"Alright, kids, you got me!" William announced angrily, still floating around. "I'm Bill Cipher! Boy, you sure are smarter than the rest of this town, aren't you? Hats off to you!"

Mabel asked, "But why? How? What-?"

"I may have stolen a corpse."

"Ew!" she yelled.

"Look, you've both been getting in my way too much. I need to get rid of you somehow," Bill began.

"You're going to kill us?!" Dipper exclaimed.

"Nah," he answered, almost bored. "I was going to, but then I remembered that I still have to have you alive for my big plan to work. Instead, I'll just have you two fired from the staff of the Mystery Shack. As soon as Stan sees how you two are just going to hurt yourselves, he'll fire you or something. If you're lucky, I'll have both of you back home!"

"No!" Mabel screamed.

Bill taunted, "Why not? Isn't that what you wanted in the beginning of your trip?"

"Yeah, but-" Dipper stuttered.

"See? I'll be doing you both a favor!" he explained. "You get to go home, I'll get to execute the plans I have and we're all happy! Now go back to the Shack and fail to work!"

He was gone before either could protest.


"We need to stop Bill!" Dipper stated that night. He taped a large paper to the wall for his presentation.

"Maybe we can talk about our feelings with him! We'll all be glad! Eleven out of ten on the Happy Chart!" Mabel held up a paper with smiling and frowning face stickers on it.

"I don't think-"

"Summon a demon?"

Dipper hung his head, "Mabel, he is a demon. I don't think that will help us at all. It might even make it worse!"

"Use the Journal then, dumb butt!" Mabel shouted. "You have it for a reason!"

"Of course!" Dipper exclaimed. "I read about exorcism in Journal number three! We'll use that on Bill!"

"One problem."

"What is it?"

"How'll you read the spell or do the ritual or whatever?" Mabel questioned.

"Gah!" he replied in frustration.

Mabel smiled, "You forgot something!"

"Yeah, I-"

"No, I mean something else."

Dipper sighed, "What?"

"I major in distractions!"

"I have the perfect plan, then!" Dipper announced. He drew stick people on the paper. "You'll lure Bill out of the Shack and into the woods. Meanwhile, while he corners you, I'll recite the incantation and it'll be over! What could go wrong?"

Waddles squealed in agreement. Mabel smiled, "Nothing!"

Everything went wrong.