Chapter 25: Our Home
'Have you ever visited a place that felt special to you and always welcomed you upon your visit? When you go there, nothing but good memories flow to you? Have you ever wanted to stay at this place because it felt more like home to you than where you originally migrated from? Having gotten the deed to the shack back, Dipper and Mabel officially have a place to call home every summer, Gravity Falls Oregon!'
~(Mabel's P.O.V.)~
After spending numerous days and nights here in this town since arriving, I never thought I'd ever love it here, let alone call it home. From the time my brother and I first arrived here, I was optimistic to the idea of being in a new environment, but even more open to meeting new people. However, what I originally thought about this place turned out to be something entirely differently, especially after meeting the strange creatures that live here such as the gnomes, the wax figures, and even Gideon Gleeful. I believe our adventure here truly began after meeting Gideon, but the nightmare truly began when I decided to go on a date with him! I didn't think one date would turn into my brother's near demise, but yet, I didn't know the kind of guy Gideon would turn into when I couldn't take being smothered by him any longer and sent my brother on one of my dates to break up with him.
I can still clearly remember how I used the amulet to save the both of their lives because Dipper was knocked out of the window and tossed over the highest cliff in town by Gideon because he was trying to get his amulet away from him.
Flashback
After having "talked" to Wendy about how to properly break up with Gideon, despite the teen going through her long list of ex-boyfriends she's broken up with, Mabel climbs on her bike and rides off to Gideon's family factory. Upon arriving, she looks in the window and notices that the little psychic boy is levitating her twin brother with a telekinetic hold while holding open large lamb sheers in his direction.
"Gideon!" Mabel shouts now bursting through the doors. "We have to talk!"
Hearing Mabel's voice, both boys now turn to her.
"Mabel, my marshmella." Gideon greets the girl, the sheers that were openly aimed at her brother now falling to the ground. 'What are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry Gideon." Mabel begins in a sad tone as she approaches him. "But I can't be your marshmallow. I had to be honest and tell you that myself."
Letting the words sink in from what Mabel just said, Gideon can feel his heart sink as sadness soon surfaces.
"I—I don't understand." Gideon says in disbelief as he tightens his hold on the amulet, which in turn, begins chocking Dipper via telekinetic link.
"Uh Mabel, I don't think now is the best time to be brutally honest with him!" Dipper chokes out as he begins clawing at his throat.
"Hey, but we can still be make-over buddies right?" Mabel asks in a gentle tone as she places her hands on top of Gideon's, hope now shining in the boy's eyes.
"Really?" Gideon asks hopefully.
Now shifting her eyes to Gideon's bolo tie, Mabel swiftly rips it off his neck before Gideon has a chance to react to her pulling it off of his neck.
"No! Not really!" Mabel shouts with Dipper now hitting the ground having been freed from Gideon's psychic hold. "You were like attacking my brother, what the heck?!"
"My tie!" Gideon shouts as he reaches for it, but Mabel holds it up out of his reach. "Give it back!"
Mabel now tosses her twin the amulet to further keep it out of the chubby boy's reach.
"Ha!" Not so powerful without this are you?" Dipper sings in victory.
Releasing a growl, Gideon now charges towards Dipper, which then results in both boys flying out of the factory's window and over the large cliff.
"Dipper!" Mabel screams from inside the factory. With both boys gone, the chocolate haired girl now spots the amulet still lying on the ground underneath the window.
As the two are plummeting towards the ground slapping and punching each other all the way down, they are just inches from slamming into the ground before they are suddenly halted via the amulet's power and the person behind it. Gripping the amulet tightly, Mabel is now lowered to the ground gently with both boys hitting the ground with a slight thud.
"Listen Gideon." Mabel angrily begins. "It's over! I will never ever date you!"
Now smashing the amulet to the ground, the emerald piece is destroyed with a green puff of smoke emerging from the pieces.
"My powers!" Gideon screams. "Oh this isn't over! This isn't the last you heard of widdle ol' me!"
The chubby boy now backs away into darkness with the twins turning to each other with confused gazes.
End of Flashback
Outside of meeting just about every paranormal creature listed in my brother's book, I'd have to say that Gideon was the biggest threat my brother and I have faced this summer! I guess you could say that he wanted to make sure that this would be a summer neither of us would ever forget and if that was his aim, he surely succeeded.
Having escaped one near death experience with him, it wasn't long before we landed in another one because Dipper had to make himself taller because he was so upset about me being a millimeter taller than him! To me, it didn't matter, but yet, it meant all the world to him, which led us to being shrunken and held hostage by Gideon.
Flashback
After being shrunken and trapped in a jar by Gideon, the twins are then taken back to the boy's bedroom and dumped onto his desk in front of his make-shift mystery shack set. Mabel shrinks away in fear with Dipper glaring at the much bigger boy in defense.
"You two!" Gideon hisses as he eyes the pint sized Pines twins.
"What are you going to do with us?" Mabel asks in fear as she shifts next to Dipper.
"My Mabel!" Gideon happily replies to the shrunken girl as he runs a rough finger on top her head. "I would never harm a hair on your itty bitty head. If you agree to be my queen!"
