about Yun snapping at any moment. Because good or not, an irritated Bill Cipher was a dangerous Bill Cipher. So the moments she was awake, he was extra careful to not do or say anything stupid. (Keeping bad news away from her was good too. Things in the world were getting worse, with the news he read about the spread and deaths by Corvid-19 and the shootings and police brutality that was escalating, the rising and more direct oppression against the LGBTQ+ community... So Ford kept quiet about them, and kept Yun distracted with helping the other scientists with their projects. Yun knew of what was happening in the world, but Ford convinced her to focus on relaxing, for the sake of her children.)

-.-

Seb was groaning loudly as he paced back and forth. Wanda pouted. "I can't keep paying the stores' workers." he stressed.

"Seb."

"I have been doing it for months, even if I cut it that would only delay stuff. I can't open my stores yet, and I still need the permit to even begin to start making masks. Most people don't wear them!" Most masks were being made for medical workers and those on the 'front lines'. But some of the general populace refused to wear them.

"But we still can survive, they, your workers, need their salaries." Wanda winced.

"Wands, you are like the top badass one in your firm and you're being paid half of what it was before." Sebastian sighed. "I don't want to lay off my workers, I don't want to not pay them. But We have bills to pay too."

"We've already cut off electricity, since Miz is powering our house, and she's been creating supplies for us-" Wanda sighed. "She's doing what she can to help support us, and I don't like that. She's our child, we're supposed to be supporting her ." Wanda didn't like how Miz felt responsible for helping out with the household, and even the neighborhood.

"She's using too much energy," Seb agreed. "And I don't like her spreading herself thin between us and her babies." he was very worried about his soon to be niblings. And Maria! His poor baby niece! She had just been born! What an awful world to be born into.

Seb narrowed his eye. "I'm glad I didn't go to that event in Italy…" He winced. For the first time in his life something was not affecting HIM! About fucking time, Ax!

"Do what you think is best, baby, I gotta check on the twins." The poor babies wanted to go out and play but couldn't anymore. They were especially angry that they weren't allowed to see Amanda. ("Missus Carol is gonna make her sick with the monster virus! We need to bring her here!" Zach wailed. They saw her walking outside without a care in the world, talking to friends and laughing on their porch and that was illegal because no one was supposed to go out and play! Not even adults!)

Seb nodded at her words. How could you tell someone to fuck off but nicely? Hey! He needed it for his family! And he cared more about them! He was interrupted by a buzz and a message.

[Phillip has caught corvid, mom says I can't go see my boyfriend, tell Miz to give me some shit so I can sneak out and see him!] He saw Dillon's message. Oh no...Phillip was sick?!

Right, he was a medical doctor and residents were most likely being sent to the front lines.

[I'm sorry to hear that kid, but your ass ain't moving from the penthouse, your grandma is there. And Miz is not a fountain of wishes and she's expecting babies. AND I heard from Ford that Yun's also powering the whole town right now, so I don't want to put more on her shoulders.] Seb sent back. But there were more missed calls on his phone.

This was a voicemail, a sad heartbreaking voicemail. "Please… Please, his parents don't know how he's doing, his dad is also working and helping with corvid... I don't want him to die, I want to see my boyfriend!" Dillon was crying.

Seb wasn't even sure if you could do something in this case. If Phillip was in the hospital and couldn't even contact his parents, that meant that he was probably intubated and sleeping. "I'm sorry, Dillon. He'll be alright. I know he will." He sent back a voicemail.

Checking the rest of his messages, as Dillon left him on read, he saw Dipper's text "SHLUMP IS TELLING PEOPLE TO DRINK CLOROX!" And Mabel sent him memes about said news. Sebastian groaned. This was not good for his stress levels. Also, as stupid as Shlump was, he wasn't sure that was accurate. The man couldn't possibly be that dumb.

And while Sebastian and Wanda were doing… more or less ok, despite not being able to go into work, Shermie and Abi were struggling.

Shermie had been laid off. Abi was being forced to pull double shifts, and despite piling more work onto her, they cut her pay. She was so exhausted when she got home that she would just toss her clothes into the washing machine, take a bath, and collapse on the couch. Shermie, stuck at home, was the one doing all the cooking and cleaning now, to try and ease some of the workload.

Dipper and Mabel were back home, trying to help in their own way, but also struggling with the way their classes were restructured.

And then Dipper lost his scholarship.

That wasn't good for his stress levels either.

Shermie was quick to find another job, because they couldn't continue like this, but in most he was overqualified and the ones that DID accept him were paying half of what he had been making before.

Dipper was having a lot of anxiety attacks these days (and Shermie felt so bad for his baby) and even Mabel was distressed from being cooped up. He had been paying a portion of her tuition, and the rest she paid with her work and student loans. She told him she was going to drop it after that semester because she didn't want the student loans piling up on her or forcing him to pay. "It'll be fine dad. I can take a semester off, it's not the end of the world" Mabel shrugged. "...At least I think so"

"We're gonna make it work, ok? You two are finishing your schooling, and getting your careers." Shermie ruffled the twins' hair and hugged his babies. God he never thought making it through college would be HARDER for his kids than him and Abi.

-.-

Stan was receiving lots of daily phone calls. Diego wanted to play but he had to shoo the boy away because MONEY WAS AT STAKE!

His business partner, Emile, and him were hoping for the government payoffs. This crisis was a disaster! His team couldn't play, his workers couldn't work-

And his brothers and wife kept demanding him to continue to pay them all!

"You're a bitch." Dillon told him.

"And I PAY YOUR TUITION!" Stan glared. "And I'm a bitch?"

"Yeah! Because you want to get even more money off this. When you could be helping- I don't know, THE HOSPITAL MY BOYFRIEND'S IN!" Dillon screamed. Money money money. That's all dad cared about! They were living it up in this stupid penthouse with more space than they'd ever need and there were people who were unable to pay rent and getting evicted out there and his dad didn't seem to care! "There are people DYING!" Dillon cried.

