In the early afternoon in the remote town of Gravity Falls, all was peaceful. The people were out and about, the birds were singing, and the sun was about to set on the horizon. Until of a sudden, a dark shadow approached the town. As if an evil that was unable to be stopped had come. It covered the valley, replacing the warm air with a coldness.
The shadow then made its way to the Mystery Shack. Soon, even it was shadowed over.
Suddenly, a recking ball cashed into the sign, destroying it as lightning flashed in the sky.
Patrick suddenly woke up, jolted up, and screamed in horror, some sweat rolling down his face from the nightmare he'd just seen. When he'd calmed down upon realizing that he was in bed, the teenager groaned and rubbed his face. "I just had a horrible dream that Gideon stole the deed to the Mystery Shack, and kicked us out, and... we all had to move in with Soos' grandma?" He said, raising an eyebrow for that last part.
"That was no dream, dude," said Soos, leaning towards him. Half naked and under the same covers as the teenager.
Patrick screamed again, causing everyone in the room to wake up. Stan, Dipper, and Mabel were sleeping in their own sleeping bags on the floor, Soos' grandma was in a chair alongside the couch that was converted into its bed form, where Patrick and Soos were sleeping.
Turned out that the whole Friday the 13th being an unlucky day was correct in the worst way possible. To simplify, Gideon summoned an evil triangle demon named Bill Cipher to go into Stan's mind to steal the deed to the Mystery Shack. Patrick and his friends followed him in and defeated him. But when they did, Gideon attacked again using dynamite. Blowing up the safe and stealing the deed.
Soos' grandma, Abuelita, turned on a lamp on a nightstand that also had a picture of Soos when he was 9. "Shh. Por favor," she said nicely. Having fallen asleep in her recliner. She was an elderly woman, with a somewhat portly frame and stout build, similar to her grandson. She had large, puffy, gray hair, and wore a pair of pale emerald green earrings. She was wearing a magenta dress, a yellow '50s-style cooking apron with a pink heart on it, and a pair of greenhouse slippers.
"Uh, sorry, Abuelita," Patrick said, using her real name.
Mabel got up and walked over to the elderly woman. "Oh, Soos, your grandma is so adorable! And her skin is old lady soft." Mabel squealed and started touching the skin on the elderly woman's face. She laughed this little creepy laugh while still rubbing Abuelita's cheeks. "Haaaahhh!"
"Mabel, quit being creepy!" Stan snapped and pointed to the TV after Abuelita turned it on. "The news is finally on."
On the TV, the Pines watched as reporter Shandra Jimenez was standing in front of the Mystery Shack as a new metal fence was put up, surrounding it. "In a movement that has all of Gravity Falls buzzing, child psychic Gideon Gleeful-" the news changed to show a picture of a winking Gideon surrounded by a litter of playful puppies "-has taken surprise ownership of the Mystery Shack, previously belonging to area shyster, Stanford Pines." The TV then showed a picture of Stan in a red devil costume surrounded by fire.
"That picture's taken out of context," Stan said, scratching his back.
"Is it?" Patrick asked.
The news station then turned back to Shandra and now Gideon was standing next to her. "Now that you have the shack, what exactly are you planning to do with it?" asked the reporter to Gideon, before bringing the microphone down for him to talk through it.
"I have a big announcement to make today, and I'd like to cordially invite all the good people of Gravity Falls to join me," the evil little boy said, before up a pin that had his face on it. "Free admission to anyone who wears their Gideon pins! It's my face!" He winked at the camera.
Patrick sighed while sitting on the edge of the bed and turned off the TV. "I just can't believe the little bastard actually beat us," he said, looking down. "Normally I'm able to save the day. This is a fucking nightmare, and I let it happen."
"Hey, don't go beating yourself," Dipper said, hoping the bed and placing a hand on his cousin's shoulder. "I'm mostly to blame for. You did what you could and that's all that matters."
"Yeah!" Mabel agreed with her fists on her hips. "Don't worry, Patrick. Looks like Mabel's going to have to be the hero of the family now. I'll defeat Gideon with my grappling hook!" She exclaimed, pulling out the grapple hook that she hasn't even used after picking it out of the gift shop.
"Mabel, put that thing away before you hurt someone," Patrick told her.
"And no offense, but that grappling hook has literally never helped us once," Dipper added.
"Oh yeah? Jelly grab!" Mabel yelled and pointed to a jar of jelly on a shelf.
"No, DON'T-!" But he was too later, and Mabel shot her grappling hook at a jar. Breaking the glass to break and causing the jelly to explode all over the wall and even on Abuelita.
"I vacuum the walls now," she said and pulled out a vacuum from behind the recliner, before starting vacuuming the wall. Patrick glared at Mabel who smiled nervously at him.
"So you lost the Shack. Look on the bright side, dudes! Now you get to live here with me, Soos!" Soos said excitedly. He was still in his underwear and sitting on the floor in front of a toy race car track. "Hey, anyone wanna play race cars? They're out of batteries but we can make-pretend." Soos suddenly spat out two pieces of cereal that landed on his stomach and chest. Would that be a new low if I ate that? Haha, I'm just kidding, I'm totally eating it!" He grabbed one of the pieces and threw it back into his mouth.
Stan stared. "We gotta get the Shack back.
{Play Stranger Things theme by Kyle Dixon Michael Stein}
The intro begins by fading in a scene of the road sign that said: "Welcome to Gravity Falls, Oregon."
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 viewer, 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 the title of the story appeared in a flash of light.
WEIRDER THINGS
It then disappeared, before the chapter title appeared.
Chapter Eighteen:
Gideon Rises
For the town of Gravity Falls, the grand closing of the Mystery Shack was a spectacle that the townsfolk couldn't miss. Not only was the Mystery Shack, one of town less than desirable places was going to be shutting down, but it was being done by their "darling angel", Gideon Gleeful. Everyone was wearing their Gideon pins to show their support as they watched the stage. There was a stage set up, with Bud Gleeful playing on a piano, and a large paper with Gideon's face on it.
Soon, Gideon himself burst through the paper, wearing a cape, and threw confetti in the air. "Hello, Gravity Falls!" He greeted his guesses, before doing a little dance. the audience cheered and applauded for him.
"Gideon is the psychic-est," Lazy Susan said, standing next to Toby Determined. "He guessed the secret ingredient to my coffee omelette!"
"Somehow he knew about my horrifying secret birthmark!" Toby added.
"I love that child psychic so much!" Manly Dan yelled, grabbing Blubs and Durland in a chokehold and started squeezing them.
"You're chokin' me!" Blubs managed to say.
The strangeling started to make Durland's face turn purple. "Grandma, is that you?"
However, there was one group that wasn't cheering for Gideon. After walking through the entrance of the gated area, the Pines, Wendy, and Soos in their disguises that were loaned to them by Veronica. All four Pines wore black trench coats and black fedoras. Mabel had on a fake mustache and glasses. Wendy put up her hair into her fedora and used some to give herself a mustache. Soos wore a fake bread and taped a piece of paper on his hat that said "Not Soos" on it.
"We're in," Patrick said, turning to his grandmother. "Thanks for helping us, grandma."
"It's no big deal. I've wanted to teach this little punk a lesson for messing with my family for a long time," Veronica said, looking at Gideon with a grin.
"I'll take a piece of that action," Wendy added.
"Just gonna say it, I don't know what we're doing here, but I'm loving these fake mustaches," Mabel commented, lightly curling the end of her fake mustache.
"If anyone asks, I'm not Soos," Soos added, pointing to his hat that the "Not Soos" sign.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" Gideon began, standing on a box behind a blue podium that had the Ten of Telepathy on it. Bud walked up behind him, rolling a cart that had something on it, which was covered up by a sheet. "Today I am delighted to announce my plans for the former Mystery Shack. I give you..." He grabbed the sheet and pulled it away. "Gideonland!"
Under the sheet was a miniaturized model of a theme park that Gideon himself at the theme. All the rides and attractions would have his head or the Tent of Telepathy symbol on it.
"What?!" The Pines, Soos, and Wendy shouted while the crowd cheered.
"We're gonna turn this dirty ol' shack into three square miles of Gideon-tertainment," Gideon told the audience, holding up an ice cream pop in the shape of his face. He then walked over to Bud, who was on one knee and had something else under a sheet. "And introducin' our new mascot, Lil' Gideon Jr.!" Bud Gleeful pulled off a cloak to reveal Waddles in a Gideon costume consisting of a whig and suit jacket. "Boom, he's a pig!"
"Waddles!" Mabel screamed in horror, giving a truly hateful glare at the young boy for what he did to her baby. It looked like she was going to strangle Gideon. "YOU MONSTER!"
"All right, that's it!" Stan shouted, pulling off his disguise. Taking off their disguises, the Pines all rushed towards the stage. Shoving past anyone that got in their way. Wendy and Soos stayed behind, as this was mostly the Pine's fight. When the five got on the platform, Patrick pulled out his crowbar and decapitated a cardboard cutout of Gideon and Mabel kicked it off the stage. The two high-fived, as Stan stood behind the podium. "Listen up, people. Gideon's a fraud! This kid broke in and stole my property!"
"The little bastard used explosives on the house and nearly killed us!" Patrick yelled, pointing at Gideon with his crowbar.
"Arrest him, officers!" Mabel shouted
"Yeah!" Dipper agreed.
"Such accusations!" Gideon walked up to the family, acting as though he was shocked and surprised. "Mr. Pines, I recall you gave the property to me. Look, here's the deed right here!" He said, pulling the deed out of his shirt as he said this. Waving it in the air.
Blubs adjusted his hat. "Well, that's all the proof I need to see," he stated.
"But what about him almost killing us?!" Patrick yelled.
"I love you, Lil' Gideon! Sing them funny songs!" Durland shouted.
Veronica, however, wasn't having any of it with the bumbling idiot cops. She gave then a very harsh glare. One that made the two squeal in fright. Oh, she was going to have their ass for this. "Is that right? Well then, I don't suppose that'll be too much trouble to just take a look at the hidden camera footage around the Shack to see what really happened," the secret agent said with a sly smirk.
She then turned and started walking to the entrance. Gideon narrowed his eyes at her and snapped his fingers. Four burly guards came out onto the platform and walked towards the Pines family. Getting ready to kick them off the stage.
One guard stepped in front of Veronica, making her stop and look up the man. Raising an eyebrow. He reached for her. "Alright, old lady, let's-" Veronica's hand quickly reached out and squeezes the guard's hand so hard that he squealed like a little girl and collapsed.
