I do not own Gravity Falls or anything, but I did create the characters Lavender Emerson and Emil Levitt. And of course, SPOILERS! Watch the show before reading this if you don't want spoilers. It follows the plotline very closely and would be fairly hard to understand if you haven't watched the episodes.

Chapter One: Tourist Trapped!

"Lavender, watch out for that shed!" Emil yelled. "Ahhh!"

"Quit shouting and let me concentrate!" I shouted back in frustration. "And that is not a shed! It's just a bunch of trees that fell together!"

I kept my foot firmly on the pedal and swerved this way and that to avoid the giant gnome monster and shake off a few that jumped onto the golf cart.

"That way, that way, that way!" Emil kept shouting.

I sharply turned the wheel in my panic before we crashed into wall of gnomes that attempted to block our path.

I glanced at Emil to see him wildly swatting away gnomes.

"GRAHHH!"

"AHHH!" We screamed just as we witnessed a great shadow overwhelm us.

I guess I should explain who we are and what's going on before we go any further. My name is Lavender Emerson and the boy with me is my friend Emil Levitt. It was summer vacation and I was hanging out at his place again. Our parents wanted us to be friends, and the reason for that being because we live close to each other and our fathers are friends too. We were both thirteen but he was six months older than me. Emil and I only just became friends last summer but, to my surprise, we made quick friends.

We were tired of playing and decided to turn on the television and watch some Gravity Falls. Mr. Levitt was in the other room having a chat with my dad and their other friend who I am only slightly acquainted with.

"You know how weird Arthur is?" Emil asked while watching TV. Arthur would be the friend our dads are talking with.

I nodded.

"It was so strange. He usually doesn't talk about anything but strange inventions he'd like to create in the future, but he started going on about you," Emil said. "Something about some professor and you. Do you know what he was talking about?"

I smiled but just shrugged. Arthur was definitely referring to something from last summer. It'd be pretty cool if Emil could have just as exciting a summer I had last summer. I knew Emil liked Gravity Falls quite a bit so I began imagining what it'd be like to be in Gravity Falls.

Just when I finished the thought, something – maybe a hand – shot out of the TV and grabbed us both. Before we even had time to think, we were pulled into the screen and were flying across the sky and landing on a sign or something. The landing was hard and painful making me go off balance. In another second, I was toppling over and in a blur of colors I was able to grasp onto something. I was hanging on a second sign under the first one we landed on. I had also accidently kicked down the letter S in 'SHACK' and watched it land on the roof off the sign. I already had an inkling of where we were.

It was the Mystery Shack.

"Lavender!" Emil called. "Are you okay? Hang on!"

I swung my other arm up and got a better grasp on the sign. Emil quickly but recklessly climbed down to help me up. Once we had time to think, I looked at Emil again.

"Cartoon…" I remarked.

His hair didn't look as messy in cartoon, and his clothes were also different. He was wearing his dark red hoodie and sneakers that he wore frequently, and his jeans were still the same. I looked down at my clothes and saw I was wearing a plain pink skirt with a black shirt that depicted a simple pink rose.

"We're in Gravity Falls," he mumbled in shock.

"I'm sure I heard something outside," Dipper's voice murmured from below them.

I looked down and saw him looking around with a flashlight in hand.

"What do we do?" Emil asked me his eyes wide.

I shrugged and whispered back nervously, "Hide?"

Dipper heard our murmuring and shouted, "Who's there?!"

Emil and I smiled nervously at Dipper as his light hit us.

"Huh? Who are you guys?" he asked.

As we climbed down, Dipper eyed us distrustfully.

"Uh, I'm…" I then glanced at Emil who was slowly reaching his hand out to touch Dipper. I then slapped his hand. "Emil!"

"Ouch!" he let out, holding his hand where I had hit him. "Aren't you at all freaked out, Lavender? We're cartoony!"

"Either way, this is happening," I said, and to prove my point, I tried to pat Dipper's head, but suddenly my hand went right through him and he disappeared. "Gah! What happened?"

Emil's hand flew to his mouth as he whispered in horror, "Did you just kill him?"

"I didn't! He just…disappeared!" I exclaimed, flailing my arms around in panic.

"So what do we do? He's just…" He gestured over to where Dipper had disappeared, but just as he did, Mabel was walking out to check on Dipper. Emil's arm went through her and immediately after she disappeared.

