Back at Stumpy's, Wally drank another round of bog grog and performed a massive burp. "Well, after that let's move on to good ol' Mr X AKA Mallory Xavier, a name he hates, a lot. Allow me to explain what he was up to after the Frogvasion." Wally prepared his accordion. "Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh, after the Frogvasion, Mr X collected the stuff Terri made to combat the invasion. He tested the girls to see if they picked up any strange illnesses from Amphibia. Which I find rather offensive. I mean, I doubt all the froggy illnesses affect humans. I mean, I had a common cold once and I didn't affect Anne whatsoever. Maybe because I was never around her. He continued his cases one which took him to Gravesfield to investigate sightings of four kids with pointy ears and a shape changing demon. The only thing he found….Was a cursed burger that body shamed him. After cases which included robbery, murder, pug trafficking and illegal deliveries of unlicensed Lil' Gideon toys. But now his partner Steve Hirsch is missing and he is on the search for him. What will he find? Who knows?"

In a small town in Oregon, a popsicle truck was parked outside a tourist trap titled the Mystery Shack. And inside the truck was a short haired blonde woman with a bit of grey hair, typing on her computer.

While behind her, sat a man with glasses and a purple suit. It was Mr X, whom hadn't changed in the last ten years. Some would say he had hardly aged. "Can you believe it Jenny? It's been ten years. Ten years since that Frogvasion. Time really flies doesn't it, Jenny? You know, I'm glad we haven't been getting supernatural occurrences. Besides that dumb rumour that Ms Noceda's fiancé was actually a witch. I mean, sure she looked pale and there is no way her hair was natural, but that doesn't make her a witch." Jenny was silent. "You know Jenny, I'm glad you haven't spoken ever since we met. It's like all you like to do is listen as opposed to talk. Like, have you ever tried having a conversation? Or do you prefer listening?" Jenny didn't say anything, she just kept typing. "Speaking of listening….Have you found anything on Steve?" Jenny shook her head. "Uh, what the hell is he doing? I haven't had any contact from him for 12 days. I hope he's okay, he's a really great kid. Too nice and well mannered, but good kid."

Just then, Mr X heard a knock on the van and opened the latch where he saw some strange humanoid gopher in his late 30's with some money. "Hey dude, you got any popsicles? Cause I got two little dudes who deserve a little treat. They're my kids. Those little dues are my kids."

"Sure thing citizen." Mr X said. "Hey Jenny, do we have popsicles?"

While he and Jenny began to dug around for popsicles, the man began looking around the inside of the truck. "Huh, this is one rather high tech popsicle stand." He then noticed a picture of a young man with a suit and tie and black hair on display on a computer screen. "Oh hey, I know that dude."

Mr X bung his head on the table as he looked for some popsicles due to the mention of Steve. "You do?" Mr X asked.

"Oh yeah. He's my friend's brother-in-law. He came in the shack yesterday asking about any strange supernatural occurrences." The man replied.

Mr X skated to the man, pulled out a pad and pen and began writing down what he was saying. "Tell me more."

"He wanted to know of a strange light that was seen around Gravity Falls." The man explained. "I haven't seen any, but I know this one dude that saw it and got hit by a rock."

"Hmmmmm." Mr X remarked. "Interesting." He then continued writing it down. "When was the last you saw of him?"

"Last I saw of him, he entered the forest at night and never came back." The man replied intensely. "Maybe the light took him or maybe, he got lost. Maybe lost. I got lost in there for 5 days once. Oh cool, my popsicles are here." Jenny handed the man his popsicles one was red flavoured and the other was green flavoured. "Thanks dude. How much I owe ya?"

"Oh sir, due to your contribution, you get yours for free." Mr X responded.

The man smiled. "Wow, cool. I must be the whatever number customer."

"You have been great help for our business." Mr X said. "Mr…"

"Ramirez. Soos Ramirez, dude. But, without the dude."

"Thank you Mr Ramirez, you may go and continue your day."

Soos walked away to get back to work in the shack while Mr X smiled. "That dude seemed like a nice guy."

In the truck, Mr X was rubbing his hands. "Jenny, tonight, we're going to get lost in the woods. And who will stop us."

While the popsicle truck drove away, a man in a brown coat was watching on. He sighed in annoyance as he began to write down in a journal. "The government never fooled Soos before, they're pulling the big guns this time. I don't know what they're doing but something tells me they could be after that government agent who went missing yesterday. I hope they find the lights instead of whatever's out here because they deserve to be left in peace." He then closed the journal which had a pine tree emblem with the number 2 on it.

Later that night, Mr X was dressed in his best camping gear, ready to get lost in the woods. He exited the popsicle truck and cocked his taser. "Okay Jenny, remember the plan. Keep an eye on the screen to make sure I don't vanish while I hunt for Steve. You got it?" Jenny nodded her head. "Thanks Jen, what would I do without you?" Jenny shrugged her shoulders before slamming the door shut. "Okay, into the woods and out with Steve, hopefully. Well, hopefully not his corpse anyway. Speaking of course, Jenny, do you have a coffin just in case Steve is dead?" Jenny opened the door and nodded her head. "Great job Jenny."

Just as Mr X entered the forest, someone was watching Mr X from afar, making a few notes in his journal. He then got a phone call that was thankfully on silent and answered it. "Hello?…..Oh hey kiddo, shouldn't you be in bed?….It's way past your bedtime, young lady."

Unbeknown to the man, a light flew past him and right into the forest, right where Mr X was.