By now, the boy's disposition has changed.
"We live in a democracy!" Mabel angrily shouts, now deflecting Gideon's finger. "And never!"
"Hm, maybe you'll change your mind after this!" Gideon angrily replies, now picking the tiny girl up by the collar of her sweater.
"No! I will fight you until the day I—"Mabel begins ranting, but is then cut off by Gideon planting her in a bag of Gummy Koala's. "Gummy Koala's!"
Grabbing a red gummy bear, Mabel begins eating furiously at the sugary treat. Gideon then turns to Dipper with an equally evil glare as Dipper.
"As for you boy!" Gideon begins as he turns the desk lamp on Dipper, almost blinding him. "Just how exactly did you come upon this magic item? Did someone tell you about it? Did you READ about it somewhere?!"
Leaning down to glance at his book in his vest, Dipper then looks around and spots an air horn before turning to Gideon.
"Come closer and I'll tell you." Dipper replies as he inwardly grins at his quickly constructed plan.
"Well don't mind if I-"Gideon happily obliges with Dipper then blowing the air horn in his ear. "AAAAHHHH!"
Furiously slapping the lamp away, the angry and quivering boy now raises his chubby fist to the tiny Dipper in a threat to pound him with it.
"I could squish you like a bug right now!" Gideon screams as Dipper backs away from the furious boy.
Gideon then recomposes himself with a thought coming to mind about the power that he currently holds over Dipper and Mabel, but most of all Stan.
"Still yourself Gideon." Gideon says to himself. "You can use them, you can use them."
Gideon then grabs his cellular phone and dials Stan's number. The other end picks up, much to Gideon's delight.
Stanford Pines, listen to me very closely." Gideon begins as he brushes his hair. "I have your niece and nephew, hand over the deed to the Mystery Shack right now or else great harm will befall them! This is Gideon by the way."
"Ha, Ha, Ha." Stan laughs. "Oh this has got to be your worst plan yet! They're fine! I saw them playing in the yard just minutes ago!"
"I have them in my possession!" Gideon argues. "If you don't believe me, I'll text you a photo!"
"Text me a photo?" Stan replies in confusion. "Now you're not even speaking English!"
The older man then hangs up the phone.
"Hello! Hello!" Gideon frantically speaks into the receiver. Quickly becoming frustrated that Stan has hung up on him, Gideon growls and slings his phone against the wall. The chubby boy then begins kicking his legs as he insanely laughs.
"Ha, aha, ahaha!" Gideon maniaclly laughs. "What am I doing? I don't need ransom! I have this! I can just shrink Stan and take the shack for myself!"
Turning to the twins, Gideon then grabs the make shift mystery shack dolls of Dipper, Stan, and Mabel and presents them to the two.
"Yall be helpless to stop me and if any of you step out of line, SMASH!" Gideon screams now breaking the heads off the dolls and slinging them onto the desk top in front of Dipper and Mabel. He then breaks into another fit of maniacal laughter.
His maniacal laughter is then interrupted by Bud Gleeful shouting upstairs to the boy.
"Gideon! The ice cream truck is here!" Bud yells up the steps.
With that, Gideon's twisted demeanor disappears and is replaced by a cheery one at hearing the word "Ice Cream".
"Oh! Coming!" Gideon calls back.
Turning back to the twins, Gideon then releases his hamster Cheekums onto the dresser from his cage to guard the two while he is gone.
"Guard them Cheekums!" Gideon commands his hamster. "I'm coming!"
Gideon then leaves the room with his hamster in charge of watching the Pines Twins while he is out.
End of Flashback
If Dipper hadn't come up with his smart plan, we wouldn't have escaped. However it didn't help that when we arrived back at the shack and had every chance to be returned to normal size right then and there that Dipper and I began arguing. I just felt at the moment he was being stupid about me being a millimeter taller than him. Again, it meant more to him than it meant to me, but in the end, Dipper got us out of that mess, no matter how disgusting I found it to be. Anywhere else but Gideon's armpit would have worked, but yet it did the job.
I don't say it to him very often and even tease him for this, but Dipper is pretty smart and I don't know what I'd do without him or how long I'd be able to survive in this town if he weren't there helping us out of the trouble we seem to land in. However, when the shack was ripped right out from under us by Gideon getting his hands on the deed when Bill failed to get the code to Stan's safe and forcing us to move in with Soos's grandmother, Dipper stopped believing in himself and that was something I simply couldn't let him do. Being his older sister, it is my responsibility to pick him up when he is down. At first it didn't seem to work, but later on, I believe my words sunk in, especially after he gave Gideon a good lickin'.
Flashback
With his journal taken from him by Gideon and the two now being on the bus back to Piedmont, California, a depressed Dipper is staring out of the window, the "Gravity Falls" water tower now passing by his vision. Mabel, whom is equally depressed, turns to her twin to see that he is unresponsive. Gaining an idea, Mabel quickly perks up.
"Hey Dipper, do you want to play bus seat treasure hunt?" A perked up Mabel asks.