Everyone gasped when she did that. "If you try that again, I'll beat the living shit out of you until my arthritis kicks," she warned the man on the ground grabbed his arm in pain.
"Hey!" Veronica's eyes widened when she heard Mabel's voice behind her. She looked around to see that the young girl was caught by one of the guards.
"Let her go!" Patrick was about to attack the guard, before he was grabbed by another one. Then Dipper and Stan got grabbed by them.
Seeing that there was no way for her family to get their home back this way, Veronica sighed and walked back over to where the guards had her cousin and grandkids. The big men took a step back when she approached them, but then Veronica said, "Alright, Gideon. We'll leave," Gideon smirked evilly, unit Veronica leaned closer, a knitting needle popping out of her sleeve. She held it to the boy's neck, as he stood at the podium again. "But I'd watch you back if I were you."
Gideon glared at the old woman, before she backed away and put her needle in her pocket. He then turned his attention to Stan. "Now get off my property, old man!" He shouted, slapping a Gideon pin on Stan's suit.
"I'll show you who's the old man!" Stan threatened, before hearing aid suddenly acted up. Making him grab his ear when it sent out a loud ring. "Ow, my hearing aid! Ow!"
The Pines got carried off the stage by the guards as Veronica followed behind them. "Thanks for visiting Gideonland, friends! Don't come back, I don't care for y'all," Gideon said, putting one foot on the podium.
After the guards threw them out, the Pines, Wendy, and Soos watched the ceremony through the chain-link metal fence. No one wanted to help them. It was like they were all glad to see their family being taken away by the guards. They sighed, turned, and leaned their backs on it.
Patrick kicked a rock out of frustration. "Don't worry, guys. We'll get the shack back somehow," he told them.
"We better," Wendy said, standing beside him with her arms crossed. The redhead looked at Patrick in worry. "If I can't work at the shack, my dad's gonna force me to move upstate to work at my cousin's logging camp."
Patrick's expression turned to disbelief. "What? You're leaving town? But we need you here!"
"Yeah, especially Patrick because he's in love with—" Soos found himself looking down the end of Patrick's shotgun laser as he glared at him. Stopping him from saying another word. "...you... calyptus trees! Ha! The kid loves eucalyptus trees!" He laughed nervously. Patrick narrowed his eyes, before holstering his laser. "Saved it!"
Wendy looked at him strangely. Was he about to say what she thought he was going to say? Before she could think about it anymore, Patrick turned to her. "Please, Wendy. We'll think of something. Just...have faith in us."
"Dude, I'll always have faith in you and your cousins," she admitted with a faint pink flush on her freckled cheeks, grinning at Patrick. "You've never let me down once, and you never will." Patrick looked away with a shy smile. However, they then heard some noises coming from the bushes. Wendy looked behind her and when she heard the sounds of music, she rolled her eyes and covered her face with her hand. "Oh man, guys. Don't look now."
That's when Robbie emerged from the bushes, holding a large boombox over his head. "Take me back, Wendy! My arms are too skinny to keep holding this boombox forever!" He begged. True to his word, his arms were shaking.
"He's still trying to get back with you," Patrick asked.
Wendy mounted her bike that was leaning against the fence and strapped on her helmet. "Yep, and I was never here," she said, before riding away.
Much to her annoyance, Robbie chased after Wendy, still holding the boombox even. "Have you been getting my texts? Do I need to send you more texts? Wendy!"
Patrick, the twins, and Soos were back at the big man's grandmother's home. Bring with her the bad news of their failure. Veronica was with them, talking with Abuelita. "Thank you so for your hospitality towards my family, Abuelita," she said with a smile, before looking down sadly at her grandniece, grandnephew, and grandson. "I myself am unable to keep them in my apartment."
"I'm afraid that it'll be the same for me, too," Abuelita informed Veronica. Turning to the kids with concern. "I cannot feed such a big family."
"Where are we gonna stay, Graunt Veronica?" Mabel pitifully asked her great aunt. Fear written on her face, before gesturing towards a large suitcase filled with her sweaters. "Where am I gonna put all my sweaters?"
"What's Stan gonna tell Mom and Dad?" Dipper asked
"Do we...Are we going to have to go home?" Patrick asked worriedly.
"No, no, sweeties," Veronica tenderly said, wrapping the kids in the hug. They hugged her back tightly, but not too tight to hurt her. "Pines stick together! I promise that everything will be okay. Stan and I will figure something out. We always do."
After pulling away from her grandkids, Veronica walked over to the kitchen. The lights were turned off, and Stan was on the phone, talking with Dipper and Mabel's parents, along with Patrick's parents. When both families heard about the news, they both called Veronica, as she was the only one of the two with a cellphone.
When he saw his cousin walk in, Stan said to whoever he was talking to this: "You're mother's just walked in. You want to talk to her?...Okay." He handed Veronica the phone. "It's your daughter."
Veronica took the phone and took in a deep breath before put it to her ear. "Hello?"
"...Hey mom."
"Nora! It's..." Veronica nervously curled her hair. "It's been a long time since we've talked."
"Almost a year by now. So, Stan's been telling me that the kids are in a four-star hotel."
Veronica whipped her head around to glare at Stan. He laughed nervously and shrugged, to which Veronica sighed. Of course, Stan would lie about the situation their grandkids were in right now. "Saw right through that one, huh?"
"It wasn't that hard. So, what's really going on?"
Veronica looked around at the rundown state of condition the kitchen was in. A cockroach going up in flames after touching a broken toaster wire. "The shack was taken from us by one of Stan's enemies. Right now they're staying with the grandparent of one of their friends. She...She can't take them in."
"Can't you take care of them?"
"No. My work will be preventing me from being there to look after them," Veronica said, not telling her daughter about her work as a government agent.
"So then...what now?"
"Grunkle Stan, can we order pizza?" Mabel asked from the other room. Stan checked his pockets, only to discover they're empty. Veronica looked worried at him, before looking at her phone. There was only one thing they could do for the kids.
Meanwhile, the construction of Gideonland was underway. But in Mystery Shack, Gideon was in front of the fireplace. Throwing the picture of when they went fishing into the fire. Gideon laughed as he examined book 2. He's finally won. The Mystery Shack was finally his, and now it was time to move onto the next step.
The evil kid's attention was taken by Waddles' attempting to climb out the window. He angrily blew a whistle. "You! Back to your corner!" He yelled at the pig, pointing to the corner. Waddles scampered to the corner and started cringing and shivering in fear. Covering his eyes with his ears.
A moment later, Bud walked into the room with his sad clown painting that Stan after Gideon vowed vengeance and recompense. "I've been meaning to ask you, boy. Shouldn't you be celebratin' Gideonland instead of stickin' your head in that there book all day?" He asked his son.
"Father, have I ever told you the true nature of this book?" Gideon asked father, turning to him, and showed the journal. "It was written many years ago by a brilliant unknown author who learned secrets too powerful for one man. He hid his journals where he thought no one would ever find 'em. Because he knew that if the journals were ever bought together, they would unleash a gateway to unimaginable power. Codes and maps had led me to believe that the other book is buried somewhere on this very property, and I intend to find it!"
"So that's why you wanted the Mystery Shack," Bud said as Gideon grabbed a shovel.
"That's right, father, it's time to begin the search for the other journal!"
After eating the pizza that they ordered, the Pines kids were on the floor with Soos. Mabel and Soos were pretending to be playing with the race cars, but without batteries, the cars weren't going anywhere. However, that didn't stop the two from creating their own fun. But it just made Patrick and Dipper depressed, even when the teenager was texting on his phone.
"Go red car!" Mabel cheered.
"Go other red car!" Soos cheered
Dipper stared blankly at the track and the motionless cars. "This would be a lot more fun with batteries." Soos moved the red car, making it go around the track and bump into the other red car.
Patrick looked up from his phone and stared expressionlessly. "Hmm, still won't be fun."
They heard the closing of a door and turned around to see Stan and Veronica walking into the room. The old man clearing his throat to get their attention. "Kids, we've got to talk. Look, I've talked to your parents and Veronica...and..."
Veronica placed a hand on his shoulder. He let her take over, as she walked over sat down on the couch. The kids gathered around her, anxious looks on their faces. "I'm so sorry, sweethearts, but...our summer together will have to come to an end. We can't take care of you anymore. Stan doesn't have a house or a job," she said sadly, pulling out three bus tickets from her back pocket. "The plan is, you're goin' home. These are your tickets for your bus tomorrow."
Patrick looked at her shock. "B-But what about you? Can't you take us in?"
"I wish I could. But I can't," Veronica lied. It pained her to have to lie to them but she didn't have a choice.
"But we can't just give up!" Dipper told Stan and Veronica desperately.
"Yeah dude, look at these faces!" Soos exclaimed, kneeling behind Dipper and Mabel and held the two twins. He then began nudging Mabel. "Be cuter Mabel! Your summer depends on it!"
Stan looked at his nephews and niece, as they looked at him with begging eyes. He didn't want to do this. He may not show it, but he loved the kids and having them with him this summer as turned out to be one of the best decisions he's ever made. But now he had to think about their safety and what was best for them. "Look, I lost, okay? The best thing is for you to be with your parents. Sorry kids, Gideon won," Stan said sadly, places Patrick and the twin's bus tickets on the table as he walked out of the house with Veronica following behind. "Summer's over."
"Mr. Pines! RECONSIDER!" Soos yelled, running after him.
The Pines kids stood in the house, staring at the door in disbelief and despair. Dipper placed a hand on his sister's shoulder as she fought back some tears. "It can't end like this. Can it, Dipper?"
"There nothing that can be done," Dipper sadly told her. "If Stan or Veronica wouldn't get our home back from Gideon. Then who will?"
Patrick looked at them for a moment and stared down at the ground. His eyes frowned, before he lifted up his head and wore an expression of determination. There was no way that he was letting it end like this. And so, he said, "We will."
The twins jerked their heads up at him, looking surprised. "Huh?"
"You said it yourself, Dipper," Patrick explained. "If no one will help us get our home back from Gideon, then we'll have to do it ourselves."
Dipper stared at him with wide eyes before smirking. "You're right. Gideon may have the upper hand, but we have something he doesn't," he said.
Dipper holding out the journal, Mabel held up her grappling hook, and the three shouted simultaneously: "The journal!" "A grappling hook!"
