Dipper could honestly say that his week was not going like he would like it to be. The reason being his sister and new 'boss' Rias. Dipper had been spending his week, every day almost as soon as he gets out of school, he has had to go out with Issei and hand out fliers.
Dipper had to do his best to resist slamming his head into the nearest wall. He had planned out everything that day, and it had gone smoothly, only for him to trip at the finish line. Why? Because he forced Rias to tell them about the romcom that is her life. He says romcom, because soap operas were more serious and had less magical elements. Rias was dealing with a bird brain, and not the one he himself utilizes most.
Dipper would admit, being forced to deal with everything so far has been somewhat easy. The first day they spent as a club, Mabel joining without being turned because she is Mabel and Rias realized that if she kept Mabel in the loop and on her side, Dipper and her gruncles would help her, while if she pushed the girl away, she would lose the only person that would get her help.
People that were smart enough to confidently mess with the evil piece system were people you wanted on your side. But the first day, Rias had tried to explain some of her plans, and after she explained two plans to him, he called her an idiot, and told her to just listen to him when the match started, and she would win.
Rias pouted over the boy telling her that, but his reasoning actually calmed her. "If Riser knows where you are, what is stopping him from spying on you? Every plan spoken out loud is another plan he can prepare for, therefore, I will keep the plan to myself, and you will trust me. When the battle comes, Riser will fall, and I will free myself from you, my debt repaid."
Rias had pouted, as she explained everything to the two boys, Kiba had been helping Issei get home, under Mabel's recommendation, which actually saved the boy from the Donut creep that killed Dipper.
And that attack had been the guy's biggest mistake.
Ford and Stan had also been following Issei, and after the boy was attacked, they had a new target to follow. The tooth he had knocked out came in handy here, because once the Donut Crow was close enough, Ford could lock onto his frequency and tail him from a distance.
Dipper was drawn from his thoughts as Issei, who was passing out fliers with him and had been sulking because he couldn't hand out as many as Dipper had. Bumped into a nun, knocking her over and spilling her luggage. As Issei clambered around and gathered the girl's stuff up, the two wound up talking.
Dipper stayed back, doing his best to not feel like a third wheel as the two talked, and started to actually bond. Dipper also noticed a slight issue with his new condition, he could understand every spoken language.
This normally wouldn't be an issue but seeing as Dipper had been studying languages and learning several others, this had invalidated all his hard work, making it completely pointless.
Dipper was a bit angry over that.
Rias gave the boy an awkward apology after he expressed his irritation over that, while Mabel expressed her jealousy. Mabel had always wanted to speak French, but procrastinated learning it. Dipper learnt French, mostly because he had tried to teach Mabel, who he realized would probably only ever hunker down and learn if she was actually going to go to France at some point.
Back to Issei however, dipper found the boy ditching him. Dipper shrugged and went to help his grunkles prepare for their night, it was a big one after all.
Rias sighed as she listened to Issei talk about the girl he had just met, and how he helped her find the church. This caused her to have to explain how the nun, no matter how nice, was his enemy, and that he wasn't supposed to speak with her ever again. Issei grew frustrated, but he could see where Rias was coming from. Wasn't going to stop him from being nice to the girl, and talking to her if she struck up a conversation.
Rias' main concern, however, was that Dipper was nowhere to be found, again. For the last couple days, Dipper had ditched them for something else. Mabel would pop in, so they knew there was nothing wrong, but all she would say is that they were handling an experiment and were testing something.
Something else that honestly caught her by surprise was a message from the underworld, Diodora Astaroth was missing, along with his entire peerage. The boy was supposedly making a trip into the human world to get another member of his peerage, which was questionable, but it was full of miserable nuns. Several questioned why, but he would always give some sob story about the girl, some didn't believe the boy but enough high up didn't care.
Rias had grown tired of hearing the same excuse from Mabel, and while she had tried to locate her wayward member, she had no luck. Until today, when Issei brought the nun to them, as she was looking rather traumatized.
Asia looked to have been crying, "After Issei took me to the church, it was attacked by these two old men. One of them threw a bomb, and the Angels there were taken out rather quickly. Dohnaseek had put up the most fight, but he was taken out just as easily. The first had this bomb that caused some wave that disabled magic, while the second had these pieces of metal over his knuckles that created these strange constructs over his forearms, that had an impact on others. They only appeared when he swung his fist, but they caused a good deal of harm to the others."
