First, let me apologize. I did not expect this hiatus to take as long as five months. I just became increasingly busy with school, college applications, scholarships, and sports, that I never had the time to work on this chapter. When I did have the time, I found myself rewriting it. To be honest, I probably rewrote this chapter about six times already. I just was never satisfied with it.

But I'm here now (since I have finalized my college decision) and my goal now is to finish the first arc of this story by the start of summer to mid-summer Yes everyone, I'm going to try to get the first chapter of the second arc of Gravity Rises in by summertime. Hopefully, you guys will find the second arc much more intense than the first arc because there will be more reveals and important events.

That's why I have prepared a list of expected chapters in the end of this chapters. If you see an exclamation mark by them, those chapters are set to be written. If you see a question mark, those chapters are in a questionable state meaning I'm not sure if I'll write them or not. It's your job as a reader to vote whether you want to see those questionable chapters. All I have to say is that the less chapters you guys want to see in this first arc, the quicker I can get to writing the second arc.

And as promised, time for some reviews:

Bootes-'D'-Huntsman: I unintentionally made Suggesica how she is in that chapter. It was not planned, but somehow it helped exploit some the feelings that manifested in Mabel due to Wendy. And I added Dipper's resolution in the end for a reason. The twins were never really close before they came to Gravity Falls, but as the story continues, you'll start to see that they become close, something that siblings are expected to be.

Supersailorcard: I'm glad you love it. And don't worry. I'll be trying to update at least two times a month from now.

RandomNumbers523156: Thanks for the correction. I'm glad the alterations are so far good. Even though I have explored some things, rest assured there will be more to be explored as this story goes on. And as for Stanford, I guess he's boring at this point because I don't want him to leave a mark just yet. He will have his time, but right now, the first chapters are revolving around Dipper and Mabel's relationship with each other and their interactions with others as they continue to explore their temporary new home.

~Little Mabel~

"And check-mate."

"Aww! No fair Mabes! I was still trying to collect the little guys."

Mabel rolled her eyes at Dipper's response and placed her elbows on the large green shell that they were currently using as a table. "Dipper, for the millionth time, the goal of chess is to corner the king while taking out the other pawns. Not-" Mabel stopped and looked at the bundle of pawns that were laid out all on Dipper's side of the chess board consisting of both her and Dipper's pawns he had grabbed throughout the game. She simply sighed looking away at the notebook right beside her that showed all of her wins so far in the last twenty games she had played with Dipper. Dipper had won none.

"Never mind..." She quietly murmured to herself in defeat.

Noticing the slight change in Mabel's tone of voice, Dipper looked up at her showing off a large smile. "Lighten up Mabes. There's more to games than just rules. It's all about having fun." Dipper said placing down the black king he had grabbed. He looked over to Soos who had watched the chess game for the last few minutes after organizing some boxes for the museum.

"Right Soos?" He asked.

Soos nodded in response to Dipper's question. "Mabel, maybe you should play Dippers way. You might have more fun."

Mabel crossed her arms. "But without rules, there's no honesty in the game. It wouldn't be fair!"

Dipper chuckled smiling. "Geez Mabes. I won't cheat." He lifted his hand and crossed his heart with his finger. "Cross my heart and hope to die?"

Mabel puffed out her cheeks looking away. Bitterly, she replied yes while pondering over her choice. Maybe it would do good for her to play without rules even though it didn't feel right to do so. It probably would be a good change of pace for her.

'Besides,' Mabel thought looking over at the notebook that displayed all her wins and Dipper's losses. 'Dipper would probably do great at winning a game without rules.'

"Uh before you play, could you grab a box for me from the shelf over there Dipper?" Soos asked pointing at a tall shelf that had some small dark brown boxes placed on it.

Mabel turned to where Soos was pointing and realized that the shelf was not too far away from her. She stood up from her chair ready to go grab a box for Soos. "I can do it Soos."

Soos shook his head smiling. "Thanks Mabel, but Dipper is taller."

