Notes:"I was angry at my friend, I told my wrath my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe, I told it not."
-William Blakein the woods of Argentina: The joint group of Foundation personnel moved toward their destination, the secret Obskurakorp, a remnant of a GOI that used to work for the Nazi Germany until the end of the Third Reich. They came to south Argentina by plane but the rest of the way they had to travel on land or risk their target possibly getting wind of their presence. As they hoped whatever secrets this hidden base had could put down the shield around Gravity Falls. An added complication was the fact they had to be radio silent, just in case their target could intercept their communications.
Stanford and Stanley Pines, Diana Seras and Jacob Walter Pines, Doctor Clef, Doctor Bright, Agent Andrea S. Adams, Chompy Stans' pet dino, SCP-4128 aka Agent Samson Sachs who was an Anahuman with super strength and invincibility and the cybernetically enhanced clones MTF-Tau 5 the 'Samsara' passed the dense jungles until Irantus the leader of the MTF with hand up told the group to stop.
"It's almost night, we'll camp here." he said. There was a collective sigh as packs were set down and camp was set up.
Stanley was exhausted walking so much as he put his backpack down and sat on a piece of fallen wooden branch.
"Finally!" he grunted in relief. Kilometers were away from their target as of yet and they already traveled for a whole day so they needed time to rest to continue their journey, besides the vegetation would hide them.
Stanford couldn't help but muse the irony that they were searching for the Nazi in Argentina considering all conspiracy theories about the Nazi fleeing here a sentiment he shared with Jacob as Stanford commented "You know…if I knew there were remnants of Nazi Germany here on Argentina years ago when I was a fresh young man drawing Conspiracy boards, the younger me wrote an entire essay about Hitler not really killed by suicide and taking the beach here."
Jacob mused as well: "The irony hasn't been lost on me either."
Bright caught something shiny inside Ford's pack as he took a look, grabbing two advanced devices which then connected to each other as he looked in awe."Ooh, interesting!"
The six-fingered Pines, seeing the chaotic doctor hands on a certain weapon of his, warned him in worry."BE CAREFUL! It's a Quantum Destabilizer!"
Bright snorted as he held the weapon on its sides in both of her hands."Do I look like some amateur who has never held some high tech scifi gun before? Alto is not the only one experienced with guns!" as he said he accidentally pulled the trigger causing a brilliant beam to shoot, taking everyone by surprise as Chompy jumped back in fear and Clef who ducked away from being shot as the beam instead hit a hill causing it to explode though not before leaving a small fire on Alto's signature hat.
BOOM
"YOU NEARLY VAPORIZED ME ASSHOLE!" Alto shouted in anger at the abashed Jack while he was putting the fire off his hat by repeated clapping.
"Uh… you can hold this." Jack noted and quickly gave it to Adams who nearly fell if not for the superhuman companion holding it for her while he decided to go away.
Alto was coming to give Bright a piece of his mind before his eyes caught the weapon that shot that devastating beam and grinned like a boy seeing candy as he uttered."And what's this beauty…" his hands nearly touched it if it weren't for Sachs holding it away from his grasp.
"I think Dr. Ford will keep this weapon as it's his after all." he said and then put it back to where it came from as the Ex GOC looked disappointed.
And so they began to camp, putting a small fire at the center since they were in the cold section of Argentina at the south and also had to wear winter clothes to keep them warm though the Stans noted the Samsara didn't needed much to keep themselves warm probably something related to their cybernetics designed to make them be able to tolerate extreme environments.
The Doctors were near each other in the camping site as Ford was deep in conversation with Wlater as they discussed esoteric things.
Jacob had to admit he was enjoying his conversation the more he expected seeing as both had shared interests as he continued the topic."-Well not all, in time some anomalies are fully understood or turn out not to be anomalous at all and then get classified as explained like SCP-1548-EX for example, we used to think it was a malevolent star before finding out it was actually just a solar phenomenal."
Ford hummed as he was absorbing the information and then asked "Can I ask a personal question?"
"By all means." he gestured with his hands.
"You said you used to be a part of Serpent's Hand, by chance have you seen the Wanderer's Library?"
The Thaumaturgist Pines fondly recalled "I did and was, oh I giggled everything when I was there, had a bad habit of reading books there for days without sleep." It seems to be a genetic heritage for the Pines to overwork themselves as the duo thought "Until my defection to the Foundation, let's just say the Serpent's Hand have a rather complicated relationship with 'The Jailers'."
Ford then continued to speak about the reason why he asked this question."During my search for ways to destroy the threat of Bill, I've heard of the Wanderer's Library." He was tinkering with his blaster then continued as he then he straight his mouth. "I tried to access it but the owner didn't seem to like me with one of the Serpent's Hands calling me 'A Man Blinded by Greatness, Failed to Do Good.', I suppose they thought right."
His Nephew solely nodded understanding where his Uncle came from continued."That's the thing about us geniuses isn't it? So blinded by the greater good that we ignore the things we have." Stanford curiously looked at him "You're not the only smart of our family, who messed up a lot. Maybe one day I will tell you about it." The Pines duo went into deep thought.
Stanford saw Clef who was calibrating a military grade shotgun, by this point it took no genius for the Stans to figure out shotguns are the favorite type of guns of the Gun Enthusiast. "How about you?"
Alto put hand up to stop."I'm gonna stop you right there, for that you have to get me very drunk, not really into 'sharing' emotional baggage and you're not on top of my friend list so don't expect me bleeding my heart out on a silver plate to you."
Harsh but fair, as someone who had to survive traveling between dimensions he understood so he didn't press it any further, so he decided to change the subject "One thing I don't understand is why Foundation didn't make more such supersoldiers if they have the means?" He meant the Samsaras.
Clef sight like he heard this misconception a lot before. "This again…the Samsara aren't the whole MTF but a branch of them. You think the Foundation wouldn't produce more cyborgs if they have the means of creating?"
Bright, who had a stick that was cooking something he caught using the fire, joined in. "What do you think they are called the 'Samsara'? If they die their consciousness simply uploads in a machine and they would be born again, I'm not the only Foundation guy here with immortality."
"What on Earth are you even cooking Bright?" Jacob asked in exasperation.
"A lizard I found." Jack nonchalantly stated.
Back on the other side Stanley was trying to socialize with the Samsara members, with not much success. "-And I said to the couple as they were getting lovey dovey on their boat, 'My Ex Wife misses me, but her aim is getting better!'" He looked expectantly at the Samsara expecting a reaction but only a blank glance at him "You know, it's funny because marriage is- '' the weird look they gave him with Irantus giving an eyebrow and Nanku tilting her head was enough to give up in explaining to them the point of his joke.
