The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage

Chapter 1: The Summer of Light Brings a Summer of Courage

Beginning AN:

Welcome to SBIG! This is a series of purposefully badly done stories that care very little with making sense or trying to add any emotional impact. Or... that's the intent. This is sort of like a bad attempt at comedy. Now, two things I try to avoid with this when comparing the installments to other fics done bad on purpose. One is making them unreadable (but this... admittedly wasn't always a major focus of mine). Two is that this isn't going to get... too disgusting. Well, it might in some stories, but it won't rely on grossout factors as an entertainment value, and even the ones that do teeter into uncomfortable territory won't be trying to really 'outdo' other fics that do this. The only thing I try to trump myself in is the plot's stupidity. Not how hard it is to read it, and not how disgusted (or infuriated for that matter) you will be by it.

Anyway, if you want to read a more legit fan fiction by me about Gravity Falls, I'd highly recommend run:gifocalypse. As a matter of fact, and heck I'm probably spoiling too much as-is, let's just say that there's a reason why I think you should read that first becides that I am way more proud of my legitimate works than my intentionally poorly written series. By the way, this is the third-to-last installment of that. I already have an ending planned for "all of SBIG," it's just that because of the sheer plot volume this particular trigger is taking a really long time for me to pull. Well, here's the next step in pulling the trigger of the gun that will basically kill off my "I'm doing it badly and giving it a stupid plot on purpose" series, hopefully making more room for more legitimate fics from me in the future.

Speaking of run:gifocalypse, I'm just going to warn you in advance (and think of this as a 'reward' for reading my author's notes) that chapters 2, 3, and 4 will once each have the characters flat-out break the fourth wall to tell you to read it. There, see? I even told you when the running gag will end. Ahead of time. You can thank me later.


Before I "begin" proper this shit is like the opening to Gurren Lagann, except I PROMISE that this will ome up again and won't just be some throwaway that reflects an old version of the plot!

No, I really promise! This will be a perfect "in the middle" foreshadowing!

Anyway...

We start with a galaxy that zooms out and then there's explosions and stuff, and the camera zooms around to show like this giant battleship that the Mystery Shack is on. You'll find out what this is called later. A grown up (as in, 7 more years) Dipper walked out of the front door and on to the main ship thingy, with a normal, organic right arm but a left arm being like a robotic prosthetic. He held, in that arm, a family photo of him and Mabel, and smiled in sad memory.

But as he got on foreward and his badass cape blew in the wind (space-wind? they're also in space, by the way), he crossed his arms and looked around at like these seats that were taken by some other people that this story will eventually get to.

"Status report!" Said Dipper, this will foreshadow the eventual party.

One of them was Waddles, except now humanoid (he still has a pig head) and talking. And yes, he sounds like his device did in that one episode, so he's Neil Graass-Tyson.

"Well Dipper, everyone still wants to kill us." Said Waddles.

Dipper chuckled. "So there are trillions of galaxies, each galaxy with hundreds of billions of starts, each star could have some planets, and some planets could have some races, but each of those races has billions of people.

"And all of them hate us right now. i like thos odds."

He turned his attention around tot the rest of the crew.

"Quick check! Engines operational!?" He asked.

"All engines are functioning just fine sir otherwise we wouldn't have made it to space." Said what looks like a buff man, but with Journal 3 for a head.

"Fuel purfified?" Dipper continued asking.

"All fuel is pure and ready for comsumables!" Shouted the Pterodactyl with cyborg parts.

"Sails up?"

"Dude sails are great!" Responded Soos, who was naked and had these fairy wings but otherwise doesn't look that much older at all. He was censored by the controls.

"And finally, are the cannons done?" He asked.

Actually giving it some thought this party has too many naked dudes (Waddles and J3 are also both naked and covered by like the spaceship Star Trek control thingy), let's uh... this is totally in the name of equality and no other reason, but post-timeskip Wendy just had duct-tape over her nethers (it's a reference to this viedo "Kids 20 years from now," so it's an easter egg and not just a pervert), except her boobs were covered by hair and not tape which will foreshadow the Topfreedom Arc in chapters 11-33 and how they got it legalized.