The boys looked at Mabel with raised eyebrows as she put down her grappling hook. "Oh, the Journal..." she stammered before joining her brother and cousin. "Journal!"
There was a sign with Gideon smiling that said: "We're building the Magic" and it was hanging on the chain-link fence that surrounded the Mystery Shack. The four guards from yesterday were marching outside the closed-off area, keeping an eye out for any intruders. A few meters away, the Pines kids were hiding behind some bushes. Patrick looked through a pair of binoculars, as Dipper watched their backs and Mabel was feeding a squirrel on her head.
"Alright, you two, the bus to take us out of Gravity Falls comes at sundown. So we've got three hours, and only one chance to pull this off," Patrick informed the two kids. His voice signifying the severity of the situation. "If we wanna stay in town we've got to get past those guards, make it through the fence, and get Gideon to hand over that deed."
"How're we gonna do that?" Dipper asked.
"Leave that to Mabel," Mabel chirped, holding up her grappling hook. "Wa-chaw!" She fired the grappling hook at a tree. It ricocheted off it, hitting Dipper right in the face. Making him fall on his back before the hook came down and landed on his chest.
Patrick tried to suppress his laughter. Dipper got up with the hook in his hand and glared at Mabel. "Now will you admit the grappling hook is useless?!"
Mabel simply smiled and retracted her grappling hook. "Nope!"
Patrick sighed. This was getting them nowhere and time was running out fast. "Guys, focus! What can we use to get the Shack back and defeat Gideon?"
"Why not use your laser on the thugs?" Dipper said, pointing at it inside of Patrick's sweater.
Pulling it out, Patrick gave him a stern look. "Because I'd be committing murder and I'm not planning on going to jail," he told him, placing his gun on the ground and started rummaging through his clothing. "All I've got is my crowbar and...this thing." He pulled out a crystal from his pocket. It was one of those size-altering crystals they found in the woods to change Soos back to normal, after smashing the first one.
"Okay." Dipper pulled out the journal and started flipping through it. Patrick and Mabel gathered around to see. "Let's see... Barf fairy?"
"Yeah!" Mabel agreed enthusiastically.
"Hmm, no," Patrick said.
Dipper turned the page. "Butternut Squash with a Human Face and Emotions?"
"Yeah!" Mabel repeated.
"I actually found one of those," Patrick said. "Not a pleasant experience."
Dipper turned the page again, and it caught Mabel's attention. She stopped Dipper and pointed at the page. "Whoa, what's this?"
The page she was talking about was one that Dipper and Patrick were highly suspicious about. It was near the center of the book and contained a two-page spread which was part of a larger schematic. A blueprint from some kind of machine that was more technology advance than anything that they'd ever seen before. All the notes for the page were in this strange large that they couldn't make it.
"That's just it," Patrick said, shaking his head. "We don't know."
Dipper then picked up where Patrick left off. "Patrick and I have been looking at this page for hours and from what we've gathered, it seems like a blueprint to build some kind of strange futuristic super-weapon-"
"BORING!" Mabel cut off Dipper.
"You're the one that asked!" He argued.
"Yeah, but to defeat those guards we need some kind of army."
Patrick thought for a moment, before his eyes widened in realization. "...Wait a minute! An army!" He announced. Patrick grabbed the book from Dipper and started flipping through the pages to find the right chapter. When he found the right one, he flipped it around to show the twins. "Mabel, that's it! The gnomes!"
"Uhh..." Mabel nervously tugged her sweater's collar and glanced at Dipper, who shrugged.
The journey to the gnome's part of the forest sure brought back a lot of memories. From when Mabel was taken there, Patrick and Dipper driving in to rescue her, and then to them getting chased by the giant gnome monster. As they trudged through the woods, they found the slope that led down into the hideout and slid down it. They only had two and a half hours to get the Shack back, so they had to figure out how to get the gnomes on their side.
"I think this is their hiding spot," Dipper said, looking around.
"I wonder what Gnomes do out here all alone in the forest?" Mabel asked, before they walked over to some bushes. Patrick pushed the plants aside, and what they saw made them scream in horror.
"Do do do..." What they saw Jeff bathing in a bathtub that was filled with squirrels. The rodents were scurrying in the basin, as he using one of them to rub his armpit. The gnome leader continued singing until he saw the humans. "Aah! This... this is normal. This is normal for gnomes. Scrub scrub." He said, scrubbing his armpit with the squirrel.
The three kids looked at each other in disgust, and looked back at the gnome. Patrick moved his hand to cover Mabel's face in an attempt to shield whatever innocence she had left in her from the crazy, backwater town. She pushed it away. It was already too later.
"Well, well, well. Look who came crawlin' back. Take five, Chris," he told the squirrel he used to scrub his armpit. The squirrel jumped out of the tub and run off into the woods. "You guys keep doin' what you're doin'." The other squirrels did as they were commanded and continued scurrying. Jeff leaned back and gave Mabel a sly smirk. "So, changed your mind about marryin' me, did ya, Mabel?" A squirrel poked out from under his hat with a squeak.
"Ew, hardly," Mabel grimaced as she protested. "We need your help. And seriously, ew!"
"You want our help?" Jeff exclaimed incredulously. "After you left me at the alter? No dice!"
"But what if we were able to get you a new queen? One even more beautiful than me," Mabel suggested.
Catching onto what she was doing, Dipper nodded. "Her name's Gideon, and she has lovely white hair," he told the gnome, as Patrick took out his phone. He looked up Gideon Gleeful and showed an image of the evil kid smiling innocently. He would have used one of his own pictures of him, but Patrick didn't think it would work if Jeff saw Gideon acting all evil.
"Whoa. Mature woman, huh?" Jeff grinned with intrigue, liking what he was seeing. He turned to some bushes and called out, "Hey Shmebulock, get my cologne!"
Shmebulock came out of the bushes, hopping on one foot as he held a bottle of cologne. "Shmebulock!"
"Is Shmebulock all you can say?"
There was a pause, before Shmebulock sadly nodded. "Shmebulock..."
"It's a deal!" Jeff exclaimed, shaking hands with Patrick.
A while later, and Gideon was standing outside of the Mystery Shack. He had Journal #2 opened to a page that presented multiple different possible hiding places for the other journal. "Where are you, Journal?" He asked, closing the book and hold up a shovel. There were already some holes that were already dug and now he started to dig another one. "Where are you!"
However, his work was stopped when Bud walked over. "Boy, I hate to interrupt you, but you have some guests," he told the boy, pointing back to the fence.
"What?" Gideon asked, throwing down the shovel and marched over to the fence with his bodyguards at his side.
When he arrived, Gideon saw Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel gripping the fence as they stood outside of it. When they saw their arch-nemesis approach them, Dipper yelled out, "This is your last warning, Gideon! Give us the deed to the shack, or else!"
Gideon looked very amused by his threats as he stood with his well-built guards. Rolling his eyes at them. "Am I supposed to say, 'Or else what?'" He teased.
"Yes, you are supposed to say that," Mabel said before yelling, "Now!"
At that moment, Gideon's guards' eyes widened and collapsed face-first on the ground. Knocked out with each having a gnome piecing the middle of their backs. As Gideon gasped in shock, Patrick and the twins stepped back to let deer with some gnomes on it charged forward and busted through the fence. Soon the entire area was flooding with gnomes. Gideon turned around to make a run for it, only to have three gnomes with pine-corn spears land in front of him. Alarmed, Gideon looked around at the glaring creatures. Some were in the trees, some were on the roof of the house and using some of their own kind as arrows. Every gnome that was surrounding the evil boy had their unusually sharp hats pointed at him. Keeping him from moving.
Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel marched up to Gideon. Having led the mission, Patrick pulled out his shotgun and walked up to the boy. "It's over, Gideon. You're surrounded by an unstoppable gnome army. Give us back our deed, get off our property, or I'll splatter your brains all over the ground!"
Patrick grabbed him by his jacket and pulled him up to his level. The gnomes continued to aim their hats at him, even as Patrick pressed his shotgun laser at his forehead. Just like back when he broke up Mabel and him, Gideon looked very afraid of him.
"Don't make me ask twice," he whispered with venom pouring out, having had enough of Gideon trying to threaten his family.
"And let the marriage ceremony begin!" Jeff added from on top of the deer's head.
Gideon sighed and held up his hands. "Very well, just put me down." Patrick did this by dropping him roughly to the dirt. Gideon stood back up, rubbing his back before reaching into his jacket. "I suppose this deed belongs to—" Gideon suddenly pulled out a whistle and blew it as hard as he could.
The kids watched with wide eyes as all the gnomes cried in pain, covering their ears from the high pitch shrieking. Those that were not on the ground fell down to the ground, joining their brothers as they desperately tried to muffle the sound.
Gideon stopped for a moment. "Ha! What do you know! Works on gnomes too!" He blew the whistle again, causing more pain for the creatures.
"Stop! We'll do anything! How can we serve you, your majesty!" Jeff begging crawled towards and bowed to Gideon at his feet. "The most beautiful girl we've ever seen!"
"I AM NOT A GIRL!" Gideon shouted at Jeff.
"Really? But your skin is so soft." Jeff walked up to Gideon and started rubbing his hand. "You moisturize, or..."
Gideon yanked his hand away and points at the Pines kids. "Subdue them!" The gnomes grunt and charge at them. Before Patrick could fire at the traitorous creatures, the gnomes were already crawling all over Patrick and the kids. One of them grabbed his shotgun and pried it out of his figures.
"Hey!" He tried to grab it back, but the gnome threw it down to Gideon's feet.
Seeing the laser, Gideon picked it up with an evil grin. "I have to admit, kids, I am impressed by your creativity!" He looked up to Patrick and the twins. The gnomes held down Dipper and Mabel's body, as they were younger and easier to handle. Patrick, on the other hand, was stronger and required more gnomes to get him to go down on his knees. He tried to pry the gnomes off of him, but it was starting to become a losing back. As he grunted and struggled, Gideon reached in and pulled out the teenager's crowbar from his sweater. "But tell me, how did you ever..."
The hooked end of the crowbar, however, caught onto Journal #3 and when Gideon pulled Patrick's main weapon out, the book stumbled out of his sweater's inner pocket. Patrick's eyes widened with fear. "Oh no!"
