Authors Notes:

This is a story I started writing a while back, before the "Not What He Seems" episode aired... It's inspired by the Transcendence AU community on Tumbler... though I'm way behind on current goings on... I've been a bit distracted and a little too busy to keep up...

I want to say I'm doing things a bit out of the cannon order... like according to most of the things I've read Dipper doesn't get his object form till much later... but I kinda wanted to play with the fact that his object form is something that makes Mable uncomfortable. And for that I thought it would make more sense if it appeared much earlier but wasn't something he could willingly go in and out of until later...

This is my first attempt at something like this and I have more... If anyone wants me to upload it let me know...

Also, suggestions for a title will be much appreciated...


Chapter 1: The Transcendence

"A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you..."
-Bill Cipher (In "Dreamscapers")

Stanley Pines Flipped a switch and took a step back as the machine came to life on the screen he could see the large infant creature being pushed back into an alternate realm the light around it rippling and shaking.

On another screen he could see Bill Cipher floating over a summoning circle his arms and legs crossed as blue fire flickered from him. In one last blast the infant of monstrous proportions was shoved back from whence it came and Bill landed. His eye looking right at the camera catching the seen. Bills eye seams to smile at him as he fly's into the sky clapping his hands together. "Now!" The little golden triangle laughed as energy exploded from him. "It's my time to change everything."

"Hold it you geometric shape of evil!"

"Yeah!"

"What?!" Stan slapped his hands onto the desk as he saw the twins run out challenging the demon. Fear was all over his face.

"Little Pines!" The demon greeted them a little too happily. His eye glowed red. "I'm so glad you cold make it to the end of the world."

"It wont be if we have anything to say about it!" Dipper yelled. "Mabel!"

"Right oh!" Mable took a whistle that was hanging loosely around her neck and blue into it. The squeal rushed out of the little plastic device and Bill lifted his hands up to cover invisible ears. "What is that hideous sound?"

"It's the sound of your end!" Wendy yelled as she swung in from a vine, a white powdery substance trailing behind her.

"We got you cornered now!" Soose yelled excitedly flying in from the opposite direction. Dropping a similar trail of white. As Bill watched the two strange humans fly in and the big one fall flat on his face when the vine snapped he growled. Glaring strait at Dipper, just in time to see Mable lay down a line of the white powder herself. "You. You wouldn't dare!"

"Try me." Dipper snapped open the journal as her read quickly. His eyes darting. Bill looked around, the white powder- the quite obviously salt, was surrounding him in the shape of a triangle. He glared at the boy with the journal as he began to speak the old Latin written in its pages.

"I wont let you." Bill's whole body burned red with anger. "This is already happening!"

"We'll stop you." Mabel said very seriously.

"It's too late now!" Bill said as his eye began to glow a bright white and the moon behind him turned a blood red. The sky began to dance with color and Dipper tried to read faster.

The triangle of salt below Bill burst into light and Bill began to get sucked into it. "NO!" He growled clawing at the air fighting to stay on the same plane. "You cant stop this!"

Suddenly their was a blast of wind and the sound of ringing silence struck them, the salt making up the quick seal was blown away. Everyone, Bill, Mabel, Dipper, Windy and Soose were sent flying in a whirlwind like state.

"No! We were too late!" Dipper cried clinging to his sister and hugging her to him as they flew.

"You fools! My plans are ruined! I had such wonderful plans!"

"We won!?" Mable asked excitedly. "Then why is everything all chaotic?"

"What are you talking about?" Dipper asked.

"I don't have any energy left kid..." Bill flickered slightly. "My beautiful plans are ruined now."

"Wait? Ruined? So we won? We won! Wait... Did we win?" Mabel was excitedly confused.

"Not exactly kiddo."

"What do you mean?" Mabel asked.

"I my PLANS are ruined but I still succeeded. I've caused a rip that will cover the world in chaos!" He laughed manically.

"I guess you don't get to see the chaos you unleashed." Dipper said bitterly. "Too bad for you. Now tell me how to reverse it!"

"Well theirs only one way now, and I'm not telling. In fact... we're close enough to the epicenter now..." Bill eyed Dipper. "I just might be able to witness that chaos after all."

"What are you- you can't be thinking of taking my body! I don't agree to it! I never would!"

"I wasn't asking." Bill popped right in front of him and Dipper couldn't look away. Bill grabbed his head just as they landed skidding across the dirt and mulch of a clearing. "Don't worry, this will hurt."

