The Truth is out there: Book 1 Of the inside job/gravity falls universe
By
Neztro
Chapter 14: Who is the Father.?
Notes:
Hello everyone, this is based on a piece of fan art where Reagan and adult Dipper hook up so I decided to write a whole story/universe around it… I may bring Mabel into the mix with Brett at a later date but first some ground rules. 1). Reagan is in her early thirties like the show and Dipper is 19, 2). it is going to be a slow burn type fanfic. 3). it's not gonna be perfect but imma try so if there are Any OOC moments just know I am improving as I go along.
P.S.:
I do plan on a future fanfic of writing mabel and Brett in a relationship in the same universe.
Mipsy shook in terror knowing what's to come.
Reagan raised her gun with her dad patting her shoulders. Tears In the six year olds eyes.
"now you want to square your shoulders, steady your footing, and shoot." he said, an evil glee clear on his tone.
Reagan's hands shook and the gun felt heavy in her hands.
She took a breath and fired. Killing the turtle in one shot.
Why reagan. A voice said, the clouds overhead began to turn black and the sky blood red. Reagan looked up in fear as her turtles looked down sad.
Why did you poison us, why did you kill us?
"no I didn't mean too… I just wanted to make you ninja turtles." the child cried.
We weren't good enough so you had to kill us… it's your fault. Your fault. You'll never be happy. They all said in unison.
"No. No, I'm sorry." reagan fell to her knees and sobbed uncontrollably.
A shadow fell over reagan and a chill ran down her child spine. "there there reagan, it's me bear-o."
The young girl turned her head upward to see bear-o except he was ten feet tall and his arms opened wide with big pincer arms.
"want a hug reagan? A hug from bear-o." the giant robot bear asked rolling closer to her on it's treads.
The bear grew in size and reagan's size diminished til she was the size of an ant. She ran from bear-o screaming.
"daddy! Help me! Get him away from me!" she called out to rand who was sitting on a picnic table drinking a beer.
"daddy's busy jellybean, let bear-o handle it." his voice said in the same dismissive way she'd grown accustomed.
The grass under reagan's feet locked her in place. Bear-o's treads barreled toward her crushing dirty and stone under foot.
Reagan pulled at the grass but couldn't make any head way. She watched as the robot drew closer. Her body frozen in fear, lips quivering, eyes watering.
"there there reagan, let bear-o give you a hug." the bear-o's voice cracked like thunder, bloting out the sun as he loomed over reagan.
"Unhand her monster!" a voice exclaimed from above.
Bear-o turned it's head upward and a greatsword fell down landing inside bear-o's head coming in from the top and out the otherside. Reagan looked up mesmorized by the shadowed silhouette of a man in armor… a knight.
The knight jumped atop bear-o and twisted the blade pulling it out and cleaving the robot's face in twain.
The robot stumbled on on it's tread barely able to stay aloft.
The knight raised his sword to the sky. "for my lady fair! Princess of my heart! I cast thee back to hell!" he exclaimed jumping from robot's body then slamming his blade into bear-o's torso sliding down the body cutting a swath of circuits in his path.
Once the knight reached the bottom and jumped off landing at the same time that bear-o's self destruct activated.
The grass that bound reagan's legs quivered while releasing her as if the presence of the knight culled their malice.
The knight stomped forward as reagan returned to her normal height. Her six year old body becoming that of her current self. She fell to her knees and looked up at the knight. The light hit him and he looked smaller then her.
The same size and shape of someone she knew. The knight's breastplate had the emblem of a pine tree in emeralds and his silver helm bore similar heraldry.
"are you alright my lady?" He asked, bowing before her extending his hand in service.
Reagan flushed and took his hand. "Yes, do I know you?"
"you do my lady, I am but a humble servant who is honored to be in your presense. May I ask a favor?"
Reagan felt so comfortable around this knight and though his face went from inspiring to dorky in the span of seconds… her heart melted with each word. "yes, I can agree to that."
"May I be graced with a kiss?" he lifted his head holding reagans hands in his own.
"remove your helm and I shall grant your request."