"Wait, what do you mean he's taller?" Mabel asked trying her best to mask the slight hint of fear in her voice. "That can't be right. We're the same height. We've always been." She tried to explain.

It was true though. For as long as she could remember, her and Dipper had always been the exact height. Often, she hated it, but it was what helped her see what she had connected to Dipper, her twin. Sure, they were polar opposites. That she knew. But even then, she didn't want to be too far different from Dipper. Besides if he was taller, what did that mean for her, the older twin?

"Hmm..." Soos hummed to himself in thought as he stepped away from the counter. He took out a measuring tape from one of the drawers and quietly measured both Mabel and Dipper's height. Once he had finished, he placed the measuring tape away and turned back to Mabel. But Mabel could tell by his face what he was going to say. It didn't take a genius to know.

"Sorry Mabel, but Dipper is exactly one milliliter taller than you."

Dipper turned towards Mabel with a big smile getting wider by the second. "Woooah Mabes. Do you know what this means? I'm finally becoming the alpha twin!"

Mabel felt herself roll her eyes. When Dipper and her were about seven, they had watched a video about wolves in their class learning about the alpha and omega. The alpha wolf was the leader and the one whom the omega follows. Upon learning about this, Dipper made it his mission to be the dominant twin among the two. Gradually, as the months went by, Dipper had stopped fighting to be the alpha twin and soon had forgotten about it. Or at least Mabel had thought so, but now here he was claiming he was the alpha twin yet again.

"Dipper, for the last time, you're not the alpha twin. I'm older than you!" Mabel argued back while giving a glare back at Dipper.

"But Mades, this is only the beginning. You may be older than me, but I'm going to be the bigger, stronger twin. I'm finally evolving into the superior sibling!" Dipper exclaimed with his eyes twinkling in delight and excitement.

Mabel gritted her teeth. "No, you are not! Besides, one milliliter doesn't show that you're taller than me here. It only shows in Canada!"

"Aww don't get mad sis. I mean I've always wanted a little sister, but wait, I guess I already had one." Dipper said clutching his chest in laughter.

Mabel felt her cheeks heat up at that comment instantly feeling the growing dark emotions swelling up inside her. It wasn't fair. Why did all the good things had to happen to Dipper? He always got the popularity and social life. And what did she get? The short end of the stick. She was always forced to be in her brother's shadow at school while constantly being subjected to bullying. It wasn't fair. She wanted to be better than him in at least something. Being the oldest twin was what kept her sane during all those difficult times. But even then, it was suddenly occurring to her now that that was a stupid idea. Even Dipper was beating her at that. She was nothing compared to her brother.

Biting down in the inside of her cheek, Mabel forced the emotions that were continuously swelling inside her chest to stay out and only continued glaring at Dipper. Even then, she couldn't force herself to hate her brother. After all, it wasn't his fault that she had to go through everything.

"Mabes?" Dipper asked no longer laughing and only staring at Mabel with concern. Mabel ignored it though and forced herself to look away. Not here. She couldn't let out her emotions in front of him.

"I'm going to our room. I... I have some stuff to do." Mabel quietly murmured turning and heading out of the room. She hastily walked up the stairs and entered her and Dipper's room making sure to lock the door behind her. Once it was locked, she made her way to her bed and plopped down on it on her back in defeat. In silence, she found herself staring at the ceiling with all her thoughts transfixed to what had just happened downstairs. She laid in silence for several minutes until Mabel had enough. She turned her head to her left slowly, but quickly widened her eyes at what she saw was sitting on her pillow. She hadn't realized that it was there.

The journal.

Steadily, Mabel raised herself off from her bed and sat up in a position in which her legs were dangling off the bed. She took the journal into her hands and began flipping pages rapidly until her eyes fell on two pages she had remembered seeing two days earlier. The pages consisted of information about height-altering crystals. They could be found deep in the forest and could change an object's or living being's size.