"People die everyday." Stan waved off. "I need to support us, our family!"

"We've got more than enough! Can't you help out other people-"

"You don't know how much this place costs!"

"THEN WHY DON'T WE MOVE TO SOMEWHERE LESS EXTRAVAGANT?!"

"I'm giving you the best life you can get! This privilege-"

"FUCK THIS!" Dillon wailed. "We could be out there helping people!"

"Go to your room! Shoo! You don't get how I'm doing all this for you and your brother. Shoo!"

Dillon screamed and stomped off.

Stan panted angrily, clenching his fists and shaking. He collapsed onto the couch, rubbing his face. "Everything I do… I do for this family…" he whispered to himself.

He just wanted to keep his family safe. Financial stability was a big part of that! That allowed them all to have deliveries here and not expose themselves going out! Even if it meant paying extra. To get food and cleaning products! That allowed him to change Dillon's laptop for a better one when online classes started! To still have personalized teachers for Diego so he wouldn't be falling behind on his education. Money was important ! He was just giving his sons the things he never had… He… he wasn't the bad guy here! Stan buried his face in his hands and breathed roughly.

(Late April)

Miz informed her mom and brother that the kids were due very soon. Like… very soon. Like, any day now!

"In 6 months!?" Both shuddered. They hated that number. Wanda couldn't help but be reminded of her own premature labor.

Miz shrugged, lounging on the sofa. "Well they're a multi-birth. It's gonna be premature. Six months is already longer than I expected." She rolled over. "Also, while they should have been a circle, which would have been a very long gestation, they were shattered into multiple irregular shapes and mixed with human DNA so the timing got fucked up."

"Language." Wanda scolded absent mindedly.

"Oh!" Miz sat up. "We want a baby shower!"

"What?" Seb frowned. He looked at Wanda. " We didn't get a baby shower!"

Wanda frowned. "Miz, I know this is… a big moment for you, for Yun. But we're all in quarantine right now. We can't…"

"I can teleport you all." Miz protested. "Fordsie can run tests on you all to make sure you're not infected-"

"Max is still living with us...and he's sulking because he wanted "real" cooking classes instead of the theoretical classes he's taking right now ...despite the fact that he could search for free online cooking recipes and videos…" Wanda muttered, "...and I worry a little about him and his immune system. He gets sick quickly" Wanda sighed.

"We can just have a Zuum party!" Miz suggested next.

"...ok, maybe." Wanda admitted. "It would be nice to see everyone again…" she thought about it "We could plan something for Yun. We probably should have done this much earlier."

Miz nodded, still looking a bit down. "Are you ok, sweetie?" Wanda asked. The dragon girl huffed. "It's fine...It's just that my friends aren't gonna be here for it. Yun can't leave the dimension while pregnant, and I can't leave either since we're the same entity." Miz was afraid of leaving the babies unattended. So she couldn't leave. She had to stay on this side for the whole pregnancy.

Seb hummed in thought. He called his brother that night, while vessel Miz was asleep. There was something he thought he might be able to do.

Ford had been reading in bed when he picked up the call. "Yes?"

"Sixer, Yun wants a baby shower but she's sad her friends won't be here for it. Do you have any ideas?"

Ford blinked before groaning and facepalming. "Ah, goddammit! I should have realized she would want them to be with her for something this important."

"I think she texted them, but she just doesn't want to have a baby shower without them." Seb shrugged. "How would they even make it here though… Miz can't leave and…"

"Can you go?" Ford asked and Seb shrugged. "I can leave my body but I'd need to be able to access Yun's door to go." And while she did set up a copy of the Door in his Mind, Seb had never tried it out.

"Maybe she could hold the Door open from this side while you go in and out?" Ford asked. He still wasn't all that sure how Bill's Doors worked. He'd been out there a few times, but they never stayed long in the Void.

Seb hummed in thought, stroking his goatee which he didn't want to admit was more of a beard now. "Well~ We could ask Yun if she can hold it open, and we can go!"

"Great-Wait, we? Yun CAN'T go through! She's pregnant!" Ford narrowed his eyes at him. Seb groaned loudly. "Not her, dumbass! YOU! You're fucking coming with me! Even when I'm doing this for you and you want me to do this alone, what a dick." He complained.

Ford winced. "M-me? But I have to stay and take care of Yun-" to which Sebastian waved him off. "She's fine. Geez. She's literally a demon god. Leave her some food and she'll be fine." Seb grinned like the little shit he was. "Or are you scawed? You're meeting her friends, and they most likely know you're the dad~"

"I'm not scared." Ford paused and ran a hand across his face. "I'm not the dad, Sebastian. Just because I accidentally gave them my DNA-"

"But you WANT to~" Seb laughed. "I very clearly remember that photo of the ultrasound you shared! And you said our! So you want them! You're excited about it!" And 'you need to accept it so I can get 1k from Shermie!' was left unsaid.

Ford groaned. "Look, it's not about that. And I'm not scared to go through the Door without her- It's just… I don't think her friends like me very much? Well, they liked Stan a lot more than me. And Kryptos seems to really hate me…" Ford had finally realized this point. The compass didn't like him. Because he liked Bill too. Ford didn't know how to handle that.

"Yeah. He hates your guts." Seb grinned. "But it doesn't matter if they don't like you, she told them she's having kids, and there's nothing they can do about that, because you already gave her kids your DNA! Sooooaked it with fluids." Seb grinned teasingly. "And the kids are coming, so they better accept you're the dad of their new niblings."

Ford rubbed his eyes, he was NOT the-Urghh!

"We're in quarantine!" Ford deadpanned. Seb scoffed. "I'll be coming over in the Mindscape. No viruses there."

"Fine." Ford finally conceded. Mainly because he knew how much Yun missed her friends. She'd been going stir crazy in quarantine. She was used to travelling and going wherever she wanted. But she was stuck here. And creating items and supplies and powering the whole town were the only real things she could do right now. So Ford realized it would be nice to bring her friends here to keep her company.