"Ah, never mind!" he got up and walk to get more woods for the fire, he tried to get to know the cybernetically enhanced MTF clones but it was akin to speaking to autistic teenagers as he to his annoyance understood, likely a side effect of being artificially grown to adulthood as they had no childhood though he begrudgingly also think it is partly because no one enjoys his jokes as he was sure reading all those jokes in that book he got for jokes was akin to torture for his brother during their time in Stan O' War II.
Adams smirked as she was washing a rifle and told him as he passed away. "Don't beat yourself grandpa, of all things Tau-5 are renown for, social cues is not one of them."
He huffed at being called old in indignation.
"I have you know girly, I'm young enough that I faced Pterodactyl and punched it on its ugly face!"
"You have to do a lot better to impress me, I saw and fought way weirder crap." she looked unimpressed which made him grumple.
Stanley passed with a grunt. He tried to cut a branch from a very big fallen piece of wood only for Sachs the Anahuman with super strength just grab the whole thing without making a sweat leaving the Old Pines dumbfounded, noticing the stare the parahuman glanced back. "Is there something you need?" He wondered.
Stanley's dumbfounded expression changed to irritation. "Never mind." and he walked away as the anahuman went to put the big log.
Everyone had their specialty here as Stanley was beginning to feel useless. What a washed up conman can offer to a group as highly specialized as them? Clef was the weapon expert killer, Bright was the broadly expert in many things, the MTF were super soldiers, Sachs is the muscle, Adams is the agent guy or rather gal supervisor here, his nephew is the magic expert, his own brother is the one with most expertise involving extra dimensional, his niece-in-law is the steadfast trained agent and heck even his pet dinosaur is being useful by walking around the camp like a guard dog.
The fact that Poindexter had much easier time getting along with Foundation personals and the cherry on top with their nephew and niece-in-law was vexing, he never thought he would see the day where he is the one socially inadequate instead of his nerdy brother with him being the social outcast or an utter joke.
The closest he got in being sociable was with Clef and that guy can sometimes unnerve him like that time he explained to him the many ways he decommission one of his unfortunate intended targets in the most graphic details with glee not to mention he took every opportunity to grate him to the edge reveling at his frustrations while reminding him that he is the boss, is this what everyone who ever worked under him felt like when he ran the Mystery Shack?
"This may be the last time we're gonna have a date, just so you know I cherish these moments we spent together." Clef said exaggeratingly in a feign loving voice to his date from the other side of the table.
That date being SCP-173 the Snapper of Necks an anomalous peanut-looking statue made of concrete and metal wires standing inanimate; it was only a statue when it is seen directly without blinking as just one blink is enough for it to in a staggering speed to come and snap the neck of any life form that dared to blink. Hence why there are currently sweating D-Classes scared badly staring at the neck snapping statues to keep it at bay while Alto was enjoying dinner with it in one of its hair-brained schemes to get a raise out of SCPs as he enjoyed a steak and there was even a candle at the center of the table.
Stan was unfortunate enough to be worn as a butler holding a champagne looking deader than pan being humiliated in being the busboy with Alto's 'supposed' date with a Euclid Class Anomaly that can snap your neck 180 degree in a blink.
Clef as he was enjoying a steak asked as he brought his glass for Stanley to pour the latter who was glaring holes at the smirking doctor."Wine please, busboy."
The Pines snared after pouring the glass fully. "I hope you choke on it."
"Excuse the waiter, he has had a severe case of grumbleness since the day he lost the Mystery Hack by a rather dashing handsome devil." he then gave a jerk's smirk after saying that with a feign apology to the statue.
"I think I hate you." Stan with a deadpan look uttered.
And don't get even started on the Chaotic Scientist Jack Bright, the less said about the SCP-420-J incident when Stan and Bright used that SCP for 'recreational' purposes the better. To this day Ley had no idea how he ended up making a snowman made of salami and sausages and thinking the said snowman was Bright while the real Bright dressed a random monkey 90s retro style and talked with the said monkey thinking that the animal held the secrets of the universe.
Stan woke up feeling the mother of all migraines until he saw something anticlimactic.
It was a snowman made of preserved pig meat products and he was for some reason in the kitchen as he shrieked and jumped back.
"WHAT THE- WAFFLE WHAT IN- INFERNO!?!" He frantically looked around.
"STANLEY WHAT IS HAPPENING!?" That was the howl of Jack from somewhere.
Stan, while trying to get a grip on himself, responded.
"I DON'T KNOW! There's the…a snow..salami…sausage snowman thing in front of me!" He erratically gestured to the salami statue.
"SEARCH IT ON SCIP-NET, MAYBE IT IS SOME SCP ANOMALY GETTING OUT!"
"I DON'T THINK SEARCHING 'MEAT SNOWMAN' ON THE WEB WOULD BE LEAD INTO APPROPRIATE SEARCH RESULTS!" Ley shouted as and half laughed at what he just said as he kept his distance away from the possible dangerous anomaly.
"AND WHY ARE YOU GROW SHORT AND HAIRY!?"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GROW SHORT AND HAIRY!?!" Stanley bellowed out.
On the other side, Bright was on a chair looking at a chimpanzee that wore sports shoes and jackets with a football hat.
Oo-ooo-aa-aaa
The said creature simply made an animalistic noise.
"I think I'm legitly going insane." Jack stated as he kept staring at the monkey.
Don't get wrong, both Stans get stink eyes by the Pines parents for their secrets and involving their kids in the anomalous affairs, but they cooled down a bit and they seem to have particular focus on him, likely because he known them more than Stanford does as he was lost for 30 years while he straight up lied to them for 3 decades. That's the funny thing about family isn't it? The more you know someone the more stink eyes you get because they expected better of you.
Speaking of; she saw Diana who was brooding in her own way staring at the night sky.
Stanley chose to be near her though gradually like a guy who was getting near to a dangerous animal resting knowing how much of a temper the woman has and she is less forgiving than her husband.
"Well hello there…had a lot in your mind brooding alone here?"
She gave a glance to him before staring back at the night sky. "Not brooding…just contemplating things…"
"Yeah, that's just brooding in style." He humorously commented as he stood and looked at the sky "Though, quite the view to star gaze on." they were away from the nearest settlement or city and without pollution of light and air the stars were apparent.
"When you sacrifice your mind, did you do it to save my kids?" That question out of nowhere caught the conman Pines off guard and the fact that she seem genuinely ask him with no hint of anger or condemnation or suspicion like the other times when she decried him for his past choices even more so "Of course I did and I will do it again if I have to," He said and then this time was a bit offended "Seriously Diana? Cut me some slack, I get that you're not exactly thinking of me in the most flattering way and hell I have invented a few new crimes before, but do you really believe I don't care for the kids?"
