William barely dodged out of the way of Dipper's second punch and was forced to continue retreating as Dipper continued his furious assault.

"Have you forgotten this is Michael's body?" William snarled in desperation as a strong punch landed on Mike's human shoulder. "And that any pain or injuries you give me ultimately affect him more than me?"

"Oh please, I've been sparring with Mike for years and I know all his weak points and limitations," Dipper scoffed with a smirk, managing to sweep William's legs out from under him and knocking the other onto his back. Placing a foot on William's chest to keep him pinned, Dipper could not help but add, "And while you may be in Mike's body, you don't have his fighting skills and experience…"

Dipper started to reach into his shirt to pull out the hidden pendant he always wore only to stumble as William suddenly sank into the floor and disappeared. Looking around frantically, Dipper was forced to backflip out of the way of William's wires surging forward in an attempt to impale him.

"I may not have Michael's fighting experience, but this is still my domain," William said, twisting Mike's face into a dark evil grin. "And unlike my son, I won't hesitate to go for the kill."

William sent Mike's wires shooting forward, destroying the monitors as Dipper ran to the side to avoid them. Dipper started to cast a spell as he continued to run only to cut off with a surprised yell as he tripped over a box that had not been there a split second before. William lunged at Dipper, claws extended from Mike's animatronic hand as he attempted to slash Dipper's throat. Dipper barely rolled out of the way in time, the claws leaving bloody scratches on his cheek nicking his ear.

As William began to turn to attack Dipper again, Dipper managed to slam his foot into the back of William's knee. Though there wasn't any pain, William still buckled as the animatronic joint was forced to bend and gave Dipper time to scramble back up to his feet. William glared hatefully at Dipper as he rose to his feet, summoning a swarm of knives mid-air and making them rain on Dipper.

"OBICE!" Dipper shouted, eyes and outstretched hands flaring with magic as he forced a wall to grow from the floor to protect him from the knives. As he listened to the knives bury themselves in the wall, Dipper tried to use this moment to think of a plan to end this fight quickly without hurting Mike too much.

Unfortunately, William teleported to Dipper's side of the wall and sent his wires at Dipper once more. Caught by surprise, Dipper wasn't able to fully dodge and one of the wires grazed his arm, but more importantly, it pinned his flannel jacket to the wall. Dipper jolted to a stop and was about to tear his arm free when one of the other wires impaled his free arm and went through into the wall, making Dipper cry out in pain.

"This would have been much easier if you had just agreed to help me," William said with disappointment like he was scolding a rebellious child. Confident now that Dipper was restrained, William slowly approached, displaying his blood-soaked claws as he said, "But that offer has passed now and even if you begged for your life I would deny you. Goodbye Dipper…"

"No, you don't!" Cassidy snarled, fading into view behind William as William was about to go in for the kill.

Before she could do anything though, William whirled around and wrapped Mike's animatronic hand around her throat, much to her shock and fear.

"Did you really think I wouldn't notice you sneaking up on me in the heart of my domain?" William asked with a vicious grin, squeezing his hand tighter and making Cassidy bleed a shimmering silver as his claws dug into her neck. "You have been an annoying pain in my neck for decades! Thinking you're somehow more important than any of the other worthless children I slaughtered. I am going to enjoy getting rid of you once and for all!"

As focused as he was on the vengeful spirit within his grasp, William didn't notice how Mike's human hand started to move without his permission during his rant. The hand subtly and expertly removed a screwdriver from one of the pouches on Mike's belt and then forcefully stabbed the screwdriver into the animatronic wrist, managing to get right into the joint where it wasn't protected by the metal casing.

"What!?" William shouted in confusion in anger as the animatronic arm experienced a painful electrical surge from the sudden damage and automatically released its hold on Cassidy. Before William could react to what was happening, he spasmed and dropped to his knees as one of his eyes returned to their original purple.

"Now Dipper!" Mike shouted as his body trembled with the effort of keeping William at bay.

Dipper didn't waste any time, ripping the arm that was only pinned by his jacket free and holding out towards Mike shouting, "Coercere!"

Magic surged from Dipper and took command of Mike's wires, making them wrap around his struggling brother and restrain him. Now completely free, Dipper pulled off the pendant as he ran forward. Slamming the pendant against Mike's animatronic shoulder, Dipper said, "Activate Emergency Program Dream Bubble! Authorization code: Pine Tree!"

William didn't have time to do more than give Dipper a hateful glare before the light faded from his eyes as the emergency program forced Mike's systems into a full shutdown.

Roxy raced down the brightly colored road, barely avoiding getting knocked into the abyss by her dark reflection. Roxy grits her teeth as she presses her foot on the pedal to try and get a bit more distance between her and her opponent. Roxy wasn't sure how long they had been racing, but it was clear to her now there was no end to this track, meaning she would race forever until she was either killed or rescued.

"There has to be a way to bust out of here," Roxy growled in frustration. Then the world she was in rippled and almost like it was answering her, a glowing tear ripped into existence in the space over the track not too far down the road. And while that could just be another trap, Roxy had a feeling it had more to do with her friends.