"very well." still bowed before reagan the knight lifted his helm and revealed he was her assistant dipper. "anything for you, lady reagan."
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"aaah!" reagan screamed jumping up from her bed. She fumbled in the dark routing through her drawer for something. She finds it and clicks on her nightstand lamp.
She opens the book she brought out from her drawer which was her journal. She clicked a pen and began writing in her dream journal.
What was that? She thought, hastily scratching what she saw and trying to make sense of it. There is no way, no way! I'm not in love with dipstick… it can't be… it just can't.
Reagan began breathing heavily after getting it all written down, she frowned when she read her notes and all the signs pointed to one conclusion.
I'm in love with dipper. Fuck!
Dipper was her best friend! He was the best thing to ever happen to her and he made her happy. Now she has to worry about ruining their friendship by taking a risk on being a couple.
What if I fuck it up? What if he grows to hate me? What if he thinks I'm a slob or a freak.
Her mind raced with as many possibilities as she could comtemplate. So many things that could go wrong and so many things that would go wrong… too much risk for her to take.
I just need to avoid dipper for awhile until all this cools over. She then felt a wetness in her bed and looked down.
What the hell did I pee the bed. She thought then the smell hit her nose. Oh no, I had a wet dream about dipper! Oh god it's so much worse… I need to call in a few days off.
Reagan put a reminder on her phone to cash in her one week vacation time to focus on herself and getting dipper out of her head… maybe a nice vacation away from d.c. she might even try and go to gravity falls which could be a good way for her to learn more about dipsticks backstory.
Reagan slapped herself.
Stop it! This isn't gonna be a thing! It's not!… isn't it.
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Dipper finished his breakfast a few moments ago and now brushed his teeth with renewed vigor. His mind stuck on a dream he had a last night.
It was him and reagan on a beach in a private island. Cuddled under the glowing sun, wearing practically nothing. They embraced and kissed the the boy woke up with a wet spot in his bed.
Dipper sprayed some cologne on him that mabel assured him would drive reagan crazy. Ever since the wedding dipper had accepted what was in his heart.
I have a crush on reagan and I want to make this work. He looked at himself in the mirror and realized he put more effort into his appearance then before, for her.
The doorbell rang and dipper flashed his reflection finger guns. "show time." he said, strutting to the door.
Reagan stood at the front of dippers apartment dressed In her usual labcoat, blue jeanes, and shoes with her hair done up in that cute ponytail. Dipper smiled warmly like a dork.
"dad took my car, are you ready. I don't want to be late for work." reagan didn't make eye contact with dipper which wasn't weird by itsels due to her social anxiety but this time something felt off.
"sure reagan, let me grab my keys." dipper reached on his nightstand and grabbed his keys and wallet.
Him and reagan left the apartment and the trott down the steps was a silent one thanks to the energies that reagan was putting out.
"How'd you sleep last night?" Dipper asked, trying to break the ice.
Reagan grumbled to herself.
"That poorly huh?" dipper opened the door to his car for reagan to enter.
She did so refusing to look up at dipper or give him any thanks.
Great rand's done something to piss her off… it's gonna be a long day.
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dipper sat around the table with the other department heads. Reagan was pounding her third flask which meant that whatever upset her was in the fore thought of her mind.
The screens in the room began to turn on and Jr. Appeared in his office on them.
"Attention everyone, here's today mission. We have a distress call from the moon colony." he said pressing a button showing a map of the moon with a red dot radiating a distress call.
"Gah, the colony, they've finally come crawling back after segregating those hippie coward." Glenn said pounding his fist on the table.
"Exactly glenn, I'll need reagan, dipper, and brett to go up there and bring them back in the fold… the rest of you tell the buzz aldran actor that he is being replaced." the screen popped off and dipper turned his head to reagan whose eyes are bulging.
"yeah! Reagan, brett, and the big dipper going up to space, woo!" brett exclaimed oblivious to the tension that permeated his colleagues mind.
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reagan took a drink from the flask… her seventh overall.
Need to forget the dream, have to forget the dream. Her brain was mush and it didn't help that her and dipper would be stuck in a space shuttle and flying upward toward the space station in t minus four hours.
