Chapter 37

Inside the Bunker

Tony was hauling some cable down the hall that was eventually gonna be the kitchen when he noticed he was the only one working in this hall. Once he got the cables stretched out till the end he went off the find his brother. As he made it to the tunnel he had veered off from he heard voices coming from one of the other off shoots.

"So why did you leave like that yesterday?", he heard Candy ask.

Tony knew a good bit of the story, his brother told him before they went to bed last night. After getting the news about Dipper and Mabel's mother yesterday, Francis had went ahead and gone to the Museum with Candy like they had originally planned for the day. Less than a quarter of the way through it though Candy told him she could tell he wasn't having the fun the two of them had hoped. When she had asked if it was her fault that the date was going bad, he had finally told her about the accident. He had thought that since she wasn't really his mother that it wouldn't have affected him, but his memories of her proved him wrong and he broke down crying. They spent the rest of the date on a bench near the Museum, with Candy consoling him. When he finally walked her to her door, he took a chance and gave her a quick little kiss before he turned to leave. He had arrived back at the shack in time to join Tony and Ford in going to the basement.

"I didn't want to know if I had screwed up," he heard Francis say, "After Dipper and Mable's mother's death, I realized that none of us are certain what will happen next. I knew I liked you, so my heart told me to just do it. But no sooner had I done it, as looked at you I saw the shocked look on your face and I felt I may have made a mistake. So I left before you could tell me that you just wanted to be friends. I'm sorry I messed things..."

The next thing Tony heard was what sounded a muffled, umph. Then he heard Candy say, "I thought you left due to me not kissing you back, I am sorry. It is not that I did not like it, it was just a shock."

"So you didn't mind?", Tony heard Francis ask.

"No, I just was not expecting it so soon. I thought it would be another date or two before that happened," Candy said as Tony walked away to give them more privacy.

Gravity Falls First National

The inside of the bank is like most others with the velvet ropes that lead the patrons to to the tellers behind their counters and a vault that holds the bi-weekly payroll for both the Northwest factory and the nearby lumberjack company. Currently though the tellers and the patrons who were unlucky enough to have been in the bank when the group of robbers had entered were all tied together barricading both the doors and the only window in the building. The only people moving freely were the bank robbers them selves. They all wore at least one piece of clothing the was seemingly splattered with a purple mesh design.

"Well boys, what are we gonna do now." the short haired blond said as she looked at her compatriots, "The only reason we came to this podunk town is cause Toast-T there," pointing to the guy who was missing his left hand, "thought it'd be easy to rob a small town bank."

Toast-T looked at her and replied, "Hey Barbi, don't blame me that some fat punk was able to hide his cell phone and called the cops. Duster," he was point to a large African American guy in a black trench coat with the purple mesh design covering it, "was in charge of getting all of the items from the rubes."

"Oh shut yer yap, boy.", Duster said looking at the taller of the two brothers, "It was your brother, the Wiz, and his little gadget that was supposed to help crack the safe so easy and quick that we should've been outta here before now."

"And my designs should've worked, especially on a small town bank vault like this one should have had. But for some reason this backwater burgh has a state of the art vault that with out the proper codes could take weeks to open," Wiz said as he looked over at the box he had attempted to use on the vault.

'You know what, I'm not int the mood to wait.", Toast-T said turning his pistol towards the hostages, "So which of you rubes has the numbers for the safe?"

At first no one seemed to answer, so he walked up to one of the tellers and placed his gun to the bridge of her nose. One of the other tellers then pointed to an older gentleman in a gray suit that the robbers had assumed was a bank patron.

"Alright old man, you're gonna get us into that vault. Or you'll get to learn why I'm called Toast-T," the gang banger said as he led the apparent bank manager to the vault door.

Behind him there was a bright golden glow that disappeared as soon as it arrived, when the gang turned to see where it came from there they saw there were four people in weird costumes standing in between them and the hostages.

"Delphi we're in, watch the feed.", Shifter said with a hand on his ear. As he turned to the hostages, he saw a face he recognized and said, "Thompson, get them out of the door now!"

"You got it," Thompson said as he started pulling the people tied to him towards the door.

"Nbhgrx Hsrvow!", intoned Glamur pointing backwards and throwing up her shield between the hostages and the gang members.

