Greetings from SeekerMeeker.

So, this chapter is a continuation of the first.

Let's get to this.

Chapter 2: Triple Encounter

An hour later...

"A happy reunion!"

Mabel cried with joy, munching on another caramel apple on a stick.

"Boy," Dipper said. "It's been a LONG time, and Mabel! You're eating like a little kid!"

"Says the boy," Mabel responded. "Who's eating another burger again."

"Ahem," Dipper admitted. "Point taken again."

"Indeed," their friend spoke calmly but with a hint of happiness in her voice. "Man is what he eats. Dipper, you want to be manly, don't you?"

Three people sat on a bench, this time in a different location. After they took their classes, they hurried to the exact location as promised: in the middle of the woods.

Dipper blushed at the blond bombshell's remark.

"That quote by Ludwig Feuerbach?" he asked.

"Just like old times!" Mabel interjected, chewing on a large piece of apple in her mouth. "And in the deep, dark, dank woods!"

"Quit it," the familiar girl spoke with a shiver. "Mabel, you have not changed, down to your obnoxious personality, just like the caramel apple."

"See?" Dipper smirked. "Even she thinks too."

Pacifica Elise Northwest was one of their old friends from Gravity Falls, Oregon. Tall and around the same size as the twins, she sported long, blond hair tied into a ponytail. Unlike the twins, she came from a super-rich family...well, sort of.

"Your family's still rich?" Mabel asked.

"I was wondering the same thing," Dipper added in, munching on another burger. "I mean, I remember that your family lost the manor."

Pacifica rolled her eyes.

"We still are," Pacifica answered. "Look, I think that rumors are still flying about. We still have a rich home, a good ranch, and everything that most kids do not have. However, instead of three ponies, I only get to keep one."

Mabel's eyes sparkled, while Dipper rolled his own.

"Worried about that?" Dipper asked rhetorically. "You sure care about being rich, down to tiny details."

"I have to!" she groaned, as she opened a small box, took a utensil, and picked up a piece of sushi.

"Still your usual self?" Dipper asked in a more mocking voice. "My dear princess?"

"I am not," she groaned. "And don't mock me! Boy, it's been a while, though. We lost contact for three years. What happened?"

Both twins looked at each other, then gave their own sheepish grins. Both even scratched their backs in unison.

"Good question," both admitted.

Pacifica stared at them, the sushi almost in her mouth.

"You forgot?" she asked with a groan. "I thought about you two everyday since leaving Gravity Falls!"

"Sorry," Dipper admitted with a shrug. "I finally got my own cell phone, and we remembered about returning back to Gravity Falls but...things got in the way."

"Our parents got promoted very fast after we arrived," Mabel explained. "And long story short, we moved at least twice from Piedmont. In fact, dad is considering moving to Texas."

"Is that a valid reason," Pacifica asked, glaring. "Or an excuse?"

"Ask my buddies," Mabel replied. "I called both Candy and Grenda, saying that we're going through massive changes in our lives. Long story short, moving twice, changing schools, and more promotions just messed up our lives. And I lost contact with both girls."

"Really?" Pacifica noted, an eye raised. "Candy and Grenda never told me that, despite talking about you Mabel."

"What?" Mabel asked. "Didn't they tell you? And you talked to them?"

"I worked at the Greasy's Diner," Pacifica said. "And no: I formerly worked there. Candy and Grenda kept me updated about your whereabouts, and then the lines got caught. They have been worrying for a while now."

"Oops," Mabel admitted, slapping her face. "I forgot to tell them that we changed our phones."

"Mabel," Pacifica groaned. "No wonder! We were all worrying about you! OK, here they are."

Mabel screamed for joy, as she took the phone away from Pacifica, so excited to talk to her old friends again.

"Mabel!" Pacifica yelled. "Don't snatch it out of my hand so quick! Here, let me show you how my phone works!"

"Friends!" Mabel screamed, trying to open the phone. "Candy! Grenda!"

Dipper snickered, as he watched the girls rekindle their friendship, albeit not in a typical fashion. As he watched them struggle, he took his phone out.

Like most of his kind in the 21st century, he held a smartphone. His has a bright red case, with a solid frame that apparently protected the phone. However, on the back was a sticker of a cyan logo that said: "Ghost Harassers." Another logo was below, this time of a cyan pine tree.