Luckily, she was allowed to go home to prepare. Reagan opened the door and immediately stormed toward her kitchen. She began making herself a pot of coffee to sober herself, so she could drink another seven flasks without becoming completely useless.
On the mini-tv in the kitchen the new ninja turtles show came on and that brought reagans mind back to the memory of her first experiment.
Mipsy… she gripped her coffee pot too tightly.
Are you kidding!? You just nuked those turtles insides! They're all gonna die... Especially mipsy. Rand's evil words echoed in her mind mind as the coffee poured over the cup and burned reagan's hands leaving red marks on her hand.
The scientist felt her body shake as she ignored the pain and let her rage work itself out on her mind.
I'd do anything for you reagan. Dipper's sweet adorkable voice entered her mind… calming reagan.
No… she couldn't torture herself like this.
I l-l...like you a lot reagan. The thought of him and her going to dinner, playing footsie, eating a nice meal, and maybe he'd peak down her dress without caring that she had small breasts.
"god they're still making these?" Rand asked, appearing behind reagan. Shaking her out of her stupor.
"Dad, what do you want?"
"Creamer, we're out or do you have some in your secret woman stash that I don't know about?" he said taking a mug from the sink.
"dad, I have an important mission to the moon today and I don't need you making my stress levels run higher then they already are."
"you know, I'm surprised they haven't fired you. I mean they fired me and you're half as good as I am."
a snap in reagan's broke reagan out of her stupor. All her frustration had reached a boiling point. She clenched her fist and both the coffe pot and mug steadied themselves. She could do it… and get away with you.
You're dad loves you, he just has a weird way of showing it. Dipper's nagging voice once again calmed the beast that was reagan. She breathed in and out then turned her father.
"sometimes, the thought of us being related… keeps me up at night!" she exclaimed smashing the coffee pot and mug against the wall barely missing her fathers head.
He raised both his hands and took a couple steps back.
This was all I needed today. Where the hell is my flask!
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inside the space shuttle reagan and dipper buckled up next to each other.
Both the intellectuals said nothing locking their eyes upward while brett had himself a big bag of ruffles chips which he kept trying to offer the two.
Space travel was a first for everyone on the ship and of the three brett was taking it the best… in his own naive kinda way.
Dipper looked up at the sky and smiled. "I know, the moon was one of the things I constantly theorized about… I had over a hundred guesses of what was up there. Moon men, mutants, secret government bases… but hippie astronauts wasn't one of them."
"welcome to cognito inc." reagan replied blankly, neutral in expression and posture.
The rocket countdown began.
"Reagan, are you doing alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." she snapped at dipper.
"are you sure? If there is something bothering you, I can help."
"god! Can you stop being so helpful. You're like a goddamn baby brother always invading my personal life. I can't get a moments rest! Damn it!"
the boy slumped his head and turned his gaze away from reagan. "sorry." he mumbled.
The rocketship blasted off to the sky as they broke the atmosphere. The rocking of the ship was the least of the worries of the passengers as they sailed into starry abyss of space.
The ship came down a few miles away from the moon base. Brett immediately descended leaving the two friends in their uncomforting silence.
Each waited for the other to rise, like a stressful game of chess each tried to estimate the moves of the other.
Dipper made the first move and stopped halfway out of the space ship, looking back at the woman glued to her chair.
"I didn't know you felt that way, I'm sorry."
exiting the space shuttle dipper flew down and landed on the moon. He jumped up and down in the zero gravity and smiled.
He began doing a round jumping jacks on the moon with brett who laughed with glee.
Few minutes later reagan exited the space station a sour expression on her face. "Let's get this over with so I can go home and enjoy my week long paid vacation."
both dipper and brett nodded their heads.
Reagan pressed a button on her remote and leaned against the shuttle like a stereotypical Juvenile delinquent, all she needed was a cigarette.
The dipper didn't like that reagan was obviously going through something and wouldn't let him help but he respected her privacy too much to invade.
"they're here." reagan pointed toward a cloud of moon dust rising in the distance with a small shadow driving toward them.
