Three and Four Knocks on the Door
SUMMARY: The Dipper clones are back and need Dipper Classic's help, meanwhile Pacifica and Dipper get into a fight.
MAIN CHARACTERS: Dipper Clones 3 and 4, Dipper Pines, and Pacifica Northwest
Two small figures wearing rain ponchos were running through the raining forest, them avoiding puddles despite wearing rain gear.
"Four, hurry! We are almost there!" the first figure said. It turned and revealed a young boy, about twelve, with pale brown hair and eyes, a pale white and blue hat on his head with the number three on it, the hood of the rain poncho over it. Water begins to flood on the forest floor, making one with the number three on his hat gasp and jump onto a rock. "FOUR!"
"Three, quit shouting!" the other shouts, his voice identical to Three's. He also looked identical, all except that his hat said "Four" instead of "Three".
"The woods are starting to flood, we need to get to higher ground!" Three shouts, avoiding the droplets of water, both from the flooding and from the rain.
They were the Dipper clones from when Grunkle Stan had his party at the Shack towards the beginning of the first summer the twins were there. Dipper had tried to make an ultimate plan to get a dance with Wendy, so Dipper decided to use the supernatural copy machine that Stan had to clone himself. The clones got out of hand at one point, but Three and Four were sent on the mission to steal Robbie Valentino's bike.
They had never came back.
The Dipper clones stayed in the woods, managing to find scrap money to buy themselves rain gear to protect themselves from water. Any liquid would disintegrate the clones, so the two avoided it at all costs. It had been a few years since they had been cloned from Dipper Pines, them living in the woods and trying to have their own adventures.
However, they didn't realize that Oregon rained so much… or snowed…
There were a few close calls, Four was missing a finger on his right hand from being bit by wild animal, the saliva disintegrating the finger. Three had tried to patch him up so his companion's whole hand didn't melt away.
The two clones were wearing thick yellow ponchos, both wearing rubber gloves to protect their arms, both wearing bright red rain boots, and they wore face shields. They looked extremely odd, but they had to so they could survive the elements.
"Do you even think he will help us, Three?" Four asks his twin-clone worriedly. "I mean we never did come back… he probably thinks we're dead…"
"Hey, he'll help us! He's the original!" Three shouts back, trying to sound confident. "We just need to get to the Shack!"
Between the two Three was the one who was much braver than Four. He seemed to have a plan always and he was extremely protective of Four. Four was more worried about everything, him wanting to be more cautious about their surroundings. The two, despite being clones of the original Dipper Pines, seem to have their own personality.
Three holds out his gloved hand, in which Four grabs it and starts running alongside his clone twin. The two jumped between rocks and logs, Four almost slipping and falling into the flooded forest. Three's copied heart pounded as he gripped onto Four with dear life, he didn't want to be alone and he didn't want his brother to die a horrible death.
Soon in the distance they saw the dim lights of the Mystery Shack…
"Okay, so now you roll the die."
Pacifica was glaring at Dipper across the table, her face in a bored expression. She picked up one of the die reluctantly and rolled it. The die landed on a twenty-four. She glares back at Dipper, whom was smiling like a small child at Christmas.
"Oh!" he exclaims excitedly. "A twenty-four!" he then grabbed some graph paper and handed it to Pacifica. "Okay, so now you need to calculate-"
"Remind me why I'm dating you again?" Pacifica interrupts in monotone, clearly bored.
There was a sudden knock on the door, both the teenagers jumping from their seats. They were the only ones in the house as the others were at the theater to see a movie, so they weren't expecting anyone so soon. Dipper slowly gets up from the table and walks to the front door, his blue t-shirt wrinkled from being bundled up in a drawer and same with his jeans, and as socked feet padded on the wooden floor the door was being pounded loudly.
Dipper slowly opens the door… and saw himselves?!
"Wait… what!?" Dipper yelps, him jumping back. "Dipper clones Three and Four!?"
Pacifica then walks to the door and sees who was there. There she saw two young boys… but they were Dipper? They had the same blue and white hat, but there was a lack of a pine tree and there were numbers on them in black marker. The two Dipper twins were wearing yellow raincoats, red rain boots, and thick rubber gloves.
"Wait a minute… what the hell is going on!?" Pacifica screeches.
Fours gasps, "Oh no, she cussed! That's bad…!" Three nodded his head in agreement.
"Hate to break it to ya kid –me? - but we cuss all the god damned time." Dipper says nonchalantly.
"Wait… you're the Original Dipper?" Three exclaims, finally seeing that he was wearing the famous pine tree hat. "When did you get so tall…?"
