Mabel had tried many different ways to get some sort of income. She even got banned from several states and even having to make several fake IDs. But she knew that eventually she had to call one of her great uncles.
Mabel held up the phone to her ear and played with the cord as the phone started to call Grunkle Stanely. After a few moments a gruff voice answered, " Hello you've reached Stenson Pinefiled! "
" Grunkle Stan I need your help. " Mabel said. She began to explain to her Grunkle about what had happened and what she had been through.
" I know how you feel sweetie. I'll pick you up in a few days okay? Just hang on. " Grunkle Stan said into the phone before Mabel had to hang up.
" What happened to you? Did you get your dream school? " Wendy asked turning to Dipper.
Dipper tensed before muttering, " Not exactly. I had to go to a university called Backsupmore. I had to work extra had there, so I entered a doctoral program three years ahead of schedule and wrote a thesis that was nationally rank. I received an enormous grant for my own scientific study and then I graduated early. But I had to think about what to study. My whole life I had been teased for my birthmark so I started thinking about anomalies. Things that were weird, things that were improbable. And there was one place with a higher concentration of anomalies. Gravity Falls. "
A younger Dipper looked at the forest around him. His house was currently being built behind him as he looked for any kind strange thing there. Suddenly a huge wooden hand shot out and crushed his car and dragged it back into the forest. Dipper adjusted the brown hat on his head that had a star on it's front
Dipper had to investigate at once. He needed something to record his findings so he began to keep a journal. Dipper put a red journal on a table and then brought out a golden piece of paper. He carefully cut it into the shape of the Big Dipper. He glued it on the front of the journal and brought out a marker to write the number one of it.
" The journals! " Wendy suddenly exclaimed. Everyone looked at her strangely. She coughed feeling uncomfortable. " Go on. "
" I began to keep a journal- " Dipper began to say until Wendy screamed once again. " I'll just ignore that. "
Dipper was fascinated by all of the anomalies everywhere. He went from catching eyes with bat wings to digging deep into the ground to find a strange egg.
Dipper took an egg from the ground and layed it down next to his coffee mug. He watched it hatch to reveal a strange white creature. It looked at the coffee mug and soon turned into it. Dipper watched in amazement and immediately began to write in his journal.
At one point he brought a gnome into his house in order to measure it's height.
Dipper had finally felt at home, but something nagged at him. Where had it all come from? There must've been a leak in their dimension. A dimension of weirdness. Dipper needed to make a gateway to this dimension of weirdness.
Dipper went to a table with several books on it and shoved them off. He went to the last page of his journal and began to write. He couldn't make the portal alone so he went and searched for a brilliant mechanic named Fiddleford Mcgucket.
Dipper found Fiddleford in his garage. Fiddleford was a man with greying hair and a light scruffy beard.
" You say that you're going to make a portal to a dimension of weirdness? Well that's mathematically feasible! I reckon. " Fiddleford spitted into a bucket a few feet away from him.
Dipper remembered all the long nights it took to make the portal. He remembered all the setbacks and failures but eventually they finished it.
Dipper had a test dummy ready for a test. He tied a rope to it's ankle so they could pull it back. Fiddleford and he stood proudly in front of their portal with the test dummy in hand. Dipper stood behind the yellow tape, not noticing that Fiddleford had taken one step over the line.
" Ready and go. " Dipper let the dummy go watching it float towards the portal. Fiddleford screamed as he was pulled along with the dummy. A part of the rope had wrapped itself around Fiddleford's ankle.
Dipper ran and grabbed the rope and pulled. " I got you! " He yelled as he finally managed to pull Fiddleford down. The older man fell to the floor and he didn't move.
Dipper crawled over to him. " Fiddleford are you okay? What did you see? " Dipper watched helplessly as Fiddleford began to spout out some sort of nonsense. Dipper helped him up, trying to calm the man down.
" When earth becomes sky fear the beast with just one eye. " Fiddleford closed one eye as if to emphasise his point. He turned to Dipper with a desperate look in his eyes, " This portal is dangerous. It'll destroy the whole world, destroy it before it destroys us all! "
" What? I can't do that, this is my life's work. " Dipper protested feeling concerned for Fiddleford.
Fiddleford sighed before standing up, " I fear that we brought a grave danger into the world. One that I want to forget. I quit! " Dipper's mouth clenched in anger as he watched Fiddleford leave.
