"Hal?" he said, looking up at him, confused, wondering if he knew what that meant.
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It took half a second for Dipper to comprehend the words. Just long enough for him to look at Hal and Hiccup with wide and terrified eyes. His other hand moved to try to pull the ring off but it was too late. His body stretched out unnaturally, the way someone's body might have spaghettified at the edge of a black hole.
He screamed, reaching out for them both. It was a high and terrified scream. Gone was the vindictive, laughing terror teen of earlier, or the sullen boy reveling in newfound feelings of power over others. This was the scream of a child being ripped away from reality when he'd already felt something terrible like it once before. In an instant, he was gone, transformed into a streak of yellow light that rocketed away through the cosmos.
At the exact same time as Dipper, two other Legionnaires were caught by surprise by the yellow rings they'd picked up and they suffered the same fate. Hal's ring did it just a little bit later. Enough time to pull the ring off, perhaps, but there was a reason Dipper and the others had been taken first.
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"Hal?" he said, looking up at him, confused, wondering if he knew what that meant.
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It took half a second for Dipper to comprehend the words. Just long enough for him to look at Hal and Hiccup with wide and terrified eyes. His other hand moved to try to pull the ring off but it was too late. His body stretched out unnaturally, the way someone's body might have spaghettified at the edge of a black hole.
He screamed, reaching out for them both. It was a high and terrified scream. Gone was the vindictive, laughing terror teen of earlier, or the sullen boy reveling in newfound feelings of power over others. This was the scream of a child being ripped away from reality when he'd already felt something terrible like it once before. In an instant, he was gone, transformed into a streak of yellow light that rocketed away through the cosmos.
At the exact same time as Dipper, two other Legionnaires were caught by surprise by the yellow rings they'd picked up and they suffered the same fate. Hal's ring did it just a little bit later. Enough time to pull the ring off, perhaps, but there was a reason Dipper and the others had been taken first.
[NEW PROTOCOLS RECEIVED. PREPARE TO TRANSPORT SENTIENT BEING.]