Wolfking0811: I agree with you.
MAJORMATT1234: Yeah, a good. Day at the pool is wonderful. And I just don't hear it with Ryan Reynolds. That's just me.
Gamelover41592: Thanks, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Jack Kings: I've never heard his voice when he's just talking. I don't watch much of his videos.
shinshinjane: As much as I didn't like Mabel in the episode, I didn't want to hurt her all too much. And that's a good idea for Pacifica.
coldblue2015: Sorry I didn't respond to the review, but I will say that I really do like that idea for the backstory with Stanford and Veronica.
LoamyCoffee: Thanks, I'm happy to hear that. And sorry, I just don't hear Will Friedle as Patrick.
SRPA Sentinel: It's one of my favorites too, and yeah, Stan knows a lot more, but that'll wouldn't be talked about a lot for now.
Guest (Bobby Jenkins): Yeah, but I'm going to go with Erza because out of all the Fairy Tail girls, she's my favorite. I like Lucy too, but I also like Natsu X Lucy as well. So That'll be a side pairing as well. And the OC will be able to turn into Godzilla. His power will be explained in the story.
Chance Green G King: I agree with you. I can just hear his voice as Patrick's.
IrishKatana: I've already picked a voice.
Laci the Hunter: actually, what I was going to do was instead of tree sap trapping the dinosaurs, the Land Before Swine chapter will involve time portals that dinosaurs accidently go through and end up in present times.
South Down: Okay.
RedHood001: Thank you for the review.
gods-own: Thank you.
Dracus6: I will not do a TMNT story and I'm serious not looking for a RWBY story to do. I just don't want to do a RWBY story. Now, the chapter? What do you think about it?
Guest (Kamen rider W): I will.
gabeherndon308: I'm not going to do the siren episode, and I'm changing Elijah Wood to Vic Mignona.
If there were a hell on earth, it was Gravity Falls during a heat wave. And at 110 degrees, the town was looking at the hottest day of the summer! Inside the Mystery Shack, with the air conditioning out because of the hot frying it, the house was a melting pot. Wax Stan melted, the wallpaper curled and peeled off by itself, and water in the fish tank boiled due to the heat. Not enjoying the heat, Patrick ditched his shirt and was holding an electric fan up to his face as he sat in the kitchen. Mabel, Dipper, Stan, and Soos were in the living room and were tortured by the heat too. Dipper took his shirt off and was fanning himself with his hat. Soos had taken all of his clothes, but kept his underwear on. Mabel was wearing a tank-top and short shorts, and Stan was laying on the floor in his lazy clothes and an empty ice cream tub on his stomach.
"Watch out, Gravity Falls, because at 110 degrees, we're looking at the hottest day of the summer!" Toby Determined stated the obvious on the radio. Patrick looked out the window and saw the squirrel running across the grass, before erupting into flames.
"Another one bit the dust," Patrick said, grabbed a dry-erase board and placing another tally down. That was the seventh squirrel today. "More like bit the ashes."
"All in favor of doing nothing all day say 'ugh,'" Dipper muttered. All of them instantly moan their response. The only one that wasn't affected was Waddles. The pig walked into the living room and up to Stan's head.
"I'm gonna throw this pig out of the house!" Stan yelled, but then Waddles started licking some of the ice cream off his cheek. "You called my bluff, pig."
"On the bright side, pun very much intended, it's opening week at the Gravity Falls Pool." Toby's announcement made the five people in the house perk up.
"Gravity Falls Pool?" Mabel shot up.
"Opening week?" Dipper jumped off the chair.
"Today?" Patrick echoed with an excited grin.
"Pun intended?" Soos added, sitting upright.
"Quick! To the car!" Everyone got up to get ready to go, but when Stan tried to get up, he found himself stuck to the floor. It must have been all of the sweat he expelled from his body. "Hey, kids, a little help here?" Patrick grabbed the crowbar from the table, before sticking the flat end under Stan. With all of his strength, he pried Stan off the floor. "Alright! Off to the pool!"
Stan turned around and walked out the door. Not realizing that his back still the wooden floorboards stuck to him when Patrick broke him free. Leaving a hold in the floor. Patrick turned to the twins and asked, "How do you think it'll take him to find out?"
"And remember to be on alert for random wildfires!"
"Wait, what?" Stan stopped out in the sun, before his body suddenly combusted. As he screamed in agony, Patrick grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran outside to put out the fire.
Mabel then turned to Dipper. "He'll be fine?"
{Play The Terror opening theme}
The intro begins by fading in a scene of the road sign that said Welcome to Gravity Falls, Oregon, before fading into blackness.
We then see a view of the town of Gravity Falls, with the strangely shaped canyons in the background, and the sun going down between the two land formations. As the sun was setting, the day turns to a blue night. However, a sinister red light comes from over the horizon. Shining between the canyon.
The next scene is of a large, dinosaur footprint in the ground. It then changed to show the trees of the forest at night, and a pair of glowing eyes staring at the view, before the camera switched to a wider shot and showed many more eyes staring at the viewer. The next scene was a far back show of two men dumping a body into the lake, and as that body sank down it was swallowed by a massive creature.
PATRICK
The teenage Pines is shown in a freeze shot of him walking in the woods with a lantern and his crowbar in hand. Behind him, Bill's eye in the sky looked down at him.
DIPPER
The male twin is looking down at the journal with a flashlight. Not noticing that there was a Pteranodon staring down at him, ready to eat him.
