Hi. This is my first Gravity Falls story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls. If I did Gideon would have come back sooner and Pacifica would be in more episodes
The first chapter has been edited to go along with the story of the Last Mabelcorn episode that aired.
31-year-old Stanford Pines looked at his greatest achievement. A inter-dimensional space portal. He looked to his partner and college buddy, Filddleford Mcgucket, as they held a test dummy near the portal.
"Ready?" Stanford asked Fiddleford. "And…" Standford and Filddleford released the dummy. As they did the rope hanging onto the dummy got caught on Fiddleford's leg and pulled him into the portal. Stanford quickly grabbed the rope. "I got you buddy!" he said.
Stanford pulled Fiddleford out of the portal and quickly ran up to him. "What is it?" he asked. "Is it working? What did you see?"
Fiddleford's eyes twitched and muttered something. "What?" Stanford said.
Fiddleford sat up. "When gravity falls and earth becomes sky, fear the beast with just one eye!"
"Fiddleford get a hold of yourself. You're not making any sense!" Stanford said touching his shoulder. Fiddleford pulled back and looked at him. "This machine is dangerous." he said. "You'll bring about the end of the world with this. Destroy it before it destroys us all!"
"I can't destroy this, it's my life's work." Stanford said. Fiddleford shook his head and sighed. "I fear we've unleashed a grave danger on the world. One I just as soon forget." He got up and walked off. "I quit!"
"Fine!" Stanford said. "I'll do it without you! I don't need you! I don't need anyone!" Ford thought he heard someone whispering. "What?" he said. "Who said that?" Ford backed up against the wall.
"I need to get some sleep." he thought. Ford shut off the portal and went to bed. As he slept, he tossed and turned in bed.
Few weeks later…
Ford awoke with a start. He grabbed his glasses, put them on, and grabbed a pen and Journal number 2. Turning to a blank page he began to write.
"Something most unusual is going on." he wrote. "In my dreams I'm seeing myself running in space jumping onto books following a path. I don't know where it leads. I've had this dream for the past few weeks. I've been trying to avoid it, drinking coffee, busying myself with work. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in days. But every time I do for a few seconds I dream the same thing. It is most curious. I must figure out with this means."
Later on that night, Ford dreamt about the books in space. As he followed the path it led him to a cave. He walked around he noticed a painting on the cave wall. It looked like a yellow triangle…with a top hat?
"Strange…" Ford thought. The triangle was surrounded by ten symbols. Glasses, a question mark, a ice bag, a vaguely familiar symbol, a pine tree, a star with a eye on it, a six fingered hand, a llama, a shooting star, and a stitched heart.
Ford looked closely at the six fingered hand symbol. It looked like the hand on his journals.
"Could they be connected?" he thought. He noticed wording beneath the picture. The words were barely readable on the wall so Ford had to squint his eyes at them to read it. As he read he repeated the words out loud. He then heard something laughing.
"Hahaha!"
Ford woke up suddenly and wiped the sweat from his face. He reached for his glasses, pen, and Journal 2. He stopped and noticed that all the color had gone from the room and now was black and white.
"Well, well, well, six-fingers, glad to see you're finally up."
Ford gasped as a yellow triangle with one eye wearing a top hat, a bow tie and holding a cane floated in front of him.
"What…?" Ford said. "What is going on? Who are you?" The triangle nodded his top hat at Ford and held out his hand. "The name's Bill Cipher. How ya doin'?" Ford didn't shake the triangle's hand.
"Oh, I see." Bill said. "Shocked. I know. Didn't expect to see a floating talking shape did you, Ford?" "How did you know my name?" Ford said.
"Simple!" Bill said. "I know tons of things! Like for example how you have two younger siblings. Stanley and Sherman Pines. Haven't seen them for over…ten years now? Wow." "
What do you want?" Ford said. "Relax, six fingers. I don't want anything. I mean I want a few things, but that would take way too long to explain! Anyway, I'm here to help you!" "Really? How?" Ford said.