" Fine I don't need you! I don't need anyone! " There was a whisper. Then another and another. " Who said that? " Dipper demanded as he clapped his hands over his ears.
He feared he was losing his sanity. He needed help. He needed someone he could trust.
Mabel was eating popcorn when the someone began to knock on the hotel door. Her eyes widened and she called out to her Grunkle, " Uh Grunkle Stan I think those men who wanted money from you are back! "
Mabel heard her Grunkle search for his baseball bat. Instead of a thug breaking down the door demanding for money a letter slipped through the door's slot. Grunkle Stan suddenly ran into the room with a baseball bat poised over his head, ready to strike.
" Uh, where are the thugs? " Stan asked as he lowered his bat in confusion. Mabel picked up the letter and saw that it was from a place called Gravity Falls.
It was from Dipper! He was asking for her to come to Gravity Falls as soon as possible. " Hey Grunkle Stan I know where we're going to go to next. "
Stan and Mabel soon head off to Gravity Falls in Stan's car. Once they arrived at Gravity Falls Stan had decided to check the town out while Mabel went to see Dipper.
It was snowing pretty hard as Mabel made her way though a forest. She came to a clearing where a shack sat in the middle of the clearing. The shack had barred wires and toxic waste barrels surrounding it. There were even signs saying, ' No Trespassing! '
Mabel walked up uncertaintly to the door. Mabel took a deep breath, " It's okay Mabel. You haven't seen your brother for ten years. He's my family, he won't bite. " Mabel knocked on the door once when it swing open to reveal a wildl looking Dipper.
Dipper had rumpled clothes on and his hair was messy. His bloodshot eyes had bags under them as he looked wildly at his sister. " Who is it? Have you come to steal my eyes?! " Dipper aimed a crossbow at Mabel's face.
Mabel was shocked and stood speechless. " And people say I'm the crazy one. " Dipper grabbed her back into the house. He brought out a flashlight and shined it into Mabel's eyes. She winced and slapped his hands away.
" What're you doing? " Mabel shouted as she blinked away the black spots that appeared in her eyesight.
" Sorry, I just had to- " Dipper broke off. " Never mind. Did anyone follow? Anyone? "
" Uh, I don't think s-so. " Mabel stammered. She didn't understand what was happening.
Dipper paced around the room. " Mabel I've made huge mistakes and I don't know who to trust. "
" Hey let's just calm down a little. You look like you've been living in the wild. "
Dipper turned to Mabel with a serious glint in his eyes. " I have something to show you. And you won't believe it. " He waved his hand in front of her face.
" Hey look I've been going to places all over the world, I'm sure I'll understand. " Mabel said with confidence. Once she saw what he was talking about she had second thoughts about understanding craziness. " There's nothing that I understand about this! "
" It's a transuniversal gateway. A punched hole in the weak spot of our dimension. I created it to unlock the secrets of the universe. But it can be used for horrible destruction. That's why I shut it down and hid the journals that explain how to operate it. There's one left and you're the only person that I trust with this. " Dipper handed the journal to Mabel. " You remember our plans to explore the world on a race car? "
Mabel's eyes widened and she grinned. Dipper continued to speak, " Take this book get in a car and drive away as far as possible. Hide it where no one can find it. "
Mabel glared at her brother's back and yelled, " Seriously? After we finally see each other after ten years you want me to drive away from you as far as possible!? " She gripped the book hard.
" Mabel you don't understand what I've been through. You don't understand what I'm up against! " Dipper almost shouted out.
" No you don't know what I've been through! I've been in prison in a completely different country! I once had to live in a horse's poop pile for two days! " Mabel threw her hands up in the air and continued to yell furiously. " You think you got problems? I still have braces Dipper! Meanwhile what have you been doing? You've been living it up in your own house, hoarding all of your college money because you only care about yourself! "
Dipper looked at his sister in disbelief. " I'm selfish? How can you say those things when you cost me my dream school! I'm giving you a worthwhile thing to do in your life and you won't even take it! "
" Yeah well listen to this. You want me to get rid of this? Fine I'll do it right now! " Mabel took out a lighter and held the journal over it. Dipper's heart raced as he watched his journal get closer to the flame.
He grabbed it and struggled to take it out of Mabel's hands. " No don't! "
" Hey you gave it to me, so I'll do whatever I want with it! " Mabel wrenched it out of Dipper's hands. She brought the lighter to the top of the book.
