AN: I am completely sorry that I haven't update for a while! Especially since I got certain death threats from a certain some of you *Looks at Yvette14*. Anyway, I'm still sorry for not updating soon after that cliffhanger. School is about to be over and I have BIG tests coming up and a lot homework. Luckily it's the weekend so now I have time to update. By the way, I'm going to go hide as you guys read the first half of this chapter.
SHOUTOUTS!-
chibissima: Um... Glad to know I got a shock reaction from you, but can you please not swear on a K+-rated story, please?
Willebadger618: Ooh! Sorry about your stomach! Maybe you'll feel somewhat slightly better in this chapter?
James Birdsong: Aw, thank you!
RanibowsAndUnicorns: Oh boy, don't get a heart attack on me! And don't worry, the Grappling Hook is fine...
Yvette14: ...Gonna ignore that death threat for now. Glad somebody understands my writing technique! And by the way, thank you so much for that Cover Art you did!
weeeeeeeeeeeeeee: Well that depends, what did you think the snap was.
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There were two things that Mabel notice. One; she and Dipper aren't going through agonizing pain from having their bones crushed after falling nearly thousands of feet. Peering one eye open, she looks down to see her and Dipper's feet dangling just a few feet off the ground.
Looking up, Mabel sees the long rope of the Grappling Hook hanging off the side of the cliff. Thankfully whatever that beam was, it was gone so the Grappling Hook can hang on to the cliff all day if she wanted too.
Seeing that they're now safe, she sigh in pure relief. "Boy, that was a close one." Mabel giggles a bit at her attempt to lift the mood despite the fact they're in an apocalypse, not to mention she became a little uneasy from hearing that snap sound. But that worry went away quicker than you can say "Mabel Juice", after all, the Grappling Hook seem to be doing fine.
Dipper didn't make any response as his head lay over her shoulder with his arms hanging loosely over each shoulder. At first Mabel thought he's still panicking so she decide to let him calm down.
Then the silence became unbearable. "Hey, bro-bro….How about when you calm down, we'll go kick some triangle butt?" At this, she giggles. "Ha, "Triangle Butt." You're a genius Mabel…"
Her small movements cause something that surprise, Dipper's head suddenly rolls off her shoulder and is now laying back and if it weren't for Mabel's arm still wrapped around his waist, he would have succumb to gravity.
That was the second thing that Mabel notice; her brother suddenly feels like a ragdoll in her arm. It didn't make her feel any better when she saw Dipper's eyes are close as well.
"D-Dipper?" Mabel asks in a small voice. When she got nothing, she quickly set herself and Dipper on the ground, her brother's head gently resting on her lap as she sits down. "Hey, Dipper!"
Nothing.
"Dip-Dip, w-what's the matter? You're not falling anymore, you're safe."
Nothing.
"C-Come on, Dipper… Y-You're really scaring me!"
Still nothing.
"DIPPER!" Now her voice breaks. "If this is an attempt to get back at me for not trusting you, IT'S WORKING! PLEASE, JUST OPEN YOUR EYES!"
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…Nothing…
At this point Mabel couldn't hold back her tears anymore as she cradle Dipper's limp head to her chest, tears probably soaking through his hair.
She couldn't understand what's wrong, she caught him. They're not going through the "Most Agonizing Pain Of Our Lives". So what's going on? Why is Dipper not waking up? The fall couldn't be that bad, right?
Unable to handle the unanswered questions and the intense stress of what's happening to her brother, Mabel did the only thing she could think of. She screamed; "HELP! GRUNKLE STAN! GRUNKLE FORD! ANYBODY, HELP!"
"KIDS!" As if luck was on her side again, Mabel's head shot up once she heard the familiar gruff voice of her Grunkle Stan. Thank you unrealistic entity that those kids back home talk about all the time!
"GRUNKLE STAN, OVER HERE!" She shouts to give their location, her arms never leaving the ragdoll body of her brother's.
No sooner after she said that, both of her Grunkles came sprinting out of the bushes like cheetahs, despite their old ages. Wait, spoke too soon. After they're in sight, they quickly bent down to catch their breaths.
"...I'm getting too old for this." Ford pants lightly, his hands on his knees as he bends over.
"Tell me about it, Sixer…" Stan grumbles his agreement as he pops his back right into place. "Ooh, everything thing hurts."
"Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Ford!" Both elders shot their heads up to see Mabel sitting down on the ground, Dipper lying motionlessly in her lap.
"Kids!" At once, the original mystery twins quickly dart over to the two, Ford going to Mabel and Stan going to Dipper to tend.
