Chapter 45: Society of the Blind Eye
It was just a normal day in the Mystery Shack, Dipper was searching for the author, and had a corkboard of possible suspects.
"Who are you?" asked Dipper chewing on a pen.
The pen broke thanks to hi s chewing.
"Hot again!" muttered Dipper.
He tossed the pen into a box with other chewed up pens.
"Hey Dipper! Look what I got!" said Mabel running into the room.
"Yay a filthy green bottle…" sighed Dipper.
"It's a bottle message from Mermando! Remember? He was part fish and part shirtless guy." Said Mabel, "What if he wasn't to get back together?"
Dipper blinked, "What happened with Gabe?" asked Dipper.
"Uh…" said Mabel.
(Flashback)
Mabel and Gabe were at a coffee shop.
"Well I have yet to find someone who loves puppets as much as I do…" said Gabe, "Isn't that right…"
That was when he began to make out with the book puppet.
"He's making out with a puppet…" thought Mabel, "I have to get out of here… but how…"
She threw down a coffee cup.
"Non-specific excuse!" she shouted and then ran out of the coffee shop.
(End of Flashback)
"I don't want to talk about it…" sighed Mabel, "Anyways… Mermando!"
"Just don't get your hopes up." Said Dipper.
"They're already up!" said Mabel,
She opened the bottle.
""Dear Mabel"… so far so good." Said Mabel, ""It's with a heavy heart"… so far so good…"
Dipper just sighed.
""That I must inform you I'm getting married"…" said Mabel.
"And there it is." Sighed Dipper.
""In order to prevent an underwater civil war… arranged wedding… queen of the Manatees!" cried Mabel who looked at the picture showing a saddened Mermando and the Queen of the Manatees who was well a Manatee.
"She so beautiful!" cried Mabel, "This can't be happening."
"Oh Mabel you'll get over him eventually." Said Dipper.
"You don't understand, Dipper." Said Mabel requipping her Scrapbook, "When we moved here I made a page on summer romances. Look at my luck"
She pointed to various picture, "A bunch of gnomes." She said pointing to a picture of Norman, "Child Psycho." She said pointing to a picture of Gideon, "You still don't want know." She said pointing to a picture of Gabe.
"And now…" sighed Mabel adding Mermando's picture and the caption "Failed" to the page "summer romances.
"I wish I could just forget about them forever." Said Mabel.
"Hey, if it's any consolation, my summer mission hasn't been a success either." Sighed Dipper he showed her the laptop Bill wrecked, "But with the this laptop smashed, I lost hope of ever finding him."
Mabel was looking through the bottle.
"Wait a minute look!" said Mabel.
"Through your bottle?" asked Dipper.
"Just look through it!" yelled Mabel.
Dipper did so and he saw the small logo "McGucket labs."
"Old Man McGucket?" asked Dipper, "Couldn't be unless…"
He looked at the board of the suspects, that was when he began to ties the strings together… and all signs pointed to him being the author.
"Old Man McGucket wrote the journals?" asked Dipper.
Meanwhile in the gift shop, Soos was signing the latest jam, "Straight Blanchin'"
"I can't get that song out my head!" Wendy complained.
"Oh you mean "Straight Blanchin'?" asked Soos, "It's the catchiest song of the summer."
"What is Blanchin'?" asked Wendy, "Rappers can't make up words."
"Actually." Said Levy who was there (she was supposed to help Dipper figure out how to make a good sword, but Dipper had yet to come down), "Blanching is a real word."
"What are you a word expert?" asked Wendy.
Everyone looked at Wendy, which included Erza and Laxus.
"Oh yeah…" said Wendy, "So what does it mean?"
"Well "Blanching" is a word with many meanings." Explained Levy, "Including skin tuning white… but…"
"But what?" asked Wendy.
"I got bored one day and analyzed the lyrics." Said Levy, "Turns out it's a song about cooking."
"What?" asked Wendy.
"I know… it's weird." Said Levy.