Diana elaborated further "I'm not denying that, I know for a fact from every account that you and Ford do care for them, but I've seen people of good intent lead to stray." Stan wanted to protest but he supposed it was better than being screamed at "And I do know my children would be heartbroken if I forbidden them from seeing their great uncles again, so answer me this; if we survive, what should me and my husband do about you both?"
Stanley opened his mouth to say something but closed it as he couldn't think of anything else to say, putting himself under their shoes he knew he would have the same poorly received reaction as his nephew and niece-in-law if he had kids and found out what they had been through. "I…do not know." he commented in uncertainty as Diana gave an understanding nod.
"Neither do I," she then finally glanced back and noted "Look around you, Can you honestly say everyone you know are still those who they used to be? Much less you?"
They stood there staring at the stars for some time 'brooding in style', afterwards they went back to the camp.
Stan saw Jacob and Stan still talking, there were noticeably less tension the previous before so as was for his and his niece-in-law, that made him hopeful that it is possible to rebuild the bridge that was broken between him and his brother with the Pines couple, he doubt it would be easy; however, he would still try.
It was late at night and tomorrow they had a secret base to raid so the group decided to get ready and go to sleep when they heard mad giggling and the sound of earth being dug. They looked and they saw the reason why: it was Jack giggling madly as she was digging a grave on the earth with a shovel after which she put her camping bed inside it and rested on it to sleep because apparently sleeping in a tent was too normal for his taste.
Ley scratched the back of his head at what he saw and asked.
"Uh, I never asked but why is he…or she the way he is?"
The head of the Decommissioning Department answered with an uninterested tone.
"That involves a sob story which I don't have neither the patience nor energy tonight to explain, so good night losers."
And of course Clef brought a military grade automated rifle near himself as he went to his sleeping makeshift bed being a man not used to sleeping defenselessly, that or he secretly likes having guns instead of teddy bears when he sleeps as some guessed.
"Crazy bastards." Adams muttered under her breath about both doctors as she with Sachs went back to their sleeping place
The Stans looked at the Couple with Jacob shrugging with both hands.
"Don't look at me, I don't know either."
"Trust me, it is depressing." Diana with a grime look responded.
Soon, everyone went to their tents and slept on their makeshift beds, everyone except Sachs and the Samsara on guard in case of any wildlife or any danger.
Not knowing, this would be an eventful dream.
Stanley did not know how it he ended up here, all he remembered was that he slept and his mind was wandering off in depth then suddenly he was here, in the old house where he and Ford grow up in the same room of theirs standing looking like every bit as he remembered with the same attire he wore when he was 18.
"What the H…" he expressed astonishment as he touched and comprehended that his skin was smoother and his hair no longer gray by age but brunette. He looked into a mirror and indeed he looked like he was de-aged back to near 20 and something else, he wore the same cloth as when…
"Stanley, what a disappointment you have become." he looked back to see the source of the voice and he was no longer in his room instead in the hallway and there it was his father Filbrick Pines looking at him with a scowl of disappointment, this was the day where he got kicked out of the house as he dreadful remembered. "Always have to leave a mess for everyone to clean you ignoramus."
Ley walked backward until hit someone.
"I think you should listen to your father dear," that familiar voice caused him to turn back and walk backward again seeing her mother showing her dispirited face.
"It would be best to leave the family alone before they are hurt by your mess ups," he glanced to the other side and this one was his brother de-aged same age as him. "You leaving was the best thing that ever happened in my life."
Of all these poisonous words, hearing his twin saying it cut him the most, he felt despair slowly creeping, even now he couldn't feel but a mess up as they continued to berate him. But then, something came to his mind.
"This…this isn't real." He realized, none of these made any sense. Call it a con-artist's instinct but he felt like this whole thing was a sham and he may be old, but he isn't senile and recall this isn't how it specifically happened. Not to mention her mother wasn't this cold like Filbrick and his twin brother even at his worst was never this openly cruel.
His father or this figment of imagination scoffed "This is real as it gets son, there's no escaping reality."
Ley grinned with a schadenfreude as he then replied.
"Then I will be the happiest man in the world doing this!" he sucker punches Filbrick so hard that his goggles fell half broken as he fell on the ground holding his bleeding nose with a hand while Ford and the Mother looked surprised.
"Heh, always wanted to do that." Stan said as he enjoyed the catharism of punching his deadbeat father and then moved his shoulder a bit.
Filbrick as he looked at the blood on his hand then raged at the audacity "You ungrateful whelp! I should have got rid of you years ago!"
Stanley not affected and finding it kinda pathetic snorted as he made sound with his knuckles
"Oh give it a rest and just go back to being dead!" and then he kicked his father's head by slamming his right foot at his face which resulted in him along with Ford, mother and everything else to change into pure darkness with only himself left back to his old age.
"Now what?" He thought out loud seeing as the blackness was endless, not knowing what he should do next, next he heard a howl akin to something big.
Howl
It was like something that size of a whale that lives in the sea, sorta an aquatic howl that reverberated across waves. He looked up and saw what made that howl.
It was the damn Eel again, slightly illuminescent by its greenish-blue fluorescent floating like it was swimming in water, it then after swimming around gazed back down staring at him with dead eyes, ever since Antarctica that thing was haunting his dreams stuck like a lich on his mind. Stan, in full frustration tired of being scared and tired of being haunted, snapped at the creature.
"What do ya want from me you OVERGROWN GODDAMN EEL!?"
The said eel did not answer, it just stared at him for some seconds till it then moved in another direction away and as it did Stan thought of a crazy idea "Maybe the damnable Eel could show me the way?" uttered to himself, crazy yes but it is better than trying to get out of whatever this place is so he followed the ginormous luminous creature.
Bright gave an eyebrow as he was now in some old Foundation hall, he says old because its style was much more depressive and oppressive reminding him of his early days in Foundation with sometimes buzzing lights and soon he found out why: his skin and gender was different suggestion she was now a he and in a different body except he doesn't recall switching bodies again and there was something familiar about it as he touched his face feeling the shaved bear, his hair was a brownish shade of red, his body was skinny and scrawny, the glasses he took and checked looked exactly like the ones he used to wear before…
This was his original body as he incredulously figured out, body he originally had until the incident that led to his essence trapped in SCP-963.
