Journal 13
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Talk-normal
Talk-3
"Talk"-3 talking
Warnings for 3's temper and language. Some violence.
Dreamscaperers
It was a rainy evening at the Mystery Shack with Dipper, 3, and Mabel was playing Conflict Boat.
"I'm gonna say... B5." Dipper said.
"Miss!" She puts a peg on her board that from 3's awareness looks like a kitten face.
"I don't think you're playing this right."
"No it's legal...I think…"
Stan suddenly calls from downstairs, "Kids! Come quick!" They glanced at each other and ran downstairs to find Stan in front of the T.V.
"I need you to laugh at this with me!" He pointed at the T.V. to see Gideon playing a guitar and 'singing.'
"'Who's cute as a button, and always your friend? Lil' G-I-D to the E-O-N! Wink!'" Twerp.
'Lil Gideon!'
"Ugh, Gideon!" Dipper said in disgust at the child star.
"Remember when I wouldn't date him and he tried to destroy us?" Mabel added.
"He's always trying to trick me into losing the Mystery Shack."
Wendy appears out of nowhere and rested next to Stan's chair. "One time I caught him stealing my moisturizer." That's…creepy…
"Remember when he tried to kill Dipper, twice." 3 said sourly.
Wendy and Stan paused and looked for 3, "Wait, what?"
Soos ignored the invisible person stalking them and said, "And yet, our mutual hatred for him bonds us together."
'Come on down to Lil Gideon's Tent of Telepathy, opening soon at this location.' The commercial showed the Mystery Shack being destroyed and the Tent being built over it.
"Uh, should we be worried about that?" Dipper asked, concerned
3 remembered her vision of Gideon looking at Bill Cipher's page in 2 and shivered, "I think we should…"
Stan waved their concerns away and said, "Please, the only way Gideon's taking over the shack is by breaking in and stealing my deed." A crash is heard from upstairs
"You mean like, right now?" Wendy deadpanned.
They raced upstairs to find the little toad crouched in front of the safe typing random codes in.
"Gideon!"
Gideon turns around and smirks, "Well, well, Stanford, my arch-nemesis. We seem to have entered a dangerous game of cat and mouse. But the question remains, who is the cat, and who is the-"
"Soos, broom."
"Oh no, not the broom!" Gideon yelped as Stan pushed Gideon away with it and he hisses like a cat at Stan who smacks him twice and out the door.
"You mark my words, Stanford, one day I'm gonna get that combination. And once I steal that deed, you'll never see the Mystery Shack again!"
"Good luck, bucko!" Stan called, closing the door in the face of an angry Gideon.
Dipper, 3, Mabel, Stan, and Wendy are watching television. With Dipper and Wendy shooting each other with dart guns, looking bored. They were watching an old west show called, Grandpa the Kid.
'I'm tired during the day.'
"I can relate to this." Stan shrugged.
"That's because you're both old and grouchy." 3 whispered to Dipper who chuckled.
"Grunkle Stan, why can't we watch a movie that we'll all enjoy? Dream Boy High! Where love is on your permanent record." Mabel asked, holding up an epilepsy inducing Rom-Com.
"Boo!"
"I rather chew rusted nails, if I had a body."
"You'll learn to like it."
A crash is heard from the kitchen and Soos ran in sweating more than usual. "Aaah! Dudes, there's a bat in the kitchen! It tried to touch me with its 'weird little bat fingers'!"
"Don't worry, I got this under control" He leans back into his armchair, "Dipper, take care of it." He ordered.
"Yes!" Mabel laughed from her place.
"What? Why can't Mabel do it?" Dipper complained.
"Or you."
"Cause life isn't fair. Now go fight a bat so we can watch TV."
Dipper frowned and stepped in front of the T.V. "No way, Grunkle Stan! You always make me do dumb chores. I'm putting my foot down this time!" He stamps his foot to make his point.
"I said do it kid. Now!"
The show started to conveniently play showdown music as Stan and Dipper give each other increasingly menacing stares while growling. Stan wins the stare down.
"Okay, I'll do it!" He gave up and walked into the kitchen with 3 and Mabel following.
Dipper picks up a saucepan and spoon on the floor, mumbling, "Stupid chores..."
"Remember, bats are more afraid of you than you are of them."
"Just open the window and make a lot of noise, it'll fly out." 3 said as he entered the kitchen.
Loud screams and crashes come from the kitchen, while kitchen supplies and Dipper's hat are thrown outside.
