Alright, now to throw in the rest of the Northwest family. Let us watch how Dipper reacts with them.
=-=-=-=-=-=Last chapter was on a Friday, this one, takes place the Sunday after=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Dipper was still a girl, planning to take the antidote later in the night. She was wearing an old timey dress, being complimented quite a bit over how lovely she fit it.
The teen gang had chosen to stay as the gender swap for the full weekend. They continued to go by their usual names, though Nate and Lee goofed around with several ideas for the names they could go by.
Lee's favorite was when the two wound up calling him Leia, the two obviously trying to keep the first letter of their names. Wendy was commonly called Wendel by them, Robbie was Roberta, and Nate was Natasha.
They were honestly disappointed when Dipper insisted that she could stay Dipper, because it was a nickname, and he even showed them his birthmark to prove that her name wouldn't change even if his gender did. They wound up calling Mabel, Mason.
Dipper and Mabel both laughed over their choice, while the teens joined in after they explained why.
Dipper was right with his guesses on Tambry and Thompson not wanting to take a potion, so they were still their original genders.
The full gang was all together as they were heading about the town, everyone dressing as if it was back in 1863.
Dipper had warned their grunkle about what day it was, seeing as this was a day that Dipper was anticipating.
The day of his first confrontation with Preston.
This has become one of the points throughout his times in Gravity Falls that usually altered how the full timeline would go.
After the first couple runs, Dipper dedicated a couple to finding out absolutely everything about the Northwest family. He has things in his head that would crumble their life to shreds.
He literally had enough blackmail material, as well as knowledge where the evidence was, that he could own Northwest manor, he could even own them as human furniture.
And yes, he has done that before. He usually made Preston a footstool, Priscilla was normally forced to be a lamp, and he normally dropped his muddy shoes on Preston's head a couple times before selling them both off.
Finding buyers for them was only so hard, plenty of people willing to purchase two people for random reasons, depending on how they pissed him off during their first meeting.
As far as her parents were aware, Pacifica was usually left as a seat pillow in a different room, where her clothes fit into the décor.
What really happened, was she was kept away from them, and left in her own room. Pacifica was never degraded by him in those timelines, because she hasn't truly brought his ire upon herself.
Her parents have been given a special place in the bottom of his heart, where he stores all forms of cruel and evil tortures that he wishes to put them through. He still recalls a specific timeline, where he had run them out of town, married Pacifica, and they had twins.
Preston had tried to kidnap his kids, and almost made it out with his daughter.
Dipper was missing for a month, before he came walking back to Pacifica with their daughter.
Pacifica had never figured why he disappeared, no one did. The cameras watching the children failed the night it happened.
Preston was never seen, and no one could find him.
What Dipper never mentioned, was that he kept up with Preston. He then trapped him within his hotel room with magic, before torturing him with every form he had learned over the one-hundred-fifty-eight lives he had lived.
Cursing a man to eternal torment for eternity was not a quick and easy spell, especially when he wanted to make sure the man would continue to go through that torture every time he killed the bastard.
In his timeline, Preston was too win obsessed, mostly due to his own family issues, from his own childhood.
He has tried his best to redeem the man. He earned the man's respect; he was the perfect winner for the man at one point. But the man was so deep into his own darkness, no amount of light could heal him. Depending on how badly Dipper beats them at some points throughout his life, Preston could deteriorate to the point of murdering his wife and trying to rape his daughter.
Dipper has never allowed the second to happen.
After a couple rounds of dealing with them, he has discovered exactly how Preston was ruined.
The man was beaten by his own father when he lost at anything, his sister bullied him because she never lost at anything. His mother was one of those trophy wives, perfect looks and everything.
But Preston never got over being treated like trash, even when his parents got hit by a truck one winter, while on their way to see his sister doing a recital.
His older sister had done great at the recital, until her ex showed up asking for a second chance, and when she rejected him because she had already taken everything from the man, he set off the bomb he had on him.