"Get your own!" Pacifica cried, finally regaining hers back. "Sorry if I sound rude, but my phone is priceless! Here are their numbers!"

Mabel pouted, but smiled and took hers out. Mabel's smartphone had a green case, but with patterns of lighter green vines, which held magenta flowers all around. Behind, the vines and flowers continued all around, but in the middle was a sticker of a shooting star.

"Yours is so fancy," Pacifica remarked.

"I am an artist," Mabel said with a wink. "I made them."

"Ah," Pacifica said, raising her phone. "I hope mine's fancy as well."

Dipper and Mabel both looked. Her phone case was deep blue with a gilded frame, so that it looked as if golden vines were all around.

"Is that...gold?" Dipper asked, an eyebrow raised.

"Yes it is," Pacifica replied matter-of-factly, as the twins gawked a little.

"Oh boy!" Mabel gasped, as she eyed the device closely. "That's amazing!"

"And an opportunity for thieves to steal," Dipper retorted.

"Says the boy with his own fancy phone case," Pacifica said with her own comeback.

"Says the girl with real gold on her phone," Dipper replied.

"Says the boy with red and cyan for his attire," Pacifica said, trying to roast him.

"Says the girl with...wait."

He got up, and walked very briskly.

"Where are you going?" both girls asked, as he started to run.

"I need to see that tree!" he yelled behind, as he took off. "Pacifica, thank you!"

"Thank you for what?" she asked, confused. "Dipper? What's he talking about?"

Mabel blinked, then gasped.

"Oh," she spoke, getting up. "Pacifica, he's going to that tree."

"What tree?" Pacifica asked, as she raised an eyebrow, even more confused. "What's going on here?"

"We'll explain," Mabel said. "Come on, let's catch up to him."

Five minutes later...

"That's why?" Pacifica noted, as they followed Dipper from behind, but walked. Dipper half-walked, half-ran, while the two girls trailed behind.

"We saw those weird flowers," Mabel explained, as she told her about the eight flowers. "Three of those have the same color themes as we did. That's obviously why he connected the dots."

"I am not sure about that," Pacifica said. "That kind of coincidence sounds very weird...even mysterious."

"You scared?" Mabel teased.

"Annoyed," Pacifica admitted. "Ever since you all left, I had to deal with Gravity Falls' weirdness, now that I am more aware of them."

"Like who?" Mabel asked.

"Gnomes and Gideon," Pacifica bluntly spoke.

"Eww!" Mabel reacted with disgust.

"Eww indeed," Pacifica said. "Now, I can see why Gravity Falls is weird."

"Oh hey," Mabel said, pointing. "There he is!"

They ran to catch up to him, who was standing very still.

"Dipper?" both girls asked.

Dipper stared up with a strange look. They came upon a tree, the same tree as the twins saw. Mabel and Pacifica both looked up.

"What..." Mabel trailed off, blinking.

"They're gone," he spoke in a low, calm voice.

"Are you serious?" Mabel replied. "No way!"

"What's going on here?" Pacifica asked, confused again. "You said that there were these eight weird flowers. And isn't this an almond tree? What's an almond tree doing in the middle of the university?"

"Hold your horses," Dipper said. "Or ponies."

Pacifica frowned, while Mabel giggled.

"This is the place where we saw those flowers," Mabel explained. "But they're gone."

Pacifica looked up. An almond blossom tree stood before her. Unlike cherry blossoms, these blossoms were much smaller, but they were clearly pink and shaped like that of cherry blossoms. On one particular branch, however, there were no blossoms. Pacifica noticed what looked like stumps, as if there were flowers up there at one point.

"Hmm," Dipper said, eyeing the one branch that had all eight blooms, and the trunk. "Ah, somebody did use a ladder or something to climb up without touching the trunk. But why remove the eight flowers?"

"A mystery," Mabel said, sitting on the bench nearby. "Right?"

"Hmm," Pacifica mused, as she sat down. "I wonder if it's a real mystery, or just you two drawing weirdness, just like in Gravity Falls."

"Could be both," Mabel said with a shrug. "But I took a picture."

"DID YOU?!" both Dipper and Pacifica gasped, shocked. Dipper then sat down, eager to nose into the phone.

"I did not see you take a picture!" Dipper gasped.