"You seriously analyzed the lyrics?" asked Laxus.
"Well I wasn't up for a job, and Lulu and Dipper were busy…" said a rather embarrassed Levy.
"But seriously! It's about cooking!" yelled Wendy.
"Rappers are visionaries." Said Soos, "If they told me to eat my own pants, I would."
Turns out the next lyrics in the song were "Eat you own pants."
"I guess I have no choice." Said Soos with a shrug.
That was when the twins ran into the room.
"We have to see Old Man McGucket now!" said Dipper then noticed Levy, "Wait… Levy…"
"You need help with making swords." Said Levy.
"I forgot today was the day…" said Dipper.
"Dipper…" said Mabel.
"Oh, right." Said Dipper, "Like I said we have to see Old Man McGucket."
"We'll explain on the way." Said Dipper.
And so Erza laughed as they all ditched the Mystery Shack.
"Hey! Where are you going!" yelled Stan watching them ditch then he saw a certain site, "Why is Soos eating his own pants?"
Sometime later, the group made it to the junkyard.
"Are you sure he's the author?" asked Erza.
"All the signs point to him." said Dipper.
"I don't know, I just get the feeling like he's not." Said Erza.
Laxus looked at Erza getting the feeling that she was hiding something.
"Old Man McGucket are you here?" asked Dipper.
They got to his shack where Nate and Lee were spraying painting "Old Man McSuckit".
Of course the old man found them.
"Git out of here you hornswagglin'!" yelled old man McGucket, but lamented when they gone, ""McSuckit", they really got me good."
That was when he noticed the group that was looking for them.
"Visitors! Come! Come!" he said.
He brought them into his Shack.
"Pull up some rusty metal,. You're just in time with my hourly turf war with the hillbilly what lives inside my mirror!" said Old Man McGucket.
He began to yell at his reflection in the washtub.
"Cut the act McGucket, we know you're the author." Said Dipper, "You studied the mysteries of this town and wrote them in a book."
He held up his journal.
"You're the genius Dipper's been looking for all summer." Said Wendy.
"Uh Genius. I'm no genius." Said Old Man McGucket.
"What about all those robots you built?" asked Levy who heard the story Gobblewonker.
"That one you built for Gideon was surprisingly hard to beat." Said Laxus.
"Yeah, but those were mostly for revenge." Said Old Man McGucket, "Everyone says I'm no good to no body. I can't remember who I used to be… but I must have been a failure to end up like this…"
"But the laptop has your name in it." Said Soos.
"Are you sure you didn't write it?" asked Dipper "Here take a closer look."
HE began to show him the journal.
"I told you I can't recall. Everything before 1982 is just a blur… just a hazy…" said Old Man McGucket.
That was when Dipper got to a certain page, one showing an eye that was crossed out.
"The Blind Eye! The robes! My mind! They did something!" yelled Old Man McGucket.
"Who did this tyro you?" asked Dipper.
"I don't recall." Said Old Man McGucket.
"Oh you poor man." Said Mabel.
"What do you think could have happened?" asked Levy.
"I don't know." Said Erza.
"What if McGucket found out something he wasn't supposed to know?" asked Dipper, "and someone or messed with his mind."
"We have to get to the bottom of this." Said Erza.
She couldn't stand to see something like this happen. Even if it probably didn't lead to the author of the journal.
Think dude, that the last thing you remember?" asked Wendy.
Old Man McGucket noticed a newspaper that was high and framed.
"Uh this this I think." Said Old Man McGucket.
It was a story about him being found confused outside of the history museum.
"The History Museum!" said Levy.
"Let's go." Said Erza.
And so they head to the museum in Soos' truck.
On the way there of course Soos was listening to Straight Blanchin. Wendy took out the CD and tossed it out the window.
Everyone but Laxus (who was too preoccupied by a barf bag) stared at her.
"I'll buy you a new one." She added.
They entered the museum through the window.
"All right keep your eyes out for anything suspicious." Said Dipper.