Needless to say, Preston was broken not long after. His parents were hit because they were losers, his sister failed to deal with her loose ends, making her a loser. He was a winner because he was alive.
Dipper had read it all in the man's journal. Dipper's timeline was a little messed up.
Preston has lost most reason to love anything but winning, because losers died. After his family lost, he started winning, his family were nothing but losers, that kept him from winning.
Preston has gone down a very tragic road.
Dipper could save the man; he had done it once before. When he proved that losers could still win. But that would cost him more than he was willing to pay.
It cost him his soulmate.
It only happened once, faking it like he did to trick Wendy to win on occasion would not do. Pacifica had to die to redeem Preston.
He has tried to redeem him with other options. There has never been the chance to save both, it was one or the other.
So he always chose Pacifica.
Dipper has killed Preston three-hundred-forty-eight times, torture him two-hundred-twelve times, with an overlap of one-hundred and eight times.
Dipper at one point chose to just do several runs where he slowly ripped Preston apart. The man had even sold his daughter four-hundred and fifty-seven times, Dipper making sure to be the buyer each and every time.
Needless to say, after the many lifetimes Dipper has lived, Bill was not the one he hated the most. Bill had better chances of becoming the best man at his wedding than him ever liking Preston.
Well, he would admit that he pressured the man into going that far. Dipper has done plenty, and yes, each time he 'purchased' the girl, he has done something different, depending on what he was going for.
Pacifica has been just his bed warmer, she has been his maid, his pet, and even simply his slave. He even once made her be Mabel's yes girl.
That just wound up with Mabel labeling her as her sister, no matter what he said she was for the girl, Pacifica would always wind up being her sister.
Dipper would always have a smile through those timelines.
Mabel always knew how to read him, even in the timelines he went evil.
He actually couldn't explain it, Mabel was able to tell that he just didn't want to be mean to the girl, so he gave her to her.
She also referred to her as the timelines he kept her in, in a familial term. She just kept making them fel like they just had a rather kinky relationship.
Dipper sometimes wonder if his sister had used his chair after he did and was just trolling him.
He has tested it, and apparently, she didn't.
Dipper had decided to use this day to see if his website had altered anything. He honestly would have come the last two times he got sent a ticket to Northwest Fest, but his parents didn't want him running off to some random rich guy's house.
Then again, he didn't try too hard to convince them he wanted to go. He would have gone, but he would have been bored, and possibly end up flirting with Pacifica. He tried that one lifetime.
Dipper had been intelligent beyond any mind on earth and had made his family one of the richest in the world. Preston was ecstatic when his daughter had gained his attention, and then when Dipper tried to pull Pacifica into his family, Preston tried to get as much out of it as possible.
Pacifica had gained everything that timeline, making her a winner. She was free to make her own choices, and all it took was being sold off. But when Preston found out he got nothing from her after she joined the Pines family as his betrothed, he was furious.
Preston's greatest fear was losing. The man would go to any length to win and keep winning.
But he could never beat Dipper at anything. Dipper would walk circles around the man, even in his first lifetime. Preston held no real power, and when Dipper exposed the man in his first summer, when he and Mabel found Quintin Trembley, Pacifica had screwed up and shown the man the papers, expecting him to do something about it.
He had lost his temper on her, and Dipper had found this out after twenty years of their marriage that first run through. Dipper lost his temper for the first time, and they had an argument.
She eventually convinced him to not travel across the country to murder her father.
He still got revenge in a later lifetime obviously.
Dipper has a special place in his memory dedicated to his favorite ways he breaks the man.
Dipper shook his head, realizing that the author just spent the last four pages, and the last one-thousand-five-hundred words, talking about Preston.
Dipper shook his head from the fourth-wall break, noticing how they had made their way to the stage, and was now looking at his most hated foe.
Pacifica had just said her invite to anyone that wanted to show their pioneer spirit, and he slowly followed Mabel up. Pacifica wasn't completely happy to address the girl, who was still a boy.
Dipper noticed there was extra makeup on Pacifica's check.
