Season 1 Episode 7: Lefty

Episode Summary: Ford notices a man who never shows his right side and sets out to investigate.

Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls or the Relativity Falls AU idea.

Author's Notes: And here we have another short! Thank you for reading and please review!

Yours Truly, RoxieDivine

Episode Short #3: Lefty!

(Back with the Mystery Gang...)

She could not believe the nerve these boys had.

"So, let me get this straight." Heather snapped, causing her friends to flinch. "While I was bored out of my mind with my annoying brother, camping in the woods. You ran into a ghost mailbox and solved a murder without me!"

Ford openly bit his lip, and suddenly wished he had listened to Stan when he suggested to pretend nothing happened in her absence, but he quickly threw that idea away. Heather was their friend and deserved the truth. Besides the girl was already scary enough with them being honest. He could only image how bad it would be if he had not been honest. "Well in our defense we didn't think the mailbox would go anywhere."

"Yeah and the Wax figures were aiming for Mabel." Stan added. "We can't just stand by while someone whacks our great Aunt."

"And we're gonna make it up to you." Fids cut in.

"How?" Heather asked more curious than angry now.

"See that guy over there." Ford said pointing to guy who she could see through the window of the bowling alley.

"Yeah so?" Heather asked.

"We noticed him during our investigation of the Wax Murder, well I noticed him." Ford corrected himself, as Stan pulls out his Dad's camera, which has been put back together thanks to Ford's handy work.

"Hey Ford." Stan said. "Were rolling." he said pointing to the red blinking light of the camera.

Ford clears his throat. "Alright, uh. Welcome back to Ford's Guide to the Unexplained." he says holds up a title card. "Today we investigate Gravity Falls Anomaly #82: This guy" He takes the camera from Stan and points it at Lefty.

Heather shakes his head. "Seriously guys if you're just doing this to make me feel better its okay. We don't need to stalk a normal guy just because I missed a couple of mysteries."

"Sure, he looks normal." Ford countered, still talking to the camera. "But if he's so normal explain why he's always facing left?"

"He's always facing left?" Heather asked. "And you know this how?"

"I've literally been following him around since yesterday." Ford explained. "The grocery store, running around the Park, I even interview other people, no one has ever seen his right side."

"Okay I'll bite." Heather laughed as she decided to play along. "Stan? Theories?"

Stan holds up pictures of each theory as he presents them to the camera. "Theory one: He's hiding an embarrassing sunburn. Theory two: Half-man, half lizard-man! And theory number three, my personal favorite: He's normal! And Ford's just crazy!"

Heather laughed as Ford takes the picture of him looking like a crazed loon and rips it up. "That's not a theory, that doesn't count as a theory."

Stan laughs, and the rest of the gang joins in.

"Seriously Ford its okay." Heather assured him. "I get it, the mailbox was just something to laugh at, you didn't expect it to work, and your Aunt was in danger-"

Ford holds up a six figure hand, stopping her. "There is something weird about that guy, and I'm finding out what it is right now!" he races off towards the bowling alley. "Who's with me?"

"Ford wait!" his friends run after him in hopes of stopping him before it's too late.

No such luck, good old Ford was like a bolt of lightning when it came to discovering the answers to the unknown. He was in the bowling alley in a matter of seconds, and by the time his friends entered he was already talking to Lefty.

"Hello, good sir!" He said, approaching the counter.

Lefty gives him a concern look, eyes going straight for the camera. "Eh, I'm sorry, cameras aren't allowed in here."

"Oh, it's not on. Not on." Ford assures him as he pretends to turn it off and hands it to Stan.

Lefty seems to nod at this.

"I can't believe he bought that." Stan whispered.

Heather hushed him, not wanting Ford to get caught, after all his acting skills were already terrible.

"So, would you mind grabbing those bowling shoes for me?" Ford asked nervously "The ones on your right side?"

Lefty points at a pair of shoes behind him, without turning to look. "Those ones?" He asked.

Ford nods and Lefty bends down and reaches behind him, grabbing the correct pair of shoes, and places them on the counter. All without turning around!

Okay now Heather was suspicious too!

"Could I get some shoes too." she asked.

Ford beamed from ear to ear, he knew Heather would see the truth.

"Sure, what size?" Lefty asked.

"Fives, the ones on your right side." Heather said hopefully.

"I know where they are." Lefty informed her in a rather irritated way before repeating the same motion he had done to get Ford's shoes.

"No way." Fids piped out in disbelief, and then louder he added. "Me too Size eight!"

Again, the eights were on Lefty's right side.

Lefty rolled his eyes but repeated the same action as before and presented Fids with his shoes. "Will that be all?"

Stan reached into his brother's pocket and pulled out his wallet, before throwing it behind the counter. "Whoops! Oh no, I... dropped my brother's wallet! It's over to your right there. Your right side. Could you maybe turn around and...?"

Lefty sighs and picks up wallet without turning around. "There you are sir."

Ford sighed as well. "Fine... Could you just get us a bowling ball?" He asked.

Lefty nodded, leaving the counter to get a bowling ball from the wrack behind them. "Well, I don't see why not." he says as Stan trains the camera back on him.

"Let's see, looks like maybe it's a nine or a ten."

Ford walked up beside him "Well, I was thinking it could be the..." He stops suddenly, forcibly turning the man around and reveals that he has no right side at all! Instead it shows a robotic inside with tinny green fish alien like creatures. "Ah ha! What the...?"

One of the fish aliens notice and raises the alarm. "Ah Guys!" he says as Stan zooms the camera in on the fish aliens gasping, then on his and his friends' reactions.

"We're blown, shut it down! Shut it down!" A second fish alien said.

The aliens then take out large glowing squares "The time has come!" All but the first two say as one and swallow the cubes, before falling to their deaths.

"Oh my god are those Suicide pills!" Heather screeched.

"The time has come, brother!" the Second fish alien said to the first.

"I can't! I have a family!" The first said.

"You signed the oath!" The Second reminds him, forcing the cube into his hands.

The first fish alien frowns deeply, as if he is sad, before making a brave face and swallowing the cube.

The second fish alien swallows his soon after.

Heather screams as the fish aliens explode out of existence, followed by the lefty robots own explosion, and the fire sprinklers turn on.

"Aw, come on!" A man's voice screams from deeper within the bowling alley.

"The sprinklers are on!" Another man screams, as the fire alarm goes off.

The sound seems to spark them back to life, because the next thing they know they're running out the door and onto the street.

"I can't believe that happened!" Heather shouted. "Those poor creatures."

"I'm going to have nightmares for weeks." Fids admitted as they continued to run.

"Well, that concludes anomaly #82." Ford says to the camera which is still rolling. "Also, I think we might want to burn this tape."

"Might!" Stan shouts as he rips the Tape out of the camera and stomps on it until it's nothing but tinny pieces. "There now if anyone ask, we were at the park!"

This town has a park?" Fids asked.

"This way!" Heather shouted, and the boys followed her lead screaming their disbeliefs the whole way.

-To Be Continued

Author's Notes: I know this was just a short, but I hoped you enjoyed it all the same.

The next Chapter will be up soon.

Yours truly RoxieDivine ;)