Gravity falls (Pokémon): Legend of the Gobblewonker

Author's ramblings

Heyo! Welcome to chapter 2!
Admittedly this ones kinda short and nothing wildly different to the actual episode happens! But truth be told I want to pace myself as much as possible with this and not get too far through the too quickly. It is after all still going and I can't go making adaptations if I don't actually have the big picture. That said who's excited for The last Mabelcorn?
Everyone naturally! Secrets about Bill are on the way!

"Nooooo!"
"There has to be a way out of this!"
Forget an army of gnomes, Dipper and Mabel were presently facing the most terrifying prospect they'd ever faced in their young lives! Fishing with their Great uncle for 10 hours.
A full day stuck on a smelly lake in a barely functioning very leaky boat partaking in the most boring pass-time in the world accompanied by a gross, jerk of an old man armed with a joke book! Surely there must be a way to avoid this most terrible fate!?

Fortunately for them their escape arrived in the form of a crazed old man named McGucket.
"I SEEN IT! I seen it again!" he was shrieking running as fast as he could away from the lake and making as big a scene as he could manage "The legendary red Gyarados! Come quick before it scrapdoodles away!" he then started dancing maniacally for no conceivable reason.
"aaw! He's doing a happy jig" cooed Mabel eliciting a raised eyebrow from her brother and the Snivy who'd perched himself atop his head.
"NO!," the madman screeched grabbing the startled girl by the shoulders "It's a jig of great DANGER!"
At this moment one of the lake rangers present felt the need to intervene.

"Hey!," he addressed the old cook "what did I tell you about harassing my customers! This is your last warning Dad!" he spat that final word with considerable discomfort.
"But I got proof this time!" McGucket insisted, scuttling towards the lake again.
"BEHOLD!" he pointed to the shore where what used to be a boat lay half sunk and smashed to pieces.
"It was the Gyarados what done did it! It was enormous & blood red like some kinda ferocious water demon!
It blasted my boat to smitheroons! Then shimshamed over to scuttlebutt island!"
He pointed in the direction of a small island in the centre of the lake.

Despite it being a sunny summer's day outside, the island was barely visible shrouded in fog, a rather creepy spectacle to be sure but unsurprisingly it didn't do much to make people believe the old man's ridiculous claims and his son retreated back into the fishing lodge shaking his head in embarrassment.
Upon his son leaving McGucket sadly slunk away muttering about Gogoat spittle or something.
Dipper on the other hand was more than a little excited, he'd read about instances of rare Pokémon sporting unique colours before, dubbed shiny Pokémon. The red Gyarados was naturally the shiny variant of Gyarados, it's rare, but it's existence was nonetheless plausible. If it was possible that a red Gyarados was here, there was no way he could pass up an opportunity to go looking for it, especially if the alternative was a family bonding fishing day!

He flicked the brim of his cap, the gentle impact getting the attention of the lizard lazing on his head. "I think I've found us a way out" he smiled.
"Sniv" Snivy chirped his approval, obviously not too wild about wasting time fishing either.
Now he just had to get Mabel on board, should be easy enough.
"Mabel did you hear what that old dude said? We've seen loads of people who've tried looking for a red Gyarados on TV, think of all the credit we'd get if we were to snag a photo of it. You might even get enough money to buy that human sized pokéball you wanted!".
That was all Mabel needed to hear "Dipper I am 1 million percent on board with this!"
"Monster hunt! Monster hunt!" the twins chanted in excitement.
"You dudes say something about a monster hunt?" a familiar voice called heralding the arrival of a large boat and it's large occupant.

It was Soos captain of the S.S. Cool dude!
The twins turned to him happily, "dudes you could totally use my boat for your hunt, s'got a steering wheel, chairs, y'know, normal boat stuff".
Soos needn't have bothered, the two kids were already sold on the idea!
"Ok ok, let's think this through!" their Grunkle's voice sounded dryly behind them, "you could waste your time on some "epic monster finding adventure" or you could spend the day learning how to tie knots and skewer worms with your great uncle Stan!"
…It was a no contest really.

