The following takes place around the middle of their Senior Year in Gravity Falls.
There is small alarm, breathing and suddenly an eye opens and a girl with long black hair then yawns awake and in automatic response she then slaps the off button of the alarm and then gets down from the bed and then slowly but surely opens the blinds and sees it is morning despite the fact the sun isn't completely shining yet. She then slowly walks over to where her wooden specs case which is violet colored and has a comet symbol etched onto it and it's near a clock the reads 6:00 a.m., she slowly opens it up and then takes the glasses out and then slowly puts them on her face. Candy then looks around for a moment and then walks out of her door.
Adam is also awakened in his room as he hears from his programed cell the song "Please don't go girl" by the "New Kids on the Block". He turns off the off button and sees the time on his cell which is 6:00 a.m. he then shakes his head a little try to get the gears inside him going. Adam then gets up to do his usual exercises before he showers and has breakfast, he gets his black gym shorts, sock, shoes t shirt, and his black sports gloves on and then puts his iPod on one of the speaker support systems and turns it on and clicks to the some song from the "Rad" movie soundtrack "Thunder in your heart" He has a pair of nunchakus and he is doing lots of tricks and a kata with them, then has the bo staff and is doing a series of combos and a kata with it, in another exercise he then does a series of backflips and lands to be right in front of the peg dummy and does a series of blocks and strike combos at it. Candy also has a morning routine schedule as well as she turns on music to the "New Kids on the Block" song "Step by Step" and she is doing some Zumba dance combo movements she learned when taking classes with her friends Mabel and Wendy. She then has some red wraps on is at a punching bag and she is doing a series of mui tai kick and punch combos. Then afterward she is doing a kata with her weapon of choice the chain and then when she advances forward while swinging the chain in a diagonal combo and then soon, she then swings the chain in a thrusting motion and the chain wraps around a target dummy's neck in the room.
She pulls on the chain and the chain goes thorough the neck and the dummy head falls with a bit of sand spilling. Adam east his eggs and toast and is watching an episode of the 80's cartoon "He-Man". Candy is eating some Granola and Yogurt mixed together with banana slices and she is looking at an article on some of the newest technology on her tabled propped up. Adam then gets dressed in jeans, a black t-shirt of a poster of one of his favorite films "Re-Animator", his black and blue light jacket gets his backpack and he has his iPod on to the theme some of the Night of the Comet soundtrack "Trouble". He puts on his glasses and he looks at one of the pictures on his mantle which is of Mabel smiling wearing her usual magenta T-Shirt in front of the Mystery Shack alone with himself in a T-Shirt of one of his favorite trading card series from bottoms "Dinosaur Hell" his graphic tee is one of a hoard of Pheardayls attacking and poking holes into the statue of liberty and picking out tourists unfortunate to be in the statue. Adam blows a kiss to the picture.
Candy is also getting her backpack, she dressed up in army fatigue patterned paints, violet t shirt, with a black leather coat with some shoulder cuffs with a set of designer spikes that stick out, puts her specs on, she has her iPod on another song from "Rick Ashley" "Together Forever" and she blows a kiss to one of the pictures from her room which is Crimson Talon/Darrien whom is at Emerald Comic Con in Seattle whom is in a "Judge Dredd" costume with the helmet that covers his whole face except for the only exposure the mouth and chin with a few scars. He is smiling and has a peace sign in the photo. While she is in the costume of Mera from "Aquaman" with her hair die red and still with her spectacles on.
Both are at Gravity Falls high and are all going thought their usual rounds at the school. Candy is just getting back from a chemistry class as she already has her books she needs in her bag. After class she is about to go to her locker but then she stops by an empty bench and sits down to check and see if everything is intact. She then unzips the front, back compartments of her back pack and see everything is organized. She then goes to the lower parts of her bag unzips three compartments and sees everything is there. She then breathes a sigh of relief, she didn't know why but for some reason she felt there was something she was supposed to find. She then gets up and goes straight to her locker, she opens it up and, in her locker,, she suddenly sees a small black rectangular box.
