【Billdip】Restart

According to the agreement between the two, Bill should manipulate the body at this time.But it's special now, and Bill can't guarantee that the two of them will not attract the attention of the salamander after the two of them switch.You know, this trip through time and space is enough to scare the Triangle Demon.

[Fortunately, it’s just time travel within the same universe,] the demon shook off the non-existent cold sweat, [Traveling time across universes is troublesome. 】

The entrance of the mysterious hut was very lively, and Stan could be heard yelling in a broken gong from afar. Dipper stepped in through the main entrance openly, as if entering no one's land.

—Of course it was because of the use of invisibility.

"Yeah." Dipper dragged the toolbox out from under the couch, thanking Stan for being lazy and keeping it in one place for decades.

"Now is not the time for us to fight salamanders head-on."

He pulled out his screwdriver and started assembling the tape measure.

"Speaking of which, Bill, the matter of Blendin 'no such person'..."

[Same as you think. 'Alcor' replaced 'Dipper'. 】

Again.

The downside of time travel.

Dipper had a headache.He originally only planned to wait for Uncle Ford to wear it back, who knew there would be so much trouble.Helping McGucket find memories and being targeted by the time guards.In addition, he is essentially a "future man", and he is a little timid when he is afraid of being exposed...

so troublesome.

The time tape was quickly fixed, it was really too easy for Dipper.That is, it looks bluffing.Just as Dipper was about to leave, he heard someone banging on the vending machine.

Vending machine!

[PineTree,] Bill couldn't hide the excitement in his words, 【We can open the basement now! 】

Dipper admits the proposal is tempting, but...

[We're in the "past past" right now, man. ] He walked towards the vending machine, 【The time and space guards are still following, I don't want to be caught. 】

The one who smashed the vending machine was a child. It is estimated that this broken machine started swallowing coins ten years ago. Uncle Stan would not repair such a thing that can earn him more coins.

"Get out of the way, kid."

Dipper performed a series of "defying physical engineering" beatings on the vending machine, successfully causing the broken machine to spit out a lot of snacks.

"I learned this trick from my friend. It's not very sensitive, you need to..." Dipper swallowed the last part of the sentence when he saw the boy's face.

Dipper: "..."

Bill: […]

Soos, to be precise, little Soos happily picked up the snacks.He also gave Dipper a bag of gratitude.

"Thank you man, that friend of yours is a real genius*. By the way, are you doing cosplay? I like your outfit, it's super cool."

Demon Alcor: "...Thank you." He felt his face was a little wooden.

Waiting for Soos to go away, Dipper changes clothes in a second, from a cosplay boss to a cute teenager.

But in the space of consciousness, the newborn demons have already turned upside down. Bill sat on the lazy sofa and watched the space shake for a while, as if it had been ravaged by a magnitude [-] earthquake.

【... Please, calm down.Not caught by Newt or Stanley. 】

The answer to Bill was blood-red characters that appeared out of thin air.

I!How!what!Know!road! Soos!explain!of!sky!talent!yes!I!

All right, Bill thought, let's make PineTree crazy for a while.

As if God didn't think Dipper was messy enough, the window was suddenly pushed open, and a person jumped in from the outside.

Mabel rolled on the ground a few times, and she patted the dirt on her body.Excitedly said to his younger brother: "I'm giving her to her father! Do you know who that little girl is, brother? She's Wendy! Dude, she compliments you on how good-looking you are... Dipper? What's wrong with you?"

Dipper is lying on the ground and loveless.

"I met 'grandfather'." ①

Mabel: "???"

Mabel didn't feel embarrassed at all, in fact she thought it was awesome.

"So you taught Soos, and Soos taught me? Cool!"

"...how cool."

Dipper didn't want to get entangled in this matter anymore, he shook the time tape in his hand.

"I think we need to get out of here quickly."

The time tape can only be traversed on the vertical time axis.In other words, it can only bring the Pines siblings to the mysterious cabin ten years later.In order not to arouse Soos' suspicion, the two of them decided to go back to the mattress store and start the time tape again.

However, the accident came too fast like a tornado.

No, rather than "accident", ProfessorPines still thinks it is more appropriate to call it "corrective force".

On the way back to the store, they happened to pass Soos' house.It's fine if you just pass by, but it happens that Soos is at home, and they happen to see "Soos' father sent another postcard".

...Turns out that's why Soos doesn't like birthdays.

"Eighth year..." Dipper sighed.

