First fic of 2015 everybody! A brand new year with new expectations, new episodes coming through it and new ways to defy canon characterization and continuity so we can make our fanfiction the way we desire! MUAHAHAHAHA!
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Anyway, I start school the 5th day of this month, so updates might be a bit sporadic since I'll be busy. But, I promise all of you that I will do my best to give you the best this year.
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(Gravity Falls Forest)
Dipper Pines was walking through the forest, using a flashlight to light up the places that caught his attention. For the most part, all he managed to find was stuff he had seen before: size-altering crystals, gnomes, and other stuff.
However, that changed once Dipper used his flashlight on a cave, going inside to see the interior more clearly: the walls had a purple-ish color and the ground was brown, with a few minerals laying on it. Dipper didn't pay attention to them and he continued until he found something...intriguing.
"What is this thing?" asked Dipper in surprise.
What Dipper was seeing was a large object that had the shape of a matryoshka doll, although it looked more hollow and uncanny than the average matryoshka doll. It was also glowing a white color, further catching the kid's attention.
The instant Dipper touched the matryoshka doll-like thing, his whole body was covered in a white light, with Dipper feeling his body change and get smaller and smaller before being teleported out of the forest. Once that happened, the white glow of the object disappeared, and It's face suddenly formed into a malicious smirk.
(The Mystery Shack, Dipper and Mabel's Bedroom)
Once Dipper had arrived back to his room, on the desk with the lamp to be exact, the white light covering him disappeared and showed what had happened to him: he had been turned into a matryoshka doll, though instead of turning into a matryoshka doll that contained gradually smaller dolls inside, he turned into the smallest: the baby-sized doll.
Unaware of what happened to him, Dipper tried to walk, but he instead wobbled since he didn't have any feet. Once he wobbled enough to see the mirror, the sight he got was...one that didn't made him happy, to say the least.
"W-What is this?!" asks the boy in complete shock at his reflection. "What happened?!"
The boy was suddenly disturbed by the sound of the doo being kicked open, turning around to see Mabel being the one who kicked it. The girl went inside as Dipper tried to call her.
"Dipper!" called Mabel, walking and looking around the room as Dipper tried to get her attention. "Dipper I need the book 3 for a moment! I just found something strange in the forest and I wanna see if your book has any information about it!"
The girl got no response...or at least, not a response that was loud enough to get to her ears. "Dipper, where are you?" asked Mabel, looking around before spotting her brother, leaning forward with a raised eyebrow. "When did we got this funny looking doll, and why does it look so much like Dipper?"
"Mabel, it's me!" exclaimed Dipper in frustration.
"Gah! possessed doll who somehow knows me!" screamed the girl in response, quickly grabbing a golf club laying nearby and getting ready to destroy the doll as she spoke. "Die you monster of unknown origin!"
"Wait Mabel, don't do this! It's me, Dipper!" exclaimed Dipper, managing to stop the girl for a brief moment before she got ready to strike. "I can prove it: You have a pair of friends named Candy and Grenda, you were the girlfriend of a puppeteer, and you're older than me by 5 minutes!"
"Oh my goodness, it really is you!" exclaimed Mabel, glancing at her golf club and throwing it away with a sheepish smile before returning to her brother. "Sorry for almost killing you, but you gotta admit that getting scared after hearing my brother's voice from a matryoshka doll is a legitimate response. So anyway, why do you look like a funny-looking doll?"
"I believe they're called matryoshka dolls. And I don't really know." answered Dipper, wobbling back and forth as Mabel looked with an amused expression. "I simply touched a rare artifact and...wait, snap! idea!"
"Why do you say snap?" asked the girl.
"I just remembered I don't have any fingers that I can snap, so I have to say it out loud. Quick! Grab 3 and find a page with a strange object that looks like the doll I became!"
The girl shrugged and did as told, looking around before she managed to find 3 under Dipper's pillow. Sitting on his bed, Mabel started to search the pages in order to find what Dipper required, and it didn't took long before she found the page and showed it to her brother.
