Chapter 18
Huckelberry arrived back home in Gravity Falls now a new man. Or rather, a new force of darkness. He appeared as a boy yes, but inside he felt more like a grown up man than a boy. His name, "Huck." The last gift his parents gave him before they passed away. Huck's only living relative was Destiny and no one else. Now he was here, an apprentice of him, the Dark Master.
"There you are, Devin." said the Dark Master. Huck didn't go his name no longer. He disowned it. Huck was named after a beloved hero from a storybook. A boy who survived the great Mississipi River. His parents both loved that book. He may have had that name as a gift, but he threw it away. He was now Devin, the Dark Apprentice. When his body vanished into the darkness, it was the Dark Master who rose him up from beyond the grave. He owed him greatly for this.
"Your highness." replied "Devin."
"It appears I have been found out by the children of Gravity Falls. You will do as I say to continue with our plans." said the Dark Master.
"Yes your grace." said Devin.
"As originally intended in the beginning, I created the damn Flowers of Order to cause chaos and confusion in town. But that damn President, what ever his name was, saw to it they vanished and I also have the Mothman to thank for that." said the Dark Master.
"This story is complicated and confusing to the bone your grace. First you send the kids on some wild goose chase involving technology, then you lead them to the cult you created, but it just so happens they are now after you. Where did you go wrong if I may ask?" asked Devin.
"The girl that's with them. She's the daugher of an old friend of mine." said the Dark Master.
"Wait, didn't you kill your own worshippers?" asked Devin.
"I did. After they were banished from these lands by the forces of good. But ignore all this. What matters now is today. You have the codes I provided for you. The codes you must enter." said the Dark Master.
"Right. I already did a number on those places. The buisnesses, the texts messages. It was fun to scare a few friends." said Devin.
"Remember, they are no longer friends. They are enemies to our cause." said the Dark Master.
"I know that. I know." said Devin angrily.
"Devin, you must make sure to stray the children deeper into confusion. They may know I'm involved in all this conveluted plot, but the more confused they are, the better. It's amazing to see how lost these children can be." said the Dark Master.
"You sound as if they are some sort of deadly threat to you. Don't worry. Dipper and Mabel are gone to college. They are blissfully unaware of the things that are going on here." said Devin.
"You idolized those twins. It might have hurt to betray them." said the Dark Master.
"It did, but not so much. I had my own desires and thoughts on watching the world crumble. I have no regret leaving home and disowning my name. Huck is dead. I'm Devin." said the angry boy.
"Don't fail me boy. I chose you to be my apprentice and it's only a matter of time before the Mothman finds his own." said the Dark Master.
The kids were looking through all their clues along with Destiny and Tyrone in the kitchen. Soos and Melody were there as well, hoping they can be of some help.
"So all this effort led to the obvious. This is very tricky." said Melody.
"I don't get it. Why all this? Why the clues to the hacked gameboy? Why the man in jail? Why the cult? I feel like this all was just a waste of time. We now know the DM is involved in all this." said Lucy.
"Maybe it was just to confuse you all. When Dipper and Mabel were here as kids, Bill would do the impossible to keep them off track." said Soos.
"And not just Bill. There was that boy Gideon and a ton of other dangers lurking in the woods." said Melody.
"It's possible this guy did all this to hide. But somehow, we ended up knowing the truth which was under our noses." said Shinji.
"And we made a team among ourselves. We are prepared for anything now." said Matt.
Owen drank his juice and thought quietly for a moment. "Lucy, was the DM ever alone? Did he ever had servants or anyone who followed him around?" asked Owen.
"Not that I remember. He worked alone all the time. The only one who was by his side was my Dad." said Lucy.
"Are you sure this Bill has nothing to do with any of this? Because its seems to me like he's involved one way or another, and he hasn't come out to talk to us what he knows." said Ethan.
"Caspar tried to talk to him, but to no sucess." said Owen.
"But we are still back to where we started. If this bad man is involved in the hacking and all this confusing shit, then how old is he exactly?" asked Tyrone.
"What do you mean?" asked Destiny.
"Do you remember when I recieved those weird texts at the diner with Matt during our field trip?" asked Tyrone.
"Field trip? You and Matt went out there alone?!" cried Melody.
"We told you to be safe here at home Ty!" cried Soos.
"Oops. Sorry Uncle and Auntie. But I wanted to spend some time with Matt and ... well I'll tell you about the trip later. But to make long story short, we went to eat at a diner and I received messages. They were automatically deleted afterwards, but the way they were written... like something was not alright." said Tyrone.
"You mentioned they were pornographic." said Matt.
"Gross." chuckled Ethan.
"The Dark Master sending porn to you? That doesn't sound like something he would do." said Lucy.
"That's what I mean Lucy. The texts looked like they were done by a kid, or a weird middle aged adult." said Tyrone.
"Do you remember what they said exactly?" asked Melody.
"They were so random, I forgot what the conversation was about, but I was certain this was some random kid. At first I thought it was our guy in jail, then perhaps a Flower of Order member, or something." said Tyrone.
"Then this confirms it. The Dark Master might have someone working for him." said Owen.
"Wasn't it obvious from the start? Why were we so blind?!" cried Shinji.
"We take ourselves way to seriously perhaps" said Matt.