"Mabel, what were you thinking?!" Ford briskly lectures her, unaware of the shedding tears on her cheek as she grips Dipper's lifeless hands. "Jumping off the Floating Cliffs? You could've been killed!"
"D...D...D-Dip...D-Dipper." However, his words had no effect on her as she continues to sob her brother's name and grip his hands tightly.
"Come on, kid!" Stan said as gently as he could while he lightly shook Dipper's shoulders. "Open your eyes! I know the fall was pretty bad, but it's no time to act like a cry-baby over it! Wake up!"
Like Mabel before, he didn't get any kind of response.
"Oh for the love of-" Grunkle Stan bends his head down on Dipper's chest, right where his heart is. A few seconds later, Stan's face instantly pales. "No…"
"F-Ford..." Said-man looks up from gently wrapping his arms around the sobbing Mabel to meet his twin's pale face as Stan slowly removes his head from Dipper's unmoving chest. "I-I can't hear his heartbeat."
Now Ford could feel his own heart stopping just hearing those word. Quickly taking Dipper's body from Stan's arms and into his own, Ford put his hand on his nephew's neck to check for a pulse. From then on, Ford have never been more glad for taking those medical classes…
...If he got the results he wanted to hear. But he didn't, there wasn't any pulse in Dipper's neck. And if he were to look anywhere else, he knew he couldn't find it.
Dipper… Dipper is…
"Mabel… When you were falling, how did you catch Dipper?" Ford's voice came out so small that Mabel almost couldn't hear it through her sobs. But when she did heard him, she look up to him with wide eyes.
"Grunkle Ford what does that have anything to do with-!"
"JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!" Both Mabel and Stan jump at the oldest Pines's tone. "HOW DID YOU CATCH HIM?!"
Despite all the running emotions going through her, Mabel held back a sob and wiped her tears away as she wraps one arm around Dipper's waist. However, she was unaware of her brother's head falling back. "L-Like this!"
His reaction was not something she expect. "You caught him from falling so suddenly, without any support to his head?! DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!"
Mabel couldn't understand why Grunkle Ford was so angry, but she did know that his tone is practically blame her for what's happening to Dipper. That thought alone is enough to erupt more sobs from her as she cradles Dipper's lifeless head to her chest.
"Leave her alone, Ford!" Stan rephaims his twin once he sees Mabel once again crying. "I mean, so what if the kid's head didn't have any support on the way down. What does that have anything to do with-?"
"Don't you remember anything about physics at school, Stanley?!" Ford once again cuts someone off before they finish, his depression coming towards his own twin now. "Stopping someone from falling at rapid speed at that height, no less, without any support to the head can cause neck fracture! DIPPER'S NECK IS BROKEN!"
At that, it became a deathly silence. Not even the faint sounds of screaming from the chaos around them could be heard. Everything suddenly became heavy on their shoulders once they realize what's going on with Dipper.
Mabel, who has stop her sobbing once she heard those words and is now replacing it with shaking shallow breaths, slowly removes Dipper's head from herself like he was as fragile as an egg.
How did she not see it before? That snap didn't come from the Grappling Hook, it came from Dipper's neck. Not to mention Dipper's head is laying in an odd angle than it's suppose to be.
Pretty soon more tears and sobs erupt from her eyes as she quickly pulls her brother's head back to her chest while she grips him tightly.
This is all her fault. If she had just listen to Dipper and not press that button then maybe this "Weirdmageddon" thing wouldn't be happening. Dipper wouldn't have made that deal with Bill, and Dipper would still be with them.
But he's not.
For a moment, Mabel refuse to acknowledge anything in her surroundings. She didn't notice her Grunkles wrapping their arms around her in an attempt to comfort. She didn't notice all the same lasers that cut the branch that Dipper was holding onto are destroying Gravity Falls. She didn't even notice all the torture screams echoing around them. The only thing that she truly acknowledge is that her brother is forever sleeping in her arms, no matter how many times she cries for him he would never wake up again.
However, that change when she heard a familiar shrill laugh above them. This cease Mabel's sobbing as the original Pine Twins shot their heads up with glares at the source.
Bill Cipher floats casually down towards the four Pines, his laughing never stopping until he reaches them with a twirl of his cane. "Wow, IQ, here you are trying to stop Weirdmageddon from ever happening. But in the end, Pine Tree was the one who start all of this, and look where he ended up!" At that, Bill once again does his insane laugh.
"You monster, Bill!" Ford screams. "How could you do this to Dipper? He's just a kid!"
