Dipper shifted his backpack back as he walked out of the classroom. Another day and still no Professor Gilroy. In fact he and the rest of the class had gotten an email saying that for the next couple weeks at least they would be an online class. Dipper didn't like that. He sighed as he left his other classroom. His bag jostled slightly reminding him that he had all his notes for the stone tablets and the most recent piece with him. He knew he should have left the stone tablet with Ford to study but he felt like he was so close to figuring out what it said. He was so close!

"Miss Ice."

Dipper froze as he recognized the voice. He stopped and slid behind the wall and glanced around slightly. He spotted Gilroy, the man himself, standing there. He didn't look sick or anything. He only looked annoyed. Bree stood in front of him, looking extremely impatient.

"I told you I'm busy, and I'm not planning on being your TA or anything so I don't see what you need to talk with me about." Flip

"I need to talk to you now Miss Ice."

"I'm not taking your class. I'm not changing who I TA for. I have no plans to take your class. The only plans I have right now are to go camping this weekend. Now if you would leave me alone I still have to run to the store to get some food." She waved a hand slightly and started walking.

Gilroy looked like he wanted to punch something, but instead he stalked off in another direction. It

What does Gilroy want with Bree? Dipper frowned and looked after Bree, but he knew he had to figure out what Gilroy was doing. So instead he dashed after Gilroy. The professor walked through the school campus without really seeming to pay much attention to anything. He was muttering to himself but Dipper couldn't make it out. He didn't want Gilroy to catch him. So he had to stay back too far to overhear.

As they came closer to the edge of campus Dipper was getting impatient. But right before he could dash towards the next hiding spot a voice spoke in his ear, startling him.

"What are you doing?"

"P-Pacifica." Dipper stuttered seeing her, resting a hand over his chest to settle his heart. "I-." She raised her eyebrow. He sighged. "I'm following my prof-." He went to point but Gilroy was gone. "Darn it." Around

"Why are you following your professor?" Pacifica asked glancing towards where Gilroy had last been. "Are you turning into a stalker now?" She smiled at him.

Normally Dipper would have made some smart aleck comment and the two of them would have gone back and forth but right now… "He's the one behind all the problems that have been happening recently. At least that is what Ford and I believe. We've been trying to figure it all out but we haven't really been able to figure out much. So I was following him to see if I could find out more."

"Sounds good." Pacifica rolled up her sleeves. "Let's go now."

"What?" Dipper blinked. then

"I'll come with you." Pacifica smiled. She held out her hand to him. "Ready?"

"Hang on…" Dipper flushed. "Why are you coming with me?"

"Because." She rolled her eyes and took his hand. "Come on!" She started to pull him after Gilroy. He didn't complain though he was a little confused. The two of them walked in the direction they figured Gilroy had gone. They walked in silence for a little, still hand in hand. Dipper wasn't sure about his feelings on that. Sure he liked Pacifica, they had become good friends over the years, but he wasn't sure what to call their relationship. He still didn't understand girls, even though he had a girlfriend before. That was during high school. That didn't work out in the end. He was too weird for her.

"Is that him?" Pacifica suddenly whispered.

Dipper stopped and glanced around the tree. Gilroy was standing not far away, talking to a bird. A bird? Dipper frowned and glanced at Pacifica. She shrugged. Dipper couldn't hear what he was saying but he wanted to get closer. Caesar

Pacifica held his hand tighter. "What is he doing?" She whispered.

"I don't know. Let me-." Before he could move the bird flew off and Gilroy looked up at the sky. "Hey!" He yelled. He shook his head and then pulled out what looked like a string of bones and small charms. He shook it slightly and a jangle noise sounded. A chill ran down Dipper's back. He glanced at Pacifica. Her face had gone pale as well. The sound was horrible. It seemed to cast a cold pressure over the whole area.