The rover stopped short of the shuttle and two men in space suits came out then proceeded to bow before them.
"welcome to the moon everyone… I'm buzz aldran." the lead astronaut said, "shall we go to the moon base?"
Reagan rolled her eyes "I guess."
Everyone sat in the rover in silence as the ride took them to the big moon base.
Dipper was sandwiched between reagan and brett the former being less chipper then the latter.
Reagan was tapping her fingers against the metal of the rover and grunted with each bump.
Once the rover reached the moonbase it was smooth sailing. The security checkpoint was a breeze.
The city itself glimmered in the light of the sun which shone over the dome. Each building white as porcelain. No litter reeked the streets and everyone was friendly.
The three earthlings looked around at the marvels of the moon base… it was a utopia that the earth could never see or would ever see.
"Buzz, this is amazing." Reagan admitted pointing to the flying rovers.
"well, we do like to keep our glorious city clean. It may not be as big as some cities on earth but I guarantee it is the best city in the whole milky way system." Pride beamed out of buzz aldran, each word he spoke was backed by an unbending confidence.
"so why are we here mr. Aldran?" brett piped up eyes shining like diamonds at the scientic beauty in front of him.
"one of our generators are down, without it we could risk the others failing and that would mean the end to our civilization." he explained pointing to the distance.
"can't you fix it yourself?" Dipper asked.
"would if we could but we just made a pact with the darksiders of the moon and they would take any of us being that close as an act of war."
"darksiders?"
"yeah those who don't live in the light of the sun. They are aggressive little brutes but don't tell them I said that." he chuckled, holding his side like ti would burst out.
"so anyway will you help us. If you do then I can offer a peaceful return to earth rule."
Dipper raised an eyebrow. "why would you return to earth after all this time?"
"to put it simply boy, I miss earth. Chili dogs, apple pie, and baseball all the things that make america great. I knew this moon colony was a pipe dream but I tried and now if america can help then they'll have their own fully seattled base on the moon and all they have to do is fix our generators. Who wouldn't take that deal?"
dipper tapped his head, it made sense on paper but still something felt off. Buzz aldran's easy smile just didn't seem right. He'd seen it before, many times… on his grunkle stan. He would do all the same things buzz just did to get a mark on his side.
"we'd love to." reagan agreed shaking buzz's hand.
"Reagan, are yo–"
A crash in the glass next to them made the group notice a rogue rover with a familiar old man laying down in it.
The vacuum of space sucked much into it before the colonists could patch it up.
"Is that… dad!" Reagan exclaimed.
"Rand!" Buzz aldran screamed running toward the old man. Once the astronaut cuaght up to him and punched him knocking the smaller man out.
"woah! What the heck!"
"this bastard made the entire colony become diagnosed with syphlis." he pointed at the bloodied rand as he wiped his jaw.
"only because you slept with my wife."
"you son of a bitch! That was thirty years ago!" they both spoke over each other like children.
"thirty years?" Brett mumbled watching the two older men argue. His eyes darted rapidly from reagan to rand to buzz to reagan. "Oh my god. Dipper." brett pulled dipper away from the group.
"dude, I think buzz aldran may be reagans dad."
"Oh my god that makes so much sense." Dipper agreed.
"so should we tell her?"
"of course she needs to know?"
"should I tell her?"
"I think that would be best." dipper rubbed the back of his neck. "she's really mad at me for some reason."
"Okay," brett strutted up to reagan and pulled her aside.
Dipper watched the two talk and shook his head. Who would have thought that after all we've been through that I would fall in love with reagan and around the time I realized she'd come to despise me.
After all the talking was done rand was once again punched out by buzz and grabbed on both side by the moon base's security.
Reagan and brett returned to the group after talking and buzz clapped his hands together. "i'm sorry you had to see all this… but shall we agree to the deal?"
"I think we shall buzz. Brett grab my dad from his holding cell and return him to the ship. Oh my god he's such an idiot." reagan shook her head.
"gotcha reagan, I'm on it." he saluted running after the holding cell.
"okay then, let's grab a drink at the bar and then I can take you to the generators."