It was my turn to gape in horror. "We're KILLERS!"

Emil covered my mouth and shouted shakily, "That's going a bit far! It was all on accident!"

"We have to go apologize to Grunkle Stan," I said.

"No! I'm not going in there just to say to him 'Sorry I killed your niece and nephew,'" Emil huffed. "But it's not like we killed them! They just disappeared!"

"Wahhh!" I shouted in panic.

"Dipper! Stop with the screaming! You're making my ears numb with how high-pitched it is!" Grunkle Stan's voice shouted from inside the shack.

I frowned and asked Emil, "Did I sound like Dipper?"

Emil shook his head. I bent down and picked up Dipper's flashlight.

"This is all just a cartoon. How can this be happening?" Emil asked, taking the flashlight from me.

"Hey, maybe Dipper and Mabel disappeared back inside the Mystery Shack and we just can't touch people," I shrugged.

Emil frowned but turned off the flashlight and followed me inside the shack anyways. We snuck past Grunkle Stan who was watching television then up to Dipper and Mabel's room. Their room was empty.

Emil yawned, which caused me to yawn too. I suddenly felt tired.

"Weird, I'm sleepy suddenly," Emil yawned again, rubbing his eyes.

I was about to reply, but ended up falling into Dipper's bed and blacking out.

I woke up the next day to the sun shining in through the triangle window. Emil's figure was still asleep in Mabel's bed under her blanket. The world was still cartoony.

After stretching and rubbing my eyes to wake up, I went over and shook Emil's shoulder. He blinked open his eyes and looked up at me drowsily. I blinked in surprise when I saw him. Except it wasn't him. It was Mabel. She blinked a few times then widened her eyes and jumped out of bed.

"I'm still dreaming, aren't I?" Mabel asked. "Whoa! My voice! Why is it…Mabel-like?"

"Emil?" I asked then gasped in surprise when my voice came out like Dipper.

"Lavender?" Emil exclaimed. "No way!"

"C'mon, look at the bright side!" I said, slapping his shoulder as he patting himself down nervously. "Gravity Falls! Isn't this pretty awesome? Except for the fact that Dipper and Mabel seem to no longer exist…"

When we went downstairs, Grunkle Stan greeted us as Dipper and Mabel. I quickly came to the conclusion that we had replaced the two twins. It took a while for Emil to understand since he was so confused and freaked out. Once he did understand, it took a while for him to calm down.

"What do we do? How do we get back home?" Emil asked worriedly, pacing back and forth.

"I think we'll probably have to play out our roles till the end then maybe we'll be sent back. Maybe this is our chance for an epic summer romance with random cartoon people!" I exclaimed. "I mean, it's the cartoon world so it's totally fine to do crazy things that is either not possible or hard to do in real life!"

Emil just frowned. "You don't think we're actually changing up the show itself in the real world, do you?"

"Nah, I don't think so," I shrugged.

We had entered into the world of Gravity Falls on the very day Dipper and Mabel moved in. We had to work in Grunkle Stan's shop and get used to his horrible personality and pranks. It wasn't all that great. Another problem we faced was that everyone viewed me as Dipper and Emil as Mabel.

Finally one day…

"All right, all right, look alive, people. I need someone to hang up these signs in the spooky part of the forest," Stan announced.

I frowned. After the several days we had been here, I knew it would be best to go over there and continue the Gravity Falls storyline by finding the mysterious journal, but Dipper had been right when he commented on how he always felt like he was being watched when he was in the woods. I also, in his place, got the mosquito bites, spelling out 'BEWARB'.

"Not it!" I exclaimed immediately.

"Huh? I'm not doing it!" Emil huffed.

"Uh, also not it," Soos said.

"Nobody asked you, Soos," Stan replied.

"I know, and I'm comfortable with that," Soos said, before taking a bite out of his chocolate bar.

As Stan was asking Wendy to take out the signs, I could see where this was going. Grunkle Stan was going to choose me to take out the signs.

Just as Stan turned to randomly decide who would take out the signs, I shouted, "I need to use the bathroom so ask Mabel to do it!"

I was about to run off, but Emil grabbed the back of my vest and pulled me back.

Stan then handed me the signs advertising the shack and said, "Don't be a wimp, Dipper. It's not like there are 'monsters in the forest.' That's just a local legend trumped up by guys like me to sell my stuff to guys like that."