Inside the forest, Mr X was walking and trying to not trip over any rock or log or twig. He noticed something on the ground which just so happened to be a finished lollipop stick. "Uh, why would they do this?" He picked up the lollipop stick and put in his pocket.

He then began getting a text tone from someone and it happened to be someone named Hubby. The government agent sighed. "Not now." He began texting. "Dane, I'm a little busy looking for Steve….." Unknown to X, the light that followed him into the forest was behind him. "….Who is Steve? He's that really nice guy who likes to refer to himself in the third person for some strange reason…" The light then began to float upwards, still being ignored by the government agent. "….I don't know what happened to him but I think he was taken by a mysterious light…" Then the agent noticed the dirt around him began to float upwards and his phone began to glitch.

He looked up where he finally noticed the light and was amazed by what he was seeing. The light was a mysterious bright white that shined in his eyes and reflected off his glasses. His glasses were about to fly into the light but he grabbed it just in time way before they did. Then the light disappeared and a shoe and then a red rock fell out.

The government agent had dust all over his face and glasses. He took off the glasses revealing his eyes weren't affected, and cleaned the dirt from his glasses. "Woah! That was an incredible sight." He then noticed a black shoe and an orange pinkish rock. He picked the two of them up and began to analyse them.

He didn't know why there was a rock but when he got a look at the shoe. He noticed it had a bit of writing engraved on the sole of it. It read 'This shoe belongs to Steve.'

To other people, this could have been any other shoe belonging to a guy named Steve, but Mr X knew that this was his Steve.

He smiled. "Don't you worry Steve, I'm coming for ya."

As soon as he began running into the forest, a huge unknown creature was beginning to stalk the government agent. A very buff creature to be exact.

Later, Mr X had made it to a public telephone box and called to the FBI headquarters in Washington. "Mr Newman, I'm sending something to you…It's a rock….Just bare with me! Bare with me! It's a rock not of this world and I need the geology team to analyse it. I'm going to mail it to you as soon as possible…..Thank you Mr Newman….I'll call you later." But when Mr X hung up, someone snuck up on him, startling the agent.

"Mr X, was it?" A man with brown hair, a brown jacket, green shirt, grey pants and black shoes stood in front of him.

Mr X stared at the man with intimidation. "Who are you?"

"Mr Newman sent me." The man who appeared to be in his late twenties to mid thirties replied. "Ever since your Frogvasion escapades, the government has hired me to keep an eye on you."

Mr X was rather suspicious of the man. "What is your name?"

"Stephens. S. Stephens." Dipper replied before pulling out his badge. "My badge in case you don't believe me."

Mr X used his specs to scan the badge and according to them, they looked very legit. "Wow, you had me worried."

"Listen, I am part of the geological team in Washington and I know things. So, hand me the rock. Mr Newman's orders."

Mr X grinned. "Oh you're rather feisty ain't ya. Here's the rock." Mr X handed the man the rock, whom began to analyse it.

"Hmm, extraordinary." The man remarked. "This rock feels like it came from another world. Where did you find it?"

"A mysterious stream of light spat it out." Mr X replied. "As well as my partner's shoe. Steve."

"Well, good luck finding him." The man said. "And I'll give you the info as soon as possible." He walked away into the forest like a mysterious figure, something that Mr X found somewhat chilling.

"Woo, that's eerie." Mr X remarked. "Then again, I suppose the government was always mysterious and creepy."

Later, he skated towards the popsicle truck where he saw Jenny beginning to start the engine. But as he continued to skate towards his ride, he began to feel a strange presence. His gut was stinging as he eyed his surrounding locations.

He saw the diner but all he saw was a woman with a broken eyelid reading a paper about someone named Pacifica and a fairy.

Then, he looked to the forest where all he saw was what appeared to be a very small kid in a cone hat, kicking a mushroom.

Then, he felt what felt like a tremor on the ground. He turned around to the back and saw a truck with a red bearded man, honking at the wheel.

"Out of my way!" The manly man yelled.

He continued to walk back to the truck until he felt what felt like a tremor on the ground. He felt it again but it felt like it was getting closer.

Mr X then noticed Jenny giving him a wave as he slowly approached the truck, slowly looking back between the woman reading the newspaper and the kid playing with a mushroom while feeling the ever approaching tremor.

The closer he got to the truck, the closer the tremor got. He tried to ignore it but he just couldn't as he looked back from the woman reading the newspaper and the kid playing with a mushroom.

But then, from out of the blue, the light zipped past Mr X and absorbed the popsicle truck and Jenny to who knows where. "Jenny!" Mr X yelled out.

Then, something big started approaching him. It was a big Minotaur like creature with a huge brown hairy beard, a loincloth and brown skin. The mere sight of the creature caused Mr X to panic as the creature began to reach out for him. Mr X flipped his electric gun out and shot the beast backwards, causing it to crash into a tree.

The woman whom was reading the newspaper gasped while the kid whom was playing with the mushroom stopped playing.

"Stay back, creature!" Mr X demanded. "I just lost two partners, I don't think my life should be next."

"Oh my goooood!" Exclaimed the woman with the lazy eye.

"Fear not citizen, I have saved the day." Mr X declared.

"Chutzpar!"

"Huh?"

The woman ran up to the giant Minotaur creature with the kid, who turned out to be a gnome. "Shmebulock!"

Mr X was shocked with what he was seeing. Somehow this managed to surpass humanoid frog people and frog robots that he flawlessly covered up thanks to the US government.

The strange Minotaur like creature woke up from being knocked down and groaned. "Are you okay?" The waitress asked.

