Little Dipper

Time

"Make sure to be back before midnight." Stan told them. "I'll be waiting up for you!"

"Bye, Grunkle Stan!" Mabel waved as she and Dipper got into Bud's car.

"I'm so excited!" Dipper was hopping in his seat. "Gideon said he's getting everything ready, and that's why he couldn't come with to pick us up!"

"You kids sound like you've got some excitin' plans." Bud said as he started out onto the road for his home.

"Mm-hm!" Dipper nodded.

"Well, don't have too much fun." Bud chuckled. "I know that Gideon really gets into his magic."

They arrived at the house and Bud let them in and led the way to Gideon's room. When they stepped in, he closed the door behind them.

"Hey, Gideon." Mabel smiled, looking at where he was kneeling next to a candle.

"You're here." He finished lighting the candle and showed them the page. "I'm going to do the chanting, since I have experience with this."

"What do I do?" Dipper asked.

"You'll stand in the circle with Bill. Since he's bound to you, we need you in the circle with him." Gideon pointed to the chalk drawing on the wood paneling.

"Don't you have a rug?" Mabel asked.

"I still do, this paneling is able to be moved around." Gideon told her. "It's hard to draw magic circles on shag carpet."

"Oh!" Mabel nodded. "So...what do we have to do?"

"Well, it'd probably be best to sit back." Gideon stood in front of the circle. "Triangulum, entangulum. Vene foris dominus mentium. Vene foris videntis omnium!"

Dipper yelped as the circle started to glow beneath him. "Whoa!"

"Egassem sdrawkcab. egassem sdrawkcab. Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab! Egassem sdrawkcab!" Gideon clenched his eyes shut, and Mabel noticed the world around them turning black and white.

Bill rose up from Dipper's shoulder and spun in a circle. "AaaaaaaaaaHA!" He threw his arms up in the air. "Oh, oh, Gravity Falls! It is SO good to have my powers BACK!"

"It worked?" Dipper looked up at him.

"Hell yeah, it worked!" Bill grinned. "Don't worry, though, I'm not going anywhere!" He floated down next to him and mussed his hair. "You're not getting rid of me that easy, kid!"

Dipper grinned.

"Why is the world black and white?" Mabel asked.

"Oh, let me fix that! We're in the Mindscape, let me take us out." Bill snapped his fingers and the world returned to normal. "Normally I would stay in the Mindscape, but thanks to my bond with Pine Tree, I can be here in the physical world! Whoo!"

"Whoo!" Mabel cheered. "So, anyone can see you now?"

"Noooot quite. We still need to get the other kids and get me my temporary physical form. Right now, only those that have interacted with me through Pine Tree can see me." Bill explained. "But, hey, it's a start!"

"Yay!" Dipper danced around in a circle.

"You can get out of the circle now." Gideon told him.

"Oh, okay." Dipper moved out of the circle and Bill followed him.

Bill stretched out his arms and legs. "You have NO idea how good this feels! Well, maybe YOU do, Gideon. I mean, when you put on that amulet for the first time and could fully control your powers must've felt the same way. Anyways, now I need to make sure I'm not rusty! It's been years, after all! Hold on, let me take a peek into a hundred years into the future!"