Meanwhile Adam and Dipper are talking with one another as both had the same class together. They talk about the one of the Role-Playing Games their going to play tomorrow at their favorite comic book and gaming spot "Dragons and Comics" Dipper then talks about the recent game their playing "Cyberstalker"
Dipper says, "So are you already for the next campaign in tomorrow, it's going to be killer."
Adam has a small smile and says, "Yeah, can't wait to go through that snake enterprise tower and the maze of the Goatmen corporate board; and I've got plenty of new spells to try out."
"Well I've got some surprises of my own too."
"Well see you later"
Adam then smiles and as both are going their separate ways to their classes he waves to Dipper and he does the same, Adam then goes toward his locker to get what he needs before first period starts. He opens it and he see there is some small black wooden rectangular box that looks like the kind you but glasses into. He then picks it up slowly and looks at it front and back not sure what to make of it as he doesn't remember ever putting anything else in his locker, nor was there any sign of break in as he's checks for signs. Adam then decides to open it as there really isn't anything else to do, he opens it up slowly and unfolds like any glasses case, then sees there are just spectacles like the ones he has but there is some sort of message that is taped to the back of the top lid of the box, the message is in black ink and says, "Put them on."
Adam sees that it is important he puts on what look like just ordinary glasses, he then takes out his own glasses case out of his leather jacket pocket, which has a dragon design on the lid, puts his spectacles in that case, closes them and puts the box back away in his pocket. He then puts the other black box in another jacket pocket, closes his locker and then just carries the glasses he has while walking not putting them on and then simply puts them on and then suddenly he is looking at the ground and see no color, but everything is in black and white. He immediately takes them off and then sees the world in color once more, he looks at the glasses and then slowly puts them back on again and he is seeing the same thing. He once again takes them off and looks at the glasses puzzled, wondering what the heck these really are. Then he lifts his head up and then decides to look with the glasses when he sees the hallway in full and people passing, he puts on the glasses very slowly. But as he puts on the glasses, he doesn't bother taking them off, in fact not even moving as he is seeing a how strange and disturbing things really are as he looks.
He slowly walks the hallway and then he turns his head to a classroom and inside instead of teachers teaching he sees some sort of creature that looks like a giant black organic top with multiple eyes all at the front, watching over everyone in the classroom. Some people at the desks aren't human as the ones sitting are what look like almost organic plants as some of them are unfolding and at their open mouths there, there is a great series of tentacles that want to latch on and stretch out. Some of the others that are regular people and has their tentacles wrapped around their heads. Another classroom he looks at and sees a giant head which has its tentacles spread out and the tentacles consist of other heads, each different. One has a head of a bird, another a wolf, another a snake, another some sort of horse like head but they were all oily black colored. And a couple of the tentacles that had what look like human like faces they were facing along themselves over the mortal.
Candy she is looking at the school but in seeing only a black a white setting. She is then shaking her head as she sees once again blacker and whiter as she is passing the hallways as she can literally see no color, she is looking around but just keeps seeing no color with her glasses. She suddenly bumps into some sort of group of clicks and then she looks right up at them and she gets startled by what she sees which looks like a strange set of tentacles and the tentacles move in different directions as it somehow is producing vocals.
The tentacle group head says, "Know how to walk much."
Candy then brings down where glasses and sees that it's just a regular elite girl with blond hair, the stylish violet short skirt and short top exposing her shoulders and some cleavage. The click girl just gives her a snide look and walks away with her group and she gives out some sort of snide joke to the group about her and they laugh, but Candy doesn't pay attention to the b…. group and she then goes to the cafeteria and see just some of those multi eyed creatures just serving food to most of the mortals that are all talking as if there is nothing there. The mortals after being served their food they go to the tables to eat and talk but on the middle of the tables there are more of the top like eye creatures and each of them have spread out their heads almost like a flower and has tentacles that are just sprouting out and even latching on to some of the people sitting and others passing by.
