Here's another chapter for Tales of The Wierdnormal, yeah I know it's been a while since I last updated. But, things have been busy a lot lately, and well, you gotta do what ya gotta do.
So without further delay, here's the next chapter.
Chapter 10
Little Dipper
As of right now, the inside of Gideon's room comes into view, looking through journal number 2 for a way to find vengeance on the Pines family. " Zombie attack? Never works. They don't take orders. Blood rain? Ew, mess up my suit. (chuckles) no thank you. Demon Caterpillars? DRAT! " He slams the book shut in frustration for not being able to find anything useful. " There must be a perfect way to exact vengeance on the Pines family. It's not enough to harm'em. I need to take something that'll give me ultimate power. "
An idea suddenly went into mind. " Wait! Of course! " He then picks up his little model of the Mystery Shack. " It's perfect... " He whispered evily like a serial killer eyeing its next victim.
It now cuts to show Mystery Shack and then Stan, Dipper, and Mabel all gathered near the recliner watching tv. The reason for this was because not to many tourists were coming around. This just went to show that somedays are busy and some aren't at all. But that's at least what most people would say in a moment like this.
Shortly afterwards Adam comes into the room yawning away. " What time is? "
" It's past twelve o'clock Adam. What were you doing last night? " Stan inquired.
" Eh, I've been having a hard time sleeping last night. What are you guys watching? " He turns over to the tv.
" You've gone too far! This time Ducktective! " A man said on to the tv followed by some quacking.
" Why are you guys still watching this? " Adam asked in sheer confusion.
Before anyone could anwser all the sudden the doorbell was heard and immediately Stan got up figuring some people finally came in and put on his fake eyepatch to greet them at the door. " Welcome! To a world of mystery! "
" Stan Pines? " Instead he was met by a man wearing a suit narrowing his eyes at him.
Shocked to see this person as he lifted up his eyepatch " The tax collector! You found me! " Stan then threw down a smoke bomb to distract the man and ran back into the living room. Immediately the kids watched as he ripped off a decorative painting off the wall and threw it aside. Once it was removed the painting revealed a brown duffle bag filled with money taking Adam by surprise.
" Wait a minute we had that the whole time, while I've been buying supplies?! " The blonde said sounding a bit outraged as he was feeling the titles of the wall with his hand as if he was trying to find a button.
" Which on of these is the trap door?! "
" Mr Pines... " The said con artist froze in fear as he turned around to see the man had entered into his home and slowly walked up to him. " I'm from the Winninghouse Coupon Savers Contest... " His serious personality suddenly changed. " And you are our BIIIIIIG WINNER! " All the sudden a cameraman comes in along with two female models holding up a large check for over 10,000,000$. One of the models then threw confetti over the confused man as he took it all in.
" Eh? My one and only dream which was to possess money, has come true! " He said happily despite having the ton of money in his bag.
" Were rich! " Dipper cheered. " I'm gonna get a butler! "
" I'm gonna buy a talking horse! " Mabel declared.
" Why does this seem a little bit fishy? " Adam asked himself not really buying into it.
" Just sign here for the money. " The man said holding the clipboard with contract for the old man to sign.
" You bet! " Stan signed it without a second thought.
Suddenly Gideon bursted right through the check ripping it in half. " Ha! Stanford, you fool! " The fake psychic said while the cameraman and the two models began to walk out of the house. Gideon then grabbed the paper. " You just signed over the Mystery Shack to widdle ol' me! " He then started to dance in victory making the twins gasp while Adam seemed to be a little unfazed.
" Wait for it... " He muttered with a smirk as he noticed Stan who was also smirking smugly.
" Uh, you might want to take another look there. " Stan said pointing the paper with his pen.
Still thinking he had won Gideon looked over the contract of where Stan had signed closely. " The Shack is hereby signed over to... SUCK A LEMON LITTLE MAN!? " Hearing this made Stan laugh making him angrily tear the paper in half. " How dare you! " His great niece, nephew and resident join in on the laughter.
" I am not a threat to be taken lightly. "
" Nah, I think your more in the short and heavy department." Adam said making a joke about his weight making stan and the twins laugh some more.
" Shut up you! " Gideon said before raising his arms. " 'Come here', hon, I need your arms. " The lawyer picked up and held him up front. " I'll get you, Stanford Pines. I'LL GET YOU ALL! " The little boy cried out like a super villain would to his arch nemesis as the lawyer back out of the house not even bothering to close the door.
As the residents of the Mystery Shack stared at where Gideon left the house, still weirded out Adam spoke up." Well. I'm taking a nap now. " He then began going back upstairs.
" But, Adam you just woke up. " Dipper said.
" Yeah, whatever I'm taking a nap. " The blonde replied back.
" You wanna see what else is on tv? " Stan asked before the teen came back down and took some of the money of the bag which was most likely for all the times he had to buy supplies for the Shack with his own money the whole time.
Now inserting Gravity Falls opening theme music
We first see a view of trees with a water fall in the distance followed by the gas station that has the large wooden lumber jack near it before we see the Gravity Falls water tower.
Before long we see a Speedy Beaver bus drive off dropping the twins in front of the Mystery Shack with Stan appearing like a magician and motions over to the building as the S of the building falls off.
Adam now comes into view giving the twins the tour showing off different attractions before it shows the trio with Stan out in the rain examining a bigfoot footprint that's inside of an even larger footprint.
A brief forest trail is shown in speed motion with bigfoot running through as it shows the weather vane on the mystery shack that has a question mark and four letters, w,h,a & t spelling out: What?
DIPPER
We see the boy holding onto a candle holder using it to examine some strange symbols in some kind of cave before turning around and was frightened to see a demon skeleton causing him to drop the candle.
