Chapter 16
After Bill had turned into Solomon, I gave strict rules to any of us that knew of Bill Cipher to not say a word of anything to anyone, mainly because of him being 1 thousand times more deadly than Maligula at full strength, since he could be anywhere and everywhere at once if he happened to get killed. And his own words, if someone even THINKS about him once, he comes back as who he was prior. But now that his mind was erased, we just had to make sure he didn't remember anything at all.
"How did you manage to beat Bill Fucking Cipher?! He's almost invincible!" Mitsy thought from afar, knowing I was listening to her.
"I didn't expect it to be so easy, but I managed to trap him in a shield of unicorn hair in someone else's mind and then zap Bill himself with the memory gun from Gravity Falls. And now he doesn't know a thing about who he used to be. So no saying his real name to his face or we're going to be in a heap of trouble. Just call him Solomon and play dumb, got it?" I said, her and the others who knew nodding at that. And it actually included Norma of all people, who said she knew of him from an ancient book that said to never think of the name or summon him, for he could kill all life if it happened, and it actually prevented you from knowing his name by blanking it out numerous times.
"I never thought it was real... and to be able to stop a being that powerful?! Maybe I should've been your intern!" Norma said with surprise. We then went into the Motherlobe and saw that Squeepie (for those wondering, that's what his name was in this story because that's what the family named him, so if you're confused, that's why) was there and that he was in charge of watching over the mail room instead of Mirtala.
"Hey, Squeepie! How's things going?" I asked, him smiling.
"It's okay. Mom and dad said they wanted to practice a new technique called the Devil's Firehose. They said we all have to join them at the Questionable Area at some point to try it out," he smiled, me smirking at that. "You have a new brain for Nick?... And uh... a floating triangle?"
"A Psychic Triangle, apparently. Name's Solomon," said the triangle himself as he then tipped his big hat to the little kid, and I smiled.
"I found him inside of this brain here, but he was very injured with complete memory loss. I healed him up and gave him that name, since he can't remember his own," I explained.
"Okay, nice to meet ya!" Squeepie smiled as our group then went into the mailroom and went down to the lower levels where we saw that Nick was currently having his body's head in the stamping machine.
"Teevee?" he asked as we then went to him and turned off said machine.
"Hey, Nick? What do you say to a new brain?" I asked, him looking confused and saying something.
"Bathtub duckies," he said, me frowning at that.
"Watch this, Solomon. The trick of teleportation," I smiled as I then warped the brain from out of the jar and it then entered Nick's head. And after it connected, it looked around for a bit before then becoming overwhelmed by the senses.
"Oooh! I can see the big bang! I can smell the atoms in the air! I wonder what that triangle tastes like?" he asked as he then grabbed Solomon and he looked annoyed at how he got licked and then Nick gasped. "Bleck! It tastes like a sour star! Everything is nothingness! Nothingness! Nothingness!" Nick shouted, which made Solomon look at him with a confused look in his single eye.
"Is he okay?" he asked in confusion.
"I think that he might be going into sensory overload. Since the brain hasn't had a body to work with for 20 years, he can't handle everything at once. We need to go in there and get his psyche under control. This is going to be our first tutoring session, Solomon, so be prepared," I said as we then placed the Psycho Portal on Nick's head and we went inside via Astral Projection, me needing to hold onto Solomon to bring him with us.
And when we arrived, we were surrounded by tons of random colors and senses that looked to be swirling out of control.
"Ball of light! Where are you?" I asked aloud, the ball of light then emerging, but it was hard to tell where he was without using the night vision power I'd invented.
"I can sense everything! It's too much! Too many senses!... UNIVERSE! SHUT UP!" he shouted, the lightshow then ending as the world then turned into the muted, darkened world that was basically the ball of light's quiet place. "Ah.. that's better..." he sighed as we then looked around.
"Um... are you okay, little circle?" Solomon asked him.
"Shh... this is a quiet place... calmness... peace... isn't it great?" he asked, me smiling as we then went forward to look around before we heard a knocking sound and saw the light emerge slightly from the knocking.
