Been reading some reviews and I sincerely thank you for all the positive reviews you guys gave me. Yes, I realized that I have grammar and spelling mistakes but I can't help it. It's been quite a while I've been writing and I started to warm back up with this fanfic. Also, thank you for following this story as it interest you guys so much.
Anyway, enough thanking, onto the story!
That night, Dipper and Ford were in the lab. They were discussing about the time travel device, how Dipper got it, the time traveler the twins met named Blendin Blandin. Dipper was relieved that Ford was less paranoid now rather than they met the first time. He was pretty much relaxed and chill up to the point that he made a joke.
"Great-Uncle Ford, are you sure that you send the postcard to the right place?" Dipper asked Ford. The man confidently went to the post office he received a call regarding where Stan was.
"Of course! The person who called me is a reliable resource. He usually helped me find things for my certain projects for the past few years." Ford answered as he inspect the time travel device at his table. Ford was close in successfully repairing the device. He just needed to twitch a few things here and there before he gave it back to Dipper.
"So, when he knock on that door, what would you say to him?"
"I don't know Dipper." Ford sighed. "We don't speak to each other for almost 10 years and… What do I say to him?"
Dipper scratch his chin, "Just tell him, you're sorry for everything." Dipper told him. Ford stared at him for a while, he's processing what Dipper just said. How can he say that? It's embarrassing to him and he's quite ashamed for what he'd done.
"It's not that easy Dipper." Ford said reluctantly.
Dipper then stood up from the seat, approached him. "Nothing is easy. But you have to try." Dipper reassured him with a heartwarming smile.
"Alright, alright. I tell him that once he's got here. Now it's late. You should get some sleep. I'll be down here if you need anything." Ford told Dipper.
"Are you sure? Don't you want me to stay here with you?" Dipper hesitantly asked. He wasn't sure that Ford would sleep again like yesterday.
Ford put down the device he's repairing and turned to Dipper. "Yes, and don't worry, I'm not going to stay that long, I'll go to bed as soon as I finished this." Ford laid his hand on Dipper's shoulder as a sign of reassurance.
Dipper just nodded, said goodnight to him and proceeded to the elevator to the ground level. Ford just stared at the boy as the elevator ascended from below. He sighed and continue his suspended work. That boy really cares about me. Ford smiled at that thought.
Dipper went to the living room to get ready for sleep. He jumped onto the couch and started to lay on it. After a while Dipper felt rather uncomfortable with his position. He started to realize that sleeping on the couch was a bad mistake. But he didn't have any choice other than the couch. The attic he checked on earlier in the morning was a mess. They're full of boxes, electronic parts, some large generators and apparently a mini windmill. Dipper sighed, having no choice like that, he struggled himself to fall asleep. Slowly, he closed his eyes.
"DIPPER! HELP MEEEE!"
Dipper flashed opened his eyes. He jolted upright and looked around for the distressed voice. It was Mabel's. He jumped out from the couch and realized he wasn't in the living room or the shack. He was in the forest. It was dark and he felt an eye was watching him. This is bad. Dipper's voice started to sound behind his head. Suddenly a flash of bright blue light flashed in front of him. He knew what it was.
"HEY THERE PINETREE!" Bill started to appear in front of him out from the blue light. "HOW ARE YOU DOING? YOU'VE BEEN BUSY WITH SIXER EEHH? HE'S LUCKY HE GOT A GOOD SLEEP LAST NIGHT, I WAS BUSY CHATTING UP WITH MY OLD FRIENDS." The Triangle was swinging his can on his black arm. He looked so relax while floating on the air.
Dipper backed away a little bit. He was not expecting that he will meet with the triangle demon again, not after he refuse the deal. Looks like Bill will kept pushing him until he agreed to it.
"I told you I don't want to deal with you!" Dipper shouted at Bill. "Mabel can take care of herself and I'm sure she will find me eventually!"