Rias nodded as she listened. While annoyed that Issei didn't listen to her when she told him to stay away from this nun, she was now interested in these two old men. They were able to fight and beat multiple Fallen from what Rias was hearing. And that was something that caught her attention.
Asia looked relieved that Rias was listening, "I tried to use my Twilight Healing to help them, fixing their injuries and I had hoped that it would allow them to use their magic again. I failed."
That caught Rias by surprise, Twilight Healing was something that healed every injury and illness of any race. But before the girl could question it, Asia continued. "I only made things worse, and now their torment continues at the hands of the two. Is there anything you can do?"
Rias sighed. "I have to check the situation out, due to the issues this raises, but I am unable to help you. You belong to the Fallen Faction, and therefore, are my enemy, as well as Issei's. Going to Issei and bringing this to my attention is greatly appreciated, but this is where you go about your way and allow me to handle things."
Asia looked a bit heartbroken as she grabbed Issei's hand. "So, I am not allowed to be friends with Issei?"
Rias raised a brow. "Our factions are enemies, if either members of the Grigory, or the Angels catch you two hanging out together, they will assume Issei is manipulating you, and kill him. Especially if they see you wearing the outfit of a nun. I can't support him putting himself in danger like that."
Asia looked between the other members of Rias' peerage, "what if I joined you?" Having gotten their attention with her question, she continued. "If I become a devil, I can stay with Issei, right? We can stay friends?"
Rias smiled as she answered. "Well yes. You would both be devils and have the same kind of energy, so members of the other factions will assume you are both devils walking around. This would also have the bonus of them questioning if attacking two devils is worth the risk of you overpowering them. You would go from putting Issei in danger, to providing an extra measurement of safety."
Asia smiled as she nodded, Issei being surprised at how far Asia would go to stay his friend. It even made him tear up.
Rias and her peerage, including her new [Bishop] but minus one of her [Rook]s, had made it to the abandoned church, and were faced with no opposition. Whoever took the fallen group down, held no fear for others attacking them.
Rias stepped up to the doors, nodded to Koneko, who stepped forward and kicked the doors. What was supposed to happen, was the doors flying off the hinges and thrown across the church interior, but all they did was shake. The majority of the group knew for a fact that Koneko was strong enough to break these doors like they were nothing, so the question was raised. What is keeping these doors standing?
They didn't have to wait long, before an old, gruff looking man pulled the doors open. "What do you brats want?"
Rias raised a brow at the old man, though before she could form words, the man spoke again. "Look, this place is closed down, I'm in no mood to entertain a couple of nosy brats that thought they could earn whatever bravery dare for spending a night in the old church in the woods. Go home kid."
Rias glared at the man as she raised her hand, trying to work her magic on him. Asia barely had time to rush forward and grab Rias' arm and pull her back before the ground she was standing on exploded, knocking them all backwards.
Stan scoffed at the teens, brushing dust and dirt off his jacket and checking to make sure his beanie was gravel free. "Try to use that little mind trick of yours again, and that little nun girly won't pull you out of the way in time, Gremory."
Rias glared as she and her peerage stood. "If you know who I am, then why act like you don't?"
Stan scoffed again, rolling his eyes. "Because Dipper doesn't have a picture of you in his wallet or on his phone to show me what you look like. I just know that you are the trigger happy, big britches, whose sob story has convinced Mabel to get us to help her. The other one, Sitri, according to Dipper would have tried being subtle first before trying to brute force her way through me like a barbarian. What are they teaching devils these days? When I was young, I heard all these stories about the devil, and how he was the ultimate conman. Gotta say, I'm disappointed."
Rias was pouting as Stan turned around. "If you want in that badly, you should have just asked. Dipper and Mabel are already here, and Ford is working on some experiments inside. Nothing you lot can really do anyways."
Rias glared at the man's back as she followed him in, her peerage sticking close behind her. Whatever the group had thought they would find, this was not it. Dohnaseek, the same guy that apparently killed Dipper, and tried to get at Issei the second time, was in the center of the church, chained to the floor, his hat missing, his suit torn and ruined, his strong blood thirsty gaze, broken and lifeless, his wings, plucked of every, last feather.
The next thing that Rias was witnessed to, was a green glow coming from the floor around him, as the man widened his eyes in fear and the feathers regrowing. The man looked completely healthy as if he had just taken a shower and nap, only for robotic hands behind him to rip every last feather out once more, Dohnaseek screaming in pain as the feathers were slowly pulled out, one at a time in quick succession.