Mabel sighed.
"Is something wrong?" asked Wendy, "You just walked past a cat without petting it."
"Oh Wendy, everything I see remind me of my failed romances. That formaldehyde heart over there, that romantic diorama. And even this poster for my ex-boyfriend." Said Mabel motioned over to a poster of Gabe.
"What did happen between you and Gabe?" asked Levy.
"Considering he was cool with the whole brother getting possessed by demon and ruining the play." Said Wendy.
"I don't want to talk about it." Said Mabel deciding to take the poster off, turns out there was one with Sev'ral Timez under it, "Oh come one!"
"So your last memory was here, anything coming back yet?" asked Dipper.
"What's that over there?" asked Laxus.
They noticed a shadowy figure down the hall.
"Let's go." Said Erza requipping into her Heart Kreuz Armor and a swords.
They followed the shadowy figures down a hallway and into a room filled with eyes, but the figure was gone.
"Well kettle my corn, he vanishfied." Said Old Man McGucket.
"This doesn't make any sense." Said Dipper.
"There has to be a secret to the room." Said Levy.
"I feel like all these eyeball are a-watching me!" said Old Man McGucket.
Both Levy and Dipper noticed that the eyes were looking at Old Man McGucket.
"They are." Said Levy.
"Move side." Said Dipper.
Old Man did so and there was a stone eye on the wall. Dipper pushed it. That was when a door opened at the fire place.
"A secret doorway." Said Dipper.
"We have to be stealthy." said Old Man McGucket, "I'll hambone a message if in danger."
He made some slapping sounds. They all looked at Levy who shrugged, "Don't look at me…"
The slapping also meant "Coyotes are coming for our sweetbreads." … so it was better it wasn't known what it was said.
They went down the stairs and hid behind some curtains when they heard chanting. They saw a gathering of many people in robes.
"Who is the subject of tonight's meeting?" asked the man who was clearly the leader of whatever going on.
"This woman." Said one of the robed men.
They removed a bag from a woman's head who was strapped to a chair.
And that was a woman they all knew well.
"Lazy Susan." Whispered Mabel.
"What is it that you have seen?" asked the leader.
"Uh, well I was leaving the diner and I saw many little bearded doodads and I was like Whaaa?"
"There, there." Said the leader taking out a strange looking gun from a box, "You won't be like "Whaaa" anymore…"
The gun had a part where you could input words into it.
"What is that gizmo? Is that a hair dryer? Are you barbers?" asked Lazy Susan.
That was when the leader shot Lazy Susan with the gun. The group watched in horror as Lazy Susan's eyes went wide.
"Lazy Susan, tell me what do you know of little bearded men?" asked the leader.
"My mind is cleared thanks to the Society of the Blind Eye!" said Lazy Susan in a trance.
"It is unseen." Said the other people in the robes.
"They erased her memories." Said Dipper.
Old Man McGucket hambone something that translated to swearing.
"They just wiped Lazy Susan's memory." Muttered Erza.
"If you ask me they should have wiped away that awful mascara!" laughed Soos.
"I think she looks beautiful…." Muttered Mabel.
"She's doing the best she can." Said Wendy.
"That's a horrible thing to say." Said Levy.
"Really Soos?" asked Erza.
"Whoa! Touched a nerve there." Said Soos.
"Tell me Lazy Susan, how do you feel?" asked the leader.
"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." Said Lazy Susan as two of the mysterious people were taking her away.
"Don't' worry, you're memories will be safe with us." Said the leader who grabbed a strange tube from the gun and wrote down (Lazy) Susan Wentworth, "Buried in the hall of the forgotten."
The leader placed a strange tube into one of those vacuumed tube things.
"Into the hall of the forgotten! Into the Hall of the Forgotten!" chanted the other hooded figures.
"Great chanting, have you been prating?" asked the leader, "Meeting Adorned"
They began to leave saying "Unseen you later!".
Once they were all gone. The group left their hiding spots.