After a short argument about who should be captain, the S.S. Cool dude was bound for scuttlebutt island through the thickening mist – Soos steering, Snivy using his vines to casually toss bait into the water behind them and Dipper busied himself studying the pokédex for information.
He found very little on the subject of Gyarados other than what he already knew about shiny Pokémon but considering the age of the pokédex he was still impressed, whoever owned it must have been pretty ahead of his time on the study of Pokémon recolors.
Regardless Dipper settled for familiarizing himself with a map of the gravity falls lake the dex had stored within it's memory.

Mabel was supposed to be on lookout duty but was far more interested in playing with a Wingull that had decided to perch on the boat.
"Mabel leave that thing alone" Dipper grumbled looking up from his dex in irritation.
"Oh I don't mind none" said Mabel pretending to be the Wingull who promptly flew off.
"Aren't you supposed to be on lookout?" Dipper asked pointedly.
"Pfft, don't worry I got Flaafy on it" she replied.
Dipper looked over at the head of the boat, his sister's Pokémon had used Flash to illuminate the orb on her tail in order to light the way through the fog, unfortunately she seemed more concerned with goofing off too and instead of looking at where the boat was going, was trying to make her tail flash different colours and didn't notice they were approaching scuttlebutt island until they'd crashed right into it and everyone had been thrown off their feet.

"See were here," said Mabel cheerily, "Good work Flaaffy!". The pink fluffball scrambled to her feet and flashed her trainer a wide nervous smile!
The group hopped out of the beached boat onto the fog shrouded shores of the island.
"Dudes I can barely see a thing out here" Soos commented uncertainly.
"Don't worry guys I've got us covered" Dipper said pulling a pokéball from his jacket "Noctowl can see in this fog no problem" he summoned the giant owl from it's capsule and he landed gently in front of his young master.
"Noctowl I need you to search the island for a red Gyarados, come and find us if you see anything weird".
Noctowl nodded and hooted dutifully before taking to the air and into the mist.

The others meanwhile forged ahead into the haze of the forest, Flaaffy using her tail to try & illuminate the way.
They found a sign a short distance in, which Soos and Mabel found hilarious to rename as "butt island".
Dipper however was unamused.
"Hey why aren't you laughing? Are ya scared?" Mabel teased, poking her brother and blowing raspberries in an irritating fashion.
"Mabel stop!" Dipper protested weakly much to Snivy's amusement, but they were quickly interrupted by Noctowl's return.
"Did you find anything?" Dipper called up to him as he circled overhead, Noctowl hooted and flew lower to the ground, directing the group to follow him.
They did so and before long they started hearing a strange, muffled roaring noise in the distance.
"This is it!" the twins exclaimed excitedly, Flaaffy forced a bit more power into her tail illuminating a blurry silhouette in a large body of water in front of them.
"Everyone get your cameras ready" Dipper whispered, Soos and Mabel did so, the girls eyes widening in anticipation. "GO!".

Soos charged headlong forward, screaming uncontrollably and taking photos like crazy as he went but on closer inspection, the silhouette they'd seen was revealed to be much less threatening than the legendary Gyarados they'd been expecting.
Instead they were faced with a ramshackle dam with a dozen or so Bidoof cavorting and hugging and falling off of it etc. Dipper was dumbfounded...
"But... what was that noise then I heard a monster noise" However the source of the noise proved marginally less threatening too!
"Sweet! Bidoof with a chainsaw!" Soos exclaimed, eager to catch this ludicrous image on film.