Adam he then goes to the outside to the football field and looks with the glasses sees instead of football players there are tentacle monstrosities with multiple heads and snake like necks, all are wearing football helmets. Some sort of heined legged white fur goat horned, humanistic demonic monstrosities that also have football helmets and there is what looks like hooded figure acting as the referee and then puts out a red nailed hand to signal game on. The creatures are all tackling each other and even punching and wresting each other, the tentacle creature he has the ball and is slithering but then gets tackled by the opposing team. Despite seeing inhuman creatures play it was cool to watch. But Adam he then snaps out of hit and he walks away.
Candy she is at the home economics class and sees a lot of the students are baking certain things, she then puts on the glasses and sees it is a bunch of hooded figures have demon or reptilian hands that are cooking up some sort of potions and the books they have are some sort of spell books that are bound in flesh of some sort and the pages have Samarian text and symbols she can't make out. One of the hooded figures with blue demonic hands with black nails is holding and caring a dead three headed giant snake, the hooded figure stops and then looks out form the window door. Candy quickly takes off the glasses and she sees a regular blond girl in an apron and chef's hat caring a pan with French bread just cooked. The girl is looking at her and Candy snaps out of her stunned expression and Candy just makes a polite wave and then walks away very fast.
Adam walks very fast in the hallway which are the most foreboding as there are tenticled veins structures everywhere, darkness, and some sort of plants a few of them some sort of heads, inhuman heads in the garden section of the Horticulture class. He continues walking as he comes to the gift shop, he suddenly sees someone in front some sort of tentacle monstrosity with three big hind hoof legs that stopped in front of him for some reason. Adam slowly takes the glasses down and sees who it is a girl with long autumn brown hair, wearing a red vest with a magenta colored t-shirt with a star in front and a magenta skirt. Adam knew who this was but hoped it wasn't.
Mable says, "Missed me big guy."
Adam decides to play along and not show his nervousness. Adam then gives out a smile and then says, "I was only gone a mater of hours."
"Hours are almost an eternity."
She then puts her hands on his shoulders and looks at Adam in a seductive manner. Adam he is a little surprised as the hands Mable puts on him feel just like her hands and the same warmth.
Mabel says, "So what do you want to do tonight?"
Adam had to think fast to evade the invitation as much as he'd love to accept, if this were the real Mabel.
Adam says, "Actually, you think we could shift it tomorrow, I've got a mountain load of homework and a certain project I'm working on."
"Well that shouldn't be a problem I can come to help out."
Adam once again pained at declining the invitation nicely. "Actually, there is a term paper and a news report I need to work on that could take hours, so I really need to concentrate."
Mabel whom has a small look of disappointment then looks at him with understanding and says, "Alright, I can wait one more day, though if you change your mind today you know where to find me."
Mabel then pecks him on the cheek and walks away slowly. Adam puts the glasses back on and he sees her walking away but once again the black and white image reveals her to be some tentacle monstrosity with lower legs three which rare hooves. He takes his glasses off confused by what t he's seeing and what's going on. He looks at the hallway at everyone else that has passed by and he feels a chill as he isn't' sure what senses to trust.
He then runs and is looking to find Dipper to gain some perspective and just as he's close, he then stops himself remembering sighting Mabel. He then takes his specs out once more and as he sees both Wendy and Dipper making out, he puts them back on and sees not Wendy and Dipper but one creature that is a giant female arachnid, black all over and has a humanoid body with eight legs behind and its face has eight eyes and a mouth with mandibles. Another is a golden skinned being whom looks humanistic but has no mouth except just a set of eight completely blood red eyes but looks at the female arachnid with some sort of feeling in it's eyes. Both creatures are holding each other and acting like any creatures that make out would. Adam quickly backs away and runs before he is spotted by both, though one eye from the spider may have picked up an image of Adam running away.