Gideon gasped. "No! Could it be? Is it?" He threw the weapons aside and scooped up Journal #3. Flipping through the pages, he laughed in glee. "Of course! It all makes sense!" Patrick and Dipper struggled to break free from the gnomes to get the journal. "The one place I'd never think to look! You three had it the whole time! And to think I actually considered you a threat!" The white-haired boy said, flicking Dipper and Patrick's nose.
"No! Give it back!" Dipper yelled, fighting against the gnomes as he reached for the journal.
"Oh no, I think I'll keep it right here," Gideon said, patting the book as it was tucked under his arm.
Patrick struggled against the gnomes and he glared hatefully at Gideon. "Give it back or I swear to God I'll—"
Gideon cut Patrick off by getting in his face. "Or you'll what, boy? You'll what? Huh? Huh? You think that you're some kind of protector? How can you with no muscles? No brains? Without your little toys, you can't do anything! You couldn't protect your family for me, and now you can't even protect them from a bunch of gnomes! Face it! Every victory you had was because of your precious book! Without this, you have nothin'! You are nothin'!" Gideon said, taking pleasure in seeing Patrick's brave look of defiance wither away. His insecurities and the weight of his failures took effect with every word Gideon said.
He was completely powerless in the Stan's mind when he was just a head. But now, he felt completely useless.
Seeing his spirit breaking, Gideon gave them a mocking wave with a malicious grin. "Bye-bye forever, y'all!" He blew the whistle again, and the gnomes began carrying Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel away down the road.
"NOOOOOO!" Patrick cried out as Dipper and Mabel screamed in terror.
The gnomes continued to carry the three from the Shack. As he was being carried on his back, Patrick looked up at the sky, trees, and branches. They'd failed. This was their one chance to make things right and to be able to stay in Gravity Falls. But the plan was a complete disaster. As he watched the trees and sky, Gideon's words played over and over again in Patrick's head. By the time they'd stopped and the gnomes put them down, he didn't even realize it until the gnomes running off into the forest. He laid on the floor, limbs spread as Dipper and Mabel pace around.
Jeff ran past the twins and glared at them. "Next time, do your own dirty work, come on boys!" He pulled out his pants and the squirrels jump into them. Dipper shivered in disgust.
After Jeff ran off into the woods, Patrick sighed, defeated, before getting up and started walking away from the Mabel and Dipper. His head hung in defeat with his eyes looking down at the ground. The two twins walked faster to catch up with him. They were now walking next to him on both sides. Looking up at him in worry. "Hey, where are you going?" Dipper asked.
"I'm going home, Dipper," he muttered. Sounding more defeated than they've ever heard him sound like. "Come on, the bus should be here soon."
The twins looked at him in disbelief. "What?!" Mabel asked in shock. She ran in front of Patrick and pushed against his legs, keeping him from going any further. "Patrick, don't give up!"
"Yeah, man! It's not over yet!" Dipper said, walking in front of his cousin, frowning. "What about the Shack?"
"What about it?" Patrick demanded, looking down at them in frustration. "There's nothing more we can do. Faces the facts, we lost. There's no more hope."
"Come on, Patrick. All we need to do is come up with a plan!" Dipper insisted
"OPEN YOUR EYES, YOU TWO!" Patrick screamed in a mix of frustration and anger, scaring the twins a little. Tears threatening to come out from his eyes at his glared down at the kids. "The journal always has a plan! Think about it! The only courageous or cool things that have ever happened have been because of that journal! None of the things we've done this summer would've happened if we didn't have that fucking thing! And if it did..." Patrick paused for a moment to catch his breath. His look of angry turned to sorrow and hopelessness. "...we'd be long dead by now."
The twins looked shocked and sorrowful at their cousin stepped back and sat down on a bolder. He sighed and sniffed, looking down at the ground.
"I'm sorry, you guys," Patrick said, looking sadly at the ground. Feeling their hearts breaking seeing their cousin this defeated, Dipper and Mabel walked over and sat down with him on both sides. "Gideon was right. Without it, I can't help you two, or Stan...We can't help anyone."
"There's really nothing we can do?" Mabel asked with Dipper nodding, not wanting to see the teenager like this.
"No money, no weapons, no journal, no home?" Patrick looked at his cousins in pity. "What can we do?" The twins were silent as they shuffled closer to Patrick. The oldest of the three pulled his family closer, resting their heads on his shoulders as they wrapped their arms around each other. Patrick felt his tears beginning to form, as they sobbed into his shoulders.
[Play music: Gary Jules - "Mad World"]
This was one of the most painful moments in Patrick's life. This was it. He was really forced to leave Gravity Falls. Stan and Veronica gave the kids their tickets and they had their suitcases with them. Candy and Grenda were saying their final goodbyes to their brunette friends and were even talking with Dipper.
And as for Patrick, he was talking to his dream girl, Wendy. "Are you sure that there's nothing you can do," she asked, looking sadly at him.
Patrick hesitated but nodded and sighed hopelessly. "I'm sorry, Wendy. There's nothing that could be done. Gideon's got the journal. There's no other choice," he said. Patrick then tried to smile and act like his heart wasn't breaking into pieces. "I'll keep in touch. Just because I'm far away, doesn't mean that we can't still be friends."
"Yeah, but, dude, I don't want you to leave," Wendy said, finding it difficult to say goodbye to her crush. "I wanted to do more fun things with you."
"I feel the same!" Patrick said, sniffing a little. Trying to hold back a tear. "In fact..."
Wendy looked confused and took a step forward. "What is it?" She asked.
This was it. He had to tell her how he felt. If he didn't, there was no hope of ever getting another chance. Patrick gulped and began. "I...I just wanna say..." He struggled the get the words out of his mouth. Looking down at her hands, he reached for them and gently grabbed them. Holding them together with one hand under them and the other on top. Wendy stared at him with anticipation. "Wendy, I need to tell you..."
But life had other plans. He was interrupted when the bus that was going to take them back home came rolling in. The doors opened, and the announcer said, "Bus 52, departing Gravity Falls, all aboard."
His heart shattered again. He was so close to telling Wendy how he feels. About how much he loved her, only to be too late. There really was no hope for the two. There never was, was there? And so, with a breaking heart, Patrick chose to end it all.
"...I wish you the best in life," he said sadly, as a single tear ran down his face.
When she heard that, Wendy's expression of anticipation fell to a look that was a mixture of disappointment and sadness. But she nodded, and said, "You too."
"Come on, Patrick," Mabel said, as she and Dipper grabbed their bags to get on.
Patrick nodded and let go of Wendy. Their hands slowly slipping away from each other, and Patrick walked away, swinging his back on.
While she knew this was going to hurt her, no way could Wendy have imagined how gut-wrenching this goodbye really was. Who was she going to ask for help? Who would be with her to pull pranks and tell jokes? Who be there to brighten her day? Patrick was the only person in the world that made her feel like she was a kid again. Never in her life has she met a person like him, and Wendy had fallen hard for him.
As Patrick was about to take a step on the bus, Wendy suddenly rushed over to him. She grabbed him by his should, spun him around, and took him completely by surprise when she grabbed the sides of his face and gave him a long, passionate kiss. Patrick's eyes widened as he stared at the redhead, who rubbed his cheeks softly with her thumbs.
When she pulled away, Wendy looked Patrick in the eyes with tears running down her face as she tried to smile. "Thank you for making this the best summer of my life, Patrick," she whispered, before letting him go and walked away. Trying to wipe away her tears.
"Don't ever change, Wendy." With a little gasp, Wendy turned around to see Patrick struggling to smile as tears ran down his cheeks. "And I'll never forget you," he said.
With that, Patrick turned around to the bus, picked up his bags, and climbed abroad. His cousins were in the back, so he walked down the aisle to join them. As the sun was starting to set over the horizon, Patrick reached the back and the three kids peered out the back window. Stan and Veronica were standing there with Wendy. Candy and Grenda holding each other.
"Sorry kids, it's for the best," Stan said and turned away with the saddest look on his face. Veronica brought him into a hug to comfort him.
The bus then started up and drove away. Patrick looked to Wendy, as she forcefully tried to stop cry to wave at him and his cousins. She pulled out Patrick's drawing of her. Now it was the only thing she had to remember him. "I promise," she said as the wind blew through her hair. Referring to when he told her to never change. "I'll never forget you too."
As the bus drove further away, the weight of their situation hit them and the gut-wrenching feeling returned. "I can't believe this is happening," Dipper said. But it was happening. They pasted the sign that they weren't supposed to see for another two months. When summer was over.
Now Leaving Gravity Falls.
[End song]
The construction of GideonLand was still in progress. The only thing that looked to be complete was a giant metal statue that was made to resemble Gideon, with its right half unpainted. But all didn't matter to Gideon. He didn't care if it all were to go up in flames. He entered the house and bounced on his feet, giggling evilly. "Yeah, baby! This is it. Yeah! Whoo! I got it! I finally got it!" He yelled. Gideon ran through the living room, where his parents were in. "Get out!" He yelled at them and they were gone in only a second.
Gideon ran over to the table that he had Journal #2 at and sat down. He then exclaimed out of joy. "It's finally mine! At last, I have Journal #...3?!" That joy went away quickly when he sent the third journal down to the left of Journal #2, and he finally looked at the big six-fingered hand. Instead of a 1 like he was expecting, there was a 3. "There are THREE of them?!" He moved the third book over to the right of the second one and stared down at the place on the table that Journal #1 would have been sitting if he had it. "But where is journal number one?"
He started throwing a fit and thumping on the table with his fists. "I must have all three for the power to be unlocked! But where could I—" With his hands on the other two journals, his eyes widened. "The Pines kids! They must know where it is! They gave me the third one and kept the first for themself!" He yelled, ripping out some of his hair. "I CAN'T LET 'EM LEAVE GRAVITY FALLS!"
Grabbing 2 and 3, Gideon ran out of the Mystery Shack and looked up at Old Man McGucket, who he had to work on the giant statue. However, it wasn't a statue. It was actually a giant robot that he was planning on using when the power of the journals was his. "YOU THERE!" He yelled at Old Man McGucket while he was working on the Gideon-Bot. "IS IT READY?"
Old Man McGucket stopped working and looked down at Gideon. He then took off his protective mask and laughed. "He he he! Only one way to find out!"He dropped his tools and ran over to the back of the head, where a large lever was on. McGucket pulls the lever on Gideon-Bot and the machine turned on. Its cheeks glow red, while its wrists, eyes, and ankles glowed a bright yellow.