He then pointed to a large, sweaty man laughing at Stan's bobble heads.

As I was leaving, I dragged Emil out with me.

"Hey, I'm not supposed to go with you! That's not how the storyline goes!" Emil hissed.

I huffed back, "I know! I just wanted to let you know that if we're actually going to follow the storyline, you have to go and get that gnome boyfriend of yours."

Emil stared at me with wide eyes. "Oh…hey, maybe we don't have to follow the story after all…"

I patted his shoulder and reassured, "Just be your normal charming self and the gnomes will love you immediately and eventually kidnap you."

Emil shivered then exclaimed, "Why don't you do it?"

"Because I'm Dipper, remember? The gnomes won't want me as their queen," I pointed out.

"Wait!" he shouted as I began pushing him away from the shack. "Even if I were to go through with this, I don't know where to go find the little people!"

"Just wander around town or something," I sighed.

"Ugh, no, I can't do this," Emil said, turning to me. "Do you think our parents are worried about us back home?"

"They should be if they know their brother. I wouldn't want to send my kids to Stan," I remarked.

Emil shook his head and said, "I mean our real parents in the real world, not Dipper and Mabel's parents."

I thought about it. "Maybe we should worry about that once we figure out a way to get back home."

"How're gonna figure that out? So far you haven't been doing anything about this whole situation," Emil pointed out.

"Yeah, well, I don't see you doing anything! I can see why I'm the guy here now. Sheesh," I huffed, crossing my arms and turning away from him unhappily.

"Uh, hey, I didn't mean to offend you…" Emil said, his voice softening quickly. "I just…I'm scared that maybe we're stuck here."

I had never thought of that possibility.

"Well, maybe," I sighed. "We might as well enjoy our time here then."

Emil bit his lip. "Then, I'm not going to waste my time trying to get a boyfriend. I'm still a guy in actuality, after all."

I gave Emil the signs and said, "If we want to keep things interesting, I suggest finding the journal in the woods, first. Otherwise, every day of our summer will be just working for Stan and stuff. Boring!"

Emil took the signs and we began working together, hammering them onto random trees. Eventually, Emil found the secret door that opened up the hiding spot of the book. He took it and gave it to me to put in my vest.

"It's only been like, fifteen minutes," I said, checking my watch. "Let's go hunt for stuff in the book!"

"That's a bad idea! It's dangerous!" Emil scolded.

"Yeah, but it'll be fun," I smiled mischievously.

"You do that yourself. I'm going to stay at the shack," Emil said firmly as he turned to leave.

I grabbed his arm and begged, "C'mon Emil, please? Please, please, please?"

"No."

"With a cherry on top?"

"Uh, no."

"You wavered there. How about two cherries?"

"What? No."

"Fine! I'm going to the cemetery to find some zombies and no one will know if I die because you won't be there to run away and tell others!" I shouted as I ran off.

"Lavender!" Emil called after me.

I wasn't actually mad. I was just running there because I knew Emil was going to chase after me, and there may be some sort of supernatural creature there. Once I was there, I hid behind a gravestone from the figure already standing there. It was Norman.

Oh, this was where Mabel had said she met Norman! Nice going, me! Now that I think about it, why did Mabel go to the cemetery in the first place?

Emil eventually arrived, out of breath. He froze when he spotted the figure. The zombie-like guy turned to Emil with a groan.

"Eep," Emil squeaked. "Uh, hi."

"Hi," the boy repeated.

"I'm Mabel. Wh-What's your name?" Emil asked, pushing his hair back. Was he actually going to attempt flirting with this guy?

"I'm…normal…MAN!"

"Oh!" Emil said with a horribly forced smile. "N-Norm-Norman?"

I adjusted my hunched position behind the gravestone, but in doing so, I accidentally pushed the stone forward a bit. It went forward with a click to my surprise. Hearing the noise, Norman and Emil both turned to me.

"Huh? Lav – uhh, Dipper!" Emil exclaimed.

