Chapter 16: Enter the Dreamon
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AN: yo what's up? theaboooood1 I thought of a better hint for the coded chapter name: Welcome to Gravity Falls.
For context, theaboooood1 translated the title into like three different languages to get "You can't eat the way you want to do it", which I have to admit, is a pretty good title, I may have to use it in the future.
It's 618 on the day of publishing, so happy birthday Alex Hirsch.
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Gideon Gleeful sat in his room, preparing to execute his next plot. 'Once I get my hands on the shack, I'll still have to get journal 1 from Dipper. I know the bumpkins will support me, but that pig-man is slightly concerning. How to take care of him…' Gideon's thoughts trailed off before he remembered something.
'Wait just a cotton-pickin' minute, I've read about pig-men in the journal! 'course it was only the story of one of the author's friends child, but still. Let's see, where was it… ah, here it is!' Gideon began to read.
My bird friend joined me for tea again last Friday, and he told me another story about his son, Technoblade. Techno had gotten involved in a hide and seek game for a fridge, and sold out several of his friends to try and win. He didn't win the big fridge, but he did get a smaller fridge.
Techno was a Piglin, a sort of man-pig. He loved potatoes, even fighting a war with the squid people over them at one point, and was king of all Pigmen. My friend didn't know where his son ended up, and I've been using my contacts to look for him. No news yet.
'I see. I wonder if I could use my minions to eliminate him. It's a shame telling Manly Dan about the pig man hadn't resolved in the pig mans death. Ah well, since it's just a normal pig man, 30-30 or 30-06 rifles should be effective. I'll just keep that as a contingency plan.'
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The middle of Oregon was covered in clouds. A moderate rain sprinkled down onto Gravity Falls, pooling on the ground and giving the world a peaceful feeling. It was a perfect day to do nothing, to sit and relax with loved ones.
High up on the cliffs, a compound sat at the edge of the woods with a watch tower peering down into the valley. Inside the compound there was a house, and inside the house a man watched his potato fields through the window. Techno was at peace, his friend had returned and the outdoors was rainy and cold, in a warm, familiar way, like a half-remembered childhood memory.
Phil walked up beside Techno and put a hand on his shoulder.
"What'cha thinking about, Techno?"
"Just watching the rain."
"It's peaceful." Phil said, looking out as well. "Reminds me of the arctic."
"Little warmer, but that was what I was hoping for."
Phil and Techno walked away from the window as the rain stopped, back into the living room.
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Gideon was in the woods after failing to steal the deed to the Mystery Shack, resorting to desperate measures. Gideon was surrounded by birch trees and had encircled an exed out picture of Stan with candles. Gideon finished lighting the candles and extinguished his match.
"You think that combination's safe in your mind, Stanford? We'll see what my new minion has to say about that!" Gideon said, leafing through the second journal. "Triangulum, entangulum. Vene foris dominus mentium. Vene foris videntis omnium!"
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Outside the shack by the totem pole, Mabel and Soos were partaking in the most sophisticated of entertainment.
"Lick that elbow! Lick that elbow!" Mabel chanted as Soos tried to lick his elbow.
"Like the infinite horizon, it eludes my grasp." Soos philosophized.
From further within the wood, maniacal laughter rang out.
"Is that who I think it is?" Mabel asked as she and Soos followed the laugh. Mabel and Soos found the source, Gideon, when he suddenly fell to his knees and his head snapped backwards. Wind blew in from nowhere and Gideon's eyes glowed blue.
"gassem sdrawkcab. egassem sdrawkcab. Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab!" Gideon chanted, before the world turned black and white and wildlife froze. A triangular hole opened in mid-air, glowing blue and growing in size before turning into a cut of the night sky. The cut in the sky caught on fire and an eye opened in the middle.
Soos and Mabel hid behind some bushes and Gideon took a few steps back, cowering. The fire went out, and the triangle changed from outer space to bricks and grew a pair of arms and a pair of legs, and a dapper little bowtie and top hat.