"sure!" reagan chirped, a little more excited then when she started on this trip.
"excellent," buzz walked off heading down the streets of the colony.
"so reagan, what do you think?"
"I think I've finally received a chance at having a father figure who I can be proud." the goofy grin on reagan's face was at the same time reassuring and unusual.
Dipper watched buzz aldran's strut. Once again he was reminded of his grunkle stan… a con man. But he also looked at reagan who was so happy to be given the chance to finally have a dad who could be her father figure instead of a excuse for therapy.
If reagan is happy then I won't ruin it for her… but I better keep an eye out for buzz aldran. Something doesn't strike as right about him.
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whelp, she was right. Dipper thought as he and reagan sat at the bar after a long days work. Reagan had finished fixing the generator a few moments prior and they now had a fine meal and drink.
"you were great today reagan, I'm proud of you." Buzz said patting reagan's back unaware that he may be the girls daugther.
Reagan blushed at the praise and twirled her hair snorting like a school girl. "th-thanks b-buzz… I appreciate it."
dipper rolled his eyes at this. Why am I so mad… is this jealousy… no I couldn't be jealous. Buzz is literally old enough to be her dad… but still.
The way reagan smiled mixed with how she treated him today made dipper feel like he was gonna be replaced.
"I'm gonna go grab some fresh air." Dipper said hopping up from his table and maneuvering past the busy pub.
"On the moon, good luck." buzz heckled, slapping his knee.
Dipper walked out of the bar then made his way to the outskirts of the colony.
Alone with his thoughts the boy could see the writing on the wall. Reagan didn't need him anymore, she had the perfect dad in the second man on the moon and that meant regular old conspiracy theorist dipper was not as interesting or neccessary.
A pair of hands wrapped themselves around dipper as he walked near a shadowy alley. They forcefully pulled him into the darkness and pressed him against the wall.
"kid where's reagan? She's in danger." Rand said pressing dipper against the wall, darting his eyes from the boy to the alley. Brett was beside him holding one of the guns from the ship.
"she's with buzz… what are you doing?"
"Buzz aldran is fucking crazy! He killed neil armstrong and plans to segregate the moon from earth."
"do you have any idea how crazy all this sounds? Why should I believe you?" Dipper looked at brett whose forced smile was less then comforting.
"because I have proof. Brett!"
The man jumped at the shout then fumbled inside his lab coat and pulled out a skull and threw it at dipper.
The boy caught it and looked at it. Their was a bullet in the head. "is this?"
Rand placed his finger on dippers lips and shushed him. "it is, now where's reagan, she needs to know."
"at the bar… with buzz! Oh my god! We need to save her!" dipper dashed out of the alley followed by brett and rand.
"kid slow down."
"reagan needs us." dipper yelled back.
Rand caught up and wrapped dipper in a chokehold. "I know, but they're are eyes everywhere. Buzz has this place locked tighter then a nun's chastity belt. So that means we need to be smart. I want you to go to the bar and bring out to us."
Dipper nodded his head.
"Good. I'm glad we understand each other." rand released the young boy then they all walked at a lesiurely pace. Trying not to draw attention from the many moon men and women who made this orwellian wet dream their home.
"The bar's up ahead, I'll be back as soon as I can." dipper crept toward the bar. When he entered the establishment he looked at the table where he and reagan sat with buzz, finding it vacant.
"Oh no," dipper ran to the bar keep. "Hey, buzz aldran was with a girl in a ponytail, brown hair kinda asian… did he say where he was going?"
"Yeah he did, knowing buzz it makes sense, she's the first new female seen in the colony since wwe began… he's taking her to his pad for a little fun time."
"you sound so comfortable saying that."
"Of course, we came to the moon to escape the squares on earth." the barkeep turned his back to dipper. "what is she your girlfriend or something?"
"where is buzz's pad?"
"i'm not just gonna tell you that earth square."
Dipper leapt over the counter grabbing the barkeep by the collar, pulling the man face-to-face. An insane look in his eye. "where!"
"he's in the big building at the center of the base. Please don't hurt me." the barkeep quivered.
