Chapter 51: Not What He Seems

IT was late at night. Almost everyone slept. However in the basement of the Mystery Shack, Stan poured some sort of glowing green liquid into the machine.

"I have to be careful with this stuff." He said to himself.

That was hewn there was a sign that read "Event initialized." And an 18 hours countdown began.

Stan was reading a warning from Journal 1.

"Extreme usage can caused Gravity Anomalies." Read Stan then got annoyed, "Blah, blah, blah… I've come so far, I'm not giving up now Point Dexter."

He pushed a button and the device began to spin.

"Yes, this is it!" said Stan.

However Stan's hat started to float, as did a lot of things in town.

In Erza's room she was awake. She sighed. She knew what happened that night with Stan and couldn't sleep because of worry.

That was when she began to float. But it lasted less than a minute and she slammed down back into bed.

"Today's the day." Said Erza.

Back down stairs Stan synced up the watch.

"Just 18 more hours, finally everything changes today." Said Stan.

The next morning, Mabel dragged Dipper to a closet.

"It's here! It's here! It's here!" said Mabel.

Dipper just sighed.

"So I was opening random doors, because you know! I'm a creep! And I found something amazing!" said Mabel.

"It better be amazing for 7 AM." Said Dipper with a yawn.

"Feat your eyes on this!" said Mabel.

She opened the door unveiling a box of illegal fireworks.

"Whoa!" said Dipper waking up.

"Bro! Bro! We're both thinking, it right." said Mabel.

"Crazy roof top fire works party!" cheered both of them.

However Stan showed up and touched both of their shoulders.

"Not so fast kids, there's no way on earth I'm letting you set off dangerous fire works!" said Stan he put his arms around them, "Not without me!"

Erza was also in the hallway, she had a stern look on her face then she smiled.

"We could use something like that today." Said Erza.

The twins cheered.

And so after breakfast they started having their crazy rooftop fire works party.

"Here you go sweetie." Said Stan hanging her a sparkler to light one of the fire works.

"I am the god od destruction!" yelled Mabel as she fired it off.

That was when Blubs and Durland showed up.

"Now hold on a minute, do you have a permit for that?" asked Blubs.

"Uh…" said Dipper.

"Do you have a permit for being lame?" asked Stan.

"I cant' argue with that." Said Blubs, "Carry on!"

Once the tow were gone.

"But really this needs to be cleaned up." Said Erza.

"With water balloons?" asked Mabel.

"I don't see why not!" said Stan with shrug.

Stan and Erza watched the two fight with water balloons.

"This what Saturdays are for, doing dumb things forever." Said Stan.

The twins jumped on a pile of water balloons, which got Stan wet as well.

"Whoa there!" said Stan causing Erza to laugh.

"To Stan!" said Mable holding a popsicle, "Not just a great uncle."

"But the greatest uncle." continued Dipper.

"All right, all right." Said Stan laughing a little, "I tell you it's unnatural for siblings to get along as well as you do."

Mabel laughed, "Hey… you should say that to Mira, Elfman and Lisanna."

"Yeah, but they're orphans who only have each other. You guys are from earth." Said Stan.

"Hey! We can always have time to drive each other nuts." Said Mabel attacking Dipper with a hug.

He pushed her away with a water balloon that fell on her face.

"Yeah… plenty of time left." Said Stan, "Hey listen… there's something I have to tell you…"

He began to get nervous, "I have to refresh my soda…." He said after stumbling a bit.

"Is he all right?" asked Mabel.

"He's fine, he just has something on his mind today." Said Erza.

With Stan.

"Today's the day, they're going to find out soon." Said Stan that was when a glowing red dot appeared on his hat, "What is that? A ladybug?"

That when more red dots appeared and suddenly he was jumped by government agents.

"Target secure!" called out Agent Trigger, "Secure the house!"

Many government agents surrounded the house confusing the Pines family. With helicopters and everything.

The agents had led Stan in handcuffs.

"Hey! Hey! Watch the hands." Said Stan.

"Can you please tell me what's going on." Said Erza.

"Yeah, what did I do that warrants this much arresting?" asked Stan.

That was when Agent Powers and Agent Trigger walked over to them.

"The government guys!" said Dipper," I thought you were eaten by zombies."