"Aah! It's going for your neck! Mabel I've found your vampire, come and claim him!" 3 screamed in terror and Dipper crashed.
After the battle of the kitchen, Soos and Mabel are applying disinfectant to Dipper's wounds while Mabel applies bandages to Dipper's head.
"Ow, ow!"
"Swabbing on disinfectant, doo doo doo..." Soos sang as he treated Dipper.
"Why does Grunkle Stan always pick on me? Think about it! The more painful or difficult the chore is, the more likely it is I'll have to do it. Why doesn't he pick on you guys?"
"Wish I knew…"
"Dipper, Stan's personality is one of life's great mysteries. Like whether or not it's possible to lick your own elbow."
"It's impossible unless you're boneless."
"I bet you can't!" Mabel yelled, ignoring 3's comment.
"I bet I can!" He tries to lick elbow and walks away with Mabel following him.
"Oh don't mind me, I'm just talking to this responsive wall, it at least listens to me." 3 pouted as Dipper chuckled.
Dipper then sobered he looked at Stan's picture and said, depressed, "Sometimes I feel like Stan hates me."
"He doesn't hate you…maybe this is how his father treated him and he's trying to help you?" 3 tried to comfort him, not really believing her own explanation. She felt anger at herself for not helping him and Stan for causing Dipper emotional pain.
Stan suddenly yelled, "The sinks clogged. Dipper, get in here and fix it!" Dipper growled and fired a dart at the picture and walked to unclog the sink.
"We'd better get the plunger." 3 said offhandedly. They were half-way though when a sharp cry came from 3, making Dipper paused and ask worriedly, "3! What's wrong!? Is it 2?"
3 couldn't hear him as the scene flashed to Gideon in a forest clearing.
"You think that combination's safe in your mind, Stanford? We'll see what my new minion has to say about that!" He started to chant, "Triangulum, entangulum. Veneforis dominus mentium. Veneforis videntis omnium!" Gideon started to pant and his eyes glowed blue, "Egassem sdrawkcab. Egassem sdrawkcab. Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab!"
The world started to drain of color and turns black and white, wildlife pauses in midair. And to 3 and 2's horror, a Triangle with a single eye and a top hat appears, Bill Cipher had entered the clearing cackling.
"Oh, oh, Gravity Falls! It is good to be back. Name's Bill Cipher and I take it you're some kind of living ventriloquist dummy? I'm just kidding; I know who you are, Gideon!"
"W-what are you? H-how do you know my name?" Gideon stammered afraid.
"Oh, I know lots of things!" His body turned into a hologram with pictures of various cryptic locations. "Lots of things... Hey, look what I can do!" He gestures toward a deer; the deer's teeth then fly into his hand and gave the teeth to Gideon, "Deer teeth! For you, kid!" He said laughing at Gideon's horrified face; 3 would've laughed also, if she wasn't sick with fear.
"You're insane!"
"Sure I am what's your point?" He puts teeth back in deer's mouth and the animal runs away.
"Listen to me, demon! I have a job for you. I need you to enter the mind of Stanford Pines and steal the code to his safe." Gideon demanded.
Bill laughed then paused, "Wait... Stan Pines? You know what, kid? You've convinced me! I'm sold! I'll help you with this and in return you can help me with something I've been working on! We'll work out the details later."
"Don't! Don't make a deal! Don't trust him!" 3 and 2 screamed, but they went unheard.
"Deal!"
Bill's hand lite up in blue fire and he shakes hands with Gideon, "Well, time to invade Stan's mind! This should be fun! Remember; reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye"! He then disappeared and the vision faded and 3 was back in the kitchen with a worried Dipper.
"3? What's wrong, you went quiet and started to scream. You really had me worried."
"Never mind that!" 3 shouted at Dipper, who was taken aback. "We have to find Stan. Gideon has done something unforgivably stupid and summoned a powerful demon to invade Stan's mind. How long was I out!?"
"About 10 minutes." And 3's spine went cold.
"He could've already invaded, let's go!"
They found Stan sleeping on his chair, muttering in his sleep.
"Has this demon invaded, yet?" Dipper asked 3.
"I don't know…"
Mabel and Soos then run in.
"Dipper! We've gotta help Stan!" Mabel called when she saw him
"She already told me." Dipper said patting 3.
"This evil triangle guy said he's gonna break into Stan's mind and steal the combination to his safe! Also we stopped for snacks on the way here." Soos said, holding up a bag.
