CHAPTER 5
SHACK TOUR
Back at the present Ami has the archaeological journal and then closes it and says, "And, that's it that was the final entry."
Usagi gets up and says, "Why didn't both wait for us, we could have done this together."
Wendy says, "You know that's what I though at first when both left the Falls but thinking about it more, I realize it actually makes sense."
"I'm not sure I understand."
"Think of it this way it's like running a race only one person starts to run before the rest do."
Matt says, "I think I get where you're going with this, so what about these machines that have been attacking them, have they all been identified?"
Ami says, 'There are sketches of machines from those androids from the video store, the other robots chasing both Rei and Henry.
Ami points to the corkboard and there are the sketches hanging and both Matt and Gloria look at them carefully.
Ami continues, "No doubt they were machines the "Black Moon" would make."
Gloria says, "Might I ask who they are?"
Ami looks at Gloria and says, "It's a much longer story but, they were an organization I and the Senchi fought against years ago and these machines were their tools."
"Are they back?"
"No, they've been disbanded long ago and in Tokyo we did a recent communication with Yuckshiro and Koan as they have no idea about the tech being here.
Dipper says, "Other than this I think it's time for the next part of this story, that's where I and my friends all enter the picture."
Soos he then moving his feet in excitement and giddiness.
He then looks at Dipper and says, "C'mon, Dipper tell him the rest and how I was there, your best at telling stories than any of us."
Dipper looks at him and says, "Well, I don't know about that."
Wendy has a small smirk and says, "Your too modest Dip, go on tell them."
"Alright but I'll need you and the rest to help me out with the story."
All the Mystery Shack Investigators they gather on the table and then Dipper starts. "Well after what transpired before, I and Mabel got a call from Henry and then after both he and Rei arrived Henry told and gave use all the findings on the spell book pages. We immediately went to work on them along with the rest of my friends, it wasn't easy as it took almost about a week but one day we finally found something.
Flashback: May, Sunday, Two weeks ago.
In the Mystery Shack, Adam is sitting at a kitchen table on a laptop and there is one of the photos of one of the pages, he is reading it and typing it down. Adam then stops typing and then breaks away from the computer and he takes both of his right thumb and finger and rubs his nose with a bit of exhaustion. He then goes to his phone on the table, which is on one of his apps, which is a signal app that has a list of plenty of names. Adam then presses the name of Dipper Pines which sends some sort of signal toward his phone.
Dipper within seconds comes to the kitchen, looks at Adam and says, "You got the page?"
Adam then nods his head yes and then just takes the page from the small printer and then just hands it to Dipper and Dipper just takes it and looks at it.
Dipper then says, "Another spell page for creating a potion for….."
Adam says, "Sorry, I was unable to translate certain contents, as I said I'm unfortunately not on my brother's level."
"We're almost getting down to some of the final pages on our end."
"And we still have zip on the crystal and it's whereabouts."
"The clue has to be here, unless there is another hidden spell book somewhere in the world that has it."
"I can still send the pages translated to my brother for rechecking, as I said they weren't perfect translations there might be something missed; what about your research?"
Dipper shakes his head and says, "Both Henry and I have been researching for a while, see if in any of the pages there could be some connection with some of our previous contents on these lost crystals but so far nothing."
"Yeah, this has been as hard as trying to find lost work prints for an already made film; I just fear that both Rei and Henry might have come here for nothing."
"I'm sure the answers are in this book, the other people that came for the book, thought there was something valuable worth steeling and killing for."
Suddenly the kitchen door opens, and Mabel comes in and she says, "Just got the printouts faxed by Candy and her boyfriend Darrien all the way from Egypt.
Mabel then puts the printouts on the tale. Adam then puts them together with his printouts and all three of them looks at the printouts and study hard.
Minutes latter both for them are at the Mystery Shack and they have everyone start to come in Dipper, Adam, Soos, Wendy, and Henry and Rei. Dipper along with Adam are behind the shop counter while everyone else in in front.
Rei can't help but look at the Shack as there are so many strange things her eyes have never drank up, she looks to a display table and she then picks up something which is a canaster with a jump rope picture, but it has a strange title which puzzles her.
Rei looks at Mabel and says, "Thunderbolt Jump Rope?"
Mabel looks at her and says, "I'll tell you what that is latter."
Dipper then looks and says, "Put that away."