"Amazing. A society of Evil Mind Erasers." Said Dipper, "I'll bet that they must have erased your memories a long time ago. If we could find your memories we can find the secrets of this town."
"All right." Said Erza taking charge, "Levy, Wendy and Mabel will stay here just in case they show up again. Dipper, Soos and McGucket will look for the room where the memories are kept. Myself and Laxus will search for any more of them try to get answers if possible"
"But how are we going to find it?" asked Soos.
That was when his hat was sucked into the tube.
"Follow that hat." Said Dipper.
The three groups parted ways.
With Dipper's group they continued to follow the hat.
However there were some members in the hoods.
"Who goes there!" yelled one of them.
"Where do we go!" yelled McGucket.
And so they disguise themselves as part of a diorama with Soos was a mother, Dipper as a baby and McGucket as a prospector.
They tired to fix McGucket's eyes since they were out of focus but of course they didn't know he wasn't a stature.
"Man these are poorly made, I thought I heard someone." Said one of the hooded men.
"Maybe it was just janitor making out with that wax woman again." Said the second.
"Remind me to erase that from my mind later." Said the first.
Once they were gone. They got rid of the disguises.
"Honey fogelin' saltlickin' skullduggery." Said Old Man McGucket.
"Whoa, you got to teach me those old man swear-words." Said Soos.
They once again found Soos' hat.
Meanwhile with Erza and Laxus they had yet to find something.
"Hey, is something up." Said Laxus.
"This entire thing is bothering me." Said Erza.
"What do you mean" asked Laxus.
"It's clear they erase people's memories of the strange things in the town." Said Erza.
"Yeah, what about it." Said Laxus.
"Why haven't they done anything to myself or the Guild." Said Erza.
Laxus' eyes widened.
"There's something more going on." Said Erza.
Meanwhile with the girls team. All three of them were bored.
"I don't get it." Sighed Mabel, "I hug a lot, I can burp the alphabet, I have scratch and sniff clothing, I'm even a wizard. Why does every boy leave me."
"Who cares boys are the worst." Said Wendy, "You shouldn't get hung up, man."
"Hey you want to know something Lulu's never been on a date." Said Levy.
"Really?" asked Mabel.
"Seriously, she's the cutest girl in your guild." Said Wendy, "She beat Mira… and wasn't Mira a swim suit model."
"Mira took a dive to make fun of Gajeel." Said Levy, "Mabel, you're still young. Just wait a bit. You don't have to hurry."
"You know mom told me you turned down three guys." Said Mabel.
Levy blushed when she said that.
"She's right. Just forget about guys." Said Wendy.
"That's it! Forget about guys" said Mabel.
She grabbed the strange gun.
"I just put in Summer Romances and I wont' feel bad any more." Said Mabel.
"That's a really bad idea." Said Levy.
"She's right." Sid Wendy, "We don't know what that thing does. It might accidently erase things, like learning to read or breathe…"
"Or one of those terrible Summer Songs from your head." Said Mabel.
Wendy began to think about.
"Wendy…" said Levy.
"Sorry, sorry…" said Wendy.
Meanwhile the search group found the Hall of the Forgotten. They entered it and found there were a lot of the tubes all around.
"Look at all these tubes." Said Dipper.
"People from all over town must be getting their memories erased." Said Soos looking at the piles.
"Look at this." Said Dipper finding one labeled "Robbie V"
He found a strange television like device and placed the tube in it. It showed Robbie tied up.
"Yes Robbie, tell me what is you have seen?" asked the leader's voice.
"So I was attacked by this magical kung-fu guy, throwing stuff like fireballs at me." Said Robbie, "But I totally kicked it's butt."
"Speak honestly, Robbie." Said the leader.
"I was saved by a 12 year old." Said Robbie.
"Why are they erasing people's memories, I don't get it." Said Dipper.
"Looky Fellers!" said Old Man McGucket pointing to a tube that was high up on the shelf, "It's those words people call me."
