Never Trust Your Demons

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"When I get my hands on you kids I'm gonna DISSASEMBLE YOUR MOLECULES!" I shudder at Bill scream, which we can all hear very clearly.
"Oh, I can't believe this," Stan groans. "The twins are gonna die and it's all my fault. Because I couldn't shake your stupid hand! Uh, dad was right about me. I am a screw-up."
"Ah, don't blame yourself. I'm the one who made a deal with Bill in the first place," Ford sighs as they both slump against the side of their cage. "I fell for all his easy flattery. You would have seen him for the scam artist he is."
"How did things get so messed up between us?"
Their words fade out as my own thoughts take over  my mind. How am I going to get out?! I have to stop Bill! I have to save the world! I have to save my cousins! My hands continue to just spark uncontrollably as my anxiety only grows.
Wait a second, didn't I teleport or something earlier? When Ford was being tortured?
"Okay, I can do this..." I think clenching my fists. I just need to get right outside the cage. I will myself to a spot only two feet away. There's a flash of light, and when I blink to clear my vision, I'm not in that cage anymore. I'm in the one with Stan and Ford.
"Well, it's a start..." I mutter as they look at me in shock.
"How long could you do that?!" Stan asks.
"When you've had a demon tricking you in your mind for half the summer, you get some side effects," I shrug.
"Wait, can you get us out?"
"Sorry," I shake my head at Ford. "Weirdmaggedon might be making them stronger, but I don't have any real control..." There's another flash of light. I fall backwards as the light clears, finding myself staring at my great-uncles.
From outside the cage.
"Huh. Can't believe that worked," I run the back of my head as I stand up. Then, without wasting anymore time, I run down the hall Dipper, Mabel, and Bill had gone down earlier.
A maze of weirdness greets me. There's no way to tell where they went, or even where I came from.
After searching for a couple of minutes  I hear a scream. My eyes widen as I follow the sound and find myself back in the main room as a giant Bill crawls in, holding a struggling Dipper and Mabel in his fist.
"No..." I gasp running at Bill.
"Ah, I was wondering where you went Police Box!" The cage encloses around me again. Unable to stop in time, my head hits the side and I fall back again.
"Ow..." I groan.
"Alright, Ford," Bill turns to the other cage. "Time's up. I've got the kids. I think I'm gonna kill one of 'em now just for the heck of it!"
"No!" I scream, pounding on the bars of the cage. "You promised!"
"EENIE...MEENIE..." His eye switches between a pine tree and a shooting star as he shouts. "MINEE," It stops on the shooting star.
"NO!" My entire body bursts into flames as I try helplessly to stop him.
"...YOU!" He raises a hand to snap his fingers.
"Wait!" Bill stops and my flames extinguish, and we both turn to Ford at his voice. "I surrender."
"Good choice," I can hear the smirk in his voice..
That is, if he had a mouth.
He drops Dipper and Mabel and my cage sinks back into the ground. I run over to them, grabbing the two of them in a tight hug.
"Are you guys okay?" I ask, my voice shaking with terror. They both nod.
"But if Bill wins..." Mabel starts as the three of us turn to watch Bill and Ford.
"It won't matter..." Dipper finishes.
"Don't do it, Ford, it'll destroy the universe!" Stan tries to stop his brother.
"It's the only way," Ford insists.
Bill laughs. "Oh, even when you're about to die, you Pines twins can't get along!"  He drops the cage and ties up Stan in the glowing red/black rope.
"My only condition," Ford says, holding out his hand. "Is that you let my family go!"
"Fine," Bill says, shrinking to size he used to be before this mess.
"No, Grunkle Ford! Don't trust him!"
"Don't do it!"
"It's..." Bill holds up his own hand. "A...DEAL!" He shakes Ford's hand. A stone image of him crashes to the ground as he enters the mindscape.
"That's it," I sigh. "Humanity is doomed. The world will fall to chaos and weirdness will be the new normal. And who knows if Bill's going to stick to the deal," I groan, my head in my hands.
"No."
My eyes snap open in shock.
"What?!" That wasn't Stan's voice.
"I said the world isn't going to end yet."
I stare in shock as a six-fingered hand takes the fez off.
"Ford?!" 
Without answering, he pulls out the memory erasing gun.
"Wait, what are you doing with that...?" My eyes widen as he enters "Stanley Pines" and aims it at his brother.
"The deal's off!" I wince at Bill's sudden shout. Then he screams when Ford shoots the memory gun.
Distorted images flash through my mind as Bill speaks plain gibberish.
"Conifer!" I gasp at his last word before he goes suddenly goes completely silent.
"..We did it," I breathe out. "He did it. Bill's gone," I can't tell what I'm feeling. Obviously hatred. He's done nothing good the entire time I've known him. He tried to destroy the world. He nearly killed my cousins. He tortured my great-uncle.
So why am I feeling even the slightest bit of regret?
The memory gun finishes its process of wiping away Stan's mind and Ford drops it. The people who had been turned into tapestries turn back to normal, dropping to the floor. It suddenly seems much lighter, and we look up to find the fearmid being pulled apart, piece by piece and sucked into the rift. The demons are sucked into the rift too. I watch, mesmerized as weirdmaggedon is pulled bit by bit through the tear in reality.
"Connie!"
I snap out of my thoughts, looking down at my cousin to see he's moving faster away.
Our rather, I am.
I gasp as I realize that, like weirdmaggedon, I am getting pulled into the rift. Dipper and Mabel grab my hand as the remaining bricks of the fearamid float up through the tear. Something hard smacks the back of my head as they pull me back to the ground. I rub my head as I sit up, the two sets of twins' forms blur in and out.
"Connie?....alright?!"  Ford's voice echoes, fading in and out. I can still feel the rift trying to suck me in.
I attempt to answer, but fall backwards instead.
A sharp pain in the back of head one again is the last thing I feel before everything does silent and black.

**TO BE CONTINUED...**