Dipper and Pacifica's Love Story

Chapter 34

Dipper's POV

He opened his eyes and stared at me directly with a cold stare. No one knew what the heck was going in until Ford yelled, "DIPPER! I REMEMBER! I REMEMBER EVERYTHING!"

I looked at him with a very confused look on my face. I've never seen Grunkle Ford in a state like this. He was much disheveled, dirty, looked like he was sweating, had bloodshot red eyes, and almost had the characteristics of a zombie! Even though we saw him only a few hours ago, he looked like he went through WWI to tell us that he remembered something? Weird…

"What did you remember Ford? Why are you like this?!" I asked. I could tell that I wasn't the only person here that thought the same way. Mabel and Soos both looked confused and scared from Ford's sudden approach.

Grunkle Ford reached into his pocket and threw one of the photos I gave him towards my face. "Don't you remember what these photos represented?!" Grunkle Ford asked.

I once again stared at the photo which showed a triangle with arms and legs wearing a top hat. Even though my mind was trying very hard to remember what this photo was, it always led to a dead end.

"No, I can't say I remember what this means Grunkle Ford. All I get when I look at this photo is a headache and confusion." I responded.

Grunkle Ford got off the ground and quickly ran to the other side of the shack. We followed him to the vending machine that was in the gift shop area.

"Don't you remember what this vending machine led to?!" Grunkle Ford asked with urgency.

Mabel said, "Uh, Grunkle Ford? That's just the vending machine… You okay?"

Grunkle Ford went up to it and started to hit random buttons. After he hit the 5th button, the vending machine started to move to the left. We all stared with astonishment until all there was behind it was a brick wall.

Grunkle Ford's face went from happy, to puzzled. He walked up to the brick wall and placed his 6 finger hand on it.

"But… It was right here… The portal… My lab… It was right HERE!" He punched the vending machine hard, but because of his weak strength didn't really do any damage.

Everyone looked at him with a confused look. This behavior is not like Grunkle Ford at all. It's almost like he's going through a paranoid phase and doesn't seem to want to end it. He never goes up to objects that have no meaning and just burst out with anger. That's not like him at all.

I walked up to him and placed my hand on his shoulder. "I don't know what's going on Ford, but you need to explain rather than show. It obvious that there's something going on here, but you have to tell us rather than punch a vending machine." I personally thought that Ford was going insane, but I've known him for a while now, and he's not the person who just comes up with random stuff like this. Maybe there's something going on here, but right now, Ford's got to start explaining.

Ford got up and led us to the table. He still was sweating a lot and didn't really look like he was feeling any better than when we walked in. The whole shack felt uneasy as Ford sat down and placed my photos out on the table.

He pointed to the triangle one and said, "That picture is a drawing of a dream demon named Bill Cipher. He was the demon that was responsible for destroying the dimension that we're part of."

Well, that didn't take long. All of us in the room were already on the same page with thinking that Grunkle Ford lost his mind, but we let him have his moment.

"This world we're part of now is actually an alternate reality. All of this," he pointed around the room, "all of this stuff wouldn't be real in the other reality we were part of." He pointed to all the pictures. "In this alternate reality, this Bill guy was an evil demon that was summoned by a kid named Gideon. You know him?"

Mabel and I looked at each other at the same time. "Yeah, we know him. But how did an idiot like that summon something, so… weird?" Mabel asked.

Grunkle Ford reached into his pocket and pulled out a book. He placed it on the table for us to look at and said, "With this!"

The book had a dark red covering and a 6 fingered hand in the middle of it. And there was a number 3 on the palm of the hand. Everyone looked at each other since none of us knew what the heck Grunkle Ford just showed us.

He continued, "This… is my journal. In the alternate reality we were part of, I carried 3 of these journals around with me talking about the information about this weird town. You may not know this, but Gravity Falls in the other timeline was a supernatural wasteland. On the outside of Gravity Falls, it may seem like a normal town, but after doing much investigation, I was dead wrong… This town is the home to the most supernatural anomalies in the entire world! I wrote down every single thing I could get my hands or eyes on. I wrote for years about my findings. Unfortunately, even though I remember the journals, I don't have the real one with me. So I made this fake one in the hope that it would shine some light onto you guys. But judging from the looks on your faces, it would seem that it's doing quite opposite."

Finally! Something we can all agree on!

I took a deep breath and said, "Grunkle Ford, are you on cocaine or something?"

"NO! I'm telling you guys the truth here! Everything that's happening now isn't what should be happening, everything here is different!" Ford stated.

I scratched my forehead and said, "Okay, let's just say that this is true, why the heck are we here then?"