MABEL
The female pine twin is rubbing her cheek against a pig for some reason before it shows her wearing a sweater that illuminated thanks to being plugged into an outlet.
STAN
The twins great uncle is shown running while holding onto a cash register not caring if money is flying out of it before it shows him sitting on his recliner and shifts his eyepatch over to the other eye.
ADAM
The blonde is seen reading books about the supernatural before it shows him smiling giving an 'okay' sign while holding a magnifying glass in the other hand.
As it begins to end we see the Stan telling everyone a spooky story around a campfire with Soos, Mabel and Dipper buying into it while Wendy nudges Adam with her elbow and rolls her eyes as their unaware that massive bat is seen watching them.
We see Wendy at the counter near the cash register with a glass jar full of eyeballs looking at the viewers, followed by Dipper examining the symbols in the journal while Adam is seen with a pair of eyes right behind him. Then finally we see Adam and the twins minding their own business before everything suddenly begins to float making the Dipper and Adam exchange a quick glance at one another.
Finally we see multiple photo's fall until it shows a picture the main Mystery Shack crew posing in front of a tree with a hole in it with Adam seen kneeling down with his arms right over the twins shoulders before we see the main title.
Theme end
Currently nothing was really happening at the Mystery Shack, aside from Gideon's attempt to take it. Their were still no tourists, meaning there wasn't exactly much to do today. Soos was restocking and rearranging some merchandise on the shelves while Adam was sweeping the floor. As for the twins they were playing chess right in the middle of the gift shop, and they were using a turtle monsters skeleton as a table using a few pieces of wood to sit on. But throughout the whole game, Mabel had been taking some the chess pieces much to her brothers frustration.
" Little guy to black space nine. " Mabel said moving one of Dippers pieces showing she wasn't taking the game very seriously.
" It's a 'Pawn' that's not your color, and stop stealing the tiny horses. " Dipper said to his twin sister who stole all the knight pieces and kept them in the pocket of her sweater.
" They like it better in here. Don't you babies? " She made some horse noises.
" And checkmate! " Dipper took one of his pieces and knocked down Mabel's king.
" What? Boo! " The girl booed.
" Oh! " He brings out a notebook and adds in another " Dipper wins again! " He said cheering away while his sister glared at him and added in another tally mark his side on a piece now having 85 wins while Mabel had zero.
" Yo, Mabel, can you pass me that brain in the jar? The lady one? " Soos asked pointing over to the said container that had a blonde lady wig on it.
" I got it. " Dipper volunteered standing up.
" Thanks but Mabel's taller. " Soos said.
" What? No, she's not. " Dipper said as he walked up next to his twin sister. " We're the same height. We've always been. "
" Yeah... " The blonde wasn't so sure that was right as he grabbed the jar Soos requested and passed it over to him. " Soos, measure them both. " Adam told his buddy who set the brain jar down while Dipper took off his hat and Soos put them both back to back. With a tape measurer he examined the twins height. " Well? " He asked for the result.
" Yeah. She's got exactly one millimeter on him. "
" What? " Dipper sounded shocked to hear this news.
" Whoa! " Mabel got excited upon hearing this. " Don't you see what's happening, Dipper? This millimeter is just the beginning. I'm evolving into the superior sibling. Bigger! Stronger! "
" Like some kind of alpha twin. Ow! " Soos said making Adam sock him in the shoulder.
" Alpha twin! Alpha twin! " Mabel began to chant.
" You happy now Soos? Now she's gonna keep going. " Adam told his friend with a deadpan look.
" Come on, guys, nobody even uses millimeters. That only makes you taller then me in Canada. " Dipper said trying to reason with them but Mabel ignored what he said.
" You know, Dipper, I've always wanted a little brother. Who knew I already had one! Yeah! " Adam turns to see Stan waking up from his nap and cursed 'oh crap'. He knew it was gonna get worse now that he entered the picture.
I was awoken by the sound of mockery. " Stan said rubbing his eyes and excitedly rubbed his hands together. " Where is it? " He asked entering the room and cracked his fingers. " Show me the object of ridicule. "
" I'm taller then Dipper. " Mabel answered her great uncle.
" By one millimeter! "
" hey-hey. Don't get 'short' with your sister. " He joked before laughing away much to the boys annoyance.
" Now, Grunkle Stan, I hope you don't think 'Little' of him! " Mabel began joining in on the teasing making him laugh again.
" Yeah! And-And uh...he's short! ' They both laughed away.
" Dude, maybe you should lay off a tiny bit. " Soos said as he wasn't enjoying Dipper getting ganged up.
" Ha! 'Tiny'! Soos is in on it now! " Stan laughed as he patted the handyman's back as he and Mabel continued to laugh away while Dipper headed up stairs having enough of the teasing.
" Mabel? Are you satisfied now? " Adam asked in a very unimpressed tone.
" Oh don't worry. Dipper will forget in three, two, one... "
" Short term memory! " Both Mabel and Stan said.
" Pow! We are on fire! " The female twin cheered as she gave Stan a high five who ridiculed in pain while Adam sighed shaking his head.
" No, no, I didn't mean that Adam... "
" I know you didn't man. " The blonde told his friend. " I'll go check on him. " Adam then went up the stairs and opened the door to Dipper angrily pacing back and fourth.
" Uh! Stupid Mabel! I'm not short! "
" You trying to rehearse a play? Because that's just bad. " Adam joked leaning near the entrance.
" You here to tease me too? " The boy asked defending himself.
" No. " The teen replied as closed the door behind him and sat down against the bed. " Dipper, are you really gonna let them get you? " He asked. " I mean so what, she's only taller by a millimeter. Big whoop it ain't the end of the world. "
" But she's only gonna keep teasing me about it! "
" Dude, just suck it up, she'll get over it. "
" No Adam, I'm not gonna take that. There's gotta be a way to get taller. " Dipper then looked up to the bookshelf eyeing the journal before attempting to reach it which proved to be a hassle until he kicked it.