"Oh dude! It's your memories!" said Soos, "we did it!"
Old Man McGucket began to grab them, however this set off an alarm.
Meanwhile with Wendy, Mabel and Levy.
"Look Mabel, sometimes bad things can lead to good things." Said Levy, "Has your mother ever told you about how I met Gajeel?"
"Yes… it's messed up." Said Mabel.
"But you know how it turned out in the end." Said Levy.
That was when they heard the alarm.
"Put the gun back and hide!" said Levy.
Mabel sighed, but Wendy grabbed the gun from Mabel and put it back into the box and the three hid.
With Erza and Laxus they heard the alarm.
"Hide!" said Erza.
Laxus nodded.
Both of them hid.
Meanwhile back with Dipper, Soos and Old Man McGucket.
"Oh man! The alarms in my brain is going off again." Said Old Man McGucket.
"Halt! Who goes there!" yelled a voice.
"Run!" yelled Soos.
Soos and Dipper ran while Old Man McGucket hid.
"Oh you really tarred yourself up Fiddleford." Sighed McGucket then he noticed something. "Wait why does my beard have a bandage on it… why hasn't anyone told me?"
With Dipper and Soos they hid.
However two hand grabbed their eyes.
"Dipper are you playing Guess Who?" asked Soos, "Your hands are so big and muscular…"
Soos and Dipper were soon enoguh tied to a pole.
"Who are you! And why are you doing this!" yelled Dipper.
"Well since we're going to erase your memories anyway…" said the leader.
The other members removed their hoods. Revealing it was people from around town… including Toby, Bud, the farmer who ran the pig booth at the fair, the relator, the bouncer and the guy who married a woodpecker.
"So how's your marriage working out by the way?" asked Soos.
"Oh great… great…" said the guy who married a woodpecker, "Not great…" he whispered.
"And you've never met me before." Said the leader removing his hood reveling a bald man with many tattoos, "And you have you wouldn't remember. I am Blind Ivan and we are the Society of the Blind Eye formed many years ago by our founder… our founder… Does anyone remember who he was."
"We've been using it on our selves an awful lot." Said Bud.
"Why would you do all this?" asked Dipper.
"As you know, this town is plagued by supernatural strangeness. For years 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 towns folk by erasing our memories of the strange. Now the people live their lives ignorant and happy, thanks to us. And a perk we help ourselves by erasing the things that trouble us…" explained Blind Ivan.
"Don't you see this is ruining people's lives…" said Dipper, "McGucket… lives in a hut in the dump and talks to animals because of you. Doesn't that make you feel bad?"
"Maybe a little… "said Blind Ivan who then zapped himself, "But not anymore…"
Dipper glared at him.
"Though before I erase your memories, I should tell you one more thing… there is something that we discovered can stop the things that go bump in the night." Said Blind Ivan.
"What?" asked Dipper.
"15 years ago, a person appeared. This person while super natural in origin, was extremely powerful and became the town's guardian angel. Fighting off the terrible monsters. However after two years this person left Gravity Falls to start a family."
Dipper's eyes widened.
"You don't mean." Said Dipper.
"Yes, your mother, Erza Scarlet. The one person who was declared untouchable by The Society." Said Blind Ivan, "Those two years were the best years… we thought we would never get them back but then not only did she return with you and your sister. But that guild also appeared."
"Wait a second…" said Dipper.
"Oh so you finally put together the pieces." Said Blind Ivan, "Yes, we've been leaving the Guild alone… well technically…"
"All of you hire the Guild for jobs." Said Dipper.
"That's right." Said Blind Ivan, "Except for myself and Toby, each one of us has hired a member of a guild at least once to take out the most dangerous thing that lie in Gravity Falls."
"Oh come on! I can do it too." Said Toby.
"No one can buy you can afford it Toby." Said Blind Ivan.
"Oh…" moaned Toby.
"We have the Guild fight the monsters in the light, while we in the dark erase the memories of the lesser threats." Explained Blind Ivan.
