The Truth is out there: Book 1 Of the inside job/gravity falls universe

By

Neztro

Chapter 15: The Mole

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.

Let's Groove tonight! Share the spice of life. The music blared through the speakers of the department office.

Everyone danced like nobodies business even the prudish reagan.

Because today jr retired to become the new big wig and he was promoting reagan to the ceo of cognito… it was all so perfect.

Dipper and reagan had both worked themselves into a frenzy since they started their partnership and it has finally born fruit.

After the song ends the group all sit down to catch their breath. Reagan sat next to dipper her hands at her sides as her chest moved up and down.

"was it everything you expected it to be?" she asked dipper, a weary smile on her face. "me, making a fool of myself, dancing like an idiot."

"you're nowhere near as bad as I am… I have two left feet." dipper replied in a similar position as reagan.

The scientist felt her hand draw itself towards dipper's… as if it was longing for his touch. She immediately pulled away before it could touch the boys hand.

"reagan what's the first thing you're gonna do as the boss of bosses?" dipper asked looking up at the ceiling chuckling to himself.

"Let's see, I plan to redo our subliminal messaging department, assassin some particularly nasty heads of state who are making life harder, and then I plan to promote this little twerp I tied up to a chair once to head of the department heads."

"and who is this little twerp whose taking my hard earned promotion?"

"Hard earned? The only work you've done is ride my coattails."

"I saved your life during our first mission together."

"and I saved you from robot reagan which was your sisters fault."

they both looked into each others eyes and the laughed harder then either thought they could.

"It's been a good year, I almost don't want it to end."

"Yeah," reagan stopped turned her gaze toward the screen. "it's weird."

"what's weird reagan."

"i've worked my whole life trying to reach the top. I wanted to be the best, had to be the best but for the life of I don't know why." she looked around her at the people surrounding the table. Her fellow department heads, her friends.

"you deserve this, don't let anyone tell you different… not even yourself." dipper reassured, placing his hand on reagan's shoulder. This time he held no reservation and reagan could sense newfound confidence.

"I know I deserve it. That's not the problem."

"then what is?"

"I think I don't want it. I have worked my whole life thinking when I reach the top I'd be happy but now that I'm so close… It's not what I expected." reagan watched dipper's eyes glow when they met hers and the beating of her heart skipped a beat. "I think I need to find what does make me happy."

"whatever it is, I'm sure you'll find it." dipper's smile did wonders for reagan's mind. She once again fantasized about the deserted island just her and him. No technology, no bosses, no work… just the two of them living an Idyllic couple life.

Ever since her vacation after the moon mission her initial hostility towards dipper faded. She accepted that she was at least interested in dipper and she could do worse for a partner… and did on several occassions. Even though it was weird because she saw dipper as her closest friend she knew that they could make it work.

Which is why she has dinner reservations at a nice restaurant dipper has been dying to get into for two weeks from now… for two.

She would ask him on a date and conqueror her fears all she had to do was wait until she became ceo and then she'd pop the question… the question about going on date.

The teams merriment reached a crescendo but the lights in the room turned dark then the alarm blared and the overhead lights flashed red.

Jr's voice appeared in the speaker phones… "department heads! In my office! Now!"

"this isn't good." reagan gulped then looked around at her shocked friends.

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Jr.'s face reminded dipper of a ripe tomato. He was yelling for the last ten minutes apparently someone has stolen a file with all the secrets of the shadow government and if it leaked to the general public then it would be the end of the world order itself.

"I can't let the big wigs find out about this. Reagan, dipper, you're in charge of finding out who stole the file… If no one is revealed then I'll terminate the whole company along with all the employees."

"when you say all the employees?" Glen asked, raising his finger.

"even the department heads… I can't risk anyone tying me and the bigwigs to this place. You have 48 hours or I call in a drone strike… until then you are all in lock down." jr reached into his pocket and pulled out a detonator with a red button. He pressed it and the doors in cognito locked down and steel covering blocked light.

Jr then used his watch to summon an elevator which shot up to the helicopter pad.

Reagan took in a sharp breath and turned to the department heads. "alright, each of you, I'm gonna check your work places and offices… if any of you wanna save us the trouble and come forward. I will promise to push for leniency but if you force me to go through all this then I promise the shadow prison will be the least of your worries."

The entire department heads argued amongst themselves. Pointing fingers, yelling at each other.

Dipper couldn't believe what he was hearing. These were his friends… reagan's friends. The people who helped make their missions easier. Sure they were annoying and barely did their jobs but they weren't traitors.