Rei puts it away and everyone then listens to both Adam and Dipper. Dipper then brings out a single paper and begins, "This is one of the journal passages from a sorcerer unknown but according to the passage, it said that a gem of a strange light was taken away from Stygia by orders of a Sect with unknown name. They have sailed while the sorcerer followed into a strange new land that is said to a place of freedom for all that practice magic good and evil but also where many Sects are able to make lands of their own."
Wendy says, "So where is this land?"
"Better question is what it use to be, which then brings me to this."
Dipper looks at Adam and says, "Show them."
Adam he then brings out the cork board and puts it down on the sales counter and everyone looks as sees it's most of the printout sheets that are all put together like a jigsaw puzzle to make a map.
Rei looks at both and says, "How did you figure this out?"
Dipper says, "It wasn't just both I and Adam, come on up here Mabel and explain away."
Mabel then joins both Dipper and Adam behind the counter and then explains, "Well you see in that journal there were a certain series of pages."
Henry says, "Yeah, I looked at them, but they were just nonsense as they were just squiggles in places along with names and sentences in other places of the pages which didn't seem to mean anything as they were always apart and not consistent with anything."
Adam says, "Yeah, that's what we thought first time we saw them, almost looked like some particular writer's warm up exercise, however during break time after both Mabel and I were spraying each other with silly string that when Mabel has a particular idea."
Mabel says, "It really wasn't much of anything but well look at the graphic tee Adam is wearing."
Wendy says, "It's just a graphic tee of the map or "Gravity Falls, Oregon" we sell plenty of in this store so what's your point?"
Mabel says, "Well, I looked closer at that map and was looking at the land indentation lines, and it just made me think about the lines on the pages that I saw on the sides and certain other places."
Adam says, "Once she told me this, we then went back to those pages and put them all together which made this map."
Wendy says, "Yeah, but this is a land mass that's not on our maps."
She then looks to Rei. Rei looks at her and says, "Despite memories of the Silver Millennium their not perfect as their only fragments, and there have been many magics and things that have taken place before the silver millennium started."
Henry says, "What about Luna and Artimis, they know history about it."
"Only some knowledge of the Silver Millennium decade but not of before, they say most of those records are lost."
Soos says, "So, dudes how the heck are we going to find this crystal."
Adam says, "Don't worry, I've sent the information about these pages and the map to my brother, he has program in one of his super computers that can create a simulation of what this land mass was before to what it would look like now, we won't get the results until tomorrow; it takes time to computes the data from thousands of years ago and we know a lot has changed since then."
Rei says, "Great, so what do we do now?"
Wendy says, "Rei, I'm surprised at you."
"What?"
"This is Gravity Falls, Oregon there is always a lot happening and a lot to do, and this place has one of your favorite activities?"
"And what would that be?"
"Shopping of course."
Wendy then looks at Henry and says, "You mind if Mabel and I steel her away for a while."
"She's free to go with you, Dipper was going to show me around the museum section of the Shack and some other things."
Dipper looks at both Adam and Soos and says, "You two want to come along with both of us."
Adam then shakes his head along with Soos, "Can't have to help and take an extra little shift at the "Captain Video Commando" store, there was a robbery riot two weeks ago they need me to work the desk."
Soos says, "Same here, it's the recent assignment for most of the mall cops in the "Gravity Falls Mall" and I was one of them."
Henry says, "That was on the news on DNN, really sorry about that, well have a good shift guys."
Adam says, "Robbery is the last thing we want to happen, however there never are on my watch."
Soos then clears his throat.
"And yours too Soos, I haven't forgotten."
Soos says, "Thanks, and if trouble does come, I'll waste them!"
Soos walks out of the room and Dipper, Adam, Henry and everyone else is a little surprised by the statement.
Adam looks at Henry and everyone else and says, "Soos have been watching a lot of reruns of "Chips" and "Hunter" lately."
Henry says, "Hope he doesn't consider them training manuals for his job."
"Of course, he doesn't….I hope.
Dipper says, "Well, since there's nothing else to say on the matter, this meeting is adjourned."
After the meeting was over everyone split off doing each were doing their own thing, in the Mystery Shack. Henry, Dipper and Adam decide to spend some time with each other but while in the Mystery Shack. Dipper shows Henry around the Museum wing of the store.