"YOU IDIOT'S, YOU'VE WASTED VALUABLE TIME ON SNACKS WHEN HE COULD'VE CAME HERE AT ANYTIME!?" 3 screamed, infuriated, causing Soos and Mabel to leap out of skins in surprise.
"Triangle guy?" He looks into the steaming 3 and said "I feel like I've seen something like this before in the journal...Beware Bill, the most powerful and dangerous creature I've ever encountered. Whatever you do, never let him enter your mind." He read and could feel 3 trembling in fear and anger.
Dipper, 3, Mabel, and Soos looked over at Stan and gasped when they saw a shadow of a triangle enter Stan. Stan's eyes started glowing blue and grunts while making random movements.
Dipper whispered, while the others were distracted, "3 is it possible to follow this Bill guy into Stan's mind?"
3 hesitated and said, "One must simply recite this incantation." 3 moved the pages around to the correct one to show him. "However, it's extremely dangerous, if you don't use enough power; you will only send part of yourself inside and be forever trapped in his mind. Even if you do succeed there is still a chance of being trapped in there."
"Ugh, this is just great. I spend all day cleaning sinks and fighting bats for Stan and now I have to save him from some crazy brain demon? With the possibility of trapping ourselves in his head!?"
"But if we don't do anything Gideon might steal the shack! Or worse!"
Dipper sighed and said, "Fine. Get ready guys. We're about to journey into the most horrifying, disturbing place any of us have ever been: our uncle's mind." Lightning flashes outside, illuminating the 4.
"You think I can take these Burrito Bites into Stan's brain? Thumbs up? Thumbs down? You know what, I'm just gonna bring them." Soos stated seriously.
Dipper, Mabel and Soos set a ring of lite candles around the snoozing Stan and they turned off the lights.
"Okay guys, in order to save our uncle, we're gonna have to follow that... dream demon into his mind."
"I wonder what Stan's thinking about right now. I love Soos like a son!" Soos played around with Stan's body.
"Soos! This is serious!" Dipper snapped.
"Sorry!"
"Let's do this."
They all placed their hands on Stan's head and 3 said, "I will lend you all the power I can spend so we won't lose anyone on the way." 3 offered proudly.
Dipper stared to chant, "Videntus omnium. Magister mentium. Magnesium ad hominem. Magnum opus. Habeas corpus. Inceptus Nolanus overratus. Magister mentium. Magister mentium. Magister mentium!"
As Dipper spoke, his eyes go blue, then Soos', then Mabel's and the candles go out, and after the incantation, there is a blue explosion and the gang is inside Stan's mind. When they entered Stan's mind, 3 felt a sharp tug on her consciousness, then she felt overwhelming pain. Wh-What's happening!? 3 screamed as she was ripped out of the book and forced into Stan's mind.
Dipper, Mabel, and Soos find themselves in a dark grey landscape that looked like the Mystery Shack with an overgrown playground surrounding it.
"What the-?" Soos asked, looking around.
"Whoa, this is Stan's mind?" Mabel asked looking around.
"I figured there would be more hot old ladies."
Suddenly, they heard screaming right above them. The stopped and looked around, out of the corner of their eyes, they saw a dark shape fall into some overgrown grass. Soos stood protectively in front of the twins when the grass the figure fell in moved.
They expected a monster; they certainly did not expect a 12 year old girl to stumble out of the brush. The girl was odd looking; she had wine-red hair in a page cut. She had paper white skin and sharp, amber eyes. She had on dark grey jeans with a gold sweat-shirt with a stitched six-fingered hand holding up 3 fingers. She also had a monocle pierced into her right ear.
"Oooh…My head…" She groaned as she stumbled over. Dipper was the first to recognize the voice, he glanced at the Journal in his hands then at the girl and called, "3!?"
3 jerked her head up and said, "Dipper? What happened? Why do you guys look…around the same height?" She looked down and saw that she was in another body. "Why am I human!?"
"We don't know 3." Dipper said, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Maybe…the spell made me a body?" 3 asked confused, she hadn't had a body since the carpet incident.
Soos was just confused and accepted that the twins knew the girl who fell into his employer's mind was okay and her walked over to 3, "Hey dude, I'm Soos. Fist bump?" 3 looked at him strangely and awkwardly fist bumped him back. Mabel couldn't contain her excitement any longer and glomped her, squealing.
"Ah! M-Mabel?" 3 asked, not used to contact.
"This is so cool, 3! We can have makeover's, talk about boys, and you know have a chance with you know what." She winked as 3 blushed.
"W-well, let's get going we need to find Bill Cipher." 3 said, breaking out of the choke hold and turning to the group.