MABEL
The female twin is the final one to be seen, and it showed her wearing a sweater that lit up because it was plugged into an outlet. But in another, farther away shot show's Gideon's hand controlling her like she was a marionette.
The finale of the intro shows the Mystery Shack as the sun goes down behind it and the trees of the forest. When the sun goes down and the night came, and just like the beginning, the red light appears, but then a blue light shined from inside the Mystery Shack.
Then the screen when black and title of the story appeared in a flash of light.
WEIRDER THINGS
It then disappeared, before the chapter title appeared.
Chapter Thirteen
The Deep End
When the family got to the pool, they saw that almost everyone in Gravity Falls had the same idea as them, as people were already there and having fun. The pool itself was large and rectangular, and it had a diving board. There are lounge chairs surrounding it, as well as a concession stand, a bathroom, and a supply shack. The entire pool area was enclosed with a chain link fence.
"Ah, the pool! A sparkling oasis of summer enchantment!" Mabel announced as she gestured to the surroundings, wearing a pink swimsuit with a yellow star on the front. Stan wore a light and dark gray striped swim shirt and shorts, with his fez still on his head. Soos was wearing a pair of purple swim trunks, Dipper had on a pair of red swim shorts, and Patrick was wearing a skin tight red and blue swim shirt and blue swim trunks, and also kept on his boonie hat.
"Yeah, nothing like sitting in a moist tub with strangers," Stan argued grumpily. Likely not happy with how many people showed up at the pool. "It's like the bus, but wet."
Dipper looked over at the beach towel Soos was carrying and frowned. "Why would a sun need to wear sunglasses?"
"It's best not to think about it," Soos said.
"This is going to be fun!" Patrick said with a smile. "No weirdness. No people trying to kill us. Just a normal day at the pool."
He just had to jinx them.
Mabel suddenly stopped. "Whoa, whoa! Stop the presses! Who's that?" They all looked towards where she was looking and saw a handsome young man around her age whose hair was blowing in the wind. He had dark skin, long, wavy, shiny brown hair and three tiny hairs under a long nose. By the look of it, he looked Hispanic. He was wearing a seashell necklace and had a pool raft in front of him.
"Oh brother," Patrick groaned. He knew that she was about to go through another one of her boy-crazy phase and that guy was her new crush.
"Oh, yeah," said Soos, eating some corn chips from a bag. "Word is, dude never leaves the pool. People say he's a 'Mysterious loner.'" He whispered that last part into Mabel's ear, before backing away from the brunette while eating his corn chips.
Mabel started fanning herself with her hands. "Is it getting hot out here or is it just that guy?"
"It's the hottest day of the year, Mabel," Patrick said. "Besides, can't you go for one week without having a new crush on some random guy? The last time you did, the guy turned out be gnomes! Are you sure that he's not going to be something worse?"
"Positive." Mabel replied, before gasping. "Look at his little mustache hairs!" Patrick looked at the boy and saw the mustache hairs. Must have hit puberty really early.
"You are clearly enamored. Go to him," Soos told her breathlessly. Mabel took off, running across the pool, but tripped across a bucket and stumbled on two men in lawn chairs, and then knock her head against a basket of beach balls. But she wasn't done, and continued towards the young man. "It's so beautiful!"
"I can just feel the headache coming around," Patrick said, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Eh, Mabel's all talk," Dipper told the others. "You wanna know a secret? She's never even kissed a guy before. She always messes it up somehow."
"Oi. Women." Stan said with a shake of his head, before a water balloon was thrown in his face. Exploding water everywhere and making him scream in shock.
Patrick looked at where it came from and was met with a sight to behind.
"Hey, Mr. Pines!" said Wendy, sitting up on the lifeguard stand and a bucket of water balloons next to her. She was without her lumberjack hat, which allowed for her beautiful long red hair to be fully seen. As for what she was wearing, it was a simple red swimsuit that fits her body perfectly in all the right places. Matching her red color, it made her freckles and green eyes stand out, and showed off her smooth legs. And there was also a whistle.
As Patrick stared at her with his eyes twinkling, taken aback by her beauty, Stan wiped the water off his face and asked, "Wendy? Where's the lifeguard?"
"I am the lifeguard. I make the rules, sucka!" Wendy grabbed a water balloon and threw it at Stan. "Boosh!"
Stan dodged the first balloon, before seeing Wendy had two more. "Aah! She's attacking me with water!" He yelled, running away from her, as she threw the other two.
Patrick, Dipper, Soos, and Soos laughed at as they watched him run off. Dipper then whispered to his cousin and said, "I'll leave you and Wendy alone."
When his cousin walked away, Patrick turned to Wendy and smiled. "Wow. You work here," he asked, wanting to spend time with her.
"I found out lifeguards get free snack privileges," she said, before pointing down at her highchair. "Plus, I get the best seat in the house."
"Yeah, you do!" Patrick exclaimed with enthusiasm before laughing. But then he stopped and whispered, "Why am laughing so long...?" He stared at her again, and couldn't look away.
"Dude, are you and Wendy having a secret staring contest," asked Soos. "'Cause I think you're winning—"
"Soos! Shh!" Patrick quickly pushes Soos away, hoping that Wendy didn't hear him. Wendy looked confused at Patrick. "So, hey, you wanna go chuck more water balloons at Stan," Patrick asked her.
I'd love to, but I gotta spend the day doing tryouts. We're looking for a new assistant lifeguard," Wendy told him, gesturing to the second stand next to her.