"dipper, come here." reagan growled, pointing to the front of her. When he reached her side she pulled him into a headlock and bent him down.

"who do you think did it?" Reagan asked, her voice less confident then before. Dipper knew she didn't think this was possible either.

"I-I don't know? This can't be real."

"dipper… it is real… you are the only one I can trust. We have to find the mole or we are all dead… I know you don't want to believe this but one of our friends… is a traitor. So it's either them or us… understand."

"are you sure there is no other way?"

"None that I can think of… I think it's time to use the truth serum."

"But, we haven't prepared it for human consumption." dipper turned his gaze toward their friends glaring at each other preparing for a mexican stand off of insults.

"I know but it's our only choice… are you in or out."

"I'm in." No hesistation, He knew that she wouldn't suggest this if it wasn't the only option on the table.

Reagan's lips curved in a reassuring smile. "good, get them at the table and I'll handle the rest."

Dipper nodded, his gut twisting in knots. Am I really gonna do this? Betray my coworkers.

"guys!" All heads turned to dipper and he cleared his throat. "don't let this seperate us, we need to stay strong together so we can get out the mole. I don't think any of you did it and thus we need to find out who is really behind all this."

the group looked at each other, smiled, and cheered for dipper.

The boy put on a fake smile his eyes meeting reagan's who gave him two thumbs up with a big grin on her face.

Dipper's eyes turned downwards and he shook his head. This is gonna backfire so bad.

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

this has backfired so bad! Dipper thought looking around at the arguing folks in front of him. This was all because reagan had slipped them her truth potion which made It so that they opened up to all their secrets.

Now they were at each others throats.

Oh god this is terrible! Dipper screamed in his head as he watched reagan try to calm them all down. I'll do anything, give anything for all this to end.

Out of the air ducts from above a miracle happened… in a way.

Rand ridley fell through the grate landing face first on the floor.

"dad what are you doing here?" Reagan exclaimed marching toward her father.

"isn't it obvious, he's the one who stole the file!" myc exclaimed pointing his tentacle at the old man.

Rand jumped up upon the mushroom saying that and his eyes widened. "the masterfile was stolen!?"

"don't act like you don't know you saboteur. You hated this company ever since you got canned." Myc instagated looking around at his coworkers for reassurance.

Glenn, Gigi, and andre all nodded their heads in agreement with myc then began cracking their knuckles.

"guys I can see where this is going but it isn't my dad." reagan raised her hands up defensively and placed herself between the team and her dad.

"shut it reagan, you truth serumed us… not cool!"

"Brett, little help here?" reagan asked stepping back with her father toward the door.

Brett hand bowed his head. "sorry reagan, you have to choice… him or us?"

dipper watched this go on and couldn't believe his eyes. He ran up to reagan and stepped between her and the team.

"guys, please don't do this. This solves nothing, I know rand didn't do it." dipper pleaded standing there as reagan backed away with her father.

"and why should we believe you. You're the one who got us ruffied and you're in love with reagan so you can't be trusted either." myc charged dipper but he pressed a button using the spray again making the mushroom man roll over in pain.

"ah, god damnit how did I forget you had that spray? It fucking burns!" myc rolled around on the floor.

"run!" dipper dashed toward the door followed by reagan and rand. Then at the front door bearo stood picking both rand and reagan up in it's arms and opening it's mouth grabbing dipper by the scruff of his shirt and rolled away.

"thanks bear o, never thought I'd say that." dipper sighed in relief.

The sound of shouting behind them told the duo that the team was chasing after them.

"bear o suggests that rand uses his secret bunker to hide… it is the only way to keep reagan safe." the bear suggested dropping dipper and reagan into the water.

"don't you dare drop me in that water or so help me… aah!" rand fell to the water with a loud splash as the three scientists swam down and entered a secret hatch.

They swam through a cannel until they came upon a aquaduct area and entered a dried platfrom raised up.

"what is all this?"

"this is where I have my memory altering technology, it's also my safe haven even jr doesn't know about it."

dipper followed rand as he walked down a hall. Dipper looked up at a plaque with the title project jellybean.

"that room is where I'd take ronald reagan when he'd have what I like to call a bad case of quiet morality." rand rubbed his hands together as they reached the end of the hall.

Rand flicked on a light revealing a room full of 1970's computer and chairs. Dipper looked at it with amazement… circumstances not withstanding.