Mabel stuck out her tongue with a cheeky smile, and showed it in her smartphone.

"I like to be sneaky," she admitted, scrolling through a picture gallery. "And here."

All three looked, as Mabel scrolled down to show at least three pictures.

"Wow," Pacifica remarked. "Those three big flowers...sure look like the colors of our phones."

The twins looked at her, then at each other. They took theirs out, and compared them to the flowers.

"Wow," Dipper noted. "My phone's case is red with cyan lines, while Mabel's fits with that flower."

"And mine's that," Pacifica noted. "But what about those five?"

"I have no idea," Dipper admitted.

"Just like that," Mabel said with a groan. "The one thing that even I get frustrated is seeing Dipper being unable to solve mysteries, such as that blue light incident thing."

Pacifica blinked, then gasped.

"You remember that?" she asked.

"What?" Dipper asked.

"The Blue Nova Incident!" she replied.

The twins blinked, then gasped.

"Oh!" Dipper noted. "Are you thinking...what I am thinking?"

"Yup!" Mabel declared. "I guess all three of us remember that thing! For some reason, most of the people around did not notice it."

Pacifica nodded.

"Yup," Dipper admitted. "That was a strange thing...since four years ago."

"Have you figured it out?" Pacifica asked. "Smart boy?"

"No," Dipper groaned. "It is something that after four years, I cannot figure it out."

He then looked around, before clicking a button on the smartphone. Pacifica looked, and nodded in silent understanding.

"Ah," she noted. "So, you're now figuring it out. I guess that 'blue nova' thing must have changed some of us."

"Bingo!" Mabel chimed in. "That blue nova must have enhanced us or something! We have managed to even upgrade our phones with more unusual gear!"

"That's the one thing I know," Dipper said, as he pressed some buttons on the phone. "The few of us who saw that blue light...pass through us...somehow changed us. As if from a superhero comic or manga, we seemed to have gotten smarter, so that we can tinker or alter our own phones. Plus, that's one reason why we've managed to enter this university."

"And I pulled the strings," Pacifica said. "And entered this university not because I had to, but because I wanted to enjoy normal college life."

"Normal college life?" the twins asked.

"I am rich, you know!" Pacifica snapped. "You should know that rich kids like I follow rather strict standards and ways of being...rich? And I made a deal with my parents that if I graduated college early, then I could enter any university for fun! But even better...I managed to find you two."

She sighed, her face both sad and happy. Mabel reached out, and touched her right shoulder.

"Cheer up," she replied. "And thanks for meeting us."

"Even when it was unexpected?" Pacifica asked, and the two girls laughed.

Dipper chuckled, but he was more focused on his phone.

"There!" Dipper said, showing what looked like a school chalkboard, but with a bewildering variety of notepads. However, it was a new type of app that Dipper made, which allowed him to store more information than any app could.

"You know that's illegal?" Pacifica remarked. "Although I honestly don't think that it's really wrong."

"'Illegal' and 'wrong' are the not same thing," Mabel remarked. "And Dipper, you still have that clutter of notes on your phone!"

"I know," he groaned. "But maybe if I show this to Pacifica, she might know some things."

Pacifica rolled her eyes, but glanced at the app on Dipper's phone. She blinked.

"Wait!" she gasped. "Dipper, can you scroll down to that red note?"

Dipper scrolled the phone down, and Pacifica squinted her eyes at its content.

"I suspected so," she pondered. "Like you two, I have been wondering about the blue nova thing, our increased intelligence, and conspiracies concerning that. You know, my family has connections with the FBI or something."

"Do you?!" both twins gasped.

"Hold your horses," Pacifica said. "Or as Dipper said, ponies."

The trio laughed out loud.

"But seriously," she said, clearing her throat. "I only know bits and pieces, but here is what I know..."

Pacifica held her own phone out. Like Dipper, she made some...unusual changes to it. Hence, the three started to discuss about what they know (or not know) about the Blue Nova Incident, and soon all three gave their own random and unusual theories. The three continued to activate some odd apps and modifications on their phones, the kinds that cannot be sold from online stores or even mega-corporations.

Birds continued to chirp, while the trees swayed in the winds. Squirrels ran about, trying to find any nuts to eat and to store. However, a bush not very far away started to shake a little...

"Hurricane, report status."

"E-Force trooper in position, over."