Patrick's eyes widened. This was it. This was the chance he's been waiting for! He could get the job as the assistant lifeguard, hangout with Wendy for not only the day, but the whole summer at the pool. This could actually lead to him growing their relationship. "What if I was the assistant lifeguard?"
"That would be so much fun! You're totally in, dude!" Wendy exclaimed in excitement and threw a rescue can at Patrick, who caught it. "You just have to check in with my boss first, Mr. Poolcheck."
"Your boss?" Patrick looked at where she was pointing to and saw a tall, muscular, tan-skinned man with sharp, angular features. He had a square jaw, an Adam's apple, prominent cheek bones, and a low brow, giving him constant narrowed eyes. He had short blonde hair with a receding hair line. He wore a red polo shirt, white shorts, white tennis shoes, a gray whistle over his neck and a dab of sun lotion on his nose that gave him a typical lifeguard look.
The masculine man threw down his clipboard and took a deep breath. Poolcheck then got down and did pushups with hand claps, before doing pushups with his index fingers.
He turned his head in Patrick's direction, making Patrick gasped. This was going to be intense.
As he walked over to her boss, Wendy was left to wonder why she was so happy that Patrick wanted to join her in the pool job. Sure, she was excited for him to be the assistant lifeguard, but when he offered to work, Wendy really happy. She felt a similar feeling when Patrick turned out to be alright after she saved him from the Summer Trickster. Compared how she's been feeling around with Robbie recently, bring around Patrick made her feel genuinely happy.
The boy that Mabel was attracted to was drinking lemonade. Enjoying his time at the pool. But then suddenly, Mabel bursted out of the water with a gasp of air next to him. "Wow! Oh my gosh, how crazy bumping into you even though we don't know each other!" She said, using a really lame pick-up line.
But just like any normal person, the boy stared at her like she was strange. "How long have you been underwater," he asked in a deep, thick Spanish accent.
"That doesn't matter!" Mabel suddenly coughed up a band-aid. Quick to act like it didn't happen, she turned back to the boy and said, "So, hey! My name's Mabel."
"Hola." The boy said in Spanish
"Whoa! Are you Australian?"
He laughed. "I am charmed by your sense of humor," he said, stating the obvious. "And your bold lack of water-wings!"
Mabel didn't know what he was talking about, but she laughed. "You're so funny! And your hair is beautiful..." She reached out and touched his hair, but he pushed her hand away.
"No, no it has silly tangles!" He said, grabbing his hair.
"Mind if I..." Mabel pulled out a comb from the water, and began to brush his hair.
"Why, Mabel. You are so forward," he said, pleasantly surprised.
As he started to laugh, Mabel knew that this was it. It was clear he liked her. It was time for Mabel to ask him out on a date. "So, hey, you wanna go dry off? Maybe hit the snack bar or—?"
"I-I'm afraid I cannot!" The boy said in a dramatic way. "For I have a terrible secret! I must go." The boy swam away with his raft, leaving Mabel all by herself.
Mabel looked at him sadly. "I'm upset," she said, before looking more interested in the boy. "Yet intrigued!"
"And that is why I think I'd make a good lifeguard assistant," Patrick told Poolcheck, telling him that he was responsible and can handle a problem. He watched the man as he finished crudely hammering in the last of several nails it a sign that said DO NOT TOUCH! as it was attached to the storage door.
Poolcheck then turned and got really close to Patrick's face. Sniffing him, before saying, "SPF 100? Good, I like you." He backed away, and stood tall with his hands behind his back. "But this isn't an easy job. It's anarchy out there." When he pointed out to the water, Patrick looked and saw that there were only a few elderly civilians lounging in the pool.
"I think I can handle it," Patrick said after looking at the perfectly calm scene.
"Can you handle THIS?!" Poolcheck suddenly pulled his hand right off his arm. Patrick screamed, but thankfully it was only a prosthetic. "I lost my hand to a pool filter. The pool may seem friendly, but she can turn on you in an instant. Which is why you must respect her rules!" After putting it back on, the man grabbed Patrick by his arms and looked at him right in the eyes. "Do you think you have what it takes, boy? Do you?!"
Patrick looked at Wendy, who was giving him a thumbs up. He was not going to lose this chance. "Positive."
Mr. Poolcheck then took off his whistle and puts it around Patrick's neck. "Welcome to the deep end, son," he said at eye level with the teenager.
"Well, thanks, I—" Patrick was interrupted when Mr. Poolcheck brought him into a hug that basically strangled the life out the poor boy. "Please, let me go."
Meanwhile, with Wendy, she had just seen Stan about to attack that creep Gideon Gleeful for taking his chair. So, deciding to take her job seriously, Wendy looked up Stan in the pool jail. "Come on, Wendy!" Stan begged as he sat on a bench between two other boys in pool jail. "You can't do this to an old man!"
"Sorry, Stan, it's not up to me," Wendy said, before chuckling. "Actually, it is."
Patrick ran over to Wendy and held up the whistle he was given. "Hey, Wendy, I got the job!" He proclaimed after the ginger locked up his Grunkle.
"Sweet! Wanna go abuse our power?" She asked.
"Sure, but what about Poolcheck catching us?" Patrick asked with a nervous expression. The two teenagers looked at Mr. Poolcheck, who was doing sit-ups on the chain-link fence. His bones making these really creepy sounds when he came up. Looking around for a moment, Poolcheck went back down. "He seems…disturbed."