The triangle laughed. "Oh, oh, Gravity Falls! It is good to be back. Name's Bill Cipher, and I take it you're some kind of living ventriloquist dummy?" Cipher laughed again as his body turned yellow. "I'm just kidding, I know who you are, Gideon!"
"W-what are you? H-how do you know my name?" Gideon asked anxiously.
"Oh, I know lots of things!" Cipeher said, before his body began to flicker rapidly between people, places, and things. "LOTS OF THINGS..." Cipher said in a slow, ominous, deep voice before returning to normal. "Hey, look what I can do!" Cipher pulled all the teeth out of a deer's mouth. "Deer teeth! For you, kid!" Cipher laughed as he levitated them into Gideon's hands.
"You're insane!" Gideon cried, dropping the teeth.
"Sure I am, what's your point?" Cipher asked, floating the teeth back into the deer's mouth.
Gideon gathered his courage before making his demands. "Listen to me, demon! I have two jobs for you. I need you to enter the mind of Stanford Pines and steal the code to his safe, and find information on a pigman."
Mabel and Soos gasped while Cipher laughed. "Sorry kid, but I don't run a charity. One mission per deal. Wait... Stan Pines?"
"I see… Go get the code from Stanford's mind, I have… alternative methods to deal with the pigman."
"I'll help you with this and in return you can help me with something I've been working on! We'll work out the details later." Cipher said. Gideon offered his hand to shake, and Cipher's hand ignited in blue fire. Cipher reached out and shook Gideon's hand, the fire connecting the hands in a magical representation of the contract and the flickering blue light lit up the clearing.
"Well, time to invade Stan's mind! This should be fun!" Cipher said, floating up. "Remember: reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!" Cipher yelled, being circled by rays of light before disappearing.
Gideon gasped, wiping the sleepiness out of his eyes. "It worked!" he said as he began to laugh maniacally.
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Soos and Mabel stared, wide-eyed, into the clearing before looking at each other in fear. They ran back inside the Mystery Shack to get Dipper's help. Inside the shack, Dipper was sweeping the leaving room while his Grunkle Stan was sleeping on the yellow recliner.
Stan began to mumble in his sleep. "No! No, I'm sorry."
"What is going on in that guy's head?" Dipper wondered out loud, before starting to walk away towards the entryway. Mabel and Soos ran in through the doorway in front of Dipper, with Mabel waving her arms up and down.
"Dipper! We gotta help Stan! And Techno!" Mabel yelled, slightly out of breath.
"Wait, what?" Dipper asked, quickly glancing over to double check Stan was still asleep on the slee-p-boi (Gravity Falls version of Lay-z-boy).
"This evil triangle guy said he's gonna break into Stan's mind and steal the combination to his safe! And Gideon mentioned something about having a plan to deal with Techno, It sounded like Gideon was gonna try and kill him or something!" Soos explained, stress eating Nyums brand Burrito Bites. "Also we stopped for snacks on the way here."
"Triangle guy?" Dipper asked while pulling out journal three and paging through it. "I feel like I've seen something like this before in the journal..." he found the page, a black ink drawing of a rather dapper dorito, spattered with blood. "Beware Bill, the most powerful and dangerous creature I've ever encountered. Whatever you do, never let him into your mind." Dipper read out loud.
Stan grunted in his sleep, and Dipper turned around to face into the living room and gasped.
"Grunkle Stan!" Mabel exclaimed as the shadow of a triangle slid down the wall towards her Grunkle. When the shade reached her Gruunkle, Stan's eyes glowed pure blue and he began to convulse. Mabel grabbed the journal from Dipper and continued to read. "It is possible to follow the demon into a person's mind and prevent his chaos. One must simply recite this incantation."
"Ugh, this is just great. I spend all day cleaning sinks and fighting bats for Stan and now I have to save him from some crazy brain demon?" Dipper complained.
"But if we don't do anything Gideon might steal the shack! Or worse!" Mabel exclaimed.