He clapped his hands and gave a mock surrender qs he ridiculed thinking this is some sort of joke. "Okay, really funny Clef, or Kondraki. You can stop this show now guys." He thought it was some prank, maybe someone put something in his drink or maybe the lizard he ate was causing something funky with the brain. He looked around and still saw no one "Come on now guys, this was funny at first but this is- " whatever train of thought he had derailed on what he saw waiting for him at the end of the corridor.
"No…." he whispered in a sinking dread. "TJ? Sarah?
There were two people there non were Kondraki or Clef; instead there was SCP-590 Thomas Jack Bright his younger brother and SCP-321 Sarah Bright his sister, the former being a redhead boy with injuries appearing on his face and the latter was extremely tall pale skin and white hair aged unnaturally because of the condition of her birth with contraptions on her limbs to support her.
"Why didn't you save us?" Both said at the same time devoid of emotions.
despair began to creeped at him as the world around him felt even more oppressive. "Nonono…!" repeated to himself as he looked around to run but there was no door and he was in a cell with no way out with the one only light ball at the center of the ceiling oppressing the atmosphere with its white light.
"Why didn't you do anything to help us?"
Sarah is incapable of speech thanks to the unusual condition of her birth and yet here she was talking, condemning him in disdain.
"I did what I could do." Jack held both hands on his head as he tried to plea.
TJ with a dark expression pointed at him accusingly and accused.
"Like hell you are, too afraid to do anything once the Foundation seals our fate."
"Like a coward, you tried suicide to get out and it didn't work did it?" Sarah taunted looking at him like a pathetic worm.
"Not even our father's excuse did anything to save us."
Sarah hissed with venom with her younger brother. "He didn't find my death upon birth from our mother's womb good enough and made me the way I am, a broken freak."
Jack blurted out in dismay. "He was trying to save you!"
Sarah was not convinced at all as her next words prove. "What of TJ?"
"Yes brother? What about me?" TJ spat spitefully, a far cry from the quiet and shy brother he knew and he could swear both he and Sarah were becoming more and more corpse-like any second "Constantly used because of my anomaly to absorb injuries made me feel everyone's pain over and over until I was a broken husk." oh he wasn't mistaken, they indeed were becoming more and more corpse-like and yet moved like they were being puppeteered which served to distress Jack further.
In a horrific show of team work both corpses as they were deteriorating further and further as bones cracked and flesh was swallowing and rot both spoke at the same time with maggots feasting on their rotten flesh stepping toward their elder brother who stepped back and fell backward. "All because you were too much of a coward to stand for your siblings. The famous Doctor Jack Bright, the chaotic clown who has an entire list about things he is not allowed to do ,but didn't have the guts to break rules for the sake of his own blood. The rotten flesh began tearing off leaving only bits of gore and bones. " Leaving us to rot! Just like our parents''
Jack fell into despair and screamed in utter dismay "NOOOOOOOOO!"
Ford sees himself back in Gravity Falls on top of a hill and everything is wrong; there is a rift in the form of an X up in the sky, a floating black pyramid and the town looked wrecked with creatures that defy conventional science just by existing roaming. He was back in Weirdmageddon. That should have been impossible, they supposedly won.
"Impossible…" he in horrific disbelief could only say and then, he heard someone singing, someone he thought and hoped he would never hear his voice ever again.
"WE'LL MEET AGAIN! DON'T KNOW WHERE..-"
Stanford's head gradually snapped up and what he saw made his blood froze.
-"DON'T KNOW WHEN!~"
He gazed helplessly as the Beast With One Eye came down from the sky petrified from disbelief and terror.
"OH I KNOW MEET AGAIN ON SOME SUNNY DAY!"'
Bill CIpher in all his glory said as he then transformed into his eldritch form and attacked the frozen in terror and shock Pines.
Stanley followed the serpentine leviathan and then with no warning it disappeared like it wasn't here before to his surprise.
"Where the- damnit!" he cursed as the colossal entity disappeared, at least it led him somewhere. It was some kind of corridor both sides with doors and the place looked shabby like it was abandoned, all grayed and depressing and smelled of blood and rusted metal with dust everywhere; nonetheless, the most noticeable things was a man in dirty and shambled doctor coat with torn signs in a fetus position sitting at the end of the corridor.
"Hey! Do you know what the heck it's going on here?" He asked as he moved toward him but the stranger paid no mind and as he got closer he could hear muttering whispers.
"Hello? Is anyone home?" he asked again but the man kept muttering to himself and from what Stan heard the person was not in a right state of mind and kept babbling nonsense.
"- seven…seven…seven brides, seven seals, seven…three rules…Children Of Fire...Concrete Breaks...Heavens bloodied...Past Never Dies..."
"Great, he's a loon." he gruffed away, seeing that the stranger won't be any help, he looked at the doors and concluded each looked different. "Now which one should I choose…?" He pondered with himself till his eye caught a door that looked like the Mystery Shack's door. "Oh what the hell, at least it doesn't give me doom and gloom vibs." He reasoned to himself and choosed this door to enter.
It didn't really feel like entering the door but more like going underwater as Stan figured out feeling a bit heavier and felt like for a moment he was swimming in something; however, that was not his immediate concern as he reached his destination.
There he saw himself back in the floating pyramid fortress of Bill and saw Bill cruelly laugh at Ford's misery as he fell down with the undead slack bodies of Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, Soos, himself and everyone else laying on the ground. His brother has fallen for the trap and he has to save him.
Ley got raced and fell on his knee and tried shaking his grieving brother out "HEY! GET UP!" he shouted and pushed him, Seeing that neither of those worked he slapped him across his face leading to him snap out.
"Wha- Stanley!?" Fordsy snapped out and exclaimed at seeing Stanley alive and the outrage of being slapped.
The conman Pines couldn't help but sarcastically remark "No, it's the spirit of Hanukkah to see if you've been a good boy, GET UP NOW!" He demanded his twin to get up as he held his arm to do so and they quickly sprinted, the fake Bill stopped his laughing seeing them both running away.
"HEY! THE SHOW HASN'T BEEN OVER! IT GONNA GO FOR ETERNITY!" Bill morphed into its Eldritch form and began chasing them. The duo kept running around changing courses in this mazy hallway and barely dodged when Bill decided to jump on them and nearly caught them with his many limbs.
"Come on, Come on!" Stan kept repeating himself hoping to see the door, fake or not he doubted he and his brother would be a match for Bill so he hoped the door would stay where he entered, yet it disappeared and no sign of it so they had to keep running and dodging from being caught.