【how?Is it strange that no one has given him a birthday for eight years? ] The demon was eating and drinking in the consciousness space, and just as Dipper wanted to yell at him, he heard the demon continue:

[It's only been eight years. 】

Dipper: […]

Well, well, he can't measure a demon by human standards.

The young man held down the throbbing veins at his temples.His head was throbbing, and Dipper thought bitterly that this was probably the legendary disease of the soul.

He just wanted Mabel to leave quickly, but Mabel came over first.

"Dipper, we need to help Soos."

Dipper froze for a moment.

"How to help?"

"...don't know. But we gotta help him, man."

"..." Dipper asked, "You don't want to help him 'here', do you?"

It was clearly a question, but he used a declarative tone, as if he was not surprised by what his sister was going to say next.

Looking at Dipper's appearance, Mabel couldn't help shrinking his neck.

"Come on, brother, I think this is the only way to make Soos happy. Can't you help me?"

"I don't think so, Mabel, we can't just change the past," he said dryly, which was honestly ironic for him to say, "You know the butterfly effect? ​​If you change the past, you change the future .It is very likely that there will be no clerk Soos in the mysterious hut in the future..."

"Dipper."

Mabel interrupted his brother's chatter.

"Do you want to help Soos?"

Dipper was a little dazed, he didn't know why Mabel asked.

"Of course. Soos is my friend too, but we can't just because..."

Mabel made a "stop" motion. Dipper shut up.

"Dipper," Mabel's words were full of exhaustion, "I think you've changed a lot since you came back from the theater. But others think I'm thinking too much, and I hope I'm thinking too much."

"You know what? Sometimes you make me feel like a terrible grown-up."

Dippe was silent.

"I really really didn't think you'd be against me this morning with Wendy and Stan. I thought... I thought you'd be on my side no matter what."

Even if this idea is capricious and unreasonable, you will still stand by my side.

The evening breeze blows over the cheeks, bringing the coolness of the evening and the fragrance of green grass.He heard himself say in a calm voice:

"People grow up, Mabel."

He saw Mabel's expression slowly change.From the shock at the beginning, it gradually twisted into sadness and helplessness.

"So am I being left behind?" she asked.

【PineTree! 】

Even without Bill reminding Dipper of the crisis, two time guards brought Blendin down from the sky. Dipper grabs Mabel's hand - don't worry about any conflicts at this point, no matter how awkward it is, it's internal conflicts - and he flicks the tape measure...

The two disappeared.

The two reappeared.

Guard Lolph glanced down at his Head Office watch.

Great, only moved for 30 seconds.

Mabel rubbed his sore buttocks, the airborne was quite a failure, the two of them directly...

She looked up and saw the Time Guards, and Lolph waved to her. Mabel also waved back to him.

"...I want to complain," Dipper grinned, "This is simply Sanwu's fake product. The user experience is extremely poor."

He looked down at the machine. The time tape was completely broken this time, and Hercules couldn't fix it even if he was reborn.

He felt a little strange.The time tape sounded bluffing, but the actual structure was quite simple. If he had enough time, he could fix it ten years ago.It stands to reason that it shouldn't be bad...

Lolph stepped forward and took the broken machine away from Dipper.The Time Guard looked very angry.

"Humans, yours will suffer the wrath of time!"

Humanity?

[Well...it looks like this thing can't take our power. 】

[Damn it, no wonder it was broken into this appearance. 】

Alcor's power is too strong, and the time tape can take him through once is already the limit.

Dipper managed to get up from the ground; he felt sick again.He looked at those time civil servants.

[That is to say, if we want to go back, we can only be with them? 】

[Yes.What trouble, these time guys. 】

Mabel suddenly ran up to the time guard.

"Blendin, I want to participate in the crystal ball battle."

Hearing what she said, all the men present were taken aback, and Dipper was the first to react.

"Mabel! You..."

"I'm mentally prepared, you don't have to persuade me anymore, Dipper." Mabel didn't even turn his head, "I'm not as smart as you, and I don't know any other way to make Soos happy. The prize of the crystal ball war It’s a time wish that can grant any wish, right? Then I want to use this to make Soos happy.”

"I hope Soos' father can come home to celebrate his birthday with him."

"But it's too dangerous..."

"It's all for Soos, Dipper." Mabel finally turned around. "He's my friend. I'm sure if it were him, he would do it for us."

Dipper was speechless.

He suddenly remembered what Soos said this morning after beating up the vending machine.

I would do anything for the Pines family.

He's ugly, Dipper thought.

He pretended to come back to save his family, but he was stingy with helping his brother's memory.