"We survived, but just barely." Said Agent Trigger.

"I used Trigger as a human shield." Said Agent Powers, "He cried like a baby."

"Hey! Not in front of the Special Ops guys!" said Agent Trigger.

Agent Powers showed them security footage.

"This is security footage of a government waste facility. At o'four hundred hours, last night, someone stole some toxic waste." Said Agent Powers.

"And you honesty suspect Stan?" asked Erza.

"Yes." Said Agent Powers.

"But it wasn't me I swear!" said Stan.

"Don't play dumb with us." Said Agent Powers.

"But I am actually dumb! I was restocking the gift shop all last night." Said Stan, "Yu got the wrong guy."

"Please our uncle is innocent!" said Mabel, "He might shop list the occasional orange! But he's no super villain."

Agent Powers bent down to his knees to look Mabel in the eye.

"Listen kid, I have been watching your family almost all summer and I've seen some rather disturbing things. But nothing more disturbing what your uncle's doing." Said Agent Powers.

He then got up and looked at Erza.

"All signs point to you having no part in this. So you're free to go" Said Agent Powers, "Do you have a place to say for a while?"

"I do." Answered Erza, "Can we at least get some of their stuff?"

"Of course." Said Agent Powers.

Stan and Erza shared a look and she knew what it meant.

"Kids! Erza! I'm innocent!" he called out as he was carted away.

The agents let the kids get their stuff

"Erza!" yelled out Laxus arriving for work that day, "What's going on?"

"Stan got arrested." Said Erza.

"What did he do?" asked Laxus who was very tempted to add "This time?"

"Apparently he's building a doomsday device." Said Erza.

"What?" asked Laxus.

"There's something I have to talk to you and Master later." Said Erza.

The twins came out, with Mabel holding onto Waddles and Dipper with backpack and sword.

"You ready?" asked Erza.

The twins nodded.

They headed to the Guild Hall and apparently they already got word what was going on.

Wendy actually arrived before Laxus but turned around when she saw how crazy it was.

"IS everything all right?" asked Mirajane.

"It's fine." Said Erza, "I actually need to talk to Master and Laxus about this… in private."

Erza turned to her team.

"Make sure to keep an eye on them." Said Erza.

"Will do!" said Natsu.

"Aye!" said Happy.

Meanwhile at the police station Stan was handcuffed to a table.

"Stanford Pines, you are charged with stealing governed waste, conspiracy and possession of illegal weapons." Said Agent Powers, "How do you plead?"

"I plead guilti-cent… I mean inno-guilty… I mean can I have my one call?" asked Stan.

Meanwhile with Soos at the Drive Through at a fast food place.

"Okay, give me anything that comes with a free today." Said Soos.

That was when a walkie-talkie in his truck came started getting a signal from Stan.

"Soos!" called out Stan from the Walkie-Talkie.

"Mr. Pines? Is this some sort of passion thing?" asked Soos thinking it coming from the take out box.

"Just pick-up!" yelled Stan again through the walkie-talkie.

Then he noticed it was the Walkie-Talkie.

"Mr. Pines what happened? I heard you got arrested or something." Said Soos, "I had to go get some panic food."

"Listen, I need something from you! You know that vending machine in the gift shop! I need you to guard it with your life! Unless it's Erza, Laxus or Makarov don't let anyone touch the machine! Understand!" said Stan as it cut off.

Soos understood and knew it was time to get serious.

"Time for this repair guy to become a repair man!" said Soos.

"Here's your yum-yum baby time Kiddo meal!" said the drive through worker.

After getting a single fry put in his mouth, Soos sped off to do the task given to him.

At the Guild Hall everyone was of course talking about.

"Seriously! They think he has a doomsday machine?" asked Cana.

"That sounds pretty unbelievable." Said Lisanna.

"All of the crimes we've heard him do have to do with money." Said Jellal.

"Oh something stupid, like the time he broke in the pool." Said Gray.

"Or that time he tried to steal the animatronic badger." Said Carla.

"No that was still a money making scheme, it was just a really stupid one." Said Wendy.

As they were talking the twins weren't part of this conversation.

"He has to be innocent." Said Mabel.

"We have to prove it…" said Dipper, "But how."

