Mabel and Grunkle Ford had come to a weird yet awesome dimension - standing on the branch of giant Planfarn trees, similar to appearance in sequoia trees except brightly yellow, Lava bubbled and flowed underneath them with giant spinning fans above them cooling them quickly. Mabel took the opportunity to lay down and relax closing eyes, as Grunkle Ford sat beside her.
Sometime later, Grunkle Ford said, 'This place makes about sense as the M Dimension'. 'There's an M Dimension?' Mabel said opening her eyes and lifted herself up a little, 'You can never have enough M's in your life!' Grunkle Ford laughed and said, 'Trust me, Mabel, that place is…frustrating, to say the least'. 'Maybe that could be an early or late birthday present?' Mabel said.
Grunkle Ford said laughing again, 'Haha...There might be something if we get there. Speaking of which, when is your birthday?' 'August 31st', Mabel said, and blinked, 'Wait a minute…'. 10th was when I fell through... – 'Grunkle Ford, how many days has it been since I fell through the portal?' 'I think…' Grunkle Ford raising hand to chin, '…about a week?' 'A week?' Mabel said, and gasped, then said, 'Grunkle Ford, it's two weeks until my birthday'.
'Oh my goodness', Grunkle Ford said, 'that's a while yet'. 'Yeah...', Mabel said frowning looking down to the branch, '…I just wish I was home...especially with Dipper…I wonder what he's doing right now…'. 'Making sure he can bring you back, I imagine' Grunkle Ford said, 'and living his life'. 'As long as he avoids that stupid triangle, I know Dipper won't give up on both of us', Mabel said. Grunkle Ford said, 'I'll find you something when we get to the next dimension, sweetie'. Mabel turned back to Grunkle Ford, and said smiling, 'Thanks, Grunkle Ford – think a talking horse might do it'.
'Just wait and see, Mabel', Grunkle Ford smiling. Mabel said, 'Or maybe a machine that could bring my dream boys Xyler and Craz to life – I could use some more company'. 'Who are Xyler and Craz?' Grunkle Ford said. 'They're from Dream Boy High', Mabel said – pupils widening - 'one of the best films ever – the only VHS everyone needs'. 'Do I need to know what the film is about?' Grunkle Ford said calmly. 'Just that it's beautiful…', Mabel said. Grunkle Ford laughed, and said, 'There's something wrong with you'. 'There's something wrong with both of us', Mabel said.
Dipper blinked awake slowly, and groaned as she shifted himself from the bed to the floor, bringing eyes to the calendar Mabel had placed up at the beginning of the summer – the date August 31st circled red with the words, 'Teens Now!' written around it, and pictures of himself and Mabel with bodies of two older men and women underneath, cut out from one of Mabel's magazines. He blinked, then widened his eyes, and said, 'Oh man…'
What am I gonna do when summer ends… - as he turned to the door and walked - …and Mom and Dad freak out with what's happened. They might not let me come here again, and they'll never forgive Grunkle Stan…I might never get Mabel back. No…we'll figure something out – and he curved to a small smile as he walked down the stairs.
He entered into the kitchen – where Grunkle Stan was cooking some bacon and Stancakes, and he said, 'Hey kid, how you doing?''Like heck', Dipper said, 'I just saw the calender in our room – our birthday's coming up in two weeks'. 'Don't worry', Stan said turning around holding pan in gloved hands, 'We're getting closer to getting Mabel and Ford back – Have to wait for McGucket to fix up this machine to get that rift back into the portal, then we're back in business'.
'What machine is it?' Dipper said. Stan said turning from the table walking into the kitchen again, 'He said it should suck the rift back through, once we turn the portal back on – that way we'll have to be careful getting the right time bringing Mabel and Ford back. Which reminds me, me and Soos are planning to get some radioactive waste in a few days'. 'I was never here', Dipper said. A shrill sound came from outside the kitchen – McGucket's voice said, 'Dipper, Mr Pines!'
'In here McGucket!', Dipper said. McGucket entered quickly through and said, 'We've got another problem on our hands!'Dipper frowned and said, 'What is it?' McGucket reached into his dungerees and pulled out holding the rift in hand – a long crack beginning to mould around the mason jar.
Dipper opened mouth as Grunkle Stan said, 'The rift's beginning to crack!'. 'It's what Bill will be waiting for', McGucket said, 'The moment it's broken, he'll be able to break through and destroy our world'. 'Oh man…' Dipper said, '…and he could try and possess anyone to get it'.
'There is a way to patch it up, so it will be able to go back inside the portal',McGucket said, 'Me and Ford went to what he called 'Crash Site Omega' – right in the valley of Gravity Falls, before the track shaft where you and Mabel fought Gideon' – Dipper frowned – 'There's an alien adhesive that should be strong enough to contain it for me'.