"OOHH, I WOULDN'T COUNT ON THAT. YOU SEE, SINCE BOTH OF YOU ARRIVED HERE, THE TIMELINE HAD BEEN DISTRUPED AND IT SKEWED SLIGHTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL PATH. AND IF YOU CONTINUE THAT YOU'LL BE MESSING UP WITH MY BIG PLANS! AND I DON'T WANT THAT!" Bill enraged and started to enlarge himself, turning his body from yellow to red. His one eye was inch close to Dipper. The boy jumped away back and was startled by what Bill had just said. He realized that he had been telling Ford about Mabel and himself, the future and told him about the time travel device. He tried to avoid more mess that he would made by shutting up his mouth. What would Bill be offering this time? Dipper couldn't believe what he just thought, his thoughts betrayed him.
"How do you even know me? You shouldn't even know me as I'm still not born in this time!" Dipper questioned the Triangle.
Bill laughed. "YOU'RE SO STUPID. YOU FORGOT THAT I'M AN INTERDIMENTIONAL BEING THAT HAVE LIVED LONG BEFORE THIS UNIVERSE WAS BORN! I KNOW EVERYTHING. I HAVE SEEN A DIMENSION WHERE YOU AND STAR BECOME ORPHAN, AND ANOTHER DIMENSION WHERE YOU DIED IN A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT, ANOTHER ONE IS WHERE YOU BECOME A FREAKING HALF-DEER/HALF-HUMAN AND MY FAVORITE ONE IS WHERE YOU YOURSELF BECAME A DEMON LIKE ME!" Bill reveal to him as he snapped his finger showing each visions of the dimensions he referred to. Dipper was struck in awe and horrified at the same time. "BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. I'M HERE FOR SOMETHING ELSE." Bill snapped his finger again and the visions vanished.
Dipper shook his head, trying to get the images he just saw out from his head. "What do you want this time, Bill?" Dipper couldn't hold himself much longer and blurted out the question.
Bill started to shrink and became his yellow form again. "GLAD YOU ASK! I KNOW YOU DON'T WANNA SCREWED UP THIS TIMELINE ANYMORE. YOU REALIZED THAT SIX-FINGERS SHOULDN'T MET YOU AND HIS DUMB BROTHER WILL BE HERE IN A COUPLE OF HOURS."
"So? What's your point?" Dipper crossed his arms.
Bill groaned. "SOMETIMES YOU REALLY ARE DUMB. YOU KNOW THAT AFTER THIS THEY SHOULD HAVE A BIG FIGHT AND SIXER WILL BE SUCKED INTO THE PORTAL, SO ALL I NEED YOU TO DO IS JUST DON'T DO ANYTHING, I MEAN ANYTHING TO INTERFERE WITH THAT EVENT!"
Bill's got a point. Dipper thought. "So, what's the deal this time, Bill?"
"THERE'S NO DEAL THIS TIME! I JUST WANNA YOU TO STAY STILL AND JUST WATCH, IF, AND ONLY IF, YOU WANNA SEE THIS TIMELINE PRESERVE AS IT IS."
"Oh… kay. You're not playing anything behind me do you?" Dipper was suspicious as Bill didn't offer him anything this time.
"FOR THE LAST TIME, YES! I DON'T HAVE ANY OFFER." Suddenly an alarm timer rang. Bill looked at his body, it was lit on and off with red light. "THIS IS MY CUE. DON'T FORGET THAT PINETREE! REMEMBER, I'LL BE WATCHING YOUUUUUUUU!" The bright blue light appeared and Bill was vanished. Dipper stood in the living room, alone. He looked around, he was back.
He took a seat and scratched his messy hair. He thought about what Bill just said. He's really gonna let Ford and Stan fought? He laid back onto the couch and shut his eyes again for some sleep.
"Dipper, wake up." Ford shook Dipper who was still sleeping on the couch. He slowly opened his eyes and saw Ford shaking him. He immediately sat upright and stretched himself a little bit.
"Yeah, what's up?" Dipper asked while rubbing his eyes.
Ford extend his arm, showing the tape measure. "I've fixed it." He smiled. Dipper then slowly took the tape measure and examined it. "Wow! Great-Uncle Ford, this is great!" Dipper exclaimed excitedly.