"He was restocking the gift shop." Said Mabel.

"Hey wait… isn't there security camera?" asked Dipper.

"Oh yeah!" said Mabel.

"If we find it we can prove he didn't' do it." Said Dipper.

Dipper noticed, they noticed no one was paying attention to him and they decided to sneak out.

"So has anyone found what Burglebezzlement is yet?" asked Elfman.

Everyone shook their head no.

"I'm more interested with learn with the time he impersonated a dentist." Laughed Natsu.

"Why?" asked Happy.

"Come on, there has to be a story behind it. I mean come of all things to impersonate, why a dentist." Said Natsu.

"Hey, that's actually a pretty good point." Laughed Lisanna.

"I guess we should explain that Stan confessed some of his crimes during Jellal's intervention." Lucy said while turning to where the twins were supposed.

And it was because of that they finally noticed the twins were gone.

There was an awkward silence.

"Oh crap!" yelled Natsu.

"They're gone…" said Gray.

"Erza's going to kill us!" cried Lucy.

"You had one job!" said Gajeel.

"Hey! Are you trying to start a fight!" yelled Natsu.

"Stop panicking!" said Gray, "You just have to sniff them out!"

"Oh yeah!" said Natsu, "Someone cover us!"

The guild was quiet.

"You know what those two do!" said Evergreen.

"You're not going to drag us into a mess when you were the ones who were supposed to be baby sitting them." Said Bickslow.

"He's right Lulu…" sighed Levy.

Almost no one wanted to deal with an angry Erza.

Thankfully one of them didn't mind.

"Don't worry, I'll cover for you." Said Mirajane.

"Thank you Mira!" cried Lucy.

"Come on we should go!" said Gray.

They all left to find the twins.

Meanwhile in Makarov's office, Erza had finished telling Makarov and Laxus about what was going on.

"That explains everything." Said Makarov.

"Yeah…" sighed Erza.

"No really it does…." Said Laxus, "It's been bugging me for a while why you would trust an obvious con artist to get you back to Earthland."

"I figured there was always something you two weren't telling us." Said Makarov, "And it's understandable why it was kept secret…"

"We have to figure out a way to get inside." Said Erza, "Stan's been at this for 30 years…"

"You're right." Said Makarov.

"Knowing Stan he'll figure out a way to escape." Said Erza.

Meanwhile with Stan he was still in the interrogation room. He looked at the countdown on the his watch.

"5 hours! I should be there!" said Stan, "I know they can handle it, but still… I have to figure out a way out."

That was when his watch started counting down to Anomy in progress and suddenly started floating for a few seconds before everything crashed back down.

"They're getting stronger! Of course! That's it!" said Stan.

The town all brushed it off as an earth quake, however Old Man McGucket knew he had to leave so he took his raccoon wife and left.

Yes he had a raccoon wife, should it be that surprising?

Meanwhile the twins made it to the Shack.

"All right! How are we going to get in there!" said Dipper.

"Oh I have an idea!" said Mabel, "All right! You use Solid Script and knock the two out and I knock him out with my golf club and then we back flip in…"

"Wait… aren't you forgetting the simpler solution." Said Dipper.

'Oh yeah." Said Mabel.

Said obvious solution was her grappling hook and they went in through a broken window

The guards didn't see the two however the ones in charge of baby sitting did.

"Oh come on!" said Lucy.

"We have to get in there!" said Happy.

"I have an idea…" said Gray.

Natsu and Gray approached the guards and they both took out their badges.

"We're both deputy and we were called into the help with the investigation." Said Gray.

The guards shrugged after noticing they were real badges and let them pass.

Meanwhile Happy carried Lucy to the room the twins entered in.

"I need a break…" sighed Happy plopping down on the floor, "You're still too heavy to carry."

"Seriously?" asked Lucy.

She sighed and picked Happy up by the tail and dragged him trying to find the twins and get them out of there.

Back at the Guild, Makarov, Laxus and Erza were leaving.

"There's something that we have to do." Said Erza.

"All right." Said Mirajane.

"Are you going to be all right?" asked Jellal.

"IT will be fine." Said Makarov.

"Where are dipper and Mabel?" asked Erza.