"It's been fun," Roxy grinned as she jerked the steering wheel and slammed it into her counterpart, sending it spinning away. "But it's time for me to win this!"

Roxy slammed on the gas and sent her car rocketing into the tare and freedom.

Moon flipped out of the way of his shadowy counterpart, dodging the claws that ended up digging into the plastic tubing instead. Moon had figured out fairly quickly that staying within the tubes meant his counterpart would be more likely to trap him so he had started traveling around the outside instead. As Moon watched his counterpart for the next attack, the structure quacked as something disturbed this little world.

"MOON! Look down!" Sun shouted internally, voice filling with hope. "I think it might be a way out!"

Moon obeyed and spotted a tear forming lower in the structure. Moon dodged and danced around his counterpart as it attacked again and nibbly dropped lower and lower. Moon ignored the way his counterpart screeched in anger as he dove into the tear.

Monty was knocked off his feet and sent sliding face-first across the ground as a golf ball exploded right behind him. Spitting out dirt and grass, Monty scrambled back up to his feet and continued to run. He was getting so sick of running, feeling like a coward, but he knew that the twisted villain behind this would have made his shadow counterpart unbeatable and that fighting him would only result in Monty's destruction.

Monty yelped in surprise and scrambled back as his towering counterpart came stomping through the trees before him. At the same time though, the world trembled and a tear opened up above and behind the shadow gator's head.

"No more running little weakling," the shadow Monty growled, unaware of the tear behind him. "It's time for you to die!"

"You're right," Monty grinned, crouching down. "No more running."

Monty used his powerful legs to leap high into the air and deliver a strong kick to the shadow gator's face, much to his counterpart's surprise. While his counterpart was still stunned by the sudden attack, Monty leaped again and went flying into the tear.

"What did you do to him?" Cassidy asked with a slightly raspy voice as her throat worked to mend itself, floating closer as she looked at Mike's slumped body with curiosity and hatred. "Because while he does feel weakened he doesn't feel like he's gone."

"Not yet," Dipper replied absentmindedly as he laid Mike down on his back. "But I should be able to get him completely out of Mike in a moment.

Dipper placed his fingertips at specific points on Mike's face and temples as he began to chant. A breeze started swirling around the two as Dipper wove his magic, his eyes gleaming and Mike's veins beginning to glow as the spell worked to purge William from his body. As intent as he was on the spell, Dipper wasn't paying attention to his surroundings and barely heard Cassidy shout in pain and fear before a metallic hand wrapped around his throat from behind, the spell only half complete as Dipper's air was cut off.

"Did you really think you could outsmart me!?" William snarled, back in his Burntrap body, as he lifted Dipper up by the throat and threw him across the room. Dipper slammed into the wall hard, spots briefly appearing in his vision as he crumpled through the floor. With choked gasps, Dipper struggled to rise to his feet only for William to grab him by the throat and slam him against the wall again.

"So many have plotted my permeant demise by they always fail," William chuckled as he squeezed Dipper's throat, the man's human hands unable to move the strong metal as he tried to pry his airway free. "I ALWAYS come back! But you… I'll make sure YOU don't…"

Dipper's vision began to darken as William kept his hand wrapped tightly around his throat, his attempts to free himself becoming weaker and weaker as he started to fade.

"Hey!" Gregory's voice shouted in protective anger. "Leave my new family alone you jerk!"

A flash filled the room as Gregory used the Fazcam, causing Burntrap to let go of Dipper and stumble back as the camera temporarily blinded him. Dipper fell to the floor, gasping for the much-needed oxygen he had been deprived of.

"You have been more trouble than you're worth you stupid brat!" Burntrap spat as he turned to Gregory, glaring at the child held in Freddy's arms. "But you will die just like all my other chosen victims before you."

Ignoring William and his frightening promise, Gregory raised the camera to use it again only to have it ripped from his hands by some unseen force and crushed before his eyes.

"Now that that little toy is taken care of," Burntrap grinned, letting his hand drop. "I'm going enjoy killing you."

Freddy started backing away with Gregory as William stalked closer. Dipper tried to order the two to run and get up, but he could do little more than give a pained cough as his body tried to recover still and Cassidy was nowhere in sight.

"Goodbye BRAT!" Burntrap said as he summoned a knife into his hand and prepared to lunge only to let out a painful cry as a wire pierced through his back and out of his chest.

Everyone froze for a moment as they the sight of the wire and followed it to a crouched Mike who was glaring at Burntrap hatefully.

"Michael!" Burntrap snarled, twitching slightly from the wire still in his chest. "As your father I order-"

"My dad is Stanley Pines," Mike cut in, sending another wire to stab into Burntrap. "I'm part of a family that loves and cares for me despite the broken mess you turned me into and have been able to create a new life for myself. I'm not going to let you destroy it William because you… you are nothing but a bad memory…"

During his declaration, Mike had his other two wires wrapped around Burntrap's legs and with a determined grunt, he had all his wires pull. There was the screech of metal and a pained scream as Mike's wires tore Burntrap apart and kept tearing until there was nothing but a pile of scrap scattered across the floor.