Everyone sobers at this and nodded. "Remember everyone; we've got to look out for the triangle guy." Mabel said.
Bill suddenly flashes into existence in front of them, "Yeah, look out for the triangle guy!"
"It's him! It's the guy!"
3 gasped and hid behind Dipper a little, her new heart pounding in fear.
"You leave our uncle's brain alone, you isosceles monster!" Mabel yelled and charged at Bill, but went inside and fell though a few seconds later. "Gotcha! Wait, what?" Mabel asked puzzled.
"Ah, Stan's family, we meet at last! Question Mark, Shooting Star, Pine Tree, I had a hunch I might bump into you!" He causally shoots a hole into Dipper's chest. Both 3 and Dipper screamed and a huge quake rocked them as the world pulsed black for a second.
Bill looked surprised, "Well, well looks like someone has a temper." He looks directly at 3, who was glaring at Mabel who had stuck her hand though Dipper's chest. "Hmm…This is strange…" He floated over to 3, whose hair was covering her face as she held Dipper. "You weren't supposed to appear until later, Hand."
3 looked up and Bill flinched when he saw the look on 3's face and a black aura was surrounding her. He also noticed her finger's sharpening. Bill quickly backed up to the porch as 3 confirmed that Dipper was alright. Though 3 still had the black look on her face and the Dreamscape rippled.
"What do you want with our uncle's mind anyway?" Dipper bravely asked as 3 held him up, worried.
Bill put Hand out of his mind and said, "Oh, just the code to the old man's safe! Inside the shack is a maze of a thousand doors representing your uncle's memories. Behind one of them is a memory of him inputting the code! I just need to find it and Gideon will pay me handsomely."
"Bah! What would you need with money, Cipher?" 3 snarled at the demon.
"Who said anything about money, Hand?"
"You won't be getting anything if we stop you!" Mabel yelled.
"Hah, fat chance! I'm the master of the mind; I even know what you're thinking right now!"
"That's impossible; no one can guess what I'm thinking!" Mabel called.
Suddenly the two teens from the movie Mabel wanted to watch comes into existence.
"Whoa, where are we, bro?" The one with blonde hair asked, looking around.
The blue haired one looked at Mabel and said, "We must be in heaven, because I just saw an angel!"
"Barf, cheesy B-rated pick up line!" 3 snapped, never taking her eyes of Bill and had Dipper's arm in a vice-like grip that had him wincing slightly.
Mabel ignored 3 and hugged the blue one's leg, "I'm never letting go of your leg!"
"You're out of your league, kids. Turn around now before you see something you might regret. Later, suckers!" He crashed through the Mystery Shack wall, ignoring the doorway.
Dipper managed to calm down contrite 3 and rubbed his bruised forearm and said, "We're going in! Mabel, can we leave those guys out there, looking at them - hurts my eyes..." He said, wincing at the colorful anime boys.
"I like anime and manga, but not this kind." 3 said scathingly, glaring at the two eyesores and still running on adrenaline.
"No! They can help us!"
"Totally! Arm throne!" The 2 carries Mabel in their linked arms.
"Idiot's"
Soos walked over to Dipper and links his arms, "Dude! Arm throne! Arm thronnne!"
He started to crab walk towards 3 and Dipper, who ran screaming.
Everyone heads into the shack and looked around in awe.
"Radical!"
"I also think that it's radical!" Xyler agreed with his friend.
A Bat that looked like Stan flew past 3 and Dipper yelling, "No refunds! No refunds! No refunds!" The bat though further in past a door with a claw trying to get out a chained door saying, fears. They went to the very bottom to see a hall labeled memories.
"Whoa, look! All of Stan's memories!" Soos said in wonder, looking around.
"Great. Sure there are plenty of memories of Stan bossing me around, can't wait to see more of that." Dipper groaned as 3 gently patted his back, watching her strength and looked guiltily at his bruise.
"Come on Dipper, we've gotta find the code before Bill does!" Mabel chastised her brother.
"Mabel is talking!" One of anime boys said.
"So rad!"
"We know she's talking, but we have to find the code, now!"
"Let's get searching!"
They split up and started to open doors, Dipper find a scene where Stan was in jail in a foreign country.
"Jorge, Rico, you're the two best Colombian prison friends a fellah could make."
"Nope!" He slammed the door. 3 opened another door to see Mabel prepping Stan for his date with Lazy Susan by shaving him.
"Gross!" 3 slammed the door, leaving some cracks in the wall.