"Wait… what about Commie Spiders?" asked Soos, "Everyone remembers them."
Blind Ivan sighed, "Look it's better if people remember them. You know the great Commie Spider Temper Tantrum of '85 and how that's the only one that can't be traced back to a blow to communism. It was because we erased the entire town's memory of them and they thought were ignoring them."
"Yeah, we had a lot of fire to put out because of that…" said the Wood Packer guy, "Quite literally in some cases."
"But the point remains, the Fairy Tail Guild must remain untouched." Said Blind Ivan, "Well I think we can make an expectation for you two…"
"So is everything I heard is correct?" asked a voice.
Everyone but Blind Ivan froze all of them knew the voice well.
They trend to see Erza standing there, with Laxus, Mabel, Levy and Wendy.
"So tell what were yoyo going to erase from my son's mind" asked Erza.
"Oh, just our existence, we know if we erased more it would raise red flags with the Guild." Said Blind Ivan.
Erza glare was extremely harsh.
"Well I guess we have no other choice." Said Blind Ivan.
The bouncer ran towards Erza, she ran over to him as well with her sword.
She tried to slash him but he caught the sword.
"You might have beat me before." Said the bouncer, "But not this time."
"Requip!" called out Erza the sword disappeared and punched him so hard his legs went over his head.
"How dare you use me, my guild and my family!" growled Erza.
"We can still take them on!" said Blind Ivan.
"We so screwed…" said the relator.
The farmer nodded.
Laxus turned to lighting and went over to Soos and Dipper and untied them.
"All right requip!" called out Erza.
She requiped a kitana, she then tossed to Dipper.
Soos took out his hammer, Wendy took out her axe, Mabel requiped a confetti cannon.
That was when McGucket finally showed up.
"Hey! I raided the Mining Display for weapons!" said Old Man McGucket.
"We're good…" said Erza requipping a spear.
"Do you want this?" asked Blind Ivan holding McGucket's memory tube.
Mabel shot him in the face with her the confetti cannon.
"It's like a horrible rainbow!" yelled Blind Ivan.
Dipper managed to grab the memory tube.
"Oh no you don't!" said Toby trying to sound menacing as possible.
Dipper stared at her, and hit him with the back of the sword, sending to the floor.
"Oh…" whined Toby.
However the relator, tried to grab Dipper, who dodged.
"Look I'm a relator in this town!" she said, "Do you know how hard that job is…"
Dipper noticed one of the vacuum tubes and put the memory tube in it.
"All right I got it!" said Levy who managed to catch it.
"Give it here missy!" said the farmer.
However Soos was near him and used the tube to suck up his robe.
It turns out he was wearing underwear and unlike Gray he didn't have a nice body, so everyone cringed.
"That's right I wear nothing under my robe!" he said, "I'm not going to apologize, may ya'll should apologize for being a bunch of prudes."
"I'm going to erase that forever…" said Soos grabbing the gun.
However Blind Ivan smacked Soos and grabbed the tub from Levy.
However Erza pointed her spear at him, so he once again put in the transport tube.
Dipper decided to chase after it.
The Realtor jumped Erza which gave Blind Ivan a chance to follow it.
"Those memories belong to McGucket!" yelled Dipper as he followed the tube.
"The Society's Secrets belong to us!" said Blind Ivan.
Unfortunately, Blind Ivan got there first.
He pointed the memory gun at Dipper.
"Guys keep fighting!" yelled Dipper unsure if anyone could stop him in time.
"How Nobel of you, but tomorrow this will seem like a horrible nightmare." Said Blind Ivan, "Say goodbye to your memories of today…"
He shot at Dipper who closed his eye expecting the worse however Old Man McGucket got in the way.
Dipper was surprised.
"McGucket, you took the bullet for me." Said dipper.
McGucket was shot again.
"Are you okay?" asked Dipper.
"As okay as I'll ever be!" said Old Man McGucket.