Dipper sighed, finally giving in, "Maybe that old man was just nuts after all" he thought aloud.
"He did use the word scrapdoodle…" Mabel agreed.
Dipper sighed "what are we gonna tell grunckle Stan?" he mumbled bitterly "we ditched him over nothing".
"Noct!" Dipper looked up at his Pokémon's call and saw Noctowl circling over the water – he narrowed his eyes trying to see what Noctowl was trying to show him.
He let out an audible gasp, there was definitely something moving in the water.
The Gyarados?

Dipper instinctively prepared his camera. A giant red tail broke the surface of the water as the strange shape slowly turned in the water.
"This is it!" The others had noticed too but were somewhat less enthusiastic as the creature drew closer and Dipper snapped as many pictures as possible.
"Um…Dipper" Mabel's voice shook with growing fear but Dipper was unfazed "What are you waiting for," he turned to them "It's not that hard guy's, just point and shoot" he encouraged, but as he turned for another photo his enthusiasm was… somewhat lost.
The enormous red monster was bearing down on him stretching to its full height it's eyes glowing an uncanny yellow and roaring with ground shuddering power! Dipper dropped his camera in shock.
"Run!" Soos shouted.

The Gyarados reared up and fired a huge jet of water at the party.
All of them scrambled away from the beast except Dipper who remained frozen in place.
"Snii!" Snivy yelled, desperately grabbing his trainer with his vines and pulling him away from the Gyarados's attack in the nick of time!
Dipper forced his senses back and along with Soos, Mabel, Snivy and Flaaffy, tore back through the forest, Dipper saw Noctowl flying beside them and shouted up to him.
"Noctowl! Can you see where the boat is?" "Noct" he responded, pulling ahead of the group to show them the way.
In spite of their dire circumstances Dipper allowed himself a feeling of pride in his Pokémon, his keen eyesight and memory was really saving their scuttlebutts right now!

With Noctowl guiding them through the fog the group quickly reached the shore and hectically bundled in, the giant owl using Confusion to telekinetically pry the beached S.S. Cool dude from the shore.
"Let's get out of here dudes!" Soos shouted whirling the ship around as fast as he could.
Unfortunately the Gyarados hadn't given up the chase and the crimson sea serpent burst from the water beside them, prompting Soos to go even faster as it began chasing them down. Dipper still hadn't given up on getting a picture but his efforts were interrupted as the creature shot another Hydro pump at his Noctowl who was flying after them. Noctowl rolled in the air to try and avoid the lethal jet but the beast scored a glancing blow on his wing, sending Dipper's friend spiralling out of the sky!

"Noctowl!" Dipper screamed, he threw the camera aside and desperately fumbled for Noctowl's pokéball.
He frantically held it at arm's length and activated it, the resulting beam of red light found it's mark striking Dipper's injured Pokémon in mid-air and returning him to his capsule just before he would have hit the water.
Dipper exhaled in relief. His relief was short lived however, even at full speed the Cool dude couldn't shake the leviathan and to Dipper's horror Soos had thrown most of the cameras overboard too in some futile attempt to slow it down.
The boat zigzagged and pitched all over the lake trying to shake their monstrous pursuer to no avail, the Gyarados even capsizing a fair few other boats as it sped after them.

Snivy suddenly leapt into the air and spun around mid-jump amassing a Leaf tornado attack which he flung in the Gyarados's direction.
The blow made contact but didn't faze the beast at all, dispelling with little more effect than a gust of wind.
"What are you doing! Don't get it mad!" Dipper yelled at his partner.
"Snivy!" the snarky serpent shot back, Dipper was going to retort but stopped himself.
"Snivy's got a good point, that thing is already mad, the best we can do is try to slow it down and escape".
Dipper nodded in understanding at his partner before reaching for his other pokéball.
"Come out Kirlia!" he shouted releasing her onto the deck.
The small humanoid creature did a double take and squeaked a distressed "Kirl!" at her trainer, obviously not too happy at being thrown into another dangerous situation.
"Use Charge beam on that rampaging red sea monster!" "surely a 4x supereffective move will give even that thing a pause for thought".
Mabel joined in, "that means you too Flaaffy!," she called to her own Pokémon, "Use Thundershock on that big ugly fish!"
Kirlia quickly forced her nerves down and started to focus as best she could, concentrating a ball of glowing energy into her tiny hands growing and crackling with electrical power until she let her attack loose, a golden laser of electricity from her outstretched palms.
Beside her Mabel's fluffy friend built up static electricity in her fur until it crackled all around her, she forced it to concentrate into a single bolt of lightning that fired directly at their monstrous hunter.
Both attacks found their mark, sending electricity visibly coursing through the beasts body but regardless it barely even flinched!

