Chapter 27: Eye Openers
(Emily's P.O.V)
Okay, another...interesting dream. I know I should be thankful that Bill isn't on them anymore, but I seriously wish that in the universe wanted to give me at least a more obvious signal.
I was walking around in what looked liked old pioneer times. There were so many hooded wagons, but no one was in them. I decided to shrug it off and continued walking and suddenly Quentin Trembly jumped in front of me.
"Greetings Jewel, I hope you kept the tiny window safe! Trembly away!" He cried and jumped onto a horse's back and rushed away, giving me a salute as he rode the horse backwards.
I watched him go and suddenly something dropped in my hands. It was McGucket's memory tube! I stared at it and felt I cold chill behind me as I turned to see a man in a familiar reed robe point a memory gun at me.
"We do not give up our secrets lightly." He spat and fired a beam at me and I shot up in bed, breathing heavily.
"Phew, it wasn't real." I sighed and noticed Bear-Bear was still on my bed. I smiled, and gave him a pat before I got out of bed. After I was in my clothes, I brushed my hair and paused when I looked at the trunk. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
"Wait...tiny window..." I muttered and opened it up and pulled out a small box, that would have held earrings, but I used it for something more important. I opened it to reveal a lens of the glasses McGucket had worn after...oh duh! It was the Blind Eye episode! Huh, guess the theme song happened. I quickly grabbed my purse and put the box inside, zipped it up and climbed down my treehouse and rushed to the Shack.
"Morning Emily." Stan greeted as I rushed in.
"Morning Stan, just gonna get breakfast before I work!" I called after him and rushed to the kitchen.
Today should be interesting.
Okay, so far nothing big has happened. Just a few costumers and a quick 'hi' from the twins before Dipper rushed upstairs and Mabel went off on a walk. She then came running back with a green bottle. I sighed to myself as I watched her run upstairs.
That's when I heard it.
"Am I blanchin',
Girl we blanchin',
I live up in a mansion
Am I blanchin',
Girl we blanchin
I live up in a mansion"
"Am I blanchin', Girl we blanchin', I live up in a mansion." Soos sang along as he swept the floor.
"Ugh! I can't get that terrible song out of my head." Wendy groaned, covering her ears.
"Oh, you mean 'Straight Blanchin' by 'Lil Big Dawg? It's the catchiest song of the summer." Soos said.
"Yeah, I wouldn't call that 'catchy'." I muttered.
"What is 'blanchin'? Rappers can't just make up words!" Wendy cried.
"Rappers are visionaries, Wendy. If they told me to eat my own pants, I would do it." Soos said sincerely.
"That's not a good motto to follow." I commented.
"Eat your own pants. Eat your own pants, yeah!" 'Lil Big Dawg sang from the boombox.
"I guess I have no choice." Soos shrugged and unzipped his pants. "Doot, do-do!"
Before I could stop him Dipper and Mabel burst into the gift shop.
"Wendy, Soos, Emily, we need to go see Old Man McGucket!" Dipper exclaimed.
"We'll explain on the way!" Mabel said and we all rushed out the Soos' truck.
"Hey, what about work? Kids!" Stan cried after us.
"Should we tell him?" Mabel asked as we got in the truck.
"Nah." We chorused and buckled up before driving away.
"Soos! Put your pants back on!"
"...And that's when Mabel discovered his name on the laptop, he has to be the author." Dipper explained.
"Man, he really had everyone fooled." Wendy commented as Soos pulled up at the junkyard and we got out.
"Old Man McGucket, are you here?" Dipper asked.
"Here hillbilly-billy-billy-billy." Soos called. I then remembered Lee and Nate were supposed to be here, but I didn't hear anything. That's strange...
"Hello, McGucket?" I called when suddenly I was tackled down and started having the life squeezed out of me.
"Hello! I heard ya a calling, so I just rushed on out here, and here you are!" McGucket exclaimed still hugging me tightly. Jeez, how is he so strong!?
"Nice...to see...you too...need...oxygen..." I wheezed.
"Why is he hugging Emily?" Wendy asked, slightly disturbed.
"She saved him from being eaten by a pterodactyl, so I guess they bonded." Soos explained and McGucket released me and turned to the others.
"More visitors! Come, come." He then led us inside his house. "Pull up some rusty metal. You're just in time for my hourly turf war with the hillbilly what lives in my mirror." McGucket said and pointed to his bathtub and started angrily at his reflection.