"I'm fifteen…" Dipper states.
Pacifica then grabs his arm. "Wait a damn minute here… what the hell is going on here!?" she demands.
Dipper's face flushes red as he gestured the Dipper clones to come inside. The two clones slowly took off their rain gear, Four screaming when a water droplet touched his hand. Three immediately goes and tries to help him, but Pacifica already put a paper towel on it to dry it. Now there was a hole through Four's hand.
"Dipper, explain what is going on?" Pacifica asks again.
"Okay… remember when Grunkle Stan threw a party here when we were twelve?" Dipper prods.
"Which one?"
"The one where you first met Mabel."
"Oh… that one… okay, yeah."
"I… I sort of… used a supernaturally powered copy machine and cloned myself… and I had a lot of clones… it got a little out of hand. I had sent Three and Four here on a mission and they never came back… I honestly thought they got disintegrated a long time ago…"
Pacifica raises a blonde brow. "So… why did you feel you needed clones?" she asks him, curious.
"Uh…"
"Wait… so that plan with Wendy didn't work…?" Three cries out, still trying to comfort Four who seemed to be in pain from the hole in his hand.
Pacifica gives a hard glare to Dipper. "Wendy…?" she questions, her tone turning callous.
Dipper's face turns red with nervousness. "W-well…"
"She's the coolest person we have ever met!" Three tells Pacifica, causing Dipper to start panicking. He had never told Pacifica that he had huge crush on Wendy back when he was twelve. "She's pretty, awesome, and-"
"So… a crush?" Pacifica implies.
"More like 'in love' with her," Four finally says, shaking his holey hand. He then leans by Three's ear. "I… don't even know who she is… do you?" him gesturing towards the blonde.
"Not a clue." Three tells him.
"My girlfriend, Pacifica Northwest…!" Dipper then tells them. "The most beautiful, most intelligent, and best woman in the world!"
All Pacifica did was glare at him with emerald eyes. He felt his chest tighten painfully, he didn't like that glare. He's never seen that glare before…
"You never mentioned you had a crush on Wendy Corduroy…" she stated.
"That's because that is what it was!" Dipper shouts. "A crush! It meant nothing, okay? You probably had a lot of crushes before me!"
"Not really…" Pacifica muttered.
"And besides when the Shape Shifter was Wendy and I thought she was hurt and when I did say that I liked her-" Dipper was beginning to say.
"But knowing us we probably said we loved her." Four says, which caused Pacifica to turn her head away with a huff.
"-but she shot me down okay? I got over it. It was a simple crush." Dipper finishes. He went to put a hand on her shoulder, but she shrugs it off. "Pacifica…"
"I think I'll be going home, see you later." She grumbles as she went to put on her purple raincoat.
"Then let me wal-"
"I'll manage," she snaps. She then leaves the Shack. Slamming the door behind her.
Three then takes a sharp inhale of a hiss. "That's not good… it's flooding out there…" he shakily says to Dipper. "That's why we came back here, we needed your help to find a safe place for us…"
Four hold up his hand with the hole and missing finger. "It's deadly out there for us… look at my hand!" he shouts.
But Dipper didn't hear that, all he heard was about a flood. "It's flooding out there!?" he screams. "How deep!?"
"Well, obviously we don't know, we can't touch the water!" Three shouts back, his voice cracking from still being a twelve-year-old version of Dipper.
"It's practically becoming a river out there, if she slips she might hit her head and drown…" Four adds nervously.
Dipper's eyes widen as he quickly put on he runs out of the Shack, his pine tree hat falling off his head from the gust of the stormy wind, it settling on the wooden floor in front of the clones. Rain immediately soaks Dipper to the bone, his brown hair matting to his head. He wasn't wearing a jacket during the fall storm, so he shivered violently.
"Pacifica!" he screams. "Come back to the Shack, it's too dangerous to walk home!"
"She probably went-" Three suddenly says next to Dipper, him back in his rain gear.
"-through the woods." Four finishes, him also in his rain gear.
"It's the fastest way to Northwest Manor…" all three of them said in sync.
"What are you two doing out here!?" Dipper demands, him looking between the two clones.
Four gives a sad smile, "Well… we got her mad," he said.
Three nods in agreement. "And we want to apologize," he adds.
The three then run into the woods, Dipper screaming Pacifica's name. Dipper hears a loud scream and runs to the source, jumping between rocks and logs as the current from the flood almost swept him away. He manages to get himself to onto a low, thick branch of a tree and looks through the water below him. A bob of blonde hair was in the water, and it was Pacifica gripping tightly to a jammed log so she wouldn't be swept away.