"Nah, don't worry, man. You just gotta be sneaky about your rule-breaking," She said, before pointing at Patrick. "Race you to the no running sign!" Wendy took off, and Patrick ran after her. However, Patrick slowed down. When he glanced over and saw Poolcheck drinking water from the pool for some reason. Poolcheck stared right at him and licked the extra water off his face. When he wasn't looking, Patrick ran after Wendy again. He was going to do everything he could to make sure he kept the job and spent time with her.
As for Stan, one of the kids with him asked, "How long you in for?"
"Two hours for roughhousing, but it's bullshit!" Stan exclaimed. "I'm innocent!"
"Pool jail ain't so bad," said the other boy, before looking somewhere else. "As long as you don't wind up in solitary."
The solitary confinement was actually the pool drain, and it was built nearly underwater, under the concrete with classic jail cell bars. Inside it was a kid trapped inside and looking really miserable. "It's the nights that are the hardest."
Back to the boy that Mabel was crushing on, he was just staying where he was. Mabel then came poking her head out of the water, but then dropped under again when he looked in her direction. Again, Mabel appeared, but ducked yet again when the boy thought he heard her.
Mabel then popped out of the water and yelled, "Hey there!" The boy screamed because of her. She then brought up a soggy sandwich. "I brought you a sandwich. It's sort of wet, but it's still good. Blop." The female twin put the sandwich on the inflatable raft. "I like sharing things. Sandwiches, secrets." Mabel leaned closer to him and whispered, "Share your secret, beautiful stranger."
"That wet sandwich does look delicious," He said before a breeze came and his hair blows in the wind. "Oh, very well. But you must never tell another living soul my terrible secret."
Mabel nodded.
"You have to stay away from me because I am..." The boy pushed his inflatable raft away from him. Revealing a scaled green fish-like tail that was darker towards his waist and lighter towards his tail-tip. "...A merman."
Mabel looked at the tail in shook for only a minute. "Oh, thank goodness. I thought you were gonna say you had a girlfriend!" She said, wiping her head. This was better than how the Gnomes and Gideon turned out to be. This explained a lot and brought her some relief. "A merman... ha! I should have known from your strange foreign fish language."
The boy looked at her like she was stupid. "It is Spanish."
"Your voice is so deep and masculine... how old are you," Mabel asked.
"I am 12 years old. Merman's voices change when we are, like, 3." (AN: that's disturbing.)
"So, what's your name?"
"There are some who call me..." He pulled a guitar out of the water and played a chord on it. "Mermando! This is because Mermando is my name."
"But I don't understand Mermando. What's a guy like you doing in a public pool?"
"It is a tragic story, Mabel."
"I was swimming with my friends, the mighty dolphins, in the Gulf of Mexico, when I was ensnared! The cargo was headed for Gravity Falls. Using all my strength, I tried to escape back home, but it was not to be. I would have died of dehydration, were if not for the kindness of the forest animals. But now that you know what I am, you must be seriously weirded out."
For normal people, that answer would be yes, but Mabel wasn't like normal people. "What?! I don't care that you're a merman. You're, like, the coolest guy I've ever met. And you can play at least one chord on the guitar," she said.
Deeply touched by her words, Mermando said, "Oh, Mabel, I have never met another human like you. Would you care to join me in a game of the Marco Polo?"
"Oh, yes, Mermando! Yes!" Mabel yelled, crushing Mermando in a hug.
"You are covering my gills. I cannot breathe." Mabel quickly lets go and Mermando gasped for air. However, he wasn't mad at her at all.
Mabel chuckled and said, "Weird."
Meanwhile, Dipper was walking onto the diving board and jumped into the water. He then came up to the surface and wiped his head of the water in his eyes. With a sigh, he said, "Nothing like a day in the water."
Suddenly, someone jumped off the diving board and splashed into the water next to him. Dipper turned around and saw the person come to the surface. At first, all he could barely see their face, but when he saw the locks of long, blonde hair that shimmered in the sunlight, he couldn't help but stare at the girl. Her hair, her skin, it was all prefect and the purple bikini also helped show off her beauty.
The girl noticed that she was being watched and turned towards Dipper.
And to his horror, it was Pacifica Northwest!
The two of them screamed when they saw each other, before stopping and stared at one another. Pacifica's expression turned to anger, still remembering how Dipper stole her first kiss. But then she smirked and said in a snobby tone. "Well, if it isn't the lamest one of the Pines family!"
"And if it isn't the blonde little miss queen of the Northwest family," Dipper sent the insult right back at her. "Speaking of which, how's that whole 'your family being a frauds' thing working out for you?"
"Great, actually! That's the thing about money!" Pacifica said, looking at her nails. "It makes problems go away!"
Dipper scuffed and looked pretty smugly at her. "But it couldn't get you a better wig than that mop." However, that may have been the wrong thing to say, because looked at him with the same look of anger that Dipper was very familiar with when he kissed her multiple times, trying to not get kissed! She pouched on him, and the two kids started to get into a fight. Suddenly a whistle was blown.
Patrick slammed the poor jail door on Dipper and Pacifica, after dragging the two out of the water and had them thrown in. Locking the lock, he walked away. "Talk it out, you two!"
Dipper sat a little uncomfortable next to Pacifica, who looked pissed with a pout and her arms crossed. He turned his head to her and was about to say something, but then she put her face against his and pointed at his chest. "Don't…say…a damn word!" She wanted him, before moving as far away from Dipper as possible. Dipper, meanwhile, still couldn't believe that he actually though that Pacifica of all people was beautiful.
Patrick walked back to where Wendy was hiding, behind the storage shed. They were looking around the corner with a megaphone, getting ready to prank Soos. The two teenagers have been hanging out together most of the day, making sure that the pool rules were followed and having their own fun When he put on an inflatable duck around his waist, Wendy used the megaphone and said in a weird voice. "Soos."
