Hey my comets! I know I haven't updated anything in awhile. My excuse; a terrible cold that makes it impossible to breathe without coughing every 40 seconds *cough cough*. Anyways, I got some inspiration from some of the other fanfics I had been reading lately and I thought if I don't *cough cough* write this out soon I will forget the idea. So I'm updating! Just to let you know, this is the base typing. I haven't ever rewritten a chapter and then posted that one. Except the first chapter of I Feel Like A Monster (if you haven't read that yet I suggest you go read it, it's one of the only finished Monster Falls AU stories on the site). *cough cough* And if you haven't figured out yet, this is an AU. With all that in mind, here's the story
~V V~
Mabel laced up her combat boots and slipped on her black sweater with a small, rainbow shooting star over her heart. She knew that it wasn't practical, but it just felt right to wear it, considering that she was one of the people on The Overlord's zodiac and would be his undoing one of these days. Mabel sighed and opened her locket again to see the boy with the sky on his head and the woman that Mabel could only hope was her mother.
"Mabel! We're leaving at 0900, be ready to go by then!" Stan shouted up at her. Mabel smiled, it was nice having the two leaders of the resistance as her parents, if adoptive. Stanley, the man who had found and protected her when she was a baby, was the man who scavenged for items useful to the cause and knew where and how to get practically everything. He also was in charge of leading the raids and the was the link for all resistance groups in the world to talk to one another. Stanford, Stanley's brother and the real chief, was the leader of the whole operation; every other faction of resistance reported to him as he was the one who knew how to fight The Overlord best. He was the one who led attacks on The Overlord's outposts and who organized attacks on the fearamids around the world, quite successfully in fact.
Mabel stood and entered the passcode to her door, a security precaution that Ford had put into place many years ago when The Overlord wasn't in charge and Ford was just a scientist studying the oddities of Gravity Falls. Mabel left her room and entered the caffetteria, a new room that had been built from the bunker the Gravity Falls faction had all been living in. The caffetteria, also known as the c-ter, was a good place for planning meetings and was where everyone ate their meals since it was build like a bomb shelter.
"Atten-tion!" A voice shouted over the chatter of the c-ter announcing her presence. She was one of the best leaders in any faction, but she still couldn't get used to everyone standing up at attention all the time.
"Um, at ease. You may go back to your, er, meals." Mabel stammered as she sat down with the other commanding officers.
"Still not used to the promotion? It's been a year now, you should have fun with it!" Mabel's best friend Candy remarked as she elbowed Mabel.
Mabel shrugged and rubbed her arm, "I don't know, I'm just not comfortable being in charge of so many people off-mission. Speaking of, do you guys know what we're doing this time?"
Mabel's other friend Grenda replied, "No idea, its on a need to know basis. I do know that Stanford is leading the charge on it though, and only the best of the best officers were picked for this. If I had to guess, I would say that we were going to an IH." That was surprising, an IH, information hub, was a place where the demons that The Overlord commanded would gain the next mission from The Overlord.
"Well, it would help us to find out why The Overlord hasn't come out of the Fearaplex in a while. It would probably also help us to find out what he's planning next so that we could strike first." Mabel tapped her finger on her chin in thought.
"Excellent deduction skills, but might I ask that you not use them in a public place?" A voice said from behind Mabel.
"Ford! Sorry, I'm just really curious, have been ever since I got the message yesterday about a mystery mission." Mabel replied sheepishly.
Ford smiled and shook his head, "It's all right to be curious, but when you start speculating that's when things go bad. Trust me, I know. I would like you three to come with me to the briefing room." With that, he left to the B.R. to prepare for the meeting.
~V V~
Mabel entered her code and opened the door to the B.R., then took her seat near Stan.
"Hey kid." Stan said affectionately.
"Hey Grunkle Stan." Mabel replied equally affectionate; she had taken to calling Stan "grunkle" since she found out that he wasn't her real father.
As the last few officers entered the room, Ford began to pull down a screen and spoke, "As you all know, since The Overlord, or as I prefer to call him because this is his actual name, Bill hasn't come out of the Fearaplex for a few weeks, we have been able to succeed in all of the raids and attacks. However, we all know that Bill won't hole up in the Fearaplex forever and that he will be angry when he does. This is why we are going to an IH to gain intel on when he will be coming next; hopefully Candy will be able to hack into the IH and plant a bug that will allow us to gain entry to the IH web. If not, then we will take what we can and get out; there's a reason that we don't do this all the time. There will be twenty eye-bats, the pink fire demon, and the teeth demon guarding the hub and gaining information from it. Candy and Mabel will circle to the back while Stan and Grenda distract the eye-bats. The rest of us will take on the two demons while Candy hacks into the system and Mabel protects her from any stragglers. Are there any questions?"
Mabel raised her hand, "Yes Mabel?"
"Can we go by an FH? We're starting to run out of food and the food we do have is getting spoiled fast." Mabel pointed out, a fact that was bugging many of the other officers. If this mission went well, they would be able to find out how long they had until Bill came out of the Fearaplex. When he did, all the factions in the world would go into hiding until he went back in or a least calmed down a bit. During that time the factions would need food from one of the food hubs and would be rationing the food so they could survive for a year or more.
Ford nodded, "Alright, if we aren't being chased and still have time before 1100 hours, I suppose we could make a stop." This was met by many cheers, "No other questions? Good, let's move out!"