"I felt….More alive then I had in 10 years!" Chutzpar replied as he pumped his fists. "Thank you strange bald flamboyant man."

Mr X was sweating. "No problem. No hard feelings?"

"Oh the feelings are hard." Chutzpar replied. "I am suing you for that attack. It really hurt."

Mr X groaned. "I've lost two partners and now I'm being sued by a Minotaur in a strange town."

Meanwhile at a small house somewhere in that same small town, the man entered his home to see a blond haired woman pacing around the living room while on the phone with someone. "Yeah, yeah, yeah…..Okay Chutzpar, you got me as your attorney." She hung up and dropped on the couch, groaning in annoyance. "I got another case."

"What is it this time?" The man asked.

"You know your Manotaur friend?"

"Yeah." He sat on the couch with her.

"Well, I got him as my next client." She explained. "He's suing a human who tasered him."

"Why did he do it?"

"He said it was self defence."

"Uh, typical." The man remarked.

The woman began laying on the man's legs and groaned. "Why can't humans just leave the creatures alone? I mean, sometimes I wish there was another town attorney that could defend them."

"You still get time for yourself." The man said.

"Yeah, but not long enough." The woman said as the man began stroking her head. "You know, don't you ever get tired of what we do? Just for once, we can have a week without worrying about the safety of the kids."

The man kissed her on the head. "That would be amazing, wouldn't it?"

"Mmm hmm." The woman responded before pulling a flirtatious grin. "You know, the kids won't be back until tomorrow."

"Meaning…."

She put her hand to his chest. "Why don't we have our last night of freedom?"

The man smiled. "Pacifica Pines, you've just read my mind."

"Why don't you test me and find out if I'm a telepath, Mr Pines?"

"I'll figure it out myself." Dipper said before leaning down and kissing his wife on the lips. He then picked her up and began carrying her to their bedroom to enjoy their last night of freedom. "But later, I need to study a rock."

"And there goes the buzz killing."

The next day at the Gravity Falls courthouse, Mr X was in the room surrounded by the jury, which included Soos; and trial spectators which included the man from last night who took the rock. Chutzpar had his lawyer which happened to be a young man with messy hair and wore circular glasses.

"You better be good at this." Mr X said to his lawyer.

"Don't worry, I'll try and get you out of this." A man with short brown hair assured him.

"Will you?"

"I'm a good lawyer." He assured him. "As long as he doesn't have an attorney, we're good."

"Did you even go to law school?"

"I did." The man assured the government agent. "But I had this rival in law school named Pacifica Northwest, whom was pretty much better than me. I mean, if you do see her, you would not believe her to be a defence attorney. She could be a freaking model."

"Bob, I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about being sued by a Minotaur." Mr X explained.

"Manotaur, human!" Chutzpar exclaimed.

"Right, right, Manotaur." Mr X said. "This could cause an issue with the government's tax payers. I mean, an FBI agent being sued millions by a Manotaur! And what about you Ms Attorney? Are you good at your job?" Mr X's attorney, who was a woman who very closely resembled Jenny. Perhaps her twin sister.

"Don't worry, I can teach this mindless beast of testosterone and armpit hair some manners." Bob assured him. "I mean, it's not like Pacifica is my rival."

Just then, a blonde haired woman entered wearing a purple jacket with a white shirt underneath it, purple pants and black high heels. She also wore glasses that she adjusted constantly.

"Good morning, Chutzpar." The woman said to the Manotaur.

Bob groaned. "Oh no, it's Pacifica."

Mr X chuckled. "She doesn't look smart. I mean, I'm pretty sure those glasses are on for show."

Pacifica coughed. "For your information, these are my reading glasses."

"Just to look smart." Mr X mocked the attorney.

"Again, reading. Usually witness testimony, information about the case and people." Pacifica replied. "I can read you and see that you have confidence which I'm surprised hasn't gotten you killed. You are an FBI agent, right?"

"Correct."

"Does it stand for Flamboyant Bigoted Individuals?"

Bob groaned. "That's not even a good insult!"

"And that's not good cologne you're wearing, Bob." Pacifica retorted.

"Hold up, bigoted?" Mr X reacted. "I'll have you know that I thought he was trying to attack me! There was nothing prejudice going on!"

"Was it because I'm a huge creature?"

Mr X began sweating. "Well…."

"Chutzpar, I'll handle him when the trial begins." Pacifica interjected. "Good luck Bob."

"No luck to you Paz!" Bob retorted.

The bailiff walked in and coughed to get everyone's attention. Everyone then sat down with Pacifica straightening all her papers right in front of her so she wouldn't lose track while Bob had scattered his papers all over his side, with some falling to the floor.

"Oh boy, this is going to be the worst trial in history." Mr X remarked.

Chutzpar had to substitute an ice cream truck as a seat since no seat could suit him, but that didn't go well with the people that couldn't see the trial, especially Toby Determined.

"Awww! I had a good shot." Toby groaned.

"All rise for the honourable Judge Vazquez."

Everyone rose out of their seats for their judge, whom was a woman with brunette hair and looked to be somewhere in her late 40's. She sat on her seat and prepared her gavel just in case someone was being a nuisance.

"Today's trial is in session." Judge Vasquez declared. "Today's case is between FBI agent Mallory Xavier and Chutzpar…" Camille squinted her eyes. "….steroider, testosterover, proteiner II?"

"Not bad Judge Vasquez." Chutzpar remarked.

Judge Vasquez sighed. "You locked up a horrible piece of turd and this is how your life goes. You judged a trial of someone who thinks Luz Noceda's fiancé is a witch." She coughed. "Mrs Pines, present your first case."

