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

By

Neztro

Chapter 16: My Memories

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.

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I do plan on a future fanfic of writing mabel and Brett in a relationship in the same universe.

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Also I have received a message and to answer no I don't plan to stop until part 2 to finish his story I plan to end this story by chapter 23 which at the pace that I'm writing means you'll get the end of this story by the end of january

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sorry I haven't updated in a while but I decided to take a break for the holidays and I am starting the writing of this on the last day of the 2021 and the plan is to still give you the rest of this story then go to something I have planned… in the fate universe…. With some lincoln loud thrown in for flavor.

dipper felt his heart race, his blood frozen.

There standing in front of him was the mole, the person who turned him and reagan against their team… bear-o.

The bear robot treaded forward looking at the trembling group in front of him with cold unfeeling sensors.

"Bear-o? Why?" reagan asked a brave look on her face.

"bear-o knows reagan is not happy with her job." the screens behind the group turned on showing reagan's various signs of depression.

"you're pill consumption is up, your thoughts of suicide are up, and you're depression levels are up… I plan to make this job and business go away then reagan can have her true dream."

"My dream?" reagan looked at dipper who was equally cofused.

"you're old dream was to get married on mars as a lego astronaut to nsync. But now I see what your new dream." the screens flashed to reagan being asleep. She mumbled in her sleep with a smile on her face.

Dipper, I love you so much. That's right get those hands all over my back, massage my shoulders next.

"I knew it! Yeah! You owe me five bucks andre you fuck face!" myc gloated then froze when saw bear-o aim it's arm laser at him. "i'll shut up now."

"it's obvious the only thing in this job that makes you happy is dipper. So I updated your dream so that now you and dipper are going to get married and live a perfect life… I'll make sure of it… for you reagan."

"update this, bear monstrosity!" dolph exclaimed pulling an rpg and shooting the robot forming a dust cloud.

When it disapated bear-o stood unscathed though the master file was completely ruined.

"what the… dad! Did you make bear-o indestructible?" Reagan turned her head to rand who shrugged his shoulders.

"Kids are always breaking shit. What did you expect?"

"It is obvious to me that the master file is gone and thus the need for a new plan is necessary… initiating protocol seventy three."

"Protocol seventhy three?" the group said In unison.

"or as rand calls it… destroy all who stand between reagan and her happiness… be they friend, family, or both." bear-o explained converting his arms into saw blades and propellig hundreds of weapons from his body.

Rand's eyes widened. "to be fair, I didn't expect to be targeted by that protocol. Luckily reagan can shut him off with the access key."

"right! Bear-o stand down! That's an order." reagan stood firm in front of the robot and slitted her eyes, she tried to hide her arm so that bear-o wouldn't see it shaking.

"very well, I require you to give me the access key in order for new commands to be presented." bear-o said a hologram of a password bracket showing.

Reagan stumbled and wracked her brain in order to think about what it could possibly be. I don't know it!

"everybody fucking run!" myc exclaimed running past the group and was quickly followed by the rest as dipper, brett, reagan, and rand all stood frozen.

"I see, I will allow you a moment to say goodbye to brett and rand before I eliminate them because I cannot allow the others to live for a moment longer." bear-o turned his back to the scared group then sped after the crew.

"w-we have to save the team!" brett exclaimed being the first to speak.

rand raised his hands "slow your roll brett. We have to save ourselves first."

"are you fucking serious dad!?" reagan exclaimed.

"pfft, please you know I don't give a shit about your colleagues, but I know as long as that bear remains indestructible with the goal to kill everyone who makes reagan sad then none of us are safe… except for reagan."

"so what's your plan?" dipper began scratching his forehead. He knew that rand was already forming a plan to get them out of this. Because he was the smartest man in the room and dipper had already started doing the same thing.

"glad you asked dipper, good to know someone is actually thinking rationally."

Reagan grumbled to herself. Her father's smug grin had returned and that was the last thing she needed to see today.

"to put it simply. We are going inside reagans memories in order to find the password that can reprogram that bear and save our lives." rand clapped his hands together and yelled with an renewed vigor. "I'm a goddamn genius!"

reagan rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Ugh, egotistical much?"