"But I don't want to be alone with Kryptos. I swear he's trying to find some way to kill me off without any proof that he did it." Ford muttered.

"Don't worry, I'll be there to protect you in case they try something funny! I still have that scary vessel I used to scare those guys cursing Stan and his team!"

"...Stan was being cursed and you didn't plan to tell me?"

"I can do things on my own!" Seb groaned. "ANyway! I had my own Henchmaniacs before, and we've all met them already, how hard can breaking the news to these ones be?" The former demon's eye turned yellow as he grinned.

-.-

Yun agreed to Seb and Ford visiting her dimension. The thought of telling her friends the news like this was very funny. Sure, they knew she was pregnant, but they didn't know that Ford was the father (because she hadn't known until just a few months ago, and she hadn't wanted to contact them and progress time in the other 'set too much). They thought she had simply self-impregnated, since she was a hermaphrodite. The plan was that she would hold the door open for a certain amount of time. Because of Seb and her's link, it would be easier. Seb had to pull himself and Ford out of their bodies to bring them to MizBill's dimension so they could find and use some of the smaller vessels she left around her room. Like the ones she made for her birthday.

They were breaking so many rules~ Their Axs would be pissed. That worried Yun a little, she didn't want Dad to be upset, but Seb seemed even more on board after realizing his Ax would be angry. (Well, not angry, more like… incredibly disgruntled.)

(And he was. Seb's Ax thought there was enough magic and weirdness in Seb's life as it was. He wanted him to just be a normal boring human. He didn't expect Miz to come and link their minds! Allowing even MORE weird things to go on with the Pines. Like the birth of these kids. This was definitely not going according to the local Ax's plans! MizBIll's Ax apologized for that. But local Ax had to admit Seb was happier now than he had been. He had been going stir crazy before Miz.)

Seb travelled to Gravity Falls after saying bye to Wanda, the twins and Max. He left them food in the fridge before passing out on the couch as he left his body. They just needed to heat it up. He was sure between four great minds they'd figure it out. Then, he met with his brother and Yun, floating there in the Mindscape. "Oh my god, it's true, you're huge! We didn't see each other for so long!?" He gasped.

Yun, with two hands on her back and two more on her belly, raised an eyebrow at him. "Hello, Seb. As tactful as ever." She had been texting Mabel to help with the baby shower, and the brunette girl was INCREDIBLY EXCITED. She was planning everything already so all they needed was to bring Yun's family over. Sure, it was going to be over Zuum, but that didn't mean she couldn't still make it really fun! Mabel even bought all the JakeBox games in preparation for this!

"Seriously you look like you swallowed a whale!" Seb continued, making Yun twitch. "Seb…" she said warningly.

Ford came from behind Seb, looming over his shorter brother, and he grinned at him as he put his hands on Seb's shoulders. (Wearing a bracer he made to be able to See into the Mindscape. He couldn't really touch Seb though.) "You gotta stop doing that…" He whispered menacingly. "I still have my guns."

Seb flinched and let out a nervous giggle. "Haha...Kidding! You-You look amazing~ I'm so happy to get-get seven more niblings…"

Yun scoffed. "Just for that, I'm making you use my Miz vessel on my side." She turned to Ford, "I think I've still got the vessel I made for you a few years back lying in my room somewhere." Ford nodded. Right. They weren't going to have bodies, so they'd have to possess vessels to be able to talk to people.

"Me being Miz… That sounds creepy as hell, but alright." Seb nodded and clapped his hands. Hah! Thinking he'd be upset by getting a small vessel. His body had been small most of his life! "So, let's do this already! My house will fall apart without me there." And being in the Mindscape wasn't something Seb particularly loved.

Yun rolled her eyes and concentrated. She checked her Door for any buzzing sounds (and after rearranging Doors into that barrier-like formation for extra protection a while back, she was more confident it would be safe) before tapping it open without going through it. (Took her a while to get that working. But she was happy with the results.)

The Pines triplets waved at Yun before Seb turned to look at Stanford, his eye glowing blue as his pupil turned into a slit. Ford didn't have time to brace himself when Seb grabbed his hand and pulled him out of his body, making his body fall to the ground completely limp.

Then they crossed the door.

-.-

They tumbled into the Death Star as ghosts and Ford glanced around. They were in MizBill's room. Figured she'd drop them here, as it was closer. And also, the door was formed in this room. There was a stone statue of Bill Cipher lying on the bed. Ah, Bill's body. Ford ignored the twinge of unease at seeing it. Even after all this time it brought back bad memories, even though he really wanted to be perfectly fine with it, so that MizBill wouldn't feel guilty over it. He was still working to get over his own trauma so he would be able to fully accept his partner. He saw Sebastian float towards it and grabbed him. "Nope. She said you had to use the Miz vessel."

Seb groaned. "Ugh~ fine." He turned around and found the Miz Vessel on a nearby shelf. "Wow. She really keeps all her vessels here like… clothes."

"That's what they are to her." Ford shrugged, finding his own vessel lying on the bed beside the Triangle one. He paused to wonder if Bill cuddled with his empty vessel like some sort of stuffed animal. The thought was a little weird, but also somewhat cute.

(If Ford knew what exactly Bill did with the vessel shaped like him, he would have been mortified. Bill dressed it up in all sorts of pretty clothes and took photos for his own private album. He also wore it sometimes and role played as Ford for fun. These were all embarrassing hobbies that Bill made sure no one would ever know about.)

Ford slid into his vessel and groaned at the feeling. It always felt weird. Not like his own body, which had all the human sensations, aches and pains. This body felt… light. Somewhat tight, like his flesh, fat and skin were all just at the perfect amount to be workable and not one atom extra. Ford looked down at himself and felt around, getting himself situated. Ah, this vessel had a very impressive six pack. Ford flushed, maybe a tad more defined than his own body.

"Ugh. I can't reach the ground!" Ford heard Miz's voice complaining. It was Miz's voice, but the inflection was all wrong and Ford rolled his eyes. "Sebastian, you have magical powers." He deadpanned as he slipped off the bed to stare up at Sebastian on the shelf.

