It was 8'o clock in the morning. Priscilla woke up in an unknown room dressed in an oversized T-shirt; for a moment, she had no idea where she was or how she got there. Then like a truck slamming into the wall, everything that happened last night came back from Preston to them being attacked by AJ & JR to being saved by Pacifica's boyfriend to being taken in by the rest of the pines family.

"Pacifica?"

Heading down a short spiral staircase leading her to the lower half of the room, she began looking around, exploring the shack. Priscilla came upon a room filled with books & a chalkboard in the center. On the chalked board was a long, elaborate equation. Examining it, Priscilla found where the answer was; taking the chalk, she places her answer 4/pi shortly after she heard an elevator coming down & opening, stepping in was the six-fingered man she met last night was Stanford pines.

"Ah, Mrs. Northwest, I see you're up; your daughter asked me to come & get you there something on TV she wants you to see."

"Oh, thank you…& it's just Priscilla…please."

As Priscilla walked to the elevator, ford noticed the finished equation & to his shock, she was right.

"Incredible." He thought

Making their way upstairs, ford led Priscilla into the living room where Stan Pines was sitting in his chair while Pacifica was on the left side sitting with Dipper & Mabel. Not wanting to intrude, she sat on the right by ford with Wendy, Soos & Gideon sitting at the table in the center-right & left in front of Stan were candy & grenade. Everyone was focused on the TV as the news came back on.

"Hello, I'm Shandra Jimenez back with this late-breaking news; we go to toby determined our man on the scene for more details." Said as the camera switch to toby.

"Shandra, I'm standing outside the mud flap factory where authorities have just broken through the secret bunker & are arresting Preston Northwest."

Everyone was shocked except those who were there last night when Priscilla told them where to find him.

"Northwest is being accused of working with two others in a plan to attack both his wife & daughter & look like Blubs & Durland are bringing him out of the factory right now."

Brought out with his hands cuffed behind his back, he was utterly bald to everyone's shock. Due to the blow Pacifica gave him, all his hair had burned off. He had no facial or on top even his eyebrows were gone. As he was being put in the back of the car, he began screaming at the top of his lungs, mouth foaming.

"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I AM PRESTON NORTHWEST MY FAMILY OWNS THIS TOWN I OWN THIS TOWN I OWN EACH & EVERY ONE OF YOU!" he screamed as he was forced into the back of the squad car.

Despite what he's done, everyone couldn't help but pity Preston seeing how far he's fallen.

"I'm getting word that he is being committed for evaluation to the same hospital one of his coconspirators was sent to last night for several burns…I will be back with more details later back to you, Shandra."

"thank you, Toby, wait, I just received word that…a large group of men dressed in combat gear has just been mysteriously dropped off at the police station tied there seem to be only one man conscious & he keeps muttering, "monsters & little men." & there's also a note that reads from your neighbors in the forest…."

"I see they dropped off those bastards from last night." Said, Gideon

"Ladies & gentlemen, we are not sure if this new development has any connection to our current story, but once we find out more, we will bring it to you…this is Shandra Jimenez signing off. She said as Stan turns off the TV

"Ok, will someone tell us just what the heck happened?" asked Stan

With a sigh, Priscilla began to explain the event starting when after Pacifica left for her party, how AJ & JR demanded her daughter's party giving them the drugs they wanted them to use on Pacifica.

"I didn't want that to happen to you."

"So you immediately began making plans of your own." Said dipper

"Yes…"

Priscilla began explaining that after Preston received a message from AJ, he sent her out to make sure Pacifica was still in the diner.

"Once after I saw you there, I took the opportunity to take matters into my own hand."

Using a payphone, she called 911 explaining the situation; however, the operator transferred her call to a branch of the FBI, where she spoke to powers & triggers.

"Aren't those the government agent whose memories we erased?" Said Mabel

Everyone there looked shocked, while Dipper, Mabel, Soos, & Stan only blushed.

"We'll explain everything later….please continue," said Ford

Quickly telling her situation to them, the agents revealed that her case may be linked to a bigger crime.

"We set upped that we would meet at lake gravity falls…they told me to bring the evidence."

Shortly after hanging up went to the store to buy actual candy pills; she began putting her own plan into action.

"Once I was home, I swapped out the drugs with the candy & hid the real ones in my gown & well you know the rest."

Everyone took a moment to process what they were just told; however, another question still needed to be answered.

"Now, how do those commandos fit into this?" Asked Wendy

Dipper, Gideon & Ford let out a sigh as now it was their turn to explain their story.

"As you know, dipper Gideon & I were in the wood doing some research."

"But things didn't turn out as plan." Continued Dipper

The three then went on about instead of getting their work done, they instead ended in the middle three-way argument.

"The gnomes, Manotaurs & Gremloblin were fighting over the land they claimed they owned." Said, Gideon

The three went on to explain how they spent hours each listening to the claims about the others.

"That took hours on hours then we spent hours negotiating on behalf of each of them that took even more hours…until we were finally able to settle the dispute," Said ford

"So what happened next, dudes?"

As Dipper & the others were leaving the forest, a sudden barrage of gunfire started towards them. However, Dipper dropped everyone to the ground saving everyone from being killed though he was grazed by a few.

"While they had us pinned, I heard one of the men calling their boss telling them that they had me pinned…I knew then that JR was behind it."

"Dudes, this story would make an awesome anime." Said, Soos

The three explained how they were chased into the forest, bullets flying at them, but none were hit.

"Good thing bad guys are terrible shots." Said, Gideon

"But I wasn't." said ford

As they ran, ford, who had his own gun blasted back, not killing them but knocking out but the more they were able to drop while running, the more kept coming

"I wasn't sure how long we ran or how far, but we made it back to where the monsters were fighting over."

