CLUB 33 (REGROUPING)

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well...it seems like Club 33 is still open, and the transporters are working again. You're able to gather up your friends from elsewhere and bring them back here to regroup. You also notice that there's a very large pile of stone here in the middle of the Club that doesn't...seem to resemble anything. Sculpture is weird.

What do you guys want to do?]

Comments

[stanbyme]

No duh-

[Breathe. Be nice.]

...Look, you're Zeus, right? Hades said now that he wasn't blocking people from dying anymore, they were in your territory.

I just-- I just want my twin brother back. I'll do anything.

[riptorn]

...I'm sorry. But I can't bring them back.

[stanbyme]

[Stan's breath catches in his throat, and he grips his chest like he's just been shot.]

...No.

No! NO! That's not fair! Your brother tortured us! He brought nearly everyone I love to try and end the whole entire world, and- and you tell me Ford's g--

[He chokes on the word.]

[riptorn]

I'm sorry. That's just - I suppose it's the nature of the thing. I can't simply...bring back everyone, with every disaster.

...At least, not permanently.

[stanbyme]

What- what do you mean not permanently?

[riptorn]

...Well, given the - the nature of things.

There's nothing saying I can't let you see to those you've lost. For a while.

[stanbyme]

...It'll really be them, right? And we'll- we'll remember it afterward and we'll be able to-

[In front of a god, an old man choking back tears must seem so pathetically frail.]

[riptorn]

Yes, yes, of course! As long as you remember them.

[ilovepuppies]

[Just gonna muscle in on this]

That's not good enough.

[riptorn]

...Well, I'm sorry, but I can't just bend the rules like that.

[ilovepuppies]

We just saved the entire universe being erased because of your stupid brother! You can bend the rules for us. They deserve that!

[Also she has a wand. The same wand that melted Hades.]

[nachosquire]

Star--

[here's your wet blanket]

Star he.. you should listen to him. I don't want to have to fight another god and risk everyone's lives.

[ilovepuppies]

MARCOSTAYOUTTATHIS

[nachosquire]

PUTYOURWANDDOWNORSOHELPME

[riptorn]

...I'm not going to just toy with life and death like that, young one. I apologize.

[ilovepuppies]

It's not toying! It's fixing what Hades caused!

[just kinda. raising the wand.]

[riptorn]

I'm sorry, I know you're upset. But...I can't do it.

[ilovepuppies]

[SHE CHARGES UP THE WAND AND


AND....

her arm drops.]

Jeez, you really ARE Hades' brother!

[riptorn]

...Ouch. That hurts.

[ilovepuppies]

[RASPBERRY]

[sentree]

[ NOPE!!! ]

Kid, you do not threaten a god!!

[ ....didn't they just...do that..... ]

[ilovepuppies]

He's being a jerk!

[sentree]

Gods are jerks, you still don't threaten them! They turn you into things!

[hasit]

[Leia's just. At his side, hand on his arm, squeezing comfortingly. See, Stan? There's that little ray of hope.]

[stanbyme]

[It's not enough. Nothing short of bringing Ford completely back will ever be enough, because even if he can see him for a few minutes now... Ford won't be able to stand at his wedding. He won't be able to see Dipper and Mabel graduate high school, or help them look at colleges, or see them...grow up.

He won't be able to go sailing.]