Twinstones

Chapter 9

Dipper frowned.

"What do you mean, 'get it back'?" He asked.

"Well, if the Twinstone is the only way we can get back home, then we get it back, and go home. Easy. Simple. Plain." She answered.

"But they would expect something like that. They'll set a trap, and all of us will get caught." Dipper reasoned.

"They won't, if we do it today, not even a day since you escaped. Reverse Dipper thinks that you were majorly hurt, and that Diana didn't help you. They'll think that you'll need more time to make a full recovery, but here you are, completely healed. If there's ever gonna be a good time, then that time is now." Dipper paused. She had a good point, and he was healed.

"What if we get caught? I'm not putting you through what they did to me."

"Then we won't get caught. We have Pacifica and Gideon, and we'll get Diana to help, even if I don't trust her completely. Dipper, this is the only opportunity we will get." He considered. If they waited, they were more likely to get caught, and chances were that the reverse twins weren't going to risk them escaping a second time.

"Okay, fine. But we do this carefully. Is that clear?" Mabel sighed.

"Yes, Dipper."

"Good. Now, does anyone have any ideas? We don't need a lot, but a backup plan would be great."

"So this Twinstones ability is to travel between dimensions. Useless, as we have Bill, but maybe we can extract the power from it and use it for something else." Dipper Gleeful said absentmindedly. He reached for the third journal and grasped thin air.

"What the-?" He looked to see what he was doing and saw no book. Well, there were books, but none of them were the one he wanted. And now that he thought about it, he hadn't seen his sister for a while. He had just assumed that the information extraction was taking a while. He stood up, pushing the chair backwards with a screech. Dipper didn't care. Instead he ran into the room they were keeping Dipper in. Mabel was unconsious on the floor, Dipper was gone, and Diana was nowhere in sight. He reached out with his magic and woke her up. Mabel sat up startled, looked at Dipper to where their prisoner once was and back again, and facepalmed.

"What happened in here?" Dipper inquired with a touch of anger in his voice. He was getting sick of these things happening without his knowing.

"I don't know. I was about to start to get that information you wanted from him, but then the door opened and his sister was there. She backed out, then changed her mind and came back in. I threw her against a wall with my magic. Something wrapped around my neck and the next thing I knew I was out cold."

"Where's Diana?"

"I told her to leave before I started. Why?"

"I think she helped them out. Come on, we have to go find her." They ran down out of the room and down the wall to Diana's room. She wasn't there.

"Where is she?" Dipper asked himself. The exit. He sprinted back down the hall towards the exit and found Diana unconsious on the floor. Like he had with Mabel, he woke her up with his magic. Her eyes sprang open and she slowly got up off the floor.

"Where are Dipper and his sister!" He demanded. Diana dusted herself off, not meeting Dippers eyes.

"Gone, Dipper. They escaped. I tried to stop them, but one knocked me out with a plank they had grabbed." She pointed to a nearby wooden board. "I believe that is the one they used." She was right. It had a crack through the middle, indicating where on the board it hit her head, and a small lump was already forming on Diana's crown.

"And how did you know they were escaping?"

"I stepped out of my room to get something to eat and they ran past, so I gave chase. Somehow one of them got behind me as we approached the exit and hit me over the head with that board." Dipper was still suspicious, but her story had no flaws that he could see.

"Very well then. Now, if you will excuse me, I must get back to my work."

He entered his workroom and in a fit of rage, he upturned a chair, pulled all the books from the bookshelf, and tugged his hair. He only barely contained his anger enough so that nothing valuable got damaged. This was hard because so much stuff in there was irreplaceable. A glimmer caught his eye, and as he turned to look at the escaped boys Twinstone, he had an idea. If they ever wanted to get home, then they would need their Twinstone. He could set a trap for them, and make them use the Twinstone to transport him and his sister to other worlds to collect power and magic. They would become even stronger then they had first planned.

He knew how minds worked, being in them so often. They would come to get it soon, probably today, to trick them into setting a trap later in the week. Although Dipper may not come, his sister certainly would. And if he captured her, what's to stop Dipper from trying to come and rescue her.

Absolutely nothing.