Cornered, the three had no way out & were ready to make a final stand there as the men prepared to open fire but were saved by the monsters they helped earlier.

"Soon, an all-out fight broke out that lasted for a while." Said ford

"Not sure what those guys were on, but they wouldn't stay down." Gideon

"Despite that, we took them all by the time we were on the last one. I forced him to call JR & tell him I was dead & where he was…."

"I called ghost eyes & had him & the gang pick up the trash."

"While we rushed lake gravity falls & well you guy already know what happened then…."

Everyone sat there processing what they learned about last night's event. A silence came across everyone until ford spoke.

"I suggest that those of us who were involved in last night's events should get ready; we need to go give statements soon."

Everyone agreed & went to get ready; Priscilla wanted to say something but lost her nerve at the last second.

Later

After giving their statements regarding last night, Pacifica & Priscilla waited outside for Dipper & the others. Originally Priscilla wanted to take Pacifica home, but she wanted to wait for Dipper knowing the others would take longer as they had to alter their story to keep the monster part secret. As the two sat there, an awkward silence fell between them, but Priscilla felt now was the best time to talk to her daughter.

"Pacifica, there's something I need to say, something I should have said a long time ago."

"What is it?"

"I'm sorry…."

Pacifica was shocked. She never thought she'd hear those words coming from her mother & still couldn't.

"What did you say?"

"This experience opened my eye to what a fool I've been & just how horrible a mother I've been to you; I'm sorry for I treated you, how I let Preston treat you every wrong thing I've done since the day you were born."

"Mom, I have to ask, what did you ever see in that man?"

"To be honest, I haven't asked myself that question in a long time, but I guess it started in the Miss Mudflap that was hosted by your grandfather Auldman."

"The one that you won…."

"Well, I wasn't the original winner; I was actually the runner-up."

"You were, but dad said…."

"He said that because he does want you to know that the original winner was revealed to be a man."

"Wow."

"After I was declared the true winner, he started pursuing me claiming to love me & I believed every word so much I turn my back on everyone who warned me to stay away from him & my reason for entering that contest."

"Which was..?"

"I was going to use the money for college. I used to be the smartest in high school…but I decided to be with Preston."

"Why would you do that?"

"Because I was a fool & I was desperate…when I was a child I was constantly called ugly by my Parents & my family always had money problems."

Pacifica was taken back; he never knew this about her mother or her side of the family.

"it all changed when I got older & when your father came into my life he was the first one to tell me I was beautiful & I bought all of his words so much I did what I could to stay beautiful in his eye becoming nothing but arm candy & then his wife."

Pacifica was shocked at the bad decisions that her mother had made but realized that her father's head games were the leading cause as he played on her self-esteem.

"once we were married, he really started to change me, claiming that certain things that I used to do would make me ugly; he even pushed to have my hearts removed because he said that they were deformities."

"I know. Is dad the reason I was carried for 9 months by a surrogate instead of by you?"

"Yes, he claimed carrying a baby would make me fat, ugly & unlovable. I agreed to the surrogate for him…every wrong thing I did was for him so that he'd love me & make me feel beautiful."

Pacifica felt like she gained a new perspective on her mother. In a way, Priscilla was also a victim of her father's emotional abuse & her vanity was a cover to hide her insecurities which he used to make her what she was, but one thing still bothered her.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you turn on dad & help me? I thought I wanted me to be with JR."

"I did at first, but then after you told me about what he did & after how your father didn't even care, I realized."

"What?"

"That JR & Preston are so much alike."

"You really believed that."

"yes, JR is a younger version of Preston, his arrogance, his feeling invincible & even a father willing to give him whatever he wanted. The only difference JR was straightforward with what he wants."

"Wow, I never realized."

"Your situation is similar to mine, but the difference is you were smart enough to see through his lies."

"I had friends that opened my eyes & changed me so I could."

"If I had those kinds of people in my life, maybe I wouldn't have made my mistakes, but I had no one, not even my parent & in the end, I became just like my mother, just as emotionally abusive to you as she was to me."

"She abused you."

"She & my father blamed me for how horrible their lives turned out, claiming they were happier before I came along."

"Oh, mom."

"We both ended up in unhappy marriages. The only difference is that my mother compensated hers' by drinking & calling me ugly, while I compensated through trying to make myself a beautiful as I can just to please a man & his money. The only good thing that came out of my marriage was you. Instead, I treated you horribly & let him do the same."

Hearing this felt a mixture of emotions, feeling that maybe the mother she knew for all these years was a mask & she was finally meeting her real mother.

"I tried to push into making the same mistakes I made to end up in the same situation. I fell into an unhappy relationship because I thought money was all I needed to feel happy & beautiful when that should have been."

A single tear fell down Priscilla's cheek as she talked to her daughter; seeing this almost made Pacifica cry, she managed to keep cool.

"But I couldn't be happier that you broke the chain. Despite everything, you came out stronger a better person than I could be. You chose to be your own person, not to be another link in a long chain of women who made the wrong choices & raised their daughters to do the same.

"Mom, we can't change the past, but if you're willing to make our relationship now better, then I'm willing to try too. Besides, it's just us now, dad is no longer going to control either of us anymore."

"I do & I will make sure you have the mother you should have had a long time ago; just promise me one thing."

"What's that?"

"That you never lose that boy Mason…."

"You're ok with us being together."

"See how he protected you made me realized how much he cares for you; unlike my father, your father & JR, he truly has feelings for you."

Hearing her mother openly voice her approval over her & Dipper's relationship made her happy that maybe there is hope for them.

"So, where do we go from here, mom."

"We move forward."

End Of CH. 10