Chapter 15

Darker themes and Language from here on out. Not enough to be changed to a M but caution.

"ROBBIE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?! ROBBIE AWNSER THE GOD DAMN PHONE! Only the dial tone rang out through the speaker. No voice of taunting came back.

"Dipper? You okay?" Mabel's concerned voice coming from the hallway growing louder and louder with each step she took. I removed the phone from my ear as my hands became fists. My grip around the phone tightened as I glared angrily at it. That rotten piece of crap. Kidnapping Wendy and taking her hostage.

"Jesus Dipper what's wrong?" Stan's gruff voice said as his hands began to remove the phone from my hand. "You look pissed."

"Pissed is an understatement." I hissed back as the others raced into the room "Robbie's kidnapped Wendy." Gasps were made as Pacifica and Mabel took this in. Ford's gaze changed from concerned to one of dead seriousness. Stan turned around and left the room.

"I'm going to get my gun." He said before Ford whipped him back into the room and glared sharply at him.

"Wait until Dipper tells us what happened" Turning his attention back towards me "Tell us everything."

"Not much to say" Raising my head to look at everyone in front of me "I called Wendy and he answers saying she can't come to the phone. Wendy would never give her phone willingly to Robbie ever after what happened in town."

"Is there any possibility that you called the wrong number." Mabel questioned. The look I gave her answered her question about that option right away.

"Well, I'm calling the police now. If he's really done something to her, we want all the man power we can get. Even from those two blubbering idiots." Ford said flicking out his own phone and dialling in a number.

"Can I grab my gun now? No one kidnaps my great nephew's girlfriend and lives to tell the tale."

"No. Sometimes I can't believe you're my brother. Start the car and wait for me, Dipper and Mabel." Stan groaned but followed his brother's instructions rushing out the room. "Damn it no signal on this blasted thing. Slapping it in his hands only for the battery pack to fall onto the floor.

"Wait a minute, what about me? What am I going to do?" Pacifica questioned a look of annoyance on her face.

"You're going to call your parents and get them to pick you up. I don't want to have to look out for too many people then I have to already."

"But I can help. I know I wasn't the nicest to her or treated her as an equal these last couple of months, but she's still my friend."

Ford knelt to one knee as we all looked at him waiting for what he was about to say. "Pacifica, the town trusts you. You have a way with people that we don't." he handed her phone back to her "Call the police for us and explain everything in more detail them. You can do more for Wendy by staying her and rallying people to help."

Pacifica's mouth was a tight line, but she nodded in agreeance. She turned her head to face me "Hit that Asshole for me."

"Don't need to tell me twice." I could feel the anger and panic rising in me together. Anger at what Robbie may have done to Wendy, and Panic for her own wellbeing and safety. "Let's go Pines family." The rest of us got up and headed outside towards the awaiting Stan mobile as it sat in the drive.

Climbing into the car, Stan engaged the throttle and we took off down the road. "So where do we search first?"

"Head to the Corduroy house. Manly Dan needs to be told what's happened." And with that the car picked up more speed as we raced towards our destination. All the time on our tip I sat in the back Grasping my knees staring directly into the seat in front of me. Trying to image Robbie's smug little face being hit with a brick again and again.

"Dipper…" Mabel said from next to me. I didn't bother to look at her not wanting to break down in front of her. "Wendy's going to be fine. She's been through worse than this before. If anything we're going to find Wendy standing triumphantly over the little squirts unconscious body as we pull up to her house."

The idea of Wendy being able to take Robbie out so easily, made me crack a smile knowing that that was easily a possible result from Robbie trying to contain Wendy. But as we pulled outside her house there was no beautiful redhead standing on the front steps of her house getting ready to greet us.

The sudden snap of the sound of the car stopping caused the sudden rush of movement inside the house as the front door was ripped open shortly after to expose the battered appearance of Manly Dan.

"WHERE IS SHE?" I shouted jumping out the door and running up to the man. Bad move. Dan picked me and spun me around and slammed me into the wooden house behind him.

"What do you want with my little girl?" He snarled as I dangled a foot off the ground. "What has she done to make you attack MY HOME?"

