Stan is out in the front yard with some tourists, "For tonight's final illusion, we have the incredible "Sack of Mystery"! When you put your money in, it mysteriously disappears!"
The crowd mutters several positive things about the trick's credibility and Stan's character. Stan smiles at his gain and their loss.
Dipper, Mabel, Will, and Soos are watching television inside.
"The tiger was badly injured in the explosion, but we repaired him with a fist."
Dipper, Mabel, and Soos start cheering, while Will just sighs. Dipper says that the tiger's a hero. On TV, the tiger punches itself.
"Tiger Fist! ...will return after these messages."
Soos points out the next commercial, "Hey, look. It's that commercial I was telling you guys about."
Bud asked, "Are you completely miserable?"
Actor cries, "YES!"
Bud says, "Then you need to meet," He whispers, "Gideon."
"Gideon?" Dipper asked.
Mabel asked, "What makes him so special?"
Bud answers in the commercial, "He's a psychic."
"Nothing. He's just a fraud," Will grumbled.
Mabel voices her confusion, "Aroo?"
Bud states, "So don't waste your time with other so-called 'man of mystery'."
The screen shows a clip of Stan coming out of an outhouse and is stamped with the word "FRAUD."
Bud announces, "Learn about tomorrow, tonight at Gideon's Tent of Telepathy."
Will just frowns, looking down, repeatedly whispering to himself, "He's not them... he's not them... they can't hurt you... you're safe... you're safe here, with the Pines... Stan wouldn't let them hurt you... he needs you to get him back..."
"Wow, I'm getting all curiousy inside!" Mabel smiled.
Stan walks into the room, "Well, don't get too curiousy. Ever since that monster Gideon rolled into town, I've had nothin' but trouble."
"Well, is he really psychic?" Mabel asked.
Dipper smiled, "I think we should go and find out."
"Never! You're forbidden from patronizing the competition. No one that lives under my roof is allowed under that Gideon's roof!" Stan denies.
Dipper asked, "Do tents have roofs?"
"I think we just found our loop hole... literally!" Mabel holds up a string with a loop in it, "Mwop mwop!"
"So come down soon, folks. Gideon is expecting you."
There's a crowd entering the Tent of Telepathy. Bud Gleeful stands at the entrance with a sack.
Bud smiles, "Step right up there, folks. Put your money in Gideon's psychic sack."
Crowd mutters several positive things about the sack's credibility.
"Whoa, this is like a bizarro version of the Mystery Shack. They even have their own Soos," Dipper points to a maintenance worker who looks very similar to Soos, named Deuce.
Soos glares at the lookalike while munching on an empanada.
Mabel smiled, "It's starting! It's starting!"
"Let's see what this monster looks like," Dipper grumbled.
The curtains open and Gideon appears on the stage.
Gideon greets them, "Hello America! My name is Li'l Gideon."
Gideon claps and doves fly out of his hair. The crowd cheers.
"That's Stan's mortal enemy?" Dipper asked.
Mabel cooed, "But he's so wittle!"
"Don't judge a book by its cover..." Will whispered.
Gideon smiled, "Ladies and gentlemen, it is such a gift to have you here tonight! ...Such a gift. I have a vision. I predict that you will soon all say, 'aww'."
Gideon makes a cute pose and the crowd says "aww".
"It came true!" Mabel gasped.
Dipper frowned, "What? I'm not impressed."
"You're impressed!" Mabel smiled.
Bud Gleeful starts playing the piano and Gideon starts singing a song. Will just frowns, looking down at the floor, covering his ears. The crowd, including Soos, and the twins, rises, seemingly unintentionally, and everyone, besides Will, start to clap along with the beat.
Dipper is surprised, "Wha—? How did he—?"
The song ends, Gideon is sweating and panting and the crowd cheers wildly.
Gideon smiled, "Thank you! You people are the real miracles!"
"Woo! Yeah!" Mabel cheers.
Dipper sighed, "Man, that kid's an even bigger fraud than Stan! No wonder our uncle's jealous."