Dipper sighed. "Fine. Get ready, guys. We're about to-"
"What about Techno, dudes? How are we gonna warn him?" Soos interrupted. "I would go, but, like, I don't know where he lives."
"I'll go warn him." Dipper said, before muttering. "This way I won't have to help Stan."
"No way bro-bro, you're the only one who's read this nerd book cover to cover, you have to come with and fight the triangle guy!" Mabel said, stressed. "And I have to come with to save Stan. If only there was someone who knew where Techno lived!"
"Wait a second, Soos, you have Wendy's phone number, right?" Dipper asked, turning to Soos.
"Oh yeah dude."
"Could you call her?"
"Way ahead of you, dude." Soos said, dialing Wendy.
"Soos? What's up man?" Wendy asked over the phone as she picked up.
"Wendy, some weirdness is goin' down, we need you to go tell Techno that Gideon is probably gonna try and like, kill him or something." Soos explained over the phone.
"I'm on my way." Wendy promised, hanging up. Soos pocketed his phone and ate another burrito bite.
"Alright, now get ready, guys. We're about to journey into the most horrifying, disturbing place any of us have ever been: our uncle's mind." Dipper said as lightning flashed and Soos thought he heard a musical sting.
"You think I can take these Burrito Bites into Stan's brain? Thumbs up? Thumbs down?" Soos asked before laughing. "You know what, I'm just gonna bring 'em."
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Wendy hung up and turned to her friends. After she had left the shack when the rain stopped, she had joined them in heading to Greasy's diner for food. "Sorry guys, something just came up. I gotta bounce."
Tambry didn't look up from her phone and gave a pathetic wave, while Nate and Lee gave Wendy fist bumps as she got up. Only Thompson looked distressed by Wendy's departure, as he thought it might be the beginning of the end for the friend group.
Wendy ran through the muddy woods, following the path that had been laid out from the Mystery Shack to Grand Techno Station. Wendy almost slipped a few times, but barely managed to stay upright. Finally, Wendy reached the palisade and knocked on the door.
"Helloooooooo." Techno greeted from behind Wendy, causing her to jump.
"Yo, Techno. The Pines wanted you to know that Gideon is plannin' to do something to you."
"Gideon? Who is… Oh! That child I drop-kicked!" Techno said before turning to Wendy, looking her dead in the eyes, and saying, "It was in self-defense, by the way." Techno walked up to the gate and opened it. "Don't worry about him, I got everything under control."
"Cool. I think I'm gonna head back into town now."
"See ya around." Techno bid, closing the gate behind him.
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Inside the compound, Techno was talking with chat. "Alright, I don't expect much more than a small army at most, but it's best to over-prepare. The child shouldn't know where I live, so we'll have time. I'm thinking keep Ghostbur from realizing what's happening and have Phil run recon?"
: we must blitz through the kinder's defenses
Carpediem: seems like a good plan, maybe set up traps in the woods?
Bananamilkshake: Yo Carpediem I seem to remember someone saying that Gideon wouldn't try anything.
Carpediem: Bananamilkshake I wonder who that could've been.
Bananamilkshake: It's a mystery.
Laughteryoga: Carpediem we don't know what child is sending, traps are unlikely to be effective.
Technofan12321: at the very least we should have an early warning from Phil.
Average_techno_fan: wait, wasn't Phil doing something today?
Yallneedhelp: pretty sure he was going to the Mystery Shack to figure out what happened to his friend.
Istanheysoos: I love the shack, doods.
Pathoftheswole: How 'bout we just punch anything that comes our way?
Arknaz: Lets just wait in ambush.
"Phil's busy doing something else? That shouldn't impact things to terribly much. Now we just gotta distract Ghostbur. Where is he anyways?"
Average_techno_fan: I thought I saw him fly after Phil
Laughteryoga: Pretty sure he followed phil
OWCAOfficial: with philza
"Okay, I'll just head out to face whatever threat head-on. Into the woods!"