Naturally, upon seeing the pages, Mabel had dismissed them and had to go Ford to ask more information about the crystals. He reaffirmed to her that they were in fact real and even gave her more information about where they were located at (with a strong emphasis as to why she should not go look for them). After learning about the crystals, Mabel never took the time to look for them. It always seemed like she was busy with other important stuff (not to mention that she always felt uneasy going into the forest). But now that Dipper was one millimeter taller than her, Mabel had a reason why she should go look for the crystals. She needed to become taller than Dipper.

Which was why she decided to sneak out of the mystery museum undetected and walk in the forest in the direction where the crystals would be at.

A lone woman watches quietly from behind a lit screen as her creator fiddles away with a machine, another one of his beloved creations. She had light pink hair wrapped in a bun, wore small glasses like the ones her creator wore, and was outfitted with a white lab coat with a pink ribbon attached to the neckline. She watches as her creator picks up a wrench and applies torque to move one of the bolts. Her creator was often always silent when fixing or building new machines. But when he spoke, it always made her feel more complete.

"Giffany."

Giffany perked her head up and simply bowed to her creator, who had called out to her. She was made with only one purpose: to serve her creator.

"Yes, master?"

"Have you finished analyzing information about those children?"

Giffany nodded and lifted her left finger pushing her index finger forward. In effect, a bright window popped up by her with all the biological information of the children she could find from the deepest part of the internet.

"Mabel Pines. Female. Age 12. Born on August 31, 1999. She is the great niece of Stanford Pines."

Giffany blinked and looked to the next child's information and spoke it aloud for her creator to hear.

"Mason Pines. Male. Age 12. Also born on August 31, 1999. He is the great nephew of Stanford Pines."

Giffany quietly slid her index finger to the left causing the window next to her to load new information.

"The children live with their parents in Piedmont, Calfornia, but they are staying with their great uncle for winter break, a period of time in which children attending school take time off from school. They did not know Stanford before they came to live with him, so I expect they do not understand his true character."

Giffany puts her hand down and the window by her disappears in glowing speckles of light. She turns to her creator and watches as he grips the wrench in his hand tighter. She narrowed her eyes as she analyzes his reaction to the information she just said. What about the children struck him?

As Giffany pondered over this, a bright warning light popped up to her right. She lifted her right hand and a window displaying a small brown haired girl walking away from the area that had large crystals in, the place her creator had placed cameras in after discovering it.

"Master," Giffany said in a monotonous voice watching as her creator looked up at her. "One of the children has left the area in which the height-altering crystals thrive at. It seems she has taken a crystal."

Giffany's creator narrowed his eyes. He placed his wrench down into the lab table and looked back up at her. "Continue monitoring the forest Giffany. Look for anymore activity constructed by either of those children. Alert back to me quickly when you do."

"Master, may I ask, but why are you so interested in these children?" Giffany hesitantly asked.

She watched as her creator fixed his cracked glasses and turned away from her preparing to exit the room. Before he stepped out, he stopped and answered her question without looking back.

"Those children do not understand the situation they are currently in."

Giffany simply only nodded and watched as her creator walked out. She then turned and opened more windows with her hands to monitor what the security cameras would catch. If her master ordered her to do something, she would do it with no hesitation. After all, that was all she was created to do.

Mabel stared at her reflection carefully analyzing her new size. After she had returned home from the forest, she immediately went to her and Dipper's room and began attaching the small crystal she had gotten to the lens of a flashlight. She got the idea after seeing a deer change size due to light hitting one of the crystals. One side would emit pink light and cause the creature to become small, while the other side would emit blue light and cause the creature to become big. But the process only happened when light shines through them. Which was why she had decided to use a flashlight.

After taping the crystal to the flashlight, Mabel shined the crystal onto herself making sure that it was on the side that would emit blue light. Once she had thought she had grown a tiny bit, she turned off the flashlight and placed it on her and Dipper's small table stand. She opened one of the drawers and took out a measuring tape and began measuring herself. She studied at what the tape showed about her size. Setting the tape down, she then walked over to the mirror and stared at her reflection. She did not feel any different and it looked like she did not even grow. But she knew that her reflection did not completely show her size. Right now, she was finally taller than Dipper. And that was enough to turn the frown she had adorned for the past few hours into a warm smile.