"Alright them!" Said Dipper. "We're going to war with all the lights in the skiy, which are called stars!"

Then we got this badass walk of the whole crew walking together, and Mabel was notably absent. (So was Stan but I'd imagine he'd die of old age by that point so that's why HE's dead but not Mabel's death...) They slowly walked across the deck like those badass slow-mo movies, and we saw a shot of that the ship was like as big as... maybe twelve-ish Mystery Shacks, and Dipper used his real right arm to grab this drill thingy he had around his neck and it glowed a minty green. (Mmmm... mint.)

"SHACKAN LAGANN! SPIN ON! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?" He asked politely.


The moonlight of midnight was shining brightly over the town of Gravity Falls, where it then shone into a mirror and into the Journal #3.

It was time.

The journal grew a hand from the top and bottom of its back cover, and then legs from the side of the cover. This and not within the pages so you could still read it. Then, the journal stood up on the legs, and walked over to Dipper's bed, slapping him in the face awake.

"DIPPER IT IS TIME FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY NOW. THE MIDNIGHT HAS HIT AND YOU ARE NOW READY FOR THE TRUTH."

"...Just five more minutes." He said, drowsy.

"DIPPER YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I ENTAIL. I AM REALLY THE JOURNAL OF COURAGE. I WAS AN ORDINARY BOOK WRITTEN BY AN AUTHOR I DON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL ALL THREE OF US FELL INTO THE MAGIC OF THE TRIFORCE- MEAN TRIPLE FORCE OR SOMETHING? NOW, AS THE JOURNAL OF COURAGE, I HAVE SELECTED TO STAY WITH THE GUY WITHOUT A LOT OF COURAGE. JOURNAL 2, OF POWER, IS GOING TO SOMEONE WHO ORIGINALLY LACKS SOME POWER, AND JOURNAL 1, OF WISDOM, WENT TO AN IGNORANUS."

"Ignoranus?"

"IGNORANT ANUS."

By this point all of Journal 3's shouting got Dipper to wake up, so the journal didn't have to shout anymore.

"Okay so you are kind of a coward."

"Do you know about-"

"Shut up, I don't know anything. Any backstories. Or mysterys. But, now that the magic is activated, if you bring all of us together, and gather the 616 Keys, then all will be revealed. Your courage is necessary. I saw Journal 2 going down the woods trail so that could help."

"But I'm tired..."

"Dipper. Today is the day that a hero becomes the courage. Not tomorrow, not in five weeks, today. The now, is when the blood boils the courage inside you to full length."

"Okay then, if I have to."

Then Mabel woke up.

"What's going on? WAIT THE JOURNAL CAN TALK? How is it?"

"He not it." Said the Journal of Courage. "And Mabel, we are going to find one of my two brothers. Dipper look for it, you can go or stay, I don't really care. You're kind of obnoxious."

*Cue intro*


Outside, they saw Journal 2 walking down the road. Mabel chose to go by the way.

"I am sorry I have to do this." Said the Journal of Power.

Suddenly, out of the trees, was a Mabel lookalike! She had dark blueish-black hair to show she was eviler. Also her nose was a tiny bit pointier, like Pacifica and pointy noses are of meaner knockoffs like you see with witches fucking everywhere in media.

"Hello I am Nzyvo. The n is silent. I'll tell you more about me, but I have some things to do first. Like, getting this."

The journal of Power hopped into her arms.

"You see, I was kind of weak. So now that I have this I guess I will be a bit stronger. WATCH THIS: THE POWER OF POWER!"

Then she put her hand on the hand print marking, and started blazing on fire. Dipper tried doing the same thing, but it wasn't.

"She is using the Power of Power!" The second Journal of Power said, "I am actually a little hopeless since I didn't know she would be evil, but hopefully Dipper you can man up and us the Power of Courage! She's tapping into her inner power that she can't outwardly have at first, YOU must find the COURAGE!"

He kept trying to! But this was scary!

"DIN'S FIRE!" Nzyvo cried, then setting a big circle of fire out. Dipper and Mabel had to run away.