Dipper pushed him aside and jolted out of the bar racing toward the building.
I shouldn't have left her… it's my fault. I have to save her… please, god, don't let me be too late. He pushed himself to the limit until his legs felt like they would snap. In his rush dipper didn't pace himself and eventually his boney legs gave in and he fell down.
The boy desperately tried to pull himself back up but he was too tired and his joints burned like they were on fire. He breathed through his lungs hot as coals.
Both rand and brett followed close behind him.
"you got it bad kid." rand said, disappointment clear on his face.
Brett lifted the boy up and they looked up at the center building.
"reagan's about to be seduced by buzz aldran… who may or may not be her real dad."
"Oh god brett told you that theory too. I wish idiots wouldn't bother smart folk with their dumb theories." rand stepped forward heading to the building.
"come on, let's save my daugther from being violated by a glorified flower child."
A loud blaring emanated from the sirens around the base.
"an alarm? What could have happened?"
Rand looked toward the building where a shadowy figure barelled toward them pursued by hundreds of moon men.
"give ya three guesses." he pointed toward the figure.
"Is that… reagan!" dipper ran toward her with a renewed speed.
He closed the distance almost instantly as reagan fell over then looked toward the mass.
"come on!" dipper picked her up and placed her on his back with a strange burst of strength dashing away from the moon men.
"dipper? How'd you know I was in trouble?" reagan asked, rubbing her sour leg.
"your dad and brett found out that buzz is a monster."
"Great, looks like I'm the last to find out this stuff again." reagan groaned.
"what do we do now?"
"get me to the generators we need to stop him from using the propellers to shoot them away from earths orbit."
Dipper nodded as he entered the same area as rand and brett then took off running again. They found a rover and drove it out of the base through the glass. They shot through the cold expanse of space after hastily putting their space helmets on and they entered the generator field.
"dad you're up there with me… dipper and brett you keep them off us."
both dipper and brett nodded.
They waited below the generators while the ridleys climbed, fists raised.
"you ver been in a fight before brett… because I haven't." dipper was more of a out thinking kinda guy. The only fighting lessons he took was a year of boxing during sophomore year.
"I prefer to seattle things with hugs but I took some mma training to build up my figure… he smiled then cracked his neck in prepartion for the fight.
The rovers shot through in the distance and the first astronaut hippies jumped out and gently floated down toward brett and dipper.
Dipper jumped up to meet them in the air and cleaned the clock of the the astronaut.
"wohoho! Dipper, you're incredible!" brett enamoured as an astronaut punched him but he didn't flinch. "whaaaat! I'm incredible too!?"
"Brett, these assholes have lived in a limited gravity environment for the last thirty years. You have more strength then they do." reagan called from the receptors above.
"Mooon strength!" he exclaimed punching two more astronuats and dropkicking a third.
Dipper managed to knock out two more in the air before landing… right in front of buzz aldran.
"Liar!" Dipper struck at buzz who grabbed his arm and twisted it behind him.
"the moon will not bow before earth anymore. We are superior and if it wasn't for neil sabotaging us last time we would've manifested our new destiny by now." he pulled dipper's arm back more and the boy felt his bones crack.
"at the cost of billions of lives!" dipper jerked his head into buzz's helmet, cracks began to form as he released the boy. Dipper sweeped his leg making buzz fall and immediately float. "reagan Isn't your daugther, because she may be smart like you… but she's a good person who cares about the people around her… that's why I can't allow you to win."
Dipper lifted his foot and slammed the man down with an axkick knocking buzz out.
"done!"
"good job reagan!" dipper as the two ridleys came down and jumped toward dipper.
"reagan, I know I'm not the most ideal father… but I'm proud of you champ." rand admitted giving her a thumbs up making the girl blush.
"wow, uh, thanks dad." she stumbled over her words.
"reagan…?" dipper started.
The woman gulped then looked at dipper. "Yes, uh, dipper."
"would you like to go with the movies with me?"
"Uh, sure, as friends right?"
"Yeah… as friends." dipper said his head bowed. I knew she wasn't interested in a romantic relationship with someone whose way younger then her.