"Hey, you humans are all the same in my eye." Bill shrugs like they're talking about the weather.
Both Stan and Ford look red as a tomato ready to burst. However, somebody already beat them to it.
"You killed him…" It came out so small in the midst of this chaos that the three of them couldn't hear it through the chaos, but when she spoke again they could finally hear her. "You killed Dipper…"
The three of them turn to Mabel, whose head is still buried with Dipper's head. They all notice that her grip around Dipper's vest became tight and shaking, like she's trying to hold back something from exploding.
"M-Mabel," Ford tried to put his hand on the shaking girl's shoulder. But as quick as lightning, Mabel slap his hand away, grab the Memory Eraser Gun from his pocket (he didn't even remember he put it there), and pointed it straight at Bill with tears still streaming down her red eyes.
"W-WHOA! E-Easy there, Shooting Star!" Bill, for once, actually look terrified at the moment as he backs away from Mabel when she began to come towards with the Memory Eraser Gun still in hand.
"Y-You killed him without a second thought!" Mabel continues, tears pouring down faster than ever from her eyes and her grip on the gun became tighter. "Y-You, YOU DIDN'T EVEN BLINK!"
"C-Come on, Shooting Star!" Bill tries to reason, although his own fear of seeing that gun is beginning to affect. "I-I'm still an All-Powerful Demon! I-I can bring Pine Tree back! Watch!"
Bill quickly snaps his fingers. Although she could hear the loud gasp from behind and Ford and Stan saying things like "Dipper!" or "Kid, you alright?!", she choose to ignore them. Now her eyes became determined as she rose the Memory Eraser Gun higher towards Bill.
"I'll never let you hurt anybody ever again…" Mabel said, before she press down the trigger.
"NO!" Bill tried to escape but it was too late. The laser shot through him like an arrow and a bright light emits from him as he screams.
Mabel watch in horror at what she had just done and what is happening around here. Right after the laser hits him, Bill begins to scream as he suddenly beings to be split apart like puzzle pieces. Not to mention the wind suddenly begins to pick up, blowing hair right into face to block the view of the disintegrating Bill.
"Mabel!" Mabel quickly turn her head to see her two Grunkles holding onto to each other and Dipper's body in the midst of the wind, with Stan reaching his hand out towards her. She quickly darts over to them and joins in the Pines family huddle, her gripping Dipper's tightly as the two elder grip each other to keep the younger twins safe.
Mabel didn't know what happen after that, she had close her eyes and bury her head into Dipper's chest. All she could hear was Bill screaming, more screaming, the wind getting stronger and stronger. Then there was silence…
Hesitantly, Mabel lifts her head up from Dipper's chest and looks at their surroundings along with Stan and Ford. Everything seemed, normal. There was no more destruction, it look just like it was another day in Gravity Falls.
Looking to her left, Mabel let out a horrified gasp that made her cover her mouth.
Right there standing a few feet away from is all that remains of Bill Cipher; his physical body turn into stone, showing a frightful expression in his eye.
The two Stans both grip Mabel tightly as she trembles at the sight, but they gave her one message that somewhat reassure her. It's all over.
Slowly, Mabel turn her gaze back towards Dipper and her breath hitches. Dipper's head is back to the right angle, but his eyes were still close.
"D-Dipper?" Mabel gently shook his head, not completely sure what she's seeing is true. Although Bill look desperate, he couldn't really bring someone back from the dead. Could he?
"D-Dipper, are you okay?" Mabel tried again, but when she once again didn't get any form of response, her tears began to drop. "D-Dipper, I'm sorry about what happen with the button. I do trust you! I-If you wake up, I promise I'll never do anything behind your back again! Please, trust me and just open your eyes!"
GASP!
Mabel jumps back when Dipper suddenly sits up and begins to inhale all the oxygen his lungs could get back. After that, Dipper looks at his surroundings to see his family staring at him like he just came back from the dead.
"Uh… Why are you guys looking at me like that?"
"SINCERE SIBLING HUG!"
"Wh-!" Dipper grunts when Mabel suddenly tackles him into the Bear Hug of all Bear Hugs. Before he could question it, he stops when he hears Mabel's sobbing being muffled as she buries her head into his shirt.
Whatever ill-feelings Dipper had for Mabel before instantly went away as he quickly put his arms around her and mumble, "Pat, pat…" to let her know he's here.
And he won't ever leave her again.
AN: Happy ending! Mostly because I already did a tragedy story and decide to add a little happiness back into my stories. I hope you all like my first Gravity Falls! And who knows, maybe I'll do another one?