Technofan12321: Into the woods!
Pathoftheswole: Into the woods!
Yodasstick: Into the woods!
Bananamilkshake: Into the woods!
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Philza "the crowfather" Minecraft was flying towards the house of an old friend who had left at some point while Phil was stuck in tree sap. Phil was circling from above, not wanting to be seen by some random tourist when he felt something was wrong.
Phil looked down at his legs to an artificial feeling of cold holding onto his leg. Ghostbur was hovering just off of Phil's leg, using Phil's flight to keep up.
"Hey Will."
"Hello Philza Minecraft!"
"Uhm, what are you doing up here Will?"
"Would you like some blue?"
"Sure." Phil sighed, flying over to a cliff to let Ghostbur down. Ghostbur gave Phil some blue, and hugged him. "Why don't you go home, I'll be back soon."
"Hm, no."
"Why not?"
"I don't want you to get lost."
"Will, I won't get lost. And if I do, I'll send crows to tell you and Techno."
"But you were gone for so long. Techno was as well, but he's Techno. I don't want to… I don't want to be alone again." Ghostbur said, beginning to cry.
"Oh Will." Phil said as he hugged the air around Ghostbur. "I promise, I won't disappear on you." Phil sat there, holding the air around Ghostbur until he stopped crying.
"Thanks Phil. I've calmed down now, I'll head back home." Ghostbur said, floating away.
Phil waved goodbye and jumped of the cliff, his wings catching the air and keeping him from plummeting out of control. It had taken Phil a while to calm down his son, but he didn't have any appointments to get to, and even if he did, his son would be more important anyways.
Phil was again heading towards the shack when an explosion rang out through the serene Oregon countryside. Smoke began to curl up from inside the shack, and Phil dived towards it. Before he could arrive, however, he heard a series of gunshots in the direction of the house and Phil pulled out of his dive to circle back to the compound.
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Dipper watched in shock as Gideon and Bud Gleeful began destroying the Mystery Shack. Previously, Dipper, Soos, and Mabel had driven Bill Cipher from their Grunkle's mind. In addition, Dipper had learned why Stan was so tough on him, it was to try and toughen Dipper up.
Once the group got out of Stan's mind, Dipper had hugged Stan before catching him in a chokehold. Dipper and Stan were bonding, and then Gideon used dynamite to destroy the safe, getting the deed to the Mystery Shack.
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The six, created by Gideon, had received their orders. They were to incapacitate a pigman out in the woods somewhere. It took most of the day to track him, but they found his trail and followed it. The six had a mixture of hunting rifles, except for their leader who had a twelve-gauge shotgun.
"We have found his base. Secendus, Tertius, Quartus, and Quintus with me, we hunt pork. Sextus, keep watch on the compound."
The other five nodded. "Understood, Primus." They responded in unison before spreading out to complete their missions.
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The four hunting Techno who had been equipped with rifles zeroed in on their target, scoping in on the pigman and waiting for the order from their leader. Primus hambone'd the order, and they fired in unison.
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Completed 6/18/2023, Words:2,729, written using a pirated copy of Microsoft Word 2007.
AN2: welp, here's another chapter for you. I'm sure *dodges tomatoes* yeah yeah, fine, I'll address the cliffhanger. Now, the reason for the cliffhanger is because that's how it is in the series. If you want to know what happens next, you'll just have to wait until I finish the next episode.
In other news, I'm a little wiped out because I spent all day helping my aunt and uncle reroof their house. My knees hurt, my feet hurt, and my back hurts.
So my grandmother knows I've been writing a book and publishing it on the internet, and now she wants to read it. What do I do? Do I show it to her? That's probably a bad idea. She also wants me to send it to an author we're related to. This situation is… interesting to say the least.
I may end up slowing down on the chapters, as my siblings, who I haven't seen face-to-face in a few months are going to be visiting. Well, that's all I got for today, so good morning, good afternoon, and goodnight.