"But…" Ford interrupted. "This is for one time use only."
Dipper shot back his stares back to Ford. "What? Why?"
"The pieces in this device is highly complex and the tech behind it was way beyond ours. I only manage to replicate some of the pieces of the modulator inside it by scraping every pieces of electronic parts that I can use from the radio." Ford explained and opened the device's cover and showed Dipper the modulator parts which was now patched up with various electronic parts.
Dipper slowly nodded. He stared at the Shack's door and he remembered Mabel, he couldn't go back without Mabel. He needed to find her first, even it took forever.
"Something bothering you Dipper?" Ford asked as he looked at the boy stared at nothingness.
Dipper sighed. "Yeah, I'm glad you could repair this but, I still can't go back without Mabel."
Ford didn't say anything. He also wondered if Stan would ever come met him. He could imagine that the door being knocked and there he was, standing in front of it…
*KNOCK. KNOCK*
Ford turned his head to the knocking sound on the door. Dipper and Ford looked at each other. Both of them nodded and Ford made the first step towards the door. Dipper followed suit behind him. Ford then slowly turned the knob and pulled it open. He gasped at the figure stood in front of him.
"Hey there Sixer." Stan greeted him. Ford was still frozen by the sight of his twin brother.
"H-hey Stan, I didn't thought you would find this place." Ford was stuttered as he spoke. It was awkward for both of them to speak to each other after 10 years separated.
Stan chuckled. "Well, thanks to this little girl, she showed me way around this town. She seems to be very familiar with this place." Stan pointed Ford the girl that was hiding behind his legs.
"Stan…"
"Yeah?"
"Is that your… daughter?" Ford suddenly asked.
Stan face palmed. "No Stanford, I still didn't marry and I don't have a girlfriend. I didn't slept with anyone for the pass 10 years because I was too busy doing business. Is that enough for you?"
Dipper approached the door to join them and he noticed someone behind Stan. He took a step forward to see who it was and suddenly, his body was shaking seeing the girl.
"Ma-Mabel?" Dipper blurted out.
The girl behind Stan's leg took a peek to see who it was. She stepped out and she voiced out.
"Dipper? Oh my god, Dipper!" Mabel ran to Dipper and tackle hug him. Both of them were now on the floor.
"Mabel I'm so sorry, God I missed you so much, I was worried about you." Dipper cried as he was still in Mabel's hug.
"I missed you so much Dipper, I was scared I couldn't find you. I'm sorry for messing everything up." She said as her voice cracked from her sobbing.
"No, Mabel, I was the one who started this mess, so I'm the one who should be apologizing you. I'm sorry. I would never do anything to harm you ever again." Dipper shot back as he released his hug from away from Mabel. He gave her a calm and reassuring look.
Mabel wiped his tears and frowned. "But, the tape measure… It's gone."
Dipper smirked. He took out the tape measure from his pocket and showed it to her. "Great-Uncle Ford fixed it." Mabel's eyes widened as she heard that. She excitedly hugged his brother until Dipper couldn't breathe. "Mabel… too… tight…." Mabel then released his brother, laughing. "Sorry broseph." Both of them laughed and teased each other.
From behind, Stan breathe a sigh relieve as he looked at the twins hugging and comforting. He wished that the same thing would happened for him and Ford but of course, it didn't happened. Ford just silently watching them, he was unsure about what he had seen. The twins that was forgiving at each other and even though before this they were in a huge fights. He was conflicted at his own feeling.
"So… wanna invite us in?" Stan snapped Ford from his gaze. Ford turned to his twin. "Yeah, come in, do come in."
All of them enter the Shack and Ford slowly closed the door behind him. It was both the happiest and the awkward day for both Twins respectively.
The end is near, and I don't have any idea. Feel free to give me ideas and I might use it!
Review please as always!
*Mabel comes barging in Forrester's room*
Mabel: COOKIES!
Woahhh Mabel, can't you see I'm busy?
Mabel: DON'T CAAARREEEE!
*Mabel push Forrester down and proceed to the kitchen to eat the cookies.*
Darn kid. She's just lucky she's adorable.
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