The sky looked like it was on fire, the tear bleeding the demonic entities into the town. A large pyramid cast menacing shadows across the Earth, screams could be heard from town.
Bill hovered outside the Mystery Shack, Mabel nowhere in sight.
"Alright Pines family! You know this has been a really great day."
"How did you get the rift? Mabel…" Ford started before Bill interrupted.
"You mean the bubble Shooting Star made. As if something like that could keep me out. Her power is mine, nothing is safe." He cackled
Mabel ran outside having transported herself back into the attic just as Dipper had opened the door. She clung to Dippers arm hiding her face a mask of terror. Bill had laid out his next set of instructions, all she had to do was get everyone to his "Fearamid". Dipper squeezed her hand reassuringly.
"And there she is. You gave it your best effort Shooting Star but it's time you came back with me. We made a deal after all."
She let go of her brother and faced Bill "Grunkle Ford. Do the spell. The last ingredient is in the room, I made sure to get some just in case."
"If I do that you'll be trapped out here Mabel, the barrier will keep you out too," Ford said
She smiled, "I know." Easy to trap them, they were too trusting of their precious innocent Mabel. She exploded out of her body, her physical form glowing like a star, "I did make a deal, and your part is to leave my family alone." Her voice was magnified, power radiated off of her as she launched herself at him.
"Dipper we have to hurry," Ford said grabbing his arm.
"But Mabel…" Dipper whispered.
"Mabel told us what to do, she's keeping him at bay to keep us safe while we do the spell. Once we protect the shack, creating a safe place so we can form a plan to get her back." He pulled him inside, "Go to your room, grab the hair, I'll get everything else."
"Alright." He said and ran up the stairs, feeling the ground quake at the power his sister and Cipher were releasing, "Mabel, be careful."
Mabel was continued to fight, not holding back, the plan would be for her to lose, to be "trapped" until they came.
"Now now Shooting Star, do you really want to fight?" He laughed clenching his fist and binding her in place, "Because I don't think you do."
She struggled against his power, "You won't hurt my family." She sounded desperate.
His eye narrowed, "I don't think I can." he said lowly. "Well Shooting Star, since your family locked you out you'll just have to come with me." Still holding her with his power the pair vanished into the fearamid, "You know Shooting Star, This is the most fun I've had in years."
She looked around the building, "It looks exactly like the one from before."
"It's meant too." He said shrugging, leaning air.
"Why did you plan it so they could lock themselves out?"
"To give them false hope Shooting Star. They'll gather the people they need to defeat me then attack, we'll make it easy for them to get here."
"And then we trap them." She replied.
"Exactly, but that's going to take some time until then we'll party."
"And the others? Your henchmanics?"
"They're coming, I told them to turn this place inside out. Then we'll take Weridmagedon global."
"And what's my part in all this Bill?" Mabel asked, "When we take this Global?"
"Isn't it obvious? You're one of us now Shooting Star" He replied, "You've shown just how ruthless you can be."
She smirked, "Being left behind would be awfully boring." she glanced outside, "Are we going to kill them?"
Bill glanced at her, "we probably should kill them unless you want to try and make a deal with them."
"If we can't get them to agree then we kill them." She said.
"They're going to fight with everything to save you once it comes out just what you are, they'll put the blame on me."
"That's because it is your fault" she replied sweetly.
He pushed her over with a laugh, "You're the one who made the deal."
She stood up, brushing herself off with a grin, "And I'm glad I did."
He glanced outside, "Their coming, ready to make your grand entrance?"
"Even need to ask." She leaned against the side of the throne as the giant creatures entered the room.
"Alright boys, we've been having a lot of fun tearing the town apart, but as I told you we had a helping hand, our very own Shooting Star. She managed to trick Sixer into handing over the rift." Mixed laughter echoed out, "Shooting Star, meet, Eight Ball, Kryptos, Zanthar, Teeth, Hectorgon, Amorphous shape, Pyronica, and Pacifire.
"I've been watching the chaos." Mabel said, "looks like fun."
"VIP party right here boys, then we take Weirdmagedon to the next stage." He settled in his half-built throne watching the monsters disperse.
"You seem pleased with yourself," Mabel commented.
"Things are going our way Shooting Star, this world is finally learning how to party."
Mabel nodded and hopped off, "I'm going to join in on the fun."
"Knock yourself out." He said waving his hand idly.
Mabel joined the crew, as chaotic as Bill and less restrained Mabel was having a blast. She was dancing, drinking, playing games that seemed to be a much deadlier take on human games.