"ONCE I GET MY HANDS ON YOU MEAT BAGS, I'M GONNA RIP YOUR ATOMS APART!'' The Monstrous Bill threatened with a colorfully painful fate, next the duo reached a dead end before a door appeared and so they moved their pace quicker as the Beast With One Eye was catching up on them.
"GO GO MOVE YOUR OLD LEGS!" Stan commanded his brother to run faster.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING!?" Ford cried out.
Bill got closer and closer and just when two of his hands came near to grab the Old Pines and just then they reached the door and quickly jumped to it by pushing the door away.
On the other side of the door they dropped on the ground back to the derelict hallway.
As they got up panting Ford, who by now deduced this whole thing was some sort of simulation to trap them asked his brother "Stanley, what's going on? Is this some sort of mind simulation?"
"You're the genius one, I should be the one asking!" Stanley retorted back before he noticed something that being the door they came now turned into some sort of red hue light that was creating red cracks around which were slowly growing. "Hecking Hell, I don't think this place can stand much longer, we have to save them quick!"
Ford nodded in agreement to the urgency but before he chose a door he noticed the muttering dirty man with lab coats over there kept muttering to himself.
"7th offspring…as heavens weep in blood and concrete breaks…"
"Who is it?" the six fingered Pines wondered.
Stan shut down his curiosity considering the direness of the situation. "We can worry about that loon later, we have to go save other's asses before they're toast!"
Thus each chose a separate door to make their job faster.
Clef knew immediately something was different, he felt younger, instead of wearing his signature clothing he was wearing a GOC MTF armor with the helmet set with one hand holding a side arm pointing at someone in the woods, someone who he knew, his wife.
Meridiana got a lot of her appearance from her mother; deer horns, deer legs and long hair though black instead of blonde unlike their daughter, didn't have their daughter's heterochromia eyes, wearing a green clothing made of natural fibers and she was holding a blanket around a baby inside with both hands in a caring way which he guessed was Meri. He as he pointed his gun greeted but with no warmth in it.
"Hello, Lily."
She looked exactly how he remembered her. She while holding the baby then asked innocently. "Isn't our child beautiful?"
"She is." he simply replied.
She gently moved her arms carrying the infant to keep her asleep "And the poor thing had to grow without a mother."
"You know exactly why." Alto's teeths clenched in a mix of anger and sorrow. "You would have brought civilization back to the stone age."
"Humanity was a plague on Gaia spreading like disease, my solution would- "
Clef didn't let her finish and snapped "I didn't give a damn about humanity or the world," he hissed in hurt, guilt and anger, his face contorted, the hand holding the weapon trembled and the hand that didn't have the gun clenched its fist " All I ever wanted was you, you had my love and then dropped it like worthless snow globe! even then it wasn't enough for you."
Lily wasn' deterred with a slight frown responded "And what about you? Still a destroyer pretending to be a hero, I would've brought back Eden but all you ever did was to destroy our world's wonders to add to Mankind's hypocrisy of a civilization."
Alto didn't disagree as her teeth clenched.
"Oh I know, but also know…you're not real."
Bang
He pulled the trigger and Lily fell back, the baby she held still in the arms of her mother began to cry. The gun blonde doctor held he dropped away by tossing it feeling dirty by just holding it and the baby's cry was threatening his barely stoic composure to fall out and yet he kept as he marched toward Lily.
"Didn't expect this now did you?" he said, lacking any humor, just bitterness. "I dealt with reality benders long enough to recognize unreality from reality and I know my departed wife well enough." When he got closer he looked down at his dying wife. "Because I killed her."
"Francis…you're hurting me." fake Lily weakly uttered his real name and all Clef could reply was this.
"Believe me, it hurts me more than I do to you." and he said so genuinely and stumped her head.
Lily and the baby began to disappear so as the world around, there was only blackness with himself alone aged back to his original age wearing his white Foundation coat with his signature hat looking down to nowhere.
"Are you done gawking?" The Foundation doctor looked back and saw Stanley gawking at what he just witnessed, it was unknown how long he was there, just enough to see what he did and react troubled by this.
"I mean..I just..I…woah.'' The con-artist Pines was speechless.
Alto put both hands in his lab coat's pockets and began to move past him. "My mind is not a nice place to be," he stated simply as then Ley began following him and muttered under his breath.
Stan muttered to himself "And here I thought I was a mess…"
they moved and used the door used to enter here which looked like a Foundation sliding door opens by itself when they got close to it.
The door that looked shabby and made of old wood led Stanford to a cabin and from what he saw in the windows suggested this was in the middle of a snowy mountain place though he may be wrong with how dark the night was obscuring most details. What caught his attention is most was that the indoor was a wreck, furnitures were turned down, there were knick knacks and junks everywhere and more curious he could tell nothing was stolen it is as if the place was wrecked intentionally by an anarchist and the light here was down just enough for him to see so he had to be careful of what he stepped on before reminded that none of this were real so he quicker his pace especially because of hearing the sound of crying.
Looked and opened a closet in it he saw the source of crying, there was a little girl no more than 8 crying as she hid behind the clothes. The child had familial resemblance which made him guess that this was Sera so he gently sat on his knee with a hand extended and then spoke gently.
"Diana, this is only a memory, none of this is real."
The crying girl then uttered as she pointed to the outside of the closest "But monster is still there." He looked back and through the half-closed door he saw something truly ghastly.
The creature was one of the most repulsive and horrific abominations he ever saw; humanoid, elongated limbs, hunched back, almost boney with how skinny that thing was, head too big, a shaggy bear at the chin, eyes with dark pupils too big and the most dreadful smile he ever saw with too many teeths more than how much humans has and his lips was stained red by blood evidence with eviscerated bodies of two humans one male the other female both adults both of whom he deducted that were her parents.
He then heard the child weeping again "Diana?" He then quickly went back and quickly put both hands on the girl. "Diana, listen to me, the monster isn't real, it can't hurt you."
As the child Sera weeped she hiccuped an answer "I remember now, I know it can't hurt me…because…" and then the sobbing stopped, she moved her hands away from her face and to his shock her expression went full 180 degree looking dark.
" I killed it." She said this time sounding more like adult Sera, before he could process what was happening everything changed in an instance.
They were no longer in a house but in a basement, Sera was in her adult self again holding a bloodied knife, he and she were standing up in front of something that made his jaw half open.
It was the creature again but way different; chained, bloody beaten, knife signs everywhere, blood dripped from it, teeths were seen down on the ground probably from how many beatings it got and a big tape on the right of side of its back written 'Here Lies SCP-4666 The Yule Man'.
The wretched thing instead of grinning with dreadful sadism looked scared and in immense agony.