"Pacifica!" Dipper screamed, him lowering himself from the branch. There was a sudden mew and Orion had appeared in a patch of black smoke, him hissing as it began shifting to its full Grimm form. "Go get her!" Dipper begs, and with a roar from Orion the Grimm jumps down into the water, fighting against the current, he was still a young one so he wasn't super strong. As Dipper climbed down and headed towards Pacifica, he saw the Dipper clones were already ahead of him at the edge of the rocks trying to pull her out of the water.
Pacifica was coughing as water kept getting in her nose, both the clones getting a tight grip on her. Water was splashing on them, and even with their rain gear, spots on them began to disintegrate. Three then finally notices that Pacifica's jacket was stuck on a snag of a branch on the log, and the water was rising fast, the current getting stronger and stronger.
Three had a plan, someone had to unhook her from the log…
"It's been nice knowing you, brother." Three says to Four, determination in his voice. "You take care, okay? Don't get in too much trouble…"
"What are you doing?!" Four screams in horror, voice cracking. "You're not just a clone, or my brother, you're my twin, so wherever you go I go with you! If we die… we die together!"
The two clones gave each other a firm nod and jumped into the water. Four was helping push up Pacifica as Three unhooked her jacket from the snag on the log, his arms already disintegrating from the water. Orion finally managed to swim over and grabbed Pacifica by the collar of her shirt with his teeth, helping along with Four to get Pacifica onto the rocks as water spilled over. Dipper managed to get to where the others were, him twisting his ankle in the process, and his hands grabbing onto her shoulders to stabilize her.
"Bye, Dipper…!" Four gurgled, him trying to wave but his arm was already turning into mush.
"Sorry we messed up…!" Three then gurgled as well, his face becoming deformed.
The two had completed their mission, they helped save Pacifica. Although they had wanted a place to be safe after being alone for so long… they knew secretly they weren't going to be around forever, and if they could go out together, they were going to do it. They gripped onto each other's hands tightly, or as tightly as they could with their disintegrating hands, as the current swept them away, their bodies melting into a paper-like goop, only their rain gear remained in the flow.
"What… happened to them…?" Pacifica coughed, her shivering from the cold, her leaning into Dipper for warmth.
"That's how the clones go away… water destroys them." Dipper explained, a sad tone in his voice. Orion then turned back into a kitten and nuzzled himself between Dipper and Pacifica. "But… they had said they wanted help to be safe from the outside world… but they sacrificed themselves anyway… I don't know why…" He felt terrible that the two were gone, the last of the Dipper clones. They had survived for so long, and they willingly gave up their lives.
Pacifica coughs again and wraps her arms around him, her continuing to shake from the bitter cold. "Because… they were you…" she told him simply. "You would've done the same thing… they were very good people."
Dipper gives a sigh as he stands up, Orion gripped to his shoulder, wincing from his ankle. "Let's get back to the Shack… it's dangerous out here…" he tells her as they walked on the rocks to get back, water gently rising onto them.
"I'm… I'm sorry I walked out like that… I guess I was just…" Pacifica began.
"Jealous?" Dipper finished, raising a brown brow. "Why, I don't know."
"Because Wendy is just so cool it's no wonder why you would have a huge crush on her at one point." Pacifica admits, her pressing against him. "Me… you just hated me for a while…"
Dipper gives her smile as they walked back inside the Shack, Orion immediately jumping down and shaking excess water off of him. "But who am I extremely happy with?" he asked her. "You… so don't worry about a past crush, because that's all it was." He finds his hat on the ground and picks it up to only put it on Pacifica's head. "Think about it, I just died twice to save you… I need to stop watching my own body getting killed and other things…" that last thing he said was quite a bit dark.
Pacifica gives a slight chuckle and hugs him tightly. "You know what… after that I can really use some mindless fun…" she tells him, hinting to maybe playing a video game… or making out.
"Well… go switch into some dry clothes and I know the perfect game." Dipper winks, a boyish grin on his face.
"I swear if it's-"
"Yep! Clue: Ductective Edition!"
She just sighs as she heads upstairs to get changed, but giggled as she saw him run to a closet and grabbed the board game.
A/N: So this was a little story that showed a little bit about Dipper Clones 3 and 4, although they died... uh...
Also, sorry this took so long to put out! I just recently moved into my own place and was cleaning and setting things up!
Thank you for reading as always!
~Skye Hendersen~