"I'm not in the mood." Dipper quietly replies as he continues staring out of the window.
Despite her brother not wanting to play her game, Mabel lifts up the bus seat to name the objects that are stuck to the bottom of it. As the perky girl begins naming the objects under the seat, Dipper now spots the Gideon robot chasing behind the bus.
"Giant Robot!" Dipper shouts.
Screaming out what he saw, the alert gets Mabel's attention with her now spotting the giant bot chasing after them.
"I COMMAND YOU TO HALT!" The Gideon bot shouts as it continues chasing after the vehicle.
"Mr. Bus driver!" Mabel shouts as the two now jump from their seats and run to the front of the bus. "There's a giant Gideon bot coming towards us!"
The bus driver now turns around to the two, revealing himself to be Soos.
"Soos!" Dipper and Mabel say with surprise.
"Oh hey dudes." Soos greets to them. "Don't worry, I've been a part time bus driver for at least 40 minutes."
Fettling with the bus's controls, Soos begins trying to speed the bus up.
"Hang on Dudes!" Soos says to the twins, now slamming on the gas pedal, which accelerates the bus further away from the giant Gideon.
With the bus at full speed, Soos is swerving the vehicle so to avoid from being grabbed by Gideon, including dodging his giant hand that Gideon extended so to stop the bus himself.
"He already won! What else does he want from us?!" Dipper panics.
Now driving up the hill, the bus is then out of Gideon's reach, but despite the massive size of the bot, Gideon makes the robot climb up the hill to catch up to the three.
"Soos! A cliff!" Dipper shouts, now spotting the fast approaching cliff.
Slamming his foot on the brake, the bus now swerves and stops on the edge just before it takes a tumble over the side, but the back end of the bus is hanging off of the cliff. With the bus stuck in an unmovable position, the Gideon bot now approaches it and rips the top off. Despite Soos going over the practical bus emergencies, Mabel and Dipper have made a run for it onto the barely stable wooden bridge. Seeing that their possible exit is actually a dead end, the bot has leaped onto the bridge and has the two cornered!
"Tell me!" Gideon shouts. "Where is journal number 1?!"
"Journal number 1?" The twins asks in unison.
"Don't play games with me boy!" Gideon shouts, the robot now ramming its fist into the tunnel above the twins and in the process, loosening large boulders. Dipper quickly grabs Mabel before she is crushed by one of the loose boulders.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Dipper shouts back. "You took the only journal I ever had! What do you want with the journals anyway?!"
The twins are then grabbed up by the robot. Dipper and Mabel reach out for each other, but Gideon separates them with Dipper shouting for Gideon to release Mabel.
"You think you are still some kind of hero?" Gideon bitterly spits, now turning and tossing Dipper over his shoulder. Landing rather roughly on the ground, Dipper looks on to see the Gideon bot stomping away with Mabel still tightly gripped in its grasp.
"Once I find the final journal, I'll finally rule this town with you as my queen!" Gideon declares as he continues stomping away with Mabel in his grip.
"Dipper! Help me!" Mabel screams to her twin. "Help!"
Backing up from the cliff, the hateful words of his nemesis begins echoing through his mind, playing on the very thought that he failed to save Mabel, Soos, and Stan from Gideon's destruction.
~Face it, kid! You're nothing without that journal! Look at you! No muscles, no brains, what are you gonna do? Huh? What are you gonna do?~
Just as quickly, the younger pines now summons his determination and fling himself off the cliff and into one of the yes of the robot, at the same time, tackling Gideon out of his control position. Both boys engage in a fist fight with Dipper ultimately turning the tables on Gideon, making him punch himself instead. That pounding then lead the robot's head to spinning wildly, loosing its balance, and ultimately toppling over the edge of the bridge. While the twins did fall over the edge with the robot, they came out on top, with Mabel holding onto Dipper as they reeled down to safety all thanks to her grappling hook!
End of Flashback
I might have gotten us down to safety, but Dipper was really the one who saved us. Despite what Dipper thinks, his journal isn't his source of courage and adventure, he is and now that we're back at the shack, I can't wait to go on more adventures with my courageous twin.
Having unpacked my last bag, I now hear footsteps running up the stairs along with my brother's voice calling out to me.
"Hey Mabel!" Dipper practically yells with excitement as Waddles runs into the room behind him. "You would never guess what I found in my book! It could be the next best attraction for the shack! Are you up for an adventure?"
"You know I am!" I reply, equally as happy as my twin.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Dipper widely smiles as he runs out of the room ahead of me.
While I was really excited about spending my summer in a new place, I couldn't be happier that our parents sent us here because for every summer we visit our uncle Stan, it is a place that Dipper and I can truly call our home.
Somehow I knew that after the second part of the season finale, I'd be writing this lol! Something in the back of my mind told me I would so here it is for you lovely readers and reviewers! :) Alongside this update, I'll do my best to update both Behind The Mask and Prophecy's Light this week, but no promises as things are still crazy busy for me. If you only see one update, hey, at least one came up right? Lol! But aside from that,
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