"Is someone knocking?" Raz asked.
"Shh, like I said, quiet," the ball said as I then went forward and went up to where the light was coming through. When it knocked twice more, I then knocked twice, which made the door open to reveal the giant eyeball man himself.
"Ah, there ya are, Psi King!" he said as the little ball looked concerned as Vision then grabbed him. "It's time for the Feast of the Senses!"
"No, quiet place!" the ball of light shouted as our group then flew through the open door behind them, only for all three of us to get stuck in the memory vault's mouth and needing help to get out.
"Oof... this is uncomfortable. Tell me we can get unstuck from this?" Raz askede as I then smiled.
"Shape of, melted butter!" I said as I then did just that, allowing Raz and Solomon to slide out easier and for the triangle man to look at it in confusion and shock before I then turned myself back to normal.
"Uh... how did you melt and then reform?" he asked.
"It's because I'm basically an astral projection of Raz's head, same with my sister Gloria and my friend Jenna. It's uh... complicated... but because of a bad demon, we were sent into this world at the birth of our hosts, and we became intertwined with him over time. It's like a symbiotic relationship. We handle the advanced Psychic strength; he handles the physical labor. And being an astral projection, it means that I can turn into objects of anything I want," I smirked as we then saw that Vision and Psi King were looking at a huge crowd from backstage and looked concerned.
"Uh, hi. What's going on, then?" I asked the duo and Vision spoke.
"We've been waiting for the Psi King for so long, hoping to appease this giant crowd here with a Feast of the Senses. But we can't perform without our instruments or the others in the band. I'm useless without my guitar and I don't know where it could be," the giant eyeball said.
"Then how about we go try to find it for you?" Solomon asked, me smirking at how he was taking charge.
"Oh, you want to help? Can you see what I see?" Vision asked as we then got completely engulfed by the senses of his eyeball and were then sent through the trippy tunnel and into his mind, where we looked around in surprise.
"Whoa... I would've expected the inside of an eyeball to be more... slimy? I dunno," Jenna said as she appeared alongside Gloria and they looked around at the sights.
"Hey, look over there in the distance!" Solomon smirked as he showed that, in the hands of a giant statue of Vision was the guitar. "There's our target, let's go grab it!" he smirked as he then tried to fly off towards it... only to get swallowed by a fish when he tried to cheat his way there! I then teleported him back to our location and he looked a bit surprise.
"Ooookay... that was not according to plan," Solomon said as I sighed.
"Looks like we need to go on foot," I said as we then proceeded to do that and Solomon had to have some assistance due to him being more used to floating.
"This is kind of awkward," he said as we then reached a single area, that being the super-fast spinning blades.
"How do we get past this?" Raz asked as I then simply focused... go at five rotations per minute... and when I thought that, the rotations then went so slowly that we could move through with ease, which made the Psi King speak after.
"You know the Time Bubble ability, huh? Nice! It means you know the true meaning of timeless," he said, me smirking at that as we then moved forward and he then spoke at the tons of bright colors of the figments in the next area. "Oh my gosh! All these colors! Too much! I-I think I'm panicking! EEEK!" Psi King shouted as we then were surrounded by the arena for the Panic Attack, the creature then emerging and me seeing that it looked exactly as in the game. Solomon then looked at it and then snapped his fingers, which caused a time bubble of his own that trapped the Panic Attack in time!
"Now's your chance!" Solomon shouted, us then attacking the Panic Attack with our attacks until it dissipated into nothing, allowing the place to return to normal.
"Hoogh... I feel better now... thanks," he said, me nodding as I looked at Solomon and smiled. A quick look at his thoughts showed that he still didn't remember anything of who he was, but he was surprised at how quick of a learner he was.
"You're welcome," Solomon smirked, followed by me and Raz before we then moved forward some more before we then got to the guitar, Psi King learning more about things such as what the difference of a spotlight and a blender was before we grabbed it and found ourselves back at the stage, where Vision got his guitar in hand.
"Wow! Ya'll actually managed to do it! Good job, kids!" Vision said, which is when Raz picked up on something.