"Carry me!" Seb demanded, kicking his feet as Miz did. He had a wicked grin on his face that made Ford shudder. It was amazing how, despite being technically the same demon, Seb and Miz were so different. But every now and then, the similarities popped up.

"Come on, brother! You won't leave me here, will you?" Seb pouted, batting both eyelashes before frowning. "Wow...seeing with both eyes is so weird...How do you do it?" Ford ignored him and made his way to the door.

Seb rolled both his eyes because his brother was not helping him, and jumped off the shelf, falling with an "oof!" Seb wiggled his bare toes to get some sensation out of it and looked around the room, realizing how big everything seemed to him now. He ran his hands, small 5 fingered hands over his dress to smooth it down and tied Miz's long black hair into a bun. "Ok, Fordsie~ How do I look?" Seb posed, waiting to be complimented.

"Like Miz." Ford shrugged and Seb laughed in Miz's voice. Ford shuddered again. Again, it was all wrong! Miz didn't laugh like Seb did and hearing what was clearly his brother's laugh in her voice was so weird. "This is so cool! Haha! Hahaha! It's been so long since I inhabited a body~"

"You have a body, Sebastian." Ford rubbed his face. Of all people to come on this 'mission' with, it HAD to be Sebastian.

"Oh shush, let me have my fun." Seb coughed and blinked up at Ford. "Oh, Fordsie~"

"No!" Ford screamed, taking a step back. He pointed at him warningly. "NO!"

"Oh Fordsie~ Let's spend some time together~" Seb purred, making a very cute pout as he glanced up at Ford shyly.

"STOP!"

Seb laughed loudly at Ford's mortified face. Then he looked at Bill's body on the bed and grinned. He left Miz's body and before Ford could do something, Bill's eye opened.

"Well, now THIS is even weirder!"

Ford gasped as Seb in Bill's body stood up on the bed. "Wait! Yun said you had to use Miz!" He accused.

"Oh I am! But that doesnt mean I can't try on her other clothes!" Bill's eye squinted in a grin. That was closer to what Stanford remembered of the Bill they fought. Then again, from what Sebastian had told him of his past life, he'd been very much like the Bill they fought.

"Now, how did this body work again?" Seb wondered. He made his flames come to life and he jumped a few times to make it float. "You know, if you're curious, her body doesn't feel like my old Shape body." Seb distracted Ford with facts so he could have more time playing.

Ford's angry scowl turned into a curious look. "Really?"

"Yup. We all look the same and all, but it feels weird. I think my species worked differently from hers? We did have different ways of mating after all…"

"Ew. No. I'm not interested anymore." Ford grimaced.

"Oh of course you are! You created your kids under that curiosity!" Seb laughed and with one final jump, he remained floating. "Ah hah! SUCCESS!"

Then he floated around his brother, making him incredibly uncomfortable. "Wellwellwellwell~Hello, Brainiac! Long time no see! Look at me! I'm an asshole and I want to destroy the world to parteh!" He put his hands around his eye in a triangle shape.

Ford snorted, his nervousness lifting away with Seb's antics. Seb was always Seb, no matter the body. The triangle Looked around the room and with a hand wave, a piano appeared. "Let me play a melody for you~Imagine you're chained or it won't work."

Ford pulled at his leg as if it was tied with an imaginary chain. "Oh no. I'm trapped." He deadpanned.

"Ah yes! Welcome to the penthouse or whatever! In the Fearamid~Let me delight you with my awesome skills~" Seb pressed a few keys and then just SCREAMED into the void. Ford exploded with laughter.

Seb waved a hand to clean up and left Bill's body on the bed. Then there was something that caught his attention. Yun. A smaller version of Yun, but Yun nonetheless...

The former demon got that body for himself and stared at Ford with a sexy grin. Ford's happy smile was wiped out. "Oh, Fordsie~~" Sebastian breathed out, running his second pair of arms over his hips as the first pair was taken to his hair. "Fordsie, I loveeee you~~"

"NO! STOP!" Ford screamed and pushed it away. Seb didn't give up. "Fordsiee~ Look at me! I'm pregnant with your kids, come gimme a hug!" Seb put a pillow under her shirt and wiggled it around.

"Stop! Get away! No!" Ford ran around the room, trying to dodge his brother's hugs and playful kisses. "Fordsiee no! Hahahaha! Fordssieeee!" Seb screamed before laughing again. "I loveee you!"

"STOP! AHHHH! NOO! THAT'S SO MESSED UP!" The poor scientist shrieked. They continued chasing each other around the room, knocking down pillows and pulling at the bed's blankets. "Look how beautiful I am! Love me!"

"I don't love her because she's beautiful! She's intelligent!" Ford wailed. The fact that she was gorgeous was just an added bonus. "More than that, she's beautiful BECAUSE I love her! Not the other way around!" After all, he hadn't really started noticing how pretty she was until he started getting feelings for her. But Sebastian in her body, despite looking the same, just wasn't attractive to him at all. This was really weird. "And she would never act like that!"

Seb pushed up his breasts and made them jiggle as he bounced them (though it was rather difficult since she was quite small). "And what about this~?" His brother screamed even louder, his ace ass was terrified. "SHE'S NOT EVEN-STOP IT!"

Suddenly, the door was thrown open and the triplets froze in their places. It was Pyronica. She was coming to see if Bill was back and heard screams and things falling! Xanthar was right behind her, having stepped away for lunch earlier. He went up to Bill's room a lot to check if he was back.

"Bill! You're back! It's been two weeks!" She grinned. Then she took in the scene. "Oh~" The Cyclopian purred. "I see you're having some fun with your boyfriend~" The giant woman sauntered over with some deliberate hip sways. "Can I join in~?"

"Aahhh!" Ford shrieked, scared out of his mind at the idea of that. He knew what her species did to their partners!

"Uh oh~" Seb quickly returned to Miz's body because he promised he'd use that one and cleared his throat. "Actually~ Hi, you see I'm Sebastian, Miz's favorite and most handsome brother-" Ford rolled his eyes.