He knew Mabel was telling the truth—yes, a man like that who hadn't gone to college and had been in a small business all his life would go through fire and water for his friend.

And what about him?

Dipper looked at Mabel's back and sighed slowly.

"Count me in as well," he put his hands in his pockets, "No one stipulates that foreign aid is not allowed, right?"

Before leaving, Dipper suddenly dropped the screwdriver in his arms on the ground.

【What are you doing? 】

【I want to see if I can be a butterfly. 】He said.

Bill scoffed.

[You've started a tornado, man. 】

The so-called crystal ball war - that is the awesome time wrestling in Blendin's mouth, in Dipper's view, it is basically... a child's play house.

He originally thought it would be like what he saw at the beginning: two people fighting hard in the middle of the stage, punching to the flesh.That's not the case at all.What more than 1000 challenges (monkey difficulty), Alcor can win with his eyes closed; the timing method is actually time baby drinking milkshake... Do you want to take some responsibility.

Oh, that thing doesn't seem to be called a milkshake.who cares.

[How did this race become the leader in time management?By size? 】Dipper jumped away from a beam of light, he felt that he was stupid today.

Bill ate the popcorn all over the place, and he decided to record Dipper's silliness today and play it back when he needed it.

[So there is only one Time Baby left to die.I have to say that God is fair, giving them the power of time and not brains. 】

[Do you still believe in God? ] Dipper is now driving a motorcycle, with Mabel; if I remember correctly, he is now driving without a license.

[I only believe in myself. 】

It was Dipper's big mocking "huh" in answer to Bill.

Now there is only one last item left, "time laser gun battle", how stupid it is.According to the number of wins and losses, they have actually won—he is Alcor, and the time people only have to be rubbed on the ground when they meet him—but the giant baby still chattered endlessly about his milk bottle.Seeing how the other guards looked at each other, Dipper knew that it was impossible to end the "battle" early.

[God, I have to say that you were right to kill these idiots before. 】

He was holding a "time laser gun" - a bunch of headlines - standing in front of Blendin.The rule this time is whoever touches the victory ball first is the winner...

Bill: [... Isn't that thing the Wish of Time? 】

Yes yes, that's right. Dipper was expressionless.That victory ball was the Wish of Time, and he wasn't so blind that he couldn't see the hourglass inside. Dipper wanted to shoot Time Baby in the head.But no.If he does this, he won't be in Gravity Spring anymore.

To be "fair", Blendin has two health points.But it's no use, Dipper thought.He's holding a laser gun, and Blendin on the opposite side is talking nonsense.They were a little far away, and Dipper couldn't hear them clearly. Judging from the mouth shape, it was nothing more than nonsense like "you are bound to lose" or "it's too late to surrender now".The demon yawned lazily, and hit the sensor with a casual shot.

Blendin: "..."

Before the Time Man could react, he saw Dipper pull out another gun from behind.

Blendin: "Ahh."

In order to ensure that the winner can fully enjoy the pleasure of dominating the loser after winning the game, the defensive vests allocated to the participants in the crystal ball war are all very high in defense.However, in order to better experience the effect, there should be a lot of pain, and sometimes it has its own paralysis effect—such as now.

Dipper beat Blendin with two machine guns.He yells at Mabel as he shoots:

"faster!"

Blendin barely watched Mabel in the midst of the combo, as the girl struggled up the ledge, reaching out to the gleaming Time-Wish.

"No!!!"

She put her hand on the golden ball.

Time Baby throws away the empty bottle.

"I declare that the winner is - Mabel Pines!"

Bill yawned.

【Really boring. 】

Dipper tossed the lasgun aside.

【I think so. 】

Time Baby wiped his mouth, he hiccupped and floated down from the height.

"Before you fulfill your wish, tell me, what do you plan to do with the victim?"

Mabel thought for a while, and before she could answer, she heard her brother say lazily:

"Death."

Mabel froze.

"Dipper? Are you joking hahaha, this joke is quite funny." She pulled Dipper aside and whispered, "You can't be serious."

"……what?"

"Execution of Blendin. He's long-winded and annoying, but man, let's do it."

Dipper looked at her, and it seemed that she was the one who looked strange.

"Mabel, believe me, if you don't execute him, he will cause us trouble in the future. Besides," he twitched the corner of his mouth, "if he wins, do you think he won't execute us?"

"...Dipper, we ruined his job."

Dipper barely thought about it.

"It seems... that's what happened. Well, I'm sorry, but I won't change my mind, Mabel, he should be put to death."

Mabel: "..."