Bob then smirked. "Look, if I play my cards right, then you might get out of this lawsuit."

During the trial, Shmebulock took the stand explaining his side of the story while Pacifica questioned him.

"So tell me Mr…."

"Shmebulock."

"Shmebulock. Right. Tell me what you were doing." Pacifica requested.

"Shmebulock. Shmebulock. Shmebulock."

"Mysterious light sucking up a popsicle truck?"

"Shmebulock. Shmebulock."

"You think Mr Xavier assumed that Chutzpar caused it?"

"Objection your honour!" Bob exclaimed.

"Overruled." Judge Vasquez said.

Bob slumped back down to the chair and groaned. "I never get a sustained."

Then Pacifica began questioning Lazy Susan about the case.

"So, what were you doing before Mr Xavier shot Mr Steroider Testosterover Proteiner II?"

"I was reading an article about that case between you and that fairy." Lazy Susan replied. "It was quite the case but I knew you would win it."

Pacifica briefly smiled but then got serious again. "Susan, please keep to the topic at hand."

"Oh yeaaaaaah. I was reading my newspaper with my hearing aid off. But as soon as I turned it on, I heard the scream of someone and the sound of what sounded like a taser. It went….." Susan then made a zapping noise that somehow perfectly mimicked Mr X's taser gun.

"Wow, that even sounds good." Mr X remarked with amazement.

Then Pacifica began interviewing Chutzpar, whom had to stand since he couldn't fit on the seat.

"Mr Steroider Testosterover Proteiner II, what were you doing before you got shot?" Pacifica asked.

"I was looking for a mysterious light that was sucking up everything." Chutzpar replied. "It sucked up protein bar and I didn't get it back. I managed to track it down to the forest where I noticed the shooter standing in place, marvelling at the light."

"Objection your honour!" Bob exclaimed.

"Overruled." Judge Vasquez responded.

"Bob, he was doing well." Mr X said.

"His glasses were floating upwards and I think the weird metal chocolate bar he had in his hand wasn't working." Chutzpar continued. "As soon as the light vanished he picked up a shoe and a rock."

"Do you have any idea whose shoe it was?" Pacifica asked.

"If I sniffed the shoe I might know." Chutzpar replied. "Then he called his buddies at the FBI about delivering the rock to them. But then, Mr Pines approached him and gave him the rock instead."

"Mister Pines?" Mr X reacted.

"Order!" Judge Vasquez exclaimed.

"It wasn't manic!" Mr X interjected.

"Sorry, there hasn't been any chaos that in this trial and I really wanted to bang my gavel." Judge Vasquez responded. "It's the only thing tolerable about this job."

"As I was saying, then he started to walk towards a popsicle truck where the mysterious light sucked it up along with some short haired woman. I tried to see if that man was okay, but then he shot me." Chutzpar explained. "Now to be fair, it made me feel as manly as I have ever been. But to be fair it did give that adrenaline punch I need, but it did hurt as well so I am still suing him for hurting me."

Bob then leaned into Mr X. "Just tell lies to make yourself look good."

"No. I've seen the turd trial and let's say lying gets us nowhere." Mr X replied.

Then, Mr X was being questioned by Pacifica. While being grilled, Mr X was staring off into the distance to analyse this Stephens S. Stephens or as his name is actually known as, Mr Pines.

"So Mr Xavier, could you tell me what you were doing?"

"It's classified FBI business." Mr X replied.

"Mr Xavier, this is not looking good on you." Pacifica said. "You swore an oath to tell the truth in a court of law so tell the truth. Besides, the FBI aren't here to help pull you out this time." Pacifica's tense glare got the government agent to sweat.

Mr X sighed, realising he wasn't going to get away from her. "Well, I came to Gravity Falls to find my partner, Steve." Mr X replied. "We lost contact with him a few days. I was lead on a tip by the head of the jury about his last known whereabouts. Then, I encountered a bright light that spat out a rock and Steve's shoe. Then, as soon as I went to mail the rock, this fraud over there took it from me by claiming he was an FBI agent." He pointed an accusing finger to Dipper, whom had his arms folded. "Is this how you get your sick kicks by…."

"Objection!" Chutzpar's lawyer exclaimed.

"Sustained." Judge Vasquez's response made Bob groan.

"I wanted a sustained." Bob groaned.

"Mr Xavier, please continue the story but don't get into an unrelated accusation." She groaned. "I dealt with that moron in Gravesfield but thankfully this is better."

"You're right, I'm sorry." Mr X said. "Anyway, as soon as I returned to my partner Jenny, whom was in a popsicle truck for some reason."

"I think it was a cover vehicle." Soos said.

"Mr Ramirez, please keep quiet." Judge Vasquez requested. "Mr Xavier, please continue."

"Then, the light I found sucked up the truck and Jenny and as soon as I tried to make sense of things, I turned around and saw this creature come up to me with his hand out like he was going to hurt me." Mr X explained. "I mean, it was a big creature, what was I going to do?"

"So, you admit to shooting Mr Steroider Testosterover Proteiner II?" Pacifica asked.

Mr X chuckled nervously. "Well, when you put it that way, I did, but it was in self defence!"

"Because of your biases to weird creatures?"

"Well….I…I…I…I…I…I…"

"So you admit to shooting Mr Steroider Testosterover Proteiner II due to some biases?"

"I…I…I…I…I…I…I…I…I…I…I…"

"Objection your honour!" Bob yelled.

"Overruled."