"Quit starin' at me when I bathe!" He yelled and I resisted the urge to facepalm.
"You can drop the act, McGucket. I know you're the author. You studied the mysteries of this town and wrote this book." Dipper said and held up Journal 3.
"Dude, you're the genius Dipper's been searching for all summer!" Wendy exclaimed and held up the broken laptop.
"Uh, genius? I'm no genius. I've never done nothin' worthwhile in my life. Everyone knows I'm no good to nobody. I can't remember what I used to be, but I must've been a big failure to end up like this." McGucket sighed as he looked up at a newspaper that had him eating a raccoon.
"But the laptop has your name on it." Soos said.
"Yeah, And it's way older than your son, so it can't be him." I added.
"What about this book? Are you sure you didn't write it? Here, look closely." Dipper said and started flipping through the pages.
"I told you, I don't recall. Everything before 1982 is just a blur. Just a hazy..." He paused when Dipper flipped to the page with The Blind Eye symbol causing McGucket to scream in horror. "The Blind Eye! Robes, the men, my mind! They did something!"
"Who did?" Dipper asked.
"I... oh, I don't recall." McGucket said, rubbing his head.
"Oh, you poor old man! No wonder your mind's all...bssssst! You've been through something intense." Mabel said.
"Wait Dipper let me see that." I said, he handed me the Journal and looking at it. "I've seen these symbols all over town. This is bigger then just McGucket." I explained giving it back to him.
"What if McGucket learned something he wasn't supposed to know, and someone, or something, messed with his mind? We've got to get to the bottom of this." Dipper said.
"Think, dude. What is the earliest thing you can remember?" Wendy asked.
"Uh, this is, I think." McGucket said as he pulled down a newspaper article.
"The history museum!" Wendy gasped.
"That's where we're going." Dipper said in determination.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" I cried with enthusiasm and rushed out, only for McGucket to hop on top of me.
"Yehaw! Let's go!" He exclaimed and I sloughed awkwardly and carried him to the truck. Once we drove off I immediately heard 'Straight Blanchin' playing and Wendy groaning.
"Ugh, Soos!" She punched the CD player and tossed the CD out the window and Soos glared at her. "I'll buy you a new one."
Once we arrived at the museum it was closed. So the only logical thing to do was climb into the windows.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Soos asked.
"Sssssssh! We shouldn't yet anyone know we're in here!" I hushed him.
"Sorry dude, forces of habit I guess." Soos shrugged.
"All right, keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious." Dipper instructed and Mabel walked by the cougar display and sighed heavily.
"Mabel, are you okay? You just walked by a cat without petting it." Wendy asked in concern.
"Oh Wendy, everything I look at reminds me of failed romances. That formaldehyde heart. That romantic diorama. Even this poster of my most recent ex-crush." Mabel explained gestured to several exhibits, and pulled down the poster of Gabe, only to reveal a poster of Sev'ral Timez. "Aw come on!"
"Yeah, quick note, if any men did that 'romantic gesture' in pioneer times, they would end up with a black eye...or worse." I commented and turned to Mabel. "Also you shouldn't worry about finding romance. You're still young." I added and Mabel sighed.
"So your last memory was here. Anything coming back?" Dipper asked McGucket.
"Guys look!" Soos cried and we looked down a hallway, seeing a hooded figure run away.
"Hey, who's there!?" Dipper exclaimed and we rushed after him only to find ourselves in a room filled with eyes.
"Well kettle my corn. He vanish-ified." MuGucket gasped.
"Okay, this seriously got creepy." I muttered.
"It doesn't make sense. Where did he go?" Dipper questioned. Meanwhile MuGucket backed into a wall and started looking uncomfortable.
"Eh, I feel like all these eyeballs are a-watchin' me." He said nervously.
"Wait... " Dipper looked at the jar of eyes and realized the puzzle "...they are! Move aside."
MuGucket stepped to the side, revealing the one eye that wasn't looking at him they way the others were and Dipper walked over to it and pressed it into the wall. The fire place's secret compartment then opened and revealed the staircase.
"A secret passageway." Dipper gasped, peering in.
"We'll have to be stealthy. I'll hambone a message if there's trouble." MuGucket said and started...slapping his arms and legs while staring at Dipper.