"Rias?"
Rias looked to her right as she found Diodora Astaroth, chained down in a similar manner to Dohnaseek. The main difference here was that he looked miserable and starved. He also held none of the demonic presence he was known for, she couldn't feel any demonic magic from him at all.
He was human.
Noticing the kids' looks of shock, Stan shrugged. "That guy tried to sneak around and was going after the little lady behind you as she ran away. We didn't like the fact he was spying on us, so we caught him in a trap as he tried to follow her when she ran. It just took a little work, and some info given by the girls he brought with him, and we hated him more. So, he was the first test subject that Poindexter and Dippy used to mess with that evil piece thing. It worked actually, but since he was the first, it wasn't the most pleasant of experiences. Catching him and his subsequent tantrum, allowed some psycho priest guy to escape, so we decided to put the thing back in him and remove it again. The third time, we even managed to minimize the pain. So, we jerked the thing around purposefully causing him pain. Though, those girls appear to enjoy hurting him."
As Stan explained what they did, the group could only shake quietly, becoming rather fearful of the man.
"Issei!?"
As they turned to the new voice, they found a rather familiar face, Raynare. She was pretty much in the same position as Dohnaseek, though she still had all her feathers, and there were two other female Fallen near her. "Issei, please, save me? I will be good, you can even fondle my breasts."
Raynare began to scream in pain as a strange light surrounded her, green electricity forming around her as another man that looked similar to the one that greeted them was messing with some buttons and levers, as Dipper was right next to him.
What Rias and her group were witnessed to, was Raynare's wings losing their black coloring, and becoming white. Everyone was shocked over that, as Raynare looked at her four wings in shock, crying.
The old man next to Dipper began to speak. "Excellent, our theory was correct. Each of these Fallen still hold the holy energy within them and using the evil pieces we got from Theodora and those girls, we were able to isolate the elements that corrupted the origin of the energy and reestablish the purity of the holy element within her."
Raynare was crying and began smiling. Overjoyed that she was considered pure once more. Until similar mechanical grippers rose up behind her, completely erasing whatever happiness she had gained after the pain, as they began to rip out the pure white feathers, causing her to scream in pain once more.
None of the devils could believe their eyes, right before them, a Fallen had risen back into God's grace, before she had her feathers ripped out. It was rather brutal to watch, and not a very pleasant sight. "What do you all think you're doing?"
Dipper turned and looked at Rias with a raised brow. "These humans are capturing and experimenting on traitors and prisoners that were trespassing within your territory. You have no jurisdiction with what they do with them. They are not members of your faction, so they are not risking any war, and these idiots attacked them first. They murdered their nephew and brother after all."
Rias turned and found Mabel, off in the corner, surrounded by a bunch of girls, all of whom Rias recognized as Diodora's peerage members. "This is barbaric, what do you believe the Grigory, or even God would do if they found you all doing this?"
Ford scoffed at the girl. "We are humans, girl. If the three factions that make up your war want to involve the race that empowers them, that they feed off, that they all wrote off as beneath them and pathetic, to the point that when me and my brother stepped foot in here, and raised our weapons to fight, they all laughed. They stopped laughing when I set off a magnetic pulse that blocked their access to their magic, and inhumane buffs. They didn't laugh when I used a magnetic gun to cause several of their heads to explode, or when Lee's knuckle dusters activated, and they were crushed by the mythical force they created. We are not as weak as you all believe miss Gremory, and I think it's about time that we show you just how weak we truly are."
Mabel stepped over and continued where Ford left off. "Mittens and Kala have been behaving, while Donut was the one to murder Dipper. Rayray there had tried her best to command everyone and was even the last one pinned down. The other priests that were here had all made bold claims of having their way with me when I showed up. They were simply dumped in the middle of town, their memories wiped clean, left with nothing but a spare set of casual clothes. The guy that escaped thanks to Theo there, we tried to outright kill, but he proved too resilient."
Rias glared at the girl. "His name is Diodora Astaroth."
Before Rias could say anything more, Diodora was electrocuted and was screaming in agony. Mabel sighed, "we know. He wouldn't shut up about being some fancy heir for whatever, so to make him shut up, we set the electrocution to go off whenever someone says his name. He hasn't referred to himself in the third person since the first day we had it set up."
Rias stared at the girl in shock, Stan stepping up behind her. "They guy is a real piece of work, and if he is what we can expect of the rest of you, then we want nothing to do with you."