Will O' faded out of sight and reappeared next to the manager before disappearing again with him.

"I seriously suggest the four of you surrender," Charger called out.

"To four costume party rejects with some cheap parlor tricks, boy please.", Duster replied in a snide tone, "Let's show these yolkels why nobody messes with the Purple Haze gang." and with that they opened fire on the three heroes still in the room.

Outside

Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland were behind their patrol car along with the other two deputies of the Gravity Falls Sheriff Department. They were waiting on back up from the State Police when the hostages began pouring out of the door while still tied together. Deputy Steve Maloney rushed over and began leading the hostages away with the help of a teenager in the jacket of the local movie theater. As this was going on the bank manager suddenly appeared next to Blubs and Durland.

A ghostly looking woman with flaming blue hair was next to him and told the officers, "My friends and I will handle the robbers inside, it is best that you tend to the hostages and keep the innocent away from the area."

Blubs was about to respond when gunfire broke out in the bank.

"Well, that's my cue to get back in there," the ghostly woman said as she faded out of sight.

Inside the bank

Glamur had raised another shield covering her and Shifter while Charger just started to move towards the gang as the bullets bounced off of her. Will O' slid up from the floor next to Shifter.

"Alright how do we want to do this?", She asked him.

"There's only the four of them, so one on one should be ok. Charger seems to be heading for the big guy. Glamur, you take the tall one by the vault.", Shifter said still trying to figure out how he became the leader.

"Ok, I'll take lefty then.", Will O' said bolting off towards Toast-T.

"And well that leaves me fighting the girl," Shifter said for once wishing he hadn't been raised a gentleman. As soon as Glamur dropped her shield he began a run towards the blond.

"So metal man, it looks like we're squaring off.", Duster said to Charger as she headed his way.

"Looks like it, first let's get rid of that peashooter." Charger said as she raised her right hand and shrunk his mp-5 to near non existence.

"Well it looks like that fancy tin suit does more than just stop bullets," Duster said ask he stepped back and lifted up his left hand palm forward. "let's see how it holds up to a sandstorm." and with that a powerful cone of silica shoots out of the palm of his left hand temporarily blinding Charger.

Meanwhile

"Izrmyld Yozhg!", Glamur intoned sending a blast of rainbow light towards the Wiz blinding him and causing him to drop his gun. She rushed at him and attempted to tackle him only to be stopped a foot away as if she hit a solid wall.

"Don't you know only the privileged are granted an audience with the great and powerful Wiz," he said as she seemingly slid down his force field.

As she hit the floor her hand fell upon his shadow, "Yrmw Gsv Hszwld!" and then she rolled away from him. As she stood up he attempted to go after him but was stopped as if he couldn't move from the spot.

"What did you do to me?", he yelled.

"Oh, nothing more than nailing your shadow to that spot.", Glamur replied.

Elsewhere

Toast-T had seen the girl in white attempt to tackle his brother and laughed as she hit the floor, but once he saw that he couldn't move he pulled his gun up to shoot her.

"Ah, ah, ah. That's not very nice," he heard as a ghostly white hand pulled his gun away from him. He backed away as the ghostly figure coalesced in between him and his brother.

"What are you?", Toast-T asked backing up further.

"I'm the forest's Champion of Justice! The name's Will O' and you are here to cause hardship on those for whom the forest cares," Will O' said as she brought her ax to the forefront.

"Oh, so you work for the woods, I guess you must be easy to burn." he said raising his remaining hand towards her and shooting a ball of fire at her.

Will O' just stood there looking at the guy like he was stupid as the fireball hit her in the chest before she spoke, "Dude, really? My hair is made of fire, did you really think that would work?"

"Well I hoped it would," He said sheepishly

Finally

"Good, I get the handsome one," Barbi said as Shifter ran towards her, she even lowered her gun.

"That doesn't seem very smart," Shifter said as he came with in arms reach of her before he suddenly stopped.

"Aw, what's wrong loverboy? You lose your will to fight me? Too much of a gentleman to hit a lady," Barbie said as she walked over to Shifter and ran a finger across his jaw line. She then walked around him admiring his physique.

As she made her way back around to the front of him his hand shot out and knocked the gun away from her before saying, "Nah, I was waiting to see how long it would take you to figure out you can't control my mind."