"I have no idea what that means." Dipper deadpanned and we slowly went down the staircase and made our way to the curtain. We then saw the society members around in a circle and chanting around the chest.
"Novus ordo seclorum." They we're chanting. Huh, I don't know what that's means...that's embarrassing. Suddenly Bind Ivan appeared and addressed them.
"Who is the subject of our meeting?" He asked and two members brought Lazy Susan who's head was covered with a sack.
"This women." They said as they revealed her face.
"Lazy Susan?" Mabel gasped as they put her in a chair and cuffed her hands to arms.
"What is it you have seen?" Ivan questioned.
"Speak!" The other members ordered.
"Uh, well, uh, I was leaving the diner, and I saw these little bearded doodads, and I was, like, 'Bwaaa?'" Lazy Susan explained fearfully. Bling Ivan then went for the chest.
"There, there, You won't be like 'Bwaaa?' for much longer." Blind Ivan assured her as he pulled out the memory gun from the chest.
"What is that gizmo? It looks like a hair dryer. Are you guys barbers?" Lazy Susan asked as Blind Ivan turned the dial and shot a beam of light at her. "AAAAAAAAAH!"
"Lazy Susan, what do you know of little bearded men?" Ivan asked.
"My mind is cleared, thanks to the Society of the Blind Eye." Susan deadpanned in a robot like voice.
"It is unseen!" The society chorused.
"Oh my gosh. They erased Lazy Susan's memory." Dipper gasped and McGucket hamboned...ahem, well you know what he 'said'.
"Guys, are you seeing this? They just wiped Lazy Susan's memory!" Dipper repeated.
"Yeah Dipper, we heard you the first time. Also that was freaking crazy!" I whisper yelled.
"Ha! They should've wiped off that awful mascara." Soos laughed and I glared along with Wendy and Mabel.
"I think she looks beautiful, Soos!"
"She's doing the best she can, Soos!"
"What's with the criticizing, Soos!" I added.
"Whoa! Touched a nerve there." Soos said, we took it as an apology and turned back to the society.
"Lazy Susan, how do you feel?" Boring Ivan asked as two members un-cuffed her from the chair.
"I feel great! I can't even remember what was wrong, or what I'm doing here, or if I'm a man or a woman!" Lazy Susan rambled as she was being led away.
"Your memories will be safe with us, buried in the Hall of the Forgotten." Blind Ivan said as he wrote down her name on the memory tube from the gun and went towards the tube.
"Into the Hall of the Forgotten. Into the Hall of the Forgotten." The chanted.
"Good chanting, boys. Have you been practicing?" Someone asked. Was it Blind Ivan I couldn't tell. I then realized that he was putting the memory tube in the tube and I quickly pulled the curtains closed before he sent it up. I out two fingers to my lips and everyone nodded as the memory tube flew by us.
"Meeting adjourned." Blind Ivan announced.
"Unsee you later."
"Unsee you later."
"Unsee you later."
I waited a few moments and heard the footsteps get quieter. I peeked through the curtains, and sighed in relief before turning back to everyone.
"Okay, they're gone." I reported and we walked into the main area and Dipper walked over to the memory gun.
"Amazing. A secret society of evil mind erasers. I'll bet they erased your memory a long time ago. If we could find where your memories have been hidden, it could be the key to unlocking all the mysteries of Gravity Falls. All right, Mabel, Wendy, Emily, you three stay here and make sure those robe guys don't come back." Dipper explained.
"Whoo! Girl's club." Wendy cheered ruffling Mabel's hair and gave me a high five.
"Soos, you, me, and McGucket are gonna go find the Hall of the Forgotten." Dipper said and Soos' hat got sucked up by the pipe.
"Follow that hat!" Dipper exclaimed and he, Soos and McGucket ran after the hat.
"So...I guess we have the run of the place." I shrugged and sat down on the stairs along with Wendy. Meanwhile Mabel took Wendy's hat and was slumped on the wall. She then sighed and addressed us.
"I just don't get it, guys. I hug a lot, I can burp the alphabet, I have scratch and sniff clothing. Why does every boy leave me?" She asked.
"Pfft, who cares? Boys are the worst. You shouldn't get hung up, man." Wendy said.
"Yeah, and like I said earlier, you're still young. You'll have plenty of time to meet guys who are right for you." I added.
"Easy for you to say, you gave a boyfriend." Mabel grumbled.