"Wait…" Grasping for air "Wendy's… Home…?" I squeezed out struggling to breath, confusion racking through my body. Speak of the devil and thou shall appear as the door slammed open for a second time with Wendy running out dressed in a white nightgown.

"Dipper? What are you doing here?" Before noticing the entire Pines family standing outside ready to attack her father "What are you guys all doing here?"

"You're ok?" Stan said looking startled at her sudden appearance.

"Why wouldn't I be?" She questioned. I tried to get a better look at her from my position on the wall but my vison began growing darker.

"Does this mean I should put down the kid first?" Dan commented "He's going purple."

"Jeez dad, Yes." The sudden outburst from his daughter caused him to drop me as I collapsed to the floor, where I tried to regain my breath.

"Sorry 'bout that." He said looking down at me.

"Forget about it." I said waving him away, finally getting a better look at Wendy. Her hair lay surrounding her shoulders down to her breasts. Which thankfully the nightgown wasn't transparent enough to see though. Aware that I was gazing at her, she crossed her arms covering them as a tinge of red flew through her checks.

"Why are you guys here then?" Wendy questioned turning her attention back to the group of people in the driveway.

"Robbie said he had kidnapped you." Mabel blurted out before anyone could say anything.

"WHAT!?" the Two Corduroy's yelled. The expression on their faces were not pleasant at all.

"Let Dipper explain." Ford said, hands up in defence. Suddenly I was back in the hands of Dan as he picked me up to my feet.

"Explain." Eyes full of fury to the point where I could see the flames inside them grow with power.

"Well" I stuttered "I was going to call Wendy to see if she was ok after the earthquake and everything, when Robbie answered the phone. He basically said Wendy wasn't available and couldn't come to the phone before hanging up."

"Wait, Robbie has my phone?" We all turned back to face Wendy as she began to explain. "I lost my phone the day you took me on our date to the lake…" Realisation dawning on her face.

"Where we bumped into Robbie talking to you. He must have taken your phone without you noticing it." I said finishing off her sentence. Manly Dan finally released me taking in what we all said.

"Why would Robbie do that then?" Ford questioned breaking the silence that formed "I understand that he dislikes you but what do something that's going to get him thrown in prison again once this is over?"

"He's up to something." Stan said "The idiot…" He trailed off as a ringing sound began to sound from inside the house. We all looked towards the open door at the wall phone ringing in the entrance hall.

Everyone just stood frozen as it continued to ring. The empty sound filling the night. After a few moments Wendy approached the phone, with caution almost like it was about to explode. "Hello Wendy Corduroy speaking. Who's this?" Trying to hide the worry in her voice. A few moments of listening I saw her face grow from worried to almost a snarl as her eyebrows fell into a pointed expression. "You son of a…" voice trailing off as she listened to whoever was talking.

A short moment later she lowered the phone from her ear and held it at arm's length away towards me. "He wants to speak to you Dipper."

I marched up to Wendy and took the phone from her outstretched hand knowing who it was going to be. "Hello Robbie."

"Woop di do." A voice sings "The nerd is at least being loyal to my girl."

"She isn't yours Valentino, so stop acting like she is."

"Using the last names now are we? All good then PINE, in 5 hours tops I'll have Wendy in my arms and you'll be lying in a ditch where you belong." The gradual increase of hatred was visible in his growing voice.

"And what makes you say that?" Letting my confidence begin to swallow me.

"Because in exactly… 24 minutes and 16 seconds, doomsday begins for a second time except this time I'm at the reins." I felt my eyes widen in their sockets. He's joking. There's no way he could have done something like that.

Chuckling echoed through the speaker "I'd get down to lake gravity falls if I was you. I wouldn't want to miss the opening show." And with that the all too familiar growing dial tone returned to my ears. I turned around to look at everyone. Feeling the sweat roll down my face I stood there waiting judgement.

"Well what did he say?" Mabel said rolling her hands together wanting me to say something.

"We need to get to the Lake. Robbie's going to unleash doomsday in around 22 minutes." I got to my senses and dashed towards the Stan Mobile pushing past everyone and flinging open the backdoor motioning for everyone to get in.