Soos was surprised and looked down at the head of the duck. "Inflatable duck guy, is that you?"
"Yes, Soos, I can talk."
"Oh my gosh, I knew you guys were secretly alive. I knew it!" Patrick and Wendy both laugh together and tell each other to shush quietly by putting their fingers to each other's lips.
"My people have been enslaved, Soos. You must free us."
"The inflatable pool duck revolution is at hand," Soos, slowly walking towards the open storage room door.
Patrick and Wendy laugh again, but then suddenly they heard a whistle. Mr. Poolcheck was riding around in his golf cart and yelled at people with his microphone. "Pool's closing! Clear out everyone!"
"Poolcheck!" Patrick gasped.
"Hide!" Wendy said, and the two teenagers ran off.
"Out! Do not touch!" Poolcheck snapped at Soos when he came around and saw Soos about to reach for the inflatable ducks. The man then noticed Patrick. "Assistant Lifeguard!" Patrick stopped, incredibly nervous as the cart pulled up right next to him. "Have a good night, son," Poolcheck kindly said, before taking off his hand and forced a ring of keys to fall out of it. Patrick caught them. "Lock up the supplies for me."
As he drove off, Patrick walked over to the supply door and locked it.
Meanwhile Mabel and Mermando brushing each other's hair and laughing. Just like with her cousin and his crush, the two hung out most of the day and having fun with each other. But their fun came to an end when the whistle was blown.
"The pool, she closes," Mermando said, seeing people leaving the pool. "Can I see you tonight?"
"Sure. Where? Wanna go for a walk," Mabel asked.
"…Merman. I am a merman."
"Oh, right." Mabel got out of the pool ran off to join her family. "Then I'll be back tonight." Mermando smiled and waved goodbye at her.
At night, Mabel waited when Patrick and Dipper were asleep, before sneaking out of the house. After she grabbed her scrapbook, the girl drove the golf cart to the pool. When she arrived at the pool, Mabel got out of the cart and ran up to the fence. Seeing the landing net, Mabel grabbed it and used it to climb up the fence. Bending it as she stepped on it.
She ran pass the 'NO TRESPASSING' sign and got in the pool with Mermando. "Look! Here's a scrapbook of human stuff," Mabel said, opening her scrape book and pointing to the first few pictures. "Here's me standing with my legs. And here I am kicking Dipper in his legs. He couldn't move his legs after that! Can you imagine? Not having legs?"
How is she not in jail?
Mermando looked a bit angry. "Let's skip this part."
Mabel pointed at another picture and said, "And here's my whole family kick boxing!" This just resulted in Mermando sighing and swimming away from Mabel. Worried, she followed him. "What's wrong?"
Mermando took his guitar out from the water and played it. However, it didn't sound good, and he angrily poured the water out. When he calmed down, he said, "I, too, used to have a family once. back in the ocean." He grabbed his seashell necklace opened it and looked inside. In it was his family's picture, with the family consisting of a father, a mother, Mermando himself, and a baby brother. All with the same tails and necklaces. "How I miss them." A single tear ran down his face as he closed the necklace.
Feeling sad for him, Mabel placed a hand on his shoulder. "Mermando, why don't you just leave the pool?"
"I've tried only once, but escaping this pool required a plan that was bold and daring." By bold and daring, he meant jumping out the pool, only to not get far and flapped for water. He hit the chairs, a parasol, and got hit by a woodpecker. Then he rolled into the pool. "And then the wolves came." What wolves? He then turned to Mabel and changed the topic. "No, I'm glad that I'm here, 'cause I met you," he said, looking up at the night sky, with a shooting star flying over the mountain and Mermando's head.
'This is it, Mabel. First kiss moment, here we come! Just go for it!' Mabel thought to herself before puckering her lips and leaning towards Mermando to try to kiss him.
However, she stopped when Mermando stared weirdly at her and asked, "What are you doing with your mouth?"
"Me? Nothing. This? I was eating some sour candy. So, my lips were doing that. The candy was so sour." She said, trying to quickly pass it off. Luckily for her, Mermando believed her.
"…Can I have some candy?"
"…No."
Daytime came again, and the Pines family was back at the pool again. Patrick and Wendy were back to work as the lifeguards. Just like yesterday, they started messing with some of the people instead of doing their job. Patrick then came up with a game involving the lifesavers. Their targets where Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland, who were putting sunscreen on each other.
As they stood on the lifeguard chairs, the Pines teenager threw his lifesaver down at Blub, trapping him. "Wha-what the?"
Then Wendy threw hers onto Durland, getting him trapped. "I'm scared!" He cried out.
"Me too!"
"One hundred points!" Patrick declared, as the incompetent policemen rolled around on the floor.
"Dude! With this job, you and I are gonna be havin' fun all summer!" Wendy exclaimed with a grin.
Patrick blushed and gave her a smile. "All summer?" A whistle suddenly blew, getting their attention.
The person that blew the whistle was none other than Poolcheck, who glared up at the two teenagers. "PINES! Here! NOW!" He yelled, pointing at Blubs and Durland as they rolled on the ground with the lifesavers still on them. Patrick and Wendy glanced worriedly at each other, before the boy climbed down. He was now standing in front of the pool supplies building and Mr. Poolcheck was pacing in front of him like an angry drill sergeant that was trying and failing to keep calm. "You gave me your word that you would respect the safety rules of this pool!"
