Dana and Marcus were at the Gravity Falls Library one morning with the laptop. "Alright, Marcus, today is the big day," Dana said.
"Big day!" Marcus happily repeated.
"Salls finally fixed up the laptop," Dana said, putting the laptop on a table. "If this thing works, we could learn the identity of the author and unravel the greatest mysteries of Gravity Falls. You ready?"
"Oh, I'm ready," Marcus said.
With that, Dana powered on the laptop, which read 'Welcome'. "Aha! It worked!" Dana exclaimed happily.
But then an alarmed sounded. The laptop reads '/UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS FORBIDDEN/', and then it read 'Enter Password'. "Of course there's a password," Dana said.
"Don't you worry, Stargirl," Marcus said. "With your brains and my laser focus, there is literally nothing that can distract us from figuring out the password!"
"Not even that girl over there?" Dana asked, pointing at a blonde girl who was performing a puppet show for little kids.
"Nah," Marcus said. "I'm already dating Abigail the mermaid. Remember?"
"Oh, right," Dana said. "Forgot about that."
"Now let's do this thing!" Marcus said.
But then suddenly someone bumped into the table, making the laptop fall off with a cracking sound. Dana picked it up. Sure enough, the screen had gone dark and the monitor was cracked. "No no no no no no no!" she said. "We were so close!"
Dana and Marcus looked up, only to see Tad Strange. "I'm so sorry," he said. "I guess I wasn't looking where I was going."
As Tad walked off, Dana sighed in defeat. "We're back to square one," she said sadly.
"Aw, don't worry about it," Marcus said. "We'll figure it out someday."
As Dana and Marcus left the library with the broken laptop, Tad glanced at them, his eyes briefly flashing yellow with slitted pupils. Everything was going according to plan...
A/N: I deeply apologize for how short this chapter was. I realized that Bill obviously learned his mistake from Dipper and instead of waiting to possess Dana (which probably wasn't going to happen since Marcus wasn't distracted), he decided to just break the laptop right away. And for those of you who were expecting to see Bana (Bill-Dana), I have that planned in a bonus chapter coming soon.