"Yeah, but I never really had luck with guys before Nate. Anytime I had a crush it just wouldn't work out, but Nate was different. We started at friends and it grew from there." I explained and Mabel nodded thoughtfully.
"Maybe I come on too strong, you know?" Mabel suggested.
"Well, what's your opener? Pretend I'm a boy." Wendy said and took her hat before putting her hair up and giving herself a mustache. "Mmm, testosterone. *spit*"
"HI! I'M MABEL! I'M TWELVE AND I OWN A PIG! WANT TO GET MARRIED?!" Mabel exclaimed and Wendy and I laughed.
"Honestly, that was perfect. You should just forget about guys, man." Wendy said lifting her hat and letting her hair fall down. Mabel's eyes then lit up.
"Wendy, that's it. Forget about guys!" She then ran over to the chair and picked up the memory gun. "I just need to type 'summer romances' into this thing, and I won't feel bad about them anymore."
"Whoa, hold up, Mabel. We don't even know what that thing does. You could accidentally erase, like, learning to read, or breathe, or..." Wendy protested.
"Or one of those terrible summer songs you can't get out of your head? Or a dream demon?" Mabel added waving the gun and Wendy's eyes widened.
"...no no nonononono. This is a bad idea Mabel." Wendy said.
"Yeah, you saw what that did to Lazy Susan! She was totally distraught and that was just one memory. You're planning on erasing like...one third of your summer! And you've seen McGucket! He can't remember YEARS of his life because of that!" I exclaimed.
"...well we don't know what they erased. Maybe it works differently when you do it willingly." Mabel suggest and I facepalmed.
"No. Mabel, it doesn't make a difference...and you're already spelling it..." I grumbled.
"Emily has a point Mabel. Are you really sure this is a good idea?" Wendy asked.
"All ideas are good ideas!" Mabel declared and aimed the gun at herself.
"Mabel no!" I cried and reached for it when the alarm went off.
"Do you hear that?" Wendy asked and we looked up to see the alarm blinking.
"Shoot I think the boys might have tripped the alarm. RUN!" I exclaimed and we ran off only to be cut off by guards and we tried to get out they way we came in, but we were surrounded and grabbed by them.
"Hey let us go!" Wendy cried and attempted to kick her captors and Mabel and I struggled against their grasp. We soon were tied up on a pile with Soos and Dipper, who was holding the memory tube.
"You shouldn't have come here. We do not give up our secrets lightly." Blind Ivan said dolly as he took McGucket's memory tube from Dipper. That when we started to question them.
"Who are you bathrobe-wearing freaks?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"And what's with your creepy British accent?"
"Really that's what your asking right now?" I asked Mabel, who shrugged in response.
"Well, I suppose we are going to erase your minds anyway." Blind Ivan then nodded at the members who revealed themselves.
"Toby Determined?"
"Bud Gleeful?
"That farmer guy?"
"Tattoo man? Wow did not see that coming." I muttered in fake shock. Though I was surprised he was part of it when first seeing this episode.
"Creepy dude who married a woodpecker? You too? How's that marriage goin, by the way?" Soos asked.
"Oh, great, great..." He trailed off and went into a whisper. "Not great."
"Okay, you married her, not me." I grumbled.
"And you've never met me before. And if you had, you wouldn't remember." Blind Ivan then revealed his head with a bunch of tattoos and a scar over his right eye.
"I am Blind Ivan, and we are the Society of the Blind Eye." He introduced and they did some weird cult salut. "Formed many years ago by our founder... our founder... Does anyone remember who he was?"
"We've been usin' that ray on our own brains an awful lot." Bud laughed.
"Oh, so that's why your an idiot." I commented causing Wendy to snort. Bud gave me a glare as Dipper addressed Ivan.
"Why would you do all this? What do you have to gain?" He asked angrily.
"As you have no doubt discovered, Gravity Falls is a town plagued with supernatural strangeness. No one knew how to stop the things that went bump in the night, so our founder invented the next best thing: a way for us to forget. We took it upon ourselves to help the troubled townsfolk by erasing the memories of the strange things they've seen. Now the people of Gravity Falls go about their lives ignorant and happy, thanks to us. And as a perk, we help ourselves forget things that trouble us. Everyone has something they'd rather forget. In fact, your own sister was about to use that ray on herself. Isn't that right?" Blind Ivan explained and smirked at the last bit.
