Little Dipper

The Pit

"So....we need to discuss the elephant in the room." Stan said during breakfast. It was one of their days off, and they were going to take it easy. "That pit in the backyard. What is it?"

"I thought I already said." Bill shrugged.

"Well, is it dangerous? Should we fill it?" Stan asked.

"Haha, fill it? Fill a bottomless pit? You'd be at that task for a trillion years and still not manage it. Bottomless pits can't be filled." Bill shook his head.

"Can we cover it, then? Put a magic barrier around it?" Stan asked.

"I dunno, I'd have to examine it closely. Sometimes you have to figure out the energy of something before you can figure out what wards or barriers will work on it."

"So, let's go do that!" Dipper spoke up with a grin.

"Right, okay. While we're going there, anyone have junk they wanna dump inside?" Stan stood up.

"Can we dump the creepy guy's head that's bouncing around?" Dipper asked.

"If we can catch it." Bill shrugged. "Hey, let's dump Wax Stan and see if he comes back!"

"No!" Stan and Mabel said in unison.

"Yeah, I figured." Bill looked to the side.

"Can we find Jeff and dump him?" Dipper asked.

"Why do you keep suggesting things we have to chase?" Stan asked.

Waddles oinked and came up to the table. Dipper looked at him with a serious expression. "Can we--"

"No, we're not dumping Waddles in just to see if he comes back." Mabel said, cutting him off.

"Okay, real talk. Before we dump anything else in this thing, we need to figure out how it works." Bill stood up. "C'mon, let's head out and look at this thing."

They got outside and saw Soos in the yard. "Oh, are you going out?" Soos asked.

"We're gonna check out the creepy pit! Wanna come?" Dipper asked cheerfully.

"Sure!" Soos walked over to join them.

"Okay, everyone keep your distance." Bill said, kneeling next to the pit and placing his hand on the ground. He closed his eye and then opened it, the eye now glowing brightly.

"How long is this gonna take?" Stan asked.

"Hm...it's a weird energy...not any I've encountered before." Bill admitted. "I might need to somehow take a sample and—hhngh?!" He felt a tug on his body and started to fall forward.

"Bill!" Dipper ran over and grabbed his coat, but then he felt a tug. "Uh! Mabel!"

"Dipper, Bill! Stan, Soos, help me!" Mabel ran over and grabbed onto Dipper, Stan and Soos right behind them. They started to pull away from the pit, but then a wind blew and knocked Stan and Soos in, pushing the others inside ahead of them.

"Whooooooa!" They cried out as they went in, falling into the darkness.

"Ahhhh~! Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Aaaaaaaaahhhh....how long are we going to fall?" Mabel asked.

"Well, according to the Author's notes, about a half-hour? If he was accurate." Bill sighed heavily.

"Can't you fly up?" Dipper asked.

"I already tried. Whatever it is, it's connected to the barrier keeping me in Gravity Falls." Bill shook his head. "We're stuck here."

"Well...story-time?" Mabel suggested.