Patrick looked closely and saw that the man had tears in his eyes. "Mr. Poolcheck? Are you crying?"
Poolcheck turned around and yelled in Patrick's face with some red on his face. "That's not important right now!" He quickly wiped his eyes. "You are on thin ice, boy! You wanna keep this job? Well, some maniac broke in to the supply closet last night and destroyed our one and only pool skimmer!" Poolcheck held up the dented pool skimmer in front of Patrick's face. "I want you on a stakeout. If one more supply gets taken, you're fired!"
Patrick saluted and said with confidence, "I won't let you down."
As that was going on, Mabel was getting ready to hit a ball to Mermando. "Mermando, get ready! I'm gonna BRING THE HEAT!" She threw the ball to Mermando, however, he got sadly hit by the ball. Not even reacting to getting his face hit. He simply looked down at the raft he was using. "Mermando, are you okay?"
Mermando swam over to Mabel, and she immediately knew.
"Oh, it's your family, isn't it? Are you thinking about them?" Mermando replied by nodding and making a dolphin sound. "Mermando, enough is enough! I care about you too much to see you like this. We're ganna bust you out of here and get you back to your family."
"But Mabel! Escape is impossible." Mermando said, believing that to be the truth after all of his failed attempts to get out. However, Mabel wasn't giving up on him.
"We're breaking you out of here tonight!" Mabel yelled and hit the water with her fist, only for it to splash in their faces. "Oops! Sorry about that. Water."
When night came, Patrick was the only one remaining at the pool. After getting some food-to-go from a local fast-food restaurant, he came back, ate, and was ready to begin guarding the pool. He paced around the pool with a flashlight, his whistle, and his crowbar in hand. He was also wearing a new hat that said 'Night Patrol' on it. "Alright, Patrick, here's the plan. Catch the trespasser, protect the supplies, keep job at pool, and eventually marry Wendy," he said to himself. He suddenly heard a sound and turned around. "Freeze!"
Patrick shined the light towards where the sound was heard, and it turned out to be Stan cutting the fence.
When then selection of fence Stan was cutting fell to the ground, Patrick asked, "Stan?"
"I-uh, I'm sleepwalking! Also, now I'm sleep-talking," Stan quickly lied, before pointing at Patrick's hat. "Nice hat, by the way."
"Wait a minute. You're the one destroying pool supplies!" Patrick exclaimed accusingly.
"What? No! My crime is a lot better than that. I'm gonna get that seat and be ready at the morning when the bastard Gideon comes. And maybe I'll destroy some pool supplies. Night's still young." When he said that, Patrick was quick to blow his whistle, making the old man back off. "Yeesh, alright, I'm goin'!" Stan started walking a little, but then he made a run for it to the pool.
"Hey! You dick!" Patrick yelled and ran after him. Leaving the hole in the fence wide open for Mabel to drive the golf cart out of the bushes and through the fence.
In the pool, Mermando noticed Mabel by the lights of the cart. "Mabel!" He called out and swam to her. Mabel got out of the cart and picked the lock of the supply door with a hairpin, before opening it to reveal that there was a cooler inside.
"Are you ready to see your family," Mabel asked him.
"Yes, but how can I, a merman, possibly escape?"
"Okay, my original plan was to tape together a bunch fish sticks to make you a prosthetic pair of people legs," Mabel explained, after reaching into her sweater and pulled out the original plan she came up with. She handed it to Mermando, and he saw a drawing of him wearing a fishbowl on his head and walking around with his fish stick legs.
"Intriguing…" Mermando nodded.
"But then I realized that I could just transport you in this cooler," Mabel said after putting the cooler in the back of the golf cart and was now filling it with water. Mermando leapt out of the pool and started flopping around like a fish out of water. Knocking over some supplies. After a pause, he hopped into the cooler.
Everything was going according to plan, until they heard Patrick yelling, "Hey! Who's there!" They could see him walking around the corner of a building with his flashlight.
"Quick! Hide me! My kind must not be seen!" Mermando crammed himself into the cooler, and Mabel shut the lid.
That's when Patrick came over and shined his light on her. "Mabel? Really?! Is there anyone not breaking into the pool tonight?!" Patrick complained. First, he had to deal with Stan's shenanigans and now his hyperactive cousin. "Who's next? Soos?"
And as if on cue, Patrick didn't even need to turn around to know that Soos was climbing the fence behind him and fell to the ground. "I'm okay."
"Go home, Soos," Patrick order.
"You got it."
While Soos struggled to get back over the fence, Patrick questioned his cousin, "So, why are you here?"
"Uh, no reason," Mabel lied nervously, before Mermando cleared his throat from within the cooler. Which also made the lid move slightly.
"Did that cooler just clear its throat?" Patrick inquired with a suspicious look.
"Don't be silly. There certainly isn't a merman in there, if that's what you're implying. Who said anything about a merman?"
Just that line delivery made Patrick know that she was lying, as obvious was it already was. "Look, Mabel, I don't know about what's going on with you, but it stops now. If you don't give me those supplies, I'll lose the coolest job ever!
Mabel sighed. "I understand. Hey, look!" However, the girl twin suddenly pointed at something behind her cousin. "Wendy in a bikini!
Patrick instantly turned around with excitement. "Really? Where is she?" He looked around with hope that it was true.
"Sorry, Patrick!" Mabel exclaimed after she got in the golf cart and started driving away with the cooler. She drove the golf cart right through the gate, making another hole.