Dipper had gotten to standing next to Mabel as Preston grew tired of hearing the chanting the girl started up. Pacifica hadn't said anything against the 'boy', just trying to rush him off the stage, ignoring the extra sewn on patches and glitter that decorated Mabel's pioneer outfit.
Preston gave a disappointed look towards Pacifica as he took it upon himself to put the girl in her place.
"Little boy, you do realize how ridiculous you look with those patches sewn on all over your outfit, it is even covered in glitter, which won't be invented for another eighty or so years. This is a serious event, for serious people. If you are only up here to goof off, then return home. We do not need people who can't even take a simple outfit seriously, here ruining our traditions."
Mabel was now glad she didn't try to go all out as Dipper warned her about something like this. She had tried to goof off with Doritos, until Dipper warned her about people bullying her over them. She now knew who the boy meant.
Dipper however pulled Mabel back, staring the man in the eye. "Well, Botox was invented nearly a hundred and twenty years after pioneer day is set, so shouldn't your wife be sent home for not taking this day serious?"
The fact that Dipper sounded a lot like any other rich popular bitch, like how Pacifica would sound if she was at the top of her game.
Dipper could tell she had gotten hit for losing to Mabel the other night.
Dipper was not going to let the man off easy.
Preston glared at the girl before him. "And what would you know about being serious, little girl. You and your family, always doing your best to con these good people of their hard-earned cash."
Dipper laughed, and it was a rather haughty sounding laugh, it made Preston a bit nervous.
"If you want to talk about conning people, shall we reveal to them your dirty laundry? Of how Nathaniel Northwest was actually the equivalent to Mcguckit, a town idiot that was given credit of founding the town when the government tried to bury the truth? Or how about a different secret, one that is closer to home for you. How you were barely lucky enough to inherit your riches?"
Preston had stiffened when he heard what the girl said. "Excuse me?"
Dipper laughed once more. "What? You forgot all about the three that died to give you what you have? We both know that if your parents weren't hit by the truck that night, they would have just had another child to give their money to, because their son was a loser."
Preston nearly snapped. Pacifica just stared as she watched her father losing his cool. Priscilla was also taking steps away from her husband, knowing the accident from that time was still a sore subject.
Dipper would admit that it was practically a coinflip that decides how Preston takes the death of his family. One side, he would take their deaths, and become a better man. But the man before him had lost that coin flip.
There are also timelines where he is kicked out, and the rough time he lives when young, turns him into a better man. Dipper has looked through the multiverse on occasion and has seen the man be better.
He has been a hippy; he has been a joyous man that dresses up and plays villains and heroes with his wife and daughter. He has seen this man become so happy with his family and has seen him be far worse.
He has seen him as a vampire, far worse monsters, and everything you can think of.
He has seen so many ways this man could turn out and has seen himself be worse.
Dipper had honestly tried his best to help this man in the beginning. But the man would never accept help, because that would be admitting that he was losing.
Preston took a deep breath, before snapping his fingers, and pointing at her.
Dipper sighed when a man with a good amount of muscle placed a hand on her shoulder, gripping it rather tightly.
Dipper didn't have to look to know that Mabel and Pacifica were looking scared, what with two large thugs about to drag the young girl off.
Wendy was making his way up to the stage to teach these two how they should act towards a little girl.
Wendy wasn't gonna make it in time to help the two lug heads though.
As the man had grabbed her, his face hovering over her shoulder to threaten her, he was kicked in the nose by Dipper's right shoe.
As the man stepped back, Dipper's toes hooked into his shirt collar, pulling her up with a slight jump with her left foot. She wound up planting her left heel, which everyone could now see were two-inch heels that shined black, right into the man's shoulder, causing him to stiffen.
Dipper kicked off into a sideways cartwheel, landing on her hands upon the second thug's shoulders as the first just fell over, unconscious.
No one could utter a word, nothing to say over a girl taking the thug out in a single move. They were further silenced as the girl dropped down the thug's back, as she grabbed his shirt collar.