Dipper took a step back and then he heard a loud buzzing noise. A giant bee suddenly flew down into view and landed in front of Gilroy. Another necklace of bones was around the bee's neck. -3

"Took you long enough." Gilroy shoved the string of bones into a pocket. "I've got a job for you." The bee seemed angry as it buzzed it's wings slightly. It almost seemed to glare at Gilroy. "Shut up." He pulled out a picture from his pocket. "Find and take these people. They are older now but find them. Do what you want but complete my task first. Understand." THe bee buzzed up slightly. "And this one." He pulled up another picture. "But don't hurt this one. The rest it doesn't matter."

What is he planning? Dipper thought as he tried to see the paper. Of course Gilroy's back was to Dipper and so was the paper. He couldn't see who Gilroy was targeting, though he did have an idea.

"Don't fail me." Gilroy said and then started to walk off.

"Dipper?" Pacifica whispered. "What is going on?"

"I'll explain later, come on." He took her hand and led her back towards campus. "I need to go talk to Grunkle Ford. All the weird stuff that has been happening recently, we're pretty sure that Professor Gilroy is behind everything. We're trying to figure out what he is doing."

"That's crazy." She whispered. "Doesn't he know he could get someone hurt."

Before Dipper could answer there was a loud buzzing. Dipper stopped and looked up. The giant bee was flying over them and coming towards them. "PACIFICA RUN!" He yelled, letting go of her hand. No way can I let her get drawn into this. He started to run away from her. He hoped that he could get to Ford before the bee grabbed him. I was right. He thought. Right as he thought that something grabbed the back of his shirt. He gasped and looked up. The bee had him. He struggled, but the bee shifted and tightened it's grip on his arms this time. At least Pacifica got away, she can tell-. The Bee turned off and headed towards Pacifica. Why is it going after her?! "PACIFICA RUN!" He yelled, but she couldn't outpace the giant bee. It grabbed her as well.

"Dipper?" She gasped looking at him wide eyed. He tried to reach out to her but it was hard the way the bee was grabbing him and holding on. Instead the two of them just had to hang on as the bee flew over the town. It zoomed up and around until it came towards the largest beehive Dipper had ever seen. It was up above the waterfall that lead into the large lake, only hidden among the trees. "Wow." He whispered. He knew he should be worried but at the same time he was kind of amazed to see it.

The bee flew over a patch of the hive and then dropped them. Dipper and Mabel both cried out as they went tumbling down into one of the hexes. Dipper slid to a stop and looked at Pacifica. She looked okay. He stood up and looked up at the sky above them. The hex was at least four Dipper's high and the walls were covered in honey. "Are you okay?" He asked Pacifica.

"I'll be fine." She sighed.

"It doesn't look like we can get out of here very easily." He sighed. He sat down next to Pacifica and pulled out his notebook.

"Aren't you going to try and get us out?" Pacifica asked.

"I can't climb that." Dipper dug around and pulled out his phone. "No service." He frowned.

"Just great." Pacifica frowned. "We're bee food."

"Maybe not." Dipper sighed. "If we can figure out another-." He stopped seeing his notebook. "But while we wait I'm going to work on this."

"WHat is it?" Pacifica sat down while he opened to his notes. On the top of the page he had written out the symbols that they had figured out. He knew A, X, O, L, T, S, E, T, and H. He also had written out what they had of the symbols in order and what he had decoded.

"Axolotals something was something." Pacifica started to read.

"What?" Dipper asked. "I'm guessing that symbol means w. Which makes that word was."

"How did I not notice that?!" Dipper started to write down the new word. He knew exactly how he hadn't. He had been so focused on figuring out all the big words. He had his notes on the other page. "Here help me with this." He pulled out the page and handed it to Pacifica.

"Let's see." She whispered. "This second word. Four letters. Unknown, a, unknown, e. She whispered. "Name."

"What?" Dipper asked.

"Axolotal, sounds like a name. Name fits the bill. That would make the sentence Axolotals name was something."

Dipper nodded and wrote down name and what symbols matched with n and me. He scanned through the rest of the notes and filled in the n and ms.