"Mabel? Seriously?" Dipper asked in disbelief.
"Ha ha, maybe..." Her voice trailed off in shame.
"Don't be so hard on her, she had a rough couple of romances." I said and Dipper nodded before turning back to our enemies at the moment.
"Don't you see? This is ruining lives! What about Old Man McGucket? He lives in a hut and talks to animals, thanks to you. Don't you feel bad about that?" He asked.
"Mmm, maybe a little." Blind Ivan didn't hesitate to shoot himself with the ray. "But not anymore."
"Are kidding me? How did that even work?" I asked. Seriously how did that work?...it's way more complicated when you think about it.
"SILENCE! You won't be telling anyone else what you've learned here. Say good-bye to your summer." Blind Ivan said and aimed the ray at us.
"Guys, if we're gonna forget everything, I got some stuff I wanna get off my chest. Mabel, for half the summer, I thought your name was Maple, like the syrup. No one corrected me!" Soos confessed.
"I only love some of my stuffed animals, and the guilt is killing me!" Mabel cried unhappily.
"Sometimes I use big words, and I don't actually know what they mean. I mean, I'm supposed to be the smart guy. If I'm not the smart guy, who am I?" Dipper questioned.
"I sometimes get lonely at my treehouse, so instead I sleep in the Shack when no one is looking!" I admitted.
"Okay, I'm not actually laid back. I'm stressed, like, 24/7. Have you met my family?" Wendy cried and we all struggled fearfully on the ropes.
"Oh, stop being a bunch of babies." Blind Ivan scoffed and a pan then hit his hand, knocking the gun out of it. "Owie!"
"McGucket?!" We cried happily as he came over wheeling a bunch of weapons along with us and quickly freed us.
"I raided the mining display for weapons. Now fight like a hillbilly, fellers!" He exclaimed and we all grabbed a weapon. Me getting a shovel.
"Oh, nobody better mess!" Soos cried, holding a dysentery information display.
"They know too much. Don't let them escape!" Blind Ivan cried and Wendy and I stood back to back.
"Get this song outta your head!" Wendy cried slamming the banjo on a members head while I whacked in with a shovel.
"Did you grab the banjo just so you could make that pun?" I questioned.
"...maybe. DUCK!" I saw a member try to hit me, but I duck last second and hit him in the chest with my shovel.
"Dig your own grave." I laughed and heard a smash and turned to see Tat's arm suck in a wall.
"Mabel catch!" Dipper cried and Mabel reached for the tube only to be stopped by Sprott.
"I'll take that, thank you. Give it up, boy. You're no match for the unstoppable power of..." He was cut off by Mabel using the tube to pull his robe off. Revealing only his underwear, and forcing him to drop the tube.
"Ah jeez." I gagged.
"AAAAAH! That's right, I don't wear nothin' under my robe. Not gonna apologize for that. Maybe y'all should apologize for bein' a bunch of prudes." Sprott pointed.
"Eew!" Everyone Elle said in disgust.
"Well, time to erase that forever." Soos deadpanned and held up the memory gun, only for Ivan to shove him down and grab it.
"Give me that tube." He ordered.
"Never!" Dipper cried and threw it up in the tube and, without thinking, I ran after it. With Dipper and Blind Ivan behind me.
"That memory belongs to McGucket!" Dipper declared.
"The Society's secrets belong to us." Blind Ivan argued and I rushed over to the pipe and grabbed the memory tube.
"Gotcha!" I cried happily only to hear the memory gun charge up.
"Hand over that memory tube girl!" Blind Ivan growled angrily and I clutched the memory to my chest.
"NEVER! You kept this from McGucket long enough! You don't deserve it! Go ahead, wipe my mind! I rather give up my memories then let a bully like you win!" I snapped.
"Fine." Blind Ivan said and shot the gun.
"EMILY NO!" I heard everyone yell, but I closed my eyes fearfully but heard something plop in front of me and peaked my right eye open.
"M-McGucket!? You saved me!" I gasped. Then he was blasted again.
"Whoa, are you okay!?" I asked and he blinked a couple times.
"Okay as I'll ever be!" McGucket assured me and started laughing as he walked towards Blind Ivan who kept shooting at him.
"Why *blast* isn't *blast* this *blast* working?" Blind Ivan asked in disbelief.