"Oh they decided to go out for Ice Cream." Said Mirajane, "You know to get their minds off everything."

Erza looked at Mirajane and how everyone was reacting.

"No one was paying attention and they escaped didn't they?" asked Erza.

"Yeah, pretty much." Laughed Mirajane.

Erza sighed.

"We'll worry about them later." Said Makarov.

"Hopefully they haven't gotten into any trouble yet." Sighed Erza.

Meanwhile the twins made it to Stan's' office.

Dipper decided to put a Jutsu Shiki protection on the room saying "No government agents can enter."

Once he was done they looked around.

"All right… if I was Stan where would I hide those surveillance tapes.

They looked around the room. Mabel noticed something off about the Jackalope head, one of his antlers were off.

"Look at the antelabbit." Said Mabel.

'Don't you Jackalope?" asked Dipper.

"That can't be right." Said Mabel with a snort.

She went over to fix the antler. And when she did two old TVs and a VCR popped out.

"Yes!" they cheered.

That was when someone began to open the door.

"Oh no… oh no…" said Dipper.

"You should have just locked the door!" said Mabel.

That was when the door opened and it was Team Baby Sitter.

"There you two are!" said Lucy.

"Do you how much trouble you caused us." Said Natsu.

"Mom hasn't found out… has she?" asked Dipper.

"No…" said Gray.

"At least we don't know." Said Happy.

"What are you even doing?" asked Lucy.

"We figured out a way to over Stan innocent." Said Mabel.

They all looked at the tape configuration.

"All right… we should at least see." Sighed Gray.

They all went in, after all while Natsu and Gray were cops, they were just part time deputies.

They found the tape for that week and started playing it.

They played the tape, and it immediately showed Soos doing the worm while Mabel and Wendy chanted "GO! GO! GO! GO!"

They all look at Mabel.

"Someone yelled "Wormy Dance" we had to…" said Mabel, "Fast forward…"

They fast forwarded and found Stan restocking the shop like he said.

"Ha there! Stan restocking the shop! He is innocent! And we have the evidence" cheered Dipper.

However the Stan on the tape suddenly left.

They began to fast-forward, but he still wasn't back yet. They continued to fast forward when someone came into the shop at around midnight.

And unfortunately it wasn't' it wasn't Stan.

IT was Erza and Jellal who giggling and starting to make out.

"OH MAN!" yelled Dipper.

"Okay this getting awkward." Said Mabel.

However they stopped kissing.

"Sorry… I don't think I'm in the mood tonight." Said Erza on tape, "I have something on my mind…"

"It's okay…" said Jellal on tape, "Maybe next time…"

"In the mood?" asked Happy.

"Oh man…" said Natsu.

Lucy tapped Natsu and Gray's shoulders.

"Told you so… pay up." Said Lucy.

Natsu and Gray took out 10 bucks each and handed it to Lucy.

Mabel finally fast-forwarded the tape.

That was when they got to 5 AM, and it was someone in a hazmat suit, brining in barrels of toxic waste.

"Oh no… Stan you didn't." said Dipper.

"Don't panic that could be anyone in that suit." Said Mabel.

On the tape the man in the hazmat suit dropped the barrel on his foot.

"Hot Belgian Waffles!" he yelled out and it was clearly Stan, "Wait I'm alone! I can swear for real!"

They heard him take a breath.

"SON OF A BITCH! GOD DAMN! MOTHER…" they heard Stan yell on tape.

Both kids were shocked.

"Why would he do that?" asked Mabel.

"I don't know…" said Lucy.

That was when Dipper noticed something.

It was a box, a box full of fake IDs.

They read the names, "Stenston Pinfield", "Hal Foresster", "Andrew "8-ball" Alcatraz"

"These are all fake IDs." Said Dipper, "Why would he need fake IDs?"

"You guys are aware Stan's a criminal… right?" asked Natsu.

"He does commit tax fraud… like a lot." Said Mabel.

"And there was that counterfeiting scheme he dragged us into." Said Dipper.

"Plus he confused a few of his crimes during Jellal's intervention." Said Lucy.

"Remember that time he tried to teach a bear to drive." Said Happy.