"Oh, come on. His dance moves were adorable! And did you see his hair? It was like, whoosh!" Mabel smiled.
Dipper shakes his head, "You're too easily impressed."
"Yeah, yeah!" Mabel walks away.
Dipper looks towards Will, "Are you okay?"
"Huh? Oh. Y-yeah... I'm okay... I just... don't really like that place..." Will frowned.
Dipper was confused, "Why?"
"... it's kind of... personal."
Next day at the Mystery Shack, Mabel goes up to Dipper, her face is bedazzled with sequins.
Mabel smiles, "Check it out, Dipper! I successfully bezazzled my face!"
"Is that permanent?" Dipper asked.
Mabel sighed, "I'm unappreciated in my time..."
The doorbell rings.
"Somebody answer that door!"
"I'll get it!" Mabel goes to get the door, opening it up thinking is no one there, before looking down and finding Gideon.
Gideon smiled, "Howdy."
"It's "wittle ol'" you!" Mabel cooed.
Gideon laughs nervously, "Yeah, my song's quite catchy. Now, I know we haven't formally met, but after yesterday's performance, I just couldn't get your laugh out of my head."
"You mean this one?" Mabel laughs obnoxiously.
Gideon smiled, "Oh, what a delight! Now, when I saw you in the audience, I said to myself, 'Now there's a kindred spirit! Someone who appreciates the sparkly things in life'."
"That's totally me!" Mabel laughs and coughs up some sequins that land on Gideon's suit, bedazzling it.
Gideon whispers, "Enchanting. Utterly enchanting."
"Who's at the door?" Will asked.
Mabel shouts, "No one, Will!"
"I appreciate your discretion. Now, Will's no fan of mine. I don't know exactly why, but he seems a little couscous around me. Anyway... what do you say we step away from here, and chat a bit more. Perhaps in my dressing room?" Gideon asked.
"Oh! Makeovers! Yes!"
Gideon opens the door to his dressing room. Mabel stares in amazement.
"Ya see something you like? 'Cause I do," Gideon smiled.
Mabel laughs cluelessly, "What?"
Mabel returns to the Mystery Shack with her makeover, "Hey Dipper. What's goin' oooon?" She dangles her manicured fingernails over Dipper's head.
"Whoa, where have you been? And what's going on with those fingernails, you look like a wolverine," Dipper admits.
Mabel smiled, "I know, right? I was hanging out with my new pal, Gideon. He is one dapper little man."
"Mabel, I don't trust anyone whose hair is bigger than their head," Dipper sighs.
Mabel frowns, "Oh, leave him alone! You never want to do girly stuff with me; you and Soos get to do boy stuff all the time!"
"What about Will?" Dipper asked, "He's perfectly okay with doing girly stuff with you."
Mabel laughed nervously, "Well... he's shy, and... it's kind of hard to ask."
Mabel and Gideon are on the roof of a warehouse.
Mabel smiled, "Whoa, the view from your family's factory is nuts!"
"Mabel, when I'm up here lookin' down on all those little ol' people, I feel like I'm king of all I survey. I guess that makes you my queen!" Gideon smiled.
Mabel asked, "What? You are being so nice to me right now, quit it!"
"I can't quit it. I am speaking from the heart," Gideon smiled.
Mabel is confused, "From the where-now?"
"Mabel, I've never felt this close with anyone. So, so close," He stokes Mabel's hair and giggles.
Mabel pushes his hand away, "Look Gideon, I um... I like you a lot, but let's just be friends."
"At least just give me a chance. Mabel, will you do me the honor of going on a date with me? It'll just be one li'l ol' date, I swear on my lucky bolo tie," Gideon smiled.
Mabel mumbles, "Ummm. Okay, then... I guess..."
"Mabel Pines, you have made me the happiest boy in the world!" He hugs Mabel.
"Are you sniffing my hair?"
Back at Mystery Shack, Mabel and Dipper are playing a video game.
Mabel sighed, "It's not a date-date, it's just, you know, I didn't want to hurt his feelings and so I figured I'd throw him a bone."