"...Why are you in Miz's body then?" The Cyclopian raised her eyebrow, not really knowing if Bill was joking or not.

"We came to tell you all guys some GREAT news!" He grinned. "And I'm wearing this vessel because Yun made me." He pointed at his brother. "This is Ford, my brother, I'm sure you remember him and you must know Miz/Yun/Xin/ any form Bill takes nowadays, she's dating him."

Pyronica nodded slowly. "Right… yes. I know that. Bill wouldn't shut up about it for weeks after you two got together. Kryptos, the idiot, drew pictures of Ford for target practice." She looked at Ford, who was fidgeting with his hands. Oof! Still as delicious looking as he had been when she first met him. She wondered if Stanley was still as appetizing.

"Well, no offense boys, but why are you here and not Bill? Is she still pregnant?" She huffed with her hands on her hips. Bill hated it when people touched his stuff without permission. And the room looked trashed! The pink alien winced. He was going to be PISSED when he came home.

"Yes, she's still pregnant, but that's the reason we're here. We have news-." Ford opened his big mouth before Seb could speak and Pyronica immediately looked worried. "What?! Is she hurt?! Were there complications?!" She demanded, her flames flickering with her distress.

Seb shook Miz's hands quickly. "Nonono! Don't worry! It's nothing bad! She's just due soon and we were sent to bring you guys over for-! Actually, I don't want to repeat myself too much, why don't you round up all the guys so we can tell you all the news?"

Pyronica still looked unsure, but she agreed, and took them to the living room where she started calling for everybody. Luckily, everyone was at home right now. Keyhole was working in the living room with various machine parts and his Com, typing in the composition and age of things. He looked up and waved. "Oh hi Bill. Hi mister Stanford."

"Ah, I'm not Bill, I'm her favorite brother Sebastian." Seb pouted. "I'm just borrowing her Miz vessel since she thought it would be funny."

Keyhole deadpanned, "I'm pretty sure Bill's favorite brother is Blue."

Seb gasped, looking offended. "Whaaaat ?! That's not fair! How is he her favorite when she's living with ME?!" To which Ford grimaced. "She… still hasn't gotten over Blue being…" he couldn't help but be irritated at Blue for still not contacting her. She was trying not to let it bother her, but it'd been over a year already.

"Wait, Blue being… what?" Keyhole blinked. The Pines brothers stared. "Um… Blue sort of… locked Bill out of his Door, and she hasn't been able to contact him in over a year."

"""What?!""" The maniacs gasped. Was that why Bill had been acting so weird whenever the topic of Blue came up?

While they were trying to figure out what might have happened between Bill and her big brother, Seb turned to Ford with teary eyes. "Am I your favorite brother?" He sniffled. Ford averted his gaze. "U-um I don't want to say I have a favorite, I love you all equally-"

Seb felt tears in his eyes and he rubbed them angrily. "But...but she lives with me! And I'm not a fuckin' dick to her like Blue was!"

Ford sighed and glared at Keyhole before patting his brother's hair. "Come on...tell them...the news…"

"No. She can tell BLUE to do it!" As if he would be excited for her! He'd hate to know about this! "Heck he would hate that his precious little sister is even dating you to begin with!" Seb poked Ford's chest. "If he finds out the kids are yours- Circles he might just tear his way through reality to castrate you himself!" Seb whined. ("The kids are-?!" Kryptos choked.)

Seb started pacing, irritated. "Just because he knows all about weirdness and the multiverse and can teach her about all that? That's not fair! I-I can't do that! She...She teaches Me...I…"

Ford awkwardly patted his brother's back. "Seb-"

Sebastian couldn't seem to stop crying. "I'm just a dumb human now, Blue is still powerful. You know what? Do this on your own, Sixer. I'm out!" He rubbed his eyes. And then Miz's vessel slumped over on the couch. Ford groaned. What a mess.

Kryptos was still having his blue screen of death. Pyronica was staring slack jawed at Ford. "His kids… Bill actually…" Hectorgon started laughing, "I'm impressed actually. How did he manage that, I wonder?"

Ford picked up Miz's discarded vessel. Was he… stuck here now? Until Seb or Yun came to pick him up?

Keyhole winced. "Geez… didn't think he'd react THAT badly…"

PaciFire frowned at Ford. "Here, give that to me, I'll bring it back to Bill's room." Ford handed the vessel over, running a hand through his hair. While that was going on, the rest of the Manics were worrying over Sebastian's reaction.

"I dunno, Bill and the other Bills all seem really, unhealthily, obsessed with the idea of siblings…" Teeth pointed out. Keyhole pattered over with a worried look. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to mess him up like that."

"It's fine. Well, not fine, but I know you didn't do that on purpose." Ford sighed.

"Wait, so was what he said true?" Kryptos shoved his way to the front. " You knocked up Bill?! I thought she was just hosting one of her own eggs-" He sounded like even saying the words was leaving a disgusting taste in his mouth. Ford flushed. "I-it wasn't like that! It's- there's a very good explanation for-"

Pyronica strode over and picked Ford up. "For you fucking Bill? Well, I for one, would looooove to hear all about it." Pyronica grinned. "Also, congrats on finally taking her virginity. We should throw a party when Bill gets back. I can't believe she didn't tell us it was you-"

8-Ball was confused by this entire conversation thus far. ("Wait, does Bill even fuck? I thought Bill was like a turtle and doesn't fuck?")

"We didn't have sex!" Ford wailed, horrified at the idea that so many people thought he did something like that! "I accidentally spilled blood on her Piece. We didn't know it was going to have any effect! I swear we didn't know!"

"Well, is the kid a demon like Bill? Or a human like you?" Teeth asked, jumping up and down with nerves.

"Well, we don't know for sure, but the kids look humanoid-"

"PLURAL?!" Kryptos wailed.

Ford winced. "There are...seven… I think?" Gosh, now he was angry at Keyhole. If he hadn't made Seb cry and leave, it wouldn't be him dealing with all this alone !

