Sorry for the delay, like I said, college and stuff.

NOTE that this chapter and the next are Flashbacks; referencing Cia's Tale and recapping what Bill was up to between the prologue and the first chapter.

The Great Diamond split into pieces, Bill opened the Gate to Worlds, summoning vast hordes of Monsters into Gravity Falls. Using the Diamond of Power to use a temporary physical form. The voice of the Dimensional Sorcerer counseled that his attack must be swift and devastating if he was to be victorious. However, controlling an army would require a commander, and Bill realized that he would need a powerful warrior to serve as his general. The perfect Candidate came to mind; The Snake Warrior from the Lava Caverns deep within Gravity Falls. If he could be made to serve, such a creature would easily be able to command his minions' obedience. Bill wasted no time. He immediately set off to the Lava Caves in search of his new champion.

[BGM: Solidus Cave: HW]

Bill Cipher entered the Lava caves with a handful of summoned enemies from the Gate to Worlds.

"The Snake guy should be in these caves." Bill spoke to himself. "I'll just have to find him and convince him to join me...forcibly if necessary."

As he ventured further into the caves he stopped.

"Wait...something else is here too." He mused.

Several Manotaurs were stationed in the mines all with weapons at the ready.

"Get out of here now, interloper!" One of them demanded. "If it's the Dark Ring you're after you can forget it!"

"Well the 'Dark Ring' is on my list of things to get from here so...No can do." Bill smirked. He then pulled out an Chaotic Ocarina that was entrusted to him by his Advisor and began to play it, casting out notes and energy all made out of dark magic at the Manotaurs.

As he continued his onslaught he began to think to himself. ("If I were one of these barbaric thugs, where would I hide such a dangerous Artifact.")

He turned his attention towards the Stock Room. After advancing there, he snapped his fingers and deployed several monsters to to seize the keep, a moment later, it was under his control.

After scouring the area with his eye he frowned. "No ring here." He groused. "But then again, not even these rock-heads would hide such a dangerous artifact in such a conspicuous place."

He turned his attention towards the nearby Tunnel Square.

He flew over there and dispatched more Monsters to seize it as he helped by casting blasts of energy onto the Manotaur Guards.

Once that was finished. the doors to the keep opened.

"Hmmm...I wonder." Bill thought to himself as he floated deeper into the caves.

Once he arrived into the deepest area of it, within a circle of Crystals, his eye widened with glee.

"Yes." He smirked. "I feel it now! Come on out, baby!"

He snapped his fingers and a Bronze Ring appeared with a Neon Green Emerald resting in the center.

The Treasure began to sizzle with Dark Energy before it was enveloped in a dark cloud.

When it cleared, a Witch wearing a black robe and matching hair. She had Mint Green skin with a circlet with a yellow jewel in the center.

She was wearing the Ring on her Finger which sizzled as she cackled evily.

"I am Maivy." She replied. "The Witch of the West Woods, The Scourge of the Sweet and Innocent and Wielder of The Blackest Magic that is Next to-"

"Yeah, Yeah." Bill cut her off. "Nice to see you too."

Maivy narrowed her eyes. "And just who are YOU?!"

"Names Bill Cipher." Bill replied. "And you can repay my deed of freeing you from your imprisonment by helping me with something."

Maivy cocked her head. "With what?"

"There's a dangerous Snake Creature deep within these caves." He explained. "I'm planning to invade this World with an army, but to do that, I need to recruit him as my General and I thought you just might be the Gal for the job."

"What's in it for me?" She asked. "Aside from my freedom?"

Bill smiled (non-visibly). "How about dominating the innocent people of this town and ruling it alongside me?"

This seemed to work for the Witch as she grinned evilly. "Now THAT is so Wickedly Delightful! I shall join you."

"Great!" Bill cheered. "But be careful, I'll need you in one piece for my invasion, so don't go too overboard in your slaughter."

Maivy nodded. "I understand that, Bill."

Bill nodded back. "Now, let's get our next recruit. He's on the other side of this cave."

"On it." Maivy smirked as they floated off.

They made their way to the edge of the Caves where they were blocked by the gate that led into where they were.

"Darn." Bill cursed. "Now what do we do?"

"Leave it to me!" Maivy grinned as she showed off her glistening fangs.

Her ring charged up with intense energy before she sent it flying towards the gates.

BAM!

The Barricade was destroyed into tiny splinters as Bill stared in awe.

"Something tells me we're gonna be good friends." He grinned.

"It's nothing, Triangle." Maivy replied. "Besides, we better go get who we need."

Bill floated out of the caves and Noticed a Humanoid Serpent in Green Armor with a belt of poisons. One of his eyes looked scarred out while the other had a red sclera and slit pupil.