"Mabel, guys don't work that way. He's gonna fall in love with you," Dipper warmed.
Mabel scoffs, "Yeah right. I'm not that lovable."
"Okay, we agree on something here," Dipper admitted.
Doorbell rings, Mabel goes to answer door. A horse busts through. Mabel screams.
Gideon says, while riding horses, "A night of enchantment awaits, m'lady!"
"Oh boy."
Mabel and Gideon are sitting together at a booth in an aquatic themed restaurant.
Mabel gasped, "I can't believe they let us bring a horse in here! I've never seen so many forks! And water with bubbles in it? Ooh lala, oui, oui!"
Stan is looking at a newspaper article showing a picture of Gideon and Mabel together.
Stan shouts, Hey, hey! What the jackal is Mabel doing in the paper next to that crazy pickpocket Gideon?"
"Oh, yeah, it's like a big deal. Everybody's talking about Gideon and Mabel's big date tonight," Wendy tells him.
Stan shouts, "WHAT?! That little shyster is dating my great niece!?"
"I didn't know! I didn't hear about it and plus, I told her not to," Dipper tried to explain.
Stan enters, wearing his suit, "Yeah, well it ends tonight. I'm going right down to that little skunk's house; this is gonna stop RIGHT now!"
Stan's car skids to a halt in front of Gideon's house. He drives his car up to Gideon's house and skids to a halt in front.
Stan knocks the door, shouting, "Gideon, you little punk! Open up!" He reads sign on the door that says 'Please Pardon This Garden', "I will pardon NOTHING!"
Bud opens the door, "Why, Stanford Pines! What a delight!"
"Out of the way Bud, I'm looking for Gideon!" Stan tries to push him out of the way.
Bud pulls Stan inside, "Well, I haven't seen the boy around, but since you're here, you simply must come in for coffee! It's imported! All the way from Colombia!"
"Wow... I went to jail there once." Stan whistled, "Some digs you got here."
Bud smiled, "Now, I hear that your niece and my Gideon are, well, they're singin' in harmony lately so to speak!"
"Uh, yeah, and I'm against it. Nyah!" Stan knocks a pillow off the couch.
Bud shakes his head, "No no no. I see it as a fantastic business opportunity. Yes, the Mystery Shack and the Tent of Telepathy. We've been at each other's throats for far too long, yes we have. This is our big chance to set aside our rivalry and pool our collective profit, you see."
"I'm listening."
"...And so I said 'Autograph your own head shot lady'," Gideon laughs.
Mabel nervously laughs, Yeah..."
"Mabel, tonight's date was a complete success. And tomorrow's date promises to top this one in every way!" Gideon proclaimed.
Mabel holds her hands up, "Whoa whoa, you said just one date, and this was it."
"Hark! What a surprise! A red crested South American rainbow macaw!" Gideon smiled, as the macaw flies in and lands on Gideon.
The macaw shouts, "MABEL! WILL YOU- ACCOMPANY- GIDEON- TO- THE BALLROOM DANCE- THIS- THURSDAY?" The macaw coughs up a letter and flies away.
Everyone else in the diner starts talking and looking at them.
Gideon whispers, "They're expectin' us. Please say you'll go."
"Oh, Gideon, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say-"
Mabel walks by Dipper, and Will, who's beside Dipper, as he's reading his book.
Dipper asked, "Hey. How'd it go?"
"I don't know..." Mabel sighs, putting a lobster in a tank, "I have a lobster now."
"Well, at least it's over and you'll never have to go out with him again. Mabel? It's over, right? Mabel?" Dipper asked.
Mabel frowns, "He asked me out again and I didn't know how to say no... And I do like Gideon, as a friend slash little sister, so I didn't want to hurt his feelings! I just need to get things back to where they used to be. You know, friends."
Mabel starts is pacing, "I mean, he's so nice, but.. I can't keep doing this. But I can't break his heart." She shouts, "I have no way out!"
Dipper asked, "What in the heck happened on that date?"