"Let's not forget one of the Guild's rules when it comes to accepting jobs." Said Gray, "No asking us to help arrest him…"

"He did spend time in a Colombian prison." Said Mabel.

"Oh yeah, forgot about that." Sighed Dipper.

"I wouldn't worry about the fake IDs… your uncle's a crook." Said Natsu, "Not a super villain."

"I guess you're right." Said Dipper blushing a little.

However that was when Mabel noticed something else.

"Uh… guys;…" said Mabel.

They all saw it was news paper clipping with a certain headline.

"Stan Pines dead?" asked Mabel.

They all looked at the newspaper clipping she found.

" Stan Pines, dead. Foul Play suspected in Stan Pines' fiery death. Breaks cut…" read Mabel.

"How old is that thing?" asked Lucy.

"It's from the 80's." said Dipper.

Everyone was quiet as the twins realized, sure the fake ids were one thing… but there was a chance that Stan wasn't even really Stan now.

"You know… I never said this… but… something's always bothered me." said Gray.

"What?" asked Happy.

"Why does Erza trust Stan?" asked Gray.

Lucy, Natsu and Happy froze.

"I mean said so himself, he tried to find her a way home…" said Gray.

"He couldn't have been using her." Said Lucy, "Could he?"

"Why that…" muttered Natsu, "I'm going to find him and…"

"Natsu calm down…" said Lucy.

"We don't need you getting angry right now. "said Gray.

"This whole summer, I've been look for answers and the biggest story was staring at me right in face." Said Dipper.

Mabel was digging through the box.

"I found something." Said Mabel.

She held up a she of paper that said "Secret code for hide out." Said Mabel.

Dipper took out the journal, the black light and the wind reading glasses.

"I haven't' seen a code like that." Said Dipper.

"Wait! I have!" said Mabel, "The vending machine!"

back at the police station, Stan sighed looking at the time, hours had since passed.

Agent Powers entered the room.

"All right Stan, playtime is over. Chopper's ready to dust off to Washington." he said, "I'll enjoy putting you away."

"Uh… I have to use the bathroom. Can't we stick around for a minute. Maybe one minute and 30 seconds?" asked Stan.

"We're not falling for your games." Said Agent Powers, "Time is finally up."

"Come on…" said Stan, "Can I least call Erza and tell her where I'm going?"

Agent Trigger took out the key to Stan's' handcuffs.

"Sorry, but you have a flight to catch." Said Agent Powers.

Stan noticed his watch.

"So do you." Said Stan.

"what?" asked Agent Powers.

That was when gravity failed once again and everything started to float. Thanks to this, Stan made his escape.

He use the back of the chair he was stuck in to hit the agent. Not only that but he managed to catch the key. He undid the cuffs and made his escape by jumping on the various agents in the room. Even stealing one of their wallets.

He managed get out of the room and locked the door on Agent Powers. And soon gravity returned to normal.

He ignored Blubs latest shenanigan and ran outside.

He took out the wallet he stole which had a 100 dialers in it and noticed a taxi.

He ran over to the taxi driver.

"Hey, do you know where the Mystery Shack is?" asked Stan.

"Yeah, sure." Said Taxi driver with a shrug.

"Here's a 100 dollars, drive as far away as you can. And don't stop, not even for the cops." Said Stan.

The driver shrugged and sped away after taking the money.

Stan hid and the Agents took the bait.

At the Mystery Shack the Agent Trigger told the agents there that Stan had escaped and was now on the run.

In the nearby forest, Erza group saw this.

"Very clever." Said Erza.

"We'll wait a few minutes." Said Makarov.

The other two nodded.

"All right Soos! Remember protect this machine, earn Stan's trust, get legally adopted by Stan and change name to Stan Junior." Said Soos.

That was when the Twins' group got there.

"Soos?" asked Dipper.

Soos screamed, "It's you!" said Soos, "How did you get here?"

"We were on baby sitting duty and they escaped from us." Sighed Lucy.

"Do you have to put it that way?" asked Dipper, "And what are you doing here?"

"Stan gave me a mission to protect this machine unless you one of three people…" said Soos, "And I thought I loved snacks."

"Soos something big is going on! If Stan is hiding some sort of secret then we have to find out." Said Dipper.

"Maybe it's a big misunderstanding." Said Mabel, "But still… we have to find out."