"No way!," Dipper exclaimed, thoroughly panicked "did it even feel it!?"
Whether it felt it or not the red Gyarados returned the attack, firing a Hydro pump directly at the boat.
Soos swerved frantically to avoid it but instead collided with the dam-full of Bidoof instead, who were sent flying onto the boat in a shower of wood and causing havoc on deck with their vengeful biting.
The boat pitched dangerously as Soos stumbled away from the wheel assailed by one of the frenzied rodents.
Mabel hurried forward and grabbed the wheel to keep it steady, Snivy plucking one of them from her arm with his Vine whip and throwing it overboard, he irritably tried to lasso as many of the little beasts as possible and throw them from the ship.

Flaaffy released a terrific flash of light from her tail, but it seemed nothing could faze the red Gyarados.
"Confuse ray didn't even work!" Mabel exclaimed "No fair! What can we do to beat this thing Dipper!?"
Dipper was hurriedly searching through his pokedex "I'm looking I'm looking!" he shouted, though to little avail, if electric attacks hadn't even given that thing a scratch there seemed to be very little they could do.
"But there must at least be a way to escape!" he thought, remembering the dex's map function he'd found, quickly as he could he looked up the Gravity falls lake.
"I've got an idea! Head for the falls, I think there might be a cave behind there!"
"Might be!?" Mabel yelled incredulously.
But they had little alternative as the Gyarados bore down on them, dealing a formidable blow to the boat with it's thrashing tail. The waterfall was in sight and Mabel mustered all her strength to turn the wheel towards it.
The group screamed as they plunged into the giant cascade, fearing the worst.
Thankfully true to Dipper's prediction they came crashing to a halt in a small cave.

But they weren't in the clear yet, the red Gyarados burst through the small cave entrance after them.
The group cowered, completely cornered, once again fearing worst case scenario except…
"It's…stuck!" cried Mabel, the beast couldn't make it through the cave opening, only a small length of it's body had made it into the cave and now it was struggling wildly in the shallow water. It writhed and frustratedly fired off Hydro pump's in all directions.
"Woah dudes! We still have a problem here!" Soos screamed having almost been hit by a stray water jet.
Dipper looked about desperately for another solution, noticing that the beasts thrashing was shaking loose rocks from the cealing.
"Great! Another risky idea!" he thought "but anything'll have to do right now!".
"Kirlia use Confusion!," he instructed his Pokémon, who'd been cowering behind Soos, trying to convey a certain amount of confidence in his idea "Bring the ceiling down on top of it!".
"Dude you sure about this!?" Soos exclaimed.
Dipper wasn't fooling anyone, "No!" he admitted "but were all out of options right now!".
Kirlia hesitantly nodded in acknowledgement and did as she was told, doing the best she could to help dislodge parts of the crumbling ceiling with her telekinesis. A large chunk of rock fell and she strained to redirect it, succeeding in making it impact directly with the beast's head.