"Hit me with your best shot, Baldy. But my mind's been gone for thirty-odd years. You can't break what's already broken!" McGucket said and went up and smacked the gun out of his hand.
"Say goodnight, Sally!" He cried and head butted Blind Ivan knocking him down. I sighed in relief and walked over to McGucket.
"Thank you." I said and gave him a hug, which he returned.
"You're welcome Emily." He replied and I handed him the tube.
"I believe this belongs to you."
Later we rounded up all the society members and tied the, around the same post that we were tied to. Ah, revenge in sweet!
"Unhand us!" Blind Ivan demanded. Though it was pointless since we never liked the guy.
"It isn't so fun being tied up, is it? Hey, wanna draw on their faces?" Mabel asked us.
"Do it." I nodded.
"What?" Blind Ivan questioned as Mabel walked over with a marker.
"Tra-la-la!" Mabel sang as she crossed out 'knowledge and replaced it with 'butts', causing us all to laugh.
"Hey, stop that! That's not funny." Blind Ivan glared.
"It pretty funny." Dipper argued.
"It's, like, objectively funny." Soos added.
"We'll have our revenge. We'll never forget what you've done." Blind Ivan declared.
"Ooh, bad choice of words." I smirked, folding my arms as Dipper turned the dial on the gun.
"Oh, I think you just might." Dipper said and held up the ray. "Say cheese."
"No no no no!" The now former members cried as Dipper blasted them and we quickly gathered them all and pushed them back into the main part of the museum and the exited slightly disoriented.
"Thanks for visiting the Museum for Gold Miner Appreciation Night. Be sure to tip the gold miner on your way out." Dipper announced and noticed Blind Ivan walk past in a daze.
"I'm sorry, but what's my name? Where am I?" He asked in confusion.
"Oh, might have overdone that one." Dipper flinched as Mabel walked up to him.
"Your name is Toot-toot McBumbersnazzle. You're a traveling banjo minstrel, with a song in your heart, and funny tattoos on your head." Mabel said as she handed him a banjo. Toot-toot then smiled and begun playing his banjo.
"Yes, I am Toot-toot McBumbersnazzle. Cheers!" He called and started singing as he played. "Toot-toot is my name..."
"Well, at least he's happy." I shrugged as we walked back to the hideout and Dipper turned in the t.v that would play memories.
"All right, McGucket, are you ready to see your memories? Find out who you really are?" Dipper asked.
"I'm not so sure. What if I don't like what I see?" McGucket asked worriedly.
"We've come all this way. Go on." Mabel urged.
"You got this." I added and he gave me a smile before placing the tube in the machine. It was static before a younger version of McGucket appeared.
"My name is Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, and I wish to unsee what I have seen." Younger McGucket said and we all gasped.
"Sweet sarsaparilla." McGucket said, yes widened.
"For the past year, I have been working as an assistant for a visiting researcher. He has been cataloging his findings about Gravity Falls in a series of journals. I helped him build a machine which he believed had the potential to benefit all mankind, but something went wrong. I decided to quit the project. But I lie awake at night, haunted by the thoughts of what I've done. I believe I have invented a machine that can permanently erase these memories from my mind." He then held up the memory gun.
"Test subject One: Fiddleford." He shot the ray and static appeared.
"It worked! I can't recall a thing!"
*STATIC*
"I call it the Society of the Blind Eye. We will help those who want to forget by erasing their bad memories!"
*STATIC*
"Today, I came across a colony of little men, very disturbing. I would like to forget seeing this."
*STATIC*
"I accidentally hit another car in town today. I feel terri-bibble! Terrible. I've been forgetting words lately. I wonder if there are any negative side effects..."
*STATIC*
"I saw something in the law, something BIG!"
*STATIC*
"My hair's been a-fallin' out, so I got this hat from a scarecrow. Hey, are my pants on backwards?"
*STATIC*
"Yroo Xrksvi! Girzmtov!" McGucket laughed and made his fingers into a triangle over his eye and the screen became a permanent static and we just stared at the screen in shock.
"Oh, McGucket, I'm so sorry." Mabel said as he grabbed the tube from the t.v.
"Aw, hush. You kids helped me get my memories back, just like you said." He said.
"But did you want those memories back?" Mabel asked.
"After all these years, I finally know who I am. Maybe I messed up in the past, but now that I seen what happened, I can begin to put myself together again." McGucket said and hamboned a message.