He was standing by the side of the Lava River, dipping a Frog that was impaled on his pike into the Fire before bringing it out and taking a bite of its charred corpse.

Despite being the definition of weird, even Bill was a little grossed out by this.

Snapping out of it, Bill pridefully approached the Snake Knight.

"Hey there!" He waved. "You must be the Snake Knight, Nítho. My names Bill Cipher! And I'm offering you the chance to Kill on a Scale you can't imagine!"

"No." Nítho bluntly replied. "Leave."

To say Bill was taken aback was an understatement.

"Bu-but. YOU'RE a Warrior." He pointed out. "War should be the only thing that interests you."

"Not anymore." Nítho replied. "Not ever since my entire tribe was wiped out by those loathsome humans."

"Well, then this will be your chance to take revenge!" Bill offered. "I'm gathering an army on this pathetic town! And you can join me!"

"Even if you are doing that, I have no interest in these humans and their wars." He replied. "No go you strange Demon."

Bill narrowed his eye. "I'm afraid that's not an option for me. I thought I could do this the easy way but if you want to pick the hard way..."

He blew into his Horn and a Constuct of Dark Energy appeared It slapped Nítho across the face before vanishing.

"Let's do the hard way."

Nítho glared. "So be it, Triangle."

He swung his pike at Bill who swiftly dodged and sent a blast of energy that sent the Snake knight flying.

"So that's how you wish to play it." Nítho glared.

"At this point, yes." Bill replied.

"Well on that case." Nítho let out a loud hiss.

In response, several Lizard-Men and Dino-noid appeared, bursting out of both the molten ground and the walls.

"Hsss!" A Dino-noid sneered. "Leave Master Nítho alone!"

"We kill him for you, Master." A lizard. "We break him into smaller triangles!"

"Good." Nítho responded. "But don't underestimate him. He's got an intense power coursing through his veins."

And with that, he burrowed underground and retreated, leaving Bill and his forces to deal with the enemies.

Bill looked around and noticed a few keeps that were occupied by several monsters.

"Little monsters are no match for us." One of them hissed. "We crush them!"

"They're rather talkative for a bunch of talking reptiles." Bill mused. "Still, looks like I'll have to force them into submission."

"And it also looks like, we'll need a boost." Maivy commented. "Allow me to supply you with a few extra hands."

The Ring-witch snapped her fingers and summoned a vast amount of Skullkin.

Bill was impressed. "Not bad. Toots." He grinned.

"Anything for you." Maivy smiled before floating off to continue battle.

Once she was gone, Bill began to think to himself. "Hmmm...she seems very interested in proving her loyalty. Maybe a bit TOO interested. What were to happen if she were to come across another powerful guy or gal?" He snapped out of his thiughts. "Anyways. Let's get to conquer these caves!"

With a snap of his fingers, he dispatched several troops to conquer the keeps.

However, the minute they dispersed, several Manotaurs appeared, and a nearby keep they were occupying opened up.

"We have to stop that Ring!" One of them exclaimed. "If it remains unsealed, there's no telling what'll happen!"

"Agreed!" Another one said. "Let's capture their keeps with our Boulder Kegs!"

Several Carriers nodded and they set out of the keeps with their weapons.

"We'd better stop 'em." Bill said to himself. "Our keeps are counting on it."

He turned his attention to the nearest incoming soldier and blew into his horn, sending out several blasts of Darkenss to stun him before delivering a uppercut to his boulder keg.'

He then fired a laser blast from his eye onto the Boulder.

BOOM! The Explosive Rock blew up to bits.

With that out of the way, Bill turned his attention to the nearest one retreating into the caves.

Rushing as close as he could to it he blew several notes from his horn to stun them allowing two glowing orbs to swarm him like flies before slamming him back into the wall. He dropped his Boulder Keg which rolled out of the cave and into one of the lava lakes where it sank and burned apart.

Bill then looked around for the last foe only to see it making a beeline to the higher area of the cave—the Base.

Bill narrowed his eye before floating after him.

The Manotaur reached the base before setting the Keg down.

"I made it!" He cheered.

"He felt a tap on his shoulder and saw Bill glaring at him."

Bill proceeded to raise his hands allowing a swarm of darkness spells to lift both the Manotaur and his bomb in the air. Bill them fired a sharp blade of wind at them both causing the bomb to go BOOM!

The Manotaur landed to the ground before retreating in fear.

Bill smirked. "Well even if this is what I get for being distracted, it was still a BLAST! Ahahahahaha!"

He then turned and floated out of the Crystal Caves to focus on capturing the rest of the keeps.

Once he was there he could see Maivy's undead hordes already tackling the keeps, scaring off the Manotaurs and claiming the keeps for their own.

Bill turned his focus on the last keep they had yet to conquer before Nítho was all his.