"SEVEN?!" The entire group of henchmaniacs screamed. "HOLY SHIT!" Pyronica gasped loudly. Kryptos felt faint. He stumbled towards Ford, trembling with rage and jealousy.

"YOU. WHAT THE FUCK!" Kryptos shrieked. "How did that even happen?! You're not even the same SPECIES!" He started kicking Ford's legs. Ford barely felt it through the thick pants he was wearing.

Ford shrugged. "Yun herself doesn't know what happened to the pieces. But they're healthy looking. So we're optimistic about the birth-"

"WE'LL HAVE 7 KIDS HERE?!" Keyhole gasped. "Oh my fucking stars!" PaciFire squealed before he could stop himself. "Babies!" his voice reached an incredibly high octave, even outside of the helium atmosphere of his home planet.

Everyone stared at him. PaciFire stiffened. He coughed, his voice back to it's usual low register. "I mean, I for one, am excited for some children to help care for." he said stoically.

Ford took a deep breath. He was alone. But it was fine. Yun would make Sebastian come back for him. He wasn't going to be left here.

He took a deep breath.

"Well. I'm here because We-...uh-Yun's actually in her sixth month waiting for the babies and… And my family wanted to give Yun a baby shower, a human tradition where the future baby is celebrated by giving presents to the parents, presents they'd need for the babies, like clothes, toys, diapers...Yun wanted all of you to be present." Ford concluded. Yes! Success! Message delivered efficiently!

Kryptos let out a huff. "Somehow… I feel better knowing you haven't actually violated Bill." he grumbled. Pyronica narrowed her eye at him. "Excuse me Ford, I need to talk to Kryptos for a second…" she reached out and picked the compass up, "Ack!", and carried him out of the room.

Ford huffed. God he hated that compass bitch.

"By the way! The babies have 6 fingers like me! That's how we realized my blood affected them~" The shriek the quadrilateral fuck made was music to Ford's vengeful ears. Pyronica simply rolled her eyes at everything.

In the other room, Pyronica shook Kryptos. "You need to stop that. I'm SERIOUS." she growled as she pressed him against the wall. "Whether you like him or not, Bill chose Ford. She likes him. She loves him. He makes her happy."

"And what's gonna happen once he croaks?" Kryptos hissed. "We're the ones who are gonna have to survive Bill's breakdown."

"You're just mad that Bill's not into you." Pyronica deadpanned. "Besides, don't think I don't know you're planning to 'comfort' Bill once Ford dies."

Kryptos huffed. "I've known Bill longer-"

"But. She's. Not. Into. You." Pryonica punctuated each word with a sharp jab on his plane. "Get over yourself. I know Bill would never tell you off herself, since she still likes you- and-" Pyronica groaned and closed her eye, rubbed at it. "You're our friend. And I know you're better than this." she said sadly.

Kryptos's expression softened. "...Ronica…"

Pyronica dropped him, letting him slide down the wall and plop onto the ground. "Just… think about what sort of friend you want to be." Pyronica said as she stared down at him.

"I…" Kryptos curled his hands into fists. "Even if everyone's fine with Bill dating some lesser creature-" Pyronica clicked her tongue and narrowed her eye at him. "-person from a less developed dimension." Kryptos corrected. "I worry about Bill, ok? Bill is a people pleaser to anyone she likes, both us and her human family, hell, even that asshole Blue-" Pyronica grimaced, because that part was true. Bill got attached and she/he would do anything for them. "She'd agree to do something even if she didn't want to, if she thought it would make the one she loved happy." Kryptos pointed out, having seen this first hand, and still hating himself for it. The only relief he had was that he'd finally been able to apologize to her. And Bill… forgave him. Just like that. And Kryptos just felt worse that she hadn't been angry at all for it.

"Bill has every right to be mad at me for what I did to her, and she isn't." Kryptos muttered. "What do you think she would be willing to do for that human if he asked her-"

"Ford is an idiot. I doubt he'd ever ask Bill for anything terrible." Pyronica rolled her eye. "And if he does, I'll eat him myself." her fire flared brighter for a moment. Kryptos flinched back when she flared up. "...alright." he sighed. He didn't like it, but he would accept this for now.

They returned to the rest of the group. Ford had handed over his phone to the rest of the Maniacs who were staring at the photo of the ultrasound with surprised expressions. "Well...that's a lot of babies." Keyhole commented.

"Aaww!" Everyone still cooed, really excited to go already.

"So? Should we go? Yun will give you all smaller vessels, like during her birthday."

"Hell yeah!" Pyronica cheered.

"Great! Haha, so Seb gotta….Oh fuck!…" Ford groaned loudly.

Seb left! Shit. Ford couldn't see into the Mindscape. He wouldn't be able to find him until he possessed something!

"I… I'll come for you when I get Seb back. I can't take you into the mindscape like he does." Ford sighed.

"How useless…" Kryptos muttered. Ford's eyes metaphorically turned red. "OK THAT'S IT!" He dove towards the polytool and both started screaming as they clawed and hit each other.

"Hey! HEY! Quit that! You two are being SUCH jerks right now!" Pyronica stepped over and grabbed each man in a hand, easily pulling them away from each other.

They only struggled to continue hitting each other, ineffectively slapping at each other as he hung in her grip. Pyronica groaned. Of course she had to be the one to deal with this.

-.-

Yun didn't understand why Seb had come back so fast… And why Ford hadn't come back yet. "Did you leave Ford behind?" She asked, rubbing her belly as she lounged on the couch. Seb didn't respond aside from huffing and turning away from her. Yun frowned. "What's wrong, Seb?"

"...Hmph!" Seb crossed his arms. "It's not good that you like an asshole...especially if you like him more than me." He hugged himself. Yun raised an eyebrow. "...I'm gonna need some context here. I know a lot of assholes."

"Blue." Seb growled. Yun stiffened. She couldn't help the throb of pain that accompanied that name. "That's not true, I love you both. For different reasons. And frankly, even with how much I love Blue, I can't stay with him, not like I can with you . And… he won't- he doesn't even want to see me..." She rubbed her face.

