Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

Gasoline (Halsey)

"So this is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a... boop-boop." Ford circles his finger near his head.

'Weirdmageddon," Dipper whispers as if the name would bite him.

"We are so fucked," you mutter, eyes widening when various woodland creatures start to run towards the three of you.

Dipper yelps as a deer knocks him over. Ford's quick to help him back to his feet as two gnomes scamper by.

"Move it, stretch."

"Hey, we're scampering here!"

"Sorry!" you call after the gnomes, ever the polite researcher.

"The rift is shattered. Bill's world is spilling into ours and every minute his powers grow stronger," Ford explains to Dipper. There's no need to explain it to you, you'd been there doing the research right alongside him.

"Mabel! The rift must have cracked inside her backpack. She must be in danger. I have to go find her!" Dipper exclaims suddenly, grabbing the walky-talkie from his pocket and running towards Bill. "Mabel! Come in, Mabel! Mabel!"

You reach out, gently grabbing his shoulder and stopping him.

"Dipper. Listen to me. We can find your sister soon, but first we have to stop Bill. If his power grows more while we hunt her down, then there will be no hope for anyone."

"If we can blast him back through the rift he came out of, we just might be able to stop him before his weirdness spreads across the entire globe," Ford adds, glancing nervously at you out of sight of Dipper.

"Are you sure defeating Bill is even possible?" Dipper squeaks, gripping the walkie-talkie as tightly as he can.

"No. I'm not sure. But being a hero means fighting back even when it seems impossible. Will you follow us?" Ford says, fidgeting with his magnet gun.

"To the ends of the Earth."

"Good. Because that's where we're heading."

"Guys... we need to get inside, right now," you inform them both, watching as a ripple casts over Gravity Falls, straight in your direction.

The two of them waist no time in listening, darting inside the house with you. The door slams shut and you're panting, staring down at the floor. In minutes, your hopeful world turned from calm and peaceful, to an anomaly enthusiast's greatest dream. Yet, as much as you wanted to, you didn't have the time to study any of it. You could only hope your memory wouldn't fail you.

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"Read to cause some havoc, boys?" Bill's voice taunts in the center of town, gripping your gut with fear as Ford loads his rifle.

It had take thirty minutes to get here. On foot. Running from waves and anomalies and giant floating eyebats. Please let it only take thirty minutes to defeat Bill.

"Ah, my quantum destabilizer. I've been waiting a long time to use this. We're only gonna have one chance to take this shot," Ford informs Dipper. He was always the better shot so you had no qualms of letting him shoot Bill. "Steady... steady... and..."

Ford jumps just as he shoots, the beam going astray as the bell behind him comes alive and starts to laugh. You watch in horror as the beam shoots through Bill's hat rather than body. It reforms slowly, made of flesh knitting back together.

"Oh... no..." you whisper as Bill turns towards the clock tower. You're already ducking to cover Dipper as Bill floats over.

"Well, well, well, and here I thought today couldn't get any BETTER!" Bill exclaims as he fires a beam back at the clock tower, destroying the upper half and sending the three of you scattered and buried.