Ford felt very conflicted about this; on one hand he never condoms torture while on the other hand this creature was a vile monstrosity in every single way and now he recalled during reading SCP files during the trip that there was a SCP with the same description nicknamed as the Yule Man and the things this creature does on unsuspected families was stomach turning.
As the scientist Pines noticed from the second glance there were these mushrooms on its back growing and they hue with a sinister purple causing the Yule Man to growl in pain, he got the answer at what were those from Diana whose glass was reflecting the little light that was in this room and gave an icy smile that scared him more than this monster does.
"My husband's gift, mushroom that maximizes the pain receptors." she walked a step and kneeled before it with her eyes looking at it with icy hate while the wretch trembled in fear of its torturer whereas Ford tried processing the very fact that his nephew was involved in this "I made sure to make this animal's last few hours the most painful before its just demise." She then said something that made Ford seriously question if Clef is the psycho of the group or if it is his niece in law. "I took my time on it and I enjoyed every hour of it." the tortured monster shivered as she said and then she showed in front of the Yule Man a picture and stated with a smile so cold that it made the cold air warmer in comparison.
" Merry…Christmas." she whispered to it as she showed the picture, fisted it and then ate it. Ford's pondering on why she would show some picture to the Yule Man before she then ate it, Ford's question why she didn't look at the picture and her immediate reaction was to eat it and close her eyes was answered with an ear-deafening scream of something unholy.
"HUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
The scream was so loud Ford instinctively put both hands on his ears, his niece-in-law closed her eyes as the whole world went black and yet screams could be heard of The Yule Man drowned by the screaming monster that came for it.
Diana gave a cold satisfied smile listening to Yule Man's scream as it was being shredded into pieces by Shy Guy with the sound of bones crushed, flesh ripped apart and blood jetting out like it was music to ears until there was no more sound "My only regret was I couldn't see it with my own eyes as Shy Guy was tearing the rotten vermin apart in pieces." She voiced her only regret.
Stanford couldn't help but with a slight judgment snap at her "Does this give you peace?"
Diana, not offended by his snap of judgment, gave her answer in a tone mixture of pain and cold anger.
"I lost my appetite for peace a long time ago."
She then began to move when the voices were no more not before glancing back at him "Are you coming or not?" She asked.
Stanford who was still stunned by all this trying to process this turn of events responded "...sure." and then come with her.
He silently thanked Axolotl that his niece-in-law never decided to enact vengeance on him and his twin brother.
The Doors the Stans got up with their supposedly rescued Foundation operatives who they learned are even more messed up than they thought with the Laskaris's words on Madhouse attracting the demented echoing in their heads, were replaced by the red hue light as they got out making the glowing red cracks around more apparent.
"The more we do this, the more unstable the whole thing gets!" Ford deducted.
"More reason we should do this quickly!" Diana said in a hurry.
Clef said the same thing but in his own rude way. "Then what are you waiting for numbskulls? A kiss? MOVE IT IDIOTS!"
Stanley and Sera went to the Library-looking door.
Stanford and Clef to a door that looked like the door of a Containment Cell.
"Ah great…" Clef cursed under his breath knowing what this is. He and Stanford were in the room containing Jack and they saw him weeping on the ground near two dead bodies which Ford guessed were relatives to him and he was in his original body.
Alto sight and slowly kneel before him.
"Hey, hey buddy." he clicked his fingers to get his attention. "I know opening past traumas is not fun and all, but this isn't real none of this is."
Bright slightly hiccuped the said.
"But…I just want things to end, I never asked to be immortal." his face looked on the dead bodies. "I never asked to live long enough to see everything rot and wither away like it did to my family…"
Stanford never seen the usual eccentric and jovial Foundation doctor this low before, he began to understand the corpses of those dead bodies are likely his siblings to his aghast comprehension with a terrible feeling.
Something bad happened to Jack in the past and this whole eccentric act was his way of copying mechanism which reminded him of how McGucket went insane or Mabel's emotional weakness over her brother's acceptance of his apprenticeship lead to her being taken advantaged by Bill Cipher which cause her to suffer such an even more severe Smile Depression that she had to visit a shrink when she learnt how Bill used her to unleash his Nightmare Realm horrors.
He also recalled how in a moment of madness he called Stan to come in after a decade of not seeing each other as his sanity was ravaged by Bill even though he told him to take his journals and go away, in reality he called him beyond pragmaticism or a moment of weakness but out of desperation deep down he felt needing to see his brother after so long and that was present when he had to travel between dimensions for 30 years.
The Head of the Decommissioning Department tried to reason with Jack with a sympathetic tone. "Jack, I get it man, it sucks but you can't give up because some bastard is pulling all this just so that you give them their satisfaction."
The grieving doctor looked back and this time with the expression of a man who wants his suffering to end as he said in his piece "If this may be the only way to my end…then I want it to end."
"That's okay." Alto patted his shoulder "Just so you know, I genuinely regret doing this." which was followed by the Ex GOC with a punch knocking Jack cold, an action which the Pines did not receive well as the world around went black.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?!" Ford was appalled by this and roared.
"We don't have time for more sappy nonsense! Let's move!" He then began carrying Jack on his shoulder with a grunt and moved.
"You- !! The- !!" Sixer's hands moved frantically in a gesture of disbelief as he tried to formulate words until he gave up and shouted as he followed him "YOU'RE IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Much obliged!" Alto sneered.
The door Stanley and Sera choosed looked like the wooden door of a library and so not surprisingly he found himself in possibly the grandest library he ever saw in his life "Looks like I'm in bookworm paradise." Stan commented as he looked around and from everywhere there were towering shelves each filled with so many books he would be stuck here much longer just trying to count how much each shelf had and there were these tall pillars made of books everywhere.
Until they see Jacob reading books and books constantly with a frenzy mania.
"Well, as much as I love my husband, he turns into a devouring bookworm whenever he sees something readable." Diana shrugged as she kinda expected this. "Something Mason certainly inherited from him."
"Did you…just crack a joke?" Ley looked at her incredulously that his so serious niece-in-law cracked a joke.
"I can be funny when I want to," she nonchalantly stated. "I just recalled a fond memory of me torturing and then killing the Yule Man who killed my parents in front of me and ruined many families during Christmas," she shrugged "So yes I'm in a good mood."
Stanley had no idea how to react to any of that information about his niece-in-law and he didn't get the time to do so when they found Jacob at the top of a hill made of piles of books reading like his life was depending on it.
"I need-...I need to-...know, know everything to save everyone…" his demented tone and the swollen black eyes of his suggested that he indeed went overboard.