Mabel stared at Rias, looking her dead in the eye. "Theodora there tricked, manipulated, raped, and broke those girls over there. They need real psychiatric help because of him. If I find out that you are lying to me, just to manipulate us, like he has done to those girls. It won't matter what part of Hell you run to, we will turn you human, and subject you to all the pain you put us through and more. I am tired of my friends trying to take advantage of me, because I am nice. Jack, Terrance, and Joe were all like that, I trusted them, and they tried to rape me. I won't be falling for that again Rias."
Rias realized that this was the side of the Pines Family, that were not going to fuck around. These were people that knew how to handle the supernatural and were fully aware how to kill it. Rias looked back at her peerage and took stock.
Kiba was shaking as he tried his best to summon up a sword, not even hiding the fact he was trying in his panic. Akeno was shivering, somewhat in fear, somewhat in arousal, they were torturing a crow after all. Koneko was shivering in fear as she looked over her bleeding knuckles from punching the ground. Issei was in the best condition out of the members of her peerage, and he was holding Asia in his arms and comforting her.
Mabel continued, in an oddly chipper tone as she explained the things around them. "The green light is a type of thermal radiation that is electro-modified to replicate that healing aura that girl used to heal some of the people when she was first here. But other than that, Theo there is being punished for crimes against humanity, while grunkle Ford is collecting data and materials to study. Dipper has not touched a single hair on their heads, so the devil race cannot be held responsible for any of this."
Rias steadied her breath as she gathered her thoughts. "We could still be blamed for sitting beside and allowing you to continue."
Stan burst out laughing. "If they want to start a war over this, those idiots are more than welcome to come give it a shot. Start a war with us, and all we have to do is use our newfound ingredients, do a little fiddling with the whatchacallit, jingle a doohickey here or there, and alter some calculations on our dimensional portal, and we can release a fog into whatever dimension you all run and hide in that will slowly kill you all. Don't mess with the Pines Family kid. We will not lose."
Rias gave those around her one last look, before she stepped back. Rias was now realizing just how dangerous these guys were, and she would be honest. They scared the manipulation out of her.
Rias would obviously have to report this to her brother, who would obviously come and confront these men for having the gall to threaten his dear sister. Though coming may have been a bit of a mistake.
Michael of heaven had sensed the altering of angels, and after sensing Sirzechs' presence, had come to confront him about what he has been feeling. Gabriel was watching over Heaven while he was away. The two of them had the added bonus of drawing Azazel's attention.
The leader of the Grigory Faction had sensed both the Satan and Archangel, so he decided to check out the hoopla. And boy was he glad he did. The three were in front of an abandoned church, Rias being the weakest there, was pretty much hiding behind Grayfia. The staring contest was broken upon a young voice drawing their attention. "I know all three of you are pretty, but if you're going to ogle each other's sparkly eyes, go somewhere else."
The three Faction leaders, while slightly appalled at the accusation, where also shocked that a simple human girl had the gull to say that to them. Sirzechs, after the tension was broken, pouted about the accusation. "Young lady, I am happily married."
Mabel smiled a bit impishly. "Then you should really reconsider standing there staring at men, she might get the wrong idea."
Grayfia did her best to keep a straight face, the only help she had there was the fact that she was still tense in front of the two angels. Michael was the one to step forward. "Young lady, I must ask you to excuse yourself from our presence. I wish not for you to be drawn into our quarrel."
Mabel smiled as she stepped up to the angel. Michael stood tall and clean, like he was heading to a business meeting and was doing his best to look professional. Mabel looked him up and down, noting his bright blond hair, his sapphire blue eyes. "I give you a seven out of ten dude, but if you guys want to have your hissy fit, get lost. This place is run by my grunkle, and he would flatten you pretty boys within moments."
Azazel couldn't help but laugh at Michael, a full belly guffaw as he flopped onto his back. Mabel turned to the man and scoffed. "Cleaning up gives pretty blond a few points, but your mess costs you some. When coming to meet a lady, one should always dress to impress, but I can't really get behind the grungy look. You get a four."
Azazel was now staring at the girl in shock, appalled that he scored lower than Michael. Said angel just raised a brow, his pure thoughts not catching on to the deeper meaning behind the scores, though he does realize he beat Azazel at whatever the girl was talking about, causing him to stand a little straighter.