" Oh no you don't! " Adam said as he took the journal out of his hands. " Dipper, you're not thinking straight. "
" Adam please! " Dipper begged. " I just wanna be at the same height she is! Come on! Please!? I need this! " The blonde narrowed his eyes.
" If I let you do this, will you not try and make things worse? "
" I promise! Just one millimeter! That's it! I swear! "
" Man I hope were on the right path... " Adam said as they were now on a path in a deep part of the forest after he gave Dipper back the journal. Luckily for him, he found something in the journal for what he was looking for.
" The journal said theirs something that'd help. " Dipper said reading off the contents. ":Legends of miniature buffalo and giant squirrels have led me to believe, there are height altering properties deep within the forest. So there's gotta be something here. "
" Dipper! "
" Holy crap! " Adam exclaimed as he quickly ran over to the male twin. " Dude, are okay!? "
" Oh... " Dipper groaned touching his aching head. " I think so... "
" You're lucky that... " Adam stopped right in the middle of his sentence because he saw something on Dippers stomach. It was a deer, but not a normal sized one, but a living miniature deer the size of a toy, much to the boy's amazement.
" Whoa... " Dipper said in awe as the deer ran off joining another group near some mushrooms.
As this happened Adam didn't notice a miniature bald eagle flying just inches away from his face shrieking away. " This is crazy... " Their thoughts were stopped upon hearing the sounds of growling making them turn to see a mountain lion in the distance.
" Is that mountain lion tiny or just far away in perspective? " Dipper asked while Adam slowly drew his nightstick as the big cat charged at them. " Perspective! Perspective! Aaaaaahhhh! " The boy screamed as Adam got in the way with his nightstick ready to strike as the mountain lion pounced right at them. But instead of fighting, the mountain lion simply shrunk down into the size of the deer from earlier much to Adam's surprise.
He then laughed as he felt it crawl around his arm and bit his thumb. " Stupid cat... " Adam sneered as he flicked it off and noticed something in the distance. " Hey...Look! " Adam said pointing forward tee a see a whole bunch of crystals in the area, each were in different sizes. The biggest one was right in the middle and it was directly under a ray of sunlight projecting two beams, one pink and the other blue.
" Whoa... " Dipper was in awe including Adam.
" That's the biggest crystal I've ever seen. " He commented as a butterfly flew right by them. As it flew through the pink light, the insect shrunk down before going through the blue light growing in monsterous proportions, snapping a tree like it was tree.
" That's amazing... " The blonde commented. " I just Mothra in real life. " They then approached the collum and looked for a smaller piece until they found one. Using a multi pocket knife Dipper brought out his screwdriver head and got it out of the rock and picked it up.
They were now back at the Mystery Shack and as of right now Adam was working on something with the crystal.
" It is done yet? " Dipper asked.
" Almost... " The blonde said as he continued working. " Tie the ends with the rope, and tape them on there, and...voila. " He revealed the crystal was now on the lens of a small red flash light. He twisted it once before turning it making the blue ray appear and rotated it again to shine pink. " Yep. That should do it. Give it a whirl. "
Adam passed Dipper the flash light who aimed it a pawn. " Smaller. " He shone the light on the pawn making it shrink down in size. He then rotated it and aimed again. " Bigger. " Dipper shined the blue light on the pawn making it grow but didn't expect it to get larger as the piece burst through the roof leaving a hole. " Too big! " Adam glared at him making the boy chuckle nervously. " Heheh, sorry? "
" Give me that. " He grabbed the flashlight and shrunk the chess piece down to it's normal size. " Great, now that's another project I have to do later. " He turned his attention to Dipper.
" Now remember, just only one millimeter. Got it? " He got a nod in response.
I've been buying big clothes. I'll grow into them. "
On que Dipper went through the door making the bell ring as he entered. " hey, guys. Notice anything different about me? " Soos leaned in closer to see what he was talking about and noticed it.
" Holy hot sauce! You've grown an extra millimeter! "
" W-Wh-What!? " Mabel couldn't believe in what she was hearing and approached Dipper while Soos brought out the tall ruler to compare their heights while Dipper took off his hat. It was indeed true, he and Mabel were now the same height.
" What can I say, sis? Growth spurt. "
" Yeah, mine happened first. I'm gonna be taller in the end. It's science, Dipper. " Mabel said poking his chest not caring they were the same height.
" What? But, we're the same height now. " Dipper argued.
" Alpha twin! Alpha twin! " Mabel chanted greatly annoying her twin brother.
" Oh yeah? Something tells me I've got another growth spurt coming on right now. " He said before leaving the room leaving his sister looking at him with suspicion.
" Who is it? " Stan asked as Adam looked through the keyhole and saw familiar tall white hair.
" It's just Gideon. " Suddenly the teenager smirked upon getting an idea. " Hold up a sec... " He runs into the living room.
" Oy, you. " Stan said now starting to grow annoyed by Gideon's attempt to take the shack away from him.
" Howdy, Stanford and Adam! Listen closely. " He replied in a cheerful voice before he began to threaten them. " Inside this jar, I have 1,000 cursed Egyptian super-termites. Hand over the deed to the your property or I'll smash this jar with a bat and they'll devour this shack with you inside. "
" Is it rolling? " Stan asked totally ignoring Gideon and looked to Adam who had a video camera.
" Yes sir. " Adam confirmed now beginning to film whatever was going to happen.
" Hey, what's that? " Stan asked pointing over to another direction and Gideon fell for it allowing him to smack the jar out of his hand. This resulted in the cap coming off making the boy gasp in fear.