Dipper blinked and said, 'Shut. Up.' McGucket said, 'An alien ship crash-landed three million years ago creating the valley of Gravity Falls – whether it was the town that attract it, or the ship itself brings the weirdness around is unknown. Me and Ford raided it for parts years back when we first built the portal. But that adhesive should be there. I have a couple magnet guns from the basement for both of us to use, and the rift too so we can fix it quickly – now come on, we don't have much time'. McGucket went sprinting towards the back door.
'Take care, kid' Grunkle Stan said. Dipper said, 'Grunkle Stan…I'll see you soon', and turned running behind McGucket. 'We're almost there!', Grunkle Stan said behind. Dipper smiled.
The next portal light shone brightly around Mabel and Grunkle Ford a moment, and then revealed a marketplace – many small stalls set up around them as they began to walk around.
'Ooh', Mabel said cooing. 'Let's see if we can find something', Grunkle Ford said.
They looked around the stalls – seeing indeed talking horses and dolphins, but they were beyond what money Grunkle Ford had on him, and so they took to a lower part of the market. There, they saw necklaces, bracelets and offers of tattoos – which Ford had to physically drag Mabel away from – along with wool for knitting, a variety of knitting needles, and the usual food and drink on offer, which Ford brought sparingly.
Mabel saw turning left a number of journals – all in different colours – on one stall, and said, 'Grunkle Ford, see the journals over there?' 'Oh yes', Grunkle Ford said. She began to sprint over to them, and stared, then said 'Just like the journals back home!' 'Shh, Mabel', Grunkle Ford said. 'Oh, sorry', Mabel said. 'Would you want one?' Grunkle Ford said.
Mabel said, 'Yeah – at least I can have something to write about while we're around'. 'Ok', Grunkle Ford said, and lowered himself to her, and whispered, 'I'm gonna need you to distract them though'. Mabel looked at him, and simply nodded. She turned around to the front as the stall-owner – rounded like a yellow potato – stood behind and said, 'Excuse me'.
The yellow potato turned around to them – with four eyes and fangs curled upwards – and said, 'Good to see you again, Shooting Star!'
Bill's Henchmanic! – Mabel opened mouth staring as Ford said, 'RUN!', and she turned leftwards starting to run as fast as she could, turning to see Grunkle Ford running beside her, and a smashing behind them as the potato said, 'Always stay in one spot so they can come running to you!'
'That's pure coincidence!' Ford said, 'Turn right, Mabel!'
Mabel nodded – a turning opening up to them, and she twisted right down another way through some more stalls, and turned seeing the potato giving chase on all fours catching up knocking bystanders over. 'Left!' Grunkle Ford said, and Mabel nodded again turning back – an opening coming left of them. They turned through – a wall dead-end laid before them.
'Perfect', Grunkle Ford said.
'Perfect?!' Mabel said loudly.
'We might not have been able to outrun him for so long Mabel' Grunkle Ford said – Mabel turning to see him taking the Destabliser off his back, and gasped, then closed mouth nodding, and turned behind – the potato not caught up yet. She turned back to the wall – some feet away from them, and stopped turning around. The blue glow came into eyeline as Ford said, 'Get behind me, sweetie'.
Mabel took a step to come behind Grunkle Ford, as the potato came before them. 'Ooh, how much is Bill going to pay when he gets back from Earth?' the potato said.
Mabel blinked, and said, 'Wait…what?' 'I'm not surprised…', he said stepping closer, '…he has big plans for you all…'. He leapt forward towards them – a blue streaking light shot out before them flying into the potato – and Mabel felt herself being pulled upwards slowly, and she widened eyes again.
'Mabel!' Grunkle Ford said. Mabel turned to him floating upwards and said wrapping arms around his waist, 'Grunkle Ford!' Something then hurt inside her head, and she closed her eyes grunting.
Dipper and McGucket climbed up onto a hill before the cliffs where Dipper had thrown himself into the Gideon-Bot, and McGucket said, 'The alien spaceship's just underneath our feet'. He approached a boulder in the middle of the hill, and pushed it forward – a metal square board laid underneath, with a circle drawn inside, and a strange symbol over it. He turned around and said pulling the magnet gun out from his dungerees, 'You might wanna stand back, these things can take fillings out of a man's mouth'. He twisted the end – a glowing line turning into a plus sign – then aimed it down onto the board.
A blue light shone straight onto the board, quickly pulling it upwards, and turned over on itself revealing a gap in the middle, with a ladder moving downwards deep into the hill. Dipper stepped forward, and gazed down, then gasped.
