When we last left off, Dipper found himself between his sister's body and a hard place. Pinned down flat on his back, with Mabel's body, under the possession of Felicity the ghost, and in position for an unpleasant intercourse session. How is Dipper going to get himself out of this one?
"Stop fighting it." Felicity said, removing Mabel's clothes. "The sooner you hold still the sooner this'll be over!"
Dipper resisted. He tried to pull his arms free, while bearing the weight of his sister on his body, but he couldn't overcome the grip of the tree roots.
While trying to pull his arms free, his hand hit something metallic.
Ooh, huh? Dipper thought. He tried to touch it again, which he did, but he accidentally cut himself. It stung, but now he figured out what was buried in the ground.
Dipper managed to grab ahold and pull the metal object from the ground, and it was an ax! With all his might and his right hand, he pulled it out of the ground, held it up, and sliced the tree roots gripping his left hand.
"What the!?" Felicity yelled. "I thought I threw that thing out ages ago! No fair!"
With both of Dipper's hands free, he shoved Mabel's body off his of his body, and she went flying the other direction. The large central tree root re-gripped Mabel's body. Dipper was now able to swing the ax into the roots gripping his legs, thus he was now unbound and free. Dipper stood up on his own two legs and held the heavy ax.
"Nice tighty whities kid!" Felicity said mockingly, pointing out Dipper had been stripped down to his undies. She was just trying to deter him.
Dipper blushed a bit, but he shook his head and tried not to get distracted.
"Your words mean nothing to me! It is my sworn duty to protect Mabel at all costs, and from evil doers from the hands of the likes of you!" Dipper yelled in defiance. "And that's what I'm going to do!"
"How noble of you. I'd like to see you try." Felicity said. She snapped her fingers, and giant tree roots rose from the ground, poised for attack.
"You want Mabel? Come and get her!" Felicity screamed. She lifted her arms into the air, there were flashes of blue light, and directed her trees to attack Dipper. With that a forest of tree roots lashed out at Dipper.
A sharp root lashed head on into Dipper, but he managed to slice the thing clean in two. A couple came from behind, but they were no matched for the determined Dipper. He swung his ax to and fro slicing roots as they came at him. A few roots tried to grab his legs, but he would give them the... ax. Basically it was a pretty intense moment. The ax was very heavy, so much so that Dipper probably wouldn't have been able to use it under normal circumstances, but with so much adrenaline, he didn't notice, he swung it like it was nothing. There was too much at stake, all he could think about was saving Mabel.
After a few swings, there was a mess of severed tree roots on the ground, and a slight break in the action.
Felicity rose Mabel's hands into the air, her hands glowed bright blue, and the ground shook.
"You dare challenge ME?!" Felicity cried, as she charged something.
"YOU'LL NEVER SAVE MABEL!" Felicity motioned her hands forward sending an intense beam of slight Dipper's way. His eyes widened at the sight of the shear concentration of energy, but he managed to jump to the left dodging it, falling on his side.
"HA! You missed me!" Dipper yelled.
"Wasn't aiming for ya!" Felicity said. But what was she aiming at?
Suddenly the ground shook once again, and up from the ground rose a chopped tree stump, it stood up using a long complex of roots that stemmed like tentacles. It appeared Felicity's blast revitalized the tree stump.
"Meet David." Felicity said. "He was an ancient tree, many centuries old, but he was chopped down because he 'took up too much space', or something ridiculous. You humans are so selfish. I went ahead just now and spruced him up, and now it's time for him to seek his revenge on humanity!"
The tree stump crawled towards Dipper like an octopus on land, or a spider, and lashed its root into Dipper's face, leaving a mild gash. Dipper was in a panic frenzy. All he could think to do was run, but there wasn't much place to run. Dipper then got an idea. He climbed up the vertical wall to about where he was plastered. He hung in place for a moment, and waited for a branch to whip out at him, and it did. The branch missed got stuck in the tree sap still on the wall. Using these crucial seconds, Dipper leaped off the side of the wall, and with ax faced downward, landed and jabbed it down the center of the severed tree stump. It made a hefty screech, and then lost all life as it collapsed to the ground.
"No! It can't be! Impossible!" Felicity shouted.
There was but one last tree root to go, that being the big one that gripped onto Mabel. Dipper ran up and with just one fell swing he sliced the thing clean in half, thus releasing its grip on Mabel's body. Her body floated slowly to the ground.
"No! My environmentally conscious empire!" cried Felicity in defeat.
"Ah ha! So you admit defeat!" cried Dipper victoriously.
"Hmm, so I do." said Felicity with unusual tone of confidence. "Well alright then. I admit defeat. You've defeated my army so I guess you win."
"You're sure right I do!" said Dipper.
"Well then, tough guy. Since you won, why not go ahead and finish the job?"
"Don't mind if I do!" said Dipper. There was an awkward pause as Dipper wasn't actually sure what she meant by 'finish the job'.
"Well, go ahead and do it!" said Felicity, as she gently landed on the ground.
"Wait... do what?" Dipper said confused.
"Finish it!" Felicity said.
"Wait no!" Dipper said shocked realizing what she was implying. "I see what you're doing and I will not!"
"So now you're catching on. Took you long enough. So much for being the smart guy." said Felicity. "That's right, if you destroy me, you destroy Mabel too!"
Dipper's arms shook as he held the ax. He wasn't sure what to do.
"Actually scratch that, destroying Mabel WON'T destroy me!" beamed Felicity. "All it means for me is being out one vessel, which is no big deal, I can always find another."
"Y-you, monster!" he yelled.
"Thanks, I try kid." Felicity said. "So now what's your big plan kid?" she asked.
"Grr... get out of my sister's body!" Dipper cried.