" Oh, no! " The insects ate his baseball bat and began to fly around his tall hair in circle as he ran off yelling in pain. " Get it off! " Seeing this made Stan laugh along with Adam who was filming the whole entire thing.
" Y'all may have won the battle. But mark words, Stanford! Your family has a weak spot, and I'm gonna find it! " Gideon yelled before he yelled some more only in pain. " Ahhh! My hair! "
" Please tell me you got that on video?! " Stan asked as he laughed. " Please tell me you did! "
" You know it! " Adam replied back and gave him a high five and closed the door before going upstairs leaving Stan to laugh at his arch nemesis's misery. " Boy, I can't wait to show this to Dipper and Mabel. Heck, even Wendy will laugh at this... " He said continuing to chuckle away and opened the door.
Upon entering he noticed Dipper had the flashlight in his hand witch could only spell out trouble and he knew what had to be done. " Whoa, whoa! " He quickly grabbed it out of Dippers hands and put the video camera aside and held up the flashlight high enough so he couldn't reach it. " What are you doing?! I thought we agreed on only just a millimeter?! "
" I'm tired of Mabel teasing me! "
" Dipper no, this'll only get out of hand. "
" Give it up Dipper! " Mabel said as she marched over towards him and gasped in shock seeing he was now taller then she was. " What happened? "
" Oh, you know. Puberty and stuff. " He replied shrugging his shoulders.
" Yeah, sure. Mabel can you please leave? "
" But Adam, it doesn't make sense! Just a second ago he was... " She paused. " Wait a minute! This is some kind of magicy thing, isn't it? " She asked looking around the room. " Was it a wizard or something? There's a wizard in this closet isn't there? Isn't there? "
" What? No! " Dipper answered not expecting her to think that's the reason for her brother to get so tall.
" Yeah, Mabel, that's just stupid. " Adam added
" You're both telling me there is not a wizard in this closet? " She asked and gained a tone similar to how a mother would try and interrogate their children to make them tell the truth. " You're telling me, that if I open this door right now... "
" Fine! Open it! "
" Yeah, find out for yourself. " Dipper and Adam insisted making the girl open the door to reveal their was no one inside, minus some of Adams clothing.
" An invisible wizard! " They both frowned at her dullness on this one. " Really, guys!?
" Mabel, there isn't- " The girl ignored what Adam said and continued to stare into the empty closet space.
" Does he only respond to incantations? Expecto Wizarium! Wizzle! Wizar... "
" It's not a wizard! " Dipper yelled having enough as he grabbed the flashlight. " I grew myself using this magic flashlight! " Instantly Mabel turned her head around while Adam face palmed at what he did.
" You moron. "
" Let me see that thing! " Mabel asked in an excited tone and dashed over to grab it but Dipper made a run for it while Mabel looked back to the closet. " I'll be back for you later! " She said pointing in the closet still thinking there was an invisible wizard and ran down stairs while Adam groaned in frustration.
" I'm to young to deal with this crap..." He then screamed in frustration. " Gah! I'm being punished! Aren't I!? " He then went after them. " Guys stop thi-Whoa! " He stopped upon seeing a caterpillar growing into the same size like the butterfly from the forest crushing two cars making the alarms go off.
" Aah! " Mabel freaked out upon seeing
" It's okay. It can shrink things, too. "
" Normal-hand -karate-chop! " Mabel did just that and ran off with the flashlight.
" Hey! " Dipper went after her with Adam in tow.
" Guy's stop screwing around! " The blonde yelled but didn't realize he was caught in the blue beam and felt very heavy, this was because his head was now larger then his body.
" Whoa! " The blonde had a hard time staying balanced do to having a big head and glared at them. " Well, congradulation you idiots! You just turned me into a freakin jack in the box! "
" Hold on! We can fix this! " Dipper said quickly grabbing the flashlight from Mabel and immediately fixed his head back to normal. Not long before he shrunk Mabel's head. This compelled Mabel to charge at him while he returned her head back to normal and snatched it in the process and dodged a pink beam. " Hey! Give it back! "
" Never!
" Give me that! " Adam yelled as he grabbed it and accidently lost his grip making them gasp to see it going right towards an angry Gideon. " Oh no... " He breathed.
" Curse the Pines family! Curse Stan! Curse Dipper! Curse Adam! Curse... " The flashlight landed right in front of him getting his attention and picked it up. " My, my, what matter delightful manner of doohickery is this? " He asked in wonder.
" Maybe he didn't see us use it and doesn't know it's a magic flashlight that can grow and shrink things. " Mabel whispered to Adam and Dipper but realized Gideon was there the whole time meaning he heard the whole thing.
" Really? " Dipper deadpanned.
Gideon then flicked the flashlight on and off. " Click. Boop. Whoo hoo hoo. " He giggled before looking to them with an evil grin.
" Guy's run! " Adam yelled but it was to late Gideon shined the pink ray on the trio making them witness as they were getting smaller and everywhere else was getting bigger.
The trio hugged one another in fear while Gideon was bellowing out an evil laugh from their point of view. " Gwa ha ha ha! " But in reality he was actually giggling. " Hee hee hee, whoo hoo hoo. " He then looked down at the three tiny people and quickly placed the jar he used for the termites to prevent them from escaping.
Adam and the twins were in deep, deep trouble now. Gideon was now holding them prisoner inside of a glass jar, and there was nothing they could do because of their small size, but simply watch the scenery they were passing by. From the looks of it, they were now at Bud's car dealer ship and Gideon had just fooled his dad a few people.
" Guy's what're we gonna do? " Mabel asked in fear as Adam held her comfort.