Gideon ran over to a platform that was attached to the foot. It started moving Gideon up the foot and into an opening that opened for him. That hole closed when the platform carried him upwards. Inside the machine was a control center, and that's where Gideon ascended to. He was now wearing a motion-capture suit to be able to control the robot's movements. As the eyes of the robot opened for him to see, he punched his right hand down, and the robot pushed the Gideonland sign into the ground. The Gideon-Bot walked away, as Gideon got used to the controls, before making the robot run.
As he watched Gideon go off to capturer the Pines, McGucket looked mighty proud. "I've got a good feelin' about that kid!"
Meanwhile, at Soos' grandma's house, the woman was vacuuming the curtains and Stan is sitting on the couch with Veronica sitting next to him. "Look, Stan, it's not the end of the world," she said, trying to comfort him. "We'll think of a way."
"What's the point, Veronica," Stan said, defeatedly, pulling his hands away from his face. "We've hit rock bottom. No friends, no family, stuck watching infomercials for whatever the fuck that is..."
The infomercial one another one Bobby Renzobbi's idiotic products that only the people of Gravity Falls would think of buying. "Are you sick of piles of owls constantly blocking your driveway? Well, then you gotta get owl trowel!" He said, showing off that was literally a trowel designed for owls.
Stan sighed and looked down in misery. "Face it, Veronica. I can't do anything. You can't do anything. Everything that we've built and worked towards is gone," he said.
Veronica looked down at the Gideon pin that was given to Stan by the evil boy. She reached and picked it up. Looking at it with a frown. "How did you do it, kid? Why are you always one step ahead?" She asked. "Could he really be psychic after..."
"Ah!" The yell startled Veronica and she looked to see Stan covering the ear that had his hearing aid. "My hearing aid! What keeps causing that?
Veronica's frown remained on her after as she stared at her cousin. The secret agent's eyes then moved back to the Gideon pin. "Wait a minute," she whispered. Veronica pulled out her butterfly knife and flipped it open. Stan watched her as carefully pressed the tip of the blade against the edge of the pin. Twisting it slightly, and creating a gap. Twisting the knife and making it wider, Veronica pulled away the front piece.
The two elderly Pines gasped when they saw a tiny, hidden camera inside of the pin.
"Stan, that's it! Gideon's not psychic! He's been spying on the whole town!" Veronica exclaimed with a great grin.
"We know Gideon's weakness!" Stan shouted in triumph, shooting up from his seat.
Abuelita then came it, brings Stan and Veronica a plate of tea. "Would the Pines like a..." Stan suddenly kissed Soos' grandma and runs to the door. Veronica looked at the other woman as her hair was undone, her lipstick was missed up, and she looked mortified. "I go vacuum my face."
Veronica got up to follow Stan when her phone rang. She pulled it out and saw it was Agent Powers. She pressed accept and put the phone to her ear. "Talk to me...Giant what?" She asked. Listening to her agent explain in further detail, the director pinched the bridge of her nose. "Okay...okay, so what's this Robot Gideon going? The road leading out of town? Why would it..."
At that moment, Veronica's widened in horror. "Oh no."
The border of the town was now 10 miles away. When the bus had crossed over a bridge near a waterfall, Patrick had finally stopped sobbing. However, every time he thought about leaving the Shack, the friends they've made, the adventures they've been on...Wendy. Sitting on the right side of the backseat, Patrick grabbed his face as he choked up again when he saw the water tower passing by. He couldn't get her or Gravity Falls out of his head. But there was nothing that they could do. The best summer he's ever had was gone. Patrick failed to save the day, again.
Mabel was sitting in the middle seat and Dipper was sitting near the left side window. When the girl looked to her cousin and saw how depressed he was, she tried to make him happy again. "Hey come on, Patrick, me and Dipper are going to play bus seat treasure hunt," she said, getting her brother's attention.
"We are?" Dipper got a nudge by his sister and quickly said, "Yeah! In fact, we could use another player."
"I'm not in the mood, you two," Patrick moaned, looking out the window with red eyes. "I just want to be left alone."
"Aw, come on!" Mabel said before lifting up a seat to reveal what was under it. "We got Canadian coins, gum that shaped like Ronald Reagan's head, ooh! Miscellaneous fluid stain?"
Patrick stared at her for a moment before giving a small smile. His mood lightning seeing his cousins wanting to cheer him up. That's why he loved them so much. "I guess it wouldn't hurt. So how do you..." his sentence trailed off when he heard something. Something big stomping on the ground. "You guys hear that?"
"Hear what?" Dipper asked.
Patrick turned around, sat on his knees and placed his face close to the window with his hands cupped around his eyes. He looked around, scanning for anything that could be causing the stomping. When he saw it, Patrick's eyes widened. "What the?!"
Jumping out of the trees, the Gideon bot skids across the road to come to a halt. "Halt!" Gideon yelled, before chasing after the bus. His robots hair breaking a cable line. "I command you to halt!"
Dipper and Mabel screamed in terror while Patrick screamed, "OH MY GOD!" The three jumped out their seats and frantically ran to the bus driver. "Hey, driver! You've got to..." Patrick's panic came to a short break when he saw who it was.
"Oh hey, dudes!" Soos said, sitting in the driver's seat and steering the bus.
"Soos!" The three exclaimed, never being more happy to see him again.
"Soos, you've got to get us out of here! Gideon's got a giant robot and is coming right for us!" Patrick pointed back to the robot running at them.
"Don't worry guys. I've been a part-time bus driver for at least 40 minutes," Soos said, pointing at his hat that said 'Driver in Training'. He then started pulling different levers and buttons. "One of these is probably a clutch..." He quickly found it and pulled the clutch. Accelerating the bus. "Hang on, dudes!"
Gideon don't stop and tried to grab the bus. Soos swerve out of the way. Suddenly the robot jumped high into the air, going over the bus and landed a little ahead of them and slammed his hand on the road to stop them. Blocking the way.
"Soos, look out!" Mabel screamed. Soos turned the bus sharply to the left. Smashing through a "Road Closed" sign and drove up the road that went around and up a mountain. The Gideon-bot started to climb up after them.
The kids looked back and saw the robot running up the road. "He's still coming!" Dipper yelled before turning to Patrick. "Do you have anything we can use?"
"Gideon took all my weapons!" Patrick told him, taking off his backpack and rummaged through it. But all he had were some other items he didn't pack in his duffle bag. Things like some tape, rope, and a flashlight. He closed his backpack, put it back on and looked back at the window. "Damnit! He already won! What does he want from us?"
Inside the bot, Gideon looked up at a computer screen that had a targeting system. It locked onto the bus. "I got you in my sight!" He exclaimed, his voice projecting through the robot's microphone.
"Soos, cliff!" Dipper shouted, pointing to the front windshield. Everyone screamed as Soos slammed both feet on the breaks and swung the bus around. Stopping the bus right before it could fall off the cliff. They were own at the top of one of the two oddly shaped mountains that towered over Gravity Falls, with that old mine-car bridge between them.
The wheels of the bus weren't on the cliff, so when Soos tried to drive away from it, the vehicle couldn't move. Patrick ran to the back and saw the mine tracks down below. He ran back to front and asked Mabel, "You still have that grappling hook?"
Mabel pulled it out. Patrick grabbed the twins' hands and dragged them out of the bus and ran over to the cliff. Mabel pulled the hook out of the gun and latched it onto a large rock. The boys grabbed her onto her and then jumped off the cliff. "GRAPPLING HOOK!" She yelled as they rappelling down to the tracks. "Told you it will come in handy!"
The Gideon-bot cames right after they started going down. He then grabbed the roof of the bus and started shaking it. Tearing off the ceiling and looked down inside to see that it was only Soos. Soos looked up at the robot in shock before pulling out the "Bus Emergency Manual" and opened it. "Okay. What's closest to our present situation. Raccoon in the engine or angry grandparent won't leave bus?" Soos asked no one in particular. "Proba-probably the second one."
The hook unlatching from the rock and retracting got Gideon's attention. The Gideon-bot turned itself and saw the Pines kids have made it down onto the bridge. The Pines kids ran across the tracks to get to the mineshaft. But halfway there, they stopped when they soon find that the bridge had a dead end on both sides. They shared nervous glances before turning back to Gideon
The Gideon-bot jumped and landed on the bridge, making it shake under its weight. But somehow, it held up. Gideon stood up and screeched, "Tell me! Where is Journal #1?!"
"Journal #1?" They replied simultaneously. Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel shared confused looks, wondering just what the hell Gideon was talking about.
The Gideon-bot drives the twins to the end of the tracks. "Don't play games with me, boy!" He yelled and punched the cliff, causing rocks to fall towards the kids.
Patrick looked up and gasped when he saw the rocking falling and quickly pulled Mabel and Dipper behind him, just in time for them to miss getting hit by one. "I don't know what the fuck you're talking about!" He shouted at Gideon, holding his arms out wide to block Gideon. "You took the only journal we ever had! What do you even want with these journals anyway?!"
The Gideon-bot growl and reached down to them. The left, painted side grabbed Patrick and the right, unpainted side grabbed the twins. Patrick reached out and grabbed one of both twins' hands, only for Gideon to pull them apart. Mabel struggled to break free as Dipper hit the hand with his fists.
Patrick punched the robot's hand in frustration. "Let go of them!" He ordered, only for the chubby fingers of the hand to squish the air out of him.
"Ha ha ha, you still think you're some kind of hero? Gideon mockingly asked Patrick. Turning around, he tossed him over his shoulder. Patrick screamed as he flew through the air, before landing on the top of the cliff. His head hit hard against a rock after careening across the dirt. He blacked out as his nose bled.
With Patrick out of the picture, Gideon started walking back across the bridge with Dipper and Mabel in his hand. "Once I find the final journal I'll rule this town! With you as my queen!" Gideon told Mabel. He then looked to Dipper and took him into his other hand. "But first, it's time for finally get rid of you, Dipper!" Gideon laughed as he held his left hand out over the side of the mine tracks.
Dipper looked down in fear and terror. The twins then looked up at the cliff but didn't see their cousin. They became scared for him, while still struggling to get out of the robot's grip. "Patrick! Help us!" They cried out in terrified desperation. "HELP!"
Those cries for help reached Patrick's ears and he came to. He grabbed his head as he felt a throbbing headache coming from it. Looking at his hand to find blood on it. It wasn't a lot, thankfully. Feeling pain all over his body, Patrick pulled himself up and looked towards the edge of the cliff. Gasping when he saw his cousins still in Gideon's hands and Dipper about to be dropped. They continued to cry out for him.
