Given how this chapter is out much earlier than the previous one, just consider it as a gift to all of my loyal followers.
Gravity Falls: The Pines Meeting
Chapter 4
Previously in The Pines Meeting, Wendy arrived in Piedmont, and after a week she and Dipper almost kissed. Ironically they were interrupted by Mabel who'd just come up with a plan to go back in time to find out how hers and Dipper's parents met. Neither Wendy nor Dipper were convinced of the plan's success, so Mabel revealed the inspiration of her plan, Blendin Blandin, (who Wendy has never seen before).
Now we find Dipper introducing Wendy to Blendin.
"Wendy this is Blendin Blandin. He's from this time police force from the future. Mabel and I met him during the Mystery fair that Grunkle Stan hosted when he bumped into me while I was getting ice for your eye injury. Long story short we kind of ruined his life when we 'borrowed' his time tap machine. Fortunately, we managed to make things right after we beat him in a gladiatorial game that he challenged us to."
"We also gave him hair," Mabel added in.
"Okay," Wendy said. Everything seemed to make sense now, especially since Wendy was used to seeing the twins in situations like these before.
"Anywho," Dipper said with his attention focusing on Blendin, "why in the world would you take back in time? The whole reason you got arrested was that we 'borrowed' your time tap and caused multiple ripples in the past."
"Three reasons. One, you guys made things right even though you didn't have to so I own you. Plus you guys saved the fabric of time when you defeated Bill so this debt extends to the entire universe. Two I already spoke with my superiors and they approve of Mabel's request since it technically won't affect history one bit so I don't have to worry about losing my job, again. Three and finally, sometimes a person just needs to learn things the hard way and face the consequences."
"So you're just going to lend us the time tap and hope we won't accidentally mess things up in the past?" Dipper asked not sounding convinced.
"Of course not. Neither myself nor my superiors are that stupid. I'm going take you two, (plus you redheaded friend), to the party that your parents met at and personally watch you guys, (particularly Mabel), to prevent any sort of time mishaps from happening. Once you find out what happened I'll drop you all back to your time and hopefully, we'll never see each other again. No offence but you guys did ruin my life twice, "the second ruining having happened in Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future".
After Blendin finished, Mabel stepped in.
"See Dipper there's no danger, no chances of messing up the space-time thingy or whatever. Besides aren't you the least bit curious about finding out how our parents met?"
"Hmm, well I have to admit I have been a little bit puzzled as to what could've happened to cause them to act awkwardly whenever we ask them about it," Dipper admitted after thinking it over for a minute. "But if we're doing time travel than I just wanna make a quick visit to 1914. There have been rumours that the late mayor of Gravity Falls, Mayor Befufftlefumpter, started World War One, and I want to confirm whether or not it's fact."
"I think we can manage that," Blendin said.
"Okay, I'm in. What about you Wendy?"
"Yeah, Wendy you wanna join the Mystery Twins on a time adventure?" Mabel asked.
"Of course I'm in. This was the kind of thing I was missing when you guys left Gravity Falls," Wendy replied.
"Excellent," Mabel said before turning towards Blendin. "Blendin do your magic."
Giving a thumbs-up, Blendin pulls the time tap to the date of the party, (1998), pressed the time symbol on the machine which caused it to activate and send all four of them back in time.
Friday, December 18th, 1998 Piedmont
It was a cold evening outside with snow covering everything in sight. Well, everything except for the Christmas lights that brightened everyone's souls. Though that didn't stop people's teeth from chattering, especially the group of four who'd "literally" just come from inside without any sort of weather gear on them.
"Bu… bu… burr its cold." Mabel stated.
"Na… no kidding," Dipper replied, shivering like crazy. "Seriously we should've…"
Before Dipper could finish his sentence, he along with the Mabel, Wendy, and Blendin were covered in winter clothes that had just appeared out of nowhere. Though Dipper had an idea of the cause of this sudden appearance as he looked over at Blendin, whose eyes were focused on his wrist device.
"I'm gonna assume that was you."
"Yep," Blendin confirmed. "When you spend your life travelling through time, you find yourself faced with all sorts of scenarios that require different outfits and other tools for multiple reasons. Which is why the Infinity-T Watch was invented. It also comes with a link to the Time Patrol database so that users have access to all the information that transpired during the time that they're in."
"Nice," commented Wendy.
"Then it should be able to tell us where this party is that our parents met at right?" Dipper asked.
"Correct. I also set our arrival point just a few minutes distance from the party to help prevent any suspicions. The party should be somewhere over there," Blendin answered, pointing towards a line of houses.
A few minutes later the group stood in front of an enormous, overly decorated house, with decoration not buried in snow like the ones on the other houses. Lights and music were blaring all over the house, and a crowd of teenagers stood outside waiting to be let in by some sort of security guard.
"Oh shit," Dipper swore.