" I don't Mabel, I don't know. " He answered as they then entered into Gideon's home, and then proceeded to enter into his room. This meant, that they were now at his mercy. The fat fake psychic walked over to his desk that his miniatures, opened the jar and shook it spilling the three out
" You three. "
" W-What are you going to do with us? " Mabel asked nervously as he chuckled and petted her head with a finger smiling away.
" Why, Mabel, I wouldn't hurt a hair on your itty bitty head... " He then got serious. " If tou agree to be my queen! "
" We live in a democracy. And never! " The girl
" Maybe you'll change your mind after this. " Gideon grabbed the shrnk girl by her sweater.
" Let her go you bastard! " Adam cried out trying to reach her, but it ultimately failed.
The brown haired girl was doing her best to try and get out of his grip, tossing and turning all while punching and kicking the air. " No! I will fight until the day I..." Gideon then brought out a bag of candy making her gasp upon what she saw. " Gummy Koalas! " He drops her into the bag much to her delight as she began to eat.
" As for you boys... " Gideon leaned his lamp right in front of the boys begining his interogation. " Tell me, how exactly did you come upon this magic item, hmm? Did somebody tell you it? Did you READ about it somewhere? "
' Read about it? ' Adam was confused by what he said. ' Does that mean he knows about the journals? No way, but then again, he had that magic amulet from our last tussle. So that can't be no coicidence. ' As the thoughts were rolling through his mind he and dipper exchanged a quick glance to one another in concern. The male twin opened the back of his vest a little revealing journal#3 making the blonde mouth to him "No!" They knew that there were only a few people they could trust when it came to the journal, but there were others, that they couldn't trust at all. And as of right now, Gideon was on their one number 1 top list, if he's lookin' for these journals, then trouble won't be to far away. Adam then noticed an airhorn and nodded his head to the right that Dipper instantly noticed.
" Lean closer and we'll tell you. " Dipper said.
" Yeah come on... " Adam added
" Well don't if i- " Gideon felt for it, his ear got blasted by the sound of an air horn much to his hearings displeasure. This greatly angered the cubby boy making him take some deep breaths and growled swatting the light away. " I COULD SQUASH YOUR RIGHT NOW! " The boy yelled raising his fist bearing a pissed off look on his face. But he stopped and glanced at his fist and calmed down. " Steel yourself, Gideon. " He told himself and began to drum his fingers together like an evil mastermind. " You can use them...You can use them. "
The boy then went over a nearby telephone and began to dial up the number for the Mystery Shack, all while going up to his mirror taking a seat and began to brush his hair. After a few seconds of ringing a groan answered the phone.
" Stanford Pines. " Gideon began. " Listen to me very closely. I have your niece and nephew. Hand over the deed to the Mystery Shack right now or great harm will befall them! " He leaned into the phone. " This is Gideon, by the way. " Stan's laughter was heard on the phone showing he didn't believe him at all.
" Oh yeah. This has gotta be your worst plot yet. They're fine. I saw them playing in the yard with Adam minutes ago. "
" I have all three of them in my possession! You don't believe me? I will text you a photo! "
" 'Text' me a 'photo'? " Stan clearly never heard of texting showing how far he was behind on modern day technology. " Now you're not even speaking English. "
" But- " Stan hung up and Gidgeon began to freak out. " Hello? Hello!? " In anger and frustration he threw the phone against the wall making it shatter upon impact making Adam and Dipper dodge the pieces. All the sudden Gideon paused for a second and began to laugh like a maniac as if he's finally lost his mind and made a face to go along with it. " What am I doing!? " He slapped the palm of his hand against his head making the trio exchange worried looks. " I don't need ransom! " He pulls out the flashlight.
" I have this! I'll shrink Stan and take the Shack for myself! " He approaches them all while grabbing the four dolls of the people who lived at the Mystery Shack. " Ya'll will be helpess to stop me! And if any of you step out line, SMASH! " Gideon rips all of the heads off making them roll over to the trio as he continued to laugh away, but stopped upon hearing his fathers voice.
" Gideon, the ice cream truck is here! "
" Oh! " That instantly grabs his attention. " Coming! " He walks off giggling away but stopped and grabbed a hamster cage with the said animal inside. The small animal got out and stood right in between the trio. " Guard them, Cheekums. I'm coming! " Gideon runs out of the door leaving it closed by just a crack. Fearing the worst Dipper grabbed a q tip and poked it right in the hamsters stomach. The little animal didn't flinch at all even when Adam kicked it in the leg a few times.
" Yep, he ain't gonna do anything. " The blonde said as they went over to the bag of gummy kolas that Mabel was still in eating one of the treats. " Okay, guys, we better move it before Gideon get's to the shack and save Stan! "
" I know! " Mabel replied and smirked upon seeing the rest of her treat. " I will see you later. " The girl said while tucking it into her front pocket.
" Okay, so how are we gonna do this? " Dipper began to pace trying to think up a plan. " Gideon's got magic and a zillion inches on us. "
" You think? " Adam asked sarcastically, now he knew how the people from that movie with the shrink ray felt.
" On the bright side, at least we're finally the same height again. " Dipper said as Mabel got out of the bag while Adam sighs and goes over to a small zip up bag. Once he opened it up, after throwing out some stuff, he found out what he was looking for, a small ruler and had the twins stand on each side.
" Nope. You're not. " He said giving Dipper unsatisfying news.
" You're still taller? Argh! How did this happen? "
" I guess its another mystery. " Mabel said shrugging her shoulders.
" Well, save that mystery for later! " Adam said as he was seen right over the edge of the dresser. " We got bigger problems to worry about! Like getting down from here! " Adam wasn't joking, normally touching the carpet would be easy, but in the size they were in, it'd be like dropping from a ten story building. As they were doing this they heard Mabels voice and saw that she was on the hamsters back.