"Oh this crap again…" Stan huffed with a hand on his face, hearing this hero crisis mood before from his twin and his great nephew.
Diana rubbed both of his eyes like she expected this as well and then she began coming up until Sera held him by both of his collars and shook him "Hey! Snap out of your heroic crisis!"
The former Serpent's Hand snapped out as he blinked repeatedly, seeing his wife, "Huh...what?"
"This is a trap, reading every book here won't help you anything." Diana explained to her husband.
"But..everyone..our kids…you…" Jacob protested.
Stanely intervened "Won't do good if you spend eternity here reading your brains out buddy, and besides, this place is full of rubbish because nothing here is real."
Jacob looked uncertain and was going to say something before he looked back at the book he was reading and saw there was nothing written there even though he could swear there was. "It's…not real." He began to understand but then he looked in suspicion at them as he dropped the book "But, how do I know you're real or not?"
Stanley was going to respond before Diana beat her to it.
She whispered something in his ear which made Jacob very embarrassed while Diana looked at him with a smirk, whatever it was Stanley was sure it was not PG rated.
"How is that for proof?" she cooed.
Jacob's face flushed in embarrassment "Please don't do that again." he uttered.
"Your face says otherwise~" she teased, they were gonna to start kissing again if it weren't for Stanley who coughed to stop them from what they were doing, not very keen to see his nephew and his niece-in-law making out in front of him.
"Not to interrupt you both love birds, but we are on a tight schedule."
Just when he said, a few of the pile of book themes converged together turning into shapeless morphs of monsters growling and then coming toward them with their mouths opened and tendrils made entirely out of books.
"Oh right, we should go." Jacob agreed so they ran.
"Why couldn't I have something like that with every gal I dated before…" Ley uttered under his breath feeling a bit jealous about what his nephew and niece-in-law have.
They had to run some time until a door manifested while dodging and running from enemies, Diana jumped and ducked when a few of the book monsters on their way came in nearly caught her with their tendrils and as it turns out they weren't the only adversaries as small animated origami birds made of paper showed up jumped from open and half opened books coming toward them, they seem harmless until one of them passed the conman Pines who yelped feeling a slash on his left wrist by something very sharp.
"AH! aw! Paper Cut! I hate paper cuts!" he whined.
Jacob managed to stop a few from cutting him by heating up his right hand using thaumaturgy to make a ball of fire that killed a few birds and hit a book monster causing it to screech as it was burning. He saw a monster caught Diana and was gonna devour her then shot another ball of fire burning the creature causing it to shriek and drop Seras who nearly hit the ground until Jacob caught her with both hands and kept running while doing so putting his wife down so that she could run as well.
"Over there!" Ley pointed at the manifested door. A few paper birds flew past the door and came near which Jacob responded by firing another ball of fire burning a few as those who dodged the attack continued coming in before Stan then grabbed a few books and threw them at them, squashing the remaining birds.
"Nice work uncle." Jacob complimented his uncle as they went for the door.
"Don't mention it, nothing makes me more boiled than paper cuts." he responded as the trio entered the door.
Stanley, Diana and Jacob now were back in the hallway with the door disappeared turned to the red hue with crimson glowing cracks becoming more apparent. The situation got worse with some cracks replaced by red glowing holes around and their remains floating up while big fractures were being made.
"Look! There's a last door!" the Thaumaturgist Pines pointed at another and quickly hurried to it.
"Jacob WAIT!" Diana tried to stop him before he entered the door, they tried to follow him but as it turns out the doors are locked once you go to the otherside as Stan found out he repeatedly tried to open it and even tried to push it by using his own weight.
"Damn reckless imbecile is truly Dipper's father and my nephew." Stanley stated in annoyance and a slight fondness and then kicked the door in frustration.
When that happened, Stanford with Clef who was carrying Bright on his shoulder who was still unconscious and now in her current body which she possessed now showed up.
Ford noticed someone was missing. "Where's Jacob?"
Stanley groused. "Brainiac has entered the last door." he then gestured to the door.
"And as it turns out, the doors are locked once you enter it."
Clef offered a suggestion that was not well received. "Welp, he's a goner, anyone vote to leave him behind while all things are falling apart?" He brought his right hand up for voting.
Ford snapped at him. "We are not leaving family behind!"
Jacob was in some mountainous range heavily being rained and there he saw Adams on her knee in front of dead bodies which she recognized as being members of Last Hope from both Irises to Alexei and even Miller and Leora.
He fell on his knee and tried shooking Adam's shoulder as she held there with a dejected dead look and was staring at her dead comrades. "Come on! Come on! Snap out of it!"
She wasn't responding, so the thaumaturgist Pines tried to get her up but she resisted and said "NO!" she was too grief stricken to think rationally, he had to resort to a desperate measure.
Jacob knowing what he should do told her this "I'm really sorry for this, but there's no time." he using his thaumaturgical ability knocked her out by electrifying her by touching her neck and he winced seeing her body convulsed before she dropped until he held her up with both hands and quickly ran toward the exit.
—
Jacob came out with Adams still unconsciously as the door he came from turned into another door sized entry of crackling red energy.
"Took you long enough!" Stan was glad his nephew had returned.
Clef seeing the unconscious Adams commented in validation and pointed "Ha! Ya see? I told you it would be faster!" He meant the fact that he too had to knock someone out to get them out of this despair room which Stanford looked at him unconvinced as he remarked.
"That is not the point and you know it!"
CRACKS
The cracks got bigger and good chunks of the floor were coming up with Stanley moved away and Clef and Diana so to with Jacob nearly yelped when he felt the ground under him was floating up until he jumped away. Soon it was not just ground as the sealing up was torn apart as if a tornado was sucking the debris up showing the group something dreadful in the supposed sky.
Something primordial came through, a hatred that transcended time and space, they felt sinking as they sank in a mind with terrible alien thoughts promising destruction across all existence whispering in hushed tones. They for a moment looked up and then wished they did not.
It wasn't a face for a face had limits and angles and this neither had those, it was a vast swirling darkness stretched as far as eyes could see with things that looked like red blighted stars feeling their sharp gaze from an impossible distance cutting them on edge of their minds layer by layer. Hate, Nihilism and Spite radiated from each star scorching on their sanities with their malignance.
Jacob looked down and shrieked to everyone to do the same. "DON'T LOOK UP! OR YOU'LL GO INSANE!"
The others listening some did as the thaumaturgical Pines did or shield their eyes by their hands, all except Stanford who still looked up mesmerized by what he was seeing.
"Don't look brainiac!" Ley barked and shielded his brother's eye as he looked away.
With great effort Ford tore his gaze away for he was sure he would go mad if continued to do so, feeling his body shaking up.