"I don't know! I was in the friend zone, and then before I knew what was happening, he pulled me into the romance zone. It was like quick sand! Chubby quicksand!" Mabel shouts.
Dipper sighs, "Mabel, come on. It's not like you're gonna have to marry Gideon."
Stan enters the room, "Great news, Mabel. You have to marry Gideon!"
"WHAT?!"
Mabel screams and runs out of the room.
Dipper and Will walk into the attic.
Dipper seeing Mabel hiding in her sweater, frowns, "Oh no. Mabel..."
"Mabel's not here. She's in sweater town," Mabel announces.
Will asked, "Are you gonna come out of sweater town?"
Mabel whines and shakes head.
Will sighed, "Alright, enough is enough. If you can't break up with Gideon, I'll do it for you."
Mabel peeks out of her sweater, "You will?"
"Of course. Anything for a friend," Will smiled.
Mabel gets up and hugs him, "Oh, thank you thank you thank you!"
Gideon is sitting in a booth awaiting Mabel. Will enters, approaches Gideon and clears his throat.
Gideon looks at him, "Oh. Will, how are you? You look good, you look good."
"Thanks, you uh... Look, Gideon. We've got to talk. Mabel isn't joining you tonight, she uh, she doesn't want to see you anymore. She's uh. She's kinda weirded out by you, no offense," Will admits.
Gideon's eye twitched, "So what you're sayin' is... you've...come between us."
"You're not gonna like, freak out or anything, are ya?" Will asked, staring at the floor.
Gideon smiled, "Of course not. These things happen. Bygones, you know."
"So. Okay. Good. Then again, sorry man..." Will walks out of the restaurant, where Mabel was waiting.
"How'd it go? Was he mad? Did he try to read your mind with his psychic powers?" Mabel asked.
Will sighed, "Don't worry, Mabel, he's just a kid. He doesn't have any powers."
"Will, you don't know what you've done!"
Gideon grabs his amulet and a candle starts to levitate and the light bulbs on his boudoir explode.
Other things in the room begin to levitate, "You've just made the biggest mistake of your life!"
He throws the levitated objects on the ground.
Mabel smiled, "I'm so glad everything's back to normal!"
Telephone rings.
Will sighed, "I'll get it." He walks over to the telephone, before picking it up, "Hello? Oh hey man. Uh huh, uh huh. 412 Gopher Road. Tonight? Got it."
Toby hangs up the phone.
Toby sighs, "There. I did your dirty work. Now it's time you pay YOUR end of the bargain!"
Gideon throws Toby a slip of paper.
Toby hugs the paper, "Ha! Shandra Jimenez's phone number! Bless you, Li'l Gideon!"
Will opens the warehouse door, "Hello?"
He turns to leave, only for the door to slam shut. He bangs on the door and turns around when lights start turning on. Gideon swerves around in a swivel chair, petting a doll of himself.
"Hello friend." Gideon smiled.
Will frowns, "Star Boy... What do you want from me?"
"Listen carefully, boy. This town has secrets you couldn't begin to comprehend!" Gideon smiled.
Will smiled, "Yet, I know most of them. Although... Is this about Mabel? I told you, she's not into you!"
"LIAR! YOU turned her against me!" Gideon grabs his amulet and walks toward Will, "She was my peach dumplin'!"
Will stares down at the amulet, "Mystical Amulet. Of course... I'm not surprised."
Gideon smiled, "Readin' minds isn't all I can do."
"You can't! You're a fake!" Will shouted.
Gideon laughed, "Oh tell me, Will: is this fake?"
He levitates all the merchandise.
Mabel is outside of the Mystery Shack, thinking and chewing on her hair.
Wendy walks outside and sits next to Mabel, "How's that hair tastin', buddy?"
Mabel sighs, "Wendy, I need some advice. You've broken up with guys, right? I don't know what's wrong with me. I thought everything was back to normal, but I still feel all gross. Maybe letting Will do it for me was a mistake. Gideon deserves an honest break up. I know what I've gotta do. Thanks for talking to me, Wendy." She runs to get a bike and rides off on it.