" Cheekums, to freedom! " She patted it's but like a horse but he wouldn't move. " To freedom! " She did it again, but nothing happened. " Aw! You're just a big ol' dummy dum! " The girl said petting the animal.
" Mabel get off that hamster. And help us try and find a way down from here! " Adam told her.
" Don't worry! I have a plan! " Dipper spoke up.
" Uh, what are we doing? exactly? " In response Dipper jabbed his thumb over to the direction of where the hairbrush Gideon had used earlier was. " Oh...Yeah, that'll work. "
A few minutes later after tying enough pieces of hair together, they formed into a rope long enough to help them get off the shelf. They soon made their way down, once they were on the ground they quickly dashed out of Gideon's room and into the living room. The trio jumped into a nearby boot to avoid detection and pooked their heads out and spotted Gideon and Bud eating ice cream.
" At least he hasn't left yet... " Adam muttered and got a tap on the shoulder from Dipper pointing to the flashlight on the table.
Meanwhile Gideon had just finished eating his ice cream and licked his hands. " Clean me! " He ordered and Bud wiped off his face making Adam raise an eyebrow in confusion just as the boy turned sweet. " Father, could you give widdle ol' me a wide to the Mystery Shack? "
" Oh, I'd love to sugar pie, " Bud said pinching his cheek. " But I have a heck of a lot of cars to sell, I do. " Bud then began to tickle Gideon making laugh and wave his arms around.
" No, no! " His laughter turned into a vicious scream. " DON'T TICKLE MEEEE! NO! " In anger he threw the tub of ice cream nearly hitting his mother who looked shocked and frightened while the trio exchanged brief looks with one another. " Never! Never tickle me! What I told you? What have I-Look at me. What have I told you? "
" Tickling is no laughing matter. " Bud said as if the roles of father and parent were shifted for a moment as Gideon stood up from his chair and pated his cheek in approval.
" There we go. "
" Do you still need a ride? " Bud asked.
" I'll just take the bus! " Gideon shouted as he went to the door and threw over a small table breaking it and a lamp, kicking the door open and slammed it shut.
" Precious memories. " Bud said sounding very positive and chill while his wife thought differently.
" Just keep vacuuming, just keep vacuuming " The deeply disturbed woman said to herself.
" That's just messed up...Come on guys, let's move! " Adam told the twins as they got out of the boot dashing past Bud and went through the doggie door and into the parking lot of Bud's car dealer ship business using the vehicles for cover. " It's clear. "
" We need to get higher. " Dipper said as he looked around for a way up.
" Yeah, especially you, because- "
" Mabel, just for once, please shut the hell up. " Adam growled stopping her from what she was gonna say.
" Guys, up there! " Dipper said pointing to a giant flying dollar sign hanging over the front of the entrance. The three ran over to it and climbed up the ropes getting up to the top.
" There he is! " The blonde said pointing over to Gideon who was sitting on a waiting bench for the bus with Lazy eyed Susan sitting right next to him.
" What cute little thing are you off to, you cute little cutey-face? " She asked the boy who she still thought was innocent.
" I'm gonna annihilate my archenemy's entire family! " He answered happily.
" Oh. Okay! " Susan said gaining a worried and scared look before weakly saying. " Yaay! " The bus arrived and Gideon got on while she didn't.
" He's heading to shrink Stan! " Dipper exclaimed.
" How are we gonna catch up to him!? We'll never make it in time on foot! " Adam added in frustration.
" Oh, flying discount dollar... " Mabel said hugging the inflatable. " If only you could fly us back to the Mystery Shack. " Hearing this gave Adam and idea and smirked.
" Maybe it can...Better hold onto somethin'. " The blonde said.
Their plan had succeeded, and they had just gotten to the Mystery Shack, unfortunately the balloon got caught in one of the totem poles. Meaning once again, they needed to find a way down. Dipper spotted the buss coming up. " We're just in time! " Dipper said pointing at the vehicle that stopped, allowing Gideon to get off and drove away.
" We gotta stop him. But one question is this, how do we get down from here? " Adam wondered as woodpecker flew behind Dipper and began to peck his head making the boy scream.
" Shoo! Ah! " As Dipper was trying to make the woodpecker go away with Adam coming to his aid Mabel spotted the rope line attached to the roof just over the entrance to the gift shop.
" Leave that Mabel... " She grabbed a loose feather from the woodpecker and ziplined her way down shouting away, having a good time.
" Huh, not bad. " Adam said in approval and grabbed two feathers, handing one over to Dipper. " Come on, man, lets go! " As they ziplined down the rope line Gideon slowly approached they Mystery Shack humming away. They'd just landed on the roof and they knew they had to do somethin' to stop Gideon from entering. " Mabel, I think you know what has to be done. " The teen told her.
" I'm coming for you Stanford. " Gideon declared before Mabel dropped the head of her gummy koala into her hair much to his displeasure. " Ow!
" I'm sorry, gummy friend! " Mabel said with a sad face.
" It's for the greater good. " Dipper told her.
" Come on, we got to get down. " Adam told the twins who nodded in agreement while Gideon was irritated trying to get the piece of candy out of his hair, messing it up.
" Ugh! One of those infernal Gummy Koalas has gotten into my perfect hair! " He said dropping the flashlight onto the porch. " I can't defeat Stan looking like this! " While Gideon went over to fix his hair the trio had climbed down seizing the moment and headed over to the flashlight.
As Dipper flipped the crystal over to it's side Adam got onto the flashlight. " Okay, guys, get in front and I'll regrow you two! "
" Okay. Wait. You're gonna grow us back to height, right? " Dipper said making Adam groan in frustration and facepalmed himself.
" Dude! It's one millimeter! Who cares!? "
" Well, if it doesn't matter then why don't you just do it? " Dipper said glaring at the teen while Mabel had enough of his attitude.