When they turned back, she was grappling hooking her way away. Mabel tried to reach for her own hook, before realizing that Nzyvo's WAS her own!

"That bitch stole it!" She cried. Because this was the movie, it was darker, and so there is more swearing aloud.

"Now can we sleep? Oh, who am I kidding, I can't sleep after finding Mabel has a twin!" Dipper told the journal.

"You already know she has a twin. His name is Dipper, idiot." Journal 3 said, then laughed at him. "Anyway, no. The last thing I want to bug you about is to start looking for the keys. When brought together, they can bring you to a mystic palace with unlimited power."

"What kind of power?"

"That will be revealed when you know what it is. Right now, I have no answers."

Dipper realized this and asked his next question. "Where to look then?"

"I can give you guides on the normal 616 keys, luckily all three journals were casted to do that. First - not first you can do them in any order - is the Key of Tree, located in that bush over there."

Dipper ran to the bushes and found a green, cool-looking key with a tree design near its middle.

"Then I guess the Key of Fire, which is a little bit more complicated."

He pointed over to a volcano. (Yes one of the mountains by Gravity Falls is a volcano.) Dipper sighed and started his treck.

"Do I really have to get them all one at a time?"

"No, some of them come in clusters."


Meanwhile, Nzyvo found the Dusk to Dawn convenent store, and walked in.

"Since I was born at 6 am though that means that even though this is legalogically my birthday, I am only still a kid for some more hours."

The ghosts inside nodded.

"Now, can you help me defeat this other kid? He has a crush on this annoying little teen."

Pa asked, "But then, will we be turning against our believes?"

"No. He's a jerk, and I'm innocent. Now, if you will, I will add something to this haunted store. A piloters, so that it can attack."


Dipper got the key, after having to put out a mysterious campfire-looking thing (thankfully not going INSIDE the volcano hahahaha). He then got Journal 3 back out, and Mabel nodded.

"Okay, that was easier than I thought. Now what?"

The volcano errupted.

"Now to run. But later, the Key of Water."

Suddenly, there was shaking, and it wasn't the volcano! It was Nzyvo, and she had this... gray cube face-looking tiny mecha, attatched to the Dusk to Dawn store on top of it. And the store was walking after them with arms and legs made of stone that were grown from it!

"EAT LED, BIRD-BRAINS!" She cried, and used some custom-made missiles that sprung out from the store, and started shooting them at the twins! They ran down, dodging them on their way to the ground level.

"What to we do?" Dipper asked, having to jump at times.

"The no idea!" Mabel replied.

"Maybe we can break into them somehow, and see if that will be the one to stop them!"

Nzyvo got out an evil grin as she pushed a button, and then drills sprung off from the arms of the convenience store.

"TAKE THE CONVENIENCE STORE... OF DEATH!"

And then the drills started rocketting off of its hands! Dipper frowned as he noticed that the store-mecha was too fast and he couldnt' do anything to save himself or Mabel, and that was emphasized when its hand grabbed her up!

"NO! MABEL! GRRRR..."

He channeled his power, or should I say courage, and then the journal glowed green, and things got windy.

"YOU LET HER GO YOU EVIL BUILDING!" Dipper cried.

"Or else what?"

"POWER OF COURAGE! GO!"

The wind intensified but then... it just made a little ball of light. The wind stopped.

"That's all it can do? Shoot."

Dipper was taken in the other hand. He struggled and struggled but Nzyvo laughed.

"Dipper Pines! You are so stupid, did you know that? But not stupid enough to get the Journal of Wisdom, I guess!"

"Do you know anything about it's wherabouts?"

"I wish! I really really wish! All I knew is that your Great Uncle lied to you, and had it the whole time!"

Dipper gasped! And so did Mabel! This took place before Not How He Seems, by the way.

"UNHAND ME!" Dipper shouted. Nzyvo shrugged.

"Okay, but you wouldn't like it."

She tossed them into the sky, then suddenly, the new feet of the store jumped up, and Dipper and Mabel crashed in through the roof into the store itself. There, they saw the ghosts.