She leaves Wendy there to list off her exes.
Will frowned, "I was right about you, you ARE a monster!"
"Mabel Pines will be mine!" Gideon laughs evilly and pulls the sting of one of his dolls, making it laugh evilly.
Will gets up, grabs a baseball bat, and charges at Gideon with the bat, "She's never gonna date you!"
"That's a lie." Gideon looks at a box of lamb shears, "And I'm gonna make sure you never lie to me again, friend."
He levitates the lamb shears.
Mabel runs to the window from outside and sees Will and Gideon. She opens the door, "Gideon! We have to talk!"
"M-Mabel. My marshmalla." Gideon drops the shears, "What are you doin' here?"
Mabel sighed, "I'm sorry Gideon, but I can't be your marshmallow. I needed to be honest and tell you that myself."
"I-I don't understand," Gideon admits.
Mabel smiled, "Hey, but we can still be makeover buddies, right? Wouldn't you like that?"
"Really?" Gideon smiled.
Mabel frowned, "No, not really!" She pulls off Gideon's amulet, "You were like, attacking my friend, what the heck?!"
"My tie! Give it back!" Gideon shouts.
Mabel throws the amulet to Will.
Will smiled, catching it, "Not so powerful without this, are you?"
Gideon screams and charges at Will, who dodged his attack, and he breaks through the window.
Will sighs, "Mabel... we can't have him killed. He's important."
"How?" Mabel asked.
Will doesn't say anything, and puts the amulet on, even though he doesn't actually need it, and levitates Gideon, before making sure him and Mabel float down.
"Listen Gideon, it's over. I will never, ever, date you," Mabel sighed.
Will drops Gideon and throws the amulet to the ground, breaking it.
Gideon scowled, "MY POWERS! Oh this isn't over. This isn't the last you'll see of wittle... ol' me!"
He walks into the dark forest.
Gideon walks towards the Mystery Shack, and after Will opens the door, he points at him, "I rebuke thee! I rebuke thee!"
Mabel and Dipper both walk over to the door, noticing Gideon at the door, "What do you want?"
"The entire Pines' family, and Will, have invoked my fury! You will all pay recompense for your transgressions!" Gideon shouts.
Will just glares at him, shaking his head, "Uh huh. Alright. Go away, Gideon."
"You're not human!" Gideon points at him.
Will bites his lip, looking down, "Why do you say that?"
"You didn't need that amulet! It didn't even glow when you 'used' it!" Gideon scowled, "You're a demon, and I finally have proof!"
Will sighed, not knowing the twins were there, "So? I could just light you on fire right now."
"You won't! You're too benevolent! Besides, Mabel and Dipper are here! Good luck at explaining this to them!" Gideon walks away.
Will shakes his head, "Shooting Star and Pine Tree aren't..." He turns around and yelps, seeing the twins.
"Will...?" Mabel starts.
Will just bites his lip, and runs off.
The twins don't pursue him.
Stan sighed, "I coulda had it all. What the heck happened to you three?"
"Gideon," The Twins reply.
Will sighed, "Gideon. Yeah, he... "swore vengeance" on the whole family, and me... the twins know now, because of him, as well."
"Know what?" Stan asked.
Will looked down, "What I am..."
"Oh. Ohhh. Uh... hey, kids, you don't have anything to be scared of. Will's quite benevolent, which is odd... but... there's a reason behind it," Stan sighed, looking at the two.
"So... the light we saw... what was that actually?" Dipper asked.
Will sighs, before snapping his fingers, causing a fire to erupt in his hand, "This."
"Wow. That's... interesting." Mabel gasped, "Is that why the amulet didn't work on you?"
Will nodded.
Gideon makes a fake voice for Will, "Hey, what are you gonna do without your precious amulet?"
He smiles, "Oh you'll see boy..." He closes Journal 2, "You'll see..."
A/N: Please leave a review! Reviews are the only thing that truly tell me that people are reading my story, and that i should continue! - K.