"Still don't know what that means." Dipper said.
"I think it was somewhere along the lines of 'thanks'." I smiled.
"So, wait. You weren't the author, but you worked with him. Do you remember who he was?" Dipper asked holding up the Journal.
"It's beginning to come back, but I need more time. And reading glasses. Heck!" McGucket put on his glasses and spit into a pot as a lens fell out. "I got some rememberin' to do."
That's when I remembered that I still had the lens from Trembly in my purse and took it out.
"Here, let's fix that." I offered and replaced the lens in his knew glasses. "There, good as new."
McGucket smiled up at me and gave me a bone crushing hug. I just laughed and returned it.
"So Mabel, you still wanna erase those failed summer romances?" Wendy asked, holding up the memory gun. Mabel looked over at me and McGucket before giving her answer.
"You know, no one likes having bad memories, but maybe it's better to remember the bad things and learn from them than to go all denial crazy trying to forget." She said.
"The past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it." I quoted.
"That's some mature junk right there, guys." Wendy nodded.
"Yep. Miss Mature. That's me. Hey, you wanna help me vandalize this picture of my jerky ex-crush?" Mabel asked holding up the poster and we all laughed as we did so. I wrote 'STOOPID DUMB-DUMB' on the bottom. That felt good.
We all then walked outside the museum and piled into to car happily. Knowing that the people of Gravity Falls' memories were safe.
"Hey, you know what? Going on this big adventure actually made me get that stupid song out of my head." Wendy commented.
"Nice." Soos said and started the car, and wouldn't you know it, 'Straight Blanchin' started to play.
"Oh come on!" Wendy cried in frustration and I reached over the seat and turned of the radio.
"There, everyone's happy." I sighed as McGucket flipped through the pages of the Journal with Dipper, who was holding the memory gun.
"It's all so familiar. It's almost like I can remember..." He said thoughtfully.
"I'm sure with a little time you will." I assured him and we drove back to his junkyard.
"Are you sure you wanna stay here? It's a dump, literally." Mabel asked and McGucket nodded.
"It's been my home as long as I can remember. As far as I'm concerned it's good enough for me!" He said and hopped out before waddling back to his homemade hut.
"By friends! Don't be a stranger!" He waved and we all waved by and Soos drove off. I smiled happily and Soos dropped the twins and I off at the Shack and wished them both goodnight before sighing.
"Well, at least I can go to...bed?" I stopped when I saw Nate with a picnic blanket and some food.
"Hey, I was just about to text you!" Nate smiled happily as I stood there like an idiot.
"Hi...w-what's all this?" I asked as he walked over and brought me to the picnic blanket.
"Just a nice dinner. Lee helped me make some of the stuff...we may not may not have nearly burnt everything...so it took all day. Anyway, surprise! Pizza!" Nate exclaimed and I smiled. So that's why they weren't at McGucket's place earlier.
"Are you sure it's not a special occasion that I forgot about?" I asked worriedly as we sat down.
"No...I just thought it'd be nice." Nate admitted and I laughed taking a pizza slice and a soda.
"Well then, cheers!" I said and we clinked our drinks before sipping them and laughed. I scooted closer to him and leaned my head in his shoulder.
"Thanks, this was really sweet."
I nearly got my memories erased, but thanks to McGucket I was okay. Now not only did we gain a new ally, but we stopped the society. I was worried for a moment though. Now everything right now is just fine.
For the time being...
Author's Note:
Phew, there we have it. Sorry I took a while on that. I was with family and I spent a lot of time with them. I hope it was worth the wait and really enjoyed writing this part.
Now, how many of you remembered the lens from season one? Be honest, it's okay of you forgot. Hehe, I also added the Namily scene at the end because I figured Nate wouldn't go vandalize McGucket's house after being with Emily.
Little side tangent, please DO NOT post a review merely asking me for a update. It just makes me feel like I'm letting you guys down. I already feel enough pressure when writing these chapters. It's fine if you are excited, but just saying 'please update' isn't really helping. I hope you all understand.
Now let's go to my lovely reviewers!
GF FanEmazing (Guest): You're welcome.
Pizza01: I'm glad you liked the chapter and I'm glad how Emily turned out too.
mew mew 124: Wow, you had a lot to say! I can't say much of Emily's or Georgia's birth family, or their life's before everything happened. Though hopefully that will be revealed in future stories. ;)