"This word." Pacifica said. "Something, and then east. Lets see…. Feast, teast, peast, yeast-."

"Beast!" Dipper grinned and quickly wrote down. "The beast!"

The two of them continued to work for a long time. In fact before they knew it was growing dark. But Dipper was excited. He had almost fully translated the tablet. So far it read Axolotals name was played. Something the beast free to return. Chained in place. Yet easy, missing piece, release. When something, and a large space, is spilt on stone. Chain will, missing piece. Chaos will, missing piece. Until the, missing piece, red. But first, missing piece, be broken. Seek th, missing piece. One, missing piece.

"Well this is all confusing." Pacifica sighed. "What is it supposed to mean."

"Not sure." Dipper sighed. "It's that missing piece… If I had it… I could figure it all out."

"Do you have any idea where it could be?" Pacifica asked.

"No." He stood up and looked up. "I really thought though something would have happened by now." He reached up and scrapped at the honey on the nearest wall. Even though the honey was sticky they couldn't get themselves up. They would slid back down before they could even get halfway up.

"Do you think the bees are going to eat us?"

"I highly doubt it." Dipper frowned.

Right as he was about to say something else there was a loud zipping noise. Not at all like the bee's wings. And then something struck the honey covered wall inches above his head.

"Ah!" Pacifica gasped.

"Dipper!" Mabel poked her head over and looked down at the two.

"Mabel!"

"Are you okay?" Ford poked his head over as well. "Sorry it took us so long to find you. We had to take care of these bees."

"I punched them out." Stan said as his own head came over.

"No you didn't!" Ford said. "You only punched the one!"

Dipper smiled and pointed to the grappling hook. "Go ahead up Pacifica."

"Alright." She took the hook and then slowly she was hauled up. Dipper started to gather up his stuff and shoved it into his backpack. He stopped though as he noticed something. He had been sitting in a spot that had seen kind of solid but now that he thought about it he shouldn't have had such a solid spot. What made him start thinking that was he noticed that there seemed to be a stone base. He scratched at it with his fingers, digging up some honey.

"Dipper your turn!" Mabel yelled down.

"Hang on." He called up and then pried at the stone flooring. There was one piece that wasn't connected to the rest of the stone pieces as easily. As he pulled it up he froze. Symbols were carved into it and one symbol in particular stood out. The symbol that had represented Ford for so many years. A six fingered hand.

"Dipper come on!" Pacifica called down. "The bees look like they are going to wake up soon.

"I'm coming!" Dipper gripped the stone tightly to his chest and then let Mabel and Ford help haul him up. The last piece. He thought. I can finally figure it out… We can figure out what Gilroy is up to! He grinned as he climbed over the edge. "Look what I was sitting on."

"Is that?" Ford asked.

"Yep." Dipper grinned.

"Can we get out of here?" Pacifica asked.

"We need to round up all the bone necklaces." Ford said, drawing his eyes away from Dipper and the stone tablet. "Dipper once we get back home you should clean that up. I don't know if you can read it as well with all that honey on it."

"Right." Dipper nodded. He smiled at Pacifica. She didn't look happy but she did smile back.

"Come on." Stan headed towards what looked like a large unconscious bee. "If any of them wake up I'll punch them out again."

"I already told you." Ford sighed. "It was the knock out bomb I shot at them. The high frequency sound-."

"Whatever poindexter!" Stan yelled.

"I'm glad you're okay." Mabel whispered to Dipper. "When a bee tried to steal Grunkle Ford and we couldn't get ahold of you." She looked down.

"Don't worry about me." Dipper smiled. "I was fine." He lightly shoved at her shoulder. "I'm just glad they didn't get ahold of you as well. You really saved us."

Mabel grinned. "Grappling hook, best present ever."

Dipper laughed and looked at his family, and Pacifica. He really was surrounded by good people. We'll figure out what Gilroy is doing and we will take care of everything… We can do it. I know we can. He headed towards a bee and grinned.

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