"What is it Bro-Bro?" Mabel asked.
"I just realized, this is a high school party Mabel, and we're only thirteen."
"So?" Mabel asked not getting what her brother was saying.
"So that means that we won't be allowed in. Plus if we attempt to sneak in and the guard comes inside then we're screwed."
"Oh he's right," Wendy commented. "My friends and I tried that when we were in middle school. It didn't go well."
"Don't worry about it," Blendin chimed in. Pulling out a couple of cards, he handed them to the twins.
"Just show these to the guard if he asks for your age," Blendin instructed.
Looking at the cards that Blendin handed them Dipper and Mabel saw that they were student IDs. Ones that had their pictures on them and identified both as fourteen-year-old high school students.
"How did you…" Dipper began to ask before Blendin answered his obvious question.
"Not the first high school party I've gone to in my line of work. Let's leave it at that. Oh, and I put your guys' last names as Pinecone just so that if you come into contact with your father, or people who know him than we won't be screwed. Got it?"
"Got it," Dipper answered.
"Good enough for me," stated Mabel. "Now let's go."
The four of them got in line, though they had to wait a bit while the entry guard got into an argument with some guy who was on the restricted list.
"But all high school students were invited to this party," the guy said in defence.
"Yeah well there's also a list of particular high school students that were not allowed to come," the guard combated. "And you are definitely on the list."
"Ugh sheesh this is taking forever," Wendy complained.
"Yeah tell me about it," a voice said from behind the group.
Turning their heads around, all of them, (except for Blendin), was shocked to see that the voice belonged to none other than the twin's mother's younger self, Sheryl Stone.
She didn't appear that much different than how she did in the twins' time. Though a couple of exceptions were being how she looked younger and had her hair done up in a twisted ponytail style instead of the bob cut from their time. Other than that she looked almost the same as her older self.
The twins, along with Wendy, were flabbergasted to see Sheryl's younger self in person. Yes, the whole reason they were here was to find her at this age, but coming face to face with your mother, when they're a teenager/young adult, was just something you couldn't prepare yourself for.
"Um is there something in my teeth?" Younger Sheryl asked looking embarrassed and confused as to why the small group of four was staring at her in shock. Fortunately, this snapped them out of their trance.
"Oh no, no, no, no," Dipper responded. "You just uh… uh…"
"Remind us of someone from our old school," Wendy finished.
"Oh. Well, that makes sense," Younger Sheryl responded. She then reached out her hand to them. "I'm Sheryl. Sheryl Stone. You guys say you're new here?"
"Yessiree," Mabel answered as she reached out and shook her mother's hand. "I'm Mabel. Mabel Pi…"
"Pinecone," Dipper interjected as a precaution. No offence to his sister, but he couldn't take the risk that she'd forget her cover name and cause a rift in the timeline. "Mabel Pinecone. I'm her brother Mason Pinecone, and these are our friends Wendy and Blendin. We just transferred from a school on the other side of Piedmont."
"Ah, you're former Psycho Robins. Yeah, we've gotten a lot of transfers from that place. The teachers there are messed up."
"Yeah uh, totally dude," Blendin replied in a failed attempt to blend fit in. At that moment the line started moving again when the entry guard threw the guy he was arguing with right off the doorstep.
"Okay, well we should hang out sometime. Perhaps if we see each other again inside," younger Sheryl offered.
"Totally," the group said simultaneously.
Not too long after that, the group was inside. Luckily the fake IDs that Blendin had given to Dipper, Mabel, and Wendy, (since hers was from a different time and state), looked real enough and had all the information needed for the entry guard to let them in.
Inside they saw that everyone was wearing Christmas sweaters, (part of the theme). Though Blendin, (and Mabel), had been prepared for this so when the group took off their winter coats, it was revealed that Christmas sweaters had also been put on them at the same time as the coats, (though Mabel had already been wearing a Christmas sweater beforehand). On top of that, it appeared to be a typical high school Christmas party with blaring, wild holiday music, a massive buffet comprised of Christmas related goodies, dancing, (though a lot of the dancers with cups in their hands were dancing really wobbly), and all sorts of other activities going on throughout the massive house.
"OKAY, WE'RE IN. NOW, WHAT?" Dipper asked loudly to be heard through the equally loud music.
"NOW," Mabel responded, "WE BLEND IN. LOOK AROUND FOR EITHER MOM OR DAD, LET THE OTHERS KNOW WHEN YOU SPOT ONE OF THEM AND WAIT FOR THE MAGIC TO HAPPEN!"
Just so you all know I made up the Psycho Robins. They aren't a thing, (at least that's my understanding).
Also, I know that some people are waiting for the next chapter of Atomic Puppet New Adventures Volume 2. Just so you all know I will be getting back to that story at the beginning of 2019; though there will be some modifications made to it.