He then grabbed a hold of her and threw her into Toast-T. As he started to run over to fight side by side with Will O' he heard some one below him yell, "Barbi!"

The next then he knew he had someone run run up his leg and a pair of small closed fists hit him under his jaw causing him to fly backwards. What he saw as he got back up was what looked like a Palm Beach Casey doll running over to check on the blond, Barbi he guessed.

Redding, California

After having made arrangements with the funeral service to pick up the body once it was released, Adam and Stan headed to the morgue to identify the twins mother. After speaking to the attendant at the desk the two waited for nearly a half hour before a coroner's assistant came out to meet them, after Adam produced his identification and told the assistant that Stan was his wife's uncle from Canada they were allowed to view the body. Once Adam saw his wife he nearly collapsed on the floor and only stayed upright due to Stan's firm grip on his shoulders. Now that she had been identified they were led back out to the attendant where they passed on the information for the funeral company and arranged for the body to be picked up.

Now that the hard part was over Stan thought that they should eat again before they flew back up to Portland. He had arranged for the flight while Adam was making the arrangements with the attendant. After returning the car to the rental company they just made it to the terminal in order to catch their flight.

Gravity Falls

Mystery Shack

Melody was preparing to close the gift shop for lunch when she heard someone coming in through the kitchen door. Flipping over the closed for lunch sign, she headed back towards the kitchen to see Ford, Tony, Francis, Candy, & Grenda finishing coming in from the backyard.

"Well we've worked up an appetite, what's there to eat?", Grenda asked as she headed over to start looking in fridge.

"Yes, food would be good.", Candy added though her attention seemed to be on someone else.

Francis didn't seem to be listening to anything, he was still looking at Candy with the same expression he had had on his face during the whole trip out of the Bunker.

Ford on the other hand was talking to Tony. "The DNA analysis I ran on you and your brother should be finished sometime this evening. I do not see it being to much different than Dipper's. Now we really need to start testing everybody to both see what type of limitations you have and to make sure there are no ill side effects from your abilities."

"Ok, Ford. I get most of that, but really shouldn't we get the others before we start discussing doing any types of tests on anyone.", Tony countered his 'Grandpa' Ford.

"Of course child, I'm just getting ahead of myself. While I was on the other side there were times where the only way I could survive was to think and work out problems in a non linear way," Ford said as he looked out at his now extended family, he turned to Melody and asked. "Where is everybody?"

"Uhm, Let's see Nate, Lee, and Tambry are in on the Computer. William is in Adam's room finally taking a nap. Soos is in the office working out some winter ideas for the Shack. You guys are here," Melody said trying to avoid the answer she knows he's actually looking for.

"Ok, now where are Dipper, Wendy, and Mabel?", Ford said rubbing his right temple.

Knowing that she can't put it off any more, Melody replied, "Oh, they're downtown stopping a bank robbery."

Gravity Falls First National

Glamur couldn't believe she had just seen a Palm Beach Casey doll just run up and knock her brother off his feet. Seeing the doll size teen run over to the two robbers that Shifter and Will O' had taken out she called out, "Vovnvmgzo Zrwv Vzigs!"

At her feet a twelve inch tall earth and clay figure shaped like a stereo-typical lumberjack appeared and looked up at the mage who summoned him and spoke, "What is your wish mistress?"

Glamur pointed towards the doll size fighter and sneered, "Take her down."

She then turned her attention back to the robber who called himself Wiz, she started to walk closer to him but still just out of his reach and spoke, "To you've got a force field, well it's not completely impervious or you couldn't eat, breathe, or even see. So let's see what I can get in there with you."

Knowing the spell binding him and his shadow to one spot will end shortly she decided to try a spell that attacks with light, "Yormwrmt Ziildh!"

Three arrows of pure light streak out from her hands and slam into the gang banger causing him the first pain he has felt since his powers had developed at the end of the summer. The shock of it all caused him to pass out.

Meanwhile

The little earthen lumberjack had ran over and tackled the toy sized member of the gang. The girl called Barbi called out as she saw it happen, "Dahl!"

