Mabel wakes up in the morning red eyed and tired. She couldn't get very much sleep last night, because she was worried for her brother, and thinking she might lose him was destroying her on the inside. When she walks out of the bathroom with a happy waddles following suit she smells the sweet scent of pancakes, but as she looks in the kitchen she starts crying as she sees Dipper standing over the stove cooking breakfast. She says in a raspy voice trying not to cry "Dipper aren't you supposed to be in the hospital right now?" Dipper hesitates to answer because he doesn't want to tell her Bill is still around even worse inside his own mind "It was a false alarm, I was just dehydrated" he said as he put two plates of pancakes on the table and one on the floor for waddles. They eat breakfast and mabel asks "We still leaving today?" Dipper responds with "Of course we are, a little dehydration isn't gonna stop me."
The twins pack up the car and, as usual dipper is driving. On the way there all dipper is thinking about is when and if he should tell anyone about his predicament with Bill Cipher. Dipper calms down as he realizes he doesn't have very much to worry about at the moment since Bill is still weak from being defeated 4 years ago. As they pull into Gravity Falls they notice the town has built up over the years. The town had a mall now as well as quite a few more businesses. They pull up to the mystery shack and notice that it's 3 times as big as it was when they left. They walk in with their bags and immediately are stopped by what looked to be the oldest corduroy brother in a mystery shack shirt with a badge that said security and are asked what they are here for with those bags. Dipper says who they are and asks for Soos. The corduroy comes back with a well dressed soos and a similarly dressed Melody. Soos hugs them both "I'm so glad you dudes could make it, now we are only waiting for Stan and Ford." Dipper immediately asks "I thought they would be back by now it's been 4 years." "Yea dude they should be back today or tomorrow."
Dipper heads outside and, sits on the porch wondering where Wendy and, Pacifica are. He still didn't know how he really felt about both of them, he knew he loved both of them at least like family. "Hey pine tree" Bill says startling Dipper "Why do you have thought about both of them and, why are they wearing a white dress half the time?" Dippers face gets red with embarrassment "Why are you asking anyways Bill? Why would you care?" Bill is hesitant at first which was weird to Dipper he remembered Bill always being quick with either a wisecrack or a threat then Bill finally says "First of all Pine tree you're only 17 earth years old, second of all we are going to be together for awhile relative to you, lastly i'm a near omnipotent being who got beat by two sets of twins and is stuck in the mind of the most unstable and unpredictable one. The least I can do is get comfortable." Dipper was about to argue about how he wasn't unstable when two figures walked in from the darkness, but he was a little disappointed when it wasn't his gruncles. The two men approached and asked if he was Dipper Pines he replied yes and they handed him a closed envelope and told him not to open it until he was away from prying eyes, he tucked it into his pocket and went back inside.
Dipper gets stopped by a very familiar voice saying "Hey dipper!" He looks towards where the voice is coming from, and he realizes that it was Wendy. Dipper Looked in awe as he saw the now 20 year old redhead that still wore boots, dark blue jeans, a green flannel, and the baseball cap with a pine tree on her also realized he now stood a little taller than her. He was still entranced when Wendy was talking he comes back hearing "Dipper! Did you even hear what i was saying?" Dipper answered honestly "Well I get it, it has been awhile since you've seen everybody guess you were surprised to see i didn't change much in appearance." Dipper looks at her realizing in fact she didn't even gain any height. Wendy continues "Well i was asking if you found yourself a girlfriend?" Dipper was surprised at the question and hesitantly responded "I really didn't talk to very many people. I was a loner i kept getting angry at guys who tried to be my friend and girls who wanted to get closer to me. I guess i'm a complicated person." Dipper then started to think maybe Bill was right about the unstable and unpredictable mind he had. Dipper started to get angry, but before he could head outside Wendy tried to stop him Dipper immediately shoved her arm away when Wendy said "Dude what's your problem?" Dipper then realized how aggressive he was so he just walked upstairs to his room not knowing what he should say.
Dipper walks in the room and sees his bags and pulls out the hat Wendy gave him before they left four years ago. He sat there thinking if he should just wait till tomorrow, then he remembered the letter he got from those two guys he opens the letter, and starts reading. Come to the Northwest estate alone and well dressed, also be ready for anything. Dipper was hesitant as Stan and Ford could come any moment and he had a chance to talk to wendy more. He went to put the letter back in the envelope when he realized there were photos inside he took them out and started looking at them. The first photo was of strange marking on a wall like claws from a large beast. The second photo was of a basement door with strange symbols on it and he also noticed a strange lock on it. The third and final photo was the hardest to look at for dipper because it was of Wendy kissing a man. He sat there for a second realizing that he had already lost Wendy he didn't know whether to be mad or sad, then Bill broke the silence "Those symbols look like someone wanted that basement kept closed we should head there and see if their is an ancient cipher artifact." Dipper quickly asked "what do you care?" Bill responded with "If it is an artifact that means it has power we can take which would help me get out of this stupid mind of yours." Dipper wanted to say something but before he could Bill said "Plus that Pacifica girl will be there and from the looks of those pictures she's in trouble and you have no chance with Wendy so you should just go anyways." Dipper filled with anger as he ran out the house into the woods running towards the Northwest estate.