He floated towards the South Alcove and waved his arms around as he sent out multiple blasts of energy to wipe out the Salamandars inhabiting it.

Once that was done, all the keeps were captured.

He could hear Nítho's voice via telepathic transmission.

"You do have some power, Demon. Still, I have no interest in your wars."

Now Bill was starting to grow annoyed.

"Still, I'll just have to MAKE you serve me." He snarled.

"Now that you've shown how powerful you are, I'd like to see you try." The snake knight replied.

At once the keep he was taking refuge in opened.

"Alright." Bill smirked. "Let's dance. 2 on 1! Come on, Maivy." He turned to the WItch who just appeared before him.

But to his surprise, the Witch was smirking at him...sinisterly.

"Maivy?"

"If I can make these snake folk obey me, I won't have to keep leaning on you to fulfill MY ambitions." She cackled.

She fired a blast of energy at Bill which he dodged and warped over to the surprised Nítho's side.

"You're really betraying him for me?" He asked her. "Well...OK, just stay out of my way for now."

"Anything you say," She replied as she grinned at Bill.

Bill normally would have gotten angry but at this point, he just seemed disappointed.

"Am I seriously being betrayed by you?" He asked. "Expected, but still...I'm pretty disappointed."

He snapped his fingers and the keep they were all in shut behind them.

[BGM: Dinosaur Boss Battle OoT| HW]

Bill charged at them and fired a laser from his eye that knocked them both back.

Maivy retaliated by firing a blast of dark magic from her ring that he dodged, same with Nítho's Pike thrust.

He used his dark powers to create an intense ball of dark magic that began to draw them in and send them flying into the air.

BOOM!

The orb exploded and both his foes were sent flying in two directions.

They both screamed to their feet and glared at their enemy.

Maivy reared her arms back as an intense ball of dark magic formed in front of her. She then thrust it forward in a giant laser blast which sent Bill slamming into the wall.

Nítho followed up by turning into snake form, spewing a blast of venom to stun Bill before delivering an intense slam THROUGH the Stone Wall by burrowing into the ground.

Bill rubbed his eye before using it to glare at the Snake Knight and the Traitor Witch.

Maivy cackled derisively at his weakened self.

"Victory!" Nítho smirked.

"Gee, they're more powerful than I thought." Bill grumbled. "Even with this temporary physical form, I don't stand a chance against them."

"Use the Great Diamond of Power, Cipher." The Voice of the Sorcerer spoke in his head. "It'll turn the tide against them."

As his enemies closed in on him, Bill opened his hand to reveal the floating white Diamond.

"But how do I do that?" he asked.

"Clutch the Diamond in your hands and think greatly on what you want? Your greatest Desire, and whatever you would do to achieve it, no sacrifice you wouldn't make, no line you wouldn't cross! Anything to bring reality to your ambitions!"

Bill closed his eyes as he gripped the Great Diamond and thought about his plans to liberate earth, and how he wasn't going to stop until he got it. And he was NOT going to let some Backstabbing Witch or a Stubborn Warrior who refused to do battle get in his way.

His body began to glow and his singular slit pupil morphed into that of a Diamond as a white light enveloped him.

With an intense blast of energy from his finger he sent his foes flying back.

He flow towards them and delivered an uppercut to Nítho sending him up in the air and crashing onto Maivy.

The Witch attempted to send out a blast of Mutant Energy but Bill Dodged and sent a gust of wind that knocked her across the floor.

Nítho attempted to slam down on Bill but the Triangle formed a shield to blunt the attack before throwing a minature Earth at him to stun him.

Now, with both opponents on the Ground. His eye began to glow white as a Magic Circle appeared beneath the Witch and Snake before it erupted in a blast of Purple and WHite fire.

Nítho and Maivy were defeated.

"Now let this be a lesson." The Sorcerer's voice told Bill. "Independent thought is severely overrated in underlings."

"Agreed." Bill nodded. "And I think I know how to fix that."

He pointed a finger at the two enemies and fired a laser blast of white energy at them, it wouldn't control their minds and overwrite their personalities, but rather make them feel compelled to do whatever he said.

"I swear...to serve you eternally." Maivy replied in a somewhat robotic voice. "I will carry out your wishes in whatever way you see fit."

Nítho spoke slowly as well, Yet he had more intensity to his voice. "I will fight anyone who opposes you...they will know the full force of my power before they die."

Bill smiled. "Excellent. Now how about we start by laying siege to the Town of Gravity Falls, I have a few enemies there who run the risk of getting in my way."

The Army began to gather behind Nítho and Maivy as Bill turned and pointed out of the caves.

The Monsters, behind Bill followed him as he floated to the exit.

If Gravity Falls faced weird everyday, then this would be the weirdest they would ever see.

To be Continued.