The man choked; she kicked his thigh in a way to cramp it, so it was easier to use what weight she had to flip the guy.
The Guy wound up face down on the stage, almost at the same time the first guy wound up falling flat on his back. Dipper stood up as she faced Preston once more, lifting her right foot, a needle stabbing out of the heel as she stabbed the second thug in the shoulder. The man falling unconscious soon after the hidden needle was removed.
Well, they were easier than she thought they would be.
Everyone there stared at the girl as she fixed her hair, dusted her shoulders, and checked her nails.
"That is what a winner looks like. But I guess I could sing you a little song, to remind you of your place."
Suddenly, there was music. Nobody knew where the girl placed the karaoke machine, or how she knew to place it where she did for this. But apparently, she was gonna sing a song to put Preston in his place.
Pacifica and Mabel both chose to step back towards the edge of the stage, where Priscilla looked to be cowering.
Preston was the only one left center stage, as Dipper slowly began to sing a song. One she was fully aware would set the man off.
She started to sing 'Outmatched' by Reinaeiry. Dipper will admit that she is using future knowledge, due to this song not being made yet, but with how this backwater town is, she doesn't expect any of them to realize it as more than a song she made up.
Preston stood there as he listened to the song. And could tell the girl had this whole thing planned when she tossed an apron at him. Somehow, this girl knew all this before meeting him, and she was leading him into a trap somehow.
What was worse, was that she was winning. The song was hitting everything on the nose. His sister had forced him into servant outfits when they were young, and even a maid's outfit.
The one that got him the most however, was the lucky to be born line. The very lined his old family used to tell him.
That line would always be a sore spot for him.
As the girl was finishing the song, she had stepped one step too close.
So he punched her.
Everyone gasped. Preston had just punched a young girl in the face, leaving her with a broken nose.
Preston was taking deep breaths as he watched the girl begin to get up, still singing, finishing up the song.
And he actually gulped when he saw the blood covering her face, just now realizing what he had done. In public.
"Guess this means, you lose."
Dipper smirked as she pulled out a tissue. Adjusting her nose, cleaning her face, and folding the tissue as she placed it into a plastic baggy back into her pocket.
Preston looked on, as the girl just cleaned herself up, nose still purple and black from being punched. His family signet ring being engraved into the bridge of her nose.
"These people can be paid for their silence. I have not lost anything."
Dipper laughed at his words, some blood that was still in her mouth coloring her teeth. "Not everyone can be bought. And I was talking about the contract you signed."
Preston was confused, right along with everyone else there. "What contract?"
Dipper pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket and presented it to Preston to read.
Preston took the paper and began to read as Dipper pulled out a bottle, filled with the antidote to her gender swap potion.
The contract was worded as any contract between buyer and seller, he has signed plenty of these, so many he couldn't count them.
He would normally skim through at best. They were literally all them same, this one was as well. Until he got about halfway through, when it mentioned personal interaction. Apparently, he bought something from this boy at some point, and he had to sign this contract before he would build his request.
The fine print is where he started to sweat, however.
As the contract read, if any party of either side were to in one way or another, bring physical harm upon the other, said harmed party would be given ownership of a property of their choice.
It was worded in a way that one would think of the items the inventor made, and that if the inventor attacked you, you could get another invention from him for free.
Reading it now however, made it sound like the now boy, after he drank the vial, the boy next to his daughter had also drunk a potion and became a girl. it sounded like this boy could ask for whatever he wanted from him.
Preston had recognized this contract; he had invited the inventor that made him sign it to each Northwest Fest in hopes to get the man to hit himself so he could trap the boy into working for him for free.
And now, here he is, falling into his own trap. Preston had signed ten of these contracts in hopes of using all ten when he sprung his trap.
Dipper smirked at the man. "Well, let's go look at what all I can claim of yours, shall we?"
Preston just glared at the boy. Preston Northwest was not a loser. Preston Northwest was a winner.