As soon as they hit the ground she had her feet between them and pushed him off with a strength that someone of her size should not possess. The elemental hit the ceiling with a loud crack, but as soon as he hit he began falling back directly at the figure he was order to defeat. Landing on her with all the weight of the earth that called him to rejoin it. The strike should have knock her out, but she was tougher than the elemental gave her credit. As she got back up she kicked one of it's legs out from under him causing it to bend over she where she then hit him with both fists across his back.

"Not much of a talker there are you, dirt for brains?", Dahl said as she went went to kick it only to have it catch her foot and jerk it back causing her to fly backwards.

The elemental grabbed for her feet again and started swinging her back and forth into the wall until she stopped fighting. Now that his job was done he collapsed back into a pile of dirt.

Elsewhere

"So blondy, you thought you could get into my man's head. Sorry but he's a one woman man," Will O' said as she picked up the gang member called Barbi.

As she hefted her up the pens from the with draw form counter all lifted up and flew into Will O's back. Will O' called out, "Argh." and released Barbi.

No sooner had Barbi landed on her feet than she dropped and tried to sweep Will O's legs out from under her only to have her leg pass through her as the pens fell to the floor.

"You shouldn't have tried that girlie," Will O' said as she brought the flat end of her ax across the jaw of the gang banger and dropped her like a sack of potatoes.

In the meantime

After seeing Will O' take the girl he was fight and some little lumberjack looking thing fighting the doll like teen, Shifter went over to the guy he had thrown the blond chick into. He was just getting up as Shifter got to him. The gang member swung his hand less arm at Shifter as he got close. Shifter dodged back and as soon as he did Toast-T fired a fireball towards him. Sifting into a gnome as the fireball flew over him, once it was past he jumped up into a non pixelated Rumble McSkirmish and delivered a devastating uppercut.

As Toast-T lands Shifter turns towards Will O' and Glamur and strikes a familiar thumbs up pose and said, "Winners never lose!"

Both girls start cracking up.

Finally

'Like, he should run out of sand sometime soon,' Charger thought as she tried to get a good look at her opponent so she could at least try to get some offense in. But every time he moved his hand away from her face he would've moved before she could get a bead on him.

"The thing about sand is it always gets every where, by now most of your joints should be so full you're not gonna be able to move let alone be able to fight back." Duster said as he stopped shooting the sand and hauled off and threw a punch that actually rocked her.

Charger tried raise her left arm but as he said her joints were almost completely frozen, "Don't think a little thing like that is gonna stop me."

Staying on her left side so he could stay away from the apparent shrink ray she had in her right palm, Duster again connected with another punch. But his time she was ready for it, as soon as he connected she turned her anti-gravity system on it's lowest setting and allowed herself fall backwards. Once she had fallen enough she fired off her Tesla beam and shocked him back into the wall knocking him out.

"Well this is embarrassing," Charger said as she just floated in the middle of the tellers area.

In a few moments Shifter had basically tied them up with the banks velvet rope. Glamur intoned, "Wlav!" and a peaceful sleep fell over the beaten bank robbers.

"Glamur, you take you three back to the shack. I'll be there shortly. I need to let the officers know its safe to come in and that they need to be careful with these guys due to their abilities.", Will O' said as she faded out of sight.

"Tzgv Lu Gizevo!", Glamur said. A warm golden glow enveloped the three remaining Gravity Heroes and then they were gone.

Outside

Blubs was watching the door waiting to see if anyone else was going to come out of the bank when he heard behind him, "They're all taken down. There are five of them in total. Do not think the little on is a toy and be careful of any guys around the blond. She appears to be able to possibly control a man's mind. They are all powered so you may want to see if the state guys have any place they could keep them. They should all be asleep for a couple of hours though."

"Geez, girlie. You don't need to be sneaking up on people, you nearly gave me a heart attack.", Blubs said as he turned around towards the voice only for no one to be seen. He turned back around and told his deputies it was safe to go on into the bank.

In the crowd on onlookers, James had just stood back and watched. First the ghost had first brought out a hostage and then later came out to say something to the portly Sheriff only to disappear before he had turned back around. 'That Sheriff doesn't know the forces he is dealing with, Ghosts are never to be trusted,' he thought as he rubbed near the scar on his left shoulder.

