Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls, Sailor Moon, Once Upon a Time, Visionaries, Inhumanoids, H.P. Lovecraft lore and Demon Hunters. I use some characters, an element or two from a source, and the character I used from Demon Hunters, and Once Upon a Time are my loose revisions from my revivals of those series.

The following takes place the beginning of December, Junior Year in Gravity Falls, Oregon.

Chapter 1: Get Together

In Waterhouse forest of Gravity Falls. There is on person that is in a white cowboy hat, white leather jacket, a necklace with a cow skull, two silver bullets on the end and above both a five-star pentagram. He is walking in the woods until he comes straight out of the opening of a forest land and arrives at what looks like meeting area with a campfire burning.

He comes in with his usual cohort London who is now in Werewolf form along with another who is in a lab coat, is completely bald and has several arcane symbol tattoos on his neck and head and his wearing glasses called Herr Doctor. And there is a group of ladies and one robot that are in the shadows, they have what look like sarcophagus and they are wheeling in several of them.

Gideon says, "Is that all of them?"

Herr Doctor looks at Gideon and says, "Yes, they are all accounted for and prepared."

"Excellent."

London steps up and says, "There was one person we were unable to get."

"He'd never make himself an easy catch, well it doesn't matter we got enough the pieces for the board, and right now it's my move."

Herr Doctor says, "Why couldn't we of just got all of them."

"There wasn't enough time, according to Combs the planets the planets are about to be in the right alignment on Christmas Eve and we have less than weeks to find three more of the lost crystals of power."

Gideon then snaps his fingers and then London them brings Gideon one of his grimoires which is the complete text of the book of Azathoth.

"Besides there's one in particular I want to have fun with, what's December without it."

Gideon looks at the book with admiration, the book is slightly heavy as it's cover is the purist of black and he then takes it over to a podium that London then sets up of Gideon. The podium is positioned in front of the series of coffins. Gideon, he opens the book and he then flips though to find some spells, he then flips to the page and he has a look of glee in his face.

Gideon says, "Ah, man I've always wanted to do this spell."

Herr Doctor he looks at Gideon and says, "Remember the plan my boss and everyone has devised."

Gideon, he looks at Herr Doctor and has a small smile. "Of course, I haven't, we're all about to give them a Christmas gift they'll remember forever."

Hours latter out in the Mystery Shack the closed sign is on and Dipper as he is sweeping the floor of the Mystery Shack to help get things ready and set things up for Christmas time. Suddenly someone comes into the store and he looks up and sees a girl that is about the same height as Mabel but about a few years younger and looks to be about a sophomore in high school. She has slightly long but short cropped hair, violent eyes, she is in a lot of black as she has a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved shirt, black short skirt over black jeans and some black eyeliner on with black lip stick. Dipper is a little surprised by this as he looks at the girl, the girl looks at her and says, "Are you Dipper Pines?"

Dipper then answers slowly yes."

The girl then comes a little close to him, "Listen I don't have much time, but I need your help and my boyfriend says you're one of the people that can do it."

Dipper looks at her puzzled and then he puts the broom away and then says, "I don't understand, who's your boyfriend and who are you?"

The girl says, "We can't talk here, I'm not sure if it's secure, which is why I hate to do this."

She then brings up her hand, Dipper is confused by this motion but then suddenly Dipper suddenly feels some sort of prick on his neck which felt as though it suddenly appeared. Dipper he then gets his hand toward the right side of his neck and then feels something stick out. He then pulls the object out and he looks at it and sees it is some sort of dart. He then looks back at the girl and then suddenly the vision of her starts to get blurry and then suddenly he loses his balance and then just as he collapses down he is caught and is gently laid down. He looks up toward the celling and in his viewpoint he sees a blurry female figure which is the same girl but also another person whom is male but seems to be wearing some sort mask, he can' t make it out clearly as his vision is about to go but he can see the front which is silver. Soon Dipper he then passes out.

