Chapter 4: Showdown

Dipper snored a loud, piercing snore that couldn't be fabricated. He shifted from laying on his back, face up to the sun roof, to his left, forcing his face to droop right onto his wife's right hand.

"Wake up!" She said, followed by a slap to his cheek. He merely shifted his sleeping position, now facing the opposite end, his green eyes faced towards the passenger's window instead. "Really bad timing for a dream Dipper!" She shouted.

Annabelle was looking out the car window in a sort of amazement about how high in the air they were. "Mommy, everyone looks so tiny and small! Is this what being in an airplane is like!?" She asked, sounding far too excited for the predicament they were in.

"Y-Yeah, it is except you're usually not this terrified. Or this high in the sky. At all." Wendy said, sounding terrified. "Are you ok Mommy?" Annabelle asked obliviously. "We're flying in a car honey! Of course I'm not ok!" Wendy shrieked.

"Well I mean, an airplane is kinda just a flying bus, and a bus is ju-" Annabelle began.

"BUSES SHOULDN'T FLY EITHER!" Wendy shouted angrily. She felt bad almost immediately when she saw her cheeks swell afterwards. "I'm sorry for yelling honey. Right now's not the time for silly, if not totally incorrect, comparisons alright?" She asked. "Ok Mommy." Annabelle said quietly, grabbing her mom's hand from the back seat. "Look!" She pointed out the front window. It was the man of the hour…

"Hola Pines family!" Eric said with a weird, joyful laugh. "Wait how did you follow us all the way here from that rest stop? Weren't you trapped inside of it?" Annabelle asked.

"Oh no my princess." Eric responded, making Wendy's face whince. "I was only trapped in that particular urinal, not the whole rest stop itself."

"Holy crap, you weren't screwing around with that story after all." Wendy acknowledged.

Dipper mumbled something in the background.

"Daddy wake up!" Annabelle screamed. "We're flying because of this ghost!" "Oh I don't think he'll be waking up anytime soon!" For you see, he is incredibly exhausted! Eric said maniacally, even adding an evil laugh for effect.

"Wait, him sleeping isn't some evil spell you've done?" Annabelle asked. "I just kind of assumed that was what you guys did…" Eric frowned. "You're giving a ghost who trapped in a rest stop urinal too much credit…" He said, clearly disappointed in himself. "But you can lift this entire car?" Wendy asked.

"Stop asking questions!" Sudden the car went back into free fall, falling right through a cloud and nearly catching on fire before jerking suddenly and stopping once again, the girls hitting their heads on the top. "Do you question my powers anymore?" Eric asked, with both girls shaking their heads fiercely. "Good, now I'll continue my original plan to take my princess back to my rest stop castle!"

"Over my dead body!" Wendy said.

"Can we at least not live in the rest stop? I mean that's gross dude! Especially if you don't eve-" Annabelle said. Wendy glared at her daughter. "Why are acting like you're going with him!?" She asked angrily. "Well he's kind of more powerful than us Mom. I don't think I'm getting out of this one…"

"Don't say that honey!" Wendy said. "We've faced off with bigger, badder ghosts back in the day and we'll do it right here and right now with this thing!"

Wendy then pulled out of the glove box a garlic necklace and threw it at him. "Mommy, I thought that was supposed to be used on vampires, not ghosts." Annabelle said right after she threw it. "Oh right..." Wendy said dourly.

Dipper snored again from the distance.

"Mommy I have an idea, but you have to trust me here!" Annabelle said energetically. "Don't worry honey, I got this!" Wendy said as she threw a cross from the glovebox at Eric.

"Well it went right through him, so I'm not so sure about that…"

"Fine fine, do whatever you're gonna do!" Wendy said.

Annabelle took a deep breath in and out and then shouted loudly. "ERIC!" She began. "I WILL GO WITH YOU…. BUT YOU MUST PUT US BACK ON THE GROUND FIRST!"

Wendy gave a perplexed stare at her. "Really honey, you think that's gon-" She began. "Anything for my princess, soon to be queen!" Eric said as the car gently descended down through the air. Wendy decided she wasn't even going to try to say anything else at that point.

They landed nearby a small lake and, according to the GPS anyways, they were actually in California now. "Ok I did what you requested. Let us go!" He said. "WAIT!" Annabelle demanded. "Your not gonna come back and give your queen a… kisssssssssss." She purposefully drew that out rather long. Wendy cringed again. "O-Oh r-right." Eric began. "I'm still pretty new to this thing sorry." Eric flew over Annabelle's door and opened it to see…

"Is that a leaf blow-AAHAH" He began before it began sucking him in fiercely and fast, powerfully so. His supernatural abilities and strength had no chance against the intense pull of the leaf blower and he was trapped inside. "I never thought I would say thank God for a leaf blower, but here we are." Wendy said. She then chucked it into the lake, where it sunk to the bottom never to be seen again (by the Pines anyways.)

"Mommy, do you think we should stop for the night now?" Annabelle asked. Wendy looked at the GPS and it said five and a half hours to go. "No honey, we're gonna f-finish this thing. We flew through the air, w-we're making great time." She said, struggling to finish her sentence without stuttering and sounding monotoned and exhausted. "Mommy, I think we sho-" Annabelle began. "It's not a discussion honey." She said as the car drove back onto the road.

Six Hours Later

Dipper Pines awoke to the sun glaring him right in the eyes, but he felt well rested so it didn't bother him. When he awoke, he realized they were right outside of sea world. "Oh my gosh guys, are you excited for Sea W-" Only to see that Wendy and Annabelle were fast asleep in the back of the car. "Oh come on party poopers." He joked. Both girls just moaned in their sleep.