Soos opened a door showing Stan as a sales man and Mabel saw Stan's failed date with Lazy Susan.
Dipper and 3 separate further away from the group opening random doors.
"Dipper! Come here!"
Dipper looked into the door and gasped, it showed Stan going through a secret passage behind the vending machine and Stan pulled out a Journal with a 1 stamped on it. 3 slammed the door wide eyed.
"Stan has a Journal!?" Dipper shouted.
"Y-yeah…he has my eldest brother, 1…"
"This is weird…if Stan had a Journal, why would he not believe me about the Manotaurs or anything else!?"
3 was in deep thought and said, "Probably…cause its 1."
"Why would that matter?"
"Well, you see the thing is I and 2 are things that had happened and 1 is what would happen."
"Still not understanding."
3 sighed, "Okay, I deal with monsters and weird manifestations. 2 deals in summons and recipes to make magical items. 1…well he's a codex that could predict the future."
"Wait 1 is psychic!?"
"No, 1 is a graph that detail's things that would happen. Basically he's a timeline of what will happen in Gravity Falls. Here's an example: 1 will have an entry saying the dam will break and the entire town will be flooded with most of the population dead."
"R-really?"
"I'm not sure, but his information isn't always concrete. Say Stan wants to see this happen and travel's to the dam, bored he starts skipping stones into the dam. One stone falls into the dam and knocks a convenient heavy duty tarp out of its resting place and it travels to the dam and blocks the weak spot that would've cracked and widened causing the disaster. However, since Stan was aware of it, he had unknowingly caused the factors to shuffle around and unknowingly prevent the death of most of the town."
"I get it since the dam didn't break, he thought it was wrong and thus a fake…"
"Yes."
"But why did he keep it?"
"I'm not sure…1 was never close with me or 2, he was always in deep thought and when he wasn't he was extremely curt with us, anyway."
3 and Dipper left the door behind, heads filled with unanswered questions.
They soon find a door labeled, "Dipper Memories."
"Look, guys! Memories about me!"
"That doesn't seem like a good idea." Soos said nervously.
"So, it's not a good idea to scrounge around his mind in the first place, but here we are," 3 pointed out.
"I just wanna know what the old guy really thinks of me."
"We already know how Stan feels about us! He loves us! We're great." Mabel said confidently as she left the 2 behind.
"Yeah. Let's just keep moving."
"More moving?
"Yes! I love motion!" Guess who said that?
Dipper and 3 walks a bit forward, but then turns around and runs to the Dipper memories door and enters it.
"Okay. Just a quick peek."
"Nothing wrong with that." 3 agreed.
Dipper walks by the doors. The sound Stan calling Dipper echoes. Dipper walks in front of one of them and opens the door. Inside is a memory of Stan making Dipper chop firewood.
"No buts! Now go and chop that firewood already!" He smacks Dipper's head with a newspaper.
Dipper walks away to chop the firewood as Stan sat down on the outdoor couch.
Memory Soos walks up to Memory Stan, "Dude, Stan, I've been meaning ask you. Why are you so hard on Dipper all the time?"
"Look Soos, I'm gonna let you in on something. Wanna know what I really think? The kid's a loser. He's weak! He's another embarrassment! I just wanna' get rid of him."
3 gasped in anger and closed the door and turned to Dipper who looked depressed and betrayed. 3 placed an arm around his shoulders and gently herded him away.
"I-I can't believe it…" He sounded devastated and 3's heart cracked in empathy.
The hallway shook a little and Dipper continued, "I…I guess he really hates me…"
"Shh…It's alright; Stan is just too blind to appreciate you. He is too blinded by his greed and ego; he probably can't see the 'Pine Tree' for the forest." 3 tried to joke using Bill's nickname but failed.
Dipper looked on the verge of tears, hurt that his male authority figure hated him and said, "3, not that I don't appreciate you, but…I need to be alone now…"
3 nodded and left Dipper alone.
As she walked alone, the floor she walked on started to crack and break as she brought her foot down and the air started to crackle ominously with violet lightning. She didn't even react when Bill flew past her laughing, she did stop when she met up with Mabel, Soos, and the anime boys.
"3! Bill has the code! We have to get it back!" Mabel called, not noticing her mood and lifting her hands, not noticing they had sharpened into claws.
"Why?"
"What?"
"Why should I!? Why should I save him, huh? He works Dipper day and night and all he does in return is to say is that he wants to get rid of him!" 3 finally looked up and they stepped back in surprise and fear. Her eyes were now glowing and she had a dark aura hanging around her.