The destruction of the corridor was still continuing and soon they wouldn't have any ground and be at the mercy of the Scarlet King.
"We have to get the hell out of here!" Clef barked as he started running.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Diana agreed thus the group began to run.
Jacob suddenly stopped moving when he heard someone.
"No escape. Rule of Blood. Rule of Concrete. The Howling…"
The voice…it was familiar. He looked back and saw a man at the end of the corridor on his knees in the fetus position who then brought his head up and he saw someone who lost his will to live. "No escape…it's too late…"
Jacob in dismay cried out as he knew who this man was "DOCTOR MONTAUK!?!" he then quickly paced toward him but the blighted light was becoming shiner making him stop and shield his eye as he shouted "GET UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!"
Montauk, looking defeated, continued to babble "The procedure failed, it's up to the 7th child now…."
Jacob wanted to shout again until Ley came and tugged him to run and told him to do so "STOP STANDING THERE LIKE A BLUBBERING IDIOT AND RUN!"
"BUT HE'S- !"
"TOO LATE FOR HIM! NO TIME!" Stan remarked and so the thaumaturgical Pines with reluctance ran with his uncle as the world around was cracking down and the blighted red lights devoured Montauk.
The group ran and dodged the coming up piles or to be mistakenly fell, since Stan stayed to get Jacob he and him were the last. Diana jumped as the debris was getting up, Ford jumped on a debris and then jumped away from it on solid ground, Clef cursed as he and the unconscious Bright nearly fell to a hole to the red abyss until Alto moved around it.
There was a door at the end of the corridor, Clef was the first who reached it by smacking it open and move to the other side and Diana and Ford stayed waiting for Jacob and Stan to reach as they shout at them to run faster as soon not much of the ground was being left while the blighted light behind was devouring everything. Jacob stepped on a shaky foundation causing it to break up and he as he exclaimed throw Adams away thinking he was doomed, until Stanford and Diana hold both of his hands and grunted to drag him up while Ley quickly held one of Adams's arm and dragged him to the door and quickly they reached up and went to the other side of the door as the red light consumed everything before it was too late.
"GAH!
"AH!"
"CRAP!"
"BEAHH!"
"PANGLOSS'S BURNING FART!"
The group woke up exclaiming as Adams and Bright who were now conscious. There were Sachs and Samsara members surrounding them looking concerned. Chompy in particular was licking Stan who groaned "Ahh! Yes I missed you too!" The conman Pines gruffed in disgust and got up to not get his face licked by his pet dinosaur any further.
Munru who was near Diana slowly helped her as she looked disoriented. "We detected unusual activities from your body while sleeping from our bio-scanners."
Onru, who held the disoriented Ford, continued "We tried to wake you up, but you'll seem to be in a coma."
Bright snorted in dismissal as she held a hand on her head with Irantus near him "Worst, Tripping Ball, Ever." he groused and then lay down on the grassy ground on her back.
Sachs as he helped Adams to get up, concerned at her state, questioned "You alright?"
She while holding both hands on her shoulders answered half haunted "Yeah, I live…"
"I had my dreams invaded before, yet this one felt so real…" Stanford thought out loud, even Bill's dream intrusions weren't this vivid.
"Because it wasn't a dream," came from Clef who was the fastest to rise with his sharp answer gaining everyone's attention.
"It wasn't some mass hypnosis or mind illusion, it was an artificial reality with our minds transferred there simulating reality in a dreamscape pocket, do you know what this means?"
"That I'm sure you made up some of that technobabble to make me look dumb?" Stanley sarcastically commented as he almost rolled his eyes, feeling like the dumb kid in a class.
"Look at the paper cut you have," Stan looked as Clef said and did see he had a paper cut looking like the same injury he had from those paper birds. "If it was just a dream, how come it affected you physically?"
"That certainly explains how I still feel your punch, jerk." Jack whined as he nursed his left cheek.
"You sure?" Sachs questioned Alto who shrugged with both shoulders.
"I'm the one who deals with reality bending nonsense, so yes I am." The Head of the Decommissioning Department responded in certainly.
"That means the veil…between our world and Scarlet King's domain must have become thinner if that's the case," Jacob, who was helped by Nanku to get up, pondered.
"The procedure failed…" the Thaumaturgical Pines muttered quoting the words of Montauk until the realization hit him as he uttered those words as he and his wife looked at each other with widened eyes.
"Oh those bastards…they leaked the truth about Procedure 110-Montauk!" Diana concluded in dread and anger.
Everyone grimaces hearing about the infamous Procedure and what this means.
Stan, brought a finger up and said "This is bad, isn't it?" it wasn't Rocket Science for him to figure that out.
Ford confirmed his twin's question.
"Don't you get it? It is the same way as Bill Cipher could watch over our world, why do you think he forced George Washington to print himself on dollar bills?!" he started walking sides back and forth.
"It wasn't just for laughs, it enabled him to monitor our world and Scarlet King…" he put a hand on his chin. "Fear of the infamy of the procedure and the anonymity kept him at bay and now with the truth of procedure 110-Montauk revealed no longer counteracting his influence on our reality has become greater and if we don't find a way to enter Gravity Falls– !" he didn't finish as he and everyone reached the same dreadful conclusion, the Scarlet King's coming was no longer just a likely possibility, but also a horrific inevitably.
"Yep, we're screwed." Bright hit her head back on the ground with a sigh.
Stanley wasn't one to quickly fall for defeatism as a thought came in his mind while he grinned and said it out loud.
"But…if that red jackass was so willing to put this much effort in stopping us…it would mean whatever is inside the Nazi Facility can help." The others looked and from their looks they did agree with his assumption as then Stan fisted his hands together.
Alto gave a thoughtful look before he changed into a malicious grin. "Then let's begin," his eyes began to glow with a light hue as the world around felt suffocating, which caught everyone's attention.
"Let's make them wished that they didn't messed with us," the blank aura was oppressive; Sachs and Adams looked at him perturbed, Diana's expression was unreadable with an eyebrow, Jacob felt like deer caught by a wolf as he stood rigid and the dreadful aura made even the Samsara felt unease as everyone looked at Clef feeling like itself reality around him was sinking making Bright to gradually get up feeling the chill in the air and to the Stans' alarm they could swear Clef's teeths changed shark-like as the glow of his eyes became brighter as menacing as his voice got out that defied reality " Oh this is gonna be fun."
After all they saw and were seeing, there was one question hanging in the Stans' head: Is everyone in the SCP Foundation a nutcase? If so does that mean they themselves are too!?
—--END—--