"What?" asked Blind Ivan who kept shooting at him, "Why… isn't…this…working…"
"Hit me with your best shot baldy… but my mind's been broken for 30 odd years… you can't break what's already broken…"
Old Man McGucket head-butted Blind Ivan knocking him out.
Erza glared at the other members who were still standing (which was everyone but Toby and the Bouncer).
"Requip!" called out Erza switching to her Black Wing Armor.
"So… how boned are we?" asked the farmer guy.
"Very… berry much boned…" said the realtor.
Erza began to lay waste to them.
The others watched.
"You know…" said Levy, "The Black Wing Armor actually increased Erza's physical strength."
Wendy and Soos nodded at they watched.
And so once Erza was done, it was the Society that was now tied up.
"How do you like being tied up, it's not so fun, is it?" asked Soos.
"Who wants to draw on their faces?" asked Mabel.
"What?" asked Blind Ivan who had regained consciousness.
Mabel began to draw on his tattoos replacing one that read "Knowledge" with "Butts".
"Stop it! It's not funny!" yelled Blind Ivan.
"Yes it is." Giggled Mable.
'Pretty much." Said Levy.
"It's like objectively funny." Said Soos.
"You might have your fun now, but we will have our revenge! We won't forget this!" said Blind Ivan.
"Oh I think you might." Said Dipper who didn't even have to change what it said on the Gun, "Say cheese."
And so they let them go as they didn't have any memories of what transpired.
But they found a way to salvage it.
"Thank you for vesting on Gold Miner Application night, be sure to tip the gold miner on your way out." Said Dipper.
The former members all did so.
However there was on problem.
"I'm sorry, but what's my name? Where am I?" asked Blind Ivan.
"Uh-oh… might have over did there." Said Dipper .
"I don't think it's your fault, he was clearly in deep." Said Erza.
"Your name is Toot-toot McBumblesnazzle. You're a traveling banjo minstrel with a song in tour heart and crazy tattoos on your head." Said Mabel handing him a banjo.
"Ah yes… I am Toot-toot McBumblesnazzle" said the newly name Toot-toot who began to sing a jaunty tune.
Sometime later in the hall of the Forgotten, they all looked at the viewing device.
"I'm unsure." Said Old Man McGucket, "What if I don't like what I see."
"You cam all this way." Said Mabel, "Go on…"
Old Man McGucket placed the tube into the device. It cut to him in his late 20s or early 30s, he much different, not only was he clean shaven but he wasn't a mess.
"My name is Fiddleford Hadron McGucket and I wish to unsee what I have seen." He said.
Everyone gasped.
"Sweet sarsaparilla…" said Old Man McGucket.
"For the past year, I have been working as an assistant for a vesting researcher. He has been cataloging his findings about Gravity Falls in a series of Journals. I helped him build a machine that could benefit all of mankind, but something went wrong. And I decided to quit the project. But I lie awake at night, haunted by what I've done. I believe I have invented a machine that can permanently ease these memories from my mind." Said the version of McGucket on the Screen, "Test Subject 1, Fiddleford."
It cut to static but then cut back to him.
"It worked! I can't recall a thing!" said the younger McGucket.
It cut to static again.
"I call it the Society of the Blind Eye. We will help those who want to forget by erasing their bad memories." Said the younger McGucket.
There was static, it cut to a version of McGucket who was a little disheveled.
"I came across a colony of strange little men, I wish to forget seeing it." Said the younger McGucket.
It cut to static and a version of the younger McGucket who was extremely disheveled and in a cast.
"I accidently hit another car in town today. I feel terr-bibble… I mean terrible. I've been forgetting words lately… I wonder if their any negative side-effects." He said.
It cut to static and this time he resembled more of what he was today and it was in a motel room.
"My hair's been a-falling out, so I got this hat from a scarecrow I found!" he yelled" Hey are my pants on backwards?"
The next one was him ranting gibberish in the junkyard.
Then it ended.