Sirzechs did his best to stay out of the lime light, after the girl's first words. Didn't stop Mabel from turning to him and after looking him up and down, smiled, "nine. Your hair is fiery and passionate, without looking died like Mr. Grungy, yet you don't remind me of a friend I ship with my brother like the pretty blond. Yet being married strikes a point because you're off the market."
Azazel looked offended. "My hair is natural missy."
Mabel raised a brow at him. "So? It doesn't matter if it's natural or not, though it does give you a couple points, subtracting from the try hard opinion I had of you, you're still just a six. I judged you lower because you didn't look like you tried with your outfit. You look like you just got out of bed and threw on the first thing you found that smelled clean as you rushed here. Believe me, I have a brother, I know the things to look for."
Michael and Sirzechs didn't comment, knowing what the man was most likely doing before he sensed them enter the human world. Rias cleared her throat before she spoke to Mabel. "These three are the leaders, or representative in Lord Michael's case, of the three main factions of the biblical races."
Mabel giggled. "The leaders are a pretty boy filled, has been, boyband?"
The three men were left shocked over that. After noticing their affronted look, Mabel smiled as she pointed to each and explained. "Red is the cool chill one, blonde is the fabulous one, and then we have the dark broody one. I am really hoping there are more, that way we can check more off the list for a perfect boyband. Is there more?"
As Sirzechs was pondering whether to be insulted or complimented, Grayfia was the one to step up and take charge to move things along. "Young lady, we are here to confirm the things Rias-sama has reported. Please comply, or things will get complicated."
Mabel laughed at the woman, stepping back into the church, leaving the door open as she continued to laugh. Grayfia had a twitch in her brow as she followed, Rias and the three leaders behind her.
What they saw was just as shocking to them as it was to Rias' group. Mabel had calmed down enough to give the explanations, catching the attention of her three male relatives, causing them to learn who had interrupted them again, for the second time today.
Michael took notice of the two angels, Raynare and Mittelt, remembering when they fell. The two girls cowered away from his judgmental look. Azazel stared in shock as well, knowing the four angels, both the fallen and not, as four of his soldiers. Sirzechs stared in shock as he noticed the human Diodora, as well as the girls from the boy's peerage, who were glaring at him and Michael.
As Mabel got to the explanation of what Diodora had done, and what they did to him, the leaders stared in shock, and even awe. Azazel had asked a scientific question, only for Ford to answer him. "This is all thanks to myself, with slight help from my nephew's ideas and a little guidance. Those questions won't be getting answers, because you are all too stupid to understand. We also refuse to help those that would subjugate the innocent to lives of suffering."
Azazel sighed as the other two leaders looked offended. Michael looked as if they just slandered his father. "Look here human, I will not allow you to slander my race like that. We protect all under my father's gaze."
Dipper was the one to scoff as he stepped forward. "If that were true, why would you, or your father, allow yourselves to be tricked and scammed, and give a devil what he wanted by casting young maidens that were being targeted out into the world alone. You were tricked, you gave the devil what he wanted, and ignored the consequences of those decisions."
Michael glared down at the boy, "I will not have some devil question the decisions of Heaven. You could never understand."
Dipper laughed at the man's face. "All I am hearing is excuses. If you or your father had just eliminated the pathetic bastard when you sensed him in one of your churches, you could have saved all those girls their suffering."
Dipper then turned to Sirzechs. "And if you had kept a better watch over your race, and actually cared, you would have stopped him. Instead, you both sacrificed them and hid his actions. Condemning innocent girls to suffer."
Michael tried again to defend himself. "God has given humans the power of free will, and we cannot stop them from expressing it. We have done our best to guide those under our care to not fall for such ploys. Ending that creature would have sparked a war that only the Devils could truly prepare for, seeing as they found a way to increase their numbers."
Dipper scoffed as he looked at Sirzechs. Said devil shrugged. "I have no reasoning or excuses, I am a glorified general as the Main 72 Pillars express the careless attitude. As long as Dio didn't outright start a war with his actions, they didn't care enough to let us look into it. My friend Ajuka was busy creating the evil piece system to deal with it. And he will be informed of the loss by myself personally. He may also like to come and speak with a man that was able to crack his system, he might truly enjoy speaking with you."
Sirzechs paused here, a quick look at Grayfia, he moved closer to Mabel as he whispered. "I think he insults me whenever I visit, but I can't understand the words he uses."
Sirzechs was pulled back to his serious behavior by Grayfia pulling his ear. Ignoring Mabel's giggles as Grayfia wordlessly reprimanded him. Stan chuckled as walked over. "Hey, you all are just in time for another experiment that Poindexter there just got set up."