"Mr Xavier, do you or do you not admit to shooting Mr Steroider Testosterover Proteiner II due to biases?"

"Okay, I admit!" Mr X yelled. "I did shoot him because of that. But, this is a giant mythological, I mean can you blame me? If I knew his kind then I wouldn't shoot them! But no….I just made a stupid mistake!"

"No further questions, your honour." Pacifica said.

Bob groaned. "Oh no…..I'm doomed. I have nothing. I literally have nothing to go by. No Bob, don't give up, you've got a trial to win."

Forty minutes later.

"Okay everyone, after Mr Steroider Testosterover Proteiner II's statement, let's see what Xavier's tea, has to say." Judge Vasquez declared.

Bob stood up. "Your honour…My client as mentioned thought the beast was trying to attack him….So…Well, the thing is….I….I….I…I…The thing….Uh…" As Bob continued to stutter Chutzpar's team began leaning to see what they had to say for themselves, as well as the trial spectators, as well as the judge and as well as the jury, except for Soos.

Soos realised what everyone was doing and then leaned in. "Sorry dudes."

Bob stuttered and sweat for his life before throwing his papers in the air. "That's it! I forfeit! I got nothing!"

Judge Vasquez grinned. "Well, easiest trial ever. I don't think this calls for a verdict."

"Wait, what about my attorney?" Mr X asked. "Even though she hasn't said anything."

"Oh, I can say stuff." The attorney said. "I agree with Bob, I don't think we have a good enough defence. Now, I'm going to leave gracefully." She got out of her seat and jumped out of the window.

"I'm coming too!" Bob followed Mr X's attorney by jumping out the window like her.

Judge Vasquez groaned. "I gotta move. Echo Creek better be better than this. Okay Mr Xavier, you have to pay Chutzpar in….Am I reading this right? This is a ridiculous amount."

"Uh oh." Mr X sweated since ridiculous amount was not good.

"That is correct." Chutzpar replied. "Twenty-thousand protein bars and gym equipment."

Mr X was surprised by his request. "Wait, that's how suing works?"

"Manotaurs do not need money, we need strength!" Chutzpar replied.

Mr X slammed his face on the table. "Oh this is the weirdest week of my life."

Later, outside the courthouse Mr X was on the phone to his boss. "Yes….20,000 protein bars and gym equipment…..Yes this was what I had to pay after shocking a good citizen….I know this looks bad! Look, it's not 12 million dollars it would cost around 20,000 dollars and how much it would cost to buy gym equipment….Look, I'll get back to you when I find Steve."

He hung up and noticed Chutzpar's lawyer and Dr Pines walking together, appearing to be chatting to one another. He was kind of curious about what they were talking about but he knew he'd be invading their privacy. But he was the FBI, he had to know why that Dr Pines had lied to him, so he had to do something swift.

The FBI agent grinned and smiled before skating pass the two and flicking something small on Pacifica's hair. "Nice win." Mr X said as he skated by and pushed his finger on his ear piece so he could listen to the conversation.

"Uh….Thanks!" Pacifica yelled.

"Again, congratulations on your win." Dipper said to his wife.

Pacifica scoffed and began to playfully brag. "Because I am the best attorney in Oregon."

Just then, Judge Vasquez walked past and chuckled. "That might as well just be a fact."

"I don't know about you, but I don't think that judge wanted to be there." Pacifica remarked.

"Oh definitely." Dipper agreed. "Has Mabel called?"

"Yeah, she said she'd be home with the kids in a few hours." Pacifica replied. "How goes the search for Steve?"

"I'm trying to find him." Dipper replied. "But with that government agent in my way, it's going to be hard."

"How come?" Pacifica asked.

"Because he is going to be a nuisance." Dipper then took the black dot off his wife's hair and crushed it in-between his thumb and finger.

This made it perform an ear piercing scream on Mr X's end, causing him to pull the ear piece out. "Dammit!"

Pacifica rubbed her hair and narrowed her eyes. "If I find anything else in my hair, I'm going to sue him."

Dipper laughed. "You know, you've changed over the years, but I enjoy it when that tiny Northwest pops out."

"I thought you hated that Northwest." Pacifica retorted.

"As soon as I realised your hair wasn't fake." Dipper's retort got Pacifica to elbow him in the arm.

"Careful Pines!"

Meanwhile, Mr X was holding the earpiece in his hand and clenched his fist. "This isn't over Pines. Luckily, I placed a tracking device on your car."

Just then, a mailman in his late twenties with red hair approached the agent. "Mallory Xavier?"

"That's me." Mr X responded.

"Dr Pines wanted me to give you this." The mailman known as Kevin handed him a tracking device that Mr X placed on the car.

Mr X then clenched his wrist. "Dr Pines! This isn't over! This isn't over!"

"When will it be over?" Kevin asked.

"When I say it is." Mr X replied intensely.

Back at the Pines residence, Dipper and Pacifica were busy kissing each other on the lips while taking each other's coats off.

"You sure we should be doing this?" Dipper asked.

"Relax, kids will be home in two hours." Pacifica responded in-between kisses. "We have time. We just gotta make it quick." The two then took off their shoes and socks. "Should I be worried about Mallory Xavier."

Dipper took off his shirt. "No, don't worry. I've outsmarted the FBI." He continued kissing his wife while helping her unbuckle a few of her buttons. "This should be a piece of cake."

"Keep focusing Pines." Pacifica takes off his belt.

"Relax…." Dipper assured his wife as he took off her jacket. "….my ears are like a bats."