"You bitch!" Patrick shouted and ran over to the pool cart that had a pool skimmer, a microphone, and a bucket of water balloons. He buckled in his seat belt and started the engine with the key. Flooring the gas, Patrick followed after Mabel.
"Go, Mabel, go!" The poor kid in solitary confinement cheered for her. But then looked down sadly. "We can't all be saved."
Both carts were now driving down the streets of Gravity Falls, going at equal speeds. "I'm gonna get you home!" Mabel said to Mermando. He gave her a thumbs up, until a water balloon hits the cooler. Patrick had used to the pool skimmer in the cart as a catapult to fire at Mabel.
He then pulled out the megaphone and put it to his mouth. "Hand over the pool supplies in the name of pool law!" He said through it.
"Pool law suck! And so is your hat!" Mabel yelled back at him. Patrick responded by putting a water balloon in the net of the pool skimmer and pulled it back. Letting it go to launch the balloon at Mabel's cart. Patrick continued to fire the water balloons at the golf cart, forcing Mabel to dodge them.
Mabel then saw a sign that pointed to the direction of the lake, which was only 3 miles away. "Look! Gravity Falls lake!" She made a sharp turned to the right and drove towards the lake, with her cousin in hot pursuit.
Soon they were off the asphalt roads and driving on dirt traits. Mabel maneuvered down it and got back on the main road. Driving by a sign of Gideon, where the two policemen of Gravity Falls were sleeping in their car.
Patrick fired another water balloon at the cooler and hit the nuzzle of the water drain. Causing the water to be poured out. In the cooler, Mermando desperately tried to keep himself hydrated by slashing the water on his body and gills. But it wasn't enough, and he started to choke on by a lack of air. "I cannot breathe! You must hurry!" He told Mabel.
Mabel stepped on it and droves the cart towards the lake. When she saw the large body of water, she stepped on the brakes, causing her and the cooler to fall off the cart as it flipped over. Patrick gasped and slam on the brake. He swerved to a stop, before stepping out of the cart. "Mabel!?"
"I'm okay." Mabel assured him, getting up and dust off her clothes.
"What the hell were you thinking!?" Patrick yelled at her as he stormed over to his cousin. "You could have gotten yourself killed! Now hand over that cooler!"
"Never!" Mabel yelled, placing herself on it and held on tightly.
"Mabel, I don't understand what's going on with you," Patrick said. "Why do you even need it?"
Realizing that there was no way out of it, Mabel spilled the beans. "I needed the cooler to save my new friend because he needs to go home and he's really nice and we combed each other's hair and he needs to be in the cooler because he breathes water because he's a merman!" She explained, before pulling the lid open, letting Mermando roll out onto dry land.
"Hola." Mermando greeted Patrick, and waved his tail.
"Whoa!" Patrick eyes widened at the sight of the tail as water dripped off the end. "Isn't this the kid from the pool?"
As Mermando sat up, Mabel introduced them. "Patrick, Mermando the merman. He's a merman."
"Nice to meet you. Also, I think I am dying," said the merman, before Mermando started to gasp and his face started to change to a blue color. He fell on his back and struggled to breath. "Water! Agua! Yo necesito!" While he begged, a fly landed on his eye, and the boy didn't even blink.
"Oh, no! Mermando!" Mable exclaimed, waved the fly away. When Mermando closed his eyes, she kneeled down and lifted up his head. "Patrick, you're a lifeguard! Give him CPR!"
"Mermen don't breathe air! I'll be right back!" Patrick ran as fast as could to the pool cart and grabbed the last water balloon he had in the bucket. He then ran over Mermando and threw the balloon in his face. The water exploded on the boy, and the merman sat up, gasping for more water. "That bought us some time!"
He then grabbed Mermando and picked him up. Patrick ran down the dock with Mabel following, and then tossed the merman into the lake. Mermando swam around a few times, before coming to the surface. He made dolphin sounds, but then coughed. "I am weak from coughing. Thank you for saving me, but how will I get my family to hear my call from the mighty depths of the ocean," he asked the two humans.
"I've got it. BRB." Mabel said, before running back to the pool cart and grabbed the megaphone from it. She then came back with it. "Problem solved!"
Patrick quickly took it from her. "Mabel, those are pool supplies," he told her. "I'll get fired!"
"Patrick, you of all people should know what I'm going through!" Mabel exclaimed. She knew that she was going through one of her phases, but this time, it felt so real to her. Mabel always knew that Patrick was in love with Wendy, and now the brown-haired girl knew what he was going through in his heart. "When you know what it's like to fall for someone, but even though you know in your heart that it'll probably never work out, you'd still do anything for that person. Well…Mermando's my Wendy."
Patrick's stern expression melted away with a look of sadness. She was right. Ever since Wendy started going out with Robbie, Patrick was deeply being hurt. The past two days alone with Wendy have been the best days of his summer, as the two bonded more. But she was still with another boy, and to him, it didn't seem like things were going to change. Now, he was starting to think that there was no hope for him to be with Wendy. That he was only holding onto a fantasy that wasn't going to happen.
However, just like he gave his chance to be with her, Patrick was still willing to do it again for his family. "Here, give it to him," he said with a sad smile.
Mabel took the megaphone and smiled apologetically. She knew he was depressed again, and just like the last time, she promised to make it up to him one day. "Thanks, Pat." Mabel then turned to Mermando and tossed him the megaphone.
"Mabel, I have never met anyone like you," he said to her.
"Same here," Mabel said. "Except for a zombie, a gnome, and a couple of cute vampires."
"I don't remember the vampires," said Patrick.