"Mable! Where are you? Are you okay?"

Mabel turned away from the mirror and watched as Dipper opened the door to their room and entered. He gazed around the room quietly until his eyes fell on Mabel. She watched as he goofily smiled walking towards her.

"There you are Mabes! I've been looking for you! I was wondering if you wanted to finish the game we were playing earlier? I mean... The one that we were going to try playing without rules?"

Dipper stopped in front of Mabel and blinked until his eyes widened in bewilderment. "Woah Mabes! You look different now. What happened to you?"

"I had a sudden growth spurt." Mabel simply answered.

"Really? I thought growth spurts did not happened in hours though?"

Mabel shrugged her shoulders. "Well I guess I'm just different."

Dipper didn't reply to her comment and only continued staring at her in awe and puzzlement. "Well I guess this means you're taller than me now, but it's okay. I had my growth spurt first. In the end, I'm sure I'll be the tallest!"

Mabel frowned. "That does not make any sense. Just because you had your growth spurt first does not mean you'll be the tallest one."

"Yes, it does. It's science sis!" Dipper answered with a wide smile.

"No, that's faulty reasoning and you know it!"

Dipper frowned. "No, I'm pretty sure it's science. Ms. Wiggles back at home taught me it."

Mabel groaned and marched over to the table stand and grabbed the flashlight with the crystal attached to it and waved it angrily at Dipper. "This is science right here! When light hits this crystals, it changes an organism size to big or small!"

Mabel stopped speaking realizing what she had just said. She tried to hide the flashlight behind her back, but it was too late. Dipper was interested in it now and now understood how she had grown.

"Can I use it sis!? I want to have a growth spurt like you!"

Mabel shook her head taking a step now. "No, y-you cannot! This isn't a toy."

Before she could say anything else, Dipper had sprung forward to grab the flashlight from her hand. She quickly moved to her left and watched as Dipper fell forward on the ground. Not wasting a second, she made a break for it to the door and quickly ran out of the room, down the stairs, and out of the Mystery Museum.

Just as Mabel's left foot made contact with the snow, she felt a hand grabbing onto her shoulder causing her too fall forward. Mabel shut her eyes as the momentum of the push caused her to hit the freezing snow noticing how someone was pressing their body weight on her. She opened her eyes to see Dipper on top of her fighting to grab onto the flashlight. Seeing this, Mabel gripped the flashlight tighter in her hand and shoved Dipper off of her taking the precious time she had to continue running.

Mabel blindly ran towards the forest not even caring where she was going. She ignored how the icy wind gnawed at her skin or how the tree limbs prickled her skin whenever she ran though them. She especially ignored the voice behind her calling out to her to stop. She did not want to stop and give Dipper the flashlight. She did not want to lose to him.

Eventually, Mabel found herself in a snowy clearing and stopped suddenly noticing how it was an area the twins had not previously explored. She mentally cursed at herself for not taking the time to grab the journal when she ran out of the museum. She was at an unknown place. Who knew what creature could attack her or Dipper.

"Mabel!" Yelled a voice behind Mabel.

She turned towards where the sound of where the voice came from and was pushed abruptly to the ground. She struggled under's Dipper's weight fighting to get him off of her, but she found that it was useless. Before she could even try to keep the flashlight away him, Dipper tore the flashlight away from her grip and got off her backing away off her. He turned the flashlight towards himself and pressed it with excitement noticeable in his eyes. Mabel watched as he grew a few inches after being touched by the blue light. Mabel couldn't help but feel enraged.

"Give that back Dipper!" She yelled springing forward to grab the flashlight from Dipper's hand.

