This story was requested by Extreme Light 9, who has had this idea for some time, but had never actually made it. So he gave me the idea and, well, here we are now. I will consult him for ideas and stuff before I update this story again, so please be patient.
Disclaimer: Gravity Falls belongs to Alex Hirsch and the Disney Channel...and Disney XD.
(Outside the Mystery Shack)
Dipper, Mabel, Soos and Wendy were planting signs nearby the local tourist trap of Gravity Falls, Oregon. The sign were promotional in nature, and they promoted a "brand new exhibit unlike any other", which was something that didn't impress the team at all, to be perfectly honest.
"Well, this is definitely better than the other works Grunkle Stan had for us.. Plus, if everything goes right and Waddles stays as far away as possible-did I really just say that?-this exhibit could earn enough money to justify planting this signs." uttered Mabel with an optimistic tone. "And besides, just think about how happy we will make Grunkle Stan once we finish!"
"Yeah dudes, Stan said that he has high hopes for this thing." said Soos as he planted a sign. He accidentally planted it too deep though, so he tried to take it out as he continued to speak. "He says he paid a lot of money to make it a reality."
"Don't be foolish, Soos. Remember this is Stan we're talking about, and he isn't someone who is traditionally...generous, if you know what I mean." said Wendy as she planted a sign. "When he said he paid a lot of money to make it, he's probably lying and it is in fact a pretty cheap attraction, just like everything else.
"Hmm, I wonder..." spoke Dipper as he carefully planted a sign. "Guys, what do you think about this new exhibit?"
"Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's going to be one big scam for the foolish tourists of Gravity Falls." spoke Wendy, resting her arm on the sign as she spoke. "That's what Mr. Pines would do, after all."
"I do consider that a possibility, and one pretty likely at that, but what I want to know is what kind of trick will Stan pull of with this new "attraction" of his." replied Dipper, who rested his shoulder on one of the signs just like Wendy.
However, he slipped and fell, getting up and this time resting his arm on the sign correctly before he spoke. "Maybe he will try to brainwash everybody into buying his merchandise, maybe he will create a gigantic robot using his other exhibits-"
"Or maybe he's going to scam people, it is the most simple choice and therefore the most probable." interrupted Wendy, who rolled her eyes.
"Kids! Soos! Wendy! Stop what you're doing and come inside! I have an important job for all of you! But let Soos come first, I want to give him the honor of telling you the important job!"
The team dreaded those words, except for Soos, who reacted with excitement, so they finished planting the remaining signs and went back inside the shack.
(A short time later, at the Hallways)
The team followed Soos to the designated place, Mabel looking slightly worried while she grabbed Dipper's hand, while the boy and Wendy looked quite exasperated. Soos had a mop and bucket, while the rest had brooms.
"We'll probably get to that closet soon enough." said Soos.
Wendy and Dipper groaned in frustration. Seeing that the duo were not in the mood, Mabel took a deep breath and put on an optimistic tone as she spoke to Soos.
"Soos, don't think that we don't want to do this with you-"
"Even though It's pretty obvious that we don't." interrupted a pessimistic Dipper.
"But did you ask Stan why couldn't you do this alone?"
"Now that you mention it, that was the first question I asked Mr. Pines. But all Stan said in response was something about-hey look, we arrived!"
The team stopped and looked at a door that looked like it had been left to rot a long time ago. Spiders were crawling around the door and the doorknob was a skeletal head with red pupils where the eyes should be.
"Huh, this is odd. I have never seen this closet before." remarked Soos as he put the bucket down and reached for the doorknob.
"Are you sure that is the right closet?" inquired Dipper, scratching his chin as he eyed the door. "It looks a little too...evil, in my opinion. Maybe we should tell Stan to give us something else to do."
"No can't do dudes, Stan said that if we don't do this, then he would force us to do janitorial work." the trio reacted in utter horror when they heard. "And even though it would be nice to do it with you guys, I know you think that is a very gross, very terrible job. So let's save you from that job and go into the closet!"
(Inside the closet)
Soos opened the door and the first thing the team saw was...darkness. Pitch black darkness. The only other thing outside of the darkness were strange red stains on the floor that looked like they had been recently spilled.
The team went inside and they started to clean the place, except for Soos who returned for his bucket and then came back.
"Soos, try to keep the door open while we clean this mess." requested Dipper as the girls started their share of the work, mostly by brooming the skeletons.
"And why do you request me to do that, dude?" asked Soos.
"Sometimes, specially inside creepy places like this one, the door mysteriously closes itself and leaves whoever entered, us, trapped inside." explained Dipper as he joined the girls. "So do us all a favor and keep the door-"
A loud sound of something closing was heard, and the light coming from the hallways left the room. Seeing this, Mabel separated herself from Dipper and went to the door, grabbing the doorknob and pulling it as hard as she could. No matter how hard she tried, the doorknob didn't move, not even when she turned it around.
"The door's closed!" exclaimed a shocked Soos.
"You don't say." sarcastically uttered Dipper in response.
Dipper checked his pockets and then took out a flashlight, which he tried to turn for a moment. It didn't work, and Dipper continued to try as the rest looked at him. When that failed, Dipper lightly tapped it and then it turned on.
"Okay, I still have my flashlight. What do you guys have to light the way?" inquired the boy.
Dipper turned his flashlight to Mabel, who reached for her sweater's pockets and took out a light blue glow stick. The girl noticed that it wasn't turned on, however, so she simply snapped it and then the glow stick finally turned on.
"I have a glow stick!" said Mabel like she had made a great discovery.
"And I have glowing underwear!"
An intense purple light then illuminated in Soos's direction, and the rest turned to see Soos's underwear was actually glowing. While Dipper looked on in disbelief and Mabel looked with amazement, Wendy scratched her chin as she recognized the object.
"Hey, I saw that in the mall! I wanted to buy a pair of those before I changed my mind." remarked Wendy as she searched her pockets.
"Why didn't you buy it?" asked Mabel as she scratched her chin using her glow stick.
"Maybe because you realized just in time that such an idea was too ridiculous to be true, and it would have made you a bait for perverts everywhere, right?" suggested Dipper.
"Nah, they didn't sell it in the color I wanted." answered Wendy, who took out her phone and turned it on. "Anyway, at least I have my phone, though I don't know how long I have before the batteries die."
Now that everybody had their sources of light, the team illuminated the area around them and discovered that the walls were rock-like in appearance, and in the ground near the red stains were skeletons laying around, some with weapons sticking out of their bodies. There were also yellow arrows painted on the walls, each one pointing at a specific direction.
Coincidentally, they pointed at the only direction the team could go to: forward.
"Either Stan misunderstood this place for a closet, or the Mystery Shack holds more secrets than I thought. Either one seems plausible." remarked Dipper. "Well, can't go anywhere but deeper inside. Let's go."
The rest nodded in agreement and followed Dipper to the arrow's direction, leaving just as lighting was heard coming from outside, and a malicious laughter was heard as the arrows changed to...bloodied eyes.
To Be Continued...