"YOU AGAIN!" Dipper cried, "I remember you! But Mabel doesn't since she was high."

"This be right." Pa said, with an errie laugh to remind us of his ghostness.

"Then why are you fighting us? You know that we're both twelve- oh... shoot. We're thirteen. B-but Nzyvo should be too!"

"Yes," Ma explained, "But not really. You see, you were born at 6 AM, and Mabel and Nzyvo were at 6:05. So we decided that since you're not teens yet, we can still listen to you. Barely. Anyway, Nzyvo we're helping to defeat you two because you'll be two teens in the future, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

"That's the wrong phrase I think..." Mabel said with a finger up like people usually do in cartoons when trying to tell someone they're an idiot but too scared to say it outright since they'll probably kill you. "Journal, do you have any idea?"

"How the hell should I know? I'm not the Journal of Knowing Stupid Metaphor Crap. Shove that question where it belongs: A landfill." Journal 3 said.

"Either way," Pa said, "The point is, teenagers become giant cocks. So what's more fitting than killing you that way?"

"EWWWW! NOOOO!" Both the Pine twins said at the same time. But then they spawned a giant, killer ghost rooster, and they both breathed in fresh air of relief. But then they were scared since the rooster also had really sharp teeth and claws and could spit out acid.

The rooster chased them around like in a horror episode, shooting acid balls all over the place, and also melting part of the store. But not since it was all just a ghost illusion thingy (that could hurt people but not hurt convenience story). It got to a point where Mabel was surrounded by a half-ring of acid that was bubbling, and she was backed up against the glass doors. She looked out to see that it was still flying through the sky, somewhere outside of Gravity Falls by now, because that was an extreme jump.

"MABEL! I'LL SAVE YOU!" Dipper cried, scurrying over to the ring, jumping over it, and the journal glew green again.

"DO A THING AGAIN!" He cried as he jumped to her, then there was a flash and a lot of wind from that spot, and they were gone.

"CRAP! FAROERE'S WIND!" Nzyvo slapped herself in the face. "I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING! THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE POWER OF COURAGE!"

On this little circle-screen thingy that normally shows colors and spirals, it clicked to a picture of Ma.

"Hey, just to let you know, they vanished-"

"I KNOW THAT! I CAN MAKE THIS SCREEN SHOW WHAT'S HOOKED UP TO YOUR CAMERAS!"

"Should we go back?" Pa asked. By this point, they finally stopped rising in the air and were going back down.

"No. Keep on course. Now, Journal, tell me where to find the keys."

"Sorry, idiot," Journal 2 said, "Keys is the third journal of courage's stuff. Each of us has a certain something. I, however, can locate an object. It may not be as strong as what the keys unlock, but damn if it's not something cool, and there's only one of it so you'll find it now."

"So we're not after a key?"

"No."

Nzvyo took a breath in, then pushed a button, and a canopy-like thingy that kind of looked like a cubic brain stretched over the cockpit of whatever cube thing Nzyvo was in. With that, they took a plunge under water, and that water zoomed out to be... THE CENTER OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE!


(Gravity Falls Mountain Thingy, a bit earlier)

Dipper and Mabel respawned back where the bright light was first set.

"Where are we?" Mabel asked.

"Back in Gravity Falls. It must have been a teleport." Dipper reasoned. He opened the journal and looked through it for answers. "I don't see anything like this before! Anyway, that's done, now, Mr. #3, tell me what's the next key."

"The water key. In lake Gravity Falls."

Dipper sighed.


(Under Ocean)

Because of the combining process, Nzyvo's mecha was now water-tight, and they could stay submerged around. Well Nzyvo. The ghosts were already water proof since they have already dead. However, Nzyvo took off her sweater, put the journal in a secret waterproof compartment, and put it back on then opened the canopy. The journal glowed red from her front, since it was the front of her sweater that had the compartment. Nzyvo held a hand out, and a fireball shot through and blew up this suspicious looking rock that was shaped like an eye.

Teeth-gritting, Nzyvo swam herself over to the wreckage, and found a ring. She put it on, and it started glowing, with a red arrow pointing to the store.