Henry looks in the private museum which Dipper gives a little tour and he's amazed at it like before as there is a series of displays, findings from dozens of monsters some familiar and some unfamiliar as well as certain relics considered lost or recently discovered from times long gone to the present.
Henry says, "Your museum has gotten a lot bigger the last time I was here and also more crowded."
Dipper says, "Yeah and there are no hoax and any other bull to be found these are all the real things; though the credit in making this place and expansion possible has to go to my sister, Wendy, Soos, Grunkle Stan, Ford, you and every other friend in my life."
"Yeah, but most of it should go to you as this is practically your specialty."
Henry, he sees what looks like some giant humanoid creature with a Bat like head and a wide wingspan.
Henry says, "What's that?"
Dipper says, 'That is the legendary Van Meter Monster."
"Oh, yeah I know about that monster all the strange stories on sightings of it though they were mainly considered creature of urban myth."
"I can assure you their very really and this sucker is only one of them.
Henry looks down and sees there is a display case with some photographs of it but also open skeleton with its' head intact.
Henry says, "So were you the one that made this finding?"
"Actually, that was something both Wendy and I did, you could say we owe this species of monster for both of us."
"That's a story you never told me."
"It's a long-complicated story."
"Yeah, don't we all have them, so what other goodies do you have to show me."
"I was going to save this till after the tour but what the heck save the rest of this museum tour and just show you now."
"What is it."
"It wouldn't be a surprise if I told you."
"Oh…ok."
"Oh, what the heck, follow me big guy."
They go out the back of the Shack and all they go to this dirt pathway and as all three of them are walking along the pathway in the neck of the woods suddenly they come to a clearing and then Henry sees within his sight ahead there is a big old Ferris Wheel that is still standing. Henry realized Dipper has lead him to a old Amusement park, as all three of them come in Henry sees a lot of other thing like a roller coaster, funhouse, haunted house and a lot of other things.
Dipper says to Henry, "Almost forgot to warn you, you don't want to go into the Gift Shop building, there are Wendigo traps in there."
Henry looks puzzled and says, "Wendego's?"
Dipper says, "Story for another time and irrelevant to today's topic."
Both Dipper and Henry are now alone, both are walking where there are several abandoned gaming booths that are slightly dilapidated, and Henry is extremely curious, and he looks around wanting to drink up the sights.
Henry says, "Wow, all this time there was this place nearby."
Dipper says, "Yeah, this is something that I along with Ford found out just about one year ago."
Dipper clears his throat and speaks out.
"According to the records sometimes before he constructed and built the Mystery Shack, Grunkle Stan bought this old amusement park. It ran from the 1920's and closed in the 1970's."
Henry looks around fascinated by how old the rides and setting is dilapidated, dirty and slightly ruined.
Henry looks and says, "Is this place haunted or has some treasure, I known your uncle is usually attracted to stuff according to the memoirs I've read.
"Well, there was a lot of stories about the place with some sort of hidden treasure."
"What kind of treasure?"
"There have been plenty of theories, some say this could be one of the possible spots the Nazi's hidden their lost gold as well as other lost treasure stories, which one is a mystery on it's own."
"Did you ever find it?"
"Mabel, Adam, and I searched this place almost tooth to comb but not one clue, beginning to thing that's what those stories are stories."
"You haven't given up yet."
"Of course, not but the real reason Stan bought this was he hoped to one day fix this up and bring back something this town lost."
Dipper he then sits down and then says, "It's too bad he never got to it that as one dream that didn't come true."
Henry sees Dipper looks down a little sad and Henry knows from what. He then puts his hand on his shoulder and says, "Don't fret Dipper, it just might happen."
Henry puts he hand on Dipper's shoulder and Dipper smiles and then says, "Want to see more."
"Just keep on surprising me."
Both Dipper and Henry continue their tour of the old amusement park. Meanwhile, Mabel, Rei, Wendy, along with Soos and Adam have all come to the "Triple Redwood Mall" Adam and Soos they are in their uniforms and they both go straight to one of the doors that will lead them to a hallway that leads straight to the back of the video store. Meanwhile the girls are all just doing their things and the last place they all come out of is a hardware store called "Ice Breaker Hardware"
As they all come out, they all come to a food court and sit down.
Rei says, "Alright two questions why a hardware store in the mall would be called "Ice Breaker" and the back area has an old amusement park.