Just then, there was a knock on the door. "DIPPPER! We got home early!" Dipper's sister, Mabel exclaimed happily.

The sound of his sister made Dipper and Pacifica freeze in terror. "Coming!" Dipper yelled.

"Oh my god!" Pacifica exclaimed as she began to put her clothes back on with Dipper doing the same.

"I thought that they wouldn't have been back in two hours!" Dipper yelled as he managed to put his clothes back on and out their bedroom and to the door, to see his sister, Mabel.

"Hey bro bro!" Mabel exclaimed.

"Oh, hey Mabel." Dipper greeted.

"Daddy!" Three kids, two boys and one girl, exclaimed while running towards their dad's legs and hugging them.

The kids themselves were around three years old and picked up a lot of stuff after their parents. They all had pointy noses just like their mother, the boys had their dad's ears while the girl appeared to resemble closely to her mother. Their hair on the other hand, was a mixture of their parents which was a brownish blonde all rather messy except for one of the boys, whom seemed to have straight hair.

"Hey kids." Dipper picked all three of them up and kissed them on the forehead. "Did you have a good weekend at Auntie Mabel's?"

"Yeah." They all said.

"Hey Jason, what did you do with your hair?" Dipper asked one of his sons.

"He wanted it to be stylish like in the magazines." One of the boys replied.

Dipper chuckled. "Really, Alex? What about you Gwen? Been looking for ghosts at Auntie Mabel's house?"

"Found one." Gwen replied just as Dipper put his kids down. "It was in a sheet."

"It was a rat." Alex said.

"It wasn't!" Gwen argued.

"It was." Alex responded.

"Wasn't!"

"Was!"

"Wasn't!"

"Hey you two!" Mabel exclaimed. "What did we say about arguing?"

"Yes Auntie Mabel." Alex and Gwen said.

Pacifica then walked in, having put her clothes back on. "Kids, you better not be arguing."

"Mommy!" The kids exclaimed happily as they ran towards her.

While Pacifica and her kids caught up, Dipper turned to his sister, whom looked scared and worried. "Dipper, I haven't heard back from Steve. Is he okay? I know he's in Gravity Falls doing business and I haven't gotten back from him."

Dipper sighed. "Mabel, I don't know where Steve is. I'm still searching for him. But there's a government agent looking for him as well. But something tells me, he and Steve might be close."

"So….You and this agent are going to work together?"

Dipper rubbed the back of his head. "Yeeeeeeeah that ain't happening. I might have lied about being a federal agent to his face and removed a few of his tracking devices."

"Well, that ain't good." Mabel said.

"Plus, he got sued by Chutzpar and I'm scared for what he'll do next." Dipper explained. "What if he exposes Gravity Falls?"

"Then you'll stop him." Mabel replied. "And try and bring Steve home. Please Dipper, I just want to know if he's safe. I don't want to be known as another woman who slept with another guy just because their partner was missing for too long."

"I'll find him Mabel, I assure you." Dipper said.

"Okay." Mabel responded. "Good luck. And bring him home, safe and sound." Mabel exited the house.

"Hey Daddy, is uncle Steve okay?" Jason asked.

Dipper didn't know whether he should be honest with his kids or to lie to them about Steve's whereabouts. But he had to tell them something. "Kids, I don't know if Uncle Steve is okay. But I have a feeling he is okay. Kids, sometimes when people go missing they might not be found for a while, but we gotta keep hoping that Steve will be found because someway, somehow, dead, alive, they'll be found. Even in the most unusual of places. Got that, just keep hoping kids."

"Yes daddy." The kids responded.

"Okay, I'm going to find him tonight, wish me luck." Dipper said.

"Okay daddy." The kids responded.

"By the way dad, where is your sock and why is mom's shirt unbuttoned?" Alex's question got Dipper and Pacifica, blushing and trying to come up with a good excuse.

"Uh….We were….Jogging?" Dipper's response made Pacifica facepalm herself.

Later that night, Mr X was once again out in the woods looking for the light that captured Steve and Jenny. He had been wandering for about 12 minutes to see any sign of the light.

But so far during his case, he could only find two young identical boys hiding out in a tent who looked exactly like Dr Pines, a fairy, a bird that had the head of a bald eagle and the body of a pigeon, a pig man and the former president Quentin Trembly riding a deer.

"Who was that guy?" Mr X pondered. "Looks like that president congress doesn't wish to talk about."

He then heard the sound of a twig snapping. He turned around, pulled his laser gun out and aimed it at where the noise came from. But all he saw was nothing but trees, leaves and a bear that held their paws up with honey on their face. It walked away, fearing for their lives.

"Aww poor Winnie. I didn't mean it!"

"Oh trust me, you should have." Mr X turned around and aimed his gun at the head of Dipper, whom was looking smug. "That bear has been breaking into Lazy Susan's honey supply for weeks."

"What do you want?"

"Firstly…" Dipper pulled a blaster to Mr X's head. "…I don't like guns pointed at my head."

"Hypocrite." Mr X said.

"And two: You and I have the same goal. Hunt the supernatural. Whereas I study it and try to protect it, I assume you like to capture them and dissect them?"

"I kind of learnt a lesson." Mr X replied.

"And three: I'm looking for Steve. He's my brother-in-law."

"Why should I trust you?" Mr X asked. "You pretended to be a federal agent and tampered with government property without legislation. And you expect me to trust you?!"

"Listen, you may be older, but my time in this amazing town has lasted longer." Dipper replied. "I've arrived nearly twenty years ago and I've been living here for the last nine years with my wife and my three kids."