Dipper watched calmly, as Preston reached into his shirt. And still watched as the man pulled out a small handgun. Dipper knew the man had a hidden arms permit. Preston always had it on him.
But as Dipper predicted, the song that reminded Preston of his sister's years of torment, being called out on his parents, and even being stood up to by a young girl, that turned into a boy.
Preston didn't advertise it, but he was homophobic. He was against every type of person that wasn't expected. He despised anyone who did anything to change what they were born as.
Dipper was breaking Preston. Emotionally and mentally. And now the man just lost it all. He didn't even have to go too far.
Preston had taken each of his inventions, each challenge the man gave him, as a loss. Dipper just threw all his victories over the man in his face. Dipper was standing there and had laughed in the man's face several times as he sang a song that poked all the buttons to piss him off. Recently, his daughter has even lost. His daughter that he has raised to be a winner.
Dipper has been silently planning this throughout the entire timeline. Poking the man over the internet with a couple anonymous accounts, all laughing at him. Pushing the man just enough to keep him angry throughout his life. As long as Pacifica wins, he wouldn't take it out on her, and she was indeed a winner.
Her song was picked based on what Preston taught her, so that was more his loss as well.
Dipper held his hand up as Preston pointed the gun at him. Preston pulled the trigger.
"Isnyhtfétak Ifortsítna."
The bullet that left the gun, made it halfway to him, before flipping around and hitting Preston himself.
Dipper scoffed at the man. "Can't even win against a child, when you have the weapon?"
Preston felt the bullet hit him; he spent several seconds trying to figure out what happened. Trying to think about how he could have lost. As the boy said, he had the gun, he pulled the trigger.
Preston dropped to the ground, bleeding too much to make it to the hospital, especially with how terrible the services there was.
Preston died with the last thought on his mind, being the curses, he mentally shouted at the damn Pines boy.
Dipper stood calmly as Mabel rushed into his arms as she cried. Having just watched someone shoot at her brother, she had thought she was going to lose him.
Pacifica and Priscilla were just lost, confused on what to do.
Dipper watched as the teens watched from the crowd.
The things going through their heads was rather easy to guess.
They have been witnessed to small doses of his power, just watching as he used the knowledge to goof around with them and have fun.
Now they saw something else.
They have now seen him rip a man down to the point he pulled a gun on him. They couldn't even begin to think on what Dipper had to have done other than the song, calling out his wife on her Botox, and kicking his guards' asses.
They didn't know how often Dipper mocked him online, how often he called the man out to get a new idea to build, that Preston would pay him for.
Dipper has learned to hate Preston on a couple levels, and always enjoyed trying new ways to get the man killed.
He can recall how many 'reenactment' lives he went through, he took the role of bowser, kidnapped Pacifica, and outfitted Wendy with what she needed to be Mario. He got to set Preston on fire or drop the guy in lava during those. He has even gone Gannondorf and treated Pacifica as Zelda.
The hardest about those timelines was placing the 'Master Sword' where only Wendy could retrieve it.
He almost laughed himself to defeat when Robbie confronted him once.
Dipper stared over at Priscilla and Pacifica. "I do believe we have a couple things we need to talk about."
Wendy and the other teens just stepped back, deciding to take the antidotes, seeing as the fun was over.
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Alright, I did plan on something with a confrontation with Preston this chapter, but as I wrote it, it was like word vomit, and it just kept escalating, until he pulled out a gun.
I had no idea I was gonna push the man that far, until I had him pull out the gun.
Keep in mind, this is after a couple of years of cyber bullying, after a lifetime of being treated like shit by a family that saw him as less than decent.
Preston in this timeline, was able to remain somewhat decent, as long as him and his family win. Losing is what he hates most, but after pushing his buttons throughout several years online, before laughing in his face. Preston had dreams about being able to torment the inventor behind the screen, only for his tormentor to poke at old wounds that never really healed and laugh in his face as he shifted genders.
I hope I did good. I kind of don't like Preston, if you couldn't tell.