"but wait, isn't bear o your creation? Shouldn't you know the password?" brett brought up a good point.

"brett, If I knew the password then don't you think I'd have used it by now!? I let reagan choose the password because he was her bear. If anything you should be grilling her for forgetting her password."

"Oh like you haven't fucking forgot anything!"

"guys! We have to focus. The teams in danger and we are the only ones who can help them." dipper stood on the console and each of the arguing ridleys turned their gaze to him.

"I like your boyfriend reagan, he's got his priorities straight." rand adopted a shit eating grin turning his back to the younger ridley making his way out of the room.

Reagan pouted, crossing her arms. "Not my boyfriend," she grumbled.

"okay! Go team ridley!" brett exclaimed.

"Shove it brett!" reagan pushed the yes man away and followed her father out of the door.

Dipper helped brett to his feet and dusted him off. "sorry about her, she's going through a lot."

"Oh I'm fine, this is a just another day for brett hand."

"you are just like my sister… by the way are you planning on dating her?"

"Uh no, I mean if she wanted to date me I would love that… but she hasn't asked but she may be flirting so I don't know… oh shit I've talked for way too long." brett stammered nervously.

"you know what, nevermind." dipper followed reagan and her father down the hall to a new room.

The centerpiece of this room was a huge tank filled with clear blue liquid with tiny particles In it. Surrounding the tank were thousands of machines and computers.

"hey dipper, catch!" rand yelled throwing a black suit to dipper.

The boy cuaght it and immediately began donning the suit.

"so we're going inside that tank in order to go inside reagan's memories?"

"correct, how did you know?"

"this isn't my first rodeo." dipper ascended the steps standing near the two ridleys.

"we go in, we find the password, we come out. Brett you stay here and try not to break anything… In fact if bear o comes be our meat shield." rand grabbed his nose and jumped into the water immediately zoning okay.

"you ready for this." dipper asked, reaching out for reagan to grab his hand.

"No, but let's do it anyway." reagan leapt into the water leaving dipper without a hand to hold.

The boy sighed and did the same thing as rand jumping into water. He felt himself fall unconscious then immediately wake up inside reagans mind… which looked like a conspiracy board… of course.

"oh great, I am a fucking nut job." reagan yelled pointing at the memories around her, she stormed down the hall to the first memory.

Rand and dipper followed close behind.

"Psst, dipper, keep a close eye on reagan… some of these memories may be looking out to hurt her."

"what do you mean?"

"there are things… I may made reagan forget."

"how could you do that?"

"for her own good! You don't know what it's like watching your baby girl waste away her life and lose all her potential. I had to remove those memories so she could move on."

"How bad are the memories?"

"Bad. So can I count on your support."

Dipper didn't like the idea of keeping secrets from reagan. But this was the first time dipper noticed that rand had started acting like a father and he couldn't get between him and his daughter.

"Yeah I'm with you rand."

the scietist patted dipper on the back with a warm smile… the first warm smile that dipper had ever seen on rand. "that a boy."

the three continued walking down the aisle of emotions. Each one looked like a picture on a dart board.

"hey, I remember this portrait. I was with that kid who came behind me in the science fair." reagan pointed to a picture of a boy with glasses, a striped sweater, and an ginger bowl cut. "I can't seem to remember his name."

"reagan don't."

The girl hopped into the portrait and rand rubbed his head.

"what's wrong. Is that one of the dangerous memories?"

"Yeah, it is, that kid…. Ruined reagan. It took years to fix the damage he caused." rand's tone darkened and the normally jovial older man took on a serious tone.

"what did he do?"

rand clenched his fist and punched the board next to him making it shake.

"Point taken." dipper squeaked.

Reagan returned from the picture with a smile on her face. "orrin was his name. Hey I remember that weird woman who entered our class… is that how younger me sees myself. Oh god."

"reagan focus… we need to find that password."

"gotcha." the group began climbing up the wires each keeping an eye out for potential memories to help them.

"hey what about this one?" dipper asked pointing at a picture of a birthday party.

"good eye dipper. The password will definetly be there." rand responded entering the memory, followed by reagan and then dipper.