"That Bill guy was almost successful with his doing, but we all stopped him." He pointed to the pictures again. "All these symbols in the photos represented people that were used to destroy Bill. Every one of you guys, including Stan, was used here! You all represented a symbol here! Don't you guys remember?!"

The three of us stared at the picture. We did indeed see symbols, but the whole idea of it being some kind of zodiac seemed a little far-fetched anyway. I mean, I never believed any of the zodiacs to begin with, but having it on actual earth seemed even weirder now!

Mabel asked, "Then which ones were we?"

Grunkle Ford pointed to the shooting star, "You're the shooting star Mabel. Dipper's the Pine Tree, and Soos is the Question Mark." He gave us the picture that showed each of our, 'symbols.'

I saw the Pine Tree very well, but I was still a little off about the whole zodiac thing. How could a thing that's 1000s of year's old show the same Pine Tree that I decided to start wearing after I got the hat from Grunkle Stan as an early birthday gift? Mabel has a shooting star knitted sweater, but once again, how could a painting know that we would have those symbols with us? As for Soos, his shirt never changes no matter what day of the week it is or temperature. He'll always wear it, so there's no question there… Stupid pun.

Mabel looked at the picture and said, "So, does that mean… I'M A WIZARD?!"

Grunkle Ford yelled, "No! None of us are wizards! We're just all prophesized to defeat Bill. Your other Grunkle wears that fez around all the time. Doesn't it look familiar?" He showed us the picture and it did indeed have the same symbol that Grunkle Stan's fez had.

Soos said, "Alright dudes, I get this! That means that the six-fingered hand has to be you, Mr. Pines!"

"Right you are Soos! But as you can tell, there are many other symbols that aren't taken yet. If you think about it, you could fill in the blanks of the rest. But has any of this information hit a lightbulb or something in your head?" Grunkle Ford asked.

Mabel took a seat for a moment and said, "So, what exactly happened that was different from our reality?"

Ford stood up straight and said, "Everything! Everything is different! There was a lab that I built under this house many years ago, and the way to get to it was through this wall of bricks. In my lab, I tried to come up with the answer on where did all the supernatural crap come from, but little did I know that Bill caused me to connect our world with his world, and that's where everything went down."

I said, "But what about us? What was so different that we would be different people?" I still didn't understand what was going on, but the more Grunkle Ford talked, the more my head started to think and think more. It's almost like my brain is on the verge of figuring something out.

Ford said, "You all had things that you needed to give up in order to defeat Bill. We all had to give something up. I don't remember everything that you had to give up, but I do remember that Soos had to give up a person named Melody."

Mabel and I looked at Soos and he just sat there for a moment. But that's when things got ugly.

Soos turned around and stared at a clock on the wall. The time was 4:59. The whole shack was dead until the clock finally reached 5:00. Soos immediately turned around and screamed, "HEY DUDES! I REMEMBER TOO!"

Mabel and I looked at him with a puzzled look. "What Soos? You remember everything that Ford just said?" I asked.

Soos said, "Of course dudes! Who wouldn't remember it? You guys were the mystery twins' dog! You went on adventures all the time together! Dipper used to carry around the 3rd journal and write stuff about things he saw. It was almost like he was a Ford Jr. And while you guys were doing all that stuff, I was out hanging out with Me…lo…dy… MELODY! I forgot about her! Where did she go?!"

Ford said, "She's gone, Soos. Not dead gone, but gone back to her own life. We all lost our memories with that guy named Alex, don't you remember?"

"Ah shoot! I can't believe that I forgot about her! Oh my gosh, everything is coming back to me! Mr. Pines is right guys! All of this isn't supposed to happen! We just all forgot about it!"

Now Mabel and I were the ones who were confused. When you finally think you're on the right track life always throws a curveball at you. Now we have two people claiming that the world we're living in is an alternate reality that we were forced to live through after trying to destroy a dream demon named Bill? Yep! We're going insane!

Grunkle Ford said to us, "Anything hit you guys yet?"

I said, "No, nothing has hit us yet! Just because Soos is also going insane doesn't mean that everything is going towards your argument! I still believe that you're on drugs or something, Grunkle Ford! The idea of an alternate reality is something straight out of a sci-fi movie or something! This can't be real! It's all BS! You're insane!"

"But it is real Dipper! And if you agree with it or not is your opinion! But you have to face the facts! If more and more people will remember what happened, then it can't be a coincidence. I always look at the facts Dipper, and if my mind is pointing in one direction while the facts are pointed to another, you can't run away from them! Come on Dipper! In the other world, you were the person I could always trust, and you agreed with me on everything because you knew that I was true to the facts!" Grunkle Ford said.