"Face it kid, you're nothing without that journal."
"How are you gonna fight then?"
"No muscles. No brains."
"What are you gonna do, huh? What are you gonna do!"
Gideon's words played in his head. Patrick looked down in shame. He had to do something, but there really was nothing he could do to save them. What chance did he have when it seemed impossible. He couldn't change anything and the situation was out of his control.
However, a glimmer of light caught his attention. Patrick turned his head slightly and saw that it was the size-altering crystal he had. Having fallen out of his pocket when he landed on the cliff. Patrick reached down and picked it up, then looked back at Gideon and his cousins.
A new surge of determination exploded from within him as everything changed. All the bad memories of the past events that happened and all the doubts he had about himself faded away. In their place came all the good memories. Finding the journal, sending time with Dipper and Mabel, getting to know Stan and fish with him, hanging out with Soos, meeting Wendy. Many more memories were all there in his head. And at that moment, Patrick realized that it wasn't impossible. He didn't need the journal. Instead, he'll use his abilities to adapt. To change this personal tragedy into a triumph.
Patrick took off his backpack and poured out the rope, tape, and flashlight.
Dipper continued struggling to get out of the hand as Gideon laughed evilly. Gideon then stopped and started releasing his captive from his figures. This little piggy went to market," he said, as the robot's pinky let got off Dipper.
Mabel gasped in terror. "NO!"
"This little piggy stayed home." The Gideon-bot's ring figure pulled away, and Dipper could feel his legs dangling in the air. He desperately clawed at the metal hand to grab onto something. "This little piggy had roast beef." The middle pulled away, leaving Dipper being held up by the pointer finger and thumb. He looked around desperately. There was no way out of this. Patrick couldn't save them now. Dipper was going to die.
Mabel was crying as she hits Gideon's hand. "Please, don't!" She beggingly sobbed.
"This little piggy went ..."
"GIDEON!" The voice of Patrick echoed throughout the area. Wrapping his robot's fingers back around Dipper, Gideon looked to the cliff and gasped in shock. The twins stared in awe.
Patrick was standing on the cliff, the wind blowing in his hair and nearly took his hair. But now, he was a giant. As big as the Gideon-bot. In between his pointer finger and thumb was a newly built size-changing flashlight.
Turning off the flashlight and closing his fist, Patrick took advantage of Gideon's surprise and jumped off the cliff, yelling a battle cry as he flew towards him. Gideon had very little time to react before the teenager tackled the ten-year-old's robot off his feet and slammed it onto the tracks on impact. Mabel and Dipper were still in its hands.
Pinning Gideon down with his arm, Patrick pulled back his fist. "Let go of my cousins!" He demanded, and punched the robot in the face repeatedly. The Gideon-bot's head moved from side to side with each hit.
"Never!" Gideon shouted, pushing Patrick off of him and jumped onto the teenager. "I finally won this time!" He landed a punch on his face. Patrick pushed him off and got back on his feet. The two continued exchanging blows as Gideon held the kids in his hands. Patrick had to admit, Gideon was a lot strong than he thought he would be. But Patrick blocked most of his punches.
With arms and face brushed up and knuckles bleeding from hitting metal, Patrick kicked Gideon in the chest, sending him flying back into the side of the cliff. Seeing his nemesis approaching, the younger boy pulled a really dirty move and threw Dipper at him. Patrick gasped as Dipper screamed in midair. His cousins quickly caught Dipper with his left hand, the one that held the flashlight, just before he could go over the tracks.
Patrick looked at Dipper as he panted, smiling upon seeing he was okay, only for Gideon to then tackles Patrick once again. The robot's metal hands punching him twice on his cheeks. His left cheek formed a purple, swollen bruise and a bit of blood and spit flew from Patrick's mouth. But Patrick glared determinedly at Gideon. He stood up when Gideon tried to punch him in the face again, the teenager blocked the punch by catching it with his right hand.
Gideon looked at him in shock as Patrick held his fist from his face. Patrick grunted as he struggled to hold him back. He then placed Dipper on his shoulder and dropped the flashlight next to him, which Dipper quickly picked up before it could roll off. With his left hand free, Patrick grabbed Gideon's arm. "You know, you're a real wise guy, you creepy little sonofabitch, but you've made one fatal mistake: YOU MESSED WITH MY FAMILY!"
Slamming his foot into the robot's face. Patrick suddenly pulled as hard as he could and ripped Gideon-bot's arm right out of its socket.
Gideon stepped back in total shock after seeing his robot's arm getting ripped off. Patrick threw the arm away and rushed towards Gideon with a battle cry. Delivering one more powerful punch to the white-haired boy's robot face. Making the Gideon-bot's head turn around. Gideon was sent off his feet when the room began spinning and he was pressed against the wall.
The robot's grip on was lost and Mabel grabbing the thumb in a desperate attempt to hold on. "Careful!"
Patrick saw this and it made his eyes widened. The bot stumbled a bit, and Patrick tried to make a grab for Mabel. He grabbed the hand on the robot, right when it fell off the bridge. Pulling Patrick and Dipper down with it.
The three kids screamed as Soos ran to the cliff and shouted for them. "Dudes! Nooooooooooo!"
The cold air rushed against Patrick as he clenched his teeth. They were falling fast, but not as fast as the Gideon-bot. Dipper desperately held onto the fabric of Patrick's sweater with one hand, before his cousin grabbed him with his left hand. the giant teenager then looked to Mabel. Mabel's grip on the robot's hand had been lost and she was descending slower than Patrick. It looked like she was floating up to him. He reached out and grabbed her with his right.
In what was likely going to be in his final act of heroism, Patrick brought the twins to his chest and flipped himself around. Using his body to shield them from the impact.
The Gideon bot collided with the ground and the results were an explosion big enough for everyone in the town to see. The blue flames engulfed Patrick and the twins.
As the explosion died down, the entire area was covered in a fog of smoke and snow-like ash flakes. It was nearly impossible for anyone to see anything in it. However, in that smoke and fog was the giant body of Patrick Pines. He was laying on his back, not moving an inch as his eyes were closes. He wasn't breathing.
Under his hands, the twins lifted them off as they crawled out from underneath and stood on the teenager's chest. Despite the fall, they were unhurt. But when they looked at Patrick's giant face, they saw he was unresponsive and started to get worried.
"Patrick?" Mabel asked worried, as Dipper flipped the size-altering flashlight to shrink and shined it on his cousin. The twins got off on both sides of him as Patrick was turned back to normal size. Dipper turned the flashlight off and rushed over to his cousin with Mabel. The two kneeled down and the male twin placed his ear on his chest.
Dipper's head pulled away quickly with a gasp. "He's not breathing!"
"What do we do?!" Mabel asked desperately, tears coming out of her eyes. Dipper quickly held up Patrick's head and brushed away the rocks from underneath.
"We have to do CPR," Dipper said, trying to sound calm, but his face said that he was very scared. Scared of losing his family member. He titled Patrick's head back, lifting the chin and looked at Mabel. "You pump his chest, I'll breathe into him!"
With tears running down her face, Mabel nodded. Placing her hands, one on top of the other, in the middle of her cousin's chest, she started pushing fast and hard. Using her body weight to administer compressions. There was no response from Patrick. When she finished, Dipper pinched Patrick's nose, lowered his head down, and delivered rescue breaths. Blowing two times into his mouth.
When it didn't work, Dipper nodded to Mabel, and the two continued the process. Mabel was starting to sob now as she repeatedly pushed against Patrick's chest and Dipper was fighting back the tears. She stopped and Dipper's turn came. He was starting to breathe irregularly, but got himself under control to deliver breathes of air into Patrick's mouth.
Again, Patrick didn't wake up.
"Come on, Patrick, wake up!" Mabel sobbed as she started pushing his chest again. "Please get up! DON'T LEAVE US!" She screamed, slamming her fists on his chest. Dipper stopped her arms when she was about to do it again, and Mabel hugged him. The two kids started crying together. They'd lost their cousin. Someone they saw as the big brother they never had. He died doing what he was supported to do. Protecting them.
"...I'm...not going anywhere..."
The two gasped when they heard that faint, weak voice and looked down. Patrick's eyes were still closed, but slowly, they started to open. The twins gasped even louder as their eyes widened. Patrick looked at the twins and slightly smiled.
"Pines stick together," he said.
"PATRICK!" Dipper and Mabel screamed as they jumped on him. Sobbing out of joy and relief. Patrick grunted from the pain of having the twins jump on him after he'd just used his body to break their fall. However, the pain subsided and he hugged them tightly. They were alive and so was he, and that's all that matter. Mabel continued to have her face buried in his chest, while Dipper looked up with tear-stained cheeks and looked at him with immense relief. "You're okay!"
"It's gonna take a lot more to get rid of me." Patrick grinned. Picking himself back up as the smoke and fog cleared away. The Pines looked and were in awe to see the Gideon-bot broken, and its pieces are all around. The body was in tatters, its limbs were spread out, and the wires were showing. The grass was burnt underneath it and the trees were knocked down or leaning away from the crashed robot.
Patrick and the twins stared at it for a moment before the teenager jumped up to his feet. "We-We did it! We actually beat him! We're awesome!"
"Not as awesome as you turning into a giant and taking on that robot!" Mabel said, playfully punching Patrick's leg.
"Yeah, man. That awesome! How'd you do it?" Dipper asked, looking up at his cousin.
Patrick blushed sheepishly and kicked a sheet of metal away. However, luck seemed to have returned to his side as Journal #3 was underneath it. It had some tears at the edges, but it was still in one piece. Patrick smirked and picked it up off the ground. "It's like I told you, Dipper. I'm only brave when I'm scared. And, well, I was scared of losing my favorite twins," he said, handing the book over to Dipper.
"Hey! My journal!" Dipper said, putting it in his vest.
Suddenly there were the sounds of police sirens and flashing red and blue light. Blubs and Durland's cop car came pulling up. Following them were lots of people from town, and even news vans arriving. They all gathered around the wreckage.
Just then, Gideon came crawling out from the eye of the Gideon-bot. Groaning while tearing off some of the fabric off his hair. "Gideon!" Durland cried as he and Blubs rushed over to the robot. Ignoring the twins, and a badly bruised Patrick who was likely in need of medical care. The other people watched as the cops helped him out of the broken eye. "Oh, good heavens! What on earth happened here?"