"Sorry, but Stan gave me this mission to protect it with my life." Said Soos.

He got in in Wood Make pose.

Gray matched him with an ice make pose.

"Hey… hey… I got this." Said Mabel.

She walked up to Soos and blew glitter n this eyes.

"Ah! Attack Glitter!" yelled Soos, "It's pretty but it hurts."

"That was easy." Said Natsu.

He was blinded by the pretty attack, Happy input the code.

The machine opened knock Soos to the floor and they all were shocked by it.

"What?" asked Soos getting the glitter out of his eyes.

Soos ended up leading them.

"This is just like a video game." Said Soos.

"Or a dream." Said Mabel.

"Or a nightmare." Said Dipper.

"Eh… I've seen plenty of secret passages like that." Said Natsu.

"Earthland thing." Said Lucy.

"Oh yeah." Said Natsu.

They all headed down the stairs and got the elevator.

Up stairs, Erza's team arrived, noticing the vending machine was open.

"This is bad." Said Erza.

"Do you think someone found it during the investigation?" asked Laxus.

"Let's hope not." Sighed Makarov.

They went down stairs making sure the vending machine was closed.

Stan meanwhile was in the woods.

Back in the basement, the first group arrived.

They all looked around.

"This place is just like that bunker in the woods." said Dipper.

"Oh yeah that one place you found with Laxus, right?" asked Gray.

"Yeah." Said Dipper

"But what is it doing under the Mystery Shack?" asked Soos.

"Okay, okay but everyone has their secrets." Said Mabel she noticed a picture of them with Erza on the console, "It's still Stan and he loves us."

"No way!" said Dipper noticing something.

He found the other 2 Journals.

"The other two journals! He had them the whole time!" said Dipper.

"Wait… didn't Gideon have the second one before?" asked Happy.

"Oh yeah, he did when Gemini transformed into him at least." Said Lucy.

How did Stan get his hands on it?" asked Dipper.

"Probably after he shook Gideon trying to get the deed back." Said Natsu.

"Oh right…" said Dipper, "But why does he have number 1? And why would take the second from Gideon!"

Dipper sighed, and realized something. He opened up to what he had dubbed the maze pages and put them all together.

He put black light to them and some information was on the page.

Back up stairs in basement level 1, Erza checked her cell phone. Apparently the elevator was being unreliable.

That was when the vending Machine door opened and it was Stan.

"Really! You only got here now?" asked Stan.

"There were agents everywhere and we need to make sure it was clear." Said Erza, "Plus your elevator isn't very reliable."

That was when the two hugged each other.

"I'm glad you're okay…" said Erza.

That two broke a hug.

"So…" said Makarov.

"Yeah… " said Stan.

That was when the elevator arrived.

Back on the bottom floor, Dipper read through the Black Light portion.

"I was wrong the whole time, this machine was meant to create knowledge, but it is too late. I was deceived and now it is too late. The device if fully operational, could tear our universe apart. It must fall into the wrong hands. If the clock ever reaches zero, our universe is doomed." Read Dipper.

They noticed the countdown clock, which had a minute and 30 seconds left.

"It's the final countdown! Just like they always sung about." Said Soos.

"It's the final countdown." Sang Happy.

They all stared at Happy.

"Sorry, sorry… that song got stuck in my head!" said Happy.

Dipper looked through the journals and found one of the manual over ride. Which was key activated.

"The agents were right! We have to shut it down!" he said dipper.

They all nodded.

Lucy, Gray and Natsu all went over to the key second.

They did it at the same time and something opened up and a red button popped out of the floor.

Dipper and Mabel headed to the button.

Right when they were going to push it.

"it stops now!" said Dipper about to push the button.

That was when Stan's group arrived.

"Don't' touch that button!" yelled Stan.

They all noticed the group that was with Stan.

"Mom?" asked Dipper.

"Gramps?" axed Natsu.

"Hey Laxus…" said Soos rather causally.

"Please don't press that button." Said Stan, "You have to trust me!"

"Why should I trust you!" yelled Dipper, "After you stole radioactive waste! After you lied to us! And you probably tricked mom into working for you!"

"Natsu Pines!" yelled Erza, "Listen to him!"