"But I don't remember! If I don't remember then I can't agree with you!" There were some tears in my eyes. "I'm sorry Grunkle Ford, but I can't agree with this ridiculous idea since I believe in common sense, not what an ancient prophecy tells me. I'm in control of my life! I make my own decisions!" I yelled.

Mabel turned to me and said, "Dipper… Maybe you should just take it into consideration… I'm not saying you have to agree with it, but you and I both know that Grunkle Ford wouldn't just jump to a conclusion without a reason."

I responded, "But Mabel, this is crazy! How could this be real?! He's stating that all the things we're doing now aren't even supposed to happen! All the stuff we accomplished was all for nothing? How could someone like me live with that? It's crazy! Do you believe this crap?!"

Mabel responded, "Well, I think Grunkle Ford doesn't state anything unless it's a fact. So, for the most part, yeah."

I can't believe this! My own sister has gone insane! This is madness! Crazy! How could all this supernatural stuff be even real?! When I said I wanted an interesting summer, I didn't mean this! And even if this was indeed all real, why the heck can't I remember?! Maybe I'm the insane one… Maybe I'm the one they call Bill and I'm bound to destroy the world? What is the meaning of life? Who am I? What's going on with these people?!

Grunkle Ford grabbed me by the shoulders and said, "Dipper, I'm not saying that you need to agree with me. But like Mabel just said, you have to consider what I'm saying. I've seen it all. The reason why I'm standing before you in this disheveled form is because I need you to help me! We need to make this town remember what actually happened and not live in this crazy alternate universe. Come on Dipper, you have to remember something!"

"No! No, I can't remember anything! And even if I could, I don't want my life to change into that other life! I like the life I live in now and I don't want it to be shunned all for some voodoo zodiac thing! I don't want to know what my other life was like! We live in this world! Not some screwed up society of monsters! Did we defeat this Bill guy Ford?!" I yelled.

Ford lowered his head and said, "Well, yeah we did. But don't you want the memories on how we saved the world?!"

I yelled out, "No! If we defeated Bill then there is no reason on why we need to remember it! I like my life! No need to change it! End of discussion!"

Soos said, "But dude, don't you want to know your relationship with Pac-"

I couldn't handle it anymore! My head is literally about to explode! I backed up a couple of steps and said, "I don't. I don't remember anything, so stop living in this fool's paradise!" I turned around and dashed for my room. I never wanted my summer to turn into this. I just thought that something interesting would make my day, but an entire alternate reality seems WAY far-fetched for my mind to comprehend. The facts don't make sense at all! How could something like this be real?! One second I'm getting a gift for Pacifica and the next I'm sitting in my room debating if the world I'm living in is even real or not? Help! And even if this is all real, WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN'T REMEMBER?!

I heard a knock at the door. I was about to yell at them to go away when I heard Grunkle Stan's voice.

"Kid? You alright?" He asked.

I opened the door and saw him standing there with a cup of coffee. "Yeah I'm fine," I said.

Grunkle Stan sighed. "Dipper. I know you're going through some tough stuff right now. But I'm telling you from the bottom of my dollar- I mean heart that we're there for you. Just because you can't remember your past doesn't mean that you're alone. The entire town is lost right now. We're the only ones who actually remember what happened. So don't think this as crazy or being insane, but more like the truth, the ugly truth. But put it this way, even if we all do remember, we can't go back. So all your accomplishments, this time, will be here forever. But you can't run away from the truth no matter how ugly or how much you don't want to figure it out. You get me?"

I sighed and said, "I guess you're right Stan. I do feel a little bad about my aggressive approach. I wish I could just remember what's so big about these memories. Do you have yours back?"

Stan laughed and said, "Kid, I don't have any memories of what I had for dinner yesterday. I doubt they would matter anyways. But to answer your question, no. But I do intend on at least giving it a try. This town is indeed weird, and if there aren't any monsters to prove it, that makes it even better to know what really happened. But as I said before, we can't go back, so we just have to go with it!"

I laughed and said, "Yeah, I guess I could give Grunkle Ford's theory a try." I looked at a framed picture of our family on my desk. "I guess I was a jerk several minutes ago huh?"

Stan laughed and said, "Don't sweat it, kid, we all have those moments."

But just then Grunkle Ford ran up to my door and said, "Dipper! I remembered what you forgot about! Please open the door!"

I looked at Stan who just gave me a shrug. I opened the door and turned to Grunkle Ford and said, "What is it?"

"Your girlfriend was Pacifica Northwest!" Ford acknowledged.

And just like that, my entire mind blew up with the memories of… everything…

Starting next chapter, I'll bring Pacifica back into it. Just hang on for a moment. You guys deserve a good chapter, and I'll try to deliver it to you next time. I promise. Stay Tuned!