"Get away from him!" Mable swung at the dream demon but the attack went right through him as he vanished.
Mable rolled and took an attack position, only to lift her hands and guard her face as blue flames flew from her brother, his blood curdling scream cutting into her heart. As the blue fire left him his body began to levitate."Dipper!" She cried.

The boy began to laugh a very familiar and evil laugh. Only to crumble as he grunted and yelled. "Get out of me!"

As he stopped floating and settled on the ground Mable rushed to him wrapping her arms around him as he whimpered. "It'll be okay. Dipper. It'll be okay." Tears were falling down her face and her voice trembled. She couldn't hide how scared she was. She just kept thinking. "Please be okay. Please be okay. You have to be okay!"

"Stop it Bill!" Dipper hissed."It's too late to stop it now! What? Wait! This is wrong! No stop! Piiiines! I'll-" Blue flame erupted from Dipper as he let out a throat wrenching scream. Mable flew back from the release of energy, her head colliding with the ground with a solid "thwap."

The flames died as Dipper's body hit the ground and a white light bubbled up from his body. After growing slowly for a few seconds it suddenly rushed out spreading everywhere. As the strange white light faded Dippers form vanished.

Dipper trembled his whole body felt like it was on fire. Bills screams were still echoing in his head as he slowly cracked his eyes open. It was dark and grey. The surrounding aria little more than ash and dust. "M-Mabel?" Dipper coughed squinting through the pain. His stomach was so tight he could hardly move. Looking up he saw Mabel laying in the dirt a few feet from him. "MABEL!" Dipper jumped to his feet the pain suddenly a second thought.

As he went to run for her the world tilted and spun. Screaming he felt himself fly through the air. "W-what's going on?!" He gasped as he floated near his sister and struggling slightly he grabbed a hold of her shoulder. Pulling himself to her. He gasped holding onto her sweater tightly. Looking to her he could she that she was unconscious. "Mabel." He said slowly. "Mabel!" He yelled only to shiver as he realized their was an echo in his voice.

He blinked as realization dawned on him, Mable was as gray as the world around him, and that his hands were not only very small but also coal black. He swallowed. His limbs burned as fear rushed through him. "What? What is this?" He stared in confusion as the black hands vanished and his regular hands seemed to take their place. The shift accompanied a strange electric charge that traveled up and down his spine."Okay I'll worry about that later!" There was a groan from Mable and he looked to her sharply. "Mable!"

"Dipper?" She asked groggily.

"Mable! Mabel are you okay!?" Mable shot up, a look of confused shock on her face. She blinked and turned her gaze on him. "Dipper!" She through her arms around him squeezing him tightly. "You're okay!"

"That's just the thing." Dipper said pushing her back slightly. "I think somethings happened." She blinked twice, as that strange tingly filling rushed through him again, and let out a scream. "Ow! Mabel! Stop! You're going to bust my eardrums!"

She stopped screaming abruptly. "D-dipper?" She asked looking worried.

"Yeah. It's me, something weird happened. I don't know what's going on- but the world is all gray and I am floating!" Dipper motioned toward himself noticing the black hands again. He looked down examining himself more closely seeing a yellow body and two little black legs floating below him. "Wha-?"

"Are you sure you're Dipper?" Mabel asked with a suddenly scrutiny.

"What?" Dipper looked to her surprised. "Of cores I'm Dipper! Who else would I be?"

"I don't know... a triangle... who likes to bury gold and has a strange affinity for pain."

"What?" Dipper looked at her like she was crazy. "I'm not Bill! Mabel! Really, it's me, it's Dipper!" The tingling washed over him as he said this.

"Are you sure you're not a Bipper?"

Dipper stared at his sister as she gave him the look she gave Grunkle Stan when she was trying to find out where he stashed the good candy. "No." Dipper said seriously, his whole face frowning. "I'm not Bipper- I'm Dipper! And something really really weird is going on! The last thing I remember..." Dipper trailed off. "Was... Bill saying he'd take my body. I told him he couldn't without a deal. He tried anyway-" Dipper gasped looking down at his hands. "Am I a spirit? Did Bill take my body?" Dipper looked to Mabel scared. "Mabel! We have to find Bill!"

"I'm on it!" Mable stood ready for action only to sway slightly and grab for her head. "Whoa... the world is spinning." Her voice was low and she giggled slightly.

"Oh my god!" Dipper went to steady her. "You've got a concision. Take it easy!"

"A pincushion?"

Dipper sighed. "Just, be careful. And! And don't go to sleep." Dipper said.