When Blubs kneeled down beside the boy. Gideon immediately played the victim. "It was the Pines kids!" He lied, trying to look pitiful and hugged Blubs. "They tried to attack me and blow up my statue with dynamites! Arrest 'em!"
"What?!" Patrick and the twins shouted. Blubs pulled out a pair of cuffs and Patrick quickly placed himself in front of his cousins. "Officers, he's lying!" Dipper yelled.
"That's right! I mean, think about it! How in the world could we have done this!?" Patrick yelled, gesturing to the robot. "And why would we?! We were on our way home when Gideon attacked us in his robot! I mean, look at it! It's clearly a robot! Why else would as statue end up all the way out here and not at the Mystery Shack!"
Some of the people started mumbling to themselves, and Gideon started to look rather nervous. "He's telling the truth!" Said a familiar voice. The crowd parted and Soos came running through. "I was the bus driver when Gideon attacked! They're innocent!"
"Sorry kids, but we trust Gideon," Blubs said. Gideon's confidence returned and he smiled darkly at Patrick, who's heart sank. They were willing to believe the lies instead of facing the truth that their darling angel was actually an evil psychopath. "And nothing short of a miracle would ever change our-"
They all heard the sound of a person screaming. The crowd turned around and saw a familiar red El Diablo ridding in. The crowd backed away as Stan's car came barreling down the crater and knocked over the police car. Stan then poked his head out of the rolled-down window and waved his arms around. "Wait! Wait! Stop everything! I've got somethin' to say!"
"Not this guy again," Blubs muttered, only to gasp when Veronica stepped out of the car. "A-Age-My mean Ms. Pine?! W-What're you doing here?"
"Cut the crap, Blubs, I saw the cuffs," Veronica said, walking through the crowd as she and Stan approached the cops and Gideon. "We've got some important information involving this little piece of shit." She glared down at Gideon.
"Yeah, yeah! Just give us two minutes of your time! Look!" Stan rushed over to stand next to the Gideon-bot. "You guys all think Gideon is so perfect and honest," he said before starting to mock Gideon. "Oh! I could never tell a lie! I'm Gideon!"
Veronica deadpanned. "Stan, that's not helping."
"He's more honest than you!" Blubs remarked.
"Yeah! And he's psychic too!" Durland added.
Walking over to stand next to her cousin, Veronica smirked. "You really think so? Well..."
"How's this for psychic? Bam!" With a hard kick into the Gideon-bot, Stan caused a panel to be knocked over. "Take a good look!" And take a look the townsfolk did. Inside of the bot was what appeared to be a surveillance room with a chared that had the Tent of Telepathy logo on it and many TV screens. Some were smashed, and others were on and playing different footages, creating a blue light that filled the room.
Lazy Susan looked at one of the screens and gasped. "Wait a minute, is that ME?" she asked, lifting up her lazy eye's eyelid.
"The secret ingredient to my coffee omelet is coffee!" Lazy Susan said on the recorded footage. Pouring coffee into her omelet.
"And me!" Toby said, finding footage of himself when he went to the doctor about his birthmark.
"I can verify that that birthmark is indeed disgusting." Dr. Vindaloo informed Toby. "You have nothing to worry about. Nothing at all."
"Hooray!" Toby cheered.
Soon, most of the people in the crowd were finding clips of themselves, and to their shock, they were the things that Gideon had said to have "Psychically" known above. "Gideon was never a psychic in the first place. These pins are nothing more than hidden cameras! " Veronica said, taking someone's pin and held it up. And the townsfolk saw one of the TVs following pin and showing what it saw. "He's been spying on each and every one of you to learn your secrets. And my cousin's hearing aid was picking up the feedback."
"Who's the fraud now?" Stan asked as Veronica crushed the pin in her hand. Breaking it and revealing that there was a camera in the eye of it.
Seeing the truth, the people ripped off their pins and threw them to the ground. Now seeing Gideon for the liar that he was, they turned their heads towards him. The little boy nervously chuckled. The people then started advancing towards him, looking angrily at Gideon, making him take some steps back.
"Gideon, we gave you our trust..." Durland said out of sadness.
"You LIED to us!" Manly Dan growled
"Please, I..." Gideon stumbled and fell down. He then crawled backwards to get away from the large crowd of people he's fooled for a long time. Only to stop when his back hits the leg of the robot. Now cornered, he stared up anxiously at the crowd. "It's not what it looks like..."
"Really?" Out from the crowd came Wendy. After seeing the state that Patrick was in, she glared down at the boy. Wanting nothing more than to rip him apart. "Because it looks exactly what it looks like."
"W-W-What are you gonna do with me?"
The crowd stopped in front of him. Durland then looked up and asked, "Tyler?"
Tyler Cutebiker, the local enthusiasm enthusiast, was looking anything but enthusiastic as he stood next to Gideon. He had tears welling up in his eyes, before looking away. "Get 'im..." he said, before wiping his tears. "Get 'im!"
Gasping in horror, Gideon looked back at Blubs.
"Lil' Gideon, you are under arrest for conspiracy, fraud," he took a moment to wipe his glasses, "and breaking our hearts," Blubs said, before putting back on his glasses. "Durland, the tiny handcuffs."
Durland pulled out the handcuffs that were for criminals with tiny arms. He slapped on Gideon's arms behind his back, who looked even more horrified. "Wha-no!"
Veronica then came walking over with a smug look on her face. "Oh, but before you take him away, there's just one more thing we're forgetting." Facing her back towards the kids and the people of the town, Veronica grabbed Gideon by the coat.
"Hey! Let go of me!" Gideon yelled, before Veronica reached into his jacket and pulled out not only the deed to the Mystery Shack but also Journal #2. He gasped when he saw this. "No!"
Veronica dropped him to the ground. "We'll be taking back what's rightful ours," she said, slipping the journal into her brown jacket without anyone noticing, before turning around and proudly presented the deed to Stan. The reporters swarmed the two as the kids exchanged grins and ran over to their elders.
After Gideon's plan failing and his power over the town falling, losing the journal was the final straw for the evil boy. Blubs and Durland grabbed him by the arms and started dragging him to the cop car, when Gideon just absolutely exploded. "YOU BASTARDS! YOU GODDAMN BASTARDS! Do you know who I am?! I AM GIDEON CHARLES GLEEFUL! You can't do this to me! Y'all are SHEEP! YOU ALL NEED ME!" He screamed at the top of his lungs.
The town just stared at him as he threw a full-on temper tantrum. Finally seeing with their own eyes just how wrong they were about him. Durland opened the door and the two cops started pushing him in.
"Watch the hair!" Gideon yelled at them, before they closed the door. Gideon then slammed his fists on the back window as he glared at the Pines. "This is all your fault, Pines Family! I swear on all my name-brand hair care products, YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE LAST OF ME!" He screamed as the cop car drove away.
The kids hugged their great uncle and aunt/grandmother. Mabel was picked up and placed on Stan's shoulder as he rested his arm on Dipper's head. Patrick was standing with his grandmother, who was kind of embarrassing him with kisses on the cheek.
Shandra Jimenez when walked over to them with a microphone in hand and a cameraman. "There you have it. Local hero Stanford Pines has just exposed Li'l Gideon as a fraud," she said into the camera and then turned to Stan. "Anything you have to say to the town, Stanford?"
"The Mystery Shack is back, baby!" Stan cheered, making the rest of his family laugh and cheer.
"PINES! PINES! PINES!"
And when the Mystery Shack was back, it was bigger and better than ever. After Veronica brought Patrick back from the hospital, he was given the day off for his wounds to heal and to take it easy. He was in his room, unpacking his bags and getting the room back in the order that he had it. Patrick's head was wrapped in bandages for his bleeding head. Luckily it was only a slight concussion, but it did leave a scar that his hair covered over along with his hat. His arms and hands were covered in bandages because of all the bruises on them and his bleeding hands after punching the robot over and over. Turned out he was so close to breaking his hand.
After hanging up a poster, Patrick stepped back to admire it with a smile. He then heard a familiar bleating and looked now to see Gompers stand on his left. The goat looked up at him and Patrick scratched his head, which the animal seemed to like. Then grabbing the laser shotgun and crowbar he was able to get back.
He exited out of the room and walked upstairs, Gompers following him. Walking into the living room, Patrick saw Mabel playing with Waddles. She was more than thrilled to have her pig back in her arms, especially after throwing the Gideon costume her pig was forced to wear into the fireplace. Burning it to nothing.
Walking outside, Patrick looked up and saw Dipper, Wendy, and Soos working on fixing the roof and sign of the Mystery Shack. The handyman was fixing the roof tiles, while the male twin and the redhead teenager was putting back the S to Shack back on the sign. After hammer down the last nail, Wendy took a moment to admire her work.
Only for the S to fall off and landed on the ground. Luckily Patrick was a few feet away when it fell down. Gompers walked up to it and started chewing it. Patrick looked back up at Wendy with a smile. When the two teenagers made eye contact, she blushed brightly but smiled genuinely and waved at him.
Patrick waved back, blushing too. He wanted to talk to her. To have a nice long conversation and tell her all about the events that took place. However, now it didn't look like the best time to talk as she still had work to do. He looked to the entrance of the gift shop and saw a large crowd in front of it.
When Patrick entered the Gift Shop, he was surprised to see that it was filled with people. The Mystery Shack had technically become famous and Stan was enjoying that fame. Talking with the costumers are they showed their thanks and appreciation. They bought a lot of merchandise that they were going to be out of stock soon.
Patrick then noticed a new newspaper sitting on a shelf. Thinking that someone had left it, he walked over and grabbed it. It was the Gravity Falls Gossiper and on the front page was Gideon locked behind bars.
Everything was finally back to normal, and Patrick couldn't have been gladder. But then he started thinking for a moment, and decided that he need to talk to his cousins about the journal.
It was finally time.
It was around seven-thirty that night when Patrick knuckled on the door of the attic bedroom, before opening the door. The twins were still unpacking. Mabel was standing on her bed hanging back up a poster and Dipper was pulling out some of his clothes. "Hey guys," Patrick said, closing the door behind them and walked over. "How's the unpacking?"
"It's going great!" Mabel jumping off the bed. "All of my favorite moldy spots on the ceiling are still there! Even you, Daryl." They all looked up at the gross, chunky, dripping mold that she was talking about.
