We Never Left

Thursday the 13th

*Stans Point of View

Good news and bad news. Bad news? Dippers leg is broken. Good news? We have a gnome doctor. Between me and him, we can probably fix it as well as anyone. Bad news? Our medical supplies is down to half a bottle of cough syrup and a box of spoungebob bandaids. Good news? I sent a team out to get more supplies. Bad news? That was almost 6 hours ago.

Good news, we were able to clean every scratch, cut, and mark on the kids. Bad news, Mabels not fine either.

Adrenaline must have kept her moving because although she avoided most major injuries, shes COVERED in bruises, scratches, and cuts. She hasn't eaten anything besides cockroaches since this all started, and she apparently threw up when she realized what she'd been eating. She got down her secret edible glitter stash so we all got something in us, but it'll never last us long. I'm waiting for the collective sugar crash to hit.

Dipper has a slight fever, which can be deadly in poor enough of conditions.

Bad news? The worlds still ending.

Good news? We got cable. And there is a horror movie marathon, with all the classics. Chainsaw, Creepy dolls 9, Men with Chainsaws vs Space Sharks 4, Horror at Camp Pinning Hearts, and Dippers favorite, Thursday the 13.

It's a good pacifier. Keeps the nobody's quiet.

Crazy old man McGucket apparently wasn't so crazy. Using junk from my brothers lab, me and him are making a fool-proof plan to stop bill, save the world, and if there's time, we can double back and giver Poindexter and hand.

~A wild time skip of three days has appeared! It uses confusion!~

Dippers still not awake. The way I see it, we got two options. Send someone to get what we need for him, NOW, or we can try to all make a break for the border and therefore, a doctor.

Neither option seems too good.

His fever is getting worse. We can't get food into him. Or water. If we don't get help, he'll die. We might be able to make a quick fix but in the long run, he needs a doctor. A real one.

I have to get him to the border. But I can't.

Bill himself appears outside fairly often, actually. Threatening, bargaining, taunting. We're being watched. And there's no way out of this.

Then one of his stories came to mind from back in the summer. I dismissed it, of course. But maybe.....

I scoop up dippers unconscious body and cary him up to my office. I lay him on the old copier, which popped a piece off the side almost immediately. I winced but then pressed the button.

It scanned.

It printed.

Then a dipper clone rose out of the paper. It worked! Thats...  thats- uh...

Now what?

I carefully lay real dipper on the ground and climb onto the machine. I let it scan me and I print 30 copies. They soon all stand before me. Trippy. And I'm used to seeing someone who looks exactly like me.

"Ok, we all know how this is going to go. 1 through 7, nake a break for the border. The rest of you raid the hospital for supplies and bring back more paper if you can." I state firmly.

Immediately, they all start questioning my authority. That's what the waters for. I doused the nearest clone with water from my bottle. Then poured the remaining on my arm. He melted fairly horrifically. I, obviously, did not. They all gasped and slowly calmed down again.

"You're not real. You're all expendable. The REAL Dippers sitting down there, sick. Its our fault he's hurt. So its up to you to fix it." I look at them all. Most are still looking at the puddle Stanley. Again, weird.

I managed to get them all outta here without being seen. I don't like our odds here but I've always been a high roller.

I hope this works.

*Dippers Point of View

I'm in the mindscape, but not. I don't understand it. Bills obviously not in my body but I can't get into it either. Plus, I can't find a vessel. On the bright side, Thursday the 13th is on. I can chill and watch that. Plus I don't need food or water. This is potentially the best place to be during the apocalypse. Oddpocalypse, if you will.

Not so bright side? My family all thinks I'm dying. I might be, I honestly don't know what'd happen then. Would Mindscape Dipper die too? I don't think I want to know.

They don't know I'm here. I managed to talk to Pacifica through her Ouija board but she laughed it off. I tried the same thing on her friend and they all locked me out of MY room with a goodbye. Gee, thanks.

Then I see Grunkle stan in his office. At the printer.

What is he even doing? Wait-

Oh no.

I have to force my way into my body. I need to do something! Even if he doesn't leave himself, a clone could be enough to threaten great uncle ford into giving in to Bill.

I need to wake up.

Maybe after this scene... Not like I'd miss much. Right? The movies almost over!

*8 minute time skip, which is irrelevant since time is DEAD*

OK. Now I need to wake up.