Wendy says, "Well to answer both questions, for the hardware store title it's usual because of floating iceberg season coming up and the second one that will be a story for another time.
Rei she looks a little astonished and then shakes her head in and says, "The more I hear about this place the more nuts it becomes."
"And continues to be, fire babe."
Mabel says, "So ladies did you get your costumes at the "Disguise or Bust" store.
Both Wendy and Rei they show their bags and Mabel hers.
Mabel says, "But don't tell, remember the rules we save the reveal for "Halloween", but you can give hints."
Wendy says, "Ok, what kind of person did you want to be on that day Mabel."
"I'll just say that it's someone I've always seen on late night, and she is one of my heroes, and finally she's not from any comic book movie."
"Thank goodness, I'm getting kind of sick of them, we need some good old fashioned action films with all the butt kick, gore and bullet hell goodness again."
Rei says, "You just want to see some strong men with shirts off in again action don't ya."
"What, I'm human I'm allowed to have an action hero fantasy or two."
"Don't you have one with Dipper."
"Yeah, your right, I do he might not look it but he's got it where it counts; though I could say the same for you."
Rei says, "What."
Mabel she then has a look of anxiousness and says, "Cmon give me the gory details, what's he like does he take you to good places like a bakery?"
Wendy looks at Mabel with curiosity over the comment."
Mabel looks at Wendy and then looks back at Rei, "What I like bakeries you can have dates there but scratch that question, a better question is what is one of your favorite things you both like doing together.
Both Mabel and Wendy listen with eagerness and concentration.
Rei breaths in softly says, "If there's one thing it's to listen to music together."
Wendy says," Is it songs to dance to."
"Only sometimes but it's really listening to the soft rock together."
Mabel and Wendy they have a little curiosity of the comment.
Mabel says, "Henry likes soft rock."
"Yeah, you have a problem with it."
"No of course not, even Adam has a soft tune or two he likes to listen to."
Wendy says, "So what it's like listening with him."
Rei says with a small smile, "Wonderful, as the music is playing sometimes, we would have some long conversations like he would talk a little about his home back in Storybroke, Maine."
"Right, that was before there was a long quarantine."
Rei nod and continues, "Anyway, he talks about how beautiful the place is and a little about his stepparents and his brother."
Rei then looks away and continues but sometimes both of us are quiet and when that happens, I can hear the best sound ever.
Mabel says, 'And what's that?"
Mabel and Wendy are further intrigued. Rei was about to say more but then says, "So, Mabel do you have gifts for both Soos and Adam."
Mabel then has a bemuse look but then has a small smile and says, "Alright Rei, I'll let you off the hook on the subject, but only once you still owe me; as for your other question yeah, I got the perfect gifts for both Adam and Soos after their shift at the video store."
Mabel then fishes in one of her bags, and she takes out two trading card packs. Rei looks at them and says, "Planet Z Destroys" and "Aquarian Beasts Attacks".
"Yeah, two of their favorite trading card lines, one on alien insects invading Earth and another on mutated sea life taking over a flooded post-apocalyptic earth.
Rei she then shakes her head and says, "Your boyfriend along with his friend has some very interesting taste; one question are there any more interesting things about your boyfriend and the falls."
Rei gives a sly smile to Mabel.
"Cmon give me the gory details."
Mabel is taken off guard by this motion at first but then she takes a breath and is about to talk but then suddenly there is some explosion someplace in the mall which make a lot of people run away in fright. All three of them then get up but then suddenly there is a great deal of smoke that surround all three of them blocking out their sight.
Meanwhile, back at the amusement park, Henry asks Dipper, "So, what are you, Adam and the rest right now going to do with this park."
Dipper says, "We don't know quite yet, right now we're cleaning things up; however Adam has some ideas like that gift shop he's cleaning up that building is going to be a miniature TV studio for our high school and also Adam has this notion of making a late night horror hosting show."
"Late night horror hosting show, knowing Adam I don't doubt he'd have that dream and can make it happen."
"Nor do I be his friend and yours, I know anything is possible; also, you and any of your friends are free to apply some input on what this place could be in the future."
"Thanks Dipper."
Suddenly there is some sort of explosions on different sides of them and then it produces giant clouds of smoke. The smoke that gathers all around both and they are looking around completely disoriented.