Once her hand made contact with the flashlight, Mabel made it her mission to pull it from his grips. She grabbed onto the flashlight tightly and began to pull it from Dipper. After seeing what she was trying to do, Dipper began doing the same.

"Stop it Dipper! You're going to break it!" Mabel yelled though gritted teeth as she she pulled the flashlight towards her.

"Not until you give it to me!" Dipper answered back pulling the flashlight back towards him again.

Mabel glared at Dipper and with all the strength she had left, she tanked the flashlight towards herself. She did not realize though that the momentum would cause Dipper to crash onto her. Both of the twins were sent crashing into the snow while the flashlight disappeared from both of their grips. The twins looked up from the ground to see the flashlight flying through the air. They watched as it dropped from the sky and fell onto an old log near them. Only for the flashlight to hit the log at a position in which the button was pressed. Mabel widened her eyes and moved to stop the flashlight, but it was too late. A pink beam was emitted from the flashlight at the twins and immediately, they began to shrunk.

Mabel squeezed her eyes shut as the world around her grew in size. When she finally opened them, she did not take in the trees, logs, rocks, nor flashlight that were much larger than her now. All she noticed was how freezing it was now and how the snow was practically gnawing at her skin stealing the little warmth her coat gave her. Teeth chattering, Mabel slowly looked to her left and saw Dipper shivering while scrambling in the snow. She began to notice why he was scrambling in it.

He was sinking into it. Just like how she was now.

Immediately upon realizing this, Mabel began to flail looking for anything to grab on to pull herself up. She mentally cursed at herself when she found nothing to grab onto. Her and Dipper were in the middle of the snowy field. What was worse was that they were nowhere near the flashlight that was currently sitting a few feet away from them on the log. They were going to sink and suffocate in the snow. If they were lucky, they would probably die from hypothermia first.

Mabel stopped moving altogether seeing that her torso was now in the snow. She look over to Dipper and widened her eyes. Dipper's whole body was in the snow. Everything except his shoulders up to his neck.

"D-Dipper! S-stop moving! You'll only make yourself sink faster!" Mabel called out to Dipper praying that he would for once would listen to her. She did not want to witness him sinking into the freezing snow.

"I-I c-can't! I-it's c-cold!" Dipper called back to Mabel with chattering teeth looking back at her with fearful eyes. Mabel gritted her teeth and wanted more than anything to help her brother. But she was in the same predicament as him.

"J-just d-don't think about the cold!" Mabel yelled back. She could tell he was sinking in the more they talked. Now he was up to his neck while she was up to her shoulders.

"M-Mabel..." Dipper quietly said gazing at her with a solemn look. "I-I'm s-sorry for f-fighting you..."

Mabel could feel a huge lump beginning to grow in her throat as she listened to Dipper's words. In this kind of situation, of course he would apologize to her.

"I-I'm s-sorry too... F-for e-everything." Mabel answered back squeezing her eyes shut. She fought to stop the tears that were coming, but there was no mistake that there was wetness on her cheeks that were most likely coming from her eyes.

Mabel decided to ignore the tears and opened her eyes eyes to look back at Dipper. Only, she could not see him anymore. He was not by her. He had sunk into the snow fully.

"D-Dipper! Dipper!" Mabel screamed with fear. She tried to move her body to get to him, but it only made her sink deeper. The snow was now covering her neck and she was sinking in it faster with every second.

Mabel forced herself to not think about all the bad things that had happened to her over the past years of her life. She only thought about the happy times she had with her brother. Eventually, after some time reliving some of her memories, Mabel began to realize that the snow was now up to her nose. Seeing that sinking into the snow was inevitable, Mabel squeezed her eyes shut and took her last breath. She felt the snow cover her forehead and pull her into its icy grip.

The first few seconds were not horrible. To her, it felt like a contest in holding her breath at the pool. However, after the few seconds. Her lungs began to scream at her to get some air. Soon after, she could feel a fiery pain pulsing throughout her body from the lack of air. It did not help that her head was now beginning to grow fuzzy.

