A knock comes at the door. Chip is out of the pocket dimension, trying to scrape up Trinumus from anywhere he can. Dipper is reading an Earth newspaper, upside down. "I don't understand this English language." Dipper says out loud to himself. "You're holding it upside down." His robot butler, TARS says, flipping the newspaper. "Oh, that makes a lot of sense." Dipper stares at the paper. "This is boring. I like it better the other way." Dipper flips the paper back, smiling at his 'handywork.' The knock comes again. "Should I get the door?" TARS asks Dipper, straightening his tie. "Nah, I got it." Dipper gets up from his chair and goes to the door. "Open, says-a-me." Dipper slowly slides open the door. Nobody is there. "Weird." Dipper closes the door, and turns around. Chip is standing the hall. No, not Chip. Chip, if his colors consisted of only black, dark black, and light black. And had two arms. "Wh-wha.." "You should really use your peephole to see who is at the door before opening. I could have been a villain." "Yeah, right. I'll remember that next time." "Oh course, I am a villain." "What?" The Dark Chip quickly pushed Dipper against a wall and puts four laser cuffs on his arms and legs, keeping him pinned to the wall. "I'll be taking these." Dark Chip pulls Dipper's socks off of his legs. "I need those!" Dipper says between coughs. "Oh, I know." Dark Chip puts the socks on his hands and creates sock puppets. "Bro, you're stretching my socks with your big hands!" Dark Chip holds up the sock puppets to Dipper's face. "Let me tell you how this is going to work." Dark Chip says through the puppets. "You're going to be in this puppet..." He points to his left puppet with his right puppet, and continues speaking, without the puppets. "And Violet Swiftworthy is going to be in this puppet." He pointed to the right puppet with his left. He began to summon materials and craft one of the puppets to look like a sock version of dipper. "Ok, 1 down." Next, he began to craft the other puppet to look like a triangulum who evidently was pink with a black cloak. "So who's Violet Swiftworthy?" "Your brother's lady friend." "Pfffft. Chip couldn't get a girlfriend if a girl approached him and said, 'hi let's date!'" "Who said they were dating?" Dark Chip snapped his fingers and a girl looking like a triangulum version of the puppet appeared next to him. "Now, I tried to use her as bait. I guess both of you will have to do." He grabbed the girl's arm and pulled her soul out of her body, stuffing it in the sock, which now levitated. "Help!" She called out. "Dipper! Get your brother! He'll know what to d-- no, he won't. Get someone else. Anyone but Chip!" "I'm a little tied up right now." Dipper nodded with his head-tip to one of his cuffs. "Don't worry. Those are going away right now." Dark chip deactivated one of the arm cuffs, and pulled the arm with all his strength. Dipper was pulled into his sock puppet twin and sneezed. "I'm gonna die soon y'know! What kind of bait is dead bait!?" Dipper yelled. "What kind of brother is a dead one?" The Dark Chip grinned. He took the two socks from the air and stuffed them in a hidden pocket on his shirt.
