Hey guys, im actually writing this after I finished this chapter for once. Weird. Anyway... As always a big Thank you to all of you, for your support and just reading this in general. :D Oh, and I haven't put anything about what Eyne is doing in this one either just to bubble up to the suspense... Muh ha ha ha.
Onto Chapter 25...
"Soos?!"
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"Soos?!"
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Mabel and Dipper are inside their room, Mabel knitting a new purple sweater and Dipper doing some light is until Stan barges in startling them into dropping what they were doing.
"Soos!" Stan shouted slamming the door open.
"Grunkle Stan, did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?" Mabel asked teasingly. Stan stood in the doorway rubbing his head.
"What? no..." he said he said half serious and half playful. "I can't find Soos." He stated. Dipper picked his book off the bed and set it down on a shelf.
"Hey, you know Soos, he's probably talking with Melody, or fixing something," Dipper replied. "Hey we can help you look, so can Danny, where is he?" Mabel put her knitting down too and stepped to Stan, a grin on her face and ready for action... Or finding Soos works too.
"Eh, oh, he's out nailing down signs to say we're open again. Yeah if you guys look around the outside I will look in and we should find him."
"So, why do you need him?" Dipper asked as they started heading to the gift shop.
"The porta potty's broken and 'legal requirements' say we need it up and running or we will get a 'tax'. But anyway just find him and tell him would ya."
On that note Dipper and Mabel lest the house and wondered around the front of the house.
"Alright, Mabel you go left around the house, I'll go right," Dipper instructed.
"You got it Dipping sauce." Mabel agreed to give a salute before they went their separate ways, (Literally).
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"D'ya find him?" Mabel asked as they met at the back.
"Nope, hu? where is he? he usually doesn't go far." Dipper put a had on his chin and thought as Mabel came up with one of her strange, (and uncertain) reasons for why he's gone out.
"Maybe he saw a waffle man and went after him." She seemed pleased with herself. Dipper slapped his face.
Danny flew fast towards the shack.
"Dipper, Mabel!" He called.
"Danny? down here!" Dipper shouted back telling him where they are.
He swooped down with (another) poster.
"Guys, guys look!" He handed them the paper as Mabel read aloud.
"A couple of citizens such as Toby Determined, Fiddleford Mcgucket, and Lazy Susan have vanished?! If you know their whereabouts get them to come back.
Stay with someone at all times..." She finished reading. "You don't think..." Dipper and Mabel shared a glance of horror as Danny turned back. Mabel and Dipper ran inside and turned on the TV. Danny ran after them. Stan was already on the couch so they all just sat around.
Shandra Jimenez was on the tv in front of the forest. "These beloved cities went missing just last night and more are going missing constantly." There is someone who lost someone due to unknown reasons..." the camera turned to Manly Dan who looked like he was holding in tears. Wendy and a couple others are in the background looking sad. "Tell us Manly Dan who has gone missing..." Manly Dan slowly began forming tears, his lip was trembling and spoke only sorrow. "Gus, my boy Gus if you're out there, come home I'm not mad at cha for the incident." He couldn't hold his tears anymore and the manliest man began to cover his face and weep. The camera turned back to Shandra as Dipper turned it off.
"This is terrible," Dipper said cheerlessly.
"Grunkle Fooorrrrrrrrrdddddddddddd!" Mabel yelled, running out the room, supposedly to the lab.
After a few minutes, Mabel came back with Ford being dragged. He looked... Perplexed.
"Uh... Did I miss something?" He asked slowly noticing Dippers sad face. Dip handed him the poster, as he read his face formed shock only one who lost a friend can make. He put down the poster.
"F-Fiddleford." Mabel held him in a hug. "We need to look for them. Now." Both rage and determination filled his eyes.
Without saying a word the group - including Stan, who was worried for his employee, especially how everyone knew he thought of Soos as his Son.- went into the car and drove into the town.
The atmosphere seemed tense. Quite peculiar for this town or any town for that matter. The quiet drive was nerve-rattling.
They make it to the Corduroy residence and after going to the door they were greeted with a hug from Wendy to Dipper and Mabel. After telling her and her family they are going to go looking for them Wendy imminently agreed to go too.
They made their way over town. Danny even flew invisibly above the car with Dipper to have an aerial view.
After a good hour of going through every nook and cranny in the town, they made their way to the forest which already had some groups search. They got out the car as Danny landed with Dipper on the ground letting him be visible but not him, there were many groups around them.
"Alright, this is an exploration mission for all the people lost." Ford started.
"Maybe they all went and just got lost." Mabel tried to reassure everyone to no resolution.
"I don't think so Mabel..." Danny said scaring them a little. "Don't people who live in Gravity Falls, you know, know their way around this place." Mabel didn't want to believe it but she knew he was right.
"I have a bad feeling its..." Dipper cut himself off, they all sighed. Wendy let a tear run down her face, luckily Stan brought tissues and handed one for her eyes small waterfall.
"Come on guys we can find them." Dipper built up hope. He put his hand out in front of the others. "To recover!" He shouted as the others put their hands on top of his and joined in. "To recover!" they all shouted in unison drawing attention from the other parties.
"Let's go."