Ethan began to rub his eye again, and then he felt something cold in the air. Like a chilly breeze. In a matter of seconds, Tyrone's phone began to vibrate. He pickes it up and is taken aback.
"What?" asked everyone in the table.
"Desinty! LOOK AT THIS!" cried Tyrone.
Destiny looked over and gasped, placing her hands on her mouth. "It can't be! NO!" cried Destiny.
"What is it dear?" asked Melody.
"It's a call from Huck!" cried Tyrone.
"Huck! No way! But you said he was killed by the North Wind last year! Are we facing a ghost?!" cried Soos.
"Who?" asked Ethan.
"He was friend of ours who turned out to be traitor." said Matt.
"He's a backstabber." said Shinji.
"I heard about him. How terrible." said Lucy.
"And your saying he died? Oh no." said Ethan looking at the phone clearly disturbed by this.
Tyrone answers and puts the phone on speaker.
"Tyrone Pines. It's been too long." said the voice of "Huck" on the other side.
"Huck! Are you alive! Tell us what's going on right now!" cried Destiny.
"Yeah, I'd rather go by Devin now. That will be my name for now on! I disown myself from your mortal world! I have finally done it! I have found my nirvana!" cried the self proclaimed Devin.
"Listen you idiot! Tell us what's going on now or I'll send the Mothman to come get you and bring you to me so you'll experience PAIN!" cried Destiny angrily. She never did forgive her cousin to leave and act like a fanatic.
"Temper Desi. Temper. I'm only here because it turnes out that the Dark Master needed someone to play along with the residents. I gotta hand it to you fools, the clues we left behind were all so off track. To begin with, that Order of Flowers thing is dead. DM got rid of it! And the hacked computers everyone is talking about... let's just say I may have had some fun with it.' said Huck.
"So it was you all along! You are very stupid Huck! That man, whoever he is, will kill you for telling us all this." said Destiny.
"My dear Destinty. I'm already dead. I'm nothing more but a Zombie like person caught between life and death. The Dark Master isn't a man. No. He's my king. I worship the ground he walks on." said Devin.
"Then my cousin is dead for real. No, you killed him before I even arrived at Gravity Falls. You planned for this town to lose control." said Destiny who was trying not to cry.
"I want to let you all in on a little secret. Somewere in Gravity Falls, there is a computer with a powerful bomb that is SO powerful, it can put all the nuclear bombs to shame! The Dark Master made this super weapon years ago, and hid it in a laptop somwhere in town. You just need to find it, enter the codes you found on the game boy, and badabing bada boom, you save the town! If you fail, the town will explode killing every living thing in sight! No one will stand the chance. Not even me! If I die, I die a happy man! The only one who will remain will be the dark master! That will be a sight to behold. Also, I installed some Nanites in all the computers in Gravity Falls. They are like tiny bombs that can kill people randomly. Like cyanide if you will."
Devin then took a moment to breahe after this monoluge and everyone on the table had thier jaws dropped to every shocking word Devin was saying.
"You act like a member of that cult!" cried Destiny shaking.
"Yeah. Too bad they died. If they were alive now, I would have joined as one of thier flowers and perhaps sleep on the feet of the Dark Master's statue. He was portrayed as a humanoid goat like thing." said Devin.
"ENOUGH OF THIS!" screamed Matt from the top of his lungs. Everyone stood quiet and Tyrone couldn't say a word.
"That voice... Matt? Is it really you?" asked Devin.
"Huck... why are you doing this? You were our friend. The first one we made when we arrived in town. Tyrone and I were lost and you were our tour guide. What happened? Why do you hate life so much? All this sounds like a suicide mission. Please, leave the Dark Master and come back home. We'll get you the help you need." said Matt.
"Oh Matt. Sweet little Matt. It pained me to leave home at first. It really did. But there comes a time in your life when you realize that life is small, meaningless and full of suffering. You should know. You saw your Dad with another woman in bed. You felt that pain." said Devin codly.
Matt felt like an old wound was reopening and Ethan felt anger rising up in his chest. This man was hurting his friend. His brother in arms. He just got back with him, only to see there were cruel people out there doing terrible harm.
"Matt, your Mexican. You should be with a Mexican Family. Not with Tyrone, who is clearly a wimp and I don't see why Desitny is into him. Could it be the size?" Devin began to say things out of context and Tyrone quickly spoke.
"When I find you Huck, I'll rip your heart from your body. How dare you say that to my brother." said Tyrone angrily.
Devin spoke again. "Get used to calling me Devin. Huck was the name of a hero my parents loved reading about. I'm nothing like that fictional hill billie. I'm Devin now." said Devin.
"You are immature as ever." said Destiny shaking her head.
"Well what are you going to do fools? I told you what you need to know. Come tomorrow, expect to see the nanites gobble down people on the computer! There is no way for you guys to save them now." And with that, Devin hung up.
"That Mother freaking a hole!" cried Tyrone.
"What are we going to do?" asked Melody.
Owen rose up from the table and spoke quickly. "I know how to stop the nanites! And I know what to do!" he cried.
Everyone turned to him and Soos spoke up. "You know what that creep was talking about?!" cried Soos.
"My Dad told me he found an old abaondened Computer Lab in the forest. I'll ask him to take us. 'said Owen.
"Then it's settled. We are at war." said Ethan.
"I'm afraind your right kiddo. We are at the Cyber Wars now." said Soos.
