A Human's Touch || BillFord (Gravity Falls)

Hurricane

[Dipper POV]:

We burst Mable's bubble and freed her. We're planning to head for Bill's Castle but something is off, he hasn't been seen in days. Time gets confusing in the bubbles, sure, but not even the remaining townsfolk know. Regardless, we're gonna go to the shack first and build some kind of army. With the journals gone, our sharpest weapon is our brains- and muscles I guess.
We're going through the woods now and I have a bad feeling, like something worse than anything I can imagine is happening to Ford.
We make it to the shack, and we're afraid. We don't know what might be in there so we run at it with every weapon we've got. We rush the door and see grunkle Stan and the remaining survivors like that boy band Mable likes, the Multibear, the Gnomes, ect.
It felt good to be with Stan again though, which is something I didn't think I'd say.
We needed to come up with a plan, luckily with Fiddleford's memories back we had at least one genius with us.
We began to take back the Falls. Soon, I had to face one of my biggest fears, Bill.
Fiddleford used his skills to turn the shack I to a robot, Stan wasn't thrilled but now we stood a fighting chance. My heart raced 90 miles an house and my arms clouded in goosebumps as we headed for the pyramid in the sky.
At first we attempted diplomacy, but the monsters just wanted to eat us.
A select few of us decided while the shack-bot distracted the others, we'd use Mabel's sweater parachutes to get inside.
It actually worked better than you'd expect.
When we landed inside, we didn't know where to start looking. "I think I have an idea" a firmiliar voice called out. Me and Mabel looked to it to see Gideon in a cage like some sort of hamster, Bill had cursed him to dance for all eternity or something by the looks of it. "Please, just get me out of here!!" He called out. We broke the cage with the grapple and he seemed finally free to move. "Okay you're free, now where's Ford?" I crossed my arms. "He usually keeps him on the human statue, but he took him away to a secret room not too long ago" Gideon mumbled. Bill won't be distracted for too long, I don't know if we'll have time for this. Wendy started helping pull apart the human throne, I started to devise a plan. "Mabel, me and you should go look for Ford, the rest of our group should protect the town folk and distract Bill if he comes back. We need to find Ford." I instructed. "Dipper, we don't know where to look" Mabel worried. "Then we'll kidnap a monster guard or something, we'll figure it out!" I've never made so many risky decisions until we came to this town, but if it wasn't for Mabel, I would've never become so confident. The world was ending, and here we are in the eye of the storm. I took Mabel and we headed down the halls of the fearamid.
We used blacklight to look for any secrets and pressed a bunch of bricks in the walls but it felt like we were being thrown around in a cyclone. We were almost about to give up when I heard music playing from nearby. "Mabel! I think I hear something" I tried to catch her attention. She seemed bored and scared. "For real this time?" She worried. "Yeah, for real. It's like.. classical music or something" I followed it and she followed me. It took us to a dead end hall, but I could hear it from one of the walls. I tried to discern if it was from the east or west wall. "It sounds old-timey" Mabel noted. She looked under the rug for any trapped doors or something but there was nothing. These walls were thick, but not thick enough. I backed up to the west wall and attempted something I never thought I would before, I ran for it like I could possibly push through it. Something clicked and played a creepy sound effect like Bill's laughter, and the wall slid apart like a slide door. I scraped my arm a bit in the brick but once I looked back in front of me, I was horrified. The room was like an old study or small library, and inside was a bubble with chains and a symbol on it, like Ford's glasses. Mabel seemed sick at the thought. The key was hanging from a cobweb in the room. We were terrified of what we might find in there. "What horrible things could he have wanted with him to keep him like this?" Mabel tugged at her hair. "I don't know, but whatever we see in there.. we have to save Ford" I grabbed the keg from the cobweb and unlocked it, I held her hand and we walked inside. The sun was bright ,but not as bright as Mabel land. It was like a warm September day, the air smelled just like the pines of gravity falls. It WAS Gravity falls. We walked forward, I think we were near the shack. But the shack was still wooden and similar to how it is in the real world, only a bit bigger now. I peered in through the window. There were so many awards and records of Ford's achievements, this really was a dream land. Ford is smart but if this were real, I would've seen it. We entered the shack quietly, I could hear voices upstairs. Me and Mabel headed up to where Ford's room is, same as it was in our worlds. "No, Lewis isn't here right now but I'll be sure to let him know when I see him again. He had another business meeting unfortunately. It makes me worry sometimes" We were certain that was Ford. Who was Lewis? We've never heard of a Lewis.. "Maybe we should look for clues in town" Mable whispered. "Are you sure? He's right there" I looked back to her. "What if he doesn't believe us? I don't trust this Lewis guy" She crossed her arms. "Why? What if it's some old business partner or lab partner?" I theorized. She shook her head. "Just trust me, Dipper" She took my hand and we ended up leaving. It's a miracle we weren't caught. In town the people were even a little different, more distinguished at least. Better manners n' stuff. We looked at the buildings, they had changed too, but some of the weird stuff was still there, like graffiti about the blind eye society. That's something we figured was a clue, we saw one on a newspaper box and looked at the paper headline:

Local cultist gone missing

And a picture that could only be a blurry and battered Fiddleford McGucket. This word IS created by Bill, because he just takes and removes whatever he wants. "This is creepy, do you think he's dead?" Mabel fidgets with her sweater sleeves. "I don't wanna think about it" I shuddered. What kind of torture could've been done to him? Even if it's fake ,it's still a terrifying thought. But we made it this far, we'll find a way out no matter what.