~V V~
Mabel and Candy snuck underneath some rubble, their teenage bodies smaller than most and able to squeeze into tighter cracks than other officers. Mabel stuck her head out to see the target, the IH was guarded all right, and a few more eye-bats than Ford had said there were, but overall it was a pretty decent target. Good practice for the newbies and a good test for the rest of them. Grenda and Stan jumped from behind some kind of diner and shot at multiple eye-bats while Ford and several other men and women attacked the two main demons there. Mabel looked down at Candy and nodded twice, then let the way out of the fallen building to the IH. As Candy plugged into the hub and typed on her wrist-board, Mabel kept a lookout for any eye-bats that would sneak up on the pair and try to turn them to stone.
Candy emitted a gasp, "What's wrong?" Mabel asked, turning around a bit to see what was going on. Candy said nothing, but turned the digital screen towards Mabel who gasped in shock and horror. On the screen was a boy wearing a black suit and a black bowtie with his hair slicked back to reveal a constellation upon his forehead. On top of his suit was a pine tree version of Mabel's own locket that seemed to glow.
Candy pointed to the boy, "The IH says that this boy is sick with some kind of demon disease and that Bill is staying inside so that the disease doesn't spread to the other demons. I've placed the bug, we should get going and we can check the information once we get back to the bunker." Mabel seemed to snap out of her funk, nodded, checking for eye-bats, let out a sheer whistle three times, then led the way back to the forest. Unbeknownst to the pair, an eye-bat was watching from the shadows of a building and broadcasting what he was watching to his master.
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Pine Tree lay in bed, coughs racking his immortal body as the demon sickness ravaged his recently turned body. Bill watched the edges of the Fearaplex to make sure that nothing came in or went out so as not to spread the disease to the other demons who had never experienced it. Bill had already felt the pain of daemonium morbus, a disease that could wipe out entire legions of demons after they reached adulthood but if introduced early enough could build up an immunity to magic and other diseases that could otherwise kill a demon in a matter of days.
Pine Tree had been accidentally introduced to the illness after a human in contact with an infected demon had been brought to the Fearaplex for questioning about the resistance. The slow acting disease could last without a host for any time between an hour to a month and would slowly decimate a demon's immune system over a period of two to three weeks. Pine Tree had already been ill for a week, and now was heading into the second week, a week where the disease would spread easiest via liquid, touch, air, and magic. Bill had already sealed the Fearaplex completely and had gotten all the supplies necessary to cure his pet zodiacine, now all he needed was for the kid to become lucid enough to cast a spell allowing Bill to have access to his magic.
Pine Tree opened his eyes to find a silvery film covering them, so he wiped it off to find Bill floating by a window looking at some image from an eye-bat. Pine Tree sat up with a muffled groan to see an image of two girls about his age running through the rubble of one of the town's sectors. It seemed that the image was from the IH sector, not surprising as the pitiful resistance had been trying to get a hold of intel on where Bill wanted to attack and when for sixteen years, a year before Pine Tree's birth. Pine Tree leaned over a bit to see the faces of the girls, and received a shock that shook him down to his recently turned core. One of the girls was an asian girl with red cat's eye glasses and a wrist keyboard with a screen that showed his image, she was the most beautiful girl Pine Tree had ever laid eyes upon. The other girl, however, was the one who cause the massive surprise; she looked exactly like the girl in his locket, right down to the pink shooting star necklace atop her black sweater. He gasped quietly, alerting Bill to his awakening.
"Pine Tree, you're awake! How do you feel?" Bill floated over to his pet and snapped his fingers, dissipating the image. Pine Tree opened his mouth to answer, but to his surprise he had no voice. He raised his hand to his throat and was surprised by small claws poking out of his fingertips where his fingernails should have been. He felt around his mouth to find canines sharpened to long points of demon fangs. Pine Tree stretched his back and felt a strange resistance fight the movement of his lean muscles. He felt his back to find leathery lumps sticking out of his back, spikes of pain ripping through them when he pushed against them.
"Yes, you have a few new additions to your body as a result of The Turning. You became a demon a few days before you acquired daemonium morbus; I need you to give me access to your magic to cure the disease, that way you won't spread the disease by accidentally casting a spell and your magic will be decontaminated." Bill held his hand out with blue flames coating it, allowing him to make a magical deal; Pine Tree nodded and shook Bill's hand, then passed out in exhaustion. Bill closed his eye and opened his magicae portum to access his pet's magic supply to cleanse it.
~Where the story's headed isn't sure, head to the past to reveal the future~
The woman walked away from her children, sobs racking her body as she hid behind a crumbling building. A man with a red fez walked up to the dumpster and moved some trash around to find one of the children. The woman gasped and another sob ripped out of her, destroying the last bit of her composure that she had left after giving up her two children. That man was one of the core resistance leaders, someone who she hoped would never meet her children. To her relief, the man only picked up one of her children, the daughter if she could tell by the necklace's glow. She waited a few more minutes before an eye-bat came and raised the remaining child into the air, ripping another cry of grief from the woman. A tear fell from her eye and landed in the dirt below her, wetting the soil and allowing her to see again after removing the water from her eyes. The woman lifted a third necklace from inside her silver blouse and opened it to reveal her two children, one with a pink blush and a giggling smile, the other with a gray set to his skin and eyes with lost hope. She closed her locket and placed the closed charm onto her blouse, then rose and walked back to her truck to head back to Piedmont California, ice bag charm glinting in the light of the Weirdmaggedon Rip.
Sooooo, that went places I had no intention of going really quick. I had absolutely no intention of having Dipany to happen, or who the mother of Pine Tree and Mabel is. Please review, follow, and favorite this story! Ciao for now!