"A ring, that points to the supernatural." The journal of Power said, "Useful, for someone, who seeks the power. Since you did spend weeks around the town and came up with nothing until finally these guys."

Nzyvo smirked.


(Gravity Falls Lake)

"So that was the key of water." Dipper said, re-emerging after getting it from between some rocks. "But before we move on, can you tell me how to tap into your power?"

"Yes. You see, the journals are attracted to people who lack the aspects. That's what was given before. However, it is the honest will to get said aspect that makes the more powerful. Seek courage, and the Power of Courage will seek you and light the way. Anyway, there's a group now. Keys of leaf, oak, vine, bush, grass, thorn, rose, daisy, and violet."

"Huh? Those are all tied to plants in some way."

"Yes. Keys tend to sort of come in groups like that if they are hidden somewhere more guarded. The tree, fire, and water keys were just easier versions of these nine-fold keys. Now, you'll have to comb through a forest dungeon to the end to get them. Do you know the Bunker? There's also a staircase going up. Use that staircase, to go up, into the leaves, and follow this hollow tube to go there, and find your way through that dungeon."

They made their way over there, and climbed up, and it was a bit exhausting, since it was a maze of trees with a lot of deliberately sharp thorn things, but Mabel was cutting her way through. PS, Dipper and Mabel slept a lot since they fell asleep by seven last night due to hard work in that day, explaining why they aren't tired.

"Okay! what's next?" Dipper asked.

But suddenly, something broke through the tunnels! It was the hand of that Nzyvo mech! Dipper and Mabel fell out, to see them there!

"Now it's over!" Nzyvo said!

Then the store fired out a TON of tiny drill missiles! That can explode! But the blast was shielded by... it was STAN PINES and his goth cart!

"Stand back kids!"

"We're too late." Dipper said, "All we must do is fight, because if we run, she will blow us up."

"Who?"

"Her name is Nzyvo. She looks a lot like Mabel."

"But with bad fashion sense! Ew!" Mabel added.

On the screen doors, a TV screen with her face on it appeared. "I can see that the golf car has protected you. But, I will continue looking for items and try to murder you all in your sleep."

"Good luck on that! I saw so much scary stuff that I'm having trouble sleeping!" Dipper shouted.

"HA!" Nzyvo cried. Then she lept off back to her base. Oh yeah, she took the store with her. That part's really important too.

"Kids, what was all of this?" Stan asked.

"Well, the Journal Came to life and started saying that I needed... the keys."

"Not just any keys!" Journal of Courage jumped out of the hiding spot Dipper put it (not in the front of his pants that would be obvious. He hid it in the front of his shirt because what guy would want to look like he has boobs?) and spoke. "Hey old gieser, we're on your side. These keys are the KEY (heh) to defeating her, and uniting the worlds, and stopping the apocalypse."

"So you know I had journal one then."

"They know more about the journals than you you idiot. Sadly it's too late. Dipper dug himself too deep. But, with the Power of Courage, he can dig his way up to and past the heavens. And without the Power of Courage, Dipper would be dead. Maybe Mabel too. Now, follow me, we have the key of flame, of blaze, heat, smoke, lava, molten earth, hell, heck, and firework. It's under the tunnels of the mountain."


(Mountain)

"Boy was that hot." Dipper said, getting the pile and adding it to the keychain. PS, Journal of Courage gave that to him. Stan said, "Look, I have a lot of important things to do, mostly involving money. I hated crawling through that tunnel. I'm out."

"Okay, finished?" Dipper asked to the journal. "This is one monotonous task."

"This will take forever if we keep stalling to goof off. Soon, I sense that Nzyvo will return with the Power of Creatures, and become more of a slowdown than she already is."

"Even more?" Mabel whined.

"Droplets. Condensation. Mist. Wave. Bubble. Cloud. Seawater. Ice. Snow. Get to it, chop chop, looking around the little sea temple thingy under the center of the lake."

Dipper groaned.


(Evil Secret Base)

"Okay, what I will need, is the power to counteract with that golf cart. That part I know. But what else can I get..."