Candy she then is running, and she goes to one of her favorite spots in the school where she has privacy, the robotics lab. Thankfully it's unoccupied as she opens the door and then locks it up. She then finds her usual work table and gets on a stool and she then takes a miniature black chrome human skull object which is suppose to be the hood ornament for another wheeled she's helping design. She then is petting it's extremely polished and smooth head as she likes the sensation of its cool smoothness on her fingers which helps take the tense feeling away and is thinking about what to do and what to even make of what she just saw. She then puts the black chrome skull back on the table as then takes out her phone and turns it on wondering who to call as she knows she can't call her best friend Mabel as she's not sure if it even is really her.
She also can't call Gretchen as unfortunately she's involved in some sort of quest and has no idea where she could be, as she's been gone for months the time Mabel, Candy, and her all went separate ways. She is about the call her other friend Wendy but then she notices there is an icon on her phone which is the shape of a wand with a crescent moon end which she never remembered ever installing.
But she clicks on it anyway to see what it is and then suddenly it flips to one of the levels of a game based on one of her favorite TV shows "Sailor Moon" called "Sailor Moon in the Hell bound Maze" one of games she likes and plays with her boyfriend head to head with sometimes. She selects her favorite character level has the character she loves playing "Sailor Mars" she then starts the game and she is traversing a maze build with skeletons and skulls while having her character shoot out her usual burning mantra fire rings in the game against zombies, demons, green acid swamp creatures, giant mutant ants, giant spiders, color hooded , all kinds of creatures when in the game while collecting treasure, keys and certain crystals which have different powers.
She is looking around and fighting thought the maze for a while but then once she collects enough keys and opens enough of the doors, she then runs into something that isn't a natural part of the game. It's a boss fight with some sort of giant monster whom is emerald green and is some giant amphibian monster that has a fish like head with fins to the side of his head and teeth that reveal a maw of shark like teeth enough to grind and spread up anything that come inside. With Candy's character she then fights this boss using her powers along with several of the attack potions she collected. After a while of dodging some of the fire bullets and attack pattern of this giant amphibian humanoid she then uses the last potion to end the fight fast. The giant amphibian creature then disappears and then suddenly something appears on the screen. It looks like some sort of digital boom box. She then clicks onto it and then it blows up and starts playing not music but some sort of recorded message.
Adam then goes to the school newspaper and lock the office door. His back is against the door and he breathes, he then walks toward his editor desk and sits down. He then opens one of the drawers and has s mini fridge in it and then opens it, taking out a plastic bottle of "Electro Cola" and takes a swig to relieve some of the pressure of what he's witnesses. After the swig he just looks blankly thinking about what to do, he then suddenly thinks about his phone and he then takes it out and turns it on wondering who to call, let alone who is human. Then he looks at it carefully but then notices some icon he's never seen on his phone before, it's a digital Chinese puzzle box, as it is exquisitely designed with golden contours and colorful patterns some tiled some jeweled almost like that from an Indian carpet or a sand mandala painting. He wonders about this since he doesn't remember ever installing this app feature.
He clicks on it and sees it suddenly the icon blows up into a three-dimensional puzzle box and Adam realizes if he wants to figure out what's inside, he has to take the challenge. He looks at the box for a while and rotates it around by touching the screen, but immediately for some reason already knows the answer and puts the box in the position he wants it to face, which has the face of what looks like a squid head with eyes that are tiny onyx colored jewels and a tentacle mouth. Its head is shaped with Jade green tiles. Adam he simply puts his thumbs on the two middle tentacles and slides them and suddenly he box makes a clicking noise and then opens, and he sees from the digital box reveal something inside.
There is what looks like a tiny old 60's tape recording icon, Adam then clicks the icon and then suddenly the icon blows up and plays as he sees one tape spool reel turning counterclockwise and the tape is going to the other spool. The digital table plays an audio recording, but he can't make out the voice as it's disguised by a harmonizer.
He listens and the voice says, "If you've solved the puzzle and are now listening to this message then the whole town has been compromised and we have failed, and you managed to escape which means we still have a chance. Go to Candy she has the other part of the instructions."
Adam is wondering about the other part of the instructions and who it is that has programed these instructions on his phone. But then suddenly Adam looks carefully at the message and sees on his phone on the left-hand side there is a small bar has the colors blue, black, green, red, magenta. He then makes a call to Candy.