The memory was of a backyard in a suburban neighborhood with an archway in the back that read jurassic party.

The party was only attended by a rand, his wife, and a young girl that dipper assumed was reagan.

"hey jellybean what's wrong." young rand asked watching young reagan mope around her cake,

"nobody came to my party and I made a velicoraptor bot ot ride and everything." reagan kicked her robot dinosaur with a frown on her face. The robot noticed a squirrell ate it with squirrel guts streaming inside it's maw.

"hey look sweety someone did come." rand pointed to that same kid.

"what the…" reagan asked.

"hey this is chompy don't mind the squirrel guts." young reagan said on top o the dinosaur whose head leaned down to the scared child who has a present.

"I'm too young to die!" the kid exclaimed running from reagan.

"your getting your coat from car… you'll be back right?" young reagan moped.

What a jerk. Dipper thought, no wonder rand hates this kid.

"don't worry jelly bean, friends are temporary, murderbots are forever." rand comforted.

Reagan rolled her eyes. "why do my parties make people scream about not wanting to die."

"it must be genetic." rand said, scratching his forehead.

"hey look what is that?" dipper pointed to the memory distorting and forming. He could barely make it out but it looked like reagan was riding the dinosaur robot with another person. Dipper couldn't make it out who it was but it kinda looked like orrin.

"your right, what's going on?" reagan began scratching her head to try and comprehend what was happening.

"we must be messing with your memories by just being here… we have to go. Now." rand grabbed both their hands and jumped through the memories.

"Okay where to next?" asked looking to rand.

"Keep looking for memories with bear-o let's split up. Call out when you find one… okay." rand said descending down the memories.

Dipper did the same going down to a seperate aisle of memories. He walked down for a few moments looking around when he was grabbed from behind.

Rand stood behind dipper and pulled him into a dark corner of the dart board. "listen, we don't have much time but I think reagan's repressed memories are fighting back."

"are you sure?"

"of course I am, you saw that glitch… the repressed memories are flooding back in… this may very well break her and if that happens… I don't want to think about it." rand shivered after the words left his mom.

"what do we do?" dipper looked around at the memories.

Rand's eyes darted from one end of the aisle or not. "simple, the machine I showed you. The memory machine, we just have to get reagan in it and rerepress the memories so that they don't hurt her."

"But, wouldn't that damage her?"

"No, it's fine… I've done this plenty of times… trust me."

"I don't know, messing with reagans memories doesn't seem right."

"Kid, I don't know how to tell you this but we are in reagan's memories looking for a password… trust me she need us to help her… even if she won't say it. Will you help me."

dipper gulped, am I really going to do this… help erase reagan's memories. One look at reagan's memories around him. All the happy smiles, all the good moments… could be lost if she was broken.

"I'll do it." dipper had no choice but to help his friend. Besides, he knew that erasing memories was a necessary evil… it is what saved gravity falls… maybe it can save reagan.

Rand's warm smile returned as he clapped dipper's shoulder. "atta boy dipper, after this we'll have a serious talk about your future with my daugther… I'll bring the booze."

"Hey guys! I found another memory with bear-o." reagan yelled.

"shall we?" Rand invited.

"after you."

The two followed reagan's voice and found the memory of the science fair. They all entered the science lab.

Reagan and the group hid behind a pillar to see a young reagan with a frog human hyrbid strapped to a flat table just out of the frankenstein.

The judges clapped in joy declaring her the winner.

at least this one is happy. dipper thought.

"arrgh!" reagan grasped her head in pain.

"Jellybean what's wrong?" rand stood over his daugther in a protective stance over the girl in pain.

"Orrin… orrin… orrin!"

"dipper we have to get her out this memory… let's go!" rand lifted reagan up and placed her arm over his shoulder leading her out.

Dipper looked out to see the memory glinching when he saw both young reagan and orrin were standing victorious. "what the hell?"

"dipper! Hurry!" rand yelled from the entrance of the memory.

Dipper dashed out of the memory with rand. Once they were out dipper realized something. "you son of a bitch." dipper whispered.

"what's that now?"

"you're hiding something!"