To everyone's surprise and confusion a heavy metallic impact echoed about the chamber and the leviathan collapsed in a shower of sparks, it's yellow eyes flickering before dying out like a lightbulb.
"What!?", Dipper and Snivy approached the downed behemoth, Dipper tentatively tapping it's surface. Definitely metallic. "Dipper what are you doing!?" Mabel called anxiously to him as he and Snivy climbed onto the beast's back.
"Hey guys check this out!" he called back inciting Mabel, Soos, Flaaffy and Kirlia to cautiously approach the metal monster too. Dipper pointed out a sort of trap door on it's back, hidden behind one of it's spiky fins.
With little effort the group pried the hatch open to reveal a sight even more unbelievable than a giant mechanical Gyarados.
It's geriatric pilot, nestled within a small cockpit overflowing with odd buttons, switches and monitors.

"You!?," Dipper exclaimed incredulously, "You built this!? But why!?"
The old man stuttered "I… er… I… I jus wanted attention" he finally conceded sadly.
Dipper shook his head, "I still don't understand".
"Well I just hootenannyed up a biomechanical brainwave generator and then I learned how to operate a stick shift with mah beard! And ah reckoned I could take my prototype high pressure water cannon out for a test drive too!" the old coot explained all too enthusiastically.
"Yeah but…why?" asked Mabel, more than a little wierded out by the whole turn of events.
Mcguket's face suddenly fell again "Well when you get to be an old feller like me nobody pays attention to you anymore, my own so hasn't visited me in months… so I figured I'd turn his head with a giant aquatic robot!" he was suddenly laughing maniacally, reminding his rather worried audience that he had been shooting water jets at them not 5 minutes ago!

Mcgucket's cackling petered out rather quickly "In retrospect it seems a bit contrived," he admitted "You just don't understand the lengths us old folks go to to spend some quality time with our families…"
Dipper and Mabel both averted their eyes, guilt stinging them both. In spite of everything Stan really had made the effort to spend some time with them, and they'd thrown that back in his face in favour of chasing some giant hunk of metal.
Sure Mcgucket seemed completely unrepentant about trying to kill them not long ago, or maybe he'd forgotten! But he'd said something the twins desperately needed to hear as they and Soos resolved to take to the lake once more, in what was left of their boat to try and make things up to Stan, leaving Mcgucket to start working on his "death ray" or whatever other worrisome invention was forming in his addled mind.

After driving around the lake for a while and a little help from Kirlia they eventually located Stan, looking particularly downcast and drifting far away from many of the other fishing boats.
"What the…kids!?" he looked up as the pulled up alongside him in their seriously smashed up S.S. Cool dude, "I thought you two were off playing spin the bottle with Soos!" He snapped bitterly.
The twins smiled, expecting such a prickly welcome "Well we spent all day looking for some legendary lake monster…" Dipper admitted, "But we realised the only lake monster we wanna spend time with is right here!" Mabel piped rather cheesily.
"Save your sympathy!," Stan grumbled "I've been having a great time with out you! Making friends, talking to my reflection, I even had a run in with the lake police! Guess I gotta wear this ankle bracelet now so that'll be fun!"
"So I guess you don't have room for 3 more?" Dipper asked tentatively.
As he and Mabel donned the fishing hats Stan had presented them with earlier that day, Stan's expression finally softened slightly, "You knuckleheads ever see me thread a hook with my eyes closed?"
"5 bucks says you can't do it!" Dipper challenged, "You're on!"

With the ex-monster hunters piled into Stan's boat the rest of the day was taken up with grade-A family bonding fun… until they got in trouble with the police again for trying to catch fish by electrifying the water!
But regardless, as the family sped back to shore the twins couldn't help but think perhaps a summer with the crusty old conman wouldn't be such a bad prospect after all.

That's number 2 done! I tried to make things interesting but there wasn't all that much you can do to this one.
Kid's look for big monster - get chased by big monster - psychotic old dude - lesson learned - yattayatta
But while I have you, I won't be adapting every episode, just ones I think I could successfully Pokemonify! so no Head hunters...
I have a couple of chapters in a semi finished state and'll probably release them in time, but I am slightly worried about releasing them to have some incredible canon revelation shake everything up. So sorry but Imma take my time about this.