Chapter 19
The door was an exit, apparently. It leads to a large balcony that appeared more like a docking bay. There were two ways into the building from here, either through our door, or the one with twenty-six men beside it. The men are all holding up a large stone-like pillar, that faintly glows red every few seconds. They're continuously ramming it into the other door, in attempt to get it open. There is another, slightly-shorter man standing a few feet away. The boy appeared to be the leader of the men, despite being physically weaker and younger.
"Twenty three.. Twenty four.... Twenty five.. Twenty six....?" Mabel pauses. "There are exactly twenty six men.. Not including the puny one.."
"Twenty six..?" I pause. "Strange number to end on.. You think they would have thirty or twenty-five men.." I look at my sister
"Maybe they were just short on volunteers?" Will offers an explanation
"That makes sense...." I pause again. "Unless.."
I quickly look at Mabel, just in time to see another one of the uniformed men tackle her to the ground.
In only a moment, I am also restrained by another uniformed man.
I look at Will, who has surprisingly managed to pin his attacker. Thirty six, plus our three attackers, and the man who is propping the door open with a foot so the group can make their way inside the pyramid without being locked out. Thirty men in total.
"Hey!! You big gorilla, get off of me!!" Mabel struggles under the man, who keeps her pinned to the ground with his foot.
Her angered yelling calls the attention of the leader. He quickly turns around to face us
Will gasps and whimpers slightly. "G-Gleeful.." he quickly flees out of terror, teleporting away.
Dipper Gleeful pauses, and grins as he walks over to us. "Well well well.. If it isn't the Pines twins.. Just as pathetic as last time, I see.." he snickers
Mabel growls slightly
He grins, then pauses. "Put that down.." he instructs the group of men behind him, and they obey, setting the battering ram down.
The man Will pinned slowly stands, now that Will has left him free. "But we still need to get in for the meeting....."
Mabel and I exchange confused glances.
"Doesn't matter if Bill won't let us in... " The gleeful twin grins. "Because we don't need the meeting anymore."
The man blinks in confusion. "Why not...?"
A sickening grin spreads across my reverse's face as he peers down at me. "Because now we have something that can lure her to us effortlessly.."
I can't help but express a bit of fear as he steps toward me.
Mabel struggles more. "Stay away from my brother!!" She demands
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about him dear.. In fact, you should be much more worried about yourself." He grins as he suddenly changes direction and walks to Mabel, kneeling down and gently touching her forehead.
Mabel angrily struggles.
My reverse laughs. "Don't be scared, I'll be a much more superior brother." Mabel suddenly stops struggling and her eyes close as if she's asleep, or worse
Now it was my turn to be angry, "What did you do?!"
"I'm just altering her memories a bit." He states. "So she can't remember the last five minutes or so..."
I struggle more. "Why?!"
"Oh please, like I'd tell you.." he gives a signal to the man restraining me.
My captor makes his way over to the other uniformed men as the other follows. The man pinning Mabel follows as well, leaving an unconscious Mabel on the floor next to a grinning Dipper Gleeful.
I quickly struggle more as the uniformed man drags me away
"Woah! Hold on just a minute! I just realized something.. You can't take him away." Dipper Gleeful stands. "I still need to get my costume."
"Costume?" I blink in confusion
"Yes.. All stage performances have them, you imbecile." He glares a bit
"Stage performances...? What stage performance?" I question
"Well, this is an acting experience, is it not? I think it will be quite a show." He walks toward me. "Though I despise the character I'm playing.. And the costume is hideous.."
I laugh. "Then just wear the clothes you have on now, no costume needed."
His eyebrow twitches, and he glares at me. "That won't work, because I'm playing you.." This makes my laughter stop. "Honestly.. I can't believe you didn't catch on... You may be even dumber than I thought you were.."
He snatches my hat from my head and pauses. "I'll need to remove my hair gel and dirty my face up a bit, but I think I will be quite convincing..."
I pause, and glare at him. "Mabel will see through it."
"You underestimate my acting skills, and you overestimate your idiot of a sister." This statement makes me furious, but he only laughs at my anger. "Oh, this will be quite the show indeed.." He looks at my sister. "Move her to position.. And the show will begin once I'm done changing into his disgusting clothing..... Then you can all head back to Gravity Rises..." He pauses. "And do me a favor... take this one." He gestures to me. "To my sister."
- - - - - - Mabel's POV - - - - - -
As I slowly begin to regain consciousness, I begin to track the last few events in my head. Amanda was taken by Bill.. Will showed up.. We asked him to take us to Amanda.. He persistently said no until I eventually convinced him with a bit of angry lecturing to take us to Amanda.. and.........
and...?
I slowly open my eyes and look around, glancing up at my brother, who's standing against the wall on the opposite side of me. "Where are we?" I slowly glace around the empty hallway.
"W-Bill's pyramid." He answers
"Bill's pyramid...?" I slowly stand. "Where's Will? Why was I unconscious?"
"Will teleported away.." He explains. "And I think the.. mode of transportation.. We used to get here made us faint or something.. Or maybe Will knocked us out so we couldn't prevent his escape."
"Really? That doesn't seem like the type of thing he'd do... You know he's not very strong.." I point out
"Strong enough to pin a trained soldier.." He mumbles under his breath.
"What?"
"Nothing." He says quickly and briefly takes off his pine tree hat and rubs his fingers through his hair. "We should get going.."
"Right.." I pause as I look at my brother. He's certainly acting like himself, for the most part. The exception being a new confidence in his eyes, which almost makes him seem overconfident and arrogant. But that was nothing to raise concern, even my brother can get too confident from time to time. He certainly looks like my brother. Except..
"Is that hair gel..?" I blink in surprise. Most of it had been hastily rubbed off, but in his self-manicure, my brother had called the small amount to my attention
"No." He quickly puts his hat back on. "I'm just a bit nervous.."
Nervous sweating. Definitely within my brother's character.
"Alright.. Sorry for playing twenty question with you.. It's just that my memories are a bit fuzzy, and being unconscious and waking up in Bill's pyramid didn't help the situation.. Just making sure.. You never know what could happen now a days." I laugh
He laughs along with me. "Yeah.. Our lives are pretty crazy."
His gleeful laughter is filled with the type of joy one receives when something goes just as planned
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