Everyone was shocked by what was seen, though Erza seemed the most pale out of any of them.
"Oh… I'm so sorry…" said Mabel.
"Aw hush, you kids helped me get my memories back, just like you said." Said Old Man McGucket.
"But that was pretty messed up…" said Laxus, "And I've seen some really bad things."
"He's right." Said Mabel, "Are you sure you wanted those memories back?"
"After all these year I finally know who I am. Maybe I messed up in the past, but now I see what happened I can put myself back together again." Said Old Man McGucket, he then hambone something, which was him thanking them.
"So…" said Dipper, "you weren't' the author. But you worked with him, do you remember who he was?"
"It's begging to come back, but I need more time. And reading glasses!" said Old Man McGucket.
He put on a some glasses he found.
"I got some remembering to do." Said Old Man McGucket.
"Say Mabel…" said Levy.
"Yeah?" asked Mabel.
"Do you still want to erase your failed summer romances?" asked Levy.
"You know… no one like having bad memories. But maybe it's better to remember the bad thing and learn from them than go all denial crazy trying to forget." Said Mabel.
"Wait… you tried to do what?" asked Erza.
"Seriously…" said Dipper.
Uh… uh…" said Mabel, "Fine I confess! Gabe made out with one of his puppets on our date! Okay!"
They all cringed.
"Seriously?" asked Wendy.
"Didn't need to know that." Said Dipper.
They all headed to Soos' truck.
As they did Laxus noticed Erza was still a bit pale, he had noticed her reaction during the viewing of McGucket's memories.
"Hey… Erza…" said Laxus.
"Yeah?" asked Erza.
Laxus was going to ask if she knew something, but then noticed Dipper and realized it was probably better not to ask if she did something but hid it for a reason.
But thankfully he had a very good question to ask her that did involved the adventure.
"Are you going to use the same relator?" asked Laxus.
"She is the best one in town…" said Erza.
After she said that she realized something.
"She's the best because she was suing the memory guns on people who tired to buy houses for her…" said Erza.
"Speaking of which." Said Dipper, Should we be worried about jobs? It seems like they were the ones that fueled a good chunk of the jobs."
"You know… now their no longer interfering there more jobs." Said Levy.
"She's right…" said Erza, "It did seem odd the there only Monster Jobs and various mundane jobs but almost nothing in-between…"
"So I guess we don't have to worry. "said Dipper.
They all headed into the truck.
"You know what, this crazy adventure actually got that song out of my head." Said Wendy.
"Nice!" said Soos.
Of course when Soos turned on the radio of course Straight Blanchin' was playing.
Levy…" said Wendy.
"Yes?" asked Levy.
"Can you tell me what Blanching means in the context of this song…" said Wendy with her eye twitching.
"I guess I should…" sighed Levy.
Meanwhile in at the Mystery Shack, Stan took this chance of his employees ditching him to work in the basement.
He checked on the strange device.
"All right! You're getting closer Every day it's getting stronger." Said Stan.
That was when the note book and coffee mug he was holding was sucked into the device.
"Yes!" he cheered.
However a piece of debris flew towards it and hit him in the hand causing it to bleed.
"I don't care fi it's dangerous, I don't care how long it takes. I'm going to pull this off and no one's going to get in the way." Muttered Stan.
However while they didn't discover who the author is, the biggest mysteries were still yet to be solved… although they might be solved soon, if McGucket could get his memory back soon.
Next Time: It's Soos' birthday! However he doesn't like his birthday for some reason... So they deiced to play laser tag! However Blendin Blandin returns and he wants revenge! Can the twins beat him and make Soos' birthday great? find out next time!
A/N: Okay, I hasn't said this, but the realtor is the "Unnamed Woman In Blue" I didn't say this because if I gave away her... uh... designation, it would spoil the fact right away that she was part of the society. But yeah, it was always intended...
Also I once saw video of Alex explaining that the meaning of blanching is the cooking term… so yeah, it's a song about cooking…