"Wait what?" Ford said a bit taken aback by what I said.

"You heard me, everyone in the car. I'll explain on the way" Grabbing Mabel and pulling her towards the car. My sudden actions seemed to let everyone find movement as the listened and jumped into the car.

Once everyone was in, I jumped in next to Wendy and slammed the door as I got pushed up against it. "Stan how fast can you get to Lake Gravity Falls?"

"From here around 20 minutes if I follow the speed limit. 15 if I break every rule in the book."

"Do it." I saw Grunkle Stan smile, getting the go ahead to break the law from the me. Stepping on the pedal, the Car lurched into gear and took off.

Once I was confident that Stan was going to get us there alive I explained myself "Robbie said that he was going to unleash Doomsday for a second time. He wants you Wendy" nodding my head at her "And won't stop until he gets her."

"Any idea how he is going to be able to do this 'Doomsday' as he calls it?" Ford questioned. I shook my head.

"He said nothing of the sort. He's not taking any chances since we last stopped the weirdaggedon."

"So in other words we have no idea what we're going into, no weapons, no defences and guns blazing?" Manly Dan said from the other side of the back seats.

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Just the way I like it." Everyone paused and looked over at him. "What? I didn't get to punch anything last apocalypse, I'm going to get my money's worth this time."

Wendy just shook her head in disappointment "Jesus dad." She muttered under her breath.

The remainder of this trip was in silence as we raced through the forest while we all sat back in thought. What's Robbie going to do to cause an apocalypse? He has no powers or anything like that? The journals were all destroyed so how could he summon anything? Ruling out all the main possible scenarios in my head, I began to feel better. He must be calling a bluff.

My thoughts were broken with Stan's voice however "Was there a party on the beech tonight I wasn't aware about or is the entire town just turned up at once?" Looking out the windows I saw what he meant. The entire population of Gravity Falls seemed to be gathered at the waterfront watching the lake for something.

As Stan quickly parked the car, I flung open the door and jumped out followed sharply by Wendy. I watched as more people tried to push past each other to get to the front of the crowd to get a view at whatever the lake was doing.

Seeing Toby Determined jumping at the back of the crowd, Wendy dashed over and tapped him on the shoulder. "What's going on dude?"

Toby didn't even face us as he tried to jump higher to see over everyone's shoulders "The Water in the lake is evaporating apparently. But I don't know for sure, I can't see anything."

Me and Wendy looked at each other as the others caught up to us. "We've got to get to the front." I said. The rest nodded in agreement as we began to fight our way forwards. At first it was simply just a push and shove, until Manly Dan got to the front where he just picked people up and placed them behind us. A minute or so later we were at the edge and what a sight it was.

It looked like the whole contents of the lake had been evaporated into a white thick fog which sat suspended at ground level, just floating eerily in front of us.

"Dipper" Mabel said, a bit of fear in her voice "Something is in there." I squinted my eyes closer into the blank whiteness of the Fog, before nearly falling over. Mabel was right. Something was in the Fog moving rapidly back and forth, like a bull waiting to be released at a rodeo.

"Dipper" Wendy whispered next to me "The Mist mentioned in the Morse code." Only then did I piece it together. The whole time all the warnings, all the messages. They were referencing to the Mist in front of us. Released by Robbie to attack us.

"Guys we got to go now." Turning my back against the Mist, only for a disembodied voice to echo across the remains of the lake.

"WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE LAST DAY OF GRAVITY FALLS!" Robbie's twisted voice came echoing from the Mist almost like he was in all reaches of the White cloud. "DIPPER THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO HAND OVER WENDY NOW BEFORE ANYONE NEEDS TO GET HURT."

I froze petrified. Unable to comprehend the idea of losing Wendy for real this time. And Manly Dan obviously thought the same thing.

"NEVER YOU PIECE OF LOUSY BOAR DUNG! GIVE ME YOUR BEST SHOT!" and with that he sealed the town's fate.

"IF YOU SAY SO…" And with that the blanket of Mist rushed forwards towards the horde of waiting people.

Message for anyone willing to decipher:

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