" Argh! Why are you acting so weird!? " Mabel snapped. " Why can't you just accept that I'm a little bit taller then you? "
" Oh, I'm acting weird? " Dipper retorted. " You're the one who keeps calling me names and stuff! "
" Guys knock it off! " Adam yelled but they didn't listen.
" Oh, what? You mean like Little... " Mabel began but her twin brother beatted her to the punch. " Don't say it! "
" Little Dipper. " An all to familiar voice said making them look up to see Gideon looking at them with a smirk.
" Shit... " Adam cursed as he lifted them all up.
" I dare say, you would've defeated me, if it wasn't for your sibling bickering. " Gideon said while the blonde glared at the twins.
" You both happy now? " He asked as Gideon kicked open the door and marched his way inside. " The Shack is mine, Stanford Pines! " He cried out in victory and turned on the flashlight.
" NOOOOOO! " The trio screamed as they watched Stan's fez drop to the floor.
Once the shrinking was done, and the man was trapped, Gideon turned off the flashlight and tucked into his suite. " Well, well, Stanford... " Gideon said as he approached the hat. " It appears I've finally gotten the best of... " When he lifted up the hat he was shocked to see it was Soos who he had shrunk down. " What!? "
" All right, something's definitely different here. " Soos said as he put his hat back on with Gideon picking him up and threw them all inside of his jar and shook it a little.
" Tell me where Stan is! " Gideon ordered.
" Never! You'll never find Stan! " Soos declared and pointed to the left. " On the second door to the left down the hall. "
" Dude! " Adam said to his best friend with disbelief in what he'd just did. " Seriously!? "
" I don't even know why I just said that! " Soos said smacking himself on the forhead making Gideon give off an evil grin, and slammed the lid for the jar shut. Once he stuffed it into his front pocket, he began his search.
" Stanford, I'm coming for ya! "
Inside of the jar everyone struggled to try and get out, but it was utterly useless. Mabel saw Gideon's school ID and stuck her tongue out giving it a raspberry.
" I guess I kind of Soosed that on up, didn't I? " Soos asked as he crouched and looked down in shame with Adam placing a hand on his shoulder.
" No, it's not your fault Soos... " Adam said as he glared over to the twins. " It's their fault! " He suddenly snapped at them finally letting his anger out. " What the fuck is wrong with you guys!? If you both hadn't act like a bunch of spoiled brats we wouldn't be in this mess! Mabel, teasing Dipper about him being shorter and you! Dipper, stop whining and complaining, so what if she's taller then you, maybe it's for a reason. One that's making her do what she's been doing all day. "
" What? What did I do? " Dipper asked in confusion before looking back to his twin sister. " Mabel? What did I do to you? He asked as she brought out his notebook sighing away.
" I guess it's that, you're better at me at, like, everything. And you always rub it in my face. Chess, checkers, ping pong. " She listed a few games as examples. " I guess I finally felt like I was winning at something for once. "
" Well, there's you're answer. " Adam said to the male twin who now knew what was wrong. He then sighed and sat down with his legs crossed showing he'd calm down a bit. " Look, guys, I'm gonna get real with you for a moment. If you two continue these stupid fights, your only gonna damage the bond you two have. If you do it, then you might just never recover what you lost. Do you really want that? "
" No... " Both twins replied as they looked at one another.
" Mabel, I'm sorry. I guess I was a big jerk. "
" Don't you mean a little jerk? " She asked and they both exchanged a laugh.
" All right. I walked into that one. Are we cool? " Dipper asked holding a fist for a fist-bump.
" Were cool. " Mabel answered by putting her fist above his.
" Am I cool? " Soos asked holding out his fist
" Yeah, you are buddy. " Adam smiled and gave his best friend a fist bump.
" Yes! "
" Okay! " Adam said punching his right fist into his palm and stood up. " Now that's out of the way, let's try and figure out a way to get out of here. " As soon as Adam said that they heard voices.
" Stanford! "
" Oh, hi, Gideon! " Stan greeted. " I've been looking for someone to try out my new mirror maze. Then again, you're an idiot. That's the end of the sentence. "
" You come back here! "
" Try and find me, twerp! " Stan replied back.
" Crap, he found him. " Adam cursed and looked up to the cap. " Soos! Give me a boost! " The handyman did as he asked and let the blonde stand on his shoulders doing his best to try and make the cap come off. " Come on-come on! " It came off. " Yes! "
" Let's get that flashlight before Gideon gets Stan. " Dipper said.
" Way ahead of ya, come on guys! " With his assistance Adam helped them get out of the jar and climbed out of the pocket to see they were now in a hall of mirrors with Gideon determined to find Stan.
" Over there! " Adam said pointing to the flashlight that was in Gideon's other front pocket. " Start climbing guys! " The four of them made their way up his shoulder and walked across the back of his neck.
" Whoa! " Mabel was entranced by Gideon's white hair. His hair's so shiny... "
" No! Don't look directly at it! " Dipper said holding his sister back. Meanwhile Soos was laying down on Gideon's neck fat.
" This neck is really squishy. Look! I'm making fat angels! " Gideon defiantly felt that.
" EW! Termites! " This made him slap the back of his neck narrowly avoiding Adam and the twins while Soos was knocked off.
" Tell my story! " Soos yelled out as he landed in a nearby small rug.
" Is he gonna be okay? " Mabel asked looking worried for Soos's well being. But they saw him eating a corn chip.
" Oh, yeah, he'll be fine. Keep goin' Were almost at the flashlight. " As they climbed down into Gideon's pocket, he got startled and stopped upon seeing one of Stan's reflections and fired off a beam from his flashlight. Do to it being light, the beam bounced from mirror to another making Gideon duck down so he wouldn't get hit until the beam hit a moose head hanging on the wall shrinking down to size. Stan laughed at the chubby boy.