Mabel looked at her brother, she looked at the man she had been with since birth.She suddenly found that she didn't know when she couldn't see through this man anymore. She didn't know why he moved out, didn't know what he did every day when he locked himself in a small room, and didn't know when he started , hard as a rock.

She even felt... a little scary.

Her younger brother, a 12-year-old boy, decides a person's life and death lightly.Not even a frown.

Mabel said, "No."

She said to Time Baby, "No."

She said I was going to reinstate Officer Blendin, she said we ruined his job and we're sorry.

Dipper strongly disagrees.

"But ma..."

"This is 'me' battle, thank you Dipper for your help but please understand, I'm MabelPines alone on the entry list!"

The girl was panting, her eye circles were a little red.

"This is my decision, please respect me, Mason."

The boy returned silence.

When they handed the wish of time to Soos, the big boy didn't give himself a birthday without regrets as they expected. Soos made a very modest, almost wasteful wish.

He restores the Pines siblings to their original state.

"You're my family, guys," he said, throwing away the postcard from his father and giving them a warm hug, "that guy wouldn't even come to see me, and you guys would go all the way for me. thank you all."

He took the hands of the two siblings and walked out.

"By the way, did I ever tell you how I came to the Mystery House? That's right. On my 12th birthday, I found a screwdriver from the Mystery House on my lawn. When I went to return the screwdriver, Stan hired In fact, I have been wondering for so many years, why did the screwdriver from the mysterious cabin appear in my house? Hey, guys, does this matter have something to do with you?"

Mabel froze for a moment, she looked at Dipper.The latter scratched his nose with his free hand.

"Who knows."

"Okay, okay, don't say it, I respect you two little villains. Wait for me here, and I'll buy you ice cream."

Dipper nodded with a smile.When Soos walked away, Dipper met Mabel's eyes.

"What's wrong Mabel?"

His sister looked complicated.

"That screwdriver...is it you..."

Dipper's fingers were on her lips.

"Hush."

She took a deep look at Dipper and went after Soos.

Dipper watched their backs. Soos is choosing flavors, but because there are too many flavors to choose from, this patient with difficulty in choosing can't start. Mabel tugged at his sleeve and "advised" him on the sidelines.

He reached out and tightened his vest.

[What a kind person. 】

Bill threw away the leftover popcorn, and popcorn rained down in the conscious space.The devil snapped his fingers, and the popcorn turned into Chinese firecrackers, exploding one after another.

[What's the use of kindness?No, I still haven't survived the "Apocalypse". 】

[You don't need to always emphasize "Apocalypse", Bill," Professor Pines sneered, "I won't let the salamander go. 】

【I won't give it a chance. 】

Blendin thought, this might be the happiest day in his life - after being released from prison, he can go back to work and have beautiful hair.Although the hair is a little short and short, it's better than nothing.

He really felt super satisfied.

"I'm really not willing to lose to those two kids...but forget it, I'm back. I can continue to be an honorable one tomorrow..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Time Man lowered his head in a daze, blood stains spread from his chest bit by bit.From the very first point, spread to the entire front.

The fishy-sweet smell gradually diffuses in the air of time, the smell is like drizzle hitting the grass, and like... a fish that was sun-dried alive.

Blendin wanted to scream and call the police, but the other party was faster; Time Man only felt the sharp pain in his chest and the slight coolness...

It was a sword with a cold light, and the sword was covered with scarlet blood.

Time Man tried to say something, but blood bubbles blocked his throat, and all his unwillingness flowed down his chest.

The last thing Blendin saw was short brown hair and golden eyes.He heard the man say:

"I'm very sorry."

TBC.

Notes:

①: It refers to the Grandfather Paradox. It means that if a person goes back to the past and kills his grandfather before his mother is born, will this person still exist?

This paradox often appears with the parallel world theory.This is just a rant from Dipper. He went back to the past and unintentionally taught Soos how to violently open the vending machine, and interfered in the past. The result of this interference appeared ten years later.purely emotional

In fact, the "correction power" and "time torrent" are also reflected here.The one who taught Soos in the original timeline is Mabel, and the one who taught Soos in the new timeline is Dipper, reflecting the inevitability of history.The elasticity of time itself is too strong, one factor is nothing to the huge torrent of time, many factors are needed to break this elasticity. All Dipper needs to do is create "a lot of factors", that conversation between two demons about the "butterfly effect"

【I want to see if I can be a butterfly. 】He said.

Bill scoffed.

[You've started a tornado, man. 】

It is also alluding to this matter _(:з」∠)_, Bill means that you are already changing the world