"Ha!" Mabel laughed and winced a bit. "Why would I wanna sleep?" She looked away from him in a way that he recognized as her "I totally wanna do the thing you told me not to but I'm not gonna- nope! But I really wanna..." face.

"Over here!" Dipper looked up as he heard Soos's voice. In the distance he saw his friend from the shack making his way into the clearing he and Mabel stood. Or where Mabel stood and he floated.

"Soos!" Dipper called. "Over here!"

"Hey!" Soos said turning his head slightly as he spoke. "I see something over that way!" He pointed toward Dipper and Mabel.

"Is it the kids?" Grunkle Stan asked sounding worried. "Dipper! Mabel! Where are you crazy's?"

"Over here Grunkle Stan!" Mable hollered. "Somethin' weird happened to Dipper!"

"What's that?" Grunkle Stan, Soos, and Wendy all walked up to the two of them. "What's going on? Where's Dipper?"

"Right here." Dipper waved feeling a bit awkward.

Stan stood with his hands on his hips looking to Mable expectantly. "They probably can't see me." Dipper said.

Mable looked to Dipper and back to her Grunkle. "Grunkle Stan... he's right here." Mable waved her arms up and down toward Dipper.

The group looked to where she indicated but all they could see was empty space. "Okay... Did you hit your head sweaty?" Windy asked.

"Well actually yes..." Mabel said. "But that's not the point! Are you telling me none of you can see my brother?

The three shook their heads- a negative. Mable blew air between her lips making the motorboat sound as she looked a loss to her brother.

"Well I guess that confirms it. Something weird is going on."

"Well..." Grunkel Stan said. "What happened? I'm guessing you kicked Bill all the way back to Hell."

"Heck yeah we did!" Mabel pumped her fist into the air. "The sky was all flashy and color-y and actually really cool! Then me and Dipper did our thing and bash! Wham! Boom! Bill was going 'No! No! My beautiful plans! Their ruined!' and we thought it was over." Mabel's words trailed off here as she looked down looking sad. "Then Dipper was screaming." Tears filled her eyes and she looked up at her Grunkle Stan desperate. "I couldn't help him! I couldn't help you!" She looked to Dipper. "When I woke up Dipper... he turned into this thing that looked like Bill but not."

"What?" Everyone asked at the same time.

"I did what?" Dipper asked recalling the black hands. A thought was pushing at the back of his mind but Dipper couldn't grasp it. Quickly, Dipper looked around, the gray look of the world was very much the same as it had been the few times he'd made it into the dream scape. Bill must have taken his body- but- then if this was the same as the last time how could Mabel see and speak with him? He gasped and reached out grabbing Mabel's shoulder and squeezing it.

"Ow!" Mabel whined then saw the look on his face. "What's up bro bro?"

"The last time Bill took my body I was like a ghost and no one could see me."

"So?" Mabel asked.

"Back then I couldn't touch anything unless it was an empty vessel or a puppet." Dippers voice shook as he spoke. "Yet I can touch you and you can see and hear me. This isn't the same. This isn't right."

"What's going on Mabel?" Soos asked. "Are you talking with Dipper?"

"Yeah, how'd you guess?"

"You were just staring at the space next to you very intently."

"You're so smart Soos!" Mabel praised the man.

"Thank you!" Soos said.

"I'm not convinced." Stan said. "You say Dipper's invisible? How did that happen?"

"We think Bill took his body and that right now he's kinda like a ghost."

"Oh..." Stan said looking worried. "What's he saying then?"

"He's worried. He said the last time Bill took his body he couldn't touch anyone and that no one could hear or see him. He's worried because I can here and see him, and he can touch me. I think he's just being a worry wart." Mable said poking the air next to her playfully. "This happened before maybe you're more in control this time. Like because you know what its like to be a ghost."

"No." Dipper said rubbing his forehead vigorously. "I don't know how I know this, but that's wrong. I don't know anything more about having my body possessed this time than I did the first time."

"Than maybe Bill did it different. You did say he tried to take your body by force."

"He did what?" Stan asked sounding shocked and worried. "You've had him- Bill took his body before? What the hell have you kid's been doing?"

"It was a stupid mistake." Dipper mumbled despite himself.

"That's a long dumb story." Mabel said laughing nervously. "What's important is that Bill has Dippers body now and we need to catch him!"

So what you think Bill got a hold of Dippers body and is running around?" Wendy asked.

"I guess. It's the only thing that makes sense."

"We'll look for him, but we all need a bit of rest first." Grunkle Stan said placing a hand on Mabels shoulder, leading the group toward the shack. "Then I'm going to have a serious talk with you both about the dangers of making deals with demons."