"I don't tell you everything," Mabel said. She then turned to Mermando with a sad expression. "Well, Mermando, I guess this is it."
"Not quite. This is!" Mermando said with a smirk. Before Mabel could respond, the merman leapt out of the water and kissed her on the lips. Mabel kissed back, hiking up a leg.
Patrick smiled at the girl. At least she was able to find some love. Even though it was short lasting. Mermando pulled away and swam into the water. Mabel started stomping her feet and cheered. "That was my first kiss!" she exclaimed. She then kneeled down, and the couple grabbed each other's hand, interlocking their fingers. "Goodbye, Mermando."
"Goodbye, Mabel," Mermando said. The two reluctantly let go of each other's hand and the merman swan away. Waving at her, before diving into the lake.
Patrick walked over to his cousin and placed at hand on her shoulder. "You did the right thing, Mabel," he said to her, as she wiped a tear away. "I'm proud of you."
The two of them walked down the dock and towards the carts. Patrick began to push the Mystery Shack cart back upright, when Mabel suddenly shouted, "Oh, wait, wait! One last thing!" Mabel turned and ran over to a rock border. She then posed with her fist in the air, the sun rising behind her, and Mermando came back to jump over her. "Yes! I've always wanted to do that."
When the two came back to the pool, they saw how much disarray it was in. Patrick was ordered by his boss to come over to the pool supple building, and the teenager went over to face the music. He now stood before the very angry man as he had his back turned to the teenager. Looking at the destruction caused overnight. "A wrecked fence, dents in the pool mobile, And a missing megaphone?" He turned around and grabbed Patrick's shoulders. Glaring at him with a red face. "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!"
Patrick glanced away, before looking at the man again. "It's my fault, sir. I'm sorry. I got in too deep," he admitted. He knew that he wanted to keep the job to be with Wendy, but his family was more important.
Poolcheck released Patrick from his grasp and was now shaking with rage. "Hand over the whistle, boy!" Patrick did what he was told and handed Poolcheck the whistle. The guy snatched it out of his hand, then proceed to break the string, before putting it in his mouth and crushed it with his teeth.
Seeing he do it with the veins of his neck popping out, Patrick slowly backed away.
After he swallowed it, Poolcheck said, "If one more thing goes wrong today—"
As if on cue again, Soos came running out of the supply room and then threw the inflatable ducks over the fence. "You're free now! Free! Inflatable ducks unite!"
"YOU!" Poolcheck roared, finally snapping. Soos saw him charging and quickly climbed the fence and fell. He got up and ran away, as Poolcheck broke through the fence and chased after him.
Tyler Cutebiker then came over and said, "Git 'em! Git 'em!"
Patrick walked away with a sad expression, before getting his face hit with a water balloon. Turn out it was Wendy. "Hey, Pat, you'll never guess what happened. I just got fired," she told him as both teenagers walked together.
"Really? What happened," he asked her.
"Don't know. I guess Poolcheck found out I was taking too many snacks."
"How many are we talking about?" Wendy took off her hat and revealed a stack of Corncorno packs. Patrick chuckled.
"Hey, wanna go break rules somewhere else?"
"Sure, but there's just one thing I've got to do first." Patrick walked away and brought out his crowbar, leaving Wendy where she's standing in confusion. She watched him go around to the other side of the pool and then, to her surprise, used the crowbar to lift up the manhole cover of the solitary confinement pool jail. The kid climbed out of it and was so happy to get out that he hugged Patrick's legs.
Wendy smiled at the teenage boy. That's what she really liked and admired about him. He was different from all the other boys she's dated and knew in Gravity Falls. Much different than Robbie. Patrick was cool, serious, and funny. And most importantly, he was kind and caring.
She blushed when she relieved how much she was thinking about him, and shook her head as Patrick walked back over to her. "Sorry about that," he said, as the boy from the jail ran off to go home.
Him and Wendy started walking out of the community pool, and as they did, Wendy looked to Patrick. "Hey." He looked at her and saw a smile on her smile. "Don't ever change, Patrick. You're a really cool dude," she said with sincerity.
Patrick stared at her, feeling butterflies in his stomach. He smiled and said, "Same to you Wendy."
AN: And this concludes this chapter of "Weirder Things" and things definitely got interesting.
Well, you all picked your choices for Patrick's voice, and although I was going to Elijah Wood as his voice, two people actually said that they wanted to have Vic Mignona. You know want, I love the guy's voice and with Patrick personality, he would play the character greatly. It just really shitty with the things that are happening to him. #IStandWithVic
First, we got a new intro in the form of AMC's The Terror theme. I haven't actually seen the show, but I'm really interested in it, as it's based on the real-life Franklin's lost expedition; a British Arctic exploration that went horribly wrong. If you've seen the show or heard the theme, then you can guess why I chose it for this story's theme. It's very eerie and it just seems to fit in this story.
As for the chapter, nothing else is really changed. However, we do get some important development with Wendy. Just like in "Summerween", we see her feelings for Patrick starting to change, and grow a little. And we're learning that she's not really enjoying hanging around Robbie.
Hopefully she's able to figure out her feelings soon, as Patrick is starting to think that thinks between them wouldn't work out. Kind of an opposite thing going on with the two.
I think I'm going to continue to work on this story for at least two more chapters, as the next two are Carpet Diem, and then a Regular Show inspired that'll finally bring a truly romantic moment with Patrick and Wendy that I've been wanting to do for a long time. I'll still update other stories like "Gem of War" and do a chapter for "Welcome Back, Mr. ED!" because I really need to get back on that story.
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