"So you only stay with me because you have no better choice? Geez, thanks a lot!" Seb's eye turned red even as it had tears.

"That's not it at all!" Yun protested. "Aside from Blue's Zodiac disliking me, Blue is very…" she grimaced. "...overprotective. And he's very set in his ways. And… demanding. As much as I love him, it's difficult to… just… relax and be myself around him. Not that it matters anymore, since he doesn't want me around anymore..." Yun dragged herself up with great effort and wrapped an arm around Seb. "Besides, I don't HAVE to be here. I want to be here. Cuz I love you."

"Are you sure you don't have him as your favorite? I-I'd understand...I'm kinda annoying...and even Ford prefers Stanley…" Seb was about to claw at his arms, but stopped on time, biting his lip instead.

"I don't have favorites! That's like, childish, don't you think? I have lots of things I love doing with you! You're the one who helps me out in the kitchen and trades recipes with me, you're the one who helps me super glue googly eyes to Stan while he's asleep!" She told him simply.

"...even though I'm not smart or cool like Blue? Even though I'm just a human now?" Seb sniffled.

"I don't think you're any less cool just because you're human, I love humans! Why-Who EVEN told you Blue's my favorite?" Yun huffed.

"Keyhole." Seb mumbled angrily. Yun rolled her eyes. "Well Keyhole isn't me… And I haven't told them much of what happened between me and Blue." She patted his cheek. "Cheer up, you idiot. I love you."

Seb rubbed his eye. "I love you too…" He sniffled. "Don't you ever-don't-don't-" he wheezed out a breath. "...just love me! Okay?" He complained. He rubbed her belly. "Will you give me your firstborn? Ford owes me his firstborn, you know? It'd be a nice way to know you really love me." Seb said petulantly.

"Maybe~" She joked. "Seb, not to be annoying, but my boyfriend? You left him behind?"

"Oh fuck...Oh right, I was supposed to bring your friends...I didn't want to because I thought you didn't like me…" Yun smiled and Seb stood up, deciding to believe Yun because he was a very trusting human… and he was going to ignore the fact that she was Bill Cipher and could be easily lying to make him feel better.

"I'm getting tired of holding the Door open, please get this done." Yun complained. "Ow!" She glanced down at her belly. "Strong little buggers." she winced.

"Ok, be right back…"

-.-

Ford's house was really loud. The computer was open with Zuum on as he tried to get everyone to settle down. He was afraid of how the virus might affect the children, as they were half human, so he didn't let anyone come in person to the baby shower.

Bill's friends were given smaller, stuffed animal looking vessels so they weren't taking up space in terms of size. But they were wild and hectic and loud and rowdy- Ford sighed as Teeth cackled while throwing himself off a bookshelf. "LOOK! NO BONES! NO PAIN!" The Mouth flew across the room and bounced off Soos's belly. The hispanic man giggled. "Hehehe. He's not dead." Soos stated cheerfully. Melody giggled as she bounced Maria in her arms. Seb was crying on his screen, wanting to hold his niece. Stan was hiding very well his desire to hold the baby as well (Soos truly got 3 friends for the price of one).

Melody was acting as if she couldn't see him~ (She thought it was funny, how much he wanted to hold the baby. Maria had been born while everyone was busy. Seb hadn't had any time to hang out with her yet. And with the pandemic happening...)

"You're so round~" Plushie 8-Ball laid on Yun's belly. PlushieToobie was bouncing on Yun's chest. "Round! Round!" they thrilled. Yun rolled her eyes. "It'd be weird if I were square." she pointed out. "And I think a triangular shape doesn't work in this form."

The 4 scientists who unfortunately got involved with the Pines from befriending Stanford, were staring at everything without uttering a word. Fiddleford worried they broke them, but he knew it was unlikely, they needed a strong mind to work at the Center. Besides, they were going to have to reveal that their boss was more involved with aliens than just dating Yun.

Ford invited them to this Zuum chat, and with that, he decided to trust his family secret to them. "Because you're my friends." Ford told them with a soft smile as he sat beside his partner, holding her hand. Yun added on, "But if you go around telling the wrong people about me or my kids, I'm going to haunt your nightmares SO much you won't be able to distinguish dreams from reality anymore." To which Ford mussed up her hair. "No Yun. Bad Yun. Don't do that."

So then, Yun shrugged her four arms and grinned at the way their eyes followed the ever shifting patterns on them. "...explain, please." Dr. Wexler demanded. "We've got so many bets going for over a year, we need to finally get these payouts!"

Ford explained that Yun was an alien he met during the time he was lost in space, she was expecting half alien children. He also explained that his triplet Sebastian was born with powers from a past life. He didn't explain why, or who/what Seb was before. He just wanted to get the basics out there. Like the show off he is, Seb flickered a little blue flame between his fingertips, and were copied by the twins, also proud of their powers and wanting to show their family. Mabel clapped at them.

Dr. Clark, Wexler, Poddar and Jerald just nodded slowly and stayed silent, even after they were introduced to Yun's friends who "-are actually other aliens but this way they are less destructive." Yun explained. "I can turn people into stuffed animals, it's just something I can do."

"Well. With that UFO that crashed into the valley and all…" Dr. Poddar started, after he thought he was done processing. "...should have figured the boss had an IN with the outer planes." He couldn't stop staring at Yun. "Just a quick question, have any of your species ever… appeared before humans and became their deities?" Her existence really made him question his religion.

"I AM worshipped by multiple cultures across a few hundred planets." Yun grinned. (After all, what were Fans if not just worshippers for Space Idol Jan-Jan?)

"Oh." Poddar squeaked. He was now absolutely convinced his ancestors had met with aliens before. Yun, looking incredibly smug, slowly opened her mouth and Dr. Poddar's eyes bugged out at the swirling lights within her jaws, a mini galaxy with billions of tiny stars and gaseous nebula-

Ford totally swooned at his partner, getting hard shivers down his spine at this display of Weirdness.