Mabel bit the inside of her tongue. She was growing numb now. She could no longer think about Dipper nor the things she was going to do. Realizing that she was going to die, Mabel did the last thing she could only do.

She mentally apologized to her brother.

And then there was darkness.

"...ffering from hypothermia. They need... temperatures raised."

"Yes, master... I have... changed the... sizes with... device... children had."

"Good. It would... been no good... if they... died out there."

Mabel groaned at hearing the female and male voices that were unfamiliar to her. She wanted nothing more than to ignore them and continue sleeping. It took all her willpower to ignore that temptation. Once she had, she slowly opened her eyes and gazed at her surroundings slowly perceiving where she was.

She was currently in a small room on a lab table. Near the table was a large toolbox and a small machine. On the walls were various blueprints and tools hanging by nails. Computers also were hanging from the ones. Near one of the corners was a large computer with a large keyboard hooked to a small machine near it. Mabel stared at the machine and slowly gazed at the direction where she heard one of the voices came from. Standing by the doorway was a bespectacled gruff man wearing a dirty, tattered suit who was staring at her with a cautious look.

"W-who are you? W-where am I?" Mabel groggily asked out looking around once more. She continued doing so for a few seconds until her eyes widened realizing that she should be dead. "Where's Dipper?" She called out to the odd man with determined eyes.

The man frowned and walked closer to Mabel. "Relax. Your brother is laying right next to you. Although he had suffocated first, you were the one who needed urgent treatment. You almost died first from hypothermia."

Mabel sprung to her left to the side she had not looked at and sighed in relief. The man was right. Dipper was laying next to her. He was wrapped in a blanket still sleeping. Seeing that he was safe, Mabel turned back to the man. What she did not expect him to be was inches from her face studying her as if she was an animal.

"You and your brother are quite the anomaly." The man said as he stroked his chin still staring down at Mabel. "I find it hard to understand how you and him can stay with that lying bastard."

"W-who are you talking about? Who are you?" Mabel asked narrowing her eyes at the man as if she was challenging him. The man did not fail to see this and only backed away in response.

"I'm talking about Stanford Pines little girl. To answer your other question, my name is Professor Fiddleford Mcgucket, a scientist and inventor."

"Why did you call Great Uncle Stan that?"

"Because that is what he is!" The man snapped. "He lied to me about his experiment and now because of him, this world might very well cease to exist!"

Mabel felt herself flinch from Fiddleford's tone. Just as she was about to reply back to Fiddleford, Mabel felt movement from behind her. She turned her head to see Dipper sitting up and rubbing one of his eyes with the back of his hands. He yawned and stretched and then groggily opened his eyes. Once he saw Mabel, his tired frown changed into a large smile. He sprung forward and enveloped Mabel in a hug.

"Mabes! You're okay! I thought that we were goners for a second there!" Dipper happily said releasing Mabel from its hug.

Mabel only sighed, but even then she smiled. She, too, thought they were goners. She turned away from Dipper back to Fiddleford and decided to ask another question.

"Why did you save us?"

Fiddleford only stared at the twins. "Even if you are that bastard's great nephew and niece, I've come to realize that you are bystanders." His face suddenly turned to a glare. "That bastard is a lier. I advise you two to go back home to your parents."

Mabel glared back at Fiddleford. She took Dipper's hand into hers and hopped down the lab table with him. "Great Uncle Ford would never lie to her us!"

Fiddleford's eyes flashed with hate and he simply turned walking towards the exit. "Then you both are stupid children... Come. I'll lead you to the exit."

Mabel frowned since she did not want to follow the man, but catching one glimpse at Dipper's face told her that they should at least for one time. Not wasting any time, the twins began to follow Fiddleford. The three walked out of the lab and Fiddleford led them up to a flight of stairs. They silently walked up the stairs in deafening silence until the three entered a new room.