"3, I'm sure that's not true." Mabel said nervously, stepping back thinking, is this 3's snapped form?
"I saw it with my own eyes in one of his memories, Mabel! He always picked on Dipper and now I know why. Stan hates him!" 3 snarled as the area started to shake and rumble
"3, it doesn't matter what you saw. If we don't stop Bill, we'll lose the shack!" Mabel told her desperately
3 laughed bitterly in her face, "That's easy for you to say! You're not the one who worked to the bone! You're not the on constantly put down by your own uncle and twin! Oh no, you're the perfect uncle's girl is in her own perfect, silly, little world." 3 said cruelly, staring right at Mabel.
"You know what? Not this time, I'm not helping you. For once this is one of Stan's problems neither I, nor Dipper is gonna fix."
With that, 3 pushed past them and started to search for Dipper, leaving the gob smacked and tearing Mabel behind.
She walked around a bit and tried to rein in her temper, but the aura still seeped out, she finally found Dipper walking around opening random doors.
She took a deep breath and her features returned to normal and walked up to him.
"Dipper? Are you feeling better?" 3 asked awkwardly.
Dipper sighed and shook his head, "No, but I could use some company right now." He said with a weak smile.
3 smiled and walked with him. "I ran into your sister." 3 began as they looked for an exit.
"Really?"
"Yeah…I kind of freaked out on her and may have taken some of my anger out on her…"
Dipper grimaced and asked, "What set you off?"
"I was still reeling from the stress of a new body, Bill being summoned, and what you're uncle really thought of you. When she told me they lost the code, I just, lost it…I'll have to apologize to her when we see her next, if she'll even talk to me."
They walked in silence, thinking of their own issues, opening and closing doors, "Ugh! How do we get out of this place?" Dipper groaned, "Exit? Hello?" He opens the door with a memory of him chopping wood.
"Aw, this again?" They groaned.
"He's a loser. He's weak. I just wanna get rid of him."
Dipper looks down and started to close the door.
"Huh, yeah. Those are all things people said about me when I was a boy." Memory Stan continued.
"Huh?" Their heads snapped up and opened the door a little wider.
"It was terrible. I was the biggest wimp on the playground!"
A door of Stan's memory opens behind Dipper and 3. It shows Stan as a kid getting bullied by other kids and running with tears.
"So one summer, my pop signs up me for boxing lessons."
A door of Stan boxing opens. He is getting punched by his opponent and pinned down.
"It was even worse than the school yard!" The younger Stan started to punches his opponent while his father nodded in approval.
"You know, that time I thought my pop was trying to torture me."Another door opens to show Stan at the theater in line.
"But wouldn't you know it? The old man was doing me favor all along!" A teen in the memory tried to steal a purse form behind Stan.
"Give me that bag!"
"Help! My purse! Help!" Young Stan turned around and shouted, "Left hook!" He punches out the teen and the crowd cheers while the girl kisses him.
"You see it? That why I'm hard on Dipper. To toughen him up. So when the world fights, he fights back." Memory Stan finished telling Soos.
"Do you think it's actually working?" Memory Soos asked him, who gestured at Memory Dipper who cleaved the wood in half and cheered.
"I-I did it! Ha ha! Yes!"
"He's really coming along! When push comes to shove, I'm actually proud of him. Just…don't ever tell him that. His head is big enough as it is."
"Ha ha, that's true."
Dipper and 3 grins at each other and he put his hand on the memory. Then he accidentally gets in to the memory with 3 tumbling after, facing with Memory Stan.
Memory Stan looks at them then at Memory Dipper and said, "Whoa, kid, what are you doing here? Nice hole in your chest, by the way. Let's fix that up." He snapped his fingers and to Dipper's and 3's surprise, the hole was fixed.
"Wh-what the- How did you do that?" He stammered as 3 poked his fixed chest.
"Word to the wide, kid. We're in the mind! You can do whatever you imagine in here!" To prove his point, he creates a Pitt Cola and drinks it.
"Well how about that." 3 and Dipper smiled sadly, ashamed that they doubted Stan when they heard Soos's and Mabel's scream form outside the memory.
"Oh my gosh, what am I doing? We gotta stop Bill!" Dipper and 3 ran back to the hall and found a gaping hole in the Shack.
"Where are they!?"
3 looked around a plank of wood nearly beaned her on the head, they glanced up and saw a giant stone Stan head hovering in mid-air and they heard their screams. They floated up to find Mabel and Soos surrounded by a thick, dark mist, struggling helplessly with their eyes closed.
