Mystery ShackGravity Falls, ORFriday May 30th, 2031
"Ran get back here," Debbie Pines called as her brother exited the Mystery Shack.
His rapid departure took him around the outside of the Shack towards the back of the lot towards the bottomless pit. Though to be honest he was actually heading out towards the woods. It was one of the places he could escape his older sister's wrath. He had almost made it when while looking back to see if she had been following him he ran into something solid. Turning his head he saw that it was only Antonio.
"Where you off to so fast amigo?" the muscular teen asked his young friend.
"Well, uhmm, I was… Wait what are you doing out here? I thought you were supposed to be out helping Mom and Dad with the feud between the Manotaurs and the Gnomes." Ran asked quickly attempting to deflect the focus off of what he was running from as Antonio would probably make him head back in to face his sister.
"We finished that early, they were arguing over a little stream that flowed right on the borders of their two territories. Over the last couple of days Harry and I have been out there digging a secondary channel to run some of the water out through the gnome territory away from the stream and we finally finished it and broke through the bank of the stream today. And to make sure it wouldn't deplete your dad used that special flashlight of his to increased the size of the water in the pond the stream originated." Antonio said with some awe in his voice even though he had seen Mr. and Mrs. Pines do some remarkable things in his lifetime. He saw that Ran was still looking over his shoulder every once in awhile and decided to ask, "So what did you do to your sister this time?"
Seeing that he wasn't getting out of this one Ran said, "Well your dad was looking for new ideas for displays and so I…" He fiddled with the hem of his shirt for a second, "Uhm, I glued a pair of wings from one of her butterflies to a taxidermied mouse an gave it a painted cocktail sword."
"And you didn't ask for permission did you?", Antonio asked as looked up and finally saw Debbie clearing the side of the Shack.
"No." Ran said with a dejected look.
"Ok, head on. I'll try to calm your sister down some. maybe you should try and find her some sort of recompense, amigo." Antonio said as he moved around his friend to partially hide him.
"Thanks Tone, you're a saint." Ran said as he headed into the woods to see what he could possibly find.
Antonio started back towards the Shack before 'accidentally' running into Debbie.
"Ooof, Debs." He said as he rubbed his stomach, "Where are you heading in such a hurry hermanita?"
"After Ran, he broke into one of my butterfly cases and tore the wings off of my Danaus Plexippus. All so he could glue them to a mouse," Debbie explained as her face contorted in fury, "a mouse. As if the wings of a butterfly could carry the weight of your average field mouse. Preposterous."
"Did you ever tell him to not use any of your butterflies?", Antonio asked as he attempted to diffuse her anger.
Debbie looked up at her friend and paused, thinking. Finally she said, "Well no, but still I don't go through his stuff like this."
"And didn't you recently use your dad's growth light to enlarge one of your butterflies for dad's hawk hunting moth display?" he continued as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah," Debbie said as she remembered the incident.
"And can you see how he might have thought it was ok then?" he asked as he gently turned her towards the Shack.
"I guess." Debbie responded as the two of them started heading back to the Shack to help finish the preparations for tomorrow's season opening.
Meanwhile In Town At Greasy's Diner
"I'm telling you, it's adorable. He's crushing on her so bad." Ginger Chui said as she sat talking to her compatriots of the day.
"Well then we need to figure out a way to get the two of them alone in a room together." Ed Northwest-Pines replied around a mouth half full of pancakes.
"Bro, don't talk with food in your mouth." Ricky Northwest-Pines said before he spooned in some scrambled eggs. Once he swallowed he continued, "Com'on you two, you've heard mom's story about what happened when she locked Debbie's parents up together, they were nearly killed."
"Yeah, but look at how it turned out. Aunt Wendy and Uncle D got together and got married." Ed replied after he finished the food in his mouth.
"Eventually. They went through a lot of stuff according to mom before they finally got together." Ricky remarked.
"Yeah, yeah." Ginger said with a smile and a dismissive wave of her hand. "But they got together. We can do this. We just need to find a secluded room and lock the two of them in, it'll be 낭만적 인!"
"How will essentially forcing them to play 'seven minutes in heaven' ever be romantic?" Ricky asked to the astonishment of the other two. "What, you two thought I wouldn't catch on to the fact that you two would start talking in Korean whenever you wanted to play matchmaker. Sorry momma didn't raise any dummies, present company excluded of course."
"Bro, you wound me." Ed said in mock pain to his twin and then took another bite of his pancakes.
"Shesh, when did you find time to learn 한국어?" Ginger asked once she finally got over the shock.
"Well I'm no where near fluent. A couple of months back I got tired of the two of you always trying to fix me up and planned on putting an end to it. It was then that I noticed how you two seemed to have a language of your own. I happened to ask mom about it one day and she told me how your mom used to start talking in her native tongue when she had something she needed to say but didn't want anyone to understand her." Ricky said as he gathered up another fork full of eggs. With a smile he continued. "I figured it would have been easy for you to teach my dear brother here some with all the nights the two of you spend at each others houses. So I went to Miss O'Toole at the library and checked out a couple Korean made simple CD's and How To books."
"Wait a minute, Mister 'I can do it tomorrow' actually went out of his way to study something?" Ed asked after he swallowed his pancakes.
"Real funny," Ricky said before he slid out of the booth, "I'm gonna hit the restroom, if Jerry comes by before I get back try to pay. Just cause mother owns the place doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to pay."
"Alright, I'll try again." Ed replied as he shook his head. He knew it would be useless, behind the register and in the kitchen were pictures of the whole clan with do not charge written in bold letters. There were addendums to the pictures also, mom and mother had implemented a family eats free program for employees of the Diner after their mother found out one of the waitresses that she used to work with was struggling to make ends meet after her significant other had died in a plane crash leaving her to support their four kids. Since then the employees all got a raise and any employee could bring their family in for a free meal.