Before I could respond, the ground beneath me opened up and instead of a tomb being there, it was a slide leading down into the darkness. I was still holding onto the stone but as if some force was pulling me in, I fell back pulling the stone back into a proper standing position before losing grip on it. The last thing I saw before being consumed into the ground was the name on the stone: Corin Vauer

I bit my lip and shut my eyes as I slid down for a while in a straightforward slant. At least it didn't have any crazy loops like in the movies. I gradually came to a stop and opened my eyes, but it was still too dark to see. When I looked up, the opening where I had fallen in had closed probably because I pulled the tombstone back up.

I got up and slowly started walking forward, waving my arms out around me to ensure I wasn't going to crash into anything. The slide was still at a slight slant but eventually leveled out as I walked on. At one pointed, I knelt down to try to feel the ground underneath the slide, but when I could only feel air, I dared not step off the slide.

"Corin Vauer, you have a very spacious tomb, don't you?" I muttered, grumpily.

Suddenly, one of my steps didn't land on the slide but through the air and with a shout of surprise, I tumbled face-first onto dirt a few distance below.

"Ugh," I grunted as I pulled myself back onto my feet and rubbed my cheek where I had landed. I blinked a few times, noticing my eyes were finally, slowly adjusting to the dark. The path I had been walking on made a sharp turn that I couldn't have noticed in the dark. I looked around and saw there were walls but they and the ground were far away enough from the path so that I didn't feel too claustrophobic. With a shrug, I climbed back onto the path and followed it.

By the time my feet were aching and my legs were tired, I noticed stairs going upwards. I groaned, but grumpily started up the stairs.

"Stupid stairs," I murmured. "Couldn't there be some underground elevator or something?"

Finally, I made it to the top of the stairs and saw a square in the ceiling could be pushed off. I shoved off the square and blinked for a while to adjust to the light. I then reached my arms over and started climbing out.

Mabel's voice cried out, "Lavender!"

"Emil!" I said in surprise and confusion as he helped me out of the ground and closed the exit to the underground path.

I looked around and saw we were in a clearing in the forest. In the middle of the clearing near where I had popped up, was a stone platform with a strange shaped hole in the middle of it.

"Where are we?" I asked.

Emil shrugged and said, "I only got here because Norman showed me the way, but quickly left once I was close enough to make it to this stone thing on my own."

"I don't remember this," I remarked.

"Yeah, neither do I, but it somehow makes the gnomes nervous," Emil said.

I nudged Emil and teased, "How did it go with Norman anyway?"

Emil frowned at me then muttered, "It went well… Even though I thought I was being pretty scary when I was asking him where you went, he still became my boyfriend as he led me here."

"How did you know he would know about this place?" I asked as I went over to inspect the hole.

"After you fell, he said and I quote 'Grr, she's going to a dark place.' And so I asked where you were going," Emil said with a nod.

"Oh," I replied, poking my finger into the hole, but suddenly pain zipped through my body like electricity. I fell back and patted myself down in shock.

I was gasping for breath after the shock while Emil was frantically asking if I was okay.

"I'm fine," I breathed. Slowly, the shock ebbed and I could get up without feeling tingly. "I dunno what that was but the gnomes probably have a good reason for fearing this place. That was horrible! Let's get outta here."

...

Back at the shack, Emil checked the clock then growled unhappily, "He'll be coming over in a few minutes."

"Cool. Do you wanna look through the journal with me?" I asked.

Emil immediately brightened up and hurried over to the armchair with me look through the pages.

"So many weird things in here…" he murmured, taking the journal from me and flipping through the pages.

Eventually, the doorbell rang, making both of us jump. Emil's elbow bumped against a can of beans on the table, causing it to topple over.

"Heheh, beans," I said with a smile while Emil rolled his eyes at me.

He sat down next to me and crossed his legs. "You go answer the door. I'm really into this page right now."

I got up and opened the door to see Norman.

"Is…uh, Mabel…here?" he asked, looking around behind me.

"Yeah, come in," I said as I turned.

I noticed Stan enter the living room and Emil quickly hiding the journal.

"Mabel!" I called.

Emil rushed past Stan and over to Norman, exclaiming, "Hey, my new boyfriend is here! Norman!"

"'Sup?" Norman let out then turned to Emil and asked, "So, you wanna hold hands or…whatever?"

"Uh," Emil looked to the side uncomfortably.

"Well, see you two later. I'm going to my room," I said as I took the journal from Emil and went upstairs.

In Dipper and Mabel's room, I looked outside the triangle window and watched Emil awkwardly dealing with Norman.