"That's your ingenious plan? Yelling and screaming? Ha!" Felicity mocked. "It's a little more complicated than that sadly. You can't just ask for a ghost to leave its host."
"Err um..." Dipper said trying to think of a plan. "Mabel if you can hear me you got to fight it! Resist! Take back control!"
"Sorry kiddo, that only works on television." Felicity said. "Mabel's mind is buried deep in suspended animation. She can't see, hear, or feel a- DIPPER HELP!" Felicity's voice was interrupted by the sound of Mabel's voice calling for help.
"Oops, sorry about the little hiccup there." she said. "It won't happen again."
"Mabel listen to me! You gotta combat! Regain control of your own body!" shouted Dipper.
"I already told you that shouting does no-DIPPER HELP ME!" Felicity once again interrupted by Mabel's voice.
"Stay! Out! Of! This! YOU!" yelled Felicity punching her own gut with each word.
"Leave my sister alone!"
There was some loud screaming, Felicity's eyes went blank for a moment, Mabel's head slowly turned, and her neck cracked, and then her eyes lit up again.
"Ahh, now then, I don't think we have to worry about any more intrusions." said Felicity.
"You know what, just swing that ax into Mabel now. And you don't have to worry about hurting Mabel, I'll make sure she doesn't feel a thing." Felicity said menacingly.
"Absolutely not!" Dipper yelled.
"Well if you're not going to use that ax on your sister, then you may as well drop it to the ground." said Felicity.
"Only if you let my sister go this instant!" demanded Dipper.
"Oooh, yeah no." said Felicity. "Since I'm not doing that I guess we've reached a stalemate.
The two did indeed meet a stalemate. Dipper refused to swing his ax into his sister for obvious reasons, and Felicity refused to give up Mabel's body. Finally Felicity came up with something.
"Okay, new deal!" said Felicity. "I will give you three choices."
"Option number one: you can leave this place right now, completely unharmed" Felicity snapped her fingers opening an exit to show she wasn't fibbing. "But! I keep Mabel if you leave. And don't count on getting either of your smelly old great uncles for help, I highly doubt you'll be able to find Mabel's body once you leave."
Dipper gulped after hearing the possibility of losing Mabel for good.
"Option number two, you drop the ax right now, and I might give you back Mabel." she said. "Key word is 'might'. You a betting kind of person? You ever been to vegas? You ever win a jackpot, or lose it all? Think of it like that."
Option two sounded slightly more appealing but far from ideal.
"Your third and final option, is to take that ax, and swing it right into your sister! Afterwards you can keep her body. I can find another vessel. So, what's it going to be Pines?"
Dipper rattled in his knees after hearing all three options. They all sounded terrible! He thought very hard, about the first two options of course, the third was out of the question. His hands shook and he got sweaty, he wasn't sure what to do.
"If I leave right n-n-n-now..." Dipper shivered because a) He was in his underpants only. and b) He was legitimately scared. "If I leave now, do you promise to keep Mabel safe?"
"I can't guarantee anything." said Felicity. "Maybe I will, maybe I won't. It's up to you to take that chance."
Finally after much consideration, Dipper lifted the ax above his head with two hands... and dropped it to the ground.
"So... now what?" Dipper dared to ask.
Felicity stood for a few moments with an blank stare. She then snapped her fingers, causing two roots to pop out of the ground and wrap around Dipper's arms.
"I can't believe you literally picked the worst possible option!" Felicity said ecstatic. "You're even dumber than you look!"
"Had you picked options 1 or 3, you could have been free, the latter of which you would have had Mabel as you wanted, granted she wouldn't be alive but still."
"But no! You picked the one where you surrender and lose! So sad."
Dipper struggled to break free, but he couldn't. Their grip was extra tight. "But wait, I defeated your tree... root... army thing. I thought there weren't any more."
"HA! No you didn't!" said Felicity. "You barely made a dent in the amount of tree roots I can manipulate. Even David you didn't really beat, I mean kind of, but he's been through much worse. I staged it all to make it look like you were winning. I just wanted to see if you'd actually swing that ax into your own sister, and I guess I got my answer. Tsk tsk. Coward."
"Now then..." Felicity said picking up the dropped ax. "I'm going to show you how it's done!"
"Wait so now you're going to kill me?!" screamed Dipper mortified.
"Yeah, but don't get too disgruntled, I'll make sure your sister joins you!" Felicity said maniacally.
"Please no!" screamed Dipper. "Do whatever you want to me, just please don't hurt Mabel!" Dipper pleaded.
"I'm afraid I can't do that. It's all or nothing kid. Felicity said. "When I was murdered, it wasn't just me, it was also my entire family. So I figured I'd let you know how it feels. Go big or go home am I right?"
"How about go home?!" asked Dipper.
"No can do kiddo." said Felicity, readying the ax.
"Wait! Is intercourse still on the table?" asked Dipper. "If I make whatever love you want will you let us go?" Oh no what am I doing? Dipper thought in his mind.
"Sorry not sorry kid, it's too late for that." said Felicity. "I'm over you. And based on everything I've seen, you most likely have a very tiny dong, scratch that I know you do, I looked while you were unconscious, so sex probably would have been extremely underwhelming anyway.
"Hey!" Dipper said peeved.
"You two are disposable. I'll find another maiden to take over, and another guy to capture. But as for right now."
Felicity, in Mabel's body, wielding the ax, slowly approached Dipper. Finally she was within range and stopped. Felicity made Mabel's arms pull back the ax readying to swing.
"Here's Mabel!" she screeched.
"Noooooooo!" Dipper cried.
Things look extremely grim for Dipper and Mabel. How do they get out of this one safely? What is Felicity's motive and backstory? Find out next time in Chapter 6!