Her base was really just another part of the forest. Nothing special there.

Ma and Pa shrugged, "You can always have that spiral thingy. " The first said, "We are weird ghosts that can do weird things like trap people inside of 2-D objects, and even we don't understand how your energy that powers this work. I mean, that machine can even tap into ghost powers that can tap into machines..."

"Hey though," Nzyvo said, "In a few hours, you'll hate me. So I need to find replacements. I'm glad I found you two while I can still join forces with you, but that supernatural seeking is easier with this ring, I can just see more permanent people." It started glowing. "Hrm. There's one right under the forest in Graivyt Falls. Let's go there now!"

They leaped to a certain tree. But not just any tree dun dun dun... IT WAS THE AUTHOR FORD'S! (This takes place between Blind Eye and Gift Shop of Horrors so this was before Ford was invented.)


(Gravity Falls Lake)

Dipper submerged from the place location with all the keys in hand, taking a breath out. "Okay, now can I go to sleep?"

"Eh... your funeral." The Journal of Courage said. "It's not your life I give a crap about so much as saving the Earth yada yada yada."

"Then does Journal of Power evil for wanting it dead?" Dipper asked, seriously.

Mabel gasped. "Nzyvo sounds like evil! It makes sense!" She said, sillyously.

"No, because Nzyvo wants to remake remodel the world, not destroy it, and reinforce it. Or something. Her goal falls somewhere around that spectrum, I don't personally know but ask the journal of Power. That was sarcastic. I wasn't informing that to you Dipper since you knew that, but your retarded sister. Anyway, we don't care if the guy has to sacrifice a few lives, just if it reaches, like, millions or thousands or something high. Until then that's why the keys are a higher priority, so chop chop."

"Your rude." Dipper said to the journal.

"Yeah, but I'm your only hope. So deal with it."

"Well I'm going to sleep. Jesus, crawling through those dungeons and going around was long."

Then he saw the store again! By the bunker!

"HEY!" Dipper shouted, "NO! That place has leads on the author! I will not let you "

"LOOK I WASN'T TRYING TO KILL YOU NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU GOD!" Nzyvo said, "I JUST ACTUALLY WANTED YOUR JOURNALS! I WOULD HAVE HAD THE GHOSTS USE THEIR GHOST POWERS TO PUT A BUBBLE AROUND YOU! I ONLY WANT YOUR JOURNAL!"

"BLEH!" Dipper cried, as he and Mabel epically ran to the tree. Nzyvo activated the lever, but then looked at the twins and put on a meh face and had the robo arm grab them and stuff them back into the store. They tumbled through the door and around the floor, and because of Ma and Pa's ghost gravity they were not sliding because the store was at an angle looking into the bunker's staircase.

"PROOVE IT!" Dipped shouted to her. "Don't use these ghosts to kill us, they're hostile! Just uh... fight me like a woman for the journals!"

The ghosts looked at eachother. "Um, yeah." Pa said, "Nzyvo, I agree. This kid's conflict is getting too much. And... even if what you said about the two birds and one stone, we really shouldn't try to torment them or anything. We still think the Dipper's lamb dance was cute. We're leaning towards... neutral for now."

Then Dipper looked at his watch and smirked, just as a drill opening formed and she dropped down from her mech into it. Holding up the Journal of Power, Nzyvo shouted "THE POWER OF POWER!" and started burning on fire red. But it was also somehow fire-proof, so the journal didn't burn away.

Then she started charging after them - but then.

"HEY!" Ma shouted, "It's now 6:00 am. That's when your birthday was legally. I know the journals consider it midnight because that's the mystical cool way of everything being in midnight (see: Shrek the second when they comment on this I think), but we do things the technical way."

Dipper shoved Mabel out the door before the ghosts could notice.

"Nzyvo..." Pa finished, "You are now... 13... which is officially a teenager. We'll turn against you. Mabel, you too- drat. Anyway, Dipper, you're free for five more minutes."

Dipper nodded, and ran out as things started flying around Nzyvo. But she stared up and scowled at them.