"Haha, that's so weird," I laughed. "What if Norman really was a zombie?"

"It's a dilemma, to be sure," Soos's voice said from behind. I jumped a little when I realized he was there.

"Oh, Soos," I breathed out in relief. "How did you get there so quickly and silently?"

"Well, I couldn't help but overhear you talking aloud to yourself in this empty room," he pointed out.

I scratched the back of my head mumbling, "Oh yeah, I do tend to…do that. So Soos, do you ever notice any strange, mythical things around you?"

"Oh yeah, dude," Soos replied, nodding. "I'm always noticing weird stuff in this town. Like the mailman? Pretty sure that dude's a werewolf." I waved away the scene cut that would show the mailman Soos was talking about and let Soos continue. "But you gotta have evidence. Otherwise, people are gonna think you're a major league cuckoo clock."

"Oh, yeah, totally," I agreed.

I wondered if I should really get evidence when I already knew what Norman was and that Stan wasn't going to help in any way. Looking back out the window, I noticed Norman and Emil seemed to be playing a game of tag except that Emil looked genuinely scared. Norman wasn't even fast; Emil was just tripping over himself a bunch.

The next day, I woke up to see Emil was sitting in Mabel's bed with a look of dread on his face.

"Another date with Norman today?" I teased.

"It's the day he's gonna kidnap me!" he shouted at me. "Why did I do this to begin with? I am such an idiot sometimes. This could have been totally avoided if I just didn't go to the cemetery…"

"You're ruining Mabel's image with all the worrying you're doing," I said, patting his shoulder. "Just reject him and hurry back. Oh wait – it'll become a big gnome monster. I'll bring the leaf blower with me when I go over there."

"You're coming with me," Emil huffed, crossing his arms.

"Okay, okay. But I'm taking the golf cart. You walk with Norman," I ordered.

"You're having fun, aren't you?" Emil said bitterly. "I don't know why I am even going along with this. I'm crazy, that's it!"

I laughed for a while. Once I noticed Emil wasn't going to laugh this off with me, I looked at him and saw him just staring at me, but he quickly looked away when we met eyes. "Okay, I gotta get changed before Norman comes."

Once Norman and Emil left, I got the leaf blower and went over to Wendy, who was driving in with the golf cart.

"Uh, can I borrow the golf cart?" I asked. "I wanna drive around with my new friend, leaf blower."

She smiled coolly and handed me the keys and as she walked off, she called back, "Try not to hit any pedestrians."

Soos then came over with a shovel and said, "Dude, it's me, Soos. This is for the zombies."

"Thanks for introducing yourself again, Soos," I said, taking the shovel.

Soos then held up a baseball bat and said, "And this is in case you see a piñata."

"Alright! Thanks for this one especially!" I said more happily, taking the baseball bat.

I began driving over to the area where Emil said he would stall Norman. When I reached the area, Norman had already revealed himself to be a bunch of gnomes.

The gnome named Jeff was saying, "Us gnomes have been looking for a new queen! Right, guys?"

The rest of the gnomes shouted together, "Queen! Queen! Queen!"

Jeff continued, "Heh! So what do you say! Will you join us in holy matrignomey? Matri-matrimony! Bleh! Can't talk today!"

"Eh, ah, oh…" Emil let out uncertainly. He then spotted me somewhat hidden behind some trees. "Well, I don't think I can be your queen. I uh, was thinking maybe we should just stay friends, y'know?"

The gnomes looked crestfallen and I could see it where it was going. "Okay, no, we understand what you mean. We'll never forget you, Mabel."

Even from where I was, I could see Emil go pale. Just as Jeff was saying 'because we're going to kidnap you,' he kicked the gnomes away and ran towards me. The gnome he kicked away harshly in the stomach, fell to its knees and vomited rainbows.

I watched it in fascination as Emil got into the cart.

"Drive!" he shouted.

"Wait, you have to put on your seatbelt!" I scolded.

Emil quickly buckled his seatbelt as Jeff was calling out, "Wait! This is just a big misunderstanding!"

As I stepped on the pedal and drove away, I snorted, "Heh, them gnomes are so small and freaky."

We then noticed a large shadow cast over our cart. Emil glanced back and exclaimed, "They became the big gnome monster!"

I stopped the cart and climbed out with the leaf blower.