"You've been experimenting on the odd things in this town right?" Bill said. "The gnomes, that little shape-shifter thing, that new secret society that's been lurking around. I can help you find out about all the rest of the weird stuff that's in Gravity Falls! All you need to do is help me out with something I've been working on!"
"What is it?" Ford asked. "Meh, it's not important." Bill said. "We can work out the details later. So Six-fingers…" He stuck out his hand towards Ford. "Do we got a deal?" Ford looked at Bill's hand and grabbed it. "Deal."
"Great!" Bill said. "So…ready to figure out the mysteries of Gravity Falls?"
Ford got up and grinned. "Absolutely!" he said.
Over the next few weeks, Bill taught Ford about the numerous secrets of Gravity Falls. From a mystical amulet that would grant the user powers to the mysterious creatures that lurked around.
The more Ford learned from Bill, the more he trusted him. But one thing still nagged at Ford's mind. Fiddleford's cryptic warning about how when, "Gravity falls, and earth becomes sky, fear the beast with just one eye." Ford ignored the thought.
"It couldn't be Bill," he thought. "He's helping me unlock the secrets of this town."
"And I could help you even more." Bill said. "What?" Ford said. "Oh, did I never mention I could read people's minds?" Bill said. "It's true. Anyway, I can help you complete your research on this town!"
"How?" Ford said. "It's all leaking from some "dimension of weirdness" into ours." "Don't you mean the portal?" Bill asked. Ford sighed. "Yes, but with what happened to Fiddleford, I believe there's something wrong with it. I would have to fix it before it could ever start running again."
"No problem, smart guy!" Bill said. "I can help you fix it!" "Really?" Ford said. "Great! Let's go down to the lab and-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Not so fast!" Bill said. "I can help you fix it but I would need to be in your mind to do that." Ford looked uncertain. "I'm not sure…" he said.
"Aw, come on, Ford!" Bill said. "Think about what you're working on! This machine of yours will help you change the world! Oops, spoiler alert."
Ford looked at Bill. "Really?"
Bill nodded. "Think about 'll be next Edison. The next Einstein! I'll tell you what. We can even make a new deal! You'll be free from the old one. All you gotta do is let me help you." Ford thought for a moment. Was it worth it? He thought about what Bill said. He would be the next Einstein. He was going to change the world.
"And besides Bill wouldn't lie to me." Ford's mind was made up. "It's a deal." he said as he shook Bill's hand.
"Great, Stanford!" Bill said. "Please." Ford said. "Call me a friend." Together, Ford and Bill, fixed the portal.
One night as Ford dreamt he found himself surrounded by books in space. A red tear was appearing and Bill stood in front of it. "Ahahaha! You really did it, Six-fingers!"
"Bill, what is this?" Ford asked. "This was my plan all along!" Bill said.
"What do you mean?" Ford said. "Let's just say that once that portal finishes charging up, your dimension is gonna learn how to party!" Bill said.
"I'll stop you!" Ford said. "I'll shut it down!" "A deal's a deal, Six-fingers." Bill said. "You can't stop the bridge between our worlds from coming, but it would be fun to watch you try! Cute even!"
Ford awoke and immediately shut the portal down. Grabbing his journals he crossed out what he had written about Bill, and replaced it with the words, "DO NOT TRUST AT ALL COSTS!" Ford looked at all three of his journals. He had to stop Bill. He had to make sure his plans never work. Ford had no idea who to turn to for help though. He could trust no one now. He looked in the mirror and got an idea.
"Well," he said. "Maybe there is one person left I can trust…"
So, yeah. This is my first Gravity Falls story. Stanford running on some books and the cave thing I got from the Look Ahead video shown at Comic-Con. I'm probably wrong about what happens but I don't care. Would appreciate some feedback so I can make this story better. Thanks.