"here we are this place is rigged with screens connected to camera's that span every room in the building… if someone did steal the master file then we'll see it all."

"dad how much computing power do these thing have?"

His eyes dart back and forth realization clear on his tone. "enough… it has… enough."

rand crossed her arms and leaned against the wall of the building. "whatever, it's not like I have anything better to do then wait for my old friends to come and find us."

aaah, they were beneath you and we all know the only one you can trust is yourself, right dipper?" rand fiddled with the computers while he chuckled.

The boy leaned against the wall next to his friend. "are you okay?"

"i'm fine, I just betrayed my friends to save my piece of shit father from a punishment he deserves."

"Hey! I deserve to be the king of the goddamn world not to be framed for one of your freakshow buddies… get your story straight reagan. Those friends of yours makes you weak."

Dipper wrapped his arm around reagan. "may I give you a hug?"

it was the first time dipper had asked permission usually the hugs came at the end of a great victory or as an emotional reponse. This time dipper wanted to ask permision. He wanted to comfort her.

"why?"

"Because you need it…"

"If I need it then why don't you just do it?"

"Because it's not fair to you to force a solution that I came up with… it has to be your choice." dipper removed his hand and turned from reagan. "I know it's hard to believe… but you deserve love, we all do and your life has been devoid of it… I understand that rand is probably the worst father in history."

"Hey fuck you kid!"

Dipper ignored him. "but you don't have to be like him."

"how can I not be?"

"do you know pacifica northwest."

"yeah, the actress who just secured her 10th 100 million dollar contract and became the richest woman on the planet… what about her?"

"she was a bitch when I knew her?"

"you, knew pacifica northwest, you…. Dipper she's the most famous girl on the planet how did you know her."

"she was the richest girl in gravity Falls. Her dad was a bastard as well and she was just like him… but the more I got to know her, the more she came out of her shell… until finally she became decent and from what mabel has told me from her work as pacifica's top advisor… she's one of the nicest people in the world"

Reagan's frown deepened and her eyes darkened. "what are you trying to say?"

"it doesn't matter what you've been put through as a child. You can pull through it and be a better person then the ones who made you… all you have to do is try."

"do you really think I can change into a better person?"

"I do and I'll be here to help for as long as you'll have me."

The shared a smile then leaned closer toward each other. Slowly closing their eyes as their lips parted.

"Hey! love birds! The computer is at 90% and your coworkers are on top of us… come here and take cover." rand called interrupting the two as they froze mere inches from each other.

"ahem, that was weird right? Must be some pheromones in the air?"

"Yeah, hey, uh, after all this is said and done, do you wanna grab some lunch?"

"Yes! ahem, I mean that would be nice. I'll have to check my schedule and maybe move somethings around but I guess I could make it depending on the day… he he." Reagan's face twisted in a anxious display.

The two took cover behind a panel with a lever which rand pulled to make coming out of the wall animatatronics statues to guard the place.

The door of the room flew forward hitting the panel. When the dust cleared glenn with a rocket launcher barreled toward them.

The dolphinman tripped over a serpent animatronic which grappled him and thrashed around.

"I need back up, repeat I need back up." he choked.

The rest of the gang charged forward and entered combat with the animatronics which included a bird, a lion, a tiger, and Bear… oh my.

The fight lasted for a few moments before the tide started turning against the team.

Reagan looked forward with distress as her friends fought against the robots. Her hands on the lever shaking.

dipper noticed this and placed his hand over reagans. "you can be better then him… I know you can." he said.

"reagan! Up the juice and this will be done!"

distress clear on reagans face she looked at her father and then to dipper.

"dipper… I trust you." reagan pulled the lever turning off the macines.

"Guys! I have been a bad boss. Thus I will admit that I took the file… because you don't deserve to die for my mistake." reagan admitted placing her hand to her heart.

"reagan you'd do that for us?" brett asked his eyes glowing.

"I will."

"you can't, we won't let you… we've all been acting childish." glenn admitted.

The rest of the team nodded their heads in unison.

"file 100% complete." the computer beamed out.

The group all ran to the video and watched it. The office was dark and quiet until the door was blown off and a familiar robot bear entered the office.

"the mole is… bear o!?" Reagan exclaimed.

"there there reagan, do you need a hug?" bear-o appeared In doorway then rolled forward with a red look in his eyes and the master file in his talons.

"Oooh fuck." dipper said, reaching onto his side where his blaster was holstered. "this isn't good."