Mabel woke up the next morning feeling great. She had had an awesome dream where Waddles had super powers and they went around stopping crime! He called himself... The Baconator!

Mabel slipped out of the covers, only then realizing that her brother was on the floor. He was sleeping, but why was he on the floor?

She felt like she should wake him up, but at the same time, he probably needed the sleep. She contemplated her choices, but decided on waking him up.

Mabel lightly grabbed Dipper by his shoulders and shook him. He wasn't waking up. She shook him a little harder. Still nothing. She decided to pull out the big guns.

She got on the floor and tickled him. He woke up only seconds after Mabel had started, and was laughing. She smiled, having accomplished her mission, and stood up holding a hand out to her brother. He grabbed it, coming up to meet Mabel's face.

This is when she noticed that he wasn't opening his eyes.

"What's wrong with your eyes?"

"Uh-n-nothing" he stuttered.

Mabel knew that something was up.

"C'mon, what's wrong?"

"It's bad... like, you'll flip..." Dipper said hesitantly.

"YOU FINALLY FOUND ANOTHER LOVE INTEREST THAT ISN'T WENDY!?" Mabel practically screamed with joy.

"What? No- I mean, I-I don't still like her, I mean I like her-a-as a friend, haha..." Dipper stuttered and laughed nervously.

Mabel just gave him a knowing look, but shook it off.

"Seriously, Dipper, what's wrong?" she said adding a little more pressure to her tone.

Dipper made an expression that Mabel had never seen before, and he was only using his mouth to display it. He looked... guilty? No, he would be more red if it was that... maybe... embarrassment? Nope, he would definitely be blushing if it was that. What was it?

Dipper slowly opened both of his eyes, which was a bad decision on his part because it just added to the suspense. Then Mabel screamed.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE!?" she screeched.

"I DON'T KNOW MABEL!" he replied, not meaning to raise his voice at his sister.

"Do you think Bill had something to do with this?"

"Well... yes, but this isn't an illusion, if it was, you wouldn't be able to see it, right?"

"Uh... yes?" Mabel replied with uncertainty. She didn't know as much about this kind of stuff as Dipper did. She was the fun one, not the bookworm.

"Either way, we need to figure out what or who caused this." Dipper nervously said.

"Don't worry, Dip! We'll get your face back to normal in no time!" Mabel said jokingly to try and cheer her brother up in a situation like this.

Dipper did not take it that way. What did Mabel mean by "get your face back to normal"? Does she think I look bad, he thought. He felt what muscle he did have tense.

"What do you mean "get your face back to normal?", Dipper said, the tension in his voice there.

"I just meant that we need to fix you up..." she reluctantly replied, noting the tone in Dipper's voice. She knew her brother well enough to know that her teasing does not upset him, well, most of the time anyways. However, she was oblivious to the true anger that was stirring in Dipper.

Something in Dipper snapped. He dropped limply to the ground.

"DIPPER!"

Dipper slowly picked himself up off of the floor, but his expression was boiling with anger.

"Dipper?" Mabel asked cautiously. What was wrong with her brother.

He closed his eyes and clenched his fists. Within a few seconds, he opened his hands, only to have them engulfed in the beautiful, yet equally terrifying azure flames. Only one eye reopened. It was his demonic eye. Except now, it was a bright, blood red.

"NO ONE INSULTS ME!" he growled.

"D-Dip, i-it's not l-like that, I was just j-joki... Mabel tried to explain, only to have her voice become a silent squeak.

Dipper looked up at Mabel, and noticed the utterly terrified look on her face. His fiery expression softened, along with his eye and the flames from his hands, before disappearing all together, as if nothing ever happened.

"Mabel, I-I'm sorry. I don't know what got into me..." Dipper very sadly said as the ironic truthfulness of his own words hit him. What had gotten into me?

"It's okay, bro- bro, I know you didn't mean it..." she trailed off as she looked at the teary expression on her twin's face. "Hey, let's head downstairs and eat some breakfast, it'll make you feel better" Mabel kindly offered.

"Okay, let's go..." agreed Dipper even though the last part wasn't true. It wasn't going to make him feel better. In the least, it would get his mind off of the subject, but that was just as unlikely.

"You comin'?" Mabel said stopping in the doorway. Dipper snapped out of his thoughts. Wait. That could be the answer.

"Dipper..."

"Coming", he finally replied, and they made their way down to breakfast.