"FINE! However... this is still technically in control of my Laghanhanhhaaan! And it's overall powerless without someone to give imput to the Laghanhanhhaaan itself! And since I'm down here, that means nothing!"

Then sparks and green light stuff was going all over the place. It was the mecha interfiering with the ghost's powers!

"NOOOO!" Both of them cried while Nzvyo ran to the end and hit the wall on her left, which is away from the direction of the Into the Bunker Tree. Because of this slight tilt, the legs the store was standing on fell and wobbled, then the whole thing broke. The mecha uncombined and all the new weapons dissappeared and Ma and Pa were floating there with shocked expressions, while the Pines twins kept running away. By the way, ever since the "Nzyvo..." line, Nzyvo herself stopped lighting herself on fire. Now it was Nzyvo's turn to cross her arms and smirk.

"Well" said Ma, "We chose to be haunting ghosts making us more powerful but at the cost of having to stick within a general region and now that region is gone and so we're technically out of the region just floating in its ruins having no idea how to get back so we are just..."

Then, like Death Note's default deaths (this isn' them re-living their deaths) they had heart attacks, and fell and died. Then ghosts came from their ghosts and they floated up to Heaven where they might meat Jesus if you think that's what happens to the dead. "WE'LL HAUNT YOU SOME DAY!" They both shouted.

"Yeah... no. Anyway, back to permanent help." Nyzvo said, smiling at her ring and walking... Into the Bunker.


(Mystery Shack Addict)

Dipper and Mabel were about to sleep.

"Wow, that was one day. Er, night." Dipper said.

"Yeah, but think about that walk back home." Mabel commented, "Before we left, they said you would be a teenager in five minutes. I already was back then. And you are right... now." The watch ticked over. "It's kind of sad. We'll never be thought of as kids again. And there's a point where we'll never be seen as teenagers again. And young adults. And middle-aged adults. And... alive."

The Journal of Courage laughed. "Mortals are idiots."

Dipper sighed. "Should have must embraced my childhood then. I mean, you spent is as a kid. I spent it... digging up mysteries here, but at least I did something. This Nzyvo though... she's a lot of mysteries, but one thing I know, she wasted her children trying to be a villain of sorts. Actually that's just a bad waste of a life in general. Also playing too much video games and watching too much TV is a waste but let's not preach that here."

The Journal of Courage nicened up enough to say, "True, but as you grow old, so will your courage. That is the importance to know."


(Into the Bunker)

Nzyvo explored until she saw the freezing chamber. The ring was leading her to that, so she brushed a hand against it. She saw what looked like Dipper and gasped.

"CAN IT BE? Is this even possible? Clone 3 or 4, and you just got the pine tree on your hat?"

She ran to the unfreeze button, unfroze him, then ran back to his laxation. He was coughing and getting out of the frozen tube, then looked at her.

"Thank you for saving-" his voice changed. "Oh. It's you. Or... is it? What happened to your hair? Ew, it looks awful. I much prefer your older style."

"...Oh. Oh well, you'll do for the start of my permanent help..."

WKH NHB LV LQ RQH RI WKH VROR NHBV.

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Closing AN:

I'd like to get out of the way that this chapter isn't exactly what I have in mind for the rest of the story. I wrote it, in its entirety, a good two years or so ago and only really went back to it recently. Like, in mid-July. Of this very same year it came out. And I did not feel like changing it as much as I did with chapter 2's original plans and 2014-era writing (also, at least the bulk of chapter 2 was done on this year). So, in terms of tone and what will happen, this chapter could be considered the oddball before the story finds its footing. Although I do believe it's kind of rare for notes of a series to mention this at all, let alone during the "oddball beginning" chapter.

So if you enjoyed it, I hope you enjoy what's to come. If you did not, maybe you should keep reading anyway in case by some slight chance you'll find the next nine chapters to be a step-up and closer to the right direction? And if you just hate intentionally poorly written fan fics, rest assured: I will only post two more (well, and some mirrors/remakes/reposts of earlier installments) before a good chunk of the SBIG series as a whole reaches its end.