" NO! " Gideon screamed throwing the flashlight forward with the heavy end hitting the mirror causing it to break into fragments.
" Hey, watch the merchandise! " Stan told Gideon who picked up his flashlight and gained an idea. Using the end of the flashlight, Gideon smashed every mirror around him, one by one making Stan finally come out.
" You little troll! These mirrors cost me 10...I mean, 25...Five hun...500 dollars each. And you're paying for all of 'em! "
" Au contraire, it will be you who pays! " Gideon countered back pointing the flashlight right at him.
" Grunkle Stan is doomed! " Mabel exclaimed.
" Not completely doomed! To his armpit! " Dipper cried out making his twin sister shake her head.
" Uh-uh! "
" Just, come on! " Dipper said pushing her head down into his shirt with Adam following them in.
" Just to be frank, were never talking about this again. "
Meanwhile Gideon was enjoying the worried look Stan had gained upon seeing the crystal on the flashlight glow rapidly. " Whoa! What is that thing? "He asked as Gideon moved forward making the old man back up.
" Finally, after all these years, after every humiliation! You're business, your family, everything will finally be mine! " Gideon said as be backed Stan into a wall. " You have non one to protect you now! Prepare for the wrath of Gideon Glee.. " The boy started to laugh a little. " Gideon Glee... " The boy landed on his back and began to roll around laughing away confusing Stan greatly about this sudden turn of events.
" Uh. I don't even know how to respond to this. "
" No! Stop it! " Gideon cried out and Stan started to feel sorry for him.
" Look, kid. I think this rivalry thing is getting to you. Ha. I understand, I mean, I'm a formidable foe, what can I say. "
" No! " Gideon tried to aim the flashlight at Stan but he couldn't control his laughter and started leaking foam out of his mouth.
" Hey, now, come on. " Stan said kneeling down. " You'll get me one of these days. Maybe, you know, run your evil plan by some friends next time, huh? Work shop it. But first get your issues in order there. " Gideon couldn't answer him at all, and for Stan it was getting to weird and he used his foot to make him roll away. " Up, up. Over the carpet, there we go, " After a few more kicks he got Gideon onto the doorstep. " Around the end table and out the door. " He rolled the boy out and once the tickling from the trio stopped the boy realized he had lost what could help him beat Stan.
" My light! "
" You're the light of my life, too, pal. " Stan replied back sarcastically and slammed the door shut and wiped off his forehead. " Phew. Freak show. " As he made his way out the trio made their way over to the flash light with Dipper rotating the crystal.
" After you... " Dipper said motioning Mabel to go first.
" It's okay, you can go first if you want...Whoa! " Her twin brother shined the blue light on her allowing the girl to return back to her normal size. She did the same thing for Dipper and then her twin brother shined the light on Adam.
" Ah... " Adam exclaimed stretching out a bit glad he was back to normal. " What a relief... " He then motioned the twins to come together to examine their height. " Huh, looks like you let her keep that extra millimeter. "
" Really? " Mabel was surprised to hear this. " Are you sure? "
" You earned it. " Dipper said making her hug him.
" Aw, thanks, 'little broth- "
" Stop it. " Dipper cutted her off and was given the flashlight.
" Guess, we should destroy this thing. " Mabel said. " You know, so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands and junk. "
" Seems like the smart thing to do. " Dipper agreed with Adam grabbing it and smashed it onto the floor and sighed. " Well, I'm glad that's over. "
" There you dudes are! " They heard Soos voice and looked down to see him still shrunk down with fragments of glass spelled: HELP SOOS. " I've been trying to get your attention! "
Adam looked at the crystal he just broke. " We should get another crystal. "
" Yep. " Both twins agreed.
Meanwhile at the Gleeful household.
Gideon was pacing back and fourth in anger for his latest failure with both of his parents present in the living room.
" Oh, son, don't you mind that Stanford Pines. You'll get your revenge, one of these days. "
" No! " Gideon yelled flipping over the chair. " It's not just about revenge! I want that shack! The physical building. "
" But why? " Bud asked clearly confused by his son's ambition as he sat next to him.
" Because it holds a secret you couldn't possibly imagine. " Gideon answered and began to laugh evilly.
" Uh, sweetie... " He stopped upon hearing Bud's voice and had a tub full of ice cream with a spoon full. " You want some ice cream? "
" Did you pick out all the nuts? " Gideon questioned and Bud nodded his head and opened his mouth allowing his father to spoon feed him and continued to laugh pausing each time to he could laugh. " Little more? " He continued to eat and continue his laughter. " That's good. "
To be continued
Now replying to reviewers
Justus80
Thank you very much. And I really did enjoy making that character make a cameo appearance.
Darkmaster10000000
That my friend is the big mystery, and in Gravity Falls, Mystery is everywhere. As for what the entity following Adam, well, that's a mystery that won't be solved for quite a while.
Guest #1 Chapter 8
Oh man, that'd be really cool. But I don't know, I'd have to think about it. I mean I got other episodes in mind, mostly two in particular.
VerySuspicious Chapter 2
Ah, yeah, I know. Cowboy Alchemist is fine with it, heck, the difference is that his character is Mabel and Dippers older cousin, while Adam's origins are unknown, plus there's that entity with him to boot. You see the difference? And yeah, thank you for telling me that. I fixed it. If not, then let me know, and where it is. In fact, don't be hesitant in telling me if I did it again, because accidents happened. Either way, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
ROCuevas
Thank you as per usual my friend.
Guest#2 Chapter 10
Why not? Some people do, and quite frankly, I'm fine with that.
Gamelover41592
Thank you very much. And hope you enjoyed this chapter.