Sitting in a circle, a cup filled with some glowing green liquid that Pyronica called "Time punch", before she spun the statue of Lazy Susan. It stopped on Hectorgon who tried running away but was swallowed by the female. Standing Mabel made her way to Bill, "I'm assuming it's normal for them to eat each other?"
"He'll be fine." He said waving his hand, "It's not like any of us can die by something so simple as being devoured." The music faded as loud banging echoed the room.
"This is the Police, Time Police."
"Just play it cool, ditch the Time Punch. Let me do the talking" He glanced at Mabel, "Shooting Star, you might want to make yourself scarce for a few minutes."
"Noted," Mabel said and vanished to another room just as the wall exploded.
She relaxed in her old room watching the scene play out until the police and Time baby was destroyed. She appeared, "That went better than expected." She said, "Did you know you could kill Time Baby?"
"Not at all." He said laughing, "But I got what I needed from it. He's gone, I control everything."
"And what of his warning?"
"Shooting Star, Did you think this was the last stop for us?" Bill asked, "I've done this before, I did this to my own home dimension. Then we'll move on until we find a new world to make our own, then we move on."
Mabels face revealed nothing, "Then we better get to work."
"Ladies, gentleman, that being with like 87 different faces."
"88 different faces!" It shouted.
"Wow, touchy subject" Bill said straightening his bowtie.
Mabel chuckled.
"It's been fun turning Gravity Falls inside out, rounding up all its terrified citizens and then stacking them, into this massive throne of human agony." he sat down, "Don't worry they're not conscious anymore, probably." He prodded Lazy Susan back into place as she mumbled something, he laughed, "Whoops, back you go there." He turned his attention back to the monsters that gathered, "but Gravity Falls is just the beginning. It's time to take out chaos worldwide! Alright boys, to the corners of the Earth, set the world aflame with your weirdness. This dimension is ours. Ah global domination, You know Shooting Star, I could get used to this."
"I think you're going to have to wait." She said watching the maniacs fall.
"What!?" Bill flew out and touched the edge of the town, the shield rippling, "Hmm, this might be more complicated than I thought."
"I think I broke something." Pacifire groaned from the ground.
"Walk it off!" He shouted.
Mabel looked up around the town, "You think Ford did this?" she asked.
"I don't know." He said, "Alright everyone back to the Fearamid, NOW!"
Bill was down the demon equivalent of pacing, floating back and forth, clouds gathering, "Alright, can anyone explain to me why that even with our newfound INFINITE POWER" Lightning lashed out at the area, "None of us can escape the border of this stupid hick town!" He sat down, "There's some kind of forcefield keeping us in."
"So we really need Grunkle Ford to hurry up and get here." She said, "If anyone in town knows how to break the field, it'll be him."
He inhaled, "I really don't like waiting. I've done enough of it"
"He'll be here soon, but until then we should have some fun."
Dipper and Ford sat in the darkened basement of the shack, Mcgucket beside them as they finalized their plans, "Now, there is no guarantee this will work." McGucket said fidgeting.
"It has to." Dipper said, "We don't know what he's doing to her."
Ford placed his hand on Dippers back, "Your sister is strong Dipper, whatever he's done, she can push through it."
Dipper clenched his fists, "Why Grunkle Ford? Why did she do this? Take his deal? Allow herself to become like him, Sacrificing herself."
"We'll find out tomorrow. Now get some sleep, it's going to be a long day."
Dipper nodded and headed upstairs, ignoring the other people, plopping down on his bed he turned to face the wall, "Mabel, I'm so sorry." he whispered drifting off into a restless sleep.
Mabel lounged on the throne as Bill paced, he had been pacing for hours, he hadn't wanted to have some fun, he wanted answers. the others were keeping a healthy distance away, "it's not as if you knew we'd be stuck here Bill." she said, "Your plan was foolproof."
"Except now until your family arrives we can't make any progress," Bill replied.
"It's not all bad." She commented, "We won't have anything in our way once we leave this place."
He looked back at her, "you're awfully calm."
She shrugged, "They'll be coming after me no matter what. We'll get our answers one way or another, and then they can grace the top of the throne." She said, "Or decorate the walls."
"There's no such thing as too much decoration." he replied, "You can have the honour of turning your family into whatever you want."
She smirked, "This should be fun." she hopped up, "So are you going to continue to brood or what?"
"I'm not brooding." He said, "I'm thinking."
"Whatever you're being boring" She walked down the steps, "I'm going to have some fun." She heard crashing coming from outside and she moved to the window, the sun was rising and the shack was approaching.
