"You bought gold...right?..." (a gravity falls original AU!)

Yet another deal

"I have some children I need to turn into corpses!" Bills voice switched to a deep, crackly voice, booming throughout the walls of his palace.

Stan and Ford run over to the bars of their cell, screaming to give the children mercy, but Bill only runs faster towards the room in which Dipper and Mabel are hiding.

"This is all my fault..." Ford slumps to the floor, his head in his 6 fingered hands.

"If I hadn't made that stupid deal with bill, none of this would've happened."

He sighs as he looks at his brother with a weak smile.

"This isn't your fault." Ford assures.

Stan looks confused as he quickly wipes his newly formed tears from his eyes.

"Huh?"

"Whenever you think something is your fault, which is rare by the way-"

"Shut up."

"...you look down and you play with the ends of your hair."

Ford tilts his head when stan laughs.

"You really don't know anything about what I was doing while you were in that portal, do you?" he laughs again.

"No I... I suppose I don't.... what did you-" he gets cut off when stan quickly grabs his brother's shoulders and looks him in the eye in severity.

"We can switch clothes." he demands. It sounds like a suggestion like, 'oh, we could switch clothes!' but he was serious about this plan, and he wasn't going to let anyone stop it.

Ford takes a moment to think on stans reasonings, he silently realizes and so they switch places.

The ear bleeding noise of Bill storming into the room is enough to make anyone go deaf.

In Bills right hand is Dipper, his eyes are damp and he's frantically looking around the room.

In Bills left hand is nothing.

Mabel isn't there.

"What did you do with my sister!?" Dipper yells, his blue hat slowly falls to the boiling hot ground.

"Oh, trust me pine tree, I know what she's up to. If only I wasn't a demon of the nightmare realm! Maybe then I would actually tell you!" He laughs that laugh that sends an extra lair of dread into the room.

"Dipper! Don't worry I'm- we're going to get you out of there!" Stans voice may be destroyed due to his substance abuse, but he can do a killer impression of Ford if push comes to shove.

"Ah, sixer! Finally standing up for yourself, eh? This is new. I'm impressed smarty pants, but it doesn't mean I'm going to give in that easy!" Bill exclaims theatrically.

"Let me go!" Dipper screams, punching Bill with his arms. Unsurprisingly, this does nothing.

"Ha! You humans are so fragile and weak! You managed to build a whole society by yourself, but you still can't grasp the fact that 4cm arms can't affect an immortal entity like myself! I'd call it cute even! Entertaining!"

In a state of fast panic, Ford finds a nearby pebble and launches it at Bills eye.

"Really? Again? Every single time! why can't you be creative with this!" He rubs his eye with his right-hand causing Dipper to plumet 24 feet to the hard floor. He weakly gets up using one of his arms, then collapses to the ground.

"Dipper!" Stan yells, his short-lived ford persona breaking, revealing his recognizable ripped voice.

"Oh? Now what do we have here? The pines twins swapping places? Can't say I've seen anyone pull that stunt before. I tip my hat to you, pines!" the room briefly topples upside down.

Ford goes to speak but he can't.

There is nothing they can do.

"You can't IQ yourself out of this one, sixer! Not anymore!"

They both take a step back as ford pulls out a pen and paper.

"If I give you the equation, will you promise to not hurt the boy. You can...you may do anything you wish to me. Pluck my eyes out, tear me limb from limb I don't care just-...just don't hurt him!" his voice breaks. He never cries. Ever. Not in front of Stan.

"Calm yourself, sixer! I won't hurt pine tree if you give me the equation." He walks circles around the cell.

"However. You will become my vessel again. I can inhabit you when I please for as long as I please. Do we have a deal?" he outstretches his long, slimy hand to Ford.

He looks back at Stan before taking a deep breath in.

"Deal."