Chapter 37 is through. I hope everybody is having fun on this roller-coaster of a story. We find out a little bit about Francis and Candy's date. Four of the Gravity Heroes have faced off with the Purple Haze gang (all but Duster were originally villains for an RPG I ran a few years ago that I decided to brush off and use here). Blubs and Durlan have now met a second member of the GH (they met Charger in the second chapter of Gravity Heroes: Sidetracks). We've found out a reason Ford may seemed a jumbled every once in awhile. The funeral arrangements have been made for Elaine. Mable is using more spells (currently have more than sixty spells for her and more come every time I have any extra time between chapters). And James makes an appearance.

Alright I think I have enough name ideas now. Thank you to all who participated. So far the suggestions have been Necrosis, Noxious, Antibody, Vitality, Euthanasia, Vaccine, Mortality, Fine Line, Crossroads, Curic, Dr Tox, and Nightshade. I'm leaning towards either Vaccine, Noxious, or Crossroads but still not sure. I may have to wait till he debuts his powers and see what Thompson calls him to be sure.

The names so far:

Shifter/Dipper – Shapeshifter, highly intelligent

Will O'/Wendy – Spectral powers, naturally athletic

Glamur/Mabel – latest in a line of mystics, intelligent but artistically inclined

Freerunner/Tony – Peak physical condition, muscles & skin density increased, intelligent

Flux/Francis – Transmutation, highly intelligent (biological studies)

Charger/Pacifica – Battle armor, rich

Delphi/Tambry – Team hacker and communications expert

Schematic/Candy – Gadget creator, highly intelligent, trivia queen

?/Nate – toxin/antitoxin production, immunity to poisons, viruses, and toxins

Also remember to check out my other Gravity Falls works:

Gravity Heroes: Sidetracks, a series on one shots & drabbels that are stories that are in the Gravity Heroes-verse but aren't necessarily required to read the main story-line. It's essentially my take on the classic Marvel Comics Presents. Chapter Four follows Thompson and Alexa on a lunch date that happens while the GH team are down in Piedmont.

I also would feel honored if any of my works inspire any art. If the do I would love to see them. Thanks again to all who have read this far. I have received art now from Siryleleen & Odeebee. These will be posted soon in my Deviant Art account as fan art and credited to them. Thanks again you two. I'm happy to see different interpretations of the characters from the GH AU. The art is now up at fereality. deviantart just remove the spaces.

Again I'd like to give a shout out to EZB, SuperGroverAway, ddp456, & A Pleasant Dream (formerly Popcat131). It was their stories that made me want to get back into writing and to want to start with Gravity Falls. Please check out their stories if you haven't already.

Please review. I'm always open to constructive and helpful criticism, though if you're gonna troll please move on. They're back, I can now see the reviews on the site again so please feel free to review.

On to the reviews. Without further adieu:

Reader Odeebee: Thanks. Yeah, Robbie can be a real jerk. But this is not all him.

Reader James Birdsong: Thanks. This is definitely a work of love.

Reader NecroticHate: Thanks. Yeah, luckily at least the main big bad is honorable enough to give the team time to grieve, but as we saw in this chapter they're not the only ones who are going to cause trouble. And the team are not the only ones who have gained powers.

Yeah, Robbie is digging himself a grave (which is his job at the mortuary anyways).

Angain thank, I am endeavoring to keep up the intensity of both the story and the combat as I go.

Reader The Keeper of Worlds: Thanks. You're close there, the item that reincarnates him is currently not with in him. Cipher didn't know of this secret though, mostly because as of right now the only ones who know it are the Knights and their Mistress. The third party right now are only interested in him as as they are searching for an item the Valentinos have that they may not even know they have. Yeah, Pacifica is really getting wary of her folks and is searching for a way to get completely out from under their influence.

Thanks that's kind of what I was going for in these bonding moments and I'm working on building up the relationships of the rest of the extended family as I am writing. Yeah, I'm actually gonna delve into that soon (possibly next chapter). The first she meets will mention a former net spirit that people may know.

It was unintentional, but as I was reading this comment I remembered a scene out of The Outsiders (version that had Metamorpho and Indigo in it) where Metamorpho had complained how he couldn't even get drunk anymore, so one of his teammates gave him some alien alcohol that was so strong that for a normal human it would take a stein on water to dilute a drop of it so a human could drink it. That was the first drink that he was actually able to get drunk by.

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