Ginger waited till Ricky was out of earshot before she blurted out, "Ok, now that he's gone have you made any progress on figuring out who he has a crush on? We need to know if we want to work our magic."
"He's been even more tight lipped than usual. I thought that maybe it was one of his baseball teammates but I struck out there." Ed said as he looked around to see if Jerry was near so they could put up the charade of trying to pay for their bill. More than likely they'll have to leave the money as the tip like usual.
Ginger reached across the table and grabbed Ed's hand. "We have to find out, it's for love's sake."
"I promise you, we will." Ed replied as he stared into his friend's hazel eyes.
At The Gravity Falls Mall
Stacey Mauslien is pushing a stroller through the food court, "Alright short stuff what do you want to do today?"
"I want ice cream!" Guinevere 'Genie' Northwest-Pines called from from her stroller.
"We'll see. How about we hit a few stores first. I saw some cute plushies when I was here the other day." Stacey said to her three year old charge.
"Okay. To the animals." Genie said with a smile.
Stacey started pushing the stroller away from the food court towards the rest of the mall. She was heading towards A.H. Toys, that always got the attention of the little gremlin she was babysitting.
"Hey Stacey," voice called out from behind her as they neared their destination.
Stacey stopped and turned to see who had called her. She saw it was Gentry Scott from school, he was in her chemistry class last semester. They had spoke a few times and were part of a group project near the end of the term, but really they didn't interact besides that. They were part of two totally different social groups, He was a preppy jock and well she wasn't. She had no idea what he would want with her.
"What do you want Gentry?" She asked as she looked down to check on little Genie.
"Well it's like this, some of the guys were getting a group together to go the lake in a few minutes. I was wondering if you wanted to go?" Gentry asked cockily.
"Well, I'm sort of busy at the moment." Stacey said pointing at the stroller.
"Hi ya!" Genie called out to the guy talking to her friend Miss Stacey.
"Well why don't you just dump the twerp back off with her parents." Gentry said looking down at the cute little three year old. He watched her smiling face turn into a frown as she realized he was trying to take her friend away.
"I can't do that even if I wanted to," Stacey said smiling down at Genie.
"Yay!" Genie called out from the stroller.
Gentry shot a dirty look at Genie before he said, "Hey it's just a babysitting gig. I'm sure you could get the money from somewhere else."
Little Genie looked shocked, she knew that Stacey was paid to watch her but was that the only reason. "No! Stacey my friend!"
Stacey got down on one knee next to her little charge and hugged her before turning to back to Gentry, "Money's not the issue, it's because I took on the responsibility of watching over my little friend here."
"So you'd choose this little gremlin over a chance to go out to the beach with me." Gentry asked with a disbelieving look.
"You a Poopyhead!" Genie called out.
"Genie!" Stacey chided before she started giggling at what lil Genie had said. She really couldn't think of a more apt description of the guy in front of her.
Seeing that he was getting angry she grabbed a self-defense item that Mr Pines had given her after a misunderstanding with the gnomes when she was younger. Standing up she made sure to put herself in between Gentry and Genie. "Look Gentry, I said I'm not going so why don't you just head on towards the lake on your own. Neither of us wants to make a scene, ok."
"You know what, I thought you were gonna be different. Forget it, I'm gone." and with that Gentry turned and headed back towards the food court exit.
"Sorry about that short stuff, some people can be jerks." Stacey said to her lil charge after she was sure he was gone, "What do you say about getting one of those plushies now."
"Goodie." Genie called as stacey began pushing her stroller into the toy shop.
Over at the food court entrance Gentry met up with a group of other teens. They were seemingly led by a African American girl in a red polka dot halter top and capris. She walked up to Gentry and placed a hand on his arm.
"I take it that she said no?" She asked him.
"Yeah, she was more worried about that gremlin she was with than getting spend to time with me. Can you believe that?" Gentry replied shaking his head, "Who does she think she is? I'm Gentry Scott. Next year I'm gonna be the captain of the football team and that pretty much makes me the Homecoming King. I mean I'm already one of the most popular guys in town."
"I told you she wasn't worth the effort, Gent. She hangs around with those Pines, so she thinks she's better than everyone." the girl said as she rubbed a comforting hand over Gentry's shoulder. "Tell you what, why don't I accompany you to the lake. I'll be much better company than Miss Thing ever would have been."
"You know what Kitty, I think I'll take you up on that offer." Gentry said before he put an arm around Kitty's waist as they walked out of the mall.
A Few Hours Later At The Mystery Shack
"Debbie! Ran! It's time to head home." Dipper Pines called out as he entered the Shack.
"Daddy!" Debbie called out as she ran up to him. She seemed to be anxious about something.
He looked around and though he saw Antonio walking into the room he didn't see his son.
"Hey Debbie, where's your brother?" he asked.
"I'm not sure dad. We got into a fight earlier and he ran off." she said as she tried to hold back tears, "I thought he would be back by now. I'm scared dad."
Welcome to my next-generation of the Gravity Falls crew. Ran & Debbie are Wendy & Dipper's brood. Ed, Ricky, & Genie are Mabel & Pacifica's kids. Grenda II & Ginger belong to Grenda & Candy respectively. Antonio is Soos & Melody's son. Stacey is Robbie & Tambry's daughter. Kitty is Blubbs & Durland's adopted daughter. Colin Corduroy (who has not yet been met) is Marcus Corduroy's son. And Harry (Hairystone, mentioned but not yet met) is Chutzpar's ward. There are rough pics up over on my DeviantArt accout.