"Three kids?" Mr X reacted. "Wow! Your wife must have had to exercise a lot. I'm a married man but I can admit that…"

"Do you want to talk about my wife or should I continue to discuss reasons as to why you shouldn't shoot me?"

"Since her type aren't my thing, I guess I have to go for the latter." Mr X responded.

"Listen, Steve is my brother-in-law and I've been looking for him for a while and I think if we work together, we might find him together." Dipper responded. "But when we find Steve, you must promise to not reveal anything about the town. Or else, I'll erase your memory of you having been born."

Mr X pondered Dipper's threat for a moment, wondering if he is actually meaning it. But he pulled a smug smile and put his gun back in his pocket. "Okay Dr Pines, you got yourself a deal." The two shook on it. "So, where do we start?"

Dipper put his gun back in his holster. "I was thinking we go to one of the portal's many hotspots." He then pulled out a map of Gravity Falls which had a bunch of areas marked in X's.

"Hmmmm, interesting." Mr X remarked. "You've been doing a lot of paranormal research."

"Trust me, I've been doing this since I was 12." Dipper said.

"Wow, you had no friends didn't you?"

"I…"

"It's okay. Never had friends myself." Mr X responded. "I got bullied for never liking EW: The Extra Weird. Because I was more concerned about the alien leaving behind some kind of alien illness."

"Oookay, weird reason to not like a movie." Dipper remarked. "Let's go."

Later, on top of a mountain, the two were sitting on deck chairs watching the stars for any UFO sightings or the light in general.

"So, you've been doing this a lot?" Mr X asked.

"Ever since I've been coming back here every summer." Dipper replied smugly. "You?"

"Since I was a kid." Mr X replied. "Like you. Only my dad was a member of the FBI and allowed me to use his tech. Beat that."

"I had a few tech." Dipper responded. "They were designed by my uncle whom….Well, was trapped in dimensions for 30 years. He learnt a few of the other universes tech. Your tech since way too high tech for FBI."

"Some was designed by massive Sci-Fi geeks and some were weaponised after the Fro…more Sci-Fi geeks arrived." Mr X replied.

"Relax, I'm aware of the Frogvasion." Dipper responded.

Mr X was surprised. "You are?"

"I lived in California for years so of course I saw it on public news." Dipper replied. "I mean, how can you cover up the invasion of frogs as a hoax? Seems like you would have fooled a lot of stupid people."

"We did." Mr X said. "If research shows, about 23% will believe in anything the US government says."

"That's not a good percentage." Dipper remarked.

"That was this year's. Last year it was 21."

"Yup, major improvement." Dipper remarked sarcastically.

"Yeah, I helped out during the invasion." Mr X said. "Plus, I'm glad I survived it, I doubted I would have."

"Trust me, I survived an apocalypse so I know what doubting through stuff like that feels like." Dipper said.

Mr X didn't know how to react to that statement so he continued to look into the sky. "So, what was the weirdest supernatural occurrence you ever encountered?"

"Oh my god, I have no idea." Dipper responded. "I mean, I can go through about 100."

"Give me some examples." Mr X requested.

"I once got knocked out of my body by an evil nacho with a top hat that I had to possess my sister's sock puppet version of myself." Dipper's story made Mr X snicker. "Are you teasing me?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"You were snickering." Dipper said sounding offended.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I mean, sock puppet!"

"I was scared and desperate." Dipper explained. "The you must have encountered must have been not as weird."

"Honestly, the stuff you went through is a lot weirder." Mr X said. "Before the Frogvasion, I was chasing a family of frogs and a girl with Anime powers."

"Like Dragonclaw Z?"

"Exactly like Dragonclaw Z." Mr X confirmed. "Plus, this girl who had Anime powers, fought a newt king and the only thing that could motivate her, was her favourite song, As If It's Your Last by BLACKPINK. Plus, in an ironic twist of fate, after she said goodbye to that frog family, she became a Hepertologist where she started an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific called Amphibia."

"Wait, Anne the herpetologist is….was some Anime powered teen?"

"Oh you met her?"

"Me and my wife lost our daughter, Gwen in the aquarium." Dipper explained. "She's kind of an explorer. Just like me when I was young. Me, my wife and our sons went looking for her and we searched for twenty minutes that we were about to call the police. But she was really in the Amphibia exhibit where Anne found her. She then found us and well…I was angry and relived that my daughter was okay. Plus, I was glad to meet her. She had that kind of energy where she can befriend anyone quickly. Kind of like my sister but only people don't wish to run away from her."

Mr X then looked up and went wide eyed. "Speaking of sister, the thing that caught your brother-in-law is right above us."

The two supernatural hunters looked up and noticed the mysterious light they had been tracking, which was now cube shaped for some reason and wasn't moving. It was floating like it wanted to be seen.

"Uh….what do we do?" Mr X asked.

"I may be the paranormal expert but I don't know what it is." Dipper responded. "Maybe I could try and communicate."

"It talks?!"

"It moves."

"So does a tiger. How do we know if it understands us?"

"Dogs understand us." Dipper retorted.

"When trained!"

"Still."

"Okay, let's try and communicate with this thing." Mr X took a step forward and stared at the light in wonder. It was mesmerising to him. He had no idea what it was and he was in desperate need to find out. "Uh….Hi? Listen mr glowy thing, my name is Mr X and I wish to talk. You swallowed two of my partners, Steve Hirsch and Jenny Daron-Terrace III and I'd like them back." But the light just continued to float, doing nothing.