"Did you find the symbols?"

"I have obtained them."

"All eight?"

"10-4."

"E-Force, please use our new code system, not the ten-code."

"My apology."

"Report."

"Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors are obtained."

"Excellent. Any sign of Mutants?"

"Narp."

"Ita vero. Proceed to the target zone."

"One quirk."

"Quirk? Ah, question?"

"I behold one Mars and two Venus."

"Ignore those college kids."

"Pardon?"

"Ignore them. We are looking for teenagers, not grown-up adults. Anyway, we are here for the eight strange flowers, and any sign of mutations in nature that are clearly unnatural."

"You mean unusual."

"Quiet, but go the distance."

"I beg your pardon, but this code system is confusing me. And our way of talking is really clunky and awkward."

"Sorry about that, but rules are rules. You should know that 'go the distance' is code for 'shut up and return.'"

"Sigh, ita vero."

"Ita vero, so I summon thee to return."

"Yea."

Click.

"I cannot believe that!" the figure groaned, as he inspected his specimens. All eight flowers were inside of a glass container. However, each flower was pinned into a tiny foam base, and stored inside of a smaller glass container, as if each box was a ring box.

"Well," he grunted to himself, as he adjusted his body. "At least this power-suit is not only cool, but very reliable. But what's up with this stupid company?! At least the pay is amazing, but with all this conspiracy and hush-hush are driving me nuts!"

He shook his body, and clicked some buttons.

"Alright then," he began. "I think I am done here. I will-huh?"

Beep-beep-beep.

He looked around, then looked into his bag. His eyes widened.

"What?" he gasped, as he took something out of his backpack. He held out what looked like a metal torch, with a single, yellow orb on top and an arrow-shaped, red pointer on top. The pointer flickered, then started to point at the bench.

"No way," he gasped, as he raised it a little up. The device kept emitting the same sound, but the orb started to glow brighter and brighter. The light changed from yellow to a brilliant white color, so much so that the man covered it with a cloth. The pointer then faced straight in the direction of the bench with three people. They were still chatting, unaware of the man with the strange device, hidden behind a very thick bush.

The orb of the device then became all-white, but inside eight balls of light of all kinds of colors flew around like planets orbiting the Sun. The red arrow-shaped object then pointed directly at all three, jumping from one to another. Soon, the eight balls of light inside disappeared, only to be replaced by an image of the three people on the bench.

"Code gold!" he whispered furiously into his communications device. "Code gold!"

"Hurricane!" the same voice spoke, this time with an annoyed hiss. "What are you doing? We're waiting for you at the rendezvous!"

"Code gold!" the man known as Hurricane whispered. "I sight three! One Mars and two Venus! Those three are code gold!"

"What?" the voice gasped, then laughed. "Hurricane, there is NO way that three college kids could be it. You're joking! We are looking for teens, not adults!"

"I am serious!" Hurricane hissed, adjusting his helmet cam, so that it faced the bench. "Sir, the seeking device is detecting! And you can see!"

He turned the cam on, and pointed it at the bench, alongside the seeker device. It was silent on the transceiver.

"Hurricane," the man spoke, this time with a very stern tone. "Watch them. E-Force, code gold! We have one Mars and two Venus in sight! Get to the Megaville University ASAP!"

"Affirmative!" various voices roared from Hurricane's mike.

"Agent Hurricane!" the same man declared. "Who are they?"

"One male with a blue-and-white trucker hat," he answered, watching them through a set of binoculars that he took out. "One brunette with long hair and a purple beret, and one blond with long ponytail and blue ribbon on top."

"E-Force!" the voice declared. "We are engaging three adults at a university! I have NEVER heard of this before! Three adults?! Hurricane, stay alert! Over!"

"Over," he grunted, as he continued to watch them, as they got up and started to walk away. He pressed a button on his suit, and got up, invisible.

"This is interesting," he said to himself, as he stalked them. "And impossible...I have never of this! I thought only teenagers become Mutants, don't they?"

Oho, what's going on here?

Well, you will see more, but not soon as I continue to revise and edit.

Reference: Megaville University is a reference to the city of Megaville from the Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi by Bleedman. I liked the early parts of the comic. And no, not everything he drew is bad, but not everything is of my taste either.

The word "quirk" is a reference to the My Hero Academia.

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Sincere Seeker.