Candy then hears her "Sailor Moon" themed ring tone and she then presses the button and then puts the phone to her ear.
Candy says, "Yes?"
Adam says, "It's me Adam."
Candy says, "Adam, I was about to call you, I've got these really strange instructions on my phone that said I should meet you."
Adam says, "I have a similar message and I concur, we need to meet right away."
Adam then gives a specific location and Candy complies. Both head over to the library and Candy she comes in through the front door still wearing the glasses while Adam is waiting by the second-floor balcony keeping his eye on the door as well as the glasses on in case, he sees she normal and breathes relief to himself, likewise with Candy. And then he comes down the steps and then meets up with her and both go to a group study room that is unoccupied and they both go in.
Both walk inside the room and then Candy faces him. Both then take off the specialized specs put them on the table and then take out their cases with their regular specs and look at each other seeing things in normal black and white as well as each other.
Adam says, "Ah, that's much better."
Candy says, "Alright what in the hell is going on?"
Adam says, "That's what I've been trying to figure out ever since I had these glasses in my locker."
He then takes the black case with the glasses out of his bookbag and then puts it down on the table. Candy takes the same type of case out of her bookbag and places the case on the table.
Candy says, "I've had the same type of glasses to that for some reason makes us see the world and most of the people here all messed up, like watching a really fraked up independent film."
Adam says, "That's not the worst of it, I…I saw Mabel and even my best friend Dipper as those creatures your seeing.
"What, Mabel… you mean, then where are they what's happened to them?
"I don't know, I hope to god they're not hurt, but you know what's really strange is that the one impersonating Mabel actually sound and act just like her, even when one of them touched me, it felt like a regular hand with regular human warmth."
"Just what is going on, what are these glasses and why are we seeing what we're seeing; in fact, how to we even know if what we're seeing is even real, maybe these mystery spectacles we have are showing us hallucinations caused by one of those spells in your mystic books you keep."
"I thought about that but I'm not one hundred present certain about that either, someone gave us these spectacles for a reason, and from the challenges we had to solve on the phones and that message we received I'd say this person went to a lot of trouble doing this."
Adam then takes his phone out and then puts it on the table.
"The answer must be on these phones."
Candy then puts her phone down on the table.
"Yes, but what else are we supposed to do, it only told me to meet you that you have a part of the instructions."
"Mine told me the same thing."
Adam then thinks for a moment and looks at the screen of phone with the color bars on the side which are to the right. His eyes then shift to Candy's phone which have colored bars but on the left of her phone. It then suddenly occurs in his mind.
He then looks at Candy and says, "Can I see your phone for a moment."
Candy hands him her phone and he look at it and one the right there are the same colored bars on her message.
Adam looks up at Candy and says, "Alright, if I'm right about this."
He then puts both phones together and when both colored bars line up with each other and connect suddenly both phones have another message on them and its' another audio recording.
Adam then clicks play on the recorder and the message play with an image of the old tape recorder of yesteryear.
It plays and says, "You've put the messages together, which means the right people have it but also means there's not much time, so I'll be brief; as you already know, the world your seeing from the conscious mind is an illusion a sophisticated form of hallucination like walking into a dream and thinking you in reality."
There are some noises outside the where this person is recording.
"I can't say much more except an unknown force of evil has somehow been awakened, two months ago one individual in our group stumbled upon this psychic disturbance and ever since we've been working to stop it."
The sounds suddenly get louder and sounds like someone is breaking in. "It took a while, but we have found the answers however I can't give you them first hand, so we have set up clues thought so our findings don't get to the wrong hands; I leave only one clue: Candy you've always had the answer, it is with you everyday from the day time to the night, it comforts you from the uncool. I now leave it to both of you, end of line." Then the audio cuts off and suddenly the program deletes itself. Both pull back their phones, Candy rechecks hers and then looks up at Adam,
"That's it, there's no more."
Adam and Candy are puzzled and wonder what to do next.