From Wendy's POV

Cold.

The first thing I feel is cold. Cold… Water? Maybe? I only know that I'm enveloped in fluid, or strange gas… I inhale, and somehow I know there is smooth liquid flowing through my lungs. I smile. It isn't quite right, but it feels, kinda good. My body seems to float not too much unlike it would in water… It's like I'm inside of a cloud. I gently open one eye, and am immediately confronted with what feels like a drug induced seizure-

every muscle in my body has a spasm, and my lungs start hacking, my head sears with a burning pain, I am shaking, falling, choking, screaming-

waking up.

Seconds, maybe hours later the pain dulls to a slow drone. I crack open one eye and take in my surroundings. There is a haze everywhere, but it seems to collect into shapes and then disintegrate again. Whatever it is, it's giving out low hisses, and breaths. I realize with a start, that I'm not on the ground, in fact it feels like my back is against a ceiling. A spike of fear ricochets through me as I realize that I don't know how high up I am. I cough, and suddenly the steamy smoke is louder, drifting with intentional movement into an ever changing, and ever recognizable shape. The hissing is now forming into words that I can't quite recognize. The shape solidifies and then begins to glow. A triangle. This might get interesting- Triangles are pretty much never good sign where I come from.

I muster up a little courage. "Where am I?" My voice echoes.

The fog lets out a distinct murmur of laughter. I try again.

"Why am I here?" Apparently they feel like answering this one.

"You tell us, human. You should be asking why we are here."

"Uh. Why are you here?" the fog forms into shapes of galaxies being ripped in two, and then reforms into completely real-looking huddles of creatures being slashed to shreds. I suddenly remembered the re-creation of my dad standing in the hallway, and it dawns on me. Whatever this is, it's powerful enough to shapeshift into things it hasn't even seen before.

"We are here to end the bloodshed before it begins. But lets get to the point, shall we? You are a changer. A bringer of doom, and chaos to an untouched corner of the galaxies."

Well that was something new. "Y'know, that's a little aggressive-"

"Aggressive? We have watched changers rip apart galaxies. Murder refugees. Younglings. Mothers. Families. But you won't do that to us. No, you won't get the chance."

"Uh because you're going to-"

"Kill you, yes."

"I was actually going to say tell me to leave, but-"

Suddenly the mist disappears, and I'm looking straight at the crumpled shape on the floor. A scream builds inside me.

A sickening, horrible scream.

There on the floor, is Dipper. It's everything I never wanted to see and more. He's broken, dead. I can't stare at his mangled crumpled body- His empty face is gazing up at me, lifeless, spattered with blood. Immediately, I'm falling towards him, no, no, nonono, but then everything evaporates, and I'm just falling… falling…

and then I hit the ceiling again, face first. A hundred voices are screaming in my ears, a wind like knives is whipping around me, and I can't feel my body parts.

I manage to cry out "Wait!" The smoke doesn't stop, but I can feel it slow.

"I-I want to talk to you! I'm not here to hurt you- really. I don't even know where I am or what you are, I just, I want to get to someone who's really far away. Like a long, long, way. I only came here because I was-well- I was curious."

"Curiosity killed the cat."

"But satisfaction brought it back. That's the whole saying." To my surprise the being chuckles.

"We do admire your race's taste for proverbs. But it doesn't change anything. Why do you argue when you already proved you could kill mercilessly? The creatures in the corridor may have only been illusions, but you knew no better and ended their lives anyway.

"Those were illusions? But-"

"It doesn't matter. What do you seek so far away from your home that you trample life to find it?"

"Someone I love." pretty fuckin' corny, but- I still can't shake the image of Dipper's crushed body.

"Love isn't real. But your species has never accepted that."

"Well- I'm gonna find it anyways. I'm not your marked-changer, thingy, I'm an intergalactic traveler who would like very much to leave now." I never did think I'd be saying that.

"You are naive. You obviously do not know your death prophecy, and finding your loved one won't change the fact that they are not why you are so far from your tiny planet. Fate placed you here to finish the job on our home.

But fate is also tricky. In fact, why should we bother to kill you when the entire in-between space is hunting for not one, but two of your kin? Yes, it will be best to leave that to someone else. There will be chaos once someone finds out that we have your body, and the thieving isn't worth the price you'll go for. It does seem that so quickly after the throne fell was not a good time to come here, was it?"

"By the looks of the alien population's thoughts on me so far, no. In fact, I think I'm gonna leave." The smoke thing is monologuing about my corpse for sale, and I can't help but wisecracking. It's part of my nature.

"Then go. Meet your doom somewhere else. Go ahead and try to find your love, but a word of warning. Whether you know it or not, we can sense that your beloved is a changer as well. He is either dead, or very good at hiding. And those who hide well, are not often found.

Goodbye, human. We wish you a quick death."

And then, everything de-materializes, the ceiling, the smoke, even the air around me. With a jolt of nausea, I'm in the seat of my pod again. Groaning. In pain. Lots of pain. And then I'm grabbing the thrust as quickly as I can. I give only a cursory glance around me, at what seems to be a dark, abandoned warehouse-like area, and pay no mind. None at all. This looks like a horror movie. Nope.

Murdering a battalion of fake aliens. Visions of my dead boyfriend. A death prophecy, whatever that is. Evil smoggy shapeshifter.

Yeah, that'll be the last time I stop on a planet just for shits and giggles.

Author's note:

Whew. M'kay. First off- I have a bunch of random pieces of other stories that I want to finish that I have to just post, so don't unfollow the ones I mentioned in the hiatus updates just yet! There still might be a little more.

As for this story, We'll be taking a peek back at Earth next time… Ehehehe… I have the "the good stuff"... if ya know what i mean… you might not… ehehehe…

Ahem. anyway, I hope to be updating more often, and some reviews would mean a whole lot! Like everything! Thank you so much for reading my stuff, and seeeee ya next time!