"Huh... you sound an awful lot like one of our friends, Ford Cruller," he said.
"Eh, probably a coincidence," Vision said before blinking. "But if we want to show the crowd what they want, we need the rest of the band back. We still need to find Sniffles, Tasty, Doctor Touch, and-" he was about to finish before...
"And Audie," Psi King said.
"See, Psi, buddy? You're remembering!" Vision said happily before he then gaine an eye on his body, making him a flying eye.
"I think we could find them easier if we had... the Feel Mobile!" Psi King sung a bit, revealing the Volkswagen of awesome shortly after, which made Solomon go wide-eyed (haha) at the sight.
"Oh yes! I call shotgun!" Solomon said with excitement as our group then boarded the van and I looked at Solomon and saw that he proceeded to work the car with his mind, managing to drive pretty well. We then got on the road and Vision said there were two areas that we could check.
"One area that Audie-O and Doctor Touch like to hang out is the campgrounds. They go to the waterfall just to listen to the water all day long," Vision smirked.
"And what about Sniffles and Tasty?" Raz asked.
"They like to hang out by the concession stand. The smells and tastes are just too irresistible to those two," Psi King said, me smirking at that.
"Maybe we could split up and cover ground faster? I'll go to the concession stand with Solomon while Raz goes to the campgrounds with Jenna and Gloria," I said, the duo then appearing and smirking.
"Cheater, she's a cheater!" Jenna said, me smirking at that.
"Sounds more like a game plan to me," Solomon smiled as I then simply teleported myself and the Dorito chip to the stand in question and we saw that the line was super long and that there was an ear woman and a mouth man at the very top of the hill, right by the pizza stand.
"What is it about pizza that makes people so crazy?" I asked.
"I dunno, I don't even know what pizza is," Solomon said, me smirking at that.
"I'll give you a slice when we get out of this mind, then," I said, him giggling at that as we then flew over the crowd and then reached the duo in question, them looking at us in annoyance.
"Hey, we were here first, and we've been waiting for hours, get to the back," Sniffles said to me in annoyance.
"Sorry, but we need you back in the band. Psi King is back, and he needs to reunite the band for a reunion tour!" I smirked, the duo looking at each other in surprise.
"Well, why didn't you say so?! Sniffles, hon, do you have our instruments?" Tasty asked her.
"We've been waiting in line for so long, I don't remember where I even put them!" she said as she held her back in annoyance.
"Well, if you let us, we could find them for ya," I smirked.
"Oh? Couldn't be easieeeeehhh," Tasty said as he got us on his tongue and he then lifted us to Sniffles's nose... and we then got sent through the grossest trippy zone until we were in their conjoined world, where it was filled with tons of sweets, nose hairs, and tongues.
"Okay, this is gross," Solomon said.
"I was just about to say the same thing," I said, him chuckling at that.
"Hey, great minds think alike!" the triangle man smirked as we then moved forward through the place, me needing to use the time bubble in some instances before then finding some blockages where we had to throw some candies at them, as they were tongues. And after working for a bit, we then got some talks from the Psi King, me seeing that Raz and my female friends had managed to finish up first.
"Oh my! So many great smells! So many great tastes! Wait... ack! I can smell my own sweat! Is that bad? It smells so salty! OH GOD, now I can taste it! NOOO!" the Psi King shouted before the Panic Attacks came back for round two with two of them at once!
"Let's tag-team these assholes, master!" Solomon said, me being surprised at how he called me that, much like how the other students I tutored did. But regardless, I managed to attack the Panic Attacks with the Time Bubble along with Solomon until both of them had regressed to puddles before evaporating, resulting in the world returning to normal and for the Psi King to return to his senses.
"Hoogh... much better. Thanks," he said, me nodding as we then moved forward further until we grabbed the final 2 instruments, me smirking as I decided that, should the shit hit the fan, I'd use my own song if Maligula attacked while showing Helmut the truth. We then were warped back to the stage alongside the other band members, them looking at us and the Psi King with happy expressions.