"Can you speak English?" Dipper asked. "Do you understand us?" But the cube kept floating.

"Do we throw a rock?" Mr X asked.

Then, the cube began flashing the colours of blue, pink and green before a small rock shot out, hitting Mr X in the face.

"Or maybe it throws one at us."

"Oh, that does it!" Mr X then starts shooting it, causing the beams to go through it.

"X, no!" Dipper then disarmed Mr X and aimed his gun at him. "Make a stupid move!"

"I don't think I will." Mr X responded.

"Well, there's a chance you've angered it!" Dipper yelled.

Just then, the cube began flashing blue, red and green lights again before stopping on white again, a sight that made Mr X realise something. "Ooooooh, right."

Then, from the portal came a rope that landed in front of them with a note on it. "Huh?" The two paranormal investigators then noticed there was a note on the rope that said 'Don't question it. Just pull.'

Dipper and Mr X were hesitant but they knew it could be someone in danger so they grabbed it and began to yank it as hard as they could. Whatever they were pulling, weighed the same as an average grown man. They continued to pull with all their might until a man in his mid 30's with brown hair, wearing a black suit and one shoe was pulled out of the portal and landed on the ground in front of them.

"Steve!" Dipper and Mr X exclaimed simultaneously.

The man shot up and pulled a big dumb smile. "Oh hey X. Dipper? When were you in the FBI?"

The three men looked up and saw the light vanish before them into nothing.

"Wait, what about Jenny?!" Mr X asked. "You know Steve isn't the only one, right?!"

"Wait, Jenny was taken?" Steve asked.

"Steve, I wish to know what happened." Dipper requested. "My sister has been worried about you, so have I and your nephews and niece. Do you want to talk about what happened?"

"Yes and I need human food." Steve said. "Stuff I had there is giving Steve a poor tummy."

Later, Steve is at Greasy's Diner chowing down on some pizza in front of Dipper and Mr X. He was also having a huge bottle of Pitt cola which he began gulping it down at a fast rate. "Steve has missed this."

"Steve, tell us where have you been." Mr X requested. "What did you see?"

"Okay, I was in a world of witches and demons." Steve replied. "It's known as the Demon Realm and it's not what you think it is. It's a world filled with wonder and magic and a lot of weird crap you'd see in one of those Tom Bunton movies."

"Anything else?" Mr X asked.

"Oh yeah, strange part is, Steve met another Steve." Steve responded. "It's a witch Steve. And no, it's not literally a guy called Steve, it's a Steve who talks like Steve and walks like Steve. He was like my long lost twin. Only witch Steve had pointy ears and horn on his head."

"Is there anyone that looks like us?" Dipper asked.

"I didn't see anyone that looked like you, only Steve." Steve replied. "And weirdly enough, that's not the strangest part. I saw Luz Noceda."

Mr X and Dipper were gobsmacked. "A witch version?"

"Demon version?" Dipper asked.

"No, literally 100% human." Steve replied.

"So, Luz Noceda, author of the Human Witch lives there?" Dipper asked.

"She said it was her second home." Steve replied. "Plus, her wife Amity is a witch as well. I mean, I know I'm a married man, but I'm jealous that I'm not married to a witch. But, I'm still happy with Mabel."

"Hold up!" Mr X interjected. "So, that crazy conspiracy theorist from Gravesfield was right?"

"He was right." Steve confirmed. "But trust me, she is a lovely person."

Dipper and Mr X didn't know how to take this news so they just drank their coffees simultaneously. "Well, tonight has had a lot of revelations." Dipper said.

"Need a ride back to HQ, Steve?" Mr X asked.

"Nah. I wanna quit." Steve replied. "I realise that being in the FBI isn't for Steve! Maybe I could be a barrister or a stay-at-home husband or a therapist or a secretary or a…."

"I get it Steve." Mr X interjected. "Do you need a ride home at least?"

"That'll be nice." Steve responded. "My cars probably been towed, but thanks."

"You're welcome." Mr X responded.

"Right, I'm going to have fresh air." Steve declared. "I'll see ya later." Steve got off his seat and walked out of the restaurant to get some air.

Mr X smiled. "You know Dipper, I think we should do more of this." Mr X said. "I think we should…" He froze when he saw Dipper pointing a gun at him, but it wasn't any gun, it was a memory erase gun.

"X, you better do one thing if we are to continue working on this case." Dipper declared. "You better promise me something."

Mr X was sweating. "What something?"

"Tell anyone about Gravity Falls, tell anyone close to you, tell your superiors, then I will erase your memory." Dipper said. "And I meant it the first time!"

"Why would you erase my memory?" Mr X asked.

"Because look at that guy." Dipper pointed at Old Man McGucket, whom had a trash can on his head.

"This new mask will protect me from lawyers who wanna sue me!" McGucket began running but then crashed into a telephone pole. "It worked!"

"You did that?"

"No, he did it to himself." Dipper responded. "Like literally, he made this."

Mr X looked at the old man again and raised a brow. "Okay, I think I see it now. Okay new partner, you got yourself a deal. We'll work together on behalf of the protection of this town." The two shook on it and stood up.

"Now, you're going to drive Steve home, right?" Dipper asked. "I really gotta get home."

"Understandable." Mr X said. "By the way, if I'm driving, you're paying."

Dipper began to search his pocket and his eyes widened. "Wait, where's my wallet?"

In another universe, Sprig was wandering along the ship with tears in his eyes until a wallet fell out of the sky. He was at first confused but he when he tried to open it up, he was suddenly electrocuted.

"What kind of sick person would have a wallet like that?"