"Bill!" They screamed, floating down.
"What did you do to them!?"
"Well, well, looks like Pine Tree and Hand finally decided to come to the party. I was originally going to leave them alone, but they interfered and now my deal with Gideon is now broken."
"Then let them go!" Dipper yelled trying to get to his sister.
"Let me think…NO! They ruined a deal, now they pay the price. I would've let them only experience their nightmares, but since Hand had appeared way too early, I had no time for being elaborate. So I just left them wallow in their insecurity."
The mists around them formed pictures of faceless people tormenting Soos, while for Mabel showed Pacifica picking at her insecurities and, to 3's shame, 3 herself.
"Why!?"
"Well, Hand you came way-ahead of schedule and now I have to make sure they don't get any idea's concerning you. Now you two are all alone and powerless!"
"Well, Cipher! You miscalculated, we also have power here!" Dipper yelled
Suddenly, Leaderaur, Multi-bear, and the killer Unicorns appeared into existence and attacked Bill.
They looked at each other and said, "I'll take Soos!"
"I've got Mabel!" 3 rushed towards Mabel an entered the mist.
It was dark then Pacifica's voice rang in from all directions.
"That sounds like a fat old lady's name-"
"It thinks it's gonna win. Hey, did you hear that? People clapping for the weird girls? Yeah, me neither-"
"I'm sorry to break it to you, but Pioneer Day is for serious people, and you look and act ridiculous-"
"Are you always this silly-?"
"You really are a sad, dumb little girl-"
3 wadded though the mist as the voices were getting louder until she found Mabel curled up in Sweater Town, sobbing.
"Mabel!" 3 started to run towards the elder Pine twin and was stopped by a shadow, which turned out to be 3 herself.
"Why are you helping this, silly girl?" she asked in a sick parody of her voice. "You were right about her, she hasn't learned Dipper's hardships and she's a spoiled brat who gets her way, too often, so why are you helping her?"
3 growled and punched her dark copy out and ran towards Mabel.
"Mabel! Mabel, wake up, this is just Cipher's illusion. None of this is real!" 3 yelled, shaking her.
Mabel just whined and shook her head, "No, no. you're right I am selfish, silly little girl living in her own little world!" Mabel shouted as the mist started to pick up speed as the shadow Pacifica's and 3 laughed cruelly.
"Mabel…Mabel, I was wrong! I shouldn't have said what I've said! I was being unfair and cruel towards you! If anything, I should be trapped in this space not you! You are a beautiful, unique girl who doesn't care what other people think! Pacifica is just a shallow Bimbo who will forever be surrounded by fair-weather friends and brown-nosers while you get true friends like Candy and Grenda!"
Mabel looked up, tears running down her face and asked, "Y-you really mean it?" 3 smiled and the Pacifica's and dark 3 crumbled away and was replaced with smiling Candy's and Grenda's with happy memories.
The illusion shattered to see Bill shaking off the rest of the Unicorns and Dipper and Soos emerging from their own mist.
"3, thank you…"
"Don't thank me, if I hadn't said anything, you wouldn't have been vulnerable. Mabel, I'm, really, really, sorry for what I said, I will understand if you never want to speak to me again…"
Mabel just hugged her and whispered, "It's alright, now I'm not plagued by Pacifica's now, only Candy's and Grenda's."
"I'm so sorry." 3 joked and they laughed as they met up with Dipper.
"How'd it go?" he asked.
"Evil me and Pacifica. You?"
"Faceless society and an English Bulldog Gentleman."
Bill finally thrown the last of the Unicorn's off and looked up to see that Soos and Mabel are no longer under his spell, "WHAT?!"
"That's right, Cipher! You no longer have any power over them!" 3 taunted.
Dipper yelled, "Nice bow tie!" and blasted a hole through Bill from laser eyes, making symbolic from when they first met.
"AAHH!"
"Dipper, how did you do that!?" Mabel asked excitedly.
"Guys! We just learned that you can conjure whatever you can conceive in Grunkle Stan's mindscape!"
"We're godlike in this space and only limited by our imagination!"
"Huh?"
"Just think of cool fighting stuff and it will happen." Dipper simplified.
"Like this!" 3 called and a mecha came into existence and fired acid missiles into Bill's eye.
"What? Who told you that! Don't listen to –AAAH! MY EYE!" Bill screamed holding his eye.