"Looks like our fun is coming." Bill said eyes glinting with excitement, "Now, Let's play a game." and with a snap of his fingers, chains wrapped around her, binding her in place.
"What should we do Boss?"
"Stand down, we need them to come in. " He sat down on the throne and watched them approach, his eye gleaming.
Dipper and Stan stood on the porch as they got closer to the looming pyramid
"You do realize we're walking right into a trap," Stan said.
"We have to do this Grunkle have to save her"
"I know that kid, and we're going to. We just need to anticipate the worst."
Ford approached the pair, "it seems Bill is letting us walk in, are you sure you want to come with us Dipper? I don't know what's we're going to see but I can't see it being pleasant."
"She's my sister. She sacrificed herself to keep us safe. I can do this much."
"If you insist, we need to get below with the others."
"You go ahead Dipper, my brother and I will meet you down there."
Dipper nodded and silently left.
Stan grabbed his brother's arm, "If this plan starts to go south we have to get Dipper out of 've already lost Mabel to this we can't lose Dipper."
"She isn't lost, Stanley."
"Ford, she's a demon! What do you want to tell their parents? "Sorry, your daughter made a deal with a demon because he threatened to hurt Dipper". Do you see how crazy that sounds?"
"I get it. But I'm hoping if we destroy Bill she'll go back to normal."
"If that our only hope then I'll follow you." Stan says, "I don't like it though."
"Thank you," He said, "If this fails I want to thank you for everything."
"Thank me after we save the world." Stan said clapping his brother on the back, "Let's go."
The group walked down the hallways quietly, the place eerily silent.
"She's probably in the centre, if we keep going straight we'll reach her," Ford said, gun in hand.
"I don't like this Ford, I feel like we're being watched," Stan muttered
"It's likely he knows we're here." he replied, "I don't know what game he's playing, but we have to keep moving if we want to save Mabel."
The group continued moving, each of them feeling the presence of something watching. They could see the opening at the end of the hallway.
As they entered the throne room, eyes on the throne made of their friends and family, Mabel's figure chained beside it, Dipper ran towards her.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Saving you," He said pulling on the chains.
"That's not going to work." she said, "You have to leave."
Bill's laugh echoed the room, "I knew you'd come for her." he snapped his fingers her chains fading away, another snap and everyone except for Dipper, Mabel, Stan and Ford were turned into banners that now graced the walls around them, "The walls looked rather dull."
He snapped his fingers and two cages appeared separating the pairs,he sat on the throne "Now sixer, I know you know a way to break the barrier keeping us locked inside this hick town, so you can show me it in your mind, letting me take Weirdmagedon global, or you can watch your family be tortured until you give it up."
"Grunkle Ford you can't! Look what he did to Mabel!" Dipper shouted digging in his pocket and enlarging the cage with the flashlight, "Mabel we have to buy Grunkle Ford some time" He pulled her down a hallway
"And this is your plan?Angering him" She asked hearing him coming for them, "You're not fast enough." She said lifting him up and flying down the halls, "We're never going to be able to outwit him."
"Grunkle Ford knows Bill better than any of us, if we can keep him busy long enough he'll figure out how to get us out of this."
"How can you be so sure," She said, he was getting closer. She slowed a fraction, this wasn't part of the plan.
"Because we've beaten him twice already."
"Yeah, once in the mindscape where we had infinite power and the other when he was in you. This is different."
"Mabel. I know you're scared but we can't think like that."
"You didn't have to see him do everything." Mabel said voice firm, "This is all my fault. I thought we had outsmarted him."
Dipper frowned, "This isn't your fault. It's not like you knew he could do that."
"We could have stopped him from getting in if I hadn't chosen this."
"Your sister's right." Bill said floating in front of them, growing in size and grabbing the pair, "She's the idiot who made a deal with me. Now, we have a pair of Stan's to talk too." He headed back to the main room.
"Alright Ford, times up! I've got the kids. I think I'm going to kill one of them now just for heck of it."
"Wait!" Ford called, "I surrender."
"Good choice" he dropped Mabel and Dipper.
"Don't do it Ford" Stan grabbed his shirt, "It will destroy the universe."
"It's the only way."
Bill laughed, "Oh even when you're about to die you lines Twins just can't get along" with a snap of his fingers the cage sunk into the ground, Stan being held in place.
"My only condition is that you let my brother and the kids go."
"Fine"
"No Grunkle Ford don't trust him!" Dipper called.
Mabel, however, was focused on Stan, his voice sounded slightly off. She glanced at his hand, more importantly, his fingers,1,2,3,4,5...6. Bill had almost taken Stans hand, "Bill Stop!"