"He's right… once you understand everything…"began Makarov.

That was when his watch beeped.

"Uh-oh brace yourselves." Said Stan.

That was once again gravity failed.

This time throughout the entire town.

At the Guild Hall, everyone was shocked.

"What's happening!" said Marvelous.

"I don't know…" said Mirajane.

Jellal sighed, wondering if what was happening was the reason why Erza wasn't up to it last night.

In the basement of course everyone began to float.

"Oh man! I'm going to vomit." Said Natsu.

"And Natsu's down…" sighed Lucy.

"Great…" muttered Laxus as he too tried hold in his vomit.

"So is Laxus." Sighed Makarov.

Mabel got caught on a wire, allowed her to pull her self to the button.

"Dipper!" called out Mabel.

"Mabel shut it down!" yelled Dipper.

"You can't!" yelled Stan.

Stan floated over to Mabel, but Soos tackled him.

"Soos what are you doing!" yelled Stan, "I gave you a mission."

"Sorry Mr. Pines, if that is your real name." said Soos, "But I have a new mission protecting these kids!"

"Soos you idiot let me go!" yelled Stan.

"Everyone calm down now!" Yelled Erza giving her fiercest glare, "And listen to what we have to say."

Makarov sighed realizing that Erza was the only one (besides Stan) that could handle this.

"But Erza! He's a scam artist you tricked you!" yelled Happy.

"No he isn't!" yelled Erza, "I knew about this machine the whole time… he showed it to me the day we met!"

Gray and Lucy looked at Erza and were unsure what to do.

"This machine is the reason why Erza trust Stan all long." Said Makarov, "Everyone stand down!"

"What?" asked Dipper, "This Machine is going to destroy the universe and you just helped him!"

"Seriously Erza!" yelled Gray.

"We don't know that!" said Erza, "The author had a habit of exaggerating things…"

Natsu would have said something but he was still too nauseous to anything.

"Just listen to Stan…" said Erza, "Please…"

"Remember this morning when I wanted to tell you something?" asked Stan.

However that was when the force of the machine pushed everyone into the walls, however Mabel still held onto the button.

"I wanted to say you're going to hear a lot of bad stuff about me, worse than your mom's usual jabs and some of them are true, but trust me! Everything I worked for! Everything I cared about it was all for this family!"

"Mabel what if he's lying!" yelled Dipper.

"He's not lying!" called out Erza, "I'm sorry I never told you about this… but Stan promised to keep it a secret. I had to keep it a secret from everyone… and I'm sorry I did! But please! Don't push it… for Stan's sake."

"Mabel! Look into in my eyes. Do you really think I'm a bad guy?" asked Stan.

Mabel looked into his eyes.

"Ten, nine…" counted the computer.

Mabel looked down at the button.

"Grunkle Stan…" said Mabel.

"Six! Five." Said the countdown.

"I trust you." Said Mabel letting go of the button.

"MABEL ARE YOU CRAZY! WE'RE GOING TO…" yelled Dipper.

"Two. One." Said the countdown.

There was a blinding light and everything exploded. They all screamed but then everything stopped and they all landed on the floor. They were all alive.

The device was now a tangled mess of metal and wire. However there was still a glow to it and out of that glow emerged a figure.

The first journal laid nearby and the figure walked up to it, placing his hand on it, his hand had 6 fingers on it. He picked it up and placed it in his pocket.

They all got up and looked at the figure. Especially those who weren't informed by what's going on.

"What… who is that?" asked Dipper.

"The author of the Journal." Said Stan as the figure removed a mask and goggles revealing he looked just like Stan, "My brother."

Those that weren't informed were shocked.

"So… is this the part where one of us faints?" asked Mabel.

"Oh I'm way ahead of you." Said Soos who then fainted.

Indeed, nothing would ever be the same…

Next Time: The Author of the Journals is revealed and he's Stan's long lost twin brother. What's their story? Also how did Stan meet Erza? And what sort of life did Erza lead on earth? Find out next time!

A/N: saying it now, I'm going to summarizing the flashback part of a Tale of Two Stans. Let's face it, there's nothing I can change, so the chapter stand in will focus on Erza's life on earth before she moved back to Gravity Falls.