Those there turned to stare at where Stan gestured, towards Diodora. Who had started to shift and lean away from three syringes. One black, another gold, and the third with a light gray liquid. Diodora was squirming away, right into a third empty syringe, that pulled blood from him. The visitors were shown something that would revolutionize the world, as two cages, both with a jar of solid liquid popped up to either side of Diodora.
With half of the syringe full of blood being squeezed into one, then the other, two clones of Diodora grew right before their eyes. Both, completely naked rather than the ragged suit the original was wearing. So shocked over this, Diodora was unprepared to feel one of the syringes stabbing and injecting him with the concoction.
The gold liquid made one of the clones grow angel wings, the gray one made him grow Fallen wings, while the black made the original a devil once more. This was something that truly shocked and scared those witnessing it, only for them to be further frightened as glass containers fell from the ceiling onto them, as gas was released from below.
If the previous things they witnessed frightened them, this made them lose all hope. As the gas came into contact with both Diodora and his clones, they began to painfully dissolve slowly, skin gave way to muscle, muscle to bone, and bone to nothing, as each feather upon their wings burst into flames, the devil wings just acting like skin and dissolving. All the while, the glass proving soundproof as their screams of pain were clear to see, but went unheard.
Michael stared in shock as he turned to the scientist. "This cannot be left alone."
The angel tried to summon his magic but failed to conjure even the smallest of spears. Azazel was the next to try, finding the same problem. Sirzechs, having come expecting the limit in magic, was still surprised that he and his fellow leaders couldn't even conjure the simplest of magic. Azazel stepped forward, "What the hell do you expect to gain with such a power play?"
Dipper was the one to step up to him. "Nothing, the Fallen started this when they murdered me, and Rias resurrected me. I am thankful to be alive, don't get me wrong, but you all need to learn the consequences for riling us up. We slacked off slightly once, and Mabel almost got hurt. Now, we get to explain in simple terms to allow you to understand, fuck with us, and we fuck you up."
Azazel scoffed, "So you can defend yourselves with chemicals, but can you match."
Azazel was cut off, seeing as when he threw a punch to prove he wasn't out just because he was out of magic, as Dipper simply took the punch like it was nothing. "Punching a [Rook] with mere human strength? How stupid."
Dipper grabbed Azazel's wrist, giving himself a clear shot to punch Azazel in his stomach, launching the man back into the wall near the door. Lifting and rubbing the golden bracer on his right arm, Dipper explained. "These bracers protect me from the effects of our machines, and there is no real method to recreate these that any of you have access to. So please, keep fighting, we could always test the differences between low count wings with high count wing's feathers."
Azazel smiled, and as much as he lusted for the fight, he wasn't stupid. These guys would do to him as they have to his soldiers, and he couldn't leave his group like that. "Fine, you win, I will behave."
The other guests were in the same boat as Azazel, though glad they didn't throw the first punch. They were saved the trouble of breaking the tension as Ford pressed a couple buttons on the far wall. "As we were saying, before the rude one interrupted us, we have the means to deal with each of you, and thanks to a little interdimensional scanning, we also have a nice big hole to send the chemical through to deal with each of your race."
From the floor, along the wall, a giant square with a circular hole was raised up. "The blasted triangle may have messed with my first calculations, but after a bit of work with my nephew, we were able to recalculate and finish our portal. So, would you like to go home through it?"
The devils, Michael, and Azazel were all left speechless, as Ford flipped through different dimensions, flashing through an image of a giant crimson dragon flying through a formless realm, the very gates of Hell's purgatory, before flipping to an image of Heaven's gates, the main meeting tower/hall for the 72 Pillars, as well as the hotel that Grigory was stationed.
Stan was smiling on the other side of the portal, as Ford turned to look at them, the light from the portal shined off their glasses as they gave wide smiles, Mabel smile came off as evil as she stood next to Ford, Dipper standing next to Stan, his smile just as evil. All four asked at once.
"Do you really want to start this war?"
Alright, I did not see me going down the route I did when I started this chapter, though I did plan to show them sciencing about how to fight the three factions as a warning, but to show off as such a power play, that caught even me off guard. I hope you all enjoyed it though, let me know if I went too far. I am a bit concerned. Also, don't worry about Dipper's attitude here, he will address things with his friends later, but next chapter will start the Riser issues, and Dipper will have to deal with what limitations the satans will give him.