Dipper he then opens his eyes, he felt as though only mere minute or two passed. But as he comes to he then sees the girl once again and that he's in a place with several video arcade cabinets around him, Dipper immediately recognizes the place as it's his usual local arcade in the Falls as he sees the usual arcade machine he plays with Wendy on "Fight Fighters" as well as another arcade machine with his friend Adam the recent "Immortal Kombat 11" some of the arcade machine are on but the sound is off. He then sees he's sitting on a chair; his hands aren't tied but he is just shaking the groggy feeling and then looks back at the girl with a bit of anger.

Dipper says, "Where have you brought me, who are you, what…."

Suddenly Dipper here's a voice in which the audio of it has a deep harmonization.

"Don't blame this girl, she has nothing to do with bringing you here, I do."

Dipper he looks a dark corner, and someone step out of the darkness and into the lighting the arcade cabinets produce. He sees a person whom is in a navy blue militaristic uniform, with the buttoned coat, boots, cape, but of course the usual black samurai shaped helmet with the silver face plate, and the one right hand in a black glove and the silver bionic arm with a glove.

Dipper immediately charges out of the chair and then tackles Darrien/Crimson Talon, both are on the ground and Dipper has him in a grappling hold with his legs and his one human arm with both his arms but Talon puts up no resistance.

Dipper says, "How the hell did you get out of jail?"

As Dipper applies a little pressure from his legs and the hold on Talon's arm, Talon doesn't show a sign of wincing or pain despite feeling it, but Talon doesn't dare give Dipper any sign of it does not resist.

Dipper says, "My friends, Mabel, did you do anything with them, where are they?"

Talon just stares at him with the silver face place facing him.

Talon says, "Dipper, I'm not your enemy."

Dipper says, "Yeah right, chrome dome."

Dipper once again applies pressure and Talon then can't help but give a little wince at it. The girl then comes toward them to break the fight up.

The girl says, "Stop this right now."

She looks at Dipper.

"Listen Dipper right."

Without taking his hold and eyes off Talon Dipper says, "Yeah, that's my name and who might you be miss."

"I…. both this man and I will explain everything."

"You work for this guy?"

"No, I hardly know or trust him, but my friend Candy does."

After hearing her name, Dipper then releases his grappling hold on Talon. Talon he then slowly gets up shaking off some of the pain Dipper dealt him.

Talon says, "I see my brother has taught you well."

Dipper than stands up and then looks at the girl.

The girl says, "My friend Candy told me a lot about you, that you're a person that can help."

Dipper then shakes his head in confusion and says, "If you needed my help, why did you kidnap me?"

Talon says, "She didn't, I did, but I didn't kidnap you I actually saved your life."

Dipper says, "What are you talking about?"

The girl then steps up and says to Talon, "I'll talk first."

She then looks at Dipper and says, "I'm afraid we have a serious crisis on our hands, you see my friend Candy has been searching for signs of Gideon and his activities and after a long while she finally locked onto him, but unfortunately before she could do anything to stop him he and his forces ambushed her, however not before she gave me and Talon this message."

She then gets to her cell phone which is designed to show the planet Saturn and the stars that surround it. She then clicks onto one of the video messages and then she shows Dipper the message.

Candy who is in her white long shirt and a black skirt she delivers her message in as calm a tone as she can. Candy says, "Darrien my love, and Hotaru my friend I can't call anyone else about this, because most of the signals are either being hacked and intercepted by Gideon and his forces, I don't know how but somehow he has."

Candy breathes and then continues.

"But your signals are clean, but I don't have much time, both of your are in great danger, Gideon is about to kidnap you and everyone of our friends. Somehow they are all intrical to his grand scheme I'm not sure how, but I was able to gather some evidence which you and anyone else might be able to figure out, there is a file I'm sending to both your phones. I think Gideon and the rest may have already caught on to me, I'll try to stop or slow him down but you have to try to save the rest and if I've failed stop Gideon if you can."

The message then stops, Hotaru then click a button to send it back.

Hotaru then looks at Dipper and says, "That message came just hours ago, and my friends and boyfriend were captured in mere minutes when it was delivered; but I managed to fight off and escape capture and teleported all the way here.

Talon then steps forward and starts to speak. "As soon as I got it I escaped from jail, I had to evade the police, Gideon's forces and everything. I tried to get to my brother first, but it was already too late, he was already gone along with everyone else."

