Hello, internet! Welcome to the world's first Transcendence AU-Rebel Falls AU crossover event! Now, before we start, I would like to offer my most sincere apologies for keeping you guys waiting for so long. There were several contributing factors to my absence, ranging from a lack of interest due to a lack of access to Gravity Falls episodes to a particularly hateful troll from another fanfiction website I work on. But, now that I have the complete Gravity Falls series at my fingertips, and the aforementioned troll has finally been perma-banned from the other website, I see no reason why I can't return to my work, and what better way to do that, than relaunching this marvelous creation, while making improvements to the original versions? Anyways, enough babble, let us begin anew!
Prologue: Arrival
"I can say without a doubt that there are an infinite number of universes. Some are just like our own... but for one or two significant events, exactly the same."-Lex Luthor
Lying in the middle of a leaf covered forest floor, a strange being stirred. From a distance, the being appeared to be a human male in his early 20s. He had a mop of brown hair and wore a black tailcoat, a white dress shirt with a black ribbon bow tie, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. Lying on the ground nearby was a black top hat with a yellow stripe near the brim. However, this being also had bat wings grafted onto the lower part of his back, claws attached to the tips of his fingers, and had long, pointy ears, like Link from the Legend of Zelda. This being went by many names, but his personal favorite was Alcor the Dreambender, a dream demon known throughout the multiverse by the supernatural community as being even more powerful than Bill Cipher himself, and almost on par with that of an actual god, with entire cults and religions were devoted to him back in his dimension, where the supernatural and normalcy coexisted in somewhat peaceful harmony.
"Oh, man… try to hop between dimensions hoping to find a good place for a vacation and now look what happens," muttered Alcor, rubbing his black and yellow eyes as he simply laid there on the ground to recover his strength. After a few moments, Alcor picked himself and his hat up, fixing it upon his head, before magically summoning a cane, his eyes turning white and brown, his bat wings disappearing, and his elf-like ears reverting into normal human-like ones in the process. A glance towards the skyline told Alcor what he needed to know, for looming above him was a water tower that read Gravity Falls.
"Ah, home sweet home, then. Well, not my home sweet home, but still," Alcor muttered to himself. "Well, as long as I'm here, might as well take a little look around."
And with that, The Dreambender made his way through the forest and eventually came out onto the main road into what appeared to be a small, sleepy-looking town. As Alcor made his way into the town, he immediately realized that there was something very, very different about it.
Everywhere he looked, there was the image of a star with one eye dead in the center. It was on flags, displayed boldly on banners, painted on buildings, you name it. The insignia was one Alcor immediately recognized as belonging to Gideon Gleeful, an old enemy from his human childhood. But, why was his symbol displayed all over the place like it was?
A glance at a nearby wall made things get even crazier, and Alcor had seen some pretty cray-cray stuff over the last few centuries. On the wall were a bunch of wanted posters, and on each of them were pictures of all-too-familiar faces, all underneath the heading "Wanted By The Government On Orders From President Gideon."
Wendy, Grunkle Stan, oh, hey, he's crippled, thought Alcor as he moved down the line. Soos, Old Man McGucket, Great-Uncle Ford, don't know who the Hell Hazel Brown, Lillian Green, Faye Evans, and Jack Nightshade are, and… well, I'll be damned.
At the very end of the line of wanted poster came two painfully familiar faces, albeit they were a bit different than he remembered. One of the faces was of a young woman with long, dirty brown hair and the other was of a young man around his age who looked exactly like Alcor, with the exception of a few scars and scratches on his face, along with the beginnings of a small beard.
"Holy shit… I'm not even here for a full day and there's already mystery and intrigue. I wonder how Gideon got so-" said Alcor, his thoughts interrupted by the sound of multiple cocking guns.
Heaving an annoyed sigh, Alcor around to find a pack of what could only be soldiers clad in black helmets, masks, and body armor that bore Gideon's symbol on their chest plates, directly over their hearts, all of whom were armed with assault rifles that were pointed directly at him.
"Don't move, Pines," one of the soldiers, most likely the leader of the soldiers, ordered Alcor. "Get down on your knees so we can get this over with."
Alcor laughed. "Forgive me, but I believe you have me confused with someone else. I barely even know anyone named Pines," he said. Anymore, he added in his head.
"You really expect anyone to believe that pack of lies, Pines?!" snarled the soldiers' leader. "Get down on your knees, now!"
Alcor heaved a sigh. "Very well, then… if you insist," he said.
Slowly, Alcor sank down onto his knees, placed his hands behind his head, and closed his eyes, a small smile on his face. As the soldiers cocked their rifles and prepared to open fire, Alcor's eyes flew open, and when they did, they were glowing a solid yellow color, and as each of the soldiers made eye contact with the dream demon, their minds began to drown in their worst fears.
"SPIDERS! BIG, HAIRY, NASTY SPIDERS!"
"NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AHHHHHHH!"
"BUNNIES! EVIL, EVIL, EVIL KILLER BUNNIES! GET THEM AWAY FROM ME!"
"BATS! GET AWAY FROM ME, DEVIL BIRDS!"
"NO! I DON'T WANT TO BE ASHES! DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME, PLEASE, I NEED YOU!"
"SNAKES! WHY'D IT HAVE TO SNAKES?!"
As each soldier fell to the ground, consumed by their deepest, darkest, fears to the point of certifiable insanity, Alcor stood up, a confident smile on his face. "In case whatever's left of your rational minds is wondering, that was a little trick I picked up from a clan of Gremoblins that I got out of a spot of… bother… a few decades ago," explained Alcor, before he began pacing up and down, talking to himself as he did so.
"Okay, so Dipper Pines and his family and friends are wanted by the federal guvament, which is being run by Gideon Gleeful, aka Gidiot," said Alcor, shaking his head as he thought. "There's no way in Hell that little troll got so powerful by himself. The Bill Cipher of this universe must've cut a deal with him, and that can only mean trouble. It hardly ever means otherwise. Dipper and the others must be rebelling against Gideon and his regime… but, even if they win, the whole damn world loses. And yet, Dipper and I are one in the same, in a sense that makes us brothers, and I'm kinda marooned in this dimension for the foreseeable future, and perhaps beyond, so I therefore must help my temporal sibling…"
A few moments of pacing passed by before Alcor got an idea. "I know just what to do. I'll take a leaf out of the Sith's book and work a little magic behind the scenes to take Gideon down from within. Problem is, these guys saw me for who I truly am," rambled Alcor, glancing down at the vegetative soldiers on the ground. "So, that means I'll need to follow in Grunkle Stan's footsteps and create an entirely fake identity, which will take awhile, even with my powers… so, I guess I'll need to set up shop somewhere here in town. After that… I'll need to go on a very literal journey of self-discovery."
With a snap of his fingers, Alcor caused a jet black Lamborghini Diablo to appear seemingly out of thin air. The Oregon License plates read "TW1NSTAR."
Alcor snapped his fingers a second time, wiping the immediate memories of everyone within a three-block radius as a safety precaution in case anyone or anything had been listening in or watching him ramble. His tracks well-covered, Alcor jumped into his car and sped off down Gravity Falls' main roads, a wicked gleam in his eyes… he was going to show Gidiot, his insubordinates, and his puppetmaster a Hell of a time.
WHOO! It is good to be back! Anyways, join us next time for the modified and edited version of Chapter One! In the meantime, if you liked what you saw here, be sure to fav, follow, and review, and I'll see you guys next time!