"Great," Patrick muttered. He then turned to Dipper. "Mind if I see that journal? I think it's time we have a talk about it"
"Sure." Dipper pulled out the journal and handed it to Patrick. He was a little worried about what his cousin would say. The teenager looked at it for a moment as he sat down on the bed. "What is it you want to talk about? Is it about Gideon?
Patrick shook its head. "It's a little more than that," he admitted, facing the twins as they gathered around him. Mabel coming over to sit down on the other side of Patrick. With them on his left and right, the three looked down at the journal. "These past few days made me realize that summer isn't going to last forever. Gideon wanted to get his hands on this journal and was going to go through even more extreme lengths to get it. I love going on adventures with you guys and solving mysteries, but it's clear that things are only going to get weirder and more dangerous. Sure we have Soos and Wendy, but we're going to need more allies if we're going to make it till our last day in town."
"So, what do you want to do?" Mabel asked. Patrick at her and then at Dipper, before looking back at the journal.
"There are only two people that we know that have lived in Gravity Falls for a long time, and even though one of them denies the weirdness going on, having them with us will increase our chances of staying alive."
Dipper's eyes widened when a lightbulb clicked in his head. "You mean..."
Patrick nodded. "Yeah," he confirmed. "It's time to tell Stan and Veronica. And who knows, Veronica believes in the supernatural, maybe she can convince Stan. He may also know something that he's not telling us."
There was a knock at the door and the kids looked to see it open. It was the elderly family members walking in to check on them. "Uh, you kiddos settlin' back in okay?" Stan asked.
"We're doing fine," Patrick answered with a smile. He then looked at his cousins. They both nodded. It was time to tell Stan and Veronica the truth. "Actually, I and the twins have been talking, and I think there's something we should finally tell you," he said, hold up the journal to show them.
Veronica's eyes widened. It all made sense now.
"This is a journal me and Dipper found in the woods a month ago," Patrick explained, handing it to Stan, who sat down on Mabel's bed. Veronica joined him as he started flipping through the pages. "It keeps a detailed record of all the strange and supernatural things that goes on in Gravity Falls. From what we learned, there are three of them, and Gideon nearly destroyed the whole town trying to find them. I don't know what it means, where the other journals are, or who wrote them. But, after all we've been through, maybe you two should finally know about it."
Veronica nodded in understanding, while Stan's face remained rock solid that it was hard to tell what he thinking. "I'm glad you showed me this, kids..." Stan said, solemnly closing the book. "AHAHAHA! Now I know where you've been getting it all from! Spookums and monsters. This spooky book has been filling your head with crazy conspiracies!" Stan said, looking at them with a look of excitement.
"Seriously!?" Patrick exclaimed.
"But it's all real!" Dipper shouted.
"Haha. You gotta quit readin' this fantasy nonsense for your own good," he teased Dipper and Patrick grinning. He then opened the book again to the squash page. "Although some of these would make great attractions! Can't come up with this stuff! Mind if I borrow this?" Stan got up, taking the book with him without waiting for an answer and started to leave.
"Wait, no!" Dipper shouted. "Grunkle Stan!"
Stan stopped in the doorway and looked back at the kids. "'Magic book.'" He laughed. "Ridiculous!"
"Stan, I need it!" Patrick shouted, holding out his hand.
"You kids really don't believe that, do you?" asked Veronica. The kids turned to see her smiling at them. "Patrick, you don't need that book to achieve greatness or to do great things. Don't you remember? On your own, you defeated a giant robot with nothing but your bare hands! Even if you used something supernatural to help you grow bigger, it was your will to protect your family that drove you. You're a hero whether you've got that journal or not!"
Patrick and Dipper looked at her in wonder, before sharing a look and smiled. She was right. "Thanks, grandma," Patrick said, remembering how he felt on that cliff. "So, will you help us?"
"I'll see if I can. I'm a historian after all," Veronica said with pride, standing up.
"Thanks. I still want it back though," Dipper said.
"I'm sure you'll get it back," Mabel said to assure him. "What would a boring old man like Stan want with that book anyway?"
Suddenly the twins and Patrick were pelted with water. They looked in the direction it came from and saw Soos popping out of a cardboard box with two water guns in his hands. "Soos-ed!" he cheered.
Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel got up and laughingly chased after Soos. Veronica chuckled at how silly it was, but smiled happily to see the kids having fun after a long, hard-fought battle. But then her face changed to a serious expression. The secret agent cast a look at the triangular window. Deep in her thoughts. Stan had the third journal, and Veronica had a very good idea what he was going to do with it.
Night came, and all throughout the house, there wasn't sound to be heard. Patrick and the twins were fast asleep. Stan, on the other hand, was not. He walked out of his office with a lantern and Journal #3 in hand. Entering into the gift shop, he stopped when he saw another person there. Someone he knew was going to be there waiting.
Dressed in her government agent black suit, Veronica Pines stared at Stan with a scowl on her face. Hands behind her back as she stood in the middle of the shop. "Hello, Stanley," she said.
Stan stared her for a moment, before sighing. "Hello, Veronica," he said, before narrowing his eyes. "Or should I say...Agent Pines?"
Veronica's eyes turned to the vending machine and then back at Stan. The tension in the room growing as the conman and the secret operative stared at one another. "Is that the journal?" Stan looked at the journal in his hand. "So I take it you're going back down there," she said, raising an eyebrow.
"You know I am," Stan said, glaring at her.
"I can't let you do that Stan." Veronica reached into her suit.
Stan's eyes widened. Thinking that she was going to pull out a gun.
However, Veronica's serious expression turned into a smile as she pulled out Journal #2 and showed it to him. Shocking Stan that she actually found it.
"At least, not without me," she said. "It's time."
After a moment, Stan smiled and nodded. He then turned to the vending machine and entered in the code. It opened up, allowing the two to walk through. Veronica looked back to make sure no one watching them. When she was absolutely sure it was clear, she closed the machine.
The two cousins climbed down a set of stairs to basement room. In the room was an elevator that went up and down three levels. They were currently on the first one. Veronica opened a panel that was beside the elevator and inputted the alchemical symbols for "composition," "pulverize," "digestion," and "fusion". When the code was accepted, the agent pressed the down button.
The doors to the elevator opened, and the two entered into it. The doors closed, and they were taken down to the third floor.
The doors reopened, and Veronica and Stan stepped out of it. They walked into a room filled with complex, retro-futuristic-looking machines, computers, gadgets, and sensors, all of them were constantly working. There were cracked dials, gauges, and flashlight lights illuminating the room. With his lamb, Stan walked ahead of Veronica as they pasted it all, including the base of the Totem pole, which was located outside of the Shack and had a periscope inside the pole. A surveillance screen was at the bottom with an image of trees from somewhere outside of the Mystery Shack.
At the end of the room, they approached a desk with many electronic devices and a switchboard. On the side, it had the symbol that matched Stan's tattoo on the back of his right shoulder. On the desk, there was a picture of Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel.
Stan grabbed a chair and pulled himself up to the desk as Veronica placed Journal #2 ontop of it. "It's hard to believe this is actually happening," she said, as Stan sent Journal #3 down on the right side of the second one.
"I know..." Stan said. He then opened a pair of sliding doors to a shelf below the picture of his nephews and niece. There was a series of books inside it. Stan reached in...
And pulled out Journal #1!
"But after all these years," Stan said, looking at the book, before placing it with the other two. completing the set. "Finally, we have them all."
Veronica then opened all three books to the pages that held the blueprints, arranged them to have 1 on the bottom, 3 and 2 above on the left and right, respectively, and then put them together. Creating a complex image algorithm. Stan and Veronica conferred it as Stan slid over to press some buttons and switches on the switchboard. The agent would show him the blueprint and point out what he needed to do, and Stan did it.
This eventually turned something on. A machine beyond the glass of the switchboard lights up as it was activated.
"It's working!" Veronica shouted in disbelief.
She and Stan rushed to the door, waited for it to open, and then rushed out into the room with the machine. They both grabbed a large lever in front of it and working together, pushed it to the left.
The machine crackled with large bursts of electricity sending beams of light in every direction, and finally turns on completely. The main section of the machine was a large, inverted metal triangle with lights dotting along its edge. There was a large hole in the center and symbols encircling the hole. The symbols represent the Behenian fixed stars, which are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in medieval astrology. The bottom tip of the triangle was connected to a base with many large thick cords.
Now that it was fully activated, bright, white light emanating from its central hole, blowing a steady stream of air at Stan and Veronica.
Stan stood proudly in front of it. His hands on his hips, and smiles in satisfaction. Veronica also stood proudly with her crossed her arms and smiled. This was it. After thirty long years, this moment has finally come.
"Here we go," Stan said.
TRUST NO ONE!
AN: It took nearly three years, but we've finally made it to this moment! We end season 1 with one of the biggest plot twists in the show's history! There was so much going on this chapter that I actually started working on it months ago. Just to get some of the most important parts out of the way. But now we're here and it's going to be great.
I believe that Patrick is definitely at his best in this chapter. This was definitely more his story, as he goes through a lot in this chapter. Both physically and emotionally. Like I said in the"The Time Pig Paradox", in order for Patrick to become the hero he needs to be, he had to be broken down. Losing faith in his ability to save the day, only to find new strength. And with this new strength, he rises to the challenge and takes on impossible odds.
Even though they didn't confess their feelings, we finally see Wendy and Patrick share a kiss!
This is something that's been coming for a long time and I'm so happy to bring to the story. But what will this mean for the two? Patrick had given up completely when he was about to leave Gravity Falls, while Wendy's feelings had reached new heights. Originally in the end, I was going to have Wendy be very conflicted with her feelings and her kissing Patrick.
What will happen in "Scary Oke"? There will definitely be some awkwardness with the two. What do you guys think should happen between the two in the next chapter?
All I know is that They will say "I love you" in "Into the Bunker".
The relationship that Patrick has with the twists is definitely one of the central points of the chapter. Showing just how much to love and appreciate him and look to him for guidance and protect. Later on, we'll have chapters that are more focused on them, but for now, we're focusing on Patrick.
And then the big plot twist! Stan KNEW that Veronica was an agent and the two were working TOGETHER!? WHAT? I'm not sure how much of a twist this was to you guys, but I like to think it was a good plot twist. Now it opens up more questions for the future.
Thank you very much for reading. "Weirder Things" will return. Please be sure to Favorite and Follow if you like the story, and also Review it so that I know that I'm doing good and what to improve. If you any questions or discussions you'd have for me, then please in a Review or a PM me.
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