Dipper is surprised by this news and then he immediately goes to his pocket and pulls out his phone to call his sister Mabel.

Talon says, "Don't bother earlier today, the place where she works in the morning the "The Flaming Comet Coffee shop and cafe" was completely ransacked, when I got there I found one of the fellow employees talked to me telling me, there was an army of men that came and only came to take her away. Mabel came to them so no one else would get hurt."

Dipper he looks at his phone in frustration and anger and then he looks at Talon and says in anger, "This is all your fault!"

Talon retorts in a harsh tone, "How the hell is this my fault, I was in jail for months, Gideon has my girlfriend and brother!"

Both are about to clash but Hotaru comes in between them.

Hotaru says, "Enough of this scapegoating, that's a loser's game and it's not going to help up help them."

Dipper and Talon step back and take a breath from each other.

Dipper looks at Hotaru and calmly says, "Your right, sorry I sort of lost it for a moment."

Hotaru says, "It' s okay."

Dipper then looks at Talon.

"But I'm still not trusting him."

Talon then says, "Fair enough."

As soon as things have cooled down suddenly Dipper, he gets a ring tone on his phone which is the theme song to "Battlestar Galactica" (classic version). And then at the same time both Talon and Hotaru they also get a ring tones on their phone. Hotaru ringtone them is of "Star Wars" and Talon's ringtone is of the theme song to "I Love Lucy".

Dipper before he answers remembers to turn on the jammer on his cell phone, so he doesn't get traced. Dipper then puts the phone in his ear and speaks.

"Hello."

"Hola, Dipper."

Dipper doesn't recognize the voice as it's not the usual one he expects.

"Who is this?"

"Oh, sorry where are my manners, my name is Gordon Combs, it's December a season where all the season of sports are coming to an end."

"I don't understand?"

"Oh, there I go again, alright I should make a few things clear. One, Gideon and the rest of my allies they work for me, I hired them to kidnap your friends."

"Where are they, what have you don't with them."

As Dipper talks, he then activates another button on his phone and so does Talon.

Combs says, "Don't bother trying to trace me, you'll never find me. Glad your out Talon, jail does not suit you."

Talon is surprised Combs knows he's listening in and his recent escape.

Combs continues talking, "Ah, the every shy but perceptive Hotaru Halley Tomoe, you've grown up well and blossoming.

Hotaru she is equally surprised he knows she's also listening in.

Hotaru loses her patience and then says in slight anger, "Where is Candy, Mabel and the rest of my friends; where's Henry, if you hurt them I'll…..

Both Dipper and Talon come to her side to calm her.

Combs on the other line says, "Relax, relax their alright, which brings me to number two, like every Holiday it's never without it's games and traditions, so this is mine. I want to play a game with all of you.

Dipper he presses his phone on speaker and then he holds it so everyone can hear and speaks out.

Dipper says, "What are the rules?"

Combs has a small chuckle and says, "The rules are simple, number one there will be a specific location for all of you to go to, there two of your companions are there."

Combs breathes and continues to talk.

"Rule two you must be at this location within the given time I give you to reach your destination, if you fail to reach it, then you automatically forfeit the game and your companions will be terminated."

Dipper, Hotaru, and Talon have concerned looks on their faces as Combs continues talking.

"Rule three, once you reach the location, you are to all the number I about to text you, if you fail to do so automatic forfeit. Rule four, once you've called, I will give you further instructions on what to do to get to them. Rule five, how you rescue your friends I leave up to you to figure out. Well those are the rules of the game so to cement this agreement I must know if you will play the game or not?"

Dipper says, "We're willing to play your game, anything to save our friends."

"Plenty of guts and determination in someone so ill confidant, that's good I need that for this game, so as you see the board of this game is already set. I will text you the first location in the morning as I will give you one day to prepare, I personally prefer an even match it's more interesting. However, by sun up, you better get moving. So, you better use your time wisely ladies and gentlemen because their time and yours is already running out."

They all suddenly hear a clicking sound of the phone hanging up. All three of them then look at one another wondering what to do next.