" My journal! " Dipper cried out before he lunged at Mabel. The twins hit the floor in a tangled heap. The journal landed a few feet away from them. Dipper rushed up to retrieve it but Mabel grabbed his legs and he fell.
Mabel grabbed the book and ran into the control room. " Mabel give it back! " Dipper demanded as he wrestled with his twin sister.
They slammed into a control panel accidentally activating it. Dipper and Mabel were too engrossed in their fight to notice.
" You want it back you'll have to try harder you butt! " Mabel tripped and brought Dipper down to the floor. She was on her knees as she tried to take the journal away from Dipper. Mabel looked Dipper in the eyes and said, " We were supposed to be together forever! You ruined my life! "
" No I didn't! " Dipper kicked Mabel off him with a burst of strength. She hit his desk and screamed when the symbol on the side of the desk burned into her back. Dipper stood up and immediately began to apologize, " Mabel I'm so sorry- Ah! " Mabel threw an uppercut to his jaw. Dipper stumbled back and hit the switch to the portal.
Mabel gripped her shoulder in pain as she walked over to her brother. She had the journal in her hands. " Some brother you are. You care more about your dumb research that family well you can take it! " Mabel shoved the journal into Dipper's chest.
Dipper started to rise up in the air. He tried to reach for Mabel as she tried to grab his foot. " Mabel help me! Mabel! " His thoughts were racing as he threw the journal to her. His hat flew off his head as he was sucked into the portal.
" Dipper! Dipper I didn't mean it! Come back! Dipper! " Mabel begged as she fruitlessly banged on the portal. She saw his hat laying alone on the floor.
Mabel tried to reactivate the portal for hours. It wasn't until she looked into the journal that she realized she needed the other journals. Mabel wasn't sure if Dipper was alive or dead in some distant galaxy but she needed to find the other journals.
Grunkle Stan arrived worriedly looking for Mabel. Once she explained to him what happened they decided on resting for the night. Mabel didn't get much sleep that night. Or the next night.
It wasn't until they ran out of food did one of them leave the house. It was Stan who went out to buy more food for them. He came back later with a group of people Mabel never seen before.
" What're you doing? " Mabel hissed to Stan as the people stood in Dipper's house.
" Getting us money. " Stan answered as he began the tour.
Mabel was surprised to learn how much money Stan had earned from that one tour. She didn't like lying but she needed a source of income and Stan's idea seemed to be the only option. She soon used her crafting skills to make signs and attractions for Stan's tours of the newly named Murder Hut.
Soon the Murder Hut was renamed the Mystery Shack as the years went by. Each day more tourists would come in and Stan would take scam them out of their money. At night Mabel would work on the portal, trying to bring her brother back.
Wendy looked up at Mabel with understanding. " So all this time you were trying to bring your brother back. Mabel I'm so sorry I don't believe you. "
Mabel sighed, " It's okay. I wouldn't of believed me either. "
There was suddenly shouting upstairs. It was the agents and it sounded like they found the hidden passageway behind the vending machine.
" Oh no! I was so caught up in your story that I forgot about those guys! " Soos cried out. Wendy head whipped around as she heard Soos's words.
" Forget! I got it! " Wendy pulled out the memory eraser device. Dipper took it with a grin on his face.
He attached the device to a wire and set it to radio frequency. He ordered everybody to cover their ears.
The agents were stunned and confused about why they were in front of some sort of knick-knack house. Dipper walked up to them with papers in his hands.
" Stand down men. According to this very real report you were called over due to a meteor shower. A total joke to your agency. Luckily I'm here to cover it up. Now I'll just need all your data you have on this case. "
Wendy watched inside of the shack as the confused agents handed Dipper a flash drive. Dipper fed the flash drive to Gompers and watched as the goat ate the flash drive.
(In An Alternate Universe)
Everyone watched in anticipated horror as the infinity die rolled across the carpet. As the die stopped rolling a a beam of light erupted from it. The light headed straight to Dipper.
Everyone screamed as the light engulfed Dipper. The light grew brighter and suddenly there was a popping sound followed by a grunt.
Dipper found himself lying on the floor and looking at someone's boots. The owner of the boots sat up with a groan. Dipper gasped and scooted away from the stranger. Ford grabbed Dipper and stood protectively in front of him.
" Dipper? " Mabel said as she saw the stranger stand up.
The stranger standing in front of them looked like an adult Dipper.
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