"We can't thank you enough, young friends. It's time to give the crowd what they want. What do you say, Psi King?" Vision asked the king himself, him nodding as he grabbed the mic.
"Let's do it, guys!" he said as he then went to the stage with the others and they then proceeded to sing their awesome song.
"~Lost... alone...
Neither skin nor bone...
Just a thought is all I've got...
Now my cover's blown!~" he sung before then finally turning into the true form, Helmut Fullbear, which I could tell surprised Bill, but I could also see a couple tears come from his eye when he heard the amazing singing.
"~At the bottom of a lake of frozen feeling
When my friends pulled me back up!... I started... FEELING! ! ! HEALING ! ! !
Now I can, feel all the galaxy! And hear the flow of time!
It's been so tense, but now I sense, the reason to this rhyme!
Oh I can smell the universe! And I can taste the sky!
And I can see each molecule within my cosmic eye!~" he sung with passion and gusto, making Bill very emotional as he produced a rose and threw it out to the stage, me smirking at that.
"~Senses are the magic keys...
they fill the holes I've had...
Unlocking all the memories...
And I know that they're never... Never... BAAAAAD!~" he sung, but it was too late. I could sense the darkness arrive, which was the shadowy form of Maligula... or at least, that was what the visual looked like. But within said visual was another character, again from a tv show... but this one was more confusing.
"Wanna bet, Helmut?" HE asked with Maligula's voice, me and the group rushing out onto the field and getting in between the duo.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't our old PAL Maligula," I said, which made the shadow look at me in confusion. "Oh, that's right, I know you HATE that nickname. Just change the P with an M and that's your name... isn't that right, Mal?" I asked. The voice in question then started to laugh in Maligula's tone before I simply held my ground.
"Oh, little whelp, that's just my name shortened, you know?" she asked as I frowned.
"No, it's your name in full. Mal, evil personality of Multiple Mike. From Total Drama Season 5... shall I go on?" I asked, the shadow then looking at me in shock as I gave the truth to Helmut with some mind powers. Of what really happened at the Deluge of Grulovia. How he wasn't abandoned, how his plan wasn't nearly as bad as the others' ideas like Cassie's and Compton's, and how Ford basically saved his mind after Helmut saved Bob from Maligula's attack, sacrificing himself in the battle so Bob could live on. And all while I did this, Mal simply chuckled as he then lowered his guise and showed off what he really looked like, which was exactly how he looked in the show.
"Oh, what a RELIEF! Pretending to be that bitch was REALLY annoying! Shame that you know too much. I wouldn't expect anything less from big boss Naraku," he said, me frowning at that.
"So, Naraku sent you here too, hmm? Even in death he's still messing with us," I growled angrily.
"He could foresee everything, as you know... but I don't think anyone could've foreseen that you'd manage to reform Bill Cipher of all people," he said, pointing at the Dorito chip and him then looking at me in confusion.
"Bill Cipher?... Was that my old name?" he asked.
"Not only that, but you're also over three trillion years old, you killed your parents and your home dimension, and you can reform yourself as who you used to be just by someone thinking of you! You're basically an immortal god of destruction!" Mal said, me sweating profusely as Bill looked at me and then at Mal before he got an angry eye.
"Then I think I know what I gotta do," he said, me gulping at that. He then approached me in the air, the crowd looking on in silence as well as Helmut... and then, just when I thought I'd be dead... Bill did something shocking. He turned around and trapped Mal in a shield!
"ACK! What're you doing, Bill?!" he asked as Bill spoke.
"I do believe that I'm the boss of who I want to be, not you! And I choose to be on my boss's side! On Rose's side! I don't know why, but I feel happy that I know that I was evil! Because I know now that it's wrong!" he said with extreme passion in his voice... could it really be happening? Bill Cipher... no longer the villain, but instead a hero to use his powers for good?! He then did something surprising and warped Mal away from the bubble completely!
"W-What'd you do with him?" Jenna asked in fear.
"Nothin' too bad, just gave him the intellect of a squirrel outside the Motherlobe. He won't be giving us anymore trouble," Bill smirked before wiping his hands off together.