"Alright! How does this thing work!?"

Emil stared at me with wide eyes from inside the cart.

"Schmebulock!" one of the gnomes shouted as it jumped onto me.

"Gah!" I shouted out as it pulled it off of my head and hurled it away. "Okay, I'm getting back in."

I jumped into the cart, handing Emil the leaf blower, before slamming my foot onto the gas pedal and driving away.

"Emil! You do the leaf blower thing. I'm never good with those machinery stuff," I said.

The cart suddenly lurched into the air for a moment after riding over a big rock then landed roughly back onto the ground, making me veer the cart off the path and driving around trees wildly.

"Lavender, watch out for that shed!" Emil yelled. "Ahhh!"

"Quit shouting and let me concentrate!" I shouted back in frustration. "And that is not a shed! It's just a bunch of trees that fell together!"

I kept my foot firmly on the pedal and swerved this way and that to avoid the giant gnome monster and shake off a few that jumped onto the golf cart.

"That way, that way, that way!" Emil kept shouting.

I sharply turned the wheel in my panic before we crashed into wall of gnomes that attempted to block our path.

I glanced at Emil to see him wildly swatting away gnomes.

"GRAHHH!"

"AHHH!" We screamed just as we witnessed a great shadow overwhelm us.

A load of gnomes were thrown onto the cart and began gnawing at the top and crawling onto us. Emil took the baseball bat and began whacking them all away. At one point, a gnome got onto my face and he immediately jabbed it away, but continued to jab my face unknowing that it was gone since he had his eyes shut.

"Emil!" I barked, pushing the bat away with one hand.

"Oh, sorry!" he said quickly before whacking another gnome away.

Eventually we reached the shack where Grunkle Stan was showing his merchandise to tourists. I stopped the cart and we got out.

The gnome monster stomped over to us and Jeff said, "It's the end of the line, kids! Mabel, marry us before we do something crazy!"

"Okay! Come down here, then!" Emil shouted.

Jeff happily made his way down and held out a diamond ring. Emil didn't hesitate to suck him into the leaf blower and blast him into the gnome monster, scattering it back into a bunch of unorderly gnomes. He was also quick to blast away other gnomes who couldn't get away quick enough.

When he was satisfied, he put down the leaf blower and laughed. Although surprised at seeing that merciless side of Emil, I laughed too.

"That was great! I loved the look on all their faces!" Emil let out between fits of laughter.

We threw our arms around each other for a big hug then we both patted each other, awkwardly uttering in sync, "Pat. Pat."

"We watched this show way too much," I commented as I let go.

As we walked inside, Stan remarked, "Yeesh! You two get hit by a bus or something? Hah!"

Emil and I exchanged a glance then began making our way towards our room.

Stan then said, "Uh, hey! W-Wouldn't you know it? Um, I accidentally overstocked some inventory! So, how's about each of you take one item from the gift shop? On the house, y'know?"

"Oh! Cool!" I exclaimed. "Thanks Grunkle Stan!" I ran over to the pine tree hats and put one on. "I'm complete."

"Yeesh," was all Grunkle Stan said to me.

We then looked over to Emil who cautiously took out the grappling hook. When he glanced my way, I gave him a thumb's up. He then smiled and looked at Stan.

Stan leaned over to me and asked, "Wouldn't she rather have, like, a doll, or something?"

"Wah!" Emil shouted out. He had accidentally shot the ground with the grappling hook, which sent him flying back and landing roughly.

"Ahm, nah, she's fine," I reassured.

"Fair enough!" Stan said as he hit the cash register.

...

"It was a really tiring day today," Emil remarked as he set down the grappling hook carefully on the desk.

I jumped back into Dipper's bed and nodded. "But you know you should've done what Mabel did when you got the grappling hook."

"That's dangerous!"

"Dude, this is just a cartoon! And I mean, Link reference!"

Emil laughed.

It had been several days since we were sucked into this cartoon show called Gravity Falls. I knew eventually that we would need to work together to find a way back home instead of fooling around like this.

"Can you get the lights, Emil?"

"Okay." Once he turned off the lights, he said, "Good night, Lavender."

"G'night, Emil."

After fighting a hundred gnomes together with Emil, I knew he would always have my back. Something was telling me, there were more secrets to behold here than I originally thought. Even more than the show was letting on itself.