"Okay, the name of the object is Nest of Matryoshka." started Dipper. "It's origins are unknown, but the same cannot be said about it's ability. When it shines with a white light, it compels whoever sees it to touch it, and thus they turn into a matryoshka doll and are teleported back to their home. After doing that, it smiles and waits to see what happens to the victim of it's power. If anybody touches the victim, they will turn into a matryoshka doll as well. The only way to turn back after touching the object, is to touch it again, and they will turn back to normal and have a limited time before the object and it's resting place self-destruct...wait what!?"
"So let me get this straight." started Mabel, using a tone that made evident her complete disbelief as she close the book and put it on the bed. "You touched a funny-looking thing, which was in a cave inside the forest. It teleported you back here because this is where you started, and the only way you're gonna be able to turn back, is to touch the crystal again, upon which it will self-destruct along with the cave?"
"That seems to be the case."
"Then I got one single question: WHY DIDN'T YOU BROUGHT THE DARN BOOK SO YOU COULD USE IT BEFORE TOUCHING THE DARN THING?!" scolded Mabel, putting her hands on her hips.
"Mabel, just like how you can be snarky and intelligent instead of an overly idealistic simpleton, I can be stupid and dumb once in a while." answered Dipper in a blunt tone, still looking at the book.
Once Dipper looked at his sister, she was holding a hammer with one hand, while she held a nail on the other. "What was that comment about me being an overly idealistic simpleton?" questioned Mabel, giving the boy a furious glare.
"Nothing! Nothing!" shouted Dipper in a panic, Mabel throwing away the nail and hammer after hearing it. "Either way, the most important thing about this, is that if anybody, human or animal alike touch me, they will also turn into a sentient matryoshka doll! We have to find it as fast as we can!"
"But how are you supposed to go search for the object? You don't even have any feet, you can barely wobble around like gelatin." pointed out Mabel.
"Well, matryoshka dolls are made of wood, so maybe as long as I don't slip or fall from a great distance I'll be fine." replied Dipper, jumping off the desk before finishing. "Huh, I didn't break in pieces! Guess I'll be fine for now."
Mabel got off the bed and grabbed the golf club she held earlier, going to the door and opening it with Dipper wobbling as fast as he could as he followed her to the staircase. "Here we come, downstairs!" exclaimed Mabel in excitement, lifting her golf club high in the air.
(Meanwhile, downstairs)
The sound of someone hitting the stairs was heard as the twins got closer to the ground, soon turning out to be Mabel who was making the noise. She hit a few more stairs before landing sprawled on the ground, uttering "ouch" once Dipper accidentally fell on top of her. "Sorry Mabel." apologized Dipper as he got off.
"Well, I did blindly run straight towards a staircase." remarked the girl as she got up, stretching for a bit before resuming. "Now, let's not question why I didn't turn into a doll when you landed on top of me and think about what to do next."
"Hi guys!" greeted a familiar teenager voice.
"Oh hi Wendy!" loudly greeted Mabel as she quickly stepped in front of Dipper to hide him from view. "What are you doing here so early?"
"It's not so early, besides I wanna keep my slacking off record intact." answered Wendy with a proud tone on the second part. "If I slack off another day or two, Stan says I'll get a trophy. He was probably being sarcastic though...Mabel what are you hiding?"
"Hiding? What do you mean?" asked Mabel, making a goofy face and trying to avoid eye contact at the same time.
"You're hiding something behind you, you're even doing the goofy face someone makes when they try to avoid eye contact." remarked Wendy, pointing at the girl's face as she started to sweat.
"I-I'm not-not hiding anything, promise! Nothing is hidden, nothing!" stammered Mabel as she looked around as she thought for an excuse.
Wendy frowned and grabbed the girl, moving her away and leaving Dipper exposed. At first, the girl looked genuinely shocked, but she then let out a loud scream of pure joy as she went closer to the doll.