'Here', McGucket said – Dipper raising head as McGucket passed him the magnet gun, and he gripped it gently in hand. McGucket turned and began to climb down as he said, 'Don't worry, the aliens here have been dead for over millions of years. We should be safe'. Dipper nodded, then breathed a moment, before coming around, and climbed down the ladder himself.
They climbed down for a while, the shaft suddenly changing some way down from squared shaped, to triangular. Dipper said, 'I can't believe there's been a giant UFO underneath the town this whole time'. McGucket said, 'Believe me, when Ford told about this place, I was so shocked I pulled my hair out. Yet I am getting a tingling on my spine, being back here'.
They exited out of the shaft, as another symbol on a metal wall came before them – a crescent moon, with three circles around near the points and in the centre – and Dipper twisted around gawping at how huge it was, a few crows flying through inside, and curved into a big smile across his face.
Climbing off, McGucket said, 'Once we find that adhesive, careful it doesn't touch your skin. Otherwise your orifices will seal up'. Dipper nodded humming, keeping his smile as he turned looking all around following.
Along a path, he paused to take a selfie against some writing in an alien language, and laughed to himself in his excitement. They continued along until McGucket stopped, and turned to a set of metal pillars on his left.
'We'll have to swing down those pillars to get to the bottom', McGucket said. Dipper frowned, and said, 'With the magnet guns?' 'Unless you can get on my back and hold on', McGucket said, 'Should be safer that way'. Dipper nodded, and jumped onto McGucket's back wrapping arms around him – as McGucket pulled the top of the magnet gun back and forth. 'Hold on', he said as he turned walking around behind him, then twisted back beginning to run to the edge.
He jumped off, flying towards the pillar, and pulled the trigger – a streak of blue light flashing for a moment onto the pillar – and they spun around the pillar fast moving down sliding into darkness. Dipper groaned as he spun around and around, until something thudded gently on the ground. He remained silent for a moment. Then a bright light shone out from McGucket's hand as he held a torch, and Dipper jumped to the ground, then they continued to walk through.
'Hey McGucket, there's something I need to ask', Dipper said. McGucket said, 'What is it, Dipper?' 'What was…Ford like?', Dipper said.
McGucket said, 'He was one of the most intelligent people I've ever met, but he was secretive – never told me anything about his blueprints – and he was reckless. He was so obsessed with what he called, 'The Grand Theory of Gravity Falls' – I thought he was losing himself in his mission, whatever it was. I remember telling him once, 'Don't forget what happened to Icarus'. He replied back, 'Icarus didn't flap hard enough''.
Dipper frowned.
'I don't mean this wrongly', McGucket said, 'But I see a bit of him in you'. Dipper widened eyes, and said, 'Wha…what do you mean?' 'His excitement at seeing mystery', McGucket said, 'Always searching for the truth. I wouldn't be surprised if he had asked you to be his apprentice'.
Dipper blinked, and McGucket said, 'But you have one thing he didn't…'. 'What's that?', Dipper said. 'Family. At least, he could have Mabel with him. She might set him straight'.
Dipper laughed quietly, and said, 'That's what she does best'. 'He never really talked about his family', McGucket said, 'Only that he came from Glass Shard Beach. Like he was ashamed…'. 'Yeah…', Dipper said, '…Grunkle Stan said Ford's perpetual motion machine broke when he slammed his hands on the table, and he tried to fix it, but it didn't work'. 'Oh…' McGucket said, '…that would explain everything'. 'Maybe it would…', Dipper said, '…still, at least I know someone who wants to see the mysteries of Gravity Falls. But Mabel's more important to me right now' – Just hold on, Mabel.
A/N:
Hey everyone! So this took a little longer then expected! I need to be honest, I had gone back to the novel for a couple weeks - sorting out issues with grammer and changing things around so it's a little more clearer when it comes around to getting published. I am sorry for not giving this time when it needed, but book came first.
Also one thing that slipped my mind from my last chapter - Mabel saying she should've pressed the button was inspired by Markymark's deviantart of Mabel arguing with Dipper about staying in Gravity Falls. Dipper goes off angry, Grunkle Ford comes in and tries to explain, but Mabel says those words - which shocks both of them. Ford leaves, and Mabel's in tears. He did do good Gravity Falls fanart so check it out when you have a chance.
Just a warning, I might be flipping to and fro between this and the book - just to sort out a few things, but in any case, both will be done - 2B Separate hopefully sooner then later. Weirdmageddon Part 2 is done now, so it's just Part 3 to sort out now - which I have no idea how to really do, so will have to see.
Anyway, hope you're all still enjoying this! Please leave a review, message or something else. Check out my other two one-shot fanfictions - Fall and Rise of a Shooting Star and Home is Where the Heart is.
See you all soon.
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