"Phew... Bill... I uh..." I was going to say before he shushed me with one of his fingers.
"It's better that I don't remember what I used to be. I can still be called Bill or Solomon, I don't care, just don't tell me what evil I did and we're cool," he said, me sighing at that.
"Okay... thanks..." I sighed, which made Helmut look at me in surprise.
"You uh... you managed to do something I could never do. Reform a villain through the art of compassion. I'd like to go under your wing shortly after this adventure is done, young Rose," he said, me smiling at him.
"On one condition. Before I leave this mind, I want to do my own solo," I smirked, which made him look at the crowd and they started to cheer.
"Well, if it's what the crowd wants, then go ahead! I'll handle the final song after for an encore," he said, me smirking and then proceeding to produce my own instrument with my mind, that being a CD that I proceeded to spin and start to play with my Psychic Powers. And then the song started to play in the form of a song from my world, it being the song Princes of Pride. The crowd looked stoked when the instruments started before I then sung.
"~I FIGHT FOR FURY, FIGHT FOR PRIDE!
HONOR AND VENGEANCE ARE MY BIRTH RIGHT!
(A fallen warrior race, no place for our bloodline...)
WE ARE THE PRINCES OF PRIIIIDE!
...
THE VIOLENCE OF TYRANTS! THE WRATH OF THE DIVINE!
AVENGING ACTS OF GENOCIIIDE!
(I will riiise I will riiise...)
I FIGHT FOR FURY, FIGHT FOR PRIDE!
HONOR AND VENGEANCE ARE MY BIRTH RIGHT!
A FALLEN WARRIOR RACE, NO PLACE FOR OUR BLOODLINE!
WE ARE THE PRINCES OF PRIDE! ! !"
And then, came the epic solo of instruments, which I proceeded to jam to on a conjured guitar, which the crowd ate up and for the other senses to start dancing to, Helmut included before I then got to the final bit.
"~I FIGHT FOR FURY FIGHT FOR PRIIIIDE!
HONOR AND VENGEANCE ARE MY BIRTH RIGHT!
A FALLEN WARRIOR RACE, NO PLACE FOR OUR BLOODLINE!
WE ARE THE PRINCES OF PRIIIDE!
We are the Princes of Priiiide...~" I sung, the crowd going crazy at the amazing performance, which made Helmut clap and chortle loudly.
"Amazing performance! I believe I have some competition, HAHA! When all of this is over, I want a duet with you, your song of choice, and I'll practice the lyrics," he said, me smirking at him and nodding as I then booted myself and the others were sent out of his mind, and we saw that Helmut looked at us with a smile in Nick's body.
"Thanks a thousand heaps for this, kids. But I'd like it if you could hide my true identity from the others, okay? I want to stay incognito in case Maligula comes back, since you say we have 4 days in counting," he said, me nodding at that.
"Thanks... before that, though, could you open the door to the mailroom? We need to repair Ford's mind. He was going to save your brain, but because of something that happened involving Maligula, he's been completely fractured in his mind to the point he can't recognize who he is without Psitanium... and one of the three new personas thinks he's a mailroom person and needs a senior mailperson to go open the door," I said, him nodding as we walked up the stairs and Ford spoke.
"Sorry, senior mail staff only!" Ford said with his crotchety nature.
"Nick Johnsmith, senior mailroom staff," Helmut said, the door then responding to him.
"ID Accepted. Helmut Fullbear, Status Deceased. Welcome back," the computer said, him smirking at that.
"That computer seems too smart. I think I'll stay around in this mailroom for now, okay?" he said, me nodding at him.
"At least let us tell the other members of the Psychic 6, please? We need to reunite them in order to assist in defeating Maligula once and for all," I said as Ford then spoke.
"It's about time I get some good interns," Ford said as Raz, Bill, and I went inside the room and Helmut smiled.
"I'll allow it, just tell them I'm incognito as the mailman guy," he said, me nodding at him.
"Time to get to this guy's head and repair it," Bill smirked, me nodding as we went inside via a Psycho Portal. It was time for one of the four Ford minds in the game.