Really, Yun wasn't even really lying about any of it. She created universes, she pretty much DID have all Creation within her. Heck, if Ax were here, things would get even wilder.

That made her imagine Ax in a human form like that FlatlandReverse Ax and THEN, even BETTER an Ax plushie and she squealed.

(Two separate AXOLOTLs shuddered in unison.)

Mabel squealed, calling for attention, "Uncle Ford! Are your friends brains workin' again? Can you open your presents now?!" She worked hard to organize this so quickly! She had asked Uncle Seb for ideas on what presents alien babies needed, and he shrugged. The only thing he was sure of was that they were going to be super, super tiny.

Dr. Clark ran a hand across his face. "How...how are you all so chill about this, kid?"

"Man...You have no idea what we've seen and done…" Dipper narrowed his eyes at him. "Do you think I care about this?" Dipper stared at Plushie Xanthar nuzzling into Yun's side. He had to admit, PlushieHenchmaniacs were kinda adorable.

Dr. Clark was suddenly scared of the 20 year old kid in front of him. He also winced when a horrifying amalgam of faces bounced past the screen. Dipper blinked. "Careful Facey, you don't want to knock the laptop over." Dipper called to the angel as it bounced away. The scientists all had their own collective moments of processing this as well.

"Yes, Mabel, I think they're ok…" Dipper said with a wry smile at the dumbfounded looks on their faces.

"GREAT! HEY EVERYONE! MOVE YOUR ASSES AND OPEN YOUR PRESENTS! THE LITTLE BABIES ARE WAITING!" Mabel screamed, much to the scientists' surprise. This whole family was insane…

They were given a lot of things (delivered to their door by Void Deliveries, which had sanitation stations built into all their buildings), which made sense. There were a lot of people giving gifts, including Soos, Melody, Abuelita and the scientists. They were normal human baby things, like bottles and bibs, which was adorable and Yun fell in love with the little clothes. "Lookie how tiny the shoes are~!" she cuddled them.

"Ford, I don't know what you'll do with like, seven brats that aren't even yours." Shermie tutted. "It'll be a horrible mess, taking care of babies is the worst!" Kari frowned and shushed him. "Don't scare your brother!"

Seb leaned towards the computer to look at Ford closer. "Babies are so smol and beautiful! And they're yours, Fordsie! Watching a baby grow and learn because of you...Feeling so proud of them growing and learning everything you teach them!" Seb turned to look at Zach and Zoe, feeling the pride fill him at the thought of his twins.

"They're genetically related to me. But I'm not the father." Ford reiterated. "Maybe I'll tutor them once they're older. Also, where are we going to put all this?" Yun rolled her eyes. "I'll build a new room. Don't worry about space."

"And what about the supplies? How much would that cost?" Ford pouted but Yun patted his hand, much to PlushieKryptos' annoyance. "I can make anything they need, thank you~"

Seb and Shermie glared at each other. They bet a thousand bucks on whether or not Ford would become a father. They still didn't have confirmation yet in either direction. Shermie claimed Ford wouldn't step up to become a father, because he was a bitch. Seb thought Ford WOULD be a father, a good one too!

Yun, oblivious, continued opening presents.

She loved all the tiny clothes, but some creative people gifted her with even TINIER clothes! More specifically, mittens, boots and blankets. Those were from Mabel (who knitted mittens specifically an extra finger larger just in case they had 6 fingers) and from Seb (who MADE the tiny gloves and boots as well as a huge blanket in three days just to show Yun he wasn't upset anymore…)

Yun was going crazy at the tiny clothing. "So cute! CUUUUTE! CUUUUUUUTE!" She squealed. Ford had to hold her down, "Calm down."

"BUT CUUTEEEEE!" She sobbed. She wanted to see the kids already! She wanted to make them wear the tiny clothing! "I need to see them already!" She roared.

Ford looked at everyone and smiled. "Thank you all for being here, and the gifts. Yun really appreciates it." ("Ahhh! The tiny little shoes! Shooooes!")

His friends thought it was hilarious how Yun was screaming and Ford was just trying very hard to stop her from having a Weirdness burst. He had the unicorn barrier around the Shack, but that didn't stop her anymore, and he knew that.

"They're gonna be due any day now. I can feel it." Yun rubbed her belly fondly. She was still halfway bouncing in place. "My babies… mine mine mine~" (Ford didn't know why, but that word made him feel a little lonely inside.)

PlushieAmmy leaned against his mother. "So I will have siblings again." He commented. That made Yun's smile drop. Ford hissed and reached out to hug her. "It's fine. It's fine. Don't think about it. You've got- we can-" He sputtered. PlushieAmmy patted Yun's hand. "It's fine. They're your biological children this time. I turned out fine. I'm sure they will too."

Stan and Shermie shared a look. Yeah... Fine…

"That's not…" Yun sighed. She patted Ammy. "Y-yeah. I shouldn't stress about this. I-I'm fine… I'm… fine…" She looked at Ford and squeezed his hand. She could do this. She wasn't going to let this break her again. Pyronica was strong. She could do it as well. And maybe… maybe one of her kids would want to be immortal. Heck, there were at least seven of them, so her odds were higher. She just kept telling herself that.

-.-

Yun woke up one morning and massaged her sore breasts and belly with a groan, as she did every morning for the past half year, only to have her eyes shoot open when she realized her shirt was wet.

"Oh." she noted. Well, it must mean the babies were gonna be due soon. She hoped it was soon. The demon-god caressed her belly. "Don't worry. Mommy's gonna make so much milk and feed you all." she promised them. And if she sent a bit of Weirdness into her boobs to make them produce more , well, of course she would. She had seven hungry mouths that were going to need feeding.

Ford was woken up one late night by Yun's pained and startled gasp. She put a pair of hands over her huge belly as she shook Ford awake with the others. "FORD! I- I think it's-" she let out a pained cry, sobbing and trembling. Ford was suddenly fully awake.

It was time.

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