"Anything? Like have kittens for fists?" Her fists become pink kitten heads and she shoots them to Bill. "Po-pow! P-p-pow! Pow!"
"AAAAAH!"
Mabel giggled as the kittens on her hands start licking her, "Well hello, friends!"
"Anything, huh? Soos love stomach beam stare!" He shoots a question mark from stomach and knocks Bill off.
"Well that's not disturbing…"
Bill covers his hole he received from Dipper, "Enough games!" He shouted and fired his own eye laser at them."
"Hamster ball shields activate!" Mabel called as it came into existence around her.
"Activate!" Dipper, 3, and Soos called also, causing the laser to reflect right back.
"It's over, Bill." 3 called as a gigantic Dragon came into existence behind them. It was solid grey, with antlers, torn up wings, and acidic breath. I launched itself into Bill and started to take him apart by biting chunks out of him, roaring as it spat acid in his damaged eye.
"AH! Oh my eye! AAH!"
Mabel resurrects her anime boys next, for the final blow.
"Rise, Xyler! Rise, Craz!" Xyler and Craz rises from her back with musical instruments. They start to play synthesized music.
"No! Synthesized music! It hurts!" Bill screeched, clutching the sides of his eye.
"And now to imagine your worst nightmare! A portal out of Stan's mind!" Dipper declared.
"Out of Stan's mi-ind!" Mabel sang tauntingly.
"Mabel! Everyone, together!"
Dipper, 3, Mabel, Soos, Xyler, and Craz started to concentrate and a hole below Bill appears.
"No, no, no! Enough!" Bill finally screamed and the Dreamscape went pure white. Bill turns from dark red to yellow again, "You know, I've been impressed with you guys. You are more clever than you look. Especially the fat one."
Soos nudged Mabel and whispered, "He's talking about you!"
"So I'm gonna let you kids off the hook. You might come in handy later. BUT KNOW THIS: A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future when everything you care about will change!"
He made 3's symbol out of blue fire and held it over his head, he then continued, "Until then I'll be watching you! I'LL BE WATCHING YOU..." Bill said ominously as a wheel surrounded by symbols appeared around Bill and he vanished.
"He's gone! We did it! The gang cheers. Soon Dipper, 3, Soos, and Mabel started to flicker. "Stan must be waking up."
Mabel floated over to her dream boys and asked, "Will I ever see you guys again?"
"In your dreams, girl."
"Good one, bro, good one."
The gang wakes up in the living room.
"We did it!"
"I'm back in my book." 3 stated, conflicted. It was fun having her own body. 3 took stock of her book and found everything was normal, but still felt a little…out of place. Must be my imagination. 3 dismissed as Stan woke up.
"What? Did what? What are you all doing here? And why was I dreaming of two brightly colored and radical young men?" Stan asked, groggily.
"Grunkle Stan! You're okay!" Dipper said happily, giving him a hug that left Stan confused.
"What is this, a hug?"
"Nope! It's a choke hold." He said as he started choking Stan as 3, Soos, and Mabel laughed.
"Not bad, kid. Not bad."
"I'm just glad Gideon didn't get into the safe. I really love this old shack." Mabel said relieved.
"Group hug! No? I never know the right time!" Soos said sadly.
The shack starts to shake.
"Hey, do you guys feel..." Dipper began but was interrupted by an explosion behind the sofa.
Gideon walks through the wreckage clutching the deed, "Oh, I'm sorry, Pines family. Did I wake you?"
"But…we defeated Bill!" Dipper stammered, clutching 3 tightly while she growled.
"Bill failed me! So I switched to plan B, dynamite!"
"What? Bill? Who? What are you guys talking about?" Stan asked confused.
"Spoiler alert, Stanford! I've got the deed! The Mystery Shack belongs to me! So get out of my property!" He spoke in a handheld transceiver, "Daddy? Bring it around the front. "
"Don't worry guys! It's just part of the dream! We're gonna wake up any second now! Right? Right?" Dipper said desperately.
"I'm sorry Dipper, we failed."
Bud Gleeful drives a crane with a wrecking ball to the shack and smashes the Mystery Shack's sign as everyone screamed in terror.
"Someone pinch me, dude..." Soos said, disbelievingly as the broken sign falls in front of the gang.
A/N: Well there you have it folks, Dreamscaperers, my longest chapter yet. 3 had a body and Gideon has the Shack (as temping as it was to troll him, it didn't fit with the plot I had in mind) and 1 was introduced. I'd like to thank Channel Jumper and all the reviewers who had given me all of these ideas.