Unlike the lab, which was organized, the room they were currently in was messy. Throughout the room, papers with a triangle on them was scattered. Triangles with an eye in the middle of them were also drawn in the walls too. Even the billboard, which hung from a wall behind a disorganized desk, was littered with papers that had the unfamiliar one eyed triangle on them. The triangle was important, that Mabel knew. After all, it was everywhere in the room.

"What is that triangle?" Mabel hesitantly asked looking away from her surroundings to Fiddleford. She was surprised to see how he looked less angry and more cautious as if he was looking out for something.

"That triangles are no concern to you." Fiddleford muttered back, but Mabel could tell he was lying by the sound of his voice.

Fiddleford walked towards a door Mabel had not seen earlier and opened it. He looked back at the twins and signaled with his eyes that it was time for them to leave.

Mabel frowned but decided to listen to the strange man. She took her brother's hand into hers and together, they began to walk towards the door silently. Just as they were about to exit it, they were stopped by Fiddleford.

"Wait. You should have this back."

Fiddleford placed his hand into his pocket and took out the flashlight with the crystal that Mabel had attached to it. He placed his hand waiting for Mabel to take the flashlight out.

With hesitance, Mabel took the flashlight. Even though she wanted nothing more than to throw it away, she decided to put it inside her coat pocket. She would decide later what to do with it.

"That contraption almost killed you. Stanford will get what he deserves. But before that, it would be highly provable if you two return home when it happens. Or else, it will be too late for you to escape. Follow the path with stones and it will lead you to town."

Mabel blinked at Fiddleford's statement and opened her mouth to say something, but before she could, the door was shut on them with a click signaling that it was locked.

Mabel raised her hand to knock on the door to get Fiddleford's attention, but catching a glimpse on Dipper's face made her decide not to. They needed to head back to the museum. They were still cold and she definitely did not want to stay in the forest any longer.

Silently hoping that she would meet the man again that for some reason hated Stanford, Mable began to lead Dipper towards the path that Fiddleford described briefly. The two walked in silence for several minutes until Mabel broke it.

"I'm sorry Dipper. For making myself grow taller than you."

Mabel looked back to Dipper to see him glancing down. She really hurt him, didn't she. She opened her mouth to say something else, but was cut off by Dipper.

"I-It's okay. I should have not have said those things about being the alpha twin. But..." Dipper looked up at Mabel with hurt noticeable in his eyes. "I just wanted to beat you at something! You're always beating me in the games we play! I.. I just felt that maybe growing taller than you would finally be something I could beat you at..."

Mabel blinked and than softly chuckled. Dipper looked at her confusedly as she replied back to him in a soft tone. "You're wrong Dipper... You're the one whose always beating me. You far beat me in making friends, getting everyone's acknowledgement, and never feeling lonely..."

"Mabel..." Dipper softly muttered. Before Mabel could say anything, she felt herself become enveloped in a warm hug by her brother.

"I'm sorry sis. L-lets forget everything and start over! This time, let's not try to beat each other in things, but go through them together!"

"Dipper..." Mabel heard herself say in a chocked voice. She smiled and clutched her brother closer to her.

"Hey Dip, when was the one last we had an awkward sibling hug like this?" She asked.

"I think since elementary?"

Mabel smile grew larger and she raised her right hand. "Then let's start again." In a cheerful tone, she placed her hand on Dipper's back and patted it while feeling that Dipper was doing the same thing.

Together the twins both said the same words they forever ago had forgotten about. The same words that had bonded them as twins and as siblings.

"Pat. Pat."

Next Chapters:

(Note: The title of these chapters are subjected to change)

Chapter 11: Through the Cursed Door? (About Mabel and Dipper accidentally finding cursed doors, something that was not explored in the cartoon)

Chapter 12: In Thin Ice? (Dipper finds a mermaid in a frozen pond while Gideon appears and interacts with Mabel more)

Chapter 13: Carpet Diem! (The twins switch their bodies while exploring a locked room in the museum)

Chapter 14: Dreamscaperers! (Our favorite triangular dream demon appears)

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