Rand's eyes widened and sweat began to pour from his skin as he backpedaled.

"you're talking crazy dipper. I've been nothing but on the level with you."

"the glinches showed reagan with that orrin kid, which means he was her friend… which also means that he was erased… by you! Why! Why would you do this to her!? You're own daugther!"

"because she was gonna waste her life being in the same grade as that putz!" rand exclaimed. "she was offered to skip middle school and go straight to high school… how could she pass that up for a childhood simpleton like orrin cartwright?"

"I-i trusted you! I let you worm your way into my head! You were gonna make me rewire reagan so you could still use her! You're a monster!"

"Pfft, oh please kid, I've bee called much worse by men who are ten times more important then you are… now are you gonna play ball or are you gonna force me to make your life hell."

"Dad, you son of a bitch!" reagan yelled her mind becoming a hurricane.

"reagan what are you doing?" rand felt the air pick him up as lightning began to crack.

"I heard everything. You took everything from me! Now I'm gonna make you suffer!"

"reagan! Stop this, remember what I said?"

"Dipper… please let me do this."

"Be better then him… for me." dipper pleaded looking up at reagan with a forced smile.

"i-i can't… but I must!" the storm subsided and dipper held reagan close.

"i'm sorry."

"sssh, it's okay reagan, you're gonna be fine… I swear."

Just then the group all shot awake they're eyes groggy when they saw that they were all stuck in. Dipper looked up and saw bear-o being grappled by robot arms made from inventions jury rigged from reagan's lab.

"guys! You came back for us?" dipper asked rising from the group.

"of course we did, you guys are our timberlakes!" dolph said, confusing dipper.

"dipper looked over as he, reagan, began to awake along with brett who dipper noticed was wet. Which means he was in the tank.

Bear-o broke through and started wheeling toward him with a smile on chainsaw arm ready. Dipper stood between bear-o and rand.

"stand aside dipper, bear-o just wants to kill bad father figure rand… you will be unharmed…"

"No!"

"bear-o is confused. You know he is bad for reagan. Yet you defend him… why?"

"Because if anyone is gonna tear that guy apart… it's gonna be reagan… she deserves it more then me or you… so I won't let you near him."

"very well, I will have to use nonlethal force to get you out of the way."

"Bear-o! I order you to stop!"

"what is the password reagan?"

"Orrin!" reagan exclaimed with brett putting two fingers up with a smile.

Bear-o shuts down and looks at reagan. "what are my new orders?"

"take this piece of shit out of the building and if he gives you any trouble… kill him." reagan said, pointing to rand.

"reagan, how dare you betray me?"

"I don't want to see you again… if your still in my apartment by the end of the day I'll kill you myself… now get out." bear-o grabbed rand by the collar and escorted him out.

Reagan got on a soapbox and pointed to everyone. "I want to thank you all for the help and apologize for my actions… and I'll see each of you mad lads monday."

The group cheered for reagan with three cheers.

dipper smiled. "reagan, you made the right decision… see you monday."

"Yeah, ill see you mondya… also do you want to go on a date next friday… I mean if you want."

dipper chuckled… "sure. I'd love too."

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"you mother fucker!" reagan exclaimed. Rand had done it, she screamed her out of her promotion.

"Like I said, your on my team. So you better be a team player or else?"

"or else what."

Rand reached into his desk and pulled out a button and a remote. The remote clicked and the tv screens in jr's office blared open to reveal with a cake for reagan.

"you recognize this button correct? This is the button to send anyone I want to a black site power… including your precious pretty boy dipper… now are we gonna have a problem? Or are you gonna be a good daddy's girl?"

Reagan gulped as rand's finger lingered over the button about to press.

"I'll be good." reagan whimpered in the same tone a scolded child will take.

Rand smiled behind his paper curtain thingy "good now get out… your friends are waiting for the good news about their new boss."

Reagan stormed out of the office. Her body shivering. She now knew what she had to do… she didn't want too but it had to be done.

I have to cut dipper out of my life… get him away from cognito… away from me. It broke her heart but she knew she loved dipper and if that meant she had to cut him loose to protect him… then so be it.