"Aw, this matryoshka doll based on Dipper is so adorable!" said Wendy, Dipper moving away and blushing as she continued. "I knew Stan liked you two, but I never thought he would make merchandise based on his grand niece and grand nephew. I don't know if it will sell like hot bread, though."
Wendy was about to touch Dipper before Mabel grabbed her arm, pulling her back before she did anything else. "Wendy don't touch it!" requested Mabel, earning a raised eyebrow from the teenager in response. "Stan, uh, told me to deliver it to him as fast as I could."
"Fine, I'll let you take it to him...after I touch it!"
Mabel lets out a "NOOO!" as the teenager touches Dipper, being covered in a white light that soon covered Mabel as well. The girl got smaller and smaller until they had completely, falling to the ground without any damage. Mabel's doll version was slightly bigger than Dipper, and Wendy was bigger than Mabel. "And now we're matryoshka dolls!" exclaimed Mabel in frustration.
"Whoa, what happened?" asked Wendy, looking around.
"You and my sister turned into matryoshka dolls." bluntly stated Dipper.
"Dipper? Is that really you?"
"You used to be girlfriend with a boy named Robbie, I accidentally hit you with a baseball during the carnival and...*sighs* I once sat on your bra." recapped Dipper.
"Well I can't blame you, the store clerk assured me they were soft enough to be confused for-I mean, uh, Dipper!" replied Wendy, wobbling toward him and taking a moment before she remembered her current state. "If I had any arms right now, I would be hugging you. So anyway, why did you became a matryoshka doll?"
As Dipper tried to explain why to the girl, Stan and Soos arrived and saw the three dolls talking, the duo walked to them without the trio noticing. "Really long story that I can't explain you." and then Dipper was touched by Soos and Stan, who got covered in a white light almost immediately. "And now I'm really hating the fact that people are touching me."
And then Stan and Soos became matryoshka dolls, Stan being the biggest while Soos was bigger than Wendy. "Wow, dude, I feel like I was turned into something else!" exclaimed Soos before turning to Stan. "Tell me, do I still look pretty?"
"I would rather not answer that, but you look the same to me, Soos." answered Stan, Soos saying "yes!" in a victorious tone. "So with that out of the way, can anybody explain what just happened?"
"My stupidity turned out to be contagious and you were hit by it, which caused you to touch Dipper over here and in response, you were turned into matryoshka dolls." answered Mabel with a blunt, sarcastic tone. "At least, there are no more people living here outside of Waddles."
"Speaking about him, where is he?" asked Wendy, looking around.
"At the counter over there." answered Dipper, looking up.
The rest turned to the counter, where they saw Waddles casually laying on his back near the cashier. "How did we failed to notice him before?" questioned Soos before turning to the rest. "So, what do we do now?"
"Follow me."
Dipper wobbled until he was near the door, the rest of the matryoshka-transformed shack catching up to him and paying attention as he spoke. "Okay, when the door is opened, we go through it and go to the forest as fast as we can." instructed Dipper as he and the rest waited.
Once the door slightly opened, Dipper shouted "Go!" and the five dolls wobbled out of the store as fast as they could, avoiding a giant foot in the way before the door was closed. The person who came inside was a woman in her 30s with long orange hair, a white lab coat with a red shirt underneath, black pants, white shoes and a pair of blue white glasses.
"So this is the famous Mystery Shack, huh?" remarked the woman as she looked around. "It's more...empty than I expected."
The woman walked to the counter and spotted Waddles immediately, getting an idea that caused her to laugh out loud, startling Waddles in the process. "Hahaha! A pig owning a store, that definitely makes my day!" laughed the woman before introducing herself to Waddles. "Greetings sir, my name's Valerie Zvyozdochkin, but Valerie will be just fine. Anyway, can you guide me through the store? I would like to see some of your merchandise before I buy anything."
Waddles got up and jumped off the desk, running deeper into the store while squealing. The woman, believing that Waddles was starting the tour, giggled as she followed him. "I get the feeling this is gonna be fun!" exclaimed the woman as she catches up with Waddles.
To Be Continued...